PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FIRST
PART
.
BOOK
I.
THE
Sun
was
already
so
far
declin'd
,
that
his
heat
was
not
offensive
,
when
a
Stranger
richly
Arm'd
,
and
proportionably
blest
with
all
the
gifts
of
Nature
,
and
Education
,
alighted
at
the
Temple
of
Hierapolis
in
Syria
,
where
the
Queen
of
Love
had
setled
an
Oracle
,
as
famous
as
the
Deity
,
to
whom
it
was
Consecrated
.
The
Stranger
having
disarm'd
himself
,
and
learnt
the
unusual
silence
of
the
Goddess
,
commanded
his
servant
to
enquire
out
some
retir'd
lodging
for
him
,
which
whilst
he
was
doing
,
his
Master
walk't
about
that
sacred
place
,
without
so
much
as
considering
the
beauty
,
and
rareness
of
the
structure
,
and
with
so
languishing
and
careless
a
pace
,
that
those
which
consider'd
it
,
easily
judg'd
,
't
was
chiefly
the
distempers
of
his
Mind
,
which
had
so
strong
an
influence
over
his
Body
.
Amongst
many
that
were
so
employed
,
Callimachus
,
the
Prince
of
that
holy
Society
,
was
so
ravisht
with
those
charms
,
which
in
spight
of
fortunes
cruelties
,
did
yet
inhabit
his
face
and
shape
,
and
so
strangely
sympathiz'd
in
those
crosses
,
whose
effects
were
not
more
apparent
,
than
their
causes
unknown
;
that
he
could
not
abstain
from
interrupting
the
strangers
melancholly
,
by
going
to
salute
him
,
where
after
those
civilities
which
are
usually
practis'd
in
such
encounters
,
he
invited
him
into
a
less
frequented
walk
than
that
he
had
chosen
:
The
stranger
inform'd
of
his
quality
and
profession
,
was
unwilling
to
be
uncivil
to
either
,
and
therefore
obeyed
his
invitation
,
but
had
far
rather
employ'd
the
time
of
the
Oracles
silence
in
the
entertainment
of
his
thoughts
,
though
they
never
permitted
him
so
much
as
a
good
expectation
,
always
representing
his
hopes
and
fears
through
a
false
Optick
,
which
had
so
transcendently
alter'd
him
,
that
if
the
Gods
could
have
been
mistaken
in
the
infliction
of
their
punishments
,
so
strange
a
change
had
made
them
doubt
,
they
had
been
so
in
him
.
The
good
Callimachus
,
who
judg'd
by
the
reliques
what
the
perfection
had
been
,
led
him
purposely
alone
into
a
solitary
Walk
,
to
learn
his
Adventures
,
and
perceiving
the
unintermissiveness
of
his
melancholy
,
he
took
that
for
the
rise
,
and
told
him
,
I
have
had
no
small
dispute
,
Sir
,
with
my self
,
before
I
resolv'd
to
beg
of
you
a
relation
of
your
life
;
for
I
know
by
experience
,
that
the
repetition
of
a
misfortune
is
a
new
one
,
but
the
great
Goddess
,
whose
unworthy
Priest
I
am
,
hath
often
rais'd
a
curiosity
in
me
to
learn
the
Adventures
of
many
who
come
to
consult
her
Oracle
,
and
afterwards
has
inspir'd
me
with
such
advice
,
that
from
thence
they
have
deriv'd
their
future
happiness
:
And
I
am
strongly
perswaded
you
may
enjoy
an
advantage
equal
unto
many
others
,
if
you
will
furnish
me
with
a
resembling
means
.
Alas
,
Sir
,
the
Stranger
reply'd
,
though
I
am
confident
your
Goddesses
favours
to
you
are
great
,
and
that
your
judgment
is
so
,
yet
the
higher
Powers
have
so
incessantly
persecuted
me
,
that
my
folly
would
proportion
my
misfortunes
,
did
I
expect
any
ease
but
in
the
Grave
;
neither
do
I
know
whether
then
I
shall
be
at
quiet
;
for
sleep
being
the
Image
of
Death
,
and
my
Dreams
tormenting
me
as
much
as
my
Thoughts
,
I
may
with
too
much
reason
suspect
,
that
what
is
the
remedy
of
all
afflictions
to
others
,
will
loose
that
property
where
I
am
concern'd
.
The
virtuous
Callimachus
here
interrupted
him
by
saying
,
I
shall
not
much
wonder
that
your
miseries
are
great
,
since
your
diffidence
of
the
Gods
is
so
:
They
are
never
more
offended
than
when
men
despair
of
their
Providence
,
nor
readier
to
assist
,
then
when
there
is
no
visible
relief
,
and
yet
a
firm
reliance
on
it
:
The
Deity
being
never
more
apparent
than
in
doing
things
as
well
beyond
the
Expectation
,
as
the
de●ert
of
Man
.
Then
taking
the
Stranger
by
the
hand
,
he
begg'd
his
pardon
for
so
necessary
an
interruption
,
beseeching
him
to
believe
that
great
Truth
,
which
both
his
profession
,
and
experience
made
him
utter
.
The
Stranger
found
this
reprehension
to
be
as
just
as
civil
;
and
after
having
assur'd
Callimachus
that
't
was
his
melancholly
(
not
he
)
that
had
offended
,
did
offer
him
as
a
Penance
to
relate
his
Fortunes
.
Callimachus
being
highly
satisfied
with
it
,
answer'd
him
,
You
see
how
much
the
Gods
are
pleas'd
with
those
which
assume
their
quarrel
,
for
my
performing
it
has
not
only
produc'd
the
ambition'd
effect
of
making
you
perceive
your
fault
,
but
hath
besides
procured
an
engagement
I
was
almost
as
impatient
of
,
and
would
it
might
please
those
Powers
to
give
me
the
means
as
certainly
to
remedy
your
misfortunes
,
as
I
am
confident
I
shall
be
a
sharer
in
them
.
By
that
time
this
Civility
was
answer'd
,
they
were
come
into
a
Walk
so
cover'd
with
Yew
and
Cypress
,
that
it
appeared
a
fit
Scene
for
so
sad
a
Story
,
where
Callimachus's
silence
made
the
Stranger
begin
this
ensuing
Relation
.
The
Story
of
Parthenissa
and
Artabanes
.
THough
my
misfortunes
are
of
so
sad
a
quality
,
that
I
should
rather
publish
than
conceal
who
I
am
,
since
I
might
find
by
divulging
my self
,
that
cure
from
my
Enemies
resentments
the
Gods
have
hinder'd
my
own
from
performing
,
yet
because
they
have
commanded
me
to
learn
my
destiny
from
this
Oracle
,
I
am
determin'd
not
to
contribute
any
thing
which
probably
may
hinder
it
,
and
if
by
that
answer
it
gives
me
:
I
find
my
Death
as
necessary
as
I
now
believe
it
.
I
had
rather
also
erect
to
be
oblig'd
to
my
own
hands
for
my
Cure
,
than
to
those
of
my
Enemies
;
't
is
upon
these
considerations
onely
,
that
before
I
proceed
any
further
,
I
must
beg
your
secresie
;
my
actions
as
you
will
understand
by
the
sequel
of
my
discourse
,
having
rais'd
me
Enemies
whose
power
is
as
great
as
their
malice
.
Callimachus
would
here
have
made
him
Protestation
of
that
inviolable
silence
he
desir'd
,
but
the
generous
Stranger
would
not
permit
him
,
believing
himself
sufficiently
certain
of
it
,
by
having
acquainted
him
now
necessary
it
was
:
And
therefore
not
to
give
the
holy
Priest
any
time
for
so
needless
an
assurance
,
he
thus
continu'd
his
Story
.
My
name
is
Artabanes
,
I
was
born
in
the
Reign
of
Orodes
,
the
present
King
of
Parthia
,
who
is
also
called
Arsaces
,
(
which
is
the
name
appropriated
to
all
those
Kings
,
in
honor
to
Arsaces
,
the
first
Founder
of
that
Monarchy
)
I
had
my
education
with
Orode's
eldest
son
,
the
Prince
Pacorus
,
whose
favour
I
possess'd
in
no
unconsider●ble
degree
,
while
I
had
the
honour
to
be
near
him
.
My
Father
,
whose
name
is
Moneses
,
might
now
by
a
just
succession
wear
the
Crown
of
Media
;
did
not
a
nobler
Principle
invite
him
to
decline
it
.
He
was
Unkle
to
Tigranes
,
the
last
King
of
that
flourishing
Countrey
,
and
onely
Brother
to
Tiridates
his
Father
,
who
,
by
the
infusions
of
evil
Counsellors
had
received
so
great
a
jealousie
of
mine
,
that
to
vindicate
his
innocency
,
and
to
remove
his
Brothers
suspitions
,
he
retir'd
into
Parthia
,
where
Orodes's
entertainment
was
worthy
the
great
Blood
of
the
Arsacides
,
of
which
Moneses
hath
the
honour
to
be
descended
,
and
in
a
short
time
,
gave
him
his
only
Sister
the
Princess
Ebuzara
,
who
having
presented
my
Father
with
the
unfortunate
Artabanes
(
three
years
after
)
with
Lindary
,
she
dyed
,
but
Arsaces
affection
for
her
Husband
did
not
,
and
he
multiplyed
his
favours
on
my
Sister
and
me
so
abundantly
,
that
a
long
while
we
little
found
the
want
of
so
excellent
a
Mother
,
his
transcendent
care
so
well
supplyed
that
loss
.
Moneses
had
his
education
among
the
Grecians
,
whose
Customs
he
so
highly
valu'd
,
that
I
was
no
sooner
fit
to
learn
,
than
he
had
by
liberal
Pensions
procured
many
of
that
Countrey
to
render
my
Education
perfect
;
in
all
which
exercises
,
as
well
of
the
Mind
as
of
the
Body
,
those
that
flatter'd
me
would
say
,
I
was
no
ill
Proficient
.
One
day
as
I
was
waiting
on
the
King
,
there
came
in
a
Lady
in
Mourning
,
who
presented
a
Petition
to
him
;
But
oh
Gods
!
with
so
much
majesty
and
humility
together
,
that
I
admir'd
how
two
such
distant
things
could
meet
in
one
subject
,
her
Eyes
had
antipathy
to
the
Liberties
of
our
Sex
,
destroying
all
those
that
beheld
them
,
her
shape
and
motion
had
peculiar
Charms
,
and
she
had
a
certain
vivacity
and
air
in
her
countenance
,
that
assur'd
me
her
wit
was
not
inferiour
to
her
beauty
,
and
yet
one
might
easily
perceive
,
that
Time
,
which
is
the
ruine
of
all
other
Faces
,
would
but
improve
hers
,
she
being
not
then
above
fifteen
years
old
.
I
must
ingenuously
confess
,
my
heart
by
some
extraordinary
motions
foretold
proportionate
events
,
and
the
sight
of
so
many
perfections
made
me
inquisitive
of
her
name
which
possest
them
:
A
Courtier
which
stood
by
,
soon
satisfied
my
curiosity
,
by
acquainting
me
her
name
was
Parthenissa
,
that
she
was
the
onely
heir
of
the
generous
Miraxtorses
,
who
had
been
long
General
of
the
Parthians
,
that
this
young
Princess
petition'd
the
King
for
a
continuation
of
that
Principality
,
which
had
been
enjoyed
by
her
Father
;
who
from
all
his
services
and
victories
deriv'd
no
other
advantage
,
than
the
honor
of
acting
them
,
and
at
his
death
had
left
no
other
Wealth
behind
him
,
but
that
of
a
high
Reputation
.
While
the
King
was
reading
her
Petition
,
I
took
the
opportunity
of
saluting
her
,
and
after
some
little
civilities
of
telling
her
,
Madam
,
I
find
two
things
since
my
coming
into
this
Chamber
worthy
of
my
wonder
,
that
Miraxtorses's
deserts
should
Petition
for
a
Reward
,
and
that
you
should
present
it
,
or
if
I
am
singular
in
both
these
causes
of
admiration
I
have
a
third
,
in
which
I
shall
have
as
many
of
my
opinion
,
as
beholders
of
what
creates
it
;
If
,
Sir
,
reply'd
she
(
with
a
little
redness
)
I
had
no
better
hope
of
success
in
my
desires
to
the
first
,
than
I
have
no
pretence
to
the
last
cause
of
your
admiration
,
I
should
despair
of
my
request
,
or
at
least
onely
expect
that
from
the
Kings
favour
,
which
I
now
assure
my self
to
receive
from
his
Justice
.
Madam
(
said
I
)
you
have
so
good
a
Title
both
to
what
you
petition
for
,
and
to
all
I
ascribe
unto
you
,
that
I
shall
think
you
do
more
wrong
the
fair
Parthenissa
by
disclaiming
so
great
a
truth
,
than
Fortune
has
,
by
necessitating
you
to
desire
,
or
Arsaces
can
,
though
he
declin'd
granting
it
;
which
least
he
should
,
I
humbly
beg
you
not
to
refuse
the
duty
of
my
friends
or
my
interceeding
with
him
.
Then
without
staying
for
her
consent
,
lest
she
should
reject
the
first
proffer
of
my
service
,
I
went
immediately
blushing
and
trembling
to
my
Father
,
who
then
came
in
,
and
besought
him
to
employ
his
power
with
Orodes
,
in
a
cause
so
worthy
his
solliciting
,
and
the
Kings
concession
.
Moneses
,
who
was
always
inclin'd
to
actions
of
this
quality
,
so
powerfully
perswaded
Arsaces
to
grant
the
fair
Parthenissa's
request
,
that
he
did
it
.
You
may
easily
imagine
I
received
no
small
contentment
in
this
little
service
,
especially
when
after
I
had
begg'd
her
to
accept
it
as
an
earnest
of
what
I
was
confin'd
to
pay
her
;
methought
her
blushes
plac'd
a
true
interpretation
on
my
meaning
:
But
after
that
little
disorder
was
past
,
whether
to
disguise
it
,
or
out
of
a
true
sence
of
what
she
was
then
going
to
say
,
I
cannot
tell
;
but
I
can
,
that
her
answer
was
,
My
obligation
to
you
(
Sir
)
is
so
extreme
great
,
that
it
makes
me
almost
question
the
Kings
justice
,
or
my
Fathers
merits
,
which
needed
so
powerful
an
intercession
.
I
had
no
leisure
to
reply
,
for
Arsaces
retir'd
into
his
Cabinet
,
and
she
to
her
own
house
,
whither
I
desir'd
to
wait
on
her
,
but
she
would
permit
me
to
do
so
no
farther
than
to
her
Chariot
.
I
withdrew
my self
immediately
after
to
my
own
Appartment
,
and
passed
the
rest
of
the
day
with
some
impatience
,
longing
for
a
Darkness
equal
to
that
which
began
to
diffuse
it self
over
my
Thoughts
,
that
I
might
the
more
uninterruptedly
entertain
them
.
As
soon
as
I
was
a-bed
,
instead
of
that
rest
I
usually
took
,
I
found
mine
was
disturbed
by
a
throng
of
Assailants
.
But
Parthenissa's
beauty
had
assum'd
so
transcendent
an
Empire
over
my
memory
,
that
my
reflections
on
it
almost
suppressed
all
others
;
which
made
me
begin
to
imagine
it
was
Love
,
by
my
then
resenting
what
I
had
heard
of
it
.
I
must
confess
this
did
somewhat
surprise
me
,
for
my
Governor
had
imbued
me
with
so
bad
a
character
of
that
passion
(
he
being
a
Stoick
)
that
I
fear'd
it
almost
as
much
as
I
admir'd
Parthenissa
;
which
made
me
call
into
my
memory
all
those
Antidotes
he
had
given
me
,
As
the
poorness
of
submitting
to
a
Sex
the
Gods
had
given
ours
the
Authority
over
:
The
vast
troubles
in
purchasing
our
desires
:
The
smallness
(
commonly
)
of
the
value
,
if
obtain'd
;
or
the
natural
Inconstancy
of
Women
,
which
by
depriving
us
of
a
known
felicity
,
renders
the
loss
greater
.
That
by
the
definition
of
Love
,
the
Chase
is
a
greater
happiness
than
the
Quarry
;
For
Love
is
a
desire
,
and
we
never
desire
that
which
we
enjoy
,
therefore
with
the
fruition
the
Love
ceases
;
so
that
the
best
of
Love
is
to
be
ill
,
but
to
be
well
again
;
Who
would
be
a
Votary
to
that
Passion
?
Many
other
arguments
my
memory
would
have
furnisht
me
withal
,
had
not
the
growing
Idea
of
Parthenissa's
beauty
made
them
vanish
;
and
then
my
Reason
taking
her
Defence
,
furnisht
me
with
these
Answers
.
That
the
Precedency
that
our
Sex
had
over
hers
,
was
rather
an
Assumption
of
our
own
,
than
a
Concession
of
the
Gods
;
for
amongst
those
Creatures
which
purely
observe
the
Dictates
of
Nature
,
and
can
neither
Lie
nor
Dissemble
,
the
Feminine
Sex
is
courted
by
the
Masculine
;
or
if
the
Divine
Law
gave
the
last
preheminence
over
the
first
,
yet
the
Law
of
Custom
did
suspend
it
.
That
the
consideration
of
troubles
to
a
mind
capable
of
so
high
a
Design
as
the
adoring
of
Parthenissa
,
should
rather
inflame
than
diminish
the
courage
.
In
what
darkness
had
the
World
liv'd
,
if
difficulty
had
not
rather
added
to
,
than
suppress'd
the
Desires
of
generous
undertakings
:
As
for
the
smallness
of
the
value
if
obtain'd
,
that
is
not
the
fault
of
Love
,
but
of
Choice
.
That
Inconstancy
is
not
hereditary
to
the
Sex
,
the
examples
of
Lucretia
,
and
many
others
sufficiently
evidencing
,
that
is
not
their
Nature
,
but
their
Vice
:
That
it
would
be
a
difficult
thing
to
perswade
a
man
who
might
grow
rich
,
out
of
that
desire
,
from
an
apprehension
that
if
he
became
poor
again
,
his
loss
would
be
the
more
unsupportable
.
And
lastly
,
to
Loves
being
a
desire
which
ceaseth
with
fruition
;
we
might
as
justly
say
,
that
a
Merchant
which
courts
Wealth
,
and
makes
his
life
his
trouble
to
obtain
it
;
when
he
has
his
end
,
may
as
properly
be
call'd
poor
,
as
an
enjoying
Lover
,
by
fruition
,
ceases
to
be
one
;
for
when
he
once
has
the
possession
,
so
many
unfancy'd
joyes
disclose
themselves
,
that
they
afford
sufficient
nourishment
to
preserve
,
if
not
increase
the
fire
;
and
the
desire
of
the
continuance
of
that
happiness
does
still
maintain
Love
,
if
Love
were
only
a
desire
:
For
Fruition
is
not
like
lighting
,
that
vanishes
so
soon
as
it
appears
,
but
as
the
Elizian
Joyes
,
whose
greatness
consists
in
the
duration
;
so
that
Love
is
better
in
the
Quarry
than
in
the
Chase
;
yet
the
latter
is
a
happiness
too
,
onely
as
the
means
,
but
Fruition
perfects
happiness
as
the
end
.
I
tell
you
these
little
Reasonings
,
not
that
I
esteem
them
worthy
your
attention
,
but
to
acquaint
you
with
Parthenissa's
power
:
since
to
captivate
a
heart
that
had
no
aversion
to
Love
,
is
as
common
,
as
to
subdue
one
so
prepossest
with
a
prejudicate
opinion
of
it
,
was
onely
fit
for
Parthenissa's
Beauty
,
in
which
all
virtues
were
so
evident
,
that
I
needed
not
the
help
of
time
,
but
of
sight
to
disclose
them
.
I
will
not
trouble
you
any
more
in
telling
you
how
long
it
was
before
I
did
submit
,
since
at
last
I
was
necessitated
to
it
,
and
had
no
sooner
resolv'd
there
was
no
mean
between
my
misery
and
her
favour
,
but
I
apply'd
my self
to
all
wayes
I
imagin'd
might
render
me
the
least
unworthy
of
it
.
And
to
shew
how
much
the
Gods
contributed
to
the
growth
of
this
passion
;
there
fell
out
after
many
revolutions
,
an
accident
(
even
when
my
sufferings
must
have
disclos'd
what
I
had
brought
my
words
to
conceal
)
which
did
not
onely
acquaint
her
with
the
greatness
of
my
flame
,
but
did
also
inspire
her
with
one
which
has
since
proved
so
fatal
to
us
both
.
There
was
an
Ancient
custom
in
Parthia
,
to
celebrate
the
Anniversary
of
the
Kings
Coronation
,
with
all
the
shews
of
magnificence
and
joy
,
which
the
Art
or
Affections
of
the
people
could
invent
;
and
because
the
Parthians
were
ever
esteem'd
the
Warlik'st
Nation
in
the
whole
World
,
to
continue
that
just
reputation
,
they
declin'd
all
those
effeminacies
which
are
so
predominant
in
other
Courts
,
and
absolutely
addicted
themselves
to
such
Martial
exercises
as
are
nothing
less
pleasing
and
delightful
than
the
others
,
and
yet
fit
and
prepare
men
more
for
the
real
use
of
Arms
,
and
Acquisition
of
Glory
.
'T
was
this
practice
,
which
made
the
youth
about
the
Court
,
to
publish
over
all
Asia
a
solemn
Tilting
,
where
such
as
had
any
skill
and
courage
were
invited
to
shew
them
,
by
divers
Heralds
expresly
sent
into
all
the
Kingdoms
of
the
East
.
And
though
this
was
more
upon
Gallantry
than
any
other
score
,
and
that
the
Laws
of
it
extended
only
to
breaking
of
Launces
,
yet
there
hapned
an
accident
which
wholly
subverted
the
first
intention
of
so
innocent
a
meeting
.
The
exercises
of
it
were
to
last
three
days
,
and
Fortune
,
to
evince
her
blindness
,
had
permitted
me
the
two
first
to
remain
victorious
:
But
as
I
was
coming
out
of
the
Lists
,
attended
by
the
acclamations
,
and
company
of
my
friends
,
we
heard
a
great
noise
of
Trumpets
and
Clarions
,
which
imposed
on
us
a
general
stop
and
silence
,
the
King
too
,
and
all
the
Court
,
at
so
unexpected
Musick
,
return'd
to
their
seats
to
learn
the
cause
of
it
:
Their
curiosity
was
soon
satisfied
by
the
appearing
of
Four
and
twenty
Blackamoor
Pages
,
richly
cloath'd
,
and
well
horst
,
who
carried
each
of
them
at
the
end
of
an
Ebony
stick
tipt
with
gold
,
the
several
Picture
of
some
excellent
Beauty
:
These
were
followed
by
their
Master
,
who
was
advantageously
mounted
,
and
whose
Helmet
being
open'd
,
discover'd
a
Face
more
capable
to
create
fear
than
any
other
Passion
;
and
yet
even
in
those
barbarous
features
,
there
was
an
ample
evidence
of
a
resembling
courage
and
magnanimity
.
As
soon
as
he
was
come
near
the
highest
Scaffold
,
he
sent
one
of
the
six
Pages
which
followed
him
,
to
enquire
where
the
King
was
;
who
having
obey'd
,
and
satisfied
his
Lord
,
he
himself
immediately
advanc'd
towards
Arsaces
,
and
made
him
a
salutation
much
after
the
rate
of
these
ensuing
words
.
Sir
(
said
he
)
I
am
of
that
Arabia
,
which
is
called
the
Happy
,
and
am
in
some
degree
ally'd
to
the
King
of
that
Countrey
;
I
ador'd
a
Beauty
there
,
which
had
no
defect
but
her
cruelty
,
and
though
that
soon
ended
with
her
life
,
yet
my
Passion
instead
of
dying
with
the
object
of
it
,
did
the
contrary
;
for
it
increast
to
such
a
height
,
that
it
seemed
all
those
flames
with
which
she
set
so
many
hearts
on
fire
,
flew
into
mine
,
as
the
seat
of
the
great'st
and
perfect'st
Empire
:
And
though
time
be
the
common
cure
of
most
misfortunes
,
yet
it
prov'd
the
increase
of
mine
;
for
the
more
I
reflected
on
my
loss
,
the
greater
I
always
found
it
;
and
at
last
the
operation
of
so
just
a
grief
,
reduc'd
me
to
so
deep
a
melancholly
,
that
my
King
came
to
visit
me
,
and
to
cure
my
Passion
,
spoke
so
many
impious
things
against
the
perfection
that
had
created
it
,
(
which
he
injuriously
said
was
equall'd
by
many
)
that
not
daring
to
expiate
his
offence
with
his
life
,
because
of
his
character
,
I
publickly
vow'd
never
to
continue
in
his
Dominions
,
and
that
I
would
visit
all
the
Courts
of
Asia
,
to
justifie
that
none
but
my
own
King
durst
say
any
Beauty
was
comparable
to
that
of
the
fair
Mizalinza's
.
To
effect
this
,
I
instantly
abandon'd
the
place
of
my
birth
,
and
publisht
my
design
,
and
the
conditions
of
the
Combat
,
(
if
any
were
so
vain
as
to
undertake
it
)
which
were
,
That
whosoever
should
defend
the
object
of
his
Passion
,
by
equalling
it
to
her
that
created
mine
,
in
case
I
became
victorious
,
he
should
give
me
the
Picture
of
his
Mistris
,
which
I
ever
after
carried
with
me
,
and
hung
up
as
a
Trophy
.
These
Four
and
twenty
several
Beauties
had
the
ill
fortune
to
be
compar'd
to
Mizalinza's
,
and
by
the
Death
,
or
Conquest
of
those
which
ador'd
them
,
are
now
to
wait
upon
her
,
whom
their
deluded
Lovers
equall'd
them
to
.
The
fame
of
this
great
meeting
,
has
drawn
me
Sir
to
your
Court
,
where
if
any
be
so
presumptuous
as
to
justifie
such
folly
,
I
will
not
with
my
Lance
alone
(
which
I
understand
is
the
onely
Arms
of
this
Tilting
)
but
with
my
Sword
maintain
a
truth
which
Mizalinza's
eyes
,
more
than
the
defeat
of
the
greatest
Courages
in
the
World
,
hath
abundantly
justified
.
But
perhaps
(
he
coutinued
)
that
the
sight
of
this
charming
beauty
,
will
produce
a
confession
,
which
may
exempt
my
Sword
from
that
trouble
;
Thereupon
with
a
deep
reverence
,
he
drew
out
the
Copy
of
so
glorified
an
Original
,
and
having
exposed
it
to
all
our
views
,
he
further
added
,
that
if
any
durst
undertake
to
lessen
her
perfection
by
a
comparison
,
that
the
next
morning
he
would
appear
on
the
same
place
he
was
then
on
,
to
manifest
to
the
offender
,
that
nothing
but
his
blood
was
capable
to
wash
away
his
crime
.
Then
without
staying
for
any
answer
,
he
retir'd
to
his
Lodgings
,
and
left
us
in
as
great
an
astonishment
at
his
insolence
,
as
at
his
Passion
;
But
Arsaces
,
who
was
a
Prince
that
in
his
youth
had
been
blest
with
a
high
valour
,
did
so
exceedingly
resent
the
impudence
of
Ambixules
(
for
so
this
Arabian
Prince
was
called
)
that
he
publickly
profest
,
if
none
in
his
Court
had
the
courage
to
fight
with
him
,
he
would
do
it
,
for
the
defence
of
an
Imaginary
Mistris
,
rather
than
suffer
an
affront
to
be
done
unto
the
Parthians
,
as
great
even
as
the
insolency
with
which
it
was
committed
.
There
is
no
doubt
but
that
Orodes's
Court
was
then
replenisht
with
Men
,
who
apprehended
nothing
in
dangers
,
but
that
they
were
not
great
enough
;
Yet
at
that
instant
,
the
loves
of
the
major
part
were
so
unhappy
,
that
they
durst
not
acknowledge
the
Objects
of
them
,
and
't
was
upon
that
score
onely
,
this
Arabian
had
like
to
have
engross'd
an
honour
without
drawing
his
Sword
,
greater
than
ever
he
had
obtained
by
it
.
The
same
misfortune
had
then
an
influence
over
me
,
and
I
dare
truly
profess
,
if
I
had
any
uncertainty
in
the
undertaking
to
punish
Ambixules
insolence
,
it
proceeded
not
from
my
apprehension
of
him
,
but
Parthenissa
,
for
whom
I
durst
hardly
acknowledge
openly
I
had
a
Passion
,
till
she
in
private
had
approv'd
it
;
But
I
thought
the
crime
of
that
presumption
would
not
equal
that
of
the
tacite
confession
and
beauty
transcended
hers
,
and
that
I
had
a
less
Title
to
her
anger
,
by
discovering
my
flame
to
defend
her
right
,
than
expose
that
to
any
apparent
injury
,
by
a
concealment
of
it
:
Neither
was
it
impossible
but
I
might
return
from
the
Combat
without
receiving
any
such
wounds
,
whose
cure
might
necessitate
my
discovery
,
in
which
case
,
I
was
resolv'd
to
conceal
my self
,
and
not
acknowledge
my
Passion
,
till
she
,
to
whom
it
was
addrest
,
would
bless
me
with
the
reception
of
it
.
'T
was
with
these
and
many
such
reasons
,
that
I
assum'd
a
resolution
to
become
the
Protector
of
an
Excellency
,
which
had
no
misfortune
,
but
that
it
needed
one
,
or
that
it
had
one
so
unworthy
that
honour
as
Artabanes
:
I
kept
this
determination
exceeding
private
,
least
if
it
had
been
discover'd
,
my
friends
might
have
deny'd
my
first
essay
in
Arms
to
have
been
against
so
known
a
Conqueror
;
I
had
some
difficulty
too
,
to
fit
my self
with
Armour
,
for
that
I
had
made
use
of
the
two
precedent
days
,
was
too
publickly
known
to
have
been
used
the
third
.
But
,
I
remember'd
that
the
Prince
Sillaces
,
my
most
particular
friend
,
and
who
merited
abundantly
to
be
so
,
had
an
excellent
one
,
which
he
had
made
for
that
solemnity
,
but
being
unfortunately
troubl'd
with
an
Ague
,
he
was
necessitated
to
decline
shewing
his
skill
and
gallantry
,
which
indeed
I
apprehended
more
than
any
others
.
These
Arms
I
sent
privately
to
borrow
of
his
servant
,
who
,
knowing
his
Prince
could
not
possibly
use
them
,
sent
them
to
me
;
and
I
found
that
they
were
very
fit
,
our
shapes
,
and
heights
being
as
resembling
as
our
friendships
.
I
will
not
amuse
my self
to
tell
you
how
impatiently
I
past
the
night
,
nor
how
early
I
came
to
the
assignation
,
lest
some
others
should
have
prevented
me
:
I
shall
not
onely
let
you
know
,
that
I
was
there
before
any
that
might
have
had
my
design
,
and
before
Ambixules
too
;
whom
I
did
not
long
expect
,
and
how
at
his
entry
into
the
Lists
,
manag'd
his
Horse
with
so
much
art
and
grace
,
that
he
attracted
all
the
eyes
of
the
assistants
:
After
he
had
ended
,
I
began
the
same
exercise
,
to
shew
him
I
was
not
ignorant
of
it
;
But
not
to
dress
a
true
story
in
cloaths
of
a
Romance
,
I
will
pass
by
the
descriptions
of
our
Arms
,
Devices
,
Motto's
,
and
all
things
of
so
low
a
nature
;
to
acquaint
you
,
that
Ambixules
having
repaid
me
the
civility
of
looking
on
his
Horses
manage
,
demanded
of
me
the
sight
of
my
Mistresses
Picture
;
to
which
I
told
him
,
That
the
Excellency
I
ador'd
,
would
not
be
what
it
was
,
if
it
lay
in
the
power
of
Art
to
represent
it
;
but
that
the
Original
being
present
,
I
would
conduct
him
to
it
;
where
his
Justice
must
be
as
blind
,
as
she
herself
is
painted
,
if
he
did
not
adore
what
he
came
to
injure
.
Come
,
said
Ambixules
,
smiling
,
I
will
go
see
this
Beauty
,
to
convince
you
by
a
demonstration
,
that
he
which
hath
seen
Mizalinza's
eyes
,
can
be
conquer'd
by
no
others
;
but
(
he
continued
)
though
contrary
to
my
practice
,
I
am
content
to
begin
the
Combat
before
I
see
your
Mistrisses
Picture
;
yet
you
must
oblige
your self
,
that
some
friend
for
you
,
after
your
death
,
will
let
me
have
the
reward
of
it
.
This
insolence
did
not
a
little
offend
me
,
but
being
resolv'd
to
repair
the
wrong
with
nobler
Arms
than
those
which
had
committed
it
;
I
onely
told
him
,
I
was
confident
to
give
him
the
recompence
of
his
Victory
,
before
he
won
it
,
since
it
was
impossible
to
see
Parthenissa
,
without
carrying
away
her
Image
.
By
this
time
we
were
come
so
near
her
,
that
I
went
to
the
Scaffold
she
was
on
,
and
without
lifting
up
my
Helmet
(
to
continue
my
disguise
)
I
saluted
her
with
a
respect
equal
to
my
Passion
,
and
told
her
;
Madam
,
if
I
have
the
confidence
to
beg
your
permission
to
vindicate
your
beauty
,
't
is
out
of
a
certainty
that
the
success
of
so
just
a
dispute
,
cannot
but
prove
as
fortunate
,
as
that
it
needs
not
any
defence
:
Neither
do
I
draw
my
Sword
to
justifie
that
you
are
the
persectest
of
your
Sex
,
but
to
punish
Ambixules
for
not
acknowledging
it
.
Whilst
I
was
speaking
these
few
words
,
she
was
in
some
disorder
,
yet
it
was
so
innocent
a
one
,
that
it
rather
was
a
friend
than
any
enemy
to
her
beauty
;
but
she
quickly
supprest
it
,
to
answer
me
.
Whosoever
you
are
,
that
to
give
a
long
proof
of
your
Courage
,
give
as
little
one
of
your
Judgment
;
I
shall
conjure
you
not
to
undertake
a
defence
,
where
the
injustice
of
the
quarrel
may
give
your
Enemy
an
advantage
,
which
I
believe
he
would
hardly
obtain
on
a
contrary
score
.
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
I
know
how
to
distinguish
betwixt
your
Modesty
and
your
Justice
,
and
consequently
to
attribute
to
what
you
now
speak
,
to
the
first
;
but
if
you
have
so
partial
a
character
of
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
I
will
convince
her
by
an
experiment
,
how
much
she
has
injur'd
herself
,
and
my
election
.
Thereupon
saluting
her
with
an
infinite
humility
,
but
without
staying
for
any
reply
,
I
desir'd
Ambixules
to
return
to
the
place
of
Combat
,
and
to
hasten
a
decision
of
it
;
but
he
was
so
intent
,
and
ravisht
in
the
consideration
of
Parth●nissa's
beauties
,
that
to
interrupt
his
thoughts
,
I
was
forc'd
to
tell
him
,
Ambixules
,
I
fear
if
you
continue
longer
in
the
employment
you
are
in
,
I
shall
have
but
little
honour
in
my
Victory
,
having
to
deal
with
one
who
will
have
lost
his
heart
.
This
truth
made
him
asham'd
of
what
he
should
rather
have
gloried
in
;
so
that
turnnig
about
his
Horse
,
he
rid
with
me
where
the
Judges
attended
us
,
and
by
the
way
assur'd
me
that
my
Mistris
had
so
much
of
Mizalinza
in
her
,
that
having
vanquisht
me
,
he
would
desire
no
other
Picture
of
her
than
that
which
he
carried
in
his
memory
.
This
Antedated
Victory
I
excus'd
upon
the
same
score
that
I
had
the
former
,
being
by
this
time
come
where
it
was
no
time
to
talk
.
I
will
pass
by
acquainting
you
with
the
joy
Arsaces
had
to
perceive
this
Arabian
was
not
altogether
unlike
to
escape
unpunished
;
the
general
wonder
of
all
the
Court
who
I
was
,
and
the
secret
repining
of
many
Beauties
to
perceive
Parthenissa's
could
find
a
Protector
,
when
none
of
theirs
had
any
;
to
tell
you
,
That
the
three
first
courses
,
we
broke
our
Lances
with
equal
advantage
;
and
perceiving
they
were
too
civil
Weapons
for
our
designs
,
we
both
,
as
if
it
had
been
by
mutual
consent
,
drew
out
our
Swords
,
and
soon
made
each
other
feel
of
what
temper
they
were
of
;
but
Ambixules
having
given
me
a
furious
reverse
,
which
I
was
endeavouring
to
repay
in
the
same
coin
,
his
Horse
unexpectedly
rose
before
,
so
that
what
I
intended
for
his
Master
,
fell
upon
him
,
and
the
blow
being
given
with
all
my
strength
,
and
lighting
upon
his
head
,
cleft
it
in
two
.
I
was
extremely
troubled
at
this
misfortune
,
and
having
begg'd
Ambixules
pardon
for
an
undesign'd
wrong
,
I
trotted
some
seventy
paces
from
him
,
and
lighting
off
my
Horse
,
I
return'd
again
,
and
told
him
,
That
to
manifest
I
would
take
no
advantage
over
him
,
but
what
I
had
by
the
goodness
of
my
quarrel
,
and
that
what
I
had
done
was
unintended
,
I
came
to
offer
him
,
if
he
thought
he
had
any
odds
in
fighting
on
Horse-back
,
to
send
for
a
fresh
one
,
that
then
he
should
make
choice
of
that
or
of
mine
;
or
if
he
esteem'd
himself
in
as
good
a
condition
on
foot
,
I
was
ready
so
to
finish
what
we
had
begun
.
The
Arabian
reply'd
,
That
he
knew
his
courage
gave
him
sufficient
advantage
over
me
in
whatsoever
posture
he
was
in
;
and
since
I
had
kill'd
his
Horse
,
he
would
not
so
long
a
time
suspend
his
revenge
,
as
that
which
must
be
spent
in
sending
for
another
.
This
rudeness
so
incenst
me
,
that
I
repay'd
it
with
some
dangerous
wounds
,
but
at
the
last
,
finding
his
fury
more
than
his
strength
made
him
continue
the
Combat
,
I
retir'd
two
or
three
paces
,
with
intention
to
preserve
a
valor
I
could
not
but
esteem
,
though
I
had
receiv'd
some
dangerous
effects
of
it
,
and
told
him
;
You
see
Ambixules
the
power
of
Justice
,
which
has
reduc'd
you
to
a
condition
of
acknowledging
,
rather
than
persevering
in
your
error
,
and
that
advantage
which
the
goodness
of
my
cause
hath
given
me
,
I
desire
onely
to
employ
to
obtain
a
confession
from
your
tongue
,
which
your
weakness
has
already
made
.
Nor
my
weakness
,
nor
my
tongue
(
said
he
)
shall
ever
confess
you
have
any
advantage
over
me
,
and
whilst
I
hold
my
Sword
,
you
shall
find
me
a
subject
fitter
to
create
your
fear
than
your
pity
.
Thereupon
he
renew'd
the
Fight
with
much
more
strength
than
I
thought
he
had
left
him
;
yet
for
a
while
I
onely
defended
my self
,
but
when
I
perceiv'd
his
blows
were
so
brisk
,
that
my
charity
might
prove
my
ruine
,
and
that
he
had
so
much
vigor
,
as
I
might
kill
him
without
a
stain
;
I
cry'd
out
to
him
;
Since
my
civility
cannot
make
you
acknowledge
what
your
justice
should
,
your
death
shall
.
Finishing
these
words
,
I
made
him
soon
feel
the
punishment
of
a
fault
which
might
have
had
a
milder
reparation
,
if
the
continuance
of
his
insolency
had
not
render'd
him
unworthy
of
it
.
But
to
conclude
this
Tragedy
,
as
soon
as
he
fell
,
he
told
me
,
Whosoever
thou
art
,
I
forgive
thee
that
death
,
which
by
my
being
worsted
,
is
rather
my
joy
than
my
trouble
,
and
though
I
scorn
to
beg
my
Life
,
(
were
it
in
thy
power
to
save
,
which
I
thank
the
gods
it
is
not
)
yet
I
do
not
,
to
conjure
thee
,
to
assure
that
Beauty
which
to
have
fought
against
does
more
afflict
me
than
to
be
reduc'd
to
what
I
am
,
that
't
was
her
Eyes
which
inspir'd
thy
Arm
,
and
weighed
down
mine
;
and
,
that
had
not
shame
been
more
prevalent
with
me
than
truth
,
I
had
been
her
Champion
,
and
not
her
Adversary
;
Conjure
her
to
pardon
a
crime
which
I
expiate
with
my
blood
,
and
which
my
hand
should
have
punisht
for
her
,
if
thine
had
not
.
He
would
have
continu'd
his
recantation
,
by
which
I
perceiv'd
I
had
not
onely
kill'd
an
Enemy
,
but
a
Rival
,
had
he
not
found
,
that
his
Tongue
began
to
faulter
,
which
made
him
,
though
with
much
difficulty
,
turn
himself
towards
the
place
where
Parthenissa
was
,
and
not
having
the
strength
to
speak
to
her
,
he
lift
up
his
hands
to
implore
that
pardon
his
hasty
summons
hinder'd
him
to
express
.
As
soon
as
Ambixules
was
dead
,
all
his
Pages
came
,
and
presented
me
those
Pictures
,
which
had
been
the
rewards
of
their
Princes
former
Combats
and
desir'd
me
that
they
might
have
his
body
to
carry
into
Arabia
,
which
I
yielded
unto
;
and
then
taking
all
the
consequents
of
my
Victory
,
I
went
with
them
to
Parthenissa's
Scaffold
,
where
I
found
her
by
an
excess
of
goodness
weeping
the
death
of
her
Enemy
,
which
made
me
envy
what
I
had
deplor'd
,
and
forc'd
me
to
think
my
success
a
misfortune
,
since
it
created
the
fair
Parthenissa's
tears
,
who
judging
of
my
disorder
by
my
silence
,
wip'd
them
away
,
and
thereby
gave
me
the
confidence
to
present
her
with
all
those
fair
Captives
,
and
to
tell
her
,
That
the
Originals
of
them
could
no
more
complain
against
their
Servants
unhappy
defence
,
since
thereby
they
had
the
honor
to
be
hers
,
which
was
a
felicity
greater
than
any
could
have
attended
their
success
.
I
then
acquainted
her
with
Ambixules
last
injunction
,
which
I
said
was
a
proof
that
not
onely
he
,
but
his
reason
was
vanquisht
,
and
that
if
he
had
earlier
confest
a
truth
which
he
could
not
but
be
convinc'd
of
,
I
would
rather
have
elected
to
have
employ'd
my
Sword
against
my self
than
him
;
so
great
and
just
was
the
respect
I
paid
all
Adorers
;
under
which
Title
I
implor'd
a
pardon
for
having
brought
that
to
a
dispute
which
needed
none
,
and
that
her
justice
would
acknowledge
,
what
that
of
the
gods
had
,
by
the
event
of
our
Combat
.
To
which
Parthenissa
reply'd
:
I
am
convinc't
of
nothing
by
your
Victory
,
but
of
your
Civility
and
Courage
;
the
last
of
which
,
you
are
certainly
very
confident
of
,
when
you
durst
undertake
to
employ
it
in
so
unjust
a
quarrel
;
neither
can
I
doubt
,
by
electing
me
for
the
subject
of
your
difference
,
you
had
an
intention
to
manifest
,
that
your
Sword
needed
no
other
assistance
,
but
what
it
receiv'd
from
your
Arm
,
and
the
concealing
your self
after
a
performance
,
which
the
severest
modesty
might
glory
in
,
confirms
me
,
that
you
injure
your
Courage
to
avoid
doing
the
like
unto
your
Judgment
,
and
find
more
shame
in
owning
the
object
your
Quarrel
,
than
satisfaction
in
the
effect
it
has
produc'd
,
Ah!
Madam
,
I
reply'd
,
do
not
impute
the
concealing
my self
to
any
thing
but
the
respect
I
pay
you
,
which
is
so
great
and
just
,
that
I
had
rather
decline
what
you
are
pleas'd
to
say
I
may
glory
in
,
than
hazard
your
anger
by
disclosing
who
I
am
;
the
apprehension
of
the
latter
being
far
more
prevalent
with
me
,
than
any
advantage
I
can
derive
from
the
former
.
But
after
some
discourses
of
this
quality
,
observing
,
that
not
onely
all
the
Court
,
but
Arsaces
himself
,
was
coming
towards
Parthenissa's
Scaffold
,
I
thought
it
high
time
to
retire
,
and
therefore
made
haste
to
tell
her
,
that
I
was
resolv'd
to
a
concealment
of
my
name
,
till
by
a
succession
of
services
I
induced
her
to
pardon
the
score
upon
which
they
were
perform'd
.
A
little
Blush
which
this
declaration
caused
,
gave
me
a
belief
,
that
she
understood
my
meaning
,
and
the
apprehension
I
had
for
her
reply
,
as
well
as
being
environ'd
by
the
crowd
,
made
me
take
my
leave
,
but
on
an
instant
,
I
found
a
certain
coldness
like
the
hand
of
Death
seize
on
me
,
and
suddenly
after
,
I
fell
pale
and
speechless
at
Parthenissa's
Feet
.
This
unexpected
accident
had
a
very
powerfull
influence
on
her
whilst
she
knew
me
not
;
but
after
she
had
discover'd
who
I
was
,
by
some
peoples
pulling
off
my
Helmet
,
to
give
me
a
little
air
,
she
abandon'd
herself
so
much
to
excess
of
grief
,
that
many
attributed
the
effects
of
her
good
nature
to
a
more
obliging
cause
;
and
doubtless
,
had
I
seen
how
happy
I
was
in
my
misfortune
,
I
had
blest
those
wounds
which
were
the
causes
of
it
.
In
brief
,
as
soon
as
those
which
stood
by
knew
me
,
they
cry'd
out
,
Artabanes
is
dead
:
which
repeated
noise
coming
at
last
to
Moneses
and
Lyndadory's
hearing
;
they
ran
transported
with
admiration
and
grief
to
the
place
where
I
lay
,
and
where
they
found
Parthenissa
with
one
hand
stopping
a
spring
of
blood
which
issued
f●om
a
large
wound
Ambixules
had
given
me
,
with
the
other
endeavouring
to
wipe
away
two
springs
of
tears
which
ran
from
her
fair
Eyes
.
That
charity
gave
them
as
high
a
subject
of
acknowledgment
,
as
the
occasion
of
it
did
of
grief
:
But
at
last
,
a
Litter
being
brought
,
and
my
blood
stancht
,
I
was
carried
to
Moneses's
Palace
,
accompanied
by
the
tears
of
those
,
whose
Acclamations
I
so
lately
had
.
Arsaces
did
me
the
honor
to
walk
a
foot
by
my
Litter
,
and
to
see
the
first
dressing
of
my
wounds
;
where
he
receiv'd
an
assurance
from
the
Chirurgions
,
that
I
had
none
which
were
dangerous
;
that
loss
of
blood
was
the
greatest
harm
I
had
sustained
,
and
that
rest
was
one
of
the
best
remedies
they
could
prescribe
;
Wherefore
my
Chamber
was
immediately
emptied
of
all
but
my
faithful
Symander
;
But
this
deep
silence
was
so
far
from
producing
the
effect
which
those
that
enjoyn'd
it
expected
;
that
it
did
a
contrary
one
,
for
then
all
my
thoughts
began
to
assault
me
.
What
?
said
I
to
my self
,
can
Parthenissa
have
a
greater
assurance
of
the
vastness
of
my
Passion
,
than
her
knowledge
of
those
Beauties
which
created
it
,
and
the
services
I
have
this
day
render'd
them
?
She
were
as
unjust
as
she
is
fair
,
should
she
desire
any
stronger
proof
of
my
Affection
.
But
suddenly
my
opinion
changing
,
methought
I
heard
Parthenissa
say
,
Presumptuous
Artabanes
,
dost
thou
esteem
me
at
so
low
a
rate
as
to
think
,
that
nothing
which
thou
hast
done
to
day
deserves
me
?
Thou
hast
lov'd
me
because
I
was
lovely
,
the
greatness
of
thy
Passion
renders
thy
service
the
less
,
and
thou
hast
more
injur'd
me
by
thinking
my
beauty
needed
that
defence
,
than
obliged
me
by
assuming
it
.
This
reproof
,
which
my
distemper
made
me
fancy
,
came
from
the
Oracle
of
my
Fate
,
had
so
powerfull
an
operation
,
that
I
cry'd
out
;
Yes
Madam
,
I
acknowledge
your
reprehension
to
be
as
just
as
my
presumption
is
great
,
and
I
am
now
so
sensible
of
my
Crime
,
that
if
you
do
not
speedily
pardon
it
,
I
will
revenge
you
upon
the
miserable
Artabanes
;
't
is
but
letting
these
wounds
weep
blood
until
their
source
be
dry
;
so
Death
more
pitiful
than
you
,
will
make
my
punishment
the
way
unto
my
quiet
.
These
words
spake
in
a
high
tone
,
made
Symander
almost
as
frantick
as
my
distempers
had
me
;
for
being
ignorant
of
the
cause
,
he
concluded
the
height
of
my
Fever
made
me
rave
,
and
fearing
lest
I
should
put
my
words
in
practice
,
he
ran
to
the
Bed's
side
,
and
flinging
open
the
Curtains
,
besought
me
in
tears
,
not
to
make
my self
the
means
to
increase
a
danger
,
which
of
it self
was
but
too
desparate
:
This
action
of
his
put
me
out
of
that
deep
melancholly
my
Love
and
disorder
had
led
me
into
;
and
turning
from
him
with
a
great
sigh
,
I
reply'd
,
Alas
,
Symander
,
thou
wouldst
indeed
think
my
condition
desparate
,
if
I
assur'd
thee
my
wounds
were
the
least
torment
that
I
suffer
.
Sir
,
said
the
faithful
Servant
,
if
I
thought
so
,
let
your
torment
be
never
so
high
,
mine
would
be
equal
to
it
.
I
will
then
conceal
it
from
thee
,
I
reply'd
,
for
I
love
thee
too
well
to
load
thee
with
an
unncessary
grief
,
the
weight
whereof
is
such
,
that
I
should
think
it
a
crime
to
wish
it
on
my
greatest
Enemy
.
Ah!
Sir
(
he
answered
)
give
not
my
a●●●ction
for
you
so
ill
return
as
to
make
it
render
me
uncapable
of
serving
you
:
It
may
be
,
when
I
know
the
cause
of
your
grief
,
I
may
find
out
a
remedy
,
my
riper
years
may
know
what
yours
have
not
attained
unto
,
and
if
the
sacrificing
of
so
poor
a
thing
as
my
life
can
any
way
contribute
to
your
quiet
,
I
shall
think
it
gloriously
bestowed
.
His
discretion
and
fidelity
,
made
me
disclose
my
Passion
,
having
first
confin'd
him
to
an
inviolable
secresie
,
by
all
those
Protestations
which
might
positively
do
it
.
As
soon
as
I
had
acquainted
him
with
this
secret
,
I
perceiv'd
a
visible
alteration
in
his
countenance
,
as
if
the
knowledge
of
this
disease
gave
him
an
assurance
of
the
cure
;
and
that
his
words
might
do
what
his
looks
had
,
he
immediately
told
me
:
if
your
recovery
,
Sir
,
of
the
wound
you
received
from
Ambixules
were
as
certain
as
of
that
Love
has
given
you
,
my
joy
would
be
then
as
great
,
as
now
my
apprehension
is
:
for
I
am
confident
your
virtue
and
merit
,
will
obtain
her
affection
,
or
your
judgement
,
and
resentment
will
prove
your
cure
.
Dost
thou
think
,
said
I
,
may
Passion
has
already
so
dethron'd
my
reason
,
as
to
credit
what
without
any
thou
assurest
me
of
?
but
allow
I
were
blest
with
perfections
as
great
as
thou
canst
fancy
,
yet
compar'd
with
hers
,
they
would
onely
serve
but
as
their
foile
,
and
consequently
,
the
more
her
perfections
are
disclos'd
,
the
more
it
would
bring
an
accession
to
my
now
cause
of
adoring
them
,
were
that
capable
of
any
:
other
Lovers
may
hope
by
a
resemblance
in
merit
,
to
create
one
in
Love
,
but
the
object
of
mine
is
so
peculiar
in
her
Prerogative
,
that
what
others
drive
from
Sympathy
,
I
must
from
Mercy
:
and
to
expect
my
Judgement
should
recover
me
,
were
the
same
as
to
expect
what
gives
the
wound
should
cure
it
too
;
since
judgement
acts
in
me
,
what
fancy
doth
in
others
,
and
finds
more
reason
for
my
slavery
than
I
can
find
to
decline
it
:
to
hope
too
for
liberty
by
resentment
,
were
a
folly
onely
fit
for
her
pity
:
the
Mariner
that
is
going
to
be
shipwrackt
,
may
as
justly
hope
by
quarrelling
with
the
winds
to
free
himself
,
as
I
,
by
electing
the
same
course
,
may
expect
a
resembling
event
:
Alas
her
eyes
are
my
destiny
,
and
't
is
not
my
will
,
but
they
that
govern
me
;
yet
were
I
at
my
own
dispose
,
I
would
not
alter
my
condition
;
for
the
contemplation
of
her
Beauty
,
though
she
prove
cruel
,
is
more
Transcendent
felicity
than
others
derive
from
fruition
;
so
that
thy
advice
must
not
be
how
to
fly
,
but
how
to
conquer
.
To
which
he
answer'd
,
Is
there
then
no
Mean
to
be
expected
in
your
Fortune
?
None
(
said
I
)
you
take
a
way
which
looks
as
if
you
shun'd
your
end
;
for
can
you
think
,
while
you
contribute
to
your
sickness
you
advance
your
Love
?
No
,
but
the
contrary
,
for
this
disorder
not
onely
deprives
you
of
your
good
Meen
,
but
of
time
to
Court
the
fair
Parthenissa
in
,
and
if
you
have
Rivals
(
as
sure
such
Beauty
cannot
but
create
you
some
)
what
happy
opportunity
do
you
present
them
?
Besides
,
if
you
are
so
negligent
of
your
health
,
the
want
of
that
will
make
you
uncapable
of
what
you
need
not
apprehend
on
any
other
score
.
Ah!
Simander
(
I
cry'd
out
)
thou
speakest
of
a
felicity
fitter
for
my
desires
than
expectation
;
but
why
dost
thou
flatter
my
hopes
with
joyes
that
will
ever
be
notional
,
and
dost
like
Dreams
,
which
making
me
believe
any
airy
happiness
,
please
me
for
a
moment
,
but
when
I
wake
again
,
I
pay
with
all
real
torments
an
imaginary
Heaven
,
Truly
Sir
(
reply'd
Simander
)
I
have
always
esteem'd
despair
as
great
a
Crime
as
presumption
,
and
must
therefore
beg
you
,
as
Parthenissa's
perfections
keep
you
from
being
guilty
of
the
last
of
these
,
so
let
your
own
secure
you
from
the
first
.
After
he
had
spoken
this
,
he
was
silent
a
while
,
and
then
he
thus
proceeded
:
I
have
,
Sir
,
always
observed
,
that
interessed
parties
,
whatever
the
business
is
,
are
the
unfittest
to
conclude
,
especially
in
the
affairs
of
Love
,
where
Modesty
has
so
much
dominion
;
and
therefore
,
if
a
third
person
were
employed
,
whose
secresie
and
judgement
were
equally
unquestionable
,
I
think
it
would
much
contribute
to
your
design
,
especially
if
it
were
one
of
the
same
Sex
,
and
therefore
(
Sir
)
your
sister
the
Princess
Lindadory
,
if
she
could
be
engag'd
,
't
would
turn
my
hopes
of
your
success
into
a
certainty
,
the
opportunities
she
may
obtain
may
be
denied
to
you
,
and
she
may
suddenly
procure
from
Parthenissa
a
Declaration
,
which
nothing
but
sufferings
and
time
can
obtain
by
you
.
This
advice
I
so
well
approved
of
that
I
commanded
him
immediately
to
put
it
in
practice
,
and
though
he
perswaded
me
by
many
motives
to
defer
it
till
the
morning
,
yet
my
impatience
was
more
prevalent
with
him
,
than
his
reasons
were
with
me
.
As
soon
as
he
had
brought
Lindadory
to
me
,
and
that
she
was
set
on
the
Bed-side
,
I
took
her
by
the
hand
,
and
having
prest
it
between
mine
,
I
look'd
upon
her
stedfastly
,
and
with
a
deep
sigh
,
askt
her
,
Do
you
love
me
sister
?
Is
the
poor
Artabanes's
life
of
any
concernment
to
you
?
to
which
she
answer'd
,
If
I
thought
Brother
you
askt
this
question
as
doubting
it
,
my
trouble
would
be
as
great
as
my
affection
:
Dear
sister
(
I
reply'd
)
this
proceeds
not
from
my
doubt
,
but
to
hear
my
joy
repeated
,
for
the
state
I
am
now
in
is
so
sad
,
that
I
am
forc'd
to
summon
all
my
felicities
,
to
keep
me
from
despair
;
the
cause
of
it
is
,
that
I
am
in
Love
,
and
the
object
of
mine
is
Parthenissa
,
who
to
see
,
and
not
to
have
a
Passion
for
,
were
as
high
a
miracle
as
is
her
Beauty
;
and
though
she
prove
cruel
,
yet
her
hatred
could
not
be
a
torment
greater
than
my
folly
,
should
I
for
that
decline
adoring
her
.
Thus
you
see
clearly
your
Artabanes's
condition
,
and
now
do
not
so
much
wrong
it
,
as
to
think
I
make
it
worse
than
it
is
,
for
if
I
could
,
it
would
not
be
so
great
a
torment
.
I
will
not
so
much
abuse
your
patience
(
said
Artabanes
to
Callimachus
)
as
to
relate
every
particular
circumstance
of
this
Story
;
it
shall
suffice
I
tell
you
,
Lindadory
,
who
lov'd
me
perfectly
,
and
knew
my
disposition
so
,
did
not
oppose
that
which
was
my
desire
,
especially
being
grounded
,
as
she
confest
,
on
so
much
reason
and
justice
;
and
therefore
we
then
resolv'd
,
that
she
should
be
my
Agent
and
Confident
,
and
that
the
next
day
she
should
visit
Parthenissa
(
as
sometimes
she
us'd
to
do
)
and
carry
a
Letter
to
her
,
which
I
then
writ
,
but
with
much
difficulty
,
both
in
respect
of
the
pain
my
wounds
gave
me
,
and
procuring
Lindadorys
and
Simanders
permission
,
who
were
apprehensive
,
that
sitting
up
(
though
in
my
bed
)
would
prove
prejudicial
to
me
,
but
having
vow'd
to
them
not
to
do
it
,
would
prove
much
more
so
,
I
had
the
liberty
to
write
these
words
:
ARTABANES
to
the
Princess
PARTHENISSA
.
IF
by
the
loss
of
the
greatest
part
of
my
Blood
,
I
have
discover'd
a
Passion
,
which
offends
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
I
am
ready
to
shed
the
residue
of
it
to
appease
her
;
but
before
I
obey
a
Sentence
,
I
cannot
more
apprehend
than
I
will
readily
execute
;
I
must
beg
her
to
believe
that
the
wounds
I
have
received
from
her
Beauty
,
are
far
more
dangerous
than
those
I
have
received
for
it
;
'T
is
Madam
,
at
the
last
extremity
,
that
I
make
my
pen
assure
you
of
a
Truth
which
my
fainting
forc'd
me
to
disclose
;
and
which
I
confess
,
should
rather
be
employ'd
to
implore
your
Pardon
than
repeat
my
Crime
:
But
I
am
necessitated
to
extremes
,
and
by
so
resolute
a
confession
,
induce
you
to
Pardon
a
Passion
whose
greatness
you
cannot
doubt
,
since
I
cannot
conceal
it
:
or
else
condemn
the
Possessor
of
it
:
if
you
chuse
to
put
your
Iustice
in
practice
,
I
am
resolv'd
to
become
its
executioner
by
declining
a
recovery
of
these
wounds
Ambixules
has
given
me
,
that
the
World
may
believe
I
dyed
for
the
Fair
Parthenissa
,
and
not
by
her
.
But
if
she
elect
to
make
use
of
her
mercy
,
she
will
preserve
a
flame
which
has
no
fault
,
but
the
ambition
of
aspiring
so
high
.
The
success
which
my
sister
assured
me
of
,
whether
to
create
my
belief
,
or
to
acquaint
me
with
hers
,
made
me
after
her
departure
take
some
rest
,
though
mine
was
often
interrupted
through
different
dreams
;
but
no
sooner
the
day
appear'd
,
which
I
did
so
long
for
,
than
I
did
as
much
so
,
that
it
had
been
ended
.
I
could
never
imagine
till
then
,
that
impatience
was
so
great
a
deluder
,
for
mine
forc'd
me
to
think
it
the
longest
day
that
ever
I
had
seen
,
though
it
were
but
the
first
of
the
spring
:
but
the
occasion
which
made
it
seem
so
tedious
,
was
,
that
,
at
night
Lindadory
had
promised
to
bring
my
definitive
Sentence
.
At
last
the
so
much
desired
hour
arrived
,
and
immediately
after
,
my
sister
,
who
was
no
soner
come
into
my
Chamber
,
than
I
endeavoured
to
learn
in
her
countenance
her
success
:
But
Sillaces
,
who
could
not
contribute
to
his
health
,
by
seeing
the
condition
of
mine
,
came
then
to
give
me
a
visit
,
whose
company
before
was
ever
as
pleasing
,
as
at
that
instant
it
was
the
contrary
:
Love
having
so
much
of
meanness
in
it
,
as
to
make
us
prefer
our
own
interest
before
our
friends
.
But
lest
that
impatience
I
was
then
in
,
should
yet
seem
to
transport
me
,
I
must
tell
you
something
of
the
generous
Sillaces
,
who
has
been
so
great
an
Actor
in
the
ensuing
Story
.
He
is
Prince
of
Tabienv
,
and
of
an
Extraction
as
famous
for
Antiquity
as
Virtue
:
If
Fortune
had
been
as
prodigal
to
him
as
Nature
,
he
had
long
since
been
possessor
of
Lindadory
,
and
enjoyed
a
perfect
happiness
:
But
his
chiefest
Riches
consisting
in
that
which
the
Old
think
to
be
onely
the
Ornament
,
though
it
be
in
effect
the
Essential
part
of
Men
;
and
my
Father
who
esteemed
a
virtuous
person
without
Riches
fitter
for
his
Acquaintance
than
Alliance
,
deny'd
Sillaces
my
Sister
.
His
Passion
for
Lindadory
was
till
then
unknown
to
me
,
and
that
which
gave
me
the
first
suspition
of
it
,
was
,
the
alteration
I
perceiv'd
in
both
their
countenances
that
night
,
when
he
so
unhappily
came
in
to
disturb
us
:
I
believe
he
easily
found
by
our
silence
,
that
his
company
was
not
so
pleasing
as
it
us'd
to
be
,
which
he
since
told
me
he
attributed
to
some
light
I
had
discover'd
of
his
Passion
,
not
that
he
fear'd
he
would
oppose
it
,
but
that
I
was
offended
to
learn
it
of
any
but
himself
.
As
soon
as
he
had
taken
up
this
opinion
,
he
concluded
himself
fit
company
for
nothing
but
his
thoughts
,
and
therefore
,
immediately
withdrew
to
entertain
them
,
leaving
me
at
liberty
to
do
the
same
with
Lindadory
:
To
whom
I
abruptly
said
with
all
the
impatiencies
of
Love
,
Fear
,
and
Hope
,
Dear
Sister
,
What
must
your
Artabanes
expect
?
Have
you
receiv'd
any
return
,
which
may
build
my
hope
on
Justice
?
If
you
have
not
,
I
should
be
as
cruel
to
my self
as
Parthenissa
is
to
me
,
if
I
endeavoured
to
preserve
a
life
she
is
so
intent
to
destroy
:
But
if
you
bring
me
comforts
,
you
will
raise
joy
unto
a
height
it
never
until
now
attain'd
unto
.
Brother
,
she
reply'd
,
I
find
my
waiting
on
Parthenissa
,
that
her
reserv'dness
is
proportionate
to
all
her
other
perfections
,
and
consequently
the
procuring
so
much
as
I
have
done
,
assures
me
,
if
all
your
Felicity
consists
in
the
obtaining
her
Favour
,
you
are
not
far
from
your
desires
.
This
I
speak
to
stay
your
longing
,
for
now
I
must
tell
you
,
I
never
(
till
your
interest
ingag'd
me
)
so
narrowly
obser'vd
your
Mistris
;
but
in
this
short
while
I
have
discover'd
so
many
fresh
Graces
in
her
,
and
those
shine
so
clearly
,
that
not
onely
I
do
extoll
your
choice
,
but
wish
my
Sex
were
chang'd
,
that
I
might
be
your
Rival
:
For
the
Beauty
of
her
Mind
equals
,
if
not
transcends
that
of
her
Body
,
and
what
my
compliance
yesterday
approv'd
in
you
,
this
day
my
Reason
does
.
Dear
Sister
(
said
I
,
interrupting
her
)
though
I
am
ravisht
with
this
description
of
Parthenissa
,
how
imperfect
soever
it
be
,
yet
I
must
deprive
my self
awhile
of
the
lesser
happiness
,
and
beg
to
learn
the
greater
,
which
is
to
know
,
if
for
this
pleasing
joy
you
put
me
in
,
I
am
not
more
indebted
to
your
kindness
than
hers
?
This
you
must
tell
me
truly
,
for
you
cannot
long
deceive
me
;
and
if
once
I
find
you
do
,
by
all
that
's
holy
,
I
'll
take
so
severe
a
revenge
upon
my self
,
you
cannot
but
repent
you
were
the
cause
of
it
;
for
deprivation
of
hope
is
the
highest
misery
but
deprivation
of
possession
:
Therefore
,
Dear
Lindadory
,
I
conjure
you
by
your
affections
,
tell
me
really
what
interest
I
have
in
the
Felicity
before
you
tell
me
what
the
Felicity
is
;
for
I
have
none
;
the
knowledge
how
great
the
Blessing
is
,
will
but
proportionately
increase
the
Torment
of
being
deny'd
it
;
and
if
I
have
any
,
you
are
too
cruel
thus
long
to
keep
me
in
suspence
.
My
indiscretion
(
said
he
)
would
equal
your
impatience
,
should
I
praise
a
happiness
you
so
justly
ambition
,
if
I
knew
you
should
ne'r
possess
it
;
but
since
you
enjoyn
me
so
powerfully
to
tell
you
what
I
have
done
,
you
shall
first
learn
,
I
have
acquainted
Parthenissa
that
you
love
her
,
but
with
a
Passion
as
far
above
all
others
,
as
the
Beauty
is
which
creates
it
:
and
to
confirm
her
in
that
belief
,
I
presented
her
with
your
Letter
,
which
she
made
some
scruples
to
receive
,
but
my
importunities
supprest
them
;
that
at
last
she
read
it
;
and
then
told
me
,
I
have
so
little
title
both
to
the
perfections
,
and
the
power
your
Brother
ascribes
unto
me
;
that
I
receive
them
rather
for
Civilities
than
Truths
.
Oh
gods
!
(
I
cry'd
out
,
interrupting
her
)
can
she
be
ignorant
of
that
which
is
so
visible
?
Or
can
so
high
a
virtue
be
capable
of
as
high
a
dissimulation
?
Brother
(
said
Lindadory
)
your
impatience
makes
you
practice
in
your self
what
you
but
now
condemn
in
me
.
Can
you
blame
(
I
reply'd
)
so
necessary
an
interruption
?
Shall
Modesty
be
esteem'd
a
greater
virtue
than
Justice
?
Or
are
they
inconsistant
together
?
But
I
beseech
you
proceed
,
and
grant
me
now
your
pardon
,
for
which
,
I
will
engage
my self
not
a
second
time
to
need
it
.
I
had
no
small
trouble
(
said
Lindadory
)
to
make
her
confess
she
believ'd
your
affection
was
such
as
you
describ'd
it
,
but
the
labor
was
far
more
difficult
to
procure
from
her
any
thing
to
you
,
that
might
give
you
that
assurance
.
But
(
she
continu'd
)
to
obey
your
injunction
,
I
will
not
give
you
all
the
particulars
by
retail
,
knowing
,
that
to
relate
the
means
,
is
onely
pleasing
but
as
it
conduces
to
the
end
;
which
is
,
that
I
have
brought
you
a
Letter
from
Parthenissa
.
Ah
Sister
!
(
said
I
,
starting
up
)
How
many
obligations
have
you
contracted
in
this
one
?
then
calling
for
a
Lamp
,
after
having
a
thousand
times
kist
,
and
idolatriz'd
the
fair
Character
,
I
read
these
ensuing
words
:
PARTHENISSA
to
the
Prince
ARTABANES
.
IF
by
a
loss
of
the
greatest
part
of
your
Blood
,
you
have
discover'd
that
which
was
an
offence
,
you
have
discover'd
too
that
which
is
partly
the
reparation
;
since
what
acquainted
me
with
the
fault
,
acquainted
me
with
the
punishment
of
it
;
and
if
I
have
now
any
resentments
,
they
will
sooner
be
satisfied
by
your
preserving
than
by
your
shedding
that
which
is
left
.
Alas
,
(
said
I
,
having
ended
reading
)
I
may
with
much
greater
Justice
say
of
this
Letter
,
that
it
has
more
of
Civility
than
Affection
,
then
she
of
mine
,
that
it
had
more
Civility
than
Truth
.
Then
letting
my self
fall
into
my
bed
again
,
I
continued
;
Unfortunate
Artabanes
,
thou
art
yet
as
miserable
as
ever
;
for
here
is
not
a
enough
kindness
to
make
thee
live
,
nor
cruelty
to
make
thee
dye
.
I
now
perceive
there
may
be
cruelty
in
not
being
cruel
enough
;
that
a
little
kindness
may
be
a
great
cruely
,
and
that
suspension
may
be
so
order'd
,
that
it
may
prove
as
great
a
misery
as
deprivation
.
If
your
complaint
were
just
(
said
Lindadory
)
I
should
be
so
far
from
condemning
,
that
I
should
participate
with
you
in
it
.
Take
heed
Artabanes
,
lest
you
offend
the
gods
;
and
that
by
not
valuing
this
high
favour
,
you
thereby
provoke
them
to
recall
it
.
If
every
day
you
make
an
equall
progress
to
this
,
believe
me
,
the
wound
of
your
mind
will
be
sooner
cur'd
than
that
of
your
body
:
Remember
,
if
she
were
as
soon
obtain'd
as
askt
,
that
might
in
the
future
trouble
you
as
much
,
as
the
fear
of
the
contrary
does
at
present
:
Since
't
is
in
Love
as
in
War
,
where
the
greater
the
difficulty
is
in
the
success
,
the
greater
is
both
the
satisfaction
and
Glory
of
it
.
If
(
said
I
)
Parthenissa's
perfections
needed
a
foil
to
set
them
off
,
there
might
be
some
reason
in
what
you
think
has
so
much
.
But
in
the
possession
of
Parthenissa
,
all
joyes
are
included
,
and
not
one
without
it
,
so
that
nothing
but
the
end
here
can
be
term'd
Felicity
.
I
must
confess
,
that
in
meaner
Affections
so
much
Nourishment
as
this
would
preserve
Hope
from
Death
,
but
where
the
cause
of
the
Love
,
and
the
Love
it self
is
so
infinite
,
if
all
things
else
be
not
resembling
,
my
sufferings
must
:
The
wanting
of
never
so
little
less
then
what
will
of
necessity
suffice
,
is
as
bad
as
if
all
were
wanting
;
as
well
in
then
Food
of
the
Mind
as
of
the
Body
;
therefore
to
be
kind
,
and
not
kind
enough
,
does
too
deservedly
lose
that
name
and
operation
:
You
must
not
therefore
measure
my
condition
at
the
same
rate
with
other
Lovers
,
but
proportionately
to
the
Beauty
I
adore
,
and
then
you
will
conclude
as
right
as
now
you
do
the
contrary
.
All
the
Arguments
Lindadory
could
use
,
were
not
of
sufficient
force
to
moderate
my
despair
;
me-thought
Parthenissa's
Letter
had
so
much
of
indifferency
in
it
,
that
I
could
not
have
too
much
of
sorrow
for
it
;
and
that
which
prov'd
no
small
accession
to
mine
,
was
my
sisters
confession
,
how
difficult
it
was
to
obtain
so
little
,
which
too
I
receiv'd
rather
from
her
importunity
than
Parthenissa's
favour
.
These
,
and
●any
such
reasons
,
which
my
despair
furnish'd
me
withal
,
created
in
me
●belief
,
that
it
were
to
be
cruel
to
my self
,
not
to
die
of
those
wounds
which
were
such
,
that
they
made
the
way
to
Death
far
easier
than
to
recovery
,
and
consequently
it
had
been
a
weakness
equal
to
the
punishment
would
have
attended
it
,
if
when
the
means
to
end
all
miseries
was
easie
,
and
the
way
to
begin
miseries
was
as
difficult
as
to
persevere
in
them
,
I
should
have
declin'd
the
first
to
embrace
the
last
;
in
which
resolve
my
Body
so
well
seconded
my
Mind
,
that
my
Fever
so
increast
all
that
night
,
as
the
next
day
,
when
my
sister
came
to
visit
me
,
I
was
so
near
losing
my
life
,
it
had
almost
cost
her
her
own
,
for
she
fell
into
divers
fits
of
swounding
,
and
the
last
was
of
so
long
a
duration
,
that
Symander
,
who
stood
by
,
imagin'd
she
had
led
me
the
way
to
death
;
but
when
she
was
recover'd
from
her
seeming
one
,
she
begg'd
me
with
a
throng
of
sighs
and
tears
,
not
to
cast
my self
away
,
out
of
an
imagination
I
was
miserable
,
when
really
I
was
otherwise
,
which
if
I
would
give
her
a
little
time
to
evince
,
I
should
be
assur'd
it
from
Parthenissa
.
Ah!
sister
(
I
reply'd
)
if
you
could
perform
what
you
say
,
my
recovery
would
be
as
certain
and
speedy
as
my
death
will
be
without
it
,
Dear
Brother
(
said
Lindadory
)
give
me
but
one
days
respite
,
and
if
I
do
not
satisfie
my
engagement
,
inflict
on
me
what
punishment
you
please
,
and
I
will
willingly
endure
it
.
All
the
penance
(
I
reply'd
)
which
I
will
impose
on
you
,
if
you
prevail
not
,
is
,
That
you
will
give
me
leave
to
die
,
for
then
you
cannot
more
oppose
my
doing
so
,
then
my
condition
will
require
it
.
While
we
were
in
this
discourse
,
one
of
my
sisters
servants
came
and
acquainted
her
,
that
Parthenissa
was
come
to
give
her
a
visit
:
Lindadory
turning
towards
me
,
told
me
softly
,
receive
this
as
an
earnest
from
the
gods
of
their
future
blessing
,
who
have
doubtless
sent
her
hither
purposely
to
contract
the
time
of
your
suspension
:
Immediately
after
she
went
to
her
Chamber
,
where
Parthenissa
was
,
who
perceiving
by
my
sisters
eyes
,
as
well
as
countenance
,
that
some
grief
sat
upon
her
heart
,
she
told
her
,
Madam
,
the
place
from
whence
you
now
came
,
and
the
effect
of
some
great
sorrow
,
which
is
too
visible
in
your
face
,
makes
me
apprehend
something
of
danger
in
your
brother
.
Would
it
might
please
the
gods
(
reply'd
Lindadory
)
that
you
would
as
soon
apply
the
remedy
to
my
grief
,
as
you
have
found
out
the
occasion
of
it
,
which
if
you
will
be
but
resembling
to
your
power
,
you
may
perform
as
easily
as
desire
;
for
my
brothers
danger
is
the
cause
of
that
effect
you
seem
somewhat
concerned
in
,
for
though
those
wounds
Ambixules
gave
him
are
very
dangerous
,
yet
those
you
have
given
him
are
much
more
so
,
and
creates
his
and
my
greatest
apprehension
:
Therefore
,
Madam
,
consider
the
ruinous
estate
he
's
in
without
the
felicity
of
your
Favour
,
and
receive
this
as
a
certain
truth
,
that
unless
you
assure
him
of
it
now
,
it
will
be
too
late
to
do
it
hereafter
:
Give
I
beseech
you
to
my
prayers
and
his
condition
,
what
I
am
confident
you
would
hereafter
to
his
services
,
if
he
could
live
to
pay
you
them
,
and
then
gratitude
will
act
in
him
what
hope
would
.
Lidadory's
reason
,
and
the
sad
extremity
I
was
in
,
furnish'd
her
with
so
many
arguments
,
both
to
move
Parthenissa's
judgment
and
pity
,
that
at
last
,
with
much
difficulty
,
she
acknowledg'd
never
to
have
had
a
higher
esteem
for
any
than
for
me
,
and
her
inclinations
wereof
such
a
quality
,
that
by
my
services
and
fidelity
,
I
might
in
time
procure
no
unfruitful
return
of
them
.
This
declaration
was
as
pleasing
to
Lindadory
as
my
recovery
;
for
indeed
it
was
in
effect
the
same
thing
;
she
begg'd
her
therefore
to
give
me
a
visit
,
and
assure
me
of
what
she
had
then
said
.
Parthenissa
would
have
left
that
employment
to
Lindadory
,
but
she
excus'd
herself
,
by
alledging
it
would
be
too
good
news
to
be
credited
from
any
but
herself
;
adding
further
,
that
she
might
perform
a
visit
of
that
high
concernment
,
with
so
much
secrecy
,
that
none
could
ever
discover
it
,
there
being
a
back-stairs
,
which
went
out
of
her
Chamber
into
mine
,
where
no
company
then
was
(
least
it
might
interrupt
my
rest
)
and
I
am
the
more
pressing
in
it
(
continu'd
Lindadory
)
not
onely
as
it
will
be
the
efficient
cause
of
his
preservation
,
but
that
seeing
him
in
the
forlorn
condition
he
is
in
,
you
may
never
hereafter
quarrel
with
your
modesty
for
condescending
to
that
now
,
which
if
any
longer
delay'd
,
would
prove
ineffectual
.
Then
without
so
much
as
seeming
to
suspect
a
refusal
,
she
took
her
by
the
hand
,
and
having
led
her
into
my
Chamber
,
she
opened
the
Courtain
and
told
me
,
Brother
,
I
here
present
you
with
the
rarest
Physitian
in
all
Asia
,
whose
skill
I
believe
your
very
sight
will
convince
you
of
.
I
could
not
fancy
that
this
rare
Physitian
was
Parthenissa
,
and
knowing
all
others
disability
in
my
sickness
,
I
did
not
so
much
as
turn
my
eyes
that
way
,
but
being
somewhat
offended
,
that
she
who
knew
so
well
the
nature
of
my
disease
,
should
be
so
mistaken
in
the
means
of
my
cure
,
I
reply'd
,
Sister
I
perceive
,
that
Parthenissa
has
rejected
your
Prayers
,
and
that
you
have
as
a
last
Essay
,
brought
this
Physitian
to
practice
on
me
as
on
a
lost
Patient
;
but
't
is
in
vain
;
I
that
feel
the
power
of
her
Beauty
will
never
so
much
wrong
the
effects
of
it
,
as
to
believe
any
can
cure
my
wounds
but
she
that
made
them
:
let
me
therefore
desire
you
to
implore
this
last
favor
from
her
,
that
before
I
die
,
she
would
look
upon
the
miserable
Artabanes
,
and
give
me
leave
once
again
to
see
that
Beauty
the
cruel
(
but
fair
)
cause
of
my
Martyrdome
,
which
I
have
so
much
reason
to
hate
,
and
yet
have
more
not
to
do
it
;
that
she
may
hear
how
zealous
I
'll
pray
for
the
preservation
of
my
murderer
,
and
that
she
may
live
in
joyes
as
great
as
she
has
the
power
to
confer
on
me
.
These
sad
words
had
a
powerfull
influence
on
Lindadory
,
who
fancying
it
a
sin
to
jest
so
cruelly
,
begg'd
me
to
turn
about
with
such
earnestness
,
that
at
last
I
did
:
but
great
gods
!
How
was
I
surpriz'd
?
My
amazment
was
such
,
that
joy
had
lik'd
to
have
perform'd
what
grief
but
begun
.
Lindadory's
raillery
,
and
this
surprize
was
of
very
much
use
to
Parthenissa
,
who
was
so
confus'd
when
she
consider'd
the
action
she
had
undertaken
;
that
though
the
time
of
her
silence
was
long
,
yet
(
as
she
told
me
often
since
)
she
was
as
long
before
she
was
able
to
speak
to
me
;
but
perceiving
I
was
at
least
in
an
equal
perplexity
,
that
did
somewhat
assure
her
;
and
then
approaching
to
my
Beds-side
,
she
told
me
,
I
am
come
to
know
(
Artabanes
)
whether
the
power
you
said
I
had
over
you
was
a
Civility
or
a
Truth
?
but
I
too
visibly
perceive
it
is
onely
the
first
,
or
else
your
recovery
before
now
had
assur'd
me
the
contrary
.
Ah!
Madam
(
said
I
)
reproach
me
not
the
crime
you
your self
make
me
commit
;
for
't
was
not
your
commands
alone
could
make
me
live
,
but
something
added
to
them
,
which
I
thought
fitter
and
easier
for
you
to
imagine
than
I
to
name
;
but
your
not
taking
notice
of
it
;
alass
,
did
to
too
much
,
and
being
depriv'd
of
my
hopes
,
I
resolv'd
under
an
appearance
of
cruelty
,
to
be
merciful
unto
my self
,
and
by
yielding
to
one
death
,
to
free
my self
from
a
thousand
▪
Neither
,
Madam
,
can
I
think
you
will
be
offended
at
that
Election
,
since
by
disobeying
you
once
,
I
render
my self
for
ever
uncapable
of
doing
so
again
,
but
by
my
obedince
,
either
your
cruelty
must
have
been
as
great
as
your
Beauty
,
or
my
sufferings
would
have
far
more
troubl'd
you
,
then
this
one
breach
of
your
commands
.
I
perceive
(
reply'd
Parthenissa
)
that
you
counterfeit
an
ignorance
onely
to
extort
a
knowledge
,
which
is
fitter
for
my
blushes
to
assure
you
than
my
words
;
but
to
evidence
how
great
a
power
the
Princess
Lindadory
has
over
me
,
I
do
not
only
command
you
to
live
,
but
shall
judge
of
your
passion
by
your
obedience
,
and
reward
it
so
too
.
Alas
,
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
must
I
then
derive
my
Felicity
from
a
third
person
?
and
must
the
Means
lessen
the
End
?
To
which
Parthenissa
presently
answer'd
,
Your
scruples
are
much
greater
than
their
cause
,
which
intirely
to
remove
,
I
conjure
you
endeavour
Recovery
,
which
effected
,
I
am
confident
,
I
shall
soon
give
that
to
your
Merit
,
which
I
now
say
,
I
do
to
your
Sisters
Commands
.
If
(
I
reply'd
)
I
must
expect
that
Blessing
by
that
Title
onely
,
from
this
moment
I
renounce
all
hope
of
it
,
and
therefore
if
you
are
not
resolv'd
of
your self
to
confer
it
on
me
,
I
beseech
you
let
me
dye
,
otherwise
you
may
be
cruel
,
in
thinking
not
to
be
so
.
Madam
(
said
Lindadora
)
I
beg
you
to
receive
these
importunate
effects
,
as
coming
from
a
noble
Cause
,
a
Love
so
perfect
,
that
nothing
but
a
retribution
,
which
is
so
,
can
confer
on
it
any
quiet
;
and
since
you
have
thus
far
proceeded
,
let
not
Words
divert
you
,
when
the
Action
does
not
,
but
by
assuring
him
you
will
be
favourable
,
preserve
a
life
which
I
dare
justify
,
is
wholly
yours
,
and
as
wholly
depends
upon
what
you
shall
now
speak
.
I
know
not
(
reply'd
Parthenissa
,
pulling
down
her
Veil
to
conceal
her
Blushes
)
what
to
say
,
but
if
what
I
have
already
spoken
,
do
not
satisfy
,
what
you
are
pleas'd
to
undertake
,
I
will
confirm
.
Divine
Parthenissa
(
said
I
,
printing
my
burning
Lips
upon
her
Hand
)
I
desire
no
more
,
and
may
Torments
equal
to
your
Hate
(
if
such
could
be
found
out
)
fall
on
me
,
if
ever
passion
was
so
pure
as
mine
,
or
shall
prove
so
constant
.
After
a
thousand
assurances
of
my
Joy
and
Fidelity
,
we
heard
Moneses
knock
at
the
door
,
which
occasion'd
Parthenissa
,
and
Lindadory
to
retire
softly
the
same
way
they
came
;
for
we
thought
it
not
fit
he
should
then
know
any
thing
of
our
affairs
.
As
soon
as
they
were
gone
,
he
came
in
,
and
having
enquired
of
my
health
(
which
he
found
to
be
somewhat
better'd
)
he
went
away
again
.
In
brief
,
my
speedy
recovery
being
enjoyn'd
me
,
as
an
evincement
of
the
greatness
of
my
Flame
,
I
was
so
willing
to
embrace
any
thing
might
advance
it
,
that
in
a
short
time
my
wounds
were
fully
heal'd
,
and
then
every
day
I
gave
the
fair
Parthenissa
so
many
new
confirmations
of
my
Passion
,
that
at
last
she
assur'd
me
of
hers
.
I
can
truly
affirm
,
never
two
Hearts
were
more
perfectly
united
,
than
ours
.
And
if
at
any
time
so
many
perfections
made
my
Desires
rebel
against
my
Reason
,
she
immediately
supprest
them
with
Reason
;
which
was
not
onely
an
argument
of
the
vastness
of
her
wit
,
but
of
the
proportionate
power
she
had
over
me
.
But
why
do
I
name
the
Felicities
we
possest
in
those
glorious
days
,
when
they
were
so
short
,
that
the
time
that
I
have
been
telling
you
of
them
,
seems
to
me
to
be
longer
than
they
themselves
were
;
and
when
they
do
but
serve
to
add
unto
miseries
,
which
are
but
too
great
already
,
and
are
any
other
way
uncapable
of
accession
.
Fortune
,
which
has
been
always
ingenious
to
persecute
me
,
no
sooner
acquainted
me
with
the
blessing
of
Parthenissa's
Conversation
then
she
sever'd
me
from
it
:
For
there
happened
a
difference
betwixt
Arsaces
and
Artabazus
the
King
of
Armenia
,
concerning
the
bounds
of
their
Kingdoms
;
and
as
it
is
ordinary
amongst
Monarchs
,
which
are
above
the
Laws
,
to
have
immediate
recourse
to
their
Swords
,
and
make
them
both
plead
,
and
determine
their
dispute
;
so
did
they
,
and
by
it
engag'd
all
the
Gallantry
of
both
their
Kingdoms
.
I
was
ambitious
to
do
something
that
might
give
me
an
interest
in
Parthenissa
by
my
Actions
,
and
therefore
resolved
to
undertake
the
Voyage
;
I
waited
on
her
,
to
acquaint
her
with
my
design
,
and
found
her
alone
in
her
Cabinet
(
as
she
confest
to
me
afterwards
)
preparing
Arguments
to
divert
me
from
that
War
,
which
she
apprehended
my
Honor
would
engage
me
in
;
but
I
interrupted
her
thoughts
by
telling
her
,
Madam
,
the
joy
of
your
Affection
makes
these
Wars
(
the
way
to
Glory
)
troublesome
;
for
Love
delights
in
none
but
what
it self
creates
.
Truly
Artabanes
(
she
said
)
you
can
shew
me
no
greater
,
nor
pleasanter
effects
of
your
Flame
,
than
in
observing
what
you
now
speak
,
since
in
this
one
action
we
give
and
receive
assurances
of
each
others
passion
;
for
I
have
sufficient
proofs
of
yours
,
when
your
Honour
cannot
vanquish
your
Love
,
and
when
you
care
not
to
satisfy
the
World
,
so
I
be
pleas'd
:
And
you
of
mine
,
when
the
highest
condition
,
(
that
of
your
Glory
)
cannot
be
of
sufficient
force
to
make
your
absence
tollerable
.
Alas
,
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
how
miserable
am
I
then
?
that
must
plead
your
Commands
,
and
make
use
of
Arguments
,
which
if
they
prevail
,
banish
me
from
my
Felicity
,
and
if
they
do
not
,
make
me
unworthy
of
it
:
But
since
inevitably
I
must
fall
into
one
of
these
misfortunes
,
I
had
rather
embrace
the
first
,
which
though
it
make
me
perfectly
wretched
,
yet
't
will
extenuate
your
choice
unto
the
World
,
by
evincing
that
the
Man
you
elected
to
honour
with
your
Affection
,
valued
not
the
hazarding
of
his
life
to
merit
it
;
and
since
,
to
the
further
manifestation
of
that
Truth
,
he
dare
expose
himself
to
the
miseries
of
absence
,
who
can
suspect
he
will
decline
any
other
proof
of
it
?
I
now
perceive
(
said
she
)
Artabanes
,
that
you
onely
hitherto
pretended
a
perfect
Love
;
for
one
that
is
so
,
confines
it self
to
the
Object
loved
,
and
makes
the
satisfying
of
it
,
it
's
onely
end
:
Alas
,
had
I
stood
upon
these
Niceties
,
and
not
more
consider'd
you
than
the
World
,
you
had
never
taken
my
Heart
by
Assault
,
but
by
Siege
.
To
which
I
reply'd
:
'T
is
not
onely
,
Madam
,
to
please
the
World
,
but
to
establish
my
Felicity
in
the
Future
:
for
this
War
will
every
day
create
new
occasions
for
my
Rivals
to
purchase
Glory
,
and
knowing
your
Justice
,
to
be
equal
to
your
other
Perfections
;
I
would
not
by
my
idleness
provoke
yours
so
much
to
make
me
miserable
;
But
then
,
it
may
be
you
will
answer
,
your
inclination
leads
you
to
honour
me
with
your
esteem
,
more
than
any
other
;
but
I
beseech
you
,
Madam
,
consider
how
weak
a
Title
that
will
appear
,
when
manifested
Vertue
shall
come
in
competition
with
it
?
No
,
fair
Parthenissa
,
give
me
leave
to
act
upon
this
Stage
,
where
I
will
do
such
things
,
that
if
Merit
could
claim
an
interest
in
you
,
you
should
be
mine
by
right
,
and
I
will
no
longer
own
the
great
opinion
you
have
of
me
to
your
Goodness
,
but
your
Justice
.
Cruel
Artabanes
(
said
Parthenissa
)
have
all
the
Vows
of
Love
wrought
so
little
on
your
belief
,
as
to
think
it
possible
,
I
can
be
any
man
's
but
yours
?
And
that
which
you
even
now
stil'd
Justice
in
me
,
would
be
inconstancy
and
perjury
:
besides
,
these
high
things
which
you
propound
unto
your self
,
cannot
be
attain'd
without
resembling
dangers
,
and
should
you
miscarry
in
them
(
as
the
events
of
War
are
blind
and
uncertain
)
how
miserable
would
my
condition
be
?
when
the
universal
knowledge
of
your
Virtue
,
will
so
drown
all
men
in
Grief
,
that
those
which
should
afford
me
any
Consolation
,
will
need
it
themselves
:
and
every
Man
will
be
a
fresh
Object
to
renew
my
Sorrow
:
Besides
,
what
you
would
so
hazardously
court
and
sollicite
,
is
of
so
speculative
and
airy
a
quality
,
that
neither
the
simplest
,
nor
the
wisest
Soldier
in
the
Army
,
would
now
exchange
conditions
with
the
famous
Alexander
,
the
great
ingrosser
of
it
.
That
,
Madam
,
I
reply'd
,
would
rather
evin●e
a
want
of
Virtue
in
the
Living
,
than
the
Dead
:
so
perhaps
,
many
Women
now
would
not
change
condition
with
the
excellent
Lucretia
,
and
yet
that
does
not
prove
but
hers
is
more
to
be
ambition'd
.
To
contract
my
Relation
,
I
made
use
of
so
many
arguments
,
that
at
last
she
resign'd
the
Field
,
but
I
perceiv'd
it
was
with
much
reluctancy
,
for
she
said
,
How
just
a
cause
have
I
to
complain
,
that
either
my
affection
is
not
less
,
which
might
render
your
departure
supportable
,
or
that
being
so
great
,
I
cannot
have
proportionate
Arguments
to
divert
your
Design
.
But
believe
me
,
though
my
Judgement
be
convinc'd
,
it
is
fit
for
you
to
undertake
;
yet
my
Love
will
never
be
so
.
Ah
Madam
(
said
I
)
how
kind
,
and
how
cruel
are
those
words
,
for
your
Love
transcending
your
Judgement
,
how
vast
an
evincement
is
that
of
its
being
so
;
and
on
the
other
side
,
how
cruel
is
the
purchase
of
that
Felicity
,
by
rendring
your
Love
(
the
greatest
of
my
blessings
)
now
the
greatest
of
my
troubles
.
After
I
had
done
speaking
,
she
lean'd
her
Cheek
upon
her
Hand
,
and
having
thought
a
while
,
she
lookt
on
me
stedfastly
,
with
Tears
running
from
her
fair
Eyes
,
and
told
me
with
a
languishing
voice
,
Artabanes
,
since
you
are
resolv'd
to
go
,
I
conjure
you
by
your
Passion
,
remember
that
we
have
exchang'd
our
Hearts
,
and
that
loving
Parthenissa
,
as
you
say
,
more
than
your self
,
evince
it
,
by
having
more
care
of
her
Heart
,
than
if
it
were
your
own
.
And
since
you
will
allow
nothing
to
surpass
your
Affection
;
yet
at
least
allow
mine
to
be
equal
to
it
,
and
then
consider
those
Torments
my
death
would
be
to
you
,
and
be
not
too
prodigal
of
that
life
,
which
if
lost
,
must
involve
me
in
resembling
ones
.
These
Words
and
Tears
were
so
moving
,
that
I
held
it
rather
a
Duty
,
than
a
Weakness
,
to
accompany
her
in
the
latter
,
which
she
perceiving
,
began
to
ask
me
forgiveness
,
by
having
made
me
erre
by
her
example
,
and
then
went
to
a
little
Cabinet
in
her
Closet
,
where
she
took
out
her
Picture
,
which
she
presented
me
,
and
I
vow'd
to
wear
,
as
long
as
that
other
,
I
could
not
but
carry
about
me
whilst
I
did
my
Heart
.
If
you
have
ever
resented
the
pleasing
Flames
of
Love
,
you
may
then
partly
guess
how
cruel
this
separation
was
;
otherwise
,
your
imagination
will
be
as
far
short
of
apprehending
,
as
I
am
of
expressing
it
.
But
this
being
nothing
essential
to
our
story
,
I
will
pass
it
over
,
by
telling
you
,
that
Pacorus
,
eldest
Son
to
the
King
,
was
General
of
the
Army
,
but
my
Father
had
the
Superintendency
of
all
:
his
deep
experience
giving
him
that
Honour
,
with
as
little
Dispute
as
Envy
.
The
Prince
was
accompany'd
by
his
Brother
Phraates
,
and
all
other
Great
Men
of
the
Empire
,
amongst
whom
,
Surena
was
the
chiefest
,
either
for
Person
,
Wit
,
Estate
,
or
Power
,
but
of
an
Humour
so
uncontroulable
,
that
it
clouded
all
his
other
Virtues
.
These
Troops
were
generally
the
gallantest
,
and
best
fitted
,
of
any
I
ever
yet
beheld
;
and
in
my
opinion
,
the
Roman
Legions
were
as
far
short
of
them
,
as
they
excell'd
all
others
.
After
the
Army
was
in
a
moving
posture
,
Moneses
led
the
Body
of
it
,
by
easy
marches
,
towards
Miramnes
,
a
strong
Town
,
which
the
Armenians
had
newly
besieg'd
with
50000
Foot
,
and
10000
Horse
,
the
King
being
there
in
person
.
Pacorus
remain'd
at
Court
ten
days
after
,
to
receive
his
Instructions
,
and
by
that
time
Moneses
was
within
three
days
march
of
the
Enemy
,
the
Prince
and
all
his
Court
overtook
him
,
where
a
Messenger
,
from
the
●overnor
of
Miramnes
,
assur'd
Pacorus
,
that
if
in
three
weeks
he
had
no
relief
,
it
would
be
too
late
to
send
him
any
.
The
next
morning
therefore
he
took
a
view
of
his
whole
Army
,
which
consisted
of
near
near
40000
Foot
,
and
15000
Horse
,
but
so
much
of
resolution
appear'd
in
the
Officers
and
Soldiers
looks
,
that
he
thought
every
hour
of
delay
so
much
time
stolen
from
the
Glory
of
his
Triumph
.
The
consequence
of
this
place
was
such
,
that
immediately
a
Council
of
War
was
summon'd
,
where
after
a
long
Debate
,
the
Result
of
it
was
;
That
the
Prince
sent
a
Herald
with
a
Letter
,
to
the
King
of
Armenia
,
to
invite
him
on
the
large
,
and
adjoyning
,
Plains
of
Arontes
,
to
decide
their
difference
by
a
Battel
,
which
would
end
the
War
,
and
the
Miseries
that
inevitably
would
be
a
consequence
of
it
.
Artabazus
having
consulted
with
the
Chief
Officers
of
his
Army
,
return'd
this
Answer
,
ARTABAZVS
King
of
Armenia
,
to
PACORVS
,
Prince
of
the
Parthians
.
The
same
Consideration
which
invites
you
to
decide
our
Quarrel
by
a
Battel
,
moves
me
to
accept
it
,
and
since
the
Gods
are
our
Iudges
,
we
need
not
fear
Partiality
,
the
justest
Sword
will
be
the
sharpest
,
and
therefore
the
Conquer'd
shall
be
esteemed
guilty
,
by
ARTABAZVS
.
This
Answer
was
no
sooner
read
,
but
Orders
were
given
to
every
Chief
Officer
,
to
repair
to
his
Charge
,
and
to
exhort
the
Soldiers
to
perform
their
Duties
with
Courage
and
Vigilancy
.
The
next
day
we
discamped
,
and
pitched
our
Tents
in
the
Plains
of
Arontes
,
the
Scene
of
the
intended
Tragedy
.
As
soon
as
we
were
quarter'd
,
we
might
perceive
the
Armenian
Army
marching
down
the
Hills
of
Fenistia
in
exact
Order
,
and
camped
so
,
some
forty
Furlongs
from
us
.
By
mutual
agreement
,
both
Armies
rested
themselves
two
days
,
that
they
might
come
the
third
,
unharrast
to
the
Battel
.
In
the
mean
time
,
Moneses
appointed
to
every
one
his
Command
.
The
Prince
honor'd
me
with
the
leading
of
2000
Horse
,
all
Voluntiers
,
and
composed
of
the
Youth
and
Gallantry
of
Parthia
,
with
whom
I
resolv'd
to
act
something
worthy
the
high
Title
of
Parthenissa's
Servant
.
At
last
,
the
long
desired
day
appear'd
,
but
so
Black
and
Cloudy
,
that
it
hardly
deserv'd
that
name
,
as
if
the
Heavens
had
put
on
anticipated
Mourning
for
so
many
succeeding
Funerals
.
Presently
those
vast
Plains
were
cover'd
with
Armed
Troops
,
and
the
Generals
having
taken
all
the
advantages
the
ground
would
permit
,
gave
the
Signal
of
the
Battel
:
At
the
first
shock
,
the
Field
was
strew'd
with
dead
Bodies
,
and
such
a
show'r
of
Arrows
were
shot
into
the
Air
,
that
the
God's
were
hinder'd
from
seeing
or
relieving
either
party
.
There
were
a
thousand
things
perform'd
,
which
did
better
merit
the
Sun
for
Spectator
in
all
his
Glory
,
than
those
sad
and
gloomy
Clouds
.
But
the
Victory
which
was
a
long
time
in
suspense
,
at
last
seem'd
to
declare
it self
on
the
Armenians
side
,
by
the
valour
of
a
young
Gentleman
,
who
with
near
3000
Horse
,
carried
Death
to
his
Enemies
,
and
Victory
to
his
Friends
,
wheresoever
he
appear'd
.
So
much
Gallantry
,
I
thought
,
was
a
fit
Object
for
our
Swords
,
and
turning
to
my
friends
,
I
told
them
so
,
with
this
litle
addition
;
T
is
too
low
to
imitate
those
that
have
done
well
:
Let
us
be
examples
to
them
,
to
do
better
,
for
you
see
the
day
is
lost
,
unless
recover'd
by
our
Valours
;
and
Victory
will
now
be
so
precious
,
it
cannot
be
too
dearly
courted
.
They
all
unanimously
approv'd
my
resolution
,
and
presently
I
led
them
where
Artavasdes
was
,
(
for
so
was
this
young
Conqueror
call'd
)
who
perceiving
our
design
,
and
guessing
by
our
Countenance
,
we
were
not
Men
to
be
slighted
,
presently
rallied
all
his
Soldiers
,
who
were
eagerly
pursuing
the
Parthians
.
By
that
time
he
had
drawn
them
up
,
I
charg'd
him
,
telling
my
companions
,
I
would
not
invite
them
to
that
which
I
would
not
be
a
sharer
in
:
I
was
so
well
seconded
by
those
which
follow'd
me
,
that
after
a
generous
resistance
,
we
broke
those
victorious
Troops
,
and
had
the
execution
of
them
,
as
long
as
they
had
had
it
of
ours
,
and
I
was
so
far
engag'd
in
the
pursuit
of
this
Rout
,
that
at
last
I
perceiv'd
the
Standard-Royal
,
which
was
guarded
by
at
least
8000
select
Men
,
which
was
to
me
rather
an
invitation
to
attempt
it
,
than
the
contrary
,
but
least
many
might
have
been
of
a
different
principle
,
I
told
my
Troop-Companions
,
't
is
true
,
their
number
surpasses
ours
,
but
you
have
just
now
learn'd
,
that
Victory
is
won
by
Virtue
,
not
by
Multitudes
;
you
have
done
things
which
will
not
be
believ'd
,
but
by
some
such
powerful
Witness
:
for
to
our
own
Glory
(
but
to
our
Countreys
shame
)
we
are
not
onely
the
Actors
,
but
almost
the
onely
Spectators
,
and
as
your
Valours
have
no
limits
,
let
your
success
be
resembling
.
By
one
general
Acclamation
,
they
protested
they
would
follow
me
to
Death
or
Victory
;
I
gave
them
no
time
to
cool
,
but
by
a
successful
Charge
,
I
made
a
breach
for
them
to
enter
;
they
lost
not
the
occasion
,
but
with
Vigor
and
Resolution
improv'd
it
.
As
we
had
almost
effected
our
design
,
the
same
Artavasdes
,
who
had
done
such
noble
Actions
in
the
beginning
of
the
Battel
,
and
was
beaten
by
his
Mens
Fears
,
not
his
own
,
(
for
they
had
carried
him
away
in
the
Throng
)
rallied
again
some
of
his
resolutest
Troops
,
and
was
come
with
them
to
relieve
the
King
;
which
he
did
with
so
great
fury
,
that
my
Men
lost
all
the
Glory
of
their
former
Actions
,
by
an
ignominious
flight
.
I
could
not
believe
it
at
the
first
,
but
seeing
it
was
in
earnest
,
I
cryed
out
;
'T
is
your
Swords
,
not
your
Feet
must
save
you
,
which
you
may
effect
by
almost
your
desiring
it
,
for
the
Enemy
are
not
oblig'd
to
their
Valours
for
this
disorder
,
but
your
Fears
:
If
you
doubt
this
Truth
,
do
but
turn
your
Faces
,
and
their
Flight
will
assure
you
it
.
But
when
I
perceiv'd
they
were
as
deaf
to
me
,
as
to
their
Honors
,
I
told
some
which
were
running
by
me
:
Is
it
thus
then
that
you
perform
your
engagement
of
following
me
to
Death
or
Victory
?
I
will
never
live
to
see
your
shame
,
nor
to
participate
with
you
in
it
:
Assure
the
Prince
and
my
Father
,
I
will
sell
my
life
so
handsomely
,
that
it
shall
neither
disgrace
my
Countrey
nor
my
Bloud
.
Having
so
said
,
I
thrust
my self
into
the
midst
of
the
Enemy
,
with
a
resolution
to
dye
,
and
invoking
the
fair
Name
of
Parthenissa
,
my
Rage
made
me
do
things
,
which
my
Courage
onely
,
could
not
have
perform'd
for
I
made
a
Lane
through
the
thickest
Troops
,
and
my
blows
were
so
happily
directed
,
that
wheresoever
they
did
light
once
,
they
needed
not
to
do
so
a
second
time
.
Many
of
those
which
fled
,
hearing
my
last
words
,
turn'd
about
to
know
what
I
would
do
,
but
when
they
saw
my
resolution
,
and
the
unexpected
success
which
attended
it
,
many
who
were
gallant
,
found
my
designe
so
much
so
,
that
they
returned
to
share
in
it
,
and
others
who
perceiv'd
that
those
which
thought
to
preserve
their
Lives
,
did
lose
them
,
and
that
he
which
indeavour'd
to
lose
his
,
did
preserve
it
,
the
same
cause
which
made
them
decline
the
Fight
,
made
them
return
to
it
.
I
must
confess
,
I
was
as
much
surpriz'd
,
as
pleas'd
,
when
I
found
my self
so
well
followed
;
I
imputed
it
to
the
invocation
of
Parthenissa
,
and
was
assur'd
,
that
the
same
power
which
hath
occasioned
the
greater
change
,
which
was
,
to
make
those
that
fled
,
to
fight
again
;
would
also
perform
the
lesser
,
which
was
,
to
make
those
that
return'd
to
fight
,
overcome
an
enemy
they
had
so
lately
worsted
.
Whilst
this
heat
lasted
,
we
engag'd
our selves
so
far
,
that
Fear
produced
the
effects
of
Courage
,
there
being
no
safety
but
in
Victory
,
so
that
I
had
much
ado
to
credit
my
Eyes
,
the
last
testimony
of
my
companions
valour
,
having
quite
defaced
the
former
of
their
want
of
it
:
At
last
I
perceived
one
,
who
by
the
care
they
all
shew'd
,
of
his
preservation
,
I
resolv'd
was
the
King
,
which
made
me
cry
out
,
There
,
fellow
Soldiers
,
there
is
that
which
will
make
the
conclusion
of
the
day
more
Glorious
than
the
Progress
,
and
will
both
finish
our
dangers
,
and
reward
them
too
.
They
were
so
sensible
of
what
I
said
,
that
their
valours
gave
an
undeniable
proof
of
their
being
so
;
and
the
greedy
desires
I
had
to
merit
the
Title
of
Parthenissa's
Servant
,
made
me
address
my
designs
onely
at
the
King
:
concluding
,
all
consisted
in
the
taking
of
him
;
and
though
Nature
had
deny'd
me
a
Crown
,
yet
by
my
Courage
,
to
present
one
to
Parthenissa
,
I
knew
would
be
more
pleasing
to
her
generous
disposition
,
which
much
more
esteemed
the
effects
of
Virtue
,
than
those
of
Fortune
,
or
Birth
:
To
be
short
,
after
I
had
received
some
Wounds
,
which
were
rather
marks
of
Honour
,
than
Danger
,
and
after
Revolutions
and
Confusions
,
which
were
deriv'd
from
the
mingling
amongst
us
,
of
another
King
of
Armenia
,
at
least
,
one
exceeding
like
the
first
,
in
his
Armour
and
Furniture
,
as
well
as
by
the
Horse
he
rid
on
,
and
disresembling
him
in
nothing
,
but
what
more
pregnantly
confirm'd
me
,
he
was
the
real
Artabazus
,
since
the
highest
Valour
was
fittest
for
the
highest
Title
;
I
dismounted
this
second
Commer
,
whereby
the
first
found
and
made
opportunity
of
escaping
,
which
the
last
no
sooner
observed
,
than
he
told
me
,
Generous
Enemy
,
though
my
Body
is
at
your
Mercy
,
my
Liberty
is
not
,
this
Sword
,
more
kind
than
Fortune
,
will
soon
ease
me
of
all
the
miseries
this
day
hath
involv'd
me
in
,
unless
you
will
grant
me
one
condition
,
which
if
you
do
not
,
I
will
deprive
you
of
all
those
advantages
you
do
pretend
unto
by
my
Captivity
;
It
is
,
that
being
a
Prince
,
I
may
not
be
disarm'd
,
nor
yield
my self
a
prisoner
to
any
but
your
Prince
.
I
thought
it
unjust
,
to
destroy
a
Valour
as
high
as
the
Title
of
him
that
possest
it
,
and
when
my
Enemy
was
too
much
in
my
power
to
remember
he
had
been
my
Enemy
,
and
yet
I
esteem'd
it
reasonable
,
that
those
who
had
been
my
companions
in
Action
,
should
be
the
like
in
Advice
.
I
found
all
their
opinions
proportionate
to
my
own
,
which
I
inform'd
him
of
,
in
such
submissive
terms
,
that
he
assur'd
us
,
Fate
had
in
some
sort
repaired
his
Misfortunes
,
that
being
destin'd
by
his
,
to
be
a
prisoner
,
he
had
fallen
into
hands
,
which
knew
the
respects
due
unto
his
quality
.
'T
was
observable
,
that
in
the
taking
of
this
prisoner
,
it
seem'd
we
had
taken
the
Hopes
of
all
his
Party
,
at
least
depriv'd
them
of
any
,
but
by
flight
,
which
they
so
universally
began
,
and
continued
,
that
they
gave
us
more
trouble
to
kill
,
than
to
break
them
.
At
the
end
of
the
execution
,
I
found
Pacorus
with
a
joy
in
his
Countenance
,
as
great
as
his
success
,
he
immediately
ran
to
me
,
and
after
a
thousand
imbraces
assur'd
me
,
that
the
King
owed
his
Crown
,
and
he
himself
his
Life
and
Honour
to
me
;
and
that
the
Obligations
were
such
,
that
it
would
be
a
Crime
as
great
,
to
hope
the
requiting
of
them
,
as
the
misfortune
of
the
incapacity
of
doing
it
:
many
other
expressions
of
his
Favour
,
he
honour'd
me
with
,
which
I
have
now
as
absolutely
forgotten
,
as
I
was
then
unworthy
of
them
.
But
I
remember
,
I
besought
him
to
place
those
high
Civilities
,
rather
upon
my
Companions
than
Me
,
as
being
an
act
of
greater
Justice
,
and
consequently
more
proportionate
to
his
Inclination
:
But
Sir
(
I
continued
)
the
gods
have
not
onely
favour'd
your
Arms
,
by
an
entire
defeat
of
your
Enemies
,
but
by
furnishing
us
with
the
Power
of
Presenting
you
with
the
most
considerable
of
them
,
as
well
for
Title
as
Vertue
.
I
then
presented
him
with
our
Prisoner
,
at
which
,
though
his
Joy
were
very
great
,
yet
it
was
very
short
of
my
amazement
suddenly
after
,
when
the
imagin'd
King
pulling
off
his
Helmet
,
discover'd
a
Face
so
full
of
Beauty
and
Courage
,
equally
mingled
,
that
it
produc'd
in
all
of
us
,
the
same
effect
it
had
in
me
,
and
a
silence
too
as
general
;
which
he
begg'd
a
continuance
of
,
and
which
the
Prince
having
enjoyn'd
,
he
address'd
himself
unto
him
in
these
terms
.
Sir
,
there
is
not
one
of
the
Armenians
this
day
but
I
,
that
hath
not
just
occasion
to
complain
against
Fortune
,
since
in
so
publick
a
calamity
,
she
has
yet
furnisht
me
with
means
to
serve
my
King
,
for
I
am
not
what
I
feign'd
I
was
,
but
by
seeming
to
be
a
King
,
I
preserv'd
one
.
I
know
this
Declaration
doth
surprize
and
incense
many
,
but
the
action
is
too
glorious
to
be
conceal'd
:
I
serv'd
Artabazus
in
the
beginning
of
the
Battel
,
by
force
,
but
when
Artabanes
Sword
prov'd
too
powerful
to
be
resisted
(
for
those
were
his
very
words
)
I
then
by
policy
endeavour'd
to
perform
,
that
which
was
deny'd
me
by
the
other
.
My
Joy
had
been
more
perfect
,
had
my
first
design
succeeded
,
but
yet
I
am
not
devested
of
all
,
since
the
last
did
:
the
end
being
still
the
same
,
though
the
way
be
not
:
Some
for
this
(
Sir
)
might
beg
your
pardon
,
but
I
will
not
,
for
that
were
to
confess
a
fault
,
where
there
is
none
,
neither
will
I
so
much
as
expect
my
Life
at
your
hands
;
since
that
were
to
act
with
the
hope
of
something
besides
serving
my
King
,
which
was
that
I
onely
ambition'd
.
No
,
generous
Pacorus
,
consider
that
I
deprived
you
of
a
King
to
grace
your
Triumph
,
and
put
in
practice
what
the
consideration
of
that
loss
inspires
you
with
,
so
you
will
oblige
your self
,
by
sacrificing
to
your
Resentments
,
one
that
has
so
highly
injur'd
you
,
and
yet
as
highly
glories
therein
,
and
you
will
oblige
me
,
by
making
me
a
Martyr
to
my
Duty
and
my
Honour
.
The
apprehension
I
had
,
lest
this
Confident
(
though
generous
)
Speech
of
Artavasdes
(
for
that
was
his
name
)
might
invite
Pacorus
,
to
confer
on
him
his
desires
,
made
me
tell
him
,
Sir
,
I
do
not
find
that
you
have
occasion
to
be
offended
at
this
change
;
for
't
is
not
the
Name
of
King
,
that
can
make
us
ever
apprehend
a
contrary
success
to
that
the
gods
have
given
you
this
day
,
but
Virtue
and
Gallantry
,
and
we
have
found
so
much
of
both
,
in
this
Gentleman
,
that
I
believe
the
Armenians
have
suffer'd
a
greater
loss
,
than
if
we
had
taken
their
King
;
for
his
Perfections
transcend
that
Title
,
and
't
is
more
worthy
of
your
Arms
to
take
the
gallantest
,
than
the
greatest
of
your
Enemies
:
And
,
Sir
,
to
evince
,
I
do
not
speak
this
,
to
raise
the
value
of
the
Present
,
my
Friends
and
I
have
offer'd
you
,
I
humbly
beg
Artavasdes
Life
,
which
we
shall
not
only
receive
as
a
reward
above
the
services
we
do
this
day
pay
you
,
but
above
all
we
can
ever
;
for
besides
the
preserving
of
so
generous
an
example
for
all
Men
to
imitate
,
't
would
be
an
ill
president
,
to
see
a
Prince
punish
a
Subject
for
being
faithful
to
his
King
.
Pacorus
,
who
truly
was
generous
,
told
me
;
If
any
thing
could
make
me
offended
with
Artabanes
,
't
would
be
this
unnecessary
interceding
;
for
the
services
you
have
render'd
me
,
will
drown
under
the
name
of
Gratitude
to
you
,
that
good
usage
my
inclination
leads
me
to
confer
on
the
generous
Artavasdes
but
I
here
publiquely
profess
,
that
the
Life
I
give
him
,
proceeds
from
a
true
sence
of
his
Virtues
,
which
I
do
not
onely
value
,
but
admire
,
and
if
I
may
obtain
his
friendship
,
I
shall
esteem
it
a
happier
purchase
,
than
that
of
his
Person
,
or
that
of
his
Kings
.
Then
addressing
himself
to
Artavasdes
,
he
told
him
;
If
I
were
absolute
Master
of
my
Actions
,
I
would
from
this
instant
restore
to
you
that
liberty
you
have
so
meritoriously
lost
,
but
being
accomptable
to
Arsaces
,
I
shall
beseech
you
to
accompany
me
to
him
,
whether
I
shall
suddenly
go
,
and
I
am
so
confident
to
obtain
your
freedom
,
that
I
dare
almost
assure
you
it
:
Besides
,
this
small
time
may
procure
me
the
happiness
of
your
acquaintance
,
which
I
so
much
value
,
that
if
I
do
obtain
it
,
I
shall
justly
believe
't
is
the
greatest
advantage
I
derive
from
this
days
success
.
To
this
high
civility
,
Artavasdes
reply'd
;
Sir
,
never
till
now
was
I
perfectly
vanquished
,
the
fortune
of
War
could
give
you
but
power
over
my
Body
,
my
Mind
being
free
,
retrench'd
you
from
the
noblest
part
of
your
Victory
;
now
't
is
entire
,
and
you
have
made
me
as
enamour'd
of
Life
,
as
I
was
of
Death
,
since
by
enjoying
the
former
,
I
hope
to
find
an
occasion
to
evince
my
Gratitude
to
him
which
gave
it
me
.
Many
civilities
past
between
them
,
and
afterwards
between
Artavasdes
and
me
,
whose
friendship
,
though
I
have
ambition'd
with
an
infinite
concern
,
yet
,
as
he
afterwards
assur'd
me
,
it
could
not
transcend
that
,
with
which
he
desir'd
mine
.
At
the
conclusion
of
these
civilities
,
Moneses
came
towards
us
,
the
care
he
had
of
the
Army
,
and
of
some
wounds
he
receiv'd
in
the
Fight
,
hindring
him
from
being
a
Witness
of
their
beginning
.
But
the
Prince
seeing
him
coming
,
went
to
meet
him
,
and
told
him
so
many
handsome
things
of
me
,
that
I
could
not
have
been
more
pleas'd
to
have
deserv'd
,
than
I
was
asham'd
to
hear
them
.
The
next
day
the
Funerals
of
the
Dead
were
celebrated
,
and
in
one
general
Fire
,
the
Parthian
,
and
Armenian
Bodies
were
reduced
to
ashes
.
The
season
being
very
ill
to
prosecute
the
War
,
and
the
numbers
we
had
lost
,
rendring
us
unable
to
do
it
,
Pacorus
resolv'd
to
return
to
Nineveh
,
whither
he
commanded
me
to
attend
him
,
that
the
people
(
as
he
said
)
might
see
their
Deliverer
.
Artavasdes
also
waited
on
him
.
When
we
came
within
twenty
furlongs
of
that
great
City
,
Arsaces
,
and
all
the
Court
came
to
meet
the
Prince
,
and
congratulate
his
success
.
Pacorus
would
needs
present
me
to
the
King
,
and
expressed
so
much
affection
to
me
,
in
the
relation
of
that
late
Battel
,
that
my
blushes
will
not
permit
me
to
repeat
it
,
not
the
civility
Arsaces
honor'd
me
with
.
But
all
these
favours
were
as
so
many
obstacles
,
to
hinder
me
from
waiting
on
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
which
after
a
thousand
importunate
Ceremonies
,
I
did
.
Who
can
express
the
vast
Felicity
this
favourable
interview
did
bless
me
with
?
the
many
commendations
coming
from
that
fair
Mouth
;
those
Raptures
of
Joy
for
my
safe
return
,
or
those
Holy
Vows
of
Constancy
.
but
why
do
I
dwell
so
long
upon
this
Subject
?
since
it
was
but
momentany
,
and
serv'd
but
as
a
Prologue
to
those
Miseries
,
which
are
as
endless
as
they
are
great
.
Artabanes
would
have
continued
his
Relation
,
but
that
Callimachus
being
acquainted
by
his
Servants
,
that
Supper
was
ready
,
besought
him
to
defer
it
till
the
day
following
,
which
Artabanes
obeyed
,
and
having
only
taken
as
much
nourishment
as
would
suffice
Nature
,
he
retir'd
into
those
magnificent
Lodgings
,
Callimachus
had
prepared
for
him
,
where
he
past
the
Night
,
as
he
was
accustomed
to
do
,
which
was
,
in
the
contemplation
of
his
sad
condition
,
that
furnisht
him
always
with
so
many
Arguments
,
for
the
impossibilities
of
its
alteration
,
that
it
made
Despair
to
appear
Reason
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FIRST
PART
.
BOOK
II.
THE
morning
was
hardly
old
enough
to
permit
a
visit
with
civility
,
when
the
impatient
Callimachus
went
to
Artabanes
Chamber
,
to
beg
a
continuance
of
that
Story
,
whose
beginning
had
so
satisfied
him
;
But
Simander
assur'd
him
,
that
his
Prince
was
gone
an
hour
before
into
the
Grove
of
Cypresse
,
to
entertain
his
melancholly
.
Callimachus
(
whose
Curiosity
was
so
great
,
that
it
was
uncapable
of
Delay
,
went
presently
to
find
him
out
,
which
,
after
a
diligent
search
he
did
,
in
one
of
the
most
retir'd
and
obscure
corners
of
it
,
and
in
a
posture
better
expressing
Sadness
,
than
Eloquence
could
;
his
Back
was
lean'd
against
a
withered
Tree
,
his
Eyes
erected
towards
Heaven
,
his
Arms
folded
one
within
the
other
,
and
so
many
Tears
running
down
his
Cheeks
,
that
if
moisture
could
have
reviv'd
that
dead
Trunk
,
it
had
needed
no
other
Rain
for
its
recovery
.
And
that
his
words
might
express
what
his
gestures
did
,
Callimachus
heard
him
cry
out
.
Ye
Gods
!
must
I
never
be
acquainted
with
your
Power
?
but
onely
through
those
Miseries
you
cast
upon
me
by
it
?
alas
!
Why
do
ye
furnish
me
with
so
much
Frailty
,
and
yet
provoke
me
so
much
to
despair
:
or
Why
do
our
Priests
teach
us
there
is
a
Providenc
;
when
you
are
so
careful
by
your
Actions
,
to
evince
the
contrary
?
then
hanging
down
his
Head
,
he
continu'd
in
a
perfect
silence
,
till
he
himself
drew
it
by
a
second
Deluge
of
despair
,
which
drowning
both
his
Devotion
and
Reason
,
necessitated
him
to
expostulate
thus
,
with
whom
it
was
a
Crime
to
do
it
.
But
what
sins
have
I
committed
,
to
deserve
so
deep
a
suffering
?
yet
,
allow
my
Guilt
had
been
too
great
for
your
Mercy
,
your
Justice
might
have
inflicted
a
punishment
on
my
person
,
which
might
have
equal'd
my
offences
;
for
you
are
no
gods
,
if
you
are
not
infinite
in
all
your
Attributes
;
but
being
so
,
why
did
the
fair
Parthenissa
suffer
for
my
fault
?
or
else
was
it
a
more
sensible
way
of
persecuting
me
,
to
do
it
through
Her
?
If
this
were
your
Design
,
O
gods
!
I
have
more
reason
in
exclaiming
against
you
,
than
you
had
for
imposing
on
me
,
that
which
provokes
me
to
it
;
and
to
it
;
and
to
afflict
the
innocent
to
torment
the
Guilty
,
does
rather
argue
Malice
than
Justice
.
This
impious
reasoning
frighted
the
good
Callimachus
,
who
fearing
lest
it
should
continue
,
discover'd
himself
,
and
by
a
sharp
and
eloquent
Reprehension
,
disclos'd
his
anger
,
and
the
justice
of
it
.
To
which
Artabanes
reply'd
,
That
if
he
were
acquainted
with
his
Miseries
,
he
would
impute
what
he
had
then
utter'd
,
to
his
sufferings
,
and
not
to
his
irreligion
.
Alas
,
Artabanes
(
said
Callimachus
)
how
does
your
Passion
blind
you
?
For
you
do
not
consider
,
that
Sin
is
as
odious
to
the
Deities
,
as
inseparable
from
Humanity
;
that
't
is
an
unexpressible
Mercy
,
they
do
not
inolve
us
in
all
those
Miseries
,
their
Power
and
Justice
is
capable
of
:
and
whilst
there
is
any
Curse
not
yet
inflicted
on
us
,
we
have
more
reason
to
esteem
them
unjust
for
their
Clemency
,
than
for
the
contrary
.
'T
was
with
such
Truths
as
these
,
that
at
last
Callymachus
disperst
those
Clouds
of
Dispair
,
which
so
darkened
our
unfortunate
Lovers
Piety
,
and
then
conjur'd
him
to
finish
that
Relation
he
had
the
day
before
begun
.
To
which
Artabanes
reply'd
:
I
entertain'd
you
the
last
night
with
the
beginning
of
my
own
story
,
but
now
I
must
in
order
to
it
,
acquaint
you
with
that
of
my
Friends
;
the
generous
Artavasdes
,
who
was
taken
Prisoner
,
(
as
you
heard
)
in
the
Battel
of
Arontes
,
and
whose
Gallantry
had
receiv'd
a
Punishment
almost
as
great
as
it
merited
the
contrary
,
had
not
I
had
the
happiness
to
prevent
it
.
The
King
of
Armenia
with
the
Reliques
of
his
broken
Army
,
retreating
into
his
own
Kingdom
,
attempted
a
small
Town
of
the
Parthians
,
call'd
Offala
,
imagining
by
the
taking
of
so
little
,
to
disguise
a
loss
which
had
been
so
great
.
The
Garrison
being
inconsiderable
,
as
well
for
their
Numbers
as
Resolutions
,
at
first
summons
condescended
to
a
Treaty
,
and
then
to
a
Surrender
;
but
had
four
and
twenty
hours
given
them
for
the
packing
up
their
Baggage
,
during
which
,
the
Armenians
had
free
access
at
their
pleasure
,
which
proved
fatal
to
the
Parthians
;
for
Artabazus's
Soldiers
,
whether
to
revenge
their
Companions
deaths
at
the
precedent
Battel
,
or
out
of
some
dispute
which
happen'd
betwixt
those
of
the
Army
and
the
Garrison
(
as
the
Armenians
gave
it
out
)
put
all
that
were
in
Offala
,
as
well
Citizens
as
Soldiers
,
most
barbarously
to
the
Sword
;
which
news
,
as
soon
as
it
came
to
Arsaces
knowledge
,
so
infinitely
transported
him
,
that
he
vow'd
,
the
generous
Artavasdes
Bloud
should
expiate
his
Kings
Crimes
,
and
be
a
sacrifice
to
the
Manes
of
his
murder'd
Subjects
.
And
though
Pacorus
represented
how
unjust
a
Revenge
this
was
,
being
a
violation
of
that
quarter
of
his
life
,
which
he
had
too
generously
hazarded
,
to
lose
it
in
a
way
,
which
was
so
much
the
contrary
,
yet
the
King
vowed
by
his
Fathers
Ashes
(
an
oath
that
he
never
mention'd
,
but
afterwards
he
was
unalterable
)
that
Artavasdes
should
dye
.
I
was
present
when
this
sad
determination
was
taken
up
,
and
finding
how
unlike
my
perswasions
were
to
deserve
that
name
,
I
resolv'd
to
prevent
my
Friends
Ruine
,
and
hinder
my
Prince
from
acting
it
,
in
a
way
too
as
unfitting
for
him
,
as
the
punishment
was
unworthy
the
Person
for
whom
it
was
intended
.
To
effect
this
,
I
went
instantly
to
look
Artavasdes
out
,
for
(
though
a
Prisoner
)
without
any
engagement
,
he
had
what
liberty
he
desir'd
.
After
a
diligent
search
,
I
found
him
in
a
Wilderness
of
one
of
the
Palace
Gardens
,
where
having
acquainted
him
with
what
had
happen'd
,
and
was
resolv'd
,
I
begg'd
him
to
retire
a
private
way
that
led
to
my
Lodgings
,
where
he
might
remain
secure
,
till
his
escape
were
believ'd
so
certain
that
it self
might
contribute
to
it
:
But
his
generosity
was
so
great
(
knowing
the
danger
to
be
so
,
in
which
I
should
fall
,
were
he
discover'd
)
that
his
care
of
me
had
like
to
have
render'd
mine
fruitless
for
him
,
for
it
was
so
long
before
I
could
prevail
with
him
,
to
accept
of
his
safety
by
a
hazard
of
mine
,
that
the
Kings
Guards
were
already
abroad
for
his
Committal
,
and
had
not
the
way
been
very
private
to
my
Chamber
,
we
had
(
doubtless
)
been
discover'd
before
we
had
reach'd
it
:
but
we
came
at
last
safe
thither
,
where
I
commanded
Symander
to
wait
on
him
,
and
permit
no
other
of
my
Servants
that
Honor
,
nor
to
know
of
his
being
there
;
From
thence
I
went
to
learn
what
course
was
taken
for
his
discovery
,
and
how
failing
in
it
,
was
relisht
;
I
was
soon
acquainted
,
that
all
the
gates
of
Ninive
were
shut
,
and
that
one
Rysolis
,
a
friend
of
mine
,
was
that
night
with
some
of
the
Guard
to
follow
Artavasdes
(
in
case
he
were
not
found
out
before
his
departure
)
and
that
his
believed
escape
had
so
much
exasperated
the
King
,
that
he
gave
strict
order
none
should
pass
the
gates
without
his
own
License
,
till
Rysolis's
return
;
who
,
by
chance
,
I
found
,
as
he
was
preparing
himself
for
his
Journey
,
and
by
his
expressions
quickly
observ'd
how
much
the
Office
displeas'd
him
;
His
affection
to
virtue
and
to
me
,
made
me
discover
to
him
where
Artavasdes
was
concealed
,
and
conjur'd
him
to
let
him
pass
as
one
of
his
Troop
,
and
thereby
render
what
was
intended
for
his
ruine
,
the
means
of
preventing
it
.
This
request
found
a
ready
return
;
for
he
was
as
joyfull
to
serve
me
,
as
unwilling
to
obey
his
King
in
so
unjust
a
command
:
Then
having
promis'd
me
,
that
within
two
or
three
hours
he
would
call
at
my
Lodgings
;
and
undertake
my
desires
;
we
separated
our selves
,
he
to
prepare
himself
,
and
I
to
acquaint
Artavasdes
,
with
his
civility
,
who
embrac'd
it
with
moderation
,
and
then
told
me
,
If
I
thought
it
would
not
be
too
great
a
trouble
to
you
,
I
would
employ
the
time
I
have
left
,
in
telling
you
the
particulars
of
a
life
you
are
so
earnest
to
preserve
.
To
which
I
reply'd
,
That
it
was
a
favour
I
should
have
passionately
begg'd
of
him
,
had
not
the
apprehension
of
being
thought
too
curious
,
been
more
prevalent
with
me
than
my
own
satisfaction
,
but
since
he
was
pleas'd
to
make
that
Overture
,
which
nothing
else
had
hinder'd
me
from
making
,
I
would
listen
to
his
adventures
,
with
an
intention
which
would
speak
how
highly
I
was
concern'd
in
them
.
Artavasdes
having
told
me
I
could
not
be
concern'd
in
any
thing
that
was
more
mine
than
himself
,
began
this
ensuing
Story
.
The
History
of
ARTAVASDES
and
ALTEZEERA
.
IF
ever
Love
had
an
absolute
Empire
over
any
heart
,
and
was
at
the
same
time
admitted
with
a
Joy
that
was
so
,
it
is
over
mine
,
but
then
I
speak
as
great
a
truth
when
I
assure
you
that
this
extraordinary
effect
had
a
proportionate
cause
,
and
that
the
Beauty
,
which
prints
her
Image
in
me
,
does
it
with
a
stamp
as
pleasing
as
indelible
;
and
to
know
this
the
more
perfectly
,
you
must
first
understand
that
my
Father
,
whose
name
was
Annexander
,
is
a
Prince
that
possesses
the
highest
power
in
all
Armenia
,
and
derives
his
Pedigree
from
Ancestors
whose
Antiquity
and
Virtue
have
made
them
equally
Famous
;
and
though
they
never
had
the
glittering
trouble
of
a
Crown
(
which
succession
and
not
virtue
commonly
casts
on
Men
)
yet
they
never
wanted
one
of
Lawrel
;
it
seems
too
,
that
the
Fates
destin'd
our
Family
to
furnish
a
General
to
the
Armenians
,
for
in
nine
descents
successively
,
one
of
it
had
always
that
Honour
,
and
possest
virtues
,
of
so
peculiar
a
quality
,
that
with
truth
I
may
say
they
have
been
as
glorious
in
their
actions
,
as
our
Kings
in
their
Titles
.
My
Father
,
who
was
nothing
degenerated
from
his
Predcessors
,
is
so
entirely
Master
of
all
those
realities
and
ornaments
which
render
a
Gentleman
worthy
that
name
;
that
Artabazus
,
our
present
King
,
as
a
reward
of
his
services
(
which
were
the
placing
of
his
Father
and
him
in
the
Throne
of
Armenia
)
gave
his
Aunt
the
fair
Lindesia
to
him
for
his
Wife
,
from
which
Marriage
I
had
the
honor
to
proceed
.
But
before
I
do
so
in
my
discourse
,
I
must
take
a
little
digression
to
give
you
a
Character
of
those
persons
I
shall
be
necessitated
to
mention
in
it
.
Our
King
had
another
Aunt
married
unto
Celindus
,
who
was
a
Prince
enrich'd
with
many
good
qualities
;
but
his
natural
ambition
(
which
receiv'd
so
great
an
accession
from
this
alliance
)
made
him
employ
them
in
such
Criminal
Designs
,
that
they
prov'd
more
destructive
to
his
particular
,
and
to
his
friends
,
than
if
they
had
been
vices
.
Artabazus
has
but
one
sister
,
much
about
the
age
of
his
own
legitimate
son
,
the
Prince
of
Tigranes
(
which
is
a
name
as
much
affected
to
the
Royal
Blood
of
Armenia
,
as
Arsaces
is
by
that
of
Parthia
)
these
two
have
abundantly
evinc'd
that
the
Body
is
the
molde
of
the
Soul
,
for
Tigranes's
shape
is
so
horrid
,
that
nothing
can
transcend
it
but
his
conditions
,
and
truly
the
first
is
onely
tollerable
but
because
it
manifests
what
the
second
is
.
But
the
Princess
Altezeera
has
all
the
gifts
of
nature
in
so
unaccessional
a
degree
,
that
nothing
can
excel
the
perfectness
of
her
Body
but
that
of
her
Mind
,
whose
morning
,
though
adorned
with
all
that
so
tender
a
youth
was
capable
of
,
gave
but
an
imperfect
earnest
of
what
her
noon
did
produce
.
I
must
confess
I
was
not
so
much
master
of
mine
own
affections
,
as
not
to
burn
at
so
pleasing
a
fire
,
but
resented
a
pain
,
which
till
then
I
never
was
acquainted
with
,
for
she
had
so
equal
a
proportion
of
Divinity
and
Beauty
,
that
my
Flame
participated
so
equally
of
desire
and
adoration
,
that
neither
could
suppress
the
other
.
Oh!
gods
,
could
I
but
tell
you
Artabanes
what
she
is
,
I
should
have
your
excuse
for
what
I
did
,
which
was
,
that
I
resign'd
my
liberty
with
more
joy
than
any
other
could
have
recover'd
his
.
But
yet
my
Flame
was
as
invisible
as
great
,
for
I
concluded
,
the
Beauty
being
extraordinary
,
the
way
ought
to
be
so
,
in
which
I
disclos'd
that
I
adored
her
.
After
an
admiration
and
silence
of
a
year
,
according
to
the
common
Computation
,
but
an
age
according
to
mine
,
(
such
torments
are
there
in
a
concealed
Fire
)
my
Father
,
who
(
admiring
the
high
virtue
of
the
Romans
,
always
held
a
proportionate
correspondency
with
them
,
partly
out
of
a
sence
of
their
Gallantry
,
as
also
to
make
use
of
their
Power
and
Justice
in
case
Celindus
should
rebel
,
who
wanted
not
the
will
but
the
opportunity
to
do
it
)
to
acquire
himself
more
intimately
their
Friendship
,
and
to
instruct
me
in
the
Civil
and
Military
Discipline
,
sent
me
to
Rome
,
whither
I
willingly
went
,
hoping
that
success
in
Glory
,
might
be
the
way
to
success
in
Love
.
After
I
had
observ'd
the
most
beneficial
things
there
,
I
came
to
the
Army
of
Lucullus
,
who
was
by
the
Senates
orders
making
then
a
bloody
War
against
Mithridates
,
in
which
expedition
,
I
gave
some
such
proofs
of
my
courage
,
that
he
offer'd
me
any
command
which
a
stranger
might
pretend
unto
.
I
declin'd
this
great
Civility
,
by
alledging
,
that
my
unexperience
,
as
well
as
years
,
made
me
fitter
to
obey
than
command
,
that
my
chiefest
desire
was
to
have
the
honor
to
be
near
his
person
,
and
that
any
Office
which
should
deprive
me
of
that
end
,
would
be
rather
a
punishment
than
a
preferment
:
Not
to
trouble
you
with
too
many
particulars
,
though
I
would
not
take
upon
me
any
charge
,
yet
I
so
fully
satisfied
Lucullus
with
my
refusal
,
that
he
never
declin'd
,
nay
,
rather
augmented
his
affection
for
me
,
and
sent
Letters
in
my
favour
to
the
Senate
:
but
that
I
was
more
justly
proud
of
than
all
this
,
was
a
perfect
friendship
I
then
contracted
with
the
generous
Ventidius
,
a
Roman
Patritian
,
who
was
,
even
to
wonder
,
blest
with
all
the
graces
of
Nature
and
Education
.
About
this
time
my
Father
,
to
make
the
Romans
place
a
higher
value
on
me
sent
Two
hundred
young
Gentlemen
,
of
the
chiefest
Families
in
Armenia
to
serve
under
me
,
which
the
Roman
General
much
approv'd
,
and
with
whom
I
dare
without
vanity
say
,
I
did
so
many
services
,
that
he
(
though
of
an
extraordinary
ambitious
nature
)
was
yet
so
just
as
often
to
attribute
much
of
the
Glory
of
his
success
to
our
Valours
.
I
will
not
tell
you
the
events
of
that
War
whilst
I
was
in
it
,
since
the
miseries
of
Mithridates
and
the
fame
of
Lucullus
are
yet
so
recent
.
Anexander
,
who
began
to
suspect
that
Artabazus
,
who
absolutely
declin'd
Mithridates
,
in
the
beginning
,
would
now
assist
him
,
the
Roman
success
rendring
him
jealous
of
it
,
commanded
me
to
return
into
my
own
Countrey
,
after
two
years
absence
;
which
Summons
I
obey'd
,
and
went
home
with
Letters
to
my
King
and
my
Father
,
more
fill'd
with
Lucullus's
praises
than
truth
.
All
those
young
Gentlemen
which
had
escaped
the
fury
and
uncertainty
of
War
;
return'd
with
me
.
The
desire
we
had
to
see
our
Friends
;
and
I
particularly
to
behold
the
fair
object
of
my
Passion
,
which
was
much
increas'd
by
absence
(
for
Love
has
that
property
,
that
as
long
as
it
hath
an
existence
;
it
will
have
a
growth
)
made
us
so
to
hasten
,
that
in
fifteen
dayes
we
arriv'd
upon
the
confines
of
Armenia
,
and
having
a
desire
not
to
give
any
warning
of
our
arrival
,
that
we
might
the
more
agreeably
suprize
all
those
who
were
concern'd
in
it
,
we
marched
with
our
Helmets
on
,
and
with
as
little
rest
as
the
necessity
of
our
Travel
would
permit
.
The
sixth
day
after
our
coming
into
Armenia
,
just
as
the
Sun
began
to
enlighten
the
World
,
we
might
perceive
from
the
top
of
the
Hill
we
then
were
on
,
the
City
of
Artaxata
.
The
sight
of
that
place
,
the
then
Residence
of
Altezeera
,
so
transported
me
with
joy
,
that
in
the
contemplating
of
being
so
near
her
,
I
discontinu'd
travelling
,
and
having
stopt
my
Horse
,
offer'd
some
vows
to
the
god
of
Love
,
that
he
would
inspire
the
Excellency
I
ador'd
with
a
true
knowledge
of
the
greatness
of
my
Flame
,
and
incline
her
to
recompence
it
,
but
onely
according
to
the
vastness
and
true
virtue
of
it
.
Observe
,
I
beseech
you
in
this
accident
,
how
the
gods
favor
the
innocent
,
and
by
how
strange
means
they
work
out
their
deliverance
.
That
little
Rapture
I
was
fallen
into
,
had
caus'd
all
the
company
to
stand
,
as
I
told
you
,
it
was
in
the
place
from
whence
we
might
see
Artaxata
,
and
those
in
it
,
and
in
the
adjacent
Plain
betwixt
the
City
and
the
Hill
,
might
discover
us
.
By
that
time
I
was
beginning
to
descend
the
Hill
,
we
descry'd
a
Horseman
that
came
out
of
a
Wood
some
thirty
Furlongs
from
the
Town
,
galloping
towards
us
,
and
I
,
by
chance
,
being
a
good
way
before
my
Company
,
he
no
sooner
came
within
call
,
than
he
commanded
me
to
tell
Palisdes
from
Celindus
,
that
the
King
and
Altezeera
were
but
newly
come
out
,
that
we
should
return
to
our
station
,
and
not
appear
till
Tuntini●s
were
engag'd
.
This
unexspected
Message
much
amaz'd
me
,
yet
as
soon
as
I
heard
those
names
,
I
began
to
suspect
some
treachery
;
for
my
Fathers
frequent
Letters
,
when
I
was
in
the
Roman
Camp
,
he
acquainted
me
,
that
he
had
too-well
grounded
jealousies
of
Celindus's
ill
inclinations
to
usurp
the
Crown
;
and
therefore
,
turning
about
,
I
commanded
my
Company
to
do
the
like
,
and
as
soon
as
we
were
out
of
the
sight
of
Artaxata
,
I
left
Celindus's
Souldier
in
charge
with
one
of
mine
,
commanding
him
not
to
discover
himself
or
us
,
and
to
have
a
care
of
what
was
committed
to
his
.
Then
I
went
and
order'd
my
faithfullest
Servant
Philanax
to
light
off
his
Horse
,
to
hide
himself
amongst
some
Trees
on
the
top
of
the
Hill
,
and
never
to
have
his
eye
off
the
Plain
,
but
as
soon
as
he
should
see
any
fighting
,
immediately
to
give
me
warning
of
it
.
I
〈◊〉
placed
Scouts
upon
all
the
adja●ent
.
heights
,
whom
I
commanded
to
give
me
advertisement
of
what
they
should
discover
.
Having
thus
disposed
of
things
,
I
return'd
to
my
Troop
,
assembled
the
chiefest
of
it
,
and
acquainted
them
with
the
jealousies
I
had
,
that
Celindus
intended
some
treachery
to
the
King
and
Altezeera
,
how
that
many
things
concurr'd
to
change
that
suspition
into
certainty
,
as
that
of
the
Soldiers
taking
us
for
a
Troop
that
were
to
execute
something
by
Celindus's
orders
,
that
apparently
the
design
was
upon
Artabazus
and
Altezeera
,
by
his
saying
they
were
but
just
then
come
out
;
that
his
naming
Tuminius
,
and
taking
us
for
Palisdes's
Troop
,
argued
there
were
many
in
the
enterprize
;
in
a
word
,
all
those
circumstances
concurring
,
they
were
confirm'd
in
my
belief
;
and
after
a
small
consultation
we
resolv'd
(
the
time
being
so
short
)
to
make
Celindus's
Soldier
confess
the
whole
Conspiracy
,
either
by
fair
means
,
or
by
torment
:
In
order
to
which
we
went
and
told
him
,
we
were
not
Palisdes's
Troop
,
but
strangers
coming
from
the
Wars
,
and
returning
to
our
Countrey
,
that
we
had
heard
much
of
Celindus's
Gallantry
,
that
we
concluded
his
design
was
virtuous
,
and
that
if
it
were
communicated
to
us
,
we
might
do
him
service
.
The
Souldier
who
had
a
quick
apprehension
,
finding
all
was
lost
,
unless
by
some
subtilty
he
remedy'd
it
,
answered
us
,
I
guess
the
design
is
noble
by
the
undertakers
of
it
,
but
my
quality
is
so
low
,
that
I
onely
act
in
obedience
of
my
Officers
commands
,
and
not
being
able
to
inform
you
of
the
enterprize
,
I
shall
advise
you
to
send
with
me
some
of
your
Party
to
Celindus
,
who
is
not
above
twenty
furlongs
hence
,
and
I
make
no
doubt
,
if
Virtue
and
Reward
will
engage
you
in
his
attempts
,
you
shall
want
neither
.
We
quickly
found
by
his
way
of
speaking
,
that
his
condition
was
not
so
mean
as
he
would
have
perswaded
us
,
and
therefore
,
concluding
he
had
some
design
by
so
plausable
a
pretence
,
to
free
himself
out
of
our
hands
;
and
that
no
fair
wayes
would
prevail
,
pulling
off
my
Helmet
,
I
made
my self
known
unto
him
,
and
drawing
out
a
Ponniard
which
I
wore
constantly
,
I
vow'd
by
all
those
Oaths
which
men
have
most
reason
not
to
violate
,
That
if
he
disclos'd
not
the
whole
design
,
I
would
instantly
kill
him
,
but
if
he
would
,
I
'd
not
onely
engage
my self
for
his
pardon
,
but
to
give
him
as
high
Rewards
for
his
turning
honest
,
as
he
could
pretend
unto
,
if
his
wickedness
had
its
wisht
success
.
I
added
to
those
threatnings
and
promises
all
the
arguments
my
judgement
could
furnish
me
to
lay
upon
the
deformity
of
his
hopes
.
The
certainty
of
so
sudden
a
Death
,
and
the
horror
of
Conscience
,
made
him
by
many
sighs
acquaint
us
with
his
repentance
,
and
that
he
desir'd
no
greater
reward
,
than
to
have
been
kept
from
doing
ill
.
He
then
informed
me
,
that
his
name
was
Evaxes
,
that
he
was
one
of
the
chiefest
in
this
Conspiracy
,
and
that
all
those
who
were
engag'd
in
it
,
put
on
Common
Soldiers
habits
,
that
in
case
the
design
succeeded
not
,
they
might
remain
undiscover'd
:
That
he
had
been
drawn
in
by
Celindus's
charming
Eloquence
,
who
having
had
some
vent
of
Annexander's
suspition
of
him
,
had
with-drawn
himself
into
the
Province
of
Saccasene
,
where
he
was
Prince
and
Governor
,
as
well
by
interest
as
Commission
or
Birth
:
That
Celindus
was
resolv'd
to
kill
the
King
,
and
to
marry
Altezeera
to
Tuminius's
eldest
son
:
That
the
Prince
Tigranes
was
privy
to
the
Plot
,
but
would
not
appear
openly
,
till
he
saw
what
success
it
had
,
but
that
Celindus
had
onely
engag'd
him
in
it
,
to
make
his
party
the
stronger
,
and
for
an
invitation
thereunto
he
was
promis'd
to
be
continu'd
in
the
Throne
after
Artabazus's
Death
,
he
having
in
return
,
engag'd
himself
to
give
the
Princess
Altezeera
to
Tuminius
,
which
should
be
no
sooner
effected
,
than
Celindus
was
resolved
to
make
away
Tigranes
too
,
and
thereby
settle
the
Crown
upon
his
own
Posterity
;
the
Laws
of
the
Armenians
not
excluding
the
Female
Sex
:
That
to
effect
this
,
he
had
sent
divers
Troops
out
of
his
Government
to
lie
in
the
places
adjacent
,
and
that
they
might
not
be
suspected
,
the
Troopers
came
in
by
two
and
three
in
a
company
,
disguis'd
in
the
habits
of
Peasants
,
and
carried
their
Arms
so
privately
,
that
it
was
impossible
to
discover
them
;
that
having
learn'd
by
his
intelligencers
the
King
and
Altezeera
were
to
hunt
that
day
,
he
had
sent
Tuminius
with
Two
hundred
Horse
,
which
lay
in
Apollo's
Grove
,
who
was
to
kill
the
King
,
and
those
that
followed
him
;
and
to
carry
Altezeera
to
the
ruines
of
an
old
Chappel
,
where
,
in
a
small
bottom
,
Celindus
,
and
some
Three
hundred
Horse
lay
,
to
secure
his
retreat
to
Artemita
,
which
is
the
first
Town
in
his
Government
,
and
but
an
hundred
furlongs
from
hence
:
That
Palisdes
(
Celindus's
other
son
)
was
appointed
with
500
Horse
more
to
continue
upon
the
Hill
we
then
were
on
,
least
Annexander
(
who
to
prevent
any
ill
accidents
had
drawn
5000
Horse
into
Artaxata
)
should
relieve
the
King
and
the
Princess
before
they
came
to
Artemita
,
where
there
was
a
considerable
body
of
Foot
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Army
(
with
which
he
design'd
to
reduce
all
Forces
or
Places
that
should
oppose
him
)
were
quartered
not
above
20
furlongs
off
.
This
Relation
(
my
dear
Artabanes
,
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
gave
me
as
much
Horror
as
Amazement
;
and
while
I
was
enquiring
what
might
be
the
cause
that
Palisdes
was
not
come
,
one
of
my
Scouts
came
galloping
and
told
me
,
he
discover'd
a
body
of
about
500
Horse
,
not
eight
furlongs
off
,
that
came
on
a
round
trot
,
almost
the
same
way
we
had
marched
.
This
Troop
we
easily
imagin'd
was
Palisdes
,
whom
I
resolv'd
to
Charge
,
but
first
of
all
,
dispatch'd
away
an
Express
to
my
Father
,
to
acquaint
him
with
what
I
had
learn'd
,
and
to
conjure
him
to
send
out
as
many
Horse
as
possibly
he
could
spare
,
under
some
good
Commander
,
but
not
lead
them
himself
,
lest
the
Town
might
be
betray'd
in
his
absence
.
Evaxes
assur'd
me
thereupon
,
that
Artaxata
would
be
lost
if
he
were
once
out
of
the
Walls
,
for
Celindus
had
many
Partisans
there
,
that
waited
onely
such
an
opportunity
to
betray
it
.
This
being
done
,
I
began
to
order
my
Troop
,
which
consisted
of
150
,
but
of
so
clear
Valours
and
Resolutions
,
that
those
virtues
supply'd
the
defects
of
their
numbers
.
But
Evaxes
,
who
perceiv'd
my
design
,
begg'd
me
not
to
put
all
to
the
hazard
,
having
so
few
Men
,
and
having
to
deal
with
those
whose
Resolutions
were
as
great
as
their
Crimes
,
that
he
had
thought
upon
a
stratagem
,
which
might
effect
my
design
,
without
the
hazarding
it
,
which
was
,
that
he
would
go
acquaint
Palisdes
that
Celindus
had
sent
him
purposely
to
assure
him
,
that
Artabazus
and
Altezeera
were
upon
some
intelligence
return'd
,
and
that
therefore
he
should
immediately
dispose
those
Five
hundred
Horse
into
their
several
quarters
;
with
orders
to
be
in
the
same
place
the
next
morning
,
if
they
receiv'd
no
fresh
ones
to
the
contrary
:
That
he
,
with
the
chiefest
of
his
friends
,
should
go
into
the
little
Valley
near
the
ruines
of
that
old
Chappel
,
where
they
would
consult
what
was
most
expedient
to
be
done
,
upon
the
intelligence
they
had
and
could
learn
.
This
,
said
Evaxes
,
you
need
not
be
diffident
will
have
a
wisht
success
,
for
Palisdes
knowing
the
power
I
have
with
Celindus
,
will
obey
any
Orders
I
shall
bring
him
in
his
name
.
But
he
continu'd
,
You
may
suspect
I
will
betray
you
,
and
lay
this
design
for
the
obtaining
of
my
liberty
,
which
I
would
have
you
believe
is
for
the
securing
of
the
Kings
:
I
must
confess
my
former
undertaking
has
been
such
,
that
all
the
civil
Man
is
capable
of
,
may
be
believed
in
me
,
with
some
appearance
of
justice
:
But
I
invoke
the
gods
to
be
my
witness
,
and
beg
them
to
be
my
punishers
,
if
my
heart
and
my
words
are
not
the
same
:
But
I
will
not
desire
that
obligation
of
you
as
to
credit
me
,
send
a
couple
of
these
Gentlemen
along
,
one
at
my
right
hand
▪
and
the
other
on
my
left
and
if
I
fail
in
my
engagement
,
let
them
pierce
me
with
their
Javelins
,
and
let
that
be
my
reward
.
This
discourse
of
Evaxes
had
something
of
probability
in
it
,
and
knowing
it
was
but
fighting
,
(
which
I
determin'd
to
do
)
in
case
he
should
betray
me
;
I
resolv'd
rather
to
trust
absolutely
to
him
,
(
which
if
he
had
any
principle
of
virtue
)
would
bind
him
then
to
evidence
it
,
than
by
sending
two
Gentlemen
with
him
expose
them
to
an
unavoidable
loss
,
as
likewise
by
trusting
of
him
but
in
part
,
invite
him
thereby
to
be
false
in
the
whole
.
Having
made
this
my
election
,
I
told
him
,
Go
Evaxes
,
and
by
so
handsom
an
action
efface
the
guilt
of
your
precedent
Crimes
,
you
shall
be
accompanied
with
nothing
but
your
goodness
,
which
I
know
will
be
a
confinement
to
you
to
do
well
,
than
if
all
our
Swords
were
at
your
Brest
to
punish
you
,
should
you
do
otherwise
.
To
which
Evaxes
reply'd
,
that
if
he
had
been
still
in
the
darkness
of
his
former
Principles
,
so
perfect
a
truth
would
have
lighted
him
into
the
way
of
virtue
.
Having
so
said
,
he
advis'd
me
to
withdraw
my self
into
a
small
bottom
nigh
the
high-way
,
that
I
might
remain
undiscover'd
till
the
Enemy
were
in
the
Toyle
,
and
I
that
would
send
one
along
with
him
to
the
top
of
the
next
Hill
,
to
give
me
warning
when
Palisdes
and
his
friends
should
advance
,
and
to
advertise
me
if
I
were
betray'd
.
These
last
words
he
said
smiling
;
and
I
having
told
him
that
I
would
send
one
for
the
first
reason
,
but
not
for
the
last
,
Evaxes
gallopt
away
,
accompany'd
with
a
Gentleman
,
whom
he
placed
upon
a
rising
ground
,
where
he
might
easily
discover
the
effect
of
his
Embassy
:
To
be
brief
,
Evaxes
so
ordered
his
affairs
with
Palisdes
,
that
he
sent
back
his
Troops
,
and
came
along
accompany'd
with
Twenty
of
his
Friends
,
that
were
the
chief
of
the
Conspiracy
,
who
carelesly
riding
,
fell
into
our
hands
,
and
though
surprized
,
made
so
gallant
a
resistance
,
that
ten
of
them
were
kill'd
before
we
could
reduce
the
rest
.
Those
that
remain'd
alive
(
in
which
number
was
Palisdes
,
though
somewhat
wounded
)
we
resolv'd
to
present
unto
the
King
,
that
justice
not
force
might
be
their
Executioner
.
Having
thus
happily
begun
our
first
enterprize
,
Evaxes
offer'd
to
endeavor
the
delivery
of
Celindus
into
our
hands
by
the
like
stratagem
,
but
were
interrupted
by
Philanax
,
who
came
all
out
of
breath
,
and
told
me
,
that
he
saw
many
Soldiers
in
the
Plain
,
who
fought
so
furiously
,
that
it
was
easie
to
be
imagin'd
the
gaining
the
Victory
was
very
considerable
to
them
,
but
that
the
number
was
unequal
,
and
that
those
which
were
the
lesser
,
seemed
to
have
nothing
but
their
resolutions
to
keep
them
from
being
vanquished
.
The
great
apprehension
I
had
,
least
my
relief
might
not
come
time
enough
,
gave
me
Wings
,
so
that
though
I
came
not
so
soon
as
I
desir'd
,
yet
I
had
this
consolation
,
that
I
omitted
nothing
which
was
in
my
power
.
When
I
was
within
some
few
paces
of
the
Scene
where
this
bloody
Tragedy
was
acting
,
I
might
perceive
a
small
company
of
Gentlemen
,
that
had
cast
themselves
into
a
Ring
,
and
in
the
hollow
of
the
circle
had
placed
one
who
I
imagined
was
the
King
,
and
defended
him
with
courages
fitter
to
be
admir'd
than
describ'd
;
but
their
virtue
was
yielding
to
their
Enemies
Numbers
,
had
not
we
then
come
to
their
rescue
,
and
the
sight
of
so
much
barbarousness
having
inspir'd
me
and
mine
,
with
as
much
Fury
,
we
fell
upon
them
with
such
violence
,
that
we
reduced
them
to
that
condition
,
which
their
Rebellion
deserv'd
.
Artabazus
(
for
it
was
he
)
finding
himself
so
miraculously
preserved
,
came
to
me
(
for
he
found
,
by
the
respect
all
those
of
my
Troop
paid
me
,
that
I
was
their
Chief
)
and
told
me
;
that
he
must
attribute
so
miraculous
a
deliverance
to
the
Tutelary
gods
of
Armenia
,
whose
Altars
should
speak
him
grateful
,
and
whose
Instruments
in
his
preservation
,
should
find
him
so
,
if
any
thing
in
his
power
could
do
it
,
and
therefore
he
desir'd
to
know
those
to
whom
he
owed
his
Life
.
We
told
him
,
that
as
soon
as
all
was
ended
,
we
should
satisfy
all
his
Commands
,
and
in
the
mean
time
we
assur'd
him
,
that
we
had
the
Honour
,
to
have
so
near
a
dependance
on
him
,
that
all
our
actions
were
so
far
from
meriting
,
that
they
were
less
than
our
Duties
:
But
Sir
(
I
continued
blushing
and
trembling
)
I
beseech
you
,
what
is
become
of
the
Princess
?
Alas
(
said
the
King
)
in
the
beginning
of
the
Fight
,
I
sent
her
away
under
the
Conduct
of
Nearchus
,
with
twenty
Gentlemen
more
,
whom
I
soon
observ'd
were
follow'd
by
near
thrice
as
many
of
the
Rebels
:
what
success
Nearchus
and
his
companions
have
had
,
I
know
not
,
but
I
am
fearful
by
the
Sacrificing
of
their
Lives
,
they
have
onely
thereby
assur'd
their
Fidelity
,
and
the
Conquest
of
their
Enemies
.
As
the
King
was
speaking
,
there
came
towards
us
one
of
the
Princesses
Pages
,
who
seeing
the
number
of
the
Dead
,
imagin'd
that
it
was
the
Kings
party
defeated
,
and
tnrning
about
,
sought
his
preservation
in
the
swiftness
of
his
Horse
;
but
the
Livery
being
known
,
and
guessing
at
the
mistake
,
I
follow'd
and
cry'd
out
to
him
,
that
we
were
the
Kings
Servants
,
and
desir'd
to
know
where
the
Princess
was
;
but
his
fear
made
him
suspect
every
one
that
had
but
a
Sword
in
his
Hand
,
and
certainly
we
had
not
overtaken
him
,
had
not
his
too
much
haste
been
the
cause
of
it
;
for
his
Horse
being
run
off
his
Legs
,
fell
so
heavily
,
that
I
had
leisure
to
come
up
to
him
,
and
having
inquir'd
where
the
Princess
was
,
I
could
get
no
other
answer
from
him
,
but
Quarter
,
Quarter
;
and
indeed
,
he
was
so
really
possest
,
that
I
was
one
of
Tuminius's
his
party
,
that
nothing
I
could
say
for
a
long
time
,
could
make
him
believe
the
contrary
;
but
at
last
,
some
of
the
Kings
Servants
being
come
,
he
perceiv'd
his
Error
,
and
then
told
us
;
That
Nearchus
,
with
those
twenty
Gentlemen
he
had
taken
with
him
,
were
,
when
he
came
away
for
relief
,
generously
disputing
the
Princess's
safety
,
in
so
advantageous
a
place
,
that
none
could
come
behind
,
and
but
five
a-breast
before
;
but
that
most
of
them
were
dangerously
wounded
,
and
if
they
had
not
a
sudden
relief
,
they
would
be
uncapable
of
any
.
I
commanded
the
Page
to
shew
me
immeditely
where
they
were
,
and
having
gotten
some
twenty
of
my
friends
with
me
,
I
left
the
rest
to
guard
the
King
,
and
flew
with
them
to
the
place
where
the
Princess
was
.
Gods
!
what
fury
was
I
possest
with
,
when
I
saw
the
poor
Nearchus
,
with
four
more
,
disputing
Altezeera's
safety
,
I
fell
upon
them
with
all
the
rage
her
danger
could
inspire
me
with
,
and
cry'd
out
,
Courage
brave
Nearchus
,
the
gods
,
who
are
concern'd
in
Altezeera's
innocency
,
and
your
Valour
,
have
sent
them
both
this
Relief
.
My
generous
companions
,
who
were
equally
animated
with
me
,
did
actions
,
almost
worthy
the
cause
they
fought
for
,
and
Nearchus
finding
so
unexpected
a
succor
,
gave
proofs
of
an
exceeding
high
courage
;
but
we
found
Tuminius
his
numbers
,
might
,
in
time
;
have
made
our
success
doubtful
,
and
knowing
the
influence
a
Commander
has
over
his
Men
,
I
called
out
to
him
:
T
is
I
Tuminius
,
that
am
come
to
take
from
thee
Altezeera
,
if
thy
valour
fly
as
high
as
thy
desires
,
thou
shouldst
by
killing
the
Ravisher
of
them
,
manifest
to
that
fair
Princess
,
thou
hast
a
resolution
able
to
overcome
all
obstacles
that
dare
oppose
it
.
Tuminius
,
who
wanted
not
courage
,
answer'd
me
:
If
there
needs
but
the
killing
of
thee
,
to
assure
her
that
Truth
,
she
shall
not
long
doubt
it
;
and
would
to
the
gods
,
I
could
as
easily
vanquish
her
disdain
,
as
all
my
other
Enemies
:
He
had
no
sooner
done
speaking
,
than
he
made
himself
a
lane
through
the
Throng
,
and
having
separated
my self
from
my
companions
,
commanded
them
to
let
us
alone
,
till
Death
or
Victory
decided
the
quarrel
.
Tuminius
having
order'd
his
Men
the
like
,
we
began
to
fight
,
but
with
so
much
earnestness
,
as
if
the
Conqueror
had
expected
Altezeera
for
his
reward
;
I
must
confess
,
I
was
so
asham'd
that
one
guilty
Man
,
in
the
presence
of
my
Princess
,
and
for
her
safety
too
,
should
dispute
so
long
the
Victory
,
that
I
prest
him
so
vigorously
,
and
so
unfortunately
for
him
,
that
my
Sword
at
last
having
found
the
defect
of
his
Armour
,
pierc'd
him
through
and
through
,
at
which
thrust
he
fell
,
and
with
that
stream
which
issu'd
from
his
wound
,
he
breath'd
out
his
life
.
All
my
friends
made
a
great
shout
at
my
success
,
and
fell
so
briskly
on
Tuminius
Soldiers
,
that
by
their
fury
,
and
by
the
loss
of
their
Commander
,
we
had
a
Victory
so
cheap
,
that
it
hardly
deserved
that
name
.
The
Field
being
wholly
ours
,
I
lighted
off
my
Horse
,
and
with
an
infinite
Humility
,
went
to
Altezeera
,
and
told
her
;
Madam
,
The
gods
of
whom
you
are
so
perfect
a
Copy
,
have
sent
me
hither
,
to
serve
you
against
your
Enemies
,
and
have
given
you
an
entire
Victory
,
lest
their
Justice
or
Power
by
your
loss
,
or
want
of
revenge
,
might
have
been
call'd
in
question
.
I
must
confess
,
said
she
,
the
actions
I
have
seen
you
do
for
my
deliverance
,
assure
me
,
't
is
more
than
a
humane
Power
which
has
effected
it
,
but
the
gods
,
whose
delight
is
to
relieve
the
innocent
,
made
me
not
despair
of
their
help
,
though
the
means
(
till
your
arrival
)
was
unseen
:
But
,
Sir
,
shall
I
desire
you
to
add
two
favours
unto
this
I
have
already
receiv'd
?
that
I
may
know
to
whom
I
owe
the
preservation
of
my
life
,
and
perhaps
my
Honour
,
and
that
if
there
be
any
hopes
of
rescuing
my
Brother
,
you
would
imploy
your
Sword
in
so
just
a
quarrel
,
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
my
Name
has
been
so
little
beholding
to
my
Actions
,
that
by
them
it
is
not
considerable
,
but
for
the
King
,
I
have
already
had
the
happiness
to
serve
him
,
and
if
I
be
not
mistaken
,
,
that
Troop
which
you
see
marching
this
way
,
attends
him
by
my
Orders
.
How
?
(
said
Altezeera
)
does
Artabazus
as
well
as
I
,
owe
his
safety
to
your
Sword
?
sure
then
your
Name
cannot
be
so
unconsiderable
,
as
you
would
make
me
believe
it
is
,
or
if
it
has
been
,
it
is
so
no
longer
;
but
I
am
consident
you
will
not
discover
it
,
to
hinder
us
from
being
ungrateful
,
which
unavoidably
we
must
be
,
if
once
we
learn
to
whom
we
are
Indebted
.
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
to
take
you
out
of
that
Error
,
I
will
acquaint
you
who
I
am
,
that
you
may
know
,
I
have
onely
hazarded
a
Life
in
your
service
,
which
I
am
resolv'd
to
spend
in
the
same
employment
:
then
pulling
off
my
Helmet
,
she
no
sooner
saw
my
Face
,
but
she
cry'd
out
,
't
is
Artavasdes
!
and
there
wanted
nothing
to
make
my
Joy
as
perfect
as
my
Safety
,
but
to
owe
the
latter
to
his
Gallantry
.
Just
as
I
was
going
to
reply
,
the
King
(
who
had
learn'd
by
some
of
my
Troop
,
who
I
was
(
and
by
one
of
those
who
escaped
Tuminius
sword
,
what
I
had
done
,
)
came
running
to
me
,
and
having
embraced
me
a
thousand
times
,
told
me
,
I
see
Artavasdes
,
that
Virtue
is
born
with
us
,
not
infused
into
us
by
Education
,
otherwise
you
could
not
be
possessor
of
so
great
a
quantity
,
in
so
tender
an
age
.
Sir
(
said
I
)
your
goodness
being
too
great
,
makes
you
place
a
resembling
value
upon
my
services
▪
and
I
should
be
guilty
of
an
equal
presumption
,
if
I
did
not
attribute
your
expressions
to
any
thing
sooner
than
your
Justice
,
But
,
Sir
,
let
not
the
joy
of
your
safety
hinder
us
from
receiving
the
benefit
of
it
,
nor
me
from
bringing
this
Gentleman
to
kiss
your
hands
,
who
has
washt
away
his
criminal
intentions
by
his
gallant
performance
.
Thereupon
I
presented
Evaxes
to
the
King
,
who
acquainted
him
with
all
Celindus
and
Tygranes's
designes
,
and
that
we
had
taken
Palisdes
,
who
being
shew'd
to
the
King
,
discover'd
as
much
guilt
in
his
Face
,
as
he
had
in
his
Heart
.
Artabazus
commanded
he
should
be
safely
kept
,
and
ratified
all
I
had
promis'd
to
Evaxes
;
then
learning
that
Celindus
had
yet
three
hundred
Horse
betwixt
us
and
the
Town
,
we
thought
it
not
fit
to
lose
any
time
,
and
therefore
having
by
Artabazus
command
,
and
her
permission
,
taken
the
fair
Altezeera
behind
me
,
and
order'd
our
Men
,
we
began
to
retire
towards
Artaxata
,
when
our
Scouts
came
immediately
,
and
brought
us
word
,
that
Celindus
,
with
above
400
Horse
(
for
fear
multiplies
)
was
marching
directly
towards
us
,
and
was
but
six
Furlongs
off
.
As
soon
as
I
heard
it
,
I
turn'd
about
to
the
Princess
,
and
told
her
,
Madam
,
I
am
in
a
greater
conflict
with
my self
,
than
I
can
have
with
the
Enemy
,
whether
I
should
commit
you
to
the
charge
of
some
Gentleman
,
swiftly
Hors'd
,
and
endeavor
to
secure
your
Retreat
,
or
else
by
dying
at
your
Feet
,
take
the
opportunity
to
acquaint
you
with
that
,
which
I
shall
not
have
the
confidence
to
do
,
whilst
I
am
sure
to
out-live
the
discovery
.
To
which
she
answer'd
,
I
have
so
good
an
opinion
of
Artavasdes
,
that
I
shall
esteem
my self
as
safe
under
his
Sword
,
as
in
Artaxata
,
and
I
cannot
conceive
that
his
Heart
is
capable
of
any
thing
which
his
words
dare
not
reveal
.
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
I
must
confess
I
am
guilty
of
a
crime
,
but
the
cause
of
it
is
so
Glorious
,
that
if
it
were
not
committed
against
you
,
I
should
not
call
any
effect
that
proceeded
from
it
by
such
a
name
.
But
,
Madam
,
the
Enemy
approaches
,
and
I
must
put
you
in
some
place
of
safety
,
that
I
may
by
the
hazarding
of
my
life
,
secure
yours
;
and
would
to
the
gods
,
the
loss
of
mine
could
give
you
as
perfect
a
security
,
as
the
ending
of
it
in
your
service
would
give
me
a
satisfaction
.
The
King
by
this
time
was
come
so
near
us
,
that
I
could
not
receive
any
answer
from
my
Princess
,
and
askt
me
what
order
I
would
settle
,
for
the
receiving
of
so
bold
a
Guest
;
for
he
was
determin'd
to
derive
his
preservation
wholly
from
my
Sword
.
I
answer'd
so
large
a
Favor
with
a
resembling
humility
,
and
having
conjur'd
Nearchus
,
to
have
a
care
of
the
Princess
,
I
lighted
from
my
Horse
,
took
down
Altezeera
,
and
set
her
up
behind
him
;
then
kissing
her
hand
,
I
told
her
softly
,
Madam
,
inspire
me
by
your
Commands
,
that
I
may
perform
things
worthy
your
looking
on
;
and
remember
,
if
I
dye
in
the
acting
of
them
,
you
lose
the
faithfullest
servant
,
that
ever
your
perfections
did
acquire
you
:
But
she
was
so
perplext
(
whether
through
apprehension
,
or
any
other
cause
)
that
she
onely
answer'd
me
in
Tears
,
which
nevertheless
,
coming
from
her
fair
Eyes
,
enflam'd
me
with
as
high
a
Fire
,
as
ever
they
shot
into
any
Lovers
Heart
.
Celindus
by
this
time
was
come
so
near
,
that
I
had
only
leisure
to
conjure
the
King
,
that
he
,
and
the
Princess
would
fly
to
Artaxata
,
whilst
I
amus'd
the
Enemy
;
and
having
left
50
Horse
for
their
Guard
,
I
divided
those
that
remained
into
two
Bodies
,
as
the
Enemy
had
done
theirs
,
and
having
in
few
words
,
told
my
companions
,
how
highly
they
were
oblig'd
to
their
fortunes
,
that
had
furnisht
them
with
an
occasion
to
shew
their
valours
before
,
for
the
greatest
Monarch
of
the
East
,
and
the
fairest
Princess
of
the
World
,
and
how
the
Victory
,
which
was
the
onely
way
to
preserve
them
,
was
as
certain
as
their
cause
was
just
;
I
began
the
Charge
,
and
fighting
under
the
conduct
of
Justice
,
Honour
,
and
Love
,
I
soon
made
a
breach
for
my
valiant
friends
,
who
being
carried
on
with
a
generous
desire
,
routed
that
Wing
we
attempted
,
and
thereby
made
a
passage
for
Nearchus
,
who
lost
no
opportunity
,
but
got
by
with
the
King
and
Princess
.
But
Stratolis
,
who
commanded
the
left
Wing
of
our
Horse
,
had
not
so
good
success
;
for
though
he
disputed
the
business
with
sufficient
courage
,
yet
he
was
over-power'd
,
and
at
last
worsted
,
so
that
in
effect
,
we
were
but
as
we
begun
;
for
what
I
had
gain'd
,
he
had
lost
,
onely
the
King
and
Altezeera
,
by
my
good
fortune
,
got
that
other
of
passing
by
.
We
instantly
rallied
again
,
and
determin'd
onely
by
skirmishing
,
to
make
good
our
Retreat
,
and
not
to
hazard
all
at
one
Charge
,
lest
if
foil'd
,
the
King
and
the
Princess
might
not
recover
Artaxara
.
Our
resolutions
had
such
good
success
,
that
I
held
the
Enemy
in
play
long
enough
for
Nearchus
design
,
had
not
the
subtile
Celindus
imagin'd
that
I
would
send
the
King
and
the
Princess
away
with
a
small
Guard
,
and
with
the
rest
justify
the
retreat
,
which
caus'd
him
to
lay
a
hundred
Horse
in
Ambush
betwixt
us
and
the
Town
,
who
falling
suddenly
upon
Nearchus
,
so
terrified
his
Men
,
that
most
of
them
were
cut
off
,
before
they
put
themselves
in
a
posture
of
resistance
.
One
of
the
Run-aways
fled
to
me
,
and
with
a
countenance
which
acquainted
me
with
his
fear
,
told
me
,
all
was
lost
,
if
I
did
not
instantly
remedy
it
.
I
left
most
part
of
my
Horse
with
Stratolis
,
whom
I
commanded
to
amuse
the
Enemy
,
and
with
thirty
of
my
friends
,
ran
to
the
place
where
my
help
was
so
needful
.
But
alas
,
the
first
thing
I
saw
,
was
a
rude
Soldier
,
who
had
dismounted
Artabazus
,
and
was
going
to
plant
his
Ponyard
in
his
Breast
.
This
impious
action
gave
me
so
just
a
resentment
,
that
I
clove
with
one
stroke
the
offenders
Head
in
too
,
and
leaping
off
my
Horse
,
mounted
the
King
upon
him
,
and
seized
on
another
that
ran
about
the
Field
without
a
Master
.
But
gods
!
to
how
unparallell'd
a
height
was
my
anger
rais'd
,
when
the
piercing
shreeks
of
the
fair
Altezeera
reacht
my
Ears
:
For
Nearchus
being
kill'd
,
one
of
Celindus
Officers
had
seiz'd
on
her
,
and
was
carrying
her
away
.
I
profess
ingeniously
,
my
dear
Artabanes
,
that
sight
did
so
transport
me
,
that
I
think
a
Legion
could
not
have
hinder'd
me
from
relieving
her
danger
,
or
killing
the
causer
of
it
.
So
that
having
made
a
passage
through
the
throng
,
I
soon
made
another
through
him
,
and
by
that
thrust
,
depriv'd
him
both
of
his
Life
and
Hopes
.
Then
taking
the
overjoy'd
Altezeera
behind
me
,
I
went
to
the
King
,
whom
we
overtook
,
retreating
towards
Artaxata
;
but
when
we
were
come
within
some
ten
Furlongs
of
it
,
we
discover'd
a
Body
of
near
Five
hundred
Horse
,
coming
towards
us
in
a
cloud
of
Dust
,
as
fast
as
they
could
gallop
.
Altezeera
,
who
had
generously
oppos'd
all
perils
,
now
began
to
faint
;
but
I
told
her
,
Madam
,
the
god's
,
who
have
hitherto
protected
you
,
have
therby
taught
you
not
to
despair
,
and
I
am
confident
you
are
so
highly
cherisht
by
them
,
that
if
nothing
but
a
Miracle
can
effect
your
preservation
,
yet
you
shall
not
be
deny'd
it
,
or
fall
into
your
Enemies
hands
,
at
least
that
Fate
shall
not
be
yours
,
whilst
I
have
a
Sword
,
or
Life
to
oppose
it
,
my
duty
,
and
a
higher
consideration
exacting
it
from
me
:
I
begg'd
her
therefore
,
not
to
contribute
to
the
danger
,
by
being
astonish'd
at
it
,
nor
to
let
go
her
hold
;
for
I
was
confident
,
fighting
for
so
transcendent
a
perfection
,
my
courage
would
proportion
my
cause
:
Having
thus
said
,
she
embrac'd
me
with
so
great
a
satisfaction
for
the
transported
Artavasdes
,
that
had
it
proceeded
from
Love
,
as
it
did
from
Fear
,
I
had
wanted
little
of
perfect
happiness
;
but
though
the
effect
came
from
a
wrong
cause
,
yet
I
blest
the
danger
,
that
gave
me
so
high
a
contentment
:
But
,
alas
,
her
apprehension
soon
ended
,
and
my
joy
with
it
,
for
we
found
it
was
the
young
Amidor
my
Brother
,
who
by
my
Fathers
command
,
was
come
out
to
rescue
us
,
having
received
that
advertisement
I
had
sent
him
.
In
this
general
satisfaction
,
I
alone
was
extreamly
perplext
,
having
bought
the
publique
security
at
too
dear
a
rate
for
my
particular
,
yet
the
consideration
that
by
it
Altezeera
was
out
of
danger
,
whose
contentment
I
still
preferr'd
before
my
own
,
did
soon
banish
all
those
sad
thoughts
,
and
having
sent
200
▪
of
those
Horse
,
under
my
Brother
to
help
Stratolis
,
with
the
rest
we
marched
to
Artaxata
,
where
Anexander
,
and
all
the
City
,
receiv'd
us
with
Faces
that
spoke
their
contentments
.
It
were
superfluous
to
tell
you
what
Artabazus
said
to
my
Father
,
and
all
those
with
him
in
my
favour
,
I
will
therefore
onely
acquaint
you
,
that
Altezeera
(
whose
Beauty
was
grown
to
such
perfection
,
that
it
made
me
almost
irreligious
,
by
desiring
to
see
no
other
happiness
)
having
led
me
aside
,
told
me
,
Artavasdes
,
I
should
too
much
wrong
my
resentments
,
if
I
coulp
hope
to
describe
them
.
To
save
me
from
Tuminius's
insolency
,
and
his
Passion
,
are
obligations
of
so
high
a
Nature
,
that
they
resemble
his
Virtues
,
which
conferr'd
them
on
me
.
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
in
serving
you
,
I
have
perform'd
my
duty
,
and
receiv'd
my
reward
;
But
Madam
,
had
Tuminius
the
confidence
to
make
his
addresses
to
you
?
He
had
,
(
said
she
)
and
would
have
perswaded
me
,
that
this
enterprize
was
onely
the
effects
of
his
Love
,
not
his
Fathers
Ambition
.
Alas
Madam
(
I
answer'd
)
then
he
was
pardonable
,
if
at
least
he
is
so
,
that
cannot
avoid
committing
of
his
fault
.
How
?
(
said
Altezeera
)
now
you
know
the
cause
of
his
Crime
,
you
seem
to
approve
it
.
No
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
but
pitty
his
inevitable
fate
;
I
say
inevitable
,
because
experimentally
I
find
it
so
.
This
I
spoke
in
disorder
and
trembling
;
but
alas
,
I
had
immediately
much
more
cause
for
both
,
when
I
heard
her
say
,
Ah
Artavasdes
,
I
have
been
too
patient
,
and
by
my
not
suppressing
your
first
inconsiderateness
,
have
thereby
authoriz'd
what
you
have
since
committed
,
yet
I
give
this
presumption
to
your
services
,
but
let
me
have
no
repetitions
of
it
,
least
you
force
me
against
my
inclination
to
become
your
Enemy
;
she
was
going
away
with
that
reply
,
but
I
conjur'd
her
before
she
went
,
onely
to
hear
mine
,
which
she
said
she
granted
,
not
to
me
,
but
the
company
,
who
otherwise
might
suspect
in
her
disorder
,
the
cause
of
it
.
Madam
(
said
I
)
the
same
consideration
hinders
me
from
flinging
my self
at
your
feet
,
and
begging
your
forgiveness
,
and
though
I
thought
Tuminius
excusable
in
daring
to
adore
you
,
knowing
by
my self
,
how
impossible
it
was
to
do
otherwise
;
yet
I
held
him
withal
,
so
worthy
of
revenge
,
that
to
be
sure
he
should
not
avoid
it
;
I
inflicted
it
on
him
with
my
own
hands
,
and
before
you
see
me
next
,
you
shall
be
convinc't
,
I
will
not
practice
what
I
condemn
,
and
that
I
can
punish
aswell
as
commit
a
fault
.
These
words
I
deliver'd
with
a
Countenance
and
accent
as
sad
as
themselves
,
which
the
fair
Altezeera
was
so
sensibly
mov'd
with
,
thet
she
told
me
;
Though
your
Crime
be
great
,
yet
I
desire
no
other
reparation
,
but
that
you
will
not
repeat
it
:
And
since
you
assure
me
,
I
have
an
Empire
over
you
,
larger
than
I
thought
;
evince
that
truth
,
I
conjure
you
,
by
attempting
nothing
against
your
life
.
I
shall
obey
you
,
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
but
I
beseech
you
,
receive
this
obedience
as
the
highest
demonstration
of
it
that
I
am
capable
of
,
for
my
torments
are
as
far
from
being
describ'd
,
as
(
I
fear
)
they
are
from
being
cur'd
:
which
I
must
not
expect
from
Time
,
but
Death
,
which
is
a
Truth
,
if
all
things
fail
of
evidencing
to
you
,
my
Death
will
not
.
Though
she
were
going
from
me
,
yet
I
am
confident
she
heard
my
last
words
,
(
but
her
disdain
,
though
I
had
armed
my self
against
it
)
wrought
so
powerfully
upon
me
,
that
Annexander
perceiving
the
disorder
I
was
in
,
came
to
me
,
and
attributing
it
to
a
slight
wound
I
had
receiv'd
in
the
Fight
,
told
me
,
that
I
should
do
well
to
retire
to
his
Lodgings
,
(
which
were
in
the
Palace
.
)
I
obey'd
his
commands
,
and
having
took
my
leave
of
the
King
,
I
did
the
like
of
Altezeera
,
but
with
a
Countenance
so
appropriated
to
my
Condition
,
that
she
being
moved
with
it
,
bad
me
have
a
care
of
my
health
,
which
words
made
a
great
impression
in
me
,
for
I
could
not
believe
she
was
so
kind
out
of
a
design
to
crown
my
Affection
with
a
reciprocal
one
,
nor
so
cruel
,
as
to
preserve
me
onely
to
torment
me
.
In
this
suspence
I
arriv'd
with
my
Father
at
his
Chamber
,
where
Lindesia
solemniz'd
her
joy
for
my
safe
return
,
and
after
I
had
paid
her
that
which
my
Duty
and
Inclination
exacted
from
me
;
I
begg'd
leave
of
Annexander
,
that
I
might
,
with
some
Horse
,
go
see
what
success
my
Brother
and
my
Friends
had
;
as
I
was
receiving
his
answer
,
Amidor
,
Stratolis
,
Evaxes
and
the
rest
,
came
into
the
Chamber
,
and
told
us
,
they
had
defeated
all
Celindus's
Troops
,
but
that
he
himself
had
fled
,
when
he
saw
that
releif
coming
to
the
King
.
My
design
being
so
stopt
,
after
I
had
receiv'd
all
my
Friends
Civilities
,
and
an
Order
,
next
morning
,
to
wait
upon
the
King
,
to
consult
what
was
to
be
done
for
the
suppressing
of
Celindus
;
I
retir'd
into
my
Chamber
,
under
pretence
,
that
a
slight
hurt
requir'd
some
rest
,
as
the
best
remedy
;
Having
thus
freed
my self
from
all
but
my
own
thoughts
,
I
went
to
bed
,
where
thinking
to
be
alone
,
I
found
my self
most
accompanied
:
There
the
Perfections
of
the
fair
Altezeera
did
so
manifest
themselves
,
that
I
was
wholly
taken
up
in
the
contemplation
of
them
;
but
when
I
began
to
consider
,
that
all
those
distinct
Beauties
were
as
so
many
Enemies
,
that
had
design'd
my
destruction
;
I
could
not
abstain
from
saying
,
Unfortunate
Artavasdes
!
what
envious
power
is
it
,
that
has
made
thee
love
so
high
an
Excellence
,
that
it
is
as
great
a
sin
to
expect
the
obtaining
of
her
by
Merit
,
as
a
weakness
to
believe
she
will
be
won
without
it
.
Dye
then
,
Artavasdes
,
and
by
one
resolute
action
,
declare
the
greatness
of
thy
respect
,
and
that
of
thy
sufferings
which
necessitated
thee
to
such
a
Cure
.
But
alas
,
I
continu'd
,
that
remedy
is
deny'd
me
too
,
so
that
I
cannot
live
but
in
torment
,
nor
dye
,
but
by
disobedience
,
the
first
is
consistent
with
my
Nature
,
and
the
last
with
my
Duty
.
Yes
,
thou
must
live
,
I
continued
,
after
a
long
silence
,
since
Altezeera
has
commanded
it
,
and
who
knows
,
but
thy
sufferings
may
raise
her
compassion
,
and
the
vastness
of
thy
future
Services
,
convert
it
unto
Love
:
but
suddainly
those
pleasing
thoughts
vanisht
,
having
no
other
Foundation
,
but
a
hope
so
ill
grounded
,
that
it
was
as
much
weakness
to
expect
her
affection
,
as
it
had
been
a
happiness
to
possess
it
.
Whilst
I
was
in
this
manner
entertaining
my
sad
thoughts
,
the
day
appear'd
,
and
the
Sun
found
me
as
full
of
misery
,
as
it
had
left
me
in
.
But
Annexander
having
receiv'd
advertisement
,
that
Celindus
was
drawing
his
Army
together
,
to
gain
that
by
a
great
force
which
a
small
one
,
and
fortune
,
had
deny'd
him
,
came
into
my
Chamber
to
give
me
advice
of
it
,
and
to
acquaint
me
,
that
Tygranes
was
fallen
sick
;
after
Artabazus
had
acquainted
him
that
he
knew
all
his
designes
,
and
severely
reprov'd
him
for
them
,
but
that
the
King
suspecting
he
counterfeited
one
suffering
,
the
better
to
escape
another
,
had
plac'd
such
strict
and
vigilant
Guards
about
him
,
that
his
desire
of
flying
to
Celindus
,
should
not
be
greater
,
than
the
impossibility
was
.
I
seem'd
to
be
extreamly
affairs
asham'd
when
he
came
in
,
to
be
found
so
lazy
,
in
a
season
,
when
our
nats
made
it
a
vice
rather
than
a
fault
,
though
indeed
I
needed
Rest
more
than
to
have
been
condemn'd
for
taking
too
much
.
But
lest
my
Father
might
discover
something
by
my
sadness
,
I
conceal'd
it
as
much
as
I
could
,
and
by
talking
of
Tygranes
condition
,
endeavour'd
to
take
him
off
from
being
too
intent
in
considering
mine
.
As
soon
as
I
was
ready
,
we
went
to
the
King
,
who
used
me
with
transcendent
favour
,
and
having
assembled
the
Council
,
some
advis'd
considering
Artabazus
weakness
,
and
Celindus
power
,
that
it
were
fit
to
use
him
with
all
civility
,
to
grant
him
his
desire
,
and
endeavour
by
protraction
to
reduce
him
to
his
Duty
;
others
were
of
opinion
,
that
when
Princes
capitulate
with
Rebels
,
they
do
thereby
discover
their
own
weakness
,
and
declare
that
to
be
Fear
,
they
would
have
to
be
thought
Mercy
,
which
is
a
Virtue
that
loses
its
value
when
imploy'd
on
those
that
dispute
with
Swords
:
some
said
too
,
that
if
it
were
requisite
to
grant
Celindus
any
Conditions
,
't
were
fit
that
it
should
be
when
he
implor'd
,
and
not
when
he
attempted
to
force
them
:
others
believ'd
,
that
to
intend
to
grant
them
then
,
was
to
be
resolv'd
never
to
do
it
;
since
his
Army
and
Faction
was
so
numerous
,
't
was
improbable
he
would
be
ever
reduc'd
to
so
low
a
posture
,
and
that
Armenia
would
be
destroyed
for
a
Ceremony
of
State
,
by
deferring
to
act
that
but
a
short
while
,
which
necessity
would
enforce
us
to
at
last
:
but
the
result
of
all
was
,
That
the
chiefest
of
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
which
were
with
the
King
,
should
immediately
go
into
their
own
Countreys
,
and
with
all
expedition
raise
what
Forces
they
could
,
and
bring
them
to
Thospia
,
a
Town
of
great
importance
,
both
for
the
bigness
,
strength
and
loyalty
thereof
;
That
Celindus
thereby
might
be
either
perswaded
or
forc'd
to
his
obedience
.
In
pursuance
of
which
,
Anexander
was
sent
with
all
the
considerablest
Men
in
the
Kingdom
,
to
raise
an
Army
,
and
the
care
of
the
Town
,
and
the
Forces
of
it
,
the
King
committed
to
my
charge
,
which
imployment
I
willingly
attended
,
as
the
means
to
be
near
,
and
serve
the
fair
Altezeera
.
Anexander
being
dispatched
,
and
Artabazus
having
sent
me
my
Commission
,
I
presently
repaired
those
Fortifications
that
were
defective
,
made
new
ones
where
they
were
needful
,
sent
out
parties
to
fetch
in
Provisions
and
Forage
,
and
to
destroy
what
they
could
not
bring
away
,
slighted
all
Grounds
that
were
favourable
for
approaches
;
and
in
a
word
,
forgot
nothing
that
I
thought
requisite
for
a
Siege
.
I
found
the
number
I
had
within
,
were
(
Inhabitants
and
all
)
14000
Foot
,
and
1400
Horse
,
which
I
divided
into
several
Troops
and
Companies
,
and
to
avoid
all
Treachery
,
made
them
still
draw
Lots
for
their
Guards
.
But
in
all
this
noise
of
War
the
silent
fire
of
Love
did
still
possess
me
,
and
what
with
incessant
toilings
,
and
distemper
of
mind
,
I
so
fell
away
,
that
a
slow
Fever
seized
on
me
,
and
doubtless
I
had
yielded
to
it
,
had
not
the
care
of
preserving
my
Princess
given
me
Supernatural
Forces
.
This
declination
was
so
apparent
,
that
Altezeera
was
not
ignorant
of
it
,
and
(
as
she
assured
me
afterwards
)
simpathiz'd
with
me
in
it
,
but
her
Spirit
was
greater
than
her
inclination
,
and
consequently
my
pain
than
either
.
But
while
things
were
thus
in
Artaxata
,
Celindus
was
not
idle
,
and
having
got
Advertisement
,
that
Anexander
was
gone
to
raise
an
Army
;
he
resolv'd
to
employ
his
for
the
taking
of
the
Town
before
Anexander
was
able
to
relieve
it
,
and
in
pursuance
of
that
determination
,
the
tenth
day
after
our
Fight
,
he
presented
himself
before
the
Walls
of
Artaxata
,
with
an
Army
of
about
50000
Foot
,
and
10000
Horse
,
well
fitted
with
all
things
that
he
wanted
,
onely
a
good
quarrel
.
The
order
in
which
they
marcht
,
made
them
as
formidable
as
their
very
numbers
,
and
having
drawn
up
in
a
Plain
,
on
the
East
side
of
Artaxata
,
they
advanc'd
the
two
wings
of
their
Army
by
degrees
,
and
inviron'd
the
Town
,
having
cast
a
Bridge
of
Boats
over
the
River
Araxis
,
which
separates
Artaxata
by
the
middle
,
and
began
by
flinging
up
of
Earth
to
secure
themselves
from
our
Sallies
.
The
King
from
a
high
Tower
of
the
Palace
,
perceiv'd
all
the
motion
of
that
great
Body
with
a
resembling
Fear
,
which
truly
was
one
of
Artabazus
most
predominant
defects
▪
for
he
was
timerous
to
such
a
height
,
that
it
made
his
Subjects
bold
,
but
Altezeera
(
who
was
then
with
him
,
and
whose
spirit
was
hardly
capable
of
apprehension
,
consider'd
those
with
indignation
,
which
her
Brother
lookt
upon
with
terror
;
in
the
mean
time
I
had
ordered
all
the
Soldiers
to
their
several
Posts
,
and
being
not
able
to
indure
Celindus
so
near
,
without
tasting
of
what
composition
his
Army
was
made
of
,
I
got
a
thousand
Horse
,
and
as
many
Foot
in
Arms
,
and
by
a
furious
and
unexpected
Sally
,
forc'd
the
next
Guards
to
a
hasty
retreat
,
and
in
the
disorder
thereof
,
routed
some
Reserve-Troops
,
which
came
to
oppose
us
;
The
Camp
at
this
hot
Alarm
,
was
presently
all
in
Arms
,
and
sent
out
three
Bodies
of
Horse
,
who
added
to
our
success
,
instead
of
finishing
it
,
and
some
of
them
that
scap'd
our
Swords
,
told
such
miracles
of
our
Courages
,
to
apologize
for
the
poorness
of
their
own
,
that
Celindus
in
person
,
at
the
head
of
4000
Horse
,
came
to
know
and
redress
his
condition
.
This
made
me
think
of
retreating
,
not
being
so
perfectly
acquainted
with
my
Soldiers
Valors
,
as
to
believe
they
might
not
be
vanquished
without
being
killed
,
and
having
such
good
success
,
I
was
loath
to
adventure
all
the
gallantry
of
the
Garrison
at
one
push
,
where
the
advantage
,
if
we
had
success
,
could
not
be
so
great
,
as
the
prejudice
,
if
we
had
been
deny'd
it
.
Therefore
I
sounded
a
Retreat
,
and
as
I
was
making
it
leisurely
,
Celindus
sent
500
Horse
a
full
gallop
to
ingage
us
,
which
they
did
;
and
thereby
too
so
far
ingaged
themselves
,
that
not
fifty
ever
got
off
,
but
yet
truly
they
defended
themselves
so
well
,
and
rallied
so
often
,
that
I
was
much
troubled
such
gallant
Men
shonld
be
so
ill
imploy'd
:
but
their
obstinacy
in
refusing
quarter
,
made
us
think
it
a
Justice
to
give
them
none
.
The
execution
indeed
was
bloudy
,
for
by
those
that
reckoned
most
moderately
,
in
all
this
fight
there
were
esteemed
near
4000
to
be
kill'd
,
and
we
lost
about
300.
This
was
our
first
Essay
,
and
with
this
success
we
return'd
into
Artaxata
,
before
Celindus
could
come
to
the
place
of
revenging
those
deaths
he
had
been
a
sad
spectator
of
.
Having
by
a
short
speech
thanked
the
Soldiers
and
Officers
,
and
commended
their
Valours
,
I
took
one
and
twenty
Colours
,
which
were
the
marks
of
our
that
days
success
,
and
went
to
the
Pallace
,
to
present
them
to
Artabazus
,
who
having
seen
what
we
had
done
(
to
honor
us
the
more
)
came
with
Altezeera
to
the
Gate
,
where
laying
them
at
his
Feet
,
I
told
him
;
Sir
,
my
fellow
Soldiers
and
I
,
humbly
present
you
these
marks
of
the
goodness
of
your
quarrel
,
and
beseech
you
to
receive
them
as
Fruits
of
our
Fidelity
,
and
as
an
earnest
of
what
we
will
hereafter
pay
you
.
To
which
(
having
first
imbrac'd
me
)
he
reply'd
,
Let
not
your
Civility
,
under
the
name
of
the
goodness
of
my
quarrel
,
rob
you
of
that
Glory
your
Gallantry
deserves
;
't
is
that
which
presents
me
with
these
effects
of
it
,
and
which
indeed
is
so
great
,
that
I
know
not
whether
I
should
sooner
elect
,
to
have
Artavasdes
,
or
Justice
on
my
side
,
but
having
both
,
I
am
as
secure
as
the
gods
can
make
me
.
After
some
civilities
,
the
King
retir'd
into
the
Palace
,
and
the
Princess
to
her
Apartment
,
where
observing
my
deep
melancholly
,
she
told
me
,
smiling
,
If
I
knew
not
perfectly
your
zeal
to
my
Brothers
service
,
I
might
,
by
your
sadness
,
(
after
having
paid
him
so
signal
a
one
)
suspect
your
Victory
was
rather
your
misfortune
than
design
.
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
if
it
were
so
,
I
should
rather
be
guilty
of
no
Crime
,
at
least
,
if
it
be
none
to
imitate
you
;
for
what
in
raillery
you
say
of
me
,
I
fear
I
may
with
too
too
much
truth
say
of
you
in
a
Victory
,
which
though
you
knew
but
lately
,
you
have
long
since
acted
.
The
fair
Altezeera
blusht
at
what
I
had
spoken
,
which
made
me
(
apprehending
her
reply
)
not
give
her
the
leisure
of
making
it
,
and
therefore
I
hastily
continued
;
but
Madam
,
if
I
have
cause
to
be
satisfied
with
my
Fortune
,
I
am
certain
I
have
not
to
be
so
with
my
condition
,
for
though
the
first
gave
me
those
ensignes
,
yet
the
last
necessitated
me
,
to
present
them
to
another
when
you
stood
by
,
at
whose
feet
I
have
prostrated
them
with
much
more
joy
,
than
I
took
them
;
but
alas
,
my
condition
forces
me
to
performances
against
my
inclination
,
which
yet
would
be
something
extenuated
,
if
as
you
are
convinc'd
of
that
truth
in
this
particular
,
you
would
pardon
it
in
another
.
Altezeera
by
not
taking
notice
of
what
I
desired
,
and
feared
she
would
,
did
it
in
my
opinion
sufficiently
,
and
obligingly
:
But
that
I
might
make
no
sinister
,
or
advantageous
construction
of
her
silence
,
she
told
me
;
The
victory
you
have
so
presently
obtain'd
,
could
not
have
been
more
just
,
than
you
be
in
so
bestowing
those
signes
of
it
,
so
that
I
am
more
oblig'd
to
your
intention
,
than
I
should
have
been
by
your
performance
,
and
yet
in
the
first
I
discover
how
concern'd
you
are
to
oblige
me
,
since
rather
than
not
do
it
,
you
would
commit
an
injustice
.
Would
to
the
gods
,
Madam
,
I
hastily
reply'd
with
a
deep
sigh
,
you
had
the
same
indulgence
for
me
;
but
,
Madam
,
I
continu'd
,
will
you
permit
me
sometimes
to
believe
you
speak
what
you
do
not
intend
,
by
being
now
convinc'd
you
do
so
?
for
you
cannot
be
so
ignorant
of
your
own
power
,
and
the
duty
I
owe
it
,
as
to
imagine
I
can
owe
more
,
or
so
much
to
any
other
creature
.
The
fair
Altezeera
,
who
apprehended
the
continuance
of
this
dispute
,
might
prove
a
continuance
of
her
trouble
,
to
put
a
period
to
it
,
told
me
coldly
,
I
see
,
Artavasdes
,
you
must
be
victorious
in
all
you
undertake
,
and
to
be
conquer'd
by
your
civility
,
is
as
unavoidable
for
your
Friends
,
as
to
be
so
by
your
Sword
,
is
for
your
Enemies
.
Ah
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
if
you
see
me
not
,
what
you
say
you
do
,
you
may
when
you
please
,
and
by
permitting
me
to
be
victorious
over
your
Disdain
,
you
may
make
me
triumph
over
the
Enemy
I
most
apprehend
,
and
thereby
render
me
as
uncapable
of
losing
,
as
of
needing
any
other
Victory
.
Whilst
I
was
thus
speaking
,
the
fair
Altezeera
assum'd
a
countenance
so
full
of
Severity
and
Majesty
together
,
that
I
understood
her
answer
before
she
spoke
it
,
though
it
contain'd
these
cruel
words
.
Since
Artavasdes
,
you
will
force
me
to
understand
you
,
unless
I
would
acknowledge
my self
as
insensible
,
as
I
fear
(
by
your
thus
proceeding
)
you
believe
me
,
I
must
tell
you
with
a
plainness
as
great
as
yours
,
that
the
first
time
you
speak
to
me
of
your
Passion
,
it
shall
be
the
last
,
and
if
you
desire
the
continuance
of
my
esteem
,
you
must
neither
sollicite
my
Love
,
nor
acquaint
me
with
yours
,
since
if
you
do
,
I
shall
not
onely
revoke
that
,
but
try
if
my
Brother
will
be
more
successful
than
I
have
been
,
in
teaching
you
the
respect
you
owe
,
and
ought
to
pay
me
.
She
had
no
sooner
done
speaking
,
then
she
retir'd
into
her
Closet
,
in
which
she
lock'd
her self
up
,
and
left
me
in
confusions
,
as
great
as
their
cause
.
O
gods
!
what
did
not
say
or
think
against
my
Princess
cruelty
,
since
it
even
proportion'd
the
vastness
of
that
Passion
which
was
the
object
of
it
.
I
had
longer
continu'd
in
that
fatal
entertainment
,
had
not
some
of
her
Women
come
into
the
Chamber
,
and
lest
they
might
guess
at
the
occasion
of
my
sadness
,
by
the
visibility
of
it
,
I
forthwith
went
to
my
own
Apartment
,
where
I
spent
the
residue
of
the
day
,
and
the
succeeding
night
,
in
all
the
Agonies
,
and
Tortures
of
a
great
and
fruitless
Passion
.
Many
days
I
struggl'd
under
that
burthen
,
to
which
,
doubtless
I
had
yielded
,
if
Altezeera's
safety
,
and
the
honour
of
having
it
committed
to
my
Sword
,
had
not
been
the
most
predominate
.
Celindus
in
the
mean
time
assum'd
a
Resolution
of
storming
Artaxata
in
the
open
day
,
in
a
confidence
,
by
so
braving
an
attempt
to
efface
his
late
affront
,
knowing
that
in
all
Wars
,
especially
Domestick
ones
,
the
people
judge
of
the
progress
by
the
beginning
,
and
that
whoever
does
lose
his
reputation
,
will
soon
after
that
,
lose
his
Hopes
and
Army
.
This
intelligence
was
brought
me
by
a
faithful
and
intelligent
Spy
,
who
came
from
Celindus's
Camp
,
and
who
had
seen
the
scaling-Ladders
,
the
Faggots
,
and
the
rouling
Bridges
all
fitted
.
This
Advertisement
I
instantly
communicated
to
Artabazus
and
the
Council
,
who
were
all
astonisht
at
Celindus
resolution
,
and
believ'd
he
durst
not
have
assum'd
it
,
were
he
not
favour'd
by
some
of
the
Garrison
;
the
probability
of
which
opinion
made
me
have
a
care
of
securing
all
within
,
as
well
as
opposing
those
without
.
The
night
before
this
intended
assault
,
not
knowing
whether
I
should
out-live
it
,
and
to
render
my
death
pleasing
,
or
necessary
,
I
went
to
Altezeera's
Apartment
,
where
having
begg'd
,
and
obtain'd
the
honour
of
a
private
conference
with
her
,
after
a
small
silence
,
and
great
disorder
,
I
told
her
,
I
should
not
,
Madam
,
have
presum'd
to
appear
again
before
you
,
to
discover
my
repeated
Disobedience
,
had
not
I
faithfully
endeavour'd
,
to
the
uttermost
,
to
have
avoided
it
,
but
having
found
,
that
the
Passions
your
Beauties
do
inspire
,
are
not
to
be
cur'd
but
by
you
,
or
death
,
and
that
that
Truth
cannot
be
a
greater
one
than
that
is
,
that
you
are
resolv'd
to
decline
being
my
Restorer
;
I
am
come
,
Madam
,
to
conjure
you
by
your
own
quiet
,
and
mine
,
to
permit
me
in
this
following
occasion
to
seek
out
,
and
embrace
a
cure
,
your
Justice
,
or
cruelty
denies
me
.
Did
not
I
conclude
,
that
the
ending
of
my
life
now
would
be
more
advantageous
to
you
,
than
the
continuance
of
it
could
prove
,
during
the
Siege
and
Danger
,
I
would
rather
groan
under
my
Miseries
,
than
ambition
for
them
such
a
period
.
'T
is
not
much
,
fair
Altezeera
,
that
the
miserable
Artavasdes
implores
;
for
he
begs
not
that
you
would
make
him
happy
,
but
that
you
would
permit
him
to
be
no
longer
miserable
,
which
will
not
onely
act
his
cure
,
but
your
revenge
also
for
having
needed
it
:
On
which
latter
he
is
as
intent
as
on
the
former
,
and
desires
it
as
much
on
your
score
as
his
own
.
These
words
deliver'd
with
a
Look
and
Accent
,
that
were
very
moving
,
prov'd
so
with
her
,
to
whom
they
were
addrest
,
who
with
a
countenance
that
told
me
so
,
reply'd
.
Though
I
confess
your
perseverance
in
your
Passion
,
and
Disobedience
,
does
much
trouble
me
,
yet
I
know
not
whether
your
death
would
do
it
more
,
and
till
I
have
resolv'd
that
doubt
,
I
desire
you
not
to
do
it
;
and
if
that
be
not
sufficient
,
I
command
you
it
,
and
shall
judge
of
what
you
would
perswade
me
,
by
observing
whether
what
I
say
can
perswade
you
.
If
,
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
my
sufferings
were
with
hope
,
I
might
by
my
Reason
,
raise
my
Fortitude
to
the
requisite
height
,
and
therefore
I
do
now
in
some
sort
,
rejoyce
at
the
unpromisingness
of
my
condition
,
that
as
my
Flame
excels
all
others
,
so
the
Beauty
which
inspires
it
,
may
abundantly
find
by
Obedience
,
the
visibility
of
that
distinction
,
to
be
as
great
in
the
Effect
,
as
in
the
Cause
.
But
,
Madam
,
I
humbly
conjure
you
,
if
in
the
duty
of
preserving
you
,
I
fail
in
that
other
of
obeying
you
,
ascribe
it
to
the
real
Cause
,
and
give
my
death
that
sensibility
which
you
have
deny'd
my
Life
.
This
is
a
Mercy
which
Compassion
may
obtain
,
if
not
Cloak
,
and
though
I
should
ambition
the
last
,
yet
I
dare
not
hope
it
,
and
implore
your
pardon
for
presuming
to
name
it
.
I
shall
know
,
said
Altezeera
hastily
,
how
to
distinguish
between
what
seeks
you
,
and
what
you
seek
.
And
therefore
believe
me
,
if
I
find
you
guilty
of
the
last
,
I
shall
deny
your
death
not
onely
the
first
of
those
two
things
you
mention'd
,
but
both
.
These
last
words
she
deliver'd
going
away
into
her
Closet
,
and
her
eyes
were
so
cover'd
with
tears
,
and
her
cheeks
with
blushes
,
that
I
knew
not
whether
compassion
,
or
a
more
obliging
cause
carried
her
so
hastily
away
.
As
soon
I
found
I
was
alone
(
which
I
had
not
for
a
good
while
,
so
much
my
doubts
,
my
fears
,
and
my
hopes
were
predominant
)
I
went
to
give
the
necessary
orders
for
the
reception
of
Celindus
,
the
certainty
of
whose
intended
assault
next
morning
,
I
had
that
night
confirm'd
unto
me
by
repeated
Intelligences
.
Aurora
did
but
begin
to
give
the
World
notice
of
the
days
approach
,
when
the
shrill
Trumpets
,
and
other
Warlike
Instruments
,
invited
the
Soldiers
to
draw
out
of
their
Camp
,
and
to
march
to
the
storming
of
Artaxata
,
which
,
if
taken
,
would
end
the
War
,
and
satisfie
both
their
avarice
and
ambition
.
Celindus
,
to
animate
his
Army
,
made
them
a
short
speech
,
and
therein
acquainted
them
,
That
their
interests
as
well
as
courages
invited
them
by
one
gallant
Action
to
conclude
that
War
,
which
time
would
render
more
difficult
,
and
perhaps
unfeasible
;
That
his
happiness
or
misery
depended
upon
their
Swords
;
as
well
as
their
reward
and
honour
did
upon
his
Fortune
;
That
since
the
ties
were
mutual
,
the
hazard
would
be
so
likewise
;
That
therefore
he
would
be
as
well
a
Companion
with
them
,
as
a
Commander
over
them
;
and
would
have
as
great
share
in
the
danger
as
the
glory
,
which
he
doubted
not
was
as
certain
as
it
would
be
great
,
having
those
whose
courages
would
court
victory
so
handsomely
,
that
her
Injustice
must
be
as
high
as
their
Valors
,
if
she
did
not
fling
herself
into
their
arms
.
The
Soldiers
encouraged
by
so
obliging
words
,
testifyed
their
Resolutions
by
a
shout
(
which
was
almost
as
loud
as
their
guilt
)
and
Celindus
with
the
generous
Phanasder
,
(
his
Lieutenant-General
)
having
order'd
the
manner
of
the
Storm
,
the
first
Troops
advanc'd
,
and
discharg'd
a
shower
of
Darts
upon
those
which
I
had
appointed
to
man
the
Walls
,
and
playing
without
intermission
upon
the
Battlements
,
they
did
(
under
favour
of
their
shot
)
advance
their
Battering-Rams
,
their
Rolling-Bridges
,
and
their
Scaling-Ladders
,
which
were
all
order'd
with
so
much
advantage
,
that
the
Rams
having
made
a
breach
,
Celindus
in
person
,
at
the
head
of
Four
thousand
Men
,
presented
himself
at
the
mouth
of
it
,
with
so
assur'd
a
countenance
,
that
the
dull
Inhabitants
,
and
some
Soldiers
which
had
the
guard
of
that
quarter
,
fled
,
and
left
him
the
passage
clear
.
Whilst
these
things
were
acting
on
the
North
side
of
Artaxata
,
I
was
disputing
against
Phanasder
the
weakest
place
of
it
,
which
he
had
assaulted
with
so
much
fury
,
that
I
atttibuted
our
Victory
to
the
justice
of
the
gods
,
rather
than
to
any
humane
means
,
and
I
had
but
newly
beaten
him
off
,
when
a
Soldier
that
fled
from
the
Breach
which
the
Enemy
had
enter'd
,
came
running
to
me
,
and
told
me
,
that
Celindus
with
near
half
his
Army
was
within
our
Walls
.
This
news
(
as
you
may
easily
imagine
)
did
not
a
little
surprize
me
,
and
having
leisure
to
exclaim
against
Fate
,
that
thus
endanger'd
Altezeera
,
I
took
most
of
those
men
with
whom
I
had
defeated
Phanasder
,
and
ran
with
them
to
the
place
the
Soldier
guided
me
unto
,
where
I
found
that
Celindus
had
possest
himself
of
that
Street
which
led
directly
from
the
Breach
unto
the
Palace
,
and
was
already
beginning
to
force
open
the
Gates
of
it
,
when
I
cry'd
out
,
hold
Celindus
,
do
not
think
the
gods
have
so
much
abandon'd
the
innocent
,
as
to
permit
the
King
and
Altezeera
to
fall
into
thy
Power
,
the
ill
success
of
Phanasders
Forces
,
shews
that
they
are
under
the
protection
of
Divinity
,
and
if
that
argument
will
not
make
thee
credit
it
,
thy
own
defeat
shall
.
Finishing
those
words
,
we
thrust
our selves
into
the
thickest
Squadrons
,
where
my
valiant
Friends
so
well
acted
their
parts
,
that
we
soon
cloathed
them
with
their
own
Livery
(
despair
.
)
But
I
must
give
Celindus
that
due
,
that
what
Troops
our
Resolution
disorder'd
,
his
rally'd
again
.
To
be
brief
,
we
were
so
tir'd
with
our
former
action
and
this
too
,
that
we
had
been
absolutely
vanquish'd
,
had
not
Amidor
come
to
our
Rescue
;
who
having
defeated
those
Assailants
that
had
storm'd
his
Quarter
,
and
learn'd
the
danger
I
was
in
,
came
with
1000
Men
to
my
relief
so
seasonably
,
that
it
was
when
we
fought
not
in
hopes
to
avoid
being
defeated
,
but
to
avoid
deserving
to
be
so
.
This
supply
so
disheartned
Celindus
,
that
he
began
to
think
of
a
Retreat
,
which
almost
as
soon
was
put
in
practice
:
but
the
Enemy
were
much
astonish'd
when
they
heard
a
hideous
cry
behind
them
,
which
was
occasioned
by
some
500
Men
that
Amidor
had
sent
secretly
out
of
a
Salliport
,
who
unexpectedly
falling
upon
those
that
guarded
the
Breach
,
made
them
fly
to
Celindus
for
safety
.
We
so
husbanded
this
disorder
,
that
we
absolutely
routed
the
Rebels
;
and
the
slaughter
had
been
much
bloodier
,
had
not
I
been
the
occasion
of
hindring
it
;
for
during
the
Fight
,
I
receiv'd
some
wounds
,
out
of
which
ran
such
abundance
of
Blood
,
that
in
following
the
execution
,
I
fell
down
pale
and
speechless
,
and
suddenly
a
rumour
being
dispers'd
that
I
was
kill'd
,
Amidor
,
and
all
the
rest
were
so
much
concern'd
in
my
loss
,
that
they
neglected
increasing
Celindus's
;
who
in
our
disorder
found
his
safety
.
When
Amidor
and
the
rest
of
my
Friends
came
to
me
,
they
saw
me
environ'd
with
dead
Bodies
,
and
with
as
little
sign
of
life
as
those
I
was
amongst
,
yet
they
carried
me
to
my
Chamber
,
and
lay'd
me
on
a
Bed
.
The
news
of
Celindus's
defeat
,
and
my
death
,
came
at
the
same
time
to
the
Palace
,
and
as
two
contraries
of
equal
strength
,
the
one
destroy'd
what
the
other
rais'd
,
onely
the
King
and
Altezeera
(
especially
the
latter
)
seem'd
to
be
more
concern'd
in
my
loss
than
their
own
safeties
.
The
former
consider'd
me
as
one
,
whose
past
service
had
render'd
me
considerable
,
and
whose
present
condition
made
him
think
my
help
would
have
prov'd
so
,
which
were
the
grounds
whereon
he
built
his
grief
.
But
the
latter
,
besides
those
considerations
,
added
that
of
her
Friendship
(
and
perhaps
affection
)
which
drowned
all
the
lesser
ones
,
as
the
Stars
are
not
seen
when
the
Sun
appears
.
The
first
thing
she
imagin'd
(
as
she
afterwards
told
me
)
was
,
that
the
gods
had
resolv'd
to
ruine
her
Family
,
and
as
an
earnest
thereof
,
had
taken
away
the
chief
Supporter
of
it
,
(
for
that
was
the
Title
her
Goodness
gave
me
)
to
the
end
she
submitted
with
much
less
reluctancy
than
to
the
means
;
But
(
as
her
mind
was
never
at
rest
)
she
believ'd
on
the
other
side
,
that
my
death
was
the
effect
of
her
Cruelty
and
my
despair
;
and
then
she
abjur'd
all
those
severe
Laws
,
which
under
the
name
of
a
great
distance
in
Blood
,
consines
us
to
much
greater
from
Felicity
.
The
horror
which
invaded
all
her
Faculties
was
very
great
,
whilst
she
lookt
upon
herself
as
the
cause
of
my
death
;
but
it
was
suddenly
rais'd
to
a
higher
pitch
;
For
when
she
was
considering
the
sadness
of
her
condition
,
she
had
withdrawn
herself
to
a
Window
that
look'd
into
the
Court
,
where
she
had
not
been
long
,
when
she
might
perceive
Amidor
,
and
the
rest
of
my
Friends
carrying
me
all
pale
and
bloody
towards
my
Chamber
;
That
object
having
rais'd
her
grief
to
an
incapacity
of
being
rais'd
higher
,
she
suddenly
accompany'd
my
loss
with
a
flood
of
Tears
,
and
having
fetch'd
two
or
three
deep
Sighs
,
fell
into
a
swound
.
(
Happy
Artavasdes
,
that
by
a
suppos'd
Death
,
discover'dst
that
Truth
,
which
to
have
been
certain
of
,
thou
would●st
have
purchas'd
with
a
real
one
:
But
rather
wretched
Artivasdes
,
that
thy
Fate
should
be
so
different
from
thy
desires
,
that
whether
living
or
dead
,
thou
should'st
always
torment
the
fair
Altezeera
.
)
But
the
noise
of
which
the
Princess
made
by
her
fall
,
was
the
cause
that
some
of
her
Servants
ran
to
help
her
;
who
having
employ'd
all
the
Arts
they
knew
(
after
an
hour
)
recover'd
her
again
.
In
the
mean
time
,
whither
by
the
motion
whilst
I
was
carrying
to
my
Chamber
,
or
what
other
cause
to
ascribe
it
to
I
know
not
;
but
I
was
no
sooner
laid
upon
my
Bed
,
than
I
began
to
give
some
signs
of
life
,
which
Lindesia
(
who
sat
weeping
by
me
)
perceiving
,
began
with
raptures
of
joy
to
raise
her
hopes
,
and
to
imagine
,
that
by
the
help
of
some
able
Chirurgions
I
might
be
recover'd
,
which
being
sent
for
and
come
,
and
having
search'd
my
wounds
and
dress●d
them
,
found
they
were
very
dangerous
,
yet
to
console
my
Mother
,
told
her
they
were
●urable
;
and
having
given
me
some
Cordials
which
brought
me
to
my self
again
,
they
withdrew
themselves
,
The
first
thing
I
askt
was
,
whither
Altezeera
was
in
the
possession
of
Celindus
?
To
which
Amidor
(
who
had
not
stirr'd
from
my
Bed-side
)
answer'd
me
she
was
not
,
and
that
we
had
obtain'd
so
entire
a
Victory
,
that
nothing
could
could
it
but
the
condition
I
was
in
.
I
lifted
up
my
eyes
and
hands
as
my
retribution
to
the
gods
,
and
conjur'd
Amidor
,
that
his
Affection
to
me
might
not
endanger
the
Town
,
the
preservation
of
which
I
now
wholly
left
to
his
care
,
and
that
he
would
go
to
Artabazus
and
receive
his
orders
,
and
assure
Altezeera
,
that
nothing
but
the
impossibility
of
not
waiting
upon
her
should
have
diverted
me
from
that
duty
and
happiness
.
Amidor
to
satisfie
me
,
went
unto
the
King
,
and
told
him
how
miraculously
the
gods
had
restor'd
me
to
life
,
and
that
I
had
sent
him
to
acquaint
him
with
it
,
and
to
receive
his
commands
whilst
my
weakness
render'd
me
uncapable
of
that
honor
.
Artabazus
seem'd
to
be
as
much
pleas'd
as
surpriz'd
with
this
news
,
and
would
needs
have
gone
and
visited
me
;
but
Amidor
told
him
,
that
I
was
but
newly
come
to
my self
,
and
that
the
alteration
which
so
great
an
honor
would
necessarily
produce
might
be
prejudicial
to
my
health
;
therefore
humbly
besought
him
to
delay
that
high
favour
till
I
were
in
a
condition
fitter
to
receive
it
.
The
King
at
last
yielded
to
Amidor's
request
,
and
committed
the
charge
of
Artaxata
to
him
,
who
immediately
went
to
Altezeera's
Chamber
,
and
sent
in
to
desire
the
honor
of
speaking
to
her
.
This
message
exceedingly
perplext
her
,
for
she
imagin'd
he
came
to
accuse
her
of
being
my
Murtherer
(
for
she
had
not
yet
heard
I
was
alive
)
and
in
a
manner
acknowledging
herself
guilty
of
it
,
she
knew
not
with
what
face
to
entertain
him
;
yet
at
last
she
sent
him
an
admittance
,
knowing
that
the
sight
of
her
grief
would
rather
make
him
pity
than
condemn
her
.
(
But
you
may
wonder
(
generous
Artabanes
)
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
that
Altezeera
should
believe
my
Brother
knew
my
Passion
.
To
which
I
answer
,
That
Amidor
and
I
had
so
perfect
a
Friendship
,
that
she
believ'd
I
had
nothing
of
reserve
for
him
,
neither
indeed
had
I.
Altezeera
who
lay
upon
her
Bed
,
(
and
who
had
sent
all
her
Servants
out
,
that
none
might
be
witness
of
that
freedom
which
she
resolv'd
to
give
her
sorrows
,
and
entertain
Amidor
with
)
no
sooner
saw
him
come
,
but
with
Eyes
full
of
Tears
she
told
him
,
Are
the
gods
then
,
Amidor
,
so
much
declar'd
our
Enemies
,
as
to
rob
us
of
Artavasdes
?
I
say
our
Enemies
;
for
tyes
of
Friendship
are
as
great
as
those
of
Blood
;
and
as
you
had
the
honor
to
be
ally'd
unto
him
by
the
latter
quality
,
so
I
had
the
satisfaction
to
possess
him
in
the
former
.
Alas
!
How
dear
have
we
bought
our
instant
safety
?
'T
is
by
a
loss
that
nothing
could
augment
but
our
outliving
it
.
She
would
have
proceeded
in
this
sad
,
and
pleasing
language
,
had
not
her
Sighs
and
Tears
hinder'd
its
continuance
;
which
speechless
Orators
so
well
acted
their
parts
,
that
though
Amidor
knew
their
cause
was
groundless
,
yet
it
was
impossible
for
him
to
abstain
from
keeping
her
company
;
which
she
perceiving
,
forced
herself
to
tell
him
.
No
,
no
,
Amidor
,
it
is
I
that
am
onely
guilty
,
and
should
onely
bear
the
punishment
;
my
cruelty
is
the
source
of
all
our
miseries
,
but
I
will
take
so
severe
revenge
upon
my self
for
it
,
that
you
shall
say
,
though
I
knew
not
how
to
recompence
Love
,
yet
I
knew
to
punish
Ingratitude
.
But
Amidor
,
who
was
confident
that
this
discovery
of
Altezeera's
affection
would
be
more
powerfull
towards
my
cure
than
all
other
remedies
,
thought
it
high
time
to
disabuse
her
,
and
therefore
told
her
,
Madam
,
Artavasdes
is
too
much
your
Servant
to
leave
this
World
without
your
permission
,
your
commands
exacted
that
at
his
hands
,
and
the
gods
who
knew
how
how
just
it
was
for
him
not
to
disobey
you
,
have
restor'd
him
to
life
,
but
it
will
not
onely
last
long
enough
to
beg
your
leave
to
dye
,
if
you
are
resolv'd
to
neglect
and
scorn
his
Passion
.
How
!
(
said
the
Princess
,
starting
up
)
does
Artavasdes
live
?
This
delusion
,
Amidor
,
this
delusion
cannot
last
,
do
not
flatter
me
into
a
Joy
,
which
,
if
not
real
,
will
make
my
misery
the
geater
;
it
cannot
be
,
I
saw
him
dead
.
Madam
(
Amidor
reply'd
)
would
he
were
as
certain
you
would
not
scorn
his
Adoration
,
as
I
am
that
he
lives
to
pay
it
you
,
his
happiness
would
be
then
greater
than
your
doubts
.
My
happiness
,
said
Altezeera
would
be
as
great
as
my
torment
,
could
I
but
credit
what
you
say
.
Madam
(
said
Amidor
)
if
you
suspect
this
truth
,
your
eyes
may
give
you
that
satisfaction
which
my
words
cannot
,
by
my
waiting
on
you
to
his
Chamber
,
where
your
suspitions
will
soon
vanish
.
I
accept
your
offer
(
said
the
Princess
,
abandoning
her
Bed
,
and
giving
Amidor
her
hand
to
lead
her
thither
)
for
I
can
have
no
quiet
whilst
I
have
any
doubts
.
ut
,
Madam
,
(
said
my
Brother
)
let
me
beg
you
to
leave
all
your
disdain
behind
you
;
for
the
least
quantity
of
that
poyson
kills
all
his
hopes
,
and
consequently
himself
;
't
is
not
now
with
him
as
at
other
times
,
where
rigour
did
appear
Justice
,
his
sufferings
and
services
now
stile
it
Ingratitude
,
though
he
gives
it
still
the
former
name
,
and
onely
expects
his
felicity
from
your
goodness
,
not
his
condition
.
So
high
a
Modesty
(
said
Altezeera
)
merits
an
equal
Reward
,
and
I
should
be
too
unjust
should
I
deny
it
him
.
By
this
time
they
were
come
unto
my
Chamber
,
and
finding
none
in
it
but
one
of
my
Pages
,
Amidor
commanded
him
out
,
and
opening
the
Curtains
,
told
me
the
Princess
was
come
to
visit
me
.
The
sight
of
so
high
a
Beauty
produc'd
a
proportionate
effect
;
for
before
she
was
come
in
,
I
could
not
turn
in
my
Bed
,
but
now
I
did
towards
her
,
and
with
a
firm
voice
told
her
,
At
last
(
Madam
)
at
last
the
gods
have
heard
my
Prayers
,
and
commiserating
my
condition
,
have
made
my
Enemies
swords
more
pitiful
than
you
;
they
have
given
me
that
death
you
were
pleas'd
to
deny
me
,
and
in
so
blest
away
,
that
't
is
in
defending
and
not
disobeying
you
;
so
that
nothing
could
add
unto
this
Felicity
,
but
that
I
had
deferr'd
receiving
of
these
charitable
Wounds
till
the
last
day
of
the
War
,
that
you
might
have
had
no
further
use
of
my
services
,
and
that
your
security
and
my
quiet
might
have
been
establisht
at
one
time
:
But
,
Madam
,
since
the
gods
do
call
me
from
you
sooner
,
I
conjure
you
to
remember
I
dy'd
serving
you
,
and
let
that
extinguish
your
resentments
against
an
ambition
which
cannot
be
greater
than
was
the
impossibility
of
avoiding
it
.
Alas
,
Artavasdes
(
said
Altezeera
)
think
not
of
dying
,
the
gods
who
have
already
rais'd
you
from
Death
to
Life
will
perfect
that
good
work
:
They
are
too
just
to
rob
us
of
you
.
They
would
be
too
cruel
Madam
(
said
I
)
did
they
restore
me
to
my
health
;
Your
Disdain
prepares
me
torments
so
great
,
that
Death
is
a
comparative
happiness
unto
them
.
But
,
Madam
,
I
do
beg
your
pardon
,
you
commanded
me
not
to
trouble
you
any
more
with
my
Passion
,
and
I
'll
obey
you
,
onely
let
me
beseech
you
to
receive
these
importunities
as
my
last
Crimes
,
and
upon
that
score
to
forgive
them
;
for
I
vow
never
to
offend
you
more
.
Nor
I
(
said
the
fair
Altezeera
)
to
receive
your
addresses
as
an
offence
:
No
(
Artavasdes
)
your
Virtue
has
obtain'd
the
Victory
,
and
I
command
you
now
to
live
,
that
I
may
shew
you
by
my
affection
I
know
how
to
value
and
recompence
yours
.
Alas
,
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
What
do
you
do
?
You
may
indeed
by
this
art
hinder
my
death
awhile
;
but
as
soon
as
I
discover
I
am
deluded
,
by
all
that
is
most
Sacred
,
I
will
not
live
a
minute
:
Take
heed
,
fair
Princess
,
you
may
do
like
a
merciful
Judge
,
who
when
the
Delinquent's
ripe
for
Death
,
and
made
his
peace
with
Heaven
,
by
giving
him
a
pardon
,
his
future
courses
may
be
more
criminal
than
his
precedent
ones
,
and
thereby
make
that
which
was
intended
for
his
good
,
the
occasion
of
his
greater
ill
.
Banish
those
groundless
fears
(
said
Altezeera
)
for
my
intentions
are
as
clear
as
you
persuade
me
your
Flame
is
,
and
as
a
confirmation
of
it
,
I
engage
my self
before
Amidor
,
never
to
decline
what
I
have
promis'd
.
Ah!
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
Why
am
I
not
in
a
condition
to
fling
my self
at
your
feet
as
some
expression
of
joy
,
which
certainly
cannot
kill
,
since
I
am
yet
alive
:
But
,
my
Princess
,
give
me
leave
not
onely
to
call
Amidor
,
but
the
gods
to
witness
,
that
I
will
never
decline
the
Passion
that
I
pay
you
,
but
will
maintain
my
Flame
alive
even
in
the
Grave
;
for
having
vanquisht
your
Disdain
,
it
cannot
be
overcome
;
and
if
ever
I
alter
this
profession
,
make
my
future
punishment
equal
to
my
present
felicity
.
As
I
had
done
speaking
,
Lindesia
came
into
the
room
,
and
my
Princess
having
commanded
my
Love
to
be
as
silent
as
constant
,
withdrew
herself
,
and
left
me
in
such
extasies
of
joy
,
that
they
had
like
to
have
made
me
ever
uncapable
of
any
;
for
all
my
wounds
fell
fresh
a
bleeding
,
and
I
was
so
taken
up
with
my
present
raptures
,
that
had
not
Lindesia
been
more
careful
of
me
than
I
was
of
my self
,
I
had
dyed
in
,
and
by
them
;
but
having
discover'd
that
my
sheets
were
all
bloody
,
she
came
running
to
me
,
and
so
timely
,
that
the
least
delay
had
render'd
her
care
fruitless
:
But
my
wounds
being
again
bound
up
,
they
enjoin'd
me
to
take
my
rest
,
as
the
best
and
easiest
cure
.
Thus
,
my
dear
friend
,
you
see
how
at
last
my
desires
were
crown'd
,
and
little
obstacle
remain'd
to
the
perfection
of
my
happiness
,
but
my
health
,
which
by
degrees
I
recover'd
,
and
that
which
contributed
most
unto
it
was
,
the
daily
visits
of
the
fair
Altezeera
,
whose
conversation
charm'd
my
ears
as
much
as
her
Beauty
did
my
eyes
,
and
every
hour
discovering
new
perfections
,
I
blest
that
suffering
which
had
given
me
so
high
an
interest
in
them
.
My
wounds
which
admitted
of
forty
dayes
for
their
cure
,
did
little
afflict
me
,
because
the
Enemy
never
attempted
any
thing
during
that
space
against
Artaxata
,
which
was
occasion'd
by
those
wounds
Celindus
had
receiv'd
in
the
Assault
;
in
which
also
he
had
lost
so
many
Men
,
and
so
many
others
were
render'd
useless
;
that
whilst
he
was
recovering
he
sent
Phanasder
for
a
Recruit
,
and
had
drawn
his
Aamy
some
twenty
Furlongs
from
the
Town
,
contenting
himself
to
block
it
up
at
so
civil
a
distance
.
But
as
if
Fortune
believ'd
it
necessary
that
nothing
should
be
done
whilst
the
chief
Actor
in
either
side
was
unable
to
appear
;
she
so
order'd
all
things
,
that
at
the
same
time
I
was
perfectly
cur'd
,
Celindus
was
so
too
,
and
Phanasder
came
to
the
Camp
with
a
supply
of
near
Ten
thousand
Horse
and
Foot
:
So
considerable
an
addition
rais'd
Celindus
his
hopes
,
and
being
ambitious
to
recover
his
losses
,
and
to
employ
the
fury
of
those
new
Men
on
some
design
where
disadvantage
of
being
repuls'd
could
not
be
so
prejudicial
as
the
honour
of
success
would
be
glorious
,
elected
the
storming
again
of
Artaxata
,
as
most
proportionate
to
his
Revenge
and
Ambition
;
and
having
made
his
chief
Officers
approve
of
his
design
,
he
gave
order
that
all
things
should
be
in
a
readiness
for
so
bold
an
one
.
But
whilst
Celindus
was
troubling
himself
to
be
Conqueror
of
a
Town
,
I
was
so
in
my
affection
,
and
was
more
satisfyed
in
my
Victory
,
than
he
could
have
been
in
his
,
had
his
pride
and
designes
arriv'd
at
their
ambition'd
period
.
O
Gods
!
what
uninmaginable
joys
doe
mutual
fires
create
in
Love
;
at
least
mine
were
so
great
,
that
whereas
in
other
affairs
the
ignorance
of
things
hinders
us
from
describing
them
;
here
the
knowledge
of
them
produc'd
the
same
effect
:
In
brief
,
our
Passions
so
increast
,
that
we
thought
all
conversation
but
our
own
was
as
troublesome
as
that
was
pleasing
;
and
therefore
studied
how
to
be
private
without
discovering
that
Flame
,
which
we
at
least
as
much
endeavor'd
to
preserve
so
,
till
a
fit
opportunity
were
offer'd
to
move
Artabazus
to
unite
our
hearts
by
an
Hymenaeal
tye
as
firmly
,
as
they
were
already
join'd
by
sympathy
and
inclination
.
One
morning
whilst
the
Sun
was
yet
but
rising
,
I
waited
upon
my
Princess
into
a
Garden
of
Pleasure
,
contiguous
to
the
Palace
,
and
adorn'd
with
all
that
Nature
and
Art
was
capable
of
;
there
the
Company
separating
themselves
to
take
that
divertisement
which
was
most
agreeable
to
their
fancies
;
Altezeera
and
I
by
degres
left
those
that
waited
on
us
,
and
entring
to
an
earnest
discourse
,
we
engag'd
our selves
unawares
into
a
little
Wilderness
,
in
the
center
whereof
was
a
spring
,
whose
water
was
receiv'd
into
a
Cistern
of
Alabaster
,
which
was
held
by
a
statue
of
a
Nymph
cut
in
white
Marble
;
There
we
might
perceive
a
Gentleman
whose
postures
as
well
as
actions
exprest
his
troubles
;
and
though
we
could
not
discover
his
face
,
yet
we
might
his
tears
running
down
it
into
the
Cistern
,
and
in
such
abundance
,
as
if
the
Fountain
and
his
eies
strove
which
should
most
load
the
fair
Nymphs
Arms.
Such
an
unexpected
accident
had
made
us
desire
to
learn
the
cause
of
it
,
and
fetching
a
small
compass
by
the
help
of
some
Orange
Trees
,
we
came
so
near
,
that
without
being
seen
we
might
see
him
and
hear
him
;
and
as
his
mind
was
exceedingly
agitated
,
so
we
were
not
long
in
expectation
,
till
we
heard
him
fetch
a
deep
sigh
,
and
then
casting
up
his
eyes
to
Heaven
,
cry'd
out
;
Miserable
Amidor
(
for
't
was
he
indeed
)
shall
not
the
Divinity
which
dwells
upon
her
face
,
thy
friendship
,
nor
his
engagements
suppress
thy
Passion
?
Shall
the
highest
Beauty
make
thee
commit
a
resembling
Crime
?
O
no
,
rather
than
interrupt
so
pure
a
Love
deprive
thy self
of
Life
,
and
by
a
gloririous
Death
settle
their
quiet
,
and
confer
on
thy self
thine
own
.
Then
he
paus'd
awhile
,
and
suddenly
striking
his
hand
upon
his
breast
;
he
sigh'd
,
and
said
:
O
—
it
cannot
be
—
her
eyes
inspire
no
Flames
which
reason
can
extinguish
,
he
knows
their
power
is
not
to
be
resisted
,
and
being
instructed
with
the
cause
,
if
he
be
reasonable
,
he
cannot
blame
the
effect
:
and
if
he
be
not
,
he
is
not
worthy
of
thy
friendship
:
but
alas
,
thou
talkest
as
if
he
were
the
onely
obstacle
,
when
thy
own
defects
will
perhaps
more
fight
against
thee
,
than
thy
fidelity
unto
thy
friend
,
or
thy
Mistresses
to
him
.
Then
weeping
awhile
,
he
continu'd
;
What
?
shall
the
apprehension
of
ill
,
make
thee
as
miserable
as
the
real
ill
?
Fie
(
Amidor
:
)
can
a
courage
capable
of
loving
her
,
be
capable
of
fear
?
No
:
't
is
not
in
thy
nature
nor
thy
custom
to
apprehend
,
but
this
timerousness
is
the
effect
of
thy
treachery
to
thy
friend
,
and
since
the
gods
so
punish
the
thoughts
of
wickedness
,
how
much
more
will
they
the
wickedness
it self
?
Cast
away
then
so
criminal
a
Passion
,
or
if
that
be
impossible
,
at
least
by
concealing
of
it
,
so
torment
thy self
,
that
if
before
,
or
after
thy
death
they
discover
it
,
they
may
rather
pity
than
condemn
thee
.
Having
so
said
,
he
borrow'd
some
of
that
water
he
had
given
the
Nymph
,
and
having
washt
his
eyes
,
that
they
might
not
betray
what
he
resolv'd
to
keep
secret
,
he
went
away
,
but
not
in
a
greater
trouble
than
he
left
Altezeera
and
I
in
,
for
we
found
by
his
discourse
,
that
the
object
of
his
Love
was
to
the
object
of
his
friends
,
and
that
his
friendship
and
affection
were
the
causes
of
so
noble
and
sad
a
conflict
;
But
we
could
not
sufficiently
admire
his
resolution
,
which
we
esteem'd
so
generous
,
that
we
assur'd
our selves
,
a
reward
equal
to
his
virtue
would
crown
it
:
and
being
both
much
concern'd
in
him
,
we
determin'd
by
a
curious
inspection
into
all
his
actions
to
discover
who
they
were
that
caus'd
his
disorder
,
but
if
that
course
did
not
succeed
,
then
by
acquainting
him
with
what
we
knew
,
engage
him
to
tell
us
what
we
were
ignorant
of
,
that
we
might
employ
our selves
the
better
to
serve
him
.
In
this
design
we
return'd
to
the
Palace
,
where
we
found
that
many
of
the
Inhabitants
of
Artaxata
had
petition'd
to
Artabazus
to
commiserate
their
condition
,
since
by
their
wants
they
were
reduc'd
to
such
misery
,
that
if
by
some
means
,
a
Peace
were
not
concluded
with
Celindus
,
or
the
Siege
rais'd
,
they
must
yield
to
him
rather
than
to
Famine
.
The
perusal
of
this
Paper
,
much
perplext
the
King
,
as
well
from
the
consideration
of
his
Subjects
wants
,
as
the
knowledge
of
their
impudence
,
and
the
fear
of
their
treachery
;
but
before
he
made
them
any
return
,
he
consulted
with
those
about
him
,
who
were
all
(
except
Crasolis
)
of
opinion
,
that
a
mild
answer
should
be
given
them
,
and
by
kind
usage
and
assurances
of
a
speedy
remedy
to
all
their
grievances
,
endeavor
to
keep
them
within
the
limits
of
their
duty
;
But
Crasolis
,
whom
we
too
apparently
suspected
was
a
friend
to
Celindus
,
represented
,
that
under
the
formal
humility
of
a
Petition
there
might
be
treachery
conceal'd
;
that
the
not
suppressing
of
such
insolent
demands
in
their
very
birth
,
would
authorize
their
growth
;
that
lenity
insuch
a
case
would
appear
fear
,
and
that
would
introduce
a
ruine
:
That
if
(
on
the
other
side
)
a
vigorous
remedy
were
apply'd
,
it
would
not
onely
extinguish
the
first
sedition
,
but
deter
the
people
from
a
second
:
and
therefore
he
was
of
opinion
,
that
some
of
the
chiefest
contrivers
of
the
Petition
should
be
instantly
executed
in
the
Court
of
the
Palace
.
Thus
Crasolis
would
have
rais'd
the
Kings
Enemies
within
the
Walls
,
as
well
as
without
,
that
Celindus
might
make
use
of
the
disorder
;
yet
he
would
have
that
pass
for
his
courage
and
honesty
,
which
indeed
was
his
treachery
.
But
the
moderate
advice
took
place
,
and
the
people
,
upon
the
Kings
engagement
of
soon
remedying
their
miseries
,
return'd
with
blessings
for
him
,
whose
ruine
was
design'd
by
Crasolis
in
their
petitioning
.
The
night
which
succeeded
this
day
was
not
half
spent
,
when
the
advancing
of
Celindus's
Army
to
Storm
Artaxata
the
second
time
,
gave
us
a
hot
alarum
;
but
being
advertis'd
of
his
design
,
he
found
us
prepar'd
to
oppose
it
.
Perhaps
he
thought
that
darkness
would
be
more
favourable
to
his
Arms
than
light
,
that
his
Men
not
seeing
the
danger
,
would
go
more
resolutely
on
it
,
or
that
the
enterprize
would
be
more
formidable
unto
us
,
when
obscurity
(
the
ingenderer
of
confusion
)
was
join'd
to
the
horror
of
an
Assault
.
But
my
dear
Artabanes
,
I
will
not
so
much
trespass
on
your
Civility
as
to
particularize
all
the
accidents
which
happen'd
in
that
bloody
Night
;
it
shall
suffice
to
tell
you
,
that
after
the
Town
was
won
and
lost
three
times
,
we
at
last
remained
the
Possessors
of
it
,
(
though
it
cost
us
much
blood
,
and
the
Enemy
more
)
but
that
which
brought
us
so
often
into
hazard
,
was
,
That
Artaxata
was
twice
set
on
fire
,
by
the
treachery
of
those
within
,
which
requiring
many
hands
to
quench
it
,
robb'd
us
of
so
many
hands
for
our
defence
.
Some
Prisoners
that
we
took
acquainted
us
who
were
the
Traytors
,
which
being
seiz'd
upon
,
confest
their
Crime
,
and
receiv'd
the
punishment
it
deserv'd
:
There
was
also
one
of
the
Prisoners
that
being
upon
the
point
of
death
,
and
repenting
his
Rebellion
,
sent
to
me
,
and
to
discharge
his
Conscience
,
assur'd
me
,
that
Celindus
had
a
friend
in
the
Kings
Council
,
who
gave
him
a
constant
intelligence
of
our
proceedings
;
but
he
could
not
inform
me
of
his
name
,
yet
by
some
circumstances
,
I
was
fully
satisfi'd
that
it
was
Crasolis
;
but
the
King
believ'd
him
both
so
honest
and
so
able
,
that
if
he
had
merited
as
well
the
first
of
those
attributes
as
the
last
,
Artabazus
had
been
as
happy
as
he
was
deceiv'd
in
him
;
But
he
possest
the
King
so
absolutely
,
that
he
onely
lookt
through
his
eyes
,
and
heard
but
with
his
Ears
,
which
excess
of
favour
that
perfidious
man
husbanded
to
his
own
,
not
his
Kings
advantage
.
Celindus
,
who
perceiv'd
that
force
was
unsuccesful
,
and
that
two
assaults
had
cost
him
near
7000
Men
,
lost
all
hopes
of
taking
Artaxata
by
Storm
,
and
therefore
began
to
make
his
Approaches
,
and
endeavor
to
possess
himself
of
that
by
industry
and
time
,
which
valour
had
deny'd
him
;
but
not
wholly
to
rely
upon
the
blind
events
of
War
,
he
design'd
to
attempt
something
by
Treaty
;
and
lest
that
moderate
way
might
appear
to
his
Army
the
effects
of
fear
and
despair
,
he
cloath'd
it
with
a
pretence
of
rendring
us
thereby
the
more
secure
,
and
consequently
the
more
surprizable
,
or
if
his
overtures
were
yielded
unto
,
they
should
bring
as
much
advantage
to
his
party
as
a
Conquest
could
.
This
opinion
carried
so
good
an
appearance
with
it
,
that
he
obtain'd
his
Armies
concurrence
.
But
the
great
hazard
Artaxata
was
in
,
in
the
two
precedent
Assaults
,
and
the
scarcity
of
Victuals
which
now
began
somewhat
to
afflict
the
Inhabitants
(
though
not
in
so
high
a
degree
by
as
much
as
was
represented
to
Artabazus
)
gave
Celindus's
Partizans
too
plausible
a
rise
to
renew
their
former
requests
,
and
to
put
the
King
in
mind
of
his
engagement
of
soon
ending
their
miseries
by
Treaty
or
Force
.
The
multitude
much
discontented
by
the
length
of
the
Siege
,
greedily
laid
hold
of
the
exhortation
,
and
came
far
more
numerous
to
the
Palace
than
the
first
time
;
the
King
having
receiv'd
their
Petition
(
as
his
custom
was
)
assembled
his
Council
,
to
give
them
an
answer
;
And
the
fair
Altezeera
,
whose
Virtue
and
Birth
gave
her
an
equal
interest
in
the
Publick
,
was
by
the
Kings
command
at
that
consultation
,
where
whilst
we
were
debating
of
an
answer
for
the
Petitioners
,
an
Officer
came
to
give
me
notice
that
a
Trumpet
,
with
a
Gentleman
sent
from
Celindus
,
desir'd
admittance
,
having
some
things
of
high
concernment
to
offer
,
touching
a
happy
Peace
.
The
King
thought
this
a
fit
occasion
to
defer
giving
the
people
an
answer
,
and
commanded
them
to
retire
,
which
they
did
,
but
with
bitter
execrations
,
that
if
they
had
not
a
speedy
return
,
and
proportionate
to
their
demands
,
they
would
act
that
which
they
onely
mention'd
in
their
former
Petition
.
Crasolis
omitted
not
to
take
notice
of
that
insolent
expression
,
but
the
people
being
gone
,
there
arose
a
dispute
,
whether
the
Gentleman
employ'd
from
Celindus
should
be
admitted
.
Those
that
were
of
that
opinion
,
fortified
it
by
representing
▪
that
the
Laws
of
Custom
,
and
of
Nations
,
allow'd
Princes
to
hear
the
desires
of
their
rebellious
Subjects
,
otherwise
the
War
would
never
determine
,
but
by
the
absolute
extirpating
of
the
offenders
,
where
the
expence
of
Treasure
,
the
hazard
,
and
the
time
,
would
not
be
repaid
,
were
the
victory
never
so
perfect
.
That
it
might
be
Celindus
would
propound
some
conditions
which
would
suit
with
his
own
interest
,
and
the
Kings
too
;
That
if
his
motions
were
not
heard
,
the
people
might
be
possest
they
owed
their
ruine
to
the
Kings
wilfulness
,
and
that
they
were
much
more
humble
and
reasonable
,
than
perhaps
they
really
were
;
that
his
Affirmative
being
not
to
be
confuted
by
any
apparent
proof
,
might
pass
for
currant
,
and
the
Armenians
thereby
enraged
,
might
run
to
the
last
extreams
;
That
the
Propositions
must
be
reasonable
or
unreasonable
,
if
the
first
,
then
to
be
embrac'd
,
if
the
latter
,
then
to
be
rejected
;
and
by
a
Declaration
convince
the
World
that
they
were
so
,
and
finally
by
demonstrating
the
insolency
of
his
demands
,
confirm
Subjects
in
their
Loyalty
,
and
satisfy
strangers
with
the
equality
of
their
proceeding
.
Those
that
were
of
a
contrary
judgement
,
alledged
,
That
the
Law
of
Custom
in
admitting
Rebels
to
capitulate
with
their
Princes
,
was
not
binding
in
it self
,
but
onely
as
far
as
advantages
might
be
derived
from
it
;
that
Celindus
his
craft
and
wickedess
were
so
great
,
that
the
first
gave
as
little
Hope
of
obtaining
any
advantage
by
Treaty
,
as
the
latter
of
enjoying
it
,
if
obtain'd
.
That
no
miseries
which
could
befall
a
King
▪
by
being
overcome
by
his
Subjects
,
could
equal
the
infamy
of
yielding
to
them
,
since
the
first
is
an
act
that
the
gods
force
him
unto
,
but
the
other
a
misery
he
throws
himself
upon
,
and
he
is
more
justly
to
be
condemn'd
,
that
makes
himself
the
instrument
of
his
own
ruine
,
than
he
who
is
found
to
be
made
so
by
a
power
he
cannot
resist
;
that
by
rejecting
his
demands
,
the
people
will
probably
assure
themselves
,
that
Artabazus
is
in
a
good
condition
,
and
that
he
has
some
certainties
of
a
speedy
and
sure
relief
,
since
otherwise
he
would
not
decline
any
overture
of
Agreement
;
That
this
will
invite
their
patience
,
and
continue
their
Loyalty
;
That
the
state
of
affairs
were
not
so
low
,
as
to
act
those
things
which
necessity
onely
can
render
legitimate
;
That
to
divulge
his
overtures
,
might
prove
ruinous
,
how
insolent
soever
they
were
,
for
if
they
offer'd
peace
upon
any
Terms
,
the
people
who
judge
of
the
goodness
of
the
offer
,
by
the
benefit
which
they
derive
from
it
,
will
think
their
ease
cannot
be
too
dearly
purchast
,
and
thereby
make
that
which
is
design'd
to
engage
them
more
vigorously
in
the
Kings
service
,
the
way
to
make
them
all
embrace
Celindus's
,
But
not
withstanding
these
Arguments
,
the
King
inclin'd
to
the
first
opinion
,
and
the
Gentleman
being
admitted
,
he
presented
the
King
,
upon
his
knees
,
a
Letter
from
Celindus
,
and
being
order'd
to
withdraw
,
Artabazus
open'd
it
,
and
commanding
it
to
be
read
,
found
in
it
these
ensuing
words
.
CELINDVS
Prince
of
SACACENE
,
to
his
Soveraign
ART
ABAZVS
,
King
of
both
the
Armenians
.
THE
god's
shall
bear
me
witness
with
how
much
sorrow
I
have
consider'd
the
goodness
of
your
disposition
,
so
highly
misled
and
abused
by
the
subtilty
and
wickedness
of
Anexander
,
and
with
what
reluctancy
(
having
fruitlesly
attempted
all
other
means
to
free
you
from
so
low
a
subjection
)
I
have
been
necessitated
to
make
use
of
force
.
I
conjure
also
the
same
gods
to
make
me
the
object
of
their
fury
,
if
having
your
engagement
for
the
banishing
of
Anexander
,
and
all
those
whom
he
has
infected
with
his
Principles
,
and
the
giving
the
Princess
Altezeera
to
Palisdes
,
I
do
not
instantly
lay
down
Arms
,
and
count
it
more
glorious
,
to
return
to
my
first
Quiet
and
Condition
,
than
to
possess
as
many
Crowns
,
as
you
have
Subjects
;
and
as
the
former
of
these
is
the
onely
way
to
put
the
affairs
of
this
Kingdom
in
a
right
temper
;
so
the
latter
is
the
only
means
to
confirm
and
settle
them
in
it
.
I
shall
therefore
humbly
beg
you
so
to
consider
of
this
request
,
as
that
it
may
not
produce
a
de●ial
;
but
by
granting
it
,
remove
all
the
distractions
of
your
Subjects
whose
misery
,
by
the
continuance
of
a
War
,
must
be
cast
upon
your
score
,
and
whose
redress
shall
be
the
intent
endeavours
of
CELINDUS
.
THe
Letter
was
no
sooner
ended
,
but
some
of
the
Council
represented
to
the
King
,
that
the
requests
were
as
unpardonable
as
he
that
made
them
,
and
that
though
they
had
not
been
so
,
yet
they
might
have
been
more
aptly
offer'd
before
he
had
attempted
any
violence
against
him
or
Artaxata
,
That
being
made
after
,
they
were
to
be
lookt
upon
as
the
effects
of
his
despair
,
not
to
that
pretext
he
seem'd
to
cloak
them
withal
;
That
Anexander
was
the
chiefest
Pillar
that
sustain'd
his
greatness
,
which
made
Celindus
so
earnest
to
remove
him
,
thereby
more
secretly
to
ruine
it
,
and
that
to
sacrifice
so
faithful
a
Servant
to
Celindus's
ambition
,
was
under
the
appearance
of
banishing
but
one
Man
,
effectually
to
seduce
most
men
;
who
seeing
Virtue
was
ruinous
,
would
find
sufficient
motives
in
their
nature
,
as
well
as
interest
to
make
them
decline
it
;
That
to
deterr
Celindus
from
storming
any
more
Artaxata
,
't
would
be
fit
to
give
him
advertisement
,
that
Palisdes
should
be
exposed
to
all
the
Darts
and
Arrows
that
were
flung
or
shot
at
those
defended
it
;
To
which
last
motion
Amidor
reply'd
,
That
it
were
not
onely
to
wrong
our
courages
,
but
to
make
Celindus
believe
our
condition
was
very
low
,
when
we
elected
,
for
our
preservation
,
courses
that
were
so
much
so
;
that
if
he
were
repulst
,
he
might
perswade
his
Men
,
he
ow'd
the
Affront
not
to
our
valours
,
but
to
his
fears
of
destroying
Palisdes
,
whereas
't
were
wiser
(
as
well
as
more
generous
)
to
purchase
our
securities
by
our
virtue
,
which
would
,
in
his
first
attempt
,
cut
off
all
his
hopes
of
a
second
.
This
was
much
controverted
,
but
at
last
,
Crasolis
made
this
ensuring
Speech
;
Sir
,
As
I
cannot
look
upon
your
present
condition
without
great
horror
,
so
I
cannot
without
a
resembling
joy
,
consider
,
that
there
is
yet
some
overtures
made
,
by
which
you
may
be
preserved
from
ruine
;
for
indeed
't
is
a
signal
mercy
of
the
gods
,
that
Celindus
,
who
has
had
so
much
wickedness
,
as
to
act
what
he
has
done
,
should
not
carry
on
his
design
to
the
uttermost
,
but
that
his
power
being
boundless
,
his
ambition
should
yet
put
limits
to
its
self
,
and
offer
to
be
contented
with
a
part
from
you
,
when
by
himself
he
might
possess
the
whole
:
But
Sir
,
as
those
Gentlemen
which
have
spoken
already
,
do
well
observe
,
we
shall
pay
dear
for
this
peace
;
't
is
true
,
but
yet
,
if
we
accept
not
of
it
,
we
are
like
to
pay
dearer
for
a
War
.
I
must
confess
,
to
banish
Anexander
,
goes
as
much
against
my
Reason
as
Inclination
,
and
to
sacrifice
so
generous
a
Subject
to
a
Rebel
,
is
to
make
us
hereafter
embrace
Vice
for
our
Interest
,
To
give
the
Princess
too
unto
Palisdes
,
is
that
which
will
render
our
sorrow
,
as
great
as
is
Celindus's
ambition
in
demanding
her
,
or
Palisdes
happines
would
be
in
possessing
her
.
These
Sir
,
are
the
effects
that
will
proceed
from
granting
his
Requests
,
but
alas
,
what
will
be
the
Miseries
that
attend
a
refusal
of
them
?
Anexander
,
instead
of
banishment
,
to
be
murther'd
before
your
eyes
,
Altezeera
forc'd
to
be
Palisdes
Wife
,
your
own
Life
made
an
Oblation
for
the
assurance
of
Celindus's
,
your
faithful
Servants
expos'd
to
torments
as
great
,
as
their
Fidelity
merits
recompence
,
and
in
a
word
,
your
Kingdom
suffers
miseries
sufficient
(
if
rightly
plac't
)
to
punish
the
crimes
of
those
that
are
the
causers
of
them
.
But
(
Sir
)
as
we
have
seen
the
inconveniences
of
granting
his
demands
,
through
the
optick
of
our
averseness
to
the
action
,
so
let
us
consider
them
,
in
their
last
formidable
dress
.
To
consent
then
to
Anexanders
banishment
,
if
you
look
upon
it
,
as
in
relation
to
your self
,
is
,
by
being
depriv'd
of
his
conversation
(
it
may
be
too
but
for
a
short
while
)
to
settle
the
quiet
,
of
your
people
,
and
free
your self
from
apparent
ruine
;
if
in
respect
of
him
,
I
knew
his
generous
disposition
so
well
,
that
he
will
imbrace
his
retirement
as
his
happiness
,
being
your
Majesty
and
your
Kingdom
will
derive
theirs
from
it
.
To
give
Altezeera
to
Palisdes
,
methinks
has
nothing
in
it
of
so
much
ill
,
as
the
being
forced
unto
it
;
for
Palisdes
Person
and
Birth
are
eminent
,
and
all
his
actions
and
inclinations
generous
,
except
this
last
,
where
his
Fathers
Commands
,
and
not
his
own
Desires
have
made
him
faulty
,
and
when
Crimes
do
bear
the
name
of
Duty
,
they
are
fitter
to
be
pardon'd
than
condemn'd
,
being
the
effects
of
a
noble
cause
;
and
if
his
highest
Vice
be
his
Obedience
to
his
Father
,
what
will
then
his
Vertues
prove
?
The
Princess
too
,
not
being
engag'd
to
any
,
may
,
with
less
reluctancy
,
give
her self
to
Palisdes
,
whose
Youth
is
so
promising
,
that
't
is
probable
she
may
establish
her
own
felicity
,
by
restoring
that
of
the
Armenians
,
and
instead
of
the
giving
a
portion
with
her
,
you
may
receive
a
Kingdom
by
giving
of
her
,
(
for
so
I
look
upon
it
,
as
the
state
of
your
affairs
now
stand
)
in
a
word
,
when
I
consider
that
we
hear
not
so
much
as
hopes
from
Anexander
:
when
I
see
Celindus
with
a
powerful
Army
under
your
Walls
;
and
when
I
came
but
even
now
from
hearing
those
within
them
(
whom
too
you
rely
upon
for
your
preservation
)
threaten
,
nay
swear
to
deliver
you
up
to
your
Enemies
,
with
execrations
,
which
give
me
as
much
horror
to
relate
,
as
if
they
executed
them
;
I
cannot
,
though
with
sadness
above
description
,
but
give
my
humble
opinion
,
that
Celindus
should
have
his
Request
granted
.
Many
of
those
that
were
guilty
of
Crasolis
Crimes
,
and
of
Fear
,
so
fortified
his
opinion
by
divers
other
arguments
,
and
by
their
concurrence
,
that
I
found
Artabazus
yielding
.
Great
gods
!
who
could
then
relate
the
several
disorders
I
was
in
?
but
alas
they
were
nothing
then
,
to
what
they
did
increase
unto
,
when
I
read
upon
my
Princesses
Face
,
the
Indignation
which
such
Councils
had
raised
in
her
;
the
sight
of
which
made
me
address
my self
to
the
King
,
in
a
posture
that
did
something
speak
my
resentment
,
and
tell
him
.
Sir
,
That
Celindus
who
has
had
the
impudence
to
take
up
Arms
against
you
,
should
demand
the
Princess
for
Palisdes
is
not
strange
,
but
that
any
Loyal
Armenian
should
advise
you
to
grant
it
,
is
that
I
cannot
sufficiently
wonder
at
:
the
best
construction
I
can
make
of
those
,
who
are
of
that
opinion
is
,
that
their
fears
exceed
their
judgements
(
may
be
their
honesty
.
)
Shall
his
defeats
be
the
steps
to
his
ambition
?
and
shall
our
having
given
them
drown
our
Courages
?
the
gods
forbid
:
But
Sir
,
allow
we
were
as
low
as
these
Mens
spirits
are
,
which
gave
that
counsel
,
what
heavier
yoke
can
we
groan
under
,
than
that
we
would
now
submit
unto
:
shall
our
fears
give
that
to
Celindus
which
his
Courage
ne'r
could
purchase
?
and
shall
we
by
a
preposterous
apprehension
,
count
all
those
deliverances
the
gods
have
hitherto
sent
us
,
as
so
many
Omens
of
our
ruine
?
or
else
Sir
,
have
these
Men
seen
any
coldness
in
our
courages
,
on
which
they
build
their
despair
?
if
not
;
why
do
they
so
much
wrong
them
?
what
,
shall
Altezeera
,
who
is
a
recompence
too
high
for
Vertue
,
be
a
sacrifice
unto
Rebellion
?
O
Sir
!
do
not
by
such
a
recompence
,
invite
your
Subjects
in
the
future
to
revolt
:
what
guilt
can
be
so
ugly
that
such
a
reward
will
not
invite
us
to
imbrace
?
let
us
not
then
by
contributing
unto
the
Crime
,
make
our selves
worthy
of
the
punishment
;
not
let
these
mens
timerousness
perswade
you
to
that
,
which
if
once
acted
,
the
gods
must
never
after
protect
you
,
unless
they
have
design'd
to
appear
as
unjust
as
they
would
have
you
be
to
your self
and
the
Princess
,
who
are
more
threaten'd
by
their
fears
,
than
our
condition
.
But
as
I
was
going
to
continue
my
discourse
upon
those
subjects
that
related
to
the
suppressing
of
the
mutinous
people
,
and
my
Fathers
particular
,
a
Gentleman
came
in
and
told
Artabazus
,
there
was
one
which
wore
Celindus
Colours
,
being
well
mounted
,
was
scap'd
from
the
Camp
,
and
though
followed
by
five
or
six
of
the
Enemy
,
had
recover'd
the
Port
,
and
begg'd
earnestly
to
be
presented
to
the
King
,
alledging
that
it
was
about
affairs
of
high
concernment
,
and
which
could
admit
of
no
delay
.
Artabazus
commanded
forthwith
,
that
he
should
be
brought
in
.
The
Man
no
sooner
heard
the
permission
,
(
for
he
waited
at
the
door
)
than
he
flung
himself
at
the
Kings
feet
,
and
told
him
,
Sir
,
Anexander
,
after
a
thousand
difficulties
,
which
nothing
could
render
supportable
,
but
the
consideration
of
him
for
whose
sake
he
endured
them
,
has
brought
an
Army
of
30000
Men
into
Thospia
,
where
a
violent
Feaver
,
(
envious
of
his
glory
)
has
flung
him
into
his
Bed
,
and
though
his
torments
are
very
great
,
yet
he
resents
none
so
fully
as
those
which
proceed
from
the
impossibility
of
his
serving
you
in
person
:
but
since
his
fatal
sickness
(
as
if
all
things
had
contributed
to
increase
that
misfortune
)
there
has
happen'd
so
high
a
dispute
betwixt
Stratolis
and
Falintus
,
who
should
have
the
happiness
to
command
the
Army
for
your
relief
;
that
some
sad
events
are
thereby
already
fall'n
out
,
and
hourly
will
be
augmented
,
unless
Artavasdes
(
who
they
all
beg
for
their
General
,
during
Anexanders
indisposition
)
be
instantly
sent
to
take
the
charge
of
the
War
,
and
lest
your
Majesty
should
doubt
the
truth
of
what
I
now
deliver
,
I
shall
humbly
desire
you
to
peruse
this
Ticket
,
which
being
presented
,
we
found
't
was
sign'd
and
written
by
Anexander
,
and
onely
begg'd
the
King
to
credit
whatsoever
he
should
relate
.
The
joy
we
all
receiv'd
at
the
assurance
of
so
powerful
an
Army's
being
ready
to
relieve
us
,
did
mitigate
our
sorrow
,
at
the
hearing
of
Anexanders
not
being
able
to
Head
it
.
But
Artabazus
and
the
Council
,
(
to
lose
no
time
)
thought
best
to
dispatch
Celindus's
Messenger
without
the
honour
of
an
Answer
,
which
they
concluded
was
the
fittest
they
could
return
his
ambitious
desires
,
and
to
send
me
that
night
away
,
though
the
wicked
Crasolis
oppos'd
the
latter
,
alledging
,
that
the
Town
would
doubtless
be
lost
,
if
I
were
once
out
of
the
Walls
,
that
probably
I
might
be
taken
or
kill'd
,
endeavouring
to
pass
the
Enemies
Guards
,
that
then
,
not
onely
Artaxata
,
but
the
Army
would
lose
its
Head
,
and
chief
Defender
,
and
therefore
he
was
of
opinion
,
't
were
better
to
send
a
Commission
joyntly
to
Stratolis
and
Falintus
to
command
the
Army
,
than
to
expose
all
to
so
great
a
hazard
.
This
advice
was
not
given
out
of
any
affection
to
the
publique
,
or
my
particular
,
but
that
he
believ'd
,
by
joyning
of
Stratolis
and
Falintus
,
there
would
arise
such
distractions
,
as
Celindus
might
injoy
the
advantages
of
them
.
But
(
as
I
told
you
,
this
Council
at
that
present
took
not
place
,
and
to
omit
no
opportunity
,
I
went
to
take
leave
of
the
King
.
and
assur'd
him
,
that
within
fourteen
days
,
I
would
either
make
him
absolute
Monarch
again
,
or
by
my
death
evince
that
't
would
not
be
the
defect
of
my
desire
,
but
of
my
Power
;
and
since
the
time
was
so
short
,
I
begg'd
him
to
give
me
an
assurance
,
that
he
would
not
(
before
those
days
were
efflux'd
)
admit
of
any
Treaty
with
Celindus
.
The
King
having
satisfy'd
my
request
,
embrac'd
me
very
affectionately
,
and
conjur'd
me
not
to
fail
at
the
time
appointed
,
lest
the
people
should
force
him
to
accept
of
those
conditions
,
his
Reason
and
Inclination
made
him
equally
detest
,
which
having
faithfully
promis'd
,
I
went
to
my
Princesses
Chamber
,
who
not
being
able
to
conceal
her
grief
,
had
commanded
all
her
servants
out
of
the
room
,
and
lay
upon
a
Bed
,
abandoning
her self
so
excessively
to
sorrow
,
that
I
surpriz'd
her
in
the
greatest
height
of
hers
,
and
told
her
,
Madam
,
if
I
could
admit
any
doubts
of
an
ill
success
,
where
your
safty
is
concern'd
,
so
bad
an
Omen
as
your
sadness
is
would
infuse
them
into
me
.
To
which
she
answer'd
,
I
must
confess
,
Artavasdes
,
that
when
I
consider
the
many
dangers
you
must
expose
your self
unto
,
and
the
many
more
that
you
will
,
I
find
my
Tears
so
just
,
that
I
esteem
it
a
sin
to
redeem
them
,
neither
can
you
believe
the
assurances
I
have
given
you
of
my
affection
to
be
as
real
as
indeed
they
are
,
without
considering
my
grief
,
as
a
necessary
Tribute
of
my
Love
,
and
not
an
Omen
of
your
ill
success
.
My
Princess
(
I
reply'd
)
your
sadness
could
not
but
kill
me
,
did
I
not
look
upon
it
as
the
effect
of
so
happy
a
cause
,
but
pardon
me
if
my
zeal
to
you
be
so
great
,
that
I
even
condemn
the
demonstrations
of
my
own
felicity
,
when
they
prove
troublesome
to
you
.
Alas
,
said
Altezeera
,
what
would
you
have
me
do
?
not
to
deplore
your
absence
,
is
inconsistent
with
my
affection
,
and
to
do
it
,
is
prejudicial
to
your
contentment
,
but
since
't
is
impossible
to
suppress
the
first
,
at
least
by
a
quick
return
,
make
the
last
cease
,
which
can
admit
of
no
ease
,
during
your
absence
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
the
gods
shall
be
my
witness
;
that
I
will
neglect
no
time
,
nor
shall
any
thing
but
death
hinder
me
above
fourteen
days
from
coming
to
adore
you
at
your
feet
:
Celindus
and
his
Army
shall
feel
what
fury
possesses
me
at
this
separation
,
and
my
their
sufferings
know
,
how
dangerous
it
is
to
oppose
Artavasdes
,
when
Altezeera's
safety
is
the
quarrel
.
But
,
said
the
Princess
(
interrupting
me
)
take
heed
you
do
not
so
much
trust
your
courage
,
as
not
to
consult
your
judgement
,
and
to
mitigate
that
heat
which
may
prove
so
fatal
to
us
both
,
remember
that
what
Artavasdes
suffers
,
Altezeera
does
,
and
as
you
love
her
life
,
preserve
your
own
.
I
should
be
too
prolix
my
dear
Artabanes
,
should
I
tell
you
all
the
words
that
sad
farewell
furnisht
me
with
,
I
will
therefore
hasten
to
a
conclusion
,
and
onely
let
you
know
,
that
having
kist
my
fair
Princess
hand
,
I
took
leave
of
her
,
and
then
of
Amidor
;
to
whom
I
left
the
care
of
Artaxata
,
and
what
I
valu'd
infinitely
above
it
,
and
having
given
a
hot
alarm
to
every
quarter
of
the
Camp
,
but
that
through
which
I
past
,
I
arriv'd
in
two
days
after
at
Thospia
,
where
I
found
Anexander
in
much
danger
,
by
the
violence
of
his
Feaver
,
who
haing
commanded
me
to
leave
the
care
of
him
unto
the
gods
,
and
to
imploy
all
mine
for
the
Kings
deliverance
,
I
forthwith
acquainted
the
Army
with
my
Commission
,
who
joyfully
receiv'd
me
,
and
lest
delays
might
prove
prejudicial
,
we
marched
with
what
expedition
possibly
could
be
made
,
towards
Artaxata
,
and
the
tenth
day
after
my
departure
from
thence
,
I
camped
thirty
Furlongs
off
Celindus
,
upon
a
Hill
,
within
sight
of
the
Besieged
,
where
having
call'd
a
Council
of
War
,
by
their
consents
,
I
sent
a
Trumpet
to
him
with
this
ensuing
challenge
.
ARTAVASDES
to
CELINDVS
.
DId
not
your
taking
up
of
Arms
against
your
King
assure
me
,
that
you
believe
there
are
no
gods
to
punish
wickedness
;
I
should
despair
of
your
accepting
a
pitcht
Battel
for
the
ending
of
the
War
,
lest
terrified
by
the
Divine
Iustice
,
your
guilt
should
weigh
down
your
Sword
:
but
your
rebellion
demonstrates
,
that
you
believe
no
Deity
but
Power
,
and
since
your
Courage
is
the
best
of
your
Qualities
;
I
should
gladly
receive
an
assurance
,
that
to
save
many
a
thousand
lives
,
you
would
venture
your
own
against
me
in
a
single
combat
.
But
whether
by
Battel
or
Duel
,
I
leave
it
to
your
choice
,
either
of
which
shall
be
highly
acceptable
,
as
an
assured
way
to
punish
Celindus
,
by
the
hand
of
ARTAVASDES
.
CElindus
having
perus'd
my
Letter
,
thought
fit
to
give
me
Battel
,
knowing
that
his
Army
could
have
no
Provisions
but
what
they
fought
for
,
and
that
Artaxata
had
so
good
a
Garrison
,
and
my
Forces
were
so
numerous
,
that
if
he
defeated
not
the
one
,
or
took
the
other
,
he
must
in
a
short
while
,
be
blockt
up
,
and
then
his
party
which
follw'd
his
fortune
,
not
him
,
would
desert
him
;
therefore
thinking
my
defeat
would
be
more
facile
,
than
taking
the
Town
by
Storm
,
he
sent
me
this
Answer
;
CELINDVS
to
ARTAVASDES
.
I
Accept
of
the
Battel
,
that
the
gods
by
your
defeat
may
declare
they
are
as
just
,
as
you
think
me
the
contrary
.
To
morrow
by
the
Suns
rising
,
I
shall
be
in
the
adjoyning
Plain
,
at
the
head
of
Fifty
thousand
Men
,
who
are
too
greedy
of
Honour
to
suffer
me
by
a
single
Combat
,
to
rob
them
of
their
share
in
the
glory
of
an
entire
Victory
,
which
will
be
as
certainly
ours
,
as
that
you
have
an
Enemy
of
CELINDUS
.
THe
Trumpet
being
return'd
with
this
pleasing
Answer
,
I
found
that
nothing
but
the
gaining
of
a
Battel
could
more
satisfy
my
Army
,
than
the
assurance
of
one
,
which
being
suddenly
to
ensue
,
every
one
was
employ'd
in
performing
what
was
fit
for
so
considerable
a
day
,
which
no
sooner
appear'd
,
but
both
Armies
marcht
out
of
their
several
Camps
,
and
being
drawn
up
,
expected
onely
the
signal
to
begin
the
Fight
:
Celindus
,
who
knew
that
his
Fortune
depended
upon
the
gaining
or
losing
of
that
Field
,
had
left
no
Forces
to
justify
the
ground
he
had
won
by
approaches
,
being
assur'd
,
that
if
he
were
Conqueror
,
Artaxata
,
without
the
formalities
of
a
Siege
,
would
be
one
of
the
first
Fruits
of
his
Victory
;
yet
to
delude
those
of
the
Town
,
and
to
keep
them
from
sallying
,
he
left
as
many
Colours
flying
as
were
usually
upon
the
Guards
,
with
certain
Men
well
mounted
,
who
had
order
(
in
case
of
a
Sally
,
to
run
away
with
them
unto
their
Army
.
A
little
before
the
Battel
,
Celindus
made
a
Speech
to
his
Soldiers
,
and
I
to
animate
mine
,
told
them
these
few
words
.
Friends
,
and
Companions
in
Arms
,
I
speak
unto
you
more
out
of
custom
than
need
;
if
I
thought
any
thing
could
raise
your
courages
above
that
which
nature
has
,
I
might
represent
unto
you
the
justice
of
the
War
,
the
glorious
objects
for
whom
you
are
now
to
decide
it
,
your
Wives
,
your
Families
,
and
your
Liberties
,
who
all
expect
their
settlement
from
your
Swords
:
There
is
something
too
above
all
this
,
which
I
might
mention
(
for
these
must
dye
with
you
,
sometimes
before
you
)
't
is
Honour
,
which
is
eternal
,
and
will
make
your
memories
precious
to
posterity
,
when
other
things
will
be
forgotten
,
and
turn'd
into
dust
.
But
(
my
generous
Friends
)
I
see
so
noble
a
resolution
in
every
one
,
that
I
will
no
longer
detain
you
from
that
Victory
,
which
your
Cause
and
Looks
assure
me
of
.
These
words
being
finisht
,
I
advanc'd
with
the
right
wing
of
my
Horse
,
and
so
vigorously
charged
the
Enemies
left
,
that
we
instantly
routed
them
,
and
had
an
Execution
as
bloudy
as
their
crimes
deserv'd
:
But
Celindus
,
who
led
the
right
wing
of
his
Army
,
wherein
he
had
plac'd
the
gallantest
of
his
Cavalry
,
fell
so
vigorously
upon
Stratolis
,
who
commanded
my
left
,
that
after
a
small
resistance
(
Stratolis
being
kill'd
)
Celindus
made
many
others
follow
his
fate
,
to
redress
which
disorder
,
I
left
some
few
Troops
to
chase
the
scatter'd
Rebels
,
and
rallying
the
rest
,
ran
to
the
rescue
of
my
Friends
,
whom
Celindus
on
my
approach
forsook
,
and
having
drawn
up
a
second
time
,
and
learnt
that
it
was
I
that
came
to
fight
with
him
;
he
advanced
some
hundred
paces
from
his
Body
,
and
calling
me
out
by
name
,
told
me
,
'T
is
now
Artavasdes
that
I
shall
satisfy
both
your
desires
,
I
have
yielded
to
a
Battel
,
at
the
requests
of
my
friends
,
who
would
not
permit
me
to
ingross
that
honour
to
my self
,
which
by
their
valours
,
they
were
confident
would
be
largely
distributed
amongst
them
:
and
now
I
seek
a
single
combat
to
please
my
own
inclination
,
to
demand
satisfaction
for
Tuminius
his
Blood
,
and
your
insolent
challenge
.
We
were
both
so
earnest
to
lose
no
time
,
that
we
spent
no
more
in
words
,
but
began
a
Duel
,
in
which
the
gods
so
favour'd
the
justice
of
my
Sword
,
that
Celindus
fell
by
it
;
but
those
Horse
which
were
spectators
of
his
death
,
so
resolutely
endeavour'd
to
revenge
it
,
that
it
cost
us
dear
before
we
could
reduce
them
to
what
their
valours
merited
,
but
not
the
quarrel
in
which
they
employ'd
them
.
Whilst
these
things
were
thus
acting
,
Phanasder
and
Falintus
,
who
commanded
the
Foot
of
both
Armies
,
had
not
been
idle
:
but
Falintus
,
who
was
over-power'd
,
after
a
vituous
resistance
,
was
taken
by
Phanasder
,
who
,
to
shelter
him
from
the
fury
of
his
Soldiers
,
had
cover'd
him
with
his
own
Body
,
and
receiv'd
some
wounds
that
were
design'd
for
his
prisoner
.
Evaxes
,
after
Falintus's
misfortune
,
still
disputed
the
victory
,
though
his
resistance
proceeded
more
from
his
resolution
than
his
numbers
,
which
were
so
diminish'd
,
that
he
was
just
upon
the
point
of
being
conquer'd
,
when
a
Body
of
about
Fourteen
hundred
Horse
,
and
Four
thousand
Foot
sallied
out
of
Artaxata
,
and
so
opportunely
on
the
Enemy
,
that
it
restor'd
the
courage
of
our
fainting
friends
.
Gods
!
what
prodigies
of
Valour
did
I
see
their
Leader
act
:
He
pierc'd
the
thickest
Squadrons
like
Lightning
,
and
,
in
a
word
,
so
chang'd
the
face
of
affairs
,
that
Phanasder
,
from
conquering
began
to
defend
himself
;
to
effect
which
,
he
had
gotten
near
Eight
thousand
of
those
who
had
most
resolution
,
and
having
cast
them
into
a
square
Body
,
resolv'd
to
●ell
his
Life
so
dearly
,
that
the
Purchasers
should
repent
the
bargain
.
In
this
posture
stood
affairs
when
I
came
from
defeating
Celindus
with
nine
thousand
Horse
,
and
all
the
Foot
I
could
possibly
rally
,
I
confes
,
it
pitty'd
me
to
see
so
many
Armenians
expos'd
to
death
,
whose
courages
deserv'd
a
fortune
as
good
,
as
the
condition
they
were
then
in
,
was
the
contrary
,
I
therefore
commanded
all
the
Soldiers
of
my
Army
to
draw
off
,
that
I
might
endeavour
to
save
their
Countrey-men
.
So
pleasing
an
Injunction
,
obtain'd
a
ready
obedience
,
and
advancing
near
enough
to
be
heard
,
I
represented
to
them
,
that
the
care
I
had
to
make
my
Victory
as
little
stain'd
with
Bloud
,
as
the
necessity
of
it
would
permit
,
made
me
offer
them
in
Artabazus
name
,
a
general
Pardon
,
so
they
would
lay
down
Arms
,
and
ingage
,
by
their
future
Loyalty
,
to
efface
their
present
want
of
it
.
They
all
answer'd
me
,
that
they
had
vowed
their
Lives
and
Fortunes
to
Phanasder
,
and
what
he
thought
good
,
they
would
submit
unto
.
I
then
desir'd
to
speak
with
him
,
which
he
no
sooner
understood
,
than
he
came
out
unto
me
,
all
hideous
with
Bloud
,
and
askt
me
what
it
was
I
would
have
.
I
told
him
,
't
was
his
,
and
the
safety
of
those
few
the
Sword
had
spar'd
;
That
he
had
practis'd
so
much
gallantry
to
Falintus
,
that
it
made
me
earnest
to
preserve
the
posessior
of
it
;
and
that
the
condition
he
was
in
,
was
so
unfit
for
resistance
,
that
the
acting
of
his
destruction
,
was
easier
than
the
desire
of
it
.
I
am
,
said
Phanasder
(
interrupting
me
)
as
much
above
your
Power
,
as
your
Threatening
,
for
the
gods
which
have
been
so
cruel
,
have
yet
left
me
a
Heart
to
desire
death
,
and
a
Sword
to
act
;
for
that
which
I
have
done
to
Falintus
,
't
was
the
self-same
honour
guided
me
unto
it
,
which
makes
me
hate
to
owe
my
life
unto
my
Enemy
.
How
willingly
(
said
I
)
would
I
change
that
name
,
and
be
esteem'd
your
Friend
?
to
purchase
it
,
I
will
confess
,
Fortune
,
and
your
want
of
it
,
reduc'd
you
to
what
you
are
.
I
will
engage
my self
to
obtain
for
you
,
and
those
under
you
,
an
Act
of
Oblivion
from
the
King
,
and
I
will
onely
beg
that
you
will
confer
your
friendship
on
me
,
which
I
will
value
at
a
higher
rate
than
all
the
other
Glory
I
shall
derive
from
this
days
success
.
'T
is
a
strange
thing
how
much
civility
works
on
a
generous
Mind
;
what
the
advantage
I
had
over
him
,
nor
the
fear
of
death
cold
act
,
my
kindness
did
,
which
prov'd
so
prevalent
,
that
flinging
away
his
Sword
,
he
came
to
me
,
and
embracing
me
,
said
;
'T
is
now
indeed
Artavasdes
,
that
I
am
vanquisht
.
Your
goodness
makes
me
confess
,
that
which
your
Sword
,
nor
all
the
World
besides
could
have
perswaded
me
to
.
I
should
be
now
as
unjust
as
you
are
generous
;
did
I
not
with
joy
embrace
a
Friendship
,
which
I
will
ever
value
above
all
things
,
but
my
Honour
.
After
a
thousand
Embraces
,
and
Assurances
of
an
Eternal
Friendship
,
Phanasder
led
me
to
the
reliques
of
his
Army
,
and
commanded
them
to
fling
their
Arms
down
at
my
Feet
,
to
whom
he
said
,
they
owed
their
lives
,
and
many
other
expressions
of
a
quality
,
too
tedious
to
be
related
.
Things
being
brought
to
this
happy
period
,
I
left
my
Army
in
the
Field
,
in
which
they
had
gained
so
much
Glory
,
and
taking
Phanasder
,
and
some
twenty
of
my
intimatest
Friends
,
I
gallopt
to
Artaxata
,
to
give
Altezeera
and
the
King
an
account
of
our
success
,
and
to
receive
their
Orders
;
when
we
came
to
the
Gates
I
found
them
shut
,
and
having
told
the
Guards
who
I
was
,
they
instantly
admitted
me
,
and
inform'd
me
,
the
King
and
the
Princess
were
Sacrificing
for
the
Armies
success
:
I
went
directly
thither
,
and
lighting
at
the
door
,
all
arm'd
,
sprinkled
with
Bloud
,
gave
so
hot
an
Alarm
to
the
people
,
that
they
began
with
hideous
cries
,
to
fly
out
of
the
Temple
,
imagining
we
were
Celindus's
Soldiers
,
who
having
got
the
Battel
,
were
come
to
seize
upon
the
King
,
and
that
which
more
confirm'd
them
in
their
fears
,
was
the
sight
of
Phanasder
,
whose
Face
,
(
by
the
loss
of
his
Helmet
)
was
uncover'd
,
and
the
great
shouts
those
of
the
Garrison
made
when
they
were
inform'd
,
by
some
that
came
along
with
me
,
of
our
Victory
.
Artabazus
all
the
while
I
was
coming
towards
him
,
was
moveless
as
a
Statue
;
but
the
fair
Altezeera
,
no
sooner
saw
me
tread
upon
the
first
steps
of
the
Altar
,
but
drawing
forth
a
Ponyard
,
which
she
had
conceal'd
for
a
last
remedy
,
was
lifting
up
her
hand
to
have
plung'd
it
into
her
Breast
:
but
observing
her
design
,
I
prevented
it
by
seizing
that
cruel
weapon
,
and
pulling
off
my
Halmet
;
gods
!
what
a
sudden
alteration
did
that
action
cause
?
it
was
so
great
,
that
the
King
,
Altezeera
,
and
all
the
company
hearing
at
the
same
time
of
Celindus's
his
defeat
,
and
death
,
did
not
then
relish
that
happiness
with
so
high
a
contentment
,
as
they
said
it
deserv'd
.
But
at
last
their
joy
having
dissipated
those
Clouds
,
which
fear
had
ingender'd
,
their
contentment
was
proportionate
to
the
change
.
Artabazus
gave
me
all
the
testimonies
of
his
favour
he
was
capable
of
,
but
Altezeera
did
in
such
obliging
terms
,
express
her
contentment
and
affection
,
that
I
was
ravisht
in
the
contemplation
of
both
.
But
after
I
had
given
the
King
and
my
fair
Princess
an
Account
of
our
success
,
I
presented
Phanasder
unto
Artabazus
,
and
having
acquainted
him
with
my
Engagements
,
and
magnified
his
Gallantry
,
I
not
onely
obtained
what
I
had
promis'd
to
him
and
his
,
but
also
Celindus
his
Government
for
him
.
That
which
made
me
so
intent
on
Phanasders
advantage
,
was
the
high
opinion
I
had
conceived
of
him
,
and
the
confidence
I
had
,
that
it
was
grounded
on
a
proportionate
Justice
.
But
amongst
all
those
friends
which
came
to
congratulate
my
Victory
,
I
mist
my
dear
Amidor
,
and
inquiring
the
cause
of
it
,
I
learn'd
,
that
the
Forces
which
had
sally'd
out
of
the
Town
,
were
under
his
Command
,
that
't
was
he
had
done
such
miracles
,
and
that
probably
having
follow'd
the
execution
somewhat
vigorously
,
he
was
not
return'd
to
the
Camp
before
my
departure
from
it
.
I
rested
satisfied
therewith
,
and
receiv'd
the
Kings
Orders
to
quarter
about
Artaxata
,
till
he
saw
whether
those
Towns
which
had
declared
for
Celindus
,
would
return
to
their
Loyalty
without
being
forced
unto
it
:
And
least
any
disorder
might
happen
in
the
Army
by
my
absence
,
I
was
going
thither
,
when
(
alas
)
I
met
my
poor
Brother
,
mortally
wounded
,
carrying
by
to
his
Lodging
:
so
sad
an
object
soon
clouded
all
my
joy
,
and
made
me
return
with
him
,
to
know
what
I
might
expect
of
his
fate
.
The
ablest
Chirurgeons
being
sent
for
,
searched
his
wounds
,
and
found
they
were
incurable
for
their
Art
.
But
the
generous
Amidor
perceiving
by
their
looks
,
our
fears
,
seem'd
to
be
as
full
of
satisfaction
,
as
we
were
really
the
contrary
,
and
having
conjur'd
the
Chirugeons
to
deal
clearly
with
him
,
whether
there
were
any
likelyhood
of
recovery
,
he
receiv'd
from
them
a
sad
Negative
.
Then
turning
towards
Lindesia
,
(
who
abandon'd
her self
to
an
excessive
Grief
)
he
begg'd
her
not
to
be
more
afflicted
for
his
death
,
than
he
was
for
to
dye
;
That
it
being
a
Tribute
,
humane
nature
was
to
pay
,
he
was
happy
that
it
was
in
so
good
and
glorious
a
Cause
.
Then
desiring
all
those
that
were
in
the
room
to
leave
it
,
except
Altezeera
(
who
was
come
to
visit
him
)
and
I
,
he
addrest
himself
to
us
with
an
accent
capable
to
inspire
pity
into
a
fury
,
and
told
us
.
Since
my
own
weakness
,
as
well
as
the
Chirurgeons
judgement
,
assure
me
I
must
dye
,
I
have
begg'd
this
opportunity
to
reveal
a
secret
to
you
both
,
which
no
torment
should
have
made
me
disclose
,
and
which
I
am
confident
my
Actions
never
did
.
Know
then
,
to
silence
your
sorrow
,
that
these
mortal
wounds
are
the
effects
of
my
desire
,
and
not
my
ill
fortune
,
for
it
was
necessary
for
your
quiet
,
as
well
as
mine
,
that
I
should
receive
them
,
since
I
could
not
resist
the
inevitable
charms
of
Altezeera's
Beauty
:
start
not
,
Artavasdes
,
for
by
that
time
I
have
finisht
my
discourse
,
you
shall
have
more
cause
to
pity
than
condemn
me
:
the
highest
Powers
shall
bear
me
witness
,
how
much
I
did
resist
this
criminal
passion
,
how
it
forc't
,
not
found
an
admittance
,
and
when
't
was
gotten
in
,
how
I
purchast
its
silence
by
my
torments
;
yet
at
last
,
finding
it
would
be
conqueror
,
I
resolv'd
to
end
my
pain
by
death
,
which
I
sought
so
many
several
ways
,
that
it
must
have
been
unjust
,
had
I
not
found
it
out
.
You
weep
,
fair
Princess
,
is
it
for
sorrow
,
that
by
dying
,
I
shall
be
so
soon
freed
from
those
sufferings
my
Crime
deserves
?
the
compassionate
Altezeera
,
who
all
this
while
did
melt
away
in
Tears
,
perceiving
he
was
silent
,
in
expectation
of
her
Answer
,
told
him
,
alas
Amidor
,
what
actions
have
I
ever
committed
,
that
you
should
judge
me
guilty
of
so
high
a
cruelty
?
'T
were
more
charitable
,
as
well
as
just
,
to
attribute
these
demonstrations
of
my
grief
,
unto
my
pity
,
for
your
condition
,
which
so
abundantly
deserves
it
.
Why
then
Madam
(
reply'd
Amidor
)
you
can
pity
me
,
after
the
knowledge
of
my
fault
?
Great
gods
!
to
what
misery
do
you
reduce
me
?
thus
to
convert
that
which
should
be
my
greatest
joy
,
into
my
greatest
torment
,
and
thereby
render
any
satisfaction
at
my
death
as
impossible
,
as
I
do
ill
deserve
it
;
since
not
to
receive
her
pardon
,
makes
my
death
as
full
of
horrors
,
as
the
cause
of
it
is
of
Beauties
;
and
to
obtain
it
,
makes
my
crime
as
great
,
as
the
perfection
against
which
I
have
committed
it
.
Ah
Madam
,
dry
up
those
precious
drops
,
or
else
shed
them
to
wash
away
my
guilt
,
for
certainly
they
are
powerful
enough
to
perform
whatsoever
you
employ
them
for
;
And
you
my
dear
Brother
,
(
addressing
himself
to
me
)
can
you
have
so
much
goodness
to
forgive
your
Rival
,
when
't
was
not
in
his
power
to
avoid
that
fatal
Name
?
Look
upon
those
bright
Eyes
,
which
certainly
will
at
the
same
time
that
they
acquaint
you
with
my
fault
,
acquaint
you
with
the
necessity
of
it
,
and
obtain
your
pardon
for
it
.
You
that
know
so
well
their
influence
,
must
withal
,
rather
pity
than
condemn
my
submission
to
it
.
But
I
find
death
seizing
on
me
;
farewel
happy
Lovers
,
may
Joyes
,
such
as
Raptures
never
reacht
,
wait
on
your
Flames
,
may
every
thing
contribute
to
make
you
as
contented
as
I
shall
dye
,
having
obtained
your
forgiveness
,
which
I
beg
with
Tears
;
and
if
they
find
you
inexorable
,
I
will
with
Bloud
—
Alas
Amidor
(
I
cry'd
out
)
would
it
were
as
absolutely
in
my
Power
to
recover
,
as
't
is
in
my
Will
to
forgive
thee
.
Ah
(
said
Amidor
)
talk
not
of
recovery
,
I
would
rather
be
my
own
Executioner
,
than
by
living
interrupt
so
pure
a
Passion
;
once
again
farewel
,
my
summons
is
so
short
,
I
shall
have
onely
time
to
beg
you
,
never
to
think
upon
Amidor
,
cloath'd
in
his
ambitious
desires
of
possessing
so
Divine
a
Beauty
,
nor
with
his
unavoidable
infidelity
to
his
Friend
and
Brother
;
But
when
you
consider
him
,
let
it
be
in
his
pennance
for
his
crimes
,
and
let
that
voluntary
death
he
has
so
resolutely
expos'd
himself
unto
,
obtain
that
mercy
for
him
,
which
he
implores
with
his
last
breath
;
and
so
indeed
it
was
,
for
having
with
one
hand
,
taken
the
Princesses
,
and
kist
it
,
and
with
the
other
embrac'd
me
,
his
fair
Soul
fled
away
,
and
left
its
noble
dwelling
in
our
Arms.
Who
can
repeat
the
sad
words
so
great
a
loss
extorted
from
us
,
which
really
we
found
of
such
a
quality
,
that
we
despair'd
to
find
a
cure
even
from
time
.
The
King
'
and
all
those
that
were
not
enemies
to
vertue
,
did
manifest
a
resembling
sorrow
,
for
his
Youth
was
as
promising
as
it
was
unfortunate
.
Here
(
said
Artabanes
to
Callimachus
)
Artavasdes
could
not
resfrain
shedding
some
Tears
,
and
perceiving
I
took
notice
of
it
;
he
begg'd
my
Pardon
for
so
just
an
effeminacy
,
and
then
hasten'd
to
a
conclusion
in
these
words
;
Phanasder
,
who
did
now
without
reserve
,
embrace
the
Kings
interest
,
was
so
prevalent
with
the
revolted
Towns
,
that
Armauria
,
Artemita
,
and
Tygranocerta
it self
,
came
upon
their
knees
,
and
yielded
up
their
Keys
and
Lives
to
the
Kings
Mercy
,
and
in
a
word
all
the
upper
Armenia
,
from
Niphates
,
did
the
like
.
But
in
the
lower
Armenia
,
Zenaxtus
(
a
Brother
of
Celindus's
)
kept
entire
the
Provinces
of
Aerethica
and
Horzen
,
and
the
Towns
of
Satala
,
and
Nicapolis
,
who
for
all
Artabazus
threatenings
and
promises
,
would
not
lay
down
Arms
,
but
was
preparing
a
vast
Army
to
revenge
his
Brothers
death
,
and
to
act
his
Brothers
ambition
:
which
to
effect
,
he
sent
to
Arsaces
,
to
invade
the
higher
Armenia
,
and
assur'd
him
of
a
considerable
Party
appearing
for
him
as
soon
as
he
should
pass
the
River
Tygris
,
and
offer'd
him
all
the
Upper
Armenia
for
his
share
,
so
that
he
might
have
the
Lower
for
his
own
,
which
nevertheless
he
would
do
homage
for
.
You
know
,
my
dear
friend
,
that
this
overture
was
so
listened
unto
by
your
King
,
that
instantly
he
rais'd
that
great
Army
which
defeated
ours
,
more
by
our
valour
,
than
by
those
that
follow'd
you
.
Artabazus
had
some
intelligence
of
Arsaces
intentions
,
and
to
prevent
them
,
thought
fit
to
raise
an
Army
,
and
carry
the
War
into
your
Countrey
,
to
keep
his
own
quiet
,
at
least
,
the
Upper
part
of
Armenia
,
and
having
given
the
Command
of
a
numerous
one
to
Anexander
,
who
was
perfectly
recover'd
,
and
order'd
him
to
suppress
Zenaxtus
,
he
laid
siege
to
Myramnes
,
where
you
came
to
raise
it
,
and
where
I
had
the
honour
to
become
your
Prisoner
,
which
should
be
as
pleasing
to
me
as
my
Liberty
,
did
not
my
passion
for
Altezeera
,
make
all
things
that
banish
me
from
her
,
insupportable
.
Thus
the
gallant
Artavasdes
finisht
his
story
,
and
gave
me
by
it
,
as
much
reason
,
as
I
had
formerly
inclination
to
love
him
.
After
some
few
expressions
of
my
esteem
,
both
of
his
Passion
and
Vertue
,
I
told
him
,
't
is
with
much
difficulty
,
(
generous
Prince
)
that
I
condemn
the
cruelty
of
my
King
,
being
it
furnishes
me
with
an
occasion
to
serve
you
;
neither
can
you
doubt
,
but
I
am
more
a
friend
to
your
satisfaction
than
my
own
,
when
I
deprive
my self
of
so
great
a
blessing
as
your
company
,
to
restore
you
to
the
fair
Altezeera's
.
Your
Civility
(
reply'd
Artavasdes
)
is
so
obliging
,
that
I
must
think
any
thing
a
misery
,
that
forces
me
from
being
near
the
Possessor
of
it
;
and
do
therefore
as
much
resent
Arsaces
injustice
out
of
that
consideration
,
as
commend
my
good
Fortune
,
for
making
it
the
means
of
sending
me
to
my
Princess
.
After
a
Million
of
inviolable
Vows
of
Friendship
,
Rysolis
came
in
,
to
whose
immediate
care
I
recommended
Artavasdes
,
Whom
I
will●
now
leave
returning
to
his
happiness
,
and
continue
the
Relation
of
what
divested
me
of
mine
.
The
good
Callimachus
was
so
earnest
in
his
intention
,
that
he
would
not
so
much
as
,
by
one
word
,
give
him
the
least
interruption
;
which
Artabanes
perceiving
,
he
proceeded
in
the
History
of
his
own
Life
in
these
tearms
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FIRST
PART
.
BOOK
III.
I
Left
off
the
last
night
in
so
glorious
a
p●osperity
,
that
it
was
hardly
capable
of
accession
,
but
by
being
uncapable
of
Diminution
;
but
alas
,
all
those
morning
glories
were
soon
clouded
:
for
Parthenissa
was
so
perfect
,
that
whereas
in
other
Women
,
Fancy
is
the
Rule
for
Beauty
,
in
her
,
Judgement
was
;
and
where
there
were
Eyes
to
see
her
,
there
was
a
Heart
to
adore
her
.
In
the
beginning
of
my
Fortunes
,
I
acquainted
you
with
a
Prince
of
the
Parthians
,
called
Surena
,
whose
Person
,
Extraction
,
and
Parts
,
render'd
him
very
considerable
.
This
Gentleman
one
day
,
saw
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
and
consequently
fell
in
love
with
her
(
for
that
was
an
unsever'd
effect
of
seeing
her
)
and
as
all
things
naturally
desire
their
satisfaction
,
and
preservation
,
so
the
wound
which
those
fair
eyes
had
made
(
though
unvoluntarily
)
was
too
dangerous
to
delay
the
cure
;
he
found
,
after
a
long
debate
,
that
the
Fire
was
too
pleasing
to
be
quencht
,
that
the
end
was
so
inviting
,
the
way
could
not
be
the
contrary
,
although
none
could
heal
the
wound
but
she
that
made
it
;
and
to
say
truth
,
my
Rival
had
too
violent
a
flame
to
conceal
it
long
,
and
thought
it
was
to
be
unjust
unto
himself
,
to
languish
without
acquainting
the
Author
of
his
Torments
with
them
,
who
perhaps
,
might
be
as
willing
to
ease
him
,
as
he
was
apprehensive
of
the
contrary
.
This
resolution
once
assum'd
,
he
conveys
a
Letter
one
evening
into
Parthenissa's
Night-cloaths
(
but
by
what
Art
I
could
not
then
imagine
)
pre-supposing
she
would
perceive
it
there
,
and
so
out
of
curiosity
read
it
.
That
which
made
Surena
hasten
this
Essay
,
was
,
That
the
next
morning
Lindadory
being
to
Hunt
a
wild
Bore
,
to
sacrifice
it
to
Ceres
,
as
an
Annual
Duty
,
and
having
learnt
Parthenissa
would
accompany
her
,
he
imagin'd
,
that
during
the
Chase
,
he
might
discover
what
effect
his
Letter
had
produc'd
;
for
not
having
the
happiness
to
be
known
to
her
,
he
could
take
no
just
pretence
,
to
be
inform'd
of
it
at
her
own
house
.
The
morning
destin'd
for
Hunting
being
come
,
and
she
intending
to
honour
my
Sister
with
her
company
,
I
went
to
wait
upon
her
to
Court
,
and
coming
something
early
,
I
found
her
not
drest
;
it
happen'd
too
,
that
when
I
came
in
,
Zianthe
,
that
waited
on
Parthenissa
,
and
who
was
the
onely
Confident
in
her
Amours
,
was
gone
out
about
some
occasion
;
and
my
Princess
uncovering
her
Night-Linnen
,
I
perceiv'd
Surena's
Letter
,
but
not
knowing
what
it
was
,
I
told
her
(
Laughing
)
I
see
Madam
,
you
have
a
Servant
,
besides
Artabanes
,
that
dares
declare
he
adores
you
;
for
by
the
place
you
think
fit
to
give
that
Paper
,
I
cannot
but
imagine
't
is
sent
from
some
body
that
has
a
Passion
for
you
.
Parthenissa
,
who
thought
it
had
been
some
Verses
I
had
made
,
and
hidden
there
purposely
,
told
me
,
smiling
,
I
renounce
all
Servants
but
Artabanes
,
and
to
shew
you
I
am
real
in
what
I
say
,
I
give
you
leave
to
unseal
the
Letter
,
and
conjure
you
to
read
it
aloud
.
And
I
,
conceiving
it
had
been
somewhat
of
Raillery
open'd
it
,
and
read
these
ensuing
words
.
SVRENA
to
the
Princess
PARTHENISSA
.
〈◊〉
you
knew
how
tedious
,
and
how
vast
my
sufferings
have
been
before
I
took
this
confidence
of
declaring
them
,
you
would
rather
admire
so
long
a
silence
,
than
condemn
me
now
for
breaking
it
:
neither
would
I
have
ever
disclos'd
my
Flame
,
but
have
dy'd
silently
,
admiring
you
,
had
I
not
thought
this
Letter
a
lesser
crime
,
than
by
an
unlicens'd
death
,
to
have
depriv'd
you
of
your
passionatest
Servant
.
But
,
Madam
,
my
Reprieve
is
but
short
;
for
if
you
now
reject
the
faithfullest
Heart
that
ever
Love
did
yet
inspire
,
I
shall
receive
it
as
your
Commands
,
to
decline
adoring
you
,
which
since
I
cannot
whilst
I
live
,
I
am
resolv'd
by
death
,
to
obey
you
,
which
I
shall
embrace
with
joy
,
if
it
can
produce
any
in
the
fair
Parthenissa
.
O
gods
!
if
Thunder
had
fallen
at
my
feet
,
my
amazement
had
been
far
short
of
what
it
was
at
the
ending
of
this
Letter
,
and
if
silence
had
been
a
sign
of
guilt
,
I
might
have
thought
Parthenissa
capable
of
it
:
For
my
part
I
knew
not
what
to
say
,
to
suspect
her
constancy
was
a
crime
too
great
to
enter
into
my
thoughts
,
and
how
that
Letter
was
brought
in
the
place
I
found
it
,
I
could
as
little
imagine
,
but
lest
my
silence
might
breed
in
her
,
a
sinister
opinion
of
my
belief
,
I
told
her
.
Madam
,
I
hope
this
experiment
will
make
you
acknowledge
,
that
my
saying
,
I
had
as
many
Rivals
,
as
beholders
of
you
,
was
rather
a
Truth
than
any
thing
else
.
I
must
confess
,
she
answer'd
,
I
had
rather
believ'd
you
than
have
had
this
witness
brought
to
convince
me
;
but
that
Truth
cannot
be
greater
than
my
admiration
,
how
this
Letter
came
hither
,
unless
for
your
diversion
you
writ
it
your self
,
and
fixt
a
name
to
it
,
which
I
believe
as
little
dreams
of
Love
for
me
,
as
I
do
to
confer
mine
on
him
:
And
therefore
,
I
beseech
you
Artabanes
,
rid
me
of
the
trouble
I
am
in
,
by
telling
me
the
truth
.
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
by
the
respect
I
owe
you
,
I
neither
writ
the
Letter
,
nor
ever
saw
it
till
now
,
but
I
do
know
the
Hand
to
be
Surena's
.
Upon
this
assurance
,
I
saw
her
put
on
a
more
serious
countenance
,
and
having
continued
silent
a
while
,
she
told
me
,
I
was
,
till
now
,
confident
,
Artabanes
,
that
you
should
need
no
other
way
to
reap
my
Heart
,
than
by
my
Actions
:
but
now
I
fear
,
to
continue
me
in
your
good
opinion
,
I
must
make
use
of
Vows
,
and
consequently
owe
that
to
your
goodness
,
which
I
assur'd
to
my self
always
to
obtain
from
your
Justice
.
Therefore
I
swear
by
all
that
is
most
holy
,
and
by
our
endless
Passions
,
I
never
knew
that
Surena
lov'd
me
,
nor
can
fancy
how
this
Letter
came
to
my
hands
;
besides
these
Protestations
,
you
may
imagine
,
if
I
had
had
the
perfidious
design
of
receiving
any
addresses
but
yours
,
I
would
never
have
disclos'd
it
my self
.
I
had
not
the
patience
to
hear
her
further
,
and
begging
her
pardon
for
it
,
I
reply'd
,
Ah
Madam
,
what
do
you
mean
,
you
could
not
use
me
thus
,
but
by
esteeming
me
guilty
of
believing
you
unconstant
;
for
the
punishment
you
now
impose
on
me
,
is
too
great
for
any
other
crime
:
when
you
would
raise
my
Faith
to
credit
any
thing
you
speak
,
if
you
make
use
of
Vows
,
or
imagine
there
can
be
a
higher
reason
to
induce
my
belief
,
than
your
commanding
it
,
you
do
me
as
great
an
injury
,
as
I
should
do
your
Virtue
,
or
my
own
Felicity
,
could
I
think
you
capable
of
change
;
neither
can
I
be
more
certain
that
your
eyes
conquer
whosoever
they
look
upon
,
than
I
am
,
that
your
generous
Mind
despises
every
Victory
,
but
that
over
the
too
too
happy
Artabanes
.
Truly
(
said
she
)
if
there
be
an
obligation
in
doing
Justice
,
I
now
received
one
from
you
,
and
must
increase
the
score
,
by
beseeching
your
advice
,
how
to
suppress
this
growing
flame
,
with
such
secresie
,
that
none
may
know
it
liv'd
,
but
we
that
know
't
is
dead
;
for
if
I
do
not
answer
him
,
he
may
feed
himself
with
hope
;
and
if
I
do
,
I
then
acquaint
him
that
I
know
his
Passion
,
and
though
my
return
be
never
so
cold
,
he
may
impute
it
to
a
wrong
cause
,
and
so
that
which
we
elect
for
the
extinction
of
his
Passion
,
may
prove
the
nouriture
.
As
I
was
about
to
answer
her
,
Zianthe
came
in
,
of
whom
Parthenissa
ask'd
very
strictly
,
how
that
Letter
came
,
where
't
was
found
,
who
seem'd
to
wonder
at
the
accident
,
as
much
as
we
,
and
upon
her
assurance
of
endeavouring
to
discover
the
Actor
,
we
gave
over
any
further
enquiry
of
it
,
and
apply'd
our selves
,
how
to
remedy
the
business
,
and
to
ease
the
fair
Parthenissa
of
it
;
I
undertook
so
to
manage
this
new
Love
,
as
I
would
free
her
from
any
future
trouble
by
it
.
Zianthe
,
who
imagin'd
I
would
elect
that
course
,
which
all
Rivals
use
,
to
rid
themselves
of
their
competitors
,
presently
told
her
softly
,
that
she
foresaw
I
would
decide
this
difference
by
a
Duel
,
which
could
not
but
be
fatal
to
her
,
which
soever
way
Fortune
inclin'd
:
For
if
Artabanes
prov'd
victorious
,
the
strict
inhibitions
the
King
had
so
often
reiterated
against
Duels
(
though
it
were
his
own
Son
that
fought
them
)
and
the
powerful
prosecution
of
Surenas's
Friends
,
will
,
if
he
escape
not
the
hands
of
Justice
,
assuredly
bring
his
Head
upon
the
Scaffold
;
or
if
he
do
,
then
a
perpetual
banishment
will
inevitably
follow
,
and
you
must
not
expect
,
that
his
being
the
first
Prince
of
the
Blood
,
will
be
any
Title
to
hope
for
a
sparing
of
his
;
on
the
other
side
,
if
Surena's
Sword
prove
victorious
,
you
cannot
any
way
fancy
the
greatness
of
your
grief
,
but
by
comparing
it
to
that
of
your
loss
,
and
which
soever
way
the
chance
does
fall
,
you
must
come
upon
the
Stage
,
and
then
you
are
at
the
mercy
of
any
that
will
blemish
your
Reputation
,
which
though
unjustly
taxed
,
is
of
so
pure
a
tincture
,
the
stain
will
never
be
effac'd
.
These
reasons
of
Zianthe's
,
and
many
others
of
the
like
quality
,
were
so
prevalent
with
Parthenissa
,
that
she
came
to
me
,
and
conjur'd
me
by
the
strictest
tyes
she
could
invent
,
not
to
take
any
notice
to
Surena
of
his
Letter
,
which
if
I
did
,
she
would
esteem
it
as
an
argument
I
suspected
her
constancy
needed
my
help
,
and
she
ambition'd
I
should
derive
the
entire
possession
of
her
Affection
,
onely
from
Her
,
and
not
from
my
Sword
:
Besides
(
she
continued
)
what
greater
punishment
can
you
inflict
upon
your
Rival
,
than
to
see
him
deny'd
what
you
so
absolutely
possess
;
and
if
his
Perseverance
be
great
,
my
Rigor
shall
not
be
inferior
to
it
,
which
will
render
him
an
object
fitter
for
pity
,
than
your
hatred
.
Many
other
reasons
she
alledg'd
,
and
after
all
she
would
not
quit
her
Chamber
,
till
I
had
faithfully
promis'd
to
obey
her
.
Immediately
after
we
went
to
prosecute
our
intended
sport
.
That
day
Surena
seem'd
to
accompany
the
Prince
Phraates
,
but
it
was
indeed
,
to
wait
an
occasion
,
to
know
what
effect
his
Letter
had
produc'd
.
The
assurance
I
had
in
Parthenissa's
Vertue
and
Affection
,
made
me
further
all
I
could
,
my
Rivals
designe
,
that
she
might
find
my
confidence
was
more
in
her
,
than
in
my self
.
But
I
easily
saw
,
that
Surena
did
not
more
endeavour
to
meet
her
,
than
she
to
avoid
him
,
yet
at
last
in
a
narrow
lane
,
where
't
was
impossible
to
do
so
any
longer
,
I
saw
him
fall
into
discourse
with
her
,
but
being
at
too
great
a
distance
,
I
could
not
hear
it
,
yet
I
perceived
by
some
passionate
gestures
,
he
was
very
earnest
in
what
he
said
,
but
after
a
quarter
of
an
hours
time
,
the
company
parted
them
,
and
I
easily
read
in
his
looks
his
success
.
The
Sun
by
his
declining
,
warn'd
the
Hunters
to
retire
,
and
Parthenissa
,
accompanying
my
Sister
to
her
Lodgings
,
begg'd
her
,
that
we
might
be
private
,
and
then
having
acquainted
her
with
my
Rivals
Letter
,
she
told
me
,
You
remember
Artabanes
,
the
long
narrow
lane
we
rid
through
,
it
was
there
where
Surena
overtook
me
,
and
if
he
derived
any
pleasure
from
his
entertainment
,
he
owed
it
not
to
my
inclination
,
but
my
necessity
.
After
a
few
indifferent
discourses
,
he
told
me
,
with
some
disorder
,
I
perceive
,
Madam
,
by
your
shunning
of
me
,
that
my
Letter
,
which
declared
my
Passion
,
is
fallen
into
your
hands
,
and
I
now
find
my
apprehensions
were
not
unjustly
grounded
.
Sir
,
(
said
I
)
I
must
confess
this
morning
I
found
a
Letter
in
my
Chamber
,
which
I
burnt
,
if
it
were
,
as
you
say
,
a
declaration
of
your
passion
,
would
that
were
also
reduc'd
to
that
nothing
the
Paper
is
.
Ah
Madam
(
he
reply'd
)
can
you
be
so
resembling
to
the
gods
in
Beauty
,
and
not
in
disposition
?
for
they
are
never
offended
with
a
Heart
which
does
adore
them
with
that
devotion
,
which
mine
does
you
:
if
it
be
a
crime
for
me
to
love
you
,
then
it
is
a
sin
for
you
to
be
so
lovely
:
and
if
my
Flame
be
an
offence
,
you
must
quarrel
with
your
perfections
,
which
are
the
causes
of
it
.
If
your
Passion
(
I
reply'd
)
be
so
great
as
you
say
it
is
,
I
must
then
believe
your
imagination
,
not
your
judgement
,
attributes
those
perfections
to
me
which
has
rais'd
it
,
for
Beauty
being
but
Fancy
,
you
may
perswade
those
,
which
otherwise
would
tax
your
choice
,
that
you
pereive
as
many
perfections
in
me
,
as
I
know
I
want
,
but
lest
your
affection
may
prove
a
deceitful
optick
,
my
Charity
shall
put
you
in
the
right
way
,
which
is
to
decline
your
addresses
to
me
,
for
besides
my
great
want
of
merit
,
I
am
as
rigid
as
the
perfectest
of
my
Sex
,
therefore
,
I
beseech
you
,
owe
this
cure
to
your
Reason
,
and
not
to
Time
.
Madam
(
he
answer'd
)
't
is
Reason
gave
the
wound
,
and
neither
Time
nor
your
Disdain
,
shall
ever
make
me
alter
the
resolution
I
have
so
justly
assum'd
,
you
may
as
easily
hope
to
separate
Light
from
the
Sun
,
as
my
Heart
from
that
Passion
which
possesses
it
:
no
,
fair
Parthenissa
,
I
am
resolv'd
,
if
I
cannot
be
Loves
Favourite
,
I
will
be
his
Martyr
,
and
if
your
Scorns
cannot
extinguish
my
Desires
,
the
coldness
of
the
Grave
shall
never
triumph
over
them
,
but
the
gods
will
preserve
so
pure
a
Flame
a
live
,
to
be
a
pattern
for
future
Lovers
to
imitate
.
Sir
,
(
said
I
)
so
much
affection
deserves
all
that
I
can
return
,
which
is
my
Friendship
,
and
that
again
conjures
you
not
to
cast
away
so
noble
a
Passion
on
one
that
must
be
necessarily
ungrateful
,
for
that
which
you
desire
I
have
given
to
another
,
and
were
it
in
my
Power
to
recall
it
,
it
is
not
in
my
Will.
I
hope
this
will
shew
you
with
how
much
justice
I
intreat
you
not
to
ingage
your self
in
so
ruinous
a
design
,
for
should
I
now
confer
on
you
my
Love
,
and
you
receive
it
,
your
indiscretion
will
be
as
great
as
you
would
perswade
me
your
passion
is
,
for
my
constancy
,
(
the
cause
of
your
contentment
)
would
be
always
the
occasion
of
your
fear
.
Ah
Madam
(
he
reply'd
)
would
to
the
gods
you
were
but
yet
pleased
to
bless
me
with
your
Affection
,
for
then
the
joy
would
be
so
absolute
,
that
I
should
onely
have
the
Power
to
contemplate
it
,
and
not
how
I
came
to
the
fruition
of
it
.
But
Madam
,
I
am
too
bold
to
hope
for
any
pleasing
answer
,
till
my
Services
assure
the
vastness
of
my
Passion
.
I
bless
this
hour
,
that
gave
me
opportunity
of
telling
you
of
it
,
and
that
your
Rigor
cannot
be
greater
than
my
perseverance
.
Thereupon
(
without
sta●ing
for
an
answer
)
he
went
away
;
But
I
impute
those
words
(
she
continu'd
)
to
the
first
flame
of
Love
,
which
commonly
is
the
most
violent
:
For
my
part
,
I
am
resolv'd
to
wear
so
much
coldness
on
those
actions
which
relate
to
him
,
that
if
he
have
that
spirit
men
believe
,
I
am
confident
't
will
change
his
love
into
resentment
.
Madam
(
my
sister
reply'd
)
I
foresee
many
sad
accidents
will
oppose
your
loves
,
if
by
a
speedy
overture
unto
your
friends
you
do
not
consummate
a
Nuptial
;
What
should
divert
you
from
that
election
?
Your
Flames
are
too
virtuous
and
too
just
not
to
be
owned
;
and
being
so
,
who
will
oppose
them
;
this
declaration
will
silence
all
Rivals
growing
Loves
,
and
make
your
happiness
as
sure
as
't
will
be
great
.
Ah
Sister
(
I
answer'd
)
't
is
true
,
our
Passions
are
so
pure
,
they
know
not
a
comparison
;
but
yet
my
Father
(
whose
commands
I
receiv'd
last
night
)
will
,
I
am
fearful
,
resist
this
vast
felicity
;
for
as
soon
as
I
had
left
you
,
he
sent
for
me
to
wait
on
him
,
which
I
did
,
and
after
he
had
walked
two
or
three
turns
without
speaking
one
word
,
he
at
last
told
me
:
Artabanes
,
The
gods
having
given
me
the
blessings
of
a
son
,
I
have
found
so
high
an
one
in
it
,
that
I
shall
enjoin
you
to
endeavor
to
partake
of
the
like
contentment
;
I
should
think
my
death
as
full
of
contentment
as
my
life
has
been
of
honor
,
could
I
see
you
matcht
in
a
Family
that
might
assure
me
you
should
have
a
successor
worthy
of
ours
:
To
effect
this
has
been
long
my
care
,
and
never
till
now
could
accomplish
it
:
It
is
but
lately
I
had
a
motion
made
me
,
which
I
much
approve
;
't
is
the
Princess
Zephalinda
(
Surena's
Sister
)
whose
Virtues
,
Beauty
,
Person
,
and
Blood
,
assures
me
you
will
think
your self
highly
satisfi'd
with
such
a
Marriage
,
at
least
I
shall
be
.
I
must
confess
this
declaration
did
infinitely
surprize
me
;
but
least
he
should
guess
the
true
cause
of
my
astonishment
,
I
told
him
:
In
the
first
place
Sir
,
as
I
cannot
but
return
my
humble
thanks
for
your
care
,
so
I
must
not
but
acquaint
you
,
that
I
am
not
ignorant
of
how
high
a
concernment
Marriage
is
,
being
happiness
or
misery
,
till
death
dissolves
the
knot
;
and
since
Felicity
is
onely
opinion
,
there
is
none
can
prescribe
positive
rules
for
the
making
it
;
but
every
man
must
be
his
own
judge
;
contentment
something
resembling
mens
tastes
;
that
which
is
pleasing
to
one
,
to
another
may
be
poyson
.
The
consequence
being
so
great
,
and
the
choice
not
to
be
made
by
Proxy
,
I
shall
beseech
you
give
me
leave
to
learn
whether
that
Princess
be
possessor
of
such
perfectious
as
may
assure
me
of
such
happiness
:
this
nothing
but
time
can
do
;
and
if
she
appears
not
such
to
me
as
she
does
to
you
,
I
will
then
acquaint
you
with
it
,
and
hope
you
will
not
compel
me
to
make
her
and
my self
miserable
.
As
I
am
(
said
he
)
Artabanes
indulgent
to
you
,
so
I
expect
that
you
be
obedient
unto
me
;
and
then
he
withdrew
himself
into
his
Closet
.
This
was
the
substance
of
his
proposal
,
and
my
return
to
it
,
for
I
did
not
hold
it
fit
to
acquaint
him
with
my
Passion
till
first
we
had
advis'd
together
:
for
I
perceiv'd
by
his
last
words
how
his
inclination
stood
,
and
I
too
well
knew
how
difficult
he
is
to
be
removed
when
he
has
once
taken
up
a
resolution
not
to
be
so
.
Then
I
besought
Parthenissa
to
honor
me
with
her
advice
,
since
I
had
put
all
that
was
dear
unto
me
to
her
ordering
.
To
which
she
told
me
.
Moneses
humor
(
which
I
am
absolutely
ignorant
of
)
being
the
chief
thing
in
this
affair
,
by
which
we
are
to
be
guided
,
makes
me
as
unfit
to
advise
;
as
your
knowledge
of
it
renders
you
most
capable
.
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
that
my
Father
is
resolv'd
to
be
obey'd
is
not
more
certain
,
than
that
I
am
determin'd
the
contrary
,
for
in
this
case
obedience
is
a
crime
,
so
that
the
end
being
now
resolv'd
,
we
have
nothing
to
advise
upon
but
the
means
that
may
best
conduce
unto
it
.
Which
in
my
opinion
Madam
(
said
Lindadory
)
is
,
that
Artabanes
,
make
some
seeming
addresses
to
Zephalinda
(
for
Moneses
is
sooner
vanquish'd
by
yielding
than
resistance
)
and
doubtless
she
cannot
be
so
perfect
(
especially
being
compar'd
with
the
fair
Parthenissa
)
but
he
may
find
some
defect
in
her
person
or
humour
,
which
may
make
his
declining
her
appear
an
effect
of
his
judgement
,
not
disobedience
:
for
if
my
Father
find
his
refusal
of
serving
her
,
roceeds
from
his
being
possest
with
a
Passion
for
another
,
he
will
impute
my
Brothers
deserting
Zephalinda
to
his
Pre-ingagement
;
and
then
I
am
so
well
acquainted
with
his
disposition
,
that
it
will
be
impossible
to
alter
it
.
Thus
by
concealing
your
Flames
a
little
longer
,
you
may
attain
that
happiness
which
by
a
speedy
declaring
of
them
,
may
receive
many
obstructions
,
if
not
an
absolute
ruine
.
Madam
(
said
Parthenissa
to
Lindadory
)
I
much
apprehend
if
Artabanes
can
have
no
other
inducements
to
obtain
Moneses's
permission
of
declining
Zephalinda
,
and
making
his
addresses
to
me
,
than
her
imperfections
,
and
my
having
none
,
that
the
argument
may
be
justly
reverted
by
your
Father
,
who
may
more
aptly
apply
that
to
Zephalinda
,
which
your
goodness
confers
on
me
.
My
Princess
(
I
reply'd
)
there
could
be
no
greater
joy
befall
me
than
that
Moneses
were
to
consider
both
with
the
eyes
of
justice
,
and
that
I
were
to
possess
his
election
,
you
will
then
quickly
find
how
injurious
to
your self
modesty
has
been
,
and
how
vast
a
felicity
his
judgement
will
confer
on
me
.
I
have
(
said
Parthenissa
)
so
good
an
opinion
of
yours
,
that
I
will
banish
those
apprehensions
the
knowledge
of
my
own
defects
do
raise
in
me
;
and
they
being
supprest
,
I
have
nothing
to
say
against
the
fair
Lindadory's
advice
.
'T
is
not
enough
(
I
reply'd
)
that
you
have
nothing
to
say
against
it
,
but
if
you
will
have
it
observ'd
(
Madam
)
you
must
strictly
enjoin
it
me
,
for
I
have
so
great
a
reluctancy
to
that
action
,
that
it
must
be
some
powerfull
Charm
as
your
Commands
which
can
make
me
undertake
it
.
Since
(
reply'd
Parthenissa
)
the
performance
is
so
necessary
,
and
that
you
assure
me
the
onely
means
that
must
enable
you
to
do
it
,
is
my
Commands
,
I
do
enjoin
you
it
,
but
my
affections
make
me
(
I
fear
)
uncharitable
to
Zephalinda
,
by
wishing
,
you
may
quickly
find
as
many
defects
in
her
,
as
I
desire
perfections
to
merit
your
esteem
.
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
the
first
of
your
wishes
is
as
unnecessary
as
the
last
;
for
when
Zephalinda
is
to
be
paralell'd
to
you
,
it
would
be
as
difficult
to
find
no
imperfections
in
her
,
as
to
find
any
in
you
.
Having
taken
this
resolution
,
I
began
to
apply
my self
to
put
it
in
practice
;
and
that
which
gave
me
some
probability
of
its
success
was
,
that
Zephalinda
had
as
much
aversion
to
Love
,
as
Beauty
to
create
it
.
The
first
addresses
I
made
her
,
were
receiv'd
with
a
coldness
proportionate
to
her
practice
and
my
desires
.
But
I
must
confess
,
I
contributed
as
much
as
I
could
to
it
,
and
apprehended
nothing
so
much
,
as
that
which
most
men
in
Parthia
would
have
esteem'd
their
highest
Felicity
.
I
know
not
whether
that
which
I
intended
as
the
means
to
want
her
affection
,
procured
it
:
for
I
have
been
told
,
that
some
Women
,
where
they
find
but
an
indifferency
,
make
it
their
design
to
bring
it
to
an
extreme
;
and
so
mens
coldness
does
often
ingender
their
Flame
:
But
whatsoever
was
the
cause
,
I
began
too
soon
to
perceive
that
which
I
too
much
fear'd
;
and
knowing
now
she
once
honor'd
me
with
her
affection
,
it
would
be
difficult
if
not
impossible
any
longer
to
conceal
mine
;
I
resolv'd
forthwith
to
acquaint
Parthenissa
with
it
,
who
I
found
exceedingly
satisfied
with
the
ingenuity
of
my
proceeding
,
and
by
the
greatness
of
her
contentment
for
an
action
she
could
but
in
justice
expect
;
I
somewhat
believ'd
she
had
a
diffidence
,
whether
that
which
was
begun
as
a
pretence
,
were
not
turn'd
into
a
reality
;
having
once
taken
up
this
opinion
,
I
cast
out
some
words
which
might
give
her
a
rise
to
conceive
it
,
and
she
who
had
as
piercing
an
inspection
as
any
Creature
was
capable
of
,
soon
conceiv'd
my
suspitions
,
and
as
readily
acknowledg'd
the
justice
of
them
,
but
with
words
so
aptly
appropriated
to
her
design
,
that
she
made
that
little
jealousie
the
highest
obligation
she
could
place
on
me
,
as
proceeding
from
a
proportionate
Passion
:
and
to
say
truth
,
Zephalinda
was
capable
of
shaking
a
constancy
less
firm
than
mine
;
for
besides
her
Beanty
,
which
was
fitter
for
wonder
than
description
,
she
had
a
freeness
and
a
grace
in
all
her
action
,
peculiar
to
herself
,
and
surpast
by
none
but
Parthenissa
;
her
wit
and
virtue
were
resembling
unto
all
her
other
qualities
,
and
(
in
a
word
)
she
enjoy'd
so
many
perfections
,
that
had
I
not
been
prepossest
with
a
former
Passion
,
I
had
esteem'd
hers
as
great
a
happiness
as
I
then
thought
it
a
misfortune
.
But
perceiving
by
Parthenissa's
words
,
that
she
had
contracted
some
little
diffidence
of
me
,
and
knowing
that
where
there
is
once
a
jealousie
,
every
thing
contributes
to
the
growth
of
it
;
I
told
her
,
Madam
,
since
I
find
,
that
there
may
be
an
ill
construction
made
of
that
which
I
undertook
but
by
your
commands
,
I
am
resolv'd
with
your
permission
(
which
I
humbly
beg
)
to
take
away
all
occasion
of
such
a
misfortune
;
for
being
innocent
I
would
not
look
like
guilty
.
The
way
,
Madam
,
which
I
would
propound
,
is
,
freely
to
acquaint
Zephalinda
with
our
Passions
;
and
truly
I
have
discover'd
so
much
virtue
and
discretion
in
her
since
my
feign'd
addresses
,
that
my
duty
to
them
,
if
not
you
,
would
confine
me
to
this
;
and
which
proceeding
will
not
onely
take
off
her
resentment
for
what
is
past
,
but
invite
her
assistance
in
the
future
,
and
that
in
my
opinion
can
in
no
way
be
so
effectually
done
,
as
by
obtaining
from
her
to
use
me
with
a
disdain
so
unsufferable
that
my
declining
her
may
appear
as
just
to
my
Father
as
it
will
be
necessary
to
me
.
Parthenissa
would
not
grant
my
desire
,
till
first
she
had
received
reiterated
assurances
from
me
,
that
I
made
it
,
not
to
satisfie
her
suspition
,
which
my
expressions
had
not
done
sufficiently
,
but
as
I
held
it
a
justice
to
Zephalinda
,
and
the
best
way
in
order
to
our
affairs
.
This
was
no
sooner
fixt
upon
,
than
I
apply'd
my self
to
out
an
opportunity
to
act
it
:
and
not
many
dayes
after
,
I
lighted
upon
one
,
such
as
I
desir'd
;
for
going
to
wait
upon
Zephalinda
,
I
found
her
alone
in
her
Closet
,
where
(
having
shut
the
door
)
I
flung
my self
at
her
feet
,
and
told
her
,
Madam
,
I
know
not
with
what
face
I
shall
disclose
a
secret
to
you
,
neither
do
I
well
know
how
I
can
longer
conceal
it
:
Your
goodness
makes
me
desire
to
tell
it
,
and
the
same
goodness
makes
me
a
asham'd
to
do
so
;
but
since
persevering
in
my
crime
,
will
make
the
mercy
I
beg
of
you
an
injustice
,
I
will
no
longer
conceal
it
.
'T
is
Madam
,
though
I
have
made
my
addresses
unto
you
,
I
have
given
my
heart
and
liberty
to
Parthenissa
;
I
was
forc'd
to
this
crime
to
obey
Moneses
,
and
disguise
a
Passion
as
great
as
the
offence
by
which
I
did
so
;
but
that
which
somewhat
extenuates
my
sin
is
,
that
as
soon
as
I
had
the
honor
to
know
you
,
I
made
my self
known
unto
you
,
and
as
a
testimony
of
the
high
and
just
opinion
I
have
of
your
virtue
,
the
same
instant
in
which
I
declar'd
I
have
injur'd
you
,
I
trust
you
with
the
power
to
punish
it
;
my
ignorance
of
you
made
me
commit
my
crime
,
and
my
knowledge
of
you
makes
my
pennance
,
which
I
am
confident
is
more
severe
than
your
justice
can
be
.
The
gods
shall
bear
me
witness
,
had
I
not
been
preingag'd
,
I
should
have
implor'd
the
joy
of
your
affection
with
raptures
as
worthy
the
felicity
,
and
I
do
ill
deserve
it
;
but
since
it
was
otherwise
destin'd
,
give
me
leave
to
conjure
you
to
convert
your
affection
into
friendship
;
I
am
capable
of
that
,
though
not
worthy
of
it
;
and
since
I
cannot
give
you
the
first
place
in
my
heart
,
permit
me
to
give
you
an
equal
one
in
my
esteem
:
This
Madam
is
the
condition
,
and
this
is
the
request
of
the
criminal
Artabanes
;
who
can
hardly
have
the
confidence
to
beg
your
pardon
,
because
he
knows
himself
unworthy
of
it
;
and
having
so
highly
wrong'd
your
goodness
,
must
not
expect
that
for
his
satisfaction
you
will
wrong
your
justice
.
Though
I
know
this
discourse
did
trouble
her
,
yet
she
conceal'd
hers
with
so
much
art
,
that
I
almost
doubted
what
I
was
certain
of
;
but
judging
by
my
silence
that
I
expected
an
answer
,
〈◊〉
assur'd
me
,
she
would
not
give
i●
till
I
were
risen
,
in
which
I
obey'd
her
,
and
then
she
told
me
,
That
you
have
obtain'd
a
Mistress
,
Artaban●●
,
more
worthy
of
you
than
I
am
,
shall
always
be
my
satisfaction
,
and
not
my
trouble
;
if
I
have
receiv'd
your
counterfeit
Flame
,
't
was
because
you
assur'd
me
it
would
create
your
felicity
;
and
if
I
paid
you
a
reall
one
,
't
was
a
duty
to
your
merit
;
but
since
I
lov'd
you
more
than
my self
,
and
that
the
declining
of
my
affection
will
be
more
pleasing
than
the
continuance
;
the
same
consideration
which
made
me
give
it
you
,
will
reduce
me
to
recall
it
,
yet
I
could
wish
you
had
never
rais'd
it
,
or
that
you
had
apply'd
some
other
cure
for
its
suppression
;
but
I
hope
I
shall
be
so
much
Mistress
of
my
inclinations
,
as
if
they
have
an
existence
,
yet
they
shall
be
invisible
;
and
if
they
must
trouble
any
,
it
shall
be
Zephalinda
onely
,
Who
believing
your
professions
before
her
no
title
to
them
,
too
soon
entertain'd
a
hope
of
that
,
which
't
were
an
injustice
to
confer
upon
her
:
for
that
friendship
which
you
beg
,
it
shall
be
pay'd
you
,
with
a
constancy
and
zeal
worthy
the
object
;
and
I
will
value
yours
at
so
high
a
rate
,
that
I
shall
esteem
it
almost
a
sufficient
reparation
for
that
pleasing
happiness
you
have
robb'd
me
of
.
Ah!
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
can
you
so
soon
pardon
,
and
so
soon
oblige
?
Will
you
then
allow
no
interval
between
my
fault
and
your
reward
?
If
any
thing
could
make
me
think
my
being
Parthenissa's
misfortune
this
would
;
but
my
condition
is
such
,
that
the
breath
I
should
spend
in
the
expressions
of
my
gratitude
,
I
must
employ
in
begging
you
to
increase
the
causes
of
it
;
't
is
Madam
,
that
you
would
henceforth
use
me
in
publick
with
your
highest
scorn
;
This
my
unworthiness
and
your
resentment
may
quickly
lead
you
to
;
and
upon
this
depends
my
future
joy
;
but
if
you
should
entertain
me
so
in
private
,
't
would
blast
all
my
happiness
,
and
destroy
what
it
should
build
;
for
by
the
knowledge
of
your
virtues
,
I
find
your
friendship
is
as
necessary
to
my
contentment
as
Parthenissa's
love
.
I
know
not
(
said
Zephalinda
)
to
what
intent
you
mean
this
;
but
if
it
be
to
delude
the
World
,
the
action
will
be
so
opposite
to
my
inclination
,
that
my
ill
counterfeiting
will
reveal
what
you
would
strive
to
hinder
.
Then
(
I
reply'd
)
I
am
undone
,
and
to
make
my
ruine
more
sensible
,
't
is
by
the
greatest
virtue
that
ever
was
possest
:
but
even
now
I
suspected
your
resentment
would
ruine
me
,
now
I
find
your
goodness
will
:
for
justice
to
condemn
is
common
,
but
for
friendship
to
destroy
,
is
a
fate
onely
fit
for
the
crime
of
Artabanes
,
who
is
so
unfortunate
,
that
virtue
loses
its
nature
where
he
is
concern'd
.
Zephalinda
extremely
perplext
to
see
me
in
so
great
a
trouble
,
told
me
,
if
by
any
action
of
mine
I
may
convert
your
disorder
into
as
great
a
joy
,
assure
your self
Artabanes
,
I
will
force
my
inclination
to
an
obeying
of
you
,
and
nothing
but
an
impossibility
shall
hinder
me
from
it
;
therefore
I
conjure
you
acquaint
me
for
what
great
advantage
you
would
imploy
my
friendship
,
in
a
thing
so
inconsistent
with
it
.
Madam
(
said
I
)
my
Father
,
who
knows
your
merit
,
has
so
strictly
enjoyn'd
me
to
serve
you
,
that
if
by
any
fault
of
mine
I
should
decline
adoring
you
,
I
must
expect
all
that
his
indignation
can
inflict
on
me
,
and
lose
the
hopes
of
possessing
Parthenissa
by
his
consent
:
your
scorn
may
make
the
discontinuance
of
my
addresses
to
you
appear
a
kind
of
justice
to
him
,
and
so
incline
him
to
listen
to
my
making
them
to
Parthenissa
.
You
see
by
this
how
much
I
am
therein
concern'd
,
and
by
it
too
,
how
much
I
do
respect
you
,
for
sooner
than
the
world
should
say
I
forsook
the
fair
Zephalinda
,
I
had
rather
give
it
so
strong
a
testimony
of
my
unworthiness
,
as
her
neglect
.
Alas
Artabanes
(
she
answer'd
)
I
had
rather
the
world
should
think
you
just
by
deserting
me
,
than
give
it
so
infallible
an
argument
of
my
want
of
judgement
as
to
decline
your
Passion
;
but
since
your
happiness
depends
so
much
upon
my
counterfeiting
scorn
,
I
will
endeavor
to
build
your
joy
by
the
ruine
of
my
own
,
and
care
not
what
men
do
think
of
me
,
so
you
thereby
obtain
the
happy
Parthenissa
.
Judge
Sir
!
if
ever
there
were
a
higher
generosity
than
this
of
Zephalinda's
:
instead
of
revenging
an
injury
,
she
pardons
it
,
instead
of
punishing
an
offender
she
obliges
him
,
and
so
much
to
her
own
prejudice
,
that
to
establish
her
Rivals
contentment
she
ruines
(
by
her
confession
)
her
own
.
I
must
confess
her
virtue
had
so
great
an
ascendant
over
me
,
that
I
had
almost
deplor'd
the
hopes
of
my
own
felicity
,
since
they
were
so
likely
to
ruine
those
of
hers
.
You
may
easily
guess
,
I
left
her
with
as
high
a
satisfaction
of
her
virtue
as
I
was
troubl'd
at
the
necessity
of
being
ungrateful
to
it
.
As
soon
as
I
came
to
Parthenissa
I
gave
her
by
my
relation
so
just
a
cause
of
affection
to
Zephalinda
,
that
from
that
hour
she
vow'd
her
the
second
place
in
hers
.
and
in
process
of
time
,
they
contracted
so
firm
a
friendship
,
that
though
her
Brother
were
highly
concern'd
in
the
breaking
off
Parthenissa's
affection
and
mine
,
yet
she
was
not
onely
our
Confident
but
our
Counsellor
,
and
discharg'd
both
with
such
secrecy
and
judgement
,
that
we
knew
not
which
was
most
meritorious
.
But
this
friendship
could
hardly
be
greater
than
that
which
Arsaces
had
for
Surena
,
which
did
every
day
so
clearly
manifest
it self
,
that
the
Courtiers
ador'd
him
as
the
rising
Sun
,
and
found
the
onely
way
to
obtain
any
thing
from
the
King
,
was
to
be
promis'd
it
by
his
favorite
,
who
truly
(
setting
the
imperiousness
of
his
humour
aside
)
which
doubtless
he
had
whilst
he
courted
the
Kings
favour
,
he
had
charms
hardly
to
be
resisted
:
Neither
could
Arsaces's
affection
to
the
Brother
be
greater
,
than
the
scorns
I
receiv'd
in
publick
were
from
the
Sister
,
which
at
first
she
personated
so
well
,
that
I
was
constrain'd
often
to
wait
upon
her
in
private
,
to
learn
whether
that
which
we
design'd
for
a
fiction
were
not
metamorphos'd
into
its
contrary
;
but
at
last
she
acted
them
as
a
task
,
and
so
constrain'd
,
that
her
behaviour
seem'd
to
condemn
me
of
that
unkindness
which
her
modesty
would
not
permit
her
words
to
do
.
But
one
evening
I
receiv'd
a
testimony
of
her
friendship
proportionate
to
that
Character
she
had
given
me
of
it
;
'T
was
a
little
note
which
she
convey'd
into
my
hand
,
and
though
many
were
present
,
yet
it
was
so
artificially
that
't
was
impossible
any
could
take
notice
of
it
.
The
words
were
these
:
ZEPHALINDA
to
ARTABANES
.
SUrena
has
not
onely
discover'd
where
you
love
,
but
that
you
are
lov'd
again
,
he
is
resolv'd
whilst
you
seemingly
make
your
addresses
to
me
,
to
make
his
real
ones
to
Parthenissa
,
and
gain
the
King
of
his
party
,
This
you
cannot
resent
as
an
injury
from
either
,
having
publiquely
declar'd
a
Passion
to
one
,
for
whom
you
have
none
.
You
had
best
therefore
suddenly
break
off
the
false
,
and
manifest
the
true
Flame
;
before
Arsaces
appear
too
openly
for
your
Rival
,
who
then
may
look
on
your
affection
,
as
a
contempt
to
his
authority
.
Tell
me
Artabanes
,
does
not
the
betraying
of
a
Brother
,
the
advancing
of
my
Rivals
,
and
the
ruining
of
my
own
hopes
,
at
least
,
deserve
your
friendship
,
and
yet
that
is
all
I
demand
,
since
the
impossibility
of
expecting
more
,
would
be
as
great
,
as
the
sin
of
doing
so
.
AS
soon
as
I
had
done
reading
these
few
lines
,
I
communicated
them
to
my
Princess
,
who
did
not
onely
much
approve
of
the
advice
,
but
more
of
the
gallantry
of
her
that
gave
it
.
The
same
night
I
waited
upon
Zephalinda
,
and
taking
an
opportunity
,
I
made
her
Parthenissa's
,
and
my
own
retributions
,
for
so
unimitable
a
friendship
;
but
time
being
exceeding
precious
,
and
there
being
then
with
Zephalinda
,
Surena
,
Sillaces
,
Lindadory
,
Parthenissa
,
and
many
others
,
the
chiefest
of
the
Court
,
I
resolv'd
no
longer
to
delay
that
which
was
design'd
between
us
,
and
having
privately
advertis'd
Zephalinda
of
my
intention
,
I
began
a
discourse
of
the
importunity
of
Lovers
,
as
a
Rise
to
effect
it
;
The
subject
was
so
copious
,
that
there
wanted
no
matter
of
entertainment
,
but
that
we
insisted
upon
most
,
was
occasion'd
by
Zephalinda's
saying
,
that
she
admir'd
at
those
,
who
when
their
Mistresses
declar'd
they
could
not
love
them
,
would
yet
continue
their
loves
:
as
if
importunity
could
ingender
Affection
.
To
which
Surena
,
as
believing
himself
most
concern'd
,
reply'd
:
I
should
(
Sister
)
have
an
ill
opinion
of
that
General
,
who
designing
to
take
a
Town
,
would
,
upon
its
refusal
to
yield
at
the
summoning
,
raise
his
Camp
,
and
march
away
:
'T
is
just
so
in
this
case
,
what
our
desires
cannot
perform
,
perseverance
must
,
and
since
modesty
and
practice
does
allow
Women
at
first
to
deny
their
Servants
,
't
would
be
a
great
want
of
discretion
to
take
that
for
their
disdain
,
which
is
but
their
Passion
.
Madam
(
said
I
)
there
may
be
something
more
added
in
this
particular
,
for
since
by
daily
experience
we
find
,
that
a
high
Passion
ingenders
a
proportionate
Scorn
,
the
first
giving
the
Power
,
if
not
the
Cause
unto
the
last
,
why
may
not
we
as
well
expect
that
an
opportunity
may
beget
an
affection
,
the
difference
being
but
equally
great
?
That
which
you
say
(
answer'd
Zephalinda
)
is
a
clear
mistake
,
for
certainly
never
any
Woman
hated
a
Man
for
loving
her
,
but
she
having
some
aversion
to
the
person
,
he
imputes
it
to
his
Flame
;
but
to
that
which
my
Brother
says
,
I
must
confess
I
think
it
a
madness
,
where
there
is
an
affection
to
abandon
it
upon
the
first
refusal
,
but
sometimes
Men
are
apt
to
give
our
bashfulness
a
longer
being
,
than
indeed
it
has
,
and
have
so
good
an
opinion
of
themselves
,
that
they
often
call
that
which
is
our
aversion
,
our
modesty
,
and
by
making
us
better
natur'd
than
we
are
,
trouble
themselves
more
than
they
should
:
for
my
part
,
I
would
deal
ingeniously
with
my
Lovers
(
if
I
had
any
)
and
tell
them
what
is
modesty
;
and
what
is
aversion
,
that
they
may
owe
their
suffering
to
themselves
,
and
not
to
me
,
for
I
think
it
a
Tyranny
to
make
Mens
Torments
the
witnesses
of
my
Beauty
.
I
must
confess
,
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
if
all
your
Sex
would
practice
what
you
declare
,
we
should
have
as
much
cause
to
admire
their
goodness
,
as
their
beauties
,
but
that
which
deludes
many
,
is
,
that
some
Women
have
hated
two
or
three
years
,
sometimes
more
,
and
then
at
last
have
loved
those
,
whom
they
so
long
slighted
;
and
though
examples
of
this
quality
be
very
rare
,
yet
some
proving
the
possibility
of
it
,
every
one
flatters
himself
with
a
belief
it
may
be
his
fate
;
just
as
in
War
,
where
though
but
one
amongst
a
hundred
thousand
raises
himself
from
a
common
Soldier
to
a
General
,
yet
the
success
of
that
one
,
does
raise
more
expectations
,
than
the
miscarriages
of
so
many
others
doe
deject
.
Besides
Madam
(
said
Sillaces
)
other
Women
,
whose
beauties
have
not
charms
so
strong
,
but
their
Rigor
may
prove
their
Lovers
cure
,
do
often
hold
on
their
Servants
by
expectation
,
and
so
by
Art
supply
the
unkindness
of
Nature
,
but
where
so
many
perfections
reign
,
as
you
are
Mistress
of
,
that
declaration
which
you
would
have
pass
as
an
excess
of
goodness
(
and
perhaps
mean
it
so
)
may
appear
as
high
a
mark
of
your
power
;
for
knowing
your
servants
to
be
surely
charm'd
,
you
may
well
advise
them
to
assume
their
liberty
,
and
they
be
no
more
oblig'd
to
you
for
it
,
than
when
a
Gally-slave
is
bid
by
his
Keeper
to
get
free
,
and
yet
is
still
kept
fast
in
Chains
.
I
should
too
much
trespass
on
your
patience
,
did
I
tell
you
all
the
particulars
of
that
entertainment
,
I
will
therefore
onely
acquaint
you
,
that
some
words
were
spoken
,
which
gave
me
a
fit
opportunity
to
beg
Zephalinda
,
that
since
she
had
made
a
declaration
of
dealing
clearly
with
her
Servants
,
in
what
related
to
her
resolutions
concerning
them
,
she
would
give
me
my
sentence
,
by
acquainting
me
what
return
that
Passion
,
I
so
justly
paid
her
,
might
expect
.
Truly
Artabanes
(
she
answer'd
with
a
gesture
as
full
of
disdain
in
appearance
,
as
it
was
obliging
in
effect
)
I
thought
my
actions
would
have
exempted
my
words
from
that
trouble
,
but
since
you
will
have
it
in
as
much
plainness
as
reality
,
you
must
know
,
I
cannot
receive
your
passion
,
but
if
my
saying
will
be
a
diminution
of
your
grief
,
that
it
proceeds
not
from
any
defect
in
you
,
or
from
any
aversion
to
you
in
particular
,
but
out
of
a
general
aversion
to
Love
,
I
may
very
truly
profess
it
.
Ah
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
you
are
cruel
in
thinking
to
be
merciful
,
and
at
once
load
me
with
so
much
misery
,
that
I
must
sink
under
the
burthen
:
You
should
have
prepar'd
me
by
degrees
for
my
ruine
,
and
thereby
have
lessen'd
it
,
at
least
of
one
misery
,
which
is
the
suddenness
and
unexpectedness
of
it
:
But
Madam
,
do
not
think
that
my
discontent
is
of
so
mean
a
nature
,
that
the
consideration
of
the
cause
,
can
lessen
the
effect
:
No
,
fair
Zephalinda
,
that
with
which
you
would
console
me
,
does
but
augment
my
Torments
,
for
had
you
been
capable
of
Love
,
I
should
by
Zeal
and
Sufferings
have
had
some
expectation
to
have
created
yours
,
but
this
general
hatred
to
the
sweetest
Passion
,
cuts
off
all
expectation
,
and
leaves
me
as
full
of
misery
,
as
my
ambition
for
so
high
a
flame
can
merit
:
but
Madam
,
may
not
I
fear
some
conceal'd
love
is
the
cause
of
this
cruelty
,
or
that
some
happier
,
or
more
deserving
Man
,
may
make
you
alter
this
ruinous
resolution
?
Neither
of
both
(
said
Zephalinda
)
I
attest
the
higher
Powers
,
that
were
I
to
have
any
man
,
it
should
be
Artabanes
,
but
not
having
him
,
I
vow
by
the
domestick
gods
,
that
listen
to
my
oath
,
never
to
marry
any
other
,
and
I
conjure
you
by
your
own
quiet
as
well
as
mine
,
to
speak
to
me
no
more
of
Love
,
nor
conceal
for
me
any
,
lest
you
force
me
to
that
aversion
for
you
,
which
nothing
but
your
perseverance
can
render
legitimate
;
carry
that
noble
Flame
unto
some
other
object
,
whose
antipathy
to
Love
may
not
so
blind
her
Judgement
,
as
to
refuse
your
Passion
,
which
I
shall
pray
may
be
successful
,
and
that
your
Felicity
may
be
equal
to
your
merit
;
But
if
instead
of
my
affection
,
you
will
receive
my
friendship
,
I
do
ingage
my self
to
pay
it
you
,
and
shall
endeavour
by
the
perfectness
of
that
,
to
repair
the
deficiency
of
the
other
.
Ah
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
all
the
consolation
you
then
give
me
,
is
,
that
every
one
that
dares
offer
you
his
Heart
;
shall
be
cloath'd
in
my
Livery
:
but
to
make
my
torment
perfect
,
my
sufferings
proceed
from
one
that
at
the
same
instant
in
which
she
professes
her self
my
friend
,
ruines
me
;
yet
I
shall
strive
by
my
obedience
,
to
manifest
how
ill
I
did
deserve
my
misfortune
,
and
since
making
my self
perfectly
wretched
,
must
be
an
argument
of
that
Truth
,
I
attest
the
self-same
Powers
,
which
even
now
you
invok'd
,
never
to
importune
you
any
more
with
my
Passion
;
but
by
silencing
or
transporting
it
unto
some
other
object
,
take
from
us
both
the
trouble
,
the
continuance
of
it
would
create
:
but
the
high
honor
of
your
friendship
I
embrace
with
a
joy
proportionate
to
the
vastness
of
the
benefit
,
and
will
pay
you
mine
,
with
a
constancy
,
as
great
as
you
assure
me
your
aversion
is
to
love
.
Who
could
express
the
astonishment
of
Surena
,
at
this
profession
?
his
endeavours
truly
were
so
pressing
,
to
alter
his
Sisters
resolution
,
that
it
sufficiently
revealed
his
concern
in
it
;
but
all
was
in
vain
,
for
after
those
protestations
,
we
remain'd
unchangeable
.
This
business
thus
handled
,
was
,
for
a
good
while
,
the
entertainment
of
the
Court
,
and
made
Surena
so
to
hasten
Arsaces
to
appear
for
him
,
that
though
an
unexpected
accident
fell
out
,
which
much
contributed
to
the
publique
,
declaring
my self
a
Servant
to
Parthenissa
,
yet
before
I
could
effect
it
,
Surena
obtain'd
from
the
King
a
visit
to
her
in
his
favour
,
which
did
exceedingly
perplex
our
affairs
,
and
forc'd
me
to
mannage
my
Flame
with
as
secresie
a
troublesome
as
great
;
but
that
which
I
told
you
,
did
so
much
advance
my
being
at
liberty
to
profess
my
Passion
to
my
Princess
,
was
,
that
my
Father
,
either
out
of
the
knowledge
of
the
World
,
and
consequently
of
the
emptiness
of
it
,
or
else
not
being
able
to
see
Surena
in
higher
Power
than
himself
,
forsook
the
Court
,
and
resigning
up
his
Estate
and
Offices
to
me
,
retir'd
into
a
Solitude
,
where
under
a
seeming
banishment
from
all
Earthly
Fruitions
,
he
more
perfectly
enjoyed
them
,
and
either
out
of
a
dis-affection
to
Surena
,
or
out
of
his
indulgence
to
me
,
he
gave
me
the
free
Election
of
my
Mistriss
,
and
then
(
as
I
told
you
)
withdrew
himself
from
those
cares
,
which
take
away
the
relish
of
all
our
Enjoyments
.
But
Moneses
could
not
more
contemn
the
vanities
of
the
Court
,
than
Surena
was
in
love
with
them
,
he
had
nothing
but
succeeded
as
he
desir'd
,
unless
it
were
his
Passion
,
in
which
(
though
he
neglected
no
opportunity
,
nor
omitted
to
make
use
of
his
Masters
Power
)
his
progress
was
so
slow
,
that
it
clouded
all
his
other
pleasures
;
and
by
his
daily
frequentation
of
Parthenissa
discovering
new
charms
,
it
made
his
misfortune
the
more
unsupportable
;
For
my
part
,
though
I
had
those
publique
advantages
of
entertaining
her
freely
,
and
the
Kings
Power
and
Countenance
to
second
my
addresses
,
yet
in
those
happy
days
I
receiv'd
in
private
so
many
fresh
assurances
of
my
Princesses
affection
and
constancy
,
that
I
could
hardly
wish
my
Rival
a
greater
misery
than
the
continuance
of
his
.
In
this
condition
I
was
,
when
Fortune
began
to
declare
an
irreconcileable
hatred
to
me
,
in
which
she
has
been
so
firm
,
that
I
admire
from
whence
she
has
merited
the
name
of
Inconstant
.
The
Province
of
Tabiena
,
one
of
the
most
considerable
ones
of
Parthia
,
generally
revolted
,
and
the
Rebels
having
,
in
a
pitcht
Battel
,
defeated
the
Kings
Lieutenant
,
and
kill'd
10000
upon
the
place
,
so
exasperated
Arsaces
,
that
he
rais'd
an
Army
of
80000
Men
,
to
vindicate
this
disgrace
,
and
till
it
was
upon
its
march
,
never
would
declare
who
should
be
General
;
but
then
with
a
high
obligingness
,
he
told
me
,
that
he
had
made
choice
of
me
,
as
well
to
follow
his
Inclination
as
Judgement
,
that
I
must
perform
Miracles
,
onely
to
justify
the
opinion
he
had
of
me
,
and
that
the
next
morning
by
the
dawn
of
day
,
as
I
valu'd
his
service
,
I
was
to
repair
unto
my
Command
.
I
must
confess
I
was
surpriz'd
,
both
at
the
thing
,
and
at
the
suddenness
of
it
,
but
since
't
was
the
way
to
serve
my
Prince
,
and
to
Glory
,
I
supprest
all
those
troubles
which
my
separation
from
Parthenissa
began
to
create
,
and
having
with
an
humility
sutable
to
the
obligation
,
accepted
the
Kings
Commission
,
I
went
that
evening
to
kiss
the
fair
Parthenissa's
hands
,
and
to
offer
up
those
sighs
,
which
that
sad
departure
so
justly
exacted
;
but
not
finding
her
within
,
I
expected
her
return
,
and
till
then
,
I
entertain'd
Zianthe
,
my
Princesses
Favourite
,
who
after
some
discourse
,
drawing
her
Handkerchief
,
let
fall
a
Letter
out
of
her
pocket
,
and
perceiving
it
seal'd
,
I
snatcht
it
up
,
more
out
of
curiosity
,
than
any
other
design
,
as
soon
as
she
saw
I
had
it
,
she
begg'd
me
with
so
much
earnestness
,
and
in
such
pressing
terms
to
restore
it
,
that
I
began
to
suspect
it
was
something
of
concernment
,
and
finding
the
Superscription
a
Cypher
onely
,
I
broke
open
the
Letter
,
thinking
it
had
been
some
private
Amours
of
hers
;
but
alas
,
,
soon
found
it
was
Surenas
Hand
,
which
Zianthe
imagining
by
my
amazement
,
she
gave
a
great
shreek
,
and
flinging
her self
at
my
feet
;
with
her
hands
held
up
,
conjur'd
me
to
restore
,
and
not
read
it
;
but
being
thrust
on
by
my
ill
Fate
,
I
kept
her
off
,
and
read
these
words
;
SVRENA
to
the
Princess
PARTHENISSA
.
YOur
apprehensions
,
Madam
,
are
extream
just
,
for
if
Artabanes
should
discover
the
change
you
have
made
in
my
favour
,
his
revenge
would
be
equal
to
the
greatness
of
his
loss
:
I
therefore
highly
approve
of
your
opinion
in
employing
him
to
command
the
Army
now
design'd
for
the
suppression
of
the
rebellious
Tabienians
,
and
in
observance
of
it
,
have
got
the
King
to
sign
his
Commission
,
and
strictly
to
enjoyn
him
to
repair
to
his
Charge
by
the
break
of
day
,
his
absence
will
give
us
that
liberty
,
which
his
being
here
will
deprive
us
of
,
and
consequently
render
unfortunate
,
SVRENA
.
Oh
gods
!
how
many
thousand
distractions
did
the
reading
of
this
Letter
involve
me
in
!
I
that
resented
the
torments
,
cannot
describe
them
,
at
first
I
was
pale
as
Guilt
,
and
an
universal
trembling
seiz'd
upon
all
my
Body
,
yet
presently
,
the
consideration
of
all
my
wrongs
inflam'd
me
with
so
much
fury
,
that
had
Parthenissa
then
come
in
,
I
had
sacrific'd
her
to
it
.
But
at
length
I
cry'd
out
,
great
gods
!
where
shall
Virtue
inhabit
,
if
Parthenissa
be
not
a
fit
Mansion
for
it
?
and
who
shall
ever
expect
a
recompence
for
his
Fidelity
,
when
mine
is
thus
rewarded
?
then
looking
upon
that
cruel
instrument
of
my
undoing
;
I
told
her
.
Ha!
Zianthe
:
how
could
you
thus
long
conceal
this
Treachery
?
Sure
Parthenissa's
wickedness
is
contageous
,
else
your
pity
(
if
all
other
motives
had
fail'd
)
would
have
made
you
disclose
what
the
just
gods
could
no
longer
conceal
.
The
wretched
Maid
finding
my
Choler
rais'd
to
the
highest
pitch
,
flung
her self
again
at
my
feet
,
and
with
a
flood
of
Tears
told
me
.
The
concealment
(
Sir
)
of
your
being
so
long
betray'd
,
was
as
great
a
grief
to
me
,
as
the
knowledge
of
it
is
to
you
,
but
I
could
not
reveal
that
treachery
without
being
guilty
of
one
to
Parthenissa
,
and
drawing
by
it
a
ruine
on
her
as
certain
as
just
.
My
innocence
shall
bear
me
witness
,
how
I
labour'd
to
divert
her
from
an
action
so
perfidious
,
but
when
I
found
all
was
in
vain
,
I
was
forced
to
submit
to
what
I
could
not
oppose
,
yet
with
a
grief
,
which
equalled
the
greatness
of
her
crime
;
but
since
the
gods
have
so
evidently
declared
themselves
in
revealing
a
treachery
so
secretly
carried
,
I
think
it
rather
a
Charity
than
a
Sin
to
acquaint
you
with
that
which
I
hope
will
prove
your
cure
.
After
that
Surena
began
to
possess
the
Kings
esteem
,
I
found
a
beginning
of
a
coldness
in
Parthenissa
for
you
,
and
something
of
inclination
for
your
Rival
,
which
increast
proportionably
,
as
Arsaces
favour
did
,
and
that
being
come
unto
the
highest
degree
,
this
resembl'd
it
;
in
a
word
,
I
cannot
compare
the
greatness
of
her
passion
to
him
more
fitly
,
than
to
that
she
formerly
paid
you
:
but
perhaps
you
may
wonder
why
they
should
write
to
one
another
,
having
the
opportunity
and
freedom
of
conversation
.
To
which
I
answer'd
,
Surena
was
suspicious
,
that
all
Parthenissa
did
profess
in
his
favour
,
was
but
meerly
to
gain
time
,
and
to
free
her self
from
the
Kings
importunities
,
who
never
left
solliciting
for
his
Favourite
;
Now
he
knew
,
Letters
were
a
proof
that
she
could
not
deny
,
when
she
might
her
words
,
therefore
he
put
her
to
that
tryal
,
and
besides
,
he
shewed
them
to
the
King
,
as
an
evincement
of
his
victory
,
which
as
he
said
,
Arsaces
would
not
credit
,
but
by
some
such
undeniable
testimony
.
Things
being
come
to
this
height
,
all
their
designes
were
,
how
to
delude
you
,
which
truly
they
were
so
industrious
in
,
that
I
have
as
often
admir'd
at
Parthenissa's
Art
in
dissembling
,
as
at
her
treachery
it self
.
Amongst
all
those
Presents
which
Surena
sent
her
,
she
places
on
none
so
much
value
,
as
on
a
little
pocket
Looking
Glass
,
which
of
late
you
have
seen
her
wear
;
and
though
the
excellency
of
the
Workmanship
might
induce
her
to
value
it
,
yet
the
esteem
she
places
on
it
,
proceeds
from
another
cause
,
for
between
the
Glass
and
the
Case
,
in
a
little
Drawer
,
which
is
artificially
shut
with
a
screw
,
there
is
her
Lovers
Picture
;
and
,
as
if
all
things
had
contributed
to
undelude
you
,
yesternight
something
being
amiss
in
it
,
she
left
it
off
to
be
mended
.
Zianthe
without
straying
to
know
whether
I
had
a
mind
to
see
it
,
went
and
fetcht
it
,
to
shew
the
truth
of
what
she
had
alledged
.
The
Glass
I
very
well
remember'd
,
having
seen
Parthenissa
lately
wear
it
,
and
set
even
a
doting
value
on
it
;
but
the
rage
of
being
so
egregiously
deluded
,
stifl'd
those
resentments
my
fury
inspir'd
,
which
silence
Zianthe
attributing
to
my
attention
,
she
thus
continued
her
discourse
.
I
have
,
Sir
,
given
you
a
clear
Narrative
of
my
Mistresses
Infidelity
,
which
indeed
,
is
so
excessive
great
,
that
I
hope
you
will
think
it
a
sufficient
happiness
to
have
mist
her
,
and
your
Rival
sufficiently
punisht
in
obtaining
her
;
in
my
opinion
,
the
crime
is
so
odious
,
that
with
the
first
opportunity
I
will
abandon
her
service
,
and
think
it
more
contentment
to
have
but
a
bare
subsistance
,
where
innocence
is
cherisht
,
than
to
possess
all
the
plenties
of
the
Court
,
where
Vice
has
so
much
dominion
:
all
that
I
have
to
beg
of
you
is
,
that
you
will
make
the
best
profit
of
this
discovery
,
without
revealing
the
Author
of
it
,
for
it
can
be
no
advantage
to
you
,
and
will
be
an
unavoidable
ruine
unto
me
.
Zianthe
thus
ended
her
discourse
,
and
filld
'
me
with
so
much
fury
,
that
without
saying
one
word
,
I
left
her
:
but
as
I
was
going
out
,
I
met
a
Servant
of
Surena's
,
who
mistaking
me
for
one
of
Parthenissa's
menial
ones
,
desir'd
me
to
tell
Zianthe
,
that
her
Princess
lay
that
night
at
Surena's
with
Zephalinda
,
and
that
he
was
come
to
wait
on
her
thither
.
This
additional
proof
of
her
inconstancy
,
made
me
say
to
my self
:
Is
she
then
not
onely
contented
to
be
wicked
,
but
to
glory
in
't
?
and
has
she
no
sooner
led
me
into
misery
,
than
she
forsakes
and
insults
over
me
?
but
yet
(
I
continu'd
)
why
do
I
blame
this
action
,
for
since
she
has
stain'd
her
Beauty
with
infidelity
,
't
is
an
obligation
to
me
not
to
hide
it
.
Then
,
without
so
much
as
answering
Surena's
servant
,
I
went
to
my
Lodging
,
but
in
such
a
posture
,
that
had
I
met
with
any
,
betwixt
that
place
where
I
received
so
fatal
a
poison
,
and
my
Chamber
,
my
actions
had
discover'd
my
condition
.
Being
come
home
,
I
flung
my self
into
my
Bed
,
and
by
a
thousand
extravagancies
,
exprest
the
miseries
I
groan'd
under
;
at
first
I
resolv'd
to
kill
my self
,
having
so
much
out-lived
my
hopes
,
but
the
horror
of
so
barbarous
a
crime
,
and
to
leave
the
world
without
revenge
,
retain'd
me
.
Then
casting
up
my
Eyes
to
Heaven
,
my
Tears
invok'd
that
Justice
my
rage
hinder'd
my
words
from
demanding
.
At
length
I
cry'd
out
,
Great
gods
!
Why
do
you
tempt
frail
Man
,
so
justly
to
destroy
himself
,
and
yet
make
it
a
sin
to
do
so
?
Or
why
is
life
esteem'd
a
blessing
,
when
without
it
we
could
not
suffer
misery
?
Then
pausing
a
while
,
and
after
starting
up
,
I
continu'd
;
Ah!
no
,
were
to
destroy
my self
no
sin
,
I
would
not
do
it
:
First
,
those
that
have
injur'd
me
,
shall
dye
,
and
then
the
triumph
of
my
revenge
will
be
pleasing
:
Yet
Parthenissa
must
not
fall
,
her
Sex
preserves
her
;
but
to
kill
her
Lover
,
will
be
a
more
sensible
grief
to
her
,
and
consequently
,
a
more
pleasing
joy
to
me
.
But
couldst
thou
,
(
I
continu'd
)
Artabanes
,
look
upon
her
with
any
satisfaction
,
were
her
miseries
proportionate
to
her
crimes
?
O
no
,
those
charms
would
melt
thy
anger
into
pity
,
rather
kill
thy
Rival
nobly
,
and
shew
by
his
destruction
,
how
much
she
has
mis-chosen
;
then
fly
into
some
Desart
,
where
thou
shalt
never
hear
again
th'
enchanting
name
of
Parthenissa
;
and
in
the
horror
of
some
silent
Grove
,
pine
away
thy
life
as
a
Pennance
,
for
having
believ'd
any
of
her
sex
,
could
prove
constant
.
My
distractions
were
so
high
,
that
it
was
day
,
e'r
I
could
elect
any
resolution
,
yet
in
the
end
I
assum'd
this
last
,
as
finding
it
fittest
for
my
resentment
and
despair
,
and
immediately
calling
Simander
,
I
commanded
him
with
secresie
,
and
without
dispute
,
to
carry
a
Paper
I
gave
him
to
Surena
,
and
tell
him
,
I
expected
him
in
the
Eastern
Meddow
,
near
the
sacred
Grove
.
The
Challenge
contain'd
these
words
.
ARTABANES
to
SVRENA
.
TO
possess
Parthenissa
,
't
is
not
enough
to
have
her
declare
she
loves
you
,
but
you
must
dispute
the
Conquest
with
your
Sword
,
and
by
that
Tryal
prove
,
whether
the
gods
will
be
as
favourable
to
you
,
as
her
infidelity
.
In
a
word
,
my
death
must
secure
your
Affections
,
and
yours
must
revenge
me
on
your
perfidious
Mistriss
;
and
though
her
inconstancy
render
her
unworthy
my
Resentments
,
yet
your
addresses
to
her
,
after
you
knew
of
mine
,
renders
you
worthy
of
my
revenge
.
Simander
immediately
suspected
what
it
was
,
but
not
imagining
the
cause
,
began
to
make
some
question
,
for
which
I
took
him
up
so
short
,
that
I
put
a
silence
to
all
his
doubts
,
and
sent
him
away
to
perform
what
I
had
commanded
;
then
dressing
my self
,
I
took
one
of
my
best
Horses
(
for
't
is
the
custom
in
Parthia
,
for
all
Men
of
quality
to
fight
on
Horseback
)
and
went
to
the
place
appointed
,
where
I
had
not
long
been
,
but
Simander
came
,
and
acquainted
me
that
Surena
would
be
with
me
instantly
.
These
words
were
hardly
deliver'd
;
when
I
might
perceive
him
that
sent
them
,
onely
attended
by
one
of
his
Servants
.
I
had
not
the
patience
to
delay
my
revenge
by
any
expostulation
,
but
drawing
my
sword
,
and
galloping
up
to
him
,
bade
him
defend
himself
.
The
first
encounter
,
he
gave
me
a
slight
hurt
upon
the
Bridle-hand
,
and
I
him
in
his
right
Arm
,
and
after
a
few
passages
for
the
gaining
of
the
Crupper
,
I
won
his
,
and
ran
my
Sword
through
him
up
to
the
Hilt
,
with
which
he
fell
,
and
going
to
repeat
my
thrust
,
the
remembrance
of
his
excellent
Sister
,
stopt
my
hand
,
and
made
me
tell
him
,
That
which
I
have
done
,
though
it
be
too
little
for
my
resentments
,
yet
it
is
too
much
for
Zephalinda's
Brother
,
for
which
Relation
I
give
thee
thy
life
.
If
(
reply'd
Surena
)
thou
payst
Zephalinda
any
affection
,
evince
it
in
taking
that
little
I
have
left
,
she
is
so
generous
,
she
had
rather
hear
I
am
dead
than
live
by
my
Enemies
Mercy
,
therefore
I
conjure
thee
by
those
wrongs
thou
sayst
I
have
done
thee
,
and
by
thy
affection
to
my
Sister
,
finish
what
thy
good
fortune
has
so
far
advanc'd
,
and
by
one
wound
more
,
end
those
torments
,
my
being
vanquisht
will
throw
upon
me
,
and
secure
thy
love
to
Parthenissa
,
which
whilst
I
live
,
will
be
unsafe
.
Why
(
said
I
)
dost
thou
by
that
name
,
tempt
my
fury
,
and
revive
an
anger
,
whose
justice
is
declar'd
in
thy
defeat
;
farewell
,
for
I
dare
not
trust
my self
with
my
resentments
.
Ending
these
words
,
I
turn'd
to
Surena's
Servant
,
and
bade
him
have
a
care
of
his
Master
.
Then
going
to
my
own
,
I
told
him
,
come
Simander
,
since
death
refuses
to
ease
my
misery
,
I
will
seek
some
other
cure
,
and
commanding
him
to
follow
,
I
gallopt
away
whether
my
Fortune
would
conduct
me
,
and
continu'd
moving
,
till
towards
night
,
where
coming
into
a
Grove
,
whose
unfrequentedness
was
fit
for
my
melancholly
,
as
well
as
safety
(
for
I
was
loath
Parthenissa
should
satisfy
her
Eyes
with
my
Execution
)
I
lighted
off
my
Horse
,
and
giving
him
to
Simander
,
I
flung
my self
upon
the
Grass
,
and
there
began
to
consider
the
sad
condition
I
was
in
,
which
was
so
much
the
more
so
,
by
how
much
my
happiness
had
been
so
lately
great
.
Parthenissa's
inconstancy
appear'd
so
odious
,
that
I
could
not
have
the
patience
to
think
on
her
,
nor
it
.
But
that
which
caus'd
indeed
,
my
real
grief
,
was
,
the
unworthy
return
my
sad
condition
forc'd
me
to
make
the
fair
Zephalinda
,
who
for
all
her
gallantry
and
friendship
,
had
no
other
payment
but
the
neglect
of
her
Affection
,
and
the
murther
of
her
Brother
.
These
thoughts
were
more
insupportable
than
my
own
misfortunes
,
and
that
which
brought
an
accession
to
mine
,
was
,
that
my
actions
of
Ingratitude
would
be
as
apparent
,
as
my
sorrows
for
them
would
be
the
contrary
.
After
a
thousand
reflections
of
this
quality
,
I
resolv'd
at
last
to
write
to
her
,
and
finding
no
Ink
more
proper
for
the
occasion
than
some
Bloud
which
ran
from
a
slight
hurt
,
I
made
use
of
it
,
and
writ
these
few
words
.
ARTABANES
to
the
Princess
ZEPHALINDA
.
'T
Is
in
bloud
that
I
have
offended
you
(
Madam
)
and
't
is
in
bloud
that
your
pardon
is
begg'd
by
the
miserable
Artabanes
,
whose
Love
and
Hatred
to
Parthenissa
were
ordain'd
to
make
him
equally
injurious
to
your
quiet
.
I
must
confess
,
it
had
been
more
suitable
to
my
despair
,
as
well
as
friendship
,
to
have
fallen
by
Surena's
Sword
,
and
so
have
merited
your
pity
,
rather
than
to
have
been
necessitated
to
implore
your
Mercy
.
But
great
gods
!
to
what
a
strait
did
you
reduce
me
?
To
dye
,
had
been
the
triumph
of
my
Enemy
,
and
to
kill
,
makes
the
trouble
of
my
Friend
;
the
first
rendring
me
unfortunate
,
the
latter
guilty
:
But
since
those
Powers
which
create
our
destinies
,
has
made
the
last
of
these
mine
;
I
am
resolv'd
to
take
some
such
forlorn
course
,
that
though
you
cannot
commend
the
past
actions
,
yet
you
shall
the
future
sufferings
I
will
inflict
upon
the
Criminal
Artabanes
.
I
writ
another
Letter
to
Arsaces
,
wherein
I
told
him
,
that
I
was
almost
as
much
troubl'd
to
draw
my
sword
against
his
Favourite
,
as
at
the
cause
of
it
;
that
I
had
injur'd
his
Laws
,
to
avoid
doing
the
like
unto
his
Judgement
,
which
might
have
receiv'd
some
blemish
by
his
electing
one
to
revenge
a
publique
affront
that
wanted
courage
to
resent
a
private
one
of
the
highest
nature
;
that
though
by
this
action
I
had
render'd
my self
uncapable
of
serving
him
,
yet
by
declining
it
,
I
had
made
my self
unworthy
of
that
honour
;
so
that
of
two
crimes
,
I
elected
but
the
least
.
And
since
the
gods
by
Surena's
defeat
,
declar'd
him
guilty
,
I
could
not
believe
that
he
which
bore
their
Image
,
would
be
of
a
different
opinion
.
I
folded
these
two
Letters
in
a
third
,
to
my
generous
friend
,
the
Prince
Sillaces
,
to
whose
care
I
commended
Lindadory
,
and
all
things
else
I
had
any
concern
for
,
and
from
whom
I
begg'd
a
thousand
pardons
,
for
not
having
acquainted
him
at
first
with
the
cause
of
those
miseries
,
which
forc'd
me
to
a
voluntary
,
and
eternal
banishment
.
Whilst
our
Horses
were
taking
that
refreshment
which
their
hard
travel
requir'd
,
I
was
disputing
what
course
to
elect
,
and
after
many
Proposals
,
I
resolv'd
to
pass
through
Mesopotamia
and
Syria
,
and
so
thence
by
Sea
for
Italy
,
and
in
the
darkest
horrors
of
those
Mountains
,
which
separates
that
Countrey
from
the
Gauls
,
spend
those
sad
days
allotted
to
miserable
life
.
That
which
made
me
fix
upon
this
place
above
any
other
,
was
,
that
the
horridness
of
the
Alpes
would
be
more
sutable
to
my
melancholly
than
any
other
,
and
by
being
in
the
heart
of
the
Roman
Empire
,
I
knew
the
innate
hatred
of
the
Parthians
to
that
people
,
would
never
permit
those
which
should
search
after
me
,
to
doubt
of
my
residence
,
or
if
they
did
,
the
danger
of
coming
into
an
Enemies
Countrey
,
might
deter
them
from
following
me
.
Here
Artabanes
putting
a
stop
to
his
Narration
,
addrest
himself
to
Callimachus
,
and
told
him
,
I
have
,
Sir
,
to
obey
your
commands
,
forc'd
my
inclination
to
relate
unto
you
,
a
part
of
my
unfortunate
Life
,
least
you
might
have
fail'd
in
the
knowledge
of
those
particulars
,
which
perhaps
Simander
was
not
perfectly
acquainted
with
:
But
now
,
what
is
remaining
he
has
been
an
Actor
,
or
a
Sufferer
in
,
and
consequently
,
will
omit
,
nothing
that
is
worthy
your
knowledge
;
I
shall
therefore
beg
you
(
if
you
are
not
already
tir'd
with
the
hearing
of
my
misfortunes
)
permit
Simander
,
to
put
an
end
unto
their
Story
,
and
give
me
leave
to
absent
my self
from
a
relation
that
will
awaken
despair
,
which
of
it self
is
but
too
apt
to
torment
me
.
The
good
Callimachus
having
by
a
thousand
expressions
,
excus'd
the
rudeness
of
his
curiosity
,
told
him
,
Generous
Artabanes
,
I
have
already
(
I
fear
)
so
far
transgress'd
,
that
I
cannot
expect
a
pardon
from
a
less
goodness
than
yours
,
and
therefore
will
not
persevere
in
a
crime
which
may
make
you
as
justly
my
enemy
,
as
Fortune
is
unjustly
yours
.
Artabanes
having
made
Callimachus
a
return
suitable
to
his
civility
,
commanded
his
faithful
Simander
(
who
was
present
at
the
latter
part
of
his
relation
)
to
satisfy
his
engagement
,
and
then
retir'd
into
a
Solitude
,
to
entertain
his
Melancholly
,
which
was
too
just
not
to
be
great
.
Artabanes
was
no
sooner
gone
,
than
Callimachus
invited
his
faithful
Simander
to
obey
his
generous
Prince
,
which
he
did
,
by
continuing
his
Adventures
in
these
words
,
AFter
my
unfortunate
Master
had
assum'd
a
resolution
so
suitable
to
his
despair
,
and
that
all
those
reasons
my
affection
furnisht
me
with
,
could
no
way
alter
it
,
I
thought
it
my
duty
as
much
as
't
was
my
inclination
,
to
bear
a
share
with
him
in
all
his
miseries
,
and
justify
by
my
sufferings
how
ambitious
I
was
to
deserve
a
favour
which
I
had
no
title
to
,
but
his
having
conferr'd
it
on
me
;
and
though
by
many
perswasions
,
and
commands
,
he
disswaded
me
from
tying
my
Fortunes
upon
one
to
whom
(
he
said
)
the
gods
had
so
much
declar'd
themselves
Enemies
,
yet
I
was
as
firm
in
my
resolution
of
waiting
on
him
,
as
he
was
in
his
of
abandoning
the
World
.
By
this
time
our
Horses
having
taken
that
rest
which
we
thought
fitting
,
we
began
to
continue
our
journey
,
the
Moon
affording
us
her
Light
,
and
the
first
Village
we
came
unto
,
we
waken'd
some
Peasants
,
where
my
Prince
having
seal'd
his
Packet
,
engag'd
one
of
them
(
by
giving
him
a
good
reward
)
to
carry
it
the
next
day
to
the
Court
,
and
present
it
to
the
generous
Sillaces
.
This
being
done
,
we
continued
our
voyage
,
but
because
I
have
so
many
essential
things
to
relate
,
I
will
not
load
your
patience
by
repeating
all
those
accidents
which
happen'd
in
our
crossing
of
Syria
,
and
Mesopotamia
,
nor
till
our
coming
to
Antioch
,
since
without
any
considerable
adventures
,
we
at
last
safely
arrived
there
;
onely
I
may
not
omit
to
inform
you
,
that
in
twenty
days
travel
,
I
never
heard
Artabanes
repine
at
Parthemissa's
cruelty
,
either
that
his
wrongs
had
extinguisht
his
Love
,
or
the
greatness
of
his
resentments
hinder'd
the
expressions
of
them
;
but
I
am
the
more
inclin'd
to
believe
the
latter
,
since
his
Sighs
and
Tears
(
his
inseparable
companions
)
acknowledged
some
internal
grief
,
produc'd
them
;
and
truly
he
was
thereby
so
chang'd
,
that
had
not
his
griefs
been
an
undeniable
proof
of
him
that
utter'd
them
,
I
should
have
suspected
I
had
chang'd
my
Master
.
But
as
if
all
things
had
contributed
to
hasten
my
Prince
unto
his
solitude
,
we
met
a
Ship
at
Antioch
,
ready
to
weigh
Anchor
for
Cyprus
,
where
she
was
to
unload
her
Merchandize
in
a
Man
of
War
,
that
was
directly
bound
for
Ostia
,
which
is
a
small
Harbor
the
Tiber
makes
,
when
it
falls
into
the
Mediterranean
sea
.
This
conveniency
we
joyfully
embrac'd
,
and
the
Wind
blowing
fair
at
East
,
we
were
full
of
expectation
in
few
days
to
arrive
safely
in
that
famous
Island
where
the
Queen
of
Love
had
chosen
her
earthly
Residence
.
We
were
not
many
Leagues
from
our
desired
Harbor
,
when
those
upon
the
Main-top
that
were
looking
for
Land
,
cry'd
out
,
a
Sail
,
a
Sail
;
the
Master
of
our
Ship
went
instantly
up
to
discover
the
truth
of
this
Alarm
,
and
had
not
been
long
there
,
but
clapping
his
hands
upon
his
Breast
,
he
said
with
great
Passion
we
are
all
undone
,
't
is
Menas
,
This
was
that
Menas
,
Pompey
the
Great
took
at
Sea
,
when
he
commanded
the
Roman
Fleet
,
and
asking
him
how
he
durst
commit
so
high
sins
,
as
to
kill
those
,
and
take
away
their
Goods
,
which
never
did
him
any
wrong
,
was
thus
answer'd
:
If
(
said
he
)
my
Actions
are
Crimes
,
why
then
dost
thou
practise
them
?
but
because
thou
rob'st
securely
with
a
whole
Fleet
,
thou
givest
thy self
the
name
of
a
Conqueror
,
and
because
I
rob
with
more
hazard
,
and
but
with
one
single
Gally
,
thou
call'st
me
a
Pirate
,
when
there
is
no
difference
between
our
performances
,
but
that
which
Force
and
Numbers
create
.
This
bold
,
(
and
perhaps
true
)
reply
so
operated
on
the
generous
Pompey
,
that
he
gave
Menas
his
life
,
for
which
he
did
him
such
signal
services
,
that
at
last
he
gave
him
too
his
liberty
;
but
being
accustomed
from
his
Youth
,
to
that
barbarous
profession
,
he
could
not
decline
it
,
and
in
a
short
while
after
fell
to
a
relapse
.
He
was
indeed
so
famous
in
all
those
Seas
,
that
oftentimes
his
name
presented
him
with
Victory
:
and
truly
I
believe
we
should
have
felt
,
as
well
as
heard
that
Truth
,
had
not
Artabanes
,
(
perceiving
our
fears
)
by
a
generous
exhortation
,
invited
us
to
a
defence
.
For
,
if
(
said
he
)
your
Enemies
are
generous
,
your
Gallantry
,
if
you
be
vanquisht
,
will
make
your
usage
so
:
if
they
are
not
,
your
resistance
may
purchase
your
safety
,
at
least
,
't
is
more
like
Men
to
owe
our
sufferings
to
our
misfortunes
than
our selves
.
To
be
brief
,
his
ravishing
Eloquence
furnisht
him
with
such
powerful
Arguments
,
that
those
timerous
Spirits
,
which
even
now
were
ready
co
yield
without
disputing
the
Victory
,
were
now
so
alter'd
,
that
they
breath'd
nothing
but
the
combat
.
We
were
in
all
,
(
Passengers
and
Seamen
)
about
an
hundred
,
and
my
Prince
taking
upon
himself
the
whole
charge
,
divided
his
Men
into
two
Squadrons
,
the
one
he
took
to
himself
,
the
other
he
gave
me
the
honour
to
command
.
Then
,
lest
those
new-rais'd
courages
should
cool
,
he
commanded
the
Pilot
to
tack
about
,
and
resolv'd
to
save
Menas
the
labour
of
overtaking
him
,
who
was
chasing
us
with
Oars
and
Sails
.
'T
was
then
I
perceiv'd
in
my
generous
Prince's
Face
,
a
dissipation
of
those
Clouds
,
his
Miseries
had
there
created
,
and
in
their
place
,
a
Countenance
so
Martial
,
and
so
Charming
,
that
't
was
as
impossible
for
his
Enemies
not
to
fear
,
as
for
his
Friends
not
to
admire
him
.
By
this
time
the
Pirates
were
so
close
come
up
,
that
Artabanes
commanded
the
Seamen
to
grapple
Menas's
Gally
,
and
not
giving
him
leave
to
Assault
us
,
he
leapt
into
the
thickest
of
the
Enemies
,
and
with
his
Sword
made
the
Pass
easy
for
those
that
follow'd
him
.
Our
Adversaries
,
who
were
not
accustomed
to
resistance
,
found
this
Action
as
strange
,
as
we
knew
it
to
be
generous
;
and
I
believe
their
amazement
something
contributed
to
our
seeming
Victory
,
but
when
those
that
fled
the
fury
of
my
Prince's
Arms
,
had
acquainted
Menas
,
that
unless
he
appear'd
,
and
acted
,
all
would
be
lost
;
that
old
Pirate
,
who
at
first
thinking
us
unworthy
his
Sword
,
had
commanded
one
of
his
Lieutenants
to
take
us
,
finding
our
resistance
needed
all
his
Power
,
instantly
arm'd
himself
,
and
with
a
select
number
of
Soldiers
,
which
he
always
reserv'd
for
some
such
desperate
exigency
,
came
out
upon
the
Decks
,
where
by
the
greatness
of
his
loss
,
judging
at
the
greatness
of
his
danger
,
he
call'd
up
that
Courage
,
which
had
made
him
so
justly
famous
,
and
therewith
renew'd
the
Fight
with
such
resolution
,
that
many
of
our
Men
,
being
terrified
with
the
Fury
of
his
blows
,
began
to
shrink
,
and
at
last
,
to
retire
unto
their
own
Ship
;
this
cowardice
heightned
our
Enemies
,
which
Artabanes
easily
perceiv'd
,
and
observing
,
the
turn
proceeded
onely
from
the
Valour
of
Menas
,
he
made
a
lane
through
all
those
that
oppos'd
his
doing
so
,
and
at
last
,
joyning
with
the
old
Pirate
,
with
one
blow
,
he
struck
him
at
his
Feet
,
and
finding
by
the
rare
temper
of
his
Helmet
,
that
his
fall
proceeded
from
being
stunn'd
,
not
kill'd
,
he
was
searching
the
defects
of
his
Armor
,
to
finish
his
Victory
:
which
whilst
he
was
doing
,
one
of
the
Pyrats
coming
behind
him
,
had
lift
up
his
Sword
to
kill
my
generous
Prince
,
but
as
the
gods
would
have
it
,
I
came
to
his
rescue
and
with
one
blow
cut
that
sacrilegious
Arm
off
,
and
with
a
thrust
,
ended
his
life
.
The
noise
which
the
Pirate
I
had
kill'd
made
in
falling
,
saved
Menas's
life
,
for
my
Prince
turning
about
,
to
learn
from
whence
that
death
proceeded
,
some
of
the
Enemies
(
taking
the
opportunity
)
dragg'd
their
Captain
into
the
Stern-Cabbin
.
But
to
be
brief
,
our
companions
,
whose
Courages
(
by
the
sight
of
so
much
Blood
)
were
quite
drown'd
,
abandon'd
the
generous
Artabanes
,
who
being
too
weak
of
himself
,
having
onely
so
unworthy
a
Second
as
Simander
,
to
resist
such
numbers
as
came
fresh
upon
him
,
receiv'd
so
many
wounds
,
that
his
strength
began
to
fail
him
,
but
yet
upon
his
knees
,
he
so
generously
disputed
the
Victory
,
that
Fortune
by
it
appear'd
sufficiently
blind
,
for
could
she
have
seen
his
vertue
,
she
could
not
but
have
rewarded
it
,
but
at
length
he
lost
such
a
Sea
of
Blood
,
that
he
could
make
no
more
resistance
,
and
crying
out
,
Ah
Death
!
thou
art
merciful
,
and
curest
the
wounds
which
Parthenissa
gave
,
He
fell
,
(
as
I
then
thought
)
eternally
.
Oh
gods
!
what
did
not
my
rage
then
make
me
utter
?
I
found
my
grief
so
much
,
that
bestriding
my
generous
Princes
Body
,
I
cry'd
out
,
finish
,
finish
,
ye
barbarous
Tyrants
your
cruelty
,
and
bend
all
your
Swords
●against
my
Breast
,
for
since
you
have
by
Numbers
,
not
Valour
,
destroyed
the
perfectest
of
Men
,
I
will
no
longer
survive
that
loss
;
and
indeed
,
their
desire
of
Blood
so
well
seconded
my
desire
of
losing
all
mine
,
that
having
received
as
many
wounds
,
as
I
was
confident
would
not
give
me
the
misfortune
of
out-living
my
Prince
,
I
flung
my self
on
his
pale
Body
and
having
a
thousand
times
embrac't
him
,
and
kist
his
hands
and
feet
,
I
there
fainted
,
acting
those
last
expressions
of
my
Fidelity
.
In
the
mean
while
,
Menas
by
the
care
of
his
Soldiers
,
being
come
again
to
himself
,
demanded
what
was
the
issue
of
the
fight
,
and
what
was
become
of
him
,
whose
Valour
he
had
,
so
much
to
his
prejudice
,
resented
?
they
answered
him
,
that
all
but
the
valiant
Enemy
he
enquir'd
after
,
and
one
more
,
had
long
since
yielded
themselves
to
mercy
,
but
he
,
as
if
his
forces
had
been
increased
by
his
Companions
fears
,
was
yet
nobly
disputing
his
life
,
which
was
so
weakn'd
by
many
wounds
,
that
if
he
were
not
yet
dead
,
the
time
of
his
fall
could
not
be
long
.
Menas
,
whose
Nature
had
some
light
of
generosity
,
though
clouded
by
his
Profession
,
and
the
daily
examples
of
cruelty
,
was
so
taken
with
Artabanes's
courage
,
that
causing
himself
to
be
carried
upon
the
Deck
,
did
there
intend
to
preserve
him
,
if
it
were
in
his
power
.
I
knew
not
whether
the
belief
of
our
being
kill'd
,
hinder'd
our
Conquerors
from
doing
us
any
further
harm
,
or
whether
my
expressions
and
actions
to
my
Prince
,
did
suspend
for
a
while
the
cruelty
of
those
Monsters
,
but
whatsoever
was
the
cause
,
they
wounded
us
no
more
after
we
were
fallen
,
and
Menas
coming
when
the
Pirats
were
beginning
to
strip
us
,
forbad
it
,
and
commanding
his
Chyrurgeons
to
employ
all
their
skill
in
our
recovery
,
or
if
it
were
past
their
Art
,
then
he
ordered
Galippus
his
Lieutenant
,
to
give
us
burial
,
as
if
himself
had
been
in
our
condition
.
And
because
his
care
should
equal
our
need
of
it
,
he
caus'd
us
to
be
brought
into
his
own
Cabbin
,
where
our
wounds
being
searcht
,
the
Chirurgeons
assur'd
him
,
my
Master
had
none
that
were
mortal
,
and
that
onely
the
loss
of
Blood
had
reduc'd
him
to
that
extremity
;
For
what
concern'd
me
,
they
told
him
,
I
was
in
much
more
danger
,
but
if
they
could
draw
out
the
head
of
a
Javelin
that
struck
in
my
back
,
there
might
be
some
hope
of
my
recovery
.
In
the
mean
time
,
by
strong
Cordials
we
came
to
our selves
,
but
my
Prince
,
long
before
me
,
and
to
my
great
glory
(
as
those
that
waited
on
us
,
told
me
)
the
first
thing
he
said
,
was
,
Ah
poor
Simander
.
For
my
part
,
as
soon
as
I
found
my
wounds
drest
,
and
remember'd
with
what
design
I
receiv'd
them
,
I
tore
off
all
my
Plaisters
,
and
calling
those
that
were
by
me
,
a
thousand
names
for
their
care
,
I
vow'd
by
all
the
gods
I
would
no
longer
live
.
Then
I
begg'd
them
with
Tears
,
to
bring
me
to
my
Masters
Body
,
and
permit
me
to
expire
upon
it
.
They
seem'd
to
be
very
glad
,
that
my
despair
proceeded
from
a
cause
they
could
so
easily
remove
,
and
therefore
to
console
me
,
they
vow'd
my
Master
was
alive
,
and
in
the
same
Cabbin
;
but
I
could
not
credit
so
great
a
happiness
,
till
some
of
them
acquainted
him
with
my
diffidence
,
which
made
him
force
himself
to
say
,
yes
Simander
,
I
live
,
Fortune
is
yet
too
much
my
Enemy
,
to
end
my
miseries
.
Ah
Sir
,
(
I
reply'd
,
with
excessive
raptures
of
joy
)
your
Vertue
will
at
last
conquer
her
.
'T
is
a
strange
thing
,
how
after
the
knowledge
of
my
Prince's
being
alive
,
I
willingly
endur'd
all
those
hideous
pains
,
which
conduc'd
to
my
recovery
,
courting
my
Chirurgeons
to
hasten
my
cure
,
though
by
the
increase
of
my
torment
,
that
I
might
be
quickly
well
,
to
be
near
my
Prince
,
and
to
pay
him
that
service
I
have
ever
vow'd
him
.
During
the
space
of
a
quarter
of
a
year
,
whilst
our
wounds
were
healing
,
we
receiv'd
as
many
civilities
from
Menas
,
as
we
could
have
expected
from
our
Friends
,
but
we
were
no
sooner
perfectly
recover'd
,
than
he
commanded
my
Prince
to
be
brought
unto
him
,
(
and
with
a
countenance
(
as
barbarous
as
his
Profession
)
told
him
,
I
have
sent
for
thee
,
to
know
what
madness
't
was
invited
thee
to
make
a
resistance
,
where
hope
,
(
as
flattering
as
't
is
)
could
not
afford
thee
a
probability
of
success
?
To
which
my
Prince
reply'd
,
with
an
assuredness
more
suitable
to
his
mind
than
his
condition
;
I
know
not
why
thou
shouldst
think
it
strange
,
that
the
desire
of
preserving
my
liberty
,
should
not
be
as
powerful
with
me
,
as
that
of
depriving
me
of
it
,
or
of
a
little
gain
was
with
thee
;
but
when
my
life
was
as
great
a
blessing
to
me
,
as
now
it
is
the
contrary
,
I
never
knew
why
Death
was
not
a
better
election
than
Chains
.
Yet
me
thinks
(
said
Menas
)
thou
shouldst
not
prefer
Death
before
Captivity
,
since
the
former
cuts
off
all
expectation
,
and
the
latter
allows
thee
some
.
The
first
(
reply'd
Artabanes
)
as
it
cuts
off
all
hope
,
so
it
cuts
off
all
shame
and
suffering
;
and
the
latter
,
whilst
it
leaves
us
onely
expectations
of
good
,
makes
us
resent
all
evil
:
but
if
there
be
any
Spirits
so
low
as
to
make
such
a
choice
,
I
wish
it
may
be
their
fortune
.
How
dar'st
thou
(
said
the
old
Pirat
)
so
far
provoke
me
,
when
thou
knowest
thy
life
is
in
my
hands
?
because
(
reply'd
Artabanes
'
t
is
in
thy
hands
.
But
why
(
continued
Menas
)
didst
thou
tye
thy self
so
obstinately
to
me
,
rather
than
any
other
,
when
thou
knewest
,
that
by
it
thou
gavest
him
the
Will
that
had
the
Power
to
punish
thee
?
I
found
thee
(
said
my
Prince
)
the
worthiest
of
my
Sword
,
and
an
action
is
gallant
,
't
is
not
my
custom
to
consult
with
Fear
.
Artabanes
had
no
sooner
spoken
these
words
,
than
Menas
imbrac't
him
,
and
cry'd
out
,
O
the
most
generous
amongst
Men
!
if
Pompey
the
Great
were
not
living
,
thou
deservest
thy
liberty
:
but
to
be
his
,
is
more
glorious
than
freedom
,
and
't
is
to
that
Honor
I
design
thee
.
After
a
million
of
barbarous
Expressions
of
the
highest
esteem
he
had
of
my
Masters
generosity
,
he
declar'd
,
he
should
be
his
companion
till
his
arrival
at
Ostia
(
which
was
the
place
we
had
at
first
design'd
,
though
for
a
different
intention
)
where
in
few
days
after
we
came
,
and
there
Menas
elected
fourscore
of
his
best
slaves
(
the
most
of
the●
Gentlemen
)
amongst
which
my
Prince
and
I
were
two
)
and
having
tied
to
every
of
them
a
little
Chain
of
Gold
as
an
evincement
of
servitude
;
he
sent
us
ashore
under
the
conduct
of
Gallippus
a
Silesian
,
in
whom
he
put
his
greatest
confidence
,
and
who
was
ordered
to
present
us
to
Pompey
.
The
next
day
after
our
landing
,
we
came
to
Rome
,
and
saw
that
glorious
Town
proud
with
the
spoils
of
all
the
World
,
and
some
of
those
great
Men
who
from
private
Citizens
rais'd
themselves
by
their
virtue
to
give
Laws
to
mighty
Kings
,
and
have
in
time
added
more
Crowns
to
the
Empire
of
Rome
than
there
are
almost
inhabitants
within
her
Walls
.
But
we
soon
learn'd
that
Pompey
the
great
had
but
lately
undertaken
the
voyage
of
Asia
,
to
receive
Lucullus's
Command
and
Army
,
who
was
sent
for
back
by
the
Senate
,
being
,
after
all
his
Victories
,
become
a
triumph
to
his
Soldiers
.
Yet
though
Pompey
had
left
Rome
,
he
was
not
gone
out
of
Italy
,
but
was
necessitated
to
remain
at
Capua
,
for
some
dispatches
were
not
yet
perfected
.
This
made
Gallippus
send
a
messenger
to
Menas
for
his
orders
,
and
us
continue
for
some
time
longer
in
Rome
than
otherwise
we
should
have
done
.
I
cannot
here
omit
a
very
remarkable
accident
that
besel
my
Prince
,
who
as
he
slept
,
had
a
Snake
which
came
and
inviron'd
his
Temples
,
in
the
form
of
a
Lawrel
,
which
a
slave
possest
with
Bacchus's
spirit
of
Divination
observing
,
cry'd
out
,
that
it
was
an
infallible
sign
of
his
being
victorious
and
successful
in
the
Wars
.
By
this
Menas
had
sent
directions
for
us
to
go
by
Land
to
Capua
,
where
Pompey
then
was
,
and
where
at
last
we
arriv'd
,
and
were
by
Gallippus
presented
to
him
,
just
as
he
was
going
to
take
ship
for
Asia
.
This
great
Man
(
when
he
saw
Artabanes
)
fixt
his
eyes
on
him
,
and
calling
some
of
his
familiar
Friends
,
told
them
,
Either
all
the
rules
of
Physiognomy
are
false
,
or
that
slave
(
pointing
at
my
Prince
)
is
not
what
his
present
habit
speaks
him
,
but
possesses
a
mind
that
deserves
as
good
fortune
as
that
he
is
now
in
his
ill
.
Sir
(
reply'd
Gallippus
)
his
looks
cannot
promise
more
gallantry
than
his
actions
will
make
good
;
and
had
not
Menas
esteem'd
it
a
higher
hap-piness
for
him
to
be
your
Slave
than
to
be
free
,
he
had
long
since
restor'd
him
to
that
liberty
his
misfortune
not
his
want
of
courage
made
him
lose
:
Thereupon
Gallippus
told
him
all
the
story
how
my
generons
Master
was
taken
Prisoner
,
which
when
Pompey
had
heard
,
he
reply'd
,
The
gods
forbid
,
that
because
your
Captain
has
a
better
opinion
of
me
than
I
merit
,
that
therefore
this
Prisoner
should
undergo
a
misery
which
by
your
own
confession
he
does
not
but
upon
that
score
.
Thereupon
he
commanded
Gallippus
to
set
my
Prince
and
me
free
,
and
to
tell
Menas
,
that
furnishing
him
with
an
occasion
to
oblige
a
gallant
Man
,
was
a
greater
present
than
all
those
other
slaves
he
bestowed
on
him
.
Gallippus
who
had
contracted
a
high
opinion
for
my
Masters
virtue
,
was
going
with
a
great
satisfaction
to
observe
Pompey's
directions
,
when
Artabanes's
ill
fate
(
which
has
never
been
tir'd
with
afflicting
him
)
made
Lentulus
Batiatus
(
who
was
extremely
taken
with
my
Prince
)
so
earnestly
to
beg
him
of
Pompey
,
that
at
last
(
though
with
much
reluctancy
)
he
revok'd
his
promise
,
and
not
onely
granted
Batiatus's
request
,
but
also
gave
him
all
those
other
slaves
which
Menas
had
presented
him
.
This
Batiatus
was
the
chiefest
Citizen
in
Capua
,
and
one
who
Pompey
durst
not
disoblige
,
being
of
his
Council
in
that
great
design
of
making
himself
Emperor
of
the
World
,
whose
foundation
was
then
laid
,
but
after
was
destroy'd
by
the
happier
fortune
of
Iulius
Caesar
,
who
possest
what
this
did
but
imagine
.
Batiatus
having
waited
upon
Pompey
out
of
Capua
,
was
no
sooner
return'd
then
calling
for
my
Prince
,
he
ask'd
him
,
his
Name
and
Countrey
.
Artabanes
,
whose
hatred
for
him
was
as
great
as
just
,
told
him
,
with
an
accent
which
exprest
his
resentment
,
That
being
a
slave
,
he
had
neither
Name
nor
Countrey
.
Which
reply
so
incens'd
the
barbarous
Batiatus
,
that
he
commanded
him
instantly
to
be
put
into
Chains
,
and
kept
with
his
other
common
Slaves
.
Great
gods
!
when
I
saw
those
hands
loaden
with
Irons
,
which
if
virtue
had
been
a
title
to
Empire
should
have
sway'd
the
Scepters
of
the
World
;
What
did
not
my
fury
suggest
in
me
?
I
curst
a
million
of
times
Parthenissa's
inconstancy
,
that
had
cast
my
dear
Master
into
miseries
almost
as
great
as
his
virtue
,
and
condemned
with
many
imprecations
the
weakness
of
Pompey's
,
which
the
desire
of
an
unworthy
Citizen
could
soon
destroy
:
at
last
I
was
resolv'd
to
acquaint
our
Tyrant
with
my
Princes
quality
and
birth
,
and
by
the
assurance
of
an
excessive
Ransom
,
free
him
from
that
Captivity
his
unjust
Fate
had
flung
him
into
.
But
then
the
consideration
of
those
sacred
Oaths
Artabanes
had
extorted
from
me
never
to
reveal
that
secret
but
by
his
consent
,
supprest
my
resolution
,
and
made
me
take
up
that
of
endeavouring
to
perswade
him
to
it
himself
,
or
else
to
give
me
his
permission
for
it
.
Therefore
taking
my
opportunity
,
I
begg'd
him
with
a
stream
of
Tears
,
that
he
would
not
by
any
obstinate
silence
undergo
so
low
a
destiny
,
but
by
acquainting
Batiatus
with
his
quality
,
procure
a
civil
usage
till
his
Ransom
came
:
That
then
he
would
return
into
Parthia
,
there
having
obtain'd
a
pardon
for
Surena's
death
,
evince
to
Parthenissa
,
by
a
carriage
void
of
all
trouble
,
how
easily
he
could
divest
himself
of
his
Passion
,
when
she
could
throw
off
her
Constancy
;
that
it
was
her
virtue
not
her
beauty
onely
he
ador'd
:
and
since
she
could
decline
the
first
,
he
could
as
easily
the
latter
.
Hold
thy
peace
Simander
(
said
my
Prince
,
interrupting
me
)
do
not
add
unto
my
miseries
by
thy
impious
discourse
of
Parthenissa
,
she
is
yet
the
highest
thing
in
my
esteem
;
for
I
am
upon
better
consideration
apter
to
believe
't
was
some
defects
she
found
in
me
than
any
which
were
in
her
,
that
made
her
recall
the
blessed
joy
of
her
affection
;
and
so
that
which
thou
termest
inconstancy
,
may
be
her
Justice
.
No
,
no
,
Simander
(
he
continu'd
)
since
the
gods
have
profest
themselves
so
much
my
adversaries
,
tie
not
thy
fortune
unto
the
most
wretched
of
men
:
I
have
some
Jewels
that
scapt
the
Pirates
,
take
them
and
buy
thy
freedom
,
then
return
into
thy
Countrey
;
where
I
shall
pray
thou
may'st
enjoy
a
felicity
equal
to
thy
virtue
;
and
let
me
alone
to
wrestle
with
my
misfortunes
;
for
I
had
far
rather
perish
in
this
miserable
Prison
,
and
under
the
weight
of
these
Chains
,
than
see
Parthenissa
scorn
my
Flame
,
or
by
her
embraces
recompence
any
others
.
By
this
thou
may'st
in
some
sort
guess
at
the
greatness
of
my
torments
,
when
slavery
is
a
comparative
happiness
.
My
Prince
had
no
sooner
done
speaking
than
flinging
my self
at
his
feet
,
I
told
him
,
Oh
Sir
!
Have
all
my
miseries
not
yet
obtain'd
your
leave
to
bear
a
share
in
your
misfortunes
?
Can
you
speak
to
me
of
felicity
when
you
are
loaden
with
Irons
?
Alas
,
What
fault
have
I
committed
,
that
you
should
esteem
me
worthy
the
misery
of
liberty
?
I
attest
the
gods
,
that
the
sence
of
your
torments
create
the
greatest
I
endure
,
and
that
I
can
drown
my
own
by
the
consideration
of
yours
;
whose
liberty
I
would
joyfully
purchase
by
the
loss
of
my
own
eternally
.
Therefore
,
Sir
,
(
I
continu'd
,
embracing
of
his
knees
)
I
conjure
you
by
your
virtue
,
and
those
services
which
I
hope
I
shall
live
to
pay
you
,
and
by
that
Parthenissa
,
whom
you
do
yet
so
highly
reverence
,
do
not
banish
me
from
the
glory
of
suffering
with
you
,
nor
have
so
low
an
opinion
of
my
fidelity
,
as
to
think
any
thing
but
death
shall
separate
me
from
you
.
To
which
Artabanes
reply'd
,
That
his
knowledge
of
my
affection
for
him
,
and
not
his
diffidence
of
it
,
made
him
press
me
to
return
into
Parthia
,
but
since
I
assur'd
him
,
to
be
near
his
person
,
was
a
higher
satisfaction
,
he
granted
my
request
,
though
it
were
to
the
augmentation
of
his
misery
,
which
he
profest
to
me
was
much
increast
by
the
share
I
had
in
it
.
I
had
scarce
kist
his
hands
as
an
acknowledgement
of
his
favour
,
and
my
joy
,
but
Batiatus
came
in
,
who
commanded
his
Chains
to
be
taken
off
,
that
he
might
be
the
fitter
for
that
employment
to
which
,
next
morning
,
he
design'd
him
;
then
he
selected
some
twenty
of
the
ablest
Slaves
,
who
,
together
with
Artabanes
,
were
set
apart
for
Gladiators
,
and
then
went
away
.
The
Gladiators
(
as
the
Romans
call
them
)
are
certain
Captives
who
are
kept
to
fight
at
sharp
,
one
against
another
in
Amphitheaters
,
for
their
Masters
,
or
the
Peoples
pastime
,
which
sort
of
Combats
,
always
ends
at
least
with
the
loss
of
much
Bloud
,
and
oftentimes
with
the
lives
of
the
Actors
.
As
soon
as
my
Prince
learn'd
by
some
of
the
other
Slaves
what
he
was
destin'd
to
,
he
curst
a
hundred
times
his
ignorance
of
the
Roman
Customs
that
had
sav'd
Batiatus's
life
;
for
certainly
,
had
he
known
the
cause
why
his
Chains
were
taken
off
,
he
had
employed
them
to
kill
the
Commander
of
it
.
But
after
having
walked
two
or
three
turns
,
with
looks
and
actions
,
expressing
his
just
resentments
,
he
at
last
desir'd
his
fellow-prisoners
silence
and
attention
;
which
being
easily
obtain'd
,
he
spoke
to
them
much
to
this
purpose
;
Friends
and
Companions
in
misery
,
That
Fortune
has
made
us
Slaves
is
her
fault
,
that
we
should
continue
so
,
will
be
ours
,
since
a
quiet
submission
to
her
cruelty
tacitely
acknowledges
we
deserve
it
,
and
makes
that
which
is
an
effect
of
her
blindess
,
appear
a
confession
of
her
justice
.
You
have
assur'd
me
often
,
that
you
are
all
Gentlemen
,
that
Title
obliges
you
sooner
to
wear
death's
Livery
than
Batiatus's
;
let
us
therefore
,
by
some
gallant
attempt
,
shew
how
worthy
we
were
of
Liberty
,
or
by
dying
handsomely
,
how
unworthy
we
are
of
Chains
:
Death
is
the
worst
can
befal
us
,
yet
it
is
a
comparative
happiness
to
our
present
condition
:
If
the
gods
do
not
favour
our
endeavours
,
but
take
from
us
all
those
ways
that
lead
to
freedom
,
they
do
thereby
invite
us
to
kill
our selves
;
which
to
perform
,
is
not
to
sin
,
but
to
obey
them
.
To
move
us
to
this
,
you
see
to
what
the
cruel
Batiatus
designs
us
,
let
us
therefore
resolve
to
morrow
,
when
we
are
upon
the
Theatre
Arm'd
,
to
make
use
of
our
Swords
to
a
contrary
action
to
that
,
for
which
they
were
given
us
;
and
since
they
delight
in
Bloud
,
let
us
make
them
surfet
of
it
,
by
employing
our
lives
which
they
destin'd
for
their
pleasure
,
unto
their
punishment
:
This
is
the
way
,
if
we
cannot
reach
our
liberty
,
yet
at
least
to
reach
revenge
,
which
will
be
as
pleasing
as
the
Irons
we
now
wear
are
insupportable
.
My
Prince
had
no
sooner
done
speaking
,
than
,
Canitius
,
(
one
of
the
chiefest
amongst
the
Slaves
)
reply'd
,
That
he
was
sorry
such
powerful
inducements
were
laid
down
to
invite
them
to
that
action
,
since
their
undertaking
of
it
now
,
would
rather
appear
to
proceed
from
their
judgement
,
than
their
inclinations
:
That
he
so
well
understood
the
hearts
of
his
companions
,
he
durst
engage
himself
they
would
every
one
of
them
elect
Death
before
Slavery
,
but
that
he
was
of
opinion
,
they
might
obtain
their
liberty
by
a
less
hazardous
way
,
than
what
was
then
propounded
;
for
every
day
(
said
he
)
the
Gladiators
are
to
fight
,
't
is
the
custom
to
feed
them
very
early
,
that
they
may
digest
their
Meat
before
the
combat
,
and
be
the
better
able
to
perform
it
.
This
being
most
certain
,
my
advice
is
,
when
our
keepers
to
morrow
come
in
to
feed
us
,
we
seize
upon
their
Swords
,
and
kill
them
,
lest
they
should
make
any
noise
;
then
with
their
Keyes
we
may
open
the
doors
to
our
liberty
,
and
perhaps
(
being
early
)
the
Streets
may
be
so
empty
of
people
,
that
with
little
resistance
we
may
get
out
of
the
Town
,
and
recover
the
Mountains
of
Pettely
,
where
it
will
be
difficult
,
if
not
impossible
to
take
us
.
This
motion
was
highly
relisht
by
all
the
company
,
and
the
onely
thing
my
Prince
dislik'd
in
it
was
,
that
Batiatus
would
scape
unpunisht
,
but
the
rest
consenting
,
he
saw
't
was
in
vain
to
oppose
it
.
You
may
easily
imagine
we
were
not
a
little
impatient
till
the
break
of
day
,
which
no
sooner
appear'd
than
our
Keepers
(
which
were
four
in
number
)
came
into
our
Prison
,
where
whilst
they
were
distributing
of
victuals
and
blows
together
(
for
Cruelty
is
a
badge
inseparable
from
their
Office
)
Artabanes
,
Canitius
,
one
Castus
,
and
I
,
drew
out
their
Swords
,
and
sheath'd
them
in
their
own
bodies
,
with
such
expedition
,
that
they
had
their
fate
before
they
could
fear
it
:
Then
taking
their
Keyes
,
we
open'd
the
doors
of
the
Prison
,
and
coming
into
the
great
Court
of
Batiatus's
house
(
which
we
were
necessitated
to
pass
thorow
to
get
into
the
Street
)
we
might
perceve
him
(
as
the
gods
would
have
it
,
who
always
punish
cruelty
)
attended
onely
by
a
couple
of
his
menial
Servants
,
and
(
as
we
conjectur'd
)
coming
to
visit
us
;
his
amazement
was
so
great
when
he
saw
us
all
at
liberty
,
that
he
had
not
power
to
fly
,
which
gave
Castus
sufficient
time
to
take
away
his
life
,
but
his
Servants
scapt
,
and
by
their
cryes
drew
many
people
into
the
Streets
,
most
of
them
in
their
shirts
,
for
it
was
very
early
:
Those
of
the
Capuans
that
had
Arms
,
perceiving
we
had
but
four
Swords
,
fell
upon
us
very
resolutely
;
and
(
doubtless
)
had
cut
us
off
had
we
not
recovered
a
narrow
Lane
,
where
my
Prince
,
Canitius
,
Castus
,
and
I
(
who
were
those
onely
that
had
Arms
)
making
good
the
entrance
of
it
,
gave
our
Companions
time
to
break
into
a
Cooks-shop
that
was
behind
us
;
where
having
fitted
themselves
,
some
with
spits
,
others
with
long
knives
,
and
such
kind
of
Weapons
,
observing
how
our
Enemies
increast
,
and
that
delay
would
bring
a
certain
ruine
,
we
charg'd
them
so
furiously
that
we
made
way
through
all
those
that
oppos'd
us
,
and
by
the
death
of
some
30
or
40
,
ecover'd
that
Gate
of
the
Town
which
leads
to
the
Mountains
of
Pettely
just
as
some
of
the
Inhabitants
were
going
to
shut
it
,
who
as
soon
as
they
perceiv'd
us
,
fled
and
left
us
a
free
passage
,
the
Capuans
not
daring
then
to
pursue
us
any
further
.
In
this
Retreat
,
my
Prince
and
Canitius
brought
up
the
Rear
,
Castus
and
I
led
our
Companions
;
and
though
we
were
four
wounded
,
yet
it
was
so
favourably
,
that
it
hinder'd
not
our
march
.
We
were
not
sixteen
furlongs
out
of
Cap●a
(
which
according
to
the
Roman
account
makes
two
Miles
)
when
we
overtook
some
Horses
loaden
with
Weapons
for
Fencers
,
going
to
Salapia
,
those
Horse
and
Arms
we
seiz'd
on
,
(
but
did
the
owners
no
harm
)
and
had
scarcely
fitted
our selves
with
them
,
when
we
might
perceive
300
Capuaus
,
that
follow'd
us
with
an
eagerness
that
spoke
their
intentions
.
The
inequality
of
our
numbers
did
somewhat
startle
our
Companions
at
the
first
,
but
my
generous
Prince
so
animated
them
,
that
he
made
them
not
onely
resolve
to
fight
,
but
save
the
Capuans
the
labor
of
half
their
march
;
the
Enemy
perceiving
our
intentions
,
receiv'd
our
charge
with
much
resolution
,
but
Artabanes
gave
it
with
more
,
and
did
act
in
that
occasion
things
so
worthy
himself
,
that
at
last
the
Capuans
were
routed
,
and
most
of
them
kill'd
,
for
we
follow'd
the
execution
to
their
very
Gates
,
which
we
found
so
ill
guarded
(
an
universal
fear
having
seiz'd
upon
all
the
Inhabitants
)
that
had
our
numbers
been
proportionable
to
our
advantage
,
we
might
have
possest
that
great
City
.
But
we
were
satisfi'd
with
our
success
,
and
at
night
retir'd
our selves
to
a
place
of
very
strong
scituation
,
which
Castus
shew'd
us
,
who
,
by
good
fortune
was
perfectly
acquainted
with
that
Countrey
.
This
place
I
speak
of
was
a
Hill
of
a
great
height
,
in
the
middle
of
a
Plain
,
about
eight
Furlongs
circumference
,
and
inaccessible
every
way
but
one
,
by
which
also
there
could
not
come
above
five
a-brest
;
The
next
morning
we
met
together
to
chose
our selves
a
Captain
,
knowing
a
body
how
little
soever
without
a
head
is
a
Monster
.
My
Prince
was
elected
,
whose
valor
and
conduct
in
the
late
Fight
gave
him
that
place
without
either
opposition
or
envy
,
to
whom
we
all
swore
obedience
till
we
might
get
out
of
Italy
,
and
so
return
to
our
own
Countreys
,
for
we
were
of
several
Nations
,
though
the
most
of
any
one
were
Thracians
.
Then
our
new
Soldiers
desiring
to
know
their
Captains
Country
and
Name
,
came
and
begg'd
of
him
the
knowledge
of
both
,
but
my
Prince
,
who
would
not
acquaint
them
with
either
,
lest
it
might
in
time
discover
him
,
desir'd
their
excuse
,
telling
them
he
was
ty'd
to
a
concealment
of
both
by
some
considerations
:
The
Thracians
then
;
who
I
told
you
were
the
most
in
number
of
any
one
Country
,
cry'd
out
,
that
they
would
thenceforwards
call
him
Spartacus
,
which
in
their
Language
signifies
Captain
or
General
,
and
all
the
rest
willingly
consented
to
it
,
which
I
shall
beg
you
,
(
said
Simander
to
Callimachus
)
to
take
notice
of
,
for
I
shall
for
a
while
call
my
generous
Master
no
more
but
by
that
name
,
since
't
was
under
it
he
purchas'd
so
great
a
proportion
of
Glory
,
that
it
cannot
have
an
end
till
the
World
have
.
O
gods
!
(
said
Callimachus
to
Simander
)
Is
it
then
Artabanes
,
that
under
the
name
of
Spartacus
,
did
from
so
weak
a
beginning
shake
the
Roman
Empire
worse
than
ever
Hannibal
did
?
And
who
so
fill'd
the
World
with
his
generous
Actions
,
that
not
to
have
heard
of
him
is
as
great
wonder
as
any
he
perform'd
?
This
(
reply'd
Simander
)
is
that
same
,
Spartacus
,
who
coming
into
Italy
a
Slave
,
loaded
with
Chains
and
Miseries
,
by
his
virtue
and
courage
had
certainly
subjected
the
greatest
Empire
of
the
World
,
if
at
lest
his
Souldiers
had
been
of
that
temper
which
Hanniballs
were
;
for
Spartacus
knew
as
well
how
to
make
use
of
a
Victory
as
to
win
it
,
if
that
great
general
had
done
the
like
,
and
had
follow'd
success
as
much
as
success
did
him
,
he
had
made
the
Carthaginians
Lords
of
all
the
World
.
One
great
advantage
Hannibal
had
,
which
was
,
though
his
Army
were
compos'd
of
several
Nations
,
yet
they
never
mutiny'd
,
but
with
as
much
satisfaction
as
duty
observ'd
his
orders
.
If
my
generous
Master
had
enjoy'd
that
blessing
,
the
Parthians
had
now
held
that
Empire
in
possession
,
which
the
Carthaginians
only
had
in
expectation
,
as
you
shall
hear
by
the
sequel
of
my
discourse
.
Which
said
Callimachus
,
I
must
interrupt
,
to
beg
you
to
resolve
me
two
doubts
,
the
first
is
,
Why
the
Romans
gave
out
that
Spartacus
was
a
Thracian
?
and
the
second
,
Why
they
said
he
was
kill'd
in
that
famous
Battel
of
the
Trenches
,
which
he
fought
against
Marcus
Crassus
?
To
satisfie
your
first
doubt
(
reply'd
Simander
)
I
must
acquaint
you
that
those
Thracians
which
gave
him
the
name
of
Spartacus
,
when
they
saw
his
glorious
Victories
,
and
that
he
would
not
then
discover
where
he
was
born
,
resolv'd
since
he
took
his
name
out
of
their
Language
to
give
him
his
original
from
their
Countrey
,
which
my
Prince
did
not
contradict
for
those
reasons
I
formerly
specifi'd
,
so
that
the
Romans
when
they
said
he
was
a
Thracian
,
gave
out
but
that
which
they
credited
themselves
.
To
your
second
cond
doubt
,
which
concerns
his
supposed
death
,
I
shall
beg
your
patience
but
a
little
,
that
I
may
tell
it
you
in
its
due
order
;
for
I
perceive
by
your
questions
you
are
already
acquainted
with
so
much
of
my
Prince's
adventures
,
that
it
will
very
much
shorten
the
Relation
of
them
.
I
must
confess
(
reply'd
Callimachus
)
though
my
profession
and
inclination
have
made
me
these
few
years
live
a
recluse
life
,
and
give
me
no
great
curiosity
to
enquire
after
news
,
yet
your
generous
Princes
actions
have
reach'd
my
ears
,
but
in
so
confus'd
a
way
,
that
you
will
do
me
a
singular
favour
to
acquaint
me
with
all
the
particulars
,
being
so
enamour'd
of
his
virtue
,
that
I
cannot
but
be
highly
interested
in
any
thing
that
relates
unto
a
further
knowledge
of
it
:
then
begging
Simanders
excuse
for
having
desir'd
to
anticipate
his
Relation
,
which
he
besought
him
to
receive
as
an
argument
of
his
great
concernment
in
Artabanes's
safety
,
by
his
silence
invited
him
to
continue
his
discourse
,
which
Simander
did
in
these
words
:
I
left
off
where
Artabanes
under
the
name
of
Spartacus
was
chosen
Captain
by
his
companions
,
which
title
oblig'd
him
to
provide
for
all
their
fafeties
:
his
first
cares
were
,
to
fortifie
our
Fort
,
(
which
he
did
by
making
many
Traverses
upon
the
Avenues
)
and
to
procure
a
Magaxine
of
Victuals
,
which
at
last
he
accomplisht
;
but
with
much
difficulty
,
being
constrained
to
fight
for
every
thing
he
brought
in
.
The
Capuans
too
were
taking
order
for
their
safeties
;
and
having
found
by
their
first
essay
,
that
't
was
not
an
easie
thing
to
conquer
us
in
the
Field
,
but
far
more
hardly
to
be
effected
in
the
strong
Fort
we
were
in
,
having
furnisht
it
with
all
necessaries
for
three
Months
,
dispatcht
away
some
of
their
Citizens
to
Rome
,
to
acquaint
the
Senate
with
what
was
past
,
and
to
implore
their
aid
for
the
suppressing
of
their
Bondmen
(
for
so
they
always
term'd
us
.
)
The
Senate
taking
their
motion
into
debate
,
and
finding
how
great
prejudice
all
Italy
had
received
by
the
Slaves
that
were
risen
in
Sicily
(
which
were
not
then
quite
supprest
)
how
that
from
a
weak
beginning
,
they
had
made
a
dangerous
progress
,
and
that
it
would
bring
their
Fame
and
their
Empire
into
contempt
,
when
that
their
very
Slaves
could
endanger
both
,
resolv'd
for
this
expedition
to
employ
Clodius
the
Pretor
,
with
Three
thousand
Men
,
who
,
having
receiv'd
his
Commission
(
which
was
to
put
us
all
to
the
Sword
)
left
Rome
,
and
by
great
marches
advanced
towards
us
:
we
were
not
ignorant
of
these
preparations
by
the
industry
of
Castus
(
who
knowing
the
Countrey
was
empoly'd
as
a
Spy
,
and
till
we
were
besieg'd
,
brought
us
frequent
and
true
intelligences
;
but
at
last
the
Pretor
and
his
Army
,
(
which
was
recruited
by
some
additional
Forces
out
of
Capua
)
were
come
so
near
us
,
that
they
drew
up
in
Battalia
,
and
faced
our
Fort.
Spartacus
,
who
was
resolv'd
to
make
them
dispute
every
foot
of
ground
,
made
some
such
vigorous
Sallies
,
that
the
Romans
were
hinder'd
from
Camping
above
24
hours
,
and
had
our
numbers
been
equal
to
our
resolutions
,
we
had
made
our
Enemies
know
,
that
those
they
had
to
deal
with
,
had
nothing
of
Slaves
but
the
Name
.
My
Prince
having
acquainted
Clodus
,
by
the
loss
of
Two
hundred
of
his
Soldiers
,
of
what
temper
we
made
,
gave
him
leave
to
settle
his
Camp
,
lest
he
might
harrass
his
own
Men
more
than
the
Enemies
.
The
Pretor
,
who
understood
the
art
of
war
,
and
knew
the
truth
of
this
Maxime
,
That
a
place
strong
by
scituation
is
easily
blockt
up
,
elected
that
way
of
conquering
us
;
But
since
I
have
so
many
things
of
Soldiery
to
acquaint
you
with
,
I
must
run
them
over
briefly
,
by
telling
you
,
That
though
the
season
of
the
the
year
were
very
incommodious
to
lodge
in
the
open
air
,
yet
the
Romans
having
endured
a
world
of
miseries
by
the
fury
of
the
weather
,
would
not
(
for
all
)
decline
their
Seige
,
but
by
the
continuance
of
it
reduc'd
us
to
that
extremity
for
want
of
Victuals
,
that
we
resolv'd
,
rather
than
suffer
the
torments
of
Famine
,
to
fall
upon
all
the
Army
,
and
with
our
Swords
in
our
hands
dye
,
acting
our
revenge
;
which
determination
we
had
the
next
morning
put
in
practice
,
had
not
I
found
out
a
strange
way
for
our
deliverance
:
for
the
evening
preceding
that
day
,
in
which
we
resolv'd
to
perform
our
desperate
enterprize
,
as
I
was
looking
over
our
Fort
,
I
took
notice
of
certain
wild
Vines
,
that
grew
upon
the
side
of
the
Rocks
,
so
thick
,
and
in
such
abundance
,
that
I
began
to
fancy
it
no
very
difficult
thing
,
by
their
help
,
and
our
own
industry
,
to
get
down
into
the
Plain
.
This
imagination
I
instantly
communicated
to
Spartacus
,
and
to
the
rest
,
who
having
viewed
the
place
,
were
all
of
my
opinion
;
we
therefore
began
to
make
Ladders
,
like
those
in
Ships
,
for
the
Vines
being
supple
,
of
a
great
length
,
and
strong
,
were
almost
as
useful
as
Ropes
,
and
the
Rocks
not
making
one
continued
precipice
,
but
in
some
places
resembling
Scaffolds
and
stages
,
did
so
facilitate
our
attempt
,
that
two
hours
before
day
,
we
all
safely
descended
on
the
Plain
;
my
generous
Master
having
led
us
the
way
,
which
was
always
his
practice
,
where
there
was
any
danger
.
Then
as
we
were
going
to
advise
with
Castus
,
what
way
to
take
to
recover
the
Mountain
,
my
Prince
over-hearing
it
,
came
,
and
begg'd
us
to
make
use
of
no
other
guide
but
him
,
and
to
take
no
other
way
,
but
that
which
led
to
the
Roman
Camp
,
where
Victory
,
as
certain
as
it
would
be
glorious
,
did
attend
us
:
In
a
word
,
he
told
us
so
many
arguments
for
embracing
so
happy
an
opportunity
,
that
they
preferr'd
the
honor
of
the
attempt
before
their
own
safety
,
and
obeyed
Spartacus
,
who
leading
them
some
ten
furlongs
about
,
fell
into
Clodius
Camp
,
and
found
them
so
unprepar'd
,
(
for
they
kept
no
Centuries
,
but
towards
the
Advenues
of
our
Fort
,
having
all
Italy
to
friend
besides
)
that
we
kill'd
above
500
of
them
in
their
Hutts
,
before
they
took
the
Alarm
,
which
at
last
was
so
hot
(
not
knowing
from
whence
so
great
an
execution
proceeded
)
that
Clodius
and
all
those
that
escap'd
the
fury
of
our
Swords
,
were
obliged
to
their
Feet
for
their
safeties
,
and
left
us
the
quiet
possession
of
their
Camp
,
with
all
the
Riches
,
Victuals
,
and
Arms
in
it
.
The
report
of
this
great
success
,
was
so
suddainly
dispersed
,
that
in
less
than
ten
days
,
above
1000
,
as
well
slaves
,
as
discotented
and
poor
Men
,
came
to
offer
their
service
to
my
Prince
,
who
willingly
received
them
,
and
gave
Arms
to
such
as
wanted
any
,
out
of
those
he
had
taken
from
the
Pretor
.
But
Spartacus
having
no
bank
of
Treasure
to
maintain
such
a
confluence
of
People
,
as
every
day
came
thronging
under
his
Ensigns
,
and
knowing
,
that
to
live
upon
the
spoil
,
was
as
dishonest
as
unpolitick
,
and
would
so
scatter
his
Army
,
that
the
Romans
could
not
miss
an
occasion
of
destroying
it
,
publish'd
,
that
if
the
Countrey
would
send
him
in
a
competent
proportion
of
Victuals
and
Money
,
they
should
receive
no
prejudice
,
but
if
they
neglected
so
favourable
an
offer
,
whatsoever
miseries
they
suffered
by
it
,
must
be
cast
upon
the
score
of
their
obstinacy
.
This
in
some
places
prevail'd
,
but
in
others
it
did
not
,
those
enjoyed
the
effects
of
his
clemency
,
and
these
resented
the
reward
of
their
wilfulness
.
But
to
confine
my self
to
my
ingagement
of
running
over
briefly
all
my
Princes
generous
actions
in
this
War
,
I
will
acquaint
you
,
that
the
Romans
,
after
the
defeat
of
Clodius
,
sent
Varinus
the
Pretor
with
800
Men
against
Spartacus
,
and
because
his
Army
was
to
be
formed
out
of
several
Garrisons
,
which
of
necessity
would
take
up
some
time
,
he
sent
Furius
his
Lieutenant
,
with
2000
Soldiers
before
him
,
to
preserve
the
Countrey
from
our
incursions
,
which
my
Prince
having
intelligence
of
,
drew
out
a
thousand
of
his
select
Men
,
and
marcht
all
night
with
them
towards
a
Valley
,
which
Furius
was
to
pass
through
next
morning
,
and
there
,
an
hour
before
day
,
in
two
small
Groves
about
a
furlong
asunder
,
he
lodg'd
his
party
.
We
had
not
long
continu'd
in
expectation
of
our
enemies
,
but
we
saw
Furius
in
the
head
of
his
Army
,
marching
in
very
good
order
,
which
Spartacus
soon
broke
,
for
discovering
himself
with
six
hundred
of
his
Soldiers
,
he
gave
the
Romans
,
so
resolute
and
unexpected
a
charge
,
that
at
first
he
discompos'd
them
.
But
Furius
,
who
perceived
how
unconsiderable
our
numbers
were
,
soon
rallied
his
men
,
and
then
gave
us
so
vigorous
a
repayment
,
that
we
found
it
high
time
to
give
the
signal
for
Canitius
and
Castus
,
with
those
four
hundred
Men
that
were
yet
in
one
of
the
Groves
for
our
reserve
,
which
no
sooner
appear'd
,
than
the
Enemy
fled
,
not
knowing
but
that
every
Wood
might
have
been
so
furnisht
.
The
Countrey
being
very
fit
to
follow
the
execution
,
there
escap't
not
above
100
in
all
,
of
which
number
,
Furius
was
none
,
who
scorning
to
owe
his
safety
to
his
flight
,
thrust
himself
into
the
midst
of
us
,
and
there
found
that
fate
which
Spartacus
endeavoured
to
prevent
;
but
the
eagerness
of
his
Soldiers
was
such
,
that
he
could
only
oblige
him
in
design
,
and
not
in
action
,
yet
after
his
death
,
he
gave
him
a
Burial
suitable
to
the
esteem
he
had
conceiv'd
of
his
Courage
.
This
defeat
increas'd
our
Army
much
more
than
the
Romans
lost
in
it
,
and
the
Senate
no
sooner
heard
of
it
,
but
they
resolv'd
by
a
powerful
force
,
to
pluck
up
this
War
by
the
Roots
,
and
not
to
send
inconsiderable
numbers
against
us
,
which
did
but
serve
to
increase
our
reputation
,
and
eclipse
their
own
.
In
order
to
which
,
they
gave
Cossinius
the
command
of
10000
Men
,
and
joyn'd
him
in
Commission
with
Varinus
,
who
by
this
was
recruited
with
more
than
Furius
had
lost
.
Spartacus
quickly
found
,
that
if
these
two
Armies
should
joyn
,
't
would
be
difficult
,
if
not
impossible
,
any
longer
to
maintain
a
War
,
and
therefore
was
projecting
some
way
to
avoid
this
storm
,
but
fancied
none
so
probable
as
by
taking
the
field
,
which
might
furnish
him
with
an
occasion
to
fight
with
them
asunder
.
His
Army
then
consisting
of
8000
Men
,
he
marcht
directly
towards
Varinus
,
who
lay
encamped
60
Furlong
from
our
Fort
,
in
expectation
of
his
Colleague
,
who
had
then
newly
left
Rome
.
My
Prince
having
faced
his
Camp
,
invited
him
out
of
it
,
and
by
many
other
ways
endeavour'd
to
provoke
him
to
Battel
,
but
when
he
perceiv'd
all
was
fruitless
he
entrencht
himself
eight
Furlongs
from
the
Pretor
,
gave
out
,
that
his
Men
ran
away
daily
,
and
for
four
nights
successively
kept
great
Fires
in
his
Camp
,
and
permitted
none
of
his
Soldiers
to
appear
without
,
nor
within
his
Trenches
.
The
first
night
having
advertisement
,
that
Cossinius
was
within
a
little
days
march
of
Varinus
,
with
as
much
silence
as
an
Army
could
rise
,
he
quit
his
Camp
,
leaving
some
few
to
continue
those
accustomed
Fires
in
it
,
and
marcht
all
night
towards
Cossinus
,
whose
Scouts
being
taken
by
some
of
ours
,
after
a
few
threatenings
,
confest
that
their
General
was
not
then
in
his
Camp
,
but
lay
at
a
small
Village
not
far
distant
from
it
,
to
make
use
of
certain
Baths
which
were
there
.
Spartacus
immediately
sent
Castus
with
a
commanded
party
of
select
Horse
to
surprize
him
,
and
continu'd
his
march
towards
the
Enemy
,
but
Cossinius
got
the
Alarm
time
enough
to
recover
to
his
Camp
,
which
he
was
no
sooner
come
into
,
than
our
Army
stormed
it
,
and
after
a
bloudy
resistance
entred
.
There
Cossinius
observing
how
my
Prince
pierc'd
,
and
broke
his
resolutest
Troops
,
had
the
confidence
to
fight
with
him
,
which
cost
him
his
life
.
His
fall
was
no
sooner
divulg'd
,
but
all
his
Army
sought
their
security
in
their
feet
,
having
found
their
Swords
were
unable
to
give
it
them
;
some
two
thousand
escap'd
,
the
rest
were
kill'd
,
and
a
few
taken
.
The
day
by
this
time
appear'd
,
and
shew'd
our
Soldies
,
that
the
riches
they
had
purchas'd
by
the
victory
,
was
as
great
as
the
Honour
.
Having
rested
and
refreshed
themselves
awhile
,
the
next
night
we
return'd
to
our
own
Camp
,
where
we
found
how
well
Varinus
had
been
deluded
by
our
Fires
,
and
our
Soldiers
not
shewing
themselves
the
five
precedent
days
.
This
,
Sir
(
continued
Simander
)
is
so
strange
,
that
were
it
not
as
general
a
known
truth
,
I
should
not
have
the
confidence
to
tell
it
you
.
The
next
morning
after
our
return
,
Spartacus
sent
five
hundred
prisoners
(
taken
at
Cossinius's
defeat
)
unto
Varinus
,
and
bid
them
tell
him
,
though
the
Romans
usage
to
him
,
and
their
barbarous
Commissions
they
gave
their
Generals
of
shewing
no
Mercy
,
deserved
in
justice
,
a
proportionate
return
,
yet
he
esteem'd
an
ill
action
fitter
to
be
avoided
than
imitated
,
therefore
presented
him
those
Captives
,
having
only
exacted
an
oath
from
them
,
of
not
bearing
Arms
against
him
for
a
year
.
'T
were
hard
to
tell
the
severall
conjectures
our
Enemies
had
in
their
Camp
,
when
they
perceiv'd
those
five
hundred
unarmed
Men
march
up
to
them
,
but
't
were
far
more
difficult
to
describe
their
grief
when
they
knew
the
cause
of
it
.
The
rage
of
this
defeat
,
and
the
confidence
Varinus
had
of
not
being
reliev'd
,
made
him
alter
that
cold
resolution
of
protracting
the
War
,
and
by
erecting
a
Scarlet
Coat-Armour
over
his
Tent
(
which
is
the
Romans
signal
of
Battel
)
gave
us
as
much
joy
,
as
our
success
did
afterwards
afford
him
discontent
.
But
his
fury
not
having
absolutely
blinded
his
judgement
,
he
drew
up
his
Army
in
so
advantageous
a
place
,
that
he
might
retire
safely
into
his
Camp
,
if
he
found
the
Victory
inclin'd
to
our
side
,
which
precaution
he
soon
made
use
of
,
and
by
it
deferr'd
his
ruine
for
a
few
days
,
which
afterwards
happen'd
near
Salapia
,
a
considerable
Town
in
the
East
part
of
Italy
,
where
the
success
was
so
entire
,
that
not
above
fifteen
hundred
escaped
,
in
which
number
Varinus
was
,
having
lost
his
Axes
and
Rods
,
the
badges
of
his
Pretorship
,
with
the
Officers
that
carried
then
,
to
whom
Spartacus
soon
restor'd
them
,
and
them
to
their
liberty
;
but
our
Army
commanded
them
to
tell
the
Senate
,
that
their
General
would
not
make
use
of
the
Regalia's
,
till
he
had
the
Empire
too
.
Amongst
those
Prisoners
then
taken
,
there
was
some
young
Men
of
Salapia
,
who
thinking
to
have
a
share
in
Varinus
Victory
,
were
(
the
day
before
his
defeat
)
come
into
his
Army
,
and
finding
so
different
a
fortune
to
that
which
they
expected
,
desir'd
to
speak
with
Sparta●us
,
where
they
told
him
,
that
Salapia
was
without
any
Garrison
,
that
the
chiefest
Citizens
in
it
,
were
their
Friends
and
Kindred
,
and
such
with
whom
they
had
much
power
,
which
they
would
employ
for
the
reducing
of
it
into
his
hands
,
if
he
would
restore
them
their
freedom
,
and
engage
his
faith
that
their
Town
and
Townsmen
should
enjoy
the
same
Immunities
and
Priviledges
under
him
that
they
did
under
the
Romans
;
in
a
word
,
they
so
represented
the
terror
the
Salapians
were
in
,
and
the
interest
they
had
in
them
,
that
Spartacus
granted
un●o
them
whatsoever
they
desir'd
,
and
immediately
march'd
directly
thither
.
That
which
induc'd
those
Prisoners
to
make
that
overture
,
was
,
that
some
of
our
Officers
in
their
d●scourse
,
had
not
only
assur'd
them
,
that
the
first
design
we
should
go
upon
,
was
to
take
in
their
City
,
but
that
they
themselves
must
expect
the
last
rigor
of
War
,
if
they
did
not
contribute
their
assistance
in
the
reducing
of
it
,
which
if
they
would
undertake
,
and
perform
,
might
not
onely
be
a
singular
advantage
to
Salapia
,
but
preserve
their
own
lives
,
which
were
so
justly
forfeited
to
the
Law
of
Arms.
These
Men
,
through
such
like
infusions
,
were
so
terrified
,
that
partly
out
of
relation
to
themselves
,
and
partly
out
of
care
of
their
Town
,
which
(
without
yielding
)
by
the
greatness
of
our
Army
(
then
indeed
grown
very
considerable
)
must
become
in
few
days
a
prey
to
the
insolent
Soldier
,
inclin'd
them
to
that
motion
,
which
was
the
cause
of
furnishing
my
Prince
with
an
occasion
of
serving
two
of
the
most
virtuous
Lovers
that
time
did
produce
,
and
in
obliging
them
,
he
receiv'd
a
far
higher
satisfaction
,
than
by
taking
of
so
important
a
place
.
By
this
our
Army
having
fac'd
Salapia
,
half
those
young
Men
were
permitted
to
try
their
power
,
the
other
half
remaining
as
Hostages
for
them
,
and
truly
they
were
so
successful
in
the
attempt
,
having
terrified
the
Salapians
with
the
vastness
of
our
Forces
(
which
impressions
they
were
apt
enough
to
receive
by
the
bloody
defeat
of
Varinus
the
Pretor
)
that
immediately
they
deputed
some
of
the
chiefest
Citizens
to
treat
with
my
Prince
,
for
the
conditions
of
their
surrender
,
and
had
so
far
advanc'd
the
work
,
that
every
thing
was
on
the
point
of
conclusion
,
when
a
Messenger
from
the
Town
desiring
,
and
being
admitted
to
speak
with
the
Deputies
,
whisper'd
them
something
in
the
Ear
,
after
which
,
they
all
begg'd
leave
of
Spartacus
,
to
return
for
a
while
,
there
being
in
their
absence
some
tumults
happen'd
amongst
their
Salapians
,
which
nothing
but
their
Presence
could
appease
,
which
being
granted
,
and
they
not
a
quarter
of
an
hour
return'd
,
but
those
young
Men
that
were
imploy'd
into
Salapia
,
were
sent
back
into
the
Camp
,
all
the
Walls
Mann'd
,
and
bloody
Colours
hung
up
,
of
which
so
sudden
an
alteration
we
could
not
imagine
the
cause
,
till
those
Prisoners
told
us
,
that
during
the
Treaty
,
a
young
Gentleman
called
Perolla
,
who
under
the
Romans
had
purchast
much
Glory
,
had
by
an
Oration
so
perswaded
the
Salapians
,
that
they
were
resolv'd
rather
to
hazard
their
ruine
by
resistance
,
than
purchase
the
avoiding
of
it
by
a
submission
;
that
the
Citizens
having
taken
up
that
determination
,
would
have
detain'd
them
,
lest
Spartacus
,
incensed
by
their
inconstancy
,
might
inflict
the
punishment
of
it
on
them
:
Against
which
,
they
represented
the
injustice
of
the
action
,
the
certain
death
of
their
companions
;
and
how
't
would
give
one
that
had
the
Power
,
the
Will
to
destroy
Salapia
;
but
finding
all
their
Reasons
rejected
,
they
went
to
Perolla
,
whose
Gallantry
,
they
said
,
was
as
great
as
his
Courage
,
and
having
acquainted
him
with
the
conditions
on
which
they
were
sent
into
Salapia
,
and
their
desires
,
he
not
onely
highly
commended
their
honesty
,
but
gave
strict
order
they
should
return
to
the
Camp
,
which
no
one
durst
oppose
,
all
of
them
having
trusted
him
for
the
time
being
,
with
the
absolute
Command
,
We
soon
found
by
this
relation
,
the
occasion
of
so
sudden
a
change
,
and
that
Salapia
must
be
purchast
with
as
much
difficulty
as
a
little
before
we
were
perswaded
to
have
obtained
it
with
ease
.
But
Spartacus
having
fac'd
it
,
found
himself
bound
in
Honour
to
make
them
repent
the
contemning
of
his
Mercy
,
and
therefore
instantly
securing
all
the
Avenues
,
he
gave
directions
for
many
s●aling
Ladders
,
Rowling
Bridges
,
and
Faggots
,
to
be
forthwith
provided
:
Then
calling
for
all
the
Salapians
,
who
were
fifty
in
number
,
he
told
them
,
That
he
was
sorry
their
Citizens
had
deluded
him
,
but
't
was
onely
in
relation
to
themselves
,
since
it
would
render
their
destruction
as
just
,
as
it
was
inevitable
:
that
to
conquer
so
considerable
a
place
,
was
more
for
his
Honour
,
than
to
have
it
given
him
:
That
he
had
endeavour'd
to
make
them
yield
by
fair
means
,
because
he
preferr'd
the
saving
of
Blood
before
the
Glory
of
his
Army
:
That
for
their
own
particulars
,
their
declining
the
temptations
of
their
friends
,
and
returning
to
his
Camp
,
when
they
could
not
but
doubt
his
resentment
was
a
strong
proof
of
their
Gallantry
,
or
of
the
high
opinion
they
had
of
his
;
either
of
which
causes
were
equally
obliging
:
that
by
the
character
they
had
given
him
of
Perolla
▪
he
was
more
ambitious
to
have
him
for
a
Friend
than
an
Enemy
,
but
would
not
desire
that
happiness
then
,
left
it
might
deprive
him
of
a
certain
Victory
:
That
he
so
much
valued
Virtue
(
though
in
his
Enemies
)
that
lest
Perolla's
might
not
be
well
seconded
,
he
gave
them
all
(
as
well
for
his
sake
as
for
their
own
)
their
liberty
,
and
leave
to
imploy
it
in
his
service
,
for
the
defence
of
Salapia
,
which
he
assur'd
them
would
be
all
little
enough
,
against
an
Army
on
whom
Victory
did
as
constantly
as
justly
attend
.
The
Salapians
,
who
expected
a
quite
contrary
entertainment
,
after
many
expressions
of
their
joy
and
gratitude
,
reply'd
,
That
if
upon
their
return
,
they
could
not
perswade
their
Citizens
to
yield
unto
so
generous
a
Conqueror
;
that
yet
at
least
upon
their
Ramparts
,
they
would
confirm
the
good
opinion
he
had
of
their
Courages
,
and
either
make
his
Victory
worthy
that
name
,
or
his
defeat
the
more
excusable
by
their
resistance
.
Spartacus
extremely
pleas'd
with
this
promise
,
assur'd
them
,
that
he
would
in
very
few
days
summon
them
of
their
promise
,
and
observe
,
if
they
would
satisfy
this
last
engagement
,
as
punctually
as
they
had
their
first
,
which
if
they
did
,
he
would
confess
in
giving
them
their
freedom
,
he
had
more
oblig'd
himself
than
them
.
These
young
Men
being
come
to
Salapia
,
so
magnify'd
my
Prince
unto
Perolla
,
that
he
knew
not
whether
the
misfortune
was
greater
,
in
having
so
much
Virtue
〈◊〉
his
Enemy
,
or
the
happiness
in
having
so
ample
an
occasion
of
glory
.
Two
days
were
past
in
light
skirmishes
,
whilst
our
preparations
for
an
Assault
were
perfected
:
The
third
,
an
hour
before
't
was
light
our
Army
advanc'd
,
and
every
Division
having
receiv'd
their
Orders
,
began
a
furious
Storm
,
which
was
receiv'd
with
an
equal
Resolution
:
Six
hours
together
the
business
was
disputed
,
without
any
apparent
advantage
on
either
side
,
and
every
place
fill'd
with
Horror
and
Blood
,
Death
being
given
and
receiv'd
in
a
thousand
several
ways
:
at
last
Canitius
,
who
had
the
Command
of
all
the
Germans
in
the
Army
,
planted
one
of
our
Ensignes
upon
the
Walls
,
but
was
so
suddainly
repulst
,
that
before
my
Prince
could
have
time
to
commend
his
courage
,
he
had
cause
to
pity
the
misfortune
of
it
:
Nine
of
our
several
Commanders
had
the
same
fate
that
day
,
aswell
in
their
resolutions
as
misfortunes
,
and
Spartacus
perceiving
,
that
they
at
last
fought
,
rather
by
Duty
than
Inclination
,
sounded
a
Retreat
,
which
was
so
readily
obey'd
,
that
the
Enemy
found
,
it
rather
proceeded
from
apprehension
than
discipline
,
and
therefore
fell
so
briskly
in
our
Rear
,
that
it
had
endanger'd
all
the
Army
,
had
not
my
Prince
in
Person
with
500
of
the
resolutest
Men
,
made
head
against
them
,
and
though
he
stopt
the
execution
,
and
at
last
made
them
retire
,
yet
it
was
so
leasurely
,
and
in
such
good
order
,
that
their
Retreat
appear'd
rather
their
Election
than
their
Necessity
.
Spartacus
having
doubl'd
his
Guards
,
and
taken
strict
Order
for
the
rendring
ineffectual
of
all
Sallies
,
return'd
to
his
Tent
more
unsatisfy'd
with
the
repulse
,
than
with
the
loss
,
where
all
those
Officers
,
whose
wound
permitted
them
,
and
who
had
that
fatal
day
escap't
Perolla's
Sword
,
came
to
justify
themselves
,
professing
that
they
were
not
more
troubl'd
at
their
disgrace
,
than
desirous
the
next
morning
to
repair
it
,
and
manifest
by
their
Victory
,
that
the
suspension
of
it
proceeded
from
their
want
of
Fortune
,
not
of
Courage
,
or
by
their
death
shew
whose
Soldiers
they
were
;
That
their
affront
(
by
a
joynt
concurrence
,
of
all
their
observations
)
proceeded
from
Perolla
,
who
was
ubiquitary
,
and
knew
no
certain
Post
,
but
where
there
was
the
certain'st
danger
,
which
he
courted
with
an
eagerness
as
great
as
his
success
.
Many
other
expressions
they
made
,
to
vindicate
the
affront
,
and
to
shew
how
willing
they
were
to
repair
it
,
which
would
be
too
tedious
to
relate
,
and
to
which
my
Prince
reply'd
,
that
he
was
as
much
satisfy'd
with
the
sence
they
had
of
their
misfortune
,
as
troubled
at
the
occasion
of
it
,
that
according
to
their
desires
,
the
next
morning
he
would
again
storm
the
Town
,
and
help
them
to
vindicate
their
Credits
,
or
bear
a
share
with
them
in
their
failer
:
and
in
pursuance
of
that
resolution
,
commanded
them
back
to
their
several
charges
,
with
Orders
,
as
soon
as
the
day
dawn'd
,
that
they
should
begin
again
the
Storm
,
that
the
Enemy
(
if
overcome
)
might
acknowledge
by
the
not
altering
the
Assailants
,
nor
the
order
of
the
Assault
,
that
it
was
their
Fortune
onely
had
suspended
their
destructions
,
The
Officers
by
many
expressions
having
thank'd
Spartacus
,
for
so
high
a
Compliment
plac'd
upon
their
Courages
,
were
retiring
,
when
there
came
in
news
,
that
Granicus
,
with
most
of
those
others
which
we
thought
had
been
kill'd
by
the
Salapians
,
were
coming
to
my
Prince
,
who
extreamly
surpriz'd
at
the
accident
,
sent
for
them
in
;
Granicus
therefore
,
(
with
Sixscore
of
his
companions
)
immediately
presented
himself
,
and
told
him
:
after
the
Assault
,
Sir
,
was
ended
,
Perolla
commanded
all
the
Prisoners
to
be
brought
unto
him
,
and
having
learn'd
,
that
I
was
of
the
most
considerable
quality
amongst
them
,
addrest
himself
unto
me
,
and
spoke
to
this
effect
.
That
liberty
which
both
you
and
your
companions
have
lost
,
by
my
fortune
,
I
here
again
restore
you
,
and
for
your
Ransome
,
I
shall
onely
desire
you
to
tell
the
generous
Spartacus
,
I
am
exceedingly
troubled
that
he
has
so
much
cause
to
look
upon
this
action
,
as
an
expression
of
Gratitude
,
and
not
of
that
Affection
his
Gallantry
has
created
me
;
and
though
his
usage
to
the
Salapians
he
sent
me
,
expects
this
as
a
just
retribution
,
yet
the
high
opinion
I
have
of
his
Vertue
,
was
no
way
an
inferior
motive
:
tell
him
besides
,
that
those
,
whose
wounds
will
not
permit
them
to
go
off
with
you
,
shall
receive
an
entertainment
which
shall
speak
the
opinion
I
have
of
their
General
,
that
their
healths
and
Liberties
shall
be
the
same
thing
,
and
that
I
almost
think
it
a
misfortune
to
defend
my
Countrey
,
since
by
it
I
am
necessitated
to
be
his
Enemy
.
This
high
Generosity
had
so
powerful
an
influence
on
my
Prince
,
that
had
not
his
Honor
been
so
deeply
engag'd
,
he
had
rais'd
the
Siege
,
and
would
have
thought
it
more
Glorious
to
decline
fighting
against
so
gallant
and
civil
an
Enemy
,
than
to
have
conquer'd
him
;
but
that
Tyrant
which
binds
us
to
follow
other
Mens
opinions
more
than
our
own
,
forc't
him
to
continue
his
former
designe
of
storming
Salapia
next
morning
,
and
I
dare
truly
affirm
,
the
desire
he
had
of
taking
so
considerable
a
place
,
was
more
prevalent
with
him
,
out
of
an
expectation
,
that
thereby
he
might
evince
himself
worthy
Perolla's
friendship
,
and
find
an
occasion
to
oblige
him
,
than
any
other
consideration
whatsoever
;
which
lest
the
fury
of
his
Soldiers
might
prevent
,
he
assur'd
those
that
could
save
the
generous
Perolla's
life
,
should
have
a
more
considerable
reward
than
his
Ransome
.
The
day
no
sooner
appear'd
,
but
Castus
began
the
Assault
on
the
East
side
of
the
City
,
and
Canitius
with
his
Germans
on
the
West
,
where
Spartacus
himself
was
,
who
perceiving
many
of
his
Men
kill'd
,
and
the
rest
extreamly
shaken
,
to
avoid
the
precedent
days
fate
,
took
up
his
own
Colours
,
and
cryed
out
;
Those
that
love
their
Honour
,
or
their
General
,
let
them
follow
me
,
then
marching
a
round
pace
thorough
Canitius's
Men
that
were
flying
,
he
came
against
a
cloud
of
Arrows
to
the
foot
of
the
Wall
,
where
erecting
some
Scaling-Ladders
,
he
resolutely
and
successfully
climb'd
up
,
and
after
a
bloudy
dispute
,
beat
off
the
Defendants
,
and
planted
that
Colours
he
had
in
his
hand
upon
the
Rampire
;
I
had
the
honour
to
be
the
nearest
to
him
in
this
action
,
where
he
did
so
many
noble
exploits
,
that
Fortune
must
have
been
as
unjust
,
as
they
say
she
is
unconstant
,
had
she
refus'd
him
this
Victory
.
No
sooner
had
our
Army
perceiv'd
how
easy
a
passage
my
Prince
had
made
,
than
above
6000
of
them
enter'd
by
that
way
,
and
without
shedding
any
more
Bloud
,
rendred
themselves
absolute
Masters
of
the
City
;
but
whilst
Spartacus
was
taking
order
to
preserve
the
Salapians
,
as
much
as
in
such
an
occasion
was
possible
,
and
that
he
had
dispers'd
many
of
his
Officers
,
and
I
with
them
to
do
the
like
,
as
I
was
going
through
one
of
the
fairest
streets
,
I
saw
a
great
confluence
of
Soldiers
about
a
House
,
whose
Structure
sufficently
spoke
the
magnificence
of
the
owner
,
and
being
come
thither
,
I
inquir'd
what
was
the
cause
of
it
,
one
of
the
Officers
soon
inform'd
me
,
that
a
company
of
young
Gentlemen
onely
,
considerable
for
their
resolutions
,
had
made
so
generous
a
defence
,
and
so
slighted
all
Quarter
,
that
they
were
necessitated
to
make
use
of
numbers
to
suppress
them
,
and
that
now
at
last
they
had
kill'd
all
the
Defendants
but
one
,
who
having
gain'd
a
narrow
Stair-case
,
was
yet
making
of
it
good
,
with
so
much
courage
,
that
he
deplor'd
the
destroying
,
as
much
as
the
effects
of
it
,
and
that
he
understood
this
generous
man's
name
was
Perolla
.
You
may
easily
imagine
the
hearing
of
that
name
,
gave
me
an
unexpressible
desire
to
save
the
Master
of
it
,
and
having
conjur'd
the
Officer
to
run
and
acquaint
Spartacus
with
it
,
I
thrust
my self
into
the
croud
,
and
by
many
actions
which
shew'd
my
concernment
and
haste
,
commanded
them
in
Spartacus's
name
,
to
forbear
any
further
attempt
against
so
generous
an
Enemy
.
This
Order
found
a
ready
obedience
,
as
well
out
of
the
knowledge
they
had
of
the
affection
my
dear
Master
honor'd
me
with
,
as
out
of
a
desire
to
preserve
Perolla
,
who
they
now
fought
against
,
rather
to
shew
that
an
Army
might
kill
him
,
than
out
of
any
design
,
they
had
to
doe
so
.
At
last
by
the
help
of
our
Officers
I
came
to
the
place
where
the
gallant
Perolla
stood
,
who
appear'd
to
me
to
be
less
weary
with
conquering
than
our
Soldiers
were
with
assaulting
him
,
and
spight
of
that
Bloud
which
endeavour'd
to
disfigure
his
Face
,
I
perceiv'd
a
Countenance
so
Spiritual
and
so
Lovely
together
,
that
I
knew
not
which
most
to
admire
,
but
my
wonder
was
quickly
rais'd
to
a
higher
pitch
by
the
sight
of
a
Lady
,
who
possest
the
several
Beauties
of
shape
,
stature
,
complexion
,
and
features
,
in
so
inaccessional
a
degree
,
that
an
affection
for
her
could
not
so
properly
be
called
Passion
,
as
Reason
.
The
contemplation
of
so
many
perfections
had
almost
made
me
forget
the
design
I
was
come
for
,
which
fault
I
soon
repair'd
,
by
addressing
my self
to
the
generous
Perolla
,
and
telling
him
.
The
great
Spartacus
(
Sir
)
who
cherishes
Virtue
whereever
it
is
plac'd
,
has
sent
me
hither
to
preserve
so
great
a
possessor
of
it
as
you
are
,
for
he
believes
your
Gallantry
is
a
stronger
obligation
on
him
to
serve
you
,
than
your
imploying
of
it
against
him
,
is
to
make
him
your
Enemy
.
Since
(
reply'd
Perolla
)
that
is
your
Generals
Principle
,
the
fair
Izadora
here
is
a
worthy
object
to
employ
that
generosity
on
,
which
I
believe
you
cannot
doubt
,
when
I
assure
you
,
that
her
exterior
parts
are
as
far
short
of
the
Beauties
of
her
Mind
,
as
the
Passion
I
pay
her
is
unworthy
the
Object
:
for
her
sake
I
can
beg
,
though
not
for
my
own
,
and
will
acknowledge
you
civility
as
great
as
your
courages
,
if
you
will
promise
me
she
shall
receive
an
usage
as
proportionate
to
her
merit
,
as
you
can
possibly
pay
her
:
this
engagement
will
be
more
obliging
farr
than
my
own
safety
,
and
make
that
death
which
my
sad
fate
now
renders
necessary
,
as
full
of
happiness
as
such
a
deprivation
is
capable
of
.
As
I
was
about
to
answer
him
,
I
was
hindered
by
a
great
noise
,
which
turning
about
to
discover
the
cause
of
,
I
perceiv'd
it
was
my
Prince
,
who
with
incredible
haste
was
breaking
through
the
Croud
,
and
came
time
enough
to
see
the
perfect
Izadora
fling
her self
at
her
Lovers
feet
,
and
tell
him
,
Alas
Perolla
!
can
you
talk
of
happiness
in
death
,
and
yet
think
of
leaving
me
behind
you
?
did
you
ever
find
any
felicity
in
separation
,
that
you
beg
it
even
of
your
very
Enemies
?
or
have
you
so
low
an
opinion
of
my
passion
,
as
to
think
I
can
survive
you
?
Ah
Madam
(
said
Perolla
,
interrupting
,
and
putting
himself
in
her
posture
)
if
you
will
lessen
my
trouble
,
give
me
rather
marks
of
your
disdain
,
than
of
your
love
?
since
the
vastness
of
that
score
now
creates
my
sufferings
,
which
are
so
great
,
they
cannot
be
increast
but
by
new
additions
of
your
favour
:
Judge
then
,
if
it
be
not
time
to
dye
,
when
my
highest
blessing
,
that
of
your
Affection
,
proves
my
torment
.
Then
(
reply'd
Izadora
)
my
condition
will
as
much
require
death
as
yours
,
for
't
is
as
impossible
for
me
not
to
augment
your
sufferings
whilst
I
live
,
as
't
is
to
survive
you
,
which
since
my
sorrow
will
not
permit
,
let
my
Love
anticipate
the
effects
of
it
:
this
will
be
more
proportionate
to
my
vows
,
and
cut
off
the
tortures
of
a
lingring
life
,
so
Death
,
the
enemy
to
other
passions
,
may
prove
the
friend
of
ours
,
and
conferr
that
union
on
us
in
the
other
life
,
which
our
Fates
and
cruel
Parents
have
deny'd
us
in
this
.
Izadora
(
said
Perolla
)
flatter
not
my
hopes
with
an
union
in
the
other
World
,
the
gods
which
held
me
unworthy
of
you
here
,
will
have
much
more
cause
to
continue
that
belief
,
when
instead
of
your
mortality
,
they
shall
cloath
you
with
the
reward
of
Virtue
;
alas
,
then
you
will
be
fitter
for
their
adoration
than
mine
.
Can
there
be
(
she
reply'd
)
a
felicity
in
the
other
World
for
Izadora
,
if
she
be
divided
from
Perolla
?
do
not
by
such
suggestions
fright
me
into
a
hatred
of
Elizium
,
which
,
if
what
you
say
be
true
,
will
lose
its
quality
,
and
fancy
not
the
gods
unjust
,
onely
to
make
us
miserable
:
no
Perolla
,
we
have
walkt
too
exactly
in
the
paths
of
Virtue
,
to
fear
Death
,
and
as
an
argument
of
this
truth
,
that
minute
which
separates
your
Soul
from
the
fair
Mansion
it
now
inhabits
,
shall
give
mine
freedom
,
for
to
dye
,
is
a
Blessing
or
a
Curse
,
if
the
first
,
I
will
not
be
deny'd
it
too
,
if
the
latter
,
I
hope
't
will
hinder
your
despair
,
when
you
know
I
will
involve
my self
in
it
.
This
noble
dispute
had
continu'd
longer
,
had
I
not
told
Perolla
,
that
Spartacus
was
come
,
who
indeed
was
so
ravished
with
the
Virtue
of
these
Lovers
,
that
his
admiration
made
many
who
knew
him
not
,
suspect
that
his
suspense
proceeded
from
his
being
as
absolutely
vanquisht
by
the
Eies
of
one
of
his
Enemies
,
as
his
Sword
had
been
victorious
over
all
the
rest
;
But
Parth●nissa
was
too
deeply
fixt
to
be
defac'd
,
and
her
Beauty
had
got
so
absolu●e
an
Empire
over
Artabanes
Heart
,
that
since
her
inconstancy
could
not
destroy
it
,
nothing
else
could
have
that
power
.
But
the
Lookers
on
,
who
took
his
Affection
to
Vertue
,
to
be
a
Passion
of
another
quality
,
were
not
long
in
that
error
,
for
Izadora
,
who
perceiv'd
Perolla's
great
Heart
could
not
make
any
desires
to
my
Prince
,
esteem'd
it
an
action
fitter
for
her
Sex
to
undertake
,
and
addressing
her self
to
him
,
put
him
out
of
those
raptures
their
gallantry
onely
had
created
,
by
saying
,
Generous
Spartacus
did
not
that
Title
assure
me
you
will
receive
a
greater
contentment
in
giving
Perolla
his
Life
,
than
he
can
resent
by
receiving
it
,
and
that
I
furnish
you
with
an
occasion
to
oblige
your self
more
than
him
,
I
should
now
have
been
silent
,
and
joyfully
participate
in
his
Fate
,
rather
than
be
indebted
for
his
preservation
to
a
less
noble
Enemy
:
but
your
Gallantry
is
such
,
that
the
cause
of
his
being
conquer'd
,
takes
away
all
resentment
from
the
Effect
.
Izadora
had
continu'd
speaking
,
but
that
her
gallant
Lover
interrupted
her
,
crying
out
,
Oh
Madam
!
Can
you
think
Perolla
will
live
after
he
has
been
so
unworthy
and
miserable
,
as
to
obtain
your
safety
by
his
Prayers
,
whilst
he
had
a
Sword
to
purchase
it
?
add
not
so
much
to
my
misfortunes
,
as
to
make
your
Affection
the
cause
of
all
those
Torments
I
must
hereafter
suffer
,
should
I
now
live
;
no
Izadora
,
my
death
shall
shew
,
that
nothing
but
the
desire
of
your
safety
could
have
induc'd
me
so
long
to
survive
my
Honor.
Finishing
those
words
,
he
had
flung
himself
upon
the
point
of
his
Sword
had
not
my
Prince
(
guessing
at
what
he
meant
)
ran
to
him
,
and
though
it
were
time
enough
to
hinder
his
fatal
determination
,
yet
it
could
not
prevent
a
slight
wound
which
manifested
his
sad
intention
.
Izadora
,
on
the
other
side
,
thinking
Perolla
had
been
his
own
Executioner
,
resolv'd
to
bear
him
company
,
and
with
a
courage
which
disdain'd
exclaiming
against
Fate
,
drew
out
a
Ponyard
which
she
had
conceal'd
for
some
such
desperate
exigency
,
and
cry'd
out
,
this
stroke
Perolla
shall
prove
more
kind
than
you
,
and
give
us
that
union
you
would
so
cruelly
deprive
me
of
:
then
lifting
that
fatal
weapon
,
she
had
(
doubtless
)
perform'd
what
she
spoke
,
but
that
by
thrusting
away
her
Hand
,
I
made
that
wound
light
upon
her
Arm
,
which
she
intended
for
her
Heart
,
but
having
mist
her
aim
,
she
was
going
to
double
her
stroke
,
had
not
I
forced
the
Ponyard
from
her
.
Whilst
I
was
thus
imploy'd
Spartacus
obtain'd
an
easy
conquest
over
Perolla
,
who
no
sooner
heard
his
fair
Mistress
cruel
determination
,
than
the
bare
sound
of
her
death
,
banish'd
all
thoughts
of
his
own
,
and
having
perceiv'd
the
service
I
had
render'd
him
,
he
flung
himself
at
her
feet
,
and
told
her
,
I
will
live
,
Madam
,
since
this
wretched
life
is
so
dear
unto
you
,
and
on
that
score
I
shall
cherish
it
,
as
much
as
I
should
detest
it
upon
any
other
:
Judge
Izadora
then
,
how
precious
your
life
is
to
me
,
since
to
continue
it
,
I
can
be
content
to
live
in
infamy
.
Live
,
generous
Perolla
(
said
my
Prince
)
and
since
the
belief
of
your
being
vanquisht
is
the
cause
of
your
despair
,
banish
that
groundless
doubt
,
for
you
are
so
far
from
that
condition
,
that
you
are
the
Conqueror
,
your
Vertue
has
made
you
invincible
,
nor
was
it
fit
the
fair
Izadora
should
derive
her
safety
from
a
less
noble
cause
;
I
renounce
all
right
to
her
preservation
,
and
the
wonders
which
your
Sword
has
hitherto
acted
,
shall
be
increast
by
this
addition
of
remaining
victorious
in
a
Triumphant
Army
.
Ah
Sir
,
(
reply'd
Perolla
)
whilst
you
endeavour
to
make
me
a
Conqueror
,
you
are
doubly
so
,
your
civility
acts
now
what
your
courage
did
before
,
both
which
are
so
unresistable
,
that
when
I
consider
who
you
are
,
I
shall
excuse
my self
in
my
misfortune
,
and
since
you
attribute
miracles
to
my
Sword
,
I
will
make
it
perform
one
,
which
is
to
yield
it self
up
.
Perolla
had
satisfy'd
this
ceremony
,
had
not
Spartacus
so
absolutely
declin'd
it
,
that
all
those
which
were
present
easily
perceiv'd
,
his
denial
proceeded
as
much
from
his
justice
,
as
his
civility
.
Whilst
these
two
great
Persons
were
by
a
thousand
embraces
confirming
that
friendship
which
they
vow'd
to
each
other
,
Perolla
unfortunately
espy'd
some
Bloud
runing
out
of
the
fair
Izadora's
Arm
:
alas
,
how
fatal
was
that
object
like
to
prove
,
his
passion
made
him
act
many
extravagancies
,
which
nothing
but
Love
could
render
legitimate
:
but
when
he
remember'd
the
cause
of
her
wound
,
how
soon
was
that
new
created
harmony
dissolv'd
?
and
having
again
found
,
that
all
his
attempts
against
his
life
were
fruitless
,
he
prostrated
himself
at
his
fair
Mistresses
feet
,
and
told
her
:
Must
I
then
,
Madam
?
must
I
the●see
that
precious
Bloud
shed
for
my
sake
,
and
at
the
same
time
be
render'd
uncapable
of
emptying
all
my
veins
to
bear
it
company
,
and
expiate
my
crime
?
must
you
spill
your
Bloud
to
preserve
my
life
,
whilst
I
make
use
onely
of
Prayers
to
preserve
yours
?
Ah
Izadora
!
be
merciful
,
and
permit
me
by
one
stroke
,
to
end
the
miseries
which
these
thoughts
will
still
create
.
Alas
(
said
Izadora
)
has
your
rage
so
much
blinded
your
Judgement
,
as
to
think
,
that
what
is
the
cause
of
this
slight
hurt
:
if
continu'd
,
will
prove
its
reparation
;
rise
,
rise
Perolla
,
and
believe
me
,
if
these
few
drops
have
either
manifested
my
Passion
,
or
sav'd
your
Life
;
they
are
too
gloriously
spilt
to
be
deplor'd
,
and
if
they
create
any
resentments
in
you
,
they
should
be
of
a
contrary
nature
to
those
which
now
appear
.
I
must
confess
(
continued
Simander
)
that
my
memory
does
not
contain
all
the
particular
passages
of
so
rare
an
entertainment
,
and
therefore
I
will
not
so
much
wrong
such
virtuous
persons
,
as
to
cloath
their
conceptions
and
expressions
in
any
other
language
than
their
own
;
I
will
therefore
in
expectation
of
your
pardon
for
so
high
an
omission
,
continue
my
discourse
,
by
acquainting
you
,
that
after
a
friendship
was
contracted
,
which
was
as
perfect
as
the
friends
themselves
were
,
that
Perolla's
despair
was
absolutely
conquer'd
,
and
that
his
,
and
his
Izadora's
wounds
were
drest
,
my
Prince
invited
them
to
his
Quarters
,
out
of
that
Massacre
and
deluge
of
Bloud
,
which
his
new
friend
had
made
,
and
though
his
many
wounds
render'd
the
least
motion
,
both
dangerous
and
painful
,
yet
he
thought
the
greatest
torments
would
be
in
his
separation
from
the
fair
Izadora
,
and
therefore
having
made
his
pain
appear
the
less
,
to
make
his
happiness
really
the
greater
,
he
assur'd
my
Prince
,
that
without
any
inconveniency
,
he
would
wait
upon
her
and
him
to
those
Lodgings
he
had
assign'd
her
,
whither
as
they
were
going
,
they
might
perceive
some
barbarous
Soldiers
driving
before
them
two
Gentlemen
,
whose
Age
and
Countenance
merited
a
different
usage
(
though
their
past
actions
did
not
)
and
I
dare
avow
,
though
their
sufferings
were
great
,
and
that
the
manner
in
which
they
were
inflicted
,
was
as
sensible
as
the
pain
;
yet
they
did
bear
them
with
much
joy
,
for
each
of
them
by
the
knowledge
of
his
own
usage
,
guessing
at
that
of
his
Enemies
,
found
his
satisfaction
in
his
very
torments
.
But
they
were
no
sooner
perceiv'd
by
Izadora
and
Perolla
,
than
both
of
them
with
many
Tears
,
and
passionate
actions
,
begged
my
Prince
that
their
Irons
might
be
taken
off
,
which
was
no
sooner
motion'd
than
granted
,
though
those
which
kept
them
,
alledged
,
that
they
were
the
Men
which
had
spilt
most
of
their
companions
bloud
at
the
assault
:
then
my
dear
Master
desir'd
Perolla
to
acquaint
him
what
high
relation
could
produce
such
rare
demonstrations
of
affection
,
as
he
expret
at
their
captivity
?
to
which
he
reply'd
,
Sir
,
I
must
acknowledge
that
Gentleman
(
shewing
Blacius
)
to
be
the
fair
Izadora's
Father
,
and
the
other
,
(
shewing
Pacuvius
)
to
be
mine
,
though
truly
they
have
retain'd
nothing
,
but
the
name
and
the
power
of
Parents
,
they
are
those
which
we
have
reason
to
hate
,
and
yet
cannot
;
and
though
they
have
stifl'd
all
the
dictates
of
nature
,
and
oppos'd
the
purest
flame
that
ever
burned
;
yet
we
preserve
out
Duties
to
them
so
entire
,
that
we
resent
any
affliction
which
befalls
them
,
with
a
grief
proportionable
to
their
joy
,
if
the
self-same
accidents
had
arriv'd
to
us
.
Spartacus
being
inform'd
of
their
qualities
,
saluted
them
with
much
respect
;
but
he
perceiv'd
,
assoon
as
they
had
learn'd
to
whose
intercession
they
owed
that
favour
,
that
the
means
of
their
deliverance
supprest
the
contentment
of
it
.
This
action
made
him
extreamly
admire
,
what
strange
causes
they
were
,
which
could
have
so
unusual
an
operation
,
and
having
found
at
last
,
that
each
of
them
rely'd
upon
the
justice
of
his
cause
,
he
desir'd
to
hear
their
difference
,
to
which
the
Fathers
willingly
consented
,
as
being
confident
in
their
right
,
and
having
heard
a
true
character
of
my
Prince's
Justice
,
as
on
the
other
side
,
Izadora
and
Perolla
willingly
submitted
to
it
on
the
same
grounds
.
The
next
morning
then
being
appointed
for
this
Audience
,
my
Prince
having
conducted
our
virtuous
Lovers
to
his
own
Quarters
,
which
when
he
had
surrender'd
them
,
and
there
(
as
a
mark
of
his
confidence
and
friendship
)
acquainted
Perolla
with
the
word
,
he
withdrew
himself
to
settle
and
secure
his
new
Conquest
,
leaving
them
in
as
high
an
admiration
of
his
Gallantry
,
as
he
had
conceived
of
theirs
.
The
next
day
was
not
many
hours
old
,
but
he
was
inform'd
by
the
messenger
he
had
sent
to
complement
the
generous
Lovers
,
That
they
expected
with
much
impatiency
,
the
Judge
of
their
Felicity
or
Misery
:
to
satisfie
their
longing
,
he
waited
immediately
on
them
,
bringing
with
him
their
Fathers
,
where
finding
by
the
Chirurgeons
,
that
so
long
a
disourse
as
their
fortunes
must
amount
unto
,
might
prejudice
Perolla's
health
,
they
prevail'd
with
Izadora
to
undertake
the
Relation
,
which
a
general
silence
inviting
her
to
perform
,
she
began
it
in
these
words
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FIRST
PART
.
BOOK
IV.
The
Story
of
Izadora
and
Perolla
.
I
Must
Sir
,
as
a
friend
to
Truth
as
well
as
to
our
Fathers
inform
you
,
That
their
hatred
is
not
a
purchas'd
but
an
hereditary
one
,
and
bears
so
antient
a
date
,
that
the
original
cause
of
it
as
absolutely
forgotten
as
the
sad
effects
it
has
produc'd
are
recent
,
that
what
was
but
passion
or
resentment
in
the
beginners
of
this
fatal
difference
,
has
turn'd
to
nature
in
their
Children
,
that
our
Parents
have
inherited
their
predecessors
Malice
as
well
as
their
Estates
,
and
as
if
fortune
had
hitherto
affoded
instruments
to
nourish
this
sad
difference
,
in
seven
descents
successively
our
Ancestors
have
always
left
heirs
male
to
perpetuate
this
quarrel
,
whereby
many
of
our
Families
have
sacrific'd
their
lives
to
the
blind
rage
of
the
authors
of
them
:
but
at
last
the
gods
having
given
Pacuvius
no
other
heir
than
the
generous
Perolla
,
and
Blacius
than
the
unfortunate
Izadora
,
all
those
which
were
concern'd
in
these
domestick
differences
,
began
to
make
it
their
hopes
as
well
as
't
was
their
prayers
,
that
by
an
union
of
us
two
,
this
antient
animosity
might
be
extinguisht
;
but
alas
,
the
higher
Powers
it
seems
had
otherwise
decreed
,
for
Blacius
more
troubl'd
that
he
wanted
a
Son
to
inherit
his
hatred
than
his
estate
,
imagin'd
(
since
my
Sex
exempted
me
from
those
violent
resentments
which
he
held
so
necessary
to
his
blood
)
he
ought
to
collect
in
himself
all
the
resentments
of
those
which
should
have
succeeded
him
,
and
act
some
design
suitable
to
his
hatred
and
despair
,
that
the
effects
of
it
might
be
always
recent
enough
in
Perolla's
Family
,
to
supply
the
expiration
of
his
own
(
Pardon
me
Sir
,
said
Izadora
,
addressing
herself
to
her
Father
,
if
I
speak
those
words
which
you
have
your self
so
often
reiterated
.
)
And
on
the
other
side
Pacuvius
seeing
but
one
man
of
his
Enemies
alive
,
re●olv'd
to
be
reveng'd
on
him
in
such
away
,
that
the
manner
of
his
death
should
be
as
deplorable
to
his
friends
as
the
very
extinction
of
his
Family
.
(
I
must
beg
your
pardon
to
Sir
,
said
Izadora
,
addressing
herself
to
Pacuvius
)
because
you
are
the
Father
of
my
Perolla
,
though
what
I
say
your
professions
as
well
as
actions
have
endeavoured
abundantly
to
justifie
.
These
Sir
(
continu'd
Izadora
,
speaking
to
Spartacus
)
were
the
reasons
and
resolutions
of
our
Parents
when
Perolla
and
I
were
in
an
age
as
innocent
as
that
we
now
are
in
is
miserable
;
and
as
a
further
evincement
of
their
hatred
,
I
have
been
often
told
,
that
Blacius
was
angry
with
nature
for
having
given
me
this
little
Beauty
,
least
it
might
tempt
Perolla
,
and
Pacuvius
was
the
like
at
the
inevitable
charms
of
his
virtuous
son
,
lest
they
should
raise
in
me
a
Passion
which
might
create
that
union
they
so
abundantly
fear'd
;
therefore
what
education
they
thought
fit
to
give
us
was
in
private
,
in
which
if
we
made
any
progress
,
Pacuvius
and
Blacius
thought
it
as
great
an
injury
to
have
it
publish'd
as
other
Parents
would
to
have
had
it
conceal'd
.
Judge
(
Sir
)
on
the
other
side
,
if
ever
there
could
be
a
higher
hatred
than
that
which
subverted
the
dictates
of
Blood
and
Nature
,
(
and
on
the
other
)
if
there
could
be
a
greater
affection
than
what
conveted
antipathy
into
sympathy
.
I
must
(
before
I
proceed
any
further
)
acquaint
you
,
That
though
Salapia
and
Capua
be
near
thirty
miles
distant
,
yet
Pacuvius
has
a
vast
Estate
there
as
well
as
here
,
and
as
if
all
things
had
contributed
to
nourish
the
distraction
of
our
Families
,
Blacius
has
the
like
there
too
,
lest
(
as
I
believe
)
by
being
separated
,
their
rage
might
want
that
flame
which
the
sight
of
each
did
inspire
.
To
hinder
me
therefore
from
the
knowledge
of
Perolla's
increasing
excellencies
,
Pacuvius
sent
him
to
Capuas
,
and
remov'd
thither
himself
shortly
after
;
where
whilst
his
gallant
Son
was
making
a
large
proficiency
in
all
those
realities
and
ornaments
which
have
since
made
him
the
greatest
glory
of
our
Times
;
Hanniball
,
that
victorius
Captain
,
who
had
made
Spain
his
first
Conquest
for
the
Carthaginians
,
undertook
Italy
should
be
the
next
,
and
having
past
such
dangers
,
which
to
believe
,
is
almost
as
hard
as
to
have
overcome
them
,
and
suffer'd
miseries
to
invade
the
Romans
,
which
no
Nation
else
would
have
undergone
,
but
to
have
avoided
them
;
he
at
last
scal'd
the
Walls
of
Italy
(
the
Alpes
)
which
indeed
was
a
very
strange
thing
,
most
men
believing
it
a
task
as
difficult
to
enter
this
Countrey
that
way
,
as
to
subdue
it
when
gotten
in
,
and
having
with
Fire
and
Sword
made
wayes
where
natures
self
had
deny'd
them
,
in
four
set
Battles
at
Ticinum
,
Trebia
Thasimene
,
and
Cannae
,
vanquish'd
the
Consuls
Puicus
Cornelius
Scipio
,
Sempronius
Longus
,
Caius
Flaminius
,
Terentius
Varro
,
and
Paulus
Aemilius
,
whose
defeat
invited
the
Attelanian
,
the
Calatinians
,
the
Samnites
,
the
Brutians
,
the
Lucanians
,
and
divers
other
people
of
Italy
,
to
submit
to
that
yoke
they
esteem'd
it
impossible
to
resist
;
and
had
the
great
Captain
follow'd
Maherball's
(
the
General
of
his
Horse
)
advice
,
and
marched
directly
to
Rome
,
he
had
without
all
dispute
possest
himself
of
that
triumphant
City
,
which
since
has
given
Laws
to
those
that
might
have
impos'd
theirs
on
her
,
but
having
mist
his
opportunity
,
and
thereby
the
Romans
having
chang'd
their
fears
into
nobler
Passions
,
he
apply'd
himself
wholly
to
the
Conquest
of
Capua
(
the
second
Rome
)
where
Pacuvius's
hatred
to
Blacius
soon
furnish'd
Hanniball
with
an
opportunity
proportionable
to
his
desires
:
For
my
Father
has
been
always
so
inviolable
a
friend
to
the
Romans
,
that
he
almost
rejoyc'd
at
heir
defeats
,
since
they
furnish'd
him
with
an
occasion
to
j●stifie
he
was
ty'd
to
them
,
not
to
their
posterity
;
and
though
Pacuvius
were
very
much
their
friend
,
yet
he
was
much
more
his
Revenges
,
which
Passion
was
so
predominant
,
that
it
made
him
act
things
both
his
reason
and
interest
condemn'd
,
and
which
no
other
consideration
could
have
seduc'd
him
to
.
To
confirm
this
truth
,
when
he
found
that
Blacius
was
unalterable
to
this
Empire
,
and
that
their
probable
ruine
did
rather
confirm
than
shake
him
,
he
resolv'd
under
an
appearance
of
securing
himself
and
Capua
to
ruine
my
Father
,
to
which
action
he
was
the
apter
to
incline
by
Hanniball's
Letters
,
which
assur'd
him
,
if
by
his
power
Capua
were
deliver'd
into
his
,
the
Citizens
should
find
no
alteration
but
the
difference
of
their
Protectors
,
which
small
change
should
be
recompenc'd
sufficiently
with
many
Immunities
the
Rom●ns
had
deny'd
them
;
and
that
for
his
own
particular
,
he
would
make
him
no
positive
offers
,
since
that
were
to
confine
to
certain
Articles
the
recompence
of
his
merit
,
and
put
limits
to
those
rewards
which
he
resolv'd
should
have
none
.
I
must
do
Pacuvius
that
right
as
to
profess
I
believe
,
though
these
glittering
promises
advanc'd
the
putting
his
design
in
execution
,
yet
his
revenge
was
the
onely
cause
of
it
,
which
made
him
determine
rather
to
ruine
his
Countrey
and
Enemy
together
,
than
preserve
both
.
Alas
,
What
miserable
events
has
that
blind
fury
produc'd
?
and
,
How
has
it
darken'd
those
many
other
virtues
which
would
else
so
clearly
shine
in
our
Fathers
?
The
fair
Izadora
could
not
speak
these
words
without
shedding
some
Tears
,
which
did
not
onely
abundantly
manifest
the
goodness
of
her
disposition
,
but
as
much
prov'd
that
grief
it self
when
it
dwelt
in
her
face
could
not
but
relish
of
the
place
in
which
it
resided
:
but
this
disorder
being
vanquish'd
,
she
thus
continu'd
.
Pacuvius
had
no
sooner
recev'd
Hanniball's
Letters
than
he
assembl'd
the
chiefest
of
Capua
(
where
Blacius
then
was
)
and
by
too
great
an
Eloquence
for
so
ill
a
subject
,
so
represented
the
forlorn
condition
of
the
Romans
,
the
triumphant
one
of
the
Carthaginians
,
the
advantages
of
accepting
the
Conquerors
offers
,
and
the
miseries
of
declining
them
;
that
at
last
the
Capuans
fears
and
Hanniballs
Armies
advancing
to
besiege
them
,
helping
his
destructive
Oratory
,
all
the
Citizens
resolv'd
to
buy
their
safety
by
the
loss
of
their
Faiths
,
and
present
their
new
Master
with
their
Keyes
and
Liberty
:
and
though
Blacius
by
a
world
of
arguments
endeavour'd
to
divert
so
fatal
a
determination
,
yet
all
the
advantage
he
deriv'd
from
it
was
,
to
manifest
his
affection
to
the
Romans
,
and
to
make
it
evident
,
that
the
Capuans
submitting
to
the
Carthagineans
was
an
action
as
opposite
to
reason
as
honesty
.
Magius
also
,
my
Fathers
Brother
(
betwixt
whom
there
was
always
as
great
a
difference
in
humours
as
nearness
in
blood
)
in
this
design
join'd
with
Blacius
,
but
to
no
effect
,
the
Capuans
having
shut
their
ears
to
all
motions
but
those
of
becoming
slaves
to
Hanniball
;
who
,
being
informed
by
Pacuvius
,
that
Capua
was
at
his
devotion
,
made
into
it
a
triumphant
Entry
,
many
thousands
of
people
resorting
thither
,
to
behold
that
Man
in
whom
such
virtue
dwelt
,
and
upon
whom
fortune
so
constantly
attended
,
that
whilst
his
courage
was
subduing
his
Enemies
in
one
place
,
his
Fame
effected
the
like
in
another
.
But
whilst
these
solemnities
were
performing
,
Blacius
withdrew
himself
into
this
city
;
more
out
of
apprehention
that
his
death
would
be
pleasing
to
Pacuvius
than
to
decline
sacrificing
himself
for
the
Roman
Empire
:
But
Magius
continu'd
still
at
Capua
,
and
his
Counsels
being
told
to
Hanniball
by
Perolla's
Father
,
so
exasperated
him
,
that
as
a
testimony
of
his
fury
and
power
he
demanded
Magius
of
the
Senate
,
whose
fear
clouding
their
justice
,
deliver'd
him
up
,
and
who
immediately
he
caus'd
to
be
executed
in
the
Market-place
.
For
this
Death
Hanniball's
cruelty
was
not
so
much
condemn'd
as
Pacuvius'S
,
whose
hatred
to
our
blood
was
so
exorbitant
,
that
though
Magius
did
ever
oppose
Blacius
,
and
was
always
oppos'd
by
him
,
yet
the
being
my
Fathers
Enemy
was
so
prevalent
with
Pacuvius
to
save
him
,
as
being
his
Brother
was
to
condemn
him
:
Thus
by
this
sad
tragedy
the
Capuans
found
sufficient
cause
to
repent
,
though
not
to
repair
their
inconstancy
.
But
now
(
Sir
)
I
shall
tell
you
a
passage
which
perhaps
will
be
as
much
admir'd
for
the
gallantry
as
the
rareness
of
it
:
Hanniball
who
indeed
had
contracted
a
real
friendship
with
Pacuvi●s
,
either
as
esteeming
his
interest
in
the
Capuans
necessary
to
confirm
and
augment
his
Conquests
,
or
his
virtues
worthy
that
honor
,
or
both
;
but
as
a
mark
of
his
esteem
and
trust
,
he
lodg'd
in
his
house
without
the
ordinary
guards
which
attended
his
person
:
In
the
mean
time
Perolla
,
who
always
had
a
high
inclination
to
the
people
of
Rome
,
and
consequently
detested
his
Fathers
actions
;
began
to
project
the
death
of
Hanniball
,
in
which
nothing
made
him
irresolute
but
the
violating
of
the
Laws
of
hospitality
,
and
since
the
consequence
was
of
so
generous
a
design
;
it
will
not
be
amiss
to
acquaint
you
with
some
of
his
reasonings
,
before
he
elected
it
.
What
(
said
he
to
himself
)
shall
I
kill
the
upholder
and
revenger
of
our
blood
?
Shall
his
friendship
to
my
Father
be
the
cause
of
his
ruine
?
and
,
Shall
he
receive
his
death
from
those
with
whom
he
trusts
his
life
?
Shall
I
,
to
revenge
the
Romans
,
stain
my
own
reputation
with
a
Murther
,
and
ruine
my
own
Family
?
Who
cannot
'scape
being
sacrific'd
to
the
Carthagineans
fury
?
Shall
Rome
owe
her
safety
to
a
cause
which
if
she
approv'd
,
rendr'd
her
unworthy
of
it
?
Shalt
thou
kill
a
Conqueror
,
whom
the
gods
have
freed
from
their
own
immediate
punishment
(
Thunder
)
by
covering
him
with
Laurel
?
Shalt
thou
make
away
an
Enemy
.
who
in
thus
giving
thee
the
power
to
destroy
him
,
makes
it
a
crime
to
do
it
?
besides
he
is
one
who
owes
his
Conquests
onely
to
his
Courage
and
Conduct
;
and
if
the
Roman
Empire
be
vanquisht
with
those
Arms
,
she
deserves
that
Fate
,
which
to
oppose
,
were
to
contradict
the
justice
of
the
gods
,
and
virtue
it self
:
Ah
no
Perolla
,
leave
off
the
thoughts
of
such
a
design
,
than
which
nothing
can
be
a
greater
Crime
but
the
performing
it
.
He
had
certainly
gone
away
,
alter'd
,
though
●ot
pleas'd
with
these
reasons
,
had
not
his
good
Genius
inspir'd
him
with
what
you
shall
now
hear
.
'T
is
true
,
said
he
,
Hanniball
is
the
upholder
and
revenger
of
our
Family
,
and
therefore
the
performance
will
be
more
glorious
:
What
greater
obligation
can
I
put
upon
the
Romans
than
to
ruine
our
Family
,
to
maintain
their
Empire
?
Had
Magius
been
as
much
a
friend
as
he
was
an
enemy
to
our
blood
,
design
might
wear
the
name
of
revenge
,
and
an
action
of
publick
concernment
might
be
stil'd
the
effect
of
a
particular
hatred
,
so
that
all
his
favours
should
rather
invite
than
dissuade
the
attempt
,
which
these
circumstances
will
prove
rather
an
impartial
justice
than
ingratitude
.
But
remember
Perolla
,
how
thy
Countrymen
branded
with
infamy
Perpenna
for
having
murther'd
Sertorius
,
though
an
enemy
to
the
Commonwealth
,
how
much
more
will
they
detest
thee
for
destroying
one
whose
too
much
virtue
and
success
are
his
only
crimes
.
But
then
(
he
continu'd
)
Why
may
not
I
suppose
they
did
but
counterfeit
,
since
States
have
the
same
arts
as
particular
persons
,
and
it
had
been
an
unwise
justice
to
commend
that
which
they
could
not
sufficiently
reward
:
This
part
of
Perpenna's
fate
I
hope
will
attend
my
attempt
,
which
is
one
invitaion
more
,
for
to
perform
what
any
but
the
gods
can
reward
is
to
sell
gallantry
,
besides
my
case
will
be
nobler
than
his
,
for
I
cannot
doubt
the
higher
Powers
so
much
as
to
deny
him
the
freedom
of
his
Sword
to
defend
his
life
,
that
if
he
fall
,
he
may
owe
it
to
my
courage
not
my
treacchery
,
and
then
i
'll
expose
my self
unto
his
Army
,
since
to
fly
were
to
shun
Martyrdom
,
and
to
out-live
the
fact
,
would
shew
as
if
I
desir'd
to
enjoy
that
secuty
,
I
purchase
onely
for
my
Countrey
.
These
and
many
other
arguments
so
fully
confirm'd
Perolla
,
that
he
onely
attended
an
opportunity
to
put
his
resolution
in
practice
,
and
though
his
green
age
(
being
then
but
18
years
old
)
might
have
made
his
change
from
this
determination
appear
rather
a
thing
incident
to
youth
than
a
want
of
Valor
,
yet
he
so
much
ador'd
virtue
,
that
he
could
not
be
unconstant
to
whatsoever
bore
her
Character
.
After
he
had
with
incredible
impatience
expected
an
occasion
,
Fortune
seem'd
one
night
to
furnish
him
with
one
,
for
having
learn'd
that
Hanniball
had
withdrawn
himself
into
his
Chamber
for
a
few
hours
,
to
make
a
dispatch
to
his
friends
at
Carthage
,
and
that
all
his
followers
were
upon
the
like
employment
to
theirs
;
Perolla
(
who
had
always
free
access
unto
him
)
was
going
to
execute
his
design
,
but
it
seems
the
Fates
would
not
let
him
by
one
generous
action
hinder
himself
from
performing
many
;
for
Pacuvius
,
who
had
some
intelligence
then
brought
him
,
of
a
design
the
Capuans
had
to
revenge
Magius's
death
,
and
to
recover
the
freedom
which
that
execution
sufficiently
shew'd
they
had
lost
,
was
then
coming
to
acquaint
Hanniball
with
it
,
and
in
such
a
conjuncture
of
time
,
that
the
Father
and
the
generous
Son
met
each
other
at
his
Chamber
door
;
where
Pacuvius
seeing
Perolla
arm'd
,
was
struck
with
so
great
an
astonishment
,
that
nothing
could
increase
it
but
the
knowledge
of
the
cause
,
which
Perolla
acquainted
him
with
,
in
such
ravishing
terms
,
that
his
reason
though
not
his
inclination
was
converted
;
and
finding
the
happy
operation
which
his
arguments
produc'd
,
he
began
to
conjure
his
Father
,
by
all
those
motives
he
esteem'd
most
prevalent
,
that
he
would
by
some
high
performance
regain
the
Romans
good
opinion
,
which
it
seem'd
the
gods
invited
him
to
perform
by
offering
him
so
favourable
an
opportunity
to
kill
Hanniball
;
for
(
said
he
)
the
action
is
good
or
ill
,
if
the
first
,
it
has
invitation
enough
in
it self
;
if
the
latter
,
the
people
of
Rome
cannot
doubt
your
conversion
,
since
to
assure
them
of
it
,
you
perform
what
is
as
contrary
to
your
nature
and
practice
,
as
your
former
Crime
in
delivering
up
Capua
was
repugnant
to
their
interest
.
I
wi●●
not
(
said
Izadora
)
trouble
your
patience
by
telling
how
Perolla
offer'd
to
relinquish
to
his
Father
the
glory
of
the
attempt
;
nor
all
those
other
things
which
you
may
imagine
so
rare
a
subject
could
furnish
a
judgement
with
that
was
so
,
since
this
design
by
a
seeming
delay
receiv'd
an
absolute
suppression
;
for
Pacuvius
,
who
found
that
his
generous
sons
reasons
and
resolutions
were
not
to
be
vanquish'd
,
counterfeiting
to
be
so
himself
,
and
promis'd
him
as
soon
as
that
great
Conqueror
was
out
of
his
protection
,
he
would
join
in
the
enterprize
;
in
the
mean
while
he
begg'd
Perolla
with
tears
and
sighs
to
delay
the
execution
of
his
attempt
,
and
not
to
violate
the
Laws
of
hospitaly
,
which
would
be
as
great
an
offence
unto
the
gods
,
as
the
performing
it
might
be
an
obligation
to
the
Romans
.
These
,
and
many
such
pressing
motives
vanquish'd
my
dear
friend
,
especially
since
the
design
was
not
supprest
but
suspended
,
and
that
a
small
deferring
would
take
away
the
seeming
aspersion
of
breach
of
Trust
,
and
so
involve
his
Father
in
the
execution
,
that
he
might
thereby
efface
his
former
injuries
to
the
Romans
.
But
Perolla
was
no
sooner
retir'd
,
than
Pacuvius
went
in
to
Hanniball
,
and
inform'd
him
,
that
the
Capuans
were
so
highly
incenst
at
the
death
of
Magius
,
that
he
befought
his
permission
to
leave
him
his
whole
house
,
and
that
he
would
fill
it
with
his
Guards
,
lest
the
World
might
lose
its
greatest
glory
,
and
he
his
best
friend
.
At
last
Hanniball
consented
to
Pacuvius's
request
,
who
the
next
morning
remov'd
,
and
whose
house
was
immediately
so
throng'd
with
Soldiers
,
that
the
impossibility
of
attempting
against
that
famous
Captains
life
was
as
great
as
the
destroying
it
had
been
pleasing
to
Perolla
,
who
finding
how
much
his
Father
had
abus'd
him
,
resolv'd
in
himself
to
go
to
the
Romans
,
and
by
the
gallantry
of
his
Actions
manifest
,
that
't
was
Pacuvius
,
and
not
Pacuvius's
blood
which
was
an
enemy
to
their
Empire
,
with
this
further
hope
,
that
his
fortune
in
the
many
accidents
of
War
might
furnish
him
with
an
opportunity
to
assault
and
destroy
that
Life
in
the
fight
of
both
Armies
,
which
had
been
hitherto
preserved
by
his
Fathers
Tears
and
Dissimulation
.
And
the
Fates
,
who
have
been
as
much
his
friends
in
actions
of
Glory
,
as
his
Enemies
in
those
of
Love
,
knowing
what
he
was
destin'd
to
perform
,
was
too
great
to
delay
any
time
,
caus'd
Pacuvius
(
who
still
apprehended
the
discovery
of
his
fiction
,
and
the
sad
events
it
would
inevitably
produce
)
to
command
his
generous
Son
,
to
go
into
this
Town
,
which
then
had
been
freshly
yielded
to
Hannibal
by
Pacuvius
power
,
there
to
countenance
his
friends
;
which
injunction
you
may
well
conjecture
was
as
pleasing
to
Perolla
,
as
his
removal
from
Capua
was
to
his
Father
.
This
journey
thus
resolv'd
,
Pacuvius
furnisht
his
Son
with
a
Train
fit
for
one
of
the
Bloud
of
Diomedes
the
Argian
,
who
founded
the
City
of
Agrippa
in
the
Brutians
,
from
whom
he
was
lineally
descended
.
After
he
left
Capua
,
he
lay
in
a
Town
call'd
Pettely
,
and
the
morning
following
,
was
waken'd
with
an
Alarm
,
that
the
considerabl'st
part
of
Hannibal's
Army
,
under
Himilco's
Command
,
had
surrounded
the
Town
,
which
had
struck
so
great
a
terror
in
the
Pettelines
,
that
they
had
deputed
some
of
the
Inhabitants
,
to
Treat
on
conditions
for
a
surrender
:
the
timerousness
of
those
people
did
not
so
much
perplex
him
,
as
he
was
pleas'd
at
so
large
an
occasion
of
Glory
,
he
could
not
fancy
that
the
design
of
yielding
,
proceeded
from
fear
,
but
want
of
a
Chief
,
which
might
employ
their
courages
to
the
best
advantage
,
and
though
his
green
Youth
had
till
then
exempted
him
from
the
harass
and
noise
of
Arms
,
yet
his
Genius
had
ever
so
great
a
propensity
to
War
,
that
he
then
understood
as
much
of
the
Theory
,
as
since
he
has
of
the
Practique
,
and
thought
too
,
that
his
Courage
and
Aversion
to
Hannibal
,
would
supply
the
defect
of
his
unexperience
.
Whist
he
was
hastily
putting
on
his
Cloaths
,
he
entertain'd
himself
with
such
thoughts
,
and
was
hardly
ready
when
he
went
towards
the
Gate
,
through
which
,
he
was
told
,
the
Deputies
of
the
City
were
to
pass
:
where
he
was
no
sooner
come
,
than
he
perceiv'd
them
,
accompany'd
by
many
of
their
friends
.
That
sight
(
as
he
often
told
me
)
inspir'd
him
with
so
high
a
fury
,
that
he
commanded
all
those
of
his
Retinue
(
which
were
above
twenty
)
to
draw
their
Swords
,
and
let
none
pass
through
that
Port
,
without
his
express
Orders
,
then
advancing
himself
towards
the
crowd
,
which
accompany'd
their
Commissioners
,
he
cry'd
out
to
them
;
Whither
run
you
,
O
degenerate
Pettelines
?
can
you
think
that
Slaves
to
the
Carthegineaus
is
a
more
glorious
Title
,
than
Friends
to
the
Romans
?
can
you
so
much
despair
of
the
gods
protection
,
as
to
act
that
your selves
,
than
which
their
power
cannot
inflict
a
greater
misery
?
is
a
wretched
life
so
pleasing
,
that
to
purchase
it
,
you
will
out-live
the
ruine
of
your
Countrey
,
and
which
is
worse
,
make
your
fears
hasten
it
?
if
Gallantry
and
Reason
will
not
move
you
,
let
the
example
of
Magius's
Bloud
do
it
,
which
was
shed
a
Sacrifice
to
appease
Hannibal
,
and
since
his
rage
must
be
quencht
by
such
oblations
,
't
is
more
noble
to
let
our
veins
be
emptied
to
defend
our
liberty
,
than
to
be
a
testimony
of
our
having
lost
it
,
which
is
a
fate
we
shall
too
justly
merit
,
if
we
do
not
oppose
it
.
Many
other
motives
he
laid
open
to
them
,
with
such
a
charming
Eloquence
and
Action
;
that
the
Pettelines
resolv'd
to
stop
their
Commissioners
,
and
to
own
their
sufferings
to
their
Misfortunes
,
rather
than
their
Fears
.
You
will
pardon
me
(
Sir
)
said
the
fair
Izadora
,
if
I
do
but
briefly
pass
over
the
affairs
of
this
memorable
Siege
(
though
by
it
the
Town
become
more
famous
the
Governor
than
the
Founder
,
who
was
Philoctetes
the
Son
of
Pean
,
that
kept
the
Arrows
of
Hercules
,
without
which
the
Prophet
Calchas
,
declar'd
Troy
not
be
taken
)
since
my
Sex
dispences
me
from
any
knowledge
in
things
of
this
nature
,
and
because
it
serves
but
to
acquaint
you
with
that
Gallantry
of
which
already
you
have
(
with
all
the
World
)
so
just
an
opinion
,
I
will
therefore
with
your
permission
onely
tell
you
,
that
after
Himilco
had
receiv'd
an
absolute
denial
of
Pettely
from
Perolla
,
a
thousand
affronts
by
bloody
Sallies
,
and
that
he
had
continu'd
four
Months
of
a
difficult
Siege
:
he
at
last
,
plainly
sent
Hannibal
word
(
then
beleaguering
of
Cassilinum
)
that
unless
he
,
and
all
his
Army
came
to
his
relief
,
the
Pettelines
were
like
to
carry
away
too
much
Glory
for
those
which
were
Enemies
to
Carthage
.
This
message
made
him
observe
the
desire
of
him
that
sent
it
,
as
much
for
the
respect
he
paid
so
great
a
Soldier
,
as
out
of
an
opinion
it
would
be
no
small
accession
to
his
Glory
,
if
he
could
take
a
City
which
Himilco
(
by
his
own
confession
)
esteem'd
too
difficult
an
enterprize
for
him
alone
.
Hannibal
therefore
left
Forces
to
block
up
Cassilinum
,
and
came
with
the
rest
to
Pettely
,
where
having
view'd
the
place
,
and
the
resolute
countenance
and
posture
of
the
Defendants
(
maugre
his
high
Heart
)
he
resolv'd
before
he
came
to
extreams
,
to
practice
mild
ways
,
which
if
they
took
,
would
not
onely
free
him
from
those
just
fears
the
gallantry
of
his
Enemies
had
created
,
but
augment
his
reputation
by
his
presence
,
reducing
that
which
a
great
Army
,
and
a
greater
Coumander
could
not
effect
.
In
order
to
this
resolve
,
he
sent
a
Trumpet
unto
Pettely
,
who
after
the
due
ceremonies
of
War
,
was
admitted
,
and
deliver'd
Perolla
a
summons
,
which
contain'd
these
words
.
HANNIBAL
,
General
of
the
Carthagineans
,
to
the
valiant
PEROLLA
.
THe
Friendship
which
I
pay
the
Father
,
inclines
me
rather
to
pardon
than
destroy
the
Son
;
but
his
speedy
submission
must
give
the
rise
to
effect
it
.
You
shall
have
honourable
terms
Perolla
,
to
invite
you
from
that
ruine
,
your
resistance
will
cast
upon
you
,
and
my
Mercy
shall
give
you
better
conditions
than
your
Sword
can
.
Do
not
therefore
by
your
obstinacy
,
force
me
to
revenge
that
Blood
you
have
already
spilt
,
which
I
am
willing
to
pardon
upon
the
same
score
,
that
hath
made
me
rather
elect
,
to
make
use
of
my
Pen
,
than
of
my
victorious
Arms.
This
Letter
,
by
the
joint
consent
of
all
the
Petelines
,
had
this
return
.
PEROLLA
,
to
the
Great
HANNIBAL
,
General
of
the
Carthagineans
.
PAcuvius
were
unworthy
of
so
great
a
Conquerors
Friendship
,
should
any
of
his
Bloud
deliver
up
a
place
by
Intreaty
,
which
the
Courage
of
the
Defendants
will
render
invincible
:
No
,
generous
Hannibal
,
I
set
so
high
a
rate
on
your
esteem
,
that
I
will
not
derive
it
from
another
but
my self
;
and
therefore
will
owe
it
to
my
Courage
not
Extraction
.
Thus
much
I
acquaint
you
from
my self
;
but
now
I
am
commanded
to
tell
you
from
my
companions
,
That
Roman
Hearts
and
Swords
,
are
a
better
security
,
than
any
Affricans
Mercy
.
THis
Answer
for
what
concern'd
Perolla
,
though
it
had
much
of
civility
,
yet
it
had
more
of
resolution
;
But
Hannibal
(
the
haughtiest
of
Men
)
was
so
accustom'd
to
conquer
,
that
he
esteem'd
a
refusal
as
bad
as
a
defeat
,
and
being
inspir'd
with
a
high
rage
at
this
denial
,
he
gave
so
furious
an
asslault
to
Pettely
,
that
almost
all
courages
,
but
that
of
Perolla's
,
might
without
shame
have
yielded
to
it
,
but
his
in
that
defence
did
things
so
far
transcending
belief
,
that
to
raise
your
faith
to
credit
them
,
I
must
lessen
their
greatness
,
and
injure
his
valour
,
least
you
might
believe
,
I
do
the
like
to
Truth
:
In
a
word
,
never
more
Lybia●
Bloud
in
this
Empire
was
so
unsuccessfully
spent
,
as
there
,
and
never
Glory
was
more
nobly
purchas'd
,
than
in
that
fatal
day
(
to
the
Cartheginians
)
who
lost
,
besides
the
hope
of
Conquest
,
2000
of
their
best
Men
,
and
twice
as
many
by
their
wounds
,
were
render'd
unserviceable
.
Whilst
these
things
were
acting
,
the
Pettelines
had
sent
two
of
their
chiefest
Citizens
to
beg
the
Senates
aid
,
whom
they
found
,
(
as
well
by
that
they
observ'd
,
as
by
their
own
Declaration
)
in
a
posture
,
fitter
to
desire
than
send
relief
.
This
proceeding
of
the
Senate
,
as
it
was
a
great
proof
of
their
ingenuity
,
so
it
was
of
their
necessity
,
and
therefore
forced
these
Deputies
to
fling
themselves
at
their
feet
,
and
conjure
them
with
all
expressions
of
a
real
grief
,
to
make
them
messengers
of
more
comfort
,
or
else
permit
them
to
sacrifice
their
lives
in
their
sights
,
as
being
a
more
pleasing
destiny
,
than
to
be
testimonies
of
the
ruine
of
their
City
,
which
so
fatal
an
answer
,
would
render
unavoidable
.
This
Gallantry
was
so
prevalent
with
the
Senate
,
that
after
(
through
a
generous
sympathy
)
they
had
paid
them
back
their
Tears
,
they
commanded
the
Deputies
to
return
to
their
Citizens
and
tell
them
,
that
what
they
had
done
already
,
had
been
so
obliging
,
that
nothing
could
increase
the
score
,
but
to
save
themselves
by
a
timely
submission
to
the
Conqueror
,
and
thereby
preserve
those
who
had
shew'd
so
great
a
proportion
of
constancy
and
courage
,
that
they
were
more
concern'd
in
their
safeties
,
than
in
their
own
.
The
two
Commissioners
at
last
,
to
obey
their
Masters
,
came
home
through
a
world
of
danger
with
that
return
;
and
truly
this
was
a
tenderness
of
the
Romans
,
which
they
had
manifested
to
none
of
their
subjects
,
for
in
all
other
cases
they
chose
rather
to
lose
their
Friends
,
than
the
reputation
of
their
Arms
,
but
in
this
they
preferr'd
the
former
before
the
latter
.
But
this
was
so
far
from
inducing
them
to
yield
,
that
by
Perolla's
perswasion
they
determined
by
a
generous-resistance
,
or
glorious
ruine
,
to
merit
so
high
a
Care
,
and
that
which
made
them
the
more
intent
on
this
,
was
,
the
Senates
having
acquainted
them
of
their
duty
,
which
render'd
their
further
actions
,
an
obligation
to
the
Roman
Empire
.
But
Hannibal
,
who
by
three
bloody
assaults
,
had
learn'd
,
that
Famine
onely
could
make
him
Lord
of
Pettely
,
had
given
over
all
hopes
of
obtaining
it
by
storm
,
and
lay
a
while
blocking
of
it
up
,
with
as
much
quiet
,
as
his
disgraces
would
permit
,
and
at
last
weary'd
with
the
tedioussness
of
the
Siege
,
left
Himilco
to
strave
them
out
,
and
brought
the
best
part
of
his
Army
,
to
renew
the
Siege
of
Cassilinum
,
where
Manituis
a
gallant
Roman
,
commanded
.
Himilco
,
to
obey
his
Generals
Orders
,
had
in
few
weeks
so
straitn'd
Pettely
,
that
those
in
it
did
more
justly
fear
their
ruine
from
within
than
without
,
but
by
the
generous
example
of
Perolla
they
suffer'd
with
as
much
patience
,
as
they
acted
with
resolution
;
and
to
say
truth
,
I
know
not
which
was
more
meritorious
,
their
active
or
their
passive
parts
.
In
this
general
Calamity
there
happen'd
so
rare
an
accident
,
that
though
I
exceedingly
long
to
run
through
these
bloudy
Relations
,
yet
I
cannot
pass
by
this
memorable
Adventure
,
without
being
as
unjust
as
the
performers
of
it
were
gallant
.
The
Famine
in
Pettely
was
so
increas'd
,
that
the
place
was
inevitably
to
fall
into
the
Enemies
hands
,
were
not
the
want
of
Victuals
immediately
redress'd
;
and
though
,
(
in
the
beginning
of
the
Siege
)
they
had
sent
away
all
their
old
People
and
Children
,
yet
they
retain'd
so
many
Women
,
that
the
feeding
of
them
must
of
necessity
hasten
their
ruine
.
This
inconvenience
was
never
mentioned
by
Perolla
,
who
bare
too
high
a
respect
to
our
Sex
,
to
preserve
those
of
his
own
,
by
exposing
ours
to
the
least
hazard
or
suffering
▪
But
a
certain
Lady
(
whose
Virtue
,
Beauty
,
Extraction
and
Wealth
,
rendr'd
her
the
most
considerable
amongst
the
Pettelines
)
plainly
perceiv'd
how
great
an
inconveniency
Perolla's
civility
was
like
to
produce
.
Amazora
therefore
(
for
so
she
was
called
)
having
gotten
a
high
and
just
value
in
that
City
,
resolv'd
to
employ
it
to
some
end
,
which
might
make
her self
as
famous
to
posterity
,
as
her
perfections
merited
.
To
effect
this
,
she
assembl'd
the
chiefest
Women
of
Pettely
;
to
those
which
she
thought
Glory
was
more
pleasing
than
Life
,
she
acquainted
with
her
resolution
of
stealing
out
of
the
Town
,
and
exposing
her self
to
the
Swords
of
Hannibal's
Soldiers
,
and
thereby
free
the
City
from
the
misery
of
Famine
,
or
at
least
from
their
hastening
it
.
To
others
,
which
she
believ'd
,
prefer'd
their
safety
above
all
other
considerations
,
she
represented
the
certain
languishing
death
,
they
must
unavoidably
suffer
by
their
residence
in
Pettely
,
and
the
probability
of
avoiding
that
Fate
,
by
submitting
to
the
Carthagineans
,
who
could
not
be
so
merciless
to
a
Sex
which
the
unreasonable
creatures
even
by
the
Law
of
nature
,
Reverence
,
and
Preserve
.
In
a
word
,
she
so
fitted
her
perswasions
to
the
several
humours
of
those
she
courted
,
and
at
last
so
fully
vanquish'd
their
fears
,
and
confirm'd
their
resolution
,
that
two
nights
after
(
having
corrupted
a
Centinel
,
which
was
a
menial
Servant
of
hers
,
for
there
being
no
Garrison
,
the
Inhabitants
did
the
duty
)
and
by
his
help
(
her
House
standing
upon
the
Walls
of
the
Town
)
about
two
thousand
Women
(
with
Ropes
and
Baskets
)
got
out
of
Pettely
.
The
next
morning
before
day
,
a
servant
of
Amazora's
,
brought
this
Letter
to
Perolla
,
who
having
open'd
it
,
found
it
contain'd
words
to
this
purpose
;
AMAZORA
and
the
Women
of
Pettely
,
to
the
gallant
PEROLLA
,
and
his
Valiant
Companions
.
WE
had
been
ill
Proficients
,
and
unworthy
your
protection
,
had
not
the
daily
demonstrations
of
your
Gallantryes
created
some
in
us
,
and
though
the
too
rigid
Laws
of
our
Sex
,
forbid
us
to
employ
our
resolutions
in
an
Active
,
yet
it
exempts
us
from
a
Passive
Virtue
.
We
are
therefore
gone
to
expose
our selves
to
the
Carthagineans
Swords
,
and
had
rather
they
should
be
employ'd
for
our
destructions
,
than
be
indebted
for
our
lives
,
to
those
which
are
Enemies
to
your
and
our
Liberties
.
If
contrary
to
our
hopes
and
desires
they
save
us
,
we
have
eased
you
of
a
burthen
your
civilities
did
not
mention
,
and
which
consequently
had
had
an
unfitting
return
any
way
but
this
.
But
if
we
are
sacrific'd
to
their
fury
,
let
your
courages
(
if
they
are
capable
of
any
accession
)
be
thereby
so
heightned
,
that
whilst
you
celebrate
our
Deaths
in
Tears
,
you
necessitate
your
Enemies
to
do
the
like
in
Bloud
.
IT
is
not
easy
to
imagine
the
high
admiration
which
this
Letter
produc'd
,
and
it
is
as
difficult
to
describe
the
sorrow
,
which
suddenly
ensu'd
,
as
the
cruelty
which
was
the
cause
of
it
,
for
as
soon
as
the
Sun
had
render'd
visible
all
objects
within
the
reach
of
sight
,
Perolla
and
his
companions
perceiv'd
the
Fields
strewed
with
the
dead
Bodies
of
those
gallant
Women
,
which
the
barbarous
Affricans
had
cruelly
murther'd
.
Judge
(
generous
Spartacus
)
what
a
just
fury
this
unequall'd
impiety
inspir'd
Perolla
,
and
the
Pettelines
with
.
But
their
actions
will
better
acquaint
you
with
their
resentments
,
than
my
expressions
can
;
For
in
that
Sally
(
where
they
now
were
led
on
by
Revenge
,
as
well
as
Honor
,
they
kill'd
above
1500
Lybians
,
and
the
execution
had
been
far
bloudier
,
had
not
they
spent
the
best
part
of
their
time
in
fetching
off
the
Bodies
of
Amazora
,
and
those
of
best
quality
,
whose
Names
had
no
cause
to
wander
,
if
the
destruction
of
their
murtherers
could
hinder
it
.
Never
victory
had
less
joy
in
it
,
than
this
,
and
never
Funeral
was
solemniz'd
with
more
Tears
,
than
that
of
those
admirable
Women
:
and
indeed
,
the
Besieged's
grief
appear'd
so
just
,
that
their
Reason
rather
continu'd
than
supprest
them
.
But
it
is
high
time
to
lead
you
out
of
so
forlorn
an
entertainment
,
which
I
will
do
,
by
acquainting
you
,
that
though
Perolla
now
perswades
me
I
possess
his
Heart
intirely
,
yet
he
cannot
deny
,
but
that
I
have
onely
the
reversion
of
it
;
neither
would
I
pass
by
(
though
the
truth
of
my
story
oblig'd
me
not
to
it
)
the
vertues
of
my
Rival
,
which
indeed
merit
a
particular
Elogium
,
and
were
I
capable
of
describing
them
as
they
deserve
,
I
know
none
that
would
have
declin'd
her
Fate
,
to
have
had
her
Glory
.
Her
Fire
was
of
so
peculiar
a
quality
,
that
when
it
had
reduc'd
her
to
ashes
,
those
very
Reliques
retain'd
heat
enough
to
inflame
him
,
and
perhaps
there
has
been
seldom
heard
of
a
love
so
strange
in
the
Birth
,
in
the
Life
,
and
in
Death
.
For
it
was
created
by
an
object
that
was
dead
,
the
Effect
remained
when
the
Cause
was
taken
away
,
and
having
no
material
sustenance
to
preserve
it self
alive
,
it
liv'd
upon
speculation
,
and
to
perfect
the
wonder
,
't
was
Izadora
destroy'd
it
.
But
I
tell
you
too
much
of
the
end
,
before
I
acquaint
you
of
the
beginning
,
which
fell
out
thus
.
Perolla
returning
from
that
famous
Burial
,
one
of
those
Men
which
had
been
ordered
to
take
an
Inventory
of
Amazora's
Goods
,
and
preserve
them
,
presented
him
with
a
Letter
he
had
found
in
her
Closet
,
and
because
the
Superscription
was
TO
THE
Gallant
PEROLLA
.
He
open'd
it
,
and
found
it
contain'd
these
words
;
T
IS
not
Amazora
,
but
her
death
discovers
she
had
a
passion
for
you
,
had
she
lived
,
the
impossibility
of
disclosing
it
,
had
been
as
great
,
as
perhaps
the
obtaining
of
a
reciprocal
one
:
Do
not
then
condemn
a
confidence
I
wash
away
with
my
Bloud
,
nor
slight
an
Affection
which
is
as
perfect
as
the
Object
that
created
it
,
neither
am
I
onely
a
friend
to
your
Passion
but
your
Glory
,
which
I
am
resolv'd
to
raise
upon
my
own
ruine
,
and
the
ruine
of
all
those
of
my
Sex
within
this
City
:
our
deaths
shall
delay
(
if
not
hinder
)
yours
,
and
give
you
time
enough
to
act
such
additional
generous
things
,
that
those
which
are
acquainted
with
them
,
and
with
my
flame
shall
excuse
the
latter
by
the
knowledge
of
the
former
.
If
all
this
can
procure
your
esteem
,
I
shall
think
my
destiny
too
noble
to
be
deplor'd
,
and
if
for
the
life
I
loose
,
I
may
live
in
your
memory
,
I
shall
esteem
it
a
more
happy
being
,
than
that
which
the
gods
have
promis'd
in
the
other
world
to
those
which
have
been
virtuous
in
this
.
HE
had
no
sooner
ended
Reading
,
than
he
cry'd
out
,
Yes
,
fair
Amazora
,
I
will
preserve
you
still
in
my
memory
,
and
were
it
not
to
obey
your
Commands
,
the
World
should
know
,
that
your
death
is
so
far
from
delaying
mine
,
that
it
has
but
hasten'd
it
.
Then
folding
his
Arms
one
within
another
,
he
stood
moveless
as
a
Statue
for
a
while
,
raining
from
his
Eyes
,
whole
showers
of
Tears
;
but
after
a
world
of
confus'd
thoughts
had
past
through
his
fancy
,
he
cry'd
out
again
,
Would
it
had
pleas'd
the
gods
(
fair
Amazora
)
to
have
made
you
as
concern'd
in
my
happiness
,
as
in
my
glory
:
Cruel
Honor
!
was
there
no
expedient
to
build
thy
Trophies
,
but
by
the
ruine
of
my
Felicity
?
must
the
way
to
reach
my
Glory
ruine
my
contentment
?
Oh
,
too
hard
Fates
:
why
did
I
not
know
my
happiness
whilst
I
possest
it
?
and
why
am
I
acquainted
with
it
when
't
is
vanisht
?
was
I
to
be
blest
onely
to
be
curst
?
must
the
knowledge
of
more
joy
than
I
could
expect
,
create
more
grief
than
I
can
endure
?
and
must
Amazora's
passion
for
me
be
so
order'd
,
that
the
revealing
of
it
must
prove
my
Torment
?
whilst
Izadora
was
relating
this
sad
reasoning
,
her
generous
Servant
was
so
struck
with
sorrow
,
that
she
,
who
sympathiz'd
with
him
in
all
virtuous
Resentments
,
was
constrain'd
to
break
off
her
discourse
,
which
the
company
perceiving
,
they
did
manifest
by
a
general
silence
from
all
things
but
sighs
,
how
just
an
opinion
they
had
of
their
grief
,
and
how
highly
they
approv'd
the
cause
of
it
.
A
little
time
being
so
spent
,
and
Izadora
having
wip'd
away
her
Tears
,
thus
continu'd
her
Story
.
I
will
not
tell
you
all
the
melancholly
expressions
Perolla
us'd
,
lest
it
might
infect
you
with
a
grief
I
would
willingly
exempt
you
from
,
I
shall
therefore
inform
you
only
,
that
he
contracted
a
Passion
for
her
memory
,
as
great
as
any
other
could
have
had
for
her
Beauty
,
and
that
(
whilst
the
Siege
continu'd
)
twice
a
day
he
constantly
water'd
her
Urne
with
such
abundant
weepings
,
that
had
those
Tears
been
inwardly
imploy'd
,
they
had
doubtless
extinguisht
his
Grief
,
his
Flame
,
or
his
Life
.
At
last
,
(
gallant
Spartacus
)
the
Famine
so
increast
in
Pettely
,
that
't
was
impossible
any
longer
to
maintain
the
place
,
and
though
Himilco
offer'd
him
(
and
all
those
with
him
)
conditions
fit
for
Soldiers
,
yet
he
scorn'd
to
stand
indebted
for
his
life
,
to
those
which
had
taken
away
Amazora's
,
but
rather
elected
to
force
his
passage
with
his
Sword
,
or
perish
in
the
attempt
:
neither
was
this
only
his
design
,
but
that
which
he
infus'd
into
all
the
rest
.
That
day
being
then
come
,
the
Town
was
on
all
quarters
set
on
fire
,
that
the
Carthagineans
might
neither
use
nor
glory
in
their
Conquest
,
and
Perolla
at
the
head
of
3000
Pettelines
(
which
were
all
that
were
left
)
furiously
charged
the
Affricans
,
and
by
dint
of
Sword
,
forced
his
passage
,
and
to
animate
his
Soldiers
,
he
cry'd
out
,
(
nothing
but
)
remember
Amazora
and
her
followers
.
And
truly
I
am
perswaded
,
all
the
Eloquence
the
gods
ever
bestow'd
on
Man
,
could
not
have
been
more
powerful
,
than
were
those
few
words
.
'T
was
in
that
great
action
,
Perolla
did
miracles
,
and
I
have
been
told
,
the
slaughter
was
so
bloudy
,
that
all
those
gallant
unfortunate
Women
,
had
each
of
them
one
of
their
dead
Murtherers
for
a
cover
of
their
Graves
,
the
Fight
happening
in
those
very
Fields
where
so
horrid
a
Massacre
had
been
committed
.
On
Perolla's
side
there
fell
800.
which
number
I
believe
he
might
have
lessen'd
,
had
he
stolen
,
and
not
made
his
retreat
,
but
night
coming
,
ended
their
dispute
,
and
my
gallant
friend
,
having
rallied
the
reliques
of
his
Forces
,
propounded
,
and
perswaded
them
to
force
their
passage
into
Cassilinum
,
which
was
not
above
200
Furlongs
off
,
and
which
was
besieged
then
by
Hannibal
.
This
resolve
being
taken
,
the
next
night
,
by
unfrequented
ways
,
they
began
their
march
,
and
the
day
following
,
towards
the
evening
,
beat
up
a
Quarter
of
the
Carthagineans
,
and
by
the
death
of
700
Libyans
,
made
a
Triumphant
entry
into
the
Town
,
presenting
Manitius
(
the
Governor
and
Friend
to
Perolla
)
both
with
a
Relief
and
a
Victory
,
which
so
rais'd
his
dejected
Soldiers
,
that
they
brake
off
the
Treaty
of
surrender
they
had
almost
concluded
.
'T
was
in
this
memorable
Siege
that
Perolla
did
such
glorious
things
,
that
(
as
little
as
I
am
concern'd
in
affairs
of
that
nature
)
they
reacht
my
Ears
,
and
I
must
with
guilty
blushes
acknowledge
,
that
the
hatred
I
had
to
his
Bloud
,
made
me
look
upon
those
actions
with
Envy
,
which
I
shold
have
consider'd
with
Admiration
.
But
after
six
months
Siege
,
the
same
fate
which
attended
him
at
Pettely
,
follow'd
him
at
Cassilinum
,
and
though
the
Famine
was
extream
pressing
,
yet
the
Romans
,
notwithstanding
they
were
under
the
command
of
Marcellus
(
called
for
his
Courage
,
the
Sword
of
the
Roman
Empire
,
by
the
Dictators
going
to
Rome
to
take
new
Auspices
)
yet
he
durst
not
hazard
a
battel
for
their
preservation
.
The
Inhabitants
and
Soldiers
of
the
Garrison
(
for
all
Perolla
scorn'd
it
)
finding
their
sad
condition
,
privately
offer'd
to
surrender
upon
Quarter
,
which
would
not
so
much
as
be
listn'd
unto
by
Hannibal
,
for
their
abrupt
breaking
off
their
first
Treaty
,
when
the
Reliques
of
Perolla's
Forces
reliev'd
them
.
At
last
,
though
they
receiv'd
some
Provisions
which
Marcellus
in
Barrels
sent
them
floating
down
the
River
Vulturnus
,
yet
that
stratagem
being
too
soon
discover'd
,
they
were
constrain'd
to
feed
upon
Mice
,
Rats
,
and
such
Roots
as
they
could
dig
out
of
their
Counterscarfs
and
Meadows
under
their
Walls
,
which
being
perceiv'd
by
the
Carthagineans
,
he
caus'd
all
those
Fields
to
be
plow'd
up
,
but
that
was
no
sooner
done
,
than
Perolla
and
his
Pettelines
,
by
a
Sally
,
sowed
Seed
in
their
Enemies
labour
.
Hannibal
being
told
it
,
only
spoke
these
few
words
.
Must
then
that
which
I
design
to
strave
the
Romans
with
,
prove
their
Harvest
?
and
immediately
sent
Manitius
and
Perolla
Blanks
,
to
write
their
Conditions
in
,
which
they
(
being
as
invincible
in
Civility
as
Courage
)
return'd
,
and
immediately
came
out
without
making
any
:
His
usage
indeed
was
generous
,
but
he
would
not
see
Perolla
,
lest
(
as
he
said
,
)
his
Passion
might
force
him
to
that
violence
,
which
his
Reason
detested
.
Hannibal
thus
became
Master
of
Cassilinum
,
yet
at
his
entry
into
it
,
he
solemnly
vowed
,
he
was
more
troubl'd
to
have
Perolla
for
his
Enemy
,
than
pleas'd
with
his
Victory
.
As
for
the
Garrison
,
they
march'd
directly
to
the
Dictators
Army
,
where
Pacuvius's
Son
was
receiv'd
both
by
him
(
who
was
then
return'd
)
and
by
Marcellus
,
with
an
entertainment
which
relisht
nothing
of
the
hatred
they
paid
his
Father
.
The
Senate
too
to
gratify
him
,
order'd
that
all
his
Soldiers
,
during
their
lives
,
should
have
double
pay
,
and
though
they
needed
such
courages
,
yet
they
gave
them
five
years
vacation
,
and
for
his
own
particular
,
they
order'd
his
Statue
to
be
be
erected
in
Preneste
,
which
was
the
next
considerable
Town
:
but
he
with
a
Modesty
,
great
as
his
Merit
,
refus'd
it
himself
,
and
had
that
Honour
plac'd
upon
Manitius
,
thereby
declining
the
reward
,
increasing
his
Title
to
it
.
Perolla
having
by
such
memorable
exploits
,
run
through
his
Prentiship
in
Arms
,
was
very
desirous
to
wait
upon
his
Father
,
who
he
was
confident
had
buried
his
disobedience
in
those
generous
Actions
which
had
proceeded
from
it
.
Pacuvius
then
liv'd
in
this
City
,
(
which
was
under
the
command
of
Hannibal
)
and
because
his
Sons
Actions
had
been
as
fatal
to
the
Carthagineans
as
advantageous
to
the
Romans
,
he
resolv'd
to
perform
that
visit
and
duty
with
as
much
secrecy
as
was
possible
,
therefore
he
came
late
alone
into
the
Town
,
lest
a
Retinue
might
give
some
suspition
of
his
quality
,
and
discover
what
he
endeavour'd
to
conceal
;
but
as
he
crost
a
Street
that
was
not
far
from
Blacius
his
House
,
he
perceiv'd
,
(
by
the
light
of
a
couple
of
Torches
which
lay
upon
the
ground
,
by
the
death
of
two
had
carried
them
)
a
Gentleman
,
who
with
much
courage
oppos'd
himself
against
four
that
assaulted
him
,
the
inequality
of
the
number
,
and
the
courage
of
the
Defendant
,
made
Perolla
(
who
never
valu'd
his
life
in
the
protection
of
the
oppressed
)
resolve
to
help
him
,
that
so
highly
needed
it
,
and
truly
,
had
he
never
so
little
longer
delay'd
his
assistance
,
he
had
been
onely
obliging
in
design
,
for
by
that
time
he
was
lighted
from
his
Horse
,
and
had
drawn
out
his
Sword
,
one
of
the
four
Assailants
had
gotten
the
single
Gentleman
under
him
,
and
was
seeking
out
the
defects
of
his
Coat
of
Mail
,
to
have
taken
away
his
life
;
But
Perolla
by
a
powerful
stroke
,
cleft
the
wretches
Head
in
two
,
and
whilst
his
companions
were
amaz'd
at
so
unexpected
a
relief
,
and
so
fatal
a
blow
,
Perolla
gave
my
Father
(
for
it
was
he
indeed
)
leave
to
get
up
,
and
then
presenting
him
with
the
Sword
which
he
had
lost
by
his
fall
,
told
him
,
Here
(
Sir
)
the
gods
will
defend
your
quarrel
,
which
I
judge
is
good
,
because
your
enemies
relye
onely
on
the
number
for
their
success
:
Blacius
had
no
time
to
make
him
any
return
of
this
civility
,
for
the
three
Murtherers
having
resign'd
their
admiration
to
take
up
their
first
resolution
,
fell
so
vigorously
upon
my
Father
,
and
his
generous
Second
,
that
had
they
not
been
under
the
protection
of
Divinity
,
they
had
certainly
miscarried
:
But
Perolla
,
who
had
to
deal
with
two
of
the
three
,
received
some
wounds
,
which
yet
were
so
far
from
endangering
his
life
,
that
they
did
but
hasten
the
loss
of
theirs
which
had
bestow'd
them
on
him
;
for
with
a
furious
thrust
,
he
dispatched
the
most
importunate
of
them
,
and
(
in
a
word
)
after
he
had
once
again
saved
and
reliev'd
Blacius
,
they
made
an
end
of
the
other
too
.
As
soon
as
my
Father
found
himself
freed
from
his
enemies
,
he
came
to
Perolla
,
and
told
him
,
Sir
,
that
I
am
indebted
to
you
for
my
life
,
is
not
a
greater
truth
,
than
that
I
shall
never
make
any
scruple
to
lose
it
in
your
service
,
but
lest
my
ignorance
might
(
when
occasion
serves
)
render
me
uncapable
of
paying
you
that
debt
,
I
shall
beg
to
be
acquainted
with
your
name
,
that
by
my
future
gratitude
you
may
be
convinc'd
,
the
obligations
you
have
laid
upon
one
that
was
unknown
to
you
,
were
not
for
all
mis-plac'd
,
Perolla
,
though
he
knew
not
my
Father
,
yet
not
daring
to
discover
himself
,
reply'd
.
The
service
I
have
paid
you
,
is
so
much
the
duty
of
one
Gentleman
to
another
,
that
it
merits
not
an
acknowledgement
;
and
to
assure
you
,
this
is
not
a
Compliment
but
a
Truth
,
I
am
resolved
to
conceal
my
Name
,
least
by
acquainting
you
with
it
,
you
might
imagine
I
expected
some
further
return
:
then
desiring
to
know
if
he
had
any
other
Commands
to
impose
on
him
,
he
began
to
take
his
leave
:
but
Blacius
,
who
admir'd
his
Civility
as
much
as
Courage
,
could
not
satisfy
himself
with
such
an
answer
,
and
therefore
told
him
,
I
must
rather
believe
,
that
some
secret
business
draws
you
hither
,
and
that
not
knowing
who
I
am
,
you
apprehend
my
privacy
:
if
this
be
the
true
cause
,
I
beseech
you
remove
it
,
for
you
could
not
think
me
worthy
your
defence
,
if
after
having
sav'd
my
life
,
you
doubted
I
could
disclose
any
thing
which
might
be
prejudicial
to
my
Protector
.
Perolla
was
about
to
reply
,
when
(
alas
)
on
a
sudden
,
the
fresh
colour
in
his
Cheeks
,
began
to
wear
Deaths
Livery
,
his
knees
too
to
tremble
,
and
at
last
his
Spirits
failing
,
he
fell
(
without
speech
or
motion
)
at
my
Fathers
Feet
,
this
sudden
change
made
him
suspect
some
private
hurts
were
the
cause
of
it
,
he
therefore
open'd
his
Doublet
,
and
immediately
discover'd
a
Sea
of
Bloud
,
which
issued
from
a
large
wound
that
had
pierc'd
his
Body
through
and
through
.
My
Father
instantly
,
with
what
Linnen
he
could
tear
,
stop'd
the
bleeding
as
much
as
he
could
,
but
having
in
vain
attempted
to
bring
him
from
the
swound
he
was
fallen
into
,
was
running
to
his
own
House
,
which
(
as
I
told
you
)
was
not
far
off
,
to
call
for
help
,
but
he
was
not
many
paces
in
the
way
to
this
Duty
and
Charity
,
when
he
heard
one
of
the
four
Mutherers
fetch
a
deep
groan
:
The
passionate
desire
he
had
to
learn
from
whom
he
had
so
narrowly
escap'd
,
made
him
pluck
off
the
Vizard
of
him
that
was
yet
alive
(
for
I
forgot
to
tell
you
they
were
all
disguis'd
in
Antick
Cloaths
and
Faces
)
who
no
sooner
receiv'd
the
benefit
of
the
fresh
Air
,
than
he
open'd
his
Eyes
,
and
gave
some
small
symptoms
of
life
,
which
though
they
were
false
ones
,
yet
he
lived
long
enough
to
beg
my
Fathers
pardon
,
and
to
acquaint
him
,
that
Pacuvius
had
ingag'd
them
by
excessive
rewards
to
undertake
their
crime
.
Blacius
having
receiv'd
this
information
,
went
instantly
to
his
own
house
,
brought
some
Servants
with
him
,
and
by
their
help
,
carried
the
generous
Perolla
home
,
whose
wounds
he
caus'd
the
Chirurgions
to
dress
,
before
he
would
take
any
care
of
a
slight
one
he
had
receiv'd
.
In
the
mean
time
,
the
Alarm
of
my
Fathers
danger
and
return
was
brought
to
my
Chamber
,
as
I
was
undressing
my self
;
which
I
no
sooner
heard
,
than
I
came
running
up
,
just
as
the
Chirurgeons
had
by
strong
Cordials
brought
Perolla
to
himself
.
My
Father
when
I
came
in
,
led
me
to
his
Bedside
,
and
told
me
,
if
my
life
be
any
way
considerable
to
you
,
you
are
indebted
to
this
Gentleman
for
it
,
who
by
the
hazard
of
his
own
,
has
preserv'd
mine
.
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
I
hope
you
have
so
just
an
opinion
of
my
duty
and
affection
,
as
to
think
that
question
needs
no
answer
;
but
as
for
this
Gentlemans
Gallantry
,
I
believe
he
will
have
no
cause
to
repent
it
,
if
at
least
by
the
hazarding
onely
of
one
Life
,
he
thinks
himself
sufficiently
recompensed
by
acquiring
those
of
a
whole
Family
.
I
shall
renounce
any
of
mine
(
said
Blacius
)
that
ever
decline
what
you
have
spoken
,
and
for
your
particular
,
(
addressing
himself
to
me
)
I
command
you
to
be
as
concern'd
in
him
,
as
if
I
were
in
his
condition
,
for
I
shall
judge
of
your
respect
to
me
,
by
your
care
of
my
Friend
.
Then
embracing
Perolla
,
he
told
him
,
some
importunate
affairs
,
Sir
,
draw
me
from
you
for
a
while
,
for
which
I
must
beg
your
Pardon
,
but
till
my
return
,
I
have
injoyn'd
my
Daughter
to
supply
my
place
.
Madam
,
(
said
Perolla
,
interrupting
the
fair
Izadora
)
I
shall
,
with
your
permission
,
acquaint
the
generous
Spartacus
what
happen'd
,
whil'st
I
continu'd
in
your
Fathers
House
,
which
will
not
only
ease
you
of
some
part
of
your
Relation
,
but
inform
you
of
particulars
,
which
,
which
perhaps
your
Modesty
might
injure
you
by
silencing
.
Spartacus
having
made
her
the
same
request
,
and
obtain'd
her
leave
,
Perolla
thus
continu'd
.
Your
may
(
Sir
)
justly
wonder
,
that
to
those
high
civilities
of
the
perfect
Izadora
and
her
Father
,
she
acquainted
you
with
none
of
my
returns
,
and
truly
,
if
she
had
,
she
must
have
made
them
her self
,
for
I
was
so
ravisht
with
her
Beauty
,
that
all
I
then
was
capable
of
,
was
of
admiring
it
:
for
though
she
was
not
then
in
that
advantagious
dress
which
Rome
so
much
commends
,
yet
the
habit
she
then
had
on
,
was
order'd
with
such
a
pleasing
negligence
,
that
no
Art
was
able
to
equal
it
,
and
if
her
Beauty
had
been
of
a
nature
which
could
admit
of
addition
by
Cloaths
,
those
she
then
wore
(
one
thought
)
would
have
increast
hers
.
I
must
ingeniously
confess
,
that
coming
from
Death
into
so
much
brightness
I
fancy'd
my self
in
those
Plains
,
where
our
Learned
Men
make
us
believe
we
shall
dwell
after
this
Life
;
and
I
dare
boldly
affirm
,
if
we
believ'd
so
much
real
felicity
there
,
as
I
then
resented
,
that
place
would
be
better
inhabited
than
it
is
.
I
shall
beseech
you
,
said
Izadora
,
(
interrupting
him
,
and
speaking
to
Spartacus
)
to
remember
the
acknowledgement
he
makes
of
his
judgement
being
troubl'd
,
that
what
unmerited
raptures
he
delivers
of
me
,
you
may
attribute
them
to
their
true
cause
,
and
not
to
that
unto
which
he
ascribes
them
.
Then
addressing
himself
unto
Perolla
(
with
a
little
smile
)
she
told
him
,
If
the
use
you
make
of
my
permission
to
tell
part
of
our
Adventures
,
be
only
thus
to
abuse
your
friend
,
I
shall
immediately
recall
it
,
and
rather
elect
to
injure
our
Story
by
my
relation
,
than
suffer
those
blushes
which
your
partiality
will
still
create
.
Madam
(
said
Spartacus
)
you
are
so
far
above
flattery
,
that
whilst
your
generous
Lover
praises
you
all
he
can
,
you
need
apprehend
nothing
,
but
that
he
will
come
short
of
Truth
.
To
which
Perolla
answer'd
,
(
with
a
look
that
spoke
his
doubts
,
whether
,
what
Spartacus
had
said
,
proceeded
from
his
Justice
,
or
a
more
dangerous
Cause
)
you
have
(
Sir
)
in
this
,
as
fully
declar'd
my
opinion
,
as
if
we
had
but
one
Heart
,
and
that
too
inspir'd
with
the
same
beauty
,
which
is
so
accomplisht
,
that
if
Izadora
will
forgive
me
all
faults
which
detract
too
much
from
her
,
I
shall
not
need
her
pardon
for
those
of
a
contrary
nature
.
Spartacus
by
a
little
redness
,
testified
the
construction
he
made
of
Perolla's
first
words
,
but
the
apprehension
of
being
deceiv'd
in
his
opinion
,
and
the
resolution
he
had
taken
up
,
of
soon
suppressing
all
suspitions
of
that
quality
,
made
him
continue
silent
,
which
invited
Izadora's
Servant
to
prosecute
what
he
had
begun
.
Since
(
said
he
)
my
want
of
expressions
for
so
transcendent
an
object
,
and
her
commands
do
both
bind
me
from
giving
you
a
character
of
that
by
words
,
which
your
Eyes
are
better
able
to
perform
;
I
will
onely
acquaint
you
,
That
though
I
remain'd
a
while
without
speaking
,
yet
it
proceeded
not
from
any
new
fits
of
fainting
,
but
from
having
all
my
faculties
employ'd
,
to
receive
those
flames
she
then
shot
into
me
;
and
truly
I
found
the
fire
so
pleasing
,
and
so
just
,
that
I
made
not
any
excuse
for
introducing
it
in
the
room
of
that
Heart
,
I
had
till
then
preserv'd
for
the
fair
Amazora
,
the
difference
betwixt
them
being
so
great
,
that
could
I
have
suspended
my
Election
,
I
should
have
concluded
my
Judgement
,
as
dead
as
the
first
object
of
my
Passion
.
To
be
brief
,
never
Lover
made
more
haste
to
fruition
,
than
I
to
divest
my self
of
liberty
;
and
never
Slave
receiv'd
his
freedom
with
more
joy
than
I
resign'd
up
mine
.
But
whilst
I
was
in
these
first
extasies
,
Izadora
,
who
mis-interpreted
my
silence
,
ask'd
me
whether
I
had
a
mind
to
take
any
rest
,
for
if
I
had
,
she
would
withdraw
her self
,
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
if
you
have
a
mind
I
shall
take
any
,
I
must
derive
it
from
your
Presence
,
and
not
from
your
Absence
,
since
the
latter
will
be
so
far
from
giving
me
any
ease
,
that
it
will
divest
me
of
all
.
Truly
Sir
(
she
answer'd
)
the
condition
you
are
in
,
methinks
,
may
well
dispence
with
civilities
,
and
your
wounds
are
too
dangerous
to
neglect
(
out
of
a
compliment
)
any
thing
which
may
conduce
to
their
recovery
.
If
you
mean
(
I
reply'd
)
those
wounds
I
receiv'd
in
the
Street
,
they
are
too
inconsiderable
to
purchase
their
ease
by
your
absence
:
but
if
you
intend
those
which
are
given
me
since
I
came
into
this
Chamber
,
I
must
then
confess
,
I
would
decline
nothing
,
which
might
any
way
lessen
their
pain
,
or
advance
their
recovery
;
but
I
find
by
experiment
,
that
their
nature
is
to
be
least
troublesome
,
when
the
fair
Enemy
that
made
them
,
is
visible
.
I
had
not
ended
speaking
,
when
I
perceiv'd
all
Izadora's
face
cover'd
with
blushes
,
and
her
Eyes
arm'd
with
so
majestick
a
Fire
,
that
I
almost
repented
the
disclosing
of
what
I
could
not
possibly
have
longer
silenc'd
;
but
to
disguise
her
disorder
,
she
told
me
,
I
hope
you
have
receiv'd
no
wounds
since
you
came
into
this
place
,
if
you
have
,
I
dare
assure
you
they
were
given
without
design
.
Alas
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
I
am
then
the
more
unfortunate
,
and
that
which
you
apply
for
a
lessening
,
is
an
increase
of
my
trouble
,
for
my
condition
is
so
singular
,
that
whereas
in
other
cases
,
to
hurt
without
design
,
is
hardly
an
offence
,
in
mine
the
contrary
,
is
the
greatest
that
can
befall
me
.
But
yet
I
may
find
some
satisfaction
,
since
custom
enjoyns
,
wheresoever
any
wounds
are
receiv'd
,
without
an
intention
of
giving
them
,
that
the
person
which
gave
them
as
a
mark
of
innocency
,
should
endeavour
their
cure
,
if
it
lyes
in
the
givers
power
;
permit
me
then
to
beg
this
customary
Tryal
of
the
truth
of
your
words
,
which
is
not
called
in
question
by
me
,
but
by
my
happiness
.
I
esteem
(
answered
Izadora
)
the
rule
you
speak
of
so
just
,
that
were
it
I
,
which
have
hurt
you
,
and
that
you
shew
me
the
wound
,
and
prove
your
recovery
in
my
power
,
I
would
oblige
my self
to
be
your
Physitian
.
Alas
Madam
(
I
answer'd
)
the
wound
is
in
my
Heart
,
and
therefore
not
to
be
seen
,
but
with
the
eyes
of
faith
,
but
if
my
assurance
will
not
convince
you
of
its
reality
,
the
knowledge
you
have
of
your
own
Beauties
,
will
doubtless
effect
it
.
I
am
glad
(
reply'd
Izadora
)
that
your
hurt
being
in
a
mortal
place
,
you
are
yet
so
well
,
which
gives
me
some
hope
that
the
pain
of
your
last
wound
,
is
rather
in
imagination
than
reality
:
but
if
it
be
internal
,
as
you
alledge
,
I
dare
not
undertake
to
be
your
Chyrurgeon
,
for
to
discover
the
place
where
you
say
your
wound
is
,
I
must
make
a
greater
,
than
I
am
confident
I
shall
find
there
.
Though
indeed
,
replyes
of
this
nature
are
not
very
pleasing
in
themselves
,
yet
it
was
no
small
satisfaction
to
me
,
for
from
them
I
flatteringly
referr'd
,
if
she
had
a
design
of
declining
my
Flame
,
I
had
spoken
enough
to
acquaint
her
with
it
,
and
consequently
given
her
a
rise
to
have
mention'd
her
aversion
from
it
,
but
her
imposing
on
my
Words
a
meaning
,
which
indeed
they
could
not
well
bear
,
and
the
troubling
her self
for
their
mis-construction
,
afforded
me
some
hope
,
that
they
were
not
absolutely
unpardonable
.
gods
!
what
extasies
of
joy
did
possess
me
,
whilst
I
had
that
belief
?
and
how
I
blest
my
wounds
,
that
were
the
happy
cause
of
so
pleasing
(
though
imaginary
)
a
Felicity
?
But
(
alas
)
this
was
onely
a
capriciousness
of
Fortune
,
who
gave
me
a
taste
of
Happiness
,
that
the
subsequent
fear
might
be
the
more
intollerable
:
for
the
fair
Izadora
had
forgot
to
ask
of
Blacius
my
Name
,
which
she
acquainted
me
with
,
and
which
I
look'd
upon
,
as
her
desire
of
knowing
it
.
This
made
me
tell
her
,
Madam
,
had
you
had
that
curiosity
whilst
your
Father
was
here
,
he
could
not
have
satisfied
it
:
some
important
causes
ty'd
me
to
a
concealment
of
it
,
neither
can
your
knowing
it
,
be
any
way
advantageous
to
your
service
,
could
I
imagine
it
were
,
did
the
discovery
bring
more
danger
on
me
than
cowards
fancy
,
I
would
embrace
them
all
with
raptures
of
joy
;
yet
perhaps
my
life
and
sword
may
be
more
fortunate
than
my
name
by
proving
capable
of
serving
you
,
if
they
be
,
I
shall
esteem
both
of
them
too
gloriously
employ'd
:
And
truly
(
Madam
)
the
little
desire
I
had
to
be
known
,
or
continue
long
in
this
Town
made
me
not
inquisitive
of
your
Fathers
,
but
since
I
find
my
felicity
or
misery
depends
upon
one
that
is
of
his
Family
,
I
shall
humbly
beg
to
be
acquainted
with
it
,
and
esteem
it
a
high
obligation
if
at
least
my
curiosity
may
not
prove
prejudicial
to
him
.
Since
(
reply'd
Izadora
)
you
assure
me
,
that
my
informing
you
of
it
will
oblige
you
,
I
am
confident
the
concealment
cannot
be
of
more
consequence
than
the
disclosure
;
and
it
is
but
reason
that
you
should
know
who
is
your
debtor
,
his
name
is
Blacius
,
How
Madam
(
I
hastily
reply'd
)
Blacius
?
the
mortal
Enemy
of
Pacuvius
?
Yes
(
said
Izadora
)
that
Blacius
is
my
Father
,
and
he
who
you
so
lately
oblig'd
?
and
my
name
Izadora
.
Ah
Madam
(
I
cry'd
out
,
fetching
a
deep
sigh
)
what
is
it
that
you
have
told
me
?
The
fair
Izadora
and
I
were
so
perplext
,
she
at
my
exclaiming
,
and
I
at
her
information
,
that
for
a
long
while
we
both
continu'd
in
silence
;
which
at
last
she
interrupted
by
desiring
to
know
from
whence
my
disorder
proceeded
,
Alas
,
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
The
great
friendship
I
have
contracted
with
Perolla
(
Pacuvius's
son
)
is
the
cause
of
my
trouble
;
how
can
I
but
deplore
his
misfortune
in
having
you
for
his
enemy
;
where
your
continuing
so
will
(
I
fear
)
prove
as
great
an
injury
to
his
felicity
as
I
apprehend
the
contrary
will
be
to
your
extraction
.
If
(
said
Izadora
)
you
are
so
intimately
acquainted
with
Perolla
,
I
beseech
you
inform
me
whether
all
those
praises
that
are
given
him
proceed
from
justice
or
partiality
,
Truly
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
the
knowing
of
him
perfectly
makes
me
unfit
to
resolve
your
question
,
for
we
were
so
much
one
,
and
had
both
so
much
the
same
Soul
,
that
I
plac'd
the
self
same
judgement
on
his
actions
which
he
himself
did
;
and
therefore
you
might
aswell
hope
to
be
satisfied
of
Perolla
from
Perolla
,
as
by
enquiring
any
thing
of
him
from
me
;
but
this
I
dare
affirm
,
that
had
he
once
the
happiness
I
now
have
,
he
would
have
too
the
same
inclinations
;
and
if
my
passion
possest
him
,
after
seeing
so
much
Beauty
,
it
would
be
of
contrary
nature
to
what
has
been
hitherto
common
to
his
Family
.
You
must
excuse
me
(
said
Izadora
)
if
I
believe
he
would
prefer
his
duty
before
any
other
consideration
,
but
I
would
not
a
little
rejoyce
at
the
contrary
;
for
since
his
hatred
to
our
Family
is
his
crime
,
I
would
have
his
love
to
one
of
it
prove
his
punishment
.
Ah
,
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
are
you
then
determin'd
to
be
cruel
?
Must
Perolla
have
so
hard
a
Fate
,
that
because
his
birth
was
unhappy
,
his
life
must
be
so
too
?
Shall
his
misfortune
in
being
Pacuvius's
son
be
esteem'd
his
fault
;
and
,
shall
a
Sin
he
derives
from
his
Father
be
more
prevalent
to
create
your
hatred
,
than
the
service
he
has
pay'd
Blacius
be
to
produce
a
contrary
effect
?
My
Passion
in
this
discourse
transported
me
so
far
,
that
Izadora
interrupted
me
by
saying
.
The
words
which
you
now
speak
(
Sir
)
would
induce
me
to
believe
that
you
are
Perolla
rather
than
his
friend
.
Yes
Madam
(
I
reply'd
,
casting
down
my
Eyes
,
and
trembling
all
over
)
I
do
confess
I
am
Perolla
,
and
though
at
first
I
design'd
not
to
acquaint
you
who
I
was
,
till
my
actions
had
in
some
degree
qualifi'd
your
aversion
to
my
blood
;
yet
I
find
you
have
so
transcendent
an
influence
over
me
,
that
I
could
no
more
conceal
my
Name
than
my
Passion
.
This
overture
gives
you
power
equal
to
your
desire
of
being
reveng'd
on
our
unfortunate
Family
.
But
remember
(
fair
Izadora
)
that
't
is
cruelty
not
justice
,
to
ruine
one
who
is
so
far
from
resisting
that
he
yields
to
your
mercy
.
Whilst
I
was
making
this
declaration
,
I
could
plainly
read
the
trouble
of
her
mind
in
her
looks
;
sometimes
methought
they
inclin'd
to
mercy
,
and
then
instantly
they
appear'd
the
contrary
;
at
last
my
suspence
vanish'd
by
Izadora's
saying
,
I
could
gladly
wish
I
had
continu'd
still
in
ignorance
of
your
condition
,
since
my
knowledge
of
it
reduces
me
either
to
betray
Blacius
,
or
Perolla
,
by
discovering
or
concealing
him
.
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
he
keeping
of
my
name
secret
is
not
of
much
importance
,
for
if
you
now
receive
my
Flame
I
shall
embrace
all
dangers
,
and
care
not
who
knows
me
when
I
bear
the
glorious
title
of
Izadora's
Servant
:
and
if
you
reject
it
,
't
will
be
an
obligation
to
let
your
Father
know
who
I
am
,
since
I
may
hope
from
his
resentments
and
hatred
that
cure
my
deplorable
condition
will
so
abundantly
want
.
Izadora
(
as
she
since
assur'd
me
)
was
offended
that
I
had
the
confidence
in
so
short
a
time
to
desire
an
acception
of
my
affection●
that
she
answer'd
me
briskly
;
Pacuvius's
son
,
who
is
an
enemy
to
our
Family
,
must
not
here
expect
to
be
cur'd
of
any
other
wounds
than
those
he
receiv'd
in
defending
the
chief
of
it
;
and
though
your
presumption
merits
my
highest
revenge
,
yet
the
consideration
of
what
you
have
done
for
Blacius
.
will
make
me
preserve
your
life
in
not
disclosing
who
you
are
.
She
had
no
sooner
done
speaking
,
but
she
rose
up
,
and
was
going
out
of
my
Chamber
,
when
I
cry'd
out
to
her
,
Stay
,
fair
Izadora
,
and
see
my
life
depends
not
on
your
silence
,
but
on
your
approving
my
passion
,
which
though
you
have
so
cruelly
rejected
,
yet
you
shall
find
I
have
so
much
a
higher
concernment
for
all
your
interests
than
my
own
,
that
I
will
wash
away
in
my
Blood
my
presumption
and
unfortunate
extraction
;
and
since
you
have
declar'd
Perolla
to
be
your
Enemy
,
you
shall
perceive
I
will
use
him
at
that
rate
.
Izadora
at
these
passionate
expressions
turn'd
about
again
;
but
when
she
saw
me
pulling
off
my
plaisters
,
and
tearing
my
wounds
,
she
ran
to
my
Bed-side
,
and
falling
on
her
knees
,
with
a
throng
of
sighs
and
tears
she
begg'd
me
not
to
be
my
own
executioner
;
and
if
any
words
she
had
spoken
were
the
unfortunate
cause
of
so
fatal
an
effect
,
she
would
recall
them
.
What
need
I
tell
you
more
(
generous
Spartacus
)
than
that
my
despair
was
the
way
to
my
felicity
,
and
that
my
design
of
killing
my self
preserv'd
my
life
by
obtaining
the
fair
Izadora's
permission
of
making
my
addresses
to
her
.
But
to
lessen
this
excess
of
joy
,
I
suspected
for
a
while
,
that
my
apprehension
of
being
unfortunate
had
like
to
have
made
me
really
so
;
and
the
way
I
had
chosen
to
end
my
misery
had
almost
created
it
;
for
in
my
despair
I
had
so
increast
the
danger
of
my
wounds
,
by
using
them
as
I
thought
my
condition
then
requir'd
,
that
though
the
Chirurgions
came
hastily
to
bind
them
up
,
yet
they
could
not
undertake
for
my
life
,
till
they
saw
what
operation
that
dressing
would
have
,
and
to
free
me
from
all
noise
,
that
I
might
take
a
little
sleep
,
Izadora
was
desir'd
to
withdraw
,
which
before
she
did
,
she
came
to
my
Bed-side
,
and
told
me
softly
,
I
hope
what
I
have
already
done
,
has
divested
you
of
all
thoughts
of
violence
on
your
life
,
if
it
has
not
,
remember
that
you
cannot
make
any
attempts
against
it
;
but
I
shall
consider
them
as
offer'd
at
mine
.
Madam
(
I
reply
▪
d
,
kissing
her
hand
with
transports
)
what
you
have
done
,
and
what
you
have
spoken
,
shall
make
me
cherish
as
much
as
even
now
I
did
detest
it
,
and
since
't
is
so
glorious
to
merit
your
care
,
you
cannot
suspect
it
shall
be
deny'd
mine
.
She
was
not
long
gone
out
of
my
Chamber
,
when
Blacius
came
home
;
and
coming
to
see
me
,
he
was
inform'd
my
condition
was
such
,
that
his
visit
would
rather
prove●
trouble
than
a
civility
,
which
made
him
defer
his
design
;
but
he
went
directly
to
Izadora's
Chamber
,
to
learn
the
cause
of
my
disorder
;
for
he
was
told
she
had
not
stirr'd
out
of
mine
since
his
going
abroad
;
and
that
no
other
had
been
witness
of
my
actions
.
His
fair
daughter
was
somewhat
perplex'd
at
the
question
;
but
she
assur'd
him
,
to
the
best
of
her
observation
,
it
proceeded
from
a
sudden
distemper
,
wherein
she
told
him
the
truth
,
and
yet
conceal'd
it
from
him
.
The
next
morning
the
Chirurgions
found
the
wounds
of
my
Body
(
which
held
a
strict
sympathy
with
those
of
my
Mind
)
so
hopeful
,
that
Blacius
was
present
when
they
were
drest
,
exprest
an
infinite
satisfaction
;
and
indeed
entertain'd
me
with
such
transcendent
care
and
civility
,
that
had
I
ow'd
my
usage
to
his
knowledge
,
and
not
to
his
ignorance
of
me
,
I
had
been
in
a
felicity
worthy
of
envy
.
But
his
affairs
calling
him
away
,
his
place
was
supply'd
by
Izadora
;
who
acquainted
me
,
that
those
Murtherers
I
had
kill'd
,
had
been
for
certain
hir'd
by
Pacuvius
to
make
away
Blacius
,
and
that
one
of
them
(
as
he
lay
weltring
in
his
Blood
)
confest
it
to
him
,
which
was
the
cause
of
his
going
out
that
night
so
late
,
that
the
examinations
might
have
been
taken
by
one
of
the
Magistrates
,
but
at
their
coming
,
the
party
was
found
dead
.
Ah
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
how
I
apprehend
my
Fathers
attempts
will
be
as
cruel
to
his
own
son
as
the
performance
would
have
prov'd
to
his
Enemy
,
and
that
what
he
intended
for
the
destruction
of
Blacius
will
cause
Perolla's
;
for
it
is
but
just
,
that
the
daughter
should
right
the
Father
on
the
Son
of
his
mortallest
Enemy
,
especially
since
she
has
the
power
,
and
that
Pacuvius's
affection
for
me
(
as
he
has
often
declar'd
)
is
greater
than
that
he
has
for
himself
and
consequently
to
afflict
Perolla
is
the
most
sensible
way
of
being
reveng'd
on
his
Father
;
neither
can
I
expect
a
better
Fate
,
unless
Izadora's
Goodness
be
as
great
as
my
Passion
.
I
shall
always
(
she
said
)
know
how
to
distinguish
between
the
guilty
and
the
innocent
;
and
therefore
will
not
involve
the
Son
in
the
Fathers
Crime
,
especially
since
the
gallantry
of
the
former
hinder'd
the
acted
sin
of
the
latter
.
Oh
Madam
(
I
answer'd
)
How
great
were
my
felicity
would
Blacius
practice
the
same
goodness
.
You
need
not
doubt
(
she
reply'd
)
in
this
last
action
,
where
your
Blood
testifies
your
innocence
;
but
for
his
antient
hatred
,
I
fear
his
resentments
.
Alass
(
I
cry'd
out
)
I
never
have
those
thoughts
but
I
tremble
,
and
would
it
might
please
the
gods
as
the
blood
I
have
spent
already
has
purchast
his
esteem
,
so
that
the
remainder
were
shed
to
continue
it
after
his
knowledge
of
my
condition
.
For
I
should
think
my
death
glorious
,
could
it
wipe
away
the
infelicity
of
my
Birth
,
and
count
it
a
greater
happiness
to
dye
with
the
title
of
your
Families
Friend
,
than
to
live
in
the
contrary
misfortune
.
The
fair
Izadora
perceiving
how
I
afflicted
my self
with
those
sad
impressions
,
told
me
,
What
I
have
already
done
may
in
some
sort
repress
your
fears
,
neither
is
despair
pardonable
but
where
impossibilities
turn
it
into
reason
,
a
generous
courage
as
Perolla's
should
not
antedate
his
troubles
,
for
sometimes
our
apprehensions
make
us
miserable
when
our
Fates
design
the
contrary
.
Those
(
I
reply'd
)
which
did
flatter
me
would
often
publish
I
had
a
courage
above
misfortunes
,
and
I
may
justly
say
,
in
all
those
dangers
I
have
yet
undergone
,
I
never
resented
any
thing
of
fear
,
but
what
disasters
my
hard
Stars
impos'd
on
me
,
I
found
my
consolation
and
security
in
my
resolution
;
yet
in
my
present
condition
,
whether
my
fears
proceed
from
some
prescience
of
my
ruine
,
or
from
a
diffidence
of
so
great
a
felicity
I
know
not
,
but
this
I
am
certain
of
that
I
find
something
within
,
which
never
until
now
I
entertain'd
.
I
confess
,
(
said
the
fair
Izadora
)
when
I
think
upon
Blacius's
hatred
to
your
Family
,
I
have
some
little
tremblings
which
I
can
hardly
suppress
;
but
when
I
consider
the
services
you
have
paid
him
,
and
those
eminent
qualities
you
possess
,
I
find
no
other
way
for
the
questioning
your
content
,
than
by
doing
the
like
,
as
well
to
my
Fathers
judgement
as
gratitude
,
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
I
have
nothing
in
me
,
nor
have
nothing
for
him
which
might
so
much
raise
my
ambition
:
but
since
you
do
not
onely
command
me
to
silence
my
fears
,
but
alledge
I
have
no
cause
to
continue
them
,
I
will
obey
you
,
since
't
is
as
impossible
for
me
to
erre
whilst
I
do
so
,
as
not
to
erre
whilst
I
do
not
so
.
'T
was
with
such
pleasing
discourses
as
these
that
I
past
some
days
,
and
't
was
well
for
the
torment
of
my
wounds
,
for
no
other
charm
had
been
of
sufficient
force
to
moderate
their
pain
.
At
last
,
Fortune
began
to
cloud
this
little
Sun-shine
,
for
Izadora
understood
from
a
friend
of
hers
,
that
a
great
disorder
was
in
Pacuvius's
house
,
by
the
arrival
of
a
servant
of
mine
(
whom
I
would
not
permit
to
come
into
Salapia
with
me
,
but
had
order'd
him
to
follow
,
lest
I
might
be
the
likelier
discover'd
.
)
This
servant
assur'd
my
Father
,
that
I
was
come
before
him
alone
into
the
Town
,
and
that
crossing
a
street
upon
the
break
of
day
,
he
had
found
my
Horse
,
and
observed
much
Bloud
had
been
there
spilt
,
but
as
for
his
Master
,
he
could
learn
no
news
of
him
.
This
Lady
was
one
which
had
free
access
into
both
our
Families
,
and
having
then
received
some
high
disgust
in
Pacuvius's
,
told
this
secret
to
the
fair
Izadora
,
in
expectation
that
it
might
come
to
Blacius's
knowledge
,
whose
revenge
she
easily
fancy'd
would
induce
him
to
make
it
publick
,
which
would
at
least
have
ruin'd
me
,
if
not
my
Father
,
for
entertaining
and
concealing
me
,
but
she
knew
not
,
that
she
told
this
news
to
one
that
was
better
acqainted
with
the
particulars
of
it
than
her self
,
and
who
was
not
a
little
concern'd
in
this
unfortunate
life
.
But
Izadora
,
(
after
her
departure
)
came
,
and
not
onely
acquainted
me
with
this
intelligence
,
but
advis'd
me
to
make
my self
known
to
Blacius
,
for
since
the
business
had
already
so
much
vent
,
if
he
came
to
learn
it
any
other
way
,
it
might
be
lookt
upon
at
a
rate
that
would
extreamly
aggravate
his
former
hatred
.
I
must
truly
confess
,
had
this
advice
proceeded
from
any
other
,
I
should
have
found
a
strong
opposal
in
my
obedience
;
but
she
had
such
an
Ascendent
over
me
,
that
in
all
her
commands
,
how
difficult
soever
they
were
in
themselves
,
I
did
not
onely
find
Reason
,
but
Power
to
obey
them
;
and
in
this
injunction
of
hers
,
I
had
no
sooner
taken
up
my
resolution
,
than
I
was
furnisht
with
an
opportunity
to
put
it
in
practice
;
For
Blacius
,
who
was
always
present
at
the
dressing
of
my
wounds
,
was
so
sensible
of
the
torment
I
endur'd
,
that
he
could
not
retain
some
drops
from
stealing
out
of
his
Eyes
,
and
as
soon
as
the
Chirurgeons
were
gone
,
he
embrac'd
me
,
and
said
,
If
the
gods
(
generous
stranger
)
would
grant
a
power
of
transferring
pain
upon
him
that
is
most
desirous
of
it
,
you
should
quickly
then
resent
none
,
but
what
your
goodness
for
my
sufferings
could
produce
.
Were
that
priviledge
(
I
answer'd
)
bestow'd
upon
me
,
my
condition
would
not
be
at
all
improv'd
,
for
that
rule
would
continue
the
sufferings
where
they
are
already
;
neither
could
they
be
remov'd
as
you
desire
,
without
doubling
my
trouble
,
by
afflicting
me
in
that
which
I
am
more
concern'd
in
,
than
in
my self
.
You
are
(
reply'd
Blacius
)
so
obliging
,
both
in
action
and
expression
,
that
there
is
no
way
of
increasing
my
debt
,
but
by
acquainting
how
I
may
pay
some
part
of
it
.
When
you
speak
(
I
reply'd
)
of
being
indebted
to
me
,
you
do
certainly
mean
to
my
Desires
,
and
not
my
Actions
,
but
because
you
are
pleas'd
to
stile
the
effects
of
my
Duty
,
Obligations
,
I
will
not
oppose
that
belief
,
since
to
have
rais'd
it
,
is
onely
my
ambition
,
but
is
besides
,
exceeding
necessary
towards
the
obtaining
of
a
request
I
have
to
make
to
you
;
a
request
of
so
strange
a
property
,
that
the
denial
of
it
once
,
will
make
me
uncapable
of
ever
asking
it
again
,
and
the
granting
of
it
,
will
never
let
me
stand
in
need
of
asking
any
other
.
If
(
said
Blacius
with
some
impatiency
)
the
granting
this
desire
be
in
my
power
,
why
do
you
not
name
it
?
since
to
confer
on
you
a
concession
of
this
quality
and
operation
,
will
be
a
greater
favour
to
the
giver
,
than
it
can
be
to
the
Receiver
.
'T
is
,
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
that
you
would
pardon
my
unhappy
extraction
,
and
not
esteem
,
that
my
fault
,
which
is
my
misfortune
.
An
Extraction
(
Blacius
answered
)
which
has
produced
so
much
gallantry
,
cannot
be
low
or
inconsiderable
,
or
if
it
be
so
in
its
self
,
your
Virtue
will
change
it
into
the
contrary
,
but
(
he
continu'd
)
I
cannot
fancy
why
the
granting
of
what
you
ask
,
can
work
so
powerful
an
effect
,
as
even
now
you
mention'd
.
Alas
,
Sir
,
(
I
reply'd
)
you
mistake
my
meaning
,
for
I
am
born
in
a
Family
that
is
considerable
enough
,
both
for
Antiquity
,
Honour
,
and
Wealth
,
and
indeed
,
has
no
other
effect
or
unhappiness
,
but
what
is
caus'd
by
your
aversion
to
it
:
I
fear
,
after
this
Declaration
,
you
can
no
longer
doubt
,
but
't
is
Pacuvius's
I
intend
,
whose
unfortunate
Son
I
am
.
Is
this
(
said
Blacius
,
starting
)
to
try
how
far
my
gratitude
can
extend
,
or
else
is
it
a
real
truth
?
'T
is
the
latter
(
I
answer'd
)
and
though
I
apprehend
by
what
I
observe
,
that
this
discovery
will
prove
my
ruine
,
yet
I
had
rather
derive
it
from
my
Extraction
,
which
is
a
crime
I
could
not
avoid
,
than
by
deluding
you
,
which
is
a
voluntary
sin
,
and
consequently
might
justly
authorize
your
hatred
.
Blacius
having
cast
upon
me
a
hundred
furious
looks
,
at
last
told
me
;
You
are
then
Pacuvius's
Son
.
Oh
unjust
Fates
!
must
I
owe
my
life
to
a
cause
which
makes
me
detest
it
?
and
must
my
misery
be
so
great
,
that
to
have
dy'd
by
the
hands
of
murtherers
,
hir'd
by
my
enemy
too
,
had
been
a
happiness
?
Is
Life
left
me
onely
to
know
,
that
not
to
have
been
kill'd
,
was
a
misfortune
?
Then
folding
his
Arms
one
within
the
other
,
he
fetch'd
,
(
with
great
steps
)
four
or
five
turns
about
the
Chamber
and
on
a
sudden
,
striking
one
of
his
Hands
upon
his
Breast
,
he
continu'd
,
No
,
no
,
I
am
not
so
wretched
as
my
Passion
would
perswade
me
,
for
Pacuvius
design
was
not
only
defeated
,
but
was
defeated
by
his
Son
:
and
Perolla
by
receiving
wounds
in
this
Quarrel
,
wounds
his
Father
,
who
cannot
consider
the
means
,
why
his
ends
have
fail'd
,
but
the
knowledge
of
the
former
will
increase
the
misery
of
the
latter
,
neither
can
I
justly
complain
,
when
my
mortal'st
Enemy
,
instead
of
a
pleasing
revenge
,
embraces
a
double
affliction
:
besides
,
after
knowledge
of
what
Perolla
has
done
,
he
must
either
hate
or
love
him
,
if
the
former
,
the
intricacy
is
both
admirable
and
obliging
,
for
the
self-same
action
makes
the
Son
preserve
an
Enemy
,
and
loose
a
Friend
,
and
the
Father
loose
his
revenge
upon
his
adversary
,
and
his
affection
to
his
Son
:
If
the
latter
,
his
being
in
a
place
which
forbids
his
visits
and
assistants
,
will
be
no
small
trouble
,
and
the
doubts
that
I
will
take
away
Perolla's
life
will
be
Pacuvius's
torment
whilst
he
imagines
his
Son
is
living
,
and
the
knowledge
when
he
is
not
so
,
will
continue
it
after
he
is
dead
;
and
since
he
lives
more
in
Perolla
than
in
himself
,
his
unequall'd
treachery
will
justify
my
killing
the
most
of
him
that
I
can
.
After
many
such
strange
reasonings
as
these
,
he
drew
out
a
Ponyard
,
and
came
towards
me
,
to
act
what
he
had
determin'd
:
I
must
confess
I
was
somewhat
startled
at
this
proceeding
,
but
when
I
consider'd
the
averseness
of
his
nature
was
such
,
that
probably
I
could
never
obtain
his
consent
of
possessing
his
excellent
Daughter
,
I
had
no
more
the
desire
than
the
force
to
resist
him
,
and
therefore
,
just
as
he
came
to
the
Bed-side
,
I
uncover'd
my self
,
and
shewing
him
my
naked
Breast
,
I
told
him
,
Here
(
Sir
)
this
is
the
place
you
aim
at
,
and
therefore
it
shall
not
be
defended
by
me
,
I
am
guilty
,
because
you
think
me
so
,
and
since
I
am
so
miserable
as
to
be
hated
by
you
,
that
death
which
you
threaten
me
with
,
will
be
a
justice
as
to
your
revenge
,
and
a
charity
as
to
my
condition
.
That
action
and
those
few
words
produced
a
strange
effect
,
for
upon
a
suddain
his
high
disorders
began
to
lessen
,
his
Face
to
dispel
those
clouds
which
darkn'd
it
;
and
at
length
fetching
a
sigh
from
the
bottom
of
his
Breast
,
he
declar'd
some
expressions
to
this
sence
:
What
,
shall
an
intentional
injury
from
Pacuvius
,
be
more
prevalent
with
thee
,
than
a
real
obligation
from
Perolla
?
shall
the
First-fruits
of
that
life
which
thou
holdest
from
his
generosity
,
be
to
take
away
his
,
which
has
given
thee
thine
?
shall
he
be
murther'd
,
because
he
hinder'd
thee
from
being
so
?
and
shall
the
residue
of
his
Bloud
be
spilt
by
thee
,
when
all
he
has
already
lost
,
was
shed
for
thee
?
besides
,
thou
deriv'st
the
advantage
thou
hast
now
over
him
from
his
protection
,
for
had
it
not
been
for
that
,
thy
death
had
taken
from
thee
the
Will
and
the
Power
of
Revenge
:
Yes
(
he
continu'd
,
addressing
himself
to
me
,
and
sheathing
his
Ponyard
)
you
shall
live
Perolla
,
not
only
free
from
any
attempt
of
mine
,
but
securely
also
,
from
my
acquainting
Hannibal
who
you
are
,
from
whose
resentment
you
might
expect
as
hard
a
destiny
as
from
Blacius's
,
but
the
services
you
have
done
the
Romans
,
and
me
in
particular
,
bind
up
my
Hands
.
There
is
(
I
reply'd
)
a
third
way
of
destroying
me
,
as
certain
as
those
two
you
have
exempted
me
from
,
and
that
(
Sir
)
is
the
denial
of
my
first
request
,
which
to
disswade
you
from
,
I
may
truly
profess
,
that
all
that
bloud
hated
you
,
was
spilt
for
you
,
for
which
I
bless
my
fortune
,
that
made
me
perform
what
was
good
by
losing
that
which
is
ill
.
All
my
new
Bloud
I
have
bred
up
with
such
firm
inclinations
for
you
,
that
had
it
deriv'd
its
original
from
your self
,
it
could
not
be
more
at
your
devotion
:
I
must
acknowledge
too
the
justice
of
the
gods
in
making
me
receive
those
wounds
which
Pacuvius
intended
for
you
,
and
to
divert
and
reclaim
him
from
such
criminal
designes
,
I
shall
make
it
my
constant
Prayers
,
that
they
may
all
have
the
fate
which
this
had
,
and
that
by
my
sufferings
I
might
prevent
all
those
that
are
intended
you
▪
Blacius
at
these
assurances
,
wholly
banisht
those
cruel
looks
,
which
made
me
so
much
suspect
my
fate
,
and
with
an
obliging
accent
,
conjur'd
me
to
tell
him
,
what
use
I
could
make
of
his
condescending
to
my
desire
.
I
should
then
(
I
reply'd
)
by
a
continual
succession
of
services
have
some
hopes
to
obtain
your
permission
of
making
my
addresses
to
the
fair
Izadora
.
(
This
spoke
unadvisedly
,
having
flatter'd
my self
into
a
belief
,
that
in
the
temper
Blacius
was
in
,
I
might
procure
some
engagement
which
his
generosity
(
though
he
should
afterwards
repent
)
would
not
permit
him
to
recall
:
but
alas
!
I
soon
found
my
expectation
deceiv'd
,
for
after
this
declaration
,
in
an
instant
he
arm'd
himself
again
with
that
severe
countenance
he
so
late
had
laid
aside
,
and
with
a
Tone
,
as
cruel
as
his
words
,
he
told
me
,
Is
Izadora
then
the
object
of
your
design
?
't
is
very
like
indeed
,
I
should
present
her
to
his
Son
that
executed
her
Uncle
,
would
have
murther'd
his
Father
,
and
who
to
satisfy
a
private
malice
has
given
up
his
Countrey
to
the
Enemies
of
it
.
These
truly
are
obligations
to
court
a
Mistriss
with
.
Sir
(
I
reply'd
,
somewhat
mov'd
)
you
still
reproach
me
with
anothers
crime
,
if
Magins
was
put
to
death
to
please
Hannibal
,
I
made
use
of
it
in
Pettely
to
raise
him
enemies
:
If
Blacius
life
was
attempted
,
I
preserv'd
it
by
the
hazard
of
my
own
:
and
if
Capua
was
deliver'd
up
to
the
Carthagineans
,
I
became
(
to
him
that
did
it
)
from
a
Son
,
an
Enemy
,
and
so
wedded
my
Countreys
quarrel
,
that
thereby
Hannibal
lost
more
Men
,
than
perhaps
the
taking
that
great
City
would
have
cost
him
.
I
must
confess
(
reply'd
Blacius
)
you
have
done
much
for
me
,
and
for
the
Romans
,
and
upon
both
those
scores
you
have
receiv'd
no
unfruitful
return
,
since
for
those
services
you
did
our
Empire
,
I
preserve
you
(
not
without
an
eminent
hazard
)
from
the
knowledge
of
the
enemies
of
it
:
and
for
what
you
have
done
my
particular
,
I
suspend
those
resentments
which
your
Fathers
treachery
highly
invites
me
to
execute
,
and
because
my
debt
to
you
is
a
Life
,
(
as
I
think
nothing
can
be
a
sufficient
payment
,
but
an
obligation
of
the
same
nature
)
so
after
your
receiving
that
satisfaction
,
I
can
be
no
longer
esteem'd
indebted
to
you
.
Sir
,
(
I
answer'd
)
if
you
will
tye
your self
to
what
your
last
words
now
profest
,
I
shall
as
highly
approve
of
your
proceeding
,
as
of
my
own
happiness
,
but
your
silencing
of
your
own
resentments
,
and
the
concealing
me
from
the
Carthagineans
is
no
preservation
,
unless
you
permit
me
also
to
be
a
servant
to
the
fair
Izadora
:
That
is
the
onely
means
to
save
my
life
,
and
without
it
,
all
the
other
you
can
mention
,
will
be
rather
miseries
than
favours
:
neither
can
a
man
say
,
that
he
preserves
his
Enemies
life
,
because
he
exempts
him
from
the
Sword
or
Poyson
,
if
at
last
he
makes
him
dyesome
other
way
:
what
you
have
promis'd
,
only
frees
me
from
two
ways
of
ruine
,
to
cast
me
into
a
third
,
that
is
more
certain
and
painful
than
either
:
No
,
no
,
Sir
(
I
continu'd
)
if
you
banish
me
from
Izadora
,
the
highest
effects
of
yours
or
Hannibal's
hatred
will
be
pleasing
,
and
cut
me
from
those
languishing
torments
your
refusal
will
create
.
I
have
already
told
you
(
said
Blacius
)
that
you
must
not
expect
Izadora
,
who
I
will
sooner
marry
to
her
Grave
,
than
to
any
enemy
of
your
Family
;
but
because
you
shall
have
no
occasion
of
condemning
me
of
cruelty
,
I
will
truly
state
those
obligations
you
pretend
to
have
conferr'd
on
me
,
and
those
I
have
really
plac'd
on
you
.
I
acknowledge
you
sav'd
my
life
,
and
`t
is
likely
I
deriv'd
that
obligation
from
your
ignorance
,
but
I
did
preserve
yours
after
my
knowledge
of
you
;
had
you
the
invitations
of
oppressed
innocency
to
procure
me
your
assistance
;
I
had
a
just
revenge
to
disswade
me
from
pardoning
you
,
and
yet
did
it
;
The
glory
of
your
action
was
your
reward
,
but
the
mercy
of
mine
,
may
probably
prove
my
punishment
:
besides
,
what
you
did
for
me
,
was
no
more
favour
than
to
draw
me
out
of
a
danger
,
wherein
you
had
cast
me
,
for
I
had
not
needed
the
assistance
of
one
of
your
Family
,
had
not
the
treachery
of
the
chief
of
it
,
been
the
occasion
;
so
that
you
can
never
mention
the
obligation
you
did
me
,
without
discovering
your
Fathers
infamy
.
As
you
sav'd
me
from
murthering
,
so
you
hindr'd
Pacuvius
from
being
a
murtherer
.
You
preserv'd
my
life
from
being
a
sacrifice
to
violence
,
but
by
it
you
hinder'd
your
Fathers
from
being
one
to
Justice
,
and
whilst
you
onely
defeated
him
of
his
revenge
,
you
exempted
him
both
from
the
guilt
and
punishment
of
of
it
:
so
that
you
have
oblig'd
Pacuvius
more
than
me
.
And
since
you
pleaded
that
anothers
crime
ought
not
to
be
accounted
yours
;
so
your
Virtues
ought
not
to
be
attributed
to
your
Family
,
to
which
I
am
so
irreconcileable
an
Enemy
,
that
it
lies
not
in
the
power
of
any
one
of
it
,
to
reconcile
me
to
it
.
No
,
young
man
(
he
continu'd
)
after
what
I
have
done
,
you
cannot
condemn
me
of
ingratitude
,
without
practising
your self
,
what
you
would
blame
in
me
.
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
though
I
believe
I
could
answer
all
your
objections
,
yet
the
means
I
must
take
to
clear
those
already
mentioned
,
will
create
a
greater
than
any
I
shall
confute
,
which
is
my
disputing
against
you
,
but
if
all
those
arguments
you
use
,
be
to
prove
your
denying
me
Izadora
,
is
not
an
effect
of
your
ingratitude
,
but
your
justice
,
I
will
abundantly
confess
it
,
and
declare
,
besides
,
if
you
fancy
otherwise
,
you
do
as
great
a
wrong
to
me
,
as
you
do
to
my
Felicity
,
in
refusing
my
passionate
desires
.
I
had
no
sooner
ended
those
words
,
but
that
Blacius
calling
the
fair
Izadora
(
who
had
been
present
at
all
this
dispute
,
and
in
whose
face
you
might
have
known
the
several
tempers
of
it
)
told
her
,
I
am
glad
Perolla
acknowledges
my
depriving
him
of
his
happiness
is
an
action
of
Justice
,
I
hope
then
no
man
can
condemn
my
revenge
,
when
Justice
concurs
with
my
inclination
to
confer
it
on
me
;
I
do
therefore
(
Izadora
)
conjure
thee
,
by
whose
wrongs
his
Family
has
done
ours
,
by
thy
Uncle
Magius
Bloud
,
which
Pacuvius
sacrific'd
to
his
hatred
,
by
thy
Fathers
life
,
which
he
would
have
destroyed
upon
the
same
score
,
and
by
the
glory
of
so
sitting
a
revenge
,
scorn
his
Flame
,
and
let
him
find
in
thy
hatred
,
the
punishment
of
his
Fathers
to
all
thy
Family
.
At
this
cruel
command
the
perfect
Izadora
became
white
as
innocence
,
and
after
her
disorder
was
a
little
past
,
casting
down
her
eyes
to
the
ground
,
she
thus
reply'd
.
Alas
(
Sir
)
your
commands
are
come
too
late
,
for
before
I
knew
who
he
was
,
I
gave
him
so
large
at
Empire
over
me
,
that
't
is
impossible
to
recall
it
;
neither
when
I
consider
him
bath'd
in
bloud
for
your
preservation
,
rejoycing
at
his
wounds
,
because
they
hinder'd
you
from
any
that
were
dangerous
,
losing
his
Father
to
preserve
his
Fathers
enemy
,
and
when
you
assur'd
me
you
would
judge
of
my
affection
to
you
by
that
I
should
pay
him
,
I
cannot
repent
what
I
have
done
,
my
friendship
for
Perolla
,
is
deriv'd
from
my
obedience
to
you
,
and
my
gratitude
to
him
;
who
can
then
condemn
a
production
from
such
noble
causes
?
beside
,
he
has
nothing
that
's
enemy
to
us
but
his
name
,
his
actions
are
not
,
for
by
them
I
enjoy
a
Father
.
Can
you
then
have
so
low
an
opinion
of
my
resentments
,
as
to
believe
any
consideration
can
make
me
hate
the
giver
of
so
great
a
blessing
?
if
then
my
affection
for
him
be
a
sin
,
you
will
,
I
hope
,
pardon
it
by
the
knowledge
of
what
occasions
it
.
I
do
therefore
(
Sir
)
conjure
you
,
by
that
precious
life
you
owe
his
gallantry
,
by
the
Bloud
of
Magius
,
he
has
so
generously
reveng'd
,
by
those
services
he
has
paid
our
Empire
,
and
by
the
glory
you
will
purchase
by
vanquishing
your
Enemy
(
as
you
term
him
)
without
revenge
;
permit
Perolla
to
divest
you
of
that
prejudicate
opinion
you
have
for
all
his
Family
,
or
to
assume
a
confidence
by
his
repeated
services
,
to
remove
that
high
aversion
you
have
for
his
unfortunate
extraction
.
Though
these
words
in
themselves
were
strangely
moving
,
yet
they
were
deliver'd
with
an
action
and
tone
so
compassionate
and
ravishing
,
that
no
heart
,
which
had
not
been
harder
than
cruelty
it self
,
could
have
resisted
them
.
But
alas
,
they
were
so
far
from
producing
any
good
effects
,
that
Blacius
with
a
look
,
that
had
all
things
of
horrid
in
it
,
told
her
,
are
you
then
so
desirous
to
displease
me
,
that
to
effect
it
,
you
will
become
a
friend
to
your
Fathers
enemy
,
that
you
may
become
an
enemy
to
him
?
will
you
ruine
my
happiness
,
to
create
Perolla's
?
and
will
you
shew
me
the
way
to
be
reveng'd
on
his
cruel
Family
,
and
then
hinder
me
from
acting
it
?
must
that
which
deprives
me
of
my
revenge
,
deprive
me
of
my
Daughter
too
?
must
the
cause
why
I
do
not
punish
my
Enemy
,
be
as
great
a
misfortune
to
me
,
as
that
is
which
he
avoids
?
and
to
increase
my
trouble
,
must
your
affection
and
duty
to
me
(
which
were
my
highest
felicity
)
be
the
occasion
of
my
proportionate
misery
?
Ah
Izadora
(
he
continu'd
,
for
I
will
no
longer
call
you
Daughter
)
will
you
then
bestow
your self
upon
this
Perolla
,
when
even
now
he
declar'd
,
that
to
be
deny'd
you
was
just
?
do
you
love
injustice
so
well
,
that
in
one
action
you
will
be
unjust
to
Blacius
,
and
to
his
Enemies
?
and
will
you
make
such
haste
to
pay
a
debt
that
is
not
due
,
by
declining
one
that
is
?
Go
barbarous
Maid
,
unworthy
of
my
Care
(
as
well
as
Bloud
)
I
will
inflict
on
thee
no
greater
punishment
,
than
the
granting
thy
desires
,
for
when
thy
reason
,
or
his
embraces
,
has
banisht
or
quencht
thy
impious
flame
,
thou
wilt
know
and
deplore
thy
sin
,
in
preferring
a
Lover
before
a
Father
.
Go
then
,
but
for
ever
,
and
mayst
thou
never
know
what
happiness
is
,
but
avoid
it
.
Finishing
these
words
,
he
went
out
of
the
Chamber
,
and
left
us
in
a
perplexity
,
as
great
as
his
disorders
;
But
before
I
could
speak
to
the
fair
cause
of
them
,
he
return'd
again
,
and
thus
continu'd
his
discourse
to
his
excellent
Daughter
.
No
no
,
I
have
thought
better
on
't
,
for
to
cross
a
desire
,
though
it
be
an
ill
one
,
is
a
revenge
,
and
't
is
upon
that
score
you
shall
never
see
Perolla
more
,
for
whom
,
if
you
continue
your
passion
,
you
shall
find
from
my
justice
(
in
separating
you
)
as
severe
an
affliction
,
as
I
can
resent
from
your
want
of
Duty
by
your
union
.
Do
not
think
to
divest
me
from
this
determination
,
for
all
your
Tears
and
Prayers
,
will
be
as
fruitless
for
your
Lover
,
as
mine
to
you
were
against
him
.
(
Then
addressing
himself
to
me
,
he
said
)
And
thou
(
cruel
stranger
)
which
by
saving
my
life
,
hast
made
it
my
torment
,
and
for
my
unfortunate
care
in
bringing
thee
here
to
heal
thy
wounds
,
hast
created
as
much
misery
in
my
Family
,
as
there
had
been
joy
in
thine
had
thy
Father
murthered
me
,
remember
as
soon
as
my
Chirurgeons
tell
thee
thou
art
fit
to
travel
,
that
thou
quit
my
House
,
for
if
thou
stayest
a
minute
longer
,
by
that
quiet
thou
hast
rob'd
me
of
,
I
'll
sacrifice
thy
life
unto
my
just
resentments
.
Then
thrusting
the
fair
Izadora
out
before
him
,
he
went
away
in
a
rage
,
almost
equal
to
mine
at
that
inhumane
action
.
I
will
not
tell
you
(
said
Perolla
to
Spartacus
)
all
those
expressions
my
grief
and
anger
extorted
from
me
,
whose
greatness
you
may
in
some
sort
guess
,
when
I
assure
you
I
was
so
blinded
with
rage
,
that
I
made
many
criminal
designs
against
his
Life
,
which
was
so
much
an
Enemy
to
mine
,
and
had
not
my
weakness
hindred
me
,
I
had
perhaps
attempted
that
,
which
if
performed
,
had
made
me
worthy
of
all
those
miseries
his
hate
has
inflicted
on
me
.
But
after
this
first
heat
was
qualified
,
the
consideration
that
he
was
Izadora's
Father
,
banisht
those
criminal
resolutions
,
and
struck
me
with
so
deep
a
grief
,
that
my
repentance
had
like
to
have
proved
his
revenge
.
But
(
to
be
brief
)
Strato
(
for
so
was
my
Servant
called
,
that
follow'd
me
into
Salapia
)
never
left
inquiring
after
me
,
till
by
his
diligence
,
he
had
gotten
some
suspitions
,
that
't
was
I
which
had
saved
Blacius
,
and
was
carried
by
him
into
his
House
;
therefore
to
satisfy
himself
,
by
a
considerable
Present
,
he
obtained
leave
from
one
of
my
Chirurgeons
,
to
attend
him
as
his
servant
,
where
when
my
wounds
were
next
drest
,
he
discovered
what
he
sought
,
and
himself
to
me
.
I
was
not
a
little
over-joyed
,
by
the
finding
out
so
faithful
a
Servant
,
and
having
acquainted
him
with
those
several
accidents
which
had
be
fallen
me
since
our
●eparation
,
I
enjoyned
him
to
try
if
he
could
possibly
learn
some
way
how
I
might
see
Izadora
,
or
convey
a
Letter
to
her
;
but
though
his
industry
left
nothing
unessay'd
,
yet
it
proved
absolutely
fruitless
,
for
Blacius
had
so
faithful
and
strict
a
Watch
about
her
,
that
't
was
impossible
to
corrupt
or
deceive
them
.
But
to
increase
the
misery
I
then
groaned
under
,
Strato
(
one
day
)
told
me
,
Pacuvius
had
discovered
where
my
retreat
was
,
and
how
I
endangered
my
own
Life
to
preserve
his
Enemies
,
with
which
he
was
so
inraged
,
that
he
commanded
him
to
tell
me
as
I
had
divested
my self
of
all
duty
to
him
,
so
he
had
done
the
like
of
all
affection
to
me
,
and
that
if
I
had
any
reliques
of
respect
for
him
,
I
should
shew
it
,
by
never
coming
into
his
sight
again
:
he
further
told
me
,
that
Pacuvius
had
once
determined
to
acquaint
Hannibal
,
how
Blacius
concealed
his
Enemy
,
but
that
the
fear
of
my
ruine
which
would
be
involved
in
Blacius's
had
restrained
him
.
You
may
well
believe
,
that
this
was
no
small
accession
to
my
trouble
,
and
truly
I
think
had
not
I
so
great
a
support
as
my
belief
of
Izadora's
affection
and
constancy
,
I
had
sunk
under
the
weight
of
my
misfortunes
.
At
last
,
through
the
great
care
Blacius
Servants
had
of
me
,
whether
it
proceeded
from
his
generosity
,
to
hasten
the
regaining
of
that
health
I
had
lost
from
him
,
or
from
his
revenge
to
banish
me
the
sooner
from
being
near
Izadora
:
in
spight
of
the
indisposition
of
my
mind
,
that
fatal
day
came
,
wherein
the
Chyrurgeons
told
me
,
I
might
undertake
a
journey
without
any
pain
or
danger
,
O
how
I
curst
their
skill
that
separated
me
from
my
desires
!
and
how
much
more
I
had
valued
their
Ignorance
than
their
Art
.
Before
I
went
away
,
I
sent
Strato
to
Blacius
,
to
know
if
he
would
permit
me
to
wait
on
him
,
and
make
him
those
retributions
which
his
care
for
my
recovery
merited
;
but
he
sent
me
word
,
my
abesence
more
than
my
presence
,
would
better
discharge
any
debt
I
pretended
to
owe
him
,
and
that
I
could
not
more
oblige
him
,
than
by
a
sudden
departure
from
that
House
,
which
I
had
flung
into
so
many
disorders
.
I
obeyed
this
cruel
Message
,
and
that
night
(
for
I
durst
not
stir
by
day
,
lest
I
might
have
been
discovered
)
I
quitted
Blacius's
House
,
neither
did
I
visit
Pacuvius
,
who
I
was
willing
should
see
I
would
disobey
him
in
nothing
,
since
I
did
it
not
in
an
injunction
so
opposite
to
my
duty
and
inclination
.
I
had
not
retired
an
hour
in
a
friends
House
,
when
I
called
Strato
to
me
,
and
told
him
,
I
was
resolv'd
before
I
left
Salapia
,
to
see
the
fair
Izadora
,
which
I
fancied
could
not
be
very
difficult
,
since
she
lay
(
for
the
coolness
of
the
Lodging
,
it
being
then
Summer
)
in
a
lower
Chamber
next
the
Garden
.
Strato
,
who
consider'd
my
safety
above
my
satisfaction
,
earnestly
(
though
vainly
)
disswaded
me
from
it
,
therefore
we
went
silently
to
the
Garden
door
,
which
answered
on
a
by-lane
,
then
having
pickt
the
lock
,
I
got
in
,
and
was
conducted
by
Strato
to
that
window
,
where
he
assur'd
me
Izadora
lay
,
I
commanded
him
then
to
return
,
and
give
me
warning
,
if
he
should
discover
any
thing
worthy
my
knowledge
:
he
was
no
sooner
gone
,
but
I
walkt
softly
to
the
place
he
directed
me
to
,
lest
some
company
might
have
been
with
her
,
but
as
the
gods
would
have
it
,
she
was
all
alone
(
having
retired
her self
into
her
Closet
which
was
joyning
to
her
Chamber
)
there
looking
in
,
I
discovered
her
by
the
light
of
a
small
Taper
,
sitting
on
a
Chair
,
leaning
her
Cheek
upon
one
hand
,
and
wiping
her
Tears
off
with
the
other
;
I
was
amazed
to
●ind
her
in
such
a
posture
,
but
suddenly
my
wonder
was
turned
into
joy
(
at
least
as
much
as
I
was
capable
of
,
when
she
was
so
drown'd
in
sorrow
)
finding
by
her
discourse
,
that
I
was
the
object
of
hers
.
Alas
(
she
said
,
accompanying
her
words
with
a
heavy
sigh
)
perhaps
at
this
instant
that
I
onely
but
deplore
Perolla's
absence
,
I
may
have
cause
to
lament
his
death
,
through
Blacius's
cruelty
,
by
acting
himself
his
revenge
,
or
by
giving
Ha●nibal
the
means
to
do
it
.
Wretched
Izadora
!
must
the
not
knowing
whether
thou
art
miserable
make
thy
misery
?
and
must
thy
doubts
of
being
unfortunate
,
render
thee
really
so
?
No
,
no
;
I
fear
they
are
not
only
bare
suspitions
make
me
thus
unhappy
,
but
that
my
eyes
weep
by
Prophecy
,
what
they
must
shortly
by
Evidence
.
I
must
confess
,
said
Perolla
,
though
it
were
a
crime
thus
to
intrench
upon
her
retirement
,
yet
I
found
in
that
fin
,
a
more
obliging
joy
,
than
I
could
in
the
reward
of
Virtue
;
and
doubtless
,
I
had
longer
continued
my
transgression
,
had
I
not
thought
it
a
greater
to
leave
her
in
a
sadness
I
could
so
soon
remove
:
Therefore
making
a
little
noise
,
I
told
her
,
Madam
,
if
your
apprehensions
for
Perolla
be
the
blest
and
sad
cause
of
your
Tears
,
you
may
now
silence
them
,
since
he
is
in
a
condition
of
apprehending
nothing
but
your
disdain
.
Never
,
to
my
remembrance
,
did
I
see
so
strange
a
surprize
as
those
words
were
to
that
excellent
Beauty
to
whom
they
were
spoken
,
who
,
though
she
a
long
time
nicely
consider'd
me
,
yet
could
she
not
fancy
I
was
Perolla
,
for
her
Father
(
to
destroy
that
friendship
she
honour'd
me
with
)
had
given
her
so
much
cause
to
despair
for
my
life
,
that
her
sense
could
not
convince
her
belief
I
was
living
;
but
at
length
her
disorder
was
so
far
supprest
,
tht
coming
to
the
window
she
askt
me
softly
,
whether
I
was
really
what
I
pretended
to
be
?
and
if
I
were
,
what
made
me
so
evidently
endanger
my
life
,
and
consequently
hers
?
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
I
am
the
happy
Perolla
(
that
which
I
have
heard
since
I
came
to
this
place
,
makes
me
assume
that
Title
)
and
I
am
come
to
know
how
you
will
dispose
of
a
life
,
which
you
are
pleas'd
to
be
so
much
concern'd
in
.
You
live
then
,
gallant
Perolla
(
she
said
)
and
Blacius
,
after
all
his
threatenings
,
has
preserv'd
your
life
.
No
Madam
,
I
(
answer'd
)
't
is
not
Blacius
,
but
Izadora
which
has
done
it
;
that
glorious
confession
she
made
him
in
my
favour
,
was
the
essential
cause
of
it
;
all
that
Blacius
did
,
was
,
that
he
kill'd
me
not
,
but
't
was
his
unequal'd
Daughter
give
me
my
life
by
giving
me
that
which
makes
me
value
it
;
and
I
should
be
more
unworthy
the
gift
,
had
the
apprehension
of
any
danger
hindered
me
from
acknowledging
at
her
feet
,
that
as
I
hold
it
by
her
,
so
I
Will
only
preserve
and
employ
it
for
her
.
If
,
said
Izadora
,
you
had
given
me
so
large
an
Empire
over
you
,
before
this
visit
,
I
should
have
enjoyn'd
you
to
trust
my
justice
,
in
believing
your
goodness
,
rather
than
thus
hazard
your
safety
for
the
expressing
of
it
.
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
I
should
more
endanger
it
by
going
away
without
assuring
you
of
this
duty
,
than
I
do
in
the
paying
of
it
,
for
that
might
have
ruin'd
me
in
your
good
opinion
,
which
I
more
fear
than
all
that
my
Enemies
can
act
against
me
.
You
are
(
she
answer'd
)
so
deeply
fix'd
in
my
esteem
,
that
hardly
any
action
of
yours
,
much
less
one
which
hinder'd
you
from
danger
,
can
prejudice
you
in
it
.
But
fair
Izadora
(
I
reply'd
)
may
not
your
Fathers
hatred
,
my
unfortunate
extraction
,
and
my
own
unworthiness
,
raise
your
justice
to
the
suppression
of
your
present
mercy
,
and
the
ruine
of
my
Felicity
?
Ah
Perolla
(
she
answer'd
with
a
little
blush
)
can
you
then
suspect
my
constancy
?
Silence
I
beseech
you
all
such
doubts
,
for
you
need
not
fear
I
will
commit
a
fault
,
in
the
which
I
shall
find
my
punishment
;
neither
can
you
believe
I
will
prefer
any
other
before
you
,
without
doing
as
great
a
wrong
to
my
judgement
as
my
happiness
:
but
(
she
continued
)
may
not
I
(
Perolla
)
suspect
,
that
Blacius's
cruelty
may
induce
you
to
withdraw
your
Passion
from
his
Daughter
?
and
that
your
revenge
may
be
more
predominant
than
your
affection
?
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
I
attest
the
gods
,
if
my
words
have
given
you
the
least
doubt
,
that
I
fear'd
you
would
prove
inconstant
,
they
did
not
express
my
meaning
:
for
if
I
have
any
suspition
,
't
is
not
of
your
Virtue
,
but
of
my
Felicity
;
and
if
I
were
jealous
of
your
change
,
I
am
not
so
rude
or
partial
to
my self
,
as
to
call
that
your
inconstancy
,
which
would
be
but
your
justice
;
but
if
I
had
had
any
suspitions
of
that
nature
,
what
you
have
been
pleas'd
to
say
would
make
me
rather
cherish
than
condem
them
,
since
they
are
the
cause
of
my
receiving
assurances
of
an
affection
,
as
far
transcending
my
hope
as
my
desert
.
As
to
those
doubts
you
mention'd
of
your
Fathers
hatred
raising
any
resentments
in
me
;
I
attest
the
self-same
powers
I
even
now
invok'd
,
that
as
long
as
I
am
blest
with
your
esteem
,
I
can
be
capable
neither
of
misfortune
nor
change
;
and
though
I
have
lost
Pacuvius
and
Blacius
,
yet
when
I
consider
what
I
have
thereby
obtain'd
,
I
shall
never
repent
the
purchase
.
We
had
certainly
past
the
night
away
in
so
pleasing
a
conversation
,
had
not
Izadora's
Woman
interrupted
it
by
knocking
at
the
Closet-door
,
and
telling
her
,
That
Blacius
at
his
coming
home
(
for
he
was
then
abroad
)
would
doubtless
visit
her
,
and
if
he
found
her
up
at
so
unseasonable
an
hour
,
it
might
raise
suspitions
,
which
would
hardly
be
supprest
.
This
fatal
summons
I
receiv'd
with
extream
reluctancy
;
but
Izadora
,
who
knew
the
truth
of
it
,
and
who
apprehended
my
discovery
;
told
me
,
't
was
time
to
retire
,
and
having
made
me
a
thousand
protestations
of
her
constancy
,
she
strictly
forbad
me
any
such
hazardous
visits
,
enjoyning
me
to
go
into
the
Roman
Army
,
and
endeavour
there
to
get
friends
strong
enough
to
suppress
her
Fathers
aversion
for
me
:
Then
having
setled
an
address
for
our
Letters
,
I
kist
her
fair
hands
,
and
resign'd
the
Office
of
my
words
unto
my
Tears
,
which
only
assur'd
her
,
how
cruel
I
esteem'd
that
separation
.
'T
was
in
this
sort
,
Sir
,
(
continu'd
Perolla
)
that
we
contracted
an
affection
,
which
has
cost
us
so
many
miseries
,
and
which
I
never
deplor'd
,
but
only
for
that
share
the
fair
Izadora
had
in
them
;
and
though
at
this
sad
farewel
I
had
abundant
cause
to
be
highly
satisfied
with
her
ambition'd
friendship
,
yet
I
have
always
had
a
Genius
so
apt
to
torment
me
,
that
I
found
my
misfortune
in
my
happiness
,
the
knowledge
of
her
making
my
departure
from
her
the
more
unsupportable
.
Here
Izadora
(
who
feared
that
the
Relation
of
her
Servants
Life
might
endanger
it
)
put
a
stop
to
it
by
remembring
him
,
that
by
their
contract
he
was
to
acquaint
Spartacus
with
no
more
than
what
had
happen'd
in
her
Fathers
House
.
Perolla
with
a
look
full
of
humility
,
acknowledg'd
her
care
,
and
by
his
silence
,
gave
her
a
rise
,
thus
to
prosecute
their
History
.
The
end
of
the
Fourth
Book
of
the
First
Part.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FIRST
PART
.
BOOK
V.
I
Cannot
resemble
the
greatness
of
that
grief
I
resented
for
Perolla's
departure
to
any
thing
more
aptly
than
to
my
joy
and
fear
before
it
;
and
though
Blaciu's
fury
could
have
inflicted
no
cruelty
on
him
which
I
should
not
at
least
equally
have
participated
,
yet
I
may
justly
profess
my
apprehensions
for
him
were
more
sensible
than
for
my self
,
and
that
you
may
know
they
proceeded
as
much
from
my
Reason
as
Affection
,
my
Father
had
removed
his
Lodgings
to
those
over
mine
,
and
had
set
such
faithful
and
vigilant
Centinels
about
me
,
that
had
not
his
then
being
abroad
,
and
their
unsual
neglect
both
concurred
for
Perolla's
safety
,
he
might
have
fallen
into
troubles
,
the
thoughts
of
which
has
a
thousand
times
created
mine
;
and
he
was
no
sooner
retir'd
than
Blacius
came
into
my
Chamber
,
where
,
with
many
expressions
of
gladness
he
celebrated
his
Protectors
remove
,
and
enjoin'd
me
the
like
resentments
for
the
same
cause
:
but
though
disobedience
to
Parents
be
a
Crime
,
yet
when
I
consider'd
the
occasion
of
mine
,
I
could
not
give
it
that
Name
;
for
I
esteem'd
the
object
of
my
affection
so
deserving
,
that
I
had
no
way
so
justly
to
merit
my
sufferings
as
by
not
resolutely
avowing
so
pure
and
meritorious
a
Friendship
.
But
whilst
I
was
thus
persecuted
by
the
Enemy
of
our
affections
,
Perolla
was
persecuting
him
of
our
Empire
.
'T
was
he
,
who
under
Fabius
and
Marcellus
recovered
that
Cassilinum
by
assualt
which
was
lost
my
Famine
:
'T
was
he
,
that
during
Marcellus's
sickness
at
Nola
reconquer'd
the
Samnites
,
Lucalians
,
and
Appulians
,
by
the
loss
of
25000
of
the
Rebels
and
Affricans
:
In
a
word
,
'T
was
he
perform'd
such
sublime
Actions
,
that
had
I
not
known
the
Charms
of
his
person
and
conversation
,
I
could
not
yet
have
resisted
those
of
his
Fame
.
The
Winter
,
which
succeeded
this
active
Summer
,
Hannibal
made
Salapia
his
Head-quarters
,
and
though
he
had
endeavoured
by
a
world
of
civilities
to
make
a
friend
of
Blacius
(
who
Perolla
,
intent
only
on
those
accidents
which
related
to
his
Amours
had
omitted
to
acquaint
you
,
was
invited
and
perswaded
into
this
Town
by
the
Carthaginians
,
after
it
was
his
)
yet
the
miseries
of
his
Countrey
,
and
Magius's
Blood
were
so
recent
in
his
memory
,
that
none
of
Hanniballs
inticements
could
induce
him
to
stifle
his
designs
of
revenge
;
in
order
to
which
,
he
made
use
of
the
Carth●ginians
offer
,
but
yet
lived
under
his
Power
,
only
to
destroy
it
.
But
the
time
of
Fabius's
Consulship
being
expired
,
the
Senate
,
to
testifie
the
value
they
plac'd
upon
his
merit
,
elected
his
son
to
succeed
him
,
and
the
Father
,
either
to
manifest
the
goodness
of
their
choice
,
or
to
evince
he
believed
whoever
they
esteem'd
fit
to
command
in
chief
,
he
thought
himself
not
too
good
to
serve
under
,
procured
a
Commission
from
the
Senate
,
to
be
Lieutenant-General
to
his
own
Son
.
It
was
worthy
observation
when
the
Father
came
into
the
Camp
,
and
the
Son
rode
forth
to
meet
him
:
Eleven
of
the
12
Lictors
,
which
carried
Rods
and
Axes
before
the
Consul
,
suffer'd
him
in
respect
of
his
Age
and
Relations
to
pass
by
them
on
Horseback
,
which
was
positively
against
the
custom
,
and
,
which
the
Son
perceiving
,
commanded
the
last
of
his
Lictors
to
note
it
;
who
,
thereupon
bad
the
old
Fabius
to
alight
,
and
come
to
the
Consul
on
foot
,
which
he
cheerfully
did
,
and
told
him
,
'T
was
not
son
my
neglect
but
my
design
,
to
make
tryal
whether
you
understood
your self
to
be
what
you
are
.
I
have
related
(
said
Izadora
to
my
Prince
)
a
particular
,
which
though
it
has
nothing
of
connexion
to
our
story
;
yet
being
in
that
time
exceedingly
discours'd
of
,
I
hope
't
will
procure
your
excuse
.
Spartacus
having
assur'd
her
that
she
had
committed
no
fault
but
in
thinking
she
had
committed
one
,
begg'd
her
to
prosecute
those
Adventures
wherein
he
took
so
much
interest
and
satisfaction
.
This
young
Fabius
(
she
continu'd
)
was
General
of
the
Roman
Army
when
Blacius
had
brought
a
design
of
delivering
Salapia
and
Hannibal
into
the
Senates
Power
,
to
so
much
perfection
,
that
there
wanted
onely
as
much
time
as
the
acting
it
would
take
up
;
The
day
which
preceded
that
night
,
in
which
this
Plot
was
to
be
executed
,
my
Father
,
who
had
covertly
drawn
the
Consul
with
some
Forces
near
this
Town
,
sent
a
Confident
of
his
to
advertise
him
,
that
at
any
hour
he
should
appoint
,
he
had
so
many
Partizans
at
his
devotion
,
as
he
could
secure
for
him
either
the
Samnite
or
the
Brutian
Gate
,
and
that
he
desir'd
to
know
which
of
them
would
be
most
commodious
for
his
attempt
.
This
Agent
returning
about
the
dusk
of
the
evening
,
unfortunately
met
with
a
Commander
of
the
Carthagineans
,
whose
gate
and
habit
was
so
resembling
unto
Blacius's
that
blinded
with
that
,
belief
,
he
took
him
aside
,
and
told
him
,
The
Consul
would
not
fail
at
midnight
,
and
that
the
Samnite
Gate
would
be
most
commodious
.
You
may
easily
believe
these
words
did
as
much
surprize
the
Carthaginian
,
as
the
knowledge
of
this
miserable
error
did
afterwards
him
that
had
committed
it
:
But
the
Carthaginian
had
too
long
follow'd
the
trade
of
War
,
not
to
conclude
by
what
had
been
said
what
was
to
have
been
done
;
which
made
him
immediately
seize
upon
the
unfortunate
Agent
,
and
carry
him
to
Hanniball
;
who
,
by
exquisite
Torments
,
forc'd
him
to
reveal
the
whole
Conspiracy
.
This
discovery
was
as
pleasing
to
Pacuvius
(
who
then
was
present
)
as
deplorable
for
Blacius
,
who
,
with
exceeding
diligence
,
was
by
a
strong
Guard
violently
carry'd
into
a
Prison
,
which
in
the
greatness
of
its
horror
had
this
of
advantageous
,
that
it
made
Death
a
Comparative
Good
.
Fabius
for
all
sustain'd
no
loss
but
that
of
his
hopes
,
for
though
he
were
in
Arms
all
night
,
yet
by
my
Fathers
committal
,
the
Signal
not
being
given
,
(
which
was
a
lighted
Torch
our
of
a
Turret
Window
)
he
conceiv'd
the
design
had
vent
,
and
so
leisurely
a
little
before
day
retreated
to
his
Camp
.
But
alass
,
I
was
no
sooner
inform'd
of
Blacius's
sad
Fate
,
then
I
lamented
him
as
dead
,
the
knowledge
of
Hanniball's
vindicative
Nature
justifying
that
prophetical
way
of
grieving
:
but
after
I
had
moderated
which
those
tears
my
Sex
and
Relation
render'd
unavoidable
,
and
that
thereby
my
Reason
was
less
hinder'd
from
acting
,
I
resolv'd
to
write
unto
Perolla
,
who
I
knew
was
in
the
Consuls
Army
.
The
Letter
I
sent
by
a
trusty
Messenger
,
and
was
to
this
purpose
.
IZADORA
to
the
generous
PEROLLA
.
BLacius
has
lost
his
life
for
his
zeal
to
the
Romans
,
unless
your
power
with
Fabius
preserve
it
,
by
obtaining
prisoners
for
his
Ransom
,
or
suspend
his
Death
by
a
high
Message
of
making
all
the
Affricans
in
his
hands
follow
my
Fathers
destiny
.
Do
not
now
I
beseech
you
consider
Blacius
as
Perolla's
Enemy
,
but
as
Izadora's
Father
;
and
by
a
second
protecting
him
create
his
affection
,
or
else
so
justifie
mine
,
that
want
of
duty
may
appear
virtue
:
and
though
his
past
insensibility
would
render
your
revenge
very
just
yet
your
saving
him
will
therefore
render
your
Generosity
more
eminent
.
Whilst
with
great
impatience
I
expected
a
return
of
this
Paper
,
Hannibal
,
to
make
his
revenge
appear
rather
the
effect
of
justice
than
of
passion
,
proceeded
against
Blacius
in
the
ordinary
forms
of
Law
;
by
which
he
was
condemn'd
to
lose
his
Head
,
and
to
have
his
four
Quarters
fixt
upon
the
Gates
of
Salapia
,
for
a
future
Terror
to
all
others
.
O
gods
!
when
this
fatal
Sentence
came
to
my
hearing
,
what
did
not
I
utter
against
Hannibal's
Cruelty
,
and
Blacius's
ill
Fortune
:
But
whilst
I
was
in
the
midst
of
my
despair
,
my
Messenger
return'd
with
this
answer
from
my
generous
Friend
,
PEROLLA
to
the
fair
IZADOR
BLacius
,
as
he
is
a
Friend
to
the
Romans
,
cannot
without
a
high
Injustice
apprehend
my
not
being
his
;
But
as
he
is
Izador's
Father
he
cannot
without
a
higher
doubt
of
my
exposing
all
that
is
most
precious
for
him
;
and
though
his
severity
has
been
somewhat
great
,
yet
his
admirable
Daughter
by
a
contrary
extreme
has
so
over-repair'd
all
his
injuries
,
that
the
service
I
intend
to
render
him
will
relish
as
much
of
gratitude
as
obedience
.
Fabius
,
Madam
,
will
embrace
your
Fathers
deliverance
as
he
ought
;
and
if
his
endeavors
prove
unsuccessful
,
I
will
either
free
him
from
so
sad
a
destiny
,
or
my self
from
the
misery
of
seeing
you
deplore
it
.
Oh!
How
pleasing
and
forlorn
at
once
was
this
Letter
,
I
saw
my
Fathers
deliverance
promis'd
,
but
the
way
which
conduc'd
unto
it
was
almost
as
great
a
misfortune
as
it
exempted
me
from
:
for
I
found
I
must
hazard
all
my
felicity
in
attempting
to
save
but
a
large
part
of
it
.
Whilst
I
was
thus
perplext
,
I
was
inform'd
that
the
Consul
had
sent
a
Trumpet
to
Hannibal
,
with
an
offer
of
all
his
Libian
Prisoners
for
the
redemption
of
Blacius
,
and
a
deep
protestation
in
case
he
executed
him
,
that
he
would
give
no
Quarter
to
those
he
had
already
,
nor
any
others
in
the
future
.
To
the
first
of
which
,
the
Carthaginean
reply'd
,
That
he
valu'd
the
execution
of
Justice
more
than
the
Romans
could
the
saving
a
Traytor
,
and
upon
that
score
he
would
not
pardon
Blacius's
life
for
a
few
Prisoners
,
who
being
so
merited
to
continue
so
:
And
as
to
his
latter
threatning
,
he
believ'd
it
was
sent
when
he
remembred
not
Cannes
,
Trebia
,
Tissinum
,
and
Thrassimene
:
and
though
Fabius
by
executing
those
he
had
then
in
his
power
,
would
sooner
free
him
from
a
trouble
than
give
him
any
;
yet
he
would
consider
that
action
as
't
was
intended
,
and
vindicate
himself
at
that
rate
.
In
a
word
,
he
sent
him
a
positive
answer
,
That
all
the
offers
or
threatnings
of
the
Romans
,
no
not
the
saving
his
dear
Brother
Asdrubal's
life
(
were
it
in
their
power
)
should
tye
up
his
hands
from
so
just
and
necessary
a
Revenge
.
I
was
further
acquainted
,
that
Hanniball
had
given
order
before
the
Trumpet
was
withdrawn
,
to
have
a
Scaf●old
erected
in
the
Alarm-place
,
and
had
sworn
by
the
glory
of
Carthage
,
and
his
Fathers
Memory
,
(
Oaths
which
he
held
in
greatest
veneration
)
That
before
two
days
were
ended
,
Blacius
should
receive
the
reward
of
his
Infidelity
.
I
might
appear
too
impertinent
,
did
I
acquaint
you
what
sad
operations
this
cruel
Sentence
produc'd
in
me
:
it
shall
suffice
to
tell
you
,
that
my
weeping
in
the
apprehensions
of
my
Fathers
death
had
well-near
caus'd
my
own
,
and
that
I
had
shed
so
many
antedated
tears
for
it
,
that
had
the
cruel
Hannibal
seen
them
,
they
would
doubtless
have
quench'd
his
rage
.
But
whilst
I
abandon'd
my self
to
a
grief
,
that
was
as
just
as
great
,
the
Night
arriv'd
which
was
the
Eve
to
that
fatal
Day
;
and
as
the
horror
of
darkness
is
always
apt
to
raise
in
us
dismal
imaginations
;
I
fancy'd
the
unfortunate
Blacius
all
pale
and
bloody
coming
to
my
Bed-side
,
and
after
he
had
view'd
me
,
with
a
look
which
had
almost
reduc'd
me
to
the
condition
he
was
in
,
he
told
me
,
Behold
Izadora
,
behold
these
several
wounds
(
which
he
open'd
so
wide
,
that
his
Soul
,
had
it
yet
inhabited
his
Body
,
might
have
come
entire
out
of
the
least
of
them
)
though
they
are
full
of
torment
,
yet
I
have
forc'd
my self
to
travel
from
the
Elizium
:
where
I
have
receiv'd
the
reward
of
my
fidelity
to
the
Romans
,
and
of
my
Martyrdom
under
Hanniball
,
to
come
and
conjure
thee
by
the
duty
thou
owedst
me
before
I
was
a
Ghost
;
by
the
joy
I
have
left
,
and
the
pain
I
shall
suffer
till
thou
grantest
my
request
:
now
thou
art
at
thy
own
dispose
,
never
shew
thou
hast
that
power
by
giving
thy self
to
Perolla
;
but
as
thou
art
Heir
to
our
Blood
,
be
so
also
to
our
generous
resentments
,
and
let
him
find
that
revenge
in
thy
beauty
and
disdain
which
he
thought
he
had
avoided
by
the
extinction
of
our
Family
:
if
thou
grantest
me
this
,
the
blessed
Plains
cannot
afford
me
equal
satisfaction
;
but
if
thou
deny'st
it
,
all
the
felicity
of
that
place
will
lose
its
quality
;
and
where
others
find
their
happiness
,
I
shall
torment
.
These
words
methought
were
spoken
with
Eyes
swell'd
with
Tears
,
and
with
an
accent
so
moving
,
that
in
my
life
I
never
was
in
a
higher
perplexity
:
I
began
a
thousand
times
to
condemn
those
learned
Men
which
taught
us
,
that
the
felicity
of
the
other
life
is
so
perfect
an
extasie
of
joy
,
that
it
needs
no
foyl
to
set
it
off
;
and
that
they
in
it
are
no
more
sensible
of
any
concern
for
us
here
than
we
are
capable
of
conceiving
their
felicity
there
;
when
alass
to
my
cost
I
found
one
there
not
only
retain'd
an
unjust
desire
of
Revenge
,
which
poyson'd
all
other
delights
,
but
also
prosecuted
a
virtue
here
which
was
to
possess
the
highest
Empire
there
:
and
I
esteem'd
it
one
great
misfortune
of
the
other
World
,
that
those
in
it
were
confin'd
to
their
happiness
,
but
by
having
a
liberty
of
going
from
their
own
,
they
could
thereby
ruine
,
or
at
least
interrupt
ours
.
Oh
,
How
I
did
also
inwardly
exclaim
against
my
Fathers
Tyranny
,
who
pretended
a
power
over
me
after
that
by
death
the
Bond
was
cancel'd
,
that
that
he
would
be
so
much
an
Enemy
to
my
felicity
,
as
to
deprive
me
of
mine
he
would
involve
himself
in
the
like
Fate
.
But
whil'st
I
was
preparing
such
an
answer
for
this
imanary
Ghost
as
might
render
my
disobedience
a
justice
,
I
was
diverted
by
a
noise
so
confused
and
loud
,
that
that
death
it
seem'd
to
threaten
had
been
rather
to
be
elected
than
avoided
,
since
therein
I
had
been
exempted
from
hearing
so
much
horror
.
After
half
an
hours
suspence
and
fear
,
a
Servant
of
my
Fathers
came
into
my
Chamber
with
a
lighted
Torch
,
and
to
remove
my
doubts
,
told
me
,
he
believ'd
that
't
was
some
false
alarum
,
which
Hannibal
had
given
to
try
the
readiness
of
his
Soldiers
;
for
there
was
no
Enemy
near
enough
to
give
him
a
true
one
;
and
whil'st
he
was
fortifying
this
conjecture
by
some
other
allegations
,
we
heard
a
noise
in
the
Garden
;
and
suddenly
after
I
perceiv'd
a
Gentlemen
all
arm'd
and
cover'd
with
blood
coming
towards
me
,
and
leading
another
,
whose
hands
were
loaden
with
Irons
.
As
soon
as
the
first
was
come
to
my
Beds-side
,
he
kneel'd
down
and
told
me
,
Your
commands
,
Madam
,
have
not
onely
given
me
the
desire
,
but
the
power
to
serve
you
;
and
since
my
hazarding
a
life
that
I
fear
is
but
indifferent
,
to
you
I
have
preserv'd
one
that
you
highly
value
,
I
shall
find
in
the
action
the
Reward
.
Then
rising
and
turning
towards
the
Prisouer
,
he
continu'd
,
You
are
at
liberty
,
Sir
,
and
if
I
had
had
the
power
to
free
you
from
your
Chains
as
well
as
from
your
Prison
,
you
had
long
ere
now
been
eas'd
of
that
burthen
;
but
that
office
I
must
leave
to
some
happier
hand
,
lest
by
my
continuance
here
the
joy
of
your
freedom
might
be
extinguish'd
by
your
knowledg
of
him
that
gave
it
you
.
Then
faluting
us
with
a
humility
as
great
as
his
obligation
,
without
staying
for
any
answer
,
he
went
out
of
the
house
the
same
way
he
came
in
;
and
left
us
in
so
deep
an
astonishment
,
that
for
a
long
while
we
could
not
get
out
of
it
.
The
first
thing
I
perceiv'd
after
my
amazement
vanisht
,
was
,
that
the
fetter'd
Prisoner
was
Blacius
;
ah
!
How
pleasing
was
that
surprize
?
and
how
I
detested
my
disorder
,
which
had
so
long
suspended
and
separated
me
from
my
joy
,
which
wrought
so
powerfully
on
me
,
that
forgetting
the
posture
I
was
in
,
I
flung
my self
out
of
my
Bed
,
and
at
my
Fathers
feet
,
by
a
thousand
irregular
actions
testified
the
greatness
of
my
satisfaction
;
which
the
more
I
reflected
on
,
the
less
cause
I
found
to
suppress
any
effects
which
proceeded
from
or
illustrated
it
;
neither
can
my
amazement
for
the
greatness
and
suddeness
of
this
alteration
be
attributed
to
the
weakness
of
my
Sex
,
since
Blacius
,
whose
courage
had
out-brav'd
many
dangers
,
resented
a
resembling
one
:
And
't
was
a
long
while
and
by
many
extravagancies
that
I
withdrew
him
from
his
;
which
when
I
perceiv'd
entirely
vanisht
,
I
embrac'd
his
knees
and
cry'd
out
,
You
are
then
alive
,
Sir
,
and
the
gods
have
heard
my
reiterated
prayers
and
tears
for
your
deliverance
.
Yes
,
Izadora
(
he
reply'd
)
I
am
once
again
at
liberty
,
and
doubtless
owe
that
blessing
immediately
to
those
powers
to
whom
thou
hast
address
thy
weepings
;
for
certainly
those
prodigies
of
valor
acted
for
my
relief
were
too
much
transcending
a
humane
strength
:
But
alass
(
he
continu'd
,
turning
about
,
and
perceiving
none
in
the
Chamber
but
his
unfortunate
Daughter
)
What
is
become
of
my
Protector
?
He
is
gone
Sir
(
I
answer'd
)
and
his
departure
has
left
as
high
a
testimony
of
his
modesty
here
,
as
even
now
he
did
of
his
valor
in
the
Prison
.
His
modesty
(
said
Blacius
)
is
as
injurions
as
his
courage
was
obliging
;
for
in
acquainting
me
with
a
new
Gallantry
,
he
has
depriv'd
me
of
expressing
my
gratitude
for
the
old
.
If
(
I
reply'd
)
he
could
but
hear
your
resentments
in
his
favour
,
I
am
so
well
acquainted
with
his
disposition
,
that
I
dare
assure
you
he
would
esteem
not
only
too
plentiful
a
reward
for
what
he
has
already
done
,
but
for
those
services
he
hopes
to
pay
you
in
the
future
;
but
the
apprehension
he
had
that
the
same
fate
which
attended
Perolla
might
wait
on
him
,
and
that
what
his
valor
did
create
,
your
knowledge
of
his
condition
might
destroy
,
made
him
so
suddenly
vanish
,
and
rather
elect
to
leave
you
a
good
opinion
of
him
by
not
knowing
his
Name
,
than
hazard
the
contrary
by
a
revealing
of
it
.
I
am
then
(
he
reply'd
)
still
so
unhappy
,
that
to
know
,
and
not
to
know
to
whom
I
am
indebted
for
my
life
must
prove
an
equal
misfortune
?
No
,
no
,
Izadora
(
he
continu'd
)
I
conjure
you
by
all
the
gods
,
if
you
are
acquainted
with
my
Deliverer
,
and
would
have
me
relish
what
he
has
given
me
,
inform
me
who
he
is
,
and
where
he
resides
,
for
rather
than
leave
him
so
ill
a
character
of
my
resentments
,
I
will
repeat
greater
dangers
than
he
has
freed
me
from
;
and
to
assure
him
of
my
Gratitude
,
I
will
undertake
(
it
may
be
to
perform
)
actions
of
as
transcendent
a
quality
as
those
which
created
it
:
This
I
command
you
as
a
duty
,
and
this
I
beg
of
you
as
a
charity
;
neither
can
you
suspect
in
this
discovery
the
same
destiny
which
attended
Perolla
,
the
difference
of
the
action
justly
silencing
those
apprehensions
,
For
though
it
be
true
,
that
the
ends
are
the
same
,
yet
the
ways
are
extremely
different
:
Perolla
perhaps
was
surpriz'd
into
his
gallantry
.
This
acted
it
with
premeditation
,
that
freed
me
onely
from
the
hands
of
an
apparent
violence
,
but
this
from
a
seeming
Justice
:
That
did
but
the
duty
of
every
man
in
suppressing
Murtherers
,
who
are
the
destroyers
of
humane
Society
;
and
who
knows
whether
his
seeing
my
distress
did
not
put
him
in
mind
of
what
his
own
might
be
as
soon
as
my
death
had
given
those
that
were
acting
it
in
the
liberty
and
the
power
,
and
so
,
that
which
you
term
his
giving
me
life
,
might
be
in
order
to
preserve
his
own
;
But
this
generous
Stranger
had
no
motive
to
invite
his
assistance
but
his
gallantry
,
which
makes
him
attempt
an
action
,
where
the
undertaking
of
it
is
as
great
a
wonder
as
the
performance
,
and
has
thereby
so
bound
me
to
gratitude
,
that
I
believe
were
it
Perolla
that
had
thus
obliged
me
,
I
should
almost
suppress
my
just
resentments
for
his
Family
,
and
that
performance
which
gave
me
my
life
and
liberty
,
might
give
him
my
affection
and
friendship
.
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
Perolla's
actions
are
of
too
high
a
quality
to
need
any
commendations
but
what
they
carry
in
themselves
,
but
were
not
my
duty
more
prevalent
with
me
than
truth
,
I
should
perhaps
aver
that
your
comments
can
no
more
diminish
their
natural
luster
than
mine
can
add
unto
it
;
but
since
you
are
pleas'd
to
place
so
right
an
esteem
upon
this
Strangers
services
,
and
express
as
earnest
a
desire
of
knowing
as
of
being
grateful
to
him
,
I
will
no
longer
conceal
him
:
'T
is
Perolla
,
Sir
,
That
same
Perolla
,
whose
former
obligations
you
have
lessen'd
but
to
increase
the
present
;
'T
is
he
whose
gallantry
,
were
it
capable
of
being
supprest
,
had
doubtless
been
so
by
your
ingratitude
;
(
Pardon
me
if
dare
say
what
you
did
act
:
)
But
he
from
your
cruelty
deduces
arguments
to
convince
you
of
his
affection
and
friendship
,
by
not
declining
your
preservation
,
when
dangers
as
great
as
your
hatred
threatned
whosoever
should
attempt
it
:
'T
is
then
,
that
he
with
an
unimitable
virtue
exposes
his
own
life
to
redeem
yours
,
which
by
a
sad
experiment
he
knew
was
the
chiefest
obstruction
in
his
felicity
.
Give
me
leave
Sir
too
,
a
little
to
repine
that
you
could
fancy
any
other
could
undertake
and
act
so
much
for
you
;
and
certainly
were
not
your
judgment
clouded
with
a
prejudicated
opinion
of
him
,
the
gallantry
of
the
performance
,
and
the
modesty
and
humility
of
the
Performer
,
would
have
been
a
certainer
information
than
my
words
that
it
was
Perolla
;
in
whose
behalf
I
beg
you
to
practice
(
now
you
know
him
)
what
you
promis'd
when
you
only
knew
his
services
;
for
all
returns
but
that
of
your
affection
and
friendship
will
be
as
short
of
his
merit
as
both
those
will
abundantly
reward
it
.
Blacius
,
when
I
had
ended
speaking
,
after
having
fetcht
two
or
three
turns
about
the
room
with
an
angry
look
,
reply'd
,
I
should
have
●ooner
known
't
was
Perolla
by
the
great
rate
you
set
upon
his
services
than
by
the
services
themselves
;
and
if
I
plac'd
a
higher
Character
on
them
than
they
merited
,
't
was
only
to
draw
a
confession
from
you
,
which
I
thought
nothing
else
could
perform
:
My
design
has
succeeded
;
and
in
those
very
expressions
which
you
intended
should
create
my
affection
for
your
lover
,
I
perceive
the
continuation
of
yours
to
him
,
and
in
so
high
a
disobedience
to
my
commands
,
that
that
death
I
am
freed
from
,
turns
to
a
misfortune
,
and
forces
me
to
tell
you
,
if
you
persevere
in
this
criminal
passion
,
I
shall
embrace
Hannibal's
resentment
rather
as
a
cure
than
a
punishment
.
Alas
Sir
(
I
answer'd
,
exceedingly
surpriz'd
)
Must
then
Perolla's
saving
your
life
,
and
my
gratitude
for
it
be
look'd
upon
as
Crimes
?
And
must
an
obligation
from
an
enemy
,
which
should
raise
the
greatness
of
it
,
turn
it
to
an
offence
?
Since
these
are
the
constructions
you
make
of
his
actions
,
't
is
high
time
for
him
to
despair
:
since
't
is
as
impossible
for
him
not
to
offend
you
(
if
obligations
be
an
offence
)
as
for
you
with
justice
to
give
his
performances
that
name
.
If
what
he
has
done
for
me
(
said
Blacius
)
be
an
obligation
,
from
thence
you
may
derive
a
proof
of
my
affection
to
you
,
which
had
rather
endure
the
name
of
ungrateful
,
than
by
giving
you
away
free
my self
from
that
aspersion
.
But
do
not
proceed
in
this
disputing
against
my
resolutions
,
which
may
force
me
to
hate
what
I
desire
to
love
.
You
are
too
just
(
I
reply'd
)
to
hate
without
a
cause
,
and
't
is
on
that
assurance
I
dare
become
Perolla's
Advocate
,
since
his
fear
of
offending
you
makes
him
decline
being
his
own
:
do
not
then
,
Sir
,
employ
that
breath
he
has
preserv'd
to
destroy
him
that
gave
it
you
;
his
service
merits
an
esteem
,
if
not
a
reward
;
and
it
may
be
,
others
will
say
you
do
as
high
an
injustice
in
thus
using
your
Deliverer
,
as
he
did
that
put
you
in
a
condition
to
need
his
help
.
To
which
Blacius
told
me
,
That
Life
which
is
now
(
I
hope
)
out
of
Hannibal's
power
,
and
which
you
say
I
owe
Perolla's
Affection
to
me
,
was
rather
an
argument
of
his
own
to
himself
;
he
knew
the
justice
of
those
resentments
I
had
for
his
could
not
be
silenc'd
but
by
actions
as
great
as
those
which
created
them
,
and
that
whilst
they
continu'd
,
he
could
no
more
obtain
my
permission
of
possessing
you
,
than
you
without
it
;
so
that
my
deliverance
being
the
best
way
to
that
end
,
he
perform'd
it
,
and
thereby
no
more
oblig'd
me
than
a
Passenger
does
the
Commander
of
a
Ship
,
by
saving
what
could
not
perish
without
involving
him
in
the
common
ruine
,
so
that
his
being
a
friend
to
himself
only
made
him
a
friend
to
me
.
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
he
that
sav'd
your
life
once
,
and
could
not
by
that
obligation
suppress
your
hatred
,
had
no
reason
,
by
a
repetition
of
that
favour
,
to
expect
a
better
return
;
so
that
his
experience
convincing
him
your
aversion
was
not
to
be
taken
away
,
he
might
have
sufffer'd
your
life
to
have
been
so
by
Hannibal
,
who
had
both
the
power
and
will
to
do
it
;
especially
,
that
being
the
onely
obstacle
to
his
desires
,
had
not
his
affection
to
one
of
your
family
inclin'd
him
upon
that
score
to
love
all
of
it
;
This
gallantry
shews
so
handsomly
,
that
I
hope
't
will
invite
yours
to
an
imitation
,
especially
too
,
since
by
the
effects
of
it
you
receive
a
benefit
whose
greatness
cannot
be
equall'd
,
but
by
that
injustice
which
makes
you
endeavor
his
ruine
that
conferr'd
it
on
you
.
He
that
by
saving
my
life
(
said
Blacius
extremely
mov'd
)
found
in
that
action
a
gratitude
so
extraordinary
as
to
suppress
a
revenge
(
where
my
power
to
perform
it
was
not
greater
than
the
justice
which
invited
me
to
it
)
might
reasonably
hope
that
by
a
succession
of
services
of
that
nature
I
might
in
time
be
induc'd
as
well
to
silence
my
hatred
as
I
had
my
revenge
,
so
that
what
you
attribute
to
my
Enemies
gallantry
,
might
be
better
ascrib'd
to
his
reason
and
judgement
:
My
death
too
had
been
so
far
from
freeing
all
his
obstructions
,
that
it
had
but
created
greater
,
for
I
had
so
order'd
it
in
my
Will
,
that
if
you
had
married
him
,
you
should
have
broke
those
Tyes
and
Conjurations
which
had
render'd
you
unworthy
of
his
Bed
;
or
if
his
Passion
had
attributed
your
want
of
duty
to
your
Father
,
to
be
a
higher
argument
of
your
affection
to
your
Lover
,
yet
you
should
have
brought
him
nothing
but
the
bare
Izadora
;
for
apprehending
by
what
you
have
done
,
what
you
might
do
,
I
had
(
upon
so
transcendent
a
violation
of
those
commands
,
which
I
would
have
seal'd
with
my
last
breath
)
given
to
another
all
my
estate
,
which
I
believe
(
whatever
advantageous
and
partial
opinion
you
have
of
your self
)
makes
Perolla
as
much
your
Servant
as
your
Beauty
.
If
no
one
(
I
reply'd
)
had
a
greater
value
of
me
than
I
have
of
my self
,
Perolla
would
soon
have
as
low
an
opinion
of
me
,
as
you
have
of
his
Services
;
and
truly
when
I
consider
the
largeness
of
your
Fortune
,
and
the
little
Title
I
have
to
any
perfections
which
are
capable
of
inviting
so
transcendent
a
happiness
as
his
Affection
,
I
am
apt
enough
to
believe
I
derive
that
felicity
from
the
first
of
those
motives
;
but
on
the
other
side
,
when
I
reflect
upon
those
sacred
protestations
he
has
made
me
,
that
his
passion
was
created
,
and
is
nourish'd
by
my
Beauty
and
Vertue
and
from
no
secondary
causes
,
I
am
inclin'd
to
believe
any
thing
,
rather
than
that
he
dissembles
;
especially
,
since
in
not
crediting
his
vows
,
I
cannot
injure
him
more
than
I
do
my
own
felicity
.
At
this
reply
,
Blacius
could
no
longer
suppress
his
Choler
,
but
with
Eyes
and
Looks
,
which
had
terrified
me
in
a
Cause
,
less
just
than
I
now
defended
,
he
told
me
,
You
are
not
then
only
contented
to
preserve
a
criminal
Flame
in
your
Heart
,
but
you
must
publish
it
too
;
and
to
raise
your
insolence
to
an
inaccessional
height
,
you
voluntarily
acknowledge
,
that
you
find
your
contentment
in
that
which
divests
me
of
mine
;
but
since
by
your
disobedience
you
will
force
me
to
use
my
paternal
power
,
I
will
make
you
e'r
long
not
only
know
,
but
practise
your
duty
.
Finishing
these
words
,
he
went
out
of
my
Chamber
,
and
left
me
in
as
great
a
trouble
at
his
rigor
,
as
he
could
resent
for
my
constancy
:
I
must
confess
,
that
my
Affection
made
me
say
things
which
I
should
have
condemn'd
upon
any
other
score
,
and
which
after
my
resentment
was
a
little
over
,
I
endeavoured
to
wash
away
with
Tears
:
But
no
passions
of
Love
or
Repentance
were
hardly
more
predominant
in
me
,
than
those
of
Rage
and
Fury
were
in
Hannibal
,
who
could
not
reflect
upon
the
injury
done
his
Authority
and
Revenge
,
by
forcing
a
Prison
in
his
Head-Quarters
,
and
taking
thence
his
capital
Enemy
,
upon
the
Eve
of
the
Execution
,
which
Perolla
had
done
by
surprize
,
and
by
the
assistance
of
a
few
resolute
friends
he
had
in
Salapia
,
who
were
all
disguis'd
as
well
as
he
,
without
abandoning
himself
to
an
excess
of
choller
,
which
made
him
utter
things
unworthy
his
Place
and
Reputation
:
neither
for
two
days
together
could
those
which
had
most
intimacy
and
power
with
him
,
obtain
of
him
to
appear
in
publick
,
or
so
much
as
to
take
sufficient
nourishment
to
preserve
Nature
;
nor
had
his
despair
been
so
soon
vanquisht
,
had
not
his
Officers
engag'd
themselves
,
not
only
to
find
out
the
Offenders
,
but
the
Prisoner
too
,
if
he
would
publish
a
Proclamation
,
which
might
promise
large
Rewards
to
those
which
should
effect
either
;
upon
which
the
Carthaginians
set
forth
a
Manifest
of
this
Tenor.
HANNIBAL
,
General
of
the
Carthaginians
in
EUROPE
.
WEre
not
Ingratitude
a
crime
of
so
high
a
quality
,
than
nothing
can
be
of
a
higher
than
to
pardon
it
,
that
same
clemency
which
induced
us
heretofore
,
not
only
to
forgive
Blacius
,
but
restore
him
to
his
Estate
,
might
have
now
again
extended
it self
to
him
:
But
our
above-specified
Principle
,
and
his
unparallel'd
Treachery
,
makes
him
so
unfit
for
a
repetition
of
Mercy
,
that
't
would
lose
that
name
,
and
turn
to
Injustice
,
were
it
conferr'd
on
him
,
who
was
not
contented
to
be
guilty
himself
,
but
hath
so
involv'd
others
in
his
offences
,
that
he
has
(
in
having
forc'd
our
Prisons
by
his
Complices
)
as
much
violated
the
publique
Iustice
,
as
his
private
Engagements
.
These
great
wrongs
done
to
the
Carthaginian
Empire
through
me
their
Minister
,
are
well
merited
,
if
endur'd
;
which
to
avoid
,
I
hereby
solemnly
protest
before
the
gods
,
by
the
Glory
of
Carthage
,
and
my
dead
Fathers
memory
,
That
whatsoever
Person
shall
reveal
where
the
persidious
Blacius
is
conceal'd
,
or
who
were
the
Contrivers
,
Ca●sers
,
or
Actors
of
his
Liberty
,
shall
have
any
one
thing
that
the
said
party
can
desire
,
and
we
can
grant
,
and
receive
,
besides
some
such
other
mark
of
our
favour
,
that
all
Men
shall
know
,
we
are
as
much
concern'd
in
rewarding
of
Fidelity
,
as
in
punishing
the
want
of
it
.
I
Know
not
whether
the
promise
of
so
unlimited
Rewards
,
or
the
Justice
of
the
gods
(
who
would
not
let
Blacius
enjoy
that
liberty
he
had
been
so
unthankful
for
to
the
Bestower
of
it
)
was
the
cause
of
his
discovery
;
but
two
days
after
he
had
relisht
the
blessing
of
Freedom
,
he
lost
it
again
by
a
Squadron
of
Soldiers
,
who
violently
breaking
open
the
doors
,
went
so
directly
to
a
secret
Vault
,
where
he
had
conceal'd
himself
,
that
it
manifested
their
search
for
him
proceeded
from
their
knowledge
,
and
not
from
their
suspitions
;
from
thence
they
conveyed
him
bound
in
Irons
(
and
with
words
as
ill
to
be
digested
as
their
usage
)
to
Hannibal's
own
Lodgings
,
where
a
Guard
of
barbarous
Affricans
newly
come
from
Carthage
,
were
set
over
him
,
who
no
more
understood
the
Roman
Language
,
than
what
belong'd
to
Humanity
.
For
Hannibal
,
you
may
(
in
some
sort
)
guess
at
his
joy
by
what
his
trouble
had
been
;
but
for
my
part
I
was
so
drown'd
in
sorrow
,
that
when
you
can
imagine
the
highest
operation
of
grief
,
I
can
truly
affirm
mine
did
make
that
good
.
And
indeed
,
when
I
considered
my
unfortunate
Father
in
the
hands
of
those
whose
fury
would
not
be
quencht
but
with
with
his
Bloud
;
and
that
Perolla's
usage
made
me
esteem
it
as
high
a
sin
to
engage
him
in
any
further
attempt
for
Blacius's
relief
,
as
my
ignorance
where
he
was
,
made
it
impossible
to
send
to
him
;
I
found
in
my
Judgement
and
Duty
,
such
strong
arguments
for
sorrow
,
that
I
had
no
way
better
merited
the
misfortune
,
than
not
to
have
deplored
it
in
the
sublimest
degree
.
In
the
mean
while
the
cruel
Carthaginian
,
to
avoid
all
accidents
,
and
to
hasten
the
satisfaction
of
his
Revenge
,
caused
my
Father
the
next
day
,
to
be
brought
with
ignominious
cruelty
,
to
a
Scaffold
he
had
erected
in
the
Allarm-place
,
and
as
well
to
avoid
those
tumults
which
the
Salapians
affection
to
Blacius
might
raise
,
as
to
satiate
his
Eyes
with
his
Enemies
Bloud
,
he
had
raised
another
Scaffold
near
the
first
,
and
there
waited
on
by
his
Guards
,
be
intended
to
become
a
Spectator
of
that
execution
,
of
which
he
had
been
the
Judge
.
Whilst
these
things
were
performing
in
publique
,
an
antient
friend
of
Blacius's
came
to
visit
me
,
and
to
give
me
that
consolation
my
duty
and
affection
so
abundantly
wanted
.
After
some
discourses
of
a
nature
fit
for
the
subject
,
I
was
very
inquisitive
,
whether
the
Revealer
of
my
Fathers
retirement
was
not
yet
found
out
?
To
which
he
answered
me
,
that
though
he
had
declin'd
no
ways
imaginable
for
that
discovery
;
yet
his
endeavours
had
been
fruitless
,
but
(
he
continued
)
though
I
cannot
tell
you
the
offender
,
yet
I
can
(
I
am
confident
)
shew
you
the
cause
of
the
offence
,
and
thereupon
pull'd
out
the
Copy
of
that
Proclamation
,
I
even
now
acquaint
you
wit
.
Though
my
grief
were
of
a
quality
which
hardly
permitted
my
Eyes
to
do
any
thing
but
weep
,
yet
(
as
the
gods
would
have
it
)
I
stopped
a
while
their
employment
,
to
read
that
fatal
Proclamation
,
which
as
soon
as
I
had
ended
,
I
reflected
upon
some
words
in
it
,
that
I
thought
might
prove
of
great
advantage
to
me
,
and
immediately
after
,
asked
this
charitable
friend
,
whether
he
thought
the
execution
were
yet
done
?
To
which
he
answered
,
he
was
confident
it
was
not
,
for
just
then
he
came
from
the
place
where
it
was
to
be
performed
(
his
antient
friendship
rendring
him
uncapable
of
seeing
such
a
Spectacle
)
where
some
of
the
assistants
had
told
him
,
the
usual
Ceremonies
that
are
practised
in
such
Cases
,
would
take
up
at
least
an
hour
,
which
was
not
yet
half
expir●d
.
I
received
this
assurance
with
exceeding
joy
,
and
immediately
conjur'd
him
him
to
conduct
me
to
the
cruel
Hannibal
,
who
he
had
told
me
,
was
an
assistant
at
Blacius
Tragedy
.
The
good
old
man
would
have
disswaded
me
from
seeing
an
object
which
would
but
augment
my
grief
,
but
I
begg'd
that
favour
of
him
with
such
earnest
words
and
expressions
,
that
at
last
he
yielded
to
me
,
but
it
was
so
long
e're
I
could
vanquish
him
,
that
what
he
designed
for
a
proof
of
his
care
,
had
like
to
have
produced
a
strange
and
contrary
effect
.
For
just
as
I
came
under
the
Scaffold
,
I
perceived
my
poor
Father
preparing
himself
for
the
fatal
stroak
with
a
courage
which
render'd
him
unworthy
of
it
;
so
sad
a
spectacle
made
me
hasten
to
Hannibal's
seat
,
where
at
last
I
came
,
and
with
a
countenance
more
suitable
to
my
resentment
than
condition
,
I
presented
my self
unto
him
,
and
told
him
,
Sir
,
I
beseech
you
,
command
a
suspension
of
Blacius's
death
,
till
I
have
acquainted
you
with
some
things
,
that
may
perhaps
induce
you
to
pardon
him
.
The
Carthagineans
,
(
who
then
consider'd
nothing
but
my
Sex
and
motion
)
with
a
look
as
barbarous
as
his
Countrey
,
reply'd
,
Woman
,
the
offences
of
that
Traytor
are
too
transcendent
to
expect
a
pardon
for
any
thing
thou
canst
reveal
,
thou
mayst
well
therefore
spare
thy self
a
labour
which
will
proveal
together
fruitless
,
Then
turning
about
,
he
commanded
some
of
his
Guards
to
carry
me
down
again
.
At
that
cruel
order
I
flung
my self
at
his
Feet
,
and
embracing
his
Knees
,
I
thus
continued
;
I
am
(
Sir
)
come
to
invoke
that
justice
which
has
hitherto
made
you
as
famous
as
your
success
,
and
will
not
stir
from
this
posture
,
till
you
assure
me
,
I
shall
not
be
denyed
it
.
Those
few
words
I
spoke
so
loud
,
and
so
distinctly
,
that
most
of
those
Salapians
which
were
near
the
Scaffold
,
heard
them
,
which
putting
them
in
hopes
that
it
might
be
something
that
would
conduce
to
Blacius
advantage
,
(
whom
I
told
you
they
extreamly
loved
)
they
cryed
out
to
Hannibal
,
Hear
her
,
hear
her
,
which
voices
(
as
is
common
in
the
croud
)
were
seconded
by
those
that
neither
understood
the
cause
,
nor
the
approvers
of
that
motion
.
The
Carthaginians
finding
the
City
so
pressing
and
unanimous
,
forbad
his
Guards
to
meddle
with
me
,
who
were
already
beginning
to
force
my
Hold
,
and
not
only
enjoyn'd
the
suspension
of
the
execution
,
till
I
had
done
speaking
,
but
told
me
,
I
might
be
as
consident
of
his
doing
me
right
,
as
of
Blacius's
death
,
than
which
nothing
the
Oracles
did
tell
,
could
be
more
certain
.
Sir
(
I
continu'd
)
you
will
soon
find
how
great
a
confidence
I
have
of
your
Justice
,
since
my
relyance
on
it
,
makes
me
offer
my
Life
into
your
Power
,
who
am
the
unfortunate
Daughter
of
this
Blacius
,
that
it
seems
has
offended
you
in
such
a
degree
,
as
nothing
but
his
Bloud
can
be
your
reparation
;
in
pursuance
of
which
resolve
you
were
pleas'd
under
sacred
Oaths
,
when
his
Prison
was
forc'd
(
and
thereby
your
revenge
frustrated
)
to
publish
,
That
whosoever
would
reveal
unto
you
who
were
the
Contrivers
,
Causers
,
or
Actors
of
his
liberty
,
should
have
granted
any
one
thing
the
said
party
could
ask
that
was
in
your
power
:
this
Proclamation
which
I
here
present
you
is
my
witness
,
and
the
assurance
you
are
inviolate
in
your
engagements
,
has
brought
me
to
discover
unto
you
who
is
the
offender
that
has
so
exceedingly
transgrest
your
Laws
;
but
before
I
disclose
this
secret
,
I
must
beg
a
reiteration
of
that
assurance
,
which
to
induce
you
to
with
the
less
reluctancy
,
be
pleas'd
to
receive
mine
,
that
the
same
minute
you
confirm
your
first
engagement
,
I
will
put
into
your
power
the
crimital
person
which
procur'd
my
unfortunate
Father
his
short
liberty
,
so
that
the
same
action
which
makes
you
satisfy
your
word
,
will
give
you
the
power
to
satisfy
your
revenge
too
.
All
those
which
could
hear
my
request
,
gave
their
approbation
to
it
by
a
loud
shout
,
for
they
car'd
not
upon
whose
ruines
they
built
Blacius's
deliverance
,
and
Hannibal
,
who
was
always
as
ambitious
of
Glory
as
of
Revenge
,
repeated
and
confirm'd
the
Oaths
and
Promises
of
his
Proclamation
,
which
being
finisht
,
I
thus
continued
:
Since
by
a
generosity
which
I
ever
expected
from
so
great
a
Prince
,
you
have
silenc'd
all
those
doubts
my
own
constant
unhappiness
,
and
not
any
suspitions
of
your
Virtue
,
did
create
,
I
shall
boldly
acquaint
you
,
that
your
justice
receiv'd
that
affront
from
Izadora
,
and
though
my
Sex
exempted
me
from
actions
of
that
nature
,
yet
by
my
Prayers
and
Letters
to
a
young
Roman
Gentleman
,
I
rais'd
that
power
which
cast
you
into
so
great
disorders
,
and
for
the
punishment
of
which
you
have
made
such
unlimited
promises
.
Thus
,
Sir
,
I
have
satisfied
my
engagement
,
not
only
by
acquainting
you
who
committed
the
offence
,
but
by
putting
the
offender
into
your
hands
:
And
now
I
shall
expect
as
punctual
a
performance
from
you
.
Then
,
as
I
was
beginning
to
make
my
request
,
the
Carthaginian
,
who
suspected
by
my
resolution
,
that
it
would
be
Blacius's
Life
(
wherein
he
was
not
deceiv'd
)
suddenly
started
up
,
and
with
a
furious
look
told
me
;
If
thou
art
so
mad
as
to
beg
thy
Fathers
Life
for
this
discovery
,
in
expectation
afterwards
that
thy
Sex
will
induce
me
to
pitty
thee
;
know
that
thy
Crime
will
make
me
pass
by
all
considerations
,
and
raise
a
fury
which
by
all
the
gods
,
nothing
but
thy
destruction
will
appease
;
this
I
acquaint
thee
with
,
that
thou
mayst
owe
thy
death
to
thy
wilfulness
,
and
not
to
my
resentments
,
which
I
tell
thee
once
more
will
prove
so
severe
,
thou
wilt
soon
repent
thou
e'r
didst
raise
them
;
but
if
thou
wilt
yet
decline
that
request
,
thy
Sex
and
Relations
will
invite
me
to
pardon
what
I
know
I
ought
to
punish
.
Sir
(
I
reply'd
nothing
terrify'd
at
these
threatenings
)
I
desire
not
to
be
oblig'd
to
your
Mercy
,
but
your
Justice
,
neither
can
I
lose
my
life
more
gloriously
than
for
him
that
gave
it
me
:
My
duty
in
this
case
is
most
predominant
,
and
I
know
nothing
can
make
me
more
worthy
of
death
,
than
how
to
avoid
it
;
therefore
(
Sir
)
I
conjure
you
by
those
gods
you
have
invok'd
,
by
that
Empire
which
derives
its
g●eate●t
Glory
from
your
Virtue
,
and
by
that
Father
whose
memory
you
〈◊〉
to
reverence
,
were
it
onely
for
giving
the
world
so
g●eat
a
〈◊〉
.
At
the
end
of
these
words
,
I
heard
a
voice
which
stopt
me
from
p●oceeding
any
farther
,
by
saying
,
Hold
,
hold
,
Izadcra
,
be
not
〈◊〉
to
be
gen●rous
,
not
accuse
your self
of
a
fault
,
which
if
it
be
one
,
I
(
by
your
own
〈◊〉
)
am
only
guilty
of
it
.
This
voice
(
which
I
too
soon
knew
was
Pcrolla's
)
made
me
turn
about
,
where
●
immediately
saw
my
generous
Friend
breaking
th●ough
Hannibals
Guards
that
would
have
stopt
him
(
among
whom
he
had
staid
awhile
,
where
he
had
heard
all
that
had
past
,
)
and
●linging
himself
●t
his
Enemies
feet
,
told
him
;
Sir
,
You
have
bound
your self
by
obligations
too
strong
to
leave
me
any
suspition
that
you
will
not
perform
your
engagement
to
him
that
shall
reveal
who
was
Blacius's
Deliverer
;
and
therefore
I
shall
make
no
scruple
to
acknowledge
that
it
was
I
,
and
the
reward
that
I
expect
for
this
discovery
,
is
,
that
you
will
suppress
all
th●●e
cruel
thoughts
you
have
taken
up
against
the
fair
Izadora
,
who
through
an
excess
of
duty
condemns
her self
to
free
her
Father
.
You
that
have
been
just
,
Sir
,
to
your
Enemies
,
will
not
now
I
hope
be
the
contrary
to
your self
,
especially
when
the
subject
you
are
to
employ
your
virtue
on
,
merits
adoration
sooner
than
Pardon
,
and
whose
only
crime
is
her
Charity
.
Instead
then
of
so
unfit
a
victim
to
appease
your
fury
,
I
offer
that
Perolla
,
who
had
at
Capua
depriv'd
you
of
life
,
if
his
Sword
had
prov'd
the
more
fortunate
,
and
had
not
his
Fathers
Tears
and
Dissimulation
preserv'd
you
:
Who
at
Pettely
rais'd
his
reputation
by
the
destruction
of
10000
Affricans
;
who
at
Cassilinum
made
you
send
Blanks
where
you
had
denyed
any
conditions
;
Who
by
the
destroying
of
25000
of
Allies
and
Soldiers
forc'd
from
you
the
Samnites
,
Lucanians
,
and
Appulians
;
who
took
that
Cassilinum
by
storm
,
which
you
only
won
by
Famine
:
in
a
word
,
I
present
you
that
Perolla
,
who
was
not
only
content
to
offend
you
in
all
these
particulars
,
but
came
even
into
your
Head-Quarters
,
and
in
the
Center
of
your
Army
,
broke
open
your
Prisons
,
kill'd
your
Guards
,
restor'd
your
Capital
Enemy
to
his
freedom
,
and
was
now
come
to
have
stopt
the
progress
of
your
revenge
upon
him
,
by
owning
the
action
,
and
by
tying
you
(
unless
you
would
violate
your
Faith
)
to
give
me
his
life
for
the
reward
of
this
discovery
,
which
I
had
too
effected
,
had
not
his
generous
Daughter
by
her
own
confession
,
necessitated
me
to
imploy
that
Petition
for
her
safety
,
which
I
had
designed
for
her
Fathers
.
Gods
!
into
what
confusions
did
this
resolute
acknowledgement
cast
me
into
?
That
death
which
I
was
prepared
to
suffer
,
appeared
far
more
supportable
than
this
action
of
Perolla's
,
for
it
reduced
me
either
to
imploy
my
request
for
my
Fathers
,
and
so
lose
my
friends
Life
;
or
if
I
preserv'd
Perolla's
,
I
must
lose
Blacius's
,
and
that
which
was
an
aggravation
to
this
misery
,
was
,
that
by
what
was
done
already
,
I
was
necessitated
to
survive
the
loss
of
one
of
them
,
unless
I
would
prove
my
own
executioner
;
Alas
,
how
sad
a
conflict
had
I
betwixt
my
Duty
and
my
Affection
?
Nature
pleading
for
the
one
,
and
Gratitude
for
the
other
.
What
,
(
said
I
to
my self
)
wilt
thou
destroy
thy
Father
to
save
his
Enemy
?
wilt
thou
not
preserve
that
Life
that
gave
thee
thine
?
wilt
thou
satisfy
thy
debts
with
thy
Fathers
Bloud
,
and
shall
the
tyes
of
Friendship
be
more
prevalent
than
those
of
Nature
?
But
on
the
other
side
,
shall
the
name
of
Father
make
thee
act
that
which
will
render
thee
unworthy
that
relation
?
shall
that
breath
which
even
now
Perolla
gave
thee
,
be
employed
to
save
anothers
life
by
the
ruine
of
his
?
Unfortunate
Izadora
!
hast
thou
no
way
to
perform
thy
duty
but
by
a
murther
?
and
hast
thou
no
no
way
to
perform
thy
gratitude
,
but
by
a
Paricide
?
must
the
satisfaction
of
thy
gratitude
be
the
ruine
of
thy
Father
?
and
must
the
satisfaction
of
thy
duty
be
the
loss
of
thy
Friend
?
must
to
be
grateful
and
ungrateful
prove
an
equal
crime
?
and
must
the
paying
of
one
debt
,
render
thee
uncapable
of
paying
the
other
?
I
take
the
gods
to
witness
that
I
would
joyfully
put
an
end
to
this
fatal
dispute
but
that
of
my
life
,
and
have
embrac'd
that
fate
with
a
satisfaction
equal
to
that
of
Martyrs
,
who
know
their
punishment
,
is
but
the
way
unto
their
Glory
:
but
the
time
was
so
pressing
,
that
I
was
necessitated
to
spend
what
remained
,
not
in
complaints
,
but
resolutions
,
therefore
I
thus
continu'd
.
Perolla
came
to
preserve
Blacius
,
though
my
unfortunate
duty
made
him
change
his
design
:
and
that
generosity
which
once
made
my
Father
to
esteem
his
life
his
misfortune
,
because
his
Enemy
conferr'd
it
on
him
,
though
only
by
his
courage
,
will
make
a
repetition
of
that
favour
,
create
a
higher
trouble
in
him
,
when
the
purchase
of
his
safety
,
is
his
Enemies
voluntary
death
;
his
Virtue
,
doubtless
,
will
make
him
decline
an
obligation
,
where
what
makes
him
receive
it
,
deprives
him
of
all
power
to
express
his
resentments
for
it
:
'T
is
but
just
too
,
that
that
life
which
has
so
often
preserv'd
Blacius's
,
should
now
be
preserv'd
by
his
;
Yes
,
yes
Izadora
,
let
Perolla
find
his
safety
from
one
of
that
Family
,
in
which
he
hath
hitherto
found
his
misery
;
act
now
thy
Fathers
part
,
and
upon
the
score
of
his
Virtue
perform
that
for
Perolla
,
whose
effects
may
demonstrate
their
cause
,
and
let
him
find
,
now
thou
art
in
Blacius's
room
,
that
that
cruelty
thou
didst
condemn
in
him
,
thou
wilt
not
practise
for
him
,
and
in
this
one
action
show
what
thy
Fathers
resentments
should
be
,
and
what
thine
own
are
:
Then
when
this
debt
is
discharged
,
satisfy
thy
own
as
generously
,
and
by
ending
thy
life
with
his
that
gave
it
thee
,
convince
him
and
the
World
,
that
as
thou
valu'st
thy
life
short
of
thy
duty
,
which
shouldst
thou
any
longer
enjoy
would
bring
that
truth
in
question
,
and
make
that
relish
of
self-interest
which
is
of
a
contrary
quality
.
But
alas
(
I
continued
)
how
will
Perolla
resent
this
proceeding
?
he
'll
alledge
,
that
what
thou
termest
Gratitude
,
is
Cruelty
,
that
the
way
thou
tak'st
to
save
his
life
,
is
the
certainst
means
to
lose
it
,
and
that
instead
of
repairing
Blacius's
injuries
,
thou
art
more
injurious
far
than
he
.
These
,
and
a
world
of
such
,
thy
Friend
will
object
against
thee
,
to
which
thou
hast
no
reply
,
but
that
thy
Fate
having
invironed
thee
with
excess
of
miseries
,
thou
electest
those
that
to
thy
judgement
are
the
least
,
and
that
thou
hadst
rather
dye
by
acting
what
may
merit
his
esteem
,
than
live
in
a
contrary
unhappiness
.
Whilst
I
was
thus
debating
,
and
had
fixt
upon
this
resolution
,
Perolla
was
all
the
while
conjuring
Hannibal
to
observe
his
Promise
,
and
to
make
him
the
object
of
his
Cruelty
,
so
he
made
me
that
of
his
Justice
,
and
in
order
to
this
told
the
Carthaginians
such
reasons
,
that
I
apprehended
nothing
more
than
he
would
find
his
destruction
in
his
Eloquence
,
and
so
raise
his
enemies
fury
,
that
he
would
sacrifice
the
violation
of
his
Oaths
and
Faith
to
his
revenge
:
In
this
fear
I
interrupted
him
from
proceeding
by
addressing
my self
in
these
terms
to
the
Carthaginian
.
Sir
,
If
I
have
been
thus
long
silent
,
you
will
,
I
hope
pardon
it
when
you
know
,
that
a
dispute
betwixt
Gratitude
and
Nature
was
the
occasion
,
in
the
end
,
the
first
has
been
victorious
,
but
to
make
it
so
,
I
was
necessitated
to
act
my
Fathers
part
,
who
I
know
is
too
generous
to
let
Perolla
suffer
for
him
,
when
by
his
own
sufferings
he
may
hinder
his
,
and
't
were
too
much
wrong
to
the
generosity
of
Perolla's
action
,
not
to
let
it
instruct
my
Fathers
to
an
imitation
of
it
.
These
words
too
fully
inform'd
my
friend
of
my
intentions
,
to
let
him
permit
my
proceedings
any
further
,
which
he
hinder'd
by
leaving
Hannibal
,
and
by
prostrating
himself
before
me
,
where
as
soon
as
his
disorder
would
permit
him
,
he
cry'd
out
,
Ah
Madam
,
do
not
,
I
beseech
you
,
by
so
unjust
a
Victory
,
blemish
your
Virtue
,
nor
make
me
so
wretched
,
as
to
find
my
misery
,
in
that
which
perhaps
you
intend
as
an
argument
of
your
Affection
,
to
preserve
your
Fathers
and
your
Life
,
nay
your
Fame
too
,
are
cause
too
glorious
to
deplore
any
effects
which
may
proceed
from
them
:
do
not
then
envy
me
a
death
,
by
which
I
shall
always
live
,
and
by
losing
only
an
uncertain
Being
,
obtain
an
Eternal
one
.
If
I
had
not
(
I
reply'd
)
taken
up
this
resolution
,
that
which
you
do
to
suppress
,
would
have
created
it
,
and
in
this
fresh
proof
of
your
Virtue
,
I
find
a
greater
invitaion
to
continue
,
than
alter
my
intentions
:
Blacius
would
live
more
miserable
with
such
a
debt
,
than
he
can
dye
by
paying
it
,
and
I
cannot
deplore
his
destiny
which
makes
that
Life
(
which
even
now
was
to
be
an
oblation
only
to
Hannibals
fury
)
to
prove
a
sacrifice
to
Gratitude
.
If
(
said
Perolla
)
the
payment
of
that
Gratitude
be
addrest
to
me
,
I
take
all
that
's
holy
to
witness
,
I
shall
find
in
the
design
only
a
larger
,
and
more
pleasing
payment
,
than
in
the
action
:
Alas
Madam
,
consider
too
,
I
beseech
you
,
what
all
Mankind
will
say
of
you
,
they
will
(
doubtless
)
condemn
that
Virtue
which
has
been
hitherto
their
admiration
,
and
that
which
you
think
will
raise
their
esteem
,
will
absolutely
suppress
it
;
besides
,
if
you
proceed
in
your
design
,
't
will
be
so
far
from
hindering
,
that
it
will
but
hasten
my
death
;
do
not
then
,
I
beseech
you
,
force
me
through
despair
,
to
spill
that
bloud
,
which
now
may
be
shed
for
a
Subject
that
out-weighs
the
loss
.
I
shall
find
(
I
reply'd
)
in
your
silence
,
a
stronger
inducement
to
obey
you
,
than
in
your
words
,
espicially
if
they
be
of
this
nature
,
and
for
your
apprehension
of
my
prejudicing
in
this
action
,
that
little
Virtue
I
possess
,
I
have
fixt
upon
a
resolve
,
shall
still
preserve
,
if
not
increase
it
,
and
I
have
so
order'd
all
things
,
that
your
last
Declaration
is
now
my
only
trouble
,
which
forces
me
to
make
use
of
that
power
you
have
so
often
assur'd
me
I
have
over
you
,
to
beg
,
and
if
that
be
not
sufficient
to
command
you
by
our
passions
,
which
have
been
as
pure
as
great
,
and
by
all
other
conjurations
that
are
most
powerful
,
whatsoever
happens
to
me
,
use
no
violence
upon
your self
,
nor
leave
this
life
till
the
gods
do
call
you
to
a
better
;
this
I
implore
with
the
more
earnestness
,
because
posterity
shall
judge
of
your
love
by
your
obedience
.
Then
without
staying
for
his
answer
,
(
whose
quality
I
read
in
his
amazement
)
I
went
to
Hannibal
,
and
having
laid
open
all
the
most
pressing
terms
I
could
compose
to
illustrate
the
unworthiness
of
a
violated
engagemeut
,
I
conjur'd
him
as
a
recompence
of
what
I
had
reveal'd
,
to
give
Perolla
his
life
and
liberty
;
who
having
followed
me
,
and
hearing
my
request
,
detesting
to
derive
his
safety
from
the
cause
he
esteem'd
in
me
,
so
unnatural
,
thus
spoke
to
the
Carthaginian
.
By
a
true
confession
(
Sir
)
how
Blacius
was
relieved
,
I
am
confident
you
find
no
other
had
a
hand
in
it
but
I
,
at
least
Izadora
had
not
,
who
was
so
far
from
either
contriving
or
knowing
it
,
that
when
I
presented
him
to
her
she
was
weeping
him
for
dead
,
and
admir'd
as
much
at
his
deliverance
as
he
himself
did
.
As
for
that
Letter
she
alleadges
,
which
was
the
cause
of
his
Liberty
,
I
protest
by
all
the
gods
,
it
commanded
me
only
to
make
use
of
the
Consuls
favour
for
Blacius's
redemption
,
by
offering
some
Lybian
prisoners
,
or
for
a
suspension
of
his
death
,
by
threatening
all
those
he
had
to
follow
his
destiny
,
so
that
she
was
no
more
the
cause
then
the
effect
of
her
Fathers
freedom
,
neither
can
she
pretend
any
title
to
the
benefit
of
your
Proclamation
,
by
discovering
who
was
the
Actor
,
for
when
I
brought
Blacius
to
her
,
I
was
so
covered
with
Armor
,
that
she
could
not
possibly
know
me
,
and
as
an
argument
of
this
truth
,
she
call'd
me
Roman
,
when
as
yet
I
never
saw
Rome
and
had
my
birth
in
this
City
;
therefore
(
Sir
)
none
but
I
has
any
interest
in
your
manifest
,
which
obliges
you
no
less
to
preserve
inviolate
your
vows
and
promises
,
than
to
punish
those
which
have
offended
you
.
Ah
Sir
(
said
I
,
flinging
my self
at
his
feet
)
I
hope
you
are
too
judicious
not
to
distinguish
betwixt
an
accusation
which
proceeds
from
Generosity
,
and
one
which
proceeds
from
guilt
,
and
consequently
not
to
impute
this
of
Perolla's
,
to
one
of
the
first
quality
,
but
yet
,
lest
you
should
want
light
to
see
so
much
Virtue
,
I
beseech
you
reflect
upon
whose
Son
he
is
,
and
you
will
find
in
his
extraction
,
cause
to
invite
him
,
rather
to
destroy
Blacius
by
the
hazard
of
his
own
life
,
than
to
save
him
by
a
certain
loss
of
it
.
Yes
(
Sir
)
I
blush
in
his
behalf
to
acknowledge
that
the
little
Beauty
and
Virtue
which
the
gods
have
given
me
,
converted
his
inclinations
,
and
made
him
cherish
what
he
would
otherwise
have
destroyed
,
so
that
I
am
apparently
the
cause
of
that
freedom
,
which
created
your
resentments
:
besides
,
I
have
a
title
to
my
request
,
discovering
who
was
the
Actor
;
For
as
to
that
allegation
,
that
I
was
weeping
my
Fathers
loss
,
when
he
presented
him
to
me
,
I
may
truly
answer
,
my
affection
had
as
large
a
share
in
those
Tears
,
as
my
Duty
;
for
I
could
not
reflect
upon
Blacius
danger
and
Perolla's
courage
,
but
it
was
impossible
to
retain
them
,
and
though
indeed
,
at
his
coming
into
my
Chamber
,
he
was
covered
with
Arms
and
Bloud
,
yet
his
Gallantry
discover'd
what
his
unkind
Armor
would
have
conceal'd
,
and
in
his
actions
I
found
as
great
an
assurance
that
it
was
Perolla
,
as
I
could
have
had
in
seeing
his
Face
;
so
that
my
calling
him
Roman
,
proceeded
not
from
my
ignorance
but
fears
;
for
I
was
informed
after
my
Fathers
rescue
,
such
strict
Guards
were
plac'd
about
the
City
,
that
I
apprehended
my
generous
friend
was
not
gotten
out
of
it
,
so
that
if
by
any
misfortune
he
fell
into
your
power
,
I
would
not
(
by
precisely
acquainting
you
who
he
was
)
have
given
you
so
great
an
accession
to
that
hatred
you
had
already
contracted
for
him
;
besides
,
I
might
aptly
enough
,
call
him
a
Roman
,
his
inclinations
and
actions
having
always
been
for
that
Empire
.
Thus
(
Sir
)
have
I
clearly
demonstrated
the
interest
I
have
in
your
engagement
,
which
gives
me
the
confidence
to
conjure
you
by
these
Tears
,
and
by
that
word
which
you
have
hitherto
so
religiously
observed
,
give
Perolla
that
Life
and
Liberty
,
he
would
so
meritoriously
have
lost
,
which
is
the
Petition
I
humbly
make
for
my
discovery
:
neither
can
you
satisfy
that
request
he
has
already
made
you
,
without
yielding
to
mine
too
;
for
that
life
he
has
begg'd
,
is
so
united
to
his
,
that
it
cannot
admit
of
a
different
Fate
.
To
which
Hannibal
reply'd
,
Madam
,
Perolla
may
with
reason
be
credited
,
since
't
is
not
likely
he
would
disclaim
a
Truth
which
would
save
his
life
;
and
therefore
as
I
have
been
just
to
him
in
granting
his
desires
for
you
;
so
permit
me
now
to
be
just
to
my self
,
by
sacrificing
an
offender
,
who
is
not
only
contented
to
be
so
,
but
glories
in
it
,
and
out-braves
my
Justice
.
Yes
Sir
(
said
Perolla
)
since
you
have
saved
the
fair
Izadora
:
inflict
on
me
all
the
torments
your
Revenge
and
Fury
can
inspire
you
with
,
and
I
will
embrace
them
with
more
joy
than
they
are
imposed
,
nay
,
commend
that
justice
which
by
my
sufferings
,
exempts
the
perfectest
creature
from
induring
any
.
This
generous
reply
so
incen'sd
the
barbarous
Hannibal
;
that
he
commanded
his
Guards
to
bind
Perolla
,
and
carry
him
to
receive
a
death
;
whose
torments
might
be
as
great
as
his
crime
.
The
Guards
at
those
barbarous
Orders
advanc'd
to
seize
upon
Perolla
,
who
perceiving
their
intentions
,
went
half
way
to
meet
them
,
and
holding
out
his
Arms
,
told
them
.
Here
,
here
Soldiers
,
obey
your
General
;
and
bind
up
those
Arms
which
when
they
were
at
liberty
were
as
much
his
fear
,
as
now
they
are
his
satisfaction
,
and
which
yet
,
(
were
I
disposed
to
●ell
my
life
)
might
make
him
tremble
in
the
midst
of
you
;
but
I
will
not
impose
that
in
which
I
find
my
Glory
.
Those
words
he
spoke
with
so
furious
a
look
,
that
though
unarmed
,
and
invironed
with
his
Enemies
,
yet
it
struck
such
a
damp
into
their
Hearts
,
that
their
trembling
was
the
greatest
proof
they
were
alive
.
But
Perolla
instantly
disarming
himself
of
all
his
fury
,
with
an
Humility
great
as
my
grief
,
kneel'd
at
my
feet
and
told
me
,
The
gods
shall
be
my
witness
(
Madam
)
that
the
onely
thing
which
made
me
cherish
my
life
,
was
out
of
a
hope
that
it
might
prove
serviceable
to
you
,
and
now
it
is
so
fortunate
,
not
only
to
save
you
,
but
pardon
me
if
I
say
so
,
to
keep
you
too
from
a
stain
which
might
blemish
all
your
other
Virtues
,
I
resign
it
with
more
joy
than
I
kept
it
;
but
yet
I
must
confess
,
when
I
reflect
upon
our
separation
,
I
find
a
strong
aversion
to
it
,
and
am
forc'd
to
run
for
my
Consolation
to
the
necessary
causes
of
it
.
Must
then
(
I
reply'd
,
interrupting
him
with
a
shower
of
Tears
)
must
then
the
unequall'd
Perolla
have
so
hard
a
fate
,
that
he
finds
his
Consolation
in
the
destruction
of
my
Felicity
?
unjust
Heaven
!
who
will
ever
adore
friendship
,
when
it
turns
to
be
the
ruine
of
him
that
possest
it
in
the
highest
perfection
.
Ah
Madam
,
said
he
,
call
me
rather
your
Votary
than
your
Friend
,
and
then
you
need
not
fear
this
President
will
prejudice
Posterity
,
for
Men
sooner
adore
,
than
decline
a
Deity
,
by
the
example
of
a
Martyrdom
.
But
Madam
,
you
may
convert
my
trouble
into
my
felicity
,
by
permitting
this
voluntary
death
to
preserve
me
alive
in
your
esteem
,
which
will
be
a
nobler
existence
,
and
render
me
an
object
fitter
for
your
Joy
than
Tears
.
You
shall
not
only
have
my
esteem
(
I
reply'd
)
but
my
company
,
since
't
is
a
greater
misery
to
out-live
the
loss
of
so
much
Virtue
,
than
to
dye
with
it
.
But
Sir
(
said
Izadora
,
speaking
to
Spartacus
)
perhaps
I
make
the
relation
only
of
these
accidents
as
tedious
and
troublesom
to
you
,
as
they
themselves
were
to
us
:
but
I
will
repair
that
fault
,
by
contracting
the
sequel
of
our
Adventures
.
To
which
my
Prince
reply'd
,
Madam
,
if
I
am
in
any
trouble
,
it
only
proceeds
from
sympathizing
in
those
disasters
you
were
fallen
into
,
and
the
difficulties
I
find
in
your
being
delivered
out
of
them
,
of
which
I
am
so
impatient
,
and
concern'd
,
that
I
shall
beg
you
henceforward
to
believe
,
that
as
long
as
you
prosecute
your
Story
,
you
will
as
much
oblige
me
,
as
by
interrupting
it
you
will
do
the
contrary
.
Izadora
,
with
an
action
which
testified
her
acknowledgement
,
thus
continued
her
Relation
.
I
will
obey
you
,
Sir
,
and
it
may
be
in
my
following
discourse
,
you
will
find
that
our
perplexities
were
cur'd
by
as
strange
an
accident
,
as
that
which
created
them
:
For
Hannibal
all
this
while
continu'd
in
a
deep
silence
,
which
I
attributed
to
his
being
a
Judge
,
rather
than
a
Lover
;
but
the
gods
,
who
magnify
their
power
by
producing
great
Effects
from
small
Causes
,
made
us
find
in
this
poor
Beauty
,
the
redress
of
those
disorders
which
it
had
occasioned
;
for
at
the
first
,
when
I
presented
my self
unto
the
Carthaginian
,
I
was
(
as
my
condition
required
)
all
vail'd
,
and
continu'd
so
,
till
Perolla's
cruel
Gallantry
forc'd
me
to
uncover
my
Face
,
in
which
Hannibal
fancy'd
as
many
charms
as
it
wanted
,
and
by
the
help
of
his
own
imagination
,
so
abundantly
supply'd
the
unkindness
of
nature
to
me
,
that
in
his
wounds
we
found
our
remedy
.
And
truly
,
for
it
to
vanquish
any
Heart
was
strange
,
but
to
captivate
Hannibal's
,
who
hated
our
Sex
as
much
as
he
did
the
Romans
,
and
to
divest
him
too
,
of
his
fury
and
revenge
,
appear'd
so
great
a
Miracle
,
that
had
not
some
visible
effects
been
the
witness
of
that
Truth
,
I
had
found
in
my
imperfections
,
too
many
Arguments
to
have
doubted
it
;
and
without
question
,
't
was
such
Passion
as
his
,
that
made
Love
be
painted
blind
;
but
many
that
stood
by
,
and
were
not
so
ingaged
as
I
was
,
observ'd
at
first
,
that
which
I
no
way
suspected
or
perceiv'd
,
till
Hannibal
,
who
found
Perolla
was
as
much
his
Rival
in
Love
as
in
Glory
,
after
having
laid
down
all
those
motives
he
esteemed
most
prevalent
to
induce
me
rather
to
employ
my
request
for
my
Father
,
than
my
Friend
,
perceiving
me
so
unshaken
in
my
resolves
,
and
so
pressing
in
my
Tears
,
and
Prayers
,
and
guessing
at
my
disposition
by
his
own
,
which
hardened
it self
by
opposition
,
at
last
when
the
Guards
were
carrying
away
the
generous
Perolla
,
he
told
me
;
Madam
,
If
I
have
labour'd
to
prove
you
had
no
Title
to
my
Proclamation
,
't
was
only
to
shew
you
,
that
you
had
a
power
over
me
from
yourself
,
greater
than
you
can
derive
from
thence
,
and
that
you
may
command
upon
the
score
of
your
Beauty
,
that
which
you
only
beg
by
virtue
of
my
manifest
.
Alas
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
I
am
too
well
acquainted
with
this
unfortunate
Beauty
,
to
believe
it
can
have
so
high
an
influence
on
so
great
a
Conqueror
,
pardon
me
then
,
if
I
dare
tell
you
,
I
shall
be
diffident
of
its
power
,
unless
I
am
convinc'd
of
it
by
a
demonstration
?
If
you
suspect
(
said
he
)
that
which
carries
its
authority
with
it
,
and
if
you
can
doubt
that
Truth
which
Hannibal's
Captivity
does
witness
;
command
me
any
other
tryal
,
and
you
shall
find
in
my
obedience
,
how
great
a
wrong
you
have
done
the
fair
Izadora
:
So
high
a
civility
,
I
answered
,
merits
a
proportionate
return
,
and
therefore
I
shall
employ
that
power
you
give
me
,
for
your
own
advantage
,
and
only
beg
you
to
be
just
unto
your
vows
,
by
giving
Perolla
his
life
,
Madam
,
(
said
Hannibal
)
though
in
saving
him
I
shall
preserve
(
by
what
I
have
observed
)
as
great
an
opposer
of
my
Felicity
,
as
of
my
Conquests
:
and
thereby
too
,
create
as
many
Enemies
as
Soldiers
in
my
Army
,
yet
I
will
observe
your
Orders
.
Yes
Madam
,
I
give
Perolla's
life
to
your
commands
,
and
I
give
you
Blacius's
without
them
,
who
for
having
bestowed
so
great
a
perfection
on
the
World
,
merits
rather
my
esteem
than
revenge
.
My
zeal
to
your
service
,
stays
not
in
that
dull
method
of
only
obeying
what
you
command
,
it
lays
hold
on
that
which
it
thinks
is
your
Will
without
the
revealing
it
.
I
could
not
have
the
patience
to
let
him
proceed
,
his
Words
and
Actions
were
too
generous
to
delay
my
acknowledgements
for
them
,
which
I
exprest
,
prostrate
at
his
feet
,
in
the
most
moving
and
humble
manner
I
was
capable
of
.
I
will
not
,
Sir
,
said
Izadora
,
trouble
you
with
the
repetition
of
them
,
though
they
were
so
satisfactory
to
him
,
to
whom
they
were
addrest
,
that
as
an
acknowledgement
of
it
,
he
went
immediately
himself
,
unbound
both
Blacius
and
Perolla
,
and
presented
them
to
me
,
with
an
humility
so
far
beyond
his
practise
,
that
the
standers
by
admir'd
as
much
,
as
I
was
pleas'd
at
it
.
But
to
obscure
this
joy
,
some
of
Pacuvius's
friends
seeing
the
danger
his
generous
Son
had
been
in
,
went
to
his
House
to
inform
him
of
it
,
(
for
he
,
out
of
gallantry
,
would
not
be
present
at
his
Enemies
death
,
though
he
had
Hannibal's
example
to
authorize
that
action
.
)
As
soon
as
he
had
notice
of
it
,
he
went
with
so
great
haste
to
the
place
of
Execution
that
those
which
saw
it
,
thought
that
his
affection
and
not
his
hatred
was
the
cause
of
it
.
The
croud
about
the
Scaffold
was
so
great
,
that
it
was
with
much
difficulty
and
with
an
often
repeating
of
his
name
(
to
which
all
paid
a
deep
respect
)
that
he
got
at
last
to
Hannibal
,
and
it
was
just
at
that
instant
,
that
the
Carthaginian
had
unbound
Perolla
,
and
given
him
to
me
.
Pacuvius
was
suddenly
informed
of
all
that
happened
,
which
every
one
assured
themselves
,
would
render
him
a
large
sharer
in
the
general
joy
:
but
alas
he
soon
put
them
out
of
that
belief
by
thus
speaking
to
Hannibal
.
I
were
(
Sir
)
unworthy
the
friendship
of
so
great
a
Conqueror
did
I
value
any
relation
above
it
;
't
is
upon
that
principle
that
I
have
detested
Perolla
,
who
hates
as
much
your
Person
as
your
Glory
,
and
if
I
hitherto
conceal'd
that
horrid
attempt
against
you
,
which
he
himself
has
now
publisht
,
't
was
not
Because
he
was
my
Son
,
but
out
of
a
belief
that
I
might
convert
him
:
for
I
knew
,
a
courage
which
was
capable
in
so
green
an
age
to
attempt
so
bold
and
high
a
design
,
which
was
more
advantageous
to
you
to
be
gained
,
than
destroyed
;
but
since
that
valour
,
the
gods
have
given
him
,
has
been
imployed
to
ruine
what
it
should
have
advanc'd
,
I
am
come
to
implore
your
justice
against
one
who
is
as
much
an
Enemy
to
nature
,
as
to
Carthage
;
punish
him
for
intending
your
destruction
,
in
a
place
where
not
to
have
sacrific'd
himself
for
you
,
had
been
as
great
a
sin
.
Yes
(
Sir
)
punish
him
for
designing
your
death
,
and
punish
me
in
him
,
not
onely
for
concealing
,
but
likewise
for
not
revenging
it
,
and
let
one
execution
repair
both
our
crimes
;
you
see
,
generous
H●nnibal
,
how
I
contemn
my
own
interest
,
when
yours
comes
in
competition
with
it
,
which
I
imbrace
with
such
a
concern
,
that
I
had
rather
extinguish
my
Family
,
than
continue
it
,
by
leaving
so
great
a
stain
upon
your
Justice
,
and
danger
to
your
person
,
as
the
saving
of
Perolla
will
amount
unto
.
Besides
Sir
,
shall
that
courage
,
which
hitherto
found
nothing
so
easie
as
to
conquer
,
leave
the
blemish
behind
it
of
having
been
vanquisht
by
the
eyes
only
of
one
of
our
enemies
?
shall
the
Romans
derive
their
Triumph
from
a
Sex
which
never
merited
higher
than
your
pitty
?
〈◊〉
such
a
pleading
Desire
as
Revenge
,
and
such
a
Virtue
as
Justice
be
supprest
by
an
unworthy
passion
,
which
like
madness
,
none
believe
they
ever
were
possest
with
when
they
'r
cur'd
of
it
?
Let
not
(
Sir
)
I
beseech
you
the
cause
of
your
disorders
be
worse
than
the
effects
,
but
by
a
generous
Conquest
over
your self
,
shew
you
are
capable
to
vanquish
all
obstacles
,
and
let
your
enemies
in
that
very
action
which
they
esteemed
would
prove
your
shame
,
find
an
argument
that
you
are
invincible
,
so
he
that
can
overcome
H●nnibal
,
cannot
but
be
thought
to
do
the
like
to
Rome
,
and
all
the
World
.
The
Carthaginian
,
who
knew
no
other
cause
of
Pacuvius's
hatred
to
his
Son
,
than
what
he
had
alledged
,
not
only
upon
that
account
excus'd
his
passion
,
and
expressions
,
but
replyed
,
had
I
not
already
given
Perolla's
life
to
the
fair
Izadora's
commands
,
I
now
had
bestowed
it
on
Pacuius's
generosity
,
and
find
in
what
he
alledges
more
cause
to
suppress
,
than
to
creat
my
Revenge
;
He
that
could
sacrifice
the
hopes
of
his
posterity
for
my
interest
,
had
too
much
misplac'd
his
friendship
,
if
for
a
return
to
it
I
would
not
silence
a
Revenge
,
especially
when
the
acting
it
will
prove
the
destruction
of
so
generous
a
Family
,
in
which
my
misfortune
is
the
onely
fault
of
any
one
of
it
;
for
Perolla
wants
not
Virtue
,
but
I
the
felicity
to
merit
it
,
and
though
(
he
continued
with
a
smile
)
you
upbraid
me
with
being
vanquisht
;
yet
I
cannot
but
acknowledge
I
am
more
pleased
in
this
defeat
,
than
with
all
my
former
victories
;
I
have
too
,
this
satisfaction
,
that
I
was
never
conquered
but
by
a
Sex
which
the
gods
themselves
could
not
resist
,
who
,
if
they
can
,
for
their
subjection
,
produce
thus
much
beauty
,
they
carry
their
justification
in
the
cause
of
their
fault
,
(
if
it
be
one
)
so
that
I
commit
none
unless
it
be
one
to
imitate
those
we
adore
.
I
will
not
particularize
all
the
dispute
betwixt
them
,
since
it
serves
but
to
acquaint
you
,
that
Hannibal
remained
unshaken
in
what
he
had
done
,
and
then
came
to
me
,
and
told
me
;
I
should
Madam
,
with
the
lives
of
Blacius
and
Perolla
,
have
given
you
too
their
liberties
,
were
it
not
that
the
grant
of
the
first
of
these
has
been
too
great
an
exasperation
to
my
Army
,
to
increase
it
at
the
same
time
by
the
last
:
I
will
therefore
hope
for
your
pardon
,
if
I
obey
you
but
by
degrees
,
since
otherwise
I
might
hazard
the
losing
of
a
power
which
is
not
so
dear
to
me
upon
any
score
,
as
out
of
a
confidence
it
may
serve
you
;
yet
still
for
your
sake
,
they
shall
have
no
other
Prisons
but
their
Lodgings
,
and
as
soon
as
I
have
fashioned
my
Officers
to
approve
of
their
liberty
,
I
shall
restore
it
to
them
with
as
much
joy
as
I
have
lost
my
own
.
Though
this
hard
Declaration
(
however
moderated
both
by
reasons
and
civilities
)
did
extreamly
perplex
me
,
yet
I
only
begg'd
him
to
shorten
their
sufferings
as
much
as
might
be
,
and
to
perfect
what
he
had
so
generously
begun
,
for
I
durst
not
be
too
earnest
on
so
tender
a
subject
,
lest
it
might
create
his
suspitions
,
that
my
love
as
much
as
duty
occasioned
my
solicitations
.
'T
was
in
this
sort
,
(
continued
Izadora
)
that
we
were
preserved
,
and
truly
when
you
consider
all
the
accidents
of
this
Adventure
,
you
will
acknowledge
it
to
be
a
strange
one
:
For
that
life
I
came
to
sacrifice
to
preserve
Blacius's
had
been
preserved
by
the
sacrificing
of
his
,
and
where
I
thought
to
have
found
my
death
,
I
found
my
safety
,
but
by
a
way
which
made
it
odious
to
me
:
Perolla
too
,
who
came
with
the
same
design
,
found
the
same
fate
,
and
that
sympathy
,
which
till
then
we
both
gloried
in
,
in
that
occasion
was
converted
to
our
misfortune
:
what
we
singly
might
have
effected
,
we
joyntly
destroyed
;
and
my
Father
by
having
more
friends
than
one
,
found
he
had
never
a
one
,
and
which
was
more
intricate
,
we
both
came
to
lose
our selves
to
save
him
,
and
we
both
saved
our selves
to
lose
him
,
and
yet
we
ruine
our selves
all
three
,
for
Perolla
by
begging
my
life
and
I
his
,
we
leave
Blacius
to
the
execution
,
which
made
me
resolve
having
so
satisfied
my
gratitude
,
to
dye
with
my
Father
,
as
a
vindication
of
my
duty
,
and
as
my
generous
friend
has
often
since
vowed
unto
me
,
he
was
determined
to
have
born
me
company
:
On
the
other
side
,
Hannibal
to
be
more
certain
of
his
revenge
,
publishes
a-Proclamation
which
debars
him
of
it
,
and
to
end
this
miraculous
day
with
a
greater
wonder
than
any
which
had
happened
in
it
,
Izadora's
Beauty
,
by
ingendring
as
great
a
passion
in
the
Carthaginians
,
as
he
had
till
then
a
detestation
for
our
Sex
,
dissolves
all
our
fears
,
and
makes
us
return
in
triumph
,
where
we
thought
never
to
have
returned
again
.
For
Hannibal
with
all
his
Guards
,
and
with
the
acclamations
of
an
infinite
confluence
of
people
accompanied
me
to
my
Fathers
House
.
But
alas
(
Sir
)
as
soon
as
Blacius
was
informed
how
I
had
declined
his
deliverance
to
purchase
Perolla's
,
and
knowing
what
I
had
done
,
but
not
what
I
had
resolved
to
do
,
he
contracted
so
violent
a●●atred
against
me
,
that
doubtless
I
had
in
the
effects
of
it
,
found
my
ruine
,
had
not
the
apprehension
of
offending
Hannibal
silenc'd
his
fury
,
who
every
day
gave
me
such
fresh
and
high
proofs
of
his
passion
,
that
had
my
felicity
depended
on
his
affection
,
I
had
been
then
as
happy
,
as
since
I
have
been
miserable
.
But
in
that
which
most
of
my
Sex
would
have
gloried
,
I
found
my
Affliction
,
for
I
had
given
too
visible
proofs
of
my
affection
to
Perolla
to
doubt
the
Carthaginean
was
ignorant
of
it
,
and
consequently
,
I
left
my
Fathers
unlikelihood
of
liberty
in
the
loss
of
his
Rivals
,
whose
actions
too
soon
inform'd
me
,
that
his
denying
to
give
me
Perolla's
freedom
,
proceeded
more
from
his
jealousie
than
any
apprehension
of
distasting
his
Army
,
over
which
he
had
so
great
an
Ascendent
,
that
though
it
were
compos'd
of
sundry
Nations
,
and
that
they
often
endur'd
miseries
as
great
as
their
succesles
,
yet
they
never
mutiny'd
,
but
thought
their
sufferings
too
meritoriously
recompenc'd
,
if
in
them
their
General
might
find
his
Glory
,
But
Sir
(
continu'd
the
fair
Izadora
)
to
satisfie
my
engagement
and
perhaps
you
in
it
,
I
will
pass
over
all
those
addresses
which
Hannibal
made
me
,
and
only
inform
you
,
his
Passion
grew
to
such
a
height
,
that
he
declin'd
the
Conquest
of
the
World
to
conquer
the
unfortunate
Izadora
;
and
that
Glory
which
he
had
hitherto
so
exceedingly
ador'd
,
he
now
as
much
undervalu'd
,
delivering
up
the
conduct
of
all
Martial
Affairs
unto
the
generous
Maherbal
;
and
those
Days
and
Nights
which
he
esteem'd
misemploy'd
,
if
not
projecting
some
new
Conquest
,
visiting
and
regulating
his
Troops
,
provoking
and
improving
their
natural
fierceness
by
Orations
,
and
in
performing
all
the
functions
of
an
expert
General
,
he
now
had
the
same
opinion
of
,
if
not
spent
at
my
feet
;
in
which
dejected
posture
he
often
vow'd
he
took
more
satisfaction
than
in
his
former
Triumphs
.
But
for
my
particular
,
I
may
justly
profess
,
if
I
deriv'd
any
contentment
from
his
expressions
and
submissions
,
't
was
only
in
seeing
by
so
strong
an
experiment
,
that
my
constancy
was
immoveable
;
I
say
,
so
strong
an
experiment
,
for
Hannibal
was
a
Prince
capable
to
infuse
a
flame
into
the
coldest
heart
;
for
he
had
a
look
so
spiritual
and
full
of
vivacity
,
that
no
effeminate
Beauty
was
comparable
to
it
;
his
person
and
shape
were
nothing
dissonant
to
his
Face
(
which
had
not
then
receiv'd
the
blemish
of
being
depriv'd
of
that
Eye
which
soon
after
he
lost
in
the
Marishes
of
Ancona
)
his
fashion
was
majestick
and
without
constraint
,
and
he
was
endu'd
with
so
singular
an
Eloquence
,
that
you
would
have
thought
him
an
Athenian
sooner
than
an
Affrican
,
and
rather
bred
up
in
those
famous
Schools
than
in
a
barbarous
Camp
.
And
though
Hannibal
himself
when
he
saw
his
fortune
was
expir'd
,
did
alledge
in
open
Senate
when
he
pull'd
down
Gisgo
out
of
the
Pulpit
of
Orations
for
enveighing
against
a
Peace
then
offer'd
them
by
Scipio
(
whose
succeeding
Conquests
gave
him
the
sir-name
of
Affrican
)
that
he
never
knew
any
way
but
force
to
suppress
Offenders
,
yet
in
a
subsequent
Speech
he
unfolded
such
pregnant
arguments
in
so
transcending
expressions
and
method
,
that
the
Senate
soon
perceiv'd
he
wrong'd
his
Eloquence
to
excuse
his
Passion
:
His
Fortune
also
was
proportionate
to
his
other
qualities
,
being
,
at
four
and
twenty
years
old
after
the
death
of
Amilcar
and
Asdrubal
his
Father
and
Uncle
elected
:
General
by
the
unanimous
concurrence
both
of
the
S●nate
and
Army
:
His
Conquests
too
were
as
early
as
his
preferment
,
and
he
never
apprehended
a
defeat
,
for
his
Victories
had
always
so
little
of
Fortune
in
them
,
that
they
could
hardly
proveinconstant
.
But
I
fear
(
said
Izadora
)
that
by
my
confidence
of
undertaking
to
give
you
this
Character
,
I
give
you
an
ill
one
of
him
:
I
will
therefore
conclude
,
that
he
had
no
fault
but
an
unconfin'd
ambition
,
which
made
him
embrace
any
means
that
conduc'd
to
his
desires
,
and
to
conquer
whatsoever
oppos'd
him
,
he
never
scrupl'd
to
sacrifice
his
virtue
to
his
ends
.
This
truly
makes
me
believe
,
't
was
more
upon
the
score
of
his
wilfulness
than
his
judgement
that
he
persever'd
in
his
passion
for
me
.
But
after
a
long
time
in
both
our
computations
,
he
for
his
sufferings
(
as
he
term'd
them
)
and
I
for
his
importunities
,
he
came
one
evening
to
my
Chamber
as
I
had
newly
done
reading
a
Letter
of
Perolla's
,
which
contained
such
passionate
expression
for
our
cruel
separation
,
that
they
infus'd
into
me
a
grief
equal
to
his
that
writ
them
;
the
impression
thereof
was
so
evident
at
his
coming
in
,
that
he
soon
perceiv'd
it
,
and
after
a
melancholly
silence
,
to
shew
the
interest
he
had
in
my
sadness
,
he
at
last
begg'd
me
to
pardon
him
if
he
presum'd
to
enquire
the
cause
of
it
.
You
may
easily
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
find
it
out
,
when
you
remember
that
Blacius
is
yet
a
prisoner
.
If
that
(
he
answer'd
)
be
the
occasion
,
I
shall
find
my
satisfaction
in
your
disorders
,
having
power
to
redress
them
;
and
to
confirm
you
in
this
truth
,
from
this
instant
I
declare
him
free
:
But
Madam
(
he
continu'd
)
interrupting
that
return
I
was
about
to
make
him
for
so
transcendent
an
obligation
)
may
not
I
fear
your
Love
has
as
great
a
share
in
your
melancholly
as
your
Duty
?
That
friendship
(
I
reply'd
)
which
I
pay
Perolla
,
is
too
pure
to
be
deny'd
,
and
he
has
done
so
many
things
for
the
preservation
of
him
to
whom
I
owe
my
duty
,
that
without
an
offence
to
it
,
I
may
give
him
(
as
an
acknowledgement
)
a
share
in
my
sadness
.
Call
you
that
Madam
(
said
Hannibal
)
but
an
acknowledgement
,
which
made
you
on
the
Scaffold
prefer
his
life
before
your
Fathers
?
I
did
not
(
I
reply'd
)
prefer
him
,
but
Gratitude
before
my
Father
.
Ah
Madam
(
he
answer'd
)
take
heed
what
you
say
,
for
if
you
so
much
undervalue
yourself
,
as
to
believe
any
services
can
deserve
your
Gratitude
;
you
will
perhaps
give
me
a
title
to
that
by
Justice
,
which
I
never
could
expect
but
from
your
Mercy
:
For
Perolla
when
he
sav'd
Blacius
the
first
time
,
knew
not
who
he
was
,
and
the
second
time
did
it
to
obey
his
Mistris
,
and
offend
his
Enemy
;
But
I
not
only
knew
,
that
in
preserving
him
I
preserv'd
my
mortall'st
Enemy
;
and
did
it
without
any
inducement
,
except
a
belief
that
it
might
be
pleasing
to
you
,
but
also
sav'd
that
Perolla
too
,
for
whom
you
would
have
sacrific'd
not
only
your
Father
,
but
your self
,
and
by
which
I
found
I
cherisht
my
own
destruction
:
but
my
obedience
was
too
perfect
to
stand
upon
Reason
,
or
if
it
did
,
it
found
nothing
which
more
deserv'd
that
name
than
to
obey
you
,
Yes
Madam
,
I
consider'd
my
destruction
too
glorious
to
deplore
it
,
if
thereby
I
might
settle
your
Contentment
:
Judge
then
(
fair
Izadora
)
if
I
have
not
cause
to
say
,
that
there
is
some
desparity
between
our
Services
,
and
whether
I
may
not
upon
that
belief
expect
,
that
you
will
at
least
commiserate
the
captivity
of
my
Mind
as
much
as
of
his
Body
,
who
certainly
is
unworthy
his
felicity
,
if
he
can
find
room
to
entertain
a
grief
,
having
the
highest
preservative
from
it
,
the
blessing
of
your
affection
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
those
obligations
you
have
conferr'd
on
me
are
of
so
transcendent
a
nature
,
that
to
think
to
define
,
is
to
injure
them
;
and
if
they
have
any
defect
,
it
proceeds
only
from
their
greatness
,
which
by
a
necessity
of
gratitude
casts
me
into
as
high
a
misery
as
they
took
me
out
of
:
Yes
,
generous
Hanniball
,
I
can
truly
say
,
that
when
I
reflect
upon
your
obligations
,
and
find
not
only
a
want
of
power
,
but
of
hope
to
make
them
of
proportionate
return
,
I
am
struck
with
a
melancholly
equal
to
the
joy
I
resented
when
you
conferr'd
them
on
me
;
and
perhaps
I
should
not
lye
if
I
profest
that
these
thoughts
are
as
large
a
cause
of
my
sadness
as
any
other
.
Would
to
the
Gods
Madam
(
said
he
)
that
your
will
to
oblige
me
were
but
equal
to
your
power
,
I
could
soon
then
exchange
my
fears
for
joys
,
in
very
contemplation
whereof
I
quickly
lose
my self
:
Yes
,
fair
Izadora
,
those
that
gave
you
the
power
to
command
,
have
given
you
too
the
power
to
reward
,
and
I
find
should
in
an
Hymeneal
Crown
an
bundant
recompence
for
my
services
and
sufferings
;
this
union
should
give
the
World
Peace
,
or
you
the
World
,
which
is
a
far
easier
Conquest
than
that
of
Izadora
,
whom
I
durst
promise
to
make
Empress
of
that
by
Arms
,
which
by
virtue
she
has
so
just
a
title
to
;
for
if
only
if
only
to
obey
the
Carthagineans
and
to
satisfie
my
own
inclinati●
I
have
already
so
far
proceeded
,
she
cannot
doubt
but
to
justifie
her
choice
,
and
merit
the
glorious
title
of
her
Souldier
,
I
would
perform
miracles
almost
as
great
as
the
cause
of
them
.
Though
the
words
of
this
Declaration
were
very
confident
,
yet
the
Declaration
it self
was
not
,
for
Hannibal
,
maugre
his
high
Courage
,
was
all
the
while
it
lasted
as
pale
as
guilt
,
and
made
it
with
so
great
a
trembling
and
constraint
,
that
he
had
as
much
of
my
pity
,
as
of
my
anger
;
but
after
a
little
silence
,
which
rather
shew'd
my
resentment
than
irresolution
,
I
told
him
,
My
apprehensions
of
being
ungrateful
,
were
now
I
perceive
too
well
grounded
,
for
that
you
do
me
the
honour
to
mention
,
is
not
in
my
power
to
grant
;
I
know
this
confession
to
a
Prince
less
generous
,
might
produce
a
contrary
effect
than
I
am
confident
't
will
in
you
,
from
whom
I
have
receiv'd
such
memorable
obligations
,
hat
I
had
rather
have
your
disesteem
by
acknowledging
a
Truth
,
than
continue
your
favour
by
a
dissimulation
which
would
render
me
unworthy
of
it
:
That
Heart
which
is
below
the
great
Hannibal
,
is
so
given
to
another
,
that
were
it
revocable
,
't
were
upon
that
score
,
if
not
on
any
other
,
unfit
for
your
acceptance
;
for
I
must
be
unconstant
to
be
kind
,
and
I
know
you
have
a
greater
Passion
for
Virtue
than
for
Beauty
.
Alas
Madam
(
he
eply'd
)
fetching
a
deep
sigh
)
Why
did
you
make
such
haste
to
give
your self
away
,
knowing
the
influence
of
your
Eyes
,
which
would
create
as
many
Servants
as
Beholders
?
Why
did
you
prove
unjust
to
one
of
them
,
to
be
the
like
to
all
the
rest
?
for
to
give
all
to
the
happy
Perolla
is
as
great
an
injustice
in
one
extream
,
as
to
reserve
none
for
the
residue
of
your
Adorers
is
in
the
other
.
Sir
(
said
I
)
you
may
easily
perceive
the
great
distinction
I
place
between
your
and
Perolla's
actions
,
for
by
undertaking
to
reward
his
,
I
shew
at
how
low
a
rate
I
value
them
;
and
by
acknowledging
that
the
impossibility
of
my
satisfying
what
I
owe
you
,
is
as
great
as
my
desires
to
pay
it
;
I
acquaint
you
with
the
largeness
of
my
resentments
,
and
do
perhaps
in
my
very
ingratitude
it self
in
some
degree
prove
grateful
.
Ah
Madam
(
he
answer'd
)
do
not
lessen
your
power
to
the
increase
of
your
cruelty
;
nor
render
my
services
uncapable
of
reward
,
by
esteeming
them
above
any
:
No
,
fair
Izadora
,
let
me
not
find
my
ruine
in
that
which
was
my
duty
,
and
shall
be
my
ambition
,
let
not
my
performances
like
bubbles
encrease
to
nothing
.
But
at
last
Hannibal
(
who
perceiv'd
that
his
replies
did
rather
confirm
than
lessen
my
constancy
,
and
that
he
had
unfortunately
taken
a
time
which
my
melancholly
made
unfit
for
his
addresses
)
told
me
;
I
should
be
too
partial
to
my self
,
Madam
,
did
I
expect
to
suppress
one
flame
in
you
,
and
create
another
any
way
but
by
perseverance
;
I
will
therefore
no
more
importune
you
with
my
Passion
,
nor
make
use
of
any
other
Orators
than
my
services
and
sufferings
;
neither
shall
I
despair
,
but
by
their
help
to
vanquish
your
disdain
,
for
I
find
in
my
very
fear
an
ample
cause
of
hope
,
since
the
impressions
of
nature
are
as
firm
as
those
of
our
own
acquisition
,
and
Perolla
by
his
services
and
glory
having
vanquisht
your
aversion
to
his
blood
,
it
gives
me
a
confidence
by
the
same
ways
to
produce
as
high
effects
,
the
disproportion
being
at
worst
but
equally
great
.
I
will
go
then
Madam
,
and
peform
things
of
such
Virtue
,
that
you
shall
be
as
unjust
as
I
am
miserable
if
you
decline
my
Passion
,
and
the
world
shall
see
,
if
Perolla
exceeds
me
in
any
thing
't
is
in
happiness
not
in
merit
.
Then
without
staying
for
any
reply
,
he
saluted
me
with
an
humility
as
great
as
he
would
have
perswaded
me
his
Passion
was
,
and
went
directly
to
his
own
house
,
where
immediately
he
gave
orders
to
have
the
next
morning
his
Army
ready
to
move
,
for
he
would
act
some
exploit
,
which
should
abundantly
repair
his
unaccustomed
idleness
.
This
promise
gave
the
generous
Maherbal
as
high
a
contentment
as
the
Effects
of
it
the
contrary
to
the
Romans
;
but
after
he
had
distributed
those
orders
which
were
necessary
for
hasting
his
march
,
he
began
to
reflect
upon
the
impossibility
of
success
in
his
passion
,
as
long
as
I
had
so
just
and
advantageous
an
opinion
of
Perolla
;
he
therefore
fancied
,
that
if
he
could
but
create
any
suspitions
in
him
of
my
con●tancy
,
it
might
furnish
him
with
a
means
to
destroy
his
,
whose
perfections
he
esteem'd
its
fault
,
because
it
was
his
own
misfortune
.
But
after
he
had
projected
a
Million
of
ways
to
accomplish
this
design
,
he
seem'd
none
so
probable
as
by
corrupting
Oristes
,
a
Salapian
of
quality
,
in
whose
house
Perolla
was
a
Prisoner
,
and
who
by
his
exceeding
civility
,
and
the
interest
he
took
in
all
his
troubles
,
had
gotten
a
great
share
in
my
generous
Friend
.
This
Oristes
,
Hannibal
sent
for
that
Night
,
and
having
brought
him
into
his
Cabinet
,
disclosed
to
him
there
his
condition
and
desires
,
but
in
such
pressing
words
and
actions
,
that
he
easily
perceiv'd
how
infinitely
the
Carthaginean
was
concern'd
in
the
accomplishing
of
them
;
The
Salapian
,
who
had
some
weak
principles
of
virtue
,
did
a
long
time
resist
both
Hannibal's
prayers
and
rewards
;
yet
in
the
end
,
that
little
generosity
he
had
shew'd
,
serv'd
but
to
aggravate
his
offence
,
for
he
was
vanquisht
,
and
evidenc'd
thereby
he
knew
his
duty
,
but
would
not
practise
it
,
for
he
promis'd
the
Carthaginean
not
only
to
undertake
,
but
succeed
in
the
design
;
which
fill'd
him
with
so
much
satisfaction
,
that
the
effect
of
it
were
visible
next
morning
when
he
past
under
my
Window
:
for
out
of
gallantry
he
made
his
Army
march
through
Salapia
,
and
in
a
military
civility
saluted
me
with
all
those
victorious
Ensigns
,
which
never
before
or
since
pay'd
that
homage
to
any
but
their
General
;
and
because
those
triumphant
Troops
appeared
that
day
by
his
expresscommands
in
all
their
magnificence
,
I
shall
not
think
it
impertinent
to
mention
their
orders
and
numbers
,
which
though
it
be
a
thing
out
of
my
Sex's
element
,
yet
I
took
so
particular
notice
of
it
then
,
that
I
am
confident
I
shall
in
my
relation
abuse
nothing
but
your
patience
.
The
first
division
consisted
of
8000
Numidian
Horse
,
led
by
the
gallant
Maherbal
,
whose
Men
was
as
full
of
virtue
as
courage
,
and
whose
actions
sufficiently
justified
their
Phisiognomy
:
These
Troops
methought
relisht
something
of
their
Commander
,
and
were
generally
so
well
Armed
and
Horst
,
that
they
seem'd
rather
going
to
a
Triumph
than
a
Battel
.
After
these
Hannibal
appeared
environ'd
by
a
thousand
young
Carthagineans
,
which
he
had
elected
for
his
Guards
,
and
followed
by
4000
Foot
,
(
all
Affricans
.
)
I
must
do
him
the
right
to
acknowledge
,
that
he
had
so
noble
a
fierceness
in
his
Armour
,
that
though
I
had
never
seen
him
I
should
yet
have
taken
him
for
the
General
;
and
certainly
he
was
no
friend
to
his
good
Meene
,
when
he
shew'd
himself
out
of
an
Army
.
These
Affricans
resigned
their
places
to
Three
and
thirty
great
Elephants
(
all
that
then
were
left
)
which
had
towers
of
Wood
upon
their
Backs
,
and
so
not
onely
carried
but
fortified
their
Riders
.
After
these
follow'd
4000
Mules
and
Horses
,
the
most
of
them
loaden
with
so
many
several
Engines
of
Battery
,
that
I
admir'd
as
much
at
the
wickedness
as
at
the
ingenuity
of
Men
,
which
could
find
such
several
ways
to
destroy
one
another
.
These
were
no
sooner
past
but
their
appear'd
10000
Guiles
,
6000
Lygurians
,
and
4000
Grecians
,
all
lead
by
Commanders
of
their
own
Nations
,
and
fighting
under
Carthaginean
Colours
,
more
for
Hannibal's
Fame
than
his
pay
;
These
Squadrons
had
so
warlike
and
haughty
a
march
,
that
it
shew'd
how
eager
and
ambitious
they
were
of
Battel
.
The
last
divisions
consisted
of
8000
Horse
,
4000
of
which
were
Men
at
Arms
,
and
all
Gaules
,
led
by
the
valiant
Britogentrix
,
and
the
other
4000
were
Iberians
,
under
the
commands
of
Mircal
and
Barmocal
,
who
brought
up
the
Rear
of
this
great
Army
,
which
was
compos'd
almost
of
all
Nations
but
those
it
was
going
to
conquer
.
I
must
confess
,
this
sight
made
me
excuse
that
haughtiness
of
which
Hannibal
was
esteem'd
guilty
,
for
who
could
have
been
so
much
a
Philosopher
,
as
not
to
be
proud
of
having
so
many
thousand
gallant
Men
ready
to
sacrifice
themselves
at
his
commnad
?
but
my
admiration
as
it
was
not
greater
than
my
fear
for
the
Romans
,
and
that
reflection
at
last
lead
me
to
a
joy
which
I
shall
not
scruple
to
reveal
,
since
if
it
proceeded
from
a
want
of
courage
,
it
did
not
from
a
want
of
love
:
'T
was
Sir
(
Izadora
continu'd
)
occasioned
at
Perolla's
being
a
Prisoner
;
for
I
could
not
consider
his
valor
and
the
endless
subjects
it
was
to
be
employed
against
,
but
I
found
my
satisfaction
in
that
which
had
been
my
trouble
,
and
was
more
pleased
that
Hannibal
had
deny'd
me
his
liberty
than
I
should
have
been
in
his
obedience
;
for
I
could
no
more
deplore
my
generous
Friends
sufferings
,
since
it
procur'd
his
safety
,
than
I
could
any
mans
condition
who
took
Physick
but
to
be
well
.
I
must
not
omit
to
tell
you
,
that
every
common
Soldier
of
this
vast
Body
carry'd
a
branch
of
Lawrel
,
their
confidence
being
so
great
,
that
they
wore
the
reward
of
victory
before
they
obtain'd
it
.
'T
was
with
this
Army
that
Hannibal
march'd
first
to
Tarentum
,
where
though
he
found
a
vigorous
resistance
,
yet
the
valor
of
the
Defendants
serv'd
only
to
set
off
his
own
the
better
,
for
he
carry'd
it
by
storm
,
and
in
that
action
perform'd
so
much
of
the
Soldier
as
well
as
of
the
General
,
that
he
deriv'd
his
success
as
much
from
his
courage
as
his
conduct
.
I
know
(
continu'd
Izadora
)
the
Romans
affirm
that
Nico
and
Philomenes
betray'd
that
great
City
to
him
,
but
I
know
too
,
that
both
of
them
being
kill'd
not
long
after
in
the
besieging
of
Capua
,
they
sealed
their
innocency
with
their
last
breath
,
and
vow'd
that
the
Carthaginean
civility
in
curing
these
wounds
he
had
received
in
being
made
their
Prisoners
,
and
the
Romans
ingratitude
in
terming
their
misfortune
their
treachery
,
made
them
in
revenge
abandon
the
Eagles
,
and
serve
under
Hannibal's
Ensigns
,
who
though
he
had
taken
the
Town
,
yet
the
Castle
which
stood
upon
the
point
of
the
Harbor
did
resolutely
defend
it self
:
and
well
it
might
,
for
the
Carthagiginean
having
no
Ships
to
hinder
their
relief
,
every
Easterly
Wind
the
Grecians
supply'd
it
with
Men
and
Victuals
;
but
at
last
,
when
all
Hannibal's
Engineers
could
not
find
a
way
to
block
it
up
,
he
himself
did
;
for
having
taken
good
store
of
Gallies
,
in
the
Key
of
Tarentum
,
and
not
being
able
by
Sea
to
bring
them
out
of
Harbor
,
because
the
Castle
commanded
all
the
streights
and
passages
,
he
caus'd
the
Gallies
with
an
admirable
celerity
and
art
to
be
put
upon
Carts
,
and
so
carried
them
by
Land
into
the
Sea
,
and
in
that
miraculous
manner
besieged
them
round
,
which
the
Romans
discerning
,
not
long
after
yielded
.
I
have
told
you
(
said
Izadora
)
this
particular
,
since
it
never
had
a
president
,
or
an
imitation
,
and
because
it
dejected
the
Senate
more
than
the
loss
of
a
Battel
,
by
finding
they
had
to
deal
with
an
Enemy
whose
industry
perverted
the
very
order
of
nature
,
making
one
Element
bear
the
burthen
and
do
the
office
of
another
.
From
thence
he
went
into
Lucania
,
where
i●
a
bloody
of
Battel
,
he
defeated
Marcus
Centineus
,
who
publishing
aloud
,
that
he
loved
the
Senate
and
his
Honour
too
well
to
bring
them
news
that
his
Army
was
lost
,
resolutely
thrusting
himself
into
the
midst
of
the
Carthaginians
,
where
he
found
upon
the
points
of
a
thousand
Swords
the
cure
of
that
days
misfortune
.
From
this
fatal
Field
,
he
carried
his
victorious
Troops
into
Apulia
,
where
by
a
stratagem
too
intricate
and
tedious
to
be
related
he
reduc'd
Praetor
Fabius's
Army
,
from
Twenty
to
Two
thousand
:
But
to
qualifie
these
high
successes
he
receiv'd
advertisement
that
both
the
Consuls
were
set
down
before
Capua
,
and
by
the
celerity
of
their
approaches
,
had
already
so
straitned
it
,
that
unless
he
brought
the
place
an
immediate
relief
,
it
would
be
past
any
.
These
pressing
Letters
made
him
carry
the
War
into
Campania
,
where
after
he
had
a
little
refresh'd
himself
,
he
offer'd
the
Consuls
Battel
,
who
as
readily
accepted
it
,
for
the
Roman
Empire
was
then
in
too
desperate
a
sickness
to
try
a
desperate
Cure
.
That
day
much
of
those
fertile
Plains
were
moystned
with
Blood
;
and
though
Hannibal
perfor●'d
all
the
parts
of
an
excellent
General
,
and
of
a
valiant
Soldier
,
yet
it
was
darkness
and
not
victory
which
ended
the
dispute
.
The
next
morning
as
soon
as
it
was
light
,
Hannibal
again
drew
his
Army
in
Battalia
,
but
the
Consuls
,
who
had
not
(
by
the
precedent
days
loss
)
Men
enough
to
keep
the
Field
and
Trenchestoo
,
contented
themselves
to
continue
in
the
latter
;
so
that
thereby
they
made
his
fortune
the
more
admirable
;
for
he
was
Conqueror
without
fighting
,
because
he
won
the
Battel
the
day
after
it
was
fought
.
But
after
he
had
by
many
attempts
endeavor'd
to
relieve
his
Confederates
,
and
found
,
that
though
he
besieg'd
the
Romans
,
yet
that
they
did
the
like
to
the
Capuans
,
the
Consuls
having
both
victuall'd
and
fortify'd
themselves
sufficiently
,
he
resolv'd
to
effect
that
by
diversion
which
he
could
not
by
force
,
and
therefore
past
silently
the
River
Vulturnus
,
and
crossing
with
wonderful
expedition
the
Countreys
of
the
Sidicinians
,
Artifanians
,
Cassinians
and
Fregellans
,
he
in
seven
days
presented
himself
before
the
magnificent
Walls
of
Rome
,
and
had
done
it
much
sooner
,
had
not
the
Fregillans
pull'd
down
the
Bridge
at
the
River
Lyris
,
and
thereby
much
retarded
his
march
;
and
though
this
was
meerly
a
stratagem
of
War
,
yet
he
attributed
it
to
a
gallantry
of
his
Passion
;
for
in
a
Letter
he
sent
me
,
it
relisht
more
of
Izadora's
Soldier
to
take
Rome
than
relieve
Capua
.
It
is
not
difficult
to
believe
that
the
Romans
,
who
did
fear
to
hear
of
Hannibal
,
did
much
more
so
to
see
him
at
their
Gates
,
especially
being
follow'd
by
a
triumphant
Army
;
But
for
all
his
using
such
unimaginable
diligence
,
the
Senate
receiv'd
secret
advice
of
his
designs
.
Never
Rome
was
fill'd
with
so
universal
a
Terror
as
then
,
no
not
when
the
Gaules
under
the
valiant
Breunus
,
conquer'd
all
of
it
but
the
Capitol
,
and
when
the
Forum
ran
with
streams
of
the
Senates
and
Patricians
Blood
.
This
great
consternation
had
no
influence
upon
any
but
the
people
,
the
Senate
still
maintaining
that
gravity
and
courage
which
was
their
nature
as
much
as
practice
;
but
at
the
length
the
common
fear
was
well
silenc'd
by
the
arrival
of
Fulvius
Flaccus
(
one
of
the
Consuls
that
had
besieg'd
Capua
)
who
being
sent
for
to
defend
Rome
,
was
come
almost
as
soon
as
Hannibal
,
and
brought
with
him
15000
of
the
select
Legionaries
,
and
a
thousand
choice
Men
at
Arms.
That
which
gave
him
the
happiness
of
coming
so
opportunely
,
was
,
not
only
the
timely
intelligence
was
sent
him
,
but
also
passing
through
Countries
that
were
his
friends
,
he
receiv'd
none
of
those
impediments
which
the
Carthaginean
met
with
.
The
Senate
sent
the
Carthaginian
met
with
.
The
Senate
sent
for
one
of
the
Consuls
to
please
the
People
,
and
but
for
one
,
not
to
please
Hannibal
,
who
might
have
too
much
glory'd
to
have
made
them
neglect
their
Conquests
for
their
safeties
.
The
Consul
Flaccus
being
inform'd
,
that
the
next
morning
the
enemy
intended
to
storm
Rome
,
resolv'd
(
with
the
permission
of
the
Senate
)
to
make
a
Battel
,
Hannibal's
only
way
to
the
assault
,
declaring
generously
,
that
't
was
not
fit
the
Empire
of
the
World
should
fall
like
a
common
City
,
but
if
the
expiration
of
it
were
now
arriv'd
,
't
were
requisite
its
ruine
should
shew
its
greatness
,
and
that
those
which
compos'd
it
should
dye
with
it
.
The
day
therefore
no
sooner
began
to
appear
,
but
the
valiant
Consul
drew
out
his
Army
,
which
with
those
he
brought
,
and
those
Romans
that
voluntarily
came
under
his
Ensigns
,
consisted
of
50000
Men.
Hannibal
on
the
other
side
about
the
same
instant
,
drew
his
Soldiers
out
of
their
Camp
,
but
he
admir'd
when
instead
of
seeing
the
Walls
cover'd
with
his
Enemies
,
he
perceiv'd
the
Fields
were
so
;
but
his
wonder
was
soon
converted
into
joy
,
to
observe
that
Rome
would
fall
like
her self
,
and
that
he
should
have
to
deal
with
those
upon
even
terms
,
who
he
had
suspected
would
give
him
more
trouble
to
joyn
with
,
than
to
conquer
them
;
and
to
lose
no
time
,
he
commanded
the
Trumpets
,
the
Clairons
,
and
all
the
other
Musick
of
War
,
to
give
the
signal
of
Battel
,
which
no
sooner
was
heard
,
than
both
these
great
Bodies
began
to
move
with
resolution
worthy
their
Quarrel
,
the
one
fighting
to
win
the
Empire
of
the
World
,
and
the
other
to
keep
it
.
But
just
as
they
were
about
to
begin
that
fatal
Tragedy
,
the
Sun
(
which
till
then
had
shone
very
bright
)
began
to
hide
it self
,
as
perhaps
detesting
to
look
upon
so
many
intended
Murders
;
the
whole
face
of
the
Heaven
was
in
an
instant
obscur'd
with
a
thick
darkness
;
the
Thunder
did
hideously
grumble
;
the
winds
made
a
noise
,
as
if
they
had
all
broken
loose
out
of
their
Caves
,
and
the
Clouds
melted
so
fast
,
that
many
thought
the
Lightnings
had
dissolv'd
them
,
and
as
many
admir'd
how
so
much
fire
could
avoid
quenching
in
so
much
water
:
I
cannot
better
describe
the
horror
of
this
day
,
then
by
the
effects
it
produced
,
which
were
,
that
it
constrain'd
the
Consul
and
Hannibal
to
return
with
their
Armies
into
their
several
Camps
;
for
Flaccus
too
had
pitch'd
his
Tents
in
a
great
field
some
two
furlongs
from
the
Temple
of
Hercules
,
lest
Hannibals
being
before
Rome
should
look
like
besieging
it
,
which
none
could
truly
say
he
did
,
whilst
there
was
a
Roman
betwixt
him
and
the
City
.
But
that
which
afflicted
Hannibal
,
as
much
as
this
miraculous
separation
,
which
he
then
termed
but
a
suspension
of
his
victory
,
was
an
advertisement
he
received
by
his
Spies
,
that
the
Senate
had
not
only
since
his
coming
sent
certain
Companies
with
flying
Ensigns
to
the
recruit
of
their
Legions
in
Spain
,
but
also
had
sold
those
very
fields
on
which
he
Campt
,
at
a
higher
rate
,
than
they
were
valu'd
at
before
his
being
possest
of
them
;
In
revenge
whereof
,
he
caus'd
all
the
rich
Shops
in
the
Forum
,
to
be
sold
by
a
publique
Cryer
.
But
sir
,
(
said
Izadora
)
that
which
made
the
precedent
storm
so
absolutely
a
wonder
,
was
,
that
as
soon
as
Flaccus
and
Hannibal
were
returned
into
their
Camps
,
the
day
prov'd
so
very
fair
,
and
the
night
too
,
that
the
Carthaginian
was
proud
with
a
belief
,
that
th●
next
visit
of
the
Sun
,
would
unavoidably
decide
his
Fate
;
but
therein
also
he
was
deluded
,
for
the
succeeding
day
,
was
but
a
perfect
repetition
of
the
preceding
,
as
well
for
the
Miracle
,
as
for
the
separation
of
the
two
Armies
,
onely
the
Tyber
was
with
those
Cataracts
of
Rain
,
so
exceedingly
swell'd
,
that
she
overflow'd
her
Banks
,
and
had
like
to
have
reveng'd
all
the
Romans
losses
by
the
ruine
of
Hannibals
Army
;
but
he
by
a
timely
care
remov'd
his
Tents
to
a
higher
ground
,
and
thereby
avoided
an
Enemy
,
which
he
could
not
resist
.
I
remember
,
I
have
been
told
,
that
several
private
persons
in
Rome
(
for
the
Senate
detested
to
seem
to
derive
any
advantage
,
but
from
their
Arms
)
perform'd
many
sacrifices
to
the
Nymphs
and
Nayades
of
Tyber
for
endeavouring
their
revenge
,
and
for
making
Hannibal
fly
out
of
his
Camp
,
which
never
any
Romans
thitherto
had
done
.
I
must
now
,
generous
Spartacus
,
acquaint
you
with
a
particular
which
few
have
heard
,
and
fewer
have
believ'd
,
in
which
last
number
,
I
perhaps
include
my self
;
but
yet
I
shall
tell
it
you
,
since
it
is
a
part
of
that
story
you
seem
so
much
concern'd
in
:
Blacius
,
(
according
to
Hannibal's
promise
to
me
)
being
set
at
liberty
,
and
understanding
of
Hannibal's
design
upon
Rome
,
and
of
the
continuance
of
his
passion
,
commanded
me
to
desire
him
,
by
the
pressingst
conju●ations
a
Letter
was
capable
of
,
to
carry
his
Arms
to
any
other
place
,
rather
than
to
the
destruction
of
that
City
,
where
I
had
my
Birth
,
with
this
hope
,
that
if
my
Prayers
were
successful
,
it
would
free
Rome
from
an
imminent
ruine
,
and
if
they
were
not
,
't
would
prove
a
good
rise
to
free
me
from
his
addresses
:
for
he
abhorr'd
an
allyance
with
Hannibal
,
as
highly
as
with
Perolla
and
detested
the
Enemy
of
his
Countrey
as
much
as
of
his
Family
.
I
immediately
obey'd
Blacius
,
as
much
by
inclination
as
by
duty
,
and
sent
a
post
away
with
a
Letter
to
the
Carthaginian
,
which
because
't
was
my
own
,
I
did
not
think
it
worthy
the
remembring
:
my
Express
came
to
him
in
the
midst
of
his
fury
for
these
two
unfortunate
separations
,
and
of
his
Resolves
the
next
morning
,
if
his
Souldiers
could
not
march
,
they
should
swim
to
a
Victory
;
but
as
soon
as
he
had
read
my
Letter
,
he
divested
himself
of
all
his
rage
,
and
gave
immediate
Orders
to
have
his
Army
the
next
day
ready
to
march
away
,
contenting
himself
(
as
he
gave
it
out
)
that
he
had
made
Rome
tremble
,
and
necessitated
the
gods
to
a
double
miracle
for
her
safety
(
that
of
the
Inundations
,
and
that
of
his
not
taking
her
:
)
But
yet
to
satisfy
the
Avarice
and
Sufferings
of
his
Soldiers
,
he
led
them
the
direct
way
to
the
Grove
of
Fero●●
,
where
stood
a
Temple
of
inestimable
Riches
,
all
which
he
expos'd
to
their
pillage
,
and
from
thence
return'd
me
by
my
Messenger
,
this
Answer
to
my
Letter
;
HANNIBAL
to
the
fair
IZADORA
.
HE
that
has
already
sacrific'd
his
revenge
to
your
Commands
,
does
the
like
now
with
his
Victory
;
I
should
have
said
with
his
Glory
,
did
he
not
find
more
in
his
obedience
,
than
he
could
in
his
success
.
Would
to
the
gods
,
fair
Izadora
,
you
could
but
enjoy
as
high
a
contentment
in
the
reception
,
as
I
do
in
the
payment
of
your
Duty
:
I
might
then
have
some
hopes
that
my
Passion
might
not
prove
eternally
fruitless
,
and
that
he
who
ambitions
nothing
but
this
satisfaction
,
might
by
incessant
impressions
of
that
quality
and
production
,
invite
you
by
an
imitation
,
to
reward
what
you
cannot
but
approve
.
AFter
Hannibal's
retreat
from
Rome
,
Flaccus
return'd
to
Capua
to
his
Colleague
Appius
Clodius
,
and
the
Capuans
,
who
had
endur'd
miseries
almost
sufficient
for
the
punishment
of
their
Rebel●ion
observing
the
Consul
,
was
not
follow'd
by
the
Carthaginian
Army
,
found
it
high
time
to
think
upon
their
securities
;
in
order
whereunto
they
assembled
the
Senate
,
where
after
a
serious
debate
,
Vibius
(
Uncle
to
Perolla
)
perceiving
that
the
major
part
inclin'd
to
submit
unto
the
Roman
Mercy
,
in
an
excellent
Oration
befought
them
,
rather
to
dye
by
their
own
hands
,
and
so
rob
their
Enemies
of
the
Glory
of
full
Conquest
,
by
contributing
to
their
own
ruine
,
and
make
Hannibal
know
by
so
noble
a
fall
,
that
the
preserving
of
such
generous
friends
,
had
been
more
worthy
his
Arms
,
than
the
taking
of
that
which
he
but
attempted
;
that
it
was
more
resembling
the
antient
splendor
of
Capua
,
to
perform
what
might
rather
create
the
Romans
admiration
than
their
pity
,
that
for
his
own
particular
,
he
esteem'd
no
Fate
so
bad
,
as
to
make
up
a
part
of
Claudius
and
Flaccus's
Triumph
,
which
was
the
best
condition
they
could
expect
by
a
surrender
;
therefore
all
those
who
were
gallant
enough
to
expire
with
their
liberty
,
he
invited
to
go
with
him
,
and
take
their
share
of
a
Cup
,
which
should
exempt
them
for
ever
from
the
cruelties
and
vicissitudes
of
Fortune
.
After
he
had
finished
these
words
,
he
saluted
the
Senate
with
an
admirable
constancy
,
and
being
follow'd
by
seven
and
twenty
Senators
,
he
went
directly
home
,
where
they
all
hasted
to
pledge
that
fatal
health
which
he
began
,
having
no
fears
in
their
deaths
,
but
that
the
Romans
should
possess
Capua
before
they
were
acted
.
I
have
told
you
(
said
Izadora
)
this
Tragedy
,
not
only
because
it
was
the
discourse
and
admiration
of
the
whole
World
,
but
also
because
the
chief
Actor
of
it
had
so
near
a
relation
to
my
generous
Friend
,
the
rest
of
the
Senate
immediately
submitted
to
the
Consuls
,
and
found
from
Flaccus
,
that
death
with
ignominy
,
which
they
might
have
given
themselves
with
Glory
.
Hannibal
to
revenge
his
dead
Friends
,
perform'd
many
great
exploits
in
the
Countreys
of
the
Brutians
and
Lucanians
,
where
he
sacrific'd
to
appease
their
Manes
above
ten
thousand
Romans
,
and
then
the
season
being
unfit
for
action
,
he
return'd
to
this
City
,
and
in
a
Complement
to
me
,
declin'd
a
Triumphant
Entry
,
because
the
chiefest
ornaments
of
it
,
were
to
have
been
compos'd
of
the
spoils
of
my
Countrey
.
When
the
faithful
Symander
was
(
to
Callimachus
)
thus
obeying
his
dear
Masters
Commands
,
they
both
perceiv'd
him
coming
towards
them
,
accompanied
with
one
of
the
Priests
of
Venus
,
who
was
come
to
advertise
his
Superior
,
that
the
Sacrifices
which
are
usually
offer'd
to
appease
the
incens'd
Deity
,
and
to
break
the
Oracles
unaccustom'd
silence
,
onely
expected
his
presence
to
be
performed
.
He
immediately
obey'd
the
Summons
,
though
he
had
much
rather
employ'd
his
time
in
hearing
of
Symander
,
whose
Relations
so
charm'd
him
,
that
it
almost
darkened
his
Piety
;
but
that
he
might
return
the
sooner
to
so
pleasing
an
entertainment
,
he
took
Artabanes
by
the
hand
,
and
led
him
to
be
an
assistant
to
those
Ceremonies
,
which
were
unavoidably
to
be
perform'd
,
before
he
could
learn
his
Fate
,
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FIRST
PART
.
BOOK
VI.
THE
Sacrifice
being
finisht
,
and
Callimachus
having
perfectly
consider'd
the
Prophetical
parts
of
the
Victims
,
assured
all
the
Assistants
,
that
the
Deity
was
well
pleased
with
their
Devotions
,
but
that
he
could
not
as
yet
discover
any
Maxim
in
Divination
,
which
might
afford
a
certainty
,
that
within
few
days
,
the
Oracle
should
be
restored
to
the
liberty
of
speaking
.
Artabanes
was
extreamly
troubled
with
this
belief
,
and
the
better
to
entertain
those
thoughts
it
created
,
he
withdrew
himself
into
a
solitude
which
that
morning
he
had
discovered
,
and
which
was
indeed
a
place
fit
to
cherish
so
deep
a
melancholly
as
his
:
it
was
in
a
Valley
all
over-hung
with
lofty
Trees
,
whose
tops
were
so
interwoven
by
the
help
of
Nature
onely
,
that
they
rather
formed
an
obscurity
than
a
shade
;
it
was
watred
too
with
many
clear
Fountains
,
whose
sad
murmur
seemed
to
bear
our
unfortunate
Lover
company
,
and
to
have
a
sense
of
his
miseries
:
but
this
forlorn
retirement
was
so
far
from
the
Temple
,
that
Artabanes
(
whose
natural
strength
was
very
much
impaired
by
an
internal
grief
which
by
degrees
consumed
him
)
was
constrained
to
make
use
of
his
Horse
to
return
thither
,
where
he
was
no
sooner
come
,
then
having
ty'd
him
to
a
Tree
,
he
flung
himself
upon
the
grass
,
and
after
a
serious
reflexion
on
his
past
misfortunes
,
and
present
condition
,
he
cryed
out
,
Great
gods
,
do
you
take
delight
in
cruelty
,
that
you
enjoyn
me
to
live
after
a
loss
,
which
makes
my
life
my
torment
?
or
are
you
ignorant
that
it
lies
not
in
your
power
(
in
this
life
)
to
repair
the
miseries
you
have
cast
upon
me
in
it
?
if
not
one
of
these
,
why
did
you
command
me
to
live
,
when
I
had
almost
found
in
my
resolution
my
cure
?
and
enjoyn
me
to
receive
my
Fate
from
this
Oracle
,
on
which
at
the
same
instant
,
you
impos'd
an
extraordinary
silence
;
if
you
intended
my
ruine
,
why
do
you
bring
your
power
in
question
by
not
effecting
it
,
and
if
you
design'd
my
felicity
,
why
did
you
take
Parthenissa
to
you
?
if
you
were
resolv'd
upon
the
former
,
why
did
you
bestow
on
me
so
great
a
Heart
?
and
if
you
meant
the
latter
,
why
did
you
give
me
so
great
a
Constancy
?
Shall
I
find
Courage
is
as
high
a
Curse
to
me
,
as
it
is
a
Blessing
to
others
?
and
shall
I
find
in
Virtue
a
greater
torment
than
ever
you
inflicted
for
the
punishment
of
Vice
?
Great
gods
!
(
he
continued
fetching
a
deep
sigh
)
I
have
for
all
this
obeyed
you
,
when
it
was
against
my
reas●n
,
when
it
was
against
my
inclination
,
and
yet
all
the
reward
I
beg
of
you
for
so
painful
an
obedience
,
is
,
that
by
a
mark
of
your
fury
,
I
may
receive
one
of
your
Love
:
but
if
your
Thunder
be
kept
for
the
wicked
,
and
not
the
unfortunate
,
let
your
Oracle
command
me
to
dye
,
this
hand
(
when
you
have
taken
off
the
impiety
)
shall
be
the
joyful
Executioner
of
your
sentence
,
and
by
one
generous
blow
send
me
to
that
union
in
the
other
World
,
which
it
seemed
you
thought
me
unworthy
of
in
this
.
Whilst
Artabanes
was
in
these
expostulations
,
Callimachus
had
led
Symander
into
that
Walk
,
in
which
he
had
begun
his
relations
,
and
where
he
desired
him
(
with
an
impatience
that
manifested
his
concernment
)
to
prosecute
them
,
which
the
faithful
Servant
willingly
undertook
,
and
having
begged
Callimachus's
pardon
,
for
dwelling
so
long
on
a
story
,
not
essential
to
his
Princes
,
which
yet
he
believed
highly
worth
the
relation
,
and
minded
him
,
that
he
was
interrupted
at
Hannibals
return
unto
Salapia
,
and
that
he
always
spoke
the
fair
Izadora's
words
,
thus
continued
her
Adventures
.
The
continuance
of
Izadora's
and
Perolla's
History
.
YOU
may
be
pleased
(
said
Izadora
to
my
Prince
)
to
excuse
me
,
if
I
have
too
much
particularized
Hannibals
success
and
actions
,
on
which
I
should
not
have
so
long
insisted
,
had
he
not
vowed
to
me
,
they
were
performed
more
upon
the
score
of
Love
than
Glory
,
in
which
last
he
was
ambitious
to
our
Rival
Perolla
,
as
much
as
Perolla
had
him
in
the
first
.
I
believe
too
,
you
have
not
forgot
,
that
when
he
did
leave
this
City
,
he
did
not
either
his
hopes
or
his
passion
,
the
first
of
which
was
cherish'd
by
Oristes's
undertaking
and
promises
,
who
to
avoid
being
as
false
to
Hannibal
,
as
he
had
been
to
Virtue
,
entirely
bent
himself
to
ruine
the
perfectest
flame
that
ever
any
Lovers
were
capable
of
,
and
knowing
,
that
Vice
,
is
never
so
powerful
as
when
it
assumes
the
habit
of
Virtue
,
he
resolved
to
take
up
the
name
,
and
(
for
a
while
too
)
the
actions
of
a
friend
,
in
which
hypocrisie
he
was
so
successful
,
that
he
made
Perolla
his
,
as
sincerely
as
he
was
seemingly
so
to
him
;
and
truly
he
proved
so
excellent
a
Conterfeit
,
that
his
misfortune
had
been
as
great
if
he
had
not
reacht
his
ends
,
as
his
fault
was
in
attaining
them
.
In
brief
,
he
so
engaged
himself
in
all
my
generous
friends
concerns
,
and
so
deeply
sympathized
in
his
joys
,
his
fears
,
and
all
his
other
passions
,
that
it
was
only
the
work
of
time
,
to
disclose
the
fallacy
:
but
at
last
,
hearing
of
Hannibals
return
,
and
knowing
that
delay
in
designs
of
Love
and
Glory
,
are
equally
intollerable
,
he
began
to
sow
the
seed
of
jealousie
betwixt
us
,
which
he
was
confident
would
bring
him
so
plentiful
a
return
;
and
indeed
it
was
a
great
misfortune
that
the
Carthaginian
had
elected
an
instrument
so
perfect
,
both
in
dissimulation
,
and
in
wickedness
;
for
if
the
former
had
been
less
,
his
power
to
do
ill
had
resembled
it
,
and
if
the
latter
had
been
so
,
his
Will
had
been
the
like
;
but
both
concurring
together
,
was
a
danger
whose
greatness
can
hardly
be
equalled
,
but
to
the
goodness
of
those
powers
which
hindered
its
effect
.
I
told
you
,
Sir
,
though
Oristes
knew
well
,
what
Hannibals
impatience
would
be
,
yet
he
declined
his
attempt
,
till
a
good
while
after
his
return
,
not
doubting
but
to
satisfy
him
for
the
delay
,
by
the
certainty
of
the
advantage
it
would
produce
.
In
order
to
this
,
the
same
night
he
entred
Salapia
,
Oristes
waited
on
him
,
of
whom
he
immediately
inquired
with
an
earnestness
,
which
demonstrated
an
accession
,
rather
than
a
Diminution
of
his
passion
,
what
progress
he
had
made
towards
the
settlement
of
his
felicity
:
to
which
the
false
Agent
replyed
,
that
as
yet
he
had
been
but
preparing
,
what
he
shortly
intended
to
act
,
and
thereupon
informed
him
,
how
that
he
had
got
so
great
an
interest
in
Perolla
,
that
he
doubted
not
but
to
employ
it
for
his
certain
ruine
,
if
at
least
,
Hannibal
redoubled
his
assiduity
towards
me
,
and
whatsoever
my
usage
were
,
that
he
would
not
only
put
on
a
countenance
which
might
relish
of
satisfaction
,
but
cast
out
words
,
which
might
make
all
the
Salapians
believe
,
and
talk
of
the
change
,
which
when
once
divulged
,
and
none
permitted
to
visit
Perolla
,
but
such
as
would
credit
,
and
relate
what
they
heard
,
he
would
so
Husband
that
report
,
that
if
Perolla's
constancy
were
not
his
nature
,
it
must
inevitably
be
ruined
.
Hannibal
exceedingly
approv'd
of
this
advice
,
and
so
admirably
acted
his
part
,
that
not
only
most
of
the
Salapians
believ'd
I
had
a
real
passion
for
him
,
but
also
Blacius
did
so
.
This
great
alteration
soon
flew
like
Lightning
through
the
City
,
and
at
last
came
to
Perolla
,
whose
amazement
as
it
proceeded
rather
from
his
finding
so
many
were
mistaken
in
me
,
than
that
he
himself
was
so
.
But
Oristes
who
attributed
his
to
the
cause
he
desired
,
and
not
to
the
true
one
,
came
one
day
to
Perolla's
Chamber
,
where
after
having
with
great
vehemency
,
protested
to
him
an
unequall'd
friendship
,
he
conjur'd
him
by
it
,
to
cast
off
a
melancholly
which
would
rather
increase
my
Triumph
,
than
make
me
repent
my
crime
;
and
that
if
he
were
so
unfortunate
as
yet
to
have
a
passion
for
one
which
was
so
unworthy
of
it
,
and
desired
to
reclaim
me
,
he
should
rather
,
than
constantly
continue
,
seemingly
divest
himself
of
his
Flame
,
and
contemn
me
;
for
Woman-like
Kings
were
more
concerned
to
subdue
a
Rebel
,
than
to
make
a
new
Conquest
.
I
am
sorry
(
Perolla
coldly
reply'd
)
that
I
have
an
opportunity
to
place
so
high
a
justice
upon
the
fair
Izadora's
constancy
,
as
not
to
suspect
it
when
Oristes
does
:
But
(
he
continued
)
is
it
possible
,
that
a
perfection
more
apparent
than
this
Calumny
can
be
so
unhappy
as
to
be
doubted
by
Men
of
judgement
and
honesty
?
Ah!
unjust
Heaven
,
why
did
you
establish
the
Throne
of
Virtue
in
the
Heart
,
and
not
in
some
conspicuous
place
,
where
to
be
virtuous
,
and
to
be
known
so
,
had
been
the
same
thing
?
but
perhaps
the
highest
proof
of
virtue
is
undisturbedly
to
endure
the
reproaches
of
Vice
,
and
if
goodness
were
visible
,
our
In-Interests
,
and
not
our
Inclinations
might
make
us
embrace
it
,
whereas
when
it
has
no
witness
but
the
possessor
,
it
is
a
nobler
invitation
to
it
.
But
Oristes
,
lest
your
should
persevere
in
your
crime
,
know
,
that
constancy
is
Izadora's
nature
as
well
as
practise
,
and
I
having
no
Title
to
her
affection
,
but
her
goodness
,
I
should
be
as
foolish
to
doubt
the
foundation
of
my
felicity
,
as
miserable
if
it
fail'd
.
I
wish
(
reply'd
Oristes
)
Izadora
had
a
constancy
worthy
so
noble
a
Flame
,
and
if
this
be
not
the
object
of
my
belief
,
it
shall
be
at
least
of
my
Prayers
.
You
speak
(
said
Perolla
)
as
if
you
had
still
some
doubts
of
her
Passion
for
me
.
Would
to
the
gods
(
he
coldly
replyed
,
folding
his
Arms
,
and
casting
down
his
eyes
)
that
mine
were
but
doubts
:
(
and
then
unfolding
them
,
and
looking
up
cheerfully
again
)
but
I
am
too
blame
(
he
continued
)
to
make
you
miserable
before
your
time
,
and
to
let
my
words
be
so
unfortunate
,
as
to
acquaint
you
with
what
her
actions
will
.
Ah
Oristes
(
Perolla
cryed
out
)
I
conjure
you
by
all
the
gods
,
inform
me
of
your
suspitions
,
and
be
confident
,
if
I
receive
any
trouble
from
them
,
it
can
proceed
onely
from
the
knowledge
that
my
friend
has
injured
what
he
should
admire
;
for
in
what
concerns
my
particular
,
I
am
as
far
from
believing
she
can
be
criminal
,
as
she
is
from
being
so
;
No
,
no
,
Oristes
,
I
beseech
you
,
tell
me
your
suspitions
,
that
I
may
remove
them
,
and
that
for
your
good
opinion
of
her
,
I
may
be
oblig'd
as
mch
to
your
Reason
,
as
your
Faith
;
and
the
sooner
to
induce
you
to
this
;
I
must
tell
you
plainly
,
that
to
be
my
friend
,
and
Izadora's
Enemy
is
inconsistent
.
The
wicked
Oristes
perceived
by
these
generous
replies
,
that
he
had
undertaken
a
task
as
difficult
,
as
dishonest
,
but
knowing
himself
too
far
engaged
to
retire
,
he
told
Perolla
(
with
a
deep
sigh
)
I
had
rather
renounce
all
things
,
than
the
blessing
of
your
friendship
,
and
therefore
what
I
thought
to
have
acquainted
you
with
,
as
an
effect
of
my
care
,
I
will
silence
as
an
argument
of
my
respect
;
but
perhaps
Izadora's
flame
for
Hannibal
may
tell
you
a
truth
,
which
the
excess
of
your
passion
makes
me
decline
to
do
:
neither
would
I
have
so
much
as
mentioned
this
,
did
I
not
know
,
it
is
already
as
publique
as
true
,
and
consequently
that
you
have
heard
it
.
That
I
have
heard
it
(
said
Perolla
)
is
not
more
certain
,
than
that
I
do
not
believe
it
;
but
alas
(
he
continued
)
is
it
possible
that
Oristes
does
?
If
I
did
not
apprehend
(
he
replyed
)
to
offend
you
,
by
acquainting
you
with
my
belief
,
I
should
inform
you
of
it
,
and
accompany
it
with
such
pregnant
reasons
,
as
perhaps
it
might
turn
to
be
yours
too
.
I
conjure
you
(
said
Perolla
,
hastily
)
to
impart
it
to
me
,
for
I
find
,
't
is
as
impossible
to
remove
your
jealousies
,
till
I
know
them
,
,
as
't
were
for
you
to
have
any
of
Izadora
,
if
you
knew
her
.
I
will
then
(
said
Oristes
(
tell
you
freely
,
that
not
only
I
believe
she
has
gas
given
her self
to
the
Carthaginian
,
but
also
wonder
you
do
not
:
consider
(
I
beseech
you
)
that
Inconstancy
and
Ambition
are
the
Hereditary
Vices
of
her
Sex
;
that
you
are
a
forlorn
Prisoner
,
that
your
Rival
is
a
Triumphant
Conqueror
,
which
are
two
extreams
that
can
hardly
avoid
creating
those
two
others
in
your
Mistriss
:
Reflect
,
I
beseech
you
,
upon
the
difference
between
the
imaginary
Crown
of
Constancy
,
and
the
real
one
of
Empire
;
For
though
Hannibal
be
not
born
of
a
King
,
yet
his
Virtue
makes
him
the
disturber
of
Kingdoms
,
which
is
a
more
glorious
power
,
than
any
that
can
be
deriv'd
from
Succession
or
Birth
;
Remember
also
that
a
Woman
is
more
pleas'd
with
the
Power
,
than
with
the
Merit
of
her
Lover
,
the
first
being
an
advantage
,
which
she
participates
in
,
but
the
last
,
one
,
which
he
wholly
ingrosses
to
himself
.
This
(
said
Perolla
,
interrupting
him
)
is
the
character
of
some
of
her
Sex
,
but
't
is
not
of
Izadora
,
whose
Reason
as
much
as
Nature
,
detests
so
black
a
crime
;
I
say
,
her
Reason
,
for
the
cannot
decline
a
Crown
of
Vertue
for
one
of
Gold
,
but
the
reflection
on
the
purchase
,
will
deprive
her
of
all
the
joy
of
it
;
and
though
a
Crown
of
Empire
be
more
glittering
than
one
of
Constancy
,
yet
the
just
gods
,
by
conferring
many
real
advantages
on
the
latter
,
have
abundantly
repair'd
the
seeming
ones
of
the
former
;
for
the
first
being
material
,
is
subject
to
the
inconstancies
of
Fortune
,
but
the
last
being
a
speculative
Blessing
,
is
exempted
from
the
power
of
that
blind
goddess
:
yes
,
doubtless
,
a
Crown
of
Constancy
is
the
noblest
,
as
well
as
safest
,
for
it
produces
Admiration
,
where
the
other
does
Envy
.
Alas
(
said
Oristes
)
how
ingenuous
you
are
to
invent
Arguments
to
cousen
your self
,
and
as
if
Izadora
deluded
you
not
fast
enongh
,
you
contribute
to
her
design
.
Take
heed
(
reply'd
Perolla
)
of
what
you
say
,
for
I
can
hardly
believe
him
virtuous
,
that
thinks
she
is
not
.
This
made
Oristes
perceive
,
that
to
destroy
my
generous
Friends
good
opinion
of
me
,
he
must
decline
arguments
,
and
employ
demonstrations
,
which
made
him
say
,
Though
I
find
I
shall
create
your
anger
,
by
acquainting
you
with
what
I
lately
discover'd
;
yet
I
had
rather
hazard
the
losing
of
your
friendship
,
by
an
action
which
will
render
me
worthy
of
it
,
than
continue
it
by
a
silence
which
my
own
Couscience
will
more
severely
punish
,
than
you
can
.
Yes
,
yes
,
Perolla
,
I
am
determin'd
since
to
cure
your
disease
I
must
shew
you
the
deformity
of
it
,
to
instruct
you
with
a
truth
,
that
had
not
my
sight
been
a
witness
of
,
I
should
never
have
credited
;
in
a
word
;
't
is
that
with
these
Eyes
I
lately
saw
her
give
such
large
proofs
of
her
passion
to
Hannibal
,
that
not
only
I
suspect
her
Constancy
but
her
Vertue
.
At
these
barbarous
words
,
all
Perolla's
temper
abandon'd
him
,
and
in
its
room
he
entertain'd
a
rage
so
unresistable
,
that
forgetting
all
the
formerties
of
friendship
,
he
flung
himself
upon
the
false
Oristes
,
and
having
cast
him
at
his
feet
,
and
there
drawn
out
the
wretches
own
Ponyard
,
he
held
it
to
his
breast
,
and
cry'd
out
to
him
,
Traytor
,
that
under
the
habit
of
a
friend
,
thinkst
to
shrowd
thy self
from
the
punishment
of
an
Enemy
,
and
from
a
crime
the
Devils
would
tremble
but
to
hear
;
know
,
that
in
accusing
Izadora's
Virtue
,
thou
hast
justify'd
her
,
and
by
undertaking
to
make
her
guilty
,
hast
prov'd
thy self
so
:
Do
not
think
,
that
because
I
have
lost
my
Liberty
,
I
have
lost
my
Courage
,
nor
that
the
apprehension
of
Hannibal's
resentments
shall
hinder
me
from
acting
mine
;
no
,
no
,
could
he
inflict
on
me
torments
as
great
as
those
thou
merit'st
,
I
would
endure
them
all
,
rather
than
thy
impiety
should
escape
them
unreveng'd
;
for
that
Divine
Justice
,
which
has
made
me
from
a
Prisoner
,
a
Judge
,
and
hast
furnish'd
me
with
Power
as
well
as
Will
to
punish
thee
,
would
not
have
so
arm'd
my
Hand
,
if
it
had
not
ordain'd
,
thy
death
should
appease
that
sacred
Virtue
,
thy
life
has
so
highly
injur'd
.
Whilst
Perolla
wai
thus
speaking
,
the
falfe
Oristes
lay
as
if
he
had
already
receiv'd
the
reward
of
his
infidelity
;
but
when
he
perceiv'd
his
resolution
,
and
that
he
was
going
to
act
it
,
he
cry'd
out
,
Hold
,
generous
Perolla
,
and
if
I
beg
this
small
suspension
of
Life
,
't
is
only
to
let
you
know
,
who
't
is
you
destroy
,
't
is
your
faithful'st
Friend
;
and
now
I
have
told
you
that
Truth
,
act
your
resentments
,
for
since
you
have
withdrawn
your
friendship
,
they
will
be
rather
effects
of
your
goodness
,
than
your
revenge
,
and
the
gods
who
know
my
innocency
,
are
so
just
as
to
render
that
which
makes
my
life
my
misfortune
,
the
cure
of
the
latter
,
by
the
ending
of
the
former
.
Though
I
know
well
(
reply'd
Perolla
)
all
thou
now
say'st
,
is
but
a
continuation
of
thy
wickedness
,
and
that
these
words
are
spoken
,
because
thou
hast
found
I
am
sooner
vanquish'd
with
dissembling
,
than
resistance
,
yet
I
give
thee
thy
Life
,
not
as
a
mercy
but
a
punishment
,
for
the
horror
of
having
injur'd
so
fair
an
Innocence
,
will
be
a
greater
torment
,
than
that
death
from
which
I
now
exempt
thee
:
Rise
then
(
he
continu'd
)
and
be
gone
,
but
if
ever
again
thou
present'st
thy self
before
me
,
thou
wilt
kindle
a
fire
,
which
nothing
but
thy
bloud
can
extinguish
.
I
will
obey
you
(
said
the
perfiduous
Oristes
)
in
hope
that
by
so
painful
an
obedience
,
you
will
discover
a
friendship
and
innocency
,
which
your
passion
hinders
you
now
from
seeing
,
and
if
by
my
sufferings
I
can
shew
you
your
error
,
I
shall
never
deplore
them
.
Then
saluting
Perolla
with
a
great
humility
,
he
went
from
him
with
a
greater
joy
,
'
having
escap'd
a
Death
which
he
could
not
think
he
had
more
strangely
avoided
,
than
he
had
justly
deserved
it
.
I
know
(
said
Izadora
)
that
't
were
but
just
to
decline
a
while
the
prosecuting
the
rest
of
my
Story
,
to
declaim
upon
this
generous
part
of
it
;
but
I
know
too
,
Perolla's
virtue
would
be
as
much
offended
with
such
a
gratitude
,
as
I
was
pleas'd
with
the
cause
of
it
.
Perolla
,
who
for
so
obliging
a
Civility
esteem'd
it
necessary
to
make
his
fair
Mistriss
a
return
,
told
her
,
If
you
had
a
design
,
Madam
,
to
have
made
this
performance
pass
in
the
generous
Spartacus
opinion
for
an
action
of
Merit
,
you
should
not
then
have
shew'd
him
the
perfect
Izadora
;
for
in
her
Beauty
she
carries
her
Justification
,
and
to
suspect
that
Vice
can
dwell
in
so
much
brightness
,
is
to
be
ignorant
of
its
Nature
,
and
to
commit
a
folly
as
high
as
Oristes
wickedness
.
Izadora
by
a
reply
of
the
same
quality
,
repaid
her
Lovers
Compliment
,
and
thus
reassum'd
her
discourse
.
As
soon
as
the
false
Agent
was
gone
from
Perolla
,
he
went
and
acquainted
the
Carthaginian
with
his
ill
success
,
from
whose
rage
he
had
like
to
have
receiv'd
an
usage
as
ill
,
as
that
which
Perolla's
Justice
had
near
imposed
on
him
,
for
he
had
rais'd
his
expectation
to
such
a
height
,
that
it
made
the
fall
the
more
insupportable
:
but
at
last
Hannibal
perceiving
that
Oristes
was
unfortunate
,
and
not
faulty
,
(
at
least
as
to
him
)
he
was
contented
to
tell
him
,
that
he
must
not
expect
his
favour
,
till
he
had
gain'd
him
mine
;
that
it
was
too
the
sensiblest
way
of
obliging
him
,
as
well
as
of
revenging
that
so
fresh
and
high
affront
:
that
their
Interest
being
now
joyn'd
,
he
would
not
despair
,
but
that
he
wou'd
project
some
new
design
for
the
obtaining
of
his
desires
,
which
if
it
succeeded
,
should
make
him
acknowledge
,
that
whosoever
made
Hannibal
happy
,
could
not
doubt
the
being
made
so
by
him
.
Thereupon
Oristes
having
first
assur'd
him
that
no
particular
interest
of
his
own
could
bring
any
accession
to
that
zeal
,
he
had
already
for
his
satisfaction
,
and
that
he
would
employ
all
his
faculties
to
the
settlement
of
it
,
withdrew
himself
to
meditate
on
what
he
determin'd
to
practice
.
But
it
is
high
time
to
inform
you
,
that
the
Carthaginian
,
(
though
he
constantly
visited
me
)
had
yet
(
in
reliance
on
Oristes
promises
)
declin'd
making
any
overtures
of
his
passion
,
lest
my
replies
might
have
provok'd
him
beyond
his
temper
,
and
made
him
disclose
a
fallacy
,
which
with
admirable
patience
and
sagacity
,
he
had
so
long
continu'd
;
but
now
,
seeing
those
hopes
were
vanisht
,
he
resolv'd
to
renew
his
addresses
,
and
to
that
end
came
to
see
me
,
where
finding
me
alone
(
which
my
humour
and
condition
,
made
me
often
elect
)
he
,
without
any
of
those
civilities
which
he
usually
practis'd
,
told
me
;
That
long
silence
,
Madam
,
which
your
Commands
have
made
me
observe
,
the
violence
of
my
Passion
makes
me
break
,
which
is
arriv'd
to
such
a
height
,
that
it
must
now
be
the
occasion
of
my
Felicity
or
my
Ruine
,
for
it
can
admit
of
nothing
but
extreams
,
and
I
must
now
become
the
object
of
your
hate
or
of
your
Love
;
the
gods
shall
be
my
witnesses
,
that
I
have
declin'd
this
declaration
,
till
necessity
constrain'd
me
to
it
,
and
I
believe
you
cannot
doubt
,
but
it
must
be
a
strange
violence
,
which
forces
me
to
what
I
apprehend
is
a
trouble
to
you
;
Yes
,
fair
Izadora
,
I
say
,
forces
me
unto
it
;
for
,
in
what
depended
on
my
Will
,
when
't
was
to
acquaint
you
with
my
respect
,
I
declin'd
my
revenge
,
I
declin'd
my
Ambition
,
two
of
the
most
pleasing
passions
,
and
not
to
offend
you
,
I
elected
to
offend
the
gods
,
chusing
to
reward
my
Soldiers
valors
with
sacred
things
,
rather
than
with
the
spoils
of
Rome
.
But
in
what
relates
to
my
Flame
,
I
am
not
master
of
my
own
motions
,
I
have
afflicted
my self
,
not
to
do
the
like
to
you
,
I
have
endeavour'd
to
establish
your
felicity
,
by
ruining
my
own
,
and
I
have
represented
to
my self
,
that
I
ought
not
to
have
a
higher
contentment
than
the
setling
of
yours
;
but
Madam
,
all
my
endeavours
therein
are
fruitless
;
for
I
find
the
passion
of
Love
is
most
predominant
,
and
that
the
extinguishing
of
my
flame
is
as
impossible
,
as
I
believe
the
performing
it
would
be
pleasing
to
you
;
but
your
Beauty
that
makes
my
crime
,
must
be
my
excuse
,
for
it
has
charms
to
print
a
Passion
,
as
well
as
Majesty
to
enjoyn
Obedience
.
This
(
fair
Izadora
)
is
my
condition
,
and
't
is
at
the
last
extremity
,
and
after
all
Essays
,
that
I
am
come
to
implore
your
Affection
,
when
I
know
I
should
rather
beg
your
pardon
.
I
must
confess
(
said
Izadora
)
so
violent
a
beginning
gave
me
strange
apprehensions
what
the
conclusion
of
this
visit
would
produce
;
but
(
lest
my
fears
might
increase
his
considence
)
I
instantly
reply'd
;
If
you
have
had
any
great
conflicts
with
your self
,
for
the
setling
of
my
felicity
,
I
believe
those
I
have
had
for
the
acquainting
you
with
my
gratitude
,
have
not
been
inferior
to
them
;
but
that
same
Will
which
forces
you
to
a
perseverance
in
your
affection
,
necessitates
me
to
the
like
in
mine
;
and
since
by
an
experiment
you
find
we
have
something
within
us
,
which
is
the
god
over
our
inclinations
,
I
hope
you
will
pardon
my
not
accepting
your
affection
,
upon
the
same
score
that
I
excuse
the
continuation
of
yours
.
If
(
said
Hannibal
extreamly
mov'd
)
our
Wills
were
wholly
created
by
our
Fancies
,
which
are
the
most
often
deprav'd
irregularities
,
there
might
be
some
appearance
in
what
you
alledge
;
but
since
amongst
reasonable
Creatures
,
reason
commonly
forms
them
,
I
must
look
upon
that
which
you
do
term
a
constraint
resembling
mine
,
rather
as
a
design'd
cruelty
for
my
destruction
;
for
if
Perolla
has
purchas'd
any
glory
,
I
believe
my
stock
is
not
less
than
his
;
if
he
have
a
high
a
passion
for
you
,
mine
is
not
inferior
;
if
he
have
paid
you
any
services
,
I
have
not
been
deficient
in
those
duties
:
and
if
he
has
received
any
gifts
from
nature
,
perhaps
I
have
not
been
unbeholding
to
her
:
therefore
Madam
,
you
cannot
be
so
unjust
to
use
that
argument
,
for
the
continuing
of
your
flame
,
which
I
did
for
your
pardon
for
persevering
in
mine
,
the
difference
betwixt
you
and
Perolla
being
so
vast
,
that
none
which
is
not
as
blind
as
Love
,
can
imagine
the
same
effects
have
an
equal
cause
.
I
must
acknowledge
(
said
Izadora
)
I
was
so
sensible
of
hearing
him
make
his
own
Elogy
,
so
much
too
,
to
the
prejudice
of
Perolla
,
that
I
had
not
apprehended
what
I
should
have
said
for
his
justification
,
might
have
turn'd
(
through
Hannibals
fury
)
to
his
prejudice
,
I
had
made
him
know
how
much
(
in
truth
,
and
in
my
judgement
)
he
was
his
own
flatterer
;
but
that
consideration
made
me
only
tell
him
,
If
either
our
Wills
be
formed
by
our
Fancy
or
Reason
,
or
composed
of
both
,
I
find
in
Perolla
a
greater
subject
for
the
continuance
of
my
affection
,
than
you
can
do
in
me
,
for
a
perseverance
in
yours
;
't
is
not
that
I
give
him
any
precedency
over
the
great
Hannibal
,
who
it
may
be
(
had
I
known
him
first
)
might
have
had
that
heart
,
which
now
it
is
impossible
for
any
but
Perolla
to
possess
;
but
the
Stars
have
tyed
me
to
him
,
't
is
not
in
my
power
,
nor
in
my
inclination
,
to
change
their
influence
:
therefore
,
Sir
,
I
conjure
you
,
let
your
generosity
act
what
your
judgement
should
,
give
me
cause
to
admire
what
I
am
unworthy
to
love
,
and
consider
't
is
something
of
divine
to
make
others
happy
.
If
(
said
the
Carthaginian
,
with
a
Face
all
inflam'd
with
fury
)
it
be
impossible
for
Hannibal
to
possess
your
heart
,
I
will
render
it
as
impossible
for
Perolla
,
who
shall
find
I
have
a
power
to
make
others
miserable
,
if
I
my self
am
made
so
;
and
since
you
esteem
the
possession
of
Izadora
too
great
a
felicity
for
me
,
I
must
think
it
is
so
for
any
other
;
Your
cruelty
(
Madam
)
constrains
me
to
this
declaration
,
which
whatsoever
influence
it
has
on
me
,
it
shall
have
the
like
on
Perolla
:
and
if
at
last
you
reduce
me
to
despair
,
I
will
accompany
my
ruine
with
ones
,
whose
loss
you
will
deplore
,
as
much
as
you
would
rejoyce
at
mine
,
Great
gods
!
what
a
trembling
did
these
barbarous
threatenings
put
me
into
?
they
were
a
thousand
times
fuller
of
horror
,
than
if
they
had
been
made
against
my
own
life
,
but
amongst
all
those
fears
,
the
reflection
on
Hannibal's
Power
,
and
Inclination
,
and
consequently
on
Perolla's
danger
,
arm'd
me
with
such
a
resolution
,
that
had
had
I
follow'd
the
dictates
of
it
,
I
might
have
rendred
that
rage
a
justice
,
which
was
a
cruelty
:
but
my
good
Genius
gave
me
power
to
suppress
it
,
and
finding
the
Tyrant
was
the
fiercer
by
opposition
,
I
replyed
,
The
virtues
of
the
great
Hannibal
are
too
well
known
unto
me
,
to
suspect
,
any
passions
can
be
more
predominate
over
him
,
than
they
:
those
humane
frailties
can
only
do
like
clouds
,
hinder
the
Sun
from
shining
,
,
but
not
extinguish
his
light
;
't
is
his
anger
,
and
not
he
which
threatens
me
.
No
,
no
,
Madam
(
the
Carthaginian
hastily
replyed
,
interrupting
me
)
do
not
flatter
your self
,
nor
me
,
in
believing
I
am
capable
of
milder
resolutions
,
than
I
have
acquainted
you
with
,
and
receive
this
as
an
unalterable
Truth
,
that
the
same
hour
in
which
you
absolutely
take
away
my
hopes
,
I
will
Perolla's
life
.
With
those
cruel
words
he
went
out
of
the
room
,
and
left
me
alone
to
breath
out
those
complaints
,
which
I
disdain'd
to
utter
in
his
presence
,
But
,
Sir
,
my
astonishment
at
this
proceeeding
,
was
far
short
of
what
it
was
raised
unto
,
by
that
I
am
now
going
to
tell
you
.
Some
four
or
five
days
after
,
Hannibal
came
to
visit
me
again
,
where
having
found
by
oblique
questions
,
that
his
assaults
had
rather
confirm'd
,
than
mov'd
my
resolutions
,
he
immediately
made
me
such
submissive
r●●antations
,
for
what
was
past
,
that
I
believed
they
were
as
real
as
humble
;
then
he
assured
me
,
that
having
always
loved
me
above
himself
,
he
was
come
to
evidence
that
truth
,
by
an
undeniable
experiment
;
that
the
respect
he
paid
the
happy
Perolla
,
as
being
the
object
of
my
love
,
was
greate
than
his
aversion
to
him
,
for
being
the
obstructer
of
his
;
and
since
he
thought
no
evincement
of
the
reality
of
those
professions
could
be
both
so
great
and
pleasing
,
as
the
ruining
of
his
own
felicity
,
for
the
establishing
of
mine
,
he
was
determined
to
settle
it
,
at
that
rate
,
that
his
former
threatenings
were
but
as
a
last
Essay
,
and
that
having
found
our
flames
were
too
Divine
to
admit
of
extinction
,
he
was
inviolably
fixt
to
admire
what
he
could
not
destroy
;
and
to
obtain
a
pardon
for
those
persecutions
his
passion
,
and
not
he
had
raised
us
,
he
would
immediately
restore
Perolla
to
his
liberty
,
and
employ
all
his
authority
with
Blacius
to
unite
,
what
was
a
sin
any
longer
to
divide
.
At
these
generous
words
,
I
cast
my self
at
the
Carthaginians
feet
,
and
by
too
many
expressions
for
a
repetition
acquainted
him
with
my
joy
and
acknowledgements
.
Immediately
after
he
went
to
Perolla
,
where
in
civilities
of
a
resembling
quality
,
he
implor'd
his
forgiveness
,
and
begg'd
him
always
when
he
consider'd
his
persecutions
,
that
he
would
too
,
consider
the
occasion
of
them
,
that
so
the
reflection
on
the
cause
,
might
apologize
for
the
effect
;
he
besought
him
further
,
to
remember
the
obligation
was
greater
to
lay
down
a
passion
for
Izadora
,
than
the
injury
was
to
have
assumed
one
:
since
having
seen
her
,
not
to
be
his
Rival
,
could
not
prove
a
greater
miracle
,
than
having
been
it
,
ever
to
decline
that
name
.
After
some
other
expressions
,
and
embraces
,
Hannibal
assured
Perolla
,
that
as
an
argument
of
his
conversion
,
and
that
he
had
silenc'd
(
if
not
suppress'd
)
his
passion
from
that
instant
he
restored
him
to
so
perfect
a
liberty
,
that
he
might
either
return
to
Rome
,
or
continue
in
Salapia
,
My
generous
friend
with
an
equal
proportion
of
wonder
and
joy
,
received
these
transcendent
civilities
from
the
Carthaginian
,
and
having
made
him
some
retributions
proportionate
to
their
cause
,
he
was
invited
by
him
to
his
own
House
,
where
by
fresh
accessions
of
the
like
quality
,
he
induc'd
all
the
Salapians
,
not
only
to
wonder
at
,
but
believe
the
change
.
But
(
continu'd
Izadora
)
least
your
astonishment
should
prove
as
great
at
the
hearing
,
as
ours
at
the
performance
of
these
mutations
,
I
must
acquaint
you
,
that
Hannibal
was
seemingly
gallant
,
but
to
become
the
more
securely
the
contrary
;
and
though
he
were
a
Prince
,
who
in
affairs
of
craft
and
ingenuity
,
had
hardly
any
equal
,
yea
,
his
Genius
had
a
greater
propensity
to
those
stratagems
,
which
were
for
the
winning
of
a
Battel
,
or
a
Kingdom
,
than
a
Mistriss
;
This
Truth
I
believe
you
will
not
question
by
the
sequel
of
this
discourse
,
which
I
must
continue
,
by
informing
you
,
that
the
same
night
after
his
fatal
declaration
which
he
made
me
,
concerning
Perolla
,
he
sent
for
Oristes
,
and
having
lockt
themselves
up
in
his
Closet
,
he
informed
him
particularly
of
what
had
past
betwixt
us
,
and
conjured
him
to
find
out
an
expedient
for
his
relief
,
which
if
any
longer
delay'd
,
would
immediately
prove
his
destruction
;
To
this
his
wicked
Counsellor
reply'd
,
We
have
already
(
Sir
)
by
our
attempts
on
Perolla
,
observed
that
his
constancy
finds
in
them
rather
arguments
of
Triumph
,
than
Suppression
;
we
must
therefore
now
assault
Izadora's
,
for
it
imports
not
whether
you
reach
your
desires
by
Perolla's
declining
her
;
or
by
Izadora's
deserting
him
;
and
I
am
confident
,
had
not
your
resentments
forc'd
you
to
threaten
your
Rivals
life
,
I
had
found
out
a
way
which
would
have
made
it
his
torment
,
and
whose
success
could
not
have
fail'd
,
without
the
gods
declaring
themselves
as
much
enemies
to
your
Love
,
as
they
have
been
friends
to
your
Glory
.
'T
was
(
he
continu'd
)
that
I
would
have
had
you
in
your
next
visit
to
Izadora
(
in
case
you
found
your
threatenings
had
not
produced
the
effects
you
desired
)
not
only
alter
your
words
,
but
your
looks
,
and
by
a
countenance
altogether
penitent
,
acquaint
her
,
that
you
are
resolv'd
to
give
her
a
testimony
of
your
Passion
,
by
suppressing
the
effects
of
it
;
that
since
the
only
way
to
manifest
how
much
you
valu'd
her
contentment
,
is
to
deprive
your self
of
your
own
,
you
are
come
to
divest
your self
of
it
,
by
renouncing
your
hopes
,
and
resigning
them
to
Perolla
,
who
you
must
acknowledge
is
more
worthy
of
the
Felicity
,
by
her
esteeming
him
so
;
that
since
you
could
not
conquer
her
,
you
have
vanquish'd
your self
,
and
that
imitation
in
of
her
,
you
valu'd
him
above
your self
.
'T
is
(
said
Oristes
)
with
such
professions
as
these
I
would
infuse
in
her
a
firm
belief
,
that
you
would
attempt
against
your
own
,
rather
than
Perolla's
life
,
and
the
better
to
disguise
the
fallacy
,
I
am
absolutely
of
opinion
,
that
not
only
your
words
,
but
your
actions
speak
your
change
,
I
mean
by
giving
him
his
liberty
,
and
inviting
him
to
continue
near
his
Mistriss
;
for
I
can
assure
you
,
Blacius
is
so
vigilant
of
his
Daughter
,
that
your
Rival
can
derive
no
advantage
by
his
freedom
,
and
so
detests
any
alliance
with
Pacuvius's
Bloud
,
that
he
had
rather
marry
Izadora
to
her
grave
,
than
to
Perolla
;
whose
Father
I
would
have
you
send
on
some
employment
of
so
long
a
continuance
,
that
in
his
absence
we
may
act
our
intention
;
having
then
by
such
pregnant
testimonies
of
your
conversion
,
rais'd
a
belief
in
your
Mistriss
,
that
you
have
no
designs
for
her
,
but
to
see
her
married
to
Perolla
(
which
I
would
always
press
to
Blacius
,
and
as
his
aversions
for
it
increas'd
,
so
should
your
sollicitations
)
I
would
then
one
night
privately
seize
upon
Perolla
,
and
by
bribing
two
or
three
Physitians
(
amongst
which
,
Blacius's
should
be
one
,
who
is
my
intimate
acquaintance
,
and
whose
aversion
to
all
Pacuvius's
Family
,
and
affection
to
Gold
,
will
induce
him
to
say
any
thing
we
shall
put
in
his
mouth
)
make
them
give
out
,
that
he
dy'd
of
an
Apoplexy
,
or
some
such
suddain
disease
,
and
then
celebrate
his
Funeral
with
such
mourning
and
pomp
,
that
the
World
may
believe
the
reality
of
your
Friendship
is
as
great
,
as
that
of
his
Death
.
This
being
artificially
perform'd
,
you
must
a
while
mingle
your
Tears
with
Izadora's
,
as
for
your
common
loss
,
and
so
steal
into
her
affections
,
by
sympathizing
in
her
friendship
and
her
grief
:
For
I
cannot
fancy
,
but
if
your
Rival
were
remov'd
,
all
obstructins
were
so
too
,
and
the
object
of
her
flame
being
dead
,
she
will
(
since
't
is
without
injuring
her
Virtue
or
Felicity
)
bestow
her self
upon
a
Conqueror
,
whose
Fame
only
is
able
to
dissolve
the
most
frozen
Breast
.
As
for
Perolla
(
if
this
succeed
)
you
may
either
send
him
to
another
World
in
earnest
,
or
after
you
are
marry'd
,
the
more
sensibly
to
revenge
his
having
been
so
dangerous
a
Rival
,
both
in
Love
and
Glory
,
permit
him
to
continue
in
this
;
but
the
first
is
the
more
secure
,
for
his
Presence
may
receive
those
Fires
which
nothing
extinguish'd
but
her
belief
,
that
his
Life
was
so
;
and
thus
whil'st
you
possess
Izadora
,
he
may
her
Affection
.
That
which
induces
me
,
not
to
have
Perolla
kill'd
,
before
you
see
the
event
of
this
design
,
is
,
lest
if
by
a
miracle
she
should
resent
his
loss
to
such
an
extremity
,
as
it
may
prove
her
own
;
you
may
have
still
your
remedy
in
your
power
,
and
thereby
be
in
no
worse
a
condition
,
than
that
which
you
are
in
at
present
.
The
malicious
Oristes
having
done
speaking
,
Hennibal
continu'd
a
while
weighing
the
probability
of
this
design
,
and
having
at
last
absolutely
approv'd
it
,
he
demanded
(
with
much
impatiency
)
of
Oristes
,
whether
yet
it
might
not
be
acted
?
To
which
his
Agent
reply'd
,
that
those
menaces
made
against
Perolla
,
would
make
that
relish
of
design
,
which
should
be
esteem'd
the
contrary
,
since
all
the
hope
of
the
Plot
,
was
the
managing
it
with
such
dexterity
,
that
Izadora
should
rather
believe
you
deplor'd
,
than
acted
her
loss
.
I
am
(
said
the
Carthaginian
)
perfectly
convinc'd
of
what
you
alledge
,
but
those
threatenings
I
made
against
my
Rivals
life
,
were
spoken
when
I
was
in
so
visible
a
distemper
,
that
I
am
confident
she
ascribes
them
sooner
to
my
choller
,
than
design
:
neither
were
they
positive
,
but
conditional
,
and
therefore
probably
,
all
the
prejudice
they
will
bring
,
will
be
only
to
me
,
and
not
to
what
you
propose
,
for
it
will
tye
me
to
act
my
part
with
more
dissimulation
,
and
protract
the
time
of
my
sufferings
.
Thus
(
said
Izadora
)
Hannibal
took
up
a
design
,
whose
beginning
I
have
already
inform'd
you
of
,
and
whose
success
was
so
proportionate
to
his
desires
,
that
not
only
Izadora
,
but
Perolla
believ'd
his
conversion
was
as
real
,
as
't
was
well
acted
.
And
Blacius
(
on
the
other
side
)
so
perfectly
made
good
Oristes
assurance
to
the
Carthaginian
,
that
in
half
a
year
,
(
in
which
Perolla
enjoy'd
his
liberty
,
and
the
priviledge
of
living
in
Salapia
)
I
could
never
have
the
happiness
of
seeing
,
or
the
satisfaction
of
hearing
from
him
,
and
when
so
intollerable
a
separation
made
the
effects
of
it
visible
in
my
humour
,
the
artificious
Hannibal
offer'd
,
and
conjur'd
me
to
make
use
of
his
power
for
our
union
,
which
had
formerly
been
employ'd
for
our
separation
,
that
what
had
injur'd
,
might
relieve
us
:
But
he
too
well
knew
,
I
had
rather
intrench'd
upon
my
Felicity
than
Duty
,
and
't
was
upon
that
confidence
he
had
made
me
that
overture
.
To
abbreviate
my
Relation
I
shall
tell
you
,
that
all
which
Oristes
advis'd
,
was
perform'd
,
and
that
which
contributed
to
the
better
executing
what
related
to
Perolla's
sudden
death
,
was
,
that
Pacuvius
and
all
his
were
remov'd
to
Tarentum
,
and
that
Perolla
(
who
only
had
Strato
to
wait
on
him
)
had
employ'd
him
to
Rome
about
some
private
affairs
.
Oh
gods
!
what
my
suffering
was
at
that
fatal
news
you
only
know
,
but
those
effects
of
it
which
were
visible
,
prov'd
so
dangerous
,
that
Blacius
Physician
was
immediately
sent
for
,
to
hinder
my
death
from
accompanying
Perola's
:
and
that
Traitor
detesting
my
alliance
with
any
of
Pacuvius's
Family
,
and
being
corrupted
by
Hannibal's
rewards
,
after
he
had
prescrib'd
those
things
which
he
held
needful
for
my
condition
,
told
me
,
That
he
was
apprehensive
the
Carthaginian
had
murther'd
my
Friend
,
to
build
his
own
felicity
on
his
ruines
;
that
Hannibal
had
rather
counterfeited
,
than
extinguisht
his
Flame
,
and
therefore
he
would
go
and
visit
Perolla's
Body
,
which
if
it
had
receiv'd
any
violence
,
he
would
as
certainly
discover
,
as
the
gods
punish
it
.
This
proposition
suited
with
my
jealousies
,
and
though
the
knowledge
of
what
he
suspected
,
would
have
added
to
my
grief
(
if
at
least
it
had
been
capable
of
any
accession
)
by
a
manifestation
,
that
his
Passion
for
me
was
the
occasion
of
his
death
,
yet
I
embrac'd
his
motion
,
resolving
if
any
Symptomes
should
evince
so
black
a
Truth
,
that
I
would
with
one
stroke
revenge
his
Murther
,
and
with
another
follow
him
.
The
Physitian
some
little
time
after
being
return'd
,
with
many
false
Tears
,
protested
,
that
Perolla's
Body
had
not
the
least
mark
of
an
unnatural
death
,
and
that
he
ask'd
the
gods
forgiveness
,
for
having
suspected
so
clear
an
Innocency
as
Hannibals
.
He
then
too
began
to
play
the
Physitian
of
the
Mind
,
and
besought
me
not
to
afflict
my self
,
since
't
was
not
Man
that
had
sent
Perolla
to
the
gods
,
but
that
they
themselves
had
call'd
him
:
But
alas
,
my
afflictions
had
too
just
an
object
ever
to
cease
but
with
my
life
,
which
every
day
so
exceedingly
impair'd
,
that
I
was
in
hopes
by
a
speedy
dissolution
to
make
the
end
of
torments
in
this
world
,
to
be
the
beginning
of
joys
in
the
other
.
In
the
mean
time
Hannibal
celebrated
Perolla's
Funerals
,
with
so
many
counterfeit
weepings
,
and
with
so
much
solemnity
,
that
all
Salapia
believ'd
't
was
he
,
and
not
Pacuvius
which
had
lost
a
Son
.
Two
months
together
,
he
was
so
far
from
consoling
me
by
his
visits
,
that
by
them
he
encreas'd
my
grief
,
which
,
though
it
redu●'d
me
to
a
condition
fitter
to
create
his
pitty
than
his
affection
,
yet
the
last
had
taken
so
deep
a
root
,
that
no
diminution
of
my
little
Beauty
could
bring
any
to
his
passion
,
which
indeed
he
could
no
longer
silence
;
therefore
one
evening
he
came
to
visit
me
,
and
though
I
was
fitter
for
a
Priest
than
a
Lover
,
yet
he
declar'd
himself
the
latter
,
and
begg'd
me
with
the
perfect'st
imporunities
to
receive
and
cherish
a
flame
which
he
had
silenc'd
,
whilst
he
held
it
a
crime
;
but
now
,
that
the
higher
Powers
contributed
so
much
to
reward
its
Purity
,
as
to
take
him
to
them
,
which
had
hinder'd
me
from
justly
receiving
it
,
he
flatter'd
himself
with
a
hope
,
that
to
recompence
his
respect
and
passion
,
and
to
obey
what
the
gods
themselves
had
so
evidently
approv'd
,
I
would
accept
of
a
heart
that
yielded
nothing
in
the
zeal
of
adoring
me
,
to
that
of
my
last
Servant
and
his
Friend
.
I
know
he
spoke
many
things
of
this
quality
,
which
because
I
detested
to
hear
,
I
cannot
repeat
;
for
I
so
justly
disrelisht
this
motion
,
that
I
had
a
strong
conflict
with
my self
,
to
silence
my
resentments
for
it
,
but
at
length
I
told
him
,
Ah
(
Sir
)
how
can
you
call
your self
Perolla's
friend
?
and
yet
endeavour
to
disturb
his
Ashes
?
and
how
can
you
have
a
Passion
for
one
,
who
you
have
hopes
to
make
unworthy
your
affection
,
by
conferring
hers
on
you
?
No
Sir
,
I
beseech
you
let
me
follow
my
resolution
,
which
is
,
to
dye
Perolla's
,
since
I
could
not
live
his
;
for
my
heart
(
after
such
a
loss
)
is
not
capable
of
any
passion
,
but
grief
;
or
if
it
be
,
that
passion
I
had
for
his
Virtues
,
I
must
now
continue
to
his
memory
.
To
which
Hannibal
answer'd
,
Will
you
then
confer
a
Blessing
upon
one
which
is
not
capable
of
it
,
to
deny
it
to
another
,
who
is
,
and
perhaps
deserves
it
too
?
Ah
Madam
,
if
it
is
your
affection
for
Perilla
,
and
not
your
hatred
for
Hannibal
,
which
produces
this
resolve
,
you
will
evince
that
truth
sooner
by
granting
,
than
declining
my
request
;
for
if
in
the
other
life
we
are
not
ignorant
of
what
is
done
in
this
,
Perolla
will
be
more
satisfy'd
to
know
by
your
giving
your self
now
to
me
,
that
he
only
hinder'd
it
hitherto
,
then
by
your
refusing
me
absolutely
that
felicity
;
since
that
may
appear
rather
an
effect
of
your
aversion
for
me
,
than
your
respect
to
him
.
I
am
,
Sir
,
(
I
reply'd
)
of
a
contrary
opinion
,
for
my
passion
and
my
resentments
for
his
loss
will
be
much
more
legible
in
their
taking
from
me
the
ambition
of
being
the
object
of
so
great
a
Conqueror's
Love
,
and
in
abandoning
,
not
only
the
pleasures
of
life
,
but
the
desire
of
it
too
.
I
conjure
you
therefore
by
the
quiet
of
Perolla
,
which
you
endeavour
to
distu●b
,
torment
me
not
by
so
fruitless
a
persecution
,
which
if
you
persevere
in
,
't
will
induce
me
rather
to
suppress
the
respect
I
pay
you
,
than
to
create
that
affection
you
solicite
,
and
for
me
to
believe
that
Hannibal
(
and
not
the
god's
)
have
taken
away
his
Rival
.
It
may
be
(
continu'd
Izadora
)
you
will
believe
so
great
a
Prince
merited
a
proportionate
respect
,
but
I
must
acknowledge
,
that
I
was
not
in
an
humour
to
afford
it
him
,
neither
do
I
believe
I
could
give
him
a
worse
opinion
of
me
,
by
my
replies
,
than
he
seem'd
to
have
of
me
by
his
desires
;
but
after
by
his
looks
he
had
exprest
what
his
answer
would
be
,
he
told
me
,
You
think
,
Madam
,
to
silence
my
passion
with
reproaches
,
to
avoid
ingratitude
by
becoming
unjust
,
●nd
by
accusing
my
innocency
to
decline
being
a
debtor
to
my
Flame
;
but
know
,
that
your
cruelty
may
induce
me
to
revenge
what
I
cannot
obtain
;
and
though
you
have
avoided
any
impressions
of
my
Love
,
some
that
you
are
concern'd
in
,
may
not
those
of
my
resentments
.
Tyrant
(
I
reply'd
)
while
Perolla
was
alive
,
I
consider'd
thy
threatenings
because
I
fear'd
them
,
but
now
the
subject
of
my
apprehensions
is
remov'd
,
I
desire
them
;
for
in
becoming
my
Executioner
,
thou
wilt
be
more
kind
,
than
in
continuing
my
Lover
.
Oh
gods
!
(
Hannibal
cry'd
out
,
interrupting
me
)
Why
do
you
give
me
so
much
Choller
,
and
so
much
Love
together
?
and
why
did
you
not
give
me
a
heart
capable
of
enduring
injuries
,
when
you
give
me
a
Mistriss
apt
to
confer
them
on
me
:
then
immediately
flinging
himself
on
his
knees
by
my
Bed-side
(
for
my
weakness
made
me
unable
to
receive
his
visits
in
another
condition
)
he
continu'd
,
Madam
,
though
my
rage
hath
made
me
sin
,
by
menacing
in
a
place
where
I
should
only
adore
,
yet
do
not
so
much
mis-interpret
my
crime
,
as
to
think
my
threatenings
had
you
for
their
object
;
You
,
I
say
,
for
whose
safety
had
I
as
many
Lives
,
as
you
have
Beauties
,
I
would
sacrifice
them
all
,
rather
than
employ
one
minute
of
them
to
a
contrary
thought
:
No
,
fair
Izadora
,
if
my
resentments
at
your
cruelty
,
forc'd
my
Passion
to
what
my
Reason
condemns
,
believe
me
,
't
was
only
against
Blacius
,
who
for
his
injuries
to
you
,
as
well
as
Relations
,
appear'd
in
my
fury
,
the
fittest
object
for
it
.
Alas
,
Sir
(
I
reply'd
,
interrupting
him
)
you
are
more
cruel
in
your
interpretation
,
than
in
your
threatenings
,
and
are
more
injurious
in
having
those
designs
against
my
Father
,
then
if
against
me
:
for
if
they
were
onely
intended
against
Izadora
,
if
my
grief
deceive
me
not
,
't
will
be
so
charitable
,
as
to
exempt
me
from
them
,
or
if
it
does
not
,
your
resentments
will
prove
an
obligation
,
(
for
I
consider
every
thing
at
that
rate
,
which
hastens
my
union
with
Perolla
)
but
if
neither
my
sorrow
for
my
loss
,
nor
your
fury
for
your
furitless
passion
,
will
prove
my
cure
,
know
that
I
will
act
it
my self
,
and
to
punish
my
coldness
for
Hannibal
,
and
reward
my
flame
for
his
Rival
,
I
will
untye
my
Soul
from
that
Cley
which
invirons
it
,
and
thereby
also
secure
Blacius
against
your
revenge
,
by
rendring
the
acting
it
an
injustice
.
Thereupon
turning
from
him
,
I
fell
so
bitterly
a
weeping
,
that
though
Hannibal
made
me
a
long
answer
to
what
I
spoke
,
yet
I
did
not
so
much
as
listen
to
him
,
being
wholly
intent
in
summoning
all
those
thoughts
which
I
fancyed
would
soonest
make
me
perform
,
what
I
told
the
Carthaginian
I
designed
:
and
indeed
those
sad
resentments
finding
a
body
extreamly
weakened
,
and
a
mind
as
apt
to
receive
their
impressions
,
were
in
one
day
so
kind
,
as
to
give
me
the
hopes
of
not
living
another
;
neither
was
this
only
my
conjecture
,
but
the
positive
opinion
of
my
Fathers
Physitian
,
who
in
a
trembling
haste
,
acquainted
Hannibal
with
it
,
and
conjured
him
since
by
so
evidencing
a
demonstration
,
it
was
impossible
to
separate
us
,
that
he
would
contribute
to
what
he
law
he
could
not
hinder
.
I
will
not
tell
you
all
the
Carthaginians
disputes
with
himself
,
which
could
not
on
so
plentiful
a
subject
but
be
excellent
,
let
it
be
sufficient
you
learn
,
that
though
the
cause
which
was
to
create
his
pity
,
might
as
justly
his
revenge
(
I
mean
,
the
sad
extremity
my
Passion
for
his
Rival
,
had
reduced
me
to
)
yet
he
got
the
victory
over
the
latter
,
and
generously
told
the
Doctor
:
Come
,
let
us
shew
Lzadora
her
Perolla
,
for
I
had
rather
lose
my
hopes
,
than
the
object
of
them
;
but
if
this
fresh
experiment
of
my
Passion
,
create
none
in
her
,
it
may
reduce
me
to
act
what
I
have
but
hitherto
counterfeited
.
Thereupon
,
immediately
he
sent
the
Captain
of
the
Guards
for
Perolla
(
who
had
till
then
,
been
kept
in
the
Dungeon
of
a
little
Castle
,
some
two
miles
from
Salapia
)
who
was
no
sooner
come
(
though
it
was
very
late
)
but
the
Carthaginian
(
who
had
access
into
Blacius's
house
at
his
pleasure
)
came
with
him
into
my
Chamber
,
where
all
those
that
watcht
with
me
,
were
weeping
a
death
,
which
according
to
their
belief
and
my
desire
,
was
not
many
hours
distant
:
But
all
of
them
no
sooner
saw
my
generous
friend
,
whose
Funerals
had
been
solemnized
above
a
quarter
of
a
year
before
,
than
with
horrid
skreeks
they
fled
out
of
the
room
.
Hannibal
was
not
displeased
at
their
absence
;
and
Perolla
(
who
till
then
,
thought
he
was
drawn
out
of
a
Prison
to
end
his
life
)
began
now
to
fear
a
more
transcend●nt
misfortune
,
for
being
ignorant
of
his
own
death
,
the
sad
posture
he
found
my
Women
in
,
and
those
strange
extravagancies
of
theirs
,
made
him
attribute
the
first
to
my
death
,
and
the
last
to
their
charity
,
for
that
horror
they
knew
would
invade
him
,
as
his
seeing
me
dead
;
which
absolutely
he
was
confirmed
in
,
by
my
not
(
at
so
great
a
clamour
)
looking
out
to
discover
or
enquire
the
cause
of
it
;
and
he
further
believed
,
that
his
Tyrant
had
only
brought
him
thither
,
to
shew
him
so
melancholly
a
Spectacle
,
as
a
Revenge
for
being
his
Rival
both
in
Love
and
Glory
.
But
then
on
the
other
side
,
he
could
hardly
believe
the
Carthaginian
durst
shew
him
so
inraging
an
object
,
and
trust
him
unty'd
to
act
his
resentments
.
Whilst
the
poor
Perolla
was
in
this
labyrinth
,
he
was
led
out
of
it
by
Hannibal's
opening
my
Curtains
a
little
,
and
telling
me
;
See
Madam
,
my
power
,
and
my
infelicity
,
that
can
perform
miracles
for
others
,
and
not
for
my self
,
that
can
raise
the
dead
to
bring
you
to
life
,
and
perhaps
my self
to
death
,
that
can
do
all
things
indeed
,
but
what
I
most
desire
.
Here
fair
Izadora
(
he
continued
)
drawing
Perolla
towards
me
,
dry
up
your
Tears
,
which
else
may
hinder
you
from
seeing
your
happiness
,
and
remember
,
he
which
to
save
your
life
,
has
run
so
hazardous
a
course
to
his
own
,
merits
(
at
least
)
that
you
never
give
your self
to
another
,
if
you
will
not
bestow
your self
on
him
.
These
strange
words
,
and
the
as
strange
noise
which
somewhat
preceded
them
,
made
me
turn
about
to
understand
their
meaning
;
but
O
gods
!
what
was
my
surprize
when
I
saw
Perolla
in
this
world
,
who
I
was
,
making
such
haste
to
find
out
in
the
other
?
truly
't
was
so
transcendent
,
that
I
fell
into
a
deep
swound
,
and
thereby
those
powers
,
which
have
ever
took
delight
to
afflict
me
,
continued
that
practise
,
for
whilst
I
believed
Perolla
dead
,
they
kept
me
alive
,
and
now
they
shewed
him
me
alive
,
they
flung
me
into
a
seeming
death
,
which
too
had
like
to
have
caused
a
real
one
in
my
generous
friend
?
Hannibal
,
whose
concern
for
me
was
not
so
great
as
his
,
permitted
his
care
to
be
greater
,
who
ran
out
to
call
my
Women
to
my
assistance
,
and
to
whom
he
was
constrained
to
make
many
oaths
,
that
it
was
really
Perolla
,
and
not
his
Ghost
,
before
he
could
perswade
them
to
come
in
to
me
;
but
Callione
,
the
chiefest
of
them
,
both
in
her
extraction
,
and
my
esteem
,
knew
so
well
the
interest
I
had
in
Perolla
,
that
whilst
others
took
up
their
employment
about
me
,
she
made
him
the
object
of
hers
;
and
was
so
unhappily
successful
in
it
,
that
she
brought
him
out
of
his
fainting
,
before
I
was
recovered
of
mine
,
which
raised
in
him
so
high
despair
,
that
had
not
all
those
which
were
present
,
assured
him
,
my
disease
and
his
were
of
the
same
quality
,
and
that
only
mine
,
meeting
with
a
Body
disabled
by
a
deep
sickness
,
was
the
cause
of
its
longer
continuance
,
I
believe
he
would
have
acted
some
such
violence
on
himself
,
as
had
made
my
recovery
my
highest
misfortune
;
but
at
length
,
about
an
hour
after
,
by
the
help
of
strong
Cordials
,
my
swounding
abandoned
me
,
and
I
no
sooner
opened
my
Eyes
,
than
the
first
objects
they
saw
,
were
Hannibal
and
Perolla
,
who
were
both
kneeling
by
my
bed-side
,
but
the
joy
of
beholding
the
latter
,
made
me
niether
consider
nor
care
how
much
the
expressions
of
it
would
offend
the
form●●
;
to
confirm
this
truth
,
I
told
the
other
:
Are
the
Gods
then
so
just
(
Perolla
)
as
to
reward
by
this
sight
,
the
fidelity
of
my
Eyes
,
which
abhorr'd
all
objects
but
you
,
and
which
having
lost
you
,
have
endeavour'd
to
weep
themselves
out
as
useless
things
?
or
else
is
it
an
illusion
and
a
mockery
of
Fate
,
by
making
me
,
(
in
resenting
the
joy
of
your
Resurrection
)
the
more
exactly
sensible
of
your
real
death
?
Tell
me
,
I
conjure
you
,
which
of
them
'
t
is
?
for
if
it
be
the
latter
,
I
will
deceive
her
cruelty
,
and
convert
what
she
intends
for
one
,
into
a
summons
to
follow
you
,
which
I
thank
the
gods
,
my
weakness
(
for
you
supposed
a
real
Death
)
makes
me
as
able
,
as
my
passion
willing
to
perform
.
Madam
(
he
reply'd
,
kissing
my
hands
)
I
am
really
alive
,
but
't
is
only
your
joy
at
it
,
which
makes
me
esteem
my
being
so
a
happiness
;
for
how
can
I
consider
the
persecutions
I
have
rais'd
you
,
in
being
alive
,
and
those
afflictions
I
have
cast
you
into
,
in
not
being
thought
so
by
you
,
but
I
must
be
struck
with
a
grief
as
great
as
my
flame
,
and
perpetually
deplore
an
experiment
which
convinces
me
,
that
both
my
Life
and
my
Death
must
be
a
trouble
to
you
.
All
this
I
heard
Perolla
speak
,
yet
I
was
so
overjoy'd
at
his
first
words
,
which
were
an
assurance
of
what
I
only
desired
,
that
not
answering
his
last
,
I
raised
my self
up
the
best
I
could
,
and
imbracing
him
that
spoke
them
,
I
did
that
which
on
any
other
occasion
,
and
in
that
posture
,
I
should
not
have
perform'd
;
but
the
subject
of
my
satisfaction
was
so
legitimate
,
that
I
could
not
suppress
any
extravagancy
it
produced
.
It
is
true
,
Madam
(
said
Perolla
,
interupting
his
fair
Mistriss
)
your
joy
was
obliging
to
Hannibal
,
as
well
as
to
me
,
for
in
your
acting
(
as
he
aftewards
confest
to
Cristes
)
he
discovered
Beauties
which
he
protested
,
sufficiently
payd
his
Charity
in
preserving
your
life
.
Izadora
at
these
words
,
was
all
covered
with
blushes
,
and
her
servant
perceiving
it
,
(
to
repair
her
disorder
)
told
her
;
But
Madam
,
as
it
was
but
just
that
Hannibal
should
receive
a
reward
for
his
cure
,
so
it
was
as
just
,
his
Eyes
should
receive
the
punishment
of
their
presumption
,
which
were
both
perform'd
;
for
as
their
seeing
those
perfections
,
effected
the
former
,
so
his
seeing
the
little
share
he
had
in
them
,
did
the
latter
.
Izadora
(
said
Simander
)
was
so
confus'd
in
the
remembrance
of
these
particulars
,
that
without
taking
notice
of
Perolla's
words
,
she
made
haste
to
pass
over
the
subject
of
them
,
by
thus
re-assuming
her
relation
.
Hannibal
was
so
inrag'd
,
that
in
my
joy
I
had
forgot
my
gratitude
to
him
,
which
furnisht
me
with
the
cause
of
it
,
that
rising
up
he
told
me
;
Is
then
all
the
reward
(
Madam
)
you
give
my
Love
,
but
a
demonstration
that
you
have
given
all
yours
to
my
Rival
,
and
is
your
flame
so
great
,
that
you
cannot
conceal
it
,
when
the
disclosure
is
both
unwise
and
ungrateful
?
Ah
Izadora
!
how
much
do
you
rely
on
the
power
you
have
over
me
,
when
you
care
to
offend
mine
,
by
so
sensible
a
provocation
?
These
words
drew
me
from
that
employment
,
my
excess
of
joy
had
ingag'd
me
in
,
and
finding
the
Carthaginian
was
as
just
in
his
reproaches
,
as
I
esteem'd
I
was
in
what
caus'd
them
,
I
thought
fit
to
tell
him
:
You
do
place
(
Sir
)
a
wrong
construction
on
my
actions
,
since
that
which
you
term
my
ingratitude
,
is
rather
an
effect
of
my
confidence
in
your
Virtue
;
for
did
I
think
you
a
Tyrant
,
I
would
not
add
a
Provocation
to
the
Power
of
your
Revenge
,
but
knowing
you
to
be
just
,
I
dare
even
in
your
presence
,
manifest
a
flame
,
whose
virtue
renders
me
confident
,
rather
of
your
protection
,
than
resentments
.
Ah
Madam
,
(
said
Hannibal
)
why
do
you
make
me
just
,
to
make
me
miserable
?
and
if
what
I
have
seen
you
act
,
be
in
reliance
on
my
Virtue
,
I
beseech
you
ascribe
none
unto
me
,
for
mine
will
then
be
my
punishment
,
and
make
me
rather
implore
the
Gods
,
to
take
from
me
that
little
I
possess
,
than
to
let
it
thus
torment
me
.
We
were
in
discourses
of
this
quality
,
when
Blacius
being
inform'd
of
Hannibal's
visit
(
and
of
Perolla's
Resurrection
)
came
into
my
Chamber
,
where
in
terms
as
sharp
as
the
remembrance
of
the
Carthaginian's
power
permitted
him
to
use
,
he
murmur'd
at
his
bringing
his
mortal
Enemy
into
his
House
,
and
restoring
his
Daughter
to
a
certainty
of
his
being
alive
:
And
though
Hannibal
represented
,
that
that
was
the
only
way
to
continue
me
so
;
yet
my
Father
never
lessen'd
his
repining
,
but
added
,
that
since
I
was
of
so
degenerate
a
disposition
,
he
had
rather
have
lost
than
preserv'd
me
at
so
high
a
rate
.
Then
he
besought
Hannibal
to
permit
him
to
make
use
of
his
paternal
and
domestick
power
over
his
Daughter
,
and
in
his
own
House
;
which
the
Carthaginian
granted
,
that
we
might
be
separated
,
and
yet
not
derive
that
misfortune
from
him
;
but
though
it
was
not
immediately
his
act
,
yet
it
was
an
effect
of
his
permission
,
which
I
so
resented
,
that
seeing
my
Father
going
to
send
out
Perolla
,
with
somewhat
a
less
civility
than
I
expected
,
I
made
haste
to
tell
him
;
Since
,
generous
Perolla
,
I
know
not
whether
we
shall
ever
meet
again
,
I
esteem
it
fit
to
give
you
an
assurance
before
such
memorable
witnesses
,
that
the
gods
shall
be
mine
,
I
will
never
be
any
's
but
yours
,
that
nothing
but
death
shall
dissolve
this
engagement
,
and
if
yours
happen
before
mine
,
I
will
,
by
the
help
of
my
grief
,
or
my
resolution
,
immediately
follow
you
.
Perolla
at
this
profession
,
turn'd
about
(
though
Blacius
was
leading
him
forth
)
and
told
me
,
And
I
Madam
,
do
beseech
the
same
god's
,
if
ever
I
cherish
my
life
,
but
for
your
sake
,
if
ever
I
decline
my
passion
,
or
if
ever
I
survive
your
loss
a
minute
,
after
I
know
it
,
to
make
me
the
object
of
their
fury
,
and
to
throw
on
me
as
many
miseries
,
as
they
have
bestowed
perfections
on
the
fair
Izadora
.
This
profession
I
made
him
,
as
well
to
reward
his
flame
,
asto
take
from
Blacius
all
the
hopes
of
changing
mine
,
as
also
to
punish
Hannibal
for
giving
my
Father
a
power
which
he
denyed
him
in
all
things
but
to
torment
me
;
and
truly
the
Carthaginian
was
in
such
a
rage
at
this
just
and
mutual
ingagement
,
that
he
commanded
some
of
his
Guards
(
which
waited
at
the
door
)
to
take
Perolla
and
keep
him
as
their
lives
,
till
his
pleasure
were
known
.
Then
coming
to
my
Bed-side
,
he
told
me
;
I
see
,
Madam
,
that
you
trample
on
the
goodness
of
my
disposition
,
and
that
you
believe
,
because
I
have
not
,
that
I
dare
not
revenge
my self
on
my
Rival
;
but
know
,
if
you
persevere
in
that
belief
,
I
will
convince
you
of
the
contrary
,
by
so
bloudy
an
experiment
,
that
you
will
find
I
am
capable
of
as
high
a
proportion
of
Revenge
,
as
Love
;
and
that
by
not
rewarding
the
latter
,
you
will
necessitate
me
to
act
the
former
.
He
had
no
sooner
done
speaking
,
than
without
staying
for
a
reply
,
he
left
me
,
and
at
Oristes
importunate
intreaties
,
he
commited
Perolla
to
his
charge
,
with
horrid
vows
,
that
he
should
answer
for
him
with
his
life
;
To
which
condition
,
the
Traitor
condescended
;
and
having
received
his
Charge
,
he
brought
him
to
his
House
,
lodged
him
in
a
Chamber
with
grated
Windows
,
and
placed
at
the
coming
in
to
it
,
a
strong
Guard
of
Affricans
,
which
Hannibal
furnisht
him
with
,
who
,
every
day
visited
me
,
and
as
his
discourse
,
so
his
reception
was
;
sometimes
returning
with
hopes
,
for
I
considered
Perolla
was
in
his
power
;
sometimes
without
any
,
lest
he
might
think
him
his
only
obstacle
,
and
so
remove
him
.
But
I
omitted
to
tell
you
,
that
the
certainty
of
my
generous
Friends
being
alive
,
made
me
court
as
much
my
recovery
,
as
formerly
I
had
my
death
;
and
with
my
health
,
my
little
(
and
unfortunate
)
beauty
being
returned
,
it
increast
so
much
the
Carthaginians
fire
,
that
under
the
pretence
of
the
greatness
of
it
,
one
evening
he
became
so
indiscreet
,
that
I
was
not
capable
any
longer
to
dissemble
,
but
gave
him
so
just
and
sharp
a
reprehension
,
that
in
the
fury
it
produced
,
upon
his
return
to
his
own
house
,
he
sent
for
Oristes
,
and
led
him
into
his
own
Bed-chamber
,
where
having
shut
the
door
,
he
acquainted
that
Traitor
,
that
he
was
able
no
longer
to
contain
his
resentments
,
and
that
he
could
not
bear
two
such
powerful
Passions
,
as
Revenge
,
and
Love
.
The
false
Oristes
,
readily
laid
hold
of
the
motion
,
and
to
satisfy
his
own
revenge
on
Perolla
,
(
whom
he
highly
apprehended
)
so
husbanded
Hannibal's
fury
,
that
he
inclined
him
at
last
,
really
to
make
away
his
Rival
,
concluding
,
that
his
respect
had
been
too
long
his
torment
,
that
it
was
but
just
to
take
away
so
considerable
an
Enemy
,
both
to
him
and
to
Carthage
,
and
that
if
he
could
not
thereby
obtain
his
desires
,
yet
he
should
his
revenge
.
This
Resolve
being
assumed
,
Oristes
,
as
he
had
procured
Perolla's
death
,
so
he
offered
himself
to
act
it
,
and
propounded
for
that
performance
,
to
give
him
a
lingering
poyson
,
which
should
be
so
slow
in
operation
,
that
the
world
should
rather
believe
he
dyed
by
his
own
melancholly
,
than
by
Hannibals
resentments
.
This
the
Carthaginian
having
approved
,
he
and
Oristes
separated
themselves
,
the
former
to
make
some
publick
dispatches
,
and
the
latter
with
a
design
instantly
to
execute
the
result
of
that
meeting
.
But
the
gods
which
detested
so
dark
a
sin
,
prevented
it
by
a
way
as
strange
,
as
was
the
intended
design
it self
;
for
the
gallant
Maharbal
,
General
of
the
Carthaginian
Horse
,
who
all
the
preceding
night
,
had
been
putting
things
in
a
posture
for
the
Armies
march
,
came
to
Hannibals
house
,
the
self-same
evening
and
time
in
which
he
was
visiting
me
,
where
learning
,
that
his
General
was
in
an
employment
,
which
commonly
was
of
no
small
continuance
,
and
being
somewhat
sleepy
,
flung
himself
upon
Hannibals
Bed
,
which
was
not
strange
,
because
of
that
great
familiarity
that
was
always
betwixt
them
,
where
he
slept
till
the
Carthaginians
and
Oristes
coming
in
,
did
wake
him
,
and
before
that
he
had
time
to
rise
,
they
had
lock'd
the
door
,
and
began
this
horrid
consultation
.
Maharbal
,
whose
Genius
was
only
inclined
to
War
,
detested
the
contrary
humour
in
his
General
,
which
by
experiment
he
found
,
had
been
already
so
destructive
to
the
Carthaginian
Common-wealth
;
This
made
him
listen
attentively
,
in
hope
to
discover
some
of
those
contrivances
which
Hannibal
kept
so
private
,
and
which
by
his
knowledge
of
them
,
might
furnish
him
with
a
means
to
wean
him
from
a
passion
he
so
much
undervalued
and
detested
;
but
at
length
hearing
so
black
a
Resolve
,
he
determined
to
prevent
what
he
condemned
,
but
did
not
think
the
best
way
to
effect
it
,
was
to
discover
what
he
knew
,
which
he
believed
,
would
rather
make
his
General
ashamed
,
than
penitent
;
therefore
,
as
soon
as
he
and
Oristes
were
gone
,
he
himself
retired
to
his
own
house
,
and
not
knowing
how
soon
that
Traitor
would
execute
his
resolution
,
he
immediately
called
for
one
of
his
own
Liveries
,
which
being
brought
him
,
and
having
enjoyn'd
the
bringer
of
it
an
inviolable
secrecy
,
he
went
immediately
,
(
as
his
custom
was
)
to
visit
Perolla
,
being
attended
by
twenty
of
his
Domesticks
all
in
one
Livery
,
(
as
is
the
Carthaginian
fashion
,
)
where
finding
Perolla
alone
,
he
generously
acquainted
him
with
his
danger
,
and
presenting
him
with
his
Livery
,
advis'd
him
to
put
it
on
,
and
at
his
going
out
,
to
shuffle
himself
amongst
his
Servants
,
which
none
of
the
Guards
durst
examine
,
or
would
suspect
.
For
this
transcendent
favour
Perolla
made
him
as
many
returns
,
as
his
gratitude
could
inspire
him
withal
,
and
the
time
permit
;
and
indeed
he
was
so
eloquent
in
his
retributions
,
that
not
only
Maharbal
ingag'd
himself
to
acquaint
me
with
his
escape
,
but
also
to
make
Oristes
receive
from
Hannibal
himself
,
the
punishment
of
his
Treachery
and
Wickedness
,
Immediately
therefore
,
(
as
soon
as
Perolla
was
drest
)
Maharbal
(
whose
servants
attended
him
at
the
door
)
went
out
of
Perolla's
Chamber
,
and
amongst
the
rest
,
was
lighted
down
by
him
,
who
no
sooner
got
out
of
Oristes
house
(
who
all
this
while
was
at
a
Physitians
,
preparing
his
fatal
poyson
)
then
with
the
help
of
the
word
Maharbal
gave
him
,
he
got
too
out
of
the
Samnite
Gate
;
and
his
generous
deliverer
,
not
only
by
a
visit
next
day
,
assur'd
me
of
his
escape
,
but
also
so
incens'd
Hannibal
against
Oristes
at
it
,
(
whose
jealousie
of
his
connivance
at
his
flight
,
he
so
increas'd
,
by
putting
him
in
mind
of
his
pressing
importunities
,
to
have
him
his
prisoner
)
that
in
the
heighth
of
that
rage
,
he
gave
order
to
put
Oristes
to
death
,
which
he
knowing
was
both
unavoidable
and
just
,
as
being
an
effect
of
that
contract
which
had
past
betwixt
Hannibal
and
him
,
when
Perolla
was
committed
to
his
charge
,
to
disburden
his
Conscience
,
he
sent
me
privately
in
writing
,
a
large
relation
of
all
those
particulars
which
I
was
ignorant
of
,
and
then
receiv'd
the
stroke
of
death
in
his
own
Chamber
,
by
his
Command
,
for
whom
he
had
so
wickedly
employ'd
his
life
.
'T
was
in
this
sort
that
Perolla
'scap'd
a
treachery
,
which
fill'd
him
with
so
legitimate
and
high
a
resentment
against
him
,
which
had
at
least
allowed
it
,
that
from
that
time
he
contracted
an
implacable
aversion
for
him
,
and
resolv'd
the
first
Battel
the
Romans
fought
,
to
tye
himself
so
particularly
to
Hannibal
,
that
nothing
but
his
own
death
should
prevent
his
Rivals
.
In
order
to
this
determination
,
he
went
directly
to
Marcellus
,
from
whose
active
courage
,
he
expected
an
earlier
opportunity
to
put
his
resolution
in
practice
,
than
from
Crispinus
(
his
Colleague
;
)
I
need
not
tell
you
the
great
satisfaction
the
gallant
Marcellus
receiv'd
at
Perolla's
arrival
,
you
may
in
some
degree
imagine
it
by
his
saying
,
he
esteem'd
his
single
courage
,
and
conduct
,
a
greater
re-inforcement
to
his
Army
,
than
the
addition
of
the
best
Roman
Legion
,
and
he
was
confident
,
Hannibal
valu'd
it
at
no
less
a
rate
.
After
these
Civilities
,
the
Consul
offer'd
him
any
preferment
in
his
Army
,
and
conjur'd
him
not
to
decline
the
Command
of
General
of
his
Horse
,
(
which
then
was
vacant
by
the
death
of
Marcus
Aulius
,
)
but
my
generous
friend
,
who
was
more
ambitious
of
revenge
than
preferment
,
and
who
suspected
that
Office
would
confine
him
to
a
certain
Duty
,
and
thereby
frustrate
his
design
upon
Hannibal
,
absolutely
declin'd
Marcellus
offer
,
by
assuring
him
,
that
he
had
better
proportion'd
his
ambition
to
his
desert
,
and
consequently
desir'd
no
greater
honor
,
than
to
serve
under
him
as
a
Volunteer
.
The
Consul
was
extreamly
griev'd
at
this
refusal
,
for
he
would
gladly
have
bound
to
him
a
person
he
justly
admir'd
;
but
yet
he
us'd
Perolla
with
the
same
respect
,
as
if
he
had
taken
so
considerable
an
employment
;
for
in
all
attempts
,
and
in
all
counsels
,
he
would
do
nothing
without
his
advice
and
assistance
,
and
if
in
things
of
action
he
was
abundantly
satisfied
with
his
Courage
,
in
those
of
Counsel
he
was
no
less
with
his
Judgement
.
But
Hannibal
(
whose
rage
at
Perolla's
escape
is
fitter
for
imagination
than
description
)
hearing
that
he
had
retir'd
himself
to
Marcellus
Army
,
immediately
put
his
into
a
posture
to
attempt
the
ruine
of
his
publique
and
particular
Enemy
,
but
before
he
quitted
Salapia
,
he
came
to
visit
me
,
and
perceiving
my
joy
in
my
face
,
it
inflam'd
his
to
such
a
degree
,
that
for
a
good
while
his
choller
was
unlegible
in
any
thing
else
;
but
at
length
he
told
me
,
Madam
,
I
see
with
what
satisfaction
you
consider
my
trouble
,
and
that
my
misery
is
the
subject
of
your
contentment
,
but
I
hope
my
patience
at
it
,
will
instruct
yours
,
or
at
least
induce
you
not
to
condemn
in
another
,
what
you
practise
your self
;
For
know
,
I
am
going
to
sacrifice
a
person
which
my
Respect
and
your
Tears
hinder'd
me
hitherto
from
performing
,
and
which
by
his
flight
you
think
has
escap'd
for
ever
;
but
you
shall
find
,
if
my
ambition
only
inspir'd
me
with
a
resolution
that
has
near
subverted
the
Roman
Empire
;
my
Revenge
and
my
Passion
will
give
me
strength
enough
to
destroy
a
Subject
of
it
,
which
being
perform'd
,
I
will
enjoy
you
legitimately
,
or
if
your
perverseness
decline
that
honor
,
I
will
satisfy
my
Flame
by
an
easier
,
though
not
so
pleasing
a
way
;
and
believe
me
,
did
not
your
coldness
render
my
Revenge
a
greater
Passion
than
my
Love
,
I
would
suspend
the
former
to
satisfy
the
latter
;
besides
,
having
taken
you
first
from
Perolla
,
to
kill
him
,
would
rather
appear
an
obligation
,
than
a
punishment
.
These
words
deliver'd
with
an
accent
as
barbarous
as
themselves
were
,
banish'd
all
my
patience
,
and
made
me
tell
him
:
Thou
Monster
(
greater
than
thy
Countrey
Africk
did
ever
yet
produce
)
know
,
that
the
same
gods
which
preserved
Perolla
from
thy
rage
,
when
thou
hadst
the
power
to
act
it
,
will
do
the
like
now
thou
hast
only
the
design
:
he
never
feared
any
thing
of
thee
but
thy
Treachery
,
and
if
thou
makest
use
but
of
thy
own
Arm
to
perform
thy
revenge
,
thou
wilt
sooner
furnish
him
with
the
means
to
effect
his
,
than
create
my
fear
of
thine
.
For
my
particular
be
assured
,
that
I
will
cast
my self
into
the
Arms
of
death
,
far
rather
than
into
Hannibals
;
that
I
have
as
great
a
detestation
for
being
thy
Wife
,
as
thou
hast
for
Virtue
,
and
that
the
same
minute
in
which
thou
attempst
my
chastity
,
if
nothing
else
will
preserve
me
,
I
will
free
my self
from
life
,
to
do
the
like
from
thee
.
You
shall
see
(
the
Carthaginian
replyed
)
that
't
is
easier
for
Hannibal
to
act
than
to
threaten
,
and
at
his
return
he
will
make
you
know
the
greatness
of
his
Passion
,
by
his
resentments
for
your
neglecting
it
.
He
left
me
,
(
saying
these
words
)
and
the
same
day
Salapia
,
but
in
it
,
a
select
Garrison
of
Lybians
,
rather
to
keep
me
than
it
.
Their
Commander
was
one
of
his
trustiest
Captains
,
who
he
inviolably
protested
,
should
answer
for
me
in
torments
and
death
.
This
Tyrant
was
no
sooner
on
his
march
,
than
some
of
my
Servants
having
informed
Blacius
I
was
fallen
into
such
abundant
weepings
,
that
unless
they
were
stopt
,
they
might
extinguish
my
life
;
his
goodness
for
a
while
suppressing
his
aversion
,
he
came
to
visit
me
,
and
being
acquainted
with
those
threatenings
the
Carthaginian
had
made
against
my
chastity
▪
he
only
told
me
,
that
he
would
prevent
or
not
see
my
wrongs
.
I
knew
not
what
interpretation
to
give
that
profession
,
till
not
long
after
,
I
heard
one
night
a
horrid
noise
in
all
the
streets
,
and
the
next
morning
saw
them
paved
with
the
dead
Carkasses
of
Hannibals
Garrison
;
my
Father
then
coming
again
to
see
me
,
all
hideous
with
Bloud
,
assured
me
,
that
Hannibal
now
might
threaten
,
but
had
not
the
power
to
act
his
impiety
,
and
that
he
expected
,
since
for
my
preservation
he
had
undertaken
so
great
a
hazard
,
that
my
duty
would
be
resembling
his
care
.
I
too
well
knew
those
words
related
to
my
passion
for
Perolla
,
which
since
the
impossibility
of
declining
,
was
as
great
as
the
injustice
;
I
thought
,
that
as
my
silence
was
the
best
way
of
expres●ing
my
resentments
for
his
affection
,
so
it
was
the
civilest
of
assuring
him
of
my
legitimate
obedience
:
I
know
not
whether
he
imputed
it
to
my
respect
,
or
my
wilfulness
,
for
he
went
away
without
speaking
one
word
,
which
might
be
as
pertinently
attributed
to
his
satisfaction
,
as
his
a●ger
.
Four
days
after
,
the
Senate
sent
a
solemn
Embassy
to
him
,
to
congratulate
his
success
,
and
to
furnish
him
with
a
Garrison
to
secure
it
.
Though
this
soon
came
to
Hannibals
knowledge
,
yet
he
was
necessitated
by
the
Pretor
Cneius
Fulvius
,
besieging
the
City
Herdonea
,
to
suspend
a
while
his
design
upon
Marcellus
and
Perolla
;
but
to
appease
so
many
Lybian
Ghosts
as
were
lost
in
Salapia
;
and
perhaps
,
the
loss
of
Izadora
had
some
share
in
that
fury
,
he
offered
the
unfortunate
Pretor
Battel
,
whose
courage
being
greater
than
his
judgement
,
accepted
it
,
and
by
that
fault
,
was
rendred
uncapable
of
ever
committing
any
other
,
being
killed
by
Twelve
of
his
Tribunes
,
and
the
most
of
his
Army
.
That
unhappy
Plain
near
Herdon●a
,
proved
an
unfortunate
Theatre
for
the
Fluvius's
,
two
of
them
in
one
year
,
both
Pretors
,
and
both
Generals
,
received
the
same
fat●
in
the
same
place
,
by
the
Carthaginian
;
who
raised
by
this
accession
of
Glory
,
march'd
directly
to
Venusia
,
where
Marcellus
and
Crispinus
were
joyned
,
the
better
to
oppose
their
common
Enemy
.
But
because
I
have
not
undertaken
Hannibal's
but
Perolla's
Story
,
I
will
pass
over
all
those
memorable
accidents
which
happened
that
active
Summer
,
by
telling
you
that
Hannibal
knowing
Asdrabal
his
Brother
(
as
well
in
Glory
as
in
Bloud
)
had
crost
France
,
and
was
coming
to
him
with
neer
100000
men
,
as
a
Torrent
to
throw
down
all
opposition
,
declined
a
Battel
,
though
often
provok'd
to
it
by
Marcellus
,
who
being
not
ignorant
of
the
danger
of
two
such
Men
and
Armies
joyning
,
thought
himself
always
too
far
from
his
Enemy
,
if
not
fighting
with
him
,
resolved
to
remove
his
Camp
to
a
Hill
covered
with
Wood
,
which
lay
betwixt
his
and
Hannibals
,
and
not
suspecting
his
Fate
,
took
Crispinus
(
his
fellow
Consul
)
with
him
,
200
Hetrurian
Horse
,
for
their
Guard
,
and
went
to
view
the
commodiousness
of
the
place
,
where
(
alas
)
there
lay
in
ambush
above
1500
Numidian
Horse
,
who
invironing
those
unfortunate
Generals
,
charged
them
with
so
much
fury
,
that
all
those
false
or
timerous
Hetrurians
,
fled
,
and
left
the
two
Consuls
no
hope
,
but
by
a
glorious
death
,
to
justify
how
unworthy
they
were
of
so
private
a
one
,
and
that
Rome
without
losing
a
Battel
,
might
resent
as
high
a
grief
,
as
such
a
loss
could
inspire
.
Perolla
(
as
the
gods
would
have
it
)
had
been
that
night
upon
a
Party
,
and
was
not
returned
when
the
Consuls
went
to
perform
so
fatal
a
curiosity
;
but
he
was
no
sooner
come
into
his
Tent
,
than
the
Alarm
of
their
danger
was
given
by
a
timerous
Hetrurean
,
which
Perolla
understanding
,
took
the
first
horse
he
met
with
,
and
ran
full
speed
to
the
Theatre
,
where
this
Tragedy
was
acting
,
and
where
the
first
object
he
saw
was
a
Numidian
Officer
,
that
coming
behind
Marcellus
,
ran
that
great
Man
through
with
his
Launce
;
but
though
my
generous
friend
could
not
prevent
,
yet
he
reveng'd
his
Death
,
and
by
a
furious
blow
sent
that
Affrican
into
the
other
world
,
to
see
how
great
his
Virtues
were
,
whom
he
had
so
treacherously
kill'd
in
this
.
Perolla
having
thus
sacrific'd
his
Generals
Murtherer
to
his
Manes
,
he
rescued
first
the
young
Marcellus
(
his
Son
)
and
then
perceiving
that
Crispinus
was
pierc'd
with
two
Darts
,
and
thereby
render'd
uncapable
any
longer
to
defend
himself
,
he
abandon'd
his
own
Horse
,
and
vaulting
up
behind
the
Consuls
,
upheld
his
tottering
Body
with
one
Arm
,
and
with
the
other
forc'd
his
passage
through
a
hundred
Numidian
Swords
,
and
brought
him
into
the
Roman
Camp
,
where
their
fears
had
so
far
clouded
their
judgements
,
that
they
only
remembred
,
but
did
not
relieve
their
Consuls
danger
:
Never
Rome
had
at
once
a
resembling
misfortune
,
and
never
was
that
Empire
in
worse
condition
to
sustain
it
;
and
though
Hannibal
was
more
satisfied
at
Marcellus
death
,
than
he
could
have
been
at
the
cutting
in
pieces
of
the
Roman
Army
without
it
,
yet
he
was
so
generous
as
to
be
content
with
the
joy
,
without
giving
any
open
demonstration
of
it
:
For
he
first
wept
the
fall
of
so
eminent
a
person
,
then
in
a
military
pomp
burnt
his
Body
,
and
having
put
the
Ashes
in
a
Silver
Urn
,
and
on
it
a
Crown
of
Gold
,
he
sent
it
in
great
state
,
with
a
condoling
Letter
,
to
the
young
Marcellus
,
and
executed
some
Numidians
for
offering
(
by
the
way
)
to
rob
Marcellus
Reliques
of
a
Crown
,
which
his
noble
Life
,
and
valiant
Death
so
justly
merited
.
Spartacus
was
extreamly
satisfied
to
observe
that
Izadora's
resentments
did
not
silence
her
justice
,
and
that
though
she
were
an
Enemy
to
Hannibal
,
yet
that
she
was
not
so
to
his
Fame
and
Virtue
.
But
(
she
continu'd
)
though
Crispinus
was
mortally
wounded
,
yet
his
care
for
the
publique
was
as
great
,
as
if
he
had
been
to
live
and
enjoy
the
effects
of
it
.
As
an
evincement
of
this
Truth
,
he
sent
certain
Spies
into
the
Affrican
Camp
,
to
learn
what
advantage
the
Enemy
propounded
to
himself
by
his
success
:
these
perform'd
their
employment
so
happily
,
that
they
brought
the
Consul
word
,
that
Hannibal
having
an
unextinguishable
desire
to
be
reveng'd
on
the
Salapians
,
and
having
too
,
by
the
possession
of
Marcellus
Seal
,
which
with
his
body
remain'd
in
the
Victors
power
,
found
an
expedient
to
effect
it
.
He
had
sent
false
Letters
with
the
true
Signet
to
Blacius
,
in
the
dead
Consuls
name
,
to
let
him
know
,
that
that
night
he
would
come
to
Salapia
,
and
commanded
all
the
Garrison
to
be
in
Arms
without
the
Samnite
Gate
,
for
some
exploit
he
intended
to
employ
them
in
.
Crispinus
no
sooner
receiv'd
this
intelligence
,
than
he
sent
for
Perolla
to
communicate
it
to
him
,
and
knowing
those
concerns
he
had
for
the
preservation
of
this
place
,
gave
him
Commission
to
command
the
Garrison
,
till
Hannibal
had
lost
the
hopes
of
taking
it
.
Perolla
declin'd
it
,
because
Blacius
was
Governor
,
but
the
Consul
told
him
,
that
it
was
not
to
intrench
on
my
Fathers
authority
,
but
to
strengthen
him
in
it
;
for
he
was
confident
,
Hannibals
assault
would
be
so
vigorous
,
that
Blacius
could
not
but
think
so
powerful
an
assistant
,
a
blessing
rather
than
an
affront
,
and
that
he
was
no
true
friend
to
Rome
,
if
for
a
temporary
suspension
of
his
power
,
he
hazarded
so
important
a
place
.
Perolla
finding
Crispinus
was
unalterable
,
took
Horse
,
and
with
that
speed
which
Love
and
Revenge
inspires
,
came
to
Salapia
,
where
he
soon
found
the
truth
of
the
Consuls
intelligence
,
and
that
all
the
Garrison
were
drawing
out
of
the
Samnite
Gate
,
which
was
the
opposite
one
to
that
which
Hannibal
intended
to
enter
at
,
and
though
by
his
authority
he
might
have
hinder'd
the
Soldiers
march
,
yet
he
bore
so
great
a
respect
to
Blacius
,
that
he
declin'd
it
,
and
rather
elected
to
hazard
the
ruine
of
Salapia
,
by
not
stopping
them
,
than
prevent
it
by
intrenching
on
the
seeming
right
my
Father
had
,
who
(
he
was
inform'd
)
was
at
his
own
house
,
where
he
lighted
,
and
coming
in
,
found
him
with
some
of
his
intimate
friends
(
and
his
unfortunate
Daughter
)
discoursing
what
might
be
the
subject
of
Marcellus
design
.
But
O
gods
!
what
was
my
astonishment
at
the
sight
of
Perolla
?
truly
it
was
so
transcending
,
that
I
observ'd
neither
Blacius's
nor
his
,
but
the
latter
being
a
little
supprest
,
he
addrest
himself
to
my
Father
,
acquainted
him
with
the
fatal
news
,
the
cause
of
his
coming
,
and
then
presented
him
his
Commission
,
which
whilst
Blacius
was
viewing
,
Perolla
and
I
were
doing
the
like
to
each
other
,
for
we
durst
not
express
our
thoughts
,
but
by
our
Eyes
;
yet
that
silent
language
was
as
significant
and
legible
,
as
Perolla's
Commission
,
which
Blacius
had
no
sooner
read
,
than
he
whose
it
was
,
told
him
,
Sir
,
the
Consul
shall
bear
me
witness
,
that
I
declin'd
this
Authority
when
't
was
offer'd
me
,
and
all
Salapia
shall
do
the
like
,
now
I
have
receiv'd
it
;
and
if
I
expect
to
derive
any
advantage
from
it
,
't
is
only
to
shew
you
,
that
I
esteem
it
a
greater
justice
to
obey
than
command
you
;
thereupon
,
without
staying
for
Blacius's
answer
,
in
all
our
sights
he
tore
his
Commission
in
pieces
.
I
cannot
tell
you
how
great
an
influence
this
generosity
had
on
all
of
us
:
But
my
Father
(
who
a
good
while
ballanc'd
betwixt
his
natural
aversion
,
and
present
cause
for
suppressing
it
)
told
Perolla
,
your
generosity
is
not
only
greater
than
I
could
expect
,
but
than
I
could
desire
from
an
Enemy
,
and
you
had
more
obliged
me
,
in
using
your
Authority
,
than
in
thus
declining
it
;
but
though
you
esteem
it
just
,
that
I
should
command
in
my
own
Government
,
yet
since
the
Consul
does
not
,
I
am
rather
inclined
to
conform
my self
to
his
opinion
than
yours
.
Alas
Sir
(
Perolla
reply'd
)
must
I
be
still
so
miserable
,
as
to
bear
a
Name
which
I
have
no
title
to
?
and
which
I
detest
;
and
will
you
attribute
that
to
your
place
,
which
I
pay
to
you
?
No
no
,
Sir
,
all
the
World
shall
be
Salapia
to
me
,
and
the
Senate
cannot
give
you
so
absolute
a
power
over
me
,
as
my
inclination
does
.
You
are
more
civil
to
me
,
(
said
Blacius
)
than
the
Consul
is
,
and
I
think
't
is
my
Fate
to
be
obliged
,
where
I
desire
it
not
,
and
to
be
injured
where
I
expect
the
contrary
;
but
since
you
are
resolved
not
to
Command
in
Chief
,
I
will
imitate
your
example
;
let
us
therefore
divide
our selves
and
the
Garrison
,
and
each
of
us
take
his
half
of
Salapia
to
defend
.
I
had
rather
(
Perolla
reply'd
)
be
near
your
Person
,
that
you
might
see
with
how
little
fear
(
to
preserve
your
life
)
I
will
expose
mine
own
,
which
I
take
the
gods
to
witness
,
is
not
dearer
to
me
upon
any
score
,
than
out
of
a
belief
that
it
may
be
serviceable
to
you
.
To
convince
you
(
said
Blacius
)
that
the
tearing
of
your
Commission
has
not
taken
away
its
power
,
you
shall
(
as
an
effect
of
it
)
chuse
where
,
and
how
you
will
fight
;
but
if
my
honor
were
not
now
engaged
to
defend
this
place
,
the
Romans
should
know
,
that
the
same
instant
in
which
they
thought
me
unfit
to
command
Salapia
,
that
I
esteemed
my self
so
,
to
live
in
it
.
If
the
Romans
,
(
answered
Perolla
)
are
so
unjust
to
themselves
,
and
you
,
as
to
think
you
unworthy
to
govern
,
what
you
so
generously
have
conquered
,
I
shall
think
them
so
of
my
service
,
and
will
embrace
your
interest
with
so
just
a
passion
,
that
if
the
Senate
send
any
to
usurp
upon
your
Valour
's
Conquest
,
I
will
oppose
every
Roman
,
as
if
he
were
an
Hannibal
,
and
either
preserve
you
in
your
Command
,
or
not
live
to
see
you
out
of
it
.
Come
(
said
Blacius
,
without
seeming
to
hear
this
last
civility
)
let
us
go
,
and
make
Hannibal
know
,
that
at
Salapia
he
shall
have
as
little
progress
in
glory
,
as
in
love
.
Blacius
had
no
sooner
said
these
words
,
than
he
went
away
,
and
Perolla
(
who
durst
not
but
accompany
him
)
was
necessitated
to
signify
his
discontent
for
not
daring
to
speak
to
me
by
a
deep
sigh
,
which
was
the
language
too
I
exprest
mine
in
;
but
as
soon
as
my
Father
was
informed
,
that
all
the
Garrison
was
without
the
Samnite
Gate
,
and
that
though
Perolla
had
met
them
,
yet
he
had
so
dangerously
declined
making
use
of
his
authority
,
he
turned
about
to
a
familiar
friend
of
his
,
and
told
him
softly
;
I
fear
Pacuvius
Son
will
force
me
to
be
an
enemy
to
Virtue
,
if
I
prove
any
longer
so
to
him
.
I
need
not
tell
you
all
the
preparatives
that
were
made
to
receive
Hannibal
,
who
about
an
hour
before
day
,
came
to
the
Brutian
Gate
,
(
which
was
Blacius
and
Perolla's
Post
)
where
the
Forlorn-Hope
of
his
Army
,
consisting
of
six
hundred
Runnagate
Romans
,
(
the
better
to
disguise
the
business
)
were
admitted
in
t
the
Gate
,
and
some
three
hundred
Carthaginian
Horse
after
them
,
who
were
all
no
sooner
enter'd
,
than
the
Percullis
was
let
down
,
and
my
Father
with
Perolla
,
breaking
out
of
those
Houses
and
Courts
,
they
had
lodg'd
themselves
in
,
gave
the
Enemy
so
brisk
and
unexpected
a
charge
,
that
above
half
of
them
were
cut
in
pieces
,
before
the
residue
could
put
themselves
in
a
posture
to
dispute
their
own
lives
,
or
revenge
their
companions
deaths
.
I
will
not
amuse
my self
to
tell
you
the
particulars
of
this
action
,
't
is
sufficient
you
know
that
Crastinus
,
who
commanded
the
revolted
Romans
,
knew
his
crime
was
uncapable
of
mercy
,
and
therefore
resolved
to
render
his
death
famous
enough
,
to
excuse
the
faults
of
his
life
:
This
made
him
conjure
his
Companions
so
generously
to
dispute
the
business
,
as
to
make
the
Salapians
never
mention
their
defeat
,
but
in
as
many
Tears
,
as
if
they
themselves
had
dy'd
what
they
were
born
.
This
Traitor
acted
without
his
Companions
what
he
desired
of
them
,
by
killing
with
his
own
hand
,
five
of
the
most
considerable
Salapians
,
and
then
by
assaulting
Blacius
,
where
Fortune
seconding
Crastinus
despair
,
he
had
certainly
ended
my
Fathers
life
,
had
not
Perolla
preserved
it
by
putting
a
period
to
that
Traitors
;
but
yet
Blacius
received
so
deep
a
wound
,
that
fainting
,
he
was
carried
by
Perolla
,
and
his
other
friends
,
unto
his
own
house
,
where
,
lest
he
might
think
the
generous
Perolla
would
take
any
advantage
of
visiting
me
,
(
by
his
weakness
)
he
immediately
withdrew
him●elf
to
the
Brutian
Gate
,
and
there
found
the
Combat
renewed
by
a
Carthaginian
Commander
,
who
performed
exploits
,
as
far
above
belief
,
as
description
:
This
Enemy
Perolla
had
the
honour
singly
to
fight
with
,
for
most
of
the
Garrison
were
searching
those
houses
where
any
of
Hannibals
Soldiers
had
taken
Sanctuary
,
and
others
took
upon
them
the
same
employment
,
that
it
might
be
thought
the
following
execution
(
and
not
their
fear
)
hinder'd
their
assaulting
so
valiant
an
Enemy
,
who
by
this
time
had
so
over-haras'd
himself
,
that
Perolla
who
had
more
inclination
to
preserve
,
than
destroy
so
admirable
a
valour
,
took
occasion
(
by
hearing
a
division
of
Horse
came
trampling
up
the
Street
)
to
offer
him
Quarter
;
for
he
thought
his
Enemy
was
too
gallant
to
resign
his
liberty
to
a
single
Sword
,
having
still
his
own
in
his
hand
to
dispute
it
;
neither
was
he
deceived
in
his
conjecture
,
for
the
other
was
so
far
from
listening
to
a
surrender
,
or
being
terrified
at
that
Troop
,
which
was
coming
towards
him
,
that
he
replyed
;
Whosoever
thou
art
,
that
to
give
me
a
good
opinion
of
thy
civility
,
assurest
me
,
thou
hast
an
ill
one
of
my
courage
;
know
,
that
I
shall
be
more
pleased
to
receive
death
,
than
safety
from
my
Enemies
;
and
have
more
cause
to
be
joyed
,
than
troubled
at
this
assistance
which
is
near
thee
,
for
I
would
not
have
Maharbal
curst
with
so
low
a
Fate
as
to
fall
by
one
Enemy
,
which
the
arrival
of
so
many
,
will
I
hope
,
prevent
.
Oh
gods
!
(
said
Perolla
,
extreamly
surpriz'd
)
are
you
then
the
generous
Maharbal
?
I
am
what
I
told
thee
(
he
reply'd
)
but
lest
my
being
so
ill-accompanied
,
might
induce
thee
to
suspect
the
contrary
,
or
that
by
naming
my self
thou
shouldst
think
I
intend
my
preservation
;
I
will
by
a
generous
death
,
hinder
thee
from
justly
assuming
that
thought
;
but
whilst
those
I
elect
for
my
Executioners
are
coming
,
let
me
know
(
I
beseech
thee
)
who
thou
art
that
giv'st
me
so
advantagious
a
Title
?
Alas
(
Sir
)
said
my
generous
friend
,
my
Name
is
much
fitter
to
be
conceal'd
than
known
;
it
may
wound
you
more
than
my
Sword
has
done
,
and
perhaps
I
shall
be
less
injurious
in
declining
than
obeying
your
Commands
;
but
yet
,
that
you
may
learn
't
was
my
ignorance
made
my
offence
,
and
that
I
persevere
not
willingly
in
the
former
,
to
continue
the
latter
;
know
I
am
called
Perolla
,
that
same
Perolla
,
whom
you
so
generously
reveng'd
on
the
false
Oristes
,
who
would
lose
his
life
for
you
,
as
he
ows
it
to
you
,
and
who
now
thinks
your
preserving
him
a
misfortune
,
since
thereby
he
has
lift
up
his
prophane
Arm
against
his
generous
Deliverer
;
but
that
you
may
see
I
am
unfortunate
,
and
not
ungrateful
,
Here
,
Sir
(
said
Perolla
,
presenting
him
his
Sword
)
this
cannot
make
reparation
for
what
it
has
acted
,
but
by
becoming
the
Sword
of
Justice
,
and
by
spilling
some
criminal
Bloud
,
for
having
shed
so
much
innocent
.
Mabarbal
was
as
surpriz'd
at
this
Gallantry
,
as
at
the
knowledge
of
him
that
performed
it
;
and
being
a
Prince
,
as
great
in
Virtue
as
in
Title
,
and
as
loath
to
be
vanquish'd
in
civility
,
as
fight
,
having
passionately
embrac'd
Perolla
,
and
as
absolutely
declin'd
his
Present
,
told
him
,
If
I
had
been
kill'd
as
well
as
I
am
conquer'd
by
your
Sword
,
and
that
you
had
known
who
't
was
you
destroyed
,
your
injustice
(
yet
)
had
been
as
great
as
your
courage
;
For
my
attempting
to
surprize
a
place
for
Hannibal
,
where
your
Izadora
is
,
deserves
that
Fate
:
But
if
you
will
credit
to
profession
which
my
actions
seem
to
contradict
,
I
do
protest
before
those
gods
which
punish
perjury
,
that
when
I
could
not
obtain
Hannibals
permission
to
decline
this
attempt
,
I
put
my self
at
the
head
of
our
first
Troops
,
that
if
we
had
been
victorious
,
I
might
have
conveyed
your
Mistriss
from
his
passion
,
or
revenge
,
for
both
now
seem
so
equally
powerful
,
that
't
is
difficult
to
know
which
of
them
is
the
most
.
But
it
seems
,
the
gods
would
have
Izadora
derive
her
safety
,
only
from
him
,
from
whom
she
does
her
felicity
,
and
I
attest
those
Powers
,
that
I
am
more
pleased
with
our
defeat
,
than
I
could
have
been
at
our
victory
,
and
if
I
resent
any
trouble
at
it
,
it
is
to
be
found
in
a
posture
,
wherein
I
must
be
wholly
bound
to
your
goodness
,
not
to
be
concluded
your
Enemy
as
much
as
I
am
your
Prisoner
,
which
is
a
Fate
I
willingly
embrace
,
for
I
count
it
as
little
a
dishonour
to
be
vanquisht
by
Perolla
,
as
't
is
a
great
one
,
to
be
so
by
any
other
.
I
should
be
(
Perolla
hastily
replyed
,
because
those
Horse
were
so
neer
)
as
much
an
Enemy
to
my
contentment
in
believing
you
were
so
to
me
,
as
to
Virtue
,
did
I
accept
of
my
Protector
for
my
Prisoner
;
(
No
generous
Maharbal
)
I
assure
you
you
are
free
,
and
if
you
will
be
pleased
to
take
off
the
Carthaginian
,
and
put
on
Roman
Colours
,
till
I
have
disposed
of
this
Troop
,
you
shall
find
I
will
turn
my
promises
into
action
,
and
that
where
I
have
any
power
,
it
shall
be
still
employed
to
evidence
a
gratitude
,
which
cannot
be
greater
than
what
creates
it
.
The
Salapians
were
by
this
so
near
,
that
Maharbal
wanted
time
to
answer
this
civility
,
and
had
scarce
pulled
off
his
own
Scarfe
,
and
taken
his
friends
,
before
they
were
come
up
;
Perolla
immediately
commanded
them
to
follow
him
out
of
the
Brutian
Gate
,
to
discover
whether
any
of
the
Enemy
were
yet
about
the
Walls
,
which
they
were
no
sooner
out
of
,
than
he
desired
Maharbal
in
civilities
proportionate
to
the
favour
,
to
make
use
of
that
occasion
to
return
to
the
Carthaginian
Army
.
Maharbal
embrac'd
the
opportunity
and
him
that
gave
it
him
,
to
whom
he
said
,
I
am
sorry
(
generous
Perolla
)
that
I
must
receive
an
obligation
from
you
,
which
I
must
not
publish
,
but
be
sure
,
though
I
am
silent
I
am
not
ungrateful
,
and
that
I
shall
remember
what
I
dare
not
speak
of
,
nor
hope
to
requite
.
That
(
said
Perolla
)
which
is
the
subject
of
your
sorrow
,
is
of
my
contentment
,
since
it
lets
you
see
I
ambition
no
other
glory
in
serving
you
,
than
that
of
doing
so
.
'T
was
in
as
many
expressions
of
this
quality
,
as
the
time
would
permit
,
that
Maharbal
and
Perolla
took
leave
of
one
another
,
the
first
immediately
overtook
the
Carthaginian
Army
,
which
he
discovered
by
the
help
of
the
day
,
that
then
began
to
dawn
,
and
the
last
seemed
to
have
received
satisfaction
in
what
he
never
doubted
,
returned
into
Salapia
by
the
contrary
Port
,
to
that
through
which
he
went
out
of
it
,
and
then
not
staying
to
dress
so
much
as
some
slight
hurts
,
he
received
in
the
Combat
,
and
from
Maharbal
,
he
came
to
visit
Blacius
,
where
having
given
him
an
exact
account
of
all
things
but
his
own
gallantry
against
his
Enemies
;
and
to
his
friend
he
desired
to
receive
his
Commands
,
if
he
had
any
to
impose
on
him
,
for
he
was
determined
immediately
to
return
to
the
Roman
Camp
,
lest
a
longer
stay
might
raise
in
him
a
suspition
that
he
came
for
some
other
intent
,
than
the
honor
of
his
service
.
This
fresh
evincement
of
affection
,
wrought
so
powerfully
on
a
heart
which
was
already
ballancing
,
that
it
intirely
dissipated
that
aversion
,
which
till
then
my
Father
had
contracted
for
him
;
and
to
publish
a
change
,
which
he
thought
too
just
to
be
conceal'd
,
he
told
Perolla
;
You
have
made
your
Virtue
too
well
known
,
to
let
your
professions
need
a
demonstration
to
prove
their
truth
;
No
,
generous
Perolla
,
I
do
acknowledge
you
have
vanquisht
me
,
and
by
such
noble
Arms
,
that
I
am
as
well
satisfied
with
my
defeat
,
as
you
can
be
with
your
victory
;
whose
reward
shall
be
Izadora
,
as
soon
as
you
get
Pacuvius
consent
to
be
hers
;
for
whom
I
have
upon
your
score
,
banisht
all
my
hatred
,
and
whose
friendship
I
will
meet
with
open
Arms
:
go
then
and
perswade
him
to
confer
it
on
me
,
but
before
your
departure
,
let
your
Izadora
know
of
that
conversion
which
her
Tears
,
and
your
Virtue
have
produc'd
.
Oh
gods
!
who
can
tell
those
raptures
this
declaration
cast
Perolla
into
?
you
may
in
some
measure
guess
at
their
greatness
,
when
so
excellent
a
wit
found
silence
the
best
way
of
expressing
them
;
but
though
his
Tongue
was
unimployed
,
yet
he
was
not
,
for
he
flung
himself
upon
his
knees
by
Blacius
bed-side
,
kist
,
and
washt
his
hands
with
Tears
of
joy
,
and
by
a
thousand
such
extravagancies
,
was
more
eloquent
and
grateful
,
than
he
could
possibly
have
been
in
words
,
which
I
beleeve
you
cannot
doubt
,
when
I
assure
you
that
thereby
he
so
moved
my
Father
,
that
he
answered
him
in
weepings
of
the
same
quality
.
I
will
not
tell
you
those
few
expressions
Perolla
made
after
his
first
irregularities
were
ended
,
for
they
were
so
dis-joynted
,
that
had
not
my
Father
been
perfectly
acquainted
with
his
excellent
Judgement
,
he
might
have
believed
he
had
oblig'd
a
mad
,
and
not
a
grateful
man
.
At
last
the
Physitians
pe●ceiving
how
ill
an
influence
his
concernment
and
joy
might
have
upon
his
distemper'd
Body
,
desir'd
Perolla
to
take
his
leave
,
which
he
immediately
did
,
and
to
whom
my
Father
again
repeated
his
engaements
,
and
having
embrac'd
him
,
and
kist
his
Cheek
(
a
high
mark
of
friendship
amongst
the
Romans
)
he
commanded
one
of
his
Servants
to
conduct
him
to
my
Chamber
:
when
he
was
come
to
the
door
,
he
sent
in
,
to
know
whether
his
visit
might
not
prove
an
offence
?
I
must
acknowledge
I
was
infinitely
surpriz'd
at
this
Message
,
and
that
which
contributed
most
unto
it
,
was
,
that
he
which
deliver'd
it
,
was
one
of
my
Fathers
exactest
observers
of
my
actions
:
but
he
perceiving
my
astonishment
,
and
not
willing
any
should
suppress
it
but
Perolla
,
ask'd
me
(
smiling
)
if
I
would
permit
him
to
come
in
.
This
indeed
,
made
me
suspect
his
insolency
(
not
his
joy
)
was
the
cause
of
it
,
and
that
he
was
employ'd
by
Blacius
,
to
learn
,
whether
during
his
weakness
I
would
admit
of
Perolla's
visits
,
and
in
this
belief
I
was
upon
the
point
of
seeming
to
decline
what
I
so
passionately
desir'd
,
and
of
paying
one
dissimulation
with
another
:
but
at
last
Perolla's
Messenger
,
who
fancied
the
subject
of
my
disorder
,
told
me
,
That
since
I
was
silent
to
his
proposal
,
he
would
take
it
for
my
yielding
to
it
,
and
immediately
brought
him
in
,
who
soon
prostrated
himself
on
his
knees
,
and
did
nothing
for
a
time
but
embrace
mine
:
this
brought
a
great
accession
to
my
first
astonishment
,
which
yet
was
rais'd
higher
by
his
saying
,
Madam
,
I
shall
hardly
any
more
exclaim
against
Hannibal
,
since
he
has
now
more
oblig'd
,
than
ever
injur'd
me
,
for
he
has
furnisht
me
with
an
occasion
to
conquer
an
Enemy
I
much
more
apprehend
than
himself
;
yes
Madam
,
Blacius
has
been
so
generous
as
to
consider
my
desires
,
as
if
they
had
been
actions
,
for
the
rewards
he
has
given
mine
,
are
too
disproportionate
a
return
for
any
thing
else
:
I
believe
,
Madam
,
you
cannot
doubt
after
this
declaration
,
but
't
is
you
I
intend
,
a
gift
as
far
above
my
hopes
,
as
merit
.
Thereupon
he
acquainted
me
with
all
that
my
Father
had
promis'd
him
,
and
then
continu'd
;
)
But
,
fair
Izadora
,
may
I
not
fear
the
knowledge
you
have
of
your self
,
and
of
Perolla
,
may
induce
you
to
condemn
his
injustice
,
and
my
ambition
,
or
that
you
created
these
hopes
in
me
,
only
out
of
a
confidence
,
that
it
would
never
be
in
your
power
to
convert
them
into
realities
?
No
,
no
(
said
I
,
interrupting
him
)
be
not
injurious
to
your self
,
to
be
the
like
unto
me
,
for
I
nere
gave
you
expectations
out
of
an
opinion
that
they
would
never
change
that
name
;
for
believe
me
,
my
Fathers
consent
can
only
render
legitimate
,
not
increase
my
flame
,
which
was
uncapable
of
addition
since
I
knew
you
,
and
shall
be
of
diminution
while
you
are
of
inconstancy
.
Ah
Madam
(
he
reply'd
)
why
did
not
the
gods
,
when
they
destin'd
me
this
felicity
,
furnish
me
with
Vertue
to
deserve
it
?
but
since
my
defects
are
but
indearings
of
my
joy
,
by
making
me
derive
my
contentment
from
your
inclinations
(
a
nobler
cause
than
merit
can
be
)
I
will
silence
my
Complaints
,
and
fix
all
my
endeavours
to
enthrone
my self
in
a
condition
of
being
uncapable
of
any
desires
,
by
being
so
of
any
wants
;
Yes
Madam
,
I
will
use
such
means
to
Pacuvius
,
that
he
shall
not
deny
his
Honor
and
my
Happiness
,
or
if
he
does
,
the
same
minute
in
which
heprives
me
of
my
hope
,
I
will
him
of
his
Son
:
for
my
condition
admits
of
nothing
but
extreams
,
and
I
am
destin'd
(
since
you
have
permitted
it
to
my
ambition
)
by
possessing
Izadora
to
relish
no
misery
,
or
by
death
,
to
feel
none
.
If
(
said
I
)
this
be
your
resolve
,
I
shall
think
your
obtaining
Blacius
consent
a
misfortune
,
since
thereby
he
has
put
in
your
Fathers
power
that
hates
,
to
ruine
you
:
Ah
Perolla
,
you
shall
not
leave
me
with
such
cruel
and
irrational
intentions
:
Pacuvius
by
denying
your
contentment
,
will
declare
himself
your
Enemy
,
so
that
your
destroying
one
which
bears
that
Title
,
is
rather
to
please
,
than
to
be
revenged
on
him
:
Will
you
punish
Izadora
for
your
Fathers
Crime
?
and
will
you
make
me
miserable
,
because
he
makes
himself
unjust
?
No
Perolla
,
rather
live
,
and
shew
him
by
an
undisturb'd
serenity
,
thatsince
he
has
divested
himself
of
the
nature
of
a
Father
,
you
have
suspended
the
relations
of
a
Son
,
and
till
he
assumes
the
former
,
that
you
can
la●
aside
the
latter
;
for
the
gods
expect
not
we
should
pay
obedience
to
the
name
of
a
Father
,
where
he
banishes
the
relation
and
care
of
one
,
and
from
a
preserver
,
becomes
a
destroyer
of
his
Son
.
I
conjure
you
therefore
,
before
our
separation
,
promise
me
inviolably
,
that
whatsoever
Pacuvius
usage
be
,
you
dispose
not
without
my
consent
,
of
a
life
which
cannot
cease
,
but
by
Izadora's
bearing
it
company
,
to
whom
you
have
a
thousand
times
given
it
,
and
from
whom
you
cannot
take
it
,
without
an
equal
injustice
to
the
highest
that
your
Father
is
capable
of
;
besides
,
I
believe
,
that
Blacius
(
who
now
looks
upon
your
Virtues
and
Actions
,
with
an
unprejudicate
opinion
)
will
give
that
to
them
singly
,
which
yet
he
seems
to
desire
,
might
be
accompanied
with
Pacuvius's
consent
.
Madam
(
said
Perolla
)
if
the
apprehensions
of
his
cruelty
,
made
me
pretend
to
any
right
over
a
Life
which
I
have
given
you
,
and
of
which
I
again
confirm
the
gift
,
I
do
acknowledge
it
an
usurpation
,
which
you
rather
reward
than
punish
,
when
you
declare
't
is
yours
,
and
that
you
have
so
transcendent
a
care
of
it
:
yes
,
fair
Izadora
,
I
will
obey
your
Commands
with
as
much
willingness
as
justice
,
and
beg
you
to
believe
,
that
whilst
my
life
is
dear
unto
you
,
it
shall
be
so
to
me
,
and
that
I
will
never
undertake
to
dispose
of
it
,
as
long
as
it
bears
the
glorious
Title
of
yours
.
I
know
(
continu'd
Izadora
)
that
had
not
Perolla's
nature
been
of
an
admirable
temper
,
my
Fathers
former
proceedings
might
have
rais'd
some
jealousies
in
him
,
that
what
he
would
have
had
taken
for
an
effect
of
his
Gratitude
,
was
one
of
his
Malice
,
and
that
turning
him
over
to
Pacuvius's
consent
,
here
mov'd
his
hopes
to
as
great
a
distance
as
ever
,
and
did
it
too
to
make
Perolla
contract
a
higher
hatred
for
his
Father
,
by
declining
what
his
very
Enemy
seem'd
to
confer
upon
him
;
but
his
generosity
was
so
perfect
,
that
he
has
often
protested
those
imaginations
were
as
little
on
his
Heart
as
his
Tongue
.
To
hasten
to
a
conclusion
,
that
morning
,
after
I
had
inform'd
Perolla
of
all
things
which
had
arriv'd
me
since
our
separation
,
and
of
those
barbarous
threatenings
Hannibal
made
against
my
Honor
(
which
inflam'd
him
with
an
unextinguishable
revenge
)
he
left
me
,
and
having
again
kist
my
Fathers
hands
,
he
return'd
to
the
Roman
Camp
,
in
expectation
to
obtain
from
the
Consul
a
Pardon
for
Pacuvius
revolt
,
and
an
Order
to
enjoy
his
Estate
in
Salapia
and
Capua
,
which
might
give
his
generous
Son
a
safe
,
opportunity
to
implore
his
consent
.
For
he
being
then
at
Tarentum
(
a
Garrison
of
the
Enemies
)
he
durst
not
trust
himself
to
Hannibal's
and
his
Fathers
resentments
,
but
at
his
coming
to
Crispinus
,
he
found
him
on
the
point
of
yielding
up
the
Ghost
,
which
he
did
some
few
hours
after
,
having
first
writ
to
the
Senate
an
ample
and
just
Letter
in
his
praise
,
which
did
no
little
contribute
to
the
immediate
chusing
of
Clodius
Nero
,
Consul
,
who
had
married
Pacuvius's
Sister
,
the
other
Consul
was
Marcus
Livius
,
whom
the
People
had
formerly
banisht
,
and
whose
Service
they
now
implor'd
,
(
a
Fate
common
to
ungrateful
States
and
Princes
,
)
who
not
learning
Gratitude
rom
Virtue
,
must
be
taught
it
from
Necessity
.
The
first
thing
which
Nero
perform'd
was
an
unfortunate
justice
to
Porolla's
Gallantry
,
which
has
been
the
source
of
our
second
Miseries
;
for
he
so
truly
and
so
highly
extoll'd
the
whole
series
of
his
Nephews
actions
,
and
particularly
that
last
,
of
preserving
Salapia
,
(
which
came
to
his
knowledge
by
Fame
,
and
not
by
the
Actor
)
that
he
procur'd
a
congratulatory
Letter
to
him
from
the
Senate
,
which
was
a
favour
he
declin'd
for
Blacius
,
though
his
wounds
spake
his
fidelity
and
courage
,
which
he
would
not
permit
his
words
to
do
,
lest
the
world
might
believe
,
he
esteem'd
his
Eloquence
greater
than
his
performances
.
This
action
of
the
Consuls
,
whether
it
proceeded
from
his
embracing
the
interest
of
his
Family
,
above
that
of
the
State
,
or
the
design
he
had
thereby
to
break
that
new
contracted
Friendship
betwixt
Perolla
and
Blacius
,
or
his
ignorance
of
the
latters
generosity
in
that
action
,
I
cannot
certainly
determine
;
but
this
(
alas
)
I
too
well
know
,
that
my
Father
receiv'd
such
deep
impressions
of
his
slighting
,
which
his
own
friends
perswaded
him
was
an
effect
of
Perolla's
being
more
ambitious
of
Glory
,
than
of
his
Daughter
,
and
which
Pacuvius's
on
the
other
side
fomented
and
concurr'd
in
,
to
break
an
union
,
which
their
hereditary
malice
made
them
detest
,
that
Blacius
,
who
was
not
so
perfectly
recovered
of
his
aversion
for
Perolla
,
as
to
be
uncapable
of
a
relapse
,
immediately
tore
from
his
Heart
a
Friendship
,
which
began
but
to
take
root
:
for
his
spirit
was
too
high
to
preserve
a
good
opinion
for
one
,
which
both
his
Friends
and
his
Enemies
acknowledg'd
,
was
greedier
of
a
little
Fame
,
than
of
Justice
,
his
esteem
or
alliance
.
O
gods
!
(
said
Izadora
,
raising
her
voice
)
could
you
find
out
nothing
but
Perolla's
virtue
,
to
be
the
cause
of
Perolla's
destruction
?
a
misery
so
much
the
greater
,
by
how
much
since
that
provok'd
you
,
it
was
impossible
for
him
ever
to
do
othewise
.
But
Sir
(
she
continu'd
,
addressing
still
her
discourse
to
Spartacus
)
Pardon
(
I
beseech
you
)
a
digression
,
which
the
sense
of
our
succeeding
misfortunes
extorted
from
me
,
which
began
by
Blacius
,
commanding
me
to
banish
from
my
Heart
a
Flame
that
was
not
to
be
extinguisht
,
but
with
my
life
.
That
cruel
Injunction
had
like
to
have
effected
both
,
but
I
preserv'd
the
latter
,
because
it
was
inseparable
from
the
former
,
and
though
I
represented
Perolla's
innocency
,
as
clear
as
it
was
,
yet
Blacius
passion
had
so
clouded
his
judgement
,
that
like
a
false
Optick
,
it
represented
all
objects
to
be
of
the
same
colour
of
the
Glass
which
was
lookt
through
;
and
indeed
I
deriv'd
nothing
from
my
attempts
,
but
the
raising
of
his
hatred
for
me
,
instead
of
suppressing
his
for
Perolla
;
whose
trouble
I
judg'd
by
my
own
,
and
therefore
was
almost
as
much
perplext
to
let
him
know
my
Fathers
change
,
as
I
was
at
it
:
at
length
I
determin'd
by
my
silence
,
to
preserve
him
as
long
(
as
might
be
)
from
the
knowledge
of
his
misfortunes
,
in
expectation
that
some
favourable
accident
might
intervene
,
which
would
restore
Blacius
to
his
justice
,
and
so
Perolla
might
avoid
knowing
he
had
been
unfortunate
,
till
he
were
so
no
longer
;
but
(
alas
)
out
of
an
apprehension
of
creating
his
trouble
,
I
continued
it
,
for
by
not
letting
him
know
my
Fathers
suspitions
,
I
denied
him
the
means
of
suppressing
them
;
and
Blacius
not
ascribing
his
silence
to
his
ignorance
of
his
displeasure
,
but
to
a
contrary
cause
,
so
confirmed
himself
in
his
jealousies
,
that
the
aversion
they
produced
,
has
been
ever
since
unremoveable
.
But
in
this
proceeding
I
could
not
be
more
faulty
to
Perolla
,
than
I
was
obliging
to
Rome
,
which
by
his
continuing
ignorant
of
what
was
past
,
received
a
benefit
from
his
Valor
,
that
perhaps
it
had
fail'd
of
,
had
I
acquainted
him
with
his
misfortunes
;
for
I
believe
they
would
have
necessitated
him
to
have
made
use
of
all
that
courage
to
struggle
with
him
,
which
ignoring
he
employed
against
Hannibal
;
for
't
was
he
that
under
Nero
drave
him
from
the
Salentines
,
and
Apulians
,
into
the
Country
of
the
Brutians
;
't
was
he
which
was
the
chief
Actor
in
those
famous
exploits
at
Grumentum
,
and
Venusia
;
and
't
was
he
that
rendred
it
impossible
for
Hannibal
to
march
any
further
than
Canusium
,
to
join
with
his
Brother
Asdrubal
,
who
having
left
the
Government
of
Spain
to
his
Brother
Mago
,
and
Asdrubal
the
son
of
Gesco
,
had
already
crost
the
Perenean
Mountains
,
all
Gaul
,
and
the
Alpes
,
and
had
with
a
powerful
recruit
of
Lygurians
laid
siege
to
Placentia
:
The
Consuls
on
this
intelligence
,
drew
lots
who
should
oppose
this
Torrent
,
and
it
fell
to
Livius
,
who
with
near
50000
Horse
and
Foot
,
went
to
meet
so
redoubted
an
Enemy
.
Asdrubal
informed
of
it
,
raises
his
siege
,
to
shorten
the
Consuls
march
;
who
having
thereby
relieved
his
Friends
,
was
very
wary
how
he
dealt
with
his
Enemies
;
and
though
he
left
Rome
to
take
possession
of
his
Command
,
he
told
the
great
Fabius
,
(
who
advised
him
to
protract
the
War
)
that
he
was
resolved
to
fight
the
very
first
day
,
being
impatient
till
he
recoverd
his
honour
by
a
Victory
;
or
by
seeing
the
ruine
of
his
unjust
Countreymen
,
satisfie
himself
with
the
joy
of
a
great
(
though
not
of
an
honest
)
Revenge
;
yet
his
intention
was
better
than
his
words
,
for
at
a
place
of
advantage
,
called
Scaena-Gallica
,
near
the
River
of
Metaurus
,
he
pitcht
his
Camp
,
and
by
winning
the
Pass
,
hindred
Asdrubal's
progress
,
who
by
Letters
advertised
his
Brother
of
it
,
that
then
lay
on
the
Banks
of
Aufidus
,
near
the
same
Plain
of
Cannes
,
(
in
which
he
had
won
his
highest
glory
)
and
that
in
few
dayes
he
would
storm
the
Roman
Generals
Camp
,
rather
than
not
join
with
him
;
but
these
being
intercepted
by
Nero's
Scouts
,
that
Consul
,
by
the
advice
of
Perolla
to
relieve
Livius's
danger
,
took
6000
select
Foot
,
and
1000
Horse
,
and
having
left
the
charge
of
his
Army
(
which
Camp'd
within
10
Furlongs
of
Hannibals
)
to
Veturius
Philo
(
his
Lieutenant-General
;
)
in
six
dayes
,
by
tedious
Marches
,
and
with
exceeding
secresie
,
he
came
to
his
Collegue
,
and
was
received
into
his
Camp
by
night
,
without
enlarging
it
,
or
any
loud
demonstrations
of
joy
;
where
,
in
a
Council
of
War
,
it
was
resolved
next
day
to
give
Asdrubal
Battel
,
which
Livius
(
though
provok'd
unto
)
had
thitherto
declined
:
The
next
morning
therefore
,
a
purple
Coat
was
hung
up
over
Livius's
Pavilion
,
and
Perolla
,
the
better
to
delude
Asdrubal
,
desired
the
General
that
a
Trumpet
might
sound
in
Nero's
quarters
,
as
well
as
in
Portius
the
Pretors
,
to
make
the
Enemy
believe
,
that
either
Hannibal
was
defeated
by
the
Consuls
being
joined
,
or
that
it
was
done
in
policy
to
supply
the
defects
of
their
numbers
;
the
first
(
if
credited
)
would
invite
them
immediately
to
a
Battel
,
which
(
next
to
a
Victory
)
was
most
in
their
desires
.
This
was
much
approved
,
and
readily
practised
,
and
Asdrubal
,
who
was
perfectly
acquainted
with
the
Roman
Discipline
,
was
extremely
surprized
at
it
;
but
yet
attributing
it
to
the
latter
,
and
perceiving
(
by
the
Signal
)
the
Consuls
resolution
,
he
joyfully
drew
his
Army
in
Battalia
,
but
then
perceiving
Livius's
numbers
to
be
increast
,
and
that
some
of
his
Enemies
Horses
look'd
as
if
they
had
performed
a
long
march
,
(
this
being
an
accident
above
his
expectation
)
he
esteemed
it
rather
a
policy
,
than
a
dishonour
,
to
defer
an
Engagement
,
till
he
could
discover
the
truth
of
that
mystery
;
and
in
order
to
this
,
spent
that
day
in
slight
skirmishes
,
and
by
night
retreated
with
all
his
Army
towards
the
River
of
Metaurus
,
from
which
the
succeeding
Battel
took
its
name
:
but
he
was
followed
by
Nero
and
Perolla
with
all
the
Roman
Cavalry
,
and
so
vigorously
prest
,
that
he
resolved
next
morning
to
decide
the
difference
by
a
pitch'd
Battel
,
lest
if
he
gained
any
advantage
by
retiring
,
it
might
be
said
a
Victory
was
forc'd
upon
,
and
not
obtained
by
him
;
and
if
he
were
defeated
,
that
at
least
he
dyed
like
Amilcar's
Son
,
and
Hannibal's
Brother
.
The
day
no
sooner
dawn'd
(
which
was
the
last
that
so
many
thousands
were
to
see
)
than
those
two
great
Bodies
,
which
consisted
of
about
150000
effective
men
,
were
drawn
up
in
a
posture
to
determine
all
disputes
:
The
Carthaginian
having
the
advantage
of
number
,
and
the
Roman
of
resolution
,
which
was
sufficiently
●vinc'd
by
their
Enemies
attending
the
Battel
by
necessity
,
and
not
election
.
Asdrubal
placed
his
Gauls
(
in
whom
he
least
rely'd
)
in
the
Left
Wing
,
upon
a
Hill
of
impossible
access
;
in
the
Right
,
were
his
Spaniards
,
and
Africans
,
and
himself
at
the
Head
of
them
;
his
Lygurians
formed
the
Battel
,
and
his
Elephants
he
bestowed
in
the
Front
of
his
several
Divisions
.
The
Right
Wing
of
the
Roman
Army
was
led
by
Nero
,
(
who
was
accompanied
by
Perolla
,
that
commanded
those
Thousand
Horse
his
Uncle
had
brought
with
him
)
the
Left
by
Livius
,
and
the
Battel
by
Porticus
.
You
cannot
doubt
the
dispute
was
bloody
,
if
either
you
reflect
upon
the
courage
of
the
Soldiers
,
the
resolution
and
conduct
of
the
Commanders
,
or
the
glory
and
advantages
which
were
to
attend
the
Conquerors
.
Livius
found
a
generous
resistance
from
the
Africans
and
Spaniards
;
Porticus
from
the
Lygurians
;
but
Nero
and
Perolla
found
more
difficulty
to
come
to
fight
,
than
I
believe
they
would
after
it
,
have
found
in
obtaining
a
Victory
;
but
whil'st
they
were
disputing
against
a
Precipice
,
the
scaling
of
which
was
not
much
less
difficult
,
than
to
scale
the
Clouds
,
the
last
of
them
perceiving
what
disorder
Livius
and
Porticus
were
in
,
besought
Nero
to
leave
those
Gauls
to
a
security
which
Nature
,
and
not
their
Courages
had
plac'd
them
in
;
and
who
by
the
strange
height
they
were
upon
,
were
as
uncapable
of
doing
,
as
receiving
harm
,
and
that
he
would
go
to
relieve
the
Consul
and
the
Pretor
.
Nero
soon
found
the
justness
of
this
motion
,
and
imagining
by
the
Precipice
the
Gauls
were
upon
,
that
Asdrubal
had
plac'd
them
there
,
rather
to
amuse
,
than
oppose
him
,
yielded
to
his
Nephews
request
,
and
leaving
some
3000
Foot
and
Horse
to
keep
the
Gauls
at
gaze
,
followed
him
with
all
the
rest
;
but
Perolla
,
with
admirable
celerity
,
having
fetcht
a
compass
behind
all
the
Roman
Army
,
fell
upon
the
Right
Flank
of
the
Carthaginian
so
opportunely
,
that
't
was
when
Livius
was
brought
to
the
last
exigency
,
and
so
vigorously
,
that
by
it
he
courted
Victory
so
handsomly
,
that
though
she
were
declaring
for
Carthage
,
yet
he
won
her
absolutely
for
Rome
.
The
execution
after
the
rout
was
excessive
bloody
,
the
Romans
remembring
how
freely
the
Africans
had
opened
their
veins
,
were
not
ungrateful
in
their
return
.
The
Gauls
too
,
found
they
had
been
more
securely
fortified
by
nature
,
than
by
80000
of
their
companions
;
and
though
the
Roman
Swords
were
almost
dull'd
with
blood
before
they
came
to
them
,
yet
they
'scapt
not
absolutely
that
dayes
Fate
;
but
that
which
brought
a
large
accession
to
the
honour
of
this
success
,
was
the
noble
Asdrubal's
fall
,
who
perceiving
his
glory
fled
,
resolv'd
his
life
should
accompany
it
,
and
seeking
some
gallant
Enemy
to
end
his
,
he
found
none
which
gave
greater
marks
of
that
title
than
Perolla
;
't
was
therefore
upon
his
Sword
he
resolv'd
to
receive
it
,
and
't
was
upon
his
Sword
indeed
that
he
found
it
.
I
know
(
continued
Izadora
)
that
some
alledge
he
had
his
death
from
many
an
Enemy
,
and
not
from
a
single
one
,
but
I
know
withall
that
that
report
had
its
rise
from
Perolla's
modesty
,
who
learning
afterwards
,
how
great
a
virtue
he
had
kill'd
,
rather
deplored
,
than
gloried
in
the
Action
.
This
Battel
of
Metaurus
equal'd
that
of
Cannes
,
for
in
it
were
left
56000
upon
the
place
,
5400
taken
Prisoners
,
and
4000
Captive
Romans
releas'd
.
But
if
in
a
Relation
which
my
Sex
renders
me
ignorant
in
,
I
have
failed
in
the
former
,
I
have
not
in
the
truth
,
for
my
concern
in
Perolla
made
me
exactly
learn
it
;
neither
would
I
have
so
particularly
inform'd
you
of
it
,
had
it
not
so
great
a
connexion
to
my
generous
Friends
Story
,
that
in
declining
it
,
I
must
have
injured
his
Adventures
,
as
much
as
his
Glory
.
The
day
after
this
famous
Battel
,
Nero
and
Perolla
march'd
towards
their
Camp
,
observing
the
same
silence
and
diligence
in
their
return
to
it
,
that
they
had
in
their
leaving
of
it
,
for
they
serv'd
Hannibal
,
as
we
were
informed
you
did
Varinus
;
and
though
he
were
a
Captain
as
celebrated
for
his
Policy
,
as
his
Conquests
,
yet
in
this
expedition
he
never
discover'd
any
light
of
Nero's
march
nor
success
,
till
he
sent
two
Numidian
Prisoners
to
acquaint
him
with
it
;
and
lest
that
Testimony
might
not
be
authentick
,
he
flung
his
Brothers
(
the
gallant
Asdrubals
)
head
over
his
Trenches
:
which
Barbarism
Perolla
so
much
resented
,
that
not
being
able
to
hinder
it
,
he
abandon'd
his
Uncle
,
to
manifest
he
detested
the
Action
;
and
indeed
it
was
the
blacker
,
because
Hannibal
had
alwayes
given
the
bodies
of
his
dead
Enemies
a
Sepulture
,
and
usage
proportionate
to
their
qualities
and
virtue
whil'st
they
were
alive
.
Yes
(
Sir
)
Perolla
was
so
justly
transported
at
this
inhumanity
,
that
though
the
Consuls
in
their
Triumph
for
this
Victory
,
besought
him
(
who
they
acknowledg'd
,
under
the
Gods
,
obtain'd
it
)
to
bear
a
share
in
his
own
Acquisitions
;
yet
he
absolutely
declin'd
it
,
protesting
that
he
was
more
asham'd
at
the
use
they
had
made
of
their
Victory
,
than
pleas'd
at
the
glory
of
it
;
and
that
he
declin'd
participating
in
their
Triumph
,
lest
it
might
be
thought
he
did
the
like
in
their
Crime
.
After
this
generosity
he
came
to
Salapia
,
where
he
vow'd
,
had
not
the
Consuls
cruelty
(
for
Livius
approv'd
of
what
Nero
had
done
to
Asdrubal's
Head
)
render'd
it
an
injustice
to
have
shar'd
in
their
glorious
entry
into
Rome
;
yet
he
had
rather
have
declin'd
the
honour
of
it
,
than
purchas'd
it
at
the
price
of
a
longer
absence
.
I
must
confess
,
I
never
,
till
that
time
,
thought
it
was
possible
for
Perolla's
visits
to
become
my
misfortune
,
but
my
hard
Fate
then
rendred
his
so
;
and
I
believe
my
disclosing
to
him
that
which
I
could
no
longer
conceal
,
was
the
more
sensible
by
his
being
unprepared
to
receive
the
stroke
,
and
by
his
belief
that
his
new
accession
of
glory
,
would
have
rendred
his
company
the
more
acceptable
to
Blacius
.
Alas
!
I
cannot
tell
you
his
extravagancies
at
so
fatal
and
unexpected
an
intelligence
,
but
I
remember
they
were
so
exorbitant
,
that
I
suspended
awhile
the
reflection
on
my
own
griefs
,
that
I
might
the
more
justly
deplore
his
.
Blacius
,
being
ignorant
of
his
being
with
me
,
came
to
visit
me
,
when
my
generous
Friends
resentments
were
in
their
highest
operation
;
and
though
my
Father
,
upon
so
unlookt
for
an
Accident
,
would
have
retired
,
yet
Perolla
hindred
him
,
by
casting
himself
on
his
knees
,
and
embracing
of
Blacius's
.
His
sorrows
for
awhile
were
silent
,
which
was
no
small
proof
of
their
vastness
and
reality
;
but
when
they
got
a
passage
,
they
were
so
eloquent
,
that
had
he
been
guilty
,
he
had
done
enough
to
obtain
his
pardon
;
and
being
innocent
,
he
did
enough
to
evince
he
was
so
.
Yet
(
alas
!
)
my
Father
had
so
exquisitely
fortified
his
heart
against
all
assaults
of
this
quality
,
that
what
should
have
vanquish'd
him
,
turned
to
a
testimony
of
his
cruelty
.
In
brief
,
Perolla
observing
that
Blacius
relisht
no
reasons
for
his
innocency
,
resolved
to
convince
him
of
it
by
a
demonstration
,
and
in
the
rage
and
grief
of
so
unexpected
a
misery
,
he
rose
up
,
and
with
eyes
(
in
which
death
were
evidently
painted
)
he
cryed
out
,
Farewel
fair
Izadora
,
I
will
go
expect
you
in
another
world
,
for
I
see
't
is
impossible
to
possess
you
in
this
;
and
since
there
is
nothing
but
the
loss
of
this
unfortunate
life
,
which
can
either
appease
your
Fathers
hatred
,
or
clear
my
innocency
,
I
am
determined
at
that
rate
to
satisfie
both
.
At
the
end
of
these
fatal
words
,
he
drew
out
his
Sword
,
and
turning
the
Pomel
to
the
ground
,
he
had
cast
his
Body
upon
the
point
of
it
,
had
not
I
struck
the
Hilt
away
time
enough
to
prevent
it
;
and
he
not
suspecting
anything
of
that
nature
,
by
falling
all
along
,
gave
me
time
to
take
up
his
Sword
before
he
rose
,
and
to
protest
that
if
he
abjur'd
not
all
designs
of
so
black
a
nature
,
I
would
immediately
make
use
of
that
Weapon
for
my
own
destruction
,
which
he
had
designed
for
his
.
T
was
thus
I
preserved
a
Virtue
so
pure
,
that
if
the
higher
Powe●s
do
not
reward
it
in
this
world
,
't
is
certainly
because
they
reserve
their
recompence
for
a
place
where
all
things
are
of
a
resembling
quality
;
and
because
I
so
sav'd
Perolla's
life
,
Blacius
considered
that
which
was
an
evincement
of
his
integrity
,
as
a
premeditated
design
to
palliate
and
disguise
his
guilt
;
and
though
his
words
did
not
declare
what
I
tell
you
,
yet
his
actions
did
,
for
he
instantly
commanded
my
generous
Friend
to
abandon
his
house
,
or
he
would
act
what
I
had
prevented
.
Perolla
,
at
this
cruel
and
barbarous
command
,
cryed
out
,
O
Gods
!
why
do
you
render
sufferings
so
necessary
to
my
condition
,
and
make
me
uncapable
to
bear
them
?
(
then
turning
to
me
,
he
continued
)
But
,
Madam
,
if
you
are
not
of
your
Fathers
opinion
,
as
well
as
of
his
blood
,
I
shall
contemn
as
much
his
threatnings
,
as
he
does
my
affection
and
alliance
;
and
shall
find
in
the
virtue
of
one
of
the
Family
,
charms
enough
to
defend
me
from
he
cruelties
of
all
the
rest
.
Alas
!
(
I
replied
,
interrupting
him
)
ar●
we
come
to
that
again
,
of
making
fresh
assurances
of
constancy
?
And
will
you
so
highly
injure
the
merit
of
my
passion
,
as
to
render
it
as
much
an
effect
of
my
promise
,
as
my
inclination
?
Ah
Perolla
,
be
not
so
cruel
,
as
to
think
my
Fathers
change
is
contagious
,
nor
divest
me
of
the
consolation
I
have
had
in
my
past
sufferings
,
that
they
were
undergone
with
resolution
and
patience
enough
,
to
suppress
all
jealousies
in
you
,
that
I
was
capable
of
sinking
in
the
future
under
any
burden
of
that
nature
.
O
Madam
,
(
he
replyed
)
why
do
you
so
infinitely
injure
my
intentions
?
for
my
asking
that
question
,
was
not
to
resolve
my
doubts
,
but
to
hear
my
joy
repeated
;
neither
can
you
condemn
my
imploring
so
strong
a
Preservative
,
when
you
see
what
misfortunes
I
am
to
struggle
with
.
Blacius
,
who
perceived
what
our
entertainment
was
,
having
repeated
his
threatnings
to
Perolla
,
commanded
me
immediately
to
leave
him
;
which
,
before
I
obeyed
,
I
told
Perolla
,
since
your
question
proceeds
from
that
cause
,
I
shall
as
willingly
satisfie
it
,
as
I
should
have
been
troubled
to
have
done
so
on
any
other
account
;
Know
then
,
that
if
my
Passion
for
you
be
a
Preservative
against
your
miseries
,
you
shall
be
for
ever
uncapable
of
any
;
for
your
desires
can
give
you
so
large
a
possession
in
my
heart
,
as
my
affection
does
;
and
this
justice
is
so
far
from
being
susceptible
of
change
,
that
the
Gods
,
while
they
give
me
life
and
reason
,
are
not
able
to
alter
it
.
My
Father
,
at
this
assurance
,
thrust
me
out
of
the
Room
,
but
he
to
whom
it
was
addrest
,
observing
he
could
not
have
time
enough
to
make
me
in
words
a
retribution
of
my
engagement
,
by
lifting
up
his
eyes
and
hands
to
those
Powers
I
had
mentioned
,
sufficiently
confirmed
me
that
his
resolutions
and
flame
were
resembling
unto
mine
.
But
(
alas
!
)
my
love
for
Perolla
,
had
not
that
power
he
ascribed
unto
it
;
for
though
I
had
given
him
pregnant
testimonies
of
the
greatness
and
reality
of
it
,
yet
Blacius's
cruelty
had
so
fatal
an
influence
on
him
,
which
cast
him
into
so
dangerous
and
long
a
sickness
,
that
for
above
half
a
year
he
was
unable
to
leave
his
Chamber
.
I
must
acknowledge
,
during
that
time
,
I
was
obliged
to
my
Fathers
rigor
;
for
't
was
by
the
strictness
of
his
watches
,
that
I
was
preserved
from
knowing
so
sensible
a
misfortune
.
But
at
last
he
recovered
,
and
with
his
health
assumed
a
resolution
,
that
he
would
act
such
gallant
things
,
as
all
the
Roman
Empire
should
make
his
particular
satisfaction
,
or
death
,
a
publick
concernment
,
but
his
design
was
a
while
suspended
;
for
after
the
Battel
of
Metaurus
,
the
Plague
so
violently
raged
both
in
the
Roman
and
Carthaginian
Armies
,
that
we
hardly
knew
who
commanded
the
former
;
and
the
General
of
the
latter
spent
that
whole
Summer
near
the
Temple
of
Iuno
Lucinia
,
in
erecting
a
magnificent
Altar
,
with
a
large
Title
of
all
his
Actions
in
Punick
and
Greek
Characters
.
But
the
same
year
was
not
unactive
in
Spain
,
where
Publius
Cornelius
Scipio
(
who
justly
acquired
by
his
glorious
Victories
in
Africk
,
the
Sirname
of
African
)
beat
Asdrubal
,
the
son
of
Gesgo
,
out
of
the
Continent
,
into
the
Isle
of
Gades
,
where
he
pillaged
all
things
as
well
sacred
as
prophane
,
and
then
retired
to
Carthage
.
The
Conqueror
,
after
having
deliver'd
up
his
Province
to
those
the
Romans
had
appointed
his
Successors
,
return'd
to
Rome
,
where
he
made
suit
for
the
honour
of
Triumph
;
this
was
deny'd
him
,
having
never
been
granted
to
a
Proconsul
,
except
to
such
as
had
received
that
dignity
after
a
Consulship
,
as
it
were
by
prorogation
,
which
(
continued
Izadora
)
in
my
opinion
,
was
some
injustice
,
and
evinced
,
the
Reward
was
not
to
the
Merit
,
but
the
Title
.
But
to
repair
this
Repulse
,
Scipio
and
Publius
Crassus
were
chosen
Consuls
;
the
last
being
High
Priest
of
the
Romans
,
was
confined
,
by
the
quality
of
his
office
,
to
a
near
residence
to
Rome
;
but
the
first
beg'd
the
Senate
to
permit
him
to
carry
the
War
to
the
Gates
of
Carthage
,
which
was
the
most
probable
expedient
to
draw
Hannibal
out
of
Italy
.
This
motion
had
more
reason
in
it
,
than
success
;
for
some
that
were
envious
,
and
others
that
were
fearful
,
opposed
it
:
yet
at
last
he
obtain'd
Sicily
for
his
Province
,
with
liberty
(
if
he
thought
fit
)
to
transport
the
War
into
Asrick
.
Perolla
,
a
Friend
to
the
fame
and
virtue
of
this
great
Man
,
put
himself
under
his
Ensigns
,
and
partly
by
stratagem
,
but
more
largely
by
his
Valor
,
took
the
inexpugnable
Town
of
Locry
,
with
the
two
famous
Cittadels
,
as
it
were
in
Hannibal's
sight
.
Scipio
highly
extolled
his
Courage
and
Conduct
in
this
performance
,
and
pressingly
invited
him
to
his
African
journey
,
which
to
the
wonder
of
all
the
Empire
he
was
admirably
provided
for
,
though
he
had
received
neither
encouragement
by
words
nor
actions
from
the
Senate
.
Perolla
(
whose
Love
and
Revenge
confin'd
him
to
Italy
)
declin'd
Scipio's
request
,
but
with
inviolable
protestations
,
that
if
his
success
drew
Hannibal
(
on
whose
ruine
he
was
unchangeably
bent
)
into
Africk
,
he
would
not
fail
there
to
offer
the
Consul
his
Sword
and
Life
.
Scipio
with
this
assurance
set
Sail
for
Africk
,
and
Perolla
returned
to
Rome
,
where
in
open
Senate
he
received
ample
expressions
of
their
Gratitude
for
the
Blood
he
had
lost
,
and
the
Victories
he
had
won
for
their
Empire
;
neither
was
he
long
out
of
a
probability
of
obliging
them
at
a
resembling
rate
:
For
Mago
,
a
true
son
of
Amilcars
,
having
received
orders
from
Carthage
,
to
abandon
the
Isle
of
Gades
,
and
money
to
raise
an
Army
of
Gaules
and
Ligurians
,
to
help
his
Brother
in
Italy
,
first
whipt
and
crucified
the
Gadentine
Magistrates
,
for
holding
a
secret
Correspondency
with
the
Romans
;
and
then
taking
an
eternal
leave
of
Spain
,
by
his
industry
and
wealth
raised
so
vast
an
Army
of
those
two
Nations
,
that
the
Senate
began
to
tremble
,
and
some
to
move
that
Scipio
might
be
recalled
,
which
in
such
an
exigency
had
been
performed
,
if
his
Successes
in
Africk
had
not
been
more
prevalent
for
him
,
than
his
Friends
in
Rome
.
But
though
his
Actions
were
of
a
peculiar
quality
and
merit
,
yet
having
already
so
much
usurpt
upon
your
patience
,
and
having
only
undertaken
our
own
Story
,
I
will
pass
by
Scipio's
.
Madam
,
(
said
my
Prince
,
interrupting
her
)
if
I
durst
in
any
thing
have
the
confidence
to
instruct
my
desires
at
so
uncivil
a
rate
as
the
lengthening
of
your
trouble
,
it
should
be
in
his
Story
;
for
though
the
Fame
of
that
great
man
has
in
generals
diffus'd
itself
over
the
whole
world
,
yet
I
must
confess
,
I
have
only
heard
of
his
glory
,
but
not
of
those
particular
Trophies
which
compos'd
and
form'd
it
.
Sir
(
replied
Izadora
)
since
you
seem
to
decline
the
being
informed
of
his
generous
Adventures
,
only
out
of
a
belief
that
the
telling
them
may
prove
my
trouble
,
I
would
by
experiment
convince
you
,
nothing
can
bear
that
name
,
or
have
that
operation
with
me
,
which
proves
a
satisfaction
to
the
gallant
Spariacus
;
but
that
I
believe
the
Relation
will
be
more
exact
by
Perolla's
making
it
,
than
by
mine
,
whose
willingness
to
obey
you
,
I
dare
answer
for
by
my
own
,
since
the
sympathy
betwixt
us
hath
been
so
great
and
constant
,
that
I
alwayes
knew
his
heart
by
mine
.
My
Prince
(
continued
Symander
)
by
his
silence
,
seem'd
to
impose
that
task
on
the
generous
Lover
,
who
observing
it
,
and
having
by
a
handsom
expression
acknowledg'd
the
advantagious
character
Izadora
had
given
Spartacus
of
his
heart
,
by
comparing
it
to
hers
,
and
protested
that
he
undertook
the
Story
to
ease
her
,
and
not
to
improve
it
:
In
these
terms
continued
Scipio's
Adventures
,
and
ended
his
own
.
PARTHENISSA
,
A
ROMANCE
.
THE
SECOND
PART
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
SECOND
PART
.
BOOK
I.
PVblius
Cornelius
Scipio
,
after
his
subduing
of
Spain
,
went
with
two
Quinquereme
Gallies
privately
into
Africk
,
to
Syphax
that
great
Numidian
King
,
who
being
a
Neighbour
to
his
new
,
and
to
his
intended
Conquests
,
he
Courted
to
declare
for
the
Romans
,
whose
Victories
were
so
recent
,
that
though
at
the
same
instant
Asdrubal
was
sent
from
Carthage
to
sollicite
his
friendship
for
their
Empire
,
yet
he
at
last
declared
for
the
Roman
,
and
protested
to
their
General
,
that
upon
his
arrival
there
,
he
would
join
Interest
and
Armies
with
him
.
Scipio
on
this
assurance
being
chosen
Consul
,
hastens
into
Africk
;
but
as
he
was
in
Sicily
,
ready
for
his
intended
Expedition
,
he
receives
Ambassadors
from
Syphax
,
which
inform'd
him
,
though
not
in
positive
terms
,
yet
obliquely
of
his
change
.
The
Consul
not
only
kept
this
disaster
secret
,
lest
if
it
had
been
divulg'd
,
the
Senate
,
and
his
Soldiers
fears
,
might
have
put
a
period
to
his
Voyage
before
it
began
,
but
gave
out
that
Syphax
had
sent
purposely
to
accelerate
his
Landing
,
and
to
acquaint
him
,
if
he
protracted
the
time
,
he
was
so
intent
upon
the
War
,
that
he
would
upon
his
own
score
begin
it
.
With
this
joyful
Declaration
,
the
Roman
Army
set
Sail
from
Lilibeum
:
But
while
they
are
crossing
the
Mediterranean
Sea
,
it
will
not
be
amiss
to
tell
you
the
cause
of
this
barbarous
Kings
inconstancy
.
The
same
Asdrubal
,
to
whom
lately
he
had
refus'd
his
friendship
,
had
a
Daughter
of
such
excellent
beauty
,
that
Syphax
(
who
was
not
unapt
to
receive
the
flames
of
Love
)
so
abundantly
admitted
those
which
the
fair
Sophonisba's
eyes
inspir'd
,
that
it
made
him
not
only
abandon
his
Faith
,
but
his
Interest
too
;
and
to
purchase
her
(
for
she
was
bought
)
he
offer'd
to
decline
the
Romans
,
and
declare
himself
Carthaginian
.
This
motion
on
so
emergent
a
necessity
was
greedily
embrac'd
,
and
Sophonisba
deliver'd
up
a
Sacrifice
for
the
publick
advantage
.
For
it
is
certain
,
the
Numidian
King
had
nothing
considerable
but
his
Crown
;
and
she
by
that
fatal
Marriage
declin'd
Massanissa
,
to
whom
she
was
contracted
;
a
Prince
of
so
much
virtue
,
and
so
perfectly
bles●
with
the
gifts
of
Nature
,
that
I
may
truly
say
Sophonisba's
preferment
was
her
ruine
.
This
Massanissa
,
was
the
Son
of
Gala
,
(
Surnamed
the
Good
)
King
of
the
Massesily
;
and
though
he
were
very
young
,
yet
by
his
great
courage
and
wisdom
he
recover'd
his
Fathers
Kingdom
,
(
involv'd
in
a
dangerous
and
intricate
Rebellion
)
and
by
wayes
which
made
all
the
world
acknowledge
him
as
worthy
of
it
,
as
by
his
Title
.
His
next
care
was
to
secure
his
Right
,
(
both
by
Succession
and
Conquest
:
)
To
effect
which
,
and
for
the
satisfying
his
inclination
,
he
made
his
Addresses
to
the
fair
Sophonisba
,
whose
Father
(
Asdrubal
)
had
so
large
an
interest
in
Carthage
,
that
whosoever
obtain'd
his
Alliance
,
might
be
said
thereby
to
be
Ally'd
to
that
Empire
.
The
Title
of
a
Queen
,
and
the
Felicity
of
such
a
Husband
,
so
pleas'd
the
Father
and
the
Daughter
,
that
the
Marriage
was
as
soon
agreed
upon
as
motion'd
;
and
the
more
to
endear
it
to
the
Carthaginians
,
it
was
resolv'd
that
a
Contract
should
be
perfected
,
but
before
the
consummation
of
the
Nuptials
,
Massanissa
should
go
in
person
with
an
Army
into
Spain
,
under
his
design'd
Father-in-law
,
which
the
young
Prince
(
more
troubled
to
abandon
his
Mistriss
,
than
his
Kingdom
)
perform'd
,
and
in
that
Expedition
acted
things
of
so
transcendent
virtue
,
that
Carthage
judg'd
his
Merit
,
without
his
Title
,
worthy
the
admirable
Sophonisba
;
but
Asdrubal
having
undertaken
that
fatal
Expedition
,
(
being
himself
no
excellent
Captain
)
met
with
disasters
and
oppositions
,
which
would
have
render'd
his
being
otherwise
of
no
great
advantage
;
for
he
began
to
move
presently
after
the
famous
Battel
of
Metaurus
,
in
which
I
may
say
Spain
was
conquer'd
in
Italy
,
for
there
all
the
Spanish
Hostages
were
taken
,
that
Asdrubal
the
Son
of
Amilcar
had
brought
with
him
out
of
that
Countrey
,
and
by
which
he
kept
that
Wa●like
Nation
in
more
awe
,
than
by
his
Garisons
or
Army
.
This
success
,
made
the
Spaniards
consider
the
Romans
as
the
Rising
Sun
,
and
consequently
adore
the
,
so
that
his
Levying
an
Army
,
prov'd
more
advantageous
to
his
Enemies
,
than
his
Friends
;
for
every
day
they
abandon'd
his
Ensigns
in
whole
Troops
,
and
put
themselves
under
Scipio's
,
who
was
a
General
,
that
in
Courage
,
Patience
,
and
Conduct
,
was
hardly
to
be
equal'd
.
In
a
word
,
in
one
Summer
Asdrubal
lost
all
Spain
,
and
Massanissa
(
perhaps
glad
of
any
subject
which
might
return
him
to
Sophonisba
)
joyfully
abandon'd
a
great
Kingdom
to
his
Enemies
,
as
hoping
in
her
embraces
to
lose
all
thoughts
of
misfortune
;
but
he
too
soon
found
his
error
,
for
in
his
absence
Syphax
(
as
I
told
you
)
had
seen
Sophonisba
,
and
so
passionately
admir'd
her
,
that
upon
his
promise
to
the
Carthaginians
not
only
of
relinquishing
Scipio
,
(
who
was
preparing
to
invade
their
Countrey
)
but
to
bring
them
an
Army
of
100000
Men
;
they
made
of
a
particular
Alliance
,
a
publick
Concernment
,
and
in
spite
of
Asdrubal
and
Massanissa
,
(
who
was
as
much
his
Rivals
Superior
in
Virtue
,
as
he
was
his
in
Power
)
gave
that
barbarous
King
the
fair
Sophonisba
;
and
Syphax
no
sooner
was
in
possession
of
his
felicity
,
than
proportioning
Massanissa's
resentments
by
the
greatness
of
his
loss
,
resolv'd
to
take
from
him
the
power
of
acting
them
.
This
particular
Malice
he
made
pass
at
Carthage
for
an
Act
of
publick
Security
,
it
being
a
folly
(
as
great
as
the
injustice
)
to
trust
an
offended
Enemy
with
a
Kingdom
;
therefore
the
Senate
not
only
approv'd
of
their
new
Allies
design
,
but
furnish'd
him
with
additional
Forces
,
to
expel
the
unfortunate
Massanissa
out
of
his
Countrey
,
which
Syphax
soon
effected
,
his
Rivals
virtue
yielding
to
his
numbers
:
But
though
Massanissa
lost
his
Crown
,
yet
did
he
not
either
his
Courage
or
Judgement
;
the
first
was
too
great
to
sit
down
with
such
an
affront
to
his
Passion
,
and
his
Right
;
and
the
latter
lead
him
to
offer
his
service
to
Scipio
,
who
having
found
how
considerable
an
Enemy
he
had
been
,
doubted
not
but
he
would
prove
a
resembling
Friend
:
wherein
he
was
not
deceiv'd
;
for
the
Consul
having
acquainted
him
from
Lilibeum
,
(
where
he
shipt
his
Army
)
that
he
would
Land
at
the
Promontory
of
Apollo
,
he
found
Massanissa
there
with
a
gallant
Body
of
Horse
ready
to
join
with
him
.
Their
first
Action
was
to
cut
off
500
Horse
,
sent
out
of
Carthage
,
to
interrupt
the
Romans
descent
,
which
Massanissa
perform'd
as
an
earnest
of
his
future
Services
.
The
next
was
against
Hanno
,
a
young
Carthaginian
Gentleman
,
of
as
little
experience
as
years
,
who
with
4000
select
Horse
,
lay
at
a
Town
of
importance
,
call'd
Salera
.
This
hasty
Commander
Massanissa
(
by
braving
him
at
his
very
Gates
)
toll'd
out
into
an
Ambush
,
then
cut
him
(
with
his
small
Army
)
in
pieces
,
and
in
the
heat
of
the
pursuit
,
enter'd
the
Town
,
with
some
few
Run-aways
,
which
presently
he
became
Master
of
.
This
shews
that
Scipio
gain'd
by
the
loss
of
Syphax
,
for
by
his
defection
,
he
sent
him
a
friend
,
whose
gallantry
was
more
considerable
than
the
others
Forces
.
From
Salera
they
march'd
to
besiege
Vtica
,
a
place
considerable
for
its
strength
and
scituation
,
but
much
more
for
the
virtue
of
the
Defenders
,
which
indeed
was
such
,
that
though
it
were
the
first
Town
attempted
,
yet
it
was
the
last
taken
;
and
the
Consul
would
have
given
his
hopes
of
winning
it
,
to
avoid
the
disgrace
he
apprehended
of
having
sate
down
before
it
;
but
Syphax
and
Asdrubal
(
whom
the
Carthaginians
had
made
their
General
)
by
approaching
with
two
Armies
,
which
consisted
of
near
80000
Foot
,
and
13000
Horse
,
gave
him
an
honourable
pretence
of
abandoning
Vtica
,
which
he
readily
embrac'd
,
but
the
Winter
was
so
far
advanc'd
,
that
the
three
Generals
did
nothing
in
it
,
but
fortify
their
several
Camps
,
which
were
not
seven
miles
assunder
;
that
of
the
Romans
being
excellently
provided
for
,
by
the
providence
and
liberality
of
Massanissa
,
who
Reigned
in
his
Subjects
,
though
not
over
them
:
but
the
Spring
being
come
,
Scipio
,
who
believ'd
the
natural
inconstancy
of
the
Affricans
,
the
tediousness
of
a
winter
Camp
,
the
hazard
of
a
War
,
whose
Prologue
had
been
unsuccessful
,
and
perhaps
the
society
of
a
Wife
,
might
be
plentiful
motives
to
induce
Syphax
to
decline
Carthage
,
by
sitting
a
Neuter
,
sent
Ambassadors
to
him
for
that
effect
,
with
hope
,
that
if
they
succeeded
not
,
yet
at
least
the
Treaty
would
draw
him
into
a
jealousie
with
his
new
friends
.
The
Numidian
King
receiv'd
the
Ambassadors
with
a
magnificence
that
evinc'd
they
were
not
unwelcome
,
and
sent
them
back
to
Scipio
with
this
motion
:
That
if
the
Romans
would
return
out
of
Affrick
,
the
Carthaginians
should
do
the
like
out
of
Europe
.
But
the
Consul
receiv'd
a
more
pleasing
and
advantagious
intelligence
than
this
,
though
brought
by
the
same
persons
,
which
was
,
that
both
the
Carthaginian
and
Numidian
Camp
were
so
ill
intrencht
,
and
their
Hutts
cover'd
with
such
combustible
stuff
,
that
it
were
a
thing
of
as
much
ease
,
as
glory
,
to
end
the
War
in
one
night
;
in
brief
,
Scipio
held
on
the
Treaty
till
such
time
as
he
had
perfectly
instructed
himself
in
the
truth
of
this
information
,
and
the
facility
of
performing
it
,
both
which
being
convinc'd
of
,
one
morning
he
commanded
his
Ambassadors
to
return
,
and
sent
Syphax
and
Asdrubal
word
,
that
't
was
in
vain
any
longer
to
continue
the
Treaty
,
since
he
found
all
his
Army
unanimously
bent
to
make
them
yield
to
their
Mercy
,
or
their
Swords
;
This
message
blasted
the
two
Generals
like
Lightning
,
for
they
had
so
fed
themselves
with
the
assurance
of
Peace
,
that
the
loss
of
that
hope
appear'd
as
great
a
misfortune
to
them
,
as
if
they
had
lost
a
certainty
;
but
at
last
making
Virtue
of
Necessity
,
they
consol'd
one
another
with
mutual
assurances
,
that
as
Scipio
follow'd
the
steps
of
Marcus
Atilius
,
so
he
would
his
Fate
;
but
the
same
night
,
the
Romans
,
who
built
their
confidence
upon
a
firmer
foundation
than
Hope
and
Prophecies
divided
their
Army
,
one
halfe
Massanissa
and
Lelius
,
the
General
of
their
Horse
commanded
;
these
were
sent
against
Syphax's
Camp
,
to
whom
Massanissa
was
an
Enemy
by
the
two
most
enflaming
provocations
,
of
a
successful
Rival
,
both
in
Love
and
Empire
;
the
other
,
Scipio
himself
led
;
The
first
had
orders
to
assault
the
Numidians
,
who
lay
a
Mile
behind
the
Carthaginians
,
lest
if
Asdrubal's
Camp
were
first
on
fire
,
it
might
be
thought
a
design
,
and
not
a
mischance
.
Massanissa
and
Lelius
march'd
two
hours
before
the
Consul
,
and
before
day
,
so
exactly
executed
their
instructions
,
that
all
Syphax's
Camp
was
in
a
general
Flame
in
the
sight
of
Asdrubal's
,
who
attributing
it
to
some
disaster
(
for
they
could
not
fancy
the
Romans
would
attempt
the
remotest
,
and
so
engage
themselves
between
two
Armies
)
ran
without
Arms
or
Order
,
to
the
relief
of
their
friends
;
but
their
Charity
was
their
ruine
,
for
the
Roman
Horse
of
Scipio's
Division
,
cut
off
all
those
which
ran
out
of
the
Camp
,
and
the
Legions
assaulting
those
in
it
,
soon
kindled
as
great
fire
there
,
as
that
they
were
deploring
,
and
going
to
extinguish
.
The
confusion
,
horror
,
and
execution
was
transcendent
,
and
though
in
both
places
the
flame
diffus'd
it self
above
four
miles
,
yet
't
is
thought
there
was
bloud
enough
spilt
to
have
quencht
it
;
for
there
we
killed
and
destroyed
(
what
by
the
Flame
,
what
by
the
Sword
)
above
80000
,
and
about
8000
were
taken
prisoners
;
2000
Foot
,
and
500
Horse
were
all
the
serviceable
Forces
that
escaped
,
in
which
number
were
the
two
unfortunate
Generals
,
Never
did
Affrick
receive
a
resembling
misfortune
,
neither
did
all
their
Hannibal's
Victories
inspire
them
with
a
joy
proportionate
to
the
vastness
of
their
grief
,
and
astonishment
for
this
loss
.
But
in
this
high
Misery
,
the
Barcinian
Faction
shew'd
a
spirit
unworthy
of
it
,
and
not
only
absolutely
oppos'd
the
sending
for
Hannibal
out
of
Italy
;
(
which
they
said
would
be
a
greater
victory
to
the
Romans
,
than
that
they
had
so
lately
won
)
but
undertook
in
few
days
(
if
one
of
their
Family
might
be
General
)
to
raise
an
Army
,
that
at
least
should
not
be
kill'd
like
Sacrifices
(
without
resistance
)
that
perhaps
,
might
make
the
Romans
acknowledge
a
succession
of
victories
,
was
as
well
the
way
to
Carthage
as
to
Rome
,
and
that
none
must
present
themselves
before
her
Walls
,
but
they
must
be
loaden
with
Lawrels
as
much
as
Arms.
This
motion
joy'd
,
and
confounded
the
Senate
;
but
the
result
of
their
dispute
was
,
that
not
to
discontent
the
Barcinian
faction
,
lest
they
might
lose
Hannibal
,
they
resolv'd
not
to
recal
him
;
and
not
to
discontent
Asdrubal
lest
they
might
lose
Syphax
,
they
gave
Asdrubal
again
the
Command
of
the
Affrican
War
,
sent
Sophonisba
as
Embassadress
from
her
Countrey
,
to
her
Husband
,
to
implore
him
not
to
abandon
them
,
when
their
condition
render'd
his
friendship
an
action
of
Charity
,
as
well
as
●nterest
;
and
besought
the
Barcinian
Princes
,
by
joyning
their
power
and
affections
with
Asdrubal
,
to
manifest
,
that
they
lov'd
the
Common-wealth
more
than
they
hated
their
Enemy
.
In
brief
,
Syphax
vanquish'd
with
the
abundant
Prayers
and
Tears
of
the
fair
Sophonisba
,
and
the
Barcinians
mov'd
with
the
intreaties
and
danger
of
Carthage
,
so
well
improv'd
the
time
,
that
in
30
days
,
they
rais'd
30000
Men
for
Asdrubal
,
who
resolving
to
repair
or
repeat
his
disgrace
,
march'd
directly
towards
Vtica
,
which
Scipio
,
(
more
intent
to
vindicate
his
Honour
,
than
increase
his
Conquest
)
had
again
besieg'd
,
which
the
second
time
he
was
necessitated
to
leave
,
and
in
a
bloudy
Battel
,
overcame
Syphax
and
his
Father-in-law
,
as
absolutely
by
Courage
,
as
he
had
formerly
by
Policy
;
the
last
flying
to
Carthage
,
and
the
other
(
follow'd
soon
after
by
his
Queen
)
into
his
own
Kingdom
.
The
Consul
to
husband
this
victory
better
than
the
former
,
resolv'd
himself
to
attempt
Carthage
,
(
the
Rome
of
Affrick
sent
a
select
number
to
continue
the
Siege
of
Vtica
,
and
enjoyn'd
Massanissa
,
with
all
his
Numidians
,
and
some
of
the
Romans
under
Lelius
,
to
prosecute
Syphax
.
Scipio
with
his
Division
,
took
many
Towns
by
his
Name
,
and
by
his
Arms
,
and
at
last
presented
himself
before
that
stately
City
,
which
had
so
long
been
a
dangerous
Rival
unto
his
:
Tunis
,
a
great
Town
in
the
prospect
of
Carthage
,
he
took
by
Assault
;
but
as
he
was
going
to
try
his
fortune
upon
her
Neighbor
and
Mistriss
,
he
was
forc'd
to
alter
his
design
,
by
the
Carthaginians
sending
out
their
Fleet
to
destroy
his
,
that
lay
ill-mann'd
before
Vtica
.
By
hasty
marches
therefore
he
came
thither
,
and
so
well
animated
his
Soldiers
,
and
secur'd
his
Gallies
,
that
his
Enemies
only
return'd
to
Carthage
with
six
of
his
Ships
,
where
their
Triumph
was
much
greater
than
their
Victory
.
In
the
mean
while
Massanissa
,
carry'd
by
the
wings
of
Love
,
Empire
,
and
Revenge
,
came
with
his
Army
into
Numidia
,
where
the
Masesilii
,
who
had
never
been
but
his
Subjects
,
now
publickly
declar'd
themselves
so
,
and
joyning
their
Arms
to
their
Prince's
,
march'd
resolutely
against
Syphax
,
who
with
50000
Foot
,
and
10000
Horse
,
was
coming
to
dispute
his
Queen
and
his
Kingdom
:
Massanissa
and
Lelius
joyfully
accepted
the
Battel
,
especially
the
first
,
who
thought
the
ways
to
Empire
,
and
fruition
,
were
but
the
same
.
Syphax
taught
his
Men
to
fight
in
the
Roman
order
,
but
not
being
able
to
give
them
Roman
Hearts
,
he
lost
his
Army
and
his
Liberty
,
to
those
that
practis'd
the
former
,
and
possess'd
the
latter
.
Massanissa
justly
pleas'd
with
this
purchase
,
and
being
one
who
knew
as
well
how
to
prosecute
,
as
win
a
Victory
,
desir'd
Lelius
to
follow
to
Cirta
,
the
Metropolis
of
Numidia
,
whether
he
went
before
with
all
the
Horse
,
and
his
great
Prisoner
:
The
Citizens
upon
the
Conqueror's
approach
(
who
perhaps
,
hated
the
King
,
as
much
as
an
unsuccessful
Cause
)
open'd
their
Gates
,
where
the
first
object
that
saluted
his
Eyes
,
was
the
fair
Sophonisba
,
not
as
a
Tryumphant
Mistris
,
but
an
imploring
Prisoner
:
Massanissa
,
who
consider'd
her
,
and
not
her
condition
,
alighting
from
his
Horse
,
and
imitating
her
posture
,
desir'd
her
to
believe
,
her
Empire
was
as
great
where
he
commanded
,
as
where
Syphax
did
,
and
begg'd
her
,
if
she
doubted
so
perfect
a
Truth
,
to
evince
it
by
some
Commands
.
She
told
him
,
that
her
inconstancy
made
her
as
little
merit
as
desire
obligations
from
him
,
that
had
she
not
thought
it
a
crime
to
have
destroyed
her self
,
by
any
thing
,
but
by
the
sentence
of
his
offended
Love
,
she
had
,
by
becoming
her
own
Executioner
,
punisht
her
inconstancy
and
misfortune
(
the
former
being
the
latter
)
and
not
liv'd
to
be
so
publique
a
spectacle
of
Fortune's
mutability
;
that
since
he
was
pleas'd
to
pardon
a
sin
that
was
its
own
punishment
,
she
besought
him
,
till
her
repentance
for
her
fault
,
had
created
in
him
desires
of
affection
,
or
the
greatness
of
it
,
desires
of
Revenge
,
that
he
would
preserve
her
from
the
Romans
power
.
Her
Youth
and
admirable
Beauty
,
made
so
deep
an
impression
in
Massanissa's
heart
;
that
not
only
he
granted
her
request
,
but
pardon'd
her
past
inconstancy
,
and
to
take
from
the
Romans
all
hopes
of
such
a
Prisoner
,
he
seemingly
,
or
really
at
that
instant
marry'd
her
.
But
Lelius
upon
his
arrival
,
was
in
so
great
a
fury
,
that
he
had
like
to
have
been
the
destruction
of
the
Nuptials
,
by
being
the
destroyer
of
the
Bride
;
but
Massanissa
knew
so
well
how
to
humble
himself
before
that
proud
Roman
,
and
to
represent
,
that
she
had
always
been
his
Wife
,
though
married
to
Syphax
;
that
he
was
content
to
suspend
all
things
,
till
they
return'd
to
the
Consul
,
which
(
after
the
setling
that
great
Kingdom
)
they
soon
did
;
There
was
no
common
joy
in
the
Roman
Camp
at
the
arrival
of
so
great
a
friend
a
Conqueror
,
and
so
great
an
Enemy
a
Prisoner
;
the
first
having
by
Scipio
receiv'd
in
publique
a
just
and
ample
commendation
,
and
acknowledgement
for
his
transcendent
obligations
on
this
Empire
;
the
last
was
strictly
examined
,
what
had
induc'd
him
to
embrace
the
Carthaginian
Quarrel
,
having
so
professedly
engag'd
himself
in
the
Roman
;
to
which
he
resolutely
answer'd
,
't
was
the
charms
of
his
Wife
,
which
truth
he
was
confident
e're
long
,
a
resembling
operation
on
Massanissa
,
would
abundantly
confirm
.
Whether
Syphax
spoke
this
really
,
or
in
revenge
,
I
cannot
tell
,
but
his
assertion
had
so
powerful
an
influence
on
the
Consul
:
that
taking
Massanissa
aside
,
he
told
him
ingenuously
,
the
Romans
had
an
undeniable
Title
to
Sophonisba's
Life
,
whom
he
consider'd
as
the
efficient
cause
of
these
Wars
,
and
therefore
conjur'd
him
,
not
to
ruine
the
reward
of
so
great
services
,
by
committing
as
great
a
Crime
,
which
his
detention
of
his
new
Wife
,
did
,
and
would
appear
,
in
his
,
and
the
Senates
judgement
.
Massanissa
blusht
and
wept
,
but
finally
begg'd
some
time
to
work
on
his
inclination
,
to
submit
unto
his
duty
;
this
civil
request
had
the
desir'd
return
,
and
Massanissa
being
retir'd
into
his
Tent
,
spent
an
hour
in
an
Agony
,
whose
torments
nothing
but
an
unfortunate
Lover
is
capable
to
imagine
:
but
at
length
,
after
a
serious
reflection
,
that
by
denying
her
,
he
should
deliver
both
himself
and
Sophonisba
,
into
the
Roman
hands
,
and
perhaps
believing
,
if
she
had
a
real
passion
for
him
,
that
her
own
Fate
would
be
the
less
bitter
,
by
his
not
being
involv'd
in
it
,
and
if
she
had
not
,
the
loss
was
the
more
tollerable
;
he
determin'd
to
preserve
her
in
his
memory
,
that
he
could
not
in
his
embraces
,
and
sending
for
an
exquisite
poison
,
he
commanded
one
of
his
Domesticks
to
present
it
from
him
to
Sophonisba
,
as
the
only
way
he
had
left
to
keep
his
word
,
and
her
from
the
Romans
.
The
fair
Queen
undauntedly
taking
the
fatal
Cup
,
bid
the
Messenger
to
tell
his
Lord
,
that
to
manifest
,
nothing
which
came
from
him
was
unwelcome
,
she
would
receive
from
him
the
present
of
her
Fate
;
which
having
drank
,
she
further
enjoyn'd
him
to
beg
Massanissa
,
that
if
the
actions
of
her
life
,
had
impair'd
her
in
his
first
affection
;
that
the
resoluteness
of
her
death
,
might
restore
it
to
its
former
luster
,
and
that
she
might
live
in
,
though
not
with
him
:
then
casting
her self
upon
her
Bed
,
an
eternal
darkness
soon
clos'd
up
the
fairest
Lights
which
ever
shin'd
in
Affrick
,
to
which
barbarous
Countrey
I
had
not
confin'd
my
similitude
,
had
the
fair
Sophonisba
been
as
constant
in
her
Love
,
as
in
her
Death
.
This
Tragedy
,
and
the
sad
influence
it
had
on
Massanissa
,
no
sooner
reacht
the
Consuls
knowledge
,
than
he
sent
for
him
,
and
having
drawn
all
his
Army
in
Battalia
,
in
their
sight
,
to
repair
the
having
taken
from
him
Syphax's
Wife
,
he
gave
him
Syphax's
Kingdom
,
saluted
him
by
the
name
of
King
,
presented
him
with
a
Crown
of
Gold
,
and
by
large
Elogies
on
his
noble
actions
,
dry'd
up
his
Tears
.
This
truly
was
the
best
Cordial
,
and
those
clouds
of
grief
,
by
so
admirable
a
Sun-shine
of
prosperity
,
were
soon
dissipated
,
and
he
with
the
Romans
march'd
to
the
Siege
of
Carthage
,
from
whence
,
they
having
heard
of
Syphax's
defeat
,
instead
of
sending
armed
Troops
to
meet
them
,
they
sent
out
old
Hanno
with
the
Princes
of
his
Faction
,
who
prostrating
themselves
on
the
ground
,
not
only
kist
Scipio's
feet
,
but
the
feet
of
those
that
sate
in
Counsel
with
him
,
to
whom
they
acknowledg'd
they
had
unjustly
broken
the
Peace
betwixt
Rome
and
Carthage
,
which
they
besought
might
continue
as
a
monument
of
their
mercy
,
and
in
a
resembling
series
of
baseness
,
begg'd
Peace
on
terms
,
though
as
low
as
those
Spirits
that
implor'd
it
.
Scipio
,
who
knew
Rome
to
be
poor
,
though
victorious
,
and
Carthage
rich
,
though
subdu'd
,
willing
to
relieve
the
necessities
of
the
former
,
by
the
abundance
of
the
latter
,
and
perhaps
,
fearful
that
dispair
might
make
them
continue
the
War
longer
than
his
Consulship
,
and
so
his
victories
might
prove
but
the
foundation
of
anothers
Glory
;
or
else
believing
so
prostrate
an
Enemy
unworthy
his
Sword
,
or
esteeming
it
more
generous
to
be
known
a
Conqueror
by
the
confession
,
than
the
ruine
of
his
Enemies
,
granted
them
Peace
,
but
upon
terms
,
as
long
as
their
submission
,
and
permitted
them
to
send
unto
the
Roman
Senate
for
their
Ratification
.
In
the
mean
time
,
Mago
had
rais'd
so
considerable
an
Army
of
Gauls
,
and
Lygurians
,
that
the
Romans
apprehended
he
would
kindle
as
great
a
flame
in
Italy
,
as
Scipio
had
in
Affrick
.
They
therefore
sent
against
him
Marcus
Cornelius
,
the
Pro-Consul
,
and
Quintilius
Vartus
,
one
of
their
Pretors
,
with
whom
I
associated
my self
.
In
short
,
Mago
and
the
Roman
Army
,
met
in
the
Countrey
of
the
Insubtians
,
where
was
fought
a
Battel
,
of
as
much
variety
and
resolution
,
as
any
since
Rome
or
Carthage
were
founded
:
twice
the
Romans
,
and
twice
their
Enemies
were
embracing
Victory
,
but
at
length
Quintilius
,
and
I
,
having
rally'd
the
reliques
of
our
scatter'd
Horse
,
and
Mago
of
his
,
we
resolutely
advanc'd
to
determine
this
bloudy
dispute
;
Hannibal's
Brother
,
who
suspected
his
Men
needed
some
high
encouragement
,
advanc'd
about
an
hundred
paces
before
them
,
and
invited
the
Pro-Consul
by
a
single
Combat
,
to
shew
they
were
as
prodigal
of
their
own
Bloud
,
as
of
their
Soldiers
.
He
not
being
present
,
and
the
Pretor
(
perhaps
)
more
concern'd
in
the
publique
Safety
,
than
in
his
particular
Honor
,
declining
it
,
(
with
his
permission
)
I
gallop'd
up
to
Mago
,
told
him
,
the
Pro-Consul
was
on
an
employment
which
render'd
him
uncapable
of
hearing
,
and
consequently
answering
his
Challenge
,
and
that
therefore
I
was
come
(
naming
my self
)
to
supply
his
place
,
that
so
generous
an
invitation
might
not
fall
to
the
ground
.
As
soon
as
Mago
heard
the
Name
of
Perolla
,
his
Eyes
were
all
inflam'd
,
and
he
was
so
transported
with
Passion
,
he
had
scarce
the
patience
to
tell
me
,
that
had
he
known
of
my
being
in
the
Roman
Army
,
he
had
addrest
his
words
to
me
sooner
than
to
the
Pro-Consul
,
and
that
the
time
was
now
come
,
I
must
answer
for
Asdrubals
bloud
,
or
shed
more
of
it
:
then
not
giving
me
the
leasure
of
a
reply
,
we
began
a
Combat
of
so
peculiar
a
quality
,
that
it
produc'd
a
resembling
effect
,
for
both
Armies
were
so
concern'd
in
the
dispute
of
their
Combatants
,
that
forgetting
their
own
,
as
if
it
had
been
by
mutual
consent
,
they
became
spectators
of
their
Fates
,
which
they
thought
would
be
legible
in
that
of
their
Champions
.
But
why
do
I
so
long
protract
my
relation
?
let
it
suffice
I
tell
you
,
that
though
Mago's
Virtue
relish'd
of
his
Family
,
yet
his
success
was
Carthaginian
,
for
I
having
receiv'd
a
wound
on
my
Bridle-hand
,
gave
my
Enemy
so
large
an
one
in
his
Thigh
,
that
he
fell
from
his
Horse
,
and
had
there
lost
his
life
,
had
not
I
thought
it
more
handsome
to
give
,
than
take
it
.
At
this
Victory
,
the
Romans
gave
so
loud
a
shout
,
that
most
of
the
Gauls
and
Lygurians
were
hardly
able
to
abide
it
,
much
less
their
victorious
Arms
;
but
the
Battel
had
so
long
continu'd
,
that
the
approach
of
night
hinder'd
the
Conquerors
from
making
any
considerable
advantage
by
winning
it
,
and
the
vanquish'd
during
the
obscurity
,
made
so
long
a
march
with
their
wounded
General
,
that
in
two
days
after
they
came
into
Lyguria
,
where
he
receiv'd
the
sad
Commands
of
Carthage
,
without
delay
to
return
thither
,
and
rather
employ
his
Bloud
to
preserve
his
own
Countrey
,
than
to
Conquer
his
Enemies
.
This
fatal
Summons
he
obey'd
in
part
,
but
his
wound
open'd
so
large
a
way
for
his
Soul
,
that
it
flew
out
at
that
passage
,
as
he
was
as
far
as
Sardinia
in
his
return
.
This
loss
,
the
Carthaginians
resented
at
a
higher
rate
,
than
that
Battel
which
was
the
cause
of
it
:
To
contract
my
discourse
,
I
will
pass
over
those
Civilities
,
not
only
the
Pro-Consul
and
the
Pretor
,
but
also
the
whole
Roman
Senate
made
me
to
let
you
know
,
that
those
low
submissions
Carthage
had
made
Scipio
(
which
indeed
were
too
humble
to
be
real
)
were
only
to
protract
the
time
,
till
those
two
famous
Sons
of
Amilcar
were
come
out
of
Italy
for
their
deliverance
;
the
fate
of
the
youngest
,
and
his
Army
,
Sir
,
I
have
already
told
you
,
that
of
Hannibal
I
am
now
going
to
relate
,
and
it
shall
be
in
as
little
a
Volume
,
as
I
can
possibly
contract
so
much
Truth
,
and
Business
in
.
I
will
therefore
in
pursuance
of
this
assurance
,
pass
by
all
his
actions
,
since
that
famous
Battel
of
Metaurus
,
and
therein
be
no
Enemy
to
his
Glory
,
which
would
be
more
obscur'd
by
saying
he
did
little
,
than
that
he
did
nothing
,
and
come
to
his
receiving
from
Carthage
the
Orders
for
his
return
;
which
though
they
were
the
same
,
had
been
sent
his
great
Brother
,
yet
he
did
not
consider
them
with
so
Philosophical
a
temper
;
for
whereas
Mago
at
their
reception
,
obey'd
them
,
with
an
absolute
resignation
;
Hannibal
by
a
thousand
extravagancies
exprest
his
rage
,
and
discontent
;
but
after
his
fury
,
gave
him
leave
to
speak
,
he
cry'd
out
to
his
Officers
,
yet
at
least
this
is
plain
dealing
,
and
more
handsome
to
let
their
Commands
,
than
their
not
supplying
my
necessities
recall
me
;
besides
,
(
he
continu'd
)
Rome
nor
Scipio
cannot
now
glory
,
they
have
sent
Hannibal
out
of
Italy
,
no
,
't
is
Hanno
and
his
Faction
,
who
not
able
any
other
way
to
effect
the
destruction
of
the
Barcinians
,
act
it
by
that
of
Carthage
.
But
this
great
Captain
,
whose
providence
extended
over
all
events
,
had
in
readiness
a
Fleet
for
so
sad
a
Navigation
,
in
which
he
embark'd
his
Army
,
but
all
such
Italians
as
were
not
willing
to
follow
his
fortune
,
nor
able
to
fly
his
Power
and
Fury
,
and
had
taken
sanctuary
in
that
sacred
one
of
Iuno
Lucinia
,
he
forc'd
from
thence
,
and
by
putting
them
to
several
ignominious
deaths
,
did
that
for
them
,
which
they
merited
of
their
Countrey
:
After
so
bloudy
a
Sacrifice
to
the
Manes
of
those
friends
he
had
left
behind
,
he
took
Ship
himself
,
more
troubled
at
his
abandoning
Italy
,
than
at
the
cause
of
it
,
cursing
both
the
gods
and
his
own
stupidity
,
that
after
the
Battel
of
Cannes
,
he
had
not
led
his
Army
all
hot
and
bloudy
to
the
Walls
of
Rome
.
But
whilist
he
is
at
Sea
,
it
will
not
be
amiss
to
let
you
know
,
what
is
done
on
Land
.
The
Carthaginian
Ambassadors
sent
to
Rome
to
ratify
that
Peace
made
with
Scipio
,
appear'd
so
ignorant
in
what
they
were
sent
to
conclude
,
and
so
uncertain
in
their
desires
,
and
answers
,
that
the
Senate
easily
discover'd
their
hearts
,
and
found
what
there
presented
to
be
their
simplicity
,
was
their
treachery
:
whereupon
that
great
Assembly
return'd
them
back
to
Scipio
,
by
Lelius
,
who
had
been
sent
to
Rome
with
Syphax
.
Lelius
in
a
swift
Gally
,
accompanied
with
his
false
Ambassadors
,
soon
came
to
the
Roman
standing
Camp
,
where
he
learnt
that
the
Carthaginians
having
certainly
heard
of
that
great
Army
(
following
too
the
famous
Name
of
Hannibal
)
which
was
coming
out
of
Italy
,
asham'd
of
their
tame
submission
,
and
that
they
had
despair'd
of
their
fate
,
whilst
so
fear'd
a
General
was
to
dispute
it
,
and
coming
powerfully
to
their
deliverance
,
had
not
only
broke
the
Treaty
,
but
by
Asdrubal
their
Admiral
had
taken
200
Ships
sent
from
Sicily
to
relieve
the
Roman
Camp
,
they
being
by
extremity
of
weather
,
cast
into
the
Bay
of
Carthage
;
and
that
Scipio
having
sent
Ambassadors
to
complain
of
so
barbarous
a
violation
,
contrary
to
the
Laws
of
Nations
,
they
had
like
to
have
been
murther'd
,
declaring
their
Ambassy
;
but
having
strangely
escap'd
that
misfortune
,
returning
by
Sea
to
the
Consul
,
who
then
encamp'd
not
far
from
the
River
Bagradas
,
they
were
encounter'd
by
the
same
Asdrubal
,
who
lay
behind
a
Promontory
to
intercept
them
,
which
doubtless
he
had
perform'd
,
had
not
the
Ambassadors
in
a
swift
Quinquereme-Gally
,
avoided
his
stemming
,
and
run
ashore
to
some
Roman
Companies
,
which
were
sent
for
their
rescue
,
where
though
they
sav'd
themselves
,
yet
they
lost
many
of
their
attendants
&
followers
,
which
A●rican
proceeding
had
so
incens'd
the
Consul
,
that
he
was
gone
to
vindicate
it
with
his
Army
,
which
now
breath'd
nothing
but
blood
and
fury
.
Lelius
,
surpriz'd
at
this
strange
&
true
information
,
went
to
Scipio
,
who
he
found
acting
a
Revenge
proportionate
to
the
greatness
of
those
Crimes
that
made
it
just
:
but
the
Carthaginian
Ambassadors
he
left
in
the
Roman
Camp
,
which
then
was
commanded
by
Bebius
,
one
of
those
that
had
so
narrowly
scap'd
in
his
late
Embassy
;
and
though
by
Lelius
he
beg'd
the
Consul
by
the
death
of
the
Carthaginian
Ambassadors
,
to
let
his
Enemies
know
,
and
suffer
for
their
fault
;
yet
the
generous
Scipio
commanded
him
not
only
to
spare
their
Lives
,
but
immediately
to
give
them
their
liberty
:
For
he
esteem'd
it
a
nobler
way
so
to
reprove
their
sin
,
than
to
imitate
it
.
This
great
Conquest
over
himself
,
was
but
a
Prophecy
of
that
over
his
Enemies
,
which
now
was
not
far
off
;
for
their
great
Hannibal
,
about
this
time
,
landed
at
Leptis
,
an
hundred
miles
from
Carthage
,
which
he
did
,
to
refresh
his
men
after
their
Navigation
,
and
to
get
some
additional
Forces
,
especially
of
Horse
,
in
which
he
was
most
defective
.
Tycheus
,
and
Mezetullus
,
two
African
Princes
,
brought
him
3000
,
with
which
reinforcement
,
having
received
positive
orders
from
Carthage
,
without
protraction
,
to
determine
their
destiny
by
Battel
,
he
march'd
directly
to
Zama
,
not
far
from
the
place
where
the
Consul
lay
,
from
whence
he
sent
out
Spies
,
to
discover
the
Romans
countenance
and
strength
;
some
of
them
being
taken
,
were
brought
to
Scipio
,
who
,
instead
of
crucitying
them
,
(
which
was
then
the
general
practice
)
commanded
an
Officer
to
carry
them
about
the
Camp
,
and
punctually
to
shew
them
whatever
they
desir'd
:
this
done
,
he
sent
them
back
to
their
General
,
who
admir'd
at
the
bravery
of
his
Enemy
,
and
concluded
his
Army
was
deficient
in
nothing
,
since
he
was
so
ready
to
shew
the
posture
it
was
in
.
Hannibal
immediately
after
,
(
but
I
cannot
tell
from
which
of
those
two
causes
it
proceeded
)
sent
to
desire
a
Parly
with
Scipio
,
who
assur'd
him
shortly
to
satisfie
his
request
.
The
next
day
after
Massanissa
(
who
upon
that
false
Peace
was
sent
into
his
own
Kingdom
)
came
to
the
Camp
,
at
the
Consuls
reiterated
requests
,
with
4000
Horse
,
and
6000
Foot
,
and
the
same
day
I
arriv'd
there
,
to
satisfie
my
Engagement
and
Revenge
.
Those
additional
Forces
gave
the
Consul
so
great
a
certainty
of
Victory
,
that
the
next
morning
with
all
his
Army
he
removed
to
Nadagara
,
where
mindful
of
his
Engagement
to
Hannibal
,
he
sent
him
word
he
was
then
ready
to
discharge
it
.
The
time
and
place
was
immediately
appointed
,
and
those
two
great
Men
went
out
of
their
Camps
to
meet
one
another
,
each
of
them
with
1000
Horse
for
their
Guard
;
and
I
being
desirous
to
see
my
Rival
,
had
the
command
of
Scipio's
.
No
sooner
were
they
come
to
a
convenient
distance
,
then
all
the
rest
making
a
stand
,
the
two
Generals
advanc'd
,
and
for
a
while
did
nothing
but
view
one
another
with
mutual
admiration
,
perhaps
to
find
out
where
that
virtue
lay
,
which
had
render'd
them
so
equally
famous
over
all
the
world
.
At
length
,
Hannibal
saluting
Scipio
,
first
told
him
,
It
had
been
(
generous
Enemy
)
more
advantageous
both
for
Carthage
and
Rome
,
if
they
had
confin'd
their
Ambitions
within
the
shores
of
A●rick
and
Italy
,
since
the
Kingdoms
of
Spain
and
Sicily
,
about
which
our
Fathers
and
we
have
so
obstinately
contended
,
are
not
a
sufficient
recompence
for
that
blood
and
treasure
they
have
exhausted
;
but
though
things
past
are
irrevocable
,
yet
they
may
instruct
us
for
the
future
,
and
induce
us
(
by
a
serious
reflection
on
those
dangers
we
have
expos'd
our
own
Countries
unto
,
to
conquer
others
)
to
believe
it
necessary
and
just
,
rather
with
safety
to
possess
our
own
,
than
run
a
hazard
of
that
,
for
an
uncertainty
of
more
:
To
this
temper
,
my
experience
of
the
World
,
and
of
Fortune
,
has
reduced
me
:
But
I
apprehend
thy
youth
and
heat
will
decline
these
thoughts
,
till
thou
hast
learn'd
them
in
the
same
School
;
but
,
methinks
,
thou
may'st
,
by
my
example
,
be
informed
of
a
truth
,
which
if
now
unregarded
,
thou
may
'
●t
learn
at
a
more
troublesom
rate
:
For
I
am
that
Hannibal
,
which
,
after
many
bloody
Battels
,
brought
my
victorious
Arms
to
the
walls
of
Rome
,
and
now
behold
here
I
come
to
offer
Peace
unto
thee
,
that
thou
may'st
not
do
the
like
to
Carthage
.
Consider
too
the
Fate
of
Marcus
Atilius
,
who
,
for
declining
so
advantageous
an
overture
,
received
a
ruine
from
the
gods
,
which
perhaps
attends
all
those
that
delight
in
shedding
humane
blood
:
Canst
thou
be
content
Scipio
that
Spain
,
Sicily
,
Sardinia
,
and
whatever
other
Islands
lie
between
Africk
and
Italy
,
be
eternally
abandoned
by
the
Carthaginians
?
'T
is
a
glorious
bargain
for
the
Romans
;
and
for
our
parts
,
our
future
quiet
shall
be
our
satisfaction
;
and
the
contentment
which
from
thence
we
shall
derive
,
will
be
an
abundant
obligation
to
tye
us
faith●ully
to
observe
the
Peace
that
gives
it
:
But
if
thou
esteemest
all
this
too
little
,
reflect
(
I
beseech
thee
)
how
great
a
hazard
thou
undergoest
,
for
the
obtaining
of
a
little
more
than
thou
may'st
enjoy
without
any
.
'T
is
now
in
thy
power
to
make
thy
Fate
,
but
if
thou
stayest
till
to
morrow
Night
,
the
gods
will
make
it
for
thee
;
let
us
therefore
conclude
on
this
universal
blessing
,
and
reproach
me
not
the
late
treachery
of
some
false-hearted
Citizens
of
ours
;
it
is
Hannibal
that
now
desires
Peace
,
which
he
would
never
do
,
did
he
not
find
it
expedient
for
his
Countrey
,
and
knowing
it
so
,
he
will
always
maintain
it
,
as
he
did
the
War
he
began
,
'till
the
gods
and
Men
did
envy
him
.
(
To
which
Scipio
reply'd
)
'T
was
not
(
generous
Hannibal
)
the
ambition
of
Rome
which
made
them
take
up
Arms
,
but
the
defence
of
the
Memertines
,
and
Saguntines
,
their
Confederates
;
which
action
of
theirs
,
the
gods
,
by
the
issue
of
the
War
,
have
,
and
will
declare
was
just
:
For
the
mutability
of
Fortune
,
I
am
not
ignorant
of
it
,
the
condition
which
thou
once
didst
reduce
Rome
unto
,
and
that
which
I
have
since
Carthage
,
does
sufficiently
evince
it
,
and
therefore
I
would
as
willingly
give
Peace
,
as
thou
des●●est
it
,
if
it
were
upon
terms
which
might
convince
the
world
,
't
is
the
Roman
magnanimity
,
and
not
the
Roman
fear
,
that
grants
it
;
but
by
what
thou
offerest
,
thou
only
givest
what
their
Swords
have
given
them
already
;
and
whereas
I
expected
,
that
in
recompence
of
thy
Citizens
perfidiousness
,
thou
wouldst
enlarge
the
Articles
of
their
late
violated
Peace
,
thou
dost
exceedingly
contract
them
,
and
thereby
wouldst
have
them
gainers
by
their
treachery
.
No
,
Hannibal
,
those
that
will
have
Rome
their
friend
,
must
not
do
actions
unworthy
of
that
end
;
and
if
the
Carthaginians
break
an
Agreement
,
as
soon
as
they
see
a
probability
of
building
their
Fortune
,
by
the
ruine
of
their
Faith
,
they
do
thereby
instruct
the
Romans
,
to
reduce
them
to
a
condition
of
not
being
able
to
violate
a
Peace
before
they
grant
them
one
.
But
(
continued
Scipio
)
all
this
I
speak
to
Carthage
,
and
not
to
Hannibal
,
to
whose
desires
I
will
give
,
what
I
will
deny
my
own
judgment
,
and
that
is
Peace
,
provided
that
my
first
Concessions
be
the
Articles
of
it
,
and
that
an
equal
satisfaction
be
made
for
those
injuries
we
have
sustained
by
their
Infidelity
.
I
am
not
come
(
Hannibal
reply'd
)
to
cheapen
a
Peace
,
I
come
to
offer
what
I
esteem
just
;
and
as
I
have
done
it
at
first
word
,
so
I
will
not
recede
from
my
first
overture
;
if
thou
esteemest
it
unreasonable
,
the
god
of
Battels
must
be
our
Judge
.
'T
is
to
him
then
(
Scipio
briskly
reply'd
)
I
refer
our
difference
,
who
,
I
believe
,
thou
wilt
find
more
untractable
than
I
am
;
for
he
cannot
be
a
god
,
if
he
favor
an
Army
which
comes
more
loaden
with
In●idelity
than
Arms
;
and
from
whom
Victory
will
flie
,
lest
she
be
thought
as
blind
as
Fortune
.
Then
the
Consul
,
laying
by
his
serious
looks
,
told
the
Carthaginian
smiling
,
But
if
at
my
return
to
my
Army
,
every
one
be
as
well
satisfied
with
this
conclusion
,
as
a
Gentleman
that
commands
those
Horse
(
pointing
to
his
Guards
)
I
shall
find
as
general
a
joy
at
the
assurance
of
a
Battel
,
as
at
the
possession
of
a
Victory
;
and
if
every
Soldier
had
his
resolution
and
design
,
Hannibal
would
not
avoid
his
particular
Fate
,
whatever
the
Gods
determined
of
the
publick
.
Who
is
this
,
said
the
Carthaginian
,
that
is
so
great
an
Enemy
to
Peace
,
and
to
Hannibal
?
'T
is
Perolla
(
said
the
Consul
)
Oh
Gods
(
the
A●rican
reply'd
)
what
strange
accident
makes
him
abandon
his
Izadora
?
But
may
I
not
(
generous
Scipio
)
by
your
favor
,
be
satisfied
from
his
own
mouth
?
Yes
(
said
the
Consul
)
I
will
send
him
to
you
,
but
first
I
must
exactan
engagement
from
you
,
and
then
the
like
from
him
,
that
whatever
your
discourses
be
,
you
shall
pass
no
farther
.
I
do
(
Hannibal
answer'd
)
faithfully
promise
it
;
for
since
I
am
certain
in
so
short
a
time
,
to
have
so
many
thousand
witnesses
of
my
revenge
,
I
would
not
confine
the
sight
of
it
to
so
few
.
This
confidence
(
said
Scipio
)
I
will
leave
Perolla
to
answer
,
who
immediately
shall
meet
you
:
then
taking
leave
of
Hannibal
,
he
told
him
,
Remember
Carthage
pulls
down
her
own
destiny
,
by
decliming
a
Peace
,
which
she
implor'd
with
tears
;
and
when
I
ask
no
other
satisfaction
for
their
treachery
,
but
to
restore
what
they
took
from
us
by
it
.
Remember
(
said
the
Carthaginian
)
't
was
Citizens
not
Soldiers
which
beg'd
made
,
and
broke
the
Peace
,
and
't
is
Hannibal
you
have
now
to
deal
with
,
who
intending
to
keep
his
bargain
,
will
make
it
accordingly
,
and
has
offered
you
what
before
next
Sun
does
set
,
you
will
repent
you
have
declin'd
.
The
Consul
would
not
hear
this
reply
,
but
came
immediately
where
I
waited
for
him
,
and
there
told
me
the
publick
transactions
,
and
my
Rivals
desire
,
which
he
gave
me
leave
to
satisfie
,
but
first
engaged
me
to
the
same
conditions
Hannibal
had
submitted
unto
;
which
having
faithfully
promis'd
,
I
gallopt
to
the
place
where
he
attended
me
,
and
where
truly
I
was
receiv'd
by
that
great
man
,
with
a
civility
and
countenance
which
had
nothing
of
an
Enemy
and
Rival
;
I
salu●ed
him
with
an
high
respect
,
and
with
an
humility
proportionable
to
the
difference
of
our
qualities
;
but
I
could
not
suspend
that
just
hatred
I
had
contracted
against
his
barbarous
usage
,
to
a
perfection
greater
than
that
sin
;
which
the
seeing
him
so
infinitely
increast
,
that
had
I
not
remember'd
my
engagement
to
Scipio
,
I
had
then
either
ended
our
differences
,
or
my
life
;
but
whil'st
I
was
in
those
thoughts
,
they
were
interrupted
,
by
Hannibals
telling
me
,
Is
then
(
Perolla
)
your
Hate
greater
than
your
Love
,
that
you
abandon
your
Mistriss
,
to
prosecute
your
Rival
?
Or
has
that
high
justice
of
Izadora's
,
which
esteem'd
Hannibal
unworthy
of
her
,
taken
up
the
same
belief
of
you
?
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
that
affection
which
I
confess
is
an
injustice
for
the
fair
Izadora
to
confer
on
any
man
,
forces
me
to
seek
out
the
high
interrupter
of
it
,
which
yet
is
no
argument
that
my
desire
of
revenge
is
greater
than
my
flame
;
for
the
cause
being
alwayes
more
noble
than
the
effect
,
my
passion
,
which
makes
me
endeavor
to
vindicate
the
object
of
it
,
cannot
be
esteem'd
less
great
,
than
that
which
it
forces
me
unto
:
neither
could
I
by
any
one
action
render
my self
more
unworthy
the
beatitude
of
Izadora's
Love
,
than
in
not
declining
my
joys
,
to
revenge
her
wrongs
;
which
to
effect
,
I
will
fling
my self
into
dangers
,
as
high
as
those
pleasures
I
have
lately
abandon●d
.
Ah
young
man
(
said
Hannibal
)
thou
art
as
little
sensible
of
,
as
worthy
thy
felicity
:
Canst
thou
possess
Izadora's
Love
,
and
think
of
any
thing
besides
?
Were
I
in
thy
blest
condition
,
nor
Revenge
,
Empire
,
or
Glory
,
should
one
minute
separate
me
from
a
felicity
which
I
could
not
render
my self
more
unworthy
of
,
than
by
abandoning
:
nay
,
I
would
quarrel
with
any
thought
which
should
interpose
,
much
more
remove
me
from
it
:
but
since
thou
●ast
left
all
to
follow
thy
Revenge
,
if
thou
hast
the
courage
to
act
it
,
to
morrow
I
'll
present
thee
the
occasion
.
Oh
Gods
!
I
cry'd
out
,
if
I
have
the
courage
to
act
it
?
Alas
!
he
that
did
not
want
it
to
vindicate
an
injur'd
Empire
,
will
not
certainly
,
when
't
is
to
right
a
perfection
as
far
above
an
Empire
,
as
she
is
any
thing
else
that
's
mortal
.
Yes
,
Hannibal
,
thou
shalt
find
,
a
heart
that
's
fill'd
with
so
divine
an
image
,
cannot
be
capable
of
so
low
a
sin
as
Fear
;
but
on
the
contrary
,
't
will
inspire
me
with
resolution
enough
to
seek
thee
out
,
even
in
the
center
of
thy
Troops
.
I
will
(
said
Hannibal
)
spare
thee
that
pains
,
thou
shalt
find
me
at
the
head
of
them
,
where
I
will
more
handsomly
punish
those
miseries
thy
better
stars
have
cast
upon
me
,
and
by
thy
death
,
before
200000
witnesses
,
evince
,
thou
hadst
more
Fortune
than
Merit
in
thy
Love
;
and
by
destroying
the
object
of
Izadora's
flame
,
punish
her
ingratitude
to
mine
.
Do
but
(
I
reply'd
)
assault
my
life
in
so
generous
a
way
,
I
will
excuse
thy
attempt
upon
it
by
Oristes
,
and
never
implore
a
greater
certainty
for
the
punishment
of
thy
Crimes
,
than
to
have
thee
defend
them
with
thy
Sword
.
The
apprehension
I
had
(
continu'd
Perolla
)
that
my
passion
might
transport
me
beyond
my
promise
,
made
me
(
after
having
again
summon'd
Hannibal
of
his
engagement
)
gallop
away
to
the
Consul
,
who
I
found
(
by
an
excess
of
civility
)
was
become
the
Captain
of
my
Guards
,
as
I
had
been
of
his
;
he
made
me
too
,
that
generous
Compliment
:
and
after
I
had
by
an
humility
resembling
the
cause
of
it
,
exprest
my
gratitude
,
I
inform'd
him
(
as
we
were
returning
to
the
Camp
)
what
had
past
betwixt
my
Rival
and
me
,
whilst
he
was
doing
so
great
an
injury
to
his
quality
.
As
soon
as
we
were
come
within
sight
of
it
,
Massanissa
,
Lelius
,
and
all
the
most
considerable
Officers
,
came
to
meet
Scipio
,
who
told
them
with
a
look
which
relisht
of
Victory
,
that
the
Carthaginians
would
force
the
Romans
to
become
their
Lords
;
and
by
denying
them
a
part
of
their
Empire
,
give
them
a
title
to
the
whole
,
which
the
next
Sun
should
absolutely
decide
.
The
Numidian
King
,
and
all
the
rest
,
were
exceedingly
satisfi'd
with
this
News
;
for
they
were
confident
,
their
Swords
would
give
them
more
,
than
the
Carthaginians
.
The
day
therefore
no
sooner
appear'd
,
than
the
large
Plains
of
Nadagara
were
cover'd
with
Soldiers
,
from
which
place
the
ensuing
Battel
took
its
name
,
though
many
(
but
ignorantly
)
term'd
it
that
of
Zama
;
and
though
I
had
the
honour
to
have
been
in
most
of
the
signal
actions
of
my
time
,
yet
there
were
none
of
them
to
beequal'd
with
this
,
whether
you
reflect
upon
the
Generals
,
the
Armies
,
or
the
dispute
,
which
in
effect
was
to
decide
the
quarrel
betwixt
Rome
and
Carthage
.
Scipio
divided
his
Horse
in
two
wings
,
the
right
Massanissa
had
with
his
Numidians
,
under
whom
I
elected
to
serve
,
because
their
manner
of
Fight
gave
me
a
greater
probability
of
meeting
with
Hannibal
,
though
the
Consul
offer'd
me
the
command
of
the
flying
Regiment
,
which
consisted
of
1000
Roman
and
Sicilian
Gentlemen
;
the
left
Lelius
commanded
,
which
was
composed
of
the
Italian
Cavalry
:
The
first
Maniples
were
the
Hastati
,
the
next
the
Principes
,
the
third
the
Triarii
,
who
were
mutually
seconds
to
each
other
,
and
only
in
this
the
Consul
differ'd
from
the
usual
Roman
Discipline
;
for
he
plac'd
not
the
Maniples
of
his
Principes
,
opposite
to
the
Intervals
betwixt
the
Hastati
,
that
so
(
as
was
usual
)
they
might
fall
back
between
the
Principes
,
but
plac'd
them
directly
one
behind
the
other
,
as
it
were
in
File
,
which
was
of
singular
advantage
;
for
those
Elephants
that
charged
the
Romans
,
finding
a
free
passage
through
the
Intervals
,
never
broke
upon
the
Soldiers
,
which
it
seem'd
was
rather
their
constraint
,
than
their
choice
.
The
Consul
having
thus
drawn
up
his
Army
,
made
them
this
short
Speech
:
If
Glory
,
Revenge
,
and
the
Empire
of
the
world
,
are
capable
(
generous
Companions
)
to
bring
any
accession
to
your
Valors
,
in
this
Battel
,
as
in
their
centre
they
all
meet
,
you
safeties
too
are
included
in
it
,
for
in
this
barbarous
Climate
you
have
no
retreat
;
so
that
were
there
any
Cowards
amongst
you
,
they
must
find
their
security
in
their
hands
,
not
in
their
feet
:
For
my
own
particular
,
I
bless
the
Gods
that
have
made
it
my
Fate
,
to
be
after
this
day
uncapable
of
misery
,
for
Death
or
Victory
equally
secures
me
from
it
;
and
this
Battel
ended
,
you
may
quietly
possess
the
fruits
of
it
,
since
if
your
Swords
conquer
this
Nation
,
your
Fame
will
all
the
others
.
Remember
your
Enemies
last
action
in
Italy
,
was
the
violating
of
Sanctuaries
,
and
their
first
in
Africk
was
the
violating
of
Peace
:
so
that
their
Crimes
weigh
down
their
Arms
;
and
by
destroying
them
,
you
sacrifice
as
well
to
the
Gods
,
as
to
your
Revenge
.
Let
us
then
begin
the
Charge
,
and
let
it
be
vigorous
enough
,
to
make
them
acknowledge
,
that
their
sin
was
not
capable
of
transcending
their
punishment
;
that
by
flying
from
that
Peace
which
we
granted
them
,
they
have
as
much
injur'd
their
interest
,
as
their
honesty
;
and
force
the
Survivors
to
shed
as
many
tears
for
having
declin'd
honesty
;
and
force
the
Survivors
to
shed
as
many
tears
for
having
declin'd
our
mercy
,
as
they
did
to
obtain
it
.
Hannibal
too
was
not
unimploy'd
,
for
he
knew
this
day
was
to
perfect
,
or
ruine
his
glory
.
His
Elephants
(
which
were
above
Fourscore
)
he
plac'd
in
the
Front
of
his
Battalions
,
behind
these
was
his
Vanguard
(
all
Mercenaries
)
and
compos'd
of
Lygurians
,
Gaules
,
Baleares
and
Moors
,
his
Battel
then
follow'd
,
consisting
of
Carthaginians
,
and
other
Africans
,
more
concern'd
in
the
quarrel
,
but
not
so
valiant
maintainers
of
it
.
To
these
were
added
4000
Macedonians
,
under
the
command
of
Sopater
their
Captain
,
lately
sent
him
by
Philip
,
King
of
that
Warlike
people
.
More
than
a
Furlong
behind
these
last
Divisions
,
came
his
Rearguard
,
consisting
of
those
brave
Soldiers
which
had
serv'd
him
in
his
Italian
Wars
,
in
whose
virtue
only
he
was
confident
of
victory
.
His
right
wing
of
Horse
(
all
Carthaginians
)
was
led
by
Mircall
,
and
Barmocall
(
for
the
generous
Maharball
was
dead
.
)
Two
famous
Captains
,
Tycheus
and
Mezetullus
,
commanded
the
left
,
which
was
formed
of
Numidians
.
Hannibal
having
thus
order'd
the
Fate
of
Carthage
,
endeavour'd
by
few
,
but
powerful
words
,
to
elevate
and
increase
his
Soldiers
courages
;
to
the
Mercenaries
he
promis'd
rewards
,
as
great
as
the
quarrel
that
Battel
was
to
decide
.
To
the
Carthaginians
,
perpetual
slavery
and
chains
,
if
by
death
or
victory
,
they
did
not
avoid
those
misfortunes
.
But
to
his
old
Army
,
he
put
them
in
mind
of
all
that
Glory
they
had
won
,
when
their
Courages
effected
greater
wonders
,
than
would
be
necessary
that
day
:
'T
is
not
(
he
continu'd
)
your
General
alone
that
now
incites
your
Valors
,
't
is
Carthage
,
liberty
,
glory
,
your
wives
,
children
,
and
friends
,
that
speak
by
my
mouth
;
they
will
think
you
valu'd
Italy
above
all
these
,
if
you
had
courage
to
conquer
that
,
and
want
it
to
preserve
them
:
no
,
generous
Companions
,
shew
the
Senate
,
by
the
defeat
of
these
Romans
,
what
you
had
done
to
all
the
rest
,
had
your
Supplies
been
equal
to
your
Merit
;
and
convince
them
by
so
noble
an
Argument
,
of
your
virtue
,
and
of
their
neglect
of
it
.
Then
turning
towards
our
Army
,
he
told
them
,
Observe
whether
these
numbers
equal
those
at
Cannes
,
Trebia
,
Tecinum
,
or
Thracimene
;
alas
!
these
are
so
far
from
opposing
you
,
that
their
ruine
will
hardly
bring
any
accession
to
your
Glories
.
Remember
this
Scipio's
Father
was
the
first
Captain
we
beat
in
Europe
,
let
his
Son
be
the
first
we
beat
in
Africk
,
make
your
Successes
run
in
a
blood
,
his
Soldiers
will
contribute
to
this
design
;
for
they
are
the
Sons
of
those
Cowards
you
have
so
often
vanquisht
,
that
you
have
entail'd
fear
upon
their
Posterity
.
No
sooner
had
Hannibal
done
speaking
,
then
he
commanded
his
Numidian
Horse
to
begin
the
Battel
,
whereunto
they
were
invited
by
a
Thousand
Trumpets
,
Clairons
,
and
other
Warlike
Musick
:
The
Elephants
too
were
commanded
to
Charge
the
Romans
,
but
those
irrational
Creatures
seem'd
to
reprove
the
Carthaginians
with
their
violation
of
Faith
;
for
the
greatest
part
of
them
turn'd
head
,
and
extremely
disorder'd
their
own
left
wing
;
Massanissa
so
well
improv'd
so
unexpected
an
advantage
,
that
he
perfected
what
they
had
but
begun
.
The
rest
of
the
Elephants
(
which
were
faithful
to
their
own
side
)
made
a
horrid
execution
on
the
Roman
Velites
,
whom
they
Chased
through
the
Intervals
of
the
Maniples
;
yet
did
the
Battalions
no
prejudice
,
by
that
excellent
prevention
of
the
Consuls
,
which
I
formerly
mention'd
:
but
divers
of
those
moving
Castles
being
at
length
much
wounded
,
turn'd
head
,
and
ran
furiously
upon
their
own
right
wing
,
and
thereby
gave
Lelius
the
same
advantage
which
they
had
presented
Massanissa
,
and
which
he
as
well
improv'd
as
the
Numidian
King
.
In
the
mean
time
the
Battalions
of
Foot
of
either
Army
advanc'd
,
with
a
slow
and
confident
march
,
till
they
came
within
shot
,
but
then
giving
a
shout
which
made
the
Neighbouring
hills
to
tremble
,
they
ran
against
each
other
with
a
fury
worthy
their
dispute
;
at
first
,
the
barbarous
strength
of
the
Mercenaries
prevail'd
over
the
Roman
virtue
,
but
at
length
the
Roman
discipline
,
and
resolution
,
wrought
its
accustomed
effect
;
for
the
Principes
by
sustaining
the
Hastati
,
reliev'd
their
fear
,
and
disorder
;
but
as
soon
as
the
Mercenaries
retreated
,
the
new-rais'd
Africans
had
not
the
courage
to
second
them
,
which
the
other
sattributing
as
much
to
their
treachery
,
as
fear
,
began
to
flie
;
but
not
being
able
to
run
away
but
through
the
Intervals
of
the
A●ricans
,
those
either
to
punish
,
or
hinder
their
Cowardize
,
would
not
permit
them
that
way
of
safety
.
On
the
other
side
,
the
Gaules
,
and
Lygurians
,
by
not
being
seconded
,
and
by
then
being
oppos'd
,
thought
themselves
betray'd
;
and
esteeming
it
a
more
pleasing
Revenge
to
destroy
their
false
Friends
,
than
their
valiant
Enemies
,
made
use
of
those
Arms
against
the
Carthaginians
,
which
they
had
taken
up
for
them
;
which
disorder
the
Romans
soon
ended
,
by
involving
both
Parties
almost
in
a
general
ruine
.
I
have
(
said
Perolla
)
the
more
insisted
on
this
part
of
the
Battel
,
to
vindicate
the
justice
of
the
Gods
:
for
these
Forces
were
those
only
which
had
broke
their
Faith
,
and
Peace
;
and
they
only
were
those
against
whom
Fortune
so
visibly
fought
,
that
the
Romans
were
convinc'd
Victory
was
on
their
side
,
because
Justice
was
;
and
indeed
they
acted
their
success
with
so
much
ease
,
that
it
appear'd
the
work
of
the
gods
,
and
not
of
men
.
But
all
this
while
Hannibal
with
his
Italian
Army
stood
firm
,
and
charged
his
Pikes
and
Launces
against
those
Cowards
which
sought
their
safety
in
their
feet
,
so
that
they
were
necessitated
to
seek
their
deliverance
in
that
,
by
which
they
had
thitherto
found
it
.
Scipio
perceiving
those
gallant
Troops
,
with
as
little
fear
in
their
looks
,
as
hearts
,
Hannibal
too
at
the
head
of
them
,
and
the
ground
over
which
he
was
to
march
,
slippery
with
blood
,
and
incumber'd
with
dead
carcasses
,
was
in
a
great
apprehension
,
whether
marching
such
an
obstructed
way
,
his
Battalions
might
not
be
disorder'd
before
he
came
,
where
he
was
confident
they
would
most
stand
in
need
of
their
discipline
and
virtue
;
but
after
a
short
debate
with
himself
,
(
for
he
was
blest
with
an
excellent
presence
of
mind
)
not
to
lose
the
victorious
heat
his
Soldiers
were
in
,
he
commanded
the
Hastati
to
wade
slowly
through
that
Sea
of
blood
,
and
(
as
I
may
say
)
as
soon
as
they
were
Landed
,
to
draw
up
all
in
Front
,
and
if
Hannibal
offer'd
to
assault
them
before
the
Principes
,
and
the
Triarii
were
come
up
,
immediately
to
retreat
into
that
purple
flood
they
had
made
,
where
the
Carthaginians
might
share
the
inconveniences
of
the
ground
,
and
where
the
dead
Africans
would
assume
the
quarrel
of
the
gods
,
and
hinder
the
living
.
But
these
directions
,
though
they
abundantly
manifested
the
Consuls
Soldiery
,
yet
there
was
no
use
of
them
;
for
Hannibal
either
disdaining
all
advantages
from
those
dead
,
that
when
living
had
afforded
him
none
,
the
better
to
set
off
the
virtue
of
his
old
Army
,
or
the
distance
being
too
great
to
advance
and
charge
the
Hastati
,
before
their
companions
came
,
made
that
great
man
decline
it
,
and
so
Scipio
had
time
to
draw
his
Principes
and
Triarii
on
the
right
and
left
Flank
of
his
Hastati
;
which
was
no
sooner
effected
,
than
he
immediately
advanc'd
to
charge
an
Army
,
who
never
saw
any
defeats
but
those
they
had
given
the
Romans
,
and
where
he
was
so
entertain'd
,
that
it
made
the
precedent
fight
against
the
Mercenaries
,
and
Africans
,
appear
not
worthy
that
name
;
for
the
Romans
,
encouraged
with
their
numbers
and
success
,
and
their
Enemies
inflam'd
with
the
loss
of
their
companions
,
the
hazard
of
their
Empire
,
and
perhaps
with
the
glory
of
having
the
general
safety
left
to
their
Swords
,
so
mutually
fill'd
all
places
with
blood
and
horror
,
that
I
may
truly
say
,
the
World
was
well
disputed
,
and
Victory
was
so
equally
and
generously
courted
,
that
she
knew
not
which
side
to
elect
;
whereby
you
may
in
some
sort
conjecture
,
what
hazard
the
Roman
Empire
was
reduc'd
unto
,
by
the
too
violent
pursuit
of
Massanissa
and
Lelius
,
which
I
may
truly
say
,
I
first
discover'd
,
and
first
made
them
sensible
of
;
for
whilst
we
were
following
those
whose
low
resistance
made
them
unworthy
our
Arms
,
we
abandon'd
those
,
whose
resolutions
merited
our
assistance
,
and
whose
condition
needed
it
.
Massanissa
and
Lelius
were
so
far
from
condemning
my
confidence
,
that
they
acknowledg'd
their
fault
,
and
after
the
Battel
,
confest
unto
the
Consul
,
that
he
deriv'd
his
relief
from
my
care
,
(
this
I
tell
you
,
not
to
acquaint
you
with
my
virtue
,
but
to
shew
you
how
secure
they
were
in
their
own
.
)
I
will
omit
(
generous
Spartacus
)
informing
you
,
how
that
day
I
kill'd
two
A●rican
Captains
,
that
naming
themselves
Hannibal
,
by
deluding
me
into
a
false
Revenge
,
deluded
themselves
into
a
real
death
.
It
is
time
to
return
to
Scipio
,
who
,
perhaps
,
we
have
too
long
abandon'd
in
our
Story
,
as
well
as
in
the
Battel
;
that
great
man
,
at
our
arrival
with
all
our
Horse
,
was
upon
the
point
of
losing
a
Victory
,
by
our
having
prosecuted
one
too
far
.
To
be
brief
,
our
return
was
most
happy
,
and
in
a
needful
time
;
for
the
Carthaginian
had
so
well
continu'd
his
practice
,
that
he
had
left
Forces
enough
to
prosecute
his
dawning
success
,
and
drew
a
considerable
Body
(
as
well
for
their
number
,
as
virtue
)
to
oppose
Massanissa
and
Lelius
;
and
that
which
made
this
little
Army
the
more
formidable
,
was
,
that
Hannibal
himself
lead
them
:
the
gallantry
of
the
charge
was
proportionate
to
the
Soldiers
and
Generals
,
and
we
were
no
sooner
mingled
,
then
I
sought
him
amongst
the
press
,
who
had
promis'd
to
be
found
at
the
head
of
his
Troops
;
but
I
was
soon
reliev'd
from
that
employment
,
by
a
voice
which
I
heard
often
repeat
my
name
,
I
ran
with
excessive
joy
to
the
place
where
I
was
call'd
,
in
hope
that
it
might
be
Hannibal
;
I
soon
found
't
was
no
third
counterfeit
,
as
well
by
that
majestick
grace
he
had
under
his
arms
,
as
by
the
fury
of
his
blows
,
which
I
imagined
could
not
be
inspir'd
but
from
Revenge
and
Jealousie
.
Our
Javelins
working
no
effect
(
mine
glancing
upon
his
shield
,
flew
between
his
right
Arm
and
his
Body
,
and
his
past
hissing
by
my
ears
)
we
soon
made
use
of
our
Swords
,
and
were
so
equally
animated
,
that
our
rage
for
awhile
hinder'd
the
actings
of
it
;
but
not
to
hold
you
long
in
a
Combat
which
did
not
last
so
,
after
we
had
almost
cut
in
pieces
those
Armors
,
whose
goodness
we
mutually
curst
,
and
that
we
had
by
light
wounds
drawn
of
each
others
blood
,
Hannibal
who
apprehended
,
that
by
playing
too
much
the
part
of
a
Soldier
,
he
should
as
much
neglect
that
of
the
General
,
determin'd
by
a
powerful
reverse
to
end
both
the
dispute
,
and
his
life
,
that
was
the
cause
of
it
;
but
what
he
design'd
for
that
effect
,
might
have
had
a
contrary
one
,
for
the
blow
was
so
vigorous
,
that
by
chance
lighting
upon
a
piece
of
my
Helmet
,
it
broke
the
Sword
that
struck
it
,
and
left
nothing
in
Hannibal's
hand
but
the
Hilt
:
Though
a
piece
of
the
Sword
gave
me
a
deep
wound
in
my
left
shoulder
,
yet
I
no
sooner
saw
my
Enemy
〈◊〉
than
my
Anger
was
so
too
;
but
the
object
of
it
perceiving
his
misfortune
,
was
so
far
from
being
terrified
with
it
,
that
observing
I
declin'd
prosecuting
my
advantage
,
he
told
me
,
Why
dost
thou
not
(
Perolla
)
embrace
an
opportunity
which
Fortune
has
offer'd
thee
,
since
thou
canst
never
expect
an
advantage
over
me
,
but
on
such
a
score
?
Those
words
mov'd
me
a
little
,
but
not
so
much
as
his
condition
;
so
that
laying
aside
Izadora's
wrongs
,
my
Countries
,
and
my
own
,
I
reply'd
,
'T
is
not
(
Hannibal
)
from
Fortune
,
but
from
Justice
,
that
I
will
derive
my
Revenge
;
for
since
I
undertake
to
vindicate
an
injur'd
Innocency
,
I
must
make
use
of
no
wayes
,
but
those
as
virtuous
as
the
Subject
of
my
quarrel
:
Thy
attempt
on
my
life
by
Oristes
,
when
I
could
make
no
resistance
,
I
condemned
and
therefore
will
not
practice
a
resembling
Crime
;
since
to
imitate
so
low
a
sin
,
were
rather
to
authorize
,
than
punish
it
:
Go
then
,
and
at
our
next
meeting
get
a
better
Cause
,
as
well
as
Sword
;
for
if
the
first
be
the
same
,
the
latter
will
be
the
like
.
H●nnibal
made
me
some
Reply
,
which
by
the
tone
I
imagin'd
was
very
civil
,
but
I
gallopt
away
from
him
,
ending
those
words
,
(
lest
he
might
conjecture
I
obliged
him
,
to
make
him
my
Friend
,
and
lest
some
Romans
might
have
made
a
more
fatal
use
of
my
advantage
)
and
joined
my self
with
Massanissa
,
who
had
perform'd
miracles
that
day
,
which
(
in
a
word
)
concluded
with
an
entire
defeat
of
the
Carthaginians
,
22000
being
left
dead
upon
the
place
,
and
almost
half
as
many
Prisoners
taken
.
Scipio
in
the
midst
of
his
Troops
,
(
upon
Lelius
and
the
Numidian
Kings
information
)
came
and
embrac'd
me
with
transports
which
were
too
great
either
to
be
related
,
or
believed
,
and
then
ask'd
me
,
whether
I
had
met
with
my
own
and
our
Empires
greatest
Enemy
?
I
told
him
I
had
,
and
exchanged
some
blows
with
him
,
but
that
we
were
soon
separated
.
This
I
acknowledged
,
but
durst
not
acquaint
him
with
the
en●●●e
truth
,
lest
he
might
have
esteemed
that
an
offence
to
Rome
,
which
I
was
certain
was
not
one
to
Gallantry
;
and
on
the
other
side
,
Hannibal
,
either
not
to
own
his
misfortune
,
or
out
of
an
apprehension
,
that
the
discovering
of
his
safety
,
might
endanger
him
that
gave
it
,
ever
kept
it
private
,
which
was
the
cause
that
so
great
a
truth
was
not
a
publick
one
.
In
this
great
Battel
of
Nadagara
,
or
(
as
some
called
it
)
of
Zama
,
was
determined
the
fate
of
Carthage
,
though
Hannibal
avoided
that
dayes
ruine
,
having
performed
all
the
virtues
of
a
General
and
Soldier
;
and
where
to
speak
the
truth
,
't
was
(
as
he
said
)
more
the
gods
,
than
the
Romans
,
that
won
it
,
for
his
two
wings
of
Horse
were
routed
by
his
own
Elephants
;
and
had
he
been
blest
with
their
return
,
as
Scipio
was
with
Massanissa
and
Lelius's
,
he
had
probably
prosecuted
that
advantage
over
the
Consul
,
which
their
arrival
forc'd
from
him
;
Many
who
knew
his
temper
,
admir'd
,
and
ask'd
him
,
why
he
out-liv'd
that
loss
?
to
which
he
reply'd
,
That
the
Romans
might
not
too-much
glory
in
it
,
for
to
destroy
Carthage
and
Hannibal
in
one
day
,
would
have
made
them
proud
with
more
justice
,
than
they
could
be
condemn'd
for
being
so
;
that
to
deprive
his
Countrey
of
himself
,
was
to
doe
more
against
them
than
Scipio
had
,
who
might
lay
too
heavy
a
Peace
upon
Carthage
,
if
they
had
lost
Hannibal
and
their
Army
;
that
it
would
have
made
his
Countreys
condition
appear
more
desperate
than
it
was
,
if
he
had
lost
the
courage
of
not
seeing
it
,
and
that
perhaps
,
the
pride
of
Carthage
might
be
her
ruine
,
in
not
making
a
Peace
,
when
the
gods
had
abandon'd
her
,
which
he
knew
she
would
embrace
,
when
Hannibal
himself
advis'd
her
to
it
.
These
reasons
were
as
true
as
lo●ty
,
and
to
evince
they
were
not
excuses
but
realities
,
he
went
to
Cart●age
with
a
celerity
that
manifested
his
concernment
,
which
place
he
had
not
seen
from
his
Childhood
,
and
where
he
was
receiv'd
according
to
his
Virtue
,
not
Success
.
There
he
besought
them
to
leave
off
their
Tryumphs
,
since
the
gods
had
left
off
giving
them
the
occasions
;
and
that
immediately
they
would
conclude
a
Peace
with
Scipio
,
and
so
preserve
something
by
a
capitulation
,
lest
they
lost
all
by
declining
one
.
A
Senator
call'd
Gesco
,
who
thought
it
a
manifestation
of
Courage
indeed
,
to
shew
some
,
in
a
season
when
Hannibal
had
lost
it
,
began
to
incite
the
Senate
to
a
new
War
,
by
the
example
of
Rome
,
who
had
lost
her
Empire
,
had
she
lost
her
resolution
,
and
that
they
wanted
only
a
Roman
success
,
by
wanting
a
Roman
Magnanimity
.
But
Hannibal
inrag'd
to
hear
those
discourse
of
War
,
who
were
as
ignorant
of
,
as
unfit
for
so
dangerous
a
profession
;
and
were
only
like
Trumpeters
,
that
set
Men
by
the
Ears
by
their
breath
,
but
never
fight
themselves
,
arose
from
his
Seat
,
and
pull'd
down
Gesco
out
of
his
;
which
the
Senate
resenting
,
Hannibal
(
as
the
fair
Izadora
has
told
you
)
so
excellently
excus'd
himself
by
his
zeal
for
his
Countreys
safety
,
and
so
Pathetically
declaim'd
upon
the
making
of
a
Peace
,
that
he
obtain'd
an
excuse
for
the
former
,
and
invited
them
to
embrace
the
latter
;
This
was
the
cause
that
the
Consul
sailing
towards
Carthage
,
was
met
by
a
Gally
loaden
with
Carthaginian
Ambassadors
,
who
bearing
up
with
the
Admiral
,
and
using
the
gesture
of
Suppliants
,
were
commanded
to
wait
for
an
answer
at
Tunis
,
where
the
Consul
arriv'd
(
after
having
brav'd
the
proudest
City
of
the
world
with
his
Fleet
)
and
where
he
was
advertis'd
that
Vermina
,
the
Son
of
Syphax
was
advancing
towards
Carthage
,
with
a
good
body
of
Horse
,
either
to
bring
the
fate
of
that
City
to
a
new
Tryal
,
and
Field
,
or
protract
her
ruine
,
by
flinging
himself
within
her
Walls
.
This
Allarm
the
Consul
receiv'd
as
the
means
of
an
infallible
accession
to
his
Glory
;
and
because
he
had
employ'd
Lelius
to
Rome
,
with
the
news
of
his
Victory
,
and
that
Massanissa
in
the
gaining
of
it
,
had
receiv'd
some
wounds
,
which
might
have
render'd
his
march
against
Vermina
,
more
dangerous
than
the
Combate
,
Scipio
sent
for
me
,
and
though
I
believe
he
elected
me
,
because
of
those
two
great
Mens
being
uncapable
of
then
acting
;
yet
with
a
flattering
Complement
he
assur'd
me
,
his
choice
was
the
effect
of
his
judgement
,
and
not
his
necessity
,
that
he
commanded
me
to
go
against
this
Numidian
Prince
,
who
by
his
largest
intelligence
,
was
not
above
8000
;
that
he
had
selected
me
4000
choice
Horse
for
this
Expedition
,
suplying
the
defects
of
their
numbers
,
by
the
Gallantry
which
compos'd
them
,
and
that
he
gave
me
so
few
,
that
my
courage
might
be
the
more
conspicuous
.
I
will
not
tell
you
in
what
words
I
cloath'd
my
Gratitude
,
I
rather
was
covetous
to
express
it
by
my
actions
,
which
the
sooner
to
perform
,
I
went
to
the
Rendezvous
,
where
I
found
my
little
Army
ready
to
march
:
I
would
not
loose
that
good
disposition
they
were
in
,
but
having
assur'd
them
,
I
was
as
conscious
of
the
Consuls
injustice
in
putting
me
at
their
head
,
as
any
of
them
could
be
,
and
that
I
knew
them
so
perfectly
,
that
I
would
make
less
scruple
to
Serve
under
,
than
Command
over
them
:
I
immediately
sent
out
my
Forlorn-Hope
,
which
had
not
march'd
Ten
miles
,
e're
they
return'd
me
word
,
that
they
had
discover'd
the
Enemy
,
which
could
not
be
less
than
15000
Horse
.
I
told
the
Messenger
,
that
sure
they
had
seen
with
multiplying
Eyes
,
but
yet
the
greater
the
number
was
,
the
greater
the
Glory
,
and
then
desir'd
my
Body
to
continue
their
march
a
Foot-pace
,
and
with
twenty
Horse
I
gallop'd
to
the
place
where
my
Advertizers
were
,
where
again
they
confirm'd
their
first
intelligence
,
but
Vermina
had
so
cover'd
his
Army
,
that
I
could
not
possibly
satisfy
my
curiosity
,
by
my
Eyes
,
without
beating
in
a
Body
of
500
Numidians
,
which
I
elected
with
my
250
,
and
perform'd
.
The
fruits
of
that
little
success
,
was
the
discovery
of
our
Enemies
Army
,
which
I
found
,
was
rather
contracted
,
than
multiplied
by
my
first
Intelligences
,
this
had
startl'd
me
,
but
that
I
perceiv'd
in
my
little
Troop
,
an
augmentation
of
Courage
,
by
that
of
Danger
,
and
in
them
I
found
the
pattern
of
the
residue
,
to
whom
I
retreated
all
the
way
in
view
of
the
Enemy
,
that
prest
us
in
all
things
well
,
but
in
success
.
By
that
time
we
came
in
sight
of
our
Body
,
the
Sun
was
sett
,
and
Vermina
perceiving
so
many
Horse
,
took
them
for
the
Van
of
the
Consuls
Army
,
(
that
too
,
which
fortify'd
his
belief
,
was
,
his
own
strength
,
and
Scipio's
care
of
Intelligence
:
)
in
this
faith
he
makes
a
stand
,
and
judging
of
the
Cause
of
it
,
I
resolv'd
,
whilst
he
was
in
so
terrifying
a
belief
to
improve
it
to
the
best
advantage
,
in
order
to
which
I
sent
a
Soldier
of
mine
,
(
as
if
he
had
fled
from
me
)
to
let
Vermina
know
,
that
Hannibal
was
defeated
,
and
shut
up
within
the
Walls
of
Carthage
,
and
that
all
the
Roman
Army
was
ready
to
make
him
a
companion
of
his
Fortune
,
as
well
as
of
his
Cause
;
this
advertisement
was
given
just
as
I
fell
on
,
which
was
an
hour
before
day
,
for
I
would
not
give
it
him
sooner
,
lest
he
might
have
retir'd
,
and
had
the
benefit
of
the
whole
night
to
favour
his
retreat
;
I
sent
also
advertisement
to
Scipio
,
of
what
I
had
discover'd
,
and
that
he
might
think
't
was
my
Duty
,
and
not
my
Fear
produc'd
it
,
before
I
had
any
return
or
additional
Forces
,
I
began
the
Battel
.
The
obscurity
,
the
news
of
Hannibal's
defeat
,
and
the
belief
,
that
we
were
all
the
victorious
Roman
Army
,
excellently
contributed
to
our
advantage
,
though
the
Numidians
so
resolutely
disputed
the
difference
,
that
above
14300
found
their
Graves
,
where
they
thought
to
have
found
their
success
,
but
Vermina
himself
was
none
of
that
number
;
my
loss
was
about
900
,
and
I
receiv'd
a
slight
hurt
in
the
self
same
place
that
Hannibals
Sword
had
made
one
,
which
was
in
effect
,
but
opening
a
little
wider
,
that
which
was
not
yet
well
clos'd
up
,
and
consolidated
.
But
the
Allarm
of
the
Numidian
strength
no
sooner
came
to
the
Consul
(
who
was
then
visiting
Massanissa
)
than
that
valiant
Prince
,
who
merited
a
Kingdom
from
Rome
,
though
he
had
had
no
Title
to
one
,
caus'd
himself
to
be
led
to
his
Horse
,
and
though
Scipio
earnestly
disswaded
him
from
so
dangerous
a
Gallantry
,
yet
with
all
the
rest
of
the
Roman
Cavalry
,
and
some
Foot
,
he
advanc'd
to
my
assistance
.
I
know
not
whether
their
appearance
was
any
advantage
to
my
little
Army
,
(
for
they
came
in
sight
assoon
as
we
could
see
)
but
I
am
sure
their
actions
were
not
,
for
they
saw
us
Conquerors
asson
as
they
perceiv'd
us
:
and
their
generous
Commander
,
to
give
those
entirely
the
glory
that
had
won
it
,
would
not
so
much
as
permit
his
Soldiers
to
follow
the
Execution
,
or
to
share
in
that
spoil
,
which
had
been
purchas'd
at
the
expence
of
our
Bloud
.
Indeed
the
Pillage
was
great
,
and
their
civility
too
which
had
got
it
,
for
they
brought
me
a
proportion
,
that
might
have
as
much
satisfy'd
my
avarice
,
as
the
cause
of
their
being
so
liberal
,
did
my
honor
;
and
though
I
accepted
their
Present
,
it
was
only
to
deny
them
nothing
,
for
immediately
I
had
it
all
divided
amongst
those
Soldiers
,
whose
wounds
disenabled
them
to
seize
upon
what
they
had
purchas'd
by
them
;
This
just
distribution
wrought
so
powerfully
on
all
the
rest
,
that
they
thought
I
had
only
perform'd
that
action
,
to
shew
them
what
they
had
omitted
,
and
in
that
belief
,
they
made
amongst
themselves
new
Collections
,
of
as
great
a
value
as
the
former
,
which
they
begg'd
me
passionately
to
accept
,
for
(
as
they
alledg'd
)
't
was
unjust
I
should
devest
my self
of
what
was
my
due
,
to
repair
their
fault
;
This
Gallantry
from
common
Men
was
extraordinary
,
and
if
I
have
insisted
so
long
upon
't
,
't
was
to
acquaint
you
with
theirs
,
not
my
own
.
To
conclude
this
business
,
I
declin'd
the
repetition
of
their
Civility
,
and
though
it
were
in
terms
,
as
obliging
as
I
was
capable
of
,
yet
I
found
to
have
left
them
rich
,
was
to
have
injur'd
them
.
Massanissa
,
after
we
had
ended
the
Execution
,
came
to
embrace
me
,
and
to
be
civil
,
he
was
so
unjust
as
to
protest
,
that
though
Rome
had
made
him
a
King
,
and
Scipio
gave
him
the
Crown
,
yet
't
was
I
(
by
Vermina's
defeat
)
that
had
given
him
the
Kingdom
.
I
did
not
answer
this
Complement
,
lest
he
might
believe
I
was
so
vain
as
to
think
I
had
a
Title
to
it
.
I
cannot
tell
you
(
generous
Spartacus
,
)
all
the
Tryumphs
an●
Joys
at
the
Armies
return
,
since
alas
,
I
was
torn
from
them
by
a
storm
,
greater
than
the
reception
the
Consul
prepar'd
for
us
;
for
as
I
was
within
two
miles
of
the
Roman
Camp
,
a
Stranger
(
having
drawn
me
aside
as
I
was
riding
with
the
Numidian
King
)
told
me
,
if
I
were
at
leasure
to
hear
him
,
he
had
something
of
high
concernment
for
me
from
Izadora
,
who
had
expresly
sent
him
.
That
fair
Name
surpriz'd
me
,
and
made
me
use
the
Ambassador
from
such
a
perfection
,
with
Civilities
,
that
manifested
the
respect
I
paid
her
:
after
a
thousand
embraces
I
told
him
,
Yes
my
dear
Friend
if
you
come
from
the
fair
Izadora
,
I
am
not
only
at
leasure
to
hear
you
,
but
to
desert
all
the
Glory
of
the
Earth
for
that
of
obeying
her
Commands
.
You
will
(
said
the
Messenger
)
somewhat
confounded
with
those
Civilities
,
at
the
head
of
the
Army
)
receive
them
in
this
Paper
,
which
I
took
with
a
transcendent
greediness
and
devotion
,
and
having
open'd
it
,
found
it
contain'd
these
words
:
IZADORA
to
PEROLLA
.
BLacius
will
give
me
to
Flamminius
,
but
I
will
give
my self
to
Perolla
,
or
to
Death
,
if
the
former
will
have
me
,
he
must
return
suddainly
,
or
he
will
find
I
am
in
the
possession
of
the
latter
,
lose
no
time
then
(
generous
Friend
)
since
the
least
dealy
will
leave
you
nothing
to
love
of
Izadora
,
but
her
Memory
and
her
Constancy
.
No
no
(
I
cry'd
out
)
fair
Izadora
(
having
twice
read
this
Letter
)
I
will
lose
no
time
,
but
go
and
relieve
you
from
your
Fathers
Tyranny
,
or
by
my
death
,
remove
the
cause
of
it
;
then
turning
to
the
Messenger
,
I
told
him
,
come
(
my
Friend
)
I
am
ready
to
obey
you
,
and
Izadora's
Commands
,
and
the
gods
knowing
the
justice
of
my
obedience
,
will
doubtless
contribute
to
so
necessary
a
duty
.
Sir
(
he
reply'd
)
methink
,
as
yet
they
do
not
favour
your
desires
,
for
they
have
ty'd
you
to
celebrate
a
Tryumph
,
and
confin'd
you
to
Affrick
,
by
an
opposite
wind
.
Alas
(
said
I
,
interrupting
him
)
how
ill
thou
understandest
me
,
to
believe
that
Triumphs
or
the
Empire
of
the
World
,
can
one
minute
suspend
my
serving
the
fair
Izadora
:
Nor
those
,
nor
the
Winds
shall
stop
me
a
moment
;
I
'll
force
the
Sea
to
be
my
Friend
or
Ruine
,
by
perishing
,
in
attempting
of
my
Duty
.
Let
us
go
then
;
(
reply'd
Izadora's
Servant
)
That
Gally
which
transported
me
,
is
now
at
Tunis
,
and
expects
but
our
return
;
she
has
a
gallant
Ginge
,
and
nothing
but
a
storm
great
enough
to
swallow
us
,
shall
hinder
our
arrival
in
Italy
.
Thou
rejoycest
me
(
I
reply'd
)
for
the
best
fortune
next
to
our
intended
Harbor
,
is
a
wrack
:
go
then
and
prepare
all
things
,
that
we
may
set
to
Sea
within
this
hour
,
for
before
that
time
be
expir'd
,
I
'll
be
aboard
.
The
faithful
Messenger
without
reply
,
gallop'd
away
,
and
in
an
instant
,
in
a
cloud
of
Dust
we
lost
sight
of
him
.
But
my
Passion
for
her
that
merited
a
higher
,
was
so
great
,
that
till
the
fair
Izadora's
Servant
was
gone
,
I
took
no
notice
that
Massanissa
and
all
the
Army
had
made
a
stand
,
whilst
I
was
receiving
so
fatal
an
intelligence
;
to
repair
their
rudeness
(
which
nothing
could
excuse
but
the
cause
of
it
)
I
rid
up
to
the
Numidian
King
,
besought
him
,
and
who
had
known
the
effects
of
Love
,
from
the
fair
Sophonisba's
Eyes
,
to
pardon
those
which
proceeded
from
a
resembling
perfection
.
That
generous
Prince
,
at
the
name
of
Sophonisba
look'd
pale
,
and
sigh'd
,
and
then
told
me
,
he
was
sadly
skilful
enough
in
the
operation
of
Beauty
,
not
only
to
excuse
what
it
produc'd
,
but
was
bound
by
his
knowledge
of
those
effects
,
to
offer
all
his
assistance
to
them
;
and
therefore
he
begg'd
me
to
make
use
of
five
excellent
Gallies
of
his
,
which
lay
ready
behind
the
Promontory
of
Carthage
,
well
mann'd
,
both
for
the
Oar
and
the
Sword
;
that
if
Blacius
continu'd
his
Tyranny
,
I
might
have
wherewithal
to
disingage
Izadora
from
it
,
and
that
I
should
find
a
plentiful
Sanctuary
in
his
Kingdom
,
which
was
at
my
devotion
,
by
my
having
reduc'd
it
to
his
.
This
transcendent
Civility
I
declin'd
,
with
all
the
submission
I
was
capable
of
,
and
assur'd
him
,
that
it
was
by
more
humble
Arms
than
those
he
had
so
generously
offer'd
me
,
that
I
would
vanquish
Izadora's
Father
;
but
since
by
what
he
had
mention'd
,
he
gave
me
the
confidence
to
implore
something
of
him
,
I
would
make
use
of
those
humble
Prayers
,
to
beseech
him
to
Apologize
for
me
to
the
Consul
,
for
my
i●stant
departure
,
since
an
hours
delay
might
be
the
Eternal
ruine
of
a
Virtue
,
greater
than
ever
yet
had
shin'd
on
earth
;
that
my
crime
was
the
more
extenuated
by
my
resigning
those
Forces
he
trusted
me
with
,
to
the
great
Massanissa's
care
,
and
after
they
had
obey'd
his
Commands
.
That
virtuous
Prince
undertook
what
I
implor'd
,
and
bid
me
not
doubt
but
Scipio
would
listen
to
all
excuses
of
Love
from
him
,
but
to
those
which
concern'd
himself
:
he
spoke
these
last
words
in
high
disorders
,
which
the
Consuls
sad
Commands
concerning
the
fair
Sophonisba
had
created
.
From
Massanissa
I
went
to
make
my
excuse
to
those
Troops
I
had
commanded
,
who
exprest
as
much
sadness
for
the
cause
of
my
departure
,
as
for
my
abandoning
them
.
Some
of
them
were
so
gallant
,
as
to
offer
me
their
Swords
and
Lives
,
(
which
they
might
dispose
of
,
being
all
Voluntiers
.
)
I
would
not
make
use
of
so
obliging
a
proffer
,
but
having
declin'd
it
upon
the
same
score
I
had
Massanissa's
,
I
immediately
took
leave
,
and
only
follow'd
by
Strato
,
I
soon
lost
sight
of
the
Army
,
and
recover'd
Tunis
,
where
I
found
my
Gally
had
weigh'd
Anchor
,
and
stay'd
upon
her
Oars
for
my
arrival
.
As
soon
as
I
came
aboard
,
I
animated
the
Slaves
by
Gifts
,
and
Promises
of
excessive
rewards
,
and
in
the
joy
of
those
hopes
,
they
chearfully
began
the
voyage
;
but
we
had
not
crost
half
the
Sea
,
which
separates
Carthage
from
Naples
,
when
a
●urious
Northern
wind
began
to
whistle
so
hollow
,
and
so
loud
,
that
though
it
rais'd
a
storm
of
it self
,
yet
we
knew
it
was
but
the
fore-runner
of
a
greater
,
which
soon
follow'd
,
with
such
extremity
,
that
the
Mariners
,
and
Slaves
,
were
as
much
troubled
as
the
Sea
,
and
as
deaf
to
all
my
Prayers
,
of
continuing
their
Navigation
,
as
the
Wind.
But
at
length
,
finding
the
Pilot
had
put
the
Gally
before
the
Wind
,
and
was
steering
for
Tunis
,
I
ran
to
him
,
and
presenting
my
Sword
to
his
Breast
,
I
vow'd
by
many
horrid
Oaths
,
that
if
he
did
not
change
his
Course
,
whatever
become
of
the
Gally
,
he
should
immediately
receive
his
Fate
.
That
which
too
increast
the
horror
,
was
an
Ecclipse
of
the
Moon
,
which
those
Superstitious
ignorant
Souls
,
attributed
to
a
divine
forewarning
of
their
wrack
,
and
not
to
a
natural
Cause
;
but
I
had
(
whilst
study
was
my
employment
)
so
great
propensity
to
Astronomy
,
and
made
some
such
progress
in
it
,
that
I
knew
perfectly
the
cause
and
duration
of
Eclipses
,
and
having
by
a
former
calculation
found
out
how
long
this
would
continue
,
what
with
my
threatenings
,
what
with
my
engagements
to
them
,
that
if
the
Moon
did
not
recover
her
former
Luster
(
which
I
said
she
had
only
lost
,
in
horror
,
and
detestation
of
their
fear
)
within
three
hours
,
I
would
be
content
to
return
with
them
:
I
made
the
trembling
Pilot
tack
about
,
and
the
gods
of
the
Wind
,
and
Sea
,
with
the
Queen
of
Love
,
who
sprung
from
that
Element
,
so
favour'd
my
resolution
(
which
had
for
end
,
the
relieving
of
a
Beauty
as
fair
as
she
,
and
which
presented
her
more
votaries
than
all
the
residue
of
her
Sex
)
that
after
the
Moon
within
the
time
limited
,
had
assum'd
her
former
light
,
by
a
friendly
South
Wind
,
we
safely
arriv'd
in
two
days
at
Naples
;
where
leaving
Izadora's
Servant
,
next
night
I
came
Post
to
this
City
,
but
in
disguise
,
lest
the
rumour
of
my
arrival
might
prejudice
the
intention
of
it
.
Immediatly
after
I
lighted
,
I
went
towards
Blacius's
House
,
to
learn
by
what
intelligence
I
could
get
,
how
to
form
my
resolutions
;
and
though
there
was
no
light
in
the
streets
,
but
what
the
Lamps
of
the
Shops
and
Windows
did
afford
,
yet
as
I
was
passing
by
that
House
Pacuvi●s
us'd
to
dwell
in
;
I
heard
a
Gentleman
that
stood
at
the
door
,
tell
his
Companion
,
either
I
am
infinitely
mistaken
,
or
that
is
Perolla
which
is
going
by
;
t'other
being
of
his
opinion
,
they
immediately
follow'd
,
and
overtook
me
,
and
so
confidently
call'd
me
by
my
name
,
that
I
could
not
well
deny
it
;
neither
indeed
would
I
at
any
time
have
deny'd
it
to
them
for
they
were
two
of
those
intimate
Friends
,
which
had
helpt
me
to
force
Hannibal's
Prisons
,
when
Blacius
was
in
them
.
I
was
as
much
astonisht
at
the
weakness
of
my
disguise
,
as
to
find
my
friends
without
any
,
in
a
place
where
Blacius
commanded
,
but
they
silenc'd
that
wonder
by
a
greater
;
their
assurance
that
my
Father
was
too
in
Salapia
;
That
the
Senate
,
(
after
Hannibals
abandoning
Italy
)
had
sent
him
a
Pardon
for
his
Estate
and
Life
,
and
were
so
generous
,
as
to
attribute
that
favour
to
those
services
(
they
said
)
his
Son
had
done
their
Empire
:
That
the
Garison
of
Salapia
was
disbanded
,
and
things
were
in
the
same
posture
they
had
been
in
,
before
the
Carthaginian
crost
the
Alps.
All
this
I
heard
with
astonishment
,
but
being
uncapable
of
any
concern
,
but
my
greatest
,
I
conjur'd
my
Friends
to
preserve
me
unknown
,
to
provide
me
a
private
Lodging
in
one
of
their
Houses
,
and
to
permit
me
awhile
to
prosecute
an
intended
design
.
All
this
(
but
the
last
)
they
promis'd
,
and
seeming
to
know
the
scope
of
that
,
they
begg'd
me
passionately
to
be
sharers
(
and
serve
me
)
in
it
:
this
I
as
passionately
declin'd
,
and
having
taken
a
hasty
leave
of
them
,
I
went
alone
directly
to
Blaciu's
House
,
which
finding
open
,
(
guided
by
my
Ear
)
I
came
into
a
large
room
,
almost
fill'd
with
company
,
that
then
were
Dancing
a
Ball
,
and
where
the
croud
of
Lookers
on
was
so
thick
,
that
for
a
good
while
I
could
not
come
to
see
those
particulars
that
compos'd
it
;
but
as
soon
as
I
did
,
the
first
object
I
saw
,
was
Izadora
,
drest
in
all
the
shinings
of
a
Bride
,
and
with
a
Face
as
full
of
content
,
as
't
was
of
Charms
.
Judge
(
Sir
)
continu'd
Perolla
,
speaking
to
my
Prince
)
what
a
perplexity
this
sight
did
cast
me
into
,
but
after
the
first
disorders
of
it
was
lessen'd
,
imagining
what
I
knew
to
be
a
reality
,
was
an
illusion
,
I
enquir'd
of
a
Gentleman
that
stood
by
me
,
what
was
the
occasion
of
so
celebrated
a
meeting
:
He
(
without
considering
any
thing
but
my
Cloaths
)
answer'd
me
briskly
;
of
what
Countrey
art
thou
Friend
,
that
art
ignorant
of
it
?
I
told
him
I
was
one
that
dwelt
not
far
off
,
and
that
passing
along
the
Street
,
having
heard
excellent
Musick
,
I
had
permitted
my
Ear
to
guide
me
,
and
was
come
to
hear
it
,
but
finding
some
things
that
pleas'd
my
Eyes
as
well
,
I
was
desirous
to
satisfy
them
too
,
and
by
his
favour
to
learn
their
Names
that
did
it
.
Since
thou
art
a
Stranger
indeed
(
he
reply'd
)
I
will
,
to
the
best
of
my
knowledge
,
inform
thy
curiosity
,
assoon
as
thou
acquaintest
me
with
it
.
I
would
then
(
said
I
)
beseech
you
to
tell
me
,
who
that
Gentleman
is
which
goes
so
richly
drest
,
and
that
becomes
his
Cloaths
so
well
?
'T
is
(
he
reply'd
)
Flaminius
,
who
is
this
night
to
possess
that
Beauty
(
pointing
at
Izadora
)
which
cannot
be
greater
than
his
merit
.
Oh
gods
(
said
Perolla
,
interupting
himself
)
you
only
know
my
disorders
at
so
fatal
an
intelligence
,
but
lest
the
Gentleman
should
,
the
better
to
conceal
them
,
I
begg'd
him
to
let
me
know
that
Beauties
Name
?
'T
is
Izadora
(
he
reply'd
)
I
have
heard
(
said
I
)
that
Izadora
,
(
if
this
be
the
same
)
was
so
engag'd
to
Pacuvius's
Son
,
both
by
Inclination
and
Services
,
that
he
only
should
have
married
her
.
'T
was
,
the
Gentleman
answer'd
,
generally
believ'd
so
,
and
I
am
sure
her
Father
has
been
sufficiently
oblig'd
to
him
,
to
make
the
gift
of
his
Daughter
the
evincement
of
his
Gratitude
;
but
either
her
Inconstancy
,
or
Blacius's
hatred
,
is
the
cause
of
these
Nuptials
,
though
for
my
part
,
I
attribute
them
to
the
former
,
for
methinks
her
Face
is
too
full
of
joy
,
to
believe
her
Heart
is
possest
with
a
contrary
passion
;
yet
believe
me
,
Friend
(
he
continu'd
)
this
Marriage
will
end
in
Tears
,
for
I
know
Perolla's
courage
too
well
,
to
be
ignorant
of
what
his
resentments
will
be
in
such
an
affront
,
and
therefore
I
could
gladly
wish
the
gallant
Flaminius
had
plac'd
his
Passion
on
an
object
,
as
fit
for
that
honour
in
all
things
,
as
this
is
in
Beauty
.
I
could
not
hear
these
sad
words
,
without
some
sighs
stealing
from
my
Breast
,
which
he
that
caus'd
them
,
observing
,
ask'd
me
the
occasion
.
I
told
him
coldly
,
't
was
to
find
that
the
god
's
bestow'd
the
blessing
of
Beauty
,
without
that
of
Constancy
,
which
was
in
effect
to
lay
snares
for
Mens
destruction
;
but
to
take
him
off
from
considering
me
,
and
to
learn
whether
there
were
any
suspitions
,
or
belief
of
my
being
in
Salapia
,
I
besought
him
to
tell
me
where
Parolla
was
,
for
I
could
not
but
think
it
strange
,
if
her
were
a
Man
of
Courage
,
that
he
did
not
employ
his
,
to
vindicate
such
a
wrong
Alas
(
he
reply'd
)
the
poor
Gentleman
I
believe
,
is
so
happy
,
as
to
be
ignorant
of
his
misfortune
:
He
is
now
in
A●frick
,
where
he
has
obtain'd
within
these
few
days
,
a
great
Victory
against
Vermina
(
the
Son
of
Syphax
)
who
it
seems
,
is
successor
to
his
Fathers
misfortunes
,
and
consequently
not
to
his
Kingdom
:
this
I
was
even
now
told
by
a
Gentleman
that
came
from
the
Roman
Camp
before
Perolla
was
return'd
unto
it
,
who
I
believe
when
he
hears
Izadora's
Inconstancy
,
will
curse
his
Fate
,
that
he
did
not
find
his
Death
,
where
he
found
his
Victory
;
but
I
am
still
of
opinion
,
that
he
which
takes
Perolla's
Mirtles
,
whilst
he
is
gathering
Laurel
,
will
shortly
find
them
turn'd
to
Cyprus
,
unless
the
forsaken
Lover
will
esteem
Flaminius
possessing
a
Woman
of
as
much
Inconstancy
,
as
Beauty
,
a
sufficient
punishment
:
I
cannot
tell
you
the
disorders
I
was
in
at
these
strange
discourses
,
but
I
can
perfectly
tell
you
,
that
had
not
he
which
made
them
,
been
more
intent
in
considering
the
company
,
than
to
whom
they
were
addrest
,
he
had
certainly
discover'd
me
;
but
as
I
was
about
to
retire
to
form
my
resolutions
,
(
which
I
could
not
do
whilst
I
saw
Izadora
,
and
Flaminius
,
)
I
heard
a
fresh
Consort
of
Musick
,
which
presently
usher'd
in
a
Youth
in
a
Saffron
Coat
,
a
Crown
of
Roses
on
his
Head
,
and
an
unlighted
Torch
of
Pine
in
his
Hand
.
This
I
knew
was
a
representation
of
Hymen
,
who
is
the
Deity
of
our
Italian
Nuptials
,
and
his
appearing
made
me
soon
learn
,
that
the
intended
Marriage
was
suddainly
to
be
consummated
.
I
withdrew
my self
in
the
horror
of
such
a
sight
,
and
having
observ'd
,
Callione
(
Izadora's
Confident
)
was
not
amongst
the
other
Ladies
,
being
perfectly
knowing
in
the
passages
of
Blacius
House
,
I
stole
up
to
her
Chamber
,
to
be
inform'd
of
my
destiny
;
for
though
I
saw
her
fair
Mistriss
(
as
it
were
)
in
my
Rivals
Arms
and
Embraces
,
yet
I
attributed
my
misery
to
all
Causes
,
rather
than
to
her
Infidelity
;
which
if
by
a
miracle
I
should
learn
from
Callione
,
she
was
capable
of
,
I
was
determin'd
to
change
the
Marriage
into
a
Funeral
,
by
killing
the
Bridegroom
first
,
and
then
his
Murtherer
at
Izadora's
feet
.
But
Madam
(
continu'd
Perolla
,
with
an
humble
gesture
,
and
accent
)
though
I
have
as
often
begg'd
and
obtain'd
your
pardon
for
this
Crime
,
as
I
have
mention'd
it
,
yet
I
must
still
continue
that
practice
;
for
to
think
't
was
in
the
power
of
a
miracle
for
you
to
be
one
,
in
any
thing
but
Perfection
,
is
a
sin
greater
than
all
things
,
but
the
Mercy
which
has
forgiven
it
:
In
confidence
that
you
have
so
again
,
which
I
implore
with
an
humility
as
transcendent
as
my
offence
,
I
will
prosecute
my
Relation
,
which
was
so
necessarily
interrupted
at
my
going
to
Callione's
Chamber
,
where
finding
the
Door
shut
,
but
not
lock'd
,
I
gently
open'd
it
,
and
looking
in
,
perceiv'd
there
was
no
Light
in
the
Chamber
,
but
that
there
was
some
in
a
Closset
contiguous
to
it
;
thither
I
softly
went
and
looking
through
a
Crevice
of
the
Door
,
I
saw
Callione
leaning
upon
the
Table
,
with
a
Bole
befor
▪
her
,
over
which
she
wept
Tears
enough
to
have
fill'd
it
:
so
high
a
melancholly
in
a
House
where
nothing
(
any
where
else
)
was
visible
but
joy
,
extreamly
surpriz'd
me
;
but
I
was
much
more
when
I
heard
her
say
to
her self
;
What
Callione
,
canst
thou
then
be
faithful
to
Izadora
,
when
thy
Fidelity
is
a
Crime
?
and
when
she
makes
use
of
thy
affection
for
so
fatal
an
end
,
as
to
become
her
Murtherer
?
No
,
no
,
Perolla
doubtless
will
be
more
satisfied
to
find
her
in
the
Arms
of
Flamminius
,
than
in
those
of
Death
;
especially
since
her
being
the
former
,
was
her
misfortune
,
not
her
design
:
He
will
too
console
himself
in
the
knowledge
of
my
Treachery
,
and
pardon
it
,
since
't
was
to
preserve
,
what
his
delay
only
ruin'd
:
but
(
alas
,
she
continu'd
,
after
a
small
silence
)
thou
speak'st
Callione
,
as
if
hind'ring
her
Fate
in
this
Nuptial
Bole
,
would
hinder
it
till
the
hand
of
Age
impos'd
it
:
No
,
she
that
has
resolution
enough
to
receive
Poison
into
her
Breast
,
will
not
want
it
to
plant
a
Ponyard
there
,
when
the
first
has
fail'd
:
What
wilt
thou
do
then
,
unfortunate
Callione
?
to
obey
thy
Mistriss
is
to
become
her
Executioner
,
and
not
to
do
it
,
is
to
make
her
become
her
own
,
after
the
gods
too
(
by
a
Holy
tye
)
has
left
her
no
disposal
of
her self
,
and
thereby
must
act
her
murther
,
by
almost
as
high
a
Sin
;
she
must
dye
too
,
Flamminius's
and
not
Perolla's
,
and
must
detest
thee
as
much
as
she
will
Life
.
Oh
gods
(
Callione
continu'd
)
you
that
have
brought
me
into
this
Labyrinth
,
lead
me
out
of
it
,
and
do
not
destroy
a
perfection
,
which
suppresses
Atheism
,
for
nothing
can
create
,
but
must
be
more
perfect
than
what
it
creates
,
and
to
be
more
perfect
than
Izadora
,
is
to
be
without
doubt
a
Deity
.
The
fair
Calliones's
Tears
for
a
while
,
interrupted
her
words
,
but
the
confu●ion
they
wrought
in
me
(
I
attest
,
the
same
gods
she
invok'd
)
was
so
great
,
that
I
was
in
hope
,
what
betwixt
that
and
grief
,
I
should
never
more
have
been
capable
of
any
:
but
those
that
form
our
Destinies
,
made
not
mine
so
favourable
,
for
they
render'd
my
Heart
stronger
than
my
Misery
,
and
by
that
time
they
had
perfectly
restor'd
me
my
Senses
,
I
heard
Callione
thus
assume
her
discourse
.
Yes
fair
Izadora
,
I
will
obey
your
Commands
,
the
Nuptial
Cup
shall
be
poison'd
,
but
you
shall
not
take
it
,
for
I
will
go
and
acquaint
Blacius
with
your
resolves
,
who
shall
hinder
them
in
such
way
,
that
you
will
attribute
his
care
,
rather
to
his
doubts
,
than
knowledge
;
perhaps
your
despair
may
more
work
on
him
,
than
your
Tears
have
done
,
and
when
he
finds
you
elect
Death
before
Flamminius
,
he
may
let
Perolla
supply
his
place
.
No
Callione
(
I
reply'd
,
knocking
at
the
door
)
Perolla
knows
the
gods
,
and
Izadora
too
well
,
to
believe
the
former
have
ordain'd
me
the
latter
;
if
I
am
come
,
't
is
to
contribute
to
,
not
interrupt
the
Marriage
.
Yes
,
yes
,
I
am
resolv'd
to
give
Izadora
up
all
her
vows
,
they
have
been
too
much
her
torment
,
for
me
to
continue
their
possession
;
but
if
she
be
too
generous
to
receive
them
by
a
resignation
,
I
will
present
them
to
her
by
my
death
.
Callione
hearing
my
voice
,
(
after
a
little
trembling
,
)
open'd
the
Door
,
and
her
Eyes
had
no
sooner
confirm'd
the
Intelligence
of
her
Ears
,
than
she
cry'd
out
;
Is
it
you
indeed
Perolla
,
alas
,
what
Tears
has
your
absence
cost
us
?
you
cannot
guess
them
,
but
by
the
joy
of
your
return
,
which
revives
my
hopes
,
for
the
gods
are
not
so
cruel
to
send
you
to
be
a
spectator
,
but
a
reliever
of
our
Miseries
.
Thereupon
,
after
some
other
discourses
of
this
quality
,
to
satisfy
my
intreaties
,
she
told
me
;
That
Flamminius
,
a
Roman
Gentleman
,
who
had
no
fault
,
but
too
transcendent
a
Passion
for
Izadora
,
had
seen
her
one
day
in
the
Temple
,
where
from
adoring
an
invisible
Deity
,
he
ador'd
a
mortal
of
as
much
perfection
;
and
being
as
great
in
the
Riches
of
Fortune
,
as
of
Nature
,
had
by
some
Senators
(
expresly
come
from
Rome
)
propounded
his
alliance
to
Blacius
,
who
meeting
in
him
all
things
worthy
it
,
and
your
absence
contributing
a
favourable
opportunity
,
greedily
embrac'd
the
motion
,
and
Flamminius
began
his
addresses
,
with
so
charming
a
Grace
,
and
Humility
,
that
nothing
transcended
both
,
but
Izadora's
Constancy
,
which
is
not
to
be
extinguish'd
,
but
with
her
Life
.
I
cannot
tell
you
how
diligent
she
was
to
discover
an
imperfection
in
her
Servant
,
that
might
have
render'd
her
declining
him
,
an
action
of
as
much
reason
to
her
Father
,
as
it
was
to
her
:
't
is
too
much
you
know
,
that
though
she
had
you
for
her
pattern
,
I
tell
you
,
said
Perolla
,
her
flattering
expression
,
yet
she
could
find
no
fault
in
him
,
but
that
in
which
he
resembl'd
you
most
;
I
mean
the
greatness
,
and
unmoveableness
of
his
Love
;
in
this
misfortune
,
to
declare
the
good
opinion
she
had
of
his
Virtue
,
and
to
be
convinc'd
of
the
reality
of
it
by
an
experiment
,
one
day
she
freely
acquainted
him
with
all
your
Loves
,
and
how
fully
he
might
be
satisfi'd
of
the
fixtness
of
her
Passion
,
since
he
could
not
remove
it
;
that
therefore
she
implor'd
him
to
render
that
an
effect
of
his
Generosity
,
which
else
would
be
one
of
her
Constancy
;
and
that
he
would
turn
his
Love
into
Friendship
,
since
she
was
as
ambitious
of
that
,
as
uncapable
of
the
other
.
These
words
so
mov'd
the
generous
Flamminius
,
that
his
Bloud
ran
all
to
preserve
the
seat
of
Life
,
his
Eyes
were
fix'd
in
his
Head
,
his
Tongue
was
moveless
,
and
suddainly
he
fell
so
at
Izador's
feet
,
who
in
a
fright
,
ran
out
,
and
call'd
me
in
to
her
assistance
;
both
ours
prov'd
so
powerful
,
that
after
a
quarter
of
an
hour
,
Flamminius
came
to
himself
,
and
having
immediately
begg'd
Izadora's
Pardon
for
the
incivility
of
his
indisposition
,
he
only
told
her
;
That
either
He
or
Death
would
obey
her
Commands
;
and
then
retir'd
to
his
Lodging
,
where
,
what
reasons
he
rais'd
against
his
Passion
,
I
am
ignorant
of
,
though
not
of
the
strange
effects
they
produc'd
,
for
two
or
three
days
after
,
he
came
to
visit
Izadora
,
where
he
was
hardly
known
,
and
where
constantly
afterwards
,
if
she
were
alone
,
he
never
mention'd
any
thing
of
his
Passion
,
but
would
only
look
fix'dly
upon
her
,
fold
his
Arms
,
and
groan
,
and
say
he
was
not
yet
Conqueror
.
But
if
Blacius
were
there
,
he
would
court
Izadora
with
a
countenance
as
full
of
joy
,
as
his
heart
was
empty
of
it
,
and
if
he
admir'd
at
Flamminius
pining
away
,
he
protested
't
was
an
inward
disease
,
but
not
one
of
the
mind
,
nor
of
Izadora's
neglect
.
This
was
his
practice
for
twenty
days
,
the
Night
of
the
last
,
he
came
again
to
visit
Izadora
,
and
in
Sighs
,
and
some
Tears
,
implor'd
his
Pardon
for
his
Passion
,
Importunities
,
and
so
long
disobedience
;
and
protested
that
he
would
shortly
so
vindicate
her
,
on
himself
,
that
she
should
acknowledge
her
Interests
,
and
satisfaction
,
were
much
dearer
to
him
,
than
his
own
.
Flamminius
after
those
assurances
without
any
more
words
,
immediately
withdrew
himself
,
and
the
next
intelligence
we
had
of
him
,
was
,
that
he
kept
his
Bed
,
of
a
disease
,
whose
nature
the
Physitians
were
as
ignorant
of
,
as
of
the
cure
;
and
that
though
Blacius
,
by
many
reiterated
,
and
passionate
conjurations
,
begg'd
again
to
know
,
whether
Izadora's
coldness
were
not
the
efficient
cause
of
his
sickness
,
yet
he
could
never
receive
any
other
answer
,
but
that
she
was
not
,
at
least
if
the
gods
impos'd
not
that
affliction
on
him
,
for
so
aspiring
a
Passion
.
Six
days
Flamminius
Feaver
was
so
violent
,
that
he
despair'd
not
the
Seventh
(
which
in
that
disease
was
the
first
critical
day
)
but
to
be
able
to
obey
Izadora
.
Therefore
calling
to
him
a
Page
of
his
,
who
was
his
Confident
,
he
commanded
him
to
bring
him
some
Paper
,
on
which
,
(
though
with
much
difficulty
)
he
writes
these
few
lines
;
FLAMMINIVS
to
the
fair
IZADORA
.
HE
that
lov'd
,
where
he
should
have
but
ador'd
,
to
repair
his
Sin
,
from
your
Lover
,
makes
himself
your
Martyr
.
Let
your
resentments
,
(
fair
Izadora
)
dye
with
the
object
of
them
,
and
be
so
merciful
as
to
believe
,
I
find
more
satisfaction
in
Death
,
since
't
is
the
effect
of
my
obedience
,
than
I
can
in
life
,
having
lost
the
hopes
of
what
my
ambition
desir'd
,
and
your
justice
deny'd
me
.
THis
Letter
being
seal'd
,
he
commanded
the
faithful
Youth
,
by
all
the
strictest
tyes
he
could
invent
,
to
deliver
it
with
his
own
hands
,
and
without
any
witness
,
to
her
to
whom
it
was
addrest
;
For
if
Blacius
,
or
any
other
,
discover'd
what
it
contain'd
,
he
should
spend
those
few
hours
he
had
to
live
,
inso
much
despair
,
and
horror
,
that
those
torments
would
almost
equal
Izadora's
hate
.
Judge
(
Perolla
)
if
ever
Gallantry
was
rais'd
to
a
greater
height
,
than
to
have
so
particular
a
care
for
the
preservation
of
one
's
own
destruction
,
and
whether
you
have
not
cause
to
glory
in
possesing
a
Beauty
,
which
could
produce
such
rare
effects
,
and
in
a
Constancy
that
was
not
mov'd
with
them
;
at
least
,
no
further
than
Pity
could
extend
.
I
answer'd
(
continu'd
Perolla
)
Callione's
words
only
with
a
deep
sigh
,
that
the
reflection
of
having
been
cursed
with
one
Rival
,
too
full
of
Power
,
and
another
too
full
of
Virtue
,
drew
from
me
,
which
made
her
thus
continue
.
But
though
the
circumspection
of
the
Master
,
and
the
Servant
was
great
yet
it
was
fruitless
,
for
having
deliver'd
Izadora
the
Letter
,
as
privately
as
he
was
directed
,
Blacius
,
who
always
suspected
Flamminius
denials
,
proceeded
rather
from
his
goodness
,
than
his
Truth
,
and
who
observ'd
an
admirable
vigilancy
over
Izadoras
actions
,
was
no
sooner
advertis'd
of
the
Pages
coming
to
his
House
,
than
he
stole
to
his
Daughters
Chamber
,
who
had
scarcely
read
her
Lovers
fatal
generosity
,
but
she
fell
a
deploring
it
with
Tears
,
and
in
so
great
disorders
,
that
in
the
heighth
of
them
,
Blacius
surpriz'd
her
with
the
cause
in
her
hands
,
which
he
violently
snatcht
from
hers
,
and
having
perus'd
it
,
contracted
so
transcendent
a
rage
for
her
to
whom
it
was
sent
,
that
his
Ponyard
was
twice
out
to
have
quench'd
it
in
her
Bloud
;
but
perhaps
,
believing
to
kill
her
,
would
be
rather
an
obligation
,
than
a
revenge
,
he
resolv'd
as
the
most
sensible
one
he
could
invent
,
to
carry
her
to
Flamminius
,
and
force
her
to
give
him
some
such
pregnant
evincements
of
her
conversion
,
that
he
should
not
doubt
it
;
and
which
,
if
afterwards
she
broke
,
might
render
her
as
unworthy
his
Affections
,
as
Resentments
.
Blacius
being
thus
fixt
,
commanded
a
Charriot
to
be
made
ready
,
in
which
he
took
Izadora
with
him
to
Flamminius's
,
to
whom
he
commanded
her
to
be
askind
,
as
she
had
been
cruel
,
or
as
he
merited
;
which
if
she
declin
d
,
he
protested
by
Oaths
(
that
to
be
repeated
would
give
one
horror
,
much
more
to
have
broken
them
)
that
if
he
could
hire
no
murtherers
to
destroy
you
,
he
would
do
it
with
his
own
hand
,
and
that
then
he
would
force
her
to
marry
Flamminius
,
or
Diana's
Nunnery
.
The
fear
(
as
she
vow'd
to
me
)
she
had
for
you
,
the
pitty
of
Flamminius
sufferings
,
and
virtue
,
and
the
duty
to
a
Father
,
made
her
more
incline
to
obedience
than
her
own
safety
,
which
the
gods
by
the
condition
they
had
reduc'd
her
to
,
had
render'd
the
least
of
her
cares
.
As
soon
as
they
were
come
into
Flamminius's
Chamber
,
the
poor
Gentleman
seeing
Blacius
with
Izadora
,
began
to
exclaim
against
the
Fates
cruelty
,
and
not
hers
,
that
had
given
him
no
obstacle
but
want
of
health
,
to
enjoy
a
Felicity
as
transcendent
as
her
Beauty
,
This
discourse
the
generous
Lover
held
,
for
he
was
ignorant
that
Blacius
knew
the
cause
of
his
danger
,
his
Page
not
daring
to
acquaint
him
with
it
,
lest
what
was
his
misfortune
,
might
have
been
esteem'd
his
fault
;
but
he
was
soon
put
out
of
that
Faith
by
Blacius
,
shewing
him
his
own
Letter
.
Oh
gods
!
who
can
tell
you
those
sad
words
Flamminius
utter'd
at
that
discovery
(
they
were
such
,
that
I
as
much
admir'd
,
as
commended
Izadoras
Constancy
not
to
have
been
shaken
by
them
.
But
her
Father
who
had
solemnly
sworn
,
that
nothing
but
Flamminius's
recovery
,
should
convince
him
of
his
Daughters
change
,
withdrew
himself
to
a
window
,
lest
the
dying
Lover
might
attribute
Izadora's
kindness
,
to
his
presence
,
and
not
her
conversion
.
Flamminius
perceiving
't
was
with
design
,
instead
of
employing
so
kind
an
opportunity
,
to
implore
his
Mercy
,
in
receiving
,
and
cherishing
so
pure
,
and
bright
a
flame
,
made
use
of
it
only
to
invoke
her
pardon
,
that
the
assurance
he
had
sent
of
his
obedience
,
had
prov'd
so
unfortunate
a
Duty
,
and
then
protested
(
with
Eyes
and
Hands
,
elevated
to
Heaven
)
that
if
her
justice
would
not
invite
her
to
believe
,
he
intended
not
to
make
use
of
Blacius
authority
,
her
reason
should
be
convinc'd
of
it
,
by
the
demonstration
of
his
death
;
and
lest
that
might
be
consider'd
as
her
act
,
he
would
by
a
Letter
,
and
before
witnesses
,
seal
with
his
last
breath
,
't
was
not
her
disdain
that
produc'd
so
sad
an
effect
,
but
the
joy
of
her
alteration
,
meeting
with
a
Body
too
much
weakn'd
,
to
receive
so
transcendent
a
blessing
.
This
new
,
and
perhaps
unexpected
Gallantry
,
more
troubl'd
Izadora
,
than
had
he
made
use
of
that
power
,
Blacius
was
so
willing
to
furnish
him
with
;
for
she
found
it
far
more
difficult
to
oppose
Virtue
,
than
persecution
;
and
indeed
her
perplexity
was
such
,
that
for
a
while
she
answer'd
him
in
nothing
but
weepings
;
which
the
generous
Flamminius
observing
,
and
perhaps
fancying
the
cause
of
her
disorders
,
begg'd
her
to
believe
he
was
more
sensible
at
her
Tears
,
than
she
could
be
for
their
subject
;
that
all
he
said
,
or
hoped
for
,
was
but
to
obtain
a
pardon
for
what
his
Passion
,
and
Misfortune
had
cast
upon
her
;
that
she
would
not
so
much
contribute
to
his
Torment
,
as
to
manifest
she
was
sensible
of
it
;
nor
to
his
Recovery
,
as
shewing
him
a
Beauty
,
which
was
capable
of
greater
miracles
.
This
discourse
confounded
Izadora
,
on
the
one
side
to
destroy
so
perfect
a
Virtue
,
and
on
the
other
,
to
preserve
so
dangerous
a
Ryval
for
Perolla
,
was
a
strange
perplexity
:
besides
,
to
give
him
hopes
,
was
to
cast
herself
into
as
great
a
danger
as
she
exempted
him
from
;
and
to
make
him
despair
,
was
,
(
by
Blacius's
vows
)
against
your
Life
)
to
involve
you
in
a
resembling
misfortune
;
but
at
length
,
considering
that
he
had
virtue
enough
,
to
give
her
a
confidence
that
by
it
,
he
might
in
time
suppress
his
Passion
;
or
if
that
which
was
so
strong
in
all
other
occasions
,
should
prove
so
weak
in
this
,
that
yet
her
,
and
your
condition
would
be
but
as
desperate
,
as
without
that
Essay
,
she
resolv'd
to
save
a
life
,
that
the
gods
(
but
by
Izadora
)
had
not
the
power
to
preserve
.
In
this
relation
she
told
Flamminius
(
blushing
,
and
trembling
)
I
will
pardon
you
all
things
,
so
to
dye
,
be
not
one
of
them
.
O
Madam
(
hereply'd
)
are
my
Crimes
so
great
,
that
you
deny
me
too
that
way
of
avoiding
farther
punishments
?
No
(
said
Izadora
)
your
Virtues
are
so
,
that
I
can
better
suffer
your
passion
,
than
your
ruine
.
I
could
not
but
sigh
at
those
words
(
said
Perolla
)
but
Callione
did
not
,
or
would
not
hear
me
.
Ah
Madam
(
she
continu'd
,
Flamminius
reply'd
)
do
not
you
think
me
past
recovery
,
and
in
that
faith
,
do
like
Physitians
to
Patients
,
which
are
so
,
permit
them
any
thing
?
or
may
not
I
fear
I
owe
this
preservation
to
your
duty
,
not
your
mercy
?
But
I
carry
my
fears
too
far
,
and
make
them
perhaps
as
injurious
,
as
my
hopes
,
which
have
no
greater
ambition
,
than
to
have
the
Divine
Izadora
for
the
object
of
their
adoration
,
and
that
she
will
promise
me
,
in
the
same
moment
she
forbids
me
that
felicity
,
I
may
(
as
by
her
Commands
)
end
my
life
with
what
gives
the
relish
to
it
?
This
(
said
Izadora
,
hastily
,
and
in
disorder
)
I
promise
you
.
And
this
promise
(
said
Flamminius
,
kissing
her
hand
)
I
do
more
joyfully
receive
,
than
that
health
and
life
it
will
restore
me
to
,
Izadora
gave
Flamminius
that
engagement
,
because
it
was
nothing
conclusive
to
your
prejudice
,
and
because
Blacius
(
who
was
impatient
to
learn
the
event
of
their
discourse
)
was
coming
towards
them
,
who
might
have
forc'd
his
fair
Daughter
to
a
more
binding
one
,
or
to
as
great
a
danger
by
her
declining
it
.
To
shorten
my
relation
,
Blacius
,
though
he
had
many
protestations
from
Flamminius
,
that
his
Truth
,
and
not
his
complyance
,
publish'd
that
Izadora
(
as
far
above
his
hopes
,
as
merit
)
had
made
him
happy
,
and
that
his
health
should
be
suddainly
a
visible
effect
,
and
evincement
of
what
he
profest
;
yet
upon
his
return
,
he
confin'd
Izadora
to
her
Chamber
,
till
by
Flamminius
recovery
,
he
was
convinc'd
of
his
Daughters
obedience
,
which
yet
he
durst
not
manifest
to
be
his
intention
before
Flamminius
,
who
he
knew
would
revenge
any
Tyranny
upon
himself
,
that
was
impos'd
on
his
Mistriss
,
But
upon
his
first
visit
,
which
was
not
long
after
(
so
powerful
a
charm
were
Izadora's
words
)
she
was
restor'd
to
that
freedom
,
her
Servant
never
knew
she
had
lost
;
but
it
was
upon
condition
,
that
she
should
receive
Flamminius
addresses
,
and
the
same
minute
she
manifested
any
aversion
for
them
,
to
be
one
of
the
vestal
Nuns
of
Diana
,
which
you
know
is
a
society
,
that
admits
of
no
return
to
the
world
,
to
any
that
are
once
ingag'd
in
it
.
If
it
had
not
been
for
Perolla
,
this
threatening
had
lost
that
quality
,
and
the
pennance
had
invited
her
to
the
Sin
:
but
she
knew
to
be
in
the
World
,
and
not
his
,
was
as
inconsistent
with
her
inclination
,
as
Vows
;
and
that
the
way
was
easier
for
him
to
follow
her
to
Elizium
,
than
to
the
Nunnery
;
but
yet
the
hope
she
had
in
his
Fortune
,
and
Courage
,
made
her
look
,
as
at
a
distance
,
though
as
at
a
certainty
upon
the
latter
,
and
dispatch
an
express
to
acquaint
him
with
her
resolution
,
if
his
arrival
prevented
it
not
.
But
whether
Blacius
has
heard
of
this
messenger
,
or
whether
his
apprehension
,
that
your
now
accession
of
Glory
,
(
which
came
to
his
knowledge
last
night
by
a
Spye
he
kept
about
you
)
would
make
the
Senate
consider
your
particular
,
as
a
publick
Concernment
,
accelerated
the
Nuptials
,
I
cannot
tell
;
but
this
I
can
,
that
there
was
no
intentions
of
them
so
suddenly
,
and
that
Flamminius
had
never
the
confidence
to
ask
Izadora's
consent
,
but
contents
himself
with
not
learning
her
aversion
for
them
,
and
in
observing
in
her
countenance
,
a
joy
,
which
has
not
only
deluded
him
,
but
all
those
that
have
consider'd
it
;
but
alas
,
it
was
but
the
better
to
palliate
her
fatal
resolution
;
which
is
in
the
Nuptial
Bole
that
is
offer'd
to
Venus
,
to
drown
her
life
;
or
else
,
perhaps
she
does
not
counterfeit
:
but
her
exterior
satisfaction
proceeds
from
an
eternal
one
,
that
she
dyes
a
Martyr
for
Perolla
,
and
for
Constancy
,
which
I
hope
his
arrival
will
prevent
,
and
convert
our
fears
into
nobler
passions
.
For
my
part
,
I
shall
not
tell
you
,
either
the
Office
Izadora
impos'd
on
me
,
or
the
resolution
I
form'd
on
it
;
since
I
am
confident
you
have
heard
both
.
Yes
(
said
I
)
fair
Callione
)
I
have
,
and
you
must
practice
neither
;
I
will
act
a
part
,
that
will
exempt
you
from
acting
any
.
Then
lifting
up
my
Eyes
and
Hands
,
I
thank
'
the
gods
for
having
communicated
so
much
Divinity
to
a
Creature
,
and
implor'd
them
to
direct
my
actions
,
for
her
satisfaction
,
though
to
my
own
ruine
.
This
short
ejaculation
finish'd
,
I
begg'd
Callione
,
that
I
might
have
the
felicity
to
see
(
and
talk
one
minute
with
)
Izadora
,
which
she
promis'd
,
and
was
no
further
on
her
way
towards
the
satisfying
her
engagement
,
than
her
Closet
door
,
but
Izadora
came
into
the
Chamber
,
waited
on
by
Flamminius
,
Great
gods
!
what
tremblings
did
that
sight
cast
me
into
,
which
I
saw
through
the
crevice
of
the
door
?
I
was
once
going
to
have
made
him
no
more
my
Rival
,
or
to
have
been
his
no
longer
;
but
the
presence
of
Izadora
(
and
Flamminius
virtue
)
ty'd
up
my
Arm
;
neither
though
my
reason
had
not
supprest
my
disorders
,
had
I
enjoy'd
the
opportunity
of
acting
my
despair
:
for
the
cause
of
it
,
immediately
withdrew
himself
,
with
so
much
Grace
and
Humility
,
that
I
exclaim'd
against
Fate
,
which
had
render'd
my
being
his
Friend
and
Izadora's
Servant
inconsistent
.
Flamminius
was
no
sooner
gone
,
than
she
having
shut
the
Chamber
door
,
told
her
Confident
;
Now
Callione
,
I
perceive
the
gods
are
determin'd
to
furnish
me
by
Perolla's
absence
with
what
shall
evince
,
that
my
passion
for
him
,
is
as
perfect
,
as
unfortunate
;
I
must
dye
(
Callione
)
and
(
beseech
the
gods
to
make
me
as
unfortunate
in
the
other
World
,
as
I
have
been
in
this
,
if
I
resent
any
trouble
for
my
Death
,
but
what
I
apprehend
it
may
create
in
him
;
and
that
by
this
one
argument
of
my
Flame
,
I
am
render'd
for
ever
uncapable
of
giving
him
any
other
;
but
it
may
be
the
cause
of
my
death
,
may
extinguish
,
or
lessen
the
effects
of
it
.
On
the
contrary
,
Madam
(
Callione
reply'd
)
't
will
augment
them
,
not
only
by
the
loss
of
the
highest
perfection
that
ever
was
,
but
by
his
knowledge
that
that
loss
was
his
,
and
for
him
.
Let
us
speak
no
more
of
it
(
said
Izadora
)
my
resolution
is
too
just
,
and
too
setl'd
,
to
be
remov'd
;
for
,
either
't
will
make
him
love
my
memory
,
or
follow
me
;
and
in
this
one
performance
,
I
satisfy
my
Duty
,
and
my
Love
:
the
first
being
cancell'd
by
the
hand
of
death
,
the
last
by
going
to
a
place
where
the
object
of
mine
may
be
assured
to
find
and
possess
me
;
and
I
have
stoln
this
minute
to
let
him
know
so
much
under
my
hand
.
For
thy
particular
(
Callione
)
the
trust
I
have
impos'd
on
thee
,
is
of
a
quality
which
manifests
the
greatness
of
it
,
and
this
is
all
I
have
to
enjoyn
thee
,
that
thou
wilt
deliver
my
last
desires
to
Perolla's
hands
,
and
that
thou
wilt
,
with
as
much
resolution
,
see
me
take
the
Poison
,
as
I
will
drink
it
.
Come
Madam
(
said
Callione
)
I
cannot
believe
Miracles
are
ceas'd
,
since
I
see
your
constancy
:
retire
yourself
into
this
Closet
,
where
you
may
deliver
me
your
Commands
,
with
more
secrecy
,
which
I
beseech
you
to
believe
I
shall
faithfully
obey
,
though
I
would
not
any
of
them
with
so
much
passion
,
as
that
of
pledging
you
.
Alas
Callione
(
said
Izadora
)
thou
hast
no
griefs
,
which
death
alone
can
ease
.
I
shall
have
(
Madam
(
she
reply'd
)
when
yours
are
cur'd
by
that
remedy
.
At
the
end
of
these
words
,
the
fair
Izadora
open'd
the
Closet
Door
,
and
perceiving
a
Man
there
,
for
my
disguise
hinder'd
her
from
knowing
me
)
she
cryed
out
,
oh
Callione
,
thou
hast
betray'd
,
thou
hast
betray'd
me
,
but
death
hath
more
doors
than
one
,
and
I
will
try
them
all
,
but
I
will
find
a
passage
.
No
Madam
(
said
Callione
,
perceiving
her
error
)
your
suspitions
wrong
me
more
,
than
you
believe
my
treachery
does
you
:
'T
is
Perolla
you
see
,
and
unless
my
presenting
him
unto
you
be
a
treachery
,
I
am
guilty
of
none
.
Izadora
at
that
assurance
,
consider'd
me
more
attentively
,
and
then
continu'd
;
oh
gods
,
't
is
not
Perolla
,
but
his
Ghost
which
comes
to
invite
me
to
a
place
,
where
Merit
and
Love
have
no
Enemies
,
and
where
a
virtuous
and
a
happy
Flame
are
the
same
thing
.
No
,
fair
Izadora
(
I
reply'd
,
prostrating
my self
at
her
Feet
,
(
for
till
then
my
distempers
were
too
violent
to
let
me
speak
)
I
am
Perolla
,
not
his
Ghost
,
and
am
come
to
implore
your
continuance
in
this
life
,
not
to
invite
you
to
another
;
the
gods
will
not
so
much
tempt
us
to
doubt
their
providence
,
as
to
decline
rewarding
your
Virtue
,
on
the
same
Theatre
,
where
it
has
so
conspicuously
shined
:
for
that
were
to
make
Sin
Reason
Callione
(
Madam
)
has
told
me
such
a
story
of
Flamminius
,
that
you
must
be
the
unjustest
Woman
in
the
World
,
if
you
make
me
not
the
miserablest
Man
:
and
that
hatred
of
your
Fathers
,
which
I
thought
was
the
gods
cruelty
;
I
now
find
was
their
care
,
since
it
has
reserv'd
you
to
a
blessing
,
which
nothing
can
transcend
,
but
my
misfortune
which
builds
it
.
I
had
continu'd
this
discourse
,
had
not
Izadora
interrupted
it
first
,
by
going
two
steps
back
,
and
then
by
saying
;
This
is
sure
Perolla's
Ghost
,
not
he
:
for
nothing
but
a
Spirit
,
divested
of
Flesh
,
could
entertain
so
high
a
Philosophy
;
but
can
you
esteem
Flamminius
Virtues
great
,
that
never
but
hazarded
his
life
to
please
his
Mistriss
,
when
at
the
same
instant
you
make
yours
your
misery
,
to
reward
your
Rival
?
his
performance
carried
its
ease
with
it
,
but
Perolla's
it
's
torment
;
had
I
been
curst
with
any
doubts
of
your
transcending
him
;
this
action
had
clear'd
them
,
and
what
you
intend
for
the
disclosing
of
his
Virtues
,
do
but
the
better
manifest
your
own
:
neither
can
you
think
,
but
that
his
embracing
your
Offer
,
will
render
him
unworthy
of
it
;
for
the
receiving
a
resign'd
up
Mistriss
,
is
like
losing
a
life
for
a
Friend
,
where
that
act
which
makes
the
obligation
,
imposes
an
impossibility
of
gratitude
.
Ah
Madam
(
said
I
,
interrupting
her
)
he
that
could
dye
to
please
Izadora
,
merits
to
live
for
her
.
Observe
(
she
reply'd
)
the
justice
of
the
Gods
,
which
furnishes
me
with
Arguments
out
of
your
own
Mouth
;
for
you
will
acknowledge
,
to
live
in
Torment
is
a
greater
unhappiness
,
than
death
,
and
since
you
assure
me
by
becoming
Flamminius's
,
I
must
make
the
first
of
those
your
Fate
,
must
not
a
higher
Martyrdom
,
have
a
proportionate
reward
?
will
you
make
Izadora
unfortunate
,
because
the
gods
have
made
Flamminius
generous
?
and
will
you
give
away
what
you
have
given
yourself
to
?
have
you
not
rewarded
a
gallant
intention
,
by
a
gallanter
?
and
have
you
nothing
to
pay
Izadora's
debts
with
,
but
Izadora
herself
?
Alas
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
they
are
my
debts
,
as
well
as
yours
,
and
I
beseech
you
,
judge
of
the
value
I
place
upon
those
that
obl●ge
you
,
when
I
submit
to
such
a
payment
.
Great
gods
!
(
said
Izadora
,
●●fting
up
her
hands
)
what
have
I
committed
,
that
Perolla
against
Reason
,
against
my
Tears
,
and
against
my
Prayers
,
will
part
with
me
?
cruel
Perolla
(
she
continu'd
)
fixing
her
Eyes
upon
me
,
after
a
short
silence
and
weeping
,
you
shall
but
extend
your
power
over
your self
;
you
can
but
deny
Izadora
to
be
yours
,
and
recall
those
vows
you
have
made
her
:
you
cannot
make
her
cancel
hers
,
which
were
to
be
yours
or
Deaths
;
the
first
you
willingly
exempt
her
from
,
and
the
last
she
therefore
as
willingly
elects
.
When
she
had
done
speaking
,
she
came
again
to
the
place
where
I
kneeled
,
and
after
having
wet
my
Face
with
her
Tears
,
she
dry'd
her
Eyes
,
and
with
a
look
as
cold
,
as
temperate
,
and
as
far
above
misfortune
,
as
she
was
unworthy
any
,
she
told
me
:
farewell
Perolla
,
farewell
for
ever
,
but
before
I
execute
what
your
cruelty
,
and
my
religion
renders
necessary
,
I
will
satisfy
you
,
and
Flamminius
by
my
Nuptials
;
and
after
in
that
Bole
,
(
pointing
to
the
poison
)
or
in
as
certain
a
remedy
,
if
that
be
deny'd
me
,
I
will
satisfy
my
duty
to
the
gods
.
At
the
finishing
of
these
words
she
left
me
,
as
if
Life
had
done
so
,
but
observing
her
Fatal
resolution
,
and
that
to
be
just
to
my
Rival
,
was
to
be
unjust
and
cruel
to
Izadora
,
before
she
was
gone
out
of
the
Chamber
,
I
cry'd
out
to
her
,
Stay
,
Stay
,
(
fair
Izadora
)
your
Life
is
dearer
unto
me
than
Justice
,
Gratitude
,
or
all
other
considerations
;
and
upon
better
thoughts
,
I
have
plac'd
too
high
a
value
upon
Flamminius's
performances
,
that
could
think
they
merited
Izadora
for
their
reward
,
who
can
find
none
worthy
of
her
,
but
he
that
she
raises
to
that
height
,
by
her
esteeming
him
so
;
and
since
she
has
created
Perolla
to
,
not
found
him
in
that
blest
condition
,
let
her
impose
what
Commands
she
will
on
the
work
of
her
creation
,
he
will
either
act
them
,
or
not
survive
his
impotency
,
and
disobedience
.
All
that
I
have
(
said
Izadora
returning
)
to
enjoyn
you
,
is
,
that
you
leave
no
means
un-essay'd
(
I
will
not
so
much
wrong
you
,
as
to
limit
them
no
further
than
honor
shall
direct
)
to
free
me
from
Flamminius
,
and
if
those
fail
,
to
give
me
leave
to
do
it
.
Farewell
Perolla
,
though
I
dare
embrace
death
,
yet
I
dare
not
stay
to
see
the
event
of
your
designes
.
Izadora
was
no
sooner
gone
,
than
I
begg'd
Callione
to
let
me
know
,
whether
there
were
a
private
room
,
in
which
I
might
by
her
favour
entertain
Flamminius
without
witnesses
,
whose
virtue
she
had
given
me
so
large
a
Carracter
of
,
that
I
despair'd
not
to
perswade
him
to
abandon
a
blessing
,
he
could
not
purchase
,
but
by
as
great
a
Tyranny
.
I
believe
(
said
Callione
)
I
might
bring
him
into
the
lower
Hall
,
which
is
kept
empty
for
the
celebrating
the
Nuptials
;
but
allow
I
did
,
and
that
his
Flame
prove
greater
than
his
Virtue
?
Ah
Callione
(
I
reply'd
)
do
not
do
the
latter
so
much
wrong
,
nor
me
,
as
to
ask
what
my
resentments
will
be
,
at
so
high
an
injustice
.
I
will
not
(
said
Callione
)
do
my
innocence
so
much
,
for
if
I
know
your
intentions
,
perhaps
I
might
not
contribute
towards
them
,
but
being
ignorant
what
they
are
,
I
may
serve
you
without
a
Sin
:
Go
then
Perolla
into
the
great
room
,
pav'd
with
Marble
,
whereas
certainly
I
will
send
him
,
as
that
my
Prayers
shall
attend
you
.
Her
going
away
immediately
,
left
me
no
time
to
answer
,
and
that
little
I
had
left
,
was
too
precious
to
be
misimployed
:
I
therefore
stole
down
to
the
place
I
was
assign'd
,
where
I
had
not
long
continu'd
,
but
Flamminius
came
alone
unto
me
;
I
besought
him
first
to
permit
me
to
lock
the
doo●
,
for
my
intelligence
was
to
be
without
witnesses
,
or
interruption
.
This
he
consented
to
,
and
this
being
perform'd
I
took
off
my
disguise
,
and
told
him
;
The
gods
shall
bear
me
witness
,
generous
Flamminius
,
that
I
almost
esteem
my
not
unfruitful
Passion
to
Izadora
a
misfortune
,
since
I
fear
it
may
deny
me
a
friendship
,
which
is
a
blessing
next
to
hers
I
should
be
most
ambitious
of
,
and
most
cherish
;
For
you
have
been
my
Rival
in
so
handsom
a
way
,
that
I
must
acknowledge
her
declining
,
the
giving
you
yet
a
more
advantageous
Name
,
is
as
great
a
demonstration
of
her
partiality
,
as
of
my
happiness
;
I
have
too
,
been
so
bold
,
as
to
tell
her
this
truth
in
your
behalf
,
and
some
things
more
as
hard
to
be
credited
,
as
perhaps
they
were
to
be
spoken
.
Yes
Flamminius
,
I
have
been
your
Advocate
against
my selfe
,
and
have
passionately
pleaded
your
Cause
,
with
hope
of
success
,
though
I
know
I
could
not
obtain
it
,
but
by
my
eternal
ruine
;
neither
should
I
now
have
alter'd
that
practice
,
were
not
Izadora's
Life
the
cause
of
it
,
who
more
constant
to
her
Vows
than
her
Felicity
,
prefers
Perolla
,
or
Death
before
Flamminius
;
so
that
the
latter
cannot
attempt
to
be
her
Husband
,
but
he
will
necessitate
her
to
be
her
own
Executioner
,
and
by
so
fatal
a
perseverance
,
not
only
extinguish
the
fairest
light
that
ever
shin'd
,
but
make
your self
so
guilty
to
your self
,
that
should
Izadora
want
friends
to
revenge
your
cruelty
,
your
Conscience
would
assume
that
part
,
and
act
it
with
as
much
certainty
,
as
horror
.
There
is
glory
Flamminius
as
well
as
Reason
in
declining
one
Blessing
,
for
a
greater
,
and
of
two
evils
you
choose
the
least
,
when
you
elect
your
own
ruine
,
before
Izadora's
;
neither
should
I
ever
have
had
the
confidence
to
beg
this
of
you
,
had
I
not
begg'd
more
for
you
,
and
were
I
only
to
receive
the
fruit
of
your
Virtue
,
I
would
never
have
implor'd
it
:
For
Blacius
being
as
constant
in
his
Hate
,
as
I
am
in
my
Love
,
I
shall
remove
no
obstacle
by
removing
my
Rival
;
but
remain
at
as
great
a
distance
from
my
happiness
,
though
you
decline
possessing
it
,
as
I
shall
be
if
you
act
the
contrary
.
I
will
not
tell
you
(
Sir
)
what
were
Flamminius
astonishments
,
both
at
learning
who
I
was
,
and
my
requests
;
for
they
were
indeed
of
a
quality
fitter
to
be
imagin'd
than
related
:
but
his
answer
(
after
a
little
silence
)
was
this
.
Though
I
only
know
Perolla
by
report
,
yet
I
believe
him
such
as
he
is
describ'd
,
but
had
I
been
as
ignorant
of
his
actions
,
as
his
Person
,
I
must
have
concluded
them
both
excellent
(
I
tell
you
said
Perolla
)
true
,
though
not
the
truth
)
since
they
had
charms
sufficient
to
captivate
Izadora
,
who
having
her
own
perfections
to
try
others
by
,
evinces
his
to
be
great
,
since
they
were
esteem'd
so
by
her
.
This
faith
(
when
I
first
saw
Izadora
)
made
me
esteem
my
engaging
my self
in
her
service
,
and
becoming
your
Rival
,
an
action
of
as
little
justice
,
as
hope
:
but
that
Beauty
which
is
the
cause
of
my
Flame
,
must
be
the
Apology
of
it
,
which
would
need
none
to
any
but
Perolla
;
and
lest
he
might
believe
the
distance
betwixt
him
and
Blacius
,
did
create
my
expectations
of
a
nearness
betwixt
his
admirable
Daughter
,
and
me
,
I
declin'd
all
Arms
to
conquer
her
with
,
but
those
you
made
use
of
,
and
would
be
oblig'd
to
Blacius
for
nothing
,
but
his
wishes
,
and
the
opportunity
of
making
my
addresses
.
What
their
successes
have
been
by
the
mercy
of
her
to
whom
they
were
paid
,
is
visible
in
this
nights
preparations
,
and
in
Izadora
:
neither
by
her
commands
,
nor
by
her
looks
opposing
them
.
So
that
though
I
should
credit
Perolla
in
all
things
as
an
Oracle
,
yet
I
must
look
upon
what
he
now
alledges
,
as
proceeding
sooner
from
his
Despair
,
than
Truth
,
and
believe
since
art
in
Love
,
is
rather
a
Virtue
,
than
a
Crime
,
that
he
considering
of
it
in
that
quality
,
does
make
use
of
it
to
destroy
what
Izadora's
Mercy
and
Duty
,
have
elected
to
conferr
on
Flamminius
,
to
the
prejudice
(
perhaps
)
of
her
inclination
,
and
of
her
Reason
.
If
(
I
reply'd
)
I
am
troubl'd
at
your
not
believing
me
,
it
is
only
by
knowing
what
prejudice
it
may
involve
Izadora
in
;
to
whom
you
have
hitherto
been
so
civil
,
that
I
am
upon
that
score
uncapable
of
resenting
any
thing
from
you
,
as
an
injury
to
me
,
which
does
not
absolutely
prove
one
to
her
,
and
if
there
be
any
Art
in
speaking
Truth
,
what
I
have
alledg'd
,
is
abundantly
replenish'd
with
it
,
for
by
Izadora
(
an
oath
I
hold
in
too
much
veneration
to
violate
)
what
I
have
told
you
is
a
real
truth
,
and
,
is
only
in
design
,
to
preserve
you
from
a
sin
,
the
very
thought
whereof
doth
make
me
tremble
.
You
must
pardon
me
Perolla
(
said
Flamminius
,
interrupting
me
)
if
I
cannot
raise
my
Faith
so
far
above
my
reason
.
Alas
(
I
reply'd
)
I
must
of
necessity
be
oblig'd
only
to
your
Faith
,
for
your
doubts
are
of
so
sad
a
nature
,
that
if
reason
and
demonstration
only
must
remove
them
,
the
very
performance
which
does
it
,
will
render
you
uncapable
of
making
any
advantage
by
their
suppression
,
and
the
knowledge
of
your
mistake
.
No
Perolla
(
said
Flamminius
)
I
have
not
been
so
rude
an
admirer
of
Izadora
,
as
not
before
now
to
have
convinc'd
her
,
that
I
prefer
my
obedience
before
my
death
,
and
when
to
manifest
that
reality
,
I
had
almost
made
use
of
a
demonstration
,
I
would
not
again
return
to
life
,
(
left
her
enjoyning
me
,
it
might
have
proceeded
from
her
Duty
,
or
her
present
pity
)
till
she
had
faithfully
engag'd
her self
,
to
permit
my
death
,
when
she
would
no
longer
my
Passion
;
so
that
having
given
her
the
power
,
when
she
has
the
will
to
be
free
from
my
Flame
,
I
cannot
consider
you
now
,
but
as
your
own
,
and
not
Izador's
Agent
.
Alas
Flamminius
(
I
answer'd
)
that
which
you
build
upon
the
Cause
of
your
Confidence
,
will
be
of
our
Misery
,
and
her
ruine
;
for
the
engagement
Izadora
gave
you
,
the
invitation
to
which
was
your
virtue
,
with
the
condition
you
were
in
,
when
she
gave
it
you
,
and
her
fear
of
what
you
may
do
,
by
what
you
have
done
,
makes
her
elect
her
own
Death
,
rather
than
avoid
it
by
yours
;
so
that
what
you
chose
to
evince
your
respect
by
,
turns
to
a
Tyranny
;
but
let
her
generosity
instruct
yours
,
and
remember
it
can
be
but
virtuous
to
imitate
Izadora
.
You
make
me
(
said
Flamminius
)
happy
whether
I
do
,
or
do
not
credit
you
:
for
if
the
latter
by
my
choice
,
there
is
nothing
since
I
spoke
with
you
that
troubles
me
,
and
con-sequently
I
am
in
joyes
of
hopes
,
till
those
of
fruition
converts
them
into
greater
:
and
if
the
former
,
I
must
be
convinc'd
that
Izadora
loves
Flamminius
better
than
her self
;
but
yet
(
he
continu'd
)
were
I
assur'd
so
fatal
a
proof
,
must
certify
that
Truth
,
I
should
be
less
unfortunate
in
her
hate
,
than
her
esteem
;
besides
(
he
continu'd
preparing
himself
to
leave
me
)
Izadora
knowing
her
death
,
will
be
so
far
from
preventing
,
that
it
will
but
accellerate
mine
.
I
must
again
(
Perolla
)
beg
your
pardon
,
for
not
crediting
your
vows
,
which
you
may
grant
with
the
less
reluctancy
,
since
my
unbelief
is
with
reason
and
against
my self
.
Then
(
I
reply'd
)
staying
him
,
and
drawing
my
Ponyard
,
which
was
all
the
Arms
I
had
then
about
me
,
you
must
either
oblige
me
so
much
,
as
not
to
let
me
live
to
see
you
restor'd
to
a
better
opinion
of
me
by
so
black
an
Experiment
,
or
you
must
not
live
to
be
Izadora's
death
;
which
,
were
I
not
certain
your
intended
Nuptials
would
prove
,
I
had
rather
make
use
of
my
hand
against
my self
,
than
Flamminius
.
Since
(
said
he
,
unsheathing
his
Ponyard
,
which
was
a
Weapon
all
Gentlemen
constantly
wore
in
those
times
)
you
will
force
me
to
dispute
Izadora
by
my
Arms
,
as
well
as
by
my
Services
,
I
make
no
question
but
to
prove
as
successful
in
the
first
,
as
I
have
been
in
the
last
.
We
had
no
more
words
after
those
,
but
ran
furiously
at
each
other
;
my
thrust
was
more
fortunate
than
Flamminius's
,
for
though
his
entered
my
right
side
,
yet
meeting
with
a
Rib
,
and
glauncing
on
it
,
it
gave
me
but
a
large
flesh
wound
,
whereas
mine
past
through
and
through
his
body
,
a
little
above
his
heart
;
and
our
Weapons
being
not
long
,
we
were
constrain'd
to
close
,
in
which
I
had
the
fortune
to
fling
him
down
,
and
disarm
him
;
but
perceiving
by
the
great
Spring
of
blood
which
issu'd
from
his
wound
,
that
I
had
at
least
for
awhile
hinder'd
his
Marriage
,
presenting
him
his
Ponyard
,
I
implor'd
his
forgiveness
for
what
I
had
done
,
beg'd
him
to
be
satisfi'd
by
my
being
able
to
have
success
against
him
,
that
I
had
the
better
cause
;
and
besought
him
not
to
implore
that
life
I
gave
him
,
and
Izadora
had
preserved
,
for
his
ruine
,
and
for
mine
:
since
he
would
hereafter
know
how
near
she
was
to
sacrifice
her
own
for
his
,
and
that
I
would
ever
be
of
a
resembling
resolution
.
Flamminius
made
me
some
answer
which
I
could
not
hear
,
for
having
effected
my
design
,
(
though
in
the
most
unfortunate
way
)
I
thought
it
high
time
to
retire
,
lest
a
longer
continuance
in
so
dangerous
a
place
,
might
rob
me
of
the
fruits
of
my
Victory
.
I
was
but
newly
gone
out
of
the
Room
,
when
(
occasion'd
by
the
curiosity
of
some
that
had
listen'd
at
the
door
whil'st
we
were
fighting
)
I
heard
all
the
house
in
an
alarm
,
and
was
scarce
half
way
out
of
it
,
but
that
I
found
my self
in
a
narrow
Entry
assaulted
by
four
with
Swords
,
who
cry'd
out
,
Kill
,
Kill
,
the
Murtherer
of
Flamminius
;
one
of
those
was
so
hot
in
his
fury
,
that
running
at
me
,
he
stumbled
,
and
fell
at
my
feet
,
and
by
his
fall
choaking
up
the
passage
,
I
had
time
to
take
away
his
Sword
,
with
which
for
awhile
I
retreated
safe
against
the
rest
;
but
as
soon
as
I
was
come
into
a
more
spacious
place
,
not
only
the
other
three
came
all
upon
me
,
but
most
of
that
crowd
which
were
invited
to
this
Marriage
,
and
Blacius
at
the
head
of
them
:
so
that
I
had
certainly
there
receiv'd
my
Fate
,
had
not
those
two
Friends
I
formerly
specified
,
with
Strato
,
relieved
me
;
who
suspecting
my
design
,
had
continu'd
about
the
house
ready
to
answer
all
alarms
;
and
this
they
did
so
vigorously
,
that
having
worsted
some
that
oppos'd
their
entrance
,
they
join'd
me
in
my
greatest
danger
,
and
crying
out
,
Courage
Perolla
,
by
their
voyces
,
and
their
performances
,
had
restor'd
me
mine
,
though
I
had
lost
it
.
The
name
of
Perolla
,
made
Blacius
discover
what
my
disguise
had
conceal'd
;
and
the
affront
,
but
more
the
Actor
of
it
,
so
transported
him
,
that
striking
at
me
with
all
his
force
,
and
I
defending
his
blow
with
my
Ponyard
,
his
Sword
fell
out
of
his
hand
,
which
snatching
up
,
I
presented
it
him
by
the
hilt
,
and
beg'd
him
not
to
employ
his
Arms
against
a
life
,
that
I
was
perpetually
ready
to
sacrifice
for
his
service
.
Blacius
was
so
extremely
surpriz'd
at
the
loss
of
his
Sword
,
and
at
the
manner
of
his
recovering
it
,
that
I
had
time
to
leave
him
in
his
astonishment
:
But
I
ow'd
it
to
the
Valor
of
the
Gentleman
with
whom
I
had
that
discourse
at
my
first
coming
into
the
Room
where
the
Ball
was
dancing
,
who
learning
by
the
publick
noise
that
I
was
Perolla
,
and
pardoning
my
attempt
on
Flamminius
,
as
to
my
resentments
,
did
preserve
my
life
,
by
cutting
off
another
Gentlemans
hand
that
was
coming
behind
me
to
have
taken
it
away
,
whil'st
I
was
restoring
Blacius
his
Arms.
With
this
generous
additional
assistance
,
I
recover'd
the
Street-gate
,
where
I
found
by
the
care
of
my
two
Friends
so
powerful
a
recruit
,
that
had
my
revenge
been
my
design
,
I
might
as
easily
have
acted
,
as
desir'd
it
;
and
indeed
I
found
a
greater
difficulty
to
suppress
the
fury
of
those
Swords
which
were
drawn
in
my
quarrel
,
than
I
believe
I
should
,
to
have
been
victorious
by
them
.
To
be
brief
,
I
retired
to
a
private
and
secure
Sanctuary
,
though
most
of
us
received
so
many
wounds
,
that
their
being
not
dangerous
,
made
us
acknowledge
a
high
Providence
.
Whil'st
we
were
thus
disputing
our
difference
,
Izadora
,
though
she
were
but
a
hearer
of
it
,
was
(
as
she
has
assured
me
)
in
far
greater
fears
,
than
any
that
were
Actors
in
it
;
but
being
told
that
Flamminius
was
killed
,
she
ran
with
Callione
where
he
lay
,
and
where
she
wept
so
many
tears
,
that
he
almost
mistook
her
Pity
,
for
her
Love
;
but
Blacius
being
(
after
our
retreat
)
come
thither
also
,
caused
Flamminius
to
be
carried
into
the
next
Chamber
,
and
as
soon
as
the
Chyrurgions
had
searcht
,
and
bound
up
his
wound
,
the
impatient
Father
asked
him
,
Whether
his
Daughter
had
any
share
in
this
Tragedy
?
Ah
Sir
(
said
Flamminius
)
be
not
so
cruel
to
truth
and
to
me
,
as
to
suspect
her
guilty
of
such
a
Crime
;
for
had
she
intentions
of
that
nature
,
she
needed
not
employ
any
to
kill
me
,
since
she
knows
,
she
has
not
only
the
power
to
act
it
herself
,
but
by
the
honour
of
dying
by
her
commands
,
she
has
wherewithall
abundantly
to
recompence
my
death
.
No
Sir
,
he
that
has
reduced
me
to
this
condition
,
is
some
Stranger
,
and
Friend
to
Perolla
,
who
believing
him
too
much
injured
by
the
loss
of
Izadora
,
has
so
civilly
endeavor'd
to
revenge
his
absent
Friend
,
that
I
can
no
more
complain
of
his
resentments
,
than
I
should
at
the
loss
of
so
much
blood
,
had
it
been
in
Izadora's
service
;
for
after
he
had
by
courage
(
and
not
surprize
)
disarmed
me
,
and
that
I
had
given
him
no
slight
hurt
,
when
the
latter
provok'd
him
to
revenge
,
and
the
former
gave
him
power
to
execute
it
,
he
restored
me
my
Poniard
,
and
for
that
gift
,
only
besought
me
to
excuse
those
resentments
his
Friends
interest
had
created
,
and
so
left
me
.
Take
heed
Flamminius
(
said
Blacius
)
lest
you
make
me
question
what
you
said
of
Izadora's
innocency
,
by
seeming
to
be
ignorant
of
Perolla's
guilt
,
when
that
he
wounded
you
,
is
so
known
a
truth
,
that
there
are
as
many
Witnesses
of
it
,
as
People
in
this
house
.
It
may
be
(
said
Flamminius
)
that
it
was
Perolla
,
but
you
cannot
therefore
conclude
that
I
must
know
't
was
he
;
for
if
it
were
,
his
disguise
might
have
deceived
one
that
had
been
better
acquainted
with
him
than
I
have
the
honour
to
be
;
besides
Sir
,
't
would
have
been
too
much
in
me
,
had
I
thought
it
had
been
my
Rival
,
to
have
given
so
large
a
character
of
his
performances
before
my
Mistriss
.
Well
(
reply'd
Blacius
)
the
certainty
that
it
is
Perolla
cannot
be
greater
,
than
that
he
shall
never
have
Izadora
,
who
I
will
think
innocent
,
because
you
do
,
and
who
upon
your
recovery
,
shall
be
the
reward
of
your
passion
,
and
your
wounds
.
Blacius
immediately
after
went
away
,
and
Izadora
to
satisfie
her
Father
,
and
her
goodness
,
continued
with
Flamminius
,
whose
gallantry
she
admir'd
,
as
much
as
she
esteem'd
herself
unfortunate
,
in
being
uncapable
of
rewarding
it
.
But
he
(
as
soon
as
Blacius
was
retir'd
)
somewhat
touch'd
with
my
carriage
to
him
,
but
much
more
with
what
I
had
told
him
concerning
Izadora's
design
upon
herself
,
besought
her
,
to
permit
him
the
honour
of
entertaining
her
without
Witnesses
,
which
she
granted
;
and
the
Chamber
being
emptied
,
Flamminius
told
her
particularly
all
that
had
past
betwixt
us
,
magnified
my
actions
in
terms
as
flattering
as
handsom
,
and
then
conjured
Izadora
with
passionate
and
moving
words
,
to
acquaint
him
ingenuously
,
Whether
all
I
had
delivered
was
true
?
but
she
(
more
perplex'd
at
this
question
,
than
she
would
have
been
to
drink
the
fatal
Bole
)
for
a
good
while
did
nothing
but
fix
her
eyes
upon
him
,
and
cry'd
out
,
Oh
gods
!
Flamminius
,
Oh
gods
!
Flamminius
,
What
is
it
you
ask
me
?
And
at
length
answered
him
only
in
a
shower
of
tears
,
which
drew
another
from
him
,
and
words
so
distracted
,
yet
so
significant
,
that
Izadora
found
,
Rhetorick
did
not
wholly
consist
in
well
speaking
,
or
in
talking
sence
.
But
Flamminius's
disorder
being
somewhat
mitigated
,
he
continu'd
,
I
perceive
(
fair
Izadora
)
that
your
apprehensions
I
should
destroy
my
life
,
when
you
do
my
hopes
,
hinders
you
from
letting
your
words
acknowledge
,
what
your
tears
have
done
,
but
I
beseech
you
believe
,
that
I
shall
be
more
tormented
in
continuing
your
misery
,
than
in
knowing
my
own
;
that
I
shall
consider
my
affliction
as
my
joy
,
if
it
can
build
yours
;
and
if
by
the
learning
my
own
misfortunes
,
I
may
put
a
period
to
Izadora's
,
she
will
more
oblige
me
by
building
her
Happiness
on
the
ruine
of
mine
,
than
if
she
continued
my
hopes
,
by
her
sufferings
.
Alas
!
(
said
Izadora
)
what
shall
I
answer
?
for
your
virtue
is
such
,
that
it
makes
mine
my
pain
;
and
that
constancy
which
I
still
gloried
in
,
is
now
a
subject
as
fit
for
my
tears
,
as
satisfaction
.
Oh
gods
!
she
continu'd
after
a
short
silence
,
why
do
you
make
virtue
so
offensive
to
virtue
?
why
do
you
make
Flamminius's
virtue
of
such
a
quality
,
that
I
am
troubled
to
profess
mine
?
And
why
do
you
render
perseverance
in
good
,
a
torment
as
great
,
as
the
fault
in
declining
it
?
Alas
!
Flamminius
,
press
me
not
to
tell
you
what
I
elected
to
shun
by
death
,
and
guess
at
the
nature
of
what
I
am
to
speak
,
by
what
I
would
have
performed
to
avoid
it
;
let
it
suffice
,
you
having
tied
me
to
approve
of
your
passion
,
or
your
death
,
and
that
since
my
preingagement
hindered
me
from
cherishing
the
former
,
to
preserve
you
from
the
latter
,
I
was
willing
,
and
am
resolved
to
exchange
our
destines
.
Great
gods
!
(
Flamminius
cry'd
out
)
why
did
you
teach
me
what
retributions
I
ought
to
make
so
high
a
perfection
,
and
so
long
delayed
giving
me
the
power
to
perform
them
;
then
turning
to
the
excellency
he
had
mention'd
,
he
continu'd
,
Fair
Izadora
,
you
have
not
only
taught
me
what
to
practise
,
but
given
me
the
power
to
act
it
:
Yes
,
I
am
now
ready
to
lose
my
hopes
,
without
my
life
,
and
the
joyes
of
having
served
you
in
a
way
that
you
can
no
more
hereafter
doubt
of
,
than
reward
my
passion
,
will
recompence
my
loss
,
and
preserve
a
life
which
must
be
my
contentment
,
since
it
has
establish'd
yours
,
and
is
esteem'd
by
you
.
But
why
do
I
lengthen
my
discourse
?
'T
is
sufficient
you
learn
(
generous
Spartacus
)
that
the
great
Flamminius
made
a
resignation
of
all
his
passions
for
Izadora
,
but
those
of
being
serviceable
to
her
,
and
became
as
perfect
a
Friend
,
as
he
had
been
a
Lover
.
This
admirable
change
both
he
and
Izadora
acquainted
me
with
,
by
a
servant
of
his
,
to
whom
she
had
told
my
retreat
.
To
draw
to
a
conclusion
,
during
Flamminius's
weakness
,
he
so
perfectly
acted
the
Lover
before
Blacius
,
and
so
perfectly
the
Friend
,
when
he
was
absent
,
that
Izadora
was
convinc'd
(
by
so
painful
a
part
)
he
was
as
much
concern'd
in
procuring
her
for
me
,
as
formerly
he
had
been
in
doing
it
for
himself
;
but
when
his
health
was
so
much
return'd
,
that
he
could
no
longer
cloud
the
fallacy
,
we
were
all
in
new
disorders
:
For
Blacius
,
who
was
still
confident
of
Izadora's
constancy
to
me
,
and
who
suspected
what
she
design'd
to
attempt
for
her
own
deliverance
,
would
be
as
soon
as
Flamminius
was
recover'd
,
so
strictly
kept
his
Daughter
,
that
she
was
then
absolutely
confin'd
to
her
chamber
,
whose
windows
were
grated
with
Iron
,
and
whose
doors
were
justified
by
a
Guard
.
Flamminius
,
in
this
exigency
,
to
manifest
his
conversion
,
and
to
make
himself
uncapable
of
a
relapse
,
advis'd
us
by
speedy
Marriage
to
exempt
our selves
from
the
power
both
of
Blacius
,
and
of
Fortune
;
which
course
if
we
would
elect
,
he
was
confident
in
some
short
time
to
furnish
us
with
the
means
to
practice
.
This
both
my
Passion
and
Reason
infinitely
approv'd
,
and
by
Callione
,
with
whom
I
had
in
disguise
some
private
meetings
in
the
Temple
,
I
besought
Izadora
to
be
of
my
opinion
,
and
made
use
of
those
very
Arguments
to
her
,
that
she
had
to
me
,
when
I
was
in
the
blest
condition
of
Blacius's
esteem
,
and
apprehended
the
contrary
from
Pacuvius
;
but
that
scrupulous
Virtue
resolv'd
it
as
great
a
sin
against
her
duty
,
to
marry
Perolla
without
her
Fathers
consent
,
as
it
was
against
her
Vows
,
to
Marry
any
other
;
and
though
the
generous
Flamminius
represented
,
that
when
he
could
no
longer
conceal
his
change
from
Blacius
,
she
must
expect
to
be
depriv'd
of
his
assistance
;
which
if
not
made
use
of
,
whil'st
he
had
the
opportunity
of
paying
it
,
might
probably
alter
her
confinement
,
into
a
perpetual
Prison
;
or
by
her
Fathers
presenting
her
a
new
Husband
,
necessitate
her
to
act
what
she
had
but
design'd
:
yet
all
he
could
extort
from
Izadora
,
(
in
my
favor
)
was
,
that
she
would
contribute
to
any
thing
which
might
secure
her
from
her
Fathers
violence
,
so
the
place
of
her
future
Sanctuary
were
of
such
a
quality
,
that
she
might
be
confident
her
Honour
would
no
more
suffer
in
Report
,
than
in
Act
:
this
unalterable
Decree
cast
us
into
new
difficulties
;
and
before
we
could
imagine
any
way
of
suppressing
them
,
Flamminius
was
so
perfectly
recover'd
,
that
Blacius
publisht
within
two
dayes
the
Nuptial
,
which
had
been
interrupted
,
should
be
consummated
.
This
Alarm
(
which
I
receiv'd
from
Callione
,
)
by
that
just
and
high
character
I
had
of
my
late
Rival
,
had
no
further
operation
on
me
,
than
the
fears
of
what
advantages
we
might
lose
by
his
banishment
from
Blacius
,
who
permitted
no
creature
but
Flamminius
,
and
Callione
,
to
see
Izadora
;
and
who
kept
a
Guard
as
strong
,
as
faithful
to
him
,
at
the
door
of
his
House
,
as
at
the
door
of
her
Chamber
;
but
when
my
hope
had
resign'd
itself
to
despair
,
he
that
to
create
my
joyes
,
had
ruin'd
his
own
,
was
not
content
only
to
leave
Izadora
to
me
,
but
to
help
her
to
me
;
in
prosecution
of
which
gallantry
,
the
day
before
the
intended
Marriage
(
for
't
was
so
long
defer'd
,
either
that
he
found
not
out
the
invention
sooner
,
or
else
to
endear
it
)
by
that
free
access
he
had
into
Izadora's
Chamber
,
he
came
to
visit
her
,
with
a
Countenance
as
full
of
satisfaction
,
as
if
he
,
not
another
,
had
been
to
enjoy
the
fruits
of
his
industry
;
and
there
inform'd
her
,
that
he
had
seen
,
and
consequently
ador'd
her
,
coming
to
Salapia
to
visit
an
Aunt
of
his
,
who
was
chief
of
Diana's
Vestals
,
whom
that
morning
he
had
acquainted
with
all
his
Story
,
and
whom
he
had
persuaded
,
to
repair
what
his
Civility
to
her
had
caus'd
,
to
receive
her
into
that
Nunnery
,
without
those
oaths
which
they
really
admitted
must
necessarily
take
,
and
thereby
,
by
deluding
Blacius's
belief
,
frustrate
his
hopes
of
forcing
her
return
into
the
world
,
'till
she
might
make
it
her
election
,
and
not
constraint
.
I
cannot
express
with
what
joy
and
acknowledgment
Izadora
receiv'd
this
News
,
both
which
were
increast
by
Flamminius
,
assuring
her
,
that
before
the
Night
was
many
hours
old
,
he
would
conduct
her
safely
to
her
retirement
;
and
towards
the
effecting
it
,
presented
her
with
a
water
of
so
excellent
a
quality
,
that
its
nourture
was
Iron
;
this
strange
Liquor
he
apply'd
to
the
Bars
of
the
Windows
,
in
little
Channels
of
Wax
,
which
did
its
operation
so
powerfully
,
and
silently
;
that
late
at
Night
when
he
repeated
his
Visit
,
he
found
a
breach
in
the
Window
,
large
enough
for
Izadora
and
Callione
to
get
out
at
,
which
they
did
by
a
Ladder
of
Silk
he
had
purposely
brought
.
They
were
no
sooner
descended
into
the
Garden
,
upon
which
the
Window
answer'd
,
than
by
the
ordinary
way
(
to
delude
the
Guards
at
her
door
)
he
went
thither
himself
,
and
by
picking
the
Lock
,
they
got
into
a
retir'd
street
,
where
by
Flamminius's
appointment
I
attended
them
.
I
cannot
tell
you
what
were
my
expressions
of
joy
,
and
gratitude
to
my
Mistriss
,
and
my
Rival
;
nor
what
Prayers
,
and
Reasons
,
I
us'd
to
invite
her
rather
to
a
Temple
,
than
a
Nunnery
,
and
to
embrace
the
opportunity
of
an
union
,
when
the
gods
presented
us
so
favourable
an
one
:
that
to
decline
it
,
was
not
to
rely
on
,
but
tempt
their
Provicence
.
'T
is
too
much
you
know
,
that
all
was
fruitles
,
and
that
we
conducted
Izadora
to
her
living
Grave
.
Who
can
repeat
Blacius's
amazement
,
when
next
morning
,
instead
of
finding
his
Daughter
preparing
herself
to
be
a
Bride
,
he
only
found
a
Letter
on
the
Table
,
of
what
forlorn
courses
his
rigor
had
forc'd
her
to
;
but
though
his
surprize
,
and
astonishment
,
had
been
as
high
as
fancy
could
reach
,
yet
it
could
not
transcend
Izadora's
and
mine
,
when
discoursing
together
,
we
were
advertised
that
one
of
Apollo's
Priests
desir'd
to
speak
with
us
,
who
being
admitted
,
we
found
`twas
Flamminius
which
had
taken
that
Holy
O●der
,
and
who
told
us
,
That
having
lost
the
hopes
of
this
world
,
he
would
no
longer
livein
it
;
that
having
been
a
servant
to
Izadora
,
he
could
not
go
less
,
losing
that
servitude
,
than
become
one
to
the
gods
,
that
he
was
the
more
fitted
for
their
service
,
by
having
practised
under
their
perfectest
resembler
;
and
at
last
so
passionately
beg'd
a
pardon
for
having
so
much
endanger'd
Izadora's
safety
,
as
to
have
brought
it
to
an
equal
Fight
,
(
though
his
Victory
had
been
both
his
and
her
ruine
)
and
so
admirable
declam'd
upon
a
speculative
and
recluse
life
,
that
we
could
not
more
absolutely
excuse
what
he
had
done
against
us
,
than
admire
what
he
had
done
for
us
;
which
had
it
not
been
of
a
quality
that
had
plac'd
us
above
the
thoughtsof
any
other
felicity
,
Izadora
had
esteem'd
a
real
Nunnery
,
and
I
the
taking
of
Flamminius's
habit
a
blessing
.
But
what
he
had
perform'd
,
render'd
fruitless
what
he
had
spoken
;
and
his
actions
were
more
eloquent
,
than
his
words
.
When
this
great
man
had
spent
about
an
hour
with
us
,
he
took
his
eternal
leave
,
with
a
look
asserene
as
his
thought
,
and
with
words
as
heavenly
as
his
profession
;
we
both
accompany'd
him
,
as
far
as
we
durst
,
and
then
casting
our selves
at
his
feet
,
we
implor'd
him
,
by
his
Prayers
,
to
preserve
us
in
that
condition
,
as
his
Virtue
had
placed
us
in
;
which
having
faithfully
promis'd
to
endeavour
,
he
return'd
to
that
holy
Society
,
of
which
he
was
the
greatest
glory
,
and
the
noblest
portion
.
After
our
tears
were
something
lessen'd
for
so
sad
a
separation
,
because
I
had
but
that
day
allowed
me
by
Flamminius's
Aunt
to
entertain
Izadora
in
,
(
which
too
,
was
a
favor
above
example
)
I
employ'd
the
small
time
that
was
left
,
to
implore
her
permission
(
now
that
she
was
in
an
inviolable
Sanctuary
,
and
my
Visits
thither
prohibited
)
to
return
to
Scipio
,
and
Massanissa
,
by
whose
favors
(
upon
the
knowledge
of
my
condition
)
I
made
no
doubt
but
to
procure
the
Senate
to
enjoin
Blacius
to
permit
our
Nuptials
;
which
course
was
sufficiently
justifiable
,
since
we
sought
to
make
use
of
Power
,
but
to
oppose
Tyranny
;
and
to
obtain
that
from
Authority
,
which
was
deny'd
to
Reason
:
that
since
the
severe
Laws
of
the
Society
she
was
in
,
permitted
me
not
to
see
or
speak
with
her
,
during
her
residence
there
,
my
absence
in
Asrick
or
Italy
was
the
same
;
and
by
my
continuance
about
Salapia
,
I
might
induce
Blacius
to
suspect
she
was
a
conditional
,
not
an
absolute
Vestal
,
and
increase
his
hatred
,
by
increasing
his
jealousie
.
These
reasons
(
and
my
engagement
of
a
sudden
return
)
obtained
her
consent
for
my
journey
,
which
I
began
the
next
morning
,
having
first
sent
a
friend
to
beg
Pacuvius's
permission
to
pay
him
the
duty
of
a
Son
;
who
returned
me
word
,
that
he
knew
of
none
which
bore
that
name
,
but
that
if
ever
Perolla
appeared
before
him
,
he
should
esteem
it
the
highest
injury
he
had
ever
done
him
.
The
grief
of
this
message
,
was
not
much
inferior
to
the
satisfaction
of
having
freed
Izadora
from
so
great
a
hazard
,
and
the
having
setled
her
in
as
great
a
security
.
But
I
must
acknowledge
(
Sir
,
continu'd
Perolla
,
speaking
to
my
Prince
)
in
this
Voyage
my
heart
and
my
tongue
were
strangers
;
for
though
what
I
have
specifi'd
were
the
pretence
of
it
,
yet
the
design
was
to
prosecute
Hannibal
,
whose
wrongs
to
Izadora
and
me
,
though
they
were
as
hard
to
be
reveng'd
as
pardon'd
,
yet
I
could
not
but
undertake
the
former
,
not
being
able
to
grant
him
the
latter
,
and
I
esteem'd
the
Siege
of
Carthage
would
furnish
me
with
an
occasion
.
But
as
I
was
going
to
Capua
to
take
ship
for
Africk
,
I
met
Scipio
returned
from
thence
;
he
Landed
at
Lillibeum
in
Sicily
,
from
whence
all
the
way
to
Rome
he
was
met
,
with
merited
and
triumphant
Songs
and
Trophies
.
That
great
man
having
pardon'd
my
uncivil
departure
,
upon
the
knowledge
of
the
cause
,
told
me
the
particular
conditions
Carthage
had
submitted
unto
,
without
a
Siege
,
(
which
are
too
long
to
be
specified
)
and
which
were
in
substance
,
they
had
acknowledg'd
themselves
vanquish'd
,
in
such
a
way
,
that
the
very
proofs
they
had
given
of
that
confession
,
ty'd
them
perpetually
to
continue
so
.
He
inform'd
me
also
,
as
a
testimony
of
their
believing
themselves
as
justly
,
as
absolutely
conquer'd
,
that
a
Senator
asking
them
by
what
gods
they
would
swear
to
keep
the
Peace
?
He
was
answer'd
by
Asdrubal
,
Even
by
the
very
same
gods
we
have
found
so
severe
to
those
that
violate
it
.
After
I
had
awhile
congratulated
a
Success
which
none
could
doubt
,
that
were
not
ignorant
of
Scipio's
quarrel
and
virtue
,
and
after
I
had
begged
his
assistance
in
converting
Blacius
,
I
took
leave
of
him
,
and
learning
that
Hannibal
was
about
Carthage
,
at
Scipio's
departure
thence
,
I
rowed
down
the
River
Vulturnus
that
night
,
next
morning
set
Sail
for
Africk
,
and
in
three
dayes
arrived
where
I
thought
my
Enemy
was
;
but
I
found
that
but
six
dayes
before
,
he
had
embark'd
himself
for
Asia
,
and
had
elected
the
Court
of
King
Antiochus
for
his
retreat
:
Thither
I
directed
my
journey
,
resolving
to
prosecute
him
with
as
little
intermission
,
as
he
had
Izadora's
virtue
;
but
the
gods
were
so
much
enemies
to
my
design
,
that
what
by
tedious
sickness
,
what
by
the
crossness
of
the
winds
,
I
arriv'd
not
there
,
'till
there
was
nothing
left
of
the
Carthaginian
,
but
his
fame
;
he
himself
being
gone
to
Prusia's
King
of
Bithinia
,
after
he
had
lost
the
Battel
of
Magnesia
at
Sea
,
by
the
Cowardice
of
Apolonius
his
Colleague
;
who
flying
away
,
left
all
the
Right
Wing
of
the
Enemies
Fleet
entire
,
to
fall
upon
the
Carthaginians
Squadron
that
was
much
shatter'd
in
obtaining
a
Victory
over
the
Rhodians
which
compos'd
the
Left
:
But
this
misfortune
was
term'd
a
Crime
by
Antiochus's
Courtiers
,
who
apprehended
Hannibals
knowledge
in
War
,
would
soon
,
if
once
manifested
to
their
King
,
discover
their
ignorance
in
it
.
I
cannot
omit
telling
you
a
passage
which
perhaps
you
may
esteem
worthy
the
digression
,
when
Antiochus
was
at
Ephesus
,
and
Hannibal
with
him
,
the
Romans
,
amongst
many
other
Ambassadors
they
sent
to
that
great
King
,
elected
Scipio
for
one
,
who
discoursing
familiarly
with
the
Carthaginian
,
desir'd
to
know
of
him
,
who
he
esteem'd
the
noblest
General
of
all
others
?
Hannibal
answer'd
,
first
he
thought
Alexander
King
of
Macedon
the
chiefest
;
next
to
him
,
Pyrrhus
King
of
Epire
;
and
thirdly
,
Hannibal
.
Scipio
(
smiling
)
ask'd
him
,
What
wouldst
thou
say
Hannibal
,
if
thou
hadst
vanquisht
me
.
Truly
(
said
he
)
then
I
would
have
been
the
chiefest
my self
.
This
Reply
was
the
handsomest
Compliment
I
have
heard
,
for
without
counting
Scipio
amongst
the
greatest
,
he
inclusively
acknowledg'd
him
so
.
To
conclude
our
Story
,
I
will
not
tell
you
all
Hannibals
Actions
under
Prusias
,
in
his
Wars
against
Eumenes
King
of
Pergamus
,
't
is
enough
you
know
wheresoever
I
follow'd
him
,
I
found
him
(
by
his
Military
virtue
)
a
General
,
and
at
last
(
through
a
thousand
troubles
and
dangers
)
I
came
to
Libissa
,
the
Town
of
his
Residence
,
where
the
next
morning
I
intended
to
endeavor
the
finishing
of
that
Combat
in
Asia
,
which
was
but
begun
in
Asrick
;
and
that
which
gave
me
the
hopes
of
effecting
it
with
less
pain
,
was
,
that
by
a
new
contracted
jealousie
of
Prusias's
,
he
liv'd
then
but
as
a
private
person
.
The
day
no
sooner
appear'd
,
than
I
went
to
Hannibals
house
,
but
alas
I
found
all
his
Domesticks
weeping
over
his
dead
body
,
and
inquiring
from
one
of
the
principallest
of
them
,
the
occasion
of
that
disaster
;
he
told
me
,
That
Titus
Quintus
Flamminius
,
a
Roman
Ambassador
to
Prusias
,
having
seen
Hannibal
in
his
Court
,
was
so
incensed
at
that
object
,
by
the
remembrance
of
those
miseries
his
Valor
had
involv'd
the
Roman
Empire
in
,
that
he
never
left
solliciting
the
barbarous
King
,
to
revenge
their
sufferings
on
the
Actor
of
them
,
'till
he
had
obtained
an
order
to
have
him
delivered
into
his
hands
;
which
the
generous
Hannibal
inform'd
of
,
to
prevent
falling
into
a
Romans
power
,
had
that
night
temper'd
an
exact
Poyson
,
and
hearing
Prusias's
Guards
forcing
his
Lodgings
,
cry'd
out
,
Come
,
let
us
end
our
own
misery
,
and
the
Roman
fears
,
and
then
drank
of
the
fatal
Cup
,
which
has
afforded
him
that
ease
,
which
none
that
know
him
,
and
Virtue
,
can
participate
of
,
till
they
are
in
his
condition
;
but
(
said
the
sad
servant
)
I
beseech
you
(
Sir
)
observe
in
this
example
,
how
much
the
present
Romans
do
degenerate
from
their
Ancestors
;
those
preserved
their
conquering
Enemy
from
Poyson
,
and
these
induce
a
King
,
contrary
to
the
Laws
of
Hospitality
,
and
Faith
,
to
betray
his
Guest
.
Hannibals
servant
could
speak
no
more
for
weeping
;
and
though
I
was
sorry
any
but
Perolla
should
revenge
Izadora
,
yet
I
was
satisfi'd
that
the
gods
(
by
making
him
become
his
own
Executioner
)
evinc'd
,
his
Crimes
were
great
by
their
punishment
,
and
declared
their
justice
to
be
so
too
,
in
forcing
him
that
had
been
her
Enemy
,
to
become
his
own
,
and
her
Revenger
.
The
next
day
this
great
Captain
was
buried
,
and
my
anger
dying
with
the
cause
of
it
,
I
esteem'd
it
a
duty
to
attend
his
body
to
the
Tomb
,
which
had
no
other
Inscription
,
but
HERE
LIES
HANNIBAL
,
and
indeed
was
not
capable
of
a
greater
.
This
Solemnity
perform'd
,
I
began
to
return
into
Italy
,
from
whence
my
Revenge
had
too
long
detain'd
me
,
but
the
misfortunes
I
endur'd
,
and
the
obstructions
I
met
with
were
such
,
that
I
arriv'd
not
in
this
City
,
'till
the
very
day
the
Inhabitants
of
it
sent
to
treat
with
the
generous
Spartacus
,
which
to
do
byfear
,
and
not
by
necessity
,
I
esteem'd
so
low
a
thing
,
that
making
my self
known
,
I
made
their
duty
so
to
them
,
which
was
to
oppose
their
captivity
in
a
way
,
that
if
afterward
it
prov'd
their
destiny
,
yet
at
least
it
would
be
esteem'd
their
misfortune
,
and
not
their
crime
.
The
first
day
our
success
was
proportionate
to
our
desires
,
and
the
next
,
where
Canitius
storm'd
,
I
had
the
fortune
to
oppose
,
and
worst
him
;
but
whil'st
a
fresh
Alarm
drew
me
,
though
not
the
Guard
,
from
that
Post
,
by
your
unresistable
Sword
,
you
made
a
passage
for
your
Army
,
as
easie
for
them
,
as
glorious
for
your self
;
But
I
thank
the
gods
(
Perolla
continu'd
)
that
I
was
call'd
away
,
for
perhaps
my
sacrilegious
Arm
might
have
been
employ'd
against
a
Virtue
,
which
to
have
fought
against
,
or
resisted
,
would
have
more
troubled
me
,
than
to
be
vanquisht
by
it
,
and
which
to
know
,
is
so
great
a
felicity
,
that
I
count
my
defeat
an
easie
purchase
of
it
.
The
news
of
you
possessing
that
quarter
of
the
Town
,
no
sooner
came
to
me
in
this
,
than
not
knowing
to
what
insolency
the
Soldiers
hea●
,
authorized
by
a
successful
As●ault
,
might
raise
them
to
,
abandoning
all
other
cares
but
those
for
Izadora
,
I
ran
to
the
Religious
House
she
was
in
,
and
carried
her
from
thence
to
Pacuvius's
,
there
to
preserve
her
Honour
,
or
not
live
to
see
it
violated
;
where
all
those
friends
I
had
about
me
,
were
lost
in
so
generous
a
defence
,
and
where
(
when
my
resistance
was
no
longer
useful
)
I
deriv'd
that
from
my
Enemies
virtue
,
which
the
gods
deny'd
my
endeavors
,
and
my
sword
.
'T
was
thus
(
said
)
Symander
to
Callimmachus
)
that
Perolla
finisht
his
Story
,
on
which
,
if
I
have
too
long
insisted
,
't
was
to
publish
what
were
a
sin
to
conceal
.
It
remains
now
to
acquaint
you
,
what
period
had
our
Lovers
sufferings
,
in
which
my
Prince
so
justly
sympathiz'd
,
that
he
had
doubtless
made
use
of
his
power
to
settle
them
in
their
joyes
,
had
he
not
first
esteem'd
it
requisite
to
hear
what
their
fathers
could
object
,
which
having
invited
them
to
,
P●cuvius
addrest
his
discourse
unto
him
in
these
terms
.
If
I
thought
your
justice
were
not
as
great
as
your
conquests
,
I
might
apprehend
,
after
Izadora's
Story
,
that
you
would
not
have
the
patience
to
hear
my
defence
,
but
look
upon
that
as
an
evincement
of
my
being
as
highly
guilty
of
cruelty
,
as
I
am
confident
by
that
time
I
have
ended
speaking
,
you
will
think
me
free
from
it
;
for
I
will
make
it
evident
,
that
all
those
Actions
which
she
alledges
,
proceed
from
his
inclinations
to
her
,
and
to
virtue
,
are
only
testimonies
of
his
hatred
to
his
father
.
His
high
generosity
,
and
a
desire
of
freeing
his
Countrey
,
was
,
to
kill
Hannibal
,
my
greatest
friend
,
which
was
far
worse
than
to
have
murther'd
me
,
my
death
had
ended
all
miseries
with
it
;
but
to
survive
such
a
friend
,
was
to
endure
a
torment
,
which
none
but
he
that
resented
it
,
can
believe
;
or
if
I
thought
death
a
greater
contentment
than
life
,
by
that
Action
he
reduc'd
me
to
the
sad
extremity
of
being
my
own
Executioner
;
but
that
which
was
worse
than
all
this
,
he
design'd
to
murther
that
great
Conqueror
in
my
own
house
,
where
he
would
have
no
Guards
but
my
Fidelity
;
which
to
have
violated
,
had
been
a
breach
of
Trust
,
and
Hospitality
,
two
of
the
most
sacred
Tyes
,
and
all
this
under
a
pretence
of
serving
the
Romans
,
who
had
they
not
scorn'd
to
owe
their
safety
to
a
sin
that
had
render'd
them
unworthy
of
it
,
night
certainly
have
found
spirits
of
a
temper
apt
enough
to
sacrifice
themselves
,
to
have
preserv'd
the
Publick
;
but
the
high
esteem
they
yet
pay
Fabritius's
memory
,
for
not
permitting
one
of
Pyrrhus's
own
Subjects
,
upon
(
as
it
were
)
the
eve
of
their
ruine
,
to
poyson
him
,
does
sufficiently
demonstrate
,
they
had
rather
hazard
their
Empire
,
than
their
Reputation
;
and
certainly
if
they
thought
it
gallantry
in
Fabritius
,
not
to
purchase
their
safeties
,
by
only
permitting
an
ill
Act
in
an
Epyrote
,
which
he
had
no
interest
in
,
but
what
his
knowledge
of
it
gave
him
,
how
much
would
they
then
condemn
a
Roman
,
when
their
State
was
not
near
in
so
great
a
hazard
,
so
that
that
which
he
would
have
appear
an
obligation
to
his
Countrey
,
would
have
been
really
a
sin
against
it
,
and
his
family
:
But
besides
,
who
knows
,
if
after
having
done
the
Fact
,
he
would
not
have
fled
,
(
for
I
can
hardly
believe
,
he
that
would
act
a
treacherous
design
,
would
expose
his
life
to
justifie
he
intended
it
for
a
generous
one
)
and
so
have
lest
me
a
sa●rifi●e
to
the
fury
of
Hannibal's
Soldiers
.
The
next
proof
of
his
Affection
to
me
,
was
to
preserve
my
greatest
enemies
Life
,
when
I
might
by
so
favourable
an
adventure
have
purchas'd
that
Death
,
which
I
would
a
thousand
times
have
bought
by
my
own
,
had
not
higher
considerations
,
plac'd
limits
to
my
just
revenge
.
He
pretends
indeed
,
that
he
comes
to
see
me
,
but
the
event
justifies
,
't
is
to
preserve
Blacius
;
he
is
loaden
with
wounds
for
the
defence
of
Izadora's
Father
,
and
spends
that
bloud
for
his
preservation
,
which
could
not
have
been
more
generously
spilt
,
than
for
his
destruction
;
in
a
word
,
he
employs
that
Life
I
gave
him
,
to
preserve
his
,
that
he
knew
,
made
mine
my
greatest
torment
;
and
as
if
all
those
were
not
sufficient
wrongs
,
he
makes
his
House
his
Sanctuary
,
and
thereby
excludes
me
,
and
his
friends
,
from
affording
him
any
demonstrations
of
our
care
;
but
that
I
look
upon
as
an
argument
of
his
guilt
,
which
was
of
a
quality
,
to
make
him
esteem
himself
safer
with
his
Enemies
,
than
with
me
.
But
his
most
unpardonable
crime
was
,
to
become
a
Slave
to
one
of
that
Family
,
whose
greatest
ambition
should
have
been
,
to
have
made
all
of
them
his
;
nay
,
Courts
her
with
Sighs
and
Tears
,
to
accept
his
Liberty
,
and
by
a
thousand
such
unworthy
submissions
endeavours
to
make
me
question
his
Mothers
Faith
,
which
I
should
have
done
,
did
I
not
know
one
of
the
greatest
vices
,
is
to
suspect
she
hadany
;
for
in
a
long
succession
of
years
,
there
were
none
legitimate
of
our
Line
till
the
degenerate
Perolla
,
but
with
their
milk
,
suck'd
a
hatred
for
that
of
Blacius's
;
but
he
had
no
sooner
gotten
his
health
,
and
lost
his
liberty
,
but
more
joyful
of
the
last
than
of
the
first
,
he
quits
Salapia
,
without
paying
me
the
duty
of
a
visit
,
which
was
the
pretence
of
his
coming
thither
,
and
his
impiety
not
being
yet
come
to
the
height
of
attempting
my
Life
with
his
own
hand
,
he
endeavours
it
obliquely
,
by
taking
up
Arms
for
the
Romans
,
against
the
Carthaginians
,
in
whose
party
I
was
so
engag'd
,
that
he
could
not
prosecute
their
overthrow
and
effect
it
,
without
involving
me
in
their
ruine
;
and
when
the
great
Hannibal
,
had
justly
censur'd
Blacius
to
death
,
for
his
pactice
with
the
Romans
,
Perolla
(
that
I
might
not
suspect
the
first
service
he
did
him
,
was
by
accident
,
but
design
)
engages
all
such
of
his
friends
as
he
could
seduce
,
and
with
them
,
employs
his
Sword
,
and
Life
,
to
redeem
my
greatest
enemies
;
in
which
attempt
,
as
you
have
heard
,
he
had
a
success
proportionate
to
his
desires
;
and
after
that
Blacius
was
found
out
,
and
brought
to
the
Scaffold
,
there
to
receive
the
punishment
of
his
offences
,
lest
I
might
yet
doubt
he
lov'd
his
Enemies
,
as
much
as
he
hated
his
Father
,
he
voluntarily
embraces
Death
,
to
justify
that
Truth
.
Judge
(
Sir
)
if
ever
there
were
a
higher
injury
than
this
,
and
if
by
it
,
my
hatred
be
not
as
just
,
as
great
,
for
in
this
one
action
,
he
destroys
that
Life
,
he
knew
(
maugre
all
his
ingratitude
)
I
yet
lov'd
best
,
to
preserve
his
,
whom
I
hated
most
;
but
he
was
preserv'd
from
death
by
Izadora's
Tears
;
Izadora
I
say
,
one
of
Blacius
Family
,
which
had
he
had
any
generosity
,
he
should
rather
have
suffer'd
,
than
ow'd
his
deliverance
to
such
a
Deliverer
;
For
my
part
,
the
cause
of
his
safety
,
took
away
all
my
joyes
for
the
effect
,
and
made
me
celebrate
his
preservation
in
Tears
:
but
though
Hannibal
pardon'd
his
life
,
yet
he
kept
him
in
prison
,
where
he
had
still
retain'd
him
,
had
not
the
generous
Maharbal
given
him
his
liberty
,
which
he
had
no
sooner
obtain'd
,
than
he
employes
it
by
bearing
Arms
under
the
Romans
)
for
his
destruction
that
gave
it
him
;
but
perhaps
he
will
say
,
he
redeem'd
that
fault
by
giving
Maharbal
his
life
;
to
which
I
answer
,
that
was
no
satisfaction
for
the
old
Crime
;
but
the
acting
of
a
new
one
,
for
he
was
only
treacherous
to
his
friends
,
to
repair
his
ingratitude
to
his
Enemies
,
and
thereby
committed
one
sin
,
to
act
another
;
he
makes
the
publique
,
pay
for
his
particular
fault
,
and
redeems
his
own
unworthiness
,
by
depriving
the
party
he
serv'd
,
of
so
considerable
a
prisoner
;
besides
,
what
happen'd
was
but
an
accident
,
but
his
taking
up
Arms
was
a
design
.
Thus
you
see
,
those
actions
he
most
glories
in
,
being
diligently
enquir'd
into
,
are
found
contrary
to
what
they
appear'd
,
and
if
his
best
performances
are
crimes
,
what
are
then
his
others
?
He
was
an
earnest
persecutor
of
Hannibal
,
(
my
greatest
friend
)
while
he
continu'd
in
Italy
,
all
my
perswasions
,
and
Prayers
,
not
being
able
to
hinder
him
so
much
,
as
from
acting
against
him
in
his
person
;
and
as
if
the
knowledge
of
the
affection
I
pay'd
that
great
General
,
were
a
sufficient
cause
to
creat
Perolla's
hatred
for
him
,
he
left
his
own
Countrey
,
and
his
Izadora
too
,
to
prosecute
him
under
Scipio
in
Africk
,
and
at
that
famous
Battel
at
Zama
,
a
thousand
times
ventur'd
his
own
life
,
to
deprive
Hannibal
of
his
;
and
though
he
alledges
that
he
preserved
him
,
when
he
might
have
acted
his
destruction
;
yet
I
shall
beseech
you
to
consider
,
he
is
but
his
own
Witness
,
and
whether
it
be
likely
he
would
have
neglected
that
opportunity
,
had
it
been
offer'd
,
which
he
has
since
sought
out
over
all
the
world
,
and
never
declin'd
,
whilst
there
was
any
possibility
of
finding
it
,
He
was
not
only
content
to
injure
me
in
my
Friend
,
but
does
it
too
in
my
Enemy
:
and
that
I
might
not
doubt
his
perseverance
in
his
former
courses
,
by
stealing
away
Izadora
(
in
which
Sin
every
accessary
is
a
principal
)
he
violates
both
Humane
and
Divine
Laws
,
and
rather
elects
the
committing
of
so
high
a
crime
,
than
that
I
should
want
testimonies
of
so
proportionate
a
Truth
;
●y
,
by
his
own
confession
,
would
have
Married
her
,
and
joyn'd
those
two
Blouds
together
,
that
never
till
then
were
united
,
but
when
they
ran
from
Wounds
,
and
mingled
on
the
ground
,
and
would
thereby
have
ty'd
my
Hand
from
revenge
,
or
for●'d
me
to
act
it
,
thorough
my
only
Son
.
Lastly
,
and
that
I
hope
will
not
prove
in
your
judgement
inferior
to
any
,
when
your
victorious
Arms
had
struck
such
a
terror
into
our
Citizens
,
that
we
were
going
to
present
you
our
Keys
,
and
Liberties
,
he
,
by
his
unfortunate
perswasion
,
and
example
,
made
them
take
up
Arms
,
and
for●'d
you
to
purchase
your
Victory
by
Blood
,
reduc'd
his
Countrey
and
Friends
,
to
a
fatal
subjection
,
or
death
,
or
to
owe
to
their
Deliverance
to
a
Mercy
,
they
have
so
highly
offended
,
that
they
are
unworthy
of
it
;
but
if
you
execute
the
rigor
of
War
upon
us
,
and
that
your
Justice
involves
Perolla
in
the
publique
Fate
,
I
shall
then
find
my
happiness
in
my
destruction
,
and
more
commend
Fortune
in
revenging
me
upon
him
,
than
be
displeas'd
at
her
,
for
my
own
and
Salapia's
ruine
.
Spartacus
and
all
the
assistants
,
were
infinitely
surpriz'd
at
so
strange
a
reasoning
,
and
request
:
But
my
Prince
put
a
silence
to
the
general
murmur
,
by
inviting
Blacius
to
speak
,
who
thus
obey'd
him
.
I
attest
the
gods
(
said
he
,
lifting
his
Eyes
and
his
Hands
to
the
place
of
their
residence
)
that
from
the
time
Perolla
preserv'd
my
life
,
it
has
been
my
misfortune
;
for
if
ever
since
,
I
deriv'd
any
joy
from
this
Woman
,
(
pointing
at
Izadora
)
't
was
only
learning
by
my
own
sufferings
,
in
her
want
of
Duty
,
what
Pacuvius's
were
in
his
Sons
immitating
her
crime
;
but
because
she
has
told
her
own
story
with
so
much
Art
,
that
it
may
induce
you
to
consider
my
resentments
,
as
an
injustice
,
I
shall
briefly
give
you
a
true
Comment
upon
it
;
I
confess
she
had
my
Command
to
cherish
,
and
esteem
him
that
preserv'd
my
life
;
but
she
had
it
not
to
give
those
retributions
to
Perolla
:
That
ignorance
,
which
(
I
believe
)
procur'd
my
safety
,
procur'd
that
injunction
;
I
found
him
my
Friend
,
when
I
gave
him
my
affection
,
but
she
knew
him
my
Enemy
,
when
she
gave
him
hers
,
Observe
too
,
I
beseech
you
,
how
confident
this
young
man
was
of
having
it
;
when
the
argument
he
us'd
to
make
her
declare
that
Truth
,
was
only
,
if
she
avow'd
it
not
,
he
would
kill
her
Fathers
Enemy
;
that
which
was
a
just
motive
to
silence
her
Flame
,
was
his
inducement
to
invite
her
to
disclose
it
;
in
which
one
action
she
doubly
injur'd
me
,
in
not
only
being
content
to
save
my
mortal'st
Enemy
,
when
too
,
she
contributed
nothing
to
his
ruine
,
but
the
performing
of
her
Duty
,
but
also
in
making
the
purchase
of
that
safety
,
the
loss
of
my
only
Child
;
she
obey'd
me
,
whilst
she
knew
I
was
ignorant
of
what
I
did
,
and
disobey'd
me
,
when
she
ignor'd
not
what
I
enjoyn'd
,
but
that
also
the
injunction
was
just
;
besides
,
after
I
had
preserv'd
Perolla's
life
,
when
I
had
both
Power
and
Justice
,
to
extinguish
it
,
by
her
receiving
his
prohibited
visits
,
and
by
making
a
contract
of
passions
with
him
,
she
thereby
endeavours
to
induce
me
to
detest
Charity
,
by
converting
the
effects
of
Mine
,
into
so
sensible
a
gief
;
and
when
for
my
successful
endeavours
and
duty
to
the
Roman
Empire
,
I
became
Hanniba'ls
prisoner
,
she
invites
an
assistance
for
my
Liberty
,
which
I
had
declar'd
in
her
hearing
was
a
greater
misfortune
than
that
execution
I
was
menac'd
with
;
whereby
she
did
offend
either
my
professions
or
me
;
the
first
,
by
not
crediting
them
,
or
the
last
,
in
acting
against
them
,
if
she
believ'd
their
Truth
;
nay
,
she
acknowledg'd
she
was
apprehensive
of
losing
her
happiness
,
in
attempting
to
preserve
a
part
,
intending
her
Lover
by
the
former
,
and
her
Father
by
the
latter
,
thereby
becoming
so
impious
,
as
before
Perolla
was
her
Husband
,
to
give
him
a
precedency
,
only
due
unto
that
relation
:
She
is
so
earnest
to
disoblige
me
,
that
she
impudently
confest
,
she
put
her self
in
the
highest
perplexity
she
was
capable
of
,
to
involve
me
in
a
resembling
one
.
When
I
was
got
out
of
prison
,
in
the
hurry
of
that
change
,
she
endeavours
to
extort
a
declaration
from
me
,
that
in
a
setled
temper
of
mind
,
she
knew
my
judgement
would
deny
;
gives
Perolla
unjust
praises
,
to
make
me
give
him
an
unjust
reward
,
and
would
render
that
an
act
of
Friendship
for
me
,
which
was
but
one
of
Friendship
to
himself
,
as
you
may
be
pleas'd
to
remember
I
then
largely
evinc'd
;
but
when
the
second
time
I
was
taken
,
whether
it
proceeded
from
their
revenge
,
or
my
own
misfortune
,
I
will
not
positively
determine
;
Alas
(
Sir
)
how
ungrateful
was
her
carriage
?
she
says
that
she
came
to
preserve
my
life
,
but
her
actions
say
,
't
was
to
preserve
Perolla's
and
when
her
Fathers
,
and
her
Loverslife
,
came
in
competition
,
she
gave
up
the
first
a
Sacrifice
,
to
preserve
the
last
from
being
one
;
neither
can
she
alledge
this
impious
proceeding
,
was
an
effect
of
a
precipitate
election
upon
a
suddain
emergency
;
for
after
she
had
publish'd
her
Love
was
the
god
over
her
Duty
,
Hannibal
(
startled
at
a
Declaration
which
was
even
a
Monster
in
Nature
)
gave
her
,
not
only
leasure
to
reflect
on
her
crime
,
but
power
to
recall
it
;
yet
she
,
to
demonstrate
that
the
murthering
her
Father
,
was
a
premeditated
design
,
and
not
a
hasty
choice
,
perseveres
in
,
and
repeats
her
impiety
,
when
he
that
was
to
receive
the
advantage
of
it
condemn'd
,
and
detested
it
:
which
action
of
Virtue
,
her
depraved
reason
makes
a
confirmative
argument
for
her
continuing
in
her
vice
,
This
(
Sir
)
which
I
alledge
,
would
be
,
I
believe
,
the
reasoning
of
a
stranger
,
which
has
any
,
but
now
I
beseech
you
,
let
us
take
her
own
sence
upon
this
way
of
proceeding
;
she
first
alledg'd
,
that
I
had
not
been
gratefull
enough
to
Perolla's
Virtue
,
and
that
now
she
was
to
act
my
part
,
she
would
make
him
know
what
his
performances
were
,
and
what
my
gratitude
should
have
been
by
her
Retributions
.
To
this
I
answer
,
that
besides
my
former
saving
his
life
,
after
his
Father
treacherously
endeavour'd
to
take
away
mine
,
the
condition
I
then
was
in
,
sufficiently
confirm'd
my
Gratitude
;
for
the
same
Proclamation
which
gave
her
a
rise
to
save
my
life
,
by
her
declaring
who
't
was
that
forc'd
the
Prison
for
my
deliverance
,
gave
me
the
same
power
,
(
for
no
one
was
excluded
by
the
manifest
)
which
my
Gratitude
made
me
decline
,
and
rather
elect
to
lose
my
own
life
,
than
secure
it
by
hazarding
my
preservers
;
(
for
I
was
confident
the
Guards
were
too
strict
to
have
admitted
his
going
out
of
Salapia
)
and
though
as
in
this
action
I
evinc'd
,
that
I
preferr'd
my
Gratitude
,
before
my
life
,
so
I
did
too
,
too
,
that
I
preferr'd
death
,
before
any
alliance
with
Pacuvius's
Bloud
;
yet
she
persever'd
in
a
passion
,
which
tended
to
that
,
or
a
more
unlegitimate
end
;
Hernext
allegation
is
as
vain
as
the
first
;
for
to
justify
she
murther'd
me
with
a
good
intention
,
she
designs
to
murther
her self
,
as
if
one
crime
could
expiate
another
,
or
as
if
having
kill'd
one
of
the
Family
,
the
destroying
of
the
residue
,
were
a
sufficient
reparation
;
No
,
Sir
,
she
loves
Pacuvius's
Bloud
so
much
,
that
she
has
a
hatred
to
her
own
,
for
being
the
object
of
his
,
and
so
weds
his
resentments
,
that
she
executes
her
Father
,
herself
,
and
consequently
all
her
family
,
to
act
them
;
but
my
enemy
wasmore
merciful
than
my
Daughter
,
for
I
receiv'd
that
life
from
Hannibal
,
which
Izadora
deny'd
me
,
and
though
those
Crimes
(
her
Constancy
in
a
forbidden
Flame
,
and
her
seeking
Death
,
because
of
a
supposed
loss
which
she
knew
,
was
my
satisfaction
)
might
have
induc'd
me
to
consider
her
sufferings
,
as
an
immediate
justice
of
the
gods
,
for
her
want
of
duty
;
yet
as
soon
as
Hannibal
threaten'd
to
be
their
instrument
in
it
,
I
not
only
hazarded
my
Life
and
Fortune
to
prevent
it
,
but
also
embrac'd
her
satisfaction
with
so
much
concern
,
that
rather
than
continue
her
languishings
,
I
intended
to
set
a
period
to
them
by
giving
her
to
Perolla
;
which
I
had
effected
,
had
not
he
at
the
same
time
I
was
acting
his
felicity
,
been
robbing
me
of
my
Glory
;
for
though
he
attributed
his
immediate
leaving
of
Salapia
after
Hannibal's
repulse
,
to
a
design
of
suppressing
any
jealousie
his
continuance
in
it
might
create
,
yet
I
was
perfectly
inform'd
,
't
was
his
Ambition
not
his
Respect
,
that
caus'd
it
;
and
his
speedy
return
to
the
Camp
,
was
only
to
ingross
an
honor
to
himself
,
which
in
a
good
proportion
was
built
with
my
Bloud
;
neither
did
his
long
abstaining
from
justifying
himself
to
me
,
proceed
(
as
his
Mistriss
said
)
from
his
ignorance
of
my
resentments
,
but
from
his
being
conscious
of
the
justice
of
them
;
(
And
though
she
magnifies
Pacuvius's
Sons
gallantry
,
in
crediting
my
Change
,
I
must
only
his
Reason
,
since
in
that
only
,
by
what
I
had
already
done
,
he
might
well
credit
any
thing
I
should
doe
.
But
after
that
,
by
Perolla's
new
affront
,
I
had
alter'd
my
resolutions
,
by
esteeming
him
unworthy
of
my
Allyance
,
that
esteem'd
me
unworthy
of
justice
,
and
after
that
,
by
my
former
concessions
,
I
had
manifested
to
her
,
my
present
resentments
were
effects
of
my
Reason
,
and
not
of
aversion
for
her
Lover
,
yet
she
was
so
far
from
sympathizing
with
me
in
my
legitimate
resolves
,
that
when
I
presented
her
Flamminius
,
who
wanted
nothing
but
the
being
of
Pacuvius
Family
,
she
was
notonly
content
to
decline
the
Husband
I
approv'd
,
but
elected
one
I
justly
abhorr'd
;
and
when
his
being
more
intent
,
in
Affrick
on
her
Revenge
,
than
his
Love
,
which
might
have
something
lessen'd
hers
,
had
like
to
have
render'd
her
disobedience
without
excuse
,
she
determines
to
abandon
her
Father
,
and
the
World
,
rather
than
a
negligent
Lover
;
and
was
satisfy'd
with
no
way
of
being
reliev'd
from
her
Distress
,
unless
she
increases
her
own
Crime
,
by
making
Perolla
act
another
;
nay
,
so
much
abhorrs
any
thing
from
her
Fathers
recommendation
,
that
Flamminius
coming
to
her
upon
that
score
,
she
will
rather
hazard
her
Lovers
Bloud
,
than
spare
his
.
To
conclude
,
that
her
impiety
might
be
uncapable
of
any
accession
,
and
to
resemble
her
Servant
as
perfectly
in
Sin
,
as
in
Affection
,
she
(
like
him
)
by
stealing
away
,
violates
all
Divine
and
Humane
Laws
;
and
her
not
being
Married
,
which
she
alledges
to
qualify
her
Crime
,
is
an
aggravation
of
it
,
for
flying
from
her
Father
to
her
Husband
,
had
been
only
an
offence
in
giving
Perolla
that
Title
,
but
flying
from
her
Father
to
her
Lover
,
she
must
be
more
oblig'd
to
Mens
Charities
,
than
to
her
actions
,
if
they
have
not
thereby
as
bad
a
Character
of
her
Chastity
,
as
I
of
her
Duty
.
These
(
Sir
)
said
Blacius
,
are
my
reasonings
,
and
as
I
believe
they
are
not
much
dissonant
from
Truth
,
which
gives
me
a
confidence
,
that
if
your
justice
be
proportionable
to
your
power
,
you
will
right
an
injur'd
Father
;
but
if
her
Sex
moves
you
to
pitty
,
Perolla's
I
hope
will
not
;
your
punishment
of
him
will
obliquely
repair
my
wrongs
,
for
either
his
death
will
be
the
occasion
of
hers
,
or
if
she
revive
him
,
her
torment
,
or
her
cure
,
will
be
my
satisfaction
.
This
discourse
did
but
increase
that
wonder
Pacuvius
had
given
a
being
unto
;
And
my
Prince
was
preparing
himself
to
declaim
upon
a
Theme
,
which
would
have
furnish'd
reasons
to
a
Judgement
as
ill
,
as
his
was
excellent
,
when
he
was
diverted
by
a
noise
,
and
suddainly
perceiv'd
the
occasion
of
it
,
was
the
coming
in
of
Granius
,
Furiles
,
and
some
other
Officers
of
his
Army
,
that
presented
him
with
two
Salapians
,
whose
very
sight
almost
depriv'd
Pacuvius
,
and
Blacius
,
both
of
theirs
,
and
of
their
Lives
:
Spartacus
observ'd
it
,
and
so
did
our
generous
Lovers
,
but
being
ignorant
of
the
cause
,
they
expected
with
much
patience
to
learn
it
,
which
they
soon
did
,
by
one
of
the
Salapians
,
addressing
himself
to
Spartacus
,
in
these
words
.
Sir
,
we
are
come
to
beg
Justice
of
you
,
for
you
,
These
two
Gentlemen
(
pointing
at
Pacuvius
and
Blacius
)
whose
guilt
is
as
much
in
their
Faces
,
as
in
their
Hearts
,
observing
in
the
Assault
,
that
my
Companion
and
I
,
employ'd
our
Lives
somewhat
prodigally
for
the
defence
of
our
City
,
inferr'd
from
thence
,
that
we
would
hazard
them
,
to
be
reveng'd
on
the
Conqueror
of
it
;
and
in
this
Faith
came
severally
to
us
,
and
by
assurances
of
excessive
rewards
,
hir'd
us
by
our
treachery
,
to
destroy
what
we
could
not
by
our
Swords
.
This
office
we
accepted
;
were
seemingly
wicked
,
but
to
be
really
the
contrary
;
and
undertook
to
kill
you
,
that
we
might
preserve
you
;
for
we
apprehended
our
declining
their
overture
,
might
have
induc'd
them
to
invite
some
others
to
embrace
it
,
where
the
greatness
of
the
reward
,
might
have
cover'd
the
greatness
of
the
crime
;
besides
(
Sir
)
for
us
to
have
undertook
such
a
design
,
had
been
a
Sin
against
Gratitude
,
as
well
as
Honour
;
for
we
are
two
of
those
that
receiv'd
our
Liberties
,
when
we
expected
our
Deaths
,
and
if
we
employ'd
those
Lives
against
you
,
which
we
receiv'd
from
you
,
't
was
not
only
by
your
permission
,
but
by
your
command
;
and
since
to
obey
you
,
we
durst
draw
our
Swords
against
you
,
you
cannot
suspect
we
will
decline
any
other
obedience
.
The
Salapian
had
no
sooner
done
speaking
,
than
Blacius
first
,
and
afterwards
Pacuvius
,
acknowledg'd
by
their
words
,
,
what
their
tremblings
and
disorders
had
confest
;
and
though
they
severally
alledg'd
,
that
the
ignorance
they
then
were
in
,
of
my
Prince's
virtue
,
and
their
knowledge
,
that
in
him
only
consisted
the
Life
and
Soul
of
his
Army
,
had
induc'd
them
to
that
revenge
,
yet
all
the
Assistants
(
but
the
generous
Lovers
)
were
so
enrag'd
at
them
,
for
their
Tyranny
to
their
Children
,
and
their
intended
treachery
treachery
to
so
mild
a
Conqueror
,
that
there
was
nothing
heard
in
that
great
Assembly
but
Cryes
,
that
Spartacus
should
revenge
himself
,
that
he
should
extirpate
such
Monsters
out
of
the
World
,
and
pay
with
their
Lives
,
those
Crosses
which
they
had
given
to
Izadora
and
Perolla
.
Granicus
too
,
and
the
other
Officers
that
came
with
him
,
inform'd
Spartacus
,
that
they
had
been
already
condemn'd
by
a
Court-Marshal
upon
that
Article
,
That
whosoever
endeavour'd
the
death
of
the
General
,
should
receive
his
own
,
for
his
punishment
,
so
that
he
had
nothing
to
do
,
but
to
give
the
Law
its
course
,
which
in
that
case
to
oppose
,
was
not
to
be
merciful
,
but
unjust
.
All
this
while
the
generous
Lovers
were
so
confounded
,
that
had
not
their
innocence
been
known
,
their
disorders
and
trouble
,
had
been
taken
for
their
Guilt
;
but
my
Prince
having
whisper'd
something
privately
to
Euriles
,
he
went
to
Izadora
,
and
her
generous
Servant
begg'd
them
to
excuse
an
execution
which
Blacius
and
Pacuvius
merited
,
had
it
been
only
for
their
cruelty
to
them
,
that
in
their
deaths
they
might
read
the
justice
of
the
gods
,
by
rendring
their
vices
,
(
which
had
been
the
cause
of
their
own
troubles
)
the
occasion
of
their
Parents
punishment
,
and
of
their
own
quiet
;
that
since
for
him
to
be
just
,
would
make
them
happy
,
he
hoped
they
would
pardon
a
revenge
,
which
he
inflicted
as
much
upon
their
score
,
as
his
own
.
Then
my
Prince
bid
Euriles
carry
away
the
Delinquents
,
to
receive
the
censure
had
been
giventhem
.
At
that
sad
command
,
both
Izadora
and
Perolla
cast
themselves
at
Spartacus
Feet
,
which
having
a
while
wash'd
with
their
Tears
,
they
begg'd
him
either
to
alter
his
sentence
,
or
permit
them
to
participate
in
it
;
that
if
the
death
of
their
Fathers
must
be
the
only
way
to
their
union
;
they
would
be
content
with
the
being
eternally
deny'd
it
,
rather
than
purchase
it
at
that
rate
;
that
they
should
be
more
miserable
in
the
loss
of
their
Parents
,
than
in
their
cruelty
:
and
lastly
,
they
protested
by
inviolable
Oaths
,
if
they
suffer'd
;
they
would
perpetually
banish
themselves
from
each
others
company
,
and
either
by
grief
or
resolution
,
suddenly
follow
them
.
Then
rising
up
from
my
Prince
,
they
prostrated
themselves
at
their
Fathers
Feet
,
where
they
again
reiterated
those
engagements
,
and
in
such
passionate
terms
,
and
moving
actions
implor'd
their
pardons
for
those
disobediences
their
Lovers
,
(
not
they
)
had
committed
,
and
which
they
would
suddainly
repair
,
by
embracing
a
resembling
destiny
to
theirs
,
that
my
Prince
could
not
abstain
from
crying
out
,
Tyrants
,
are
you
so
much
fortified
against
Virtue
,
that
so
powerful
an
assault
,
must
remain
fruitless
?
can
Fathers
see
that
without
pity
,
which
Strangers
cannot
?
can
Nature
be
insensible
against
the
attempts
of
Nature
?
Whilst
Spartacus
was
speaking
many
things
of
this
quality
,
Izadora
and
her
generous
Servant
had
by
their
weepings
so
laid
their
Fathers
rage
,
as
showres
do
storms
,
that
those
Clouds
of
hatred
,
which
had
so
long
hinder'd
Reason
,
and
Nature
from
shining
,
began
by
little
and
little
to
dispell
,
and
they
were
no
sooner
absolutely
vanish'd
,
than
Blacius
first
went
to
Perolla
,
and
Pacuvius
afterwards
to
Izadora
,
and
in
more
Tears
,
than
Words
,
acknowledg'd
their
repentance
,
and
conversion
,
and
when
their
several
passions
permitted
them
to
speak
,
they
joyfully
commanded
them
to
consider
their
sentence
;
but
as
a
tribute
to
the
Law
of
Nature
,
and
War
,
and
that
they
should
in
the
joys
of
their
union
,
extinguish
all
the
sorrow
their
Deaths
could
inspire
,
which
they
protested
was
not
so
great
a
trouble
to
them
,
as
that
they
had
so
long
,
and
cruelly
hinder'd
it
.
I
am
,
I
confess
(
continu'd
Symander
)
unable
to
tell
you
Spartacus's
raptures
at
this
change
;
he
first
ran
to
the
Fathers
,
embracing
them
,
pardon'd
them
,
and
gave
them
as
many
thanks
for
their
conversion
,
as
if
he
had
been
to
enjoy
the
effect
of
it
;
then
he
went
to
our
generous
Lovers
,
told
them
,
that
his
private
Commands
to
Euriles
were
much
different
from
his
publique
ones
,
that
he
seem'd
to
be
cruel
,
but
to
make
their
Fathers
just
;
that
he
was
glad
an
attempt
against
his
life
,
had
setled
the
Felicity
of
theirs
which
he
would
have
gladly
bought
by
the
attempts
,
having
been
turn'd
into
an
execution
.
I
should
lose
my self
,
did
I
acquaint
you
with
Perolla's
and
Izadora's
extasies
,
with
Pacuvius
and
Blacius's
embracings
,
their
beging
mutual
Pardons
for
a
hate
,
which
then
was
converted
into
as
great
a
friendship
,
and
with
all
their
gratitudes
to
Spartacus
.
To
finish
their
Adventures
,
't
is
sufficient
I
tell
you
all
things
changed
their
Faces
,
and
those
passions
of
Hatred
,
Fear
,
and
Revenge
,
resign'd
their
places
unto
Love
,
Friendship
,
and
Kindness
,
and
as
soon
as
those
wounds
Perolla
had
receiv'd
from
the
Sword
;
permitted
him
to
heal
those
he
had
receiv'd
from
Love
,
he
was
put
in
possession
of
his
Izadora
,
which
was
a
felicity
so
far
above
needing
a
foyl
to
set
it
off
,
that
his
past
troubles
and
crosses
were
not
consider'd
,
but
forgot
;
And
lest
you
should
think
I
have
the
two
Salapians
,
or
Spartacus
,
I
will
tell
you
,
that
the
former
had
abundant
cause
given
them
of
satisfaction
,
and
the
latters
Adventures
I
will
now
resume
,
where
I
broke
them
off
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
SECOND
PART
.
BOOK
II.
AFter
my
Prince
had
seen
the
Solemnities
perform'd
of
so
perfect
an
Union
,
wherein
he
omitted
nothing
which
might
testify
his
satisfaction
at
it
;
That
the
Salapians
might
for
ever
remember
,
and
be
sharers
in
the
joy
;
Spartacus
assembl'd
the
chiefest
of
them
together
,
and
in
terms
as
obliging
as
the
action
it self
,
inform'd
them
:
That
least
they
might
alledge
Perolla's
Courage
drew
them
into
their
misfortunes
he
protested
,
the
just
esteem
he
had
of
it
,
and
of
his
virtue
,
made
him
restore
them
to
their
former
freedom
;
That
for
his
sake
,
and
the
fair
Izadora's
,
he
would
immediately
withdraw
his
Army
from
their
City
,
which
should
never
approach
it
again
but
for
their
preservation
,
for
which
he
would
at
any
time
relinquish
his
own
designs
,
and
repeat
as
great
dangers
to
defend
,
as
he
had
done
to
take
it
.
This
generous
declaration
(
as
they
all
profest
)
afforded
them
a
satisfaction
,
far
transcending
the
grief
they
resented
,
for
that
loss
,
which
gave
my
dear
Master
the
power
of
thus
obliging
them
;
and
to
publish
their
gratitude
,
as
well
as
contentment
,
they
deputed
immediately
from
the
body
of
the
People
,
certain
select
Citizens
to
the
generous
Lovers
,
where
after
an
Oration
(
too
tedious
to
be
remembr'd
,
)
they
concluded
,
that
since
their
own
sufferings
,
had
been
the
cause
of
their
Felicity
,
they
were
so
far
from
deploring
them
,
that
they
would
willingly
undergo
greater
,
if
they
might
produce
a
resembling
effect
.
These
Ceremonies
were
no
sooner
finisht
,
than
Spartacus
went
to
take
his
leave
of
Perolla
and
Izadora
,
the
last
of
which
(
in
both
their
Names
)
conjur'd
him
to
acquaint
them
who
he
was
,
for
they
could
not
fancy
,
so
sublime
a
virtue
had
a
disproportionable
extraction
.
Alas
Madam
(
said
my
Prince
,
extreamly
surpriz'd
)
what
is
it
that
you
ask
of
me
?
then
after
some
deep
sighs
(
which
the
reflection
on
his
miseries
forc'd
from
him
)
he
continu'd
;
I
take
the
gods
for
witnesses
,
(
fair
Izadora
)
did
not
an
inviolable
Vow
tye
me
to
a
concealment
of
myself
,
I
would
have
satisfy'd
your
curiosity
,
as
soon
as
I
had
known
it
,
but
all
that
I
dare
inform
you
of
,
is
,
That
I
had
my
birth
in
As●a
;
that
I
am
born
a
Prince
of
the
greatest
bloud
of
the
World
;
that
an
infelicity
in
Love
has
not
made
me
abandon
my
Countrey
onely
,
but
my
hopes
,
and
forces
me
to
languish
in
as
high
torments
,
as
you
are
now
in
joyes
.
These
sad
words
,
and
the
remembrance
of
the
cause
which
produc'd
them
,
struck
Spartacus
with
so
black
a
melancholly
,
that
it
prov'd
contagious
,
and
communicated
it self
to
the
fair
Izadora
,
and
her
generous
servant
,
who
judging
what
those
misfortunes
must
be
which
could
have
so
powerful
an
ascendent
,
over
so
admirable
a
courage
and
judgment
,
immediately
converted
those
Prayers
which
they
had
used
for
the
learning
of
his
Adventures
,
for
his
Pardon
in
having
desir'd
a
knowledge
of
them
.
After
that
Perolla
in
civility
and
sympathy
,
had
awhile
continu'd
in
silence
,
he
at
last
interrupted
it
,
by
saying
to
Spartacus
,
Generous
Prince
(
for
I
should
have
given
your
Virtue
that
Title
,
had
I
yet
been
ignorant
of
your
Birth
)
since
you
are
resolv'd
that
we
shall
only
know
you
by
the
felicities
you
have
plac'd
us
in
,
permit
me
to
offer
you
that
life
you
have
preserv'd
,
and
made
me
relish
;
perhaps
it
may
serve
you
,
and
help
to
build
for
you
,
what
you
have
perfected
in
me
;
I
know
the
fair
Izadora
will
dispense
with
my
absence
,
when
she
considers
the
cause
of
it
,
and
will
be
as
much
satisfi'd
with
my
Gratitude
,
as
with
my
Company
.
This
I
implore
(
continued
Perolla
)
as
the
only
means
to
let
you
know
my
resentments
,
whose
greatness
you
cannot
suspect
,
since
I
beg
even
to
forsake
Izadora
,
to
acquaint
you
with
them
.
This
offer
(
said
Spartacus
,
embracing
Perolla
)
is
far
more
obliging
,
than
if
it
were
acted
;
for
I
know
no
way
which
could
render
me
more
unworthy
of
it
,
than
the
accepting
it
:
Neither
could
I
embrace
so
generous
a
motion
,
without
being
as
much
an
enemy
to
my
own
happiness
,
as
to
yours
;
for
the
only
consolation
in
my
misfortunes
is
,
that
they
have
put
a
period
to
yours
,
and
by
your
abandoning
the
excellent
Izadora
,
that
also
would
be
revisht
from
me
.
I
should
never
finish
my
relation
,
did
I
acquaint
you
with
all
those
noble
tears
and
expressions
which
were
shed
,
and
spoken
,
at
my
Princes
departure
;
but
,
in
a
word
,
to
describe
the
strange
operation
it
had
,
not
only
Pacuvius
and
Blacius
,
but
all
the
Salapians
were
unconsolable
,
and
so
justly
admir'd
his
Virtues
,
that
they
almost
accounted
it
a
misfortune
to
return
to
their
former
liberty
,
since
the
being
deprived
of
his
company
,
was
the
rate
of
that
purchase
.
At
last
all
the
divisions
and
Squadrons
of
my
Princes
Army
marched
out
of
the
City
,
rather
like
Friends
than
Conquerors
,
and
received
at
the
Gates
so
liberal
a
Largess
,
that
they
had
as
much
reason
to
be
satisfied
with
the
Salapians
,
as
the
Salapians
had
to
be
so
with
them
:
All
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
,
accompanied
him
two
Miles
on
his
march
,
where
they
made
him
so
many
fresh
Retributions
for
his
Civilities
,
that
he
found
his
Sword
had
not
been
the
only
thing
which
had
Conquer'd
them
.
'T
was
at
this
last
farewell
that
Spartacus
having
taken
his
leave
of
all
the
rest
,
reiterated
his
Vows
of
perpetual
Friendship
to
Perolla
,
whose
grief
was
of
a
nature
not
to
be
exprest
by
any
thing
,
so
well
as
silence
.
But
alas
those
Glories
and
Triumphs
lost
that
name
,
or
at
least
their
operation
with
my
Prince
,
he
languisht
in
the
midst
of
Prosperity
,
and
had
been
more
obliged
to
Fortune
,
if
she
had
presented
him
with
Death
,
instead
of
Lawrels
.
All
that
day
,
and
the
next
following
,
he
continued
in
so
silent
a
melancholy
,
that
those
which
knew
not
the
Cause
,
admired
at
the
Effect
;
but
at
last
finding
,
that
Time
did
rather
improve
,
than
diminish
it
,
I
took
the
confidence
to
conjure
him
by
what
he
had
so
lately
heard
,
to
banish
his
despair
,
that
his
Love
could
not
be
more
improbable
o●
success
than
Perolla's
had
been
,
and
that
I
was
confident
the
gods
had
shew'd
him
so
miraculous
an
example
,
to
raise
and
fortifie
his
Faith
.
No
,
no
,
Symander
,
(
said
my
Prince
)
the
gods
are
resolved
never
to
let
me
see
the
joyes
of
fruition
,
but
in
others
,
they
will
give
me
the
power
to
create
all
mens
felicities
but
my
own
;
and
to
speak
truth
,
they
have
so
far
ruined
me
,
that
it
is
as
little
in
their
Power
now
,
as
Wills
to
restore
me
;
for
Parthenissa
is
fallen
into
a
Crime
which
admits
no
cure
,
and
her
loving
me
again
,
would
but
render
her
more
unworthy
of
my
love
,
for
she
cannot
now
be
kind
,
but
by
a
new
vice
:
Had
the
cruel
gods
been
pleas'd
to
have
raised
me
but
as
great
Crosses
as
Perolla's
,
I
might
have
strugled
with
,
and
perhaps
overcome
them
as
well
as
he
,
and
should
never
have
repined
at
my
Afflictions
,
could
I
have
propounded
a
possibility
of
ending
them
;
but
at
the
same
instant
that
they
made
me
wretched
,
they
made
me
uncapable
of
being
otherwise
,
and
gave
me
no
hopes
in
my
torments
,
but
that
their
greatness
would
prove
their
●ure
;
whereas
when
they
made
Blacius
hate
Perolla
,
they
made
Izadora
have
a
Passion
for
him
;
when
they
brought
him
to
be
executed
,
he
received
his
life
from
Izadora's
love
;
the
cause
of
his
preservation
,
being
more
pleasing
than
the
preservation
:
and
when
they
made
Ha●●ibal
his
Enemy
,
they
made
Izadora's
constancy
his
Friend
,
and
gave
it
power
to
triumph
over
all
obstacles
;
so
that
all
his
miseries
were
but
demonstrations
,
and
endearings
of
his
happiness
,
he
had
never
impossibilities
to
wrestle
against
:
For
if
the
Carthaginian
,
and
Blacius
,
were
destroyed
or
converted
,
he
had
alwayes
Izadora's
Heart
,
and
Arms
,
ready
to
receive
him
;
so
that
his
obstructions
(
unlike
mine
)
were
in
the
way
,
and
not
in
the
end
.
'T
was
with
a
thousand
such
Reasons
as
these
,
that
he
answer'd
mine
;
and
indeed
they
were
uttered
with
such
violence
,
that
finding
my
arguing
would
rather
inflame
,
than
lessen
his
grief
,
I
determined
to
choose
a
●itter
season
for
my
design
.
The
night
which
succeeded
this
day
,
as
soon
as
the
Army
was
Campt
,
and
the
Guards
plac'd
,
Spartacus
(
who
long'd
to
be
in
his
designed
solitude
)
sent
for
all
his
chief
Officers
,
and
spoke
to
them
to
this
effect
.
Since
(
my
generous
Companions
)
we
took
up
Arms
only
for
our
safeties
,
and
to
repair
our
wrongs
;
and
since
the
gods
have
contributed
towards
,
and
perfected
our
designs
,
it
is
high
time
to
think
of
laying
them
down
:
But
before
we
put
this
resolution
in
practice
,
let
us
face
Rome
,
and
shew
her
by
so
bold
an
Action
,
that
what
we
intend
to
perform
,
is
our
election
,
not
our
necessity
;
from
thence
,
if
their
fears
will
not
give
us
new
occasions
of
glory
,
let
us
march
directly
to
the
Alpes
,
which
having
crost
,
every
man
may
return
into
his
own
Countrey
,
and
I
make
no
doubt
,
but
passing
thus
through
the
heart
of
Italy
,
I
shall
load
you
with
as
much
wealth
,
as
glory
.
I
must
acknowledge
(
said
Symander
)
that
he
extended
himself
eloquently
,
and
largely
upon
this
subject
;
but
because
I
have
so
long
dwelt
on
Izadora's
Story
,
I
am
resolv'd
to
repair
that
fault
,
by
cutting
off
all
things
that
are
not
absolutely
essential
in
my
Princes
.
This
motion
found
its
wisht
effect
,
for
his
Army
were
as
desirous
to
secure
what
they
had
gotten
,
as
my
Prince
was
to
be
a
Hermit
;
and
truly
he
so
doted
on
recluseness
,
and
upon
any
thing
which
nourisht
his
melancholy
,
that
he
would
have
prefer'd
a
Cell
,
before
a
Throne
,
and
often
told
me
,
that
since
the
gods
would
not
afford
him
a
Crown
of
Myrtles
,
he
would
never
wear
one
of
Lawrel
.
In
brief
,
the
Senate
having
advice
that
we
took
the
direct
way
towards
Rome
,
sent
Gellius
and
Lentulus
(
both
their
Consuls
)
to
meet
us
,
as
to
the
most
dangerous
War
they
could
employ
them
in
;
and
the
whole
people
of
Rome
,
by
a
thousand
Sacrifices
,
and
publick
Humiliations
,
acknowledg'd
a
fear
,
the
justice
of
which
,
was
soon
made
evident
by
an
entire
loss
of
their
Armies
,
which
in
a
pitch'd
Field
we
absolutely
defeated
;
but
this
Victory
was
bought
,
rather
than
won
by
Spartacus
:
For
he
purchas'd
it
by
the
loss
of
all
the
Germans
in
his
Army
,
who
,
in
a
bravery
,
having
quitted
that
Post
my
Prince
had
assign'd
them
,
found
their
destruction
in
their
disobedience
,
and
their
punishment
in
their
fault
:
Canitius
,
who
commanded
them
,
came
covered
with
wounds
,
and
vowed
to
Spartacus
,
that
thouigh
he
had
been
a
sharer
in
their
Sufferings
,
he
was
not
in
their
Crime
;
whcch
Protestation
my
generous
Master
accepted
;
as
his
excuse
.
But
this
suc●ess
hinder'd
us
from
viewing
Rome
,
though
we
might
have
done
it
in
a
ar
nobler
posture
than
at
the
first
time
,
being
now
more
loaden
with
success
,
than
we
had
been
with
chains
.
But
my
Prince
,
who
design'd
to
face
those
stately
walls
only
,
because
't
was
dangerous
,
now
declin'd
it
,
because
't
was
safe
;
and
thought
what
he
intended
for
a
Gallantry
,
would
look
(
after
the
Consuls
defeat
)
like
an
insulting
;
we
therefore
left
Rome
on
our
left
hand
,
and
march'd
without
any
opposition
,
into
that
Gaule
which
extends
its
self
along
the
famous
River
Poe
,
so
celebrated
by
the
Roman
Poets
,
under
the
name
of
Eridanus
.
Cassius
the
Pretor
,
and
Governor
there
,
thought
with
a
select
Army
of
10000
Men
,
and
by
the
advantages
,
and
straights
of
the
Countrey
,
to
interrupt
our
passage
,
but
he
found
by
the
loss
of
his
Army
,
that
Resolution
,
and
Conduct
,
can
overcome
all
obstacles
;
he
had
not
the
misfortune
only
to
outlive
his
loss
,
but
to
carry
the
news
of
it
himself
to
the
Senate
,
who
were
so
highly
troubled
at
these
successive
disasters
,
that
immediately
as
a
punishment
of
the
Consuls
faults
,
or
misfortunes
,
they
recalled
them
,
and
gave
the
ordering
of
the
War
to
Marcus
Crassius
,
(
one
of
those
that
compos'd
the
first
and
greatest
Triumvirate
)
and
raised
so
vast
an
Army
for
him
,
that
the
same
of
it
coming
to
my
Princes
knowledge
,
it
kindled
that
fire
of
glory
in
him
,
which
had
been
so
long
cover'd
,
and
made
him
lead
back
his
victorious
Troops
towards
this
new
General
,
lest
if
ever
he
were
discover'd
,
the
world
might
think
his
abandoning
Italy
,
proceeded
from
the
noise
of
those
Forces
,
and
not
from
a
premeditated
intent
.
Crassus
,
attended
by
all
the
Gallantry
of
the
Roman
Empire
,
joyfully
understood
that
Spartacus
was
saving
him
the
trouble
of
a
march
,
and
the
less
to
harrass
his
Army
,
expected
my
Princes
approach
in
the
fertile
Plains
of
Romania
.
To
be
short
,
the
night
before
the
design'd
Battel
,
Crassus
sent
Memmius
(
his
Lieutenant
General
)
with
two
select
Legions
,
to
lie
in
Ambush
on
the
Left
Flank
of
our
Army
,
and
strictly
commanded
him
,
That
upon
no
provocation
,
he
should
discover
himself
,
till
both
Bodies
were
joined
,
But
my
Prince
,
who
is
the
vigilantest
Captain
living
,
and
of
whom
no
advantage
is
to
be
gotten
,
but
what
is
given
by
Fate
,
sent
two
Soldiers
in
the
habits
of
Italian
women
,
to
a
height
which
was
unsecure
for
our
Scouts
,
and
which
look'd
into
the
Roman
Camp
,
where
under
a
pretence
of
Sacrificing
for
the
safety
of
their
Army
,
they
became
the
Intelligencers
of
ours
,
and
soon
advertiz'd
Spartacus
of
this
stratagem
;
but
before
he
could
engage
them
,
they
had
recover'd
a
fastness
,
where
't
was
impossible
to
make
use
of
force
,
but
yet
next
morning
before
the
Battel
was
ready
to
begin
,
he
gave
Mummius
so
seeming
an
advantage
,
that
thereby
he
himself
gain'd
a
real
one
,
and
by
so
sad
an
Argument
as
the
cutting
in
pieces
of
8000
Romans
,
made
both
the
Lieutenant
,
and
his
General
,
of
an
opinion
that
he
was
invincible
.
Those
that
fled
,
were
again
receiv'd
by
Crassus
,
and
having
cast
away
their
Arms
to
save
their
Lives
,
he
furnisht
them
with
new
ones
,
but
first
made
them
give
security
,
that
they
should
keep
them
better
than
they
had
the
former
,
and
then
reviv'd
that
strict
Discipline
of
Decimation
,
where
every
tenth
Run-away
was
executed
in
the
sight
of
the
whole
Army
;
so
that
500
ran
to
receive
from
their
Friends
that
Death
with
shame
,
which
with
less
pain
,
and
with
Honour
,
they
might
have
had
from
their
Enemies
.
But
for
Mummius
,
his
rebuke
was
so
just
and
sharp
,
that
he
withdrew
himself
from
the
Camp
,
and
by
a
lingering
Death
justifi'd
,
that
whosoever
in
War
undertakes
an
Attempt
without
Order
,
must
either
make
Victory
his
Apology
,
or
render
himself
uncapable
of
making
any
other
.
This
Breakfast
hinder'd
the
Feast
,
for
Crassus
perceiving
a
pannick
terror
in
all
his
Soldiers
,
would
not
expose
those
to
our
Swords
,
whose
fears
had
already
half
conquer'd
them
,
but
was
so
much
more
a
Friend
to
his
Countrey
,
than
his
Ambition
,
that
he
advis'd
the
Senate
to
send
for
Pompey
back
,
and
rather
endeavor
to
preserve
,
than
increase
their
Empire
.
Three
dayes
successively
,
my
generous
Prince
presented
the
Romans
Battel
,
and
the
fourth
day
,
as
he
was
going
to
take
up
his
late
design
of
marching
over
the
Alpes
,
and
afterwards
of
confining
himself
eternally
,
in
their
greatest
horrors
he
received
a
solemn
Embassy
from
those
Sicilians
which
had
cast
off
the
Roman
yoke
,
wherein
they
protested
,
That
his
Fame
,
and
not
their
Necessity
,
made
them
choose
him
their
Prince
;
That
though
the
latter
was
pressing
,
yet
the
former
was
the
only
motive
of
their
Election
;
That
he
could
not
employ
his
Arms
more
gloriously
,
nor
more
charitably
,
than
for
their
defence
;
That
the
only
hope
that
his
Courage
would
protect
them
,
inflam'd
theirs
:
But
if
they
were
supprest
before
he
came
,
they
would
sell
their
ruine
so
dearly
,
that
he
should
not
be
asham'd
to
acknowledge
them
his
;
and
that
they
would
all
take
up
that
consolation
at
their
Deaths
,
that
they
dy'd
Subjects
to
the
great
Spartac●s
.
The
Sicilian
Deputies
accompany'd
their
Oration
with
so
many
tears
,
that
my
generous
Master
,
though
he
declin'd
the
Title
of
their
Prince
,
yet
he
did
not
that
of
their
Friend
;
and
having
compos'd
a
considerable
Body
of
Men
,
as
well
for
their
Numbers
,
as
their
Resolutions
,
he
Convoy'd
them
with
all
his
Army
to
the
Fare
of
Messina
,
and
from
thence
sent
them
over
into
Sicily
,
where
they
renew'd
the
War
with
such
success
,
as
at
length
that
fertile
Island
was
upon
the
point
of
changing
their
old
Lords
.
The
daily
intelligence
of
our
Companions
Victories
,
and
of
the
wealth
which
attended
them
,
so
fixt
all
our
Army
upon
participating
of
both
,
that
they
unanimously
beg'd
Spartacus
to
finish
their
labours
,
by
setling
them
in
so
delicious
a
Countrey
,
who
willingly
yielded
to
their
requests
,
perceiving
that
Crassus
absolutely
declin'd
a
Battel
,
and
that
now
he
might
with
Honour
profecute
his
old
design
,
having
no
Enemies
that
durst
oppose
him
,
and
having
given
his
Soldiers
for
their
Reward
one
of
the
pleasantest
Kingdoms
in
the
world
.
Consider
,
I
beseech
you
,
how
deep
a
root
his
Melancholy
had
,
when
Triumphs
,
nor
the
empire
of
Rome
(
which
he
might
almost
as
easily
have
possest
,
as
desir'd
)
could
neither
tear
it
up
,
or
so
much
as
shake
it
;
and
truly
,
to
the
best
of
my
observation
,
I
never
perceiv'd
him
pleas'd
but
in
dangers
,
and
never
so
much
troubled
,
as
when
he
had
avoided
them
;
which
I
attributed
to
the
height
of
his
grief
,
whose
torment
was
so
great
a
burden
,
that
he
would
even
have
joy'd
if
Death
itself
had
eas'd
him
of
it
.
But
to
effect
this
determination
,
understanding
that
Menas
rid
with
a
good
Fleet
in
that
small
Channel
which
separates
Italy
from
Sicily
,
he
employ'd
an
Express
to
him
,
who
by
large
promises
and
gifts
,
receiv'd
an
assurance
from
him
,
That
if
my
Prince
would
march
with
his
Army
into
a
Pen-insule
of
the
Reggians
,
where
there
was
good
quarters
for
his
Army
,
and
a
good
Road
for
his
Fleet
,
he
would
not
fail
within
ten
days
,
there
to
receive
and
obey
his
commands
.
Immediately
the
Messenger
return'd
with
this
dispatch
,
and
soon
after
Spartacus
mov'd
with
his
Army
to
the
place
assign'd
,
where
,
after
twice
ten
dayes
expectation
,
instead
of
discovering
a
Fleet
,
we
only
perceiv'd
a
single
Gally
,
which
having
cast
Anchor
,
Man'd
a
small
Skiff
,
and
sent
a
Gentleman
on
shore
,
attended
only
by
two
Slaves
,
who
informing
the
Guards
that
he
desired
to
speak
with
Spartacus
,
was
immediately
conducted
to
his
Tent
,
where
he
soon
found
it
was
that
Gallipus
who
had
made
Pompey
so
just
a
character
of
him
,
that
it
had
like
to
have
procured
his
liberty
.
My
Prince
remembring
it
,
used
him
with
exceeding
civility
,
and
the
first
compliments
being
past
,
Galippus
thus
spake
to
him
;
Sir
,
I
am
employ'd
by
Menas
to
acquaint
you
,
that
as
he
was
weighing
Anchor
for
this
Island
,
we
perceiv'd
a
Sail
to
the
Windward
of
us
,
and
having
immediately
sent
a
swift
Brigantine
to
bring
us
an
account
of
her
,
they
both
came
to
the
Fleet
,
where
Domitius
,
one
of
Pompey's
greatest
Favourites
,
presented
my
Admiral
with
a
Letter
from
the
General
,
(
all
written
with
his
own
hand
)
which
was
to
conjure
him
,
as
ever
he
valu'd
his
friendship
,
that
laying
all
other
designs
apart
,
he
would
immediately
come
to
him
with
his
Navy
to
Dyrrhachium
,
where
then
he
was
,
and
where
he
would
expect
him
,
being
newly
return'd
from
the
Asian
War
,
and
from
the
defeat
of
Mithridates
.
This
Letter
(
continu'd
Gallippus
)
was
accompany'd
with
such
earnest
and
reiterated
desires
,
from
the
valiant
Domitius
,
that
at
last
Menas
,
who
fancy'd
the
business
could
not
be
but
of
exceeding
consequence
,
since
Pompey
thought
fit
to
make
him
the
Messenger
,
and
not
being
above
18
hours
Sail
,
and
the
Wind
suddenly
veering
about
to
the
Southwest
,
which
was
as
opposite
for
our
Sailing
this
way
as
fair
for
Greece
,
yielded
to
his
request
,
and
in
two
nights
and
a
day
,
having
crost
the
Adriatick
Gulph
which
separates
that
Countrey
from
Italy
,
cast
Anchor
at
Dyrrachium
,
where
my
Admiral
and
I
waited
upon
the
great
Pompey
,
who
first
shew'd
us
Letters
from
the
Senate
,
(
occasion'd
by
the
apprehensions
Crassus
had
of
your
Army
)
which
recall'd
him
out
of
A●ia
,
to
finish
the
Bondmens
War
,
(
for
that
was
(
said
Symander
)
the
appellation
the
Romans
gave
it
:
)
Then
Pompey
further
told
him
,
That
being
inform'd
by
a
ship
which
accidentally
came
from
Messina
,
that
Spartacus
had
contracted
with
him
to
transport
him
into
Sicily
,
he
had
sent
for
him
purposely
to
hinder
it
,
and
to
desire
him
,
as
he
valu'd
the
title
of
being
esteem'd
a
friend
to
Rome
,
not
to
transport
those
Slaves
from
the
Romans
revenge
,
and
his
glory
,
but
as
Italy
had
been
the
Scene
of
their
Rebellion
,
so
to
let
it
be
of
their
Ruine
.
Pompey
join'd
with
those
words
so
many
other
pressing
motives
,
and
persuasions
,
that
Menas
desir'd
that
nights
respite
to
form
his
resolution
,
which
was
readily
yielded
unto
.
I
confess
Sir
,
(
said
Gallippus
)
that
the
fear
I
had
of
my
Admirals
yielding
,
(
for
whosoever
considers
whether
he
shall
do
ill
,
has
already
done
it
)
made
me
take
the
confidence
(
after
we
were
retir'd
)
to
tell
him
,
That
he
ought
to
prefer
the
being
a
Friend
to
Virtue
,
above
the
being
one
to
the
People
of
Rome
;
That
the
way
he
took
,
made
him
unworthy
of
the
end
;
and
that
to
deserve
that
title
without
possessing
it
,
was
nobler
than
to
possess
it
without
deserving
it
.
I
know
(
Menas
hastily
reply'd
)
all
thou
say'st
is
true
,
but
canst
thou
wonder
Gallippus
that
a
Genius
which
has
triumph'd
over
Europe
,
A●rick
,
and
Asia
,
should
now
vanquish
Menas
?
No
,
no
,
all
things
yielding
to
that
great
man
,
makes
it
no
shame
for
me
to
imitate
them
.
In
a
word
,
seeing
I
could
not
make
him
continue
your
Friend
,
I
made
him
vow
he
would
not
be
your
Enemy
.
The
next
morning
Pompey
having
repeated
his
charms
,
obtain'd
from
my
Admiral
an
assurance
not
to
serve
you
,
on
condition
not
to
be
employed
against
you
;
there
were
some
of
the
Roman
Colonels
which
mov'd
that
Menas
should
take
you
aboard
,
and
then
carry
you
to
Dyrrachium
,
but
that
,
both
he
and
Pompey
detested
,
the
last
alledging
he
would
not
cheat
himself
of
a
Victory
.
This
being
thus
determin'd
,
my
Admiral
thought
fit
to
employ
me
to
acquaint
you
with
what
had
past
,
to
beg
your
excuse
,
to
return
your
Presents
,
and
to
protest
,
that
nothing
but
the
great
Pompey
could
have
made
him
violate
his
engagement
.
Gallippus
thus
finish'd
his
Discourse
,
at
which
my
Prince
was
extremely
troubled
,
as
indeed
he
was
at
all
things
that
retarded
his
retirement
;
but
least
his
melancholy
might
be
misinterpreted
,
he
made
haste
to
return
him
this
Answer
:
If
your
Admiral
had
been
principled
like
you
,
he
would
never
have
undertaken
to
serve
me
,
or
having
engaged
himself
,
would
have
perform'd
it
;
but
tell
him
from
me
,
I
am
very
much
my
own
Flatterer
,
if
what
he
has
done
to
make
the
Romans
his
Friends
,
will
not
produce
a
contrary
effect
:
For
by
necessitating
me
to
stay
in
Italy
,
he
will
too
necessitate
me
to
conquer
it
;
and
that
having
hitherto
had
no
designs
but
of
Revenge
,
he
will
now
inspire
me
with
those
of
Ambition
,
and
force
me
against
my
will
to
be
victorious
:
But
(
my
Prince
continu'd
)
because
you
have
so
generously
oppos'd
your
Captains
breach
of
promise
,
I
give
your
Virtue
that
Reward
I
should
have
given
his
services
;
and
thereupon
presented
him
all
those
gifts
that
Menas
had
return'd
,
which
Gallippus
made
some
scruple
to
accept
,
but
at
last
took
:
And
then
in
acknowledgment
of
my
Princes
generosity
,
offer'd
him
to
sail
into
Sicily
,
and
there
to
hire
as
many
ships
for
his
service
,
as
would
transport
his
Army
thither
;
which
Spartacus
absolutely
declin'd
,
alledging
,
that
he
would
not
have
his
Gratitude
hazard
his
Ruine
;
and
that
since
Pompey
was
coming
into
Italy
,
he
had
now
left
the
design
of
abandoning
it
,
being
't
was
only
taken
up
because
he
could
see
no
enemies
there
,
but
those
which
were
his
Prisoners
.
Gallippus
admir'd
at
his
gallantry
,
and
having
made
him
a
million
of
engagements
to
sacrifice
his
life
and
fortune
,
when
the
Honour
of
his
service
should
afford
him
an
occasion
,
took
his
leave
,
and
return'd
towards
his
●ally
:
But
the
report
of
his
message
to
my
Prince
being
diffus'd
over
the
Camp
,
fill'd
some
of
the
common
Soldiers
with
such
a
blind
rage
,
that
not
being
able
to
discharge
their
fury
on
Menas
,
for
the
violation
of
his
promise
,
and
for
leaving
of
them
(
as
they
falsely
said
)
a
Prey
to
Pompey's
victorious
Troops
,
they
determined
to
punish
the
innocent
for
the
guilty
,
and
make
Gallippus
pay
for
his
Captains
crime
,
who
not
suspecting
any
treachery
of
that
nature
,
was
setting
foot
in
his
skiff
,
attended
only
by
his
two
Slaves
,
when
a
croud
of
those
insolent
men
fell
upon
him
;
at
first
he
endeavor'd
to
appease
them
with
an
information
of
their
error
,
but
perceiving
they
were
deaf
to
all
reason
,
he
retir'd
into
the
Sea
to
his
middle
,
that
none
might
come
behind
him
,
and
there
with
his
Sword
resolved
to
sell
his
life
.
One
of
his
Slaves
,
in
imitation
of
him
,
got
an
Oar
,
and
being
join'd
to
his
Captain
,
twice
preserved
his
life
,
and
gave
so
large
a
proof
of
a
singular
Courage
,
that
my
Prince
(
upon
hearing
of
this
Barbarism
,
being
run
thither
)
admir'd
it
,
and
judg'd
that
his
condition
was
not
answerable
to
his
cloaths
;
but
though
Spartacus's
presence
and
threatnings
qualifi'd
,
yet
it
did
not
extinguish
the
Tumult
;
which
he
no
sooner
observ'd
,
than
with
his
Sword
,
having
killed
three
of
the
most
violent
,
he
ended
the
disorder
,
by
causing
five
others
to
be
executed
upon
the
place
.
All
things
thus
appeased
,
and
Gallippus
come
out
of
his
Fortification
,
my
dear
Master
beg'd
a
thousand
Pardons
of
him
,
that
his
Soldiers
had
so
far
violated
the
Law
of
Nations
;
and
that
if
he
esteem'd
the
punishment
already
inflicted
not
sufficient
for
their
Crime
,
he
permitted
him
to
be
his
own
Judge
.
Gallippus
assured
him
,
that
he
had
rather
been
too
severe
,
than
too
partial
;
and
having
by
many
Compliments
repaid
his
civility
,
my
Prince
desir'd
to
see
that
Slave
,
whose
Fidelity
,
and
Valor
,
deserv'd
so
plentiful
a
character
.
Gallippus
instantly
called
him
,
and
spite
of
his
habit
and
some
blood
which
endeavor'd
to
disfigure
him
,
Spartacus
observ'd
that
his
shape
,
and
meen
,
were
answerable
to
his
Courage
;
and
after
a
little
reflection
on
the
inequality
of
Fate
,
in
bestowing
him
such
ornaments
i●
his
extraction
were
like
his
habit
,
or
if
the
contrary
,
in
giving
such
bles●ings
so
disproportionate
a
Fortune
,
he
very
intentively
observ'd
the
Slave
,
and
found
that
the
Slave
was
not
less
fixt
in
looking
upon
him
.
This
made
him
remember
he
had
once
seen
some
features
not
unresembling
his
,
and
as
he
was
calling
to
mind
where
it
had
been
,
he
heard
himfetch
a
deep
sigh
,
and
say
to
himself
,
Oh
gods
!
what
is
it
that
I
see
?
am
I
deluded
?
or
have
I
already
found
what
I
seek
?
These
few
words
(
which
were
loud
enough
for
Spartacus
to
hear
)
put
him
into
strange
disorders
,
sometimes
he
cast
his
eyes
upon
him
that
spoke
them
,
sometimes
upon
the
ground
,
now
trembling
and
looking
pale
,
and
then
instantly
blushing
:
The
poor
slave
did
not
only
observe
those
alterations
,
but
imitated
them
,
which
wholly
converted
my
Princes
suspitions
into
a
certainty
;
but
the
better
to
confirm
himself
,
he
drew
him
aside
,
and
having
whisper'd
something
in
his
ear
,
they
both
,
to
our
great
admiration
,
embraced
one
another
with
admirable
Transports
;
I
was
present
whilst
all
this
was
acting
,
and
was
so
ravisht
with
the
strangeness
and
intricacy
of
the
Adventure
,
that
before
I
could
go
to
discover
what
it
meant
,
I
perceived
them
both
returning
to
Gallippus
,
to
whom
my
Prince
said
,
He
that
was
once
your
Slave
,
(
Gallippus
)
now
begs
one
of
you
,
but
does
not
intend
so
much
to
wrong
your
Valo●s
wages
,
as
to
expect
him
as
gift
:
the
height
of
my
desires
is
,
that
you
will
let
me
have
him
at
any
ransom
;
and
if
those
Treasures
I
possess
be
not
of
sufficient
value
,
I
will
lose
my
Army
and
my self
,
but
I
will
present
you
too
all
those
in
the
Capitol
.
Gallippus
,
who
relisht
nothing
of
his
profession
,
and
who
thought
to
excuse
himself
to
Menas
,
in
giving
the
Slave
his
liberty
,
for
the
service
he
had
that
day
renderd
him
,
reply'd
,
Generous
Spartacus
,
you
have
paid
his
ransom
in
desiring
his
liberty
,
which
from
this
instant
I
give
him
;
and
all
I
expect
in
exchange
is
,
that
you
will
believe
I
have
been
less
beholding
to
him
in
twice
saving
my
life
,
than
in
furnishing
me
with
the
happiness
of
obliging
you
.
At
this
noble
Answer
,
my
dear
Master
ran
with
open
arms
to
embrace
him
that
made
it
,
and
then
sent
me
for
his
Cabinet
,
from
whence
he
took
out
many
Jewels
of
an
immense
value
,
and
by
plain
force
made
him
accept
them
.
Then
Gallippus
having
acknowledg'd
my
Princes
liberality
in
words
as
ample
as
the
cause
of
them
,
and
embraced
a
thousand
times
his
enfranchis'd
Slave
,
took
of
both
,
his
last
farewell
,
and
went
from
them
with
as
high
a
satisfaction
as
he
had
left
them
in
.
Gallippus
being
gone
,
Spartacus
return'd
to
his
Tent
,
leading
his
Slave
with
him
,
in
so
high
raptures
of
joy
,
that
both
his
looks
and
actions
testifi'd
them
.
They
were
no
sooner
come
thither
,
than
he
desir'd
all
that
accompany'd
him
(
but
I
)
to
give
him
an
hour
or
two's
privacy
,
and
then
he
fell
again
to
repeat
his
Transports
with
so
much
earnestness
,
that
I
believ'd
in
those
very
embracings
he
had
lost
the
thought
of
ever
doing
the
like
to
Parthenissa
;
but
at
last
perceiving
my
astonishment
was
the
effect
of
my
ignorance
,
he
was
so
charitable
as
to
tell
me
,
what
!
Symander
,
do
you
not
know
the
Prince
Sillaces
?
At
those
words
my
Eyes
were
unseal'd
,
and
I
admir'd
as
much
all
that
while
,
I
knew
him
not
,
as
then
I
was
happy
in
doing
it
.
I
will
pass
by
telling
you
how
I
flung
my self
at
his
feet
,
how
I
embrac'd
his
knees
,
and
how
I
wash'd
them
with
my
tears
,
since
all
my
Extravaganices
were
interrupted
by
Spartacus's
who
lov'd
so
passionately
his
Friend
,
that
he
could
not
be
at
quiet
,
till
he
had
ask'd
him
what
strange
Adventure
had
reduc'd
him
to
the
sad
condition
he
found
him
in
.
I
know
not
(
said
Sillaces
)
if
it
be
a
strange
,
but
I
am
certain
't
is
an
advantageous
one
;
for
when
I
least
expected
to
find
my
liberty
,
and
my
desires
,
I
have
lighted
upon
both
;
't
is
you
(
my
dear
Artabbanes
)
that
I
seek
,
and
't
is
only
in
that
employment
I
have
suffer'd
miseries
,
which
nothing
could
render
tolerable
,
but
the
reflecting
upon
him
for
whose
sake
I
endur'd
them
.
the
gods
forbid
(
my
Prince
reply
d
)
that
I
should
be
the
cause
of
your
sufferings
,
they
are
not
sure
so
cruel
as
to
render
my
misfortunes
infectious
;
and
to
make
those
that
share
in
my
friendship
,
to
participate
in
my
miseries
.
You
have
none
(
Sillaces
answer'd
)
unless
you
contracted
them
since
you
left
Parthenissa
.
certainly
(
said
my
Prince
exceedingly
astonish'd
)
when
you
speak
thus
,
you
look
upon
my
resolution
,
and
not
my
condition
;
for
there
has
nothing
happen'd
since
I
abandoned
that
fatal
Countrey
,
which
could
afford
me
any
ease
of
my
torments
,
but
what
I
found
in
my
courage
and
resentments
.
Alas
!
(
reply'd
Sillaces
)
are
you
still
in
that
darkness
which
your
jealousie
cast
you
into
?
must
you
believe
Parthenissa
criminal
,
till
you
appear
so
your self
?
and
must
I
shew
you
your
fault
,
to
shew
you
your
happiness
?
Yes
,
yes
,
(
he
continu'd
)
I
see
your
suspitions
will
vanish
no
other
way
,
prepare
your self
then
to
hear
a
Story
,
which
these
two
years
I
have
sought
you
out
to
tell
you
,
and
believe
it
with
that
faith
you
would
an
Oracle
,
for
nothing
it
delivers
is
more
certain
.
That
which
Sillaces
tells
me
,
(
said
my
Prince
)
I
alwayes
credit
at
that
rate
.
You
had
best
(
he
reply'd
)
not
decline
that
practice
now
,
for
what
I
must
acquaint
you
with
,
will
as
much
need
your
faith
,
as
the
cure
of
your
Affilictions
will
stand
in
need
of
it
.
Spartacus
,
at
these
last
words
,
had
too
great
an
impatience
to
delay
the
satisfying
it
by
any
Reply
;
which
Sillaces
perceiving
,
began
this
ensuing
Relation
.
The
continuation
of
PARTHENISSAS
Story
.
THE
same
morning
,
in
which
by
Duel
you
decided
your
unfortunate
difference
with
Surena
,
Arsaces
(
as
he
usually
did
)
was
walking
in
those
pleasant
Fields
which
are
water'd
by
the
River
Tygris
,
and
as
they
were
the
shortest
way
to
Ninive
from
the
place
you
fought
in
,
so
he
had
not
long
been
there
,
but
he
perceiv'd
some
four
or
five
Men
advancing
towards
him
,
carrying
something
betwixt
them
,
which
by
the
great
care
they
shew'd
of
their
load
,
manifested
how
much
they
were
concerned
in
it
;
but
they
were
no
sooner
come
near
enough
to
know
it
was
the
King
,
than
one
of
them
leaving
his
companions
,
came
with
all
the
visible
signes
of
an
exquisite
grief
,
and
flung
himself
at
Arsaces
Feet
,
where
the
abundance
of
Tears
he
shed
,
hinder'd
him
awhile
from
shewing
the
cause
of
them
,
but
at
last
(
though
his
words
were
interrupted
with
many
sighs
)
he
told
the
King
,
I
am
come
(
Sir
)
to
demand
justice
against
one
,
who
has
not
only
contemn'd
your
Laws
,
but
you
also
:
'T
is
against
Artabanes
that
I
ask
it
,
who
this
morning
sent
Surena
a
challenge
,
whose
courage
has
been
so
unfortunate
,
that
this
last
proof
of
it
,
has
(
I
fear
)
render'd
him
uncapable
of
ever
giving
any
other
:
Yes
(
Sir
)
't
is
his
Body
that
we
are
carrying
back
,
and
his
Murtherer
is
fled
,
who
could
I
have
overtaken
,
I
would
never
have
implor'd
any
other
Sword
of
Justice
for
my
revenge
,
than
my
own
,
and
either
punish'd
the
killer
of
my
Brother
,
or
not
resented
the
misery
of
surviving
him
.
That
word
of
Brother
,
made
us
soon
know
't
was
Vixores
that
spoke
it
,
and
truly
he
so
mingl'd
his
grief
with
his
expressions
,
that
Arsaces
,
who
(
you
know
)
doted
on
that
Favourite
,
was
so
inflam'd
,
that
he
protested
by
a
world
of
horrid
Oaths
,
you
should
never
enter
into
his
Dominions
,
but
to
bring
your
head
upon
a
Scaffold
.
Then
running
to
Surena's
Body
,
he
flung
himself
upon
it
,
and
by
kissing
his
pale
and
bloudy
Face
,
and
a
thousand
such
other
extravagancies
,
publish'd
his
Frienshdip
and
his
Grief
.
I
know
not
whether
the
motion
in
carrying
,
or
Arsaces
tormenting
him
,
was
the
cause
,
but
we
soon
perceiv'd
that
he
began
to
breathe
,
and
suddenly
after
,
faintly
to
open
his
Eyes
.
Oh
gods
!
into
what
transports
did
this
discovery
cast
Orodes
in
,
truly
he
was
thereby
so
overjoy'd
,
that
he
perform'd
many
things
unworthy
of
his
years
,
and
Majesty
;
but
that
these
good
symptomes
might
be
improv'd
,
a
Litter
was
instantly
brought
,
Surena
put
into
it
,
and
carried
to
his
own
Palace
,
accompani'd
(
on
foot
by
Arsaces
and
all
the
Court
.
The
Chyrurgeons
having
immediately
search'd
,
and
bound
up
his
wounds
,
told
the
impatient
King
,
that
till
the
third
dressing
,
they
could
make
no
positive
judgement
of
his
life
,
but
they
assur'd
him
,
if
his
cure
lay
in
the
power
of
Art
,
they
durst
boldly
promise
it
.
I
was
present
whilst
all
this
was
acting
,
and
as
soon
as
I
found
they
left
Surena
to
his
rest
,
I
stole
out
of
the
company
and
went
to
Parthenissa
,
in
hope
to
learn
the
subject
of
your
difference
,
but
alas
,
I
found
her
so
drown'd
in
weepings
,
that
I
forgot
a
while
the
cause
of
my
visit
,
to
bear
her
company
in
that
sad
employment
;
at
length
observing
,
that
my
weakness
did
but
augment
hers
,
I
interrupted
her
Tears
,
by
desiring
to
learn
the
subject
of
them
,
for
if
she
knew
no
more
than
I
,
she
had
no
just
cause
for
so
immoderate
an
affliction
.
Alas
Sillaces
(
she
reply'd
)
have
not
you
then
understood
what
I
came
from
being
inform'd
of
,
that
Artabanes
has
kill'd
Surena
,
and
being
fled
,
Arsaces
had
solemnly
bound
himself
by
sacred
Oaths
,
that
the
reparation
of
his
offence
shall
be
a
perpetual
banishment
?
Madam
(
said
I
)
't
is
true
indeed
,
Arsaces
in
his
passion
,
when
he
thought
Surena
dead
,
swore
what
you
say
,
but
since
,
't
is
found
that
't
was
only
a
long
swound
he
was
fallen
into
,
and
that
the
hopes
of
his
life
are
greater
than
the
●ears
of
his
death
,
so
that
I
believe
the
King
will
repent
,
and
recall
his
vows
.
But
Sillaces
,
(
she
hastily
reply'd
)
do
you
tell
me
this
as
a
Truth
,
or
to
flatter
my
grief
?
I
tell
you
it
(
Madam
,
said
I
)
as
the
former
,
for
I
pay
you
too
high
a
respect
to
delude
you
into
a
greater
sorrow
,
which
I
should
unavoidably
perform
,
did
I
give
you
a
false
subject
of
joy
.
Then
(
she
said
)
one
of
my
greatest
fears
is
supprest
,
but
I
am
doubtful
I
shall
not
so
easily
silence
the
other
,
which
is
(
for
,
to
you
I
dare
boldly
tell
my
thoughts
)
I
apprehend
I
am
the
innocent
cause
of
this
disorder
,
and
that
Surena
finding
the
advantage
,
Artabanes
had
over
him
in
my
affection
,
has
taken
this
fatal
way
to
destroy
his
Rival
.
No
,
no
,
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
though
I
cannot
tell
you
the
cause
of
their
difference
,
yet
I
can
assure
you
,
that
which
you
mention
is
not
it
,
for
Vixores
relation
to
the
King
,
made
us
evidently
understand
,
that
the
challenge
came
from
Artabanes
:
Oh
gods
!
(
she
imediately
reply'd
)
what
it
Sillaces
that
you
tell
me
?
you
have
made
my
admiration
as
great
as
my
grief
;
thereupon
she
began
to
renew
her
weeping
with
such
violence
,
that
I
have
often
since
believ'd
,
some
Divine
fore-knowledge
of
your
suspitions
,
produced
her
Tears
;
for
my
particular
,
I
was
at
first
as
ignorant
of
their
cause
,
as
perplext
at
their
effect
;
but
at
last
,
remembring
her
grief
,
to
repair
my
error
,
I
told
her
,
perhaps
(
Madam
)
Vixores
relation
had
more
of
design
than
truth
,
and
knowing
that
the
Kings
Edicts
were
only
rigorous
against
the
Senders
,
and
not
the
Acceptors
of
Challenges
,
he
to
exasperate
Arsaces
fury
,
and
extenuate
his
Brothers
Crime
,
made
that
to
be
Artabanes
,
which
was
Surena's
Offence
.
Alas
,
(
said
the
fair
Parthenissa
)
would
your
conjecture
were
certain
,
't
would
exempt
me
from
fears
,
which
makes
me
tremble
;
But
Sillaces
(
she
continu'd
)
if
you
have
any
sense
of
that
affliction
,
my
suspence
has
cast
me
into
,
I
conjure
you
to
enquire
certainly
,
and
particularly
what
has
happen'd
,
for
I
verily
believe
,
the
knowledge
of
what
I
apprehend
,
could
hardly
prove
a
higher
misery
than
are
my
doubts
.
I
was
so
earnest
to
obey
her
,
that
immediately
I
went
to
Lindadory's
,
as
well
to
satisfy
my
Inclination
as
my
Duty
to
Parthanissa's
command
,
for
I
was
confident
,
your
Sister
was
as
well
instructed
with
your
affairs
,
as
any
other
could
be
;
but
alas
,
I
discover'd
nothing
there
but
fresh
causers
of
sadness
,
and
found
by
a
melancholly
experiment
,
that
the
resentments
of
Nature
,
are
as
violent
,
as
those
of
Love
or
Friendship
,
and
at
my
first
coming
in
,
though
I
had
arm'd
my self
against
all
weaknesses
of
that
quality
,
yet
the
fair
Lindadory's
Tears
were
so
eloquent
,
that
I
thought
it
no
sin
to
imitate
them
;
and
having
mingl'd
ours
together
for
our
common
loss
,
I
began
to
do
that
for
her
,
which
I
needed
as
much
my self
;
in
brief
,
I
so
fortify'd
her
hopes
,
by
assuring
her
,
you
could
not
be
dangerously
wounded
,
since
you
had
strength
enough
to
fly
from
Arsaces
choller
,
and
that
Surema
being
in
a
probability
of
recovering
,
't
was
not
unlikely
to
make
him
recall
a
rash
vow
,
where
the
performance
would
be
a
greater
sin
than
the
breach
of
it
;
that
in
the
end
I
moderated
her
afflictions
,
and
then
acquainting
her
how
I
was
employ'd
by
the
unconsolable
Parthenissa
,
she
permitted
me
to
follow
my
enquiry
,
which
though
extream
diligent
,
was
absolutely
fruitless
;
for
though
I
ask'd
of
Zephalinda
,
and
she
of
all
her
Brothers
Servants
,
and
Confidents
,
yet
we
could
no
more
discover
the
occasion
of
your
difference
,
than
suppress
the
troubles
it
created
.
All
this
while
Arsaces
sufferings
were
not
inferior
to
ours
,
that
unfortunate
Prince
never
abandon'd
his
Fvorites
Chamber
,
and
by
promisin●
excessive
rewards
to
the
Chiurgeons
,
courted
their
Art
and
Diligence
;
but
now
the
time
was
come
,
in
which
they
were
to
give
their
positive
Judgements
of
Surena's
life
,
and
whilst
they
were
taking
off
their
Plaisters
,
the
poor
Orodes
stood
all
pale
,
and
trembling
,
and
in
a
far
worse
perplexity
,
than
if
their
sentence
were
to
have
been
pronounc'd
upon
himself
;
at
last
Surena's
wounds
being
perfectly
view'd
,
the
Chirugeons
found
they
were
exceedingly
inflam
d
,
and
so
many
symptomes
of
their
being
inwardly
gangin●d
,
that
they
all
with
Tears
in
their
Eyes
,
acquaited
Arsaces
,
that
it
lay
not
in
the
power
of
any
thing
but
a
Miracle
,
to
recover
him
;
at
this
fatal
declaration
,
the
King
(
fetching
a
deep
sigh
)
fell
speechless
on
the
ground
,
and
Surena
perceiving
so
high
demonstrations
of
his
favour
,
made
such
excellent
and
passionate
retributions
for
them
,
and
so
admirably
exclaim'd
against
Fate
,
not
for
ending
his
life
,
but
for
not
permitting
him
to
end
it
in
so
generous
a
Princes
service
,
that
all
which
heard
him
,
found
his
impiety
,
rather
a
justice
,
than
a
crime
,
Arsaces
being
by
many
remedies
recovered
from
his
fainting
,
was
(
before
he
had
the
strength
to
speak
)
carried
out
of
his
Favourites
Chamber
,
who
no
sooner
perceiv'd
it
empty
of
all
but
his
Domesticks
,
sent
one
of
them
for
the
Princess
Zephalinda
,
who
being
come
,
was
conjur'd
by
him
,
to
obtain
from
Parthenissa
for
him
,
the
honor
of
a
visit
,
to
whom
he
protested
he
had
some
secrets
of
Importance
to
communicate
,
which
should
he
dye
before
they
were
reveal'd
,
would
leave
too
great
a
horror
on
his
Conscience
.
The
fair
Zephalinda
immediately
obey'd
his
injunction
,
and
came
to
wait
on
Pa●thenissa
,
when
she
and
I
,
were
admiring
at
the
occasion
of
your
silence
.
The
sadness
which
so
visibly
appear'd
in
Zephalinda's
Face
,
was
at
first
attributed
by
us
both
entirely
to
that
unimitable
Friendship
,
that
generous
Princess
paid
you
,
but
we
soon
found
,
that
Nature
had
a
large
share
in
it
.
When
she
had
inform'd
Parthenissa
with
the
occasion
of
her
visit
,
your
fair
Mistriss
was
extreamly
starl'd
at
it
,
whether
it
proceeded
from
a
Prophecy
of
what
she
afterwards
learn'd
,
out
of
sympathy
with
Zephalinda
,
or
from
that
sad
banishment
,
which
would
inevitably
follow
by
your
Rivals
Death
;
but
to
contract
your
suspension
,
I
will
not
inform
you
of
all
those
pressing
motives
,
his
generous
Sister
us'd
to
obtain
her
desires
,
since
't
is
enough
you
know
they
were
successful
.
But
Parthenissa
was
no
sooner
retir'd
into
her
Chamber
;
to
make
her self
ready
for
the
intended
visit
;
than
one
of
her
Servants
came
to
inform
me
,
that
a
countrey-man
which
had
sought
me
at
my
own
house
,
and
mist
of
me
there
,
(
being
acquainted
where
I
was
)
was
come
to
speak
with
me
,
having
a
Packet
,
which
he
said
was
of
some
consequence
.
zephalinda
,
(
though
she
knew
't
was
you
which
had
reduced
her
Brother
to
that
extremity
,
never
lessen'd
her
friendship
,
but
was
so
generous
,
as
to
profess
she
was
confident
't
was
●urena
,
not
you
that
was
the
cause
of
her
misfortune
)
and
was
so
earnest
with
me
to
satisfy
her
opinion
,
which
was
,
that
those
letters
were
from
you
,
that
to
obey
her
,
I
was
uncivil
,
and
left
her
alone
to
go
and
receive
them
;
The
superscription
I
scarcely
lookt
upon
,
when
I
knew
it
to
be
your
hand
,
and
transported
with
joy
,
I
ran
up
to
Zephalinda
,
and
with
her
into
Parthenissa's
Chamber
,
where
I
assur'd
them
,
that
not
only
I
should
now
know
your
condition
,
but
the
cause
of
your
Duel
;
but
alas
,
assoon
as
I
open'd
my
Pacquet
,
I
found
a
Letter
for
the
King
,
and
another
for
Zephalinda
,
but
none
for
her
which
did
most
desire
,
and
most
merit
one
;
I
confess
,
my
disorder
at
it
was
not
far
short
of
hers
,
but
she
attributing
your
silence
to
any
subject
rather
than
the
true
one
,
and
believing
my
Letter
might
discover
the
cause
,
conjur'd
me
to
peruse
it
;
But
oh
gods
!
what
astonishment
was
mine
,
when
I
found
what
it
contain'd
?
it
made
me
a
long
time
continue
silent
,
and
trembling
,
and
Zephalinda
had
no
sooner
ended
hers
,
but
it
ingender'd
the
same
effect
;
Parthenissa
,
who
could
not
fancy
(
since
you
were
living
,
as
appear'd
by
your
Letters
)
what
strange
accident
could
produce
such
an
operation
,
broke
her
own
silence
,
to
learn
the
occasion
of
ours
.
Alas
,
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
you
will
be
more
happy
in
theignorance
,
than
the
knowledge
of
it
.
If
(
said
she
)
I
knew
not
Artabanes
to
be
living
,
your
words
would
make
me
suspect
he
were
dead
,
No
,
no
,
Madam
,
Zephalinda
answer'd
,
the
certainty
he
is
alive
,
is
not
greater
,
than
having
committed
his
Crime
,
he
is
unworthy
to
continue
so
.
Is
it
possible
(
said
Parthenissa
)
that
he
can
commit
a
crime
,
which
may
render
him
worthy
of
death
in
your
judgement
?
Yes
Madam
,
(
she
reply'd
)
and
when
you
have
read
this
Letter
(
presenting
him
to
Parthenissa
)
I
believe
you
will
be
of
my
judgement
;
whilst
he
was
the
destroyer
of
Surena
,
I
excus'd
the
action
upon
the
belief
I
had
,
that
he
was
invited
to
it
by
justice
,
but
now
I
have
discover'd
he
can
suspect
your
Constancy
,
and
convert
a
passion
of
Love
,
unjustly
into
one
of
hatred
,
he
shall
find
I
can
from
his
Friend
,
become
his
Judge
,
and
when
his
actions
are
ill
,
not
fear
to
term
them
so
.
Whilst
Zephalinda
was
thus
speaking
,
the
unfortunate
Par●henissa
read
her
Letter
,
and
no
sooner
found
what
was
in
it
,
than
fetching
a
languishing
sigh
from
the
botton
of
her
heart
,
she
only
said
;
alas
,
Arta●●nes
!
how
ill
do
you
reward
the
purest
Flame
?
and
then
fell
down
at
our
Feet
,
without
giving
any
signs
of
Life
,
Zephalinda
,
who
thought
the
sight
of
her
Letter
,
would
have
rather
inspir'd
her
with
resentment
,
than
grief
,
a
thousand
times
condemn'd
her
own
rashness
,
and
by
an
abundant
weeping
,
discover'd
her
repentance
for
it
;
but
at
last
,
what
with
her
help
and
mine
,
we
brought
Parthenissa
to
her self
again
;
but
indeed
she
employ'd
that
life
we
restor'd
her
to
,
to
torment
her self
so
excessively
,
that
we
found
our
charity
was
a
disobligation
.
Yes
Artabanes
,
had
you
but
seen
how
she
deplor'd
your
inconstancy
,
and
how
transeendent
her
passion
was
,
even
when
she
thought
you
unworthy
of
it
,
I
am
confident
the
knowldege
how
yor
were
lov'd
,
would
have
sufficiently
punish'd
your
belief
,
that
you
were
not
.
Surena
in
the
mean
while
,
finding
his
forces
very
much
diminish'd
,
and
apprehending
he
should
not
have
life
enough
left
,
to
disclose
that
which
would
make
his
death
a
less
misfortune
,
sent
a
servant
of
his
to
know
the
cause
of
Zephalinda's
stay
,
who
finding
Parthenissa
so
well
recover'd
,
as
not
to
need
her
help
,
went
to
give
her
brother
an
account
of
her
employment
;
but
he
hardly
was
inform'd
of
what
had
happen'd
when
he
conjur'd
his
Sister
with
fresh
impatiencies
,
to
beg
Parthenissa
to
afford
him
the
blessing
of
seeing
her
before
he
dy'd
,
for
he
had
something
to
reveal
,
which
might
set
a
period
to
her
grief
,
and
which
he
protested
was
of
so
high
a
concernment
,
that
she
should
never
repent
the
visit
.
With
this
message
,
Zephalinda
return'd
,
and
though
Parthenissa
was
in
extream
disorder
,
yet
we
both
so
effectually
employ'd
our
Prayers
,
that
we
obtain'd
what
they
desir'd
,
and
were
no
sooner
come
into
Surena's
Chamber
,
than
he
begg'd
all
but
your
fair
Mistriss
,
to
go
out
of
it
,
which
being
perform'd
,
he
told
her
;
(
Madam
)
I
know
the
incivility
of
putting
you
to
this
trouble
,
and
of
leaving
you
alone
in
this
room
,
is
so
great
,
that
nothing
but
my
weakness
could
render
it
excusable
;
I
know
too
,
that
as
some
expressions
of
my
joy
for
this
transcendent
Honor
,
I
should
cast
my
self
at
your
Feet
;
but
Madam
,
what
is
my
Apology
for
the
former
,
must
be
also
for
the
latter
.
I
should
too
(
I
must
confess
)
be
offended
at
these
wounds
,
which
necessitates
me
to
this
rudeness
;
but
Madam
,
so
much
is
the
respect
I
pay
you
,
that
I
cannot
be
troubl'd
at
my
own
torment
,
when
I
consider
it
as
a
punishment
of
having
betray'd
you
;
at
those
words
the
fair
Parthenissa
fell
fresh
a
weeping
,
which
Surena
perceiving
,
he
cry'd
out
,
Oh
gods
!
would
I
were
so
blest
,
as
to
be
the
object
,
and
not
the
occasion
of
those
Tears
;
but
alas
(
he
continu'd
)
't
is
in
vain
to
expect
a
felicity
,
which
the
gods
,
as
well
as
a
perfection
as
great
as
theirs
,
thinks
me
unworthy
of
.
Know
then
,
Madam
,
that
I
have
been
wicked
,
in
expectation
to
be
happyy
,
but
having
lost
the
hopes
of
the
latter
,
I
will
no
longer
practice
the
former
;
Yes
(
fair
Parthenissa
)
those
Eyes
which
are
unresistable
,
had
that
influence
over
me
,
which
they
have
over
all
they
look
upon
,
or
they
which
look
on
them
,
and
inspir'd
me
with
a
flame
,
whose
violence
forc'd
me
to
embrace
any
remedy
,
that
might
moderate
it
;
and
finding
that
my
continual
sights
,
did
rather
cool
than
enflame
your
Breast
,
I
could
not
fancy
but
some
other
possest
what
I
sought
:
To
resolve
this
suspition
,
I
courted
Zianthes
Favour
with
such
humbleness
and
assiduity
that
at
last
I
obtain'd
it
,
and
from
her
learnt
,
that
Artabanes
was
the
happy
Man
which
blasted
all
my
joyes
,
and
possest
what
I
but
ambition'd
;
I
must
confess
,
when
I
reflected
on
that
seeming
passion
he
had
for
Zephalinda
,
I
wonder'd
for
a
while
at
that
Truth
,
but
upon
that
publique
breach
betwixt
them
,
I
began
to
believe
the
Mistery
,
and
soon
after
to
apprehend
by
Moneses's
resentment
,
to
see
it
too
visibly
;
This
made
me
hasten
Arsaces
declaration
in
my
favour
,
in
expectation
that
Artabanes
would
not
oppose
his
King
,
but
I
quickly
found
by
Zianthes
intelligence
,
that
all
the
operation
it
produc'd
,
was
only
a
necessitating
you
to
manage
your
Amours
with
greater
privacy
,
and
a
bringing
of
an
accession
to
your
aversion
for
me
.
This
discovery
had
so
powerful
a
production
,
that
in
its
effects
,
I
had
like
to
have
found
the
cure
of
all
my
troubles
,
and
an
exemption
from
needing
that
forgiveness
,
which
I
acknowledge
I
cannot
be
more
ambitious
,
than
I
am
unworthy
of
;
would
to
the
gods
,
fair
Parthenissa
,
I
had
been
so
happy
,
for
then
I
had
dy'd
with
this
satisfaction
,
that
I
had
only
merited
your
pity
,
and
not
your
hatred
;
but
the
higher
Powers
which
form
our
Fates
,
and
permit
us
not
to
make
them
,
ordain'd
the
contrary
,
and
Arsaces
,
who
was
too
much
concern'd
in
my
Life
,
not
to
contribute
every
thing
which
might
preserve
it
,
so
necessarily
conjur'd
me
to
discover
the
cause
of
my
languishings
,
that
at
last
I
obey'd
him
,
and
gave
him
a
true
account
of
all
which
Zianthe
had
inform'd
me
.
At
first
,
that
generous
King
,
would
publiquely
have
taken
notice
to
Artabanes
,
of
his
daring
to
contradict
,
what
he
had
so
openly
manifested
was
his
intention
,
and
then
by
some
rigorous
penalty
,
have
commanded
him
never
more
to
see
you
again
;
but
I
absolutely
oppos'd
this
proceeding
,
by
representing
to
the
King
,
that
it
would
infallibly
ruine
Zianthe
,
who
being
the
only
confident
of
your
Loves
,
must
be
immediately
known
to
be
the
discoverer
of
them
;
that
by
losing
my
intelligencer
,
I
should
lose
my
hopes
;
and
that
his
violence
to
Artabanes
,
might
perhaps
hinder
the
progress
of
his
passion
,
but
nothing
advantage
mine
.
I
will
not
trouble
you
will
all
those
reasons
I
us'd
to
make
Arsaces
deeline
that
overture
,
since
at
last
he
did
it
,
and
immediately
caus'd
me
to
send
privately
for
Zianthe
,
where
giving
her
large
Presents
,
and
larger
Hopes
,
and
by
telling
her
how
infinitely
he
was
concern'd
in
my
recovery
,
so
entirely
gain'd
her
,
that
she
promis'd
him
,
not
only
to
leave
no
means
unessay'd
,
which
might
cast
a
jealousie
betwixt
you
,
and
your
Artabanes
,
but
also
toact
any
thing
I
propounded
,
which
might
conduce
to
that
end
.
This
assurance
,
which
till
then
by
all
my
Arts
I
could
never
draw
from
her
,
gave
me
my
health
,
by
restoring
my
hopes
,
for
I
could
not
despair
of
vanquishing
all
difficulties
,
when
I
had
so
powerful
an
Assistant
;
But
,
mada
,
for
a
long
time
we
could
not
fix
upon
any
design
proportionate
to
our
desires
,
till
the
Tabienian
revolt
,
which
necessitated
Arsaces
to
raise
a
vast
Army
,
to
repair
that
affront
they
had
done
his
Lieutenants
,
and
to
reduce
them
to
their
obedience
.
This
I
elected
as
the
fittest
opportunity
to
act
,
what
I
intended
,
and
besought
the
King
before
that
Army
was
form'd
,
not
to
declare
who
should
be
the
General
,
but
afterwards
to
make
Artabanes
,
and
the
same
night
he
gave
him
his
Commission
,
to
enjoyn
him
by
inviolable
commands
,
next
morning
to
go
to
his
charge
;
This
was
perform'd
as
I
desir'd
,
and
the
same
evening
,
in
which
Arsaces
gave
Artabanes
his
Orders
,
I
made
Zephalinda
(
who
I
durst
not
inform
of
my
resolutions
,
for
I
found
her
more
inclin'd
to
your
Interess
,
than
mine
)
to
invite
you
to
a
Ball
,
where
,
whilst
you
were
diverting
your self
,
I
writ
a
Letter
to
you
,
as
if
that
Command
Arsaces
had
given
Artabanes
,
was
by
your
advice
to
me
,
that
we
might
,
during
his
absence
enjoy
a
satisfaction
which
his
vigilancy
,
and
presence
deny'd
us
,
and
fill'd
the
rest
of
the
Letter
with
some
expressions
,
which
might
make
conjecture
you
had
long
honor'd
me
with
a
private
Passion
.
This
Letter
I
sent
Zianthe
,
and
conjur'd
her
to
let
it
so
fall
into
Artabanes
hands
,
as
if
it
had
been
by
accident
,
for
I
knew
he
would
wait
your
return
at
your
own
Lodings
,
to
kiss
your
hands
before
his
departure
▪
All
this
was
so
admi●ably
acted
by
Zianthe
,
that
it
produc'd
the
wish'd
effect
;
(
as
that
very
night
she
advertis'd
me
)
and
the
more
to
confirm
him
in
his
error
,
I
caus'd
a
small
Christal
Looking-Glass
to
be
made
,
by
one
of
the
rarest
Artists
in
Asia
,
and
by
a
false
screw
I
artificially
put
my
Picture
betwixt
the
Case
and
the
Glass
,
and
some
time
before
,
sent
a
Merchant
to
sell
it
you
,
which
he
did
,
the
curiosity
of
the
work
inviting
you
(
as
I
was
confident
)
to
buy
it
,
this
glass
you
so
justly
priz'd
,
that
for
the
most
part
you
carry'd
it
about
you
,
and
valu'd
it
,
so
much
above
any
thing
of
that
nature
,
that
Artabanes
took
notice
of
it
.
Zianthe
therefore
,
after
she
had
reveal'd
unto
him
,
what
by
the
reading
of
my
Letter
,
she
seem'd
she
could
not
well
any
longer
conceal
,
the
better
to
confirm
that
fallacy
,
shew'd
Artabanes
the
Looking-Glass
,
which
we
well
observ'd
you
had
often
worn
,
and
then
by
opening
the
private
screw
,
discover'd
that
to
him
,
which
you
never
knew
of
your self
,
and
so
excellently
insinuated
,
that
the
este●m
you
plac'd
upon
it
,
proceeded
more
from
that
which
was
conceal'd
in
it
,
than
from
that
which
was
visible
,
that
being
fill'd
with
a
rage
,
which
render'd
him
uncapable
of
all
things
but
revenge
,
he
went
away
,
and
going
down
the
Stairs
,
met
with
a
Servant
of
mine
in
the
dark
,
whom
I
had
expressly
sent
thither
,
who
seeming
to
take
him
for
one
of
yours
,
desir'd
him
to
tell
Zianthe
,
that
you
lay
that
night
at
my
Lodgings
with
Zephalinda
,
and
that
he
was
sent
purposely
to
wait
upon
her
thither
.
You
know
,
Madam
(
continu'd
Surena
)
that
all
that
night
you
honor'd
my
Sister
with
your
company
,
for
when
you
were
returning
late
,
I
caus'd
one
of
the
wheels
of
your
Chariot
,
to
be
so
dexterously
broken
,
that
upon
the
first
motion
,
it
fell
all
to
pieces
,
so
that
you
were
necessitated
to
remain
at
my
house
,
which
the
deluded
Artabanes
attributed
to
a
co●trary
cause
,
and
though
,
that
to
put
the
greater
Complement
upon
me
,
you
evaded
,
allowing
him
the
honor
of
taking
leave
;
for
his
being
made
General
,
and
his
resolution
of
going
next
morning
to
his
charge
,
was
so
suddainly
divulg'd
,
that
I
am
confident
all
Nineve
,
except
those
of
my
house
knew
it
in
an
hour
;
but
there
,
I
had
taken
such
strict
order
,
that
none
should
speak
of
it
,
that
it
came
not
to
your
knowledge
,
Artabanes
therefore
without
so
much
as
answering
my
Servant
,
retir'd
to
his
own
house
,
where
,
had
I
seen
the
defects
my
delusion
produc'd
,
I
had
(
it
may
be
)
repented
it
.
But
Madam
,
his
Griefs
had
another
operation
than
I
expected
,
for
I
believ'd
the
being
so
egregiously
abus'd
,
would
have
made
him
decline
any
resolutions
,
but
those
of
hating
you
,
and
have
induced
him
to
vent
his
despair
,
upon
the
revolted
Tabienians
,
in
which
time
,
by
the
assistance
of
your
resentments
for
his
so
abandoning
you
,
and
my
humility
and
constant
passion
,
I
was
not
out
of
hopes
to
gain
what
he
had
lost
;
but
it
seems
he
abandon'd
himself
so
entirely
to
revenge
,
that
as
he
had
lost
the
hopes
of
possessing
you
,
so
he
resolvd
to
endeavour
I
should
wear
his
Livery
;
in
pursuance
whereof
he
sent
me
a
challenge
,
which
I
could
not
decline
,
for
he
that
has
the
courage
to
adore
you
,
cannot
want
it
to
dispute
you
;
which
I
did
,
but
the
gods
,
(
who
will
not
suffer
infidelity
to
prosper
in
Love
it self
,
where
't
is
least
unlawful
)
gave
him
an
advantage
over
me
,
which
perhaps
upon
a
juster
subject
he
could
not
so
easily
have
gain'd
:
Whilst
Sillaces
(
said
Symander
)
was
making
this
relation
,
my
poor
Master
was
in
so
many
several
disorders
,
that
in
my
life
I
never
saw
a
subject
fitter
for
pitty
;
but
no
sooner
had
his
generous
friend
disclos'd
this
fatal
treachery
,
than
he
cry'd
out
,
O
gods
,
Sillaces
;
what
is
it
you
tell
me
?
I
tell
(
he
reply'd
)
that
,
which
,
if
your
unjust
suspition
had
not
been
too
predominant
,
Pa●thenissa
would
have
inform'd
you
of
,
and
thereby
exempted
her self
,
you
,
and
all
your
friends
,
from
that
misery
,
your
precipitate
and
voluntary
banishment
has
cast
us
into
;
but
be
not
so
cruel
to
your self
,
as
to
interrupt
me
in
that
which
makes
your
wound
,
and
not
permit
me
to
apply
the
cure
:
Alas
(
said
Artabanes
)
't
is
not
in
your
power
,
for
though
Parthenissa
should
by
an
excess
of
goodness
,
pardon
my
crime
,
yet
that
it self
would
but
increase
it
,
by
demonstrating
,
I
have
offended
the
greatest
Mercy
,
as
well
as
the
greatest
Beauty
.
You
are
(
said
Sillaces
)
very
ingenuous
to
persecute
your self
,
and
your
wilfulness
is
admirable
;
you
will
run
into
a
storm
,
and
then
refuse
the
Harbor
.
No
,
generous
friend
(
Artabanes
answer'd
)
that
which
you
call
a
wilfulness
,
is
a
justice
,
since
for
a
Criminal
to
embrace
Life
,
when
his
Conscience
will
be
more
severe
than
his
Judge
can
be
,
is
to
become
as
much
an
ememy
to
himself
,
as
to
Justice
.
If
(
said
Silaces
)
you
will
not
permit
me
to
finish
my
relation
,
for
the
interest
you
have
in
it
,
yet
at
least
let
me
obtain
that
favour
,
as
a
reward
of
those
sufferings
I
have
undergone
,
to
bring
you
news
,
which
I
thought
would
not
have
been
altogether
unacceptable
.
I
beg
a
thousand
times
your
pardon
(
said
my
Prince
)
if
the
effects
of
my
despair
have
been
so
uncivil
,
but
as
a
pennace
for
it
,
I
will
no
more
interrupt
your
Relation
,
but
listen
to
it
with
as
much
silence
,
as
my
miseries
will
permit
.
Surena
(
said
Sillaces
)
had
no
sooner
ended
this
discourse
,
than
perceiving
how
strange
an
influence
it
had
over
Parthenissa
,
he
thus
continu'd
:
Alas
(
Madam
)
all
the
hopes
I
had
in
my
misfortunes
,
I
apprehend
are
groundless
,
for
I
expected
by
disclosing
my
fault
,
to
obtain
a
pardon
for
it
;
but
I
find
by
your
disorder
,
that
you
are
more
inclin'd
to
Justice
,
than
Mercy
.
I
confess
(
said
Parthenissa
)
you
have
by
your
relation
,
made
your self
very
unworthy
the
latter
,
for
by
your
own
acknowledgement
,
you
are
no
longer
wicked
,
but
because
you
can
live
no
longer
,
and
't
is
not
your
repentance
,
but
your
death
,
which
makes
this
discovery
.
'T
is
true
,
Madam
(
Surena
answer'd
)
and
thereby
learn
the
power
of
your
Beauty
,
which
violently
forces
me
to
actions
against
my
Inclinations
,
and
against
Justice
.
But
Madam
,
I
have
greater
hopes
of
your
forgiveness
,
by
submitting
,
than
disputing
,
and
the
more
to
induce
you
to
it
,
consider
,
that
if
I
am
the
only
actor
in
this
fault
,
't
is
because
I
only
had
the
means
to
act
it
;
that
none
would
have
declin'd
my
crime
,
if
he
had
had
my
hopes
;
that
it
lay
in
my
power
to
continue
,
as
well
as
to
create
your
troubles
,
(
for
I
understand
Artabanes
is
too
perfectly
deluded
,
ever
to
return
of
himself
,
and
discover
the
contrary
)
consider
too
,
Madam
,
that
I
have
given
you
an
ill
opinion
of
me
,
to
restore
you
to
a
good
one
of
my
Rival
,
that
you
will
render
my
death
as
full
of
torment
,
withour
uour
pardon
,
as
of
quietness
with
it
,
and
excuse
my
fault
upon
the
score
,
that
the
purest
flame
was
the
creator
of
it
,
and
that
as
it
was
my
first
,
so
't
is
impossible
but
it
must
be
my
last
.
All
the
while
Surena
,
was
thus
speaking
,
his
sighs
accompany'd
his
words
,
and
had
so
efficacious
power
over
the
generous
Parthenissa
,
that
she
told
him
;
Yes
Surena
,
you
have
my
forgiveness
,
and
I
beseech
the
gods
,
that
it
may
render
your
death
as
full
of
satisfaction
,
as
that
crime
which
made
you
need
it
,
will
(
I
fear
)
●ill
my
life
with
misery
.
At
the
end
of
these
words
she
went
out
of
his
Chamber
,
and
coming
where
Zephalinda
and
I
were
,
she
told
her
(
passing
by
)
Ah
Madam
,
your
Brother
has
forever
ruin'd
me
.
That
virtuous
Princess
was
as
much
surpriz'd
at
this
Declaration
,
as
Parthenissa
had
been
,
when
she
learnt
the
cause
of
it
:
But
Zephalinda
perceiving
your
fair
Mistriss
was
too
much
possest
with
grief
,
to
desire
an
explanation
of
what
she
had
said
,
contented
her self
to
suspend
her
curiosity
till
a
fitter
season
,
and
having
waited
on
her
to
her
Chariot
,
return'd
to
Surena
,
who
she
knew
,
by
the
emotions
of
such
a
visit
,
would
remain
in
too
sad
a
disorder
to
abandon
him
;
but
assoon
as
Parthenissa
was
got
home
,
she
learnt
,
Zianthe
had
absented
her self
,
which
so
confirm'd
Surena's
relation
,
that
Parthenissa
immediately
fell
into
a
violent
Feaver
,
and
the
distempers
of
her
mind
,
so
well
conspir'd
with
the
malignity
of
the
disease
,
that
for
seven
days
together
,
all
the
Physitians
were
in
despair
of
her
recovery
,
but
in
the
middle
of
her
highest
ravings
,
she
would
often
excuse
,
and
condemn
you
,
and
in
such
passionate
terms
,
that
in
her
frenzy
,
I
almost
learnt
the
subject
of
it
;
but
at
last
,
the
gods
who
shew'd
us
our
fears
,
to
indear
our
joys
,
heard
our
Tears
,
and
by
a
happy
Crisis
asswag'd
,
and
at
last
took
away
her
pain
and
danger
;
I
say
our
Tears
,
for
Lyndadory
,
Zephalinda
,
and
I
,
had
hardly
any
other
employment
during
her
sickness
,
and
that
generous
Princess
was
so
much
more
concern'd
in
Parthenissa
,
than
in
her
Brother
,
that
as
often
as
possibly
she
could
,
she
left
Surena
,
to
wait
on
her
Rival
.
Whilst
we
were
thus
paying
our
duty
,
and
care
,
to
your
sad
Mistriss
,
Arsaces
was
not
less
vigilant
,
and
concern'd
about
his
Favourite
,
who
,
it
seems
,
(
was
by
those
powers
,
which
were
concern'd
in
your
Loves
)
reduced
,
into
a
danger
of
Death
,
only
to
extort
a
discovery
from
him
,
which
nothing
else
could
have
had
the
power
to
do
;
for
no
sooner
was
his
Treachery
disclos'd
,
than
an
Arabian
Physitian
(
who
certainly
has
farther
pier●
'
into
the
secrets
of
Nature
,
than
any
which
ever
have
been
of
his
profession
)
understanding
Orodes
grief
,
and
the
subject
of
it
,
came
boldly
to
him
,
as
he
was
returning
from
the
Temple
,
where
he
had
been
sacrificing
for
Surena's
health
,
and
told
him
,
that
he
would
undertake
to
end
his
fears
,
by
recovering
his
Favourite
,
if
for
his
cure
,
the
King
would
build
a
Colledge
for
Physitians
,
and
endowe
it
with
a
competent
Revenue
for
their
maintenance
;
Arsaces
,
who
easily
saw
,
that
to
grant
the
Ara●ian
his
desire
,
was
but
to
oblige
his
people
in
obliging
himself
,
greedily
yielded
to
his
request
,
and
promis'd
him
rewards
,
which
though
they
were
immense
yet
were
but
short
of
his
merit
;
for
by
an
admirable
Art
,
onely
dipping
some
Linnen
in
Surena's
bloud
,
and
by
covering
it
with
a
Powder
,
which
he
turn'd
the
Sympathetick
,
in
eight
days
to
our
wonder
,
and
Orodes
joy
,
brought
your
rival
out
of
all
fear
of
death
;
but
the
Parthian
Physitian
,
who
envy'd
what
they
could
not
imitate
,
gave
out
,
that
his
cure
was
not
the
effects
of
Knowledge
,
but
of
Magick
:
but
the
skilful
Arabian
,
to
make
their
malice
,
as
apparent
as
their
Ignorance
,
promis'd
to
publish
a
Treatise
,
which
should
evince
,
that
for
his
receipt
he
was
only
beholding
to
Art
.
His
Enemies
therefore
,
who
imagin'd
,
that
he
which
could
perform
a
cure
,
could
tell
the
means
how
it
was
wrought
,
one
night
privately
murther'd
him
in
his
Bed
,
and
so
that
excellent
remedy
is
,
(
I
fear
)
for
ever
lost
,
and
only
appear'd
,
to
make
us
think
it
a
misfortune
.
But
assoon
as
Parthenissa
was
in
any
condition
fit
to
be
spoken
to
,
Lindadory
,
Zephalinda
,
and
I
begg'd
her
with
such
incessant
importunities
,
to
discover
to
us
what
Surena
had
to
her
,
that
at
length
she
granted
our
request
.
Alas
!
what
disorders
were
we
in
at
that
relation
?
they
were
indeed
so
great
,
that
for
a
time
Parthenissa
attributed
what
was
meerly
our
astonishment
,
to
a
tacite
condemning
of
you
,
but
Zephalinda's
resentments
against
Surena
,
gave
her
soonest
the
power
,
not
only
to
condemn
her
brother
,
but
to
draw
Parthenissa
out
of
that
error
,
our
silence
had
lead
her
into
,
by
telling
her
;
But
Madam
,
since
the
gods
so
mercifully
have
discover'd
your
and
Artabanes's
delusion
,
why
do
you
so
long
let
him
continue
in
torments
,
whose
greatness
you
may
know
by
your
own
sufferings
,
and
which
are
too
high
a
punishment
where
his
crime
as
much
his
design
,
as
't
is
his
misfortune
.
Madam
(
said
Parthenissa
)
(
who
condemn'd
you
,
but
to
learn
more
Arguments
for
your
pardon
)
it
seems
then
by
your
discourse
,
that
Artabanes
is
not
faulty
,
which
I
must
inform
you
,
is
a
far
different
opinion
from
mine
;
for
was
it
a
sufficient
inducement
to
think
me
unconstant
,
because
his
Rival
said
I
was
so
?
if
he
thought
me
guilty
,
why
did
he
not
accuse
me
?
and
if
not
,
why
did
he
condemn
me
?
is
an
accusation
then
a
sufficient
convincement
?
No
,
no
,
(
Madam
)
when
I
consider
the
slight
foundations
his
suspitions
have
,
I
must
believe
he
has
resign'd
his
liberty
to
some
new
Conqueror
,
and
that
which
he
ascribes
to
my
inconstancy
,
is
but
an
effect
of
his
own
.
Ah
(
reply'd
Zephalinda
interrupting
her
)
how
unjust
are
you
now
to
Artabanes
,
as
well
as
to
your self
,
had
he
any
such
criminal
design
,
he
would
not
have
expos'd
his
life
to
Surena's
Sword
;
that
was
too
dangerous
a
counterfeiting
?
No
Madam
,
he
was
deluded
so
artificially
,
that
he
merits
rather
your
pity
than
your
resentments
;
for
't
was
not
only
Surena
,
said
you
were
inconstant
,
but
Zianthe
(
your
Confident
too
)
whose
flight
has
confirm'd
her
guilt
;
besides
your
wearing
my
Brothers
Picture
,
and
transcendantly
cherishing
the
Glass
which
contain'd
it
,
above
all
things
of
that
quality
,
your
absenting
your self
from
his
Company
,
when
it
might
have
been
the
last
time
of
your
enjoying
it
,
and
when
all
Ninive
knew
of
his
departure
,
your
making
his
Rivals
house
your
lodging
,
and
his
next
days
accepting
a
challenge
to
justify
your
election
(
as
he
alleadg'd
)
were
such
strong
temptations
,
that
I
should
rather
have
admir'd
if
they
had
not
succeeded
,
than
that
they
did
;
whilst
I
thought
him
faulty
,
I
was
the
frist
to
condemn
him
,
but
now
I
find
him
only
unhappy
,
I
am
become
his
Intercessor
,
and
if
I
prove
not
a
successful
one
,
I
will
publish
to
all
the
world
,
that
't
was
not
the
gods
cruelty
,
but
Parthenissa's
ruin'd
Artabanes
.
Madam
(
said
Parthenissa
)
your
friendship
makes
your
partial
,
and
you
could
not
but
●ondemn
what
you
excuse
,
did
you
reflect
upon
it
with
an
unprejudicate
opinion
,
for
he
that
could
think
me
uncapable
of
Constancy
,
I
must
make
him
so
of
my
affection
,
and
since
his
believing
me
guilty
of
change
is
his
fault
,
I
am
resolv'd
it
shall
be
his
punishment
.
If
(
reply'd
the
perfect
Zephalinda
)
you
are
determin'd
to
be
rigorous
,
let
him
rather
know
his
error
,
than
conceal
it
;
for
whilst
he
thinks
you
faulty
,
he
may
find
his
cure
in
that
belief
,
but
to
learn
the
contrary
,
will
prove
a
torment
almost
great
enough
(
if
't
were
plac'd
on
Surena
)
to
punish
his
Treachery
.
Madam
(
said
Lindadory
,
who
all
this
while
was
drown'd
in
Tears
,
by
an
efflection
on
your
sad
condition
)
will
you
make
my
Brother
miserable
,
because
others
have
made
him
unfortunate
?
will
you
make
him
bear
the
punishment
of
Surena's
fault
?
and
will
you
not
grant
him
your
forgiveness
,
because
his
rival
has
reduc'd
him
to
a
condition
to
need
,
and
deserve
it
?
Would
to
the
gods
(
Parthenissa
answer'd
)
I
could
find
as
much
reason
,
as
I
have
inclination
to
pardon
him
;
but
Madam
,
the
cause
of
his
fault
,
is
of
so
misterious
a
quality
to
me
,
that
perhaps
in
forgiving
this
crime
,
I
may
discover
him
guilty
of
a
greater
,
and
what
I
inte●d
as
a
Charity
,
may
prove
an
offence
.
Madam
(
said
I
)
you
ought
then
the
sooner
to
clear
your
doubts
;
neither
will
we
become
his
Sollicitors
,
if
he
obey
not
your
first
summons
,
and
if
at
your
Feet
he
do
not
acknowledge
the
infelicity
of
your
credulity
,
and
the
continuation
of
his
passion
:
consider
,
fair
Parthenissa
,
I
conjure
you
,
that
a
longer
delay
may
so
confirm
him
in
his
error
,
that
his
despair
may
render
your
mercy
fruitless
,
by
driving
him
into
some
fatal
resolutions
against
his
Life
,
or
at
least
,
make
him
elect
an
eternal
exile
,
and
I
beseech
the
gods
,
that
already
he
has
not
chosen
one
of
those
misfortunes
,
But
why
(
continu'd
Sillaces
)
do
I
make
the
way
to
your
Felicity
so
long
,
that
I
render
it
a
new
misfortune
,
let
it
suffice
,
that
at
last
Parthenissa
seem'd
to
give
that
to
our
Reasons
,
which
proceeded
from
her
Inclination
;
Yes
Artabanes
,
that
generous
Princess
pardon'd
your
unfortunate
Crime
,
assur'dus
,
that
she
would
divide
the
joy
of
your
return
,
and
that
her
Heart
should
be
as
open
to
receive
you
,
as
ever
.
With
this
favourable
declaration
,
I
dispatcht
several
Expresses
,
to
seek
you
,
and
to
inform
you
of
it
;
and
in
the
mean
time
employ'd
all
my
friends
,
and
my
own
power
with
Arsaces
,
to
recall
his
Vows
;
but
alas
,
our
incessant
Prayers
were
so
far
from
altering
,
that
they
confirm'd
his
cruelty
;
and
though
I
know
not
from
what
misterious
cause
his
aversion
for
you
proceeded
,
yet
I
remember
,
for
his
final
snwer
he
told
us
;
The
Parthians
shall
be
convinc'd
,
how
sacred
an
observer
I
am
of
my
Laws
,
by
making
them
as
penal
to
the
first
Prince
of
my
Bloud
,
as
to
the
meanest
of
my
Subjects
;
that
though
Surena
be
recover'd
,
it
was
no
lessening
of
Artabanes's
offence
;
that
I
owe
the
preservation
of
my
Favourite
,
not
to
his
respect
,
but
to
the
goodness
of
the
gods
,
to
whom
I
shall
make
an
unworthy
retribution
,
if
my
first
action
was
a
violation
of
my
Oaths
;
And
concluded
,
that
whosoever
mention'd
your
return
again
,
he
would
consider
it
as
an
affront
to
his
Authority
,
and
resent
it
at
that
rate
.
With
this
barbarous
answer
I
went
to
the
thee
Princesses
,
where
I
found
two
of
my
Expresses
return'd
,
who
assur'd
us
that
they
had
been
at
Babilon
,
Selutia
,
Hecatomphile
,
Arbelles
,
and
all
the
other
chief
Cities
of
Orodes
Empire
,
and
made
such
diligent
search
for
you
,
that
they
durst
engage
their
Lives
,
had
you
been
in
any
of
them
,
their
pains
had
not
been
fruitless
;
the
others
also
at
their
coming
back
,
made
us
the
like
assurances
,
so
that
all
their
testimonies
concurring
,
it
fill'd
Lindadory
,
Parthenissa
,
and
Zephalinda
,
with
such
excessive
sorrows
,
that
perceiving
nothing
but
your
return
,
could
put
a
period
to
them
,
I
undertook
to
give
them
an
account
of
you
,
or
never
again
to
give
them
any
of
my self
.
This
motion
extreamly
surpriz'd
them
,
who
perhaps
thought
,
that
an
improbable
way
of
finding
one
friend
would
turn
to
a
certain
one
of
losing
another
;
but
I
so
represented
,
tha
'
my
friendship
to
you
,
and
my
eagerness
of
silencing
all
their
Tears
,
would
inspire
me
with
a
higher
diligence
than
any
other
,
that
I
obtain'd
my
request
;
and
indeed
I
found
Captivity
a
lesser
trouble
,
than
the
seeing
every
day
so
deep
a
melancholly
as
that
which
possest
your
Sister
,
your
Mistriss
,
and
your
Friend
.
Immediately
therefore
I
fitted
my self
for
my
journey
,
and
though
the
King
did
me
the
honor
to
send
me
a
Commission
for
that
Army
,
which
was
desing'd
for
you
,
yet
I
wholly
declin'd
it
,
and
rather
elected
to
become
a
wanderer
,
to
restore
you
to
your
felicity
,
than
to
tread
the
way
which
leads
to
glory
,
when
not
in
order
to
it
;
within
two
days
I
had
fitted
my self
,
and
having
taken
a
pretence
(
to
obtain
the
Kings
permission
)
for
a
private
affair
,
which
would
necessitate
my
absence
for
some
time
,
I
took
,
leave
of
those
,
for
whose
sakes
and
yours
,
I
undertook
so
uncertain
a
voyage
;
I
will
not
tell
you
how
I
rais'd
their
Faiths
by
naming
greater
probabilities
of
success
,
than
I
fancied
;
nor
all
the
passionate
expressions
at
our
separation
,
but
I
must
tell
you
,
that
in
hope
I
might
be
so
fortunate
as
to
succeed
in
my
inquiry
,
I
procur'd
a
Letter
from
Parthenissa
to
you
,
which
having
secretly
made
up
in
a
Ribbon
,
that
night
I
lest
Ninive
,
and
bethinking
myself
,
that
from
that
Peasant
,
which
you
sent
with
your
Pacquet
to
me
,
I
might
get
some
light
of
the
way
you
took
,
I
went
directly
to
that
Village
,
where
I
found
my
hopes
deceiv'd
but
riding
a
days
journey
further
,
by
incessant
inquiries
after
you
,
I
learnt
that
not
very
long
before
,
a
Gentleman
,
attended
only
by
one
Servant
,
had
hir'd
a
Guide
to
pass
over
those
Sandy
Desarts
,
which
are
between
that
place
and
Antioch
,
and
by
the
description
they
made
of
the
person
,
and
his
sadness
,
I
imagin'd
it
was
you
;
I
therefore
instantly
hir'd
the
same
Guide
,
who
brought
me
to
the
same
Inn
you
lay
at
in
Antioch
,
where
the
Master
of
it
assur'd
me
,
that
Gentleman
embarqued
himself
in
a
small
Vessel
that
was
bound
for
Cyprus
;
this
gave
me
a
belief
,
that
since
an
infelicity
in
Love
was
the
cause
of
your
banishment
,
you
intended
to
confine
your self
in
that
Island
,
where
the
Queen
of
that
Passion
had
chosen
her
earthly
residence
.
With
this
hopeful
fancy
,
I
hir'd
a
Ship
,
and
in
two
days
landed
at
Paphos
,
and
from
thence
exactly
visited
every
corner
of
that
Kingdom
,
yet
all
the
advantage
I
deriv'd
from
a
hundred
days
spent
in
so
curious
a
search
,
was
,
to
remain
confident
you
were
not
in
it
;
but
because
I
was
inform'd
,
that
several
discontented
persons
,
retir'd
themselves
into
certain
small
Islands
of
the
Archipelago
,
I
resolv'd
to
try
whether
you
did
not
increase
their
number
,
but
we
had
not
been
under
Sail
above
twelve
hours
,
when
a
Cilician
Pyrate
gave
us
chace
,
and
though
with
my
Sword
I
disputed
my
liberty
,
yet
at
last
being
opprest
by
number
,
I
lost
both
,
and
receiv'd
so
many
wounds
,
that
had
not
our
Enemies
Captain
,
by
a
good
opinion
conceiv'd
of
my
Courage
,
been
exceeding
careful
of
my
cure
,
I
had
mist
the
happiness
of
restoring
you
to
yours
;
about
half
a
year
I
continu'd
with
this
Cilician
,
where
I
had
nothing
of
a
Slave
,
but
the
name
,
and
whose
affection
I
gaind
so
entirely
,
that
he
often
protested
't
was
that
only
which
hinder'd
my
liberty
;
but
out
of
apprehension
that
I
might
not
have
the
same
inclinations
for
him
,
which
he
had
for
me
,
he
would
every
day
endeavour
to
wean
himself
from
my
company
;
and
as
soon
as
he
could
digest
our
separtion
,
he
would
then
give
me
my
liberty
,
to
obtain
a
pardon
for
having
so
long
delay'd
it
;
his
former
Charity
,
and
those
fresh
demonstrations
of
his
friendship
,
were
so
justly
predominant
over
me
,
that
when
the
valiant
Gallippus
,
and
Menas
,
with
three
Galleys
more
,
fell
upon
ours
;
I
joyn'd
my self
to
the
generous
Cilician
,
and
though
after
a
virtuous
resistance
he
lost
his
life
,
yet
in
that
action
I
sav'd
it
three
times
,
and
loaden
with
wounds
,
fell
by
his
side
;
Gallipus
and
Menas
having
enquir'd
,
after
their
victory
,
who
I
was
,
were
inform'd
by
some
which
surviv'd
our
defeat
,
that
I
was
a
Slave
,
and
only
in
gratitude
to
him
,
whose
courage
took
,
and
whose
charity
preserv'd
me
,
I
perform'd
what
they
saw
.
I
know
not
whether
my
resolution
or
gratitude
,
gave
them
an
opinion
,
that
it
was
not
unlikely
,
the
same
usage
might
produce
the
same
resentments
,
but
whatsoever
was
the
cause
,
Gallippus
took
up
my
Body
,
carried
it
into
his
Cabbin
,
and
there
so
prest
the
Chirurgeons
to
shew
their
Art
,
that
as
proof
of
it
,
by
powerful
Cordials
,
they
brought
me
to
my self
again
,
and
having
found
my
faintness
,
proceeded
rather
from
the
loss
of
Bloud
,
than
any
mortal
wound
,
they
then
gave
Gallippus
an
assurance
of
recovering
me
,
and
afterwards
perform'd
it
.
I
cannot
but
tell
you
,
that
had
not
higher
reflections
than
any
which
related
to
my self
,
silenc'd
my
despair
,
I
had
made
my
own
Sword
testify
,
that
I
preferr'd
Death
before
Slavery
;
but
the
consideration
of
my
engagements
to
your
fair
Sister
,
Parthenissa
,
and
Zephalinda
,
and
the
eternal
torment
,
the
not
knowing
your
error
,
would
be
to
you
,
made
me
look
as
a
providence
upon
my
double
Captivity
,
and
as
it
were
my
double
Refurrection
;
besides
,
I
could
not
fancy
the
gods
,
who
are
the
relievers
of
Innoency
,
did
so
miraculously
preserve
me
,
but
to
render
me
at
last
their
instrument
in
it
;
and
since
the
Sea
was
the
place
where
I
lost
any
further
intelligence
of
you
,
the
being
with
Pirats
,
who
examine
all
Ships
they
see
,
gave
me
no
small
hopes
,
that
those
accidents
,
which
in
appearance
were
misfortunes
,
might
prove
the
best
way
of
putting
a
period
to
yours
and
mine
;
to
conclude
,
the
gods
made
not
my
conjectures
false
,
for
't
is
by
my
Captivity
,
that
they
have
brought
my
troubles
to
an
end
;
but
before
I
have
done
so
to
my
discourse
,
I
must
let
you
know
,
that
in
some
sights
,
I
did
Gallippus
such
memorable
services
(
for
't
was
with
him
I
always
went
)
that
he
endeavour'd
to
obtain
my
freedom
from
Menas
,
which
the
barbarous
Pirat
always
declin'd
;
but
the
valiant
Gallippus
,
to
make
my
hopes
ease
my
sufferings
,
protested
that
the
next
service
I
render'd
him
,
which
might
make
his
Admiral
,
not
justly
to
condemn
his
setting
me
free
,
he
would
rather
hazard
to
lose
the
expectation
of
his
future
preserment
,
than
not
do
it
;
't
was
a
long
while
before
I
could
on
so
favourable
an
opportunity
,
which
at
last
was
given
me
this
day
in
your
sight
;
but
my
being
a
Slave
,
having
been
the
means
of
inceasing
your
Glory
,
I
shall
no
more
deplore
it
,
than
I
do
my
other
miseries
,
since
they
are
so
fortunately
finish'd
and
since
by
them
I
have
given
some
proofs
of
a
friendship
,
whose
greatness
cannot
be
resembling
to
any
thing
so
aptly
,
as
to
his
perfections
to
whom
it
is
paid
.
'T
was
thus
the
generous
Sillaces
ended
his
relation
,
and
't
was
in
passionate
embracings
,
and
not
in
words
that
Spartacus
was
eloquent
in
his
gratitude
;
but
his
friends
perceiving
that
his
silence
exprest
his
impatience
for
Parthenissa's
Letter
,
immediately
by
unsowing
a
little
Ribbon
,
which
in
all
his
misfortunes
he
had
artificiallay
preserv'd
,
presented
my
dear
Master
with
those
fair
Characters
,
which
,
having
kist
a
thousand
times
,
he
found
that
they
contain'd
these
words
.
PARTHENISSA
to
the
Prince
ARTABANES
.
IF
I
consulted
with
Iustice
,
and
not
with
Friendship
,
this
which
is
to
recall
you
from
your
banishment
,
should
be
a
confirmation
of
it
,
and
perhaps
your
crime
(
if
my
affection
were
not
your
advocate
)
might
deserve
that
punishment
;
for
in
esteeming
me
inconstant
,
you
have
as
much
wrong'd
my
judgement
,
as
my
Virtue
;
but
since
your
fault
affords
you
an
evincement
,
that
my
affection
by
my
yet
continuing
it
,
is
uncapable
of
alteration
,
I
pardon
an
error
,
which
on
that
score
I
can
hardly
condemn
,
and
all
the
reparation
I
desire
,
is
,
that
you
will
never
think
me
so
near
being
guilty
,
as
to
have
been
thought
so
by
you
;
that
you
will
make
a
grief
cease
,
which
nothing
but
your
presence
has
the
power
to
do
;
and
that
you
will
be
confident
,
't
is
as
impossible
for
me
to
alter
my
Passion
,
as
to
improve
my
first
election
by
a
second
choice
.
O
gods
!
(
Spartacus
cry'd
out
when
he
had
ended
reading
)
why
did
you
give
me
the
courage
to
love
Parthenissa
,
the
happiness
to
obtain
hers
,
and
not
virtue
enough
to
know
she
was
uncapable
of
vice
;
Then
abstaining
a
while
from
words
,
he
made
those
sighs
which
interrupted
them
,
perform
their
Office
;
but
having
at
length
allay'd
that
storm
,
he
thus
continu'd
;
Great
gods
!
what
crime
have
I
committed
,
that
you
make
a
declaration
of
Parthenissa's
Passion
for
me
,
my
punishment
?
and
yet
you
are
therein
but
just
,
for
since
the
suspecting
of
it
was
my
sin
,
it
is
fit
it
should
be
too
,
my
torment
.
My
Relation
would
be
endless
,
did
I
tell
you
all
those
rational
extravagancies
he
utter'd
,
I
will
therefore
pass
them
over
,
with
all
those
Menaces
he
made
against
Surena's
Life
,
and
only
inform
you
,
that
never
any
man's
condemnation
brought
him
a
more
real
grief
,
than
did
Artabanes
pardon
to
him
,
and
that
his
despair
for
having
injur'd
the
perfect'st
excellency
,
flung
him
into
a
violent
Feaver
,
which
was
not
only
like
to
have
cost
him
his
life
,
but
was
really
the
cause
of
those
disasters
,
which
afterwards
did
happen
.
For
Canitius
(
who
my
Prince
had
honour'd
with
the
office
of
his
Lieutenant-General
)
at
the
taking
of
Salapia
,
saw
the
fair
Izadora
,
and
had
for
her
so
violent
a
Passion
,
that
it
gave
him
the
impudence
to
beg
her
of
my
generous
Master
,
as
a
reward
of
his
Services
;
but
Spartacus
not
only
refus'd
it
,
but
gave
his
so
just
a
reprehension
for
it
,
that
instead
of
producing
repentance
,
it
inspir'd
him
with
revenge
;
to
effect
which
(
as
we
afterwards
learnt
)
he
held
a
private
correspondency
with
Gellius
and
Lentulus
,
at
that
famous
Battel
,
in
which
they
were
defeated
,
and
't
was
by
his
Treachery
,
and
the
quitting
of
his
Post
,
that
all
those
valiant
Germans
were
then
cut
off
;
and
for
which
,
he
attributing
of
it
to
their
rashness
,
and
my
Prince
not
to
his
infidelity
,
he
had
his
pardon
;
which
generosity
was
so
far
from
producing
his
conversion
,
that
it
gave
him
encouragement
to
abuse
a
Virtue
,
which
,
if
he
had
had
any
himself
,
he
should
rather
have
admir'd
.
This
Traytor
therefore
taking
the
advantage
of
his
Generals
sickness
,
which
gave
him
an
unrestrained
liberty
to
accomplish
his
infidelity
,
began
by
his
Agents
,
to
let
the
Army
know
that
Spartacus
,
who
built
his
Glory
upon
their
Bloud
,
car'd
not
how
profuse
he
was
of
so
precious
a
treasure
,
whilst
that
by
it
he
could
purchase
his
desires
;
that
they
had
no
reason
any
longer
to
follow
a
Captain
,
who
declin'd
so
much
as
acquainting
them
with
his
Name
,
and
Countrey
;
that
to
the
best
of
his
observation
,
they
must
not
expect
a
period
of
their
troubles
but
by
a
period
of
their
lives
,
for
having
led
them
cross
all
Italy
,
with
an
engagement
of
disbanding
them
,
when
they
had
reach'd
the
Alps
,
,
yet
,
when
all
their
dangers
were
past
(
but
that
of
not
observing
his
promise
)
upon
the
bare
noise
of
Crassus
Army
,
he
leads
them
from
their
security
,
to
make
them
undertake
a
hazardous
War
;
that
when
by
the
only
blessing
of
the
gods
,
by
the
defeat
of
Mummius
,
they
had
created
such
fears
in
Crassus
,
that
they
might
with
as
much
safety
,
as
honor
,
have
retir'd
themselves
to
enjoy
their
Valours
recompence
,
he
declines
Gallippus
overture
,
of
sending
them
a
Fleet
,
which
would
have
convey'd
them
into
a
Countrey
,
where
at
once
they
might
receive
their
security
,
and
their
rewards
,
and
for
the
hopes
of
a
little
Glory
,
which
their
Swords
and
Lives
too
must
purchase
for
him
,
he
is
resolv'd
,
not
only
to
expose
them
to
all
the
Force
of
Italy
,
but
to
attend
Pompeys
triumphant
A●my
,
who
are
so
accustom'd
to
Victory
,
that
they
desire
no
greater
certainty
of
it
,
than
to
come
to
a
Battel
;
in
which
,
the
best
name
our
Victory
can
bear
,
will
be
that
of
a
happy
rashness
;
neither
can
they
have
any
hopes
of
his
favour
,
had
they
no
other
experiment
of
the
contrary
,
than
that
of
Salapia
,
where
lest
Perolla
should
be
too
weak
to
shed
their
Bloud
,
he
sends
him
those
prisoners
to
destroy
their
Valours
,
which
had
been
made
so
,
by
their
valours
;
and
that
late
one
of
Gallippus's
Slave
,
who
,
though
he
gave
no
other
proof
of
his
Courage
,
than
the
defence
of
himself
,
and
the
killing
of
some
of
them
,
yet
immediately
,
as
if
the
shedding
their
companions
Bloud
,
had
been
the
best
Title
to
a
recompence
,
his
liberty
is
purchas'd
,
and
by
treasures
far
greater
than
any
which
has
been
,
their
reward
for
two
years
misery
and
success
;
and
not
content
with
this
injury
,
but
because
they
vented
their
just
resentments
upon
a
violater
of
his
Faith
,
from
their
General
he
becomes
their
executioner
,
and
lest
they
might
judge
that
violence
proceeded
from
the
heat
of
Bloud
,
he
causes
afterwards
five
of
them
to
be
publickly
hang'd
,
and
offers
their
Enemy
to
become
their
Judge
,
who
finding
Spartacus
to
be
more
cruel
,
than
he
himself
could
be
(
though
a
Pirat
)
declin'd
the
motion
upon
that
score
only
.
It
was
with
many
such
instruments
that
the
traitor
Canitius
,
&
his
Instruments
,
endeavour'd
my
Prince's
ruine
,
and
though
he
were
the
only
Author
of
this
wickedness
,
yet
he
appear'd
the
chief
detester
of
it
;
neither
was
he
content
to
be
false
within
our
Camp
,
but
carry'd
his
perfidiousness
to
that
of
the
Romans
,
and
by
a
private
contract
with
Crassus
(
which
my
Prince's
indisposition
permitted
him
to
manage
with
security
)
not
only
became
his
Friend
,
but
his
Intelligencer
;
and
advis'd
him
,
during
his
Generals
sickness
to
advance
,
and
by
a
strong
Trench
to
shut
up
the
neck
of
that
Peninsule
we
then
quarter'd
in
,
where
if
Spartacus
ended
his
life
,
by
his
present
disease
,
the
command
of
the
Army
by
succession
,
being
his
,
he
would
betray
it
into
his
hands
;
or
if
he
recover'd
,
he
would
raise
so
dangerous
a
mutiny
in
the
Army
(
for
the
which
,
their
being
thus
besieg'd
,
would
give
a
sufficient
rise
)
that
in
so
great
a
disorder
he
might
make
his
advantage
.
He
further
protested
,
he
would
then
have
perform'd
that
,
for
which
he
was
futurely
engag'd
,
but
that
as
yet
those
seeds
of
disorder
,
had
not
taken
root
deep
enough
to
produce
the
fruit
he
expected
,
but
yet
as
an
earnest
of
the
reality
of
his
professions
,
he
would
not
oppose
Crassus's
making
that
Trench
which
was
to
besiege
us
;
who
upon
this
persidiousness
rais'd
his
hopes
,
and
his
camp
,
which
he
remov'd
to
the
neck
of
our
Peninsule
,
where
contrary
to
the
advice
,
and
above
the
hope
of
all
his
Officers
,
he
in
a
short
while
cast
up
a
trench
from
Sea
to
Sea
,
of
three
hunder'd
Furlongs
in
length
,
fifteen
Foot
broad
,
as
many
high
,
and
on
the
top
of
it
rais'd
a
Wall
of
an
admirable
strength
,
whilst
this
was
performing
,
our
Army
often
repin'd
at
Canitius
not
opposing
it
,
who
to
make
his
sitting
still
,
appear
rather
his
respect
,
than
his
treachery
,
protested
he
would
adventure
nothing
,
till
Spartacus
was
recover'd
,
left
fighting
under
his
fortune
,
the
success
might
be
attributed
to
his
own
courage
;
besides
,
he
often
laught
at
so
endless
a
toil
(
as
he
tearm'd
Crassus
Trench
)
and
said
't
was
a
work
sitter
for
Labourers
,
than
Soldiers
;
but
yet
if
the
Romans
effected
it
,
they
would
but
become
the
makers
of
their
own
graves
,
for
they
must
be
so
over-haras'd
,
that
it
would
be
impossible
for
them
to
use
a
Pile
or
a
Sword
:
I
must
confess
,
I
was
of
his
opinion
,
and
had
I
not
been
so
,
I
esteem'd
it
less
hazardous
to
be
besieg'd
by
Crassus
,
than
to
fight
a
Battel
under
Canitius
.
Neither
was
it
singly
Canitius's
treachery
,
which
gave
the
Roman
General
this
confidence
,
but
Pompey's
unexpected
return
had
a
share
in
it
,
for
though
Crassus
had
conjur'd
the
Senate
to
send
for
him
out
of
Asia
,
yet
he
had
done
it
to
palliate
any
disgrace
which
might
have
befallen
him
,
to
manifest
the
greatness
of
the
danger
,
and
the
better
to
set
off
the
glory
of
a
victory
,
than
out
of
a
belief
that
Pompey
could
so
soon
,
and
so
successfully
disingage
himself
from
the
Mithridatick
-
War
;
but
when
to
his
grief
,
and
admiration
he
receiv'd
advice
from
Rome
,
that
not
only
Pompey
was
at
Dyrrachium
,
and
expected
but
a
fair
wind
to
transport
him
into
Italy
,
but
that
all
the
Senate
consider'd
him
as
the
Man
destin'd
for
that
work
,
and
had
made
him
General
of
that
War
,
taking
the
very
rise
from
Crassus
his
own
Letters
,
spight
,
and
ambition
made
him
undertake
what
his
judgement
,
nor
his
courage
,
could
have
invited
him
to
.
In
the
mean
while
,
my
generous
Prince
lay
strugling
with
greater
difficulties
than
all
the
Roman
Empire
could
have
rais'd
him
,
I
mean
his
despair
for
having
suspected
the
perfect
innocency
;
which
cruel
thoughts
,
made
him
look
with
some
sort
of
joy
,
upon
that
sickness
we
consider'd
with
horror
;
but
in
the
end
,
the
gods
(
who
had
not
yet
wearied
themselves
in
persecuting
him
)
abated
,
and
afterwards
took
away
the
danger
of
his
Feaver
;
but
then
his
Melancholly
augmented
,
as
his
disease
decreas'd
,
and
had
so
powerful
an
influence
over
him
,
that
it
appear'd
as
dangerous
an
enemy
,
as
that
which
was
so
lately
supprest
;
to
be
brief
,
Sillaces
took
so
opportunely
his
good
intervals
,
and
so
effectually
employ'd
them
,
that
Spartacus
began
to
listen
unto
reason
,
and
one
evening
,
finding
him
much
inclin'd
to
relish
his
perswasions
,
he
told
him
;
Are
you
then
,
Artabanes
resolv'd
eternally
to
render
fruitless
that
miraculous
discovery
the
gods
have
made
in
your
favour
?
will
you
by
your
wilfulness
,
necessitate
Parthenissa
to
believe
,
that
what
was
your
misfortune
,
was
your
design
?
will
you
render
what
you
would
make
the
testimony
of
your
Repentance
,
a
greater
offence
than
your
fault
?
and
will
you
make
your
Love
more
obliging
than
your
Hatred
?
for
whilst
you
thought
your
Presence
was
Parthenissa's
trouble
,
you
banish'd
your self
from
her
,
and
now
she
tells
you
't
will
prove
her
only
consolation
,
you
deny
it
her
:
No
,
no
,
(
Artabanes
)
if
you
think
you
have
not
really
her
pardon
,
a
new
disobedience
is
not
the
way
to
obtain
it
;
and
if
you
believe
you
have
,
why
do
you
deny
your self
the
benefit
of
it
?
't
was
with
many
perswasions
of
this
nature
that
Artabanes
despair
was
assaulted
,
which
at
last
were
so
prevalent
,
that
after
a
deep
sigh
,
he
told
Sillaces
,
You
have
vanquish'd
me
,
(
generous
Friend
)
yes
:
I
will
go
to
Parthenissa
,
for
since
't
is
she
I
have
offended
,
't
is
unfit
any
other
but
that
injur'd
innocence
should
pronounce
my
sentence
:
neither
can
she
doubt
how
sensible
I
am
of
my
crime
,
since
I
make
her
both
the
Party
,
and
the
Judge
,
and
offer
my
life
unto
Arsaces
fury
,
only
to
preserve
it
to
her
justice
;
you
will
find
(
said
Sillaces
)
with
extasies
of
joy
,
and
a
thousand
embraces
,
how
little
cause
you
have
to
be
apprehensive
of
either
,
for
as
Parthenissa's
goodness
has
pardon'd
your
offence
,
so
if
Orodes
justice
does
not
imitate
her
example
,
let
it
be
my
care
to
preserve
your
being
in
Parthia
,
from
his
Knowledge
.
My
generous
Master
being
brought
to
this
good
temper
,
we
thought
it
high
time
to
inform
him
,
that
the
Romans
had
in
a
manner
besieg'd
us
,
and
that
the
vastness
of
our
Army
had
so
exhausted
the
Island
of
all
Provisions
,
that
our
necessities
,
if
not
our
courages
must
invite
us
to
force
our
passage
.
Spartacus
heard
this
advertisement
(
which
till
them
we
had
de●lin'd
giving
him
,
reason
by
of
his
sickness
,
and
melancholly
)
with
a
singular
satisfaction
,
and
about
some
four
or
five
days
after
,
having
recover'd
sufficient
strength
to
make
use
of
a
Horse
,
he
came
out
of
his
Tent
,
which
the
Soldiers
celebrated
with
so
loud
a
shout
,
that
the
Romans
apprehended
their
besieg'd
were
coming
to
be
their
Assaulters
;
neither
do
I
believe
their
fears
had
been
any
thing
lessen'd
had
they
known
the
true
cause
of
that
Allarm
,
for
I
dare
justly
affirm
,
they
more
apprehended
my
Princes
recovery
,
than
a
Battel
:
But
Artabanes
having
taken
10000
Men
for
his
Guard
,
went
to
view
that
miraculous
Trench
,
which
he
more
admir'd
than
fear'd
;
but
lest
his
Officers
might
misinterpret
his
silence
,
he
told
them
;
That
Crassus
(
doubtless
)
had
more
Pioneers
than
Soldiers
in
his
Army
:
that
since
he
never
declin'd
a
Battel
,
he
rather
thought
the
Romans
secur'd
themselves
,
than
besieg'd
him
;
that
't
was
impossible
any
people
could
take
that
pains
,
b●t
for
their
own
preservation
;
yet
lest
the
world
might
believe
the
contrary
,
he
would
in
few
days
evince
the
truth
by
a
demonstration
,
and
was
more
pleas'd
to
know
where
he
might
fight
with
Crassus
,
than
troubl'd
at
those
difficulties
he
must
surmount
to
do
it
.
And
indeed
not
long
after
,
when
he
had
perfectly
recover'd
his
strength
,
and
when
all
his
Army
despair'd
of
disingaging
themselves
from
so
ruinous
a
labyrinth
;
in
a
stormy
night
,
when
the
earth
was
cover'd
with
Snow
,
he
gave
orders
to
all
his
Forces
to
be
ready
to
march
,
and
whilst
he
was
putting
on
his
Armor
,
he
told
Sillaces
;
Come
generous
Friend
,
let
us
make
Crassus
defeat
,
the
way
to
assault
Rome
,
and
having
taken
it
,
let
us
retire
into
Parthia
,
where
I
will
manifest
,
that
I
prefer
not
the
greatest
Empire
of
the
world
,
before
lying
prostrate
at
Parthenissa's
Feet
,
nay
,
that
I
relinquish'd
it
,
for
so
glorious
and
advantagious
an
exchange
;
yes
Sillaces
,
I
will
in
few
da●s
so
cover
my self
with
Palmes
and
Laurels
,
that
my
criminal
jealousie
shall
not
be
seen
,
and
do
such
virtuous
actions
,
that
her
justice
shall
pardon
my
offence
;
or
my
Bloud
shall
expiate
it
.
These
words
were
scarce
spoken
,
when
he
put
himself
at
the
head
of
the
Army
,
and
without
the
least
stop
,
led
on
those
Troops
,
who
under
such
a
General
,
could
not
but
be
victorious
;
in
effect
,
Sillaces
and
he
,
were
the
first
in
person
which
pull'd
down
the
Roman
Eagles
,
planted
more
fortunate
Ensignes
in
their
places
,
and
without
giving
their
success
any
leave
to
cool
,
with
their
Swords
perform'd
so
great
an
execution
,
and
so
strew'd
the
ways
with
Roman
Carcasses
,
that
the
effects
of
their
valour
almost
hinder'd
the
progress
of
it
,
and
had
they
not
had
a
nobler
design
,
they
might
have
besieg'd
the
living
Romans
with
the
dead
,
and
made
as
famous
a
Trench
by
their
victory
,
as
Crassius
had
done
by
his
labour
;
but
the
unequal'd
Friend
so
much
undervalu'd
a
Conquest
,
where
nothing
was
considerable
in
it
,
but
the
number
of
the
Dead
,
and
so
abhorr'd
all
things
which
retarded
their
return
into
Parthia
,
that
leaving
Crassus
to
deplore
,
and
admire
his
defeat
,
they
took
the
direct
way
to
Rome
,
which
was
to
be
the
crown
and
limit
of
their
Conquests
;
but
alas
,
that
fatal
poyson
which
the
Traitor
Canitius
had
given
our
Soldiers
,
began
now
to
shew
how
strangely
it
had
diffus'd
it self
;
and
though
Granicus
(
a
considerable
Officer
of
our
Army
)
were
not
of
his
conspiracy
,
yet
imagining
that
Crassus
loss
had
made
him
uncapable
to
revenge
it
,
and
finding
the
Soldiers
prepar'd
for
any
Mutiny
,
he
so
well
husbanded
their
disorder
,
that
the
second
night
,
as
we
were
in
our
march
towards
Rome
,
he
revolted
with
13000
Men
from
our
Army
,
and
campt
with
them
near
the
Lake
of
Lucania
,
with
intention
to
set
up
for
himself
.
Spartacus
was
extreamly
enrag'd
at
this
,
and
none
appear'd
more
violent
to
punish
it
,
than
the
false
Canitius
,
who
inwardly
rejoy'd
at
so
unexpected
an
advantage
,
and
immediately
advertis'd
Crassus
of
it
,
lest
he
might
lose
that
favourable
opportunity
;
but
though
my
Prince
was
sensible
of
so
great
a
dismembring
of
his
Forces
,
yet
the
belief
he
had
,
that
in
them
all
the
Traytors
of
the
Army
were
out
of
it
,
he
consol'd
himself
,
knowing
that
they
were
less
dangerous
in
a
distinct
body
,
than
under
his
Colours
,
and
to
satisfy
those
that
prest
him
to
be
reveng'd
,
he
told
them
;
That
he
knew
no
way
more
probable
for
their
punishment
,
than
their
having
put
themselves
out
of
his
protection
,
and
that
he
doubted
not
,
but
in
their
very
offence
they
would
receive
the
reward
of
it
.
Therefore
believing
himself
for
all
that
loss
strong
enough
to
carry
Rome
by
storm
,
he
determin'd
the
next
morning
to
continue
his
march
,
almost
as
much
troubl'd
that
Granicus
had
hinder'd
it
a
day
,
as
at
his
Revolt
;
but
the
first
Squadrons
were
hardly
drawn
out
of
the
Camp
,
when
advertisement
was
brought
;
that
Crassus
,
(
who
now
fought
for
revenge
,
and
the
preservation
of
Rome
)
was
fall'n
upon
Grani●us
with
so
much
fury
,
that
't
was
impossible
but
in
it
he
must
find
his
ruine
.
This
Allarm
so
mov'd
the
gallant
Spartacus's
generosity
,
that
though
Canitius
,
(
and
Crassus
,
who
by
that
time
was
corrupted
too
)
begg'd
my
Prince
to
permit
the
Romans
,
to
become
his
Executioners
,
yet
considering
the
danger
,
and
not
the
cause
of
it
,
and
remembring
Granicus's
Courage
,
and
not
his
Revolt
,
he
lead
his
Ensignes
back
to
the
relief
of
those
,
who
had
so
often
been
victorious
under
them
;
and
though
his
only
appearing
made
Crassus
return
to
his
Camp
in
a
hasty
march
,
yet
it
produc'd
no
other
considerable
effect
;
for
Granicus
and
all
his
Soldiers
were
kill'd
before
Spartacus's
arrival
,
not
one
receiving
a
wound
in
his
back
,
or
dying
out
of
his
rank
,
preserving
that
Order
with
their
Bodies
,
which
they
could
not
with
their
Lives
,
their
Deaths
manifesting
whose
Soldiers
they
were
,
and
their
defeat
,
what
General
they
had
abandon'd
;
and
indeed
,
my
Prince
was
so
taken
with
their
resolution
,
that
he
spent
two
days
in
giving
them
a
Military
Funeral
,
burying
their
Crimes
in
their
Graves
.
This
sad
Solemnity
perform'd
,
we
continu'd
our
design
;
but
as
if
my
Prince's
Virtue
had
not
opposition
enough
from
publique
and
private
enemies
;
the
heavens
themselves
conspir'd
against
him
,
and
by
continual
Rains
so
swell'd
the
Rivers
,
that
the
Romans
having
broken
down
all
the
Bridges
,
it
was
impossible
for
him
to
proceed
.
I
leave
you
to
think
what
his
resentments
were
at
so
froward
a
destiny
,
for
it
not
only
retarded
the
Conquest
of
Rome
,
and
,
(
which
was
more
intollerable
)
his
return
to
Parthia
,
but
also
gave
Crassus's
recruits
leasure
to
joyn
with
him
,
and
the
danger
of
the
Empire
made
them
so
considerable
,
that
before
the
waters
were
return'd
into
their
usual
channels
he
came
,
and
with
much
confidence
pitch'd
his
Tents
within
some
sixteen
Furlongs
of
ours
,
where
the
vicinity
of
our
Camps
,
furnisht
frequent
occasions
of
fighting
,
which
was
our
constant
divertisement
,
in
expectation
of
more
favourable
weather
;
but
one
day
Spartacus
having
advice
that
Scroffa
and
Quintus
,
two
of
Crassus
bravest
Captains
,
were
gone
with
all
the
Roman
Cavalry
for
Forrage
,
he
sent
the
generous
Sillaces
with
all
his
,
to
intercept
their
return
,
where
after
a
bloudy
dispute
,
our
Forces
,
by
the
valour
of
their
Leader
,
had
the
better
,
who
with
his
own
hand
having
given
Scroffa
very
dangerous
marks
of
his
courage
,
return'd
into
the
Camp
,
loaden
with
Victory
and
Wounds
.
My
Prince
receiv'd
him
in
Triumphs
,
but
was
more
afflicted
for
the
latter
,
than
pleas'd
at
the
former
,
esteeming
the
loss
of
so
much
precious
Bloud
,
too
prodigal
a
payment
,
not
only
for
having
vanquish'd
those
Romans
,
but
though
it
had
done
the
like
unto
their
Empire
.
But
the
Chirurgeons
soon
mittigated
his
fears
,
by
an
assurance
that
Sillaces
was
in
no
danger
,
and
that
the
greatest
trouble
he
was
like
to
suffer
,
was
the
keeping
of
his
Bed
for
some
10
or
12
days
;
Five
of
which
were
not
expir'd
,
e're
the
Flouds
were
so
asswag'd
,
that
Spartacus
might
have
continu'd
his
march
towards
Rome
,
had
not
his
friends
weakness
hinder'd
it
.
Crassus
imputed
this
delay
to
his
Fear
,
and
having
a
while
before
,
received
advice
from
Canitius
,
that
now
all
things
were
in
such
a
perfect
readiness
,
that
if
the
Romans
could
bring
Spartacus
to
a
Battel
,
he
would
bring
them
to
a
Victory
,
he
determin'd
,
as
a
provocation
to
my
Prince
(
which
was
a
needless
labour
)
to
cast
up
two
great
Trenches
,
the
one
to
hinder
our
passage
towards
Rome
,
the
other
to
hinder
our
Camp
from
Watering
.
To
interrupt
this
design
,
Spartacus
made
many
vigorous
attempts
,
and
thereby
necessitated
the
Romans
by
fighting
,
to
obtain
leave
to
work
;
but
the
eighth
day
after
Sillaces's
victory
,
the
morning
was
spent
in
so
sharp
a
dispute
betwixt
us
,
and
the
Romans
,
and
Seconds
on
either
side
came
so
thick
,
and
numerous
,
that
my
Prince
perceiving
he
might
engage
Crassus
,
gallop'd
back
into
the
Camp
,
and
Commanded
all
his
Army
immediately
to
prepare
themselves
for
a
Battel
,
which
whilst
they
were
doing
,
he
came
in
to
Sillaces
,
where
he
acquainted
him
,
that
before
night
,
he
would
be
in
a
condition
.
immediately
to
return
into
Parthia
,
or
never
to
see
it
again
;
that
nothing
appear'd
a
higher
misfortune
,
than
to
be
depriv'd
of
his
company
and
help
,
in
so
glorious
an
occasion
,
but
since
he
had
so
lately
engross'd
a
memorable
victory
to
himself
,
he
was
hopeful
he
would
not
repine
,
if
he
also
laid
hold
on
so
favourable
,
and
so
often
ambition'd
an
occasion
,
to
imitate
his
example
.
Sillaces
was
extreamly
surpriz'd
at
this
Declaration
,
and
having
sufficiently
curst
those
former
marks
of
honor
,
which
now
hinder'd
him
from
increasing
his
Stock
,
he
begg'd
Artabanes
he
might
wait
on
him
,
though
in
a
Litter
,
that
since
he
could
not
be
a
sharer
in
,
he
might
at
least
be
a
Spectator
,
and
admirer
of
his
Glory
;
and
thereupon
forcing
himself
to
rise
,
he
found
how
ill
a
correspondency
his
Mind
and
Strength
had
together
:
This
sad
experiment
,
and
my
Prince's
Prayers
,
made
him
yield
to
his
weakness
and
his
friend
,
who
having
selected
7000
choice
Men
,
more
for
the
Guard
of
Sillaces
than
his
Camp
,
he
gave
me
the
Command
of
them
,
and
though
I
begg'd
with
vehement
importunities
,
to
be
near
his
Person
in
so
famous
an
occasion
,
yet
the
consideration
of
some
slight
hurts
I
had
receiv'd
in
Scroffa's
defeat
,
and
the
necessity
of
a
faithful
Attendant
on
Sillaces
,
made
him
deny
me
.
The
two
generous
Friends
having
took
leave
of
one
another
,
with
words
,
which
nothing
but
so
perfect
a
friendship
was
capable
to
produce
,
and
my
Prince
having
done
me
the
honor
to
embrace
me
,
he
immediately
lead
his
Troops
which
consisted
(
not
counting
those
left
with
me
)
of
55000
effective
Men
,
to
that
Field
in
which
he
was
confident
they
would
purchase
so
much
Glory
;
where
he
already
found
the
Roman
Army
in
Batalia
,
and
with
as
much
resolution
in
their
countenance
,
and
posture
,
as
if
they
had
been
victorious
as
often
,
as
defeated
;
his
Army
too
being
put
in
order
,
by
an
Oration
,
he
animated
his
Soldiers
,
and
then
gave
order
to
the
Trumpets
,
Clarions
,
and
all
the
warlike
Musick
to
do
the
like
,
by
sounding
the
Charge
;
and
that
his
Soldiers
might
see
his
resolution
,
in
all
their
sight
,
he
kill'd
that
Horse
,
which
he
constantly
made
use
of
in
a
Battel
,
saying
,
that
if
●e
were
●onqueror
,
he
should
want
none
,
and
if
defeated
,
he
would
make
use
of
none
.
My
Princes
Army
was
divided
into
two
great
Battalions
,
the
greatest
was
led
by
Canitius
and
Castus
,
which
consisted
of
30000
Horse
and
Foot
,
the
other
which
made
up
25000
more
,
had
my
Prince
in
the
head
of
them
,
who
that
morning
was
assur'd
by
those
two
Traitors
,
that
they
would
act
miracles
,
which
indeed
they
perform'd
,
in
betraying
the
greatest
Virtue
that
ever
shin'd
upon
Earth
.
The
ground
over
which
my
generous
Master's
Batalion
was
to
move
,
proved
●o
uneven
,
that
the
other
went
first
to
the
Charge
,
and
those
which
led
it
march'd
with
much
order
,
and
seeming
resolution
,
till
they
came
within
shot
of
their
Enemies
,
but
then
Canitius
and
Crassus
(
with
each
of
them
about
forty
of
their
chiefest
Officers
)
turning
the
points
of
their
Javelins
to
the
ground
,
abandon'd
their
Soldiers
,
and
ran
full
speed
to
the
Romans
,
who
opening
their
Divisions
,
receiv'd
them
with
shouts
of
Triumph
.
This
Treachery
you
may
well
imagine
,
brought
a
world
of
confusion
in
those
un-officer'd
Troops
,
and
in
the
height
of
it
,
the
two
Traitors
,
accompany'd
with
their
adherents
,
and
some
Romans
,
return'd
,
and
Canitius
in
Crassus's
name
,
offer'd
all
those
their
Lives
,
who
would
lay
down
their
Arms
;
to
which
a
gallant
Thracian
(
that
my
Prince
had
honour'd
with
a
considerable
Command
)
immediately
reply'd
,
Traitor
,
't
is
a
higher
satisfaction
to
punish
thy
Treachery
,
than
to
live
by
it
,
and
't
is
upon
that
score
,
that
I
decline
the
latter
,
to
act
the
former
;
thereupon
,
breaking
like
Lightning
through
a
hundred
Swords
,
he
past
his
through
Canitius's
Body
,
and
by
so
resolute
a
performance
,
depriv'd
him
of
his
Life
;
but
Euriles
(
for
his
Virtue
,
Merits
,
to
have
his
name
recorded
)
had
not
the
consolation
long
to
out-live
his
and
Spartacus's
revenge
;
yet
before
his
death
,
he
gave
Castus
(
who
was
most
earnest
after
it
)
so
many
wounds
,
that
he
made
him
Canitius's
companion
,
as
well
in
Death
as
Infidelity
,
and
sent
him
to
learn
in
the
other
world
,
the
punishment
which
attends
the
being
treacherous
in
this
.
But
though
the
beginner
of
this
generous
Action
,
found
his
own
end
in
it
;
yet
it
had
so
strange
an
influence
over
all
those
which
were
ignorant
of
Canitius's
designes
,
that
in
imitation
of
Euriles
,
having
chang'd
their
disorder
into
resolution
,
they
oppos'd
all
those
which
were
not
of
their
opinions
,
so
that
the
numbers
being
almost
equally
divided
,
there
began
a
most
bloudy
dispute
,
and
the
Romans
had
that
satisfaction
to
see
those
Swords
which
were
design'd
for
their
ruine
,
employ'd
to
ruine
those
which
had
that
design
;
But
whilst
the
Honest
,
and
the
Traytors
,
were
thus
engag'd
one
against
another
,
(
Crassus
being
inform'd
,
that
Canitius
and
Castus
were
dead
,
to
whom
only
he
had
past
his
word
)
came
,
and
ended
both
their
differences
,
by
ending
all
their
Lives
;
which
was
no
small
satisfaction
to
my
Prince's
marty'rd
Friends
,
to
see
those
which
their
companions
fought
for
,
to
become
the
punishers
of
their
Treachery
.
But
(
continu'd
Symander
)
you
wonder
,
perhaps
,
why
Spartacus
all
this
while
was
idle
?
but
your
admiration
may
cease
when
I
inform
you
,
that
the
Fates
,
either
not
to
see
so
unparalell'd
a
Treachery
,
or
to
contribute
towards
it
,
had
on
a
suddain
rais'd
so
thick
a
Mist
,
for
above
a
quarter
of
an
hour
,
that
my
Prince
,
by
the
uncouthness
of
the
ground
,
advancing
slowly
with
his
Battalion
,
could
not
possibly
see
what
had
happen'd
,
and
perhaps
had
longer
continu'd
in
his
ignorance
,
had
not
a
Trooper
which
escap'd
the
Enemy
,
come
full
speed
,
and
aloud
advertis'd
him
of
those
events
which
I
have
told
you
,
but
not
of
their
cause
:
and
immediately
after
,
as
if
that
Mist
had
been
purposely
sent
to
contribute
to
his
ruine
,
and
then
to
shew
him
the
greatness
of
it
,
it
suddainly
broke
up
,
and
discover'd
the
cruel
execution
the
Romans
had
made
and
their
Army
in
all
its
Glory
▪
marching
a
precipitate
pace
to
Charge
us
.
Gods
!
what
courage
(
but
Artabanes
)
had
not
been
startl'd
under
such
misfortunes
?
but
his
was
so
far
from
being
thereby
impair'd
,
that
it
increast
,
and
turning
to
those
that
follow'd
him
,
he
encourag'd
them
,
both
by
his
words
,
and
then
by
his
example
,
for
advancing
some
hundr'd
paces
before
all
the
rest
,
he
call'd
Crassus
out
,
resolving
as
the
Romans
had
by
accident
,
depriv'd
his
Army
of
a
Wing
,
so
he
would
by
his
valour
deprive
theirs
of
its
Head
.
At
this
Summons
,
two
of
Crassus
valiantest
Centurions
,
successively
came
out
of
their
ranks
to
my
Prince
,
and
by
a
fatal
counterfeiting
,
were
render'd
for
ever
uncapable
of
deluding
him
again
;
Crassus
perceiving
by
those
examples
,
what
his
own
Fate
had
been
,
had
his
Valour
resembl'd
theirs
,
declin'd
what
he
was
going
to
undertake
,
and
to
disguise
his
fear
,
commanded
his
Army
to
cut
in
pieces
all
the
Reliques
of
those
Slaves
,
(
for
those
were
his
words
.
)
But
why
do
I
dwell
so
long
on
so
sad
a
subject
?
let
it
suffice
,
I
tell
you
,
that
Spartacus
was
become
so
horrible
by
the
being
cover'd
with
his
Enemies
bloud
;
that
his
Presence
was
as
much
apprehended
,
as
his
Sword
;
that
in
his
was
verified
the
Fable
of
Anteus
,
recovering
strength
by
his
very
falls
;
that
he
never
won
so
much
Glory
in
all
his
victories
,
as
in
that
defeat
;
and
that
he
perform'd
such
prodigious
exploits
,
that
I
absolutely
believe
,
had
he
been
blest
but
with
twenty
of
his
humour
,
and
resolution
,
their
valours
had
supply'd
the
losses
of
Canitius
Treachery
;
but
at
length
,
those
Divisions
he
had
left
,
being
infinitely
over-numbred
,
dishearten'd
,
and
pierc'd
in
several
places
,
were
totally
routed
,
and
most
of
the●
cut
in
pieces
;
Spartacus
perceiv'd
it
,
and
might
have
avoided
so
general
a
Fate
,
but
scorning
to
out-live
a
loss
,
which
he
thought
would
have
render'd
him
worthy
of
it
,
and
observing
a
Roman
,
who
had
that
fatal
day
made
himself
admirably
remarkable
,
by
his
courage
,
he
seiz'd
upon
one
of
those
many
Horses
which
were
without
Masters
,
and
taking
a
Javelin
in
his
hand
,
he
ran
full
speed
after
him
,
and
having
overtaken
him
alone
in
the
Grove
,
in
the
midst
whereof
was
a
little
Meadow
,
fit
for
his
purpose
,
he
cry'd
out
to
his
valiant
Enemy
,
To
me
,
to
me
,
brave
Roman
,
I
am
Spartacus
,
and
seek
but
a
gallant
Sword
to
cure
this
days
misfortune
;
'T
is
thee
I
seek
(
the
other
briskly
reply'd
)
and
since
thou
hast
thought
me
sit
to
end
thy
sufferings
;
I
should
be
very
unwilling
to
have
thee
mistaken
in
thy
choice
;
thereupon
they
both
leapt
a
Ditch
into
that
little
Meadow
,
where
having
fetcht
as
long
a
Career
,
as
the
place
would
permit
,
they
fell
upon
each
other
with
more
futy
,
than
two
opposite
Storms
,
and
their
Javelins
flying
into
the
Air
into
a
thousand
shivers
,
they
drew
their
Swords
to
supply
that
loss
,
and
to
end
their
combate
,
or
their
Lives
;
and
truly
they
were
so
intent
upon
each
others
ruine
,
that
't
is
a
miracle
they
did
not
mutually
act
it
;
above
a
quarter
of
an
hour
the
dispute
was
so
equally
ballanc'd
,
that
detesting
the
faithfulness
of
their
Armours
,
they
were
often
upon
the
point
of
moving
a
truce
,
till
they
had
taken
them
off
,
but
so
long
to
be
idle
,
appear'd
a
greater
difficulty
,
than
to
cut
them
in
pieces
in
the
fight
;
at
last
my
Prince
enrag'd
,
that
posterity
should
know
one
single
Sword
ended
a
life
,
which
that
day
had
divers
times
forced
a
passage
through
a
thousand
,
recollecting
all
the
strength
which
his
Grief
and
Rage
could
inspire
him
with
,
struck
his
valiant
Enemy
so
furious
a
blow
,
that
cleaving
his
shield
in
two
,
it
did
the
like
unto
the
Gorget
,
and
made
a
wound
upon
the
height
of
his
Shoulder
.
He
(
on
the
other
side
)
enrag'd
at
a
resistance
,
which
till
then
he
had
never
found
,
to
be
only
vanquish'd
when
all
the
Army
he
fought
in
was
victorious
,
and
to
leave
so
liberal
a
gift
unrepaid
,
stiffening
himself
upon
his
Stirrups
,
and
inflaming
himself
with
those
thoughts
,
by
an
unresistable
reverse
,
which
though
it
glanc'd
upon
my
Princes
shield
,
yet
afterwards
lighting
upon
his
Helmet
,
cleft
it
in
two
,
and
left
his
Head
and
Face
unguarded
,
and
uncover'd
;
which
his
Enemy
perceiving
,
and
as
the
gods
would
have
it
,
knowing
perfectly
those
unequall'd
Features
,
though
his
Sword
were
in
the
Air
,
to
prosecute
the
advantage
my
Princes
perfidious
Armour
had
given
him
,
yet
he
suspended
it
there
,
and
by
crying
out
,
Great
gods
!
is
it
not
Artabanes
that
I
see
?
not
only
hinder'd
Spartacus
by
that
example
,
and
those
words
,
from
giving
him
a
blow
,
whose
strength
had
render'd
it
unavoidably
fatal
to
the
Receiver
,
but
also
made
him
say
,
who
ever
thou
art
,
if
thou
be'st
a
friend
to
〈◊〉
Romans
,
kill
me
as
Spartacus
,
and
if
thou
be'st
a
friend
to
me
,
kill
me
as
Artabanes
,
for
this
days
misery
will
make
the
granting
that
request
,
the
highest
proof
thou
ca●st
give
me
of
thy
being
mine
.
The
gods
forbid
,
(
the
Stranger
reply'd
,
unlacing
his
Helmet
)
that
ever
my
Sword
should
be
employ'd
in
so
criminal
an
action
,
for
though
my
ignorance
made
my
sacrelegious
Arm
offend
,
't
is
not
the
gods
themselves
that
can
command
my
knowledge
of
you
to
repeat
my
sin
;
thereupon
flinging
off
his
Helmet
,
he
discover'd
a
Face
,
which
Spartacus
no
sooner
saw
,
than
they
both
ran
with
as
much
willingness
to
embrace
,
as
they
before
did
to
destroy
one
another
;
and
for
a
while
,
my
Prince
in
the
joy
of
such
an
encounter
,
had
laid
aside
the
thoughts
of
those
miseries
which
had
caus'd
it
;
but
alas
,
they
were
too
deep
,
and
too
recent
to
be
forgotten
,
and
the
sad
remembrance
of
them
,
made
him
on
a
suddain
cry
out
,
Oh
gods
!
why
do
you
give
me
so
new
a
subject
to
desire
Life
,
when
you
had
so
lately
given
me
many
to
detest
it
?
and
why
(
if
you
design
my
ruine
)
do
you
make
him
know
,
and
favour
me
,
that
was
only
capable
to
act
it
?
These
reasonings
made
him
that
only
heard
them
,
admire
what
might
be
their
cause
,
and
his
wonder
producing
his
silence
,
made
my
dear
Master
thus
to
continue
;
No
,
no
,
Artabanes
,
when
thou
wert
a
Slave
to
Fortune
,
and
to
the
Romans
,
and
when
thou
sought'st
Death
and
not
Victory
,
the
gods
gave
thee
the
last
,
and
deny'd
thee
the
first
;
but
now
thou
bear'st
the
glorious
Title
of
Parthenissa's
,
the
gods
having
deny'd
thee
the
la●ter
,
deny
not
thy self
the
former
,
shew
by
so
generous
an
experiment
,
that
he
which
for
not
obtaining
the
victory
,
could
act
his
own
death
,
did
not
lose
the
one
,
out
of
an
apprehension
of
the
other
;
Thereupon
he
had
certainly
extinguish'd
the
fairest
life
that
ever
was
,
had
not
the
generous
Artavasdes
(
for
't
was
he
whom
Spartacus
had
fought
with
,
and
whose
strange
being
in
the
Roman
Army
,
shall
be
told
you
in
its
due
order
)
observing
my
Prince's
despair
proceeded
from
his
defeat
,
first
hinder'd
the
fatal
effects
of
it
,
and
then
to
take
away
the
cause
,
assur'd
him
that
he
was
betray'd
,
and
not
vanquish'd
.
Spartacus
at
this
assurance
(
for
till
then
he
was
ignorant
of
it
)
look'd
upon
his
Friend
with
a
Face
which
spoke
his
doubts
,
and
then
begg'd
him
to
deal
clearly
,
and
inform
him
,
whether
what
he
had
said
,
was
not
onely
out
of
a
design
to
hinder
his
violence
towards
himself
?
But
Artavasdes
having
by
many
protestations
,
and
particulars
,
assur'd
him
of
Canitius
and
Castus's
persidiousness
,
made
Artabanes
(
who
saw
that
't
was
not
Crassus
,
but
Treachery
that
had
beaten
him
)
to
relinquish
those
sad
designes
he
had
upon
his
own
life
,
and
to
preserve
it
for
a
perfection
,
who
only
merited
so
transcendent
a
blessing
.
This
resolve
was
no
sooner
taken
up
,
but
the
apprehension
of
Sillaces's
safety
,
began
to
afflict
my
Prince
with
such
excess
,
that
Artavasdes
for
a
while
suspected
,
a
relapse
into
his
former
despair
produced
it
;
but
being
inform'd
of
the
occasion
,
he
immediately
made
Artabanes
to
fling
away
his
own
Arms
,
to
take
those
of
a
Servant
of
his
,
(
which
by
accident
was
riding
by
)
and
then
assuring
him
,
the
power
he
had
with
Crassus
was
so
great
,
that
if
Sillaces
were
not
already
lost
,
he
durst
undertake
his
,
and
my
preservation
(
for
they
were
so
generous
as
to
give
me
a
part
in
their
care
)
they
both
gallop'd
away
towards
the
Camp
,
where
they
found
,
that
night
(
and
not
victory
)
had
put
an
end
to
the
Romans
Assault
,
whereby
it
was
apparent
,
if
so
unconsiderable
a
person
as
Symander
,
could
defend
so
large
a
Line
with
so
few
hands
,
what
then
would
Artabanes
have
done
with
so
vast
an
Army
,
had
it
been
free
from
Treachery
?
Artavasdes
therefore
joy'd
at
Crassus's
repulse
,
and
having
lodg'd
Artabanes
in
his
own
Tent
,
caus'd
an
inviolable
secresie
to
be
administer'd
to
his
Servants
,
and
his
generous
friends
wounds
to
be
drest
,
which
were
many
,
and
those
much
inflam'd
by
that
violent
agitation
,
that
his
care
to
preserve
Sillaces
,
had
occasion'd
;
he
went
to
Crassus
(
who
with
eloquent
Elogies
gave
his
Valour
a
just
Character
)
and
acquainted
him
,
that
a
Servant
,
or
rather
a
Friend
of
his
,
(
for
his
unimitable
fidelity
,
merited
that
name
)
was
taken
prisoner
in
the
Enemies
Camp
,
dangerously
wounded
,
and
had
sent
him
word
,
that
he
had
obtain'd
his
own
liberty
,
if
Crassus
would
engage
himself
to
their
Commander
in
Chief
,
to
release
the
first
prisoner
of
his
quality
which
he
should
take
;
that
whether
or
no
this
was
granted
,
he
desir'd
that
a
Chirurgeon
might
be
sent
him
,
(
all
those
of
the
Enemies
were
so
busy
about
their
own
Patients
,
that
none
of
them
had
the
time
,
or
the
charity
to
dress
his
wounds
.
)
Artavasdes
further
told
the
Roman
General
,
that
the
Chirurgeon
he
meant
to
employ
,
might
serve
also
to
bring
intelligence
,
in
what
posture
the
reliques
of
his
Enemies
were
,
and
added
to
those
two
so
many
further
motives
,
that
Crassus
willingly
yielded
to
both
his
requests
.
Artavasdes
was
no
sooner
return'd
,
than
he
acquainted
my
Prince
with
what
he
had
done
,
and
after
a
short
consultation
,
they
immediately
imploy'd
the
faithful
Philanax
(
who
my
Prince
mention'd
in
his
generous
Friends
adventures
)
as
a
Chirurgeon
to
Sillaces
,
who
passing
the
Roman
Guards
(
by
Crassus's
direction
)
came
with
a
Letter
of
Credence
under
Artabanes's
hand
,
into
our
Camp
,
and
fill'd
us
both
,
by
the
relation
I
have
made
you
,
with
a
joy
,
which
nothing
could
equal
but
the
greatness
of
our
grief
,
before
his
arrival
;
but
the
time
pressing
us
,
I
gave
all
my
Soldiers
Orders
(
by
Philanaxes's
advice
)
to
shift
for
themselves
during
the
obscurity
,
for
we
were
not
able
next
morning
with
so
small
numbers
to
receive
that
storm
was
intended
;
therefore
all
of
them
that
night
(
by
a
way
which
the
Romans
thought
inaccessable
)
descended
to
a
little
River
,
that
issues
from
the
Lake
of
Lucania
,
where
some
that
could
swim
,
helping
others
that
could
not
,
what
by
that
charity
,
and
some
few
Boats
and
Planks
which
were
there
,
and
which
had
been
employ'd
to
fetch
Victuals
to
our
Camp
,
whilst
the
Floods
were
so
violent
,
all
of
them
(
before
day
)
recover'd
the
Mountains
of
the
Brutians
,
where
afterwards
they
renew'd
the
War
,
and
furnish'd
Pompey
with
an
occasion
to
tell
the
Senate
,
that
it
was
Crassus
had
defeated
the
Slaves
in
Battel
,
but
't
was
he
had
pull'd
up
the
War
by
the
very
root
.
But
our
Soldiers
were
no
sooner
gone
,
than
Philanax
and
I
prepar'd
Silla●●●'s
Litter
,
and
having
put
him
into
it
,
we
carried
him
out
of
the
Camp
,
and
freely
passing
the
Roman
Guards
,
brought
him
to
Artavasdes's
Tent
,
where
these
three
great
Men
manifested
their
joys
,
and
friendship
,
in
expressions
,
which
if
not
related
in
their
own
words
,
were
too
great
a
wrong
unto
them
;
and
the
better
to
palliate
the
business
,
I
writ
a
Letter
to
Crassus
(
as
Commander
in
Chief
of
his
Enemies
)
and
deliver'd
it
with
my
own
hands
,
as
a
Messenger
sent
expresly
with
it
from
the
Camp
,
wherein
I
let
him
know
,
that
upon
his
promise
of
the
like
civility
,
I
had
sent
the
Prisoner
he
desir'd
,
and
afterwards
to
favour
the
flight
of
that
remainder
of
my
Prince's
Army
,
I
assur'd
him
,
those
in
the
Camp
were
in
a
readiness
for
some
exploit
,
that
't
was
not
impossible
but
they
would
make
a
desperate
Sally
,
to
fell
their
Lives
handsomely
,
and
that
I
told
him
this
the
more
freely
,
because
I
was
resolv'd
to
abandon
his
enemies
for
ever
,
being
assur'd
of
my
Life
and
Liberty
by
the
prisoner
,
I
had
brought
off
.
Crassus
for
this
Intelligence
,
and
at
Artavasdes's
request
(
who
accompany'd
me
to
him
)
confirm'd
what
the
prisoner
promis'd
,
and
immediately
put
all
his
Camp
in
Arms
,
in
apprehension
of
a
Sally
,
which
abundantly
contributed
to
my
poor
companion
's
escape
;
For
all
the
Romans
being
only
intent
on
the
east
side
of
our
Camp
,
which
was
the
only
place
for
an
attempt
,
permitted
those
on
the
West
(
which
was
the
way
that
lead
to
the
River
)
to
make
a
more
facile
flight
.
'T
was
in
this
sort
(
continu'd
Symander
)
that
all
things
happen'd
in
that
famous
Battel
of
the
Trenches
;
I
know
some
Romans
gave
out
,
that
Spartacus
was
cut
in
pieces
,
others
(
and
more
truly
)
affirm'd
,
that
after
the
Battel
,
his
Body
was
never
found
,
and
some
too
(
knowing
none
could
contradict
them
,
for
there
was
no
Quarter
given
)
and
,
to
receive
a
reward
,
cut
off
a
Head
,
which
they
said
was
my
Prince's
,
carried
it
to
Rome
,
and
fix'd
it
on
the
Gate
of
the
Capitol
.
To
conclude
this
part
of
my
Story
,
I
will
not
tell
you
all
those
desires
Artabanes
had
to
return
to
those
Men
,
which
escap'd
unto
the
Brutain
Mountains
,
whose
courage
and
fidelity
he
admir'd
,
and
with
whom
he
was
confident
to
repair
the
misfortune
of
Canitius
and
Castus's
Treacheries
.
'T
is
enough
you
learn
,
That
had
not
his
wounds
hinder'd
him
a
while
,
and
their
defeat
afterwards
he
would
never
have
return'd
to
Parthia
,
without
having
redeem'd
that
loss
,
which
was
his
misfortune
not
his
fault
.
The
next
morning
as
Crassus
was
preparing
to
repeat
his
Assault
,
news
was
brought
him
,
that
his
Enemies
had
abandon'd
the
Camp
,
at
which
his
discontent
was
greater
in
appearance
,
than
in
effect
,
for
we
had
not
so
ill
defended
our selves
the
precedent
day
,
as
to
make
any
thing
which
avoided
a
second
storm
,
appear
a
misfortune
.
Three
days
Crassus
spent
,
to
repair
the
disorders
of
his
Army
,
and
to
bury
the
dead
,
le●t
if
left
without
Sepulture
,
the
numbers
being
great
,
they
might
infect
the
Air
;
in
which
time
my
Prince
acquainted
the
generous
Artavasdes
with
his
Fortunes
,
who
admir'd
asmuch
to
find
Artabanes
,
the
famous
Spartacus
,
as
he
was
joy'd
to
have
been
the
instrument
of
saving
him
.
When
Crassus
had
ended
his
charitable
,
and
necessary
Office
,
he
return'd
to
Rome
by
easy
marches
,
which
gave
Sillaces
and
my
Prince
,
the
means
of
accompanying
Artavasdes
thither
,
and
where
they
had
enter'd
in
Triumph
,
if
their
Success
had
proportion'd
their
Virtue
.
When
Symander
was
in
this
part
of
his
Relation
,
one
of
the
Priests
of
Venus
came
in
great
haste
to
advertise
him
,
and
Callimachus
,
that
Artabanes
was
return'd
,
and
had
brought
with
him
a
stranger
,
that
yielded
nothing
to
him
in
the
blessings
of
Nature
,
that
they
were
both
much
wounded
,
but
yet
they
seem'd
,
in
the
joy
of
having
found
out
each
other
,
to
have
forgotten
the
danger
they
were
in
.
Callimachus
therefore
perceiving
Symander's
impatiency
,
to
satisfy
it
,
and
his
own
,
immediately
went
to
learn
the
cause
of
this
fresh
accident
,
and
provide
necessaries
for
persons
which
rendr'd
his
Charity
as
much
a
Duty
,
as
't
was
a
Virtue
.
The
end
of
the
Second
Part
of
Parthenissa
.
PARTHENISSA
,
A
ROMANCE
.
THE
THIRD
PART
.
To
my
Lady
SUNDERLAND
.
MADAM
,
THe
first
time
Parthenissa
saw
the
Light
,
't
was
to
enjoy
a
higher
contentment
,
than
of
entertaining
you
with
her
Adventures
;
In
which
,
Madam
,
she
told
me
,
you
receiv●d
some
such
seeming
,
or
real
satisfaction
,
that
to
continue
the
latter
,
or
to
be
reveng'd
on
you
for
the
former
,
she
has
perswaded
me
to
present
you
with
a
Part
of
them
.
This
,
Madam
,
had
not
given
me
the
presumption
of
obeying
her
,
had
not
Altezeera
also
joyn'd
her
Prayers
to
Parthenissa's
,
and
both
assur'd
me
,
it
would
not
be
amiss
that
you
should
see
,
the
Beauty
of
one
of
your
Sex
has
acted
more
,
than
one
of
mine
could
fancy
;
the
first
of
which
,
you
might
as
perfectly
know
in
your self
,
as
the
last
in
this
Book
.
That
to
write
of
you
,
is
worse
than
to
write
to
you
,
this
being
but
an
injury
to
your
Person
,
that
to
your
Memory
.
(
Though
indeed
the
former
has
nothing
of
misfortune
,
but
that
't
is
not
as
durable
as
the
latter
,
which
yet
we
cannot
reproach
you
with
,
it
being
our
infelicity
as
much
,
if
not
more
than
yours
)
That
I
had
injur'd
Altezeera
as
much
in
her
Actings
,
as
in
their
Relations
;
and
having
done
so
much
against
her
,
I
could
only
but
this
way
,
do
something
in
proportion
for
her
;
they
further
added
,
if
my
Writings
needed
no
Protection
,
they
were
fittest
for
your
sight
,
and
if
they
needed
any
,
you
were
ablest
to
give
it
.
And
though
to
all
this
,
I
represented
,
That
if
their
ambition
of
being
known
,
Madam
,
unto
you
,
had
not
entirely
silenc'd
their
Iustice
,
they
could
not
have
believ'd
a
Crime
against
you
,
could
have
prov'd
an
obligation
to
them
;
and
that
in
my
thus
obeying
them
,
I
should
necessitate
many
to
conclude
,
I
had
an
endless
quarrel
to
those
which
were
the
most
perfect
of
your
Sex
,
by
injuring
such
of
them
as
are
dead
,
in
my
Book
;
as
such
of
them
as
are
alive
in
the
Dedications
of
it
.
Against
this
,
they
enjoyn'd
me
to
remember
the
example
of
that
excellent
Genius
,
who
presented
you
his
Oblations
under
the
fair
Name
of
Sacharissa
,
who
was
guilty
of
both
those
crimes
(
writing
of
you
,
and
to
you
)
only
to
please
himself
,
of
which
they
sollicited
me
,
to
be
guilty
but
only
of
one
,
(
and
that
also
the
least
)
to
please
and
repair
them
,
and
yet
was
not
only
pardon'd
,
but
admitted
the
high
Honor
of
your
Conversation
,
But
Madam
,
though
I
were
concern'd
to
say
little
against
my
obedience
to
them
,
the
more
to
invite
you
to
pardon
it
,
as
being
an
offence
of
Ignorance
,
rather
than
Knowledge
;
yet
I
could
not
but
let
them
know
,
I
consider'd
that
usage
,
Madam
,
of
yours
,
was
only
more
and
more
to
convince
him
of
the
greatness
of
his
Crime
,
and
of
the
greatness
of
that
Mercy
which
had
pardon'd
it
.
That
Cloud
of
Sacharissa
,
which
some
ascribe
to
his
modesty
,
I
do
to
his
Iudgement
,
for
thereby
he
was
believ'd
a
perfect
describer
of
Fancy
,
whereas
otherwise
he
would
have
been
known
a
defective
describer
of
Truth
.
Yet
I
must
say
,
the
greatest
fault
he
committed
in
attempting
your
Character
,
was
his
attempting
it
;
for
in
the
necessity
of
his
crime
,
he
had
this
satisfaction
,
That
whoever
had
assum'd
his
Design
,
must
have
commited
his
Offence
,
and
come
as
short
of
him
,
as
(
almost
)
he
has
of
you
.
For
,
Madam
,
you
are
above
being
describ'd
,
which
condition
,
though
it
be
the
most
unhappy
as
to
us
,
yet
is
the
Noblest
as
to
you
;
and
consequently
we
cannot
deplore
an
Ignorance
,
which
is
occasion'd
by
a
Perfection
,
that
even
in
degrees
transcends
it
.
I
hope
a
part
of
it
will
be
manifested
in
forgiving
a
Confidenc
,
which
is
impos'd
,
and
not
sought
;
and
has
indeed
no
title
to
your
Mercy
,
but
that
is
great
enough
for
it
;
which
though
infinite
,
cannot
exceed
the
Ioy
with
which
it
will
be
receiv'd
,
nor
the
Truth
which
presumes
,
Madam
to
tell
you
,
that
I
am
Your
most
Humble
,
most
Faithful
,
And
most
obedient
Servant
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
THIRD
PART
.
BOOK
I.
THE
News
which
the
Priest
of
Venus
brought
to
his
Superior
,
and
Symander
,
was
very
true
;
for
whilest
the
last
was
acquainting
the
first
with
his
generous
Princes
Adventures
,
he
himself
(
as
has
been
related
)
was
retir'd
into
a
solitude
which
that
morning
he
had
discover'd
,
where
(
by
Fortunes
giving
him
some
ease
,
the
better
to
enable
him
to
support
her
longer
cruelties
)
he
was
fallen
into
a
slumber
;
and
though
his
cares
were
so
unusually
civil
,
as
not
to
interrupt
it
,
yet
it
was
suddenly
,
by
a
noise
of
Horses
,
and
clashing
of
Swords
,
and
Arms
,
which
reach'd
his
ear
,
which
invited
him
to
take
his
Horse
,
and
gallop
to
the
place
from
whence
this
Alarm
came
,
to
learn
the
subject
of
it
;
the
continuance
of
the
noise
,
and
the
swiftness
of
his
Horse
,
faithfully
and
suddenly
b●ought
him
to
see
a
Combat
which
struck
him
both
with
admiration
and
anger
;
the
first
was
caus'd
by
a
single
Valor
,
which
could
not
be
but
transcendent
,
since
it
had
such
an
Admirer
;
and
the
last
was
occasion'd
by
six
armed
men
,
which
endeavor'd
to
destroy
the
possessor
of
it
;
who
,
to
sell
his
life
at
a
rate
worthy
so
high
a
purchase
,
and
to
make
his
Enemies
deplore
the
destruction
of
so
great
a
Courage
,
or
the
effects
of
it
,
had
already
kill'd
two
of
them
,
with
blows
that
struck
as
great
a
terror
into
the
rest
,
as
the
very
example
of
those
deaths
;
but
finding
at
last
that
his
Courage
might
be
worsted
by
,
though
not
yield
to
his
Enemies
numbers
,
he
was
retir'd
to
a
little
Thicket
that
shelter'd
him
behind
,
and
his
Horse
being
kill'd
in
the
retreat
,
defended
his
right
side
,
doing
him
service
even
after
death
:
't
was
in
this
little
fortification
and
posture
,
Artabanes
found
him
,
and
there
being
no
greater
invitation
to
his
generous
mind
for
the
relieving
of
virtue
,
than
to
find
it
in
distress
,
he
instantly
took
up
one
of
the
dead
mens
Helmets
,
to
join
himself
to
the
opprest
stranger
,
who
(
as
he
was
coming
full
speed
towards
him
)
thinking
the
now
wearer
of
the
Helmet
,
as
much
his
Enemy
,
as
he
that
had
so
lately
worn
it
,
cry'd
out
to
Artabanes
,
Make
haste
,
make
haste
,
and
help
those
,
whose
hearts
are
as
ill
as
their
cause
;
and
who
need
relie
on
their
number
,
since
they
cannot
on
their
quarrel
.
Our
Hero
esteem'd
it
more
handsom
and
necessary
,
to
shew
the
generous
Stranger
his
error
by
his
actions
,
than
words
,
and
at
his
first
strokes
so
abundantly
did
it
,
that
he
which
he
reliev'd
,
thought
his
mistake
a
greater
misfortune
,
than
that
which
he
had
now
more
than
hopes
to
be
freed
from
;
and
indeed
Artabanes
perform'd
things
so
far
above
his
strength
,
though
not
himself
,
that
three
of
the
surviving
four
,
left
the
Stranger
,
to
employ
their
Swords
against
an
Enemy
,
who
they
concluded
would
render
the
odds
as
needful
,
as
it
was
dispoportionate
;
but
the
valiant
Stranger
finding
he
had
to
deal
but
with
one
,
and
that
his
relief
might
endanger
the
Bestower
of
it
,
suddenly
abandon'd
his
intrenchment
,
and
as
suddenly
made
his
Adversary
abandon
his
life
;
but
his
Horse
he
made
use
of
to
assist
his
unknown
Friends
,
who
was
already
in
a
condition
not
to
need
it
,
for
he
had
killed
one
of
the
three
;
and
the
other
two
perceiving
how
powerful
an
addition
was
coming
,
endeavor'd
in
their
Horses
feet
,
to
find
a
security
they
despaired
of
from
their
own
hands
:
Artabanes
and
the
Stranger
followed
them
awhile
,
but
finding
more
difficulty
in
the
Chace
,
than
the
Quarry
merited
;
and
that
the
way
they
had
taken
to
avoid
their
resentments
,
rendered
them
unworthy
of
them
,
they
gave
over
the
pursuit
;
and
then
the
Stranger
having
with
as
much
grace
,
as
civility
,
beg'd
a
Pardon
from
Artabanes
,
for
a
mistake
created
by
the
Arms
he
had
on
told
him
,
Though
my
life
is
rather
a
misfortune
,
than
the
contrary
,
yet
my
obligation
to
my
Deliverer
is
nothing
inferior
;
and
what
my
miseries
made
me
desirous
to
lose
,
(
though
not
in
so
unhandsom
a
way
)
my
gratitude
now
obliges
me
to
preserve
,
since
I
esteem
the
giver
of
my
lite
,
has
too
great
a
share
,
and
title
in
it
,
to
dispole
of
it
without
him
.
A●tabanes
extremely
satisfied
with
so
obligaing
a
civility
,
told
the
maker
of
it
,
I
have
(
generous
Stranger
)
as
little
title
to
your
life
,
as
to
your
relief
;
and
if
by
drawing
my
Sword
in
your
quarrel
,
I
have
done
any
thing
,
it
deserves
rather
your
resentment
,
than
your
thanks
,
since
I
have
contributed
but
to
a
Victory
that
was
certain
without
my
assistance
,
and
under
a
pretence
of
serving
you
,
●ob'd
you
in
part
of
a
glory
,
which
your
courage
only
had
won
.
Were
not
your
performance
(
the
Stranger
reply'd
)
of
a
quality
that
manifests
you
injure
your
actions
when
you
decline
their
merit
,
I
might
as
easily
evince
that
Truth
,
as
acknowledge
it
;
and
if
you
refuse
that
Present
I
offer
you
,
(
as
having
receiv'd
it
from
you
)
I
shall
esteem
your
declining
it
,
as
high
a
misfortune
,
as
any
that
has
made
me
esteem
my
life
so
.
If
(
said
Artabanes
)
there
be
any
obligation
in
what
I
have
done
,
it
wholly
reflects
upon
me
,
that
have
more
obliged
my self
than
you
,
in
serving
so
prodigal
a
gratitude
;
but
(
he
continu'd
)
perceiving
some
blood
dropping
from
the
Stangers
wounds
,
as
well
as
from
his
own
,
let
us
not
lose
the
benefits
of
your
safety
,
by
disputing
who
you
deriv'd
it
from
;
and
though
I
am
a
Stranger
in
these
Parts
as
well
as
you
,
and
as
much
your
Equal
in
misery
,
as
you
are
my
Superior
in
those
virtues
,
of
which
,
that
ought
not
to
be
the
reward
;
yet
I
can
offer
you
a
retirement
,
till
your
health
,
or
business
,
invites
you
to
prosecute
your
journey
.
I
am
(
reply'd
the
Stranger
)
so
miserable
a
creature
,
that
nothing
can
increase
my
being
so
,
but
the
belief
that
you
are
a
more
;
and
though
I
accept
of
your
civility
till
my
wounds
be
healed
,
yet
I
must
beg
your
pardon
if
I
first
learn
from
whom
I
receiv'd
them
.
Are
you
(
said
Artabanes
)
yet
ignorant
of
that
?
Yes
,
(
said
the
Stranger
)
and
cannot
fancy
,
any
that
knows
me
,
and
are
my
Enemies
,
can
be
so
much
mistaken
in
their
revenge
,
as
to
think
killing
me
,
is
any
.
'T
was
such
discourses
as
these
,
that
brought
them
where
the
marks
of
their
Courages
and
Victory
lay
,
where
the
Stranger
pulling
off
all
the
Murtherers
Helmets
,
to
learn
if
he
knew
any
of
them
,
found
himself
as
ignorant
in
their
faces
,
as
in
the
cause
of
their
malice
;
yet
one
of
them
,
by
the
benefit
of
the
Air
,
and
by
the
turning
of
his
Body
,
faintly
open'd
his
eyes
,
and
being
ask'd
of
the
Stranger
,
who
't
was
that
had
invited
them
to
so
unfortunate
,
and
unjust
an
attempt
,
was
only
answer'd
by
half
words
,
and
signs
,
't
was
the
Prince
of
Parthia
;
and
then
he
clos'd
both
them
and
his
lips
for
ever
.
Whil'st
the
Stranger
was
thus
employ'd
about
this
dying
man
,
Artabanes
was
about
his
companions
,
whose
souls
were
so
long
fled
from
their
guilty
bodies
,
that
all
his
pains
and
art
could
not
recall
them
;
this
made
him
return
to
the
unknown
Gentleman
,
who
he
found
(
by
that
little
intelligence
he
had
gotten
)
almost
as
moveless
,
as
he
that
had
given
it
him
;
but
Artabanes's
presence
drew
him
from
his
amazement
,
and
after
he
had
fruitlesly
endeavor'd
to
make
a
dead
man
speak
,
he
beg'd
our
Hero's
pardon
for
his
necessary
incivility
,
which
had
so
long
suspended
his
waiting
on
him
to
that
retirement
,
which
he
was
now
ready
to
do
.
Artabanes
obey'd
this
invitation
,
but
observing
that
he
which
made
it
,
was
more
melancholy
than
he
had
been
,
he
desir'd
to
know
whether
he
had
newly
learn'd
any
thing
that
caus'd
it
.
Alas
Sir
(
said
the
Stranger
)
I
am
inform'd
who
has
attempted
against
my
life
,
and
am
involv'd
,
by
that
knowledge
,
in
a
higher
confusion
than
I
was
in
,
by
my
ignorance
,
Artabanes
perceiving
by
what
he
had
said
,
that
he
was
not
willing
to
explain
himself
,
alter'd
the
subject
of
his
discourse
which
he
entertain'd
him
with
,
till
they
came
to
the
Temple
(
the
place
as
the
Stranger
said
of
his
intended
journey
)
where
our
Hero
brought
him
to
his
own
Lodgings
,
and
where
they
had
no
sooner
pull'd
off
their
Helmets
,
than
having
awhile
gaz'd
at
each
other
with
a
mutual
and
high
admiration
,
they
suddenly
after
ran
to
embrace
with
as
much
joy
and
satisfaction
.
One
of
the
goddesses
Priests
was
present
at
this
Adventure
,
who
carry'd
his
Superior
the
news
of
it
;
and
though
at
his
departure
,
the
two
friends
were
in
one
anothers
arms
,
yet
he
,
Callimachus
,
and
Symander
,
found
them
still
in
the
same
posture
;
and
because
the
celebration
of
their
joyes
,
hinder'd
them
from
taking
notice
of
this
company
,
the
last
of
it
,
being
unwilling
to
interrupt
a
contentment
,
which
he
knew
was
as
just
as
great
,
took
the
leisure
to
acquaint
Callimachus
,
that
the
Gentleman
his
Prince
embrac'd
,
was
the
generous
Artavasdes
,
the
beginning
of
whose
Story
he
had
learn'd
from
Artabanes
,
and
the
service
he
had
render'd
him
,
was
the
subject
of
their
last
discourse
.
Callimachus
was
highly
satisfi'd
to
have
at
once
in
his
house
,
more
virtue
than
the
world
had
besides
;
but
whil'st
he
was
in
the
contemplation
of
that
blessing
,
the
Chyrurgions
which
he
had
sent
for
,
coming
in
,
interrupted
it
,
and
Artabanes
,
and
Artavasdes
,
perceiving
how
rude
their
joy
had
been
,
repair'd
it
by
a
thousand
excuses
;
but
Callima●hus
,
more
intent
on
their
healths
,
than
their
civilities
,
broke
them
off
,
to
employ
the
Chyrurgions
,
who
having
search'd
both
their
wounds
,
found
them
somewhat
inflam'd
;
and
that
they
might
prove
dangerous
,
unless
by
quietness
and
silence
,
they
would
contribute
to
their
recovery
;
and
though
Callimachus
had
prepar'd
a
magnificent
Apartment
for
Artavasdes
,
yet
neither
that
,
nor
the
Chyrurgions
Prayer
could
invite
them
to
a
separation
;
nay
,
't
was
with
much
difficulty
that
they
extorted
a
promise
from
the
Princes
,
not
to
speak
to
one
another
in
Four
and
twenty
hours
,
which
they
both
profest
was
more
troublesom
to
them
than
those
wounds
,
to
which
their
silence
was
to
be
a
contributory
cure
.
Symander
,
who
knew
his
Prince
was
as
much
concern'd
in
Artavasdes
,
as
in
himself
,
proportion'd
his
care
accordingly
,
and
the
Holy
Priest
by
his
transcendent
diligence
,
manifested
he
knew
the
merit
of
his
Guests
;
but
the
first
time
for
their
silence
being
expir'd
,
the
Physitians
enjoin'd
a
second
of
the
same
continuance
,
which
our
Hero's
would
not
have
submitted
unto
,
but
upon
a
faithful
promise
after
that
was
efflux'd
,
they
should
,
and
might
without
danger
,
entertain
one
another
.
Callimachus
was
as
impatient
at
this
new
imposition
,
as
they
were
,
on
who
it
was
impos'd
;
and
though
his
curiosity
was
great
,
yet
his
civility
was
greater
,
which
hinder'd
him
from
desiring
Symander
to
Continue
his
Naration
,
or
from
begging
his
Prince
to
command
it
him
.
But
the
so
much
impatiented
however
was
no
sooner
come
,
than
Artavasdes
remov'd
his
Bed
,
so
near
to
that
of
Artabanes
,
that
they
might
discourse
as
commodiously
,
as
if
they
both
had
lay'n
in
one
.
There
the
generous
Armenian
began
to
exclaim
against
his
fortune
,
for
having
render'd
his
miserise
contagious
,
and
for
having
made
the
means
of
his
deliverance
,
a
greater
misfortune
,
than
the
want
of
it
could
have
prov'd
.
But
Artabanes
took
him
up
so
short
,
and
so
civilly
,
for
thinking
those
wounds
a
misfortune
,
which
had
secur'd
his
friend
,
that
Artavasdes
,
by
being
forc'd
to
beleieve
them
none
,
found
them
a
greater
.
Callimachus
came
in
as
the
two
Princes
were
in
those
discourses
,
and
finding
them
so
employ'd
,
offer'd
again
to
retire
;
but
Artabanes
had
given
his
friend
so
true
a
character
of
him
,
that
they
jointly
assured
him
,
his
company
could
never
prove
an
injury
,
but
in
his
depriving
them
of
it
:
This
(
with
their
entreaties
)
stay'd
him
,
and
he
being
too
much
concern'd
in
both
their
Lives
,
not
to
be
ambitious
to
learn
the
Accidents
which
compos'd
them
,
cast
out
some
oblique
words
that
manifested
his
curiosity
,
which
infinitely
reviv'd
Artabanes's
who
remembring
some
sad
expressions
his
friends
had
us'd
in
their
late
meeting
,
and
being
impatient
to
learn
the
whole
,
of
what
he
knew
but
in
part
,
beg'd
him
to
satisfie
both
Callimachus's
,
and
his
Prayers
.
Sir
,
(
said
the
virtuous
Priest
)
since
you
have
made
my
curiosity
your
request
,
I
will
let
you
know
,
that
Symander's
Story
being
interrupted
by
the
generous
Artavasdes's
arrival
,
he
cannot
better
repair
that
injury
,
than
in
telling
his
own
;
and
to
induce
him
the
rather
to
it
,
I
can
truly
assure
him
,
I
had
learn'd
a
part
of
it
before
now
,
had
not
he
himself
hinder'd
it
;
for
we
were
already
so
far
advanc'd
,
as
to
your
strange
encounter
at
the
Battel
of
the
Trenches
,
and
to
your
coming
to
Rome
.
Artabanes
was
somewhat
troubled
,
that
to
satisfie
Callimachus
,
he
must
be
necessitated
to
remain
awhile
ignorant
of
a
fresh
intelligence
,
to
listen
unto
one
he
knew
,
yet
he
was
so
perfectly
interressed
in
all
his
friends
Actions
,
and
in
the
respect
due
to
so
signal
a
person
,
that
he
besought
Artavasdes
to
begin
his
Adventures
,
from
their
separation
in
Parthia
,
●ince
till
then
Callimachus
had
learn'd
them
from
his
mouth
.
Artavasdes
having
first
ty'd
the
generous
Parthian
to
repay
his
Story
,
by
acquainting
him
afterwards
with
his
own
,
began
his
obedience
to
his
friends
commands
,
in
these
terms
:
The
Continuation
of
Altezeera's
,
and
Artavasdes's
Story
.
AFter
I
had
recover'd
my
liberty
,
by
your
running
so
great
a
hazard
to
yours
,
which
I
attest
the
gods
was
a
higher
trouble
to
me
,
than
the
benefit
I
thereby
enjoy'd
was
a
satisfaction
,
I
found
in
Rysolis
by
your
commands
,
a
continuance
of
your
favours
,
who
,
under
the
pretence
of
searching
for
me
as
far
the
Confines
of
Armenia
,
was
my
Convoy
thither
,
where
he
dismist
me
,
as
sending
me
in
the
quality
of
a
Spy
,
after
my self
.
In
my
journey
from
thence
towards
Artaxata
,
in
divers
Towns
,
I
saw
many
which
deplor'd
me
for
dead
,
and
found
by
the
small
services
I
had
paid
my
King
and
Countrey
,
I
was
much
more
esteem'd
of
,
than
either
I
thought
,
or
merited
;
I
know
not
whether
the
vainty
of
repeating
those
flattering
sights
,
the
desire
of
being
at
the
Court
before
any
knew
of
my
being
at
liberty
,
or
the
providence
of
the
gods
,
made
me
continue
my
Voyage
in
my
disguise
;
but
this
I
know
,
that
had
I
cast
it
off
,
I
had
at
the
same
time
cast
off
my
safety
with
it
.
The
Cloaths
I
then
wore
,
were
a
common
Troopers
,
so
that
a
violent
War
being
kindled
in
Armenia
,
I
past
the
gates
of
Artaxata
in
that
quality
,
without
examination
,
and
lighting
at
the
Palace
,
I
went
(
to
my
admiration
)
to
the
Princesses
Apartment
,
without
meeting
any
by
the
way
,
and
the
door
of
the
Chamber
being
unlock'd
,
I
gently
open'd
it
,
where
the
reward
of
so
large
a
confidence
,
was
the
sight
of
the
fair
Altezeera
;
and
though
I
unexpectedly
made
a
little
noise
,
yet
her
thoughts
were
so
obliquely
intentive
,
that
she
heard
it
not
,
and
thereby
gave
me
liberty
to
contemplate
a
Beauty
,
that
had
nothing
in
degrees
equal
to
it
,
but
the
zeal
and
passion
with
which
I
ador'd
it
;
and
truly
I
was
so
ravisht
in
the
contemplation
of
so
many
perfections
,
that
had
not
the
Possessor
of
them
,
by
hazard
turning
her
eyes
that
way
,
taken
me
from
my
rapture
,
I
had
longer
continu'd
in
it
;
but
as
soon
as
I
found
to
lengthen
my
felicity
,
was
to
lengthen
my
rudeness
,
I
cast
my self
at
her
feet
,
to
beg
a
pardon
,
for
having
continu'd
it
so
long
,
and
for
having
so
much
intrencht
upon
her
retirement
.
My
voice
and
my
actions
chang'd
the
fair
Altezeera's
fear
into
admiration
,
since
a
Soldiers
coming
into
her
Chamber
,
could
not
more
create
the
former
,
than
that
Soldiers
being
Artavasdes
did
the
latter
.
Great
gods
!
when
her
wonder
was
supprest
,
how
liberally
did
she
reward
the
sufferings
of
my
duty
,
and
manifested
so
transcendent
a
joy
for
my
deliverance
,
that
the
sight
of
it
,
inspir'd
me
with
a
greater
,
than
the
cause
of
it
could
my
Princess
.
There
(
generous
Artabanes
)
I
told
her
of
your
gallantry
,
and
that
the
same
fortune
I
had
had
in
Love
,
did
follow
me
in
War
,
since
I
ow'd
my
preservation
to
my
Conqueror
;
but
alas
these
contentments
were
as
sho●t
as
their
relation
,
for
Altezeera
assur'd
me
I
was
in
more
danger
in
A●t●●ata
,
than
in
the
place
from
whence
I
came
;
that
she
hop'd
by
the
cloaths
I
wore
,
I
was
not
ignorant
of
it
;
and
that
I
would
more
fully
convince
her
thereof
,
by
retiring
to
my
Fathers
Army
.
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
,
somewhat
surpriz'd
)
If
what
you
last
mention'd
must
be
the
evincement
of
that
belief
,
I
fear
't
will
be
also
of
my
ruine
;
and
if
I
must
be
banish'd
from
my
Princess
,
and
by
her
,
I
shall
be
in
greater
danger
in
Armenia
,
than
I
was
in
Parthia
,
since
the
consolation
of
my
miseries
there
,
is
ravish'd
from
me
here
:
As
for
my
disguise
,
't
was
rather
by
chance
,
than
design
,
for
I
am
as
free
from
fear
,
as
guilt
;
neighter
do
I
know
the
posture
my
Father
,
and
the
Kingdom
is
in
,
though
,
as
I
Travel'd
,
I
heard
some
discourses
of
both
:
But
the
information
was
so
dark
and
confus'd
,
that
it
left
me
in
as
deep
an
ingorance
,
as
their
silence
could
.
I
will
tell
you
then
(
said
Altezeera
)
that
Anexander
,
after
some
sharp
encounters
with
Zenaxtus
(
who
you
know
,
before
your
Expedition
into
Parthia
,
had
taken
up
Arms
to
revenge
his
Brother
Celindus's
death
,
and
to
maintain
his
ambition
and
quarrel
)
within
these
ten
dayes
,
under
the
very
walls
of
Nicapolis
,
drew
your
Father
to
a
pitch'd
Battel
,
in
which
his
Courage
and
Cause
gave
him
so
entire
a
Victory
,
that
the
marks
of
it
were
all
the
Rebels
Colours
,
and
the
Field
pav'd
with
35000
of
their
Bodies
,
the
Reliques
,
with
their
General
,
saved
themselves
within
that
City
,
the
Mertropolis
of
the
Rebellion
,
which
Anexander
the
next
morning
besieg'd
,
and
from
whence
Zenaxtus
sent
a
Trumpeter
,
to
let
him
know
,
he
was
desirous
to
Treat
,
but
it
should
be
with
his
King
,
not
his
Conqueror
.
Anezander
esteem'd
it
his
duty
to
inform
Artabazus
of
this
,
and
as
much
his
duty
to
dissuade
him
from
accepting
it
;
which
the
more
to
induce
him
to
,
he
undertook
in
30
days
,
to
send
this
capitualating
Traytor
to
Artaxata
,
in
a
posture
as
low
,
as
his
condition
,
or
hopes
.
These
Letters
came
three
dayes
since
,
and
being
debated
in
a
general
Council
,
(
which
till
then
,
since
your
imprisonment
had
*
not
been
convened
)
Crassolis
,
and
his
party
,
by
their
old
power
,
and
inclinations
,
advis'd
and
persuaded
my
Brother
,
to
go
Post
in
person
to
Annexander's
Camp
,
and
there
not
only
settle
a
Peace
by
a
Treaty
,
or
a
Conquest
,
but
also
have
the
glory
of
doing
it
.
This
being
determin'd
,
and
the
Council
ready
to
break
up
,
the
generous
Phanasder
,
who
by
your
favour
succeeded
Celindus
in
all
his
Commands
and
Dignities
,
and
consequently
was
of
the
highest
quality
in
this
Assembly
,
earnestly
motion'd
,
that
some
immediate
course
might
be
taken
for
restoring
you
to
that
liberty
,
you
had
so
meritoriously
and
successfully
lost
;
and
that
for
the
effecting
thereof
,
Ambassadors
might
be
sent
to
Arsaces
.
The
false
Crassolis
in
a
set
Speech
,
(
being
the
mouth
of
the
Council
)
gave
Phanasder
an
answer
as
handsom
,
as
hypocritical
,
for
his
care
of
so
publick
a
concernment
;
which
to
forget
,
(
he
said
)
was
to
be
as
unmindful
of
the
general
gratitude
,
as
safety
.
I
tell
you
(
said
Artavasdes
to
Artabanes
)
Altezeera's
words
,
and
Crassolis
flattery
]
but
(
continu'd
Crassolis
)
I
am
apprehensive
,
that
the
way
which
Phanasder
propounds
,
will
be
obstructive
to
the
end
,
which
would
be
sooner
reached
by
a
seeming
neglect
of
Artavasdes
,
than
a
real
and
pressing
sollicitation
for
him
,
since
I
have
ever
observ'd
,
that
the
Parthians
raise
the
value
of
what
they
posses
,
by
the
value
they
know
we
place
on
it
.
I
must
confess
(
reply'd
Phanasder
)
were
Artavasdes's
performances
of
a
quality
that
they
could
be
conceal'd
,
there
might
be
some
appearance
in
Crassolis
Allegation
,
but
since
the
very
Act
which
made
him
a
Prisoner
,
makes
him
unworthy
to
continue
so
,
ourneglecting
his
liberty
,
will
look
too
like
a
design
,
not
to
be
taken
for
one
.
These
,
and
many
other
Reasons
of
Phanasders
,
were
so
prevalent
with
my
Brother
,
that
he
order'd
Ambassadors
should
be
sent
,
and
the
care
of
sending
them
to
Crassolis
:
The
King
thus
declining
his
Advice
,
follow'd
it
;
and
Phanasder
,
who
saw
it
no
time
to
dissemble
,
told
Artabazus
so
much
,
for
which
he
receiv'd
so
severe
a
reprehension
,
that
yesterday
morning
when
my
Brother
took
Post
to
go
to
Annexander's
Army
,
Phanasder
retir'd
unto
Artemita
,
the
chief
Town
of
his
Government
.
But
that
which
brought
no
small
accession
to
his
discontent
,
was
,
Artabazus
leaving
the
care
of
this
City
to
Crassolis
,
and
with
it
,
that
of
two
such
considerable
and
dangerous
Prisoners
,
as
Tygranes
,
and
Palisdes
.
But
(
continu'd
Altezeera
)
that
you
may
see
my
Brother
was
not
sent
from
hence
only
to
eclipse
your
Fathers
glory
,
but
also
to
raise
that
of
Tygranes
,
I
will
acquaint
you
with
an
intelligence
as
strange
,
as
the
manner
of
my
learning
it
.
You
are
not
ignorant
that
Regeliza
(
my
chiefest
Confident
)
has
as
much
judgment
,
as
beauty
,
the
last
of
which
has
so
infinitely
inflam'd
Crassolis
eldest
Son
,
that
he
has
not
long
since
acquainted
her
with
what
effects
it
has
produc'd
;
and
though
his
Virtues
,
and
Birth
,
might
have
made
her
consider
,
and
condemn
that
Declaration
as
a
confidence
,
yet
the
power
she
has
over
herself
,
made
her
suppress
all
resentments
of
words
,
in
hope
to
acquaint
him
with
hers
in
a
more
sensible
way
;
the
better
to
effect
this
,
after
by
many
Artifices
she
had
induc'd
the
young
Lover
(
who
she
knew
his
Father
doted
on
)
to
believe
,
all
her
doubts
were
,
that
his
passion
was
rather
an
appearance
,
than
a
reality
;
and
that
what
confirm'd
her
in
that
belief
,
was
,
his
never
communicating
any
of
those
secrets
,
in
which
he
was
a
principal
Agent
,
and
which
he
could
not
conceal
,
were
not
his
heart
and
word
strangers
;
she
so
admirably
acted
her
part
,
that
this
morning
her
servant
,
to
silence
her
reproaches
and
doubts
,
clearly
inform'd
her
,
that
Artabazus
was
sent
out
of
the
way
,
but
to
place
Tygranes
in
the
Throne
;
That
though
Crassolis
had
not
yet
as
great
an
influence
over
that
young
Prince
,
as
over
his
Father
,
yet
he
was
confident
of
obtaining
it
,
by
the
obligation
of
a
Crown
,
and
of
Liberty
;
That
Artabazus
was
too
easie
to
be
a
good
Friend
,
and
was
as
facile
to
be
lost
,
as
won
;
That
on
the
contrary
,
though
Tygranes
was
hard
to
begain'd
,
yet
being
so
,
he
was
hardlier
lost
;
That
Crassolis
had
done
too
much
privately
,
not
to
apprehend
the
discovery
;
and
having
merited
death
,
his
Adversaries
were
too
diligent
,
and
too
considerable
,
not
to
fear
it
;
That
Anexander
was
so
successful
and
powerful
,
that
either
he
would
obtain
,
or
assume
the
Authority
,
either
of
which
,
would
be
his
Fathers
ruine
;
That
Palisdes
and
Tygranes
were
perfectly
reconcil'd
,
and
had
join'd
their
interests
;
That
Artabazus
and
Artavasdes
absence
,
would
give
them
the
opportunity
to
be
Governors
,
where
they
were
Prisoners
;
and
that
Crassolis
(
to
leave
as
little
in
the
power
of
fortune
as
he
could
,
and
to
seem
to
follow
what
he
lead
)
was
to
be
made
a
Prisoner
by
his
Friends
,
to
have
this
mutation
appear
his
punishment
,
not
his
design
,
thereby
not
to
lose
the
Father
,
if
the
Son
lost
himself
;
and
that
all
this
was
immediately
to
be
put
in
execution
,
lest
the
delay
of
the
Conspiracy
,
might
be
the
ruine
of
it
.
Regeliza
seem'd
to
approve
this
Plot
,
lest
her
Lover
might
have
suspected
she
condemn'd
it
;
but
he
was
no
sooner
gone
,
than
she
(
being
more
faithful
to
her
Mistriss
than
her
servant
)
came
this
morning
,
and
acquainted
me
with
what
I
have
you
,
which
was
the
cause
of
that
deep
melancholy
you
found
me
in
,
and
which
your
presence
here
will
continue
and
increase
.
The
fair
Altezeera
(
said
Artavasdes
)
had
no
sooner
done
speaking
,
than
I
found
,
that
the
Kings
absence
was
the
cause
of
so
solitary
a
Court
;
that
Artabazus
was
an
enemy
to
reason
,
and
to
gratitude
,
or
to
Artavasdes
,
and
that
Phanasder
was
not
to
the
two
latter
.
'T
was
therefore
that
I
humbly
beg'd
Altezeera
to
make
Artemita
her
Sanctuary
,
and
not
expose
herself
amongst
those
,
to
whom
Loyalty
and
Nature
were
only
words
.
But
my
fair
Princess
absolutely
opposed
it
,
alledging
,
that
there
was
more
hazard
in
a
flight
from
Artaxata
,
than
in
a
continuance
in
it
;
That
if
she
did
remove
,
Regaliza
must
do
so
too
,
and
consequently
lose
all
intelligence
;
or
by
leaving
her
behind
,
raise
a
jealousie
in
Crassolis
son
of
the
Cause
,
and
thereby
inevitably
ruine
what
it
should
perform
;
That
she
had
sent
already
an
Express
after
Artabazus
with
the
intelligence
,
and
an
assurance
that
she
would
,
to
continue
it
,
reside
where
she
had
learn'd
it
,
till
either
his
Commands
called
her
from
thence
,
or
his
Forces
render'd
it
a
secure
habitation
;
that
if
after
such
an
Engagement
she
should
flie
away
with
me
,
who
(
all
men
knew
)
had
a
passion
for
her
,
it
might
raise
too
pregnant
jealousies
that
her
love
,
and
not
her
fear
,
was
the
occasion
of
her
remove
;
and
that
since
she
knew
there
was
,
nor
could
be
nothing
intended
to
her
prejudice
,
she
had
no
reason
to
contribute
to
it
,
by
her
own
Actions
,
and
to
put
herself
in
danger
to
be
safe
,
when
she
was
already
so
without
any
.
I
then
propounded
my
going
immediately
to
Artemita
,
which
was
not
above
200
Furlongs
off
,
and
with
Phanasder's
Forces
attempt
to
suppress
the
Rebellion
before
it
appear'd
.
To
which
my
Princess
answer'd
,
That
could
I
effect
my
Proposition
,
what
proofs
could
I
bring
of
the
intended
Conspiracy
,
but
Regeliza's
saying
it
?
which
would
be
too
invalidated
by
her
servants
denial
,
and
be
look'd
upon
〈◊〉
an
Act
of
my
hatred
to
Crassolis
:
But
my
Proposition
was
so
far
from
being
feasible
,
that
Tygranes
,
and
his
Partisans
,
had
above
4000
select
men
already
in
Artaxata
,
who
would
execute
their
design
before
I
could
tell
it
Phanasder
;
she
therefore
conjur'd
me
,
since
my
continuing
with
her
would
but
increase
her
fears
,
and
my
danger
,
and
that
my
being
out
of
Artaxata
might
probably
contribute
to
the
speedy
reduction
of
it
,
and
her
deliverance
,
that
I
would
immediately
leave
off
all
thoughts
of
the
former
,
and
embrace
the
latter
.
This
sad
command
went
much
against
my
inclination
,
but
it
went
more
against
my
duty
to
disobey
it
,
therefore
as
soon
as
we
had
form'd
all
our
resolutions
,
and
setled
our
affairs
and
correspondency
,
I
kist
my
Princesses
hands
,
and
having
beg'd
her
to
consider
of
the
merit
of
my
obedience
,
by
the
torment
of
it
,
that
thereby
I
might
find
my
consolation
in
my
very
sufferings
,
I
took
my
leave
,
and
going
out
of
the
Palace
,
I
met
my
faithful
Philanax
,
to
whom
I
made
my self
known
,
and
whose
joy
at
it
,
had
like
to
have
been
as
prejudicial
to
me
,
as
if
it
had
been
treachery
;
but
finding
his
error
,
he
immediately
repair'd
it
:
and
after
he
had
told
me
,
that
Lindesia
with
all
her
Family
was
remov'd
to
Thospia
(
Anexander's
Government
)
the
place
too
,
where
he
had
found
both
his
sickness
and
his
health
;
and
that
I
had
commanded
him
silently
,
and
with
some
Jewels
to
follow
me
to
Artemita
,
without
any
disaster
next
morning
by
Sun-rise
I
arriv'd
there
,
where
the
generous
Governor
made
me
a
reception
,
in
which
I
read
both
his
satisfaction
and
heart
.
The
Night
following
Philanax
came
to
me
,
and
acquainted
me
,
that
what
I
knew
of
in
design
,
was
turn'd
into
action
.
This
true
Alarm
made
me
think
my
immediate
repair
to
the
King
and
Anexander
requisite
;
and
whil'st
I
was
fitting
my self
for
my
intended
journey
,
Phanasder
sent
some
Troops
of
Horse
to
beat
the
wayes
,
who
did
too
,
a
Party
of
the
revolted
,
leaving
100
on
the
place
,
and
presenting
him
with
half
as
many
Prisoners
;
from
some
of
which
,
we
learn'd
that
a
Post
was
intercepted
with
a
Packet
for
the
King
,
and
that
Crassolis's
eldest
Son
was
kill'd
in
a
quarrel
,
an
hour
before
they
were
come
out
of
Artaxata
;
we
immediately
concluded
,
that
the
former
was
the
cause
of
the
latter
,
and
that
Tygranes
and
Palisdes
declin'd
the
forms
of
Justice
for
the
Sons
punishment
,
lest
it
might
have
incens'd
,
and
appear'd
a
cruelty
to
the
Father
.
My
Equipage
was
no
sooner
form'd
,
than
I
took
leave
of
Phanasder
,
who
was
extremely
pressing
to
have
been
my
Convoy
,
which
I
absolutely
declined
,
since
it
might
lose
a
Province
,
I
was
confident
his
care
and
presence
would
preserve
;
I
besought
him
too
,
to
be
very
vigilant
for
intelligence
,
to
communicate
to
me
what
he
learn'd
,
and
to
raise
what
Forces
his
power
and
credit
would
maintain
.
This
Phanasder
faithfully
promis'd
,
and
having
conducted
me
with
500
Horse
to
the
Confines
of
his
Government
,
we
there
parted
;
but
because
I
found
that
to
Travel
with
all
my
company
,
would
take
up
too
much
time
,
I
commanded
them
to
follow
me
by
easie
journies
,
and
only
taking
Philanax
with
me
,
I
continu'd
mine
,
which
was
indeed
so
long
and
troublesome
,
that
the
next
evening
,
to
refresh
our
horses
and
selves
,
we
quitted
the
High-way
,
to
gain
a
Wood
not
far
from
it
,
(
for
we
durst
not
enter
into
any
Towns
,
lest
they
might
have
become
our
Prisons
.
)
We
had
not
been
an
hour
in
this
wild
Inn
,
when
Philanax
(
whose
turn
't
was
to
watch
whil'st
I
did
sleep
)
came
and
interrupted
mine
with
the
most
dejected
and
confus'd
look
that
horror
and
amazent
was
capable
to
put
on
,
and
told
me
,
Alas
Sir
,
I
fear
we
are
for
ever
ruin'd
,
and
that
the
gods
have
forsaken
virtue
,
to
take
part
with
vice
.
This
sad
Introduction
,
and
his
sadder
countenance
,
made
me
start
up
,
and
impatiently
enquire
,
whether
too
●ittle
rest
,
and
too
much
travel
,
had
not
made
him
frantick
?
Ah
Sir
!
(
he
reply'd
with
a
deep
sigh
)
would
I
were
,
for
that
would
appear
a
less
misfortune
both
to
you
,
and
me
,
than
what
has
created
in
you
that
belief
:
for
as
you
were
taking
your
rest
,
a
sad
voice
in
a
neighbouring
Thicket
reach'd
my
ears
,
and
invited
me
to
discover
the
unfortunate
utterer
of
it
;
but
I
was
no
sooner
approach'd
near
enough
to
satisfie
my
curiosity
,
than
alas
I
found
it
was
Artabazus
,
tearing
his
hair
,
and
by
a
thousand
other
extravagant
cruelties
,
seeming
to
take
part
with
fortune
,
by
contributing
to
his
own
misery
.
Oh
gods
!
(
Philanax
I
reply'd
)
what
is
it
that
thou
tellest
me
?
That
(
said
he
)
whose
truth
your
sight
may
convince
you
of
,
if
you
will
silently
steal
wheremine
receiv'd
so
fatal
an
intelligence
,
Come
(
said
I
Philanax
)
I
will
go
and
satisfie
my
doubts
,
though
I
believe
the
clearing
of
them
,
will
be
a
greater
trouble
than
they
themselves
are
;
but
canst
thou
not
(
I
continu'd
)
judge
at
the
cause
of
this
unexpected
change
?
Yes
Sir
,
(
he
reply'd
)
and
I
am
much
mistaken
,
if
it
be
not
of
a
nature
which
will
be
as
great
a
grief
unto
you
,
as
the
effect
it
produces
.
We
were
by
this
time
so
near
,
that
had
he
continu'd
his
discourse
,
he
must
have
had
more
Auditors
than
one
;
and
I
had
crept
but
a
little
further
,
when
alas
I
did
perceive
my
poor
King
in
so
sad
and
dejected
a
posture
,
and
so
many
tears
running
from
his
eyes
,
that
the
loss
of
my
own
,
had
been
more
tolerable
,
than
to
have
had
them
so
employ'd
;
I
had
not
the
patience
to
look
upon
his
sufferings
,
and
not
offer
them
my
consolation
and
assistance
,
which
rising
up
to
perform
,
the
noise
I
made
was
so
near
,
and
so
sudden
,
that
the
unfortunate
Artahazus
believing
he
was
surpriz'd
,
covering
his
face
with
his
Cloak
,
he
cry'd
out
,
Strike
,
oh
strike
,
for
I
am
reduc'd
to
so
much
misery
,
that
mine
is
uncapable
of
accession
,
but
by
permitting
me
to
live
,
and
continue
in
it
.
The
gods
forbid
(
I
reply'd
,
prostrating
my self
at
his
feet
,
and
embracing
his
knees
)
that
ever
I
should
ease
my
Princes
Afflictions
by
so
criminal
a
Cure
;
No
(
Sir
)
they
have
doubtless
sent
me
hither
to
offer
you
towards
that
duty
(
but
in
a
nobler
way
)
my
Sword
,
which
if
it
proves
fruitless
,
I
will
then
employ
it
rather
to
follow
your
Fate
,
than
act
it
.
These
words
and
actions
were
as
strange
to
Artabazus
,
as
the
cause
that
render'd
them
necessary
was
to
me
;
and
at
length
fancying
he
knew
my
voice
,
by
degrees
he
unseal'd
his
eyes
to
be
resolv'd
,
and
no
sooner
was
,
than
going
back
two
or
three
steps
,
he
cry'd
out
,
'T
is
Artavasdes
!
'T
is
Artavasdes
!
Yes
Sir
(
said
I
)
't
is
he
,
who
did
not
he
value
his
life
out
of
a
belief
that
it
might
be
serviceable
to
you
,
would
blaspheme
the
gods
for
having
so
long
preserv'd
it
,
to
shew
him
his
King
as
much
forsaken
of
his
Subjects
,
as
of
Fortune
.
I
fear
Artavasdes
,
(
he
reply'd
)
I
fear
thou
wilt
repent
thy
kindness
,
when
thou
shalt
learn
what
has
reduc'd
me
to
need
and
invite
it
;
for
know
but
two
dayes
since
,
I
not
only
contemn'd
thy
Fathers
advice
in
not
listening
to
a
Treaty
with
the
perfidious
Zenaxtus
,
but
upon
Hostages
,
sent
even
him
into
Nicopolis
to
conclude
it
;
and
relying
on
the
faith
of
that
Traytor
,
against
Anexander's
prayers
and
intelligence
,
I
kept
so
careless
a
Guard
in
the
Camp
,
that
in
a
night
as
black
as
his
action
,
he
surpriz'd
his
own
Hostages
,
cut
thy
Fathers
victorious
Army
in
pieces
,
I
fear
himself
too
;
and
all
the
benefit
I
receiv'd
from
the
fidelity
and
courage
of
my
Guards
,
was
the
time
only
with
one
of
them
,
to
flie
where
Fortune
and
the
gods
did
lead
me
,
which
was
to
this
Wood
,
where
inforc'd
by
hunger
,
I
sent
the
only
companion
of
my
misery
to
the
next
Town
,
who
last
night
brought
me
some
refreshment
,
but
accompany'd
with
news
,
that
after
it
,
the
want
of
relief
had
been
no
misfortune
;
for
alas
he
told
me
,
that
Tygranes
was
at
liberty
;
that
he
had
seized
upon
Artaxata
,
declar'd
himself
King
,
and
Partizan
of
the
Rebels
;
that
he
had
imprison'd
the
faithful
Crassolis
,
kill'd
his
Son
for
sending
me
intelligence
,
and
hath
promis'd
Altezeera
to
Palisdes
,
whose
Nuptials
in
five
dayes
are
to
be
celebrated
.
This
morning
I
sent
him
again
for
further
intelligence
,
and
to
procure
some
Horses
,
both
ours
being
dead
by
the
violence
of
our
Travel
;
the
faithful
Guard
was
already
at
the
extremity
of
the
Wood
,
when
his
care
of
my
safety
made
him
come
back
and
assure
me
,
if
he
were
not
return'd
at
a
time
he
limited
,
I
might
conclude
he
was
either
killed
,
or
taken
,
and
that
therefore
I
should
remove
my self
to
some
other
concealment
;
this
time
is
an
hour
since
eflux'd
,
so
that
when
you
came
to
offer
me
your
assistance
for
preserving
my
life
,
I
believ'd
it
was
some-body
that
was
come
to
afford
me
his
,
by
easing
me
of
it
:
Though
I
will
not
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
give
you
so
low
a
character
of
my
grief
,
as
to
endeavor
to
describe
it
,
yet
I
must
tell
you
,
that
my
constancy
,
which
was
firm
enough
not
to
sink
under
the
burden
of
my
Kings
,
my
Countries
,
and
my
Fathers
ruine
,
was
too
weak
to
undergo
the
thought
of
Altezeera's
,
which
had
so
sad
an
operation
on
me
,
that
my
misery
appearing
more
transcendent
than
my
Princes
,
for
awhile
he
suspended
the
sad
reflections
on
his
own
,
to
consider
mine
;
but
after
that
through
pity
,
or
goodness
,
he
had
given
me
leave
by
his
silence
to
utter
a
throng
of
sighs
and
complaints
,
he
told
me
,
Consider
Artavasdes
what
my
griefs
are
,
when
thine
have
so
strange
an
influence
;
those
that
afflict
thee
,
are
thy
misfortunes
;
those
that
do
me
,
are
my
faults
;
thou
hast
that
consolation
,
that
the
gods
have
made
thee
miserable
;
I
have
that
torment
,
that
I
made
my self
so
,
and
consequently
must
consider
the
cause
of
my
misfortune
as
great
a
one
,
as
the
effect
.
Alas
Sir
!
(
I
reply'd
)
that
which
you
alledge
for
an
Argument
to
console
me
,
is
an
aggravation
of
my
misfortunes
;
for
the
Actions
of
the
gods
are
more
just
than
those
of
men
,
and
they
having
inflicted
mine
,
't
is
a
more
pregnant
testimony
I
have
merited
them
,
than
that
you
have
those
you
have
drawn
upon
your self
;
when
I
consider
the
wayes
how
mine
are
impos'd
,
I
cannot
hope
they
will
end
,
since
that
expectation
must
be
grounded
on
no
less
an
impossibility
than
the
justice
of
the
gods
;
but
the
wayes
in
which
yours
are
inflicted
,
carry
their
comfort
with
them
,
for
had
you
been
guilty
,
you
should
not
have
been
your
own
Punisher
;
and
not
being
so
,
you
cannot
doubt
of
your
relief
,
but
by
injuring
the
highest
powers
as
much
as
your
hopes
.
Were
there
(
said
Artabazus
)
but
as
much
truth
as
art
in
this
Argument
,
I
might
be
flatter'd
into
a
belief
,
that
I
am
as
innocent
as
miserable
;
but
when
the
gods
make
us
become
our
own
executioners
,
't
is
so
much
a
mark
of
being
guilty
,
that
then
to
doubt
it
,
is
to
have
a
higher
title
to
our
punishment
.
Yet
(
I
reply'd
)
we
seldom
see
,
that
Humane
Justice
(
which
is
a
Copy
of
'
the
Divine
)
does
execute
a
Criminal
by
a
Criminal
:
But
Sir
(
I
continu'd
)
let
us
not
contribute
to
our
own
misfortunes
,
by
so
long
disputing
whose
are
the
greatest
,
rather
let
us
seek
out
a
retiring
,
since
by
what
you
have
told
me
,
I
fear
this
will
prove
no
safe
one
.
Alas
!
(
the
King
answer'd
)
that
we
should
flie
,
is
not
more
requisite
than
it
is
impossible
,
since
for
ought
I
see
,
you
are
as
destitute
of
Horses
as
I
am
.
No
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
I
have
two
,
not
far
from
hence
,
which
we
will
make
use
of
;
as
for
Philanax
,
I
know
he
would
lose
,
much
more
hazard
his
life
,
to
preserve
his
Kings
.
Yes
(
said
that
faithful
servant
)
't
is
my
inclination
,
as
much
as
duty
;
and
next
the
spending
of
it
in
your
service
,
the
best
fortune
it
can
aspire
unto
,
is
,
to
lose
it
in
it
.
Artabazus
embrac'd
him
for
his
Loyalty
,
and
gave
him
assurances
,
that
if
ever
he
return'd
to
his
former
fortune
,
he
would
build
his
in
so
plentiful
a
way
,
that
he
should
acknowledge
he
had
found
his
interest
in
his
duty
.
Then
turning
to
me
,
he
said
,
But
now
Artavasdes
we
are
fitted
for
our
journey
,
whither
shall
we
direct
it
?
Thospia
,
which
is
the
only
honest
and
secure
retreat
I
can
rely
on
,
has
a
way
to
it
as
hazardous
as
continuing
here
.
Ah
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
why
does
your
memory
or
suspitions
,
do
the
gallant
Governor
of
Artemita
,
&
the
Province
belonging
to
it
,
so
much
wrong
?
you
will
find
,
that
could
he
rejoyce
in
any
of
your
misfortunes
,
he
would
in
this
,
which
will
afford
him
so
ample
an
evincement
of
his
Affection
and
Loyalty
.
'T
was
(
said
Artabazus
)
neither
my
memory
nor
suspitions
,
but
(
I
fear
)
my
reason
that
made
me
not
look
on
Phanasder
with
the
same
faith
that
you
do
;
for
Crassolis
,
whose
judgment
if
forming
opinions
is
as
great
as
his
honesty
in
communicating
them
to
me
,
has
given
me
so
bad
,
and
perhaps
so
just
a
character
of
him
,
that
I
should
as
soon
put
my self
in
Zenaxtus's
hands
,
as
his
.
Oh
gods
!
(
I
cry'd
out
)
is
it
possible
that
Crassolis
could
so
much
bewitch
your
reason
,
as
to
make
you
consider
your
servants
as
your
enemies
,
and
they
as
your
friends
?
Believe
me
(
Sir
)
I
will
make
that
dissembler
appear
what
he
is
,
in
the
wo●st
extreme
,
as
Phanasder
will
shew
himself
in
the
best
,
with
whom
you
shall
find
a
Sanctuary
as
inviolable
as
his
faith
,
and
for
which
I
do
engage
you
both
mine
and
my
life
Upon
your
score
(
Artabazus
reply'd
)
I
will
venture
what
I
would
not
on
my
own
,
neither
would
I
give
my
retiring
to
Phanasder
that
name
,
were
I
as
confident
of
his
Loyalty
,
as
of
his
that
made
me
suspect
it
.
Sir
,
(
said
I
,
going
to
our
Horses
)
this
is
a
time
fitter
to
flie
from
a
Traytor
,
than
prove
one
;
but
I
will
be
contented
to
wear
that
name
,
if
I
do
not
evince
that
Crassolis
does
it
already
.
Then
commanding
Philanax
to
go
meet
the
rest
of
my
servants
,
and
return
with
them
to
Artemita
,
(
which
afterwards
he
did
through
many
dangers
,
and
then
brought
us
word
how
the
faithful
Governor
was
put
to
death
,
in
torments
as
great
as
his
fidelity
,
for
not
discovering
to
the
Rebels
where
the
King
was
conceal'd
.
)
Artabazus
and
I
,
by
very
unfrequented
wayes
,
and
by
as
great
diligence
as
good
fortune
,
in
three
dayes
arrived
there
also
;
but
never
was
there
a
more
melancholy
and
silent
journey
:
for
after
I
had
acquainted
my
King
with
all
my
Adventures
since
my
imprisonment
,
his
griefs
were
so
obliging
,
that
they
gave
me
the
liberty
without
interruption
of
entertaining
my
own
;
where
to
find
a
remedy
for
them
appear'd
as
difficult
,
as
the
torment
which
thereby
I
incur'd
.
We
had
not
been
an
hour
in
Phanasder's
Government
,
when
he
(
who
was
gone
to
beat
up
one
of
the
Enemies
quarters
)
return'd
with
success
,
and
presented
Artabazus
with
the
Keys
of
Artemita
,
and
with
the
lives
of
200
of
his
Enemies
.
I
cannot
express
with
what
assiduousness
and
zeal
he
served
his
Prince
;
you
may
learn
them
better
by
their
effects
than
description
,
which
were
,
that
they
wholly
converted
Artabazus's
suspitions
into
as
great
a
confidence
,
and
made
him
acknowledge
he
had
injur'd
the
best
of
his
Subjects
,
when
he
thought
Phanasder
was
not
so
,
who
having
first
resign'd
his
own
magnificent
house
to
the
King
,
receiv'd
the
honour
of
his
orders
,
and
doubled
his
care
and
guards
,
came
to
visit
and
acquaint
me
,
that
by
a
Prisoner
of
quality
that
day
taken
,
he
was
assur'd
,
that
to
extinguish
all
difficulties
between
Zenaxtus
Partisans
and
Tygranes
,
the
latter
had
engag'd
himself
within
two
days
to
give
Altezeera
to
Palisdes
;
who
either
to
satisfie
his
ambition
,
his
passion
,
or
his
doubts
,
commanded
all
his
Party
to
keep
their
houses
,
till
he
were
in
possession
of
what
might
invite
them
with
honour
and
safety
to
take
the
field
.
I
am
then
(
I
cryed
out
)
a
creature
as
far
above
being
capable
of
more
misery
,
as
of
relief
.
Sir
(
said
Phanasder
)
I
would
not
have
told
you
so
fatal
an
intelligence
,
had
not
my
hopes
of
relieving
your
sorrow
been
as
great
,
as
the
certainty
that
this
would
create
it
.
Alas
!
generous
Friend
(
I
reply'd
)
my
reason
cannot
so
much
yield
to
hope
,
as
to
afford
me
the
latter
with
the
former
:
Do
not
I
know
Altezeera
is
in
a
place
as
strong
by
Numbers
,
as
by
Art
and
Nature
?
Do
not
I
see
my self
void
of
Forces
,
and
of
all
things
tending
towards
her
Relief
,
but
my
desires
of
attempting
it
?
Do
not
therefore
endeavor
to
silence
my
despair
,
since
't
is
as
impossible
a
Task
,
as
to
remove
what
creates
it
.
At
least
(
said
Phanasder
)
let
me
acquaint
you
with
what
I
design
,
to
prevent
Altezeera's
loss
,
which
I
know
will
be
accompany'd
by
yours
.
Yes
,
yes
,
Phanasder
,
(
I
reply'd
)
I
invoke
the
gods
to
punish
me
with
a
higher
affliction
(
were
it
possible
)
than
the
losing
that
fair
Princess
,
if
,
in
the
same
minute
I
hear
she
is
in
Palisdes's
Arms
,
I
do
not
cast
my self
into
those
of
death
.
That
(
said
Phanasder
)
which
I
have
to
propound
,
is
of
a
quality
,
that
you
may
dye
acting
your
revenge
,
if
you
cannot
reach
your
hopes
,
and
be
certain
not
to
survive
your
felicity
when
you
have
lost
it
.
Ah
Friend
(
said
I
embracing
him
)
this
is
something
worthy
Phanasder
,
and
my
attention
.
I
believe
(
said
he
)
when
I
have
told
it
you
,
you
will
esteem
it
too
worthy
your
hopes
:
This
Night
(
he
continu'd
)
I
shall
have
here
a
thousand
select
Horse
,
and
as
many
Foot
,
drawn
out
of
the
general
Garisons
of
this
Province
;
I
can
take
from
Artemita
500
Horse
,
and
as
many
Foot
,
without
endangering
the
place
,
or
Artabazus's
safety
;
these
numbers
being
too
few
to
storm
Artaxata
,
we
must
supply
their
want
with
Art
;
to
effect
which
,
to
morrow
Night
(
which
is
the
Eve
of
the
intended
Nuptials
)
we
will
march
during
the
obscurity
,
by
unfrequented
ways
to
Artaxata
,
and
under
some
Ruines
and
Banks
of
Artaxis
,
we
may
conveniently
lodge
a
greater
Body
than
ours
;
at
the
first
opening
of
the
gates
,
I
will
send
in
at
several
Ports
(
to
avoid
suspition
)
200
of
the
valiantest
and
youngest
Soldiers
in
womens
cloaths
,
but
with
weapons
under
their
gowns
,
who
passing
for
Villagers
come
to
see
the
Solemnities
,
may
,
by
degrees
,
draw
towards
the
gate
next
to
us
,
seize
upon
it
,
and
give
us
entrance
;
which
if
once
we
have
,
we
deserve
to
lose
our
hopes
,
if
we
do
not
convert
them
into
certainties
.
I
was
infinitely
satisfi'd
with
so
probable
a
way
of
relieving
my
Princess
,
and
so
certain
a
way
of
death
if
that
fail'd
.
But
whil'st
we
were
making
and
answering
all
Objections
in
our
design
,
an
Officer
came
and
advertis'd
his
Governor
,
that
all
those
Forces
he
had
sent
for
were
near
the
City
,
and
expected
his
commands
;
this
joyful
intelligence
separated
us
,
he
to
dispose
of
those
Troops
,
and
I
to
acquaint
Artabazus
how
we
intended
to
employ
them
.
I
found
him
somewhat
startled
at
the
greatness
of
the
hazard
and
attempt
,
but
when
I
had
told
him
that
our
disease
was
too
desperate
to
refuse
any
cure
;
that
as
we
had
lost
our selves
by
a
deep
security
,
so
we
must
endeavor
our
restauration
by
as
high
a
boldness
;
that
we
could
but
lose
3000
men
,
and
that
we
might
recover
half
a
Kingdom
,
which
at
least
follow'd
the
fate
of
Artaxata
,
Tygranes
,
and
Palisdes
,
he
at
last
gave
us
his
leave
,
and
his
prayers
.
The
next
Night
all
things
being
(
by
Phanasdes
care
)
in
an
exact
readiness
,
we
began
our
march
,
and
by
continuing
it
without
any
intermission
or
encounter
,
an
hour
before
day
we
came
and
lodg'd
our selves
behind
those
Banks
and
Ruines
,
and
having
sent
our
young
Villagers
scattering
to
the
several
Ports
,
they
were
no
sooner
open'd
,
than
without
any
examination
or
suspition
,
they
all
enter'd
,
and
about
half
an
hour
after
,
by
a
successful
resolution
,
cut
off
as
great
a
number
as
their
own
,
which
compos'd
the
guard
of
the
East
gate
,
and
having
given
the
agreed-on
signal
,
Phanasder
with
500
Horse
,
ran
with
full
speed
to
the
assistance
of
his
Amazon's
,
who
,
for
all
his
expedition
,
were
,
before
he
join'd
them
,
deceas'd
above
50.
I
cannot
express
with
what
ravishment
I
follow'd
with
all
the
rest
of
our
little
Army
,
nor
with
what
fury
we
trampled
over
all
those
that
oppos'd
our
passage
to
the
Temple
,
whither
,
I
was
told
(
by
a
Prisoner
)
Tygranes
(
immediately
before
the
Alarm
)
had
lead
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
who
I
was
greedily
ambitious
to
relieve
,
lest
I
might
lose
the
invitation
and
reward
of
my
attempt
.
I
therefore
beg'd
Phanasder
to
pardon
the
impatiency
of
a
Lover
,
and
to
oppose
our
Enemies
,
whil'st
I
was
going
to
relieve
our
Friends
.
That
generous
man
conjur'd
me
to
make
haste
,
left
he
might
miss
of
victory
,
by
missing
me
;
I
had
not
leisure
to
answer
so
flattering
a
Compliment
,
for
I
went
directly
with
500
Gentlemen
,
to
the
dwelling
of
the
gods
,
where
I
was
necessitated
to
sacrifice
unto
them
near
1000
Soldiers
that
oppos'd
my
entry
,
and
where
the
reward
of
that
victory
was
great
,
though
the
victory
itself
were
not
;
for
by
it
I
possest
the
fair
Altezeera
,
who
I
found
abandon'd
by
Tygranes
,
and
her
design'd
Husband
,
and
with
whom
I
left
all
those
to
secure
her
liberty
,
who
had
obtain'd
it
,
being
hastily
called
away
to
assist
Phanasder
,
whom
I
join'd
in
the
great
field
before
the
Royal
Palace
,
ready
to
receive
the
charge
of
3000
Horse
and
Foot
led
by
Tygranes
and
Palisdes
.
I
will
pass
over
the
Accidents
in
this
little
Battel
,
to
tell
you
the
event
of
it
,
which
was
an
entire
victory
on
the
justest
side
,
and
which
shew'd
that
Fortune
had
no
hand
in
it
:
Palisdes
found
his
Fate
on
that
Sword
on
which
his
father
and
brother
had
found
theirs
,
but
the
Prince
Tygranes
by
flight
avoided
his
,
though
in
this
Action
he
manifested
so
much
courage
,
that
had
his
duty
been
as
great
,
he
had
not
given
testimonies
of
it
in
a
way
which
chang'd
that
virtue
into
a
crime
.
With
the
winning
this
little
Battel
we
won
Artaxata
,
which
I
left
to
his
care
that
had
conquer'd
it
,
and
went
to
my
Princess
,
who
receiv'd
me
with
such
passionate
praises
,
that
I
found
in
them
a
higher
reward
,
than
in
having
been
successful
;
but
observing
that
her
joy
or
ignorance
,
made
her
attribute
the
entire
glory
to
him
that
had
but
the
least
share
in
it
,
I
let
her
know
,
that
't
was
not
only
Phanasder
that
had
acted
her
release
,
but
design'd
it
too
;
that
for
my
particular
,
my
grief
for
her
captivity
had
been
so
large
,
that
I
could
do
nothing
but
deplore
it
;
and
that
it
had
not
been
so
transcendent
as
to
have
made
me
decline
the
thought
of
her
relief
,
had
not
the
thought
of
the
impossibility
of
it
render'd
it
so
.
Whatsoever
you
tell
me
(
said
Altezeera
)
I
will
call
you
my
Restorer
,
and
I
believe
Phanasder
will
neither
envy
nor
deny
you
that
Title
;
but
believe
me
(
she
continu'd
)
though
you
had
not
reliev'd
Altezeera
,
your
Rival
had
not
possest
her
,
but
my
evasion
only
was
a
trouble
to
me
,
because
the
way
which
conduc'd
to
my
not
being
Palisdes's
,
had
render'd
me
eternally
uncapable
of
being
Artavasdes's
.
Thereupon
she
shew'd
me
a
glittering
steel
,
which
I
can
truly
say
struck
me
with
more
fear
than
all
of
the
same
metal
I
had
seen
that
day
in
my
Enemies
hands
;
which
my
Princess
observing
,
she
told
me
,
what
Artavasdes
!
does
a
demonstration
of
my
Affection
fright
you
?
And
had
you
rather
I
should
be
unconstant
,
than
dead
?
Yes
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
for
I
had
rather
dye
,
than
you
should
.
But
(
said
Altezeera
)
had
you
rather
have
me
live
in
vice
,
than
dye
in
innocency
?
when
too
that
vice
,
would
render
me
as
unworthy
,
as
undesirous
to
live
.
Ah
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
let
us
(
I
beseech
you
)
break
off
this
discourse
,
left
perhaps
the
evincement
how
much
I
love
you
,
might
induce
you
to
suspect
I
do
not
,
You
may
(
said
Altezeera
smiling
)
impose
what
Laws
you
please
,
where
you
have
made
your
Conquest
,
which
I
will
obey
,
lest
you
might
think
it
not
so
entire
as
it
is
.
We
had
in
the
Temple
some
discourses
of
this
nature
,
which
at
length
were
interrupted
by
the
generous
Phanasder
,
who
came
to
kiss
the
Princes●es
hand
,
and
to
tell
her
,
that
now
she
had
no
more
enemies
in
Artaxata
,
than
those
which
had
lost
their
lives
for
having
been
so
.
Have
you
then
(
said
to
Phanasder
,
after
Altezeera
had
receiv'd
him
with
a
respect
worthy
his
services
and
virtue
)
given
Crassolis
the
reward
of
his
infidelity
?
No
Sir
(
he
answer'd
)
Crassolis
shall
be
(
if
you
please
)
reserv'd
for
Artabazus's
sentence
,
which
pronounc'd
from
that
mouth
,
will
be
more
regular
,
and
perhaps
more
sensible
,
we
are
too
much
his
Enemies
to
be
his
Judges
:
But
(
he
continu'd
)
when
I
spoke
of
the
Princesses
Enemies
,
I
only
intended
those
in
Arms.
I
believe
(
said
I
)
though
Crassolis
does
more
merit
the
name
of
Enemy
,
than
any
that
have
been
in
Arms
;
yet
we
shall
find
it
a
more
difficult
task
to
make
the
King
think
him
his
,
than
we
had
this
day
to
conquer
all
ours
.
If
he
does
not
(
Phanasder
answer'd
)
he
will
find
his
punishment
in
his
fault
;
but
were
I
of
your
faith
,
I
would
immediately
be
just
to
Artabazus
and
Crassolis
,
by
having
the
latter
executed
.
No
Phanasder
(
I
reply'd
)
I
beseech
you
leave
off
that
thought
,
for
if
we
impos'd
his
death
,
we
might
bring
his
guilt
to
be
doubted
,
by
the
way
in
which
it
is
punish'd
.
I
tell
you
this
(
said
Artavasdes
)
the
more
particularly
,
that
you
might
see
how
near
I
was
to
have
avoided
all
my
future
miseries
,
and
how
I
my self
contributed
to
the
preservation
of
him
,
which
caus'd
them
;
for
this
Inchanter
Crassolis
,
made
himself
appear
as
innocent
to
Artabazus
,
as
he
did
faulty
to
us
;
nay
,
the
loss
of
that
life
which
discover'd
his
Treason
,
he
made
a
successful
argument
of
his
innocency
,
and
thereby
obtain'd
a
power
,
whose
effects
I
shall
eternally
deplore
with
as
much
cause
as
violence
:
but
whether
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
,
interrupting
himself
)
does
the
reflection
on
that
Traytor
transport
me
?
I
must
beg
your
pardon
for
a
fault
,
which
I
believe
you
will
excuse
when
you
know
the
cause
;
and
the
sooner
to
acquaint
you
with
it
,
I
will
return
to
the
fair
Altezeera
,
who
I
left
in
the
Temple
,
and
who
merited
one
with
more
reason
(
perhaps
)
than
the
Deity
to
whom
that
was
consecrated
.
She
too
was
so
merciful
to
Crassolis
,
as
to
think
it
lust
to
have
his
King
only
his
Judge
.
Her
opinion
was
our
resolution
,
which
we
had
no
sooner
elected
,
than
we
return'd
to
the
Palace
,
and
meeting
by
the
way
Palisdes's
Body
carrying
to
the
Grave
,
it
had
the
noble
Solemnity
of
Altezeera's
tears
,
which
afforded
him
a
fe●●city
in
death
,
better
than
his
life
had
merited
;
but
it
may
be
she
shed
those
for
his
crimes
,
and
not
his
fall
.
Phanasder
and
I
having
waited
on
Altezeera
to
her
Apartment
,
withdrew
our selves
,
to
make
our
dispatches
to
the
King
,
who
in
few
dayes
came
to
his
old
residence
,
and
new
conquest
,
where
he
receiv'd
Crassolis
into
his
former
favor
,
who
made
use
of
it
according
to
his
former
practice
.
You
do
perhaps
,
think
it
strange
,
that
I
found
Altezeera
so
early
in
the
Temple
,
but
I
believe
you
will
no
longer
,
when
I
acquaint
you
,
't
is
the
Armenian
custom
for
the
Bride
to
employ
half
the
day
of
the
Nuptials
in
Prayers
,
and
Divine
Solemnities
,
to
render
the
gods
propitious
to
the
marriage
.
Her
first
thus
happily
prevented
,
I
was
a
thousand
times
ready
to
implore
her
permission
to
beg
her
of
her
brother
,
and
when
I
had
even
supprest
my
fears
,
and
taken
up
a
resolution
for
so
transcendent
a
request
,
I
was
diverted
from
it
,
by
the
certain
intelligence
that
Zenaxtus
with
an
Army
of
60000
men
,
was
marching
towards
Artaxata
,
to
recover
or
lose
himself
before
it
;
and
that
the
Prince
Tygranes
was
gone
to
Pompey
the
Great
,
(
the
Successor
to
Lucullus's
Army
and
Fortune
)
and
by
his
prayers
,
and
assurances
of
a
considerable
Party's
joining
with
him
,
induced
that
great
Captain
for
a
time
to
suspend
his
prosecuting
Mithridates
,
to
invade
Armenia
,
towards
which
the
Roman
Eagles
were
flying
with
great
celerity
.
Artabazus
in
this
great
exigency
gave
me
the
command
of
all
the
Armenian
Militia
,
and
opening
the
publick
Treasures
,
left
them
to
my
dispose
,
with
which
I
immediately
levy'd
an
Army
to
oppose
Zenaxtus
,
great
enough
to
raise
my
hopes
of
relieving
Anexander
(
if
living
)
or
of
revenging
him
(
if
dead
.
)
I
gave
the
gallant
Phanasder
Commission
and
Money
to
levy
another
,
to
secure
and
defend
the
Passes
on
the
Banks
of
Araxis
,
where
then
Pompey
was
Campt
,
till
I
had
decided
the
dispute
with
Zenaxtus
,
who
was
the
nearest
and
the
most
pressing
Enemy
.
To
be
brief
,
Phanasder
,
who
reign'd
more
in
Artabazus's
Subjects
,
than
he
himself
did
over
them
,
so
suddenly
form'd
his
Forces
,
that
before
I
thought
he
had
sent
his
inferior
Officers
to
have
rais'd
them
,
I
learnt
they
were
all
ready
,
and
possest
of
the
Armenian
Frontiers
.
For
my
particular
,
with
6000
Horse
,
and
24000
Foot
,
I
advanc'd
to
meet
the
Enemy
,
he
relying
on
his
numbers
,
and
I
on
my
quarrel
,
and
the
virtue
of
those
that
fought
in
it
,
we
soon
came
to
a
Battel
,
which
lasted
till
night
did
the
office
of
Trumpets
,
and
founded
a
retreat
.
The
advantages
and
the
animosities
of
both
Armies
were
so
resembling
,
that
we
soon
found
what
call'd
the
Soldiers
to
rest
,
was
esteem'd
by
them
an
injury
,
which
the
next
morning
was
again
evinc'd
;
for
they
could
no
sooner
see
their
enemies
,
than
they
went
to
destroy
them
;
and
though
we
omitted
nothing
of
either
side
which
might
end
the
dispute
before
the
day
did
,
yet
I
believe
this
had
been
the
perfect
Copy
of
the
Precedent
,
if
an
Accident
,
as
strange
as
the
Battel
,
had
not
put
a
period
to
it
.
The
Scene
of
this
long
Tragedy
was
at
the
foot
of
a
great
Hill
,
which
in
our
hottest
dispute
we
saw
cover'd
with
a
great
cloud
of
Cavalry
,
that
so
terrifi'd
both
Armies
,
(
not
knowing
to
which
of
them
the
release
was
intended
)
that
whatever
Zenaxtus
and
I
could
do
,
all
our
Soldiers
at
first
suspended
their
Swords
as
their
thoughts
,
then
sheath'd
them
,
and
by
degrees
return'd
under
their
Ensigns
,
thinking
all
dispute
against
so
powerful
a
supply
,
as
vain
as
dangerous
.
I
was
enrag'd
to
find
that
the
faith
of
my
Army
,
for
I
was
confident
those
Forces
came
to
ravish
,
not
contribute
to
my
Victory
;
and
in
that
belief
I
prest
my
Army
to
return
to
the
charge
,
that
if
they
were
friends
,
they
might
see
and
have
no
share
in
our
success
;
and
if
not
,
to
fight
them
before
they
were
join'd
.
But
all
my
persuasions
being
fruitless
,
I
was
taking
some
resolution
of
an
honourable
death
alone
,
since
I
was
deny'd
it
in
company
,
but
those
designs
instantly
vanish'd
,
and
gave
place
to
joyes
as
pleasing
,
by
those
new
Troops
falling
like
a
storm
on
Zenaxtus's
Army
,
who
by
it
,
having
lost
their
hopes
,
soon
after
did
their
courages
and
lives
.
My
Army
contributing
nothing
to
the
Conquerors
glory
,
but
the
not
participating
in
it
.
Zenaxtus's
death
accompany'd
by
40000
of
his
companions
,
was
the
end
and
expiation
of
their
Rebellion
,
all
the
rest
having
been
kill'd
the
precedent
way
,
and
taken
in
this
.
After
the
execution
was
ended
,
I
rid
up
and
down
the
Field
,
to
learn
from
whom
Armenia
and
Artava'des
had
receiv'd
so
signal
an
obligation
;
but
I
soon
found
the
sight
of
my
Preserver
,
was
a
greater
blessing
than
the
preservation
it self
,
for
't
was
the
generous
Anexander
;
I
flung
my self
instantly
at
his
feet
,
acknowledg'd
him
twice
my
Father
,
in
giving
me
my
life
,
and
in
preserving
it
,
and
by
a
million
of
other
demonstrations
,
endeavor'd
to
manifest
a
contentment
as
great
exteriorly
,
as
it
was
in
my
heart
.
That
generous
Princes
extasies
were
not
inferior
to
mine
,
which
being
somewhat
lessen'd
,
to
satisfie
my
impatient
longing
,
in
knowing
from
what
kind
god
he
deriv'd
his
deliverance
,
he
told
me
,
after
I
was
fallen
into
Zenaxtus's
hands
,
by
his
treachery
to
Artabazus
,
which
might
as
easily
have
been
prevented
by
the
King
,
as
it
was
foreseen
by
me
;
the
persidious
Traytor
had
immediately
executed
me
,
but
that
he
thought
a
death
without
lingring
,
rather
a
mercy
than
a
revenge
,
therefore
I
was
kept
alive
,
till
some
torment
as
great
as
his
cruelty
,
or
as
he
merited
,
was
found
out
,
which
being
at
length
,
I
was
carried
out
of
a
Prison
that
I
believe
could
not
be
an
inferior
one
to
that
he
design'd
me
;
and
as
the
Tormentors
were
beginning
their
office
,
(
my
Judge
being
one
of
the
Spectators
of
his
sentence
)
a
Post
arriv'd
,
who
presented
him
a
Packet
,
which
(
as
I
after
learn'd
)
brought
the
news
of
your
success
against
Artaxata
,
the
death
of
Palisdes
,
the
flight
of
Tygranes
,
and
your
being
made
Generalissimo
of
all
Armenia
,
this
which
in
all
probability
should
have
increas'd
his
fury
,
suspended
the
execution
of
it
,
and
return'd
me
to
a
less
troublesom
Prison
;
but
though
he
gave
out
,
that
he
preserv'd
me
only
,
to
make
you
(
whom
he
was
then
going
against
)
participate
in
my
sufferings
,
by
imposing
them
in
your
sight
;
yet
I
rather
believe
my
reprieve
proceeded
from
his
apprehension
of
a
turn
in
fortune
,
and
that
his
would
be
desperate
,
if
yours
were
successful
,
did
he
extinguish
his
fury
in
my
blood
:
whatever
was
the
cause
I
cannot
determine
,
yet
he
carry'd
me
Prisoner
in
his
Army
;
but
as
the
gods
ordain'd
it
,
Zenaxtus
committed
the
care
of
my
restraint
,
to
a
Gentleman
who
was
engag'd
in
his
Cause
,
more
by
his
relation
to
those
in
it
,
than
his
approbation
of
it
.
This
generous
Keeper
,
the
first
night
of
our
march
,
allow'd
me
half
his
Bed
,
and
taking
the
opportunity
of
our
being
without
Auditors
,
by
a
handsom
discourse
,
assur'd
me
of
his
pity
for
my
miseries
,
and
of
his
intentions
to
relieve
them
;
that
my
patience
in
enduring
my
Torments
,
was
of
a
quality
that
convinc'd
him
,
it
proceeded
not
from
my
Fortitude
,
but
my
Innocence
,
and
concluded
that
he
was
thereby
invited
to
be
of
a
Cause
,
which
gave
the
Defenders
of
it
power
to
conquer
their
Enemies
by
their
very
sufferings
.
This
proceeding
was
so
free
,
and
so
like
a
Gentleman
,
that
to
have
doubted
it
,
had
been
a
Crime
,
as
great
as
his
Virtue
,
I
therefore
gave
him
assurances
of
my
believing
his
professions
,
and
that
if
he
would
decline
Zenaxtus
for
Artabazus
,
he
should
thereby
better
his
Fortunes
,
as
much
as
his
Cause
.
Sir
,
(
said
he
)
I
will
take
up
Arms
to
evince
that
the
Quarrel
I
approve
I
will
defend
,
but
I
will
accept
of
no
Command
but
an
inferior
one
to
what
I
have
here
,
left
those
that
are
Enemies
to
Truth
,
and
to
me
,
should
alledge
my
interest
was
my
conversion
.
In
brief
(
said
Anexander
)
the
next
night
,
he
so
judiciously
order'd
our
Escape
,
that
leaving
nothing
to
Fortune
,
he
left
us
nothing
to
fear
,
so
that
without
any
encounter
or
interruption
,
we
reach'd
in
three
dayes
to
Thospia
,
from
whence
my
Deliverer
sent
Zenaxtus
the
cause
of
his
being
there
,
and
where
,
by
Lindesia's
power
and
care
,
I
found
that
Body
of
Horse
ready
for
service
,
with
which
I
march'd
after
Zenaxtus
,
but
could
not
overtake
his
Army
,
till
you
had
so
weaken'd
and
harrast
it
,
that
I
came
rather
to
act
an
Execution
than
a
Fight
;
and
instead
of
helping
Artavasdes
to
a
Victory
,
I
have
rob'd
him
of
one
.
This
flattery
was
so
palpable
,
that
I
did
not
esteem
it
fit
by
a
Reply
to
evince
it
one
,
but
beg'd
him
by
his
permission
,
to
have
the
honour
to
be
known
to
his
generous
Preserver
.
He
merits
it
(
said
my
Father
)
for
I
have
seen
him
this
day
do
more
against
Zenaxtus
,
than
when
he
gave
Anexander
his
liberty
;
we
went
thereupon
towards
those
new
and
victorious
Troops
to
find
him
,
but
alas
we
found
him
too
soon
,
for
before
we
had
gone
half
the
way
,
Anexander
perceiv'd
him
pale
and
cold
amongst
the
dead
:
oh
gods
!
what
did
not
my
poor
father
at
the
fight
of
that
fatal
object
?
But
let
us
pass
over
those
grateful
extravagancies
,
though
they
abundantly
manifested
how
precious
to
him
the
life
was
,
whose
death
was
so
passionately
deplored
.
The
next
morning
after
our
Victory
,
by
a
general
Muster
,
we
learn'd
what
it
cost
us
,
which
was
10000
men
lost
,
and
as
many
unserviceable
for
the
present
;
with
this
Army
we
return'd
to
Artaxata
,
whose
littleness
made
some
believe
we
had
mist
of
success
,
and
others
,
that
we
had
dearly
bought
and
deserv'd
it
.
Artabazus
(
when
my
father
kist
his
hand
)
protested
he
had
brought
him
two
things
he
most
ambitiously
desir'd
,
Victory
,
and
Anexander
;
that
he
was
as
much
oblig'd
to
him
for
the
latter
as
the
former
;
and
if
he
were
capable
of
any
grief
whil'st
he
lookt
upon
him
,
it
proceeded
from
a
reflection
of
what
his
Credulity
had
so
much
hazarded
,
and
for
his
having
neglected
an
advice
where
the
punishment
of
it
could
not
have
been
greater
than
the
fault
.
My
reception
was
much
resembling
my
fathers
,
so
were
my
acknowledgments
,
which
finisht
,
I
presented
the
King
my
Commission
,
which
Anexander's
Liberty
made
my
Justice
and
my
Duty
to
restore
.
But
(
said
Artavasdes
)
why
do
I
amuse
my self
to
give
you
my
story
by
retail
?
'T
is
enough
you
know
I
kept
my
Commission
,
because
my
King
would
not
receive
,
nor
my
father
accept
it
,
and
by
that
retension
I
found
the
duty
of
it
,
and
my
promise
oblig'd
me
to
join
with
Phanasder
,
whose
courage
all
this
while
had
kept
the
Romans
from
possessing
what
they
daily
saw
,
there
being
only
the
River
Araxis
betwixt
both
Armies
.
But
to
abuse
your
patience
as
little
as
I
can
without
disobedience
,
I
will
omit
my
Princesses
joyes
at
my
late
return
and
success
,
and
her
contrary
pafsions
for
my
then
separation
,
which
too
appear
the
more
unfortunate
,
since
the
cause
of
it
was
to
oppose
the
Conquerors
of
the
world
(
for
that
title
the
Romans
gave
themselves
,
and
their
performances
did
almost
confirm
)
with
Forces
too
that
were
so
diminisht
by
a
former
success
,
that
they
could
hardly
expect
any
in
the
future
:
But
what
consol'd
me
in
this
Expedition
,
was
,
if
I
were
successful
,
my
joyes
would
be
no
longer
protracted
;
and
if
I
were
not
,
I
resolv'd
my
life
should
not
.
'T
was
with
these
thoughts
and
resolutions
I
advanced
towards
Phanasder
,
whose
numbers
I
found
as
much
diminisht
by
sickness
,
as
they
could
have
been
by
a
defeat
,
so
that
the
conjunction
of
both
our
Forces
did
not
compose
as
great
a
Body
as
mine
did
before
Zenaxtus's
defeat
,
or
his
before
the
mortality
;
but
that
which
caused
our
admiration
was
,
that
though
Pompey
knew
our
weakness
,
yet
he
made
no
advantage
of
it
by
any
attempts
,
but
alas
!
our
admiration
was
cured
by
our
grief
;
for
not
many
dayes
after
,
Artabazus
(
with
a
small
Train
)
came
to
the
Camp
,
and
told
me
,
that
all
the
higher
Armenia
was
in
a
general
flame
,
which
he
had
sent
my
father
to
quench
,
with
Forces
risen
in
haste
,
and
that
his
intelligence
of
Artaxata's
intended
revolt
upon
the
least
misfortune
,
had
made
him
esteem
my
weak
Army
a
securer
Sanctuary
than
that
City
.
Oh
gods
!
Sir
,
(
I
hastily
cry'd
out
)
if
Artaxata
be
no
Sanctuary
for
Artabazus
,
how
could
he
esteem
it
one
for
Altezeera
?
I
have
(
said
Artabazus
)
neither
esteem'd
it
one
for
Altezeera
,
neither
left
her
there
,
she
is
gone
to
Thospia
with
Anexander
,
who
,
were
he
not
concern'd
in
her
safety
for
his
Kings
sake
,
I
believe
he
would
be
for
his
Sons
.
Those
words
made
me
blush
,
and
the
former
made
me
know
that
Pompey
had
lay'n
quiet
,
till
this
new
combustion
might
(
by
a
diversion
)
facilitate
his
entry
.
That
same
day
therefore
(
because
we
hourly
expected
the
Romans
advance
)
a
Council
was
call'd
,
in
which
Crassolis
(
who
attended
the
King
)
assisted
,
his
opinion
was
to
determine
all
by
Battel
,
not
by
Treaty
,
since
the
latter
could
not
possibly
cement
the
fractions
,
but
by
the
Kings
yielding
much
to
the
Prince
,
which
concessions
would
be
a
dangerous
President
;
would
be
termed
by
the
Armenians
a
submission
,
and
would
invite
Tygranes
unto
future
Revolts
by
the
first
proving
so
successful
,
who
being
too
reflected
on
as
a
Successor
to
the
Crown
,
the
multitude
(
which
commonly
consider
their
own
benefit
,
and
not
the
right
)
might
in
the
future
incline
to
him
,
who
,
according
to
the
course
of
nature
,
was
probably
longest
able
to
reward
or
punish
them
;
That
a
victory
against
the
Romans
,
would
be
one
too
against
the
Rebels
,
who
never
had
taken
up
Arms
,
had
not
they
thought
those
of
the
Romans
would
have
exempted
them
from
making
any
use
of
their
own
,
that
the
cause
of
the
revolt
being
taken
away
,
the
effect
of
consequence
would
follow
;
and
if
the
gods
had
decreed
our
ruine
,
't
was
more
like
Armenians
to
fall
by
the
Sword
,
than
by
Submission
,
without
which
he
durst
(
as
he
said
)
lose
his
life
,
if
ever
Pompey
would
treat
:
This
advice
Phanasder
and
I
oppos'd
,
not
only
because
't
was
his
,
(
and
consequently
we
might
think
it
the
worst
)
but
because
too
it
was
really
so
,
and
esteem'd
so
generally
by
all
the
Council
,
who
concur'd
in
my
reasons
,
which
were
,
That
if
the
revolted
follow'd
the
fortune
of
the
Romans
,
by
having
an
external
Peace
,
we
should
have
an
internal
one
also
;
That
all
the
faithful
Armenian
Militia
were
almost
destroyed
by
Civil
and
Foreign
Wars
,
by
Successes
,
and
by
Mortalities
;
That
not
only
the
Rebels
within
,
but
the
Romans
,
and
Parthians
without
,
were
all
pulling
on
her
fate
;
That
she
had
never
more
Enemies
,
and
less
power
to
resist
them
;
That
nothing
but
a
Peace
could
avoid
the
former
,
and
restore
the
latter
;
That
it
was
better
to
yield
something
,
than
lose
all
;
That
time
might
procure
a
return
of
those
concessions
,
or
enable
us
to
retake
them
;
That
by
a
present
Peace
we
should
(
if
there
were
in
the
future
an
occasion
of
War
)
make
it
,
when
the
Romans
(
Tygranes's
greatest
help
)
would
not
be
in
a
readiness
to
afford
him
any
;
That
by
making
a
Peace
,
Artabazus
would
make
Tygranes
his
Subject
;
but
by
a
War
,
he
would
make
him
his
equal
,
and
perhaps
his
Superior
;
That
thereby
the
Roman
and
Parthian
Arms
,
which
were
ready
to
invade
Armenia
,
would
leave
her
in
a
quiet
security
,
by
being
employ'd
one
against
another
;
and
that
if
a
Peace
were
refus'd
,
after
an
offer
of
reasonable
terms
,
we
had
thereby
made
the
gods
our
friends
,
and
invited
them
to
punish
an
enemy
who
was
guided
by
the
rule
of
Power
,
and
not
of
Justice
.
I
know
not
whether
Artabazus
fear
or
judgment
made
him
declin
Crassolis's
advice
to
follow
the
Councels
,
but
I
know
the
next
morning
he
sent
a
Herald
to
Pompey
to
offer
a
Parley
,
which
he
absolutely
declin'd
,
without
Artabazus
would
submit
himself
as
conquer'd
,
and
to
his
mercy
yield
that
part
of
Armenia
on
the
East
of
Euphrates
to
Tygranes
,
and
pay
a
yearly
Homage
for
the
residue
to
the
Roman
Empire
.
Though
my
resentment
at
so
barbarous
a
message
was
great
,
yet
it
could
not
transcend
my
Kings
fears
,
who
valuing
Pompey's
power
by
his
insolency
,
in
apprehension
of
the
former
,
told
me
,
there
was
no
way
but
to
submit
it
unto
the
latter
.
Never
,
never
Sir
,
(
I
cry'd
out
)
shall
Artabazus
,
whil'st
I
wear
a
Sword
,
unking
himself
,
let
the
gods
do
it
,
if
that
misfortune
be
writ
in
the
Book
of
Fate
;
and
though
I
esteem'd
it
fit
to
Treat
with
the
Romans
,
because
their
Army
was
the
greater
,
yet
now
I
am
absolutely
against
it
,
their
unjust
and
insolent
demands
having
at
least
equal'd
our
Forces
;
't
is
more
glorious
to
dyeat
the
head
of
2000
Gentlemen
,
than
to
live
with
the
Title
of
a
King
without
the
power
,
and
to
let
our
succeeding
Story
's
register
,
that
Artabazus
was
the
first
that
dismember'd
his
Kingdom
,
and
the
onely
man
that
was
conquer'd
in
it
.
The
King
esteem'd
what
I
said
to
be
fitter
for
his
commendation
than
his
practice
,
and
the
false
Crassolis
perceiving
the
Father
was
ready
to
give
as
much
by
Fear
,
as
the
Son
could
win
by
Battel
,
upon
the
second
sitting
of
the
Council
,
(
which
was
to
fix
upon
a
positive
Answer
for
Pompey
)
he
was
as
absolutely
for
a
Treaty
,
as
at
the
first
he
had
been
for
a
War
,
and
so
proportion'd
his
Reasons
to
his
Princes
Apprehensions
,
that
he
determin'd
to
put
himself
into
the
Roman
mercy
,
when
the
Presidents
of
some
Kings
of
the
Gaules
,
and
of
the
Africans
,
demonstrated
they
had
none
.
Phanasder
and
I
,
at
this
resolution
,
beg'd
Artabazus's
permission
for
our selves
and
Anexander
,
to
retire
unto
our
Governments
,
that
by
seemingly
becoming
Rebels
to
his
Authority
,
we
might
preserve
some
Forces
to
maintain
and
raise
it
in
the
future
;
but
our
request
concerning
our selves
,
found
a
resembling
return
to
that
we
had
made
for
our
King
,
and
't
was
no
wonder
he
declin'd
his
Friends
advantage
,
when
he
had
already
his
own
;
but
as
the
Assembly
was
upon
the
point
of
rising
,
a
Trumpet
from
the
Roman
Camp
came
into
ours
,
and
sent
me
(
in
)
a
Letter
from
the
Lieutenant-General
of
that
Army
;
I
was
surpriz'd
at
the
news
of
that
name
,
for
I
knew
Pompey
had
been
without
one
since
the
death
of
Sillanus
;
but
opening
and
reading
what
was
sent
me
,
I
found
the
Contents
of
it
was
,
to
desire
a
single
meeting
with
me
that
day
,
and
that
the
desirer
of
it
was
the
generous
Ventidius
(
a
Patrician
of
Rome
)
with
whom
(
during
my
residence
there
,
and
in
Lucullus's
Army
)
I
had
contracted
an
intimate
and
passionate
friendship
:
I
cannot
tell
you
my
joy
,
to
learn
I
had
no
small
power
with
one
Roman
,
that
had
so
much
with
all
the
rest
;
I
immediately
communicated
this
to
Artabazus
,
beg'd
his
permission
to
wait
upon
my
Friend
,
and
that
he
would
not
permit
any
of
the
Council
to
be
out
of
his
fight
till
my
return
,
left
the
discovery
of
his
intended
submission
,
might
hinder
my
preventing
it
.
The
King
having
promis'd
my
desire
,
I
dispatcht
the
Trumpet
to
Ventidius
,
and
immediately
follow'd
him
my self
to
a
place
assign'd
upon
the
Banks
of
Araxis
,
where
I
found
my
generous
Friend
was
already
come
,
out
of
a
confidence
I
would
not
fail
his
commands
,
which
,
(
after
a
world
of
embraces
,
and
new
reiterations
of
an
ancient
Friendship
)
I
desir'd
to
learn
that
I
might
obey
them
.
I
would
not
(
said
Ventidius
)
have
given
you
this
trouble
but
to
serve
you
,
and
to
evince
our
former
confidence
of
one
another
is
not
diminish'd
,
or
impair'd
by
absence
or
time
,
or
by
our
now
being
of
different
Parties
.
I
will
acquaint
you
with
that
which
shall
abundantly
perform
it
:
Know
then
,
that
but
two
dayes
since
I
came
to
Pompey's
Army
to
be
his
Lieutenant-General
,
which
Title
I
derive
from
the
favor
of
Iulius
C●sar
,
who
,
if
my
affection
deceive
me
not
,
you
will
see
as
famous
for
his
power
,
as
he
is
already
for
his
courage
and
virtue
;
and
though
now
he
has
the
command
of
all
Gaule
,
(
one
of
the
greatest
and
noblest
Provinces
in
the
world
)
and
though
against
that
warlike
Nation
he
has
won
more
Victories
than
ever
Alexander
did
against
the
effeminate
Persians
,
yet
I
have
seen
him
at
the
reading
of
that
Grecians
life
,
weep
that
his
own
has
not
been
so
victorious
and
active
,
when
indeed
,
if
he
ought
to
have
shed
any
tears
,
they
should
have
been
rather
of
joy
,
than
a
contrary
passion
,
for
Alexanders
having
been
his
foyle
,
and
not
his
pattern
;
by
this
you
may
fancy
what
C●sar
is
like
to
aspire
unto
,
when
though
already
he
has
attain'd
unto
such
a
height
of
glory
,
he
yet
esteems
himself
scarce
ascending
;
and
lest
Pompey
(
who
he
only
thinks
worthy
the
name
of
his
Rival
)
should
prove
a
successful
one
,
C●sar
has
sent
me
to
the
second
command
of
this
Army
,
which
he
knows
I
have
some
interest
in
,
it
being●
compos'd
(
for
the
greater
part
)
of
Lucullus's
.
But
Pompey's
Friends
,
who
judge
nothing
but
the
Roman
Empire
can
satisfie
a
mind
as
large
,
have
sent
Domitius
to
him
,
to
let
him
know
,
that
't
is
more
for
the
interest
of
Rome
,
to
make
the
Armenians
their
Friends
,
than
their
Subjects
;
That
they
apprehend
C●sar's
Ambition
,
Power
and
Fortune
,
will
make
them
stand
in
need
of
more
than
Roman
Arms
,
to
maintain
the
Roman
liberty
;
That
besides
those
fears
,
they
have
contracted
as
great
and
as
just
ones
,
from
the
Virtue
and
success
of
a
Slave
,
which
if
the
progress
of
his
Actions
prove
as
fortunate
as
the
beginning
,
will
soon
make
Italy
the
Scene
of
two
contrary
extremes
;
That
therefore
he
should
with
all
diligence
disingage
himself
from
those
Eastern
Wars
,
lest
whilst
he
is
increasing
the
Empire
of
Rome
,
another
possess
it
.
This
(
continu'd
Ventidius
)
I
had
from
Domitius
,
who
has
been
my
companion
in
my
journey
,
and
who
esteeming
me
more
a
friend
to
Rome
,
than
to
Caesar
,
trusted
me
with
this
intelligence
,
which
Pompey
so
absolutely
believes
,
that
I
being
inform'd
't
was
Artavasdes
which
commanded
the
Armenian
Army
,
and
the
bad
posture
it
was
in
,
I
took
occasion
this
morning
to
let
my
General
know
,
now
the
opportunity
was
offer'd
of
obliging
all
Armenia
to
him
,
that
his
power
might
make
them
fear
,
but
his
mercy
love
him
;
that
by
countenancing
so
unnatural
a
Son
against
his
Father
,
the
success
of
the
Action
would
be
blemish'd
by
the
cause
;
that
he
which
would
be
an
enemy
to
him
that
gave
him
life
,
could
hardly
be
a
friend
to
one
which
gave
him
a
Kingdom
;
since
the
power
which
could
confer
such
a
gift
,
will
(
by
the
knowledge
of
his
own
want
of
merit
)
keep
him
in
perpetual
fears
and
jealousies
that
it
will
reassume
it
;
that
his
carriage
to
his
father
evinces
,
that
those
which
most
oblige
him
,
ought
most
to
apprehend
him
;
and
that
the
General
of
Armenia
was
so
particularly
known
to
me
and
my
friend
,
that
I
durst
engage
my self
as
much
for
his
gratitude
if
he
were
oblig'd
,
as
for
his
induring
all
the
miseries
in
the
world
,
rather
than
incline
to
any
conditions
which
might
look
like
a
submission
.
To
which
Pompey
(
who
has
set
up
his
rest
to
win
me
)
reply'd
,
I
shall
be
rather
induc'd
to
grant
Armenia
what
you
desire
,
because
their
General
is
your
friend
,
than
out
of
a
belief
thereby
to
make
that
Kingdom
a
friend
to
me
;
therefore
Ventidius
,
upon
your
own
score
I
gave
you
a
power
(
to
conclude
with
them
)
as
large
as
the
Senate
has
given
me
,
I
have
too
but
even
now
receiv'd
an
assurance
which
makes
me
think
Tygranes
fit
for
my
revenge
,
(
were
he
worthy
of
it
;
)
For
a
Packet
that
he
sent
Zenaxtus
before
his
defeat
and
death
,
came
by
a
strange
Accident
into
my
hands
,
which
(
uncypher'd
)
discovers
,
his
intention
was
to
keep
me
here
,
to
divert
and
distract
Artabazu's
Forces
,
till
Zenaxtus
had
subdu'd
them
,
and
then
to
permit
me
no
share
in
Armenia
,
but
what
I
could
purchase
by
my
Sword
;
and
though
what
I
now
tell
you
may
seem
to
lessen
my
obligation
,
yet
if
you
consider
it
rightly
,
it
will
raise
the
value
of
it
;
for
if
Tygranes
had
continu'd
in
innocency
,
I
must
have
rewarded
it
with
my
Conquests
,
but
his
guilt
will
give
the
Romans
what
I
shall
win
with
their
Arms.
I
will
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
exempt
you
from
the
repetition
of
our
discourses
,
to
acquaint
you
with
their
conclusion
,
which
was
,
that
Artabazus
the
next
day
should
visit
Pompey
,
that
he
should
pardon
his
Son
as
Pompey
would
because
he
was
so
,
and
that
he
should
give
the
Roman
Army
6000
Talents
as
a
largess
.
That
Pompey
,
on
the
other
side
,
should
salute
him
by
the
name
of
King
of
Armenia
,
Friend
and
Ally
to
the
Roman
Empire
,
that
he
should
demand
none
of
the
Armenian
Territories
,
but
should
restore
him
to
the
little
Kingdom
of
Sophena
which
the
Romans
had
formerly
taken
from
his
Crown
.
After
this
result
,
the
generous
Ventidius
return'd
to
the
Roman
Camp
,
and
I
to
the
Armenian
,
where
I
learn'd
the
King
was
still
in
Council
;
whither
I
went
,
and
where
as
soon
as
I
came
,
Artabazus
with
a
timorous
action
came
towards
,
and
ask'd
me
,
Well
Artavasdes
,
what
must
I
expect
?
Has
Pompey
rais'd
his
conditions
,
because
I
was
so
long
a
granting
them
?
No
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
you
are
so
far
from
parting
with
a
share
of
your
Kingdom
,
that
by
the
generosity
of
Ventidius
,
I
have
gotten
you
another
Thereupon
I
told
him
all
we
had
concluded
on
,
but
the
poor
Prince
was
so
incredulous
,
that
even
for
a
time
,
his
good
fortune
afflicted
him
as
much
as
his
ill
,
but
when
by
many
protestations
I
had
remov'd
all
his
doubts
,
he
ran
to
embrace
me
,
and
was
in
such
transports
,
that
had
we
been
ignorant
what
his
fears
had
been
,
we
might
have
read
them
in
his
joyes
,
never
so
many
Titles
of
gratitude
were
given
to
all
men
,
as
Artabazus
gave
me
,
the
names
of
his
Deliverer
,
Restorer
,
and
Guardian-Angel
,
were
the
lowest
of
his
irregularities
.
The
next
morning
we
put
all
things
in
a
posture
to
conduct
him
to
the
Roman
Army
,
but
truly
we
found
ours
so
thin
by
the
mortality
,
and
by
the
absence
of
those
which
fled
from
it
,
that
we
could
hardly
form
a
Guard
fit
for
a
King
,
and
hardly
leave
one
fit
for
a
Camp
.
As
soon
as
we
came
to
the
Trench
of
the
Romans
,
two
Lictors
,
with
Axes
and
Rods
,
came
and
advertis'd
Artabazus
he
must
light
,
for
never
any
man
rid
in
a
Roman
Camp
;
he
obey'd
this
advertisement
,
and
to
repair
his
having
offer'd
an
offence
(
which
his
ignorance
of
their
Discipline
render'd
none
)
as
soon
as
he
saw
Ventidius
,
who
attended
him
within
the
Gates
,
he
presented
him
with
his
Sword
,
which
Ventidius
declin'd
with
much
humility
,
and
pointing
at
me
,
told
him
,
you
owe
(
Sir
)
both
it
and
your
Crown
to
that
Man
.
I
was
so
asham'd
at
this
submission
,
that
I
heard
not
then
my
Friends
complement
,
who
conducted
Artabazus
to
Pompey
,
who
came
with
much
civility
to
salute
him
;
but
because
my
Prince's
submissions
were
below
his
quality
,
I
will
pass
them
by
,
as
unfit
for
my
repetition
,
and
tell
you
,
that
all
which
Ventidius
and
I
had
concluded
,
was
ratify'd
by
Pompey
to
Artabazus
,
only
the
Roman
General
placing
the
Father
on
the
right
hand
,
and
the
Son
on
the
left
,
desir'd
the
former
to
give
the
latter
for
his
maintainance
,
the
Kingdom
of
Sophena
,
which
too
,
he
said
he
ask'd
,
only
to
convince
Tygranes
,
that
they
had
both
pardon'd
him
.
This
Artabazus
willingly
granted
,
and
besides
the
6000
Talents
,
gave
the
Roman
Soldiers
and
Officers
so
great
an
additional
gratuity
,
that
they
found
from
his
bounty
,
more
than
they
could
have
expected
from
their
Swords
.
Pompey
too
,
for
Ventidius's
sake
,
plac'd
on
me
many
Civilities
,
of
a
nature
,
as
generous
as
his
own
.
But
Artabazus
had
no
sooner
past
the
River
Artaxis
,
than
Pompey
sent
for
Tygranes
to
let
him
know
,
before
their
parting
,
how
great
his
faults
had
been
,
and
the
Mercies
which
had
pardon'd
them
,
and
to
infuse
into
him
some
principles
,
which
might
in
the
future
have
made
him
acknowledge
he
had
more
oblig'd
him
by
by
his
Advice
,
than
he
could
have
done
by
his
Sword
.
But
that
unfortunate
Prince
finding
his
designes
reveal'd
,
and
his
hopes
ruin'd
,
was
so
incens'd
against
Pompey
(
who
he
consider'd
,
as
the
Author
of
both
)
that
he
told
his
Messenger
he
would
not
come
into
a
mans
company
,
who
for
fear
,
or
for
6000
Talents
,
had
sold
his
Chest
and
Faith
.
Pompey
inrag'd
at
so
sharp
,
and
so
strange
a
replymade
him
a
prisoner
;
this
accession
of
misfortune
made
Tygranes
utter
some
words
,
that
induc'd
the
Roman
General
to
send
him
in
that
quality
to
Rome
,
there
to
be
kept
till
his
arrival
,
to
be
led
in
tryumph
.
Artabazus
was
soon
advertis'd
of
this
proceeding
,
with
the
impossibility
of
having
it
alter'd
,
in
which
he
found
,
that
Tygranes's
want
of
duty
which
hitherto
bad
been
his
trouble
,
was
now
his
consolation
,
for
my
particular
,
I
was
so
sensible
of
the
Prince's
sufferings
,
though
in
them
I
read
the
justice
of
them
;
that
I
became
both
to
Pompey
and
Ventidius
an
earnest
(
though
a
fruitless
)
Sollicitor
.
But
whilst
the
Armenians
and
Romans
were
celebrating
their
newfriendship
on
the
Banks
of
Arraxis
,
there
came
advice
both
to
Artabazus
and
Pompey
,
that
Arsaces
was
already
in
person
on
those
of
Euphrates
,
with
a
vast
Army
,
and
had
invaded
the
Roman
Colonies
in
Syria
,
by
his
youngest
Son
Phraates
.
Pompey
at
this
Alarm
,
by
a
personal
visit
,
invites
my
King
to
joyn
with
the
Roman
Empire
in
a
League
offensive
and
defensive
,
against
the
Parthians
,
and
to
conclude
and
ratify
the
conditions
of
it
,
that
he
would
send
a
solemn
Ambassy
to
the
Senate
.
Artabazus
joyfully
embrac'd
this
overture
,
to
revenge
his
affront
(
at
the
Battel
of
Miramnes
)
and
to
be
united
to
a
power
,
to
which
the
world
submitted
;
for
my
part
,
all
the
reluctancy
I
had
,
proceeded
from
being
thereby
involv'd
in
a
War
against
my
Preserver
,
and
Restorer
;
but
a
publique
duty
yielding
to
a
particular
,
I
submitted
to
this
League
,
with
resolution
,
as
well
for
gratitude
as
safety
,
to
avoid
the
generous
Artabanes's
Sword
,
and
to
employ
my
own
as
little
as
I
could
(
with
Loyalty
)
in
a
quarrel
he
thought
worthy
to
act
in
,
and
defend
;
(
Artabanes
only
by
a
smile
took
notice
of
his
friend's
flattery
,
who
thus
continu'd
his
discourse
.
)
Whilst
the
Roman
General
was
with
Artabazus
,
there
came
an
Express
from
Annexander
to
acquaint
him
,
that
by
the
assistance
of
Evaxes
and
Falintus
,
he
had
defeated
one
of
the
Rebel's
Armies
,
in
the
higher
Armenia
,
and
that
the
other
,
learning
their
companions
misfortunes
,
and
his
new
contracted
friendship
with
the
Romans
,
were
come
without
Arms
,
and
had
submitted
to
his
Mercy
,
which
he
besought
Artabazus
might
so
act
,
as
his
subjects
might
find
more
safety
(
as
well
as
honesty
)
inreturning
to
their
allegiance
,
than
in
casting
it
off
.
This
request
,
in
the
joy
of
the
success
(
and
the
necessity
of
Subjects
Hearts
,
rather
than
Destructions
)
found
a
ready
grant
;
and
that
the
intended
Embassy
might
have
the
greater
appearance
,
Annexander
was
elected
for
the
Ambassador
,
his
Victories
dispencing
with
his
Absence
,
and
rendring
his
Presence
the
more
considerable
at
Rome
;
and
though
the
League
was
but
in
agitation
,
yet
Pompey
before
his
march
into
Syria
,
to
convince
Artabazus
,
how
confident
he
was
of
its
conclusion
at
Rome
,
and
perhaps
,
to
manifest
,
how
little
he
apprehended
Phraates
,
he
left
Afranius
in
Armenia
,
with
Command
,
to
unite
his
Legion
with
my
Army
,
against
Arsaces
,
for
I
was
immediatly
sent
with
all
the
Forces
already
rais'd
,
to
oppose
his
invasion
.
I
cannot
tell
you
,
how
infinitely
I
repin'd
at
Fortune
,
for
creating
new
Wars
upon
conclusion
of
the
old
,
and
for
raising
almost
as
many
difficulties
against
the
satisfaction
of
my
flame
,
as
in
the
object
that
gave
it
a
being
,
there
were
Beauties
and
perfections
:
Annexander
upon
the
Kingscommands
,
left
that
Army
,
whose
Swords
had
conquer'd
one
,
and
whose
Fame
had
another
,
and
was
no
sooner
at
Artaxata
,
than
he
was
sent
from
thence
to
Rome
,
with
Pompey's
Letter
to
the
Senate
.
His
Equipage
in
that
employment
,
was
so
magnificent
,
that
many
who
judg'd
of
the
King's
State
by
the
Subjects
,
concluded
Armenia
had
been
a
Countrey
fitter
for
the
Conquest
than
Friendship
of
Rome
,
if
the
danger
had
not
appear'd
as
great
as
the
recompence
.
My
Father
having
begun
his
journey
,
I
advanc'd
towards
Arsaces
with
Afranius
,
in
whose
little
Camp
I
saw
a
pattern
of
Discipline
and
Obedience
,
which
made
me
no
longer
wonder
at
their
success
.
I
had
that
consolation
too
,
that
my
way
lay
by
Thospia
,
and
that
my
Princess
did
my
Army
the
houor
of
seeing
it
;
whereby
(
but
going
to
a
battle
)
they
receiv'd
a
nobler
reward
(
except
the
repetition
of
the
same
)
than
they
could
have
enjoyed
after
a
victory
.
This
prophetical
recompence
rais'd
both
the
General
and
his
Soldiers
resolutions
,
to
act
in
Gratitude
what
they
should
out
of
hope
,
and
that
which
gave
us
no
small
one
of
obtaining
a
Victory
,
was
the
advertisement
one
of
my
spies
brought
me
,
that
Artabanes
was
not
in
the
Parthian
Army
.
But
the
Euphrates
being
between
that
and
the
Armenian
,
for
above
three
Moons
we
onely
past
the
time
in
skirmishes
,
wherein
our
successes
were
so
good
,
that
perhaps
they
could
not
more
enflame
our
desires
,
to
decide
all
by
a
Battel
,
than
they
made
Arsaces
apprehensive
of
coming
to
that
Tryal
,
who
was
not
long
after
sent
for
by
the
Prince
Phraates
,
being
hotly
alarm'd
by
the
approach
of
Pompey
,
Orodes
esteeming
his
youngest
sons
fears
to
be
just
,
and
thinking
there
was
more
honor
to
be
won
from
Pompey
than
Artavasdes
,
left
his
eldest
Son
,
the
Prince
Pacorus
,
General
of
that
Army
,
against
which
I
lay
encamp'd
,
and
with
other
Forces
went
to
relieve
Phraates
,
and
oppose
the
Romans
.
And
though
Pacorus
,
three
days
after
his
Fathers
departure
,
invited
me
to
a
Battel
,
which
next
to
victory
,
was
the
best
happiness
I
could
desire
in
that
War
,
yet
I
had
no
small
reluctancy
to
employ
my
life
against
a
Prince
,
from
whom
I
had
receiv'd
it
;
but
the
ties
of
Loyalty
to
my
King
,
and
of
Duty
to
his
Commands
,
made
me
return
him
word
,
I
would
obey
them
,
which
too
,
was
accompany'd
with
a
passionate
and
true
vow
,
that
I
had
rather
have
drawn
my
Sword
against
my self
,
than
him
:
That
I
could
not
expect
his
pardon
did
I
not
know
,
he
did
,
the
obligations
which
Subjects
have
to
their
Kings
,
and
that
all
my
consolation
was
,
if
conquerd
,
I
should
increase
his
Glory
,
and
if
Conqueror
,
I
should
so
employ
my
Fortune
,
as
thereby
evince
,
I
was
so
long
ungrateful
,
but
only
because
I
could
not
be
otherwise
.
The
next
morning
I
drew
my
Army
off
the
Banks
of
Euphrates
,
to
give
Pacorus
liberty
,
without
interruption
,
to
pass
over
that
Bridge
of
Boats
he
had
made
;
and
no
sooner
were
the
Parthians
and
Armenians
ready
to
begin
the
Battel
,
than
I
made
a
Proclamation
upon
pain
of
death
,
none
of
mine
should
act
Pacorus's
,
but
that
they
should
take
as
many
prisoners
as
they
could
,
without
indangering
the
general
safety
,
and
then
the
signal
being
given
,
we
began
the
charge
;
but
the
Parthean
Army
wanting
Artabanes
,
wanted
Victory
,
which
the
Armenians
purchas'd
at
a
bloudy
rate
;
twice
that
day
Pacorus
singl'd
me
out
,
and
twice
that
day
I
fled
the
Encounter
,
after
I
knew
against
whom
I
fought
,
though
in
our
first
meeting
,
my
ignorance
made
me
spill
some
Bloud
,
which
when
I
knew
from
whom
I
drew
it
,
I
wish'd
it
had
been
my
own
.
One
hundred
and
five
Ensignes
,
6000
Common
Soidiers
,
and
300
Officers
(
in
which
number
Surena
,
Labienus
and
Vixores
were
)
remain'd
in
our
hands
,
as
arguments
of
our
success
,
all
which
the
next
morning
I
sent
to
Pacorus
with
a
Letter
,
which
begg'd
him
to
believe
the
way
in
which
I
manifested
my
gratitude
,
was
as
great
a
trouble
to
me
,
as
it
could
be
to
him
.
Two
days
after
I
caus'd
all
the
Parthian
and
Armenian
Bodies
in
one
Funeral
Fire
to
be
burnt
,
and
the
next
night
Pacorus
having
done
the
same
with
his
Bridge
,
march'd
away
,
and
left
me
the
liberty
of
returning
to
the
fair
Altezeera
(
a
happiness
greater
than
the
glory
of
the
success
)
with
whom
I
found
Artabazus
,
whose
pardon
I
implor'd
for
having
dispos'd
of
the
effects
of
our
Victory
without
his
knowledge
,
and
to
his
Enemies
.
But
he
seem'd
to
be
angry
at
the
request
,
not
that
I
had
offended
him
,
but
that
I
thought
so
.
As
soon
as
the
importunate
ceremonies
of
my
Tryumph
were
ended
,
I
went
to
my
Prince's
Apartment
,
where
I
so
represented
the
violence
of
my
Passion
,
and
the
hopeful
opportunity
of
now
imploring
her
Brothers
permission
of
rendring
it
as
happy
as
't
was
great
,
that
my
importunate
Prayers
extorted
a
grant
from
his
words
,
which
her
blushes
and
disorder
acquainted
me
with
before
.
Never
,
(
generous
Artabanes
)
never
was
there
any
thing
greater
,
than
my
joy
at
this
concession
,
but
my
fears
and
tremblings
when
I
implor'd
it
.
Oh
gods
!
what
did
I
not
say
to
my
Princess
,
that
I
could
say
no
more
?
and
what
vowes
did
I
not
make
,
that
my
constancy
should
be
as
great
as
my
felicity
?
the
evening
of
this
blessed
day
,
as
I
was
going
to
cast
my self
at
my
Kings
Feet
,
and
to
implore
a
grant
,
which
was
as
impossible
to
be
desir'd
with
too
much
humbleness
,
as
to
be
receiv'd
with
too
much
extasie
,
I
met
a
Gentleman
sent
from
him
for
me
,
who
I
desir'd
to
acquaint
me
,
whether
he
knew
the
cause
;
he
told
me
that
he
could
not
imagine
it
,
unless
it
were
a
Pacquet
,
which
was
then
deliver'd
him
by
an
Express
.
I
shall
not
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
be
asham'd
to
tell
you
that
I
trembl'd
,
left
this
might
be
some
new
Alarm
of
going
to
the
Field
,
and
in
that
apprehension
I
came
into
the
Kings
Closet
,
where
he
had
no
sooner
lockt
the
door
,
than
he
told
me
;
I
hope
Artavasdes
you
are
not
ignorant
,
that
if
my
resentments
for
your
services
are
not
as
great
as
they
themselves
,
yet
at
least
they
are
as
I
am
capable
of
:
but
that
I
may
be
oblig'd
to
your
Reason
,
as
well
as
to
your
Goodness
,
for
so
charitable
an
opinion
,
I
have
sent
for
you
,
to
conjure
you
,
without
any
Ceremonies
,
to
name
your
reward
,
which
I
shall
be
as
pleas'd
to
confer
on
you
,
as
you
can
be
to
receive
,
and
if
it
be
one
which
can
satisfy
your
desert
,
I
shall
more
value
my
power
by
that
effect
,
than
by
any
other
.
Artabazus
having
thus
spoke
,
fix'd
his
Eyes
upon
me
,
and
I
mine
on
the
ground
,
with
so
much
confusion
in
my
looks
and
gestures
,
that
he
read
in
my
silence
,
what
I
was
not
able
to
acquaint
him
by
my
words
.
Well
Artavasdes
(
he
continu'd
)
since
you
seem
to
give
me
your
election
,
whether
it
proceeds
from
your
modesty
,
or
the
merit
of
your
performances
,
that
leaves
me
but
one
way
to
recompence
them
;
I
must
tell
you
,
the
former
,
and
the
latter
,
directs
me
to
reward
both
by
the
gift
of
Altezeera
,
who
,
if
I
be
not
much
mistaken
,
will
find
her
own
satisfaction
in
yours
,
and
in
my
gratitude
.
Oh
gods
!
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
you
only
know
my
transports
at
those
ravishing
words
,
which
were
no
sooner
spoke
,
than
I
prostrated
my self
at
my
Kings
feet
,
embrac'd
his
knees
and
told
him
,
ah
Sir
,
I
beseech
you
do
not
mention
reward
or
gratitude
,
when
you
do
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
nor
so
much
wrong
the
blessing
of
your
gift
,
as
to
term
it
a
recompence
,
since
it
is
so
far
above
manifesting
you
are
grateful
,
that
by
it
I
am
render'd
uncapable
of
ever
being
so
.
Great
gods
!
(
I
cry'd
out
)
lessen
my
felicity
by
some
aff●iction
,
left
I
do
not
long
possess
it
.
Yes
Artavasdes
(
my
King
reply'd
)
you
shall
possess
Altezeera
,
your
not
demanding
her
,
increases
your
Title
to
her
;
and
I
find
my self
as
much
ty'd
to
this
gratitude
by
your
humility
,
as
by
your
services
;
but
to
limit
that
joy
,
whose
greatness
you
apprehend
,
may
destroy
it self
,
and
to
shew
how
soon
the
gods
have
granted
what
you
so
earnestly
implor'd
,
you
must
a
while
suspend
the
fruition
,
to
act
that
which
may
induce
my
Kingdom
,
to
esteem
me
as
just
in
conferring
my
Sister
on
you
,
as
I
do
therein
esteem
my self
.
Thereupon
(
commanding
me
to
rise
)
he
gave
me
a
Letter
from
Annexander
to
him
,
and
another
directed
to
me
,
both
which
I
read
,
and
found
they
contain'd
,
that
he
had
been
receiv'd
at
Rome
with
a
magnificer
〈◊〉
which
testify'd
his
welcome
;
but
in
the
highest
of
his
negotiating
,
the
gods
had
struck
him
with
a
lingring
sickness
,
which
most
of
the
Physitians
assur'd
him
,
would
be
astedious
as
irrecoverable
;
that
therefore
he
implor'd
,
that
I
might
be
sent
(
if
Armenia
were
in
peace
)
with
Power
and
Instructions
to
perfect
the
Treaty
,
in
case
he
ended
his
life
before
it
,
and
commanded
me
to
do
him
the
last
office
of
closing
his
Eyes
,
or
if
I
came
too
late
for
that
duty
,
yet
at
least
,
to
celebrate
his
Funerals
.
Consider
(
I
beseech
you
)
how
sad
an
influence
this
unfortunate
Pacquet
had
on
me
,
and
how
in
one
moment
the
gods
convinc'd
me
,
that
neither
joy
nor
grief
could
destroy
me
,
I
should
for
ever
have
acknowledg'd
the
confining
my
felicity
,
by
〈◊〉
,
and
the
qualifying
my
sorrow
by
happiness
,
had
been
their
providence
,
if
since
,
I
had
not
found
it
their
cruelty
,
for
they
made
me
able
to
conquer
those
extreams
,
but
to
preserve
me
for
greater
;
what
need
I
tell
you
more
,
than
that
my
duty
to
my
King
,
my
Countrey
,
and
my
Father
,
made
me
pass
an
engagement
to
undertake
the
voyage
,
and
to
mittigate
the
cause
and
trouble
of
it
:
Artabazus
by
many
assurances
,
accompany'd
by
as
many
vows
,
told
me
at
my
return
,
I
should
be
establish'd
in
a
felicity
,
which
he
long'd
as
much
to
confer
on
me
,
as
I
could
to
possess
it
.
I
omitted
to
acquaint
you
,
there
was
another
Letter
to
Lindesia
,
from
Anexander
,
who
receiv'd
the
news
of
her
Husbands
sickness
,
with
a
constancy
that
render'd
her
unworthy
the
affliction
;
but
as
soon
as
I
retir'd
from
Artabazus
,
I
went
to
my
Princess
,
who
perceiving
so
high
a
sadness
in
my
Face
,
was
so
much
a
friend
to
my
passion
,
as
to
believe
nothing
but
a
misfortune
in
it
,
could
have
created
so
large
a
one
;
and
in
that
Faith
ask'd
me
,
whether
he
Brother
had
been
so
unjust
as
to
esteem
his
allyance
a
greater
reward
than
my
services
merited
?
I
was
infinitely
asham'd
at
this
question
,
and
that
I
should
be
capable
of
so
transcendent
a
melancholly
(
having
my
felicity
granted
)
as
to
induce
my
Princess
to
suspect
it
had
been
deny'd
.
In
this
perplexity
I
continu'd
in
a
silence
,
that
increas'd
her
doubts
,
but
as
soon
as
I
was
able
to
suppress
them
,
I
did
,
by
acquainting
her
what
had
past
betwixt
my
King
and
me
,
and
how
that
I
was
never
so
near
my
Blessing
,
and
yet
never
was
so
like
to
be
distant
from
it
.
This
separation
,
and
Anexander's
danger
,
the
fair
Altezeera
concluded
,
was
very
sensible
,
since
the
joy
of
Artabazus
Grant
could
not
intirely
console
me
,
which
induc'd
her
to
suspend
her
own
aff●ictions
(
for
Anexander's
condition
)
to
lessen
mine
,
that
by
the
knowledge
of
hers
could
not
but
receive
a
large
accession
.
But
when
she
came
to
discourse
upon
my
absence
,
and
to
bring
reasons
to
qualify
the
hardness
of
it
,
alas
!
they
were
so
far
from
bearing
that
name
,
or
from
producing
that
effect
,
that
her
esteeming
they
were
so
,
or
that
they
could
be
thought
so
by
me
,
created
a
greater
misery
,
than
she
endeavour'd
to
silence
.
But
the
necessity
of
my
journey
to
Rome
,
either
as
a
Son
,
or
as
a
Subject
,
made
me
more
firm
in
my
resolution
of
undertaking
it
,
than
Altezeera's
not
appearing
sensible
of
it
,
and
though
perhaps
she
lessen'd
her
disorder
,
that
it
might
have
a
resembling
operation
on
mine
,
yet
it
produc'd
a
contrary
effect
,
and
made
me
tell
her
,
she
had
more
Fortitude
than
Love
:
But
though
I
apprehended
nothing
more
,
than
leaving
my
Princess
;
yet
for
three
days
,
(
during
which
my
dispatch
was
making
)
I
did
nothing
when
I
was
out
of
her
company
,
but
wait
upon
my
King
to
hasten
it
;
the
evening
of
the
last
day
,
coming
to
his
Chamber
,
I
found
him
writing
,
and
in
great
perlexities
,
sometimes
blotting
out
what
he
had
written
,
then
flinging
away
his
Pen
,
and
tearing
his
Paper
.
I
was
something
surpriz'd
at
this
,
but
at
last
,
turning
his
looks
by
chance
where
I
was
,
he
seem'd
as
much
surpriz'd
at
my
having
seen
his
disorder
,
as
I
was
at
it
;
but
having
somewhat
compos'd
himself
,
he
call'd
me
to
him
,
and
told
me
smiling
,
Artavasdes
,
it
may
be
you
do
as
much
wonder
at
that
little
fury
I
am
in
,
as
you
will
at
the
cause
,
which
I
will
tell
you
,
not
only
that
you
may
remove
it
,
but
be
convinc'd
,
that
I
have
nothing
of
reserve
from
my
Brother
,
for
that
name
I
will
henceforth
give
you
.
Know
then
,
that
what
Altezeera's
Eyes
have
acted
in
you
,
another
Lady's
have
in
me
,
and
though
by
many
vows
I
have
profest
to
have
now
a
Passion
only
for
her
,
yet
as
an
argument
of
her
Power
or
distrust
,
she
will
receive
no
satisfaction
,
but
of
a
Letter
to
my
abandon'd
Mistriss
,
that
I
have
deserted
her
,
and
of
another
to
her self
,
that
I
only
adore
her
,
which
hard
sentence
I
was
obeying
,
when
you
came
in
;
but
having
never
been
blest
with
a
fortunate
expression
,
I
found
my self
more
troubl'd
to
act
my
obedience
,
than
to
undertake
it
,
and
since
you
are
so
happily
present
,
I
will
make
use
of
your
stile
,
that
my
Mistriss
may
be
as
much
satisfy'd
with
it
,
as
with
my
passion
.
I
was
more
perplext
to
obey
his
commands
than
to
learn
them
,
for
I
was
not
ignorant
Artabazus
was
addicted
to
a
Passion
,
which
if
plac'd
upon
a
perfect
object
for
a
legitimate
end
,
deserves
a
nobler
name
;
but
knowing
that
the
Flames
of
Kings
are
apter
to
consume
virtue
,
than
cherish
it
,
I
was
unwilling
to
shew
my
ignorance
in
a
cause
,
which
I
too
much
detested
to
serve
at
so
dear
a
rate
;
and
therefore
excus'd
my self
of
the
former
by
the
latter
;
but
Artabazus
was
so
pressing
,
that
at
length
being
more
vanquish'd
by
his
importunities
than
reasons
,
having
perfectly
receiv'd
his
instructions
,
to
follow
them
I
writ
this
former
Letter
to
the
forsaken
,
and
this
latter
to
the
ador'd
Mistriss
.
The
First
Letter
was
,
IF
you
saw
the
cause
of
my
change
,
you
would
excuse
the
effects
,
and
acknowledge
that
constancy
to
you
,
after
having
seen
her
,
is
too
great
a
weakness
to
be
esteem'd
a
Virtue
,
Those
Vows
therefore
I
have
made
you
:
I
do
not
only
recall
,
but
give
you
leave
to
do
the
like
with
yours
,
and
though
you
should
lose
as
much
by
the
bargain
,
as
I
do
gain
,
yet
you
cannot
more
deplore
that
loss
,
than
I
should
the
loss
of
that
time
I
should
spend
in
your
service
,
after
having
seen
my
new
Conqueror
.
The
Second
Letter
was
,
SInce
you
desire
another
argument
of
my
Passion
,
besides
the
having
seen
the
Beauty
that
inspir'd
it
,
I
have
to
obey
your
Commands
,
sent
her
(
that
first
made
me
a
Lover
)
a
Declaration
,
that
I
am
no
longer
hers
;
But
do
not
believe
I
can
be
unconstant
to
you
,
because
I
have
been
so
to
her
,
since
your
Beauty
,
the
cause
of
my
First
change
,
renders
me
uncapable
of
a
Second
,
and
that
which
made
me
act
one
fault
,
will
be
my
security
of
the
acting
another
.
ARtabazus
was
so
flattering
as
to
commend
these
Letters
,
and
having
passionately
enjoyn'd
my
silence
,
especially
to
Altezeera
,
whose
scrupulous
Virtue
(
as
he
said
)
might
think
that
a
crime
,
which
was
but
a
diversion
,
he
desir'd
me
immediately
to
retire
,
that
he
might
transcribe
,
and
send
them
,
and
commanded
me
two
hours
after
to
come
and
receive
my
final
dispatch
for
Rome
,
which
by
then
should
be
finish'd
.
The
short
time
which
I
found
was
left
me
,
I
dedicated
to
the
fair
Altezeera
,
who
I
found
had
more
constancy
to
discourse
of
my
departure
than
to
see
it
.
I
will
not
particularize
all
was
said
when
I
took
my
leave
,
which
I
did
with
so
deep
a
melancholly
,
that
I
have
often
since
consider'd
it
a
Prophecy
and
not
a
Weakness
;
my
Princess
too
,
perceiving
its
greatness
participated
of
it
,
and
practic'd
a
weakness
her self
,
which
she
had
condemn'd
in
me
;
and
it
may
be
suspecting
my
fears
had
as
great
a
share
in
it
as
my
separation
,
she
told
me
,
Artavasdes
,
I
have
hitherto
determin'd
to
give
you
no
pretence
to
Altezeera
,
but
what
you
had
by
your
services
and
her
inclination
,
but
to
fortify
your
Title
,
which
I
find
your
absence
and
sorrow
will
need
,
I
here
protest
by
all
things
I
hold
in
highest
Veneration
,
as
long
as
you
honor
me
with
your
affection
,
I
will
pay
you
mine
;
I
am
now
ty'd
to
you
by
Religion
,
as
well
as
gratitude
,
which
are
Bonds
I
cannot
cancel
,
without
rendring
my self
,
as
unfit
for
all
other
Men
,
as
unworthy
of
Artavasdes
.
And
I
(
I
reply'd
,
casting
my self
at
her
Feet
)
do
protest
by
Altezeera
,
who
not
to
adore
,
is
a
higher
sin
than
to
do
it
,
that
not
only
I
will
have
a
passion
for
her
,
whilst
she
blesses
me
with
a
reciprocal
one
,
but
continue
mine
,
though
she
should
prove
so
unmercifully
just
,
as
to
recall
hers
.
The
fair
Altezeera
then
permitting
me
to
kiss
her
hand
,
hastily
retir'd
into
her
Cabinet
,
lest
I
might
have
perceiv'd
those
Tears
,
which
at
once
would
have
given
the
wound
and
the
cure
.
From
my
Princesses
Apartment
,
I
went
to
Lyndesia's
,
who
perhaps
with
more
sorrow
,
but
less
demonstration
of
it
,
saw
my
departure
;
and
because
she
had
then
receiv'd
the
Picture
of
Udosia
,
my
only
Sister
,
which
I
was
much
taken
with
(
who
had
her
education
in
a
Principality
that
belong'd
to
Annexander
,
and
who
then
began
to
disclose
a
Beauty
,
which
I
should
without
flattery
have
thought
unparallel'd
,
had
I
not
seen
Altezeera's
and
the
fair
Parthenissa's
)
she
gave
it
me
as
well
to
satisfy
my
request
,
as
to
convince
the
Romans
,
that
in
one
of
those
Nations
,
which
their
Pride
call'd
barbarous
,
there
was
a
Beauty
to
punish
it
.
At
last
,
by
my
Kings
consent
,
having
left
the
generous
Phanasder
(
who
then
declar'd
himself
a
Votary
to
Love
)
my
Lieutenant
in
Armenia
,
with
a
small
Equipage
I
left
Thospia
,
and
having
past
through
Cilicia
and
Pamphilia
,
I
arriv'd
at
Lydia
,
where
lighting
upon
a
good
Ship
,
I
crost
the
●Egaean
Sea
,
and
landing
at
Athens
,
which
I
then
found
as
famous
for
her
Ruines
,
as
she
had
been
for
her
Learning
,
there
I
left
one
of
my
Domestick
Servants
(
who
I
much
trusted
)
by
reason
of
a
great
indisposition
he
was
visited
with
.
From
Athens
by
Land
we
travell'd
to
Corinth
,
which
stands
upon
that
little
Isthmos
,
that
separates
Morea
from
Achaia
.
From
Corinth
we
went
to
Seutica
,
from
thence
in
a
Roman
Gally
,
crossing
the
Gulph
of
Tyrrhene
and
the
Ionian
Sea
,
I
came
to
Terentum
,
but
with
much
hazard
(
for
your
Army
)
at
length
to
Rome
,
where
I
found
the
virtuous
Annexander
had
concluded
the
Treaty
,
but
still
continuing
under
such
a
languishing
,
that
my
Grief
for
it
could
not
transcend
the
Physitians
wonder
at
it
.
There
I
told
him
with
repetitions
,
all
that
had
happen'd
in
Armenia
,
how
my
joyes
attended
but
my
return
and
his
recovery
,
to
be
consummated
;
I
shew'd
him
too
the
young
Udozia's
Picture
,
which
he
consider'd
with
the
admiration
it
merited
,
and
lifting
up
his
hands
,
only
implor'd
the
gods
to
protract
his
life
,
till
he
saw
the
fair
Altezeera
in
my
possession
,
and
the
original
of
that
Copy
.
Whilst
I
recided
in
that
great
City
,
the
Fame
of
the
generous
Artabanes
so
fill'd
it
,
though
under
a
name
,
which
,
(
had
not
Fortune
lov'd
Rome
more
than
Virtue
)
he
had
impos'd
on
all
the
Italians
,
that
after
the
defeat
of
Gellius
and
Lentulus
,
not
only
that
Army
which
was
by
Annexander's
Treaty
to
invade
Parthia
under
Marcus
Crassus
,
was
stopt
;
but
Pompey
who
then
was
as
far
on
his
return
as
Dyrrachium
,
was
by
divers
expresses
commanded
to
transport
his
Forces
into
Italy
,
where
if
he
preserv'd
the
Roman
Empire
,
he
would
win
more
glory
than
he
had
done
by
so
much
inlarging
it
;
But
when
by
your
Valour
and
Conduct
,
the
two
Intelligences
came
out
of
Mummius
and
Crassus's
defeat
,
the
Senate
immediately
were
assembl'd
,
and
though
they
shew'd
a
magnanimity
as
great
as
their
danger
,
yet
I
easily
perceiv'd
,
it
proceeded
more
from
their
dissembling
than
their
nature
.
The
result
of
that
meeting
was
to
fortify
Crassus's
broken
Troops
,
with
all
those
which
could
be
immediately
drawn
out
of
Garrisons
,
or
leavied
,
and
to
command
him
to
put
the
fate
of
Rome
to
Battel
,
that
if
the
gods
had
destin'd
her
subversion
,
she
might
fall
like
her self
.
The
fame
and
necessity
of
this
decision
,
drew
under
Crassus's
Ensignes
,
all
the
gallantry
of
Italy
,
and
because
we
were
to
be
companions
of
fortune
in
another
War
,
I
resolv'd
to
be
his
in
this
,
which
by
Annexander's
permission
I
was
;
The
Roman
General
at
my
arrival
in
his
Camp
,
offer'd
me
such
Commands
,
that
I
esteem'd
,
not
to
have
declin'd
them
,
an
injustice
as
great
as
his
civility
,
but
though
I
refus'd
participating
in
his
Commission
yet
I
could
not
in
his
Councils
and
Intelligences
,
where
I
learn'd
how
Artabanes's
Virtue
,
which
could
not
have
been
Conquer'd
,
was
sold
;
the
strange
innundations
which
happened
then
,
facilitated
our
overtaking
you
,
but
your
march
to
Rome
so
Alarm'd
it
,
that
the
Senate
invited
Annexander
to
remove
into
the
Capitol
,
left
the
City
might
not
prove
a
secure
Sanctuary
;
but
that
generous
Prince
declin'd
it
,
to
convince
them
,
he
understood
their
compliment
as
't
was
meant
,
which
rather
to
manifest
their
care
,
than
their
apprehension
.
At
length
that
fatal
day
came
,
wherein
I
lift
up
my
prophane
Arm
against
the
perfectest
of
Men
,
and
in
which
I
had
receiv'd
the
reward
of
an
ignorance
,
I
could
not
excuse
(
since
I
could
not
attribute
without
injustice
,
the
miracles
Spartacus
did
,
to
any
other
Sword
,
than
that
of
Artabanes
)
had
not
he
thought
the
greatest
punishment
was
,
to
shew
me
my
offence
.
Artabanes
could
not
hear
those
civilities
,
without
interrupting
them
,
which
he
did
,
to
tell
Artavasdes
,
you
might
more
justly
say
(
generous
Friend
,
)
that
for
ignoring
by
your
prodigious
valour
,
who
was
the
master
of
it
,
and
for
preserving
my self
so
long
after
having
out-liv'd
my
defeat
,
you
punisht
both
those
Crimes
,
by
sparing
a
life
,
which
if
then
taken
away
,
had
been
exempted
from
torments
that
can
never
cease
but
with
it
.
I
believe
(
said
Artavasdes
)
it
will
be
a
less
trouble
to
you
to
hear
the
continuation
of
my
Adventures
,
than
to
find
out
matter
to
commend
me
,
and
in
that
Faith
I
will
prosecute
them
.
But
because
the
virtuous
Callimachus
had
heard
all
,
till
our
arrival
at
Rome
,
I
will
from
thence
continue
my
relation
.
As
soon
as
Crassus
was
return'd
to
the
Senate
,
who
deny'd
him
the
honor
of
the
Triumph
,
not
but
that
his
success
merited
it
,
but
because
(
as
they
said
)
the
persons
did
not
against
whom
't
was
won
,
and
that
he
himself
had
refus'd
the
Ovatio-Triumph
,
which
he
esteem'd
as
much
too-low
in
one
extream
,
as
his
Lords
esteem'd
the
other
too-high
in
a
contrary
one
;
He
was
immediately
dispatch'd
with
his
Army
towards
Parthia
,
taking
Greece
and
the
lesser
Asia
in
his
way
,
and
though
Annexander
by
servent
Commands
,
enjoyn'd
my
return
with
the
Roman
General
,
and
to
leave
his
death
,
or
recovery
to
the
gods
,
yet
my
duty
submitted
to
my
passion
,
and
that
which
made
me
confident
that
the
latter
would
not
be
suspended
by
the
former
,
for
above
a
Moon
,
was
,
the
Physitians
confident
assuring
me
within
that
time
,
Annexander
would
be
past
hope
,
or
past
danger
;
I
know
too
,
that
Crassus
marching
with
a
vast
Army
,
I
might
give
him
so
much
advance
,
and
yet
overtake
him
,
before
he
could
begin
the
War
,
besides
,
I
esteem'd
it
my
duty
to
endeavour
the
Prince
Tygranes's
deliverance
,
who
was
daily
expected
at
Rome
,
but
my
highest
motive
of
continuing
longer
there
was
,
to
enjoy
the
blessing
of
Artabanes's
conversation
,
whose
company
made
me
so
much
a
friend
to
my self
,
and
none
to
gratitude
,
as
to
rejoyce
at
his
wounds
,
and
pray
against
their
speedy
cure
;
and
since
I
have
begun
to
tell
you
my
crimes
,
I
will
not
conceal
any
of
them
,
for
I
was
too
in
some
manner
satisfy'd
,
that
by
your
Kings
cruelties
,
you
were
out
of
a
capacity
of
commanding
the
War
,
and
of
preserving
him
in
a
power
to
continue
it
,
which
though
from
thence
I
promis'd
my self
success
,
yet
my
joy
had
not
so
poor
a
cause
,
but
deriv'd
its
being
from
a
certainty
,
that
thereby
I
should
not
imploy
my
life
against
the
preserver
of
it
;
all
these
motives
the
gods
rais'd
for
my
ruine
,
which
happen'd
by
my
continuance
in
Rome
,
where
I
receiv'd
a
loss
,
which
neither
the
Empire
of
it
,
nor
all
those
of
the
world
can
repair
.
As
soon
as
Crassus
had
past
the
Adriatick
Sea
,
the
same
Fleet
which
transported
his
Army
out
of
Italy
,
brought
Pompey's
into
it
,
he
was
receiv'd
all
the
way
in
Tryumph
,
but
especially
at
Rome
,
where
not
withstanding
the
generous
Ventidius
,
and
my
Prayers
,
the
unfortunate
Tygranes
compos'd
a
part
of
it
.
This
miserable
Prince
who
had
in
short
time
,
resented
the
two
greatest
extreams
,
was
no
more
able
to
endure
the
latter
,
than
he
had
been
to
keep
the
former
;
and
though
he
were
not
blest
with
resolution
enough
to
oppose
the
vice
,
yet
he
was
to
avoid
the
shame
of
it
,
which
he
evinc'd
,
by
the
sad
demonstration
of
becoming
his
own
executioner
.
The
gods
shall
be
my
record
,
that
I
shed
Tears
of
grief
for
the
death
of
him
,
that
would
have
shed
some
of
a
contrary
nature
for
mine
,
though
too
,
by
his
fall
,
I
was
then
in
a
certainty
of
possessing
Armenia
,
which
by
a
legitimate
succession
,
was
to
descend
to
the
fair
Altezeera
:
for
though
Artabazus
had
a
Son
call'd
Artaxias
,
and
that
he
was
born
after
his
Master
was
Crown'd
Queen
,
yet
being
be
gotten
unlawfully
(
which
blemish
the
King
esteem'd
the
Marriage
would
deface
)
all
the
Armenian
Nobility
consider'd
him
rather
as
their
Princes
shame
,
than
his
successor
,
especially
too
,
when
to
be
unjust
to
Altezeera
,
was
to
be
so
unto
themselves
,
since
to
have
declin'd
her
rule
,
was
to
have
declin'd
the
rule
of
Virtue
.
But
though
Tygranes
dy'd
not
like
a
Prince
,
yet
he
was
interr'd
like
one
,
and
no
sooner
were
the
solemnities
finish'd
of
that
Funeral
,
than
I
fell
into
so
violent
a
sickness
,
that
Ventidius
,
who
never
was
from
my
Bed-side
,
believ'd
my
own
would
be
the
next
to
be
celebrated
;
neither
for
above
half
a
Moon
,
could
he
find
any
cause
to
retract
that
opinion
;
but
asson
as
my
amendment
began
to
dissipate
his
fears
,
I
assum'd
them
for
him
,
and
indeed
,
to
the
best
of
my
memory
,
I
never
observ'd
so
strange
an
alteration
in
so
short
a
time
;
For
that
quickness
in
his
look
,
which
was
admir'd
,
where
ever
it
was
seen
,
now
was
as
much
for
the
change
,
his
Eyes
were
dull
,
and
languishing
,
his
humour
was
resembling
them
,
his
discourses
were
as
void
of
reason
,
as
formerly
they
had
been
replenish'd
with
it
;
in
a
word
,
I
cannot
describe
the
condition
he
then
was
in
,
than
to
the
contrary
in
which
I
first
had
the
honor
to
know
him
;
I
suspected
a
while
his
care
and
continual
watching
,
had
created
the
alteration
,
and
in
that
faith
I
apprehended
the
clearing
of
my
doubts
:
but
lest
I
might
by
ignoring
the
occasion
of
his
disorder
,
not
offer
him
my
assistance
to
suppress
it
,
I
cast
out
some
oblique
words
,
which
might
acquaint
him
with
my
desires
,
but
he
was
so
far
from
esteming
them
a
Rise
to
disclose
his
pain
,
that
he
continu'd
in
a
perfect
silence
,
from
all
things
but
sighs
.
This
proceeding
induc'd
me
to
believe
his
sufferings
were
for
me
,
because
he
appear'd
so
unwilling
to
discover
them
to
me
;
I
therefore
told
him
,
I
was
apprehensive
his
care
of
,
had
created
mine
for
him
.
Yes
Artavasdes
(
he
reply'd
,
with
a
languishing
accent
)
my
care
of
you
makes
me
take
none
of
my self
,
nor
deserve
it
,
and
then
with
Eyes
big
with
Tears
,
he
left
me
;
but
my
admiration
at
it
,
did
not
for
three
days
,
during
which
time
he
never
gave
me
the
favour
of
a
visit
.
So
strange
a
proceeding
had
cast
me
into
a
relapse
,
but
that
I
esteem'd
my
health
necessary
to
find
Ventidius
out
,
and
learn
what
the
avoiding
me
,
and
my
sickness
,
gave
me
no
hopes
otherwise
to
expect
.
But
the
evening
of
the
fourth
day
,
as
I
lay
slumb'ring
on
my
Bed
,
Ventidius
came
into
my
Chamber
,
so
softly
,
that
I
heard
him
not
,
and
had
not
some
groans
,
whose
violence
he
could
not
suppress
,
given
me
notice
of
his
being
there
,
I
had
,
by
not
knowing
his
torment
,
longer
continu'd
it
;
he
seated
himself
by
a
Table
,
on
which
he
lean'd
both
his
Elbows
,
and
his
Cheeks
upon
his
Hands
,
his
Eyes
were
fixt
upon
some
object
I
could
not
discover
,
though
I
could
all
things
else
he
did
,
by
gently
opening
of
the
Curtain
.
I
had
not
been
long
in
expectation
,
but
mine
was
rewarded
by
Ventidius's
saying
with
a
low
voice
,
Oh
gods
!
is
it
possible
that
a
Liberty
and
a
Friendship
,
I
have
hitherto
preserv'd
,
and
glory'd
in
,
should
be
destroy'd
,
by
that
which
,
perhaps
,
is
only
an
effect
of
Art
;
and
not
of
Nature
,
and
which
(
may
be
)
has
an
existence
only
in
the
sight
?
but
(
he
continu'd
,
after
a
short
silence
)
thy
fate
is
not
singular
,
thou
hast
heard
of
a
Pigmalion
and
a
Narcissus
;
the
follies
of
which
were
not
as
great
,
as
of
those
that
condemn'd
them
;
for
Beauty
is
only
that
which
passes
the
eies
,
and
the
madness
is
not
as
high
to
adore
a
moveless
red
and
white
,
adorn'd
with
perfect
Symetry
of
Parts
,
and
though
dead
,
has
a
lively
Air
,
and
Vivacity
,
as
to
have
a
passion
for
an
Inhabitant
of
a
Clime
,
where
the
Suns
brightness
engender'd
their
obscurity
,
and
makes
a
constant
night
dwell
upon
their
Faces
;
were
there
set
rules
for
Beauty
,
the
World
would
have
but
one
Mistriss
,
and
their
Fancies
are
more
extravagant
that
dote
upon
a
Face
,
they
seldom
see
,
and
never
but
arm'd
with
Frowns
,
where
(
were
I
one
of
their
Votaries
)
that
which
demonstrates
their
cruelty
,
should
render
it
more
than
mine
,
who
can
enjoy
my
Mistriss's
Beauty
without
fearing
my
presumption
should
cloud
it
:
where
I
can
breathe
my
passion
without
apprehending
any
punishment
;
and
if
silence
be
consent
,
without
suspecting
a
denial
;
I
fear
nor
Age
nor
Sickness
to
impair
the
object
of
my
Flame
:
I
can
excuse
my
Love
by
all
ways
demonstrating
the
Creator
of
it
,
when
others
in
a
few
years
,
must
be
oblig'd
to
our
Faiths
,
to
believe
they
were
not
as
blind
as
the
Boy
they
worship'd
;
and
their
felicity
consists
in
,
(
what
I
should
esteem
a
torment
)
the
remembrance
of
what
they
have
been
,
whereas
mine
consist
in
the
possession
of
what
it
is
;
Their
Summer
must
admit
of
an
Autumn
,
mine
is
a
Spring
that
is
continual
,
and
though
indeed
it
bears
nothing
but
leaves
,
yet
those
do
never
fall
,
and
for
all
those
advantages
,
I
am
depriv'd
of
nothing
but
fruition
,
which
some
have
determin'd
,
and
found
rather
a
cure
,
than
a
reward
of
Love
.
This
I
have
to
say
,
if
it
be
only
a
Picture
,
but
oh
gods
!
what
can
I
,
if
it
be
a
Copy
?
(
as
certainly
it
is
for
Nature
surpas●es
Art
)
and
't
is
a
greater
miracle
that
Man
should
fancy
such
a
perfection
,
than
that
the
gods
should
create
it
.
But
alas
,
(
Ventidius
continu'd
,
folding
his
Arms
,
and
hanging
down
his
Head
)
't
were
more
for
thy
felicity
that
this
were
a
Fancy
,
than
a
reality
,
for
thou
mightst
with
greater
confidence
and
hope
,
expect
a
resignation
from
Artavasdes
of
the
former
,
than
if
it
were
the
latter
;
and
be
better
satisfy'd
with
the
possession
of
a
less
happiness
,
by
the
gallantry
of
thy
Friend
,
than
the
greatest
,
by
the
crime
of
becoming
his
Rival
.
I
could
(
said
Artavasdes
)
have
longer
listen'd
to
his
rational
extravagancies
,
had
I
not
esteem'd
it
a
Sin
to
build
my
diversion
upon
my
Friend's
sufferings
,
but
as
I
was
about
to
silence
them
,
I
heard
him
say
,
what
Ventidius
?
is
Love
then
really
capable
of
that
mistery
which
Lovers
ascribe
unto
it
?
the
changing
of
Hearts
?
and
hast
thou
already
so
effemitate
a
one
,
as
to
apprehend
with
tremblings
,
to
disclose
thy
condition
to
thy
Friend
?
If
he
be
not
virtuous
enough
to
excuse
thy
Sin
;
be
thou
to
punish
it
?
and
by
the
gallantry
of
thy
performance
,
make
him
acknowledge
,
that
to
have
continu'd
his
Rival
,
had
been
a
less
injury
than
so
to
have
remov'd
him
.
Then
rising
up
,
I
perceiv'd
in
his
Hand
,
an
enamell'd
Box
,
cover'd
with
Diamonds
,
which
soon
made
me
know
,
't
was
Vdosia's
Picture
,
which
had
created
this
violent
conflict
.
I
made
a
little
noise
,
to
let
him
know
I
was
awake
,
which
he
no
sooner
heard
,
than
he
came
to
my
Bed-side
,
where
kneeling
down
,
he
open'd
the
case
in
a
perfect
Agony
,
and
ask'd
me
,
Artavasdes
,
do
you
love
this
Picture
?
Yes
(
I
reply'd
)
but
the
Original
much
better
.
Oh
gods
(
said
he
)
then
you
cannot
any
longer
love
Ventidius
.
You
are
mistaken
(
I
reply'd
)
and
to
evince
that
Truth
,
I
give
you
my
permission
to
love
it
too
;
Alas
(
he
reply'd
)
you
may
do
that
without
fear
,
when
you
continue
my
Rival
,
for
she
must
have
as
much
imbecility
as
beauty
,
should
she
,
for
the
unfortunate
Ventidius
,
decline
the
happy
Artavasdes
.
I
know
(
said
I
,
smiling
)
nothing
of
her
,
but
what
you
see
,
and
that
her
name
is
Udosia
,
Great
gods
!
(
said
Ventidius
,
starting
up
)
how
came
you
then
by
her
Picture
?
and
are
you
then
the
courted
Party
?
No
(
I
reply'd
)
I
am
confident
,
of
all
the
world
she
would
not
have
Artavasdes
for
her
Husband
,
and
yet
I
believe
there
is
few
she
loves
better
.
My
reason
(
said
Ventidius
)
is
as
much
lost
in
those
words
,
as
my
liberty
to
the
subject
of
them
.
I
hope
(
I
reply'd
)
I
have
given
you
so
much
satisfaction
,
as
not
to
suspect
me
your
Rival
:
If
I
have
not
already
,
I
protest
by
your
inviolable
friendship
,
of
all
the
Women
in
the
world
,
I
would
not
make
Udozia
my
Wise
,
and
much
less
endeavour
,
or
hope
to
enjoy
her
,
by
an
illegitimate
way
.
You
confound
me
(
said
Ventidius
)
as
much
as
she
does
,
and
if
you
delighted
not
to
torment
your
Friend
,
you
would
not
so
long
continue
my
suspension
.
I
will
finish
it
(
said
I
,
embracing
him
)
with
an
assurance
,
that
if
you
can
like
the
Original
as
well
as
the
Copy
,
she
shall
be
Ventidius's
;
as
an
earnest
of
which
truth
,
I
acquaint
you
she
is
my
Sister
.
He
that
could
describe
the
generous
Romans
extasies
and
joyes
,
must
have
resented
them
;
for
I
that
saw
them
cannot
,
but
when
they
were
enough
diminish'd
,
to
continue
our
discourses
,
I
told
him
,
he
had
said
so
many
pertinent
things
of
a
Passion
for
a
Picture
,
that
I
conjur'd
him
to
accept
of
Udozia's
,
that
when
time
had
ruin'd
her
Beauty
,
he
might
preserve
something
to
extenuate
his
extravagancy
.
Ventidius
a
thousand
times
kist
the
Present
,
and
as
many
times
embrac'd
me
for
the
bestowing
it
;
I
then
told
him
,
't
was
not
amiss
to
let
Annexander
know
of
his
designe
,
whilst
he
resided
in
Rome
,
that
he
might
be
the
more
certain
of
Udozia's
Passion
,
which
he
could
not
doubt
,
when
it
would
be
both
an
effect
of
her
judgement
,
and
her
Duty
.
No
(
said
Ventidius
)
I
will
ask
her
more
handsomely
than
so
,
for
I
will
at
the
head
of
50000
Romans
,
come
and
implore
her
in
Armenia
,
she
shall
see
under
my
Ensignes
,
Forces
that
will
give
her
by
their
Virtue
,
those
Kingdoms
hers
do
merit
,
and
which
my
birth
deny'd
me
;
for
I
will
not
presume
to
declare
my self
her
Servant
,
till
I
can
wear
Crowns
of
Laurel
,
and
present
her
with
those
of
Empire
.
Yes
,
generous
Artavasdes
,
I
now
repent
my self
I
declin'd
that
Army
(
afterwards
conferr'd
on
Crassus
)
but
now
I
have
the
ambition
to
Command
,
I
shall
not
long
be
without
one
;
I
will
make
Glory
my
Advocate
as
well
as
you
,
and
't
is
fit
I
should
be
miserable
,
did
I
expect
any
other
way
to
felicity
.
To
contract
my
narration
;
after
I
had
assur'd
Ventidius
,
I
would
so
fill
Udozia's
Breast
with
the
Character
of
his
Virtue
,
that
she
should
be
as
much
taken
with
his
Fame
,
as
he
was
with
her
Picture
,
and
that
he
did
injure
her
to
talk
of
Kingdoms
,
after
she
was
Ventidius's
,
he
retir'd
himself
in
such
raptures
of
joy
,
that
in
few
days
,
he
return'd
to
his
former
health
.
But
alas
!
I
was
no
sooner
to
mine
,
than
the
gods
cast
me
into
a
relapse
,
whose
cause
was
worse
than
the
disease
:
'T
was
the
death
of
Annexander
,
to
which
misfortune
I
paid
so
many
Tears
,
that
I
thought
(
though
falsly
)
their
storc
had
been
exhausted
;
never
did
any
death
more
convince
me
,
there
was
another
Life
than
his
;
for
had
not
he
been
satisfy'd
of
that
truth
,
he
could
not
have
yielded
himself
up
to
eternal
Ashes
,
with
so
absolute
a
resignation
.
Great
Gods
!
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
why
did
you
not
then
acquaint
me
how
miserable
I
was
,
that
I
might
have
left
the
World
when
Annexander
did
?
and
have
had
so
sure
a
way
to
eternal
Felicity
,
as
the
following
of
him
,
and
that
in
the
effects
of
my
Duty
,
I
might
have
found
those
of
your
Mercy
:
But
alas
,
you
had
destin
d
me
to
be
as
unparallel'd
in
suffering
,
as
in
Love
:
and
thereby
(
I
hope
)
instructed
me
,
there
is
a
reward
in
another
world
,
since
my
constancy
is
deny'd
one
in
this
.
[
These
passionate
words
,
both
Artabanes
and
Callimachus
sympathiz'd
in
,
which
made
Artavasdes
the
sooner
finish
them
,
which
he
did
by
thus
resuming
his
discourse
,
after
he
had
begg'd
their
pardon
for
having
interrupted
.
]
Before
Annexander's
Funeral
,
by
passionate
perswasions
of
one
of
his
most
confident
Servants
,
I
caus'd
his
Body
to
be
open'd
,
wherein
(
alas
)
I
too
visibly
found
,
he
was
sent
to
the
gods
by
the
wickedness
of
Men
,
which
being
not
discover'd
(
during
his
life
)
made
me
not
wonder
that
the
Senate
had
once
expell'd
the
Physitians
out
of
Rome
,
for
in
this
experiment
,
I
found
,
't
was
their
ignorance
,
and
not
their
profession
which
was
banisht
;
but
this
sad
misfortune
and
discovery
,
with
my
impossibility
of
disclosing
the
poysoner
,
cast
me
into
a
violent
Feaver
,
wherein
,
though
those
we
adore
,
were
not
so
merciful
as
to
end
my
Miseries
and
my
Life
,
yet
they
were
so
just
as
to
discover
,
who
wickedly
would
have
been
so
charitable
:
for
I
had
retain'd
all
my
Fathers
Domesticks
,
and
being
prescrib'd
after
my
Physick
,
the
drinking
of
some
Broth
,
as
it
stood
warming
by
the
fire
,
one
of
those
little
Dogs
which
are
so
common
,
and
so
much
cherisht
in
Rome
,
came
and
lapp'd
it
all
up
,
but
no
sooner
had
he
been
my
Taster
,
than
he
began
to
reel
,
then
to
swell
,
and
at
last
fell
dead
by
the
Bed-side
.
This
happen'd
whilst
Ventidius
was
present
,
who
remembring
how
Annexander
dy'd
,
enquir'd
of
Philanax
,
who
had
made
the
Broth
,
and
having
learnt
it
was
one
of
my
Fathers
Cooks
,
he
immediately
went
down
,
seiz'd
upon
him
,
and
presented
his
naked
Ponyard
to
his
Brest
,
in
the
apprehension
of
death
,
he
discover'd
that
which
made
him
desire
,
and
think
it
a
happiness
,
but
as
he
was
ready
to
expire
,
observing
Ventidius
and
Philanax
were
spectators
of
his
execution
,
he
begg'd
,
and
obtain'd
leave
to
speak
with
them
privately
,
where
he
told
them
,
that
to
dis-burthen
his
Conscience
of
a
load
,
which
might
sink
it
into
eternal
darkness
,
he
acknowledge'd
that
't
was
he
by
a
lingring
poyson
,
had
murther'd
Annexander
,
and
that
he
had
been
hir'd
to
that
sin
by
Crassolis
.
This
intelligence
,
(
after
Justice
had
past
on
the
Criminal
)
the
only
knowers
of
it
told
me
,
I
kept
it
private
,
lest
the
Traytor
,
by
the
knowledge
of
the
discovery
,
might
avoid
the
punishment
of
it
.
But
though
I
had
in
one
Moon
,
cast
off
my
sickness
,
yet
I
did
not
recover
my
health
,
and
was
told
,
should
not
till
I
chang'd
the
Air.
Ventidius
immediately
offer'd
me
a
magnificent
Palace
of
his
,
which
stood
by
the
Sea
side
,
within
the
Gulph
of
Tarentum
,
whither
I
went
,
after
having
took
leave
of
the
generous
Artabanes
,
who
I
could
not
perswade
to
remove
thither
,
till
his
wounds
were
perfectly
cur'd
,
and
unto
whom
I
promis'd
to
return
,
that
I
might
enjoy
the
felicity
of
his
company
,
as
far
as
Armenia
,
but
I
never
had
the
blessing
to
see
him
since
,
till
by
his
Presence
I
not
only
receiv'd
my
Life
,
but
the
relish
of
it
too
.
Some
ten
days
after
my
arrival
at
Ventidius's
,
by
that
excellent
Air
,
I
recover'd
strength
enough
to
walk
abroad
,
and
as
we
were
diverting
our selves
by
the
Sea-side
,
we
saw
a
Gally
cast
Anchor
in
the
Road
,
and
mann
out
a
Boat
to
land
her
Passengers
,
where
,
to
my
admiration
,
I
found
one
of
them
was
the
gallant
Falintus
,
who
at
first
seeing
me
,
put
on
a
joyful
Look
,
which
his
Face
was
so
little
accustom'd
to
,
that
I
observ'd
,
it
was
soon
expell'd
,
as
an
intruder
.
But
oh
gods
!
why
do
I
protract
the
disclosing
my
miseries
,
since
I
complain
their
having
given
me
no
more
,
is
a
misfortune
,
because
formerly
they
have
given
me
so
many
?
Yes
(
Artabanes
)
't
was
Falintus
told
me
,
that
Artabazus
had
displac'd
Phanasder
as
soon
as
I
was
gone
:
that
by
discontenting
so
gallant
a
Man
,
he
had
lost
the
Hearts
of
all
those
which
bore
that
Title
:
That
he
had
lost
a
great
Battel
to
Arsaces
and
Pacorus
:
his
Army
being
led
by
one
of
Crassolis's
creatures
,
who
the
common
Soliers
had
sacrific'd
to
their
Fury
(
to
rob
the
Parthians
of
the
Glory
of
an
entire
victory
,
by
acting
of
a
part
of
it
themselves
:
)
That
Artabazus
,
Lindesia
,
and
Altezeera
,
had
been
shut
up
in
Thospia
:
and
(
oh
gods
!
that
I
live
to
tell
it
!
)
that
the
last
,
Here
the
miserable
Artavasdes
had
not
fortitude
enough
to
resist
the
remembrance
of
his
loss
,
but
abandon'd
himself
to
effeminacies
,
which
made
both
Artabanes
and
Callimachus
more
pity
,
than
condemn
them
.
The
generous
Armenian
was
above
half
an
hour
,
e'r
he
could
dry
up
his
Tears
,
or
silence
his
sighs
,
but
as
soon
as
he
had
gotten
the
victory
of
those
Passions
,
which
had
so
lately
gotten
it
of
him
,
he
made
use
of
it
to
continue
his
Story
,
which
he
thus
did
,
with
the
sorrow
and
attention
of
the
Hearers
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
THIRD
PART
.
BOOK
II.
IEndeavour'd
to
tell
you
(
said
Artavasdes
)
in
Epitomy
,
the
effects
of
Falintus's
intelligence
,
because
I
thought
the
remembrance
of
those
miseries
,
would
have
deny'd
me
the
possibility
of
their
full
relation
;
but
now
I
find
,
that
those
gods
which
gave
me
the
fortitude
to
bear
my
affictions
,
will
give
me
too
,
that
of
repeating
them
.
I
will
deduce
the
Story
from
its
Original
,
not
only
because
I
esteem
the
strange
changes
,
and
intricacies
,
it
is
replenish'd
with
,
worthy
your
attention
,
but
that
by
the
knowledge
of
my
sufferings
,
I
may
be
oblig'd
to
your
reason
as
much
as
goodness
,
to
pardon
those
esseminacies
,
which
I
believe
(
only
,
and
then
absolutely
)
excusable
,
when
you
learn
their
cause
.
You
may
remember
,
I
told
you
that
I
met
the
generous
Falintus
at
his
Landing
,
as
Ventidius
and
I
was
diverting
our selves
upon
a
pleasant
Strand
,
not
far
from
his
Palace
;
where
Falintus
desir'd
me
to
retire
,
since
his
intelligence
was
of
a
length
,
which
by
continuing
where
I
was
,
might
impair
a
health
he
found
by
my
looks
was
but
newly
restor'd
;
I
obey'd
this
request
,
and
we
were
no
sooner
return'd
,
than
locking
our selves
up
in
my
Cabinet
,
Falintus
addressing
his
discourse
to
me
,
began
it
in
these
words
.
As
soon
as
you
were
so
far
from
Armenia
,
as
Crassolis
was
confident
you
could
not
receive
intelligence
time
enough
to
repent
his
practices
;
the
first
he
disclos'd
,
was
,
the
annihilating
the
gallant
Phanasder's
Commission
,
and
the
conferring
it
on
a
Creature
of
his
own
,
both
which
he
effected
by
the
unlimited
power
he
has
over
his
King
,
and
though
Altezeera
and
Orodes
too
,
were
unsatisfy'd
with
it
,
yet
the
latter
had
been
more
to
have
declin'd
his
Favourites
Council
;
but
no
sooner
was
Phanasder
retir'd
to
his
Government
,
than
Pacorus
,
with
all
the
Gallantry
of
Parthia
(
which
by
Pompey's
precipitate
return
to
Rome
,
was
safely
united
in
one
Body
)
presented
himself
on
the
Banks
of
Euphrates
,
absolutely
determind'd
to
repeat
,
or
repair
his
disgrace
;
some
were
of
opinion
,
that
Phanasders
displacing
,
gave
him
the
invitation
to
invade
us
;
others
thought
he
began
the
War
upon
intelligence
of
Annexander's
Treaty
at
Rome
,
with
hopes
to
determine
it
before
Crassus
could
come
either
to
divert
him
,
or
assist
us
;
whether
the
causes
were
great
I
know
not
,
but
I
am
sure
the
success
was
,
for
the
Armenian
Army
,
consisting
of
those
who
sought
for
Pay
,
and
not
for
Glory
(
all
of
the
latter
quality
,
having
flung
up
their
Commission
with
Phanasder
)
and
the
General
being
one
,
whose
suddain
elevation
had
astonish'd
him
,
the
Armenians
in
the
first
Battel
,
were
render'd
uncapable
of
a
second
,
for
they
left
above
40000
on
the
place
,
but
that
which
diminish'd
the
loss
,
was
the
addition
of
one
unto
it
,
their
General
.
This
Victory
being
too
infamous
to
be
insisted
on
,
I
will
pass
it
over
,
to
tell
you
the
effects
it
produc'd
:
one
of
the
first
,
was
the
invironing
of
Tygranocerta
(
near
which
it
was
won
)
next
morning
with
an
Army
of
30000
Horse
;
where
the
King
(
with
the
Princess
in
his
company
)
had
remov'd
,
the
better
to
act
upon
any
emergency
;
But
Artabazus
found
himself
no
sooner
besieg'd
,
than
he
repented
(
but
would
not
repair
)
his
injury
to
Phanasder's
Authority
,
and
to
yours
,
which
was
violated
in
his
.
As
soon
as
the
news
was
divulg'd
in
Parthia
,
that
Artabazus
was
besieg'd
,
with
as
little
hope
of
relief
as
resistance
;
Arsaces
came
in
person
to
Tygranocerta
,
where
he
solemnly
protested
,
he
would
be
reveng'd
for
the
Bloud
of
his
Subjects
at
Offala
,
and
for
Artabazus's
having
hir'd
the
Romans
to
his
destruction
.
The
gallant
Phanasder
,
at
the
intelligence
of
the
Kings
misfortune
,
forgets
his
injury
to
remember
his
duty
:
neither
were
the
tyes
of
Friendship
and
Love
,
less
invitations
,
to
his
performances
,
the
first
of
those
were
on
your
score
to
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
and
the
latter
on
his
own
,
to
the
Princess
Theoxcena
,
to
whom
Tygranocerta
not
only
belong'd
,
but
was
then
the
place
of
her
residence
;
and
who
indeed
was
blest
with
such
charms
,
both
of
the
Body
and
Mind
,
that
Phanasder
was
as
unable
as
unwilling
to
resist
them
.
But
why
do
I
so
much
abuse
the
fair
Theoxcena
,
and
my self
,
as
to
endeavour
to
give
you
a
description
of
a
person
,
that
is
above
any
?
and
who
,
if
I
be
not
much
mistaken
,
you
did
assiduously
visit
in
your
Friends
favour
,
a
little
before
you
left
Armenia
.
I
must
confess
,
(
I
reply
d
)
that
as●oon
as
Phanasder
had
acquainted
me
with
his
Passion
,
I
acquainted
Theoxcena
with
it
,
and
with
the
merit
of
her
Servants
;
of
which
she
was
so
absolutely
convinc'd
,
that
upon
that
score
,
she
not
only
pardon'd
,
but
receiv'd
his
Flame
,
and
being
at
his
own
disposal
,
she
thought
no
argument
could
more
evince
how
much
she
merited
that
liberty
,
than
to
give
her self
to
Phanasder
,
without
those
nice
formalities
,
authoriz'd
rather
from
Custom
than
Reason
;
and
besides
,
she
esteem'd
it
both
an
injury
to
her
own
election
,
and
her
Servants
Virtues
,
only
to
be
satisfy'd
of
their
greatness
,
by
time
.
This
generous
declaration
,
my
concern
in
my
Friend
,
and
his
impatience
,
made
me
the
more
sollicitous
before
my
departure
,
to
bring
this
affair
to
a
conclusion
,
which
might
be
uncapable
of
change
.
I
believe
(
said
Falintus
)
you
have
so
well
effected
that
design
,
that
if
all
her
Sex
were
as
constant
as
Theoxcena
,
I
had
been
exempted
from
an
employment
,
which
I
detest
,
though
in
it
you
may
find
,
I
will
decline
nothing
for
your
Service
,
since
I
do
it
not
,
when
't
is
to
your
trouble
:
But
whilst
Phanasder
was
levying
of
Forces
to
hinder
,
or
at
least
protract
the
loss
of
Tygranocerta
,
he
receiv'd
an
advertisement
from
thence
,
that
his
Kings
Fear
or
Weakness
,
had
made
him
already
offer
to
capitulate
with
Arsaces
,
upon
tearms
so
low
,
that
an
absolute
ruine
had
been
a
fitter
election
,
who
yet
return'd
him
word
,
That
he
fought
not
for
Glory
,
but
Revenge
and
Empire
,
and
therefore
the
destruction
,
and
not
the
submission
of
his
Enemies
,
should
be
the
evincement
of
his
success
;
This
answer
made
Phanasder
conclude
,
that
either
Arsaces's
cruelty
,
or
advantage
was
great
,
and
to
hinder
both
,
(
finding
that
to
raise
an
Army
,
would
be
a
work
of
time
,
and
consequently
of
danger
,
)
with
3000
select
Horse
,
he
advanc'd
towards
Tygranocerta
,
and
at
noon-day
passing
over
the
Bellies
of
as
many
Parthians
,
with
the
loss
of
300
,
enter'd
the
Town
,
and
so
much
reviv'd
the
Besieged's
hopes
,
and
the
Kings
goodness
,
that
the
former
cast
away
their
fears
,
and
the
latter
his
ingratitude
,
There
Theoxcena's
reception
of
her
Servant
,
was
more
full
of
satisfaction
to
him
,
than
the
Triumph
;
but
that
all
our
enemies
might
know
,
as
well
as
hear
of
the
relief
;
Phanasder
and
I
,
(
for
I
had
the
honor
to
be
with
him
,
and
to
compose
a
third
part
of
his
Forces
)
made
such
brisk
and
successful
Sallies
,
that
though
the
number
of
the
Fighters
hindred
them
from
the
name
of
Battels
,
yet
the
number
of
the
Dead
would
have
made
them
thought
so
;
which
so
transported
Arsaces
,
that
he
solemnly
protested
,
Tyranocerta
should
be
either
his
Tomb
,
or
Artabazus's
,
and
it
may
be
we
had
made
him
keep
the
first
part
of
his
Vow
,
had
not
the
Divine
Sword
destroy'd
more
Lives
,
than
the
Parthian
;
for
not
long
after
our
flinging
our selves
into
Tygranocerta
,
there
fell
into
it
from
Heaven
(
if
such
a
Curse
can
come
from
thence
)
a
Mortality
of
so
strange
nature
,
that
nothing
hardly
could
prove
a
preservative
for
the
Sound
,
or
a
cure
for
the
Infected
;
so
that
to
be
Sick
,
and
to
be
Dead
,
were
the
same
;
This
strange
contagion
so
suddainly
devour'd
our
Forces
,
that
Phanasder
himself
consented
to
capitulate
,
but
our
Enemies
knew
too
well
our
conditions
,
to
grant
us
any
;
so
that
many
began
to
think
that
Plague
no
misfortune
.
But
Phanasder
to
make
Arsaces
believe
,
both
his
intelligence
,
and
his
hopes
were
false
,
placing
the
Women
on
the
Walls
,
with
all
the
Men
,
and
Gallantry
of
the
Garrison
,
he
made
so
furious
a
Sally
,
that
above
4000
Parthians
were
sent
into
the
other
World
,
to
lament
their
Kings
being
inexorable
in
this
:
and
doubtless
we
had
carry'd
our
success
,
to
the
heighth
of
making
him
as
much
need
our
humanity
,
as
we
did
his
,
had
not
the
Prince
Pacorus
(
passing
with
all
his
Army
over
a
Bridge
of
Boats
on
the
River
Nicephorus
,
which
separated
the
City
and
the
two
Camps
)
come
,
not
only
to
his
Fathers
r●ief
,
but
rescue
;
for
Phanasder
had
taken
Arsaces
with
his
own
hand
:
but
as
he
was
retreating
with
the
Father
,
the
Son
fell
with
all
his
fresh
Troops
on
ours
(
which
were
tir'd
and
shatter'd
)
and
forc'd
,
not
onely
the
King
,
but
the
Victory
from
us
;
though
Phanasder
not
to
lose
his
Prisoner
,
did
almost
his
Life
,
for
he
receiv'd
some
such
unhappy
wounds
,
that
making
the
retreat
with
our
Swords
,
just
as
he
was
enter'd
the
Gates
,
he
totter'd
upon
his
Horse
,
and
had
doubtless
fall'n
,
but
that
I
caught
him
in
my
Arms
,
till
further
help
came
to
carry
him
to
his
Bed
,
whither
he
was
no
sooner
brought
,
than
my
wounds
,
as
dangerous
as
his
,
sunk
me
down
into
a
swound
by
him
.
And
though
his
Action
was
great
,
yet
because
his
success
was
not
,
he
fell
into
so
deep
a
melancholly
and
despair
,
that
nothing
but
Theoxcena's
safety
(
which
she
protested
was
involv'd
in
his
,
)
could
induce
him
to
permit
the
Chirurgeons
,
to
search
and
dress
his
wounds
.
Arsaces
on
the
other
side
,
assum'd
a
rage
as
great
,
as
the
danger
he
had
lately
,
been
in
,
and
by
reiterated
vows
,
left
himself
as
little
power
,
as
will
to
be
merciful
.
Pacorus
having
receiv'd
the
Elogy
due
to
his
Sucess
and
Gallantry
,
return'd
to
his
own
Camp
,
from
whence
that
day
he
had
not
mov'd
,
but
that
those
which
were
to
give
him
a
false
Alarm
,
did
it
so
unfortunately
,
that
their
intention
was
both
discover'd
,
and
punish'd
;
but
though
their
loss
in
the
Parthian
Armies
were
great
;
yet
their
joyes
were
so
too
,
for
they
consider'd
our
last
attempt
,
as
if
it
were
to
have
been
so
;
neither
indeed
were
they
false
Prophets
in
that
conjecture
,
for
the
Soldiers
by
losing
Phanasder
,
not
only
lost
their
Leader
,
but
their
Inspirer
;
and
before
his
wounds
permitted
him
the
power
of
revenging
them
,
or
increasing
their
number
,
those
of
the
Garrison
were
so
diminish'd
,
that
he
could
hardly
command
,
or
obey
any
but
himself
.
In
this
extremity
,
when
we
expected
a
general
ruine
,
we
found
a
general
safety
.
The
gods
be
prais'd
,
(
I
cry'd
out
,
interrupting
him
,
(
for
though
I
were
not
present
,
yet
I
was
a
sufferer
in
the
Danger
.
)
Ah
(
Sir
,
said
Falintus
)
you
are
too
prodigal
of
your
Gratitude
,
for
when
you
are
instructed
in
the
cause
of
our
preservation
,
I
fear
it
will
involve
you
in
greater
troubles
,
than
we
were
freed
from
;
but
not
to
anticipate
your
griefs
,
I
will
tell
you
my
Story
in
order
.
The
same
day
in
which
Phanasder
purchas'd
so
much
Glory
,
and
so
little
advantage
,
amongst
many
of
the
Armenians
,
which
then
receiv'd
their
Fate
,
Crassolis's
only
Son
was
pierc'd
with
so
many
wounds
,
that
though
we
made
our
retreat
with
so
flow
a
pace
,
that
we
might
have
fetcht
off
any
of
our
wounded
,
yet
that
young
Gentleman
was
so
mortally
,
that
none
of
his
Friends
,
esteem'd
him
worthy
the
carrying
home
,
or
declin'd
the
doing
it
,
out
of
an
apprehension
of
reviving
his
Fathers
affliction
,
by
so
sad
an
object
.
This
unfortunate
Youth
fell
to
the
share
of
one
of
Pacorus's
Favourites
,
whose
Servants
having
stripp'd
him
of
his
Apparel
,
found
about
his
Neck
,
a
Box
,
all
sett
with
Diamonds
,
which
contain'd
within
it
the
Picture
of
a
Beauty
,
more
bright
than
those
Stones
that
cover'd
it
;
This
Excellence
they
presented
to
their
Lord
,
and
he
esteeming
it
one
,
did
the
like
to
his
Prince
,
who
no
sooner
saw
the
Picture
,
but
he
became
as
moveless
as
it
,
and
continu'd
in
that
extasie
till
he
broke
it
,
to
learn
who
't
was
it
represented
;
but
therein
he
found
all
about
him
,
as
ignorant
as
himself
,
and
suspecting
,
their
silence
proceeded
from
their
knowledge
,
not
their
ignorance
,
he
told
his
Favourite
;
'T
is
in
vain
Labienus
,
't
is
in
vain
,
now
to
conceal
who
it
is
has
wounded
me
,
for
were
her
extraction
as
far
below
my
Bloud
,
as
her
Beauty
is
above
my
adoration
:
were
she
an
Enemy
as
well
to
my
Nature
,
as
my
Flame
;
nor
these
,
nor
as
many
obstacles
as
she
has
charms
shall
deterr
me
from
my
Passion
,
whose
greatness
none
can
condemn
,
without
declaring
himself
as
much
an
enemy
to
Reason
,
as
to
Pacerus
;
do
not
therefore
add
so
much
to
the
affliction
of
my
Love
,
as
to
conceal
who
has
inspir'd
it
,
for
though
I
should
never
learn
who
is
my
Conqueror
,
yet
I
must
always
give
her
that
Name
,
and
cary
the
effects
of
her
power
,
though
I
should
never
behold
the
Possessor
of
it
.
All
that
heard
these
extravagancies
,
were
perfectly
ignorant
of
her
name
,
which
created
them
,
but
one
of
those
who
had
shar'd
in
the
rifling
of
Crassolis's
Son
,
after
his
Companions
were
gone
,
found
some
weak
symptomes
of
life
in
him
,
and
either
out
of
Charity
or
Avarice
,
endeavour'd
to
preserve
what
he
thought
was
not
absolutely
hopeless
;
towards
which
he
had
caus'd
his
Prisoner
and
Patient
,
to
be
transported
into
his
Tent
,
and
being
by
profession
a
Chirurgion
,
had
so
well
practis'd
his
Art
,
that
young
Crassolis
began
to
open
his
Eyes
,
and
at
last
to
recover
his
Senses
;
but
the
first
thing
he
did
when
they
were
restor'd
,
was
to
search
for
his
Picture
,
which
he
no
sooner
mist
,
than
he
began
to
tear
his
wounds
,
to
open
a
passage
for
a
Soul
,
which
detested
its
dwelling
after
(
and
seem'd
to
sympathize
in
)
so
sensible
a
loss
.
This
strange
extravagancy
,
made
the
only
witness
of
it
enquire
the
cause
,
which
he
had
no
sooner
learnt
,
than
he
told
him
,
how
the
richness
of
the
Case
,
had
perhaps
,
made
him
lose
what
it
contain'd
,
but
if
he
would
be
contented
with
the
Picture
,
he
would
endeavour
the
restitution
.
Alas
(
said
the
young
Crassolis
)
the
Picture
is
all
I
desire
,
and
to
invite
you
to
restore
it
,
I
do
faithfully
engage
my self
to
give
you
as
many
Diamonds
as
can
be
pil'd
upon
it
.
This
large
reward
made
him
to
whom
it
was
offer'd
,
flye
to
his
Companion
to
acquaint
him
with
it
,
who
he
found
about
Pacorus
,
when
he
was
in
the
torment
of
so
unhappy
an
ignorance
,
which
the
Chirurgion
perceiving
,
and
deploring
,
punctually
acquainted
him
with
all
he
knew
,
which
immediately
when
the
Prince
had
learnt
,
bidding
his
Treasurer
give
him
higher
rewards
,
than
the
prisoner
could
Master
of
,
he
commanded
him
to
conduct
him
to
his
dying
Rival
,
whither
they
were
no
sooner
come
,
than
the
wounded
Gentleman
haftily
ask'd
for
the
satisfaction
of
his
hopes
,
but
Pacorus
permitted
not
his
Guide
to
reply
,
and
enjoyn'd
all
which
were
present
to
retire
,
and
then
presenting
himself
with
much
civility
to
the
Picture
,
begg'd
him
to
tell
him
if
he
knew
whose
it
was
?
oh
gods
(
said
the
young
Crassolis
)
't
is
mine
?
and
were
but
my
Health
as
good
as
my
Title
,
who
ever
you
are
,
you
should
lose
it
,
or
I
would
my
life
.
Truly
(
said
Pacorus
)
I
place
as
high
a
value
on
this
excellent
Copy
,
as
you
are
capable
to
do
,
and
would
not
be
depriv'd
of
it
at
a
lower
price
,
but
that
you
may
know
I
esteem
,
and
do
not
hate
my
Rivals
(
for
then
I
should
all
Men
)
I
will
inform
you
my
name
is
Pacorus
,
and
that
I
have
both
Force
and
Authority
to
punish
your
threatenings
,
did
not
I
excuse
them
upon
the
same
account
,
which
I
hope
you
will
,
my
detention
of
both
our
Conquerors
.
Ah
Sir
(
said
the
prisoner
)
if
you
deprive
me
of
my
Picture
and
not
of
my
Life
,
you
are
as
cruel
in
the
latter
,
as
in
the
former
,
and
will
be
as
severe
in
your
Mercy
,
as
in
your
Injustice
;
for
you
must
permit
me
so
to
call
your
making
that
Excellence
your
Prisoner
.
Alas
't
is
I
(
said
Pacorus
)
that
am
hers
.
If
you
were
,
(
reply'd
the
other
)
you
would
not
be
her
Besieger
.
Oh
gods
,
said
the
Prince
,
somewhat
surpriz'd
)
is
she
then
within
Tygranocerta
?
and
have
they
made
me
so
miserable
a
creature
,
as
to
endeavour
to
destroy
what
I
should
,
and
do
adore
?
No
(
continu'd
Pacorus
,
lifting
up
his
Eyes
and
Hands
)
I
invoke
the
higher
powers
to
manifest
theirs
in
my
confusion
,
if
the
fair
object
of
my
flame
be
within
those
Walls
,
if
ever
I
shed
any
bloud
near
them
,
but
for
their
defence
.
Great
gods
!
(
the
Prisoner
cry'd
out
)
could
I
believe
this
Profession
,
how
happy
were
my
ruine
;
and
how
full
of
satisfaction
my
death
,
if
it
might
contribute
to
the
preservation
of
a
Beauty
,
whose
perfections
and
cruelty
,
cannot
transcend
my
Passion
?
Yes
,
said
the
Prince
,
)
falling
upon
his
knees
)
I
do
here
repeat
my
former
protestation
,
and
implore
the
gods
to
fill
this
Excellency
,
as
full
of
Ice
,
as
she
has
me
with
Fire
,
and
to
make
me
hated
as
much
as
I
do
love
,
if
I
do
not
consider
my
Father
as
an
Enemy
,
if
he
continues
hers
,
and
leave
him
no
way
to
act
his
revenge
,
but
through
his
Son
.
I
believe
you
(
Sir
)
I
believe
you
,
(
said
the
wounded
Gentleman
,
kissing
Pacorus's
Hands
for
joy
)
since
to
doubt
so
strange
a
change
,
were
to
doubt
her
power
that
causes
it
,
who
has
evinc'd
upon
me
in
particular
,
that
it
is
as
much
above
being
limited
,
as
resisted
;
for
she
has
inspir'd
me
with
a
Passion
without
hope
,
the
greatest
miracle
but
that
which
created
it
.
I
know
(
said
the
impatient
Pacorus
,
interrupting
him
)
what
her
Beauty
is
,
more
by
the
effects
,
than
I
can
by
the
description
.
I
will
tell
you
,
(
the
other
reply'd
)
that
the
goddess
of
it
,
is
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
and
though
I
look
upon
her
as
my
future
Queen
,
yet
I
find
she
has
a
greater
Soveraignty
over
me
by
her
Eyes
,
than
her
Birth
,
and
I
resent
more
despair
from
the
greatness
of
her
perfections
,
than
from
that
of
her
quality
.
This
confession
,
nothing
but
a
certainty
of
death
could
have
disclos'd
,
and
if
I
should
have
been
so
miserable
,
as
to
be
mistaken
in
my
conjecture
,
I
am
certain
I
shall
not
be
in
my
resolution
,
which
will
prove
constant
enough
to
punish
the
discovery
of
a
secret
,
which
neither
the
tortures
of
a
fruitless
Love
,
nor
Flames
as
great
as
my
presumption
,
has
,
or
could
extort
from
me
.
Yes
(
Sir
)
I
will
tell
you
my
short
and
unfortunate
Story
,
I
saw
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
and
consequently
ador'd
her
,
but
with
a
Silence
as
great
as
my
Passion
;
the
heighth
of
my
aspiring
was
to
languish
,
and
consume
in
that
devotion
,
and
because
I
suspected
my
Eyes
might
discover
my
Heart
,
or
my
Actions
,
what
I
knew
my
words
should
not
,
having
some
skill
in
Limning
,
by
a
thousand
stolen
opportunities
,
and
by
an
Idea
which
was
always
present
,
I
drew
this
Picture
,
whose
Eyes
being
disarm'd
of
their
light
,
by
these
faint
Colours
,
omitted
me
to
contemplate
without
dazling
,
what
I
could
not
in
the
Divine
Original
.
This
is
my
highest
crime
,
and
so
much
I
adore
what
I
love
,
that
I
shall
esteem
her
the
highest
Mercy
if
she
pardons
it
;
But
(
Sir
)
if
ever
the
gods
so
bless
your
Flame
,
as
to
make
the
Princess
Altezeera
the
reward
of
it
,
and
that
your
discourses
lead
you
to
remember
the
occasion
which
made
you
first
a
Lover
,
do
not
mention
my
unfortunate
fire
,
with
that
scorn
the
ambition
of
it
merits
,
but
with
some
resentment
of
that
voluntary
death
I
have
embrac'd
,
out
of
a
sence
of
my
presumption
;
Let
the
remembrance
too
,
of
that
safety
it
will
give
her
,
and
of
that
blessing
it
will
for
you
be
instrumental
in
,
extinguish
a
Fault
,
for
which
I
extinguish
my
Life
,
and
though
I
am
your
Rival
,
yet
the
way
in
which
I
am
so
,
being
a
sufficient
punishment
for
having
been
so
.
The
poor
Gentleman
was
able
to
proceed
no
further
,
for
either
the
enlarging
his
wounds
upon
the
loss
of
Altezeera's
Picture
;
the
despair
of
repossessing
it
;
the
apprehension
of
out-living
the
discovery
of
his
Passion
;
or
the
joy
of
his
Death
being
like
to
prove
the
preservation
of
his
Princesses
Life
;
cast
him
into
a
swound
,
from
which
,
all
Pacorus's
help
,
nor
the
Chirurgeons
,
could
recall
him
any
longer
,
than
to
beg
the
Prince
not
to
fight
against
his
Conqueror
;
which
he
had
no
sooner
said
,
than
an
eternal
silence
clos'd
up
his
Lips
.
Pacorus
was
so
generous
as
to
celebrate
his
death
with
some
Tears
and
Sighs
,
excusing
his
crime
by
the
knowledge
of
what
created
it
,
which
by
experiment
he
found
,
was
of
a
quality
,
that
to
avoid
was
far
more
difficult
,
than
to
imitate
;
but
the
last
summons
of
his
dead
Rival
made
him
immediately
go
into
his
Fathers
Camp
,
where
finding
him
busy
about
his
approaches
,
and
all
the
assistants
withdrawing
themselves
out
of
respect
,
he
told
Arsaces
,
after
some
other
common
discourses
;
Would
it
had
pleas'd
the
gods
(
Sir
)
to
have
given
you
an
employment
,
more
suitable
to
your
inclination
and
quality
,
than
this
you
are
now
upon
;
for
you
only
labour
for
that
which
is
already
effected
,
and
cannot
be
more
successful
than
you
are
,
without
rendring
your self
less
worthy
of
it
;
Your
Sword
(
Sir
)
has
made
Artabazus
confess
he
is
vanquish'd
,
let
not
therefore
his
ruine
do
it
;
If
he
makes
any
resistance
,
't
is
you
give
him
that
power
,
and
by
giving
him
despair
,
you
give
him
resolution
:
you
have
conquer'd
him
already
by
force
,
do
it
again
by
humanity
,
make
a
King
your
friend
,
by
declining
making
him
your
Vassal
:
to
conquer
your self
is
a
greater
victory
than
to
conquer
one
you
have
already
conquer'd
;
and
the
Romans
hereby
will
apprehend
a
power
,
that
has
vanquish'd
both
Arsaces
,
and
Artabazus
,
together
.
I
will
not
(
said
Falintus
)
tell
you
all
Pacorus's
reasons
,
since
they
appear'd
none
to
his
Father
,
who
esteem'd
the
best
advantage
of
a
victory
,
was
,
to
win
,
and
not
to
merit
a
Kingdom
;
and
indeed
that
violent
Prince
was
so
far
from
pardoning
his
Enemies
,
that
he
almost
reckon'd
Pacorus
in
their
number
,
for
making
so
merciful
a
Proposal
.
In
the
horrors
of
this
denial
he
return'd
to
his
Tent
,
where
after
he
had
spent
an
hour
in
the
highest
disorders
that
ever
man
was
capable
of
,
on
a
suddain
his
Face
assumed
a
joy
,
which
Labienus
(
who
only
was
present
)
knew
not
unto
what
to
ascribe
it
;
but
it
sprung
from
a
cause
,
which
rais'd
Gallantry
to
a
height
,
it
never
knew
before
;
and
if
Altezeera's
constancy
could
have
been
capable
of
excuse
,
this
performance
had
been
a
sufficient
one
for
her
new
Lover
,
finding
Arsaces
unremovable
,
by
his
having
given
him
a
flat
refusal
of
what
he
even
begg'd
with
Tears
,
which
till
then
he
never
had
;
That
generous
Prince
,
the
night
before
a
general
Assault
was
to
be
given
,
the
breach
being
wide
enough
,
and
wanting
hands
to
defend
it
,
(
accompanied
only
by
Labienus
his
Confident
)
as
if
he
went
to
view
it
,
came
into
Tygranocerta
by
it
,
and
having
deliver'd
himself
up
to
the
Guards
,
desir'd
them
to
bring
him
to
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
to
whom
he
said
,
he
had
some
affairs
of
singular
importance
to
impart
;
The
Captain
which
commanded
the
Post
,
immediately
brought
him
to
the
Palace
,
where
the
Princess
(
who
then
was
with
her
Brother
at
their
Devotions
,
expecting
never
to
see
another
night
,
but
an
eternal
one
)
being
inform'd
that
a
Gentleman
of
quality
(
which
both
his
Meen
and
Cloaths
spoke
him
)
was
stol'n
from
the
Camp
,
to
give
her
an
intelligence
,
came
into
a
great
Hall
to
receive
it
,
but
as
soon
as
she
appear'd
,
the
poor
Pacorus
found
how
short
Art
had
been
of
Nature
,
and
that
if
he
had
had
cause
to
love
the
Picture
,
he
had
more
to
adore
and
admire
the
original
;
though
some
few
days
before
,
either
an
indisposition
,
or
some
other
Melancholly
,
had
cast
her
into
a
Feaver
,
which
but
then
she
had
got
out
of
;
but
there
is
a
Beauty
in
Lillies
,
as
well
as
in
Roses
,
and
that
little
paleness
did
but
better
set
off
the
blackness
of
her
Eyes
,
which
shot
so
piercing
,
and
bright
a
Flame
into
the
trembling
Parthians
heart
,
that
his
silence
,
and
disorder
gave
the
fair
Altezeera
as
great
an
astonishment
,
as
her
Beauty
had
him
.
But
his
being
somewhat
dissipated
,
he
esteem'd
the
making
an
Apology
,
for
that
fault
was
a
greater
than
he
had
committed
,
since
his
offence
was
of
a
quality
which
carried
its
justification
with
it
;
therefore
with
as
much
Grace
as
Humility
,
he
only
told
Altezeera
,
Madam
,
He
which
has
employ'd
a
part
of
his
life
against
you
,
presents
unto
you
all
of
it
,
and
will
esteem
your
Pardon
a
Cruelty
,
if
you
preserve
his
,
but
to
employ
it
perpetually
in
your
service
:
Yes
Madam
,
you
have
now
in
your
power
,
the
criminal
Pacorus
,
who
oppos'd
your
Brother's
Arms
,
but
he
neither
had
the
power
,
nor
the
desire
to
resist
yours
,
to
which
he
renders
his
mind
as
much
a
Prisoner
,
as
his
Body
:
Judge
then
(
fair
Princess
)
of
the
authority
of
my
Conqueror
,
who
extends
her
power
over
that
which
is
immaterial
,
and
has
no
existence
,
but
in
speculation
;
Punish
(
Madam
)
Arsaces's
cruelty
in
Arsaces's
Son
,
or
if
what
I
have
done
,
induces
you
to
believe
,
though
I
am
ally'd
to
him
,
yet
I
am
not
to
his
crimes
;
shew
it
,
I
beseech
you
,
by
commanding
me
to
oppose
it
at
the
breach
,
that
if
he
enter
,
it
may
be
through
me
,
and
so
necessitate
him
to
a
Victory
,
he
must
celebrate
in
Tears
,
as
well
as
Bloud
;
My
life
which
has
been
so
often
employ'd
against
you
,
cannot
expiate
that
sin
,
but
by
being
sacrific'd
for
you
;
however
,
you
have
now
wherewithal
to
make
(
or
rather
to
impose
)
your
conditions
on
Orodes
,
who
perhaps
,
had
rather
lose
Armenia
,
than
Pacorus
.
Oh
gods
!
(
continu'd
Falintus
)
is
it
possible
to
tell
you
the
fair
Altezeera's
wonder
and
surprize
,
all
the
while
the
Prince
of
Parthia
was
speaking
?
No
no
,
it
is
not
,
for
were
it
describable
,
it
would
be
less
than
it
was
,
but
left
he
might
from
some
strange
belief
of
her
perplexities
and
silence
,
she
told
him
.
Whatsoever
(
Sir
)
you
ascribe
your
coming
hither
unto
,
I
must
not
to
your
submission
,
but
to
your
power
,
which
is
more
evinc'd
by
entring
this
City
alone
than
with
an
Army
,
or
else
perhaps
,
't
is
to
increase
the
Ardor
of
yours
by
joyning
the
liberty
of
their
Prince
,
to
the
winning
of
Tygranocerta
.
Ah
Madam
(
said
Pacorus
)
I
have
so
lost
my
liberty
,
that
it
lies
as
little
in
my
Armies
Power
,
as
in
my
own
Will
to
recover
it
,
and
if
I
have
flung
my self
within
these
Walls
,
't
was
rather
to
deterr
the
Parthians
from
entring
them
,
than
to
incite
them
to
it
;
you
raign
too
absolutely
in
my
heart
,
not
to
know
this
Truth
,
and
if
you
desire
I
shall
dye
fighting
against
Arsaces
,
't
is
rather
to
satisfy
your
revenge
,
than
you
doubts
;
but
if
I
am
so
unfortunate
,
as
not
to
fall
in
your
defence
,
you
have
still
wherewith
to
act
your
revenge
;
Your
Beauty
gives
you
as
much
the
power
,
as
my
past
crimes
gives
you
the
justice
.
Since
(
said
Altezeera
)
you
will
have
me
believe
you
are
come
to
preserve
those
you
have
hitherto
endeavour'd
to
destroy
,
I
will
do
it
;
but
it
proceeds
more
from
my
obedience
,
than
my
Reason
,
though
I
must
acknowledge
,
I
have
had
so
high
a
Character
of
the
Prince
Pacorus's
Gallantry
,
that
I
should
have
thought
him
capable
of
all
,
but
this
which
he
has
now
acted
,
and
which
is
of
a
Nature
,
that
to
suspect
,
't
is
too
great
to
be
true
,
is
to
oblige
it
when
it
proves
so
.
Madam
,
(
the
Prince
reply'd
)
if
you
suspect
my
Professions
,
but
to
invite
me
to
evince
their
reallities
by
my
actions
,
you
will
as
much
oblige
me
upon
that
score
,
as
injure
me
,
if
your
doubts
proceed
from
any
other
.
Whilst
the
Princess
and
Pacorus
were
thus
discoursing
,
Labienus
was
brought
to
Artabazus
,
to
whom
he
told
his
Princes
Story
,
and
how
by
giving
him
Altezeera
,
he
had
not
only
wherewith
to
save
his
Crown
for
the
present
,
but
to
secure
it
in
the
future
.
The
King
,
at
so
unpresidented
an
accident
,
was
cast
into
admirations
,
as
great
as
his
fears
,
but
having
reflected
a
while
,
both
on
the
Virtue
of
Pacorus's
performance
,
and
on
the
advantage
of
his
Alliance
;
he
gave
Labienus
an
answer
which
gave
him
large
hopes
;
for
he
was
concerned
in
his
Princes
felicity
,
and
by
having
seen
Altezeera
,
he
found
his
Passion
was
as
commendable
,
as
great
;
but
Artabazus
esteeming
it
high
time
to
visit
his
voluntary
Prisoner
,
went
with
Labienus
to
him
,
and
found
,
his
person
was
as
handsome
as
his
action
.
There
Pacorus
,
by
reiterated
,
and
passionate
expressions
,
implor'd
a
Pardon
for
a
Crime
,
which
his
ignorance
made
him
commit
,
and
which
his
knowledge
did
sufficiently
revenge
.
'T
was
in
discourses
of
that
quality
they
spent
the
residue
of
the
night
,
and
the
day
no
sooner
appear'd
,
than
Arsaces
Army
storm'd
the
breach
,
and
thereby
gave
so
hot
an
Allarm
,
that
it
came
to
his
Sons
hearing
,
who
hastily
told
Altezeera
;
That
Life
(
Madam
)
which
has
been
employ'd
against
you
,
shall
now
serve
to
preserve
you
,
or
else
shall
be
lost
for
having
been
too-active
,
and
too-impotent
,
farwell
fair
Altezeera
,
you
shall
find
I
will
shed
my
Bloud
for
you
,
with
greater
confidence
than
I
dare
tell
you
so
.
Then
saluting
the
King
with
much
humility
,
but
his
Sister
with
much
more
,
he
put
on
his
Helmet
,
and
follow'd
by
Labienus
and
some
Armenians
,
he
ran
where
the
noise
and
danger
call'd
him
,
which
was
indeed
great
,
and
had
not
his
Courage
and
Fortune
been
so
too
,
we
had
lost
Tygranocerta
,
and
he
his
Life
;
but
though
he
perform'd
things
as
worthy
wonder
,
as
relation
,
yet
all
had
been
fruitless
,
had
he
not
by
lifting
up
his
Helmet
,
and
telling
his
Name
,
struck
such
a
reverence
and
damp
into
the
Parthians
,
that
they
made
a
general
stand
in
the
way
of
victory
,
and
suspended
their
bloody
Arms
in
the
Air
;
which
Pacorns
observing
,
though
his
wounds
were
many
,
and
dangerous
;
yet
leaning
on
his
Sword
in
the
mouth
of
the
breach
,
he
forc'd
himself
to
tell
them
;
These
wounds
,
valiant
Parthians
,
which
I
have
hitherto
receiv'd
,
carry
your
excuse
,
in
your
ignorance
,
but
those
you
hereafter
give
me
,
must
be
sins
of
design
,
and
consequently
pierce
me
deeper
,
than
your
Swords
;
neither
can
you
avoid
this
crime
,
but
by
retiring
to
your
Camp
,
for
whoever
makes
his
passage
into
Tygranocerta
,
must
do
it
thorough
his
Prince
,
who
commands
you
by
that
duty
you
owe
him
,
and
which
he
will
abundantly
reward
,
to
return
to
Arsaces
,
and
to
let
him
know
,
that
by
becoming
an
enemy
to
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
he
has
made
Pacorus
his
;
That
if
he
values
his
Sons
safety
,
he
must
demonstrate
it
by
his
care
of
hers
;
which
if
by
a
repeated
Assault
,
he
endeavours
to
endanger
,
I
will
draw
my
Army
in
for
to
maintain
it
,
and
esteem
the
crime
of
opposing
my
King
,
and
my
Father
,
a
lesser
than
his
,
which
necessitates
me
to
it
;
and
if
at
last
I
have
not
force
to
resist
his
,
I
will
not
want
it
to
end
a
Life
upon
a
breach
,
which
it
was
so
unfortunate
as
not
to
defend
.
Do
not
believe
,
(
he
continu'd
)
that
this
Declaration
is
dictated
by
heat
,
or
passion
;
no
,
it
proceeds
from
a
just
and
digested
resolution
,
and
if
either
Arsaces
,
or
you
,
do
doubt
the
contrary
,
and
that
these
wounds
do
not
sufficiently
manifest
this
Truth
,
I
will
by
so
bloudy
an
experiment
,
convince
both
him
,
and
you
of
it
,
that
perhaps
your
griefs
shall
be
as
large
as
your
doubts
.
These
words
spoke
with
grace
and
vehemency
,
and
the
great
respect
all
the
Parthians
paid
Pacorus
,
wrought
a
proportionate
effect
;
many
were
willing
to
obey
his
Commands
,
others
which
knew
his
disposition
,
apprehended
to
prosecute
a
victory
,
which
could
not
succeed
,
without
losing
more
than
they
could
win
in
it
,
and
some
who
thought
to
have
seen
their
Prince
at
the
head
of
their
Troops
,
killing
the
Armenians
,
were
so
surpiz'd
to
find
him
at
the
head
of
his
Enemies
,
killing
his
Servants
,
that
their
wonder
made
them
obedient
,
and
observing
Pacorus's
Army
had
not
storm'd
,
contrary
to
their
Orders
(
for
I
omitted
to
tell
you
,
he
had
given
them
express
commands
,
not
to
draw
out
of
their
Camp
,
whatsoever
they
heard
,
till
they
did
so
,
either
from
himself
or
Labienus
)
they
began
to
suspect
there
was
some
intricacy
in
the
business
,
which
their
prosecuting
any
further
,
might
discover
to
their
ruine
,
or
their
Prince's
;
all
these
inducements
,
and
(
as
the
gods
would
have
it
)
one
Rysolis
,
(
Pacorus's
Creature
)
commanding
these
Troops
,
were
the
causes
that
they
began
by
degrees
to
retire
,
with
several
tones
of
murmurings
,
which
sufficiently
manifested
,
their
retreat
proceeded
from
divers
apprehensions
.
But
the
Enemy
had
no
sooner
abandon'd
the
breach
,
than
the
Prince
,
by
the
loss
of
a
deluge
of
Bloud
,
swounded
in
Labienus's
Arms
,
who
by
the
assistance
of
some
Soldiers
which
had
defended
it
,
was
carry'd
to
the
Palace
,
and
lodg'd
in
a
magnificent
Appartment
,
Artabazus
had
provided
for
him
,
and
where
,
by
force
of
Cordials
he
was
restor'd
to
that
life
,
which
but
seemingly
had
left
him
.
His
sences
were
no
sooner
return'd
,
than
the
chiefest
of
them
was
entertain'd
by
the
fair
Altezeera
,
who
Artabazus
had
brought
with
him
to
acknowledge
,
and
reward
that
Gallantry
,
which
had
been
so
advantageous
to
them
both
.
After
the
King
had
made
his
retributions
,
he
withdrew
himself
to
the
other
side
of
the
Chamber
,
to
resign
his
place
to
the
Princess
,
who
Pacorus
no
sooner
saw
,
than
he
fell
into
tremblings
and
confusions
,
which
better
exprest
his
acknowledgements
,
than
his
words
could
;
but
Altezeera
esteeming
his
performances
,
merited
more
than
a
silent
visit
,
told
him
;
You
have
,
Sir
,
endanger'd
your
Life
to
preserve
your
Enemies
,
and
by
that
demonstration
of
your
Virtue
,
we
find
our
safeties
purchast
at
a
rate
,
which
makes
us
esteem
them
a
greater
misfortune
,
than
our
ruines
could
have
prov'd
.
Alas
Madam
(
said
Pacorus
)
you
more
endanger
my
life
,
by
giving
those
I
have
fought
for
that
name
,
than
those
have
done
which
I
fought
against
,
and
were
there
any
merit
in
my
duty
,
't
is
too
abundantly
rewarded
by
your
saying
there
is
,
and
by
a
visit
,
which
I
would
perpetually
implore
,
by
repeating
greater
dangers
,
and
greater
wounds
;
but
alas
Madam
,
can
you
so
soon
pardon
a
declaration
I
made
,
when
I
thought
I
should
repair
it
by
my
death
,
which
before
now
I
had
acted
,
did
not
I
find
my
life
would
at
least
contribute
as
much
to
your
safety
,
as
the
loss
of
it
could
to
your
revenge
;
but
Madam
,
I
told
you
a
Truth
,
which
was
of
a
quality
which
told
it self
,
and
my
words
did
acquaint
you
,
but
with
that
,
which
every
perfection
about
you
does
,
so
that
what
I
presum'd
to
mention
,
was
as
needless
,
as
presumptuous
.
Altezeera
,
(
who
extreamly
dis-relish'd
entertainments
of
this
sort
)
reply'd
,
if
my
expressions
(
Sir
)
have
not
acquainted
you
with
my
gratitude
,
I
believe
my
suffering
of
these
discourses
will
,
but
I
give
them
to
your
actions
,
and
condition
,
and
will
in
the
future
,
acknowledge
your
abstaining
from
them
,
as
great
a
favour
,
as
any
you
have
done
,
or
are
capable
to
do
unto
me
.
Ah
Madam
(
said
Pacorus
,
after
a
little
silence
,
and
some
sighs
)
why
do
you
inspire
me
with
so
much
passion
,
and
command
me
to
conceal
it
,
and
why
do
you
take
from
me
the
power
of
obedience
,
and
yet
enjoyn
me
it
;
would
to
the
gods
you
had
commanded
me
to
suppress
my
Life
,
instead
of
my
Words
,
you
should
have
seen
by
an
instant
experiment
,
that
I
prefer
nothing
before
the
honor
of
obeying
you
,
and
in
that
performance
be
convinc'd
,
if
I
am
disobedient
to
your
first
Commands
,
't
is
because
I
am
uncapable
,
and
not
unwilling
to
be
otherwise
:
Yes
fair
Princess
,
't
is
as
impossible
for
me
not
to
tell
you
that
I
adore
you
,
as
't
is
not
to
do
it
,
my
Passion
would
be
less
,
could
my
obedience
be
greater
,
I
can
therefore
hardly
condemn
a
fault
which
justifies
so
glorious
a
Truth
;
but
if
the
fair
Altezeera
does
,
that
Arm
which
has
oppos'd
her
Enemies
,
shall
execute
one
of
them
,
and
forget
the
interests
of
his
Master
,
to
satisfy
those
of
his
Conqueror
.
I
render
(
Madam
)
my
intentions
as
visible
as
my
Flame
,
that
you
may
either
permit
the
latter
,
or
punish
the
former
;
were
you
a
Beauty
which
needed
time
to
evince
the
reality
of
my
Passion
,
or
which
perseverance
and
services
might
give
me
a
Title
to
,
I
should
use
that
dull
method
;
but
since
your
perfections
do
not
only
manifest
the
former
,
but
suppress
all
hopes
of
the
latter
,
I
have
the
first
minute
of
adoring
you
,
as
great
a
Title
to
my
Felicity
,
as
I
can
have
the
last
,
so
that
the
object
of
my
Flame
being
different
from
all
others
,
the
ways
of
my
addresses
must
be
so
too
;
and
the
refusing
me
that
blessing
now
,
is
to
assure
me
you
will
eternally
do
it
,
since
there
can
never
be
any
thing
in
me
to
induce
it
;
therefore
Madam
,
resolutely
pronounce
my
sentence
,
for
next
living
in
your
Favour
,
the
greatest
felicity
is
,
dying
by
your
Commands
,
which
latter
I
protest
,
by
the
Princess
Altezeera
I
will
perform
;
but
yet
,
Madam
,
do
not
think
I
will
,
to
pay
you
one
duty
,
decline
another
,
and
deprive
you
of
my
service
,
whilst
it
is
so
blest
as
to
be
useful
to
you
;
No
,
before
he
which
adores
you
shall
fall
your
sacrifice
,
he
will
make
many
others
do
so
,
which
fight
against
you
,
and
will
never
neglect
his
own
quiet
,
till
he
has
establish'd
you
in
yours
;
for
your
suppressing
my
hopes
,
shall
not
my
duty
,
and
to
serve
you
for
any
reward
but
the
Honor
of
serving
you
,
were
to
deserve
none
.
Altezeera
was
extreamly
perplex'd
at
this
vow
,
and
judging
of
his
resolution
by
the
violence
in
which
he
utter'd
it
,
she
reply'd
;
Your
wilfulness
(
Sir
)
reduces
me
to
strange
extremities
,
either
to
suffer
your
crime
,
or
to
suffer
by
it
;
but
believe
me
,
if
I
should
elect
the
first
,
I
must
unavoidably
the
last
.
Ah
Madam
(
Pacorus
cry'd
out
)
had
the
gods
any
way
but
this
to
make
me
miserable
,
whilst
you
permitted
me
to
adore
you
?
No
fair
Altezeera
:
I
will
dye
sooner
than
live
at
this
rate
,
and
did
not
my
duty
enjoyn
me
this
election
,
my
gratitude
would
;
I
will
,
Madam
no
more
hope
to
raise
my
felicity
,
since
it
must
be
by
your
sufferings
,
I
will
languish
out
this
sad
Life
,
till
it
may
be
no
longer
useful
to
you
,
and
when
it
cannot
serve
,
it
shall
not
trouble
you
.
Pacorus
spoke
those
words
so
distinctly
,
that
Artabazus
ran
to
his
Bed-side
to
learn
their
cause
;
but
the
Prince
had
too-fetl'd
thoughts
of
Death
,
to
disclose
any
thing
which
might
prevent
it
,
and
Altezeera
was
too
much
offended
and
troubl'd
,
to
discover
the
occasion
of
either
;
but
though
the
King
could
not
learn
the
reason
of
this
disorder
,
yet
he
imagin'd
it
,
and
in
that
Faith
drew
the
Princess
aside
,
where
whilst
he
was
infusing
Gratitude
,
if
not
Love
,
into
her
,
some
of
Pacorus's
Domesticks
came
in
,
who
having
understood
their
Prince's
condition
,
had
abandon'd
the
Camp
,
to
come
and
pay
him
their
Duties
.
'T
was
by
them
he
was
inform'd
(
at
the
Parthians
return
to
Arsaces's
Camp
,
and
at
their
telling
him
the
cause
of
their
not
taking
Tygranocerta
)
that
Orodes
had
assum'd
the
highest
fury
that
ever
Man
was
capable
of
:
that
he
had
call'd
him
Rebel
,
Traytor
,
and
all
those
injuries
which
a
violent
rage
is
aptest
to
dictate
:
that
he
had
protested
he
was
more
troubled
for
his
Sons
crime
,
than
for
that
victory
it
hinder'd
:
that
he
hated
him
as
much
as
he
had
lov'd
him
:
that
he
would
have
sacrific'd
all
those
which
would
have
obey'd
Pacorus
,
had
not
they
vow'd
to
sacrifice
themselves
,
or
redeem
him
from
his
voluntary
restraint
:
and
that
the
next
night
they
intended
to
repeat
the
Assault
.
This
news
more
perplex'd
Artabazus
,
than
either
Altezeera
or
Pacorus
,
who
knowing
his
Father
,
was
unresistable
in
his
fury
,
immediately
told
Artabazus
;
I
know
(
Sir
)
Arsaces
will
make
use
of
Force
,
and
therefore
I
will
;
he
has
an
Army
to
assault
you
,
and
I
shall
not
want
one
to
defend
you
;
neither
can
that
Army
which
has
reduc'd
you
to
this
condition
,
better
repair
that
sin
,
than
to
free
you
from
it
;
't
is
therefore
with
your
permission
I
will
send
Labienus
to
my
Camp
,
that
if
Orodes
does
attempt
his
threatnings
,
I
may
have
wherewithal
to
make
them
still
bear
but
that
name
;
My
Army
(
Sir
)
cannot
be
more
gloriously
employ'd
,
than
to
preserve
a
pefection
as
high
as
the
sin
that
would
destroy
it
,
and
from
hindring
their
King
from
being
unjust
,
and
barbarous
;
for
the
Faith
of
those
I
shall
draw
into
Tygranocerta
,
I
will
mine
;
and
that
they
shall
continue
within
these
Walls
,
but
to
obey
you
,
and
to
defend
them
.
I
cannot
tell
you
what
operation
this
gallantry
had
with
Artabazus
,
who
only
exprest
it
by
a
thousand
embraces
;
but
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
was
so
mov'd
with
it
,
that
before
she
left
the
Chamber
,
she
told
Pacorus
,
If
you
do
not
believe
your
Life
is
considerable
to
me
,
you
do
me
as
great
an
injury
,
as
an
obligation
if
you
preserve
it
.
Madam
(
said
the
Prince
(
taking
the
confidence
to
kiss
her
hand
,
on
which
he
Printed
his
burning
Lips
)
I
will
preserve
my
Life
,
till
I
know
my
death
will
be
a
greater
duty
;
Whilst
Labienus
was
preparing
things
in
his
Princes
Camp
,
which
lay
on
the
West
side
of
the
River
Nicephorus
,
Arsaces
was
the
next
night
preparing
to
assault
Tygranocerta
,
yet
with
intention
,
that
so
much
of
it
should
be
spent
,
as
the
light
of
day
might
see
his
Vicotry
;
He
chose
to
begin
the
Assault
during
the
obscurity
,
to
avoid
the
Enemies
Darts
,
and
Arrows
,
before
they
came
to
the
breach
,
and
left
the
sight
of
Pacorus
might
produce
a
resembling
effect
to
the
precedent
.
At
the
hour
assign'd
,
the
Arsacian
Parthians
began
the
storm
,
and
no
sooner
did
the
Allarm
reach
Labienus
,
than
he
entred
Tygranocerta
with
10000
of
the
same
Nation
,
but
of
a
different
Party
.
The
Affailants
admir'd
to
find
the
breach
so
well
defended
,
and
the
Defendants
that
they
durst
assault
it
,
but
the
day
no
sooner
appear'd
,
than
the
Stormers
wonder
ceas'd
by
another
,
and
by
their
griefs
;
the
first
,
to
find
that
those
which
should
have
contributed
to
their
victory
,
oppos'd
it
,
and
the
last
,
to
find
,
theirs
must
be
won
of
their
Countrey-men
,
to
be
won
of
their
Enemies
,
these
,
and
many
other
motives
,
too
large
to
be
deduced
,
by
a
motion
of
Labienus's
,
and
by
the
hazard
and
crime
of
the
attempt
,
made
the
Arsacians
condescend
to
return
from
the
Assault
of
Tygranocerta
,
so
the
Pacorians
would
from
the
defence
of
it
;
which
compact
being
concluded
,
was
immediately
perform'd
;
for
Pacorus
,
(
to
suppress
whatever
jealousies
Artabazus
might
have
)
commanded
Labienus
to
retire
to
his
Camp
,
and
not
move
from
thence
,
but
upon
a
resembling
cause
to
that
which
had
drawn
him
from
it
;
and
truly
that
generous
Prince
seem'd
to
be
griev'd
at
nothing
in
his
Soldiers
success
,
but
his
having
had
no
share
in
it
.
During
this
fight
about
the
Town
,
there
was
another
in
the
Camp
,
for
Arsaces
understanding
of
what
Labienus
had
done
by
his
Princes
Commands
,
march'd
out
of
his
own
Camp
with
20000
Men
,
to
his
Sons
(
over
the
Bridge
of
Boats
which
Labienus
unfortunately
had
not
broken
)
to
keep
those
in
awe
by
his
Forces
,
which
his
Presence
and
Authority
could
not
;
but
Pacorus
was
so
passionately
lov'd
by
his
Army
,
that
though
Arsaces
reign'd
over
,
yet
he
did
in
them
,
so
that
they
all
oppos'd
the
Arsacians
,
as
if
they
had
been
Armenians
;
and
if
the
gods
had
not
protected
Orodes's
person
,
he
cast
himself
into
so
many
dangers
,
that
that
obedience
his
Sons
Army
paid
him
by
Affection
,
they
must
have
by
Duty
.
But
though
the
King
had
assum'd
an
inordinate
rage
,
yet
he
had
not
so
absolutely
resign'd
all
his
Faculties
to
it
,
but
upon
the
approach
of
Labienus
,
and
his
Forces
,
who
were
then
returning
to
their
Camp
;
Arsaces
,
who
believ'd
they
came
victorious
from
the
Assault
,
and
would
prove
so
in
the
relief
of
their
Companions
,
sounded
a
Retreat
,
and
having
drawn
up
his
Army
near
the
Bridge
,
and
secur'd
it
,
sent
a
Trumpet
to
command
Labienus
to
come
to
him
,
and
an
engagement
for
his
safe
return
;
Labienus
satisfy'd
with
the
latter
,
obeys
the
former
,
and
in
words
(
the
most
moving
he
could
invent
)
implor'd
him
to
pardon
and
settle
a
Passion
,
whose
greatness
he
might
judge
by
the
effects
,
and
whose
justice
he
could
not
but
be
satisfy'd
with
,
when
he
saw
the
Beauty
which
created
it
;
that
he
could
not
destroy
his
Sons
Love
without
his
Life
,
that
therefore
his
Revenge
on
his
Enemies
,
would
prove
theirs
on
him
,
and
that
by
a
Marriage
he
might
save
Pacorus
,
and
possess
Armenia
(
for
then
the
news
was
brought
of
Tygranes's
death
)
But
Arsaces
,
who
sent
for
him
only
to
know
the
cause
of
his
retreat
to
the
Camp
,
and
to
command
his
continuance
in
it
,
having
learnt
that
't
was
by
a
mutual
agreement
,
and
not
by
a
repulse
,
that
the
Arsacians
were
return'd
,
more
troubl'd
at
the
first
cause
of
it
,
than
he
could
be
at
the
last
,
proclaims
immediately
Labienus
(
and
all
those
which
should
assist
Pacorus
)
Traytors
;
but
finding
by
what
they
had
done
,
what
they
might
do
,
he
left
Phraates
,
Surena
,
and
Vixores
,
with
all
those
Forces
he
had
brought
with
him
,
to
hinder
Labienus
relieving
Pacorus
,
in
case
he
should
attempt
it
,
and
flying
to
his
own
Camp
,
he
drew
all
his
Soldiers
out
of
it
,
and
by
few
but
sharp
words
,
condemn'd
their
remissness
,
and
call'd
that
their
Fears
,
which
they
palliated
with
the
name
of
a
tenderness
of
shedding
their
Companions
bloud
:
that
if
this
opinion
was
misplac'd
on
them
,
they
had
an
opportunity
now
to
evince
it
,
since
he
had
brought
Labienus
to
obey
him
by
duty
or
by
force
,
and
they
had
now
ouly
to
oppose
those
Armenians
,
who
could
no
longer
continue
their
preservation
,
without
as
high
a
dishonour
to
the
Parthians
,
as
advantage
to
themselves
;
in
brief
,
he
so
fully
remov'd
all
their
scruples
,
and
so
incited
their
Valours
,
by
injuries
,
and
promises
of
Reward
,
that
the
Solidiers
by
a
precipitate
march
,
went
to
repeat
the
Assault
.
Oh
gods
!
what
a
confusion
did
this
Alarm
raise
in
the
Armenians
,
who
found
their
expected
ruine
the
more
bitter
,
by
their
late
confidence
of
having
absolutely
avoided
it
;
but
this
sad
news
no
sooner
came
to
Artabazus's
knowledge
,
than
he
ran
transported
to
Pacorus's
Chamber
to
acquaint
him
with
it
;
The
generous
Parthian
at
this
fatal
intelligence
,
did
Labienus
and
himself
so
much
wrong
,
as
to
suspect
his
Fidelity
,
but
learning
that
the
Camp
was
in
as
great
disorder
as
the
Town
,
*
he
condemn'd
himself
for
having
condemn'd
his
Favourite
,
and
finding
all
things
desperate
,
inspight
of
Artabazus
and
his
Chirurgion's
intreaties
,
he
hastily
put
on
his
Cloaths
,
and
commanded
some
of
his
Domesticks
to
carry
him
in
a
Chair
to
the
breach
,
whither
as
he
was
going
,
he
met
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
at
whose
Feet
(
causing
his
Men
to
stay
)
he
prostrated
himself
all
pale
,
and
bloudy
,
(
for
by
the
violence
of
his
fury
and
motion
,
some
of
his
wounds
fell
fresh
a
bleeding
)
and
having
a
while
embrac'd
her
Knees
,
he
told
her
,
Can
you
yet
(
Madam
)
have
so
much
goodness
left
,
for
one
whose
Father
endeavours
your
destruction
,
as
to
permit
him
to
speak
to
,
and
see
you
?
this
is
an
undeniable
proof
you
know
,
and
possess
my
heart
,
for
if
that
were
not
legible
,
you
might
justly
make
me
a
sacrifice
to
your
revenge
,
and
not
permit
me
the
honor
of
dying
one
for
your
safety
.
I
go
(
fair
Princess
)
to
fall
for
your
preservation
,
if
I
cannot
obtain
it
;
and
you
shall
never
see
this
offender
again
,
unless
by
his
services
he
effaces
some
of
his
offences
,
if
Arsaces
do
deprive
me
of
that
generous
Ambition
,
I
will
deprive
him
of
his
Son
,
and
if
I
now
find
my
Fate
,
all
that
I
implore
,
is
,
that
the
way
in
which
I
receive
it
,
may
expiate
the
sin
of
the
Fathers
cruelty
,
and
the
presumption
of
the
Sons
Passion
.
These
words
,
with
the
postures
he
was
in
,
so
pierc'd
the
Princess's
Heart
,
which
was
capable
of
all
impressions
,
so
neer
ally'd
to
Virtue
,
as
Pity
,
that
she
demonstrated
hers
,
by
some
Tears
she
could
not
possibly
restrain
,
which
Pacorus
observing
,
he
continu'd
;
you
weep
,
fair
Princess
,
I
will
go
and
dry
your
Tears
,
by
making
those
which
cause
them
,
to
weep
Tears
of
Bloud
,
or
not
live
to
see
and
participate
in
your
sorrow
.
Then
with
a
trembling
respect
,
taking
the
Princesses
hand
,
which
her
confusion
made
her
not
oppose
,
he
printed
on
it
such
passionate
and
ardent
kisses
,
that
those
which
saw
them
,
thought
his
Soul
would
sooner
come
out
of
his
Mouth
,
than
his
Wounds
;
in
this
extasie
he
had
longer
continu'd
,
had
not
a
great
cry
awaken'd
him
out
of
it
,
and
call'd
him
from
pleasure
to
danger
,
whither
he
went
with
Tears
,
not
for
the
latter
,
but
for
abandoning
,
as
he
thought
,
eternally
theformer
.
As
soon
as
he
came
to
the
breach
(
which
by
the
industry
of
some
Defendants
,
had
been
a
little
repair'd
)
he
caus'd
himself
to
be
set
in
the
mouth
of
it
,
where
danger
,
as
great
as
his
resolution
,
threatned
him
,
and
where
he
found
that
shout
he
had
heard
,
proceeded
from
the
Armenians
,
at
the
arrival
of
Phanasder
,
who
hearing
the
danger
Tygranocerta
was
it
,
caus'd
himself
to
be
carried
where
't
was
most
visible
,
esteeming
it
a
nobler
destiny
,
to
dye
in
the
Bed
of
Honor
,
than
in
that
of
sickness
;
I
follow'd
him
immediately
with
the
same
resolution
,
and
in
a
resembling
posture
,
and
came
time
enough
to
see
Pacorus
with
his
Sword
,
threaten
the
Conquerors
,
who
no
sooner
saw
their
Prince
in
so
sad
and
generous
a
posture
,
than
by
degrees
those
clouds
of
Darts
and
Arrows
began
to
diminish
,
and
at
length
ceas'd
;
as
soon
as
the
noise
was
so
,
Pacorus
with
eloquence
than
I
thought
a
man
in
his
disorder
was
capable
of
,
so
mov'd
the
Parthians
Hearts
,
and
Affections
,
that
in
the
end
,
concluding
with
a
reiterated
,
and
deep
vow
,
when
he
could
no
longer
defend
the
breach
,
he
would
kill
himself
in
it
,
and
that
he
was
confident
if
they
would
retire
,
either
to
restore
his
Father
to
his
former
affection
in
few
days
,
or
himself
to
his
Duty
,
they
began
by
little
and
little
to
draw
off
,
which
when
they
were
entirely
,
Pacorus
told
Phanasder
and
me
,
that
he
never
had
a
higher
Duty
,
than
that
which
he
paid
Altezeera
,
and
that
he
only
mention'd
that
word
,
to
reduce
the
Parthians
to
theirs
,
and
to
protract
the
time
,
till
he
could
draw
in
Labienus
,
and
some
Forces
.
Whilst
we
were
in
the
admiration
of
this
generous
Prince
,
and
upon
our
return
the
Centinels
upon
the
highest
Towers
,
gave
us
a
fresh
Allarm
,
which
we
found
was
no
false
one
,
for
we
immediately
perceiv'd
the
Parthian
Ensignes
flying
towards
us
,
and
the
foremost
of
them
carry'd
by
one
,
who
Pacorus
at
last
knew
to
be
Arsaces
,
who
seeing
his
Soldiers
retreat
,
and
learning
the
occasion
of
it
,
in
that
fury
both
inspir'd
,
he
ran
to
the
Ensign
of
the
first
Milliary
,
and
having
forc'd
it
from
him
,
he
cryed
out
to
the
rest
,
I
told
you
,
degenerate
Parthians
,
't
was
your
fear
,
you
disguis'd
under
a
false
Name
,
for
now
that
you
fought
for
Glory
,
and
against
your
Enemies
,
you
resign
your
first
to
the
last
,
in
which
number
I
include
the
false
Pacorus
,
who
is
a
Traitor
to
his
King
,
and
to
his
Father
,
and
whose
sight
should
rather
inspire
you
with
revenge
,
that
respect
;
you
fight
not
against
your
Prince
,
but
his
crimes
,
which
being
great
enough
to
make
me
divest
my self
of
all
the
dictates
of
Nature
,
may
well
invite
you
to
cast
off
those
of
respect
;
neither
can
you
avoid
punishing
his
sin
,
but
by
committing
a
greater
;
remember
,
from
your
Prince
he
is
become
your
Enemy
,
and
that
in
taking
Tygranocerta
,
you
subdue
a
Kingdom
,
and
a
Rebel
,
who
is
much
more
considerable
;
neither
will
I
command
you
to
act
what
I
will
decline
,
do
but
follow
your
King
,
destroy
you
the
Armenians
,
and
I
will
Pacor●s
.
Let
us
go
then
,
valiant
Parthians
,
by
your
performances
merit
that
Title
,
which
the
more
to
induce
you
to
,
I
vow
by
the
gods
,
I
will
find
in
this
assault
,
my
satisfaction
or
my
death
.
Finishing
these
words
,
he
marcht
at
the
head
of
his
Troops
,
and
through
a
storm
of
Arrows
,
which
were
shot
,
before
Pacorus
knew
his
Father
,
he
came
to
the
foot
of
the
breach
,
somefollow'd
him
out
of
Duty
,
some
out
of
Fear
,
but
the
most
(
as
I
have
been
since
told
)
to
oppose
,
and
divert
him
,
if
affairs
were
reduc'd
to
exreams
;
but
the
generous
Pacorus
no
sooner
knew
Orodes
,
than
he
commanded
the
Armenians
,
to
forbear
all
hostility
for
a
little
,
and
that
good
conclusion
of
this
difference
,
or
his
death
,
should
render
his
Orders
useless
,
or
dispence
with
their
infringement
of
them
;
this
being
obey'd
,
he
raises
himself
up
,
and
leaning
on
his
Sword
,
he
cry'd
out
,
Arsaces
,
cruel
Arsaces
,
here
is
that
Son
,
which
thou
prosecutest
more
than
Armenia
;
retire
thy
Forces
out
of
the
latter
,
and
I
will
deliver
thee
up
the
former
,
and
if
thy
fury
has
not
so
entirely
divested
thee
of
Nature
,
as
to
become
the
executionr
of
thy
Son
,
he
will
in
recompence
become
his
own
,
and
thereby
evince
himself
thine
,
since
nothing
but
so
near
an
alliance
could
induce
him
by
death
,
to
exempt
thee
from
what
,
if
acted
,
will
make
thee
deserve
it
.
There
is
Divinity
Arsaces
,
within
these
Walls
,
and
if
thou
esteem'st
my
saying
so
,
no
Truth
,
thou
wilt
change
thy
opinion
,
if
thou
reflectest
on
what
her
defence
has
made
me
undertake
,
and
what
reverence
thy
Soldiers
have
paid
her
Defender
,
or
if
both
these
will
not
invite
thee
to
that
belief
,
the
seeing
of
her
will
;
but
if
nothing
can
move
thee
to
reason
or
pitty
,
I
attest
that
perfection
I
adore
,
and
which
thou
committest
a
sin
if
thou
dost
not
,
that
the
first
step
thou
mak'st
towards
her
destruction
,
I
will
act
mine
,
and
perhaps
,
when
thy
choller
has
resign'd
what
it
has
usurp'd
over
thy
reason
,
thou
wilt
find
some
,
in
deploring
a
Son
,
who
thou
didst
once
honor
with
thy
affection
,
and
who
has
lost
it
in
a
performance
,
which
hereafter
(
but
when
't
is
too
late
)
thou
wilt
confess
has
given
him
a
better
Title
to
it
.
Whilst
Pacorus
was
thus
speaking
,
all
the
Parthians
,
(
as
their
King
)
did
make
a
stand
,
and
in
imitation
of
the
Armenians
,
had
desisted
from
shooting
,
with
Looks
,
in
which
a
small
Phisiognomist
might
have
read
their
Hopes
of
not
doing
it
again
,
and
in
a
silent
eloquence
,
seem'd
to
implore
that
Command
from
Arsaces
,
whose
answer
they
expected
,
and
heard
with
impatience
,
for
it
was
thus
;
Traitor
,
and
degenerate
Pacorus
,
who
to
aggravate
thy
crimes
,
canst
mention
the
name
of
Son
,
and
yet
be
in
Arms
and
Rebellion
against
me
;
know
,
that
the
same
moment
thou
hast
cast
off
the
duty
of
a
Son
,
I
have
divested
my self
of
the
relation
of
a
Father
,
and
consequently
that
death
thou
threatnest
me
with
,
loses
that
operation
with
me
,
which
thou
act
it
,
I
shall
in
part
excuse
the
sins
of
thy
Life
,
and
consider
it
rather
as
an
effect
of
the
greatness
of
their
horror
,
than
of
thy
affection
!
Neither
can
I
commit
any
higher
crime
than
to
pardon
thine
,
for
thou
hast
robb'd
me
in
one
action
,
of
a
Son
,
of
Glory
,
and
of
Quiet
,
which
two
last
I
must
,
and
will
restore
,
by
the
destruction
of
the
first
;
for
that
Divinity
thou
mention'st
.
I
am
confident
she
is
none
,
were
it
only
for
inviting
thee
to
sin
;
but
if
she
be
one
,
let
her
shew
it
in
her
defence
,
for
I
am
determin'd
on
so
vigorous
an
Assault
,
that
nothing
but
a
Divinity
can
render
it
unsuccessful
;
Then
turning
to
the
Parthians
with
a
furious
look
,
he
commanded
them
to
follow
him
,
and
began
in
a
hasty
march
to
ascend
the
breach
,
but
he
was
stopt
by
Pacorus
,
who
cry'd
out
,
Stay
Arsaces
,
stay
,
since
thou
art
so
greedy
of
my
death
,
behold
I
will
act
it
,
and
it
the
taking
out
of
the
World
him
that
robb'd
thee
of
a
Son
,
of
Glory
,
and
of
Quiet
;
and
if
he
that
restores
thee
to
the
latter
two
,
can
merit
any
favour
from
thee
;
I
conjure
thee
by
those
obligations
which
I
will
immediately
confer
on
thee
,
content
thy self
with
the
submission
,
and
seek
not
the
ruine
of
Artabazus
,
or
if
thy
rage
has
stopt
all
ways
to
mercy
for
him
,
yet
a
least
,
let
his
excellent
Sister
be
respected
,
as
near
as
you
can
extend
your
duties
to
her
merit
;
I
conjure
thee
once
again
by
the
name
of
Father
,
by
the
name
of
King
,
by
this
bloud
,
I
shed
for
thy
satisfaction
,
and
by
my
last
breath
,
grant
me
this
request
.
Then
with
a
Look
,
which
entirely
relish'd
of
Death
,
turning
the
Pommel
of
his
Sword
to
the
ground
,
and
the
Point
to
his
Breast
,
he
said
,
farewell
eternally
,
fair
Princess
,
I
am
capable
of
no
more
but
to
live
your
Adorer
,
and
to
dye
your
Martyr
,
and
then
cast
himself
so
suddainly
on
the
fatal
Steel
,
that
though
some
endeavour'd
to
prevent
it
,
yet
they
could
not
so
absolutely
,
but
that
he
made
a
large
wound
in
his
left
side
,
and
fell
on
the
ground
,
sweltering
in
a
Sea
of
Bloud
;
which
the
Parthians
no
sooner
observ'd
at
the
foot
of
the
breach
,
than
in
that
rage
,
the
loss
of
their
Prince
inspir'd
,
they
were
going
to
increase
it
by
that
of
their
King
,
who
was
so
struck
with
Pacorus's
last
words
,
and
actions
,
that
it
dispell'd
all
his
fury
,
which
had
no
sooner
resign'd
its
place
to
Grief
,
Reason
,
and
Nature
,
than
in
those
dictates
they
inspir'd
,
without
considering
the
mutiny
of
his
own
Soldiers
,
or
the
danger
of
the
Armenian
,
he
clamber'd
up
the
breach
,
and
cast
himself
on
the
pale
,
and
bloudy
Body
of
his
generous
Son
,
and
by
Tears
,
and
a
million
of
as
pregnant
testimonies
of
his
conversion
,
acquainted
Pacorus
with
it
,
so
timely
too
,
that
the
least
delay
had
render'd
his
change
as
fruitless
,
as
`twas
real
;
for
Pacorus
finding
,
after
the
amazement
of
his
Fall
,
that
he
was
prevented
of
his
intent
,
drew
out
a
conceal'd
Ponyard
,
which
he
was
going
to
sheath
in
his
Heart
,
had
not
Orodes
by
molifying
his
own
,
preserv'd
his
Sons
.
Great
gods
!
(
continu'd
Falintus
)
could
I
tell
you
these
changes
which
then
happen'd
,
which
were
as
great
as
suddain
,
I
might
fill
you
with
that
wonder
which
did
all
that
were
present
,
and
truly
when
you
consider
this
mutation
,
the
more
you
do
it
,
the
stranger
you
will
find
it
;
the
Father
and
the
Son
came
to
take
Tygranocerta
,
the
first
instead
of
winning
the
Town
,
looses
both
it
and
his
Son
;
and
the
last
,
both
his
Father
and
his
liberty
,
and
yet
commands
where
he
has
lost
it
.
Artabazus
and
Altezeera
find
their
Protector
in
their
Enemy
;
Arsaces
loses
his
Army
,
because
he
will
lose
his
Son
,
ye
at
last
finds
his
satisfaction
in
their
disobedience
;
Pacorus
does
the
like
,
and
learns
this
truth
from
thence
,
that
Affection
is
a
stronger
tye
upon
Soldiers
,
than
Duty
,
and
the
unhappiness
that
all
the
Parthians
lov'd
another
,
better
than
their
King
;
he
finds
Death
the
way
to
Life
,
and
Danger
to
Safety
.
Th'
Armenians
who
did
fear
to
see
Orides
within
their
Walls
,
see
it
now
without
any
,
and
that
breach
they
intended
,
he
should
never
enter
but
by
their
deaths
,
they
see
him
do
it
with
satisfaction
.
Arsaces
,
who
had
the
Armenians
at
his
mercy
,
finds
himself
at
theirs
,
and
finds
himself
so
without
any
apprehension
,
but
for
the
death
of
him
whose
life
was
so
lately
his
greatest
.
The
breach
which
was
the
Scene
of
the
general
dispute
,
is
now
of
the
reconciliation
;
and
if
the
Armenians
and
Parthians
had
any
desires
,
they
were
mutual
for
Pacorus's
recovery
,
and
against
Arsaces's
relapse
.
So
strange
an
alteration
drew
Artabazus
and
Altezeera
thither
,
whose
presence
contributed
more
to
the
generous
Patients
recovery
,
than
the
Chirurgions
A●t
,
by
which
,
nevertheless
they
assur'd
the
impatient
Kings
,
if
no
new
acce●s
happen'd
,
they
would
restore
him
to
that
health
,
he
had
so
meritoriously
lost
.
There
't
was
that
Arsaces
saw
Altezeera
,
and
by
that
sight
,
what
Nature
had
pardon'd
in
his
Son
,
then
reason
did
;
'T
was
thought
awhile
by
Orodes's
silence
,
and
first
contemplation
,
that
the
influence
of
the
Princesses
Eyes
,
would
have
run
in
a
Bloud
,
but
it
seems
he
was
but
so
far
in
the
way
of
Love
as
Admiration
,
which
he
soon
left
,
by
the
reflection
on
a
Beauty
in
Parthia
,
who
had
so
large
an
ascendant
over
him
,
and
so
just
a
one
too
,
that
his
inconstancy
could
not
be
more
a
fault
,
than
a
punishment
.
(
These
words
made
the
poor
Artabanes
,
by
a
deep
sigh
,
acknowledge
a
truth
which
he
determin'd
eternally
to
deplore
;
but
his
generous
friend
,
to
make
his
attention
divert
his
melancholly
,
thus
continu'd
his
Relation
.
)
But
the
calm
in
Tygranocerta
could
hardly
transcend
the
storm
in
Pacorus's
Camp
,
which
Phraates
affaulted
with
much
resolution
,
and
found
as
much
in
his
opposition
,
but
if
in
that
day
he
gave
proofs
of
a
large
courage
,
he
did
of
as
large
a
cruelty
,
shewing
all
those
which
submitted
to
his
mercy
,
that
he
had
none
.
The
faithful
Labienus
endeavouring
to
force
a
passage
to
the
relief
of
his
Prince
,
almost
found
his
ruine
in
his
Duty
,
for
being
pierc'd
with
two
Darts
,
he
was
at
length
taken
prisoner
,
and
the
cruel
Phraates
to
punish
the
fidelity
of
his
Life
,
had
given
Orders
to
deprive
him
of
it
,
which
was
happily
prevented
by
an
Express
from
Arsaces
,
who
sent
to
end
those
differences
in
the
Camp
,
which
he
had
put
a
period
to
in
the
Town
;
that
being
but
a
consequence
of
this
.
The
bloudy
Phraates
receiv'd
the
command
of
his
being
so
no
longer
,
and
the
cause
of
it
,
with
amazement
,
repenting
he
had
shed
so
much
Bloud
,
only
because
he
could
shed
no
more
,
for
he
esteem'd
the
difference
between
his
Father
and
his
Brother
,
irreconcileable
;
and
by
his
actions
evinc'd
that
was
his
Faith
,
which
when
he
found
't
was
an
erroneous
one
,
he
began
by
a
thousand
formal
contritions
,
to
manifest
a
Repentance
,
which
he
neither
had
,
nor
was
capable
of
,
and
which
he
counterfeited
so
,
that
he
discover'd
he
did
so
.
But
(
continu'd
Falintus
)
the
apprehensions
I
had
,
that
Arsaces
was
guilty
of
a
resembling
Crime
,
made
me
propound
to
Arbazus
,
the
detaining
of
him
,
now
we
had
the
power
,
which
I
said
,
the
gods
gave
us
,
to
raise
in
us
the
Will
;
This
proposal
I
fortify'd
,
by
never
having
engag'd
our
Faiths
for
the
contrary
;
that
his
change
was
rather
from
Passion
than
Virtue
;
That
not
being
the
latter
,
it
would
soon
expire
;
that
by
having
him
in
our
hands
,
we
had
our
safeties
too
,
and
so
good
a
tye
upon
the
Parthians
,
that
we
might
derive
it
from
our selves
,
and
not
from
their
Mercy
,
And
,
that
we
had
wherewithal
upon
their
retiring
to
gratify
the
Son
,
by
restoring
the
Father
.
I
had
too
(
said
Falintus
)
to
my self
,
as
strong
a
reason
as
all
these
together
which
yet
I
durst
not
mention
(
I
mean
)
the
apprehension
that
if
Orodes
were
at
liberty
,
the
Princess
Altezeera
would
be
the
condition
of
the
peace
,
which
being
inform'd
my
King
was
intent
upon
,
though
that
should
the
rather
have
induc'd
me
to
motion
it
,
yet
it
did
to
silence
it
,
since
it
might
have
render'd
me
suspected
,
and
that
my
former
allegations
were
for
you
,
not
him
.
But
Artabazus
absolutely
declin'd
this
overture
,
either
through
Fear
or
Virtue
,
but
indeed
all
his
Arguments
for
his
so
doing
,
relish'd
of
the
latter
:
But
(
continu'd
Falintus
)
why
do
I
dwell
so
long
upon
this
subject
,
as
if
it
were
to
one
who
were
little
enough
concern'd
in
it
,
to
be
delighted
with
it
;
'T
is
too
much
that
you
know
,
after
Arsaces
and
Pacorus
had
had
some
private
discourse
accompany'd
with
passionate
gestures
,
and
that
the
Father
had
kist
and
embrac'd
the
Son
,
he
took
leave
of
Artabazus
and
Altezeera
,
in
words
which
resented
of
nothing
but
Friendship
and
Peace
,
and
begg'd
the
last
to
give
him
good
account
of
a
Son
,
which
he
entirely
left
to
her
dispose
,
and
from
whom
only
they
both
expected
his
recovery
.
After
these
civilities
were
finish'd
,
he
descended
the
same
way
he
came
up
,
and
was
receiv'd
with
more
shouts
from
his
Army
(
which
attended
him
at
the
foot
of
the
breach
)
for
leaving
Tygranocerta
,
than
he
could
have
had
,
if
he
had
conquer'd
it
.
Pacorus
immediately
after
this
separation
,
was
commanded
by
Altezeera
to
preserve
a
Life
which
she
now
acknowledg'd
,
she
was
more
than
ordinarily
concern'd
in
;
To
which
injunction
,
having
made
his
passionate
and
eloquent
retributions
,
he
was
carry'd
to
his
Apartment
,
Artabazus
doing
him
the
honor
to
go
on
foot
by
his
Litter
.
But
the
strong
apprehensions
Phanasder
and
I
had
,
that
these
transcendent
obligations
,
the
power
of
a
King
,
and
Brother
,
and
the
general
safety
which
would
as
absolutely
be
hazarded
by
Altezeera's
declining
Pacorus
,
as
setl'd
by
her
receiving
him
,
made
us
joyntly
conjure
the
fair
Theoxcena
(
who
was
ever
publiquely
and
zealously
concern'd
in
your
interests
)
to
go
visit
Altezeera
,
and
by
her
perswasions
,
convert
or
fortify
her
inclinations
,
which
was
a
Duty
our
wounds
hinder'd
us
from
paying
you
,
and
which
were
more
troublesome
to
us
upon
that
score
,
than
any
other
.
The
fair
Theoxcena
by
our
desires
,
judging
of
our
fears
,
assum'd
them
too
,
and
with
a
hasty
earnestness
,
went
in
her
Chariot
immediately
,
to
Altezeera
,
whose
discourses
at
first
were
somewhat
cold
,
but
at
last
were
so
entirely
divested
of
all
that
dull
quality
,
that
Theoxcena
return'd
to
us
with
a
Gayity
,
which
manifested
his
satisfaction
,
and
with
assurances
,
that
what
we
had
contemplated
as
arguments
of
Fear
,
Altezeera
did
as
evincements
of
her
constancy
,
and
that
she
reflected
with
joy
on
Pacorus's
obligations
,
from
no
other
motives
,
than
that
Artavasdes
might
be
in
them
convinc'd
,
she
was
uncapable
of
change
,
since
Pacorus's
Services
,
Person
,
and
Quality
,
had
not
that
Power
.
This
generous
declaration
converted
our
Fears
into
nobler
Passions
,
for
we
were
so
much
concern'd
in
your
satisfaction
,
that
we
had
rather
have
hazarded
the
publique
,
than
it
.
The
next
day
Regeliza
came
to
visit
Theoxcena
,
where
after
the
first
civilities
,
she
told
her
with
a
freedom
,
which
is
not
common
to
Courtiers
,
That
the
Princess
Altezeera
did
not
entirely
approve
her
last
solicitations
,
what-ever
Face
she
receiv'd
them
with
,
since
,
if
Artavasdes
were
the
object
of
her
Passion
,
she
desir'd
he
should
continue
so
,
without
deriving
that
Felicity
from
any
secundary
causes
;
and
if
he
were
not
,
she
might
attribute
her
visit
,
rather
to
a
sounding
her
intentions
,
than
a
confirmation
of
them
.
This
Madam
(
said
Regeliza
)
the
high
respects
I
pay
you
,
makes
me
discover
,
and
I
believe
you
cannot
doubt
my
Heart
,
since
I
acquaint
you
with
my
Mistrisses
.
The
virtuous
Theoxcena
paid
this
freedom
by
many
embraces
,
and
protested
what
she
had
done
,
was
meerly
an
effect
of
her
Duty
,
which
since
it
was
esteem'd
a
fault
,
she
would
not
repeat
,
neither
discover
the
Cause
,
or
Author
of
her
●ilence
.
Regeliza
thereupon
told
her
,
that
to
the
best
of
her
observations
,
Altezeera
was
as
constant
as
fair
,
and
that
if
●he
deceiv'd
Artavasdes
,
she
deceiv'd
her
too
.
Some
other
Ladies
then
coming
in
,
they
began
a
different
discourse
,
which
had
not
continu'd
above
an
hour
,
but
that
(
as
Regeliza
was
upon
the
point
of
her
return
)
she
fell
into
an
indisposition
,
that
lasted
all
that
night
,
which
she
spent
on
a
Couch
in
Theoxcena's
Cabinet
,
but
the
next
morning
,
being
in
some
degree
recover'd
,
she
return'd
to
the
Princess
,
who
soon
after
fell
so
extream
ill
,
that
many
thought
her
Confidents
sickness
had
chang'd
its
place
,
and
communicated
it self
to
Altezeera
,
who
gave
express
order
,
that
none
should
give
her
any
visits
,
till
she
were
in
a
fitter
condition
to
receive
them
.
This
news
,
and
this
order
,
very
much
troubl'd
the
generous
Phanasder's
Mistriss
,
who
apprehended
,
that
direction
was
chiefly
for
her
,
and
that
it
was
general
,
but
the
better
to
cloud
it
as
to
her
particular
.
But
whilst
the
fair
Altezeera
lay
strugling
with
a
dangerous
sickness
(
which
was
so
much
the
more
so
,
that
the
Physitians
were
entirely
ignorant
from
whence
it
proceeded
)
Arsaces
sent
a
solemn
Embas●y
to
Artabazus
,
to
acquaint
him
,
that
as
nothing
but
the
bestowing
the
Princess
Altezeera
on
Pacorus
,
could
give
Armenia
peace
,
so
that
alone
should
.
But
alas
!
her
indisposition
so
increast
,
that
her
Brother
fear'd
she
was
like
to
be
the
gods
,
rather
than
Pacorus's
.
As
soon
as
this
fatal
news
came
to
Pacorus's
knowledge
,
he
blasphem'd
them
for
it
so
transcendently
,
that
it
increast
their
Title
to
her
,
at
least
diminisht
his
.
Those
that
attended
him
,
during
Altezeera's
sickness
,
found
his
condition
was
more
dangerous
from
hers
,
than
his
own
,
and
protested
,
he
sent
so
often
to
know
if
she
took
any
rest
,
that
he
hinder'd
her
from
taking
any
.
Three
days
successively
Artabazus
had
constrain'd
Pacorus
to
keep
his
Bed
,
and
silenc'd
his
curiosities
,
by
words
which
assur'd
him
in
few
days
,
it
should
be
satisfy'd
by
Altezeera's
sight
.
But
Arsaces
,
whose
Embassadors
were
return'd
with
protestations
,
that
nothing
but
the
Princesses
sickness
hinder'd
the
honor
of
being
his
Daughter
,
grew
so
impatient
of
this
delay
,
both
in
his
own
and
Pacorus's
behalf
,
and
Altezeera's
indisposition
arriving
so
unfortunately
,
that
it
relisht
more
of
design
than
mischance
,
so
inflam'd
him
,
that
he
passionately
sent
Artabazus
word
,
unless
Altezeera
would
declare
to
his
Ambassadors
,
the
same
assurance
he
had
,
he
would
look
upon
this
protraction
as
a
delusion
,
and
resent
it
at
that
rate
.
This
harsh
message
so
troubl'd
Artabazus
,
that
(
all
trembling
)
he
went
to
Altezeera
,
and
conjur'd
her
on
his
knees
,
by
the
affection
of
a
Sister
,
and
by
the
preservation
of
that
Empire
,
in
which
she
was
to
succeed
,
that
she
would
give
her self
to
Pacorus
,
who
besides
the
Title
of
his
merit
,
had
that
of
power
,
which
though
he
was
so
civil
,
as
absolutely
to
decline
,
yet
his
Father
that
had
not
those
invisible
restraints
,
might
start
into
an
action
,
in
which
they
might
find
an
eternal
ruine
.
Altezeera
to
this
,
(
as
Regeliza
inform'd
Theoxcena
)
reply'd
,
That
the
obligations
of
fear
were
not
so
much
to
be
consider'd
by
generous
Minds
,
as
those
of
Virtue
,
and
that
consequently
,
the
Parthian
was
not
to
be
gratify'd
by
the
ruine
of
Artavasdes
,
to
whom
they
were
both
engag'd
by
undeniable
promises
;
that
could
she
violate
that
faith
,
it
might
give
a
just
assurance
to
Pacorus
she
had
none
,
and
so
that
which
he
design'd
as
a
cure
of
their
disorders
,
might
create
as
great
as
those
they
supprest
.
Ah
Altezeera
!
(
said
the
King
)
'T
is
not
we
,
but
necessity
,
disobliges
Artavasdes
,
and
in
believing
,
he
would
sacrifice
his
interest
for
our
preservation
,
we
acquaint
him
how
much
we
believe
he
values
us
;
if
in
this
we
are
not
mistaken
in
him
,
he
is
not
disoblig'd
;
and
if
we
are
,
he
merits
to
be
so
.
There
are
(
reply'd
Altezeera
)
some
things
of
a
quality
,
in
which
we
may
have
so
good
an
opinion
of
Artavasdes
that
we
may
thereby
leave
him
none
of
us
;
and
if
I
be
not
much
mistaken
,
this
performance
will
be
of
that
nature
;
let
us
therefore
,
Sir
,
suspend
our
resolutions
,
till
we
know
his
,
and
if
he
can
consider
any
thing
above
me
,
I
may
be
induc'd
to
consider
Pacorus
above
him
.
If
(
said
Artabazus
)
you
can
esteem
it
possible
to
observe
this
course
,
after
you
have
perus'd
this
Paper
;
I
durst
almost
bind
my self
to
submit
unto
it
.
Then
presenting
her
Arsaces's
Letter
,
which
was
the
cause
of
his
visit
,
she
had
no
sooner
read
it
,
than
she
coldly
said
;
'T
was
not
with
those
Arms
she
was
to
be
vanquish'd
it
.
But
Artabazus
,
who
knew
there
was
a
storm
in
that
calm
,
conjur'd
her
with
fresh
and
powerful
motives
,
to
make
her self
a
Conqueror
by
yielding
;
yet
all
was
in
vain
,
for
though
in
Tears
he
implor'd
a
more
merciful
answer
,
yet
the
only
he
could
extort
from
her
,
was
,
that
if
ever
she
were
Pacorus's
,
if
should
be
as
a
Guift
,
and
not
a
Sacrifice
.
The
poor
Artabazus
,
almost
frantick
at
this
ill
success
,
went
to
visit
Pacorus
,
who
all
this
while
had
labour'd
under
a
belief
,
that
his
Princess
was
in
some
extremity
,
and
that
her
being
in
no
danger
,
was
rather
his
information
than
her
condition
;
these
being
his
constant
fancies
,
't
was
no
wonder
they
were
as
much
his
dreams
,
from
one
of
which
he
was
newly
waken'd
,
when
the
King
came
to
see
him
,
whose
disorder'd
look
,
and
moist
Eyes
,
so
abundantly
confirm'd
his
fears
,
that
to
remove
,
or
resolve
them
(
upon
Artabazus's
going
away
(
which
he
did
without
acquainting
him
with
his
Fathers
desire
and
threatening
,
either
as
thinking
it
impertinent
,
if
he
were
accessary
to
it
,
and
cruel
,
if
he
were
not
)
Pacorus
immediately
caus'd
himself
to
be
drest
,
and
in
spight
of
his
Wounds
,
or
Servants
,
train'd
himself
along
to
Alterzeera's
Apartment
,
where
having
begg'd
and
obtain'd
a
permission
to
visit
her
,
he
prostrated
himself
on
his
knees
by
her
Bed-side
,
and
after
a
short
silence
,
which
his
joy
and
pain
made
him
keep
,
he
brake
it
to
tell
her
:
I
could
not
(
Madam
)
so
much
as
hope
a
pardon
for
this
presumption
,
did
I
not
tell
you
the
cause
of
it
,
which
proceeds
from
so
high
and
just
a
concern
in
your
health
;
that
I
have
endanger'd
mine
,
to
come
and
learn
the
state
of
yours
;
in
which
too
,
I
shall
find
for
the
future
,
what
to
expect
from
the
gods
,
for
if
they
grant
not
the
fervent'st
Prayers
I
am
capable
of
,
I
must
expect
they
will
never
condescend
to
my
others
,
and
so
lay
aside
Devotion
as
a
needless
,
or
at
least
a
fruitless
thing
.
Altezeera
,
who
consider'd
Pacorus
as
accessary
to
Arsaces's
Crime
,
told
him
coldly
,
he
could
best
give
an
accompt
,
whether
she
were
in
any
danger
,
since
her
greatest
proceeded
from
his
Father
,
and
him
.
Oh
gods
!
(
continu'd
Falintus
)
how
these
words
struck
the
poor
Pacorus
,
you
only
can
tell
!
but
I
can
that
his
disorder
was
such
,
as
she
took
it
for
his
guilt
,
and
that
astonishment
which
should
have
evinc'd
his
being
innocent
,
made
her
think
he
was
not
;
but
after
his
confusion
gave
him
leave
to
speak
,
he
cry'd
out
,
can
I
then
be
so
near
guilty
of
so
horrid
a
sin
,
as
to
be
thought
so
by
my
Princess
?
and
is
she
so
much
my
Enemy
,
that
she
will
wrong
her
perfections
,
rather
than
not
wrong
Pacorus
?
ah
Madam
,
if
you
desire
my
death
for
my
presumption
,
you
might
have
taken
some
milder
course
,
than
to
send
me
out
of
the
world
,
as
much
hated
by
my self
,
as
you
:
Great
gods
!
(
he
continu'd
,
lifting
up
his
Eyes
and
his
Hands
)
why
have
you
given
this
Excellence
so
many
charms
to
inspire
Love
,
and
so
little
Faith
to
believe
it
;
Yet
Madam
,
perhaps
I
have
done
already
what
might
create
your
belief
of
mine
,
by
a
more
pregnant
perswasion
that
Faith
;
but
alas
Pacorus
why
dost
thou
so
wrong
thy
actions
,
as
to
believe
thy
words
can
create
in
her
a
knowledge
of
that
truth
,
when
they
could
not
:
shew
her
by
thy
death
what
thou
wert
during
thy
life
,
for
she
would
not
use
thee
at
this
rate
,
were
it
not
for
that
end
;
yes
Madam
(
he
continu'd
,
addressing
his
speech
again
to
Altezeera
)
I
will
now
satisfy
your
suspitions
or
your
desires
,
then
drawing
out
a
Ponyard
,
which
he
constantly
wore
,
he
was
about
to
increase
the
crime
of
that
design
,
by
acting
it
,
when
the
Princess
cry'd
out
,
hold
Pacorus
,
I
command
you
,
hold
,
if
I
have
any
desires
,
they
will
be
satisfy'd
in
your
obedience
,
not
in
your
death
,
and
if
I
have
any
doubts
,
you
may
be
satisfy'd
in
this
Paper
,
if
they
were
not
legitimate
.
Then
she
gave
him
the
Letter
,
Arsaces
had
sent
Artabazus
,
which
he
had
left
with
her
,
and
which
Pacorus
had
no
sooner
perus'd
,
than
fetching
two
or
three
profound
sighs
,
he
told
her
,
Yes
Madam
,
I
am
criminal
,
but
I
am
only
so
,
in
being
the
Son
of
such
a
Father
;
who
before
a
few
hours
are
effluxt
,
shall
send
you
assurances
of
another
quality
,
or
you
shall
be
convinc'd
I
am
a
sufferer
and
not
a
sharer
in
his
Guilt
.
Thereupon
,
rising
up
,
he
took
his
leave
,
with
a
countenance
so
well
appropriated
to
his
words
;
that
those
could
not
more
discover
his
innocency
,
than
the
other
did
.
As
soon
as
Pacorus
was
return'd
to
his
Apartment
,
the
violence
of
his
motion
,
but
much
more
that
of
his
grief
,
cast
him
into
a
new
Feaver
,
and
set
his
wounds
fresh
ableeding
,
with
which
he
writ
Arsaces
a
Letter
,
so
moving
,
and
so
passionate
,
that
it
obtain'd
from
him
one
,
which
gave
him
as
much
satisfaction
,
as
that
he
had
sent
to
Arta●azus
,
did
the
contrary
,
and
another
to
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
wherein
he
protested
,
't
was
to
accellerate
his
Sons
felicities
,
that
he
was
so
rude
as
to
make
use
of
threatenings
,
which
though
it
were
a
strange
crime
,
yet
it
might
serve
to
evince
how
infinitely
he
was
concern'd
in
the
honor
of
her
alliance
,
since
only
as
a
believ'd
way
unto
that
end
,
he
made
no
scruples
to
act
it
,
which
he
repented
of
,
and
begg'd
a
pardon
for
;
and
to
put
himself
out
of
a
capacity
to
repeat
that
guilt
,
he
would
withdraw
his
Army
,
if
she
commanded
it
,
into
Parthia
,
and
till
he
knew
with
what
Orders
she
would
honor
him
,
he
would
(
in
expectation
of
them
)
retire
a
hundred
Furlongs
from
Tygranocerta
.
This
Letter
(
said
Falintus
)
contain'd
many
things
of
a
resembling
quality
,
which
my
memory
is
not
faithful
enough
to
retain
,
and
which
coming
to
Pacorus
when
Artabazus
was
with
him
,
he
made
him
the
Ambassador
to
carry
it
to
his
fair
Sister
,
who
receiv'd
that
testimony
of
his
innocency
and
power
,
so
well
,
that
in
the
dictates
those
resentments
did
inspire
,
and
in
that
lively
representation
,
Artabazus
made
her
of
Pacorus's
passion
and
danger
,
to
obey
the
Kings
importunity
,
and
perhaps
her
inclination
,
she
forc'd
her
weakness
to
write
these
few
,
but
powerful
words
.
Live
Pacorus
,
if
you
desire
Altezeera
should
.
Never
any
remedy
was
more
suddain
nor
efficacious
than
this
,
and
if
there
be
any
charms
in
words
,
they
sure
inhabit
in
the
obliging
ones
of
Love
,
Pacorus
idolatriz'd
Altezeera's
and
was
a
thousand
times
more
satisfy'd
with
them
,
than
with
that
health
they
afterwards
restor'd
;
and
if
he
had
now
any
desires
,
none
were
more
violent
than
those
of
recovery
,
to
acknowledge
at
his
Princesses
Feet
,
that
he
ow'd
not
only
his
,
but
a
more
transcending
Blessing
to
her
goodness
.
Altezeera
too
,
as
if
her
sickness
had
proceeded
entirely
from
her
constancy
,
no
sooner
had
divested
her self
of
that
,
but
she
did
so
of
the
other
,
and
either
to
sympathize
with
,
or
please
,
her
Servant
,
assum'd
her
Beauty
and
Health
,
as
fast
as
he
did
his
.
But
the
fair
Theoxcena
,
either
to
satisfy
her
affection
,
or
her
doubts
,
went
to
visit
the
Princess
,
and
Regeliza
being
then
gone
to
pay
one
to
Artabazus
(
who
of
late
was
so
taken
with
her
company
,
that
many
thought
it
was
with
her
)
none
of
Altezeera's
other
women
had
either
the
confidence
or
the
command
to
deny
her
an
admission
:
When
she
came
in
,
Altezeera
was
newly
fall'n
into
a
slumber
,
which
Theoxcena
consider'd
,
as
so
conducing
to
her
health
,
that
on
that
score
she
deny'd
her self
the
honor
of
her
conversation
,
without
any
reluctancy
,
and
in
expectation
of
it
,
went
to
a
window
in
the
Chamber
,
which
afforded
a
diverting
prospect
.
Not
above
half
an
hour
was
expir'd
,
when
Regeliza
return'd
and
being
ignorant
the
Princess
was
asleep
by
her
coming
in
,
interrupted
it
.
Altezeera
knowing
't
was
Regeliza
open'd
the
Curtains
,
and
no
sooner
saw
Theoxcena
(
who
was
presenting
her self
to
her
)
than
shutting
them
hastily
again
,
she
cry'd
out
,
oh
gods
!
Regeliza
,
is
not
it
Theoxcena
which
I
see
.
Yes
Madam
(
said
the
fair
Theoxcena
,
somewhat
surpriz'd
)
't
is
she
,
who
has
acquainted
you
with
her
rudeness
,
that
she
might
with
her
affection
,
which
could
relish
of
no
quiet
,
till
she
were
satisfy'd
of
a
health
,
for
which
she
has
so
great
,
and
so
just
concerns
.
Alas
Madam
(
Altezeera
coldly
reply'd
)
if
you
have
any
concerns
in
mine
,
I
shall
beg
you
to
manifest
them
,
by
denying
me
any
more
the
honor
of
your
visits
,
which
will
be
a
way
more
conducing
to
that
end
,
than
any
other
you
can
elect
.
'T
were
almost
as
hard
to
fancy
,
as
describe
Theoxcena's
astonishment
,
the
lowest
effect
it
produc'd
,
was
an
amazed
silence
,
which
Regeliza
observing
,
drew
her
aside
and
begg'd
her
to
impute
it
rather
to
a
suddain
and
disorder'd
wakeing
,
or
indeed
to
any
thing
sooner
than
a
decrease
of
her
affection
,
in
which
too
,
she
would
be
a
friend
both
to
Altezeera
,
and
to
Justice
:
But
Theoxcena
,
who
ascrib'd
it
to
the
reliques
of
that
distaste
Regeliza
had
inform'd
her
of
,
or
to
her
infringing
the
general
Orders
,
which
prohibited
any
visits
,
went
again
to
the
Princess
Bed-side
,
and
told
her
since
the
crime
(
Madam
)
of
waiting
on
you
,
is
esteem'd
greater
than
the
duty
which
invited
me
to
it
;
I
shall
henceforward
content
my self
to
enquire
of
your
health
at
a
less
offensive
distance
,
and
no
more
pay
you
my
visits
by
intrusion
,
but
obedience
.
Altezeera
having
only
told
her
,
she
would
esteem
it
a
great
obligation
;
she
withdrew
her self
,
Regeliza
waiting
on
her
to
her
Chariot
,
and
making
by
the
way
many
excuses
,
which
sufficiently
manifested
themselves
to
be
what
they
were
;
I
ommitted
to
tell
you
,
that
the
next
day
after
the
dispute
betwixt
Phraates
and
Labienus
,
the
first
of
them
hearing
of
a
reconciliation
,
as
strange
as
't
was
either
unexpected
or
undesir'd
,
sent
to
visit
Pacorus
,
to
implore
a
forgiveness
for
an
action
,
which
because
't
was
against
him
,
he
consider'd
as
a
crime
,
though
it
were
a
duty
,
and
which
he
might
the
easilier
grant
,
since
in
his
very
offence
he
might
read
something
for
his
justification
,
for
in
manifesting
he
lov'd
a
King
more
than
a
Brother
,
it
evinc'd
how
good
a
Subject
he
would
prove
,
when
he
became
one
,
by
Pacorus's
right
to
the
succession
.
But
Sir
(
said
Falintus
to
me
,
after
a
short
silence
)
you
must
now
prepare
your self
to
receive
an
intelligence
that
I
hope
will
verify
the
Fiction
of
Achilles's
Launce
,
which
,
not
only
had
the
power
to
give
a
wound
,
but
to
cure
it
too
.
Yes
(
Sir
)
the
gods
gave
Altezeera
her
health
,
but
she
employ'd
it
to
so
ill
an
end
,
that
we
esteem'd
her
sickness
a
less
misfortune
,
and
if
Theoxcena
by
her
strange
usage
had
some
cause
to
suspect
she
was
distracted
when
she
kept
her
Chamber
;
we
had
much
more
to
believe
she
was
so
when
she
left
it
,
since
the
first
action
she
then
did
,
solemnly
to
promise
her self
to
Pacorus
:
Yet
Artabazus
impos'd
this
restriction
on
the
Grant
,
that
their
Nuptials
should
not
be
celebrated
in
Armenia
,
nor
till
the
Parthians
were
retir'd
,
lest
that
which
she
intended
as
a
gift
,
might
look
like
a
constraint
,
and
that
the
Armenians
might
be
consol'd
in
the
loss
of
such
a
friend
,
by
being
freed
from
so
many
Enemies
.
If
,
Sir
(
continu'd
Falintus
)
you
esteem
this
a
loss
,
do
but
reflect
on
the
cause
of
it
,
and
you
can
no
longer
think
it
one
,
which
opinion
I
have
so
justly
assum'd
,
that
for
your
relief
,
I
will
not
conjure
you
to
make
use
of
your
Fortitude
,
but
your
Reason
only
.
Great
gods
!
(
I
cry'd
out
,
all
pale
and
trembling
)
is
it
possible
then
(
Falintus
)
that
Altezeera
can
be
false
?
and
that
Fear
,
not
Love
,
should
create
her
sin
?
Must
that
which
creates
it
,
be
as
great
an
offence
to
Virtue
,
as
me
?
unjust
Heavens
!
(
I
continu'd
)
could
you
give
none
the
greatest
will
to
ruine
me
,
but
her
that
had
the
greatest
power
to
do
it
?
And
did
you
raise
me
to
the
highest
hopes
,
but
to
make
my
despair
resembling
?
Alas
Falintus
,
I
must
summon
Death
,
and
not
Reason
for
my
cure
,
since
the
latter
in
this
occasion
,
does
with
me
as
it
does
in
the
misteries
of
Divinity
,
it
may
confound
,
but
cannot
help
:
Neither
has
the
reflection
on
her
constancy
,
the
power
to
do
it
,
for
I
find
,
that
more
my
misfortune
than
her
fault
,
and
what
satisfaction
can
it
prove
,
that
she
had
no
imperfection
,
but
what
was
only
one
to
me
;
her
crime
is
not
,
that
she
wants
loveliness
,
but
Love
,
and
her
new
Conquest
cannot
more
certainly
evince
the
former
,
than
my
death
must
unavoidably
the
latter
.
If
,
Sir
(
reply'd
Falintus
)
't
was
Altezeera
,
and
not
the
Crown
of
Armenia
you
ambition'd
—
Ah
Friend
(
I
cry'd
out
,
interrupting
him
)
may
the
gods
continue
me
in
as
great
torments
,
as
they
have
cast
me
into
,
if
ever
I
ambition'd
any
Crown
,
but
one
of
Mirtles
,
so
it
were
of
Altezeera's
putting
on
,
and
having
lost
the
hopes
of
that
Crown
,
if
I
do
not
contemn
all
others
,
as
much
as
she
does
my
Passion
.
Then
,
Sir
(
continu'd
Falintus
)
in
my
opinion
,
your
Case
is
not
so
desperate
as
your
thoughts
suggest
,
for
in
that
very
performance
in
which
she
has
taken
away
your
hopes
,
she
has
given
you
some
,
since
she
that
has
been
once
inconstant
may
be
thought
with
probability
to
prove
so
again
.
I
,
but
Falintus
(
I
reply'd
)
you
say
she
is
in
a
manner
married
to
Pacorus
.
'T
is
true
(
said
Falintus
)
but
that
mistery
in
Nuptials
of
two
being
one
,
is
oftner
visible
to
Faith
than
Sence
;
and
was
there
never
yet
a
Wife
was
kind
to
any
but
her
Husband
?
Great
gods
!
(
I
cry'd
out
,
starting
up
,
and
laying
my
hand
upon
my
Sword
)
that
any
but
a
Friend
durst
say
this
,
and
that
a
Friend
should
,
No
,
no
,
Falintus
,
the
way
you
take
,
will
give
me
rather
Horror
,
than
Love
,
for
I
should
hate
her
more
for
being
so
kind
,
than
so
unconstant
;
though
I
am
an
Enemy
unto
her
,
I
am
not
so
unto
her
Virtue
,
which
did
I
but
believe
were
stain'd
,
or
so
much
as
capable
of
being
so
,
I
should
injure
her
as
much
as
she
has
my
Passion
,
or
my
Hopes
.
But
Falintus
who
perceiv'd
how
great
my
fury
was
,
by
the
pain
I
had
to
suppress
it
;
that
he
inspir'd
me
with
as
much
rage
as
grief
;
and
that
he
had
given
me
Poison
rather
than
Cordial
,
was
so
just
,
and
so
civil
,
as
to
implore
my
pardon
,
beseeching
me
to
believe
,
that
he
passionately
ambition'd
my
consolation
,
since
out
of
but
a
bare
hope
of
giving
me
some
little
,
he
scrupl'd
not
to
tax
Altezeera's
virtue
,
which
too
he
had
done
,
because
he
esteem'd
it
a
maxim
in
the
cure
of
Love
,
to
give
the
Lover
an
ill
opinion
of
her
,
that
made
him
one
.
Yes
Falintus
(
I
reply'd
)
embracing
him
with
some
sighs
,
I
forgive
you
,
and
will
only
enjoyn
you
for
reparation
,
to
believe
for
my
sake
,
what
you
should
for
Justices
,
which
is
,
that
Altezeera
has
no
faults
,
but
such
as
are
only
so
to
the
unfortuate
Artavasdes
,
and
that
he
is
as
perfect
in
all
things
,
as
I
am
in
misery
.
I
had
rather
(
said
Falintus
)
rob
you
of
that
Faith
,
than
assume
it
,
for
I
fear
,
if
it
continue
yours
,
it
may
make
us
lose
,
what
we
esteem
as
much
,
as
ever
you
did
Altezeera
;
the
short
remainder
of
whose
story
,
I
will
beg
your
permission
to
tell
you
,
that
you
may
find
some
consolation
in
her
fault
,
since
I
believe
she
begins
to
find
in
it
,
her
punishment
.
I
would
(
I
reply'd
)
listen
to
your
relation
,
with
a
higher
satisfaction
,
if
my
Life
,
as
well
as
my
Felicity
had
been
ty'd
to
it
,
and
were
to
expire
withit
.
I
believe
(
said
Falintus
)
if
you
hated
not
Altezeera
,
you
would
never
have
mention'd
so
offensive
a
wish
,
for
I
am
confident
your
death
would
prove
a
much
greater
trouble
to
her
,
than
her
inconstancy
can
to
you
.
Would
to
the
gods
(
I
reply'd
)
I
were
certain
of
that
,
it
should
not
be
long
before
I
acted
in
one
performance
,
both
my
revenge
and
my
quiet
:
but
(
I
continu'd
)
generous
Falintus
,
let
me
not
thus
interrupt
the
finishing
of
your
Relation
,
in
which
,
perhaps
I
may
find
some
reasons
to
make
your
thoughts
my
belief
,
and
to
which
I
will
listen
with
as
much
attention
,
as
one
in
so
transcendent
a
torment
is
capable
of
.
I
have
already
(
said
Falintus
,
prosecuting
his
narration
)
acquainted
you
with
that
publique
and
solemn
engagement
,
which
Altezeera
gave
Pacorus
,
which
too
was
in
the
presence
of
Arsaces
,
Phraates
,
Surena
,
and
Labienus
(
who
then
was
recover'd
of
his
wounds
)
and
the
Parthian
King
,
to
evince
he
had
neither
any
remnants
of
hatred
,
or
fear
,
came
into
Tygranocerta
only
,
with
those
usual
Guards
which
attended
his
person
.
The
joy
of
this
contract
was
exprest
in
a
solemn
Tilting
,
in
which
Surena
obtain'd
entirely
the
honor
,
which
too
he
purchast
at
so
much
the
easier
rate
,
because
Phanasder
would
not
dispute
it
,
who
had
too-deep
an
impression
of
your
grief
,
to
receive
any
of
joy
,
especially
in
a
performance
,
the
cause
whereof
had
divested
him
of
all
his
.
But
though
neither
he
,
nor
I
assisted
at
this
publick
celebration
,
yet
we
resolv'd
Altezeera
should
not
run
into
a
Sin
,
without
being
told
of
it
,
which
Phanasder
and
I
joyntly
went
to
her
Apartment
to
perform
,
where
we
were
receiv'd
with
that
grace
,
which
is
as
unseparable
from
her
,
as
charming
is
from
it
;
but
as
soon
as
ever
we
began
to
acquaint
her
with
the
occasion
of
our
visit
,
she
imposd
on
us
a
perpetual
silence
,
and
gave
us
no
reason
why
we
should
keep
it
,
but
that
't
was
her
Command
;
only
she
told
Phanasder
,
he
had
cause
indeed
to
sollicite
her
in
it
.
To
which
he
reply'd
,
That
perfect
Friendship
(
Madam
)
I
pay
Artavasdes
;
gives
me
an
abundant
cause
to
sollicite
for
his
felicity
,
and
perhaps
the
care
I
have
of
you
,
(
Madam
)
is
not
a
much
inferior
one
.
I
beseech
the
gods
(
she
reply'd
,
smiling
)
that
both
Artavasdes
and
I
,
may
deserve
your
care
.
Phanasder
begg'd
her
to
interpret
her
Prayer
,
and
her
smile
,
but
when
he
perceiv'd
she
absolutely
declin'd
,
to
shew
we
came
on
business
,
and
not
on
duty
,
we
immediately
retir'd
,
cursing
either
the
nature
or
humour
of
the
Sex
,
which
to
preserve
a
charitable
opinion
of
,
we
went
to
Theoxcena
,
to
whom
we
gave
an
account
of
our
visit
,
which
she
would
not
accompany
us
in
,
her
last
having
had
so
unfortunate
a
success
.
That
generous
Princess
seem'd
to
be
glad
that
either
Altezeera
by
her
silence
confest
her
crime
was
of
a
quality
,
where
to
offer
to
extenuate
,
was
to
increase
it
,
or
that
her
guilt
was
such
a
torment
,
that
she
avoided
all
entertainments
which
could
revive
it
;
and
though
this
were
her
opinion
of
the
Princesses
silence
,
yet
she
hop'd
it
would
not
be
yours
,
but
that
you
would
ascribe
it
to
an
insolence
as
high
as
her
Inconstancy
,
that
therein
since
she
would
not
reward
your
Passion
,
yet
at
least
that
she
would
cure
it
.
But
Phanasder
who
could
not
put
an
interpretation
upon
Altezeera's
Prayer
,
that
you
might
merit
his
friendship
,
at
last
plac'd
one
upon
her
saying
,
he
had
cause
to
sollicite
for
you
,
as
meaning
his
,
not
preserving
Tygranocerta
,
reduc'd
her
to
need
it
;
and
though
we
represented
to
him
,
she
could
not
act
so
transcendent
an
injustice
,
as
to
lay
that
to
him
as
a
crime
,
in
which
he
had
purchas'd
so
much
Glory
;
yet
we
could
not
efface
his
suspitions
,
which
he
fortified
by
saying
,
she
that
cou●d
be
capable
of
so
high
an
injustice
,
as
abandoning
you
,
for
Pac●rus
m●ght
justly
be
suspected
to
be
capable
of
any
other
.
Regeliza
who
formerly
,
often
visited
Theoxcena
,
still
continu'd
that
practice
,
protesting
to
be
as
ignorant
of
the
cause
of
her
Princesses
inconstancy
,
as
troubl'd
at
it
;
she
too
invited
her
from
Altezeera
,
to
continue
her
v●sits
,
who
continue
her
visits
,
who
confest
she
could
not
more
sensibly
revenge
her
injuries
,
than
shewing
her
by
a
daily
conversation
those
charms
,
of
which
by
her
misfortune
she
had
so
long
depriv'd
her self
,
and
which
she
begg'd
her
to
impute
to
her
sickness
,
and
not
to
her
change
.
Theoxcena
thus
civilly
invited
,
and
knowing
that
what
Altezeera
alledg'd
would
prove
her
revenge
,
would
become
her
own
satisfaction
,
she
went
to
visit
the
Princess
,
where
though
she
us'd
her
with
the
same
civilities
,
she
had
formerly
practis'd
,
yet
The
oxcena's
judgement
,
or
suspitions
,
deny'd
her
a
belief
that
they
were
with
the
same
freedom
;
and
indeed
it
is
a
common
observation
in
most
of
that
Sex
,
that
a
division
betwixt
any
of
them
,
though
it
may
be
clos'd
again
,
yet
there
will
be
still
remaining
some
Cicatrice
,
that
will
perpetually
shew
where
the
wound
has
been
;
but
Theoxcena
,
who
scrutinously
observ'd
all
she
did
,
found
,
that
her
joy
was
but
a
part
she
acted
,
since
she
was
often
out
of
it
,
and
as
she
has
told
Phanasder
,
and
I
,
she
has
divers
times
observ'd
her
ready
to
shed
tears
in
her
highest
mirth
,
and
in
the
midst
of
a
discourese
to
stop
and
start
,
as
if
her
ill
Angel
had
met
her
;
neither
was
this
her
practice
only
in
her
Chamber
,
but
in
the
greatest
Assemblies
,
which
clearly
manifested
her
resolutions
were
not
as
strong
as
her
Grief
,
or
Guilt
,
Regeliza
told
Theoxcena
too
,
that
she
had
several
times
surpriz'd
Altezeera
in
such
agonies
,
that
had
you
seen
them
,
they
would
have
converted
your
resentments
into
sorrow
.
One
evening
too
,
Theoxcena
found
she
had
not
made
her
Prince's
condition
worse
than
it
really
was
,
for
,
coming
to
visit
her
,
and
finding
no
body
in
the
Chamber
,
she
stole
to
the
Cabinet
door
,
where
looking
through
a
crevice
of
it
,
she
discover'd
Altezeera
,
acting
sorrow
so
to
the
life
,
that
she
apprehended
't
would
have
prov'd
her
death
;
and
indeed
Theoxcena
found
in
that
sight
,
as
much
cause
to
pity
,
as
to
condemn
her
inconstancy
;
which
had
so
strong
an
operation
over
her
,
that
the
immediately
retir'd
,
apprehending
lest
the
visibility
of
her
disorders
might
have
manifested
she
had
discover'd
the
Princesses
.
But
she
was
no
sooner
return'd
to
her
own
Palace
,
than
she
was
visited
by
the
generous
Phanasder
,
and
I
,
where
having
told
us
what
she
had
so
freshly
disclosed
(
which
in
our
judgements
evinc'd
,
Altezeera
had
more
inclination
to
repair
,
than
continue
her
crimes
)
Phanasder
after
a
short
debate
with
himself
,
propounded
that
which
I
extreamly
relisht
,
but
which
Theoxcena
did
not
,
which
was
,
that
he
would
cause
a
powerful
insurrection
in
Armenia
,
which
should
necessitate
the
Parthian
Army
to
continue
in
it
,
and
consequently
Altezeera
not
to
go
out
of
it
;
that
seemingly
to
suppress
it
,
he
would
raise
Forces
to
joyn
with
Pacorus's
Army
,
that
in
the
mean
time
upon
some
pretence
of
affairs
into
Syria
,
I
should
from
thence
go
directly
to
Rome
,
and
inform
you
of
all
that
had
happen'd
,
to
desire
you
to
make
of
your
particular
interest
,
one
of
State
,
and
to
press
Crassus
(
who
we
heard
was
to
invade
Parthia
)
to
advance
speedily
into
Armenia
,
and
to
hinder
an
alliance
,
which
if
not
prevented
,
would
render
his
Conquests
impossible
,
and
if
prevented
,
as
facile
;
and
lastly
,
to
assure
you
,
that
upon
your
appearance
either
with
the
Romans
,
or
singly
,
all
the
seeming
Rebels
and
his
Forces
,
should
declare
for
you
,
and
thereby
force
Alterzeera
to
as
great
a
necessity
of
giving
her self
to
you
,
as
she
pretended
there
had
been
,
to
give
her self
unto
Pacorus
;
or
at
least
make
it
clearly
evident
,
her
inconstancy
was
her
choice
,
and
not
her
constraint
;
which
too
,
you
might
have
the
power
to
punish
,
in
him
that
was
the
creator
of
it
.
This
generous
motion
(
as
I
told
you
)
I
infinitely
approv'd
,
but
the
fair
Theoxcena
seem'd
as
much
averse
to
it
,
both
as
induc'd
thereunto
out
of
that
high
concern
she
had
in
Phanasder's
safety
,
and
perhaps
reputation
,
which
might
both
run
no
small
hazard
in
this
action
,
as
out
of
a
doubt
too
,
that
it
might
appear
to
you
rather
a
disobligation
,
than
the
contray
,
who
perhaps
,
by
thus
having
lost
the
hope
of
possessing
her
,
had
also
lost
the
desire
.
To
these
,
and
many
as
pregnant
arguments
,
we
represented
the
duty
of
Friends
,
and
the
inclination
of
a
Lover
,
the
first
not
more
powerfully
inviting
our
assistance
,
than
Altezeera's
melancholly
would
the
continuation
of
your
Passion
,
and
the
freeing
her
from
Pacorus's
;
Yet
for
all
this
we
obtain'd
Theoxcena's
consent
,
rather
by
her
silence
,
than
her
granting
it
.
Having
thus
elected
this
resolve
,
under
a
pretence
of
paying
a
vow
to
the
god
Aesculapius
,
when
I
recover'd
of
my
wounds
,
I
begg'd
and
obtain'd
leave
from
Artabazus
,
to
go
into
Syria
,
to
a
Temple
Dedicated
to
him
,
which
stood
upon
the
Banks
of
Euphrates
;
Phanasder
would
have
accompany'd
me
the
first
days
journey
,
which
I
absolutely
declin'd
,
lest
it
might
give
a
suspition
of
that
,
which
were
absolutely
ruin'd
,
if
any
were
taken
of
it
;
we
therefore
took
leave
in
Tygranocerta
,
from
whence
in
three
days
he
determin'd
to
depart
,
to
put
that
in
execution
which
we
had
in
design
;
but
instead
of
going
to
that
Temple
,
I
went
but
two
days
on
the
way
thither
,
and
the
third
(
without
any
Servant
,
because
't
was
a
pilgrimage
)
I
took
the
shortest
way
to
Tyre
,
where
having
hir'd
a
swift
Quinquerem
Gally
,
the
wind
too
blowing
fair
at
East
,
till
we
came
to
the
length
of
Tarentume
,
to
which
we
sail'd
and
row'd
in
sixteen
dayes
(
so
signally
did
the
gods
favour
my
employment
)
I
caus'd
the
Mariners
to
put
into
this
Gulph
,
which
though
I
thought
a
misfortune
,
I
now
find
is
a
providence
,
and
hope
you
will
so
improve
it
,
as
not
to
make
the
gods
repent
they
have
conferr'd
it
on
you
.
'T
was
thus
said
,
the
generous
Artavasdes
to
Artabanes
and
Callimachus
,
that
Falintus
finish'd
his
Relation
,
which
I
hope
you
have
too
just
an
opinion
of
me
,
not
to
remember
,
and
though
it
be
of
my
telling
,
yet
that
it
was
in
his
words
,
since
many
of
them
were
so
flattering
,
that
I
could
not
have
been
vain
enough
to
have
spoke
them
of
my self
;
neither
will
I
trouble
you
with
any
of
my
sorrows
or
disorders
,
otherwise
than
by
a
brief
and
true
assurance
that
they
were
proportionate
to
my
loss
;
which
,
to
repair
or
revenge
,
I
determin'd
to
make
use
of
that
excess
of
Gallantry
,
which
the
generous
Phanasder
had
offer'd
me
,
and
to
effect
it
,
immediately
to
return
with
Falintus
in
his
Gally
.
But
alas
,
this
resolve
was
no
sooner
form'd
,
than
the
thought
of
leaving
Artabanes
in
Rome
,
and
of
retiring
without
him
,
destroy'd
it
suddainly
again
,
and
that
too
with
more
reason
than
't
was
form'd
.
But
Ventidius
observing
my
trouble
,
and
fancying
the
cause
,
so
absolutely
undertook
my
excuse
,
and
the
care
and
protection
of
you
(
for
,
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
you
know
by
your
permission
,
I
had
acquainted
him
who
you
were
)
that
in
the
transports
of
an
injur'd
,
and
hopeful
Lover
,
I
at
last
receiv'd
Ventidius's
assurances
as
satisfactory
,
and
having
again
by
vows
confirm'd
him
my
permission
to
serve
Vdosia
,
and
my
assistance
to
obtain
her
,
I
staid
no
longer
than
I
writ
to
my
dear
Artabanes
that
I
referr'd
the
cause
of
my
fault
,
and
the
care
of
his
,
and
the
generous
Sillace's
safety
to
Ventidius's
relation
and
Friendship
,
which
being
finisht
,
I
went
immediately
without
any
Servant
but
Philanax
,
to
Falintus's
Gally
,
where
after
a
million
of
embraces
and
vows
of
an
eternal
friendship
,
I
took
a
final
leave
of
Ventidius
,
who
promis'd
to
apologize
for
my
abrupt
departure
to
the
Senate
,
by
the
advantage
they
would
probably
derive
from
it
,
and
who
immediately
departed
for
Rome
,
as
we
did
for
Asia
.
The
same
wind
which
had
hinder'd
Falintus's
Navigation
,
so
favour'd
ours
,
that
in
eighteen
days
we
landed
at
Alexandretta
,
from
whence
with
extraordinary
diligence
in
six
days
more
I
arriv'd
at
Satala
,
a
Principality
which
was
fall'n
to
me
by
the
generous
Annexanders
death
,
and
in
which
Vdosia
resided
,
whom
I
went
purposely
to
see
,
and
to
give
her
those
just
impressions
of
Ventidius
,
which
should
fortify
her
Heart
against
the
reception
of
any
others
.
I
saw
her
,
(
my
dear
Artabanes
)
and
found
in
that
sight
,
how
much
injury
the
Painter
had
done
her
,
and
how
much
right
Ventidius
had
done
himself
in
his
election
,
for
indeed
,
never
Beauty
did
both
promise
and
give
so
much
at
once
as
Udozia's
,
which
(
in
a
word
)
possest
such
transcendent
perfection
,
that
had
it
not
been
for
the
reliques
of
my
Passion
,
I
might
have
found
the
honor
of
being
her
Brother
,
would
not
be
greater
than
the
misfortune
.
After
these
professions
which
my
relations
and
esteem
made
me
make
,
I
began
to
conjure
her
by
both
,
that
she
would
fix
her
thoughts
upon
a
person
,
which
I
not
only
esteem'd
most
worthy
of
them
,
but
which
was
really
so
,
and
which
she
might
be
in
some
degree
confirm'd
in
,
when
his
interior
graces
were
at
least
equal
to
those
perfections
of
Nature
,
of
which
I
presented
her
an
imperfect
Copy
;
thereupon
I
gave
her
Ventidius's
Picture
,
in
a
Box
so
precious
,
that
nothing
could
be
more
,
but
what
it
contain'd
;
and
then
gave
her
a
character
of
him
,
which
thought
it
were
short
of
Truth
(
which
had
been
an
inevitable
error
to
whosoever
had
undertaken
it
)
yet
it
fail'd
not
to
produce
that
effect
,
which
a
more
proportionate
one
to
his
desert
had
done
;
for
Udozia
whilst
I
was
speaking
,
with
her
Cheeks
dy'd
with
a
perfect
Vermillion
so
concernedly
consider'd
the
generous
Ventidius's
Picture
,
that
I
thought
she
would
be
wounded
in
the
same
way
,
in
which
she
had
wounded
him
;
and
I
was
no
sooner
silent
,
than
she
told
me
,
I
know
not
Sir
,
whether
I
have
more
cause
to
be
satisfy'd
with
your
care
,
or
to
be
the
contrary
in
so
evident
a
demonstration
that
you
doubt
my
obedience
and
affection
,
since
in
this
one
Command
,
concerning
Ventidius
,
I
find
pregnant
arguments
of
both
,
for
your
election
cannot
more
abundantly
demonstratethe
former
,
than
your
so
earnestly
commanding
me
,
what
is
as
much
an
effect
of
my
judgement
,
as
obedience
,
does
the
latter
.
Dear
Udozia
(
I
reply'd
)
embracing
her
)
I
am
not
so
much
an
enemy
to
my
own
Felicity
,
as
to
doubt
your
Affection
;
but
if
I
did
,
your
giving
your self
to
any
man
at
my
request
,
had
abundantly
supprest
in
me
that
belief
,
since
when
you
scruple
not
to
be
unjust
(
for
I
esteem
it
too
transcendent
a
reward
,
to
be
a
kind
of
injustice
,
and
your
giving
your self
to
any
Mortal
,
is
that
rewarad
)
to
raise
in
me
that
Faith
;
I
cannot
decline
making
it
mine
,
without
revenging
on
myself
my
own
incredulity
.
Udozia
still
retaining
her
blushes
(
which
this
discourse
continu'd
in
as
high
a
quality
as
my
request
for
Ventidius
had
created
them
in
,
)
made
me
a
return
as
full
of
flattery
as
mine
was
void
of
any
,
and
then
gave
me
a
positive
assurance
of
an
absolue
resigning
her
●elf
to
my
dispose
.
I
thought
it
then
high
time
to
let
her
know
the
generous
Annexander's
death
,
which
till
then
I
had
declin'd
,
because
Grief
was
an
ill
preparative
to
Love
,
being
of
a
contrary
quality
;
and
because
I
thought
if
she
receiv'd
the
former
,
it
would
so
entirely
possess
her
heart
,
that
the
latter
would
not
have
so
dangerous
an
admittance
;
at
last
by
degrees
I
acquainted
her
with
that
fatal
intelligence
,
which
having
forc'd
us
to
mingle
our
tears
together
,
by
little
and
little
,
I
began
to
dry
my
own
,
and
she
hers
in
imitation
of
me
;
but
knowing
that
to
divert
a
sorrow
,
is
to
lessen
it
,
I
resum'd
again
my
discourse
of
Ventidius
,
to
whom
I
told
her
,
I
would
,
and
to
whom
I
then
did
dispatch
an
Express
,
to
acquaint
him
with
his
Felicity
,
which
I
assur'd
her
he
was
determin'd
to
come
and
implore
at
the
head
of
fifty
thousand
Romans
,
whose
courages
so
led
,
would
soon
invest
her
in
Empires
as
large
,
as
the
Heart
which
ador'd
her
.
I
then
began
to
enquire
in
what
posture
Armenia
stood
,
for
Satala
was
upon
the
frontiers
of
it
,
and
the
first
place
in
the
Kingdom
I
had
rested
in
:
Udozia
told
me
all
things
were
in
a
general
quiet
:
that
the
Parthian
Army
(
upon
the
intelligence
that
Crassus
lay
about
the
famous
Temple
of
Hierapolis
,
intending
suddainly
to
invade
their
Countrey
)
were
all
with
Arsaces
return'd
into
it
,
but
10000
Horse
,
which
remain'd
as
Guards
to
Pacorus
and
Altezeera
,
who
were
shortly
to
follow
,
and
which
had
hitherto
been
interrupted
by
a
fresh
indisposition
of
the
latters
,
who
yet
was
now
so
well
recover'd
that
in
three
days
,
she
with
Pacorus
,
intended
to
leave
Tygranocerta
,
and
to
begin
their
journey
for
Parthia
,
on
the
frontiers
of
which
Empire
,
Arsaces
with
all
the
gallantry
of
it
,
had
publish'd
he
would
meet
them
,
and
that
all
this
she
had
receiv'd
by
an
Express
the
day
before
,
from
Lindesia
.
I
was
not
more
astonish'd
to
learn
Armenia
was
in
so
perfect
a
tranquility
,
than
joy'd
to
find
Altezeera
had
not
yet
left
it
;
and
after
a
short
reflection
on
both
,
I
ascrib'd
the
former
to
the
latter
,
and
that
the
gods
by
having
so
obligingly
detain'd
her
,
had
induc'd
Phanasder
to
suspend
that
Insurrection
he
intended
another
cause
producing
the
effect
,
for
which
only
that
was
design'd
.
Neither
was
my
Fancy
so
little
flattering
,
as
not
to
create
in
me
some
hopes
,
that
Altezeera's
indisposition
was
rather
a
pretence
than
a
reality
,
and
purposely
contriv'd
to
give
me
time
to
come
to
her
rescue
,
and
my
own
felicity
:
In
this
Faith
I
esteem'd
it
not
requisite
to
invite
Crassus's
invasion
,
who
too
,
being
in
this
place
,
was
at
too
great
a
distance
,
to
answer
so
suddain
an
occasion
as
mine
,
but
rather
to
flye
to
Tygranocerta
,
and
there
to
form
my
resolutions
according
to
my
Intelligence
.
Therefore
having
found
Udozia
had
as
much
discretion
as
Beauty
,
to
let
her
know
that
was
my
belief
,
I
privately
sent
for
Cleomen
,
the
Governor
of
Satala
,
who
I
commanded
thenceforth
to
obey
Udozia's
Orders
,
to
whom
I
left
entirely
the
Care
and
Governof
all
:
Cleomen
gave
me
a
million
of
thanks
for
so
pleasing
a
Command
and
publish'd
himself
exceedingly
satisfy'd
,
that
what
he
had
hitherto
done
by
inclination
,
he
should
now
do
by
duty
.
Then
after
having
given
Udozia
fresh
assurance
of
a
passionate
affection
and
friendship
,
and
conjur'd
both
her
and
Cleomen
,
to
keep
my
being
in
Armenia
a
Secret
,
with
fresh
Horses
,
and
only
with
Falintus
and
Philanax
,
in
four
days
I
crost
the
lower
Armenia
,
and
came
to
Tygranocerta
,
late
at
night
;
the
first
place
I
lighted
at
,
was
at
the
Palace
of
Theoxcena
,
with
whom
I
was
confident
to
find
Phanasder
,
or
learn
where
I
might
,
and
by
the
advice
of
so
good
Friends
and
Judgements
;
fix
upon
the
best
resolution
;
but
there
I
learnt
,
Theoxcena
had
that
day
left
Tygranocerta
with
Artabazus
,
and
all
the
Court
,
who
were
gone
to
accompany
Pacorus
and
Altezeera
,
towards
the
frontiers
of
Parthia
.
Oh
gods
!
what
horror
did
this
fatal
news
strike
me
with
?
but
not
to
contribute
to
my
misfortune
,
I
determin'd
(
having
given
our
Horses
a
little
refreshment
)
to
follow
that
Beauty
which
fled
,
both
from
my
Passion
and
me
;
and
therefore
went
directly
to
Phanasder's
Lodgings
,
for
I
could
not
learn
at
Theoxcena's
any
intelligence
of
him
,
but
that
he
was
not
gone
with
her
.
Falintus
,
who
went
in
first
,
got
me
a
private
Apartment
,
in
which
I
continu'd
til
he
return'd
,
who
soon
brought
me
word
,
that
Phanasder
was
a
days
journey
from
Tygranocerta
,
and
that
before
he
went
he
had
left
order
,
if
any
came
to
him
from
either
of
us
,
that
he
should
be
speedily
advertis'd
of
it
.
I
therefore
immediately
dispatch'd
a
Messenger
to
him
,
to
let
him
know
I
was
come
,
and
that
I
would
the
next
day
overtake
Altezeera
,
and
learn
my
destiny
from
her
whil'st
she
was
in
Armenia
;
and
that
if
he
would
follow
me
,
he
should
be
certain
to
hear
of
me
from
Theoxcena
,
to
whom
only
besides
the
Princess
I
would
discover
my self
.
This
Express
being
dispatched
,
after
three
hours
rest
,
we
began
again
to
prosecute
our
journey
,
and
the
next
night
overtook
the
Court
,
which
,
by
good
fortune
,
lay
at
a
magnificent
Castle
of
Evaxes
,
whither
as
soon
as
we
arrived
,
I
endeavoured
by
all
means
possible
to
speak
to
Theoxcena
;
but
neither
my
own
endeavors
,
nor
those
of
Falintus
and
Philanax
could
procure
it
,
unless
absolutely
one
of
us
would
discover
himself
,
which
we
positively
esteem'd
destructive
to
our
design
;
therefore
,
after
a
short
consideration
,
I
resolved
to
make
my self
known
to
Evaxes
,
of
whose
fidelity
I
was
justly
confident
,
and
from
him
to
implore
the
blessing
of
an
opportunity
to
entertain
without
any
witness
the
Princess
Altezeera
.
The
civil
Evaxes
,
joyfully
receiv'd
my
disclosing
my self
,
and
more
the
means
I
gave
him
of
obliging
me
,
which
he
undertook
positively
;
and
bringing
me
by
stol'n
passages
to
that
Room
alotted
for
her
Bed-chamber
,
he
plac'd
me
in
a
Cabinet
contiguous
to
it
,
and
assur'd
me
so
to
order
all
things
,
that
once
that
night
,
I
should
have
that
opportunity
I
so
passionatly
implor'd
.
I
embrac'd
him
a
thousand
times
for
this
obligation
,
and
gave
him
as
many
verbal
retributions
,
which
finish'd
,
I
only
conjured
him
to
tell
me
truly
,
whether
Altezeera
were
yet
married
to
Pacorus
,
to
which
he
absolutely
assur'd
me
she
was
not
,
neither
would
be
,
till
her
arrival
in
Parthia
.
Immediately
after
this
he
left
me
,
and
't
was
already
so
late
,
that
I
had
not
been
above
half
an
hour
in
my
impatiency
and
my
Prison
,
when
through
a
favourable
little
hole
,
I
perceived
the
Princess
come
into
the
Chamber
with
all
those
Charms
with
which
she
conquered
whosoever
beheld
her
,
and
waited
upon
by
Pacorus
the
last
evincement
of
that
power
.
WHen
the
generous
Artavasdes
was
in
this
part
of
his
Relation
,
the
Chyrurgions
coming
in
,
interrupted
it
,
by
acquainting
him
it
was
time
to
dress
both
his
and
Artabanes's
wounds
.
This
Summons
they
obey'd
,
though
in
it
the
last
of
them
found
a
new
affliction
in
his
friends
hurts
,
whose
dressing
was
so
long
of
necessity
to
suspend
a
Narration
,
in
which
he
could
not
be
more
concern'd
than
he
was
ravish'd
;
but
at
length
the
Chyrurgions
having
performed
their
duties
,
and
having
assured
their
Patients
,
that
their
wounds
were
as
hopeful
as
their
Art
could
wish
,
they
immediately
,
by
Callimachus's
command
,
withdrew
themselves
,
and
then
Artavasdes
,
upon
his
and
Arta●anes's
passionate
desire
,
thus
resumed
his
Story
,
where
they
had
interrupted
it
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
THIRD
PART
.
BOOK
III.
GReat
gods
!
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
you
only
know
my
Transports
at
the
seeing
of
so
many
Beauties
,
and
of
him
which
ravish'd
them
from
me
!
Ah!
(
said
I
to
my self
)
go
Artavasdes
,
and
prostrate
at
thy
Princesses
feet
,
conjure
her
not
to
make
herself
the
reward
of
any
thing
but
her
perfectest
Adorer
,
and
in
that
quality
implore
her
for
thy self
:
If
Pacorus
pretend
a
Title
to
her
under
that
Notion
,
decide
it
before
the
Judge
,
and
recompence
of
the
Combat
,
and
by
vanquishing
thy
Rival
,
conquer
her
disdain
,
and
inconstancy
,
or
by
being
vanquisht
by
him
,
end
thy
torments
,
and
thy
life
:
This
Artavasdes
,
is
the
noblest
,
as
well
as
readiest
expedient
;
but
alas
!
(
I
continu'd
)
she
that
prefer'd
Pacorus
before
thee
,
will
not
so
much
hazard
the
object
of
her
love
and
inconstancy
,
as
to
expose
his
life
to
a
hand
,
which
strikes
with
the
Sword
of
Justice
and
Revenge
.
Whil'st
I
was
building
and
destroying
a
thousand
such
resolutions
,
and
thoughts
,
Pacorus
was
entertaining
Altezeera
with
all
the
respect
and
devotion
,
so
great
a
beauty
and
flame
could
inspire
.
I
must
confess
my
disorders
for
awhile
gave
me
not
leave
to
consider
what
he
was
doing
,
or
what
he
said
;
but
when
they
did
,
I
endeavor'd
by
an
extraordinary
attentiveness
to
repair
that
precious
time
I
had
so
misimploy'd
;
and
I
was
no
sooner
compos'd
to
a
setled
hearing
,
than
I
heard
Pacorus
,
who
kneel'd
before
Altezeera
,
thus
speak
to
her
:
My
Princess
,
alas
!
why
did
you
confine
my
joyes
from
being
perfected
till
you
came
into
Parthia
?
Was
it
to
torment
the
ambition
of
my
desires
,
by
so
long
a
protraction
of
them
?
or
to
punish
my
crime
in
my
continuance
of
it
?
or
else
did
you
so
much
injure
my
felicity
,
to
esteem
it
of
so
common
a
quality
,
that
circumstances
could
indear
it
?
and
that
the
suspension
of
the
blessing
,
could
bring
any
accession
to
it
?
If
it
be
the
first
of
these
,
to
continue
the
punishment
of
an
aspiring
which
my
Princess
hath
so
often
pardon'd
to
my
reiterated
prayers
and
tears
,
is
to
be
as
much
unjust
as
she
is
capable
of
;
and
if
the
latter
,
she
is
almost
as
injurious
to
herself
,
as
cruel
to
me
.
Ah!
(
thought
I
)
how
unjust
are
the
gods
rather
,
to
confer
their
blessings
on
one
who
has
no
title
to
them
,
and
who
if
he
had
,
merits
none
,
by
exclaiming
against
a
felicity
which
nothing
but
a
little
time
will
place
him
in
,
and
perfect
;
when
at
the
same
instant
they
divest
me
,
not
only
of
the
joyes
,
but
hopes
of
them
,
when
she
too
which
ought
to
be
the
distributer
of
them
is
mine
,
by
services
,
by
gift
,
and
by
vows
.
That
distance
betwixt
the
place
where
Altezeera
was
,
and
where
I
remain'd
so
sad
an
Auditor
,
was
so
great
,
that
she
not
uttering
her
answer
with
that
violence
Pacorus
had
done
his
question
,
I
could
not
hear
it
,
but
I
remember
after
he
had
printed
an
ardent
kiss
upon
her
hand
,
he
rose
up
,
and
told
her
,
I
will
go
rather
Madam
,
and
implore
the
gods
either
to
hasten
the
motions
of
time
,
or
retard
those
of
my
impatiency
;
for
whil'st
they
both
continue
as
they
are
,
my
torments
must
do
the
like
:
Then
after
some
discourses
,
which
I
heard
but
in
broken
parts
,
he
withdrew
himself
.
I
observ'd
,
that
for
a
short
time
after
,
none
appear'd
in
the
Chamber
,
nor
that
any
noise
was
made
about
it
,
and
believing
I
deriv'd
this
opportunity
from
Evaxes's
favor
and
engagement
,
not
to
lose
it
,
I
came
trembling
and
pale
,
out
of
my
concealment
,
and
going
to
Altezeera
in
an
unequal
pace
,
I
no
sooner
came
to
her
feet
,
than
prostrating
my self
at
them
,
I
told
her
,
If
Madam
,
the
miserable
Artavasdes
presents
himself
before
you
,
't
is
not
to
reproach
you
having
made
him
so
,
nor
to
summon
you
of
those
holy
and
passionate
vows
,
which
rais'd
his
joyes
to
a
transcendency
nothing
can
proportion
,
but
the
torments
your
having
conceal'd
them
has
cast
him
into
:
Neither
,
fair
Princess
,
can
you
tell
him
it
can
be
more
his
duty
,
than
he
does
you
,
that
't
is
his
inclination
,
to
create
your
felicity
by
the
ruine
of
his
own
.
He
does
not
therefore
come
to
conjure
you
,
not
to
give
that
blessing
to
the
greatness
of
Pacorus's
Title
,
which
you
a
thousand
times
have
promis'd
to
the
greatness
of
his
Passion
;
for
he
alwayes
esteem'd
it
so
unjust
you
should
bestow
the
divine
Altezeera
,
on
one
who
is
almost
as
much
her
Subject
by
the
advantage
of
her
birth
,
as
by
that
of
her
beauty
,
that
he
would
have
kill'd
himself
,
that
he
would
have
dy'd
to
prevent
in
her
so
criminal
a
mercy
;
and
if
he
hath
liv'd
in
a
contrary
flattering
hope
,
't
was
only
because
he
esteem'd
no
sin
so
great
,
as
to
disobey
her
.
Whil'st
I
was
speaking
a
thousand
things
of
this
quality
,
which
too
I
utter'd
in
the
pressingst
Accents
that
ever
the
highest
grief
and
flame
was
capable
of
;
Altezeera
was
so
surpriz'd
,
and
astonish'd
,
that
had
her
affection
remain'd
as
fix'd
as
her
body
then
did
,
I
had
been
exempted
from
transcendent
torments
,
by
resembling
felicites
;
nor
did
she
awhile
after
I
had
ended
speaking
,
give
me
any
Answer
which
might
have
resolv'd
my
doubts
,
whether
her
silence
proceeded
from
a
cruel
,
or
obliging
cuase
;
for
all
she
said
when
she
broke
hers
,
was
only
,
Oh
gods
!
Is
this
Artavasdes
that
I
see
?
Yes
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
't
is
that
Artavasdes
who
has
given
the
divine
Altezeera
so
absolutely
his
life
,
that
he
durst
not
without
her
permission
put
a
period
to
it
,
though
what
she
has
of
late
acted
,
has
made
him
languish
in
such
torments
,
that
the
best
way
of
making
them
cease
,
next
to
that
of
the
blessing
of
her
esteem
,
is
to
make
them
cease
,
next
to
that
of
the
blessing
of
her
esteem
,
is
to
make
them
cease
,
by
the
blessing
of
death
:
'T
is
therefore
(
Madam
)
I
present
you
this
Poniard
,
that
if
you
will
not
be
just
to
your
vows
and
promises
,
yet
at
least
,
that
you
will
be
charitable
to
him
,
to
whom
they
were
made
;
and
if
I
implore
any
thing
before
I
die
,
't
is
only
that
I
may
do
it
with
the
consolation
of
receiving
my
ease
from
her
,
from
whom
I
have
my
sufferings
,
and
that
she
will
declare
I
dy'd
as
innocent
,
as
unfortunate
.
This
(
fair
Princess
)
if
your
justice
does
now
deny
me
,
your
pity
cannot
long
;
for
my
languishings
will
evince
,
death
is
the
lesser
ill
:
Neither
,
Madam
,
do
I
implore
it
on
any
score
but
yours
,
for
my
sufferings
proportionating
my
loss
,
will
make
such
deep
impressions
in
you
,
that
your
joyes
in
your
intended
Nuptials
,
will
receive
a
resembling
disturbance
,
at
least
if
you
have
not
as
absolutely
banish'd
Compassion
from
your
heart
,
as
Love
;
thereupon
kissing
the
hilts
of
the
Poniard
,
I
offer'd
that
part
of
it
to
her
,
and
presenting
her
my
breast
,
I
implor'd
her
to
make
what
had
been
the
Scene
of
her
highest
Empire
,
now
that
of
a
proportionate
pity
.
But
alas
she
declin'd
making
use
of
that
Weapon
,
to
wound
me
with
a
more
curel
one
,
I
mean
her
words
,
which
accompany'd
with
an
inflam'd
look
,
told
me
,
Traytor
Artanasdes
,
though
thy
Crimes
merit
I
should
become
thy
Executioner
,
as
well
as
thy
Judge
,
yet
I
decline
being
the
former
,
to
make
them
appear
the
greater
;
and
if
(
as
thou
say'st
)
thou
dost
esteem
no
sin
higher
than
to
disobey
me
,
I
command
thee
evince
the
truth
of
that
profession
,
by
never
coming
again
into
my
sight
.
Then
rising
up
hastily
,
she
went
out
of
the
Chamber
by
the
same
door
she
came
into
it
;
and
though
her
remove
was
very
sudden
,
and
that
my
amazement
was
as
great
,
yet
I
cry'd
out
,
Stay
Altezeera
,
though
Altvasdes
know
himself
innocent
,
yet
because
you
do
not
think
him
so
,
behold
how
he
will
punish
not
his
guilt
,
but
his
misfortune
:
Then
running
to
that
Poniard
she
had
flung
away
,
I
took
it
up
,
and
in
the
horror
and
despair
of
my
condition
,
I
had
sheath'd
it
in
my
heart
,
if
Evaxes
(
who
listen'd
at
a
back-door
)
had
not
has●ily
come
in
,
and
snatching
it
out
of
my
hand
,
prevented
it
.
Though
it
be
a
transcendent
wrong
,
when
one
is
in
proportion
at
misery
,
to
take
away
the
cure
of
it
,
yet
my
rage
not
having
so
absolutely
blinded
me
,
but
that
knowing
what
was
in
its
own
nature
an
offence
,
was
intended
for
a
charity
,
I
only
told
Evaxes
(
having
first
furiously
look'd
on
him
)
't
is
in
vain
Evaxes
,
't
is
in
vain
you
think
to
keep
mefrom
death
,
by
having
only
took
from
me
one
means
of
acting
it
,
when
the
wayes
which
lead
unto
the
Grave
cannot
be
more
,
than
the
causes
which
invite
me
to
it
:
Then
turning
from
him
,
and
observing
Altezeera
was
gone
,
I
ran
precipitately
after
her
,
but
alas
she
had
lock'd
the
door
upon
me
,
and
thereby
I
found
she
had
not
only
excluded
me
from
the
hopes
of
possessing
her
,
but
from
those
of
clearing
an
imaginary
guilt
,
to
which
she
implicitely
ascrib'd
that
fatal
deprivation
.
In
the
rage
of
so
strange
an
usage
,
I
was
a
thousand
times
about
to
have
forc'd
it
open
,
had
not
Evaxes
hinder'd
me
,
by
representing
,
that
if
Altezeera
had
not
apprehended
my
vindication
,
she
would
neither
have
then
deny'd
listning
to
it
,
nor
debar'd
me
the
means
of
discovering
how
passionate
I
was
to
evince
it
;
That
since
her
Actions
so
evidently
demonstrated
that
Truth
,
I
ought
to
impute
her
objecting
Crimes
to
my
charge
,
but
as
a
cloud
for
her
own
,
and
consider
that
to
be
her
inconstancy
,
which
she
disguis'd
under
the
name
of
her
resentments
;
That
since
she
was
of
so
volatile
a
disposition
,
't
was
better
I
had
made
that
discovery
in
the
condition
I
was
yet
in
,
than
in
that
which
Pacorus
was
so
near
embracing
,
since
I
might
consider
,
that
as
my
felicity
,
which
he
could
not
learn
but
as
his
torment
;
That
it
was
still
an
Argument
she
loved
me
,
when
she
declin'd
imposing
those
miseries
on
me
my
desires
ambition'd
,
to
confer
them
on
another
,
whose
subsequent
troubles
I
should
pleasingly
disclose
those
I
had
so
happily
avoided
.
These
reasons
would
have
appear'd
so
to
any
but
me
,
and
would
too
so
to
me
,
had
I
but
listen'd
to
them
,
which
then
I
did
not
;
for
all
the
while
he
was
speaking
,
I
was
so
too
,
sometimes
resolving
to
go
and
punish
Artabazus
,
for
having
been
so
far
from
hindring
his
Sisters
inconstancy
,
that
he
sollicited
and
provoked
it
;
but
then
the
reflection
on
the
greatness
of
the
Sin
,
hinder'd
me
from
acting
it
,
especially
too
when
that
reflection
was
fortify'd
by
that
on
his
quality
,
which
made
it
a
greater
injustice
not
to
act
for
the
safety
of
his
Subjects
in
general
,
than
to
do
it
for
any
one
of
them
in
particular
,
so
that
I
had
no
just
cause
to
be
offended
with
him
,
for
having
of
two
evils
elected
the
least
.
My
fury
not
finding
a
fit
object
in
him
,
I
began
to
contemplate
Pacorus
as
one
,
who
was
not
only
the
cause
of
Altezeera's
inconstancy
,
but
the
continuer
of
it
,
and
whose
destruction
would
both
revenge
me
on
him
and
her
.
But
then
the
reflection
on
the
occasion
of
his
Sin
,
appear'd
a
sufficient
Apology
for
it
,
and
knowing
how
impossible
't
was
to
see
,
and
not
love
Altezeera
,
in
the
very
necessity
of
his
fault
,
;
besides
,
by
services
and
engagements
,
she
could
not
be
more
mine
,
than
upon
both
those
scores
she
was
Pacorus's
;
and
yet
I
had
been
so
unjust
,
as
to
sollicit
her
for
Artavasdes
,
and
therefore
't
were
to
be
more
so
,
to
punish
that
in
another
,
which
I
practic'd
in
my
felf
;
that
she
was
only
mine
by
the
first
grant
,
and
his
by
the
last
,
which
in
all
concessions
of
Love
is
the
bindingst
Title
;
and
lastly
that
I
ow'd
a
life
unto
him
,
which
till
I
had
repaid
,
I
was
his
Debtor
,
and
therefore
should
not
be
his
Murtherer
.
Whil'st
my
Reason
and
my
Passion
were
thus
making
War
against
each
other
,
Evaxes
,
who
still
apprehended
the
last
of
them
would
fling
me
into
some
strange
Crime
,
and
that
my
continuance
where
I
was
,
might
into
a
proportionate
danger
,
(
all
the
Guards
in
the
Castle
being
Parthians
)
he
conjur'd
me
so
passionately
to
retire
to
an
Apartment
he
had
provided
for
me
,
and
there
establilsh
my
resolutions
,
when
my
resentments
were
so
qualifi'd
,
as
not
to
silence
the
dictates
of
my
reason
,
that
at
last
by
following
,
rather
than
by
promise
,
I
obey'd
him
,
who
led
me
by
a
stolen
passage
to
my
Chamber
,
not
meeting
any
one
by
the
way
,
which
though
we
had
,
I
am
confident
I
had
not
been
discover'd
,
if
at
least
I
had
been
as
unknowable
to
all
,
as
I
was
to
my●●lf
.
There
I
told
Falintus
,
and
Philanax
,
what
had
happen'd
,
and
there
't
was
that
Evaxes
repeating
those
reasons
my
rage
hinder'd
me
from
hearing
,
(
which
too
were
strengthen'd
by
many
others
as
powerful
from
Falintus
)
I
determin'd
the
next
morning
as
an
evincement
of
their
operation
,
to
retire
into
some
solitude
,
and
there
spend
as
much
time
as
the
banishing
Altezeera
from
my
heart
,
would
take
up
,
whose
influence
there
was
not
already
a
little
eclips'd
,
since
I
could
form
a
resolution
of
extinguishing
it
.
This
Declaration
prov'd
as
pleasing
to
them
,
as
that
which
created
it
,
was
the
contrary
to
me
;
but
they
having
retir'd
themselves
,
I
past
the
night
in
such
confused
thoughts
,
that
it
had
been
difficult
to
have
collected
any
thing
from
them
,
but
that
they
were
the
productions
of
an
exorbitant
di●●emper
.
The
day
no
sooner
appear'd
,
than
telling
Falintus
and
Evaxes
,
whither
I
intended
to
go
the
next
night
,
and
having
commanded
Philanax
to
follow
me
,
as
soon
as
he
had
learnt
from
them
,
whether
my
being
in
Armenia
,
and
my
last
Action
were
discover'd
,
how
they
were
both
relish'd
,
and
whether
I
might
safely
demand
justice
of
Artabazus
for
Anexander's
Murther
,
that
in
the
certainty
of
being
deny'd
it
,
I
might
thereby
act
it
myself
,
immediately
(
before
the
Court
was
up
)
I
took
Horse
,
and
was
accompany'd
out
of
the
Castle
by
Evaxes
,
(
who
for
a
long
while
made
no
scruples
to
trust
me
alone
,
being
so
newly
recover'd
from
a
despair
,
whose
effects
were
yet
somewhat
visible
in
my
face
;
but
having
secur'd
his
jealousies
by
many
vows
,
and
by
the
improbability
of
my
so
much
contributing
to
my
Enemies
triumphs
,
I
finally
took
leave
of
him
,
and
had
not
Travel'd
above
an
hundred
Furlongs
,
when
coming
into
a
Wood
at
the
extremity
of
a
great
Plain
,
I
was
stop'd
by
a
violent
Cry
behind
me
,
which
turning
about
to
learn
the
cause
of
,
I
saw
the
man
that
utter'd
it
,
come
running
towards
me
,
as
fast
as
his
Horse
could
carry
him
;
as
soon
as
he
came
near
me
,
he
drew
his
Sword
,
and
bade
me
defend
my self
,
if
my
Crimes
had
not
divested
me
of
the
Courage
to
justifie
them
:
This
Declaration
,
though
it
much
surpriz'd
me
,
yet
I
did
not
near
so
much
as
the
knowledge
that
't
was
Phanasder
which
made
it
;
but
being
confident
he
mistook
me
,
I
prepar'd
my self
for
nothing
but
to
embrace
him
,
and
offer
him
my
Sword
and
Life
to
join
in
his
revenge
;
but
perceiving
he
esteem'd
himself
discharg'd
of
all
other
Ceremonies
,
by
having
denounc'd
the
Combat
,
I
cry'd
out
to
him
,
hold
Phanasder
't
is
Artavasdes
speaks
to
you
.
'T
is
he
(
Phanasder
briskly
reply'd
)
that
I
seek
,
and
who
to
his
other
Triumphs
must
add
that
of
my
Life
,
or
in
the
loss
of
his
,
I
must
repair
my
wrongs
.
Oh
gods
!
(
I
answer'd
)
if
my
Death
could
be
but
as
great
a
satisfaction
to
Phanasder
,
as
to
me
,
he
would
oblige
us
both
in
acting
it
;
but
since
such
a
satisfaction
cannot
be
perfected
without
as
great
a
Crime
,
let
me
understand
first
wherein
you
esteem
me
guilty
;
for
if
I
do
not
so
entirely
vindicate
Artavasdes
,
that
you
must
acknowledge
Phanasder
criminal
,
for
having
thought
him
so
,
I
will
employ
my
Sword
,
not
to
resist
,
but
execute
your
Revenge
.
If
thy
Crimes
(
said
Phanasder
)
were
not
too-too-much
apparent
,
I
should
not
have
sought
this
opportunity
,
which
since
they
are
,
I
will
not
spend
it
to
shew
thee
thy
sins
,
but
to
punish
them
.
Then
,
having
again
bid
me
defend
my self
,
or
my
submission
should
not
be
my
Sanctuary
,
he
charg'd
me
with
such
fury
,
that
I
found
by
experiment
the
high
character
I
alwayes
had
of
his
Courage
,
was
but
too
dangerous
a
truth
.
But
his
rude
Reply
to
an
offer
he
could
not
have
declin'd
without
seeking
to
be
my
Enemy
,
and
the
certainty
I
found
,
that
I
must
derive
my
safety
not
from
my
innocence
,
but
resistance
,
though
they
made
me
finally
draw
my
Sword
,
yet
I
made
but
use
of
it
to
keep
him
from
acting
a
sin
,
I
know
he
would
in
a
right
understanding
as
much
deplore
,
as
now
he
was
sollicitous
to
perform
;
and
indeed
he
prest
me
so
incessantly
and
vigorously
,
that
had
not
an
unexpected
Accident
ended
the
Combat
,
my
death
or
his
must
have
done
it
;
for
making
a
furious
blow
at
my
head
,
and
I
defending
it
with
my
Sword
,
his
flew
out
of
his
hand
in
two
pieces
.
At
this
Phanasder
was
not
more
astonish'd
,
than
I
was
satisfi'd
,
which
I
exprest
by
telling
him
,
Phanasder
,
Let
that
Life
I
give
you
,
convince
you
that
I
am
still
your
Friend
.
No
,
no
,
Artavasdes
,
(
he
hastily
reply'd
)
it
convinces
me
thou
art
the
contrary
;
for
if
thou
were
not
,
having
loaden
me
with
such
sorrows
,
thou
wouldst
not
deny
me
their
cure
,
being
it
is
in
thy
power
,
therefore
I
declare
,
if
thou
canst
be
yet
concern'd
in
having
me
esteem
thee
my
Friend
,
nothing
can
be
more
contributory
to
it
,
than
to
make
use
of
thy
Victory
,
which
the
more
to
induce
thee
to
,
I
protest
by
all
those
wrongs
thou
hast
done
me
,
I
will
leave
no
place
unsearch'd
,
nor
no
means
unattempted
for
my
revenge
.
If
(
said
I
)
my
giving
you
your
life
after
your
first
declaration
,
has
not
convinc'd
you
that
I
am
your
Friend
,
I
hope
the
doing
it
after
this
latter
,
will
sufficiently
effect
it
;
for
were
I
concern'd
in
your
death
,
I
have
not
only
the
power
,
but
the
provocation
to
act
it
.
But
,
Phanasder
,
I
had
rather
expose
my
life
to
your
fury
,
than
secure
it
by
the
destruction
of
what
I
prefer
a
thousand
times
before
it
,
which
not
only
my
friendship
for
you
,
but
even
your
hatred
to
me
makes
me
profess
,
and
which
I
still
implore
to
learn
the
subject
of
,
that
if
I
do
not
extinguish
your
desire
of
revenge
,
I
may
present
you
wherewithall
to
act
it
.
Oh
gods
!
(
reply'd
Phanasder
,
lifting
up
his
eyes
)
why
do
you
give
unto
guilt
the
same
expressions
with
which
innocency
should
be
cloath'd
?
Then
turning
them
to
me
,
he
told
me
,
Artavasdes
,
thou
wilt
not
then
by
ending
of
my
torments
,
shew
methou
hast
some
pity
,
if
not
friendship
for
me
.
No
,
(
I
reply'd
)
for
should
I
so
put
a
period
to
yours
,
I
should
create
in
my self
greater
than
I
cen
extinguish
in
you
.
Remember
then
(
he
reply'd
)
that
there
being
no
way
to
end
those
I
groan
under
but
by
my
death
,
or
thine
,
that
denying
me
the
former
,
thou
necessitatest
me
thereby
as
much
as
by
thy
crimes
,
unto
the
latter
,
which
I
will
perform
,
though
thou
shouldst
conceal
thy self
in
that
heart
,
which
thou
valu'st
more
than
thine
own
;
then
turning
about
his
Horse
,
he
thrust
himself
into
the
Wood
full
speed
,
my
pity
at
his
condition
not
being
greater
,
than
my
ignorance
of
what
created
it
,
I
follow'd
him
,
to
learn
what
he
had
twice
deny'd
me
;
and
when
I
found
I
could
not
overtake
him
,
I
endeavored
to
make
my
voice
do
it
,
which
was
so
far
from
retarding
,
that
it
did
but
hasten
his
course
,
so
that
I
soon
lost
sight
of
him
,
yet
for
above
four
Furlongs
I
follow'd
by
the
track
of
his
Horse
,
but
then
mine
began
to
faint
,
and
suddenly
after
fell
dead
under
me
,
by
a
deep
wound
he
had
received
in
the
fight
,
and
which
my
earnest
prosecution
of
Phanasder
made
me
not
observe
.
'T
was
thereafter
my
heat
was
mitigated
,
that
I
began
to
find
how
much
the
gods
took
delight
to
torment
me
;
and
after
I
had
a
little
reflected
on
those
strange
Accidents
which
had
arrived
me
in
so
short
a
space
,
I
could
not
abstain
from
saying
,
Great
gods
!
was
it
not
enough
misery
for
the
unfortunate
Artavasdes
to
lose
his
Princess
,
but
you
must
add
unto
it
,
the
losing
of
his
friend
?
And
were
not
both
those
losses
sufficient
to
glutt
your
hatred
,
but
that
you
must
give
me
resolution
and
fortitude
to
survive
them
?
Ah
cruel
Powers
,
did
you
give
me
Innocency
but
by
punishing
it
as
Guilt
,
to
change
mine
into
it
?
And
are
you
so
sollicitous
to
make
me
blaspheme
,
that
you
make
Innocence
unfortunate
,
to
invite
me
to
it
?
But
(
I
continu'd
,
after
a
short
silence
)
if
I
have
offended
you
,
let
the
world
read
my
sin
in
my
punishment
;
but
since
I
have
not
offended
either
Altezeera
,
or
Phanasder
,
why
would
you
induce
the
world
to
believe
I
have
,
by
making
them
my
Persecutors
?
'T
was
with
as
many
extravagant
Reasonings
as
these
that
I
fed
my
despair
,
and
my
rage
not
permitting
me
to
rest
,
I
found
my self
out
of
the
Wood
,
as
soon
as
I
remembred
I
had
been
in
it
,
and
seeing
a
Village
not
far
off
,
I
went
thither
,
where
having
hired
a
Horse
,
I
prosecuted
that
journey
Phanasders
strange
distemper
had
interrupted
.
As
soon
as
I
came
into
my
Inn
,
I
found
,
that
Falintus
and
Philanax
(
having
met
with
no
obstructions
)
were
gotten
thither
before
me
,
from
whom
I
was
informed
,
that
though
they
could
not
find
by
any
intelligence
they
had
learnt
,
that
my
being
in
Armenia
,
nor
my
having
been
at
Evaxes
Castle
were
known
,
yet
they
had
cause
to
believe
both
were
,
for
Crassolis
that
morning
was
retir'd
from
the
Court
;
neither
could
they
any
more
discover
the
cause
of
his
departure
,
than
the
place
of
his
retreat
,
so
that
Falintus
told
me
,
I
might
be
confident
Artabazus
would
not
deny
me
justice
for
my
Fathers
murther
,
since
Crassolis
to
think
his
own
guilt
,
only
not
my
knowledge
of
it
,
made
him
flie
,
and
in
that
faith
he
might
return
;
which
as
soon
as
he
did
,
then
was
the
time
of
demanding
justice
:
For
the
giving
of
it
then
,
would
give
me
revenge
with
it
;
and
to
implore
it
now
,
were
absolutely
to
miss
of
the
latter
,
by
a
concession
of
the
former
,
since
to
condemn
him
,
were
but
giving
him
advice
to
secure
himself
.
These
Reasons
since
I
could
not
suspect
,
either
them
,
or
the
Author
of
them
,
I
determined
to
obey
,
I
then
told
Falintus
,
what
as
unfortunate
,
as
strange
an
Accident
had
arrived
me
with
Phanasder
,
which
he
admir'd
at
as
much
as
he
was
ignorant
of
the
cause
,
and
told
me
,
This
morning
,
Sir
,
I
met
him
coming
from
the
Princess
Theoxcena's
Apartment
,
and
with
a
countenance
whose
disorder
he
could
not
conceal
;
after
he
had
by
some
short
embraces
and
expressions
congratulated
my
happy
return
,
he
then
precipitately
asked
me
where
you
were
,
for
he
had
some
business
of
high
concern
to
communicate
unto
you
.
I
told
him
,
that
both
Philanax
and
I
,
continued
at
Court
,
purposely
to
learn
,
and
send
you
things
of
that
quality
;
and
that
if
he
were
over-harrast
with
his
late
journey
,
and
that
he
would
acquaint
me
with
the
secret
,
I
would
overtake
you
that
night
,
and
stop
you
till
his
coming
.
To
this
Phanasder
replyed
,
That
he
would
trust
me
with
his
heart
,
but
that
the
business
he
had
with
you
,
was
of
a
nature
which
would
lose
its
virtue
,
if
it
were
delivered
you
by
any
but
himself
,
and
therefore
he
passionately
conjured
me
to
let
him
know
which
way
you
had
took
,
and
to
pardon
a
silence
which
I
could
not
condemn
,
when
I
should
be
instructed
in
the
cause
.
I
did
therefore
satisfie
both
his
requests
,
and
't
was
by
my
information
that
he
so
unfortunately
found
you
out
;
but
could
not
you
,
Sir
,
(
continued
Falintus
)
in
his
passion
,
collect
something
which
might
tell
you
what
created
it
?
No
,
(
I
replyed
)
though
by
reiterated
intreaties
I
conjur'd
him
to
tell
it
me
;
and
with
faithful
promises
,
if
I
were
guilty
,
to
contribute
to
,
and
not
oppose
his
revenge
;
but
all
was
in
vain
:
and
I
could
collect
nothing
but
that
he
was
as
confident
I
was
criminal
,
as
I
am
,
that
I
am
not
.
The
best
part
of
the
night
we
entertain'd
our selves
in
resembling
discourses
,
which
at
length
I
put
a
period
to
,
by
conjuring
Falintus
to
continue
about
the
Court
,
to
endeavor
to
learn
the
cause
of
Phanasder's
change
;
that
though
his
carriage
render'd
him
not
absolutely
worthy
my
care
,
yet
thinking
the
knowledge
of
his
error
would
not
only
punish
the
Criminal
,
but
restore
unto
me
the
gallant
Phanasder
,
I
was
passionately
concerned
therein
;
That
he
would
enquire
after
Crassolis
,
and
send
me
constant
intelligence
to
a
Solitude
near
Satala
,
which
I
had
elected
in
a
great
measure
by
his
persuasions
and
reasons
,
and
where
I
would
pass
away
the
reliques
of
my
melancholy
and
love
.
Falintus
would
have
accompany'd
me
thither
,
which
I
absolutely
declin'd
;
and
then
he
having
as
absolutely
promised
to
obey
my
former
requests
,
the
next
morning
we
separated
our selves
,
he
taking
the
way
to
the
Court
,
and
I
to
Thospia
,
where
I
intended
to
visit
Lyndesia
,
before
I
secluded
my self
from
the
World
.
There
that
excellent
Woman
gave
me
such
admirable
Reason
,
for
the
suppressing
of
my
Passion
,
that
I
must
havebeen
entirely
divested
of
the
former
,
had
I
not
divested
my self
of
the
latter
;
which
whil'st
I
did
not
(
for
I
shall
not
scruple
to
confess
,
that
sometimes
I
made
a
start
into
Love
)
by
the
reflection
on
Lyndesia's
reasoning
,
I
acknowledged
my self
void
of
any
,
and
knowing
my self
to
be
so
,
I
excused
my
fault
,
in
the
knowledge
of
my
condition
:
Neither
did
she
only
give
me
precepts
,
but
example
against
the
assaults
of
Fortune
;
and
what
she
would
have
had
me
practice
in
Altezeera's
case
,
she
did
in
herself
Anexanders
,
though
in
it
she
found
so
little
reason
to
fortifie
herself
with
,
that
perhaps
that
was
the
only
reason
with
which
she
did
it
;
neither
did
her
calmness
in
so
high
an
essay
,
appear
anything
like
insensibility
,
no
,
it
shew'd
its
cause
in
its
effect
,
and
the
gods
did
in
some
degree
repair
her
loss
,
by
making
it
so
largely
evidence
her
virtue
:
I
have
been
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
somewhat
the
more
particular
in
Lyndesia's
character
,
because
her
perfections
are
of
a
resembling
quality
,
as
also
to
oppose
a
Maxim
as
absurd
as
common
,
which
is
the
declining
the
praise
of
those
to
whom
we
have
a
near
relation
;
whereas
those
that
have
not
any
,
can
hardly
make
an
exact
character
;
and
by
this
low
rule
,
the
chief
,
if
not
the
only
way
by
which
we
must
attain
to
the
knowledge
of
a
perfection
,
must
be
the
Argument
for
not
publishing
it
.
I
continued
two
dayes
at
Thospia
with
Lyndesia
,
from
whose
actions
,
as
well
as
words
,
I
received
that
consolation
I
fear'd
she
would
have
needed
.
The
third
day
I
took
my
leave
,
and
desired
her
to
continue
Udozia
where
I
had
given
her
an
absolute
power
,
not
only
as
it
was
a
place
near
which
I
intended
to
reside
,
but
being
on
the
frontiers
,
Ventidius
,
(
whose
passion
I
had
not
only
at
large
acquainted
her
with
,
but
made
her
approve
)
upon
the
making
his
Addresses
to
Udozia
,
might
not
be
necessitated
to
put
himself
in
any
hazard
,
by
coming
unaccompanied
,
or
Armenia
,
by
coming
with
an
Army
.
This
Lyndesia
having
granted
,
I
left
Thospia
,
and
in
twelve
days
came
to
my
little
retirement
,
where
retaining
none
but
Philanax
with
me
,
and
two
or
three
servants
for
necessary
uses
,
I
began
to
make
a
fierce
War
against
my
Passion
,
and
my
Sadness
,
which
I
found
were
Enemies
easier
to
be
conquered
,
than
extirpated
,
and
like
some
barbarous
people
,
were
invisible
,
when
any
power
was
extant
to
oppose
them
;
but
when
that
power
appeared
no
more
,
they
instantly
did
,
and
assum'd
as
high
a
Sovereignty
,
as
if
they
had
been
Conquerors
.
This
made
me
incessantly
continue
in
Arms
,
and
those
I
made
use
of
,
were
the
remembrance
of
the
services
I
had
rendered
Altezeera
of
her
vows
,
and
of
her
unconstancy
;
for
which
I
found
so
little
excuse
,
that
what
had
given
the
wrong
,
I
thought
would
also
repair
it
:
A
thousand
times
in
this
resolution
I
was
going
to
abandon
my
Solitude
,
and
by
a
publick
undisturbed
serenity
,
evince
I
rob'd
her
of
so
much
of
her
triumph
,
as
that
my
sorrow
compos'd
no
part
thereof
;
but
alas
immediately
I
fancy'd
Altezeera
in
all
her
charms
,
and
captivating
my
resolution
,
with
the
same
eyes
with
which
she
had
my
liberty
,
with
whose
influences
,
my
trayterous
fancy
so
conspired
,
that
though
I
were
at
too
great
a
distance
to
receive
their
real
impressions
,
yet
by
that
false
helper
I
carried
still
their
effects
about
me
.
Never
man
endured
those
torments
the
miserable
Artavasdes
did
,
and
his
fate
was
so
particular
,
that
whil'st
he
yet
disputed
the
Victory
,
he
resented
more
pregnant
sufferings
than
he
could
have
in
the
very
losing
it
:
And
if
mine
received
any
intermission
,
't
was
from
the
visits
of
Vdosia
,
in
whose
sight
and
conversation
I
had
some
good
intervals
,
which
continu'd
me
in
some
charity
to
the
Sex
,
by
receiving
from
one
of
it
the
ease
of
those
pains
another
had
made
me
resent
.
'T
was
thus
for
a
long
while
that
I
languish'd
away
my
time
,
during
which
I
received
frequent
and
faithful
intelligences
from
the
generous
Falintus
;
his
first
was
,
that
notwithstanding
a
scrutinous
enquiry
and
search
,
he
could
never
learn
either
waht
was
the
cause
of
Phanasder's
change
,
or
what
was
become
of
him
:
That
the
fair
Theoxcena
,
as
Author
of
,
or
participater
in
his
discontents
,
had
retired
herself
either
absolutely
,
or
conditionally
from
the
world
;
and
that
he
was
as
ignorant
of
the
place
of
her
retreat
,
as
of
what
was
the
occasion
of
it
:
That
Altezeera
had
been
solemnly
married
to
the
Prince
of
Parthia
,
immediately
after
her
arrival
in
that
Kingdom
:
And
that
Crassus
had
lost
his
Army
,
and
his
Life
,
in
a
furious
Battel
against
the
Parthians
,
who
had
been
assisted
by
a
visible
Divinity
,
that
vanish'd
as
soon
as
did
the
Roman
hopes
.
These
three
Intelligences
were
as
sensible
unto
me
,
as
any
others
I
was
capable
of
;
for
in
the
first
of
them
,
I
lost
my
friends
;
in
the
second
,
my
Mistriss
;
and
in
the
third
,
my
hopes
of
revenging
or
repairing
that
loss
.
I
will
pass
over
the
many
sighs
and
complaints
I
gave
to
those
accessions
of
sorrow
,
to
let
you
know
,
that
the
Solitude
which
Reason
could
not
make
me
abandon
,
Friendship
did
:
For
I
received
an
advice
from
Udozia
,
that
Ventidius
with
an
Army
(
as
formidable
from
the
Nation
,
as
the
numbers
which
compos'd
it
)
had
already
crost
the
Hellespont
,
and
was
so
far
advanc'd
into
the
letter
Asia
,
that
if
intended
to
see
him
before
he
entered
Armenia
,
I
could
not
any
longer
delay
my
visit
.
This
Alarm
I
joyfully
receiv'd
,
and
in
some
degree
I
was
reconcil'd
to
the
gods
,
who
,
though
they
had
deny'd
me
the
establishment
of
my
own
felicity
,
had
yet
blest
me
with
the
power
of
setling
my
friends
.
In
two
dayes
I
had
fitted
my self
to
leave
my
retirement
,
which
I
could
not
do
without
some
reluctancy
,
as
an
acknowledgement
of
those
uninterrupted
hours
of
melancholy
I
had
spent
in
it
;
my
first
journey
was
to
Satala
,
where
having
formed
my
Equipage
and
receiv'd
those
reiterated
assurances
from
Udozia
,
which
were
to
settle
Ventidius's
,
and
my
felicity
,
I
crost
the
mountain
Scordicus
,
which
separates
Armenia
from
Cilicia
,
and
in
two
dayes
after
came
to
Tharsus
,
the
Metropolis
of
that
Province
,
where
Ventidius
then
lay
;
who
having
Advertisement
of
my
Arrival
,
drew
out
all
his
Army
(
which
consisted
of
50000
natural
Italians
)
into
a
large
Plain
on
the
East-side
of
the
City
,
where
he
receiv'd
me
with
a
million
of
Embraces
at
the
head
of
them
,
and
where
I
found
nothing
more
worthy
admiration
than
the
Forces
,
but
their
General
.
'T
was
at
this
first
meeting
(
after
I
had
saluted
all
the
Roman
Tribunes
)
and
as
we
were
riding
to
Tharsus
,
that
he
told
me
:
If
(
my
dear
Artavasdes
)
I
have
so
long
abstained
from
acknowledging
Udozia's
victory
at
her
feet
,
't
was
only
to
evince
my
respect
equal
to
my
Passion
,
and
not
to
declare
my self
her
Subject
,
till
I
presented
her
with
an
Army
that
might
make
those
so
by
her
commands
,
which
were
unworthy
to
be
so
by
her
sight
:
The
gods
know
how
just
this
duty
is
,
by
esteeming
it
fitter
to
abandon
their
Rome
in
Crassus's
defeat
,
than
that
I
should
be
any
longer
suspended
from
paying
it
:
Yes
(
my
Artavasdes
)
I
am
now
come
to
implore
that
Assistance
you
have
so
generously
promis'd
me
,
and
by
which
if
I
am
victorious
,
I
shall
no
more
fear
any
other
Conquests
,
than
desire
them
.
He
told
me
many
as
passionate
words
as
these
,
and
deliver'd
them
in
an
Accent
which
was
so
full
of
grace
and
concern
,
that
I
easily
perceived
what
inspir'd
them
,
and
from
whence
they
came
.
Ventidius
had
no
sooner
ended
speaking
,
than
I
told
him
:
If
after
those
miseries
the
cruel
gods
have
impos'd
on
me
,
I
have
found
sufficient
fortitude
to
outlive
them
,
I
deriv'd
it
principally
,
perhaps
intirely
,
from
my
concerns
in
the
generous
Ventidius
;
and
if
since
my
torments
began
I
have
relish'd
any
thing
of
joy
,
I
attest
the
gods
,
't
was
only
by
reflecting
on
my
success
for
him
,
which
has
been
as
proportionate
to
my
desires
,
as
to
his
.
Yes
(
my
Ventidius
)
Vdozia
sets
that
value
on
you
which
you
have
ambitioned
,
and
if
by
my
imperfect
character
she
has
assum'd
such
an
esteem
of
you
,
judge
then
what
it
will
rise
unto
,
when
she
sees
your
person
,
and
has
heard
the
charms
of
your
conversation
?
Ah
Artavasdes
,
(
said
Ventidius
)
I
apprehend
you
have
been
so
much
more
my
Friend
than
Nature
and
Education
has
,
that
to
continue
in
the
blessing
of
her
esteem
,
I
must
live
in
it
by
your
character
,
and
to
continue
that
felicity
,
I
must
deny
my self
the
other
of
seeing
her
.
If
this
(
I
reply'd
)
be
your
fears
,
you
have
not
many
hours
Travel
to
clear
them
;
but
certainly
you
could
not
have
so
good
an
opinion
of
Udozia
,
if
you
had
so
ill
an
one
of
her
judgment
.
'T
was
in
such
discourses
as
these
that
we
entertain'd
one
another
till
our
entring
into
Tharsus
,
where
that
necessary
formal
Civility
for
awhile
deny'd
us
a
privacy
,
which
,
as
soon
as
we
enjoy'd
,
Ventidius
employ'd
a
part
of
it
,
to
tell
me
those
admirable
vicissitudes
of
the
Roman
State
,
in
the
victories
and
death
of
Iulius
Caesar
;
which
latter
,
though
the
Conspirators
believ'd
would
either
have
restor'd
the
Roman
liberty
,
or
made
them
Lords
of
it
,
yet
they
had
fail'd
of
both
,
and
the
event
did
manifest
there
was
more
difficulty
in
making
the
Romans
assume
their
freedom
,
than
there
had
been
in
making
them
lay
it
down
.
That
the
gods
had
evinc'd
how
they
disrelish'd
the
spilling
of
that
great
Mans
Blood
,
not
only
by
depriving
the
Actors
in
it
of
that
end
they
promis'd
themselves
,
but
by
bringing
all
those
to
an
untimely
death
,
which
had
brought
Caesar
to
one
.
He
further
acquainted
me
,
how
that
after
the
defeat
and
death
of
Crassus
,
he
found
little
opposition
to
be
General
in
his
stead
,
and
as
little
to
raise
an
Army
to
revenge
the
Roman
honour
and
loss
;
and
though
the
Command
was
of
a
quality
which
might
have
rais'd
desires
of
possessing
it
in
the
most
recluse
spirits
,
yet
he
had
only
sought
and
embrac'd
it
,
but
to
have
a
handsomer
way
to
make
his
Addresses
,
and
a
more
powerful
one
,
to
revenge
my
wrongs
;
That
therefore
he
had
procur'd
from
Mark
Anthony
,
Octavius
Caesar
,
and
Lepidus
(
who
then
compos'd
the
second
Triumvirate
)
a
full
liberty
not
only
to
revenge
on
Artabazus
the
violating
of
that
League
Anexander
had
concluded
with
the
people
of
Rome
,
but
also
if
he
esteem'd
it
requisite
,
to
make
that
Revenge
a
dethroning
of
him
,
and
establishing
in
his
room
such
an
Armenian
Prince
,
as
he
was
confident
would
have
honesty
enough
to
value
that
virtue
above
interest
:
That
this
power
he
had
the
more
easily
obtain'd
,
because
the
Princess
Altezeera
by
marrying
Pacorus
,
had
declar'd
herself
as
much
an
Enemy
to
Rome
,
as
to
me
;
and
being
the
apparent
Successor
of
Armenia
,
the
Senate
were
justly
jealous
of
uniting
that
Crown
with
the
Parthian
:
That
too
he
had
the
earnestlier
ambition'd
this
,
because
that
forfeiture
of
Artabazus's
gave
me
a
right
to
Armenia
by
my
birth
,
which
a
Roman
Army
would
so
confirm
,
that
he
would
find
in
injuring
Artavasdes
,
he
had
as
much
wrong'd
his
interest
,
as
his
honesty
.
The
gods
forbid
(
I
reply'd
,
interrupting
him
)
that
you
should
employ
your
Arms
so
unjustly
,
and
that
I
should
for
my
Kings
crimes
,
do
any
thing
but
lament
them
;
besides
(
generous
Ventidius
)
had
Artabazus
forfeited
his
right
(
which
I
know
he
cannot
,
being
answerable
for
his
Actions
to
none
but
the
gods
)
yet
still
the
Princess
Altezeera
has
a
Title
as
firm
,
as
my
resolution
not
to
oppose
it
:
For
to
be
Wife
to
Pacorus
,
and
Friend
to
Rome
,
are
not
inconsistent
;
and
we
have
examples
,
that
the
Conjugal
and
Regal
rights
,
are
not
so
incompatible
,
but
they
may
jointly
subsist
.
But
were
they
not
,
I
am
so
far
from
divesting
her
of
her
Empire
,
that
had
I
that
of
the
World
,
I
would
prostrate
it
,
as
I
did
my
Liberty
at
her
feet
,
and
esteem
the
Title
of
her
Subject
,
and
the
visible
effects
of
so
transcendent
a
Virtue
and
Government
,
a
far
higher
satisfaction
,
than
to
take
the
Reins
of
it
into
my
own
hands
:
That
since
I
had
neither
the
power
nor
the
will
any
other
way
to
revenge
my self
on
the
fair
Altezeera
,
than
by
manifesting
my
innocency
,
I
was
confident
the
declining
so
large
an
Empire
to
maintain
her
right
after
such
insensible
injuries
,
would
fully
do
it
;
and
the
knowledge
of
her
fault
,
would
in
some
degree
repair
it
.
I
further
implor'd
Ventidius
,
That
the
Armenians
for
Udozia's
sake
,
might
avoid
a
storm
,
which
perhaps
their
King
had
deservedly
drawn
upon
them
;
and
that
the
greater
his
Title
was
to
their
destruction
,
the
greater
would
that
mercy
appear
which
declin'd
acting
it
.
I
too
well
observe
(
Ventidius
reply'd
)
that
you
are
born
under
a
Monarchy
,
by
giving
Sanctuary
to
the
offence
,
in
the
Title
of
the
Offender
,
and
making
his
quality
annih●late
his
crimes
,
which
aggravates
them
:
for
faults
in
Kings
are
more
unpardonable
than
in
others
,
since
they
have
so
great
influence
over
all
,
and
since
those
can
hardly
punish
offences
which
commit
them
.
We
that
are
Romans
allow
no
Sanctuary
but
to
Virtue
,
and
esteem
it
too
troublesome
a
respect
to
put
the
Gods
to
punish
,
what
we
our selves
have
the
Power
:
Besides
,
their
goodness
is
so
transcendent
,
that
't
is
often
an
invitation
to
Princes
and
Magistrates
to
relie
on
it
;
but
they
seldom
do
err
when
the
punishment
and
the
sin
are
inseparable
,
and
when
those
they
wrong
are
to
be
their
Judges
.
That
Kings
do
publish
they
are
to
give
an
accompt
of
their
actions
to
none
but
the
Gods
,
is
not
a
greater
Tyranny
in
them
,
than
imbecility
in
such
as
either
believe
it
,
or
grant
it
.
The
giving
them
that
Power
,
is
to
encourage
them
to
be
Tyrants
,
by
having
no
Obligation
on
them
not
to
be
so
,
but
what
they
impose
on
themselves
;
Whereas
we
Romans
,
though
we
leave
our
Governours
a
latitude
to
shew
they
are
virtuous
,
yet
we
also
leave
our selves
one
to
punish
them
,
if
they
prove
otherwise
;
and
indeed
wise
men
will
avoid
such
temptations
,
and
perhaps
few
that
are
so
will
give
it
them
:
Besides
,
you
that
subject
your selves
to
a
successive
Monarchy
,
are
tyed
to
your
Rulers
as
to
your
Fate
,
you
must
submit
to
the
bad
as
well
as
to
the
good
;
whereas
we
are
confin'd
to
ours
but
as
to
our
Cloaths
,
if
they
are
sullied
,
unfit
,
or
worn
out
,
we
make
our selves
new
ones
:
You
at
best
have
but
the
bare
word
of
a
Woman
for
your
Governours
,
we
the
word
of
Virtue
for
ours
:
You
by
making
Blood
a
sufficient
Title
to
Rule
,
invite
them
to
dulness
and
vice
;
We
by
making
Desert
the
way
unto
it
,
necessitate
them
to
Virtue
and
Merit
:
You
by
trusting
the
Power
to
one
,
run
a
hazard
which
we
avoid
;
for
there
needs
but
imbecility
,
or
corruption
in
one
,
to
ruine
all
;
but
we
trusting
to
divers
,
many
a
one
must
be
weak
,
and
perfidious
,
to
create
our
misfortunes
;
and
none
being
absolute
,
't
is
Reason
,
and
not
Power
,
which
forms
our
results
and
actions
.
To
omit
many
other
Preeminencies
,
Commonwealths
are
not
subject
to
Personal
Vices
,
as
Lust
,
Avarice
,
Luxury
,
Inconstancy
and
Cruelty
.
That
there
is
(
I
reply'd
)
a
necessity
of
a
Supreme
Power
in
all
Governments
,
to
whom
final
appeals
and
resolutions
are
to
be
left
,
(
to
avoid
perpetual
disputes
and
uncertainties
)
is
not
more
true
,
than
that
Power
is
absolutely
best
invested
in
a
Monarch
;
which
to
evince
,
I
shall
desire
you
but
to
reflect
on
the
greatest
States
and
Empires
that
were
,
or
are
,
and
you
shall
find
,
't
was
from
the
virtue
of
one
Man
they
had
their
Beginning
or
Laws
.
Moses
made
those
of
the
Jews
;
Lycurgus
those
of
Sparta
;
Solon
those
of
Athens
,
(
though
indeed
of
short
duration
;
)
Nimrod
the
Empire
of
Babylon
;
Arsaces
that
of
the
Parthians
;
Alexander
that
of
the
Grecians
;
Cyrus
that
of
the
Persians
;
and
to
omit
many
others
,
Romulus
that
of
Rome
;
and
't
is
a
Maxim
as
general
as
true
,
That
what
creates
,
is
the
best
of
perfect
and
preserve
.
Neither
when
Monarchy
was
banisht
from
Rome
,
was
there
any
mutation
in
the
Monarchical
Laws
,
but
the
change
of
perpetual
Kings
into
annual
Consuls
:
'T
is
too
,
no
small
manifestation
that
Monarchy
is
the
best
Form
,
seeing
't
is
the
Government
of
Heaven
:
Besides
,
that
which
is
the
most
desirable
and
seldomest
found
in
Aristocracies
,
Oligarchies
,
and
Democracies
,
is
almost
inseparable
from
Monarchy
,
which
is
,
an
internal
quiet
that
proceeds
from
a
general
submission
to
one
Authority
,
which
is
that
,
which
gives
a
power
and
ability
to
defend
or
enlarge
a
State
;
whereas
in
Republicks
the
greatest
and
commonest
aim
is
to
make
many
an
Individual
what
a
King
is
already
;
or
else
eternal
differences
between
the
Nobility
and
People
,
or
among
each
other
,
if
either
has
supprest
the
other
:
Besides
,
in
a
Commonwealth
a
Man
is
seldom
famous
without
Envy
,
nor
lov'd
without
Fear
,
those
very
actions
which
evince
him
to
be
capable
of
serving
a
State
,
rendering
it
dangerous
for
that
State
to
be
served
by
him
;
so
that
to
be
esteemed
well
,
one
must
not
deserve
too
well
,
and
a
great
Merit
is
as
usual
a
Title
to
Ruine
or
Banishment
,
as
it
ought
to
be
to
Reward
.
But
in
Monarchies
,
the
Prince
is
above
those
fears
,
and
consequently
not
only
leaves
a
latitude
,
but
gives
an
invitation
to
the
highest
Merits
and
Actio●s
,
by
rendring
them
acceptable
,
and
not
dangerous
duties
:
It
is
evident
also
that
there
ought
to
be
a
Supreme
above
the
Law
,
for
what
invitation
have
those
to
preserve
That
,
without
which
they
can
neither
commit
an
offence
,
nor
deserve
a
punishment
?
whereas
a
Monarch
,
besides
the
Obligation
of
Trust
,
the
Laws
are
not
only
that
which
gives
him
the
Power
,
but
that
too
which
maintains
him
in
it
,
by
being
as
it
were
his
Guard
,
in
making
Death
the
Reward
of
all
attempts
against
his
Person
or
Authority
;
so
that
he
is
likelier
to
preserve
the
Laws
which
receives
a
benefit
by
them
,
than
he
which
can
receive
no
prejudice
but
from
them
;
and
to
give
the
Power
to
those
who
must
live
under
it
,
is
in
effect
to
invite
them
to
favour
themselves
;
to
let
the
People
too
be
Judges
whether
the
Dispencers
of
the
Law
do
it
equally
,
is
to
give
them
a
latitude
to
destroy
those
Laws
which
should
govern
them
;
since
the
greater
part
of
People
conclude
the
less
,
and
the
greater
part
of
all
Nations
are
the
worst
.
Besides
,
it
makes
a
Judge
apprehensive
to
distribute
the
Laws
without
partiality
,
when
those
he
gives
his
Sentence
upon
,
are
those
who
must
pronounce
his
,
and
so
,
often
,
out
of
hope
of
a
mutual
lenity
,
mutually
prove
unjust
.
But
it
may
be
objected
,
The
People
will
not
repine
at
the
executing
those
Laws
to
which
they
have
assented
,
or
which
they
themselves
have
constituted
.
To
this
I
answer
,
Those
Laws
which
are
propos'd
,
are
commonly
so
equal
in
themselves
,
that
none
can
decline
his
assent
unto
them
,
without
publishing
he
intends
to
violate
them
,
which
were
an
antedated
folly
no
rational
Creature
would
be
guilty
of
;
and
those
too
,
which
give
their
Votes
to
the
framing
of
Laws
,
are
then
commonly
clear
of
those
crimes
,
which
those
Laws
are
made
against
;
so
that
what
they
assent
unto
a
first
out
of
shame
,
or
innocence
,
when
yet
they
incur
the
penalty
of
those
Institutions
,
they
wish
they
had
never
been
made
;
and
indeed
the
People
are
far
better
pleas'd
to
make
severe
Laws
,
than
to
have
them
observ'd
;
since
the
first
of
these
is
an
excellent
demonstration
of
their
goodness
,
and
their
unalterable
resolution
of
continuing
it
;
and
in
the
last
,
they
cannot
divest
themselves
of
Nature
,
which
violently
inclines
all
men
to
a
self-preservation
,
as
the
highest
,
and
first
principle
.
To
let
the
Supreme
Trustees
of
the
People
be
subject
to
be
call'd
unto
accompt
,
is
the
certain'st
way
to
make
them
Tyrants
,
since
the
apprehension
of
punishment
induces
all
Men
to
act
what
may
secure
them
from
it
;
and
if
they
have
done
any
thing
amiss
,
either
by
design
,
frailty
or
ignorance
,
it
invites
them
to
invest
themselves
with
a
Power
which
may
defend
them
from
Ruine
,
and
thereby
,
the
acting
of
one
Injustice
,
renders
the
acting
of
a
greater
necessary
;
as
Thieves
,
who
out
of
apprehension
of
having
their
Theft
reveal'd
and
punisht
,
add
unto
it
Murther
;
and
as
your
Catiline
,
who
told
his
Souldiers
,
That
the
Ills
they
had
done
,
could
not
be
secur'd
but
by
acting
greater
:
Whereas
the
Monach
being
above
those
apprehensions
,
if
he
commit
a
fault
,
he
needs
not
run
into
that
necessary
wickedness
,
but
is
rather
oblig'd
by
so
noble
a
priviledge
,
to
repair
it
by
some
generous
actions
,
which
may
render
him
worthy
of
it
.
Besides
,
't
is
seldom
that
a
Commonwealth
is
grateful
to
a
deserving
Man
,
which
is
not
only
a
large
deterring
of
any
from
being
so
,
but
also
as
large
an
invitation
if
he
be
so
,
to
pay
himself
;
was
there
ever
a
People
more
beholding
to
Men
,
than
the
Romans
were
to
Camillus
,
and
Publius
Cornelius
Scipio
;
the
first
for
restoring
the
Roman
State
to
the
Roman
People
,
when
not
only
in
all
probability
he
might
have
made
himself
Lord
of
it
,
but
even
when
they
were
so
low
reduced
,
that
there
were
hardly
enough
Senators
left
to
give
him
a
Commission
to
serve
them
,
and
when
he
had
been
us'd
at
a
rate
,
which
might
have
clouded
his
Ambition
with
the
name
of
a
just
Revenge
:
And
the
last
of
these
,
for
not
only
preserving
the
Roman
State
,
but
by
adding
to
it
as
great
a
one
;
yet
their
returns
were
such
,
that
if
a
Stranger
had
but
known
their
usage
,
and
not
their
actions
,
he
would
have
esteem'd
them
the
destroyers
,
not
the
restorers
of
their
Countrey
.
These
two
are
not
the
only
,
though
the
most
famous
examples
;
Marcus
Livins
,
Caius
Martius
Coriolanus
,
Lucius
Amilius
,
the
Asiatick
Scipio
,
and
such
a
vast
Catalogue
of
others
,
that
't
were
much
the
more
difficult
task
to
name
who
they
were
ungrateful
unto
,
than
to
whom
they
were
not
.
Neither
is
this
Vice
the
approate
one
to
the
Republick
of
Rome
,
but
common
to
that
Government
.
The
Syracusians
were
the
like
to
Dion
,
and
Hermocrates
;
The
Spartans
to
Agis
,
and
part
of
his
Family
;
and
,
as
some
have
thought
,
to
Lycurgus
;
The
●acedemonians
to
Pansanius
his
first
Virtues
,
and
Victories
;
which
,
it
may
be
,
made
him
think
,
Vice
was
the
Virtue
,
by
their
ingratitude
to
the
latter
;
and
the
Athenians
to
Themistocles
,
Pericles
,
Cimon
,
Alcibiades
,
Aristides
,
Phocion
and
Miltiades
.
Doubtless
the
example
of
these
,
inspir'd
Marius
and
Sylla
with
those
designs
of
rewarding
themselves
,
and
of
making
the
People
grateful
against
their
wills
.
And
what
King
form
Romulus
to
Lucius
Tarquin
,
did
ever
spill
so
much
Roman
blood
,
and
fill'd
Rome
with
such
disorders
,
as
those
two
did
in
disputing
for
that
Title
:
Neither
did
all
the
Kings
empty
so
many
Roman
veins
to
maintain
their
name
,
as
Caesar
did
to
restore
it
,
and
Pompey
to
hinder
it
.
Is
it
not
then
irrational
to
spend
more
in
resisting
Monarchy
,
than
can
be
lost
by
it
?
The
same
Caesar
doth
both
wayes
evince
this
truth
,
for
till
he
won
the
Crown
,
the
storms
were
not
greater
,
than
the
calms
after
it
.
Besides
,
what
you
told
me
of
the
Romans
being
now
under
a
Triple
Monarchy
(
for
so
I
account
the
Triumvirat
)
palpably
manifests
,
that
that
Form
of
Government
they
have
found
by
experience
is
the
most
perfect
;
for
the
Conspirators
by
killing
of
Caesar
,
so
clearly
left
them
their
voices
,
that
their
election
of
Monarchy
evinces
't
is
their
choice
,
and
not
their
constraint
.
Their
Banishment
of
the
Tarquins
,
was
evidently
as
much
an
action
of
choler
,
as
this
of
premeditation
,
so
that
I
may
say
,
they
did
then
but
lose
their
way
into
Aristocracy
.
If
too
the
Roman
actions
are
to
be
credited
before
their
professions
,
we
find
they
are
absolutely
convinc'd
,
that
the
Government
of
One
is
the
best
;
for
seldom
was
there
any
thing
of
danger
in
the
Commonwealth
,
but
they
immediately
created
a
Dictator
,
who
is
an
absolute
Monarch
for
the
time
being
,
and
to
whom
the
very
Senate
and
People
,
do
absolutely
resign
themselves
,
as
appears
by
Camillus
,
who
coming
to
relieve
Rome
,
as
she
had
agreed
for
,
and
was
paying
for
his
Liberty
to
Brennus
King
of
the
Gaules
,
he
brake
off
the
Bargain
;
and
that
barbarous
Prince
taxing
him
for
violating
an
Agreement
made
by
his
Superiors
:
He
reply'd
,
That
being
Dictator
,
he
had
none
but
the
gods
,
and
acted
accordingly
;
and
to
evince
't
was
the
Truth
,
and
not
the
Success
,
which
made
the
Romans
approve
of
Camillus's
Reply
,
Quintus
Cincinnatus
when
Dictator
,
in
that
Quality
,
not
only
degraded
Minutius
from
his
Consulship
,
but
constrains
him
to
be
a
Lieutenant
over
those
Legions
,
the
Equians
had
worsted
under
his
command
.
Five
times
was
that
great
Camillus
in
resembling
dangers
,
created
Dictator
,
and
I
believe
his
,
and
Cincinnatus's
happy
conduct
,
gave
the
people
no
ill
relish
of
Monarchical
Government
.
The
Military
Tribunes
,
and
Decemvirs
,
though
instituted
by
the
people
,
were
of
no
constant
,
or
long
duration
,
as
alwayes
finding
that
Government
which
was
farthest
from
Monarchy
,
the
most
confus'd
;
this
made
the
Consulary
Dignity
,
and
Dictatorship
,
of
longest
continuance
.
Two
illustrations
of
this
are
very
pregnant
;
the
first
was
in
the
institution
of
the
Dictatorship
,
which
proceeded
from
the
revolt
of
the
Veians
,
and
Fidenates
,
who
having
cut
in
pieces
a
Colony
of
the
Romans
,
and
they
desiring
revenge
,
created
four
Tribunes
with
Consular
Authority
,
and
sent
three
of
them
to
this
War
,
who
through
Ambition
and
Variance
,
did
nothing
considerable
,
but
that
they
did
nothing
which
was
so
;
upon
which
,
the
Romans
finding
the
error
of
this
Democratical
Generalship
,
immediately
created
Mamercus
Dictator
,
who
almost
as
immediately
revenged
their
losses
and
wrongs
;
the
other
is
,
of
Quintus
and
Agrippa
,
who
being
both
sent
against
the
Equians
,
the
latter
was
●o
much
a
Friend
to
Truth
above
Ambition
,
that
he
desir'd
Quintus
might
go
alone
,
since
no
great
Affairs
could
ever
be
perform'd
,
without
the
Sovereign
Authority
were
invested
in
one
:
And
if
you
observe
it
,
Rome
never
obtain'd
such
Victories
as
under
a
single
General
,
and
never
receiv'd
such
losses
as
under
a
plural
;
which
fi●st
as
clearly
appears
,
besides
those
famous
examples
of
Camillus
and
Scipio
,
in
Posthumius
at
the
Battel
of
Regillus
,
in
Cincinnatus
,
in
Caesar
,
and
in
Pompey
,
who
both
triumph'd
over
Europe
,
Asia
and
Africk
;
the
latter
also
being
chosen
single
to
defend
the
Roman
liberty
,
when
Consuls
were
not
only
in
being
,
but
in
Authority
;
as
the
last
does
,
in
the
examples
of
Fabius
the
Great
and
Minutius
,
in
Varro
and
Paulus
Emilius
,
at
that
fatal
Battel
of
Cannes
,
in
Marcellus
&
Crispinus
,
in
Gellius
&
Lentulus
;
and
to
omit
many
others
,
so
recently
in
Brutus
and
Cassius
;
neither
has
this
been
a
particular
fate
to
the
Roman
State
,
but
to
all
others
who
have
practic'd
the
like
Discipline
;
as
the
Carthaginians
,
when
Hanno
and
Bomilcar
commanded
against
the
Tyrant
Agathocles
;
to
Asdrubal
and
Syphax
,
when
they
commanded
against
Scipio
;
to
the
Athenians
in
the
Sicilian
War
,
first
under
Nicias
and
Alcibiades
,
who
did
nothing
jointly
,
and
all
things
asunder
(
as
in
discourse
,
two
Negatives
make
one
Affirmative
,
so
in
War
two
good
Generals
makes
one
ill
one
)
afterwards
in
the
same
Countrey
under
Nicias
and
Demosthenes
;
and
the
State
of
Athens
obtaining
that
famous
Victory
of
Marathon
,
must
not
be
attributed
to
the
ten
Generals
,
but
to
the
ten
Generals
having
the
judgment
which
the
Athenians
wanted
,
of
giving
the
sole
power
to
the
only
Miltiades
.
The
same
misfortune
attended
Antiochus's
Fleet
,
when
jointly
commanded
by
Polinus
and
Hannibal
,
against
the
Romans
,
which
latter
found
sufficiently
the
obstruction
of
a
Commonwealth
,
the
Hannoan
Faction
in
Carthage
fighting
against
him
,
more
than
the
Romans
in
Italy
;
and
had
he
been
King
of
Carthage
,
he
had
doubtless
been
the
like
of
Rome
;
so
that
if
Rome
affect
an
Aristocracy
,
't
is
perhaps
more
out
of
Gratitude
than
Reason
,
neither
can
I
omit
(
to
illustrate
what
I
affirm
)
two
remarkable
Adventures
:
The
first
,
when
the
Latins
came
to
re-invest
Lucius
Tarquin
,
in
his
Thronne
,
the
Romans
believing
nothing
could
oppose
a
Monarch
,
but
a
Monarchical
General
,
gave
the
sole
command
of
that
great
day
to
Posthumius
,
who
gave
them
the
Victory
:
The
other
was
,
when
Torquatus
and
Decius
were
Consuls
,
and
fought
a
furious
Battel
against
the
same
People
,
the
latter
to
obtain
the
Victory
,
devoted
himself
to
a
voluntary
death
,
as
if
the
gods
had
destin'd
it
to
a
Monarchical
Generalship
,
and
deny'd
it
to
a
Democratical
.
Besides
,
in
Commonwealths
,
the
giving
of
none
the
Superiority
,
gives
all
a
desire
of
it
,
and
makes
that
every
ones
hope
,
by
being
no
bodies
possession
;
so
that
those
Abilities
and
Courages
which
in
a
Monarchy
manifest
and
vent
themselves
,
for
the
increasing
the
State
,
in
other
Governments
,
are
employ'd
to
possess
it
;
I
confess
indeed
that
there
must
be
many
weak
or
perfidious
,
to
ruine
a
Commonwealth
,
but
then
there
needs
but
one
able
and
honest
to
preserve
a
Kingdom
;
which
proves
,
that
to
make
your
happiness
,
you
must
have
many
blest
with
those
virtues
,
which
one
needs
but
have
,
to
make
ours
;
so
that
,
as
much
as
't
is
more
likely
to
have
one
able
and
honest
man
than
many
,
so
much
't
is
more
likely
that
Monarchy
should
be
a
better
Government
than
a
Republick
.
Neither
are
Commonwealths
free
from
personal
faults
,
for
never
was
any
King
more
cruel
,
avaritious
,
or
unconstant
,
than
Athens
and
Carthage
;
and
though
the
Body
of
the
People
are
exempt
from
some
particular
Vices
,
only
because
they
are
inconsistent
with
many
,
and
inherent
to
one
,
or
perhaps
their
not
knowing
them
,
or
not
having
the
power
and
means
to
act
them
,
yet
those
that
govern
,
being
particulars
,
are
not
at
all
free
from
them
;
and
that
which
was
the
pretence
of
depressing
Monarchy
in
Rome
,
was
the
real
cause
of
depressing
the
Decemvirs
,
for
't
was
but
the
Son
of
the
King
acted
the
Rape
on
Lucretia
;
but
't
was
Appius
Clodius
in
person
,
and
a
Decemvir
that
would
have
acted
that
of
Virginia
,
had
not
her
death
reliev'd
her
misfortune
.
It
was
(
doubtless
)
too
,
the
justice
of
the
gods
to
shew
the
People
that
sin
in
a
Governor
,
which
they
had
so
severely
punish'd
but
in
a
Governors
son
.
As
to
our
being
necessitated
to
take
a
womans
word
for
our
Kings
,
if
there
be
any
misfortune
in
it
,
you
must
except
not
against
us
,
but
the
gods
,
who
have
made
them
witnesses
in
their
own
Cause
;
yet
that
great
Trust
invites
them
to
a
proportionate
virtue
,
and
't
is
also
the
onely
proof
you
have
at
Rome
,
of
that
so
ador'd
Title
of
Patrician
.
That
there
is
(
Ventidius
reply'd
)
a
necessity
of
a
Power
,
to
which
all
final
Appeals
ought
to
be
made
,
cannot
be
a
greater
T●uth
,
than
it
is
,
that
That
Power
is
best
plac'd
in
the
Representatives
of
the
People
,
since
what
ever
can
be
said
,
for
the
having
it
in
a
King
,
can
be
said
for
the
having
it
in
Those
Representatives
,
and
much
more
also
:
For
besides
the
high
obligation
of
Trust
,
which
is
common
to
both
,
and
indeed
the
chief
,
if
not
the
Onely
upon
Kings
(
at
least
if
we
credit
what
they
say
,
That
they
are
accountable
to
none
but
the
gods
)
That
Authority
is
likelier
to
be
careful
in
making
,
and
maintaining
of
Laws
,
to
which
they
and
their
Posterities
must
submit
,
than
that
Authority
which
is
so
far
from
receiving
a
prejudice
by
ill
Laws
,
that
thereby
it
receives
an
Advantage
;
for
the
less
the
People
have
,
the
more
the
King
hath
.
Neither
can
the
Law
be
more
the
Monarchs
Guard
,
than
it
is
the
Peoples
;
for
as
a
King
owes
All
he
hath
to
the
being
Above
the
Law
,
so
the
People
owe
All
they
have
to
their
being
under
it
;
so
that
Both
deriving
Both
their
All
's
from
that
Principle
,
't
is
likely
the
Concern
for
maintaining
it
,
will
be
equal
;
for
though
a
King
may
lose
more
in
quality
than
any
Individual
in
a
Commonwealth
,
yet
he
cannot
lose
more
in
quantity
;
for
the
greatest
Loser
,
never
knew
a
degree
beyond
All
;
where
All
is
lost
,
the
disproportion
may
be
in
the
losing
,
but
cannot
be
in
the
Loss
.
Neither
has
the
aspiring
of
any
Individual
,
more
or
oftner
,
involved
Commonwealths
in
War
,
than
the
same
Passion
in
Subjects
or
next
Successors
,
has
involv'd
Kingdoms
;
so
that
that
fault
is
not
produc'd
by
the
ill
constitution
of
that
Government
,
but
by
the
ill
inclinations
of
some
under
it
;
for
where
Ambition
does
Reign
,
those
desire
to
do
so
who
are
possest
by
it
,
under
either
Government
.
And
if
those
ills
are
unlikest
to
be
attempted
,
or
acted
,
which
are
likest
to
meet
with
most
opposition
,
then
doubtless
the
design
of
Usurping
the
Sovereignty
,
is
less
like
to
be
undertook
,
under
the
Government
of
a
Commonwealth
,
than
under
that
of
a
Monarch
;
for
if
the
intended
Usurper
have
success
against
the
Forces
of
a
King
,
he
finds
the
People
prepar'd
to
embrace
that
form
of
Regiment
;
but
though
he
have
success
against
the
Forces
of
a
Commonwealth
,
he
will
find
a
new
difficulty
,
in
constraining
the
People
to
submit
to
Monarchy
;
in
one
He
is
to
destroy
but
the
Governor
,
but
in
the
other
,
the
Governors
and
Government
:
The
People
too
are
much
more
apt
to
fight
in
defence
of
Both
of
those
,
than
in
defence
of
One
,
especially
their
own
concernment
being
in
the
Last
,
and
but
their
Rulers
in
the
First
Besides
,
Reason
(
the
health
of
the
mind
)
is
much
more
satisfi'd
the
Possessor
of
it
should
acquiesce
in
the
certainty
of
having
no
Superior
,
than
run
a
hazard
of
that
,
to
have
no
equal
;
so
that
't
is
the
rational
part
of
man
,
which
keeps
him
to
the
Government
of
a
Commonwealth
,
and
the
Passionate
onely
which
makes
him
an
Enemy
to
it
;
which
evinces
,
that
as
much
as
't
is
likelier
that
Reason
should
actuate
Rational
Creatures
than
Passion
,
so
much
't
is
likelier
that
a
Commonwealth
should
be
quiet
,
than
disturb'd
.
I
confess
indeed
,
that
you
need
but
One
exactly
Wise
and
Honest
,
to
make
your
Government
happy
,
and
that
we
need
Many
to
make
ours
so
,
yet
't
is
much
probable
that
Choice
should
find
Many
Wise
,
and
Honest
,
than
that
Nature
,
or
Education
,
should
alwayes
make
the
Eldest
of
One
Family
to
be
so
;
to
which
be
pleased
to
remember
,
the
discovery
of
your
Governors
Crimes
,
creates
the
trouble
,
but
the
discovery
of
ours
,
ends
it
.
I
acknowledge
Commonwealths
have
been
ungrateful
to
deserving
men
,
but
I
cannot
acknowledge
,
nor
can
you
I
am
confident
prove
,
that
their
having
been
so
,
proceeded
from
their
Form
of
Government
.
But
because
you
have
instanc'd
some
Examples
of
their
Ingratitude
,
lest
thereby
you
would
cast
that
aspersion
on
the
Government
,
which
is
due
but
to
the
Governors
,
I
will
name
some
celebrated
Kings
who
have
been
guilty
of
the
like
Crime
;
that
either
thereby
you
may
acknowledge
the
Error
of
such
a
misdistinguishing
,
or
else
that
I
may
make
use
of
it
to
retort
it
on
you
,
and
evidence
by
your
own
Arguing
,
that
if
the
faults
of
Governors
must
be
ascribed
to
the
Regiment
,
Monarchies
therein
are
equal
with
Common-wealths
.
The
first
instances
,
shall
be
in
two
Kings
of
the
Iews
(
the
Father
and
the
Son
)
whose
Subjects
do
glory
in
being
(
as
it
were
)
the
Menial
Servants
of
the
God
they
worship
,
and
do
owe
the
Institution
and
Progress
of
their
Government
to
Miracles
;
their
names
are
David
and
Solomon
:
The
one
signal
for
the
Sword
of
War
,
the
other
for
the
Sword
of
Peace
:
The
first
a
Man
after
their
Deities
own
heart
,
and
the
last
a
Type
of
that
great
Prince
,
their
Prophets
have
so
often
foretold
,
and
they
so
certainly
and
intently
expect
;
yet
the
former
made
one
of
his
last
injunctions
to
his
Son
,
the
not
permitting
Ioab's
hoary
head
to
go
down
in
peace
into
the
Grave
:
Ioab
,
who
(
in
effect
)
made
David
King
,
when
he
was
not
,
and
kept
him
King
,
when
he
was
;
who
would
not
take
a
Town
till
he
came
,
that
he
might
have
the
honour
as
well
as
benefit
of
success
;
and
Solomon
so
well
obey'd
his
King
,
or
rather
so
truly
Acted
that
Part
,
that
Ioab's
life
which
deserv'd
an
Altar
,
could
not
be
secured
even
in
the
embracing
of
one
,
but
was
there
offer'd
as
a
Sacrifice
,
to
the
obedience
(
at
least
)
of
one
of
his
Kings
,
and
to
the
jealousie
of
another
;
some
faults
overballancing
many
services
;
the
former
writ
in
his
Kings
Heart
,
the
latter
in
the
Air.
Another
instance
is
in
Alexander
surnamed
the
Great
,
as
much
perhaps
for
his
C●uelty
as
Success
;
Calistines
more
justly
famous
than
him
,
dyed
by
him
;
Clytus
,
bolder
for
his
King
,
than
to
him
,
yet
did
the
like
;
Parmenio
,
without
whom
he
hardly
got
a
Victory
,
and
with
whom
he
never
lost
one
,
had
the
like
Fate
.
In
a
word
,
this
King
destroy'd
more
gallant
men
of
his
friends
,
than
of
his
enemies
.
But
yet
since
you
have
mentioned
him
for
the
Founder
of
so
great
an
Empire
,
as
the
Grecian
,
I
shall
desire
you
to
observe
who
't
was
he
esteem'd
fittest
to
Govern
,
and
when
it
was
he
made
that
Declaration
,
or
rather
Law
;
it
was
when
death
was
forcing
him
from
his
Empire
,
and
and
when
his
Queen
Roxana
was
ready
to
present
him
with
a
Successor
to
it
:
Yet
even
then
he
order'd
,
and
seal'd
it
with
his
last
breath
,
that
the
worthiest
only
should
bear
that
Title
;
evincing
thereby
,
that
he
alone
was
next
to
the
Crown
,
that
was
so
to
him
in
virtue
,
not
in
blood
;
he
found
he
should
injure
truth
,
more
than
his
posterity
,
if
he
allowed
not
virtue
the
highest
,
nay
the
only
Title
to
Government
.
An
Action
so
every
way
excellent
,
that
if
any
thing
could
,
this
might
have
clear'd
his
Fame
from
those
stains
,
cast
upon
it
,
by
the
blood
of
Calistines
,
who
,
had
he
lived
under
a
Commonwealth
,
the
sincerity
of
his
heart
,
and
the
eloquence
of
his
tongue
,
had
engaged
him
in
no
more
danger
,
than
Cato's
and
Cicero's
did
them
whil'st
under
that
Regiment
;
thier
words
and
actions
needing
no
pardon
under
a
Commonwealth
,
and
finding
none
under
a
Monarchy
;
the
fi●st
dying
,
in
appr●hension
Caesar
had
too
much
clemency
,
and
the
last
finding
Antony
had
too
little
.
Nor
can
you
say
it
is
peculiar
to
Commonwealths
to
be
ungrateful
to
their
Soldiery
,
were
there
no
more
to
illustrate
the
contrary
,
than
the
preceding
Examples
in
the
Iudaick
,
and
Grecian
Empire
;
but
the
truth
is
,
all
Authorities
have
been
shie
of
their
Soldiery
,
for
since
the
Sword
hath
introduced
most
Governments
,
since
it
does
maintain
all
,
and
since
it
only
can
ruine
any
Government
,
't
is
not
so
strange
that
Rulers
are
jeaous
of
those
which
wear
it
,
as
it
would
be
if
they
were
not
.
As
to
what
is
so
much
insisted
upon
,
and
so
often
mention'd
of
Prescription
by
Time
,
to
prove
a
Government
just
;
that
,
to
any
rational
person
will
appear
,
is
not
to
uphold
Truth
,
but
Power
,
which
if
illegitimately
acquired
,
the
longer
the
possession
lasts
,
the
greater
the
injustice
is
;
for
perseverance
in
ill
,
in
any
other
case
,
never
turn'd
ill
into
good
,
so
that
in
this
,
't
is
granted
as
a
Convenience
,
rather
than
a
Right
;
besides
,
if
any
person
under
any
Government
,
declare
he
has
a
will
to
destroy
it
,
he
thereby
gives
that
Government
the
Right
to
destroy
him
.
If
then
a
Will
in
any
particular
to
subvert
a
Government
,
merits
such
a
punishment
,
probably
that
Government
will
believe
a
power
to
do
it
,
deserves
as
much
;
for
the
Will
in
an
Individual
of
destroying
the
Authority
he
is
under
,
never
created
the
Power
,
but
the
Power
hath
often
created
the
Will
;
so
that
if
the
lesser
danger
is
esteem'd
justly
punishable
you
may
thereby
judge
what
is
concluded
of
the
greater
.
It
hath
been
also
not
only
the
Maxim
,
but
the
practice
of
many
Kings
and
Commonwealths
,
to
make
a
War
,
and
seek
the
depression
of
a
Neighbor
State
,
only
because
that
State
was
increasing
to
a
greatness
which
might
depress
theirs
,
and
this
,
because
a
preventative
care
,
has
been
allowed
of
as
a
just
one
;
so
that
if
States
,
towards
the
preventing
of
a
real
or
imaginary
danger
,
from
those
they
have
no
Authority
over
;
from
those
which
have
not
then
the
power
to
hurt
them
;
and
from
those
which
perhaps
may
never
have
the
will
,
and
who
have
not
so
much
towards
the
ingendring
of
it
as
the
power
,
may
justly
according
to
the
principles
of
Safety
and
Government
(
the
last
being
chiefly
establish'd
for
the
first
)
even
by
a
hazardous
War
suppress
such
,
how
much
more
will
they
believe
it
just
,
to
suppress
those
,
from
whom
a
nearer
and
pregnanter
jealousie
doth
arise
,
and
where
the
safety
that
performance
presents
and
ascertains
,
is
not
derived
from
the
Rules
of
Policy
,
which
makes
Success
Justice
,
but
is
derived
from
the
Rules
of
Authority
,
which
makes
the
safety
of
the
People
,
the
supremest
Law
,
and
those
the
best
,
if
not
the
only
Judges
of
that
safety
,
who
are
by
the
People
entrusted
with
it
.
To
all
which
may
be
added
,
that
Maxim
as
General
,
as
Wicked
,
and
at
least
as
usual
in
Monarchies
as
Commonwealths
,
to
hate
what
they
fear
,
and
to
depress
what
they
hate
.
These
,
and
a
throng
of
such
other
Arguings
,
the
Craft
,
or
rather
Wickedness
of
Governors
under
either
Regiment
,
have
establish'd
as
principles
to
destroy
the
generousest
Calling
;
a
Calling
without
which
they
could
do
nothing
,
and
for
which
they
seldom
do
any
thing
;
sometimes
they
make
the
prosperity
of
it
necessary
to
the
existence
of
a
State
,
and
sometimes
the
destruction
of
it
as
necessary
;
sometimes
they
say
it
hinders
,
or
revenges
oppression
;
and
sometimes
it
invites
,
and
continues
it
;
sometimes
they
make
it
a
Scaffold
,
to
raise
their
structure
to
the
Clouds
;
then
use
it
like
a
Scaffold
,
and
lay
it
in
the
dust
.
These
last
words
I
spake
,
to
evince
the
most
noble
,
is
the
most
unfortunate
profession
;
it
sowes
merit
,
and
reaps
ingratitude
;
yet
the
knowledge
of
the
last
,
has
never
frighted
the
generous
followers
of
it
from
the
first
;
perhaps
prove
,
that
what
would
deter
in
all
other
professions
,
is
the
encouragement
of
theirs
;
and
that
true
virtue
,
unlike
material
things
,
the
less'tis
fed
,
the
larger
it
grows
.
I
hope
by
this
time
you
are
satisfi'd
,
That
ingratitude
to
gallant
men
which
are
Soldiers
(
for
unto
such
only
as
I
remember
you
have
proved
Commonwealths
have
been
ungrateful
)
is
not
a
sin
inherent
to
that
Government
alone
,
but
unto
all
Regiments
.
I
must
confess
,
if
to
Govern
many
by
one
,
is
good
,
it
is
chiefly
so
in
an
Army
;
for
not
only
where
the
supreme
Power
is
divided
,
the
affection
of
the
Soldiery
is
so
;
and
where
Faction
is
,
Ruine
is
not
far
off
;
but
also
the
greatest
Actions
of
War
,
depend
so
intirely
on
the
embracing
of
opportunities
,
that
whil'st
two
are
disputing
a
thing
,
the
time
of
acting
it
is
expir'd
.
Besides
,
't
is
a
rare
felicity
to
have
two
in
supreme
Power
,
so
much
friends
to
their
Duty
above
their
Ambition
;
as
for
the
first
,
intirely
to
silence
the
last
;
and
rarer
to
have
them
both
blest
with
what
we
call
,
presence
of
mind
,
in
the
highest
,
and
pressingst
dangers
,
and
actions
,
and
equally
invested
with
it
;
for
if
there
be
but
the
least
disproportion
in
that
essential
virtue
to
Generals
,
it
may
be
as
prejudicial
and
destructive
,
as
if
that
difference
were
in
an
extreme
.
But
after
all
this
,
I
cannot
but
remember
you
,
that
as
our
plural
Generalship
in
Consuls
is
order'd
,
where
every
day
one
of
them
commands
in
chief
by
turns
,
there
is
little
hazard
to
the
Commonwealth
,
and
less
advantage
to
the
enemies
of
it
:
But
because
you
have
instanced
some
signal
losses
we
have
sustained
under
a
double
Generalship
,
lest
you
might
too
ascribe
it
to
that
form
of
Ruling
an
Army
,
I
will
only
mind
you
of
a
couple
of
as
eminent
Victories
as
ever
Rome
was
happy
in
,
purchas'd
under
that
sort
of
Generalship
.
The
one
under
Marcus
Cornelius
,
and
Quintilius
Varrus
,
in
a
furious
Battel
in
the
County
of
the
Insubrians
,
where
the
Carthaginians
not
only
lost
the
Victory
,
but
what
was
more
deplor'd
,
and
more
justly
so
by
them
,
even
the
generous
Mago
,
Brother
to
their
great
Hannibal
both
in
blood
,
and
in
virtue
.
The
other
,
under
Nero
and
Livius
,
on
the
famous
Banks
of
Metaurus
,
which
River
chang'd
its
colour
as
much
with
Carthaginian
blood
,
as
ever
Aufidus
did
with
Roman
;
there
the
Noble
Asdrubal
,
a
true
Son
of
Amilcars
,
found
his
Fate
,
and
the
Manes
of
above
50000
Italians
were
appeased
,
did
resign
their
solitary
Walks
to
those
Africans
,
which
had
sent
them
thither
;
there
the
Carthaginian
glory
was
first
eclips'd
,
and
the
Roman
prosperity
breaking
through
so
thick
a
cloud
of
blood
,
was
never
hinder'd
from
shining
by
another
.
Not
to
let
the
Trustees
of
the
People
be
call'd
by
them
to
an
account
,
lest
thereby
,
if
they
have
err'd
,
they
should
defend
their
Crimes
by
Arms
,
is
like
killing
ones
self
,
for
fear
of
being
kill'd
;
the
highest
Tyranny
,
cannot
transcend
,
what
this
way
the
People
give
,
to
avoid
Tyranny
.
Indeed
by
such
a
Donation
,
Trustees
may
be
hinder'd
from
sinning
,
because
they
are
elevated
above
the
Law
;
and
where
there
is
no
Law
,
there
is
no
Sin
,
but
the
People
will
not
be
thereby
hinder'd
from
Ruine
,
but
theirs
will
be
rather
ascertain'd
and
accelerated
;
for
if
both
Honesty
and
Fear
,
will
not
deter
Governors
from
ill
Governing
,
certainly
Honesty
alone
is
much
unlikelier
to
do
it
;
and
if
they
will
be
Tyrants
against
the
Law
,
they
will
be
much
more
above
it
.
'T
is
true
,
the
Title
of
Patrician
is
in
high
veneration
at
Rome
,
and
one
of
our
Consuls
is
to
be
of
that
order
;
but
yet
though
we
take
the
word
of
a
Woman
for
his
being
a
Patrician
,
yet
we
take
the
word
of
Virtue
for
his
being
a
Consul
;
the
former
makes
him
electable
,
but
the
latter
makes
him
elected
.
But
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
why
do
I
tell
you
(
and
so
confusedly
)
our
opinions
,
when
I
only
undertook
to
tell
you
our
actions
?
Not
to
continue
this
fault
,
though
we
had
several
of
this
quality
,
yet
I
will
relate
no
more
of
them
,
to
obtain
your
pardon
for
having
particulariz'd
so
many
.
For
conclusion
of
all
,
I
told
Ventidius
,
that
I
was
confident
he
had
argued
against
Monarchy
more
for
his
diversion
,
than
as
't
was
his
judgment
,
were
it
for
no
other
reason
,
than
that
he
persuaded
me
to
be
a
King
,
which
if
he
esteem'd
an
ill
,
I
knew
he
would
never
have
invited
me
to
.
If
(
said
Ventidius
)
I
invite
you
to
be
a
King
,
't
is
not
only
that
the
Armenians
have
unreluctantly
submitted
to
that
Government
,
and
that
you
have
now
every
way
the
justest
Title
to
it
;
(
for
as
to
that
which
you
alledge
for
Altezeera
,
that
the
tyes
of
Marriage
and
Empire
are
not
so
inseparable
,
but
she
may
severally
act
the
duties
of
both
,
I
must
answer
,
That
where
there
is
on
the
one
side
,
but
a
possibility
of
an
advantage
;
and
on
the
other
,
an
appearance
of
a
vast
prejudice
,
it
is
inconsistent
with
the
Maxims
of
State
,
in
expectation
of
the
former
,
not
to
prevent
the
latter
)
but
also
that
I
esteem
no
form
of
Government
so
bad
,
but
to
change
it
by
a
War
is
worse
;
and
that
where
the
Governor
is
good
,
the
Government
will
be
so
.
At
last
Ventidius
found
himself
in
no
small
perplexity
by
my
unalterable
resolution
of
usurping
neither
upon
my
Kings
,
nor
my
Princesses
rights
;
for
at
his
departure
from
Rome
,
he
had
so
clearly
satisfi'd
the
Triumvirat
,
and
especially
Mark
Antony
(
to
whom
Asia
was
alotted
)
that
they
both
had
lost
theirs
,
the
better
to
invest
me
in
them
,
that
he
much
apprehended
,
if
after
having
demonstrated
the
danger
of
Artabazus
possessing
the
Crown
of
Armenia
,
and
Altezeera's
continuing
the
right
to
it
,
he
permitted
both
,
it
might
prove
of
ill
consequence
,
and
either
leave
the
Roman
Lords
an
impression
that
he
was
careless
of
his
Trust
,
or
intended
some
sinister
end
by
so
palpable
an
omission
.
I
must
confess
,
I
found
as
much
reason
in
his
fears
,
as
in
that
resolve
of
mine
which
created
them
;
but
hoping
whil'st
we
continu'd
at
Sattala
,
we
might
find
out
some
expedient
for
their
redress
,
or
that
if
we
could
not
,
yet
his
leaving
Armenia
in
quiet
,
would
not
only
be
more
probably
,
but
better
effected
by
the
intreaties
of
a
Mistriss
,
than
a
friend
,
I
desir'd
him
to
suspend
all
determinations
till
we
came
thither
,
towards
which
next
morning
we
intended
to
go
;
and
because
Ventidius's
leaving
his
Army
(
and
leaving
it
too
so
unaccompany'd
)
might
not
relish
of
any
thing
but
his
care
of
it
,
he
assembled
his
chiefest
Officers
,
and
told
them
,
He
was
to
make
a
short
journey
which
would
exempt
them
from
a
long
one
;
that
he
was
hopeful
by
a
private
interview
with
Artabazus
,
and
my
assistance
,
to
make
the
Armenians
more
useful
to
Rome
,
than
they
could
expect
by
●n
entire
conquest
of
them
;
that
upon
these
hopes
he
must
leave
them
for
a
few
dayes
;
and
that
his
absence
might
not
retard
their
march
,
he
order'd
them
to
continue
it
,
till
they
came
to
Alexandretta
,
since
if
there
were
a
necessity
of
subjecting
Armenia
in
their
way
to
Parthia
,
their
seemingly
passing
by
it
,
would
render
Artabazus
more
secure
,
and
manifest
besides
,
they
had
a
strong
belief
of
his
returning
to
the
Roman
friendship
,
since
in
a
confidence
of
it
,
they
had
march'd
beside
his
Kingdom
,
when
they
might
have
invaded
it
;
Ventidius
further
told
them
,
That
the
entry
into
Armenia
out
of
Syria
by
the
mountain
Imanus
,
was
less
difficult
,
than
to
enter
it
out
of
Cilicia
by
the
mountain
Scordiscus
;
that
't
was
better
to
try
moderate
wayes
,
than
extremes
:
and
lastly
,
they
should
not
move
from
Alexandretta
,
where
in
14
dayes
he
would
not
fail
to
meet
them
.
The
deep
respect
all
Ventidius's
Officers
paid
him
,
and
the
just
opinion
they
had
of
his
sincerity
and
judgment
,
made
them
perfectly
relish
this
motion
,
which
they
had
no
sooner
declar'd
,
than
taking
some
light
Numidian
Horse
for
his
Guard
,
we
went
to
Sattala
,
with
as
much
secresie
,
as
expedition
;
whither
as
soon
as
we
were
come
,
and
lighted
at
Udozia's
Palace
,
I
perceiv'd
that
great
mans
countenance
and
discourse
,
so
sensible
an
alteration
,
that
had
I
not
experimentally
known
those
violent
emotions
which
are
inseparable
from
perfect
Lovers
at
their
approach
near
their
Mistrisses
,
I
should
have
as
much
admir'd
at
,
as
I
was
satisfi'd
with
them
;
but
these
confusions
hardly
merited
that
name
,
if
compar'd
to
those
which
succeeded
them
as
soon
as
he
saw
Udozia
,
who
came
to
meet
him
in
the
great
Hall
of
the
Palace
,
and
who
participated
in
no
small
degree
in
his
disorders
;
but
truly
hers
were
such
,
that
methought
they
perform'd
something
near
to
a
Miracle
,
by
bringing
an
accession
to
her
beauty
,
which
the
generous
Roman
was
so
justly
ravish'd
with
,
that
his
wonder
spoke
his
passion
more
significantly
,
than
any
expressions
were
capable
of
;
but
as
soon
as
he
found
his
too-much
admiration
and
silence
,
might
intrench
upon
his
civility
,
he
went
towards
Udozia
with
a
grace
and
majesty
peculiar
to
the
only
Ventidius
;
and
having
with
a
deep
respect
kist
the
bottom
of
her
gown
,
he
told
her
,
That
freedom
,
Madam
,
which
without
dispute
I
have
long
since
yielded
to
your
Picture
,
I
am
now
purposely
come
to
pay
you
,
whose
Power
perhaps
could
not
more
transcendently
manifest
it self
,
than
by
conquering
a
Romans
liberty
by
a
shadow
,
as
far
short
too
of
the
charming
substance
,
as
all
other
reall
beauties
are
short
of
it
.
But
if
the
Copy
infus'd
a
high
flame
,
judge
then
what
the
transcendent
Original
has
done
,
and
judge
I
beseech
you
Madam
of
mine
,
only
by
that
Rule
,
since
nothing
can
equal
the
vastness
of
my
passion
,
but
the
vastness
of
that
beauty
which
has
created
it
,
which
former
shall
be
as
infinite
in
the
duration
,
as
that
which
gave
it
a
being
is
in
perfection
.
This
Compliment
could
not
be
fuller
of
Passion
,
than
the
answer
to
it
was
of
Civility
,
which
I
pass
over
as
being
nothing
essential
to
that
Story
you
have
enjoin'd
me
to
tell
you
;
but
yet
though
I
omit
the
particulars
of
this
first
interview
,
I
must
not
the
acquainting
you
,
that
as
soon
as
I
had
brought
Ventidius
to
his
Apartment
,
I
retir'd
with
Udozia
to
hers
,
where
I
told
her
at
large
,
how
absolutely
her
servant
had
offer'd
me
the
Crown
of
Armenia
,
and
how
as
absolutely
I
had
declin'd
it
:
Udozia
was
infinitely
more
satisfi'd
that
I
had
refus'd
it
,
than
that
I
had
the
power
to
wear
it
;
and
gave
me
such
handsom
retributions
for
the
former
,
that
I
found
there
might
be
as
great
a
reward
for
having
been
virtuous
,
as
in
being
so
:
but
knowing
how
much
higher
an
influence
an
ador'd
Mistriss
has
over
a
Lover
,
than
any
other
confinement
is
capable
of
,
I
conjur'd
her
,
as
I
did
tye
my self
from
doing
Artabazus
any
harm
,
that
she
would
Ventidius
,
and
give
as
good
an
account
of
her
servant
,
as
I
would
of
her
Brother
;
Udozia
at
first
made
some
scruples
to
implore
from
Ventidius
what
he
had
obliquely
deny'd
me
,
since
it
would
evince
she
thought
she
had
a
power
over
him
,
which
she
very
much
doubted
she
had
not
;
but
yet
at
last
she
determin'd
to
do
Armenia
a
considerable
service
,
or
by
hazarding
so
sensible
a
disgrace
as
a
repulse
would
amount
unto
,
manifest
she
apprehended
nothing
more
than
not
obliging
her
Countrey
,
and
nothing
at
all
,
when
the
safety
of
it
,
came
in
competition
with
any
thing
else
:
'T
was
therefore
some
three
hours
after
,
being
inform'd
Ventidius
was
gone
to
divert
himself
in
the
Palace
Gardens
,
that
Udozia
,
arm'd
with
such
generous
and
publick
thoughts
,
went
thither
to
him
,
waited
on
by
none
but
me
,
where
after
a
short
search
,
we
perceiv'd
him
lying
upon
some
Grass
,
shaded
with
Lemmon
,
and
Pomegranate
Trees
;
and
truly
he
was
so
intent
on
what
he
was
doing
,
as
we
perceived
that
was
the
viewing
Udozia's
Picture
,
before
he
saw
her
,
which
as
soon
as
he
did
,
he
rose
up
surpriz'd
,
and
told
her
,
I
have
been
,
Madam
,
comparing
together
the
Charms
of
my
first
and
second
Vanquisher
,
and
find
the
disproportion
so
transcendent
,
that
I
have
no
way
to
excuse
my
first
submission
,
but
to
remember
I
made
it
to
a
Conqueror
,
who
though
she
made
not
use
of
such
unresistable
Arms
as
my
second
,
yet
she
did
of
her
name
.
If
(
said
Udozia
)
I
esteem'd
it
not
a
higher
wrong
to
the
generous
Ventidius
,
to
believe
so
small
a
beauty
as
Udozia's
could
captivate
him
,
than
not
to
credit
what
he
has
so
often
repeated
,
I
would
not
conjure
him
by
some
demonstration
to
evince
a
truth
,
which
he
cannot
be
more
concern'd
to
make
me
believe
,
than
I
am
to
have
pregnant
cause
to
do
it
.
Ah
Madam
(
said
Ventidius
)
I
shall
acknowledge
your
furnishing
me
with
an
occasion
to
manifest
so
high
,
and
just
a
truth
,
to
be
as
transcendent
an
obligation
,
as
't
is
an
impossibility
and
cruelty
,
if
the
way
you
propound
unto
that
end
,
be
by
merit
or
time
;
neither
can
such
injunctions
be
more
a
torment
to
me
,
than
an
injury
to
your
Beauty
.
I
have
already
(
said
Udozia
)
told
you
I
am
so
much
concern'd
in
believing
what
you
endeavor
to
persuade
me
,
that
I
shall
not
so
long
protract
my
own
satisfaction
,
as
to
prescribe
any
length
of
time
to
confirm
it
;
nor
so
flatter
my self
,
and
wrong
the
generous
Ventidius
,
as
to
motion
merit
in
that
sense
he
seems
to
do
it
;
that
which
I
have
to
propound
,
is
of
a
quality
,
which
if
he
will
grant
it
,
't
will
take
up
no
more
time
than
to
say
he
does
so
.
Oh
gods
!
(
reply'd
the
impatient
Ventidius
)
the
highest
favor
next
to
finding
out
so
obliging
an
expedient
,
is
immediately
to
name
it
.
'T
is
(
said
Udozia
)
to
pardon
Artabazus's
and
Armenia's
fault
,
which
perhaps
the
necessity
they
were
both
reduc'd
unto
by
Arsaces's
activeness
,
and
Crassus's
remissness
,
may
in
some
degree
extenuate
;
or
if
both
those
do
not
,
yet
still
in
the
Concession
I
shall
find
the
greater
proof
of
what
I
am
not
a
little
concern'd
to
be
convinc'd
of
.
Would
to
the
gods
,
fair
Princess
,
Ventidius
reply'd
,
their
Faults
were
as
great
,
as
the
Power
she
has
over
me
,
which
commands
me
to
excuse
them
,
I
should
the
sooner
do
it
,
since
thereby
the
greatness
of
the
proof
of
the
truth
,
would
be
the
more
proportionate
to
the
truth
itself
:
Yes
,
Madam
,
I
do
absolutely
forget
them
;
and
though
I
know
of
how
vast
prejudice
it
may
be
to
me
to
disobey
the
people
of
Rome
,
yet
I
know
't
will
be
of
infinitely
more
,
to
disobey
the
fair
Udozia
,
for
whom
the
reason
that
I
should
eternally
obey
her
,
cannot
transcend
the
inclination
which
I
have
perpetually
to
do
it
.
The
generous
Ventidius
(
I
reply'd
)
shall
not
run
any
hazard
to
obey
Udozia
;
and
though
I
am
much
concern'd
in
my
King
,
and
my
Countrey
,
yet
I
am
much
more
my
Friend
,
so
that
I
determine
immediate●
to
make
a
journey
to
Artabazus
,
who
,
if
he
gives
you
not
a
rise
to
oblige
him
,
and
such
an
one
too
,
as
may
apologize
sufficiently
for
your
doing
so
,
you
shall
not
hazard
your
destruction
,
to
manifest
your
civility
.
All
(
said
Ventidius
)
I
will
desire
,
since
he
is
in
the
blessing
of
fair
Udozia's
concern
,
is
,
that
he
will
not
,
by
being
an
Enemy
to
Rome
,
provoke
me
to
disobey
her
commands
,
or
after
such
a
provocation
,
by
not
doing
so
,
render
my self
unworthy
to
have
been
honor'd
with
them
.
But
(
he
continu'd
)
is
there
no
other
way
,
but
by
Artavasdes's
absence
,
to
settle
Armenia
?
No
,
(
I
reply'd
)
I
believe
mine
will
accelerate
this
great
work
better
than
any
others
.
'T
were
to
be
too
prolix
,
to
tell
you
Udozia's
retributions
and
mine
to
Ventidius
,
with
his
civilities
on
them
:
I
will
therefore
only
acquaint
you
,
that
being
ready
to
take
horse
,
I
recommended
the
care
of
Ventidius
to
Udozia
,
and
enjoin'd
her
so
to
use
her
Prisoner
,
that
he
might
have
no
desires
of
altering
that
name
;
Ventidius
answer'd
me
for
her
,
't
was
impossible
she
should
deny
me
that
request
,
since
't
was
so
,
that
he
should
ever
desire
a
more
noble
Title
.
Then
(
after
having
beg'd
me
to
tell
Artabazus
from
him
,
that
for
some
powerful
considerations
,
he
would
desire
no
greater
pennance
for
his
past
fault
,
than
to
repeat
it
,
which
was
,
to
continue
a
Neuter
)
I
began
my
journey
,
which
prov'd
not
very
long
,
because
above
my
expectation
,
I
found
the
King
at
Cammona
,
whither
the
necessity
of
his
Affairs
,
by
the
intelligence
of
Ventidius
being
on
the
Frontiers
,
drew
him
;
all
the
Court
admir'd
at
my
coming
to
it
,
and
Artabazus
when
he
saw
me
come
into
the
Palace
Garden
,
(
where
he
was
then
walking
with
some
of
his
Council
)
was
as
much
surpriz'd
one
way
,
as
after
I
had
told
him
the
occasion
of
my
visit
,
he
was
the
other
.
He
made
me
a
thousand
excuses
for
the
necessity
of
his
Crime
,
(
for
so
he
term'd
what
he
had
done
with
Altezeera
)
and
with
as
many
embraces
,
acknowledg'd
my
care
,
and
my
affection
,
when
(
as
he
said
)
he
was
so
far
from
meriting
either
,
that
he
did
the
contrary
.
In
a
word
,
after
I
had
told
him
on
what
terms
he
might
have
Ventidius
his
friend
,
not
only
(
with
raptures
of
joy
)
he
condescended
to
them
,
but
by
a
Letter
to
him
,
acknowledg'd
he
had
twice
deriv'd
both
his
safety
,
and
his
Crown
,
from
his
generosity
to
Artabazus
,
and
friendship
to
Artavasdes
.
As
soon
as
I
had
thus
setled
my
business
to
my
Kings
liking
,
as
well
as
Ventidius's
,
(
for
the
latter
could
not
more
joyfully
embrace
the
occasion
offerving
Udozia
,
than
the
former
did
the
friendship
of
the
Romans
,
against
whom
he
was
so
ill
provided
,
by
the
absence
and
discontents
of
Phanasder
,
and
,
as
he
said
,
of
Artavasdes
too
,
that
he
was
determin'd
to
have
submitted
to
their
mercy
,
to
avoid
doing
so
to
their
force
)
I
took
leave
of
the
King
,
without
letting
him
know
how
I
had
refus'd
that
Title
,
or
imploring
his
justice
against
Crassolis
,
who
,
I
learnt
,
was
still
conceal'd
,
and
which
consequently
I
thought
had
been
a
fruitless
,
and
probably
a
prejudicial
request
.
Artabazus
,
who
found
me
positively
resolv'd
to
depart
,
seem'd
to
be
as
much
griev'd
for
my
leaving
him
,
as
he
had
been
pleas'd
at
the
cause
,
and
the
result
of
my
visit
;
and
to
invite
my
continuance
,
he
offer'd
me
large
advantages
,
amongst
many
others
,
that
of
commanding
,
during
my
life
,
the
Armenian
Militia
;
yet
this
,
as
well
as
the
rest
,
I
entirely
declin'd
:
for
though
I
thought
nothing
could
dispense
me
from
a
general
care
of
Armenia
,
and
the
King
of
it
,
yet
I
esteem'd
my
wrongs
might
not
only
excuse
my
not
living
at
Court
,
but
also
my
refusal
of
any
Command
which
was
not
conducing
to
my
revenge
on
Pacorus
,
who
,
though
he
had
by
giving
me
my
life
,
thereby
confin'd
me
to
act
nothing
particularly
against
his
,
yet
by
his
having
render'd
it
my
torment
,
I
esteem'd
my self
thereby
not
concluded
from
ending
it
by
his
hands
at
the
head
of
an
Army
;
besides
,
I
resolv'd
my self
not
a
little
disenfranchis'd
from
that
obligation
,
by
restoring
him
so
many
considerable
Prisoners
after
the
Battel
on
the
Banks
of
Euphrates
,
and
by
the
care
I
had
of
his
person
before
,
and
in
it
.
'T
was
therefore
that
I
implor'd
the
King
to
excuse
my
not
accepting
a
Command
,
which
though
of
infinite
honour
,
yet
was
consider'd
by
me
less
out
of
that
respect
,
than
from
an
assurance
I
thereby
receiv'd
,
that
he
thought
I
was
not
his
Enemy
,
though
he
had
given
me
the
highest
provocation
to
be
so
;
which
good
opinion
he
had
contracted
of
me
,
I
could
not
better
merit
,
than
by
declining
so
advantageous
an
offer
,
to
put
my self
in
a
far
meaner
condition
for
his
service
,
which
I
esteem'd
my
attending
on
Ventidius
was
,
and
would
prove
,
and
for
the
doing
of
which
,
I
humbly
beg'd
his
permission
.
Artabazus
granted
me
my
request
,
because
I
would
not
grant
him
his
;
and
having
again
convinc'd
my
belief
,
that
he
would
not
be
an
Enemy
to
the
Romans
,
by
many
pregnant
reasons
,
and
by
others
,
I
took
a
final
leave
,
and
with
as
great
expedition
in
my
return
to
Sattala
,
as
in
my
going
from
it
,
I
safely
arriv'd
there
,
and
found
(
during
my
absence
)
that
Udozia
had
so
well
discover'd
her
servants
merit
and
perfections
,
that
any
intercession
of
mine
for
him
could
not
have
been
more
just
,
than
't
was
unnecessary
.
Ventidius
seem'd
almost
as
much
satisfied
with
the
success
of
my
journy
,
as
with
my
return
;
and
finding
by
the
former
he
could
not
make
a
longer
residence
at
Sattala
,
without
as
largely
intrenching
on
his
honour
,
as
by
his
abandoning
it
,
he
should
on
his
felicity
,
he
declar'd
the
next
morning
he
intended
to
force
himself
from
his
joyes
,
to
return
to
his
Army
.
This
resolve
,
and
my
former
observation
,
made
me
esteem
it
as
fit
,
as
I
did
believe
it
would
not
be
difficult
,
to
obtain
an
assurance
from
Udozia
,
that
when
Ventidius
did
crown
himself
with
Lawrel
,
she
would
with
Myrtles
,
and
make
him
a
Conqueror
in
Love
,
after
he
had
made
himself
one
in
War
;
to
make
her
confess
to
me
this
was
her
resolution
,
was
far
more
facile
,
than
to
make
her
do
it
to
Ventidius
;
but
at
last
the
passionate
conjurations
of
a
meritorious
servant
,
united
with
those
of
a
beloved
Brother
,
were
so
prevalent
,
that
they
extorted
a
declaration
,
which
she
could
not
deliver
with
more
blushes
,
than
he
in
whose
favor
't
was
made
,
receiv'd
it
with
extasies
and
Transports
:
I
remember
amongst
many
other
expressions
of
the
generous
Ventidius's
,
this
was
one
;
I
bless
the
gods
(
my
fair
Princess
)
that
they
have
made
it
my
destiny
to
fight
against
a
Nation
,
which
never
yet
was
vanquish'd
,
that
the
world
may
be
convinc'd
,
this
high
conquest
was
reserv'd
for
Udozia's
Soldier
,
who
can
no
more
be
deny'd
Victory
,
bearing
that
most
glorious
Title
,
than
it
can
be
,
that
that
Title
is
so
.
These
necessary
Productions
of
a
transcendent
Joy
,
and
Passion
,
were
no
sooner
qualify'd
,
than
I
assur'd
Ventidius
,
I
would
wait
on
him
in
this
War
,
to
fatisfy
my
Friendship
as
well
as
Revenge
.
This
promise
was
receiv'd
with
new
raptures
,
and
I
found
how
agreeable
my
company
was
to
him
,
since
it
could
appear
as
a
great
joy
,
in
his
being
already
possest
with
so
high
an
one
.
Udozia
made
no
small
scruples
to
deprive
her self
at
once
of
both
her
concerns
;
but
when
I
assur'd
her
my
Presence
might
in
no
unconsidrable
degree
contribute
to
the
preservation
of
Ventidius
,
whose
too-high
Appetite
to
Glory
,
might
cast
him
into
resembling
dangers
,
and
that
his
conversation
,
and
the
diversion
of
War
,
might
efface
the
Reliques
of
a
grief
,
whose
entire
distinction
was
not
indifferent
to
her
,
she
at
last
consented
to
my
voyage
,
and
perhaps
my
departure
with
Ventidius
the
next
morning
,
did
not
a
little
contribute
to
the
free
liberty
of
her
weepings
,
for
since
in
the
very
Tears
themselves
,
none
could
read
their
cause
,
she
shed
hers
the
more
unrestrainedly
;
and
her
Brother
,
and
her
Lovers
joynt
departure
,
made
them
as
equally
ascribable
to
Affection
,
as
Passion
;
though
for
my
part
,
I
not
only
believ'd
,
but
was
satisfy'd
with
their
relishing
more
of
the
last
,
than
the
first
.
But
Ventidius
now
assur'd
his
victory
over
the
Parthians
,
would
give
him
a
more
noble
one
in
Udozia
(
at
least
one
that
he
valu'd
so
)
flew
to
his
Army
,
resolving
to
bring
his
own
,
and
that
Empires
fate
to
a
suddain
tryal
.
All
along
the
way
as
we
went
to
Alexandretta
,
he
entertain'd
me
with
such
passionate
discourses
of
his
Flame
,
tha●
I
must
acknowledge
,
they
set
my
old
wounds
fresh
a
bleeding
,
and
by
his
admirable
expressions
of
a
successful
Love
,
he
not
only
made
me
resent
more
pregnantly
my
own
misery
in
a
contrary
Fate
,
but
inflam'd
me
with
resolves
,
to
act
in
this
War
such
performances
,
as
might
force
Altezeera
to
esteem
me
worthy
her
Affection
,
though
she
were
uncapable
to
confer
it
on
me
;
or
by
a
noble
Death
,
and
my
misfortunes
,
and
desires
together
.
The
joy
of
the
Roman
Army
at
Ventidius's
coming
to
it
,
appear'd
as
great
as
it
could
do
in
a
Victory
,
and
they
were
so
satisfy'd
with
it
,
that
though
he
had
brought
them
nothing
but
his
person
;
he
had
been
as
welcome
,
as
bringing
with
it
the
assurance
that
he
had
ty'd
Artabazus's
hands
;
at
which
,
all
the
Romans
seem'd
to
be
much
satisfy'd
,
not
that
they
wanted
the
vanity
of
believing
themselves
soon
able
to
have
done
it
,
but
that
they
consider'd
all
things
as
misfortunes
,
which
retarded
their
revenging
the
death
,
and
appeasing
the
Manes
of
so
many
of
their
Citizens
,
as
fell
with
Crassus
.
Ventidius
extreamly
pleas'd
to
observe
,
his
Army
were
in
so
obliging
a
temper
,
began
his
March
the
next
morning
,
towards
the
River
of
Euphrates
,
where
his
Intelligencers
assur'd
him
a
vast
Army
of
the
Parthians
lay
,
to
justify
their
Frontiers
,
The
Roman
General
sent
an
Herauld
to
them
to
denounce
the
War
,
which
he
said
the
Romans
were
not
wont
to
steal
upon
,
but
to
make
with
their
Enemies
;
that
since
he
was
determin'd
to
prosecute
them
to
the
end
of
the
World
,
and
that
nothing
could
avoid
a
Battel
,
't
would
be
more
generous
,
if
they
would
exempt
him
from
a
tedious
march
,
by
dividing
the
length
of
it
between
them
.
This
denunciation
and
desire
being
sent
,
found
a
generous
return
from
Labienus
,
who
commanded
the
Parthian
Army
,
and
who
advanced
four
days
march
into
Syria
,
to
decline
all
disadvantages
over
the
Romans
,
since
(
as
he
said
)
the
Parthians
*
thians
needed
no
greater
,
than
they
had
in
their
Courages
;
which
because
so
pregnant
an
Argument
as
the
loss
of
Crassus
,
and
40000
of
his
Countreymen
could
not
convince
them
of
,
he
was
coming
purposely
to
manifest
,
by
a
fresh
demonstration
,
which
he
was
confident
would
be
so
signal
a
one
,
that
though
none
of
them
should
live
to
acknowledge
it
,
yet
their
deaths
should
do
it
for
them
.
Ventidius
excus'd
this
high
reply
,
by
the
Parthians
putting
themselves
in
a
condition
,
which
he
was
more
than
perswaded
would
soon
afford
him
a
certainty
of
revenging
it
.
The
two
Generals
having
agreed
upon
a
sett
day
to
decide
the
Quarrel
,
by
one
of
the
Parthian
Trumpets
,
which
past
between
both
Armies
,
for
the
making
of
this
bloudy
bargain
,
I
diligently
enquir'd
after
my
dear
Artabanes
,
who
I
concluded
was
not
in
the
Parthian
Army
,
because
another
Commanded
it
;
but
this
Trumpeter
,
either
through
obedience
or
ignorance
,
continu'd
me
in
mine
;
but
the
joy
that
I
should
not
fight
against
my
generous
friend
,
could
hardly
transcend
my
grief
,
when
I
knew
I
should
have
the
like
Fate
against
Pacorus
,
yet
I
hoped
this
Battel
would
facilitate
my
desires
against
another
opportunity
.
At
last
the
fatal
day
came
,
and
't
was
then
I
perceiv'd
in
Ventidius
,
so
many
Martial
Charms
,
as
well
in
his
Knowledge
,
as
in
his
Looks
,
that
had
Udozia
but
then
seen
him
,
she
must
have
unavoidably
compos'd
a
part
of
his
that
days
victory
.
The
General
of
the
Romans
would
have
in
this
Battel
,
resign'd
that
Title
to
me
,
but
I
appear'd
as
much
offended
at
the
offer
,
as
he
was
generous
in
it
,
and
't
was
then
he
protested
,
he
deplor'd
his
not
being
a
Monarch
,
since
thereby
he
had
been
accountable
to
none
but
to
the
gods
,
and
Reason
,
for
his
Actions
,
and
consequently
would
have
forc'd
me
to
have
taken
that
days
Command
.
I
will
not
tell
you
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
my
return
to
this
flattery
.
'T
is
enough
you
know
I
did
decline
it
,
but
yet
could
not
,
the
Command
of
the
Italian
Cavalry
,
which
was
compos'd
of
the
Youth
and
Gallantry
of
Rome
,
and
by
which
charge
I
found
Ventidius
gave
me
means
,
as
ample
as
my
desires
,
to
purchase
Glory
.
He
himself
took
his
place
at
the
head
of
the
Legionary
Soldiers
,
and
the
signals
were
no
sooner
given
,
than
the
Armies
began
the
Battel
,
with
such
fury
,
that
had
I
not
known
they
were
both
compos'd
of
the
Warlikest
Nations
in
the
World
,
I
could
then
no
longer
have
been
in
that
ignorance
;
I
will
not
amuze
my self
,
to
give
you
the
retail
of
this
famous
day
,
't
is
enough
you
know
Ventidius
did
like
Ventidius
,
and
consequently
pierc'd
and
broke
whatever
oppos'd
him
;
and
though
he
found
a
virtuous
resistance
,
yet
it
was
so
far
from
hindring
his
victory
,
that
it
did
but
set
if
it
off
the
better
.
The
Parthian
Cavalry
are
generally
the
best
that
are
,
and
their
numbers
much
exceeding
ours
,
we
found
we
needed
the
Legionaries
help
,
which
as
soon
as
Ventidius
had
,
he
advanc'd
a
precipitate
pace
to
afford
it
us
.
I
include
my self
in
the
number
of
those
that
wanted
it
,
though
the
gods
gad
given
the
Right-wing
,
which
I
commanded
,
as
entire
a
victory
,
as
Septimus
a
defeat
,
who
commanded
the
left
;
So
that
the
General
of
the
Parthian
Horse
and
I
,
observing
our
mutual
successes
,
rally'd
Troops
together
with
what
expedition
we
could
,
but
that
Nation
being
more
active
of
their
Feet
,
when
they
cannot
use
their
Hands
,
than
the
Romans
,
and
the
execution
remaining
more
bloudy
on
our
side
than
theirs
,
their
Commander
had
sooner
brought
his
Soldiers
under
their
Colours
,
and
in
greater
numbers
,
than
I
could
possibly
under
mine
;
yet
Ventidius's
arrival
so
well
redrest
that
misfortune
,
as
I
found
it
none
;
our
new
dispute
seem'd
a
second
Battel
,
and
Ventidius
found
he
must
obtain
two
Victories
,
to
win
one
.
I
cannot
with
Truth
decline
telling
you
,
That
observing
the
General
of
the
Parthian
Horse
,
who
was
much
more
remarkable
for
his
Courage
,
than
his
Arms
,
which
yet
were
in
the
beginning
all
cover'd
with
Rubies
,
though
now
with
a
nobler
,
but
resembling
colour
,
I
rid
up
to
him
,
and
having
singl'd
him
out
,
I
endeavour'd
to
take
a
revenge
of
those
many
deaths
he
had
given
divers
which
serv'd
under
me
;
but
those
which
were
spectators
of
our
Combate
,
fear'd
,
and
believ'd
I
would
increase
his
Victories
,
rather
than
punish
them
;
I
must
confess
,
his
first
strokes
were
so
unintermissive
and
brisk
,
that
I
might
have
made
that
my
own
opinion
too
,
and
perhaps
the
rage
of
its
being
mine
,
did
not
a
little
contribute
to
the
giving
of
those
wounds
,
which
soon
made
the
beholders
to
alter
it
,
but
in
bestowing
on
him
some
which
were
very
dangerous
,
I
receiv'd
many
which
were
so
,
but
mine
were
so
much
more
obliging
,
or
my
constitution
so
much
stronger
than
his
,
that
uniting
all
his
Forces
to
give
me
one
blow
(
which
might
revenge
my
having
so
much
diminsh'd
them
)
as
his
Sword
was
in
the
Air
to
act
it
,
his
Spirits
abandon'd
him
,
his
Arms
fell
softly
to
his
side
,
and
then
he
himself
fell
off
his
Horse
on
the
ground
;
some
Romans
,
according
to
their
barbarous
custom
,
ran
to
cut
off
this
valiant
Parthian's
Head
,
to
present
it
to
their
General
,
but
perceiving
their
intent
,
I
lighted
hastily
to
prevent
it
;
but
I
found
my self
so
weaken'd
by
the
loss
of
Bloud
,
that
I
no
sooner
toucht
the
ground
with
my
Feet
,
than
I
did
the
like
with
all
my
Body
,
yet
as
the
gods
would
have
it
,
remembring
the
cause
why
I
had
abandon'd
my
Horse
,
I
crept
where
the
generous
Parthian
lay
,
where
not
being
able
to
defend
him
by
my
Commands
,
I
did
it
with
my
Sword
,
and
receiv'd
some
wounds
to
preserve
him
,
who
had
given
me
so
many
;
my
assistance
had
been
fruitless
to
him
,
if
Ventidius
had
not
then
come
to
mine
,
of
whom
I
had
only
strength
enough
to
beg
,
as
he
lov'd
Udozia
,
or
Artav●jdes
,
that
he
would
preserve
my
valiant
Enemy
;
which
words
I
had
no
sooner
utter'd
,
than
I
fell
off
my
knees
by
him
,
and
almost
in
as
unpromising
a
condition
as
he
was
in
.
Ventidius
,
(
one
of
the
most
generous
Friends
)
thought
he
could
not
better
merit
that
Title
,
than
by
having
as
much
care
of
my
desires
,
as
of
me
;
this
made
him
at
the
same
instant
in
which
he
sent
for
the
Chirurgions
,
to
beat
off
those
Soldiers
,
who
endeavour'd
by
the
death
of
the
Parthian
to
revenge
,
my
supposed
one
,
and
many
of
their
companions
real
deaths
,
which
he
had
that
day
acted
;
Ventidius
found
so
much
difficulty
to
effect
this
,
that
as
he
afterwards
confest
,
had
not
my
pressing
conjurations
inviolably
engag'd
him
to
it
,
he
had
given
his
Soldiers
a
liberty
,
which
the
Parthian
usage
to
Crassus
,
made
it
almost
as
high
an
injustice
to
deny
them
,
as
did
the
sad
condition
this
had
reduc'd
me
to
;
but
at
l●ngth
,
having
made
himself
to
be
obey'd
,
he
caus'd
(
and
help'd
)
me
to
be
carried
to
my
Tent
,
and
set
up
another
near
mine
,
to
which
he
made
my
Enemy
be
brought
;
but
he
was
so
sensible
of
my
danger
,
that
he
was
no
longer
so
of
his
Glory
and
Success
;
for
commanding
the
Tribunes
to
prosecute
the
Victory
,
and
bring
him
an
account
,
at
what
rate
they
had
bought
it
,
and
how
dear
the
Parthians
had
lost
it
,
to
my
Tent
he
immediately
return'd
thither
again
,
where
he
found
me
so
much
restor'd
,
as
that
I
had
strength
enough
to
congratulate
his
glorious
success
,
which
was
so
much
the
more
so
,
by
his
having
chiefly
,
and
almost
solely
purchas'd
it
,
and
to
ask
him
afterwards
what
was
become
of
my
valiant
Enemy
whose
usage
I
implor'd
from
him
once
again
might
be
as
re●embling
to
mine
,
as
his
danger
was
.
Ventidius
gave
me
that
account
of
him
,
which
I
have
given
you
,
which
made
me
send
one
of
my
Domesticks
to
enquire
after
a
Life
,
I
was
as
much
concern'd
to
preserve
,
as
I
had
lately
been
to
destroy
;
my
Messenger
brought
me
word
,
that
as
yet
he
was
not
recover'd
from
his
fainting
,
but
that
the
Chirurgions
by
some
certain
symptomes
,
found
he
would
not
long
continue
in
it
.
I
was
as
glad
at
the
last
part
of
this
information
,
as
troubl'd
at
the
first
;
and
observing
that
Ventidius
only
call'd
him
the
Parthian
prisoner
,
I
ask'd
him
whether
he
had
not
yet
learnt
his
Name
and
Quality
.
I
have
not
,
(
Ventidius
reply'd
)
discover'd
either
,
but
I
am
confident
,
all
the
rules
of
Phisiognomy
are
false
,
if
his
Quality
be
not
answerable
to
the
richness
of
his
Arms
;
for
the
Chirurgions
to
stop
his
bleeding
,
having
taken
off
his
Helmet
,
I
perceiv'd
,
in
spight
of
his
paleness
,
a
Meen
,
and
Features
,
which
could
not
but
be
charming
in
a
perfect
health
,
since
they
were
almost
so
in
the
condition
he
was
then
in
.
This
Character
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
would
have
made
me
suspect
it
was
Artabanes
,
but
that
my
success
secur'd
me
from
that
fear
;
and
as
I
was
begging
Ventidius
to
enquire
scrutinously
who
the
Parthian
was
,
Septimus
came
in
,
and
assur'd
his
General
that
by
the
least
partial
computation
on
both
sides
,
the
Romans
had
lost
2000
,
and
their
Enemies
27000.
Ventidius
finding
me
in
so
promising
a
condition
,
suspended
awhile
the
duties
of
a
Friend
,
to
act
those
of
a
General
,
but
he
had
no
sooner
hastily
dispatch'd
his
Spies
▪
to
learn
the
Countenance
and
intentions
of
the
Enemy
,
and
settl'd
his
Guards
,
than
he
return'd
to
me
again
,
and
gave
me
no
small
hopes
,
but
those
he
had
employ'd
,
would
next
morning
satisfy
my
curiosity
,
and
learn
who
the
Prisoner
was
;
with
this
flattering
expectation
we
entertain'd
one
another
till
the
hour
prescrib'd
me
for
sleep
,
which
I
could
not
do
,
till
I
had
first
sent
to
enquire
how
the
Parthian
did
,
and
learnt
that
he
was
restor'd
to
Life
,
though
not
to
his
Sences
.
The
next
morning
the
Sun
was
hardly
risen
,
when
Ventidius
came
hastily
into
my
Tent
,
and
having
sent
out
all
those
in
it
,
he
told
me
,
with
a
Face
cover'd
with
joy
.
At
length
Artavasdes
,
at
length
the
gods
have
manifested
themselves
to
be
so
,
by
having
given
you
wherewithal
to
revenge
your
wrongs
,
and
that
Altezeer●
in
a
posture
to
repair
those
she
has
so
unjustly
loaden
you
with
;
Yes
Artavasdes
,
that
Prisoner
which
yesterday
was
made
one
by
your
Courage
,
is
Pacorus
,
who
understanding
of
my
intention
to
decide
our
quarrel
by
a
pitcht
Battel
,
came
in
post
from
Selutia
,
and
from
Altezeera
to
the
Parthian
Army
,
which
also
he
was
the
more
invited
to
,
by
its
being
commanded
by
Labienus
(
his
Favourite
)
This
is
confirm'd
by
three
several
Spies
,
who
all
assure
me
,
that
the
Gentleman
with
the
Arms
cover'd
with
Rubies
,
is
Pacorus
,
whoseloss
the
Parthians
as
much
lament
,
as
that
of
the
Battel
,
and
of
their
General
,
of
whom
as
yet
they
can
learn
no
news
;
you
will
have
also
(
continu'd
Ventidius
)
the
Felicity
of
seeing
your
Revenge
acted
,
without
being
the
Judge
,
or
Guilty
of
it
;
For
one
of
my
Instructions
from
the
Triumvirat
and
Senate
,
is
,
neither
to
give
,
nor
receive
Quarter
,
so
that
in
my
necessary
obedience
,
you
may
derive
a
satisfaction
,
which
perhaps
your
own
nice
Gallantry
would
scruple
to
confer
on
you
.
Judge
generous
Friend
(
said
Artavasdes
)
Judge
if
my
astonishment
were
great
at
so
strange
and
unexpected
an
adventure
,
in
which
I
had
on
small
debate
,
whether
it
were
an
accident
fitter
for
my
joy
or
grief
;
but
after
a
short
reflection
,
and
dispute
on
it
,
I
reply'd
;
Ah
Ventidius
,
Pacorus
must
not
dye
,
my
Honor
as
well
as
Reason
will
oppose
it
,
for
to
let
a
Prisoner
be
executed
by
the
Sword
of
Justice
,
which
avoided
it
by
that
of
War
,
cannot
more
intrench
upon
both
our
Reputations
,
than
it
must
on
my
Felicity
;
for
though
Pacorus's
death
will
free
me
from
an
injoyning
Kival
,
yet
alas
,
the
way
in
which
't
is
done
,
will
raise
me
as
great
an
obstruction
,
as
it
removes
;
for
with
what
confidence
and
hopes
,
can
I
present
my self
to
Altezeera
,
having
been
in
effect
the
murtherer
of
her
Husband
?
by
so
horrid
a
crime
,
if
she
has
any
aversion
for
me
,
it
will
be
as
abundantly
as
justly
increast
,
or
if
hereafter
she
should
discover
my
Innocency
(
which
is
too-bright
to
be
eternally
clouded
)
I
should
hereby
render
heruncapable
to
reward
it
.
No
generous
Ventidius
,
the
gods
have
too
palpably
taken
the
protection
of
Pacorus
,
to
make
me
become
his
destroyer
,
and
they
never
yet
permitted
sin
to
be
the
way
to
Felicity
;
besides
,
I
owe
him
a
Life
,
which
if
I
now
repay
,
I
shall
ease
my self
of
a
burthen
,
that
next
to
Altezeera's
Inconstancy
,
does
most
load
me
;
neither
is
it
impossible
,
but
so
high
a
demonstration
as
this
is
,
of
my
concern
in
her
satisfaction
,
may
create
in
her
a
proportionate
one
for
mine
,
and
induce
her
to
confess
,
what
she
has
done
was
her
fault
,
or
at
least
her
misfortune
,
which
acknowledgement
of
her
offence
,
I
shall
esteem
the
highest
blessing
,
next
to
her
repairing
it
;
neither
shall
I
ever
hope
her
pardon
,
for
having
made
Pacorus
a
prisoner
,
but
by
setting
him
at
liberty
;
and
those
wounds
I
have
given
him
,
cannot
more
nobly
be
excus'd
,
nor
by
so
pregnant
an
evincement
,
that
I
was
ignorant
to
whom
I
gave
them
,
as
that
of
restoring
him
his
liberty
,
when
I
knew
it
.
I
shall
therefore
(
generous
Ventidius
)
conjure
you
,
by
all
those
motives
which
you
esteem
most
prevalent
,
permit
me
to
dispose
of
Pacorus
before
his
qual●●y
be
known
to
your
Army
,
lest
so
great
a
gift
afterwards
might
prove
a
proportionate
prejudice
to
the
Giver
.
That
this
Prisoner
(
said
Ventidius
)
is
Pacorus
,
is
not
more
certain
,
than
that
before
now
all
the
Army
know
it
,
for
my
Spies
never
being
employ'd
but
about
publick
concerns
,
I
never
us'd
to
receive
their
intelligences
,
but
before
such
of
the
Army
,
with
whom
I
use
to
advise
how
to
improve
,
and
act
upon
them
,
so
that
this
being
given
me
,
as
the
custome
is
,
and
being
a
thing
of
so
great
encouragement
to
the
Soldiers
,
and
Honor
,
and
advantage
to
you
that
took
him
,
I
was
so
far
f●om
endeavouring
to
suppress
it
,
that
I
contributed
on
both
those
scores
to
the
divulging
it
;
neither
can
I
think
,
but
therein
I
heve
abundantly
serv'd
you
,
which
I
believe
will
be
your
opinion
too
,
if
you
act
not
as
much
againct
your self
,
as
the
gods
do
for
you
;
for
I
know
you
are
too-much
a
Friend
to
Virtue
,
and
too-knowing
in
Altezeera's
,
either
to
desire
,
or
expect
a
reward
of
your
Passion
and
Services
,
in
the
condition
she
now
is
in
;
so
that
their
being
but
two
obstacles
to
the
attaining
of
your
felicity
,
that
of
her
real
Marriage
,
and
that
of
your
imaginary
Guilt
,
the
greatest
of
them
by
Pacorus's
death
,
will
be
remov'd
,
and
who
knows
whether
therein
both
of
them
will
not
be
so
,
for
perhaps
the
danger
Armenia
was
in
,
did
invite
her
to
her
crime
,
and
it
may
be
the
more
to
supress
Pacorus's
jealousies
(
who
could
not
but
learn
her
pre-ingagement
to
you
)
she
broke
with
you
on
your
pretended
,
and
unmention'd
fault
,
the
better
to
palliate
her
own
;
neither
is
it
unlikely
,
but
that
Pacorus
by
some
Arts
of
his
,
has
setl'd
this
misunderstanding
betwixt
you
,
and
after
his
being
possest
of
Altezeera
,
lest
she
should
learn
it
privately
by
some
other
way
,
and
so
as
a
reparation
recall
you
to
her
,
has
himself
disclos'd
it
,
thereby
to
hinder
her
from
such
a
proceeding
;
besides
,
should
Altezeera
come
to
learn
your
innocency
,
't
will
be
so
far
from
being
an
advantage
to
you
,
that
it
will
be
a
torment
to
her
,
and
consequently
to
you
;
and
Pacorus
,
according
to
the
course
of
Nature
,
being
as
probable
to
live
,
as
either
Altezeera
or
you
,
all
you
can
derive
from
the
manifestation
of
your
Integrity
,
is
only
to
let
her
know
,
but
not
render
her
capable
to
acknowledge
,
or
reward
it
;
whereas
if
Pacorus
be
sent
into
another
World
,
at
the
same
instant
your
innocence
is
clear'd
,
it
will
undoubtedly
be
recompenc'd
:
These
reasons
(
continu'd
Ventidius
)
cannot
more
evidently
manifest
that
Pacorus's
death
is
necessary
to
your
Felicity
,
than
I
will
,
that
it
cannot
be
so
much
as
suspected
to
be
your
action
,
or
by
your
consent
,
for
his
being
a
prisoner
cannot
be
more
generally
known
,
than
that
my
Commission
commands
me
to
take
none
,
or
if
any
be
taken
,
to
execute
them
;
so
that
that
which
is
a
general
order
,
no
body
,
nor
Altezeera
her self
,
can
consider
as
a
particular
act
for
your
satisfaction
,
or
interest
;
what
you
have
already
done
for
Pacorus
,
evinces
also
that
Truth
,
since
when
you
had
the
power
to
kill
him
,
you
not
only
declin'd
doing
so
,
when
too
he
had
sufficiently
invited
you
to
it
,
by
leaving
only
strength
enough
to
perform
it
,
but
also
employ'd
that
little
remnant
of
life
you
had
left
,
to
preserve
his
,
which
had
reduc'd
you
to
that
extremity
;
and
(
said
Ventidius
)
you
must
give
me
leave
somewhat
to
mention
my
own
safety
in
this
particular
,
which
will
run
an
infinite
hazard
,
by
not
only
infringing
my
Commission
,
but
by
letting
goe
so
considerable
a
Prisoner
.
Would
to
the
gods
(
I
reply'd
)
I
could
as
easily
answer
all
your
objections
,
as
the
last
,
since
then
I
could
promise
my self
a
Concession
of
my
request
,
as
much
from
your
Reason
,
as
Friendship
;
for
whatsoever
is
the
cause
of
Altezeera's
change
,
I
am
confident
Pacorus
being
thus
remov'd
,
will
not
leave
her
a
Latitude
to
repair
it
;
but
on
the
contrary
,
't
will
make
me
for
ever
uncapable
of
appearing
what
I
am
;
though
you
alleadge
,
that
my
having
once
preserv'd
Pacorus
,
will
evidence
I
am
clear
of
his
death
,
yet
I
am
satisfy'd
it
will
prove
the
contrary
,
for
,
to
save
him
when
I
knew
not
who
he
was
,
and
to
permit
his
death
when
I
knew
him
to
be
Pacorus
,
will
justly
shew
,
she
was
oblig'd
by
my
ignorance
,
and
wrong'd
by
my
knowledge
;
and
indeed
will
render
me
as
guilty
to
her
,
as
to
my self
,
for
knowing
the
perfect
friendship
Ventidius
blesses
me
withal
,
she
cannot
doubt
if
I
had
embrac'd
Pacorus's
preservation
with
earnestness
,
but
my
success
,
would
have
been
proportionate
to
my
desire
;
besides
,
should
she
never
know
I
was
consenting
to
his
death
,
't
were
enough
perpetually
to
banish
me
from
her
,
that
I
did
.
Ventidius
was
about
to
answer
me
,
when
Septimus
,
and
a
great
many
Officers
,
came
into
my
Tent
to
visit
me
,
and
to
give
him
an
advice
of
such
importance
,
as
necessitated
him
awhile
to
leave
me
alone
,
which
I
no
sooner
was
than
I
began
to
dispute
with
my self
on
my
admirable
and
strange
fate
and
to
elect
some
course
upon
so
emergent
an
occasion
;
at
length
the
gods
made
me
pitch
upon
one
,
which
at
Ventidius's
return
I
resolv'd
,
to
communicate
to
him
,
in
the
expectance
whereof
,
I
sent
for
one
of
my
Physitians
and
Chirurgions
,
who
waited
on
Pacorus
,
to
learn
how
he
did
;
they
told
me
,
that
as
yet
he
had
not
recover'd
his
senses
perfectly
,
nor
spoke
,
but
they
durst
undertake
his
cure
,
if
I
were
concern'd
in
it
;
Yes
(
I
reply'd
)
I
am
so
,
infinitely
,
and
enjoyn
you
,
as
you
value
me
,
to
have
a
care
of
him
,
and
that
you
will
not
only
keep
from
his
knowledge
,
that
't
was
I
which
he
fought
against
,
but
my
being
in
the
Roman
Army
,
both
which
you
may
imagine
,
are
of
no
small
importance
to
me
,
since
I
commend
them
to
you
asmuch
as
his
cure
,
or
my
own
.
This
they
not
only
promis'd
,
but
undertook
to
perform
,
which
they
might
the
more
easily
,
because
he
was
only
waited
on
by
my
Servants
.
An
hour
after
,
Ventidius
return'd
to
my
Tent
,
where
he
told
me
the
occasion
which
drew
him
from
it
,
was
,
an
Advertisement
brought
him
,
that
Labienus
,
who
was
left
for
dead
amongst
many
thousands
that
were
so
,
was
by
the
care
of
one
of
his
servants
,
the
foregoing
night
brought
to
a
Countrey-house
not
far
off
,
where
beyond
all
expectation
they
found
him
give
some
symptomes
of
Life
,
which
the
diligent
Servant
to
improve
,
went
to
a
Village
not
far
off
to
fetch
a
Chirurgion
,
to
send
advice
to
the
Parthian
Army
of
this
rare
accident
;
and
to
let
them
know
how
dangerous
a
place
their
General
was
in
,
that
they
might
suddainly
remove
him
from
it
;
one
of
my
Spies
by
good
fortune
was
then
in
this
Village
,
and
so
industriously
play'd
his
part
,
that
he
got
perfect
information
of
this
Truth
,
which
then
he
came
to
discover
to
me
,
and
which
occasion'd
me
to
send
a
party
of
Horse
to
seize
upon
Labienus
,
and
bring
him
hither
;
they
are
just
now
return'd
,
but
without
him
,
for
an
hour
before
,
2000
Parthian
Horse
had
carry'd
him
away
in
a
Litter
.
Ventidius
having
made
me
this
little
Relation
,
began
afresh
to
assault
me
about
Pacorus
,
but
when
he
found
my
resolution
,
if
not
my
reason
,
was
unconquerable
,
he
told
me
,
since
I
was
so
absolutely
fix'd
upon
my
prejudice
,
he
would
afford
me
his
assistance
in
it
,
were
it
only
to
convince
me
he
would
not
deny
it
me
in
anything
,
and
that
what
he
had
mention'd
concerning
his
own
danger
,
was
purely
to
invite
me
upon
his
score
,
to
yield
to
what
was
to
prevent
mine
,
since
I
declin'd
it
upon
my
own
;
that
therefore
he
was
determin'd
to
send
an
express
to
Rome
,
to
let
the
Senate
know
his
victory
,
and
the
taking
of
Pacorus
,
whose
liberty
he
would
represent
(
as
his
own
opinion
)
would
sooner
settle
the
Eastern
World
,
than
his
death
,
since
his
being
of
a
generous
disposition
,
an
obligation
that
was
so
,
would
invite
him
to
be
a
friend
to
Rome
,
which
would
be
a
more
virtuous
Conquest
over
the
Parthians
,
than
they
had
over
Crassus
;
whereas
his
death
by
rendring
the
Parthians
desperate
,
will
render
the
War
so
too
,
which
otherwise
might
be
concluded
without
hazard
,
and
with
glory
;
I
will
(
continu'd
Ventidius
)
so
fill
my
Letters
,
not
only
to
the
Triumvirate
,
and
Senate
,
with
inducements
to
Mercy
,
but
also
all
those
I
shall
send
to
my
particular
Friends
,
that
I
hope
they
will
produce
what
you
desire
,
at
least
if
they
do
not
,
I
will
be
advertiz'd
of
it
by
a
Post
,
who
shall
arrive
before
my
Express
,
that
if
Pacorus's
death
be
commanded
,
before
I
receive
that
order
,
I
will
by
letting
him
escape
,
render
it
impossible
to
be
executed
:
this
course
(
said
Ventidius
)
I
elect
,
because
perhaps
I
may
have
no
cause
to
break
my
instructions
,
and
if
I
have
,
the
doing
it
,
may
prove
a
greater
obligation
to
Artavasdes
;
besides
,
Pacorus's
wounds
cannot
possibly
be
cur'd
before
an
Express
do
goe
,
and
return
from
Rome
;
neither
will
it
be
amiss
we
learn
what
countenance
Altezeera
put
upon
the
news
of
his
death
,
or
imprisonment
.
This
generous
assurance
made
me
embrace
the
maker
of
it
,
and
then
I
told
him
,
since
his
departure
,
I
had
given
strict
Order
Pacorus
should
be
kept
in
a
perfect
ignorance
,
either
of
my
having
been
his
Enemy
,
or
of
my
being
in
the
Roman
Army
,
which
I
had
done
in
expectation
that
some
advantagious
expedient
might
be
found
out
for
me
,
if
he
gave
the
Parthian
his
liberty
,
who
I
intended
to
visit
in
excellent
disguise
,
thorough
which
,
if
Pacorus
did
not
discover
me
,
I
might
be
satisfy'd
Altezeera
could
not
;
and
having
made
him
know
't
was
from
me
he
deriv'd
his
liberty
and
life
,
I
would
return
into
Parthia
with
him
,
where
I
made
no
doubt
to
learn
the
cause
of
my
disgrace
.
But
(
said
Ventidius
)
suppose
Pacorus
should
know
you
,
and
yet
not
seem
to
do
it
,
till
he
came
where
he
has
a
power
to
ruine
you
;
and
what
good
too
,
can
it
do
you
to
learn
the
cause
of
your
disgrace
,
when
it
lies
not
in
the
Princesses
power
to
redress
it
?
If
Pacorus
discovers
me
(
said
I
)
which
I
will
almost
render
an
impossibility
,
I
cannot
yet
suspect
,
but
what
I
do
for
him
,
will
confine
him
from
doing
any
thing
against
me
,
and
to
learn
the
cause
of
my
disgrace
will
at
least
silence
the
torment
of
my
suspension
,
and
restore
me
to
Altezeera's
good
opinion
,
which
by
her
marriage
,
is
the
highest
felicity
I
can
now
aspire
unto
;
besides
,
who
knows
what
accidents
may
happen
,
which
being
upon
the
place
may
improve
;
and
I
must
tell
you
,
I
begin
to
flatter
my self
with
a
belief
,
that
the
gods
are
weary
of
persecuting
me
,
since
by
this
new
accident
they
give
me
some
signes
of
it
.
I
will
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
pass
over
the
particulars
of
our
discourses
,
to
tell
you
the
results
,
which
were
,
That
Ventidius
yielded
up
his
Reasons
to
my
desires
,
and
assur'd
me
,
if
he
had
no
answer
from
Rome
,
by
the
time
Pacorus
was
able
to
make
use
of
his
liberty
,
he
should
notwithstanding
be
restored
to
it
.
Ventidius
immediately
after
withdrew
himself
to
make
his
dispatch
to
the
Senate
,
and
to
let
Udozia
know
of
that
success
,
which
he
deplor'd
,
since
thereby
I
was
disabl'd
from
giving
her
an
account
of
it
.
Whilst
we
were
in
expectation
of
Pacorus's
and
my
recovery
,
,
the
Roman
Army
Camp'd
upon
the
same
place
,
in
which
it
had
been
so
victorious
,
for
I
could
not
perswade
Ventidius
to
prosecute
his
Victory
by
any
hazard
of
my
Life
,
which
he
thought
would
run
no
small
one
,
by
my
removing
with
the
Army
,
or
my
being
left
in
any
of
those
small
Towns
which
were
adjacent
to
it
,
so
that
I
did
more
oblige
the
Parthians
,
by
having
fought
against
them
,
than
the
contrary
in
having
done
it
.
And
though
Ventidius
sate
still
so
long
,
yet
he
made
his
Army
believe
,
it
proceeded
from
the
impossibility
of
doing
otherwise
,
till
the
great
number
of
the
wounded
were
cur'd
,
which
if
left
behind
,
that
Guard
,
that
unavoidably
must
be
so
too
,
for
their
security
,
would
endanger
the
marching
Army
.
Yet
during
my
cure
,
the
Romans
made
a
sharp
war
on
the
Parthians
,
by
frequent
and
successful
incursions
;
and
I
constantly
sent
to
visit
Pacorus
,
but
under
the
name
of
Pharasmanes
,
which
was
,
that
I
intended
to
assume
in
my
disguise
;
but
at
length
being
perfectly
recover'd
,
the
better
to
act
my
part
,
by
the
same
messenger
which
return'd
with
Udozia's
answer
to
Ventidius
(
which
was
as
obliging
as
he
could
desire
,
or
perhaps
expect
)
I
gave
out
,
I
had
advertisements
of
some
stirrs
in
Armenia
,
which
Ventidius
perswaded
the
Romans
,
my
Presence
only
would
suppress
;
so
that
taking
a
publick
and
formal
leave
,
I
made
all
the
Camp
believe
I
was
gone
;
but
the
same
night
I
return'd
privately
again
,
sending
all
my
Equipage
to
Udozia
,
and
reserving
only
Philanax
,
with
that
Physitian
,
and
Chirurgion
,
which
attended
Pacorus
:
and
to
shew
you
my
Disguise
was
really
what
the
name
imports
,
I
have
but
to
acquaint
you
,
that
though
Ventidius
expected
me
at
a
sett
hour
,
and
knew
I
would
wear
one
;
yet
we
not
only
saluted
one
another
,
but
I
told
him
I
was
sent
from
Artavasdes
,
to
beg
his
pardon
,
for
not
being
able
to
wait
on
him
till
next
morning
,
without
discovering
of
me
,
which
he
did
not
,
till
I
told
him
who
I
was
,
and
which
indeed
was
not
strange
,
for
my
Hair
,
that
naturally
is
of
a
dark
brown
,
I
had
colour'd
of
a
bright
Flaxen
,
and
by
a
certain
composition
,
strangely
alter'd
the
colour
of
my
Skin
,
and
to
perfect
all
,
by
the
help
of
a
certain
Gold
Wire
fasten'd
,
and
conceal'd
in
my
Mouth
,
I
had
disguis'd
my
Voice
as
much
as
my
Face
;
in
a
word
,
I
had
not
known
my self
,
if
it
had
not
been
for
some
internal
griefs
,
which
nothing
had
the
power
,
either
to
disguise
or
mitigate
,
and
which
but
too
well
forc'd
me
to
remember
,
that
I
was
still
the
unfortunate
Artavasdes
.
Ventidius
was
extreamly
satisfy'd
with
my
having
so
deluded
him
,
which
he
fancy'd
an
impossibility
,
till
by
experiment
he
found
his
error
.
The
next
morning
therefore
I
went
to
visit
Pacorus
,
and
to
give
him
the
Consolation
,
his
condition
,
and
the
duty
of
a
Gentleman
requir'd
;
I
found
him
well
advanc'd
on
his
recovery
,
but
I
found
him
perfect
in
all
those
charms
of
conversation
,
which
till
then
I
never
knew
he
so
abundantly
possest
.
I
will
not
scruple
my
generous
friends
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
to
tell
you
,
I
was
not
a
little
troubled
at
it
;
and
truly
by
my
constant
frequenting
him
,
I
began
to
despair
of
my
condition
,
by
having
cause
to
believe
't
was
Altezeera's
judgment
only
which
had
made
me
unfortunate
.
To
abbreviate
my
story
,
I
will
let
you
know
,
That
at
last
Pacorus
was
so
well
recover'd
,
as
my
Physitian
told
me
,
within
three
dayes
he
might
without
danger
make
use
of
his
Horse
;
two
of
which
were
scarcely
expired
,
when
Ventidius's
Messenger
from
Rome
came
privately
into
the
Camp
,
and
assured
him
his
Express
from
the
Senate
,
would
be
with
him
within
48
hours
;
That
what
had
been
propounded
by
him
to
the
Senate
,
had
been
largely
debated
in
it
,
and
had
been
carry'd
according
to
his
desires
,
had
not
Mark
Anthony
oppos'd
it
,
who
suspected
Pacorus's
liberty
would
settle
Asia
in
a
perfect
peace
,
and
consequently
take
away
the
occasion
of
his
going
into
the
East
with
an
Army
,
which
he
coveted
,
only
to
palliate
that
Passion
he
had
for
Cleopatra
the
Queen
of
Egypt
,
and
which
he
durst
not
publickly
manifest
,
lest
it
might
create
any
differences
betwixt
him
and
Octavius
Caesar
,
whose
Sister
the
Princess
Octavia
he
had
married
,
and
who
in
all
mens
eyes
(
but
Anthony's
)
transcended
her
as
much
in
beauty
,
as
in
virtue
;
That
therefore
he
had
so
manag'd
the
business
in
the
Senate
,
that
they
had
sent
a
positive
Order
immediately
to
put
Pacorus
to
death
.
Ventidius
was
not
dishearten'd
at
this
Advertisement
,
and
to
hinder
me
from
being
so
,
he
immediately
(
but
by
wayes
too
prolix
for
a
repetition
)
put
things
in
such
a
certain
posture
,
that
I
knew
there
would
be
no
difficulty
that
night
to
steal
away
with
my
Friend
,
and
my
Rival
;
till
when
,
I
spent
the
time
in
taking
leave
of
my
dear
Ventidius
:
but
as
soon
as
the
hour
came
,
I
went
to
Pacorus
,
and
having
brought
him
into
one
of
the
most
obscure
corners
of
the
Tent
,
I
told
him
,
I
believe
Sir
,
you
have
already
learnt
,
that
he
by
whose
good
fortune
you
were
made
a
Prisoner
,
hazarded
as
much
himself
for
you
;
as
he
did
against
you
,
and
thereby
you
were
preserv'd
from
losing
your
life
as
absolutely
,
as
you
have
your
liberty
.
This
Gentleman
who
was
so
much
your
Enemy
,
and
your
Friend
,
is
in
the
latter
quality
so
much
mine
,
that
though
he
is
call'd
Pharasmenes
as
well
as
I
,
yet
there
is
an
high
equality
between
our
minds
,
as
between
our
names
;
in
his
success
against
you
,
he
received
some
such
wounds
,
that
though
they
were
not
as
dangerous
as
yours
,
yet
they
were
in
such
unfortunate
and
inconvenient
places
,
that
he
has
not
been
able
to
pay
you
those
visits
,
which
he
knows
is
due
to
your
virtue
,
as
much
as
to
your
quality
;
't
was
therefore
that
I
being
sooner
recover'd
of
mine
,
he
enjoin'd
me
to
supply
his
place
:
But
,
Sir
,
that
you
may
see
his
concern
in
you
extends
further
than
the
formal
parts
of
humanity
,
he
has
now
sent
me
to
you
,
not
only
to
let
you
know
there
is
an
express
Order
come
from
Rome
to
put
you
to
death
,
but
also
to
attempt
all
imaginable
means
I
can
to
prevent
it
.
At
this
unexpected
Advertisement
,
Pacorus
appear'd
in
some
disorder
;
and
truly
I
should
have
wonder'd
more
at
the
contrary
,
than
I
did
at
it
,
having
by
Altezeera
a
far
dearer
blessing
to
lose
than
life
.
I
gave
him
a
little
time
to
reflect
upon
his
condition
,
which
the
more
he
did
,
the
more
desperate
it
did
appear
;
Crassus
barbarous
death
,
and
the
Romans
as
barbarous
usage
to
all
Princes
who
they
esteem'd
,
or
at
least
term'd
so
,
made
him
tell
me
,
Your
generous
Friend
,
I
believe
,
(
Pharasmenes
)
by
his
desires
,
has
already
as
much
oblig'd
me
as
he
will
have
the
power
,
for
I
know
too
well
the
condition
of
the
Romans
,
to
be
ignorant
of
my
own
;
I
shall
not
yet
but
acknowledge
my self
extremely
his
Debtor
,
and
as
much
as
if
what
he
desir'd
were
acted
.
I
beseech
you
therefore
,
tell
him
from
me
,
that
having
no
other
way
to
pay
what
I
owe
him
,
I
will
do
it
in
contributing
to
his
glory
,
by
the
resolution
of
my
sufferings
,
which
perhaps
I
shall
in
some
degree
perform
,
if
I
endure
my
death
with
as
much
resolution
,
as
I
oppos'd
it
.
This
generous
Reply
gave
me
new
invitations
to
serve
him
,
and
confined
me
afresh
to
act
against
the
dictates
of
my
Love
,
to
follow
those
of
my
Honour
,
which
forc'd
me
to
embrace
Pacorus
,
and
to
assure
him
before
next
morning
,
I
would
participate
in
his
intended
punishment
,
or
free
him
from
it
.
To
be
brief
,
I
perform'd
the
latter
;
&
by
learning
the
wo●d
from
Ventidius
,
I
brought
him
safe
out
of
the
Camp
,
where
I
told
him
,
That
having
by
that
Action
lost
my
Fortune
with
the
Romans
,
I
must
depend
for
it
on
him
;
which
if
he
approv'd
I
would
wait
on
him
into
Parthia
.
The
generous
Paecorus
embrac'd
me
a
thousand
times
for
this
assurance
,
and
gave
me
as
many
thanks
for
it
,
as
for
his
life
and
liberty
.
We
found
some
good
and
swift
Horses
in
a
little
Grove
,
which
by
my
orders
were
brought
thither
by
Philanax
,
who
I
then
sent
to
Udozia
,
he
being
as
perfectly
known
to
Altezeera
,
as
the
contrary
to
her
husband
.
I
need
not
tell
you
the
Alarm
Pacorus
escape
gave
unto
the
Roman
Camp
,
how
seemingly
diligent
Ventidius
was
to
recover
him
,
what
formal
Letters
he
sent
to
the
Senate
,
to
excuse
himself
for
a
misfortune
,
which
was
so
much
the
more
extenuated
as
to
him
,
because
Pacorus
was
escap'd
before
he
had
receiv'd
their
commands
for
his
execution
,
nor
the
vast
promises
he
made
of
taking
him
again
,
or
Parthia
in
his
stead
,
't
is
enough
you
know
,
that
what
he
said
was
receiv'd
as
he
desir'd
;
for
Anthony
was
satisfi'd
,
Pacorus
was
at
least
deliver'd
in
such
a
way
,
as
would
ascertain
a
War
as
much
as
his
death
.
Whil'st
these
things
were
thus
transacting
amongst
the
Romans
,
the
Parthian
and
I
came
safe
to
Seleutia
,
where
the
Cou●t
then
resided
;
Pacorus
(
who
perfectly
knew
the
Palace
)
led
me
to
the
Princesses
Apartment
,
where
we
found
with
her
(
for
then
Parthenissa
,
Lindadory
,
and
Zephalinda
,
were
in
the
Isle
of
Eden
)
Arsaces
and
Phraates
all
in
Mourning
,
but
alas
Altezeera
having
more
in
her
looks
,
than
cloaths
,
I
cannot
,
if
I
would
,
tell
you
the
Raptures
and
Transports
at
so
unexpected
a
return
from
Death
,
or
Captivity
,
(
for
they
knew
not
which
had
been
Pacorus's
fate
)
but
after
the
first
celebrations
of
this
joy
,
he
led
me
by
the
hand
to
Arsaces
and
Altezeera
,
and
told
them
,
'T
was
to
me
they
ow'd
his
life
and
safety
;
and
then
acquainted
them
with
all
,
with
which
I
have
you
.
Arsaces
made
me
so
many
Compliments
and
Thanks
,
that
in
them
I
read
his
concern
for
his
Son
;
but
alas
Altezeera
did
the
like
too
,
and
wounded
me
a
thousand
times
more
with
her
gratitude
,
than
she
could
have
done
with
a
contrary
usage
,
manifesting
by
the
esteem
she
plac'd
upon
the
performance
,
how
much
a
higher
one
she
had
for
him
for
whom
't
was
perform'd
.
I
must
confess
,
I
was
so
confounded
at
it
,
though
I
had
arm'd
my self
against
it
by
having
prepar'd
my self
for
it
,
that
had
not
the
company
been
more
intent
on
their
joy
,
than
me
,
they
had
discover'd
me
inspight
of
my
disguise
.
To
pass
over
what
would
but
trouble
you
to
hear
,
and
me
much
more
to
remember
,
or
relate
,
I
will
tell
you
,
after
a
magnificent
Supper
,
where
the
King
and
Princes
constrain'd
me
to
sit
with
them
,
(
giving
therein
that
honour
to
my
services
,
which
they
thought
was
not
due
to
me
)
the
Princess
Altezeera
leaving
Pacorus
,
took
me
aside
to
reiterate
her
civilities
for
his
deliverance
.
Great
gods
!
you
only
know
,
with
how
much
difficulty
't
was
I
abstained
from
telling
her
,
That
her
leaving
Pacorus
,
to
come
unto
Artavasdes
,
which
she
did
in
that
way
of
Gratitude
,
she
should
have
done
in
another
;
And
that
she
had
Reason
to
be
Grateful
for
Pacorus's
deliverance
,
if
she
knew
from
whom
she
deriv'd
it
;
but
I
had
then
enough
fortitude
to
suppress
those
risings
,
and
to
tell
her
,
That
had
I
but
known
so
transcendent
a
reward
as
the
satisfaction
of
so
fair
a
Princess
had
attended
that
performance
,
I
had
acted
it
as
much
out
of
the
dictates
of
Interest
,
as
out
of
those
of
Honour
or
Friendship
.
We
entertain'd
one
another
awhile
with
discourses
of
this
quality
,
but
the
time
was
not
long
,
for
the
impatient
Pacorus
came
to
ravish
her
from
me
,
and
to
place
himself
in
those
extasies
and
raptures
,
which
the
cruel
gods
had
eternally
deny'd
,
the
as-unconstant
,
as-unfortunate
Artavasdes
.
This
separation
was
so
operative
,
that
had
not
the
Prince
Phraates
,
and
the
chiefest
of
the
Court
came
to
conduct
me
to
my
Apartment
,
I
had
continu'd
as
fix'd
to
the
place
I
was
in
,
as
to
my
infelicity
;
but
their
civilities
drew
me
out
of
my
thoughts
,
which
I
suspended
till
they
had
left
me
in
my
Apartment
,
whither
they
accompany'd
me
against
all
my
resistance
.
As
soon
as
I
was
a
Bed
,
the
remembrance
of
Altezeera's
gratitude
for
having
continu'd
the
impossibility
of
Artavasdes's
being
made
happy
,
came
fresh
into
my
thoughts
,
and
made
me
utter
things
as
disjointed
as
my
hopes
;
but
when
I
came
to
reflect
,
that
in
that
same
instant
I
was
deploring
Altezeera's
cruelty
to
me
,
she
was
in
my
Rivals
Arms
,
and
affording
him
those
joyes
,
which
to
be
depriv'd
of
,
could
not
be
so
great
Misery
,
as
to
possess
,
was
a
Felicity
,
what
did
not
my
rage
and
resentments
make
me
speak
?
Ah
(
said
I
Artavasdes
)
was
it
not
sufficient
that
the
gods
,
and
Altezeera
contributed
to
thy
torments
,
but
that
thou
must
do
it
thy self
,
by
bringing
Pacorus
not
only
to
the
embraces
of
thy
Princess
,
but
thyself
also
to
be
the
Spectator
of
them
?
Never
more
,
Artavasdes
,
never
more
complain
of
the
gods
,
they
had
given
thy
Rival
into
thy
hands
;
and
when
they
began
to
declare
themselves
thy
Friends
,
thou
didst
declare
thy self
thine
Enemy
,
and
by
that
performance
hast
not
only
divested
thy self
eternally
of
hope
,
but
also
of
the
ease
of
complaining
against
all
but
thy self
,
without
becoming
as
unjust
to
them
,
as
thou
hast
been
to
thy
Love
;
whil'st
my
thoughts
inclin'd
me
on
this
side
,
they
suggested
to
me
many
such
reasonings
;
but
after
a
short
calm
,
they
began
to
incline
me
to
consider
Altezeera
,
arm'd
with
all
those
attractive
charms
and
graces
,
which
formerly
had
conquer'd
me
,
and
which
by
their
yet
retaining
me
in
captivity
,
too
sufficiently
prov'd
their
being
infinite
,
and
confin'd
me
to
believe
all
my
sufferings
for
her
,
were
too
much
my
duty
,
to
be
my
trouble
.
No
,
no
,
Artavasdes
,
(
said
I
in
those
dictates
)
thou
hast
still
the
same
quarrel
to
the
gods
;
for
,
by
the
way
in
which
they
gave
thee
thine
Enemy
,
thou
couldst
not
restore
thy
hopes
,
but
by
becoming
unworthy
of
them
;
and
those
same
gods
which
afforded
thee
the
power
of
revenge
,
made
the
acting
it
a
greater
sin
,
than
it
could
be
a
satisfaction
,
and
gave
thee
honour
and
virtue
enough
to
suspend
all
the
inspirations
of
resentment
;
do
not
then
destroy
the
merit
of
thy
performance
,
by
repining
against
it
,
't
is
more
noble
to
merit
Altezeera
without
possessing
her
,
than
to
possess
her
,
without
meriting
her
;
neither
can
what
thou
hast
done
,
but
one
day
contribute
to
the
disclosing
of
thine
innocence
;
and
that
which
discovers
,
must
invite
her
to
reward
it
;
wait
then
(
Artavasdes
)
the
manifestation
of
what
the
gods
(
without
declaring
themselves
none
)
cannot
long
conceal
,
and
find
thy
satisfaction
in
thy
very
torment
,
by
being
pleas'd
that
Altezeera
is
so
,
though
in
Pacorus's
arms
;
and
by
calculating
thy
own
joyes
,
by
the
seeing
of
his
,
if
ever
the
gods
remove
the
obstruction
of
her
marriage
,
and
thy
pretended
guilt
.
It
was
above
a
thousand
times
that
I
built
and
destroy'd
such
resolutions
,
sometimes
determining
to
discover
my self
,
and
know
my
fault
,
or
make
her
acknowledge
hers
,
and
then
again
declining
that
resolution
;
for
I
knew
too
well
Altezeera's
scrupulous
virtue
,
to
have
any
hopes
of
living
near
her
afterwards
,
though
I
should
prove
my self
innocent
;
and
so
the
apprehension
of
being
banish'd
from
what
I
lov'd
to
see
,
made
me
rather
elect
to
be
thought
criminal
,
and
enjoy
that
felicity
,
than
to
appear
otherwise
,
and
be
depriv'd
of
it
.
I
had
longer
entertain'd
my self
in
these
disputes
,
had
not
the
Suns
appearing
,
and
afterwards
some
of
the
Princes
Officers
,
put
a
period
to
them
:
The
first
of
them
which
came
into
my
Chamber
,
gave
me
advice
,
That
Pacorus
had
setled
a
large
Pension
on
me
,
and
form'd
me
an
Equipage
which
I
found
proportionate
to
my
real
quality
;
But
alas
the
next
that
visited
me
,
were
sent
from
the
Prince
and
Altezeera
,
to
know
how
I
had
past
the
night
?
Oh
gods
!
what
difficulty
had
I
to
abstain
from
sending
them
word
,
that
their
having
past
it
so
well
,
had
almost
made
me
pass
it
as
ill
:
But
though
this
strange
Message
set
all
my
wounds
fresh
a
bleeding
,
yet
I
had
so
much
discretion
left
,
as
only
to
answer
it
with
a
Complement
as
civil
,
as
theirs
was
seemingly
so
.
As
soon
as
I
was
drest
,
I
went
into
the
Palace
Gardens
,
which
were
so
admirably
oblig'd
both
by
Art
and
Nature
,
that
they
would
have
unavoidably
prov'd
a
diversion
,
to
a
less
inveterate
Melancholy
than
mine
;
I
had
not
been
above
two
hours
there
,
when
I
might
perceive
Pacorus
and
Altezeera
at
the
end
of
the
Walk
I
was
in
,
coming
towards
me
,
at
which
sight
I
could
not
abstain
from
whispering
to
my self
:
Can
you
then
Altezeera
,
after
having
past
a
whole
night
in
Pacorus's
embraces
,
present
your self
without
confusion
before
him
,
to
whom
you
had
first
promis'd
that
blessing
?
And
canst
thou
(
Artavasdes
)
after
being
convinc'd
that
she
has
done
so
,
outlive
that
misfortune
?
Or
if
thou
dost
not
do
it
,
to
be
reveng'd
upon
the
Ravisher
of
thy
right
and
joyes
?
I
could
no
longer
continue
any
reflections
of
this
quality
,
because
I
went
to
meet
them
,
where
Altezeera
by
many
reiterated
expressions
for
Pacorus's
delivery
,
but
too-too-palpably
let
me
know
how
dear
it
was
unto
her
:
Neither
was
it
only
at
this
time
that
she
did
so
,
but
so
constantly
upon
all
occasions
,
that
it
gave
me
no
small
Alarm
she
had
discover'd
me
,
for
I
fear'd
she
could
not
so
incessantly
persecute
me
out
of
Gratitude
,
but
Hate
.
But
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
if
I
should
acquaint
you
in
particular
with
all
things
that
happen'd
whil'st
I
resided
in
Parthia
,
I
should
take
up
almost
as
much
time
as
did
my
residence
there
;
I
will
therefore
only
acquaint
you
with
those
things
which
are
most
essential
,
and
in
pursuance
thereof
let
you
know
,
That
one
evening
,
when
all
the
Court
were
walking
in
the
Palace
Gardens
,
I
had
the
honour
to
lead
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
and
being
undesignedly
gotten
into
a
retir'd
Walk
,
she
earnestly
conjur'd
me
to
let
her
know
the
story
of
my
life
,
since
(
as
she
said
)
't
was
from
it
,
she
deriv'd
that
which
made
hers
her
satisfaction
.
Would
to
the
gods
fair
Princess
(
I
was
upon
the
point
of
saying
)
that
my
life
had
not
lasted
a
moment
longer
,
than
when
upon
its
own
score
,
it
had
created
the
felicity
of
yours
.
But
knowing
such
a
Reply
would
have
prov'd
destructive
to
that
resolution
I
had
assum'd
,
of
expecting
in
disguise
,
and
with
patience
,
what
the
gods
had
determin'd
of
me
,
I
gave
her
an
accompt
of
my
life
,
such
as
my
invention
then
suggested
,
till
my
arrival
in
Syria
with
Ventidius
.
But
,
Madam
,
(
I
continu'd
)
I
cannot
now
obey
you
,
without
something
violating
a
friends
injunctions
;
yet
if
you
command
me
to
proceed
,
you
shall
find
,
I
esteem
nothing
more
highly
,
and
justly
,
than
the
honour
of
obeying
you
.
Truly
(
said
Altezeera
)
you
have
told
me
so
many
admirable
things
in
your
life
,
and
I
have
been
so
infinitely
oblig'd
unto
it
,
that
I
should
desire
the
continuation
of
your
story
,
did
I
not
apprehend
your
granting
my
curiosity
,
might
prove
almost
as
great
a
trouble
to
you
,
as
a
satisfaction
to
me
.
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
to
convince
you
,
I
cannot
but
please
my self
,
while
I
do
the
Princess
Altezeera
;
I
will
acquaint
her
with
the
residue
of
my
story
,
and
the
rather
,
(
not
only
as
't
is
her
command
)
but
as
she
has
some
concerns
in
it
.
A
Rtavasdes
was
beginning
to
speak
,
and
to
finish
that
small
remainder
of
his
Narration
,
when
Callimachus's
servants
interrupted
him
,
by
bringing
in
their
Supper
,
which
both
he
,
and
Artabanes
would
have
dispensed
with
,
for
what
it
hinder'd
them
of
;
but
the
sooner
to
repair
that
misfortune
,
they
took
a
little
refreshment
,
and
then
Artavasdes
having
minded
them
,
he
addrest
his
discourse
to
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
continu'd
it
in
these
words
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
THIRD
PART
.
BOOK
IV.
THough
that
Friendship
,
Madam
,
between
Ventidius
,
(
the
now
Roman
General
in
Asia
)
and
me
,
be
very
great
,
yet
I
can
truly
say
,
that
between
him
,
and
Artavasdes
,
is
equal
to
it
;
and
perhaps
I
should
speak
no
untruth
,
if
I
assured
you
,
that
between
Artavasdes
and
me
,
is
not
inferior
unto
either
.
Ventidius
being
so
far
on
his
way
to
Parthia
,
as
Tharsus
in
Cilicia
,
was
there
met
by
Artavasdes
,
but
Artavasdes
so
chang'd
,
that
you
would
as
soon
have
taken
me
for
him
,
as
I
should
have
taken
him
for
himself
;
but
,
at
length
,
knowing
who
he
was
,
more
by
our
ears
,
than
eyes
,
we
thought
nothing
could
appear
so
strange
as
his
alteration
,
till
we
learn'd
that
yours
(
Madam
)
was
the
cause
of
it
,
and
that
the
change
of
his
face
,
could
not
transcend
that
of
your
mind
;
but
then
our
wonder
ceas'd
,
or
at
least
chang'd
its
object
;
for
whereas
we
admir'd
before
at
his
being
so
pale
and
languishing
,
we
now
did
more
that
he
was
alive
,
having
known
at
Rome
how
passionately
he
ador'd
you
,
and
how
only
he
did
value
his
life
,
because
you
did
,
and
because
you
had
therein
render'd
it
a
blessing
to
him
.
He
further
told
us
,
That
since
his
disgrace
,
(
which
was
the
less
supportable
for
having
never
learn'd
the
cause
of
it
)
he
had
confin'd
himself
to
a
Solitude
,
from
which
nothing
but
his
engagement
to
Ventidius
could
have
so
long
absolv'd
him
,
and
whither
(
having
satisfy'd
it
)
he
would
immediately
retire
,
and
so
assiduously
sollicit
death
,
as
he
was
confident
in
a
short
time
to
have
better
success
in
that
Address
,
than
in
his
former
;
that
this
course
he
elected
,
as
the
onely
means
to
end
his
Torments
,
and
your
Cruelty
too
(
Madam
)
having
also
left
him
no
other
way
to
justifie
his
innocence
,
which
he
protested
to
us
in
such
moving
terms
,
that
both
Ventidius
and
I
,
were
abundantly
satisfi'd
of
it
;
I
cannot
(
Madam
)
but
tell
you
,
that
being
convinc'd
he
was
not
faulty
,
I
persuaded
him
often
to
imitate
what
he
admir'd
,
and
as
you
had
elected
another
Servant
,
so
that
he
would
another
Mistriss
:
But
alas
!
he
was
too
much
a
Captive
,
so
much
as
to
think
on
Liberty
;
and
condemn'd
me
more
for
such
a
motion
,
than
those
gods
for
acting
against
him
,
what
had
made
me
esteem
it
a
reasonable
one
.
Whil'st
I
was
thus
speaking
to
the
fair
Altezeera
,
she
was
in
so
great
disorder
,
that
she
observ'd
not
mine
,
which
did
proceed
in
no
small
degree
,
from
my
not
knowing
from
whence
hers
did
;
but
the
better
to
learn
it
,
I
thus
continu'd
my
discourse
.
I
will
not
(
Madam
)
particularize
Ventidius's
journey
to
the
fair
Vdozia
,
(
in
which
Artavasdes
and
I
accompany'd
him
)
and
for
whom
he
had
contracted
a
Passion
,
which
I
believe
is
transcended
by
none
,
but
by
Artavasdes's
for
you
,
and
by
yours
for
the
Prince
Pacorus
.
Neither
will
I
tell
you
all
those
Reasons
the
unfortunate
Artavasdes
us'd
for
continuing
in
his
solitude
,
nor
ours
to
draw
him
from
it
,
because
I
fear
you
are
not
enough
concern'd
in
him
,
to
listen
to
them
with
that
patience
,
which
their
length
requires
.
It
is
true
Pharasmanes
,
(
said
Altezeera
)
I
should
hardly
have
the
patience
to
listen
to
them
,
because
I
know
they
are
but
a
continu'd
series
of
that
dissimulation
,
with
which
he
has
captivated
your
belief
,
and
did
but
too
long
mine
,
in
so
high
a
degree
,
that
I
shall
not
scruple
to
acknowledge
,
I
once
esteem'd
,
as
much
as
I
do
now
detest
him
.
Oh
gods
!
(
Madam
,
I
hastily
reply'd
)
if
Artavasdes
be
guilty
,
why
then
did
you
not
tell
him
his
crime
,
that
he
might
have
appear'd
so
to
himself
,
as
well
as
to
his
Princess
?
which
latter
,
if
you
had
perform'd
,
I
durst
undertake
he
would
have
been
more
odious
to
himself
,
than
he
can
be
to
her
.
That
which
he
did
(
said
Altezeera
)
was
of
a
quality
,
that
to
have
told
him
of
it
,
was
but
to
have
done
that
to
him
,
which
he
did
to
me
;
let
it
suffice
Pharasmanes
,
that
I
had
the
confession
of
his
offence
from
him
that
committed
it
.
If
it
were
not
(
I
reply'd
)
a
sin
,
not
to
believe
the
fair
Altezeera
above
Artavasdes
,
I
should
do
it
in
this
particular
,
for
if
what
he
did
,
was
his
election
,
and
not
his
misfortune
,
why
did
he
impose
on
himself
so
strict
a
pennance
as
a
three
years
recluseness
?
And
why
did
he
give
a
higher
testimony
of
his
innocence
than
that
amounted
unto
,
which
,
Madam
,
you
will
learn
,
in
the
sequel
of
my
Relation
.
You
will
do
well
then
(
said
Altezeera
)
to
prosecute
it
,
for
that
which
you
have
already
mention'd
,
is
one
of
the
most
pregnant
proofs
of
his
guilt
,
and
proceeded
from
a
contrary
despair
,
than
that
to
which
he
has
ascrib'd
it
unto
.
I
was
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
beginning
to
speak
something
farther
in
my
own
justification
,
when
Altezeera
interrupted
it
,
by
saying
,
But
Pharasmanes
,
I
conjure
you
leave
off
all
discourses
of
Artavasdes's
Adventures
,
and
continue
your
own
.
This
I
found
was
almost
as
difficult
to
be
obey'd
in
one
sense
,
as
in
the
other
;
but
though
I
apprehended
I
should
discover
who
I
was
,
if
I
took
too
much
pains
to
discover
what
Artavasdes
was
;
yet
I
could
not
abstain
from
thus
speaking
to
Altezeera
.
Alas
Madam
,
why
do
you
take
so
short
a
way
to
make
me
fear
you
are
more
desirous
of
Artavasdes's
guilt
,
than
his
innocence
.
The
fair
Altezeera
at
these
words
turn'd
up
her
vail
,
and
looking
on
me
,
by
a
deep
sigh
,
seem'd
to
reproach
the
uncharitableness
of
my
opinion
;
but
this
she
did
in
so
moving
a
way
,
that
in
the
flattering
dictates
it
inspir'd
me
with
,
I
was
going
to
fling
my self
at
her
feet
,
and
there
to
implore
the
knowledge
of
my
supposed
offence
,
or
to
end
the
torments
of
that
denial
,
by
a
real
death
;
but
something
which
was
the
god
over
my
inclination
,
suspended
me
that
time
from
obeying
it
:
and
observing
my
Princess
was
in
no
disobliging
temper
,
I
resolv'd
to
make
some
use
of
it
,
and
therefore
I
thus
continu'd
.
I
hope
(
Madam
)
you
will
pardon
a
disobedience
,
which
only
ambitions
to
preserve
my
friend
from
losing
as
absolutely
the
honor
of
your
esteem
,
as
he
has
that
of
your
affection
;
in
confidence
of
so
just
a
forgiveness
,
I
will
presume
to
acquaint
you
,
That
Ventidius
and
I
were
finally
so
prevalent
with
Artavasdes
,
that
we
persuaded
him
to
the
Roman
Army
;
and
though
we
told
him
the
War
would
prove
a
diversion
to
his
melancholy
,
yet
we
too
evidently
found
he
elected
it
,
rather
for
a
cure
of
his
.
And
indeed
in
that
Battel
we
fought
against
Pacorus
,
though
many
strange
Accidents
befell
him
,
yet
I
esteem'd
none
of
them
more
justly
merited
that
name
,
than
that
he
'scap'd
with
life
.
Perhaps
,
Madam
,
you
will
be
of
my
opinion
,
when
I
tell
you
(
and
that
truly
)
that
't
was
Artavasdes
which
fought
against
Pacorus
,
and
having
been
victorious
over
his
Rival
,
he
became
his
defender
against
all
the
Roman
Army
,
and
at
least
as
much
hazarded
his
life
for
,
as
against
him
;
but
Ventidius's
arrival
hinder'd
you
from
losing
that
which
you
love
best
,
and
that
which
loves
you
best
;
neither
can
Pacorus
be
more
happy
in
the
first
of
these
qualities
,
than
I
am
just
in
attributing
the
last
of
them
to
Artavasdes
,
who
having
only
life
enough
remaining
to
speak
three
or
four
words
,
made
use
of
it
to
recommend
Pacorus's
cure
to
Ventidius
,
more
than
his
own
.
Judge
Madam
,
(
I
continu'd
)
of
the
merit
of
this
Action
,
which
were
I
not
too
much
a
friend
to
Artavasdes
,
I
would
say
,
speaks
more
for
itself
,
than
I
can
for
it
.
This
which
you
tell
me
(
said
Altezeera
)
is
nothing
essential
to
what
you
would
evince
,
since
I
never
doubted
Artavasdes's
Gallantry
,
but
his
Love
;
and
that
this
performance
proceeded
from
his
concern
in
honor
,
and
not
in
me
,
I
believe
you
need
no
greater
eviction
,
than
that
he
was
ignorant
who
he
oblig'd
,
positively
,
or
relatively
.
'T
is
true
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
Artavasdes
was
ignorant
that
he
fought
for
himself
in
the
Combat
,
and
against
himself
after
the
Victory
;
but
yet
,
if
what
our
Priests
do
tell
us
is
a
truth
,
that
our
good
Genius's
commonly
incline
us
to
those
Actions
,
which
though
we
then
understand
not
,
yet
afterwards
approve
,
I
may
infer
from
thence
something
of
advantage
in
Artavasdes's
favor
.
But
why
do
I
so
much
intrench
upon
the
merit
and
clearness
of
his
innocence
,
as
to
endeavor
to
prove
it
by
disputable
inferences
,
when
I
can
by
evident
demonstrations
?
To
hasten
hereunto
,
I
must
acquaint
you
Madam
,
that
both
the
successful
,
and
the
unfortunate
,
were
carried
in
a
deep
Swoon
by
Ventidius's
orders
into
several
Tents
,
where
the
first
thing
Artavasdes
did
when
he
was
restor'd
to
life
,
was
to
enquire
after
his
enemies
.
Neither
did
his
care
cease
,
or
diminish
,
when
the
next
morning
the
Roman
General
brought
him
word
who
he
was
;
and
though
Ventidius
did
much
admire
at
it
,
yet
he
had
by
much
a
juster
cause
to
do
so
,
when
after
he
had
represented
,
that
by
his
Commission
he
was
to
give
no
quarter
to
any
Parthian
,
and
that
by
Pacorus's
death
,
he
might
have
the
blessing
of
revenge
,
and
perhaps
therein
remove
the
highest
obstruction
to
a
more
transcendent
one
.
Artavasdes
was
so
far
from
approving
the
motion
,
that
he
so
absolutely
disrelish'd
Ventidius
for
making
it
,
as
he
protested
,
nothing
but
the
giving
Pacorus
his
liberty
,
could
repair
having
assumed
any
thought
against
his
life
;
and
then
utter'd
so
many
passionate
expressions
upon
that
duty
,
which
in
spight
of
your
cruelty
,
he
had
still
preserv'd
for
the
fair
Altezeera
;
that
perhaps
if
I
told
you
all
the
truth
,
I
might
invite
you
to
suspect
I
did
the
contrary
.
I
was
present
,
Madam
,
at
this
honourable
conference
;
and
though
my
wounds
were
many
,
and
as
dangerous
as
those
of
Artavasdes
,
yet
my
friendship
never
made
me
abandon
him
;
and
that
very
friendship
,
and
my
ignorance
of
those
Charms
which
I
have
since
discover'd
in
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
made
me
esteem
his
desires
as
strange
,
as
I
now
find
them
just
;
and
forc'd
me
to
speak
some
things
against
that
excellency
,
which
though
infinite
,
cannot
transcend
my
crimes
,
or
his
mercy
,
if
she
pardons
them
.
Yes
,
Madam
,
upon
Artavasdes's
score
,
I
perfectly
hated
you
,
and
in
those
dictates
I
was
often
condescending
to
the
death
of
what
you
loved
:
nay
,
I
would
have
had
Artavasdes
done
the
like
;
and
when
he
represented
he
had
no
handsomer
way
to
obtain
your
forgiveness
for
what
he
had
done
against
Pacorus
,
and
to
shew
you
the
wrong
you
had
done
to
Artavasdes
,
than
to
ruine
the
hopes
of
the
last
,
to
settle
the
joys
of
the
first
.
I
reply'd
,
That
if
you
honour
Pacorus
with
your
affection
,
he
did
in
that
performance
but
more
certainly
exclude
himself
eternally
from
so
much
as
hope
;
and
if
you
did
not
,
That
by
obliging
(
at
least
not
injuring
)
you
,
he
removed
his
highest
Impediment
.
Besides
,
If
that
were
the
testimony
he
would
give
of
his
Passion
,
it
might
bring
in
Question
,
whether
he
had
any
?
which
belief
he
would
render
a
just
one
,
if
he
prefer'd
his
Rivals
felicity
above
his
own
.
I
told
him
besides
,
It
was
better
to
repent
(
if
such
an
action
needed
it
)
for
having
acted
his
Revenge
,
than
for
the
omission
of
it
:
for
besides
the
felicity
of
such
a
performance
,
the
first
sort
of
Repentance
was
a
Vertue
,
but
the
last
a
Vice
.
Ah!
said
Artavasdes
,
how
ill
dost
thou
reason
!
if
the
fair
Altezeera
loves
Pacorus
,
I
had
rather
destroy
my
expectation
,
than
her
happiness
;
and
if
she
does
not
,
I
yet
commit
a
sin
which
unavoidably
will
clothe
me
in
a
proportionate
Misfortune
,
and
ruin
my
hopes
in
the
same
way
by
which
I
elect
to
establish
them
:
for
by
being
the
Murtherer
(
or
accessary
to
the
death
)
of
Pacorus
,
I
leave
her
not
the
Power
,
if
she
had
the
will
,
to
reward
my
Fidelity
and
Passion
;
and
by
removing
one
Impediment
,
I
create
a
greater
;
for
't
is
much
more
probable
Pacorus
will
die
soon
enough
by
the
course
of
Nature
,
than
that
Altezeera
should
marry
his
Murtherer
.
Above
all
this
(
said
Artavasdes
)
I
pay
too-transcendent
a
respect
,
not
only
to
all
which
the
fair
Altezeera
esteems
,
but
to
what
also
belongs
unto
her
,
to
act
any
thing
to
the
prejudice
thereof
;
and
't
is
upon
that
score
I
have
hitherto
attempted
nothing
against
my
own
Life
,
which
evidently
evinces
she
has
still
a
power
over
me
,
by
being
capable
to
make
mine
so
great
a
Torment
,
and
by
then
restraining
me
from
ending
it
without
her
permission
:
Neither
can
I
apprehend
any
trouble
from
repenting
an
omission
which
was
dictated
by
Honour
,
by
Reason
,
and
(
which
is
more
than
both
those
)
by
that
Duty
I
owe
my
Princess
,
which
is
the
Name
I
must
eternally
give
her
;
as
Kings
,
though
unjustly
excluded
from
their
Crowns
,
cease
not
to
call
them
so
,
nor
to
have
a
right
unto
them
,
which
want
of
possession
cannot
prejudice
.
He
gave
me
,
Madam
(
I
continu'd
)
as
pregnant
Arguments
as
these
,
which
I
purposely
omit
,
not
only
because
the
less
reason
was
in
his
performance
,
the
more
it
had
of
Merit
;
but
also
because
his
actions
will
give
you
a
better
Character
of
his
Heart
than
his
words
can
.
But
at
last
when
the
peremptory
Command
came
from
Rome
for
Pacorus's
Death
;
Great
gods
!
you
only
know
how
it
struck
Artavasdes
;
but
I
do
,
that
his
loving
so
much
Altezeera
,
and
Altezeera
so
much
hating
him
,
would
have
made
him
consider
that
fatal
Order
with
less
horror
,
had
it
been
sent
for
Artavasdes
instead
of
his
Rival
.
But
the
former's
unfortunate
condition
hindering
him
to
visit
Pacorus
,
and
to
act
publickly
for
his
safety
;
he
sent
for
the
generous
Ventidius
,
and
conjur'd
him
to
let
Pacorus
escape
,
in
terms
so
pressing
,
that
I
can
truly
say
,
I
was
as
much
affected
with
them
,
as
he
which
deliver'd
them
.
Ventidius
represented
to
him
,
how
much
the
concession
of
his
Request
would
turn
to
his
own
prejudice
;
but
finding
that
would
not
operate
,
he
let
him
then
know
how
much
it
would
be
to
Ventidius's
own
.
This
mov'd
Artavasdes
much
more
than
the
former
,
but
nothing
so
much
as
did
the
fair
Altezeera's
satisfaction
,
which
to
effect
,
he
afterwards
sent
for
me
,
and
violently
protested
,
That
if
Pacorus
lost
his
Life
,
he
would
not
survive
him
,
since
that
was
the
only
evincement
he
had
in
his
power
,
that
he
was
free
from
so
horrid
a
Sin
.
This
resolution
I
read
as
visibly
in
his
Heart
,
as
words
,
and
acquainted
Ventidius
with
it
,
who
more
concern'd
in
his
Friend
than
in
himself
,
yielded
to
his
desires
.
Never
,
Madam
,
did
I
see
Artavasdes
so
fill'd
with
Joy
as
at
that
assurance
,
no
,
not
when
he
was
in
the
blessing
of
your
Affection
;
which
made
me
conclude
he
esteem'd
it
a
more
transcendent
Felicity
to
make
you
happy
,
than
to
be
made
so
by
you
.
'T
was
thus
,
Madam
,
that
Pacorus
was
deliver'd
both
from
Captivity
and
Death
,
and
Artavasdes
to
avoid
the
possibility
of
drawing
his
sacrilegious
Sword
against
the
object
of
your
Passion
,
did
as
absolutely
abandon
the
Roman
Army
,
as
the
felicity
of
Life
,
which
for
almost
these
four
Years
he
has
never
relisht
,
nor
indeed
any
but
what
proceeded
from
this
last
Service
he
has
pay'd
you
,
and
which
he
earnestly
enjoin'd
me
to
conceal
from
your
knowledg
,
electing
rather
to
be
still
thought
Guilty
,
than
appear
the
contrary
to
cloud
and
suspend
your
Joys
.
I
had
no
sooner
done
speaking
,
than
the
fair
Altezeera
with
some
Tears
cry'd
out
,
Oh
gods
!
Parasmanes
,
Is
all
this
possible
which
you
have
told
me
?
I
was
going
to
reply
and
assure
her
,
it
was
not
only
possible
,
but
true
,
when
I
might
perceive
Pacorus
and
the
rest
of
the
Company
coming
towards
us
;
I
gave
Altezeera
notice
of
it
,
who
otherwise
was
so
intent
on
her
Thoughts
,
that
she
had
not
minded
the
Prince's
Arrival
;
but
as
soon
as
she
did
,
pulling
down
her
Vail
,
she
endeavour'd
the
best
she
could
to
conceal
her
Disorder
.
I
could
not
abstain
from
repining
at
this
cruel
interruption
,
for
I
was
confident
in
the
heat
of
Altezeera's
confusions
,
to
have
discover'd
the
quality
and
greatness
of
them
,
which
probably
in
a
more
setl'd
Temper
,
her
Vertue
,
or
Judgment
,
would
invite
her
to
conceal
.
Assoon
as
Pacorus
and
the
rest
had
join'd
us
,
he
began
by
many
Raileries
to
make
a
War
against
me
,
for
having
so
long
ingross'd
the
Princess
;
but
I
had
too
many
sad
and
confus'd
thoughts
,
to
make
him
any
frequent
returns
of
that
nature
,
which
the
sooner
ended
our
Walk
:
But
alas
,
I
had
afterwards
much
more
occasion
to
be
offended
at
Pacorus
interrupting
us
,
than
I
then
had
,
since
for
above
a
quarter
of
a
Year
after
,
I
never
had
the
opportunity
of
entertaining
Altezeera
without
Witnesses
;
Yet
I
observ'd
from
that
day
forwards
,
she
was
more
pensive
and
melancholly
,
than
she
had
been
;
and
if
she
avoided
my
conversation
,
't
was
more
from
a
desire
of
being
alone
,
than
from
any
aversion
she
seem'd
to
have
unto
it
.
All
this
tedious
●ime
I
past
in
more
tedious
sufferings
;
but
at
length
there
happen'd
an
accident
by
which
,
if
I
had
not
been
destin'd
to
have
been
my
own
Enemy
as
much
as
the
Gods
have
been
,
I
might
have
discover'd
my
Fate
,
and
perhaps
have
found
it
as
full
of
Felicity
,
as
now
't
is
of
Torment
.
The
Prince
Pacorus
was
extreamly
addicted
to
hunting
the
wild
Bore
,
but
commonly
before
the
Huntsmen
forc'd
him
out
of
the
Forest
,
he
would
place
himself
in
a
Stand
,
to
Shoot
.
This
Recreation
he
one
day
invited
me
to
,
and
plac'd
me
with
a
Javelin
in
a
Stand
within
call
of
his
.
The
King
,
the
Princess
,
and
all
the
Court
were
in
a
large
Plain
which
inviron'd
the
Forest
;
but
whilst
we
were
in
expectation
of
the
Bore
,
I
hear
a
clashing
of
Swords
,
and
suddenly
after
my
name
repeated
,
twice
or
thrice
by
Pacorus
.
I
instantly
leapt
out
of
my
Stand
,
and
ran
towards
his
,
where
I
found
him
assaulted
by
three
men
in
Disguises
,
one
of
whom
he
had
pierc'd
with
his
Arrow
,
yet
not
so
mortally
,
but
that
with
the
help
of
the
other
two
,
he
himself
was
reduced
to
such
extremity
,
that
apprehending
I
could
not
come
time
enough
to
his
relief
,
(
which
truly
I
may
say
I
embrac'd
without
balancing
)
I
cry'd
out
,
't
was
Pacorus
;
my
voice
was
no
sooner
heard
,
than
one
of
the
three
came
running
to
me
with
his
Sword
in
his
hand
,
and
told
me
,
't
was
Pacorus
they
meant
;
This
Declaration
made
me
meet
him
,
which
made
it
half-way
,
and
darting
my
Javelin
at
him
,
pierc'd
him
through
and
through
,
and
nail'd
him
to
the
ground
;
immediately
I
seiz'd
upon
his
Sword
,
and
came
so
timely
to
Pacorus
,
that
by
the
Wounds
he
had
already
receiv'd
,
he
was
even
sinking
down
under
their
burthen
:
but
I
not
only
presented
him
with
Relief
,
but
Victory
:
for
one
of
the
remaining
two
,
I
found
so
weaken●d
to
my
hand
,
that
I
esteem'd
his
condition
unworthy
my
Sword
,
if
his
Crime
had
not
made
him
the
contray
;
and
the
other
frighten'd
by
the
Death
of
his
Companions
,
was
kill'd
almost
as
easily
,
as
he
justly
deserv'd
it
.
The
generous
Pacorus
,
though
he
wanted
strength
to
dispute
his
Life
,
yet
did
not
,
to
come
and
acknowledg
by
words
and
Embraces
,
that
't
was
from
me
he
had
now
twice
deriv'd
it
;
but
in
so
gallant
a
Gratitude
,
he
had
so
overstrain'd
himself
,
that
he
fell
speechless
as
he
was
performing
it
.
I
durst
not
forsake
him
in
that
extremity
,
lest
by
wanting
my
assistance
,
his
seeming
Death
might
have
turn'd
into
a
real
one
;
and
lest
some
further
Complices
in
this
fact
,
might
,
whilst
I
went
to
call
for
help
,
have
render'd
him
past
any
;
whilst
I
was
in
this
perplexity
,
the
Boar
by
another
way
had
quitted
the
Forest
;
and
a
Gentleman
which
waited
on
the
Plain
,
came
to
advertise
the
Prince
of
it
,
and
to
bring
him
his
Horse
;
but
he
was
so
frighten'd
at
the
strange
accident
,
and
at
the
stranger
condition
his
Lord
was
in
,
that
turning
about
,
he
ran
full-speed
,
and
gave
the
Alarm
of
it
to
Arsaces
,
Altezeera
,
Phraates
,
and
all
the
Court
:
and
though
they
suddenly
came
to
the
place
where
this
Tragedy
had
been
acted
;
yet
by
some
fresh
water
which
I
fetch'd
from
a
neighbouring
Fountain
,
I
had
brought
him
from
his
swound
;
I
cannot
tell
you
the
general
regrets
and
mournings
of
all
the
Company
,
especially
those
of
the
fair
Altezeera
,
which
though
they
infinitely
transcended
all
the
others
,
yet
they
could
not
Mine
,
by
observing
they
did
so
.
But
after
Pacorus's
Wounds
were
bound
up
,
as
well
as
the
place
did
permit
(
which
he
would
not
until
three
slight
ones
I
had
receiv'd
were
dress'd
before
his
,
till
he
had
told
the
particulars
of
this
accident
,
and
the
service
I
had
render'd
him
)
all
the
Court
and
my
Princess
too
,
came
and
made
me
retributions
too
long
and
too
flattering
to
be
repeated
;
which
were
no
sooner
ended
,
than
Phraates
taking
some
others
with
him
,
went
to
pull
off
the
Disguises
of
those
dead
Traytors
,
to
learn
who
they
were
;
but
their
Faces
were
as
strong
a
disguise
as
their
Vizards
,
being
both
alike
unknown
.
This
news
being
brought
to
Arsaces
,
he
had
their
Heads
taken
off
,
and
fix'd
upon
short
Poles
at
the
Gates
of
Seleutia
,
where
100
Talents
were
proclaim'd
for
whosoever
should
discover
who
they
were
,
or
who
had
employ'd
them
.
Whilst
this
was
a-doing
,
a
Litter
was
brought
to
the
Prince
,
who
was
carry'd
in
it
to
Seleutia
;
but
my
Wounds
being
less
for
number
and
danger
,
by
my
Princesses
command
I
rid
with
her
thither
in
her
Chariot
,
and
there
being
none
in
it
besides
,
after
she
had
somewhat
moderated
her
Tears
,
she
began
a-fresh
to
give
me
new
Torments
by
new
expressions
of
her
Gratitude
;
but
observing
I
took
no
relish
in
them
,
which
she
attributed
to
my
Modesty
(
but
which
alas
proceeded
from
another
cause
)
she
told
me
;
If
Pharasmanes
,
your
Friend
have
still
those
inclinations
for
me
which
he
once
had
and
which
you
would
still
perswade
me
he
has
,
I
believe
he
will
esteem
you
as
little
his
in
this
days
performance
,
as
I
must
by
it
acknowledg
you
infinitely
Mine
.
I
am
confident
,
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
The
Service
I
have
paid
you
cannot
more
satisfie
you
,
than
it
will
him
,
who
I
know
,
if
he
thought
this
were
not
really
the
fair
Altezeera's
Judgment
,
would
be
thereby
more
dangerously
wounded
than
Pacorus
is
.
'T
is
now
,
Madam
(
I
continu'd
)
that
I
must
conclude
my
Friends
fortune
desperate
,
when
that
excellence
which
is
to
form
it
,
believes
surmises
against
him
,
more
than
Demonstrations
for
him
;
and
(
Madam
)
if
that
which
he
did
for
you
in
the
Roman
Camp
,
and
that
which
I
have
this
Day
perform'd
on
his
score
,
are
not
pregnant
Arguments
enough
for
an
Innocence
which
Ambitions
no
higher
a
Reward
for
being
so
,
than
to
be
thought
so
;
I
leave
you
to
Judg
,
whether
my
despair
for
Artavasdes
,
be
not
too
sufficient
grounded
.
Altezeera
,
who
observ'd
I
could
not
utter
these
words
without
sympathizing
in
their
sadness
,
and
truth
,
was
so
generous
as
to
reply
;
If
(
Pharasmanes
)
what
you
tell
me
of
your
Friend
,
be
what
you
desire
I
should
credit
,
I
will
do
it
,
though
perhaps
the
strongest
motion
which
induces
me
to
it
,
●ill
be
your
satisfaction
.
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
,
I
had
much
rather
you
would
believe
it
for
your
own
,
which
would
bring
no
small
accession
to
mine
;
and
which
to
invite
you
to
the
more
powerfully
,
I
dare
protest
by
all
the
gods
,
and
by
that
which
Artavasdes
adores
as
much
,
that
if
he
will
resent
any
trouble
at
what
I
have
this
Day
perform'd
,
it
will
proceed
only
from
his
not
having
paid
you
the
duty
.
Altezeera
blusht
at
this
assurance
;
and
as
she
was
about
to
make
me
a
reply
,
the
Prince
Phraates
(
who
rid
)
came
to
the
Chariot-side
to
console
his
Sister
;
but
his
words
could
not
so
much
do
it
,
as
his
looks
did
the
contrary
,
which
carry'd
in
them
so
visible
and
contagious
a
sorrow
,
that
then
I
began
to
assume
an
affection
for
him
,
which
the
Character
I
had
of
him
,
and
his
earliest
Actions
had
made
me
thitherto
deny
him
;
which
affection
you
may
imagine
was
not
small
in
its
very
Birth
,
when
it
was
not
supprest
,
though
I
had
thereunto
so
much
invitation
,
as
his
hindering
me
all
the
way
to
Selutia
from
entertaining
my
Princess
.
The
Night
that
succeeded
this
Day
,
I
took
no
rest
,
more
from
the
trouble
of
my
Mind
,
than
my
Wounds
,
which
indeed
was
more
hurt
than
my
Body
;
't
was
during
the
Night
that
I
had
more
leasure
to
reflect
on
the
admirable
Revolutions
of
the
day
,
which
forc't
me
to
say
,
Great
gods
!
what
has
the
miserable
Artavasdes
done
,
that
makes
you
so
ingenious
to
persecute
him
?
was
it
such
a
Crime
to
adore
what
was
your
excellentest
Work
,
and
most
resembl'd
you
as
well
in
perfection
,
as
in
tormenting
me
?
was
to
be
constant
to
a
virtuous
flame
,
a
Sin
?
if
neither
of
these
can
bear
that
Name
,
't
is
with
injustice
that
I
bear
your
plagues
;
for
I
am
guilty
of
no
other
offences
:
was
it
not
enough
that
you
made
Pacorus
ravish
my
Right
,
my
Reward
,
and
my
Felicity
from
me
,
but
you
must
afterwards
constitute
me
his
Tutulary-Angel
?
and
not
only
make
me
present
whensoever
any
danger
threaten'd
him
,
but
make
me
also
preserve
his
life
,
and
in
so
unfortunate
a
way
too
,
as
not
in
that
performance
to
lose
my
own
;
there
could
not
be
a
higher
torment
than
to
save
a
successful
Rival
,
unless
it
were
to
out-live
that
act
:
both
these
yet
you
have
made
my
Destiny
,
and
you
are
not
content
with
this
,
but
that
little
satisfaction
which
attends
so
much
suffering
you
deprive
me
of
,
by
rendering
my
concealment
necessary
:
You
can
make
me
undertake
the
danger
,
but
you
will
not
suffer
me
to
receive
the
Reward
:
The
revealing
of
Innocency
,
which
to
others
is
a
recompence
,
to
me
must
be
a
Punishment
as
great
as
Guilt
;
for
the
Reward
which
attends
the
disclosing
of
mine
,
will
be
the
trouble
of
Altezeera
,
and
the
Banishment
of
Artavasdes
;
To
continue
neer
her
,
I
must
be
unworthy
that
Honour
;
and
to
make
my self
appear
worthy
of
,
I
must
be
banish't
from
it
;
if
I
remain
near
Pacorus
,
I
am
eternally
destin'd
to
preserve
him
;
and
if
I
go
from
him
,
I
must
lose
that
sight
which
preserves
me
.
Great
gods
!
either
put
a
period
to
your
Cruelty
,
or
to
that
Life
which
is
the
object
of
it
;
for
whilst
you
continue
both
,
you
cannot
make
me
more
miserable
,
than
you
make
your selves
unjust
,
These
irreligious
reasonings
ended
not
,
but
with
the
Night
;
and
the
Day
was
as
full
of
torment
,
though
Altezeera
did
visit
me
;
for
she
did
it
,
as
she
her self
told
me
,
to
obey
Pacorus
:
And
alas
!
though
it
were
to
me
,
yet
it
was
not
to
Artavades
;
My
cruel
Fate
made
me
still
Artavasdes
when
't
was
to
receive
a
punishment
,
but
when
't
was
to
enjoy
a
blessing
,
it
made
me
Pharasmanes
.
Whilst
Pacorus
and
I
were
healing
of
our
Wounds
,
I
receiv'd
such
incessant
Obligations
from
him
,
that
I
found
my self
as
much
ty'd
to
him
by
Resentment
,
as
by
Fate
;
and
the
higher
Powers
did
every
day
so
far
remove
me
from
my
hopes
,
that
I
began
not
to
despair
,
but
thereby
I
should
remove
my self
from
their
Cruelty
:
but
I
had
no
sooner
form'd
so
flattering
an
expectation
,
than
they
immediately
ruin'd
it
,
and
by
that
infinite
Power
they
shew'd
in
tormenting
,
they
manifested
,
they
only
wanted
the
Will
to
oblige
me
;
which
alas
,
I
fear'd
was
as
great
a
deficiency
,
as
if
both
were
wanting
.
That
(
my
generous
Friends
,
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
which
I
have
now
to
tell
you
,
will
perhaps
make
you
think
what
I
have
said
,
proceeds
from
my
reason
,
not
my
irreligion
:
for
though
by
an
internal
Consumption
I
was
so
much
pin'd
away
,
that
the
Physicians
assur'd
me
,
if
in
few
dayes
there
did
not
happen
as
strange
an
alteration
in
one
extream
,
as
there
had
happen'd
in
the
other
,
my
recovery
would
be
a
fitter
subject
for
their
Prayers
,
than
Art
;
yet
I
struggl'd
with
my
infirmity
,
not
to
conquer
,
but
to
contribute
to
its
Victory
;
and
therefore
't
was
that
every
day
I
constantly
waited
on
the
Prince
,
and
Princess
,
in
their
several
Appartments
;
who
were
both
so
Generous
,
as
to
be
in●initely
concern'd
in
my
visible
Declination
.
One
afternoon
I
went
to
the
fair
Altezeera
to
pay
her
a
visit
;
but
some
of
her
Servants
told
me
she
was
newly
gone
to
Regeliza's
,
who
,
(
said
Artavasdes
)
I
forgot
to
tell
you
,
continu'd
her
Mistresses
favour
,
and
was
married
to
a
great
Lord
in
Selutia
;
she
being
in
extream
danger
in
her
delivery
,
had
passionately
beg'd
from
Altezeera
the
Honor
of
a
visit
,
since
probably
(
as
she
said
)
't
was
the
last
time
she
should
ever
receive
it
.
This
News
did
exceedingly
trouble
me
,
because
I
knew
it
did
the
fair
Altezeera
,
whose
return
I
resolv'd
to
expect
in
her
own
Appartment
,
not
only
as
the
distance
between
hers
,
and
mine
was
such
,
that
my
weakness
made
my
going
to
my
own
,
and
return
to
hers
,
a
greater
trouble
than
my
attending
could
amount
unto
;
but
also
I
elected
the
latter
to
learn
the
certainty
of
Regeliza's
condition
,
in
which
both
positively
and
relatively
I
was
not
a
little
concern'd
.
I
had
not
continu'd
two
Hours
in
this
Expectation
,
when
the
Princess
return'd
,
but
with
Eyes
so
fill'd
with
Tears
,
that
I
too
suddenly
read
in
that
effect
the
cause
of
it
:
As
soon
as
she
was
come
into
the
Chamber
,
in
which
I
waited
for
her
,
all
her
Servants
withdrew
themselves
,
and
finding
they
did
it
as
duty
to
her
Grief
,
I
was
going
to
imitate
them
;
which
as
soon
as
she
observed
,
she
told
me
,
You
may
stay
Pharasmanes
,
if
your
going
away
proceeds
from
any
consideration
of
me
.
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
the
deep
sadness
which
I
too
visibly
perceiv'd
in
your
Looks
,
makes
me
conjecture
the
cause
of
it
is
the
Death
of
Regeliza
,
whom
I
know
you
too
justly
deplore
to
offer
yet
,
or
hope
to
lessen
,
or
interrupt
your
Tears
.
'T
is
true
(
said
Altezeera
)
Regeliza
,
and
the
Son
she
went
with
,
are
both
Dead
,
but
she
has
told
me
something
before
her
Death
,
which
has
but
too
powerfully
consol'd
me
for
it
,
and
which
perhaps
if
you
knew
,
you
would
confess
if
there
were
any
Justice
in
my
shedding
some
Tears
for
her
loss
,
it
should
proceed
from
a
contrary
cause
,
than
to
that
you
ascribe
them
to
;
I
have
(
Pharasmanes
)
my
heart
too
much
contracted
to
tell
you
now
what
it
is
that
does
it
;
but
if
to
morrow
you
will
visit
me
,
you
shall
know
what
I
believe
will
invite
you
to
excuse
my
not
being
able
to
acquaint
you
with
it
now
.
Altezeera
had
no
sooner
ended
those
words
,
than
in
fresh
weepings
she
did
retire
hastily
into
her
Cabinet
;
and
it
being
somewhat
late
,
I
did
to
my
Chamber
,
where
I
past
the
Night
in
a
thousand
several
conjectures
what
this
strange
accident
might
be
;
but
it
so
perfectly
merited
that
Name
,
that
I
was
so
far
from
imagining
it
,
as
I
could
hardly
believe
it
,
when
Altezeera
told
it
me
.
At
length
,
as
soon
as
the
impatiented
hour
came
,
I
went
to
the
Princesses
Appartment
;
I
found
her
on
her
Bed
all
alone
,
and
in
passions
of
Grief
which
transcended
those
I
had
left
her
in
,
which
thereby
I
concluded
had
a
high
cause
,
when
a
proportionate
Judgment
and
Fortitude
made
time
bring
an
accession
to
them
.
The
Chamber
(
though
it
were
day
)
had
nothing
of
Light
in
it
,
but
what
it
receiv'd
from
a
few
silver
Lamps
;
and
the
Princess
,
who
as
soon
as
she
saw
me
,
and
that
none
else
was
in
the
Room
(
which
she
had
expresly
given
charge
of
)
she
told
me
,
Come
Pharasmanes
,
and
see
the
miserablest
Creature
living
;
one
which
so
justly
possesses
that
Name
,
that
though
the
gods
granted
me
my
wishes
,
they
could
not
yet
divest
me
of
it
.
Would
to
the
gods
.
Madam
(
I
reply'd
,
struck
to
the
heart
with
those
sad
words
)
that
my
Death
could
restore
you
your
quiet
,
you
should
soon
and
experimentally
know
,
there
is
nothing
so
dear
unto
me
.
No
Pharasmanes
,
(
she
said
)
't
is
my
Death
,
not
yours
,
must
restore
my
quiet
,
if
any
thing
has
that
power
;
nor
would
I
be
long
from
receiving
that
remedy
,
did
I
not
apprehend
it
would
prove
none
to
me
:
I
must
Pharasmanes
,
I
must
languish
in
Torments
,
for
they
are
as
fit
for
my
Crime
,
as
my
Justification
;
but
that
you
may
know
my
despair
is
just
,
I
must
communicate
a
secret
to
you
;
though
I
apprehend
your
knowledg
of
it
will
infect
you
with
so
transcendent
a
sorrow
,
that
it
may
even
bring
an
accession
to
mine
.
Regeliza
(
the
Princess
continu'd
)
finding
her self
past
hopes
of
recovery
,
importun'd
me
by
so
many
several
Messages
to
come
and
visit
her
,
that
at
last
I
did
it
,
though
I
fancy'd
all
the
effect
it
would
produce
,
would
only
be
an
aggravation
of
my
Grief
,
and
no
diminution
of
hers
,
which
alas
,
though
in
a
different
way
,
prov'd
too
sad
a
Truth
:
I
was
no
sooner
come
into
her
Chamber
,
than
she
desir'd
all
the
rest
to
leave
it
;
and
then
with
some
deep
sighs
,
she
thus
told
me
:
I
should
(
Madam
)
despair
of
the
gods
pardon
in
the
other
World
,
did
I
leave
this
without
obtaining
yours
,
and
though
what
I
have
committed
be
of
a
quality
which
was
authoriz'd
by
duty
,
and
extenuated
by
the
event
,
yet
I
cannot
but
call
it
a
Crime
,
and
nothing
shall
make
me
term
it
otherwise
,
but
your
esteeming
it
none
;
which
if
you
do
,
I
shall
leave
the
World
with
as
little
regret
,
as
if
you
do
the
contrary
,
I
shall
with
horror
.
Know
,
Madam
,
That
not
long
after
Artavasdes
went
to
Rome
,
Artabazus
sent
for
me
privately
into
his
Closset
,
where
after
all
those
flatteries
which
he
thought
most
effective
,
he
told
me
;
Regeliza
,
My
satisfaction
and
that
of
Armenia
,
now
entirely
is
in
your
hands
,
both
of
them
consist
in
the
breaking
that
Passion
which
is
between
my
Sister
and
Artavasdes
.
Whilst
I
consider'd
Tygranes
as
my
Successor
,
I
was
as
much
concern'd
in
the
consummating
of
that
Marriage
,
as
now
I
am
in
the
interruption
:
Whilst
Altezeera
was
like
to
be
a
subject
,
I
esteem'd
none
that
was
so
▪
more
worthy
of
her
,
than
him
she
had
elected
:
but
since
Tygranes
Crimes
both
against
me
and
the
Romans
,
has
render'd
him
as
unworthy
my
care
,
as
their
Mercy
;
I
consider
Altezeera
now
as
what
she
shall
be
,
and
in
that
quality
I
cannot
without
horror
contemplate
her
placing
her self
in
a
lower
degree
by
her
election
,
than
the
Gods
and
Nature
have
destin'd
her
unto
;
nor
in
one
performance
so
much
injure
my
Sister
,
as
to
deprive
her
of
her
best
Subject
,
to
make
her self
one
.
This
(
continu'd
Artabaz●s
)
I
would
have
told
Artavasdes
before
his
departure
,
had
I
not
apprehended
his
despair
would
have
involv'd
Armenia
in
new
Wars
,
and
that
Altezeera
was
too
far
ingag'd
in
her
Passion
and
Vows
,
to
let
any
political
consideration
absolve
them
;
I
therefore
elected
to
effect
that
by
Art
,
which
I
concluded
was
any
other
way
unfeizable
;
and
therefore
before
Artavasdes
departure
,
pretending
a
flame
for
a
new
Mistris
,
and
that
she
would
not
be
convinc't
of
it
,
but
by
a
slighting
Letter
to
my
former
,
and
an
assurance
of
my
Passion
to
her self
under
my
hand
:
one
day
in
Artavasdes
sight
I
so
well
counterfeited
an
indisposition
to
Write
,
and
so
extol'd
his
Stile
above
my
own
,
that
having
acquainted
him
with
what
I
have
you
at
length
,
I
procur'd
two
Letters
from
him
,
to
those
effects
I
desir'd
and
mention'd
,
which
I
said
I
would
copy
;
but
which
indeed
I
have
reserv'd
for
another
use
;
for
by
their
help
and
yours
,
I
make
no
question
but
to
raise
such
a
Fraction
between
the
Lovers
,
as
nothing
but
a
miracle
shall
discover
it
,
or
unite
them
.
This
(
said
Artabazus
)
I
have
done
by
the
advice
of
Crassolis
,
who
is
confident
(
and
so
am
I
)
if
you
will
place
Artavasdes
Cypher
on
one
of
the
Letters
,
and
contribute
to
the
delivery
of
it
by
a
Servant
of
his
,
whom
we
have
suborn'd
for
that
effect
,
and
who
will
leave
him
in
his
Journey
to
Rome
;
it
may
shake
her
constancy
,
which
soon
after
we
my
ruine
,
if
the
other
Letter
which
addresses
it self
to
his
new
Mistris
,
be
presented
to
Altezeera
by
you
,
as
miraculously
found
in
Theoxcena's
Closet
,
who
we
have
thought
the
fittest
person
to
give
Altezeera
a
jealousie
,
not
only
for
her
perfections
,
but
that
Artavasdes
before
his
leaving
Armenia
,
so
assidiously
visited
her
,
though
we
know
't
was
on
Phanasders
score
.
This
will
doubtless
produce
the
effects
we
mention
;
and
when
it
has
,
I
will
engage
the
Prince
Pharn●ces
,
the
great
Mithridates
Son
,
to
make
his
addresses
to
her
,
which
in
the
rage
of
her
Lovers
inconstancy
,
will
certainly
prove
successful
;
and
when
once
she
is
Married
,
I
will
not
much
apprehend
the
disclosure
of
the
Fallacy
.
If
(
continu'd
Artabazus
)
you
esteem
of
my
Friendship
,
you
will
not
deny
me
this
proof
of
yours
;
and
if
you
value
Altezeera's
advantage
,
you
will
grant
it
me
upon
that
score
;
neither
can
your
refusal
prevent
it
;
for
if
you
should
reject
this
Design
,
you
will
but
constrain
me
to
act
it
a
more
offensive
,
and
perhaps
bloodier
way
;
for
I
am
determin'd
(
at
whatsoever
rate
)
to
perform
my
intentions
.
This
was
the
effect
(
Madam
,
continu'd
Regeliza
)
of
what
Artabazus
spake
to
me
,
though
he
gave
me
more
large
and
pregnant
Arguments
for
my
Obedience
,
than
my
memory
or
weakness
will
permit
me
to
repeat
;
but
though
I
had
the
fortitude
to
resist
his
presents
and
flatteries
;
yet
I
had
not
to
oppose
that
which
he
alledg'd
was
for
your
Advantage
:
there
(
Madam
)
he
assaulted
me
where
I
was
least
able
,
and
least
willing
to
resist
;
neither
could
he
have
made
me
an
Enemy
to
your
desires
,
but
by
convincing
me
that
therein
I
was
a
Friend
to
your
power
and
honour
;
I
had
this
consolation
,
that
nothing
could
make
me
prejudice
you
,
but
for
your
advantage
;
nor
does
a
Physician
merit
his
Patients
resentments
,
for
depriving
him
a
while
of
health
,
to
restore
him
thereby
to
a
more
perfect
one
.
But
,
Madam
,
I
will
not
so
much
as
think
there
are
any
arguments
for
my
Justification
,
lest
you
should
believe
there
are
none
for
my
Pardon
;
for
I
would
not
have
so
sensible
an
addition
to
the
Misery
of
being
deny'd
it
,
as
to
know
't
was
done
so
against
reason
.
To
be
brief
,
Madam
(
for
I
find
my
Death
hastens
)
to
serve
you
as
I
thought
,
to
obey
my
King
,
and
to
preserve
Artavasdes
,
whose
Death
was
obliquely
threaten'd
by
him
,
and
who
I
thought
you
would
be
less
displeas'd
to
see
live
in
your
hatred
,
then
dye
in
the
honor
of
your
esteem
and
love
;
I
finally
condescended
to
act
what
I
could
not
hinder
;
but
yet
in
expectation
,
that
time
might
produce
some
as
strange
Revolutions
in
Artavasdes
favour
,
as
it
has
done
to
his
prejudice
;
and
that
Artabazus
might
be
converted
,
I
perswaded
him
and
Crassolis
(
who
was
all
this
while
present
)
that
't
were
best
only
at
first
to
give
you
the
Letter
,
which
was
to
acquaint
you
with
Artavasdes
change
,
and
then
a
good
interval
between
,
to
present
you
the
other
,
which
was
to
acquaint
you
who
had
occasion'd
it
;
for
if
they
were
deliver'd
both
at
once
,
it
might
relish
of
design
;
and
besides
the
latter
coming
,
when
the
first
had
shaken
your
Constancy
,
it
might
find
the
less
difficulty
to
suppress
it
.
I
believ'd
,
Madam
,
the
first
of
these
would
not
thrust
you
to
what
they
both
might
;
and
that
if
you
were
not
anothers
,
there
was
still
left
you
at
any
time
,
in
shewing
you
Artavasdes
Innocence
,
the
Power
to
reward
it
.
'T
was
thus
,
Madam
,
that
the
constant
Artavasdes
was
betray'd
,
whose
false
Servant
Allaner
presented
you
with
that
false
Letter
,
which
had
so
strange
an
influence
on
you
,
and
which
I
abundantly
contributed
unto
,
till
I
saw
how
much
it
hazarded
your
Life
by
that
dangerous
sickness
it
cast
you
into
,
a
little
before
Pacorus's
besieging
Tygranocerta
:
You
know
(
Madam
)
that
during
your
indisposition
,
I
took
Artavasdes
part
to
make
it
cease
;
and
you
confest
't
was
I
which
restor'd
you
to
health
,
by
restoring
you
to
hopes
,
that
the
cruel
Letter
had
something
of
mysterious
in
it
,
which
I
undertook
to
discover
,
and
which
I
had
done
,
but
that
your
,
and
the
general
danger
,
with
Pacorus's
transcendent
Gallantry
and
Services
,
made
me
esteem
that
generous
Prince
had
a
better
Title
to
you
in
every
respect
,
than
Artavasdes
had
;
and
that
to
disclose
we
betray'd
him
,
had
been
to
betray
you
,
who
I
resolv'd
the
gods
favour'd
in
no
small
degree
,
since
by
so
strange
a
way
they
lead
you
to
so
noble
an
end
,
and
converted
even
the
very
treachery
of
your
Friends
into
your
Advantage
.
'T
was
therefore
(
Madam
)
that
feigning
once
an
indisposition
at
Theoxcena's
,
I
continu'd
all
night
there
,
and
made
you
believe
at
my
return
,
that
I
had
found
that
Letter
there
which
I
had
brought
thither
,
and
which
I
then
presented
you
with
a
superscription
.
Cypher
to
it
of
my
own
Invention
:
But
alas
!
I
soon
repented
it
,
when
it
cast
you
into
that
violent
fever
;
and
I
was
a
thousand
times
upon
the
point
of
disclosing
all
unto
you
;
But
then
the
certain
ruine
of
Armenia
,
and
the
as
certain
of
the
generous
Pacorus
,
with
your
miraculous
recovery
,
which
you
told
me
proceeded
from
your
having
as
absolutely
banisht
Artavasdes
from
your
heart
,
as
he
had
you
from
his
;
and
your
esteeming
your self
oblig'd
,
if
not
out
of
Love
,
yet
out
of
Gratitude
,
to
give
your self
unto
Pacorus
,
silenc'd
that
resolve
by
which
you
have
enjoy'd
a
felicity
,
that
I
hope
will
be
no
small
inducement
to
procure
a
pardon
for
so
successful
a
crime
and
event
,
and
without
which
I
shall
leave
the
World
in
Torments
,
which
perhaps
will
inspire
you
with
as
great
a
repentance
for
having
impos'd
them
on
me
,
as
me
for
having
merited
them
.
Neither
(
Madam
)
is
it
one
of
the
meanest
services
my
Insidelity
has
done
you
,
to
preserve
Artavasdes
Life
,
who
without
what
I
did
,
had
tasted
of
that
fatal
Cup
,
which
has
sent
his
Father
into
another
World
.
Regeliza
had
no
sooner
ended
speaking
,
than
she
did
her
Life
(
though
she
seem'd
to
have
something
more
of
high
concernment
to
inform
me
of
)
;
but
she
had
that
consolation
to
do
it
doubtful
of
those
Resentments
,
which
had
she
liv'd
,
she
would
but
too
visibly
have
observ'd
.
This
(
Pharasmanes
)
is
the
cause
of
those
Tears
you
have
already
seen
,
and
which
can
never
cease
till
their
source
be
exhausted
;
if
I
resent
any
advantage
by
Regeliza's
Death
,
't
is
that
it
affords
me
a
cloud
for
my
sorrow
,
and
makes
the
World
believe
she
is
the
object
of
my
weepings
,
when
alas
she
is
the
cause
.
You
see
by
this
I
am
convinc't
of
your
Friends
Innocence
,
and
I
hope
you
are
so
of
mine
;
I
am
miserable
,
Pharasmanes
,
more
than
faulty
;
but
perhaps
I
shall
not
appear
so
to
Artavasdes
,
who
may
think
my
believing
him
capable
of
change
,
as
great
a
crime
,
as
I
find
it
a
punishment
.
Alas
(
Pharasmanes
)
I
am
in
fears
as
great
as
my
griefs
;
Not
to
let
him
know
I
have
discover'd
he
is
Innocent
,
may
continue
him
in
troubles
as
high
as
mine
,
when
I
thought
he
was
not
;
and
to
let
him
continue
his
belief
of
me
,
is
to
invalidate
this
miraculous
discovery
,
and
render
his
hate
almost
as
great
a
Justice
in
him
,
as
misery
to
me
.
Great
gods
!
(
she
continu'd
)
why
did
you
not
make
me
believe
Artavasdes
innocent
,
when
I
had
the
power
to
reward
his
being
so
?
and
why
did
you
make
me
know
he
is
so
,
when
I
am
divested
of
that
Power
?
But
doubtless
it
will
be
a
less
affliction
to
the
generous
Artavasdes
to
be
satisfi'd
,
I
want
not
the
will
,
but
the
ability
to
recompence
his
virtue
,
than
if
I
wanted
both
.
'T
is
therefore
(
Pharasmanes
)
I
have
desir'd
this
visit
from
you
,
that
you
will
by
an
express
acquaint
your
Friend
with
my
unfortunate
Story
:
I
dare
not
do
it
,
in
apprehension
my
Letter
might
miscarry
;
besides
,
I
am
too
full
of
grief
to
describe
it
,
and
perhaps
of
seeming
guilty
to
be
credited
;
Tell
him
(
Pharasmanes
)
,
Oh
tell
him
all
that
the
highest
sorrow
ever
dictated
,
and
tell
him
all
that
is
short
of
Altezeera's
,
the
greatness
of
whose
Torment
,
if
he
suspects
,
because
it
has
not
yet
destroy'd
her
,
tell
him
,
That
that
it self
is
a
transcendent
argument
of
its
being
so
,
and
that
I
would
curse
its
lingring
,
did
I
not
cherish
all
things
as
a
desirable
Justice
,
which
punishes
my
unfortunate
Inconstancy
.
I
believe
generous
Friends
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
you
do
not
wonder
that
all
this
Time
I
interrupted
not
her
discourse
,
which
fill'd
me
with
so
much
amazement
,
grief
,
and
joy
,
that
I
had
hardly
life
enough
left
to
hear
her
;
but
as
soon
as
she
had
put
a
period
to
it
,
I
resolv'd
to
do
the
like
unto
my
disguise
;
for
I
esteem'd
,
though
the
criminal
Artavasdes
needed
one
to
approach
his
Princess
,
yet
the
innocent
Artavasdes
did
not
.
'T
was
therefore
after
a
short
debate
,
prostrating
my self
before
her
,
I
told
her
,
Your
Commands
,
Madam
,
to
Pharasmanes
are
obey'd
;
he
has
already
acquainted
Artavasdes
with
all
that
you
have
acquainted
him
with
,
and
would
to
the
gods
it
had
been
by
Letter
,
and
not
Sight
;
for
no
description
of
Grief
could
equal
this
evidence
of
it
;
I
had
rather
have
fanci'd
it
less
than
't
is
,
than
be
so
sensibly
convinc't
of
its
greatness
.
Whilst
I
was
thus
speaking
,
the
fair
Altezeera
rais'd
her self
up
a
little
;
and
having
a
while
attentively
consider'd
me
,
she
said
;
Alas
Pharasmanes
!
what
operation
will
this
discovery
have
on
the
poor
Artavasdes
,
when
I
apprehend
it
has
had
so
fatal
a
one
on
you
?
This
she
spoke
,
believing
by
the
distemper
of
my
looks
,
and
the
strangeness
of
my
words
,
that
my
mind
had
participated
in
the
disorders
of
my
heart
;
but
I
soon
took
her
out
of
that
perplexity
,
though
it
cast
her
into
a
higher
,
for
I
reply'd
,
Though
this
discovery
(
Madam
)
has
a
transcendent
influence
over
me
,
yet
I
am
not
so
happy
as
to
have
it
increase
to
that
height
which
you
believe
it
has
reacht
;
for
to
lose
my
senses
,
were
a
less
misery
,
than
to
have
them
employ'd
as
now
they
are
.
Yes
,
my
Princess
,
give
me
leave
to
assume
that
Name
,
now
I
have
assum'd
my
Innocence
;
I
had
much
rather
be
eternally
depriv'd
of
reason
,
than
have
so
much
,
as
to
find
it
a
Misery
;
you
will
be
(
Madam
)
but
too
absolutely
convinc'd
of
both
these
Truths
,
when
I
let
you
know
,
that
I
am
Artavasdes
,
who
in
the
hopes
of
manifesting
my
Innocence
,
have
indur'd
as
transcendent
Torments
as
could
attend
a
proportionate
guilt
.
The
troubles
you
resent
at
this
disclosure
,
makes
me
say
this
;
and
I
shall
do
the
like
of
all
my
greatest
blessings
,
if
they
produce
such
fatal
effects
.
Neither
can
the
gods
bestow
any
on
me
,
if
they
must
be
built
on
your
sufferings
:
Those
cruel
Powers
know
this
Truth
too
well
,
not
to
practice
it
;
and
they
are
so
infinitely
concern'd
to
afflict
the
unfortunate
Artavasdes
,
that
they
make
the
revealing
of
Innocence
as
great
a
punishment
as
the
want
of
it
.
I
said
this
while
I
only
reflected
on
the
fair
Altezeera's
Tears
;
but
alas
!
I
had
much
more
cause
to
say
it
,
than
I
had
when
I
did
:
for
after
I
had
utter'd
a
World
of
expressions
of
this
quality
,
lifting
up
my
Eyes
to
my
Princess
,
I
perceiv'd
her
all
pale
and
moveless
.
This
unexpected
and
additional
misfortune
,
cast
me
into
strange
perplexities
;
and
fearing
left
Altezeera's
Women
were
too
far
to
give
her
relief
,
I
endeavour'd
it
my self
by
all
those
wayes
I
had
heard
practic'd
to
recover
one
from
a
Swound
:
But
alas
!
all
my
attempts
were
fruitless
,
and
she
lay
with
as
little
Life
as
I
therefore
desir'd
;
but
the
horror
thereof
had
so
efficacious
an
influence
over
me
,
that
what
with
my
precedent
distempers
,
and
this
accession
to
them
;
I
fell
into
a
resembling
indisposition
;
and
being
upon
my
Knees
on
the
Princesses
Bed
,
when
I
went
to
give
her
my
assistance
,
my
faintness
surprising
me
in
that
posture
,
I
fell
down
by
her
,
one
of
my
Arms
also
being
under
her
Body
to
support
it
,
continu'd
so
during
my
Swound
;
and
had
not
the
sad
state
we
were
both
in
,
evinc't
the
cause
of
it
,
I
might
have
been
as
worthy
of
Envy
,
as
we
were
of
Pity
.
I
tell
you
this
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
the
more
particularly
,
because
of
that
unfortunate
effect
it
might
and
did
produce
:
for
while
I
lay
in
this
senseless
but
happy
posture
,
Phraates
came
to
visit
Altezeera
;
and
no
sooner
perceiv'd
her
in
my
Arms
,
than
he
did
also
the
occasion
of
it
:
but
that
wicked
Prince
,
delighting
as
much
to
destroy
virtue
,
as
he
should
have
done
to
preserve
it
;
having
first
extinguisht
all
the
Lamps
but
one
(
for
I
found
them
so
when
I
recover'd
,
and
by
what
he
did
,
I
justly
conclude
he
did
this
too
,
though
I
have
yet
no
other
proof
of
it
but
by
inference
)
he
went
hastily
to
Labienus
Appartment
,
which
was
contiguous
to
the
Princess's
,
and
there
told
him
in
a
counterfeit
sadness
,
he
had
made
a
fatal
discovery
of
his
Brothers
dishonour
,
which
he
beg'd
him
to
come
and
be
a
Witness
of
,
for
otherwise
the
deep
opinion
he
had
contracted
of
Altezeera's
virtue
,
might
by
making
him
suspect
his
own
Eyes
,
contribute
to
the
prolonging
of
her
Crimes
,
and
Pacorus
disgrace
.
Labienus
struck
to
the
very
Soul
with
this
strange
intelligence
,
askt
Phraates
what
proof
he
had
of
it
.
Alas
(
he
reply'd
)
but
too
too
much
:
for
but
even
now
going
to
visit
Altezeera
,
I
found
her
in
Pharasmanes
Arms
;
It
seems
the
joys
and
extacies
they
had
relisht
,
had
mutually
stupified
their
Senses
,
so
that
I
surprised
them
asleep
in
the
Scene
of
their
lust
.
Labienus
found
it
a
hard
thing
to
believe
Altezeera
guilty
of
such
a
Crime
,
especially
being
accus'd
of
it
by
so
known
an
Enemy
to
virtue
,
as
he
was
resolv'd
Phraates
was
;
therefore
to
silence
his
malice
or
his
own
doubts
and
fears
,
he
went
with
him
to
Altezeera's
Appartment
,
where
his
Guide
conjur'd
him
to
make
no
noise
,
nor
continue
,
lest
it
might
waken
us
;
which
Labienuss
having
promis'd
,
Phraates
first
looking
into
the
Chamber
to
discover
whether
we
were
still
in
the
same
Posture
,
which
he
did
,
immediately
brought
in
Labienus
,
and
so
artificially
interpos'd
himself
in
the
light
of
the
Lamp
,
that
it
shone
not
at
all
on
our
Faces
,
which
if
it
had
,
would
have
discover'd
the
Truth
;
but
on
our
Bodies
,
which
confirm'd
the
wicked
Phraates
Fiction
;
but
yet
Labienus
(
as
the
gods
would
have
it
)
observing
it
,
askt
Phraates
why
he
did
so
?
Who
reply'd
,
lest
the
light
,
by
shining
in
our
Eyes
,
might
wake
us
whilst
they
were
present
;
and
then
immediately
hearing
us
breathe
,
led
off
Labienus
,
who
was
so
strangely
perplext
at
that
fatal
sight
,
that
by
the
strange
operation
it
had
on
him
,
he
concluded
't
was
not
fit
to
tell
it
his
Prince
till
he
was
more
recover'd
of
his
Wounds
,
if
it
were
fit
to
tell
him
at
all
.
Phraates
as
absolutely
concurr'd
with
him
in
the
first
of
his
resolutions
,
as
he
oppos'd
the
latter
,
which
he
said
was
in
effect
to
be
guilty
of
Altezeera's
and
my
Crimes
;
they
being
also
of
such
a
quality
,
that
to
conceal
,
were
to
participate
in
them
;
&
that
't
were
better
Pacorus
should
know
his
wrongs
,
to
put
a
period
to
,
and
revenge
them
;
than
by
so
fatal
an
ignorance
omit
both
.
Labienus
on
the
other
side
objected
,
That
if
his
Prince's
Misfortune
was
of
a
nature
,
that
to
revenge
,
would
efface
it
,
there
would
be
two
inducements
to
it
;
but
since
that
which
should
revenge
it
,
would
not
only
make
it
publick
,
but
indelible
;
and
that
the
highest
good
in
such
an
ill
,
was
,
not
to
know
it
(
since
there
was
no
possibility
of
proving
a
Woman
Chast
)
;
he
esteem'd
it
handsomer
and
better
,
to
tell
Altezeera
of
her
Faults
,
that
she
might
banish
both
me
and
them
;
or
by
her
doing
neither
,
render
the
disclosure
of
her
offence
so
necessary
,
that
the
necessity
of
it
,
might
render
it
a
proportionate
Justice
.
But
Labienus
durst
not
use
too
many
reasons
to
prove
Silence
was
good
,
lest
that
might
have
prov'd
one
to
Phraates
not
to
keep
it
.
Whilst
they
two
were
disputing
of
our
Sin
,
I
came
to
my self
again
,
and
discover'd
that
which
gave
a
rise
to
one
of
them
to
call
it
,
and
to
the
other
to
believe
it
one
;
but
the
restauration
to
Life
had
been
much
worse
than
Death
(
where
at
least
my
griefs
had
ceas'd
as
well
as
my
hopes
,
which
had
been
an
advantagious
bargain
)
had
not
immediately
my
Princess
too
recover'd
:
for
Nature
finding
none
come
to
her
assistance
,
went
to
her
own
;
Oh
gods
!
How
was
I
surpriz'd
to
find
my self
in
a
posture
of
Felicity
,
and
not
in
a
rellish
of
it
!
and
how
confounded
was
I
as
well
as
Altezeera
,
to
find
how
much
more
obliging
the
effects
of
my
misfortune
had
been
,
than
those
of
my
Constancy
and
Innocence
!
but
alas
!
I
had
much
more
cause
to
be
so
,
when
not
only
the
Princesses
Women
came
running
in
to
her
assistance
,
but
when
they
also
found
her
in
a
high
Fever
,
that
threaten'd
to
cast
her
into
an
eternal
Death
,
as
soon
as
she
was
restor'd
from
a
temporary
one
.
So
many
witnesses
hinder'd
her
from
speaking
to
me
;
and
they
beginning
to
undress
her
,
hinder'd
me
from
continuing
longer
in
the
Chamber
,
which
I
left
without
receiving
any
other
fruit
of
my
being
Innocent
,
than
the
knowledg
that
it
had
been
more
for
my
quiet
,
I
had
never
been
so
.
Ah
,
when
I
was
retir'd
to
my
appartment
,
what
did
I
not
say
against
the
cruel
Destinies
,
which
had
form'd
mine
so
perversly
,
that
transcendent
punishments
attended
as
well
my
real
Fidelity
,
as
my
seeming
want
of
it
?
The
next
Morning
,
I
knew
by
the
publick
voice
of
the
Court
(
for
I
durst
neither
satisfie
my
apprehensions
or
duty
by
a
personal
Visit
,
or
by
employing
any
of
my
Domesticks
to
do
it
)
that
the
Princess
was
in
a
Fever
,
which
by
giving
so
little
hopes
in
the
beginning
,
made
the
Physicians
with
tears
apprehend
the
conclusion
;
but
it
was
too
violent
to
continue
long
our
suspensions
,
and
I
was
satisfied
of
her
recovery
,
before
any
symptoms
of
it
,
by
knowing
the
gods
would
not
give
me
so
certain
a
cure
of
my
Misery
,
as
the
Death
of
my
Princess
,
and
consequently
mine
.
At
last
her
Fever
left
her
;
when
the
Physicians
had
done
so
,
and
the
generous
Pacorus
who
had
ty'd
his
Fate
to
Altezeera's
,
began
to
cherish
his
own
Life
when
he
was
assur'd
of
hers
,
but
till
then
he
contributed
all
he
could
to
accompany
her
;
and
the
more
certainly
to
effect
it
,
he
had
seiz'd
on
a
Poniard
which
he
lay'd
by
him
in
expectation
of
the
fatal
News
.
'T
was
in
this
I
disclos'd
(
and
perhaps
Altezeera
too
)
the
disproportion
of
our
Passions
;
for
I
needed
but
the
bare
knowledg
of
her
Death
to
act
my
own
;
whereas
Pacorus
to
reach
his
,
must
have
been
necessitated
to
make
use
of
his
Resolution
,
as
well
as
Love
.
It
may
be
this
knowledg
invited
Phraates
a
while
to
a
silence
,
which
his
Virtue
would
not
have
kept
.
Pacorus
and
I
,
who
were
most
concern'd
in
Altezeera's
Health
,
as
if
it
had
been
by
a
sympathetical
operation
,
recover'd
our
own
proportionately
as
she
did
hers
.
This
was
the
cause
that
the
first
day
I
went
into
the
Palace-Garden
,
upon
which
my
Appartment
answer'd
,
Altezeera
went
thither
also
(
't
was
the
first
time
I
had
seen
her
since
her
sickness
,
or
recovery
)
I
will
omit
my
confusions
and
my
disorders
,
whilst
I
congratulated
the
latter
;
which
as
soon
as
I
had
,
as
if
it
had
been
without
design
,
by
degrees
she
separated
her self
from
the
Company
:
and
after
having
received
some
fresh
convincements
that
I
was
Artavasdes
,
she
acknowledg'd
no
small
joy
that
I
was
restored
from
a
Sickness
,
which
she
justly
consider'd
as
a
tribute
to
hers
;
but
being
determin'd
not
to
lose
so
happy
an
opportunity
to
learn
my
Fate
,
which
the
Authors
of
it
too
presented
me
:
I
told
her
,
If
I
consider
,
Madam
,
my
recovery
with
any
Joy
,
't
is
only
because
you
seem
to
do
so
,
and
out
of
a
hope
that
that
Life
which
has
by
twice
preserving
Pacorus's
,
twice
establish'd
the
felicity
of
yours
,
is
still
continu'd
by
the
gods
for
the
same
end
,
though
by
the
same
way
:
Yes
,
Madam
,
I
am
ready
not
only
to
employ
my
Life
,
but
to
lay
it
down
in
so
glorious
an
occasion
,
though
it
were
as
full
of
Felicities
as
in
those
happy
days
wherein
my
Princess
was
as
much
mine
by
Promise
,
as
she
is
now
my
Rivals
by
possession
.
But
,
Madam
,
Did
I
not
conclude
the
gods
restor'd
my
Health
upon
this
,
or
some
resembling-score
,
I
should
esteem
it
as
transcendent
a
Misery
,
as
I
shall
a
Blessing
,
if
they
have
done
it
for
that
end
:
Neither
need
I
,
for
the
only
cure
of
my
Miseries
,
be
oblig'd
to
my
Resolution
,
but
Reason
,
which
convinces
me
,
't
were
a
less
Misfortune
to
have
Artavasdes
in
the
Arms
of
Death
,
than
to
have
him
see
the
fair
Altezeera
in
Pacorus's
.
The
gods
shall
be
my
Witnesses
(
she
reply'd
,
pulling
down
her
Vail
to
cover
her
blushes
)
that
if
I
yielded
not
to
my
last
Sickness
,
't
was
more
upon
Artavasdes's
account
than
my
own
;
who
had
I
known
him
still
to
be
what
he
is
,
neither
the
safety
or
satisfaction
of
Pacorus
,
Artabazus
,
or
Armenia
,
should
have
made
me
hazard
his
,
or
recede
in
the
least
degree
from
those
professions
,
which
his
Person
,
and
Services
,
but
much
more
my
inclinations
,
induc'd
me
to
make
him
;
but
alas
,
the
gods
contributed
to
my
delusion
:
You
cannot
doubt
,
Artavasdes
,
but
't
was
one
,
and
not
a
Design
;
for
't
is
not
rational
that
I
should
willingly
act
what
turn'd
most
to
my
own
Torment
;
Yes
(
Artavasdes
)
I
say
,
my
own
Torment
;
Judg
then
what
that
grief
must
be
,
which
makes
my
being
the
Wife
of
so
generous
a
Prince
as
Pacorus
,
be
esteem'd
one
by
me
;
I
have
liv'd
purposely
to
tell
you
this
,
for
perhaps
you
may
resent
some
satisfaction
by
knowing
,
she
that
has
divested
you
of
all
your
felicity
,
has
in
that
very
performance
done
the
like
to
her
own
.
These
words
,
and
some
Tears
which
accompanied
them
▪
were
so
sensible
to
me
,
that
I
could
not
abstain
from
saying
in
a
higher
tone
than
before
:
Great
gods
!
Have
not
you
already
render'd
Artavasde●
sufficiently
miserable
by
the
loss
of
his
Princess's
affection
,
but
you
must
make
him
more
so
by
the
restoration
of
it
?
And
are
you
so
inveterately
bent
to
continue
me
so
,
that
rather
than
not
act
it
,
you
will
make
contraries
produce
the
same
effect
?
'T
is
now
(
Madam
)
I
find
,
that
the
ending
of
my
life
,
will
be
the
most
considerable
Service
it
can
render
you
;
You
had
never
been
unfortunate
,
had
not
the
gods
ty'd
your
Fate
to
mine
;
remove
the
cause
,
and
the
effect
will
cease
;
That
which
restores
your
quiet
will
settle
mine
;
either
of
these
inducements
,
especially
the
former
,
will
give
me
resolution
and
invitation
enough
to
end
it
:
Those
powers
can
have
no
more
any
pretence
to
afflict
you
,
when
you
are
as
single
in
your
Fortune
as
in
your
Perfections
:
'T
is
not
(
Madam
)
my
despair
,
but
(
if
it
be
permitted
me
to
say
it
)
my
Love
,
which
makes
this
Motion
;
Nor
can
you
give
me
a
greater
testimony
,
that
I
am
in
the
blessing
of
your
esteem
,
than
to
enjoyn
or
permit
me
to
oblige
both
of
us
in
one
performance
.
Can
you
then
believe
(
Altezeera
reply'd
,
with
a
Look
which
had
something
of
resentment
in
it
)
that
because
I
have
lost
my
Title
to
you
,
I
have
lost
my
concern
for
you
?
or
,
that
what
will
render
my
sorrow
unconsolable
,
will
suppress
it
?
Cruel
Artavasdes
if
neither
of
those
are
your
Thoughts
;
why
by
so
strange
a
motion
do
you
invite
me
to
believe
they
are
?
The
Death
of
the
Innocent
Artavasdes
would
much
more
trouble
me
,
than
when
I
esteem'd
him
the
guilty
:
That
was
a
loss
which
my
then
belief
would
have
render'd
none
;
But
that
which
he
now
threatens
me
with
,
is
of
a
quality
,
that
if
I
can
receive
any
consolation
in
it
,
it
proceeds
from
the
impossibility
of
my
surviving
it
.
If
,
Madam
(
said
I
)
the
miserable
Artavasdes's
Death
,
could
either
prove
a
misfortune
to
you
or
to
him
,
I
am
convinc'd
by
many
experiments
,
that
the
gods
would
have
long
since
acted
it
;
and
their
having
so
miraculously
kept
me
from
it
,
proves
abundantly
't
is
a
Blessing
.
But
my
Princess
,
What
then
will
you
determine
of
a
Life
which
you
would
confine
me
from
ending
?
Do
not
you
then
believe
,
that
the
horror
of
contemplating
you
in
the
embraces
of
my
Rival
,
will
make
my
grief
act
that
,
which
you
would
tye
my
resolution
from
?
And
having
now
manifested
my
Innocence
(
which
is
not
only
the
highest
Blessing
your
condition
permits
me
to
aspire
unto
,
but
the
only
,
which
made
me
so
long
languish
out
my
time
)
Permit
me
(
my
Princess
)
to
die
in
your
esteem
,
since
I
cannot
in
a
nobler
Felicity
;
and
since
I
can
extend
my
Hopes
no
higher
,
why
will
you
let
me
any
longer
extend
my
Life
?
He
dies
not
amiss
(
Madam
)
that
has
nothing
to
expect
,
or
desire
;
and
your
condition
,
and
your
Virtue
keeps
me
from
both
.
Ah
Artavasdes
,
she
reply'd
,
you
are
not
what
your
words
would
make
you
,
one
that
considers
●o
one
's
Felicity
,
but
his
own
;
have
you
then
nothing
to
hope
or
desire
,
when
I
have
told
you
the
continuation
of
your
Life
is
dear
,
and
considerable
to
Altezeera
?
I
have
almost
as
much
cause
to
have
spoke
those
words
as
you
,
and
if
I
declin'd
them
,
't
was
upon
the
same
score
which
I
believ'd
would
have
made
you
do
the
like
;
We
must
Artavasdes
,
attend
the
leisure
of
the
gods
;
if
there
be
no
cause
to
hope
in
Reason
,
there
is
yet
reason
to
hope
in
a
Miracle
,
for
they
will
not
give
so
pregnant
an
Argument
against
their
Providence
(
which
is
themselves
)
as
to
let
so
perfect
a
Constancy
as
yours
,
continue
eternally
fruitless
.
I
was
upon
replying
,
when
we
found
our selves
at
the
end
of
a
Walk
which
answer'd
another
,
where
we
perceiv'd
Pacorus
with
Phraates
coming
towards
us
;
we
therefore
went
to
meet
him
,
where
he
again
began
to
tax
me
of
that
in
Railery
,
which
alas
too
soon
lost
that
Name
;
for
the
next
day
that
Gayety
which
proceeded
from
his
humour
,
and
which
might
have
much
more
from
his
condition
,
began
to
turn
into
so
deep
and
obscure
a
Sadness
,
and
so
constantly
increas'd
,
that
to
let
you
know
how
uncapable
it
was
of
intermission
,
it
receiv'd
none
in
the
fair
Altezeera's
Visits
;
who
so
exactly
sympathiz'd
in
his
distempers
,
that
she
even
assum'd
them
by
deploring
them
;
and
the
gods
thereby
made
me
know
that
the
cause
of
Altezeera's
Sicknes●
,
would
prove
as
transcendent
a
Misfortune
,
as
the
effect
.
This
visible
declination
of
Pacorus's
,
made
what
created
it
,
as
visible
to
Labienus
;
but
his
judgment
had
been
so
infinitely
deluded
by
his
Sight
,
that
what
was
a
production
of
Altezeera's
Love
,
he
imputed
to
one
of
her
shame
;
and
in
this
Faith
so
long
continu'd
that
Error
,
that
his
Princess's
Death
had
like
to
have
prov'd
the
punishment
of
it
.
But
the
gods
,
who
●ere
as
much
concern'd
in
the
preserving
the
felicity
of
Pacorus's
Life
,
as
the
Torment
of
mine
,
made
the
Princess
one
day
send
for
Labienus
,
who
she
thought
knew
Pacorus's
heart
as
absolutely
,
as
she
possess'd
it
;
she
receiv'd
him
in
her
Cabinet
,
which
having
lock'd
,
she
told
him
;
Labienus
,
That
my
Lord
and
yours
has
some
strange
distemper
,
is
not
more
visible
to
me
,
than
I
am
certain
the
occasion
of
it
is
to
you
,
for
whom
I
am
resolv'd
he
has
nothing
of
reserve
.
My
Reason
would
perswade
me
I
am
the
cause
of
his
Disorder
,
did
not
my
Innocence
more
powerfully
do
the
contrary
;
for
as
often
as
I
have
conjur'd
him
to
tell
it
me
,
he
has
only
answer'd
me
in
Sighs
and
groans
and
thereby
increas'd
,
instead
of
resolving
my
doubts
;
't
is
therefore
that
I
apply
my self
to
you
for
the
latter
:
and
to
invite
you
to
it
,
I
attest
the
gods
,
I
can
no
longer
be
thought
criminal
,
than
I
am
ignorant
of
my
Crime
;
the
knowledg
of
my
offence
,
and
of
my
innocence
,
will
be
unseparable
:
Yes
,
Labienus
,
you
cannot
more
certainly
absolve
my
guilt
,
than
to
let
me
know
it
.
This
I
tell
you
,
presupposing
I
may
be
the
innocent
cause
of
his
Disorder
,
which
only
his
Silence
,
and
the
vastness
of
his
grief
make
me
conjecture
;
but
if
it
has
another
Creation
,
I
shall
almost
be
satisfy'd
in
knowing
he
could
grieve
as
much
for
something
else
,
as
for
Altezeera
,
since
in
that
knowledg
,
I
shall
be
convinc'd
she
is
not
the
occasion
of
giving
him
so
much
trouble
.
The
Princess
told
Labienus
much
more
of
this
quality
,
who
being
thereby
convinc'd
,
that
he
attributed
her
sorrow
to
a
wrong
cause
,
to
obtain
a
pardon
for
that
fault
,
confess'd
it
;
and
having
acquainted
her
with
what
I
have
acquainted
you
,
added
,
He
was
confident
Phraates
had
disclos'd
all
to
his
Brother
,
since
nothing
but
a
vast
Distemper
of
the
Mind
,
could
have
so
proportionate
an
influence
on
the
Body
,
and
that
it
was
something
reflected
on
her
honour
,
that
he
could
conceal
it
from
her
,
or
did
from
him
.
To
undertake
to
decypher
Altezeera's
astonishment
,
or
grief
,
were
to
engage
my self
in
impossibilities
:
but
having
a
little
collected
her
Thoughts
,
and
supprest
her
Resentments
;
she
told
him
,
I
was
not
then
mistaken
(
Labienus
)
when
I
judged
such
violent
effects
,
could
hardly
proceed
from
any
other
cause
but
his
Love
;
't
was
his
Silence
told
it
me
,
but
I
had
much
rather
his
kindness
had
;
that
would
have
relish'd
of
confidence
,
whereas
this
may
of
the
contrary
:
I
must
too
(
Labienus
)
somewhat
resent
your
proceeding
;
for
if
you
thought
me
guilty
,
your
silence
to
your
Lord
was
an
offence
to
him
;
and
if
innocent
,
't
was
one
to
me
;
but
alas
,
how
was
it
possible
you
could
see
us
,
and
not
see
us
fitter
objects
for
your
sorrows
,
than
suspicions
?
thereupon
she
told
him
all
that
had
happen'd
,
only
concealing
my
true
Name
,
and
the
real
cause
of
her
fainting
,
of
which
mine
was
a
consequence
.
This
perhaps
was
not
very
difficult
to
be
believ'd
,
for
all
the
Court
knew
the
high
affection
Altezeera
honor'd
Regeliza
with
,
whose
death
none
imagin'd
she
would
deplore
with
less
effects
;
and
that
I
had
in
the
weakness
my
sad
condition
reduc'd
me
unto
,
often
fallen
into
fits
of
swounding
,
was
as
publick
,
and
as
known
a
Truth
:
Labienus
somewhat
convinc'd
at
this
information
,
but
much
more
by
that
just
Character
he
had
of
the
Princess's
virtue
,
began
to
suspect
this
was
something
of
design
in
Phraates
,
as
well
as
of
misfortune
in
us
;
which
he
was
the
more
confirm'd
in
,
when
after
he
had
told
the
Princess
,
that
the
reason
why
he
had
not
discover'd
our
faces
,
was
,
That
there
was
but
one
Lamp
in
the
Chamber
,
which
also
Phraates
hinder'd
from
shining
on
our
Faces
,
left
(
as
he
alledg'd
)
it
might
waken
us
.
She
told
him
,
That
there
were
at
least
a
dozen
lighted
when
h●r
fainting
had
seiz'd
on
her
;
and
that
when
all
her
Women
came
running
in
to
her
assistance
,
they
had
(
finding
the
Lamps
had
been
extinguish'd
,
and
not
gone
out
of
themselves
)
admir'd
at
it
,
which
she
too
did
,
after
she
had
been
inform'd
of
it
.
Labienus
having
a
little
reflected
on
this
,
confirm'd
himself
more
and
more
in
his
former
belief
;
and
after
a
short
Silence
,
ask'd
Altezeera
,
who
had
given
her
Women
notice
of
her
Misfortune
?
The
Princess
having
till
then
never
enquir'd
after
it
,
nor
had
that
Curiosity
;
now
observing
Labienus
was
very
intent
on
it
,
call'd
in
Arismaze
her
Confident
;
and
having
understood
from
her
,
'T
was
a
young
Courtier
whose
name
she
specified
;
immediately
by
Altezeera's
order
she
withdrew
her self
again
,
and
then
Labienus
told
her
;
Madam
,
I
am
infinitely
mistaken
,
if
I
do
not
render
your
Innocence
as
clear
as
it
is
,
or
as
evident
,
as
that
malice
which
has
clouded
it
.
Alas
(
said
the
Princess
)
I
am
more
troubl'd
to
have
it
suspected
,
than
how
to
have
it
clear'd
;
and
't
is
something
too
near
Vice
,
to
be
thought
to
be
guilty
of
it
;
besides
,
Labienus
,
that
noble
Virtue
,
Chastity
,
is
like
the
Fundamentals
in
our
Religion
,
the
highest
are
not
to
be
prov'd
,
but
believ'd
.
Labienus
,
who
burn'd
with
impatience
to
satisfie
his
desires
,
his
duty
,
and
his
doubts
,
immediately
in
order
thereunto
,
withdrew
himself
.
Altezeera
,
having
a
while
seriously
reflected
on
the
intricacy
and
strangeness
of
the
Adventure
,
and
on
Pacorus
deportment
on
it
;
at
last
form'd
a
resolution
,
which
was
,
to
go
and
acquaint
him
with
all
she
had
discover'd
;
and
either
suppress
his
Melancholly
,
or
by
not
being
able
to
perform
it
,
not
esteem
it
worthy
the
continuation
of
hers
.
As
she
was
upon
the
point
of
executing
this
determination
,
Pacorus
came
to
her
all
pale
and
trembling
;
but
the
Princess
could
not
be
more
astonish'd
to
see
him
abroad
,
whom
she
had
so
lately
left
Sick
and
in
Bed
,
than
she
was
when
he
told
her
;
(
after
having
first
begg'd
,
and
obtain'd
her
permission
to
lock
the
Door
)
Madam
,
the
apprehensions
I
have
had
lest
you
might
place
a
wrong
construction
on
my
grief
,
and
believe
my
Jealousie
for
your
Honour
,
might
be
one
of
it
;
has
forc'd
me
to
come
and
tell
you
,
what
I
have
hitherto
deny'd
unto
your
Commands
;
thereupon
he
inform'd
her
of
all
that
Labienus
had
:
and
having
added
that
Phraates
was
his
Intelligencer
,
he
thus
continu'd
;
I
attest
the
gods
,
Madam
,
if
I
resented
any
trouble
at
this
News
,
it
was
absolutely
upon
your
score
,
and
not
my
own
;
I
knew
you
of
so
nice
a
Virtue
,
that
to
be
but
thought
guilty
of
a
Sin
,
would
afflict
you
as
much
as
any
others
being
really
so
;
that
you
would
despair
of
being
thought
innocent
,
when
your
way
of
Life
could
not
do
you
that
right
;
and
that
you
would
almost
esteem
your
Chastity
a
Misfortune
,
since
it
caus'd
as
many
Sinners
,
as
Unbelievers
of
it
:
This
,
Madam
,
by
your
Virtue
,
which
cannot
be
greater
than
my
belief
of
it
,
only
created
my
apprehensions
;
you
will
do
me
but
right
,
if
you
are
confident
't
is
more
facile
to
invite
me
to
believe
that
Vnchastness
is
a
Virtue
,
than
that
you
can
be
guilty
of
it
;
neither
do
I
expect
any
other
recompence
from
this
Declaration
,
but
that
you
will
conclude
I
know
the
fair
Altezeera
,
and
consequently
am
resolv'd
,
that
her
receding
from
Virtue
is
the
impossiblest
recession
;
and
that
no
Crime
can
equal
the
believing
her
capable
of
any
.
This
generous
and
just
Declaration
,
wrought
so
efficaciously
on
the
Princess
,
that
she
reply'd
,
The
gods
have
in
some
measure
repair'd
the
Misfortune
they
have
impos'd
upon
me
,
in
making
it
the
means
of
discovering
a
proportionate
Blessing
.
Judg
,
Sir
,
of
the
value
I
place
on
the
Character
you
have
given
me
of
your
affection
and
confidence
,
when
I
can
equal
in
degrees
the
joys
of
it
,
to
the
horrors
of
Siu
and
Guilt
.
By
this
generous
proceeding
you
have
lay'd
on
me
as
strict
a
Tye
for
the
future
,
as
my
Virtue
has
for
the
past
:
Yes
,
(
my
Prince
she
continu'd
)
this
Obligation
is
of
so
particular
a
quality
,
that
you
have
render'd
your self
as
uncapable
to
oblige
me
as
highly
again
,
as
I
am
of
being
so
:
For
this
one
act
of
Faith
makes
another
as
impossible
,
as
needless
;
since
't
is
not
Faith
,
but
Reason
which
will
confine
you
hereafter
to
conclude
,
I
cannot
be
susceptible
of
any
Impressions
,
but
of
such
as
may
reward
and
merit
the
cause
of
these
.
Whilst
Altezeera
was
making
a
Thousand
such
Retributions
,
they
heard
some
body
at
the
Door
,
which
being
open'd
,
they
found
was
Labienus
,
in
whose
Face
they
observ'd
some
Gayety
,
Altezeera
concluded
was
not
causeless
,
and
had
much
more
reason
to
believe
so
,
when
she
heard
him
tell
Pacorus
;
I
have
(
Sir
)
made
use
of
your
Name
without
your
knowledg
,
but
I
hope
it
will
not
be
without
your
approbation
,
since
it
has
produc'd
a
discovery
that
cannot
but
restore
your
health
,
since
it
will
your
confidence
of
the
Princess's
Innocence
.
Pacorus
at
those
words
became
as
strangely
chang'd
,
as
if
Labienus
had
brought
a
contrary
manifestation
;
and
having
furiously
consider'd
him
,
he
interrupted
his
Discourse
,
by
saying
,
Who
is
't
has
told
thee
my
doubts
of
the
Princess's
Innocence
created
my
Disorders
?
I
now
find
thou
hast
ty'd
thy
Friendship
to
my
Quality
,
not
Me
;
for
thou
could'st
not
have
any
for
one
thou
esteem'dst
capable
of
a
Sin
,
which
would
not
only
have
render'd
him
unworthy
of
it
,
but
of
Life
;
But
that
thou
mayst
not
only
know
,
but
love
me
better
,
I
will
not
so
much
as
listen
to
thee
;
there
needs
no
greater
proof
that
Phraates
has
ly'd
,
than
his
accusing
Altezeera
;
and
the
greatest
Sin
next
to
that
,
is
to
believe
she
stands
in
need
of
a
justification
.
Pacorus
,
who
found
his
Choler
had
somewhat
transported
him
,
begg'd
his
Princess's
pardon
for
a
zeal
which
perhaps
might
carry
its
excuse
in
its
cause
.
Labienus
,
though
he
were
very
much
troubl'd
at
his
Prince's
Rebuke
,
yet
he
was
much
more
the
contrary
,
to
observe
what
created
it
;
and
being
more
satisfy'd
,
that
Altezeera's
Virtue
needed
no
justification
,
than
he
was
to
have
found
one
,
continu'd
in
a
joyful
Silence
.
But
the
Princess
observing
the
latter
,
told
Pacorus
,
I
must
begg
you
(
Sir
)
to
command
Labienus
to
continue
what
you
interrupted
:
for
I
am
oblig'd
to
prove
that
by
demonstration
,
which
you
have
already
by
Faith
:
the
latter
ties
me
to
the
former
,
and
the
former
cannot
prejudice
the
latter
,
but
confirm
it
:
To
believe
me
Innocent
,
after
I
had
evinc'd
I
was
so
,
could
not
be
more
Just
,
than
to
believe
I
was
so
before
I
prov'd
my self
so
,
was
obliging
:
Had
you
thought
me
guilty
,
I
might
perhaps
have
left
your
Sin
,
your
Punishment
;
but
your
concluding
me
Innocent
,
invites
me
to
reward
your
believing
it
,
by
my
proving
it
.
Neither
,
Sir
,
is
this
upon
your
score
:
for
the
way
in
which
you
have
confer'd
your
Obligation
,
renders
me
uncapable
of
returning
it
;
't
is
therefore
to
satisfie
the
World
,
that
I
beg
Labienus
may
satisfie
us
:
for
those
that
have
not
Virtue
enough
,
may
believe
I
have
none
;
and
I
should
be
sorry
that
my
Virtue
should
be
the
cause
of
other
Mens
Sin
;
and
which
was
one
of
your
fears
,
that
your
granting
my
desires
,
will
extinguish
.
Pacorus
oppos'd
this
with
many
pregnant
Reasons
,
but
they
ser●'d
only
the
better
to
illustrate
his
obedience
;
for
at
length
he
yielded
to
Altezeera's
Commands
,
which
as
Labienus
understood
,
he
told
his
Prince
:
After
(
Sir
)
I
had
learn'd
that
the
Princess's
Women
came
in
throngs
to
her
assistance
,
I
concluded
they
had
receiv'd
an
Advertisement
of
her
Condition
;
and
knowing
as
absolutely
none
knew
it
but
Phraates
and
I
,
as
that
they
receiv'd
it
not
from
me
,
I
resolv'd
it
must
come
from
him
,
which
I
was
more
confirm'd
in
,
when
I
learn'd
from
Arismaze
,
that
both
she
and
her
Companions
,
understood
of
the
Princess's
indisposition
from
the
youngest
of
the
Palurus's
,
whose
eldest
Brother
(
as
you
know
)
waits
on
Phraates
in
his
Chamber
,
and
is
not
little
in
his
favour
.
The
Faith
I
had
,
that
they
were
too
well
instructed
in
their
Lessons
to
make
a
voluntary
acknowledgment
of
them
,
made
me
send
privately
for
the
younger
to
my
Chamber
,
from
whom
,
with
some
threatnings
and
promises
in
your
Name
,
I
drew
a
confession
that
he
had
been
employ'd
by
his
elder
Brother
,
to
give
the
Princesses
Women
notice
of
her
Distress
;
I
therefore
immediately
sent
for
him
,
and
retain'd
my
Insormer
with
me
;
whose
Brother
assoon
as
he
came
,
and
saw
him
with
me
,
fell
into
some
Disorders
,
which
I
determin'd
was
an
opportunity
not
to
be
omitted
,
and
which
I
did
so
effectually
improve
,
that
he
confest
to
me
upon
my
engagement
,
that
Phraates
should
never
learn
it
;
that
by
his
Orders
he
had
sent
his
Brother
to
advertise
the
Princesses
Women
of
her
condition
.
This
(
continu'd
Labienus
)
I
promis'd
,
because
in
the
first
place
,
I
resolv'd
't
would
be
no
small
punishment
to
Phraates
,
to
perceive
you
were
not
mov'd
with
that
which
he
was
confident
would
produce
a
contrary
effect
;
and
that
't
would
be
no
small
advantage
to
you
to
know
your
Enemy
,
without
his
knowing
that
you
did
so
,
which
might
in
time
furnish
you
with
an
opportunity
,
not
only
by
standing
on
your
Guard
to
prevent
the
effects
of
his
future
Malice
,
but
by
surprizing
him
in
the
attempts
,
make
your
punishing
him
for
this
and
his
other
offences
,
a
publick
Justice
.
Labienus
having
done
speaking
,
Altezeera
told
him
,
If
this
did
as
much
evince
my
Innocence
,
as
Phraates
Malice
,
you
would
then
have
satisfy'd
your
Ingagement
;
but
alas
,
this
does
not
the
former
,
but
the
latter
.
Madam
(
said
Pacorus
)
it
is
absolutely
unnecessary
;
the
gods
are
too
just
to
let
there
be
any
other
proof
of
your
Innocence
,
than
your
Innocence
it self
;
it
carries
its
own
justification
so
purely
,
that
it
leaves
us
no
way
to
suspect
you
can
Sin
but
by
our
committing
one
,
Sir
(
said
Labienus
)
Though
I
am
absolutely
of
your
opinion
,
yet
because
all
have
not
the
Virtue
of
Pacorus
,
or
the
knowledg
of
Altezeera's
;
it
is
not
therefore
Charitable
,
that
missing
those
Blessings
,
they
should
be
permitted
to
endure
the
Curse
of
doubting
her
Chastity
;
't
is
only
upon
that
scor●
I
am
solicitous
to
evince
it
,
(
which
I
am
confident
I
have
in
what
I
have
already
told
you
)
for
if
Phraates
believ'd
,
as
he
told
me
,
that
the
Princess
,
and
Pharasmanes
were
fallen
asleep
by
a
stupifaction
of
their
Senses
through
the
excess
of
their
Joys
,
what
needed
he
have
sent
in
so
many
Witnesses
,
not
helpers
,
of
their
condition
,
which
needed
none
?
and
if
he
knew
(
as
both
their
succeeding
and
dangerous
Sicknesses
manifested
)
that
they
were
in
a
mutual
fainting
,
what
needed
he
so
artificially
have
interpos'd
himself
between
the
light
of
that
one
Lamp
(
he
had
left
unextinguish'd
)
from
shining
on
their
Faces
,
which
if
they
had
been
asleep
,
would
have
the
better
prov'd
his
Allegation
,
as
their
not
being
so
,
discovers
his
wickedness
?
These
,
Sir
,
(
continu'd
Labienus
)
had
I
no
other
inducement
but
my
Judgment
to
clear
the
Princess
,
would
invite
me
sufficiently
to
do
it
;
't
is
now
no
more
Faith
,
but
Reason
,
and
this
discovery
makes
me
suspect
who
't
was
so
lately
attempted
against
your
Life
;
for
that
Crime
,
and
this
,
are
so
resembling
,
that
perhaps
they
may
not
be
erroneously
attributed
to
one
Father
.
Truly
(
said
Pacorus
)
You
have
made
some
Inferences
which
I
did
not
,
because
I
was
concern'd
not
to
make
them
:
for
't
was
more
fitting
,
and
(
I
am
certain
)
as
secure
,
to
credit
Altezeera's
Innocence
without
any
other
proof
but
the
knowledg
of
her
Life
,
which
has
been
so
immaculate
,
that
her
past
Actions
are
the
Testimonies
of
her
future
,
as
those
will
be
of
what
are
past
;
like
Prophecies
,
where
things
past
,
evidence
those
to
come
;
and
those
to
come
,
will
ascertain
those
which
are
past
.
I
will
not
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
deduce
by
particulars
all
the
passages
of
this
Conference
,
whose
event
so
clearly
settl'd
all
Misunderstandings
,
that
they
all
three
separated
themselves
with
that
satisfaction
which
their
Virtues
merited
.
Altezeera
had
the
contentment
too
,
to
receive
an
assurance
from
Pacorus
,
That
had
he
thought
her
Vicious
,
he
could
no
longer
have
done
so
;
and
they
then
concluded
to
keep
the
discovery
of
Phraates's
Crime
from
his
knowledg
upon
those
Reasons
Labienus
had
alledg'd
,
who
undertook
so
to
husband
this
Silence
,
as
to
make
it
of
singular
advantage
.
But
alas
,
this
Calm
created
a
Storm
against
the
unfortunate
Artavasdes
;
for
Altezeera's
scrupulous
Virtue
,
by
this
accident
receiv'd
so
strong
an
Allarm
,
that
she
determin'd
at
whatever
rate
,
to
secure
her self
in
the
future
from
a
resembling
one
;
but
this
determinaton
was
far
more
easie
to
be
assum'd
,
than
practis'd
;
and
I
had
that
consolation
and
infelicity
to
find
't
was
with
a
proportionate
trouble
to
mine
,
that
she
resolv'd
on
my
Banishment
.
Two
days
she
was
in
this
conflict
,
where
(
as
she
told
me
)
the
Conqueror
had
nothing
of
distinction
from
the
vanquish'd
,
but
the
Title
;
Yet
alas
,
that
very
Title
it self
produc'd
as
powerful
an
effect
over
the
Conquer'd
,
as
perhaps
over
any
which
bore
that
Name
.
And
though
Altezeera
judg'd
,
that
what
she
was
to
perform
,
might
create
strange
productions
in
me
,
yet
she
determin'd
to
moderate
their
violence
,
by
letting
me
know
my
Fate
in
some
such
publick
place
,
that
the
help
of
Shame
should
be
added
to
that
of
Fortitude
:
or
if
both
those
were
not
capable
to
silence
them
,
yet
by
the
Scene
on
which
they
were
represented
,
they
might
relish
more
of
the
distemper
of
Body
,
than
Mind
;
she
did
this
too
,
the
better
to
palliate
my
design'd
remove
,
which
if
acted
after
any
private
Conference
,
might
appear
rather
like
an
Agreement
,
than
the
contrary
.
'T
was
therefore
one
Evening
,
when
she
went
to
enjoy
the
fairness
of
it
in
the
Palace
Gardens
,
she
commanded
me
to
wait
on
her
;
and
though
many
others
of
both
Sexes
did
the
like
,
yet
she
singl'd
me
out
so
artificially
from
the
rest
,
that
it
appear'd
not
to
be
so
;
but
though
she
took
much
care
not
to
joyn
the
Company
,
yet
she
took
at
least
as
much
to
keep
in
their
sight
;
I
observ'd
both
,
and
was
not
more
satisfi'd
with
the
one
,
than
troubled
at
the
other
.
The
Princess
having
walk'd
a
while
in
a
deep
Silence
,
at
length
interrupted
it
(
having
first
a
little
cover'd
her
Face
with
her
Vail
,
to
conceal
her
Disorders
)
by
saying
;
But
Artavasdes
,
What
end
do
you
propose
to
your self
by
this
way
of
Life
?
you
can
expect
nothing
from
me
,
which
you
may
not
be
confident
of
at
a
less
hazardous
distance
;
and
if
by
your
residence
here
,
you
should
be
discover'd
,
(
for
though
you
may
disguise
your
Person
,
you
can
hardly
you●
Mind
)
,
alas
,
I
shall
contract
such
jealousies
against
my self
,
that
to
believe
me
vicious
,
cannot
perhaps
be
more
difficult
for
you
,
than
it
will
be
for
others
to
do
the
contrary
.
This
abrupt
beginning
,
and
the
disorders
which
preceded
it
,
made
my
prophetick
Soul
soon
fancy
to
what
end
they
all
inclin'd
;
and
though
I
more
admir'd
this
misfortune
did
not
sooner
arrive
me
,
than
that
now
it
did
,
yet
my
expectations
of
it
rather
prepar'd
my
amazement
,
than
contributed
to
the
suppression
of
it
;
I
shall
not
scruple
(
my
generous
Friends
)
to
tell
you
,
that
I
continu'd
in
as
long
a
silence
after
my
Princess
had
spoke
to
me
,
as
she
had
before
she
did
it
;
and
though
(
it
may
be
)
my
persevering
in
silence
had
been
my
best
way
of
Answer
,
yet
I
could
not
abstain
from
telling
her
;
That
(
Madam
)
which
I
propound
to
my self
by
this
course
of
Life
is
to
evince
my
Fire
is
immaterial
;
that
which
lives
without
Nourishment
may
properly
be
term'd
so
,
and
I
have
no
hopes
to
feed
mine
with
;
Your
virtue
cannot
more
absolutely
suppress
those
,
than
mine
does
my
desires
:
The
gods
too
,
by
your
being
Pacorus's
having
left
me
no
greater
Ambition
than
to
enjoy
your
sight
and
conversation
,
't
is
no
small
blessing
to
possess
all
that
one
is
capable
of
,
and
that
the
unfortunate
Artavasdes
does
by
his
residence
near
his
Princess
;
who
cannot
apprehend
his
discovery
,
his
now
Condition
has
disguis'd
him
better
than
Art
;
for
whilst
the
fair
Altezeera
affords
him
the
honour
of
her
esteem
and
civilities
,
he
will
be
so
far
from
being
known
unto
others
,
that
he
will
hardly
be
so
to
himself
.
Altezeera
,
who
found
she
would
need
all
her
Forces
to
effect
her
design
;
and
who
esteem'd
Pacorus's
late
proceedings
too
generous
for
a
concealment
,
told
me
,
all
that
I
have
told
you
and
then
continu'd
;
Judg
,
Artavasdes
,
if
this
merits
not
a
pr●portionate
return
;
and
if
after
this
performance
I
am
not
oblig'd
by
gratitude
as
well
as
duty
,
to
that
which
I
am
confident
upon
either
of
those
scores
you
will
not
refuse
me
.
That
,
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
which
Pacorus
hath
done
,
is
fain'd
,
or
real
;
if
the
former
,
he
merits
not
your
care
,
and
if
the
latter
,
my
continuance
here
will
not
create
his
;
do
not
therefore
my
Princess
,
think
upon
a
Banishment
which
cannot
more
certainly
prove
the
Death
of
Artavasdes
,
than
bring
no
satisfaction
to
him
for
whom
you
intend
it
.
That
Pacorus's
Action
(
she
reply'd
)
proceeds
entirely
from
the
last
,
is
not
more
certainly
my
belief
,
than
my
belief
is
true
;
neither
is
there
a
more
handsome
way
to
prove
I
credit
his
Virtue
,
than
to
reward
it
.
Ah
Madam
(
said
I
)
can
you
call
that
a
Reward
of
his
Virtue
which
gives
a
period
to
the
actings
of
it
;
when
you
remove
Pharasmanes
,
you
remove
that
which
presents
his
its
existence
,
and
so
rather
kill
than
oblige
it
;
but
't
is
not
Virtue
,
but
Reason
,
to
believe
you
innocent
,
and
consequently
't
is
he
is
oblig'd
to
himself
,
not
you
to
him
;
neither
is
there
merit
to
credit
,
what
not
to
do
so
is
a
torment
.
Yet
(
said
Altezeera
in
recompencing
Pacorus's
,
I
do
but
imitate
the
gods
:
for
though
to
believe
the
mysteries
of
Faith
in
Religion
,
is
only
to
believe
what
we
cannot
do
otherwise
without
eternal
Sufferings
;
yet
the
gods
have
allotted
a
proportionate
Beatitude
for
duration
as
the
recompence
of
it
;
There
are
some
Virtues
,
which
to
put
a
period
to
their
manifestation
,
is
to
reward
them
:
A
General
does
so
to
a
brave
Commander
of
some
endanger'd
place
,
when
not
to
raise
the
siege
,
may
be
the
ruine
of
the
defendant
;
perhaps
Pacorus's
Gallantry
is
of
this
Quality
,
at
least
is
an
Obligation
to
my self
,
to
hinder
my
being
perpetually
oblig'd
,
which
your
retirement
will
perform
.
Though
,
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
these
Arguments
do
not
convince
the
necessity
of
my
removal
;
yet
alas
!
they
do
,
how
intent
you
are
upon
it
;
for
Reason
and
Faith
,
which
are
virtues
that
only
have
their
existence
in
the
Intellect
,
cannot
apprehend
a
suppression
,
or
need
a
relief
,
as
that
material
virtue
,
Courage
,
may
and
does
.
When
any
thing
is
fixt
in
the
mind
,
to
resolve
to
maintain
it
,
is
to
do
so
;
since
no
Enemy
can
approach
it
there
without
its
own
permission
:
These
being
spiritual
,
scape
those
tryals
and
dangers
,
which
things
whose
beings
are
obvious
to
sense
,
are
subject
to
.
If
(
said
Altezeera
)
I
should
allow
that
Reason
and
Faith
once
fixt
in
the
Intellect
,
are
not
to
be
remov'd
,
I
should
not
yet
conclude
,
that
you
are
not
to
be
so
;
but
Chastity
is
like
Happiness
,
it
must
be
thought
so
,
to
be
so
:
and
alas
,
how
few
are
there
amongst
the
multitude
,
who
have
either
of
those
most
noble
Prerogatives
?
and
consequently
,
how
few
will
think
me
what
I
am
?
yes
Artavasdes
,
't
is
upon
your
score
as
much
as
mine
,
that
I
am
jealous
of
my
honour
:
I
know
you
are
as
much
concern'd
in
it
,
as
I
am
;
and
since
't
is
from
thence
I
derive
your
Friendship
;
do
not
repine
,
I
am
so
nice
to
preserve
that
which
affords
what
I
so
transcendently
value
.
An
ill
name
would
more
remove
me
from
you
,
than
my
present
Condition
does
,
for
I
should
be
then
as
unfit
for
your
hopes
,
as
now
I
am
for
your
desires
:
we
must
,
Artavasdes
,
we
must
part
;
I
judg
what
a
conflict
you
have
in
your self
at
this
declaration
,
by
what
I
had
when
I
resolv'd
to
make
it
;
and
though
in
my
sufferings
I
read
yours
,
yet
in
my
Conquest
I
do
the
like
;
if
my
Sex
could
overcome
this
difficulty
,
yours
will
much
more
:
for
,
besides
the
weakness
of
it
,
I
lose
more
by
your
Obedience
,
than
you
can
by
acting
it
.
Alas
(
Madam
,
I
answer'd
)
all
this
proves
your
Resolution
greater
than
mine
;
but
my
incapability
but
one
way
to
obey
you
,
proves
my
love
is
perfecter
;
yes
(
Madam
)
I
say
,
I
have
but
one
way
to
obey
you
,
that
is
by
Death
;
my
Obedience
as
well
as
Condition
invites
me
to
it
;
I
shall
satisfie
you
as
well
as
Artavasdes
,
in
it
,
and
shall
demonstrate
,
I
merited
not
the
Command
of
going
from
you
,
by
so
well
obeying
it
.
Is
Artavasdes
then
(
she
reply'd
)
so
much
an
Enemy
to
me
,
as
he
will
elect
no
way
to
save
my
honour
,
but
by
losing
that
is
almost
as
dear
to
me
?
Oh
gods
!
(
she
continued
)
why
do
you
reduce
me
to
commit
a
Crime
,
to
hinder
him
from
acting
another
?
Perhaps
Artavasdes
,
your
Death
cannot
be
more
an
offence
to
the
gods
,
than
what
I
have
now
told
you
;
't
is
an
acknowledgment
,
that
considering
my
Condition
,
is
a
sin
,
which
to
have
thought
nothing
can
transcend
,
but
to
publish
:
but
I
hope
this
assurance
will
preserve
a
life
which
mine
is
ty'd
unto
,
which
I
enjoyn
you
to
keep
,
and
which
if
you
do
deprive
your self
of
,
I
will
not
live
to
lament
.
Oh
gods
!
(
I
cry'd
out
)
I
esteem'd
you
hitherto
the
greatest
cruelty
,
but
now
(
alas
)
I
find
Altezeera
is
:
those
that
gave
me
the
necessity
of
Death
,
are
less
Tyrannical
,
than
she
that
after
hinders
it
;
for
they
but
impose
on
me
a
torment
,
yet
allow
me
the
cure
;
but
she
inflicts
on
me
the
former
,
and
refuses
me
too
the
latter
:
you
cannot
Madam
(
I
continu'd
)
condemn
this
Acclamation
,
for
you
are
not
reduced
to
the
necessity
of
Banishing
me
,
but
reduce
your self
to
it
.
Alas
!
't
is
not
much
Artavasdes
implores
,
't
is
but
your
permission
to
languish
away
in
your
sight
an
unfortunate
life
,
and
a
life
which
you
have
render'd
so
;
my
sufferings
will
evince
your
Innocence
;
and
Pacorus
can
no
more
doubt
I
injure
him
,
than
I
desire
to
do
it
,
or
you
to
permit
it
:
will
you
then
,
my
Princess
,
having
divested
your self
of
all
power
to
create
my
felicity
,
preserve
enough
to
make
me
miserable
?
so
miserable
too
,
that
't
is
as
impossible
for
the
gods
to
make
any
so
much
,
as
to
make
me
more
?
Shall
the
unknown
Pharasmanes
have
enjoy'd
a
blessing
which
is
deny'd
the
innocent
Artavasdes
;
and
the
discovery
of
his
being
so
,
must
that
invite
you
to
punish
what
you
should
reward
?
The
gods
forbid
!
These
words
deliver'd
with
a
Tone
and
Action
not
ill-suted
to
them
,
had
too
violent
an
influence
on
her
,
to
whom
they
were
addrest
;
that
for
a
good
while
she
continued
in
silence
;
and
I
flatter'd
my self
with
a
hope
,
that
it
was
a
consent
to
my
Petition
:
But
alas
,
it
proceeded
from
her
not
being
capable
of
granting
it
,
and
I
kept
that
hope
no
longer
than
she
did
her
silence
.
Since
(
she
reply'd
)
that
I
have
divested
my self
of
all
Power
to
make
you
happy
,
whether
it
were
my
fault
or
my
misfortune
,
I
am
resolved
to
punish
it
;
and
it
may
be
your
Banishment
is
as
much
upon
that
Account
,
as
on
that
of
my
Honour
.
If
you
have
not
hitherto
judg'd
of
my
Resentment
by
my
loss
,
you
cannot
now
but
do
it
by
my
Penance
;
and
you
cannot
doubt
I
acknowledg
my self
culpable
,
when
I
voluntarily
submit
to
such
a
punishment
;
should
you
kill
your self
,
you
rob
me
of
the
noblest
part
of
my
penance
,
and
would
render
the
continuation
of
it
as
impossible
as
just
.
If
what
I
have
told
you
formerly
,
does
not
convince
you
how
precious
I
esteem
your
Life
,
this
that
I
have
now
,
will
certainly
effect
it
:
for
I
plead
for
yours
,
though
in
doing
so
,
I
plead
against
my
own
:
Neither
(
Artavasdes
)
can
you
justly
appropriate
to
your self
what
you
now
did
of
misery
,
't
is
I
only
that
can
;
for
who
makes
Friend
miserable
,
is
more
so
.
You
for
your
Banishment
have
the
consolation
,
that
't
is
to
preserve
what
you
love
,
worthy
of
that
Honour
;
and
though
I
receive
a
resembling
one
,
yet
't
is
you
confer
the
Obligation
,
whilst
I
do
but
receive
it
.
Believe
me
,
Artavasdes
,
my
sufferings
do
at
least
equal
yours
:
but
when
I
consider
for
whom
I
indure
them
,
it
gives
me
the
Ability
to
do
it
;
I
cannot
expect
less
from
,
than
I
do
for
you
:
I
have
too
a
firm
belief
,
that
if
the
gods
have
render'd
me
uncapable
to
reward
your
Virtue
,
it
proceeds
only
from
its
being
of
too
transcendent
a
quality
for
me
to
do
it
;
and
therefore
they
reserve
it
for
themselves
;
since
nothing
but
what
is
infinite
,
can
satisfie
what
is
so
;
and
if
all
recompences
fail
,
they
will
gratifie
your
Desires
by
an
extinction
of
them
:
and
perhaps
't
is
more
fit
for
their
pureness
to
have
them
supprest
by
Reason
,
than
Fruition
.
Ah
Madam
!
(
said
I
,
interrupting
her
)
this
is
rather
an
Argument
to
fortifie
,
than
suppress
my
desire
of
dying
;
't
is
that
only
,
since
yo●
are
deny'd
me
,
can
end
my
desires
;
which
though
they
were
infinite
,
as
that
goodness
which
esteems
them
so
;
yet
in
the
possession
of
my
Princess
,
they
would
find
a
plenary
felicity
:
for
that
which
creates
,
is
still
more
great
than
what
it
does
create
,
and
consequently
you
are
more
than
my
desires
;
when
the
exquisite
variety
of
my
miseries
make
me
so
religious
as
to
think
the
gods
all-powerful
,
their
having
but
one
way
to
make
me
blessed
,
confounds
that
belief
,
and
at
least
renders
it
Reason
,
if
it
be
impiety
:
no
,
Madam
since
you
assure
me
't
is
upon
my
score
you
suffer
,
and
that
you
know
't
is
upon
yours
that
I
do
,
which
is
also
accessionally
encreas'd
by
that
assurance
;
permit
me
to
put
a
period
to
both
our
miseries
,
by
putting
one
to
that
wretched
life
which
is
the
cause
of
them
.
Since
(
she
reply'd
)
you
tell
me
,
The
gods
can
only
by
Altezeera
make
you
happy
,
why
will
you
seek
a
Death
which
makes
her
miserable
?
But
I
see
(
Artavasdes
)
you
will
find
Reasons
to
oppose
mine
;
and
I
hope
you
will
find
none
to
oppose
my
Commands
,
which
positively
injoyn
you
to
live
;
which
to
invite
you
to
the
more
certainly
,
I
protest
I
shall
judg
of
your
Friendship
by
your
Obedience
.
Madam
(
I
answer'd
)
there
is
a
vast
disproportion
between
being
happy
,
and
being
no
longer
miserable
:
The
first
is
deny'd
me
by
your
Condition
,
the
last
by
your
Commands
,
which
yet
I
will
obey
,
having
given
you
irrevocably
up
the
absolute
dispose
of
my
life
;
this
is
a
Truth
you
cannot
question
,
since
after
your
determining
of
it
,
I
have
as
little
the
Will
,
as
the
Power
to
recal
my
grant
:
But
,
Madam
,
if
by
this
cruel
sentence
,
my
Obedience
cannot
prove
capable
of
any
long
duration
,
be
yet
so
just
as
to
ascribe
it
to
my
want
of
the
Power
,
and
not
the
desire
of
obeying
you
.
The
fair
Altezeera
was
so
sensibly
mov'd
by
the
sad
teflection
on
these
words
,
that
I
esteem'd
it
not
amiss
in
the
Operations
of
her
Pity
,
to
attempt
something
which
might
give
me
a
rise
to
lessen
it
:
and
therefore
with
confusions
and
tremblings
which
made
a
more
efficacious
Apology
for
my
Confidence
,
than
my
Words
could
,
I
told
her
;
But
(
Madam
)
may
not
I
(
without
sin
)
to
so
many
miseries
you
have
loaden
me
with
,
retain
a
hope
,
That
if
ever
the
gods
by
some
strange
Revolution
,
give
you
as
absolutely
the
disposal
of
your Self
,
as
they
have
of
my
Fate
,
that
then
you
will
settle
it
in
a
felicity
,
whose
greatness
I
only
now
must
know
,
by
seeing
of
it
in
another
:
I
forbid
you
nothing
(
she
reply'd
,
with
a
little
Blush
)
,
but
the
becoming
of
your
own
Executioner
;
Yet
(
she
continued
)
if
ever
the
gods
should
Cancel
the
Obligations
they
have
now
confin'd
me
to
,
I
will
never
be
any
ones
by
C●ntract
but
by
Guilt
.
The
fair
Altezeera
who
by
what
I
had
said
,
apprehended
,
That
in
those
dictates
,
the
merit
of
my
Obedience
would
inspire
her
with
,
I
might
seek
the
reward
of
it
;
and
that
by
yielding
to
my
request
,
she
might
prujudice
her self
;
or
by
denying
it
,
bring
an
accession
to
a
grief
which
was
capable
of
none
,
but
by
becoming
uncapable
of
any
thing
●●e
;
insensibly
led
me
towards
the
company
,
and
entertain'd
me
all
the
way
with
Consolations
for
my
Banishment
,
which
though
exceeding
preg●●t
in
themselves
,
yet
lost
their
efficacy
with
me
:
For
alas
!
I
fear'd
she
that
could
give
Consolations
,
little
needed
them
.
But
by
that
time
we
were
come
so
near
the
company
,
that
she
concluded
,
I
could
address
her
no
new
Petitions
,
suddenly
changing
her
Discourse
,
she
told
me
;
if
Artavasdes
,
the
merit
of
your
retirement
be
susceptile
of
any
addition
,
it
will
receive
it
by
your
ordering
it
so
,
that
it
may
not
appear
your
Obedience
.
As
soon
as
we
had
rejoyn'd
the
company
,
Altezeera
staid
not
long
in
the
Garden
but
by
retiring
her self
to
Pacorus's
Appartment
,
gave
me
the
lib●rty
to
do
the
like
to
mine
.
I
will
not
amuse
my self
,
to
tell
you
all
those
complaints
I
made
against
the
cruelty
of
my
Princess's
Commands
,
which
I
then
began
to
co●trive
how
I
should
obey
;
in
Prosecution
whereof
,
some
four
or
five
days
after
,
I
caused
a
Letter
to
be
brought
me
as
out
of
Armenia
,
from
Artav●sdes
,
to
Pharasmanes
,
wherein
the
former
invited
me
into
that
Kingdom
;
as
being
a
fitter
Scene
to
Act
a
reconciliation
between
Ventidi●
and
me
,
who
had
given
him
some
overtures
of
it
,
and
who
was
more
troubled
I
had
left
him
,
then
at
that
which
was
the
cause
of
it
;
and
that
the
effecting
of
this
atonement
would
be
very
advantagious
to
my
Friends
at
Rome
,
who
otherwise
would
inevitably
suffer
for
a
Crime
they
never
had
committed
;
I
fill'd
this
feign'd
Letter
with
many
things
of
this
quality
;
and
immediately
after
it
came
to
my
hands
,
I
went
and
presented
it
to
Pacorns
,
from
whom
I
could
procure
permission
of
going
to
Armenia
without
any
engagement
(
after
having
settl'd
my
affairs
)
that
!
would
return
again
;
which
the
better
to
perswade
him
,
and
the
better
to
secure
my self
from
discovery
,
I
left
all
my
Equipage
and
Servants
at
Seleucia
.
I
cannot
omit
telling
you
,
that
when
I
took
my
final
leave
of
him
,
he
told
me
;
Pharasmanes
,
I
hope
you
are
very
confident
of
Artavasdes's
Friendship
;
for
otherwise
,
what
you
have
done
for
me
(
who
I
believe
you
are
not
ignorant
,
have
been
his
successful
Rival
)
might
invite
you
to
suspect
he
sends
for
you
to
act
his
own
Revenge
,
and
not
to
secure
your
Friends
from
that
of
the
Romans
.
I
made
him
only
an
answer
of
my
confidence
in
Artavasdes's
affection
for
me
;
which
I
knew
he
would
make
good
;
and
then
took
my
leave
of
him
:
But
as
I
was
going
to
do
the
like
to
my
Princess
,
I
infer'd
that
Pacorus's
so
sudden
and
visible
recovery
,
proceeded
from
his
having
his
suspition
satisfi'd
by
evidence
not
faith
;
for
if
his
distempers
had
proceeded
from
what
he
ascrib'd
them
to
,
her
;
the
same
fears
being
unremov'd
▪
the
same
effects
had
continu'd
but
they
only
ceasing
as
soon
as
Labienus
by
pregnant
evidences
had
evinc't
the
Princesses
innocence
,
my
opinion
of
his
amendment
appear'd
to
me
,
to
be
no
irrational
one
;
I
am
sure
it
had
been
no
unpleasing
one
,
had
it
appear'd
to
me
,
it
had
been
Altezeera's
also
;
to
whose
Appartment
I
was
no
sooner
come
,
then
I
learnt
,
that
for
the
two
preceding
days
,
she
had
not
stir'd
out
of
it
,
being
afflicted
with
an
unusual
indisposition
;
I
knew
not
whether
to
attribute
this
to
an
Antedated
grief
for
my
design'd
seperation
,
or
to
a
palliating
of
that
forrow
which
she
could
not
decline
,
when
I
came
to
act
it
;
for
I
was
so
flattering
to
my
affections
,
as
not
to
impute
it
to
any
other
Production
.
As
soon
as
I
was
admitted
,
to
my
grief
,
if
not
to
my
admiration
,
I
found
the
Chamber
full
of
her
Servants
,
and
thereby
saw
my self
depriv'd
of
all
possibility
of
expressing
my
sufferings
with
freedom
,
or
from
receiving
any
assurances
from
her
,
how
sensibly
she
did
resent
them
;
perhaps
I
had
in
the
great
operations
of
my
disorders
,
discover'd
what
I
had
thitherto
so
Artificially
clouded
,
had
I
not
attributed
so
many
witnesses
at
my
separation
,
to
her
design
of
restraining
the
violent
motions
it
would
produce
in
us
both
,
as
well
as
to
leave
no
impressions
of
doubts
in
Labienus
,
in
phraates
,
and
it
may
be
in
Pacorus
too
.
I
shall
not
trouble
you
with
a
repetition
of
what
I
said
at
my
departure
,
since
by
the
so
many
Spectators
and
Auditors
of
it
,
you
may
conclude
,
there
past
nothing
but
such
Civilities
as
are
usually
practiced
in
resembling-occasions
;
only
I
observ'd
that
Altezeera
invited
me
not
(
as
Pacorus
did
)
to
continue
in
Parthia
,
or
to
a
sudden
return
unto
it
;
from
whence
I
concluded
he
had
not
beg'd
it
of
her
,
either
out
of
a
belief
it
might
raise
in
her
one
,
that
he
thought
she
had
a
greater
influence
over
me
than
he
had
,
by
hoping
I
might
grant
that
to
her
commands
,
which
I
had
deny'd
to
his
;
or
else
concluding
she
had
really
that
power
over
me
,
he
was
not
very
willing
to
receive
so
sensible
a
mark
of
it
;
and
thereby
contribute
to
the
establishment
of
what
perhaps
he
was
not
a
little
concern'd
to
remove
.
I
went
afterwards
to
wait
on
Arsaces
,
who
not
only
made
me
the
same
request
his
Son
had
done
,
but
also
procur'd
from
me
a
resembling
;
ingagement
:
I
found
my self
also
oblig'd
by
the
Laws
of
Civility
,
but
much
more
by
those
of
obedience
,
to
my
Princess
;
And
of
dissimulation
,
to
wait
on
Phraates
,
who
so
admirably
countefeited
a
concern
for
me
,
and
in
my
remove
,
that
I
concluded
from
thence
,
the
visible
sorrow
he
had
demonstrated
when
his
Brother
was
wounded
,
proceeded
from
the
perfectness
of
his
dissembling
,
not
of
his
nature
;
or
if
it
were
real
,
it
deriv'd
its
being
so
,
not
from
the
danger
he
had
been
in
,
but
from
his
having
avoided
it
.
I
omitted
not
to
take
leave
of
the
generous
Labienus
,
and
the
next
morning
after
those
duties
,
I
left
Seleucia
,
only
attended
by
one
Parthian
Servant
,
of
whose
fidelity
I
was
not
a
little
confident
,
having
all
the
time
of
my
residence
in
Parthia
,
been
so
assiduously
observant
of
my
commands
,
that
I
concluded
it
was
as
much
upon
the
score
of
inclination
,
as
duty
,
that
he
was
so
;
and
to
oblige
him
by
a
stricter
tye
than
either
of
those
,
to
a
continuance
of
his
fidelity
:
I
trusted
him
with
my
true
Name
and
Condition
,
as
soon
as
I
was
upon
the
confines
of
Armenia
;
where
I
learnt
that
Ventidius
with
all
his
Army
lay
at
Corinthia
,
in
which
place
he
had
past
the
Winter
;
which
was
the
time
of
my
residence
in
Parthia
,
on
which
he
had
made
as
sharp
a
Wall
,
as
a
season
that
was
so
,
could
permit
.
The
perfect
Friendship
I
had
for
that
generous
Roman
,
and
the
proportionate
concern
I
knew
he
had
for
me
,
made
me
determine
,
before
I
did
either
wait
on
Lindesia
,
or
Vdosia
,
to
do
it
on
him
.
This
I
effected
in
my
disguise
,
only
attended
by
my
Parthian
Servant
.
I
found
Ventidius
ready
to
forsake
his
Winter-quarters
,
in
which
he
receiv'd
me
with
the
raptures
of
a
true
Friend
;
and
though
they
were
infinite
,
yet
they
could
not
transcend
his
admiration
and
joy
,
at
his
learning
the
miraculous
discovery
of
my
Innocence
,
and
the
strange
Arts
which
had
been
practic'd
to
conclude
it
.
You
cannot
doubt
of
his
concern
in
my
felicity
,
when
it
even
made
him
sin
against
the
Laws
of
Honour
,
and
curse
his
Mercy
to
Pacorus
,
which
had
hinder'd
him
from
removing
the
greatest
of
my
obstructions
,
as
the
gods
had
the
least
;
And
which
by
their
having
perform'd
the
latter
,
made
him
conclude
he
had
as
much
sin'd
against
them
,
as
my
hopes
,
in
not
having
acted
the
former
.
I
had
much
more
difficulty
to
make
him
decline
those
thoughts
for
the
future
,
than
I
had
had
formerly
;
for
now
in
his
belief
,
that
there
remained
no
impediment
in
my
love
,
but
the
death
of
Pacorus
,
he
told
me
,
that
he
would
now
prosecute
the
War
as
much
upon
that
score
as
upon
the
score
of
Honour
or
Revenge
:
I
shall
not
lye
,
if
I
tell
you
,
I
was
not
only
seemingly
solicitous
against
this
resolve
,
but
really
so
;
which
I
did
out
of
a
true
dictate
of
Vertue
,
though
it
may
be
the
gods
induced
me
to
it
,
to
render
my
sufferings
the
more
sensible
,
by
still
making
me
contributary
to
them
▪
But
to
be
short
:
I
did
not
cease
importuning
Ventidius
,
till
I
extorted
a
declaration
from
him
,
that
he
would
not
have
any
more
particular
aims
against
Pacor●s
,
than
any
of
his
party
;
and
that
if
he
fell
,
it
should
not
be
by
the
design
,
but
by
the
chance
of
War
.
Two
days
I
continu'd
with
my
generous
Friend
;
and
the
third
,
beginning
his
march
,
I
found
my self
necessitated
to
leave
him
,
by
an
unalterable
resolution
I
had
assum'd
not
to
put
it
in
the
power
of
Fortune
,
to
make
me
act
directly
,
or
obliquely
against
whatsoever
my
Princess
honour'd
with
her
love
,
though
thereby
I
brought
an
unimaginable
prejudice
to
my
own
.
I
will
not
trouble
you
with
those
expressions
Ventidius
made
me
at
our
separation
,
nor
those
vows
he
sent
by
me
to
Vdosia
,
to
whom
I
told
him
I
would
go
,
to
qualify
a
melancholy
which
I
knew
would
be
as
transcendent
,
as
impossible
for
her
to
avoid
,
by
the
misfortune
of
his
abs●nce
,
and
of
those
fresh
dangers
he
was
going
to
involve
himself
in
;
since
to
let
you
know
how
passionate
they
were
,
I
have
but
to
tell
you
,
they
were
made
by
Ventidus
,
of
whom
I
took
a
final
leave
;
he
directing
his
designs
for
Parthia
,
and
I
mine
for
Sattala
,
where
Vdosia
received
me
with
a
satisfaction
,
which
nothing
could
excel
,
but
that
she
would
have
relisht
,
had
I
brought
Ventidius
with
me
.
'T
was
there
I
told
her
all
those
admirable
adventures
had
arriv'd
me
since
our
separation
,
and
by
my
sad
example
gave
her
an
indelible
instruction
to
believe
nothing
of
her
Lovers
change
,
till
his
verbal
confession
was
the
evincement
of
it
.
At
Sattala
I
cast
off
my
disguise
,
which
made
my
Parthian
think
I
had
assum'd
one
;
and
who
thereby
knew
me
to
be
his
Master
,
only
because
I
assur'd
him
I
was
so
;
But
I
continu'd
not
at
Sattala
,
by
reason
of
a
violent
War
kindled
betwixt
Artabazus
and
Antiochus
King
of
Commagena
,
who
had
not
only
Usurpt
upon
the
Armenian
Territories
,
but
had
also
entirely
cast
off
that
voluntary
Subjection
he
had
made
u●to
the
Romans
;
which
former
,
I
was
apprehensive
might
induce
my
King
to
invite
me
to
the
command
of
his
Armies
:
an
honour
I
could
not
be
more
unworthy
of
,
than
I
indeed
detested
;
as
indeed
I
did
all
things
that
suspended
my
melancholy
;
and
therefore
I
left
Sattala
:
but
before
I
did
so
,
because
of
those
fresh
distempers
,
I
conjur'd
the
Governour
of
it
to
have
a
particular
care
of
his
Souldiers
,
and
of
his
duty
to
Udozia
;
who
having
given
me
a
Character
of
it
very
much
to
his
advantage
,
as
an
effect
of
my
believing
her
;
and
my
being
pleas'd
with
him
,
I
added
to
his
former
Commands
,
that
of
the
superintendency
(
under
Udozia
)
of
all
Affairs
,
civil
and
Martial
,
within
the
Province
of
Sattala
;
)
which
the
next
day
I
got
out
of
,
determining
to
lead
so
fluxible
a
life
,
that
if
Artabzus
had
any
Commands
for
me
,
by
the
uncertainty
of
my
residence
,
he
should
not
know
where
to
make
me
receive
them
:
Therefore
by
unusual
ways
I
went
to
Thospia
▪
and
gave
Lindesia
an
exact
account
of
all
that
had
arrived
since
our
last
separation
:
That
excellent
Woman
was
as
much
perplext
,
as
I
was
satisfied
with
those
Adventures
;
apprehending
that
the
discovery
of
that
Affection
which
the
Princess
Altezeera
honour'd
me
with
,
after
she
had
disclosed
my
Innocence
,
would
create
in
me
new
hopes
;
and
that
in
the
expectation
of
them
,
I
would
languish
away
and
consume
a
life
,
she
was
too
much
concern'd
in
,
to
have
it
so
much
mis-spent
.
After
a
thousand
disputes
upon
this
Subject
;
the
result
of
all
was
,
my
acknowledgment
,
that
the
justice
of
her
fears
could
not
be
greater
than
the
impossibility
was
to
remove
them
;
and
that
she
might
not
be
by
●ight
convinc'd
of
those
sufferings
(
to
whose
vastness
her
fancy
could
hardly
attain
)
,
I
immediatly
left
Thospia
,
having
extorted
the
same
promise
from
Lindesia
,
that
I
had
from
Udozia
;
which
was
not
to
inquire
of
me
the
places
of
my
intended
residence
,
lest
they
might
be
necessitated
by
Artabazus
importunity
,
to
disclose
them
to
him
.
Some
four
days
Journey
from
Thospia
,
there
liv'd
an
old
Gentleman
,
who
had
had
his
Education
with
my
Father
;
and
who
in
the
progress
of
his
life
,
had
so
exactly
evinc't
the
indelibleness
of
the
impressions
of
Youth
,
that
to
Annexanders
very
death
,
his
first
contracted
Friendship
had
continu'd
in
one
constant
height
:
and
the
cause
why
it
receiv'd
no
accession
,
was
,
that
its
first
forming
was
uncapable
of
any
.
Neither
did
Euphranor
(
for
so
he
was
called
)
after
my
Fathers
decease
,
enjoy
any
more
life
than
what
he
could
not
destroy
without
a
sin
,
and
what
serv'd
to
punish
his
wanting
the
power
of
having
concluded
his
with
his
friend
.
This
generous
man
had
retir'd
himself
into
a
strong
Castle
of
his
own
,
though
the
benefit
he
expected
to
derive
from
its
strength
,
was
,
Not
to
defend
against
his
Enemies
,
a
life
he
so
much
detested
,
that
he
esteem'd
his
having
none
,
a
Misfortune
;
but
to
keep
out
such
as
might
have
so
low
an
opinion
of
his
sorrows
,
as
to
think
they
were
either
capable
,
or
desirous
of
Consolation
.
This
honour
so
resembling
mine
,
the
Gratitude
I
ow'd
him
as
Annexander's
Friend
,
and
the
affection
as
Falintus's
Father
,
made
me
address
my
Journey
thither
,
where
when
I
was
arrived
,
I
had
much
ado
to
obtain
admittance
;
neither
did
I
,
till
I
had
told
my
Name
,
after
which
the
Draw-bridg
was
let
down
,
and
the
Virtuous
Euphranor
came
with
tears
and
embraces
to
receive
me
:
I
return'd
him
his
Civilities
in
the
same
payment
,
and
after
by
many
assurances
he
had
made
me
believe
he
could
neither
think
Annexander
dead
,
or
old
,
so
long
as
he
consider'd
me
:
I
enquir'd
earnestly
after
his
generous
Son
,
who
he
told
me
but
three
days
before
had
been
with
him
,
and
was
gone
in
continuance
of
his
search
after
me
;
I
was
not
only
troubled
to
miss
him
,
but
also
to
do
it
in
such
a
way
:
I
therefore
begg'd
Euphranors
permission
,
and
attain'd
it
,
To
imploy
one
of
his
Domesticks
to
seek
Falintus
,
and
acquaint
him
,
I
would
wait
his
return
where
I
then
was
.
Euphranor
hearing
this
message
,
told
me
,
I
had
taken
the
only
course
to
make
him
wish
for
his
Sons
Civility
:
He
led
me
to
a
Magnificent
Appartment
,
where
he
conjur'd
me
to
live
in
the
same
freedom
,
as
if
I
were
in
my
Hermitage
,
and
not
constrain
my self
for
him
,
since
I
could
not
possibly
do
him
a
higher
satisfaction
,
than
to
act
my
own
.
Never
man
that
was
uncapable
of
contentment
,
relish'd
any
thing
so
near
it
,
as
I
did
whilst
I
continu'd
there
;
for
when
my
Melancholly
began
to
grow
importunate
,
to
suppress
that
Miracle
,
I
went
immediately
to
Euphranor
,
from
whose
charming
conversation
I
receiv'd
a
satisfaction
,
which
I
thought
no
words
had
the
power
to
act
,
unless
deliver'd
from
the
fair
Altezeera
.
'T
was
above
two
Moons
that
I
continu'd
there
,
in
expectation
of
some
News
from
Falintus
;
but
at
length
my
Messengers
returning
,
acquainted
me
,
That
my
inquisition
after
him
,
was
proportionately
fruitless
to
his
after
me
;
but
though
by
his
search
he
had
learnt
nothing
of
him
,
for
whom
he
made
it
;
yet
he
brought
me
certain
intelligence
,
that
Ventidius
in
a
great
Battel
had
the
second
time
defeated
the
Parthians
;
that
Labienus
and
Pharnabates
the
two
Generals
,
had
lost
their
lives
with
their
Armies
:
That
Ventidius's
Eagles
had
past
the
Euphrates
,
and
that
Mark
Anthony
had
sent
a
vast
Army
hefore
him
into
Asia
;
he
himself
remaining
as
yet
in
Athens
,
whither
the
Princess
Octavia
(
his
Wife
)
had
accompany'd
him
,
and
joyntly
Celebrated
Ventidius
his
Victories
;
where
he
had
not
so
long
continu'd
,
if
some
fresh
jealousies
betwixt
Octavius
Caesar
and
him
,
had
not
necessitared
him
to
compose
them
,
before
his
advance
towards
Parthia
;
that
they
were
now
fully
ended
by
the
mediation
of
Octavia
(
who
either
to
continue
what
she
had
effected
,
or
to
give
the
greater
liberty
to
Antony's
Amours
with
Cleopatra
)
had
been
sent
back
to
Rome
by
him
,
and
that
Artabazus
,
by
several
expresses
,
made
a
scrutinous
search
after
me
,
to
make
me
General
of
the
War
against
Antiochus
.
I
can
truly
say
(
continu'd
Artavasdes
)
I
was
almost
as
much
troubl'd
at
the
generous
Labienus's
Death
,
as
satisfied
with
that
Victory
which
had
caused
it
.
I
know
not
whether
my
unintermissive
sorrows
,
the
trouble
of
failing
in
any
thing
was
I
ambitious
of
,
which
was
besides
in
a
more
sad
evincement
,
manifested
in
that
fresh
one
of
missing
Falintus
,
or
else
a
concurrence
of
natural
causes
,
was
ti
that
cast
me
into
a
Sickness
,
so
full
of
mortal
symptoms
,
that
I
began
to
believe
the
gods
would
repair
their
cruelty
during
my
Life
,
by
the
Felicity
of
a
hidden
Death
.
But
alas
!
I
found
I
was
more
Charitable
than
they
,
since
they
only
shew'd
me
the
Harbour
,
to
increase
the
miseries
of
not
attaining
it
;
for
I
was
miraculously
sav'd
,
when
I
had
no
more
the
hopes
than
desires
of
Life
.
But
though
the
danger
of
my
Fever
was
vanish'd
,
yet
my
weakness
still
continu'd
,
which
was
either
an
effect
of
a
Sickness
so
violent
,
or
of
grief
that
it
had
not
prov'd
more
so
;
an
excellent
Physician
,
which
the
officious
Euphranor
had
sent
for
in
the
beginning
of
my
indisposition
,
attributed
the
continuance
of
mine
to
the
former
of
those
causes
:
but
so
much
time
as
is
usually
allotted
for
the
recovery
of
strength
after
a
sharp
fit
of
Sickness
being
effluxt
,
he
plainly
told
Euphranor
,
That
he
suspected
mine
did
not
only
derive
its
beginning
,
but
its
continuance
,
from
a
distemper
of
the
Mind
.
As
soon
as
Euphranor
had
by
intent
observations
,
made
this
his
Faith
,
he
not
only
came
and
told
it
me
,
but
by
such
pressing
Conjurations
implor'd
to
learn
what
created
it
,
that
I
obey'd
him
;
I
cannot
tell
whether
the
strange
Accidents
I
acquainted
him
with
,
made
him
sympathize
in
my
Affictions
:
or
whether
he
did
it
,
as
believing
it
the
best
way
to
make
his
Counsels
and
Advice
more
resolutely
follow'd
;
but
I
can
,
that
after
having
told
me
a
long
Story
of
a
Friends
Amours
of
his
,
so
much
a
parallel
to
Mine
,
that
I
receiv'd
from
it
so
much
consolation
,
as
to
know
my self
not
the
most
miserable
of
Men
:
he
at
length
assur'd
me
,
he
had
deriv'd
his
Cure
and
Felicity
,
from
repairing
to
the
Oracle
of
Venus
at
Hierapolis
,
whither
he
advis'd
me
to
address
my self
,
and
then
conjur'd
me
to
believe
he
was
not
a
little
confident
of
my
Success
;
since
he
could
as
a
conducive
way
unto
it
,
not
only
be
content
to
lose
my
Company
,
but
to
make
that
loss
an
effect
of
his
own
solicitation
.
The
miraculous
Adventure
which
Euphranor
told
me
,
had
there
arriv'd
his
Friend
,
and
the
great
Fame
I
had
heard
of
this
Temple
,
made
me
to
determine
to
repair
hither
as
soon
as
my
health
would
permit
me
,
which
it
did
not
for
above
three
Moons
after
.
I
omit
purposely
all
those
generous
Civilities
Euphranor
made
me
at
our
separation
,
and
how
pressing
he
was
to
have
me
take
some
Servants
of
his
in
the
room
of
my
Parthian
;
who
one
Morning
after
my
recovery
and
Resolution
to
come
hither
,
was
gone
out
of
the
Castle
,
and
had
never
return'd
thither
again
;
which
Misfortune
,
notwithstanding
my
diligent
Enquiry
,
I
could
never
learn
the
cause
of
.
I
will
conclude
all
,
by
letting
you
know
,
That
determining
to
live
a
Life
suitable
to
my
Condition
,
I
refus'd
Euphranor's
offers
,
resolving
,
since
I
could
not
either
at
Sattala
,
or
Thospia
,
light
upon
the
faithful
Philanax
(
who
I
forgot
to
tell
you
was
gone
disguis'd
into
Parthia
to
learn
my
Fate
)
to
perform
this
Voyage
in
no
Company
but
that
of
my
Thoughts
:
of
which
I
was
as
unwilling
as
unable
to
divest
my self
.
This
,
and
the
apprehension
that
if
I
went
not
alone
,
Artabazus
might
discover
,
and
thereby
necessitate
me
to
disoblige
him
,
or
my self
,
was
the
cause
that
I
left
Euphranor's
Castle
unaccompani'd
;
in
which
condition
I
travel'd
till
I
came
into
that
Wood
,
where
the
generous
Artabbanes
found
me
so
unequally
assaulted
,
that
I
began
to
fancy
Euphranor's
belief
was
true
;
and
that
at
the
Temple
of
Hierapolis
I
should
find
my
satisfaction
.
But
though
his
Sword
suspended
me
from
it
one
way
,
yet
it
gave
me
another
,
by
saving
me
from
a
Death
,
that
would
have
secluded
me
from
Artabbanes
Conversation
;
which
in
the
condition
Altezeera
is
now
in
,
is
the
highest
Felicity
the
Cruel
gods
have
made
the
miserable
Artavasdes
capable
of
.
The
End
of
the
Fourth
and
last
Book
of
the
Third
Part
of
PARTHENISSA
.
PARTHENISSA
,
A
ROMANCE
▪
THE
FOURTH
PART
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FOURTH
PART
.
The
First
BOOK
.
THE
generous
Artavasdes
had
no
sooner
finish'd
his
Story
(
which
had
produc'd
no
common
operations
in
the
hearers
)
,
than
Artabbanes
told
him
,
If
the
sin
of
not-believing
Artavasdes
were
not
greater
,
than
the
vanity
of
believing
my
Sword
could
contribute
to
a
victory
his
was
acting
,
I
should
not
make
the
last
of
those
my
faith
;
which
since
to
avoid
the
first
I
must
do
,
I
shall
to
extenuate
the
necessity
of
that
crime
,
protest
,
That
I
will
no
more
exclaim
against
the
gods
for
having
so
extraordinarily
preserved
me
from
death
,
since
now
I
find
't
was
to
preserve
Artavasdes
from
it
;
for
whom
I
am
so
justly
concern'd
,
that
I
shall
cherish
the
continuation
of
my
miseries
,
if
they
contribute
to
the
continuation
of
his
life
;
which
,
though
replenish'd
with
many
sensible
misfortunes
,
yet
are
as
far
short
of
mine
,
as
an
unhappiness
that
time
and
many
accidents
may
cure
,
is
of
one
which
the
very
gods
themselves
cannot
.
If
(
said
Artavasdes
)
my
miseries
till
now
were
not
equal
to
yours
,
this
assurance
had
made
them
so
;
for
the
accession
to
my
past
misfortunes
,
that
yours
transcend
them
,
gives
mine
the
Precedency
.
Callimmachus
,
who
apprehended
this
generous
dispute
would
suspend
him
from
learning
what
would
enable
him
to
determine
of
it
;
acquainted
them
with
his
fears
;
to
which
Artabbanes
told
him
:
Alas
Sir
,
I
shall
by
not
obeying
you
,
do
it
;
for
by
not
being
able
to
tell
you
what
should
determine
it
,
you
cannot
but
do
it
on
my
side
;
I
am
also
the
more
concern'd
in
this
victory
,
since
by
the
loss
of
it
,
I
shall
be
depriv'd
of
this
only
consolation
in
my
miseries
,
that
my
generous
friend's
are
not
equal
to
them
.
But
the
Night
being
already
too
far
spent
to
begin
a
fresh
relation
,
he
not
only
perswaded
them
to
defer
their
curiosity
till
the
next
morning
;
but
also
to
permit
Symander
to
satisfie
it
;
whose
fidelity
had
render'd
him
an
unsuspected
hearer
of
Artavasdes's
Adventures
;
and
whose
interest
in
his
Princes
life
,
and
secrets
,
render'd
him
a
fit
Relator
of
them
.
Callimmachus
and
Artavasdes
having
exprest
a
greater
sorrow
,
that
Artabbanes
was
not
able
to
tell
his
own
story
,
than
that
he
did
it
not
;
and
a
little
time
being
spent
in
discourses
of
that
quality
(
and
of
the
different
opinions
they
all
had
,
what
could
make
the
Prince
of
Parthia
so
intent
upon
Artavasdes's
Death
,
as
to
hire
Assassinates
to
act
it
,
which
he
had
told
Callimmachus
and
Artabbanes
one
of
them
had
confest
with
his
last
breath
)
:
The
generous
Priest
took
leave
of
the
two
Friends
,
not
only
to
afford
them
a
liberty
which
he
apprehended
his
company
something
limited
,
but
also
to
perform
some
ceremonies
of
his
office
,
and
to
be
the
earlier
ready
to
summon
Symander
of
an
e●gagement
which
he
in
part
had
already
so
well
satisfied
,
that
it
gave
him
a
just
impatience
till
he
had
done
it
entirely
.
The
night
therefore
had
no
sooner
resign'd
her
Empire
to
the
Sun
,
than
Callimmachus
came
to
Artabbanes
and
Artavasdes
Appartment
,
where
he
found
that
his
fear
of
Incivility
proceeded
from
a
different
cause
,
than
from
that
he
apprehended
;
for
the
latter
of
them
was
so
far
from
believing
it
too-early
,
that
he
had
already
expected
him
above
an
hour
,
with
all
the
impatiencies
of
a
concern'd
friend
;
and
the
former
having
left
Symander
to
satisfie
his
promise
,
was
already
retir'd
into
a
Gallary
contiguous
to
his
Chamber
,
to
avoid
the
hearing
of
his
unparallel'd
miseries
,
and
of
observing
the
influence
they
would
necessarily
have
over
his
generous
friends
.
Smyander
by
Artavasdes's
command
,
seated
himself
between
him
and
Callimmachus
,
and
there
being
summon'd
by
them
both
,
to
continue
the
Relation
of
his
Princes
Fortunes
,
having
first
remember'd
the
generous
Armenian
,
that
by
his
arrival
he
had
been
interrupted
from
the
prosecution
of
them
at
their
entrance
into
Rome
,
after
the
victory
of
Crassus
:
from
thence
thus
began
his
discourse
,
addressing
it
to
Artavasdes
.
The
sequel
of
Parthenissa's
and
Artabbane's
Story
.
AFter
that
for
the
recovery
of
your
health
,
and
the
extenuating
your
grief
for
the
loss
of
a
Father
,
which
but
too
justly
merited
it
,
you
had
retir'd
for
a
few
days
to
Ventidius's
Palace
,
and
that
my
Prince
was
assur'd
by
the
Chyrurgeons
,
his
wounds
were
in
such
unfortunate
places
,
that
for
at
least
two
Moons
he
should
be
unable
to
travel
:
To
oblige
the
generous
Sillaces
,
who
was
then
perfectly
recover'd
;
and
to
silence
those
fears
,
which
so
long
an
absence
had
doubtless
contracted
in
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
but
especially
in
Lyndadorie
,
he
conjur'd
him
to
begin
his
journey
into
Parthia
,
and
to
leave
his
cure
to
the
help
of
time
,
and
of
the
Chyrurgeons
.
Sillaces
,
though
he
were
too
much
a
Lover
,
not
to
esteem
a
separation
from
his
Mistress
a
misfortune
;
yet
he
was
also
too
much
a
friend
,
to
leave
one
that
was
so
to
him
,
in
so
dangerous
a
place
and
condition
;
and
besides
,
fearing
Artabbanes
had
made
him
that
request
,
more
to
satisfie
him
,
than
himself
,
he
absolutely
declin'd
it
;
but
when
by
many
pressing
protestations
my
Prince
had
remov'd
those
doubts
,
it
was
not
long
after
,
that
Sillaces
(
taking
the
benefit
of
a
Roman
Galley
,
which
was
bound
from
Ostia
to
Tyre
)
left
Artabbanes
,
having
first
concluded
amongst
themselves
of
what
he
should
say
and
do
in
Parthia
;
and
having
receiv'd
from
him
a
Letter
to
the
fair
Lyndadory
,
so
fill'd
with
approbations
,
and
extolments
of
her
election
,
and
of
implorings
in
his
favour
,
and
advantage
,
that
had
she
but
only
lov'd
her
Brother
,
she
could
not
but
have
done
the
like
to
her
Servant
.
'T
was
by
my
Princes
command
that
I
waited
on
the
generous
Sillaces
to
Ostia
,
where
having
seen
him
aboard
,
I
return'd
to
Rome
the
same
day
,
and
passing
by
the
Capitol
to
go
to
Artabbane's
lodging
,
I
perceiv'd
at
the
gate
of
it
,
a
great
confluence
of
people
;
my
curiosity
led
me
to
enquire
the
cause
of
it
from
one
who
told
me
,
it
was
from
a
Salapian
Lord
,
who
had
begg'd
of
the
Senate
the
head
of
Spartacus
,
which
he
was
then
taking
down
.
This
information
made
me
imagine
't
was
the
generous
Perolla
,
who
I
soon
after
perceiv'd
all
in
Mourning
,
in
a
Chariot
that
was
so
,
and
near
him
the
fair
Izadora
,
in
the
same
Livory
,
like
the
Sun
in
a
cloud
:
I
must
confess
,
I
had
a
thousand
pains
to
abstain
from
running
to
acquaint
them
with
a
Truth
,
their
ignorance
of
which
,
produced
such
sad
,
and
noble
effects
;
but
the
belief
that
the
discovery
of
it
was
fitter
to
proceed
from
my
obedience
,
than
me
,
and
would
in
that
quality
be
better
relish'd
by
them
,
I
went
hastily
to
my
Prince
,
and
having
given
him
an
account
of
what
I
have
you
;
with
all
the
impatience
which
so
just
a
concern
could
inspire
,
he
immediately
commanded
me
to
go
and
acquaint
the
generous
Lovers
where
he
was
,
and
assure
them
,
that
had
his
wounds
permitted
him
to
pay
them
a
visit
,
no
other
impediment
should
have
suspended
him
from
that
duty
.
As
soon
as
I
had
received
this
order
,
I
went
to
obey
it
;
and
though
I
came
immediately
after
to
the
place
where
I
had
left
them
,
I
learnt
,
that
having
taken
down
the
Senate's
grant
,
they
were
return'd
with
it
to
their
Lodging
;
which
having
inquir'd
out
,
I
went
thither
,
and
sent
up
one
of
their
Domesticks
to
let
them
know
a
stranger
desir'd
the
honour
of
seeing
them
,
who
had
something
of
importance
to
acquaint
them
with
.
I
stay'd
not
long
for
an
answer
,
or
admittance
;
and
as
soon
as
I
came
into
the
Chamber
,
I
perceiv'd
the
generous
Lovers
weeping
many
real
tears
over
the
counterfeit
head
of
my
Prince
;
but
after
that
by
the
little
noise
I
made
,
they
had
turn'd
their
sight
towards
me
,
and
perceiv'd
who
I
was
;
the
fair
Izadora
by
some
shrieks
,
and
a
more
violent
weeping
,
demonstrated
,
that
her
seeing
of
me
,
brought
some
fresh
,
and
more
sensible
reflections
into
her
memory
,
than
a
disfigur'd
and
unknowable
part
of
Spartacus
had
done
;
but
Perolla
,
whose
Sex
dispenc'd
him
from
a
proportionate
excess
in
those
effeminacies
,
came
towards
me
,
and
told
me
,
You
see
Symander
,
that
the
cruel
gods
having
allow'd
us
no
other
way
but
this
,
to
evince
our
gratitude
to
your
generous
Master
,
we
have
not
declin'd
it
;
we
have
now
nothing
but
this
part
of
him
,
and
his
memory
left
us
,
which
we
will
cherish
at
a
rate
,
that
those
which
know
it
,
shall
be
convinc'd
by
what
we
do
,
what
we
would
have
done
,
had
our
powers
of
gratitude
proportionated
our
cause
,
or
our
desires
of
it
;
which
last
we
cannot
more
highly
,
or
justly
illustrate
,
than
by
assuring
you
they
equal
the
first
;
and
in
our
transcendent
loss
we
should
receive
some
little
relaxation
,
if
one
who
Spartacus
did
so
much
esteem
of
as
Symander
,
would
so
much
esteem
of
us
,
as
to
pass
his
life
with
those
,
who
during
their
own
,
will
eternally
deplore
the
loss
of
his
generous
Master's
.
Sir
,
(
I
reply'd
)
I
should
be
too
unworthy
so
noble
an
offer
,
had
I
surviv'd
him
in
whose
consideration
't
is
made
;
No
,
generous
Perolla
,
Spartacus
lives
,
and
does
so
,
so
much
the
more
happily
,
by
how
much
he
knows
his
life
is
considerable
to
you
,
and
will
put
a
period
to
a
grief
nothing
can
repair
,
or
equal
,
but
his
,
when
I
shall
acquaint
him
with
yours
,
and
the
fair
Izadora's
.
Thereupon
I
made
them
that
complement
my
Prince
had
commanded
me
;
which
they
no
sooner
heard
,
than
in
raptures
as
far
transcending
repetition
,
as
imitation
,
they
both
conjur'd
me
to
bring
them
to
a
person
,
who
by
the
obligations
of
gratitude
,
and
virtue
,
they
acknowledg'd
themselves
equally
confin'd
to
admire
and
esteem
.
'T
was
by
this
time
,
about
the
close
of
the
Evening
,
so
that
without
any
hazard
they
might
give
my
Prince
a
visit
;
which
when
I
had
told
them
,
they
immediately
went
in
their
Chariot
(
taking
me
only
with
them
)
to
my
Prince's
Lodging
,
where
the
generous
Lovers
continued
their
tears
,
though
for
a
contrary
cause
to
that
for
which
they
had
usually
shed
them
.
'T
was
in
this
interview
(
continued
Symander
)
that
Perolla
acquainted
Artabbanes
,
how
that
having
heard
of
his
fatal
loss
at
the
Battel
of
the
Trenches
,
and
that
a
Head
as
replenish'd
with
the
gifts
of
the
Mind
,
as
of
Nature
,
was
ignominiously
fixt
on
the
Capitol
;
both
he
and
Izadora
dressing
their
Bodies
in
the
livery
of
their
Minds
,
came
purposely
from
Salapia
,
and
had
begg'd
from
the
Senate
the
remainder
of
a
person
,
who
could
not
be
more
an
Enemy
to
Rome
,
than
a
friend
to
Salapia
and
them
.
The
Senate
,
who
always
esteem'd
of
Gratitude
,
as
knowing
they
had
the
greatest
power
to
create
it
in
any
;
and
believing
those
that
had
it
for
their
Enemies
,
would
not
want
it
for
them
;
in
one
action
,
to
reward
and
create
ours
,
granted
our
request
;
with
which
we
intended
to
return
,
and
to
have
rais'd
such
a
Trophy
to
this
part
of
the
dead
Spartacus
,
as
should
have
evinced
the
just
and
vast
esteem
we
had
of
the
Living
.
Perolla
further
told
him
,
That
since
his
leaving
of
Salapia
,
their
Fathers
had
as
much
admir'd
at
their
past
differences
and
cruelties
,
as
others
did
at
their
present
friendship
,
which
was
so
settl'd
and
perfect
,
that
it
relish'd
not
a
little
of
what
had
caus'd
it
;
and
that
already
virtue
was
so
habitual
to
them
,
that
it
appear'd
rather
an
effect
of
their
nature
,
than
their
change
.
Artabbanes
by
many
embraces
to
the
generous
Perolla
,
and
retributions
to
the
fair
Izadora
,
acknowledg'd
their
virtue
and
goodness
,
and
protested
he
was
more
satisfy'd
with
their
Father's
friendship
to
them
,
than
with
theirs
to
him
;
since
he
was
more
concern'd
in
their
satisfaction
than
his
own
;
which
they
could
not
suspect
,
since
he
evinc'd
it
in
the
most
pregnant
testimony
.
But
after
some
other
discourses
of
this
nature
,
Artabbanes
,
who
remember'd
the
pressing
desire
the
generous
Lovers
had
demonstrated
to
learn
his
quality
and
life
,
and
that
by
the
discovery
of
the
fair
Parthenissa's
Constancy
,
he
esteem'd
himself
disoblig'd
from
any
longer
silence
,
he
acquainted
them
with
it
;
who
no
sooner
heard
of
a
Concession
his
formal
denial
,
and
nothing
else
,
had
suppress'd
their
imploring
,
by
fresh
impatiencies
they
invited
my
Prince
to
satisfie
their
longing
.
This
he
did
,
by
telling
them
exactly
all
his
Adventures
,
in
which
they
so
justly
sympathiz'd
,
that
it
invited
him
to
do
the
like
,
in
the
joy
they
assum'd
at
that
happy
intelligence
he
had
so
miraculously
receiv'd
from
the
generous
Sillaces
:
Neither
did
they
after
the
knowledg
of
my
Prince's
quality
,
pay
him
any
more
respect
,
or
affection
;
for
their
Gratitude
and
Virtue
,
had
render'd
them
uncapable
of
any
accessions
of
that
nature
.
I
will
not
(
said
Symander
)
so
unnecessarily
intrench
on
your
attentions
,
as
to
inform
you
how
constantly
every
day
the
virtuous
Salapians
visited
Artabbanes
,
nor
of
the
excellent
entertainment
their
conversation
gave
him
:
for
't
is
high
time
we
should
leave
that
Italy
,
which
had
been
the
Scene
of
such
discrepant
events
.
To
effect
this
the
sooner
,
I
will
inform
you
,
that
the
generous
Ventidius
being
return'd
from
the
Gulph
of
Tarentum
,
came
to
my
dear
Master
,
and
there
acquainted
him
of
what
depriv'd
him
of
the
honour
of
your
Company
,
which
his
Friendship
for
you
,
made
him
esteem
a
greater
misfortune
,
than
the
deprivation
it self
;
and
indeed
,
Ventidius
,
to
render
your
precipitate
departure
the
more
excusable
,
render'd
it
so
dangerously
necessary
,
that
Artabbanes
had
esteem'd
the
Misfortune
of
your
having
left
him
without
cause
,
a
less
one
.
The
generous
Roman
upon
your
score
,
or
that
of
virtue
,
so
assiduously
visited
,
and
serv'd
my
Prince
,
that
his
obligations
had
no
unfruitful
return
,
if
their
design
was
to
acquire
him
really
his
Friendship
.
At
length
after
two
Moons
,
my
dear
Master's
wounds
were
well-enough
clos'd
,
to
permit
him
to
think
of
Parthia
,
and
the
Night
before
his
design'd
departure
,
Perolla
(
who
apprehended
,
in
a
strange
Country
he
might
not
be
sufficiently
provided
)
came
and
brought
me
the
richest
Jewels
I
had
ever
seen
,
and
desir'd
me
to
carry
them
with
me
,
to
remedy
any
misadventure
.
I
was
much
more
satisfy'd
with
his
care
,
than
he
was
with
my
assurance
,
that
Artabbanes
had
enough
of
them
to
supply
his
necessities
,
and
with
my
protestations
(
after
he
had
earnestly
press'd
me
to
accept
them
for
my self
)
,
that
I
would
carry
away
nothing
of
his
,
but
the
memory
of
his
virtue
.
Perolla
immediately
after
went
to
Artabbanes
,
with
whom
he
had
left
the
fair
Izadora
,
where
he
conjur'd
him
before
her
to
permit
his
waiting
on
him
into
Parthia
,
since
he
and
the
gods
had
left
him
no
other
way
to
demonstrate
his
Gratitude
,
and
affection
.
Artabbanes
absolutely
refus'd
this
offer
,
`
and
was
much
more
troubled
at
the
making
it
,
than
ever
Izadora
was
.
My
memory
not
serving
me
to
repeat
the
generous
Lovers
final
Civilities
,
I
will
not
so
much
wrong
their
excellence
,
as
to
dress
them
in
my
own
expressions
:
The
next
day
after
this
separation
,
they
return'd
to
Salapia
with
the
false
Spartacus's
head
,
which
(
either
to
disguise
the
Truth
,
or
in
honour
to
any
thing
which
bore
that
name
)
they
caus'd
magnificently
to
be
buried
,
and
ever
after
liv'd
in
the
unimitable
joys
of
a
virtuous
Love
;
and
that
those
cannot
be
transcended
by
any
others
,
is
not
a
greater
Truth
than
it
is
,
that
never
any
more
justly
deserv'd
them
.
The
same
morning
my
Prince
left
Rome
,
he
went
to
Ostia
,
where
the
obliging
Ventidius
expected
him
,
not
daring
,
because
of
his
eminent
quality
,
to
wait
on
him
thither
,
lest
it
might
have
prov'd
a
dangerous
Civility
.
There
my
Prince
by
Ventidius's
favour
found
an
excellent
Gally
,
well
fitted
and
Man'd
,
ready
to
receive
him
,
and
his
Commands
.
'T
was
aboard
,
that
these
two
great
Men
took
leave
,
and
't
was
in
that
separation
I
discovered
charms
in
the
generous
Roman's
Person
and
Discourse
,
which
could
be
no
more
resisted
,
than
sufficiently
admir'd
:
At
length
having
mutually
vow'd
a
friendship
as
unalterable
,
as
that
they
had
for
virtue
,
and
confirm'd
it
by
many
strict
embraces
,
Ventidius
returned
privately
to
Rome
,
and
the
whole
Ginge
immediately
with
chearful
shouts
and
vigorous
stroaks
,
made
the
Galley
run
faster
than
that
River
it
had
so
lately
abandon'd
;
but
the
Wind
blowing
a
steddy
gale
at
West
,
exempted
the
Slaves
from
much
labour
,
and
so
facilitated
our
intended
Voyage
,
that
in
twenty
days
we
cast
Anchor
in
the
River
Orontes
,
which
washes
the
Walls
of
Antioch
;
whither
the
same
night
my
Prince
went
;
having
largely
rewarded
the
Slaves
,
the
Mariners
and
the
Officers
of
Ventidius's
Gally
.
At
Antioch
having
furnish'd
our selves
with
two
excellent
Arabian
Horses
,
and
having
learnt
that
the
ways
through
Syria
and
Mesopotamia
,
were
much
obstructed
by
Crassus's
Army
,
which
possess'd
all
the
Bridges
,
and
other
considerable
Passes
,
Artabbanes
to
avoid
any
probable
impediments
,
determin'd
to
leave
those
two
Provinces
on
the
South
,
and
so
by
the
way
of
Armenia
and
Media
to
get
into
Parthia
.
This
was
by
much
the
more
secure
course
,
and
not
very
much
the
longer
.
We
had
already
performed
so
much
of
our
Journey
,
as
to
the
Banks
of
the
River
Corindas
,
which
runs
through
Arsacca
,
one
of
the
noblest
Cities
in
Media
,
and
were
not
past
eight
Furlongs
from
it
,
when
from
the
height
of
a
little
Hill
,
we
discover'd
a
fight
;
which
though
not
very
considerable
for
the
number
of
the
Combatants
,
yet
it
was
for
those
of
the
dead
;
for
of
above
forty
,
two
only
remain'd
alive
;
which
by
the
richness
and
beauty
of
their
Arms
,
but
much
more
by
their
Courages
,
demonstrated
themselves
to
be
the
Chief
of
either
Party
.
Not
far
from
the
Scene
where
this
Tragedy
was
acting
,
stood
a
Chariot
,
whose
Horses
either
by
design
or
accident
,
were
running
up
and
down
the
field
with
their
Harnesses
broken
,
and
in
it
was
a
Lady
,
who
we
thought
was
the
Judg
,
or
Reward
of
the
Victory
;
and
who
by
what
we
could
discern
of
her
,
when
we
came
nearer
(
for
she
was
vail'd
)
seem'd
too
to
be
a
worthy
cause
of
so
generous
a
Dispute
.
My
Prince
extreamly
taken
with
such
courages
,
and
believing
to
permit
them
to
destroy
each
other
,
would
be
as
great
a
Crime
in
him
,
as
in
those
which
endeavour'd
it
;
pulling
down
the
sight
of
his
Helmet
,
he
rid
up
and
thrust
himself
between
them
,
where
having
received
on
his
Shield
some
blows
,
which
their
fury
intended
for
each
other
,
he
conjur'd
them
both
,
by
what
they
valu'd
most
,
and
by
those
lives
which
,
by
what
he
had
seen
of
them
,
were
too
considerable
to
be
fruitlesly
lost
;
That
unless
the
Cause
of
their
Quarrel
were
mortal
,
they
would
desist
from
a
fight
,
which
would
give
both
,
or
one
of
them
wounds
,
which
would
prove
so
.
He
that
wore
the
green
Arms
,
either
inraged
to
lose
that
dawning
advantage
he
had
over
his
Enemy
,
or
to
be
interrupted
from
acting
a
Revenge
he
was
very
intent
upon
,
told
my
Prince
in
a
furious
Tone
,
Whoever
thou
beest
,
that
art
so
over-officious
,
know
,
that
did
I
not
believe
thy
care
of
my
Enemy
proceeded
from
thy
ignorance
of
his
Crimes
,
I
should
by
thy
defending
a
Person
so
replenish'd
with
them
,
leave
the
punishment
of
his
,
for
the
punishment
of
thine
;
which
out
of
that
belief
,
I
will
now
omit
;
but
if
this
declaration
be
not
sufficient
to
restrain
thy
Assistance
,
thou
shalt
find
thy
Death
in
thy
mistaken
Charity
.
Then
clapping
Spurs
to
his
Horse
,
and
striking
my
Prince's
with
the
flat
of
his
Sword
,
he
joyn'd
again
his
Adversary
,
and
so
incessantly
prest
him
,
that
before
my
Prince
could
come
to
punish
the
Conquerour
,
or
defend
the
vanquish'd
,
the
former
had
pass'd
his
Sword
through
the
latter
;
who
by
that
fatal
thrust
,
let
fall
his
own
and
his
Bridle
,
employing
both
those
hands
which
had
held
them
,
to
hold
himself
in
his
Saddle
:
The
Horse
finding
nothing
to
restrain
him
,
ran
with
his
wounded
Rider
up
and
down
the
Field
.
He
in
the
green
Armour
had
doubtless
made
the
Death
of
his
Enemy
,
the
end
of
his
victory
,
had
not
Artabbanes
run
after
him
to
hinder
it
;
which
so
incens'd
the
Stranger
;
that
leaving
his
old
Enemy
for
his
new
,
he
only
said
,
Since
by
undertaking
my
Adversaries
defence
,
thou
wilt
partake
of
his
Crimes
,
prepare
thy self
to
do
the
like
of
his
punishment
;
and
then
with
an
active
rage
,
he
discharg'd
some
furious
blows
on
Artabbanes
,
who
moved
by
this
fresh
accession
to
his
former
affront
,
receiv'd
him
so
briskly
,
that
the
Stranger
found
he
had
undertaken
a
Quarrel
far
more
difficult
than
that
he
had
so
advantageously
and
lately
decided
.
I
knew
too
much
the
Laws
of
Honour
and
my
Prince's
Courage
,
to
offer
him
any
assistance
from
Mine
,
and
therefore
only
continued
a
Spectator
of
a
Combat
,
which
though
replenish'd
with
many
admirable
things
,
yet
none
appear'd
so
justly
so
to
me
,
as
that
Artabbanes
was
so
long
a
conquering
.
I
must
confess
,
his
Adversary's
courage
gave
me
inclinations
for
him
,
that
the
way
in
which
he
imploy'd
it
,
might
justly
have
exempted
me
from
;
and
I
had
longer
continued
my
admiration
,
had
not
I
by
chance
,
casting
my
Eye
on
the
South-side
of
the
little
Plain
we
were
in
,
perceived
Ten
Horse-men
which
came
out
of
a
Wood
which
confin'd
it
on
that
side
;
two
of
them
having
observed
the
dangerous
condition
the
wounded
Gentleman
was
in
,
ran
to
his
Assistance
;
one
of
them
vaulting
up
behind
him
,
upheld
his
tottering
Body
in
his
Arms
,
and
the
other
leading
his
Horse
by
the
Head
,
retook
(
with
their
charge
)
the
way
they
had
come
;
but
the
remaining
Eight
came
a-gallop
towards
that
place
where
my
Prince
and
the
Stranger
were
prodigally
employing
their
Valours
against
each
other
,
which
united
were
hardly
able
to
secure
them
:
Their
being
so
intent
on
each
others
ruine
,
made
them
not
consider
how
near
their
own
was
;
which
to
prevent
,
I
rid
up
and
acquainted
them
with
what
their
Eyes
immediately
did
;
wherefore
the
Stranger
more
concern'd
in
the
Ladies
safety
,
than
in
his
Revenge
or
hopes
of
Victory
,
immediately
told
Artabbanes
,
Valiant
Stranger
,
The
difference
betwixt
us
,
is
not
of
so
high
a
concernment
,
but
another
time
may
serve
to
decide
it
,
and
having
found
in
your
Sword
a
virtue
worthy
to
serve
so
great
a
Beauty
as
these
are
coming
to
ravish
from
me
,
I
shall
not
scruple
to
desire
your
assistance
,
or
at
least
your
neutrality
;
but
to
invite
you
to
the
former
,
I
protest
,
I
present
you
with
a
higher
glory
by
the
honour
of
serving
her
,
than
your
victory
over
me
can
afford
you
;
and
perhaps
by
this
concession
you
will
conquer
me
a
more
certain
and
a
more
facile
way
,
than
that
you
have
now
undertaken
.
My
Prince
extreamly
satisfied
with
this
generous
proceeding
,
told
him
,
If
I
receive
any
trouble
from
what
you
motion
,
't
is
only
left
you
might
think
I
grant
that
to
your
desire
which
I
would
to
your
condition
,
or
to
the
Beauty
you
so
resolutely
defend
;
neither
can
you
doubt
by
the
cause
of
our
present
Dispute
,
that
I
would
not
practice
for
you
,
what
I
did
against
you
.
Artabbanes
had
not
time
to
give
him
any
other
assurances
than
what
his
Sword
did
;
and
finding
it
necessary
and
just
to
joyn
with
my
Prince
,
I
did
it
;
our
Enemies
,
though
they
lost
at
the
first
charge
two
of
their
resolutest
Companions
,
were
not
near
so
much
surpriz'd
thereat
,
as
to
see
so
strange
and
sudden
an
union
against
them
;
but
this
mysterie
some
of
them
had
not
Life
enough
left
to
unriddle
;
yet
the
others
made
so
vigorous
a
resistance
,
that
the
Stranger
had
lost
his
Life
,
if
my
Prince
by
the
death
of
one
of
his
Enemies
(
which
was
come
behind
him
)
had
not
hinder'd
it
;
I
had
my
share
in
the
danger
,
and
the
victory
;
the
first
by
receiving
some
slight
wounds
,
and
the
last
by
killing
him
which
gave
them
me
:
In
brief
,
our
Enemies
survived
not
their
defeat
,
for
the
Combat
ended
not
but
with
their
Lives
.
The
Stranger
had
no
sooner
done
acting
towards
,
and
observed
this
Truce
,
than
he
came
to
my
Prince
,
and
lifting
up
his
Helmet
,
told
him
,
Generous
Stranger
,
since
I
hold
my
Sword
from
you
,
the
gods
forbid
I
should
employ
it
against
you
;
if
I
have
now
any
designs
upon
you
,
they
are
not
only
by
imitating
you
,
to
preserve
your
Life
by
the
hazard
of
mine
;
but
,
if
the
occasion
were
offered
,
by
the
absolute
loss
of
it
.
The
Stranger
had
scarce
finish'd
these
words
,
when
he
found
himself
in
my
Prince's
Arms
,
who
by
repeating
twice
or
thrice
the
Name
of
Sillaces
,
made
me
know
't
was
that
generous
Prince
whom
he
so
passionately
embrac'd
.
You
may
believe
(
continued
Symander
)
this
accident
produc'd
no
small
admiration
in
Artabbanes
,
which
was
rais'd
to
a
higher
degree
when
Sillaces
after
knowing
my
Prince
,
told
him
,
't
was
upon
his
score
he
had
then
been
fighting
,
and
that
it
was
against
Surena
,
When
Artabbanes
consider'd
he
fought
against
his
Friend
for
his
Enemy
,
it
rais'd
in
him
some
just
repinings
against
the
strangeness
of
his
destiny
;
but
as
soon
as
he
reflected
on
his
Enemie's
being
the
fair
Zephalinda's
Brother
,
they
were
immediately
silenc'd
;
and
if
any
thing
in
this
encounter
afflicted
him
,
't
was
,
that
he
had
drawn
his
Sword
against
Sillaces
,
and
not
that
he
had
done
it
for
Surena
.
My
Prince
assur'd
his
generous
Friend
of
this
,
who
could
not
sufficiently
admire
at
a
Friendship
so
efficacious
,
as
that
it
ran
in
a
Blood
;
when
even
one
of
it
had
acted
as
much
to
create
his
hatred
,
as
the
other
was
capable
of
,
for
the
raising
his
affection
and
esteem
.
But
Artabbanes
,
who
was
impatient
of
all
discourses
,
but
those
which
tended
to
the
learning
of
his
destiny
in
the
fair
Parthenissa's
condition
,
earnestly
implor'd
from
Sillaces
an
account
of
what
he
knew
concerning
it
:
Who
replyed
,
that
his
absence
in
his
search
,
had
made
him
but
from
second
hands
,
and
confusedly
learn
it
;
but
that
the
Beauty
his
Sword
had
so
much
injur'd
,
and
so
much
serv'd
,
could
give
him
an
exact
relation
of
all
.
My
generous
Master
,
who
was
confirm'd
by
that
Zeal
with
which
Sillaces
had
embrac'd
her
Service
,
that
it
was
Lyndadorie
(
though
he
could
not
fancy
by
what
strange
adventures
she
had
left
Parthia
and
needed
his
Sword
)
went
with
Sillaces
to
the
Chariot
:
But
great
Gods
!
what
was
his
surprize
when
he
found
the
Beauty
in
it
was
the
fair
Parthenissa
!
I
cannot
tell
you
with
how
many
tremblings
and
prostrations
he
express'd
his
joy
and
wonder
,
before
he
could
do
either
by
his
words
;
nor
can
I
tell
you
with
what
emotions
the
admirable
Parthenissa
found
her
Deliverer
was
a
more
transcendent
felicity
than
her
Deliverance
.
Never
(
continued
Symander
)
never
did
any
mortal
appear
so
like
those
that
are
not
;
so
that
if
the
gods
had
not
reserv'd
adoration
for
what
only
was
a
Deity
,
and
not
for
what
merited
to
be
one
,
my
Prince
must
have
converted
a
flame
of
Love
into
one
of
Devotion
.
His
Three
years
absence
had
so
perfected
those
morning-Beauties
,
that
the
light
which
sees
every
thing
,
never
saw
any
so
exactly
accomplish'd
;
insomuch
that
had
the
gods
given
eternity
to
her
then
Beauty
,
they
could
have
given
it
no
other
accession
.
Artabbanes
who
receiv'd
her
Flames
as
fast
as
her
Eyes
inspir'd
them
,
was
so
entirely
taken
up
with
that
employment
,
that
he
continued
silent
as
long
almost
as
I
have
been
speaking
;
but
no
sooner
had
his
words
the
liberty
of
utterance
,
than
he
told
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
You
see
(
Madam
)
prostrate
at
your
feet
,
the
unfortunate
,
and
happy
Artabbanes
;
the
last
of
these
,
in
having
obtain'd
your
Pardon
;
and
the
first
,
in
having
needed
it
;
you
cannot
(
Madam
)
doubt
of
your
power
,
when
as
an
effect
of
it
,
after
my
Crime
,
I
dare
present
my self
before
my
injur'd
Princess
:
But
may
I
not
fear
I
receiv'd
this
command
from
your
Revenge
,
and
not
your
Mercy
,
since
to
behold
the
Virtue
and
Beauty
I
have
wrong'd
,
is
one
of
the
most
sensible
punishments
could
be
inflicted
on
me
for
having
done
it
;
and
it
had
been
more
just
(
if
you
had
not
esteem'd
it
otherwise
,
because
it
was
more
easie
for
me
)
to
have
executed
your
Revenge
,
than
obey'd
your
Mercy
;
Neither
is
it
a
small
Misfortune
,
that
by
a
Crime
I
come
to
implore
it
for
one
;
but
yet
by
having
fought
against
your
Deliverance
,
you
may
discover
my
Sins
against
the
divine
Parthenissa
,
are
not
my
Elections
,
but
my
Fate
;
for
nothing
but
so
unresistable
an
impulsion
,
could
have
made
me
either
doubt
her
professions
and
constancy
,
or
fought
against
her
Interests
.
If
(
said
Parthenissa
)
the
generous
Artabbanes
hazarded
my
Deliverance
by
his
Sword
,
he
has
establish'd
it
by
the
same
weapon
,
and
abundantly
repair'd
a
small
injury
by
what
acted
it
;
and
if
he
doubted
my
professions
and
constancy
,
he
was
so
excellently
deluded
into
that
mistake
,
that
it
had
been
a
greater
Miracle
he
had
avoided
those
thoughts
,
than
that
he
assum'd
them
.
I
may
profess
too
with
the
same
Truth
,
that
I
fear'd
as
much
the
disclosing
of
my
Innocency
,
as
he
detested
my
seeming
want
of
it
;
for
I
knew
the
discovery
of
his
errour
would
but
too-abundantly
punish
it
:
and
I
was
more
concern'd
in
his
felicity
than
esteem
,
the
latter
being
an
advantage
I
wholly
appropriated
to
my self
,
which
also
I
could
not
but
by
his
extream
prejudice
.
Ah
Madam
,
(
the
ravish'd
Artabbanes
reply'd
)
the
more
you
disclose
your
Virtue
,
the
more
you
manifest
my
Sin
in
having
doubted
it
;
and
you
increase
the
punishment
thereof
,
by
endeavouring
to
extenuate
it
:
'T
is
upon
that
score
only
,
that
I
receive
with
joy
what
you
now
deliver
,
as
I
shall
do
any
thing
of
that
quality
with
the
same
reception
,
that
contributes
to
a
suffering
I
cannot
more
deserve
,
than
I
am
ambitious
to
embrace
:
Yes
,
fair
Parthenissa
,
if
I
have
languish'd
so
long
a
Life
after
the
evincement
of
my
Crime
,
't
was
because
I
esteem'd
Death
rather
a
Reward
,
than
a
Punishment
of
it
,
and
because
you
commanded
me
to
return
;
which
the
more
zealously
I
obey'd
,
because
in
that
obedience
I
evidenc'd
I
would
decline
no
other
penance
could
be
inflicted
on
me
,
this
transcending
all
others
,
as
much
as
my
offences
does
.
But
now
,
Madam
,
that
I
have
effected
that
command
,
let
your
next
be
to
become
the
Executioner
of
your
Jnstice
;
you
will
prove
your
Mercy
greater
in
such
an
imposition
,
than
in
a
Pardon
,
since
the
first
will
end
a
Life
which
has
lost
those
hopes
which
only
gave
it
a
relish
;
and
the
last
,
by
permitting
me
to
see
that
blessing
I
have
lost
,
and
which
I
can
no
more
aspire
unto
without
committing
as
high
a
Sin
by
my
presumption
,
as
by
my
doubts
will
involve
me
in
torments
,
that
but
to
reflect
on
will
transcend
the
actual
operations
of
all
others
.
If
(
said
Parthenissa
)
I
am
satisfy'd
that
you
believe
your self
so
great
a
Criminal
,
it
proceeds
only
that
by
my
passing
by
your
offences
,
you
have
the
greater
obligation
to
me
;
I
am
too-much
concern'd
in
your
Life
to
continue
it
in
Torment
,
and
the
gods
have
render'd
me
uncapable
of
that
Injustice
,
without
equally
participating
in
the
effects
of
it
:
I
do
therefore
with
your
Pardon
,
return
you
your
hopes
,
and
give
you
an
assurance
that
mine
cannot
have
a
more
pleasing
object
,
than
that
you
will
believe
your
Life
is
so
undissolubly
ty'd
to
mine
,
that
the
cares
or
negligence
you
have
of
your
own
,
must
produce
resembling
operations
on
Parthenissa's
.
Great
gods
!
(
reply'd
Artabbanes
)
you
are
not
so
infinite
as
my
Joy
,
or
the
Mercy
which
has
created
it
;
neither
of
those
know
any
limits
,
and
your
Power
does
,
by
being
uncapable
but
by
them
to
make
me
value
,
or
cherish
my
Life
:
Yes
,
my
Princess
(
he
continued
,
embracing
her
knees
,
and
printing
a
thousand
burning
kisses
on
her
hand
)
,
you
have
by
so
obliging
a
declaration
,
invited
the
happy
Artabbanes
,
almost
to
approve
his
Sin
,
in
rendring
it
the
efficient
cause
of
so
transcendent
an
evincement
of
your
favour
;
and
made
him
as
much
in
love
with
his
Life
,
as
with
you
,
or
as
you
are
with
virtue
;
and
if
ever
he
employs
one
moment
of
it
but
to
celebrate
your
Mercy
,
may
he
repeat
that
Crime
which
has
so
abundantly
prov'd
the
vastness
of
it
;
or
into
higher
punishments
,
if
the
gods
were
capable
of
inflicting
on
him
any
that
were
so
.
It
was
(
continu'd
Symander
)
by
an
infinite
Number
of
such
expressions
that
these
generous
Lovers
gave
each
other
assurances
of
their
being
so
;
which
being
finish'd
,
the
Princess
,
who
till
then
had
been
so
intent
upon
this
admirable
Adventure
,
that
she
had
omitted
to
cast
her
Eyes
on
Sillaces
,
(
who
so
prodigally
had
hazarded
his
Life
to
revenge
and
break
her
imprisonment
)
then
did
it
,
and
being
convinc'd
't
was
he
,
by
his
having
lifted
up
his
Helmet
,
she
made
him
retributions
worthy
what
created
them
;
which
fill'd
Artabbanes
with
new
admirations
,
for
he
hitherto
had
thought
that
his
Friend
,
and
his
Princess
(
especially
by
the
former
having
address'd
him
to
the
latter
)
had
seen
and
convers'd
with
one
another
before
(
which
by
a
rare
accident
they
had
not
)
:
but
during
the
Combat
,
my
generous
Master
had
receiv'd
some
wounds
,
which
by
the
emotions
of
so
passionate
a
conversation
,
were
so
inflam'd
,
and
had
so
much
bled
,
that
he
began
to
give
some
symptom
of
fainting
,
which
cast
Parthenissa
into
one
;
the
care
of
whose
recovery
,
created
Artabbanes's
:
but
as
soon
as
she
was
restor'd
to
her self
because
of
Sillaces
wounds
as
well
as
my
Prince's
,
and
that
it
was
late
,
we
resolved
to
go
to
Arsacia
,
which
we
esteem'd
a
Place
of
security
against
the
attempts
of
Surena's
Partizans
,
should
they
have
any
desires
of
revenge
,
whilst
Sillaces
and
Artabbanes
wounds
facilitated
their
acting
it
;
I
omit
(
said
Symander
)
purposely
,
those
favours
the
fair
Parthenissa
honoured
me
withal
;
which
I
had
no
sooner
received
and
acknowledged
,
than
I
went
to
a
Countrey-house
in
sight
of
the
place
where
all
that
I
have
told
you
happened
,
and
there
by
good
fortune
lighted
on
a
young
fellow
,
who
by
often
driving
a
Waggon
,
had
some
little
skill
in
driving
a
Chariot
;
with
his
help
we
got
together
the
Horses
,
and
mended
their
Traces
;
but
because
my
Prince's
and
his
Friend's
wounds
made
it
dangerous
and
painful
to
ride
,
by
Parthenissa's
reiterated
invitations
,
they
went
into
her
Chariot
,
and
in
that
manner
came
in
the
close
of
the
evening
to
Arsacia
,
where
by
the
help
of
our
young
Peasant
(
who
was
liberally
rewarded
)
we
got
into
a
private
House
,
the
Gates
being
already
lock'd
;
and
because
my
wounds
were
so
favourable
as
to
permit
me
to
pay
my
duty
to
those
my
condition
and
inclination
owed
it
,
I
went
and
got
a
Chyrurgeon
who
lived
in
the
Suburbs
,
from
whom
I
understood
that
the
then
Governour
of
Arsacia
,
was
Zenophon
,
which
was
no
small
satisfaction
to
Artabbanes
,
whom
he
had
learnt
from
Moneses
,
had
ever
been
a
faithful
servant
to
all
his
Family
.
I
must
acknowledg
my
satisfaction
at
it
was
not
inferiour
to
his
,
for
my
Father
and
Zenophon
were
Cousin-Germanes
,
and
yet
had
been
more
united
by
Friendship
,
than
by
Blood
;
which
obligation
never
ended
but
with
my
Father's
life
.
But
before
my
Prince
would
permit
his
wounds
to
be
drest
,
he
waited
on
Parthenissa
to
her
Chamber
.
'T
was
there
,
by
a
world
of
reiterated
and
passionate
expressions
that
he
acknowledged
his
Crime
,
and
the
Mercy
that
had
produced
it
;
which
latter
gave
him
a
less
ill
opinion
of
the
former
,
by
finding
experimentally
there
could
be
something
that
transcended
it
,
which
till
so
obliging
an
evincement
,
had
never
entered
into
his
Faith
.
Artabbanes
and
Sillaces
were
no
sooner
retir'd
,
than
they
went
to
the
woman
of
the
House
,
who
they
found
had
been
bless'd
with
an
education
different
to
her
present
quality
,
and
of
no
common
Beauty
;
they
were
not
a
little
pleas'd
with
both
,
as
knowing
they
rendered
her
the
fitter
for
a
Service
which
she
joyfully
went
to
pay
the
fair
Parthenissa
.
'T
was
after
this
,
that
the
two
Friends
made
use
of
the
Chyrurgeon
,
who
found
how
great
an
Enemy
their
civilities
had
prov'd
to
their
healths
,
and
that
the
paying
of
their's
(
unseasonably
)
two
hours
,
would
render
them
uncapable
for
many
to
do
the
like
.
Artabbanes
was
much
more
troubled
at
this
assurance
,
than
at
the
danger
which
caus'd
it
.
The
Chyrurgeon
being
retir'd
,
I
told
the
two
generous
Friends
(
who
lay
both
in
one
Chamber
)
that
perhaps
it
were
not
amiss
,
if
the
next
morning
I
went
to
Zenophon
,
and
acquainted
him
with
their
being
in
his
Government
,
which
obligation
of
Trust
would
not
only
in
some
good
degree
recompence
his
past
fidelity
,
but
invite
his
future
,
and
thereby
procure
a
powerful
Assistant
,
in
case
Surena's
being
alive
,
should
thrust
him
into
desires
of
revenge
,
and
of
recovery
of
Parthenissa
;
or
if
dead
,
should
infuse
resembling
ones
into
his
Friends
and
Partizans
.
Artabbanes
,
though
he
knew
exactly
the
merit
of
Zenophon's
fidelity
,
yet
he
consented
as
much
to
what
I
motion'd
upon
the
score
that
his
Princess
would
be
thereby
removed
to
a
place
,
and
Attendance
less
unfit
for
her
,
as
upon
any
other
.
This
resolve
being
assum'd
,
they
endeavoured
to
take
their
rest
,
which
the
joy
of
Artabbanes
,
and
the
sympathy
Sillaces
had
in
it
as
much
hindered
,
as
the
pain
and
inconvenience
of
their
wounds
.
The
day
at
length
appeared
,
and
I
had
no
sooner
informed
my
generous
Master
,
that
the
Princess
was
awake
,
than
he
sent
me
to
the
woman
of
the
House
to
enquire
of
her
Health
,
who
returned
me
word
from
Parthenissa
,
that
he
might
know
hers
by
his
own
.
Artabbanes
found
a
misfortune
in
so
much
kindness
,
by
finding
himself
in
a
feaver
.
This
made
me
hasten
to
Zenophon
,
whose
power
and
care
I
fear'd
my
Prince's
sickness
would
need
;
as
soon
as
I
came
to
his
Palace
,
I
desired
one
of
his
Domesticks
to
bring
me
where
he
was
;
who
being
my
Guide
,
I
pass'd
unexamined
through
his
Guards
,
and
came
into
a
large
Hall
,
where
I
found
him
invironed
by
a
throng
of
his
Officers
,
and
though
with
Moneses
I
had
left
Media
in
a
very
green
Age
,
yet
I
had
still
some
impressions
of
Zenophon
,
which
the
seeing
him
revived
;
't
was
with
some
difficulty
I
got
near-enough
to
be
observed
by
him
;
which
when
I
perceived
I
was
,
I
looked
on
him
so
fixtly
,
that
perhaps
it
made
him
the
more
hastily
dismiss
the
greater
part
of
his
Officers
;
who
were
no
sooner
gone
,
than
presenting
my self
to
him
,
I
desired
to
know
if
he
were
at
leisure
to
hear
a
Stranger
,
who
had
some
things
of
moment
to
inform
him
of
,
and
which
it
was
not
improbable
but
he
might
be
satisfied
with
?
I
know
not
whether
he
read
something
in
my
Face
which
made
him
guess
or
suspect
who
I
was
,
or
whether
the
Times
which
then
began
to
be
strangely
confused
,
made
him
believe
I
came
to
give
him
some
important
advice
;
but
whatever
was
the
Cause
,
without
any
ballancing
,
he
commanded
me
to
follow
him
into
a
Cabbinet
,
which
was
contiguous
to
the
Hall
we
then
were
in
;
whither
being
come
,
and
the
Dore
lock'd
,
I
ask'd
him
,
if
he
had
never
seen
any
thing
that
resembled
me
?
After
having
considered
me
narrowly
,
he
replyed
he
had
,
but
that
he
could
not
suddenly
recollect
where
it
had
been
.
I
thereupon
told
him
my
name
,
which
he
had
scarcely
heard
,
but
I
found
my self
in
his
Arms
,
as
a
reward
of
that
discovery
;
and
though
by
many
testimonies
of
joy
he
acquainted
me
with
his
,
yet
they
were
infinitely
short
of
those
demonstrations
of
that
Passion
with
which
he
celebrated
the
news
I
told
him
of
my
Prince's
being
so
near
him
,
and
in
a
place
under
his
Power
;
after
I
had
convinced
his
belief
of
that
Truth
by
many
protestations
he
necessitated
me
to
make
him
of
it
,
lifting
up
his
eyes
and
his
hands
to
Heaven
,
he
cryed
out
,
Great
Gods
!
you
could
not
create
my
acknowledgments
in
a
way
I
should
more
willingly
pay
them
,
than
by
granting
me
the
happiness
of
serving
any
of
Monese's
blood
;
and
if
to
this
blessing
you
will
add
that
,
of
permitting
me
to
see
his
Son
seated
in
the
Throne
of
Media
,
I
shall
esteem
my self
abundantly
satisfied
for
your
having
deny'd
me
one
.
'T
was
by
many
resembling
expressious
that
the
generous
Zenophon
evinc'd
to
me
his
fidelity
to
Artabbane's
Family
,
was
not
at
all
impaired
;
neither
did
his
desire
to
the
gods
in
my
Prince's
favour
relish
any
thing
of
an
ill
subject
;
since
Tygranes
the
then
King
of
Media
,
either
by
Nature
or
choice
,
was
so
averse
to
the
fair
Sex
,
that
Artabbane's
Passion
for
one
of
them
,
could
hardly
transcend
his
aversion
for
all
.
Zenophon
having
put
a
period
to
the
evincements
of
his
joy
and
gratitude
,
conjur'd
me
pressingly
to
conduct
him
,
to
him
which
had
raised
them
;
This
I
obeyed
,
having
first
desired
him
it
might
be
with
privacy
,
for
that
my
Prince's
condition
if
it
did
not
already
need
circumspection
,
yet
it
might
;
it
was
therefore
by
water
that
we
went
to
his
Lodging
,
which
(
as
the
Governour
's
Palace
)
stood
upon
the
River
Corindas
.
'T
is
as
impossible
as
needless
,
to
repeat
all
that
past
between
them
of
civility
;
it
is
sufficient
you
know
,
Artabbanes
received
him
with
all
the
demonstrations
of
satisfaction
and
respect
,
a
person
so
replenish'd
with
virtue
and
fidelity
could
either
desire
or
hope
;
and
Zenophon's
joy
at
the
reception
was
nothing
inferiour
to
the
greatness
of
what
created
it
.
My
Prince
afterwards
informed
him
of
the
quality
of
Sillaces
,
whom
he
saluted
,
and
complemented
with
much
humility
:
Those
ceremonies
finish'd
,
Artabbanes
,
who
could
not
but
admire
at
any
man's
possessing
so
high
a
Government
as
that
of
Arsacia
,
who
was
so
declared
a
Partizan
of
his
Father's
,
as
Zenophon
informed
him
of
it
.
To
which
Zenophon
replyed
,
Though
you
are
(
Sir
)
ignorant
of
this
present
Government
,
yet
you
are
not
,
that
the
past
was
so
unequal
and
Tyrannical
,
that
your
generous
Father
quitted
not
only
his
interest
in
it
,
but
in
the
Kingdom
;
and
not
to
be
an
Enemy
to
Tygrane's
Quiet
and
his
own
,
voluntarily
confined
himself
in
Parthia
.
It
was
long
before
we
knew
what
created
such
ungrounded
jealousies
in
our
King
,
and
so
strange
a
way
of
suppressing
them
in
his
Uncle
;
but
now
the
Mystery
is
as
visible
as
his
dissembling
that
has
so
long
hindered
it
from
being
so
.
Merinzor
,
the
first
Prince
of
the
Blood
(
after
Moneses
)
aspired
by
Art
and
Sin
,
to
acquire
that
preheminence
which
Nature
had
denied
him
;
and
having
by
admirable
insinuations
made
Tygranes
as
much
his
Subject
by
inclination
,
as
he
was
his
by
duty
;
he
so
successfully
represented
to
him
the
danger
of
having
the
next
and
certain
Heir
(
by
Tygrane's
aversion
,
or
disability
for
Women
)
to
be
in
the
Government
or
Kingdom
;
that
at
length
the
King
by
some
usages
which
neither
were
consistent
with
Monese's
quality
or
disposition
,
necessitated
your
generous
Father
to
an
Exilement
:
This
was
no
sooner
effected
on
which
Merinzor's
designs
were
founded
,
than
he
appears
publickly
the
Favourite
of
his
King
,
yet
so
artificially
,
that
many
believed
his
condition
but
from
thence
bore
date
;
whereas
some
others
(
though
indeed
but
very
few
)
concluded
Monese's
Banishment
was
an
effect
of
his
having
been
so
before
.
Merinzor
(
as
Tygranes
has
since
told
me
)
assured
him
he
might
now
Reign
by
no
Law
but
his
Will
,
since
the
discontented
had
no
head
to
give
their
Body
;
and
that
Moneses
by
being
kept
out
of
Media
,
would
be
deprived
of
anticipating
his
Title
to
the
Crown
of
it
;
but
to
leave
as
little
to
Fortune
as
the
nature
of
humane
things
would
admit
,
he
humbly
begged
his
King's
permission
to
allow
him
in
publick
to
be
an
earnest
Solicitor
for
your
Father's
return
,
which
(
as
he
said
)
would
insinuate
him
in
all
the
Designs
that
would
be
laid
to
effect
it
,
and
consequently
enable
him
to
prevent
them
.
The
deluded
Tygranes
condescended
to
this
;
by
which
concession
,
Merinzor
not
only
cast
the
odium
of
Monese's
Banishment
entirely
on
the
King
;
but
also
acquired
to
himself
those
of
your
Father's
Friends
,
who
had
not
wit
enough
to
discover
Merinzor
was
his
Enemy
;
whereby
many
designs
for
his
restauration
became
unfruitful
,
and
by
the
frequent
Execution
of
the
Conspirators
,
so
weakened
his
Party
,
that
now
there
are
scarcely
enough
left
to
act
a
design
,
though
not
prevented
by
Intelligence
.
My
Fortune
,
or
my
suspitions
,
kept
me
out
of
all
those
unsuccessful
Plots
,
and
thereby
I
find
my self
(
and
some
few
Friends
,
who
I
had
acquainted
with
,
and
made
approve
of
my
jealousies
)
in
a
posture
able
to
serve
our
generous
Prince
;
for
not
only
this
City
,
but
Ecbatan
,
Cyrapolis
and
Europus
,
are
in
the
power
of
those
,
who
are
resolved
,
they
cannot
more
justly
employ
theirs
,
than
against
Merinzor
,
and
for
Moneses
and
Artabbanes
.
But
Sir
(
continued
Zenophon
)
,
Tygranes
being
convinc'd
that
your
Father
being
removed
,
all
causes
of
his
Fears
were
so
too
,
abandoned
himself
so
absolutely
to
those
vices
which
unlimited
power
is
aptest
to
inspire
,
that
partly
those
exorbitant
disorders
,
but
more
particularly
his
assuming
to
himself
Monese's
Banishment
,
from
whence
all
our
miseries
took
their
original
,
has
so
alienated
his
Subjects
Affections
,
that
Merinzor
by
obliging
all
,
by
permitting
Tygranes
to
oblige
none
,
and
by
a
seemingly
soliciting
your
Father's
return
,
having
gained
those
Hearts
he
made
his
King
lose
,
began
lately
so
much
to
unvizard
his
designs
,
that
I
discovered
and
disclosed
them
to
Tygranes
;
but
I
had
much
difficulty
to
free
my self
from
being
thought
dishonest
,
for
endeavouring
to
evince
Merinzor
was
so
;
which
I
had
not
effected
,
had
not
the
gods
(
concerned
in
the
discovery
of
so
black
an
ingratitude
)
,
miraculously
evidenced
it
:
For
the
Court
being
then
at
Ecbatan
,
there
came
a
Packet
to
Merinzor
out
of
Parthia
;
but
the
day
before
he
was
gone
to
a
House
of
Pleasure
not
above
200
Furlongs
off
;
where
under
a
pretence
of
passing
away
his
Time
,
he
employed
it
in
gaining
of
Partizans
,
and
in
establishing
a
fortune
for
himself
,
which
should
ruine
his
King's
.
The
belief
I
had
,
that
in
that
Packet
there
was
something
of
concernment
;
and
the
knowledg
I
had
,
that
it
lay
not
in
the
Power
of
inferences
,
but
of
demonstrations
,
to
make
Tygranes
revoke
that
unlimited
Authority
he
had
so
fatally
trusted
his
Favourite
with
,
made
me
determine
to
hazard
my
own
ruine
to
prevent
my
King's
:
I
say
,
hazard
my
own
ruine
;
for
if
in
that
Packet
I
resolved
to
open
,
there
had
been
nothing
which
might
have
apologiz'd
for
my
doing
it
,
by
my
inclinations
to
your
Family
,
and
Merinzor's
Power
,
I
could
not
have
avoided
resenting
the
most
violent
effects
of
it
.
In
brief
,
I
seiz'd
upon
those
letters
,
and
having
by
the
admirable
Art
of
a
Secretary
of
mine
decypher'd
them
,
I
found
they
came
from
Surena
,
and
discovered
palpably
a
strong
and
dangerous
conspiracy
,
which
was
partly
to
be
acted
by
some
Parthian
Forces
that
Prince
had
promised
him
.
I
believe
Sir
(
continued
Zenophon
)
you
are
not
ignorant
of
Surena's
Person
,
and
Power
with
Arsaces
,
which
hinders
me
from
giving
you
a
Character
of
either
.
Alas
(
reply'd
Artabbanes
)
I
am
but
too-perfectly
instructed
in
the
latter
,
which
has
cost
me
so
many
troubles
,
that
't
is
no
small
one
to
remember
them
;
but
I
will
another
time
give
you
their
relation
,
in
the
mean
while
I
shall
beseech
you
to
continue
yours
.
After
(
said
Zenophon
)
I
had
so
successfully
disclos'd
what
Tygranes
,
not
I
,
disbeliev'd
,
immediately
I
presented
him
with
what
he
found
a
misfortune
then
to
know
,
but
had
found
it
a
greater
to
have
longer
ignor'd
.
Never
did
I
see
so
sudden
and
so
strange
an
alteration
;
that
in
his
looks
was
much
inferiour
to
that
in
his
Government
,
for
he
perceived
't
was
not
now
by
the
Title
,
but
the
Virtues
of
a
King
that
he
must
continue
one
;
and
that
Merinzor
had
but
for
a
time
cast
away
his
fears
,
that
afterwards
he
might
eternally
cast
him
out
of
his
Throne
.
Tygranes
in
Tears
told
me
this
truth
and
many
an
other
,
and
by
great
favours
convinc'd
me
his
gratitude
for
my
faithfulness
and
vigilance
,
was
proportionate
to
them
;
I
told
him
't
was
not
enough
to
discover
Merinzor's
infidelity
,
but
he
must
prevent
it
;
that
nothing
was
more
conducive
to
that
end
,
than
without
any
respite
to
place
men
of
high
fidelity
,
and
no
less
resolution
,
in
the
principal
Towns
,
which
would
not
only
hinder
Merinzor's
possessing
them
,
but
deter
his
Partizans
from
a
conjunction
with
him
,
by
so
prejudicial
and
pregnant
an
evincement
,
that
his
Conspiracy
was
disclosed
,
and
partly
prevented
;
that
if
yet
the
despair
of
Merinzor's
Faction
flung
them
into
Arms
,
yet
the
possession
of
the
Towns
would
so
protract
the
time
,
that
before
all
of
them
were
lost
,
He
might
raise
an
Army
not
only
to
recover
them
again
,
but
to
punish
those
that
necessitated
him
to
do
it
.
That
one
of
the
best
advantages
in
a
Civil
War
,
was
to
secure
the
Cities
,
they
being
not
only
Sanctuaries
for
small
Numbers
against
great
,
but
the
Banks
and
Magazines
of
a
Kingdom
,
and
without
which
the
Countrey
cannot
subsist
;
for
't
is
those
which
take
off
the
fruits
of
the
Earth
,
and
return
to
the
Countrey
those
of
Industry
and
Art
;
that
possessing
them
,
he
would
gain
the
ablest
men
,
which
commonly
make
their
residence
there
,
or
at
least
hinder
the
Enemy
from
that
advantage
,
which
is
one
of
the
highest
in
a
Domestick
War
.
I
told
him
many
things
of
this
quality
which
he
approved
;
and
because
by
what
I
had
done
,
he
was
also
confident
of
my
fidelity
,
he
instantly
gave
me
Commissions
to
place
such
Governours
in
the
four
chief
Cities
,
for
whose
Honesty
I
would
answer
.
In
Ecbatan
(
which
you
know
is
Metropolis
of
this
Kingdom
)
I
plac'd
Patafernes
,
Symander's
Uncle
;
Arsacia
I
elected
for
my self
;
and
for
the
other
two
,
Men
of
whose
inclinations
I
am
satisfied
,
and
for
whose
abilities
I
will
more
answer
for
,
than
my
own
.
This
I
did
with
that
celerity
which
accompanies
those
actions
we
embrace
with
duty
and
inclination
.
Ecbatan
by
reason
of
the
King's
presence
and
Guards
,
we
secured
without
delay
or
hazard
,
and
thrust
out
Merinzor's
Governour
and
Creatures
:
the
other
Three
with
some
little
difficulty
we
effected
;
but
the
first
thing
of
all
that
we
attempted
,
was
the
seizing
on
Merinzor's
Person
,
whose
intelligence
of
my
taking
his
Pocket
,
came
immediately
to
his
knowledg
,
and
so
he
scap'd
me
;
but
so
narrowly
,
that
had
he
been
as
much
hurt
as
fear'd
,
he
had
not
now
been
in
so
promising
a
condition
.
I
believe
(
continued
Zenophon
)
you
may
think
it
strange
that
in
the
heat
of
Tygrane's
apprehensions
,
and
of
his
hatred
to
his
late
Favourite
,
I
did
not
embrace
so
obliging
a
conjuncture
for
soliciting
your
Father's
return
;
I
do
confess
,
I
was
a
thousand
times
upon
the
point
of
motioning
it
;
but
that
which
suspended
my
doing
so
,
was
,
left
it
might
create
some
jealousies
of
me
,
and
in
them
,
recall
the
power
he
had
conferred
on
me
,
which
I
intended
to
make
use
of
,
to
place
Partizans
of
your
Family
in
the
most
important
Governments
;
which
once
being
effected
,
would
probably
render
my
solicitation
less
unsuccessful
,
by
rendring
it
more
dangerous
to
deny
,
than
to
grant
my
request
.
This
reasoning
of
mine
,
the
event
but
too
evidently
evinc'd
was
not
groundless
;
for
after
I
had
secured
the
chief
Cities
with
Governours
,
declared
Servants
to
Moneses
,
which
I
palliated
to
Tygranes
,
by
assuring
him
I
knew
none
but
your
Father's
Friends
that
were
Enemies
to
Merinzor
;
I
implored
of
him
by
many
reasons
and
reiterated
Prayers
,
to
invite
Moneses
to
return
;
from
whose
Courage
and
Judgment
,
he
would
doubtless
derive
those
good
Services
,
which
by
Merinzor's
infidelity
he
needed
,
and
which
thereby
he
had
been
so
long
hindered
from
receiving
:
I
added
to
this
,
that
had
Merinzor's
infusions
of
your
Father's
designs
of
aspiring
to
the
Crown
,
been
as
true
,
as
they
were
false
;
yet
by
his
loss
of
Artabbanes
(
for
alas
(
Sir
)
we
then
were
confident
of
that
misfortune
,
by
your
being
so
long
concealed
to
the
world
)
there
was
no
danger
of
any
attempts
,
since
by
the
course
of
Nature
,
Moneses
was
much
nearer
his
Grave
than
he
,
and
by
the
course
of
the
Median
Laws
,
the
Princess
Lyndadory
was
excluded
from
the
Crown
.
But
though
Tygranes
had
cast
off
his
affection
for
Merinzor
,
yet
he
still
retained
those
impressions
he
had
planted
in
him
when
he
possess'd
it
;
and
consequently
either
as
a
Complement
to
our
fidelities
upon
his
own
score
,
or
as
an
unremovable
maxime
he
had
establish'd
,
not
to
admit
of
your
Father's
return
,
(
for
if
guilty
,
he
must
thereby
invest
him
with
too
ample
a
power
to
act
his
designs
;
and
if
innocent
,
to
act
his
revenge
)
he
not
only
positively
denied
me
my
request
,
but
enjoyned
me
never
to
revive
it
;
and
in
expressions
so
violent
,
that
instead
of
making
him
Monese's
friend
,
I
once
apprehended
he
was
no
longer
mine
.
Judg
,
Sir
(
said
Zenophon
)
,
if
to
motives
of
justice
,
having
added
that
of
his
interest
and
fear
,
I
could
not
prevail
;
how
much
more
certain
I
had
been
of
that
misfortune
,
if
I
had
attempted
my
request
upon
the
score
only
of
the
former
:
I
was
necessitated
notwithstanding
so
sensible
a
repulse
,
to
make
no
publick
demonstration
of
it
;
yet
I
was
often
determining
to
betray
my
King
into
his
advantage
,
by
sending
for
your
Father
;
but
the
apprehension
I
then
had
,
that
such
a
proceeding
before
the
effect
was
evidenced
for
which
I
acted
it
,
might
cast
Tygranes
into
an
eternal
ruine
,
by
occasioning
him
to
cast
himself
into
Merinzor's
power
,
hindered
me
from
it
;
which
latter
was
but
too
probable
:
for
what
Merinzor
did
perform
,
he
was
resolved
Moneses
would
,
had
he
but
the
Force
;
and
of
two
Enemies
,
't
was
a
rational
faith
,
he
would
elect
him
whom
he
had
so
recently
honoured
with
his
favour
,
than
him
,
who
had
never
had
any
share
in
it
.
'T
was
upon
many
as
pregnant
reasons
as
these
,
that
I
determined
to
expect
the
leisure
of
the
gods
,
for
the
restoration
of
your
Family
,
and
in
the
mean
time
to
act
what
I
could
for
the
ruine
of
the
greatest
Enemy
of
it
,
which
I
esteemed
much
conducive
to
that
end
.
In
pursuance
whereof
,
the
King
having
honoured
me
with
the
title
of
his
Lieutenant-General
,
reserving
to
himself
the
Superiority
over
all
(
as
a
King
that
desires
and
merits
victory
,
determining
to
Court
her
in
Person
)
I
came
by
his
Command
to
this
City
,
to
raise
such
forces
as
voluntarily
would
fight
under
the
Royal
Ensigns
;
Merinzor
too
,
having
already
so
far
advanc'd
his
preparations
,
as
to
have
marching
out
of
the
Northern
parts
of
this
Kingdom
,
a
Body
of
30000
Men
,
which
daily
increases
and
with
which
he
hopes
to
settle
,
what
my
successful
doubts
has
so
much
shaken
and
indangered
.
Zenophon
had
no
sooner
done
speaking
,
than
Artabbanes
by
many
fresh
Civilities
congratulated
his
Command
,
and
his
deserving
of
it
;
and
by
particular
expressions
,
made
him
many
signal
retributions
for
the
care
he
had
of
Moneses
,
and
his
Family
.
My
Prince
then
let
Zenophon
know
that
Surena
was
in
Media
,
and
near
Arsacia
,
how
miraculously
he
had
avoided
the
generous
Sillace's
Sword
;
and
at
last
,
that
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
the
Authoress
of
his
sufferings
and
desires
,
was
in
the
same
House
with
him
.
Zenophon
was
much
amazed
at
the
intelligence
of
Surena's
being
in
Media
;
but
he
was
much
more
satisfied
to
learn
his
Prince's
Mistress
was
in
a
place
where
he
might
serve
her
,
and
where
he
might
see
a
Perfection
,
which
he
concluded
could
not
be
but
transcendent
,
by
making
so
generous
a
Captive
;
he
went
therefore
with
Artabbanes's
and
her
permission
,
to
the
Chamber
of
that
excellent
Beauty
,
which
he
saw
with
admirations
and
confessions
,
that
my
Prince's
desires
and
sufferings
could
not
equal
in
degrees
that
perfection
which
had
occasioned
them
.
After
Zenophon
by
a
silent
wonder
had
complemented
her
Beauty
,
by
many
pressing
and
humble
implorings
,
he
invited
her
to
his
Palace
,
which
he
said
would
be
less
unworthy
of
her
,
than
the
Chamber
she
was
in
.
Parthenissa
acknowledged
this
civility
in
expressions
which
acquainted
him
with
hers
;
and
after
the
Chyrurgeons
had
assured
her
,
that
the
two
Princes
might
without
any
danger
,
be
removed
by
Boat
to
Zenophon's
,
she
condescended
to
accompany
them
thither
,
where
they
arrived
undiscovered
;
which
my
Prince
was
much
intent
upon
,
lest
his
accidental
coming
into
Media
,
might
by
the
conjuncture
of
Affairs
,
relish
more
of
Design
than
Chance
,
and
consequently
prejudice
Zenophon
,
who
by
the
Laws
of
Hospitality
and
Gratitude
,
he
was
confined
to
oblige
.
As
soon
as
the
Princess
was
retired
to
her
Appartment
,
Zenophon
presented
her
with
the
fair
Emilia
,
his
Daughter
and
only
Child
,
who
he
begged
her
to
accept
till
she
could
recover
one
that
was
more
capable
to
serve
her
;
or
if
she
esteemed
none
could
be
so
,
then
he
conjured
her
to
accept
of
her
for
ever
.
Parthenissa
was
exceedingly
satisfied
with
so
obliging
a
Present
;
and
though
Emilia
at
first
sight
absolutely
gave
her self
up
to
the
Princess
,
yet
she
could
not
more
do
so
to
Parthenissa
,
than
I
did
the
like
to
her
.
I
cannot
,
Sir
(
continued
Symander
)
,
but
acknowledg
a
Truth
,
which
if
you
saw
the
cause
of
,
you
would
perhaps
upon
her
account
excuse
this
digression
,
whose
Character
I
would
give
you
,
did
I
not
know
that
in
such
attempts
,
either
the
Lover
thinks
he
speaks
too
little
,
or
is
thought
to
speak
too
much
.
There
is
no
doubt
,
had
not
Artavasdes
been
too
deeply
concerned
in
the
hearing
of
his
Friends
Loves
,
and
in
the
infelicities
of
his
own
,
to
act
any
thing
of
mirth
or
suspension
;
he
had
at
Symander's
cost
,
given
himself
no
small
divertisement
;
for
that
faithful
servant
had
been
so
little
one
to
Love
,
and
so
contemned
the
two
Princes
assurances
,
that
it
was
a
Fate
as
certain
as
Death
,
that
now
this
acknowledgment
had
furnished
his
generous
Hearer
with
an
ample
Theam
for
Raillery
,
had
not
those
former
considerations
silenced
all
thoughts
of
that
quality
.
Symander
in
expectation
of
this
little
war
,
had
continued
a
while
silent
;
but
at
length
perceiving
,
and
troubled
at
the
cause
that
he
mist
it
,
thus
prosecuted
his
Narration
.
Zenophon
leaving
Parthenissa
in
her
Appartment
,
went
to
see
the
two
Princes's
in
theirs
;
who
,
though
his
Palace
was
capacious
enough
to
afford
them
distinct
ones
had
determined
their
Lodgings
,
as
their
Friendships
,
should
admit
of
no
division
.
The
residue
of
that
day
and
the
night
,
was
dedicated
to
Rest
;
but
Artabbanes
took
so
little
,
that
the
next
morning
his
Princess
being
informed
of
it
,
came
to
visit
him
;
and
perceiving
by
his
indisposition
,
and
the
loss
of
so
much
blood
,
that
he
was
very
pale
,
she
became
so
too
,
and
what
misfortune
had
created
in
Artabbanes
,
Sympathy
did
in
his
Mistriss
,
who
by
the
eloquence
of
her
words
as
well
as
looks
,
acquainted
him
with
her
sufferings
,
which
she
said
,
recived
no
small
accession
,
that
his
proceeded
from
the
service
he
had
done
her
.
If
(
Madam
,
said
my
Prince
)
my
present
condition
ought
to
produce
any
operations
in
you
,
they
should
be
of
a
contrary
quality
to
those
you
ascribe
them
to
;
for
my
Crime
upon
its
own
score
abundantly
merited
a
higher
punishment
than
these
unconsiderable
wounds
;
I
have
therefore
much
more
cause
to
rejoyce
than
repine
,
that
what
I
should
have
suffered
as
an
expiatory
Penance
for
my
Sin
,
I
do
,
for
the
duty
of
serving
you
;
your
goodness
having
rendered
my
punishment
needless
,
't
was
just
my
services
should
impose
on
me
what
your
Mercy
declined
the
doing
;
and
that
a
part
of
that
blood
should
be
shed
for
your
safety
,
which
was
all
preserved
by
your
forgiveness
;
but
Madam
,
(
continued
Artabbanes
)
may
I
not
again
stand
in
need
of
it
,
when
I
have
taken
the
confidence
humbly
to
beg
the
knowledg
of
your
Adventures
,
till
my
wound
permit
me
to
acquaint
you
with
mine
?
This
entertainment
will
be
the
best
Charm
against
their
Pain
;
for
whil'st
I
can
hear
and
see
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
my
other
Senses
will
resign
their
functions
to
those
.
If
(
she
replyed
)
the
relation
of
my
Story
can
produce
so
ambition'd
an
effect
,
I
shall
find
in
it
an
ample
recompence
for
all
my
sufferings
;
which
the
sooner
to
receive
,
I
will
obey
you
.
The
Sequel
of
Parthenissa's
History
.
After
(
said
Parthenissa
)
that
the
generous
Sillaces
by
an
attempt
to
silence
our
fears
for
you
,
had
raised
them
for
himself
,
by
ingaging
in
so
dangerous
and
unpromising
a
journey
,
wherein
he
evinced
the
vastness
of
his
Friendship
;
(
for
there
is
hardly
any
of
so
perfect
a
quality
,
as
to
undertake
that
upon
certainties
,
which
his
did
but
in
hopes
.
)
I
continued
for
a
while
free
from
all
troubles
,
but
those
which
both
your
absences
created
,
and
those
I
sympathized
in
of
your
excellent
Sisters
,
and
the
fair
Zephalinda's
;
for
Surena
,
nor
Arsaces
on
his
score
,
did
not
renew
their
persecution
;
I
admired
at
it
,
as
much
as
I
was
satisfied
with
it
;
for
though
Surena's
words
assured
me
not
of
his
Passion
,
yet
his
languishings
did
;
and
in
all
his
visits
he
so
pressingly
implored
my
pardon
,
that
I
found
he
was
but
too
much
concerned
in
the
obtaining
it
;
which
having
granted
to
his
condition
,
and
not
to
him
;
that
being
altered
,
I
had
also
altered
my
concession
;
this
I
did
as
a
necessary
justice
,
though
he
gave
it
a
contrary
Name
:
For
those
prayers
which
by
that
proceeding
he
employed
for
obtaining
of
my
Pardon
,
he
would
otherwise
(
as
I
apprehended
)
have
imployed
for
obtaining
my
affection
;
and
the
obstacle
of
his
Crime
being
removed
,
it
would
have
left
Arsaces
none
,
whereby
he
might
have
continued
his
solicitations
for
his
Favourite
.
It
was
above
six
Moons
that
I
remained
in
this
condition
;
which
,
though
but
too
full
of
infelicity
by
your
absences
and
Surena's
presence
;
yet
it
seems
the
Gods
thought
it
not
full
enough
;
for
by
the
folly
of
his
Passion
he
was
finally
reduced
to
as
dangerous
a
condition
,
as
your
Sword
had
done
:
'T
was
then
that
Orodes
passing
over
all
considerations
,
but
those
of
his
Favourite
,
came
to
visit
me
,
and
not
only
implored
my
Pardon
,
but
my
Love
for
him
.
I
represented
to
him
,
that
one
which
could
stand
in
need
of
the
former
,
could
hardly
merit
the
latter
;
that
he
was
a
Person
whose
Treachery
rendered
him
as
unfit
for
his
Friendship
,
as
Mine
;
and
that
his
actions
rather
called
upon
his
Justice
,
than
Protection
.
Madam
(
said
Orodes
)
that
infidelity
you
reproach
him
with
,
is
that
which
you
should
esteem
him
for
;
the
least
production
of
a
common
Passion
,
is
to
endeavour
the
having
it
rewarded
by
sufferings
,
and
by
submissions
;
but
one
that
could
not
but
prove
extraordinary
,
by
the
Beauties
being
so
that
inspir'd
it
,
you
cannot
admire
at
an
effect
,
resembling
its
cause
;
and
that
your
perfections
are
not
common
,
is
not
a
greater
Truth
,
than
that
a
Crime
in
Surena
is
the
like
.
Your
Artabbanes
himself
I
believe
durst
not
have
done
so
much
;
he
loves
his
Reputation
more
than
Parthenissa
;
and
who
dares
do
most
for
her
,
merits
most
from
her
.
I
know
(
Sir
,
I
reply'd
)
that
the
generous
Artabbanes
is
more
a
friend
to
Virtue
,
than
to
Love
;
and
I
am
confident
he
knows
I
am
so
too
;
't
is
therefore
only
on
that
account
I
believe
he
durst
not
have
done
what
Surena
did
;
neither
is
it
any
glory
,
that
he
transcends
Artabbanes
in
nothing
but
Vice
;
which
is
a
preheminence
he
will
as
certainly
resign
him
,
as
surpass
him
in
all
actions
of
an
opposite
quality
;
but
(
Sir
)
I
hope
you
cannot
seriously
expect
my
affection
for
a
Person
,
who
pretends
no
title
to
it
,
but
by
one
which
renders
him
unworthy
of
it
.
I
am
(
said
Orodes
)
so
serious
in
my
request
,
that
to
deny
it
me
,
will
cast
me
into
as
bad
a
condition
,
as
his
whose
preservation
I
solicite
;
my
Fate
and
Surena's
being
unseparable
.
But
Arsaces
finding
I
was
as
constant
in
my
resolves
,
as
his
Favourite
in
his
fruitless
passion
,
at
length
converted
those
Prayers
for
my
Affection
,
into
some
,
for
giving
him
a
visit
;
and
that
at
least
I
would
preserve
his
life
,
if
I
would
not
render
it
happy
.
The
King's
importunities
forc'd
that
from
me
,
which
his
reasons
could
not
;
and
taking
me
with
him
in
his
Chariot
,
he
brought
me
to
Surena's
Palace
:
I
found
the
Master
of
it
in
a
condition
that
convinced
me
.
Pity
is
none
of
the
ways
to
Love
;
for
had
it
been
,
Surena
could
have
been
no
longer
deny'd
mine
.
You
know
(
continued
Parthenissa
)
that
his
good
meen
yields
to
none
but
to
Two
which
are
in
this
Chamber
;
and
yet
I
found
it
as
remarkable
for
the
change
,
as
it
had
been
for
the
perfection
.
As
soon
as
Arsaces
had
acquainted
him
I
was
come
to
give
him
a
visit
,
he
raised
himself
faintly
up
,
and
with
a
languishing
voice
told
me
,
I
know
not
Madam
,
with
what
design
't
is
you
do
me
this
honour
;
is
it
either
to
see
the
effects
of
your
Power
,
or
to
increase
them
?
'T
is
(
I
replyed
)
purely
from
my
King's
Commands
,
that
you
derive
this
visit
;
and
if
mine
have
any
influence
over
you
,
do
not
I
beseech
you
,
by
continuing
so
ill
,
necessitate
him
to
command
from
me
another
.
Alas
Madam
(
said
Surena
)
why
do
you
then
by
your
sight
give
me
so
great
a
dis-invitation
to
obey
you
?
who
can
see
your
Beauty
,
and
resolve
to
banish
himself
eternally
from
it
?
your
Eyes
destroy
what
your
cruelty
makes
me
elect
;
and
had
I
not
had
the
felicity
of
beholding
you
now
,
my
sufferings
in
few
days
had
made
me
obey
a
command
,
which
your
words
has
not
now
more
plainly
told
me
,
than
your
usage
has
.
Yes
Madam
(
he
continued
)
since
't
is
impossible
to
decline
my
Flame
but
with
my
Life
,
I
am
taking
that
fatal
and
only
way
of
extinguishing
it
;
and
I
hope
in
a
short
time
so
to
change
my
condition
,
that
it
shall
render
me
as
worthy
your
Pity
,
as
my
ill
Fate
has
rendered
me
unworthy
your
esteem
.
That
Death
(
I
replyed
)
which
you
seem
to
imply
,
is
not
to
obey
,
but
injure
me
;
and
I
had
rather
indure
your
importunities
,
than
avoid
them
at
that
rate
;
't
is
your
change
,
not
your
ruine
I
desire
.
Ah
Madam
(
Surena
answer'd
)
the
impossibility
that
any
Beauty
can
transcend
yours
,
is
not
greater
,
than
whil'st
I
live
,
that
I
can
decline
adoring
it
;
and
if
I
vow'd
your
Eyes
could
act
all
things
,
I
excepted
the
impossibility
of
their
quenching
fires
,
which
they
themselves
inspir'd
:
that
miracle
is
deny'd
them
by
a
power
,
which
renders
that
deficiency
a
greater
:
so
that
if
you
command
me
to
live
,
you
consequently
command
my
Passion
to
live
with
me
;
and
you
must
resolve
to
suffer
the
effects
of
the
latter
,
if
you
enjoyn
the
continuance
of
the
former
:
I
tell
you
(
Madam
)
ingenuously
what
you
must
permit
,
if
you
permit
me
to
live
,
That
either
I
may
put
a
period
to
my
Torments
,
by
putting
a
period
to
my
Life
;
or
not
be
deluded
into
fresh
Miseries
by
fresh
Expectations
,
which
will
vanish
as
soon
as
my
sickness
does
,
and
add
to
the
Miseries
of
losing
my
Cure
,
that
of
losing
my
Hopes
.
So
resolute
a
demand
(
continued
Parthenissa
)
was
so
far
from
inducing
me
to
say
more
in
his
favour
,
that
it
made
me
repent
I
had
said
so
much
;
which
I
had
no
sooner
told
him
,
than
Arsaces
demonstrated
as
great
a
despair
,
as
what
I
had
said
,
did
involve
Surena
in
.
And
truly
the
King
by
such
moving
conjurations
and
humblings
,
so
far
transported
me
beyond
my
resolution
,
that
the
conclusion
of
our
visit
was
a
promise
I
made
Surena
of
a
pardon
for
all
was
past
.
But
le●t
this
might
invite
him
to
actions
that
might
need
it
again
,
to
qualifie
my
forgiveness
,
I
told
him
,
he
derived
it
only
from
Arsace's
commands
,
and
his
own
condition
.
He
prest
me
extreamly
before
I
left
him
,
to
say
he
derived
it
immediately
from
me
;
but
that
I
was
so
far
from
telling
him
,
that
it
made
me
profess
,
if
he
was
not
satisfied
with
what
I
had
already
spoke
,
I
should
rather
recall
my
concession
,
than
any
way
increase
it
.
Surena
(
as
he
said
)
by
this
visit
,
was
in
few
days
able
to
pay
me
one
,
which
he
did
,
and
entertained
me
with
retributions
,
not
desires
.
To
invite
him
to
a
perseverance
therein
,
I
used
him
with
much
more
Civility
and
Freedom
than
either
his
offence
or
my
resentment
for
it
had
made
me
formerly
practice
:
Neither
was
I
out
of
hope
,
but
that
receiving
favours
,
when
he
desired
none
,
and
none
when
he
desired
any
,
his
reason
might
invite
him
then
to
what
it
should
have
done
before
.
I
must
acknowledg
,
I
could
hardly
have
been
civil
to
him
upon
any
other
score
;
and
I
had
had
no
small
difficulty
to
perswade
my
modesty
to
listen
to
such
constant
expressions
of
Gratitude
with
satisfaction
,
but
that
I
found
it
less
troublesom
to
hear
his
thanks
,
than
his
request
;
and
to
have
him
acknowledg
obligations
,
than
desire
them
:
For
a
quarter
of
a
year
Surena
gave
me
no
other
troubles
,
but
those
of
his
Visits
;
but
then
he
began
to
add
to
them
,
those
of
his
accustomed
importunities
;
I
know
not
whether
he
believed
,
what
I
had
elected
to
suppress
his
addresses
,
was
to
invite
them
;
or
whether
those
Civilities
I
did
him
to
reward
his
silence
,
was
to
solicite
the
breaking
it
;
but
I
know
,
if
these
were
his
Thoughts
,
as
soon
as
he
reveal'd
,
he
had
no
reason
any
longer
to
retain
them
;
for
I
gave
him
so
resolute
a
reprehension
,
that
he
found
I
had
been
kind
,
but
to
keep
him
from
imploring
my
being
so
;
and
that
he
could
not
elect
a
more
certain
way
to
be
deny'd
my
affection
,
than
to
solicite
it
;
I
cannot
certainly
acquaint
you
whether
this
usage
,
or
some
internal
infirmity
which
then
began
to
manifest
it self
,
was
the
cause
of
his
Sickness
;
but
I
can
,
that
suddenly
after
,
he
fell
into
a
very
dangerous
one
;
and
though
it
were
equally
so
to
his
former
,
and
that
Arsaces
did
me
the
honour
constantly
to
visit
me
;
yet
he
never
desired
I
should
do
so
to
Surena
:
But
the
satisfaction
I
received
thereat
,
I
soon
observed
,
was
too
dearly
purchased
;
for
in
some
four
or
five
successive
visits
,
I
observed
Orodes
had
so
incessantly
his
Eyes
fixt
on
mine
,
and
uttered
such
disordered
and
disjointed
discourses
,
that
I
began
to
doubt
what
his
next
seeing
me
made
me
but
too
certain
of
:
for
after
all
the
Court
which
waited
on
him
,
were
retired
into
a
Gallery
contiguous
to
my
Chamber
,
Arsaces
spoke
these
words
,
with
as
much
trouble
as
I
heard
them
.
Madam
,
Though
you
should
infinitely
admire
that
I
do
not
now
solicite
you
for
my
dying
Friend
;
yet
I
do
as
much
,
that
I
have
done
it
so
long
,
and
that
I
should
employ
those
prayers
for
another
,
which
your
Beauty
makes
me
stand
in
need
of
for
my self
:
I
believe
fair
Parthenissa
(
he
continued
)
you
cannot
so
much
admire
at
my
making
now
this
declaration
,
as
that
I
did
it
not
sooner
;
and
the
greatest
wonder
next
your
Beauty
,
is
,
that
I
have
so
long
declined
adoring
it
:
whilst
my
Love
was
kindling
,
my
Friendship
transcended
it
;
but
now
it
burns
,
it
has
consumed
my
Friendship
,
and
I
fear
will
consume
me
,
unless
you
afford
me
as
much
Love
,
as
you
inspire
.
This
assurance
cannot
be
more
confident
than
true
;
and
I
esteemed
I
had
no
higher
motive
to
induce
you
to
save
your
King
,
than
to
acquaint
you
that
you
have
the
power
to
do
it
.
I
believe
(
said
Parthenissa
,
to
her
generous
Auditors
)
by
your
own
surprize
,
it
will
not
be
very
difficult
to
perswade
you
of
Mine
;
but
as
soon
as
the
first
disorders
of
it
were
a
little
mitigated
,
I
turned
my
Eyes
towards
the
King
,
and
sound
those
I
had
so
lately
suppress'd
could
not
transcend
those
which
were
visible
in
him
;
and
though
this
gave
me
too
palpable
an
assurance
of
a
Truth
,
which
none
could
have
been
more
ambitious
to
have
discovered
,
than
I
was
troubled
to
have
done
it
;
yet
I
told
him
:
This
discourse
(
Sir
)
which
you
have
made
me
of
your
Love
,
is
doubtless
to
revenge
my
not
conferring
mine
on
Surena
;
and
I
consider
this
Raillery
with
joy
,
as
my
belief
,
that
't
is
the
only
penance
you
will
impose
on
the
necessity
of
my
disobedience
.
I
rather
hope
(
Arsaces
reply'd
)
that
your
esteeming
that
a
Raillery
,
which
I
now
tell
you
in
so
much
earnest
,
is
the
only
penance
you
will
prescribe
me
,
for
not
having
told
you
of
it
sooner
:
or
if
you
esteem
me
so
unworthy
the
honour
of
your
Conversation
,
as
in
it
to
speak
any
thing
unserious
,
your
Beauty
might
more
justly
have
made
you
assume
that
thought
,
when
I
did
implore
your
bestowing
it
on
another
,
than
when
I
do
,
your
conferring
it
on
me
:
But
Madam
,
if
you
believe
it
as
great
an
injury
to
your
modesty
to
acknowledg
your
conquest
,
as
I
know
't
is
to
your
Eyes
to
decline
it
;
yet
your
reason
cannot
be
but
convinc'd
of
your
victory
,
when
I
assure
you
I
have
seen
Surena
languish
with
as
little
reluctancy
,
as
you
have
done
it
;
when
even
his
silence
pleaded
for
him
,
as
much
as
his
conditition
:
for
I
suspected
he
kept
it
,
out
of
a
knowledg
that
I
was
become
his
Rival
,
which
he
has
discovered
either
from
my
not
persevering
his
Intercessor
,
or
my
sighs
,
which
are
now
more
inflamed
than
those
of
grief
used
to
be
,
has
told
him
,
what
I
had
not
the
confidence
to
do
.
This
proceeding
,
fair
Parthenissa
,
affords
you
no
low
,
nor
perhaps
unpleasing
Character
of
my
Passion
;
for
at
the
same
instant
that
I
but
implore
your
affection
,
I
act
your
revenge
,
which
gives
me
a
hope
that
what
obliges
you
,
cannot
be
detested
by
you
.
These
words
he
animated
with
so
passionate
a
tone
and
action
,
that
even
those
did
also
speak
:
but
as
I
was
about
to
do
so
,
I
was
relieved
by
the
fair
Zephalinda
,
in
whose
presence
Arsaces
entertained
me
a
while
in
words
of
a
contrary
quality
,
either
that
he
would
conceal
his
Passion
from
all
,
or
particularly
from
Surena's
Sister
;
and
though
the
King
continued
a
while
in
my
Chamber
;
yet
by
the
disorders
and
disjointedness
of
his
discourse
,
I
found
how
much
he
was
troubled
,
that
Zephalinda
had
interrupted
him
.
But
he
could
not
be
more
offended
thereat
,
than
I
was
satisfied
;
for
thereby
I
procured
some
time
towards
the
forming
my
answers
,
and
the
course
I
was
to
follow
in
this
new
emergency
;
for
I
was
hopeful
to
improve
his
passion
to
a
better
end
,
than
that
for
which
he
had
assumed
it
;
and
make
it
the
means
of
bringing
Artabbanes
to
Parthenissa
,
which
was
designed
to
deprive
him
of
her
.
As
soon
as
Orodes
was
retired
,
Zephalinda
told
me
,
At
last
Madam
,
I
believe
I
shall
make
my
visits
prove
what
hitherto
I
fear
they
did
not
,
a
satisfaction
to
you
,
proportionate
to
that
I
receive
in
paying
you
them
;
for
but
even
now
I
have
had
the
effect
of
my
incessant
solicitations
:
Surena
has
given
that
to
my
Prayers
,
which
he
should
long
since
have
done
to
Reason
and
Vertue
:
Yes
(
Madam
)
he
has
protested
to
me
by
what
he
ador'd
,
as
much
as
now
he
does
but
admire
,
That
if
he
has
any
Passion
for
you
,
it
is
only
to
serve
you
,
and
that
he
will
employ
as
much
Care
and
Art
for
your
union
with
Artabbanes
,
as
he
has
done
to
binder
it
;
and
I
am
come
to
implore
you
from
him
,
to
give
him
a
visit
,
that
he
may
give
you
those
demonstrations
of
his
conversion
,
which
may
induce
you
as
much
to
believe
the
reality
of
it
,
as
already
I
do
.
I
know
not
(
said
Parthenissa
,
prosecuting
her
discourse
)
whether
it
be
the
nature
of
all
my
Sex
,
to
fear
the
Truth
of
what
they
most
desire
;
but
I
am
certain
't
is
mine
;
and
consequently
I
had
many
pregnant
jealousies
,
that
Surena
but
seemingly
yielded
that
to
his
King
,
which
he
really
preserved
for
me
;
and
that
what
he
now
did
,
was
an
action
of
Policy
,
and
not
Conversion
:
I
was
often
about
to
tell
Zephalinda
my
doubts
,
but
left
they
might
be
an
offence
(
which
mine
own
defects
,
and
Arsaces
letting
me
know
Surena
did
not
know
his
Passion
,
made
me
the
apter
to
fancy
)
,
I
did
at
last
,
(
more
convinc'd
by
Zephalinda's
Prayers
,
than
Reasons
)
condescend
to
visit
her
Brother
,
into
whose
Chamber
I
was
no
sooner
come
(
for
yet
his
indisposition
made
him
keep
it
)
then
staying
his
Sister
,
and
sending
all
the
rest
out
of
it
,
he
told
me
,
with
a
confidence
which
I
believed
nothing
but
Truth
could
put
on
,
at
least
that
a
Lover
could
not
,
speaking
to
his
Mistris
:
That
I
have
had
a
Passion
,
Madam
,
for
you
,
is
not
so
strange
,
as
that
I
now
divest
my self
of
it
;
and
those
hopes
which
despair
should
have
made
me
lay
down
,
I
do
now
,
by
way
of
reparation
for
their
having
been
so
offensive
and
dangerous
;
I
am
also
so
sensible
of
having
interrupted
a
Passion
,
which
I
now
as
much
esteem
as
I
have
envy'd
;
that
I
find
as
transcendent
a
satisfaction
in
having
mist
my
desires
,
as
I
should
in
having
obtained
them
:
Those
Prayers
therefore
which
I
hitherto
employed
for
your
affection
,
I
do
now
,
Madam
,
for
your
Pardon
,
which
is
now
as
necessary
to
my
Life
,
as
that
was
to
my
Felicity
;
which
you
may
establish
without
being
obnoxious
to
your
own
;
formerly
you
were
to
be
vicious
to
make
me
happy
,
now
you
are
but
to
be
virtuous
to
do
it
;
your
Inconstancy
then
could
only
be
my
cure
,
but
't
is
your
Mercy
now
that
only
can
be
so
;
which
to
obtain
,
I
protest
by
all
the
gods
,
and
by
those
which
are
more
particularly
concerned
in
the
punishment
of
perjury
,
I
will
never
have
any
desires
for
you
,
but
to
see
you
by
an
Hymeneal
union
in
his
embraces
,
who
now
,
and
never
but
till
now
,
I
esteemed
the
least
unworthy
of
you
.
What
need
I
tell
you
more
(
said
Parthenissa
)
,
than
that
Surena
by
such
expressions
and
vows
gave
a
beginning
to
that
Faith
,
which
in
progress
of
time
he
so
well
improved
and
setled
,
that
his
change
was
as
absolutely
my
belief
,
as
desire
.
But
what
the
Favourite
declined
,
the
King
assumed
,
and
I
read
the
greatness
of
his
Love
,
by
the
conquest
it
had
obtained
over
his
Friendship
;
he
gave
me
besides
some
signal
evincements
of
it
every
day
,
though
I
was
not
a
little
diligent
to
retrench
all
opportunities
,
that
by
my
actions
I
might
acquaint
him
with
my
intentions
,
which
I
esteemed
the
civillest
and
certainest
way
of
denial
.
I
must
acknowledg
I
was
both
satisfied
and
troubled
at
a
Passion
so
replenish'd
with
respect
,
as
that
of
Orodes
was
;
for
though
on
the
one
side
,
it
secured
me
from
those
violences
,
his
power
and
flame
might
inspire
him
with
;
yet
on
the
other
,
it
hindered
me
from
suppressing
his
hopes
and
importunities
.
Surena
being
recovered
of
the
indisposition
both
of
his
Body
and
Mind
,
gave
me
as
many
visits
under
the
notion
of
a
Friend
,
as
he
had
done
under
that
of
a
Lover
,
and
as
a
fresh
evincement
he
was
no
more
the
latter
;
he
told
me
one
day
,
Certainly
,
Madam
,
the
gods
are
not
a
little
concerned
in
the
having
me
lay
down
my
Passion
,
by
ordaining
two
things
for
the
reward
of
that
performance
,
which
I
most
ambitioned
,
That
of
obliging
you
,
and
Orodes
;
who
has
this
morning
disclosed
to
me
a
Flame
I
should
have
wondered
at
,
had
he
not
told
me
,
't
was
you
that
inspir'd
it
:
By
the
experimental
knowledg
I
have
had
of
your
Beauty
,
I
was
not
so
much
surpriz'd
at
that
declaration
,
as
when
after
he
had
made
it
,
that
he
could
conjure
me
to
pardon
his
being
my
Rival
,
and
that
I
would
no
longer
continue
his
:
I
esteemed
it
strange
,
that
he
which
resented
the
influence
of
your
Eyes
,
could
think
me
capable
of
not
doing
the
like
;
and
that
I
should
decline
the
power
of
a
God
,
to
obey
that
of
a
King
;
I
told
him
this
,
but
to
indear
an
obligation
I
had
prophetically
conferred
on
him
;
but
after
I
had
cast
him
into
Troubles
,
great
enough
to
let
him
know
those
my
obedience
would
involve
me
in
,
I
assur'd
him
of
it
.
Truly
Madam
,
he
contracted
a
joy
so
great
at
the
promise
I
would
lay
down
my
passion
,
that
I
believe
nothing
can
transcend
it
,
but
an
assurance
that
you
will
accept
and
reward
his
.
I
did
this
readily
,
that
he
might
conclude
't
was
with
willingness
,
that
thereby
convincing
him
I
was
no
longer
his
Rival
,
I
might
become
his
Confident
,
and
pay
you
those
duties
,
which
one
more
concerned
in
his
Interest
than
yours
,
would
never
do
;
I
had
also
this
farther
hope
,
that
since
out
of
a
respect
to
him
,
I
could
divest
my self
of
my
Flame
,
it
might
upon
the
generous
Artabbanes's
return
,
take
from
Arsaces
all
excuses
of
continuing
his
;
since
it
manifested
there
was
actually
a
Power
in
your
Adorers
to
decline
that
Title
,
which
without
this
President
,
he
might
have
alledged
was
an
impossibility
.
I
knew
not
(
continued
Parthenissa
)
whether
I
had
cause
to
resent
this
as
an
obligation
;
for
though
as
Surena
stated
it
,
there
might
be
some
possibility
of
its
success
;
yet
that
was
so
small
,
as
it
left
it
disputable
whether
there
were
any
,
or
no
;
for
examples
of
virtue
are
more
often
commended
,
than
practiced
by
those
,
who
promise
themselves
a
higher
satisfaction
in
declining
their
imitation
;
especially
too
,
when
the
quality
of
the
Person
preserves
him
from
suffering
,
but
in
Mens
opinions
;
whereas
if
Surena
had
still
pretended
an
Affection
for
me
,
it
might
have
denyed
Arsaces
a
liberty
,
which
this
Concession
absolutely
afforded
him
;
and
thereby
,
by
having
two
Lovers
,
have
been
preserved
from
having
one
:
I
let
Surena
know
this
was
my
opinion
;
but
he
was
so
wedded
to
his
,
that
he
assured
me
,
were
he
to
act
his
part
again
,
and
had
only
heard
those
reasons
,
and
not
that
they
were
Mine
,
he
had
followed
his
own
,
which
nothing
could
induce
him
to
believe
,
were
the
worst
,
but
my
thinking
them
so
.
At
length
Arsaces
,
convinc'd
that
Surena
was
not
his
Rival
,
made
him
really
his
Confident
,
who
so
artificially
acted
his
part
,
that
he
satisfied
us
both
;
and
to
make
his
King
the
less
solicite
me
,
he
gave
him
still
better
answers
from
me
,
than
ever
were
given
him
by
me
:
I
yielded
to
this
Proceeding
by
Surena's
advice
;
who
pretending
the
greatest
knowledg
in
Orodes's
humour
,
made
me
esteem
him
the
fittest
to
manage
it
:
But
whilst
the
Court
of
Parthia
was
in
this
Condition
,
the
Kingdom
was
engaged
in
a
bloody
War
:
For
the
Tabienians
knowing
their
Crimes
merited
no
Mercy
,
neither
expected
nor
implored
the
King's
;
your
unfortunate
difference
with
Surena
,
having
rendered
you
uncapable
to
command
the
Army
,
and
the
generous
Sillaces
having
declined
that
honour
to
restore
us
your
Company
,
it
was
conferred
on
Ariobarzanes
,
who
you
know
is
a
Prince
merits
that
Title
,
and
wanted
success
in
nothing
,
but
in
what
you
had
too
much
;
I
cannot
tell
whether
his
desire
to
serve
his
King
,
or
his
hopes
to
become
more
fortunate
in
the
fair
Zephalinda
by
the
Oratories
of
Honour
,
than
he
had
been
thitherto
by
those
of
Love
,
made
him
accept
that
Command
;
but
I
can
,
that
he
did
:
and
though
by
the
situation
of
the
Countrey
,
and
the
despair
of
those
that
inhabited
it
,
the
War
was
protracted
;
yet
Ariobarzanes
had
that
consolation
,
that
he
never
lost
an
opportunity
to
fight
;
and
never
did
fight
,
but
he
was
victorious
:
In
the
end
his
Courage
and
Conduct
made
him
entirely
so
over
the
Tabienians
;
but
at
his
return
from
that
victory
,
he
found
thereby
he
had
nothing
facilitated
another
,
which
he
a
thousand
times
more
ambitioned
;
for
Zephalinda
was
as
uncapable
of
having
a
Passion
for
any
,
as
all
that
saw
her
,
were
,
of
declining
one
for
her
.
This
internal
War
concluded
;
by
the
advance
of
Pompey
,
an
exteriour
one
began
:
Orodes
,
and
the
Prince
Pacorus
,
with
a
vast
Army
marched
to
the
confines
of
Armenia
,
and
the
Prince
Phraates
with
another
into
Syria
,
to
infest
the
Roman
Colonies
,
hoping
that
by
making
two
Wars
abroad
,
they
should
hinder
any
to
be
made
at
home
.
I
purposely
omit
telling
you
what
Complements
Arsaces
made
me
at
his
departure
;
and
how
he
protested
,
if
he
ambition'd
Lawrels
,
't
was
only
to
lay
them
at
my
feet
.
But
by
the
as
strange
,
as
sudden
Peace
Pompey
made
with
the
Armenians
,
he
found
himself
necessitated
to
advance
with
a
part
of
his
Army
into
Syria
to
fortifie
that
of
Phraates
,
which
abundantly
needed
it
,
by
the
Roman
General
's
being
more
concerned
to
relieve
his
Friends
,
than
to
make
any
new
acquisitions
.
Pompey
by
this
re-inforcement
of
his
Enemies
,
or
called
home
by
the
dawning
confusions
in
Italy
,
setled
his
Affairs
by
Treaty
with
Orodes
,
and
so
returned
to
Rome
,
and
the
King
to
Nineveh
,
where
he
was
received
in
Triumph
,
his
Flatterers
alledging
he
had
obtained
a
victory
,
by
not
losing
one
to
the
Romans
;
Pacor●s
had
not
so
much
as
this
pretence
to
a
triumphant
reception
;
for
he
was
entirely
defeated
by
the
generous
Artavasdes
;
who
us'd
his
success
so
handsomly
,
that
his
very
Enemies
did
hardly
envy
,
or
deplore
it
.
Surena
,
who
amongst
many
others
enjoyed
the
benefit
of
his
Civility
,
assured
me
it
had
produced
the
effect
I
mention'd
.
The
winter
of
this
year
,
the
Court
constantly
resided
at
Nineveh
,
and
Arsaces
as
constantly
persecuted
me
,
though
I
must
acknowledg
I
avoided
many
importunate
days
,
by
Surena's
Art
and
Friendship
.
About
this
time
there
happened
an
Accident
,
which
though
for
a
while
it
exempted
me
from
Arsace's
Addresses
;
yet
soon
after
it
afforded
him
a
Liberty
to
continue
them
with
more
assiduity
and
hope
:
'T
was
the
Death
of
his
Queen
;
who
having
been
in
some
danger
whilst
she
was
in
labour
of
Phraates
,
had
solemnly
protested
,
if
Iuno
Lucinia
(
who
you
know
we
acknowledg
Guardian
of
the
Genial
Bed
)
would
free
her
from
it
,
she
would
wholly
sequester
her self
from
the
World
,
and
dedicate
her
the
residue
of
her
Life
.
This
the
goddess
granted
,
and
this
the
Queen
performed
;
and
though
the
accomplishment
of
this
vow
was
esteemed
a
great
misfortune
;
yet
it
was
a
greater
,
that
she
had
not
made
it
after
the
generous
Pacorus
Birth
.
The
solemnity
of
the
funeral
being
celebrated
for
one
Queen
,
Orodes
attempted
to
make
another
,
by
offering
me
that
Title
in
such
earnest
and
pressing
words
,
that
I
was
as
much
troubled
to
find
they
were
real
,
as
another
would
have
been
to
have
doubted
it
.
Whilst
the
Queen
was
living
,
I
had
some
pretence
to
decline
his
Addresses
,
and
to
render
that
an
impossibility
from
his
condition
,
which
really
was
one
from
mine
:
Though
he
often
told
me
,
That
his
Queen
by
having
voluntarily
banished
her self
from
his
Bed
,
had
given
him
provocation
enough
to
make
another
assume
her
place
:
That
though
it
were
a
custom
amongst
the
Kings
of
Parthia
to
have
but
one
wife
,
yet
it
was
not
a
law
;
which
though
it
had
been
,
yet
the
cause
of
his
infringing
it
,
would
sufficiently
apologize
for
it
,
and
that
my
Beauty
would
render
the
preserving
that
practice
a
stranger
thing
,
than
the
violating
of
it
.
To
this
I
answered
,
That
it
was
a
pregnant
evincement
Bygamy
was
extream
odious
,
since
custom
without
law
had
so
long
hindered
our
Kings
from
it
:
That
there
was
a
sufficient
determent
in
the
very
act
,
since
no
penalty
was
imposed
on
the
committing
it
:
That
I
should
receive
more
horror
from
being
the
cause
of
violating
so
sacred
and
ancient
a
Practice
,
than
advantage
by
the
honour
I
might
thereby
derive
;
and
that
that
custome
of
our
Kings
having
but
one
wife
,
was
so
ingrasted
in
the
Hearts
of
all
the
Parthians
,
that
I
should
not
only
be
considered
by
them
,
but
by
my self
,
as
his
Concubine
,
rather
than
his
Queen
:
'T
was
with
many
resembling-reasons
,
and
as
many
pressing
conjurations
,
that
during
the
Life
of
the
Queen
I
preserved
my self
from
that
Title
:
But
now
the
gods
having
removed
that
pretence
,
they
left
me
without
any
,
especially
since
I
had
always
represented
her
as
the
greatest
,
and
indeed
as
the
only
obstacle
;
which
I
had
done
,
not
only
by
Surena's
Counsel
,
but
by
that
of
my
Reason
;
for
I
found
none
so
civilly
unanswerable
,
nor
so
long
like
to
continue
so
,
as
that
.
Orodes
when
he
made
me
the
offer
of
a
Crown
,
told
me
with
it
,
that
doubtless
the
just
gods
,
who
knew
the
vastness
and
clearness
of
his
Flame
,
had
purposely
removed
all
obstructions
that
might
hinder
my
rewarding
it
.
This
unexpected
accident
,
and
his
so
resolute
and
pressing
demands
,
cast
me
into
great
perplexities
,
which
I
may
justly
term
so
,
though
they
were
created
not
from
what
I
was
to
resolve
,
but
what
to
answer
.
At
length
,
lest
he
might
esteem
my
silence
a
Concession
,
I
told
him
,
By
giving
me
(
Sir
)
too
great
an
opinion
of
your
Passion
,
you
may
create
in
me
a
proportionate
fear
to
receive
it
;
for
if
as
soon
as
your
Queen
is
in
her
Grave
,
you
take
another
into
her
Bed
,
you
will
demonstrate
how
little
esteem
you
make
of
a
Wife
,
and
consequently
make
me
apprehend
being
yours
;
besides
(
Sir
)
,
so
precipitate
a
proceeding
,
may
induce
the
World
to
believe
't
was
not
the
gods
,
but
the
King
that
removed
his
obstructions
;
I
shall
therefore
(
Sir
)
conjure
you
,
as
you
esteem
my
satisfaction
,
or
your
Kingdoms
,
protract
your
desires
till
I
may
without
prejudice
receive
them
.
Arsaces
told
me
I
might
rather
create
inferences
of
the
greatness
of
his
Flame
,
than
Fears
of
its
reality
,
by
his
passing
over
all
considerations
which
came
in
competition
with
it
;
but
since
I
did
not
decline
,
but
suspend
the
recompence
of
it
,
he
would
to
satisfie
my
nice
scruples
,
indure
some
days
of
Torment
;
for
so
(
he
said
)
he
must
term
all
those
,
which
he
was
to
spend
in
the
condition
he
then
was
in
.
He
withdrew
himself
not
long
after
,
and
gave
me
leisure
to
reflect
on
the
cruelty
of
my
condition
;
for
if
on
the
one
side
I
resolutely
acknowledged
my
affection
,
and
unalterable
resolution
for
Arta●banes
,
I
should
thereby
not
only
eternally
confirm
his
Banishment
,
and
consequently
not
only
deprive
my self
of
Him
,
but
also
of
that
deliverance
which
I
solely
and
absolutely
expected
from
him
,
and
so
exasperate
Orodes
,
that
it
would
inevitably
(
as
Surena
protested
to
me
,
who
was
perfectly
vers'd
in
his
Nature
)
make
him
run
to
those
extreams
,
which
he
could
not
think
on
without
Horror
;
and
to
prevent
which
,
I
had
treated
him
with
so
little
cause
of
disgust
:
and
on
the
other
side
,
if
I
disclosed
not
my
affection
for
you
,
I
left
my self
by
the
Queens
unfortunate
Death
,
not
many
dayes
of
disguisement
,
which
would
no
sooner
be
effluxt
,
than
I
must
absolutely
fall
into
one
of
those
extreams
I
so
justly
apprehended
,
and
thithetto
I
had
so
artificially
and
painfully
avoided
.
These
sad
reflexions
,
though
they
were
much
extenuated
by
the
constant
visits
and
consolations
of
Lyndadory
and
Zephalinda
;
yet
at
length
they
had
so
efficacious
an
operation
on
me
,
that
by
degrees
they
cast
me
into
an
indisposition
,
which
increas'd
as
the
allotted-time
for
the
King's
mourning
expired
.
The
gods
shall
be
my
witness
,
I
implored
them
with
constant
Tears
and
Prayers
,
to
send
me
some
such
Sickness
as
might
ruine
this
little
and
unfortunate
Beauty
,
which
was
so
likely
else
to
ruine
me
:
I
did
this
(
generous
Artabbanes
)
out
of
a
true
character
I
had
contracted
of
your
virtue
,
which
I
concluded
could
not
despise
one
that
wanted
Beauty
,
but
by
having
lost
it
for
you
;
and
who
apprehended
not
the
losing
your
affection
,
in
giving
you
an
evincement
as
great
as
unfortunate
,
of
her
own
.
Artabbanes
by
an
action
altogether
humble
and
acknowledging
,
interrupted
his
Princess
,
to
make
his
words
do
the
like
,
which
to
the
best
of
my
remembrance
were
these
:
Though
there
are
not
any
things
I
so
passionately
ambition
as
the
transcendent
felicity
of
receiving
testimonies
of
my
Princess
esteem
,
and
of
satisfying
her
,
I
adore
the
Beauty
of
her
Mind
at
least
as
much
as
that
of
her
Face
;
yet
I
had
much
rather
be
resolved
of
the
former
,
and
convince
her
of
the
latter
,
by
assurances
and
by
vows
,
than
by
so
fatal
a
manifestation
;
neither
would
the
gods
give
so
undeniable
a
proof
of
their
want
of
omnipotency
,
as
to
destroy
a
perfection
they
cannot
restore
or
repeat
;
't
was
better
a
thousand
times
the
criminal
,
Artabbanes
,
should
lose
his
hopes
,
than
the
world
so
unimitable
a
Beauty
;
and
Arsaces
could
not
be
so
unjust
in
having
so
persecuting
a
Passion
for
it
,
as
you
,
Madam
,
in
wishing
it
so
dear
and
criminal
a
cure
.
I
did
not
only
(
said
the
fair
Parthenissa
)
with
it
that
cure
,
but
rather
than
he
should
want
it
,
I
would
have
conferred
it
on
him
by
my
Death
;
and
't
was
but
fit
I
should
act
that
for
the
preservation
of
my
affection
,
which
only
can
put
a
period
to
it
.
My
Prince
would
have
made
her
some
proportionate
retributions
to
what
had
made
him
esteem
it
necessary
,
had
he
not
esteemed
it
more
so
,
to
obey
his
Princess
,
who
imposed
on
him
the
keeping
of
silence
;
and
as
a
further
confinement
to
it
,
she
thus
continued
her
discourse
:
Whilst
I
was
languishing
away
a
Time
which
yet
I
thought
much
more
too
short
,
than
Arsaces
the
contrary
;
the
generous
Pacorus
never
left
soliciting
his
Father
,
till
he
had
procured
a
second
Army
to
repair
the
disgrace
of
having
lost
the
first
;
which
he
had
no
sooner
obtained
,
than
he
did
too
a
Victory
against
the
Armenians
;
which
had
wanted
nothing
of
meriting
that
Name
,
had
it
been
won
against
the
same
General
,
to
whom
Pacorus
had
lost
one
;
but
perhaps
had
he
been
present
,
who
should
have
perfected
his
success
,
it
might
have
hindered
it
.
Artavasdes
thought
he
derived
this
Civility
from
Symander
,
till
he
had
protested
he
did
that
Truth
from
Parthenissa
;
whose
words
and
Story
the
Faithful
Servant
thus
prosecuted
.
My
indisposition
(
the
Princess
continued
)
proceeding
absolutely
from
that
of
the
Mind
,
had
a
languishing
and
slow
operation
on
the
Body
,
which
the
Physicians
said
nothing
but
time
could
render
dangerous
.
Arsaces
having
assumed
this
belief
,
the
less
inconveniently
to
pass
away
the
remainder
of
the
Morning
Year
,
or
to
usurp
the
Glory
of
his
Sons
success
,
or
(
as
he
protested
to
me
)
to
avoid
seeing
my
indisposition
,
which
his
sympathy
would
make
him
assume
;
with
an
Army
raised
in
haste
,
he
marched
so
to
the
siege
of
Tygranocerta
,
which
Pacorus
the
next
day
after
his
Victory
had
besieged
.
Artabbanes
to
exempt
the
fair
Parthenissa
from
an
unnecessary
trouble
,
acquainted
her
how
he
had
from
the
generous
Ventidius
,
received
at
large
the
relation
of
all
those
transactions
in
Armenia
,
which
he
promised
that
night
to
Communicate
to
Sillaces
.
I
have
then
(
said
the
fair
Parthenissa
)
but
to
inform
you
,
that
Arsaces
came
to
Nineveb
before
Pacorus
and
Altezeera
;
which
though
he
alleged
was
but
to
render
her
reception
the
more
considerable
,
was
indeed
to
summon
me
of
my
inferred
engagement
,
the
last
day
of
his
mourning
,
being
that
of
his
return
.
The
continuance
of
my
indisposition
gave
me
an
accepted
excuse
,
which
I
would
have
constantly
purchased
at
the
same
rate
.
Neither
did
I
despair
of
both
;
and
that
which
gave
me
those
hopes
was
,
the
having
lost
all
Mine
of
your
returns
;
for
now
't
was
above
two
Years
,
since
we
had
remain'd
in
a
perfect
ignorance
of
your
Fortunes
;
which
made
me
apprehend
Orode's
affection
for
me
,
and
his
knowledg
of
mine
for
you
,
had
made
him
destroy
what
I
wanted
but
the
certainty
of
,
to
do
the
like
unto
my self
:
But
Surena
by
passionate
Oaths
of
Arsace's
innocence
,
removed
my
jealousies
of
him
;
but
nothing
could
my
fears
for
you
,
which
I
hoped
would
have
so
impaired
my
small
Beauty
,
that
by
my
loss
of
it
,
you
had
not
suffered
the
loss
of
me
:
But
not
long
after
I
found
the
flattery
of
those
imaginations
,
which
Arsaces
by
a
visit
entirely
banish'd
;
for
after
he
had
commanded
(
having
first
obtained
my
permission
)
all
the
Company
to
retire
,
he
told
me
,
That
indisposition
(
Madam
)
which
I
did
hitherto
consider
as
my
punishment
alone
,
I
now
do
as
yours
also
,
for
the
just
Gods
have
imposed
it
on
you
,
to
revenge
your
not
rewarding
a
Flame
as
bright
and
pure
as
those
Eyes
,
and
that
Virtue
which
created
it
.
The
year
of
mourning
,
my
fair
Princess
,
is
now
expired
;
Your
so
long
declining
to
be
my
Queen
,
made
my
Mind
wear
that
Livery
,
as
much
as
my
Body
did
,
for
the
loss
of
my
other
:
let
not
your
coldness
make
me
any
longer
carry
it
;
neither
,
Madam
,
can
you
do
it
without
publishing
you
have
not
delay'd
,
but
refus'd
to
reward
my
Passion
;
for
since
to
deny
me
my
cure
,
you
decline
your
own
,
that
belief
will
be
with
more
reason
assumed
,
than
it
can
be
rejected
.
Sir
(
I
replyed
)
you
might
rather
infer
from
the
strange
continuance
of
my
indisposition
,
that
the
gods
are
not
a
little
ingaged
to
prevent
an
union
so
unworthy
the
great
Arsaces
,
and
consequently
so
apprehended
by
me
:
Therefore
(
Sir
)
you
cannot
consider
that
as
my
punishment
,
which
is
both
the
gods
and
my
desire
;
but
could
my
receiving
your
affection
be
as
efficacious
as
you
alledg
,
judg
then
,
I
beseech
you
,
thereby
,
how
much
I
am
concern'd
in
not
committing
that
fault
,
since
to
prevent
it
,
I
decline
not
only
my
own
cure
,
but
my
King
's
.
You
may
,
my
fair
Princess
(
said
Arsaces
)
,
rather
conclude
that
your
indisposition
,
if
not
sent
you
as
a
punishment
from
the
gods
,
is
at
least
sent
you
as
an
evincement
my
Flame
is
confined
to
you
,
more
than
to
your
Beauty
;
and
that
they
are
not
a
little
concerned
in
the
manifestation
of
this
truth
,
since
they
elect
so
dear
a
way
to
evince
it
;
and
rather
than
not
prove
the
greatness
of
the
one
,
impair
the
greatness
of
the
other
:
If
,
Madam
,
I
had
the
power
to
obey
your
Commands
of
a
longer
expectancy
,
I
should
not
implore
their
revocation
;
for
the
highest
honour
next
to
obeying
,
is
receiving
them
;
do
not
therefore
,
fair
Parthenissa
,
expect
a
testimony
of
my
respect
,
from
what
will
give
you
an
ill
one
of
my
Flame
;
and
believe
it
,
Madam
,
that
must
be
an
impossibility
,
which
your
commands
and
satisfaction
cannot
make
me
obey
.
He
entertained
me
with
many
professions
and
requests
of
this
Nature
,
before
he
left
me
:
And
a
little
after
,
Surena
came
to
visit
me
;
but
with
a
Countenance
as
full
of
sadness
,
as
my
Heart
,
which
he
brought
no
small
accession
to
,
by
assuring
me
he
fear'd
our
Griefs
had
the
same
source
:
Alas
,
I
found
his
apprehensions
were
but
too
justly
grounded
,
when
he
further
assured
me
,
that
at
his
meeting
Arsaces
as
he
came
out
of
my
Chamber
,
he
had
told
him
,
that
he
now
found
what
he
had
considered
as
a
delay
,
was
a
refusal
;
but
that
he
was
determined
to
make
all
those
that
meant
to
delude
him
,
find
in
the
end
that
they
did
delude
themselves
.
He
said
this
too
(
continued
Surena
)
in
one
of
those
Tones
which
he
uses
when
he
is
unchangeably
in
earnest
;
which
makes
me
conclude
,
he
will
shortly
make
use
of
Power
,
to
obtain
what
he
cannot
by
Intreaty
.
Alas
,
Surena
(
I
replyed
)
,
is
there
no
way
but
Death
to
avoid
a
Tyranny
I
more
justly
detest
?
Truly
,
Madam
,
he
answered
,
I
am
confident
there
is
no
way
of
prevention
left
by
Flight
;
for
under
the
Title
of
his
future
Queen
,
he
has
already
given
you
a
Guard
,
which
is
not
so
much
to
defend
,
as
to
detain
you
;
and
could
we
deceive
their
intelligence
,
or
corrupt
their
Faith
,
what
retreat
could
you
propound
?
for
all
the
Kings
of
Asia
would
fear
the
receiving
a
Beauty
,
which
unavoidably
will
carry
a
War
after
it
as
great
as
it self
;
and
by
making
a
while
their
Kingdomes
a
Sanctuary
for
you
,
render
them
in
a
short
time
none
for
themselves
;
for
Arsaces
will
employ
all
the
forces
of
his
Empire
,
to
repossess
what
he
values
more
than
it
;
which
will
hinder
any
Prince
from
so
dangerous
a
Charity
.
I
must
then
(
I
replyed
)
be
my
own
Sanctuary
;
and
the
first
insolence
Arsaces
offers
me
,
shall
be
the
last
;
for
when
he
loses
the
respect
due
unto
my
Sex
,
I
will
lose
that
due
unto
his
Quality
,
and
let
him
know
I
lived
only
for
Artabbanes
,
which
when
I
may
no
longer
do
in
this
world
,
I
will
go
and
expect
him
in
another
,
where
all
Power
is
employed
to
preserve
,
not
persecute
a
generous
Passion
.
But
,
Madam
(
said
Surena
)
should
the
gods
call
unto
them
the
blessed
Artabbanes
who
is
the
cause
of
this
Constancy
,
would
not
the
effect
then
cease
?
and
might
not
Orodes
expect
your
Affection
,
when
you
could
no
longer
confer
it
on
his
Rival
?
If
,
said
I
(
much
offended
at
so
strange
a
question
)
,
the
gods
call
Artabbanes
to
a
fitter
residence
for
him
,
I
shall
esteem
it
so
for
me
,
and
soon
after
give
him
my
Company
,
either
by
the
help
of
my
●rief
,
or
Resolution
.
I
had
scarce
ended
these
words
,
when
I
found
Surena
at
my
Feet
,
where
in
expressions
as
humble
,
and
moving
,
as
his
posture
,
he
implored
a
fresh
pardon
for
having
persecuted
and
injured
a
Flame
so
pure
,
that
it
shew'd
him
he
had
acted
a
Sin
,
in
only
adoring
the
possessor
of
it
;
which
to
repair
,
he
would
leave
no
means
unessayed
;
and
if
all
others
fail'd
,
he
would
involve
the
Parthian
Empire
in
as
great
troubles
,
as
the
King
of
it
could
involve
me
.
This
proceeding
made
me
change
those
words
into
retributions
,
which
I
intended
to
have
imployed
in
reproaches
;
which
his
seeming
solicitation
for
the
King
,
made
me
esteem
him
worthy
of
Surena
was
as
much
satisfied
with
my
Gratitude
,
as
I
was
with
the
cause
of
it
;
and
to
misemploy
no
time
,
he
went
immediately
to
Arsaces
to
search
further
into
his
resolutions
.
All
that
day
,
and
the
next
,
I
heard
nothing
either
from
him
or
the
King
;
the
last
consoled
me
for
the
first
;
but
the
night
of
the
Third
,
Surena
came
into
my
Chamber
somewhat
late
,
and
told
me
,
That
the
cause
why
he
had
not
so
long
visited
me
,
and
why
he
then
did
it
at
so
unseasonable
an
hour
,
was
to
do
me
service
,
and
to
bring
me
the
News
he
had
done
it
.
For
(
said
he
)
at
length
,
Madam
,
I
have
perswaded
Orodes
that
your
coldness
proceeds
from
your
indisposition
,
of
which
you
might
be
soon
recovered
,
did
you
but
change
the
Air
:
That
the
Castle
of
Eden
(
which
stands
in
the
Island
that
bears
the
same
name
)
is
a
place
whose
strength
and
scituation
was
as
fit
for
your
cure
,
as
safety
;
and
that
if
with
your
Sickness
,
you
did
not
cast
off
your
disdain
,
there
would
be
then
no
excuse
left
you
,
and
a
sufficient
one
given
him
to
act
his
desires
by
those
wayes
he
should
imagine
soonest
feasible
and
conducive
to
them
:
I
was
,
Madam
(
continued
Surena
)
,
necessitated
to
give
him
hopes
of
success
,
to
hinder
him
from
acting
it
;
and
't
was
thereby
that
I
have
procured
your
license
to
go
into
this
Castle
,
where
I
shall
have
more
opportunities
to
act
your
security
,
than
I
can
have
here
;
for
the
Garison
(
as
the
Castle
)
is
mine
;
and
if
Orodes
should
continue
his
Passion
,
I
hope
so
to
order
your
affairs
,
that
you
shall
never
be
the
Sacrifice
of
it
.
I
made
Surena
many
retributions
proportionate
to
the
obligations
.
The
next
day
I
had
the
honour
to
receive
a
visit
from
the
Princess
Altezeera
,
who
was
newly
come
to
Nineveh
;
in
whose
Person
and
Conversation
,
I
found
almost
Charms
enough
to
suppress
that
dissatisfaction
I
had
contracted
for
her
inconstancy
to
the
generous
Artavasdes
,
who
I
knew
could
not
but
deserve
her
Love
,
because
he
did
possess
Artabbanes's
Friendship
.
I
was
disenabled
from
making
her
my
Retributions
at
her
own
Appartment
,
or
making
a
greater
acquaintance
with
her
,
which
my
first
seeing
her
gave
me
a
passionate
desire
of
;
for
the
King
,
intent
upon
every
thing
which
might
probably
contribute
to
my
health
,
the
succeeding
morning
gave
me
a
visit
,
and
conjured
me
,
as
he
condescended
to
every
thing
for
my
satisfaction
,
so
by
a
resembling
return
I
would
reward
his
care
and
passion
.
I
was
exempted
from
giving
him
any
reply
,
by
the
arrival
of
Lyndadory
and
Zephalinda
,
to
whom
I
had
given
advice
of
my
sudden
remove
,
and
whose
companies
in
my
retreat
I
had
desired
,
and
obtained
:
Arsaces
observing
by
their
presence
,
he
could
neither
continue
his
discourses
,
nor
expect
any
returns
to
them
,
led
me
to
a
Gally
which
was
provided
for
us
,
and
then
,
as
a
civility
,
accompanied
us
to
the
Castle
of
Eden
,
only
(
as
he
said
)
to
see
if
there
wanted
any
thing
for
our
reception
.
We
had
not
many
Furlongs
thither
;
yet
our
ascending
the
Current
(
because
the
violence
of
it
)
took
up
the
whole
Day
;
so
that
Arsaces
continued
there
all
the
Night
,
which
(
as
Surena
told
me
)
he
spent
in
giving
the
Captain
of
my
Guard
(
that
followed
me
)
instructions
to
prevent
my
escape
,
should
I
have
any
such
design
;
and
promising
to
his
care
,
recompences
,
such
as
nothing
should
transcend
but
his
punishments
,
should
he
neglect
it
.
The
day
following
,
Artabbanes
(
taking
away
Surena's
Garison
,
alledging
it
unfit
they
should
be
where
his
Guards
were
)
after
some
assurances
of
his
Passion
,
and
desires
to
receive
and
reward
it
,
returned
to
Nineveb
;
which
perhaps
he
did
the
sooner
,
from
a
belief
,
that
his
absence
would
be
as
contributary
to
my
health
,
as
any
other
prescription
.
The
Isle
of
Eden
is
a
place
so
replenish'd
with
all
the
Beauties
of
Art
and
Nature
,
that
doubtless
the
Jews
(
a
Nation
not
very
remote
)
,
have
some
reason
to
justifie
it
the
scituation
of
the
Earthly
Paradice
;
for
I
believe
't
is
as
difficult
to
find
in
it
a
defect
,
as
to
wish
it
an
addition
.
For
some
Moons
in
this
pleasing
residence
,
we
past
a
Life
that
had
no
Clouds
,
but
what
our
fears
and
sufferings
for
the
absence
of
you
two
,
created
;
but
to
these
not
long
after
we
added
that
of
Orode's
Company
,
who
one
day
told
me
,
he
could
no
longer
deprive
himself
of
Mine
,
and
that
I
must
prepare
next
morning
to
return
to
Nineveh
,
to
assume
a
Title
I
had
but
too
long
declined
.
Though
I
made
many
pressing
implorings
to
suspend
a
little
longer
my
return
to
a
place
which
had
so
much
indangered
my
health
,
and
my
leaving
one
had
so
much
restored
it
;
yet
he
was
as
deaf
to
my
Prayers
,
as
I
had
been
to
his
;
for
immediately
he
gave
order
for
my
removal
next
Day
,
and
the
same
went
to
Nineveh
(
as
he
said
)
to
make
my
reception
the
less
unworthy
of
me
.
Surena
begg'd
his
permission
to
remain
in
Eden
that
Night
,
to
do
the
last
honours
of
his
House
,
and
to
wait
on
me
in
my
return
;
but
Arsaces
,
either
from
wilfulness
,
or
suspition
,
would
not
permit
it
.
They
were
no
sooner
gone
,
than
Zephalinda
and
Lindadory
came
to
my
Appartment
to
consult
on
so
great
an
extremity
,
which
was
the
more
so
,
by
Surena's
necessitated
and
unexpected
remove
;
on
whose
advice
and
promises
,
I
had
establish'd
my
greatest
confidence
;
but
alas
,
we
found
in
our
consultations
rather
subjects
of
despair
,
than
relief
;
for
the
more
we
reflected
on
my
danger
,
the
higher
we
always
found
it
.
At
length
I
told
them
,
that
what
confined
me
from
hopes
of
escaping
,
taught
me
what
to
elect
;
and
though
the
cruel
gods
hindered
my
being
Artabbanes's
;
yet
they
had
not
the
power
to
hinder
me
from
not
being
any
others
.
This
I
spoke
with
a
Countenance
which
did
speak
my
resolutions
,
and
this
immediately
drew
some
tears
into
the
Princesses
Eyes
,
which
more
troubled
me
,
than
to
have
acted
the
design
that
caus'd
them
;
whilst
I
was
giving
consolations
,
where
it
may
be
another
had
needed
them
,
there
came
a
Stranger
hastily
into
the
Room
,
whom
we
no
longer
thought
one
,
than
whilst
he
kept
this
disguise
;
for
as
soon
as
he
had
cast
it
off
,
we
knew
him
to
be
Surena
,
who
in
a
disordered
haste
told
me
,
Madam
,
the
concern
I
have
in
your
Interests
,
makes
me
decline
my
own
;
for
only
to
offer
you
my
service
in
keeping
you
from
your
Enemy
,
I
have
made
the
King
irreconciliably
mine
;
for
I
have
not
only
violated
his
Commands
by
leaving
Nineveh
,
but
am
resolved
to
repeat
my
disobedience
,
if
the
honour
of
yours
enjoyn
it
me
:
In
a
word
,
Madam
,
Arsaces
told
me
he
can
no
longer
decline
a
blessing
he
has
as
much
power
,
as
will
to
invest
himself
in
;
and
since
to
evince
the
greatness
of
his
respect
,
he
has
so
long
delayed
it
;
to
evince
the
greatness
of
his
Passion
,
he
will
no
longer
do
it
;
that
the
next
day
after
you
return
,
he
will
make
you
his
Queen
,
or
if
your
coldness
do
decline
so
satisfying
his
desires
,
you
will
thereby
invite
him
to
the
same
end
,
though
by
a
much
differing
way
.
These
,
Madam
(
continued
Surena
)
,
were
his
very
words
;
which
he
accompany'd
with
so
many
horrid
oaths
,
that
he
has
rendered
it
a
less
crime
to
act
his
sin
,
than
to
decline
it
.
I
am
therefore
come
to
offer
you
a
Life
for
the
preservation
of
your
Loves
,
which
has
been
too
much
employed
to
distract
,
and
ruine
them
;
I
present
it
you
as
much
to
repair
my
crime
,
as
to
hinder
my
King
from
acting
his
,
which
nothing
but
some
sudden
and
brisk
resolution
can
prevent
;
were
we
but
out
of
this
Island
,
I
durst
promise
you
a
retreat
in
a
Kingdom
,
where
I
hope
you
may
one
day
Reign
;
for
Merinzor
,
the
most
considerable
Person
in
Media
,
now
Moneses
and
Artabbanes
are
out
of
it
,
is
so
much
my
friend
,
and
so
much
more
one
to
virtue
,
that
were
we
but
there
,
Arsaces
must
take
that
great
Empire
,
before
he
take
you
:
This
I
dare
engage
my self
for
;
though
I
have
practised
the
obtaining
Merinzor's
affection
,
but
only
since
I
apprehended
the
violence
of
my
King
's
,
would
render
it
useful
and
necessary
to
you
.
We
had
(
said
Parthenissa
)
after
Surena's
assurance
of
a
Sanctuary
,
a
thousand
propositions
how
to
recover
it
;
and
that
which
gave
me
the
greatest
approbation
for
that
which
he
propounded
,
was
,
that
Media
could
not
but
have
many
servants
to
Artabbanes
,
who
by
the
Laws
of
it
,
and
Nature
,
was
one
day
to
wear
that
Crown
;
Zephalinda
advised
,
that
by
some
device
or
other
,
Orodes
might
be
again
drawn
to
visit
us
,
and
then
that
Surena
should
seize
upon
him
,
and
make
his
liberty
the
ransom
of
Mine
,
and
her
Brothers
;
with
whom
,
and
with
her
,
I
might
retire
into
Media
;
Lyndadory
approved
this
advice
,
so
she
might
be
of
the
Company
;
which
she
alledged
might
perhaps
bring
some
security
to
it
,
by
her
being
Daughter
to
a
Prince
,
whose
memory
there
,
was
in
as
great
as
just
veneration
;
she
added
too
,
that
by
my
taking
some
Physick
,
whose
operation
should
be
visible
when
Orodes
came
to
visit
me
,
I
might
not
only
confirm
him
my
remove
was
dangerous
;
but
purchase
time
enough
for
Surena
to
draw
in
force
enough
to
secure
us
from
the
King
's
:
We
had
doubtless
elected
this
design
,
had
not
Surena
said
,
That
't
was
a
thing
impossible
to
delude
a
jealous
Lover
;
that
the
effects
of
an
indisposition
manifested
in
that
conjuncture
of
time
,
would
appear
rather
a
Sickness
assum'd
,
than
befallen
me
:
That
to
take
the
King
Prisoner
would
raise
him
an
Army
,
which
might
make
me
his
;
since
many
would
fight
for
his
liberty
,
which
would
not
for
his
obtaining
forcibly
his
Mistriss
;
and
if
I
counterfeited
an
indisposition
,
Arsace's
Love
or
Jealousie
,
would
keep
him
perpetually
near
me
,
and
so
render
my
Flight
as
impossible
,
as
desired
;
but
(
said
Surena
)
if
all
these
Reasons
were
disputable
,
yet
this
is
not
,
That
by
violating
my
King's
Command
in
coming
hither
,
I
have
so
exasperated
him
,
that
he
will
never
trust
himself
in
a
Place
,
where
I
have
both
the
Power
and
Provocation
to
repeat
my
Disobedience
.
Therefore
he
concluded
there
was
no
other
way
,
but
immediately
while
the
Night
contributed
to
their
assistance
,
under
a
pretence
of
giving
the
Guard
their
farewel-entertainment
,
to
give
as
many
of
them
Wine
,
as
had
not
reason
enough
to
refuse
it
;
then
to
fall
upon
those
who
were
able
to
resist
,
and
by
their
Deaths
force
a
passage
to
our
Freedoms
,
which
having
obtained
,
to
make
Media
the
feat
of
it
.
There
was
nothing
(
said
Parthenissa
)
I
scrupled
at
in
this
,
but
the
destroying
those
Persons
,
whose
Fidelity
to
their
King
was
their
only
Crime
;
but
the
necessity
of
my
condition
,
made
me
at
last
condescend
to
what
(
next
being
false
to
Artabbanes
)
I
most
apprehended
;
only
I
passionately
conjured
Surena
to
spill
no
more
blood
,
than
was
of
necessity
to
be
shed
for
our
deliverance
.
To
be
brief
,
Surena
without
his
disguise
,
went
to
the
Captain
of
my
Guards
,
to
whom
(
he
said
)
Arsaces
had
expresly
sent
him
from
Nineveh
,
the
next
morning
to
wait
on
me
thither
,
which
the
other
easily
credited
,
knowing
his
King's
Passion
for
me
,
and
his
Friendship
for
Surena
;
who
entertain'd
the
deluded
Officer
,
till
some
of
his
Servants
had
made
all
those
of
the
Guard
drunk
,
that
had
a
mind
to
be
so
;
about
Midnight
when
all
was
buried
in
sleep
and
silence
,
but
those
which
knew
the
Design
,
and
those
which
had
the
Guard
,
Surena
with
all
his
Domesticks
fell
upon
them
,
and
though
his
Numbers
exceeded
theirs
;
yet
their
Captain
,
who
knew
how
certain
a
Death
his
defeat
would
be
from
his
Enemies
or
his
King
,
so
briskly
disputed
his
Fate
,
that
Surena
began
to
doubt
his
own
;
which
to
decide
,
he
resolutely
Charged
the
Captain
,
who
he
found
was
the
Sould
of
his
Party
,
and
whom
,
after
a
long
and
bloody
dispute
,
he
left
dead
upon
the
place
;
all
the
Souldiers
Courages
fell
with
their
Officers
,
so
that
Surena
remembring
my
pressing
desires
,
saved
their
Lives
;
Surena
covered
with
Blood
and
Victory
came
to
my
Chamber
,
and
begged
me
so
to
employ
the
latter
,
that
before
Orodes
could
know
his
action
,
we
might
be
where
he
could
not
revenge
it
.
I
told
him
,
this
was
a
request
fitter
for
me
than
him
,
and
that
I
left
the
ordering
of
my
liberty
to
the
Bestower
of
it
;
he
desired
me
then
by
the
dawn
of
day
to
be
ready
,
by
which
some
Chariots
,
and
my
Equipage
should
be
;
to
hasten
which
,
he
left
me
.
We
were
too
much
concerned
in
our
joy
to
lose
the
solemnizing
of
it
by
sleep
;
and
whilst
Surena
was
contributing
to
convert
our
hopes
of
safety
into
an
actual
one
,
his
generous
Sister
,
yours
,
and
I
,
entertained
one
another
with
the
rare
and
high
effects
of
his
Friendship
;
and
with
the
proportionate
obligation
I
had
unto
him
for
them
.
Symander
was
in
this
place
of
his
relation
,
when
it
was
interrupted
by
what
made
his
Auditors
think
it
no
misfortune
;
For
't
was
by
the
confused
running
in
of
divers
Priests
of
Venus
,
who
came
to
acquaint
their
Superiour
,
that
the
Dome
of
the
Temple
was
filled
with
Lightnings
,
as
bright
as
ever
their
Goddess's
Eyes
did
shoot
;
that
the
foundation
of
the
sacred
Vault
trembled
;
and
in
a
word
,
that
all
the
symptoms
of
the
Oracles
being
restored
to
the
liberty
of
speaking
,
were
so
visible
,
that
none
with
reason
could
apprehend
the
contrary
.
Callimmachus
by
an
erection
of
his
eyes
and
hands
,
acknowledged
his
gratitude
to
her
,
and
his
concern
in
our
Hero's
,
whose
Pardons
he
begged
(
for
Artabbanes
by
this
time
was
come
out
of
the
Gallery
to
participate
in
the
News
)
that
the
function
of
his
vocation
would
not
permit
him
to
wait
on
them
again
till
the
morning
;
to
which
he
added
,
that
he
hoped
they
would
the
sooner
grant
it
him
,
since
his
absence
was
necessary
to
the
learning
of
their
Fate
,
which
the
next
day
he
told
them
infallibly
they
should
.
With
this
flattering
assurance
,
he
left
the
generous
Lovers
;
who
,
whilst
Callimmachus
was
employed
in
preparing
the
Sacrifices
,
were
in
discoursing
what
effects
they
could
produce
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FOURTH
PART
.
The
Second
BOOK
.
OUR
Heroe's
,
who
that
Night
had
slept
as
little
as
the
Sun
,
were
too
as
early
up
;
and
he
had
not
long
gilded
with
his
Beams
,
the
Pinacles
of
the
Temple
,
when
the
Chief
of
it
,
came
to
advertise
them
,
That
within
an
hour
the
requisite
oblations
would
be
ready
:
He
brought
in
with
him
the
Chyrurgeons
,
who
assured
the
Princes
,
that
they
had
made
their
danger
the
greater
,
but
to
render
so
,
the
certainty
and
suddenness
of
their
recovery
;
and
that
they
might
not
only
go
and
receive
the
Oracle
themselves
;
but
if
it
commanded
them
a
journey
,
they
might
too
perform
it
:
Neither
did
they
only
make
these
assurances
,
but
by
taking
off
their
Plaisters
,
evinced
their
truth
;
which
as
much
surprized
as
pleased
those
that
had
received
the
wounds
,
and
Callimmachus
,
who
was
no
less
concerned
in
them
,
who
conjur'd
our
Princes
to
reflect
on
the
cure
of
the
Body
,
as
an
earnest
of
that
of
the
Mind
.
Artabbanes
,
who
was
the
most
desperate
Patient
in
that
sickness
,
gave
Callimmachus
such
a
reply
,
as
he
was
forced
to
tell
him
,
Your
condition
(
generous
Prince
)
cannot
be
worse
than
Mine
has
been
;
for
I
have
adored
a
Beauty
with
a
Passion
,
both
which
never
knew
any
Superiour
;
and
though
the
gods
called
her
to
them
in
as
fatal
a
way
as
every
they
could
the
fair
Parthenissa
;
yet
those
powers
have
demonstrated
theirs
,
in
giving
me
afterwards
a
quiet
,
which
made
me
envy
no
ones
else
:
They
cannot
be
gods
were
they
not
Omnipotent
;
and
being
so
,
to
doubt
their
goodness
,
were
to
invite
them
not
to
manifest
it
.
Artabbanes
and
Artavasdes
were
both
extreamly
satisfied
to
learn
an
assurance
of
so
strange
a
truth
,
from
a
mouth
they
could
not
doubt
;
which
by
demonstrating
there
were
ways
of
felicity
in
Love
without
fruition
,
made
them
no
longer
believe
That
an
impossibility
,
which
their
having
till
then
done
,
had
created
their
greatest
Torments
:
And
doubtless
they
had
then
obtained
from
Callimmachus
a
Story
which
was
so
requisite
to
the
ease
of
their
sufferings
,
as
the
relation
of
his
,
would
probably
have
proved
,
had
not
the
Sacrificers
come
in
at
the
same
instant
,
to
tell
Callimmachus
,
That
they
now
expected
but
his
presence
and
Commands
,
to
begin
their
Duties
.
This
Summons
placed
a
suspention
,
though
not
a
period
to
our
Hero's
curiosities
;
which
they
had
no
sooner
told
Callimmachus
,
than
he
promised
,
having
heard
their
Adventures
,
to
acquaint
them
with
his
own
.
Immediately
afterwards
he
retired
himself
to
put
on
his
Pontifical
Habit
;
which
having
done
,
he
returned
to
our
Princes
;
who
then
perceived
in
his
Meen
,
that
Grace
and
Majesty
,
which
till
his
having
acquainted
them
he
was
of
the
Noble
Society
of
Lovers
,
they
had
not
observed
;
and
indeed
they
were
so
entirely
taken
up
with
that
contemplation
,
that
not
only
they
esteemed
him
worthy
the
high
Title
he
possess'd
of
Prince
to
the
Priest
of
Venus
;
but
they
had
even
forgotten
in
that
employment
,
how
that
by
the
duties
of
his
,
they
were
then
to
learn
their
Fate
.
But
Callimmachus
himself
put
them
in
mind
of
it
,
by
conducting
them
down
a
large
Stair-Case
,
built
of
Marble
,
which
delivered
them
into
a
broad
Walk
,
bordered
on
either
side
with
five
Rows
of
Cypress
and
Myrtle
Trees
,
promiscuously
planted
,
which
were
watered
by
two
Springs
,
whose
pretty
murmurings
pleased
the
Ear
,
as
much
as
their
clearness
did
the
Eye
,
or
their
coolness
the
Taste
:
And
though
the
sides
of
this
Walk
were
so
well
adorned
,
yet
the
extremities
of
it
were
much
better
;
for
at
the
East
end
,
stood
the
Temple
it self
:
and
at
the
West
the
dwelling
of
the
Priests
,
which
in
a
Cressant
extended
its
two
Horns
to
each
end
of
the
Myrtle
and
Cypress
Trees
.
'T
was
in
this
vacuity
that
our
Princes
found
all
the
preparatives
of
a
Sacrifice
,
which
was
to
procure
them
an
Oracle
they
had
with
so
many
impatiencies
expected
.
The
Prince
of
the
Priests
was
no
sooner
seen
by
the
rest
,
than
immediately
they
directed
their
steps
to
the
Temple
:
The
first
that
moved
,
were
Two
hundred
Religious
Men
,
with
Garlands
of
Roses
and
Myrtles
on
their
heards
;
and
in
each
hand
the
Effigies
of
a
Flaming
Heart
,
to
evidence
the
Goddess
they
adored
was
the
Queen
and
Inspirer
of
Love
.
After
these
followed
Fifty
white
Bulls
,
and
as
many
white
Heifers
crowned
with
Garlands
of
Annemines
,
in
celebration
of
Venus's
changing
her
fair
Adonis
into
that
flower
:
These
were
led
by
a
Hundred
young
Men
in
cloaths
as
white
as
those
Nature
had
given
the
Beasts
they
held
;
Fifty
Maids
in
the
same
Livery
carried
in
their
hands
as
many
pair
of
Turtles
:
And
after
these
,
Fifty
others
carried
in
Silver
Cages
as
many
Swans
.
These
were
followed
by
the
Augurs
and
Victimares
;
the
former
,
bearing
a
Celestial
Globe
as
a
Badg
of
their
Profession
;
and
the
others
,
some
Sizers
of
Gold
,
some
Sacrificing
Knives
,
and
some
Axes
of
Silver
,
as
a
Badg
of
theirs
.
Those
Youths
which
carried
the
Wine
and
Milk
,
followed
two
and
two
,
in
their
places
and
order
;
and
last
of
all
,
some
Ten
paces
before
Callimmachus
(
who
was
followed
at
that
distance
by
our
Hero's
)
,
there
went
the
Virgin
who
was
to
deliver
the
Oracle
.
She
was
bless'd
with
so
much
Beauty
,
that
she
appeared
a
fit
Servant
for
the
Queen
of
it
;
her
Robes
were
as
white
as
her
thoughts
;
the
tresses
of
her
Hair
were
so
bright
,
and
long
,
that
they
merited
better
to
be
converted
into
a
Constellation
,
than
Berenices
did
;
they
were
tyed
up
with
Delphian
Lawrel
,
and
wreathed
Garlands
of
the
same
crown'd
her
Head
:
't
was
in
this
order
the
generous
troop
arrived
at
the
Temple
,
whose
Front
extended
it self
from
North
to
South
a
Hundred
and
fifty
Geometrical
Paces
;
at
whose
extremities
were
two
Pavilions
,
whose
Pinnacles
seemed
to
lose
themselves
in
the
Clouds
.
The
Walls
both
of
these
,
and
the
Curtain
,
were
adorned
with
great
Branches
of
Foliage
carved
in
the
stone
;
and
in
a
large
Compartiment
composed
of
Groteskery
,
were
seen
Sphynxes
,
Harpyes
,
the
Claws
of
Lyons
,
and
Tygers
;
to
evidence
,
that
within
inhabited
Mysteries
and
Riddles
.
Over
the
Portal
was
a
table
adorned
with
a
larger
Compartiment
,
wherein
there
was
in
big
Letters
of
massy
Gold
,
inchased
into
a
great
square
of
Porphyre
,
this
Inscription
:
THE
TEMPLE
OF
THE
GODDESS
OF
LOVE
,
AND
OF
WHAT
INSPIRES
IT
.
On
each
side
of
the
Portal
,
there
arose
from
the
Earth
two
square
Basements
,
the
Plinth
of
each
of
them
was
beautified
with
Sculptures
of
great
Relieve
;
one
of
them
was
crowned
with
the
Statue
(
in
Pharian
Stone
)
of
the
Boy
the
Goddess
brought
into
the
world
:
And
the
other
in
Corinthian
Stone
,
of
the
Boy
she
loved
best
in
it
:
Our
Hero's
had
hardly
leisure
to
consider
these
few
exterior
imbellishments
amongst
so
many
others
,
because
Callimmachus
having
given
the
Signal
,
the
Sacrificers
and
Victimaries
stopt
their
march
;
and
having
ranged
themselves
and
their
victims
on
either
side
the
way
,
made
a
large
one
for
their
Prince
,
who
still
followed
by
Artabbanes
and
Artavasdes
,
went
into
the
Quire
of
the
Temple
;
which
immediately
ecchoed
with
such
divers
and
harmonious
voices
,
that
for
a
while
all
their
faculties
resigned
up
their
Functions
to
their
hearing
;
but
that
Sense
at
length
resigned
its
empire
to
the
Sight
,
which
wanting
Parthenissa
and
Altezeera
,
could
not
more
nobly
be
entertained
,
than
in
the
adornings
of
the
Temple
.
The
first
Table
was
Venus
ascension
out
of
the
Sea
,
much
more
white
than
that
froth
the
Poets
say
she
was
composed
of
.
Near
this
was
a
much
larger
,
where
the
happy
Paris
stood
Judg
of
those
Beauties
,
whose
perfections
came
in
competition
,
by
that
Apple
given
at
Peleus
wedding
,
by
the
Goddess
of
Discord
.
Never
any
Beauties
more
justly
merited
that
name
,
than
those
the
Painter
had
exposed
to
the
judgment
of
the
happy
Son
of
Hecuba
;
but
yet
the
Artist
had
so
much
given
the
preheminence
to
her
,
to
whom
Paris
did
,
that
he
could
not
have
declined
doing
so
,
without
being
as
blind
as
her
Son
.
Opposite
to
this
Picture
was
the
Goddess's
falling
in
Love
with
the
fair
Anchises
,
who
grazing
his
Herds
,
little
thought
how
near
he
was
possessing
so
much
Beauty
,
and
being
Father
to
a
Son
,
whose
Sword
was
to
conquer
as
many
,
as
his
Mothers
Eyes
.
Near
to
this
last
Table
,
was
the
Beautiful
Son
of
Cinyras
,
who
Venus
more
admired
,
than
he
did
her
;
and
in
the
same
Picture
was
contained
all
their
Amours
,
how
she
wept
his
being
killed
by
the
Boar
,
or
his
being
drown'd
contemplating
his
own
Beauty
in
the
stream
;
for
of
both
those
some
learned
Poets
have
sung
.
Lastly
,
her
converting
his
dead
body
into
an
Annemine
,
which
she
watered
with
her
tears
,
and
who
by
death
being
rendered
uncapable
to
reward
her
weepings
by
kissing
them
away
,
seemed
eternally
to
blush
at
so
unfortunate
an
impotence
.
In
a
word
,
all
the
real
or
imaginary
Loves
of
that
bright
Goddess
,
were
so
well
represented
by
the
Artist
,
that
if
she
had
no
cause
to
blush
for
her
electing
the
originals
,
she
had
as
little
for
avowing
them
in
the
Copy
;
only
indeed
her
unfortunate
surprize
in
the
Arms
of
Mars
,
occasioned
by
a
Passion
as
ugly
as
the
Possessor
of
it
,
was
there
purpofely
omitted
;
but
the
wound
she
received
from
the
cruel
Diomed
was
not
;
esteeming
it
perhaps
a
greater
glory
to
evince
,
her
blood
gave
a
being
to
the
lovely
Rose
,
than
a
shame
or
prejudice
that
a
Deity
could
bleed
.
But
all
these
representations
being
rather
evincements
she
was
the
Subject
,
than
the
Goddess
of
Love
;
in
other
Tables
were
the
illustrations
of
that
truth
.
There
our
Princes
saw
the
volatile
Iupiter
,
courting
and
possessing
the
fair
Io
;
the
strange
Metamorphosis
the
God
made
of
her
to
conceal
his
Amours
from
the
jealous
Iuno
;
how
in
spight
of
his
disguise
she
discovered
them
,
then
begs
,
and
obtained
the
transformed
Io
of
her
Lord
,
who
grants
what
he
durst
not
refuse
;
how
the
Nymph
was
committed
by
the
suspicious
Goddess
to
the
care
of
Argus
,
whose
hundred
Eyes
were
too
vigilant
for
the
offended
god
,
who
to
make
those
Sentinels
sleep
eternally
,
that
would
not
momentarily
,
sends
down
Mercury
,
who
by
the
charms
of
his
Musick
,
ends
his
vigilance
,
then
with
his
Sword
ends
his
Life
;
how
Iuno
,
having
first
adorned
the
train
of
her
own
Bird
,
with
the
Eyes
of
the
unfortunate
and
faithful
Argus
,
to
let
her
god
understand
she
not
only
knew
,
but
could
revenge
his
Murther
,
makes
Io
as
frantick
as
her
jealousie
had
made
her
;
who
yet
runs
with
the
same
celerity
over
the
world
,
as
she
would
to
the
embraces
of
her
Iupiter
.
The
Painter
in
another
side
of
the
same
Table
shew'd
,
how
the
Heifer
flew
to
her
Father
Inachus
,
into
whose
trembling
stream
she
leaps
to
quench
her
heat
,
and
thirst
;
from
thence
he
makes
her
run
into
Egypt
,
where
she
resumes
her
former
shape
by
the
permission
of
Iuno
,
who
had
then
received
an
assurance
from
Iupiter
to
abstain
both
from
the
desires
,
and
acts
of
love
;
the
grateful
Io
in
her
true
shape
returns
to
let
her
Father
see
it
,
that
he
might
participate
in
her
joy
,
as
he
did
in
her
affliction
,
which
latter
had
so
operated
on
him
,
that
he
had
wept
himself
so
big
,
he
was
unknowable
to
his
Daughter
,
as
she
had
been
to
him
;
but
at
length
,
maugre
their
new
disguises
,
they
knew
each
other
,
and
Io
having
performed
this
charitable
duty
,
returns
again
to
the
Banks
of
Nyle
,
where
her
exteriour
and
intrinsecal
Beauties
,
made
the
People
which
drink
of
that
Flood
,
elect
her
for
their
Goddess
,
under
the
name
of
Isis.
In
another
Table
was
the
same
inconstant
God
fallen
in
Love
with
the
fair
Daughter
of
Lycaon
King
of
Arcadia
;
but
knowing
that
wars
of
Love
are
different
from
all
other
,
since
in
those
,
the
conquest
by
yielding
,
is
more
pleasing
th●n
that
by
force
;
the
god
lays
aside
his
power
,
and
finding
one
day
the
fair
Calisto
reposing
her self
after
the
chase
,
under
the
friendly
shadow
of
some
Myrtle
Trees
,
he
assumes
the
shape
of
Diana
,
whose
Nymph
she
was
,
and
in
that
Metamorphosis
enjoyes
felicities
which
do
more
Metamorphose
him
;
nay
,
he
seems
to
esteem
his
power
of
altering
his
shape
,
more
than
that
of
being
a
god
,
since
the
former
afforded
him
transcendenter
delights
in
the
fruition
of
his
Calisto
,
than
the
latter
in
the
most
powerful
effect
it
could
otherwise
produce
.
In
the
same
Table
was
demonstrated
how
Diana
discovered
the
loss
of
her
Nymph's
pudicity
;
how
she
banish'd
her
from
her
Society
;
how
the
unfortunate
Calisto
was
delivered
of
Arcas
;
all
which
the
suspicious
Iuno
at
last
discovered
,
and
in
revenge
converted
her
Rival
into
a
Bear
,
which
Arcas
once
had
killed
a
hunting
,
had
not
Iupiter
(
taking
pity
of
both
)
caught
them
up
into
Heaven
,
and
converted
each
of
them
into
a
Constellation
.
It
seem'd
that
the
Goddess
of
Love
took
delight
to
have
exposed
to
the
Eyes
of
Men
,
how
much
,
and
how
often
the
great
Iupiter
was
her
Votary
;
for
there
was
another
Table
of
his
Loves
with
the
Beautiful
Daughter
of
Acrisius
,
King
of
the
Argives
;
who
was
so
strictly
imprisoned
upon
her
Father
receiving
an
Oracle
of
his
Death
by
her
Son
,
that
the
amorous
god
was
necessitated
to
convert
himself
into
a
Golden
shower
,
to
quench
his
flame
.
There
was
display'd
in
the
same
Table
,
Acrisius
exposing
his
fair
Daughter
with
the
young
Persons
to
the
mercy
of
that
Element
,
from
whence
the
Queen
of
that
Passion
which
created
her
fault
,
had
her
original
;
how
she
and
her
Son
were
cast
upon
the
Coast
of
Daunia
,
and
how
Pilumnus
the
King
of
it
married
her
:
There
was
in
another
end
of
the
Pictures
,
the
three
Gorgons
,
Medusa
,
Schenio
,
and
Euriole
,
with
their
Tresses
of
Snakes
,
and
with
their
one
Eye
,
with
which
they
Metamorphosed
into
stone
all
they
beheld
:
In
the
same
Table
was
Mercury
and
Pallas
,
arming
the
valiant
Perseus
against
these
three
Sisters
;
how
he
found
the
eldest
of
them
,
and
all
her
Snakes
asleep
,
whose
head
he
immediately
cut
off
,
and
placed
in
his
Shield
,
with
which
he
turned
Atlas
King
of
Mauritania
into
stone
,
for
denying
him
entertainment
.
In
a
word
,
there
were
all
the
actions
of
this
demi-god
,
how
he
conquered
the
Monster
that
would
have
devoured
the
beautiful
Andromeda
;
and
how
he
himself
was
conquered
by
her
;
with
all
those
other
Fables
the
Poets
have
so
amply
sung
on
this
Subject
.
Two
other
Pictures
contained
the
Passions
of
the
same
god
to
the
fair
Europa
;
and
his
assuming
a
Beast's
shape
,
to
act
the
sensual
part
of
Love
;
and
of
the
Platonick
Moon
,
who
to
posses
Endimion
,
rendered
him
uncapable
to
possess
her
but
by
dreams
:
There
was
in
other
Tables
the
Amours
of
Aurora
and
Cephalus
,
with
the
Death
of
the
unchaste
and
jealous
Procris
;
and
to
shew
the
power
of
Love
indeed
,
and
that
the
Sea
it self
cannot
quench
its
flames
,
there
were
also
manifested
at
large
,
how
the
god
of
that
cold
Element
fell
in
love
with
the
fair
Amphitrite
;
how
she
fled
his
Passion
,
and
how
he
sent
a
Dolphin
after
her
,
who
prov'd
a
successful
Embassador
.
And
though
all
those
Tables
were
so
admirably
represented
,
that
to
know
the
Story
,
you
needed
but
to
see
the
Pictures
;
yet
there
were
two
others
which
so
intirely
took
up
our
Hero's
contemplation
,
that
after
the
sight
of
them
,
they
esteemed
none
of
the
remaining
ones
worthy
of
theirs
:
The
first
was
of
a
Beauty
which
could
not
but
be
excellent
,
since
in
Artabbanes's
own
opinion
she
resembled
the
fair
Parthenissa
.
'T
was
that
of
the
lovely
Psiche
,
she
that
captivated
the
god
of
Love
himself
;
and
was
so
long
taken
for
Venus
,
that
had
she
been
immortal
,
she
had
eternally
(
as
she
had
for
a
time
)
rob'd
her
of
her
Votaries
and
Altars
;
the
Artist
had
so
well
represented
this
Nymph
,
that
it
Authorized
Venus's
Envy
,
and
Mens
mistake
.
There
was
in
this
representation
,
how
the
King
of
Milesia
her
Father
,
by
the
command
of
an
Oracle
,
abandoned
her
to
the
gods
upon
a
Mountain
;
how
the
Zephirs
carried
her
on
their
wings
into
the
fortunate
Island
,
to
the
Palace
of
Love
,
which
till
then
,
nor
ever
since
,
could
boast
of
so
admirable
an
Adornment
;
how
the
fair
Psiche's
two
Sisters
,
at
her
request
were
brought
thither
by
the
Zephirs
,
who
envying
their
Sisters
felicity
,
perswaded
her
't
was
not
a
god
,
but
a
serpent
she
bless'd
with
her
embraces
;
how
the
credulous
Nymph
,
contrary
to
her
engagement
,
concealed
a
Lamp
by
her
Beds
side
,
with
which
when
the
little
god
had
stupify'd
his
Senses
by
too
much
satisfying
them
,
she
resolved
her
doubts
,
but
by
so
unfortunate
a
way
,
that
a
drop
of
Oyl
fell
upon
Cupid
,
who
immediately
wak'd
and
flew
away
:
There
were
further
represented
the
tragick
Death
of
the
fair
Psiche's
Sisters
;
The
Miseries
which
after
that
fatal
Night
befel
her
;
her
descent
into
Hell
,
and
at
length
her
ascent
into
Heaven
,
to
marry
her
god
,
who
now
had
pardoned
her
crime
,
and
thereby
derived
a
more
sublime
satisfaction
from
his
mercy
,
than
he
could
have
had
in
his
revenge
.
The
last
Picture
,
which
took
up
Artavasdes
as
much
as
the
other
had
Artabbanes's
attention
,
was
that
of
the
lovely
Leucothoe
,
who
as
much
resembled
the
fair
Altezeera
,
as
Psiche's
did
Parthenissa
.
This
Table
evinced
,
that
Art
or
Nature
were
admirable
;
the
last
,
if
it
presented
the
world
with
such
originals
;
or
the
first
,
if
it
could
fancy
or
describe
them
.
This
was
the
largest
representation
of
any
there
;
for
it
first
contained
the
Amours
of
Phoebus
and
Clittie
;
how
that
the
former
having
extinguished
all
his
Flames
in
the
fountain
of
Love
,
lighted
them
again
at
the
Eyes
of
the
lovely
Leucothoe
;
well
did
that
performance
prove
,
that
light
,
like
virtue
,
loses
nothing
by
communication
:
for
her
fair
Eyes
possess'd
still
as
much
light
,
as
they
had
given
the
Sun
;
Leucothoe
seemed
to
have
something
of
felicity
in
her
Countenance
,
which
was
derived
,
not
so
much
from
having
ravished
such
a
votary
from
such
a
Nymph
;
but
that
Phoebus
,
who
every
day
beheld
all
the
Perfections
of
the
world
,
gave
hers
by
his
adoring
them
,
the
precedency
:
'T
was
admirable
to
observe
how
the
envious
Sun
,
which
fades
all
other
Beauties
,
did
but
enlighten
hers
;
how
his
perpetual
kissing
her
Breasts
,
and
not
melting
them
,
abundantly
proved
they
had
only
the
colour
,
not
the
nature
of
snow
;
how
it
was
a
perpetual
Summer
wherever
Leucothoe
was
;
how
,
if
she
flung
her self
under
the
protection
of
Trees
,
they
soon
lost
their
treasure
,
for
hindring
the
Sun
from
beholding
his
;
and
how
that
Lover
evinc'd
by
their
immediate
withering
,
that
he
could
burn
all
but
her
that
did
burn
him
;
so
constant
,
and
so
bright
a
Servant
,
could
not
eternally
be
deny'd
;
Leucothoes
coldness
at
length
was
dissolved
,
and
Phoebus
in
her
embraces
▪
received
more
joys
,
than
the
world
does
in
his
Light
;
but
alas
,
those
felicities
which
fruition
could
not
quench
,
weeping
must
;
for
the
abandoned
Clittie
assumes
a
rage
proportionate
to
the
loss
which
inspired
it
,
and
in
the
dictates
of
that
Passion
,
acquaints
Orchamus
(
Leucothoe's
Father
)
with
her
stolen
Amours
;
and
though
the
betray'd
Nymph
in
a
posture
as
moving
as
her
tears
,
represented
the
glory
of
such
an
Alliance
,
and
that
to
please
one
of
the
gods
,
could
not
be
a
sin
against
the
rest
;
yet
the
cruel
Orchamus
buries
her
alive
with
her
Crimes
;
the
Sun
frighted
at
such
a
Prodigy
,
hides
his
face
in
clouds
,
and
weeps
such
showers
of
tears
,
that
the
world
by
his
sorrow
knew
his
Love
.
'T
was
well
for
Mortals
that
he
was
confined
eternally
to
his
Ecliptick
;
otherwise
,
to
act
his
revenge
,
he
had
descended
on
the
earth
,
and
reduced
all
to
the
same
Ashes
,
his
dear
Lucothoe
was
;
which
the
Fates
having
render'd
him
uncapable
of
,
he
immediately
converts
her
dead
body
into
an
Incense-tree
,
whose
sweetness
seem'd
to
reserve
something
of
its
first
principle
;
and
though
dead
,
as
much
to
charm
the
smell
,
or
when
living
,
the
sight
.
In
another
place
of
the
Picture
was
Clittie
,
who
Phoebus
now
hated
as
much
as
he
had
adored
,
running
from
one
top
of
a
Mountain
to
another
,
to
overtake
and
be
near
her
Lover
;
who
to
deprive
her
of
his
sight
,
as
well
as
Company
,
or
perhaps
having
put
on
mourning
for
the
fair
and
unfortunate
Leucothoe
,
travelled
still
in
a
gloomy
Cloud
,
which
he
had
perpetually
worn
in
revenge
and
grief
,
had
not
mortals
by
incessant
sacrifices
,
but
especially
by
those
offered
of
the
new
Incense
,
obtained
the
gods
command
to
assume
his
former
brightness
,
which
at
least
he
did
;
but
then
Clittie
found
her self
doubly
burned
by
her
heat
,
and
by
his
;
you
might
have
seen
her
sometimes
threatning
,
sometimes
imploring
her
Lover
;
now
invoking
his
power
,
then
his
justice
;
and
finally
,
crying
out
,
Either
stay
thy
course
,
or
give
me
the
wings
of
thy
Inconstancy
to
overtake
thee
;
her
Prayers
,
her
Tears
,
and
her
Cries
,
operating
no
more
on
Phoebus
,
than
that
Nymphs
she
had
betray'd
,
did
on
Orchamus
,
she
fix'd
her
Eyes
incessantly
on
her
Lover
,
and
by
that
Posture
,
and
her
unmoveableness
in
it
by
degrees
took
root
,
and
by
the
gods
were
converted
into
a
Marygold
;
who
all
day
constantly
gazes
on
the
Sun
,
and
all
the
night
turns
her
head
towards
the
Earth
;
as
if
she
strove
to
force
a
Passage
with
her
Eyes
through
the
Centre
,
to
the
Antipodes
,
not
to
be
at
any
time
deprived
of
seeing
her
Lover
.
Our
two
Hero's
found
not
only
a
resemblance
in
Beauty
,
but
in
Fortunes
,
betwixt
those
two
Nymphs
,
and
their
two
Princesses
:
*
For
Artabbanes
was
confident
the
gods
had
taken
his
Parthenissa
from
the
Earth
,
but
to
marry
her
to
one
of
them
in
Heaven
,
as
the
lovely
Psiche
was
;
and
in
that
Faith
he
almost
apprehended
to
go
thither
,
since
that
could
not
but
be
Hell
,
where
he
should
see
his
Princess
in
another's
Arms.
And
Artavasdes
thought
,
that
what
Orchamus
had
done
to
his
Daughter
Artabazus
,
or
misfortune
had
done
to
Altezeera
,
who
he
considered
as
buried
alive
in
Pacorus's
embraces
;
the
gods
having
deprived
our
Hero's
of
seeing
their
Princesses
,
the
best
felicity
they
could
allow
them
,
consisted
in
seeing
what
so
much
resembled
them
;
on
which
they
had
as
constantly
,
and
perhaps
as
eternally
fixed
their
Eyes
,
as
Clittie
did
hers
on
her
Ph●bus
,
had
not
Callimmachus
acquainted
them
,
't
was
time
to
offer
the
sacrifices
of
Perfumes
and
Turtles
;
which
ceremony
being
ended
,
they
all
went
out
of
the
Temple
;
and
immediately
the
Prince
of
it
having
given
the
signal
,
the
essusions
of
Wine
and
Milk
were
made
;
some
small
tufts
of
hair
which
grew
between
the
Horns
of
the
Bulls
and
Heifers
,
were
cut
with
golden
Sizers
,
and
flung
into
the
Flame
;
which
had
no
sooner
consumed
them
,
than
in
a
moment
all
the
Beasts
were
knocked
down
by
the
Victimaries
,
and
their
Entrails
torn
out
,
and
presented
to
Callimmachus
;
who
considered
the
Prophetical
part
of
them
with
so
sublime
a
joy
,
that
it
forced
him
to
whisper
to
our
Princes
,
that
the
gods
without
a
Miracle
,
and
without
ruining
the
Laws
they
themselves
had
established
,
could
not
long
delay
their
felicities
;
for
never
were
greater
promises
in
Victims
,
than
in
those
.
This
assurance
brought
our
Hero's
different
Hopes
,
Artabbanes
was
joy'd
in
a
belief
that
the
gods
would
command
him
to
act
his
own
Death
,
since
he
could
not
fancy
any
other
way
to
quiet
.
And
Artavasdes
interpreted
he
should
derive
his
satisfaction
from
their
removing
Pacorus
,
and
placing
him
in
his
Felicities
:
but
they
were
both
diverted
from
any
further
reflections
,
by
the
Augurs
giving
liberty
to
the
Swans
out
of
their
silver
Prisons
,
who
immediately
directed
their
flight
to
Heaven
,
as
to
acknowledg
their
deliverance
from
thence
;
and
were
intended
thither
as
a
sacrifice
of
quicker
ascension
than
that
of
Incense
.
All
these
solemnities
being
finished
,
those
which
assisted
at
them
,
return'd
again
into
another
Isle
of
the
Temple
,
where
stood
a
Statue
of
Venus
,
which
took
up
as
much
,
and
as
justly
the
Beholders
admiration
,
as
the
Deity
could
which
it
represented
;
it
was
all
of
Mosaick
work
,
and
the
peeces
cimmented
with
such
excellent
Art
,
that
the
most
critical
Anatomist
could
not
have
miss'd
so
much
as
a
Vein
,
a
Sinew
,
or
an
Artery
.
The
Beauties
of
colours
,
of
Air
,
and
of
Features
,
were
as
exact
,
as
those
of
Cimmetrie
;
and
for
Eyes
,
the
Statue
was
imbellished
with
two
such
refulgent
Diamonds
,
that
their
very
lustre
,
like
that
of
the
Suns
,
hindered
them
from
being
considered
,
but
by
reflection
:
and
thereby
rendered
the
boldly
contemplating
the
Deities
face
,
as
great
an
impossibility
,
as
a
Sin
.
'T
was
at
the
feet
of
this
admirable
Statue
,
that
Callimmachus
prostrated
himself
,
having
in
the
same
posture
on
either
of
his
sides
,
one
of
our
Princes
,
who
with
perfect
attentions
,
and
equal
devotion
,
heard
him
deliver
this
short
Prayer
.
Fairest
of
all
Goddesses
!
thou
who
first
derivest
that
Title
from
Nature
,
and
then
from
Iustice
;
Thou
from
whom
all
other
gods
receive
their
votaries
,
since
only
by
thy
sweet
influences
,
Mankind
is
created
and
continued
,
and
sacrifices
too
;
behold
prostrate
before
thee
,
two
of
thy
votaries
,
who
have
never
offered
on
thy
Altars
,
False
,
or
double
Fires
,
but
have
so
constantly
preserved
those
wounds
thy
Son
first
made
in
their
hearts
,
that
ever
since
they
were
,
and
are
fit
examples
for
thy
subjects
to
continue
such
;
Though
even
their
sufferings
have
at
least
proportionated
their
Constancy
;
do
not
great
Goddess
so
justly
deterr
Mortals
from
that
virtue
,
as
to
render
it
the
ruine
of
those
who
most
perfectly
possess
it
;
nor
give
those
who
already
doubt
thy
Power
or
Iustice
,
so
much
provocation
to
continue
their
Sin
,
as
thy
continuing
the
misfortunes
of
these
Lovers
will
amount
unto
;
but
by
investing
them
in
felicities
,
as
great
as
the
Beauties
they
adore
evince
,
that
the
tryal
of
Constancy
,
is
not
the
punishment
of
it
.
Callimmachus
having
ended
his
Orizon
,
gave
the
Tripos
to
the
Virgin
,
who
on
it
was
to
deliver
the
Oracle
;
and
then
with
her
and
our
two
Hero's
only
,
went
to
the
Vault
,
where
they
were
to
receive
it
;
which
was
adorned
with
a
Dome
,
That
shot
it self
so
high
into
Heaven
,
that
none
which
doubted
not
,
that
was
the
residence
of
the
gods
,
could
doubt
they
inhabited
in
it
.
The
Virgin
at
the
mouth
of
the
Vault
leaves
those
three
which
accompanied
her
thither
;
and
,
after
her
devotions
were
finished
,
and
that
she
had
setled
her self
on
the
Tripos
,
immediately
the
capacious
Temple
and
sacred
Grove
were
covered
with
obscure
Clouds
;
from
whence
strange
Lightnings
and
Thunder
derived
their
Birth
;
a
surious
Earthquake
shook
suddenly
the
foundation
of
the
Temple
and
Grove
;
the
Delphian
Lawrel
which
crown'd
the
Virgins
Head
,
fell
off
it
;
her
Hair
stood
an
end
and
star'd
;
her
Eyes
roll'd
wildly
;
her
Neck
in
a
thousand
turnings
kept
it self
in
uncessant
motion
●
her
Heart
beat
against
her
Breast
,
as
if
it
would
have
forced
a
passage
there
;
her
Mouth
foamed
;
and
in
a
word
,
all
the
symptomes
that
the
Deity
inspir'd
and
possess'd
her
,
were
visible
;
but
that
which
rendered
it
no
longer
capable
of
doubts
,
was
a
shrill
voice
which
filled
the
sacred
Vault
,
and
delivered
these
words
:
From
Parthenissa's
Ashes
I
will
raise
A
Phoenix
,
in
whose
Flames
thou
shalt
be
blest
:
Wait
then
about
this
Temple
a
few
Days
,
And
all
thy
Torments
shall
be
crown'd
with
Rest.
Then
after
a
short
silence
,
the
voice
thus
continued
the
Oracle
:
Despair
not
Artavasdes
,
since
the
time
Predestin'd
for
thy
Sufferings
,
is
but
brief
:
Fortune
unto
thy
virtue
shall
resign
;
And
perfect
joy
,
succeed
to
equal
Grief
.
Go
both
and
sacrifice
to
that
fair
Boy
,
Who
did
inspire
my
highest
Grief
and
Ioy
.
Callimmachus
by
a
short
but
passionate
ejaculation
,
acknowledged
his
joy
and
concern
in
so
favourable
an
Oracle
,
and
then
in
repeated
Sacrifices
did
the
like
;
which
being
finished
,
they
returned
from
the
Temple
the
same
way
they
went
unto
it
,
and
in
a
deep
silence
;
which
the
virtuous
Priest
observed
no
more
,
when
they
were
entered
in
our
Prince's
Appartment
:
For
there
by
a
Thousand
embraces
he
congratulated
so
clear
promises
from
the
Goddess
of
their
future
felicities
.
It
seems
(
said
he
)
they
knew
your
despairs
were
too
pregnant
to
give
you
dark
and
ambiguous
answers
;
they
have
now
left
themselves
no
power
to
continue
your
miseries
,
but
by
giving
men
a
full
liberty
to
suspect
their
Justice
;
so
that
next
the
being
possess'd
of
your
desires
,
you
have
the
bless'd
security
of
being
so
.
The
Oracle
(
Artabbanes
coldly
replyed
)
is
very
clear
;
and
't
is
as
much
so
,
that
the
Death
the
gods
hitherto
hindered
me
from
acting
,
they
now
promise
me
,
by
saying
,
Parthenissa
is
reduced
to
Ashes
:
They
would
too
have
said
,
that
all
my
Torments
shall
be
crown'd
with
joy
,
not
rest
,
had
they
designed
me
any
blessings
in
Life
;
and
the
Phoenix
they
promise
to
raise
from
that
dead
ones
Ashes
,
is
clearly
the
constancy
of
my
Passion
,
in
which
I
shall
be
bless'd
by
being
consum'd
in
the
flames
of
it
;
and
you
are
not
ignorant
,
but
so
unalterable
and
efficacious
a
love
,
is
as
rare
as
that
Phoenix
to
which
the
Oracle
alludes
.
Callimmachus
and
Artavasdes
both
,
admired
at
so
strange
an
interpretation
;
but
the
first
of
them
,
left
their
silence
might
seem
to
authorize
it
,
told
him
,
If
he
which
serves
the
Deity
can
best
interpret
her
meaning
,
or
rather
her
expressions
,
I
can
find
nothing
in
the
Oracle
,
but
what
is
much
advantageous
for
you
:
before
this
answer
,
you
wrong'd
but
the
mercy
of
the
gods
in
doubting
your
Joys
;
but
now
you
must
their
Truth
in
any
longer
doing
it
;
for
they
promise
a
blessing
to
your
waiting
for
it
about
this
Temple
:
If
they
meant
your
Death
should
be
that
Blessing
,
they
would
have
permitted
you
to
act
it
,
and
not
have
contradicted
themselves
,
by
making
your
languishings
the
way
unto
it
:
That
word
of
Rest
evidently
implyes
a
cessation
from
sufferings
and
fears
;
and
that
Phoenix
for
ought
we
know
,
may
be
Parthenissa
her self
,
who
perhaps
is
but
dead
to
your
Belief
.
Great
gods
!
(
Artabbanes
cryed
out
)
she
is
but
too
certainly
dead
,
Symander
saw
her
so
;
and
therefore
if
you
have
no
other
interpretation
of
that
Passage
,
I
cannot
but
determine
mine
to
be
the
true
one
:
They
cannot
accomplish
their
promise
of
Rest
but
by
Death
;
't
is
that
only
after
the
loss
of
Parthenissa
,
can
give
it
me
;
they
do
not
assure
me
rest
as
the
way
,
but
as
the
end
and
Crown
of
my
Torment
;
so
that
they
do
not
falsifie
,
but
perfect
their
Oracle
,
in
giving
me
no
cessation
from
sufferings
,
but
by
that
which
confers
it
upon
every
one
.
Callimmachus
,
who
observed
Artabbanes's
despair
did
but
increase
by
his
attempting
to
qualifie
it
,
only
replyed
;
I
have
seen
those
who
built
their
Faith
on
a
more
firm
foundation
than
you
do
yours
,
and
yet
have
been
(
as
I
hope
you
will
be
)
happily
mistaken
:
The
Oracle
,
I
am
convinced
,
promises
those
blessings
to
you
,
which
we
must
leave
to
Time
and
the
gods
to
disclose
;
in
the
mean
while
,
I
esteem
it
absolutely
requisite
,
that
you
both
obey
their
orders
,
by
sacrificing
in
the
Temple
of
Adonis
;
They
would
not
enjoyn
you
that
performance
,
were
it
not
conducive
to
that
end
they
have
promised
.
Artavasdes
having
given
some
additional
Arguments
to
the
silencing
of
his
Friends
despair
,
and
the
creating
of
his
Faith
in
the
best
construction
of
the
Oracle
,
at
length
extorted
an
engagement
from
him
,
That
without
any
prejudicate
opinion
of
it
,
he
would
expect
the
interpretation
.
The
generous
Armenian
extreamly
satisfied
with
this
assurance
,
began
to
acquaint
him
that
made
it
,
and
Callimmachus
,
That
as
soon
as
he
had
performed
his
devotions
at
Adonis
Temple
,
he
was
determined
to
make
a
voyage
into
Parthia
;
for
one
of
those
Assassines
which
had
been
destroyed
by
Artabbanes's
Courage
,
had
confessed
as
he
expired
,
that
the
Prince
of
Parthia
had
hired
them
to
that
attempt
.
This
(
he
continued
)
makes
me
confident
,
Pacorus
esteems
Altezeera
guilty
,
when
he
esteems
me
fit
to
be
so
punished
;
and
believing
her
so
,
she
may
have
occasion
to
employ
my
Sword
and
Life
,
both
which
I
will
go
and
offer
her
;
the
gods
too
seem
to
invite
me
to
it
,
by
not
confining
my
residence
about
this
Temple
,
as
they
have
done
Artabbanes's
,
who
I
am
as
much
troubled
to
abandon
,
as
at
that
which
makes
me
believe
my
doing
so
,
necessary
;
but
as
soon
as
I
have
found
whether
my
suspitions
be
rightly
grounded
,
I
will
not
fail
to
return
hither
,
to
be
instructed
in
a
Fate
,
I
am
nothing
less
concerned
in
,
than
in
my
own
.
The
gods
(
replyed
Artabbanes
)
cannot
but
destine
me
some
transcendent
advantage
,
by
enjoyning
my
residence
here
,
if
they
but
intend
thereby
to
recompence
the
Misery
of
confining
me
from
waiting
on
,
and
serving
Artavasdes
in
his
intended
voyage
;
but
I
am
so
well
vers'd
in
their
inclinations
for
me
,
that
if
he
will
permit
it
,
I
will
rather
embrace
the
assured
blessing
of
accompanying
him
,
than
out
of
some
ambiguous
hopes
,
decline
so
advantageous
a
certainty
.
Artavasdes
found
this
as
civil
,
as
Callimmachus
irreligious
;
and
Artabbanes
found
by
their
returns
,
that
these
were
both
their
beliefs
.
The
generous
Friend
having
absolutely
declined
the
offer
,
and
the
generous
Priest
having
induced
him
which
made
it
,
to
acknowledg
he
had
been
in
it
as
uncivil
to
the
gods
,
as
the
contrary
to
Artavasdes
,
they
began
to
think
on
their
intended
journey
next
morning
to
the
Temple
of
Adonis
;
which
Callimmachus
said
was
not
above
Forty
Furlongs
from
Hierapolis
;
and
because
the
day
was
not
a
little
wasted
in
the
precedent
Sacrifices
,
and
that
some
part
of
it
must
be
employed
in
preparatives
for
the
future
ones
,
both
he
and
Artavasdes
conjur'd
Artabbanes
to
enjoyn
Symander
(
who
all
the
while
was
present
)
to
put
a
period
to
the
relation
he
had
begun
.
Artabbanes
being
satisfied
,
that
in
one
performance
he
could
oblige
himself
,
and
those
he
as
much
desired
to
do
the
like
unto
;
to
effect
both
,
retired
to
the
entertainment
of
his
thoughts
,
and
left
them
to
Symander's
,
who
to
obey
their
Commands
,
having
first
remembred
them
,
he
was
interrupted
after
Surena's
success
in
the
Castle
of
Eden
,
and
that
still
he
spoke
the
fair
Parthenissa's
words
to
Artabbanes
;
thus
prosecuted
her
Adventures
.
The
sequel
of
Parthenissa's
and
Artabbanes's
Story
.
THe
day
(
said
the
Princess
)
began
but
to
expel
the
obscurity
of
the
Night
,
when
Surena
according
to
his
promise
,
came
into
my
Chamber
,
to
let
me
know
all
things
for
our
intended
journey
were
ready
;
but
he
was
so
pale
and
weak
,
that
Zephalinda
,
Lyndadory
,
and
I
,
began
to
consider
that
strange
alteration
,
as
the
effect
of
a
new
Misfortune
;
but
he
assured
us
it
only
proceeded
from
some
loss
of
blood
in
his
late
Combat
;
that
he
found
himself
better
able
to
perform
a
journey
,
than
he
seemed
to
be
;
and
that
by
riding
in
a
Chariot
,
he
should
feel
no
inconveniency
,
but
what
proceeded
from
being
in
a
less
fitting
posture
to
serve
me
.
I
must
acknowledg
he
appeared
in
so
sad
a
condition
,
that
I
not
only
thought
it
less
dangerous
for
him
to
indure
a
siege
,
than
a
journey
,
but
told
him
so
;
and
though
we
jointly
and
pressingly
conjur'd
him
to
reflect
on
his
own
safety
,
and
that
we
would
hazard
ours
by
a
residence
with
him
,
rather
than
so
much
indanger
his
;
yet
Solicitations
were
fruitless
;
for
he
protested
't
would
be
more
hazarded
by
the
danger
of
my
continuing
in
Eden
,
or
by
his
not
waiting
on
me
out
of
it
,
and
fetling
me
in
a
secure
residence
,
than
any
other
way
:
His
Chyrurgeon
too
assured
us
,
he
might
without
any
great
hazard
travel
in
a
Chariot
.
This
last
operated
more
with
us
than
all
the
rest
;
for
we
knew
the
Laws
of
Surena's
Civility
obliged
him
to
contemn
all
danger
;
but
we
knew
those
of
the
Artist
,
as
much
obliged
him
to
preserve
his
Patient
from
any
;
we
therefore
descended
into
the
Court
,
where
we
found
all
things
in
a
desired
Posture
,
and
some
fifty
Horse
for
our
Convoy
.
Zephalinda
and
Lyndadory
rode
in
one
Chariot
,
and
Surena
(
by
my
reiterated
desires
)
and
I
,
rid
in
another
;
there
was
a
Third
for
our
Women
:
but
alas
,
we
were
not
gone
a
furlong
from
the
Castle
,
when
some
Scouts
came
in
,
and
with
frighted
looks
,
commanded
the
Chariot-Drivers
to
turn
back
,
if
they
had
a
mind
to
preserve
themselves
,
or
those
they
drove
.
Surena
at
this
Allarm
,
inquired
the
cause
of
it
;
which
those
that
brought
it
,
told
him
,
proceeded
from
500
of
the
King's
Horse
,
which
were
come
a
round
Gallop
from
Nineveh
,
had
seized
on
all
the
Boats
were
to
ferry
us
over
the
Tygris
,
and
were
by
their
help
transporting
themselves
into
the
Island
.
Surena
amazed
at
so
fatal
a
Disaster
,
and
as
much
,
how
what
he
had
done
could
already
come
to
Arsace's
knowledg
,
told
me
,
We
must
,
Madam
,
return
;
unless
you
will
rather
indure
the
Siege
of
Orodes's
Love
,
than
that
of
his
Force
:
He
had
hardly
said
these
words
,
when
we
perceived
a
cloud
of
dust
,
which
some
of
our
Convoy
that
were
most
advanced
,
came
running
to
tell
us
was
the
Enemies
Troops
:
this
made
us
retire
hastily
to
the
Castle
,
into
which
we
were
scarcely
entered
,
when
Surena
fell
into
a
Swound
,
and
his
wounds
appeared
so
inflamed
,
that
a
Chyrurgeon
of
our
Convoy
,
who
first
at
my
cryes
ran
to
his
assistance
,
protested
to
me
,
our
return
was
the
happiest
accident
could
have
arrived
his
Prince
,
for
he
could
not
have
continued
his
journey
,
and
his
Life
;
we
had
him
therefore
brought
with
great
care
,
and
no
less
haste
,
to
his
Appartment
,
from
whence
we
saw
a
Body
of
Horse
,
which
came
a
full
Gallop
near
the
Castle
;
where
they
drew
up
,
and
by
waving
their
bright
Swords
,
seem'd
to
invite
those
in
it
to
a
Combat
which
might
change
their
colour
.
There
was
in
Eden
a
young
Gentleman
called
Arzimin
,
to
whom
Surena
,
as
soon
as
he
was
restored
to
his
sences
,
committed
the
care
of
the
Siege
,
till
his
own
health
would
permit
him
to
assume
it
.
Four
days
were
spent
in
preparations
for
defence
;
and
the
night
of
the
last
,
there
came
into
the
Castle
500
Horse
,
and
as
many
Foot
;
who
told
us
,
That
more
by
Art
than
by
Force
they
had
pass'd
the
King's
Army
,
which
next
morning
faced
the
Castle
,
and
sent
a
Herald
to
Surena
,
who
not
being
in
a
condition
to
receive
his
Message
,
sent
Arzimin
to
do
it
;
who
brought
his
Prince
word
,
That
Arsaces
had
sent
purposely
to
know
what
provocation
he
had
received
that
could
invite
him
to
so
precipitate
and
dangerous
a
design
;
That
though
the
highest
Revenge
would
be
but
a
proportionate
Justice
for
abusing
his
Authority
and
Favour
;
yet
if
he
would
submit
himself
to
the
former
,
he
would
restore
him
to
the
latter
.
Surena
turning
his
Eyes
towards
me
,
seemed
to
implore
the
answer
he
was
to
make
;
but
I
told
him
,
I
had
referred
all
things
,
as
well
as
my
protection
,
to
him
;
he
therefore
commanded
Arzimin
to
let
the
Herald
know
,
That
by
reason
of
an
indisposition
which
rendered
him
uncapable
of
making
any
return
to
the
King
with
his
own
hand
,
he
was
determined
not
to
send
any
till
he
could
so
do
it
.
This
he
did
to
protract
the
time
,
and
not
to
thrust
Arsaces
on
extreams
,
till
Vixores
(
who
Surena
then
told
me
was
raising
an
Army
of
his
Partizans
)
came
to
his
relief
.
The
Herald
delivered
the
King
the
Message
he
received
,
which
Arsaces
considered
rather
as
an
affront
than
a
respect
;
and
immediately
by
a
Trumpet
sent
to
know
where
our
Appartments
were
,
that
he
might
prohibit
any
shooting
of
Arrows
at
those
parts
of
the
Castle
;
which
having
learned
,
he
began
by
approaches
to
attempt
the
winning
of
a
place
,
which
contained
in
it
the
objects
of
his
most
predominant
Passions
,
his
Love
and
Revenge
.
Above
a
Moon
was
employed
in
bloody
assaults
and
defences
,
by
which
time
Surena
was
so
well
recovered
of
his
old
wounds
,
that
he
was
in
a
condition
to
receive
new
ones
;
which
before
he
did
,
by
a
Trumpet
,
and
a
Gentleman
,
he
sent
the
King
a
Letter
,
which
he
first
communicated
to
me
,
and
which
contained
these
words
:
Surena
,
to
his
Soveraign
Arsaces
.
IF
I
have
been
so
unfortunate
,
as
seemingly
to
take
up
Arms
against
my
King
;
yet
I
am
so
happy
as
to
be
satisfied
they
are
really
for
him
.
Your
resolves
(
Sir
)
to
make
Parthenissa
yours
,
and
hers
to
decline
a
Crown
of
Empire
,
for
one
of
Constancy
,
creates
my
performance
,
which
I
cannot
call
a
crime
,
because
't
is
to
preserve
you
from
one
.
This
only
being
the
cause
of
my
Arming
,
I
esteemed
it
not
fit
to
divulge
it
,
but
rather
appear
a
Rebel
,
than
manifest
your
Passion
is
one
to
you
;
when
you
can
command
it
,
you
shall
command
both
me
,
and
those
with
me
;
but
till
then
,
I
must
preserve
you
from
what
virtue
should
;
and
thereby
merit
the
honour
of
your
favour
,
if
I
possess
it
not
.
Arsaces
detained
this
Messenger
till
he
had
formed
a
Reply
,
which
he
was
not
a
little
troubled
to
do
;
for
if
he
continued
his
Passion
,
he
must
the
War
,
and
perhaps
the
despair
of
taking
the
cause
of
it
;
and
if
he
seemed
to
decline
his
Passion
,
he
must
violate
his
engagement
,
or
what
it
may
be
he
valued
more
.
Whilst
this
Dilemma
was
debating
,
the
Army
and
Garison
were
so
too
;
for
there
was
during
the
Treaty
,
no
suspension
of
Arms
;
and
the
Arsacians
stormed
an
Out-work
,
from
whence
they
were
beaten
with
loss
and
shame
:
Surena
to
let
his
Enemies
know
he
was
well
,
and
could
use
his
success
so
,
With
the
greatest
part
of
his
Garison
,
and
himself
at
the
head
of
them
,
made
so
resolute
a
charge
upon
three
great
Squadrons
of
Horse
and
Foot
,
who
were
to
justifie
the
Assaliants
retreat
,
that
he
forced
them
all
to
a
precipitate
one
;
and
doubtless
had
carried
his
Success
to
a
sublimer
degree
,
had
not
Orodes
in
person
with
3000
select
Horse
,
first
put
a
suspension
,
and
then
a
period
to
his
victory
.
We
saw
all
this
from
off
the
Castle
,
and
that
Surena
did
miracles
in
his
person
to
regain
the
victory
,
or
it
;
but
at
length
most
of
his
Forces
being
cut
in
pieces
,
or
taken
Prisoners
,
he
followed
the
fate
of
the
latter
,
which
he
received
from
a
Gentleman
in
black
Armour
.
But
we
had
hardly
the
leisure
to
deplore
so
sensible
a
loss
,
since
he
that
imposed
it
,
did
redress
it
too
,
by
not
only
giving
Surena
his
liberty
again
;
but
by
securing
it
,
till
he
came
to
the
Graffe
of
the
Castle
:
Surena
had
but
few
wounds
for
so
many
dangers
he
had
been
engaged
in
;
but
of
1000
Horse
and
Foot
which
made
the
Sally
,
only
two
hundred
returned
alive
,
and
half
of
those
by
their
wounds
continued
not
so
six
days
.
Our
impatience
to
learn
from
whom
both
Surena
and
we
had
received
so
signal
an
obligation
,
made
us
go
meet
him
in
the
entrance
of
the
Castle
;
where
he
told
us
privately
,
that
it
was
from
the
Prince
Ariobarzanes
,
who
upon
his
knowledg
of
him
,
desired
no
other
ransom
for
the
restoring
his
freedom
,
than
to
grant
him
his
Pardon
,
and
procure
him
Zephalinda's
,
for
having
deprived
him
of
it
.
This
Gallantry
both
the
Brother
and
Sister
extolled
,
in
terms
as
great
as
it self
;
and
the
latter
perhaps
esteemed
her
necessitated
ingratitude
to
him
as
high
a
misfortune
,
as
Artabbanes's
was
to
her
.
The
great
loss
we
sustained
by
his
Sally
,
reduced
us
to
a
condition
so
deplorable
,
that
Surena
himself
began
to
apprehend
it
,
and
to
confess
his
best
consolation
was
,
He
should
lose
his
Life
in
a
Service
,
in
which
he
had
vowed
to
spend
it
;
and
thereby
if
he
could
not
prevent
my
misfortunes
,
yet
he
should
not
live
to
see
them
.
The
morning
which
succeeded
this
sad
day
,
there
came
a
Gentleman
from
the
Camp
attended
by
a
Trumpeter
,
who
telling
the
Guards
he
was
employed
from
the
King
to
their
Prince
,
was
admitted
and
received
by
him
in
the
Court
,
where
to
conceal
our
deficiency
,
all
the
Garison
but
the
Centries
on
the
Line
were
assembled
.
The
Express
presented
from
Orodes
a
Letter
to
Surena
,
which
without
opening
he
immediately
came
and
presented
me
in
my
Chamber
,
where
Lyndadory
and
Zephalinda
were
,
to
learn
the
effect
of
it
;
having
there
unsealed
it
,
we
found
't
was
all
written
with
Arsaces's
own
hand
,
and
contained
these
words
:
Arsaces
King
of
Parthia
,
To
Surena
.
THough
the
condition
the
gods
have
reduced
you
to
,
might
invite
me
by
resentment
,
as
well
as
justice
,
to
employ
my
Power
,
rather
than
my
Mercy
;
yet
because
you
attribute
your
crime
to
a
service
to
Parthenissa
,
I
shall
esteem
it
one
to
me
,
and
not
only
pardon
your
having
given
her
so
bad
a
character
of
my
Passion
,
as
what
you
have
acted
must
make
her
assume
;
but
to
divest
her
of
Fear
,
and
you
of
Excuse
,
I
do
hereby
engage
my self
by
all
those
obligations
I
esteem
most
sacred
,
I
will
be
so
far
from
forcing
her
to
be
my
Queen
,
that
I
will
not
solicite
it
;
and
I
would
even
give
her
leave
to
seek
a
Sanctuary
under
some
other
King
,
did
I
not
know
that
would
but
too
much
cloud
the
Government
of
her
own
,
which
could
not
but
be
abhorred
,
when
so
much
Beauty
and
Virtue
should
be
necessitated
to
implore
a
Foreign
Protection
.
This
Letter
gave
me
joys
which
were
uncapable
of
accession
,
but
by
both
your
returns
;
I
told
Surena
,
that
the
cause
of
the
War
being
taken
away
,
the
effects
ought
to
cease
;
that
doubtless
Arsaces
was
real
in
his
promises
,
since
he
had
(
when
they
were
freely
made
)
as
much
the
power
to
violate
them
,
as
he
could
have
when
I
was
in
his
;
that
probably
my
coldness
had
extinguished
his
flame
;
which
though
it
were
no
common
operation
in
Love
,
yet
it
was
(
as
Surena
experimentally
knew
)
a
possible
one
;
and
therefore
since
Arsace's
taking
the
Castle
,
which
he
had
as
much
the
power
as
the
will
to
do
,
might
inspire
him
with
intentions
,
our
submission
and
reliance
on
him
would
suppress
,
I
esteemed
it
the
best
course
to
accept
of
what
we
could
indeed
no
longer
decline
.
Surena
was
about
to
have
replyed
,
when
one
of
his
Servants
advertised
him
,
That
the
Gentleman
employed
by
the
King
,
had
a
Message
to
deliver
him
,
which
he
desired
might
be
without
witnesses
.
I
observed
him
a
little
surprised
at
my
motion
,
and
it
may
be
he
was
glad
to
cloud
his
disorder
by
this
opportunity
,
which
he
begged
me
to
permit
him
to
accept
,
since
it
was
not
improbable
,
but
it
might
be
much
conducive
to
the
forming
our
resolutions
.
I
know
not
whether
he
thought
the
making
his
request
was
sufficient
towards
the
granting
;
but
he
had
no
sooner
desired
my
permission
,
than
he
took
it
,
and
whilst
he
was
entertaining
the
King
's
Express
,
the
fair
Zephalinda
was
entertaining
me
with
some
fears
she
but
then
had
assumed
;
which
were
,
That
I
had
avoided
being
a
Prey
to
one
of
my
Lovers
,
but
to
be
one
to
another
.
This
free
declaration
made
me
conclude
she
had
but
too
pregnant
evincements
for
the
making
it
;
and
that
it
was
her
knowleg
,
not
her
suspition
,
which
gave
me
one
of
her
Brother
.
I
acquainted
her
with
this
belief
,
with
as
much
clearness
as
she
had
me
with
hers
;
but
when
she
protested
to
me
her
apprehensions
had
only
their
being
from
the
minute
of
Surena's
disorders
,
and
at
the
overture
which
had
created
them
:
I
began
to
hope
her
affection
for
me
,
made
her
suspect
her
Brother's
having
too
much
;
which
the
better
to
determine
,
we
jointly
resolved
to
press
the
accepting
the
King's
offer
.
Surena
by
his
return
,
gave
me
leave
to
execute
what
we
had
resolved
;
which
after
I
had
by
the
pressing'st
reasons
I
could
disclose
,
he
told
me
,
The
just
gods
,
Madam
,
who
know
how
unfit
it
is
for
you
to
put
your self
into
the
hands
of
one
who
prefers
his
Lust
before
his
Faith
,
have
sent
me
an
Intelligence
,
which
may
so
far
absolve
their
Providence
,
that
if
that
misfortune
must
be
yours
,
it
shall
be
your
fault
,
and
not
theirs
:
For
the
Gentleman
sent
by
the
King
,
is
employed
by
the
generous
Ariobarzanes
;
who
knowing
all
Intelligence
both
by
Land
and
Water
,
is
debarred
me
;
lets
me
know
,
that
Arzimin
,
who
I
thought
in
the
last
Sally
had
lost
his
Life
,
has
lost
but
his
Liberty
;
and
that
Vixores
is
hastily
raising
an
Army
of
30000
Horse
,
and
as
many
Foot
for
my
relief
:
so
that
,
Madam
,
you
have
but
to
assume
a
few
days
patience
,
and
you
may
derive
that
real
security
from
my
Sword
,
which
will
prove
but
an
imaginary
one
in
Arsace's
protestations
.
The
gods
forbid
(
I
replyed
,
much
more
confirmed
in
my
Fears
,
by
this
answer
)
,
that
so
many
thousand
Lives
should
be
sacrificed
as
Victims
for
the
suppression
of
my
doubts
;
but
allow
they
were
of
so
criminal
a
quality
,
as
that
nothing
but
so
much
blood
could
wash
them
away
;
yet
what
advantage
could
we
propound
unto
our selves
by
a
Battel
,
which
we
are
not
more
certain
of
without
one
;
for
you
must
either
resolve
to
expel
Arsaces
out
of
his
Throne
and
Empire
,
or
at
length
you
must
trust
him
,
and
that
too
when
the
resentments
of
his
losses
,
and
our
opposition
,
may
give
him
a
rise
and
provocation
to
evince
the
justice
of
our
Fears
,
by
his
acting
them
:
which
a
Confidence
in
him
may
as
much
deter
him
from
,
as
his
very
oaths
;
so
that
since
of
necessity
we
must
,
to
prevent
his
Crime
,
act
a
greater
,
or
put
our selves
into
his
Mercy
,
when
it
may
be
the
world
may
esteem
his
conferring
it
(
by
our
provocation
)
an
injustice
;
I
do
not
only
approve
of
embracing
his
offer
,
but
conjure
you
we
may
do
it
:
and
this
I
desire
the
more
pressingly
,
because
that
having
a
power
to
oppose
his
,
our
submission
may
appear
our
election
,
not
our
constraint
,
and
thereby
have
two
obligations
on
him
,
that
of
Religion
,
and
that
of
Trust
;
which
latter
will
confine
him
,
if
he
considers
his
honour
;
and
the
former
,
if
he
considers
the
gods
.
Are
you
then
,
Madam
(
he
reply'd
)
,
so
little
vers'd
in
the
Maxims
of
Kings
,
as
to
think
your self
secure
under
him
,
when
you
have
demonstrated
you
have
a
Power
of
being
so
without
,
or
against
him
;
by
shewing
that
Truth
,
and
then
divesting
your self
of
it
?
we
do
not
only
shew
him
he
is
not
absolute
;
but
provoke
,
and
which
is
worse
,
enable
him
to
become
so
:
the
folly
of
yielding
to
an
offended
Prince
,
is
greater
than
the
Sin
which
made
him
so
;
and
if
we
must
at
length
submit
,
't
is
better
doing
it
when
our
necessity
is
the
motive
;
for
the
extending
his
Mercy
then
,
is
a
greater
,
as
well
as
safer
virtue
:
Do
not
,
Madam
(
I
beseech
you
)
tempt
Arsaces's
honesty
,
by
prejudicing
his
Power
and
Love
:
There
is
no
necessity
of
ending
the
War
by
either
expelling
him
his
Throne
,
or
submitting
to
his
Mercy
;
a
successful
Battel
may
procure
us
such
conditions
,
as
it
shall
not
be
in
his
Power
to
infringe
them
;
or
when
he
sees
his
Passion
or
Empire
must
cease
,
he
will
relinquish
the
former
:
which
were
it
founded
on
Virtue
,
would
be
as
permanent
as
the
reward
of
it
;
but
being
on
Lust
,
and
meeting
such
dangers
and
obstructions
,
it
will
as
soon
expire
,
as
would
the
pleasures
of
it
.
I
confess
this
discourse
made
me
tremble
,
and
I
could
not
abstain
from
replying
,
Certainly
,
Surena
,
there
are
Passions
of
another
quality
than
you
have
now
given
me
a
character
of
,
or
else
you
have
given
me
an
ill
one
of
yours
,
or
of
your self
;
for
if
those
which
are
built
on
Virtue
never
expire
,
I
must
conclude
,
yours
had
not
that
foundation
,
or
else
is
still
existent
.
Surena
found
himself
as
much
surprised
at
my
inference
,
as
I
was
at
what
gave
me
the
rise
to
make
it
:
But
after
a
short
silence
,
he
told
me
,
There
is
(
Madam
)
no
general
Rule
but
has
some
exception
;
and
't
is
I
only
make
it
in
this
:
Neither
,
Madam
,
should
I
tell
you
an
untruth
,
if
I
assured
you
my
love
for
you
,
makes
me
not
love
you
;
I
esteemed
it
but
an
ill
effect
and
character
of
my
Flame
to
oppose
and
injure
yours
;
and
since
the
gods
have
made
the
perseverance
in
my
Passion
as
great
a
misfortune
,
as
your
not
rewarding
it
;
I
transplanted
that
permanency
the
gods
had
given
me
for
a
virtuous
affection
,
on
a
virtuous
Friendship
,
and
they
will
not
so
much
lessen
their
obligation
in
this
change
,
as
to
evidence
it
no
miracle
;
which
it
would
neither
prove
nor
appear
,
did
they
produce
in
Arsaces
a
resembling
operation
.
I
told
him
,
that
to
repeat
was
not
to
annihilate
a
Miracle
;
That
I
could
not
esteem
a
production
of
reason
,
to
be
one
;
or
if
there
had
been
one
in
his
affection
,
it
was
in
that
he
had
assum'd
,
and
not
declined
it
;
since
he
could
not
be
more
powerfully
invited
to
relinquish
his
addresses
from
the
unworthiness
of
their
object
,
than
from
her
preingaged
Love
;
which
she
resolved
as
eternally
to
cherish
,
as
his
Friendship
,
that
had
so
generously
contributed
thereunto
.
I
further
told
him
,
That
since
the
extinction
of
his
Flame
evinced
a
possibility
of
Orodes
doing
the
like
,
and
that
the
hazard
in
trusting
his
vows
,
could
not
be
greater
than
that
of
a
Battel
;
I
conjured
him
,
if
't
were
upon
my
score
,
and
not
his
own
that
he
drew
his
Sword
,
that
he
would
sheath
it
again
,
and
not
so
far
engage
himself
in
hazards
,
as
to
find
both
our
destructions
,
in
what
he
intended
as
an
argument
of
a
Friendship
,
I
could
not
be
more
desirous
,
than
satisfy'd
of
.
I
began
my
request
again
(
Parthenissa
continued
)
to
retrench
all
discourse
of
his
Passion
;
which
like
a
Relique
,
might
lose
its
respect
by
becoming
common
.
To
this
Surena
replyed
,
By
what
I
have
done
,
Madam
,
I
know
what
will
be
done
unto
me
;
and
that
Orodes
when
ever
he
has
the
Power
,
will
make
use
of
it
to
render
me
a
sacrifice
for
the
fair
Parthenissa
.
This
being
both
my
faith
,
and
my
ambition
(
so
it
may
be
in
a
handsomer
way
,
than
on
a
Scaffold
)
permit
me
to
stand
upon
my
defence
;
if
that
succeeds
,
you
may
command
your
own
desires
;
and
lest
it
should
not
,
let
me
publish
,
I
did
but
conceal
,
not
suppress
my
Passion
;
and
do
you
assure
the
King
't
is
your
constraint
,
not
your
inclination
detains
you
here
;
and
that
you
will
accept
of
his
offer
,
as
soon
as
I
permit
you
.
This
(
Madam
)
will
secure
you
against
all
misfortunes
,
for
Arsaces
cannot
decline
his
Concessions
at
the
very
last
,
because
your
not
receiving
them
at
first
was
your
misfortune
,
not
your
fault
.
All
the
while
Surena
spoke
,
I
blush'd
,
and
sometimes
trembled
,
in
apprehension
what
he
said
,
was
not
his
motion
,
but
his
resolve
;
but
not
to
let
him
know
my
fears
by
my
disorders
,
I
told
him
,
The
generous
Surena
has
already
so
much
obliged
me
,
that
if
he
is
capable
of
doing
it
more
,
it
must
be
by
preserving
,
not
hazarding
himself
:
The
latter
,
he
will
but
too
abundantly
do
,
by
performing
what
he
propounds
;
since
Orodes
will
be
a
more
dangerous
Enemy
on
the
score
of
Love
,
than
Power
;
and
will
be
too
suspitious
we
will
delude
him
,
not
to
conclude
we
do
it
,
in
so
palpable
a
Fiction
.
It
is
not
impossible
too
,
but
such
a
proceeding
may
lessen
the
heat
and
affections
of
your
own
Partizans
;
who
though
they
take
up
Arms
to
defend
me
from
being
the
King's
Prisoner
,
will
hardly
employ
them
,
to
continue
me
yours
;
which
they
must
believe
,
or
Arsaces
cannot
long
;
from
whose
power
you
shall
not
need
create
any
apprehensions
,
since
before
you
put
your self
into
it
,
I
will
extort
as
much
for
your
security
,
as
I
receive
for
my
own
.
In
brief
(
said
Parthenissa
)
my
requests
,
or
my
reasons
were
so
moving
,
that
Surena
assured
me
,
if
at
the
end
of
Four
and
twenty
Hours
his
arguments
could
not
appear
convincing
ones
to
me
,
mine
should
prove
so
to
him
;
and
then
he
withdrew
himself
,
to
let
the
King
's
Express
know
,
That
then
he
might
return
for
his
positive
answer
,
whom
(
he
said
)
he
would
not
so
long
detain
in
the
Castle
,
lest
it
might
look
rather
like
an
imprisonment
,
than
an
attendance
.
I
will
pass
by
the
joys
we
all
three
assumed
at
Surena's
engagement
,
and
those
reasons
we
deduced
for
and
against
the
accepting
Arsaces
Concessions
,
since
those
for
the
former
,
were
so
many
,
that
they
had
exhausted
all
from
the
latter
.
I
pass'd
that
afternoon
and
the
night
,
in
as
much
rest
,
as
the
thoughts
of
suppressing
so
dangerous
a
War
and
Lover
,
could
permit
;
and
the
next
day
I
was
hardly
dress'd
,
when
I
heard
a
great
noise
in
the
Castle
,
and
observed
most
of
the
Soldiers
running
to
the
Battlements
of
it
:
The
two
Princesses
,
and
I
,
did
the
like
;
where
,
when
we
were
come
,
we
might
perceive
all
those
Plains
towards
the
Sun-rising
covered
with
Troops
;
we
concluded
't
was
Vixores's
Army
,
because
we
saw
the
King
's
under
their
Ensigns
in
the
Camp
.
This
made
me
apprehend
Surena
had
taken
those
24
hours
of
delay
,
to
put
affairs
beyond
a
capability
of
reconciliation
;
and
that
he
had
dispatched
the
King's
Express
,
but
to
accellerate
Vixores's
march
:
As
soon
as
I
had
told
Lyndadory
and
Zephalinda
my
fears
,
they
became
theirs
;
and
because
by
the
help
of
a
Perspective
Glass
we
perceived
a
Herald
go
from
the
King's
Army
to
the
other
,
and
that
in
all
probability
he
was
employed
to
let
Vixores
know
,
how
that
Arsaces
expected
a
return
from
the
Castle
,
which
might
put
a
period
to
all
disputes
,
till
which
were
come
,
he
would
begin
none
:
we
determined
in
a
conjuncture
of
time
so
pressing
,
to
be
so
with
Surena
for
his
positive
resolve
,
since
a
longer
protraction
might
engage
us
in
those
miseries
I
was
so
solicitous
to
avoid
.
Surena's
coming
to
us
,
seemed
to
contribute
to
so
necessary
and
just
an
intention
:
't
was
therefore
I
immediately
acquainted
him
,
That
the
longer
I
reflected
on
my
Arguments
for
relying
on
Arsaces's
vows
,
the
more
pregnant
I
still
found
them
:
that
the
resolution
I
had
then
assumed
,
would
be
so
far
from
receiving
a
change
by
the
effluction
of
a
few
minutes
,
that
it
would
a
confirmation
:
That
before
the
24
hours
were
expired
,
such
misfortunes
might
arrive
,
as
we
might
deplore
all
those
of
our
Lives
:
and
therefore
't
was
,
I
conjured
him
by
that
Friendship
he
had
for
me
,
and
by
the
just
value
I
placed
upon
it
,
to
permit
me
to
go
out
of
Eden
;
and
that
if
he
could
not
silence
his
suspitions
,
with
what
I
did
Mine
,
that
at
least
I
might
receive
the
satisfaction
of
not
being
the
Authoress
of
shedding
so
much
Blood
,
and
of
involving
my
Countrey
in
a
Civil
War
,
Surena
having
commanded
all
the
Soldiers
to
their
Posts
,
prostrating
himself
at
my
Feet
,
told
me
,
'T
is
now
,
Madam
,
no
longer
time
to
dissemble
a
Passion
which
I
clouded
,
but
could
not
extinguish
;
I
had
too
unresistable
a
Rival
in
Arsaces
,
to
continue
and
declare
my self
his
;
I
was
necessitated
therefore
by
Art
,
to
supply
the
defects
of
Power
:
neither
did
I
,
Madam
,
delude
,
but
serve
you
in
this
disguise
:
I
believe
you
will
find
I
do
so
too
in
this
discovery
,
since
without
it
you
must
have
put
your self
in
the
hands
of
one
,
who
would
be
satisfied
with
nothing
but
possessing
you
;
whereas
you
are
now
in
ones
,
that
if
he
cannot
from
a
perfect
Passion
enjoy
that
blessing
himself
,
he
will
never
pretend
higher
,
than
to
keep
all
others
from
it
.
I
go
now
,
Madam
,
to
take
from
Arsaces
as
absolutely
the
power
of
making
you
his
Queen
,
as
the
just
aversion
you
have
contracted
for
him
,
has
already
taken
away
all
means
of
becoming
so
,
but
that
;
and
I
hope
before
the
Sun
sets
,
to
evince
,
by
the
sacrificing
of
so
many
Thousand
Lives
for
your
preservation
,
how
precious
't
is
unto
me
.
Surena
had
no
sooner
done
speaking
,
than
he
rose
up
;
and
having
saluted
me
,
went
hastily
away
:
I
had
neither
the
design
,
nor
the
power
to
stay
him
;
the
first
proceeded
from
my
aversion
from
seeing
,
and
the
latter
from
my
disorders
of
having
heard
him
;
which
were
so
transcendent
,
that
the
consolations
of
Lyndadory
and
Zephalinda
,
were
so
far
from
silencing
my
trouble
,
that
they
created
it
,
by
believing
Mine
was
capable
of
being
suppress'd
.
Oh
gods
!
what
did
I
not
utter
against
so
black
an
infidelity
!
and
how
I
quarrelled
with
my self
,
for
having
trusted
my
protection
to
him
,
who
made
me
need
any
!
But
whilst
I
was
in
the
highest
resentments
those
reflections
inspired
me
with
,
they
were
interrrupted
by
many
shouts
and
cryes
;
and
turning
about
to
learn
from
whence
they
proceeded
,
I
perceived
it
was
from
a
great
Body
of
Vixores's
Army
,
which
were
fallen
upon
one
of
the
King's
Guards
,
that
was
most
advanced
towards
the
Castle
,
which
after
a
bloody
dispute
they
beat
up
,
and
thereby
gave
Surena
the
liberty
of
joyning
with
him
,
which
he
omitted
not
,
for
we
saw
him
immediately
row
over
the
Tygris
,
and
recover
his
Army
:
soon
after
the
Kings
was
drawn
out
of
their
Camp
,
which
we
learn'd
,
proceeded
from
Surena's
having
assured
him
in
a
Letter
,
of
all
that
he
had
me
;
which
so
filled
Arsaces
with
fury
,
that
finding
he
could
not
end
the
War
by
continuing
the
Siege
,
he
resolved
to
attempt
it
by
a
Battel
;
and
because
his
rage
was
of
a
quality
that
could
not
admit
of
delay
,
and
there
being
light
enough
left
for
so
bloody
a
decision
,
they
instantly
began
it
,
but
it
ended
not
till
the
day
did
,
which
proved
a
glorious
one
to
Arsaces
,
whose
Victory
was
witnessed
by
the
death
of
40000
of
his
Rebels
;
which
number
yet
had
been
much
increas'd
,
if
the
obscurity
had
not
hindered
it
.
The
two
Brothers
,
better
followed
in
the
Flight
,
than
in
the
Charge
,
took
several
ways
;
Vixores
to
raise
a
new
Army
,
and
bring
their
Fates
to
another
experiment
;
and
Surena
,
who
had
secured
that
Post
upon
the
Tygris
which
his
Army
had
recovered
before
the
Battel
,
made
it
the
place
of
ralliment
;
where
finding
too
many
for
the
Siege
,
and
too
few
for
the
Field
,
he
selected
2000
,
and
dismist
the
rest
;
who
by
several
ways
found
several
Fortunes
,
some
scaping
,
some
losing
their
Liberties
,
and
others
their
Lives
.
Surena
employed
all
that
night
to
ferry
over
his
Men
into
Eden
,
which
he
did
,
though
with
the
loss
of
a
Fourth
part
of
them
,
who
being
left
to
justifie
their
Post
,
were
killed
in
it
,
by
a
successful
assault
of
the
King
's
;
so
that
all
the
advantage
Surena
derived
from
the
Battel
,
was
to
get
a
Garison
to
maintain
a
Siege
.
The
day
after
this
troublesom
one
to
him
,
he
made
it
a
resembling
one
to
me
,
by
giving
me
a
visit
:
but
as
soon
as
he
came
into
my
Chamber
,
without
permitting
him
to
speak
,
I
told
him
,
Traytor
,
with
what
Face
canst
thou
present
thy self
before
me
,
when
thy
actions
,
and
the
gods
by
thy
defeat
,
have
bestowed
on
thee
that
Name
?
't
is
doubtless
to
increase
thy
Crimes
,
by
the
continuing
of
my
Punishment
,
which
the
seeing
thee
but
too
abundantly
does
:
Madam
,
(
said
Surena
)
I
do
now
no
longer
wonder
the
gods
deny'd
me
success
,
when
you
deny'd
me
your
Prayers
for
it
;
't
was
the
want
of
them
gave
our
Enemy
the
Victory
;
which
it
may
be
if
he
had
entirely
the
Power
,
he
would
employ
it
to
act
worse
designs
than
you
can
esteem
me
capable
of
thinking
;
but
I
have
so
many
fresh
recourses
of
Men
,
that
before
you
fall
into
Arsaces
hands
,
he
must
leave
himself
as
few
Subjects
,
as
now
he
besieges
;
and
it
may
be
rather
than
cause
the
ruine
of
your
Countrey
,
you
will
hinder
Mine
.
Yes
,
Madam
,
you
will
see
Armies
again
in
the
Field
,
which
shall
invalidate
your
Prayers
;
and
the
gods
,
who
know
how
much
fitter
't
is
to
give
you
your
security
,
than
your
revenge
,
will
confer
the
victory
on
him
,
who
will
less
offensively
employ
it
.
If
the
gods
(
I
replyed
)
should
take
so
strange
a
Course
for
the
punishment
of
Orode's
Sins
,
as
to
let
one
of
his
Vassals
act
it
;
yet
the
end
to
which
thou
believest
that
Victory
conducive
,
shall
be
denyed
thee
:
I
have
resolutions
which
no
material
power
can
so
much
as
reach
,
much
less
conquer
;
and
if
I
were
not
confined
to
love
Artabbanes
as
his
reward
,
I
would
do
it
as
thy
punishment
.
Certainly
,
Madam
(
Surena
coldly
replyed
)
,
if
you
love
Artabbanes
still
,
you
sufficiently
evince
you
are
confined
to
it
;
his
jealousie
else
had
made
you
deny
him
afterwards
that
honour
:
and
it
cannot
be
but
Fate
,
which
makes
you
have
a
Passion
for
one
who
suspected
your
virtue
,
and
an
aversion
for
him
who
adored
it
,
though
it
has
proved
as
cruel
to
the
Latter
,
as
kind
to
the
Former
.
Here
(
said
Symander
)
my
Prince
who
had
hitherto
listen'd
with
a
wonderful
silence
,
was
necessitated
to
break
it
,
by
telling
his
Princess
,
I
hope
,
Madam
,
you
gave
him
no
other
reply
,
than
what
is
the
only
and
the
true
one
;
which
is
,
that
't
was
not
my
jealousie
but
my
reason
made
me
apprehend
the
fair
Parthenissa
was
too
great
a
Blessing
ever
to
become
Artabbanes's
.
Parthenissa
blush'd
a
little
to
have
spoke
what
had
necessitated
Artabbanes
to
interrupt
her
Story
,
and
to
make
so
flattering
a
justification
;
't
was
therefore
she
hindered
the
continuance
of
it
,
by
telling
him
,
I
had
but
too
much
truth
to
alledg
in
your
vindication
,
to
make
use
of
a
return
,
which
had
nothing
of
that
virtue
in
it
;
wherefore
the
answer
I
gave
him
was
,
It
would
rather
appear
an
effect
of
Fate
,
did
I
decline
a
Passion
for
Artabbanes
,
to
confer
it
on
one
whose
manifested
Treachery
so
Artificially
made
him
doubt
mine
,
that
the
Offence
of
doing
so
could
not
be
so
great
,
as
the
impossibility
of
avoiding
it
.
Thou
canst
not
therefore
mention
Artabbanes's
seeming
crime
,
but
thou
must
publish
thy
real
one
:
But
to
take
from
thee
all
fresh
occasions
to
injure
the
gods
,
as
well
as
me
,
I
protest
by
them
,
That
if
their
power
know
any
limitation
,
't
is
in
the
impossibility
of
making
me
receive
thy
Passion
,
or
so
much
as
listen
to
thy
addresses
with
Patience
.
There
is
,
Madam
(
he
replyed
)
nothing
impossible
but
to
him
that
believes
it
;
't
is
only
the
Faith
of
apprehension
,
not
reason
;
or
if
there
be
impossibilities
,
my
declining
the
ambition
of
possessing
you
,
or
permitting
any
other
the
doing
it
,
are
the
only
ones
.
He
spake
something
else
,
though
I
did
not
hear
it
;
for
I
withdrew
,
and
lock'd
my self
up
in
my
Cabbinet
,
which
for
six
Moons
was
my
only
sanctuary
from
such
importunate
visits
:
But
his
generous
Sister
assum'd
at
his
change
so
exorbitant
a
grief
,
that
it
even
brought
an
accession
to
mine
;
the
fair
Lyndadory
by
hers
did
the
like
;
and
though
I
both
conjured
them
to
lessen
the
cause
of
their
Tears
,
by
removing
themselves
from
the
subject
of
them
,
yet
they
would
never
consent
to
my
request
:
neither
had
they
,
would
Surena
have
permitted
it
,
who
one
day
let
me
know
so
much
,
when
I
motioned
their
removal
to
him
,
and
who
transferred
his
denyal
upon
the
indecency
of
wanting
some
of
my
own
Sex
to
be
near
me
.
Zephalinda
a
thousand
times
fruitlesly
essay'd
to
let
Ariobarzanes
know
the
truth
of
our
condition
,
which
she
suspected
her
brother
had
kept
from
his
knowledg
,
and
thereby
made
that
seem
an
effect
of
his
Art
,
which
was
one
of
his
Treachery
:
This
she
was
the
more
intent
upon
,
knowing
that
every
opportunity
Ariobarzanes
(
who
was
Lieutenant
General
to
Arsaces
,
and
condemned
his
desires
on
me
,
which
by
the
infusions
of
Surena
,
he
considered
through
a
false
optick
)
sent
him
constant
Intelligence
,
under
pretence
of
concluding
an
exchange
of
Prisoners
,
mutually
made
so
by
fortunate
and
unsuccessful
Sallyes
,
whose
retail
I
decline
telling
you
,
since
't
is
sufficient
you
know
they
were
frequent
and
bloody
.
I
believe
you
are
confident
,
that
I
was
so
of
Surena's
not
attempting
against
my
honour
,
since
I
solicited
the
removal
of
those
,
whose
presence
might
have
restrained
any
desires
of
so
criminal
a
quality
;
and
truly
I
must
do
him
that
justice
,
as
to
acknowledg
he
had
nothing
offensive
in
his
Love
,
but
his
Love
,
which
was
as
civil
,
as
unsuccessful
.
Though
the
violence
of
the
Winter
were
great
,
yet
it
lessened
not
that
of
the
Siege
,
which
was
so
active
,
as
it
left
no
time
to
feel
the
rigour
of
the
Season
.
But
the
Spring
,
which
brought
weather
fit
to
continue
the
War
,
brought
Surena
news
of
his
impossibility
of
doing
it
:
for
by
the
return
of
a
Prisoner
(
purposely
made
so
)
for
that
end
,
he
received
from
Ariobarzanes
the
certainty
of
Vixores's
repeated
defeat
,
which
was
given
him
by
the
Prince
Phraates
,
expresly
sent
by
his
Father
to
interrupt
his
levies
,
or
destroy
them
;
which
latter
he
effected
,
though
much
of
the
Glory
,
and
more
of
the
Danger
fell
to
the
young
Phraataces
,
illegitimate
Son
to
Phraates
,
not
then
above
16
years
of
Age
,
whose
Mother
by
her
excellent
Beauty
had
been
Concubine
to
Caesar
,
and
who
by
him
had
been
presented
to
Phraates
,
as
another
was
at
the
same
time
of
resembling
Beauty
,
and
profession
,
to
Pacorus
:
But
he
returned
her
again
to
Caesar
,
as
a
fitter
present
for
his
restitution
,
than
acceptance
.
Surena
at
this
fatal
Intelligence
,
found
as
small
hopes
to
preserve
me
from
his
King
,
as
to
obtain
me
for
himself
;
and
I
began
to
assume
some
,
that
what
he
had
denyed
to
me
,
he
must
grant
to
his
necessity
.
But
Vixores
,
though
he
had
lost
the
possibility
of
raising
the
Siege
,
yet
he
had
not
of
enabling
his
Brother
to
continue
it
;
which
to
effect
,
with
the
reliques
of
his
broken
Army
,
of
which
he
had
lost
22000
,
he
advanced
by
long
Marches
and
unfrequented
ways
,
with
2000
Foot
,
which
he
had
mounted
,
and
by
his
admirable
celerity
and
silence
,
came
so
unexpectedly
to
the
Banks
of
Tygris
,
that
the
King's
Eyes
gave
him
the
first
intelligence
of
his
being
there
;
which
was
no
sooner
received
,
than
all
the
Boats
upon
the
River
were
drawn
to
one
place
,
for
the
ferrying
over
some
Horse
to
cut
off
this
relief
:
Surena
to
facilitate
the
entry
of
it
,
made
a
furious
Sally
;
and
Vixores
,
the
better
to
palliate
his
fiction
,
made
a
brisk
one
against
the
Arsacians
,
with
Two
thousand
Horse
,
with
which
he
had
convey'd
the
Two
thousand
mounted
Foot
,
who
all
this
while
having
quit
their
Horses
,
lay
conceal'd
in
a
Grove
two
Furlongs
above
Arsaces's
Guard
,
which
was
next
to
the
Castle
;
from
whence
during
the
Allarm
,
they
sent
over
some
excellent
swimmers
,
who
fastening
Ropes
on
that
side
the
River
,
by
Ten
Flat-bottom'd
Boats
,
which
as
many
Dromedaries
had
brought
,
and
which
for
the
conveniency
of
carriage
,
were
made
of
Wicker
,
cover'd
with
Hides
,
without
rowing
,
or
driving
down
the
stream
,
in
one
hour
,
they
had
transported
over
all
the
Soldiers
;
but
as
they
were
beginning
to
do
the
like
to
the
Provisions
,
which
Surena
wanted
more
than
the
Men
;
some
of
the
Kings
Horse
,
who
by
a
Prisoner
taken
from
the
Convoy
had
gain'd
intelligence
of
this
relief
,
came
,
and
by
a
furious
charge
render'd
themselves
Masters
of
the
most
necessary
part
of
it
.
The
Soldiers
who
were
in
the
Island
,
seeing
the
loss
of
their
victuals
,
and
knowing
it
irrecoverable
,
lest
a
longer
delay
might
render
the
Castle
so
too
,
by
a
hasty
march
under
the
Banks
of
the
Tygris
,
which
by
a
continu'd
frost
had
left
a
large
strand
,
and
by
the
obscurity
of
the
Night
(
which
then
had
for
above
two
hours
cover'd
the
Heavens
)
they
safely
arriv'd
in
Eden
;
but
Surena's
joy
at
it
immediately
vanisht
;
for
by
the
loss
of
his
Provisions
,
he
found
his
Brother
had
sent
an
increase
,
rather
than
a
relief
of
his
wants
;
who
concluding
he
had
given
time
enough
for
the
entry
of
the
supply
,
by
degrees
began
to
diminish
the
violence
of
the
Combat
,
which
finally
an
hour
after
,
absolutely
ceast
.
Vixores
in
this
performance
shew'd
himself
so
much
a
Soldier
,
that
none
which
was
so
,
could
not
but
conclude
his
precedent
defeats
proceeded
not
from
his
not
being
one
.
That
night
by
a
long
March
,
he
put
himself
out
of
the
necessity
of
making
a
second
;
for
he
had
so
far
out-gone
those
Troops
which
follow'd
him
,
that
by
easie
journeys
he
reacht
again
the
Province
of
Hircania
,
which
though
Phraates
had
much
destroy'd
,
yet
Vixores
despair'd
not
,
but
from
those
warlike
people
,
and
that
provocation
,
to
bring
again
a
third
Army
into
the
Field
,
which
might
render
him
Master
of
it
.
Surena
was
constrain'd
by
his
little
Victuals
,
and
many
Soldiers
,
to
make
frequent
and
furious
Sallies
,
where
to
lose
of
his
own
Men
,
or
to
kill
of
the
Kings
,
were
equal
advantages
.
One
Evening
as
the
two
Princesses
and
I
,
were
walking
on
the
Battlements
of
the
Castle
,
we
heard
a
noise
in
the
Court
,
which
we
learn'd
proceeded
from
the
arrival
of
Arzimin
,
who
having
deceiv'd
,
or
corrupted
his
Guards
,
had
then
fled
from
the
Camp
,
and
recover'd
the
Castle
.
Surena
assum'd
a
visible
joy
at
the
escape
,
and
return
of
so
considerable
a
Friend
.
Three
or
four
days
successively
after
,
I
fancy'd
Arzimin
by
his
looks
had
some
desires
to
speak
with
me
;
but
apprehending
he
had
taken
them
up
upon
Surena's
score
(
whom
I
never
after
our
first
discourse
,
permitted
to
make
me
a
second
)
I
declin'd
all
opportunities
of
facilitating
his
design
;
but
at
length
,
having
acquainted
the
Princesses
with
my
belief
,
and
suspitions
,
they
were
jointly
of
opinion
,
That
I
should
no
longer
defer
giving
Arzimin
an
opportunity
I
had
hitherto
deny'd
him
,
since
if
he
had
any
thing
to
act
for
me
(
which
his
strange
escape
from
the
Camp
render'd
no
irrational
belief
)
by
retrenching
all
discourse
with
me
,
I
did
too
,
all
possibility
of
serving
me
;
and
if
what
he
had
to
deliver
were
on
Surena's
account
,
I
ought
speedily
to
give
him
one
Audience
,
to
have
a
just
ground
for
denying
him
for
ever
another
.
Their
opinion
was
my
resolution
,
which
immediately
after
I
had
assum'd
,
I
had
the
opportunity
to
put
it
in
practice
;
for
the
same
day
,
as
we
went
to
take
the
Air
in
the
Gardens
of
the
Castle
,
which
because
we
frequently
did
,
Arsaces
had
given
an
obeyed
command
,
that
no
Arrows
or
Darts
should
be
shot
or
flung
that
way
;
Arzimin
,
who
waited
for
me
at
the
Door
,
came
and
presented
me
his
hand
to
lead
me
down
,
which
I
accepted
;
and
which
I
had
no
sooner
done
,
than
he
told
me
softly
,
I
have
something
,
Madam
,
of
concernment
to
inform
you
of
,
but
I
must
humbly
beg
it
may
be
without
witnesses
;
I
told
him
in
the
same
tone
,
That
I
would
give
the
opportunity
he
desired
as
soon
as
we
were
in
the
Gardens
;
whither
being
come
,
we
insensibly
lost
the
two
Princesses
,
and
those
that
followed
us
;
which
Arzimin
being
convinced
of
,
by
looking
diligently
every
way
,
he
flung
himself
upon
his
Knees
,
and
presented
me
a
little
Note
,
which
I
opened
,
and
found
was
all
of
Arsaces's
hand
,
and
only
contained
these
words
,
Madam
,
I
beseech
you
believe
all
he
shall
tell
you
,
and
be
satisfied
of
his
Fidelity
,
on
my
engagement
for
it
.
After
I
had
read
these
few
words
,
and
assured
him
they
had
all
that
efficacy
both
the
King
and
he
could
expect
,
I
made
him
rise
,
lest
being
surprised
in
that
Posture
,
it
might
raise
a
suspition
,
which
continuing
our
walk
,
would
prevent
;
when
he
was
up
,
he
told
me
,
I
believe
,
Madam
,
you
are
not
ignorant
I
was
dangerously
hurt
,
and
taken
Prisoner
in
that
unsuccessful
Battel
Surena
fought
against
his
King
;
and
that
I
might
not
have
so
noble
a
fate
as
that
of
dying
by
my
wounds
,
they
were
diligently
cured
,
and
then
my
sentence
was
,
That
that
Life
I
had
employed
against
my
Prince
,
I
should
lose
upon
a
Scaffold
;
whither
when
I
was
brought
and
expected
the
fatal
stroak
,
I
received
a
Pardon
:
Arsaces
making
a
distinction
between
those
which
fought
against
him
,
and
those
which
fought
for
surena
;
of
which
latter
quality
he
was
assured
I
was
,
from
the
Prince
Ariobarzanes
,
This
grace
which
I
as
little
expected
as
deserved
,
produced
so
just
an
effect
in
me
,
that
I
determined
to
employ
my
Life
for
him
that
had
given
it
me
;
in
pursuance
whereof
I
obtained
a
private
Audience
from
the
King
,
without
so
much
as
the
knowledg
of
Ariobarzanes
,
who
I
knew
too
much
favoured
Surena's
designs
to
be
trusted
with
mine
.
There
't
was
,
Madam
,
I
told
the
King
a
Truth
,
of
which
I
believe
you
are
yet
ignorant
;
which
is
,
That
Surena
having
long
form'd
a
design
of
carrying
you
away
into
Media
,
and
of
living
there
under
the
protection
of
Merinzor
,
(
of
which
you
may
be
partly
convinced
,
by
his
having
declar'd
himself
to
you
to
be
,
what
he
never
yet
but
was
)
finding
by
those
unexpected
wounds
he
receiv'd
,
when
he
made
your
Guards
your
Martyrs
,
that
he
was
unable
to
flie
with
you
thither
,
and
as
unable
to
trust
you
there
without
him
;
the
better
to
delude
your
belief
,
he
caus'd
one
of
his
Chyrurgeons
to
tell
you
,
and
the
two
Princesses
,
he
was
in
a
condition
to
perform
the
journey
,
when
he
had
not
the
power
to
do
it
;
and
which
to
prevent
,
he
caus'd
five
hundred
Horse
,
he
had
covertly
drawn
together
,
to
be
his
and
your
Convoy
into
Media
,
to
appear
as
so
many
of
the
KIngs
;
and
thereby
made
you
return
hither
,
as
if
it
had
been
by
misfortune
,
not
design
;
and
if
you
remember
,
Madam
,
a
Chyrurgeon
of
the
Convoy
,
who
knew
nothing
of
his
Prince's
intentions
,
told
you
when
he
fell
into
his
fainting
,
that
he
could
not
continue
his
journey
,
and
his
Life
,
I
remember'd
that
passage
(
said
Parthenissa
)
very
well
,
and
from
thence
concluded
Arzimin
told
me
a
Truth
,
I
had
but
too
many
pregnant
Testimonies
no
longer
to
doubt
.
Orodes
,
Madam
,
(
continu'd
Arzimin
)
was
as
much
surpriz'd
at
this
intelligence
,
as
I
perceive
you
are
;
and
those
Troops
which
were
your
seeming
besiegers
,
till
those
of
Arsaces
were
really
so
,
then
became
your
defenders
;
and
when
Orodes
sent
you
an
assurance
of
attempting
nothing
against
the
Laws
of
Honour
,
in
obtaining
that
of
your
Affection
,
Ariobarzanes
(
as
you
know
)
sent
Surena
word
,
that
Vixores
with
a
numerous
Army
was
ready
speedily
to
Attempt
his
Relief
:
'T
was
then
,
Madam
,
to
avoid
the
spilling
of
so
much
blood
,
and
of
not
demonstrating
any
diffidence
in
the
King
's
so
solemn
engagements
,
that
you
press'd
Surena
to
permit
you
to
rely
on
them
;
who
finding
your
desire
was
your
resolution
,
begged
you
to
consider
of
his
Arguments
for
24
hours
,
and
then
he
would
obey
your
election
.
He
did
this
only
,
that
in
the
mean
time
he
might
engage
both
Armies
,
that
if
the
victory
inclined
to
his
side
,
he
might
keep
you
in
his
Power
as
an
effect
of
his
Friendship
,
not
his
Love
;
and
if
it
inclined
to
the
King
's
,
he
might
ascribe
the
Battel
,
by
his
being
so
strictly
besieged
,
to
the
impossibility
of
his
preventing
it
;
and
then
by
accepting
the
King's
,
offer
,
reserve
the
disclosing
his
Passion
to
a
more
promising
opportunity
.
This
,
Madam
,
was
the
Cause
,
that
under
a
pretence
of
not
detaining
the
King's
Messenger
so
long
,
he
immediately
dispatched
him
to
Ariobarzanes
,
whom
he
pressingly
desired
to
let
Vixores
know
,
That
if
within
24
hours
he
brought
not
their
Fates
to
a
decision
,
no
misfortune
could
be
greater
than
that
delay
.
Ariobarzanes
did
this
to
serve
Surena
,
who
has
promised
him
his
Sister
;
and
to
end
a
War
,
which
would
as
long
as
it
continued
,
deny
him
the
felicity
of
seeing
Zephalinda
.
This
design
had
doubtless
succeeded
,
if
the
gods
(
who
cannot
more
convincingly
manifest
themselves
to
be
what
they
are
,
than
by
punishing
infidelity
)
had
not
necessitated
Surena
to
disclose
so
criminal
a
fallacy
:
for
though
Vixores
with
all
his
Army
came
early
enough
,
and
by
a
Thousand
provocations
solicited
the
King
to
a
Battel
before
the
24
hours
were
effluxt
;
yet
Arsaces
,
though
equal
in
forces
,
would
not
accept
it
,
hoping
by
the
return
then
promised
,
without
blood
to
end
the
difference
:
Surena
by
this
delay
concluded
of
the
cause
of
it
,
and
thereby
observing
he
could
not
any
longer
cloud
himself
,
and
that
so
powerful
an
Army
might
justifie
his
Crime
,
boldly
confess'd
it
to
you
,
and
then
went
to
punish
in
his
King
what
he
practised
in
himself
;
but
he
soon
found
in
his
defeat
,
how
the
gods
disavowed
his
Quarrel
;
which
(
said
Arzimin
)
I
am
now
conviced
of
,
and
consequently
will
no
longer
defend
.
'T
is
therefore
(
Madam
)
as
an
expiation
for
having
done
it
so
much
already
,
that
I
have
engaged
my self
to
Arsaces
to
deliver
you
out
of
this
Captivity
,
or
to
lose
my
Life
in
attempting
it
;
and
as
one
of
your
Protectors
,
become
your
Keeper
;
so
to
make
one
of
your
Keepers
become
your
Deliverer
:
The
two
Princesses
,
if
they
know
of
your
escape
,
must
not
accompany
you
in
it
;
neither
is
it
necessary
,
for
being
Prisoners
but
upon
your
account
,
your
liberty
will
restore
them
to
theirs
.
I
found
this
rational
,
but
not
kind
;
and
therefore
determined
,
if
't
were
not
their
desire
,
as
well
as
opinion
,
I
would
repay
them
the
obligation
of
continuing
a
Prisoner
with
them
,
as
they
had
with
me
;
but
this
I
told
not
Arzimin
,
who
thus
prosecuted
his
discourse
:
To
morrow
Night
(
Madam
)
I
have
the
Guard
,
and
I
have
ordered
it
so
,
that
those
which
compose
it
are
my
Creatures
,
especially
such
as
are
of
the
water-gate
where
the
Galley
which
belongs
to
the
Castle
is
at
Anchor
:
In
her
,
Madam
,
I
design
to
carry
you
away
,
which
Arsaces
approves
;
and
because
I
suspected
Surena
has
so
many
Partizans
and
Spies
in
the
Army
,
that
if
the
King
should
give
orders
to
any
of
those
Guards
upon
the
River
,
to
receive
the
Galley
which
should
come
out
of
the
Castle
as
Friends
,
it
would
inevitably
come
by
the
multitude
of
Surena's
,
to
his
knowledg
.
I
have
perswaded
Arsaces
under
the
pretence
of
an
intelligence
,
to
draw
all
the
Boats
on
the
River
to
the
upper
end
of
the
Island
,
so
that
none
of
the
Guards
being
able
to
follow
us
,
we
need
not
trust
their
Faiths
with
so
dangerous
a
secret
.
And
the
Tygris
is
of
such
a
breadth
,
that
in
the
obscurity
of
the
Night
,
keeping
under
the
Island-shore
,
they
can
hardly
discover
us
;
or
if
they
do
,
not
reach
us
with
their
Arrows
:
I
am
necessitated
too
to
let
the
Galley
drive
down
the
stream
under
the
Banks
of
the
River
,
lest
crossing
over
it
,
some
of
our
own
Centries
on
the
Towers
,
might
discover
and
offend
us
;
for
they
will
know
by
the
smallness
of
our
Numbers
,
and
by
Surena's
not
seeing
,
or
acting
in
our
attempt
,
that
it
is
not
a
Sally
;
but
a
flight
.
The
King
,
Madam
,
will
expect
you
at
a
little
Village
some
Twenty
Furlongs
below
the
Castle
;
and
to
secure
you
from
any
fears
,
that
you
do
but
avoid
one
Imprisonment
to
fall
into
another
,
he
has
commanded
me
to
protest
in
his
behalf
,
by
all
the
tutelary
gods
of
his
Empire
,
and
by
whatever
else
he
holds
in
highest
veneration
,
He
has
banished
all
those
Thoughts
from
him
,
which
have
so
long
banished
you
;
and
to
take
from
himself
the
power
of
a
relapse
,
if
ever
he
should
have
the
will
,
he
has
already
given
order
for
the
revocation
of
Artabbane's
exilement
;
and
to
repair
his
having
sent
him
into
it
,
he
will
with
the
restoring
him
to
his
Country
,
restore
him
too
to
his
Princess
.
Arzimin
had
more
particularly
acquainted
me
with
the
residue
of
what
he
was
to
deliver
,
had
not
he
perceived
(
afar
off
)
Surena
coming
into
the
Garden
,
which
made
him
desire
me
to
hasten
my
joyning
with
the
Company
;
which
whilst
we
were
doing
,
he
told
me
,
That
the
Night
appointed
,
four
hours
after
the
close
of
the
Evening
,
he
would
not
fail
to
come
to
my
Chamber
with
my
disguise
,
and
to
have
all
things
so
exactly
prepared
,
that
it
must
be
Fate
,
and
not
Chance
if
his
design
succeeded
not
.
I
had
hardly
assured
him
there
should
be
no
omission
on
my
Part
,
but
we
had
recovered
the
Company
,
and
suddenly
after
Surena
appeared
in
the
same
Walk
we
were
in
,
which
made
me
quit
it
,
and
retire
to
my
Appartment
;
where
having
shut
our selves
up
,
I
told
Lyndadory
and
Zephalinda
,
all
that
Arzimin
had
me
:
To
be
brief
,
those
two
admirable
Women
,
for
all
my
reiterated
Prayers
,
would
not
be
sharers
in
my
escape
,
lest
they
might
prejudice
it
;
and
if
I
condescended
to
their
commands
of
going
away
alone
,
it
was
purely
from
a
confidence
,
that
as
soon
as
I
was
out
of
the
Castle
,
Surena
would
yield
it
,
and
consequently
the
Princesses
would
be
restored
to
a
liberty
by
me
,
which
they
would
not
accept
of
with
me
;
Zephalinda
too
,
by
not
going
with
me
,
could
leave
her
Brother
nothing
but
suspitions
that
she
knew
of
my
Flight
;
and
Lyndadory
was
so
apprehensive
,
that
her
accompanying
me
in
it
,
might
convince
Surena
,
't
was
the
craft
,
and
not
the
ignorance
of
his
Sister
,
detained
her
,
and
so
pleased
with
a
recluseness
,
which
both
your
absences
made
her
cherish
,
that
upon
those
scores
as
well
as
the
former
,
she
determined
to
remain
with
the
fair
Zephalinda
,
who
conjur'd
me
I
would
employ
that
Power
I
had
with
Arsaces
,
to
procure
a
Pardon
for
her
Brother
,
who
had
no
other
Title
to
my
Mercy
,
than
that
he
deserved
it
not
:
I
assured
her
,
that
what
should
now
be
my
obedience
,
had
been
my
design
:
and
that
one
so
near
in
blood
to
Zephalinda
,
could
not
but
be
so
,
in
my
care
.
At
length
,
the
so
impatiented
night
and
hour
came
,
and
with
it
Arzimin
,
who
brought
me
one
of
his
Pages
Clothes
,
which
he
said
was
necessary
for
me
to
wear
,
and
that
I
should
do
it
no
longer
than
till
I
were
out
of
the
Castle
;
I
joyfully
put
on
that
Livery
of
Freedom
,
and
having
a
thousand
times
embraced
the
Princesses
,
I
took
my
final
leave
;
and
only
with
Arzimin
,
whom
I
followed
as
his
servant
,
came
to
the
Guard
of
the
Water
Gate
,
where
I
found
the
Soldiers
sleeping
on
the
Ground
,
and
in
so
wretched
a
way
,
that
I
have
never
since
esteemed
it
courage
,
but
to
judgement
,
to
cast
themselves
upon
whatsoever
hazard
may
finish
such
miserable
Lives
,
Arzimin
immediately
put
me
into
the
Galley
,
and
taking
seven
Men
to
row
,
and
steer
her
,
without
any
noise
got
out
of
the
Water-percullis
,
and
in
the
same
silence
descended
the
Current
for
above
Three
hours
;
during
which
,
I
had
again
put
on
the
habit
of
my
Sex
in
the
Cabbin
,
in
which
I
had
lock'd
my self
up
:
when
I
was
dress'd
,
I
came
out
,
and
found
of
our
Seven
,
but
Three
in
the
Galley
,
of
which
Arzimin
was
one
,
of
whom
I
ask'd
,
what
was
become
of
the
rest
,
and
how
soon
we
should
land
?
he
told
me
the
other
Four
were
gone
in
a
little
Skiff
which
belonged
to
the
Galley
,
to
tell
Arsaces
of
my
approach
,
and
that
it
would
be
an
hour
before
we
should
go
ashore
,
because
he
durst
not
make
use
of
his
Oars
:
I
retired
my self
satisfied
with
that
reply
;
and
at
the
expiration
of
the
hour
,
Arzimin
came
to
let
me
know
I
was
safely
arrived
where
he
intended
;
immediately
after
,
one
of
the
Galley
carried
me
out
of
it
in
his
Arms
to
a
Chariot
,
which
with
some
Thirty
Horse
expected
us
.
I
thought
it
something
strange
that
Arzimin
himself
did
not
do
it
,
or
that
he
commanded
not
some
other
fitter
for
the
employment
than
he
which
had
undertook
it
;
but
I
thought
it
much
stranger
,
when
I
saw
him
too
,
come
only
into
the
Chariot
with
me
,
and
when
I
found
him
by
the
help
of
the
Light
,
which
then
began
to
dawn
,
to
be
Surena
:
Oh
gods
!
as
soon
as
I
knew
him
,
I
knew
my self
betrayed
:
I
had
only
force
enough
to
say
so
,
for
all
my
Senses
were
so
obliging
as
to
cease
their
actings
,
rather
than
by
continuing
them
,
so
extreamly
to
afflict
me
:
But
Surena
,
who
had
more
care
of
my
life
,
than
me
,
by
powerful
Cordials
brought
me
to
my self
;
I
pay'd
his
care
with
a
Thousand
Injuries
;
and
if
my
hate
were
as
great
a
torment
to
him
as
that
Life
he
restored
me
to
,
was
to
me
,
I
could
neither
have
desired
,
nor
acted
a
more
sublime
revenge
.
'T
was
either
his
respect
,
or
his
guilt
,
which
all
that
day
kept
him
in
a
deep
silence
;
and
if
he
any
way
evinced
how
much
my
discontent
was
his
,
it
was
only
in
sighs
.
The
first
Night
(
after
a
very
long
Journey
)
we
lay
at
a
Castle
which
was
scituated
in
so
solitary
a
place
,
that
I
believe
it
was
only
built
for
that
end
to
which
Surena
then
employ'd
it
:
He
led
me
to
a
Chamber
that
wanted
nothing
but
his
absence
;
and
that
conveniency
it
soon
enjoyed
;
for
without
speaking
one
word
,
he
saluted
me
with
great
humility
,
and
left
me
to
the
company
of
my
Thoughts
,
which
in
the
condition
I
was
in
,
was
the
worst
I
could
keep
,
but
his
.
I
had
not
long
the
liberty
to
entertain
them
,
for
a
young
Gentle
woman
came
into
my
Chamber
to
offer
me
her
Service
then
,
and
if
I
pleased
for
ever
;
I
accepted
of
it
in
the
first
limitation
,
but
declined
it
in
the
latter
,
lest
she
should
have
served
Surena
,
and
not
me
.
An
hour
after
,
Supper
was
brought
in
;
and
that
being
ended
,
my
new
woman
resigned
her
place
to
Surena
,
who
kneeling
at
my
Feet
,
told
me
,
You
see
(
fair
Parthenissa
)
prostrate
before
you
,
one
who
should
not
have
the
confidence
to
do
it
,
did
he
not
believe
the
not
imploring
your
pardon
a
greater
misfortune
than
any
,
but
the
not
obtaining
it
:
If
I
have
deluded
your
hopes
,
I
will
not
your
belief
;
for
though
I
have
not
given
you
into
Arsace's
power
,
yet
I
protest
by
your self
,
I
will
employ
mine
to
defend
and
serve
you
,
which
I
am
confident
is
your
Faith
,
and
which
I
assure
you
cannot
be
more
so
,
than
it
is
my
inviolable
resolution
;
't
was
necessity
,
Madam
,
and
not
election
,
made
me
draw
you
from
a
place
,
where
I
had
no
longer
the
means
to
preserve
you
from
abandoning
a
Servant
,
who
is
as
much
concerned
in
your
honour
,
as
you
are
to
put
your self
into
the
power
of
another
,
who
would
have
employed
all
his
to
destroy
,
not
defend
what
you
value
most
;
I
do
not
accuse
my
King
,
that
you
may
the
less
condemn
me
;
I
am
so
far
from
desiring
his
crimes
,
that
I
would
give
my
Life
he
had
none
;
for
thereby
you
had
been
exempted
from
inconveniences
,
which
would
be
unsupportable
,
were
they
not
in
order
to
the
preventing
of
greater
.
Your
residence
,
Madam
,
with
Arsaces
,
I
am
convinced
,
would
make
you
wish
,
when
perhaps
too-too
late
,
that
you
had
prevented
it
by
greater
troubles
than
I
hope
you
will
suffer
in
your
journey
;
for
I
have
so
well
deluded
him
,
that
you
may
take
your
own
hours
of
travel
;
and
that
which
will
end
yours
,
will
be
a
Castle
of
Merinzor's
in
Media
,
the
first
place
to
which
we
intended
our
flight
,
had
not
an
unhappy
accident
prevented
it
;
and
Media
,
Madam
,
being
the
Kingdom
your
Artabbanes
must
one
day
possess
,
I
elect
to
wait
on
you
thither
,
that
your
Reason
,
if
not
your
justice
,
may
be
secured
of
the
innocency
of
my
designs
;
for
had
I
any
which
were
criminal
,
I
would
not
have
chosen
that
place
for
the
Scene
to
act
them
,
where
your
happy
servant
cannot
want
hands
to
act
his
Revenge
.
Surena
(
said
Parthenissa
)
told
me
many
things
of
this
quality
,
and
so
protested
,
his
ambition
was
to
solicite
,
not
force
my
Affection
;
that
I
determined
,
since
I
could
not
prevent
the
former
,
not
to
provoke
him
to
the
latter
,
which
the
uttering
of
my
just
resentments
,
I
apprehended
would
;
't
was
therefore
I
told
him
,
Though
your
past
Crimes
might
invite
me
rationally
to
conclude
you
capable
of
any
,
yet
I
will
not
disbelieve
your
vows
and
professions
;
which
if
ever
you
design
to
violate
,
I
have
the
power
and
the
resolution
to
prevent
:
Do
not
necessitate
me
to
owe
that
safety
to
my self
,
which
I
am
not
unwilling
to
derive
from
you
;
nor
attempt
to
practice
that
which
you
so
justly
condemn
in
another
,
and
which
you
esteemed
so
foul
a
Sin
,
that
to
prevent
it
,
you
esteemed
Rebellion
None
.
Madam
(
said
Surena
)
did
it
not
too
much
wrong
the
Beauty
of
Truth
to
arm
it
with
many
protestations
,
I
should
by
reiterated
ones
,
bind
my self
by
Religion
to
that
which
I
am
sufficiently
confined
unto
without
it
;
and
were
it
lawful
for
Surena
to
repine
at
any
thing
the
fair
Parthenissa
says
,
he
had
now
but
too
abundant
an
occasion
to
do
it
;
for
she
must
believe
him
as
wicked
as
unfortunate
,
to
conclude
he
stood
in
need
of
any
other
Argument
to
deter
him
from
attempting
against
her
honour
,
than
the
greatness
of
the
Crime
;
but
Madam
,
my
deportment
shall
be
so
innocent
,
that
you
will
in
the
future
esteem
your
doubts
as
great
an
injury
to
your self
,
as
I
can
now
esteem
them
to
me
.
I
found
,
though
his
Expressions
were
humble
,
that
he
was
highly
mov'd
at
the
cause
of
my
fears
;
't
was
therefore
I
replyed
,
I
hope
,
Surena
,
you
will
not
much
condemn
me
for
running
into
an
error
,
where
the
discovery
of
its
being
one
,
will
prove
my
satisfaction
.
Your
satisfaction
Madam
(
said
Surena
)
shall
be
still
more
considerable
to
me
than
my
own
;
and
since
I
have
that
invitation
,
as
well
as
that
of
virtue
,
I
shall
as
much
apprehend
any
criminal
designs
,
as
the
fair
Parthenissa
does
detest
them
;
thereupon
having
wish'd
me
but
as
much
rest
as
I
could
confer
on
him
,
he
withdrew
himself
to
leave
me
to
mine
.
But
I
took
none
,
out
of
an
apprehension
that
I
had
done
amiss
in
acquainting
him
with
my
fears
;
for
't
was
not
impossible
,
but
to
think
him
capable
of
that
Sin
,
was
to
provoke
him
to
it
;
since
the
very
performance
could
not
raise
in
me
a
worse
belief
of
him
,
than
that
was
of
fearing
he
would
perform
them
.
This
reason
,
and
many
another
of
a
resembling
efficacy
,
made
me
conclude
,
that
my
having
declared
my
doubts
was
a
greater
prejudice
,
than
those
assurances
I
had
from
thence
derived
,
was
an
advantage
.
You
may
believe
,
in
such
disturbances
of
the
Mind
,
the
Body
could
not
but
participate
;
so
that
I
was
earlier
up
than
he
that
was
more
concerned
in
my
being
so
;
and
I
quitted
my
Bed
,
not
only
because
I
could
take
no
rest
in
it
,
but
that
I
resolved
to
add
to
the
obligation
of
virtue
,
that
of
trust
,
and
to
go
freely
to
what
else
I
knew
I
should
be
constrained
unto
;
Surena
therefore
found
me
dress'd
when
he
came
to
tell
me
all
things
were
ready
for
our
Journey
,
if
I
was
;
which
having
told
him
,
he
led
me
to
the
Chariot
,
that
had
all
the
Journey
the
same
30
Horse
for
Convoy
,
that
it
had
at
first
:
Surena
begged
and
had
my
permission
to
ride
with
me
in
it
.
The
Fifth
day
after
we
had
left
the
Castle
of
Eden
,
we
came
into
Media
,
which
we
learned
was
all
involved
in
a
Domestick
War
.
This
made
Surena
travel
with
more
caution
than
he
had
thitherto
observed
;
so
that
constantly
he
left
a
couple
of
his
Guard
some
four
or
five
Furlongs
behind
,
and
sent
half
a
score
before
,
that
he
might
not
be
surprized
.
The
third
day
after
he
had
settled
this
order
,
one
of
those
to
whose
care
all
Intelligence
which
should
happen
in
the
rear
,
was
left
,
came
full
speed
to
acquant
his
Prince
,
that
his
Companion
had
been
killed
by
a
Party
of
Horse
which
followed
him
a
round
Gallop
.
Surena
at
this
Intelligence
leap'd
out
of
the
Chariot
,
and
whilst
he
was
arming
himself
,
made
me
many
apologies
for
so
rude
a
proceeding
;
but
he
was
no
sooner
fitted
to
receive
his
Enemies
,
than
he
perceived
them
,
who
without
any
cheapening
,
charg'd
him
so
roundly
,
that
he
found
he
might
need
those
Ten
Horse
for
the
Fight
,
which
he
had
sent
for
Intelligence
;
one
of
his
Pages
went
therefore
to
call
them
;
but
two
of
the
unknown
Party
having
charged
through
all
Surena's
,
came
to
my
Chariot
,
and
having
beg'd
me
to
pardon
a
rudeness
which
was
for
my
service
,
one
of
them
immediately
killed
the
Driver
of
it
,
and
the
other
with
his
sword
cut
the
Traces
asunder
;
but
this
performance
cost
them
their
Lives
,
which
they
lost
by
Three
of
their
Enemies
,
who
feared
those
came
not
to
hinder
my
flight
,
but
to
contribute
to
it
.
The
Combat
being
performed
by
Men
of
singular
valour
,
was
very
bloody
;
and
in
less
than
half
an
hour
,
were
reduced
to
so
few
,
as
only
the
chief
of
either
Party
:
He
of
the
unknown
one
,
by
his
unimitable
courage
,
had
reduced
his
Adversary
to
a
condition
which
needed
help
,
when
the
generous
Artabbanes
interposed
himself
for
their
reconciliation
,
and
then
,
from
an
Intercessor
,
became
a
Party
,
not
knowing
he
that
was
vanquished
was
guilty
;
but
he
abundantly
repaired
that
mistake
,
by
defending
(
after
the
return
of
those
Ten
Horse
which
were
recalled
)
a
Life
,
I
am
much
more
concerned
to
have
preserved
,
than
to
have
Surena's
destroyed
.
'T
was
thus
(
said
Symander
)
that
the
fair
Parthenissa
put
a
period
to
a
relation
,
which
had
as
much
taken
up
Artabbanes
and
Sillace's
wonder
,
as
attention
.
I
will
not
tell
you
how
infinitely
the
first
of
them
exclaim'd
against
the
perversness
of
his
Fate
,
for
having
rendered
the
acting
his
Revenge
as
great
an
offence
against
his
Friendship
,
as
the
omission
of
it
was
one
against
his
Love
.
But
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
who
desired
no
greater
punishment
for
Zephalinda's
Brother
,
and
who
indeed
could
wish
him
no
greater
than
to
be
out
of
his
protection
,
and
under
his
Rivals
,
conjured
him
to
be
contented
with
that
Revenge
with
which
she
was
.
Artabbanes
was
not
sorry
,
that
to
the
invitations
of
Friendship
,
he
had
that
additional
one
of
obedience
,
for
the
silencing
his
designs
of
vindicating
his
wrongs
;
but
they
being
of
too
sublime
a
nature
absolutely
to
be
forgotten
,
lest
his
disorders
might
discover
he
disputed
whether
he
should
obey
Parthenissa
,
with
her
permission
he
conjur'd
the
generous
Sillaces
to
acquaint
them
,
by
what
strange
adventure
he
was
presented
with
the
blessing
of
serving
her
.
Sillaces
,
who
receiv'd
as
sublime
a
satisfaction
in
his
obedience
to
Artabbanes
and
Parthenissa
,
as
he
had
in
hearing
her
story
,
began
his
own
short
one
,
in
these
terms
:
From
the
time
I
left
Rome
,
till
I
came
to
Nineveh
,
there
happened
nothing
worth
relating
;
but
that
there
happened
nothing
that
was
so
:
But
alas
,
this
calm
was
but
too
severely
interrupted
,
for
there
I
understood
,
how
that
both
the
Princess
Lyndadory
and
Parthenissa
could
not
more
want
my
service
,
than
I
did
the
power
of
paying
it
them
:
My
duty
to
Arsaces
,
and
hope
,
that
by
being
nearer
the
Castle
of
Eden
,
I
might
be
so
to
an
opportunity
of
what
so
extreamly
and
justly
I
ambitioned
,
made
me
immediately
repair
to
the
Camp
,
where
by
the
King
I
was
received
with
such
demonstrations
of
affection
,
that
I
thought
Surena's
past
favour
,
and
present
condition
,
had
thitherto
deprived
me
of
that
usage
,
and
then
conferred
it
on
me
;
but
my
ignorance
,
whether
this
proceeded
from
his
goodness
,
or
design
,
made
me
keep
him
in
a
perfect
one
of
your
condition
and
resolutions
;
and
though
I
endeavoured
all
imaginable
ways
to
serve
you
,
and
my self
,
in
the
Princesses
;
yet
the
only
one
in
which
I
did
it
,
was
,
in
perswading
the
generous
Ariobarzanes
to
do
Surena
no
more
services
,
unless
he
received
an
assurance
from
the
fair
Zephalinda
,
that
in
doing
them
to
her
Brother
,
he
did
them
too
to
her
:
This
I
did
out
of
a
confidence
Surena
had
deluded
him
;
and
this
Ariobarzanes
did
,
not
to
shew
me
in
that
confidence
,
that
I
was
so
;
but
when
to
many
Letters
of
his
to
Zephalinda
he
never
received
any
return
,
he
began
to
disclose
a
Truth
which
his
so
long
ignoring
had
rendered
obstructive
to
his
King's
ends
,
and
his
own
:
I
believe
this
proceeding
hastened
Surena's
;
for
with
his
Intelligence
,
he
lost
his
hopes
;
but
whilst
I
lay
languishing
in
desires
and
fears
,
a
Packet
came
from
Merinzor
to
Surena
and
by
the
Carrier
of
it
was
delivered
to
Ariobarzanes
;
but
by
what
I
have
related
,
he
was
become
from
his
Confident
,
his
Enemy
;
wherefore
opening
the
Letters
,
he
found
in
them
a
black
conspiracy
of
raising
a
mutual
Rebellion
against
their
Kings
,
and
of
affording
each
other
reciprocal
assistance
.
This
I
esteemed
our
duties
to
acquaint
Arsaces
with
,
and
this
Ariobarzanes
did
so
too
,
as
an
expiation
of
having
formerly
convoy'd
some
of
Surena's
Letters
to
Merinzor
,
when
he
knew
not
what
they
imported
,
and
when
he
was
made
believe
they
only
were
to
preserve
a
Correspondency
,
which
might
preserve
the
latter
a
sure
retreat
;
but
the
difficulty
was
,
how
to
let
Orodes
know
of
these
Letters
,
and
not
to
let
him
know
we
had
seen
them
before
;
this
at
length
we
did
,
by
causing
a
Confident
of
ours
to
bring
them
hastily
into
the
Camp
,
as
having
taken
them
from
one
who
by
the
River
was
stealing
into
the
Castle
,
and
which
by
his
Death
he
had
prevented
.
Orodes
having
perused
them
,
found
Surena's
Rebellion
the
more
dangerous
,
and
that
a
Forraigner
fomenting
it
,
would
render
it
as
long
,
as
hazardous
.
'T
was
therefore
he
immediately
called
me
to
him
,
where
after
having
told
me
,
That
since
Ariobarzanes
had
the
next
Command
under
him
,
all
others
in
the
Army
would
be
under
me
;
and
that
therefore
till
he
could
find
me
out
a
fit
employment
,
he
desired
I
would
take
upon
me
that
,
of
being
his
Ambassador
to
the
King
of
Media
,
to
acquaint
him
with
this
fresh
Treason
,
and
to
procure
a
League
between
them
,
That
as
two
of
their
Subjects
had
reciprocally
bound
themselves
to
ruine
their
Kings
;
so
that
they
should
do
the
like
,
to
ruine
them
.
This
(
continued
Sillaces
)
I
obey'd
,
partly
because
I
had
no
employment
in
the
Army
,
but
chiefly
that
my
hopes
were
less
,
of
serving
the
Princesses
in
the
Siege
,
than
in
my
Embassy
:
For
I
had
understood
't
was
Merinzor's
Power
in
Media
,
which
hindered
Moneses
from
having
any
;
and
I
had
more
than
a
belief
,
that
this
favourite
having
rendered
himself
uncapable
of
becoming
so
again
,
you
might
assume
his
place
,
or
at
least
your
Right
,
which
I
was
confident
to
advance
,
being
employed
as
a
publick
Minister
.
I
was
also
but
too
certain
the
Siege
would
last
longer
than
the
journey
,
which
six
days
after
I
began
,
that
time
being
effluxt
in
giving
me
my
Commission
,
with
my
private
and
publick
Instructions
:
but
because
I
designed
so
short
a
residence
in
Media
,
I
took
only
Twenty
Gentlemen
,
and
some
Servants
to
wait
on
me
;
and
being
informed
on
the
Confines
of
this
Kingdom
,
that
it
was
freshly
involved
in
a
Domestick
War
,
I
sent
a
couple
of
my
Company
before
the
rest
,
to
avoid
Surprizes
:
These
it
seemed
saw
those
two
of
Surena's
,
who
fearing
Mine
,
began
a
round
Gallop
to
recover
their
Companions
;
but
they
were
so
briskly
followed
,
that
one
of
them
was
overtaken
,
and
so
wounded
by
a
Javelin
,
that
he
not
only
lost
the
hopes
of
his
safety
,
but
almost
of
his
Life
;
you
will
believe
when
I
came
up
,
that
I
was
not
a
little
surprised
,
when
I
found
this
wounded
Prisoner
was
Palurus
,
who
had
the
same
employment
under
Surena
,
that
his
Brother
had
under
Phraates
;
I
concluded
by
the
Servant
,
that
the
Master
was
not
far
off
:
and
by
threatning
to
torture
him
if
he
acquainted
me
not
where
his
Prince
was
,
and
by
promising
to
have
a
care
of
his
Life
if
he
did
:
he
told
me
,
How
you
,
Madam
,
had
been
deluded
by
his
Prince
,
and
that
you
were
both
but
a
few
furlongs
before
us
.
Oh
gods
!
how
was
I
surprised
at
this
strange
intelligence
!
and
how
many
oaths
did
I
extort
from
the
dying
Palurus
before
I
could
believe
him
!
but
as
soon
as
I
did
,
leaving
him
to
the
care
of
some
Peasants
which
were
present
,
I
ran
full
speed
upon
the
Traces
of
Surena
;
two
of
my
Troop
I
commanded
to
kill
the
Chariot-Driver
,
and
to
cut
the
Harness
,
lest
during
the
fight
I
might
lose
the
reward
of
it
;
with
the
rest
I
charged
my
Enemy
,
in
which
,
the
first
that
fell
was
the
false
Arzimin
.
You
were
,
Madam
,
a
Spectator
of
the
residue
of
my
Story
,
and
so
was
Artabbanes
,
who
came
in
when
all
my
Company
had
killed
Surena's
;
and
when
they
had
had
the
honour
to
sacrifice
all
their
own
Lives
,
in
an
employment
which
rather
deserves
my
Envy
,
than
my
Grief
.
Sillaces
(
continued
Symander
)
having
finished
his
Discourse
,
all
those
which
had
heard
it
(
and
he
himself
)
were
of
opinion
,
the
fair
Parthenissa's
deliverance
,
was
replenish'd
with
so
many
strange
conjunctures
,
that
it
relished
more
of
Providence
than
Chance
;
and
that
this
effect
of
it
,
was
but
an
earnest
of
a
more
sublime
and
obliging
one
.
I
know
not
whether
so
pleasing
a
belief
,
by
having
so
high
an
influence
on
Artabbanes's
Mind
,
had
a
proportionate
one
on
his
Body
;
or
whether
so
long
a
charming
of
his
Prince
,
as
that
was
whilst
his
Princess
and
his
friend
were
speaking
,
did
qualifie
the
violence
of
his
Feaver
;
but
I
know
,
that
after
some
discourses
upon
the
precedent
ones
(
Partheniss●
being
retired
)
he
found
so
sensible
an
amendment
,
that
he
not
only
acquainted
us
with
it
,
but
convinced
us
of
it
;
and
from
that
day
,
so
uninterruptedly
recovered
,
that
when
the
generous
Sillaces
was
fit
to
continue
his
Embassy
,
my
Prince's
condition
was
so
promising
,
that
no
just
apprehension
of
his
Friend
,
needed
any
longer
to
have
suspended
it
:
'T
was
therefore
that
the
fair
Parthenissa
came
to
Artabbanes's
Chamber
,
he
not
being
able
to
wait
on
her
in
hers
;
where
she
found
already
Sillaces
and
Zenophon
;
and
though
this
meeting
was
to
consult
upon
the
managing
of
their
designs
,
yet
I
was
not
excluded
.
I
shall
pass
over
their
debates
,
to
acquaint
you
with
their
results
;
which
were
,
That
Zenophon
,
with
those
Forces
he
had
then
raised
,
should
no
longer
protract
his
advancing
,
since
Tygranes
stood
so
much
in
need
of
them
:
That
Sillaces
,
as
the
Parthian
Ambassador
,
should
accompany
Zenophon
to
his
King
,
to
treat
and
conclude
on
that
league
,
which
was
so
requisite
and
necessary
to
the
ruining
of
my
Prince's
Rivals
both
in
Empire
and
Love
:
That
Sillaces
should
employ
all
his
Power
as
publick
Minister
,
for
the
restoration
of
Artabbanes
,
as
being
Nephew
to
his
King
;
which
he
might
the
more
safely
negotiate
,
since
Arsaces
had
really
revok'd
his
Banishment
,
whether
to
increase
Surena's
Fears
,
or
to
silence
Parthenissa's
:
That
if
he
found
any
inclinations
in
Tygranes
to
receive
him
,
he
should
then
,
and
not
otherwise
,
acquaint
him
where
he
was
:
That
Zenophon
should
depute
(
during
his
absence
)
such
a
Governour
in
Arsacia
,
as
was
entirely
to
receive
and
obey
Artabbanes's
commands
,
and
as
much
to
conceal
his
so
doing
.
The
next
day
after
this
resolution
was
assum'd
,
it
was
put
in
a
way
of
being
practised
;
Sillaces
accompanied
with
Zenophon
,
whose
Troops
consisted
of
near
10000
Horse
and
Foot
,
began
their
March
towards
Ecbatan
,
against
which
Merinzor
with
15000
Horse
and
25000
Foot
was
advanced
,
and
Camp'd
within
sixteen
Furlongs
of
her
Walls
,
under
which
the
King's
Forces
,
which
were
near
10000
Horse
,
and
as
many
Foot
,
were
intrench'd
.
The
Governor
left
in
Arsacia
,
was
called
Cloriman
,
and
had
received
his
education
even
from
his
Cradle
under
Zenophon
,
who
having
found
him
replenish'd
both
with
Courage
and
Judgment
,
had
given
him
a
large
participation
both
in
all
his
Commands
and
Fortunes
.
This
young
Gentleman
was
so
assiduous
in
this
duty
of
his
employment
,
and
to
Parthenissa
and
Artabbanes
,
that
they
could
not
but
commend
Zenophon's
Judgment
in
his
Choice
:
I
must
confess
,
I
had
done
so
too
,
had
I
not
observed
he
was
as
assiduous
in
more
than
his
respects
to
the
fair
Emilia
;
but
her
carriage
was
such
,
that
it
gave
me
rather
a
satisfaction
than
an
Allarm
.
Artabbanes
,
soon
after
his
being
left
alone
with
Parthenissa
,
never
left
her
so
,
at
least
when
he
could
do
it
with
civility
;
and
my
Prince
could
not
be
more
intent
in
increasing
Parthenissa's
affection
,
than
I
was
in
obtaining
Emilia's
;
so
that
all
that
time
my
generous
Master
employed
in
his
Loves
,
I
did
in
mine
:
but
whether
it
were
a
punishment
for
having
so
long
contemned
the
power
of
a
god
,
of
which
I
then
was
sufficiently
convinced
;
or
whether
it
were
the
fair
Emilia's
disposition
to
behold
the
effects
of
her
own
Power
,
which
could
not
be
more
visible
,
than
in
continuing
my
Passion
without
any
demonstration
of
hers
,
for
above
three
Moons
;
though
I
could
not
obey
my
Reason
,
I
found
more
than
I
had
thitherto
known
,
for
my
detesting
of
Love
;
and
though
at
last
I
received
the
felicity
of
an
assurance
from
the
object
of
my
Flame
,
that
she
approved
of
,
and
would
reward
it
;
yet
it
was
accompanied
with
the
misfortune
that
I
derived
that
declaration
from
Parthenissa
,
and
Artabbanes's
prayers
,
as
much
as
from
my
own
;
yet
the
belief
I
had
,
that
Emilia's
Judgment
,
not
want
of
affection
,
made
her
elect
to
oblige
Three
sooner
than
one
,
gave
me
a
satisfaction
which
her
words
had
denied
me
;
but
my
Prince
,
who
had
already
obtained
the
victory
over
those
tedious
formalities
,
now
happily
pretended
to
a
more
transcendent
one
,
by
successfully
imploring
from
his
Princess
,
in
an
Hymeneal
Crown
,
to
give
his
Passion
the
lowest
,
and
highest
satisfaction
it
could
ambition
:
But
as
Emilia's
grant
was
accompanied
with
a
qualification
,
so
was
Parthenissa's
;
for
my
Prince
derived
it
from
his
reasons
,
as
well
as
from
her
affection
:
Those
he
made
use
of
were
,
That
he
could
no
more
repine
at
the
gods
,
but
at
her
,
if
he
were
perpetually
miserable
,
since
she
might
hinder
his
being
so
,
by
a
Concession
of
his
request
,
which
would
not
only
prove
a
reparation
for
his
past
misfortunes
,
but
a
preservative
from
his
future
:
That
then
the
gods
could
neither
make
his
Life
short
,
nor
unhappy
,
since
the
excellency
of
the
felicities
would
repair
their
want
of
duration
:
That
he
concession
would
put
a
period
to
his
external
,
as
well
as
intrinsecal
sufferings
;
for
though
his
Rivals
might
have
some
hopes
to
conquer
her
Constancy
,
yet
they
could
have
none
to
do
so
to
her
Virtue
.
Here
the
fair
Parthenissa
interrupted
him
,
by
saying
,
Take
heed
Artabbanes
,
lest
what
you
imagine
will
silence
the
fury
of
your
Enemies
,
do
not
render
it
more
fatal
;
for
when
they
find
you
are
from
but
a
probable
obstacle
,
become
a
certain
one
,
they
will
no
more
scruple
to
take
away
your
Life
,
than
I
will
to
take
away
my
own
,
after
such
a
loss
.
Madam
(
said
my
Prince
)
you
may
banish
those
apprehensions
,
for
you
have
by
pardoning
my
criminal
jealousies
,
so
abundantly
evidenced
the
Immutability
of
that
esteem
you
honour
me
withal
,
that
when
to
that
you
shall
add
a
religious
obligation
,
the
known
Truth
,
That
thereby
we
can
have
but
one
destiny
,
will
make
them
have
the
same
care
of
mine
,
which
they
will
have
of
yours
;
so
that
,
Madam
,
to
secure
me
from
danger
,
as
well
as
unhappiness
,
what
I
now
implore
at
your
Feet
,
is
absolutely
necessary
.
Parthenissa
,
more
satisfied
with
his
Arguments
,
than
his
motion
(
though
she
esteemed
it
not
fit
to
mingle
felicities
with
fears
,
nor
to
be
in
the
embraces
of
her
Prince
,
whilst
those
who
had
been
her
Companions
in
her
sufferings
,
could
not
be
so
in
her
joys
)
yet
at
length
she
yielded
to
it
,
that
her
Artabbanes
might
not
say
,
she
deny'd
him
any
thing
with
reason
.
Oh
gods
!
(
continued
Symander
)
it
is
impossible
I
should
tell
you
my
Prince's
transports
,
how
often
he
prostrated
himself
before
her
,
how
many
thousand
times
he
embraced
her
knees
,
and
kiss'd
her
hands
:
'T
is
sufficient
I
assure
you
,
his
joy
was
proportionate
to
what
created
it
;
and
that
it
was
impossible
the
Sence
could
relish
those
felicities
,
his
Mind
did
:
He
bless'd
a
Milion
of
times
the
privacy
of
their
then
condition
,
which
admitted
no
other
preparative
but
a
Priest
,
lest
the
celebration
of
the
Nuptial
solemnities
might
have
so
long
protracted
the
celebration
of
the
Nuptial
delights
:
Artabbanes
,
after
he
had
by
innumerable
testimonies
of
his
satisfaction
,
convinced
Parthenissa
of
it
,
retir'd
to
his
Appartment
,
whither
immediately
he
sent
for
Cloriman
,
whom
he
acquainted
with
his
joys
,
and
of
whom
he
desired
a
Priest
against
the
next
day
,
to
put
him
in
the
way
of
consummating
them
.
Cloriman
,
by
an
erection
of
his
Eyes
and
Hands
,
seemed
to
participate
in
my
Prince's
satisfaction
,
which
yet
he
somewhat
clouded
,
by
telling
him
,
there
was
never
a
Priest
in
Arsacia
to
whose
fidelity
he
durst
trust
so
important
a
secret
;
but
that
within
two
days
he
would
procure
one
,
for
whose
secrecy
he
would
answer
.
Artabbanes
was
so
transported
with
his
desires
,
that
he
not
only
esteemed
the
Trusting
of
any
Priest
could
not
prove
so
high
a
prejudice
,
as
a
days
protraction
would
amount
unto
:
But
even
would
have
sent
for
any
one
,
and
have
ventered
on
his
fidelity
,
had
not
both
Cloriman
and
I
,
by
many
allegations
disswaded
him
from
it
.
But
at
length
,
those
two
days
expired
,
which
he
continually
spent
in
Parthenissa's
company
,
earnestly
offering
the
gods
as
many
years
of
his
Life
,
for
the
cutting
off
those
two
days
.
The
Night
of
the
last
he
spent
in
as
little
sleep
,
as
he
would
have
done
the
succeeding
one
,
and
as
he
did
the
succeeding
one
,
during
one
half
of
which
,
he
was
kept
waking
by
his
desires
,
and
the
other
by
his
fears
and
danger
;
for
some
Three
hours
before
day
he
heard
all
the
City
in
an
high
Allarm
,
which
made
him
immediately
dress
and
arm
himself
to
go
and
learn
the
danger
,
or
prevent
it
;
but
as
he
was
running
to
his
Princesse's
Appartment
,
which
his
Love
and
fear
made
him
resolve
to
defend
,
and
made
him
resolve
was
the
place
would
most
need
his
Defence
,
he
heard
the
Palace
Gates
forced
open
,
and
by
that
time
he
was
come
to
the
top
of
those
great
stairs
which
lead
to
the
fair
Parthenissa's
Chamber
,
he
saw
a
Company
of
Arm'd
Men
,
which
were
hastily
ascending
them
;
he
was
not
near
so
much
astonished
thereat
,
as
to
see
at
the
head
of
them
the
perfidious
Cloriman
;
who
lifting
up
his
Helmet
,
told
my
Prince
,
'T
is
not
my
Treachery
,
Artabbanes
,
but
my
Love
,
has
forced
me
to
undertake
what
I
should
condemn
on
any
other
score
:
The
fair
Emilia
was
not
content
to
scorn
my
Passion
,
but
to
receive
Symander's
,
and
even
to
confer
hers
on
him
;
I
had
the
heart
to
do
any
thing
rather
than
to
see
this
;
and
my
despair
only
has
made
me
listen
to
Merinor
and
Surena's
solicitations
,
with
whom
I
have
agreed
to
deliver
up
this
City
,
and
from
whom
I
have
received
a
solemn
engagement
,
that
I
shall
have
the
fair
Emilia
,
and
that
your
Life
shall
run
no
hazard
,
unless
by
your
own
resistance
you
cause
it
.
Traytor
(
said
my
Prince
)
,
my
life
has
not
been
so
bred
up
in
Crimes
,
that
whilst
it
has
a
Sword
to
defend
it
,
it
should
derive
its
preservation
from
Infidelity
.
No
,
I
had
rather
lose
it
to
punish
thy
sin
,
than
live
by
it
;
and
either
by
thy
death
,
and
Surena's
,
I
will
hinder
both
your
designs
;
or
by
my
own
,
your
Triumphs
.
My
Prince's
blows
began
where
his
words
ended
;
and
finding
my self
obliged
both
by
duty
,
affection
,
and
revenge
,
to
become
Artabbanes's
Second
,
I
assumed
that
noble
employment
,
and
being
assisted
with
some
of
Zenophon's
Domesticks
,
we
soon
drove
before
us
into
the
Court
,
those
which
were
come
to
assault
us
in
the
Palace
.
'T
was
in
this
retreat
,
that
the
false
Cloriman
had
the
honour
to
fall
by
a
hand
,
which
rather
rewarded
than
punished
his
infidelity
.
In
my
Life
I
never
envied
any
of
my
Prince's
actions
but
this
;
for
I
esteemed
it
but
just
,
that
being
the
Author
of
Cloriman's
Crime
,
I
should
have
been
of
his
punishment
.
Never
did
Artabbanes
purchase
more
glory
by
his
personal
courage
,
than
in
this
fatal
Night
;
and
never
the
Sun
beheld
so
admirable
a
sight
,
as
then
he
lost
,
in
not
seeing
the
prodigious
effects
of
it
.
The
name
of
Surena
,
and
the
apprehensions
he
should
again
ravish
from
him
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
made
him
act
things
,
which
if
Surena
had
seen
,
he
could
not
but
have
as
much
admired
,
as
feared
.
The
place
where
my
generous
Master
and
his
little
Troop
,
had
already
made
that
of
his
Enemies
less
,
was
under
Parthenissa's
window
,
which
soon
after
was
hastily
opened
by
Emilia
,
who
cryed
out
,
they
were
forcing
the
Princesse's
Appartment
.
Artabbanes
had
scarcely
heard
that
voice
,
when
he
flew
from
a
victory
to
a
fresh
danger
,
with
more
celerity
than
the
greatest
Courages
could
to
the
former
,
or
the
greatest
fears
from
the
latter
;
I
followed
him
as
fast
as
my
feet
could
carry
me
,
and
yet
before
I
could
overtake
him
,
he
had
engaged
himself
in
Parthenissa's
out-Chamber
,
amongst
as
many
Enemies
as
he
had
already
killed
▪
All
the
service
I
could
do
him
was
,
by
defending
the
Door
,
to
hinder
their
increase
,
which
I
did
as
long
as
I
could
use
my
Sword
;
but
I
lost
that
and
my
senses
together
;
yet
to
hinder
that
with
my
Body
,
which
I
could
not
with
my
strength
,
I
fell
cross
the
Door
,
and
there
lay
as
some
little
impediment
.
In
the
mean
while
Parthenissa
hearing
a
strange
noise
at
her
Door
,
every
moment
expected
when
it
would
be
broke
open
;
and
having
a
while
fruitlesly
attended
that
misfortune
,
she
began
to
apprehend
she
was
freed
from
it
by
a
greater
;
her
fears
gave
her
no
time
to
consult
her
safety
;
so
that
immediately
opening
it
,
she
discovered
they
were
but
too-too-well
grounded
:
For
alas
,
my
Prince
,
who
thitherto
defended
it
,
had
received
so
many
wounds
,
and
lost
so
much
blood
,
that
he
was
constrained
to
lean
his
back
against
it
;
so
that
missing
his
support
,
he
fell
backwards
into
the
Princesse's
Chamber
,
weltring
in
a
Sea
of
blood
:
Parthenissa
lost
not
her
judgment
,
though
she
did
almost
her
hopes
,
at
so
fatal
an
object
;
for
in
the
twinkling
of
an
Eye
,
she
thrust
to
the
Chamber
Door
,
which
by
good
fortune
having
a
spring-Lock
,
was
as
soon
lock'd
as
shut
;
our
Enemies
admired
that
their
advantage
was
so
soon
turned
to
Artabbanes's
;
but
Parthenissa
,
who
apprehended
they
would
immediately
force
so
weak
an
impediment
,
conjured
Artabbanes
to
permit
her
to
lead
him
down
a
back-stairs
,
which
at
least
would
preserve
his
Life
from
the
fury
of
those
whom
he
had
so
extreamly
incens'd
,
till
the
arrival
of
some
of
their
Superiours
,
of
whom
(
as
she
said
)
she
made
no
question
to
obtain
it
,
when
she
implored
it
with
Tears
.
No
Madam
(
said
my
Prince
,
sometimes
reeling
,
sometimes
leaning
on
his
Sword
,
and
all
his
Cloaths
dropping
with
blood
)
I
can
but
suffer
Death
by
fighting
against
your
Enemies
,
but
I
may
deserve
it
by
avoiding
them
:
Neither
,
Madam
,
shall
you
pay
to
Surena
so
precious
a
ransom
as
your
Tears
,
for
a
Life
,
which
by
your
being
in
his
Power
,
is
far
better
lost
than
sav'd
:
Do
not
(
fair
Parthenissa
)
deny
me
the
glory
of
dying
at
your
feet
,
and
for
your
defence
;
since
't
is
the
highest
and
pleasing'st
I
can
(
by
your
present
condition
)
now
aspire
unto
.
My
generous
Prince
spake
these
few
words
with
as
much
trouble
as
the
fair
Parthenissa
heard
them
;
who
so
abundantly
deplored
his
danger
,
by
this
fresh
additional
information
,
that
she
had
lost
the
very
thought
of
hindring
it
;
neither
indeed
could
she
have
done
it
,
for
the
weak
Door
was
instantly
broken
,
and
above
a
dozen
armed
Men
came
to
rob
Artabbanes
of
a
Life
that
he
then
was
but
too
desirous
to
lose
;
yet
not
to
die
unlike
himself
,
recollecting
that
little
strength
he
had
left
,
he
cast
himself
on
the
nearest
to
him
,
and
with
his
Ponyard
(
for
he
had
flung
away
his
Sword
,
as
a
weapon
his
weakness
rendered
him
unable
to
use
)
with
two
or
three
stabs
,
deprived
him
of
Life
;
but
my
Prince
fell
with
his
Enemy
,
and
all
the
rest
taking
that
advantage
,
had
doubtless
acted
the
revenge
of
their
Companions
,
if
the
generous
Parthenissa
(
by
flinging
her self
on
Artabbanes's
body
)
had
not
become
his
Armour
,
and
preserved
him
,
when
he
was
no
longer
able
to
preserve
himself
;
for
as
the
gods
would
have
it
,
Surena
had
given
such
universal
and
strict
order
for
their
respecting
of
Parthenissa
,
that
his
Soldiers
could
not
be
more
careful
of
her
,
than
she
had
rendered
it
impossible
(
they
being
so
)
that
my
Prince
should
receive
any
father
harm
;
for
she
so
covered
his
Body
with
hers
,
that
thereby
she
had
rendered
their
Fates
as
inseparable
as
their
affections
;
but
one
of
Surena's
Soldiers
more
intent
upon
revenge
than
obedience
,
threatned
the
Princess
,
that
if
any
longer
she
became
his
Sanctuary
,
she
should
be
so
far
from
hindering
his
Fate
,
that
she
should
share
in
it
.
Parthenissa
with
a
disdainful
look
,
told
him
,
What
he
said
was
rather
an
invitation
to
prosecute
,
than
to
desist
from
what
she
had
begun
:
And
though
so
generous
a
reply
should
have
rather
created
the
barbarous
Soldier
's
admiration
than
rage
;
yet
it
did
the
latter
:
for
he
began
so
uncarefully
to
thrust
at
my
Prince
,
that
Parthenissa
had
then
no
more
hopes
,
but
to
dye
with
him
.
The
fai●
Emilia
moved
with
so
horrid
a
proceeding
,
and
with
her
Princesse's
skreeks
,
immediately
,
as
if
Artabbanes's
Soul
(
which
all
this
while
seemed
to
have
abandoned
his
Body
)
were
flown
into
hers
,
took
up
his
Sword
,
and
guided
by
a
divine
influence
,
pass'd
it
through
that
Monster
;
yet
the
thrust
was
not
so
mortal
,
but
that
he
had
strength
enough
left
to
do
more
mischief
,
than
if
Parthenissa
,
Artabbanes
,
and
Emilia
had
been
out
of
his
power
,
he
could
have
done
in
all
the
world
besides
;
and
doubtless
had
effected
it
,
if
a
Gentleman
all
covered
with
Arms
and
Blood
,
had
not
come
running
into
the
Chamber
,
and
made
an
end
of
that
Monster
,
who
otherwise
had
made
an
end
of
Perfections
,
which
even
in
degrees
equalled
his
Crimes
.
All
those
that
were
present
,
knew
him
by
his
Armour
to
be
Surena
,
and
Parthenissa
did
so
as
soon
as
he
had
lifted
up
his
Helmet
,
which
he
did
to
let
her
know
who
't
was
,
that
prostrate
at
her
feet
begged
her
Pardon
for
his
Soldier
's
horrid
insolency
,
whose
Sins
he
could
not
be
thought
guilty
of
,
since
he
had
so
signally
punished
them
.
Parthenissa
,
who
till
then
had
esteemed
Surena's
Passion
as
great
a
misfortune
,
as
he
had
the
unsuccessfulness
of
it
,
now
began
to
hope
that
the
gods
would
repair
the
injuries
it
had
done
her
,
by
making
of
it
save
a
Life
,
which
it
had
so
often
endangered
;
and
the
sooner
to
try
her
power
in
so
ambitioned
an
essay
,
she
implored
from
Surena
a
Life
which
she
more
apprehended
was
not
in
his
power
to
grant
,
than
in
his
will
.
Surena
with
much
humility
protested
,
he
was
come
to
receive
her
Commands
,
not
her
Intreaties
;
and
to
evidence
he
would
never
decline
any
of
them
,
he
would
not
that
;
which
by
how
much
she
did
appear
concerned
in
it
,
by
so
much
did
the
desert
of
his
obedience
do
so
.
The
Princess
having
not
only
received
his
promise
,
but
his
protestation
of
his
Concession
,
ris
from
that
Posture
,
which
did
not
preserve
Artabbanes
from
more
wounds
,
than
it
did
give
Surena
;
which
he
endeavoured
to
conceal
,
lest
the
greatness
of
his
Merit
,
might
have
made
Parthenissa
question
the
reality
of
it
;
so
that
with
a
Countenance
which
rellish'd
more
of
trouble
for
his
Rival's
present
condition
,
than
that
he
was
going
to
improve
and
mend
it
,
leaving
the
Princess
weeping
on
her
knees
by
Artabbanes's
body
,
he
ran
and
called
his
own
Chyrurgeon
,
and
in
her
hearing
commanded
him
(
the
first
thing
he
did
)
to
dress
my
Prince's
wounds
,
and
with
the
same
care
as
if
they
had
been
his
:
But
alas
,
that
order
was
suddenly
changed
by
Surena's
perceiving
some
blood
dropping
down
Parthenissa's
Arm
,
which
proceeded
from
a
slight
hurt
she
had
received
in
the
shoulder
,
defending
Artabbanes
.
Oh
gods
!
what
did
not
Surena
say
,
when
he
saw
that
precious
blood
spilt
by
one
which
had
been
under
his
command
!
he
caused
that
dead
Traytor
immediately
to
be
carried
out
,
and
hung
in
Chains
in
the
Allarm-place
;
and
by
presenting
his
Sword
to
Parthenissa
,
implor'd
,
and
gave
her
the
power
to
shed
all
his
,
as
an
expiation
.
But
she
(
more
concerned
in
Artabbanes's
,
than
all
things
else
)
only
enjoyed
Surena
the
Penance
,
That
his
Rivals
wounds
might
be
dress'd
before
hers
;
which
she
assured
him
did
not
so
much
trouble
her
,
as
he
seemed
to
be
troubled
at
it
:
Parthenissa
could
not
have
imposed
a
more
severe
Penance
on
Surena
;
and
doubtless
he
had
not
submitted
to
it
,
if
it
had
been
unaccompanied
with
that
assurance
;
besides
,
imagining
she
would
not
expose
such
beauties
to
his
sight
,
as
were
to
be
the
reward
of
the
Chyrurgeons
Art
,
he
hastily
caused
his
Rival
to
be
dress'd
in
the
Princesse's
bed
,
which
he
apologized
for
,
by
beseeching
her
to
remove
unto
another
Appartment
,
and
out
of
so
much
blood
and
confusion
.
Pathenissa
neither
heard
his
excuse
,
or
desires
;
for
the
Chyrurgeons
,
by
giving
Artabbanes
strong
Cordials
,
by
stopping
his
blood
,
and
by
binding
up
his
wounds
,
made
him
by
some
deep
groans
testifie
he
was
not
dead
.
Never
was
any
of
his
Addresses
or
Professions
so
pleasing
to
that
fair
Princess
as
were
those
groans
;
and
never
could
she
have
believed
till
then
,
that
the
gods
themselves
could
have
made
her
take
so
much
delight
in
Artabbanes's
;
whose
recovery
the
Chyrurgeons
assured
her
would
be
infinitely
prejudiced
(
if
not
worse
)
if
he
were
,
in
so
weak
a
condition
,
any
way
disturbed
.
Parthenissa
therefore
begging
,
and
obtaining
from
Surena
,
that
her
Appartment
might
be
the
next
to
my
Prince's
,
continued
immoveable
by
him
,
expecting
till
it
were
made
ready
,
and
till
he
should
give
some
fresh
and
more
pregnant
testimonies
,
of
a
Life
,
she
could
not
be
more
joyed
to
recover
,
than
if
it
were
fled
,
she
was
resolved
to
follow
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FOURTH
PART
.
The
Third
BOOK
.
WHilst
the
Princess
was
bestowing
her
Care
and
Tears
on
Artabbanes
,
the
fair
Emilia
stole
from
her
to
do
the
like
on
me
,
and
found
I
was
not
far
from
the
place
in
which
my
strength
had
so
injuriously
abandoned
me
:
For
Surena's
Soldiers
by
believing
I
had
lost
my
Life
,
took
it
not
away
,
but
contented
themselves
only
with
dragging
me
from
that
place
in
which
I
had
prove
some
little
impediment
to
them
.
There
't
was
that
Emilia
perceived
me
;
and
though
it
were
in
so
forlorn
a
condition
,
yet
it
was
in
as
good
a
one
as
I
could
have
ambitioned
,
since
it
equalled
my
Prince's
;
for
whom
my
concerns
were
more
transcendent
,
than
for
my
Passion
:
Emilia
by
a
faint
beating
of
my
Heart
,
discovered
some
hopes
of
Life
,
at
which
she
assumed
as
sublime
a
satisfaction
,
as
mine
would
have
been
,
had
I
been
capable
of
seeing
hers
;
which
received
no
small
accession
by
the
accidental
passing
by
of
one
of
her
Father's
Domesticks
,
whom
she
knew
to
be
a
Chyrurgeon
of
as
much
Fidelity
as
Art
,
and
who
perhaps
had
derived
his
own
preservation
,
from
the
Enemies
knowledg
of
the
latter
.
To
his
care
the
fair
Emilia
committed
me
;
but
in
terms
so
pressing
,
that
he
found
my
recovery
no
indifferent
thing
unto
her
.
With
both
their
helps
I
was
carried
to
a
Chamber
contiguous
to
hers
;
where
,
whilst
those
Cordials
I
had
received
were
operating
,
she
returned
to
Parthenissa
,
who
she
found
in
the
continuance
of
a
Charity
as
perfect
,
as
either
her
that
conferred
,
or
he
that
received
it
.
She
had
longer
engaged
her self
in
that
employment
,
had
not
the
Chyrurgeons
protested
to
her
it
was
a
fruitless
one
;
and
that
as
soon
as
ever
Artabbanes
was
in
a
condition
to
know
,
or
receive
the
honour
she
did
him
,
they
would
bring
her
advice
of
it
.
Parthenissa
having
had
a
reiterated
assurance
of
this
engagement
from
those
who
had
made
it
,
immediately
went
to
her
Appartment
,
which
was
joyning
to
my
Prince's
,
and
was
waited
on
thither
by
Surena
;
who
more
concerned
in
her
Recovery
,
than
her
Company
,
to
evince
that
Truth
,
immediately
retired
himself
into
an
out-Chamber
,
from
whence
he
sent
in
the
Chyrurgeons
to
dress
a
Hurt
,
which
though
slight
to
her
that
had
received
it
,
was
almost
mortal
unto
two
that
had
not
.
As
soon
as
they
had
performed
their
Duty
,
Surena
came
in
to
perform
his
,
which
he
did
in
these
terms
:
If
,
Madam
,
the
greatness
ness
of
the
Crime
of
shedding
your
blood
,
does
not
sufficiently
illustrate
I
am
innocent
of
it
,
I
do
protest
before
all
the
gods
,
that
had
I
known
my
unfortunate
Flame
should
have
had
so
unfortunate
a
way
of
recovering
you
out
of
my
Rival's
Power
,
I
had
rather
eternally
have
been
denyed
that
felicity
,
than
purchased
it
at
so
criminal
a
rate
:
Yes
,
Madam
,
my
Respect
,
and
my
Passion
know
nothing
superiour
to
them
,
but
the
Beauty
to
which
I
pay
the
former
,
and
which
does
inspire
the
latter
;
whose
perfections
are
such
,
that
they
necessitate
me
to
things
which
would
be
unpardonable
,
had
they
a
lasser
attraction
;
but
my
Sins
have
so
ample
a
one
,
that
none
(
except
you
and
your
Artabbanes
)
but
by
seeing
the
cause
of
them
,
will
rather
commend
than
excuse
their
effects
.
I
speak
not
this
,
Madam
,
to
invite
you
by
Reason
to
pardon
my
unhappy
performance
;
I
had
much
rather
receive
mine
from
you
,
than
from
your
justice
;
that
what
invites
your
Mercy
,
may
prove
a
more
transcendent
blessing
than
your
Mercy
it self
.
I
should
be
(
said
Parthenissa
)
too
unjust
,
did
I
esteem
you
guilty
of
a
Crime
which
you
have
so
exemplarily
punished
;
but
I
must
tell
you
,
had
you
been
innocent
of
all
others
,
you
could
not
have
suspected
your self
guilty
of
this
,
nor
been
necessitated
to
protestations
,
of
whose
reality
you
have
yet
a
more
perswasive
way
to
create
my
belief
:
For
if
(
as
your
vows
would
perswade
me
)
your
concerns
are
more
for
me
than
your self
,
you
may
obligingly
evince
it
,
by
restoring
both
Artabbanes
and
me
to
a
Freedom
,
which
will
make
us
much
more
yours
,
than
your
force
has
done
or
can
do
;
and
create
those
resentments
in
me
,
which
nothing
but
such
a
performance
is
capable
to
inspire
.
Oh
gods
!
(
said
Surena
,
lifting
up
his
Eyes
to
Heaven
)
you
cannot
(
Madam
)
be
henceforth
offended
at
my
Passion
,
when
in
spight
of
your
Modesty
,
you
confess
you
believe
the
power
your
perfections
give
you
over
me
,
to
be
infinite
,
by
making
such
a
Motion
:
Alas
,
Madam
,
was
it
not
enough
that
you
made
me
save
my
Rival's
life
,
but
that
you
must
command
me
to
render
my self
almost
as
miserable
,
as
I
make
happy
?
For
to
give
away
my
hopes
of
the
fair
Partenissa
,
is
almost
to
be
curs'd
as
much
,
as
to
possess
her
is
to
be
bless'd
.
I
tell
you
this
,
Madam
,
that
you
may
forgive
my
justifiable
disobedience
;
nothing
but
such
a
command
could
make
me
give
it
such
a
name
:
and
I
cannot
but
esteem
my self
excusable
,
if
having
so
truly
profess'd
an
unimmitable
passion
for
you
,
I
decline
an
obedience
,
which
would
but
too
fatally
bring
that
truth
in
question
:
Do
not
,
Madam
,
I
beseech
you
,
invite
me
to
gain
your
favour
,
by
what
will
make
me
eternally
lose
the
hopes
of
it
;
nor
condemn
a
disobedience
,
in
which
you
may
discover
a
Flame
,
greater
than
the
Sin
which
discloses
it
.
If
(
said
Parthenissa
)
I
had
that
high
opinion
of
my self
,
that
you
would
infer
my
request
seems
to
import
,
I
should
not
then
have
made
it
:
but
the
little
invitation
you
have
to
continue
an
ill-plac'd
Affection
,
both
for
the
Choice
and
the
Success
,
and
the
great
propensity
you
have
to
generous
things
,
made
me
believe
,
by
representing
to
you
the
latter
,
I
might
disswade
you
from
the
former
;
and
in
one
performance
invite
you
to
act
both
according
to
the
Dictates
of
Reason
and
Gallantry
.
The
first
of
these
,
Madam
(
said
Surena
)
,
I
cannot
more
indisputably
do
,
than
in
continuing
my
adoration
for
the
fair
Parthenissa
;
and
the
last
it
may
be
I
have
already
done
,
in
giving
a
Life
to
her
satisfaction
,
which
has
deprived
me
of
any
.
But
Surena
,
Who
took
as
little
delight
in
these
requests
,
as
Parthenissa
did
in
the
condition
which
rendered
her
making
them
necessary
,
immediately
withdrew
himself
;
and
he
was
searcely
gone
,
when
one
of
Artabbanes's
Chyrurgeons
came
running
into
her
Chamber
,
to
let
her
know
,
that
his
Senses
being
restored
,
to
indear
his
Patients
preservation
,
he
had
told
him
from
whom
,
and
how
he
derived
it
;
but
that
had
been
so
far
from
producing
the
expected
effect
,
that
it
had
done
the
Contrary
;
for
immediately
after
the
Information
,
he
had
imployed
that
little
stregth
he
had
left
,
to
the
tearing
off
his
Plaisters
,
and
to
the
acting
of
such
extravagancies
,
that
his
Companions
had
been
,
and
were
necessitated
to
hold
his
Arms
by
force
,
till
he
were
run
to
implore
her
to
do
it
,
by
her
commands
.
Parthenissa
had
hardly
the
leisure
to
hear
so
fatal
an
information
,
for
her
sudden
running
to
my
Prince's
Chamber
,
whom
alas
she
still
found
violently
held
by
the
Chyrurgeons
and
their
Servants
.
Great
gods
!
(
continued
Symander
)
what
did
not
that
fair
Princess
do
at
so
sad
a
spectacle
!
she
could
not
see
her
generous
Servant
all
pale
and
bloody
,
and
with
looks
as
full
of
horror
as
his
Thoughts
,
but
she
melted
into
Tears
;
and
kneeling
by
his
Beds-side
,
she
told
him
,
Is
Parthenissa
then
become
so
odious
to
Artabbanes
,
that
rathen
than
not
become
her
Murtherer
,
he
will
become
his
own
?
Have
the
gods
been
so
miraculously
your
Preservers
,
to
make
you
become
as
miraculously
your
own
Destroyer
?
Have
I
endangered
my
life
to
save
yours
,
and
is
this
the
return
you
make
me
?
Are
we
not
miserable
enough
by
our
Destinies
,
but
we
must
make
our selves
more
by
our
Despair
?
Cruel
Artabbanes
!
if
Death
only
can
give
us
ease
,
was
there
ever
any
such
disproportion
in
our
Judgments
,
as
should
induce
you
now
to
believe
a
disproportionate
Fate
shall
create
a
resembling
satisfaction
?
Or
do
you
detest
my
Constancy
,
that
you
take
so
sudden
and
●atal
a
Course
to
avoid
beholding
it
?
Great
gods
!
(
she
continued
,
raising
her
voice
and
her
hands
)
if
already
my
afflictions
have
not
evidenced
my
fidelity
,
give
me
Tryals
of
it
as
great
as
it self
;
and
let
the
residue
of
my
Life
be
spent
in
such
sufferings
as
may
manifest
that
immutability
,
which
it
seems
my
past
ones
could
not
.
My
Prince
(
said
Symander
)
more
wounded
with
these
words
,
than
he
was
with
his
Enemies
Swords
,
having
first
obtain'd
from
Parthenissa
that
she
would
sit
upon
his
Bed
,
with
as
many
sighs
as
words
,
told
her
,
It
is
time
,
my
Princess
,
it
is
now
time
,
if
it
had
not
been
before
,
to
act
what
you
are
come
to
interrupt
;
Can
I
live
but
in
a
higher
Crime
than
to
become
my
own
Murtherer
,
after
you
interpret
a
production
of
my
Flame
and
Care
,
to
be
one
of
my
hatred
and
jealousie
?
Alas
,
those
are
both
equal
and
impossible
Sins
;
That
I
can
hate
the
fair
Parthenissa
is
so
egregious
a
misbelief
,
that
but
to
name
,
is
to
confute
it
;
and
to
doubt
her
Constancy
,
is
to
doubt
what
by
a
sad
and
happy
experiment
I
have
found
is
as
transcendent
in
perfection
,
as
to
suspect
it
is
the
contrary
in
an
opposite
extream
.
No
Madam
,
what
I
was
doing
,
proceeded
absolutely
from
my
love
to
my
Princess
,
and
from
my
knowledg
of
her
Constancy
:
The
first
of
these
made
me
esteem
it
both
just
and
rational
to
set
a
period
to
an
unfortunate
Life
,
which
experimentally
I
found
had
hitherto
rendered
hers
so
;
and
the
last
,
made
me
esteem
it
as
just
and
rational
,
since
her
Constancy
(
by
what
she
had
so
often
and
so
recently
performed
)
would
confine
her
to
a
Fate
,
which
the
gods
had
confined
to
eternal
misfortunes
,
to
cut
off
the
cause
of
their
Cruelty
,
and
leave
them
thereby
as
little
excuse
for
the
continuation
of
it
,
as
while
she
so
infinitely
misplaces
the
blessing
of
her
affection
,
she
affords
them
too
much
.
In
brief
,
Madam
,
I
was
prectising
but
what
you
approved
in
Surena
;
for
I
was
but
taking
away
a
Life
,
that
had
indanger'd
yours
,
which
is
so
great
a
Duty
,
that
without
a
proportionate
Injustice
you
cannot
hinder
it
.
Are
you
then
Artabbanes
(
the
Princess
replyed
)
so
ignorant
of
my
affection
,
as
to
believe
I
can
survive
the
object
of
it
?
the
gods
by
what
they
do
,
but
indanger
our
Lives
;
but
you
by
what
you
design
,
will
inevitably
end
them
;
can
an
evincement
that
I
love
you
more
,
induce
you
to
love
me
,
and
your self
the
less
?
We
are
not
miserable
enough
to
despair
,
when
we
can
make
our selves
more
so
;
and
what
you
so
fatally
design
,
will
abundantly
do
it
:
The
gods
,
as
they
have
hitherto
tryed
our
Constancies
,
will
in
the
future
reward
them
,
if
what
you
intend
prevent
it
not
:
Do
not
therefore
,
my
Artabbanes
,
doubly
injure
them
,
by
doubting
of
their
Mercy
,
and
by
hindering
them
to
act
it
;
I
do
not
tell
you
this
,
that
I
decline
bearing
you
company
;
no
,
I
am
ready
to
do
it
:
By
killing
your self
,
you
cannot
more
certainly
go
before
me
to
another
life
,
than
I
will
the
same
moment
follow
you
;
neither
can
you
suspect
,
that
she
who
has
been
your
Companion
in
the
sufferings
of
Virtue
,
will
decline
being
so
when
you
go
to
receive
the
reward
of
it
.
I
should
never
finish
my
Relation
(
said
Symander
)
did
I
particularize
all
their
discourses
:
I
will
therefore
only
tell
you
their
,
result
,
which
was
,
That
after
many
reasons
,
Parthenissa's
prevailed
;
but
then
my
Prince's
retributions
had
almost
proved
as
fatal
as
his
Despair
:
for
forcing
himself
to
make
them
in
a
posture
fitting
their
condition
,
not
his
,
a
great
wound
he
had
received
in
the
side
,
unfortunately
opened
,
out
of
which
there
issued
such
a
flux
of
blood
,
that
the
Chyrurgeons
could
not
be
more
troubled
at
it
,
than
they
were
to
stop
it
;
and
one
of
the
remedies
they
prescribed
for
that
end
,
was
,
that
Parthenissa
should
leave
the
Chamber
;
which
she
obeyed
after
she
had
received
many
reiterated
protestations
,
that
Artabbanes
did
leave
off
all
violent
designs
against
his
own
Life
,
and
consequently
against
hers
.
I
will
not
(
continued
Symander
)
any
longer
usurp
upon
your
patiences
,
which
I
fear
my
just
concerns
in
every
particular
action
of
my
Prince's
,
has
already
made
me
do
too
much
:
you
shall
therefore
only
know
,
that
my
wounds
by
the
fair
Emilia's
care
,
were
recovered
before
my
Princes
,
wherby
I
was
freed
(
by
being
enabled
to
wait
on
him
)
from
a
greater
trouble
than
they
themselves
had
been
.
Surena
not
only
knew
what
belonged
to
a
Gentleman
,
but
practised
it
by
a
constant
visiting
of
Artabbanes
and
by
demonstrating
as
much
care
in
his
recovery
,
as
if
it
had
been
to
have
restored
him
to
hopes
,
and
not
to
have
deprived
him
of
them
.
And
truly
,
except
his
Crimes
in
love
,
I
never
knew
him
guilty
of
any
,
nor
never
act
what
was
unworthy
the
noble
Title
of
Zephalinda's
Brother
;
but
in
his
Flame
,
he
was
as
criminal
as
unsuccessful
,
though
his
Partizans
alledged
,
that
only
therein
being
so
,
it
was
not
his
Nature
,
but
Passion
which
offended
.
During
my
Prince's
danger
,
Surena
permitted
Parthenissa
unrestrainedly
to
visit
him
,
either
out
of
Civility
,
or
Revenge
;
the
first
,
that
he
might
be
denyed
nothing
conducive
to
his
health
;
and
the
last
,
that
she
might
see
that
he
wanted
it
;
but
as
soon
as
that
was
restored
,
he
lost
a
conversation
which
made
him
think
it
a
misfortune
;
but
this
was
so
handsomly
carried
,
that
it
was
only
in
Surena's
absence
,
who
went
to
the
Frontiers
to
receive
his
Brother
,
and
his
Army
;
and
perhaps
he
elected
that
course
to
induce
Parthenissa
to
with
for
his
return
;
as
also
in
his
absence
to
hinder
an
union
which
had
so
narrowly
been
interrupted
.
The
fair
Emilia
,
and
I
,
were
the
constant
Ambassadors
between
the
generous
Lovers
,
and
by
the
excellent
example
of
their
Passion
,
learned
to
form
our
own
.
Surena
having
met
Vixores
,
sent
him
and
his
Forces
to
joyn
with
Merinzor
;
but
being
himself
more
concerned
in
Love
,
than
Glory
,
returned
to
Arsacia
,
where
he
received
the
intelligence
,
that
Tygranes
(
before
sillaces
and
Zenophon
were
joyned
with
him
)
being
impatient
at
M●rinzor's
,
in
some
manner
besieging
him
,
had
put
his
Fate
to
a
Battel
which
he
had
lost
,
and
with
exceeding
difficulty
recovered
the
walls
of
E●batan
,
under
which
it
had
been
fought
;
that
when
the
king
was
reduced
to
the
last
extremity
,
the
Parthian
Ambassador
,
with
5000
of
Zenophon's
Army
,
had
forced
the
Guards
of
the
Camp
,
and
flung
himself
into
the
City
,
which
he
despaired
not
to
defend
,
till
Zenophon
,
who
with
the
residue
of
his
Army
was
retreated
to
Crisapolis
,
could
so
recruit
it
,
as
to
bring
the
Destinie
of
Media
to
a
second
Field
.
Surena
acquainted
the
Princess
with
this
intelligence
;
but
so
unconcernedly
,
as
if
the
dissatisfaction
it
brought
her
,
suppress'd
the
contentment
it
afforded
him
.
But
as
soon
as
Parthenissa
had
desired
the
permission
of
visiting
Artabbanes
,
which
during
his
absence
had
been
denyed
her
,
he
not
only
waited
on
her
to
his
Chamber
,
but
sent
for
the
Governour
thither
,
whom
he
reprehended
for
his
incivility
,
and
punished
also
,
by
discharing
him
from
the
Government
of
Arsacia
,
which
made
many
believe
,
their
separation
had
been
his
fault
,
not
Surena's
;
though
at
least
as
many
concluded
,
Surena
practised
the
common
Art
among
Princes
,
of
disgracing
Servants
for
committing
of
obliging
(
and
sometimes
commanded
)
offences
.
That
too
,
which
almost
turn'd
this
belief
into
a
certainty
,
was
,
that
he
was
sent
to
a
command
,
which
was
rather
a
Preferment
than
a
Punishment
;
and
Surena
never
permitted
the
Lovers
to
converse
but
in
his
presence
;
yet
so
artificially
,
that
none
which
had
not
been
exceedingly
concerned
in
it
,
could
have
taken
notice
of
it
.
One
Evening
,
when
Surena
was
in
Parthenissa's
Chamber
,
there
came
into
it
a
Gentleman
of
Merinzor's
,
who
presented
him
a
Letter
from
his
Prince
,
which
he
read
with
often
starting
,
and
change
of
colour
,
and
which
he
had
not
sooner
perused
,
then
he
presented
it
to
Parthenissa's
who
found
in
it
these
words
:
Merinzor
to
the
generous
Surena
.
OVr
Rival
in
Love
and
Empire
must
die
,
both
for
your
security
and
mine
;
and
that
you
may
enjoy
with
felicity
what
I
shall
with
Envy
,
I
have
given
one
the
charge
of
his
Execution
,
who
you
shall
not
be
acquainted
with
,
but
after
he
has
done
you
an
obligation
you
have
hitherto
declined
conferring
on
your self
,
though
I
am
confident
you
disrelished
nothing
in
the
performance
,
but
that
you
were
to
act
it
.
As
soon
as
the
fair
Parthenissa
had
received
this
fatal
Letter
,
he
that
brought
it
,
and
was
the
Person
mentioned
in
it
,
went
out
of
her
Chamber
into
Artabbanes's
,
whom
he
found
all
alone
,
and
in
so
deep
a
Melancholy
,
that
he
was
almost
desiring
that
Death
the
other
was
come
to
give
him
:
My
Prince
,
who
thought
him
some
Gentleman
sent
from
Surena
to
visit
him
,
ris
from
the
place
he
sat
on
,
and
went
to
salute
him
;
but
the
other
first
locking
the
Door
,
drew
his
Sword
,
and
having
told
him
he
was
come
to
revenge
his
Brother's
Death
,
or
to
follow
him
,
ran
with
it
at
Artabbanes
,
who
by
the
resemblance
this
Traytor
had
to
him
he
had
killed
in
Parthenissa's
Chamber
,
concluded
,
and
that
truly
,
't
was
him
he
meant
.
But
this
as
unexpected
as
dangerous
an
adventure
,
which
would
have
disturbed
a
less
Resolution
than
my
generous
Master's
,
raised
his
;
for
stepping
two
or
three
paces
back
,
he
put
by
as
many
thrusts
,
and
snatching
up
the
Chair
he
had
sat
on
,
made
use
of
that
as
a
shield
;
the
noise
which
this
scuffle
made
was
so
great
,
that
it
was
easily
heard
in
Parthenissa's
Chamber
,
which
was
contiguous
to
my
Prince's
;
and
observing
that
he
which
had
brought
the
Letter
was
gone
out
of
it
,
and
suspecting
the
noise
she
heard
proceeded
from
the
cause
it
did
,
and
which
she
so
much
apprehended
;
immediately
with
the
wings
of
Fear
and
Love
,
she
flew
towards
the
scene
where
this
Tragedy
was
acting
,
and
Suren●
after
her
;
but
finding
the
Door
lock'd
,
the
Princess
cry'd
out
,
Will
you
then
,
Surena
,
permit
Artabbanes
to
be
murthered
?
You
shall
derive
no
advantage
from
it
:
for
I
attest
those
gods
(
who
cannot
be
so
,
if
they
punish
not
this
Sin
)
Whatever
by
my
Artabbnes's
fate
,
I
will
make
it
mine
.
Surena
heard
not
these
words
,
for
he
was
then
running
against
the
Door
,
which
he
did
so
violently
and
successfully
,
that
he
broke
it
open
,
just
as
Artabbanes
was
so
tyred
with
his
unwieldy
shield
,
that
his
weakness
was
giving
his
Enemy
an
advantage
,
which
his
courage
would
never
have
conferred
on
him
.
Surena
with
his
naked
Sword
,
and
by
a
great
Cry
,
made
the
Traytor
turn
about
;
who
finding
by
his
new
Adversarie's
Posture
,
his
Design
,
resolved
to
prevent
it
,
and
by
a
furious
thrust
,
pass'd
his
Sword
through
Surena's
body
;
but
not
ossending
any
of
the
noble
parts
,
he
had
strength
enough
left
,
not
only
to
interpose
himself
between
Artabbanes
(
who
was
fallen
down
)
and
his
Enemy
;
but
by
a
happy
thrust
,
to
deprive
the
latter
of
his
Life
.
I
cannot
(
said
Symander
)
sufficiently
exalt
this
generous
performance
;
for
it
was
as
much
above
description
as
expectation
,
and
almost
equally
divided
Parthenissa's
Tears
and
Charity
between
the
generous
Rivals
,
who
both
by
their
wounds
lay
weltering
in
a
sea
of
blood
at
her
feet
:
But
the
Princess
,
who
feared
there
might
be
more
in
the
Conspiracy
,
believing
she
might
defer
her
Gratitude
to
act
her
Care
,
and
thought
the
latter
somewhat
express'd
the
former
,
ran
out
to
call
for
assistance
:
The
first
she
met
was
Emilia
and
I
,
who
had
been
walking
in
the
Palace-Galleries
,
in
a
conversation
almost
as
pleasing
as
the
action
she
told
us
of
Surena's
,
was
generous
.
Emilia
instantly
ran
to
call
the
Chyrurgeons
,
and
the
Princess
and
I
,
to
see
what
we
could
do
in
their
absence
;
we
found
Surena
in
a
deep
swound
,
and
my
Prince
on
his
knees
by
him
,
neglecting
his
own
danger
,
and
stopping
with
his
hand
the
orifice
of
that
wound
which
had
cast
his
Rival
into
that
condition
;
and
which
had
hindered
my
Prince
from
being
in
no
worse
a
one
:
Doubtless
this
Gallantry
was
the
more
so
,
by
being
conferred
on
one
insensible
of
it
,
and
who
could
hardly
repine
at
his
being
in
so
dangerous
a
condition
,
since
it
evidenced
how
precious
his
Life
was
to
the
most
accomplish'd
of
Men.
Parthenissa
,
in
expectation
of
the
Chyrurgeons
arrival
,
tore
all
the
Linnen
she
wore
,
and
had
the
strength
to
tear
,
with
which
she
somewhat
stop'd
the
generous
Rivals
bleeding
,
in
a
confidence
,
that
what
was
Artabbanes's
design
,
could
not
be
his
trouble
;
neither
indeed
was
it
:
for
the
first
thing
for
which
she
had
his
retribution
,
was
,
for
her
Care
of
Surena
;
who
suddenly
after
Emilia's
and
the
Chyrurgeons
coming
,
was
carried
on
Artabbanes's
bed
,
who
would
not
permit
his
own
wounds
to
be
touched
till
Surena's
were
dress'd
;
and
then
having
more
strength
than
he
,
by
the
help
of
some
Servants
,
he
exchanged
their
Appartments
.
Surena
(
as
I
have
said
)
having
none
of
his
vitals
offended
,
gave
his
Chyrurgeons
no
other
trouble
than
to
stop
an
internal
bleeding
,
who
being
perfect
in
their
Art
,
they
successfully
did
it
:
'T
was
then
they
acquainted
him
with
my
Prince's
care
in
stopping
his
wound
;
and
protested
to
him
,
't
was
from
thence
he
derived
his
Life
;
and
that
if
Artabbanes's
ran
any
hazard
of
his
own
,
it
would
proceed
from
his
not
having
done
that
to
himself
,
which
he
had
done
to
him
.
Surena
magnified
my
Prince's
gallantry
in
such
pressing
terms
,
that
all
those
which
heard
him
were
convinced
,
't
was
as
much
his
Truth
,
as
his
Civility
which
spake
;
and
having
learn'd
he
had
resigned
his
Appartment
to
him
,
he
was
almost
as
much
troubled
at
it
,
as
at
the
cause
of
it
;
and
sent
to
implore
his
pardon
for
a
fault
,
he
had
permitted
,
and
not
acted
.
Neither
did
Surena's
care
extend
to
the
formal
,
but
even
to
the
essential
parts
of
it
:
for
out
of
an
apprehension
,
Merinzor
might
perform
what
he
had
but
attempted
,
he
commanded
his
Guard
of
an
hundred
Partizans
,
to
become
my
Prince's
,
and
each
of
them
to
answer
his
Life
with
their
own
.
It
is
almost
impossible
(
continued
Symander
)
to
tell
you
how
equally
Parthenissa
divided
her
visits
,
and
how
proportionately
gratitude
and
affection
governed
her
;
but
it
is
absolutely
so
,
to
express
with
how
much
satisfaction
Artabbanes
observed
it
,
and
perhaps
as
much
so
,
for
any
which
knew
him
not
,
to
believe
it
.
Some
three
or
four
days
after
this
accident
,
Parthenissa
(
as
she
usually
did
)
went
to
visit
Surena
,
who
the
Physicians
protested
might
then
speak
to
her
with
less
prejudice
than
his
silence
would
bring
him
.
'T
was
then
after
some
other
usual
Civilities
,
and
that
Parthenissa
began
to
deplore
his
condition
,
that
he
told
her
,
The
gods
(
Madam
)
which
knew
how
fit
it
was
you
should
know
that
transcendency
of
my
Passion
,
and
how
unsit
it
was
you
should
know
it
by
that
fatal
way
in
which
you
desired
to
be
convinced
of
it
,
have
(
I
hope
)
so
demonstrated
that
Truth
,
that
you
can
no
longer
doubt
it
;
which
consequently
I
shall
never
deplore
,
since
't
was
a
manifestation
I
would
not
only
have
purchased
with
the
hazard
of
my
Life
,
but
even
with
the
loss
of
it
,
had
not
that
loss
carried
with
it
a
greater
;
and
knowing
,
Madam
,
that
you
are
perfect
in
all
your
attributes
,
I
cannot
doubt
,
but
the
highest
Passion
may
aspire
to
the
highest
reward
;
and
that
mine
is
so
,
cannot
be
a
greater
certainty
,
than
your
not
believing
it
so
,
is
an
injustice
.
Parthenissa
,
who
expected
reproaches
instead
of
requests
,
listen'd
to
the
latter
with
satisfaction
;
and
indeed
it
was
the
less
troublesome
of
the
two
;
for
it
is
so
,
to
have
requests
made
,
than
to
make
them
:
Her
criminal
suspitions
of
Surena's
being
accessary
to
,
or
at
least
permitting
Artabbanes's
intended
Murther
,
merited
a
higher
penance
than
she
then
suffered
;
and
concluding
it
better
not
to
discover
her
offence
,
than
to
obtain
a
forgiveness
for
it
,
she
elected
the
first
of
these
,
and
therefore
only
answered
him
,
That
the
generous
Surena
has
as
infinitely
obliged
me
,
as
he
has
his
Rival
,
cannot
be
a
more
indisputable
Truth
,
than
that
the
strange
way
in
which
he
has
preserv'd
Artabbanes
for
Parthenissa
,
is
an
evidence
how
much
the
gods
are
concerned
in
his
being
so
preserved
;
so
that
there
wants
in
the
obligation
to
render
it
perfect
,
but
that
you
will
make
the
same
construction
of
the
same
performance
.
Oh
gods
(
said
Surena
)
!
it
is
high
time
to
despair
,
when
even
those
very
arguments
which
evince
the
height
and
pureness
of
my
flame
,
are
perverted
to
inferences
that
I
should
extinguish
it
,
or
resign
my
hopes
to
him
that
has
not
so
legitimate
ones
.
Parthenissa
,
who
perceived
by
this
reply
,
that
she
had
touched
him
in
a
place
he
was
more
sensible
of
,
than
of
his
wounds
,
began
in
her
subsequent
discourses
to
give
him
her
resolutions
in
such
terms
,
that
though
Surena
evidently
read
her
intentions
,
yet
he
could
hardly
quarrel
at
those
expressions
which
acquainted
him
with
them
.
Whilst
affairs
were
in
this
condition
in
Arsacia
,
those
in
Ecbatan
were
strangely
altered
,
since
Syllaces
had
cast
himself
into
it
;
that
generous
Prince
by
his
Courage
and
Conducts
,
so
raised
the
Defendant's
resolution
,
that
their
Fears
of
preserving
the
place
▪
were
much
less
than
Merinzor's
of
not
obtaining
it
;
neither
was
this
the
only
production
of
his
virtue
;
for
by
the
unintermitted
and
visible
effects
of
it
,
he
had
won
such
an
Ascendent
over
the
King
of
Media's
inclinations
,
that
neither
the
affection
he
had
given
Merinzor
,
nor
the
present
hatred
he
payed
him
,
could
in
degrees
either
equal
the
esteem
or
Friendship
he
had
so
justly
contracted
for
my
Prince's
Friend
;
who
so
well
improved
this
acquisition
,
that
he
had
no
ungrounded
hopes
to
render
Artabbanes
at
least
an
equal
sharer
in
this
good
fortune
.
And
though
Merinzor
,
who
had
learn'd
from
whence
so
successful
a
resistance
proceeded
,
did
alledge
,
That
Sillaces
by
taking
up
Arms
,
had
violated
and
infringed
the
duty
of
an
Ambassador
;
yet
it
hindered
not
Sillaces
from
proceeding
in
what
he
had
so
far
advanced
,
but
induced
him
to
offer
Merinzor
the
Combat
for
the
clearing
this
aspersion
;
which
he
declining
,
his
allegation
was
answered
by
a
large
Manifest
;
whose
effect
was
,
That
being
imployed
from
his
King
to
negotiate
a
League
for
the
mutual
destruction
of
their
Rebels
,
he
did
nothing
against
his
Commission
or
Employment
,
if
he
contributed
to
what
he
came
to
treat
of
.
But
at
length
,
all
the
joy
of
his
frequent
successes
were
extinguished
in
the
fatal
news
of
Surena's
surprizing
Arsacia
,
which
was
brought
him
by
a
Spy
he
had
sent
into
the
Enemies
Camp
,
who
only
could
assure
him
of
that
misfortune
,
but
not
of
any
particulars
which
succeeded
it
:
Sillaces
to
make
his
Enemies
wear
his
Livery
,
by
Tygranes
consent
,
drew
out
all
the
Forces
of
Ecbatan
,
but
those
which
were
upon
the
Guard
,
and
in
the
dead
of
Night
,
made
so
furious
an
attempt
on
Merinzor's
Camp
,
that
he
sent
some
Thousands
to
sleep
eternally
,
and
doubtless
might
have
raised
the
Siege
,
with
the
Garison
,
had
not
an
unfortunate
Dart
given
him
so
dangerous
a
wound
,
that
his
Soldiers
converted
their
care
of
victory
into
one
for
him
;
and
the
former
he
himself
had
so
far
advanced
,
that
the
latter
,
forasmuch
as
concerned
his
bringing
off
,
was
not
difficult
;
he
was
met
at
the
Gate
by
the
King
,
who
gave
to
the
Danger
of
his
Protector
,
as
many
Tears
as
to
his
own
,
by
so
fatal
a
deprivation
.
Sillaces
,
who
(
as
well
as
his
Physician
)
thought
himself
in
the
state
of
Death
,
desired
that
his
Chamber
might
be
emptied
of
all
but
Tygranes
,
of
whom
he
implored
,
That
he
would
confer
that
high
affection
he
had
honoured
him
with
,
on
Artabbanes
(
if
living
)
and
Lyndadory
;
for
whose
resentments
,
fidelity
,
and
esteem
of
it
,
he
would
give
his
dying
breath
for
security
;
and
that
if
he
might
receive
an
assurance
of
this
Concession
,
he
should
leave
the
World
with
as
much
satisfaction
,
as
the
leaving
it
in
so
ill
a
conjuncture
for
his
affairs
,
would
permit
.
Tygranes
,
whom
adversity
had
set
into
the
ways
of
Virtue
by
the
dictates
of
it
,
and
by
being
sensibly
touched
by
the
last
request
of
so
generous
and
dying
Friend
,
first
granted
it
by
Tears
,
and
then
by
Protestations
;
which
gave
Sillaces
a
satisfaction
his
present
condition
seemed
to
be
uncapable
of
:
But
the
gods
had
reduced
him
to
this
extremity
,
but
in
order
to
their
acting
a
double
Miracle
,
that
of
restoring
him
to
Life
,
and
Moneses's
blood
to
Tygranes's
favour
and
good
opinion
.
I
cannot
tell
whether
the
joy
of
that
grant
contributed
to
or
acted
the
former
;
but
I
am
certain
from
the
Minute
he
received
it
,
as
if
the
body
had
participated
in
the
satisfaction
of
the
Mind
,
it
began
to
amend
;
but
yet
so
slowly
,
that
Tygranes
had
but
too
many
experienees
,
that
his
success
,
under
the
gods
,
was
derived
from
the
generous
Sillaces
:
Neither
was
the
good
Fortune
of
Merinzor's
without
some
Clouds
:
for
as
he
computed
the
business
,
he
apprehended
before
he
could
reduce
Ecbatan
to
his
Power
,
either
Syllaces
recovery
,
or
Zenophon's
increasing
Army
,
would
cast
him
into
the
same
despair
which
that
generous
Prince's
performances
had
involv'd
him
in
already
;
but
when
to
these
apprehensions
,
the
intelligence
was
brought
him
,
that
not
only
his
design
on
Artabbanes
was
destroy'd
,
but
that
it
was
so
too
,
by
Suren●
;
he
was
almost
as
much
troubl'd
at
the
manner
,
as
at
the
thing
;
but
yet
at
the
arrival
of
Vixores
,
and
the
Parthian
Forces
,
he
began
to
hope
,
't
was
out
of
too●much
affection
for
Parthenissa
,
and
not
of
too●little
for
him
,
that
he
had
saved
my
Prince
;
and
therefore
't
was
,
he
determin'd
no
longer
to
delay
an
execution
which
Surena
could
not
well
suspend
without
wronging
as
much
his
Ambition
,
as
his
own
Love
.
But
whilst
Merinzor
was
employing
himself
to
obtain
his
designs
,
Artabbanes
and
Surena
did
their
Healths
,
and
Emilia
by
a
seeming
spy
to
the
last
of
them
,
but
a
real
one
to
her
Father
,
had
learn'd
that
Cloriman
had
only
taken
those
two
days
respite
for
the
sending
for
a
faithful
Priest
,
but
to
purchase
so
much
time
for
his
unripe
Treachery
.
But
(
continu'd
Symander
)
to
hasten
my
relation
,
I
will
no
more
replenish
it
with
any
things
but
those
so
essential
,
that
you
shall
be
convinc'd
,
I
am
as
much
concern'd
in
the
speedy
finishing
it
,
as
my
hearers
can
be
.
It
was
but
half
a
Moon
,
after
the
Ryvals
recoveries
,
that
one
day
walking
in
the
Palace-Gardens
,
a
Captain
of
the
Guards
presented
Surena
with
a
Packet
,
which
the
better
to
read
,
leaving
Parthenissa
with
my
Prince
,
he
retir'd
himself
into
another
Walk
,
where
opening
the
Letters
,
he
found
the
first
was
directed
to
him
from
Merinzor
,
and
contained
these
words
:
Merinzor
to
the
Prince
Surena
.
WEre
not
that
esteem
I
pay
you
,
built
on
a
very
firm
foundation
,
by
having
so
preserv'd
one
Enemy
,
you
might
have
rais'd
your self
another
,
and
it
may
be
as
dangerous
a
one
as
him
you
protected
:
Neither
could
I
but
conclude
,
if
I
consulted
with
reason
,
not
friendship
,
that
I
have
a
very
considerable
share
in
yours
,
since
to
confer
on
me
the
highest
disobligation
you
are
capable
of
,
you
use
your self
at
that
rate
.
Do
not
,
I
conjure
you
,
break
with
your
Friend
,
to
preserve
your
Enemy
;
nor
evidence
how
little
I
may
expect
from
you
,
when
to
the
obliging
me
,
I
only
desire
you
to
sit
still
,
and
cannot
obtain
it
:
I
have
sent
those
who
will
infallibly
secure
and
revenge
us
,
if
by
way
of
reparation
,
for
having
hitherto
hinder'd
it
,
you
do
not
undertake
it
your self
;
I
hope
you
will
not
by
neither
acting
,
nor
permitting
this
,
give
me
so
much
reason
to
be
your
Enemy
,
that
I
must
find
a
Misfortune
in
the
too-much
justice
of
becoming
so
.
Surena
having
read
this
high
Letter
,
open'd
the
other
,
and
though
it
were
without
address
or
name
,
yet
by
some
private
mark
he
was
not
ignorant
that
it
came
from
Merinzor's
Secretary
,
whom
he
had
corrupted
both
by
large
Gifts
and
hopes
;
it
contained
these
words
:
YOu
can
no
longer
have
Merinzor
,
and
Artabbanes
your
Friends
:
neither
indeed
can
you
undertake
to
defend
the
latter
from
death
,
but
you
will
more
than
hazard
participating
in
his
Fate
by
endeavouring
to
hinder
it
;
for
there
are
so
many
engaged
in
the
Design
,
that
your
desire
of
preventing
it
cannot
be
greater
,
than
the
impossibility
:
believe
it
Sir
,
as
a
certain
truth
,
that
the
first
attempt
you
make
for
your
Rivals
defence
,
will
be
your
last
;
and
that
he
which
is
Merinzor's
Enemy
,
and
he
which
endeavours
to
hinder
his
destruction
,
will
be
consider'd
under
one
netion
.
Parthenissa
and
Artabbanes
(
who
concluded
by
Surena's
leaving
them
alone
,
that
what
invited
him
to
so
unusual
an
action
,
had
an
unusual
motive
)
did
not
walk
away
from
the
place
he
had
left
them
in
,
but
from
thence
had
fixtly
consider'd
his
actions
,
and
gestures
,
as
things
in
which
they
might
discover
his
thoughts
,
which
they
found
were
very
perplex'd
:
for
having
ended
his
two
Letters
,
he
walk'd
three
or
four
turns
,
then
read
them
over
again
;
and
after
the
third
time
he
had
done
the
same
,
pulling
down
his
Hat
over
his
Eyes
,
and
folding
his
Arms
one
within
the
other
,
he
conntinu'd
with
as
little
outward
disquiet
,
as
the
inward
was
great
.
At
length
,
after
an
hour
so
spent
,
he
came
again
to
the
Princess
and
his
Rival
,
and
to
the
first
of
them
presented
his
Letters
,
telling
her
withal
,
by
whom
the
last
was
written
,
and
that
he
had
sent
it
in
his
Prince's
Packet
,
as
the
least
hazardous
conveyance
.
Parthenissa
whilst
she
was
reading
,
both
in
her
looks
and
gesture
,
exprest
no
small
disorder
;
and
Surena
as
soon
as
she
had
ended
,
having
receiv'd
his
Papers
,
saluted
her
with
as
much
humility
as
sadness
;
and
then
went
to
the
Garden
door
,
where
his
Guards
expected
him
,
and
where
he
commanded
their
Captain
immediately
to
seize
upon
Artabbanes
,
to
carry
him
close
prisoner
to
the
Castle
,
and
to
keep
him
there
in
that
quality
,
'till
he
received
further
orders
.
Surena
having
given
him
these
Commands
,
went
immediately
to
the
Cittadel
,
whither
he
remov'd
his
lodgings
,
and
from
whence
he
sent
two
hundred
Soldiers
to
guard
the
Place
,
and
to
permit
none
either
to
enter
into
it
,
or
to
come
out
of
it
,
without
a
Pass
under
his
own
hand
.
The
Captain
who
had
receiv'd
direction
make
Artabbanes
his
Prisoner
,
being
a
Parthian
,
and
consequently
reverencing
the
high
blood
of
the
Arsacides
,
came
even
in
tears
to
do
his
duty
,
and
protested
,
he
had
much
rather
have
lost
his
own
Liberty
,
than
become
the
Instrument
of
depriving
my
Prince
of
his
;
who
judging
by
Surena's
abrupt
departure
,
and
by
those
of
the
Guards
coming
towards
him
,
what
their
intentions
were
,
went
to
his
weeping
Princess
,
and
implor'd
her
to
support
her
Faith
on
the
many
precedent
deliverances
the
gods
had
sent
him
;
that
Surena
had
so
dearly
purchas'd
her
esteem
,
and
so
justly
valu'd
it
,
that
it
was
improbable
he
would
by
any
Criminal
performance
destroy
what
was
so
long
a
perfecting
;
especially
since
his
fall
herein
,
would
be
like
a
Statesmans
,
which
admits
not
of
a
second
.
He
saw
in
his
Looks
a
reluctancy
to
his
action
;
and
that
he
was
too
much
a
Gentleman
to
be
guided
by
considerations
opposite
to
reason
and
honour
;
or
for
the
satisfaction
of
Merinzor's
hopes
,
to
ruin
his
own
.
Artabbanes
had
further
enlarg'd
himself
in
consolations
of
this
quality
,
had
he
not
perceiv'd
,
that
already
Parthenissa's
colour
began
to
abandon
her
,
as
her
senses
did
suddenly
after
;
and
by
falling
in
his
Arms
seem'd
to
tell
him
,
she
expected
no
consolation
but
from
Death
:
my
Prince
,
that
had
given
her
hopes
for
his
own
condition
,
could
give
himself
none
for
hers
,
which
lasted
not
long
in
that
extream
:
for
by
that
time
that
he
,
Emilia
and
I
,
had
carri'd
her
in
our
Arms
to
those
Stairs
which
lead
to
her
Appartment
,
her
breath
,
but
not
her
words
,
were
come
to
her
again
,
so
that
Artabbanes
by
pressing
,
and
kissing
her
hands
,
took
,
as
we
all
thought
,
an
eternal
leave
;
and
in
whispers
conjur'd
Emilia
to
hinder
her
Princess's
despair
,
from
making
her
the
sharer
of
his
Fate
,
as
she
had
but
too
much
been
of
his
Misfortunes
.
Emilia
neither
answer'd
,
nor
indeed
heard
his
request
,
for
all
the
faculties
of
her
Soul
had
resign'd
themselves
to
grief
:
My
Prince
having
spoke
those
few
words
,
with
a
languishing
look
took
a
second
farewel
from
his
Princess
(
who
by
being
then
insensible
,
was
more
happy
than
if
she
had
been
otherwise
)
,
and
going
to
the
Guard
,
return'd
them
thanks
for
their
Civility
,
and
desir'd
them
to
do
their
Duty
.
The
Captain
mov'd
with
so
sad
a
separation
,
told
him
,
Would
to
the
gods
,
Sir
,
I
durst
;
for
then
I
should
carry
you
to
Liberty
,
not
to
Prison
.
Whilst
this
little
discourse
past
between
them
,
I
had
represented
to
Emilia
,
that
't
was
fit
I
should
wait
on
my
Prince
;
and
had
obtain'd
not
only
her
permission
,
but
commands
to
do
it
.
'T
was
therefore
that
I
came
to
the
Captain
,
and
desir'd
his
leave
for
it
;
which
he
more
readily
granted
,
than
my
Prince
,
and
accompani'd
his
Civility
with
this
Protestation
,
That
nothing
which
could
be
condusive
to
Artabbanes's
satisfaction
,
and
which
was
not
positively
forbidden
him
,
but
should
still
find
the
same
return
.
By
this
time
we
were
come
to
the
Garden-Gate
,
where
we
found
a
Chariot
ready
,
into
which
my
Prince
made
me
follow
him
;
the
same
Officers
,
and
the
same
Guard
,
brought
us
to
the
Castle
,
which
is
a
place
as
impregnable
as
Art
and
Nature
can
render
any
;
the
Appartment
allotted
for
my
generous
Master
was
very
large
and
magnificent
,
to
supply
his
being
deny'd
the
liberty
of
the
Gardens
;
and
finding
he
was
to
be
a
close
Prisoner
,
he
commanded
me
to
get
a
Pallate
,
and
to
lie
in
his
Chamber
;
where
he
resign'd
himself
to
so
transcendent
a
grief
,
that
I
knew
by
the
greatness
of
it
,
't
was
not
for
himself
,
but
Parthenissa
,
who
Emilia
told
me
afterwards
,
had
assum'd
a
proportionate
sorrow
,
both
for
the
quantity
and
the
cause
.
My
Prince
found
nothing
in
his
Imprisonment
,
no
not
the
very
end
in
order
to
which
it
was
,
so
intollerable
,
as
the
being
deny'd
the
sending
to
,
and
hearing
from
his
Princess
;
who
as
soon
as
she
had
learn'd
,
she
was
under
a
resembling
misfortune
,
concluded
Surena's
design
was
exceeding
criminal
,
since
rather
than
permit
her
to
know
his
actions
,
he
elected
to
give
an
exact
Lover
the
fears
such
a
relation
unavoidably
inspires
,
and
thereby
contracted
a
worse
opinion
of
him
,
than
his
very
worst
performance
could
almost
create
.
Ten
days
after
Artabbanes's
Imprisonment
,
(
during
which
time
,
he
never
saw
or
spake
with
any
,
except
the
Captain
of
the
Guards
and
me
)
finding
so
long
a
suspence
as
bad
as
execution
,
he
earnestly
conjur'd
him
to
learn
what
Surena's
intentions
were
,
and
if
possibly
,
what
his
usage
was
to
Parthenissa
.
The
Captain
promised
to
endeavour
both
;
and
about
four
hours
after
return'd
,
but
with
a
Countenance
that
spake
his
intelligence
,
before
his
words
did
;
which
acquainted
my
Prince
,
That
for
the
last
of
his
Commands
,
so
strict
a
watch
was
kept
in
the
Palace
,
that
thereby
all
his
endeavours
therein
had
been
fruitless
;
but
as
to
the
first
of
them
,
he
came
into
Surena's
Chamber
,
when
some
of
Merinzor's
Partizans
were
disputing
with
him
,
not
whether
you
should
be
put
to
Death
,
but
of
the
way
of
it
;
he
alledging
,
that
in
regard
of
your
quality
,
especially
in
Media
,
you
ought
to
have
so
much
respect
,
as
not
to
be
a
publick
Spectacle
on
an
infamous
Scaffold
;
and
that
to
execute
you
in
your
Chamber
,
would
be
of
as
much
advantage
,
less
scandalous
,
and
more
secure
;
for
(
the
Captain
continu'd
)
the
Inhabitants
of
this
City
are
so
great
Reverencers
of
either
the
Arsacian
blood
,
or
of
Moneses's
Family
,
that
Surena
has
sent
for
a
thousand
Parthian
Horse
out
of
his
Brothers
Army
,
to
keep
Arsacia
from
Tumults
,
which
he
apprehends
it
will
fall
into
,
let
the
execution
be
never
so
private
;
on
the
other
side
Merinzor's
servants
alledged
,
that
since
you
were
the
first
Prince
of
the
Blood
,
the
execution
ought
to
be
publick
,
that
the
Medians
might
be
convinc'd
of
the
reality
of
your
Death
,
and
thereby
cut
off
their
hopes
,
with
your
Life
:
for
it
has
been
no
unusual
thing
from
the
obscure
Death
of
Princes
,
to
set
up
Counterfeits
,
which
have
prov'd
as
dangerous
as
the
real
ones
could
;
that
it
would
look
rather
like
a
Murther
,
than
an
execution
,
were
it
done
in
private
;
and
that
by
so
covert
a
proceeding
,
it
might
give
the
Arsacians
an
opinion
we
want
either
Justice
,
or
Power
;
the
former
will
make
them
believe
't
is
honest
to
relieve
him
,
and
the
latter
,
that
it
is
safe
.
Though
(
said
the
Captain
)
I
heard
the
debate
,
yet
I
was
commanded
to
withdraw
when
they
were
to
form
the
result
;
but
yet
I
learn'd
that
whatever
it
were
,
it
would
not
be
put
in
execution
'till
the
arrival
of
the
thousand
Parthian
Horse
,
who
are
hourly
expected
.
Any
(
continu'd
Symander
)
that
had
heard
this
Relation
,
would
have
thought
he
that
made
it
had
spoken
of
himself
,
not
of
my
Prince
,
who
found
more
satisfaction
in
learning
his
destiny
,
than
trouble
in
learning
't
was
so
fatal
a
one
;
and
doubtless
,
had
not
his
just
apprehensions
of
the
fair
Parthenissa's
despair
,
or
at
least
excessive
grief
,
ty'd
his
hands
,
he
had
by
one
generous
stroke
,
exempted
himself
from
the
infamy
of
d●ing
on
a
Scaffold
,
or
composing
a
publick
Trophy
for
his
Enemies
:
but
that
Parthenissa
might
be
convinc'd
his
Life
was
dear
to
him
,
since
it
was
to
her
,
he
determin'd
,
if
it
were
his
fortune
to
be
put
to
Death
,
not
to
act
it
himself
,
that
she
might
not
condemn
,
but
deplore
his
Fall
.
To
the
Captain
he
gave
such
eloquent
and
admirable
consolations
,
that
he
went
away
full
of
satisfaction
,
but
I
cannot
say
whether
it
proceeded
from
an
assurance
he
thereby
received
of
his
going
into
a
better
world
,
or
that
the
brightness
of
his
virtues
render'd
him
any
longer
unfit
for
this
.
We
had
not
been
two
hours
alone
,
which
we
heard
all
the
Streets
of
Arsacia
eccho
with
Trumpets
,
which
we
knew
proceeded
from
the
arrival
of
the
Parthian
Horse
,
who
were
immediately
distributed
into
several
advantageous
Posts
in
the
City
,
the
better
to
suppress
all
disorders
.
Artabbanes
was
advertis'd
of
this
by
his
former
Intelligencer
,
who
told
him
withal
,
that
a
Scaffold
was
erected
before
the
Palace-window
;
and
though
some
said
it
was
for
his
execution
,
and
that
Parthenissa
might
be
a
Witness
of
it
,
yet
he
had
been
assur'd
in
private
,
the
execution
should
not
be
so
,
and
that
the
Scaffold
being
rais'd
there
,
was
but
the
more
,
artificially
to
delude
the
people
;
and
that
Surena's
opinion
of
doing
the
business
obscurely
,
had
at
length
been
assented
to
.
My
Prince
was
a
little
surpriz'd
at
the
first
part
of
this
intelligence
,
not
upon
his
own
score
,
but
on
his
Princess's
,
whose
grief
and
despair
he
apprehended
would
receive
no
little
accession
,
by
becoming
a
Witness
,
or
a
hearer
of
his
suffering
:
neither
could
he
in
so
sad
an
exigent
have
told
how
to
have
behav'd
himself
;
for
if
he
had
di'd
without
emotions
,
as
on
the
one
side
it
had
eclips'd
his
Enemies
revenge
,
so
on
the
other
it
had
done
the
same
to
the
evincement
of
his
resentments
for
so
sad
and
fatal
a
deprivation
:
and
should
he
manifest
the
latter
,
he
could
not
but
have
contributed
to
a
satisfaction
,
the
greatness
of
which
would
have
proportionately
created
his
own
trouble
;
but
the
Captain
's
assurance
was
so
probable
,
that
he
believ'd
it
:
for
though
he
esteem'd
Surena
would
be
vindicative
,
yet
he
could
not
think
he
would
be
barbarously
so
.
The
Commander
of
the
Guards
knowing
how
little
Time
Artabbanes
had
left
,
thought
it
unfit
by
*
his
Company
,
to
rob
him
of
any
part
of
it
,
and
therefore
withdrew
himself
,
but
he
made
me
a
sign
to
follow
him
into
the
next
room
,
which
I
did
;
where
he
told
me
,
that
for
certain
the
following
Night
was
destin'd
for
my
Prince's
Death
,
and
that
he
had
declin'd
acquainting
him
with
it
himself
,
as
believing
it
an
information
fitter
for
my
discovering
;
I
had
only
words
enough
to
thank
his
care
,
for
my
grief
stifl'd
the
rest
in
the
very
birth
.
My
generous
Master
at
my
return
into
the
Chamber
,
knew
some
new
Misfortune
was
come
to
my
knowledg
,
and
constrain'd
me
,
though
in
as
many
sighs
,
as
words
,
to
acquaint
him
with
it
,
which
I
did
;
and
which
I
had
no
sooner
done
,
than
he
only
told
me
,
I
had
obligingly
deluded
him
;
since
by
the
excess
of
my
sorrow
,
he
thought
I
had
assum'd
it
for
some
fresh
danger
of
the
Princess's
.
Whilst
things
were
in
this
posture
in
the
Castle
,
those
in
the
Palace
were
in
as
sad
a
one
;
for
Parthenissa's
ignorance
of
my
Prince's
condition
was
more
deplorable
to
her
,
than
the
knowledg
of
it
was
to
him
:
she
expected
every
minute
the
Messenger
of
her
Death
in
the
messenger
of
his
;
and
her
affection
was
so
high
,
and
perfect
,
that
it
needed
not
the
help
of
her
resolution
,
to
follow
his
fate
;
and
though
Emilia
gave
her
very
pregnant
consolations
,
yet
they
were
too
weak
for
so
strong
a
Melancholy
,
which
necessitated
her
to
keep
her
Bed
,
whereby
she
was
ignorant
of
that
fatal
Theater
which
was
erecting
within
sight
of
her
Window
,
out
of
which
Emilia
unfortunately
looking
,
discover'd
it
,
and
in
the
consequences
that
sight
inspir'd
her
with
,
she
sell
into
a
fainting
;
the
noise
of
her
fall
made
the
Princess
look
what
was
the
cause
of
it
,
which
when
she
had
discover'd
,
she
call'd
some
of
the
Servants
to
her
assistance
,
which
proved
so
effectual
,
that
it
gave
her
strength
enough
to
tell
Parthenissa
what
depriv'd
her
absolutely
of
hers
.
Emilia
soon
repented
what
she
had
said
,
and
had
much
more
cause
to
do
so
,
when
after
an
hours
trial
of
her
prescriptions
for
ending
a
swound
,
she
found
them
all
fruitless
.
But
Nature
at
length
did
what
Art
could
not
:
and
the
first
sign
the
Princess
gave
of
her
recovery
,
was
a
sign
of
her
affection
to
my
Prince
,
of
whose
condition
she
pressingly
askt
the
ignorant
hearers
;
their
silence
was
not
ascrib'd
to
that
cause
,
but
to
a
more
dangerous
one
,
out
of
which
faith
Emilia
remov'd
her
,
by
protesting
they
knew
nothing
of
what
she
demanded
,
neither
of
the
cause
of
erecting
the
Scaffold
,
which
none
of
those
were
about
it
could
tell
;
and
therein
she
spoke
the
truth
,
for
though
she
often
askt
out
of
the
Window
for
what
end
those
Men
were
set
a
work
,
yet
she
could
never
lear●
it
.
Artabbanes
in
the
mean
time
had
taken
me
into
a
Closet
contiguous
to
his
Chamber
,
whereby
the
pressingest
conjurations
he
was
capable
of
,
he
enjoin'd
me
not
to
give
him
so
pregnant
an
evincement
of
my
disa●fection
to
him
,
as
to
deplore
his
going
to
a
better
place
.
That
I
would
co●cern'dly
endeavour
to
console
the
fair
Parthenissa
for
the
like
grief
,
on
the
same
cause
;
and
that
whilst
she
would
do
me
the
honour
of
retaining
me
near
her
person
,
that
I
would
not
decline
it
.
'T
was
only
in
Tears
that
I
answer'd
these
impossible
commands
:
and
if
he
thought
I
promis'd
to
observe
them
,
he
deriv'd
that
belief
from
my
silence
,
not
me
.
The
hour
of
rest
being
come
,
Artabbanes
laid
himself
down
on
his
Bed
with
as
little
disorder
,
as
if
he
had
been
as
near
his
ordinary
,
as
eternal
sleep
;
only
the
fair
name
of
Parthenissa
stole
sometimes
out
of
his
mouth
,
but
never
unaccompani'd
with
some
sighs
,
to
demonstrate
for
whom
he
breath'd
them
:
Oh
gods
!
(
said
Symander
)
it
were
almost
as
hard
to
describe
the
fears
I
was
in
that
fatal
Night
,
as
to
believe
how
free
my
Prince
was
from
any
;
who
about
the
dawn
of
day
was
awakened
by
the
noise
of
some
who
open'd
the
doors
;
and
guessing
at
their
design
by
what
I
had
acquainted
him
with
,
he
rose
up
and
told
me
,
Come
Symander
we
must
part
;
but
this
one
Testimony
of
my
Enemies
power
and
malice
will
eternally
free
me
from
resenting
another
;
let
the
rememberance
of
so
high
an
advantage
extinguish
all
repinings
the
purchase
of
it
may
inspire
:
Do
me
too
,
I
conjure
thee
,
this
last
obligation
,
as
to
tell
my
Princess
,
I
di'd
with
Parthenissa
in
my
Mouth
;
and
that
my
breath
expir'd
in
repeating
the
fair
name
of
her
,
for
whom
only
I
drew
it
.
These
words
were
hardly
spoken
,
when
Surena
(
waited
on
by
some
of
his
Guards
)
came
into
the
Chamber
,
whom
he
commanded
out
again
,
and
then
came
to
my
Prince
and
told
him
:
Artabbanes
,
I
must
acknowledg
I
have
twice
receiv'd
my
Life
at
your
hands
;
the
first
,
when
you
had
taken
from
me
the
Victory
;
and
the
second
,
when
you
had
taken
from
me
what
I
valu'd
a
thousand
times
more
;
and
though
some
have
represented
to
me
,
that
the
former
proceeded
from
your
Revenge
,
and
the
latter
from
your
Ignorance
;
yet
I
hold
it
fit
to
make
my
acknowledgment
,
the
giving
you
both
your
Life
and
Liberty
:
I
am
confin'd
unto
this
,
if
that
information
be
true
,
by
the
dictates
of
virtue
;
and
if
false
,
by
those
of
gratitude
.
I
know
you
are
not
only
my
Rival
,
but
even
successfully
so
;
and
I
know
how
vast
a
prejudice
this
will
bring
both
to
my
passion
,
and
my
affairs
.
I
tell
you
thus
much
,
that
you
may
be
convinc'd
I
am
not
ignorant
of
what
I
do
:
and
I
tell
you
no
more
,
lest
I
might
lessen
the
merit
of
the
action
,
by
repeating
it
.
Great
gods
!
(
continu'd
Symander
)
you
only
know
my
joy
at
so
unheard-of
a
Gallantry
;
and
you
do
consequently
know
,
that
it
was
greater
than
his
on
whom
it
was
confer'd
.
The
time
,
and
the
strangeness
of
the
thing
,
made
me
suspect
I
did
dream
;
but
it
was
so
pleasing
a
one
,
that
I
apprehended
the
doing
of
any
thing
which
might
tell
me
whether
I
did
so
,
or
no
;
I
esteem'd
it
too
great
to
be
real
,
yet
was
loth
to
interrupt
what
gave
me
more
satisfaction
than
ever
any
receiv'd
in
that
which
is
the
foundation
of
dreams
.
You
will
pardon
(
said
the
faithful
Servant
to
Artavasdes
and
Callimmachus
)
my
transports
,
when
you
remember
what
gives
them
a
being
;
but
not
to
need
your
pardon
a
second
time
,
I
will
break
off
what
I
hope
has
made
me
as
much
deserve
,
as
need
it
.
Artabbanes
as
soon
as
Surena
had
done
speaking
,
with
a
look
which
seem'd
to
be
as
much
pleas'd
with
the
manner
of
the
obligation
,
as
with
the
obligation
it self
,
told
his
Rival
,
Surena
is
too
generous
to
give
me
my
Life
and
Liberty
,
thereby
to
confine
me
from
employing
either
in
a
service
,
for
which
only
they
are
considerable
to
me
;
if
that
were
to
be
my
Ransome
,
't
were
such
a
one
as
I
would
never
pay
:
for
't
is
a
more
pleasing
fate
to
die
for
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
than
to
purchase
my
Life
at
the
rate
of
being
ty'd
from
serving
her
.
I
speak
this
(
said
my
Prince
)
not
that
I
have
so
low
an
opinion
of
Surena
,
as
to
believe
he
is
capable
of
selling
a
generous
performance
at
any
price
;
or
that
he
could
think
I
would
buy
it
so
;
but
only
that
those
who
hereafter
understanding
from
whom
I
derive
my
Life
and
Liberty
,
and
how
I
employ
them
,
may
not
condemn
my
so
doing
,
since
I
declare
when
I
am
in
your
power
,
what
I
intend
when
I
am
out
of
it
.
'T
is
no
ill
payment
to
acquaint
you
,
I
can
make
you
none
,
since
thereby
I
publish
the
belief
I
have
of
your
virtue
,
whose
highest
operation
is
to
confer
obligations
not
only
where
there
is
no
hopes
of
a
return
,
but
even
where
there
is
a
certainty
of
none
;
my
condition
makes
me
more
grateful
,
than
any
other
way
my
fancy
could
,
and
were
I
to
judg
who
has
the
happiest
share
in
this
performance
,
I
should
conclude
,
the
Giver
has
.
In
what
I
do
(
repli'd
Surena
)
I
never
expected
so
much
as
I
have
already
receiv'd
;
to
have
made
what
you
mention'd
the
purchase
of
my
performance
,
had
not
been
to
have
given
your
Life
and
Liberty
to
you
,
but
to
me
:
no
,
Artabbanes
,
if
I
confine
you
unto
any
thing
,
it
is
only
to
believe
my
action
is
as
free
from
design
,
as
it
is
;
and
if
to
that
obligation
you
will
add
this
other
,
of
excusing
my
disputing
Parthenissa
with
the
Arms
of
Honour
,
as
I
will
not
disrelish
your
doing
the
like
,
I
shall
receive
a
satisfaction
my
condition
any
other
way
cannot
afford
me
.
Your
performance
(
said
my
Prince
)
cannot
be
more
generous
than
I
believe
it
;
and
what
you
mention
,
should
be
rather
my
desire
,
than
my
grant
;
and
if
in
it
I
resent
any
trouble
,
it
it
proceeds
from
a
latitude
I
thence
receive
,
of
drawing
my
Sword
against
one
,
for
whom
when
Parthenissa
comes
not
in
competition
,
I
would
as
joyfully
employ
it
,
as
for
her
.
These
Rivals
(
said
Symander
)
by
several
passages
of
this
quality
,
gave
each
other
but
too
pregnant
evincements
how
unfortunate
they
were
in
being
so
;
and
spent
so
much
time
in
this
employment
,
that
the
Sun
found
them
in
it
.
Artabbanes
doubtless
had
interrupted
it
sooner
,
to
beg
a
permission
of
kissing
his
Princess's
hands
before
his
departure
,
had
he
not
apprehended
,
his
Rival
would
have
esteem'd
the
increasing
of
obligations
,
an
uncivil
way
of
paying
them
.
Surena
,
who
it
may
be
knew
my
Prince's
impatiences
by
his
own
(
for
he
had
been
as
long
depriv'd
of
seeing
Parthenissa
,
as
Artabbanes
had
been
;
and
knew
how
unwelcome
his
visits
would
prove
,
did
not
he
accompany
him
in
them
)
made
that
overture
to
my
generous
Master
,
which
he
would
not
to
him
:
The
transports
in
which
he
receiv'd
it
,
were
much
greater
than
those
with
which
he
receiv'd
the
late
gift
of
Surena's
,
which
evidenc'd
he
was
more
concern'd
in
his
passion
,
than
in
his
Liberty
and
Life
;
which
it
may
be
invited
Surena
to
commend
what
he
dislik'd
.
Artabbanes
suddenly
after
went
out
of
the
Castle
with
Surena
,
and
in
a
Chariot
from
thence
to
the
Palace
,
where
he
sent
in
a
Page
to
Parthenissa's
Appartment
,
to
beg
the
honour
of
seeing
her
:
She
was
much
surpriz'd
at
the
request
,
but
much
more
when
having
granted
it
,
she
found
her
fears
so
obligingly
deluded
;
Surena
,
whilst
her
joy
confin'd
her
to
silence
,
broke
his
own
,
by
telling
her
;
If
Madam
,
I
have
been
seemingly
faulty
,
't
was
only
to
avoid
being
really
so
;
and
if
I
have
hitherto
occasion'd
your
hate
,
't
was
but
to
avoid
deserving
it
.
I
was
,
Madam
,
by
Merinzor's
Partizans
,
so
narrowly
observ'd
,
and
so
much
over-power'd
,
that
had
they
but
suspected
my
design
,
they
had
both
punish'd
and
prevented
it
.
You
cannot
doubt
but
to
counterfeit
was
absolutely
necessary
,
when
I
made
your
sufferings
my
disguise
;
I
know
that
you
were
too-too
much
concern'd
in
Artabbanes's
safety
,
to
let
you
know
I
resolv'd
it
:
That
might
have
prov'd
too
dangerous
a
discovery
;
and
your
not
being
sad
enough
,
might
have
given
you
cause
to
have
been
so
;
but
as
soon
as
I
procur'd
a
power
to
resist
Merinzor's
,
I
acted
that
which
only
the
want
of
it
has
hitherto
hinder'd
;
and
I
was
necessitated
to
secure
the
happy
Artabbanes's
liberty
,
with
that
with
which
I
pretended
to
secure
his
Execution
:
Yes
,
fair
Parthenissa
,
such
power
the
gods
have
given
you
over
me
,
that
when
my
satisfaction
and
yours
come
in
competition
,
I
consider
the
loss
of
the
first
,
to
be
the
acting
of
the
last
;
and
find
I
cannot
quarrel
with
them
for
rendering
me
unfortunate
,
since
thereby
they
make
me
preserve
you
from
becoming
so
;
but
(
Madam
)
I
am
too
injurious
to
intrench
on
that
little
time
your
Artabbanes
has
to
entertain
you
in
;
which
that
he
may
the
more
unconstrainedly
,
I
shall
leave
him
to
a
liberty
I
believe
you
do
as
much
desire
as
he
.
Surena
having
ended
speaking
,
withdrew
himself
,
and
that
so
suddenly
,
that
Parthenissa
in
the
operations
of
her
joy
and
wonder
,
could
make
no
returns
to
him
that
had
created
them
:
but
when
that
eloquent
silence
was
expir'd
,
she
told
my
Prince
,
Surena
may
attribute
that
to
one
civility
,
which
I
consider
as
intended
to
another
;
for
the
pretence
of
his
withdrawing
,
was
to
give
us
the
liberty
of
discourse
:
but
I
believe
the
real
cause
is
,
that
he
knew
mine
(
if
he
had
stay'd
to
hear
it
)
would
have
come
as
short
of
what
it
ought
to
be
,
as
this
performance
excels
all
his
others
.
But
Artabbanes
who
knew
how
little
time
was
allotted
him
,
and
how
much
was
allotted
Surena
,
acquainted
his
Princess
with
all
those
particulars
I
have
so
largely
deduced
and
magnifi'd
his
Rivals
Gallantry
,
in
terms
which
resented
their
truth
in
their
delivery
.
This
just
duty
being
finish'd
,
he
told
her
:
This
(
Madam
)
is
the
first
time
that
I
thought
I
could
leave
you
without
regreet
;
the
hopes
,
that
by
going
from
you
now
,
I
shall
be
the
sooner
uncapable
of
repeating
the
like
misfortune
,
is
my
consolation
in
it
;
neither
can
you
doubt
your
deliverance
is
less
my
ambition
than
duty
,
when
in
order
to
the
acting
of
it
,
I
can
without
reluctancy
employ
my
Life
and
Liberty
against
the
Bestower
of
them
.
The
world
must
be
convinc'd
your
freedom
is
more
dear
unto
me
than
both
those
,
by
making
it
a
higher
consideration
;
yet
in
that
action
of
ingratitude
I
shall
evidence
my self
grateful
,
by
proving
I
decline
the
lesser
obligation
,
but
to
satisfie
the
greater
.
Alas
(
said
the
Princess
)
are
you
so
low
reduc'd
,
that
an
act
of
unkindness
must
be
an
argument
of
your
Love
?
must
I
endure
a
real
misfortune
,
for
an
imaginary
good
?
when
I
consider
those
innumerable
dangers
my
condition
will
engage
you
in
,
and
those
many
more
which
your
courage
and
impatience
will
,
I
could
esteem
Surena
more
obliging
,
if
he
were
less
;
and
if
he
converted
your
liberty
into
an
imprisonment
,
my
trouble
then
would
extend
but
to
pity
,
now
it
does
to
fear
,
it
may
be
to
despair
.
Believe
me
,
my
Artabbanes
,
I
find
more
subject
for
sorrow
in
the
way
you
undertake
my
liberty
,
than
if
I
had
eternally
lost
it
:
that
misfortune
would
but
relate
to
Parthenissa
,
but
the
other
does
to
Artabbanes
,
who
is
much
more
precious
to
her
,
than
she
is
to
her self
.
Ah
Madam
!
(
my
Prince
repli'd
)
can
you
then
believe
,
whilst
I
have
an
existence
,
that
your
perpetual
imprisonment
would
but
relate
unto
your self
?
And
can
you
think
the
gods
have
so
miraculously
given
me
the
Power
to
use
my
sword
,
to
render
the
Will
a
sin
?
No
my
Princess
,
these
strange
and
intricate
obstructions
,
are
not
to
suppress
,
but
try
our
Faith
;
neither
can
we
think
them
what
they
are
,
and
believe
we
shall
continue
as
we
are
.
I
go
with
a
belief
of
success
proportionate
to
my
desire
of
it
;
and
if
I
have
any
doubts
,
't
is
not
of
your
deliverance
,
but
that
I
may
be
thought
unworthy
the
acting
it
;
if
I
be
,
I
will
find
my
Martyrdom
where
I
expect
my
felicity
;
and
die
in
that
service
,
in
which
I
ambition'd
to
live
.
These
words
made
Parthenissa
look
pale
,
and
drew
some
tears
into
her
eyes
,
which
to
take
him
from
considering
,
she
repli'd
:
If
the
gods
should
esteem
Artabbanes
unworthy
the
title
of
my
Deliverer
,
I
will
assume
it
my self
;
my
hand
shall
act
my
liberty
,
if
in
so
fatal
a
way
it
be
deni'd
to
his
:
Do
not
think
I
shall
need
any
invitation
to
follow
you
,
but
the
knowing
you
are
gone
before
,
and
therefore
flatter
not
your self
with
a
belief
,
that
the
breaking
my
imprisonment
can
be
reserved
for
any
other
;
for
't
is
like
my
inclinations
,
and
consequently
intirely
for
Artabbanes
.
Madam
(
said
my
Prince
)
I
,
consider
not
this
declaration
is
to
make
me
less
hazardous
in
your
service
,
but
to
invite
the
gods
that
I
may
perform
it
:
I
have
now
an
internal
assurance
of
that
blessing
;
for
since
your
liberty
cannot
be
acted
but
by
me
,
and
since
not
to
have
it
acted
,
were
too
great
a
sin
to
be
believ'd
,
I
must
be
as
confident
of
the
way
,
as
of
the
end
.
'T
was
above
half
an
hour
(
continu'd
Symander
)
that
these
generous
Lovers
entertain'd
themselves
in
resembling-discourses
,
which
had
not
so
soon
receiv'd
a
period
,
but
that
they
consider'd
Surena
was
in
an
anti-Chamber
expecting
their
separation
,
which
was
so
passionate
,
and
sad
,
that
the
relation
of
it
would
rather
prove
your
trouble
,
than
the
omission
.
My
Prince
in
the
same
Room
he
found
his
Rival
in
,
would
there
have
taken
leave
of
him
;
but
he
did
not
permit
it
,
and
accompani'd
him
to
a
Pass
some
20
Furlongs
from
Arsacia
,
lest
the
Treachery
of
Merinzor's
Partizans
might
have
render'd
that
place
the
Scene
of
a
Tragedy
he
was
so
concern'd
to
prevent
.
After
many
Embraces
and
Civilities
,
Artabbanes
told
his
Rival
,
If
the
employing
my
Life
and
Liberty
against
the
generous
Surena
for
Parthenissa
,
may
be
excus'd
,
by
my
employing
them
for
him
,
where
her
service
comes
not
in
competition
,
I
dare
truly
profess
,
I
shall
deserve
to
be
so
:
For
I
will
out
of
Gratitude
repeat
dangers
as
high
as
those
obligations
which
confine
me
to
mine
:
neither
can
I
but
be
convinc'd
by
what
you
do
to
Parthenissa
,
of
what
you
will
do
to
Artabbanes
;
for
your
Passion
makes
you
think
it
sit
(
at
least
pardonable
)
to
act
against
your
Inclination
;
and
your
Love
for
the
Princess
,
makes
you
do
things
which
might
even
call
that
Love
in
question
,
did
not
the
knowledg
of
the
cause
seemingly
apologize
for
the
effect
.
That
Adoration
I
have
for
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
has
the
same
production
in
me
:
I
know
I
should
give
you
that
Life
and
Liberty
I
receive
from
you
,
but
I
have
no
concerns
above
my
flame
,
and
the
inspirer
of
it
:
that
which
causes
my
fault
,
does
yours
;
neither
can
you
consider
what
I
must
do
in
the
future
,
but
if
you
reflect
upon
what
you
do
at
the
present
,
you
will
acknowledg
,
we
are
both
innocent
,
or
both
excusable
.
This
is
all
(
continu'd
my
Prince
)
that
I
beg
of
Surena
,
unless
it
be
to
furnish
me
with
an
occasion
of
serving
him
,
though
as
full
of
danger
as
my
resolution
is
of
contemning
all
;
which
may
evidence
a
gratitude
,
whose
greatness
hardly
knows
any
thing
equal
,
but
my
desires
of
manifesting
it
.
Surena
was
ready
to
give
my
Prince
a
reply
,
when
about
two
hundred
Horse
came
a
full
Trot
towards
the
Rivals
,
as
they
were
in
each
others
Arms.
This
unexpected
accident
broke
off
their
Civilities
,
and
made
them
gallop
to
the
head
of
a
hundred
Parthian
Horse
,
who
were
Surena's
Guard
;
his
Servants
,
and
some
of
my
Prince's
(
for
then
I
was
not
come
up
,
having
stay'd
sometime
to
kiss
the
fair
Emilia's
hands
,
and
to
settle
a
course
for
a
future
Correspondency
)
made
themselves
a
reserve
to
this
little
Body
,
which
resolutely
advanc'd
to
give
those
a
Charge
who
were
coming
precipitately
to
give
them
one
.
Surena
as
they
march'd
,
told
Artabbanes
,
I
have
too
good
an
opinion
of
you
and
of
my self
,
to
think
it
fit
to
give
you
an
assurance
that
I
am
innocent
of
this
Infidelity
;
but
if
what
I
have
done
,
has
not
rais'd
in
you
that
belief
,
what
I
am
going
to
do
will
.
My
Prince
had
only
leisure
to
tell
him
,
that
what
he
had
really
done
was
of
so
clear
a
quality
,
that
what
he
was
now
going
to
do
,
would
not
justifie
,
but
increase
his
obligations
:
For
the
Enemy
was
come
so
near
,
that
one
of
those
Two
which
lead
them
,
cri'd
out
,
'T
is
not
Surena
,
but
Artabbanes
we
seek
.
To
which
Surena
repli'd
;
Traytor
,
in
seeking
the
one
,
thou
seekest
both
;
and
in
attempting
the
one
,
thou
shalt
find
the
revenge
,
or
act
the
death
of
both
;
and
thereupon
piercing
like
Thunder
through
a
Battalion
of
the
Enemies
,
he
made
so
lage
a
passage
for
those
which
follow'd
him
,
that
they
found
it
as
easie
,
as
others
found
it
strange
.
My
Prince
made
a
proportionate
charge
,
for
the
resolution
and
the
success
;
and
twice
that
day
saved
a
Life
,
which
had
not
been
hazarded
but
for
him
,
nor
preserv'd
but
by
him
.
The
inequality
of
the
numbers
render'd
the
Dispute
equal
;
but
by
my
continuing
behind
to
kiss
the
fair
Emilia's
hands
,
I
had
weaken'd
our
Party
of
a
small
force
,
on
whose
arrival
with
me
,
the
Enemy
that
were
then
wavering
,
fled
;
and
found
that
death
in
their
flight
which
they
had
endeavour'd
to
avoid
by
it
.
The
two
generous
Friends
and
Rivals
celebrated
their
victory
and
deliverance
by
many
embraces
,
which
were
given
with
so
good
grace
,
that
it
created
a
general
quarrel
to
Fortune
,
for
having
so
long
defer'd
it
,
and
which
in
the
future
was
to
break
it
again
:
One
would
have
guest
by
my
Prince's
retributions
,
that
his
Life
had
been
precious
to
him
;
but
those
that
knew
Parthenissa
was
in
Surena's
hands
,
knew
withal
,
that
it
was
to
his
Gallantry
,
not
his
own
safety
,
that
he
paid
them
.
I
amuse
not
my self
to
particularize
those
signal
expressions
those
two
generous
Enemies
made
one
another
before
their
separation
,
which
was
perform'd
by
eithers
contracting
too
good
an
opinion
of
his
Rival
for
their
unfortunate
condition
:
But
Surena's
was
at
least
silenc'd
,
if
not
supprest
,
by
his
return
that
day
to
Parthenissa
,
to
whom
my
Prince
by
a
private
Messenger
gave
so
ample
and
handsome
an
account
of
that
days
proceeding
,
that
his
reception
relish'd
more
of
having
assum'd
Artabbanes's
felicity
,
than
of
having
been
his
Protector
;
and
his
ignorance
from
whence
so
obliging
an
usage
was
deriv'd
,
inspir'd
him
with
hopes
which
could
not
have
a
more
flattering
than
false
foundation
.
My
Prince
in
the
mean
time
,
with
a
Guard
Surena
had
forc'd
him
to
take
for
his
Defence
,
continu'd
his
journey
by
a
hasty
Travel
towards
Chrisapolis
,
where
he
heard
Zenophon
was
levying
Forces
to
relieve
his
King
,
and
to
bring
the
Fate
of
Media
to
a
more
equal
dispute
,
than
Tygranes's
precipitation
had
already
allow'd
it
.
Artabbanes
was
no
sooner
arriv'd
at
Chrisapolis
,
than
he
discharg'd
Surena's
Convoy
,
with
rewards
more
proportionate
to
the
Giver
,
than
Receivers
.
He
made
his
entry
into
the
City
by
night
,
only
waited
upon
by
me
;
and
having
taken
up
a
retir'd
lodging
,
enquir'd
of
the
Master
of
it
,
the
News
that
was
then
stirring
:
who
told
him
,
That
Zenophon
but
six
days
before
had
receiv'd
an
express
from
Tygranes
,
which
told
him
,
their
chiefest
Magazine
of
Victuals
in
Ecbatan
,
had
been
destroy'd
by
a
Traytor
that
had
the
Care
of
it
;
which
had
reduc'd
him
to
such
extremity
,
that
if
not
immediately
relieved
,
his
hopes
were
not
to
live
,
but
die
a
King
;
that
he
despair'd
not
but
by
a
small
accessional
relief
,
to
revenge
his
former
disgrace
in
the
same
place
in
which
it
had
befallen
him
;
and
that
therefore
Zenophon
with
whatever
Force
he
could
make
on
the
place
,
should
advance
by
incessant
Marches
towards
Ecbatan
.
This
was
so
true
and
pressing
an
Intelligence
,
that
Zenophon
having
formerly
appointed
a
general
Rendezvous
,
too
late
for
this
necessity
,
took
of
his
Army
about
Eight
thousand
Horse
and
Foot
,
which
were
the
nearest
and
readiest
Forces
,
and
with
those
two
days
since
advanced
to
the
relief
of
his
King
,
having
left
order
that
the
residue
should
follow
with
an
expedition
,
which
might
evidence
the
cause
from
whence
it
proceeded
.
My
Prince
was
very
pensive
at
this
information
,
and
much
more
sorry
the
destiny
of
Media
should
be
decided
without
him
,
he
being
in
it
.
Whilst
he
was
engag'd
in
such
thoughts
,
mine
were
employ'd
how
to
remove
their
cause
;
and
at
last
resolving
that
in
so
emergent
a
necessity
,
he
ought
publickly
to
avow
himself
to
see
what
influence
Moneses's
blood
had
over
the
Medians
,
and
to
have
Arms
in
his
hands
to
oppose
Merinzor
,
should
the
gods
make
him
the
Instrument
of
punishing
Tygranes's
Ingratitude
to
my
Prince's
Father
;
as
also
to
dispute
Parthenissa
with
Surena
with
more
equal
Arms
than
those
by
which
he
had
lost
her
:
I
concluded
too
,
that
Zenophon
would
not
intrust
so
considerable
a
concern
as
Chrisapolis
into
any
hands
but
those
whose
inclinations
he
was
as
confident
of
as
of
his
own
;
and
therefore
Artabbanes
ought
not
to
apprehend
the
disclosing
himself
to
the
Governour
of
it
,
and
to
head
those
Forces
which
were
embodying
,
as
Seconds
to
Zenophons's
flying
Army
.
These
reasons
were
so
pregnant
to
me
,
that
I
acquainted
my
generous
Master
with
them
,
to
whom
they
appear'd
the
same
,
and
who
therefore
immediately
commanded
me
to
invite
the
Governour
to
give
him
a
visit
,
which
he
would
have
then
paid
him
,
had
he
not
esteem'd
it
fitter
to
receive
his
advice
in
private
,
than
go
and
perhaps
render
himself
uncapable
of
observing
it
,
by
desiring
it
first
in
publick
.
I
went
with
joy
to
obey
these
orders
;
and
being
without
much
difficulty
admitted
into
the
Governours
Chamber
,
I
drew
him
aside
,
and
told
him
the
cause
of
my
doing
so
.
He
receiv'd
the
Intelligence
with
great
astonishment
,
but
I
soon
found
his
was
deriv'd
from
an
obliging
,
not
a
dangerous
Cause
,
for
't
was
in
eloquent
and
passionate
returns
,
that
he
thankt
the
gods
for
sending
,
and
me
for
bringing
him
such
News
;
he
went
therefore
(
follow'd
by
all
the
Gentlemen
and
Officers
then
about
him
)
to
my
Prince's
Lodging
,
but
by
the
way
the
Flame
being
diffus'd
over
the
City
,
there
was
hardly
any
in
it
but
those
that
waited
on
the
Governour
,
or
that
went
upon
the
same
employment
.
I
purposely
omit
the
exceeding
deep
submissions
,
and
the
proportionate
acclamations
this
throng
of
Friends
made
my
Prince
,
and
utter'd
for
his
return
.
The
Governour
(
an
old
and
unalterable
friend
to
Moneses
and
his
family
)
,
told
him
,
The
gods
,
Sir
,
have
doubtless
reduced
this
Kingdom
to
so
low
an
ebb
,
to
evidence
your
restauration
was
of
more
concernment
,
than
the
quiet
of
it
,
since
they
have
depriv'd
it
of
the
last
,
to
act
the
first
;
and
it
is
more
than
probable
that
they
will
acquaint
us
't
was
your
absence
involv'd
us
in
Wars
,
by
making
your
return
give
a
period
to
them
.
We
are
therefore
come
,
Sir
,
to
offer
you
our
Swords
and
Lives
,
which
we
doubt
not
under
such
a
General
will
vanquish
greater
obstacles
than
your
courage
will
now
encounter
,
which
has
already
acted
too
many
things
to
leave
us
the
least
pretence
of
doubt
it
is
uncapable
of
performing
any
.
Artabbanes
in
words
and
actions
altogether
sensible
and
obliging
,
made
them
find
their
affection
and
civilities
were
not
unfruitfully
placed
;
and
to
let
them
know
he
ambition'd
nothing
more
than
to
engage
his
Life
in
that
Country
,
in
which
he
found
so
many
willing
to
adventure
theirs
with
him
;
as
also
to
give
Merinzor's
first
infusions
the
lye
,
in
a
way
which
also
should
punish
it
;
he
conjur'd
them
that
the
next
Morning
all
such
Forces
of
Horse
as
they
thought
fit
to
honour
him
with
,
and
as
could
be
rendezvouz'd
by
then
,
might
be
so
,
with
which
he
despair'd
not
to
overtake
Zenophon
,
and
to
share
in
his
Countrys
Fate
.
The
Governour
immediately
commanded
all
the
Officers
to
see
those
Orders
obey'd
,
and
in
the
future
to
receive
theirs
from
Artabbanes
,
who
that
night
he
permitted
not
to
continue
in
those
Lodgings
,
but
brought
him
to
the
Castle
,
where
his
reception
spoke
the
heart
with
which
it
was
made
.
The
Sun
the
next
morning
was
not
risen
,
when
all
the
streets
of
Chrisapolis
eccho'd
with
the
noise
of
Trumpets
and
Clarions
;
and
not
above
an
hour
after
,
a
great
Plain
on
the
North
side
of
the
City
was
covered
with
Three
thousand
Horse
,
whereof
a
third
part
were
Voluntiers
,
which
the
only
Name
of
Artabbanes
drew
under
his
Colours
:
The
other
two
parts
were
of
such
as
had
been
drawn
together
by
Zenophon's
orders
before
his
hasty
depart
:
The
Body
(
though
small
)
was
not
unconsiderable
,
having
my
Prince
at
the
head
of
it
;
and
this
they
were
all
so
sensible
of
,
that
Artabbanes
found
they
were
so
by
their
very
looks
.
After
a
short
speech
,
rather
to
let
them
know
he
knew
their
resolution
,
than
to
raise
it
,
he
embraced
the
Governour
,
whose
age
dispenc'd
him
from
the
field
,
and
began
his
March
towards
Ecbatan
:
Three
days
with
wonderful
celerity
he
follow'd
the
traces
of
Zenophon's
Army
without
overtaking
it
;
but
the
fourth
from
the
high
mountain
of
Dormus
,
he
discover'd
afar
off
the
Walls
of
Ecbatan
;
that
sight
refresh'd
his
almost
wearied
Troops
,
and
made
them
so
to
accelerate
their
pace
,
before
the
Sun
was
five
hours
from
his
set
,
they
were
come
near
enough
to
perceive
both
Armies
were
join'd
,
and
were
disputing
their
hopes
,
and
desires
by
the
Sword
;
on
which
they
were
so
intent
,
that
his
arrival
,
nor
his
little
Armies
saluting
their
Friends
by
a
shout
,
and
their
Enemies
by
a
menacing
cry
,
could
not
in
the
least
measure
so
much
as
suspend
,
or
lessen
the
fury
of
either
side
.
My
Prince
was
much
more
pleas'd
with
the
resolution
of
his
friends
,
than
with
their
number
,
which
with
the
addition
of
his
Forces
,
did
not
equal
the
one
half
of
the
Enemies
;
whose
multitudes
he
observ'd
were
so
long
hinder'd
from
prevailing
by
a
Gentleman
in
blew
Arms
,
whose
Helmet
was
shadowed
with
a
Plume
of
Feathers
of
the
same
colour
.
This
generous
Warrior
carried
victory
to
his
side
where
ever
he
was
,
but
his
friends
lost
it
where
ever
he
was
not
;
so
that
not
being
ubiquitary
,
the
Armenian
Royal
Army
was
giving
ground
before
my
Prince
could
join
it
.
I
design'dly
pass
over
the
pa●ticulars
of
this
great
day
,
to
tell
you
the
conclusion
of
it
,
which
was
,
that
though
Artabbanes
did
like
Artabbanes
both
in
courage
and
conduct
,
yet
by
the
fall
of
the
Gentleman
in
blew
Armor
,
and
by
being
necessitated
twice
to
save
the
King
of
Media's
life
,
and
remount
him
,
it
was
almost
dark
before
the
gods
had
put
a
period
to
the
Battle
,
and
he
to
the
Execution
;
in
which
the
Traytor
Merinzor
fell
,
and
above
Twenty
thousand
of
his
side
;
so
that
my
Prince's
Revenge
and
his
Victory
were
both
concluded
in
one
action
:
such
signal
events
could
not
but
produce
resembling
joys
in
him
,
who
return'd
from
the
pursuit
with
his
victorious
Troops
,
to
present
them
and
himself
to
Tygranes
,
whose
Tent
he
found
inviron'd
with
tears
instead
of
acclamations
,
which
was
occasion'd
by
a
fatal
wound
the
King
at
the
conclusion
of
the
day
had
receiv'd
by
an
Arrow
shot
at
random
;
Artabbanes
(
by
an
excess
of
generosity
)
at
the
news
,
assum'd
a
grief
as
real
,
as
great
;
and
learning
the
faithful
Zenophon
was
by
Tygranes
,
he
went
without
any
interruption
where
he
lay
.
The
King
(
though
extream
ill
,
no
sooner
saw
my
Prince's
Arms
,
then
he
cri'd
out
,
'T
is
to
that
generous
person
that
I
owe
twice
a
Life
,
which
the
gods
are
resolv'd
no
longer
to
lend
me
;
but
I
desire
that
the
last
action
of
it
may
be
to
embrace
and
acknowledg
my
Deliverer
.
Artabbanes
at
these
obliging
words
pull'd
off
his
Helmet
,
and
Zenophon
no
sooner
saw
his
face
,
then
he
cri'd
out
,
'T
is
Artabbanes
,
't
is
Artabbanes
:
Who
prostrating
himself
before
his
King
,
told
him
,
The
gods
(
Sir
)
are
my
witnesses
,
that
I
had
long
since
the
ambition
to
pay
you
those
services
,
which
you
are
now
pleased
so
much
to
overvalue
,
had
not
the
Traytor
Merinzor
by
false
suggestions
brought
you
into
so
great
a
diffidence
of
that
truth
,
that
the
danger
of
coming
to
manifest
it
,
was
almost
as
great
as
were
my
desires
to
do
it
;
but
those
Powers
which
vindicate
Innocence
,
have
at
length
brought
Merinzor
to
that
Fate
he
would
have
impos'd
on
Moneses
,
and
have
made
one
a
Contributor
to
that
Justice
,
which
has
hitherto
suffer'd
by
his
having
occasion'd
the
suspending
of
yours
.
This
free
and
generous
declaration
made
Tygranes
believe
't
was
my
Prince
,
as
much
as
Zenophon's
naming
him
;
for
he
had
never
known
him
but
by
that
Character
the
faithful
Zenophon
had
given
of
his
Person
and
Mind
.
Tygranes
,
who
found
the
hand
of
death
upon
him
,
believ'd
he
could
not
more
excuse
the
Crimes
of
his
Life
,
than
to
silence
that
hatred
which
had
been
the
highest
offence
in
it
,
was
beginning
to
manifest
a
Conversion
which
had
nothing
of
imperfection
in
it
,
but
that
it
had
not
earlier
shined
;
when
some
Gentlemen
brought
in
one
into
the
Kings
Tent
(
for
there
was
never
a
one
set
up
but
his
,
neither
had
that
been
,
but
for
the
danger
of
carrying
him
to
Ecbatan
)
who
though
almost
cover'd
with
blood
,
yet
some
internals
disclos'd
that
his
Arms
before
they
had
been
so
fatally
stain'd
,
were
of
Azure
;
which
made
Artabbanes
not
only
know
't
was
that
gallant
man
,
the
want
of
whose
assistance
had
so
long
suspended
his
Victory
,
but
deplore
his
loss
at
a
rate
which
even
countervail'd
his
success
.
These
were
the
dictates
his
inclinations
to
generosity
inspir'd
him
with
;
but
as
soon
as
the
wounded
Gentleman's
Helmet
was
taken
off
,
he
saw
in
his
dying-looks
the
charming
features
of
the
Prince
Sillaces
:
Oh
gods
!
what
did
not
my
afflicted
Master
utter
at
so
sad
a
sight
!
without
so
much
as
considering
Tygranes
,
(
whose
tears
were
so
obliging
,
as
a
while
to
interpose
between
his
sight
,
and
the
object
which
created
them
)
he
fell
on
his
generous
friend
,
and
exprest
by
groans
,
when
his
words
fail'd
him
,
such
signal
and
pressing
sorrows
,
that
it
even
divided
those
of
the
spectators
,
and
made
them
think
him
as
just
an
object
for
their
grief
,
as
he
had
esteem'd
his
friend
for
his
:
I
will
not
determine
whether
the
air
which
Sillaces
receiv'd
by
the
opening
of
his
Helmet
,
or
Artabbanes's
tormenting
him
,
or
the
mercy
of
the
gods
,
who
thought
it
unjust
to
separate
two
so
exactly
united
,
that
restor'd
the
generous
Prince
to
life
;
but
this
is
most
certain
,
that
before
the
Chyrurgeons
had
given
him
a
Cordial
,
he
was
almost
in
a
condition
not
to
need
one
;
and
had
been
intirely
so
,
if
after
having
a
while
faintly
opened
his
Eyes
,
and
discover'd
Artabbanes
,
he
had
not
embraced
him
so
passionately
(
fearing
perhaps
never
to
do
it
again
)
that
all
his
wounds
opened
,
and
by
a
second
flood
of
Blood
cast
him
into
a
second
fainting
,
Tygranes
,
whether
out
of
sympathy
,
or
a
precedent
weakness
,
fell
into
the
same
condition
,
which
so
divided
the
care
and
tears
of
all
that
were
present
,
that
never
any
Victory
was
esteem'd
so
dearly
purchas'd
,
or
so
ill
celebrated
.
It
was
about
half
an
hour
before
the
Chyrurgeons
brought
either
the
King
or
Sillaces
to
that
life
which
had
seemingly
abandon'd
them
;
but
the
last
of
them
return'd
to
it
much
sooner
than
the
first
,
for
his
wounds
were
of
a
far
less
dangerous
nature
;
and
being
bound
up
,
as
also
forbidden
any
more
such
unfortunate
demonstrations
of
his
friendship
,
as
his
late
embraces
had
prov'd
,
he
began
to
ask
of
Artabbanes
his
Adventures
;
but
in
so
confused
a
way
,
that
the
disorder
could
not
be
greater
than
his
concern'd
in
them
,
thereby
appear'd
:
The
ones
curiosity
,
and
the
others
obedience
,
were
a
time
suspended
by
Tygranes's
temporary
recovery
,
this
was
but
a
lightning
before
death
,
which
made
such
violent
and
rude
approaches
,
that
he
needed
not
the
Chyrurgeons
Art
to
learn
his
Fate
;
which
he
first
told
the
two
friends
of
,
and
that
with
a
constancy
which
equal'd
their
sorrows
.
The
generous
Sillaces
,
whether
as
a
friend
to
my
Prince
,
or
Tygranes
,
so
successfully
made
the
latter
sensible
of
the
wrong
he
had
done
Moneses
and
his
whole
Family
,
that
he
seem'd
more
afflicted
for
that
,
than
for
his
present
condition
,
which
receiv'd
no
small
refreshment
by
Artabbanes
protesting
he
was
extreamly
afflicted
that
his
first
service
should
be
his
last
;
and
that
he
would
wrong
Moneses
more
than
he
ever
had
,
if
he
believ'd
not
to
have
found
out
his
mistake
,
was
the
greatest
reparation
he
ever
expected
for
it
.
Tygranes
confused
with
many
such
flattering
expressions
,
publickly
declared
,
Moneses
was
his
legitimate
Successor
,
and
Artabbanes
after
him
,
which
was
received
with
more
joy
than
there
were
open
expressions
of
it
.
Then
turning
a
languishing
look
towards
Sillaces
,
he
told
him
,
And
you
generous
Prince
cannot
you
furnish
me
with
some
occasion
before
my
death
to
evidence
the
esteem
I
have
of
your
friendship
,
and
of
those
signal
obligations
you
have
confer'd
on
me
?
Sillaces
was
so
struck
at
that
fatal
question
,
that
he
had
not
the
power
to
make
it
any
return
;
which
Tygranes
observing
,
he
commanded
all
in
the
Tent
but
my
Prince
and
Zenophon
,
to
leave
it
;
which
being
obey'd
,
addressing
his
discourse
to
my
generous
Masters
friend
,
told
him
,
It
was
with
no
small
satisfaction
,
that
I
learn'd
one
of
my
blood
could
captivate
Sillaces
;
though
I
have
seem'd
ignorant
of
your
affairs
,
yet
I
am
not
so
much
a
stranger
to
them
,
but
that
I
know
Lindadory
is
honour'd
with
a
passion
you
have
for
her
;
and
her
Father
has
declin'd
making
her
the
reward
of
it
,
upon
considerations
which
will
more
extenuate
my
usage
towards
him
than
any
thing
I
can
say
in
my
own
justification
;
I
conjure
you
therefore
(
Tygranes
continu'd
speaking
to
Artabbanes
)
,
that
you
let
your
Father
know
my
last
request
,
which
I
even
deliver
with
my
dying
breath
,
is
,
That
your
Sister
may
be
allowed
the
liberty
of
her
own
election
:
and
that
he
may
not
be
entirely
disprovided
of
what
is
requisite
for
the
maintaining
of
both
their
qualities
,
I
hereby
confer
on
Sillaces
all
the
false
Merinzor's
forfeited
Estates
,
and
the
Estates
of
all
those
who
have
adher'd
to
him
:
Had
the
gods
been
pleas'd
to
have
given
me
the
fair
Lindadory
,
I
would
thus
have
given
her
:
Moneses
cannot
suspect
a
counsel
I
would
my self
have
practic'd
,
and
in
which
he
will
receive
as
much
satisfaction
as
I
should
,
were
I
confident
he
would
observe
my
desires
.
The
generous
Sillaces
at
the
end
of
these
words
,
would
have
flung
himself
at
Tygranes
feet
,
as
some
expression
of
his
satisfaction
,
which
could
hardly
exceed
the
Kings
,
when
Artabbanes
assur'd
him
in
Moneses
name
,
of
an
exact
obedience
to
his
Commands
.
Never
was
there
a
Tent
at
once
so
replenish'd
with
tears
and
joy
as
this
,
and
perhaps
never
was
there
more
cause
for
either
.
It
seems
the
gods
had
protracted
the
King
of
Media's
life
,
that
the
expiration
of
it
might
repair
the
faults
in
it
;
for
,
some
two
hours
after
,
he
died
,
in
discourses
so
constant
,
that
the
manner
of
his
death
consol'd
the
beholders
of
it
:
Artabbanes
and
Sillaces
having
given
their
tears
to
so
great
a
fall
,
Zenophon
took
care
to
have
Moneses
proclaimed
King
throughout
the
Army
and
City
,
which
was
receiv'd
with
acclamations
so
loud
,
that
in
the
largeness
of
them
there
was
evidenc'd
a
proportionate
joy
.
The
Funerals
of
Tygranes
were
the
next
day
celebrated
with
a
Military
pomp
,
his
body
being
afterwards
Inter'd
in
the
Tomb
of
his
Fathers
,
over
which
my
Prince
erected
so
proud
a
Monument
,
that
his
goodness
was
known
in
his
Magnificence
.
Whilst
these
requisite
duties
were
paying
,
Sillaces's
recovery
was
so
much
advanc'd
,
that
the
doubt
of
it
was
no
longer
Artabbanes's
fear
,
who
every
day
with
Zenophon
acknowledg'd
him
the
Protector
of
Media
,
and
restorer
of
Moneses
,
who
by
a
solemn
Embassie
was
invited
from
a
Solitude
to
a
Crown
,
the
greatest
and
least
extreams
.
Neither
did
Artabbanes
omit
the
Gallantry
of
his
Friend
,
nor
Tygranes's
last
request
for
him
,
and
his
engagement
on
it
.
Things
of
a
civil
concernment
put
into
this
posture
,
the
forming
of
a
considerable
Army
was
my
Prince's
next
care
;
which
he
was
more
troubl'd
how
to
employ
,
than
how
to
raise
:
for
his
interest
,
and
the
many
peoples
hopes
which
depended
on
him
,
and
served
under
him
,
were
very
rational
inducements
immediately
to
march
and
cut
off
the
roots
of
so
dangerous
and
so
near
extinguish'd
a
Rebellion
;
but
the
going
to
attempt
Arsacia
,
and
to
force
Parthenissa
from
Surena
,
were
more
powerful
inducements
to
flie
with
his
Army
to
so
glorious
and
ambition'd
a
design
:
for
the
undertaking
of
which
he
fortified
his
inclinations
with
these
reasons
,
That
no
consideration
should
transcend
that
of
a
generous
and
fruitful
flame
;
That
an
occasion
of
conquering
a
Kingdom
might
every
day
be
offer'd
;
but
that
of
releasing
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
seldom
or
never
;
who
could
not
be
more
troubl'd
at
the
cause
of
the
continuance
of
her
sufferings
than
at
the
sufferings
themselves
;
and
that
thereby
he
would
more
injure
her
than
Surena
had
:
That
entirely
to
extinguish
the
Rebellion
,
there
needed
not
a
War
,
but
a
progress
over
the
Kingdom
:
That
Zenophon
with
such
forces
as
the
joy
of
this
Change
would
draw
under
his
Colours
,
would
be
more
than
sufficient
to
finish
what
was
so
far
advanc'd
;
and
that
by
the
dictates
of
Reason
as
well
as
Love
,
he
ought
to
employ
his
courage
,
where
it
was
probably
to
meet
with
the
brightest
resistance
;
and
that
was
where
Surena
was
in
person
,
who
was
not
only
the
most
considerable
enemy
for
power
and
resolution
;
but
being
a
foreigner
,
and
having
Parthia
to
befriend
him
,
ought
first
to
be
attempted
,
and
dislodg'd
.
The
generous
Sillaces's
opinion
and
reasons
concurring
with
my
Prince's
herein
,
he
assum'd
the
resolution
,
and
that
too
firmly
to
admit
of
the
least
shadow
of
variation
.
The
next
morning
therefore
in
a
general
Assembly
of
the
Officers
,
my
Prince
acquainted
them
with
his
design
,
which
he
fortified
with
such
pregnant
reasons
,
and
deliver'd
in
such
an
accent
,
as
made
many
believe
he
rather
summon'd
them
to
approve
his
Counsel
,
than
to
receive
theirs
;
so
that
partly
out
of
judgment
,
partly
out
of
compliance
,
the
result
of
the
meeting
was
an
unanimous
approving
of
the
motion
.
Artabbanes
therefore
immediately
gave
Zenophon
Commission
to
Command
an
Army
for
the
reduction
of
Media
to
Moneses's
power
;
and
three
days
after
had
a
general
Rendezvous
of
all
his
Forces
under
the
Walls
of
Ecbatan
,
which
he
divided
into
two
equal
parts
,
giving
Zenophon
the
one
,
and
taking
the
other
to
himself
.
Sillaces
was
yet
so
ill
of
his
wounds
,
that
he
was
not
capable
of
undertaking
the
Command
of
Zenophon's
Army
,
nor
of
so
much
as
accompanying
my
dear
Master
in
his
:
I
omit
the
sad
words
at
their
separation
,
which
was
no
longer
delaid
,
than
that
time
took
up
which
was
employ'd
in
the
last
embraces
,
and
in
Artabbanes's
leaving
his
generous
friend
the
Command
of
all
things
behind
,
and
of
the
whole
Kingdom
,
in
case
the
fortune
of
the
War
drew
him
out
of
it
.
My
Prince
too
,
found
some
consolation
in
Sillaces
continuance
in
Ecbatan
,
That
being
the
Metropolis
of
Media
,
and
consequently
the
place
which
Moneses
would
reside
at
;
whereby
he
might
not
only
have
the
opportunity
of
being
near
the
King
,
and
it
might
be
of
Lindadory
,
but
that
also
by
the
inevitable
charms
of
his
conversation
,
procure
from
the
former
the
latter
.
My
impatient
Master
having
thus
disintangl'd
himself
from
all
obstacles
,
which
might
any
longer
protract
his
so
passionately
ambition'd
March
,
began
it
the
next
day
with
an
Army
,
which
though
not
consisting
of
above
Fourteen
thousand
Horse
and
Foot
,
yet
in
the
quarrel
it
had
assum'd
,
he
thought
unresistable
.
The
next
day
after
we
had
left
Ecbatan
,
our
spies
brought
us
in
word
,
that
Vixores
(
Surena's
brother
)
had
safely
recover'd
Arsacia
,
with
all
those
Parthians
that
had
escaped
Merinzor's
defeat
,
which
with
some
other
Reliques
of
that
Party
,
had
so
encreast
Surena's
Troops
,
that
learning
the
weakness
of
ours
,
he
was
determin'd
to
bring
the
dispute
to
a
Field
,
and
had
dispatcht
away
Vixores
for
all
those
Forces
,
which
yet
continu'd
an
in●estine
War
in
Parthia
;
that
if
the
gods
blasted
his
first
hopes
,
he
might
not
be
divested
of
all
,
Artabbanes
with
unequal'd
satisfaction
receiv'd
this
advice
,
for
he
thought
every
thing
a
felicity
which
avoided
protraction
:
And
lest
Surena's
second
thoughts
might
prove
less
obliging
than
his
first
,
my
generous
Master
so
precipitated
his
March
,
that
in
eight
days
he
discover'd
those
happy
and
fatal
Walls
within
which
the
fair
Parthenissa
made
her
involuntary
residence
;
not
far
from
whence
he
discover'd
Surena's
Camp
,
which
was
scituate
in
a
most
advantageous
and
convenient
place
.
Never
(
continu'd
Symander
)
did
I
observe
in
my
Prince's
looks
so
much
of
contentment
and
sorrow
intermingl'd
;
the
first
was
deriv'd
from
his
vicinity
to
his
Princess
,
and
from
the
power
he
had
to
dispute
her
by
Arms
;
and
the
last
was
from
the
reluctancy
he
had
contracted
for
the
necessity
of
employing
his
life
against
one
,
from
whom
he
had
so
often
receiv'd
it
,
and
for
whom
he
had
a
Friendship
so
great
,
that
nothing
could
come
in
competition
with
it
,
but
the
passion
he
had
for
Parthenissa
.
Whilst
his
Army
was
drawing
up
,
he
resolv'd
to
write
to
Surena
,
to
whom
he
sent
a
Trumpet
with
this
ensuing
Letter
.
Artabbanes
to
the
generous
Surena
.
THat
Passion
which
forces
you
to
act
against
the
object
of
it
,
and
yet
is
your
Apology
for
that
performance
;
must
be
mine
for
employing
my
Sword
and
Life
against
him
from
whom
I
derive
them
:
Would
to
the
gods
your
flame
were
not
so
great
that
it self
should
prove
its
crime
;
but
that
you
would
give
the
fair
Parthenissa
the
freedom
of
her
election
,
and
submit
to
what
we
cannot
,
nor
ought
not
to
oppose
.
That
if
we
cannot
find
out
our
happiness
in
her
making
of
it
,
we
would
make
our
own
in
the
making
of
hers
;
I
should
then
carry
Arms
for
the
generous
Surena
with
a
much
more
transcendent
joy
than
I
could
obtain
a
victory
against
him
by
them
;
and
he
should
then
suddenly
learn
,
that
though
my
Love
be
infinite
,
my
Friendship
is
proportionate
;
and
that
if
I
give
the
former
the
precedency
,
the
difference
proceeds
as
much
from
my
Fate
,
as
my
Inclination
.
This
Letter
was
sent
by
a
Trumpet
to
Surena
,
who
receiv'd
and
read
it
to
himself
at
the
head
of
his
Army
,
which
was
then
drawn
up
to
decide
their
difference
.
He
went
a
little
aside
,
and
after
a
short
consideration
return'd
this
Answer
.
Surena
to
the
generous
Artabbanes
.
HAd
●ot
the
gods
esteem'd
it
just
,
that
Passions
as
immortal
as
themselves
,
should
have
none
but
them
for
judges
,
they
had
not
now
furnisht
us
with
what
will
bring
it
to
their
decision
;
which
their
having
effected
,
though
it
makes
my
friendship
for
you
esteem
it
a
misfortune
,
yet
it
makes
my
flame
for
Parthenissa
consider
it
as
a
Providence
,
and
so
signal
a
one
,
that
I
must
not
decline
it
;
We
need
not
fear
partiality
before
such
a
Tribunal
;
he
that
least
deserves
Parthenissa
,
will
have
it
this
day
demonstrated
by
a
Divine
Sentence
,
which
cannot
deliver
a
higher
truth
,
than
that
in
all
occasions
but
this
,
I
will
employ
my
Sword
for
you
with
as
much
satisfaction
,
as
in
this
I
do
it
with
Reluctancy
.
My
Prince
at
the
same
time
he
receiv'd
this
Letter
,
saw
Surena's
Army
march
from
their
Camp
into
a
Plain
,
which
he
judged
the
General
of
it
had
elected
for
the
Scene
of
the
Battel
.
I
cannot
tell
you
the
confusions
he
was
in
at
his
Rivals
Resolution
,
which
forc'd
him
to
evince
his
Love
by
the
suspension
of
his
Gratitude
.
This
noble
trouble
resign'd
its
Empire
to
his
joy
of
having
brought
the
redemption
of
the
fair
Parthenissa
to
so
immediate
a
trial
.
Artabbanes
having
view'd
Surena's
Army
,
found
by
his
Computation
,
that
their
numbers
and
strength
were
resembling
to
all
judgments
but
his
own
,
who
thought
any
force
inferior
to
his
,
when
he
consider'd
the
occasion
and
recompence
of
his
quarrel
.
Neither
was
Surena
void
of
the
like
belief
;
and
in
those
dictates
both
the
Generals
began
the
Battel
,
which
though
it
merits
a
retail'd
Relation
,
yet
I
shall
only
acquaint
you
,
That
the
two
Rivals
having
a
hundred
times
rally'd
their
broken
Troops
,
and
as
many
times
turned
the
Victory
,
that
the
reward
of
it
could
hardly
transcend
the
courages
which
disputed
it
;
at
length
they
met
,
which
as
soon
as
Artabbanes
discover'd
,
he
ended
the
Combat
by
avoiding
it
.
'
Twice
that
day
he
repeated
the
same
action
on
the
same
score
.
Oh
gods
(
continu'd
Symander
)
what
an
influence
has
a
transcendent
Gratitude
on
a
generous
mind
?
Artabbanes
flies
from
an
enemies
sword
,
when
even
that
enemy
was
as
much
so
to
Parthenissa
as
to
him
,
or
rather
more
so
the
the
latter
,
by
being
equally
so
to
the
former
;
but
fate
forc'd
my
Prince
to
what
his
Inclination
would
have
avoided
;
and
indeed
Surena
so
solicitously
courted
my
generous
Master
to
the
Combat
,
that
it
may
be
what
did
induce
him
to
avoid
it
,
now
did
to
embrace
it
,
since
't
was
Gratitude
to
act
his
friends
desires
.
Never
,
never
was
there
a
Combat
resembling
this
;
for
it
transcended
all
others
as
much
in
the
effect
,
as
it
did
in
the
cause
.
Here
Artabbanes
by
so
fighting
,
evinc'd
what
was
not
the
cause
of
his
having
so
often
avoided
it
;
and
Surena
by
the
largeness
and
unintermissiveness
of
his
blows
,
what
had
made
him
so
ambition
that
decision
,
and
what
he
hoped
would
be
the
reward
of
it
.
Artabbanes
was
mounted
upon
the
proudest
Horse
in
Media
,
who
seem'd
to
know
whom
't
was
he
carri'd
.
Surena
had
under
him
a
Parthian
Horse
,
which
yielded
nothing
to
my
Prince's
;
and
indeed
both
of
them
seem'd
not
only
to
know
,
but
act
their
Princes
design
.
The
Rivals
,
whose
Armors
in
the
beginning
of
the
day
were
of
a
different
colour
,
now
began
to
wear
one
Livery
by
the
many
fountains
of
blood
which
sprung
out
of
them
.
If
Parthenissa
had
beheld
so
fatal
a
sight
,
she
could
not
but
have
deplor'd
a
Beauty
,
which
at
the
same
time
that
it
evidenc'd
,
destroyed
Courages
as
great
as
it self
,
and
perhaps
a
friendship
too
.
Twice
already
the
generous
Combatants
had
grappl'd
,
because
their
Horses
grown
furious
with
Heat
,
made
many
of
their
blows
only
wound
the
air
,
which
to
avoid
in
the
future
,
they
clos'd
so
strongly
,
that
their
Bridles
being
abandon'd
,
and
their
Horses
left
to
their
own
dispose
,
the
Riders
forc'd
each
other
out
of
the
Saddle
,
and
fell
on
the
dust
in
those
cruel
embraces
;
as
their
design
was
,
so
were
their
advantages
,
for
they
saluted
the
ground
with
their
sides
,
only
Surena's
Sword
falling
between
his
and
the
earth
,
inconvenienc'd
him
,
but
so
little
,
that
Artabbanes
had
only
the
internal
satisfaction
of
resolving
he
would
take
no
advantage
of
it
:
for
before
he
could
manifest
that
generosity
,
his
enemy
was
in
a
condition
not
to
need
it
.
Their
Horses
(
as
I
have
said
)
sympathizing
in
their
Masters
concerns
,
were
no
sooner
eas'd
of
their
burthen
,
then
they
also
began
a
furious
sight
,
which
ended
not
but
with
the
life
of
Surena's
;
but
then
the
survivor
fetching
two
or
three
groans
over
his
dead
enemy
,
fell
down
eternally
by
his
side
.
You
may
think
it
strange
(
continu●d
Symander
)
that
any
could
so
misimploy
his
sight
,
as
to
be
able
to
give
this
relation
;
but
it
is
certain
,
that
the
rareness
of
the
spectacle
,
and
the
general
belief
that
the
Riders
fates
would
be
seen
in
their
Horses
,
drew
the
eyes
of
many
from
the
dispute
of
the
former
,
upon
the
latter
.
The
two
Generals
already
so
weakned
by
those
streams
of
blood
they
had
mutually
lost
,
that
't
was
no
more
their
strength
,
but
their
resolution
which
continu'd
the
Combat
;
this
being
observ'd
by
many
of
both
Armies
,
they
advanc'd
to
separate
them
,
as
they
were
leaning
on
the
Hilts
of
their
Swords
to
take
breath
.
Those
which
came
to
my
Prince
,
had
only
these
words
,
Do
you
fear
my
Courage
,
or
my
Quarrel
?
But
they
had
a
look
which
told
them
more
.
Surena's
had
a
resembling
entertainment
;
and
to
take
from
their
Armies
the
opportunity
of
the
like
offence
,
they
renew'd
the
fight
again
with
so
much
strength
,
that
those
which
fear'd
they
had
too
little
left
,
now
did
,
they
had
too
much
by
the
fatal
way
they
employ'd
theirs
in
:
You
will
dispence
with
me
,
generous
Hearers
,
(
said
Symander
)
if
I
tell
you
not
every
blow
in
this
fatal
relapse
,
since
I
know
so
well
your
concerns
for
Artabbanes
,
that
in
so
relating
the
Combat
,
I
should
almost
act
it
,
by
wounding
him
afresh
in
your
sorrows
;
't
is
enough
you
know
,
that
both
of
them
so
prodigally
spent
the
treasure
of
their
Breath
and
Blood
,
that
if
Parthenissa
had
been
a
spectator
,
she
must
have
confest
her self
too
well
disputed
;
and
in
brief
,
our
Heroes
having
perform'd
actions
even
as
worthy
our
wonder
as
grief
,
Surena
fell
,
and
afterwards
Artabbanes
;
but
then
their
knees
serv'd
them
for
feet
,
as
if
their
hearts
,
the
throne
of
their
Courages
,
had
been
strong
forts
,
and
were
to
be
won
by
approaches
.
Who
can
tell
how
much
Parthenissa
was
hated
for
being
so
much
lov'd
?
and
how
many
a
Curse
was
utter'd
against
her
,
for
that
which
was
the
greatest
to
her self
?
and
that
which
she
more
participated
in
,
than
any
of
her
Blasphemers
?
To
finish
this
fatal
Dispute
,
I
shall
acquaint
you
,
that
their
knees
being
not
so
active
as
their
feet
,
only
serv'd
them
to
receive
wounds
,
not
avoid
them
;
and
their
mutual
weakness
made
them
so
apprehend
they
scarcely
should
have
life
enough
left
to
act
their
deaths
,
that
it
extinguish'd
all
thoughts
of
avoiding
them
.
Surena
like
a
blaze
before
the
extinction
of
a
Lamp
,
united
his
expiring
forces
with
a
design
in
one
blow
to
perform
what
so
many
had
but
too
far
advanc'd
;
but
as
his
Sword
was
in
the
air
,
his
body
fell
on
the
ground
,
and
thereby
seem'd
to
tell
him
,
that
his
life
was
more
just
than
he
,
by
abandoning
him
when
he
intended
so
fatally
to
employ
it
;
his
eyes
also
,
as
needing
no
more
the
light
,
after
the
gods
had
decreed
Parthenissa
from
him
,
shut
their
lids
,
as
if
they
intended
to
impose
on
themselves
an
eternal
night
.
Artabbanes
employ'd
not
that
moment
of
breath
which
was
left
him
,
to
ascertain
a
success
which
he
feared
was
too
much
so
already
;
but
he
resolv'd
,
since
Surena
by
his
Letter
had
left
the
least
unworthy
title
to
Parthenissa
,
to
the
gods
decision
,
that
he
would
employ
his
fading
strength
to
declare
,
not
act
his
victory
;
so
that
having
waved
his
sword
over
his
dead
Rivals
body
,
he
fell
down
on
it
,
and
by
embraces
seem'd
to
beg
pardon
for
an
insulting
,
which
his
own
declaration
had
necessitated
him
unto
;
and
which
he
could
not
have
perform'd
in
a
less
criminal
way
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FOURTH
PART
.
The
Fourth
BOOK
.
OH
gods
!
(
continu'd
Symander
)
who
can
tell
you
with
how
many
acclamations
and
tears
this
fatal
Victory
was
celebrated
in
by
the
Median
Army
;
which
being
fill'd
with
those
two
most
predominant
passions
of
joy
and
grief
,
in
the
dictates
they
inspir'd
,
flew
on
the
Parthians
,
who
being
possest
only
with
the
last
of
them
,
which
rather
stupisies
than
enflames
the
Courage
,
lost
the
Victory
with
their
General
,
and
left
his
body
as
one
manifestation
of
it
.
For
my
part
(
said
Symander
)
I
contributed
nothing
to
it
;
for
taking
with
me
an
experimented
Chyrurgeon
,
I
ran
to
my
Prince's
body
,
which
I
found
too
large
a
subject
for
the
evincement
of
his
Art
;
his
wounds
being
bound
up
,
though
with
no
signs
of
life
;
we
erected
his
Tent
over
his
body
,
and
laid
him
on
a
Pallate
.
And
because
I
knew
if
the
gods
would
restore
him
to
life
,
that
nothing
would
more
accelerate
his
recovery
than
my
assurance
that
Surena
had
wanted
nothing
for
his
;
I
caused
the
care
of
them
to
be
as
equal
as
their
danger
,
and
carri'd
Surena's
body
to
a
neighbour-Tent
,
left
their
being
in
one
,
might
have
been
prejudicial
to
both
.
It
was
at
the
least
three
hours
that
Artabbanes
continu'd
in
his
Swound
,
for
his
recovery
out
of
which
he
had
no
water
but
my
tears
;
at
length
the
gods
were
pleas'd
by
the
opening
of
his
eyes
,
to
dry
up
mine
;
which
joy
was
increast
by
his
speaking
,
and
the
first
occasion
of
it
was
(
though
with
pain
equal
to
the
generosity
which
caus'd
it
)
,
to
enquire
after
Surena
.
I
gave
him
a
true
account
of
what
I
had
done
,
for
which
he
embrac'd
me
;
one
part
of
his
strength
being
employ'd
to
enquire
after
his
Enemy
,
and
the
other
to
reward
the
care
of
him
.
The
ensuing
night
was
given
entirely
to
rest
;
by
which
he
receiv'd
so
high
a
refreshment
,
that
next
morning
he
had
perfectly
recover'd
the
use
of
speaking
.
The
first
employment
he
sent
me
upon
,
was
to
visit
Surena
,
who
I
found
(
by
resembling
miracle
to
my
Prince's
)
had
no
one
wound
that
was
mortal
,
and
health
enough
recover'd
to
acknowledg
that
civility
which
sent
to
enquire
after
his
.
When
Artabbanes
knew
this
happy
truth
,
he
askt
of
his
Chyrurgeons
whether
the
removal
of
Surena
to
Arsacia
might
be
effected
without
any
hazard
or
inconvenience
?
to
this
he
was
answer'd
affirmatively
;
whereupon
commanding
all
but
me
out
of
his
Tent
,
he
told
me
,
Go
Symander
from
this
step
to
Surena
,
and
tell
him
,
That
his
Liberty
which
the
gods
have
given
me
as
a
punishment
for
having
deni'd
Parthenissa
hers
,
I
do
restore
him
;
and
had
not
continu'd
that
Combat
in
which
he
lost
it
,
had
not
our
dispute
been
so
equal
,
that
any
overture
of
ending
it
by
words
,
might
have
relisht
more
of
a
care
of
my self
than
of
him
;
but
now
that
I
can
evince
my
solicitousness
for
him
,
proceeds
from
a
clearer
principle
,
I
embrace
this
way
of
serving
him
with
more
joy
than
I
assume
at
what
gives
me
the
power
of
doing
it
.
Tell
him
withal
,
that
he
must
now
offend
the
gods
if
he
offends
any
longer
Parthenissa
;
and
that
the
former
have
so
miraculously
preserv'd
his
life
,
to
give
him
so
large
an
occasion
to
repair
the
errors
of
it
.
But
I
fear
(
said
Artabbanes
)
I
speak
so
much
of
this
,
as
it
may
invite
him
to
believe
I
am
grateful
,
but
in
expectation
that
he
will
be
more
so
;
therefore
convey
him
to
Arsacia
,
and
tell
him
only
,
I
am
at
least
as
much
troubled
that
I
cannot
pay
him
that
duty
,
as
at
what
hinders
me
from
it
.
I
was
(
continu'd
Symander
)
as
much
astonisht
at
this
Command
as
Surena
was
when
I
went
to
obey
it
;
who
in
generous
retributions
accepted
of
an
obligation
,
he
could
neither
have
desir'd
nor
hoped
.
Surena's
being
convey'd
from
the
Army
to
Arsacia
couldnot
inspire
the
last
with
more
joy
than
it
did
the
first
with
wonder
.
When
he
came
to
the
gates
,
which
was
the
place
where
I
took
leave
of
him
,
he
made
me
many
Appologies
for
not
having
been
able
to
wait
on
my
Prince
,
to
have
acknowledg'd
a
Gallantry
which
nothing
could
proportion
but
the
value
he
plac'd
upon
it
,
and
his
ambition
of
repaying
it
.
Five
days
Artabbanes
continu'd
in
more
trouble
from
Surena's
silence
than
from
his
own
wounds
,
which
had
clos'd
themselves
much
faster
if
the
distempers
of
the
Mind
had
not
hindred
the
cure
of
the
Body
.
I
must
acknowledg
I
did
not
only
believe
that
Surena
had
conveyed
both
himself
and
Parthenissa
into
some
more
remote
place
,
but
told
my
Prince
so
;
which
thought
of
mine
he
resented
as
ill
,
as
he
could
have
the
performance
;
and
though
I
told
him
,
that
by
what
Surena
had
formerly
done
,
my
now
conclusion
was
not
irrational
,
yet
I
could
not
make
my
opinion
his
;
but
the
sixth
day
all
our
suspitions
and
doubts
were
resolv'd
by
a
Letter
which
Surena
sent
by
a
Trumpet
.
The
words
,
to
the
best
of
my
rememberance
were
these
:
Surena
to
the
generous
Artabbanes
Prince
of
Media
.
THough
I
had
written
as
soon
as
I
had
received
my
wounds
,
they
could
not
have
prov'd
a
higher
trouble
to
me
than
my
friendship
and
gratitude
now
do
;
for
the
clearness
of
what
I
ought
to
perform
,
cannot
be
greater
than
the
impossibility
:
I
have
pleaded
your
cause
with
my self
against
my self
,
and
have
said
so
much
for
you
,
that
could
I
but
do
half
as
much
to
you
,
you
would
have
admir'd
what
I
fear
you
will
condemn
.
But
alas
,
I
cannot
resign
up
Parthenissa
but
with
my
Life
.
The
gods
knowing
this
Truth
,
have
put
me
into
a
posture
of
evincing
it
,
and
I
shall
conclude
they
never
mean
you
her
,
whilst
they
perform
not
that
to
me
.
Come
then
,
generous
Artabbanes
,
to
the
assault
,
and
you
shall
see
how
willingly
I
will
put
my self
in
the
only
capacity
,
by
which
I
can
present
Parthenissa
to
you
,
who
perhaps
the
gods
have
not
yet
adjudg'd
from
me
,
since
I
can
dispute
her
in
a
way
in
which
I
may
find
my
felicity
,
or
be
incapable
of
resenting
the
loss
of
it
.
My
Prince
read
these
lines
with
as
much
grief
as
they
could
be
written
in
;
he
found
,
to
have
the
reward
of
one
Victory
,
he
must
act
another
;
and
yet
the
end
of
the
last
could
not
be
more
pleasing
,
than
the
way
was
the
contrary
.
After
the
disorder
these
reflections
infused
,
were
vanished
,
he
returned
this
answer
to
his
Rival
.
Artabbanes
,
to
the
Prince
Surena
.
THat
construction
which
you
make
of
the
gods
preserving
you
,
is
so
mistaken
a
one
,
that
your
repeated
Crime
will
force
them
to
a
repeated
Iudgment
:
't
is
not
your
Death
,
but
your
Life
which
offends
them
;
and
therefore
they
will
not
punish
you
in
the
first
,
but
the
last
;
which
they
have
only
lengthened
,
that
what
committed
the
Sin
,
should
repair
it
:
and
to
evidence
this
is
my
Faith
,
if
the
gods
make
me
a
second
time
the
Master
of
it
,
I
shall
use
you
at
the
former
rate
;
which
you
may
be
as
confident
of
,
as
I
am
that
they
will
shortly
put
me
into
a
capacity
of
manifesting
,
and
you
of
making
that
use
of
it
.
Artabbanes
having
returned
Surena's
Trumpet
with
this
Reply
,
immediately
ordered
Arsacia
to
be
invironed
with
his
Army
,
which
was
so
numerously
increas'd
with
the
Nobility
and
Gentry
which
thronged
to
his
Ensigns
,
that
his
hopes
had
now
no
Cloud
,
but
the
protraction
of
them
.
I
believe
I
need
not
tell
you
that
my
Prince
when
he
was
recovered
,
performed
hourly
the
part
of
a
General
,
an
Engineer
,
and
a
Pioneer
,
leaving
no
function
unpractised
,
which
might
accelerate
his
approaches
,
and
put
him
into
a
felicity
,
for
which
he
had
lost
so
much
blood
,
and
fought
so
many
Battels
.
In
brief
,
one
Moon
had
so
far
advanced
our
hopes
,
that
we
had
strong
ones
,
another
would
convert
them
into
Certainties
;
and
though
Artabbanes
gave
many
an
assault
to
taste
the
resolution
of
the
Defendants
,
yet
he
always
returned
with
such
pregnant
evincements
of
their
greatness
,
that
he
concluded
the
reduction
of
Arsacia
was
not
more
a
work
of
Courage
,
than
of
Time
.
And
though
this
knowledg
did
often
suspend
his
joys
;
yet
the
remembrance
,
that
only
a
few
days
separated
him
from
Parthenissa
,
hindered
them
from
being
suppress'd
.
But
,
great
gods
!
(
continued
Symander
)
how
fallacious
are
the
Thoughts
of
Man
?
and
how
often
do
you
take
delight
to
act
things
improbable
,
and
to
destroy
those
which
are
not
?
For
my
Prince
,
who
to
hasten
the
Siege
,
made
the
Soldiers
work
at
the
approaches
,
so
assiduously
solicited
their
Labour
,
that
by
the
excess
of
it
a
raging
Feaver
invaded
our
Camp
,
and
at
length
the
Pestilence
,
and
that
in
so
fatal
a
way
,
that
it
turned
Epidemical
;
and
to
add
to
this
misery
,
at
length
it
seized
on
my
Prince
too
,
and
so
dangerously
,
that
I
apprehended
the
loss
of
his
Life
,
in
that
of
his
hopes
.
Oh
gods
!
(
continued
Symander
)
what
Prodigies
did
you
perform
in
that
poor
Army
?
and
had
you
no
way
to
manifest
your
Power
but
by
your
Cruelty
?
Yes
(
generous
Hearers
)
never
was
there
a
greater
Mortality
,
than
that
in
which
the
offended
Deities
visited
the
Median
Camp
:
Our
Ensigns
were
no
longer
guarded
by
those
,
which
notwithstanding
did
not
abandon
them
;
the
Living
had
no
employment
but
to
bury
the
Dead
;
and
our
Trenches
had
no
other
Defence
,
than
what
had
rendered
them
void
of
any
:
In
the
horror
of
this
Condition
,
the
remaining
Commanders
appointed
a
Meeting
,
where
whilst
they
were
advising
of
what
course
to
elect
,
their
Intelligencers
came
in
with
reiterated
assurances
,
that
Orodes
with
all
the
Gallantry
of
Parthia
,
was
come
within
300
Furlongs
,
purposely
to
raise
the
Siege
,
which
Surena
had
invited
him
to
:
This
assurance
taught
us
what
to
do
,
so
that
the
ensuing
Night
,
whilst
Artabbanes
was
so
weak
that
he
knew
not
what
he
did
(
which
was
a
happy
ignorance
)
we
put
him
into
a
Litter
,
and
with
the
Fragments
of
our
Army
,
convey'd
him
so
far
before
Day
,
that
we
only
feared
his
safety
from
his
sickness
,
not
his
Enemies
.
The
first
of
these
continued
,
till
the
arrival
of
the
generous
Sillaces
,
who
being
in
more
pain
not
to
be
near
his
Friend
,
than
his
wounds
gave
him
,
came
from
Ecbatan
to
my
Prince's
retirement
;
this
was
a
happiness
we
owed
not
to
our
own
precaution
,
and
yet
we
knew
none
but
such
a
Friend
durst
disclose
to
him
how
much
the
gods
were
his
Enemy
.
And
had
we
ignored
that
Truth
,
we
might
have
discovered
it
by
inference
;
since
if
being
acquainted
with
it
by
Sillaces
,
accompanied
too
with
reasons
as
much
as
the
Subject
could
bear
,
he
fell
into
such
expressions
and
actions
of
Despair
,
that
we
thought
his
very
grief
would
prove
both
his
Misfortune
,
and
his
Cure
;
what
would
it
not
have
amounted
unto
,
if
neither
the
Speaker
,
nor
the
things
spoken
,
had
been
what
they
were
?
These
miseries
had
this
accessional
one
,
that
our
intelligencers
brought
us
certain
advertisement
,
Orodes
had
been
received
at
Arsacia
with
as
much
joy
,
as
he
received
Surena
within
it
,
whose
invitation
had
brought
him
thither
,
having
lost
all
hopes
in
his
precedent
Battel
,
but
of
continuing
the
Siege
till
this
Relief
came
,
which
he
solicited
by
so
powerful
a
Reward
,
as
the
Resignation
of
Parthenissa
;
only
with
this
Limitation
,
that
Orodes
should
oblige
himself
by
solemn
oath
only
to
implore
,
not
constrain
her
affection
;
to
which
was
added
,
that
Surena
should
be
restored
to
his
former
Power
and
favour
;
and
both
he
,
and
his
Partizans
have
a
plena●y
Act
of
oblivion
.
My
Prince
at
this
Intelligence
cryed
out
,
Ungrateful
Rival
!
could'st
thou
divest
thy self
of
a
Flame
for
Parthenissa
,
but
to
repair
the
injuries
thine
had
heaped
upon
her
?
Can
Fear
and
Allegiance
make
thee
abandon
what
a
higher
Duty
and
Generosity
could
not
?
and
couldst
thou
hope
relief
from
an
action
,
which
rendered
thee
unworthy
of
any
?
Whilst
Love
was
thy
fault
,
it
was
thy
excuse
:
but
now
thou
art
as
criminal
in
the
very
abandoning
thy
Passion
,
as
in
the
assuming
and
continuance
of
it
.
I
should
never
finish
,
did
I
particularize
all
the
evincements
of
my
Prince's
despair
,
which
truly
was
so
transcendent
,
that
I
believe
we
could
hardly
desire
his
recovery
so
much
,
as
he
detested
it
.
Sillaces
,
by
what
Surena
had
done
,
concluded
of
what
he
had
not
done
,
I
mean
not
abandoned
his
Passion
,
by
his
having
deposited
the
object
of
it
in
the
hands
of
so
unsuccessful
a
Rival
,
and
one
who
would
unavoidably
continue
that
Name
,
if
he
performed
his
engagement
to
him
.
Artabbanes
at
length
found
so
much
Reason
in
what
was
his
Friends
,
that
he
began
by
little
and
little
to
qualifie
a
hatred
he
then
thought
he
had
assumed
upon
a
wrong
score
;
for
he
could
find
his
Rival
no
way
excusable
but
by
that
,
in
which
his
Friend
accused
him
,
which
was
,
that
his
Passion
had
the
Ascendant
.
Whilst
Artabbanes
and
Sillaces
were
reasoning
upon
the
mutation
of
their
Condition
,
and
how
to
act
thereon
,
there
came
certain
deputed
Citizens
out
of
Arsacia
,
who
being
admitted
,
told
my
Prince
,
That
Surena
had
procured
for
them
from
Orodes
,
a
Liberty
to
dispose
of
themselves
,
and
their
City
,
as
their
Interest
and
Inclinations
should
lead
them
;
which
as
soon
as
they
knew
,
they
had
acquainted
Surena
,
that
both
those
bound
them
to
offer
up
themselves
to
their
legitimate
Prince
;
to
which
Surena
reply'd
,
that
had
he
not
concluded
they
would
have
so
employed
the
Concession
,
he
would
never
have
obtained
it
;
and
that
since
they
were
so
well
determined
,
he
had
nothing
to
impose
on
them
,
but
his
desire
to
assure
Artabbanes
,
that
to
evidence
't
was
not
ambition
,
but
Love
,
which
made
him
disturb
his
Kingdom
;
as
soon
as
the
latter
had
ceas'd
,
he
designed
by
the
restitution
of
so
considerable
a
Place
as
Arsacia
,
to
evidence
the
former
;
and
he
further
begg'd
,
that
his
leaving
Media
in
a
perfect
Quiet
,
might
apologize
for
his
having
broken
it
;
which
if
any
other
should
attempt
,
he
would
return
with
more
considerable
Forces
to
restore
her
peace
,
than
ever
he
had
brought
to
interrupt
it
.
The
Arsacian
Citizens
,
having
thus
performed
Surena's
part
,
on
their
Knees
did
their
own
,
by
presenting
Artabbanes
with
their
Keys
,
and
by
imploring
him
to
believe
,
they
had
been
long
since
so
disposed
of
,
had
they
had
the
disposal
of
them
.
My
Prince
having
raised
them
up
,
granted
them
a
Pardon
for
a
fault
which
indeed
others
had
committed
,
and
promised
them
in
the
Future
,
an
affection
which
should
recompence
their
Present
.
He
then
enquired
of
them
how
Surena
had
disposed
of
himself
,
since
he
concluded
by
the
interest
he
himself
had
now
in
Arsacia
,
that
't
was
no
longer
the
place
of
his
residence
.
The
Arsacians
reply'd
,
That
both
he
,
Orodes
and
Parthenissa
were
returned
with
the
Army
into
Parthia
;
and
though
many
had
advised
the
employment
of
it
against
an
Enemy
whose
wrongs
and
Power
would
inspire
him
with
Desires
and
Actions
of
Revenge
;
yet
by
Surena's
perswasions
,
all
preventative
thoughts
of
hostility
were
silenced
.
The
Arsacians
having
a
Governour
given
them
of
their
own
Election
,
were
dismissed
:
And
then
the
Two
Princes
after
a
private
debate
,
resolved
,
that
Sillaces
being
now
perfectly
recovered
,
should
return
into
Parthia
,
both
to
act
his
own
Interest
,
and
countenance
my
Prince's
;
who
concluded
,
nothing
by
way
of
force
,
but
a
Conquest
of
Parthia
could
recover
Parthenissa
out
of
it
;
and
that
such
a
way
was
both
too
tedious
,
and
uncertain
;
that
therefore
as
he
lost
his
Princess
by
Arts
and
Slight
,
so
he
should
attempt
the
recovering
of
her
;
the
very
way
of
his
loss
,
instructing
him
how
to
repair
it
:
and
therefore
as
soon
as
his
strength
would
permit
,
he
would
follow
his
Friend
in
a
Disguise
,
that
if
he
regained
not
Parthenissa
,
yet
at
least
he
might
see
,
and
converse
with
her
,
which
was
the
next
Blessing
.
The
Prince
Sillaces
,
having
his
Friend's
Interest
mingled
with
his
own
,
did
that
with
joy
upon
both
those
scores
,
which
he
could
not
without
reluctancy
have
undertaken
upon
his
own
;
and
before
he
began
his
journey
,
he
had
the
satisfaction
of
hearing
from
Zenophon
,
that
though
his
Army
had
found
little
resistance
,
yet
the
benefit
and
largeness
of
his
Progress
,
repaired
the
little
Glory
he
acquired
in
it
.
Sillaces
was
safely
arrived
in
Parthia
two
Moons
before
my
Prince
could
leave
Media
;
which
forc'd
,
and
necessary
continuance
there
,
gave
him
time
to
settle
that
Kingdom
,
which
his
Passion
otherwise
would
not
have
allowed
him
:
And
learning
that
his
first
Ambassadors
to
Moneses
were
miscarried
,
he
employed
others
,
who
passing
successfully
in
their
going
,
and
return
,
through
various
Dangers
,
the
very
same
day
my
Prince
was
beginning
his
so
ambition'd
Journey
,
they
presented
him
with
this
ensuing
Letter
,
whose
Address
was
as
strange
to
him
,
as
the
Contents
was
to
us
.
Moneses
,
to
Artabbanes
King
of
Media●
THat
Solitude
which
discontent
led
me
to
embrace
,
now
Reason
does
:
for
in
it
I
have
found
so
serene
a
Felicity
,
that
all
the
trouble
I
am
capable
of
in
it
,
is
an
apprehension
,
you
may
suspect
my
Affection
to
my self
,
not
to
you
,
makes
me
present
you
with
the
Crown
of
Media
.
All
the
advantage
I
derive
from
the
gods
conferring
it
on
me
,
is
to
evidence
how
little
I
value
it
,
or
how
much
I
value
you
.
Believe
me
,
Artabbanes
,
I
cannot
better
illustrate
the
greatness
of
both
,
than
by
resembling
the
one
unto
the
other
.
I
could
almost
ambition
I
were
a
friend
unto
Power
,
that
by
resigning
it
I
might
manifest
I
am
more
so
to
you
;
who
have
so
great
a
burthen
to
undergo
,
that
the
not
beholding
it
is
none
of
the
least
blessings
I
promise
my self
in
my
retirement
.
'T
is
my
ill
Fate
that
I
must
pity
you
,
in
giving
you
Testimonies
of
my
affection
;
for
't
is
the
misery
of
Kings
to
derive
their
happiness
from
other
mens
opinions
,
not
their
own
;
the
unlimitedness
of
their
power
,
makes
their
failings
their
designs
;
and
renders
them
guilty
of
not
intending
the
best
,
as
well
as
of
not
acting
it
.
You
will
be
envi'd
by
all
but
your self
:
mens
ignorance
will
render
you
as
unhappy
as
your
own
knowledg
;
the
gods
it
seems
being
so
intent
on
the
felicity
of
Monarchs
,
that
to
effect
it
,
they
make
contraries
produce
a
resembling
event
:
But
though
these
be
some
of
the
inconveniencies
of
Government
,
yet
the
whole
must
suffer
more
for
want
of
one
,
than
any
particular
can
by
undergoing
it
;
and
be
that
knows
the
trouble
of
a
Crown
,
and
yet
dares
wear
one
for
his
Cou●treys
good
,
may
in
the
merit
of
the
performance
find
some
kind
of
Antidote
against
the
miseries
which
attends
it
.
Fear
nothing
,
but
to
do
Injustice
;
then
you
will
have
this
consolation
,
That
what
misfortunes
you
undergo
,
do
not
belong
to
the
person
,
but
the
function
.
Go
,
Artabbanes
,
and
rule
a
Nation
,
whilst
I
ambition
but
to
rule
my self
;
give
Lyndadory
your
affection
and
care
:
and
the
gods
give
you
as
much
happiness
in
the
wearing
a
Crown
,
as
they
do
me
in
the
power
of
declining
one
.
This
generous
Letter
was
no
sooner
finish'd
,
than
my
Prince
found
how
true
the
contents
of
it
were
,
by
losing
a
Father
the
first
hour
of
his
putting
on
a
Crown
:
He
gave
to
that
loss
those
retributions
which
the
best
dispositions
are
capable
of
:
And
learning
from
those
which
brought
him
the
occasion
of
his
sadness
,
that
Moneses
was
unalterable
in
his
resolves
,
and
contemned
the
World
,
as
much
as
now
it
courted
him
:
as
also
,
that
they
had
brought
Letters
thereof
to
the
Nobility
of
Media
;
which
too
,
imported
the
resignation
of
his
Crown
to
him
,
and
his
desires
and
Commands
to
them
,
of
accepting
him
for
their
King
;
He
resolv'd
to
defer
his
Coronation
,
till
things
of
a
higher
concernment
were
brought
to
some
issue
,
and
till
he
could
present
that
Crown
which
was
presented
him
,
to
her
who
in
his
Judgment
better
deserv'd
it
,
and
for
which
end
only
he
rejoyced
to
have
it
.
This
new
alteration
suspended
his
journey
,
but
it
was
only
so
long
as
the
deputing
the
generous
Zenophon
Chief
Governour
in
his
absence
did
take
up
;
so
that
the
next
morning
abandoning
the
glories
of
a
new
Crown
,
and
so
many
thousands
of
people
who
ambition'd
to
invest
him
in
it
;
he
set
forwards
for
Parthia
,
only
taking
me
with
him
,
and
both
of
us
so
disguis'd
that
we
were
hardly
knowable
to
each
other
.
All
the
time
of
our
long
journey
,
my
King
entertain'd
himself
in
designs
how
to
accomplish
his
Princess's
liberty
,
and
if
at
any
time
he
interrupted
his
own
silence
,
't
was
to
communicate
some
stratagem
to
me
,
or
to
enquire
if
I
had
found
out
any
other
worthy
his
knowledg
.
This
being
our
only
employment
,
we
thought
on
so
many
Plots
,
that
we
hoped
all
of
them
would
not
be
fruitless
.
We
had
already
so
far
conquer'd
our
Voyage
,
that
we
were
come
to
the
top
of
the
Mountain
Taurus
,
when
from
thence
we
might
discover
the
adjacent
Plain
covered
with
Armed
Troops
:
some
of
the
wild
Inhabitants
of
the
place
from
whence
we
took
our
Prospect
,
told
us
,
they
were
Parthians
,
which
was
the
utmost
of
their
knowledg
.
Artabbanes
therefore
sent
down
one
of
the
least
irrational
amongst
them
to
bring
him
a
more
clear
information
.
This
Messenger
,
about
the
break
of
day
return'd
to
us
again
,
with
this
assurance
,
that
two
Parthian
Princes
,
Sillaces
and
Surena
,
were
joint-Generals
of
that
vast
body
,
which
was
going
to
fight
the
Roman
Army
,
which
lay
near
the
City
Charres
,
and
was
commanded
by
one
Crassus
.
This
news
surpriz'd
us
,
and
made
us
believe
our
intelligencer
was
mistaken
,
by
his
joyning
Sillaces
and
Surena
in
one
Commission
,
which
we
concluded
Orodes
could
never
do
;
but
he
was
so
positive
in
his
repeated
relation
,
that
my
Prince
resolv'd
to
mingle
himself
with
the
Parthian
Army
(
who
were
then
pulling
down
their
Tents
for
a
March
)
,
and
learn
the
truth
of
what
he
had
so
much
cause
to
doubt
.
This
was
not
difficult
for
us
to
effect
:
for
going
a
little
aside
in
those
rude
places
,
till
some
of
the
first
Troops
were
past
us
,
we
join'd
the
others
without
being
suspected
,
or
examined
.
We
had
not
rid
a
quarter
of
an
hour
in
that
manner
,
when
we
perceiv'd
the
generous
Sillaces
riding
from
one
division
to
another
,
animating
the
Soldiers
against
the
difficulty
of
the
way
,
and
making
of
them
keep
their
Ranks
as
much
as
the
illness
of
it
would
permit
.
Artabbanes
thinking
this
was
a
●it
time
to
disclose
himself
to
his
Friend
,
and
to
learn
from
him
his
own
Fate
in
the
fair
Parthenissa's
,
took
the
opportunity
to
do
it
,
when
he
was
gotten
on
a
little
hight
to
view
his
Armies
march
,
and
only
attended
by
a
couple
of
his
Domesticks
.
Sillaces
had
well-nigh
,
at
my
Kings
naming
himself
,
discover'd
who
he
was
,
by
a
passionate
embracing
him
;
and
't
was
with
no
small
violence
that
he
kept
himself
from
doing
it
;
but
having
sent
on
some
employment
those
that
were
near
him
,
and
gotten
into
a
retir'd
place
,
he
there
permitted
his
Arms
to
take
with
usury
,
what
he
had
till
then
suspended
them
from
.
Here
the
generous
Friends
having
finish'd
that
part
of
their
entertainment
which
might
have
been
dangerous
if
visible
,
and
as
troublesome
if
not
performed
;
lest
Sillaces
absence
might
be
observed
,
he
put
himself
at
the
head
of
his
Army
,
where
all
out
of
respect
kept
themselves
at
so
great
a
distance
,
that
calling
Artabbanes
to
him
during
that
days
March
,
they
had
ample
and
secure
leisure
to
acquaint
each
other
with
what
had
happen'd
since
their
separation
.
Sillaces
,
who
knew
my
Kings
impatiency
,
told
him
,
that
at
his
return
Orodes
had
receiv'd
him
with
large
and
open
demonstrations
of
affection
,
and
with
many
acknowledgments
for
what
he
had
acted
for
Tygranes
,
and
against
Merinzor
:
That
he
assiduously
visited
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
which
both
his
duty
and
affection
oblig'd
him
to
,
since
that
after
her
escape
out
of
the
Isle
of
Eden
,
the
Princess
Lindadory
and
Zephalinda
returned
to
Nineveh
;
and
since
Parthenissa's
coming
thither
,
they
three
had
been
inseparable
;
That
Orodes
continu'd
his
Passion
for
my
Kings
Mistriss
with
as
much
violence
,
and
unsuccessfulness
as
ever
.
That
he
was
daily
more
and
more
confirmed
in
a
confidence
,
that
Surena
had
not
extinguish'd
his
flame
for
Parthenissa
,
but
resign'd
her
to
Orodes
as
being
a
less
dangerous
Rival
.
That
the
King
of
Parthia
,
being
told
of
some
misunderstanding
between
Surena
and
him
,
had
publickly
desir'd
,
and
enjoyned
their
reconciliation
;
and
to
perfect
it
,
had
made
them
joint-Generals
against
Crassus
;
who
having
spent
too
much
time
in
robbing
the
Iews
Temple
at
Ierusalem
,
was
now
come
loaden
with
Wealth
,
and
Sacriledg
,
to
invade
Parthia
,
and
was
not
distant
above
three
days
march
.
Lastly
,
The
generous
Sillaces
told
my
Prince
,
that
the
fair
Lindadory
was
constant
in
her
blessings
to
him
,
which
left
him
no
shadow
of
fear
,
but
that
the
King
of
Media
would
think
(
what
he
confest
)
that
they
were
too-unworthily
plac'd
.
The
King
of
Media
(
said
my
Prince
)
thinks
they
are
so
justly
,
that
if
his
love
to
Lindadory
were
capable
of
accession
,
her
choice
and
constancy
would
inspire
it
.
Oh
Gods
!
(
reply'd
Sillaces
)
am
I
then
in
so
transcendent
a
condition
!
You
are
(
said
Artabbanes
)
if
the
truth
of
what
I
tell
you
can
make
you
so
;
and
that
you
may
no
longer
doubt
it
,
Lindadory
is
at
my
dispose
,
and
consequently
at
her
own
,
and
yours
:
Thereupon
he
told
him
of
Moneses
preferring
a
Solitude
before
a
Crown
,
and
of
his
having
conferr'd
that
of
Media
upon
him
,
with
the
care
of
his
fair
Sister
.
These
extacies
of
joy
made
the
March
not
tedious
,
though
the
way
might
have
render'd
it
much
so
:
This
was
the
cause
that
before
Sillaces
thought
the
Sun
had
run
half
his
course
,
he
was
near
his
set
.
Those
therefore
which
were
trusted
with
the
Camping
of
the
Army
,
came
to
advertise
him
they
had
found
a
fit
place
for
that
end
,
and
desir'd
his
Orders
:
For
he
and
Surena
commanded
the
Army
by
days
,
after
the
Consullary
manner
.
Sillaces
having
viewed
and
elected
a
fit
Camp
for
so
large
a
Body
,
and
given
the
Orders
for
that
nights
discipline
and
security
,
withdrew
himself
to
his
Tent
,
that
he
might
the
better
enjoy
an
entertainment
which
he
valued
much
,
yet
not
more
than
it
deserv'd
to
be
so
;
but
having
the
place
emptied
of
all
but
Artabbanes
,
Surena
came
to
visit
and
acquaint
him
with
a
design
he
had
put
in
execution
,
of
drawing
Crassus
out
of
the
Straits
and
Mountains
of
Ballissus
,
into
the
Plains
of
Mesopotamia
,
where
the
Parthian
Horse
would
have
an
advantage
,
which
gave
him
more
than
hopes
of
a
Victory
.
I
cannot
tell
you
(
said
Symander
)
with
what
emotions
and
surprizes
my
King
consider'd
himself
so
near
Surena
,
and
how
many
times
he
had
his
hand
upon
his
Sword
,
to
demand
a
final
reason
of
him
for
all
those
miseries
he
had
involv'd
him
in
,
and
(
which
was
much
more
sensible
)
the
fair
Parthenissa
.
But
the
respect
he
pay'd
Sillaces
,
and
the
apprehension
he
had
,
how
great
a
hazard
the
quarrel
of
his
Country
might
run
,
by
so
unseasonable
a
decision
of
his
own
,
which
probably
would
engage
an
Army
too-much
against
it self
,
that
had
already
but
too-much
against
it
;
suspended
his
resentments
:
but
lest
his
looks
might
one
way
occasion
,
what
he
had
supprest
in
another
,
he
withdrew
himself
till
Surena
by
returning
,
had
left
Sillaces
alone
;
who
told
my
Prince
,
that
his
Colleague
had
so
well
deluded
the
Roman
General
,
by
the
Arts
of
Ariamnes
,
a
Parthian
of
excellent
dexterity
in
such
negotiations
,
that
Crassus
elevated
too
by
the
fresh
arrival
of
Publius
Crassus
(
his
Son
)
with
one
Thousand
men
at
Arms
,
sent
him
by
Iulius
Caesar
,
had
quitted
the
fast
Countries
where
his
Legions
were
invincible
,
and
was
marching
so
precipitately
to
the
Plains
of
Carres
,
which
he
had
elected
for
the
General
Field
,
that
if
we
make
not
haste
,
he
will
possess
himself
of
all
the
advantages
of
it
before
our
arrival
,
which
makes
us
(
continued
Sillaces
)
resolve
so
to
accelerate
our
march
,
that
the
Roman
Courages
by
their
attendance
,
shall
not
cool
.
This
News
stirred
Artabbanes's
blood
,
and
made
him
determine
before
he
presented
himself
to
his
Princess
,
to
let
her
know
,
the
Arms
with
which
Crassus
had
beaten
him
,
were
not
by
those
of
honour
.
Sillaces
with
raptures
of
joy
,
received
this
assurance
,
and
could
not
doubt
of
the
Victory
,
since
my
Prince
would
solicite
and
court
it
.
In
brief
,
two
days
after
the
Parthian
and
Roman
Army
saluted
each
other
by
sight
,
but
the
day
was
so
far
spent
,
that
they
both
concluded
there
would
not
be
left
enough
for
a
decision
,
which
would
be
so
well
disputed
.
That
Night
then
was
given
to
rest
,
and
preparation
for
the
ensuing
Day
;
which
no
sooner
dawn'd
,
than
Surena
,
whose
turn
it
was
to
Command
,
drew
out
his
Army
,
and
the
better
to
delude
the
Romans
,
he
covered
the
Armour
of
his
Men
at
Arms
(
which
were
all
of
pollish'd
Margian
Steel
)
with
the
Skins
of
Beasts
;
which
made
Crassus
say
,
he
was
going
to
a
hunting
,
not
a
Battel
:
His
right
Wing
was
led
by
the
generous
Sillaces
,
who
was
accompanied
by
my
disguised
Prince
,
richly
Armed
,
and
advantageously
mounted
;
but
the
first
concealed
by
an
obscure
Coat
:
The
Battel
Surena
led
,
and
the
left
wing
Vixores
,
who
as
his
Brother
,
was
restored
to
Orodes's
favour
.
Publius
Crassus
had
the
conduct
of
the
right
wing
of
the
Roman
Army
,
Marcus
Crassus
of
the
Battel
,
and
Cassius
of
the
left
:
The
Nations
of
which
these
Armies
were
composed
,
was
evident
by
the
first
encounter
,
which
was
so
furious
and
bloody
,
that
one
might
have
concluded
of
the
Progress
by
the
beginning
.
Publius
Crassus
routed
Vixores's
wing
,
whose
Horse
unfortunately
going
to
the
Charge
,
had
rendered
him
uncapable
of
performing
it
;
which
fall
,
more
inconvenient
than
dangerous
(
for
it
but
amazed
him
)
gave
Crassus
not
only
the
liberty
of
acting
what
he
did
,
but
also
of
hindering
them
from
rallying
;
this
unhappiness
arrived
at
the
same
time
that
Marcus
Crassus
gave
a
bloody
impression
on
Surena's
Battel
,
and
so
much
disordered
it
,
that
Artabbanes
casting
off
what
covered
the
beauty
and
richness
of
his
Armour
,
flew
where
his
Courage
and
Conduct
were
but
too
necessary
.
His
first
relief
was
given
to
his
Rival
,
who
till
it
came
,
fought
more
in
despair
,
than
hope
;
but
my
King
having
metamorphosed
his
condition
,
went
to
relieve
Vixores's
Troops
,
who
were
both
the
Romans
Chase
and
Quarry
.
The
heat
he
was
in
,
made
him
lift
up
his
Helmet
,
which
being
shaded
with
Carnation
Plumes
,
brought
so
large
an
accession
to
his
natural
good
Meen
,
that
those
which
beheld
it
,
were
as
much
pleased
with
it
,
as
with
his
assistance
;
which
he
then
afforded
those
of
that
routed
wing
,
by
heading
a
small
party
,
with
which
despising
all
Enemies
but
the
Chiefest
,
address'd
his
main
charge
to
the
young
Crassus
,
who
at
the
head
of
his
Troops
he
killed
with
his
own
hands
;
and
some
Parthians
according
to
their
barbarous
custom
,
cutting
off
his
head
,
and
carrying
it
on
the
point
of
a
Launce
,
it
brought
as
much
Terrour
to
his
Party
,
as
so
lately
it
had
success
.
This
was
the
first
dawning
of
the
glorious
event
which
that
day
shined
upon
the
Parthians
;
and
this
was
so
generously
followed
by
him
which
begun
it
,
that
though
some
fatal
wounds
he
received
in
the
Triumvirs
own
Battalion
,
rendered
him
uncapable
of
finishing
what
he
had
made
so
large
a
Progress
in
;
yet
the
Victory
remained
entirely
to
the
Parthians
;
by
which
you
may
imagine
how
far
he
had
advanced
it
,
when
they
could
conclude
it
without
him
.
In
that
bloody
day
my
Prince
so
repaired
the
wrongs
of
Treachery
,
that
he
wanted
nothing
of
an
entire
satisfaction
,
but
that
Crassus
knew
not
he
had
done
so
.
The
generous
Sillaces
,
who
with
his
Sword
had
made
many
wayes
to
Glory
,
in
the
pursuing
of
it
,
received
from
me
the
fatal
News
,
that
my
King
was
able
no
longer
to
do
so
,
which
made
him
abandon
all
designs
,
but
those
of
returning
to
serve
Artabbanes
;
whom
I
had
carried
into
his
Tent
,
where
he
found
him
in
a
condition
too-too
sufficient
to
cloud
,
and
make
him
deplore
that
days
success
:
For
alas
the
turning
of
the
blood
after
the
dressing
of
his
wounds
,
had
cast
him
into
a
swound
,
which
Sillaces
had
like
to
have
accompanied
him
in
:
But
the
gods
by
restoring
him
to
himself
,
did
the
like
to
his
generous
Friend
,
who
gave
such
signal
demonstrations
of
Joy
for
that
blessing
,
that
had
not
the
high
performances
of
my
Prince
that
day
,
rendered
them
only
upon
that
score
legitimate
,
by
the
greatness
of
the
effects
,
those
which
were
present
might
have
judged
to
whom
they
were
paid
.
But
Sillaces
,
that
he
might
not
be
separated
from
Artabbanes
,
sent
Surena
word
,
that
some
hurts
rendered
him
uncapable
of
prosecuting
the
success
,
which
therefore
he
left
entirely
to
his
care
;
neither
indeed
was
this
an
absolute
fiction
,
for
he
had
received
five
wounds
,
yet
none
so
dangerous
as
to
have
produced
that
detention
which
a
nobler
impediment
did
.
In
this
great
day
there
fell
above
20000
Romans
;
and
the
next
we
learn'd
,
that
Surena
by
many
slights
had
first
gotten
Marcus
Crassus
out
of
the
City
of
Charres
,
and
then
into
his
Power
,
by
promises
of
Life
to
him
,
and
his
remaining
Army
,
if
they
would
embrace
Orodes's
mercy
.
Though
the
Roman
Soldiers
forced
their
General
to
this
,
yet
he
repayed
their
great
Crime
,
with
a
proportionate
Generosity
:
For
as
he
was
going
to
Surena
,
turning
about
,
and
addressing
his
speech
to
some
Patricians
;
he
told
them
,
If
any
of
you
,
O
Romans
,
survive
this
ruine
,
tell
the
Senate
,
't
was
not
my
Soldiers
necessitated
me
to
go
into
the
Parthians
hands
,
but
my
Fate
;
which
being
confident
to
receive
from
them
,
I
go
to
embrace
with
joy
,
as
believing
my
blood
will
prove
a
Ransom
for
the
rest
of
my
Countrey-men
;
who
,
if
they
saw
me
die
by
my
own
hands
,
might
have
as
much
provocation
to
imitate
,
as
they
will
have
to
revenge
me
.
These
words
,
when
contrary
ones
were
both
deserved
and
expected
,
drew
Tears
into
many
Eyes
,
and
drew
Octavius
and
Petronius
along
with
their
General
,
who
as
the
Romans
say
,
being
brought
before
Surena
,
was
immediately
murthered
with
those
which
accompanied
him
;
and
as
we
say
,
some
high
language
passing
between
Surena
and
him
,
Octavius
drew
his
Sword
to
vindicate
the
Triumvir
,
which
occasioned
all
their
Deaths
:
howsoever
it
was
,
Crassus's
head
was
cut
off
and
sent
to
Orodes
.
I
may
not
omit
(
continued
Symander
)
to
let
you
know
,
that
the
Parthians
,
who
had
unanimously
observed
they
derived
their
Glory
from
the
ubiquity
of
the
Courage
and
Conduct
of
one
whose
good
Meen
and
Arms
rendered
him
also
exceeding
remarkable
,
came
to
Surena
,
and
implored
the
sight
of
their
Deliverer
;
which
he
also
acknowledging
him
to
be
,
to
satisfie
Justice
and
Them
,
made
a
diligent
but
fruitless
enquiry
after
my
Prince
;
but
this
ignorance
of
whom
he
was
,
and
where
to
find
him
,
conferred
on
him
an
honour
greater
than
their
knowledg
of
both
would
have
produced
:
For
the
admirable
effects
of
his
Courage
,
his
abandoning
them
when
they
no
longer
needed
it
,
and
the
declining
of
a
Glory
which
no
Mortal
could
have
so
great
a
resignation
as
not
to
own
,
led
some
of
them
to
think
it
might
be
the
Tutelary
Angel
of
Parthia
:
This
particular
opinion
being
published
,
became
the
general
Faith
,
in
the
dictates
whereof
,
collecting
together
all
the
combustible
Arms
of
the
Romans
,
the
Parthian
Army
casting
themselves
into
a
Ring
,
set
Fire
to
the
Pile
,
and
accompanied
the
ascension
of
the
Flame
with
loud
shouts
of
acknowledgments
and
Gratitude
to
his
residence
,
who
was
the
cause
of
both
.
This
high
retribution
of
the
Parthians
to
my
Prince's
Valour
(
whose
ignorance
could
not
render
them
so
much
as
suspected
of
partiality
,
and
whose
enjoying
the
benefit
of
it
,
made
them
the
more
competent
Judges
of
its
greatness
)
brought
not
near
so
much
satisfaction
to
him
,
as
his
wounds
(
which
rendered
him
uncapable
of
paying
his
Duty
to
his
Princess
)
did
the
contrary
.
The
generous
Sillaces
gave
him
all
the
consolation
he
was
capable
of
,
by
begging
him
to
believe
the
Glory
of
the
Cause
ought
to
apologize
for
the
effect
,
and
would
even
in
Parthenissa's
own
judgment
,
though
perhaps
not
in
her
affection
.
My
Prince
,
who
protested
it
could
do
it
in
neither
of
his
,
conjur'd
Sillaces
to
return
with
Surena
to
Selutia
,
there
to
receive
and
participate
in
a
Triumph
,
which
he
deserved
entirely
to
engross
,
and
to
supervise
their
mutual
affairs
;
as
also
to
have
a
Care
lest
this
accession
of
Glory
to
Surena
might
not
thrust
him
into
attempts
,
which
Sillaces
himself
was
of
opinion
he
wanted
but
the
Power
and
opportunity
to
undertake
.
That
generous
Prince
,
who
by
this
time
(
which
was
fifteen
days
after
the
Battel
of
Charres
)
found
Artabbanes
in
a
mending
condition
,
and
himself
in
a
travelling
one
,
obeyed
Artabbanes's
incessant
solicitations
,
having
first
received
a
reiterated
assurance
of
his
following
him
as
soon
as
he
was
able
;
he
would
have
also
left
him
some
trusty
Domesticks
;
but
my
Prince
would
detain
none
but
a
Chyrurgeon
,
of
whose
fidelity
he
was
as
confident
as
of
his
Skill
.
Sillaces
and
Surena
being
gone
to
Selutia
,
we
transported
Artabbanes
from
the
Camp
into
a
Neighbour
Village
,
where
there
was
less
ill-accommodation
than
in
the
Field
,
and
where
we
remained
two
Moons
before
he
thought
himself
in
a
posture
fit
to
make
use
of
a
Horse
:
During
our
residence
there
,
we
heard
frequently
from
Sillaces
,
whose
Letters
were
still
confirmations
of
his
believing
Surena
had
silenced
but
not
extinguished
his
Passion
;
and
that
that
was
Orodes's
Faith
as
well
as
his
,
who
therefore
seem'd
to
be
more
troubled
than
pleased
at
his
success
,
and
who
every
day
disclosed
some
such
symptoms
of
his
being
not
well
satisfied
with
him
,
that
it
was
generally
thought
those
signs
would
turn
into
effects
,
which
Surena's
high
Carriage
would
not
a
little
contribute
to
the
accellerating
.
Artabbanes
,
who
knew
Surena
had
almost
as
much
discretion
as
Love
,
concluded
he
would
not
so
far
incense
his
King
,
as
that
it
should
be
publickly
taken
notice
of
,
unless
he
were
prepared
for
some
high
Design
,
and
sought
but
a
provocation
to
begin
it
.
This
rational
belief
put
the
possessor
of
it
upon
an
irrational
resolution
,
that
of
beginning
a
Journey
to
Selutia
,
before
he
was
well
able
to
walk
in
his
Chamber
,
and
against
the
advice
and
Prayers
of
the
Chyrurgeon
,
who
protested
it
would
at
least
more
than
hazard
a
Relapse
,
longer
than
his
first
indisposition
:
But
my
King
,
though
he
were
deaf
to
us
,
yet
after
his
first
days
journey
,
he
could
not
be
so
to
his
Pain
and
weakness
,
both
which
told
and
made
him
believe
what
he
would
not
from
us
.
And
indeed
his
Indisposition
was
so
great
,
and
so
long
like
to
continue
so
,
that
we
removed
him
to
a
private
Countrey-house
that
we
then
were
in
,
being
too
common
of
it self
,
and
seated
in
a
Road
that
was
so
.
Artabbanes's
removal
from
his
first
residence
,
and
his
then
taking
so
retir'd
a
One
,
made
him
justly
apprehend
he
should
be
deny'd
the
satisfaction
of
his
Friends
Intelligences
;
he
therefore
commanded
me
to
go
to
Selutia
to
acquaint
Sillaces
with
his
removal
,
and
perfectly
to
learn
all
the
transactions
and
intricacies
of
the
Court
,
which
he
said
,
he
thought
could
no
way
be
safelier
nor
better
effected
,
than
by
employing
me
.
To
obey
this
Command
immediately
I
took
Post
,
and
upon
the
Third
Day
towards
the
Close
of
the
Evening
,
I
came
to
the
end
of
my
Journey
;
but
as
I
past
along
the
Streets
to
a
Friends
House
,
whom
I
durst
only
,
and
whom
I
did
entirely
trust
,
I
saw
strange
murmuring
Crouds
of
People
,
and
amongst
others
so
deep
a
consternation
,
that
I
concluded
't
was
no
common
Cause
which
had
so
extraordinary
a
production
.
On
my
arrival
at
my
Friends
,
whom
I
happily
found
at
home
,
I
enquired
what
created
these
unusual
effects
.
He
was
as
much
surprized
at
my
Question
,
as
I
was
at
his
Answer
,
which
was
,
That
Orodes
having
assumed
some
high
Jealousies
of
Surena
,
either
upon
a
score
of
Love
or
Power
,
had
that
day
seized
on
him
;
and
after
a
short
hearing
and
Sentence
,
had
but
even
then
put
him
to
Death
,
which
so
strange
and
sudden
a
proceeding
was
the
cause
of
those
unusual
Crouds
in
the
City
,
the
very
Commonalty
admiring
the
vicissitude
of
Fortune
,
which
in
few
hours
produced
so
strange
a
revolution
,
that
he
for
whom
so
recently
Scaffolds
were
built
to
behold
his
triumphs
,
now
had
some
to
behold
his
execution
.
Neither
is
this
the
only
cause
of
what
you
enquire
the
reason
of
,
since
't
is
firmly
reported
,
That
even
in
this
moment
Orodes
is
forcing
a
Felicity
from
Parthenissa
,
which
her
Constancy
has
so
resolutely
deni'd
him
;
but
this
is
so
improbable
a
Crime
,
that
many
believe
't
is
divulg'd
by
Surena's
Partizans
,
to
make
his
Martyrdom
appear
the
clearer
,
and
the
more
certainly
to
have
it
reveng'd
.
You
may
believe
I
was
not
a
little
surprized
at
this
relation
,
which
the
more
I
reflected
on
,
the
more
I
found
cause
to
conclude
,
that
the
latter
part
of
it
was
true
,
because
the
former
was
;
and
that
Arsaces
would
not
so
precipitate
his
Favourite's
Execution
,
but
for
an
end
which
was
more
considerable
than
that
loss
:
and
I
knew
nothing
could
appear
so
to
him
,
but
the
satisfaction
of
his
Flame
.
'T
was
therefore
,
that
hastily
abandoning
my
Friend
,
I
went
up
so
to
the
Palace
,
resolving
by
my
own
Death
,
or
by
Orodes's
,
to
prevent
a
Misfortune
I
much
more
justly
apprehended
than
either
.
But
oh
gods
!
as
soon
as
I
came
within
the
Guards
of
the
Court
,
I
found
them
melting
in
tears
,
from
whence
I
concluded
,
't
was
some
strange
thing
which
had
so
proportionate
an
influence
.
This
general
Grief
produced
so
general
a
neglect
of
all
things
but
of
the
celebrating
it
,
that
without
so
much
as
being
question'd
,
I
came
(
by
the
knowledg
I
had
of
all
the
Palace
)
to
Parthenissa's
Anti-Chamber
,
from
whence
I
heard
in
the
Room
where
she
lay
,
so
many
and
so
high
evincements
of
sorrow
,
that
I
concluded
,
that
which
then
invaded
me
,
was
but
too-justly
grounded
.
The
first
operations
of
mine
being
a
little
mitigated
,
I
took
the
confidence
to
look
into
that
sad
Chamber
:
But
great
gods
!
I
had
no
sooner
done
so
,
than
I
fell
into
it
,
my
spirits
abandoning
me
at
the
sight
of
the
fair
Parthenissa's
being
dead
on
a
Couch
,
and
Zephalinda
by
her
.
The
fair
Emilia
too
,
with
disshevel'd
hair
,
drown'd
eyes
,
and
wringed
hands
,
acting
grief
so
passionately
,
that
I
concluded
't
was
more
easie
for
her
to
have
been
dead
,
than
to
live
in
a
Misfortune
which
render'd
the
being
so
,
so
necessary
.
The
noise
I
made
in
my
fall
,
made
some
of
the
Princess's
women
run
to
learn
from
whence
it
proceeded
;
one
of
them
in
charity
flinging
some
water
on
my
face
,
wash'd
off
that
colour
with
which
I
was
disguis'd
,
and
thereby
discover'd
who
I
was
,
having
formerly
known
me
:
My
senses
being
return'd
,
she
that
had
been
my
Physician
,
went
and
told
the
disconsolate
Emilia
of
my
being
there
;
who
in
a
languishing
pace
came
towards
me
,
and
with
a
voice
which
was
so
,
told
me
,
At
length
,
Symander
,
at
length
the
gods
have
wearied
themselves
with
having
persecuted
a
Virtue
as
great
as
the
Cruelty
which
has
done
it
;
and
made
the
Tyrant
Arsaces
know
,
that
when
they
deny
a
sanctuary
to
Innocence
,
Death
will
afford
it
one
.
His
not
believing
this
Truth
,
hath
forc'd
the
Divine
Parthenissa
to
act
it
;
the
effects
of
whose
high
Constancy
for
your
Prince
,
is
yet
clouded
by
a
performance
of
the
fair
Zephalinda
,
who
thought
Death
so
unconsiderable
,
if
it
came
in
competition
with
her
Friendship
,
that
not
to
have
the
last
suspected
,
she
has
embrac'd
the
first
.
Here
the
fair
Emilia's
sighs
performed
what
they
had
so
often
attempted
,
I
mean
,
cut
off
her
relation
,
which
yet
was
as
efficaciously
continued
by
her
tears
,
which
spake
both
the
sadness
of
the
Story
,
and
evidenced
what
was
due
unto
it
.
The
faithful
Symander
,
at
the
remembrance
and
repetition
of
these
fatal
passages
,
so
sympathiz'd
in
the
grief
of
which
he
was
making
a
description
,
that
it
hinder'd
him
from
continuing
it
,
which
was
a
performance
both
Artavasdes
and
Callimachus
could
not
condemn
,
because
they
sympathiz'd
in
it
.
It
was
almost
a
quarter
of
an
hour
before
the
Auditors
could
beg
the
Speaker's
continuance
of
his
Narration
,
or
that
he
could
obey
them
;
which
at
length
he
thus
did
:
My
impatience
(
said
Symander
)
was
too
high
to
continue
any
longer
ignorant
of
the
Cause
of
our
Loss
,
especially
when
what
was
the
impediment
as
to
me
,
was
the
aggravation
of
it
:
I
did
therefore
conjure
the
fair
Emilia
to
acquaint
me
,
by
what
strange
ways
the
gods
had
effected
so
strange
an
end
:
To
which
she
told
me
;
Arsaces
,
since
the
delivering
up
of
Parthenissa
to
him
by
Surena
,
so
augmented
in
his
Passion
,
and
she
in
her
Resolves
of
declining
to
reward
it
,
that
many
foresaw
such
extreams
could
not
but
produce
proportionate
effects
.
The
News
of
the
Romans
defeat
divesting
Orodes
of
Fear
,
Desire
took
so
absolute
an
Empire
over
him
,
that
in
the
criminal
dictates
of
his
,
he
so
importunately
press'd
the
Princess
to
reward
his
Flame
by
a
Hymeneal
Crown
,
that
she
declining
it
,
he
vow'd
by
all
the
Oaths
his
fury
could
invent
,
That
if
in
five
days
she
alter'd
not
her
inclination
,
he
would
satisfie
his
in
a
way
so
fatal
,
that
she
should
be
convinc'd
,
't
was
not
for
want
of
power
that
he
so
advantageously
perswaded
her
to
his
bed
.
This
he
esteem'd
a
modest
warning
;
for
amongst
his
Domesticks
he
solemnly
protested
,
He
would
have
that
by
Force
,
which
he
could
not
by
Composition
;
and
to
evidence
this
was
his
resolution
,
immediately
he
sent
all
his
Guards
to
inviron
the
Princess
Appartment
with
this
strict
Injunction
,
That
none
without
a
license
under
his
own
hand
(
but
his
Menial
Servants
)
upon
pain
of
Death
should
speak
with
her
:
And
lest
her
Resolution
might
frustrate
the
designs
of
this
,
he
permitted
not
any
Instrument
which
could
act
Death
,
to
be
either
in
her
,
or
any
of
her
Domesticks
power
.
Three
days
of
the
five
were
expir'd
in
the
punctual
observance
of
his
Orders
,
when
towards
the
evening
the
Princess
Zephalinda
,
by
the
permission
of
the
Guards
,
came
into
Parthenissa's
Chamber
;
and
after
she
had
acquainted
her
with
her
Friendship
,
and
her
own
sad
condition
,
by
her
tears
,
she
told
her
,
The
permission
,
Madam
,
I
have
obtain'd
of
paying
you
this
duty
,
is
upon
a
score
I
am
so
far
from
making
use
of
,
that
could
I
fancy
you
capable
of
listning
to
it
,
I
would
employ
it
to
an
opposite
end
:
for
Arsaces
,
but
upon
the
pretence
of
my
coming
to
solicite
you
to
be
his
Queen
,
would
not
have
permitted
it
;
I
was
forced
to
promise
what
I
never
intended
to
perform
;
though
it
is
probable
,
by
that
Friendship
he
knows
I
pay
Artabbanes
,
which
too
it
may
be
he
mistakes
for
a
Passion
,
he
thought
my
interest
concurring
with
his
in
depriving
you
of
that
generous
Prince
,
might
render
me
a
fit
Agent
for
such
an
end
:
but
that
,
Madam
,
of
my
coming
to
wait
on
you
,
is
to
know
which
way
I
may
prevent
it
:
there
is
no
difficulty
which
my
Zeal
will
not
deprive
of
that
Name
,
and
I
shall
find
none
in
my
own
condition
but
to
live
to
behold
you
any
's
but
his
.
This
generous
declaration
(
Emilia
continu'd
)
had
a
proportionate
retribution
,
and
this
further
Answer
:
I
have
not
,
fair
Zephalinda
,
so
misemploy'd
the
time
of
my
confinement
,
as
not
to
consider
't
is
secur'd
with
so
much
force
and
care
,
that
I
am
not
now
to
seek
an
election
,
but
how
to
act
mine
;
your
assistance
,
in
which
is
the
only
and
the
highest
obligation
you
can
confer
either
on
Artabbanes
,
or
me
:
I
find
Abstinence
is
a
Sanctuary
I
cannot
reach
:
if
I
had
known
it
earlier
what
I
am
fully
convinc'd
of
now
,
I
should
not
have
implor'd
from
you
so
dangerous
an
obligation
:
but
my
ignorance
which
causes
this
Desire
,
will
I
hope
procure
your
Pardon
for
my
making
it
;
and
my
condition
will
invite
you
to
grant
a
request
,
which
you
cannot
deny
without
being
accessary
to
a
guilt
nothing
can
equal
but
your
Repentance
for
not
having
prevented
it
.
Madam
(
said
Zephalinda
in
a
Flood
of
Tears
)
,
I
conjure
you
to
suspend
any
violence
against
your
Life
,
till
my
next
visit
,
which
shall
doubtless
present
you
with
your
deliverance
,
or
with
the
power
to
act
it
.
I
will
obey
you
(
Parthenissa
reply'd
)
;
but
remember
,
if
you
violate
this
engagement
,
you
assume
Arsaces's
Crimes
.
Which
if
I
do
(
she
answer'd
)
may
I
suffer
the
punishment
due
unto
them
.
Zephalinda
immediately
left
us
;
and
from
the
time
she
did
so
,
till
her
return
(
which
was
the
morning
of
the
last
day
)
Parthenissa
employ'd
it
all
in
finding
some
expedient
to
extinguish
her
life
,
should
her
friend
by
some
strange
accident
be
hinder'd
from
bringing
of
her
one
;
and
at
length
elected
that
fatal
and
only
remedy
,
of
stopping
her
breath
with
her
Linen
,
which
by
the
countenance
Zephalinda
put
on
at
her
then
entrance
,
she
concluded
would
be
absolutely
necessary
:
and
in
those
resolves
she
told
her
,
I
observe
(
Madam
)
by
the
sense
you
have
of
my
condition
,
that
Death
only
can
change
it
;
the
necessity
of
the
performance
will
I
hope
invite
the
gods
to
pardon
it
,
they
would
not
leave
me
but
one
way
to
avoid
a
transcendent
sin
,
if
that
it self
were
a
proportionate
one
:
A
Martyr
acts
his
own
death
,
and
yet
thereby
acquires
that
glorious
Title
.
My
affection
for
Artabbanes
has
been
confirmed
by
as
many
vows
,
as
my
zeal
has
been
to
the
gods
,
who
might
too
justly
suspect
I
would
decline
these
,
were
I
capable
of
declining
those
.
I
alledg
not
these
reasons
to
confirm
my self
in
my
resolution
,
but
you
;
that
you
may
receive
as
much
consolation
in
the
Cause
,
as
I
shall
in
the
acting
of
it
.
These
fatal
words
were
deliver'd
with
much
less
emotion
,
than
they
were
heard
with
;
and
the
Divine
Princess
evidenc'd
the
certainty
she
had
of
another
Life
,
by
the
little
disorder
she
resented
at
the
abandoning
of
this
.
The
fair
Zephalinda
having
silenc'd
her
tears
and
sighs
(
too
just
retributions
not
to
be
repay'd
either
to
Parthenissa's
condition
,
or
the
resolution
with
which
she
bore
it
)
thus
reply'd
,
Since
I
last
had
the
misfortune
of
leaving
you
,
time
has
been
strangely
active
;
and
if
I
gave
you
any
hopes
of
your
deliverance
,
't
was
because
I
had
assum'd
some
pregnant
ones
of
it
.
For
Surena
,
who
had
some
few
days
past
taken
up
a
firm
belief
that
Orodes
would
more
than
solicite
your
affection
,
began
some
private
levies
of
men
to
prevent
it
;
which
Arsaces
having
discover'd
,
either
by
intelligence
,
or
by
the
probability
of
the
thing
,
took
so
short
a
space
for
the
reception
of
your
positive
Answer
,
that
it
prevented
your
intended
relief
,
with
that
certainty
with
which
it
was
design'd
:
yet
when
I
informed
my
Brother
of
the
Kings
resolution
,
and
yours
;
in
the
Dictates
of
Rage
and
Pity
he
went
to
him
,
and
told
him
,
with
a
countenance
which
spake
his
heart
,
as
much
as
his
words
did
:
When
I
resign'd
up
the
Princess
Parthenissa
to
you
,
't
was
,
Sir
,
upon
terms
you
confin'd
your self
to
by
so
many
solemn
and
reiterated
vows
,
that
though
it
be
the
common
Faith
you
intend
to
violate
them
,
yet
it
cannot
be
mine
,
till
it
be
confirm'd
by
your
own
avowing
it
.
Arsaces
,
who
had
then
but
one
of
his
Domesticks
about
him
,
and
who
judged
by
Surena's
countenance
and
abrupt
Question
,
he
was
in
a
temper
fit
to
attempt
any
thing
that
was
desperate
,
if
your
condition
appear'd
to
be
so
,
return'd
him
this
Answer
:
I
believe
so
many's
assuming
that
faith
,
proceeds
from
the
as
many
knowers
of
Parthenissa's
usage
of
me
,
which
is
such
,
that
it
may
with
too
much
reason
perswade
them
to
believe
,
I
am
sooner
capable
of
any
thing
,
than
of
such
a
neglect
.
I
hope
,
Sir
(
Surena
reply'd
)
though
this
may
be
other
mens
belief
,
yet
it
is
not
your
resolution
;
for
that
sacred
contract
you
made
with
me
,
was
not
conditional
,
but
absolute
:
so
that
no
ill
usage
of
hers
to
you
,
can
render
legitimate
a
resembling
return
of
yours
to
her
.
The
knowledg
I
had
of
your
Passion
,
and
of
the
impossibility
of
her
receiving
and
rewarding
it
,
made
me
intently
careful
to
leave
you
no
way
of
violating
your
engagement
,
but
by
violating
your
oaths
,
which
will
raise
more
to
revenge
such
a
performance
,
than
your
Power
can
to
hinder
it
.
This
resolute
and
true
reply
,
so
incens'd
the
cruel
Orodes
,
who
(
by
the
then
coming
into
the
room
of
many
of
his
Guards
and
Courtiers
,
to
learn
the
result
of
their
meeting
)
now
no
more
apprehended
to
disclose
what
he
was
confident
could
not
be
prevented
,
and
which
he
only
fear'd
the
discovery
of
;
upon
that
score
,
told
my
Brother
with
a
furious
Look
and
Tone
:
Traytor
,
that
canst
have
reason
enough
to
make
thy
Kings
actions
appear
as
Crimes
,
and
wantest
it
when
thy
own
are
more
undeniably
so
.
The
Tyes
thou
hast
to
Parthenissa
,
are
but
accidental
;
and
those
thou
hast
to
me
,
are
natural
:
yet
in
thy
late
Rebellion
,
thou
couldst
with
lesser
scruple
violate
thy
Allegiance
,
than
thou
now
reproachest
me
with
violating
my
Promise
.
Thou
didst
in
thy
performance
leave
me
a
latitude
for
the
acting
of
mine
,
and
canst
not
reproach
me
but
with
that
for
which
thou
art
my
Example
:
Nay
,
that
Contract
thou
hast
so
often
mention'd
,
and
by
which
thou
wouldst
tye
my
hands
,
sets
them
at
liberty
,
especially
to
the
punishing
of
thee
for
having
attempted
it
:
For
't
was
thy
Rebellion
gave
thee
that
seeming
Power
of
making
one
of
my
Vassals
confine
me
from
acting
my
pleasure
upon
another
;
now
that
force
being
dissolv'd
by
which
thou
didst
this
Crime
,
I
have
much
more
reason
to
punish
thy
having
extorted
such
a
promise
,
than
thou
hast
to
demand
the
performing
of
it
,
since
I
but
assume
a
Power
I
indisputably
had
before
thy
Treason
eclips'd
it
:
but
thou
canst
not
exact
the
performance
of
a
forc'd
engagement
,
but
thou
must
remember
what
thou
didst
to
procure
it
,
and
that
will
vindicate
me
for
not
observing
it
:
Thou
,
by
cancelling
the
first
obligation
,
hast
taught
me
to
punish
thee
in
the
repetition
of
thy
fault
;
and
by
making
Force
to
be
Justice
,
thou
hast
render'd
that
Art
which
destroys
Thine
,
to
be
much
more
so
.
Surena
sensibly
wounded
with
this
language
,
reply'd
:
You
reproach
me
,
Sir
,
with
your
own
Fault
;
for
't
was
you
,
not
I
which
cancell'd
the
first
obligation
;
and
though
this
was
but
then
evident
to
a
few
,
yet
by
what
you
have
since
menac'd
the
fair
Parthenissa
with
,
you
have
render'd
it
now
so
to
all
,
and
made
my
performance
as
clear
to
the
world
,
as
it
was
then
to
me
.
The
obligations
between
you
and
your
subjects
are
mutual
;
they
promise
you
obedience
,
and
you
them
protection
;
you
then
first
broke
your
Engagement
,
before
I
did
mine
;
and
I
never
drew
my
sword
against
you
,
but
to
keep
you
from
a
greater
Crime
than
that
it self
was
.
And
though
you
alledg
my
confinement
to
you
was
natural
,
and
to
the
fair
Parthenissa
accidental
;
yet
when
you
consider
upon
what
score
I
ty'd
my self
to
her
Interests
,
you
will
find
it
was
deriv'd
from
a
Duty
,
unto
which
that
you
challenge
is
much
subordinate
.
'T
is
the
Duty
I
owe
the
gods
;
and
that
obliges
me
more
to
preserve
the
Innocent
,
than
my
birth
does
to
obey
you
;
especially
when
your
commands
are
of
a
quality
that
carry
in
my
disobedience
the
justification
of
it
.
Whilst
you
govern'd
within
your
own
Laws
,
I
gave
you
that
observance
due
to
you
in
them
;
and
was
more
prodigal
of
my
blood
to
defend
and
encrease
your
Power
,
than
when
you
misemploy'd
it
,
I
was
to
oppose
it
.
Nay
,
after
you
were
seemingly
converted
,
I
brought
you
home
a
Victory
from
a
people
that
hardly
ever
knew
what
it
was
to
lose
one
:
I
was
in
hope
the
gods
,
by
shewing
how
successful
my
Sword
was
for
you
,
would
have
invited
you
to
Actions
which
it
can
only
be
employed
in
.
But
I
now
fear
you
will
render
me
unavoidably
guilty
:
for
drawing
my
Sword
against
you
,
for
her
,
cannot
render
me
more
criminal
in
your
esteem
,
than
the
not
doing
it
will
render
me
so
in
the
judgment
of
the
gods
,
and
of
men
.
Here
(
continued
Zephalinda
)
Arsaces's
fury
was
uncapable
of
a
longer
silence
,
which
made
him
interrupt
Surena
,
by
saying
,
Traytor
,
Thou
hast
not
only
the
wickedness
to
run
into
a
Rebellion
,
but
to
declare
that
performance
a
greater
Duty
,
than
the
not
having
acted
it
.
That
Power
which
thou
shalt
know
and
feel
is
absolute
,
thou
wouldst
make
conditional
,
that
it
might
not
punish
thee
:
but
that
Sin
thou
shalt
be
convinc'd
is
one
,
even
in
the
punishment
of
it
.
And
because
thou
alledgest
thou
never
drew'st
thySword
against
me
,
but
to
keep
me
from
a
higher
crime
than
that
it self
was
;
I
will
repay
thy
kindness
in
the
imitation
of
it
,
and
by
thy
Death
hinder
thee
from
a
greater
Sin
than
the
commanding
of
it
is
:
yes
,
I
will
punish
in
thy
intended
Rebellion
,
what
thou
tiedst
me
from
in
thy
acted
Rebellion
;
and
the
gods
,
who
knew
how
unjust
that
concession
was
thou
extortest
from
me
,
involve
thee
in
new
Crimes
,
that
thou
might'st
be
rewarded
for
the
old
.
My
Justice
only
is
clouded
with
this
misfortune
,
that
thou
hast
but
a
single
Life
to
appease
it
with
,
since
thy
relapse
deserves
the
deprivation
of
that
,
and
consequently
thy
first
Sin
will
continue
unpunish'd
.
Orodes
at
the
end
of
these
words
turn'd
to
the
Captain
of
his
Guards
,
and
commanded
him
to
seize
on
Surena
;
who
seeing
his
Life
was
lost
,
and
consequently
yours
,
or
your
Honour
;
resolv'd
whilst
it
lasted
,
to
act
some
such
performance
as
might
repair
the
shortness
of
it
,
and
the
length
of
those
Miseries
it
had
so
unfortunately
involved
you
in
:
Therefore
as
the
Captain
of
the
Guards
came
to
take
his
Sword
,
he
drew
it
,
and
past
it
through
his
Body
;
then
crying
out
to
Arsaces
,
You
shall
go
with
me
,
Sir
,
into
another
World
,
to
learn
this
great
Truth
,
That
to
kill
you
is
a
less
Sin
than
that
you
intend
against
Parthenissa
,
or
the
permitting
it
;
he
ran
furiously
at
him
,
and
though
so
many
hands
endeavour'd
to
stop
him
,
yet
all
they
could
do
,
was
to
put
his
thrust
so
much
aside
,
as
that
what
was
intended
to
the
Body
,
only
pierc'd
his
Clothes●
Surena
more
troubled
that
he
had
mist
his
design
,
than
at
the
punishment
he
knew
attended
his
having
assum'd
it
,
was
returning
;
and
though
with
a
fury
but
equal
to
his
former
,
yet
certainly
had
had
a
superior
success
;
when
all
that
were
present
flew
upon
him
,
and
forced
his
sword
out
of
that
hand
,
which
if
any
longer
left
,
had
doubtless
acted
a
greater
piece
of
Justice
,
than
the
Guards
did
in
preventing
it
;
and
that
which
so
much
contributed
to
this
easie
Victory
,
was
the
deep
consternation
amongst
those
few
friends
of
Surena's
which
were
present
;
who
not
fancying
he
would
have
put
things
to
so
precipitate
and
high
an
issue
,
fell
into
an
amazement
,
which
prov'd
as
fatal
to
him
,
as
if
it
had
been
their
Treachery
.
The
pale
and
trembling
Arsaces
,
observing
Surena
was
disarm'd
,
and
that
some
of
his
Guards
were
going
to
revenge
his
danger
,
and
their
Captains
death
,
by
the
acting
of
Surena's
,
cry'd
out
to
them
,
Hold
;
I
command
you
on
your
Lives
not
to
touch
him
:
for
the
inflicting
of
a
sudden
Death
will
relish
more
of
Passion
than
of
Justice
;
and
his
Crimes
make
him
a
fitter
Sacrifice
for
the
last
,
than
the
first
.
Then
commanding
a
Gentleman
(
who
he
made
in
that
instant
Captain
of
his
Guards
in
the
room
of
him
that
had
freshly
lost
that
Office
with
his
Life
)
to
look
to
Surena
,
as
he
would
answer
it
with
the
loss
of
his
own
;
he
forthwith
gave
order
for
a
Scaffold
to
be
erected
before
the
Palace-Gates
,
and
solemnly
protested
,
That
on
it
,
before
the
Sun-set
,
Surena
should
lose
his
Life
.
He
heard
these
last
words
as
he
was
carrying
away
,
and
therefore
turning
about
with
a
Countenance
altogether
quiet
and
serene
,
he
told
Arsaces
,
I
thank
you
Sir
,
and
I
conjure
you
to
keep
your
vows
;
for
the
next
satisfaction
to
the
prevention
of
Parthenissa's
dishonour
,
is
not
to
survive
it
.
Arsaces
only
reply'd
by
a
shaking
of
his
head
;
and
by
a
second
Command
having
made
Surena
to
be
carried
away
,
forthwith
sent
to
the
chief
Tribunal
of
Justice
in
Selutia
,
to
sit
and
condemn
him
.
This
Order
was
no
sooner
publish'd
,
but
a
Proclamation
was
also
,
That
whosoever
appear'd
in
the
Streets
with
Arms
(
except
those
of
Guard
)
should
dye
without
Mercy
:
and
those
that
any
way
related
to
Surena
,
which
were
found
in
Selutia
after
the
expiration
of
one
hour
,
should
be
liable
to
the
same
penalty
.
This
so
precipitate
and
brisk
a
proceeding
,
with
the
securing
of
Surena's
person
,
and
the
placing
of
Soldiers
in
every
convenicnt
Post
,
so
terrified
those
Partizans
of
his
already
in
the
Town
,
that
wanting
a
Head
to
employ
their
Swords
,
they
pay'd
an
exact
Obedience
to
the
Proclamation
,
and
involv'd
such
of
their
Companions
as
they
met
coming
to
Selutia
,
in
the
same
Crime
.
Surena
therefore
was
tamely
brought
before
his
Judges
,
before
whom
he
only
would
say
,
That
all
the
ill
he
was
guilty
of
,
was
,
That
he
had
not
acted
what
they
were
condemning
him
for
having
attempted
.
This
short
Reply
made
the
Trial
the
like
;
so
that
immediately
he
was
adjudg'd
to
lose
his
Head
;
and
by
Orodes's
command
,
who
all
the
while
was
present
,
was
sent
to
the
Scaffold
to
have
the
Sentence
perform'd
,
This
advertisement
being
brought
me
,
I
went
to
the
cruel
King
,
not
to
beg
Surena's
Life
,
but
only
the
permission
of
seeing
him
lose
it
.
Arsaces
granted
my
request
,
either
not
to
disoblige
his
pretended
Solicitress
,
or
to
punish
my
being
so
,
in
the
sight
of
so
fatal
a
spectacle
.
I
found
my
poor
Brother
on
the
Scaffold
,
who
seeing
me
there
,
assum'd
a
joy
I
thought
his
condition
uncapable
of
:
but
I
soon
observ'd
from
whence
it
proceeded
;
for
immediately
he
told
me
,
You
see
,
Sister
,
I
am
now
going
to
lose
my
Life
for
her
,
to
whom
I
had
given
it
:
and
if
the
now
cause
of
my
Death
could
but
extinguish
the
just
provocations
she
has
had
so
often
to
wish
it
,
I
should
esteem
it
at
a
higher
rate
than
she
can
deplore
the
loss
of
it
.
Tell
her
,
I
conjure
you
,
that
with
joy
I
embrace
my
present
condition
,
since
I
consider
it
as
inflicted
on
me
for
having
obstructed
her
desires
;
and
from
thence
I
cannot
but
conclude
,
That
since
the
gods
so
exemplarily
punish
a
Passion
which
never
had
any
other
design
than
to
be
voluntarily
approv'd
of
,
and
rewarded
;
they
will
doubtlesly
act
much
more
to
the
magnifying
of
their
Justice
upon
a
Flame
which
already
is
burnt
into
desires
of
Lust
;
and
they
will
as
certainly
perform
it
while
Arsaces's
desires
are
but
desires
;
lest
if
once
they
were
turned
into
action
,
they
might
be
as
uncapable
of
a
fit
punishment
,
as
he
of
a
resembling
sin
.
Conjure
her
,
Zephalinda
,
to
make
this
use
of
my
Death
,
that
it
may
bring
both
her
and
me
a
satisfaction
,
which
it
may
be
any
other
way
will
be
deny'd
to
both
.
I
confess
the
gods
have
made
me
so
miserable
,
that
all
my
performances
have
hitherto
evidenc'd
my
adoration
was
not
a
debt
to
her
,
but
to
my self
.
I
do
therefore
beg
you
by
that
Friendship
and
Relation
which
is
between
us
,
and
by
my
last
Breath
,
That
upon
my
score
you
will
pay
her
all
the
services
you
are
any
ways
capable
of
;
that
one
of
the
Family
may
in
some
degree
repair
the
Sins
of
him
that
was
the
chief
of
it
;
that
parthenissa
may
thereby
know
(
what
my
unfortunate
performances
have
not
clearly
manifested
)
that
my
Care
of
her
was
for
her
;
which
I
hope
she
will
not
doubt
of
while
I
lived
,
since
the
effects
of
it
will
continue
when
I
am
dead
.
My
last
Request
is
,
If
ever
you
see
the
generous
Artabbanes
,
beg
him
,
when
he
remembers
what
I
have
done
,
that
he
would
also
remember
what
't
was
invited
it
;
and
then
he
cannot
judg
the
fault
greater
than
the
inducement
of
it
:
he
will
be
too
generous
to
hate
me
in
my
Grave
;
and
I
more
than
hope
his
resentments
will
dye
with
the
object
of
them
.
Surena
having
thus
spoken
,
embrac'd
me
,
and
took
his
eternal
leave
.
Then
going
to
the
other
extremity
of
the
Scaffold
,
he
conjur'd
the
people
to
prevent
their
King's
Sin
,
since
they
could
not
but
participate
in
the
punishment
of
it
:
for
the
gods
would
consider
every
Accessory
as
a
Principal
;
and
esteem
those
as
guilty
which
hinder'd
not
Parthenissa's
dishonour
,
as
him
that
acted
it
.
This
was
all
he
said
to
them
,
lest
a
longer
discourse
might
have
been
interrupted
.
His
Soul
,
after
she
had
thus
disburthen'd
her self
,
seem'd
to
have
more
than
a
knowledg
of
those
happy
Fields
whither
she
was
taking
her
eternal
flight
;
for
when
he
was
laying
down
his
Life
,
he
did
it
with
much
more
resolution
than
he
had
that
took
it
from
him
,
who
perform'd
it
by
separating
the
Head
from
the
Body
at
one
stroak
.
The
Spectators
at
that
fatal
blow
gave
one
common
groan
,
and
by
killing
the
Executioner
,
shew'd
how
much
they
detested
the
Execution
.
Their
Grief
too
had
not
contented
it self
with
so
mean
a
Sacrifice
,
had
not
Orodes
in
person
at
the
head
of
a
thousand
of
his
Guards
,
come
,
and
by
killing
some
of
the
Multitude
disperst
the
rest
.
The
poor
Surena's
Body
I
carry'd
away
with
me
in
the
same
Chariot
I
came
in
,
and
lay'd
it
in
the
Sepulcher
of
our
Family
.
Here
(
said
Emilia
)
the
fair
Zephalinda's
weepings
put
a
period
to
her
words
;
in
which
just
duty
the
sad
Parthenissa
kept
her
such
faithful
company
,
that
one
might
have
concluded
she
reserved
no
Tears
for
her
own
misfortune
,
she
gave
so
many
on
Surena's
.
Happy
Surena
,
that
in
one
single
performance
couldst
so
efface
the
Crimes
of
thy
Life
,
as
to
have
the
deprivation
of
it
so
nobly
deplor'd
,
and
even
by
her
which
had
most
reason
to
rejoyce
at
it
.
The
first
that
interrupted
the
silence
,
though
not
the
weeping
,
was
Parthenissa
,
who
told
Zephalinda
,
I
have
(
Madam
)
been
so
unfortunate
to
your
Family
,
that
if
you
will
not
grant
me
on
the
score
of
Charity
,
the
means
of
that
Death
which
I
implor'd
,
confer
it
on
me
at
least
on
that
of
Revenge
;
my
Misfortune
and
my
Condition
do
equally
require
it
;
and
you
cannot
in
the
performance
more
oblige
your
resentment
,
than
you
will
me
.
It
may
be
that
the
greatest
misfortune
Surena
relish'd
at
his
Death
,
was
,
that
he
left
me
behind
,
and
the
eminent
danger
too
he
concluded
I
was
involv'd
in
by
Arsaces's
Lust.
The
extinction
of
my
Life
will
also
redress
those
apprehensions
in
him
,
and
it
may
be
afford
him
a
proportionate
joy
,
when
I
shall
carry
him
the
news
how
faithfully
you
have
observ'd
his
Desires
.
'T
is
not
Madam
(
said
Zephalinda
)
upon
these
invitations
I
am
come
to
pay
you
my
engagement
;
'T
is
upon
your
own
and
Artabbanes's
account
that
I
do
it
:
for
I
find
your
condition
is
uncapable
of
all
remedy
but
by
that
which
will
in
the
future
exempt
you
from
needing
any
other
:
Thereupon
taking
out
a
little
vial
,
she
presented
it
to
Parthenissa
with
more
Tears
than
would
have
fill'd
it
;
and
told
her
,
In
this
,
Madam
,
you
will
find
that
Sanctuary
the
gods
have
deny'd
your
Virtue
;
which
I
should
have
offer'd
you
sooner
,
but
that
my
Brother's
Physician
,
who
compos'd
it
,
was
so
near
death
himself
at
the
hearing
of
Surena's
,
that
he
could
not
earlier
give
me
this
effect
of
his
Art
:
He
assures
me
it
is
of
a
nature
so
subtil
,
that
it
conquers
the
Vitals
as
soon
as
it
touches
them
;
and
will
afford
you
as
little
pain
in
the
operation
,
as
you
will
resent
after
it
.
This
is
a
Present
(
said
the
fair
Parthenissa
,
wiping
away
her
Tears
,
and
kissing
it
)
which
I
have
too
little
time
remaining
to
acknowledg
sufficiently
:
but
if
in
the
other
World
our
Condition
admits
the
paying
of
services
,
I
will
present
you
with
those
there
,
which
mine
here
denies
me
the
power
of
retributing
;
and
as
a
signal
earnest
of
this
Truth
,
I
leave
you
the
generous
Artabbanes
as
a
Legacy
:
she
deserves
him
best
,
that
does
most
for
him
;
and
you
in
this
last
performance
have
so
clearly
done
so
,
that
the
very
Party
is
also
the
Judg
and
Acknowledger
of
it
.
You
,
that
when
the
gods
cannot
preserve
Parthenissa
fit
for
him
,
can
do
it
,
do
become
more
so
your self
;
and
it
may
be
those
Powers
had
no
other
way
but
this
,
to
absolve
Artabbanes's
Constancy
from
becoming
so
much
his
punishment
,
as
to
prefer
Parthenissa
before
Zephalinda
,
who
in
all
perfections
is
as
much
my
Superior
,
as
in
a
perfect
Flame
I
am
at
least
her
Equal
.
The
fair
Zephalinda
was
about
to
reply
,
when
one
I
had
plac'd
to
discover
when
Arsaces
was
coming
,
came
running
in
to
tell
me
so
,
which
set
a
period
to
the
discourse
they
were
engag'd
in
,
and
made
Parthenissa
uncover
the
little
Glass
,
and
say
,
'T
is
now
no
time
to
think
of
any
thing
,
but
by
Death
to
prevent
what
is
much
more
to
be
fear'd
.
With
these
words
in
a
moment
she
drank
the
fatal
Poyson
,
with
a
Constancy
great
as
our
Grief
.
I
was
(
continued
Emilia
)
so
drowned
in
Tears
and
Sorrow
,
that
though
the
fair
Parthenissa
spake
many
things
as
remarkable
as
her
very
performance
,
yet
all
I
can
remember
she
said
,
was
,
a
deploring
the
invitation
of
her
death
;
which
was
such
,
that
her
hate
for
the
infamous
Arsaces
might
seem
to
have
an
equal
share
in
it
to
that
of
her
Passion
and
Constancy
for
your
Prince
.
Zephalinda
in
the
mean
time
went
to
a
window
,
as
if
it
had
been
to
discover
how
near
Orodes
was
,
but
alas
it
was
more
undisturbedly
to
pledg
Parthenissa
in
a
resembling
Liquor
,
which
as
soon
as
she
had
perform'd
,
she
return'd
to
her
,
but
with
a
serener
countenance
than
that
with
which
she
had
left
her
;
and
holding
up
the
empty
Vial
,
told
her
,
This
,
Madam
,
will
be
my
witness
,
that
I
serv'd
not
my self
,
but
you
,
in
acting
what
the
gods
had
left
you
but
one
way
to
perform
.
Your
Virtues
shine
so
clear
,
that
whilst
I
have
them
for
my
Guides
,
I
can
neither
be
mistaken
in
the
way
to
felicity
,
nor
the
end
;
and
though
this
be
a
high
Truth
,
yet
it
cannot
Transcend
this
other
:
That
the
obliging
.
Poyson
I
have
drunk
will
not
more
certainly
make
me
wait
on
you
now
,
than
the
beholding
of
Artabbanes's
Grief
,
would
have
made
me
do
it
hereafter
,
when
it
may
be
the
Then
performance
,
would
have
relish'd
,
of
what
the
Now
will
absolve
me
of
.
I
had
looked
like
your
Murtherer
,
not
your
Friend
,
had
I
not
thus
waited
on
you
;
so
that
what
my
Inclination
leads
me
unto
,
my
Reason
and
my
Interest
do
;
which
are
Inducements
that
none
can
condemn
with
so
much
Justice
as
that
with
which
I
obey
them
.
The
fair
Parthenissa
,
for
a
while
only
in
Tears
and
in
embraces
acknowledged
the
disobligingness
and
gallantry
of
this
performance
;
in
which
latter
,
Zephalinda
held
her
company
so
strictly
,
that
I
thought
they
would
prove
as
unseparable
to
each
other
,
as
misfortune
had
been
to
both
.
She
which
last
drank
the
Poyson
was
the
first
that
spake
,
and
to
the
best
of
my
remembrance
these
were
her
words
:
Having
now
paid
the
Just
and
Antedated
sacrifice
of
our
Tears
to
Artabbanes's
condition
,
when
he
shall
be
informed
of
ours
,
let
us
absolutely
in
the
future
silence
them
,
lest
the
Tyrant
should
ascribe
ours
to
his
being
one
;
and
thereby
,
though
he
be
actually
denyed
the
Triumph
of
his
Love
,
he
imaginarily
possesses
that
of
his
Revenge
.
The
Cruel
Arsaces
,
said
Parthenissa
,
cannot
so
Transcendently
delude
himself
,
as
to
ascribe
my
Tears
to
his
being
so
to
me
,
when
he
sees
what
the
fair
Zephalinda
has
done
,
which
is
of
such
a
Quality
,
that
he
will
find
his
Triumph
,
though
we
are
never
so
intent
to
cloud
it
;
for
I
am
resolved
he
glories
as
much
in
the
destruction
of
Virtue
,
as
of
Feminine
Honour
;
so
that
what
my
resolution
has
denyed
him
in
the
Latter
,
yours
has
conferred
on
him
in
the
Former
.
Had
I
been
single
in
my
suffering
,
I
should
have
retrench't
from
him
that
Victory
;
for
to
have
been
denyed
his
hopes
,
would
have
as
much
eclipsed
his
satisfaction
,
as
the
Destroying
of
Innocence
and
Constancy
would
have
created
it
.
I
may
,
said
Zephalinda
,
as
justly
alledge
he
is
not
the
cause
of
my
Tears
,
since
a
Death
which
I
esteem
so
transcendent
a
misfortune
,
as
to
believe
the
acting
of
my
own
after
it
,
is
a
less
one
than
to
survive
it
,
may
well
peculiarize
my
Weepings
to
that
solarie
cause
:
But
whilst
we
continue
ours
,
he
may
at
least
have
some
shadow
for
Insulting
;
whereas
if
we
intirely
silence
them
,
and
in
their
Place
assume
an
unclouded
serenity
,
he
may
consider
the
Way
in
which
we
evade
his
Power
,
to
be
as
sublime
a
Trouble
as
the
End
.
Here
the
fair
Zephalinda
was
interrupted
by
the
arrival
of
two
of
Arsaces
Guard
,
whom
he
had
sent
to
clear
Parthenissa's
Chamber
of
all
,
but
her self
:
These
barbarous
Men
could
not
terrifie
those
whom
Death
did
not
;
all
the
effect
they
produced
,
was
a
Joy
that
their
sanctuary
was
so
near
and
certain
,
and
that
they
had
so
timely
resolved
upon
it
,
that
the
burning
.
Lust
of
the
Tyrant
could
not
be
more
surely
a
sin
,
than
that
thereby
they
had
put
him
out
of
the
Capacity
of
acting
it
.
To
render
that
yet
the
more
so
,
Parthenissa
began
to
protract
the
time
,
that
the
Fatal
poyson
might
conquer
so
much
of
her
Life
,
as
to
exempt
her
as
well
from
the
beginnings
as
conclusions
of
Orodes's
Insolence
,
by
reasoning
with
these
infamous
undertakers
of
a
resembling
imployment
.
And
though
what
had
begun
,
too
pregnantly
evinced
the
temper
of
their
Souls
,
yet
the
Eloquence
of
innocence
conspiring
with
the
sight
of
so
many
admirable
and
growing
Beauties
which
were
so
near
an
eternal
fading
,
operated
so
efficaciously
,
that
they
retired
(
dissolving
into
Tears
unto
their
King
,
and
acquainted
him
with
the
cause
thereof
,
which
alas
was
so
far
from
having
a
proportionate
Influence
on
Him
,
that
what
had
converted
them
into
Water
,
turn'd
him
into
Fire
:
For
judging
of
the
Cause
by
the
production
,
they
could
not
assume
a
higher
Pity
,
that
those
Beauties
were
to
be
gathered
,
than
he
did
a
satisfaction
that
he
was
to
gather
them
.
Nay
,
his
Reason
was
so
obscur'd
,
that
he
concluded
they
wept
not
that
such
Perfections
were
to
be
enjoy'd
,
but
only
that
They
were
not
to
do
it
:
so
that
having
given
them
an
high
reprehension
for
what
deserv'd
the
contrary
,
he
went
hastily
to
Parthenissa's
Chamber
,
in
whose
countenance
there
was
less
disturbance
than
in
his
;
which
being
a
Truth
as
visible
as
the
occasion
was
not
(
at
least
as
to
him
)
,
he
told
her
,
At
length
,
Madam
,
I
hope
the
greatness
of
my
Flame
,
and
Perseverance
,
has
obtain'd
a
Victory
,
which
cannot
be
higher
in
it self
,
than
my
desires
were
of
it
;
and
your
Face
gives
me
a
satisfaction
which
nothing
can
hardly
augment
,
but
your
Words
giving
me
the
same
assurance
which
your
Looks
do
.
If
my
Looks
,
Sir
,
(
said
the
Princess
)
gives
you
any
other
assurance
than
my
Words
have
still
done
,
they
hold
no
correspondence
with
my
Heart
;
so
that
either
you
are
mistaken
in
my
Looks
,
or
my
Looks
in
me
.
If
(
said
Arsaces
)
I
am
mistaken
in
the
signs
of
my
Felicity
,
I
am
certain
I
will
not
be
so
in
the
fruitions
of
it
:
and
what
the
Power
of
my
Love
cannot
effect
,
that
of
my
Authority
shall
.
Yet
I
must
confess
,
I
much
rather
ambition
to
derive
my
happiness
from
the
former
,
than
the
latter
:
and
therefore
I
again
prostrate
at
your
Feet
my
Crown
,
as
well
as
Liberty
;
either
deserves
the
retribution
I
but
implore
for
both
:
your
denying
me
my
right
,
authorizes
me
to
take
it
;
and
therefore
you
render
force
legitimate
,
if
you
necessitate
me
to
it
:
My
passion
is
as
uncapable
of
Delay
,
as
Change
:
and
had
my
Promise
given
you
a
longer
time
to
form
your
Resolution
,
my
love
must
have
contracted
it
;
so
that
I
am
come
to
know
my
Fate
,
which
cannot
admit
of
the
least
suspension
,
because
my
Life
cannot
,
if
now
deni'd
that
alone
which
can
give
it
a
relish
,
as
well
as
continue
it
an
existence
.
In
short
,
Madam
,
this
is
the
hour
I
must
receive
or
take
my
Felicity
;
and
the
gods
have
as
little
the
Power
,
as
I
,
of
altering
this
Resolve
.
I
know
(
said
Parthenissa
)
you
will
be
as
much
mistaken
in
your
hopes
,
as
you
have
been
in
the
signs
of
them
.
The
gods
could
not
call
themselves
the
Protectors
of
Innocence
,
and
refuse
a
Sanctuary
to
mine
:
Know
,
Cruel
Arsaces
,
I
have
one
above
your
Power
to
violate
;
which
it
was
high
time
to
ascertain
,
when
what
should
have
been
the
cure
of
your
Lust
,
you
consider'd
as
an
Authority
to
act
it
:
Know
further
,
I
despise
your
Crown
,
and
Death
to
avoid
it
;
which
is
a
Resolution
I
might
derive
from
a
double
cause
;
for
had
not
my
Constancy
been
prevalent
enough
to
engage
me
to
assume
it
,
your
usage
would
be
;
which
cannot
with
more
necessity
invite
me
to
that
performance
,
than
I
will
act
it
with
joy
.
The
degenerate
Arsaces
believing
parthenissa
had
some
fatal
weapon
in
her
power
,
that
thus
authoriz'd
her
to
threaten
an
enraged
King
(
for
he
knew
her
too
well
,
to
have
so
much
as
a
suspition
of
her
thus
proceeding
upon
any
other
score
)
,
suddenly
seized
upon
both
her
hands
;
and
after
commanding
one
of
his
Guards
to
search
her
,
and
to
take
the
cause
of
her
Confidence
away
,
he
told
her
with
a
furious
Look
;
The
certainty
of
that
Sanctuary
which
made
you
with
such
insolence
despise
me
,
and
my
Flame
,
is
not
in
your
Power
,
and
you
are
in
mine
;
so
that
what
you
refus'd
with
scorn
,
if
you
implor'd
with
tears
,
I
would
now
deny
to
you
in
the
same
manner
you
declin'd
the
acceptance
of
it
from
me
;
nor
can
the
contempt
you
have
endeavour'd
to
throw
upon
my
Crown
,
be
justlier
revenged
,
than
by
the
Power
of
it
,
which
by
all
that
's
Holy
,
shall
no
longer
beg
what
it
can
take
.
Thereupon
with
a
countenance
which
relisht
nothing
but
of
Fury
and
Lust
,
he
commanded
those
which
waited
on
him
,
to
clear
the
room
of
all
but
Parthenissa
;
which
was
going
to
be
put
in
practice
,
when
he
that
Arsaces
had
commanded
to
search
and
Disarm
her
,
told
him
,
there
was
nothing
about
her
which
could
destroy
her
Life
,
for
the
certainty
of
which
,
he
engaged
his
own
.
This
strange
assurance
made
all
the
Tyrant's
other
Passions
resign
themselves
into
Admiration
,
and
that
suddenly
yeelded
it self
unto
Joy
;
for
he
believ'd
Parthenissa
had
acted
the
part
of
Despair
,
as
a
last
essay
,
and
then
was
resolv'd
to
yeeld
to
what
she
could
not
resist
.
This
flattering
faith
was
created
in
him
,
by
her
having
no
visible
means
to
resist
his
Power
,
in
a
time
when
he
had
solemnly
sworn
to
conquer
her
with
it
,
if
by
his
Passion
and
Perseverance
he
did
not
do
it
by
then
.
Neither
did
the
fair
Parthenissa's
silence
all
this
while
a
little
contribute
to
this
belief
:
but
alas
!
hers
proceeded
from
another
Cause
;
for
by
this
,
the
Poyson
had
made
its
fatal
Approaches
so
near
the
throne
of
Life
,
that
the
hand
of
Death
began
to
draw
an
obscure
vail
over
the
vital
spirits
,
and
so
greedily
to
seize
on
the
Noble
dwelling
of
a
Nobler
soul
,
that
Arsaces
had
scarcely
prostrated
himself
on
his
knees
,
to
make
Parthenissa
those
retributions
,
the
joy
of
his
last
faith
had
made
him
esteem
so
just
a
Debt
,
when
she
began
to
retire
to
a
Pallet
,
which
she
had
no
sooner
reach'd
,
than
she
fell
on
it
;
and
having
breath'd
a
sigh
,
and
indistincty
pronounc'd
your
generous
Prince's
Name
,
the
Beauties
of
Vermillion
resign'd
their
Empire
to
the
colour
of
Innocence
;
the
fairest
Lights
which
ever
did
or
shall
shine
,
became
eclips'd
with
an
eternal
Night
;
and
the
admirable
Soul
of
a
Body
that
was
so
,
took
her
flight
to
another
,
but
could
not
to
a
fairer
Dwelling
.
Here
the
faithful
Symander
was
so
vanquish'd
with
his
own
Relation
,
that
he
had
not
the
power
to
continue
it
;
neither
had
his
generous
Hearers
that
of
desiring
him
to
do
it
:
for
they
were
so
sensibly
affected
with
this
deplorable
and
fatal
part
of
his
Story
,
that
their
Curiosity
resign'd
its
room
unto
their
sorrow
,
to
which
they
so
justly
and
unconfinedly
abandon'd
themselves
,
that
they
fully
justified
the
vast
grief
of
Artabbanes
,
since
they
resenting
so
much
only
by
their
being
Hearers
of
the
Loss
,
they
could
not
but
expect
much
more
from
him
that
was
the
sufferer
of
it
.
At
length
they
were
so
much
friends
to
their
Grief
,
that
they
conjur'd
the
afflicted
Symander
by
a
continuance
of
his
Story
,
to
divert
them
in
some
degree
from
being
so
intent
on
that
sad
part
of
it
.
Symander
,
to
obey
this
Command
,
by
many
struglings
with
his
grief
,
finally
obtain'd
so
much
the
victory
over
it
,
as
thus
to
prosecute
what
he
had
brought
so
near
to
a
conclusion
:
This
relation
of
the
fair
Parthenissa's
death
,
which
invaded
you
with
so
high
a
sorrow
,
had
so
resembling
an
operation
on
the
unconsolable
Emilia
,
that
it
was
above
an
hour
before
her
tears
and
sighs
would
permit
her
to
continue
her
relation
,
which
she
did
in
these
terms
:
As
soon
as
the
Barbarous
Arsaces
saw
the
fair
Parthenissa
pale
and
breathless
,
he
became
so
too
,
and
continu'd
so
long
in
that
condition
,
that
I
began
to
think
Grief
had
perform'd
the
Office
of
Justice
,
and
had
alone
pay'd
that
debt
to
the
Tyrant
,
which
all
the
world
does
owe
him
:
But
he
soon
return'd
again
from
his
seeming
Death
;
but
it
was
to
act
such
violences
on
himself
,
that
I
thought
his
recovery
was
a
more
signal
punishment
,
than
his
dying
could
have
prov'd
.
In
a
word
,
whoever
had
seen
the
demonstration
of
his
sorrow
,
would
have
concluded
he
was
the
sufferer
,
not
the
Author
of
the
Loss
.
At
length
(
tir'd
with
the
actings
of
his
grief
)
,
he
continued
quiet
for
a
time
,
and
then
ran
to
Zephalinda
,
at
whose
feet
prostrating
himself
,
he
conjur'd
her
to
tell
him
,
Whether
the
fears
of
his
violence
hast
cast
Parthenissa
into
a
seeming
,
or
had
made
her
cast
her self
into
a
real
death
.
But
this
fair
Princess
gave
him
an
Answer
by
a
Demonstration
;
for
in
that
moment
of
time
the
fatal
Poyson
had
so
far
conquer'd
her
heart
,
that
she
had
only
life
enough
left
to
recover
the
Pallet
on
which
the
dead
Parthenissa
lay
,
and
in
embracing
and
kissing
her
,
to
expire
;
as
if
she
ambition'd
in
the
last
act
of
her
life
,
to
evince
the
perfect
friendship
she
had
pay'd
her
through
the
whole
course
of
it
.
At
this
second
death
,
Arsace's
grief
turn'd
into
Fury
;
he
began
to
believe
himself
so
horrid
a
Murtherer
,
that
whoever
he
spake
unto
,
was
instantly
struck
with
Death
;
which
though
true
,
had
been
a
punishment
inferior
to
his
Sin
:
And
in
this
belief
,
he
ran
frantick
up
and
down
the
Chamber
,
crying
in
the
perfect
accent
and
voice
of
horror
and
despair
,
Gods
!
give
me
Parthenissa
again
,
give
me
Parthenissa
again
:
And
after
a
thousand
fruitless
offers
of
seizing
on
the
Swords
of
some
of
his
Guards
,
he
at
length
ran
his
head
with
so
much
violence
against
the
angle
of
that
great
Cabinet
which
stood
by
the
Pallet
on
which
the
dead
Parthenissa
lay
,
that
he
thereby
not
only
receiv'd
a
large
hurt
,
but
fell
speechless
and
sensless
at
Parthenissa's
feet
;
where
he
continued
grovelling
in
his
blood
,
till
his
Guards
carried
him
into
his
own
Appartment
to
have
him
drest
.
Here
(
said
Symander
to
his
generous
Hearers
)
the
fair
Emilia
ended
her
Relation
,
and
began
again
her
weeping
in
such
excess
,
that
it
even
brought
an
accession
of
grief
to
that
which
invaded
me
by
her
fatal
Relation
:
Neither
do
I
believe
she
would
have
ended
her
Tears
,
but
with
her
Life
,
had
not
the
care
of
Artabbanes
been
greater
than
any
she
had
of
her self
.
For
remembring
one
of
her
Princess's
last
injunctions
to
her
,
was
to
let
Artabbanes
know
her
last
to
him
,
was
,
A
passionate
desire
of
pardoning
her
Murtherer
,
and
a
more
passionate
one
of
surviving
her
Murther
;
that
as
she
carried
into
the
other
World
the
highest
Model
and
Example
of
a
perfect
Love
;
so
that
he
would
continue
the
like
in
this
:
and
that
Parthia
was
miserable
enough
in
suffering
her
Kings
Sin
,
without
the
addition
of
enduring
the
punishment
of
it
:
she
conjur'd
me
to
assume
that
employment
,
whilst
she
would
pay
the
dead
Princesses
the
duty
of
Funeral
(
if
her
grief
left
her
life
enough
to
do
it
,
which
she
hoped
,
yet
fear'd
it
would
)
.
Emilia
further
enjoyn'd
me
,
by
an
immediate
return
to
Artabbanes
,
to
prevent
the
fame
of
Parthenissa's
death
;
and
by
my
acquainting
him
with
her
last
desires
,
endeavour
to
prevent
his
.
This
I
esteem'd
so
necessary
,
that
after
having
at
Parthenissa's
and
Zephalinda's
feet
,
pay'd
the
tribute
of
my
Tears
,
and
as
much
as
I
was
capable
of
,
attempted
to
lessen
the
fair
Emilia's
,
I
went
to
Sillaces
,
and
after
to
Lyndadory's
Appartment
,
where
alas
,
I
learn'd
,
that
in
the
confusion
of
the
late
disorders
,
she
had
been
carried
away
by
some
Arm'd
and
unknown
persons
;
and
that
the
generous
Sillaces
,
with
what
friends
he
could
assemble
in
so
short
a
warning
,
was
gone
after
her
Ravishers
.
With
these
accessional
griefs
,
of
the
unhappiness
of
my
Prince's
sister
,
and
of
my
failing
of
so
necessary
and
powerful
.
Consolers
as
I
was
confident
Lyndadory
and
Sillaces
would
have
been
to
Artabbanes
,
I
directed
my
steps
to
him
,
but
with
a
heart
so
replenisht
with
sadness
,
that
nothing
could
in
degrees
equal
it
,
but
the
justice
with
which
it
was
so
.
You
may
(
generous
Hearers
)
in
some
proportion
imagine
the
strangeness
of
my
then
employment
,
when
I
knew
not
whether
I
ought
more
to
apprehend
that
any
other
should
give
my
Prince
the
fatal
Intelligence
of
his
Misery
,
or
that
I
should
:
but
the
second
day
I
came
to
the
place
of
his
residence
,
where
the
horror
which
possest
me
,
by
the
perfect
knowledg
I
had
of
what
his
sorrows
would
be
,
at
the
information
I
was
to
give
him
,
so
vanquish'd
all
those
resolutions
I
had
assum'd
during
my
journey
,
that
not
only
I
invok'd
death
as
a
pleasing
expedient
to
have
declin'd
it
,
but
would
have
made
use
of
it
,
had
not
I
fear'd
that
Artabbanes
by
my
that
way
of
avoiding
telling
him
his
loss
,
might
have
receiv'd
it
worse
,
than
by
a
verbal
doing
it
.
But
though
this
faith
tied
up
my
hand
,
yet
by
those
sudden
and
various
emotions
which
did
agitate
me
,
I
felt
a
burning
shoot
into
my
veins
,
and
that
at
first
with
such
violence
,
that
I
was
in
hope
the
Fever
would
confer
that
obligation
on
me
which
my
affection
to
my
Prince
hinder'd
me
from
conferring
on
my self
:
or
at
least
if
his
despair
for
the
deprivation
of
Parthenissa
,
were
greater
than
his
obedience
to
her
,
my
sickness
would
enable
me
to
wait
on
him
,
without
the
help
of
my
resolution
or
duty
.
At
length
(
generous
Hearers
)
at
length
I
came
into
Artabbanes's
Chamber
;
and
though
it
were
in
high
tremblings
,
with
a
pale
look
,
and
in
vast
disorders
;
yet
they
hardly
equal'd
my
Prince's
at
the
sight
of
mine
:
That
generous
Courage
which
had
so
often
outbrav'd
Death
in
all
its
Horrors
,
which
had
so
often
unmoved
endur'd
,
nay
,
courted
the
highest
Dangers
,
was
now
conquer'd
,
and
yeelded
unto
the
bare
signs
of
sorrow
in
another
:
but
alas
,
they
were
signs
so
clear
and
evident
,
of
the
only
way
in
which
fortune
and
the
gods
had
power
to
invade
him
,
that
in
my
being
uncapable
to
tell
Him
his
Loss
,
he
did
but
too
plainly
read
it
.
But
at
last
,
when
Artabbanes
perceiv'd
that
I
had
the
power
by
words
to
acquaint
him
with
what
my
emotions
made
him
apprehend
was
the
cause
of
them
;
He
told
me
;
Are
not
the
gods
yet
(
Symander
)
weary
of
persecuting
the
miserable
Artabbanes
,
by
the
punishments
they
have
impos'd
upon
him
,
but
that
they
must
also
afflict
him
more
cruelly
and
sensibly
through
Parthenissa
?
For
doubtless
thy
grief
is
too
great
for
any
misery
which
can
wound
me
,
but
through
her
.
Has
any
of
my
Rivals
by
force
or
delusion
got
her
again
into
their
power
?
Or
has
her
Justice
now
discover'd
those
defects
in
the
over-valu'd
Artabbanes
,
which
her
mercy
so
long
hinder'd
her
from
seeing
and
punishing
?
Speak
,
I
conjure
thee
,
for
thy
looks
have
as
much
of
misery
for
me
,
as
my
Fate
can
impose
upon
me
.
Alas
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
I
must
confess
your
Ryvals
have
at
length
got
the
success
;
but
't
is
not
your
old
ones
have
done
it
,
they
have
been
but
Instruments
to
convey
her
from
themselves
,
as
well
as
you
.
Your
present
Rivals
are
such
,
that
't
is
as
great
a
Sin
,
as
Impossibility
to
resist
them
:
In
the
infelicity
of
your
Love
,
the
excellency
of
your
choice
is
manifested
;
and
in
the
highest
misery
of
Love
,
you
have
the
highest
occasion
of
evidencing
yours
hath
been
the
most
pure
,
and
most
excellent
:
for
if
in
your
Passion
,
you
were
only
concern'd
in
the
object
of
it
,
she
is
now
in
joys
;
which
will
be
so
far
from
clouding
yours
,
that
they
will
be
as
uncapable
of
encrease
,
as
of
change
.
You
have
now
,
Sir
,
no
more
the
occasion
of
repining
for
the
unequal'd
Parthenissa
,
since
the
gods
,
who
deni'd
her
you
,
but
to
possess
her
themselves
,
have
thereby
taken
from
you
the
justice
of
such
a
proceeding
;
and
have
confin'd
you
,
if
you
grieve
,
to
evidence
't
is
for
your self
,
not
her
;
who
believing
you
were
of
a
contrary
principle
,
and
that
her
felicity
would
create
yours
,
staid
not
till
your
new
Rivals
called
her
,
but
elected
to
go
to
them
.
Thereupon
I
told
him
particularly
all
that
I
had
seen
,
and
all
that
I
heard
from
Emilia
;
but
I
had
no
sooner
ended
this
fatal
relation
(
what
through
the
indisposition
which
then
invaded
me
,
what
through
the
horror
and
grief
which
I
saw
invade
my
generous
Prince
)
then
I
fell
at
his
feet
;
and
though
my
senses
at
that
instant
did
not
abandon
me
,
yet
it
was
but
to
be
the
more
cruel
,
and
the
more
tormenting
;
for
I
saw
and
heard
,
that
after
Artabbanes
had
fetch'd
a
groan
from
the
bottom
of
his
heart
,
which
shewed
the
greatness
of
it
,
by
its
being
capable
to
contain
so
much
,
he
cri'd
out
;
You
are
dead
fair
Princess
,
you
are
dead
!
and
you
died
for
Artabbanes
:
Ah
too
great
,
and
too
ungrateful
heart
,
which
canst
know
this
,
and
yet
canst
live
after
it
;
but
I
will
punish
thee
for
needing
any
help
but
thy
own
to
act
thy
duty
;
yes
ungrateful
heart
,
thy
debt
to
my
Princess
shall
be
paid
,
though
not
by
thee
;
My
Resolution
shall
have
the
glory
of
that
performance
,
since
thou
hast
declin'd
it
,
or
at
least
art
so
long
in
acting
it
.
Thereupon
he
ran
furiously
to
his
sword
,
and
having
drawn
it
,
resting
the
hilt
upon
the
ground
,
and
leaning
the
point
to
his
Breast
,
he
cri'd
out
;
Divine
Parthenissa
!
what
you
have
done
,
leaves
the
miserable
Artabbanes
nothing
to
do
,
but
to
admire
and
follow
you
:
the
first
he
has
still
perform'd
,
and
the
last
he
now
performs
.
These
words
were
no
sooner
utter'd
,
than
by
falling
on
his
sword
,
I
saw
the
fatal
point
of
it
,
having
pierc'd
his
body
,
appear
all
bloody
,
as
if
it
blush'd
at
the
sin
it
had
acted
.
Oh
Gods
!
(
Symander
cri'd
out
)
why
did
you
give
me
life
enough
to
see
,
and
not
life
enough
to
prevent
it
?
and
yet
it
might
be
just
in
them
,
that
for
my
being
griev'd
they
were
happier
than
my
Prince
,
I
should
behold
and
not
hinder
his
despair
.
But
Artabbanes
,
who
knew
how
requisite
Death
was
to
his
condition
,
and
how
opposite
I
would
be
to
that
only
cure
,
as
if
having
opened
two
doors
for
his
Soul
to
free
her self
from
that
dark
Prison
she
had
been
confin'd
unto
,
were
not
enough
;
he
striv'd
to
employ
that
little
life
was
left
,
to
take
even
that
little
totally
away
;
and
doubtless
had
repeated
his
wounds
,
if
my
horror
thereat
had
not
given
me
a
supernatural
strength
,
and
enabled
me
on
my
hands
and
knees
,
to
crawl
to
him
,
and
to
seize
upon
the
hilt
of
his
Sword
,
on
which
I
took
such
sure
hold
,
that
spight
of
all
his
struglings
,
I
kept
him
from
additional
wounds
,
and
by
my
loud
and
reiterated
cries
drew
some
of
the
people
of
the
house
to
my
assistance
;
who
with
me
,
by
meer
force
wrested
the
fatal
weapon
out
of
his
hands
:
which
being
effected
,
my
Prince
with
a
look
in
which
a
crowd
of
different
passions
were
distinctly
visible
,
told
me
,
And
is
Symander
too
become
my
enemy
?
ah
!
if
thou
hast
a
hatred
for
Artabbanes
,
canst
thou
more
signally
satisfie
it
,
than
to
see
him
send
himself
out
of
the
World
?
and
if
thou
hast
a
Friendship
for
him
,
why
dost
thou
retard
his
following
Parthenissa
?
with
that
fair
Name
his
Senses
abandon'd
him
,
and
left
his
Body
inviron'd
in
that
deluge
of
blood
which
had
flow'd
out
of
it
.
This
Swounding
which
at
first
made
me
tremble
,
soon
after
made
me
rejoyce
;
for
thereby
the
Chyrurgeons
(
who
then
came
)
without
resistance
search'd
and
drest
his
Wounds
;
and
having
laid
him
in
his
bed
,
they
there
endeavour'd
by
powerful
Cordials
to
recall
that
life
,
which
seemingly
had
forsaken
him
.
I
caus'd
them
to
lay
me
in
a
Pallet
contiguous
to
my
Prince's
bed
,
where
in
expectations
which
ravish'd
from
me
all
sense
of
my
own
condition
,
I
waited
for
the
effects
of
the
Chyrurgeons
Art
and
Prescriptions
.
But
alas
,
the
fear
I
assum'd
that
death
had
eternally
closed
his
Eyes
,
could
not
transcend
my
grief
when
that
apprehension
vanquish'd
:
for
the
first
proof
he
gave
of
life
,
was
an
action
which
sadly
demonstrated
how
intent
he
was
on
the
destroying
of
his
:
for
finding
his
wounds
bound
,
he
tore
away
all
things
the
Chyrurgeons
had
apply'd
to
them
,
and
endeavour'd
to
make
his
hands
finish
what
his
cruel
Sword
had
but
begun
:
But
those
I
had
order'd
to
watch
and
hinder
the
effects
of
his
despair
,
by
plain
force
,
and
by
my
command
,
held
his
hands
;
at
which
he
assum'd
so
high
a
rage
,
that
in
words
deliver'd
with
much
more
strength
than
I
thought
he
had
been
Master
of
,
he
told
me
;
Cruel
Symander
,
and
much
more
cruel
than
Fortune
,
yea
than
Arsaces
himself
;
they
but
make
the
highest
cure
necessary
:
but
thou
after
it
is
so
,
do'st
deny
it
me
.
I
conjure
thee
by
that
love
thou
once
did'st
pay
me
,
by
that
adoration
I
pay
my
Divine
Princess
,
who
I
now
behold
cloathed
with
more
Glory
,
than
she
has
been
with
misfortune
;
and
by
those
Tears
(
unusual
Advocates
for
me
)
permit
me
to
follow
her
:
with
that
he
shed
such
a
shower
of
them
,
that
I
was
for
a
time
unable
to
answer
him
in
any
other
language
;
which
my
Prince
perceiving
,
he
told
me
;
Canst
thou
then
,
Symander
,
give
me
the
highest
signs
of
pity
,
and
deny
me
the
least
Act
of
it
?
and
canst
thou
be
sensible
of
my
miseries
,
and
deny
me
their
only
Cure
?
Ah
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
what
is
become
of
that
Fortitude
which
in
all
the
strangest
and
intricatest
Revolutions
and
vicissitudes
of
Fortune
,
has
always
made
you
triumphant
over
her
?
Has
it
abandon'd
you
,
or
have
you
abandon'd
it
,
in
a
season
where
it
was
most
necessary
?
What
will
the
World
believe
to
your
prejudice
,
when
you
your self
act
so
much
to
it
?
your
Virtue
,
which
now
is
the
admiration
of
all
,
will
be
believ'd
the
mistake
of
all
;
for
when
any
thing
can
befall
it
greater
than
it self
,
't
will
be
thought
it
hath
acquired
its
glory
,
not
from
its
own
strength
,
but
from
the
weakness
of
its
opposers
.
Hold
thy
peace
(
said
my
Prince
,
interrupting
me
)
hold
thy
peace
;
't
is
no
wonder
thou
hast
lost
thy
concern
for
me
,
when
thou
hast
●ost
thy
reason
;
which
if
thou
hadst
not
,
thou
couldst
not
but
see
,
but
that
the
fortitude
thou
so
flatterest
me
with
,
never
aspir'd
at
so
certain
a
felicity
,
as
thy
cruelty
hinders
her
from
possessing
:
That
which
thy
madness
terms
despair
,
my
reason
terms
fortitude
;
which
high
vertue
is
not
given
us
to
continue
our
miseries
,
but
to
overcome
them
:
Mine
are
of
so
peculiar
a
quality
,
that
if
my
fortitude
should
continue
my
Life
,
't
would
act
against
it self
,
as
much
as
against
me
:
No
Symander
,
my
Fortitude
never
so
well
deserved
that
Name
,
as
now
that
it
has
made
me
chearfully
elect
to
act
my
own
Death
,
which
certainly
cannot
be
a
sin
,
since
't
will
reunite
me
to
the
Divine
Parthenissa
:
had
the
gods
design'd
me
Life
,
they
would
not
have
taken
away
hers
;
and
the
duty
of
not
killing
my self
,
by
which
I
must
be
banish'd
from
my
Princess
,
cannot
be
so
great
as
that
of
killing
my self
,
to
be
restor'd
unto
her
.
But
Sir
(
I
repli'd
)
what
Face
can
you
present
your self
to
your
Princess
with
,
when
to
act
your
satisfaction
,
you
decline
your
duty
?
and
leave
this
world
without
revenging
your self
on
him
,
who
sent
her
out
of
it
,
and
divested
you
of
all
felicity
in
it
?
This
(
said
Symander
)
I
spake
in
expectation
that
such
a
duty
might
qualifie
for
the
present
the
violence
of
his
despair
,
and
that
time
might
silence
it
in
the
future
;
but
alas
,
I
soon
found
the
vanity
of
that
hope
,
by
my
King
's
thus
answering
me
:
If
I
were
not
certain
't
were
a
higher
Mercy
to
kill
one
of
my
Princess's
Votaries
after
her
death
,
than
not
to
do
it
,
I
would
not
beg
,
the
blessing
to
become
my
own
executioner
;
and
therefore
I
will
not
so
much
oblige
the
Tyrant
,
as
to
become
his
:
The
gods
,
who
know
the
greatest
Crime
merits
the
greatest
punishment
,
do
now
evince
that
truth
on
that
Monster
;
for
the
certainty
that
to
be
the
fair
Parthenissa's
executioner
,
is
the
greatest
Sin
,
cannot
be
a
greater
Truth
,
than
after
having
acted
it
,
't
is
the
greatest
punishment
to
want
fortitude
to
be
his
own
;
and
since
Life
is
the
torment
of
my
Princess's
Murtherer
,
how
can
it
be
the
satisfaction
of
her
Adorer
?
besides
,
I
am
confined
,
and
I
believe
on
this
score
of
her
last
commands
,
from
embruing
my
hands
in
his
Blood
.
So
you
are
(
I
replyed
)
from
embruing
your
hands
in
your
own
;
and
that
request
,
nay
,
rather
command
,
imposed
with
much
more
earnestness
than
the
other
;
ah
Sir
,
consider
how
much
your
despair
offences
your
Love
,
and
how
unlike
this
proceeding
is
to
any
other
of
yours
,
where
your
Princess's
commands
have
acted
you
?
you
can
decline
becoming
the
executioner
of
her
Murtherer
,
to
obey
her
;
and
you
will
not
decline
becoming
your
own
,
when
you
have
a
higher
confinement
to
it
:
this
is
not
to
obey
her
,
but
your self
,
or
rather
your
despair
,
by
going
to
her
in
the
other
world
,
when
she
orders
your
continuance
in
this
;
and
when
that
order
was
pronounced
with
her
last
breath
,
you
shew
you
value
something
above
her
commands
,
which
is
a
crime
you
have
hitherto
declined
with
so
much
care
,
and
she
has
acknowledged
with
so
many
Elogies
,
that
your
now
running
into
it
,
evinces
nothing
so
pregnantly
as
that
her
Memory
has
not
the
same
Ascendant
over
you
,
which
her
Life
had
,
though
she
lost
hers
,
but
to
continue
the
more
gloriously
in
yours
;
consider
too
,
I
beg
you
Sir
,
that
the
more
painful
the
obedience
is
,
the
more
meritorious
't
is
;
that
common
obeyings
are
not
fit
sacrifices
for
Artabbanes
to
offer
,
or
Parthenissa
to
receive
;
and
that
the
crime
of
disobedience
cannot
be
the
way
to
so
admirable
end
,
as
is
your
reunion
with
her
:
Yes
,
Sir
,
I
tremble
to
think
how
she
will
receive
you
,
when
the
last
act
of
your
Life
is
a
violation
of
the
last
command
of
hers
.
Thou
dost
delude
thy self
,
Symander
,
thou
dost
delude
thy self
(
said
my
King
,
interrupting
me
)
;
the
Divine
Parthenissa
knew
too
well
the
greatness
of
her
loss
,
and
the
just
sense
I
should
have
of
it
,
to
enjoyn
me
the
impossibility
of
surviving
it
:
I
rather
ascribe
that
to
thy
cruelty
than
her
commands
;
or
if
she
imposed
that
on
me
which
thou
sayest
she
did
,
it
was
but
the
better
to
illustrate
the
vastness
of
my
Love
,
which
by
contemning
my
own
Life
,
her
Revenge
,
and
my
duty
to
her
commands
,
manifests
it
is
superiour
to
all
those
;
so
that
by
my
Death
I
shall
but
evince
a
truth
I
most
ambition'd
in
my
Life
;
nay
,
which
at
any
time
I
would
have
laid
down
to
witness
;
which
is
,
that
my
Love
was
as
much
above
all
other
concerns
as
the
Beauty
which
inspir'd
it
was
above
all
which
ever
inspir'd
that
Passion
:
Let
not
then
thy
cruelty
deny
my
Flame
the
most
glorious
manifestation
of
it
;
nor
let
me
derive
that
from
Time
and
from
Torments
,
which
my
resolution
is
so
obligingly
ready
to
confer
on
me
without
any
;
nor
flatter
thy self
with
believing
Time
can
change
a
resolution
,
which
is
as
irrevocable
as
that
misfortune
which
has
made
me
so
justly
assume
it
:
no
,
Symander
,
thou
mayst
tye
my
hands
,
thou
mayst
hinder
them
from
acting
my
Death
,
but
thou
canst
not
hinder
me
from
dying
;
for
I
here
solemnly
protest
by
the
highest
powers
,
and
by
my
Princess
who
has
increased
their
number
,
that
I
will
neither
eat
,
nor
drink
,
nor
sleep
,
till
the
want
of
those
confer
that
felicity
on
me
,
which
thou
hast
so
barbarously
deny'd
me
.
Then
turning
himself
from
me
in
a
shower
of
Tears
,
he
seemed
to
continue
those
reproaches
which
they
had
interrupted
.
I
cannot
(
generous
Hearers
,
continued
Symander
)
acquaint
you
with
what
grief
I
entertain'd
this
vow
of
my
Kings
;
I
knew
his
resolution
too
well
,
and
the
power
he
thus
had
to
act
it
,
not
to
tremble
when
he
pronounced
it
;
and
if
at
first
I
had
any
consolation
,
it
proceeded
from
an
unremoved
resolve
of
sharing
in
his
despair
,
if
at
last
I
could
not
silence
it
;
but
this
being
a
thing
which
related
to
my self
only
,
was
soon
expelled
by
a
throng
of
cares
,
which
my
duty
to
Artabbanes
introduced
,
who
continued
so
cruelly
true
to
his
vow
,
that
for
four
and
twenty
hours
after
he
had
made
it
,
not
all
my
Prayers
and
Tears
could
invite
him
to
take
any
refreshment
by
food
or
sleep
;
by
which
he
was
so
extreamly
weakened
,
that
he
had
not
life
enough
so
long
again
to
repeat
his
abstinence
:
which
when
I
told
him
in
sighs
and
weepings
,
he
answered
me
only
in
smiles
,
and
by
them
seemed
to
tell
me
,
that
though
his
way
of
dying
were
not
so
expeditious
as
that
I
had
denyed
him
,
yet
it
was
as
certain
.
In
this
unequall'd
misery
,
when
both
my
reason
and
my
hope
had
resign'd
themselves
unto
despair
,
the
gods
inspired
me
with
an
invention
which
till
now
I
never
did
discover
,
and
which
but
to
you
I
would
not
.
Symander
having
nicely
looked
whether
any
were
in
the
Chamber
,
and
whether
his
Prince
were
within
hearing
in
the
Gallery
,
and
being
satisfied
negatively
of
both
,
thus
resum'd
his
discourse
;
I
knew
too
well
my
King's
despair
was
so
great
,
that
no
remedy
which
was
not
so
,
could
suppress
it
,
and
that
his
vows
were
not
to
be
cancel'd
,
but
by
those
to
whom
they
were
address'd
;
't
was
therefore
,
that
calling
to
me
a
Youth
which
belonged
to
the
house
in
which
we
lay
,
and
who
during
Artabbanes's
indisposition
,
had
shewed
so
much
concern
in
it
,
and
care
for
him
,
that
I
concluded
him
sit
for
any
employment
conducible
to
his
recovery
,
I
enjoyned
him
in
the
blackest
hour
of
Night
to
conceal
himself
behind
the
hangings
,
which
was
next
my
Prince's
bed
,
and
by
unripping
a
part
of
it
,
to
convey
a
hollow
Cane
as
near
Artabbanes's
Ear
as
he
could
,
without
putting
it
within
the
reach
of
his
hands
,
and
then
in
a
counterfeit
hollow
voyce
to
speak
thrice
(
and
with
some
good
interval
)
these
ensuing
words
,
Artabbanes
,
go
to
Hierapolis
,
there
consult
and
obey
the
Oracle
.
The
time
to
execute
this
being
come
,
which
was
three
hours
after
it
was
design'd
,
and
indeed
my
Prince's
condition
could
not
well
admit
of
a
much
longer
delay
,
the
faithful
Youth
had
so
well
fitted
all
things
,
and
so
excellently
disguised
his
voice
,
that
I
almost
began
to
believe
the
gods
(
who
knew
nothing
but
themselves
had
the
power
to
suspend
that
despair
they
had
involved
him
in
)
had
undertook
that
Justice
:
As
soon
as
Artabbanes
heard
the
voyce
,
he
called
me
,
and
told
me
,
Symander
,
does
my
Fancy
conspire
with
thee
,
and
with
Fortune
?
or
do
I
really
hear
a
voyce
,
which
commands
me
an
obedience
more
cruel
than
thy
late
usage
?
I
was
about
to
reply
,
when
the
second
time
,
the
first
words
were
repeated
,
and
they
were
no
sooner
ended
,
than
I
cryed
out
as
surprized
:
At
length
,
Sir
,
at
length
,
you
see
my
endeavour
to
hinder
your
despair
,
was
not
my
Sin
,
for
if
it
had
been
one
,
the
gods
would
not
have
imitated
me
;
nor
can
you
any
longer
doubt
their
care
,
when
to
evince
it
they
make
use
even
of
a
Miracle
:
He
was
about
to
have
reply'd
,
when
the
voyce
the
third
time
enjoyn'd
what
it
had
twice
before
;
after
which
,
Artabbanes
cry'd
,
No
,
Symander
,
I
never
doubted
of
their
care
,
nor
of
their
making
use
of
Miracles
to
shew
it
;
but
then
that
care
,
and
those
Miracles
were
only
to
torment
me
:
Ah
gods
!
how
can
you
,
having
done
so
little
for
me
,
expect
so
much
from
me
?
and
why
do
you
enjoyn
me
life
,
when
you
have
not
only
taken
from
me
all
the
Felicities
,
but
also
left
me
all
the
Torments
of
it
?
Ah
Sir
!
(
I
reply'd
)
the
reason
of
Man
is
too
short
and
dull
to
reach
and
pierce
the
Ways
and
Providence
of
the
gods
,
which
commonly
delight
to
contradict
,
and
cross
what
we
do
seem
most
confident
of
;
partly
by
shewing
us
the
uncertainty
of
humane
things
,
to
wean
us
from
them
;
partly
,
to
have
us
center
wholly
in
their
power
,
which
such
a
dealing
is
no
ill
way
unto
:
Thus
have
the
greatest
Miseries
been
as
often
cur'd
,
as
the
greatest
Joys
have
been
extinguished
.
Whilst
Parthenissa
was
alive
(
said
Artabbanes
)
,
that
is
,
whilst
there
was
a
possibility
I
might
be
happy
,
I
did
undergo
all
my
afflictions
with
a
silence
great
as
themselves
,
and
with
a
resignation
which
shew'd
I
knew
the
ambition
of
my
Flame
deserved
those
sufferings
,
which
I
alone
ascribed
to
that
cause
:
But
now
the
cruel
gods
have
made
my
miseries
past
their
power
to
cure
;
With
what
justice
can
they
hope
to
retain
so
much
Empire
over
me
,
as
to
expect
I
should
act
a
performance
they
themselves
cannot
reward
?
and
how
can
the
destroying
of
so
unfortunate
a
Life
be
esteemed
a
crime
?
for
where
an
obedience
is
above
recompence
,
the
disobedience
cannot
merit
punishment
:
No
,
Symander
,
I
rather
believe
they
command
me
to
continue
in
this
Life
,
that
I
may
not
see
my
loss
in
the
next
;
for
what
Surena
and
Arsaces
have
been
to
me
in
this
world
,
the
gods
are
in
the
other
.
If
they
are
,
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
,
then
Parthenissa
governs
them
,
and
consequently
she
would
not
permit
them
to
command
you
a
fruitless
Misery
.
Alas
(
said
Artabbanes
)
,
dost
thou
not
know
,
that
though
my
earthly
Rivals
did
adore
her
,
yet
they
did
persecute
me
?
why
may
not
I
expect
from
Heaven
the
like
effects
,
from
the
like
Cause
?
No
,
Sir
(
I
answered
)
,
for
whilst
the
fair
Parthenissa's
Soul
was
inviron'd
with
an
earthly
dwelling
,
she
could
not
see
so
cleae
as
now
she
is
all
Spirit
;
so
that
now
you
need
not
doubt
her
knowledg
to
foresee
your
ills
,
nor
her
power
to
prevent
them
;
and
therefore
you
have
nothing
to
do
in
this
command
,
but
to
obey
it
:
I
am
confident
,
Sir
,
this
miraculous
injunction
proceeds
entirely
from
your
Princess's
care
;
your
now
Rivals
,
if
you
made
your
own
execution
the
way
to
her
,
might
deny
you
the
end
you
thereby
expect
,
and
that
too
without
making
any
new
Laws
,
but
by
their
observing
those
to
which
all
Mortals
are
confin'd
;
perhaps
she
has
represented
so
truly
your
Miseries
,
that
she
has
procured
a
command
to
the
Oracle
of
Hierapolis
,
to
ordain
you
by
death
to
put
a
period
to
them
,
that
thereby
the
guilt
of
the
performance
may
be
taken
away
,
and
consequently
the
punishment
,
which
doubtless
she
apprehends
as
much
upon
her
own
score
,
as
yours
.
If
that
were
so
(
said
my
King
)
,
why
did
not
the
same
voyce
which
enjoyned
me
to
seek
my
Death
(
for
that
only
can
be
my
cure
)
at
Hierapolis
,
command
,
or
at
least
permit
me
to
act
it
here
?
The
cause
,
Sir
(
I
reply'd
)
is
evident
;
every
common
Lover
,
in
the
first
dictates
which
his
Mistriss's
death
inspires
him
with
,
would
fly
unto
that
cure
you
now
are
so
intent
upon
:
But
when
you
do
evince
,
that
Time
which
heals
all
others
griefs
,
does
but
increase
yours
;
and
that
every
moment
your
Princess's
death
makes
you
willing
&
ready
to
act
your
own
,
that
will
evidence
your
Love
and
sorrow
equal
their
causes
,
and
that
the
effects
of
your
Passion
are
as
peculiar
,
as
the
Beauty
which
inspir'd
it
:
Even
Arsaces
would
,
in
the
first
fury
of
Parthenissa's
Loss
,
have
done
as
much
as
you
:
shall
the
deprived
hopes
of
a
vicious
Flame
,
have
as
high
a
production
as
those
of
a
virtuous
one
?
Ah
Sir
,
provoke
not
the
world
so
much
to
mistake
the
nature
of
your
grief
,
as
to
give
them
but
equal
illustrations
:
shew
us
what
was
but
fury
in
the
Tyrant
,
is
Reason
in
you
,
by
acting
your
Death
for
Parthenissa's
,
when
he
has
forgotten
hers
:
The
highest
production
of
grief
being
to
dye
;
and
he
having
elected
that
,
you
have
no
way
but
by
Time
to
make
the
difference
:
It
would
cloud
the
beauty
of
your
performance
,
if
it
were
in
the
heat
of
your
Loss
;
and
make
that
look
but
like
the
greatest
Rage
,
which
is
the
greatest
Love
.
I
should
be
endless
(
generous
Hearers
)
did
I
tell
you
all
our
reasonings
;
't
is
enough
you
know
,
that
at
length
I
obtained
the
victory
;
and
that
which
chiefly
gave
it
me
,
were
the
two
inducements
I
mention'd
last
.
I
must
not
omit
acquainting
you
,
that
I
elected
the
Oracle
of
Hierapolis
for
the
place
where
my
King
was
to
learn
his
Fate
,
not
only
because
it
was
the
most
celebrated
in
all
Asia
;
but
also
because
it
was
so
distant
from
the
place
we
then
were
in
,
that
it
would
necessitate
him
to
a
perfect
recovery
,
to
enable
him
to
perform
the
journey
.
Never
any
man
lost
his
health
with
more
unwillingness
than
Artabbanes
recovered
his
;
and
those
things
prescribed
him
he
took
in
such
a
way
,
as
manifested
Life
was
his
obedience
,
not
desire
:
Should
I
tell
you
all
his
extravagant
reasonings
,
his
vows
of
acting
his
own
death
,
if
the
Oracle
gave
him
any
ambiguous
answer
,
and
his
high
repinings
against
the
gods
,
for
having
kept
the
power
of
punishing
,
when
they
had
lost
that
of
rewarding
him
,
I
should
injure
your
patience
too
much
;
in
apprehension
I
have
done
so
already
:
I
shall
conclude
all
by
acqainting
you
,
That
I
wondered
he
had
so
much
obedience
for
those
Powers
for
whom
he
had
so
little
respect
;
to
whose
Providence
he
yet
owed
the
recovery
of
his
wounds
;
which
being
so
well
clos'd
as
to
permit
him
to
ride
,
we
began
our
journey
,
which
was
the
saddest
that
ever
was
perform'd
;
for
my
King
for
the
most
part
kept
a
deep
silence
,
and
when
at
any
time
he
broke
it
,
it
was
in
sighs
and
groans
,
or
in
repeating
the
fair
Name
of
Parthenissa
,
evidencing
thereby
,
that
she
only
occasion'd
them
.
The
third
Night
we
came
into
a
Village
,
whither
after
Artabbanes
was
gone
into
his
Chamber
,
there
came
certain
Gentlemen
from
Selutia
all
in
mourning
,
of
whom
I
had
the
curiosity
to
enquire
what
News
that
place
afforded
;
one
of
them
told
me
,
That
the
Death
of
the
Princess
Parthenissa
,
and
the
Princess
Zephalinda
,
took
up
all
the
sorrow
and
business
of
the
Court
;
and
that
Arsaces
continued
in
as
deep
a
Melancholly
,
as
if
the
cause
of
it
had
been
recent
;
that
he
had
lately
celebrated
their
Funerals
distinctly
:
That
though
Zephalinda's
was
with
much
solemnity
and
State
,
yet
Parthenissa's
was
with
much
more
:
and
that
in
imitation
of
Alexander's
Funerals
for
Hephestion
,
Arsaces
had
caused
all
the
Spires
,
the
Pinacles
,
and
the
Battlements
,
both
of
the
Temples
and
the
Palaces
,
in
Babylon
,
Niniveh
,
and
Selutia
to
be
beaten
down
;
and
ordered
that
all
in
his
Empire
(
which
were
able
)
should
for
the
revolution
of
twelve
Moons
wear
close
Mourning
:
That
he
had
caused
Parthenissa's
Statue
to
be
made
by
an
admirable
Artist
,
which
he
had
erected
at
the
end
of
a
large
Gallery
all
hung
with
black
,
which
had
no
other
light
but
what
it
received
from
One
hundred
Chrystal
Lamps
,
whose
flames
were
continually
fed
by
an
artificial
oyl
,
which
hardly
admitted
of
any
diminution
:
That
at
the
feet
of
this
Statue
,
he
had
placed
his
own
,
kneeling
,
weeping
,
and
fixing
his
Eyes
on
that
Beauty
,
who
seemed
to
have
communicated
to
the
Alablaster
her
living
insensibility
:
That
every
day
when
Arsaces's
grief
gave
him
strength
to
visit
this
Gallery
,
he
constantly
spent
half
of
it
at
the
fair
Princess's
feet
,
and
imitated
or
relieved
his
Statue
.
This
Gentleman
further
told
me
,
that
though
these
Deaths
,
and
this
strange
way
of
deploring
them
in
Orodes
,
left
little
room
for
other
sorrows
or
discourses
;
yet
some
there
were
who
did
both
grieve
and
wonder
at
the
strange
forcing
of
the
Princess
Lyndadorie's
Palace
,
at
her
being
carried
away
by
unknown
persons
,
and
at
the
not
hearing
since
what
was
become
of
her
,
or
the
Prince
Sillaces
,
who
the
same
Night
had
follow'd
her
Ravishers
.
This
News
(
continued
Symander
)
I
thought
unfit
to
communicate
to
my
Prince
,
lest
it
might
bring
an
accession
to
that
grief
,
whose
extinction
was
my
highest
care
.
The
next
morning
therefore
we
continued
our
journey
with
our
accustomed
silence
;
but
when
we
came
within
a
days
journey
of
this
Palace
,
there
happened
an
accident
which
I
cannot
but
acquaint
you
with
.
Not
far
from
the
Road
in
which
we
travelled
,
near
the
side
of
a
little
Grove
,
we
discovered
eight
Horsemen
,
who
assaulted
a
Gentleman
that
defended
himself
with
so
much
resolution
,
as
shewed
the
difference
of
the
numbers
did
but
render
the
Combat
equal
.
My
Prince
moved
with
the
generous
Strangers
Courage
,
and
apprehending
at
length
he
might
stand
in
need
of
his
,
pulling
down
the
sight
of
his
Helmet
,
with
his
Sword
drawn
he
gallop'd
up
to
him
just
as
one
of
his
Enemies
had
killed
his
Horse
;
by
whose
fall
he
was
so
much
disordered
,
that
had
not
Artabbanes
by
a
furious
blow
killed
one
of
those
who
press'd
him
the
most
,
the
Stranger
undoubtedly
had
exchanged
Fates
with
his
Enemy
:
Artabbanes
having
thus
reliev'd
a
danger
which
was
impossible
any
other
way
to
be
effected
,
suspending
his
Sword
in
the
Air
,
and
commanding
me
to
do
the
like
with
mine
,
address'd
himself
to
one
who
seem'd
to
be
the
chief
of
those
who
had
begun
so
unequal
a
Combat
,
and
told
him
,
Though
I
am
ignorant
in
the
cause
of
your
Quarrel
,
yet
I
have
some
reason
to
suspect
it
is
not
just
,
because
you
depend
upon
your
numbers
for
your
success
;
yet
if
you
please
to
acquaint
me
with
it
,
I
will
ingage
my self
no
longer
to
defend
your
enemy
,
than
I
find
my self
confin'd
unto
it
by
the
duty
of
Justice
.
Whoever
thou
art
(
the
other
replyed
with
an
insolent
tone
)
who
hast
made
thy self
my
Enemy
,
and
then
wouldst
have
me
make
thee
my
Judg
,
know
,
our
difference
does
not
concern
thee
;
but
since
thou
hast
made
thy self
so
much
a
Party
,
I
will
make
my self
the
Judg
,
and
do
condemn
thee
to
share
in
that
death
thou
vainly
endeavourest
to
hinder
.
Thereupon
he
darted
his
Javelin
at
my
Prince
,
who
received
it
in
his
shield
,
and
then
charged
him
so
briskly
,
that
he
found
his
courage
proportioned
his
insolency
;
this
usage
had
no
unfruitful
return
:
and
though
it
deserved
a
signal
punishment
,
yet
he
received
an
honour
that
was
so
,
dying
by
the
hand
of
Artabbanes
.
By
this
time
the
Stranger
had
mounted
himself
upon
the
Horse
of
the
first
man
that
was
killed
,
and
furiously
thrusting
into
the
midst
of
his
enemies
,
by
two
unresistable
blows
,
lessened
as
many
of
their
number
;
the
rest
amazed
at
our
assistance
,
and
at
those
admirable
deaths
,
made
so
faint
a
defence
,
that
the
Combat
soon
ended
with
their
Lives
.
The
Stranger
then
lifting
up
his
Helmet
,
which
was
shaded
with
a
great
Plume
of
Feathers
of
Aurora
colour
,
as
his
Armour
was
of
the
like
,
and
garnish'd
with
such
refulgent
Stones
as
sufficiently
manifested
their
Master
was
of
no
small
Quality
,
came
to
Artabbanes
with
so
much
Grace
and
Majesty
,
that
I
was
charm'd
with
it
,
and
told
him
;
Generous
Stranger
,
I
owe
you
my
Life
,
and
will
at
any
time
pay
you
that
debt
with
as
much
satisfaction
as
I
contracted
it
:
but
I
must
beg
your
pardon
if
a
consideration
much
higher
than
my
Life
does
now
force
me
from
you
,
which
I
should
acquaint
you
with
,
did
I
not
justly
fear
the
time
it
would
take
up
,
would
hinder
me
from
paying
a
duty
to
a
Princess
,
who
before
the
obligation
you
placed
on
me
,
merited
all
mine
,
and
even
yet
does
merit
the
most
of
it
:
But
that
I
may
not
hereafter
be
guilty
of
that
ingratitude
which
my
highest
concern
makes
me
seem
guilty
of
now
,
I
must
desire
to
know
my
Protector
's
Name
,
that
when
the
Beauty
I
serve
has
no
further
employment
for
my
Sword
and
Life
,
I
may
know
where
to
offer
both
to
him
to
whom
I
acknowledg
I
owe
them
,
and
for
whom
I
will
with
much
more
joy
employ
them
.
Artabbanes
,
extreamly
satisfied
with
this
Gallantry
,
and
as
much
mov'd
with
the
Cause
of
that
haste
the
Stranger
seem'd
to
be
in
,
repli'd
:
My
Name
,
Generous
Stranger
,
is
as
inconsiderable
as
the
little
Service
you
are
pleas'd
to
think
I
did
you
:
But
were
it
as
great
as
your
acknowledgments
,
I
should
yet
conceal
it
,
lest
you
might
thereby
believe
I
pretended
to
a
debt
you
have
but
too
abundantly
satisfi'd
already
.
You
retribute
so
much
for
so
little
,
and
you
thereby
appear
so
worthy
to
be
oblig'd
,
that
I
cannot
but
offer
you
my
service
in
the
relief
of
that
Princess
you
are
so
intent
upon
;
the
inequality
of
your
late
Combat
,
makes
me
believe
your
Enemies
are
not
acted
by
the
Principles
of
Honour
;
and
therefore
if
not
for
your
own
sake
,
yet
for
hers
you
so
much
value
,
and
who
perhaps
sets
a
greater
value
upon
your
Life
,
than
you
do
on
your
own
,
refuse
not
the
assistance
of
a
Sword
which
has
been
fortunate
enough
against
all
,
but
him
that
wears
it
.
This
strange
conclusion
had
doubtless
given
the
Stranger
a
curiosity
of
desiring
to
know
what
occasion'd
it
,
if
the
great
haste
he
was
in
,
had
not
supprest
it
;
which
was
such
,
that
it
hardly
gave
him
leisure
to
make
this
Reply
:
You
cannot
be
so
unjust
to
your self
,
and
me
,
as
to
conceal
your
Name
upon
the
score
you
mention
;
and
therefore
I
believe
some
high
Cause
invites
you
to
it
,
which
shall
suspend
my
desire
of
learning
it
:
Your
Virtue
I
am
confident
will
guide
me
to
you
,
as
certainly
as
your
Name
,
and
upon
better
considerations
;
that
way
of
enquiring
after
you
,
will
be
more
noble
,
and
as
sure
.
I
confess
I
have
the
high
Felicity
of
being
valued
by
the
Beauty
I
adore
,
and
the
misfortune
of
having
an
Enemy
and
Rival
,
who
cares
not
by
what
ways
he
reaches
his
ends
;
but
by
your
valour
you
have
cut
off
his
chiefest
assistance
;
and
his
Crimes
are
such
,
that
I
should
injure
the
Justice
of
the
gods
,
if
I
thought
a
single
Sword
which
strikes
with
Justice
,
were
not
able
to
act
my
Revenge
,
and
my
Princess's
Deliverance
.
Besides
,
I
am
so
much
your
debtor
both
by
act
and
offer
,
that
I
should
give
my self
a
greater
trouble
by
becoming
more
so
,
than
by
undertaking
alone
the
destruction
of
those
few
Enemies
your
Courage
has
left
me
.
That
is
a
consideration
(
said
Artabbanes
)
which
your
civility
only
has
rais'd
;
but
your
Valour
is
such
,
that
by
those
effects
of
it
which
I
have
seen
,
I
can
hardly
doubt
of
any
other
:
I
wil
therfore
only
beg
your
pardon
for
having
done
your
Rival
more
service
by
delaying
you
,
than
I
have
done
you
,
in
endeavouring
to
assist
you
;
and
that
you
will
give
me
so
obliging
a
Proof
of
your
having
granted
it
me
,
as
the
acquainting
me
with
your
name
.
I
should
obey
you
(
said
the
Stranger
)
if
it
were
not
to
make
my self
fruitlesly
known
unto
you
,
which
would
be
a
manifesting
of
my self
too
low
,
both
for
the
obligations
,
and
the
sense
I
have
of
them
:
Permit
me
therefore
to
decline
that
honour
,
till
I
derive
it
from
my
services
,
which
I
will
seek
you
over
all
the
world
to
pay
you
,
as
soon
as
I
am
put
into
a
capacity
of
doing
it
,
by
having
paid
mine
unto
my
Princess
,
the
necessity
of
whose
condition
I
beg
may
appologize
for
my
now
leaving
you
,
which
nothing
else
could
make
me
hope
for
,
or
invite
me
to
.
Thereupon
saluting
my
Prince
with
much
humility
and
haste
,
he
turn'd
about
his
Horse
,
and
followed
the
Tract
of
a
Chariot
with
such
celerity
,
that
we
soon
lost
sight
of
him
.
Artabbanes
was
so
much
taken
with
the
good
Meen
and
civility
of
the
generous
Stranger
,
and
so
sympathized
in
his
concerns
,
that
he
suspended
his
usual
melancholly
to
entertain
me
with
them
,
which
yet
he
did
but
for
a
little
time
,
and
then
in
his
accustomed
manner
,
continued
his
journey
hither
,
where
we
arrived
without
meeting
any
thing
else
worthy
your
knowledg
,
and
where
my
King
has
received
an
Oracle
;
which
makes
me
hope
what
I
considered
as
an
invention
of
mine
,
was
an
inspiration
of
the
gods
.
'T
was
thus
Symander
ended
the
History
of
his
King's
Life
,
and
then
beg'd
Pardon
from
his
generous
Hearers
for
the
length
of
his
Relation
,
and
for
all
those
faults
he
had
been
,
or
those
omissions
he
might
be
guilty
of
.
Artavasdes
and
Callimmachus
having
both
took
notice
with
much
civility
of
Symander
,
and
acknowledged
how
well
he
had
acquitted
himself
,
went
to
Artabbanes
in
the
Gallery
;
who
,
though
they
found
in
an
excess
of
sadness
,
yet
by
the
knowledg
of
its
cause
,
they
were
so
far
from
condemning
,
that
they
participated
in
it
.
But
the
good
Callimmachus
,
who
knew
the
gods
promises
to
him
,
and
their
power
of
performing
them
on
those
two
Subjects
,
endeavoured
by
the
assistance
of
Artavasdes
,
to
change
his
sorrow
into
Faith
,
which
yet
prov'd
but
a
fruitless
attempt
:
For
Artabbanes
knew
the
utmost
extension
of
Faith
,
was
to
act
above
reason
,
not
against
it
;
and
therefore
found
in
his
own
condition
,
two
high
a
certainty
of
its
admitting
a
change
.
Several
days
were
spent
in
such
successless
employments
,
and
to
recover
the
two
Princes
out
of
a
dangerous
relapse
into
which
they
were
fallen
,
whose
cure
had
retarded
their
intended
Sacrifice
ordain'd
them
by
the
Oracle
:
But
Callimmachus
finding
the
Princes
in
perfect
health
,
and
esteeming
it
high
time
to
obey
the
imposition
of
the
gods
,
as
also
believing
the
Beauties
of
a
little
Forest
in
which
the
Temple
of
Adonis
and
the
Vestal
Nuns
stood
,
might
be
some
diversion
to
their
sorrows
,
invited
them
thither
:
It
was
not
above
forty
furlongs
from
the
Temple
of
Hierapolis
,
and
a
place
of
so
much
delight
,
that
a
Melancholly
which
was
capable
of
ease
might
be
certain
of
receiving
it
there
.
Artavasdes
,
who
burnt
with
impatience
to
make
a
journey
into
Parthia
,
to
offer
his
Sword
and
Life
unto
Altezeera
,
which
the
words
of
one
of
his
dying
Enemies
made
him
apprehend
she
stood
in
need
of
,
would
before
this
invitation
have
gone
whither
his
love
and
duty
called
him
,
had
his
health
permitted
it
;
but
now
it
did
,
and
Artabbanes
also
(
who
he
was
unexpressibly
troubled
to
leave
:
)
a
new
difficulty
arose
which
was
like
to
interrupt
his
voyage
for
a
few
days
,
which
was
,
that
those
Arms
he
had
wore
at
his
coming
to
the
Temple
were
too
rich
,
and
too
well
known
to
his
Parthian
Enemies
(
as
by
a
fatal
experiment
it
had
near
been
demonstrated
)
to
travel
with
them
into
a
Countrey
where
his
only
safety
would
consist
in
his
not
being
discovered
:
To
redress
which
inconveniency
,
he
was
forced
to
bespeak
less-rich
Arms
in
the
City
of
Hierapolis
(
which
is
not
above
Ten
furlongs
from
the
Temple
)
and
those
not
being
like
to
be
finished
in
a
longer
time
than
this
journey
would
take
up
,
he
joyn'd
his
desires
to
Callimmachus's
,
which
were
so
prevalent
with
Artabbanes
,
that
he
Promised
to
accompany
him
in
that
little
journey
,
so
that
during
it
,
Callimmachus
would
engage
to
acquaint
them
with
his
Story
,
which
having
done
,
he
took
leave
of
them
for
that
Night
,
and
the
next
morning
early
,
he
waited
on
them
again
.
Though
the
way
was
but
short
,
being
yet
too
long
to
be
performed
without
Horses
,
the
generous
Priest
provided
some
for
them
as
good
as
ever
Arabia
produced
;
and
mounted
on
one
of
that
Countrey
himself
,
they
set
forth
.
They
had
not
gone
a
Furlong
,
when
the
two
Princes
summoned
Callimmachus
of
his
promise
,
which
he
found
a
much
easier
thing
to
have
made
than
to
perform
,
and
having
testified
this
Truth
by
a
few
sighs
,
which
a
reflection
on
those
fatal
accidents
he
was
going
to
relate
extorted
from
him
,
he
at
length
with
a
deep
Melancholly
,
began
the
Relation
of
his
Adventures
,
in
these
terms
.
The
End
of
the
Fourth
Part
of
Parthenissa
.
PARTHENISSA
,
A
ROMANCE
▪
THE
FIFTH
PART
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FIFTH
PART
.
The
First
BOOK
.
The
History
of
CALLIMMACHUS
.
THE
gods
,
who
manifest
they
are
absolute
,
as
well
over
Kings
,
as
private
Persons
,
and
if
they
evince
not
their
being
so
as
often
on
the
former
as
the
latter
,
it
is
only
because
there
are
many
more
of
the
one
Quality
than
of
the
other
(
for
in
degrees
of
proportion
,
they
have
as
frequently
,
if
not
more
,
evidenced
it
on
Monarchies
and
Common-wealths
,
as
on
their
subjects
)
have
so
clearly
acquainted
me
with
this
Truth
,
by
those
signal
miseries
they
have
involved
that
unfortunate
Family
in
,
from
whence
I
have
the
honour
to
be
descended
,
that
if
my
words
would
not
acknowledg
their
power
,
my
condition
must
▪
for
though
by
the
Laws
of
a
legitimate
succession
,
I
should
now
wear
a
Crown
as
flourishing
as
most
in
Asia
,
yet
I
am
limited
to
the
governing
of
a
few
Priests
;
which
change
I
could
never
have
digested
,
had
not
my
fate
inflicted
on
me
another
loss
of
so
peculiar
and
transcendent
a
quality
,
that
the
loss
of
Empire
is
absolutely
drowned
in
the
fatal
remembrance
of
it
.
Great
gods
!
(
continued
Callimmachus
)
,
had
you
only
cast
me
from
the
Throne
of
my
Predecessors
,
and
from
all
the
joys
and
fruitions
of
an
early
Monarchy
,
I
had
submitted
to
that
fate
with
as
perfect
a
resignation
as
you
could
have
expected
from
an
Offendor
,
whose
crimes
could
not
but
be
infinite
,
since
his
punishments
are
so
;
but
alas
!
why
to
this
high
misfortune
would
you
add
that
higher
,
of
seating
me
in
a
noble
Throne
,
only
to
precipitate
me
from
it
?
But
why
do
I
repine
at
the
last
unhappiness
,
when
you
thought
me
worthy
of
the
first
?
and
how
could
I
fancy
you
would
inthrone
me
in
the
fair
Statira's
heart
,
which
was
the
highest
blessing
,
when
you
would
not
inthrone
me
in
my
Father's
Right
,
which
was
but
a
common
Justice
?
Here
Callimmachus
breast
was
so
contracted
with
grief
by
a
reflection
on
what
he
was
engaged
to
relate
,
that
it
necessitated
him
to
a
small
silence
;
which
his
generous
Auditors
would
have
made
use
of
,
to
procure
his
pardon
for
their
not
having
paid
him
those
submissions
due
to
his
Real
quality
,
which
their
ignorance
was
guilty
of
,
and
consequently
could
only
apologize
for
;
but
Callimmachus
would
not
so
much
as
listen
to
their
intentions
when
once
he
guessed
at
them
,
which
absolutely
to
retrench
he
made
the
greater
haste
to
suppress
his
disorders
;
and
having
effected
it
,
he
thus
continued
:
I
shall
not
scruple
(
Generous
Princes
)
to
acknowledg
I
am
descended
from
Prusias
King
of
Bithynia
,
sirnamed
the
Hunter
;
That
Prusias
,
who
to
all
his
other
crimes
,
added
those
of
betraying
the
great
Hannibal
,
and
of
sending
Minas
to
Rome
,
expresly
to
murther
his
Son
the
Prince
Nicomedes
,
whom
he
had
married
very
young
unto
the
daughter
of
Attalus
then
King
of
Pergamus
;
which
Nuptial
was
no
sooner
celebrated
,
than
he
repented
it
;
for
finding
how
much
the
young
Nicomedes
was
justly
admired
by
all
the
Bithynians
,
and
that
his
Son's
virtues
did
but
render
his
crimes
the
more
visible
and
detestable
,
he
resolved
to
destroy
him
by
poyson
,
whilst
he
yet
resided
with
him
;
and
to
this
he
was
the
more
inclin'd
,
by
having
the
same
belief
of
Nicomedes
,
that
he
had
of
himself
;
which
was
,
that
where
the
power
of
winning
a
Crown
was
not
wanting
,
the
will
of
doing
it
was
the
like
;
and
therefore
he
feared
the
affection
Attalus
paid
his
Son-in-Law
,
would
invite
him
to
employ
his
power
for
him
,
to
which
Prusias
knew
he
must
submit
;
not
that
Bithynia
could
not
bring
as
many
to
resist
,
as
he
could
to
invade
,
but
that
he
knew
his
Tyranny
had
lost
him
his
Subjects
hearts
,
and
consequently
he
could
expect
no
safety
from
their
Arms.
But
Nicomedes
was
too
generous
to
make
good
his
Father's
fears
;
yet
having
miraculously
discovered
his
intention
of
poysoning
him
,
and
avoided
it
also
(
for
he
that
should
have
given
him
the
fatal
Cup
,
mistook
it
,
and
by
drinking
it
himself
,
converted
his
sin
into
the
punishment
of
it
)
he
thought
to
put
himself
into
a
condition
of
ending
both
his
Father's
and
his
own
fears
,
and
knew
nothing
could
better
effect
the
design
,
than
by
absenting
himself
from
Bithynia
,
which
he
did
after
his
Princess
had
presented
him
with
a
Son
,
which
he
also
called
Nicomedes
,
whom
with
his
Mother
he
sent
to
Attalus
;
whither
he
would
not
retire
,
lest
the
place
of
his
retreat
might
raise
those
jealousies
,
which
he
intended
thereby
to
suppress
.
He
therefore
went
to
Rome
,
not
only
as
it
was
the
fittest
place
to
form
and
fashion
him
;
but
as
believing
it
a
Sanctuary
which
Prusias
durst
not
violate
:
for
it
was
from
the
Romans
he
had
received
his
Kingdom
,
which
he
had
forfeited
to
them
,
by
that
assistance
he
had
given
Perseus
King
of
Macedon
,
whose
Sister
he
had
married
.
But
nothing
being
able
to
suppress
the
Tyrant's
cruelty
,
when
the
dictates
of
Nature
could
not
;
he
sent
Minas
to
Rome
to
destroy
that
life
there
,
which
the
gods
had
so
miraculously
preserved
in
Bithynia
:
But
Minas
when
he
was
to
act
his
treachery
,
and
had
on
purpose
inveagled
Nicomedes
alone
to
walk
on
the
banks
of
Tiber
,
was
so
overcome
with
the
Majesty
of
his
Person
,
and
the
charms
of
his
Virtue
,
that
instead
of
executing
his
crime
upon
his
Prince
,
he
revealed
it
to
him
;
and
afterwards
made
him
so
clearly
sensible
of
the
great
hazard
he
should
constantly
be
in
of
losing
his
life
,
if
Prusias
had
power
enough
left
to
destroy
it
,
that
he
at
length
perswaded
Nicomedes
to
go
to
Attalus
,
and
implore
an
Army
able
to
bring
Prusias
to
Reason
;
Minas
assuring
him
that
as
soon
as
he
entred
Bithynia
,
he
would
bring
him
forces
so
considerable
,
that
Prusias
should
not
be
able
to
resist
.
In
brief
,
all
this
was
performed
;
and
after
a
long
and
intricate
War
,
Prusias
scorning
all
accommodation
,
was
reduced
to
be
King
of
nothing
but
the
City
of
Nicomedia
,
in
which
Minas
had
so
good
intelligence
,
and
so
many
friends
,
that
they
admitted
Nicomedes
and
his
Army
by
night
,
who
before
his
entrance
,
prohibited
all
violence
or
incivility
to
his
Father
upon
pain
of
death
.
But
Prusias
at
the
alarm
,
fled
in
disguise
towards
the
Temple
of
Iupiter
for
Sanctuary
;
and
being
by
the
way
met
by
some
of
Nicomede's
Soldiers
,
though
he
told
them
who
he
was
,
was
yet
kill'd
.
This
news
brought
to
Nicomedes
,
he
ran
to
the
dead
body
,
embraced
and
wept
over
it
,
punish'd
exemplarily
all
the
Soldiers
which
had
had
a
hand
in
his
death
;
then
gave
him
a
Regal
funeral
,
and
afterwards
languished
away
his
own
life
.
To
him
succeeded
his
Son
Nicomedes
sirnamed
Philopater
,
who
no
sooner
came
to
the
age
of
relishing
a
Scepter
,
but
his
was
forced
from
him
by
Socrates
,
●irnamed
Chrestus
,
his
only
brother
,
and
thereby
necessitated
to
seek
protection
in
Cappadocia
,
under
Ariobarzanes
the
King
of
that
Country
whose
daughter
he
married
;
and
when
she
had
presented
him
with
a
Son
also
called
Nicomedes
,
she
engaged
her
Father
in
the
War
against
Chrestus
,
who
being
a
greater
Soldier
than
either
Philopater
or
Ariobarzanes
,
not
only
,
after
a
ten
years
War
,
drove
them
out
of
Bithynia
,
which
they
had
invaded
,
but
also
out
of
Cappadocia
;
and
forced
both
the
Kings
with
the
young
Nicomedes
to
fly
to
Rome
,
where
some
years
they
continued
,
imploring
a
Roman
Army
for
their
restauration
,
which
they
at
length
obtained
.
The
Generals
were
Mannius
Aquilius
,
and
Lucius
Cassius
,
whose
Armies
being
small
,
they
were
ordered
to
demand
an
additional
force
from
Mithridates
Eupater
,
who
having
privately
agreed
with
Socrates
to
have
Cappadocia
if
he
would
not
assist
the
Romans
in
recovering
Bithynia
,
deny'd
Cassius
and
Mannius
his
assistance
;
who
yet
by
that
influence
the
banished
Kings
had
over
their
Subjects
,
defeated
and
killed
Socrates
in
a
furious
Battel
,
and
re-seated
Ariobarzanes
and
Nicomedes
in
those
Thrones
,
of
which
they
had
been
so
long
and
so
unjustly
deprived
.
But
the
poor
Philopater
had
no
sooner
received
his
Son
from
Rome
,
whose
youth
was
as
promising
as
either
his
Parents
or
the
Bithynians
could
desire
,
but
that
his
Queen
died
;
and
that
loss
had
so
strong
an
operation
upon
him
,
that
he
soon
accompanied
her
,
and
left
Bithynia
to
Nicomedes
my
Father
.
I
have
given
you
this
little
account
of
my
family
(
the
crimes
whereof
,
though
but
inherent
to
one
,
yet
the
misfortunes
were
to
all
)
to
let
you
see
that
such
as
are
eminent
in
Title
,
are
often
so
in
afflictions
;
that
the
gods
by
ruining
the
highest
earthly
felicities
,
teach
us
thereby
,
that
they
are
not
too
solicitously
to
be
prosecuted
by
those
that
want
them
,
nor
to
be
rely'd
on
by
those
which
possess
them
;
but
that
they
ought
to
be
considered
as
things
which
will
leave
us
,
or
must
be
left
by
us
:
that
we
should
be
no
more
moved
with
the
fruition
,
than
with
the
deprivation
of
them
:
and
that
these
just
considerations
might
instruct
us
to
fix
upon
that
place
where
Fortune
has
no
Empire
,
and
to
which
Vertue
only
has
the
title
.
The
Kingdom
of
Bithynia
knew
few
Superlours
in
extent
,
in
fertility
,
in
the
beauty
and
greatness
of
Cities
,
or
in
the
multiplicity
of
warlike
Inhabitants
,
when
Nicomedes
my
unfortunate
Father
came
to
govern
it
;
and
though
he
were
a
person
replenished
with
all
the
realities
and
ornaments
which
makes
one
worthy
to
ascend
a
Throne
,
and
to
be
setled
in
it
;
yet
those
Powers
who
from
occult
causes
raise
some
to
a
Crown
that
deserve
it
not
,
and
tare
the
Scepter
from
some
who
deserve
to
hold
it
,
esteemed
the
unhappy
Nicomedes
a
fit
Subject
on
which
to
manifest
the
last
of
these
truths
;
and
it
was
in
this
manner
that
they
acted
their
decree
:
When
he
came
to
ascend
the
throne
,
by
his
Father's
death
,
it
was
in
so
early
an
age
,
that
he
had
a
higher
desire
to
observe
how
other
Kings
did
rule
their
Subjects
,
than
he
then
had
to
rule
his
own
;
or
else
he
believed
,
by
having
a
personal
inspection
into
the
advantages
and
defects
of
the
Regiment
of
others
,
he
might
the
more
perfectly
know
how
to
carry
on
his
own
;
but
from
whatever
principle
it
proceeded
,
and
whatever
danger
he
incurred
;
yet
he
was
unmoveably
fixt
to
visit
in
a
disguise
the
Courts
of
such
Princes
in
Asia
,
whom
same
had
most
celebrated
;
and
therefore
having
intrusted
his
affairs
at
home
to
the
Prince
Astyages
his
Uncle
,
and
then
apparent
Successor
(
a
Person
as
eminent
for
the
honest
,
as
the
politick
part
of
Government
;
but
so
strict
a
Justiciar
,
that
he
put
his
only
Son
to
death
for
having
violated
a
Law
whose
infringement
was
to
be
accompanied
with
that
penalty
)
,
he
began
his
travels
in
an
equipage
fit
to
cloud
the
greatness
of
his
real
quality
,
and
yet
sufficient
to
manifest
he
was
of
no
inconsiderable
one
.
In
brief
,
after
he
had
fruitfully
visited
all
places
fit
for
his
curiosity
,
or
benefit
:
he
at
length
came
to
Mithridates
Court
,
then
the
most
considerable
of
all
others
in
every
respect
;
for
though
as
then
the
Prince
pharnaces
,
the
Prince
Ataphernes
,
the
Princess
Statira
,
and
the
Princess
Roxana
,
were
not
come
into
the
world
;
yet
there
was
such
a
confluence
of
other
illustrious
persons
and
beauties
which
composed
it
,
that
Nicomedes
was
often
heard
say
,
That
,
to
be
one
of
that
Court
was
as
good
as
to
be
the
chief
of
any
other
.
But
that
which
raised
this
opinion
in
my
Father
was
,
that
the
Pontick
King
(
who
all
the
world
knew
was
as
violent
as
inconstant
in
his
loves
)
had
then
newly
assumed
a
passion
for
the
Princess
Fontamyris
,
who
was
only
Heir
to
Cephines
,
a
Tributary-Prince
unto
him
;
yet
very
considerable
for
his
power
and
wisdom
.
This
Amour
joyn'd
with
Mithridates
youth
,
made
his
Court
the
most
delicious
place
,
not
only
of
Asia
,
but
of
the
whole
world
.
My
Father
too
,
being
in
an
age
very
susceptible
of
all
the
charms
of
such
a
place
,
it
was
not
strange
he
had
so
high
an
opinion
of
it
,
since
all
sort
of
gallantries
shined
there
in
their
greatest
lusture
.
The
next
night
after
Nicomedes
came
to
Pergamus
,
then
the
residence
of
Mithridates
,
he
was
informed
that
the
ensuing
one
the
King
presented
Fontamyris
with
a
magni●ick
Ball
;
the
great
discourse
of
such
a
meeting
,
and
the
greater
of
that
beauty
who
was
the
cause
of
it
,
gave
my
Father
the
curiosity
to
be
a
looker
on
;
but
he
no
sooner
saw
the
fair
Fontamyris
,
than
he
became
one
indeed
;
and
what
his
curiosity
had
extended
over
the
whole
Assembly
,
a
more
pressing
cause
confined
to
one
of
it
:
And
though
Nicomedes
the
more
unob●ervedly
to
gaze
on
his
new
Conqueror
,
had
retired
himself
into
the
throng
;
yet
his
good
Meen
,
and
the
advantage
of
his
stature
was
such
,
that
amongst
many
who
considered
him
upon
those
scores
,
as
well
as
for
his
being
a
stranger
,
the
fair
Fontamyris
did
it
so
intently
,
that
not
only
Nicomedes
observed
and
was
concern'd
in
it
;
but
Mithridates
did
the
like
too
;
and
they
had
both
much
more
cause
for
both
;
when
the
fair
Fontamyris
,
by
the
rules
of
the
Ball
was
to
elect
one
to
dance
with
,
she
chose
my
Father
out
of
the
throng
,
who
as
much
confounded
as
joyful
at
it
,
having
with
a
deep
humility
acknowledged
the
honour
she
did
him
(
in
the
Pontick
tongue
also
,
which
he
spake
as
naturally
as
his
own
)
he
afterwards
acquitted
himself
with
so
much
grace
and
unconstrainedness
in
the
Dance
,
and
observed
the
Cadence
with
so
much
justness
and
regularity
,
that
the
Courtiers
,
who
found
how
much
his
having
done
so
,
disgusted
Mithridates
,
could
not
find
in
their
envy
and
malice
the
least
rise
to
manifest
either
;
for
the
more
curiously
and
nicely
they
examined
what
he
had
performed
,
the
more
cause
they
found
to
esteem
and
admire
it
.
And
that
Fontamyris
might
have
as
much
occasion
to
be
sati●fied
with
his
civility
,
as
he
had
to
be
with
hers
,
whilst
he
was
leading
her
to
her
place
,
he
again
made
her
so
many
handsom
retributions
for
the
honour
she
had
done
him
,
that
if
she
had
reason
to
be
pleased
with
what
he
did
in
the
Dance
,
she
had
at
least
as
much
to
be
so
with
what
he
had
done
after
it
.
Nicomedes
being
obliged
by
the
Rules
of
the
Ball
to
take
out
another
Lady
,
he
took
one
who
●ate
next
to
Fontamyris
,
with
whom
he
Danc'd
,
and
then
having
saluted
Mithridates
and
all
the
company
with
much
humility
,
but
Fontamyris
with
much
more
,
he
retired
into
the
throng
,
where
he
continued
as
long
as
the
Ball
,
and
in
distempers
,
which
till
then
he
had
never
been
acquainted
with
:
But
(
said
Callimmachus
)
not
having
undertaken
Nicomede's
story
,
but
mine
,
I
will
be
as
brief
in
his
as
I
can
,
with
obedience
to
what
you
have
commanded
me
concerning
mine
own
:
and
therefore
I
shall
in
short
acquaint
you
,
that
my
Father
was
so
far
engag'd
in
his
passion
to
Fontamyris
,
and
so
successfully
made
his
Court
,
that
at
length
it
was
not
only
her
opinion
,
but
confession
,
that
the
difference
between
the
Kingdoms
of
Mithridates
and
Nicomedes
was
not
near
so
great
,
as
that
between
their
persons
;
for
my
Father
had
informed
Fontamyris
,
and
Cephines
,
of
his
real
quality
,
though
he
and
they
had
conceal'd
it
from
the
Pontick
,
King
,
who
never
knew
thereof
till
Nicomedes
had
secretly
carried
away
the
Princess
into
Bithynia
,
which
he
did
both
by
hers
,
and
her
Father's
consent
,
who
yet
durst
not
publickly
own
it
,
lest
Mithridates
resentments
might
have
vented
themselves
against
him
,
who
only
was
in
his
power
.
Soon
after
in
Nicomedia
the
Nuptials
were
re-solemnized
openly
,
and
with
all
the
magnificence
a
young
King
and
a
successful
Lover
could
invent
:
But
alas
!
those
joys
were
but
of
short
duration
,
and
like
glorious
mornings
which
are
the
soonest
over-cast
,
and
turned
to
tears
;
for
the
lightning
of
this
Nuptial-Torch
,
was
the
flame
which
set
all
Asia
on
fire
,
was
the
original
of
that
fatal
war
which
afterwards
the
world
too
well
knew
by
the
name
of
Mithridatick
;
and
was
the
occasion
or
pretence
of
drawing
the
Roman
Eagles
out
of
Europe
into
the
East
,
where
they
have
since
extended
their
wings
into
the
Euphrates
,
over
which
't
is
believed
they
had
long
since
flown
,
had
not
the
Domestick
differences
of
her
proud
Citizens
done
more
for
Asia
,
than
the
blood
and
swords
of
all
her
Inhabitants
.
This
great
people
jealous
of
their
glory
,
or
thirsting
after
a
pretence
to
encrease
it
and
their
Empire
,
so
highly
resented
Mithridates
not
assisting
Mannius
Aquilius
,
and
Lucius
Cassius
,
in
the
recovery
of
Bithynia
and
Cappadocia
,
that
they
commanded
those
two
Generals
to
invade
Pontus
,
and
to
make
the
loss
of
that
great
Kingdom
the
Penance
of
the
King's
disobedience
:
But
knowing
the
Roman
Army
was
too
small
for
so
great
a
design
,
by
a
solemn
Embassy
they
invited
Nicomedes
to
joyn
his
Arms
to
theirs
,
and
to
suppress
the
Enemy
both
to
his
Family
and
Person
.
Nicomedes
,
who
owed
his
Crown
to
the
Romans
,
who
knew
Mithridates
Resentment
would
proportion
his
Loss
,
That
if
he
omitted
this
opportunity
of
depressing
him
,
he
would
probably
never
meet
with
such
another
;
and
perhaps
in
a
heat
of
youth
,
ambitious
to
mingle
Laurels
with
his
Myrtles
,
invited
by
Gratitude
,
Policy
and
Glory
,
added
a
Bithynian
Army
to
the
Roman
,
over
both
which
the
Senate
made
him
General
;
which
they
the
more
confidently
did
,
because
his
Education
was
Roman
;
and
this
Action
made
them
believe
his
Inclination
was
the
like
.
Nicomedes
,
Mannius
,
and
Cassius
,
found
Eupater
on
the
Frontiers
of
Pontus
with
a
vast
Army
,
which
he
had
raised
to
invade
his
Rivals
Kingdom
;
but
now
to
his
grief
and
wonder
,
he
found
must
be
employed
to
defend
his
own
.
The
Retail
of
this
War
would
be
endless
:
I
shall
therefore
omit
all
the
battels
,
sieges
and
encounters
of
it
,
to
tell
you
the
event
of
that
signal
day
,
on
the
success
of
which
both
parties
had
set
up
their
Re●ts
;
The
Consequence
being
great
,
the
Forces
which
composed
both
Armies
were
the
like
;
under
Mithridates
Ensigns
there
were
Two
hundred
thousand
foot
,
and
One
hundred
thousand
Horse
rais'd
in
Pontus
,
Lidia
,
the
two
Sc●thia's
,
Mesopotamia
,
Armenia
the
less
,
and
even
the
Bactrians
,
and
the
farther
Eastern
people
came
to
his
help
against
the
Romans
,
their
common
Enemy
;
to
all
which
Craterus
,
a
great
Captain
,
had
brought
him
One
hundred
and
thirty
Chariots
armed
and
fortified
with
sharp
Sithes
;
an
invention
which
till
then
the
Romans
and
B●thinians
had
never
been
acquainted
with
;
and
which
did
more
against
Nicomedes
Army
,
than
all
Mithridates's
besides
.
These
great
Forces
were
led
by
Commanders
,
whose
Gallantry
rendered
them
as
formidable
as
their
Numbers
:
besides
Craterus
,
there
was
Dorilaus
who
led
a
Phalange
of
Foot
,
so
considerable
both
for
the
number
and
order
,
that
the
Romans
both
feared
and
admired
it
.
Neoptolemus
led
Thirty
thousand
Horse
,
and
his
brother
Archilaus
led
as
many
compos'd
of
various
Eastern
Nations
.
Canzaber
a
famous
Bactrian
Prince
,
led
Thirty
thousand
foot
of
that
wild
Countrey
,
and
of
the
Zogdians
;
and
amongst
many
others
,
the
young
Prince
Archathias
,
eldest
Son
to
Mithridates
by
a
P●ntick
Lady
,
whose
death
had
given
him
the
libe●ty
of
making
his
addresses
to
Fontamyris
,
was
at
the
head
of
Ten
thousand
Armenian
Horse
,
and
became
his
Command
so
well
,
that
his
good
meen
and
courage
abundantly
suppli'd
the
want
of
his
experience
.
To
this
immense
Land-army
,
Mithridates
had
as
considerable
a
Naval
one
,
under
the
Command
of
Betuitus
,
which
Anchor'd
at
the
mouth
of
the
River
Amadus
,
near
whose
banks
this
fatal
difference
was
decided
,
and
from
which
the
ensuing
battel
took
its
name
.
Nicomedes
army
though
inferiour
in
Number
,
yet
was
not
so
in
the
confidence
of
Victory
;
for
the
Senate
,
knowing
how
much
depended
on
this
great
field
,
had
to
their
Legions
under
Cassius
,
and
Mannius
,
sent
Appius
a
noted
Captain
,
who
had
re-inforced
his
Romans
with
so
considerable
a
Number
of
Cappadodocians
,
that
his
Army
only
consisted
of
forty
thousand
Horse
and
Foot
.
Mannius
by
those
helps
he
had
out
of
Pamphilia
was
no
less
,
not
Cassius's
neither
,
who
had
newly
received
large
accessional
Forces
out
of
Galatia
and
Phr●gia
.
To
all
these
Nicomedes
had
brought
Fifty
thousand
foot
,
and
six
thousand
all
natural
Bythinians
:
and
that
the
Empire
of
the
Sea
,
as
well
as
of
the
Land
,
might
be
at
once
decided
,
he
sent
Order
to
Minutius
,
Russus
,
and
Caius
Popilius
,
to
leave
the
Guard
of
the
Pontick
Sea
,
which
thitherto
had
been
their
employment
by
express
Order
from
Rome
,
to
engage
●etuitus's
Fleet
,
when
the
Land
forces
began
the
battel
.
The
Armies
being
drawn
up
by
that
time
the
Sun
had
reach'd
the
South
,
Nicomedes
encouraged
the
Romans
by
the
Glory
which
that
day
they
might
win
,
and
by
the
profit
the
Victory
would
present
them
,
which
was
no
less
than
the
civilized
parts
of
Asi●
.
Then
addressing
himself
to
his
own
Subjects
,
he
only
told
them
:
'T
is
this
day
,
O
Bythinians
,
that
you
will
decide
from
whom
you
derived
your
Originals
;
For
if
you
seek
your
safety
in
any
thing
but
your
Valours
,
your
Enemies
will
not
only
stay
,
but
even
your
King
will
believe
,
and
you
will
prove
,
That
you
are
indeed
descended
from
those
Cowards
which
the
unfortunate
Rhesus
led
to
the
relief
of
Troy
,
and
which
Diomed
the
first
Night
conquer'd
and
dispersed
:
But
if
by
your
courages
you
successfully
court
Fortune
and
Victory
(
for
't
is
only
by
Valour
those
are
won
)
,
the
world
will
know
you
draw
your
extraction
from
the
Lineage
of
the
gods
,
and
that
Bithis
the
Son
of
Iupiter
,
and
Thracis
,
was
the
noble
Source
from
whence
you
are
descended
.
Nicomedes
said
no
more
,
neither
indeed
needed
he
;
for
the
Bithynians
were
so
jealous
of
their
pedigree
,
and
so
offended
at
their
enemies
saying
,
they
were
descended
from
those
Grecian
Fugitives
,
that
they
esteemed
Death
a
much
less
misfortune
,
than
to
be
denied
their
true
Original
,
or
to
have
that
false
one
imposed
on
them
;
upon
both
which
scores
only
,
they
had
often
in
ancient
times
begun
and
continued
bloody
Wars
.
The
Military
Musick
was
beginning
to
invite
the
hearers
,
to
drown
it
in
their
shouts
:
when
a
Post
came
to
Nicomedes
from
Fontamyris
,
to
acquaint
him
,
that
the
gods
had
given
him
the
unfortunate
Callimmachus
,
(
which
name
Arsamnor
my
Governour
gave
me
at
Athens
;
it
signifying
in
the
Bithynian
language
,
as
much
as
unhappy
at
the
Birth
;
my
own
being
Nicomedes
,
which
yet
I
never
wore
,
being
but
too
much
known
by
the
misfortunes
of
it
)
.
But
with
this
desired
news
my
Father
begun
the
Battel
,
having
first
communicated
it
to
the
Bithynians
,
whose
joy
made
the
Enemy
mourn
;
for
carried
on
with
so
high
an
Addition
to
their
Valours
,
they
acted
things
which
both
the
Romans
and
Mithridates
admired
.
Neither
did
Nicomedes
performances
exact
a
less
debt
;
for
having
now
a
successor
,
he
was
the
more
prodigal
of
himself
,
whereby
all
that
durst
resist
him
,
soon
found
the
bloody
punishment
of
that
confidence
.
But
alas
!
what
certainty
is
there
of
humane
things
?
When
the
poor
Nicomedes
in
the
height
of
his
Glory
,
and
at
the
head
of
a
conquering
Army
,
from
a
single
unknown
hand
,
received
a
Dart
,
which
piercing
through
his
Body
,
deprived
him
of
speech
and
sense
.
The
Bithynians
by
a
general
groan
solemnized
his
fall
,
and
the
Mithridatians
imagining
what
alone
in
so
fair
a
way
to
Victory
,
could
produce
so
strange
an
effect
;
by
a
shout
of
joy
acquainted
the
sad
Bithynians
,
they
knew
what
made
them
so
.
But
the
passion
of
grief
at
the
Bithynians
loss
,
being
greater
than
their
fury
for
it
:
and
at
the
same
instant
Craterus
charging
into
their
greatest
Body
,
with
his
armed
Chariots
,
brought
so
general
a
disorder
to
Nicomedes
subjects
,
that
they
scarce
could
carry
off
his
wounded
Body
;
and
the
Romans
with
their
Auxiliaries
seeing
the
Bithynians
flie
from
that
Victory
they
had
so
generously
courted
,
and
almost
obtained
,
despaired
of
recovering
the
day
;
which
they
had
much
more
cause
for
,
when
Craterus
and
Arcathias
charged
Cassius
in
front
and
flank
,
as
Neoptolemus
and
Archilaus
did
Mannius
,
and
as
Can●aber
and
Dorilaus
did
Appius
;
where
they
found
so
poor
an
opposition
,
that
I
may
therefore
truly
say
,
They
got
not
the
glory
,
though
they
got
the
field
.
Some
affectionate
Servants
of
my
Fathers
,
believing
when
his
side
lost
his
assistance
,
they
would
also
the
Battel
,
carried
him
away
in
a
Litter
past
the
fury
of
the
execution
,
and
then
by
easie
journeys
brought
him
to
Nicomedia
;
so
happy
he
was
in
his
misf●rtune
,
as
to
find
by
experiment
,
that
the
Fate
of
A●ia
,
and
the
lives
of
some
hundred
thousands
had
depended
on
his
sword
and
courage
;
for
whilst
those
did
act
,
Victory
followed
his
side
,
and
abandoned
it
when
they
did
not
.
Nor
was
Mithridates
obliged
only
to
one
Element
for
Victory
;
for
his
Fleet
had
triumphed
on
the
Sea
,
as
his
Army
had
on
the
Land
.
Betuitus
presented
him
with
the
heads
of
Minutius
Ruffus
,
and
Caius
Popilius
,
the
two
Roman
Admirals
,
who
elected
to
share
in
their
Navies
Fate
,
rather
than
to
out-live
it
.
And
that
Mithridates
might
have
no
cloud
to
obscure
his
Glory
,
though
the
number
of
his
Army
exceeded
his
Enemies
,
yet
the
number
of
those
which
fought
,
did
not
:
for
eighty
thousand
horse
and
foot
,
which
composed
his
last
Battalion
,
obliged
the
rest
of
his
Army
only
,
by
their
not
contributing
to
their
success
.
Ten
thousand
Bythinian
Officers
and
Soldiers
,
who
that
fatal
day
had
lost
their
liberty
,
were
the
next
brought
before
Mithridates
,
who
sent
them
all
as
a
present
to
Fontamyris
,
and
as
he
said
,
as
so
many
witnesses
of
the
error
of
her
choice
.
Nicomedes
as
soon
as
he
was
recovered
,
rallied
of
all
his
Armies
,
some
Forty
thousand
Foot
,
and
Four
thousand
Horse
,
with
which
he
attempted
Mithridates
Army
,
which
was
divided
and
secure
by
their
former
Victory
:
But
this
Battel
fought
on
the
Banks
of
Gargarus
,
was
an
exact
Repetition
of
the
former
:
My
Father
had
the
Victory
,
till
by
wounds
he
was
disabled
from
prosecuting
and
keeping
it
.
This
second
de●eat
depriv'd
him
of
all
hope
of
bringing
his
Fate
to
a
third
trial
,
especially
it
being
accompanied
with
the
loss
of
the
Roman
forces
;
for
Quintus
Appius
,
a
Roman
Praetor
,
was
betrayed
by
his
own
Soldiers
to
Mithridates
;
and
Mannius
was
taken
,
and
brought
to
Pergamus
,
where
after
many
derisions
he
was
put
to
death
,
by
melted
Gold
being
poured
down
his
throat
,
thereby
to
reproach
the
Roman
avarice
.
Mithridates
now
seemed
rather
to
make
a
Progress
,
than
a
War
.
The
Cities
of
Magnesia
,
Ephesus
,
and
Mytilene
,
received
him
in
triumph
.
By
his
Lieutenants
he
conquered
Licia
,
Pamphylia
,
and
Paphlagonia
,
and
at
length
cross'd
over
the
Mountain
Scoroba
,
which
separates
Bithynia
from
Pontus
.
It
was
then
,
the
unfortunate
Nicomedes
found
he
could
no
longer
resist
his
Conqueror
,
and
therefore
having
sent
for
the
chiefest
Nobility
of
his
Kingdom
,
and
the
chiefest
Inhabitants
of
his
Cities
,
he
generously
commanded
them
to
submit
to
that
Fate
he
could
not
oppose
,
and
not
to
exasperate
Mithridates
by
a
fruitless
fidelity
to
him
.
This
rare
and
noble
care
,
strangely
affected
those
which
were
to
enjoy
the
effects
of
it
,
who
in
tears
and
other
signal
expressions
evinced
,
they
were
not
desirous
,
nor
therefore
unworthy
of
it
;
so
that
the
unhappy
Nicomedes
was
necessitated
to
make
use
of
his
Authority
,
to
absolve
his
subjects
from
their
Obedience
to
it
,
and
thereby
rob'd
his
Enemy
of
a
full
triumph
,
by
deposing
himself
.
This
great
business
being
performed
with
as
much
sadness
as
solemnity
,
he
retired
unto
Fontamyris's
Cabinet
,
where
they
both
sent
for
Arsamno●●a
Gentleman
that
had
been
Governour
to
my
Father
,
and
had
discharg'd
that
trust
with
so
much
fidelity
,
merit
,
and
success
,
that
they
both
resolved
he
was
a
fit
person
to
be
intrusted
with
me
.
As
soon
as
he
was
come
,
Nicomedes
told
him
;
You
see
,
Arsamnor
,
the
gods
for
the
present
have
cast
down
the
House
of
Bithynia
,
but
perhaps
they
may
restore
that
Scepter
to
the
young
Nicomedes
,
which
they
have
thought
his
Father
unworthy
to
hold
;
had
we
still
continued
in
the
Throne
,
you
should
have
had
as
great
Demonstrations
of
our
Bounty
,
as
now
we
give
you
of
our
trust
,
which
is
the
care
of
our
only
Son
;
let
him
never
know
his
name
,
or
his
real
quality
,
unless
he
appear
worthy
of
both
,
and
unless
the
gods
rai●e
him
to
a
probability
of
recovering
that
right
which
we
have
lost
.
I
will
not
tell
you
Arsamnor's
joy
at
this
high
trust
,
nor
the
Queens
grief
,
when
at
once
she
was
forc'd
from
the
Kingdom
and
her
Son
:
You
shall
only
know
,
that
the
next
day
after
,
the
King
and
Fontamyris
,
having
loaden
Arsamnor
with
Jewels
,
made
him
take
a
solemn
Oath
,
never
without
their
consent
to
acquaint
me
who
I
was
;
and
privately
provided
him
with
a
swift
Galley
in
a
Creek
opposite
to
the
shore
of
Greece
(
in
which
Countrey
Nicomedes
enjoined
my
Governour
to
give
me
my
Education
)
they
both
left
Nicomedia
,
and
not
long
after
Bithynia
,
with
much
less
trouble
than
it
occasioned
in
their
subjects
.
The
place
which
my
Father
chose
for
his
retreat
,
was
the
City
of
Celena
,
the
Metropolis
of
the
greater
Phrygia
,
whose
King
was
a
person
deserved
that
title
,
and
so
much
his
friend
,
as
he
was
confident
he
would
appear
so
,
even
when
fortune
was
not
.
Nicomedes
would
not
take
me
with
him
,
either
from
an
apprehension
that
he
might
infect
me
with
his
infelicity
,
which
he
believed
was
contagious
;
or
else
if
Mithridates
by
force
or
treachery
should
ever
get
him
into
his
power
,
yet
his
ignorance
where
I
was
might
preserve
me
for
more
happy
times
,
&
make
me
one
day
recover
that
Crown
he
had
so
fatally
lost
.
I
was
therefore
by
Arsamnor's
care
and
sidelity
carried
with
safety
to
that
Galley
which
was
provided
for
us
under
the
Promontory
of
Posidum
,
from
whence
the
wind
favouring
us
,
blowing
from
the
North
,
with
Sails
and
Oars
,
we
soon
crost
the
Sea
called
Propontus
,
and
past
through
the
Hellespont
,
memorized
by
the
famous
death
of
Hero
and
Leander
,
whose
Cities
Seftos
and
Abydos
crown'd
the
shoars
of
the
guilty
waters
.
Then
crossing
the
Aegean
and
Icarian
Sea
,
we
cast
anchor
under
the
Promontory
of
Panormus
,
where
Arsamnor
dismissed
his
Galley
,
and
leaving
me
in
a
little
Village
near
Athens
,
went
thither
to
seek
a
Sanctuary
,
which
he
easily
obtained
by
the
favour
of
Ariston
,
the
eminentest
man
in
that
City
:
for
the
Athenians
were
jealous
of
the
growingglory
of
Mithridates
,
left
the
loss
of
their
City
might
have
composed
a
part
of
it
.
Arsamnor
then
form'd
himself
an
equipage
fit
for
a
Nobleman
of
Cappadocia
,
which
he
said
he
was
;
as
also
that
he
was
forced
out
of
his
own
Countrey
by
the
prevalency
of
Mithridates
Arms
;
and
for
his
fidelity
to
his
own
Prince
,
assuming
also
the
name
of
Telamon
,
which
had
b●●n
his
Grandfather's
.
The
charms
of
his
conversation
,
his
affability
,
and
other
ornaments
and
vertues
,
soon
gained
him
so
considerable
an
interest
,
not
only
in
Ariston
,
but
in
all
the
other
Athenians
,
that
he
spent
his
time
there
in
as
much
safety
,
as
if
it
had
been
in
Nicomedia
;
and
with
as
much
satisfaction
as
the
remembrance
of
his
Kings
affairs
would
admit
.
But
whilst
I
thus
past
my
infancy
at
Athens
,
Mithridates
had
conquered
all
Bithynia
and
Cappadocia
,
and
was
near
forming
as
great
an
Empire
in
Asia
,
as
the
Romans
had
in
Europe
;
which
great
people
,
though
extreamly
perplexed
by
the
sad
discords
of
Italy
,
and
of
their
own
City
;
yet
being
as
careful
of
their
glory
,
as
of
their
being
,
desiring
the
last
but
for
the
first
,
they
elected
Cornelius
Scylla
General
of
the
Asian
War
;
under
whose
conduct
they
promised
themselves
a
revenge
as
great
as
their
desire
of
it
;
his
earliest
actions
rendering
that
belief
a
rational
one
.
But
Scylla
,
who
feared
Marius
and
Cinna
gave
him
this
power
in
Asia
,
the
better
to
establish
their
own
in
Rome
,
delayed
going
to
the
War
so
long
,
that
the
Grecian
Cities
,
who
at
first
more
apprehended
the
Roman
Power
,
than
Mithridates's
,
and
therefore
gave
Scylla
some
promises
of
joining
their
Armies
to
his
,
now
looking
upon
Mithridates
Army
as
the
nearest
,
and
consequently
as
the
greatest
danger
,
join'd
with
the
Asian
,
as
thinking
it
their
best
interest
,
when
doubtless
Honestly
only
was
;
and
the
two
first
Cities
which
were
guilty
of
this
change
,
were
Athens
and
Thebes
,
to
whom
the
Pontick
King
granted
many
priviledges
;
and
to
enable
them
to
be
his
friends
,
or
to
secure
their
not
being
his
enemies
,
he
sent
them
a
vast
Army
out
of
Asia
under
the
command
of
the
Prince
Archathias
,
whose
Lieutenant-General
was
Archilaus
,
that
same
Archilau●
who
did
him
such
memorable
Service
on
the
banks
of
Amneus
.
Mithridates
in
person
continued
in
the
City
of
Nicomedia
to
celebrate
his
Nuptials
;
for
finding
Fontamyris
preferred
banishment
with
Nicomedes
,
before
Empire
with
Mithridates
,
Hate
invaded
the
place
of
Love
,
and
to
let
the
late
object
of
his
,
know
,
resentment
had
performed
what
it
may
be
she
thought
nothing
but
time
could
,
solemnly
married
in
the
Metropolis
of
Fontamyris
Kingdom
the
fair
Calamis
,
whose
beauty
gave
her
what
her
birth
could
not
.
The
Pontick
King
thinking
himself
sufficiently
revenged
on
Fontamyris
by
expelling
her
out
of
Bithynia
,
and
by
making
another
Queen
of
it
,
in
it
;
exchanged
his
love
of
beauty
,
into
love
of
Empire
,
and
so
assiduously
followed
the
War
,
that
in
few
days
all
the
Asian
Princes
had
drawn
their
Swords
in
his
quarrel
,
or
had
given
him
Hostages
not
to
employ
them
against
him
,
so
that
nothing
was
more
generally
believed
,
than
that
Greece
would
be
the
Scene
of
the
War
,
and
that
Mithridates
would
save
Scylla
the
trouble
of
invading
Asia
,
by
meeting
him
half
way
.
Telamon
finding
how
deeply
Athens
was
engaged
in
the
Pontick
quarrel
,
would
have
chose
some
other
Retreat
,
fearing
he
was
too
considerable
to
be
unknown
,
if
Arcathias
,
or
Archilaus
came
into
the
City
;
and
fearing
also
if
he
were
taken
,
it
might
be
my
ruine
;
but
Ariston
hindered
it
,
who
assured
him
no
Asian
General
,
or
Garison
should
ever
enter
Athens
,
unless
the
Romans
came
to
besiege
it
,
which
if
they
did
,
he
would
not
fail
to
send
into
some
place
of
safety
him
and
his
Son
;
for
I
was
not
only
thought
to
be
his
Son
by
all
the
Athenians
,
but
I
also
thought
my self
so
,
so
strictly
Telamon
kept
Nicomedes
command
.
This
promise
made
my
Governour
continue
me
in
Athens
,
where
we
learned
that
Rome
awakened
with
the
Revolt
of
Greece
,
with
the
great
Army
Arcathias
had
brought
thither
,
and
with
the
greater
Mithridates
was
to
bring
,
had
hastily
ordered
Scylla
to
his
command
,
who
had
in
this
mean
time
so
well
fetled
his
affairs
in
the
City
,
as
he
doubted
not
but
to
end
the
Asian
War
before
they
could
receive
any
considerable
alteration
.
But
that
great
people
were
then
reduced
to
so
low
a
necessity
,
that
to
furnish
Scylla
,
they
were
constrained
to
give
him
those
sacred
golden
Vessels
which
Numa
Pompilius
had
consecrated
to
the
Roman
Deities
;
thereby
evincing
,
glory
was
their
greatest
God
.
Mithridates
now
understanding
that
Scylla
only
wanted
a
fair
wind
to
cross
the
Adriatick
Gulph
;
and
that
the
Coast
of
Italy
,
which
that
Sea
did
confine
,
was
now
covered
with
Soldiers
,
jealous
lest
so
many
Italians
as
were
setled
in
Asia
might
embrace
the
quarrel
of
their
Countrey
,
or
desiring
the
wealth
of
that
people
to
defray
the
charges
of
the
War
,
or
detesting
that
Nation
,
or
else
to
render
the
Asiaticks
uncapable
of
pardon
,
sent
Orders
to
all
his
Governours
in
Asia
,
on
a
prefixed
day
to
kill
all
the
Italians
under
their
power
,
without
any
regard
to
sex
,
age
,
or
condition
;
to
cast
their
car●asses
into
the
fields
,
there
to
leave
them
unburied
,
and
to
reserve
one
half
of
their
goods
to
his
use
,
the
other
half
to
distribute
amongst
themselves
.
Oh
gods
!
(
continued
Callimmachus
)
what
sins
could
the
unfortunate
Nicomedes
and
Fontamyris
be
guilty
of
,
that
you
could
cast
them
from
the
throne
of
Bithynia
,
to
place
such
a
Monster
in
it
?
and
why
would
you
give
so
much
wickedness
so
much
power
to
act
it
?
or
permit
so
many
millions
to
be
governed
by
one
,
who
was
so
unable
to
govern
himself
?
But
yet
it
was
fit
that
Subjects
which
could
obey
such
an
Order
,
should
be
governed
by
such
a
King
:
Yes
(
generous
Princes
)
the
Asiaticks
observed
their
Prince's
command
,
and
on
the
fatal
day
shed
a
Sea
of
Italian
blood
,
the
slaves
and
the
free
,
the
young
and
the
old
,
the
male
and
the
female
,
the
poor
and
the
rich
,
found
no
Sanctuary
in
their
conditions
,
no
,
nor
even
in
the
Temples
,
nor
in
the
very
embracing
the
gods
of
them
:
The
Temple
of
Artemisius
in
Ephesus
,
the
Temple
of
Aesculapius
in
Pergamus
,
and
the
Temple
of
the
Goddess
Vesta
in
Caria
,
were
hardly
able
to
contain
the
bodies
of
those
who
were
murdered
in
them
:
And
as
if
their
fury
had
ingross'd
or
drown'd
all
other
considerations
,
they
had
not
discretion
enough
so
to
act
their
wickedness
,
as
to
leave
themselves
the
shadow
of
an
excuse
for
it
;
since
they
killed
these
poor
creatures
with
so
much
relish
,
that
it
appeared
to
be
as
much
their
delight
,
as
it
was
their
cruelty
.
But
this
could
not
so
much
lessen
the
Roman
interest
in
Asia
,
as
it
did
encrease
their
title
to
it
;
for
the
gods
could
not
protect
the
Asian
quarrel
,
without
protecting
the
Asian
crimes
.
Those
of
Delos
(
subject
to
the
Athenians
)
either
apprehending
to
be
engaged
in
a
quarrel
which
the
effusion
of
so
much
innocent
blood
assured
them
would
be
unsuccessful
,
or
hoping
to
cast
off
the
Athenian
yoak
,
declared
for
Scylla
before
he
came
into
Greece
,
against
whom
Ariston
went
;
but
being
too
weak
,
had
the
assistance
of
Archilaus
,
and
thereby
soon
reduced
Delos
to
her
former
obedience
;
in
which
expedition
Archilaus
so
flattered
Ariston
,
and
so
elevated
his
ambition
,
that
it
was
concluded
between
them
,
Mithridates
should
make
Ariston
Prince
of
Athens
,
and
that
Ariston
should
do
fealty
for
it
to
Mithridates
.
Yet
this
was
not
done
with
so
much
secrecy
,
but
that
Telamon
had
some
suspicion
of
it
,
which
afterwards
he
was
the
more
confirmed
in
▪
by
the
actings
of
Ariston
,
which
transcended
what
a
free
State
could
suffer
:
But
though
the
Athenians
were
sensible
of
it
,
yet
they
wanted
the
power
to
redress
it
;
for
besides
the
interest
Ariston
had
in
Athens
,
he
was
so
openly
countenanced
by
Archilaus
,
that
the
discovery
of
his
design
was
a
greater
trouble
to
the
people
,
than
the
ignorance
could
have
been
.
Telamon
at
length
so
well
acted
his
part
,
that
Ariston
permitted
him
to
retire
to
Miletus
the
Metropolis
of
Caria
,
and
sent
some
Athenians
to
convey
us
thither
:
this
place
he
elected
,
as
being
by
the
situation
of
it
,
likely
to
avoid
that
War
which
now
threatned
Greece
,
and
like
to
oppose
any
War
which
should
threaten
it
,
by
the
great
obligations
it
had
to
Art
and
Nature
.
It
was
there
that
Telamon
,
as
soon
as
I
was
capable
of
learning
,
began
to
instrust
me
in
Philosophy
,
that
on
the
score
of
Reason
I
might
contemn
that
power
and
glory
,
which
misfortune
was
but
too
likely
to
deny
me
.
In
this
calm
retreat
we
learnt
those
bloody
revolutions
which
happened
in
Greece
;
how
at
last
Scylla
Landed
there
only
with
five
Legions
,
and
certain
Cohorts
and
Turmes
,
in
which
small
Army
there
was
yet
so
exact
a
Discipline
,
that
it
made
all
believe
,
those
which
had
acted
the
highest
conquest
,
the
conquest
of
themselves
,
would
hardly
be
denied
any
other
.
This
belief
not
only
brought
Thebes
under
the
Roman
power
,
without
Scylla's
employing
it
to
procure
that
end
,
but
also
deterred
Arcathias
and
Archilaus
from
determining
the
War
by
a
general
battel
.
But
Scylla
,
after
having
fruitlessly
essayed
to
provoke
them
out
of
so
protractive
and
cold
a
resolution
,
elected
at
once
to
besiege
Athens
and
the
Port
of
Piraeus
,
believing
if
the
Asians
would
not
attempt
relieving
of
those
places
,
he
should
soon
win
them
;
or
if
they
did
,
he
should
soon
win
a
victory
.
He
farther
concluded
,
That
if
they
were
so
ill
Protectors
of
such
friends
,
it
would
deter
the
Grecians
from
continuing
,
or
at
least
from
assuming
that
name
.
This
resolution
being
known
to
Arcathias
,
and
Archilaus
,
they
determined
that
the
first
of
them
should
keep
the
field
with
half
their
Army
to
obstruct
Scylla's
supplies
,
and
the
last
should
fling
himself
into
Piraeus
to
obstruct
his
conquests
;
and
that
the
Grecians
might
see
they
had
not
invited
them
into
dangers
which
they
declined
participating
in
;
Ariston
,
who
in
person
continued
in
Athens
,
having
a
considerable
Garison
,
performed
things
with
it
,
which
were
so
;
and
never
any
Pyramid
gave
the
builder
of
it
more
fame
,
than
the
walls
of
Piraeus
gave
Piriclion
an
Athenian
Captain
,
who
had
raised
them
during
the
Peloponnesian
War
,
and
which
in
this
Roman
War
rendered
all
Scylla's
assaults
invalid
,
and
the
battering
Ram
unworthy
that
name
;
yet
Scylla
was
not
at
all
dejected
hereat
,
but
elevated
himself
with
the
glory
of
besieging
at
once
the
greatest
Army
in
Greece
,
and
the
greatest
City
of
it
:
for
by
this
time
the
gods
had
taken
away
the
young
Prince
Arcathias
by
a
sudden
death
as
he
was
raising
an
Army
to
relieve
his
friends
,
or
not
to
have
survived
the
unhappiness
of
having
been
unable
to
do
it
;
so
that
those
forces
wanting
a
Captain
fit
to
employ
them
,
were
by
Archilaus
orders
come
into
Athens
,
and
Piraeus
by
Sea
,
which
they
did
safely
by
the
help
of
the
Mithridatick
Gallies
,
Scylla
having
none
to
dispute
the
Empire
of
that
element
with
.
I
must
confess
(
continued
Callimmachus
)
the
first
actions
of
War
which
ever
gave
me
envy
,
and
a
desire
of
imitation
,
were
those
of
this
siege
;
for
never
was
there
more
Art
and
courage
manifested
in
so
small
a
compass
,
as
within
the
Athenian
walls
,
and
the
Roman
Camp
.
But
famine
put
a
period
to
the
besiegers
pains
,
and
the
besiegeds
glory
;
But
yet
even
famine
it self
for
a
time
lengthned
the
siege
,
the
death
of
some
continuing
the
life
of
others
;
for
the
living
fed
upon
the
dead
.
But
in
conclusion
,
there
was
no
hands
to
justifie
the
walls
of
Athens
;
and
then
Ariston
retired
into
the
Castle
,
glorying
that
the
Athenians
had
left
Athens
,
rather
than
that
the
Romans
had
taken
it
;
but
the
same
misery
which
had
reigned
in
the
Town
,
soon
did
the
like
in
the
Castle
;
where
Ariston
endured
death
with
as
much
resolution
,
as
he
had
opposed
it
;
proud
with
the
knowledg
that
Athens
and
his
Dominion
over
it
found
their
period
in
one
day
,
and
that
the
noblest
City
of
the
world
accompanied
his
fall
.
Scylla
being
thus
Master
of
Athens
,
rewarded
his
Soldiers
patience
and
courage
with
all
things
sacred
and
prophane
;
and
by
the
great
severity
he
practised
upon
those
Athenians
which
had
escaped
the
War
and
the
Famine
,
made
them
know
it
had
been
an
act
of
more
honour
,
and
more
ease
,
to
have
expired
with
their
Countrey
,
than
so
to
have
out-liv'd
it
.
Archilaus
burning
with
desires
of
revenge
,
or
else
to
evidence
by
some
high
performances
after
Arcathias
death
,
that
his
having
been
General
,
had
hindered
many
great
actions
,
drew
all
the
Mithridatick
Forces
into
one
body
,
determining
therewith
to
place
a
period
,
or
bring
an
accession
to
Scylla's
glory
.
The
Roman
General
received
this
Intelligence
with
Prophetick
Raptures
,
and
in
his
high
Joy
before
the
Battel
,
manifested
his
confidence
of
winning
it
.
The
Country
near
Cherovia
was
the
Scene
of
this
Dispute
,
from
which
City
the
Battel
took
its
name
.
Murena
Galba
and
Hortensius
for
a
time
drew
all
the
Romans
admiration
,
till
Scylla
,
jealous
that
those
under
him
should
act
above
him
,
performed
such
prodigies
of
valour
,
that
the
Romans
esteemed
it
more
unjust
not
to
give
all
their
wonder
unto
their
General
,
than
to
have
deny'd
before
a
part
unto
three
such
men
.
Archilaus
in
this
defeat
lost
upon
the
place
One
hundred
and
ten
thousand
men
,
and
the
hopes
of
ever
having
so
many
together
again
in
Greece
,
which
by
an
Express
he
advertised
Mithridates
of
;
who
to
keep
the
War
out
of
Asia
,
forthwith
sent
Dorilaus
and
the
Prince
Diogenes
,
with
Eighty
thousand
Foot
into
Greece
,
to
re-inforce
Archilaus
,
and
to
enable
him
to
make
one
other
experiment
of
Fortune
in
the
Field
.
At
the
same
time
also
he
assembled
all
the
Princes
and
Tetrarchs
of
Asia
which
he
suspected
,
or
was
not
confident
of
;
and
having
them
in
his
power
,
put
them
,
their
wives
and
children
,
to
death
;
his
past
cruelty
rendering
this
an
act
of
wisdom
:
for
he
had
so
offended
all
mankind
,
that
he
could
not
kill
any
but
such
as
were
his
enemies
.
Many
Noble
Cities
he
used
as
ill
by
Zenobius
a
Lieutenant
of
his
,
whose
natural
cruelty
equalled
his
Kings
;
this
was
the
last
place
he
acted
his
Massacres
in
,
and
then
went
to
Ephesus
,
expecting
like
reception
,
and
designing
the
like
Tyranny
.
But
the
Ephesians
finding
that
resistance
could
not
be
worse
than
submission
,
resolved
on
the
first
,
though
Philopomenes
was
Governor
thereof
,
and
made
so
by
Mithridates
.
This
example
had
so
good
success
,
that
the
Cities
of
Thrales
,
Hippapes
,
and
Mesopolites
,
follow'd
it
:
which
made
Mithridates
think
,
that
though
cruelty
was
pleasant
to
him
,
yet
it
was
not
wise
[
I
have
not
acquainted
you
with
so
many
Tyrannies
of
his
,
because
he
was
my
enemy
,
but
to
let
you
see
that
't
was
not
only
to
punish
the
unhappy
Nicomedes
,
that
this
Mithridates
was
raised
,
but
to
punish
all
the
civilized
world
]
:
To
these
great
revolts
,
he
received
the
certain
advertisement
,
that
Archilaus
and
Dorilaus
had
been
defeated
in
a
furious
Battel
by
Scylla
,
who
derived
his
victory
from
his
personal
courage
;
for
when
his
Army
fled
,
he
ran
to
the
first
Eagle
,
and
taking
it
up
,
flew
with
it
into
the
midst
of
the
Asiaticks
,
crying
out
to
his
Soldiers
,
If
any
ask
,
O
Romans
,
where
you
have
abandoned
your
General
,
tell
them
you
left
him
fighting
in
Orchomenia
:
which
expressions
and
action
raised
their
shame
above
their
fear
,
and
made
them
return
to
the
Battel
,
in
which
they
did
things
that
defaced
the
sin
of
their
aflight
,
and
presented
Scylla
with
the
Victory
,
which
though
that
day
far
advanced
,
yet
it
was
not
till
next
day
perfected
;
for
then
assaulting
and
entring
Archilaus
Camp
,
few
scaped
out
of
it
but
himself
.
But
to
qualifie
the
joys
of
such
signal
Victories
,
Scylla
received
advertisement
from
Rome
,
that
Cornelius
Cinna
,
and
Caius
Marius
having
usurped
the
power
of
the
City
,
and
over
the
Senate
,
had
declared
him
an
enemy
to
the
people
of
Rome
,
had
raz'd
all
his
Houses
,
and
had
proscribed
all
his
Friends
and
Partizans
.
Scylla
at
this
so
fatal
intelligence
,
loses
not
his
courage
,
but
resolves
by
it
to
form
himself
as
great
an
Empire
in
Greece
and
Asia
,
as
his
enemies
design'd
in
Europe
,
and
then
in
a
fair
Field
to
decide
who
should
have
both
.
But
Cinna
and
Marius
,
who
knew
he
had
so
high
an
ascendent
over
his
Army
,
that
,
what
they
could
do
,
he
could
perswade
them
to
do
it
for
him
;
and
believing
no
other
design
could
proportion
Scylla's
courage
,
and
judgment
,
elected
Flaccus
one
of
the
Consuls
,
and
sent
him
with
two
of
the
best
Legions
to
supply
Scylla's
Office
,
or
to
force
it
from
him
.
But
Flaccus
being
no
Soldier
,
they
sent
for
his
Praetor
Fimbria
,
who
had
by
many
exploits
in
Arms
rendred
himself
justly
famous
.
This
new
Roman
Army
being
come
to
Brundusium
,
part
of
it
with
the
Fleet
which
carried
them
,
was
taken
by
Mithridates
Fleet
;
part
of
them
perished
in
a
storm
;
part
that
were
landed
in
Thessaly
,
went
to
Scylla
,
not
being
able
to
endure
Flaccus
his
insolen●ies
;
and
the
rest
had
done
the
like
,
had
not
Fimbria
by
Reasons
and
Clemency
hindred
it
,
which
yet
more
incens'd
Flaccus
than
if
they
had
all
abandoned
him
;
for
by
their
so
staying
,
he
found
one
that
served
under
him
,
had
more
power
over
his
Army
,
than
he
;
which
engendred
such
animosities
between
them
,
that
Flaccus
not
only
commanded
Fimbria
back
to
Rome
,
but
elected
one
Termus
in
his
place
;
which
so
enraged
him
,
that
he
took
away
the
Fasces
and
Rods
(
which
were
the
Praetorian
Ensigns
)
as
they
were
carried
before
Termus
,
who
fled
to
Flaccus
for
reparation
.
The
Consul
hereupon
commands
his
Soldiers
to
seize
upon
Fimbria
,
who
experimented
their
love
was
a
better
commission
,
than
the
Senate
without
it
could
give
;
for
all
the
Army
abandon'd
Flaccus
,
who
was
forced
to
fly
to
Chalcis
,
whither
Fimbria
followed
,
and
at
length
found
him
hid
in
a
Well
,
from
whence
being
taken
out
,
though
he
imploy'd
Fimbria's
pity
even
in
tears
,
yet
he
caused
his
head
forthwith
to
be
cut
off
and
flung
into
the
Sea
,
though
Flaccus
was
both
Consul
and
General
,
and
Fimbria
but
a
private
Citizen
.
But
to
repair
so
signal
an
affront
to
the
Roman
Empire
,
he
vigorously
prosecuted
Mithridate's
friends
,
which
were
the
greatest
enemies
of
it
,
which
he
said
,
was
the
end
why
the
Army
was
sent
out
of
Italy
,
and
which
had
thitherto
been
interrupted
by
the
executed
Consul's
impertinency
.
Amongst
his
many
exploits
,
one
I
cannot
but
mention
,
which
was
his
cruelty
and
treachery
to
the
Illians
;
for
finding
their
strength
might
give
his
Romans
as
long
a
trouble
,
as
it
once
did
the
Grecians
,
he
left
off
force
,
and
flattered
them
so
successfully
under
the
name
of
Fathers
of
Rome
,
that
they
admitted
him
into
their
City
with
his
Army
,
which
he
soon
became
Master
of
,
and
destroyed
all
that
was
living
in
it
,
thereby
making
crueltly
silence
many
,
who
would
have
otherwise
reproached
him
with
it
;
nay
,
the
Images
of
the
gods
,
and
the
Temples
in
which
they
were
adored
,
participated
of
his
fury
,
which
some
thought
they
deserved
for
not
better
defending
their
votaries
.
Only
the
Palladium
,
which
was
sent
the
Trojans
by
Iupiter
,
was
preserved
by
miracle
,
a
Vault
of
the
Temple
giving
it
at
once
both
a
Tomb
and
safety
;
so
that
Troy
was
more
unhappy
in
her
children
,
than
in
her
enemies
;
Fimbria
being
worse
unto
her
,
than
Agamemnon
;
or
else
her
first
death
having
given
life
to
the
greatest
Empire
in
the
World
,
Fimbria
would
in
gratitude
thereunto
make
her
still
continue
in
that
condition
.
But
Mithridates
after
the
last
signal
defeat
given
Archilaus
,
finding
though
Scylla
and
Fimbria
were
enemies
to
each
other
,
yet
they
were
both
so
to
him
;
and
believing
the
first
of
them
wanted
but
an
honourable
pretence
of
leaving
the
Asian
War
,
to
dispute
the
Empire
of
Rome
with
Marius
and
Cinna
,
and
to
appease
the
manes
of
so
many
of
his
friends
as
had
been
murther'd
by
them
,
as
also
fully
convinced
such
a
series
of
defeats
had
disenabled
him
from
much
longer
continuing
a
War
;
sent
orders
to
Archilaus
to
endeavour
a
Peace
with
Scylla
,
which
after
many
a
meeting
,
at
length
at
one
between
Scylla
and
Mithridates
,
was
concluded
,
but
on
such
advantagious
conditions
for
the
Romans
,
that
even
the
articles
of
the
agreement
were
the
manifestations
of
his
conquest
▪
Scylla
having
so
prosperously
put
a
period
to
his
Mithridatick
War
,
to
leave
all
clear
behind
him
,
went
against
Fimbria
,
and
summoned
him
to
deliver
up
him
his
Armies
,
being
Proconsul
of
Asia
;
to
which
Fimbria
returning
an
high
answer
,
Scylla
immediately
besieged
him
,
and
reduced
him
to
so
low
a
state
,
that
Fimbria
hired
a
Slave
to
murther
Scylla
,
which
being
discovered
,
all
Fimbria's
Army
were
so
scandalized
at
it
,
that
many
abandoned
him
and
went
to
Scylla
,
against
whom
Fimbria
had
done
too
much
to
expect
his
mercy
,
and
therefore
contemning
it
when
't
was
offered
,
upon
the
conditions
of
his
departing
into
Italy
,
and
resigning
up
his
Army
,
he
stole
to
Pergamus
,
where
in
the
Temple
of
Aesculapius
he
ran
his
Sword
through
his
own
body
;
but
finding
the
wound
was
not
friendly
enough
to
afford
him
a
sudden
death
,
he
commanded
an
infranchised
Servant
of
his
to
dispatch
him
,
which
he
did
,
and
then
with
the
same
Sword
followed
him
.
Thus
Fimbria
died
,
whom
the
gods
permitted
to
be
as
cruel
to
himself
as
he
had
been
to
others
;
thereby
manifesting
,
to
be
so
was
as
much
his
nature
,
as
it
was
his
crime
.
Immediately
after
his
death
,
all
his
Army
yielded
themselves
to
Scylla
,
who
received
them
with
so
much
humanity
,
that
they
found
Fimbria
,
in
killing
himself
had
obliged
them
,
as
much
as
Scylla
;
who
having
appointed
Curio
to
resettle
Nicomedes
in
Bithynia
,
and
Ariobarzanes
in
Cappadocia
(
which
was
one
of
the
Articles
of
the
Peace
)
,
and
having
,
the
best
he
could
,
calmed
the
differences
in
Asia
,
and
raised
five
years
advance
of
tribute
in
all
the
Cities
of
it
under
his
dominion
,
which
so
impoverish'd
them
,
that
they
were
necessitated
to
pawn
their
Amphitheatres
,
their
Town-houses
,
and
all
their
other
publick
places
,
to
enable
them
to
pay
it
;
by
the
assistance
of
Mithridate's
Galleys
(
which
also
on
the
Peace
were
resigned
to
him
)
he
transported
his
Army
first
into
Greece
,
and
thence
into
Italy
,
which
he
filled
with
such
confusions
,
and
with
so
many
horrid
murthers
and
proscriptions
,
that
to
such
as
loved
their
Countrey
,
death
was
no
ill
expedient
to
avoid
beholding
the
miseries
of
it
.
The
Heavens
by
many
Prodigies
seemed
to
foretell
those
many
others
which
men
should
act
.
A
Woman
in
Rome
was
delivered
of
a
Serpent
in
stead
of
a
Child
.
The
Earth
by
a
furious
shaking
,
flung
down
many
Statues
and
Temples
of
the
gods
:
And
the
Capitol
,
that
proud
Fabrick
,
built
by
so
many
Kings
,
was
consumed
by
lightning
.
These
and
many
others
of
the
same
nature
,
were
the
actings
and
sufferings
of
that
part
of
the
World
in
which
I
spent
my
infancy
and
earliest
youth
,
which
were
the
only
times
of
all
my
life
that
I
was
free
from
the
sense
of
misery
,
which
too
I
derived
from
Nature
,
not
from
Fortune
,
who
had
provided
infelicities
for
me
against
my
coming
into
the
World
,
sufficient
to
make
me
for
ever
detest
it
.
But
having
hitherto
entertain'd
you
with
accidents
at
large
,
I
shall
now
confine
my
relations
to
narrower
limits
;
being
by
this
conjuncture
of
time
arrived
to
an
age
capable
of
relishing
happiness
and
misfortune
,
to
which
latter
only
my
stars
had
de●ign'd
me
.
In
Miletus
,
the
place
of
my
then
residence
,
there
were
several
young
Gentlemen
of
my
age
,
and
believed-quality
(
for
I
past
still
in
the
opinion
of
the
World
,
as
well
as
in
my
own
,
for
the
Son
of
Telamon
)
with
whom
I
learnt
all
those
exercises
,
as
well
of
the
mind
as
the
body
,
which
Greece
and
the
lesser
Asia
placed
any
value
upon
;
in
which
I
had
the
happiness
to
surpass
my
companions
,
whose
stupidity
only
I
fear
gave
me
that
precedency
.
But
sometimes
to
divert
our selves
,
we
used
to
hunt
the
wild
Boar
;
which
was
a
Game
that
Countrey
was
but
too
fruitful
in
:
for
often
those
furious
Beasts
,
when
press'd
by
hunger
,
or
by
those
which
pursued
them
,
would
accompany
their
own
deaths
,
with
some
of
their
Hunters
;
which
made
Telamon
very
unwilling
to
afford
me
often
so
dangerous
adivertisement
;
neither
would
he
ever
permit
it
me
,
but
accompanied
by
most
of
those
young
Gentlemen
,
over
whom
my
larger
proficiency
,
and
the
rate
at
which
I
lived
(
which
was
eminent
)
gave
me
some
superiority
;
He
himself
too
keeping
always
by
my
side
.
One
day
,
a
hunting-match
being
agreed
on
,
we
found
a
Boar
of
so
immense
a
size
,
and
so
largely
arm'd
with
Tusks
,
that
the
boldest
of
our
Huntsmen
would
have
willingly
resign'd
the
hopes
of
the
quarry
,
to
have
avoided
the
danger
of
the
chase
,
had
not
the
fear
of
shame
been
more
prevalent
than
the
fear
of
the
Boar
;
who
having
cast
off
all
his
followers
,
but
me
(
for
Telamon's
Horse
had
strained
himself
so
unhappily
,
that
he
could
no
longer
gallop
)
,
the
inraged
beast
took
along
a
High-way
which
came
out
of
a
neighbour-wood
,
at
the
next
extremity
whereof
,
I
perceived
some
Gentlemen
and
Ladies
,
by
the
magnificence
of
whose
equipage
I
easily
judged
were
of
no
mean
Quality
.
The
Boar
not
deterr'd
at
the
sight
of
so
much
company
,
boldly
runs
into
the
midst
of
them
,
and
thereby
so
terrified
all
the
Horses
,
that
they
fled
back
into
the
Wood
,
where
one
of
them
cast
his
rider
,
which
the
Boar
no
sooner
perceived
,
than
he
ran
furiously
to
her
;
Her
great
danger
,
and
her
greater
beauty
,
invited
my
assistance
,
which
without
balancing
I
ran
to
pay
her
;
but
finding
my
Horse
might
offend
her
,
whom
I
intended
to
protect
,
I
leap'd
off
of
him
,
and
with
a
Javelin
in
my
hand
I
placed
my self
between
that
beauty
and
the
danger
which
threatned
her
,
and
darted
my
Javelin
so
happily
at
the
Boar
,
that
piercing
him
through
and
through
,
it
put
some
stop
to
his
course
,
and
gave
me
leisure
to
draw
my
Sword
,
with
which
,
during
his
amazement
,
I
ran
him
in
at
the
mouth
,
and
sheath'd
the
blade
of
it
in
his
body
;
which
though
it
gave
him
his
death's
wound
,
yet
before
he
died
,
with
one
of
his
Tusks
he
struck
me
into
my
left
side
so
deep
,
and
so
very
near
my
heart
,
that
his
not
having
done
me
more
harm
,
could
not
be
so
strange
as
the
grief
which
invaded
the
beauty
I
had
delivered
was
,
that
he
had
done
me
so
much
.
I
had
that
consolation
and
misfortune
together
,
to
observe
she
was
more
concerned
in
my
danger
,
than
she
had
been
at
her
own
,
thereby
evincing
I
had
freed
her
from
one
trouble
,
but
to
cast
her
into
a
greater
.
Never
beauty
had
so
many
surprizing
charms
as
that
of
the
fair
Monyma
,
which
yet
received
some
little
accession
by
the
condition
and
dress
she
was
in
;
For
her
shape
,
and
stature
,
which
was
capable
of
no
addition
,
was
perfectly
discovered
to
the
obliged
and
ravish'd
sight
,
by
the
clothes
she
then
wore
,
which
were
such
as
the
goddess
Diana
is
represented
with
in
her
celebrated
Temple
of
Ephesus
,
when
in
dreams
she
manifested
her self
on
Latmus
,
to
the
sleepy
Endymion
:
that
little
paleness
which
her
danger
and
disorder
disobliged
her
with
,
was
yet
so
well
repaired
by
the
reflection
of
some
falls
of
carnation-feathers
which
shadowed
her
face
,
that
she
seemed
to
be
no
loser
thereby
.
In
a
word
,
she
was
such
as
made
me
more
apprehend
a
wound
from
her
,
than
that
I
had
already
received
.
In
the
amazement
of
that
silent
Fear
,
the
fair
Monyma
came
to
me
,
and
perceiving
my
clothes
all
bloody
,
she
told
me
:
I
fear
,
Sir
,
your
highest
civility
has
involved
you
in
a
resembling
danger
;
but
believe
me
,
your
having
so
freed
me
from
trouble
,
has
made
me
a
great
sharer
in
yours
.
Madam
,
(
I
replyed
,
sensibly
moved
with
so
much
obligingness
)
you
might
much
sooner
ascribe
the
small
service
I
have
paid
you
,
to
my
duty
,
than
my
civility
;
for
't
was
but
just
I
should
free
you
from
that
hazard
I
only
had
occasioned
;
and
if
any
thing
troubles
me
in
this
performance
,
't
is
only
from
its
looking
so
much
like
my
debt
,
that
it
leaves
you
no
rise
to
attribute
any
part
of
it
to
my
inclinations
,
which
(
Madam
)
are
such
for
your
service
,
as
they
would
joyfully
manifest
themselves
by
courting
danger
,
though
it
were
as
high
as
that
goodness
which
makes
you
so
sympathize
in
mine
.
I
had
hardly
strength
enough
to
speak
these
words
,
neither
was
I
able
to
make
an
end
of
them
without
leaning
upon
my
Sword
,
which
being
too
weak
a
support
,
I
fell
at
Monyma's
feet
,
who
by
a
great
shriek
acquainted
me
her
trouble
at
it
was
the
like
.
As
soon
as
her
grief
permitted
her
reason
to
act
,
she
perceived
a
spring
of
blood
issuing
out
of
my
side
;
and
believing
that
ebullition
occasioned
my
fainting
,
she
tore
off
some
of
her
linnen
,
and
by
holding
it
to
the
orifice
of
the
wound
,
endeavoured
to
stop
the
bleeding
.
But
though
her
care
was
strangely
kind
,
yet
it
had
been
fruitless
,
if
her
reiterated
cryes
had
not
drawn
a
Gentleman
to
her
assistance
,
who
having
learnt
the
cause
of
her
concernment
for
me
,
afforded
me
so
much
of
his
,
that
by
it
,
and
the
help
of
a
Chyrurgeon
,
which
happily
waited
on
him
,
my
wound
was
dress'd
,
and
my
senses
restored
.
The
Stranger
,
whose
care
and
civility
had
so
largely
contributed
thereunto
,
immediately
came
and
made
me
such
signal
and
handsom
acknowledgments
for
what
I
had
done
for
the
lovely
Monyma
,
that
I
concluded
by
the
greatness
of
his
gratitude
,
his
concerns
for
her
were
not
little
;
and
though
his
riper
years
might
well
have
exempted
me
from
certain
emotions
I
never
till
then
was
acquainted
with
,
and
knew
not
whilst
they
disordered
me
,
what
they
were
,
or
from
whence
they
proceeded
;
yet
after
they
ceas'd
(
which
they
did
not
till
Monyma
her self
told
me
,
he
was
her
Father
)
I
found
they
proceeded
from
a
small
jealousie
,
to
the
cause
of
which
I
was
so
meer
a
stranger
that
I
knew
not
,
even
enduring
the
effect
of
love
,
that
I
was
at
all
engaged
in
that
noble
passion
.
But
as
soon
as
ever
I
understood
Philopomenes
relation
to
the
beauty
I
admired
,
I
made
him
such
humble
retributions
,
that
he
protested
my
civility
had
as
much
confin'd
him
to
be
my
friend
,
as
the
service
I
had
done
his
daughter
:
and
to
manifest
his
care
of
me
,
was
greater
than
mine
of
my self
,
he
forced
me
from
an
entertainment
,
which
I
esteemed
more
pleasing
,
than
that
recovery
the
Chyrurgeon
assured
him
it
was
an
enemy
unto
;
and
putting
me
into
his
Chariot
(
for
though
he
and
the
fair
Monyma
rid
when
I
met
them
,
yet
it
was
only
the
better
to
enjoy
the
freshness
of
the
morning
)
he
accompanied
me
to
my
House
in
Miletus
,
notwithstanding
all
my
reiterated
Prayers
to
hinder
it
.
By
the
way
I
met
the
afflicted
Telamon
,
who
by
the
immense
sorrow
he
assumed
at
my
danger
,
had
then
made
me
conclude
him
my
Father
,
had
I
formerly
doubted
it
.
I
will
exempt
you
from
the
relation
of
those
visits
I
received
from
Philopomenes
during
my
indisposition
,
or
from
those
many
inquiries
made
after
my
health
by
his
fair
Daughter
;
on
whom
,
when
I
was
restored
to
mine
,
I
waited
so
constantly
,
that
Telamon
began
to
fear
I
did
it
upon
some
more
pressing
invitation
than
bare
civility
.
That
which
made
me
the
more
openly
make
my
addresses
to
Monyma
was
,
the
then
believed
equality
of
our
conditions
;
for
she
was
the
Daughter
of
an
Ephesian
Lord
,
who
had
so
detested
Mithridate's
cruelty
,
that
though
by
his
Commission
he
was
made
Governour
of
Ephesus
,
yet
he
had
invited
and
perswaded
the
City
to
declare
against
him
;
which
injury
he
apprehended
Mithridates
would
revenge
,
being
enabled
thereunto
by
the
fresh
agreement
concluded
with
the
Romans
,
who
for
the
most
part
were
returned
with
Scylla
to
rob
Italy
of
that
peace
they
had
left
Asia
in
:
And
that
his
Countrey
might
not
be
involved
in
his
misfortunes
,
or
occasioned
by
him
,
he
had
left
Ephesus
and
retired
to
Miletus
,
whose
strength
he
thought
would
prove
a
better
Sanctuary
.
But
if
Telamon
had
cause
to
suspect
I
had
a
passion
for
Monyma
,
this
which
I
am
now
telling
,
gave
him
a
certainty
of
it
.
The
City
of
Miletus
was
in
ancient
times
besieged
by
a
barbarous
Prince
,
who
having
by
their
obstinacy
endured
much
loss
,
resolved
to
repair
it
by
the
ruin
of
the
place
;
but
being
informed
that
amongst
the
besieged
there
was
a
Virgin
of
such
excellent
beauty
,
that
Nature
never
had
obliged
the
World
with
the
like
;
this
Barbarian
desired
and
obtained
a
sight
of
her
from
off
the
Walls
;
which
so
inflamed
him
,
that
he
esteemed
to
conquer
her
,
was
a
happier
Victory
than
to
conquer
Miletus
:
so
that
when
the
Citizens
despaired
of
safety
,
he
sent
them
word
,
If
they
would
deliver
up
to
his
pleasure
the
fair
Cyaxara
,
he
would
forthwith
raise
his
Siege
,
and
never
more
present
himself
before
their
Walls
.
This
Nymph
having
as
much
Resolution
as
Beauty
,
devoted
her self
as
a
Sacrifice
to
save
her
Countrey
,
and
only
tied
the
Tyrant
to
suspend
the
acting
of
his
lust
,
till
she
was
out
of
the
Territories
of
Miletus
,
that
her
people
might
not
behold
,
but
only
enjoy
the
advantage
of
her
shame
.
This
Contract
being
made
,
the
fair
Cyaxara
was
delivered
up
to
her
Ravisher
,
and
abandoned
her
friends
with
more
constancy
and
resolution
,
than
they
were
Masters
of
,
when
she
did
so
.
The
next
night
after
he
had
got
out
of
the
agreed●on
limits
,
he
determined
to
enjoy
the
reward
of
the
War
;
but
instead
thereof
,
the
vertuous
Cyaxara
had
prepar'd
for
him
the
reward
of
his
sin
:
for
when
he
was
come
into
her
bed
in
the
height
of
his
Wine
and
Lust
,
with
a
Poniard
she
had
conceal'd
,
she
pierc'd
his
heart
;
at
which
unexpected
stroke
,
he
utter'd
so
loud
a
cry
,
that
many
of
his
chief
Officers
who
were
in
the
next
room
,
ran
to
his
assistance
;
but
it
was
too
late
:
for
his
black
soul
had
forsaken
his
guilty
body
.
And
Cyaxara
hearing
a
throng
of
people
coming
into
her
Chamber
,
with
the
same
weapon
all
reeking
with
the
Tyrant's
blood
,
with
which
she
had
preserved
her self
from
the
lust
of
one
of
her
Enemies
,
she
preserved
her self
from
the
revenge
and
fury
of
the
rest
.
The
death
of
this
Monster
occasion'd
so
many
divisions
in
his
Army
,
that
thereby
Miletus
was
preserved
from
the
fury
of
it
:
whose
Inhabitants
in
commemoration
of
the
fair
Cyaxara's
Gallantry
,
ordained
a
yearly
Festival
should
be
for
ever
celebrated
for
their
deliverance
,
and
for
those
eternal
joys
her
Virtue
had
invited
the
gods
to
crown
her
with
:
and
that
this
day
might
be
observed
with
more
solemnity
,
the
Magistrates
of
the
City
gave
the
fairest
Diamond
they
could
buy
,
to
the
best
Tilter
,
who
was
to
present
it
to
the
greatest
Beauty
in
the
Assembly
,
and
who
during
that
year
was
to
be
called
Cyaxara
.
This
signal
day
being
come
,
and
believing
my self
able
enough
to
manage
a
Horse
,
and
handle
a
Lance
,
I
begg'd
Telamon
to
permit
me
to
be
one
of
the
Tilters
;
which
he
assented
unto
:
and
it
being
the
first
time
of
my
appearing
in
arms
,
he
so
beautified
mine
with
Jewels
of
inestimable
value
,
that
they
drew
the
eyes
of
all
the
people
on
me
at
my
entrance
into
the
Lists
,
as
much
as
my
success
did
when
I
went
out
to
present
the
reward
of
it
to
the
fair
Monyma
,
who
was
seated
upon
a
Scaffold
with
others
of
her
Sex
,
who
were
of
highest
quality
at
that
meeting
.
As
soon
as
I
came
to
the
foot
of
that
Scaffold
,
I
allighted
from
my
Horse
;
and
having
begged
and
obtained
the
Ladies
permission
to
ascend
it
:
I
presented
Monyma
with
that
Diamond
I
had
won
,
and
told
her
;
This
Madam
,
which
my
Fortune
has
given
me
,
my
Justice
humbly
pays
unto
you
;
I
should
be
as
blind
as
that
power
from
whom
only
I
derive
my
Victory
,
did
I
any
other
way
employ
the
acquisitions
of
it
;
for
't
is
so
much
your
Right
,
that
to
have
declin'd
presenting
it
to
you
,
had
been
to
have
broke
the
Laws
of
this
solemn
meeting
.
This
little
Complement
put
Monyma
into
a
small
Disorder
:
which
having
something
conquer'd
,
she
repli'd
,
That
Callimmachus
,
which
your
merit
has
given
you
,
your
civility
has
presented
me
;
but
indeed
you
had
but
this
way
of
imploying
your
success
,
to
make
me
think
you
deserved
it
not
:
All
these
Ladies
(
turning
to
those
that
were
near
her
)
will
have
cause
to
desire
the
perpetual
extinction
of
this
festival
,
when
it
furnishes
an
occasion
of
acting
so
high
an
injustice
;
for
't
is
as
much
so
to
decline
making
your
present
to
any
of
them
,
as
to
confer
't
upon
me
.
I
shall
never
Madam
,
(
I
repli'd
)
have
a
belief
opposite
to
the
fair
Monyma's
,
when
her
modesty
does
not
form
hers
;
but
then
I
must
beg
her
pardon
,
if
to
avoid
the
greater
offence
,
I
commit
the
less
:
neither
do
I
think
these
Ladies
can
esteem
me
unjust
;
the
most
they
can
believe
is
,
that
I
am
unfortunate
in
having
a
success
which
confined
me
to
disoblige
so
many
,
to
do
right
to
one
;
since
none
could
have
had
my
power
,
that
could
justly
otherwise
have
imploy'd
it
.
Whilst
I
was
thus
discoursing
,
a
Gentleman
called
Diocles
,
who
that
day
I
had
dismounted
in
the
Tilting
,
came
to
the
Foot
of
the
Scaffold
where
his
Mistris
was
,
to
whom
he
apprehended
I
would
have
given
the
prize
(
for
't
is
none
of
the
least
miracles
in
Love
,
that
every
one
believes
the
Author
of
his
is
the
handsomest
)
where
finding
himself
deceived
,
his
jealousie
turned
to
anger
,
and
he
was
no
more
troubled
at
his
first
belief
,
than
he
now
was
at
what
had
displaced
it
.
The
beauty
he
serv'd
was
called
Irene
,
who
yielded
to
none
but
Monyma
;
she
was
blest
with
as
many
graces
of
the
mind
,
as
of
the
body
;
and
therefore
had
no
inclination
to
receive
the
addresses
of
Diocles
,
who
had
nothing
considerable
but
his
extraction
,
his
riches
,
and
his
courage
;
the
last
of
which
had
been
so
often
,
and
succesfully
tried
,
that
duelling
seem'd
to
be
one
of
his
recreations
.
The
great
affront
he
had
that
day
received
in
his
person
,
and
the
higher
he
thought
he
received
in
his
Mistris
,
made
him
with
a
loud
voice
tell
me
;
Callimmachus
,
could
I
have
fancied
you
would
have
given
the
prize
of
this
days
Tilting
to
any
,
but
the
fair
Irene
,
I
had
by
my
Sword
hindred
you
from
acting
that
Crime
,
and
her
from
enduring
it
;
but
since
I
find
you
guilty
thereof
,
I
cannot
but
punish
what
I
should
have
prevented
;
which
I
would
have
done
in
a
privater
way
,
could
I
have
supprest
my
resentments
so
long
:
And
yet
it
is
but
just
that
the
injury
being
before
so
many
thousand
witnesses
,
the
reparation
should
be
the
like
.
I
had
no
sooner
heard
these
words
,
then
saluting
Monyma
and
the
rest
of
the
Ladies
,
I
descended
from
the
Scaffold
,
and
having
flung
off
my
Armour
as
Diocles
had
done
his
,
I
told
him
;
That
which
,
I
confess
,
my
Fortune
has
given
me
over
all
the
rest
,
my
Courage
has
given
me
over
thee
,
which
I
am
come
by
a
repeated
experiment
to
convince
thee
of
,
and
to
let
thee
feel
I
have
been
much
more
just
in
paying
the
prize
to
Monyma
,
than
thou
hast
been
in
presuming
to
own
thy self
a
Servant
to
the
fair
Irene
.
At
the
end
of
these
words
we
drew
out
our
Swords
,
and
observing
that
not
only
all
the
Ladies
,
but
the
Magistrates
of
the
City
were
coming
to
part
us
,
we
ran
at
each
other
with
as
much
fury
,
as
if
our
Mistresses
had
not
only
been
the
beholders
,
but
were
to
have
been
the
reward
of
the
combat
.
My
thrust
was
more
fortunate
than
his
,
for
it
pierced
him
through
the
body
,
but
his
only
pierced
my
left
arm
;
so
that
in
the
close
having
flung
him
down
and
disarmed
him
,
I
bid
him
ask
his
life
;
He
told
me
,
since
it
had
been
so
unsuccessful
,
't
was
not
worth
the
pains
.
My
resentment
being
a
little
over
,
I
told
him
,
Though
thou
wouldst
perswade
me
,
by
representing
thy
life
is
not
worth
the
asking
,
that
it
is
hardly
worth
the
taking
;
yet
I
believe
it
much
more
considerable
,
and
therefore
for
Monyma
and
Irene's
sake
,
I
give
it
thee
;
by
this
time
these
two
beauties
with
many
others
,
as
also
Telamon
,
and
the
Magistrates
were
come
,
who
forthwith
caused
both
our
wounds
to
be
dress'd
;
and
because
mine
was
in
my
Arm
,
the
Chyrurgeons
sent
for
a
scarf
to
support
it
in
,
which
staying
for
too
long
,
the
fair
Irene
took
off
a
rich
one
she
had
on
,
and
bid
them
make
use
of
that
;
this
sight
wounded
Diocles
more
than
my
Sword
had
done
;
which
taking
notice
of
,
I
told
Irene
that
he
wanted
it
more
than
I
,
and
though
it
were
strangely
obliging
to
me
,
yet
it
might
prove
more
so
to
him
,
whose
condition
made
intercessions
for
him
,
by
his
being
uncapable
of
making
any
for
himself
.
Irene
immediately
,
either
pitying
Diocles
,
or
to
be
revenged
on
me
,
permitted
me
to
present
it
to
him
;
which
he
refused
,
saying
,
He
never
willingly
received
a
favour
from
an
Enemy
,
nor
would
not
his
Mistrisse's
derived
from
such
a
mediation
,
and
conveyed
by
such
a
hand
.
This
rudeness
made
me
repent
my
civility
,
and
I
believe
revenge
it
,
by
wearing
what
he
had
declined
.
I
will
exempt
you
(
continued
Callimmachus
)
from
the
relation
of
Monyma's
little
Triumph
,
from
Telamon's
discontent
at
my
quarrel
,
from
his
trouble
at
my
wound
,
and
his
care
of
my
recovery
;
which
was
much
earlier
than
that
of
Diocles
,
who
languish'd
above
a
year
before
he
was
able
to
pay
a
visit
to
Irene
,
and
to
beg
her
pardon
that
he
had
so
ill
defended
her
right
.
During
all
which
time
,
I
was
so
assiduous
in
my
addresses
to
Monyma
,
that
I
had
pregnant
cause
to
believe
they
had
not
been
fruitless
.
The
fair
Irene
also
had
contracted
so
strict
a
friendship
with
her
,
that
she
became
her
confident
,
and
at
length
my
advocate
,
from
whose
intercession
I
received
more
than
I
could
have
expected
from
any
one
;
so
that
now
my
greatest
fears
were
from
Telamon
,
who
always
manifested
so
inveterate
an
aversion
to
my
Love
,
and
one
day
so
expresly
prohibited
my
continuing
it
,
that
not
being
able
to
divest
my self
of
it
,
I
was
necessitated
to
carry
it
with
so
much
secrecy
,
that
Irene
,
and
at
last
Monyma
her self
began
to
think
that
was
my
design
,
which
indeed
was
my
punishment
.
I
had
not
the
confidence
to
acquaint
her
with
what
made
me
so
rarely
visit
her
;
but
when
ever
I
got
the
opportunity
of
paying
her
that
duty
,
I
was
so
passionate
in
my
expressions
and
looks
,
that
I
hoped
my
actions
would
acquaint
her
with
what
I
durst
not
,
which
I
esteemed
the
least
unhandsom
way
of
disclosing
my
misfortune
,
and
of
evidencing
my
constancy
.
But
whether
she
did
not
,
or
would
not
,
understand
this
way
of
proceeding
,
she
not
only
began
to
use
me
at
a
rate
,
which
might
manifest
a
less
concernment
for
me
than
she
had
once
honoured
me
with
,
but
also
conjur'd
Irene
to
decline
interceding
for
a
person
who
declined
interceding
for
himself
.
This
that
obliging
friend
informed
me
of
,
which
occasioned
a
violent
dispute
between
my
duty
to
Telamon
,
and
that
I
owed
the
fair
Monyma
;
in
which
,
though
they
could
not
vanquish
each
other
,
yet
they
vanquish'd
me
,
and
cast
me
into
so
deep
a
melancholly
,
that
the
last
admired
it
,
and
the
first
did
pity
it
.
Irene
concluding
there
was
something
of
mysterious
in
this
,
resolved
to
break
those
con●inements
Monyma
had
imposed
on
her
,
and
to
know
of
me
what
occasioned
my
sadness
,
and
then
to
impart
it
unto
her
.
In
this
resolve
she
so
artificially
ordered
things
,
that
once
in
the
Temple
(
which
was
the
only
place
I
visited
)
she
conjur'd
me
to
acquaint
her
with
the
occasion
of
my
change
,
and
grief
;
which
she
only
asked
,
that
she
might
contribute
to
the
cure
of
it
.
So
generous
a
proceeding
from
a
person
which
I
knew
was
so
,
made
me
resolve
to
be
rather
known
unfortunate
,
than
to
be
believed
guilty
;
I
therefore
fully
informed
her
with
what
strict
prohibitions
Telamon
had
made
me
of
ever
visiting
Monyma
again
,
which
had
occasioned
my
seeming
coldness
,
but
had
really
so
punish'd
it
,
that
it
had
produced
those
visible
effects
she
so
obligingly
deplored
,
and
endeavoured
to
remove
.
I
had
not
in
so
publick
a
place
leisure
to
say
more
,
or
she
,
than
that
the
next
day
in
the
same
place
and
hour
I
should
meet
her
again
.
This
command
the
succeeding
morning
I
observed
,
and
had
not
been
long
in
the
Temple
,
but
Irene
came
into
it
;
and
whilst
others
were
imploy'd
in
their
devotions
,
she
told
me
as
I
kneeled
by
her
,
that
Monyma
was
neither
worthy
of
my
Love
,
nor
her
friendship
;
for
she
was
so
unwise
,
and
so
unkind
,
as
not
to
believe
the
too
great
truth
I
had
told
her
,
and
she
had
told
Monyma
,
who
thought
't
was
but
a
design
to
cloud
my
change
and
passion
for
her self
,
and
therefore
that
I
must
no
more
make
use
of
her
solicitations
,
since
they
were
so
far
from
acting
that
cure
,
that
they
made
the
disease
.
This
information
added
wonder
to
my
grief
,
both
which
so
intirely
possess'd
me
,
that
I
had
hardly
strength
enough
to
acknowledg
that
friendship
,
whose
effects
had
so
wounded
me
;
which
yet
having
performed
in
the
best
way
I
could
,
I
immediately
retired
to
entertain
my
thoughts
,
which
but
too
much
contributed
with
fortune
to
torment
me
:
For
now
I
had
not
only
two
Enemies
to
contest
with
,
Telamon's
aversion
,
and
Monyma's
jealousie
;
but
the
latter
was
so
unhappily
placed
,
that
what
occasioned
the
ill
,
rendred
it
incurable
,
since
she
had
a
suspition
of
her
,
by
whom
only
I
had
hopes
to
cure
it
.
This
accessional
misfortune
conspiring
with
my
Melancholly
,
cast
me
into
a
languishing
feaver
,
which
so
mov'd
Telamon
,
that
one
evening
he
came
to
my
beds-side
,
and
told
me
,
Callimachus
,
I
cannot
be
mo●e
confident
that
I
am
the
occasion
of
your
sadness
and
indsposition
,
than
I
am
,
that
you
would
excuse
it
,
if
I
durst
acquaint
you
with
the
reasons
;
which
being
confined
by
tyes
too
great
to
be
broken
,
but
by
those
which
only
can
absolve
me
from
them
,
I
am
resolv'd
to
make
a
Journey
expresly
to
obtain
their
leave
;
provided
before
I
go
you
will
solemnly
protest
unto
me
,
that
during
my
absence
,
which
shall
be
but
two
Moons
at
most
,
you
will
make
no
engagement
of
marriage
to
Monyma
;
and
if
by
some
accident
I
cannot
foresee
,
I
should
miscarry
in
the
Journey
,
you
will
then
before
you
make
her
any
promise
thereof
,
observe
what
is
contained
in
this
Paper
,
and
not
open
it
till
that
time
is
eff●uxt
;
There
you
will
find
things
you
little
expect
,
and
such
as
I
know
will
invite
you
to
believe
I
am
as
just
,
as
you
now
think
me
cruel
;
and
that
I
had
more
wronged
you
in
yielding
to
your
desires
,
than
I
do
in
opposing
them
.
I
shall
not
(
continued
Callimachus
)
tell
you
my
amazement
at
these
words
;
my
endeavours
to
disswade
him
from
a
Voyage
which
I
despaired
not
my
obedience
,
and
the
sense
I
had
of
his
goodness
,
might
in
some
short
time
exempt
him
from
;
nor
those
holy
vows
I
made
him
,
when
I
could
not
divert
him
from
his
intended
Journey
,
that
I
would
not
make
any
such
engagemeet
to
Monyma
during
those
two
months
,
nor
after
,
till
first
I
had
observed
his
commands
in
the
sealed
Paper
.
Three
days
after
,
when
Telamon
found
my
health
was
in
some
measure
restored
;
after
he
had
once
again
made
me
reiterate
my
former
vows
,
he
brought
me
a
Cabbinet
,
in
which
he
told
me
there
were
Jewels
enough
to
continue
for
some
years
the
Equipage
I
liv'd
in
;
then
having
imbraced
me
,
and
kist
my
cheek
,
he
told
me
,
Perhaps
Callimachus
,
you
are
much
more
than
my
Son
;
and
then
hastily
went
aboard
his
Galley
(
for
his
Voyage
was
to
be
performed
by
Sea
)
that
I
might
not
see
some
tears
which
were
stealing
from
him
.
The
End
of
the
first
Book
of
the
Fifth
Part
of
PARTHENISSA
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FIFTH
PART
.
The
Second
BOOK
.
AS
soon
as
my
grief
for
Telamons
depa●ture
was
qualified
,
in
few
days
I
was
able
to
pay
the
fair
Monyma
a
visit
(
which
was
not
prohibited
me
)
.
When
I
came
into
her
Chamber
,
I
found
to
my
amazement
,
none
with
her
but
Diocles
,
who
was
kneeling
by
her
.
I
believe
my
sight
surprized
them
as
much
as
the
company
I
found
Monyma
in
,
and
Diocles
posture
did
me
:
after
we
had
express'd
so
much
by
a
silent
contemplating
one
another
;
he
rose
up
,
and
told
me
,
I
hope
Callimachus
,
you
are
glad
to
find
the
fair
Monyma
has
made
me
your
Rival
,
and
that
on
my
knees
I
beg
pardon
for
not
having
been
earlier
convinc'd
of
a
Truth
,
which
I
did
never
so
much
doubt
,
as
now
I
joyfully
acknowledg
.
This
precipitate
declaring
himself
my
Rival
,
made
me
in
spight
of
that
respect
I
owed
Monyma
,
thus
answer
him
:
If
your
becoming
my
Rival
does
no
more
please
the
fair
Monyma
,
than
it
does
trouble
me
,
you
will
be
as
unsuccesful
in
your
submission
,
as
you
were
in
your
resistance
:
And
I
cannot
but
believe
,
had
you
a
year
sooner
acknowledged
so
clear
a
truth
,
you
had
saved
more
thereby
,
than
now
you
will
get
.
This
reply
so
incens'd
Diocles
,
that
with
an
inflamed
look
he
told
me
;
since
any
wounds
were
received
,
for
not
acknowledging
Monyma's
beauty
was
the
highest
,
I
shall
repine
at
nothing
therein
,
but
that
Callimachus
hand
did
give
them
,
who
owed
his
success
to
his
quarrel
,
not
his
courage
.
That
I
owed
my
success
(
I
answer'd
)
in
that
dispute
,
to
what
you
say
,
I
shall
as
freely
confess
,
as
that
in
any
other
my
Courage
will
give
me
the
like
over
Diocles
:
which
if
this
moment
I
did
not
convince
you
of
,
't
is
only
that
all
my
passions
yield
to
those
I
have
for
the
fair
Monyma
;
which
if
yours
did
,
we
had
not
so
long
cast
off
that
respect
we
owe
her
;
and
which
your
rudeness
shall
not
make
me
be
any
longer
guilty
of
.
Whereupon
having
whispered
a
word
or
two
unto
each
other
(
which
was
an
assignment
where
we
should
meet
an
hour
after
)
,
Diocles
immediately
saluted
Monyma
,
and
went
out
of
the
room
;
she
all
this
while
was
so
astonish't
,
first
at
my
coming
to
visit
her
,
then
at
her
being
found
at
unwares
,
and
lastly
at
our
quarrel
,
that
she
had
not
the
power
to
command
Diocles
not
to
go
away
,
though
twice
she
opened
her
mouth
to
do
it
.
I
was
not
a
little
satisfied
to
have
so
favourable
an
opportunity
of
acquainting
her
what
had
so
long
hindred
my
waiting
on
her
,
and
what
had
now
given
me
the
happiness
of
doing
it
:
I
will
not
by
retail
tell
you
all
the
particulars
of
this
day
,
nor
of
some
subsequent
actions
;
it
being
enough
for
you
to
know
,
that
I
so
well
convinc'd
Monyma
of
my
passion
,
and
how
unalterable
I
should
be
in
it
,
that
she
at
last
freely
permitted
me
to
make
her
my
addresses
again
;
and
then
she
inform'd
me
,
that
a
little
before
I
came
to
her
,
Philopomanes
had
brought
Diocles
into
her
chamber
,
and
had
commanded
her
to
accept
of
him
as
her
servant
,
and
as
one
whom
he
had
fixt
upon
for
her
husband
:
That
Diocles
had
told
her
,
he
now
perceived
a
fault
he
as
much
gloried
to
confess
,
as
formerly
to
be
guilty
of
;
and
that
my
visit
had
obligingly
interrupted
his
saying
more
,
and
consequently
her
enduring
more
.
This
free
proceeding
rejoiced
me
as
much
as
my
res●auration
to
her
favour
,
and
made
me
believe
what
I
had
told
my
new
Rival
by
way
of
resentment
,
he
would
find
a
Prophecy
.
'T
was
then
also
she
acquainted
me
,
how
that
her
ignorance
of
what
had
invited
me
so
often
to
visit
Irene
,
and
so
seldom
her
,
had
given
her
a
little
jealousie
,
which
had
but
too
much
punished
it self
by
making
her
feel
how
sensible
my
supposed
change
was
to
her
,
which
she
ingenuously
confest
was
more
so
upon
the
account
of
her
having
lost
me
,
than
that
Irene
had
got
me
.
These
ravishing
assurances
left
me
no
fears
,
but
those
which
proceeded
from
an
apprehension
of
what
Philopomanes
authority
might
act
against
me
;
and
that
they
were
spoke
to
gain
a
power
over
me
,
which
might
suppress
that
design
I
had
against
Diocles
,
over
whom
thereby
I
might
believe
my
advantage
was
sufficient
,
without
seeking
any
greater
from
my
Sword
.
Whilst
I
was
thus
evincing
my
gratitude
,
and
entertaining
my
apprehensions
,
Monyma
went
out
of
the
room
,
as
she
told
me
,
to
call
one
of
her
Women
,
left
Philopomanes
by
finding
us
alone
,
might
not
only
suspect
the
cause
of
Diocles's
going
away
,
but
prohibit
her
receiving
any
visits
from
me
,
to
prevent
his
receiving
the
like
disgust
in
the
future
.
Her
return
with
what
she
went
for
,
was
so
sudden
,
that
it
then
silenc'd
one
of
my
doubts
;
and
because
I
had
received
as
much
satisfaction
as
I
could
have
promis'd
my self
from
that
day's
waiting
on
her
,
that
I
had
a
witness
which
deni'd
me
the
liberty
of
those
discourses
which
I
took
most
pleasure
in
,
and
that
the
hour
of
meeting
Diocles
drew
near
;
I
kist
the
fair
Monyma's
hands
,
and
went
not
long
after
to
the
place
we
had
agreed
on
;
where
instead
of
finding
Diocles
,
I
found
a
guard
of
Soldiers
,
who
convey'd
me
to
my
own
house
;
and
by
their
placing
themselves
at
my
Gate
,
made
me
know
it
was
my
prison
:
soon
after
a
friend
of
mine
came
to
advertise
me
,
that
Diocles
had
preceded
me
in
the
like
usage
.
At
first
I
repin'd
against
Monyma
,
who
I
knew
was
only
acquainted
with
our
difference
(
and
who
,
I
learnt
afterwards
,
went
out
of
the
Chamber
purposely
to
send
notice
thereof
to
the
Officers
of
Justice
)
apprehending
she
denied
me
the
repetition
of
a
Victory
my
Sword
had
once
conferr'd
on
me
.
But
then
my
thoughts
changing
,
I
began
to
believe
(
as
Lovers
still
are
apt
to
flatter
themselves
)
that
her
being
more
a
friend
to
my
safety
,
than
my
honour
,
had
occasioned
this
proceeding
;
and
in
that
faith
I
found
in
my
trouble
,
my
satisfaction
:
But
(
said
Callimachus
)
to
continue
this
part
of
my
Story
in
that
brevity
which
I
have
hitherto
practised
,
I
shall
tell
you
,
That
after
the
Magistrates
had
declar'd
we
should
not
be
freed
till
we
had
mutually
sworn
never
to
fight
against
each
other
,
and
that
all
our
friends
had
long
and
unsuccessfully
endeavour'd
to
extort
that
promise
from
us
,
wearied
with
our
confinement
,
more
with
our
not
waiting
upon
Monyma
,
but
most
of
all
to
obey
her
command
,
we
past
that
assurance
before
her
,
and
continued
as
much
friends
,
as
persons
which
had
so
little
cause
for
it
,
could
be
.
The
next
day
after
this
reconciliation
,
Monyma
sent
to
me
to
meet
her
at
Irenes
(
with
whom
she
was
perfectly
reconcil'd
,
having
discover'd
her
mistake
)
where
she
told
me
,
she
had
received
a
positive
command
from
Philopomanes
,
never
to
admit
any
of
my
visits
;
and
therefore
henceforth
those
I
pay'd
her
must
be
where
I
then
was
,
and
that
too
both
privately
and
seldom
,
left
the
priviledg
of
going
to
see
her
friend
,
might
be
also
denied
her
.
She
further
told
me
,
she
was
confident
this
had
long
since
been
resolv'd
,
though
but
that
morning
only
enjoin'd
:
for
her
Father
knew
too
well
how
much
an
alliance
with
so
considerable
a
person
,
and
so
vastly
rich
,
as
Diocles
was
,
would
be
to
his
advantage
and
settlement
in
Miletus
,
not
to
prosecute
it
with
his
utmost
endeavours
:
and
that
had
he
given
her
that
command
before
the
reconciliation
,
it
would
for
ever
have
hinder'd
it
:
for
knowing
I
should
have
been
eternally
depriv'd
of
her
company
,
I
would
probably
have
declin'd
that
agreement
,
which
must
have
involv'd
my
Rival
in
the
like
infelicity
:
she
then
too
acquainted
me
with
that
which
her
disorders
at
my
former
visit
had
made
her
omit
,
which
was
,
that
before
Diocles
made
any
expressions
of
his
passions
to
her
,
he
had
conjur'd
her
to
acquaint
him
,
whether
she
had
any
inclinations
for
,
or
engagements
to
me
;
that
if
she
had
,
he
might
not
be
so
rude
as
to
give
any
interruption
to
a
person
,
whose
satisfaction
should
always
form
his
.
To
which
,
she
assur'd
him
she
had
not
;
which
then
was
a
real
truth
;
my
not
waiting
on
her
having
made
her
believe
I
had
supprest
my
inclinations
for
her
,
which
had
invited
her
to
silence
any
she
honoured
me
with
.
This
information
made
me
much
lessen
that
aversion
I
had
for
Diocles
,
who
I
till
then
thought
had
designedly
endeavoured
to
be
my
Rival
;
but
on
the
other
side
I
was
struck
with
so
deep
a
sadness
,
foreseeing
those
obstructions
my
passion
would
contend
with
,
that
neither
some
fresh
favours
of
Monyma's
,
nor
Irene's
promising
me
all
her
assistance
,
could
any
way
divest
me
of
my
melancholly
;
which
made
the
first
of
them
tell
me
,
she
thought
my
affection
was
not
near
so
high
as
I
represented
it
,
since
she
too
visibly
found
my
fear
was
greater
than
my
love
;
and
that
the
apprehensions
of
things
to
come
,
were
more
prevalent
to
make
me
sad
,
than
her
friendship
was
to
hinder
me
from
it
.
I
was
much
asham'd
to
have
this
reprehension
,
but
much
more
to
have
deserved
it
;
which
to
do
so
no
longer
,
I
forced
my self
to
divert
those
two
persons
,
I
so
justly
esteemed
,
which
yet
I
did
so
constrainedly
,
that
I
gave
them
more
cause
of
pity
,
than
satisfaction
.
I
had
some
time
the
happiness
of
thus
waiting
on
Monyma
at
the
fair
Irene's
,
and
of
receiving
reiterated
assurances
from
her
,
that
neither
Diocles's
address
,
nor
Philopomanes
commands
,
could
any
thing
prevail
to
the
prejudice
of
my
passion
.
And
as
she
was
determin'd
not
to
give
her self
to
any
without
his
consent
,
so
she
would
not
be
given
to
any
without
her
own
.
'T
was
by
such
entertainments
as
these
that
at
length
my
grief
was
conquer'd
,
and
almost
the
two
Moons
of
Telamon's
absence
,
during
all
which
I
had
not
heard
any
thing
of
,
or
from
him
,
which
gave
me
occasion
both
of
trouble
and
wonder
.
But
alas
,
not
long
after
this
tolerable
condition
I
was
told
by
Monyma
,
that
her
vigilant
Father
having
discovered
these
hours
of
entertainment
we
enjoyed
at
the
fair
Irene's
,
he
had
so
expresly
prohibited
her
ever
to
speak
to
me
again
,
that
now
there
was
no
way
left
of
communicating
our
minds
,
but
by
Letters
,
which
too
must
be
manag'd
with
much
circumspection
and
art
,
lest
that
Expedient
of
acquainting
each
other
with
our
thoughts
might
be
also
denied
us
.
But
now
I
must
make
a
little
digression
,
to
inform
you
of
what
brought
as
great
,
as
unexpected
a
change
,
not
only
in
my
then
passion
,
but
in
all
the
subsequent
Actions
of
my
life
.
When
Sylla
had
pacified
Asia
,
and
made
conditions
with
,
or
rather
impos'd
them
on
Mithridates
;
two
of
which
were
,
that
Ariobarzanes
should
be
restored
to
Cappadocia
,
and
Nicomedes
to
Bithynia
,
he
shipt
his
Army
for
Italy
in
the
resigned-up
Fleet
of
the
Pontick
King
,
and
left
Murena
and
Cotta
with
two
Legions
only
(
either
to
shew
how
absolute
his
conquest
had
been
,
or
that
he
could
spare
no
more
from
his
intended
one
)
to
settle
those
Princes
in
their
Thrones
,
and
to
order
those
other
affairs
which
his
precipitate
departure
had
denied
him
time
to
effect
.
These
two
Roman
Commanders
summon'd
Mithridates
to
withdraw
his
Garisons
and
Army
out
of
those
two
Kingdoms
;
which
at
first
he
seem'd
to
send
Commands
to
have
done
,
but
the
Governours
made
so
many
delays
,
and
frivolous
excuses
,
that
the
Romans
began
to
believe
,
his
intentions
and
his
promises
were
different
.
And
the
truth
was
,
Mithridates
did
but
protract
the
time
,
till
he
could
hear
what
Sylla
did
in
Italy
,
resolving
(
as
the
event
manifested
)
if
Rome
was
engag'd
throughly
in
her
domestick
differences
,
he
would
not
part
with
two
Dominions
which
had
cost
him
so
much
Treasure
and
Blood
,
and
which
were
to
be
restored
to
persons
he
had
too
sensibly
wrong'd
,
to
trust
them
with
a
power
to
right
themselves
;
it
being
also
much
easier
to
keep
them
out
of
their
Kingdoms
(
if
Sylla
and
Marius
were
plundg'd
into
a
civil
War
)
then
having
restor'd
them
,
to
keep
his
own
.
The
apprehension
Murena
had
of
this
(
for
Cotta
then
returned
for
Italy
)
made
him
send
Mithridates
word
,
that
if
by
a
set
day
,
all
excuses
set
apart
,
Nicomedes
and
Ariobarzanes
had
not
right
done
them
by
fair
means
,
they
should
have
it
done
by
the
Sword
,
and
he
should
be
declared
an
Enemy
for
ever
to
the
people
of
Rome
.
This
brisk
message
made
the
Pontick
King
find
,
that
the
day
Murena
had
set
down
for
the
restitution
of
Bithynia
,
and
Cappadocia
,
if
he
did
not
perform
it
by
then
,
was
the
space
he
had
allowed
him
to
prepare
for
War
,
which
he
cheerfully
did
;
because
the
same
time
he
received
certain
intelligence
,
that
Marius
and
Sylla
were
so
throughly
engag'd
in
Blood
,
that
even
Rome
was
become
a
humane
Shambles
,
and
that
they
neither
had
the
time
,
nor
the
power
to
mind
any
differences
but
their
own
.
But
because
he
had
experimented
how
advantageous
it
was
to
the
Land-war
,
to
be
Master
of
the
Sea
,
and
that
he
had
resigned
to
Sylla
all
his
Fleet
,
as
an
evincement
he
was
once
conquer'd
,
and
as
a
greater
,
that
he
should
not
put
him
to
the
trouble
and
charge
of
doing
so
again
:
He
us'd
all
means
imaginable
to
recover
a
second
Fleet
;
And
though
by
the
endeavours
of
Be●uitus
his
Admiral
,
he
had
engag'd
many
Pirates
under
his
pay
,
yet
he
found
so
loose
a
discipline
amongst
them
,
and
consequently
so
uncertain
a
help
,
that
their
pay
was
more
considerable
than
their
Service
:
and
therefore
he
discharged
them
,
resolving
to
compose
his
Naval-forces
of
such
only
as
should
give
him
hopes
to
repair
the
smalness
of
their
number
,
by
the
exactness
of
their
Order
and
Obedience
.
This
was
the
reason
why
he
sent
Betuitus
to
visit
the
Maritime
Towns
of
Caria
,
there
to
entertain
such
Ships
of
War
,
as
the
free
people
of
that
Province
would
permit
him
to
employ
.
And
because
Betuitus
had
unsuccessfully
endeavoured
to
win
the
consents
of
those
of
Miletus
,
who
were
much
more
powerful
at
Sea
,
than
any
Town
in
Asia
;
he
at
length
(
having
corrupted
some
of
the
chief
men
by
large
Presents
)
was
advised
by
those
to
invite
his
King
to
come
personally
thither
,
as
the
only
,
and
then
the
certain
way
to
effect
his
desires
.
The
Pontick
Admiral
found
this
advice
so
probable
,
that
he
perswaded
his
King
to
that
Journey
,
who
came
with
a
very
small
retinue
within
twenty
Furlongs
of
the
City
,
and
from
thence
sent
a
couple
of
Gentlemen
to
acquaint
the
Magistrates
thereof
,
that
they
might
not
be
Alarm'd
thereat
,
and
to
desire
admittance
and
audience
in
a
business
which
was
of
such
importance
,
that
he
would
be
himself
the
deliverer
of
it
.
The
people
of
Miletus
though
exceeding
jealous
of
their
safeties
and
freedom
,
being
truly
inform'd
of
the
small
Train
which
accompanied
Mithridates
,
esteemed
it
less
hazardous
to
grant
his
desire
,
than
to
deny
it
;
since
the
affront
might
provoke
him
to
a
War
,
which
could
not
but
be
much
more
dangerous
than
his
visit
.
They
therefore
sent
some
of
the
eminentest
amongst
them
to
complement
him
,
to
desire
him
that
night
to
rest
himself
where
he
then
was
,
which
was
a
house
of
pleasure
belonging
to
the
fair
Irene's
Father
,
that
the
next
day
they
might
be
better
prepar'd
to
give
him
a
reception
,
which
should
have
more
relisht
of
their
respect
,
and
of
what
was
due
to
so
great
a
King
,
had
not
the
shortness
of
the
time
hinder'd
it
.
There
was
none
unsatisfied
at
the
sending
of
this
message
but
Philopomanes
,
who
apprehended
Mithridates
took
this
as
a
pretence
,
and
meant
indeed
to
be
revenged
on
him
for
his
having
delivered
up
Ephesus
to
his
Enemies
.
But
these
fears
were
soon
supprest
by
the
Senates
assuring
him
,
they
would
all
dye
before
their
City
should
be
no
Sanctuary
to
such
as
fled
into
it
,
as
one
.
The
same
evening
it
was
resolved
,
that
two
of
the
greatest
unmarried
beauties
of
Miletus
,
should
the
next
day
be
drest
like
Amazons
,
and
hold
a
silk
Cord
cross
the
Gate
the
Pontick
King
was
to
enter
at
,
which
they
should
not
loose
till
he
had
solemnly
sworn
,
he
would
attempt
nothing
against
the
liberty
of
the
City
;
which
when
he
had
done
,
then
they
should
admit
him
,
and
the
Magistrates
should
be
ready
to
wait
on
him
.
This
they
esteemed
the
eivilest
way
of
exacting
such
an
engagement
,
which
they
could
not
think
was
more
necessary
,
than
they
were
concerned
how
without
cause
of
disgust
they
might
desire
and
receive
it
.
The
performance
of
this
ceremony
was
placed
upon
Monyma
and
Irene
,
who
the
next
morning
in
the
clothes
of
Amazons
,
and
drest
to
perfection
,
went
to
Diana's
Gate
,
atteded
by
the
Magistrates
,
and
all
the
Principal
persons
of
the
City
;
to
which
place
Mithridates
soon
came
,
only
followed
by
his
own
Train
,
and
many
of
the
young
Nobility
of
Miletus
,
which
went
to
wait
on
him
into
the
City
.
When
he
came
to
the
Port
,
those
two
Beauties
drew
their
Barricado
cross
it
;
and
Monyma
with
an
action
and
tone
altogether
charming
,
told
him
,
Sir
,
the
people
of
Miletus
have
for
many
ages
been
so
justly
jealous
of
that
perfect
freedom
they
enjoy
,
that
they
never
admitted
any
Prince
within
their
Walls
,
till
he
had
solemnly
sworn
,
not
to
act
any
thing
to
the
destruction
or
lessening
of
it
.
This
,
Sir
,
which
their
care
has
made
them
practise
to
all
others
,
custom
only
invites
them
to
make
use
of
towards
you
;
of
which
they
all
hope
you
will
be
clearly
convinced
,
by
seeing
what
till
then
denies
you
admittance
into
their
gates
,
and
what
sex
and
number
they
have
elected
to
defend
them
with
.
Irene
having
spoken
some
words
to
the
like
effect
,
Mithridates
after
a
little
silence
fixing
his
eyes
on
Monyma
,
and
addressing
his
words
to
her
,
repli'd
:
A
desire
from
a
person
of
so
much
Beauty
,
and
so
obligingly
made
,
cannot
be
but
obeyed
;
and
therefore
I
swear
by
all
the
Gardian-Angels
,
I
will
not
at
my
now
entring
Miletus
,
attempt
or
design
any
thing
against
the
freedom
of
her
inhabitants
;
and
I
swear
by
you
,
Madam
,
speaking
to
Monyma
,
That
what
I
bind
my self
from
now
,
I
will
abjure
for
ever
for
your
sake
.
Monyma
and
Irene
,
to
whom
Mithridates
also
made
some
little
complement
,
at
this
assurance
let
fall
the
Cord
,
which
made
Mithridates
immediately
alight
,
who
having
saluted
them
both
,
told
the
first
of
them
,
with
a
visible
emotion
;
That
(
Madam
)
which
you
have
desired
from
me
out
of
custom
,
I
must
beg
of
you
upon
a
stronger
motive
;
for
doubtless
your
City
cannot
have
so
much
cause
to
apprehend
losing
their
liberty
by
me
,
as
I
have
to
lose
mine
by
you
:
And
therefore
as
I
have
sworn
to
you
to
leave
it
in
as
perfect
a
freedom
as
I
found
it
in
;
permit
me
to
implore
you
,
the
promise
that
I
shall
receive
no
worse
usage
from
you
.
And
if
after
having
seen
so
much
beauty
,
I
could
have
had
any
room
left
for
wonder
,
I
should
have
entertained
no
small
proportion
,
to
find
that
a
people
jealous
of
their
Liberty
,
should
yet
permit
a
person
to
reside
amongst
them
,
who
is
so
certain
a
Conqueror
of
it
.
Monyma
was
so
highly
disorder'd
by
this
unexpected
entertainment
,
that
she
was
not
a
little
oblig'd
to
the
Magistrates
,
who
by
coming
to
salute
the
Pontick
King
,
detained
her
from
making
any
reply
.
But
after
Mithridates
had
performed
the
uneasie
Ceremonies
due
to
such
people
,
he
went
again
to
Monyma
and
Irene
,
and
leading
of
them
both
,
he
desired
some
to
shew
him
the
way
to
their
Houses
,
that
he
might
wait
upon
them
thither
;
which
he
performed
,
though
they
and
the
Magistrates
often
and
earnestly
beg'd
of
him
to
decline
it
.
This
was
not
thought
strange
by
those
who
knew
him
;
since
he
was
so
great
an
admirer
of
Beauty
,
that
he
had
twice
already
only
upon
that
account
,
married
Ladies
of
less
quality
than
either
Monyma
or
Irene
;
of
the
first
of
which
,
before
he
left
her
,
he
desired
the
permission
of
frequently
waiting
on
her
whilst
he
resided
in
Miletus
:
And
having
learnt
whose
daughter
she
was
,
he
went
to
Philopomanes
,
embraced
him
,
and
told
him
,
for
her
sake
he
pardon'd
all
that
was
past
,
and
promis'd
him
as
large
a
share
in
his
esteem
,
and
trust
as
ever
.
The
morning
of
this
ceremonious
day
,
I
had
received
a
Letter
from
Monyma
,
(
all
other
ways
being
rigorously
forbidden
her
)
wherein
she
acquainted
me
,
she
was
assured
I
had
some
new
dispute
with
Diocles
,
which
many
apprehended
would
be
decided
by
the
Sword
,
and
therefore
she
conjur'd
me
,
to
secure
her
that
day
from
those
fears
that
belief
had
raised
in
her
,
and
that
if
she
had
an
interest
in
me
,
I
should
evince
it
by
not
exposing
to
any
hazard
a
life
which
was
as
dear
to
her
as
her
own
.
This
information
had
some
little
ground
;
for
Diocles
and
I
had
exchanged
the
night
before
at
a
Ladies
house
,
some
words
,
which
doubtless
had
occasioned
a
duel
,
had
not
our
pre-engagement
hinder'd
in
both
any
thought
of
that
nature
.
But
finding
her
concerns
of
a
quality
,
that
it
was
both
a
duty
and
kindness
to
silence
them
as
soon
as
I
could
,
I
forthwith
writ
her
a
Letter
to
ascertain
her
of
my
obedience
,
and
went
with
it
that
evening
to
Irene's
,
where
I
was
confident
to
meet
her
,
or
at
least
to
get
the
Letter
convey'd
unto
her
.
I
had
not
been
there
long
,
when
Monyma
came
in
,
accompanied
by
Philopomanes
and
Diocles
,
the
first
being
very
vigilant
over
her
,
having
had
some
noise
of
our
renewed
quarrel
.
I
am
now
(
continued
Callimachus
,
changing
his
voice
)
come
to
the
relation
of
an
accident
that
befel
me
,
and
which
I
believe
never
had
,
nor
never
will
have
a
parallel
.
The
time
of
Telamon's
promised
return
,
was
that
evening
to
expire
;
and
therefore
I
then
carried
about
me
the
Letter
which
he
left
with
me
.
that
was
to
tell
me
such
strange
and
unexpected
things
,
in
case
he
came
not
back
by
the
time
limited
;
this
Letter
by
chance
was
about
the
same
bigness
with
that
I
was
to
deliver
Monyma
,
and
put
into
the
same
pocket
;
so
that
by
a
sad
misfortune
,
whilst
Diocles
and
Philopomanes
were
discoursing
together
at
one
end
of
the
Chamber
,
and
Monyma
and
Irene
were
doing
the
like
by
the
fire●
side
,
thinking
I
had
found
a
favourable
opportunity
to
deliver
my
Letter
,
I
took
out
the
wrong
one
,
and
walking
carelesly
to
them
,
I
stole
the
Letter
into
Monyma's
hand
,
who
being
intently
speaking
to
Irene
,
and
not
minding
me
,
finding
something
unexpectedly
touch
her
hand
,
she
shriek'd
out
,
and
let
it
fall
;
which
noise
made
both
Philopomanes
and
Diocles
turn
about
,
who
perceived
the
cause
of
it
,
as
well
by
the
Letter
which
lay
on
the
ground
,
as
by
the
disorder
Monyma
and
I
were
in
;
but
she
soon
coming
to
her self
again
,
took
up
the
Letter
hastily
and
scornfully
,
and
sealed
as
it
was
,
cast
it
into
the
fire
,
which
immediately
consumed
it
.
This
proceeding
made
my
satisfaction
rather
than
my
trouble
,
knowing
she
had
no
better
an
expedient
left
to
remedy
what
had
happened
,
than
thus
to
use
me
.
And
the
better
to
contribute
to
this
delusion
,
I
went
away
abruptly
,
and
in
a
seeming
high
discontent
.
At
which
her
Father
and
her
Servant
were
so
pleased
,
that
they
both
acquainted
her
with
their
being
so
,
by
passionate
and
sensible
expressions
:
And
the
obliging
Irene
following
and
overtaking
of
me
,
made
me
know
the
true
cause
of
Monyma's
proceeding
;
and
offer'd
,
if
I
had
any
thing
to
acquaint
her
with
,
she
would
perform
the
duty
of
that
unhappy
Letter
;
which
I
did
:
and
having
acknowledg'd
the
unmerited
friendship
she
honoured
me
with
,
I
went
to
my
own
house
,
joyful
that
even
misfortune
it self
had
more
contributed
to
the
di●guising
of
our
Loves
,
than
our
inventions
could
;
and
troubled
at
nothing
but
at
Telamon's
absence
,
which
perhaps
I
might
learn
the
occasion
of
,
in
reading
the
Paper
he
had
left
me
,
which
I
then
might
lawfully
do
,
the
time
he
had
limited
being
then
eff●uxt
.
But
,
O
gods
!
what
was
my
astonishment
,
when
having
open'd
it
,
I
found
it
was
the
Letter
I
had
writ
to
Monyma
,
and
consequently
't
was
Telamon's
Paper
which
she
had
burnt
!
I
cannot
tell
you
what
a
throng
of
several
thoughts
came
into
my
fancy
,
and
how
many
misfortunes
this
one
made
me
apprehend
;
sometimes
I
fear'd
Monyma
would
believe
I
had
discover'd
something
in
that
Letter
so
much
to
my
disadvantage
,
that
my
fatal
mistake
was
but
to
conceal
it
from
her
.
Sometimes
I
trembled
to
think
,
that
by
my
oath
to
Telamon
,
being
obliged
to
perform
a
journey
mentioned
in
the
burnt
Letter
,
before
I
made
any
engagement
to
Monyma
,
by
that
sad
loss
I
was
confin'd
from
an
Hymeneal
union
,
should
she
condescend
to
one
;
and
not
temporarily
,
but
eternally
,
should
Telamon
be
lost
;
which
I
was
more
than
apprehensive
he
was
,
his
last
assurance
to
me
being
,
That
if
he
liv'd
he
would
be
with
me
by
the
time
limited
.
Sometimes
(
so
ingenious
I
was
to
torment
my self
)
I
fear'd
he
affection'd
me
so
exceedingly
,
and
disgusted
so
much
my
alliance
with
Monyma
,
for
whom
he
knew
that
I
had
an
unextinguishable
passion
,
that
not
having
any
means
able
to
suppress
it
,
he
had
made
himself
away
,
or
banished
himself
,
thereby
to
confine
me
(
in
observance
of
those
solemn
Oaths
I
had
taken
)
from
that
union
.
These
and
many
resembling
considerations
I
suggested
to
my self
,
against
my self
;
besides
the
vast
trouble
I
was
in
for
the
loss
of
Telamon
,
as
well
as
for
the
ignorance
of
my
own
condition
,
which
his
last
words
obscurely
made
me
imagine
,
was
more
elevated
than
till
then
I
had
believed
it
;
all
which
concurring
,
or
else
my
body
of
its
own
constitution
,
then
inclind'd
to
sickness
,
cast
me
into
so
dangerous
a
one
,
that
for
six
days
I
gave
my
Servants
and
Physicians
as
little
hope
,
as
I
had
desire
of
life
;
but
the
seventh
day
,
the
malignity
of
my
fever
was
mitigated
,
and
in
as
many
days
more
,
I
was
in
so
promising
a
way
of
recovery
,
that
understanding
one
of
Monyma's
Pages
desired
to
give
me
a
Letter
from
his
Lady
with
his
own
hand
;
I
gave
him
admittance
,
and
he
presented
me
with
the
Letter
,
whose
superscription
was
this
:
To
the
generous
CALLIMACHUS
.
And
knowing
the
hand
to
be
Monyma's
,
having
kist
it
with
transports
,
I
found
it
contained
these
words
:
That
same
duty
which
first
necessitated
me
to
decline
your
visits
,
and
then
your
conversation
,
now
makes
me
give
my self
away
to
the
Pontick
King
.
When
it
was
so
powerful
,
as
to
make
me
do
that
for
Diocles
,
't
is
not
strange
it
could
make
me
do
this
for
Mithridates
,
who
transcends
him
as
much
in
merit
,
as
in
quality
:
believe
me
,
Calimachus
,
I
am
troubled
to
wear
a
Crown
,
since
't
is
not
from
you
that
I
receive
it
;
for
whom
I
had
such
inclinations
,
that
had
the
gods
render'd
it
no
sin
to
follow
the
dictates
of
them
,
I
should
have
prefer'd
a
private
condition
with
you
,
to
the
greatest
Empire
of
the
World
without
you
:
And
since
you
can
no
longer
legitimately
continue
that
affection
you
once
honour'd
me
with
;
Nor
I
,
that
which
your
merit
and
my
inclinations
made
me
once
pay
you
;
permit
me
at
least
still
to
continue
in
your
memory
and
esteem
,
as
whilst
I
live
you
shall
be
the
most
precious
thing
(
as
far
as
honour
will
permit
)
in
the
thoughts
of
the
unfortunate
Monyma
.
As
soon
as
I
had
done
reading
this
fatal
Letter
,
I
look't
distractedly
upon
all
my
Servants
which
were
present
,
and
upon
him
that
had
deliver'd
it
,
who
,
I
knew
,
was
one
that
Monyma
repos'd
a
peculiar
confidence
in
,
thereby
endeavouring
to
ask
that
from
the
company
by
my
looks
,
which
my
words
could
not
.
At
first
I
believed
the
reliques
of
my
fever
had
distracted
me
,
which
when
I
found
it
had
not
,
I
Wisht
it
had
;
then
thinking
I
had
read
by
a
false
light
,
I
made
them
open
the
Curtains
of
the
bed
and
windows
,
and
re-perus'd
those
killing
words
,
which
finding
the
same
I
had
found
at
first
,
I
sunk
down
into
my
bed
,
and
fixt
my
eyes
upon
the
youth
which
had
brought
me
the
cause
of
these
disorders
,
and
seem'd
by
a
silent
,
mournful
contemplating
him
,
to
reproach
his
having
assumed
so
cruel
an
employment
:
but
when
I
observed
him
weeping
so
bitterly
,
that
it
made
me
give
him
some
of
that
pity
his
Message
render'd
him
unworthy
of
,
I
fancied
there
was
something
of
mysterious
in
it
;
and
in
that
flattering
imagination
,
I
commanded
all
my
Domesticks
out
of
my
Chamber
,
and
then
conjur'd
the
disconsolate
youth
to
inform
me
,
why
he
would
assume
an
employment
which
could
not
but
occasion
that
grief
in
which
he
so
sympathized
?
and
what
could
invite
his
Mistris
to
so
precipitate
an
inconstancy
,
if
what
was
in
the
paper
he
had
brought
,
was
a
real
truth
,
and
not
to
palliate
some
necessitated
proceedings
of
hers
,
which
I
hop't
he
was
sent
to
acquaint
me
with
?
Alas
Sir
(
the
Page
reply'd
)
,
what
you
have
read
,
is
but
too
sad
a
truth
;
and
my
tears
are
not
shed
upon
that
account
which
you
seem
to
ascribe
them
to
,
but
to
Monyma's
electing
of
me
for
so
unthankful
a
message
,
and
to
the
grief
which
invaded
her
at
the
writing
of
that
Letter
,
and
you
at
the
reception
of
it
:
yes
Sir
(
he
continued
)
had
you
but
seen
how
cruel
a
conflict
she
was
in
between
her
duty
and
affection
▪
and
in
what
agonies
she
wrote
unto
you
,
when
the
first
had
got
the
victory
over
the
last
,
you
might
perhaps
imitate
me
,
and
perhaps
pity
what
you
detest
.
Thereupon
he
told
me
at
large
how
Mithridates
during
my
indisposition
had
made
so
solicitous
an
address
to
her
,
that
many
thought
his
desire
of
a
permission
to
employ
such
Vessels
of
War
of
Miletus
,
as
would
serve
him
for
affection
or
pay
,
was
rather
the
pretence
,
than
the
cause
of
his
Voyage
:
How
after
he
had
found
that
the
infinite
Beauty
he
admir'd
,
was
guarded
by
a
proportionate
Virtue
,
he
had
chang'd
his
purpose
,
and
endeavour'd
to
appropriate
what
he
had
endeavour'd
to
destroy
;
which
he
might
legitimately
do
,
the
Princess
Calamis
being
dead
six
months
before
,
having
some
fifteen
years
past
presented
him
with
the
Prince
Pharnaces
,
the
Prince
Atafernes
,
the
Princess
Roxana
,
and
the
Princess
Statira
,
and
the
Princess
Cleopatra
:
How
as
soon
as
so
unexpected
an
overture
was
made
to
Philopomanes
,
he
had
embraced
it
with
a
greediness
,
which
shewed
both
his
wonder
and
his
joy
;
and
had
so
incessantly
press'd
his
daughter
to
embrace
so
high
a
Fortune
,
that
this
day
vanquish't
by
his
intercessions
,
or
rather
persecutions
,
she
has
promis'd
to
morrow
to
give
her self
to
the
Pontick
King
,
who
seems
to
be
much
more
satisfied
at
it
,
than
any
other
concerned
in
it
;
and
that
she
had
esteemed
it
fitter
for
her
own
Letter
to
inform
me
of
it
,
than
that
any
thing
else
should
;
over
which
she
reigned
such
showers
of
tears
,
that
had
I
seen
them
,
I
must
have
concluded
,
that
could
not
be
her
design
which
was
so
much
her
torment
.
I
leave
you
to
judg
(
continued
Callimachus
)
whether
this
accession
to
my
former
miseries
had
left
Fortune
any
thing
more
than
life
to
inflict
upon
me
.
But
lest
this
Page
should
be
sent
to
observe
my
actions
,
as
well
as
to
acquaint
me
with
his
Mistris's
,
I
resolved
to
bear
my
loss
in
his
sight
,
with
a
constancy
which
should
(
when
she
knew
it
)
invite
her
to
believe
I
was
unworthy
of
such
an
usage
;
and
that
though
she
had
given
he●
self
the
Victory
,
yet
I
would
deny
her
the
triumph
of
it
.
Therefore
with
as
much
composedness
as
those
various
agitations
I
was
under
,
would
permit
me
,
I
forced
my self
to
tell
him
,
Go
and
acquaint
your
Lady
in
my
Name
,
she
should
not
have
assured
me
,
That
as
she
would
never
give
her self
away
without
Philopomanes
consent
,
so
she
would
be
never
given
away
by
him
,
without
her
own
;
or
having
given
me
that
engagement
,
she
should
not
have
sent
me
this
Letter
,
for
they
are
inconsistent
;
tell
her
also
the
same
duty
which
has
hitherto
made
me
obey
all
her
Commands
,
I
know
will
make
me
to
obey
this
last
.
I
dismist
him
with
these
words
,
and
endeavoured
to
find
in
my
reason
,
and
resentment
,
the
power
of
performing
what
I
then
spake
.
But
alas
,
some
expressions
in
that
Paper
which
had
brought
her
desires
of
declining
my
passion
,
too
much
contributed
to
the
impossibility
of
performing
it
,
and
continued
me
in
disputes
too
painful
to
be
related
.
The
next
morning
,
though
my
indisposition
were
not
a
little
increast
by
the
precedent
days
Agitation
;
yet
I
commanded
one
of
my
Servants
to
bring
me
an
account
of
that
ceremony
,
which
was
made
so
much
to
my
cost
:
Towards
the
evening
he
returned
,
and
told
me
that
Monyma
had
been
led
to
the
Temple
of
Hymen
,
with
all
the
solemnity
which
so
short
a
preparation
could
admit
of
,
where
Mithridates
waited
for
her
,
in
raptures
as
visible
as
great
.
But
as
the
Priest
was
going
to
perform
his
Office
,
Diocles
with
a
naked
Sword
ran
furiously
at
the
Pontick
King
,
telling
him
,
that
none
could
possess
Monyma
,
whilst
he
had
a
Life
and
Sword
to
hinder
it
.
This
short
declaration
of
his
gave
some
Pontick
Lords
,
who
inviron'd
their
King
,
time
to
draw
their
Swords
;
and
though
they
could
not
hinder
him
from
receiving
a
slight
wound
in
the
Arm
,
which
he
got
putting
by
Diocles's
thrust
,
yet
they
hinder'd
him
from
receiving
any
more
,
and
took
away
his
life
who
had
given
him
that
;
Immediately
a
great
many
of
the
youth
of
Miletus
,
forced
into
the
Temple
:
against
whom
the
Magistrates
commanded
all
the
assistants
to
make
opposition
,
and
sent
hastily
for
some
of
their
Militia
to
suppress
and
punish
this
disorder
.
The
Pontick
Nobility
also
,
who
had
attended
their
King
with
some
of
his
ordinary
Guards
,
put
themselves
into
too
resolute
a
posture
about
him
and
his
Queen
;
That
the
Friends
of
Diocles
understanding
of
his
Death
,
seeing
the
one
,
and
hearing
of
the
other
,
and
only
coming
to
contribute
to
their
Friends
interest
,
in
case
he
had
successfully
perform'd
his
design
,
began
by
little
and
little
to
retire
;
so
that
before
any
help
came
,
there
was
no
need
of
it
;
but
lest
Mithridates
might
again
be
expo'sd
to
the
revenge
of
Diocles
friends
,
as
he
had
been
but
too
much
to
his
,
those
Companies
which
came
to
his
relief
,
were
by
the
Magistrates
appointed
to
be
his
Guard
whilst
he
continned
in
their
City
.
And
though
Philopomanes
,
with
all
the
chief
men
of
Miletus
,
and
Monyma
her self
,
earnestly
conjur'd
him
to
suspend
his
Nuptials
till
his
hurt
was
well
,
yet
he
was
deaf
unto
them
,
protesting
,
he
was
much
more
concern'd
in
the
cure
of
that
wound
the
fair
Monyma
had
given
him
,
than
in
that
Diocles
had
,
and
that
delay
would
be
more
dangerous
to
the
first
,
than
the
last
.
This
being
often
reiterated
,
as
his
opinion
,
and
at
length
as
his
resolution
,
the
Priest
performed
his
Office
,
and
Monyma
gave
the
Pontick
King
her
hand
and
faith
;
who
led
her
from
thence
to
the
Temple
of
Diana
,
much
adored
at
Miletus
,
their
City
standing
near
Mount
Latmus
,
the
residence
of
her
Endymion
,
where
the
remaining
ceremonies
being
perfected
,
she
was
conveyed
back
under
a
Triumphal
Arch
,
supported
by
some
of
his
Nobility
,
and
followed
by
the
acclamations
of
all
the
people
.
I
did
nothing
(
continued
Callimachus
)
but
sigh
during
this
relation
,
which
being
finished
,
I
askt
the
maker
of
it
,
Whether
he
had
observed
any
thing
in
the
new
Queens
countenance
which
relisht
of
obedience
rather
than
inclination
,
in
all
that
performance
.
To
which
he
rereply'd
,
That
either
her
heart
and
face
were
in
perfect
mis-intelligence
,
or
never
any
of
her
Sex
went
with
more
joy
to
a
Nuptial
,
than
she
did
to
this
.
This
he
told
me
,
as
he
confest
to
me
afterwards
,
both
as
it
was
the
truth
,
and
as
believing
my
condition
would
rather
have
been
impaired
,
than
advantag'd
by
a
contrary
assurance
;
since
I
was
not
to
expect
my
cure
from
her
kindness
,
but
my
resentment
.
I
commanded
him
again
to
endeavour
to
bring
me
an
account
of
the
conclusion
of
the
day
,
as
he
had
of
the
beginning
;
which
not
long
after
he
did
,
by
telling
me
,
He
had
seen
Monyma
in
Mithridates
arms
.
All
that
night
I
took
as
little
rest
,
as
the
Pontick
King
did
;
for
I
could
not
but
consider
,
That
in
the
same
time
I
was
deploring
my
loss
,
another
was
enjoying
it
.
Ah
how
sensibly
I
felt
my
resentments
were
inferior
to
my
love
,
since
I
found
my
trouble
in
that
which
otherwise
had
presented
me
my
cure
.
Whilst
I
lay
thus
strugling
with
my
miseries
,
I
learnt
,
that
●ive
days
after
the
Nuptials
,
Mithridates
having
obtained
licence
from
the
Senate
of
Miletus
to
engage
what
Ships
of
War
he
could
in
their
Cities
or
Territories
(
at
the
same
time
granting
the
like
favour
to
the
Romans
,
and
Nicomedes
,
and
Ariobarzanes
,
to
preserve
that
equality
they
had
till
then
so
wisely
for
themselves
observed
,
believing
the
advantage
they
had
given
the
Pontick
King
in
first
making
his
Levies
,
would
be
repay'd
by
giving
them
voluntarily
a
priviledg
they
had
never
solicited
for
)
he
took
a
solemn
leave
of
them
;
and
taking
his
Queen
with
him
,
was
accompanied
by
them
to
the
utmost
limits
of
their
Countrey
,
where
after
many
professions
and
embraces
,
he
had
taken
his
final
leave
,
hasting
into
Pontus
,
to
prepare
for
that
War
he
was
determin'd
to
make
with
Nicomedes
and
his
Confederates
.
The
next
day
after
this
departure
,
the
fair
Irene
sent
to
visit
me
,
professing
she
would
have
made
one
her self
to
have
comforted
me
in
my
loss
,
had
the
Laws
of
Civility
permitted
it
;
and
had
she
not
apprehended
I
had
been
so
highly
injur'd
by
one
of
her
Sex
,
that
it
might
too
justly
raise
in
me
an
aversion
to
all
of
it
.
I
return'd
this
obligingness
with
all
the
respect
and
acknowledgment
I
was
capable
of
,
assuring
her
I
could
never
be
an
enemy
to
a
sex
which
had
a
person
of
so
much
merit
of
it
,
as
she
was
,
who
had
given
me
more
inclinations
for
it
,
than
Monyma
could
do
the
contrary
.
It
was
above
six
moons
(
generous
Hearers
,
that
I
lay
languishing
in
my
misfortunes
,
and
disputing
for
the
victory
over
them
;
which
at
length
having
obtained
,
I
resolv'd
to
search
all
the
inland-seas
for
Telamon
,
who
(
I
had
some
hope
)
might
only
have
been
taken
by
Pirates
;
at
least
I
esteem'd
it
my
duty
,
as
much
as
't
was
my
inclination
,
to
leave
nothing
unattempted
which
might
satisfie
me
I
had
perform'd
that
debt
I
owed
him
;
hoping
further
,
that
the
varieties
of
this
voyage
might
settle
the
cure
I
had
with
so
many
difficulties
acted
;
in
prosecution
of
this
resolve
,
I
caused
a
large
Galley
to
be
bought
;
and
having
Man'd
her
to
the
utmost
both
for
the
Sword
and
the
Ore
(
the
immense
quantity
of
Jewels
left
me
by
Telamon
,
inabling
me
to
defray
the
most
prodigal
expences
;
which
made
me
conjecture
his
quality
was
more
eminent
by
much
,
than
he
had
made
the
World
and
me
believe
)
I
prepar'd
to
leave
for
ever
Miletus
,
the
place
in
which
I
had
enjoy'd
and
suffer'd
so
many
satisfactions
and
misfortunes
:
But
this
resolve
was
a
few
days
suspended
from
execution
,
by
a
confinement
which
I
was
extreamly
pleas'd
with
,
The
Nuptial
of
the
fair
Irene
,
who
was
to
be
married
to
a
Carian
Lord
,
that
in
all
mens
opinions
,
and
,
which
was
more
,
in
her
own
,
perfectly
deserv'd
her
:
I
omitted
no
gallantry
in
this
occasion
,
which
might
evince
my
joy
for
it
,
and
that
high
friendship
I
so
justly
pay'd
her
.
I
was
also
a
little
concern'd
to
let
her
see
,
that
as
I
could
endure
all
the
crosses
of
love
,
where
mine
was
not
unfruitfully
received
;
so
I
could
divest
my self
of
my
passion
,
when
I
found
it
was
unworthily
plac't
.
Having
spent
some
days
in
this
employment
,
and
left
the
fair
Irene
in
that
condition
she
desir'd
and
merited
;
I
took
of
her
and
her
Lord
a
final
leave
;
and
setting
to
Sea
,
I
follow'd
the
course
which
Fortune
only
had
appointed
for
me
,
believing
she
could
not
be
as
inconstant
as
she
is
represented
,
if
she
made
me
as
unhappy
in
one
Element
,
as
she
had
made
me
on
the
other
.
I
will
not
tell
you
how
many
Coasts
and
Maritime-towns
I
visited
,
enquiring
after
Telamon
;
nor
the
particulars
of
a
signal
Naval-fight
between
Nicomedes
and
Betuitus
,
between
the
Hellespont
and
the
Thracian
Bosphorus
,
in
which
I
joyn'd
with
the
former
,
having
too
much
cause
to
be
an
Enemy
to
Mithridates
;
nor
those
Civilities
the
King
of
Bithynia
confer'd
upon
me
,
nor
those
high
Employments
he
offer'd
me
to
tye
me
to
his
service
.
Those
,
though
otherwise
considerable
in
themselves
,
I
designedly
omit
,
that
your
attentions
may
be
entertained
with
Adventures
less
unworthy
of
them
.
One
day
as
I
was
sailing
between
the
Promontory
of
Assum
,
and
the
Island
of
Lethos
,
I
perceived
three
Galleys
which
were
engaged
in
a
furious
fight
;
and
though
I
made
up
to
them
with
as
much
haste
as
my
sails
and
oars
could
afford
me
;
yet
before
I
joyn'd
them
,
the
dispute
was
ended
by
the
Victory
the
two
had
obtained
over
the
one
.
The
succesful
were
so
intent
upon
the
joy
of
their
being
so
,
or
upon
the
dividing
the
spoil
,
that
though
I
was
come
near
enough
to
perceive
them
transporting
in
their
Boats
from
one
Vessel
to
another
,
many
Ladies
richly
cloth'd
;
yet
they
never
put
themselves
into
a
posture
of
defence
,
or
so
much
as
seem'd
to
be
concern'd
at
my
approach
;
so
that
without
any
acts
of
hostility
,
I
came
near
enough
to
see
a
Lady
fall
upon
her
knees
,
and
with
elevated
hands
to
beg
my
assistance
,
which
she
seem'd
to
implore
with
so
good
grace
,
and
so
much
to
need
it
,
that
I
resolv'd
to
afford
her
whatever
lay
in
my
power
.
But
to
make
my
quarrel
just
,
or
to
render
any
needless
,
I
desir'd
the
Commander
of
those
Gallies
to
restore
those
fair
Captives
to
their
freedom
,
or
to
acquaint
me
whether
it
was
justly
they
had
lost
it
.
But
instead
of
a
civil
reply
,
I
was
rudely
commanded
to
be
gone
,
lest
I
should
be
involv'd
in
that
captivity
I
so
impertinently
enquired
into
.
This
harsh
Answer
took
from
me
all
hopes
of
acting
my
design
,
but
by
force
;
and
therefore
to
loss
no
time
,
and
to
take
them
in
that
disorder
which
their
advantage
in
number
seem'd
to
render
necessary
,
I
forthwith
grappl'd
with
that
Galley
which
the
prisoners
had
been
conveyed
into
,
and
leaping
upon
the
deck
,
I
soon
made
them
find
,
that
an
answer
not
so
rude
had
been
more
safe
,
than
that
force
which
made
them
presume
to
give
it
.
But
whilst
I
was
disputing
the
Victory
in
one
of
the
Enemies
Gallies
,
my
own
was
boarded
by
the
other
;
where
though
they
found
some
considerable
resistance
for
a
time
,
yet
in
the
end
they
were
reduced
to
need
and
call
for
mine
;
which
the
less
disadvantageously
to
afford
them
,
I
left
my
Lieutenant
to
justifie
that
progress
we
had
made
,
and
with
some
Soldiers
with
me
I
return'd
into
my
own
Galley
,
which
I
found
had
almost
lost
that
Name
;
yet
our
unexpected
relief
so
animated
our
friends
,
and
therefore
so
terrified
our
enemies
,
that
from
assaulting
they
began
to
retreat
,
and
after
a
little
time
to
leap
confusedly
into
their
own
Galley
.
We
knew
how
necessary
it
was
to
husband
this
confusion
,
so
that
following
them
,
we
soon
made
our selves
Masters
of
their
Vessel
,
killing
all
that
resisted
,
and
extending
mercy
to
those
that
flung
down
their
arms
and
implor'd
it
.
This
small
success
gave
me
hopes
of
a
greater
,
which
the
sooner
and
hopefullier
to
solicite
,
I
left
some
of
my
men
to
guard
the
prisoners
;
and
with
the
rest
I
flew
to
my
Lieutenant
,
who
was
in
a
condition
to
need
my
assistance
,
before
I
could
afford
it
him
:
For
a
Gentleman
cover'd
with
a
rich
Armour
,
and
having
a
Helmet
shaded
with
a
great
plume
of
Carnation
Feathers
,
had
during
my
absence
animated
his
own
party
,
and
acted
such
prodigious
things
,
that
he
had
almost
reduced
us
to
a
condition
of
only
hoping
to
dye
handsomely
.
This
Enemy
,
after
much
dispute
,
I
singled
out
,
and
began
a
combat
with
him
,
which
made
me
know
the
honour
of
the
success
would
at
least
equal
the
danger
of
acquiring
it
.
Thrice
we
were
forced
to
take
breath
,
to
enable
us
to
deprive
each
other
of
that
little
which
was
left
us
;
and
the
fourth
time
he
lifted
up
the
sight
of
his
Helmet
,
and
discover'd
a
face
so
full
of
deformities
,
that
it
took
up
my
amazement
,
till
his
words
put
a
period
to
it
,
which
to
the
best
of
my
remembrance
were
to
this
effect
:
Valiant
man
!
thou
hast
shewed
so
much
courage
in
a
cause
wherein
thou
hast
had
so
little
invitation
to
manifest
it
,
that
it
gives
me
a
high
desire
to
make
thee
my
friend
,
at
least
to
have
thee
no
longer
my
enemy
;
which
to
perswade
thee
to
,
I
shall
freely
give
thee
all
my
this
days
acquisitions
,
except
one
Beauty
,
for
whom
I
have
so
unextinguishable
a
passion
,
that
it
has
forced
me
against
the
respect
and
duty
I
owe
,
and
shall
but
in
this
occasion
,
eternally
pay
her
,
To
endeavour
by
force
that
which
by
my
Prayers
and
Services
I
too
long
and
too
unsuccessfully
attempted
.
I
cannot
think
it
strange
,
I
repli'd
,
that
believing
I
fought
for
Pillage
,
thou
should
make
me
so
low
an
offer
.
But
I
would
have
thee
know
,
Since
thy
rudeness
and
the
assistance
which
some
prisoners
thou
hast
,
have
implor'd
of
me
,
has
only
made
me
draw
my
Sword
,
nothing
less
than
an
acknowledgment
of
thy
offence
,
and
a
restoring
those
Captives
to
liberty
,
can
invite
me
to
sheath
it
.
One
then
,
or
both
must
dye
,
the
other
furiously
answer'd
,
which
is
a
fate
I
can
with
less
trouble
embrace
,
than
those
conditions
thou
proposest
to
avoid
it
.
These
words
being
finish'd
,
he
pull'd
down
the
sight
of
his
Helmet
,
and
renewed
the
Combat
with
a
rage
,
which
I
could
not
attribute
to
a
less
motive
,
than
that
which
animated
his
;
twice
with
two
reverses
he
made
me
stagger
,
and
made
me
owe
my
life
to
the
faithfulness
of
my
Armour
;
but
at
length
I
gave
him
so
large
a
wound
in
his
left
side
,
that
despairing
of
Victory
,
as
of
Life
,
he
hastily
abandon'd
the
Combat
,
and
ran
to
the
Stern-Cabin
,
to
which
place
I
flew
after
,
and
just
as
he
enter'd
it
,
I
past
my
Sword
up
to
the
hilts
through
his
body
,
which
he
being
less
concern'd
in
than
in
not
imploring
a
pardon
from
the
Beauty
he
serv'd
,
he
fell
on
his
knees
by
her
,
and
presenting
her
a
handful
of
his
blood
,
he
begg'd
her
,
that
that
Oblation
with
the
loss
of
his
life
,
might
expiate
a
Crime
,
which
he
was
much
more
troubled
to
have
committed
,
than
to
have
it
thus
punish'd
:
Then
breathing
a
deep
groan
,
and
kissing
her
feet
,
he
expir'd
in
that
performance
.
Though
you
may
believe
all
this
did
not
a
little
surprize
her
to
whom
he
spoke
,
and
at
whose
feet
he
dy'd
;
yet
I
can
assure
you
,
her
beauties
did
infinitely
more
surprize
me
.
Ah
Gods
!
With
what
Majesty
and
Empire
did
they
disclose
themselves
!
and
how
,
at
first
sight
,
she
divested
me
of
a
high
anger
,
and
invaded
me
with
a
higher
admiration
,
which
having
oblig'd
me
to
contemplate
her
a
while
in
silence
,
I
at
last
broke
it
,
to
tell
her
:
I
implore
your
pardon
,
Madam
,
if
to
obey
your
commands
,
and
to
serve
you
,
I
have
been
guilty
of
a
rudeness
which
has
rendred
me
unworthy
of
either
:
but
had
I
known
your
Enemy
and
mine
had
fled
unto
you
as
his
Sanctuary
,
he
should
have
found
you
an
inviolate
one
,
since
to
have
been
in
that
way
suspended
from
my
revenge
,
had
been
a
higher
duty
than
to
have
acted
it
.
That
admirable
beauty
to
whom
these
words
were
addrest
,
by
an
amaz'd
looking
upon
all
those
Women
which
waited
on
her
,
seem'd
to
evidence
her
surprize
and
astonishment
at
them
,
and
then
told
me
;
What
you
have
acted
and
hazarded
for
me
,
should
have
prepar'd
you
sooner
to
have
receiv'd
my
retributions
,
than
to
have
made
me
any
excuses
;
But
those
I
owe
you
are
such
,
that
what
contracts
the
debt
,
renders
me
uncapable
to
satisfie
it
.
Madam
,
I
reply'd
,
You
will
(
I
hope
)
permit
me
to
believe
,
your
not
owning
my
fault
too
infinite
,
is
but
only
to
acquaint
me
your
mercy
is
,
which
has
in
that
one
performance
so
over-rewarded
the
duty
of
the
service
I
have
pay'd
you
,
that
I
must
beg
of
you
to
honour
me
with
more
of
your
commands
,
to
expiate
my
having
so
rudely
obey'd
these
.
What
you
undertook
,
and
what
you
have
performed
,
She
answered
,
are
both
so
generous
,
that
it
leaves
me
no
apprehension
that
you
will
imploy
your
Victory
to
any
other
end
than
to
restore
us
to
that
liberty
,
whose
loss
invited
you
to
sollicite
it
;
and
therefore
you
have
le●t
me
nothing
more
to
desire
of
you
,
but
to
convoy
us
to
our
intended
Harbour
,
that
we
may
not
repeat
as
great
a
misfort●ne
as
that
which
your
courage
has
freed
us
from
.
That
,
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
which
now
shall
be
my
obedience
,
should
have
been
my
desire
,
if
I
had
not
esteem'd
the
honour
you
have
already
done
me
,
too
great
to
importune
you
for
any
more
:
but
before
I
obey
you
,
allow
me
to
free
the
place
and
Galley
you
are
in
,
from
the
blood
and
disorder
in
it
,
and
to
restore
your
Friends
and
Servants
to
that
freedom
they
had
so
underservedly
lost
.
Then
dragging
out
the
dead
body
that
was
in
the
Cabbin
,
and
causing
the
blood
to
be
wash'd
away
,
I
went
to
see
what
face
things
wore
,
since
my
abandoning
the
Combate
;
but
I
must
freely
acknowledg
,
I
went
away
in
such
disorders
and
emotions
,
that
I
found
I
had
endanger'd
my
own
liberty
,
by
a
sight
of
that
beauty
,
to
whom
I
had
restor'd
hers
.
Do
not
wonder
,
I
beseech
you
,
that
I
could
so
soon
be
apt
to
receive
the
impressions
of
a
passion
,
in
which
I
had
so
recently
been
unfortunate
;
since
those
Charms
which
now
began
to
subdue
me
,
were
such
,
that
I
had
as
little
the
power
,
as
the
will
to
resist
them
:
Never
had
the
gods
been
so
prodigal
of
their
gifts
to
one
person
,
as
to
her
;
Her
stature
and
shape
were
such
,
that
it
was
as
impossible
to
have
found
in
either
a
defect
,
as
to
have
wish'd
to
either
an
addition
.
Her
complexion
was
so
fresh
,
so
lively
,
and
so
admirably
mix'd
,
that
it
might
entirely
have
taken
up
my
wonder
,
had
not
her
fair
eyes
challenged
at
least
an
equal
part
as
their
just
proportion
:
in
brief
,
all
things
were
so
peculiar
in
her
,
that
I
could
not
say
,
this
individual
grace
or
feature
was
exact
according
to
the
received
rules
of
Beauty
,
since
hers
were
of
a
quality
that
impos'd
new
ones
,
which
had
nothing
of
unhappiness
in
them
,
but
the
impossibility
of
having
them
imitated
.
Neither
could
her
exterior
graces
transcend
that
rational
faith
I
had
assum'd
of
the
Beauties
of
her
soul
,
which
had
manifested
an
absolute
equality
in
the
highest
extreams
;
for
her
grief
at
her
captivity
had
not
dejected
her
,
nor
her
joy
at
her
restauration
exalted
her
;
but
she
continu'd
in
as
perfect
a
calm
,
as
if
her
mind
,
secure
in
it self
,
nor
fear'd
the
frowns
of
Fortune
,
nor
car'd
for
her
smiles
.
Whilst
I
was
entertaining
my
thoughts
on
the
Stern-deck
with
this
part
of
my
relation
,
the
reliques
of
the
Enemy
were
kill'd
and
taken
,
the
Galley
according
to
my
orders
was
disburthen'd
of
the
dead
,
and
all
the
innocent
prisoners
were
brought
together
into
mine
;
where
they
had
waited
longer
,
had
not
my
Lieutenant
interrupted
my
ravings
,
and
invited
me
to
dispose
of
them
:
which
when
I
went
to
do
,
I
found
that
Lady
amongst
them
,
who
had
in
so
moving
a
posture
,
before
the
fight
began
,
invited
my
assitance
.
I
desired
her
to
acquaint
me
,
who
that
Beauty
was
she
waited
on
,
or
accompani'd
:
To
which
she
told
me
,
her
Name
was
Mithridatia
;
that
she
was
daughter
to
a
Pontick
Gentleman
who
was
highly
lov'd
by
his
King
,
and
who
was
Lord
of
Lestos
;
which
that
morning
she
had
left
,
to
go
to
her
Father
,
who
had
concluded
a
marriage
for
her
with
a
Cyprian
Gentleman
.
This
News
did
not
a
little
surprize
me
;
but
lest
she
might
observe
so
much
,
I
beg'd
her
pardon
if
my
curiosity
were
so
uncivil
as
to
desire
to
know
who
that
was
which
had
taken
them
prisoners
,
and
seem'd
to
have
so
violent
a
passion
for
the
fair
Mithridatia
.
She
reply'd
,
His
name
was
Nepturnus
,
that
he
was
Admiral
of
the
Cilican
Pyrates
;
That
some
six
Moons
past
being
forc'd
into
Miletus
,
the
chief
City
of
Lestos
,
by
a
furious
storm
,
he
had
seen
Mithridatia
,
and
had
assum'd
a
violent
,
but
secret
passion
for
her
;
that
having
been
near
her
Father
(
who
was
then
by
Mithridates's
Command
contracting
with
him
for
a
Cilician
Fleet
)
when
he
sent
Orders
for
her
going
to
Pontus
,
he
resolv'd
(
as
this
day
he
acknowledg'd
to
her
)
to
intercept
her
at
Sea
,
and
to
carry
her
into
his
own
Countrey
,
where
he
declar'd
he
intended
to
make
himself
King
,
and
having
a
Crown
to
present
her
,
he
hop'd
she
would
not
in
an
Hymeneal
way
refuse
it
.
He
made
her
many
Apologies
for
his
being
necessitated
to
such
a
proceeding
,
which
yet
operated
so
little
upon
her
,
that
she
was
determined
to
have
owed
that
obligation
to
death
,
which
now
she
is
indebted
for
to
you
.
This
Lady
having
thus
finish'd
her
information
,
I
gave
her
many
retributions
for
it
,
and
accompani'd
with
her
,
and
follow'd
by
those
late
prisoners
,
I
went
to
Mithridatia
,
and
told
her
,
Forttune
,
or
the
Mercy
of
Nepturnus
,
had
spar'd
so
many
of
her
friends
,
which
I
desired
her
to
accept
of
from
my
hands
;
to
dispose
of
such
of
her
Enemies
as
had
avoided
the
fury
of
the
Sword
,
and
to
name
that
place
to
which
she
would
have
us
steer
our
course
.
The
first
she
receiv'd
with
satisfaction
;
the
second
she
beg'd
me
to
act
in
as
I
thought
fit
;
and
for
the
last
,
she
nam'd
Nicomedia
the
Metropolis
of
Bithynia
,
the
then
residence
of
Mithridates
,
and
consequently
of
her
Father
,
who
she
assur'd
me
would
acknowledg
my
obligation
in
a
way
much
more
proportionate
to
it self
,
than
she
had
the
power
to
do
.
The
name
of
the
Pontick
Kings
Court
did
so
strangely
surprize
me
,
that
when
she
mention'd
it
,
I
could
not
but
repeat
it
;
but
recollecting
my self
again
,
with
a
deep
sigh
I
said
,
I
would
obey
her
,
though
the
place
she
had
nam'd
had
in
it
horrors
for
me
,
which
nothing
but
her
commands
could
perswade
me
to
engage
my self
in
.
She
seem'd
at
this
declaration
to
be
as
much
surpriz'd
,
as
I
had
been
at
what
constrain'd
me
to
make
it
;
which
made
her
conjure
me
to
inform
her
,
what
high
cause
of
aversion
I
had
for
that
place
;
and
since
I
had
,
that
I
would
but
land
her
on
any
shore
which
obeyed
Mithridates
his
Power
.
Madam
,
I
reply'd
,
the
knowledg
of
what
you
desire
,
will
give
me
so
deep
a
sadness
,
and
afford
you
so
little
satisfaction
,
that
if
it
may
not
displease
you
,
I
should
implore
your
revoking
that
command
;
which
yet
if
you
do
not
,
I
shall
obey
it
;
but
I
must
beg
your
pardon
if
I
observe
not
your
last
orders
;
for
since
they
concern
my
particular
,
I
should
be
too
unworthy
your
Care
should
I
accept
of
it
.
Then
pausing
a
little
,
and
recollecting
my self
,
I
thus
continued
:
No
,
Madam
,
upon
more
serious
consideration
,
I
am
now
so
far
from
being
troubled
at
my
going
to
the
Pontick
Court
,
and
at
my
detestation
of
it
,
and
perhaps
of
Mithridates
person
,
that
I
passionately
wish
,
if
it
were
possible
,
that
the
cause
thereof
were
capable
of
accession
,
that
in
that
performance
you
might
be
convinc'd
I
have
no
consideration
higher
than
to
serve
the
fair
Mithridatia
.
I
found
her
a
little
troubled
at
what
I
had
spoken
;
but
finding
I
was
unalterable
in
my
resolution
of
waiting
on
her
thither
,
she
at
length
assented
to
my
doing
so
;
and
we
steer'd
our
course
towards
Nicomedia
;
to
which
place
we
had
arriv'd
in
two
days
,
had
that
obliging
gale
which
then
follow'd
us
,
continued
so
long
:
But
it
was
soon
forc'd
to
give
place
to
a
raging
North-East
wind
,
against
which
we
strugled
two
days
and
one
night
;
but
then
it
became
so
uncontroulable
and
furious
,
that
the
Pilot
forsook
the
Helm
,
and
we
soon
after
our
hopes
:
this
was
about
an
hour
before
day
During
all
the
extremity
of
the
storm
,
I
had
declin'd
giving
the
fair
Mithridatia
any
full
intimation
of
her
danger
,
that
if
the
gods
had
deliver'd
us
out
of
it
,
she
might
have
been
exempted
in
some
measure
from
the
apprehensions
of
it
;
but
now
that
the
longer
concealment
of
our
condition
might
have
proved
a
greater
crime
than
civility
,
I
went
trembling
to
the
Stern-Cabbin
;
and
having
desired
and
obtained
the
permission
of
coming
in
,
having
first
acquainted
her
of
the
danger
with
a
dejected
countenance
,
I
told
her
;
The
gods
are
my
witnesses
,
Madam
,
that
the
loss
of
my
Life
would
be
my
satisfaction
,
if
thereby
the
eminent
hazard
yours
is
in
,
might
cease
;
but
we
are
now
involved
in
a
ruin
,
where
neither
the
actings
of
Courage
,
nor
the
sacrificing
my self
for
your
safety
,
can
any
way
purchase
the
ambition'd
end
.
My
grief
at
these
words
rudely
disabled
me
from
speaking
more
,
which
gave
the
fair
Mithridatia
an
invitation
thus
to
answer
me
:
That
death
,
generous
Callimachus
,
which
you
are
so
sensible
of
,
merits
not
your
sorrow
,
which
might
,
upon
a
general
account
,
be
more
justly
employ'd
for
your
own
loss
,
than
for
mine
;
the
World
will
lose
by
me
but
a
person
who
has
hitherro
given
neither
much
hope
,
nor
any
evincement
of
becoming
considerable
;
but
by
you
it
will
be
deprived
of
so
much
,
both
by
expectation
and
evidence
,
that
your
private
loss
may
truly
be
lamented
as
a
publick
one
:
but
when
ever
the
gods
do
call
us
,
we
ought
to
resign
our selves
as
willingly
to
death
,
as
we
would
enjoy
the
felicities
of
life
,
if
they
do
assign
us
those
for
our
portion
;
else
we
follow
not
their
will
,
but
ours
;
and
serve
not
them
,
but
our selves
.
These
words
,
so
obliging
to
me
,
and
religious
in
themselves
,
made
me
resign
all
my
fears
to
admiration
;
from
which
I
was
soon
recall'd
by
a
hideous
cry
in
the
Galley
,
by
which
I
too
soon
,
and
too
clearly
knew
the
Vessel
was
founder'd
,
had
struck
,
or
sprung
some
greedy
Leak
.
The
horror
of
the
noise
and
danger
,
made
me
forget
all
respect
;
so
that
taking
Mithridatia
in
my
arms
from
off
a
bed
on
which
she
lay
in
her
clothes
,
I
carried
her
on
the
deck
;
whither
I
was
no
sooner
come
,
but
the
conquer'd
Galley
open'd
in
the
middle
,
and
left
us
to
the
mercy
of
an
Enemy
,
which
she
found
had
none
.
I
was
unalterably
determin'd
to
carry
what
I
held
,
on
shore
,
or
dye
in
the
attempting
my
highest
inclination
and
duty
.
Thrice
by
the
fury
of
the
Sea
,
the
fair
Mithridatia
was
struck
out
of
my
arms
,
and
thrice
I
recover'd
her
again
;
but
at
last
my
strength
failed
me
:
and
though
I
yeilded
to
few
in
the
world
in
the
art
of
swimming
,
yet
in
such
mountains
of
water
,
so
much
obscurity
,
and
being
confin'd
to
save
another
I
was
much
more
concern'd
for
,
than
I
was
for
my self
,
my
spirits
were
so
diminish'd
,
that
I
look'd
for
no
more
,
than
to
find
my
burial
in
that
Enemy
,
from
whom
I
receive
my
death
;
happy
only
in
this
,
That
I
should
not
out●
live
a
loss
that
I
much
more
apprehended
than
death
;
and
that
mine
should
be
serving
,
nay
expiring
in
the
arms
of
a
person
of
as
high
a
vertue
as
beauty
.
But
the
gods
,
who
often
delight
to
cast
us
into
dangers
,
the
more
to
endear
that
mercy
which
relieves
us
out
of
them
;
and
to
make
us
think
upon
a
better
place
,
by
seeing
the
uncertainties
of
this
;
sent
a
plank
of
the
broken
Galley
to
me
,
just
in
that
moment
of
time
,
upon
which
with
very
much
difficulty
I
got
,
and
had
by
that
help
a
little
leisure
to
recover
my
breath
and
strength
;
but
finding
both
were
too
great
a
load
for
it
,
I
begg'd
the
fair
Mithridatia
,
having
first
acquainted
her
therewith
,
not
to
quit
her
hold
,
whilst
I
would
swim
by
it
,
and
endeavour
to
shove
it
to
land
,
which
then
by
the
dawn
of
the
morning
I
discover'd
not
a
furlong
from
us
.
But
that
generous
person
conjur'd
me
,
not
out
of
a
vain
hope
of
saving
two
lives
,
to
forsake
almost
a
certainty
of
saving
one
.
Ah
Madam
,
I
repli'd
,
I
beseech
you
do
not
hope
to
invite
me
to
save
my
life
by
an
action
which
will
render
me
unworthy
of
it
;
nor
think
me
capable
of
a
performance
,
which
if
you
believ
I
am
,
you
must
deny
me
that
esteem
,
which
next
to
your
safety
,
I
value
above
all
things
else
;
no
,
Madam
,
I
am
unmovably
resolv'd
to
bring
you
out
of
this
danger
,
or
to
share
in
that
Fate
I
want
power
to
alter
.
Thereupon
sliding
from
the
Plank
,
I
began
to
thrust
it
toward
the
shore
,
where
at
length
,
through
many
hazards
,
we
arrived
;
the
sea
and
the
wind
which
had
brought
us
to
that
extremity
now
contributing
to
the
freeing
of
us
from
it
.
Never
did
there
appear
any
thing
so
like
Venus's
ascension
out
of
the
sea
,
as
the
fair
Mithridatia's
did
;
&
had
not
her
rude
usage
by
that
Element
destroy'd
that
Faith
,
she
could
not
but
have
been
taken
for
the
goddess
of
it
.
But
alas
,
as
soon
as
she
had
recover'd
the
shore
,
what
through
the
difficulties
she
had
strugled
with
,
what
through
the
bruises
she
had
received
from
the
shelves
near
the
land
,
she
fell
into
a
swound
,
and
was
so
carried
by
me
to
a
house
near
the
place
where
her
fainting
had
seized
on
her
:
As
I
was
performing
this
duty
,
casting
my
sight
towards
the
sea
to
observe
whether
any
reliques
of
our
small
Fleet
had
been
spared
by
the
furious
waves
,
I
discover'd
a
little
Skiff
with
but
one
in
it
,
which
driven
by
the
wind
,
was
recovering
that
place
I
then
was
on
:
I
had
not
the
leisure
to
see
the
event
of
this
discovery
,
or
to
afford
that
necessitous
person
in
it
my
assistance
;
for
the
fair
Mithridatia's
condition
took
up
all
my
thoughts
and
care
,
who
I
soon
after
brought
to
that
house
I
intended
;
where
promising
those
in
it
,
high
rewards
for
their
service
and
assistance
,
both
they
and
I
began
to
pay
her
,
and
afford
her
all
we
could
:
but
her
senses
were
no
sooner
return'd
,
than
she
was
invaded
by
a
violent
fever
,
which
yet
could
not
render
her
condition
more
dangerous
,
than
therefore
it
did
mine
.
At
the
first
appearance
of
this
fatal
disease
,
I
posted
away
several
Expresses
for
the
most
expert
Physicians
at
Larissa
,
the
nearest
City
to
us
(
for
we
had
been
shipwrack'd
in
that
Gulph
,
which
takes
its
name
from
the
Mountain
Pelius
,
which
is
not
many
furlongs
from
the
bottom
of
it
)
.
But
as
I
was
taking
order
that
all
the
helps
which
Art
could
yeild
the
fair
Mithridatia
,
might
be
prepared
for
her
,
there
came
one
all
over
wet
into
the
house
we
were
in
,
who
to
my
joy
and
wonder
I
found
was
Demetrius
,
an
Athenian
servant
,
which
Telamon
had
taken
whilst
he
resided
in
Greece
;
and
who
had
so
faithfully
and
cheerfully
serv'd
me
during
my
residence
at
Miletus
,
that
I
had
entrusted
him
with
my
most
secret
concernments
.
I
lern'd
from
him
,
that
't
was
he
I
had
seen
in
the
Skiff
,
which
with
his
naked
Sword
in
his
hand
,
he
had
secured
for
me
,
when
he
had
observ'd
the
Galley
foundring
;
but
that
the
care
he
had
of
me
had
been
fruitless
,
since
the
same
wave
which
had
broke
the
vessel
,
carried
him
out
of
it
in
the
Skiff
,
which
having
no
man
in
it
but
himself
,
was
driven
even
by
the
storm
to
the
shore
.
He
farther
presented
me
the
small
Cabinet
,
in
which
I
had
my
preciousest
Jewels
,
which
he
carried
with
him
to
supply
our
want
on
the
land
,
if
the
gods
ever
brought
us
in
safety
thither
.
I
was
a
little
pleas'd
at
the
escape
of
Demetrius
(
who
(
continu'd
Callimachus
)
had
abandon'd
the
World
with
me
,
and
is
one
of
the
Society
of
this
place
)
and
at
the
care
he
evidenc'd
,
in
saving
so
plentiful
a
preservative
against
want
,
which
otherwise
I
might
have
apprehended
in
a
strange
Countrey
,
having
my self
only
sav'd
some
Diamonds
of
good
value
,
which
I
constantly
carried
about
me
.
But
alas
,
these
faint
satisfactions
were
rudely
cast
out
by
the
too
eminent
danger
the
Physicians
at
their
arrival
told
me
their
fair
Patient
was
in
.
Five
days
and
nights
her
Fever
encreas'd
;
during
all
which
time
,
at
seasonable
hours
,
I
never
stirr'd
from
her
feet
,
paying
her
all
my
respects
and
services
;
but
the
sixth
night
her
malady
gave
the
Physicians
so
little
hope
of
her
life
,
that
they
advised
her
to
prepare
her self
for
the
loss
of
it
.
This
advertisement
was
no
sooner
receiv'd
,
than
she
sent
for
me
into
her
Chamber
(
for
that
night
by
her
express
Commands
I
was
removed
into
my
own
,
my
watchings
and
my
distempers
having
flung
me
into
an
indisposition
,
which
they
had
assur'd
her
would
prove
hazardous
,
if
not
timely
prevented
)
;
as
soon
as
I
came
in
,
she
commanded
all
else
out
of
it
;
which
being
obey'd
,
she
told
me
with
much
grace
and
calmness
;
Callimachus
,
that
life
which
you
have
so
often
and
so
miraculously
preserv'd
at
Sea
,
the
gods
are
now
determined
to
lend
me
no
longer
;
and
I
obey
their
summons
with
a
joy
which
assures
me
of
that
happy
place
whither
I
am
now
going
.
If
I
resent
any
trouble
at
this
change
,
I
assure
you
it
proceeds
from
some
regret
I
have
of
owing
you
so
much
;
yet
hereby
of
being
render'd
uncapable
of
any
thing
,
but
acknowledging
it
,
and
of
being
necessitated
to
conceal
my
real
condition
from
you
,
which
is
occasion'd
by
a
hasty
vow
I
made
,
and
caus'd
all
my
Women
to
take
,
when
you
were
disputing
,
as
we
then
apprehended
,
only
whose
prisoners
we
should
be
;
I
conjure
you
to
satisfie
your self
,
nothing
but
such
a
tye
could
have
occasion'd
my
silence
.
Ah
Madam
(
I
repli'd
,
interrupting
her
)
what
I
see
and
find
of
you
,
renders
my
knowledg
of
your
Extraction
unnecessary
,
and
your
goodness
needed
not
have
apologiz'd
for
your
continuing
me
in
that
ignorance
,
since
your
Empire
over
me
is
so
absolute
,
that
the
knowledg
of
what
is
your
will
,
is
the
highest
reason
for
me
to
be
contented
with
it
.
But
oh
gods
!
Madam
,
is
it
possible
that
so
much
Beauty
and
Virtue
as
you
possess
,
should
be
showed
us
,
to
make
it
as
much
our
misery
,
as
now
't
is
our
wonder
!
For
the
knowledg
of
it
cannot
more
act
to
the
performance
of
the
latter
,
than
this
hasty
deprivation
of
it
will
to
the
perfecting
of
the
former
.
That
little
Beauty
and
Virtue
,
she
answer'd
,
which
I
have
,
is
but
lent
me
by
those
who
have
the
power
and
the
right
to
recall
it
;
and
who
have
been
so
merciful
,
as
to
give
me
,
till
I
received
your
obligations
,
no
con●inements
to
that
life
they
resolv'd
to
take
so
early
from
me
;
and
who
I
believe
have
given
me
those
,
but
the
better
to
illustrate
and
set
out
my
obedience
;
which
could
not
have
appear'd
so
clear
,
had
it
not
had
some
difficulties
to
have
contested
with
.
These
words
she
spoke
in
so
low
accents
,
that
I
fear'd
they
were
her
last
;
and
that
fear
I
found
was
not
groundless
,
when
immediately
stretching
forth
her
hand
towards
me
,
her
eyes
soon
lost
their
conquering
light
;
and
the
small
remainder
of
that
Vermilion
which
was
left
in
her
cheeks
,
fled
hastily
away
,
and
resign'd
the
entire
Empire
to
that
colour
which
by
the
Laws
of
Nature
and
Beauty
was
but
to
have
enjoy'd
a
share
;
and
by
a
few
sighs
seem'd
to
celebrate
the
separation
of
a
soul
and
body
which
had
once
been
so
excellently
match'd
.
The
End
of
the
Second
Book
of
the
Fifth
Part
of
PARTHENISSA
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FIFTH
PART
.
The
Third
BOOK
.
THE
loud
and
confus'd
noise
I
made
at
this
fatal
loss
,
immediately
drew
such
as
waited
in
the
next
room
,
into
Mithridatia's
;
where
all
their
Art
and
care
proving
unsuccessful
,
they
forced
me
into
my
own
chamber
,
for
nothing
else
could
have
made
me
abandon
a
person
,
who
though
dead
,
I
valu'd
more
than
all
things
which
were
alive
.
I
cannot
tell
you
the
horrors
I
was
in
;
which
though
infinite
,
yet
they
could
not
transcend
my
joys
,
when
Demetrius
came
to
my
bed-side
and
told
me
,
the
fair
Mithridatia
,
which
had
layn
six
hours
without
motion
,
was
,
when
the
Physicians
had
given
her
over
,
come
again
to
life
,
and
was
fallen
into
a
sweat
,
which
they
assur'd
me
was
the
Crisis
of
the
disease
.
I
could
not
credit
this
by
the
report
of
my
ears
,
unless
my
eyes
confirm'd
it
,
which
they
soon
did
,
and
thereby
gave
me
more
felicity
in
that
one
service
,
than
in
all
they
had
ever
done
me
before
.
In
brief
,
the
Physicians
last
thought
was
the
truest
,
and
in
three
days
their
fair
Patient
was
in
so
probable
a
way
of
recovery
,
that
my
fears
had
quite
resign'd
their
places
to
my
hopes
.
But
she
was
no
sooner
out
of
danger
,
than
I
fell
into
no
small
one
,
by
a
fever
,
at
least
as
violent
as
hers
had
been
,
partly
through
over-watching
,
partly
through
the
disorders
of
the
ship-wreck
,
partly
through
the
grief
which
invaded
me
at
the
suppos'd
death
of
the
fair
Mithridatia
:
But
those
gods
which
had
preserved
her
,
extended
the
like
mercy
to
me
;
but
yet
I
fell
into
three
relapses
,
which
were
much
more
dangerous
than
my
first
sickness
;
the
last
of
those
was
so
long
and
hazardous
,
that
it
render'd
my
recovery
almost
a
miracle
.
This
desperate
condition
I
was
in
,
being
told
fair
Mithridatia
,
she
forced
both
her
modesty
and
her
weakness
to
give
me
a
visit
,
which
she
might
perform
without
exposing
her self
to
the
open
air
,
my
chamber
being
next
to
hers
.
As
soon
as
I
saw
her
come
in
,
I
told
her
;
I
know
not
,
Madam
,
whether
I
have
cause
to
rejoice
,
or
be
troubled
at
the
honour
I
now
receive
;
for
if
I
consider
my self
,
I
have
infinite
reason
for
the
first
,
but
if
I
consider
you
,
I
have
as
much
reason
for
the
last
:
but
I
hope
you
come
to
oblige
me
with
some
of
your
commands
,
which
will
certainly
present
me
my
cure
;
for
I
cannot
believe
the
gods
can
esteem
the
punishment
of
my
sins
so
necessary
,
as
my
obedience
to
you
.
This
,
she
reply'd
,
which
you
now
have
spoken
to
acquaint
me
with
that
belief
,
might
well
hinder
it
any
longer
from
being
yours
;
The
gods
cannot
be
what
we
must
believe
them
,
if
we
believe
them
to
be
gods
,
and
not
to
be
offended
at
your
esteeming
civility
a
greater
debt
from
you
to
me
,
than
is
the
acting
of
justice
from
them
upon
you
;
do
not
,
I
conjure
you
,
Callimachus
,
by
such
discourses
,
give
me
more
cause
to
fear
your
loss
,
than
your
sickness
can
;
and
be
confident
,
your
declining
to
evidence
your
acknowledgments
this
way
,
will
more
pleasantly
satisfie
me
of
them
,
than
any
thing
you
can
say
in
it
.
Madam
,
I
answer'd
,
there
is
nothing
could
so
entirely
convince
me
of
my
being
in
a
fault
,
as
your
declaring
that
I
am
;
and
nothing
I
hope
can
so
much
convince
you
,
I
will
no
more
be
guilty
of
wit
,
as
your
having
commanded
it
me
:
But
,
Madam
,
will
'
you
permit
me
to
believe
the
gods
will
restore
me
my
health
,
now
they
and
I
find
you
are
concern'd
in
it
?
I
do
not
only
,
she
reply'd
,
permit
you
to
believe
I
am
concern'd
in
it
,
but
desire
you
to
make
it
a
part
of
your
faith
,
as
I
assure
you
it
shall
be
of
my
prayers
,
That
what
you
have
spoken
in
your
sickness
,
may
not
provoke
them
to
continue
it
.
And
to
retrench
you
from
the
occasion
,
as
well
as
to
hinder
those
emotions
which
I
apprehend
your
civilities
to
me
,
and
their
necessitating
me
to
such
answers
,
may
cast
you
into
,
I
will
retire
into
my
own
chamber
;
which
immediately
she
did
,
but
with
looks
which
told
me
my
reprehensions
were
upon
a
score
,
which
made
them
an
Obligation
.
That
night
I
took
so
much
rest
,
that
the
next
day
I
was
capable
of
entertaining
my self
in
the
just
causes
I
had
to
admire
the
virtues
and
beauties
of
Mithridatia
,
which
was
my
most
constant
imployment
all
the
time
I
kept
my
chamber
;
and
all
the
time
I
had
the
high
priviledg
to
wait
on
her
,
in
hers
,
I
had
new
and
fresh
occasions
to
continue
it
.
I
cannot
tell
you
what
resolute
opposition
I
made
before
I
yielded
;
which
when
I
had
,
I
was
in
a
far
higher
perplexity
that
I
had
made
so
much
resistance
,
than
formerly
I
had
been
,
that
I
was
able
to
make
no
more
.
My
precedent
usage
from
one
of
the
fairest
of
her
Sex
,
which
thitherto
I
had
considered
as
an
invitation
to
hate
all
of
it
,
I
now
look'd
upon
as
an
effect
of
my
Fate
,
which
had
denied
me
the
less
felicity
,
but
to
make
me
pursue
the
greater
;
and
I
could
no
longer
quarrel
at
that
inconstancy
which
had
already
more
oblig'd
than
it
could
injure
me
,
since'twas
a
Nobler
happiness
to
sollicite
Mithridatias's
esteem
,
than
to
possess
Monyma's
.
These
,
and
a
crowd
of
such
like
suggestions
,
made
me
know
I
was
a
Lover
,
and
not
the
repeating
of
any
symptoms
had
appear'd
in
me
in
my
first
passion
,
which
were
as
short
of
such
as
I
then
resented
,
as
those
were
of
my
condition
before
I
had
resented
any
.
Never
perhaps
did
any
beauties
captivate
at
once
with
more
Majesty
and
more
sweetness
,
than
the
fair
Mithridatia's
did
,
which
inspir'd
me
with
a
flame
so
far
transcending
my
first
,
that
had
I
known
whilst
serv'd
Monyma
,
that
I
could
have
lov'd
as
much
as
I
did
,
and
had
lov'd
her
no
more
than
I
then
did
,
and
that
she
had
known
the
like
,
I
must
have
both
condemn'd
my self
,
and
have
excused
her
:
my
former
fire
appear'd
but
a
heat
compar'd
to
this
,
and
rather
seem'd
to
have
prepar'd
my
heart
for
this
conquest
,
than
to
have
acted
one
over
it
.
I
was
not
ignorant
how
difficult
a
design
I
engaged
in
;
How
unapt
so
severe
a
virtue
as
hers
,
would
be
to
admit
of
an
address
;
How
improbable
it
was
to
invite
so
infinite
a
beauty
,
to
believe
any
services
could
give
any
man
a
title
to
it
;
How
unhappy
I
was
in
not
knowing
from
whom
I
deriv'd
my
extraction
,
and
in
not
having
a
Place
or
Friend
to
whom
I
might
retire
,
and
enjoy
my
happiness
,
should
her
mercy
con●er
it
on
me
:
and
lastly
,
what
just
cause
I
had
to
believe
(
by
what
she
had
told
me
)
that
her
blood
proportion'd
the
greatness
of
her
beauty
and
merit
,
and
might
render
the
first
of
those
three
as
high
an
obstacle
,
as
the
two
last
.
This
latter
consideration
made
me
a
thousand
times
resolve
to
acquaint
her
with
my
passion
,
before
so
powerful
an
obstruction
was
openly
known
unto
me
;
But
then
those
resolves
soon
vanish'd
,
when
I
throughly
consider'd
such
a
proceeding
might
appear
to
her
,
as
a
making
use
of
her
being
in
my
power
,
which
was
a
meanness
could
hardly
have
been
more
punish'd
,
than
by
performing
it
.
I
was
also
loth
by
so
precipitate
a
proceeding
(
if
she
told
me
what
she
did
to
hinder
my
manifesting
to
her
,
what
she
might
have
discover'd
or
fear'd
in
me
)
to
have
given
her
cause
to
believe
,
that
any
consideration
of
her
quality
could
suppress
the
payment
of
a
duty
,
which
two
higher
considerations
could
not
;
besides
,
I
esteemed
it
as
uncivil
,
as
unwise
,
to
inform
her
of
my
adoration
,
till
a
succession
of
services
had
given
me
some
title
to
it
;
and
then
also
I
concluded
it
more
proportionate
to
her
beauties
and
the
passion
I
paid
them
,
to
let
her
discover
it
,
than
I
;
and
indeed
,
I
was
much
more
apprehensive
she
would
do
so
to
some
,
than
not
at
all
:
I
beg
your
pardons
(
continued
Callimachus
)
,
if
I
have
too
particularly
retail'd
this
part
of
my
Story
,
which
I
will
endeavour
to
repair
,
by
contracting
some
other
.
At
length
the
gods
restor'd
us
both
to
our
precedent
Healths
,
which
made
me
employ
some
men
all
along
the
Coast
,
to
discover
if
our
misfortune
had
been
as
favourable
to
any
of
our
company
,
as
to
us
:
as
also
to
hire
a
Galley
of
good
force
to
continue
that
journey
,
which
the
late
storm
had
so
fatally
interrupted
.
They
perform'd
the
last
part
of
their
employment
;
but
as
to
the
first
,
they
could
not
hear
of
any
that
had
escap'd
alive
the
fury
of
the
Seas
,
but
a
couple
of
ordinary
men
who
had
re●ship'd
themselves
again
for
Asia
;
and
that
divers
dead
bodies
of
Men
and
Women
,
and
Ribs
of
several
Vessels
wrack'd
,
had
been
cast
upon
the
shore
of
Thessaly
.
With
this
sad
intelligence
,
by
which
we
had
just
reason
to
apprehend
our
Friends
and
Servants
were
lost
,
we
prepar'd
our selves
for
Nicomeda
,
to
which
place
the
fair
Mithridatia
was
very
scrupulous
to
go
,
because
I
had
manifested
some
sensible
aversion
to
the
Pontick
Court.
Her
civility
had
been
so
great
,
that
ever
since
I
had
discovered
an
unwillingness
to
disclose
the
cause
thereof
,
she
had
not
desir'd
to
know
it
;
but
the
fresh
wounds
she
had
given
me
,
had
so
entirely
cur'd
those
I
had
received
from
Monyma's
inconstancy
,
which
was
the
only
occasion
I
had
to
detest
the
Pontick
King
,
and
Court
,
that
I
thought
the
breaking
of
my
silence
was
a
duty
I
ow'd
the
civility
of
hers
,
and
was
indeed
so
far
from
being
longer
necessary
,
that
I
esteemed
it
would
be
disadvantageous
to
me
,
since
she
might
attribute
my
then
speaking
to
those
two
causes
which
invited
me
to
it
.
The
day
therefore
before
we
went
to
Sea
,
having
spoken
to
her
something
which
seem'd
to
relish
fo
that
which
she
had
prohibited
(
though
really
't
was
not
meant
so
by
me
)
;
to
expiate
that
offence
,
I
offer'd
to
tell
her
what
it
was
,
which
had
occasion'd
my
hating
Mithridates
Court
;
at
this
overture
she
assumed
so
unusual
a
satisfaction
,
that
I
found
the
knowledg
of
it
was
no
indifferent
thing
unto
her
,
This
made
me
hasten
to
give
her
that
account
,
which
I
did
in
the
same
manner
I
have
presented
it
to
you
.
After
I
had
finish'd
my
Story
,
she
continued
in
silence
for
some
time
;
but
then
she
broke
hers
,
to
tell
me
:
I
am
perswaded
Callimachus
,
you
will
not
think
it
so
strange
,
being
born
a
subject
to
Mithridates
,
if
I
do
take
his
part
;
as
being
so
,
if
I
should
do
otherwise
;
't
is
therefore
I
must
tell
you
,
though
your
loss
was
great
,
yet
the
Pontick
Kings
injustice
to
you
was
not
;
for
by
your
own
relation
,
I
find
he
knew
nothing
if
your
addresses
,
nor
of
her
engagements
to
you
;
And
therefore
if
he
injur'd
any
,
't
was
Diocles
,
who
openly
,
and
by
his
Parents
assent
solicited
her
affection
.
Nither
indeed
was
the
criminal
so
much
to
you
,
as
to
Philopomanes
,
for
she
sinn'd
more
against
him
in
loving
you
against
his
commands
,
than
she
did
afterward
against
you
in
marrying
Mithridates
in
obedience
to
them
;
The
Paternal
right
preceding
the
right
of
Love
;
the
first
having
existence
from
our
birth
,
the
latter
only
from
the
time
we
are
capable
of
those
impressions
,
which
cannot
also
be
legitimately
received
,
till
the
former
obligation
be
justly
cancell'd
.
Madam
,
I
reply'd
,
though
you
have
said
much
more
for
her
,
than
ever
she
has
said
for
her self
;
yet
I
beg
your
pardon
,
if
I
assure
you
the
event
of
things
,
has
more
apologiz'd
for
her
,
than
any
thing
I
have
heard
said
by
her
;
for
though
some
Priests
have
given
the
right
to
the
Paternal
power
,
before
that
of
Love
,
yet
the
gods
those
very
Priests
do
adore
,
have
given
it
by
their
actings
to
that
Noble
Passion
,
which
seems
to
be
the
god
of
the
gods
,
those
being
necessitated
to
submit
to
that
.
No
,
Madam
,
the
charms
of
a
Crown
were
greater
with
Monyma
,
than
those
of
Love
and
Constancy
;
She
could
disobey
her
Father
in
Diocles's
case
,
but
she
would
not
in
Mithridates's
:
had
her
actings
,
Madam
,
proceeded
from
that
filial
duty
you
artribute
so
high
a
power
unto
,
it
would
have
manifested
it self
in
the
first
,
as
well
as
in
the
last
;
the
obedience
consisting
in
observing
what
Philopomanes
enjoy'd
,
and
not
relating
to
the
disproportion
between
the
persons
for
whom
the
injunctions
were
made
;
so
that
in
one
of
her
performances
,
she
err'd
:
for
either
she
should
not
have
promis'd
me
her
affection
,
when
he
had
commanded
her
to
confer
it
on
Diocles
,
or
she
should
have
continu'd
it
to
me
,
after
he
had
enjoyn'd
her
to
bestow
it
on
Mithridates
.
I
think
,
replyed
the
fair
Mithridatia
smiling
,
that
you
cannot
justly
believe
,
that
having
committed
one
offence
,
't
is
better
to
commit
another
,
than
to
repair
that
;
which
,
as
I
understand
it
,
is
the
true
state
of
your
case
.
However
,
by
her
Letter
I
find
she
cannot
think
obeying
her
Father
is
more
her
duty
,
than
she
fears
it
will
prove
her
punishment
;
which
makes
me
for
my
Kings
sake
,
as
unwilling
you
should
visit
his
Court
,
as
you
were
formerly
to
do
it
for
your
own
;
since
your
presence
may
afford
Monyma
a
disturbance
which
may
invite
Mithridates
to
sympathize
in
it
.
No
,
Madam
,
I
reply'd
,
the
wrong
has
cured
the
wrong
,
which
if
it
had
not
,
I
have
since
met
with
what
secures
me
from
ever
thinking
on
her
again
.
These
words
fell
from
me
unawares
;
but
I
had
no
sooner
spoken
them
,
than
I
blush'd
,
and
perceived
Mithridatia
did
so
too
:
so
that
had
not
Demetrius
accidentally
come
in
to
acquaint
me
that
the
Captain
of
our
Galley
was
come
to
speak
with
me
,
I
had
been
engaged
in
a
difficulty
I
should
not
have
so
easily
freed
my self
from
,
as
I
entered
into
it
.
But
joyfully
laying
hold
of
that
opportunity
,
I
went
out
of
her
Chamber
,
into
my
own
,
where
having
told
the
Captain
we
would
set
to
Sea
next
morning
,
I
dismist
him
to
prepare
himself
accordingly
.
The
house
,
in
which
we
were
,
belonged
to
a
Gentleman
of
Thessaly
,
who
in
his
youth
had
so
prodigally
consum'd
his
estate
,
that
in
his
age
he
was
necessitated
to
that
retirement
:
His
Wife
was
dead
,
and
had
left
him
two
Daughters
,
the
eldest
of
which
(
whose
name
was
Nerea
)
all
the
while
of
Mithridatia's
sickness
,
and
during
her
recovery
,
manifested
so
high
a
concern
for
her
,
and
had
with
such
care
and
diligence
served
her
,
that
she
enjoin'd
me
to
move
her
Father
,
to
permit
her
to
go
with
her
into
Bithynia
,
which
I
did
,
and
after
many
importunities
obtained
his
consent
;
in
requital
whereof
,
and
for
the
use
of
his
house
,
and
civilities
during
our
continuation
in
it
,
I
presented
,
and
forced
him
to
take
such
a
quantity
of
Jewels
as
freed
him
from
fear
of
want
,
and
of
being
unable
to
provide
for
Nerea's
Sister
.
The
next
day
we
went
aboard
our
Galley
,
and
in
three
days
,
without
meeting
any
adventure
worth
your
knowledg
,
unless
the
being
assaulted
by
a
Ship
of
War
,
which
we
took
,
we
safely
arrived
in
the
Port
of
Nicomedia
,
the
residence
of
Mithridates
,
because
Murena
then
threatned
the
invasion
of
Bithynia
,
of
which
that
City
was
the
chiefest
:
The
Palace
standing
on
the
Sea-side
,
we
landed
there
,
and
passing
through
one
of
the
Gardens
to
go
to
the
Prince
Atafernes's
Apartment
,
we
observed
all
those
we
saw
were
in
deep
mourning
;
the
fair
Mithridatia
desired
me
to
ask
the
cause
thereof
;
which
I
did
of
a
Gentleman
that
was
passing
by
,
who
told
me
't
was
for
the
death
of
the
Princess
Statira
,
the
favourite-Daughter
to
the
King
;
I
acquainted
her
with
it
,
at
which
she
was
in
no
small
disorder
;
but
hers
was
not
comparable
to
mine
,
when
immediately
after
,
there
came
a
throng
of
Gentlemen
into
the
walk
in
which
we
were
,
amongst
whom
was
one
,
to
whom
all
the
rest
paid
so
high
a
respect
,
that
I
concluded
it
was
one
of
the
Kings
Sons
,
and
so
it
was
:
which
so
soon
as
Mithridatia
was
satisfied
of
,
she
lifted
up
her
vail
,
and
gave
the
Prince
and
all
that
waited
on
him
the
liberty
of
seeing
her
face
,
at
which
they
all
were
amazed
,
and
in
a
disorderly
silence
,
seemed
to
evidence
their
suprize
.
At
first
I
thought
it
was
an
effect
of
her
beauty
,
which
I
knew
was
capable
of
as
signal
a
production
;
but
I
was
soon
taken
out
of
that
belief
,
by
the
Prince
Atafernes's
crying
out
;
Oh
gods
!
is
it
not
Statira
that
I
see
?
yes
Brother
(
replyed
Mithridatia
)
't
is
Statira
that
you
see
,
who
has
been
preserved
by
such
strange
means
,
that
when
you
are
acquainted
with
them
,
't
will
certainly
make
your
gratitude
as
great
to
this
Gentleman
(
looking
upon
me
)
as
your
wonder
is
at
my
return
.
These
words
were
scarce
spoken
,
when
Atafernes
flew
into
his
Sisters
arms
,
and
by
a
thousand
imbraces
celebrated
his
joy
:
But
those
being
finished
,
he
came
to
me
,
and
in
many
obliging
terms
assured
me
,
I
had
served
a
person
,
who
could
not
have
a
higher
sense
for
my
having
done
so
,
than
himself
and
all
the
rest
of
his
Family
would
eternally
have
;
to
these
and
many
such
assurances
,
I
made
him
acknowledgments
as
proportionable
to
his
quality
and
civilities
,
as
I
was
capable
;
and
because
Mithridates
was
that
morning
at
his
devotion
with
his
Queen
,
and
the
Princess
Roxana
(
Sister
to
Statira
)
;
Atafernes
,
leading
us
into
a
less
practis'd
walk
,
conjur'd
her
to
tell
him
by
what
miracle
I
had
avoided
that
furious
Storm
,
for
as
for
her
deliverance
from
Nepturnus
,
he
had
learnt
it
from
a
couple
of
her
servants
who
had
escap'd
out
of
one
of
the
Galleys
upon
the
Coast
of
Greece
,
who
a
few
days
before
were
safely
arrived
at
Nicomedia
with
the
fatal
news
of
her
loss
,
which
had
put
the
King
and
all
the
Court
into
that
mourning
they
would
now
cast
off
with
a
joy
equal
to
that
grief
with
which
they
had
put
it
on
.
The
Princess
to
obey
that
Brother
for
whom
she
had
the
highest
affection
,
gave
him
an
account
of
his
desires
,
and
I
believe
in
very
advantageous
terms
for
me
,
since
he
came
to
me
afresh
with
many
embraces
and
vows
of
perpetual
friendship
.
This
I
say
,
because
though
I
was
present
,
yet
the
grief
which
invaded
me
,
by
finding
to
all
my
other
difficulties
,
that
additional
one
of
Mithridatia's
quality
,
deni'd
me
the
power
of
listning
to
what
she
had
related
.
But
our
retired
entertainment
was
soon
broken
;
for
some
of
the
Courtiers
,
knowing
what
infinite
satisfaction
the
unexpected
news
of
the
Princess's
Arrival
would
be
to
Mithridates
,
went
to
him
,
and
interrupting
his
devotions
,
acquainted
him
therewith
,
who
suddenly
after
came
to
the
place
where
we
all
were
,
and
even
in
tears
manifested
his
joy
.
The
Prince
Atafernes
,
and
his
fair
Sister
,
having
given
some
time
to
those
tender
evincements
of
his
affection
,
inform'd
him
that
it
was
to
me
he
owed
,
first
her
Liberty
,
then
her
Life
,
and
at
last
her
safe
Return
.
I
cannot
tell
you
those
various
and
passionate
expressions
the
Pontick
King
gave
me
for
what
I
had
done
;
nor
those
many
protestations
of
what
he
would
do
for
me
,
if
ever
he
could
find
an
occasion
wherein
his
power
should
proportion
his
desire
of
gratitude
.
Mithridates
then
leading
the
Princess
in
one
hand
,
and
me
in
another
,
walked
back
towards
the
Palace
,
at
the
Gate
whereof
the
Queen
and
the
Princess
Roxana
met
him
;
the
first
of
which
knowing
the
great
affection
her
Husband
had
for
Statira
,
and
being
satisfied
by
the
universal
voice
of
the
Court
,
that
never
any
person
could
have
a
better
title
to
it
,
in
transports
of
satisfaction
embraced
and
kissed
her
,
and
then
hastily
demanded
where
that
Gentleman
was
,
to
whom
they
all
owed
their
present
felicity
.
This
is
he
,
Madam
,
(
reply'd
Mithridates
,
taking
me
by
the
hand
,
leading
me
to
her
)
:
But
as
soon
as
she
saw
who
I
was
,
she
stept
two
or
three
paces
back
,
and
looking
upon
me
●ixtly
a
while
,
she
hastily
beg'd
the
King's
pardon
,
if
a
sudden
indisposition
forced
her
to
retire
;
and
forthwith
did
so
:
it
was
happy
for
her
and
me
,
that
Mithridates
and
the
rest
of
the
company
were
so
throughly
engaged
in
looking
upon
,
and
entertaining
Statira
,
that
she
only
observ'd
the
disorders
of
Monyma
,
which
I
was
not
displeas'd
to
find
she
did
,
that
she
might
believe
in
the
future
I
could
not
but
be
prepossest
with
a
higher
passion
,
by
my
having
declin'd
that
which
I
once
had
for
the
Queen
,
when
even
she
had
not
totally
divested
her self
of
that
friendship
she
had
once
honoured
me
with
,
which
her
emotions
at
this
meeting
gave
a
pregnant
evincement
of
.
The
two
Princesses
having
by
many
manifestations
of
friendship
demonstrated
the
greatness
of
theirs
,
they
beg'd
the
Kings
permission
to
follow
Monyma
,
which
they
did
,
but
found
her
in
a
condition
which
caused
at
once
their
pity
and
wonder
.
She
was
the
more
willing
that
Mithridatia
and
Roxana
might
see
her
in
that
posture
,
that
it
might
apologize
the
more
effectually
both
to
them
and
the
King
for
her
abrupt
departure
,
and
make
all
three
believe
what
she
was
not
a
little
concern'd
they
should
;
for
she
did
not
so
much
as
suspect
I
had
disclos'd
any
thing
of
my
addresses
to
her
,
which
the
Pontick
King
was
entirely
ignorant
of
;
for
they
had
been
actually
private
,
and
seemingly
suppress'd
,
from
the
time
Diocles
had
obtain'd
Philopomanes
favour
;
and
from
the
time
Mithridates
had
solicited
hers
,
none
was
so
unadvised
as
to
have
acquainted
him
with
my
Story
:
besides
,
during
his
residence
in
Miletus
,
I
had
never
stir'd
out
of
my
Chamber
.
Whilst
the
two
Princesses
were
paying
their
Care
to
the
Queen
,
in
which
Statira
was
most
successful
(
as
best
knowing
her
disease
)
;
the
King
was
concernedly
enquiring
of
me
who
I
was
,
and
whether
my
affairs
would
permit
me
to
reside
with
him
,
from
whom
he
protested
to
me
,
when
I
expected
all
in
his
power
,
I
did
not
believe
more
than
he
intended
.
After
I
had
with
much
humility
acknowledged
the
obligingness
of
such
expression
,
I
told
him
,
My
ignorance
who
I
was
,
and
the
duty
I
ow'd
a
person
who
had
given
me
my
education
,
and
perhaps
was
my
Father
,
whom
I
had
lost
at
Sea
,
had
invited
me
to
search
all
the
West
coasts
of
Asia
,
and
the
East
of
Greece
,
to
find
him
out
;
which
having
unsuccessfully
perform'd
,
I
was
now
only
hopeful
the
Land
would
restore
him
to
me
;
and
therefore
I
should
with
satisfaction
embrace
the
offer
he
was
pleased
to
make
me
,
for
some
time
:
which
offer
you
may
easily
conceive
(
considering
how
inviolate
a
confinement
I
now
had
in
his
Court
,
and
how
impossible
it
was
for
me
to
have
any
plausible
pretence
for
a
longer
continuance
in
it
)
was
a
thing
I
was
more
satisfied
at
,
than
he
could
be
at
my
acceptance
of
it
.
Mithridates
much
pleas'd
with
my
reply
,
told
me
,
That
he
had
but
one
desire
more
to
make
me
,
which
was
,
That
I
would
accept
of
Nepturnus's
forfeiture
,
which
was
a
very
large
pension
he
had
setled
on
him
during
his
life
,
upon
his
faithful
engagement
of
bringing
him
a
Fleet
of
Cilicians
able
to
dispute
the
Empire
of
the
Sea
.
But
this
I
absolutely
declin'd
,
assuring
him
,
That
the
greatest
obligation
he
could
do
me
,
was
to
command
me
things
wherein
I
might
serve
him
,
not
my self
.
This
refusal
at
once
troubled
him
,
and
made
him
admire
;
but
at
length
I
so
well
satisfied
him
in
what
I
had
done
,
that
he
prest
me
no
more
:
for
I
protested
to
him
,
the
offer
should
tye
me
to
his
service
more
than
if
I
had
accepted
it
;
and
that
I
had
a
private
reason
for
my
disobedience
,
which
if
I
could
acquaint
him
with
,
would
invite
him
to
excuse
me
for
it
.
This
I
did
,
because
I
hoped
't
was
the
civillest
way
of
letting
the
fair
Mithridatia
know
I
aim'd
at
higher
rewards
than
any
of
such
a
nature
;
that
I
had
nobler
con●inements
than
profit
to
keep
me
in
her
Father's
Court
;
and
that
I
was
not
of
an
inconsiderable
condition
,
when
I
refus'd
such
high
offers
.
The
day
after
my
arrival
at
Nicomedia
,
the
Princess
Statira
sent
to
me
to
wait
on
her
in
one
of
the
Palace-Gardens
;
where
she
told
me
,
Two
things
had
invited
her
to
do
it
;
the
one
,
To
desire
me
to
excuse
the
concealment
of
her
quality
;
the
other
,
To
give
me
her
acknowledgments
for
my
having
promis'd
the
King
to
make
his
Court
my
residence
;
since
thereby
she
hoped
to
let
me
see
by
the
considence
she
would
repose
in
me
,
that
nothing
but
her
vows
had
occasion'd
that
incivility
;
and
yet
the
Name
her
Governess
had
told
me
was
hers
,
was
really
so
,
since
she
was
called
Mithridatia
as
well
as
Statira
,
and
her
Sister
was
known
by
the
Name
of
Roxana
as
well
as
Nissa
.
Madam
(
I
reply'd
)
this
acknowledgment
is
as
far
below
you
,
as
the
excuse
is
above
me
;
you
had
reason
to
make
a
vow
of
concealing
your
name
and
quality
,
whilst
you
knew
not
but
in
my
success
you
might
only
have
chang'd
one
of
your
Enemies
for
another
;
and
having
made
it
,
you
had
no
reason
to
violate
it
.
Neither
,
Madam
,
was
there
any
necessity
of
disclosing
who
you
were
,
your
Virtue
and
your
Beauty
were
too
high
for
any
extraction
but
that
from
whence
you
derive
yours
.
But
,
Madam
,
will
you
permit
me
the
confidence
of
desiring
to
know
whether
all
that
your
Governess
said
was
as
true
;
for
she
informed
me
,
you
were
sent
for
from
Lesbos
to
be
married
to
a
Cyprian
Gentleman
.
That
also
(
said
Statira
)
is
true
:
That
Cyprian
Gentleman
is
the
King
of
Cyprus
,
who
having
seen
my
Picture
,
took
such
a
fancy
to
me
(
for
I
can
call
it
no
better
,
since
it
had
no
solider
a
foundation
)
that
by
a
solemn
Embassy
he
desired
Mithridates's
permission
of
making
his
addresses
to
me
;
which
he
has
assented
unto
,
his
difference
with
the
Romans
rendring
so
powerful
an
Alliance
necessary
to
his
affairs
,
especially
that
Island
being
abundantly
provided
with
Shipping
,
of
which
my
Father
was
wholly
disfurnish'd
by
his
peace
with
Sylla
.
'T
was
therefore
I
was
sent
for
from
Lesbos
,
where
these
three
years
I
have
resided
in
an
impregnable
Castle
,
because
Mithridates
was
told
by
the
Oracle
at
Delphos
,
That
I
should
run
a
great
hazard
of
marrying
his
open
and
mortallest
Enemy
.
You
cannot
(
generous
Princes
)
but
believe
that
this
information
operated
powerfully
upon
me
;
yet
not
so
much
as
to
render
me
uncapable
(
after
some
introductory
discourses
)
humbly
of
asking
her
,
Whether
she
could
think
a
Passion
,
which
had
for
foundation
that
only
which
a
thousand
Casualties
might
impair
,
and
which
time
must
,
was
worthy
of
her
;
and
whether
she
could
prepare
her self
to
receive
a
person
for
her
Husband
which
she
had
never
seen
,
and
pretended
to
her
only
upon
an
invitation
so
disproportionate
to
her
.
If
the
gods
(
she
reply'd
)
had
made
me
as
much
at
my
own
dispose
,
as
they
have
at
Mithridates's
,
I
might
have
liv'd
perhaps
free
from
all
Addresses
,
at
least
not
have
received
any
where
Beauty
was
the
only
motive
of
them
:
But
since
I
am
at
another's
Command
,
I
can
prepare
my self
for
obedience
,
and
afterwards
esteem
him
to
whom
thereby
I
am
subjected
;
and
this
I
can
act
with
less
dissatisfaction
,
than
I
can
decline
it
;
because
the
duty
of
the
performance
will
lessen
,
if
not
take
away
the
trouble
of
it
;
and
the
omission
would
invade
me
with
a
grief
above
the
cure
of
any
thing
it
could
present
me
:
And
this
,
Callimachus
,
I
believe
I
told
you
in
another's
case
as
well
as
mine
.
It
is
true
,
Madam
,
you
did
so
;
and
certainly
since
,
though
you
declar'd
't
was
your
belief
,
you
could
not
thereby
make
it
mine
;
I
must
conclude
the
reasons
are
very
clear
and
pregnant
,
which
force
me
to
the
crime
of
my
embracing
your
judgment
.
And
indeed
,
Madam
,
if
you
throughly
consider
it
,
by
your
Rule
possibly
you
may
find
you
make
a
Father
a
Tyrant
as
well
as
a
Father
;
or
if
he
become
not
one
,
his
Child
owes
it
to
his
Mercy
,
not
his
Justice
.
I
think
the
utmost
of
the
Paternal
Right
,
is
to
hinder
any
which
own
it
,
from
marrying
against
that
consent
;
a
negative
obedience
is
the
farthest
it
can
unoppressively
extend
it self
;
Shall
there
be
no
distinction
between
what
power
a
man
has
over
his
Beast
,
and
what
he
has
over
his
Child
?
And
shall
Reason
be
esteem'd
unfitter
to
rule
,
than
Nature
?
which
,
Madam
,
according
to
what
you
argue
(
yet
I
hope
do
not
believe
)
may
follow
.
For
if
the
Paternal
Right
is
only
founded
upon
that
Title
,
he
that
does
possess
it
,
may
have
much
less
reason
than
the
person
over
whom
he
does
exercise
it
;
and
then
the
certain'st
rule
shall
be
laid
aside
for
one
that
is
not
so
:
besides
,
Madam
,
your
Principle
always
follow'd
may
make
obedience
due
to
an
Idiot
;
there
being
as
much
difference
between
the
most
re●in'd
reason
,
and
that
which
is
but
a
degree
above
folly
,
as
there
is
between
that
and
Idiotism
it self
:
Neither
,
Madam
,
observing
your
Law
,
are
we
freed
from
obeying
a
Parents
passion
,
as
well
as
obeying
him
;
for
if
his
aversion
to
his
Child
,
his
revenge
to
her
Lover
,
his
ambition
,
his
interest
,
or
any
other
passion
,
be
more
predominant
in
him
than
Nature
or
Reason
,
even
those
very
passions
must
be
obeyed
as
the
Father
;
so
that
if
the
childs
reason
be
not
Judg
,
when
the
Fathers
just
power
,
not
his
imper●ections
,
act
him
;
you
must
give
his
weaknesses
as
high
a
right
to
rule
,
as
you
say
the
gods
have
given
him
.
Such
,
reply'd
the
Princess
,
is
the
discrepant
constitution
of
Man
,
that
even
the
gods
cannot
prescribe
a
Law
,
which
in
all
things
shall
be
equal
:
and
whoever
will
not
observe
a
Rule
,
because
it
has
inconveniences
in
it
,
will
at
length
find
he
must
walk
by
none
at
all
.
If
a
child
were
to
be
Judg
,
whether
the
Parent
or
himself
had
the
highest
reason
,
or
when
his
Father
was
acted
by
the
principles
of
a
just
paternal
power
,
or
by
his
passion
,
't
is
as
,
if
not
more
like
,
he
might
err
,
as
his
Parent
;
and
what
was
not
consonant
to
his
desires
,
he
might
say
,
proceeded
from
his
Fathers
having
a
less
degree
of
reason
than
himself
,
or
was
occasion'd
by
his
Passion
;
so
that
if
the
inconveniences
of
allowing
the
disobeying
power
to
the
child
,
and
the
undisputed
power
to
the
Parent
,
be
equally
great
in
themselves
;
and
that
the
not
having
any
Rule
establish'd
between
both
,
is
more
prejudicial
;
certainly
the
giving
of
the
precedency
to
the
Father
is
but
just
,
since
it
is
most
likely
that
a
person
who
has
many
years
experience
more
than
another
,
should
have
a
greater
quantity
of
it
;
and
doubtless
there
is
some
difference
during
ones
life
,
due
to
the
Author
of
it
.
But
,
she
continu'd
,
I
will
desire
no
more
than
what
you
have
already
confess'd
,
to
invite
you
to
acknowledg
the
truth
of
what
I
have
spoken
:
for
that
negative
obedience
of
not
marrying
a
person
,
which
a
Parent
has
prohibited
,
and
which
you
say
is
a
duty
owed
by
a
Son
to
a
Father
,
is
as
much
as
that
I
have
argued
for
;
since
the
misery
of
Marrying
a
person
one
does
not
love
,
cannot
be
greater
than
the
misery
of
being
deni'd
marrying
one
which
one
does
love
.
Ah
Madam
,
I
hastily
reply'd
,
because
I
saw
the
Prince
Atafernes
coming
towards
us
;
A
Lover
is
not
perfectly
miserable
so
long
as
he
has
hope
,
and
that
he
may
enjoy
whilst
another
does
not
possess
his
Mistress
:
there
is
too
,
some
satisfaction
,
that
if
he
be
unhappy
,
his
Rival
is
so
too
;
besides
the
difference
is
great
between
a
Passive
and
an
Active
misery
.
T
is
true
,
said
the
fair
Statira
,
in
some
cases
,
but
in
this
't
is
impossible
to
separate
them
;
for
he
that
is
involved
in
the
former
,
must
consequently
be
the
like
in
the
latter
.
By
this
time
we
were
so
near
the
Prince
,
that
I
could
make
no
reply
,
which
I
was
not
a
little
troubled
at
;
het
last
words
having
given
me
a
rise
to
have
made
one
,
which
had
been
apt
enough
for
what
I
drove
at
.
Atafernes
,
as
soon
as
he
came
near
us
,
told
me
,
he
came
to
make
me
an
invitation
to
a
Tilting
,
which
the
King
had
appointed
to
celebrate
Mithridatia's
return
with
,
and
Monyma's
recovery
;
That
his
Brother
the
Prince
Pharnaces
was
Challenger
,
and
he
Defendant
;
that
Archilaus
(
who
had
commanded
so
many
vast
Armies
under
Mithridates
,
but
now
was
suspected
by
him
for
that
ignoble
conclusion
he
had
necessitated
him
to
make
with
Scylla
)
Neptolemus
,
Dorilaus
,
and
several
others
,
were
join'd
with
him
:
that
Gordius
and
Craterus
were
of
his
own
party
,
and
if
I
would
make
one
of
that
Number
,
he
should
not
doubt
of
success
:
and
that
Statira
was
to
give
a
Bracelet
of
Diamonds
to
whomsoever
obtained
it
.
I
look'd
upon
the
Princess
,
so
soon
as
Atafernes
had
done
speaking
,
as
desiring
to
receive
my
Orders
from
her
,
that
she
might
see
where
their
obedience
came
in
the
Balance
,
it
out-weigh'd
even
the
respect
I
owed
to
Mithridates's
Successor
,
which
Pharnaces
some
few
days
before
was
declared
to
be
.
Mithridatia
soon
perceiv'd
my
meaning
,
and
as
suddenly
(
lest
what
was
a
civility
to
her
,
might
otherwise
appear
the
contrary
to
her
Brother
)
desired
me
to
add
my
assistance
to
a
side
,
which
she
wish'd
might
be
the
conquering
,
and
which
then
she
would
be
assur'd
would
be
so
.
I
gave
her
my
humble
retributions
for
acquainting
me
which
that
was
,
that
I
might
thereby
be
ascertained
of
success
in
my
party
,
whatever
I
met
with
in
my
particular
;
only
I
begg'd
that
I
might
be
exempted
from
running
against
the
Prince
Pharnaces
,
for
he
was
Brother
to
two
persons
I
had
so
high
a
respect
for
,
that
it
could
not
but
extend
it self
to
every
one
which
related
to
them
.
This
they
thanked
me
for
,
and
then
Statira
retir'd
to
give
us
time
to
prepare
for
the
ensuing
solemnity
,
which
since
it
was
Mithridatia's
sight
,
and
for
a
favour
from
her
,
I
resolved
to
appear
in
it
in
all
the
magnificence
I
could
,
and
therefore
gave
order
to
Demetrius
to
cover
my
Arms
with
the
fairest
Jewels
were
lest
me
by
Arsamnors
care
,
and
preserved
by
his
;
and
that
the
rest
of
my
equipage
might
be
proportionate
.
But
as
soon
as
Pharnaces
was
inform'd
by
Atafernes
of
my
desire
of
knowing
the
Arms
he
would
wear
,
lest
my
ignorance
might
make
me
act
a
crime
,
which
knowingly
I
would
never
be
guilty
of
;
he
absolutely
refus'd
making
use
of
my
respect
,
saying
,
it
might
be
the
Victory
would
come
in
competition
between
him
and
me
,
and
that
then
he
would
not
have
my
civility
suspend
him
from
it
;
nor
decline
to
decide
that
,
which
he
was
confident
his
courage
would
advantageously
forgive
him
;
that
therefore
he
was
resolved
none
of
his
party
should
be
known
to
the
other
.
This
Atafernes
inform'd
me
of
,
lest
otherwise
hearing
the
denyal
of
my
offer
,
and
not
the
cause
of
it
,
I
might
have
been
unwilling
to
assist
at
the
Tilting
;
or
else
since
the
words
were
spoken
so
publickly
,
and
therefore
could
not
but
come
to
my
knowledg
,
he
esteemed
it
more
friendly
to
give
me
that
information
,
than
that
any
other
should
.
But
as
soon
as
I
received
it
,
I
determined
to
do
my
utmost
to
make
him
think
my
civility
sprung
not
from
that
consideration
to
which
he
ascribed
it
.
The
day
being
come
,
and
all
the
preparitory
solemnities
performed
;
The
King
,
the
Queen
,
the
two
Princesses
,
with
the
young
Cleopatra
their
Sister
(
who
then
gave
admirable
promises
of
beauty
,
which
she
afterwards
fully
perform'd
)
with
a
throng
of
other
persons
of
eminent
quality
,
ascended
those
proud
Scaffolds
which
were
provided
for
them
;
and
then
the
Trumpets
invited
both
parties
to
give
the
beholders
the
sport
they
were
come
to
see
.
All
the
young
Nobility
began
the
Justs
,
and
by
various
misfortunes
had
cause
to
with
they
had
been
upon
the
Scaffolds
,
rather
than
in
the
lists
:
at
length
Dorilaus
had
unhors'd
so
many
of
ours
,
that
with
some
insolence
he
cry'd
out
,
if
we
had
no
better
Disputers
of
the
Victory
,
't
would
be
best
to
yield
it
.
These
words
inflam'd
Atafernes
,
who
presented
himself
for
his
next
Enemy
,
with
so
much
agility
,
grace
and
strength
together
,
that
all
the
assistants
by
a
loud
shout
seem'd
to
tell
one
another
the
advantageous
thoughts
they
had
of
him
,
which
he
abundantly
made
good
:
for
the
first
encounter
they
made
,
both
their
Launces
shiver
into
the
Air
;
the
second
was
but
an
exact
repetition
of
the
first
;
but
the
third
,
having
taken
the
strongest
Launces
they
could
get
,
and
being
inraged
that
neither
of
them
had
worsted
the
other
,
they
ran
with
such
fury
,
that
when
they
met
,
the
Prince
Atafernes
carried
Dorilaus
clear
off
his
Horse
with
his
saddle
between
his
legs
;
but
then
his
own
Horse
stunn'd
with
the
fury
of
the
shock
,
was
forced
to
touch
the
ground
with
his
Cropper
,
and
being
incessantly
spur'd
to
make
him
rise
,
and
perform
his
course
,
strugling
to
obey
his
Rider
,
unfortunately
he
fell
over
upon
him
;
and
though
he
did
him
no
great
hurt
;
yet
,
by
that
mischance
he
was
disabled
,
as
much
from
continuing
the
sport
,
as
by
his
valour
he
had
disinabled
Dorilaus
:
which
so
soon
as
Atafernes
perceived
,
he
beckned
me
to
come
near
him
,
and
told
me
in
my
Ear
,
he
left
the
hopes
of
his
parties
success
to
my
management
;
and
then
was
carryed
off
,
arm'd
as
he
was
,
and
Dorilaus
the
like
.
The
next
which
ran
,
were
Neoptolemus
and
Craterus
;
but
the
third
course
(
for
the
two
first
were
equal
)
the
first
got
the
best
of
it
.
Then
there
remained
of
all
our
party
,
but
Gordius
,
who
was
Lieutenant
.
General
to
Archilaus
,
and
his
creature
;
he
desired
me
to
permit
him
to
break
a
Launce
then
,
lest
my
skill
might
deny
him
that
favour
.
This
civility
I
could
not
refuse
,
though
I
was
impatient
enough
to
have
reveng'd
Atafernes's
fall
,
and
to
have
been
acting
for
a
reward
,
which
was
to
be
received
from
the
fair
Statira's
hands
.
But
I
was
not
long
suspended
from
my
desires
,
for
Gordius
was
unhappily
dismounted
by
Neoptolemus
,
and
left
me
only
to
make
good
our
parties
title
to
success
,
which
I
was
as
concern'd
for
,
as
hopeful
of
;
the
fair
Mithridatia
having
not
only
exprest
her
inclinations
for
our
Victory
,
but
seem'd
to
have
some
confidence
of
it
from
me
;
elevated
with
these
thoughts
,
as
well
as
with
the
honour
of
having
our
Sides
entire
hopes
left
to
my
Arm
,
and
somewhat
troubled
with
those
unhappinesses
which
had
brought
it
to
that
pass
,
I
began
my
course
against
Neoptolemus
,
in
which
I
was
so
successful
,
that
being
but
a
little
shook
in
my
Saddle
,
I
carried
him
clear
off
his
Horse
,
and
made
him
measure
his
length
in
the
dust
.
This
action
was
solemnized
with
the
acclamations
of
the
people
,
whereunto
to
put
a
period
,
Archilaus
soon
appeared
at
my
opposite
end
of
the
Career
,
[
I
tell
you
now
their
Names
(
continued
Callimachus
)
in
the
order
they
fought
,
though
I
knew
not
any
of
them
till
after
the
Combate
]
who
furious
at
his
Brothers
disaster
,
came
to
revenge
it
;
but
at
the
second
course
he
was
forced
to
bear
him
company
,
and
resign
his
place
to
Pharnaces
,
who
was
esteemed
one
of
the
best
Tilters
in
Asia
,
and
therefore
was
not
troubled
at
his
parties
want
of
success
,
since
he
was
confident
't
would
but
the
better
set
off
his
.
We
were
by
the
Laws
of
that
day
,
to
have
but
three
courses
,
the
first
of
which
was
perform'd
so
equally
and
furiously
by
both
,
that
the
people
by
a
general
clapping
of
their
hands
did
applaud
it
;
but
having
cast
away
the
Truncheons
of
our
broken
Launces
,
we
took
stronger
ones
,
and
with
them
so
rudely
met
one
another
,
that
both
our
Horses
were
forced
to
recoil
four
or
five
steps
;
and
't
was
with
many
spurrings
,
that
we
made
them
perform
their
course
.
This
too
was
celebrated
by
the
people
in
as
great
a
measure
;
nay
,
it
even
invited
the
fair
Mithridatia
,
the
Princess
Roxana
,
the
Queen
and
the
King
to
rise
from
their
seats
,
as
some
demonstration
how
much
it
had
pleased
them
.
But
the
third
Course
decided
the
Victory
on
my
side
:
For
I
carried
Pharnaces
clear
off
his
Horse
;
but
yet
it
cost
me
the
loss
of
both
my
Stirrops
,
and
so
rough
a
shaking
in
my
Saddle
,
that
I
had
near
fallen
out
of
it
.
When
I
had
perfected
my
course
,
I
turn'd
about
,
and
saw
the
Prince
yet
lie
on
the
ground
with
his
Helmet
off
,
for
by
the
rudeness
of
his
fall
,
the
Laces
of
it
were
broken
;
As
soon
as
I
perceiv'd
who
it
was
,
I
ran
to
him
,
and
lighting
from
my
Horse
,
with
the
sight
of
my
Helmet
up
,
I
told
him
,
Sir
,
I
humbly
beg
your
pardon
for
the
crime
my
ignorance
has
made
me
commit
;
had
you
been
pleased
to
have
accepted
of
that
motion
,
my
respect
and
duty
made
you
,
you
had
exempted
your self
from
this
trouble
,
and
me
from
a
greater
,
by
having
occasion'd
it
:
but
I
hope
,
Sir
,
you
will
remember
't
is
a
meer
effect
of
my
obedience
to
your
commands
which
has
made
me
so
highly
offend
,
and
therefore
you
will
be
therein
convinc'd
,
since
I
observe
them
against
yourself
,
I
shall
not
decline
them
against
any
other
.
I
had
much
rather
(
said
Pharnaces
)
owe
the
loss
of
success
to
your
better
Fortune
,
than
have
deni'd
trying
it
in
that
way
you
proposed
;
No
Callimachus
,
civilities
in
Arms
are
never
seasonable
till
after
Victory
;
so
that
I
cannot
be
more
pleased
with
yours
now
,
than
I
was
offended
at
them
before
.
That
Sir
,
I
reply'd
,
which
you
are
pleas'd
to
term
my
better
Fortune
,
and
which
I
should
have
called
it
against
any
other
of
your
party
,
I
shall
term
my
unhappiness
against
you
,
as
I
shall
what
I
humbly
motion'd
by
the
Prince
Atafernes
,
since
I
observe
how
contrary
to
my
expectation
't
is
resented
:
And
to
manifest
the
truth
of
what
I
said
,
I
shall
humbly
beg
you
to
make
my
Apology
to
the
Princess
Statira
for
not
imploring
a
prize
from
her
hands
,
which
to
receive
from
the
Title
I
must
own
if
I
have
it
,
would
as
much
trouble
me
,
as
to
go
without
it
.
No
,
said
Pharnaces
,
I
enjoin
you
to
go
and
receive
what
is
your
due
,
since
to
deny
it
upon
such
a
score
,
were
to
violate
the
Laws
of
this
days
recreation
.
Thereupon
he
commanded
some
Gentlemen
to
carry
him
to
his
Appartment
,
whither
I
would
have
waited
on
him
,
but
he
would
in
no
ways
consent
unto
it
.
As
soon
as
he
was
carried
out
of
the
Lists
,
to
the
extremity
whereof
I
attended
him
:
I
went
to
the
Scaffold
on
which
the
fair
Statira
was
,
and
told
her
,
Madam
,
That
success
which
all
here
as
well
as
my self
may
be
convinced
I
owe
entirely
to
Fortune
,
since
I
obtained
it
against
the
Prince
Pharnaces
,
is
so
much
my
grief
,
and
so
little
my
due
,
that
he
himself
will
bear
me
witness
I
was
asham'd
of
,
and
troubled
at
it
,
and
would
not
have
implored
the
prize
from
such
fair
and
just
hands
as
yours
are
,
had
not
his
commands
of
doing
it
given
me
that
confidence
,
and
confer'd
on
me
a
Title
,
I
only
depend
upon
.
Mithridates
satisfied
with
what
I
had
done
before
the
Justs
,
and
more
so
with
what
I
then
did
,
came
to
me
,
and
in
embraces
told
me
,
That
both
my
courage
and
civility
gave
me
so
high
a
right
to
the
prize
,
that
he
knew
his
Daughter
upon
either
of
those
scores
,
much
less
upon
both
would
not
deny
it
me
.
This
favourable
sentence
on
my
behalf
,
made
the
Princess
present
me
the
Bracelet
,
which
I
kneel'd
down
to
receive
,
and
in
the
same
posture
told
her
;
I
have
(
Madam
)
by
the
great
Mithridates
decree
,
and
by
the
Prince
Pharnaces
goodness
,
so
many
Titles
to
this
gift
,
that
I
cannot
tell
from
which
particular
one
I
derive
it
:
and
to
attribute
a
part
to
every
one
,
were
to
injure
all
in
not
sufficiently
obliging
any
:
Will
you
therefore
(
Madam
)
permit
me
to
owe
it
entirely
to
your
favour
,
that
will
hinder
me
from
disobliging
many
other
pretences
,
and
oblige
me
more
than
all
of
them
.
This
I
presumed
the
less
timorously
to
speak
,
because
I
observed
the
King
,
and
divers
others
,
were
then
receiving
an
account
of
the
two
Prince's
healths
,
from
a
Gentleman
they
had
employ'd
to
enquire
after
them
.
But
she
blushing
at
what
I
had
said
,
told
me
,
My
success
had
given
me
a
better
Right
than
her
favour
.
I
had
much
ado
to
avoid
telling
her
;
But
not
so
desired
a
one
.
Presently
after
,
this
great
Assembly
broke
up
,
and
Mithridates
,
Monyma
,
and
the
two
Princesses
went
to
visit
Pharnaces
;
but
finding
him
more
troubled
than
hurt
,
soon
after
they
visited
Atafernes
,
from
whence
all
but
Statira
(
who
stayed
with
her
Brother
,
as
I
did
to
wait
on
them
both
)
went
to
take
the
Air
to
refresh
themselves
,
after
the
heat
of
that
days
ceremony
.
As
soon
as
they
were
gone
out
of
the
Chamber
,
I
told
the
Prince
;
Sir
,
I
am
come
to
give
you
an
account
of
those
commands
you
honour'd
me
with
when
you
left
the
Lists
;
and
to
present
you
with
what
only
,
by
the
power
they
gave
me
,
I
have
acquired
:
If
the
Princess
Mithridatia
had
been
pleased
to
have
given
it
me
upon
the
account
of
her
favour
,
which
I
once
presum'd
to
implore
,
I
would
much
rather
have
parted
with
my
life
than
with
it
:
but
since
she
declined
giving
me
that
Title
to
the
prize
,
and
gave
it
to
my
success
;
I
could
not
,
Sir
,
but
bring
it
unto
you
,
from
whom
I
must
always
acknowledg
I
entirely
derived
it
.
Atafernes
,
refusing
my
proffer
,
and
embracing
me
,
reply'd
,
Statira
could
not
have
been
more
obliging
,
in
giving
you
that
Bracelet
as
a
testimony
of
her
favour
,
than
she
was
just
,
in
conferring
it
upon
the
score
of
your
Victory
,
to
which
I
have
so
little
contributed
,
that
my
refusal
of
the
prize
,
is
infinitely
short
of
what
I
owe
you
for
obtaining
it
;
and
having
no
other
way
to
evince
my
gratitude
for
your
having
done
so
,
I
do
earnestly
conjure
my
Sister
to
give
you
the
prize
upon
the
account
upon
which
you
once
desired
it
.
Atafernes
having
done
speaking
,
we
both
look't
intently
upon
the
Princess
,
whose
face
was
immediately
cover'd
with
Blushes
:
which
when
her
Brother
observ'd
,
he
told
her
;
You
have
often
assur'd
me
,
Mithridatia
,
that
you
gave
me
a
higher
share
of
your
affection
,
than
you
gave
any
one
else
;
I
beg
you
manifest
it
in
granting
me
this
desire
;
't
is
not
injurio●s
to
that
strict
virtue
you
profess
to
the
World
;
and
't
will
be
consonant
to
that
strict
friendhsip
you
profess
to
me
,
which
I
shall
set
the
greater
value
upon
,
when
I
experiment
the
effects
of
it
do
not
only
extend
to
me
,
but
to
a
person
I
am
equally
concern'd
for
;
and
when
it
enables
me
to
pay
a
debt
,
which
otherwise
I
should
be
uncapable
to
discharge
.
Sir
,
I
answer'd
,
had
you
owed
me
my
debt
,
you
had
abundantly
over-paid
it
,
in
thus
desiring
to
do
so
.
Then
addressing
my self
to
Statira
,
I
told
her
;
Madam
,
had
I
imagin'd
the
duty
I
have
perform'd
to
the
generous
Atafernes
,
and
acquainting
him
with
the
grounds
on
which
I
did
it
,
would
have
occasioned
those
desires
in
him
,
and
those
troubles
those
desires
have
rais'd
in
you
,
I
should
rather
have
appear'd
rude
to
you
both
by
my
silence
,
than
have
been
found
injurious
to
you
in
so
breaking
it
;
and
therefore
,
Madam
,
I
humbly
beg
you
in
the
Princess
Mithridatia's
behalf
,
that
you
will
not
let
he
descend
so
much
below
her self
,
as
to
act
what
her
Brother
asks
of
her
,
and
I
once
implor'd
,
when
it
was
only
to
avoid
receiving
the
prize
from
a
title
which
now
I
observe
to
own
,
will
be
less
injurious
,
than
to
decline
;
and
consequently
your
denial
will
be
as
favourable
as
your
grant
,
nay
more
,
having
,
Madam
,
a
higher
concernment
for
what
I
find
pleases
you
,
than
I
can
for
what
pleases
my self
.
This
I
did
speak
with
an
accent
and
look
which
palpably
manifested
,
my
respect
only
made
me
do
so
;
which
invited
Atafernes
to
fix
his
eyes
upon
Statira
,
who
easily
read
in
his
countenance
,
how
much
her
delay
,
if
not
denyal
,
was
sensible
unto
him
;
and
that
was
so
prevalent
,
that
turning
to
her
brother
,
she
told
him
(
in
no
small
disorders
)
I
thought
you
were
so
fully
satisfied
of
my
affection
,
that
you
would
not
put
it
to
fresh
experiments
;
but
since
you
will
,
you
shall
see
I
can
disobey
you
in
nothing
:
then
looking
upon
me
,
she
said
;
Callimachus
,
that
which
I
gave
you
,
as
due
to
your
success
,
I
now
give
you
in
obedience
to
Atafernes
desires
,
as
a
mark
of
my
favour
.
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
since
the
gods
have
plac'd
every
way
so
infinite
a
disproportion
between
you
and
me
,
that
I
cannot
ever
so
much
as
hope
to
receive
on
my
own
account
,
what
you
are
pleas'd
to
give
me
on
your
generous
Brother's
:
I
cannot
but
acknowledg
their
goodness
in
raising
me
up
so
powerful
an
Intercessor
;
and
yours
in
permitting
him
to
be
so
.
I
spoke
so
much
,
being
a
little
heightned
in
that
act
of
friendship
I
had
then
received
from
Atafernes
;
and
I
durst
speak
no
more
,
by
repining
at
having
receiv'd
no
more
,
I
should
induce
her
to
repent
her
having
done
so
much
.
All
the
rest
of
that
evening
we
spent
in
Atafarnes's
Chamber
;
and
after
,
having
waited
on
the
Princess
to
hers
,
I
retir'd
to
my
own
[
for
,
though
a
Ball
was
that
night
designed
;
yet
,
because
the
two
Princes
were
unable
to
assist
at
it
,
't
was
deferr'd
till
a
fitter
opportunity
]
and
past
the
greatest
part
of
the
Night
in
reflecting
upon
the
passages
of
the
preceding
day
.
The
strange
difficulty
Statira
had
made
of
letting
me
receive
the
prize
as
a
mark
of
her
favour
,
when
upon
the
Scaffold
I
had
lighted
upon
no
ill
expedient
to
have
clouded
it
with
,
and
when
thereby
both
she
and
I
had
adjudged
the
honour
of
that
day
to
her
Favourite-Brother
,
and
also
had
exempted
me
from
carrying
it
away
from
her
eldest
Brother
;
And
her
declaring
,
when
she
made
me
that
obliging
assurance
in
Atafernes's
chamber
,
that
it
way
to
obey
him
;
could
not
more
perplex
me
,
than
I
was
pleased
with
what
I
inferr'd
from
that
proceeding
;
for
I
flatter'd
my self
with
an
opinion
,
that
thereby
she
had
discovered
my
passion
,
and
believ'd
I
was
not
ignorant
she
had
done
so
;
both
which
occasion'd
that
coldness
,
which
was
at
once
my
satisfaction
and
my
trouble
.
But
if
in
this
one
carriage
of
hers
,
I
had
occasion
to
make
that
my
Faith
,
by
many
a
one
in
the
future
I
had
not
so
much
as
a
shadow
left
me
to
suspect
I
was
mistaken
;
for
whereas
formerly
she
often
elected
me
to
wait
on
her
,
above
any
other
,
she
was
afterwards
careful
to
avoid
it
;
and
from
being
friendly
she
only
continued
civil
;
but
yet
she
was
civil
in
a
way
,
which
assured
me
she
was
not
offended
at
any
thing
,
but
that
for
which
,
though
I
could
have
wish'd
she
would
not
have
been
,
yet
I
could
not
but
expect
she
would
.
I
was
not
ignorant
in
how
improbable
a
design
I
had
engag'd
my self
;
that
being
but
a
private
person
,
destitute
of
friends
,
and
ignorant
even
of
what
I
was
,
to
lift
up
my
sight
towards
a
Princess
,
the
greatest
in
the
World
by
her
quality
,
and
more
formidable
to
me
from
her
severe
vertue
,
and
her
absolute
resignation
to
her
Fathers
will
;
which
he
had
but
too
positively
acquainted
me
with
,
as
he
had
her
,
that
if
she
would
observe
his
,
she
must
give
her self
to
the
King
of
Cyprus
,
who
was
but
forming
a
Fleet
fit
to
assist
her
Father
with
,
and
an
Equipage
fit
to
make
his
Court
in
.
But
all
this
,
and
much
more
,
was
not
so
prevalent
to
disswade
me
from
a
resolution
of
adoring
the
fair
Statira
,
as
her
virtues
and
beauties
were
to
confine
me
to
do
it
;
and
having
already
gone
through
one
of
the
most
difficult
performances
,
that
of
letting
her
know
my
passion
in
so
little
criminal
a
way
,
I
despaired
not
of
attaining
the
other
,
that
of
perswading
her
to
permit
it
;
for
I
was
so
obliging
to
my
own
hopes
,
as
not
to
despair
in
an
Age
,
when
the
Sword
gave
the
Law
;
but
by
mine
to
present
her
with
those
Titles
,
which
my
birth
had
denied
me
,
or
my
ill
Fortune
had
conceal'd
from
me
:
And
therefore
in
those
high
preparatives
which
were
made
for
a
War
the
ensuing
spring
against
Nicomedes
,
Ariobarzanes
,
and
Murena
,
I
was
not
unactive
:
But
there
hapned
an
accident
which
was
much
more
speedy
and
favourable
to
me
,
than
I
could
have
imagined
;
for
at
a
solemn
Feast
made
by
Gordius
to
which
Archil●us
,
Neoptolemus
,
Craterus
(
with
whom
I
had
contracted
a
strict
friendship
,
and
who
was
indeed
a
person
of
much
honour
)
Dorilaus
,
my self
,
and
many
others
were
invited
;
Archilaus
fell
into
discourses
of
a
deep
discontent
,
which
is
a
disease
that
commonly
proceeds
from
the
highest
power
too
long
intrusted
in
one
subjects
hands
;
who
finding
the
King
uncapable
to
remunerate
future
services
by
having
given
all
he
can
give
to
preceding
ones
,
do
not
consider
,
That
duty
,
if
never
rewarded
,
obliges
him
to
all
he
can
do
;
and
if
rewarded
,
to
the
utmost
;
duty
and
gratitude
binds
him
equally
to
the
like
.
I
admir'd
none
there
attempted
to
show
him
his
errour
;
but
perceiving
their
respect
to
him
,
made
him
lay
aside
all
his
to
his
Prince
;
I
could
not
but
do
that
my self
,
which
(
though
less
concern'd
than
many
which
were
present
)
I
had
condemned
them
for
omitting
.
But
Archilaus
more
provoked
by
my
minding
him
of
his
duty
,
so
entirely
cast
it
off
,
that
what
at
first
I
had
considered
as
an
Act
of
heat
and
passion
,
I
now
looked
upon
as
a
providence
of
the
gods
,
who
would
make
him
disclose
some
Treason
,
which
if
he
had
continued
silent
,
he
might
have
acted
.
Therefore
the
more
to
make
him
discover
himself
,
I
told
him
;
I
see
Archilaus
,
that
your
being
General
over
so
many
gallant
men
as
are
here
,
makes
them
continue
in
a
silence
,
their
looks
visibly
detests
;
and
therefore
,
since
I
am
not
engaged
to
it
by
that
obligation
,
I
declare
unto
you
,
if
to
morrow
morning
you
do
not
acknowledg
before
them
,
that
your
passion
only
has
made
you
utter
these
criminal
expressions
,
I
shall
expect
reparation
for
them
with
your
Sword
;
which
if
you
decline
,
prepare
your self
to
answer
what
you
have
said
,
before
Mithridates
,
to
whom
I
am
too
strictly
bound
,
to
hear
him
injur'd
,
without
endeavouring
to
right
him
in
one
of
those
ways
I
have
proposed
.
Young
man
(
Archilaus
furiously
repli'd
)
the
services
I
have
done
the
King
of
Pontus
,
are
so
many
and
signal
,
that
they
will
be
credited
before
thee
;
and
therefore
not
to
give
thee
satisfaction
,
but
to
punish
thy
insolence
,
I
will
give
thee
that
meeting
to
morrow
morning
which
thou
desirest
;
where
be
as
certain
I
will
punish
thy
pride
,
as
now
thou
mayest
be
that
I
resent
it
.
This
answer
so
incens'd
me
,
that
I
could
not
abstain
from
answering
him
:
Those
duties
which
thou
gloriest
in
,
have
not
acquired
so
much
for
thy
King
,
as
thou
gavest
away
from
him
unto
Sylla
;
but
I
will
now
speak
no
more
,
since
thou
hast
assured
me
to
morrow
of
so
certain
a
means
to
repair
thy
disrespect
to
thy
Prince
,
and
thy
rudeness
to
me
.
Archilaus
,
losing
all
his
patience
at
what
I
had
spoken
,
laid
his
hand
upon
his
Sword
,
as
I
immediately
did
the
like
on
mine
:
But
the
Company
interpos'd
to
part
us
;
which
made
me
tell
him
,
I
shall
expect
thee
to
morrow
morning
early
in
the
Meadow
near
the
Sacred
Grove
,
single
,
or
with
any
person
of
Honour
that
may
witness
we
fought
fairly
:
but
know
,
if
thou
failest
,
or
that
this
be
divulged
,
I
am
acquit
from
that
silence
,
which
otherwise
I
promise
thee
till
then
to
keep
.
Archilaus
only
by
a
nod
of
his
head
seem'd
to
tell
me
,
he
assented
to
what
I
had
proposed
,
which
made
me
immediately
retire
to
my
appartment
,
to
prepare
for
our
intended
Duel
,
which
I
was
confident
of
;
for
my
Enemy
was
a
man
of
known
Courage
,
and
our
dispute
and
assignation
was
only
before
persons
who
lov'd
him
,
〈◊〉
had
much
rather
have
expos'd
him
to
my
Sword
,
than
to
my
Accusation
.
In
brief
,
according
to
assignment
we
met
;
Archilaus
bringing
with
him
Craterus
as
a
mutual
witness
,
who
(
he
knew
)
was
one
I
reposed
no
small
confidence
in
;
for
my
Enemy
understood
the
Punctilio's
of
honour
,
and
was
curious
in
their
practise
;
so
that
if
he
had
been
as
honest
as
gallant
,
we
had
never
measur'd
our
Swords
.
The
first
Pass
,
our
Clothes
were
only
wounded
;
but
the
next
,
he
hurt
me
through
my
left
Arm
,
as
I
did
him
through
his
right
;
and
following
my
thrust
,
clos'd
with
him
,
flung
him
down
,
and
disarm'd
him
.
Craterus
immediately
stept
in
,
to
hinder
me
from
making
any
fatal
use
of
my
advantage
,
which
I
had
no
design
to
do
:
for
immediately
permitting
him
to
rise
,
and
restoring
him
his
Sword
,
I
told
him
;
Archilaus
,
be
satisfied
,
I
am
in
the
right
by
my
success
against
you
;
and
be
as
satisfied
,
that
if
you
employ
that
Sword
and
Life
I
give
you
,
for
your
King
,
he
shall
never
know
what
you
have
spoke
against
him
.
Archilaus
with
a
deep
sigh
only
repli'd
;
You
are
generous
,
and
I
am
unfortunate
;
and
then
with
Craterus
went
away
:
but
lest
my
wound
in
my
arm
might
give
some
suspition
of
what
we
had
been
doing
,
I
resolv'd
to
keep
my
Chamber
for
a
few
days
,
as
being
indisposed
in
health
;
and
being
confident
the
Prince
Atafernes
would
visit
me
,
I
caus'd
the
Chyrurgeon
which
drest
my
wound
(
whose
privacy
I
strictly
enjoin'd
)
to
let
me
blood
in
the
same
arm
I
was
hurt
,
that
unsuspectedly
I
might
carry
it
in
a
scarf
:
and
to
take
away
all
cause
of
jealousie
,
I
caus'd
the
blood
he
took
from
me
,
to
be
left
in
my
Chamber
till
A●afernes
did
come
,
which
he
suddenly
after
did
;
for
't
was
my
custom
every
morning
to
wait
on
him
;
which
omission
,
then
,
lest
he
should
think
strange
,
I
sent
to
apologize
for
,
being
rendered
uncapable
by
an
indisposition
which
had
necessitated
me
to
breathe
a
vein
,
and
would
for
a
few
dayes
confine
me
to
my
Chamber
.
This
information
he
had
no
sooner
received
,
than
he
came
thither
,
and
by
many
tendernesses
convinced
me
,
I
had
a
higher
interest
in
his
affection
and
friendship
,
than
I
either
thought
or
deserved
.
All
that
day
he
continu'd
with
me
;
and
the
next
,
return'd
early
to
repeat
that
honour
.
I
had
then
also
the
satisfaction
of
having
the
fair
Mithridatia
send
one
of
her
Gentlemen
to
enquire
after
my
health
,
which
I
would
always
have
been
deprived
of
,
to
have
it
so
obligingly
sought
after
.
The
same
day
towards
the
Evening
,
Mithridates
favour'd
me
with
a
visit
;
and
during
his
stay
with
me
,
Craterus
came
hastily
into
the
Chamber
to
acquaint
his
King
,
that
Archilaus
and
Neoptolemus
were
fled
in
disguises
;
that
Archilaus
had
secured
Chalcedon
;
and
Neoptolemus
,
Heraclea
,
the
chiefest
Towns
of
the
Bosphorians
and
Colques
,
of
which
two
Provinces
they
were
Governours
,
and
thereby
possest
themselves
of
all
his
Fleet
,
who
were
rendezvous'd
in
those
two
Havens
;
and
that
they
had
given
out
words
which
made
it
more
than
probable
that
they
would
join
with
Nicomedes
,
Ariobarzanes
,
and
Murena
.
The
truth
of
which
intelligence
was
not
to
be
suspected
,
since
't
was
impossible
they
could
justifie
their
first
crime
,
but
by
acting
this
second
.
Mithridates
was
sensibly
surpriz'd
at
this
advertisement
,
and
forthwith
gave
orders
for
all
his
chief
Officers
to
meet
,
to
advise
of
the
best
expedient
against
so
threatning
a
danger
;
whilst
the
Council
was
assembling
some
of
the
Guards
which
had
got
notice
of
the
two
Brothers
escape
,
seized
upon
and
broug●
before
the
King
a
person
whom
they
found
in
the
dusk
of
the
evening
stealing
over
the
Works
;
for
no
sooner
was
this
News
divulged
,
than
all
the
Ports
of
Nicomcdia
were
shut
,
and
the
Guards
doubled
,
lest
to
the
publick
Revolt
,
some
private
attempt
might
have
been
made
against
his
Person
.
This
man
was
soon
known
to
be
Archilaus
Secretary
,
who
confessing
nothing
,
was
forthwith
condemned
to
the
Rack
,
which
he
had
not
resolution
to
endure
,
or
scarcely
to
look
on
;
so
that
he
told
Craterus
,
if
he
were
brought
to
the
King
,
and
might
only
suffer
death
,
without
tortute
,
he
would
discover
all
.
The
first
being
performed
and
the
last
promised
by
Mithridates
,
he
told
him
,
Sir
,
since
the
agreement
made
by
my
Lord
with
Sylla
,
he
found
himself
so
little
valued
by
you
,
that
after
a
long
dispute
between
his
resentment
and
his
Loyalty
,
the
first
obtained
the
superiority
;
whereupon
immediately
he
made
his
secret
applications
to
Nicomedes
and
Murena
,
who
promised
,
if
he
delivered
you
,
Sir
,
alive
or
dead
into
their
hands
,
they
would
make
him
King
of
Pontus
,
which
he
should
hold
in
●ee
from
the
people
of
Rome
.
This
he
promised
within
one
Month
to
perform
;
which
he
had
certainly
done
,
if
by
his
too
little
precaution
at
a
Feast
Gordius
lately
made
,
he
had
not
spoken
words
of
so
high
a
discontent
against
you
,
that
they
necessitated
Callimachns
to
that
duel
with
him
,
which
he
was
confident
would
not
be
so
privately
kept
,
but
that
it
would
come
to
your
knowledg
;
and
therefore
not
being
ready
to
act
his
designs
against
your
person
,
he
thought
it
more
advisable
to
revolt
to
your
Enemies
,
and
present
them
with
your
Fleet
,
and
those
two
Provinces
he
and
Neoptolemus
commanded
,
than
run
an
apparent
hazard
of
being
discover'd
,
and
prevented
even
in
that
.
I
was
commanded
by
him
to
continue
here
,
and
endeavour
to
gain
Dorilaus
for
him
;
but
I
had
not
so
much
as
the
opportunity
to
speak
with
him
:
&
having
advertisement
that
the
Ports
were
shutting
,
I
apprehended
't
was
the
more
probably
to
seize
on
me
;
I
resolved
to
fly
,
but
I
was
prevented
;
and
therefore
must
submit
to
your
Justice
,
and
my
Fate
.
This
Discourse
was
no
sooner
finish'd
,
than
Mithridates
and
Atafernes
looked
upon
me
,
in
a
way
which
(
me
thought
)
seem'd
to
reproach
my
silence
to
the
one
,
and
my
affection
to
the
other
.
But
Craterus
immediately
told
the
King
all
that
had
passed
,
and
then
thus
continued
;
I
am
,
Sir
,
the
most
guilty
,
but
I
know
nothing
could
have
bribed
me
to
so
criminal
a
silence
,
but
my
Generals
electing
me
to
be
a
mutual
second
to
both
,
which
perhaps
he
knew
,
and
therefore
impos'd
on
me
that
employment
:
besides
,
Sir
,
I
was
more
than
hopeful
,
his
having
given
Callimachus
that
way
of
satisfaction
,
for
what
I
thought
proceeded
from
a
distemper
of
company
only
,
might
have
ascertain'd
him
from
his
accusation
,
and
consequently
have
confin'd
him
to
employ
that
Life
in
your
service
,
which
was
given
him
by
the
gods
,
and
by
his
Enemy
,
for
that
end
.
As
soon
as
Craterus
had
finish'd
;
Mithridates
came
to
me
,
and
in
embraces
and
many
words
as
obliging
,
acquainted
me
how
sensible
he
was
of
the
service
I
had
done
his
State
and
Person
,
in
so
timely
discovering
a
Treachery
,
which
otherwise
had
ruin'd
both
.
He
also
cast
forth
some
words
how
happy
he
was
in
having
a
Friend
,
who
,
though
a
Stranger
,
had
manifested
more
concernment
for
him
,
than
all
his
Subjects
had
done
.
I
was
(
continued
Callimaclus
)
a
little
in
disorder
to
find
my
acting
,
gave
some
ground
for
this
reproach
to
Craterus
,
and
those
other
brave
Men
which
had
been
present
at
our
quarrel
;
and
more
,
that
by
such
a
deciding
it
,
I
had
brought
the
safety
of
Statiras's
Father
,
her
generous
Brothers
,
and
perhaps
her
own
to
so
hazardous
an
issue
as
a
Duel
was
,
for
which
I
made
many
excuses
to
Mithridates
,
extenuating
too
the
supposed
offence
of
Craterus
and
the
rest
's
not
doing
what
I
did
,
by
their
being
under
Archilaus
command
,
and
by
their
belief
that
they
were
words
of
passion
rather
than
design
;
to
repair
all
which
,
and
to
evidence
I
spar'd
not
my
Enemy
upon
any
criminal
account
,
I
humbly
begg'd
the
King
to
employ
us
all
against
him
,
that
by
our
actions
we
might
obtain
and
merit
his
belief
to
our
professions
,
and
that
I
in
particular
might
endeavour
to
destroy
a
person
,
I
now
found
I
had
but
too
prodigally
spar'd
.
Mithridates
again
embraced
me
for
this
desire
,
which
he
told
me
should
be
granted
;
professing
openly
he
was
confident
that
the
same
Sword
which
had
worsted
Archilaus
in
a
Duel
,
would
do
the
like
in
a
Battel
.
Soon
after
,
he
went
out
of
my
Chamber
to
hold
that
Council
he
had
summon'd
,
and
forthwith
order'd
the
Secretary
to
be
put
to
death
.
The
Prince
Atasernes
,
who
had
assisted
at
the
Council
,
came
again
to
me
that
Night
,
and
in
raptures
of
joy
acquainted
me
;
That
Mithridates
having
resolved
on
two
Wars
,
the
one
against
his
Rebels
,
and
the
other
against
Nicomedes
,
Ariobarzanes
and
Murena
;
had
then
nominated
two
Generals
,
which
were
Pharnaces
and
himself
;
This
to
command
against
Archilaus
,
that
against
Nicomedes
:
That
the
King
had
made
me
his
Lieutenant
General
,
and
Gordius
his
brothers
;
that
Craterus
was
to
go
with
him
,
as
Dorilaus
was
to
go
with
Pharnaces
.
I
confess
this
Advertisement
was
not
unpleasing
to
me
,
for
it
gave
me
a
relation
to
that
generous
Prince
,
which
fix'd
me
near
his
person
,
and
put
me
in
a
possibility
of
acquiring
Glory
,
which
was
the
only
way
I
had
to
court
the
fair
Statira
in
:
but
I
was
a
little
troubled
Craterus
should
have
a
command
under
mine
:
yet
Atafernes
soon
made
it
cease
by
protesting
he
resented
none
thereat
,
but
was
rather
pleas'd
,
being
in
effect
as
well
as
in
profession
,
highly
my
Friend
.
Ten
days
after
,
having
Rendezvous'd
on
the
Banks
of
the
River
Calpas
thirty
thousand
Foot
,
and
ten
thousand
Horse
of
those
with
whom
Mithridates
,
designed
to
make
War
against
Murena
,
he
order'd
them
to
move
towards
Nicomedes
and
his
Associates
,
who
had
furnish'd
Neoptolemus
with
some
considerable
additional
Forces
to
join
with
his
Brother
,
lest
in
that
Peninsule
he
was
in
,
he
might
be
worsted
;
and
indeed
it
was
high
time
,
for
Neoptolemus
had
already
brought
his
Army
over
the
Mountain
Horminius
,
and
after
having
cross'd
the
River
Hypias
was
hastily
marching
to
gain
the
Passes
of
the
River
Sangarus
,
after
which
he
had
nothing
but
Bodies
of
Men
to
hinder
their
so
much
desired
conjunction
.
After
Atafernes
had
perform'd
the
parting●
duty
to
his
Father
and
Brother
(
to
the
first
of
which
I
pay'd
many
humble
acknowledgments
for
the
honour
he
had
done
me
,
and
the
trust
he
had
reposed
in
me
,
which
he
answer'd
too
flatteringly
to
be
repeated
)
he
took
me
with
him
to
the
Queen's
Appartment
,
where
there
then
was
the
Princess
Roxana
,
from
whom
as
Atafernes
was
taking
leave
,
Monyma
,
covering
her
Face
with
her
Vail
,
told
me
;
I
know
not
,
Callimachus
,
if
what
I
was
necessitated
to
do
,
has
left
you
any
belief
,
that
I
am
still
concern'd
for
you
,
or
has
left
me
any
of
that
Empire
over
you
,
which
you
were
once
pleased
to
give
me
;
but
lest
you
should
so
much
wrong
me
as
to
have
a
contrary
thought
,
or
lest
I
might
so
much
wrong
you
as
to
believe
you
would
impose
that
penalty
on
a
necessitated
Fault
,
which
can
only
be
due
to
a
willing
one
,
I
conjure
you
in
the
War
you
are
now
undertaking
,
be
not
so
covetous
of
honour
,
as
wholly
for
it
to
neglect
your
safety
,
which
is
considerable
,
and
perhaps
but
too
much
so
,
to
me
.
I
was
so
strangely
surpriz'd
at
these
words
,
especially
at
the
last
of
them
,
that
doubtless
I
had
been
much
troubled
for
an
answer
,
if
Atafernes
having
taken
leave
of
Roxana
,
had
not
then
come
towards
us
,
which
gave
me
only
time
to
reply
;
Madam
,
I
have
still
pay'd
so
exact
an
obedience
to
all
your
commands
,
that
I
hope
you
cannot
have
cause
to
suspect
I
will
decline
that
practise
.
This
was
the
civilest
,
shortest
,
and
resentful'st
answer
I
could
give
her
,
which
were
the
three
ingredients
I
desired
it
should
be
composed
of
:
soon
after
having
kiss'd
the
Princess
Roxana's
hands
,
we
went
to
the
Appartment
of
Mithridatia
,
which
her
Brother
did
visit
in
the
last
place
,
as
being
that
for
which
he
had
the
highest
concern
,
and
resolved
to
bestow
the
most
time
upon
.
Never
was
there
any
separation
so
moving
as
that
of
these
two
excellent
Persons
,
and
never
did
I
see
the
fair
Statira
give
so
clear
an
evidence
that
the
equality
of
her
mind
was
conquerable
,
as
in
this
occasion
,
which
yet
was
a
Noble
Condescension
,
since
even
that
weakness
appear'd
but
the
better
to
manifest
the
strength
of
her
friendship
;
yet
it
hath
made
me
many
time
since
conclude
she
had
some
Prophetick
foresight
of
the
fatal
miseries
this
War
would
produce
.
Three
times
in
strict
embraces
they
endeavour'd
to
part
before
they
had
the
power
to
do
it
:
which
as
soon
as
they
had
obtained
,
I
went
to
receive
her
Commands
;
which
when
she
perceived
,
passing
her
hands
before
her
face
to
cover
the
trouble
Atafernes
had
rais'd
in
her
,
she
told
me
with
an
Accent
and
Grace
particular
to
her self
:
Callimachus
,
I
owe
you
my
Liberty
and
my
Life
,
which
are
high
obligations
;
and
I
can
assure
you
are
not
,
nor
ever
shall
be
forgotten
;
but
yet
those
I
was
not
near
so
much
concern'd
in
,
as
I
am
in
Atafernes
,
whose
safety
I
expresly
recommend
to
your
care
.
I
know
the
earnestness
of
youth
,
and
the
first
solicitings
of
Victory
,
are
motives
will
precipitate
him
into
dangers
,
from
which
only
your
courage
will
be
able
to
free
him
;
but
I
wish
I
could
be
as
confident
that
your
advice
would
preserve
him
from
running
into
such
perils
,
as
I
am
,
that
your
Sword
,
when
they
are
run
into
,
will
disengage
him
out
of
them
:
I
conjure
you
,
moderate
his
Heat
by
your
Counsel
,
and
by
representing
to
him
the
miseries
my
life
must
be
replenish'd
with
,
if
his
should
be
lost
;
against
the
apprehensions
whereof
,
I
am
not
a
little
fortifi'd
by
the
gods
,
having
chosen
for
him
such
a
friend
as
Callimachus
,
who
when
he
acts
all
that
valour
and
frien●ship
can
produce
,
does
but
make
good
the
opinion
I
have
already
of
him
.
Madam
,
I
reply'd
,
The
duty
and
care
I
owe
the
Prince
Atafernes
,
as
he
is
himself
,
is
uncapable
of
accession
any
other
ways
than
by
the
relation
he
has
to
the
Princess
Statira
,
and
by
those
commands
she
has
now
been
pleas'd
to
honour
me
with
:
I
cannot
doubt
that
a
person
who
is
so
justly
and
highly
in
your
care
,
can
be
denied
that
of
the
gods
;
but
yet
I
can
no
more
hope
the
means
to
that
end
should
be
by
my
advice
,
than
doubt
it
can
be
by
any
other
,
than
by
representing
to
him
how
certainly
his
death
will
occasion
and
accelerate
yours
:
that
is
a
sin
,
which
to
avoid
.
I
believe
he
would
not
only
be
content
to
decline
the
Courting
of
Glory
,
but
even
be
an
Enemy
to
it
:
No
Madam
,
the
gods
are
too
just
to
make
you
give
your
friendship
to
one
,
who
can
prefer
any
thing
before
it
,
or
who
would
not
despise
all
honour
for
that
only
of
observing
your
Commands
,
which
are
of
so
unlimited
a
power
,
that
what
they
enjoin
,
they
will
enable
me
to
perform
,
or
render
the
not
surviving
my
disobedience
,
a
just
penalty
for
having
been
guilty
of
it
.
I
cannot
,
said
Statira
be
invited
to
believe
,
that
an
addition
to
a
loss
,
can
any
way
repair
it
;
and
therefore
if
the
gods
should
call
away
Atafernes
,
I
expect
Callimachus
should
rather
live
to
give
me
consolations
,
than
by
his
death
give
me
an
higher
need
of
them
.
These
words
she
hastily
spoke
,
because
the
Prince
was
come
towards
us
,
who
had
been
taking
leave
of
his
Sisters
Women
;
which
I
think
he
did
,
to
allow
me
the
more
freely
an
opportunity
of
doing
the
like
to
her
,
whose
obligingness
in
her
last
expressions
,
I
endeavoured
to
acquaint
her
by
some
of
mine
,
were
as
sensibly
as
humbly
received
.
Soon
after
Atafernes
took
his
last
Farewell
,
which
was
in
so
many
tears
,
that
I
could
not
more
pity
Statira
,
than
I
did
envy
him
.
The
next
morning
early
all
the
Streets
of
Nicomedia
eccho'd
with
the
Trumpets
,
and
were
fill'd
with
the
Guards
which
attended
the
two
Princes
to
their
Armies
.
Ours
that
Night
we
overtook
,
for
it
had
been
led
but
three
easie
days
marches
by
Craterus
,
who
brought
Atafernes
notice
that
Night
to
his
Tent
,
that
Archilans
the
preceding
day
had
made
a
General
Muster
on
the
Banks
of
P●illis
,
that
his
Numbers
were
much
superiour
to
ours
,
and
that
he
was
therefore
resolved
to
seek
a
Field
for
the
decision
of
the
War
,
unto
which
bold
resolution
he
was
as
much
invited
from
the
advantage
of
his
numbers
,
as
by
his
intelligence
that
Pharnaces
was
advanced
towards
Neoptolemus
with
a
vast
Army
(
for
Mithridates
had
manifested
the
disproportion
of
his
affection
between
those
two
Princes
,
by
the
disproportion
in
the
Number
of
their
Forces
,
which
was
near
double
)
whom
he
therefore
was
solicitous
to
join
with
,
and
would
not
decline
an
ingagement
in
pursuance
of
that
Design
.
All
which
Craterus
assur'd
his
General
he
had
even
then
received
from
a
faithful
Spy
.
This
Advertisement
made
us
resolve
to
prepare
for
the
Battel
,
the
avoiding
whereof
would
be
as
advantageous
for
our
Enemies
as
if
we
had
lost
it
;
but
in
regard
their
Number
so
much
exceeded
ours
,
it
was
esteem'd
advisable
to
endeavour
to
divert
a
part
of
their
Army
,
whilst
we
were
fighting
with
the
rest
:
and
therefore
I
caus'd
an
Officer
of
ours
to
go
as
a
Spy
into
their
Camp
(
which
by
reason
of
their
great
advantage
in
Forces
,
and
their
immediate
resolution
of
fighting
,
was
not
at
all
fortified
)
and
there
to
act
that
part
so
grosly
,
that
he
could
not
but
be
seized
upon
for
one
;
which
when
he
was
,
and
condemned
(
which
would
infallibly
follow
)
then
to
let
Archilaus
know
if
he
would
save
his
Life
,
and
give
him
an
equal
employment
in
his
Army
to
that
he
lost
in
Atafernes's
;
he
would
discover
to
him
a
secret
,
which
probably
might
destroy
his
Enemies
;
which
should
be
,
that
we
had
sent
a
third
part
of
our
Army
to
meet
an
additional
supply
(
equal
to
that
Number
)
which
Mithridates
had
sent
after
us
,
hearing
of
the
Enemies
unexpected
Forces
;
which
if
Archilaus
would
send
to
meet
,
he
might
with
as
much
ease
defeat
,
as
having
done
that
to
them
,
he
might
the
next
day
do
the
like
to
the
rest
.
The
attempt
indeed
was
hazardous
for
the
Undertaker
;
but
the
Laws
of
War
render
it
just
to
employ
Men
upon
things
which
were
much
more
so
,
for
the
general
advantage
:
His
hire
too
was
great
;
neither
was
it
impossible
but
,
if
he
were
believ'd
,
he
might
get
off
,
either
by
their
trusting
him
,
or
by
our
success
before
they
were
able
to
discover
and
punish
his
Delusion
.
But
to
leave
as
little
to
Fortune
as
such
an
Affair
would
admit
,
I
sent
a
Spy
with
him
to
bring
me
word
if
that
same
Night
any
part
of
Archilaus's
Army
moved
out
of
their
Camp
,
that
immediately
on
notice
thereof
we
might
do
the
like
to
fall
on
the
Remainder
.
In
brief
,
This
Officer
so
well
acted
his
part
,
that
fifteen
thousand
Horse
and
Foot
,
were
sent
(
and
he
for
their
guide
)
about
fall
of
the
Night
,
to
intercept
our
imagin'd
Recruits
,
and
three
hours
after
(
which
was
the
time
spent
in
bringing
that
Advertisement
)
we
moved
with
all
our
Army
(
which
was
purposely
kept
in
readiness
)
towards
the
Enemy
,
and
by
break
of
day
came
to
their
Camp
,
which
after
some
little
resistance
we
broke
into
,
for
they
were
so
confident
of
their
false
intelligence
,
that
they
did
not
so
much
as
fancy
we
would
attempt
them
till
our
believed
supply
,
and
that
part
of
our
Army
which
went
to
secure
them
,
was
joyned
with
us
.
The
execution
was
very
bloody
,
for
all
but
the
usual
Guards
were
taken
asleep
and
in
disorder
;
But
yet
Archilaus
escaped
in
a
Boat
down
the
River
of
Psillis
,
at
the
mouth
whereof
his
Fleet
lay
,
with
which
he
immediately
set
Sail
for
Heraclea
,
lest
Neoptolemus's
ignorance
of
this
misfortune
,
might
occasion
his
being
involv'd
in
a
parallel
one
.
But
to
improve
this
success
to
the
full
,
I
forthwith
caused
our
Soldiers
to
refresh
themselves
,
to
put
on
the
cloaths
of
them
they
had
kill'd
,
to
furl
up
their
own
Colours
,
and
march
with
those
we
had
so
lately
taken
towards
the
residue
of
that
vanquish'd
Army
,
leaving
such
behind
in
Archilaus's
Camp
as
were
wounded
or
tired
,
as
also
a
competent
Guard
for
Craterus's
person
,
whose
wounds
disinabled
him
to
stir
out
of
it
.
A
little
before
the
fall
of
the
Sun
we
came
in
the
sight
of
them
,
as
they
were
sadly
returning
from
their
hoped
Victory
(
having
put
to
death
him
that
had
deceived
them
)
which
was
the
time
we
desired
to
do
it
in
,
that
seeing
our
Soldiers
Clothes
and
Colours
,
they
might
the
less
suspect
us
:
this
also
hapned
as
we
had
expected
;
so
that
some
of
the
chief
Officers
riding
fearlesly
up
to
us
,
we
seized
upon
them
;
the
Body
moving
carelesly
,
seeing
their
Officers
join'd
with
us
,
were
immediately
surpriz'd
;
which
so
soon
as
they
found
they
were
,
and
heard
Archilans
was
defeated
,
and
mercy
offer'd
to
those
which
flung
down
their
Arms
,
and
would
willingly
take
up
that
Allegiance
they
had
so
slightly
cast
off
,
they
all
embraced
that
mercy
,
which
was
both
their
duty
and
safety
:
amongst
those
many
Prisoners
which
were
there
taken
,
there
was
a
Bosphorian
Lord
called
Lingarus
,
which
had
commanded
these
Forces
,
who
had
the
repute
of
a
man
of
honour
and
courage
.
Him
I
spoke
with
privately
as
we
returned
to
Atafernes
;
and
desired
to
know
the
ground
of
his
and
so
many
other
brave
mens
revolt
;
and
whether
Chalcedon
and
those
other
Cities
Archelaus
had
seduced
,
would
not
on
so
signal
a
disowning
of
their
Quarrel
by
the
gods
,
and
an
assurance
of
pardon
,
return
to
their
former
quiet
and
subjection
.
To
which
Lingarus
answer'd
,
I
am
confident
that
neither
this
miraculous
Defeat
,
nor
all
the
assurances
of
forgiveness
,
will
any
way
prevail
to
perswade
the
Bosphorians
to
return
under
Mithridates's
power
,
whilst
he
designs
them
that
Governour
,
which
Archilans
assur'd
me
he
would
give
us
,
which
did
more
for
Archilaus
than
any
other
way
he
could
have
done
for
himself
;
but
if
instead
of
Pharnaces
we
may
have
Atafernes
,
I
dare
engage
that
considerable
Province
shall
sheath
their
Swords
,
or
cheerfully
employ
them
against
any
Enemy
,
when
led
by
so
generous
a
Prince
,
whose
eldest
Brother
has
given
such
undoubted
and
early
marks
of
cruelty
,
that
we
thought
it
much
less
hazardous
to
oppose
than
submit
to
him
,
and
wanting
,
by
Archelaus
and
Neoptolemus's
change
,
a
Friend
which
might
acquaint
Mithridates
with
our
sense
in
such
a
way
as
we
desired
,
as
also
being
prest
by
them
to
prevent
by
Arms
what
we
could
not
by
Petition
;
and
that
the
crime
of
a
Revolt
,
before
Pharnaces
was
impos'd
on
us
,
would
appear
less
to
the
King
,
than
to
do
it
for
that
Reason
,
with
their
faithful
promises
of
never
making
a
peace
till
we
should
be
secured
from
that
fear
which
made
us
make
a
War
,
invited
us
to
what
we
have
done
,
and
has
brought
us
to
what
we
suffer
.
I
was
not
a
little
pleas'd
to
understand
so
desired
a
truth
,
and
that
by
making
an
internal
peace
we
might
be
better
enabled
to
carry
on
a
War
against
Nicomedes
and
Murena
,
which
promis'd
more
Glory
than
this
we
now
hoped
so
advantageously
to
finish
.
'T
was
therefore
that
I
fortifi'd
Lingarus
in
his
design
of
quietness
,
having
Atafernes
for
Governour
,
which
I
faithfully
promis'd
in
few
days
to
solicite
Mithridates
for
.
The
next
day
we
returned
to
our
Camp
,
where
our
General
(
who
had
stai'd
there
by
reason
of
an
incommodious
hurt
)
gave
me
so
many
acknowledgments
for
what
I
had
contrived
and
acted
,
that
I
was
more
satisfied
at
them
,
than
at
the
Victory
.
As
soon
as
I
had
visited
Craterus
,
whose
wounds
were
more
painful
than
dangerous
,
I
return'd
to
Atafernes
Tent
,
to
whom
I
imparted
what
Lingarus
had
acquainted
me
with
,
and
what
I
had
promised
him
,
which
I
begg'd
his
permission
and
license
to
accomplish
,
whilst
his
Army
was
taking
that
refreshment
their
two
harrasing
marches
required
:
I
further
represented
to
him
the
Command
of
so
considerable
a
Province
(
which
being
so
well
affected
to
him
before
they
knew
his
Government
,
and
consequently
would
be
so
entirely
when
they
did
)
might
render
him
considerable
to
his
Father
and
Brother
,
as
well
for
his
power
as
desert
;
and
if
the
Province
of
Bosphorus
were
forthwith
quieted
,
he
might
by
joyning
Armies
,
share
in
his
glory
,
having
acquired
with
much
celerity
,
all
that
the
War
he
was
assign'd
unto
could
produce
,
which
might
let
the
World
see
,
the
disproportion
Mithridates
placed
between
them
,
was
purely
an
effect
of
his
inclinations
,
by
his
acting
against
evincements
able
to
convert
any
thing
else
.
I
had
scarce
done
speaking
,
when
Atafernes
embraced
me
,
and
repli'd
;
The
gods
do
now
abundantly
repair
giving
me
such
a
Brother
,
in
giving
of
me
such
a
Friend
;
yes
,
Callimachus
,
I
say
,
such
a
Brother
;
for
till
now
I
never
disclosed
,
but
to
Statira
,
a
wickedness
of
his
,
such
as
the
very
thought
of
it
makes
me
tremble
;
for
he
no
sooner
saw
Mithridates
honour
me
with
some
marks
of
his
affection
(
not
content
with
the
precedency
he
had
therein
)
but
he
instantly
calumniated
me
unto
him
,
and
finding
the
unfruitfulness
of
so
unjust
a
proceeding
,
he
hired
one
of
my
Domesticks
to
kill
me
,
which
the
faithful
Servant
acquainted
me
with
,
and
then
fled
into
another
Kingdom
,
knowing
how
unsafe
this
was
after
such
a
discovery
to
me
,
and
such
a
disobedience
to
him
;
this
not
succeeding
,
he
hired
one
to
poison
me
at
a
Feast
he
invited
me
to
;
but
the
Servant
which
was
to
do
it
,
being
accidently
call'd
aside
,
another
came
to
fill
some
Wine
for
Pharnaces
,
and
took
it
out
of
the
Fatal
Bottle
design'd
for
me
;
but
the
other
on
his
return
found
the
mistake
,
and
ran
to
his
Prince
to
acquaint
him
with
it
,
who
before
he
came
had
drank
the
Wine
;
but
having
timely
notice
,
he
rose
hastily
from
the
Table
pretending
a
sudden
indisposition
,
and
before
the
poison
had
too
much
seized
on
his
vitals
,
he
forced
himself
to
cast
it
up
.
This
the
design'd
Actor
hereof
a
few
days
since
,
as
he
lay
on
his
Death-bed
,
repenting
his
sin
,
sent
very
privately
for
me
,
and
acquainted
me
with
,
begging
my
pardon
,
and
advertising
me
of
my
danger
in
the
future
.
Neither
has
this
cruel
Brother
desisted
,
though
he
has
had
so
clear
evidences
how
much
the
gods
detest
his
being
so
,
but
has
highly
solicited
the
Marriage
of
Mithridatia
to
the
King
of
Cyprus
,
that
by
her
remove
,
my
chiefest
support
might
receive
one
,
for
she
so
perfectly
affects
me
,
and
is
so
highly
valued
by
Mithridates
,
that
whilst
she
is
near
him
,
he
can
hardly
that
way
act
his
designs
.
Sir
,
(
I
replyed
)
the
crimes
of
your
Brother
render
the
motion
I
have
made
so
necessary
,
that
if
you
decline
it
,
and
that
Pharnaces
reach
his
ends
,
you
are
not
only
guilty
of
your
own
sufferings
,
but
also
of
his
actings
,
having
so
fair
a
way
to
prevent
both
.
Go
then
,
said
Atafernes
,
and
make
me
your
Debtor
for
my
safety
as
well
as
success
.
That
very
hour
I
posted
away
towards
Nicomedia
where
Mithridates
resided
,
for
whom
I
had
a
Letter
from
the
Prince
,
which
refer'd
the
relation
of
our
late
Victory
to
my
making
,
with
this
flattering
Complement
[
Since
the
Actor
would
be
the
best
describer
of
it
.
]
I
also
presented
Mithridates
with
all
those
Colours
we
had
taken
from
Archilaus
.
His
joy
was
exceeding
great
,
so
were
his
acknowledgments
to
me
,
in
the
heat
whereof
I
so
happily
prest
him
,
that
he
gave
me
a
Commission
from
my
General
to
be
Governour
of
the
Bosphorians
,
and
to
pardon
all
of
them
which
he
thought
fit
,
wherein
he
enjoined
the
using
of
all
expedition
,
in
regard
he
had
then
received
certain
intelligence
that
Nicomedes
,
with
a
considerable
Army
of
itself
,
was
joined
with
Murena
and
Neoptolemus
,
and
that
they
daily
expected
Ariobarzanes
with
some
considerable
accessional
Forces
,
which
if
united
might
over-power
Pharnaces
,
with
whom
he
earnestly
desired
Atafernes
might
join
,
as
soon
as
ever
he
had
put
the
affairs
of
the
Bosphorians
in
any
tollerable
posture
.
But
whilst
Mithridates's
Orders
,
and
the
Prince's
Commission
was
drawing
up
,
Mithridates
told
me
,
't
was
but
just
the
Queen
should
participate
of
the
good
News
I
brought
;
so
that
he
fortwith
led
me
to
her
Appartment
to
give
her
an
account
thereof
:
during
which
I
observed
what
but
confirmed
the
opinion
I
had
assum'd
,
by
those
words
she
spake
when
I
last
waited
on
her
,
which
made
me
not
a
little
rejoice
that
Mithridates
was
present
,
lest
otherwise
she
might
have
begun
a
Discourse
I
would
not
willingly
have
been
engaged
in
.
The
King
soon
after
dismiss'd
me
to
make
my
other
visits
,
since
I
allow'd
my self
so
little
time
for
their
performance
.
From
thence
I
went
to
pay
my
duty
to
the
Princess
Roxana
,
who
,
after
she
had
satisfied
her self
with
questions
concerning
the
Battel
,
and
highly
rejoiced
at
her
Brother's
success
in
it
;
asked
me
,
whether
I
had
been
with
her
Sister
?
to
which
I
told
her
,
't
was
the
next
visit
I
intended
;
I
will
then
,
said
Roxana
,
accompany
you
thither
;
for
you
carry
with
you
what
will
give
her
so
much
satisfaction
,
that
it
will
be
some
to
me
to
see
it
.
I
could
not
refuse
this
honour
,
though
I
was
sensibly
troubled
at
it
;
yet
when
I
came
to
the
fair
Statira's
Appartment
,
I
found
Monyma
there
,
whereby
I
perceived
that
privacy
I
was
deny'd
by
Roxana's
Company
,
I
had
otherwise
been
depriv'd
of
by
the
Queen's
,
which
also
did
confirm
me
in
a
belief
that
she
had
discover'd
the
passion
under
which
I
suffered
,
and
in
which
I
delighted
.
This
made
my
visit
short
,
and
the
Discourses
in
it
unfit
for
my
Relation
;
only
when
I
took
leave
of
the
fair
Mithridatia
,
she
told
me
softly
,
I
had
done
so
much
for
her
Brother's
glory
in
the
Battel
,
and
for
his
safety
after
,
that
the
sence
of
those
Obligations
should
always
continue
with
her
.
Immediately
after
,
having
received
my
dispatch
from
Mithridates
,
I
returned
towards
our
Camp
,
all
the
way
entertaining
my
thoughts
with
what
had
been
said
and
done
since
my
leaving
it
,
though
thereby
I
found
or
apprehended
new
Obstacles
in
my
passion
(
from
Monyma's
resentment
and
power
with
the
King
)
equal
to
those
I
was
prepar'd
to
contest
with
from
Statira's
disposition
and
quality
,
and
from
the
lowness
of
my
own
.
As
soon
as
I
came
to
Atafernes
,
and
had
presented
him
with
the
effects
of
my
journey
and
solicitations
,
for
which
he
gave
me
higher
marks
of
his
favour
and
friendship
than
ever
:
He
forthwith
sent
for
Lingarus
,
to
whom
he
communicated
his
Commission
,
and
upon
his
faithful
engagement
of
acting
,
as
he
had
promised
me
,
he
had
his
Pardon
and
Liberty
;
which
he
so
well
employ'd
,
that
three
days
after
,
the
strong
City
of
Chalcedon
sent
Atafernes
her
Keys
and
Submissions
;
and
all
the
rest
,
by
her
Example
,
did
suddenly
expel
or
seize
on
Archelaus's
Garisons
,
and
returned
to
their
former
obedience
,
which
gave
Lingarus
as
high
an
interest
in
Atafernes
,
as
he
then
manifested
he
had
in
his
Countrey
.
This
accelerated
success
was
very
opportune
;
For
the
prince
had
no
sooner
thus
setled
his
Province
,
than
the
first
days
march
he
made
out
of
it
to
join
with
Pharnaces
,
he
received
advertisement
from
Mithridates
,
that
it
was
impossible
to
do
so
:
For
Nicomedes
and
Murena
by
a
subtilty
of
War
finding
the
Pontick
Army
kept
and
camped
near
the
Bridg
Omiris
upon
the
River
Sangarus
,
over
which
none
could
go
to
Nicomedia
but
by
marching
about
to
the
source
thereof
,
which
would
cost
six
days
time
;
they
caus'd
some
of
their
own
Soldiers
to
run
away
to
Pharnaces
,
and
to
inform
him
,
that
Ariobarzanes
being
not
yet
come
,
and
understanding
Atafernes
had
defeated
Archilaus
,
(
which
really
they
had
not
then
heard
)
,
they
were
so
terrified
thereat
,
that
they
would
have
for
the
present
dissolved
their
Army
,
had
not
their
shame
been
superiour
to
their
fear
,
but
that
they
were
then
beginning
strongly
to
intrench
themselves
,
till
their
expected
supplies
arived
;
so
that
if
they
were
immediately
attempted
,
the
resistance
would
be
small
,
and
the
probability
of
the
Victory
great
;
For
though
they
had
the
River
Hyppias
before
them
,
yet
there
were
Foords
enough
unguarded
some
hundred
furlongs
above
the
Roman
Camp
,
which
they
would
undertake
to
guide
the
Pontick
Army
over
.
This
Advertisement
confidently
delivered
by
certain
Bithynians
,
who
acknowledged
themselves
weary
of
following
their
unfortunate
King
,
and
desired
no
other
reward
for
so
emiment
a
service
,
but
that
they
might
return
quietly
to
their
homes
,
and
receive
their
Sepulture
in
that
Countrey
which
gave
them
their
Birth
.
This
invited
Pharnaces
to
commuicate
it
to
Gordius
,
Dorilaus
,
and
the
rest
of
his
principal
Officers
,
who
finding
the
design
full
of
hope
&
honour
,
as
also
one
motive
of
the
Enemies
fear
(
Archilaus
defeat
)
true
,
which
News
was
the
precedent
day
come
to
Pharnaces
,
and
perhaps
envious
at
Atafe●●es
glory
,
&
fearful
by
a
conjunction
of
forces
,
(
which
that
Prince's
Victory
enabled
him
to
make
)
He
might
further
eclipse
his
;
They
resolved
on
the
design
;
and
,
making
their
Intelligencers
their
guides
,
they
marched
all
the
succeeding
Night
with
all
the
Army
(
but
a
Guard
they
left
to
justifie
some
works
they
had
cast
up
at
the
end
of
the
Bridg
Omiris
)
to
those
Foords
which
were
a
days
march
above
Nicomedes's
Camp
,
who
having
receiv'd
advertisement
thereof
,
leaving
some
few
men
to
continue
their
fires
therein
till
Pharnaces's
appearance
,
and
then
in
Boats
to
recover
their
Fleet
which
Rid
at
the
mouth
of
Hippius
,
he
forthwith
marched
over
that
River
,
broke
down
the
Bridg
,
and
thence
sending
four
thousand
Horse
with
Foot
behind
them
,
to
Omiris
,
those
partly
by
deceit
,
partly
by
force
,
took
the
Fort
which
commanded
it
,
and
put
all
that
defended
it
to
the
Sword
:
then
marching
his
own
Army
over
it
,
he
broke
that
down
also
,
as
well
to
hinder
Pharnaces's
following
him
,
as
to
let
his
Soldiers
know
they
were
to
expect
no
safety
but
in
their
courages
.
The
success
of
this
excellent
Stratagem
could
not
give
Nicomedes
and
Murena
more
joy
,
than
the
arrival
of
Archilaus
by
Sea
that
night
invaded
them
with
sorrow
;
for
till
then
they
had
not
heard
of
his
Defeat
,
a
stiff
East-wind
having
deni'd
him
a
conjunction
with
his
Associates
,
though
the
distance
was
not
above
a
Nights
Sail.
Nicomedes
and
Murena
having
given
some
hours
that
Night
to
sorrow
,
began
then
to
console
themselves
in
that
Fleet
Archilaus
had
brought
them
,
which
made
them
absolute
Masters
at
Sea
,
and
in
the
hope
they
had
of
being
speedily
the
like
on
the
Land
,
by
their
having
so
well
separated
the
two
Brothers
,
and
by
being
so
near
Nicomedia
,
the
unfortified
residence
of
Mithridates
,
which
they
design'd
the
next
Evening
to
see
,
and
the
next
after
to
possess
.
The
End
of
the
Third
Book
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
FIFTH
PART
.
The
Fourth
BOOK
.
MIthridates
Fear
was
not
inferior
to
the
Joy
this
confidence
had
given
his
Enemies
,
whose
hasty
advance
made
him
often
determine
to
desert
the
place
of
his
usual
residence
,
and
seek
his
safety
in
Atafernes
Army
,
which
he
considered
as
a
more
hopeful
Sanctuary
than
that
large
and
unfortified
City
.
But
at
length
his
Honour
having
conquered
his
Apprehensions
,
he
resolved
to
continue
where
he
was
,
and
not
to
encrease
Nicomedes
advantages
by
two
such
signal
accessions
,
as
those
of
his
own
flight
,
and
of
the
loss
of
Nicomedia
,
which
last
would
be
an
infallible
consequence
of
the
first
.
This
intention
once
assum'd
,
he
sent
several
Expresses
to
my
General
to
acquaint
him
with
it
,
and
to
command
him
to
hasten
out
of
his
Army
such
a
considerable
strength
to
secure
the
City
,
as
might
rationally
do
so
,
till
he
came
up
with
the
residue
,
or
till
Pharnaces
could
come
to
his
assistance
.
Atafernes
having
received
these
Commands
,
resolved
in
person
to
take
four
thousand
Horse
,
and
mounting
as
many
select
foot
behind
them
,
to
cast
himself
into
Nicomedia
,
as
knowing
those
services
in
which
the
King's
safety
is
ascertain'd
,
and
which
he
is
a
spectator
of
,
are
of
deepest
impression
,
and
happiest
advantage
.
The
command
of
the
Army
he
intrusted
me
with
,
though
I
passionately
beg'd
to
wait
upon
him
,
both
as
't
was
my
inclination
and
duty
to
him
,
and
the
Princess
Statira's
last
commands
;
for
which
disobedience
having
undertook
to
excuse
me
,
upon
the
necessity
of
the
publike
safety
;
and
having
pressingly
invited
Lingarus
and
the
rest
of
the
Bosphorian
Nobility
,
to
encrease
his
numbers
,
and
to
contribute
to
a
battel
which
probably
was
to
decide
a
War
,
the
Enemy
having
put
themselves
into
a
posture
which
rendered
that
belief
a
rational
one
,
he
marched
away
,
taking
Craterus
with
him
,
whose
wounds
made
the
Town
more
fit
for
his
condition
than
the
field
.
Soon
after
I
followed
his
steps
,
leaving
yet
nothing
unessay'd
to
encrease
the
Army
to
such
numbers
,
as
without
Jemerity
we
might
conquer
Nicomedes
,
and
not
be
obliged
to
the
assistance
of
Pharnaces
,
and
thereby
end
both
Wars
,
before
he
had
begun
one
.
Neither
was
I
altogether
indebted
to
my
hopes
for
so
flattering
an
imagination
,
but
to
my
reason
also
;
for
Lingarus
had
so
intently
and
actively
imploy'd
himself
,
that
when
I
was
come
within
a
days
march
of
Nicomedia
,
he
overtook
me
with
the
flower
of
the
Nobility
of
Bosphorus
,
who
perhaps
thereby
endeavoured
to
let
Mithridates
see
,
they
were
too
considerable
not
to
be
continued
his
friends
,
or
to
be
made
his
enemies
.
But
alas
,
my
satisfaction
then
could
not
transcend
my
sorrow
soon
after
,
when
by
an
Express
from
the
King
,
I
understood
that
the
same
morning
on
which
the
Letter
was
writ
,
the
Prince
Atafernes
being
furiously
assaulted
by
the
Enemy
(
who
knowing
their
condition
,
admitted
no
recovery
if
they
were
not
conquerors
of
Nicomedia
,
and
of
one
Army
before
the
other
had
joined
with
it
)
and
having
with
wonderful
resolution
beat
them
off
,
had
so
far
and
so
briskly
followed
this
dawning
success
with
all
his
horse
,
that
before
he
saw
his
mistake
,
he
was
not
in
a
capacity
of
remedying
it
,
the
whole
Army
having
interposed
between
him
and
his
retreat
,
which
finding
't
was
impossible
to
make
,
he
and
his
were
resolved
so
to
signalize
their
defeat
,
that
his
foes
might
have
as
much
cause
to
mourn
,
as
to
rejoice
at
it
.
This
design
he
had
fully
acted
;
and
at
length
he
and
all
that
followed
him
,
overpressed
with
multitudes
,
were
every
one
kill'd
or
taken
;
and
whether
he
himself
had
fallen
into
the
first
or
last
of
these
misfortunes
,
was
yet
uncertain
;
so
that
the
Forces
in
Nicomedia
being
deprived
of
him
,
seem'd
to
be
deprived
of
what
had
animated
them
;
defending
now
the
Enemies
renewed
and
universal
assault
,
with
such
coldness
,
that
't
was
deeply
apprehended
their
ressistance
would
not
be
long
enough
to
render
my
relief
worthy
that
name
.
Oh
Gods
!
you
alone
can
tell
my
trouble
at
this
sad
advertisement
,
having
of
two
persons
I
most
valued
,
lost
one
,
and
being
but
in
too
high
a
probability
of
losing
the
other
.
But
I
had
not
time
given
me
to
deplore
my
unhappiness
,
nor
hardly
enough
to
prevent
the
encrease
of
it
:
Therefore
immediately
marching
away
all
the
Horse
I
had
,
and
appointing
Megabizes
,
a
gallant
and
experienc'd
Officer
,
to
follow
me
expeditiously
with
the
Foot
,
I
bent
my
course
with
all
imaginable
celerity
toward
Nicomedia
,
resolv'd
to
put
a
period
to
the
danger
of
those
in
it
,
or
to
my
life
.
By
the
dawn
of
the
day
I
was
come
near
enough
to
hear
the
shouts
and
cryes
of
the
Assailants
and
Defendants
,
and
soon
after
to
see
all
Nicomedes
Army
(
except
those
employ'd
in
the
storm
)
under
their
Colours
.
By
this
I
knew
the
place
was
not
lost
,
and
that
the
Enemy
had
no
small
hopes
that
it
would
soon
be
won
.
Thrust
on
by
this
apprehension
,
and
elevated
by
that
joy
,
I
flew
to
charge
a
Body
of
near
Ten
thousand
Horse
,
which
lay
ready
to
receive
that
relief
they
believed
Mithridates
needed
,
and
I
would
bring
him
.
I
strictly
order'd
all
my
Soldiers
not
to
follow
any
success
the
gods
and
their
courages
should
give
them
,
farther
than
might
contribute
to
our
entring
of
the
City
,
which
was
then
only
our
design
.
The
Fight
was
furious
and
bloody
,
the
hopes
of
both
parties
depending
upon
the
event
of
it
;
but
at
last
I
singled
out
the
General
of
their
Horse
,
and
in
sight
of
both
parties
kill'd
him
;
at
which
our
Enemies
gave
ground
,
and
soon
after
so
precipitately
lost
all
,
that
we
entred
Nicomedia
,
not
having
lessened
our
Numbers
above
four
hundred
,
and
having
lessened
five
times
as
many
of
our
Adversaries
:
But
,
as
if
Fate
had
designed
that
both
the
Streets
and
the
Fields
should
be
equally
moistned
with
human
blood
,
as
I
entered
the
West-gate
,
Nicomedes
in
person
entred
the
East
,
having
left
the
generous
Craterus
for
dead
in
the
mouth
of
the
breach
,
and
fill'd
up
the
gra●t
with
the
dead
bodies
which
had
so
resolutely
defended
it
,
thereby
having
rendered
those
which
had
been
the
obstacle
of
their
entrance
,
now
the
means
of
having
it
more
easie
.
Had
you
seen
the
faces
of
the
Nicomedians
,
you
might
have
read
their
condition
;
for
they
equally
participated
of
joy
and
fear
,
their
friends
being
triumphant
at
one
end
of
the
Town
,
and
their
Enemies
at
the
other
.
But
the
last
News
coming
earlier
to
Mithridates
than
the
first
,
he
thought
it
no
longer
courage
,
but
frenzy
,
to
expect
relief
in
a
place
which
he
now
esteemed
uncapable
of
any
.
He
therefore
hastily
abandoned
the
Palace
with
the
Queen
,
the
Princess
Statira
,
the
Princess
Roxana
,
and
the
young
Princess
Cleopatra
;
and
flying
with
them
towards
a
little
Fort
which
stood
at
the
extremity
of
the
Street
I
was
entred
,
and
commanded
the
Sea
(
to
which
Element
he
now
only
hoped
to
owe
his
deliverance
)
,
he
met
me
at
the
head
of
my
Forces
,
covered
with
dust
and
blood
,
as
most
in
the
first
Ranks
were
.
The
posture
we
were
in
,
joyn'd
with
the
intelligence
of
the
Enemies
having
entred
the
City
,
made
him
no
longer
doubt
but
that
his
Fate
was
come
;
and
in
that
belief
he
was
going
to
act
it
with
his
own
hands
:
but
perceiving
his
mistake
by
the
flight
of
those
few
Guards
he
had
left
,
and
by
the
cryes
of
the
Princesses
,
lifting
up
my
Helmet
,
and
turning
the
point
of
my
Sword
to
the
ground
,
I
rode
up
to
the
King
,
and
conjur'd
him
not
so
much
to
wrong
the
gods
and
his
own
Soldiers
,
as
by
abandoning
Nicomedia
to
evidence
he
doubted
the
goodness
of
the
one
,
or
the
courages
of
the
other
,
their
having
so
freshly
defeated
a
considerable
part
of
the
Enemies
Forces
and
their
now
having
so
opportunely
sent
him
a
more
considerable
part
of
his
own
,
were
such
good
earnests
of
future
mercies
,
if
not
themselves
present
ones
,
that
to
doubt
a
deliverance
afterwards
,
were
but
to
provoke
them
to
deny
it
.
Never
words
had
a
more
fruitful
effect
than
these
,
not
only
upon
Mithridates
,
but
even
upon
the
fair
Statira
too
,
who
lifting
up
her
fair
eyes
eclips'd
with
weepings
,
fix'd
them
so
obligingly
on
me
,
that
my
felicity
was
thereby
higher
in
my
own
apprehension
,
than
their
late
danger
had
been
in
hers
.
Here
(
generous
Princes
,
continued
Callimachus
)
I
must
acknowledg
my
crime
;
for
I
could
not
but
bless
the
gods
which
had
cast
her
into
such
misfortunes
,
since
they
had
destin'd
me
to
free
her
from
them
.
As
soon
as
I
was
alighted
,
the
King
flew
into
my
arms
,
and
in
expressions
great
as
his
joy
,
he
began
to
give
me
acknowledgments
of
the
same
nature
:
but
he
was
cut
off
in
the
midst
of
them
;
for
by
this
,
Nicomedes
had
so
far
enter'd
the
City
,
that
her
Inhabitants
and
Garison
by
their
hasty
flight
,
and
confused
cryes
,
seem'd
to
acquaint
him
all
was
lost
.
I
had
only
time
to
conjure
him
to
return
to
his
Palace
(
which
he
was
not
many
paces
from
)
and
to
beg
him
to
rest
assur'd
of
a
Victory
which
our
Swords
had
in
some
measure
begun
,
and
were
now
going
to
perfect
.
Mithridates
,
whilst
he
was
acting
my
desire
,
gave
me
so
many
assurances
of
his
confidence
in
my
Courage
,
that
it
brought
no
small
accession
to
it
.
But
when
(
out
of
respect
)
I
was
helping
the
Queen
to
walk
,
he
so
expresly
prohibited
so
dangerous
a
civility
,
and
she
to
take
away
the
opportunity
of
my
continuing
it
,
went
so
hastily
from
me
,
that
thereby
I
got
an
occasion
of
telling
the
fair
Statira
(
whose
incessant
weepings
seem'd
to
reproach
my
having
not
paid
her
commands
of
never
abandoning
her
Brother
,
that
obedience
I
owed
and
have
faithfully
promised
them
)
,
Madam
,
had
I
followed
my
highest
inclination
,
and
my
greatest
duty
,
for
so
I
shall
always
call
that
observance
your
orders
exact
from
me
)
I
had
now
freed
that
generous
Prince
from
his
misfortune
,
or
not
liv'd
to
see
you
so
deeply
deplore
it
.
But
his
injunctions
on
me
of
following
him
with
the
Army
,
which
by
reason
of
Craterus
wounds
he
would
not
trust
with
any
other
,
and
his
reiterated
Vows
of
apologizing
for
me
to
you
,
has
made
me
guilty
of
a
Crime
,
which
by
what
I
see
and
feel
,
cannot
be
greater
than
my
punishment
.
But
Madam
,
I
am
now
going
by
some
eminent
action
to
dry
up
your
tears
,
and
wash
away
my
guilt
,
or
else
to
convince
you
by
my
death
,
that
I
did
not
altogether
merit
that
cruel
Command
of
your
Brothers
,
which
at
once
was
to
separate
me
from
waiting
on
him
,
and
from
obeying
of
you
.
These
words
brought
fresh
tears
into
the
fair
Princess's
eyes
,
and
seem'd
so
to
contract
her
breast
with
sorrow
,
that
she
was
only
able
to
tell
me
;
The
poor
Atafernes
has
told
me
all
which
you
have
now
spoken
,
and
I
think
I
have
not
been
accustom'd
to
give
your
words
so
little
credit
,
as
to
provoke
you
in
so
fatal
a
way
as
you
mention
,
to
invite
me
to
believe
them
:
no
,
Callimachus
,
though
the
gods
have
so
signally
punished
the
Royal
House
of
Pontus
,
as
to
deprive
it
of
that
unhappy
Prince
(
the
uncertainty
of
whose
death
has
hitherto
hinder'd
grief
from
acting
mine
)
yet
I
believe
their
Mercy
will
place
limits
to
their
Justice
,
and
not
deprive
it
at
the
same
time
of
so
considerable
a
Friend
,
for
whose
particular
preservation
I
shall
as
concernedly
pray
,
as
for
the
publick
success
.
A
hideous
cry
occasion'd
by
some
of
Nicomedes
Soldiers
,
who
thirsty
after
blood
or
pillage
,
had
much
advanc'd
themselves
before
the
rest
of
their
Companions
,
render'd
me
uncapable
of
hearing
what
she
farther
said
,
or
of
speaking
any
more
unto
her
;
so
that
having
hastily
again
recovered
my
Horse
,
I
moved
eagerly
towards
that
Enemy
,
the
shedding
of
whose
blood
could
not
be
but
a
just
and
necessary
expiation
for
their
having
caus'd
Mithridatia
to
shed
so
many
tears
.
I
will
not
here
enumerate
the
various
accidents
of
that
bloody
Day
:
it
may
perhaps
suffice
to
tell
you
,
That
Mithridates
having
seen
the
Streets
of
Nicomedia
run
with
the
blood
of
his
enemies
and
his
subjects
;
he
at
last
saw
after
a
little
Battel
,
in
a
great
Piazza
,
that
by
the
last
the
first
were
expell'd
the
City
,
in
which
they
left
so
considerable
a
part
of
their
Army
,
that
had
they
been
alive
,
they
had
been
enow
to
have
kept
it
against
the
rest
.
I
was
not
solicitous
to
follow
the
execution
too
far
,
lest
I
might
have
repeated
the
generous
Atafernes
misfortune
,
and
thereby
have
left
Statira
without
a
Defender
,
when
she
had
honoured
me
with
that
Noble
Title
.
Besides
,
I
was
not
without
apprehensions
,
that
Nicomedes
might
believe
it
a
more
hopeful
design
to
cut
off
our
Foot
under
Megabizes
,
than
now
to
take
Nicomedia
;
and
might
with
such
celerity
attempt
it
,
that
if
any
time
were
lost
,
that
part
of
the
Army
might
be
so
too
.
Having
therefore
first
diligently
search'd
for
,
and
at
last
found
the
poor
Craterus
Body
,
which
yet
seem'd
to
have
some
life
in
it
,
and
of
which
I
took
all
imaginable
care
,
I
hastily
caus'd
that
wide
breach
by
which
the
Enemy
had
entred
,
and
had
been
expell'd
,
to
be
made
up
;
and
whilst
that
was
doing
,
I
went
to
the
King
,
gave
him
an
account
of
what
we
had
done
,
begg'd
his
permission
forthwith
to
attempt
those
who
interposed
between
Megabizes
and
me
;
and
being
join'd
,
to
camp
in
those
great
Fields
which
Neighbour'd
the
West-port
,
that
our
men
having
a
Night's
refreshment
,
they
might
be
the
earlier
refresh'd
for
a
Battel
,
which
I
was
confident
Nicomedes
,
Ariobarzanes
,
and
Murena
would
so
pressingly
offer
,
that
I
must
either
accept
it
,
or
draw
into
the
City
in
which
our
Horse
would
be
famished
,
before
Pharnaces
could
come
to
our
Relief
,
and
by
which
our
Army
would
be
as
much
dejected
,
as
the
Enemies
heightned
;
who
also
might
when
Pharnaces
came
near
,
silently
rise
in
the
Night
,
and
fight
him
before
we
could
get
notice
of
their
remove
;
wherein
if
they
had
success
,
all
would
too
probably
be
lost
:
whereas
if
he
permitted
me
to
decide
the
quarrel
in
the
Field
,
if
we
did
not
present
him
with
Victory
,
yet
at
least
we
should
so
much
diminish
our
Adversaries
Numbers
,
that
our
Friends
should
find
an
easie
way
into
it
.
Mithridates
and
all
his
Council
believed
this
too
hazardous
a
Resolution
,
but
I
so
confidently
perswaded
them
the
contrary
was
so
,
that
at
the
last
they
condescended
to
what
I
proposed
.
I
was
beginning
to
take
my
leave
,
and
to
return
to
my
Men
,
when
the
King
perceived
some
blood
drop
from
my
Arm
,
at
which
he
seem'd
as
much
concerned
,
as
if
it
had
been
from
his
own
;
and
forthwith
sending
for
a
Chirurgeon
to
dress
me
,
and
for
a
Scarf
to
support
it
,
the
Queen
not
having
one
about
her
,
and
fearing
't
would
take
up
too
much
time
to
send
for
one
,
she
desired
the
fair
Statira
to
spare
me
hers
(
for
by
a
happy
accident
she
had
one
which
she
had
prepar'd
for
the
unhappy
Ata●ernes
)
:
This
that
obliging
Princess
did
,
and
I
received
it
from
the
hands
of
Monyma
,
who
by
an
excess
of
civility
would
needs
put
it
on
her self
,
though
I
endeavoured
by
many
entreaties
to
free
her
from
so
low
a
trouble
;
But
whilst
she
was
ordering
of
it
,
I
seem'd
by
my
looks
to
acknowledg
Mithridatia's
goodness
,
more
than
the
Queen's
,
and
that
the
first
had
more
oblig'd
me
in
granting
the
Request
,
than
the
last
had
,
in
having
made
it
;
and
if
I
was
capable
of
any
dissatisfaction
in
so
much
happiness
,
't
was
only
in
deriving
my
Obligation
from
any
but
my
Princess
.
But
finding
my
hurt
had
more
befriended
me
already
than
it
could
injure
me
,
unless
by
longer
expectance
of
one
to
dress
it
(
which
it's
inconsiderableness
needed
not
)
I
went
away
,
having
first
paid
my
humble
acknowledgments
to
the
Princess
,
and
the
Queen
,
and
so
fully
assur'd
Mithridates
of
success
,
that
he
seemed
to
be
then
as
desirous
of
the
Event
of
my
Enterprize
,
as
formerly
he
had
been
apprehensive
of
it
.
My
Soldiers
having
(
during
this
)
taken
a
little
refreshment
,
which
the
over-joy'd
Inhabitants
willingly
presented
them
,
were
all
in
Arms
at
my
return
.
I
told
them
,
we
were
again
by
another
Victory
to
join
with
those
,
which
we
had
obtained
a
Victory
,
to
separate
our selves
from
.
This
was
so
requisite
a
performance
,
that
it
appear'd
such
to
the
meanest
capacities
there
,
which
made
the
motion
be
received
with
Military
shouts
;
at
the
conclusion
whereof
,
we
chearfully
left
Nicomedia
by
the
same
Gate
by
which
we
had
entred
it
.
We
were
not
above
two
furlongs
on
our
March
,
when
we
discovered
many
Divisions
of
Horse
drawn
up
to
intercept
us
,
and
all
the
Residue
of
Nicomedes's
Army
(
who
easily
foresaw
our
intention
)
moving
to
join
with
those
;
we
were
therefore
hastily
advancing
to
charge
,
which
we
did
with
such
fury
,
that
all
their
resistance
contributed
but
the
more
to
their
loss
,
and
our
glory
.
We
had
no
sooner
disintangled
our selves
from
this
bloody
Impediment
,
than
we
prosecuted
our
intended
design
,
and
with
such
diligence
,
that
Nicomedes
not
being
able
to
overtake
me
with
his
Foot
,
thought
it
was
the
more
safe
advi●e
to
give
his
men
refreshment
,
whilst
I
*
was
harrasing
of
mine
,
that
they
might
be
the
fitter
next
day
to
attempt
the
City
if
I
did
not
return
,
or
to
give
me
Battel
,
if
I
did
,
'T
was
therefore
that
uninterruptedly
I
joyn'd
with
Megabizes
,
whom
I
met
about
thirty
furlongs
from
the
place
we
had
so
lately
fought
in
,
and
with
whom
I
found
such
brave
accessional
Forces
,
which
Lingarus's
credit
had
drawn
under
out
Ensigns
,
that
I
return'd
with
a
firm
resolution
,
no
longer
than
the
next
Day
to
decline
a
general
engagement
:
and
an
hour
before
the
Sun
was
set
,
I
camped
in
some
great
inclosed
Fields
contiguous
to
the
Walls
of
Nicomedia
,
where
I
order'd
my
Soldiers
to
take
as
much
rest
as
their
vicinity
to
so
many
ill
Neighbours
would
admit
:
And
having
assembled
a
Council
,
and
resolved
in
what
form
we
should
give
the
intended
Battel
,
leaving
Megabizes
the
command
of
the
Camp
,
I
went
into
the
City
,
taking
Lingarus
with
me
,
whom
I
presented
to
Mithridates
with
those
Elogies
I
esteemed
due
to
his
merits
.
The
Kings
actions
shewed
he
believed
my
words
,
and
that
gallant
Man
received
so
many
kindnesses
from
his
Prince
,
that
it
brought
no
small
increase
to
the
zeal
he
had
already
assumed
for
his
Service
.
Whilst
Mithridates
was
entertaining
himself
with
him
,
and
giving
him
many
Professions
that
his
present
services
had
totally
wiped
away
his
preceding
fault
,
one
of
those
many
Officers
I
had
employ'd
amongst
the
Prisoners
to
learn
some
intelligence
of
Atafernes
,
sent
to
speak
with
me
in
an
anti-chamber
;
to
whom
I
went
hastily
,
and
from
whom
I
received
information
,
that
by
a
Prisoner
of
quality
he
was
assured
that
generous
Prince
had
been
taken
alive
,
but
much
wounded
,
and
yet
not
so
dangerously
,
as
to
make
the
Chirurgeons
despair
of
his
recovery
.
Transported
with
this
happy
News
,
I
fled
unto
the
King
,
and
acquainted
him
with
it
,
who
sending
forthwith
to
the
first
Informer
of
this
joyful
Advertisement
,
and
having
received
from
him
a
full
convincement
of
the
certainty
thereof
;
he
told
me
,
Go
,
Callimachus
and
stop
the
poor
Statira's
tears
with
this
obliging
assurance
.
This
almost
as
obliging
a
Command
I
hastned
to
obey
,
and
having
obtained
the
Princess's
permission
of
waiting
on
her
,
I
entred
her
Chamber
,
but
did
find
her
so
drown'd
in
sorrow
,
that
for
a
while
it
made
me
forget
my
own
grief
,
and
that
I
was
come
with
what
would
mitigate
hers
:
but
when
I
had
found
the
●ncivil
cruelty
of
such
a
sympathizing
;
I
told
her
,
I
was
once
,
Madam
,
coming
to
implore
the
priviledg
of
mingling
my
tears
with
yours
for
our
common
Loss
,
and
of
lamenting
,
till
I
could
revenge
it
:
But
now
,
Madam
,
I
am
come
to
tell
you
,
That
the
Prince
Atafernes
hath
not
lost
his
life
,
but
his
liberty
;
which
misfortune
I
hope
by
this
time
to
morrow
so
to
free
him
from
,
that
you
will
have
no
trouble
but
in
beholding
of
his
,
when
he
shall
know
those
tears
his
Captivity
has
made
you
shed
;
and
if
he
prefers
not
your
satisfaction
above
his
own
,
he
cannot
but
believe
his
wounds
and
loss
of
Liberty
a
cheap
price
for
discovering
so
high
a
friendship
as
thereby
he
experiments
the
Princess
Statira
honours
him
with
;
for
my
part
,
though
I
value
him
at
the
rate
his
virtues
merit
,
yet
if
I
can
by
restoring
him
to
his
Freedom
give
her
as
great
a
contentmeat
,
as
the
loss
of
it
did
give
her
a
trouble
,
I
shall
hardly
so
much
repine
at
his
Fate
,
as
I
shall
glory
in
my
own
.
The
Princess
either
did
not
,
or
would
not
hear
my
last
words
,
but
interrupting
them
,
told
me
;
O
gods
!
Callimachus
,
is
it
then
possible
that
Atafernes
is
alive
?
or
do
you
think
my
sorrow
was
so
near
sending
me
to
bear
him
Company
,
that
to
deny
that
only
remaining
happiness
,
you
this
way
endeavour
to
suspend
me
from
it
now
,
and
to
morrow
hope
by
repeated
Victories
I
shall
not
find
room
enough
to
entertain
a
killing
grief
in
so
general
a
cause
of
Joy
?
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
the
Truth
I
have
told
you
is
as
great
,
as
therefore
my
satisfaction
is
;
and
your
generous
Brother
wants
,
I
hope
,
but
that
Freedom
which
ere
long
he
will
enjoy
;
since
Fortune
which
has
honoured
my
Sword
with
some
success
when
't
was
for
your
service
,
will
not
deny
it
the
like
when
't
is
for
your
satisfaction
.
You
have
(
said
the
Princess
)
done
so
much
already
for
us
,
that
I
know
not
any
thing
which
we
may
not
expect
from
your
Courage
and
Civility
;
and
the
next
happiness
to
seeing
my
Brother
at
Liberty
,
is
to
receive
an
assurance
of
it
from
you
;
but
yet
Callimachus
,
have
a
care
you
give
me
as
good
an
account
of
your self
,
as
your
promise
;
for
your
preservation
will
be
as
requisite
for
my
satisfaction
,
as
for
the
publick
safety
.
Madam
,
(
I
answered
,
transported
with
what
she
had
spoken
)
till
these
glorious
words
,
I
never
was
acquainted
with
any
thing
which
might
flatter
me
into
a
belief
that
my
preservation
could
be
useful
to
the
publick
,
or
as
much
as
to
my self
;
the
gods
having
kept
me
a
stranger
to
my
own
extraction
,
and
yet
at
the
same
time
having
given
me
a
heart
to
aspire
to
what
the
sublimest
only
can
legitimately
pretend
unto
;
yes
,
Madam
,
I
have
such
transcendent
aims
,
that
I
thought
I
could
undertake
nothing
which
was
not
inferiour
to
them
,
till
the
gods
destin'd
me
to
your
service
,
which
goodness
I
must
at
the
same
instant
acknowledg
,
and
deplore
;
since
for
to
make
me
useful
to
you
,
they
have
eclips'd
the
condition
you
were
born
unto
,
and
have
thought
fit
rather
to
diminish
your
greatness
,
that
thereby
I
might
become
in
some
poor
measure
useful
to
you
,
than
continue
it
,
whereby
I
should
have
been
deny'd
that
honour
;
and
since
I
find
by
so
unhoped-for
,
yet
obliging
experiment
,
that
such
a
manifestation
is
not
indifferent
unto
them
,
nay
,
rather
than
not
evidence
it
,
they
have
shaken
the
greatest
Empire
of
the
World
,
and
troubled
a
Princess
fit
to
be
inthron'd
in
it
;
I
shall
no
more
doubt
they
will
finish
what
they
have
begun
,
than
I
should
rejoyce
that
my
Opinion
might
have
the
honour
to
be
yours
;
or
if
it
be
not
,
that
you
will
pardon
its
being
mine
.
All
the
while
I
was
speaking
,
I
was
much
more
concern'd
in
Statira's
looks
in
what
I
spoke
;
for
I
could
not
but
believe
that
a
heart
entirely
hers
,
could
be
elegible
to
her
;
and
therefore
I
was
much
more
intent
to
know
her
sense
of
what
was
there
,
than
to
cloathe
that
discovery
in
expressions
fit
for
its
self
,
or
that
admirable
Person
to
whom
it
was
made
:
Neither
durst
I
,
observing
that
more
reserved
look
she
put
on
when
I
began
my
discourse
,
conclude
it
in
words
of
the
same
quality
;
but
I
so
alter'd
it
,
that
the
end
might
relish
of
the
beginning
,
or
of
my
great
hopes
of
relieving
her
generous
Brother
:
In
which
sense
she
seemed
to
receive
what
I
had
said
,
and
therefore
told
me
;
Though
the
gods
have
directly
conceal'd
from
you
what
your
extraction
is
,
yet
obliquely
they
seem
to
inform
you
of
it
;
for
by
giving
you
such
high
aims
,
you
may
thereby
know
your
descent
is
not
disproportionate
:
yet
permit
me
to
tell
you
,
that
your
designs
of
acquiring
as
great
an
Empire
as
you
preserve
for
Mithridates
,
is
not
to
me
so
eminent
a
proof
that
your
birth
is
high
,
as
your
so
generously
undertaking
his
quarrel
against
his
Rebels
;
the
relief
of
the
oppressed
being
a
clearer
act
of
greatness
,
than
winning
of
Kingdoms
;
this
being
most
frequently
the
recompence
of
force
,
that
being
alway
the
illustration
of
vertue
.
But
alas
(
she
continued
)
would
to
the
gods
I
could
believe
the
Warrs
my
Father
is
plunged
into
,
could
be
irrationally
attributed
to
what
you
alledg
:
No
,
Callimachus
,
his
own
faults
,
and
the
crimes
of
his
subjects
are
too
visible
,
and
great
,
to
allow
me
any
rise
to
ascribe
our
present
confusions
to
any
other
cause
;
and
if
I
have
any
hopes
that
they
are
sent
only
for
our
correction
,
not
our
ruine
,
't
is
that
the
gods
have
sent
us
in
our
afflictions
such
a
Friend
,
who
doubtless
would
not
have
been
permitted
to
have
imploy'd
his
sword
and
conduct
in
a
quarrel
designed
to
be
unsuccessful
:
Nor
would
those
powers
have
so
strangely
preserved
Ataphernes
,
but
that
every
individual
of
this
unfortunate
Family
are
destin'd
to
owe
their
safety
unto
you
,
that
the
gods
might
not
wholly
destroy
a
House
,
in
which
possibly
some
unguilty
persons
are
,
and
yet
preserve
it
in
such
a
way
as
might
entirely
silence
any
imaginations
of
their
having
acted
towards
that
mercy
:
And
it
may
be
also
to
make
those
of
it
in
love
with
virtue
,
above
power
,
when
they
shall
experiment
,
that
the
desert
of
an
unknown
person
could
more
preserve
them
,
than
innumerable
Armies
too
too
empty
thereof
.
I
had
not
(
continued
Callimachus
)
leisure
enough
to
admire
the
excellent
vertue
,
and
resembling
obligedness
of
the
fair
Statira
,
nor
indeed
to
pay
by
my
acknowledgments
any
part
of
that
vast
debt
,
what
she
had
said
,
had
so
justly
engaged
me
unto
;
by
reason
the
Princess
Roxana
,
and
immediately
after
,
the
Queen
came
to
congratulate
with
Mithridatia
the
happy
news
of
Atafernes's
being
alive
.
Whilst
the
two
Sisters
were
entertaining
one
another
,
Monyma
after
some
usual
Discourses
presenting
me
her
hand
,
made
me
follow
her
to
the
farthest
end
of
the
Chamber
we
were
in
;
where
having
a
while
continued
silent
,
she
at
length
told
me
;
I
observe
,
Callimachus
,
your
carriage
towards
me
has
so
much
of
indifferency
in
it
,
that
it
might
justly
provoke
me
to
imitate
you
;
which
(
doubtless
)
long
agon
I
had
done
,
were
it
not
to
convince
you
,
that
in
all
things
which
entirely
depend
upon
actings
,
I
have
an
esteem
for
you
uncapable
of
suppression
,
or
as
much
as
of
dimunition
.
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
,
strangely
surprised
at
what
she
had
spoke
)
I
hope
my
carriage
to
you
has
relish'd
of
all
sorts
of
respect
due
to
your
condition
and
merit
;
if
it
has
not
,
I
humbly
beg
to
be
told
my
fault
,
that
I
may
not
only
repair
it
,
but
also
punish
a
crime
so
contrary
to
my
duty
and
inclination
.
Your
fault
,
(
the
Queen
reply'd
,
casting
down
her
eyes
,
and
blushing
)
is
better
mended
than
told
:
but
since
you
pretend
to
be
ignorant
,
I
shall
find
out
an
opportunity
not
only
to
acquaint
you
with
it
,
but
also
with
what
,
I
am
confident
,
causes
it
.
These
words
were
scarce
out
of
her
mouth
,
when
she
went
away
,
and
't
was
happy
for
me
she
did
;
for
had
she
staid
,
she
could
not
but
have
guessed
by
my
disorders
,
what
had
occasion'd
them
:
her
last
expression
gave
me
so
much
fear
,
that
I
found
my self
too
unfit
to
continue
longer
in
the
Princesses
Chamber
,
out
of
which
I
pretended
to
go
,
as
a
duty
to
the
company
there
,
having
assured
them
,
if
the
next
day
the
Enemy
declin'd
not
the
Battel
,
which
I
thought
neitheir
their
condition
nor
courage
would
make
them
guilty
of
,
I
would
leave
no
means
unattempted
to
restore
the
Prince
Atafernes
to
his
Liberty
.
After
the
civilities
that
promise
did
invite
the
Queen
and
Princesses
to
bestow
upon
me
,
I
went
to
visit
Craterus
,
whom
I
found
more
afflicted
by
his
being
unable
to
assist
me
in
the
intended
Battel
,
than
at
those
wounds
which
denied
him
that
power
,
and
me
his
help
:
from
thence
I
went
to
Mithridates
,
who
the
nearer
we
grew
to
the
execution
of
our
design
,
had
the
more
aversness
to
it
;
but
having
again
dissipated
those
cold
apprehensions
by
words
altogether
Martial
and
promising
,
I
retir'd
towards
the
Camp
,
accompanied
by
all
those
Officers
which
then
were
in
Nicomedia
,
resolving
not
to
see
that
place
again
,
till
I
were
covered
with
Laurels
,
and
till
by
eminent
repeated
services
I
might
let
the
fair
Statira
see
,
I
wanted
not
merit
,
but
a
sufficient
quality
to
aspire
unto
the
title
of
her
servant
.
After
,
having
given
the
requisite
orders
for
the
succeding
days
business
,
I
dismiss'd
all
men
out
of
my
Tent
,
but
Demetrius
,
whom
I
order'd
to
imbellish
my
Armour
with
the
richest
stones
I
had
;
for
designing
to
act
remarkable
things
,
I
was
resolv'd
to
wear
Arms
which
were
so
:
And
knowing
that
so
signal
an
engagement
could
not
but
invite
the
Princess
to
be
a
spectator
of
it
,
which
from
the
Battlements
of
the
Palace
she
might
easily
be
,
I
thought
my
intended
gallantry
would
be
excusable
;
and
I
elected
rather
to
be
known
to
all
my
enemies
,
than
not
to
be
so
to
my
Conqueror
.
All
the
night
almost
I
entertained
my self
with
the
Capriciousness
of
my
Fortune
;
By
how
rare
an
accident
I
had
first
seen
Monyma
,
and
by
a
rarer
lost
her
;
how
that
to
cure
the
reliques
of
that
passion
,
I
had
elected
a
course
of
life
which
had
cost
me
a
greater
;
how
Fortune
seem'd
to
delight
to
engage
me
in
love
,
by
having
enabled
me
to
pay
my
two
Mistresses
higher
services
the
first
moment
I
saw
them
,
than
others
could
expect
to
perform
in
the
whole
course
of
their
lives
:
And
then
,
that
she
was
really
more
concern'd
in
making
me
unfortunate
in
it
,
having
the
first
time
perswaded
me
to
pay
my
affection
to
a
person
from
whose
humour
I
could
expect
no
success
;
and
the
last
,
from
whose
quality
I
was
to
attend
the
like
unhappiness
:
how
from
nothing
I
was
rais'd
high
enough
to
love
,
and
not
high
enough
to
hope
the
reward
of
it
:
That
if
I
prov'd
successful
in
War
,
I
should
be
no
longer
useful
;
and
if
unsuccessful
,
I
could
be
no
longer
considerable
;
as
also
,
that
if
the
War
were
protracted
,
the
greatest
glory
of
it
would
be
lessened
,
even
that
of
expedition
;
That
the
King
of
Cyprus
was
daily
expected
,
whose
Title
and
Power
,
joyn'd
with
the
Authority
of
the
Father
,
and
the
exact
obedience
of
the
Daughter
(
whose
principles
I
had
but
too
resolutely
been
acquainted
with
,
to
allow
me
the
least
hope
she
would
decline
the
practise
of
them
)
would
soon
involve
me
in
infelicities
as
vast
as
those
joys
which
were
to
cause
them
.
These
and
many
other
suggestions
of
as
unpleasing
a
nature
,
my
memory
(
conspiring
with
my
fortune
)
represented
to
me
in
their
liveliest
colours
,
and
would
not
so
much
as
by
sleep
allow
me
an
interval
of
rest
,
so
that
they
were
my
constrant
and
importunate
Companions
,
till
the
day
,
and
the
military
musick
made
them
retire
,
and
resign
their
places
to
the
thoughts
of
acquiring
Victory
,
the
possession
or
loss
whereof
some
few
hours
would
decide
.
The
glory
I
possess'd
in
being
the
fair
Statira's
Servant
,
and
the
glory
I
hoped
that
day
to
win
in
being
her
Brother
Deliverer
▪
so
dissipated
that
melancholly
the
nights
entertainment
had
infected
me
with
,
that
when
I
began
to
draw
out
my
Army
,
my
looks
so
participated
of
my
hopes
,
that
my
desire
of
success
could
not
therefore
exceed
the
confidence
my
Soldiers
had
of
it
:
And
that
which
did
yet
more
contribute
to
my
hopes
,
was
to
see
the
Tarrase
of
the
highest
Tower
in
Nicomedia
covered
with
Royal
Pavilions
,
whereby
I
was
satisfied
Statira
would
honour
us
with
her
sight
,
whose
influence
could
promise
nothing
less
than
Victory
.
But
whilst
the
Mithridatick
Army
was
drawing
up
in
that
form
I
appointed
,
and
the
Enemies
were
covering
the
opposite
side
of
the
Plain
with
their
Divisions
,
an
Officer
from
the
head
of
one
of
those
which
was
most
advanced
,
came
towards
me
,
and
turning
the
point
of
his
Javelin
to
the
earth
in
sign
of
friendship
,
told
me
with
a
loud
voice
,
That
one
of
his
Generals
desired
to
speak
with
Callimachus
between
both
Armies
,
and
engaged
his
Faith
during
the
parley
,
and
till
his
return
,
nothing
of
violence
should
be
offer'd
,
and
that
he
intreated
the
like
assurance
.
A
compliance
herein
having
a
possibility
of
good
,
and
a
certainty
of
no
hurt
,
I
was
advis'd
ro
accept
thereof
by
all
the
Officers
which
were
near
me
,
whose
opinions
I
more
willingly
followed
,
because
of
the
passionate
desire
I
had
to
learn
the
condition
of
the
Prince
Atafernes
.
I
therefore
told
the
Enemies
Officer
,
I
would
forthwith
meet
his
General
,
for
whose
safety
during
the
conference
,
and
return
to
his
own
Army
after
it
,
I
engaged
him
my
Faith
.
To
which
he
(
being
told
who
I
was
)
reply'd
it
was
sufficient
;
and
so
return'd
to
the
head
of
the
Enemy's
Army
,
from
whence
I
saw
a
Gentleman
advance
singly
into
the
middle
of
the
plain
,
where
immediately
I
met
him
,
and
where
after
,
having
lifted
up
the
sights
of
our
Helmets
,
and
performed
all
the
civilities
which
are
usual
in
such
cases
;
He
told
me
;
If
you
now
think
it
strange
that
I
have
desired
a
parley
,
when
we
are
going
to
fight
a
Battel
,
possibly
you
may
do
so
no
longer
,
when
I
have
told
you
I
am
Nicomedes
King
of
Bithynia
;
that
same
Nicomedes
who
owed
principally
to
your
Sword
and
Conduct
,
a
Naval
Victory
he
obtained
over
Mithridates
in
the
Mouth
of
the
Euxine
Sea
;
and
that
it
is
but
even
now
I
learnt
you
are
that
brave
Callimachus
,
from
whose
courage
I
derived
so
signal
an
advantage
;
I
must
plainly
confess
after
this
information
,
I
could
not
but
desire
to
express
my
trouble
,
both
that
you
are
engaged
against
me
,
and
for
him
,
who
,
to
say
no
more
,
deserves
not
such
a
Friend
:
But
I
come
not
now
to
Court
you
from
him
,
I
could
not
be
worthy
of
your
Friendship
if
I
now
made
you
such
a
Request
;
neither
could
you
be
worthy
of
mine
,
if
you
now
granted
it
:
all
that
I
ask
,
is
,
after
this
Battel
,
if
the
gods
make
us
outlive
it
,
that
you
would
take
leave
of
him
,
and
joyn
your self
to
a
quarrel
,
which
possibly
deserves
your
embracing
it
;
and
to
a
Prince
,
who
during
his
life
will
give
you
as
large
a
share
in
his
Fortunes
,
as
he
has
already
in
his
esteem
.
This
I
hope
will
not
be
thought
an
immodest
desire
,
since
,
as
you
once
assur'd
me
,
you
are
not
Mithridates's
Subject
,
and
had
too
much
cause
to
be
his
Enemy
;
and
that
you
must
fight
to
maintain
an
Usurper
in
the
Throne
,
and
to
keep
the
Legitimate
Prince
out
of
it
,
who
has
not
only
a
right
thereunto
by
a
lawful
succession
,
but
also
even
by
the
Pontick
King's
Treaty
of
peace
with
Sylla
,
and
his
reiterated
engagements
to
Murena
.
If
the
gods
too
,
favour
my
Arms
in
this
Field
,
I
hope
I
shall
not
need
employ
them
to
win
another
;
and
though
I
should
lose
this
day
(
which
I
have
no
cause
to
doubt
,
but
your
being
my
Enemy
)
I
have
yet
so
many
powerful
Friends
in
As●a
,
nay
the
whole
Roman
Empire
is
so
engaged
in
my
quarrel
,
that
Mithridates
to
be
quiet
King
of
Bithynia
,
must
be
the
like
of
the
whole
World
.
As
soon
as
Nicomedes
had
done
speaking
,
I
reply'd
:
The
honour
I
once
had
to
do
you
a
small
service
,
is
so
nobly
remembred
,
and
paid
,
in
what
you
formerly
did
,
and
now
are
generously
pleas'd
to
offer
,
as
well
as
in
that
high
care
you
have
of
my
reputation
even
when
I
am
in
Arms
against
you
,
that
I
hope
you
will
conclude
my
confinements
to
Mithridates's
service
are
not
to
be
broken
,
since
they
continue
firm
after
such
powerful
Assaults
:
Yes
(
great
Prince
)
I
take
the
gods
for
witness
,
that
your
generosity
will
make
me
look
upon
success
with
grief
,
and
wish
I
had
never
worn
a
Sword
,
since
it
must
be
so
unhappily
employ'd
.
I
can
too
with
the
like
truth
protest
,
if
the
now
difference
between
the
Pontick
,
King
and
you
were
ended
,
that
I
would
as
freely
hazard
my
life
to
restore
you
to
your
Kingdom
,
as
now
I
will
to
preserve
Mithridates
from
losing
his
:
And
though
possibly
his
innocence
towards
you
might
not
be
perfect
,
yet
I
beg
you
,
generous
Nicomedes
,
to
consider
how
unfit
it
would
be
for
me
to
hear
it
accused
;
and
let
that
consideration
prevail
with
you
to
send
me
away
,
with
the
sorrow
of
being
compell'd
to
draw
my
Sword
against
a
King
,
from
whom
I
have
received
many
Obligations
,
and
never
any
dissatisfaction
;
I
say
,
Compell'd
,
and
that
too
by
causes
so
undisputable
,
that
I
must
act
what
I
do
,
though
I
were
as
fully
convinc'd
of
the
Justice
of
your
quarrel
,
as
you
your self
are
.
After
this
Declaration
,
be
pleased
rather
to
pity
than
condemn
my
not
accepting
of
your
favour
;
and
be
confident
I
would
not
have
said
so
much
,
but
to
one
I
perfectly
honour
,
and
to
whom
I
am
a
servant
in
heart
,
though
my
hand
may
act
against
that
truth
.
This
I
spoke
,
being
truly
affected
with
the
injustice
I
did
to
the
King
of
Bithynia
in
opposing
his
undoubted
right
,
and
being
as
perfectly
vanquish'd
with
his
civilities
.
His
answer
too
was
so
moving
,
and
full
of
Obligation
,
that
thereby
I
the
more
clearly
discovered
the
height
of
my
passion
for
the
Princess
Statira
,
which
made
me
deaf
to
friendship
and
justice
,
and
resign
the
power
entirely
even
to
a
hopeless
Love
;
but
yet
to
a
Love
so
glorious
,
and
so
charming
,
that
not
to
have
given
it
the
precedency
of
all
other
considerations
,
would
have
been
a
greater
Crime
than
to
have
done
it
.
What
need
I
tell
you
more
(
generous
Princes
)
than
,
that
this
conference
ended
with
the
high
satisfaction
and
trouble
of
us
both
,
the
one
to
see
we
had
such
invitation
to
be
friends
,
and
the
other
that
there
was
such
an
impossibility
of
becoming
so
.
But
before
I
took
leave
of
the
unhappy
Nicomedes
,
I
begg'd
him
to
tell
me
what
was
become
of
Atafernes
;
to
which
he
reply'd
,
If
he
were
living
,
he
was
in
the
power
of
Murena's
Soldiers
,
for
he
had
been
taken
by
the
Roman
Legionaries
.
This
doubt
rais'd
in
me
so
many
fears
and
troubles
,
that
they
were
visible
to
the
King
of
Bithynia
,
who
therefore
assured
me
,
since
he
perceived
I
was
concerned
for
him
,
he
would
thenceforth
be
the
like
.
I
pay'd
him
as
many
acknowledgments
for
that
promise
,
as
for
all
his
other
respects
,
which
he
increased
by
telling
me
;
Lest
you
may
believe
the
denyal
of
your
friendship
to
me
,
has
supprest
mine
to
you
;
Permit
me
to
tell
you
,
Your
disorders
at
Atafernes's
danger
,
may
be
prejudicial
to
you
;
for
I
see
your
Army
is
ready
to
begin
the
Battel
,
having
Ariobarzanes
and
Murena
to
supply
my
absence
,
and
that
yours
probably
having
none
to
supply
yours
,
may
sustain
a
prejudice
,
which
this
way
I
would
not
have
it
endure
,
were
it
commanded
by
Mithridates
himself
,
much
less
being
't
is
by
the
brave
Callimachus
,
whose
refusal
of
my
offers
I
cannot
be
offended
at
,
since
,
by
what
he
has
told
me
,
I
must
believe
it
springs
from
a
cause
to
which
not
only
a
desired
friendship
has
been
inferiour
,
but
even
a
formed
one
,
and
which
I
have
experimented
has
been
so
prevalent
with
me
,
that
I
cannot
be
offended
at
its
now
being
so
against
me
.
These
words
made
me
at
once
joy'd
,
and
confounded
;
this
that
he
should
know
the
truth
of
the
thing
(
though
not
of
the
person
)
and
that
,
that
it
had
produced
so
obliging
an
effect
.
In
brief
,
we
parted
,
and
I
believe
as
full
of
thoughts
at
what
had
past
,
as
at
what
was
to
come
,
he
galloping
to
the
head
of
his
Troops
,
as
I
did
to
the
head
of
mine
,
where
I
gave
all
the
chief
Officers
a
Relation
of
Nicomedes's
desires
to
me
,
which
only
had
occasioned
and
continued
our
conference
,
of
which
also
I
sent
an
account
to
the
Pontick
King
,
that
he
might
have
no
cause
to
suspect
my
fidelity
,
which
was
tyed
unto
him
by
an
Obligation
,
though
secret
,
yet
incorruptible
.
This
being
done
,
I
forthwith
sent
every
Commander
to
his
respective
place
:
and
having
in
a
short
speech
incited
the
Soldiers
to
manifest
their
courages
for
,
and
before
their
King
,
I
commanded
the
signal
of
Battel
to
be
given
,
and
then
the
military
Musick
began
to
invite
us
to
that
glory
which
so
Noble
a
Field
was
to
present
the
Conquerour
:
never
perhaps
was
there
a
Battel
in
which
so
many
Kings
and
of
Royal
blood
were
Actors
,
or
Beholders
;
and
never
perhaps
were
Armies
so
brave
and
glittering
as
these
.
The
King
of
Bithynia
and
the
King
of
Cappadocia
appear'd
in
an
Equipage
,
and
with
Forces
worthy
their
Titles
and
their
hopes
;
and
Murena
manifested
that
the
people
of
Rome
were
sometimes
as
exorbitant
as
the
As●aticks
,
which
their
pride
or
wisdom
so
much
condemn'd
.
On
the
other
side
,
Mithridates
Troops
which
consisted
(
for
the
most
part
)
of
the
young
Nobility
and
Gentry
of
his
Dominions
,
which
their
honour
,
as
much
as
his
danger
,
had
incited
under
his
Ensigns
,
were
so
gallant
and
rich
in
their
Furnitures
,
as
were
also
all
those
Courtiers
which
shame
or
glory
had
drawn
out
of
Nicomedia
;
that
they
look'd
rather
like
going
to
triumph
after
a
Victory
,
than
to
win
one
:
Who
even
that
morning
had
beheld
the
various
multitudes
of
Colours
,
the
Wind
and
those
which
carried
them
did
wanton
with
;
The
glistering
of
Arms
,
and
Swords
,
the
vast
Numbers
of
brave
Horse
,
all
seeming
as
impatient
of
delay
as
their
very
Riders
;
the
variety
of
Nations
and
Habits
,
and
their
distinct
Martial
Countenances
;
the
exact
regularity
every
individual
Battalion
had
within
its
self
,
and
the
perfect
proportion
all
of
them
had
with
each
other
:
whoever
too
had
heard
the
neighing
of
the
Horse
,
the
shouts
of
the
Soldiers
,
and
the
Military
Instruments
,
could
not
but
have
confess'd
how
deformed
soever
the
face
of
War
uses
to
appear
,
yet
that
day
it
had
Charms
enough
to
have
captivated
even
that
Sex
whose
Nature
is
compos'd
of
pity
.
I
must
acknowledg
how
greedy
soever
I
was
of
a
Victory
,
which
I
hoped
might
in
some
measure
repair
the
unhappiness
or
ignorance
of
my
Birth
,
yet
I
was
so
delighted
with
that
Noble
entertainment
and
Prospect
,
that
it
was
with
some
reluctancy
I
put
a
period
to
it
.
The
Enemies
Forces
consisted
(
as
I
may
say
)
of
three
Armies
,
and
were
commanded
by
Nicomedes
,
Ariobarzanes
,
and
Murena
,
out
of
all
which
Archilaus
and
Neoptolemus
had
a
great
body
of
Horse
and
Foot
given
them
to
lead
,
who
acted
so
many
high
things
that
day
,
that
had
it
been
for
their
Countrey
(
as
it
was
against
it
)
their
precedent
guilt
might
have
been
thereby
entirely
defas'd
.
In
imitation
of
the
Enemies
Order
,
I
had
divided
my
Army
into
three
equal
parts
,
having
first
chosen
out
a
select
Number
,
as
a
general
reserve
to
answer
all
Emergencies
:
and
because
I
was
exceedingly
over-power'd
in
Foot
,
I
placed
behind
every
Battalion
of
my
Foot
,
a
Reserve
of
Horse
to
countenance
and
second
them
,
which
proved
of
no
small
use
.
Secretly
,
behind
the
outwardmost
divisions
of
our
wings
of
Horse
,
I
placed
some
of
our
best
Archers
,
who
when
we
were
going
to
charge
,
discovered
themselves
,
and
thereby
not
only
amazed
,
but
so
gall'd
our
Enemies
with
their
Arrows
,
that
the
wounded
Horses
by
their
disorders
made
sufficient
breaches
for
us
to
enter
at
:
This
too
did
not
a
little
help
us
;
but
that
which
did
most
,
was
this
which
I
am
now
going
to
tell
you
(
for
I
never
saw
it
practis'd
before
;
and
it
was
then
of
so
great
an
advantage
,
that
you
will
perhaps
pardon
my
particularizing
of
it
,
and
possibly
one
day
have
occasion
to
make
use
of
it
;
which
if
you
have
,
I
wish
it
may
be
as
successful
to
the
followers
,
as
to
the
beginner
of
it
)
.
I
found
when
our
Armies
faced
one
another
,
that
the
Enemy
did
much
over-wing
us
,
and
that
possibly
therefore
he
had
neglected
to
secure
his
left
Flank
with
a
deep
stream
which
ran
some
three
furlongs
from
it
;
so
that
he
had
so
much
of
Champion-ground
on
that
wing
,
and
had
much
more
on
the
other
.
In
our
embatteling
therefore
I
let
him
see
how
much
he
outwinged
us
on
both
sides
;
but
when
he
moved
to
the
Charge
,
I
gave
strict
order
to
all
my
Army
to
shog
still
toward
the
right
hand
;
so
that
by
the
time
we
came
to
mingle
,
we
outwinged
their
Left
Flank
,
as
much
as
their
Right
Wing
outwinged
our
Left
,
and
thereby
in
a
great
measure
shared
the
inconveniences
with
them
,
which
by
their
numbers
they
might
have
entirely
cast
upon
us
,
if
they
had
taken
the
advantage
of
the
place
in
keeping
the
stream
on
their
left
Flank
.
I
shall
not
trouble
you
in
giving
a
minutes
description
of
this
days
action
;
't
is
enough
you
know
,
though
the
Mithridatians
did
behave
themselves
like
men
of
Honour
,
yet
the
Romans
led
by
Nicomedes
(
for
Murena
had
been
dangerously
wounded
,
and
was
carried
off
in
the
beginning
of
the
Fight
,
and
all
Nicomedes's
Forces
had
been
broken
and
dispers'd
)
so
signally
manifested
their
Courages
,
and
kept
their
Discipline
,
that
I
was
twice
reduced
to
our
general
Reserve
,
and
to
a
Body
of
Foot
which
had
been
kept
entire
only
by
the
help
and
countenance
of
some
Horse
which
had
been
their
Reserve
.
That
which
had
reduced
us
to
this
extremity
,
was
not
only
the
fall
of
Megabizes
(
who
though
he
lost
his
Life
,
yet
he
got
a
Reputation
which
was
much
more
worth
)
but
also
the
dangerous
wounds
which
Lingarus
received
,
who
thereby
was
carried
out
of
the
Field
sensless
and
speechless
,
yet
accompanied
with
so
many
elogies
,
that
none
which
was
a
friend
to
Honour
,
would
have
declin'd
the
bloody
rate
at
which
he
had
purchas'd
his
.
Great
gods
!
what
did
I
not
think
!
and
what
did
I
not
say
,
when
I
saw
my self
reduced
to
so
sad
an
extremity
,
to
be
worsted
in
Statira's
quarrel
,
nay
even
in
her
sight
,
and
thereby
expose
her
to
lose
her
own
Liberty
,
whose
Beauties
were
capable
to
deprive
all
men
of
theirs
!
To
presume
to
lift
up
my
eyes
to
such
a
person
,
and
be
defeated
at
the
head
of
such
an
Army
;
To
have
had
success
enough
to
give
me
such
exalted
hopes
,
and
then
from
the
height
of
them
to
precipitate
me
,
were
considerations
too
too
sufficient
to
make
me
cast
my self
into
the
arms
of
death
,
to
put
a
period
unto
them
.
I
may
truly
say
(
generous
Princes
)
that
this
despair
made
me
act
strange
things
,
even
worthy
the
fair
Mithridatia's
sight
,
and
perhaps
her
commendation
,
which
yet
I
even
blusht
at
,
to
find
that
any
motive
could
inspire
my
Arm
,
more
than
the
Noblest
Passion
for
the
Noblest
Object
.
I
kill'd
in
this
fury
Neoptolem●●
〈◊〉
the
head
of
his
Forces
,
and
took
Ariobarzanes
in
the
Center
of
his
,
and
by
the
help
of
Lingarus's
Son
,
who
had
rallied
a
body
of
the
young
Bosphorian
Nobility
,
I
stop'd
the
current
of
Nicomedes's
success
,
and
thereby
gave
my
own
Forces
time
and
opportunity
to
Rally
,
which
they
did
,
and
with
which
we
soon
made
our
Friends
see
we
were
Conquerors
,
and
our
Enemies
feel
it
.
Never
was
there
in
such
a
number
so
horrid
an
Execution
,
scarcely
Nicomedes
and
Murena
loaden
with
wounds
,
could
recover
a
little
Boat
,
which
with
much
hazard
carried
them
to
Archilaus's
Fleet
,
where
he
himself
soon
after
did
arrive
,
cursing
Fortune
which
had
given
them
such
hopes
,
only
to
make
their
loss
the
more
unsupportable
.
But
amidst
the
blood
and
confusion
of
our
Victory
,
I
caus'd
the
Name
of
Atafernes
to
be
ecchoed
in
all
places
,
and
by
all
Persons
under
my
Command
,
promising
high
Rewards
to
any
which
could
bring
me
News
of
him
:
but
finding
those
ways
unsuccessful
,
I
sent
several
parties
of
Horse
towards
the
Sea
,
presupposing
when
the
Enemy
had
seen
the
probability
of
their
Defeat
,
they
might
have
sent
him
towards
their
Fleet
,
as
the
only
place
to
secure
so
considerable
a
Prisoner
in
.
And
that
nothing
might
be
left
unessay'd
,
and
something
acted
according
to
my
own
mind
,
galloped
I
my self
away
at
the
head
of
some
Horse
,
to
seek
that
generous
Prince
,
for
whose
Freedom
I
had
higher
desires
than
for
Victory
.
I
was
already
come
within
sight
of
the
Sea
without
discovering
what
I
sought
,
and
was
even
turning
back
when
I
perceived
coming
out
of
a
small
Wood
,
a
body
of
Horse
,
who
bended
their
course
towards
a
Galley
which
rode
near
the
Shore
,
but
yet
they
marched
so
leisurely
,
that
I
concluded
in
so
general
a
Flight
they
carryed
off
some
considerable
Person
,
whose
then
condition
would
not
admit
of
a
speedier
motion
.
I
therefore
resolved
to
attempt
them
,
and
having
sent
some
Horse
to
engage
them
,
and
to
retard
their
March
,
I
came
up
at
last
with
those
I
had
with
me
,
and
after
some
Resistance
,
broke
and
defeated
the
Enemy
:
But
,
O
gods
!
what
was
my
joy
when
I
found
in
a
Litter
the
Prince
Atafernes
alive
!
but
so
weak
and
changed
with
his
wounds
,
that
't
was
some
time
before
I
knew
him
,
and
't
was
with
much
difficulty
that
he
embraced
me
.
This
addition
to
the
winning
of
the
Battel
,
made
me
need
but
one
desire
more
.
With
Atafernes
I
joyfully
took
up
our
way
to
the
Camp
,
whither
as
we
were
going
,
he
so
signally
owned
the
services
I
pay'd
him
and
his
Family
,
and
in
such
pressing
words
assur'd
me
,
they
had
nothing
in
their
power
above
my
Merit
,
that
thereby
he
flatter'd
a
Despair
,
which
his
fair
Sister
could
only
suppress
.
He
told
me
too
,
that
he
owed
his
life
to
me
,
before
I
had
this
last
time
redeem'd
it
;
for
Murena
enraged
at
his
wounds
,
and
thinking
the
day
would
be
lost
,
since
those
necessitated
him
to
retire
,
had
commanded
his
Soldiers
(
to
whom
I
was
a
Prisoner
,
and
who
then
guarded
me
)
that
if
they
could
not
recover
the
Fleet
before
they
were
overtook
,
they
should
put
him
to
Death
;
which
(
being
once
pursued
)
they
were
about
to
perform
,
when
by
accident
Nicomedes
in
his
flight
passing
by
,
not
only
hindred
,
but
discharged
those
Romans
of
Murena
,
placed
a
Troop
of
Bithynians
and
Cappadocians
about
me
,
with
order
if
they
were
overtook
,
or
worsted
,
they
should
leave
me
untouch'd
;
and
having
acquainted
me
therewith
;
he
added
,
'T
was
for
Callimachus's
sake
,
who
had
desired
his
care
of
me
.
This
generosity
I
was
inform'd
of
with
much
satisfaction
,
and
with
no
less
trouble
,
to
find
my
Fate
had
destin'd
me
to
be
an
Enemy
to
a
Prince
,
who
by
many
confinements
merited
my
Service
.
We
were
no
sooner
arrived
at
the
Camp
,
than
the
shouts
of
Victory
were
drown'd
in
those
Atafernes's
life
and
Liberty
occasioned
in
the
Soldiers
,
whose
joys
yet
had
not
a
higher
production
,
than
a
cause
.
'T
was
then
I
waited
upon
Ariobarzanes
,
where
having
pay'd
him
all
the
civilities
due
to
his
Title
,
and
given
him
all
those
consolations
due
to
his
condition
,
I
sent
him
to
Mithridates
,
accompanied
with
the
chief
Officers
of
the
Army
.
But
to
let
you
see
the
instability
of
the
most
promising
earthly
condition
,
as
I
was
inviron'd
with
some
thousands
of
Conquerors
,
and
in
the
embraces
of
a
generous
Prince
,
there
came
a
young
man
of
an
excellent
Meen
,
and
in
a
Garb
which
shewed
him
to
be
of
some
quality
,
who
desired
to
speak
with
me
,
promising
a
piece
of
intelligence
worthy
my
knowledg
.
I
must
confess
I
trembled
at
it
,
fearing
it
might
be
some
discovery
where
Nicomedes
was
concealed
,
and
therefore
I
would
have
put
him
off
;
but
he
so
pressingly
importun'd
my
attention
,
that
in
the
end
I
gave
it
him
;
but
instead
of
what
he
promised
,
he
plung'd
a
Dagger
into
my
breast
up
to
the
Handle
,
and
would
have
doubled
his
stroke
,
but
that
I
had
strength
enough
left
to
force
it
out
of
his
hand
,
and
return
his
bloody
present
,
at
which
he
fell
,
and
had
only
Life
enough
left
to
say
,
That
he
was
Neoptolemus's
Son
;
and
that
since
I
had
destroy'd
his
Father
and
Family
,
having
no
other
way
to
act
his
Revenge
,
he
had
chosen
that
,
which
he
hoped
his
high
wrongs
and
necessitated
condition
would
apologize
for
.
His
immediate
Death
saved
him
from
those
torments
the
rage
and
grief
of
the
Soldiers
had
design'd
him
;
but
such
abundance
of
blood
gushed
out
of
my
wound
,
that
I
soon
after
fell
,
and
't
was
with
much
Art
and
pain
,
that
my
wound
was
bound
up
.
The
generous
Atafernes
took
me
into
his
Littor
;
and
the
Palace
in
Nicomedia
being
the
nearest
place
we
could
retire
unto
,
we
advanced
thither
.
Never
was
there
Triumph
so
sad
as
this
,
and
never
was
there
Laurel
and
Cypress
so
exactly
mingled
;
the
whole
Army
march'd
by
the
Littor
carrying
the
Trophies
of
their
success
,
and
washing
them
with
their
tears
;
so
that
when
the
King
,
the
Queen
,
and
the
Princesses
,
came
to
meet
us
at
the
Court-gate
,
to
honour
and
share
in
the
joy
of
our
success
,
they
found
so
many
evincements
of
grief
in
all
the
Armies
looks
,
that
they
knew
not
what
to
fear
,
and
yet
did
fear
every
thing
;
the
sadded
Soldiers
which
marched
in
the
first
Ranks
,
gave
so
imperfect
an
account
of
what
they
were
demanded
,
as
did
also
all
those
which
followed
,
that
their
eyes
were
their
first
and
truest
Intelligencers
;
and
though
at
the
same
time
they
saw
Atafernes
alive
,
and
free
,
yet
seeing
me
with
so
little
life
by
him
,
and
all
disfigured
with
blood
,
it
seem'd
to
chase
away
all
their
causes
of
satisfaction
;
and
I
found
by
as
sad
,
as
high
a
proof
,
that
my
life
was
not
inconsiderable
to
so
many
eminent
Persons
;
and
above
all
,
to
that
fair
Princess
to
whose
Service
I
had
devoted
it
:
The
shrieks
she
made
when
she
saw
me
in
so
dangerous
a
case
,
drew
me
from
that
Dyingslumber
I
had
been
in
,
and
as
soon
as
my
eyes
were
open
,
they
met
with
hers
,
which
suddenly
after
wept
such
a
deluge
of
tears
,
that
had
I
not
ascribed
them
all
to
her
Noble
Brother's
condition
,
I
had
neither
deplor'd
my
own
,
nor
her
grief
.
I
would
have
forc'd
my self
to
rise
,
but
I
found
I
could
not
;
which
she
perceiving
,
forbad
me
any
more
attempts
of
that
nature
;
by
which
I
had
scarce
strength
enough
humbly
to
acknowledg
her
care
.
This
made
them
the
more
hasten
up
to
the
Prince's
Chamber
,
where
he
would
have
me
lye
,
causing
another
Bed
to
be
set
up
.
We
were
no
sooner
in
a
condition
to
receive
a
visit
,
than
the
two
Princesses
,
and
the
King
gave
us
one
(
a
sudden
indisposition
of
the
Queen
's
then
confining
her
from
stirring
out
)
who
after
he
had
spent
some
time
with
me
in
evincements
of
his
satisfaction
for
what
I
had
done
,
and
sorrow
for
what
I
was
reduced
to
,
and
in
kindnesses
to
his
Son
;
he
went
immediately
after
to
the
Queen's
apartment
,
out
of
which
he
seldome
did
use
to
stir
,
when
any
distemper
tyed
her
unto
it
:
The
two
Princesses
stayed
with
Atafernes
,
who
perhaps
to
oblige
me
(
for
I
believe
he
then
suspected
my
Passion
)
desired
his
Favourite-Sister
to
entertain
me
,
whilest
he
did
the
Princess
Roxana
.
That
admirable
person
did
me
therefore
the
honour
to
come
near
my
Bed
,
and
told
me
;
I
see
,
Callimachus
,
how
deceitful
and
uncertain
all
humane
things
are
;
for
had
I
know
that
this
day
you
should
have
brought
us
home
Victory
,
and
Atafernes
,
I
could
not
have
believed
there
had
been
unhappiness
enough
left
to
have
clouded
our
satisfaction
;
but
your
wounds
and
danger
make
it
impossible
at
once
to
express
gratitude
,
and
joy
.
Madam
,
(
I
replyed
)
there
can
hardly
be
a
higher
evincement
how
unestimable
most
Worldly
things
deserve
to
be
,
than
to
see
that
so
inconsiderable
a
persons
condition
should
cloud
and
disturb
yours
;
but
,
Madam
,
how
sad
soever
it
appears
,
I
have
yet
sufficient
cause
to
bless
the
gods
,
which
have
given
me
life
enough
to
deliver
you
from
your
Enemies
,
your
Brother
from
his
imprisonment
,
and
to
see
you
once
more
,
to
give
you
such
an
account
of
the
honour
of
your
Commands
:
And
possibly
now
there
would
remain
no
addition
to
these
happinesses
,
but
that
I
left
the
World
,
lest
the
future
actions
of
my
life
might
be
inferiour
to
these
,
and
consequently
more
unfit
for
you
to
receive
,
or
me
to
pay
.
The
Actions
you
have
perform'd
(
the
Princess
replyed
)
in
a
few
days
,
are
so
signal
and
eminent
,
that
upon
the
glory
of
that
stock
you
may
spend
a
longer
life
than
your
condition
or
courage
will
(
I
fear
)
lend
you
;
and
though
in
the
future
you
should
never
more
oblige
us
,
what
you
have
done
already
has
left
such
deep
impressions
in
me
,
that
I
must
lose
my
memory
to
lose
the
sense
I
have
of
them
;
your
favours
being
of
the
like
quality
with
Life
,
which
needs
not
still
be
renewed
;
it
's
first
principle
being
so
powerful
,
that
it
still
carries
it self
on
in
the
strength
and
vigour
thereof
.
Madam
,
I
answered
,
by
so
telling
me
of
what
I
have
done
,
you
tell
me
what
I
should
have
done
,
had
my
power
of
serving
you
proportioned
my
desire
of
it
;
and
though
you
could
flatter
me
into
a
belief
,
that
you
are
so
good
as
to
credit
what
you
say
;
yet
that
Rule
I
have
set
up
to
my self
in
serving
you
,
does
so
far
transcend
all
you
have
spoke
,
that
whilest
I
do
any
thing
short
of
what
may
be
done
,
and
whilst
I
ever
intermit
acting
at
that
Rate
,
I
am
such
a
reproach
unto
my self
,
that
my
dissatisf●ction
surpasses
whatever
you
can
imagine
of
it
.
At
the
end
of
these
words
,
Mithridates
came
hastily
into
the
Chamber
,
with
what
did
more
wound
me
than
the
young
Neoptolemus
Sword
;
't
was
with
News
that
the
King
of
Cyprus
with
a
vast
Fleet
appeared
before
the
Harbour
,
and
had
sent
some
of
his
Nobility
to
advertise
him
thereof
,
and
to
beg
his
permission
to
land
,
that
he
might
offer
his
Forces
to
him
,
and
his
service
to
the
Princess
Statira
.
Oh
Gods
!
continued
Callimachus
,
how
great
a
torment
this
was
you
only
know
,
and
I
only
did
feel
;
't
was
such
,
that
before
I
could
be
master
over
my
own
motions
,
I
sighed
so
loud
,
that
the
Princess
not
only
took
notice
of
it
,
but
had
the
goodness
to
enquire
what
had
caus'd
it
:
I
was
a
thousand
times
going
to
tell
her
the
truth
,
and
then
in
a
Sea
of
blood
to
have
expiated
the
confidence
of
that
discovery
,
as
well
as
to
have
avoided
that
indignation
it
could
not
but
have
raised
in
her
;
but
then
the
Majesty
which
shined
in
her
eyes
,
which
could
not
inspire
me
with
higher
admiration
,
than
it
did
with
reverenc
and
respect
,
stifled
those
thoughts
even
in
their
Birth
,
and
rendred
them
guilty
only
in
design
,
not
in
act
.
But
I
was
then
as
much
troubled
what
to
say
,
as
I
had
been
what
not
to
say
;
and
finding
no
better
expedient
than
to
attribute
it
to
the
pain
of
my
wound
,
I
made
use
of
that
,
whereat
she
assumed
so
high
a
grief
,
that
I
perswaded
my self
she
could
not
then
entertain
any
other
guest
.
Mithridates
observing
the
visible
sadness
in
the
Princess's
eyes
and
looks
,
came
towards
her
,
and
ask'd
her
,
What
could
in
such
general
causes
of
joy
make
her
express
so
little
of
it
?
To
which
she
replyed
,
Whilest
the
recovery
of
her
Brother's
wounds
was
so
uncertain
,
and
mine
so
dangerons
,
the
dictates
of
Nature
and
Gratitude
would
sufficiently
apologize
for
her
sorrow
.
The
King
answered
,
there
is
so
little
fear
for
the
one
,
and
so
much
glory
in
the
other
,
that
I
must
not
only
desire
but
expect
,
that
you
will
divest
your self
of
whatever
may
render
you
unlike
that
Statira
,
whose
shadow
has
conquered
the
King
of
Cyprus
.
The
Princess
made
no
reply
,
but
by
bowing
her self
seemed
to
say
,
she
had
too
long
practis'd
obedience
,
than
to
decline
it
.
The
King
at
least
(
I
believe
)
placed
that
interpretation
upon
what
she
had
done
,
for
he
suddenly
after
went
to
the
Port
to
receive
his
designed
Son-in-law
,
who
made
so
magnifick
a
descent
from
his
Fleet
,
that
all
concluded
he
could
not
be
less
than
a
King
,
and
a
Lover
.
In
the
mean
while
,
the
fair
Statira
continued
alone
in
Atafernes
Chamber
,
her
Sister
after
Mithridates
was
gone
,
returning
to
Monyma
,
who
otherwise
had
been
left
unaccompanied
.
That
generous
Prince
who
perfectly
lov'd
her
,
beginning
then
to
consider
,
that
to
be
Ascanius's
(
for
so
the
Cyprian
King
was
called
)
he
must
be
deprived
of
her
,
told
her
;
Would
to
the
Gods
,
Statira
,
you
did
not
consider
duty
above
friendship
,
for
then
I
might
be
certain
to
enjoy
your
Company
whilest
I
enjoy'd
my
life
;
but
now
a
Fathers
power
will
give
that
happiness
to
a
Stranger
,
which
otherwise
I
should
have
possess'd
;
and
that
affection
I
have
for
you
,
must
endure
an
absence
which
cannot
more
bless
him
,
than
trouble
me
.
These
words
he
spoke
so
loud
,
that
I
not
only
heard
them
,
but
also
that
she
thus
answer'd
him
;
If
it
were
lawful
to
break
those
Tyes
the
gods
have
confined
us
unto
,
the
King
of
Cyprus
should
have
been
exempted
from
giving
both
himself
and
me
this
trouble
;
but
since
the
violating
a
Divine
Rule
cannot
bring
a
satisfaction
so
great
,
as
the
sin
is
,
I
shall
strive
to
evidence
as
little
discontent
in
obeying
Mithridates
,
as
I
am
certain
I
should
have
done
if
he
had
commanded
me
not
to
receive
any
addresses
,
which
are
to
banish
me
from
Atafernes
,
in
whose
affection
and
company
I
find
so
high
a
contentment
,
that
I
am
capable
of
begging
no
higher
than
to
be
continued
in
it
:
Since
,
reply'd
the
Prince
,
you
are
devoted
to
that
obedience
,
ah
that
Callimachus
were
King
of
Cyprus
,
I
could
then
find
some
consolation
in
my
loss
,
and
without
reluctancy
part
with
my
best
happiness
,
to
him
I
esteemed
best
worthy
of
it
:
Blush
not
Statira
,
at
what
I
have
spoke
;
for
since
I
am
unable
any
way
to
evince
my
friendship
in
Actions
,
deny
me
not
the
priviledg
of
doing
it
in
wishes
.
This
(
continued
Callimachus
)
was
so
strange
and
unexpected
an
expression
,
and
consequently
had
so
universal
an
operation
on
me
,
that
my
wound
gush'd
out
a
bleeding
,
and
thereby
so
entirely
conquer'd
those
few
spirits
I
had
left
,
that
casting
open
my
arms
,
and
fetching
a
deep
groan
,
I
fell
into
a
swound
.
The
Princess
was
not
so
confounded
at
what
her
Brother
had
spoke
,
but
that
she
had
heard
my
last
manifestation
of
life
;
so
that
turning
her
eyes
towards
me
,
she
saw
my
condition
,
and
therefore
shrieking
out
,
she
went
hastily
into
the
Anti-chamber
,
and
called
in
all
the
servants
which
waited
there
,
by
whose
help
I
was
soon
brought
to
my self
again
,
and
the
Chirurgeons
which
some
ran
for
,
having
bound
up
my
wound
,
desired
all
persons
to
leave
the
room
,
lest
I
might
repeat
the
like
sad
accident
:
Statira
,
who
possibly
was
glad
of
such
a
pretence
,
civilly
to
decline
her
Brothers
company
,
whilst
he
was
addicted
to
discourses
of
that
nature
,
having
first
desired
me
to
take
a
special
care
of
my self
,
which
the
more
powerfully
to
invite
me
to
,
she
told
me
she
should
receive
it
as
an
obligation
,
immediately
withdrew
,
and
left
me
to
contend
with
difficulties
too
strong
for
me
,
though
I
had
not
been
reduced
to
a
weakness
,
which
for
the
many
causes
I
had
to
despair
,
I
rather
wish'd
were
greater
,
than
less
.
Atafernes
,
not
to
oppose
the
prescriptions
the
Chirurgeons
had
made
,
continuing
silent
,
thereby
gave
me
the
uninterrupted
leave
of
entertaining
my
own
thoughts
,
which
were
so
confused
,
that
for
a
while
I
could
not
reduce
them
to
any
method
:
but
as
soon
as
I
had
in
some
degree
composed
them
,
I
began
to
consider
,
that
Fortune
continued
her
usual
practise
,
and
by
mingling
felicities
and
torments
,
gave
me
still
at
once
cause
to
adore
and
hate
her
:
The
glories
which
the
beginning
of
that
day
had
thrown
upon
me
,
and
the
miseries
which
the
conclusion
of
it
had
involved
me
in
,
appear'd
so
admirable
,
that
though
I
enjoyed
those
,
and
felt
these
,
yet
I
could
hardly
believe
either
:
but
when
I
began
to
consider
that
all
my
Victories
made
but
an
easier
way
for
my
Rival
to
possess
Statira
;
that
the
nearer
I
had
acted
to
deserve
her
,
made
my
deprivation
of
her
the
more
sensible
;
and
when
that
by
a
miracle
her
generous
Brother
had
let
fall
expressions
whereby
without
a
crime
I
might
in
some
measure
have
disclos'd
what
her
thoughts
were
towards
me
,
before
she
had
pass'd
any
engagement
to
Ascanius
,
or
have
found
so
much
cause
of
despair
,
as
I
might
no
longer
have
flattered
my self
into
a
suspence
more
unsupportable
than
the
highest
effect
of
it
;
then
to
fall
into
a
fainting
which
had
hinder'd
it
;
I
could
no
longer
contain
my self
,
but
by
loud
exclaimings
,
condemn'd
that
Fate
which
I
wanted
power
to
prevent
or
alter
.
Atafernes
finding
thereby
that
his
silence
was
so
far
from
contributing
to
my
good
,
that
he
apprehended
it
had
done
the
contrary
,
soon
broke
it
,
and
after
some
introductory
discoursers
,
having
first
commanded
all
those
which
in
the
outward
Chamber
might
have
been
within
hearing
,
to
keep
at
a
greater
distance
;
told
me
,
That
friendship
,
Callimachus
,
which
we
have
contracted
,
merits
we
should
have
nothing
in
reserve
to
each
other
;
and
if
it
does
not
confine
you
to
tell
me
all
the
secrets
you
know
,
yet
at
least
it
does
to
acquaint
me
with
the
truth
of
those
I
shall
discover
:
In
a
word
,
either
my
observations
have
strangely
deluded
me
;
or
you
have
something
in
your
breast
,
which
though
I
may
be
concern'd
in
,
yet
I
am
kept
a
Stranger
unto
;
and
though
possibly
I
might
hitherto
have
had
but
cause
to
suspect
it
,
yet
what
these
few
hours
has
produced
,
makes
me
confident
of
it
;
so
that
if
any
thing
can
perswade
me
to
excuse
your
so
long
silence
,
it
will
be
your
persevering
in
it
no
longer
.
You
cannot
but
imagine
(
generous
Princes
)
that
what
Atafernes
then
spoke
,
made
me
repeat
as
high
Emotions
as
any
that
day
I
had
been
invaded
with
;
for
I
found
my self
necessitated
either
to
deny
the
truth
,
and
thereby
become
guilty
to
my
Friend
;
or
reveal
it
,
and
thereby
become
guilty
to
my
Princess
:
but
at
length
,
finding
to
adore
her
could
not
be
a
greater
duty
,
than
to
conceal
any
thing
from
her
Noble
Brother
,
and
be
a
crime
;
especially
,
he
then
extorting
a
confession
from
me
by
the
powerfullest
Rack
,
the
conjuration
of
a
Friend
,
blushing
and
trembling
all-over
,
and
fetching
a
deep
sigh
,
I
spoke
to
him
to
this
effect
:
If
,
generous
Prince
,
I
have
concealed
any
thing
from
you
,
it
is
that
only
which
I
thought
unfit
I
my self
should
know
;
and
I
was
too
much
concern'd
to
continue
the
blessing
of
your
esteem
,
to
acquaint
you
with
what
might
too
justly
invite
you
to
deprive
me
of
it
:
but
since
what
I
am
to
say
is
a
pure
effect
of
my
obedience
to
your
command
,
I
do
with
less
trouble
lay
my
Secret
before
you
,
knowing
you
are
too
vertuous
to
require
a
discovery
,
and
then
abhor
me
for
making
it
.
Here
I
paus'd
a
little
,
being
startled
at
what
I
was
about
to
say
;
but
finding
I
had
said
so
much
,
that
not
to
speak
more
might
be
as
ill
resented
as
if
I
spoke
all
,
I
thus
continued
;
I
must
confess
,
great
Prince
,
I
must
confess
the
beauties
of
your
admirable
Sister
gave
me
the
confidence
of
lifting
up
my
eyes
towards
her
,
or
rather
denyed
me
the
possibility
of
doing
otherwise
;
and
ever
since
I
first
beheld
her
,
I
have
languished
away
in
flames
which
only
her
eyes
are
able
to
kindle
,
and
which
death
only
is
able
to
quench
;
't
is
therefore
that
long
since
I
had
embraced
that
cure
,
had
I
not
thought
I
was
obliged
as
much
to
be
just
to
her
,
in
punishing
my
sin
,
as
I
had
been
to
her
beauties
,
in
committing
it
;
and
therefore
not
to
put
a
period
to
my
torments
was
too
much
a
duty
,
to
let
the
ease
of
ending
it
perswade
me
to
so
criminal
an
Act
:
this
,
great
Prince
,
hath
hitherto
kept
me
from
laying
violent
hands
upon
my self
,
and
perhaps
I
might
not
lye
if
I
assur'd
you
,
I
have
had
as
high
a
dispute
,
not
to
embrace
that
remedy
,
as
I
have
had
to
avoid
that
presumption
which
will
render
it
necessary
.
This
is
that
concealment
I
have
so
long
labour'd
under
:
and
if
now
I
have
discover'd
it
,
permit
me
to
say
it
springs
from
a
friendship
as
great
as
my
passion
;
and
nothing
inferior
unto
that
,
could
have
made
me
discover
this
.
Now
you
know
my
miserable
condition
,
be
not
,
I
beseech
you
,
so
cruel
as
to
deny
me
your
pity
,
if
you
do
your
pardon
.
After
I
had
done
speaking
,
Atafernes
was
some
time
before
he
answer'd
me
:
but
at
last
he
thus
spoke
;
If
I
have
been
so
long
silent
,
't
is
not
that
I
am
surpriz'd
with
what
you
have
now
said
;
for
I
consider
it
rather
as
a
confirmation
of
what
I
formerly
thought
,
than
a
disclosure
of
what
I
was
ignorant
of
,
but
yet
I
see
so
infinite
a
distance
between
what
you
aim
at
,
and
what
possibly
I
wish
you
may
possess
,
that
I
do
not
only
believe
your
unhappiness
is
great
,
but
also
I
highly
sympathize
with
you
in
it
.
Statira's
disposition
,
Mithridates's
authority
and
engagement
,
Ascanius's
passion
and
presence
,
joyned
with
the
ignorance
of
your
extraction
,
are
difficulties
so
insuperable
,
that
to
assure
you
of
all
my
assistance
,
is
to
promise
you
at
once
whatever
I
am
capable
of
,
and
yet
nothing
:
But
yet
not
to
leave
any
thing
unessay'd
,
and
to
let
you
see
I
am
your
Friend
in
impossibilities
,
as
well
as
in
things
of
hope
,
I
will
not
only
let
her
know
your
passion
,
but
employ
all
my
interest
in
her
,
to
make
her
approve
and
accept
it
.
I
will
tell
her
,
That
the
Sword
which
has
captivated
Kings
,
will
present
her
with
Kingdoms
:
that
vertue
is
preferable
to
power
;
and
that
being
more
a
friend
to
her
Happiness
,
than
her
Titles
,
I
will
conjure
her
to
elect
Callimachus
without
a
Crown
,
sooner
than
Ascanius
with
one
.
This
,
dear
Callimachus
,
is
all
I
can
do
,
and
this
therefore
is
the
least
I
will
do
;
wherein
if
the
success
answers
not
my
endeavours
,
be
confident
I
shall
resent
as
vast
a
trouble
thereat
,
as
you
your self
can
,
and
where
my
power
cannot
serve
you
,
my
friendship
shall
suffer
with
you
.
Generous
Prince
(
I
reply'd
,
bowing
my self
as
low
as
my
wounds
would
admit
)
you
have
already
manifested
so
much
obligingness
and
condescention
to
me
,
that
I
find
my
scores
of
gratitude
are
as
unpayable
to
the
brother
,
as
those
of
adoration
are
to
the
Sister
:
you
have
done
so
much
in
the
best
extream
,
that
nothing
but
my
acceptance
thereof
could
make
me
do
the
like
in
the
worst
.
But
,
Sir
,
I
have
not
told
you
my
Secret
to
invite
your
assistance
,
but
to
illustrate
my
obedience
;
and
if
I
expect
your
favour
in
any
thing
,
't
is
in
your
pardon
,
not
your
solicitation
;
which
latter
yet
I
cannot
more
want
,
than
I
desire
the
former
.
No
,
Sir
,
though
my
Star's
have
destin'd
me
to
a
passion
for
the
Princess
without
hope
,
yet
it
is
not
without
satisfaction
;
and
what
I
should
not
patiently
undergo
as
their
imposition
,
I
shall
as
her
due
.
Possibly
(
said
Atafernes
,
interrupting
me
)
You
cannot
think
this
Discourse
fitter
for
you
,
than
I
do
,
that
acting
the
contrary
is
so
for
me
;
and
therefore
as
I
do
not
quarrel
with
you
for
making
such
desires
,
so
I
shall
expect
you
will
not
be
offended
with
me
,
if
I
grant
them
not
:
Mithridates
owes
her
unto
you
,
and
she
owes
her self
unto
you
;
and
though
you
have
not
a
Kingdom
to
give
her
,
yet
this
day
you
have
given
her
Father
one
,
and
preserved
him
another
,
whereby
you
have
made
his
condition
such
,
that
he
need
not
find
that
a
want
in
you
.
Doubtless
he
would
have
given
you
Statira
this
Morning
to
have
been
certain
of
what
you
have
placed
him
in
this
Evening
;
therefore
why
should
you
despair
he
would
buy
success
at
a
higher
Rate
than
he
will
reward
it
?
for
my
Fathers
promises
to
the
King
of
Cyprus
,
they
were
made
but
to
engage
him
to
undertake
that
which
you
have
performed
without
him
,
and
thereby
not
only
removed
the
invitation
to
that
performance
,
but
secured
Mithridates
against
the
Cyprian's
resentment
at
it
,
should
he
have
any
:
besides
,
our
new
Lover
may
be
perswaded
to
lay
aside
that
Title
by
Statira's
appearing
averse
unto
it
,
which
if
the
King
once
give
her
a
Rise
to
do
,
let
it
be
my
care
to
improve
it
to
that
height
your
condition
will
need
,
and
my
friendship
will
therefore
undeniably
endeavour
:
it
is
not
a
new
thing
for
a
Lover
to
fail
of
his
Mistress's
affection
,
nor
for
a
Father
in
that
case
to
decline
making
his
Daughter
miserable
,
to
prevent
a
strangers
becoming
so
.
He
will
more
secure
his
Empire
,
and
probably
enlarge
it
in
tying
you
by
his
alliance
to
his
service
,
than
by
giving
his
Daughter
to
any
Neighbour
Prince
;
the
doing
the
like
is
an
action
so
common
,
that
it
seldom
produces
an
effect
which
is
extraordinary
;
but
the
bestowing
of
Statira
upon
Callimachus
,
will
not
appear
more
rare
to
the
World
,
than
't
will
prove
advantageous
to
him
;
for
what
returns
may
not
be
expected
,
when
the
largest
cause
of
gratitude
is
placed
upon
a
person
the
most
replenish'd
with
it
;
and
to
whom
the
gods
have
given
so
much
vertue
and
courage
,
that
thereby
his
power
of
being
thankful
,
will
equal
his
will
!
As
for
Statira
,
I
strangely
mistake
,
if
she
will
not
prefer
him
who
deserves
a
Crown
,
before
him
that
only
wears
one
;
and
when
I
shall
acquaint
her
with
your
passion
for
her
,
and
my
friendship
for
you
,
possibly
if
the
one
does
not
move
,
the
other
may
;
and
the
just
ascendent
she
hath
over
Mithridates
,
may
prevail
with
him
to
free
her
from
Ascanius
;
and
your
repeated
services
may
in
time
force
him
to
believe
no
Reward
under
her
deserves
that
Name
;
so
that
when
it
comes
in
competition
,
whether
he
must
do
nothing
,
or
so
much
,
he
will
rather
elect
This
,
than
that
.
Ah
Sir
,
I
reply'd
,
Do
not
,
I
beseech
you
,
so
much
as
mention
acquainting
the
fair
Statira
with
my
flame
:
I
am
scarce
able
to
undergo
my
own
knowledg
of
it
,
and
therefore
shall
never
be
able
to
support
hers
:
your
pardoning
my
Crime
is
so
much
above
my
desert
;
and
your
offering
to
attempt
to
reward
it
,
is
so
much
above
my
hope
,
that
I
cannot
be
that
greateful
person
you
were
pleased
to
speak
me
,
if
I
did
not
hinder
your
undertaking
a
design
which
must
lose
you
,
your
Father
and
your
Sister
,
and
that
too
upon
my
account
:
No
,
generous
Prince
,
let
not
my
passion
make
any
other
unhappy
,
nor
give
me
so
low
an
opinion
of
my
offence
,
as
to
find
by
such
an
experiment
,
as
great
a
misery
as
it self
can
befall
me
by
it
.
My
afflictions
will
either
be
supportable
,
and
then
they
will
not
need
your
care
;
or
unsupportable
,
and
then
my
death
will
render
me
uncapable
of
it
.
Do
not
,
I
beg
you
,
believe
I
do
this
out
of
a
modesty
which
none
could
want
that
had
so
many
pregnant
causes
to
raise
it
;
but
out
of
conviction
that
I
am
tied
in
duty
,
when
she
knows
I
have
done
her
the
highest
injury
out
of
my
power
,
to
do
her
also
the
highest
Right
is
in
my
power
to
present
her
;
to
dare
to
have
said
I
love
her
,
is
That
;
and
to
dare
to
kill
my self
afterwards
,
is
this
;
so
that
if
you
would
not
have
me
punish
my self
,
now
I
have
accused
my self
,
let
that
be
a
secret
to
you
,
which
shall
be
one
besides
to
all
the
World
.
Many
such
implorings
,
continued
Callimachus
,
I
was
forced
to
make
,
and
many
such
reasons
to
present
to
his
consideration
,
before
I
could
extort
that
promise
from
him
which
I
had
so
passionately
desired
;
which
soon
after
I
had
obtained
,
a
Gentleman
came
to
tell
us
the
Cyprian
King
was
entred
the
Palace
,
and
was
gone
to
wait
upon
the
Queen
and
the
Princesses
;
and
not
long
after
Mithridates
accompanied
with
Ascanius
,
came
to
visit
Atafernes
.
Gods
!
What
agitations
was
I
exercised
under
,
when
I
not
only
saw
my
Rival
come
into
the
Chamber
,
but
found
him
a
person
of
an
admirable
good
Meen
,
and
of
a
fashion
not
inferiour
:
I
must
acknowledg
I
was
so
mean
,
as
then
to
hope
I
might
discover
in
his
Discourse
what
might
have
secur'd
those
fears
his
outside
had
raised
in
me
;
but
it
was
but
just
I
should
be
defeated
of
so
low
and
unworthy
a
hope
,
and
so
I
was
;
for
I
found
in
what
he
spoke
to
the
Prince
,
he
was
as
much
beholding
to
Nature
,
and
Education
,
for
the
gifts
of
his
mind
,
as
he
had
been
to
either
,
for
those
of
his
Body
.
After
his
civilities
were
performed
to
Ataphernes
,
the
King
told
him
;
This
room
,
Sir
,
contains
a
person
worthy
your
knowledg
,
and
by
whose
courage
and
success
you
have
enjoy'd
so
peaceable
an
entry
here
.
The
merits
of
Callimachus
(
said
Ascanius
)
are
so
well
known
to
me
though
his
person
be
not
,
that
though
the
motives
be
very
high
which
make
me
desire
his
friendship
,
yet
they
cannot
exceed
the
passion
I
have
to
acquire
,
or
merit
it
.
After
these
words
,
he
saluted
me
with
so
much
obligingness
,
and
with
so
good
grace
,
that
in
spight
of
all
the
causes
I
had
to
abhor
him
,
I
could
not
abstain
from
giving
him
a
Reply
,
that
relish'd
of
that
civility
which
had
acted
over
my
resentments
such
a
Conquest
.
After
many
discourses
of
an
usual
quality
,
Mithridates
took
a
Rise
to
inform
him
by
retail
,
of
all
those
transactions
which
had
hapned
so
recently
within
and
near
Nicomedia
;
and
did
it
with
such
elogies
in
my
favour
,
that
Ascanius
cryed
out
;
Happy
Callimachus
!
that
not
only
perform'd
the
highest
things
,
but
acted
them
for
and
before
the
persons
most
worthy
of
them
:
would
to
the
gods
I
had
by
all
my
blood
purchas'd
that
glory
,
which
has
cost
you
but
a
part
of
yours
.
Mithridates
,
who
found
by
this
ardent
ejaculation
,
that
the
subject
of
his
discourse
had
rather
rais'd
Ascanius
envy
,
than
satisfaction
,
by
degrees
disintangled
himself
out
of
what
he
had
so
far
engaged
in
,
and
then
conducted
him
to
his
apartment
,
where
all
things
relish'd
of
the
highest
Luxury
Asia
was
never
guilty
of
,
or
the
profusest
Actor
of
it
,
ever
practis'd
.
He
was
not
long
gone
,
when
the
Queen
(
then
recovered
of
her
indisposition
)
with
the
two
Princesses
came
to
visit
Atafernes
,
who
earnestly
enquiring
how
he
made
his
first
addresses
,
received
an
assurance
from
both
those
which
were
least
concerned
in
it
,
that
never
man
had
in
such
an
occasion
,
acquitted
himself
with
so
much
gallantry
:
His
humility
to
Statira
was
at
once
full
of
deep
respect
,
and
of
Majesty
;
as
if
thereby
he
would
shew
,
to
be
a
King
,
and
her
Slave
,
were
not
inconsistent
,
but
rather
that
this
Title
did
help
to
heighten
that
;
his
looks
had
in
them
at
once
so
much
passion
mingled
with
reverence
,
that
either
seem'd
to
be
as
uncapable
of
addition
,
as
change
;
and
his
discourse
and
entertianment
had
peculiar
charms
:
so
that
in
effect
there
were
hardly
any
of
the
senses
which
found
not
in
him
,
sufficient
to
captivate
them
.
These
,
and
many
other
expressions
as
wounding
to
me
,
fell
from
Monyma
and
Roxana
,
which
the
obliging
Atafernes
easily
guest
,
and
therefore
made
the
more
haste
to
put
a
period
to
them
;
which
when
he
had
done
,
the
Queen
leaving
her
two
Companions
with
their
Brother
,
came
to
me
,
and
observing
they
were
probably
engaged
in
a
discourse
with
him
,
which
might
not
suddenly
interrupt
hers
with
me
,
she
began
it
in
these
words
:
If
at
your
return
with
so
much
glory
,
I
did
not
come
to
congratulate
it
with
you
,
I
may
truly
say
,
you
are
the
cause
thereof
:
for
when
I
saw
the
bloody
rate
of
your
purchase
,
a
sudden
horrour
so
invaded
me
,
that
till
now
I
could
not
free
my self
from
so
many
of
its
effects
,
as
to
be
able
to
visit
you
,
and
to
let
you
know
why
I
did
not
so
,
sooner
.
Madam
,
I
reply'd
,
that
little
blood
I
have
spent
in
your
service
,
is
too
prodigally
pay'd
,
by
what
you
now
are
pleased
to
act
,
and
speak
;
and
had
I
known
my
wounds
had
so
sensibly
touched
you
,
they
would
have
been
more
painful
to
me
upon
that
account
than
their
own
.
I
should
(
she
answer'd
blushing
)
have
believed
those
words
,
had
they
been
spoken
to
me
at
Miletus
,
or
were
I
a
person
not
far
from
hence
,
who
though
I
must
confess
merits
them
better
,
yet
perhaps
would
not
receive
them
with
that
satisfaction
I
should
,
if
I
thought
them
not
words
of
Civility
,
rather
than
Truth
.
Madam
,
I
replyed
,
(
being
somewhat
moved
to
be
still
struck
by
her
in
so
sensible
a
place
,
and
,
if
possibly
,
to
make
her
think
she
was
mistook
)
permit
me
to
say
,
that
had
you
never
given
me
cause
any
more
to
doubt
your
words
,
than
I
have
given
you
to
doubt
mine
;
you
had
been
free
from
the
trouble
of
such
discourses
,
and
I
from
the
unhappiness
of
your
believing
I
deserved
them
.
Alas
Callimachus
(
said
she
,
interrupting
me
)
why
do
you
delight
so
much
to
torment
me
,
as
not
only
to
mind
me
of
my
unhappiness
but
to
acquaint
me
you
think
I
was
the
Author
of
it
:
No
,
I
attest
the
gods
,
I
would
now
,
even
with
joy
descend
from
the
Throne
,
to
be
that
to
you
,
which
I
am
to
Mithridates
;
and
rather
be
his
who
deserves
the
greatest
Empire
of
the
World
,
than
his
who
possesses
it
:
but
(
she
continued
,
letting
some
few
tears
steal
from
her
eyes
)
since
the
gods
have
otherwise
designed
it
,
I
beg
but
this
,
That
you
will
esteem
it
a
punishment
sufficient
for
me
to
have
lost
you
,
and
do
not
augment
it
so
much
as
to
let
me
see
another
has
got
you
;
this
is
all
the
unfortunate
Monyma
desires
;
and
if
there
be
any
unreasonableness
therein
,
ascribe
it
to
a
passion
which
makes
me
act
more
illegitimate
things
for
you
,
than
I
ask
of
you
.
She
went
away
at
the
end
of
these
words
without
staying
for
an
answer
;
and
telling
the
company
a
relapse
of
her
indisposition
was
going
to
assault
her
,
she
hastily
retir'd
to
her
apartment
;
and
not
long
after
the
hour
of
rest
being
come
,
Atafernes
enjoyning
me
to
try
if
I
could
take
any
,
and
endeavouring
the
like
himself
,
thereby
gave
me
a
licence
to
reflect
upon
some
things
past
,
which
so
powerfully
entertained
my
thoughts
,
that
I
could
not
for
some
time
so
much
suppress
them
,
as
by
sleep
to
enjoy
that
refreshment
my
mind
and
my
body
but
too
much
wanted
.
These
last
words
of
the
Queen
,
I
soon
concluded
,
sprang
from
a
passion
which
would
not
be
easily
quenched
,
and
which
had
a
being
would
so
much
interrupt
any
progress
in
that
I
pay'd
the
fair
Statira
,
that
it self
would
have
been
a
sufficient
impediment
,
had
I
conquer'd
the
misfortune
of
many
greater
.
I
was
too
proud
at
my
insensibility
,
when
I
saw
a
Queen
weeping
before
me
,
and
one
so
full
of
youth
,
and
beauty
,
that
she
could
not
be
a
greater
wonder
for
her
Charms
,
than
I
was
in
resisting
them
.
I
must
confess
I
was
a
little
grieved
,
that
so
signal
an
evincement
of
my
constancy
should
not
be
known
to
her
who
was
the
cause
of
it
;
but
then
when
I
consider'd
that
the
misfortune
could
not
be
greater
,
than
consequently
the
merit
of
it
was
,
I
concluded
she
deserved
all
I
could
suffer
,
and
therefore
I
had
more
cause
to
rejoyce
I
had
done
so
much
,
than
to
be
troubled
that
she
knew
no
more
.
Whilest
I
entertain'd
these
parts
of
my
fate
,
it
was
only
with
sorrow
:
but
when
I
thought
upon
those
parts
which
related
to
Ascanius
,
how
he
was
come
to
rob
me
of
my
hopes
,
which
was
all
I
had
left
,
or
indeed
ever
had
,
and
how
a
few
days
would
invest
him
in
that
felicity
I
was
to
lose
,
Rage
and
Resentment
so
entirely
govern'd
all
my
faculties
,
that
if
I
did
not
follow
the
extreamest
dictates
of
them
,
't
was
only
because
I
thought
them
too
low
and
disproportionate
to
their
cause
.
At
last
,
not
having
strength
enough
to
persevere
in
such
entertainments
,
sleep
by
degrees
began
to
conquer
me
,
and
held
me
a
Prisoner
for
some
few
hours
,
which
yet
it
could
not
have
so
long
done
,
but
by
letting
Dreams
continue
what
my
waking
had
begun
;
whereby
,
and
by
the
emotion
of
the
precedent
day
,
the
next
Morning
I
found
my
wound
was
so
inflamed
,
and
my
Body
so
feaverish
,
that
the
Chirurgeons
doubted
of
my
Life
,
and
informed
Atafernes
so
much
;
who
easily
imagining
the
cause
,
having
freed
the
Room
of
all
which
waited
in
it
,
told
me
so
many
flattering
things
,
and
then
so
reiterately
vowed
if
I
mended
not
,
he
would
tell
Statira
what
caused
my
languishments
,
that
partly
through
hope
,
but
much
more
for
fear
of
that
,
I
began
patiently
to
receive
those
Medicines
which
the
Physicians
&
the
Chirurgeons
prescrib'd
,
whereby
in
few
days
I
was
past
all
danger
of
Death
,
as
I
wish'd
I
had
been
of
Life
.
I
knew
not
with
what
design
I
liv'd
;
and
yet
I
could
not
oppose
my
doing
so
,
carried
on
by
an
internal
motion
,
whose
cause
I
was
as
ignorant
of
,
as
unable
to
resist
its
effects
.
Mithridatia
,
every
day
she
visited
her
Brother
,
had
so
much
humility
as
to
enquire
of
me
of
my
own
health
,
and
as
my
answers
were
of
its
impairing
or
mending
,
so
her
looks
put
on
melancholy
or
satisfaction
.
Atafernes
was
so
generous
as
constantly
to
enquire
of
the
Princess
what
progress
Ascanius
had
made
in
the
acquisition
of
her
esteem
,
yet
could
never
learn
any
thing
from
her
,
but
that
her
duty
to
Mithridates
had
left
her
nothing
but
obedience
.
This
strange
perseverance
and
submissiveness
that
generous
Prince
acquainted
me
with
,
and
thereby
prepared
me
to
receive
a
stroak
,
which
soon
after
wounded
me
;
but
alas
!
not
enough
to
relieve
my
pain
,
but
increase
and
continue
it
.
'T
was
with
the
fatal
News
,
that
at
the
expiration
of
fourteen
days
Mithridates
had
publickly
declared
the
Nuptials
between
Statira
and
Ascanius
should
be
celebrated
;
who
thereupon
sent
half
of
his
Fleet
into
the
Euxine
Sea
,
to
conquer
what
that
Element
had
saved
of
Nicomedes
,
Ariobarzanes
,
and
Murena's
ruins
:
The
revolt
of
Archilaus
and
Neoptolemus
having
depriv'd
the
Pontick
King
of
most
of
his
Naval-forces
,
and
his
design'd
Son-in-law's
being
so
strong
,
that
he
rather
thought
that
proportion
of
the
largest
,
than
the
least
;
reserving
also
the
residue
to
carry
back
his
Queen
with
more
pomp
into
Cyprus
,
which
happy
Countrey
had
been
once
destin'd
to
the
Queen
of
Love
,
and
now
to
a
Beauty
which
more
justly
merited
that
Title
.
In
the
mean
while
Pharnaces
returned
with
his
Army
,
more
troubled
that
his
Father
had
by
Atafernes
received
his
deliverance
,
than
if
he
had
entirely
failed
of
it
:
and
if
he
had
any
thoughts
which
refresh'd
him
,
they
were
only
those
which
did
rise
from
the
speedy
probability
of
Statira's
removal
,
and
consequently
of
his
Brother's
being
thereby
deprived
of
his
powerfullest
Friend
;
and
therefore
he
so
incessantly
prest
the
speedy
celebration
of
the
Nuptials
,
that
thereby
he
gained
as
high
an
interest
in
Ascanius
,
as
a
performance
so
acceptable
to
an
impatient
Lover
could
possibly
procure
.
At
last
the
Eve
of
the
long'd-for
day
arrived
,
and
now
nothing
was
seen
but
preparatives
for
celebrating
of
it
,
which
was
to
produce
the
highest
extreams
in
the
Cyprian
King
and
me
.
The
Armies
had
received
orders
to
express
their
Military
joys
in
all
those
ways
which
could
give
the
highest
evidence
of
them
;
the
Streets
were
already
beautified
with
triumphal
Arches
;
The
Courtiers
did
all
strive
who
should
out-shine
each
other
;
The
Priests
had
prepared
herds
of
Sacrifices
;
And
in
a
word
,
all
things
had
put
on
their
chearfullest
looks
,
but
Statira
,
Atafernes
,
and
I
;
the
first
continuing
that
same
equal
temper
which
had
been
so
long
her
practice
,
that
I
fear'd
it
was
turn'd
her
Nature
;
the
second
sympathizing
in
his
Friends
sorrows
,
wore
them
so
visibly
,
that
they
were
at
once
both
my
comfort
and
my
trouble
;
the
third
you
may
too
too
easily
imagine
had
such
infinite
causes
of
grief
,
that
their
effects
were
proportionate
.
Had
it
been
the
hour
of
my
Death
which
was
come
so
near
me
as
the
hour
of
losing
Statira
,
I
should
have
consider'd
it
with
much
less
trouble
.
Sometimes
I
resolv'd
to
go
and
tell
her
I
ador'd
her
with
a
passion
which
could
much
rather
make
me
elect
the
Grave
,
than
to
see
her
Ascanius's
;
and
though
I
was
able
to
live
and
not
possess
her
,
yet
I
was
unable
to
live
and
see
another
do
it
,
and
then
act
that
truth
as
well
as
speak
it
;
sometimes
I
resolved
to
let
the
Cyprian
King
know
how
absolutely
impossible
it
was
for
him
to
enjoy
Statira
,
and
I
my
life
,
and
therefore
that
he
must
deprive
me
of
This
to
possess
That
,
and
thereby
either
avoid
being
sensible
of
my
loss
,
or
hinder
him
from
acting
it
:
sometimes
too
I
thought
of
going
to
Mithridates
,
of
laying
my
Services
before
him
;
and
of
acquainting
him
Ascanius
had
never
acted
,
but
what
all
men
living
would
,
adored
the
highest
Beauty
,
and
desired
to
enjoy
her
;
that
my
Sword
had
put
him
past
the
needing
such
a
Friend
,
or
at
least
the
buying
him
at
such
a
Rate
;
that
if
he
would
make
her
the
blessing
of
my
Services
,
I
would
engage
to
carry
his
Ensigns
where
the
Roman
Eagles
yet
could
never
flye
,
and
seat
her
in
a
Throne
as
little
unworthy
of
her
,
as
the
Earth
could
produce
;
that
as
soon
as
Mithridatia's
Beauty
was
as
well
known
to
the
World
as
to
Ascanius
,
all
the
Kings
of
it
would
do
more
for
hope
of
that
Reward
than
Ascanius
could
do
for
possessing
it
:
sometimes
too
I
was
determin'd
to
present
my self
to
those
Forces
to
whom
I
had
so
often
shewed
the
way
to
Victory
,
and
by
disclosing
my
despair
,
have
provoked
their
Swords
to
have
cured
it
.
These
and
many
as
extravagant
thoughts
were
the
productions
of
my
distemper
,
which
when
a
little
consideration
had
let
me
see
they
were
,
I
cast
them
off
as
such
.
But
though
my
Reason
shew'd
me
what
I
was
not
to
do
,
yet
it
could
not
what
I
was
to
do
;
so
that
when
the
Night
came
,
the
last
Night
of
all
my
hopes
,
I
was
as
unresolv'd
what
to
do
,
as
I
was
certain
,
doing
nothing
,
what
I
was
to
suffer
.
I
had
some
little
glimpse
of
comfort
,
to
feel
I
was
not
able
to
go
to
the
Temple
,
and
be
a
looker
on
,
lest
thereby
I
might
have
been
snatch'd
from
my self
,
and
forced
into
a
Revenge
,
which
I
had
so
long
endeavoured
to
reason
(
at
least
perswade
)
my self
out
of
;
but
this
appearing
only
a
hindering
of
me
from
doing
ill
,
and
not
any
thing
of
advancement
in
my
doing
well
,
I
had
as
little
time
to
reflect
upon
it
,
as
I
have
spent
in
telling
it
.
The
generous
Atafernes
did
scarce
abandon
me
one
moment
,
knowing
my
condition
needed
all
the
consolation
,
though
it
was
above
all
service
of
a
Friend
.
The
Night
was
not
an
hour
old
,
when
Ascanius
leading
in
Statira
,
came
into
Atasernes
Chamber
,
which
bare
sight
had
near
overthrown
thrown
all
the
sober
thoughts
of
the
preceding
day
,
but
they
stay'd
not
long
,
Mithridates
carrying
them
away
to
see
some
fires
of
joy
the
Nicomedians
had
made
to
grace
the
Eve
of
the
intended
Marriage
:
some
two
hours
after
,
Atafernes
and
I
,
having
disengag'd
our selves
from
our
many
Visitors
,
went
to
try
if
we
could
walk
in
a
Gallery
contiguous
to
his
Bed-chamber
;
where
we
had
not
long
been
,
when
Statira
and
Roxana
came
into
it
to
visit
their
Brother
,
having
miss'd
him
in
his
Chamber
.
That
obliging
Prince
so
dexterously
managed
the
business
,
that
heg
ot
his
elder
Sister
to
him
at
one
end
of
the
Gallery
,
and
lest
me
with
my
Princess
at
the
other
.
I
thought
this
was
an
opportunity
not
to
be
lost
,
and
yet
could
not
imagine
how
it
might
be
improved
,
but
to
begin
a
Descourse
which
might
give
me
the
opportunity
to
say
something
,
if
by
a
Miracle
I
should
find
a
Rise
for
my
so
doing
:
I
told
her
,
You
are
now
(
Madam
)
going
to
place
Ascanius
in
a
felicity
so
great
,
that
if
thereby
you
could
place
your self
in
a
resembling
one
,
you
would
not
leave
your
Servants
any
thing
to
wish
,
or
your self
to
desire
.
I
know
not
(
she
replyed
)
whether
my
satisfaction
will
be
great
,
I
am
certain
my
obedience
is
:
but
acting
what
lyes
on
my
part
,
I
shall
have
this
comfort
,
that
if
the
end
answers
not
my
expectation
,
I
may
condemn
my
Fate
,
but
not
my self
.
Ah
Madam
!
I
answer'd
,
Permit
me
to
believe
you
go
upon
a
clearer
Principle
than
you
mention
;
for
else
what
comfort
can
it
be
to
you
,
if
Ascanius
should
not
still
be
as
much
your
Servant
&
Adorer
,
as
he
is
now
to
know
your
misfortune
is
an
effect
of
your
vertue
;
and
that
your
obedience
which
you
so
highly
magnifie
,
should
make
you
more
miserable
than
the
declining
of
it
could
possibly
have
done
?
No
,
Madam
,
I
cannot
but
believe
,
if
it
were
fit
for
me
to
beg
a
knowledg
of
the
Truth
,
or
that
you
should
condescend
so
low
as
to
speak
it
,
but
that
the
Charms
of
Ascanius's
Person
and
Conversation
contribute
as
much
to
his
happiness
,
as
your
obedience
to
Mithridates
.
You
make
me
blush
(
the
Princess
reply'd
,
passing
her
hand
before
her
Face
)
;
but
yet
if
you
are
not
seemingly
but
really
concern'd
in
what
you
say
,
I
will
satisfie
your
doubts
.
Concern'd
Madam
!
I
hastily
answer'd
;
Yes
Madam
,
I
am
concern'd
,
and
shall
be
whilst
I
live
,
in
all
things
relating
to
you
;
and
therefore
,
Madam
,
permit
me
to
beg
of
you
a
certainty
of
that
upon
which
I
must
ground
all
my
felicity
or
trouble
,
because
by
it
I
must
judg
of
yours
.
Then
,
said
Statira
,
I
do
assure
you
it
,
as
a
real
Truth
,
that
nothing
renders
Ascanius
more
acceptable
to
me
,
than
Mithridates
Commands
,
and
possibly
I
should
not
lye
if
I
said
nothing
else
;
but
then
I
tell
you
as
great
a
truth
when
I
say
,
That
that
it self
is
more
powerful
with
me
than
any
thing
which
can
flow
from
my
own
inclinations
;
for
I
know
by
observing
those
I
may
err
,
but
by
observing
that
I
cannot
.
For
as
to
what
you
mention'd
,
that
it
would
add
unto
my
trouble
to
consider
that
my
Vertue
occasion'd
it
;
I
answer
,
it
would
much
more
afflict
me
to
avoid
an
evil
by
an
evil
,
than
to
endure
an
evil
for
having
done
what
was
good
:
for
the
event
is
only
in
the
power
of
the
gods
,
but
the
performance
of
Duty
is
in
my
own
.
Never
,
continued
Callimachus
,
never
did
any
words
at
once
so
much
cure
and
so
much
wound
as
these
;
and
never
was
any
confidence
higher
rewarded
and
higer
punished
,
than
mine
,
which
asking
such
a
question
,
received
such
an
answer
.
But
,
not
to
appear
too
much
surprised
at
what
she
had
last
said
,
I
replyed
;
I
have
heard
,
Fortune
delights
to
make
some
men
perfectly
happy
,
and
some
as
perfectly
miserable
;
which
last
I
have
,
and
do
experiment
,
and
the
first
you
have
now
justified
in
Ascanius
:
for
nothing
could
cloud
his
felicity
,
but
to
know
,
your
obedience
only
does
invest
him
in
it
,
and
that
he
is
as
unlikely
to
know
,
as
not
knowing
it
he
is
unlikely
to
think
any
happiness
is
equal
to
his
;
or
indeed
if
he
knew
it
,
it
might
still
leave
him
in
that
condition
:
for
what
you
say
would
not
be
highly
considerable
,
when
what
you
do
is
so
infinitely
so
:
Nor
,
Madam
,
will
I
presume
to
argue
in
the
furture
against
your
obedience
,
since
I
feel
you
are
so
unchangeably
fix'd
upon
it
,
and
so
far
engaged
in
it
,
that
though
I
might
convince
your
Reason
,
I
should
not
be
able
to
change
your
Resolution
;
Pardon
me
,
Madam
,
if
I
have
made
use
of
an
expression
,
which
had
been
too
arrogant
had
I
spoke
it
upon
my
own
score
;
and
may
be
pardonable
from
so
great
a
goodness
as
yours
,
it
being
spoken
on
your
generous
Brother's
,
who
will
not
only
by
your
Marriage
be
deprived
of
his
powerfullest
supporter
,
even
when
Pharnaces's
anger
will
most
need
your
continuing
such
;
but
also
tear
you
from
him
,
whom
he
as
certainly
values
above
all
things
,
as
you
merit
to
be
so
;
And
if
,
Madam
,
after
what
I
have
said
,
I
may
be
permitted
to
mention
any
thing
so
low
and
inconsiderable
as
my
own
contentment
,
excuse
me
if
I
say
,
After
you
are
Queen
of
Cyprus
,
I
shall
never
expect
to
see
any
:
the
sadness
that
Title
will
involve
your
Noble
Brother
in
,
were
there
no
other
consideration
,
will
strike
me
with
a
grief
I
should
much
rather
elect
to
dye
by
,
than
to
live
under
.
This
,
generous
Princes
,
(
continued
Callimachus
)
was
all
I
did
say
,
and
indeed
all
I
durst
;
and
I
had
more
reason
to
think
I
had
spoke
too
much
than
too
little
,
when
I
heard
her
thus
answer
;
Would
to
the
gods
,
Callimachus
,
I
had
miss'd
this
last
discourse
with
you
,
for
it
hath
left
so
deep
an
impression
in
me
,
that
I
can
hardly
hope
it
will
ever
be
defaced
.
I
confess
I
tremble
when
I
think
upon
Pharnaces
humour
,
and
how
naked
Atafernes
will
be
left
when
I
am
removed
at
a
distance
,
unable
to
do
him
those
Services
my
interest
in
my
Father
gave
me
hitherto
power
to
pay
him
.
I
cannot
too
,
without
horror
,
reflect
upon
my
eternal
separation
from
that
poor
Prince
,
in
whose
Society
and
friendship
I
have
enjoy'd
a
happiness
I
must
despair
of
finding
in
all
things
else
:
I
must
also
confess
,
I
resent
no
little
trouble
at
my
being
to
be
banished
from
Callimachus
,
who
has
placed
on
me
so
many
indelible
Obligations
,
and
in
whom
without
flattery
I
have
found
such
eminent
and
singular
worth
,
that
I
know
nothing
he
could
wish
that
I
do
not
wish
him
:
nay
,
I
attest
the
gods
,
had
they
made
me
the
Distributor
of
their
Rewards
,
I
would
joyfully
have
placed
him
in
whatever
he
ambitions
,
and
that
without
any
reservation
:
This
,
generous
Callimachus
,
is
all
my
unhappy
condition
makes
me
able
to
do
for
you
,
and
therefore
I
hope
will
be
accepted
of
by
you
,
Madam
,
I
replyed
,
prostrating
my self
at
her
Feet
(
which
I
the
boldlier
did
,
because
I
saw
Roxana
and
Atafernes
had
their
Backs
towards
us
,
and
were
looking
out
of
a
Window
)
what
you
are
,
and
what
you
say
,
makes
me
attest
the
self-same
gods
as
my
Witnesses
,
That
had
I
by
Birth
or
Virtue
possessed
all
the
Empires
of
the
World
,
I
would
have
lay'd
all
them
and
my self
at
your
Feet
;
and
have
more
gloried
in
doing
that
,
than
in
commanding
them
:
But
since
the
gods
have
concealed
from
me
my
Birth
,
and
given
me
only
a
Sword
to
raise
my self
with
,
whereby
I
am
unable
to
act
any
thing
worth
your
acceptance
,
permit
me
at
least
to
say
,
what
my
performances
should
have
said
for
me
;
that
never
,
never
was
there
any
passion
like
to
that
I
have
for
your
Service
,
and
never
any
life
could
be
so
nobly
employ'd
,
and
ended
as
I
should
think
mine
would
be
were
it
to
be
spent
,
and
were
I
to
dye
therin
;
nor
would
I
ever
desire
a
higher
recompence
for
doing
so
,
than
I
should
receive
in
doing
so
:
Possibly
,
Madam
,
studying
too
much
for
what
I
should
say
,
I
mind
not
well
what
I
say
,
and
therein
may
have
offended
;
by
which
you
may
in
some
measure
judg
what
an
unfortunate
person
I
am
,
that
even
for
those
expressions
by
which
I
would
deserve
your
favour
,
I
must
absolutely
need
it
.
But
(
Madam
)
will
you
pardon
me
,
if
I
am
forced
to
ask
you
if
you
do
not
think
there
is
as
just
a
debt
due
to
a
Friend
that
is
also
a
Brother
,
as
to
a
Father
?
and
whether
you
have
endeavoured
all
you
can
to
pay
that
,
before
you
engage
your self
so
positively
to
pay
this
.
I
know
(
Madam
)
I
could
scarce
be
guilty
of
this
confidence
,
nor
were
it
indeed
pardonable
,
but
upon
the
score
of
the
Prince
Atafernes
,
whose
contentment
you
have
so
often
recommended
to
my
care
,
that
I
had
rather
trouble
you
in
obeying
that
command
,
than
avoid
doing
it
by
so
criminal
a
silence
.
The
fair
Statira
having
first
commanded
and
made
me
to
rise
:
told
me
,
Your
care
for
my
Brother
which
I
have
so
often
recommended
to
you
,
is
so
much
my
desire
,
and
has
been
so
much
my
satisfaction
,
that
I
cannot
condemn
any
production
of
it
,
though
this
does
both
violate
what
you
even
now
promised
,
and
encreases
a
grief
which
is
of
it self
already
but
too
unsupportable
;
and
therefore
I
will
not
scruple
to
assure
you
,
that
in
the
sense
of
my
being
to
be
banished
from
A●afernes
,
I
have
been
so
importunate
with
Mithridates
to
free
me
from
Ascanius
addresses
,
that
you
cannot
think
me
so
religious
a
worshipper
of
Obedience
,
as
I
fear
he
does
the
contrary
.
Let
this
truth
therefore
which
I
have
now
spoke
,
and
which
I
am
resolved
never
to
speak
again
,
or
ever
thought
to
disclose
,
be
sufficient
to
absolve
me
in
your
judgment
;
and
hence
forwards
do
not
condemn
,
but
pity
an
unfortunate
person
,
who
having
tryed
all
just
ways
to
avoid
being
so
,
has
at
last
elected
to
submit
to
a
Fate
,
which
she
cannot
decline
,
but
by
what
would
render
her
too
worthy
of
it
.
Here
(
said
Callimachus
)
that
admirable
Equality
which
this
fair
Princess
had
so
unintermissively
practised
,
was
overcome
by
some
tears
which
the
end
of
her
Discourse
drew
from
her
,
which
suddenly
after
being
asham'd
of
,
and
to
let
me
fee
hers
had
rather
been
surprised
than
conquered
,
drying
up
her
fair
eyes
,
and
putting
on
her
usual
looks
she
told
me
:
I
know
not
,
Callimachus
,
what
influence
you
have
ov●●
me
,
but
you
have
made
me
do
and
say
more
than
I
thought
even
〈◊〉nes
himself
could
.
And
since
you
have
so
far
pierced
into
my
secrets
,
allow
me
a
little
to
enquire
after
yours
,
and
tell
me
what
Discourse
you
could
have
with
the
Queen
,
which
could
send
her
so
hastily
,
and
in
such
disorders
from
you
?
for
if
I
be
not
much
deceived
,
her
Eyes
were
full
of
Tears
,
and
her
Face
of
sadness
,
when
she
retired
.
Ah
,
Madam
,
I
replyed
,
After
what
you
have
told
me
,
do
not
think
I
am
capable
of
doing
any
thing
but
of
lamenting
your
condition
,
and
of
offering
you
my
Sword
and
Life
to
redress
it
.
The
gods
forbid
(
she
hastily
answer'd
)
you
should
have
so
criminal
a
thought
:
No
,
Callimachus
,
I
tell
you
positively
,
if
ever
you
should
again
mention
such
a
thing
to
me
,
much
more
endeavour
it
,
you
would
cast
me
into
greater
miseries
than
you
would
free
me
from
,
and
convert
that
high
friendship
I
have
for
you
,
into
a
proportionate
hate
.
Before
the
Princess
had
fully
ended
these
words
,
Pharnaces
came
into
the
Gallery
,
and
thereby
put
a
period
to
an
entertainment
which
had
darkly
given
me
some
small
satisfaction
,
and
had
clearly
discovered
,
that
was
all
I
was
to
expect
.
As
soon
as
the
Princesses
and
Pharnaces
were
gone
,
I
gave
Atafernes
a
million
of
acknowledgments
for
that
opportunity
I
had
derived
from
his
favour
,
and
an
account
how
I
had
employ'd
it
.
I
will
not
trouble
you
with
a
relation
of
those
generous
offers
he
made
me
of
acting
himself
what
Statira's
commands
had
bound
me
from
;
nor
of
those
reasons
and
prayers
I
made
use
of
to
divert
him
from
it
.
Neither
will
I
tell
you
how
I
entertained
my self
that
fatal
night
,
during
which
I
slept
as
little
as
I
do
now
;
being
too
sensibly
afflicted
with
the
considerations
,
that
it
should
be
the
last
of
my
hopes
;
and
that
my
misery
was
denied
the
common
consolation
of
having
it
build
the
felicity
of
my
Mistris
,
who
in
one
performance
was
to
make
her self
and
me
unhappy
.
Nor
indeed
can
I
tell
you
all
those
confused
thoughts
my
Love
and
Despair
dictated
to
me
,
which
left
me
not
till
the
day
appeared
,
and
that
the
hurry
and
noise
of
the
preparatives
for
the
Nuptials
,
made
me
to
begin
to
feel
I
was
to
provide
to
endure
an
unhappiness
I
was
not
able
to
prevent
.
Here
Callimachus
observing
the
heat
of
the
Sun
began
to
be
too
offensive
,
and
by
this
time
being
come
to
the
River
Cyris
(
which
not
many
furlongs
off
,
continuing
still
navigable
,
falls
into
the
Euphrates
)
the
banks
whereof
were
shaded
with
divers
Trees
which
might
afford
an
obliging
shelter
against
that
Enemy
they
endeavour'd
to
avoid
,
desired
Artabbanes
and
Artavasdes
to
take
the
benefit
of
that
natural
defence
,
whilst
his
Servants
would
prepare
an
Entertainment
as
good
as
the
place
would
afford
.
Our
two
Heroes
had
been
so
pleas'd
with
his
Relation
,
that
(
doubtless
)
had
they
not
had
more
care
of
him
,
than
of
themselves
,
they
would
have
declin'd
accepting
of
such
a
proffer
,
especially
in
such
a
part
of
his
History
;
but
the
Laws
of
Respect
being
more
prevalent
than
those
of
their
curiosity
,
they
left
the
high-way
,
and
took
a
path
which
led
them
to
a
tust
of
Trees
which
had
many
neighbours
of
the
like
bigness
and
growth
;
but
when
they
came
thither
,
they
saw
an
Horse
tied
unto
an
Oak
,
at
the
foot
whereof
the
Master
of
him
lay
:
His
Armour
was
all
black
,
without
any
thing
in
it
which
might
give
the
least
rise
to
judg
the
cause
of
his
sadness
;
and
his
face
was
turned
to
the
ground
,
whereby
they
were
disenabled
from
the
hopes
of
discovering
who
he
was
by
a
fight
thereof
.
The
noise
which
they
made
when
they
came
near
him
,
did
not
alter
the
posture
he
was
in
;
whereby
they
concluded
a
deep
sleep
,
or
a
proportionate
sorrow
had
seized
upon
him
;
and
therefore
they
withdrew
to
another
shady
place
not
far
from
thence
:
but
before
they
had
well
seated
themselves
in
it
,
they
discovered
a
Boat
ascended
the
River
by
force
of
Oars
,
which
soon
after
came
to
the
Shore
on
the
same
side
they
were
of
,
out
of
which
there
landed
a
young
Gentleman
of
an
admirable
Meen
;
and
soon
after
there
descended
out
of
the
same
Boat
by
his
help
,
two
Ladies
,
which
though
vail'd
,
had
yet
in
their
stature
and
fashion
so
admirable
a
grace
,
and
so
like
unto
Parthenissa's
and
Altizera's
,
that
had
not
Artabbanes
and
Artavasdes
esteem'd
it
as
great
a
crime
to
have
thought
any
therein
could
have
resembled
their
Princesses
,
as
an
impossibility
that
these
could
be
them
,
they
must
have
judged
against
their
eyes
,
or
have
concluded
the
first
of
them
had
seen
a
miracle
,
and
the
last
what
he
would
as
much
have
priz'd
.
These
two
excelent
persons
being
landed
,
there
came
out
of
the
Boat
after
them
only
three
Women
,
and
as
many
Men
,
who
all
together
took
the
way
to
neighbour-Village
,
to
go
to
which
they
were
unavoidably
to
pass
not
far
from
the
Thicket
where
Callimachus
and
his
generous
Friends
were
;
who
observing
it
,
took
as
conceal'd
places
,
and
as
near
the
way
as
they
could
.
Soon
after
the
Strangers
coming
thither
,
and
finding
they
needed
the
shade
they
were
in
,
that
lovely
young
man
which
led
them
,
advised
their
continuance
there
,
whilst
he
sent
one
of
the
servants
before
to
prepare
an
accommodation
for
them
in
the
Village
,
or
to
carry
them
to
the
Vestal
Nuns
at
the
Temple
.
This
motion
being
assented
unto
by
all
,
and
a
servant
employ'd
about
it
;
he
that
made
it
,
having
first
sent
away
all
the
rest
at
a
good
distance
,
embracing
and
kissing
the
two
Beauties
which
were
with
him
,
told
them
;
This
recompence
of
my
services
which
I
now
take
,
you
will
both
confess
is
not
above
their
merit
:
for
now
I
have
brought
you
within
a
few
●urlongs
of
the
place
to
which
I
undertook
to
conduct
you
,
where
I
hope
the
gods
will
soon
give
you
cause
to
believe
they
will
henceforth
reward
that
Constancy
they
have
so
long
permitted
men
to
persecute
;
and
possibly
the
mercy
of
preserving
us
in
so
long
a
journey
,
is
but
an
earnest
of
a
greater
.
I
confess
(
one
of
the
two
repli'd
)
this
last
smile
of
Fortune
is
more
than
we
have
been
acquainted
with
this
long
while
,
and
might
therefore
invite
us
to
believe
she
has
a
mind
to
be
reconciled
:
but
I
have
found
her
so
treacherous
,
that
whilst
she
can
be
my
Enemy
,
I
must
fear
she
will
.
You
know
too
we
are
not
yet
safe
;
neither
do
I
know
,
till
I
hear
of
my
generous
Friend
,
whether
my
condition
will
require
being
so
:
possibly
what
he
may
have
heard
already
,
has
occasion'd
him
to
do
that
which
may
invite
me
to
believe
,
what
I
have
been
freed
from
,
may
be
that
which
I
may
wish
had
not
been
,
and
which
I
may
have
cause
to
elect
again
.
Ah
,
Madam
,
the
other
repli'd
,
how
preferable
is
your
condition
to
mine
!
you
but
fear
that
loss
which
I
have
already
suffer'd
.
'T
is
true
(
said
she
that
had
first
spoken
)
,
but
then
you
are
to
consider
,
though
the
generous
Prince
you
have
lost
,
possessed
your
affection
,
yet
there
is
a
generous
Prince
living
,
who
deserves
it
,
and
who
you
have
confess'd
had
a
juster
title
to
it
than
he
which
by
death
has
now
lost
it
.
You
are
(
Madam
)
a
felicity
great
enough
for
two
,
and
therefore
the
gods
have
destin'd
you
to
reward
those
two
which
have
best
merited
it
.
Oh
gods
!
Madam
,
the
other
repli'd
,
Be
pleased
not
to
wound
me
afresh
with
such
remembrances
,
mine
being
a
grief
,
which
if
it
be
to
be
conquered
,
will
be
better
so
,
by
time
,
than
by
discourse
.
I
know
not
,
said
the
young
Gentleman
,
what
others
may
do
hereafter
,
but
for
the
present
I
pretend
so
great
an
interest
in
you
both
,
and
you
daily
give
me
such
evincements
of
it
,
that
if
either
of
your
former
Lovers
should
chance
to
see
it
,
they
would
conclude
me
more
happy
than
they
could
expect
to
be
;
and
think
I
had
took
too
large
a
possession
,
to
be
cast
out
of
it
,
or
possibly
that
't
were
worth
their
pain
to
do
it
:
But
since
your
discourses
rob
you
of
your
quiet
,
and
that
sleep
may
restore
you
to
it
,
I
would
move
you
till
the
return
of
your
Servant
,
to
endeavour
to
take
all
this
place
will
afford
you
.
This
motion
being
relished
by
both
,
he
took
off
a
loose
garment
he
had
on
,
and
spreading
it
upon
the
ground
,
the
two
Ladies
and
he
laid
themselves
upon
it
,
and
having
all
of
them
embraced
each
other
,
endeavoured
in
that
posture
to
find
a
repose
which
the
distemper
of
their
bodies
,
but
much
more
those
of
their
minds
did
render
so
necessary
.
All
the
while
these
lovely
Strangers
were
thus
discoursing
,
and
thus
doing
,
Artabbanes
and
Artavasdes
were
in
transports
higher
than
till
then
they
had
ever
been
acquainted
with
:
for
though
many
things
in
those
two
Ladies
resembled
Parthenissa
and
Altezeera
,
yet
their
voices
did
it
in
such
perfection
,
that
our
Heroes
were
often
going
openly
to
have
resolved
their
doubts
,
and
had
certainly
done
so
,
if
their
immodest
kisses
and
embraces
had
not
assured
them
of
thelr
mistake
.
Artabbanes
could
much
sooner
believe
his
Princess
was
revived
,
than
that
she
should
be
unchast
;
and
Artavasdes
,
as
perfect
a
Lover
as
he
was
,
could
easilier
believe
that
another
might
be
like
Altezeera
,
than
that
she
could
do
things
so
unlike
her self
:
so
that
whatever
hopes
or
thoughts
their
ears
and
sight
had
given
them
,
were
destroyed
by
the
actions
of
those
two
fair
Strangers
.
A
thousand
times
they
ran
over
all
the
words
they
had
spoke
;
and
though
they
found
therein
something
which
might
have
come
from
their
two
Princesses
,
had
the
one
been
living
,
and
the
other
in
that
place
;
yet
other
parts
of
it
had
so
little
connection
with
those
,
that
the
repetitions
they
made
,
served
rather
to
encrease
their
wonder
,
than
resolve
their
doubts
;
sometimes
also
they
believed
it
a
delusion
of
the
Devil
's
,
who
conspiring
with
Fortune
,
endeavoured
in
this
last
essay
to
conquer
Constancies
which
till
then
they
could
never
but
assault
:
They
were
sometimes
too
about
to
try
if
they
could
see
their
Faces
plainly
,
which
during
their
discourse
they
had
but
imperfect
glimpses
of
.
But
those
resolutions
soon
vanished
:
for
to
think
those
could
be
Parthenissa
and
Altezeera
which
had
done
such
strange
things
,
would
have
appeared
as
admirable
in
our
Heroes
,
as
that
very
Immodesty
would
have
done
in
their
Princesses
.
But
Callimachus
,
who
perceived
their
disorders
,
and
who
being
the
least
interessed
,
was
the
fittest
to
counsel
them
,
advised
they
would
leave
Symander
in
that
concealment
from
whence
they
had
made
their
discovery
,
and
that
they
themselves
would
retire
to
a
shade
at
a
farther
distance
,
where
they
might
take
some
refreshment
,
and
the
better
consider
and
advise
what
was
to
be
done
when
Symander
should
bring
notice
of
their
being
awake
.
This
proposal
was
no
sooner
made
,
than
accepted
of
;
and
our
two
Heroes
,
with
Callimachus
,
went
to
a
place
within
sight
of
the
first
,
where
having
received
a
refreshment
more
proportionate
to
the
Prince
of
Venus's
Priest
,
than
the
place
,
they
conjur'd
him
to
prosecute
his
Story
,
though
what
they
had
seen
and
heard
,
gave
them
impatiencies
,
which
nothing
but
their
desires
of
knowing
so
generous
a
Friend's
Fortunes
,
could
have
dispensed
with
.
Callimochus
at
length
vanquished
with
their
perswasions
,
and
believing
the
Strangers
might
employ
as
much
time
in
sleep
,
as
he
should
in
telling
the
remainder
of
his
Adventures
,
in
these
terms
did
begin
where
he
had
left
off
.
The
End
of
the
Fifth
Part
of
the
History
of
PARTHENISSA
.
PARTHENISSA
,
A
ROMANCE
.
THE
SIXTH
PART
.
To
Her
Royal
Highness
,
the
Princess
Henrietta
Maria
,
Dutchess
of
Orleans
,
and
Daughter
of
England
.
Madam
,
WHen
I
had
last
the
Honour
to
Wait
on
Your
Royal
Highness
,
You
ordered
me
to
write
another
Part
of
Parthenissa
,
and
You
gave
me
leave
at
the
same
time
to
Dedicate
it
to
You.
Only
Your
Commands
,
Madam
,
could
have
made
me
Undertake
that
Work
;
And
only
Your
Permission
could
have
given
me
this
confidence
.
But
since
Your
Royal
Highness
appointed
me
to
Obey
,
it
was
proportionate
to
Your
Goodness
to
Protect
me
in
my
Obedience
;
which
this
Dedication
will
.
For
all
my
faults
in
this
Book
cannot
be
so
great
as
His
,
who
shall
Condemn
what
has
been
Written
for
You
,
and
is
by
Your
own
Allowance
humbly
addrest
to
You.
Nothing
less
than
Your
Name
could
be
my
Sanctuary
;
and
nothing
more
than
Your
Name
can
make
it
inviolable
.
If
ever
Your
Royal
Highness
can
give
away
so
much
of
Your
time
as
must
be
Imploy'd
in
reading
this
Tome
,
You
will
find
in
it
the
Fairest
,
the
Greatest
,
and
the
most
Vertuous
Princess
of
Asia
,
so
much
divided
between
what
She
ows
to
her
Quality
,
and
her
Obedience
,
and
what
She
ows
to
Her
Inclinations
,
and
Her
Gratitude
,
as
possibly
Your
Royal
Highness
may
oblige
Her
at
once
,
both
with
Your
Pity
and
Your
Kindness
.
But
,
Madam
,
She
has
Commanded
me
to
assure
You
,
That
if
You
will
Honour
Her
with
the
Last
,
She
will
neither
desire
,
nor
need
the
First
.
Your
Concernments
for
Her
Misfortunes
will
put
a
Period
to
them
;
since
She
cannot
lament
any
Cause
,
which
will
Produce
for
Her
so
Advantageous
an
Effect
.
I
did
once
design
to
have
Ended
Her
story
in
this
Book
;
But
the
Vicissitudes
of
Her
Fate
were
so
many
,
and
so
various
,
that
I
could
not
confine
it
within
so
narrow
a
compass
.
Nor
was
I
Over-much
solicitous
to
do
it
;
For
since
I
limit
my self
in
the
main
Events
to
the
Truth
of
the
History
,
I
was
Apprehensive
,
Madam
,
that
the
ill
Result
of
Her
Destiny
might
have
given
You
as
much
trouble
,
as
the
ill
Stile
in
which
I
should
have
related
it
.
But
,
Madam
,
rather
than
to
Apologize
,
for
having
Written
no
more
,
I
should
humbly
beg
Your
Pardon
for
having
Written
so
much
.
And
since
nothing
can
be
a
nobler
Motive
to
forgive
an
Offence
(
especially
where
the
Person
offended
is
equally
merciful
and
generous
)
than
Ingenuously
to
acknowledg
it
;
I
will
confess
,
That
being
to
draw
the
most
Excellent
Princess
of
that
Age
,
I
took
for
my
Model
the
most
Accomplisht
of
ours
.
And
to
make
the
Portraicture
of
the
fair
Mithridatia
,
I
attempted
,
Madam
,
to
make
it
resemble
Yours
.
But
I
find
the
Coppy
so
unlike
the
Admirable
Original
,
that
I
could
not
go
more
beyond
my
duty
in
the
Design
,
than
I
am
come
short
of
my
intention
in
the
Event
.
But
,
Madam
,
though
whoever
had
been
possest
with
my
Ambition
,
must
have
fallen
into
my
disappointment
;
for
't
is
one
of
Your
Noblest
Advantages
,
to
be
above
description
;
Yet
I
am
so
far
from
being
grieved
at
my
fault
,
as
I
rejoyce
that
I
could
not
avoid
committing
it
:
Since
I
had
exceedingly
rather
want
,
than
have
the
Power
to
describe
You.
As
much
as
Your
Royal
Highness
Transcends
the
Pontick
Princess
in
all
the
Gifts
of
Nature
,
and
Excellencies
of
the
Mind
,
May
You
by
so
much
surpass
Her
in
all
the
Services
of
Fortune
,
and
the
Felicities
of
Power
;
And
may
you
be
inclin'd
to
extend
one
evidence
of
the
Latter
,
by
pardoning
the
confidence
of
laying
at
your
Feet
this
Tribute
now
Paid
you
by
Madam
,
Your
Royal
Highnesses
most
Humble
,
most
Obedient
,
and
most
Devoted
Servant
.
ORRERY
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
SIXTH
PART
.
The
First
BOOK
.
The
Continuation
of
Callimachus
his
HISTORY
.
IBroke
off
(
said
Callimachus
)
the
Relation
of
my
Life
,
in
a
part
of
it
so
full
of
Horrors
for
me
,
that
nothing
could
Equal
it
;
and
in
a
Condition
so
far
above
the
hope
of
Remedy
,
that
nothing
could
be
more
;
for
that
Fatal
Day
was
come
,
which
was
to
place
the
Princess
Statira
in
an
Estate
far
more
inaccessible
to
me
,
than
she
had
been
,
either
by
the
height
of
her
Quality
,
or
the
Lowness
of
mine
:
As
vast
disproportions
as
those
,
having
been
often
Equall'd
by
Love
;
and
had
I
been
so
bless'd
as
to
have
obtained
hers
,
the
other
Obstacle
had
been
Conquer'd
as
an
Effect
of
that
Victory
.
But
now
her
Vows
were
so
entirely
to
confine
her
to
the
Happy
Ascanius's
Affection
;
That
to
have
Sollicited
hers
,
would
have
been
an
Action
as
void
of
Hope
,
as
Virtue
.
Already
the
Sacrifices
were
brought
to
the
Temple
;
The
Augures
were
there
to
judg
of
the
Prophetical
part
of
the
Victims
;
The
People
by
the
way
began
to
sing
the
usual
Songs
,
in
Honour
of
Hymen
;
The
Triumphal
Arches
were
Imbellish'd
with
their
Noblest
Ornaments
;
The
Priest
which
was
to
Joyn
their
hands
,
stood
ready
at
the
Altar
;
and
the
Cyprian
King
himself
,
with
looks
as
full
of
Felicity
as
his
Condition
was
,
came
at
last
,
leading
Statira
into
Atafernes's
Chamber
,
to
Solicite
his
Presence
and
Company
at
the
Nuptial
Solemnities
.
This
Sight
,
Generous
Princes
,
This
sight
had
so
Universal
an
Influence
on
me
,
that
had
not
Ascanius
been
absolutely
intent
upon
his
Request
,
he
might
have
easily
seen
my
Disorders
.
and
as
easily
have
imagined
their
Cause
.
I
had
not
the
Confidence
or
Resolution
to
speak
one
word
to
the
Princess
;
But
mine
Eyes
were
so
unmovably
fixed
upon
hers
,
and
were
so
sad
,
and
languishing
,
that
they
proved
no
uneloquent
Orators
;
for
I
perceived
the
Brightness
of
hers
begin
to
be
obscured
with
a
Cloud
,
which
would
have
dissolved
into
Tears
,
had
not
the
Cyprian
King
turned
towards
her
,
to
implore
the
joyning
of
her
Desires
to
his
Prayers
,
whereby
she
had
been
surprised
in
a
disorder
,
which
though
she
had
much
trouble
to
Conquer
,
yet
(
I
believe
)
it
did
not
equal
that
which
had
occasioned
it
;
from
which
flattering
Belief
,
I
had
still
new
cause
to
condemn
my
Fortune
,
which
never
gave
me
pleasing
hopes
,
but
to
torment
me
;
for
my
condition
was
such
,
that
I
more
needed
what
would
send
me
to
the
Grave
,
than
what
might
disswade
me
from
it
;
had
I
been
Master
of
my
own
Reason
,
I
should
have
attributed
Statira's
grief
,
to
her
being
so
near
a
performance
,
which
would
separate
her
from
a
Brother
,
whose
loss
might
have
but
too
abundantly
justified
the
highest
effect
thereof
;
and
not
have
ascribed
that
Noble
sorrow
to
some
Esteem
she
had
for
the
unhappy
Callimachus
,
whose
Condition
and
Services
were
too
low
to
hope
for
such
a
Felicity
.
The
Generous
Atafernes
was
not
conquered
by
Statira
,
or
Ascanius's
Solicitations
;
Excusing
himself
upon
the
Account
of
his
want
of
health
,
which
going
into
the
Air
,
might
so
much
encrease
,
that
it
might
prove
an
Interruption
in
those
Ceremonies
:
Though
the
real
Cause
was
,
That
he
would
not
assist
at
a
Solemnity
,
which
was
to
Cost
him
(
as
he
afterwards
told
me
)
the
deprivation
of
his
Sister
,
and
possibly
the
loss
of
his
Friend
.
The
King
of
Cyprus
(
not
a
little
troubled
at
this
Refusal
,
which
he
disguised
by
saying
,
He
was
as
much
afflicted
for
that
Indisposition
which
denyed
him
the
honour
of
his
Company
,
as
at
the
want
of
it
)
soon
after
took
his
Leave
;
Mithridates
sending
him
word
,
That
all
things
were
ready
if
he
were
.
This
happy
Summons
he
Joyfully
obeyed
,
and
blush'd
that
he
had
needed
it
;
and
leading
out
the
Princess
,
went
to
possess
a
happiness
as
much
above
Merit
,
as
Description
.
But
whilst
I
reflected
thereon
,
all
my
passions
broke
their
Chains
,
and
did
so
violently
Agitate
me
,
that
my
Reason
could
not
more
Torment
me
,
than
they
(
at
that
time
)
did
;
and
though
Atafernes
Endeavoured
by
his
Arguings
,
and
his
sympathizing
with
me
,
to
perswade
me
to
moderate
a
grief
,
which
I
could
not
Cure
,
yet
all
his
Attempts
were
in
vain
;
I
could
not
consider
what
Statira
was
gone
to
do
,
without
giving
my self
as
much
up
to
despair
,
as
she
was
to
give
her self
up
to
Ascanius
:
The
very
remembrance
of
whose
Name
,
seemed
to
add
more
Fire
to
my
rage
;
in
the
dictates
whereof
(
I
thought
such
Extravagant
things
,
(
that
if
my
memory
could
serve
me
to
repeat
them
,
yet
)
I
should
be
ashamed
to
do
it
.
What
Condition
(
Generous
Hearers
)
could
be
more
Irrecoverable
,
than
mine
seemed
to
be
?
Which
I
have
the
more
particularly
told
you
,
to
raise
your
hopes
,
or
hinder
your
despair
,
for
your
own
;
for
just
in
the
moment
I
had
cause
to
believe
Statira
might
be
giving
her
hand
and
faith
to
the
Cyrian
King
,
Demetrius
came
running
▪
hastily
into
the
Chamber
,
and
(
losing
that
respect
he
owed
to
the
Prince
)
he
told
me
,
I
have
brought
you
(
Sir
)
an
Intelligence
,
which
(
doubtless
)
will
exceedingly
surprize
you
,
if
at
least
it
hath
the
like
Operation
on
you
,
which
it
had
,
and
has
,
on
all
that
Great
Assembly
in
the
Temple
:
At
the
Gate
whereof
,
a
Gentleman
,
who
had
rid
Post
,
in
haste
acquainted
Mithridates
,
That
his
,
and
the
King
of
Cyprus
Fleet
had
fought
with
Nicomedes's
,
in
the
Prospect
of
the
City
of
Carri
,
where
after
a
bloody
dispute
,
Nicomedes
had
remained
the
Conqueror
,
and
that
so
Intirely
,
as
hardly
any
one
had
escaped
,
but
a
few
Quinquereme
Galleys
:
That
Arsides
,
Ascanius's
Brother
,
and
Admiral
,
had
been
kill'd
in
the
first
Heat
of
the
Battel
,
which
had
not
a
little
contributed
to
the
Enemies
Success
;
Who
immediately
after
,
the
wind
blowing
from
the
North
,
had
hoised
up
all
his
Sails
,
and
as
swiftly
(
as
those
and
his
Oars
could
carry
him
)
made
for
the
Bosphorus
;
and
,
as
the
Governor
of
Scutari
did
conjecture
,
would
endeavour
to
surprise
the
Residue
of
the
Cyprian
Fleet
,
in
the
Bay
of
Nicomedia
,
Who
(
if
they
got
not
Intelligence
of
their
Friends
defeat
)
might
be
Conquered
by
their
Security
,
or
(
if
they
did
)
by
their
Fear
,
if
vigorously
Asssaulted
on
the
first
Impression
of
it
.
This
Gentleman
(
whom
the
King
knew
to
be
a
Person
of
Honesty
and
of
Courage
,
and
therefore
through
apprehension
had
not
augmented
the
Loss
or
the
Danger
)
had
scarce
done
speaking
,
but
several
Posts
came
one
upon
the
Heels
of
another
with
Advertisements
from
the
several
Governors
on
the
Coa●●
,
that
a
Prodigious
Fleet
had
already
pass'd
the
Straits
of
Bosphorus
,
and
was
with
all
Celerity
doubling
the
Point
of
Acritas
,
which
makes
the
North-west
Head-land
of
the
Bay
of
Nicomedia
.
These
Reiterated
Assurances
,
gave
the
Two
Kings
on
time
for
Consideration
,
there
being
scarce
time
enough
left
to
prepare
for
Action
.
Ascanius's
misfortunes
could
not
appear
greater
to
him
,
than
his
disorders
did
to
all
the
Assembly
;
The
loss
of
a
Fleet
,
and
a
Brother
much
more
Considerable
,
did
seem
sufficiently
to
Apologize
for
his
Trouble
,
which
yet
he
told
the
Princess
had
a
higher
cause
than
either
or
both
of
those
▪
Which
was
,
That
by
so
Signal
an
Infelicity
he
should
be
cast
into
a
greater
,
That
of
being
a
while
suspended
from
Joys
,
which
,
if
in
degrees
compared
to
his
Losses
,
made
them
appear
little
;
That
his
Brother
&
Navy
could
not
have
been
Noblier
lost
,
than
in
her
Service
,
to
whom
all
he
had
was
both
his
dedication
and
his
debt
;
That
since
Arsides
was
dead
,
there
was
no
other
but
himself
,
with
whom
he
durst
intrust
the
Remainder
of
a
Fleet
,
which
were
to
have
the
Glory
,
not
only
to
fight
for
her
,
but
before
her
;
That
he
had
often
exclaim'd
against
the
Excellency
of
his
Fortune
,
which
had
destin'd
him
the
Highest
Happiness
,
and
had
still
denied
him
the
opportunity
of
Acting
what
might
make
him
the
less
unworthy
of
it
;
That
therefore
the
gods
had
now
removed
that
Occasion
of
Complaint
,
and
thought
it
were
at
a
high
price
,
yet
it
was
not
at
one
he
would
decline
to
purchase
it
at
:
That
he
was
confident
this
day
should
,
in
the
conclusion
,
be
as
a
Signal
for
his
advantage
,
as
the
beginning
of
it
had
been
to
his
prejudice
:
and
,
That
since
a
few
Hours
would
decide
the
difference
,
he
Humbly
begg'd
,
that
all
the
preparations
for
the
Nuptials
might
continue
as
they
were
,
that
at
his
Return
with
Victory
,
he
might
receive
a
Crown
from
her
of
Mirtles
which
he
would
infinitely
value
above
one
of
Lawrel
,
and
which
would
be
a
Cure
above
any
misfortunes
he
had
or
could
undergo
.
Mithridates
was
present
all
this
while
,
and
either
to
satisfie
Ascanius's
Request
,
or
else
to
let
the
people
see
the
confidence
he
had
of
Victory
;
He
commanded
all
the
Assistants
to
continue
as
they
were
,
till
that
King's
Return
,
and
to
joyn
their
Sacrifices
and
Prayers
to
his
Arms.
He
then
commanded
Pharnaces
to
permit
Ascanius
to
draw
out
of
his
Army
what
Soldiers
he
should
need
to
man
his
Fleet
with
;
and
the
like
Orders
he
sent
to
Atafernes's
Forces
:
But
the
Cyp●ian
King
declin'd
that
High
favour
;
possibly
,
left
whilst
he
brought
Mithridates
assistance
,
he
should
seem
to
need
his
.
Ascanius
had
no
sooner
took
leave
of
the
Princess
and
her
Father
,
but
he
was
followed
by
Pharnaces
,
who
publickly
declared
,
He
was
resolved
to
share
in
his
Danger
,
and
Triumph
;
That
it
was
unjust
another
only
should
dispute
his
Quarrel
,
and
he
himself
be
but
a
Looker
on
:
And
that
he
would
let
Mithridates
see
,
he
wanted
not
Inclination
,
or
Courage
,
but
Fortune
to
have
served
him
,
as
eminently
as
his
Brother
.
With
these
and
many
such
Reason
(
continued
Demetrius
)
he
conquer'd
Ascanius's
resolution
,
and
went
with
him
on
Board
his
Fleet
:
which
they
doubtless
had
been
surpriz'd
,
if
the
Solemnity
of
this
Day
,
which
they
were
prepar'd
to
Celebrate
,
had
not
put
them
into
a
readiness
;
and
scarce
were
they
ordered
to
prepare
for
the
Battel
,
when
the
Enemy
,
who
was
to
present
Them
it
,
appear'd
.
In
this
condition
(
said
Demetrius
)
I
left
things
when
I
came
from
the
Temple
:
and
,
if
I
be
not
much
mistaken
,
there
is
a
Tower
at
the
end
of
the
adjoyning
Gallery
,
from
whence
you
may
see
this
Naval
Fight
.
O
gods
!
(
continued
Callimachus
)
What
retributions
did
I
not
pay
you
for
this
admirable
Interruption
and
Bl●ssing
,
which
in
Raptures
I
considered
as
the
fore-runner
of
a
greater
!
Nay
,
the
Generous
Atafernes
was
himself
overjoyed
thereat
;
and
in
his
Servant's
concernment
,
seemed
to
have
forgot
those
he
had
for
his
Father
,
and
his
Countrey
.
I
begg'd
his
leave
a
Thousand
times
to
contribute
my
help
to
those
Force
which
fought
for
Mithridates
;
That
I
might
imitate
my
Prince
,
by
letting
him
see
,
I
had
a
stronger
Inclination
for
what
was
his
,
and
his
Father's
interest
,
than
my
own
.
But
though
he
still
resolutely
denyed
me
,
yet
I
was
not
silenc'd
till
he
told
me
,
't
would
be
fit
I
considered
,
That
not
only
Ascanius
and
Pharnaces
might
esteem
it
as
an
offence
,
that
uninvitedly
I
came
to
participate
in
their
Glory
;
but
that
also
,
having
declined
to
assist
at
the
Nuptials
for
want
of
strength
,
if
I
could
assist
at
the
Fight
,
it
might
give
some
occasion
to
suspect
by
the
one
,
what
caused
the
other
.
These
Reasons
(
I
confess
)
conquer'd
me
,
and
Demetrius
then
returning
with
assurance
,
that
from
the
Tower
he
had
mentioned
,
we
could
see
all
the
Bay
of
Nicomedia
,
the
Scene
of
the
intended
Fight
;
The
Prince
and
I
went
thither
,
having
first
sent
Orders
to
his
Army
to
Imbattel
themselves
along
the
Shore
,
and
to
five
thousand
Men
to
have
a
watchful
Eye
towards
the
City
,
lest
upon
any
ill
Success
of
the
Fleet
,
it
might
be
ready
to
receive
her
former
King
.
As
soon
as
we
came
to
the
uppermost
Room
of
the
Tower
,
which
afforded
so
commanding
a
Prospect
,
we
discovered
the
Cyprian
Fleet
had
weighed
Anchor
,
and
was
with
their
utmost
Industry
striving
to
get
the
Wind
of
Nicomedes
,
which
he
rendred
an
Impossibility
to
do
;
for
he
had
no
sooner
doubled
the
point
of
Acritas
,
but
he
kept
the
Northern
shore
of
the
Bay
so
close
on
his
left-hand
,
that
he
doubted
not
by
that
Advantage
to
get
as
certain
a
Victory
,
as
he
thought
to
have
obtained
by
a
surprise
;
which
failing
of
,
and
seeing
his
Enemies
in
so
good
and
ready
a
form
,
relying
on
the
benefit
he
had
of
the
Wind
,
on
his
Courage
,
and
on
his
former
Success
,
he
resolutely
advanced
,
to
become
as
absolute
Master
of
one
Element
,
as
Mithridates
had
made
himself
of
the
other
:
The
Cyprian
Fleet
inraged
by
the
loss
of
their
Companions
,
animated
by
the
presence
of
their
King
,
and
by
the
glorious
Assembly
on
the
shore
,
loudly
published
,
such
unusual
Incitements
were
of
more
advantage
to
them
,
than
the
Wind
was
now
,
or
the
recent
Victory
had
been
to
their
Enemies
.
In
a
moment
,
we
saw
that
noble
Order
,
which
both
Fleets
had
so
well
observed
,
turned
into
confusion
,
and
Cyprian
and
Nicomedian
Flags
and
Streamers
,
so
promiscuously
mingled
,
that
the
Discomposure
was
then
as
Great
,
as
a
little
before
the
Regularity
had
been
:
sometimes
Galleys
of
equal
strength
had
also
an
equal
Fate
,
and
by
opening
each
other
with
their
Brazen
Beaks
,
sank
both
to
the
bottom
together
,
with
those
fatal
Engines
which
sent
them
thither
:
Sometimes
we
saw
Men
so
eager
after
their
Dawning
success
,
that
they
minded
not
how
by
an
unexpected
Leak
,
they
became
a
prey
to
an
Enemy
more
merciless
than
themselves
,
and
needed
that
help
from
others
,
which
even
then
they
had
denied
to
others
:
Sometimes
the
Heavens
were
darkned
with
a
Cloud
of
Arrows
,
and
then
again
nothing
but
seeming
Lightnings
employ'd
our
Sight
,
occasion'd
by
the
Sun's
reflections
on
the
Helmets
and
Swords
of
the
contending
Soldiers
:
but
though
these
Prospects
afforded
us
variety
of
Objects
to
entertain
us
,
yet
one
above
the
rest
,
did
it
so
intirely
,
that
nothing
else
could
divert
us
from
it
:
and
this
was
,
The
two
Galleys
which
carried
the
Admiral
's
Flags
,
met
,
and
grappled
,
and
so
long
fought
for
the
Victory
,
that
we
thought
there
would
have
been
hardly
any
left
in
either
to
have
solemnized
it
:
But
in
the
conclusion
,
we
saw
one
run
up
the
Main-mast
of
the
Cyprian
Admiral
,
and
having
taken
down
from
thence
the
mark
of
her
being
so
,
forthwith
the
rest
of
the
Fleet
began
to
retire
,
and
in
a
short
while
so
visibly
and
hastily
fled
towards
those
Forces
which
were
their
Friends
and
Spectators
on
the
Shore
,
that
we
could
no
longer
doubt
of
Ascanius
and
Pharnaces's
Defeat
;
but
in
it
,
I
was
so
equally
divided
between
the
Inspirations
of
Interest
,
and
those
of
Honour
,
that
the
one
not
intirely
overcoming
the
other
,
I
remained
neither
sensible
of
Joy
or
Grief
:
But
Ataphernes
,
who
,
by
his
condition
,
was
left
to
a
more
free
way
of
resolving
,
than
my
unfortunate
one
left
me
;
cried
out
,
Callimachus
,
I
know
not
what
disorder
this
Loss
may
bring
amongst
our
Soldiers
;
Nor
what
intelligence
Nicomedes
may
have
in
this
City
(
over
which
,
but
by
the
Fate
of
War
,
he
is
lawful
King
)
;
therefore
,
if
your
strength
will
permit
you
,
see
to
the
safety
of
it
,
if
Mithridates
has
not
given
particular
Orders
therein
already
;
and
I
will
hasten
down
to
the
Strand
to
save
what
we
can
of
our
Vanquish'd
friends
,
and
to
oppose
any
Descent
the
Enemy
may
make
in
this
confusion
of
our
Affairs
.
Though
I
had
not
Health
enough
to
see
Ascanius
possess
Statira
,
yet
I
had
enough
to
defend
her
against
Nicomedes
;
and
with
Joy
accepting
that
employment
,
Ataphernes
forthwith
commanded
a
couple
of
Chariots
to
be
brought
us
,
for
we
were
not
in
a
condition
,
without
much
pain
,
either
on
Foot
,
or
on
Horse-back
,
to
act
those
Duties
we
held
necessary
,
and
had
therefore
undertaken
:
The
Prince's
Chariot
being
first
come
,
and
he
having
the
longer
way
to
go
,
instantly
made
use
of
it
;
and
mine
soon
after
coming
,
I
forthwith
went
in
it
,
from
the
Palace
,
towards
the
great
place
of
Arms
in
the
Center
of
the
City
;
but
by
the
way
,
I
was
met
by
the
then
Chief
Magistrate
of
Nicomedia
,
and
Mithridates's
natural
Subject
,
who
told
me
,
he
had
even
then
presented
his
apprehensions
to
the
Prince
of
some
Conspiracy
by
the
Nicomedians
,
who
were
more
active
and
stirring
,
than
he
had
observed
them
ever
to
have
been
in
Alarms
;
and
that
Ataphernes
had
commanded
him
to
impart
this
Intelligence
to
me
:
I
thanked
him
for
his
care
,
desired
a
continuance
of
it
,
and
that
he
would
forthwith
draw
all
the
Citizens
into
Arms
,
of
whose
Fidelity
he
was
groundedly
confident
,
and
have
a
vigilant
eye
over
the
rest
.
I
forthwith
dispatch'd
some
of
my
Servants
to
Ataphernes's
Camp
,
with
repeated
Orders
to
have
their
Men
in
a
readiness
,
with
parties
of
Horse
constantly
moving
between
Nicomedia
and
the
Army
,
that
if
any
thing
were
stirring
,
they
might
with
the
needed
Celerity
repair
to
the
City
and
defence
of
Mithridates
,
securing
the
Gate
that
was
next
the
Camp
,
to
be
thereby
certain
of
admittance
,
if
there
were
need
:
When
these
Orders
were
given
,
finding
the
King
had
left
none
particularly
to
answer
a
Revolt
within
the
Walls
,
I
did
the
more
hastily
put
the
Pontick
Militia
of
Nicomedia
in
Arms
;
and
no
sooner
were
they
in
a
posture
to
Fight
,
but
the
occasion
was
offer'd
;
for
most
of
the
ancient
Inhabitants
of
the
place
,
hearing
of
their
King's
success
,
took
up
Arms
to
encrease
it
;
and
thinking
to
surprise
us
,
began
the
Ingagement
with
that
Fury
,
which
usually
possesses
such
as
promise
themselves
Success
,
or
,
wanting
it
,
are
certain
of
Death
;
I
was
not
over-forward
to
oppose
them
,
not
knowing
the
Courages
of
those
I
headed
,
and
being
(
with
much
difficulty
)
able
to
make
use
of
a
Horse
which
then
was
brought
me
:
But
principally
,
because
I
knew
the
Conspirators
party
was
at
the
heighth
,
and
mine
would
be
increasing
;
for
some
time
,
I
was
therefore
contented
not
to
lose
Ground
,
as
my
Enemies
were
,
that
I
won
none
:
When
a
hasty
Intelligence
was
brought
me
,
that
a
rich
Nicomedian
had
invited
the
Princess
Statira
to
a
Gallery
in
his
House
,
which
stood
much
more
commodiously
to
see
the
Fleets
,
than
any
part
of
the
Temple
;
and
that
she
was
no
sooner
there
,
but
her
Gentlemen
were
assaulted
,
who
yet
defended
themselves
with
some
resolution
,
but
(
if
not
instantly
relieved
)
their
Courages
would
yield
to
their
Enemies
number
:
This
fatal
advice
made
me
cast
off
all
those
cold
prudential
considerations
,
under
which
I
had
thitherto
Acted
;
and
telling
the
danger
the
Princess
was
in
,
to
those
Forcess
I
headed
,
they
seem'd
,
by
an
universal
Acclamation
,
to
evidence
their
sense
of
it
,
and
to
promise
with
the
hazard
of
their
Lives
to
free
her
from
it
;
I
was
loath
to
lose
the
first
heat
of
this
Duty
;
and
,
having
by
a
successful
charge
broke
through
those
which
had
stopt
up
my
way
to
my
relieving
the
Princess
,
I
flew
from
those
as
fast
as
they
had
done
from
me
,
minding
now
no
enemies
but
those
which
were
such
upon
the
most
unpardonable
score
;
as
soon
as
I
had
discovered
them
under
their
Ensigns
,
before
the
Gate
of
that
treacherous
Nicomedian's
House
,
I
saluted
them
with
a
furious
Cry
;
and
finding
by
the
Order
they
were
in
,
they
had
finish'd
their
attempt
,
I
had
not
so
much
patience
as
to
look
behind
me
,
to
see
whether
I
was
well
followed
,
which
I
too
late
found
I
was
not
;
for
many
of
my
Party
thinking
it
safer
and
more
beneficial
to
pursue
a
routed
Enemy
,
than
to
Conquer
one
that
seem'd
to
Brave
them
,
followed
the
Execution
of
those
,
and
left
me
with
a
few
to
conquer
these
.
It
was
a
miracle
I
was
not
worsted
,
my
own
weakness
,
and
the
weakness
of
my
Party
concurring
,
seemed
to
condemn
me
to
a
Defeat
;
against
the
belief
whereof
,
nothing
did
fortifie
me
,
but
the
remembrance
for
whom
,
and
(
possibly
)
in
whose
presence
,
I
fought
:
These
two
Reflections
gave
me
that
strength
,
which
my
late
Wounds
seemed
to
have
denied
me
;
evidencing
thereby
,
that
Love
has
a
higher
power
than
Nature
;
the
weakness
of
this
,
being
repaired
by
the
strength
of
that
.
But
whil'st
I
was
thus
forcing
a
passage
through
a
thousand
Swords
,
I
received
from
a
young
Nicomedian
,
so
large
and
deep
a
Wound
through
my
left
Arm
,
into
my
left
Side
,
that
almost
despairing
of
Victory
,
I
even
bless'd
that
Hand
which
had
given
me
so
great
an
assurance
of
not
out-living
the
loss
of
it
;
yet
still
I
fought
,
esteeming
that
as
great
a
duty
whil'st
I
did
live
,
as
it
was
to
live
no
longer
,
when
I
could
not
by
my
Sword
act
the
Deliverance
of
the
fair
Statira
;
but
I
was
snatch'd
from
these
Melancholy
thoughts
,
by
the
welcome
Cry
of
Demetrius
,
who
aloud
told
me
,
Sir
,
your
relief
is
at
hand
;
he
told
me
what
was
true
:
For
,
immediately
I
heard
the
Trumpets
of
some
of
Ataphernes's
Troops
,
who
having
by
my
Orders
secured
that
Gate
of
Nicomedia
,
next
their
Camp
;
just
as
the
Revolters
were
marching
hastily
to
possess
it
,
had
,
by
it
,
a
free
admittance
into
the
City
;
whose
Revolt
having
been
assured
of
,
and
of
my
danger
,
they
came
hastily
to
punish
the
one
,
and
relieve
the
other
.
Demetrius's
assurance
was
heard
by
the
Enemy
,
as
well
as
by
me
,
and
was
so
throughly
believed
by
them
,
that
what
brought
me
Advertisement
of
a
relief
,
did
also
Act
it
;
for
,
fearing
lest
all
the
Prince's
victorious
Army
was
falling
on
them
,
most
fled
away
towards
the
Harbour
,
and
there
in
Boats
sought
to
save
themselves
under
his
Protection
,
for
whose
Service
only
they
needed
it
;
others
fled
in
at
the
Gate
of
the
House
in
which
Statira
was
,
having
forthwith
Barricado'd
it
,
began
from
the
Court-wall
to
play
upon
my
Relief
with
their
Darts
and
Arrows
.
I
forthwith
commanded
all
those
Troops
which
came
to
my
succour
,
to
leave
their
Horses
,
and
some
to
attempt
the
breaking
open
of
the
Gate
,
others
to
get
Ladders
in
the
adjacent
Houses
to
scale
the
Walls
;
and
in
the
opposite
Buildings
I
placed
some
Foot
(
who
by
this
time
were
come
up
)
to
beat
the
Enemy
from
their
Defences
;
it
seemed
those
that
took
this
House
for
their
Sanctuary
,
were
of
the
resolutest
;
for
though
my
Soldiers
omitted
not
their
Duties
,
yet
they
proved
fruitless
:
My
old
Wounds
,
and
my
new
,
render'd
me
unable
to
lead
my
Men
up
those
Ladders
,
from
whence
so
many
had
been
tumbled
down
,
that
even
the
most
heated
amongst
them
,
were
somewhat
cooled
.
The
much
Blood
I
had
lost
,
made
my
strength
decay
so
visibly
,
that
several
of
the
Officers
came
to
conjure
me
,
to
retire
to
some
place
out
of
danger
of
the
Enemies
shot
,
to
dress
my
Wounds
,
lest
my
longer
neglect
might
render
those
mortal
,
which
possibly
of
themselves
were
not
such
:
But
I
was
deaf
to
all
such
perswasions
,
and
leaning
upon
my
Sword
,
I
did
by
my
words
solicite
their
Courages
,
to
whom
I
was
not
able
to
bring
any
Accession
by
my
Example
,
or
Assistance
:
Never
was
any
disability
so
sensible
as
mine
was
then
to
me
,
to
stand
useless
in
my
Princess's
Service
;
and
when
to
act
it
,
no
other
impediment
remain'd
,
but
forcing
of
an
ordinary
Wall
,
wounded
me
more
than
all
the
Arms
of
the
false
Nicomedians
had
done
:
But
I
was
soon
struck
with
a
deeper
stroak
than
any
yet
I
had
received
,
't
was
with
a
redoubled
Cry
of
some
of
the
Princess's
Women
,
that
they
were
forcing
her
away
into
a
Barge
,
to
carry
her
to
Nicomedes's
Fleet.
This
Advertisement
,
generous
Princes
,
this
Advertisement
acted
a
Miracle
on
me
;
I
lost
not
only
the
remembrance
of
all
my
Wounds
,
but
even
of
the
pain
and
weakness
they
had
given
me
;
and
running
to
the
next
Scaling-Ladder
,
I
climb'd
it
up
,
killed
two
of
those
which
resisted
my
gaining
the
Top
of
it
,
and
having
won
the
Battlements
of
the
Wall
,
I
was
soon
so
well
followed
by
the
rest
of
my
Friends
,
that
the
Enemy
by
a
precipitated
Flight
,
left
us
no
other
trouble
,
but
to
follow
them
:
which
,
whilst
the
Soldiers
were
doing
,
I
flew
to
the
place
where
the
Princess's
Women
continued
their
Cryes
,
by
which
I
was
guided
to
a
small
Key
,
where
the
Barge
they
had
mention'd
was
;
there
I
saw
a
Crowd
of
Soldiers
forcing
into
it
the
fair
Statira
,
and
those
Women
which
had
attended
her
,
for
all
the
Men
had
been
lost
in
her
Defence
:
This
Sight
gave
my
decaying
Strength
a
new
Inspiration
,
in
the
Dictates
whereof
,
by
a
furious
Cry
,
I
warned
the
Ravishers
of
their
inevitable
Death
,
if
they
proceeded
in
their
Crime
:
But
this
was
so
far
from
hindering
what
I
feared
,
that
it
did
but
hasten
it
;
for
knowing
they
had
done
too
much
to
be
pardoned
by
Mithridates
,
and
too
little
to
be
receiv'd
by
Nicomedes
,
unless
they
presented
him
with
some
benefit
to
his
Service
,
as
well
as
endeavour
in
it
:
Leaving
all
the
Women
on
the
shore
,
two
of
the
Nicomedians
by
plain
force
ran
with
Statira
into
it
,
and
the
chief
of
them
commanded
all
the
Rowers
immediately
to
Lanch
from
the
shore
.
This
fatal
Order
was
no
sooner
given
,
than
obey'd
;
so
that
nothing
coming
timely
enough
to
hinder
the
execution
of
it
,
recollecting
all
my
remaining
Forces
,
I
leap'd
into
the
Barge
,
and
passing
my
Sword
through
him
who
commanded
in
it
,
and
who
had
laid
his
impious
hands
upon
the
Princess
,
I
fell
Dead
at
her
feet
;
seeming
in
that
place
to
have
received
the
reward
of
my
Endeavours
;
and
in
that
condition
,
the
punishment
of
their
unsuccessfulness
.
The
Death
of
the
Nicomedian
Commander
raised
a
fury
in
all
his
Soldiers
,
which
my
fall
,
and
the
Barges
being
got
off
from
the
Key
,
gave
them
but
too
much
opportunity
safely
to
discharge
;
and
therefore
running
to
my
Body
with
their
Swords
drawn
,
from
the
Head
of
the
Barge
towards
the
Stern
where
I
lay
,
and
at
which
end
I
had
got
in
(
that
part
being
brought
near
the
Shore
,
for
the
Princess's
more
convenient
going
into
it
)
they
had
doubtless
by
many
new
Wounds
acted
that
,
which
seemingly
had
been
acted
to
their
hands
,
had
not
she
(
forgetting
her
own
misfortune
,
and
contemning
all
their
Arms
)
interposed
her self
between
me
and
them
:
and
,
by
the
majesty
of
a
Look
only
peculiar
to
her self
,
and
able
to
infuse
a
deep
veneration
in
the
most
salvage
hearts
,
put
thereby
a
full
stop
to
their
fury
,
even
in
the
highest
Dictates
of
it
.
She
was
her self
as
much
amazed
to
find
this
unexpected
reverence
,
as
those
were
,
in
whom
she
had
rais'd
it
:
And
therefore
,
not
to
lose
the
desired
effects
of
it
,
she
told
them
;
Barbarians
,
Will
you
,
to
the
horrid
Sin
of
forcing
away
your
King's
Daughter
,
add
that
Inhumanity
,
of
imbruing
your
hands
in
the
blood
of
a
Dead
man
?
The
truth
of
that
reproach
,
and
the
belief
they
gave
to
that
assurance
,
made
them
by
degrees
retire
to
the
Head
of
the
Barge
again
;
which
they
had
no
sooner
done
,
but
the
Princess
,
and
Nerea
,
(
the
only
person
of
all
her
Attendants
which
had
the
Honour
to
participate
in
her
misfortunes
;
for
,
(
as
she
told
us
afterwards
)
finding
they
were
resolv'd
to
force
away
the
fair
Statira
,
she
had
flung
her self
into
the
Barge
at
first
,
not
to
be
separated
from
her
)
.
These
two
,
I
say
,
by
an
excess
of
goodness
,
and
the
Princess
,
of
condescension
,
tearing
of
the
Linnen
they
wore
,
did
with
it
endeavour
to
stop
the
many
springs
of
Blood
which
ran
out
of
my
Body
;
and
by
a
Deluge
of
weeping
,
Statira
her self
celebrated
her
apprehensions
of
my
having
lost
my
Life
;
a
Life
too
nobly
lost
,
since
'
was
in
her
Service
;
and
too
nobly
lamented
,
since
't
was
so
,
even
by
her
Tears
,
But
her
Charity
and
Grief
were
soon
forced
to
resign
their
rooms
to
her
fears
;
for
the
Nicomedian
I
had
run
through
when
I
leap'd
into
the
Barge
,
had
a
Brother
with
him
,
who
more
minding
to
save
his
wounded
Brother
than
to
revenge
him
,
whilst
others
were
running
to
this
,
he
employ'd
himself
in
that
;
but
in
vain
:
For
the
Soldiers
,
which
the
awe
of
the
Princess
had
made
retire
,
were
no
sooner
gone
back
to
their
dying
Captain
,
but
he
expired
in
his
Brother's
Arms
;
who
now
seeing
't
was
no
more
time
to
serve
him
,
ran
to
revenge
him
;
and
finding
my
Sword
(
which
by
accident
lay
near
him
)
covered
with
his
Brother's
blood
,
He
cryed
out
to
his
Soldiers
,
Companions
,
follow
me
,
and
you
shall
see
this
Sword
that
has
acted
yours
,
and
my
loss
,
revenge
it
.
This
was
no
sooner
said
,
than
with
a
furious
look
,
he
ran
towards
the
place
where
I
lay
.
The
words
he
spake
,
were
so
loud
,
that
they
reached
the
Princess's
ears
;
who
,
fearing
lest
those
who
had
been
so
soon
converted
,
might
as
soon
be
guilty
of
a
relapse
,
had
not
so
intirely
minded
me
,
as
not
at
all
to
mind
them
.
And
therefore
,
when
my
intended
Murtherer
was
come
near
me
,
with
Looks
as
bloody
as
his
intention
,
the
Princess
,
by
an
excess
of
generosity
,
interposed
her self
a
second
time
between
me
and
my
Death
,
commanding
Nerea
to
give
me
that
care
,
which
the
cruelty
of
these
men
forced
her
from
contributing
unto
;
and
with
a
Look
,
able
to
have
struck
a
Veneration
and
Awe
into
any
but
him
on
whom
't
was
mis-spent
;
she
told
him
,
Monster
,
Art
thou
alone
of
all
thy
Companions
capable
to
act
a
violence
to
me
,
and
a
barbarity
to
a
dead
Gentleman
?
That
Crime
which
they
were
ashamed
to
have
designed
,
art
not
thou
ashamed
to
perform
?
Madam
,
(
he
replied
,
interrupting
the
Princess
)
'T
is
I
only
of
all
my
Companions
,
who
have
lost
a
Brother
,
and
yet
a
Person
dearer
to
me
upon
the
account
of
Friendship
,
than
of
Blood
;
who
even
now
Dying
in
my
Arms
,
recommended
in
his
last
Breath
his
revenge
to
my
Sword
,
which
by
all
that
is
Sacred
,
nothing
shall
hinder
me
from
.
Cruel
man
!
(
she
answer'd
)
What
Revenge
wouldst
thou
desire
that
is
not
acted
already
for
thee
?
His
Condition
renders
him
uncapable
to
suffer
more
▪
or
thee
to
do
more
:
Malice
it self
ceases
in
Death
;
and
thou
wilt
not
(
I
hope
)
be
worse
than
the
worst
of
Ills.
If
he
were
Dead
(
the
Nicomedian
hastily
answer'd
)
you
would
not
both
have
taken
such
care
in
dressing
his
Wounds
:
neither
whilst
you
fruitlesly
endeavour
to
keep
me
from
encreasing
their
number
,
would
you
employ
your
Woman
to
dress
those
he
already
has
:
No
,
Madam
,
be
he
what
you
say
he
is
,
and
what
I
think
he
is
not
,
this
Innocent
Blood
,
which
covers
this
Sword
,
must
be
wash'd
away
with
his
guilty
Blood
,
who
has
thus
stain'd
it
.
Barbarian
,
(
the
fair
Statira
replyed
)
Canst
thou
draw
from
the
duty
of
a
performance
I
owe
a
Gentleman
which
Died
in
my
defence
,
an
Argument
to
provoke
thy
rage
,
and
increase
thy
guilt
?
Because
our
charity
is
mistaken
in
doing
good
,
lest
thy
malice
from
thence
should
be
mistaken
in
not
doing
ill
,
thou
wilt
run
to
a
Sin
which
past-Ages
have
not
parallel'd
,
neither
future
ones
will
?
What
greater
evidence
canst
thou
have
,
that
Callimachus
is
Dead
,
than
that
thou
hast
his
Sword
?
That
Prince
also
to
whom
thou
art
now
carrying
us
,
is
too
generous
to
receive
under
his
protection
,
a
Person
so
loaded
with
Crimes
;
and
the
wickedness
thou
art
now
intent
to
commit
,
will
out-weigh
the
Service
thou
dost
him
in
making
me
his
Prisoner
;
and
force
him
,
lest
he
share
in
thy
guilt
,
to
deny
thee
the
reward
of
it
.
I
never
use
(
the
Nicomedian
furiously
replied
)
to
sell
my
Services
;
and
those
I
have
now
paid
,
being
done
for
my
King
,
are
both
my
Duty
and
my
Reward
;
and
having
lost
my
Brother
,
do
I
thirst
after
any
other
recompence
,
than
the
satisfaction
of
revenging
him
?
which
lest
your
tears
,
and
prayers
,
might
hinder
my
Prince
from
denying
me
the
right
to
do
,
when
I
come
unto
him
,
I
will
perform
it
before
:
I
conjure
you
therefore
,
Madam
,
as
you
value
your
own
safety
,
do
not
any
longer
put
your self
in
a
posture
of
hazarding
it
,
lest
any
of
those
blows
my
just
resentments
aim
at
him
,
should
fall
where
I
mean
them
not
,
and
make
me
as
actually
guilty
,
as
you
would
perswade
me
I
am
already
intentionally
.
Thou
wouldst
(
said
Statira
)
not
only
commit
a
Sin
,
but
to
do
it
,
wouldst
perswade
me
to
act
another
;
since
thus
to
revenge
thy
Brother's
Death
,
cannot
be
worse
in
thee
,
than
the
permitting
of
it
would
be
in
me
:
Thy
Brother's
Blood
is
shed
in
a
treacherous
Action
,
for
so
I
must
call
what
thou
now
doest
,
though
it
be
for
thy
natural
Prince
,
whom
thou
shouldst
have
followed
in
his
misery
;
or
,
not
having
the
courage
or
honesty
to
do
that
,
thou
shouldst
not
have
had
the
wickedness
to
do
this
.
Thou
didst
live
under
my
Father's
protection
as
a
Subject
,
and
now
forcest
away
his
Daughter
as
a
Traitor
into
the
hands
of
his
Enemies
:
Canst
thou
,
I
say
,
who
in
all
the
actions
of
thy
Life
,
hast
not
done
what
thou
shouldst
do
,
and
done
that
which
thou
shouldst
not
do
,
think
it
a
Duty
to
revenge
a
Brother
,
who
Dy'd
in
the
Crimes
thou
art
guilty
of
?
And
shall
not
I
esteem
it
a
higher
Duty
of
preserve
from
more
than
Inhumanity
,
the
Body
of
a
generous
Prince
,
who
now
lyes
weltring
in
a
deluge
of
Blood
,
only
for
my
defence
?
or
,
If
by
a
Miracle
,
he
should
above
my
belief
,
have
any
remnant
of
Life
remaining
,
shall
I
not
expose
mine
to
defend
his
,
which
had
not
needed
my
defence
,
had
he
not
been
reduced
to
what
it
is
,
by
defending
me
from
thee
,
and
that
Brother
,
whose
just
loss
excites
thy
rage
?
Do
not
think
to
fright
me
from
a
duty
I
would
not
fear
to
pay
,
with
the
certain
loss
of
that
which
thou
dost
thus
threaten
me
with
:
Canst
thou
think
thy
resentments
are
fit
to
be
acted
?
And
canst
thou
have
the
vanity
to
think
thou
canst
terrfie
me
out
of
mine
?
Shall
the
imaginary
Debts
of
wickedness
be
more
punctually
paid
by
thee
,
than
the
real
ones
of
Virtue
by
me
?
Ah!
'T
is
thy
Ignorance
of
good
which
makes
thee
so
bad
,
or
makes
thee
hope
to
make
me
the
like
!
No
,
no
,
If
thou
wilt
go
to
thy
cruelty
,
thou
shalt
go
to
it
through
me
;
I
should
be
more
troubled
to
decline
thy
fury
,
than
to
endure
the
fiercest
effects
of
it
:
Therefore
lose
no
time
,
for
all
thy
solicitations
to
me
,
are
as
vain
as
mine
have
been
to
thee
,
or
rather
for
thee
.
I
will
lose
no
more
time
then
,
since
you
command
me
it
,
(
reply'd
the
angry
Nicomedian
)
I
have
lost
too
much
already
,
and
the
Ghost
of
my
Brother
seems
to
reproach
me
for
that
remissness
,
which
my
respect
to
you
has
made
me
guilty
of
to
him
;
Permit
me
therefore
(
he
continued
,
advancing
nearer
the
Princess
to
lead
you
from
a
sight
which
might
but
heighten
your
displeasure
.
Touch
me
not
(
said
the
fair
Statira
)
;
thy
seeming
care
of
me
,
is
a
real
cruelty
to
me
:
Those
impious
hands
which
are
to
be
imbrued
in
Callimachus's
blood
,
must
not
give
me
any
assistance
;
or
,
if
thou
hast
a
respect
for
me
,
shew
it
in
obeying
my
Commands
,
or
in
granting
my
desires
of
desisting
from
a
Crime
the
gods
will
punish
,
if
Men
would
not
.
Remember
the
condition
thou
art
now
in
,
flying
from
Mithridates's
justice
,
which
may
make
thee
rationally
fear
thou
may'st
one
day
feel
the
highest
effects
of
it
.
Desist
from
this
wickedness
,
and
I
will
engage
to
procure
thee
my
Father's
pardon
;
not
only
a
forgiveness
for
thy self
,
but
for
all
thy
Companions
;
and
the
remittal
of
all
your
Forfeitures
.
Consider
what
it
is
to
be
eternally
banish'd
from
your
native
Country
,
from
your
Friends
,
and
from
all
that
is
dear
unto
you
,
and
to
become
Vagabonds
,
eternally
confin'd
to
an
Element
,
as
merciless
as
thy self
;
for
Nicomedes
has
no
place
but
his
Navy
,
on
which
to
set
his
Foot
:
I
do
not
conjure
thee
,
not
to
bring
me
to
thy
King
.
Keep
me
as
Hostage
there
,
till
what
I
have
promised
be
performed
;
I
ask
not
for
my self
,
I
ask
for
him
,
who
in
serving
me
,
is
render'd
for
ever
unable
to
serve
himself
:
Thou
needest
but
not
to
be
wicked
,
to
be
happy
:
abstaining
from
one
intended
Crime
,
shall
procure
thy
patdon
for
every
one
thou
hast
acted
:
No
man
except
thy self
but
would
lose
all
he
has
,
rather
than
perform
that
Sin
,
which
to
buy
thee
from
,
I
offer
thee
all
that
thou
hast
lost
:
But
,
if
all
my
commands
,
my
desires
,
and
my
offers
move
thee
not
,
as
I
fear
they
will
not
;
(
for
he
that
is
Deaf
to
Virtue
,
probably
will
be
so
to
all
things
else
)
carry
thy
Rage
to
the
highest
;
add
to
the
Barbarity
of
giving
new
Wounds
to
a
generous
Person
that
is
Dead
,
and
to
the
forcing
away
thy
King's
Daughter
,
that
of
shedding
her
blood
also
;
for
thy
Sword
can
no
way
be
so
sensible
to
me
,
as
to
see
it
employ'd
against
him
.
Can
you
,
Madam
,
possibly
believe
(
replyed
the
Nicomedian
)
after
having
unmovedly
heard
all
your
Commands
,
and
with
disdain
(
pardon
me
if
I
must
say
so
)
all
your
offers
,
that
only
an
Inhuman
desire
to
shed
Blood
,
and
not
a
virtuous
Revenge
,
inspires
my
now
resolution
?
And
since
I
am
acted
by
such
a
Principle
,
in
the
name
of
all
the
gods
,
Madam
,
do
no
longer
fruitlesly
endeavour
to
hinder
its
effects
;
were
Callimachus
as
much
Alive
,
as
you
would
perswade
me
he
is
Dead
;
and
from
my
own
being
Alive
,
would
thence
have
assured
me
he
is
Dead
;
were
he
,
I
say
,
in
the
condition
you
wish
him
,
possibly
his
Courage
would
not
have
so
long
protected
him
,
as
my
respect
to
you
has
done
;
He
,
that
at
the
Head
of
a
victorious
Army
,
could
not
force
a
weak
House
,
till
my
Companions
fear
did
more
for
him
,
than
his
own
Valour
;
is
not
an
Enemy
so
much
to
be
fear'd
,
as
you
would
have
me
fear
him
;
nor
a
Friend
so
much
to
be
esteemed
,
as
I
perceive
he
has
the
honour
to
be
esteemed
by
you
.
Whilst
the
Princess
(
continued
Callimachus
)
was
by
more
than
a
Human
goodness
employing
her
words
for
one
so
highly
unworthy
of
them
,
Nerea
had
not
only
stopt
the
bleeding
of
that
great
Wound
I
had
in
my
Side
,
but
also
by
casting
water
upon
my
Face
,
and
by
several
other
things
practised
to
one
in
a
Swoon
,
brought
me
out
of
that
,
which
too
much
Motion
,
and
too
little
Blood
had
cast
me
into
;
and
I
was
no
sooner
come
to
my self
,
than
confusedly
remembring
the
danger
the
fair
Statira
had
been
in
,
and
not
being
able
to
imagine
what
the
result
of
it
had
been
(
fetching
a
deep
groan
)
Oh
gods
!
said
I
,
What
is
become
of
the
Princess
?
Those
few
words
I
spoke
just
as
the
Nicomedian
had
ended
what
I
last
related
,
and
were
no
sooner
heard
by
him
,
than
(
crying
out
aloud
)
Madam
,
Does
your
Dead
man
speak
?
He
at
the
sa●●
time
struck
a
furious
blow
at
me
,
and
said
,
Take
that
as
a
Present
sent
thee
from
the
Manes
of
my
Brother
.
The
violence
of
the
stroak
was
broken
by
the
interposition
of
the
Princess
;
who
,
finding
now
my
Enemy
had
lost
all
respect
to
her
,
and
was
carried
away
by
a
Deaf
fury
to
my
immediate
destruction
,
began
now
to
conclude
,
I
should
immediately
be
what
she
but
fear'd
I
had
been
.
Nerea
,
the
better
to
afford
me
her
help
,
had
set
me
up
against
the
Stern
of
the
Barge
(
the
place
in
which
my
strength
had
so
fatally
left
me
)
which
was
so
narrow
,
that
whilst
the
Princess
stood
before
me
,
none
could
come
on
either
side
to
me
,
so
that
all
the
blows
made
at
me
were
over
her
shoulder
;
therefore
more
offensive
to
me
,
being
hinder'd
at
that
price
,
than
had
they
all
taken
an
unobstructed
effect
.
The
Nicomedian's
words
and
actions
,
made
me
soon
imagine
what
was
doing
,
and
therefore
looking
about
for
my
Sword
,
more
to
punish
his
insolence
to
Statira
,
than
to
defend
,
or
revenge
my self
;
I
endeavour'd
to
get
up
,
but
my
Treacherous
weakness
cast
me
down
again
,
and
left
me
to
the
rage
of
an
insulting
Enemy
;
to
which
I
had
then
been
sacrificed
,
had
not
the
fair
Statira
,
by
a
prodigious
Cruelty
to
her self
,
finding
all
other
ways
unsuccessful
,
cast
her self
upon
me
,
and
by
covering
me
with
her
Body
,
render'd
it
an
impossibility
for
the
Nicomedian
(
but
by
her
Death
)
to
act
mine
.
Nerea
also
seizing
with
all
her
strength
upon
his
Legs
,
did
so
intangle
him
,
that
he
was
not
able
to
move
one
step
to
force
Statira
from
the
posture
she
was
in
;
This
made
him
call
to
some
of
his
Soldiers
to
tear
that
impediment
from
him
,
and
that
safety
from
me
;
who
,
by
striving
to
get
up
,
had
open'd
my
Wound
again
,
and
had
thereby
repeated
my
former
fainting
;
and
therefore
was
not
sensible
,
either
of
my
danger
,
or
of
the
felicity
by
which
yet
I
was
preserved
from
it
;
The
way
of
it
being
infinitely
fuller
of
satisfaction
,
than
the
end
.
The
Nicomedian's
Soldiers
ran
to
obey
their
Captain's
command
;
and
having
with
much
difficulty
forced
Nerea
from
from
his
Knees
,
and
with
infinitely
more
rudeness
forced
the
Princess
off
me
;
lifting
his
Eyes
up
to
Heaven
,
and
his
Sword
into
the
Air
,
He
cryed
out
,
Brother
,
dear
Brother
,
accept
of
this
Sacrifice
,
the
least
that
I
owe
thee
,
and
the
greatest
I
can
pay
thee
.
Statira
by
a
loud
shriek
endeavour'd
to
stop
his
lifted-up
Arm
from
falling
on
me
,
or
by
it
,
endeavoured
to
honour
and
lament
my
Death
;
when
on
a
sudden
,
instead
of
seeing
*
the
Nicomedians's
Sword
fall
upon
my
Head
,
she
saw
it
fall
out
of
his
Hand
,
and
him
soon
after
Dead
at
her
Feet
.
Possibly
,
generous
Princes
,
(
continued
Callimachus
)
never
any
Man
was
so
near
Death
,
and
so
strangely
escaped
it
;
I
have
not
,
to
make
the
deliverance
seem
the
greater
,
made
the
danger
seem
such
;
for
even
in
that
very
instant
,
which
was
between
the
lifting
up
the
Sword
to
kill
me
,
and
the
letting
it
fall
for
that
effect
,
an
Arrow
shot
him
through
the
Heart
.
Statira
has
often
told
me
,
she
thought
it
came
from
Heaven
,
as
a
Return
to
her
prayers
and
tears
:
But
lest
the
truth
might
look
like
a
Fiction
,
permit
me
to
tell
you
what
will
free
it
from
that
unhappiness
.
The
Barge
we
then
were
in
,
was
that
Magnificent
one
which
Mithridates
himself
commonly
made
use
of
,
when
for
his
Divertisement
he
would
take
the
Air
in
the
Bay
;
and
because
it
was
imbellished
with
much
Gilt
,
and
admirable
Painting
,
it
was
kept
in
a
House
built
on
purpose
for
it
upon
Pillars
some
little
distance
from
the
shore
,
lest
the
curiosity
of
the
common
people
might
injure
it
in
either
;
and
therefore
those
to
whose
care
it
was
committed
,
had
a
small
Skiff
,
capable
only
to
hold
the
Rowers
of
the
Barge
,
which
were
twenty
,
in
which
as
they
had
occasion
they
went
to
it
,
and
returned
from
it
.
This
Skiff
,
when
the
Barge
was
thrust
from
the
shore
by
the
Nicomedians
,
at
my
Arrival
had
only
six
Rowers
,
ready
to
receive
such
as
in
their
intended
flight
to
Nicomedes's
Fleet
,
could
not
have
room
enough
in
the
Barge
;
the
Water-men
,
left
in
the
Skiff
,
seeing
the
Barge
hasten
away
,
from
whence
only
they
could
expect
their
relief
,
were
so
amazed
and
terrified
thereat
,
that
before
they
could
resolve
of
any
thing
,
they
were
discovered
by
Demetrius
,
and
by
his
Orders
secured
:
He
having
seen
my
danger
▪
in
having
cast
my self
single
amongst
above
twenty
Armed
men
,
besides
as
many
Rowers
,
and
ready
at
the
time
I
did
so
,
to
sink
under
my
Wounds
,
calling
to
him
some
of
the
nearest
Officers
,
ran
with
them
to
the
Skiff
,
and
just
as
he
was
going
to
leap
into
it
,
he
fell
down
by
the
side
of
it
;
for
,
in
the
Fight
he
had
received
some
Wounds
,
which
his
zeal
in
my
Service
had
not
made
him
consider
.
The
decay
of
his
strength
was
so
great
,
that
it
hardly
gave
him
power
to
say
hastily
to
Rebadates
;
I
recommend
,
valiant
Rebadates
,
Statira
and
Callimachus's
relief
unto
you
,
which
it
seems
the
gods
have
esteemed
me
unworthy
to
contribute
unto
;
Fly
then
,
and
lose
no
time
,
lest
you
lose
them
.
Some
Soldiers
forthwith
took
up
Demetrius
,
and
carried
him
to
the
next
Help
;
In
the
mean
time
,
Rebadates
and
ten
more
of
his
Companions
leap'd
into
the
Skiff
,
and
having
not
only
promised
the
fearful
Rowers
their
pardon
,
but
exceeding
great
rewards
,
if
they
carried
him
time
enough
to
relieve
their
Princess
,
and
me
;
Those
timorous
Men
tugg'd
at
their
Oars
so
vigorously
,
that
Rebadates
soon
perceiv'd
he
went
faster
than
those
he
pursued
,
and
therein
he
was
not
mistaken
;
for
those
in
the
Barge
,
both
Rowers
and
Soldiers
,
being
out
of
all
danger
from
the
shore
,
had
been
at
first
so
intirely
taken
up
with
their
common
design
of
revenging
their
dead
Captain
;
and
after
they
had
been
diverted
from
that
by
the
Princess
,
were
so
intent
in
observing
what
past
between
her
and
his
Brother
,
that
thereby
they
made
such
slow
way
,
as
a
small
Boat
with
few
Rowers
,
might
easily
overtake
them
.
Rebadates
perceiving
a
far
off
the
Barge
full
of
Men
,
(
for
all
in
it
standing
up
,
made
it
appear
so
to
him
)
he
did
esteem
it
advisable
,
by
a
slight
,
to
supply
the
smallness
of
his
number
:
He
therefore
order'd
the
Rowers
to
continue
their
diligence
,
and
on
their
Lives
,
by
no
word
or
signal
,
to
give
any
notice
to
their
late
Companions
,
whowere
in
the
Barge
;
but
rather
,
if
any
question'd
them
,
before
they
came
near
,
they
should
answer
,
they
thought
themselves
happy
they
had
only
brought
away
themselves
:
He
then
appointed
all
his
Friends
to
keep
themselves
undiscovered
,
by
lying
flat
in
the
bottom
of
the
Skiff
with
their
Arms
ready
,
that
as
soon
as
ever
they
came
to
the
stern
of
the
Barge
,
they
might
with
all
their
Arrows
salute
the
Enemy
,
and
second
that
Salutation
by
leaping
in
with
their
drawn
Swords
.
These
directions
were
not
more
exactly
observed
,
than
the
whole
design
happily
succeeded
;
for
,
of
all
that
were
in
the
Barge
,
some
were
wholly
taken
up
in
the
employment
I
already
mentioned
;
and
others
,
who
looking
towards
the
Skiff
,
saw
none
in
it
but
the
known
Rowers
belonging
to
it
,
troubl'd
not
themselves
in
asking
any
questions
,
they
might
at
leisure
be
resolved
off
.
This
gave
our
Relief
the
opportunity
they
wished
:
And
Rebadates
lying
himself
at
the
Head
of
the
Skiff
,
when
he
came
near
the
stern
of
the
Barge
,
seeing
a
bloody
Sword
high
in
the
Air
,
was
at
once
confounded
and
pleas'd
at
it
;
this
,
in
a
belief
it
gave
him
,
I
still
was
alive
,
since
I
alone
was
in
the
Barge
to
oppose
them
;
and
that
from
an
apprehension
,
't
was
so
colour'd
at
my
cost
:
Therefore
,
starting
up
with
all
his
Companions
,
just
in
that
moment
the
Nicomedian
was
going
to
Kill
me
,
by
a
happy
Arrow
he
killed
him
;
and
springing
into
the
Barge
with
his
Friends
,
he
made
such
an
execution
amongst
his
Enemies
,
that
those
of
them
who
had
escaped
the
first
furies
of
it
,
fled
from
the
stern
to
the
Head
of
the
Barge
,
and
there
,
but
by
defending
themselves
,
gave
their
Assaulters
an
encouragement
which
they
needed
not
.
Whilst
Rebadates
was
thus
employing
his
Valour
for
my
safety
,
one
of
his
Companions
was
employing
his
Art
for
the
like
end
:
'T
was
an
Officer
,
who
had
received
so
often
,
and
so
many
Wounds
,
that
by
a
dear
experience
he
had
no
small
Skill
in
the
Cure
of
any
which
were
Curable
;
and
,
because
the
duty
of
his
Profession
often
called
him
unto
danger
,
and
his
Courage
oftner
,
he
never
went
without
things
necessary
about
him
,
for
his
own
or
his
Friend's
use
:
and
seeing
me
lye
in
that
sad
posture
I
was
in
,
and
that
the
fair
Statira
and
Nerea's
help
(
which
they
were
honouring
me
with
again
)
was
too
small
for
a
danger
which
seem'd
so
great
;
observing
also
,
that
his
Companions
had
not
so
much
need
of
his
assistance
as
I
:
He
came
to
afford
me
his
in
so
seasonable
a
time
,
that
he
told
the
Princess
,
though
he
could
not
warrant
the
event
,
yet
he
did
assure
her
,
Had
his
Service
been
never
so
little
delay'd
,
it
could
not
but
have
proved
fatal
to
me
:
But
whilst
this
obliging
person
was
preserving
me
,
his
Friends
were
destroying
my
Enemies
,
in
which
they
prov'd
so
successful
,
that
by
that
time
I
opened
my
Eyes
,
I
could
see
none
of
them
in
a
posture
of
resistance
;
though
the
last
of
them
which
had
been
so
in
a
despair
,
and
expos'd
himself
to
ten
Swords
,
that
he
might
pass
his
own
through
Rebadates
,
which
he
did
,
but
paid
for
that
Wound
,
by
the
loss
of
his
Life
;
yet
Rebadates
by
that
he
had
received
,
fell
,
and
needed
the
assistance
of
that
Friend
;
as
soon
as
I
had
received
from
him
all
which
then
he
could
afford
me
.
Several
others
of
those
Gentlemen
,
by
whose
courage
the
Princess
had
receiv'd
that
deliverance
,
I
was
thought
unworthy
by
the
gods
to
present
her
,
were
so
dangerously
hurt
,
besides
two
which
were
Kill'd
;
that
had
the
Water-men
in
the
Barge
▪
had
half
so
much
courage
as
they
had
fear
,
they
might
have
done
that
with
their
Oars
,
which
their
Masters
fail'd
of
doing
with
their
Swords
:
But
these
Men
,
conscious
of
their
own
guilt
,
and
well
seeing
which
way
the
dispute
was
like
to
be
decided
,
and
having
no
promise
,
or
hope
of
pardon
,
whilst
Rebadates
and
his
Friends
were
Fighting
,
and
the
Princess
,
Nerea
,
and
Tomsones
(
for
so
was
that
Gentleman
called
,
who
had
dress'd
my
Wounds
)
were
intently
bestowing
their
care
on
me
;
the
Water-men
of
the
Barge
had
got
into
the
Skiff
,
and
fled
towards
some
boats
they
saw
afar
off
;
the
Rowers
also
of
the
Skiff
fled
with
them
,
suspecting
their
past-Crimes
would
have
a
more
punctual
payment
,
than
their
late
Services
a
Reward
,
especially
those
being
voluntary
,
these
constrained
;
so
that
by
the
time
we
were
deliver'd
from
our
Enemies
,
we
found
our selves
unable
to
return
to
our
Friends
;
at
least
did
it
so
slowly
,
that
before
we
had
time
sufficiently
to
admire
the
Miracle
of
our
deliverance
,
we
saw
we
needed
another
to
secure
it
:
For
all
the
Rowers
being
fled
,
and
not
above
two
with
Tomsones
being
free
from
Wounds
,
and
thereby
,
as
well
as
by
their
unacquaintedness
in
using
of
an
Oar
,
unable
to
Row
,
we
moved
so
slowly
towards
the
shore
,
that
our
Water-men
had
time
enough
to
overtake
those
Boats
and
Persons
they
fled
unto
;
who
they
found
were
Nicomedians
flying
from
their
City
to
their
King
:
These
being
fully
inform'd
how
great
a
prize
was
in
the
Barge
,
and
how
little
resistance
would
be
made
in
the
defence
of
it
,
and
knowing
well
all
the
Boats
and
Barges
in
Nicomedia
were
carried
from
the
shore
by
their
defeated
Companions
;
they
made
towards
our
Barge
,
hoping
by
presenting
Nicomedes
with
so
great
a
gift
,
they
might
deface
the
blemish
of
their
first
unsuccessfulness
.
Their
Barges
being
so
well
fitted
,
and
ours
so
ill
,
they
had
no
great
difficulty
to
overtake
us
;
and
though
Tomsones
was
a
person
of
great
Valour
,
yet
having
but
three
sound
Men
in
the
Barge
,
and
seeing
about
two
hundred
in
three
others
,
and
many
more
coming
,
thought
it
better
to
use
his
Tongue
than
his
Sword
;
and
therefore
began
,
as
soon
as
they
were
within
Call
,
to
capitulate
with
them
:
Telling
them
,
though
possibly
their
Numbers
might
at
length
oppress
him
and
his
Companions
,
yet
he
assur'd
them
,
ere
they
did
so
,
he
would
lessen
them
considerably
;
and
therefore
he
offer'd
them
,
If
they
were
Inhabitants
of
Nicomedia
,
their
pardons
and
full
Indempnity
,
would
they
carry
the
Princess
and
me
back
to
Mithridates
:
If
they
were
Soldiers
of
the
Fleet
of
Nicomedes
,
and
that
they
could
esteem
a
Lady
,
and
a
dying
Gentleman
fit
Presents
for
them
to
make
,
and
him
to
receive
,
He
would
,
upon
their
faithful
Engagements
of
carrying
us
with
all
Honour
and
Civility
directly
to
their
Prince
,
without
any
opposition
,
yield
himself
upon
the
faith
of
that
Ingagement
.
Whilst
he
was
thus
talking
with
the
several
Companies
which
had
surrounded
him
,
one
of
the
Nicomedians
which
commanded
in
one
of
the
Barges
,
came
gently
behind
Tomsones's
Barge
,
and
then
furiously
leaped
into
it
,
as
soon
as
he
had
joyned
it
;
but
Tomsones
soon
made
him
find
,
that
Treachery
should
be
more
fatal
to
him
that
had
designed
it
,
than
to
him
who
was
to
have
suffer'd
by
it
;
for
at
first
Thrust
,
he
pass'd
his
Sword
through
him
up
to
the
Hilt
,
and
having
thereby
laid
him
Dead
at
his
Feet
;
by
a
second
Thrust
,
having
happily
done
the
like
to
another
;
and
his
few
Companions
by
a
brisk
seconding
him
,
&
mingling
themselves
amongst
those
which
had
Boarded
them
,
made
them
immediately
with
more
Celerity
abandon
our
Barge
,
than
they
had
entred
into
it
;
and
the
rest
seeing
how
ill
this
intended
surprize
had
succeeded
,
were
so
far
from
revenging
,
that
they
openly
condemned
it
,
and
began
to
listen
to
what
had
been
offered
;
esteeming
it
now
a
more
hopeful
thing
to
take
us
by
Capitulation
,
than
by
Force
:
Nay
,
some
of
the
Soberest
amongst
them
,
sensible
of
the
Ills
they
were
to
suffer
,
by
a
wandring
Sea-life
,
and
probably
an
eternal
Banishment
from
their
Countrey
and
Estates
,
and
therefore
much
moved
with
the
assurance
of
the
contrary
,
of
which
they
seem'd
no
way
to
doubt
,
by
reason
of
that
great
Influence
the
Princess
had
over
her
Father
(
who
,
the
more
hopefully
to
conquer
their
doubts
,
had
her self
confirm'd
that
offer
made
them
by
Tomsones
)
began
to
incline
to
the
first
Proposal
rather
than
the
last
,
and
had
actually
accepted
of
it
,
had
not
amongst
that
number
,
(
as
almost
amongst
all
others
)
the
Indiscreeter
,
and
the
Worst
,
been
the
most
;
who
,
being
also
of
a
condition
which
rendre'd
War
their
hopefullest
Trade
,
and
who
expected
more
from
Nicomedes
by
such
a
Present
,
than
to
recover
of
their
own
by
returning
;
and
believing
this
manifested
condescension
of
some
of
their
Companions
,
would
,
when
known
to
Nicomedes
,
render
the
Numbers
which
were
to
share
his
Liberality
,
the
less
,
and
their
Services
which
opposed
it
,
the
greater
,
so
loudly
exclaimed
against
this
,
and
so
readily
promis'd
to
observe
the
other
,
that
the
less
Number
at
length
yielded
to
the
bigger
;
and
We
to
both
;
Tomsones
having
first
made
them
solemnly
Vow
,
that
none
should
enter
our
Barge
but
Water-men
to
Row
it
,
till
we
were
arrived
at
the
victorious
Fleet.
This
he
did
to
secure
himself
,
as
much
as
his
condition
did
admit
,
that
no
incivility
should
be
offer'd
the
Princess
,
nor
to
me
by
a
multitude
,
he
apprehended
,
by
what
they
had
done
,
might
not
be
too
averse
to
it
;
as
also
,
that
thereby
he
kept
himself
in
no
worse
a
posture
for
defence
,
than
he
was
in
before
the
Agreement
,
should
they
by
any
Treachery
violate
or
break
it
.
As
soon
as
we
had
received
our
Rowers
on
Board
,
inviron'd
with
all
the
other
Barges
,
we
moved
directly
to
the
Nicomedian
Fleet
,
which
lay
at
Anchor
about
thirty
Furlongs
from
us
.
All
the
time
we
were
going
thither
,
the
Princess
sat
by
me
,
waiting
for
some
stronger
marks
of
Life
,
than
hitherto
I
had
given
;
and
conjuring
Tomsones
,
by
the
most
pressing
words
she
could
speak
,
to
give
me
all
his
Care
and
Skill
;
and
,
if
after
their
separation
and
Imprisonment
,
Rebadates
,
or
any
of
those
generous
Officers
,
to
whom
,
as
to
him
she
owed
that
little
Life
I
had
,
wanted
any
thing
which
might
contribute
to
their
Recovery
,
that
he
would
acquaint
her
with
it
;
for
she
promised
her self
from
Nicomedes's
Civility
,
all
things
of
that
nature
which
she
could
ask
.
Tomsones
assur'd
the
Princess
of
a
perfect
observance
of
all
her
Commands
:
But
begg'd
,
if
I
should
Dye
of
my
Wounds
,
that
she
would
not
ascribe
it
to
his
neglect
of
them
,
for
they
were
so
deep
and
dangerous
,
and
I
so
weak
,
that
at
their
first
Dressing
,
he
was
not
able
to
form
any
certain
judgment
of
them
;
but
had
more
reason
to
fear
the
worst
,
and
to
believe
the
best
.
These
words
,
as
he
that
spoke
them
did
afterwards
assure
me
,
drew
some
Tears
from
the
fair
Statira's
Eyes
,
and
cast
her
into
a
Melancholy
greater
than
she
had
discover'd
for
her
own
Captivity
.
We
had
not
now
ten
Furlongs
to
the
Fleet
,
when
I
began
to
open
my
Eyes
again
,
and
to
recover
so
much
Memory
,
as
to
call
to
mind
how
I
was
brought
to
that
sad
Condition
:
and
that
the
danger
Mithridatia
had
been
in
,
was
the
cause
of
it
.
But
not
knowing
any
thing
more
,
and
the
incertainty
which
that
I
knew
left
me
in
,
forced
me
to
fetch
a
deep
Groan
,
and
to
say
,
Oh
gods
!
What
is
become
of
the
Princess
?
She
her self
being
near
enough
to
hear
this
Question
,
had
the
goodness
to
answer
it
,
by
saying
,
I
am
here
,
Callimachus
,
and
have
not
any
greater
trouble
than
what
your
danger
gives
me
:
Ah!
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
,
turning
my
faint
Sight
towards
that
place
from
whence
her
Voice
came
)
Mine
is
not
worthy
your
thoughts
,
much
less
your
trouble
;
but
for
the
sake
of
the
gods
,
tell
me
where
you
are
,
and
what
condition
you
are
in
.
The
Princess
justly
believing
the
truth
thereof
would
but
heighten
my
danger
;
told
me
,
As
to
my
condition
,
I
have
acquainted
you
with
it
already
;
and
as
to
the
place
,
we
are
on
the
Water
,
and
in
that
Barge
where
the
gods
have
so
signally
favour'd
your
safety
,
that
I
cannot
think
,
they
will
soon
permit
the
loss
of
a
Life
,
which
by
a
Miracle
they
even
now
have
saved
.
Alas
!
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
I
find
you
are
not
pleas'd
to
return
direct
answers
to
my
humble
desires
;
and
therefore
,
by
your
so
telling
me
,
you
are
not
a
Prisoner
,
you
do
but
too
much
acquaint
me
you
are
one
.
Oh
gods
!
(
I
continued
)
What
has
the
unhappy
Callimachus
done
,
that
you
have
thought
fit
to
call
him
out
for
the
Princess's
deliverance
,
and
then
deny'd
him
the
Honour
of
it
,
and
yet
permitted
him
to
out-live
it
?
Ah!
Take
again
the
Life
you
have
lent
me
,
it
can
now
only
serve
to
torment
me
:
No
Honours
nor
Glories
to
come
,
can
ballance
this
Infamy
;
to
live
to
see
the
fair
Statira
a
Captive
,
and
made
such
by
my
unhappy
defence
of
her
,
is
a
Load
too
great
for
Life
to
support
.
The
deep
Wounds
these
considerations
gave
me
,
not
long
after
made
me
relapse
into
a
more
dangerous
Swoonding
than
any
I
had
before
;
and
though
Statira
,
in
Expressions
far
above
me
,
and
Condescensions
far
below
her
,
endeavour'd
(
whilst
I
was
capable
to
hear
and
observe
them
)
to
remove
the
cause
of
my
despair
;
yet
I
thought
it
built
upon
too
much
Reason
,
to
permit
it
to
be
Vanquish'd
;
nay
,
that
admirable
goodness
which
she
shewed
me
,
was
so
far
from
acting
her
desires
,
that
it
made
me
but
the
more
resolutely
approve
of
mine
own
,
which
was
to
Die
.
My
condition
having
left
me
nothing
more
Elegible
:
since
,
if
I
recover'd
,
't
would
be
but
to
see
that
fair
Princess
in
the
Bonds
of
Imprisonment
,
whilst
she
continued
with
Nicomedes
;
and
in
those
of
Marriage
,
as
soon
as
she
was
freed
from
the
others
,
either
of
which
was
a
misery
that
render'd
Death
a
less
,
than
to
behold
one
of
them
,
Whilst
I
yet
lay
in
a
seeming
Death
,
we
were
come
so
near
the
victorious
Fleet
,
that
one
of
the
Barges
which
had
conducted
us
,
advanced
faster
than
the
rest
,
to
acquaint
the
King
how
they
had
fail'd
of
their
first
design
,
and
what
good
marks
they
brought
him
,
that
they
had
attempted
it
.
This
was
the
cause
,
that
by
that
time
we
were
come
to
the
side
of
the
Admiral
's
Galley
,
Nicomedes
was
ready
to
descend
into
our
Barge
,
which
he
did
,
and
with
many
Civilities
and
Respects
,
strove
to
render
Statira's
loss
of
Liberty
,
as
little
uneasie
as
he
could
.
After
she
had
convinced
him
,
she
was
not
unsensible
of
what
he
said
,
and
did
;
She
told
him
,
There
is
,
Sir
,
in
this
Barge
a
Gentlemen
,
who
though
he
has
been
your
Enemy
,
yet
I
will
believe
you
will
not
deny
him
your
care
.
Madam
,
(
said
Nicomedes
)
I
have
already
been
told
that
Callimachus
is
here
,
and
dangerously
Wounded
;
and
though
he
has
been
my
Enemy
in
so
high
a
degree
,
that
by
his
Sword
I
have
been
kept
out
of
my
Kingdom
,
and
this
Day
out
of
the
chiefest
City
of
it
;
yet
your
Commands
,
and
the
Duty
I
owe
to
Gallantry
,
though
in
an
Enemy
,
shall
make
my
care
of
him
be
as
great
,
as
if
his
Wounds
had
been
received
for
,
and
not
against
me
.
Statira
,
as
Tomsones
afterwards
assur'd
me
,
gave
Nicomedes
more
Acknowledgments
for
what
he
had
promis'd
her
for
me
,
than
for
what
he
had
paid
her
,
for
her self
;
which
had
made
the
Bithynian
King
tell
her
,
I
cannot
,
Madam
,
blame
Callimachus
for
tying
himself
so
absolutely
to
your
Service
,
since
by
the
Honour
of
your
Concernments
for
him
,
he
has
that
Duty
so
advantageously
rewarded
;
and
possibly
,
his
present
condition
is
not
so
much
to
be
lamented
upon
any
account
,
as
that
by
it
he
is
render'd
uncapable
to
know
these
fresh
Obligations
you
lay
upon
him
,
and
to
pay
you
his
Acknowledgments
for
them
.
Callimachus
(
reply'd
the
fair
Statira
blushing
)
has
too
much
hazarded
himself
for
me
,
not
to
make
my
care
of
him
a
Debt
due
unto
him
;
and
since
he
has
been
Prodigal
in
obliging
,
I
ought
to
be
just
in
paying
.
But
I
believe
,
were
he
to
speak
only
the
truth
,
he
would
esteem
his
now
Condition
more
deplorable
,
by
its
rendring
him
uncapable
to
resent
your
generosity
to
him
,
and
to
pay
you
his
retributions
for
it
,
than
on
any
other
score
;
and
since
by
favouring
me
he
is
reduced
to
that
misfortune
,
be
pleas'd
to
accept
of
my
Acknowledgments
for
him
,
till
the
gods
render
him
able
to
present
you
with
his
own
for
himself
.
Nicomedes
,
who
found
by
that
little
disorder
Statira
had
been
in
,
that
what
he
had
intended
only
in
a
Gallantry
,
was
otherwise
received
,
took
a
particular
care
,
no
more
to
err
on
that
side
:
But
having
in
Magnificent
terms
,
applauded
the
justness
and
greatness
of
the
Princess's
care
of
me
,
he
presented
her
his
Hand
to
lead
her
up
into
his
Galley
,
and
then
told
her
;
I
know
not
,
Madam
,
if
you
have
any
other
Commands
to
Honour
me
with
,
for
any
else
in
this
Barge
;
but
if
you
have
,
I
beg
to
receive
them
ere
we
go
out
of
it
.
Sir
,
(
reply'd
Statira
)
Here
are
some
Gentlemen
,
who
had
not
now
been
Prisoners
,
or
Wounded
,
if
their
civility
to
me
had
not
involved
them
in
that
misfortune
:
But
I
know
they
are
in
the
power
of
a
Prince
,
that
renders
any
Intercession
of
mine
for
their
good
usage
,
a
needless
thing
.
Nicomedes
by
bowing
himself
,
acknowledged
that
advantageous
opinion
the
Princess
had
contracted
for
him
;
who
,
to
evince
it
was
a
true
one
,
commanded
some
of
his
Officers
to
take
as
much
care
of
Rebadates
,
and
those
others
that
were
hurt
,
as
they
would
of
their
best
Friends
;
and
to
give
all
the
rest
any
freedom
they
desired
,
but
that
of
returning
to
Nicomedia
;
and
because
he
had
understood
Tomsones
had
dress'd
me
,
&
was
very
happy
and
skilful
in
curing
of
Wounds
,
he
appointed
him
to
be
still
near
me
,
and
to
lye
in
a
Pallet
in
the
next
Cabbin
to
me
.
These
Orders
being
given
,
the
Princess
,
helped
by
Nicomedes
,
ascended
into
his
Admiral
,
and
as
soon
as
she
was
come
into
the
noblest
Room
of
it
,
He
acquainted
her
,
That
her
Brother
,
and
the
Prince
,
who
was
to
have
a
happier
and
nearer
relation
to
her
,
were
in
the
same
Vessel
with
her
;
and
because
he
easily
believed
they
would
have
longing
impatiencies
to
wait
on
her
,
he
would
retire
the
sooner
to
afford
them
that
Honour
.
Statira
had
scarce
time
enough
to
reflect
upon
the
prodigious
changes
of
that
Day
,
but
she
was
interrupted
,
first
by
the
Arrival
of
Pharnaces
,
who
carried
his
Arm
in
a
Scarf
,
having
received
a
Wound
which
had
necessitated
him
thereto
;
and
he
having
condoled
their
common
misfortune
,
and
magnified
the
high
Gallantry
of
the
King
of
Cyprus
,
which
he
solemnly
protested
,
transcended
his
present
misfortune
;
for
while
he
had
been
generously
disputing
in
the
Head
of
his
Galley
,
there
had
enter'd
a
throng
of
Soldiers
,
which
had
Boarded
her
on
her
Quarter
,
and
had
made
him
a
Prisoner
.
Ascanius
himself
immediately
after
came
in
,
but
with
Looks
so
dejected
,
that
Nerea
told
me
afterwards
,
she
more
pitied
his
so
ill
Entertaining
his
Misfortune
,
than
his
having
fallen
into
it
;
and
that
Statira
her self
,
through
all
her
reservedness
,
seem'd
to
think
much
more
of
it
than
she
would
speak
.
The
Cyprian
Prince
,
having
with
all
imaginable
Humility
paid
his
Respects
to
Mithridatia
,
folding
his
Arms
th'
one
within
the
other
,
and
breathing
some
Sighs
,
told
her
;
I
thought
,
Madam
,
to
have
been
called
one
moment
from
the
Temple
,
considering
the
glorious
occasion
that
carried
me
thither
,
had
been
infelicity
enough
to
punish
all
my
Sins
,
but
those
of
daring
to
lift
up
my
desires
to
the
Princess
Statira
.
But
it
seems
the
gods
have
placed
a
higher
punishment
upon
that
noble
and
unavoidable
offence
;
for
they
have
not
only
defeated
my
Fleet
,
which
had
the
great
honour
to
fight
for
you
,
but
even
before
your
Eyes
;
and
have
made
my
Enemies
surprise
me
into
the
infamy
of
out-living
it
.
But
alas
!
I
sadly
find
,
they
have
reserved
for
me
other
miseries
,
which
make
these
hardly
deserve
that
Name
:
for
these
chiefly
,
if
not
wholly
,
relate
to
my self
;
and
so
much
duty
and
veneration
I
owe
your
Beauties
,
that
these
infelicities
I
could
suffer
as
a
just
punishment
of
my
happy
presumption
,
and
as
an
easie
purchase
of
that
blessing
your
extream
mercy
and
condescension
had
rais'd
me
unto
.
But
when
I
find
,
that
to
all
these
Sorrows
,
I
was
reserved
alive
but
to
see
my
Princess
in
captivity
;
and
that
that
calamity
is
an
undeniable
effect
of
my
unsuccessfulness
in
her
Service
(
for
,
had
I
been
victorious
,
where
could
the
treacherous
Nicomedians
have
carried
,
and
where
could
Nicomedes
have
detained
her
?
)
That
,
Madam
,
wounds
me
above
the
Cure
of
Art
,
Reason
,
and
Time
,
and
makes
me
esteem
my
Enemies
saving
my
Life
,
the
highest
torment
could
befall
it
.
Sir
,
(
replied
the
Princess
)
I
am
sensible
of
your
misfortunes
,
and
of
the
grief
with
which
you
bear
them
;
but
cannot
upon
any
terms
ascribe
them
to
that
cause
to
which
you
do
:
Though
sometimes
we
do
not
know
what
those
Sins
are
for
which
we
are
punished
;
yet
we
still
know
,
and
should
always
confess
,
The
gods
are
just
even
in
their
punishments
;
and
oftentimes
repining
at
what
is
done
,
we
provoke
them
to
do
more
.
To
do
more
(
Ascanius
hastily
replied
,
interrupting
her
)
!
Ah
Madam
,
what
can
the
gods
do
more
than
they
have
done
?
And
what
can
they
make
me
suffer
more
than
now
I
do
?
When
one
endures
a
Torment
which
Death
compared
unto
is
an
ease
,
What
can
befall
him
worse
,
than
by
Life
to
be
denied
it
?
Oh
gods
!
(
he
continued
)
What
has
the
wretched
Ascanius
done
,
that
you
have
made
him
feel
,
in
the
compass
of
a
few
hours
,
changes
and
miseries
above
whatever
any
other
did
in
the
whole
course
of
his
life
?
What
Triumphs
and
Glories
was
I
destin'd
unto
in
the
Morning
?
And
what
black
&
deep
Calamities
am
I
plunged
into
in
the
Evening
?
Pardon
me
,
Madam
,
I
humbly
beg
you
,
that
I
do
in
your
sight
give
vent
unto
a
sorrow
which
your
sight
does
animate
and
heighten
;
and
let
your
mercy
so
far
indulge
to
my
condition
,
as
to
excuse
me
,
if
in
an
extraordinary
grief
I
give
evincements
of
it
which
are
not
common
.
Statira
was
going
to
reply
,
when
she
was
interrupted
by
Nicomedes
his
coming
in
to
acquaint
her
,
that
he
paid
so
much
obedience
to
her
Commands
,
that
he
was
not
contented
only
to
order
them
to
be
observed
,
but
he
even
then
came
from
seeing
them
obey'd
:
That
Rebadates's
Wounds
were
not
unpromising
,
but
that
mine
were
not
yet
altogether
so
hopeful
,
yet
that
by
Cordials
I
was
brought
from
my
fainting
:
But
that
when
he
came
from
me
,
I
had
neither
opened
my
eyes
,
nor
spoken
.
Statira
for
those
new
Obligations
gave
Nicomedes
new
Acknowledgments
.
But
Pharnaces
and
Ascanius
not
having
heard
of
my
being
in
the
Galley
,
or
wounded
;
and
the
first
of
them
expressing
a
desire
to
know
how
that
misfortune
was
befallen
me
;
she
gave
them
a
relation
of
it
in
such
advantageous
terms
for
me
,
that
in
it
my
Wounds
and
Sufferings
were
but
too
prodigally
recompenced
.
At
the
end
of
the
Princess's
Narrative
,
one
of
Nicomedes
his
chiefest
Officers
came
to
advertise
him
,
That
the
Gentleman
he
had
sent
to
Mithridates
,
was
return'd
with
an
Answer
from
him
,
which
made
him
withdraw
to
receive
it
:
And
not
long
after
,
Pharnaces
and
Ascanius
began
to
retire
,
to
leave
Statira
to
that
quiet
which
both
her
Mind
and
her
Body
but
too
much
needed
.
But
before
they
had
finished
their
parting-Ceremonies
,
Nicomedes
returned
again
,
and
told
Ascanius
;
Sir
,
You
are
at
liberty
,
at
least
you
are
no
longer
my
Prisoner
;
for
as
soon
as
you
were
made
such
,
I
sent
to
Mithridates
to
offer
you
in
exchange
for
the
King
of
Cappadocia
,
which
he
has
accepted
of
:
Ariobarzanes
will
be
immediately
here
;
and
I
have
engaged
my
Faith
to
the
Pontick
King
,
to
send
you
to
him
.
Ascanius
(
as
Nerea
afterwards
told
me
,
from
whom
I
had
an
account
of
those
things
,
at
which
I
was
not
present
my self
)
seemed
at
this
advertisement
to
have
a
look
mingled
with
joy
and
astonishment
;
but
immediately
after
,
recollecting
himself
,
he
told
Nicomedes
,
I
am
too
much
obliged
both
to
the
great
Mithridates
and
you
;
To
you
,
Sir
,
for
offering
so
advantageous
an
Exchange
;
and
to
him
,
for
accepting
it
.
But
you
have
now
Prisoner
,
a
Princess
,
who
ought
,
the
first
off
all
to
cast
off
that
unhappy
condition
;
and
if
you
can
esteem
any
,
nay
all
those
in
her
Father's
power
,
an
equal
Ransom
for
her
,
and
accept
of
them
,
you
will
thereby
act
a
greater
Victory
over
us
,
than
your
Sword
has
this
Day
given
you
.
Do
not
,
generous
Nicomedes
,
esteem
me
so
unworthy
of
liberty
,
as
to
accept
of
it
,
while
my
Princess
has
lost
hers
;
or
to
allow
for
my
exchange
,
of
a
part
of
that
,
which
I
hope
will
purchase
hers
.
I
confess
(
repli'd
the
Bithynian
King
)
I
propounded
you
for
Ariobarzanes
,
ere
I
knew
of
the
Princess's
misfortune
;
but
had
I
known
of
it
earlier
,
I
should
have
made
Mithridates
no
other
proposal
:
for
I
know
too
well
to
value
the
fair
Statira
,
to
think
any
exchange
in
the
Pontick
King's
power
,
can
be
proportionate
for
her
:
Nay
,
should
I
restore
her
to
him
for
a
quiet
re-possession
of
the
Throne
which
he
keeps
me
out
of
,
I
should
yet
give
him
much
above
what
I
received
from
him
.
Will
you
(
replied
Ascanius
)
accept
of
Ariobarzanes
for
me
,
and
then
me
for
the
Princess
?
that
will
in
effect
present
you
with
two
Kings
for
part
of
her
Ransom
,
and
I
shall
eternally
acknowledg
I
yet
owe
you
more
than
I
have
paid
you
,
or
more
than
ever
I
can
pay
.
This
I
propound
,
has
a
mixture
of
both
those
Virtues
,
in
the
manifestation
of
which
,
I
know
you
are
concerned
;
The
serving
of
your
great
Friend
,
and
your
obliging
the
admirable
Statira
;
which
you
will
abundantly
evidence
,
by
taking
so
little
for
what
deserves
so
much
.
And
your
obligations
to
me
,
will
not
be
inferior
,
since
to
lose
my
liberty
to
restore
the
Princess
to
hers
,
will
in
some
degree
repair
my
having
lost
her
liberty
,
by
first
having
lost
my
own
.
That
which
you
have
offer'd
(
said
Nicom●●es
)
will
doubtless
be
better
accepted
of
by
the
Princess
,
than
it
can
be
by
me
:
She
is
,
in
her self
,
and
in
my
opinion
,
above
all
Ransoms
;
and
when
I
shall
pay
her
the
Duty
I
owe
her
,
it
shall
be
without
mixture
,
lest
that
should
be
esteemed
a
Bargain
,
which
has
nothing
of
so
low
a
nature
in
it
.
This
Noble
Dispute
(
continued
Callimachus
)
lasted
so
long
,
that
ere
it
was
concluded
,
News
was
brought
Nicomedes
,
that
the
King
of
Cappadocia
was
so
near
the
Fleet
,
that
he
could
hardly
have
time
enough
to
meet
him
,
if
he
any
longer
defer'd
going
about
it
.
This
made
the
Bithynian
King
tell
the
Cyprian
,
I
wish
,
Sir
,
you
were
come
to
a
resolution
,
for
I
have
passed
my
engagement
to
Mithridates
,
as
soon
as
I
receive
Ariobarzanes
,
to
return
you
to
him
.
My
resolution
is
already
taken
(
repli'd
Ascanius
)
,
and
a
captivity
at
the
feet
of
my
Princess
,
is
exceedingly
preferable
to
a
Liberty
which
must
force
me
from
thence
.
Here
Pharnaces
interposing
himself
,
desired
Nicomedes
to
go
and
receive
Ariobarzanes
,
whilst
he
and
his
Sister
would
endeavour
to
perswade
the
King
of
Cyprus
.
The
Bithynian
King
,
strangely
perplex'd
at
the
Cyprian's
resolution
,
went
in
great
trouble
to
receive
his
Friend
,
whom
he
was
either
to
send
back
,
having
avowedly
in
his
power
a
sufficient
exchange
for
him
,
or
else
must
deliver
up
the
Princess
Mithridatia
,
for
whose
Exchange
he
had
entertain'd
such
high
hopes
.
On
the
other
side
,
as
soon
as
he
was
gone
,
the
Princess
Statira
,
and
the
Prince
of
Pontus
,
had
no
small
trouble
to
vanquish
the
Cyprian
King's
resolution
;
neither
could
they
ever
conquer
it
,
till
Mithridatia
her self
,
having
told
him
how
fix'd
she
found
Nicomedes
against
her
exchange
;
and
that
by
his
Liberty
she
would
entertain
hopes
,
in
a
few
Moons
he
would
get
together
such
a
Fleet
,
as
might
give
her
that
freedom
by
his
Arms
,
which
his
great
Overtures
had
failed
of
;
and
therefore
,
by
all
the
power
she
had
over
him
,
she
enjoined
him
not
to
decline
an
Offer
which
also
might
be
resented
by
Mithridates
.
In
short
,
Ascanius
obey'd
Statira's
Commands
,
and
Pharnaces
Desires
,
which
,
when
told
to
Nicomedes
,
it
gave
him
a
satisfaction
as
great
as
his
trouble
lately
had
been
;
and
therefore
he
hasten'd
away
Ascanius
,
lest
he
should
relapse
,
and
lest
his
stay
in
the
Fleet
,
after
Ariobarzanes's
Arrival
there
,
should
make
Mithridates
believe
his
generosity
,
and
trust
,
had
not
had
a
fitting
Return
The
King
of
Cyprus
,
before
he
went
,
kneeling
at
Statira's
Feet
,
made
her
many
earnest
and
high
protestations
of
his
Passion
,
and
solemn
Vows
of
speedily
freeing
her
from
her
restraint
,
or
of
losing
his
Life
,
in
the
Duty
of
that
attempt
;
conjuring
her
,
by
all
those
things
she
honoured
with
her
highest
esteem
,
never
to
forget
,
that
the
misery
of
his
being
free
from
all
Captivity
(
but
hers
)
when
she
was
not
,
was
a
pure
effect
of
his
Obedience
,
which
he
hop'd
she
would
believe
could
not
but
be
paid
her
in
all
things
else
,
since
't
was
not
declin'd
in
this
.
Mithridatia
,
with
her
usual
reservedness
,
and
civility
,
gave
him
a
Return
,
and
soon
after
Ascanius
imbracing
Pharnaces
,
with
whom
he
had
contracted
a
strict
Friendship
,
he
took
his
leave
,
having
first
visited
Ariobarzanes
,
Nicomedes
,
and
design'd
to
do
me
also
the
like
honour
;
but
my
condition
render'd
me
uncapable
of
it
,
being
not
then
come
out
of
my
fainting
.
Whilst
Ascanius
was
returning
to
Mithridates
,
Tomsones's
Care
and
Art
had
been
so
successful
,
that
,
by
them
,
I
was
brought
again
to
Life
:
Nicomedes
,
as
soon
as
he
heard
it
,
came
to
visit
me
;
but
being
informed
my
weakness
was
such
,
that
to
be
spoken
unto
,
or
to
speak
,
might
be
highly
prejudicial
to
me
;
he
forthwith
retir'd
again
▪
giving
repeated
Orders
for
my
being
us'd
as
if
I
were
his
Son
:
Civility
in
him
doing
as
much
before
he
knew
who
I
was
,
as
Nature
it self
could
have
done
,
had
he
known
it
.
But
being
assur'd
,
that
my
Recovery
would
be
much
hinder'd
,
if
not
endanger'd
by
the
motion
of
the
Galley
,
and
the
straitness
of
room
in
it
;
and
having
also
observed
Mithridatia
,
even
while
they
were
at
Anchor
in
a
good
Road
,
felt
a
disturbance
,
which
yet
she
would
not
complain
of
;
gave
Orders
to
weigh
and
steer
their
course
for
the
Island
of
Scyros
,
which
was
the
only
place
the
Kings
of
Bithynia
and
Cappadocia
had
left
;
in
which
was
a
Castle
,
where
they
kept
all
their
Magazines
for
their
Fleets
,
and
where
they
usually
detained
their
most
important
Prisoners
:
And
because
this
Island
was
so
considerable
to
them
,
as
that
the
Loss
of
it
would
be
the
loss
of
all
;
they
had
fortified
that
Castle
in
it
so
well
,
as
it
was
esteemed
impregnable
;
two
sides
of
it
standing
on
a
precipice
over
the
Sea
,
and
the
other
two
being
cut
off
from
the
Land
,
by
a
deep
Graft
,
forced
through
a
main
Rock
,
with
three
Fortifications
,
one
within
another
,
consisting
of
Walls
,
and
Towers
,
of
a
prodigious
heighth
and
thickness
,
which
clearly
forbad
all
hopes
of
taking
that
place
,
but
by
Treachery
,
Surprize
,
or
Famine
.
Nicomedes
the
rather
hasten'd
thither
,
because
Ariobarzanes
had
yet
one
Wound
,
whose
Recovery
needed
rest
and
time
.
As
soon
as
the
whole
Fleet
was
moving
,
which
by
their
late
Fight
needed
the
Recruits
of
their
Stores
;
the
Bithynian
King
waited
on
Mithridatia
,
and
told
her
,
That
to
render
her
misfortune
the
less
uneasie
,
and
more
hopeful
to
observe
her
Commands
for
me
,
he
was
going
to
Land
her
in
a
place
where
my
Wounds
might
be
better
looked
after
,
and
where
she
her self
might
resent
less
inconvenience
than
in
that
Element
she
now
was
on
.
Ariobarzanes
also
at
that
time
waited
on
her
,
to
acknowledg
the
noble
Treatment
he
had
received
from
her
Father
whilst
he
had
been
his
Prisoner
,
and
to
assure
her
of
all
the
Respects
he
was
able
to
pay
her
.
Statira
was
not
unsensible
of
these
Civilities
,
and
by
her
Expressions
convinced
them
of
it
:
But
whilst
she
was
in
the
midst
of
them
,
she
was
interrupted
by
the
hasty
coming
in
of
Tomsones
,
who
told
her
;
Madam
,
I
hope
you
will
pardon
this
confidence
,
since
't
is
in
Obedience
to
your
Commands
;
for
having
done
for
Callimachus
all
that
my
Art
has
taught
me
,
and
having
had
Success
almost
above
my
Hopes
,
he
was
no
sooner
come
to
Strength
enough
to
speak
,
but
he
asked
a
particular
account
of
all
that
had
passed
since
his
first
fainting
;
and
though
I
endeavoured
all
I
could
to
disswade
him
from
a
Relation
,
which
I
knew
would
have
some
fatal
Operation
on
him
,
yet
his
resolution
was
not
to
be
conquer'd
;
and
fearing
,
lest
by
an
obstinate
silence
he
might
imagine
what
was
too
bad
,
to
be
yet
worse
,
I
gave
him
a
particular
relation
of
all
,
except
of
the
Danger
you
had
exposed
your self
unto
,
in
saving
him
;
which
was
no
sooner
signified
,
than
he
cryed
out
,
with
much
more
Strength
than
I
thought
he
had
been
Master
of
;
Great
gods
!
Did
you
then
reserve
the
unfortunate
Callimachus
to
the
highest
Honour
,
that
of
defending
the
Princess
Statira
,
only
thereby
to
involve
him
in
a
proportionate
misery
,
that
of
letting
her
by
his
fault
become
a
Captive
!
Yes
,
yes
(
he
continued
)
You
may
be
severe
to
her
,
you
may
be
cruel
to
me
;
but
you
shall
not
any
longer
make
me
such
unto
my self
:
You
may
Cloathe
me
with
Infamy
,
but
you
cannot
force
me
to
wear
it
;
that
ought
only
to
be
the
Livery
of
guilt
:
But
since
you
have
made
it
the
Livery
of
misfortune
,
thus
I
cast
it
off
.
At
these
words
,
he
began
to
tear
off
what
bound
up
his
Wounds
:
and
finding
that
our
holding
him
by
force
,
was
as
dangerous
to
him
by
his
strugling
,
as
if
he
had
left
him
at
liberty
to
act
his
Despair
;
and
that
the
horrour
of
having
been
unsuccessful
in
your
Service
,
only
created
it
;
I
ran
,
Madam
,
to
inform
you
of
it
,
that
by
your
Presence
,
and
your
Commands
you
may
suppress
it
;
for
't
is
uncapable
of
any
other
Cure
.
These
words
were
scarce
out
of
Tomsones's
mouth
,
when
another
of
the
Chirurgeons
came
running
to
confirm
their
truth
;
and
to
add
,
that
I
had
already
,
in
spight
of
all
their
opposition
,
opened
one
of
my
Wounds
,
and
that
if
I
did
the
like
to
the
greatest
,
such
a
Flux
of
Blood
would
run
from
thence
,
that
with
it
my
Life
would
go
away
.
Statira
transported
with
fear
,
and
fill'd
with
an
excess
of
goodness
,
having
begg'd
the
pardons
of
the
two
Kings
for
leaving
them
,
went
precipitately
to
my
Cabin
,
which
was
not
so
far
from
hers
,
but
that
she
could
hear
the
Cries
of
those
that
tended
me
;
and
as
soon
as
she
came
thither
,
she
found
me
in
that
condition
she
had
been
informed
I
was
in
;
and
therefore
,
holding
one
of
my
hands
,
she
told
me
;
Is
it
thus
,
Callimachus
,
that
you
evince
your
Acknowledgments
to
the
gods
for
their
late
preserving
your
Life
!
A
Life
,
they
shewed
themselves
so
much
concerned
in
,
that
rather
than
lose
it
,
they
chose
to
save
it
by
a
Miracle
!
The
sight
of
the
Princess
,
with
the
words
she
spoke
,
and
the
action
she
did
,
put
a
period
immediately
to
all
those
effects
of
my
sorrow
and
despair
,
and
made
me
in
Gestures
full
of
Humility
,
reply
;
Can
you
still
,
Madam
,
can
you
still
have
any
care
for
a
Person
,
who
wanting
success
in
the
Honour
of
your
Service
,
could
out-live
that
misery
?
Or
,
do
you
esteem
that
Sin
merits
the
punishment
of
surviving
it
,
as
the
highest
can
be
inflicted
on
it
?
You
have
committed
no
Sin
,
(
said
Mithridatia
)
but
in
endeavouring
to
act
that
,
which
therefore
has
forced
me
to
come
and
hinder
it
;
not
as
a
punishment
of
what
you
could
not
do
,
but
as
a
Duty
for
what
you
have
done
:
I
have
seen
your
Virtue
shine
in
all
Conditions
,
but
Captivity
;
and
in
that
it
chiefly
evidences
it self
:
the
gods
therefore
have
chose
sooner
to
deny
your
Courage
its
ordinary
effects
,
than
to
deny
your
Merit
so
extraordinary
a
Rise
to
manifest
its
greatness
.
Ah!
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
interrupting
her
,
Can
you
then
so
much
as
add
unto
my
Affliction
,
as
to
think
it
can
proceed
from
my
own
being
a
Prisoner
,
when
even
you
your self
are
one
,
and
made
one
by
my
fault
?
He
,
Madam
,
that
wanted
not
Fortitude
to
sustain
the
unhappiness
of
being
Ignorant
what
or
from
whence
he
is
;
of
having
in
an
object
,
or
unknown
extraction
,
Ambition
fit
for
,
if
not
transcending
the
highest
;
and
that
could
without
Dying
,
see
a
misery
to
which
Death
is
infinitely
preferable
;
He
,
I
say
,
that
could
endure
,
and
not
sink
under
these
Burthens
,
cannot
be
suspected
to
fall
under
any
others
,
abstractedly
relating
to
himself
:
No
,
Madam
,
they
are
your
Sufferings
,
occasion'd
by
my
Crime
,
that
weigh
me
down
unto
Death
;
which
I
hope
you
will
not
deny
me
to
embrace
,
since
I
have
no
way
but
that
left
me
to
evince
to
the
World
,
my
misery
is
not
my
fault
;
for
none
can
justly
believe
he
that
elected
Dying
,
because
he
did
not
serve
you
as
he
ought
,
did
neglect
to
serve
you
as
he
ought
for
fear
of
Dying
.
Since
(
reply'd
the
fair
Statira
)
't
is
my
condition
only
which
inspires
you
with
such
Criminal
resolutions
,
I
hall
not
much
doubt
to
suppress
them
,
when
I
mind
you
,
that
to
endeavour
to
remedy
it
,
is
more
suitable
to
Callimachus
,
than
to
despair
of
it
.
Can
you
think
my
Imprisonment
a
deep
Affliction
?
And
can
you
deprive
me
of
that
Arm
,
and
Sword
,
by
which
I
chiefly
hope
under
the
gods
to
be
delivered
from
it
?
If
you
act
any
thing
against
your self
after
this
assurance
,
I
shall
believe
a
despair
from
your
own
Condition
,
rather
than
a
sense
of
mine
,
invited
you
to
it
.
Alas
!
Madam
,
(
I
answer'd
)
What
can
be
hoped
for
,
from
a
Sword
and
Arm
,
which
could
do
nothing
in
your
Service
?
It
is
now
uncapable
of
any
thing
,
but
that
only
,
to
which
therefore
I
would
employ
it
.
Callimachus
,
said
Mithridatia
,
You
are
too
unjust
to
your self
,
and
thereby
would
become
the
like
unto
me
;
because
when
Wounded
,
and
Single
,
you
could
not
for
me
destroy
a
multitude
,
you
will
therefore
destroy
your self
;
you
would
thereby
do
more
against
me
than
Fortune
has
done
;
for
she
has
but
robb'd
me
of
freedom
,
but
you
would
rob
me
of
the
best
,
if
not
the
only
means
of
recovering
it
;
She
has
flung
me
into
the
misery
,
but
't
is
you
will
fling
away
the
Cure
of
it
.
Tomsones
here
whisper'd
the
Princess
in
the
Ear
,
That
these
Discourses
,
if
long
continued
,
would
prove
destructive
to
that
end
for
which
they
were
made
;
She
therefore
putting
on
that
Majestick
Look
,
with
which
she
not
only
used
to
enjoyn
Obedience
,
but
by
which
she
always
obtained
it
,
told
me
;
Callimachus
,
Believe
me
,
I
have
use
of
your
Life
,
and
therefore
I
conjure
you
,
and
if
that
be
not
enough
,
I
enjoyn
you
,
nay
,
I
command
you
to
act
nothing
against
it
;
but
observe
all
that
Tomsones
shall
prescribe
you
for
the
preserving
of
it
;
and
if
you
have
any
value
for
me
,
shew
it
by
your
Obedience
in
this
.
Ah!
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
,
with
a
deep
Groan
)
since
you
command
me
,
you
must
be
obey'd
;
but
,
I
believe
,
when
you
find
me
plung'd
in
these
miseries
to
which
these
Orders
do
reserve
me
,
you
will
then
as
much
Lament
the
having
enjoyn'd
them
,
as
I
do
that
you
have
done
it
now
.
If
ever
(
said
Statira
)
I
should
be
so
unhappy
as
to
see
what
you
say
,
I
shall
be
so
Ingenuous
as
to
acknowledg
it
,
and
so
Just
,
as
to
free
you
then
from
this
Injunction
:
But
(
she
continued
)
I
have
in
my
Care
of
your
Life
,
I
fear
,
too
much
endanger'd
it
:
I
will
therefore
leave
you
to
that
Rest
which
your
Health
cannot
more
need
,
than
I
do
wish
it
you
.
She
retired
,
having
said
so
:
And
Tomsones
found
me
ever
after
perfectly
obedient
to
the
Princess's
Commands
,
in
an
exact
observance
of
all
his
prescriptions
.
The
Wind
favouring
us
,
it
was
not
long
ere
we
arrived
at
the
Island
of
Scyros
;
and
soon
after
,
the
Princess
was
conducted
to
the
Castle
of
it
by
Nicomedes
,
with
as
much
honour
and
respect
as
if
the
place
had
belonged
to
the
Pontick
King
.
Statira's
Appartment
was
Magnificent
,
both
for
the
Largeness
and
the
Furniture
of
it
,
and
had
an
unlimited
Prospect
towards
the
Sea
;
next
to
hers
was
the
Prince
Pharnaces's
,
and
a
little
beyond
his
I
was
Lodged
:
But
though
it
were
at
some
distance
from
the
Princess
,
yet
by
the
obliging
Neighbourhood
of
a
long
Gallery
,
I
could
go
to
her
Anti-Chamber
,
without
passing
through
the
other
Room
.
In
this
place
my
Wounds
,
as
obedient
to
Mithridatia's
Commands
,
as
I
or
my
Chirurgeons
,
began
daily
to
mend
,
and
so
fast
,
that
I
found
I
should
be
sooner
ready
to
serve
her
,
than
restored
to
the
capacity
of
doing
it
.
Every
day
,
Nicomedes
and
Ariobarzanes
gave
me
the
honour
of
a
Visit
;
and
the
Princess
manifested
her
concernment
in
my
Recovery
by
often
sending
Nerea
to
enquire
after
it
.
I
thought
it
not
strange
that
the
King
of
Bithynia
continued
in
the
Island
,
whilst
the
Defects
of
his
Fleets
were
repairing
;
nor
,
that
the
King
of
Cappadocia
did
it
longer
,
because
his
Wounds
were
not
so
fully
consolidated
,
but
that
the
motion
of
the
Sea
might
be
both
troublesome
and
dangerous
to
him
:
But
I
admir'd
that
Nicomedes
,
when
his
Galleys
were
fitted
,
did
not
employ
them
to
improve
by
a
new
Success
,
the
fresh
one
his
Conduct
and
Courage
had
given
him
,
which
was
not
more
contrary
to
his
Interest
,
than
his
Practice
.
But
alas
!
I
had
too
many
sad
Thoughts
relating
to
my
own
Condition
,
to
admit
me
to
employ
often
any
of
them
upon
anothers
;
and
I
could
not
fancy
for
what
end
Statira
was
so
concerned
in
my
Life
,
resolving
to
give
her self
to
Ascanius
,
which
would
make
it
my
Torment
;
neither
could
I
imagine
why
the
gods
had
so
strangely
preserv'd
me
from
Death
;
and
as
strangely
,
twice
in
one
Day
separated
Mithridatia
from
the
King
of
Cyprus
;
and
by
such
admirable
ways
had
brought
me
to
wait
on
her
in
her
misfortunes
;
as
well
as
in
a
high
Degree
,
to
have
been
the
unhappy
cause
of
them
.
These
Generals
,
you
may
easily
believe
were
not
unfruitful
in
affording
me
Particulars
,
which
never
left
me
unentertained
;
and
never
entertained
me
with
any
thing
that
was
clear
,
but
that
my
Condition
was
uncapable
of
any
Remedy
,
but
that
only
which
Statira's
positive
Commands
had
forbidden
me
.
Oh
gods
!
(
continued
Callimachus
)
Had
I
then
known
I
was
Nicomedes
his
Son
,
how
many
Miseries
might
I
have
avoided
?
How
many
Battels
by
Sea
and
Land
had
been
unfought
?
And
some
Lives
had
been
spared
,
for
which
I
joyfully
would
have
laid
down
my
own
:
and
for
the
loss
of
which
,
I
shall
mourn
whilst
I
have
any
Life
.
Callimachus
,
at
these
words
,
could
not
resent
a
higher
Grief
,
than
invaded
Artabanus
and
Artavasdes
by
their
sympathizing
with
him
:
which
he
saw
so
evidently
,
that
it
brought
at
once
an
Accession
to
his
Sorrow
,
and
made
him
the
sooner
hasten
to
conceal
the
effects
of
it
by
thus
prosecuting
his
Relation
.
One
Evening
,
the
Princess
having
sent
the
fair
Nerea
to
visit
me
,
(
who
was
much
my
Friend
)
I
endeavour'd
,
as
I
had
unsuccessfully
several
times
before
,
to
win
her
to
such
a
sense
of
,
and
concernment
for
my
Condition
,
as
thereby
to
learn
something
less
obscurely
what
Statira's
Inclinations
were
towards
me
,
than
her
own
excessive
Reservedness
would
allow
me
to
discover
from
her self
;
and
finding
Nerea
was
less
unwilling
then
to
listen
to
words
of
that
nature
,
than
she
had
been
before
;
after
some
Introductory
Discourses
,
I
spoke
to
her
to
this
effect
:
That
great
Goodness
which
you
have
on
all
occasions
manifested
to
me
;
and
that
great
Necessity
I
shall
have
to
hope
in
it
hereafter
,
will
give
you
the
trouble
of
my
disclosing
to
you
some
Thoughts
and
Secrets
,
which
I
am
so
far
from
imparting
to
any
other
,
that
I
dare
hardly
impart
them
to
my self
:
Yes
,
fair
Nerea
,
I
have
the
highest
and
the
most
improbable
Design
of
any
man
living
;
and
having
told
you
so
much
,
I
need
not
tell
you
any
more
to
acquaint
you
with
it
.
A
Design
,
which
cannot
promise
more
felicities
,
if
it
succeeded
,
than
there
are
impossibilities
to
prohibit
so
much
as
the
hopes
of
its
Success
;
a
Design
I
so
much
despair
of
effecting
,
and
am
so
criminal
in
undertaking
,
that
I
would
now
have
Died
of
these
Wounds
,
as
much
upon
the
account
of
the
last
of
these
Causes
,
as
the
first
,
had
I
not
received
an
absolute
Command
to
the
contrary
from
the
Princess
,
whom
to
disobey
would
hardly
have
been
a
greater
Sin
,
than
to
obey
will
be
a
Punishment
to
me
.
But
,
Oh
gods
!
Nerea
,
if
you
have
any
pity
for
this
unhappy
Callimachus
,
Tell
him
,
tell
him
,
I
beseech
you
,
for
what
end
it
is
he
is
enjoyned
to
Live
;
since
he
sees
nothing
in
Life
,
which
makes
not
Death
as
desirable
to
him
,
as
it
ought
to
be
dreaded
by
the
too
happy
Ascanius
.
Since
(
reply'd
Nerea
)
You
are
pleas'd
to
make
me
your
Confident
,
I
shall
endeavour
to
deserve
that
Trust
by
all
ways
,
but
those
,
which
in
my
opinion
may
render
me
unworthy
of
it
;
and
therefore
I
will
not
scruple
to
acquaint
you
,
That
my
own
Observations
of
you
,
told
me
that
long
since
which
now
you
tell
me
;
and
from
the
first
hour
I
had
reason
to
believe
what
now
I
do
,
I
had
as
much
reason
to
deplore
the
Design
you
engaged
in
:
Such
a
confluence
of
Obstacles
being
visible
,
and
many
more
invisible
,
that
the
Result
was
not
more
apparent
to
me
,
than
I
doubt
it
will
be
unsupportable
to
you
.
'T
is
not
that
your
Services
have
not
been
highly
Eminent
,
and
many
;
nor
that
they
have
been
paid
to
a
Person
insensible
of
them
:
But
—
Here
Nerea
stopp'd
;
and
therefore
I
did
by
fresh
and
vehement
Implorings
,
beg
her
to
continue
;
and
at
last
vanquish'd
by
my
Prayers
or
Importunities
,
she
thus
proceeded
:
But
,
the
power
of
the
Father
,
and
his
Engagement
also
;
the
punctual
obedience
of
the
Daughter
,
and
the
Ignorance
of
your
Extraction
,
outweigh
all
your
Actions
,
and
turn
the
S●ale
so
heavily
,
that
the
possibility
is
not
great
,
it
will
ever
be
rais'd
again
:
You
see
(
said
Nenera
)
I
flatter
you
not
;
for
having
profess'd
a
Friendship
to
you
,
and
Sincerity
being
the
noblest
part
of
Friendship
,
I
had
rather
practise
it
,
though
it
might
afflict
you
,
than
the
contrary
,
though
it
might
please
you
.
That
(
I
reply'd
,
fetching
a
Sigh
)
which
you
now
have
told
me
,
has
been
hitherto
my
highest
Apprehension
;
and
by
your
telling
it
me
,
it
becomes
as
high
a
Certainty
;
a●d
since
it
is
so
,
How
can
Statir●
enjoyn
me
to
Live
?
If
she
says
,
I
have
been
too
presumptuous
in
daring
to
lift
up
my
Eyes
to
her
;
I
am
so
far
from
denying
it
,
that
I
would
have
Dyed
,
that
I
would
have
Killed
my self
to
have
revenged
her
,
and
to
have
punished
my self
:
And
possibly
a
voluntary
Death
embrac'd
by
an
Offender
,
should
be
a
sufficient
expiation
for
an
unavoidable
Offence
.
'T
is
in
this
only
,
obliging
Nerea
,
that
I
will
now
beg
your
Assistance
;
and
since
so
many
invincible
Impediments
deny
me
the
expectation
of
obtaining
her
Esteem
,
I
will
not
despair
,
but
by
your
Intercession
to
obtain
her
Mercy
;
and
that
is
,
her
Permission
to
Dye
.
Possibly
(
said
Nerea
)
you
could
hardly
ask
any
thing
of
her
,
which
she
would
not
sooner
grant
you
;
I
say
,
any
thing
whatever
;
and
even
all
those
Obstructions
I
so
lately
particularized
,
might
be
sooner
vanquish'd
,
than
this
one
Request
yielded
unto
.
No
,
Callimachus
,
she
has
a
Value
for
you
,
and
such
a
one
,
that
had
her
Inclinations
the
Liberty
of
a
free
Acting
,
possibly
you
would
not
have
too
much
cause
to
complain
;
Think
not
therefore
to
employ
my
Services
in
so
fatal
and
ungrateful
a
Request
;
for
she
that
to
save
your
Life
,
so
recently
expos'd
her
own
to
an
eminent
Danger
,
will
not
by
a
voluntary
consent
give
that
away
,
which
she
has
shewed
is
not
indifferent
to
her
.
I
was
strangely
surprised
at
these
words
,
and
therefore
raising
my self
up
hastily
,
I
begg'd
her
to
explain
what
they
meant
.
She
therefore
told
me
what
Tomsones
had
concealed
from
me
,
and
thereby
fill'd
me
with
so
much
Trouble
,
Satisfaction
and
Amazement
,
that
for
a
while
I
remain'd
as
Moveless
and
Speechless
,
as
after
I
came
to
my self
,
I
found
I
had
too
much
cause
to
wish
I
had
eternally
continued
.
As
soon
as
I
could
speak
,
I
cryed
out
,
Great
gods
!
Was
I
not
miserable
enough
in
the
disability
of
not
preserving
Statira's
Liberty
,
and
in
surviving
that
Crime
and
Misfortune
,
but
that
thereby
I
must
also
have
been
the
occasion
of
hazarding
even
her
Life
?
Ah!
Farewel
those
Griefs
which
hitherto
tormented
me
:
Mithridates's
Authority
,
Statira's
Obedience
,
Ascanius's
Felicity
,
and
my
own
concealed
Extraction
;
These
deserve
no
longer
that
Name
,
nor
can
any
longer
act
their
usual
Effects
,
compar'd
to
what
now
I
have
resented
.
Those
only
related
to
me
,
but
this
to
my
Princess
;
for
whom
my
Concerns
are
higher
than
any
I
can
have
for
my self
,
as
much
as
she
is
above
me
,
or
my
Designs
above
my
Birth
or
Merit
.
Nerea
,
who
hoped
what
she
had
acquainted
me
with
,
would
have
had
a
contrary
Effect
,
to
that
she
now
too
late
found
it
had
produced
in
me
,
left
no
Reasons
unspoken
to
suppress
that
Despair
she
had
so
unexpectedly
cast
me
into
;
and
though
she
did
long
insist
upon
the
too
great
Right
and
Empire
,
which
Statira
had
over
that
Life
she
had
saved
,
for
me
to
destroy
it
without
,
nay
,
against
her
Permission
;
and
how
by
that
Action
of
hers
I
might
be
convinced
,
my
Preservation
was
not
inconsiderable
to
her
;
since
even
,
to
preserve
an
unfortunate
Life
,
as
I
term'd
it
,
she
eminently
indanger'd
her
own
:
Yet
it
was
a
long
time
ere
she
could
reduce
me
to
any
moderate
Thoughts
;
neither
had
she
ever
brought
me
to
that
desired
Condition
,
but
upon
reiterated
promises
of
her
Assistance
,
and
of
embracing
my
Concernments
with
her
best
Care
and
Affection
;
which
by
that
high
and
great
esteem
Mithridatia
had
for
her
,
gave
me
some
hopes
;
but
such
faint
ones
,
that
though
I
could
not
but
entertain
them
,
yet
I
could
not
tell
why
I
did
so
.
Nerea
having
staid
much
longer
than
she
had
used
,
or
than
she
had
designed
,
no
sooner
found
me
fit
to
be
trusted
with
my self
,
but
she
left
me
to
my self
:
The
only
Company
I
could
justly
desire
,
and
the
worst
I
could
keep
.
The
End
of
the
First
Book
of
the
Sixth
Part
of
PARTHENISSA
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
SIXTH
PART
.
The
Second
BOOK
.
I
Fear
(
continued
Callimachus
)
thus
retailing
my
Story
,
I
shall
make
the
Relation
of
it
as
unsupportable
to
you
,
as
the
Events
in
it
are
to
me
;
I
will
therefore
acquaint
you
,
that
after
a
few
days
,
I
recovered
Strength
enough
to
walk
the
length
of
that
Gallery
,
which
was
between
my
Lodging
and
the
Princess's
Apartment
;
and
welcoming
that
dawning
Health
I
then
injoy'd
,
only
as
't
was
an
effect
of
my
Obedience
to
her
Commands
;
and
in
hope
,
that
I
might
by
it
be
inabled
to
serve
her
:
I
sent
to
beg
her
Permission
to
wait
on
her
,
which
she
was
pleased
to
send
me
;
and
I
,
soon
after
,
to
make
use
of
.
By
accident
there
was
none
but
Nerea
with
her
,
when
I
came
into
her
Chamber
;
and
therefore
,
with
the
less
constraint
,
I
had
the
opportunity
of
Kneeling
before
her
,
and
of
telling
her
,
I
am
come
,
Madam
,
to
lay
that
Life
at
your
Feet
,
which
is
yours
upon
so
many
Accounts
,
that
I
durst
not
end
it
without
your
leave
,
much
less
against
your
Commands
;
though
by
its
great
unhappiness
in
having
fail'd
serving
you
,
and
it
s
infinitely
greater
,
in
thereby
having
engaged
your
Goodness
to
indanger
yours
,
it
merited
a
thousand
Deaths
;
and
if
I
can
support
its
being
unextinguished
,
't
is
only
because
thereby
I
suffer
a
more
signal
Punishment
,
than
by
the
most
tormenting
Death
could
be
inflicted
on
me
.
Statira
having
made
me
Rise
by
her
repeated
Commands
,
was
then
pleas'd
to
answer
me
:
Since
by
your
belief
that
I
have
a
Right
to
your
Life
,
I
have
thereby
obtained
a
power
to
preserve
it
;
I
will
not
deny
a
Title
,
which
though
no
just
one
,
yet
is
very
advantageous
and
obliging
to
me
;
and
though
as
yet
I
see
no
visible
means
for
my
deliverance
,
yet
I
will
not
despair
of
it
,
the
gods
having
given
me
so
powerful
an
earnest
of
it
,
as
your
recovery
of
Health
:
which
when
you
injoy'd
,
I
have
been
freed
from
a
more
hopeless
and
more
unpleasing
Condition
than
now
I
am
in
.
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
That
eminent
Virtue
and
Innocence
,
which
has
shined
so
bright
in
the
whole
course
of
your
Life
,
may
well
invite
you
to
believe
,
though
the
means
of
your
speedy
Releasment
is
not
now
visible
,
yet
it
is
certain
:
But
alas
!
Madam
,
my
Crimes
make
me
despair
of
the
honour
of
contributing
to
it
;
for
he
that
could
not
rescue
you
at
first
from
being
a
Prisoner
,
and
could
afterwards
survive
that
Infamy
,
cannot
,
I
fear
,
be
reserved
for
a
happiness
even
too
great
for
a
Person
of
the
most
unblemished
Fortune
:
But
yet
,
Madam
,
this
I
do
promise
you
,
if
ever
I
am
bless'd
with
the
opportunity
once
more
to
draw
my
Sword
for
your
deliverance
,
if
I
be
not
so
happy
as
to
Act
it
,
I
will
avoid
being
so
miserable
as
to
out-live
it
;
and
by
a
second
Attempt
,
repair
You
,
or
punish
on
my Self
,
the
misery
of
my
unsuccessfulness
.
But
,
Madam
,
since
yet
we
hear
nothing
from
Ascanius
,
nor
that
the
generous
Ataphernes
has
yet
a
probability
of
getting
together
a
Fleet
able
to
force
his
passage
with
an
Army
hither
;
Why
may
there
be
no
endeavours
used
by
Treaty
,
to
win
Nicomedes
to
pay
you
the
Duty
of
restoring
you
to
Freedom
,
since
with
so
much
cheerfulness
he
pays
you
every
one
else
?
And
though
the
way
by
which
you
lost
it
,
being
by
Arms
,
seems
to
require
by
the
like
way
your
Restauration
,
and
that
by
no
other
means
but
those
,
I
have
so
much
as
an
expectation
to
serve
you
;
yet
so
much
I
prefer
your
Satisfaction
before
all
things
else
,
that
I
cannot
but
pray
for
any
way
which
may
lead
to
such
an
End
.
I
confess
,
(
said
the
Princess
)
that
Nicomedes's
usage
is
so
full
of
Generosity
,
that
since
there
wants
nothing
to
compleat
the
Evidencing
of
his
,
but
restoring
to
Liberty
a
Person
,
whose
loss
of
it
is
neither
considerable
to
him
,
or
his
Enemies
;
neither
would
her
Recovery
of
it
be
otherwise
.
I
have
admired
at
my
Detension
,
especially
Ataphernes
having
so
far
prevail'd
with
Mithridates
,
as
to
offer
him
so
high
a
Ransom
for
me
,
with
the
choice
of
having
it
,
either
in
Treasure
,
or
the
Value
thereof
,
by
restoring
some
Towns
and
Countries
in
Bythinia
to
his
immediate
Possession
:
But
it
seems
nothing
will
satisfie
Nicomedes
in
Exchange
for
me
,
but
the
intire
Resignation
of
all
Bythinia
,
and
Cappadocia
;
so
that
by
asking
so
much
,
I
begin
to
fear
he
has
no
mind
to
part
with
me
;
nor
can
I
ever
get
out
of
his
hands
,
but
by
force
;
and
therefore
could
I
any
way
contrive
your
Inlargement
▪
I
should
hope
,
that
a
Fleet
led
by
Ataphernes
and
Callimachus
,
would
soon
win
what
an
unfortunate
Fleet
had
the
unhappiness
to
lose
:
And
in
this
desire
I
have
not
been
Idle
,
though
I
have
been
Unsuccessful
;
for
though
Ni●omedes
over-values
me
,
yet
he
knows
justly
how
to
value
you
;
and
therefore
,
though
but
a
little
before
your
coming
now
to
visit
me
,
I
was
impowered
by
Ataphernes
to
propose
to
him
as
much
for
your
Releasment
,
as
Ariobarzanes
offer'd
for
his
,
when
he
was
my
Father's
Prisoner
,
yet
I
received
a
positive
Denial
,
with
an
assurance
,
that
nothing
could
put
an
end
to
your
Imprisonment
,
but
the
end
of
the
War
between
him
and
my
Father
;
and
that
his
Friends
in
Nicomedia
,
by
presenting
you
unto
him
,
had
given
him
that
,
which
he
more
valued
than
his
Victory
over
the
King
of
Cyprus
and
my
Brother
,
and
his
having
made
them
both
his
Prisoners
.
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
prostrating
my self
again
at
her
Feet
,
(
from
whence
she
immediately
made
me
rise
)
I
am
not
able
sufficiently
to
admire
your
Goodness
,
or
deplore
my
own
Infelicity
,
that
,
where
I
owe
both
my
Life
and
Liberty
,
I
must
,
instead
of
paying
them
to
you
,
receive
them
from
you
;
and
though
those
immense
offers
you
were
pleas'd
to
make
Nicomedes
for
a
worthless
Person
,
be
above
all
things
,
but
your
Goodness
,
and
my
Wonder
and
Confusion
at
it
;
yet
I
cannot
but
esteem
my self
more
obliged
to
him
in
the
refusal
,
than
I
could
have
been
in
the
acceptance
of
them
:
For
I
know
not
,
if
I
were
at
liberty
,
whether
my
usual
unhappiness
might
not
involve
me
in
that
greatest
,
of
being
unable
to
serve
you
;
but
by
being
in
restraint
,
I
have
the
honour
to
suffer
with
you
;
and
therefore
,
I
had
rather
have
a
certainty
of
this
,
than
run
a
hazard
of
that
:
But
,
I
confess
,
Madam
,
I
have
not
been
without
Thoughts
,
Why
so
active
a
Prince
as
Nicomedes
hitherto
hath
been
,
has
continued
so
long
uselesly
here
,
after
his
Navy
was
repair'd
,
and
after
his
late
Victory
had
offered
him
so
large
a
cause
for
hope
,
if
in
the
heat
of
that
Success
,
he
had
vigorously
improved
it
:
It
may
possibly
give
me
occasion
to
believe
,
there
is
something
in
this
place
which
he
prefers
to
his
Revenge
,
his
Glory
,
and
the
Recovery
of
his
Throne
:
I
admire
also
,
at
his
setting
a
Value
upon
what
is
above
all
;
for
nothing
can
fully
pay
the
setting
you
at
liberty
,
but
the
satisfaction
of
having
done
that
Duty
,
without
any
other
Consideration
,
but
the
honour
of
the
performance
.
Nicomedes
has
Acted
a
double
Ill
;
to
detain
you
a
Prisoner
at
all
,
or
,
daring
to
detain
you
,
to
offer
your
Redemption
at
any
Rate
.
And
,
Madam
,
if
I
may
presume
to
tell
my
humble
Apprehensions
,
I
must
say
,
I
know
not
which
has
done
worse
;
Nicomedes
,
since
he
will
Sell
you
,
asking
no
more
;
or
Mithridates
,
since
Nicomedes
will
Exchange
you
,
proposing
so
little
:
The
Kingdoms
of
Bythinia
and
Cappadocia
,
ought
not
to
be
put
in
Balance
with
one
moment
of
your
Trouble
,
much
less
with
your
Liberty
:
The
common
Consequences
of
Battels
,
are
the
winning
of
Kingdoms
,
which
is
a
happiness
not
to
be
named
in
comparison
with
the
Guilt
of
letting
the
Princess
Statira
continue
a
Prisoner
.
Ah!
Madam
,
Why
have
the
gods
made
those
only
which
have
the
Power
to
serve
you
,
so
unwilling
to
do
it
?
And
him
that
has
so
highly
the
Will
,
so
little
the
Power
to
do
it
?
Were
Bythinia
and
Cappadocia
mine
,
and
were
the
giving
up
those
two
Crowns
the
Price
of
your
Ransom
,
I
would
pay
it
with
an
unexpressible
Contentment
,
and
resent
more
Happiness
in
being
so
divested
of
Monarchy
,
than
any
could
injoy
by
possessing
that
of
the
whole
World
.
That
which
I
had
spoke
of
my
Apprehensions
,
concerning
Nicomedes's
continuance
in
the
Island
,
and
what
I
had
spoke
in
the
latter
part
of
my
Answer
,
had
covered
Mithridatia
with
Blushes
;
and
therefore
the
sooner
to
take
me
off
from
an
intent
considering
of
them
,
She
reply'd
,
with
a
little
smile
;
I
perceive
,
Callimachus
,
though
I
am
unlikely
to
recover
my
Liberty
,
being
Nicomedes's
Prisoner
,
I
should
have
been
much
more
unlike
,
had
I
been
Yours
;
for
,
by
condemning
my
Father
in
refusing
so
much
,
you
thereby
shew
,
you
would
have
demanded
more
:
But
let
us
not
mispend
our
time
in
discoursing
of
things
which
are
past
,
and
on
things
that
will
not
be
;
but
rather
imploy
it
,
to
mind
what
may
be
,
that
is
,
your
Deliverance
;
and
as
a
consequence
of
that
,
I
shall
hope
for
mine
:
'T
is
not
improbable
,
but
some
of
those
Officers
,
to
whose
Care
you
are
committed
,
may
have
their
Fidelity
to
Nicomedes
conquer'd
by
that
Ransom
Mithridates
was
offer'd
him
for
you
;
and
that
I
will
assure
them
of
,
if
they
will
act
your
Releasment
any
way
.
Madam
,
(
I
answer'd
)
Possibly
in
what
I
said
,
you
might
have
found
more
cause
to
believe
I
detested
Nicomedes's
Crime
,
than
that
I
would
have
increased
it
,
had
it
been
in
my
Power
.
Could
such
a
vast
Misery
have
again
befallen
you
,
as
to
be
a
Prisoner
;
And
could
such
a
vaster
Guilt
have
befallen
me
,
as
to
have
made
you
mine
;
You
could
not
,
I
hope
,
imagine
,
I
would
practise
more
wickedly
that
Sin
I
condemn
in
another
;
nor
that
I
would
part
with
Kingdoms
to
purchase
you
from
a
misfortune
,
which
,
had
I
the
Power
to
exempt
you
from
,
I
would
continue
you
in
:
Let
it
,
Madam
,
I
most
humbly
conjure
you
,
suffice
,
That
I
am
so
criminal
,
and
miserable
in
my
Condition
,
and
Actions
,
and
make
me
not
more
so
in
your
Thoughts
,
where
I
would
appear
to
You
,
what
I
am
to
my Self
in
my
own
,
that
is
,
a
Person
,
who
,
during
the
whole
course
of
his
Life
,
would
serve
you
as
perfectly
in
all
things
as
you
can
imagine
;
and
would
sacrifice
it
a
thousand
times
,
rather
than
one
moment
admit
of
a
contrary
Thought
.
I
believ'd
,
(
said
Statira
)
That
the
manner
in
which
I
spoke
,
would
easily
have
convinced
you
,
that
my
Words
,
and
my
Intentions
,
were
different
;
but
since
you
entertain
them
otherwise
than
I
meant
them
,
I
will
seriously
assure
you
,
I
have
no
ungrateful
Esteem
for
you
;
nor
will
I
believe
,
't
is
in
the
power
of
Fortune
ever
to
force
you
to
an
Action
which
may
invite
me
to
alter
it
:
But
since
you
do
renew
your
Promises
of
obliging
me
in
all
things
,
Do
it
,
I
beseech
you
,
in
this
particular
I
so
lately
mention'd
to
you
,
and
desired
of
you
.
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
I
pay
you
my
humblest
Acknowledgments
for
the
Justice
you
do
me
,
in
believing
what
you
now
said
you
believed
of
me
;
and
for
your
extream
Goodness
,
in
giving
that
belief
so
prodigal
a
Reward
,
as
the
high
honour
of
your
Esteem
.
But
,
doubtless
Madam
,
I
should
too
certainly
deserve
to
be
eternally
deprived
of
it
,
if
,
having
a
hope
,
that
Nicomedes's
Officers
could
be
won
,
I
did
not
indeavour
to
win
them
for
your
Liberty
,
for
the
recovery
whereof
I
would
for
ever
with
Joy
lose
even
the
very
hopes
of
my
own
.
Banish
,
I
beseech
you
(
reply'd
the
Princess
)
all
expectations
of
that
nature
,
unless
you
can
hope
to
win
Nicomedes
to
be
unfaithful
to
himself
;
for
of
late
,
he
has
Dismissed
all
his
Officers
that
Guarded
me
,
and
performs
that
Trust
himself
with
a
greater
Assiduity
than
all
of
them
till
then
did
;
and
therefore
,
to
design
my
Freedom
any
way
but
by
force
,
is
so
far
from
being
fit
to
be
attempted
,
that
't
is
not
rationally
to
be
hop'd
:
But
if
my
Enlargement
be
considerable
to
you
,
evince
it
,
by
a
speedy
endeavouring
your
own
,
and
omit
no
ways
to
obtain
it
;
that
in
your
Liberty
,
I
may
have
grounds
to
believe
I
shall
speedily
after
recover
mine
.
I
was
about
to
reply
,
when
Pharnaces
came
into
the
Chamber
to
visit
his
Sister
:
He
was
very
much
surprised
to
find
me
there
,
and
seem'd
much
more
pleas'd
to
see
me
so
well
recovered
;
soon
after
his
Arrival
,
there
came
in
also
Nicomedes
,
and
Ariobarzanes
:
The
first
of
them
,
after
having
paid
his
respect
to
the
Princess
,
told
me
what
noble
Offers
she
had
made
him
for
my
Enlargement
;
and
that
the
high
Value
he
had
for
me
,
not
any
Hatred
to
me
,
had
made
him
decline
them
;
which
,
if
ever
an
Agreement
was
made
between
the
King
of
Pontus
,
and
Him
,
should
be
manifested
,
by
giving
me
an
unransomed
Liberty
.
I
gave
him
a
Return
suitable
to
his
Degree
,
and
to
his
Civility
,
and
soon
after
,
went
back
to
my
own
Lodgings
;
having
now
in
the
fair
Statira's
,
too
many
Witnesses
to
permit
me
to
continue
those
Discourses
which
they
had
so
disobligingly
interrupted
.
Several
Days
things
continued
in
the
state
they
then
were
in
;
and
yet
,
to
our
Admiration
,
we
heard
nothing
of
Nicomedes's
intention
to
leave
us
,
or
of
Ascanius's
preparations
to
help
us
;
though
almost
every
Day
,
by
our
Conquerour's
civility
,
an
Express
from
Ataphernes
was
admitted
to
the
Princess
,
to
bring
him
an
account
of
her
Health
,
and
to
acquaint
her
with
his
yet
unsuccessful
Indeavours
for
her
Inlargement
.
That
generous
Prince
had
also
the
Goodness
,
by
the
same
opportunities
,
still
to
be
inquisitive
after
my
Recovery
;
and
to
assure
me
of
his
utmost
Assistance
,
towards
the
freeing
me
from
my
Imprisonment
;
which
because
Mithridatia
had
so
positively
and
repeatedly
commanded
me
to
endeavour
my self
,
I
did
busie
my
Thoughts
about
it
,
and
was
not
over-troubled
,
that
the
more
I
reflected
on
it
,
the
less
likelihood
I
found
of
it
.
For
had
I
escaped
,
I
had
fallen
into
two
of
those
misfortunes
which
I
most
apprehended
;
The
being
banished
from
the
happiness
of
waiting
on
her
;
and
by
Mithridates's
wanting
a
Fleet
,
from
the
hopes
of
serving
her
;
nay
,
I
knew
not
whether
sometimes
I
were
not
almost
so
unworthy
,
as
not
to
grieve
at
her
Imprisonment
,
rather
than
that
my
Rival
should
deliver
her
,
and
after
marry
her
.
One
morning
,
when
I
was
alone
in
my
Chamber
,
Rebadates
came
into
it
,
being
recover'd
of
his
wounds
,
and
having
obtain'd
of
his
Keeper
leave
to
do
it
.
I
was
pleas'd
to
see
so
good
a
friend
past
that
danger
,
which
his
kindness
to
me
had
in
part
cast
him
into
:
But
the
business
he
came
about
,
did
not
a
little
perplex
me
;
for
he
came
to
tell
me
,
That
having
found
his
Keeper
was
a
Person
to
be
wrought
upon
,
he
had
therefore
made
him
such
large
Offers
,
if
he
would
connive
at
his
escape
,
that
he
had
embraced
them
,
and
promis'd
the
succeeding
night
so
to
order
all
things
,
that
without
interruption
he
should
get
away
;
that
he
had
given
him
a
rich
Jewel
he
wore
about
him
,
so
concealed
,
that
none
of
Nicomedes's
Soldiers
had
discovered
it
,
as
an
earnest
of
the
rest
,
when
he
was
free
.
But
,
said
Rebadates
,
I
have
thought
that
he
which
could
do
this
for
me
,
might
do
it
for
you
;
and
therefore
I
am
come
to
assure
you
,
I
had
rather
you
should
have
your
freedom
,
than
I
mine
;
for
an
easie
Ransom
may
deliver
me
;
but
I
am
assured
you
are
valued
above
any
.
Therefore
I
conjure
you
,
Sir
,
deny
not
this
proffer
of
my
Service
,
having
by
my
now
Condition
no
other
way
but
that
,
to
pay
you
any
.
I
embraced
and
thanked
Rebadates
for
this
high
evincement
of
his
kindness
,
though
I
wished
perfectly
he
had
never
conferr'd
it
on
me
;
and
then
told
him
,
That
if
his
Keeper
could
employ
his
Industry
for
acting
the
enlargement
of
the
Princess
,
it
would
be
a
Service
indeed
,
and
should
be
paid
with
Treasures
which
should
enrich
him
and
his
Posterity
.
I
did
already
(
said
Rebadates
)
propose
that
unto
him
,
but
he
cut
me
off
with
an
assurance
that
it
was
impossible
,
since
his
King
himself
guarded
her
.
But
when
I
proposed
you
unto
him
,
he
seem'd
not
to
be
out
of
hopes
thereof
,
and
has
within
an
hour
promised
to
bring
me
a
good
account
of
his
Endeavours
therein
;
and
I
have
promised
him
he
should
receive
from
Mithridates
a
proportionate
Reward
to
the
greatness
of
that
Service
;
for
he
assured
me
,
if
he
could
contrive
your
Escape
,
he
must
accompany
you
in
it
;
since
that
would
be
a
Crime
above
the
hope
of
pardon
,
though
it
were
attributed
to
Carelesness
,
and
not
Design
.
I
will
not
trouble
you
(
said
Callimachus
)
with
the
Dispute
I
had
with
Rebadates
,
to
perswade
him
to
embrace
the
opportunity
of
his
Deliverance
;
nor
in
telling
you
the
Trouble
I
was
in
when
I
could
not
prevail
with
him
:
for
he
was
unconquerable
in
his
Civility
to
me
.
And
soon
after
he
withdrew
,
to
learn
from
his
Keeper
what
success
he
had
met
with
,
that
he
might
acquaint
me
with
it
,
whereby
I
might
accordingly
provide
my self
for
that
appointed
hour
.
To
be
short
,
after
he
had
with
some
impatience
waited
for
his
Keeper's
Return
,
some
hours
beyond
the
prefixed
Time
,
his
Chamber-door
was
hastily
open'd
,
and
instead
of
his
Keeper
,
a
rude
Stranger
came
to
him
,
and
told
him
,
his
whole
Design
was
discovered
,
and
the
Manager
of
it
put
to
a
painful
Death
for
his
intended
Treachery
;
and
that
,
since
he
and
I
so
unworthily
abused
that
Liberty
the
Kings
had
allowed
us
,
we
should
suffer
for
that
Offence
:
I
being
now
confined
positively
to
my
Chamber
,
with
new
and
more
numerous
Guards
;
and
he
being
expresly
sent
to
keep
him
from
the
hopes
of
any
new
design
.
This
which
this
Officer
told
Rebadates
,
was
too
true
:
for
the
unhappy
Keeper
,
sounding
the
inclinations
of
one
whose
help
he
was
to
need
in
my
escape
,
did
it
so
uncircumspectly
,
that
he
discover'd
his
own
,
which
the
other
went
and
revealed
to
the
two
Kings
,
who
punished
the
Keeper
with
death
,
and
confined
us
to
our
Chambers
,
with
Guards
too
numerous
and
too
faithful
to
be
deceived
or
corrupted
.
I
did
indeed
with
much
more
trouble
endure
the
being
denied
the
Happiness
of
waiting
on
Mithridatia
,
than
my
loss
of
liberty
,
or
the
narrow
limits
I
was
confined
unto
.
But
one
evening
when
I
was
in
a
deep
sadness
for
Mithridatia's
and
my
own
Condition
,
Nicomedes
alone
came
into
my
Chamber
,
and
having
lock'd
the
door
after
him
,
he
told
me
;
I
am
come
,
Callimachus
,
to
act
a
thing
which
possibly
you
will
wonder
at
,
and
possibly
you
would
more
wonder
at
,
if
you
were
acquainted
with
the
cause
,
for
I
come
to
restore
you
to
your
Liberty
;
and
that
which
lately
Mithridates's
great
Officers
,
and
which
is
much
more
,
the
Princess
Statira's
Commands
,
could
not
prevail
with
me
to
do
,
I
now
perform
of
my Self
,
without
any
consideration
,
but
that
of
obliging
so
worthy
a
Person
,
and
perhaps
of
saving
him
too
.
But
I
doubt
I
have
said
too
much
,
in
those
last
words
;
at
Midnight
therefore
,
fit
your self
to
follow
Ostanes
,
the
Officer
that
now
Guards
you
,
who
will
bring
you
a
Disguise
,
by
which
he
will
safely
conduct
you
to
a
Vessel
in
a
small
Creek
,
which
has
Orders
to
carry
you
where
ever
you
will
go
.
All
that
I
ask
of
you
,
is
,
that
you
keep
an
inviolable
Secrecy
concerning
the
means
of
your
Escape
:
Let
it
always
be
believed
,
an
effect
of
your
having
corrupted
the
Fidelity
of
Ostanes
,
who
is
one
I
intirely
Trust
,
and
much
Esteem
;
and
whom
I
recommend
to
your
Favour
,
till
I
may
again
by
some
fortunate
Accident
,
openly
restore
him
to
mine
.
I
confess
,
(
continued
Callimachus
)
few
Accidents
in
all
my
Life
surprised
me
more
than
this
;
and
the
longer
I
reflected
on
it
,
and
every
circumstance
of
it
,
the
more
cause
I
had
still
to
continue
that
Reflection
:
I
told
Nicomedes
so
much
;
and
after
,
by
many
Acknowledgments
I
had
endeavour'd
to
exalt
the
Gallantry
of
this
Action
,
and
the
gratitude
I
had
for
it
,
I
said
unto
him
;
Generous
Prince
,
though
after
what
you
have
done
,
there
might
seem
nothing
left
for
me
to
do
,
but
to
endeavour
,
by
continued
Services
,
to
pay
you
some
part
of
my
vast
Debt
;
yet
I
must
by
an
humble
Request
add
unto
,
and
increase
it
:
'T
is
,
that
you
will
pardon
me
,
if
,
as
soon
as
my
hands
are
free
,
I
use
them
against
you
;
or
else
,
that
you
will
not
restore
me
to
a
Liberty
,
which
I
must
forthwith
imploy
against
the
Giver
of
it
:
For
whilst
you
keep
the
Princess
Statira
a
Prisoner
,
I
must
as
certainly
be
your
Enemy
,
as
in
all
things
else
,
I
will
be
your
Servant
.
When
I
told
you
,
(
the
King
of
Bythinia
reply'd
)
That
I
would
set
you
at
Liberty
,
I
told
you
too
,
I
exacted
nothing
of
you
,
but
your
Silence
;
neither
after
the
Declaration
you
now
make
me
,
do
I
expect
any
thing
else
,
but
a
Grant
of
that
which
I
desired
of
you
before
.
This
(
said
I
)
is
a
Gallantry
worthy
of
Nicomedes
;
and
this
is
a
higher
Favour
,
than
his
free
Breaking
of
my
Imprisonment
;
and
therefore
Loads
me
with
a
greater
Trouble
,
than
by
it
he
has
freed
me
from
:
A
Trouble
which
shall
never
cease
,
but
with
my
Life
,
unless
by
some
retributions
,
as
eminent
and
signal
as
the
Sense
I
have
of
your
Generosity
,
I
be
inabled
to
act
my
Gratitude
for
it
.
That
silence
you
injoyn
me
,
I
vow
Religiously
to
observe
,
and
by
my
kindness
to
Ostanes
,
I
shall
indeavour
to
make
him
endure
his
absence
from
you
,
as
little
inconveniently
as
may
be
,
and
in
some
degree
convince
him
,
by
the
respect
I
shall
pay
the
Subject
,
how
highly
I
esteem
my self
indebted
to
his
Prince
:
Of
whom
also
,
I
will
not
beg
to
know
why
such
a
Secrecy
is
injoyned
me
;
because
I
perceive
,
that
ought
to
be
as
much
a
Secret
to
me
,
as
from
whose
obligingness
I
owe
my
Deliverance
,
ought
to
be
to
every
one
else
:
Though
,
Sir
,
I
must
assure
you
,
't
is
no
small
Trouble
to
me
,
being
so
deeply
in
your
Debt
,
to
be
prohibited
from
publickly
acknowledging
it
,
till
I
shall
be
so
happy
as
to
pay
it
:
But
,
Sir
,
since
this
Action
,
when
known
to
the
Princess
Statira
,
will
,
I
hope
,
procure
you
her
Thanks
for
it
,
which
will
be
no
ill
Reward
of
it
,
though
it
will
not
at
all
diminish
my
Score
;
May
I
not
beg
your
Permission
before
I
go
,
to
tell
her
of
my
going
,
and
from
whom
I
derive
that
Liberty
,
that
in
her
Acknowledgments
to
you
,
you
may
have
cause
never
to
repent
what
you
have
done
to
me
,
if
my
own
unhappy
Condition
should
not
allow
me
the
satisfaction
of
doing
any
thing
by
way
of
Retribution
for
my self
.
I
am
sorry
,
Callimachus
,
(
Nicomedes
reply'd
)
That
you
should
ask
me
any
thing
I
should
deny
you
:
But
I
hope
,
when
you
remember
,
that
for
above
twenty
Days
,
you
have
been
kept
with
such
strictness
,
that
you
have
not
been
permitted
to
see
any
one
,
nor
to
be
seen
by
any
,
should
you
just
before
your
Escape
,
have
that
Freedom
allow'd
you
by
me
,
for
it
cannot
be
by
any
other
,
it
might
raise
a
suspition
,
by
what
means
you
obtain'd
it
;
and
by
destroying
that
end
,
for
which
I
have
desired
so
perfect
a
Secrecy
from
you
,
draw
a
greater
inconvenience
upon
me
,
than
I
believe
,
could
I
acquaint
you
with
it
,
you
would
have
me
run
into
.
But
to
omit
nothing
for
your
satisfaction
,
I
will
possibly
contrive
some
way
before
the
hour
of
your
departure
,
whereby
you
may
acquaint
the
Princess
with
it
,
and
receive
her
Commands
before
you
leave
her
;
though
neither
She
her self
,
nor
the
Person
imploy'd
between
you
,
must
upon
any
terms
know
I
have
the
least
hand
in
,
or
so
much
as
knowledg
of
your
Escape
.
Perhaps
(
continued
Nicomedes
)
one
Day
I
may
live
to
tell
you
,
Why
I
have
thus
dealt
with
you
:
But
if
such
a
thing
should
never
happen
,
oblige
me
,
in
believing
there
was
reason
for
it
.
As
soon
as
he
had
done
speaking
,
he
immediately
withdrew
,
and
with
as
little
Noise
as
he
had
made
when
he
came
in
;
leaving
me
,
not
so
full
of
wonder
at
the
Action
,
and
the
Circumstances
accompanying
it
,
as
of
Trouble
,
that
now
I
must
forsake
either
my
Princess
,
or
highly
Disobey
her
.
The
unhappiness
of
this
ill
Choice
,
entertained
me
till
an
hour
before
Midnight
,
when
I
was
interrupted
by
my
Doors
being
opened
,
and
by
seeing
Nerea
come
into
my
Chamber
,
who
,
in
many
Blushes
,
for
so
undue
a
Time
to
give
me
a
Visit
,
told
me
,
She
now
did
it
,
because
Ostanes
a
little
before
had
whisper'd
to
her
,
there
was
a
very
great
and
real
necessity
of
her
coming
to
me
immediately
,
where
,
possibly
she
might
hear
of
things
not
unpleasing
to
her
;
but
that
she
was
to
come
then
,
or
never
:
She
told
me
,
that
having
inform'd
the
Princess
thereof
,
she
had
forthwith
injoyned
her
to
come
to
me
,
which
Orders
she
had
obey'd
,
being
conducted
to
the
Door
by
Ostanes
,
who
had
open'd
,
and
then
was
waiting
at
it
for
her
Return
.
After
that
I
had
paid
her
my
Acknowledgments
for
the
favour
of
her
Visit
,
which
could
not
be
so
unseasonable
,
but
that
her
Virtue
would
preserve
it
from
being
thought
so
by
any
,
that
had
the
happiness
to
know
her
;
I
gave
her
an
Account
,
how
that
above
my
Expectation
,
and
even
above
my
Desires
also
,
a
certain
way
was
offer'd
me
,
of
escaping
that
Night
;
the
Overture
whereof
I
could
not
decline
listning
to
,
because
it
was
Mithridatia's
repeated
Commands
;
but
that
I
so
much
preferr'd
being
a
Prisoner
when
she
was
one
,
before
Liberty
,
when
she
was
deni'd
hers
,
that
at
the
same
time
,
I
told
her
,
probably
I
could
Escape
;
I
begg'd
her
leave
,
not
to
do
it
,
though
by
being
of
late
deprived
of
the
high
Duty
and
Happiness
of
waiting
on
her
,
I
had
been
deprived
of
my
only
comfort
in
my
Imprisonment
,
which
yet
I
supported
without
repining
,
as
a
righteous
Judgment
,
for
having
been
Guilty
of
the
Princess's
.
Nerea
told
me
,
she
would
carry
my
Message
,
and
durst
tell
me
my
Answer
before
she
had
received
it
.
To
be
brief
,
she
went
immediately
to
Mithridatia's
Chamber
,
told
her
what
I
had
said
,
and
brought
me
a
positive
Command
,
to
lay
hold
of
that
opportunity
which
was
so
happily
presented
me
,
by
which
she
now
had
more
than
hopes
of
soon
being
restored
to
her
Liberty
also
.
Nerea
told
me
at
the
same
time
,
if
I
should
delay
my
Obedience
to
these
Orders
,
it
would
trouble
the
Princess
almost
as
much
as
her
restraint
.
She
did
acquaint
me
too
with
a
particular
I
did
think
somewhat
strange
,
which
was
,
that
as
she
was
returning
to
me
,
passing
by
Pharnaces's
Chamber-door
,
she
perceived
Nicomedes
gently
coming
out
of
it
,
who
no
sooner
saw
her
,
but
he
hastily
shut
the
Door
again
,
and
seem'd
by
his
Looks
to
be
in
no
small
disorder
at
his
having
been
seen
by
her
at
that
hour
in
that
place
.
I
had
not
much
leisure
then
to
reflect
upon
this
assurance
,
being
so
incessantly
press'd
by
Nerea
to
that
Obedience
Statira
had
commanded
me
,
and
so
concernedly
expected
from
me
;
which
at
last
I
resolved
to
pay
her
,
and
begg'd
Nerea
to
acquaint
her
therewith
,
who
immediately
retired
to
do
it
.
And
not
long
after
,
Ostanes
came
into
my
Chamber
with
a
Livery-coat
of
one
of
Nicomedes's
Guards
,
which
I
put
on
,
and
being
led
by
him
,
I
past
all
the
Soldiers
,
and
came
to
that
Creek
where
the
Vessel
staid
for
me
;
and
all
things
being
in
readiness
,
the
Wind
too
favouring
us
,
I
desired
them
to
direct
their
course
for
Nicomedia
,
to
which
City
in
two
Days
we
arrived
without
meeting
any
Impediment
:
I
went
first
to
the
Appartment
of
the
generous
Atafernes
,
whom
I
found
in
a
deep
Melancholy
in
his
Closet
;
and
because
he
protected
to
me
my
Absence
and
Imprisonment
did
partly
cause
it
,
he
forthwith
cast
off
so
large
a
proportion
of
it
,
as
did
evidence
the
reality
of
that
assurance
;
and
after
many
Embraces
he
honoured
me
with
,
and
many
Inquiries
after
the
Princess
Statira's
Health
and
Condition
,
he
was
pleas'd
to
acquaint
me
,
how
many
ways
he
had
endeavour'd
to
to
get
a
Naval
Force
able
to
Land
his
Army
in
the
Island
of
Scyros
,
to
restore
his
Sister
,
his
Brother
,
and
me
to
our
Liberty
:
But
that
the
late
Victory
Nicomedes
obtained
,
had
so
terrified
all
Auxiliaries
from
serving
against
him
,
that
even
in
that
Success
,
he
not
only
ruin'd
the
Cyprian
Fleet
,
but
almost
the
hopes
of
ever
getting
another
together
to
oppose
him
:
He
further
told
me
,
That
as
soon
as
Ascanius
was
defeated
,
he
had
prevailed
with
Mithridates
to
post
away
Betuitus
,
then
somewhat
recovered
of
that
tedious
Indisposition
he
had
so
long
Languish'd
under
,
into
Cylicia
to
engage
all
the
Naval
strength
of
that
Nation
;
in
which
Betuitus
had
been
so
diligent
and
successful
,
that
whilst
Ascanius
was
here
Visiting
the
King
and
Court
,
acknowledging
the
high
Favour
of
his
inlargement
,
excusing
his
Loss
to
them
,
and
making
many
positive
Assurances
of
repairing
his
Defeat
,
and
restoring
Statira
and
Pharnaces
to
their
Freedom
;
Betuitus
had
so
far
engaged
the
chief
Cylician
Sea-men
,
that
when
Ascanius
was
return'd
to
Cyprus
,
he
found
in
his
own
and
his
Brother's
unsuccessfulness
,
his
Maritim
Strength
so
exhausted
,
that
he
was
necessitated
to
send
to
hire
a
foreign
Help
;
but
he
could
procute
none
,
by
reason
of
their
pre-ingagement
to
my
Father's
Admiral
.
But
the
Cylicians
hired
by
●etuitus
,
are
not
near
enough
with
that
little
Sea-strength
Mithridates
has
left
,
to
form
a
Fleet
strong
enough
of
themselves
to
oppose
Nicomedes
;
so
that
,
though
by
preventing
Ascanius
,
we
have
not
done
our selves
much
good
,
yet
we
have
hinder'd
him
from
wholly
ingrossing
that
Force
,
which
is
necessary
to
reduce
the
Island
of
Scyros
.
Betuitus
,
who
is
a
faithful
Servant
to
our
Family
,
and
particularly
affectionated
to
Statira
and
me
,
having
receiv'd
a
private
Advertisement
from
me
,
how
passionately
I
desir'd
her
Deliverance
,
without
being
indebted
to
Ascanius
for
it
,
but
only
to
himself
;
had
no
sooner
assur'd
the
Cylicians
to
Mithridates's
Service
,
than
he
forthwith
went
to
the
Phoenicians
,
and
has
prevail'd
with
many
of
them
to
come
under
my
Fathers
Pay
;
and
whilst
these
are
sitting
their
Galleys
,
he
is
returning
to
Miletus
,
where
,
if
he
can
have
the
like
Success
,
he
assures
me
,
not
only
to
have
a
Fleet
able
to
oppose
Nicomedes
,
but
to
have
it
ready
before
Ascanius
has
his
:
who
,
by
a
double
disappointment
in
Cylicia
and
Phoenicia
,
has
been
compell'd
to
send
into
Egypt
to
hire
Galleys
there
.
And
now
(
continued
Atafernes
)
We
hourly
expect
to
hear
of
Betuitus's
Arrival
at
Miletus
,
and
what
Success
his
endeavours
will
meet
with
there
.
I
was
not
(
said
Callimachus
)
a
little
pleas'd
to
find
what
I
most
desir'd
,
in
so
hopeful
a
way
towards
a
good
Result
;
nor
was
the
Prince
less
pleas'd
,
when
in
Obedience
to
his
Commands
,
I
had
acquainted
him
,
how
by
the
means
of
Ostanes
I
had
acted
my
Escape
,
even
when
I
had
not
only
lost
the
hopes
,
but
the
desires
of
it
;
neither
would
he
be
satisfied
,
till
I
had
called
in
Ostanes
to
him
,
whom
he
Embraced
with
many
Thanks
for
what
he
had
done
,
(
for
I
never
mentioned
any
thing
to
him
of
Nicomedes
,
because
of
my
solemn
Vow
)
and
forced
him
to
take
such
rich
Jewels
,
that
even
those
had
been
of
themselves
too
Prodigal
a
Ransom
for
me
.
Atafernes
soon
after
told
me
,
how
he
intended
,
and
had
gotten
Mithridates's
leave
to
Imbarque
his
Army
in
Betuitus's
Fleet
,
not
only
to
Strengthen
it
,
but
if
it
were
bless'd
with
a
Victory
,
immediately
to
Land
,
and
prosecute
that
End
,
for
which
chiefly
,
if
not
only
,
't
would
be
a
Blessing
to
him
.
I
was
exceedingly
joyed
at
this
assurance
,
because
the
Duty
of
my
Office
led
me
,
where
the
Duty
of
my
Passion
call'd
me
;
but
the
Prince
,
who
knew
how
much
I
should
rejoyce
his
Father
by
waiting
on
him
,
made
me
attend
on
him
to
Mithridates
,
though
it
were
very
Late
;
We
found
the
King
in
his
Night-gown
ready
to
go
to
Bed
;
But
as
soon
as
he
saw
me
,
he
ran
and
embraced
me
with
this
flattering
Complement
,
That
he
never
had
received
more
refreshment
from
Sleep
,
than
he
now
received
in
seeing
me
.
I
will
not
Enumerate
all
the
Questions
he
asked
me
concerning
the
Princess
Statira
,
the
Prince
Pharnaces
,
their
Usage
,
What
had
made
Nicomedes
of
late
so
unusually
Unactive
;
nor
how
inquisitive
he
was
of
the
means
of
my
Escape
;
to
all
which
I
gave
him
the
truest
Answers
I
could
;
and
when
I
had
mentioned
to
him
the
Obligation
I
had
to
Ostanes
,
he
sent
for
him
into
his
Closet
,
loaded
him
with
rich
Gifts
,
and
setled
a
plentiful
Pension
on
him
during
his
Life
.
Mithridates
by
my
Return
,
had
been
so
long
interrupted
from
his
intended
Rest
,
that
I
thought
it
a
Duty
to
Retire
,
which
,
whilst
I
was
ready
to
perform
,
an
Express
came
to
him
,
and
Atafernes
,
with
the
sad
News
of
the
Death
of
Betuitus
,
the
same
Day
of
his
Arrival
at
Miletus
;
His
Age
,
and
the
excessive
Diligence
he
had
used
in
preparing
a
Fleet
in
so
many
Regions
for
his
King's
Service
,
and
the
Deliverance
of
his
Prince
and
Princess
,
had
cast
him
into
a
Fever
which
ended
his
Life
,
just
as
he
was
come
to
that
City
,
where
he
hop'd
to
encrease
his
Navy
considerably
,
and
before
which
he
had
appointed
all
his
Ships
and
Galleys
,
waged
amongst
the
Cylicians
and
Phoenicians
to
Rendezvouz
.
This
sad
Intelligence
wounded
sensibly
the
Pontick
King
for
he
had
no
Subject
to
whom
he
could
intrust
his
Fleet
;
and
he
fear'd
,
lest
those
Auxiliaries
engaged
by
Betuitus
,
might
esteem
themselves
absolved
by
his
Death
;
and
the
Miletians
also
,
wanting
the
presence
and
solicitations
of
the
Pontick
Admiral
,
might
decline
that
Assistance
,
in
which
Mithridates
had
his
Rationallest
hopes
.
I
was
not
unmoved
at
the
loss
of
so
worthy
a
Person
,
and
in
such
a
juncture
of
time
,
(
and
possibly
those
two
Reasons
gave
the
Prince
opportunity
to
move
his
Father
to
employ
my
Service
)
ere
I
could
present
him
an
Offer
of
it
:
He
told
Mithridates
,
That
my
longest
practice
in
War
had
been
by
Sea
;
that
in
several
Actions
I
had
gain'd
some
repute
in
the
minds
of
those
which
frequent
that
Element
;
and
that
by
my
Education
and
long
Residence
in
Miletus
,
my
Interests
there
were
likelier
to
contribute
to
his
Service
,
than
any
other
he
could
employ
:
He
could
have
added
,
with
at
least
as
much
probability
,
that
my
concernments
for
the
relief
of
the
fair
Statira
,
and
succeeding
my
Rival
in
that
Duty
,
would
add
Wings
to
my
haste
,
as
well
as
Courage
to
my
hopes
.
In
brief
,
Atafernes
said
so
much
,
and
Mithridates
believed
so
much
,
that
immediately
he
declared
me
Successor
to
Betuitus
,
and
gave
Directions
forthwith
to
dispatch
my
Commission
and
finish
my
Orders
and
Instructions
.
I
was
a
thousand
times
ready
to
have
prostrated
my self
at
the
Ponti●k
King's
feet
,
to
evidence
my
Joy
and
Gratitude
for
an
Employment
which
I
valued
more
than
all
his
Empires
;
for
by
it
I
was
inabled
to
dispute
Statira
on
that
Element
on
which
she
had
been
forced
from
me
,
and
in
a
possibility
to
recover
that
Glory
which
my
Rival
then
had
lost
.
Never
did
Atafernes
so
sensibly
oblige
any
,
as
then
he
did
me
;
and
never
did
Looks
speak
more
acknowledgments
than
mine
did
to
him
.
The
generous
Craterus
newly
recover'd
of
his
Wounds
,
hearing
of
my
Arrival
,
came
to
Visit
me
,
and
to
give
me
new
Assurances
of
an
old
Friendship
;
I
met
him
just
as
the
Prince
and
I
were
coming
out
of
the
King's
Appartment
,
where
in
Embraces
he
celebrated
my
Return
,
and
the
honour
Mithridates
had
so
freshly
bestowed
upon
me
,
which
in
a
moment
was
dispersed
about
the
Court
:
So
,
that
the
news
of
my
Liberty
and
Succession
to
Betuitus
,
went
together
.
I
had
only
the
next
Day
allowed
me
by
the
King
to
visit
and
take
leave
of
all
my
Friends
;
and
though
the
time
was
short
,
yet
the
Duty
of
my
impatience
made
me
esteem
it
too
long
.
My
faithful
Demetrius
I
found
recover'd
of
his
Wounds
,
and
ready
to
go
my
Journey
.
When
Atafernes
retired
to
his
Chamber
,
I
waited
on
him
thither
,
and
in
renew'd
Repetitions
of
Gratitude
,
I
endeavour'd
to
let
him
see
I
was
not
unsensible
,
though
unworthy
of
his
Favours
:
The
assurances
I
gave
the
Prince
,
that
I
would
not
mis-imploy
one
moment
in
the
relief
of
the
Princess
Statira
,
made
him
give
Craterus
Orders
to
have
his
Army
in
a
readiness
to
Ship
on
twelve
hours
notice
,
when
ever
I
came
upon
the
South-west
Coast
of
Bithynia
;
that
if
the
gods
favour'd
my
Am●
by
Sea
,
the
Land
forces
might
be
ready
to
be
transported
into
the
Island
of
Scyros
to
perfect
that
Deliverance
,
which
chiefly
occasion'd
the
War
;
in
which
Atafernes
was
resolved
in
Person
to
appear
.
This
Night
when
I
retir'd
,
Demetrius
told
me
,
amongst
many
other
things
,
that
he
was
exceedingly
deceived
,
if
Monyma
had
not
some
sensible
Reliques
of
that
Affection
she
had
once
conferr'd
on
me
at
Miletus
.
I
wonder'd
to
hear
a
Discourse
of
this
Nature
from
him
who
never
had
practised
the
like
before
;
and
knowing
of
how
dangerous
a
consequence
the
least
vent
of
that
belief
might
prove
,
both
to
her
and
me
;
I
told
him
so
much
in
terms
which
might
let
him
understand
how
highly
I
was
concerned
in
his
Cautionsness
therein
;
and
then
as'd
him
,
What
Rise
that
Apprehension
of
his
had
?
(
for
,
possibly
by
my
knowledg
thereof
,
I
might
be
better
instructed
how
to
carry
my self
towards
her
and
others
;
for
,
though
those
Beauties
which
had
first
conquer'd
me
at
Miletus
,
were
still
as
Flourishing
and
Charming
as
ever
,
and
had
received
no
small
Accession
by
the
noble
Ornaments
of
a
Crown
;
yet
I
confess
,
her
inconstancy
to
me
,
and
the
resistless
and
triumphant
Graces
both
of
the
Princess
Statira's
outward
and
internal
Beauties
,
had
so
intirely
possessed
all
my
Affection
and
Admiration
,
that
Monyma's
favour
was
so
far
from
being
my
desire
,
that
it
would
have
been
my
trouble
)
.
Demetrius
in
Answer
to
my
Question
,
told
me
;
As
soon
,
Sir
,
as
the
Queen
had
heard
of
my
Wounds
and
Danger
,
she
sent
her
most
experienced
Physicians
and
Chirurgeons
to
me
,
and
commanded
their
constant
attendance
on
me
,
till
I
was
inabled
thereby
to
attend
her
;
which
,
as
soon
as
ever
I
was
,
she
sent
for
me
to
her
,
and
without
permitting
me
to
pay
her
my
humble
acknowledgments
for
that
Recovery
,
which
(
under
the
gods
)
I
owed
unto
her
favour
,
she
began
a
Discourse
of
you
;
and
knowing
I
was
not
ignorant
of
that
Affection
she
had
for
you
at
Miletus
,
she
did
the
more
freely
speak
unto
me
;
there
being
then
either
by
design
or
accident
,
none
of
her
Women
in
her
Cabinet
:
Her
first
Questions
were
▪
Whether
yet
you
had
discover'd
from
whence
you
derived
your
Extraction
?
How
you
had
resented
her
necessitated
Marriage
of
M●thridate
?
s
(
For
,
continued
Demetrius
,
she
spake
in
such
an
Accent
that
word
Necessitated
,
as
I
perceived
well
,
she
had
a
desire
I
should
observe
it
)
.
And
whether
you
had
ever
had
a
Passion
for
any
before
her
,
or
had
ever
resented
any
since
?
I
easily
found
she
was
more
intent
in
my
Return
to
the
last
part
of
this
Question
,
than
to
all
the
rest
;
and
though
I
gave
her
the
best
Answers
I
could
,
yet
still
me-thought
she
had
something
to
say
which
she
had
not
said
,
or
would
not
say
.
●And
though
in
her
whole
Discourses
,
her
Words
had
they
been
written
,
could
not
have
strictly
born
a
sense
which
could
have
manifested
any
thing
more
than
a
common
Affection
,
and
a
concernment
for
you
:
yet
in
their
Tone
,
in
her
Looks
,
and
in
her
Dwelling
more
upon
some
parts
of
her
Demands
,
than
on
others
;
I
had
abundant
cause
to
believe
her
Inquiries
after
you
,
were
the
productions
of
more
than
an
ordinary
Curiosity
.
And
by
several
other
Discourses
at
several
other
times
,
(
for
ever
since
I
was
able
to
endure
the
Air
,
I
was
daily
commanded
to
wait
upon
her
)
I
perceived
she
still
retained
her
former
Passion
for
you
;
and
was
not
a
little
Jealous
you
had
dedicated
yours
to
some
other
Beauty
.
Demetrius
having
ended
speaking
,
I
did
again
with
earnestness
repeat
my
former
Orders
to
him
;
and
though
I
needed
Rest
,
yet
before
I
would
take
any
,
I
did
in
my
Thoughts
propound
a
thousand
ways
how
to
carry
my self
towards
Monyma
,
from
a
continuance
of
whose
Affection
to
me
,
I
more
easily
foresaw
the
Prejudices
,
than
their
Remedies
:
And
after
all
were
examined
,
I
found
none
attended
with
less
inconveniencies
,
than
never
to
wait
on
her
but
in
Atafernes's
Company
,
or
the
Princess
Statira's
when
she
should
return
,
for
thereby
I
should
not
decline
the
Duof
attending
her
,
and
yet
do
it
in
Company
,
where
she
would
be
confined
from
evidencing
any
Inclination
for
me
.
The
next
Morning
I
attended
Atafernes
at
his
Rising
,
and
begg'd
him
,
that
in
the
Afternoon
he
would
let
me
wait
on
him
to
the
Queen
,
to
kiss
her
Hands
,
both
as
my
first
Visit
,
and
my
last
.
He
promised
me
this
favour
;
and
then
we
went
to
the
King's
Appartment
,
who
had
sat
up
so
Late
in
preparing
my
Orders
,
that
it
was
Noon
ere
he
Rose
;
and
then
finding
himself
unfit
for
Business
,
he
told
me
,
'T
would
be
the
next
Morning
ere
I
could
begin
my
Journey
.
That
Afternoon
Atafernes
led
me
to
the
Queen's
Appartment
,
who
received
me
with
many
obliging
Civilities
,
and
with
Looks
,
which
nothing
but
Statira's
Idea
could
have
enabled
me
to
resist
;
the
whole
Discourse
consisted
of
such
usual
things
,
that
I
shall
not
repeat
any
of
them
in
particular
:
And
after
an
Hour
,
the
Prince
rising
to
take
his
leave
,
I
desired
the
honour
of
the
Queen's
Commands
,
and
acquainted
her
,
That
being
by
the
King's
Orders
to
go
to
Miletus
,
't
was
not
improbable
but
he
might
have
some
Services
to
command
me
thither
.
Monyma
instantly
reply'd
,
You
have
not
a
little
obliged
me
,
Callimachus
,
in
letting
me
know
you
were
to
go
to
Miletus
,
for
I
hear
Irene's
Father
being
Dead
,
she
inheriting
all
his
Riches
is
return'd
thither
with
her
Husband
,
where
most
of
them
were
left
her
:
I
intend
to
present
her
something
,
which
may
let
her
see
she
continues
in
my
remembrance
and
affection
;
and
therefore
I
will
desire
you
this
Evening
to
come
hither
and
receive
it
,
for
I
know
your
delivering
it
will
give
it
a
double
good
reception
.
I
was
so
confounded
at
this
Command
which
had
defeated
all
I
had
built
,
and
so
vexed
at
my Self
for
having
given
a
Rise
to
it
,
that
I
had
like
to
have
discovered
to
the
Queen
and
Prince
my
Disorders
;
which
the
better
to
conceal
,
I
told
her
,
I
would
not
fail
to
come
and
receive
the
Honour
of
such
an
Employment
;
since
to
observe
her
Commands
,
and
oblige
the
fair
Irene
,
were
Duties
in
which
I
found
a
high
Contentment
.
Atafernes
hereupon
retir'd
,
and
I
durst
not
beg
him
again
to
go
in
the
Evening
to
Monyma's
,
left
that
might
have
discover'd
,
what
I
was
so
desirous
to
keep
from
his
Knowledg
.
From
the
Queen's
side
we
went
to
wait
on
the
Princess
Nisa
,
and
the
Princess
Cleopatra
,
who
then
began
to
disclose
Beauties
,
which
but
for
the
fair
Statira's
,
had
not
had
any
Superiour
in
the
World
.
Both
their
Entertainments
consisted
in
things
relating
to
the
Danger
their
Sister
had
been
in
;
and
inquiries
,
how
she
indur'd
her
Imprisonment
,
and
what
hopes
there
was
to
free
her
from
it
.
By
that
time
these
Duties
were
paid
,
and
other
Visits
I
owed
to
my
Friends
,
it
was
Evening
;
and
therefore
I
sent
Demetrius
to
discover
whether
there
were
any
Company
with
Monyma
,
resolving
when
there
was
most
,
to
wait
upon
her
,
that
I
might
not
be
engaged
in
a
particular
Discourse
with
her
,
which
I
so
much
fear'd
,
and
she
,
I
found
desired
:
I
waited
so
long
,
that
at
last
he
returned
with
assurance
,
that
both
the
Princesses
,
Nisa
,
and
Cleopatra
,
were
with
the
Queen
,
attended
by
all
the
greatest
Persons
of
the
Court.
To
embrace
therefore
this
desired
opportunity
,
I
went
directly
towards
the
Queen's
Appartment
,
and
crossing
a
long
Gallery
which
was
in
my
way
,
I
found
Mithridates
in
it
,
who
seeing
me
,
called
me
to
him
,
as
he
said
,
to
make
me
a
sharer
in
the
good
News
he
had
then
receiv'd
:
which
was
a
Packet
sent
by
an
Express
from
Ascanius
,
to
assure
him
,
Though
he
had
met
with
many
difficulties
in
forming
a
Fleet
for
the
Princess
Statira's
Deliverance
,
and
his
Service
,
yet
now
he
had
vanquish'd
them
all
,
and
would
in
twenty
Days
present
him
a
Navy
,
which
he
was
confident
would
cure
the
Wounds
of
his
former
Misfortunes
,
and
present
his
Princess
and
her
Brother
with
that
Liberty
,
the
loss
whereof
was
more
insuppotable
to
him
,
than
it
could
be
to
them
.
I
was
not
(
continued
Callimachus
)
generous
enough
to
rejoyce
at
such
an
additional
Strength
to
the
Princess's
Deliverance
;
I
had
rather
have
had
it
left
to
my
Fleet
,
than
have
had
the
Assistance
of
my
Rivals
:
But
this
Packet
made
the
King
detain
me
a
long
hour
,
in
resolving
where
the
two
Fleets
should
Rendezvous
;
and
when
,
and
how
they
should
prosecute
the
War
.
Miletus
was
judged
the
most
fit
place
for
the
Fleets
assembling
;
that
being
in
the
way
for
the
Cyprian
Fleet
,
and
the
appointed
Rendezvous
by
Betuitus
for
all
his
Phoenician
&
Cilician
Galleys
,
as
well
as
the
place
from
whence
we
expected
so
considerable
a
Force
,
which
I
thought
would
the
sooner
be
much
Augmented
by
their
seeing
how
considerable
a
Navy
we
had
got
together
.
The
Fleet
in
the
Hellespont
had
Orders
sent
forthwith
(
Wind
and
Weather
serving
)
to
Rendezvous
in
the
Great
Bay
before
Miletus
,
there
to
expect
further
Commands
.
The
taking
up
these
Resolves
,
and
the
dispatches
for
putting
them
in
Execution
,
took
us
up
a
full
hour
;
so
that
by
the
time
I
came
to
Monyma's
Chamber
,
I
found
the
two
Princesses
and
all
the
Company
had
left
it
;
which
necessitated
me
wholly
to
disobey
her
Commands
,
and
break
my
own
Ingagement
;
or
else
to
do
that
,
which
next
to
an
Incivility
and
breach
of
Promise
,
I
most
apprehended
.
Whilst
I
was
debating
with
my Self
what
to
do
,
one
of
the
Queen's
Women
,
who
thought
my
stay
near
the
Door
,
was
only
to
know
whether
the
Queen
was
at
leisure
to
receive
my
Visit
;
was
so-over
officious
as
to
go
in
to
Monyma
,
and
to
tell
her
I
waited
at
the
Door
to
kiss
her
Hands
.
Monyma
forthwith
sent
the
same
Woman
to
desire
me
to
come
in
,
which
cut
off
all
Debates
,
and
made
me
follow
my
Guide
,
who
led
me
into
the
Queen's
Bed-chamber
;
who
no
sooner
saw
me
,
but
she
rose
and
came
to
meet
me
:
But
so
lovely
,
and
so
charming
,
that
had
not
the
remembrance
of
her
Inconstancy
been
as
much
my
Preservative
,
as
my
Flame
to
my
Princess
,
I
must
then
have
Acted
that
Sin
myself
,
which
was
my
only
quarrel
to
her
.
An
hundred
Crystal
Lamps
shined
in
the
Chamber
,
and
yet
gave
it
a
less
Light
,
both
in
degrees
and
quality
,
than
the
Queen's
Eyes
:
Her
Dress
was
at
once
so
negligent
and
advantageous
,
that
I
found
a
great
Art
consisted
in
seemingly
declining
of
any
:
Her
Looks
had
an
equal
mixture
of
Sorrow
and
Obligingness
;
and
yet
I
never
saw
any
Face
cover'd
with
Joy
,
inhabited
with
more
Lustre
and
Empire
.
I
must
confess
what
I
saw
,
made
me
often
willing
to
have
exchanged
the
hopes
of
the
Glory
of
Triumphing
over
such
an
Enemy
,
to
have
avoided
the
Temptation
of
her
Conquest
;
and
if
ever
I
knew
the
power
I
had
over
my self
,
or
rather
the
power
the
fair
Statira
had
over
me
,
't
was
in
that
Night
remaining
(
I
will
not
say
Unmoved
,
but
I
may
say
)
unvanquish'd
.
After
my
little
Disorders
were
over
,
I
told
the
Queen
;
Madam
,
I
should
not
have
been
guilty
of
twice
troubling
you
in
one
Day
,
had
not
the
honour
of
your
Commands
occasion'd
it
;
nor
have
paid
you
this
last
Duty
at
so
uncivil
an
hour
,
if
the
King
had
not
unexpectedly
kept
me
so
Late
,
and
enjoyned
me
to
begin
my
Journey
so
Early
,
that
I
must
now
have
obey'd
you
,
or
else
have
been
uncapable
to
do
it
.
Monyma
walking
towards
a
part
of
her
Chamber
,
where
,
though
some
of
her
Women
had
continued
in
the
place
they
were
,
yet
they
could
neither
see
nor
hear
us
;
and
there
seating
her self
under
a
great
Cloath
of
State
:
she
told
me
;
I
did
indeed
,
Callimachus
,
expect
this
favour
from
you
somewhat
Earlier
;
and
your
staying
thus
long
,
might
have
made
me
doubt
you
would
not
have
come
,
had
I
not
remembred
,
that
you
so
detested
a
forced
breach
of
Promise
in
another
,
that
you
would
not
have
acted
a
Voluntary
one
your self
.
But
you
see
Mithridates
has
the
power
to
hinder
you
from
performing
,
at
your
own
time
,
your
intentions
to
me
,
as
well
as
to
hinder
me
from
observing
mine
to
you
:
I
am
so
good
Natur'd
,
(
she
continu'd
,
with
a
Smile
mixt
with
a
serious
Look
,
that
what
she
said
might
be
taken
either
way
)
that
I
freely
forgive
your
failer
;
and
I
will
hope
,
that
your
Reason
,
your
good
Nature
,
and
my
Example
,
will
invite
you
to
practice
the
like
towards
me
.
This
Answer
(
said
Callimachus
)
made
me
judg
what
the
whole
entertainment
of
my
Visit
would
consist
of
;
and
though
it
was
but
what
I
expected
,
yet
it
was
also
what
I
fear'd
;
and
therefore
the
less
to
intangle
my self
in
Discourse
,
I
only
chose
to
answer
such
parts
of
hers
,
as
might
give
her
the
least
Rise
to
dwell
upon
those
particulars
on
which
I
apprehended
she
would
most
insist
.
I
therefore
only
reply'd
;
I
will
hope
,
Madam
,
by
that
power
you
have
found
Mithridates
has
,
you
will
the
sooner
pardon
an
Incivility
in
me
,
which
is
but
an
effect
of
that
Cause
.
I
shall
never
(
reply'd
the
Queen
)
esteem
your
Visits
an
Incivility
,
but
an
Obligation
;
yet
,
lest
you
should
think
them
otherwise
,
(
for
I
find
you
have
some
Thoughts
of
me
concerning
you
,
which
you
ought
not
to
have
)
to
silence
those
Scruples
,
I
do
grant
you
whatever
forgiveness
you
desire
:
Then
listing
up
her
Eyes
,
and
fixing
them
on
me
,
she
said
,
May
I
have
that
satisfaction
,
to
receive
from
you
as
full
a
forgiveness
,
as
I
have
given
you
?
This
is
the
second
time
I
have
asked
it
;
and
if
your
Answer
be
not
as
positive
as
the
Desire
,
whatever
words
your
Civility
or
Wit
may
disguise
it
in
,
I
shall
esteem
it
a
flat
Denial
,
and
deplore
it
at
that
Rate
.
Then
casting
down
her
Eyes
,
which
began
to
swell
with
some
Tears
,
she
added
;
Callimachus
,
before
you
make
me
any
Return
,
remember
what
I
acted
was
in
obedience
to
the
highest
Duty
;
was
a
performance
of
necessity
,
not
choice
;
and
is
a
punishment
as
great
as
the
fault
.
At
the
end
of
these
words
,
Those
Tears
which
a
little
before
had
but
appear'd
in
her
fair
Eyes
,
now
began
to
give
way
to
those
which
were
to
follow
;
which
did
so
in
such
abundance
,
that
though
she
strove
,
by
wiping
them
away
,
to
conceal
them
,
or
at
least
their
excess
,
yet
both
were
so
visible
,
that
they
melted
the
violence
of
all
my
Resentments
:
And
in
an
Accent
,
which
might
as
much
evidence
Truth
in
one
of
my
Sex
,
as
Weeping
could
in
one
of
hers
,
kneeling
at
her
Feet
,
I
told
her
,
Whatever
,
Madam
,
my
Griefs
,
whatever
my
Resentments
have
been
,
I
hope
neither
of
them
have
been
so
rude
,
as
to
make
you
doubt
my
Obedience
to
any
of
your
Commands
:
If
they
have
been
so
undesignedly
unfortunate
,
they
have
as
much
Wounded
me
in
you
,
as
for
you
;
and
if
an
assurance
of
an
intire
observance
of
those
Commands
you
have
mention'd
to
me
,
can
repair
that
unhappiness
,
I
shall
find
in
my
Duty
my
contentment
.
At
the
end
of
these
words
,
Monyma
casting
one
of
her
Arms
over
me
,
she
reply'd
;
Callimachus
,
What
you
have
promised
,
cannot
be
a
greater
Justice
than
it
is
an
Obligation
;
an
Obligation
of
so
noble
a
Nature
and
Efficacy
,
that
I
ought
to
cast
my self
in
the
like
posture
,
to
speak
my
Gratitude
,
as
you
have
been
in
,
whilst
you
perform'd
that
which
caused
it
.
I
was
not
(
continued
Callimachus
)
a
little
confounded
and
surprised
at
what
Monyma
said
and
did
:
But
though
I
were
in
the
Arms
of
one
of
the
greatest
Beauties
of
the
World
,
and
of
the
greatest
Person
in
it
,
th'
Effects
of
whose
kindness
,
in
the
then
Dictates
of
it
,
I
might
possibly
have
carried
to
a
higher
degree
;
yet
I
had
so
intirely
resigned
up
my self
to
the
fair
Statira
,
that
the
highest
satisfaction
I
took
in
the
Queen's
favours
,
proceeded
from
a
knowledg
I
attain'd
thereby
,
that
nothing
was
capable
to
alter
or
diminish
my
Passion
for
my
Princess
,
since
Monyma's
Charms
and
Kindness
wanted
that
Power
;
Charms
,
I
say
,
which
consisted
of
those
almost
resistless
Ingredients
,
of
Beauty
,
Kindness
,
Opportunity
,
and
Quality
:
And
though
I
were
not
a
little
concerned
,
that
Mithridatia
should
have
seen
the
small
transports
in
which
I
entertained
my
first
Mistress's
favours
,
that
thereby
she
might
have
read
the
intireness
of
my
Flame
for
the
last
;
yet
I
had
so
much
respect
for
the
Queen
,
that
I
would
not
have
purchas'd
such
a
satisfaction
,
at
so
dear
a
price
to
her
.
But
after
she
had
a
while
continued
in
that
Fashion
I
have
mentioned
,
and
I
speechless
,
occasion'd
by
what
she
did
,
and
what
I
thought
;
She
rais'd
her self
up
at
last
,
with
a
Face
so
cover'd
with
Blushes
,
that
I
have
since
believed
,
what
by
surprise
she
had
Acted
,
having
caused
that
Vermillion
,
she
so
long
continued
what
she
had
done
,
to
give
it
time
to
retire
:
She
had
no
sooner
recover'd
a
little
out
of
those
disorders
she
had
been
in
,
then
she
told
me
;
Rise
,
Callimachus
,
lest
some
unexpected
Witnesses
of
the
postures
we
have
been
in
,
might
mis-interpret
them
.
These
words
waked
me
out
of
my
Thoughts
,
and
whatever
else
had
entertain'd
me
;
and
having
paid
an
Obedience
to
her
Commands
,
she
told
me
;
I
hope
,
Callimachus
,
you
believe
,
that
great
Joy
does
bring
some
Madness
with
it
;
and
therefore
,
that
you
will
attribute
to
what
you
have
promised
me
,
all
those
Productions
that
assurance
has
made
me
guilty
of
;
and
since
I
am
now
(
I
hope
)
restored
to
your
good
Opinion
,
you
will
permit
me
,
as
an
effect
of
that
vast
Concern
I
have
still
had
for
you
,
which
always
continued
its
first
Lustre
in
me
,
though
clouded
to
your
Sight
,
to
be
inquisitive
after
whatever
relates
unto
you
,
and
to
offer
you
all
the
interests
I
have
in
Mithridates
,
to
establish
any
of
yours
,
which
you
are
to
derive
from
him
:
And
because
,
when
I
left
you
at
Miletus
,
(
at
which
words
,
said
Callimachus
,
she
Sighed
)
you
were
in
no
small
perplexity
,
at
your
Ignorance
of
your
Extraction
;
Tell
me
,
I
beseech
you
,
whether
yet
you
have
had
any
Light
of
it
.
Madam
,
(
I
reply'd
)
I
am
yet
as
great
a
Stranger
to
my
Birth
,
as
I
was
then
;
but
having
lost
the
generous
Telamon
on
the
Sea
,
as
soon
as
I
had
in
some
degree
conquer'd
my
Sorrows
,
I
resolved
on
that
Element
to
make
a
diligent
Inquiry
after
him
;
in
which
search
I
continued
,
till
the
gods
presented
me
the
occasion
to
serve
the
Princess
Statira
;
and
ever
since
that
time
,
you
have
seen
and
known
my
Adventures
.
Those
gods
(
the
Queen
reply'd
)
were
not
a
little
concerned
in
the
manifestation
of
my
Innocence
,
and
in
restoring
me
to
the
happiness
of
your
Friendship
,
since
,
as
the
way
to
the
end
,
they
permitted
so
excellent
a
Person
as
the
Princess
Statira
,
to
be
reduced
to
a
danger
,
which
only
Callimachus's
Courage
was
able
to
free
her
from
:
But
,
(
said
Monyma
,
fixing
her
Eyes
on
me
)
confess
to
me
,
I
conjure
you
,
Were
you
not
in
the
same
Action
,
Conquerour
,
and
Conquered
?
I
was
not
(
said
Callimachus
)
a
little
confounded
at
so
unexpected
a
Question
;
which
made
the
Queen
thus
to
continue
;
Blush
not
,
Callimachus
,
at
what
I
ask
you
,
I
know
nothing
greater
than
the
impossibility
of
not
adoring
Statira
,
but
the
Sin
of
being
ashamed
at
it
:
You
that
did
not
resist
that
little
Beauty
the
gods
had
favour'd
me
with
,
How
could
you
resist
those
Graces
,
which
disclose
themselves
with
such
triumphing
Lustre
in
that
Princess
?
I
tell
you
not
this
,
to
discover
your
Inclinations
,
but
by
letting
you
know
I
am
acquainted
with
them
,
I
hope
to
invite
you
to
make
me
your
Confident
:
For
by
the
Laws
of
the
Gods
,
of
Men
,
and
of
Virtue
,
being
indispensably
confined
from
even
the
Thoughts
of
possessing
you
my self
,
it
will
be
my
happiness
to
contribute
to
the
making
of
yours
.
I
know
the
height
of
her
Birth
,
and
your
Ignorance
of
Yours
,
are
vast
Impediments
;
but
I
know
also
your
Person
,
and
your
Actions
,
are
above
all
other
Men's
,
as
much
as
her
Quality
is
above
Yours
:
I
know
too
,
that
her
exact
Obedience
to
the
King
,
and
the
near
consummation
of
her
Nuptials
,
are
considerable
hinderances
;
but
I
know
also
,
that
Love
is
more
considerable
help
:
And
all
my
exactest
Observations
abuse
me
,
if
she
had
not
gone
with
less
trouble
to
the
Temple
,
had
she
been
led
thither
by
Callimachus
,
instead
of
Ascanius
.
Who
knows
,
but
that
the
Glory
of
her
third
Deliverance
is
reserved
to
you
?
And
who
knows
,
but
that
those
gods
,
which
so
miraculously
separated
her
from
the
King
of
Cyprus
for
a
time
,
may
,
in
the
next
Battel
,
separate
him
from
her
Eternally
?
'T
is
not
impossible
too
,
but
that
Mithridates
,
to
reward
your
Services
,
and
to
repair
the
intended
fatal
Obedience
of
his
Daughter
,
may
be
induced
to
make
that
Happiness
for
you
,
which
the
gods
,
by
so
many
repeated
and
admirable
Events
,
have
seem'd
to
declare
they
design
you
to
:
Possibly
also
,
some
happy
Accident
may
discover
to
you
in
the
progress
of
this
War
,
it
being
Naval
,
and
Tellamon
being
separated
from
you
on
the
Sea
,
from
whence
you
derive
your
Extraction
,
and
the
Knowledg
of
your
Quality
may
give
you
as
free
an
admittance
to
make
your
Addresses
to
Statira
,
as
your
Services
have
given
you
an
interest
in
her
.
These
(
continued
Monyma
)
are
the
Hopes
I
have
for
you
;
and
if
,
by
the
affection
Mithridates
honours
me
with
,
I
may
in
any
degree
contribute
by
my
endeavours
to
change
them
unto
Certainties
,
if
you
esteem
me
worthy
of
your
Trust
,
you
shall
find
by
my
Actions
,
that
I
have
afresh
desired
your
Friendship
,
but
the
more
hopefully
to
place
on
you
the
effects
of
mine
;
and
by
my
future
Deportment
,
in
some
measure
,
to
repair
you
for
the
Sins
of
my
past
Carriage
:
For
though
,
Callimachus
,
I
confess
I
love
you
,
and
possibly
more
than
I
ought
for
my
Quiet
,
and
perhaps
for
Yours
too
;
yet
,
since
such
an
Affection
is
a
Guilt
,
I
the
sooner
take
this
way
,
to
free
my self
from
it
;
and
't
is
no
small
satisfaction
to
me
,
that
what
is
the
intended
remedy
of
my
Fault
,
should
be
the
evidence
of
my
Esteem
and
Concernment
for
you
.
Never
,
(
said
Callimachus
)
never
was
I
reduced
to
a
greater
Trouble
in
forming
an
Answer
,
than
at
that
time
:
The
first
part
of
her
Discourse
had
so
flatter'd
my
Passion
,
and
my
Hopes
,
that
I
listned
to
it
in
Extasies
;
but
the
latter
part
,
reducing
me
to
the
necessity
of
owning
my
Flame
,
or
of
disobliging
the
Queen
,
who
so
generously
offer'd
me
her
Assistance
,
and
seem'd
in
what
she
had
spoke
,
to
have
taken
off
the
Veil
from
all
Disguisements
,
and
to
express
a
Tenderness
for
me
,
which
at
least
requir'd
Truth
and
Respect
from
me
;
that
,
between
those
extreams
,
I
remain'd
in
Troubles
so
unexpressible
,
and
great
,
that
the
gods
pitying
me
,
sent
me
an
unexpected
Relief
;
for
just
as
I
was
going
to
speak
,
and
yet
not
fully
resolv'd
what
I
should
say
,
one
of
the
Ladies
of
the
Queen's
Bed-chamber
came
hastily
to
her
,
and
told
her
;
Madam
,
the
King
has
sent
to
tell
you
,
that
,
having
all
this
Day
wearied
himself
in
Business
,
he
intends
to
give
himself
the
contentment
of
passing
this
Night
in
your
Company
;
and
is
now
coming
through
the
Gallery
hither
.
Monyma
casting
her
Eyes
upon
me
,
seem'd
,
by
them
,
to
say
something
,
which
,
I
interpreted
,
was
to
express
more
trouble
than
satisfaction
at
the
King's
message
;
and
rising
hastily
up
,
gave
me
a
Present
for
the
fair
Irene
,
and
commanded
me
to
tell
her
,
She
sent
her
that
,
as
an
assurance
,
that
whomsoever
she
loved
perfectly
once
,
she
would
always
love
in
that
degree
.
And
then
hastily
taking
leave
of
me
,
she
went
to
meet
the
King
,
who
was
almost
at
her
Chamber-door
;
where
she
entertained
him
a
while
,
that
I
might
have
the
more
leisure
to
retire
;
which
I
did
with
a
Joy
equal
to
the
Trouble
I
was
then
freed
from
.
I
will
not
trouble
you
,
with
all
the
various
Thoughts
which
imploy'd
me
,
upon
what
the
Queen
had
done
,
spoken
,
and
offer'd
;
but
to
repair
having
so
long
insisted
on
this
Visit
,
I
will
hasten
generous
Princes
,
to
tell
you
,
That
the
Night
,
I
took
my
last
leave
of
Atafernes
,
and
having
dispatched
Persons
of
Quality
and
Parts
,
with
Mithridates's
desires
to
the
Cylicians
and
Phoenicians
,
to
hasten
their
Fleets
to
the
Bay
of
Miletus
;
I
sent
also
by
expresses
of
great
Trust
,
Orders
to
Galatides
,
Admiral
for
Mithridates
of
the
Euxine
and
Hellespontick
Squadrons
,
that
,
because
his
Fleet
was
to
pass
by
the
Island
of
Scyros
,
where
all
Ariobarzanes
and
Nicomedes's
Fleet
lay
,
lest
they
should
attempt
to
intercept
him
,
to
keep
the
Western-Coast
of
Asia
close
on
his
left
hand
;
to
have
Scouts
so
far
advanced
,
as
to
receive
timely
Allarms
;
to
take
up
all
the
small
Vessels
of
Bithynia
,
and
Fisher-boats
a
long
the
Coast
,
with
as
much
privacy
as
possibly
he
could
;
and
in
the
beginning
of
the
Night
,
to
give
all
those
small
Vessels
the
Lights
of
his
Fleet
,
with
Order
to
keep
as
near
that
Coast
as
they
could
;
which
might
not
only
delude
the
Enemy
,
but
endanger
them
:
For
his
Ships
and
Galleys
being
of
the
largest
in
the
World
,
they
would
boldly
(
possibly
without
Sounding
)
follow
such
;
and
that
with
all
his
Fleet
,
during
the
Night
,
he
should
strike
over
to
the
Eastern-Coast
of
Greece
,
and
keep
that
on
his
right
Hand
,
till
he
were
gotten
so
far
to
the
Southward
of
Greece
,
as
the
length
of
the
Bay
of
Miletus
,
for
which
he
should
then
hasten
,
as
fast
as
his
Oars
and
Sails
could
carry
him
.
These
Orders
,
soon
after
my
coming
to
Miletus
,
I
found
had
not
been
needless
;
for
,
by
them
,
Galatides
assur'd
me
,
he
not
only
escaped
Nicomedes
,
but
the
Lights
in
the
small
Vessels
so
well
abused
him
,
that
not
a
few
of
his
were
Stranded
,
and
others
Cast
away
,
in
their
Chase
,
ere
the
rest
of
his
Fleet
perceived
the
Delusion
.
The
Miletians
,
who
were
a
People
wholly
,
of
late
Years
dedicated
to
their
Trade
;
though
they
received
Mithridates's
Letters
to
them
,
with
all
the
formalities
of
reverence
,
and
respect
,
yet
could
not
be
induced
to
let
that
King
have
any
help
under
their
publique
Flags
;
for
Nicomedes
seemed
to
give
the
Law
on
the
Sea
,
and
their
greatest
Trade
was
on
that
Element
,
and
his
Ships
had
been
so
Civil
to
them
,
as
thitherto
,
not
to
have
interrupted
it
.
Yet
by
the
help
of
the
fair
Irene
,
and
her
Lord
,
together
with
that
Interest
I
had
gained
newly
,
and
formerly
,
amongst
some
of
the
Chiefest
of
that
City
,
I
procured
leave
to
raise
what
Volunteers
I
could
engage
,
and
particular
Vessels
I
could
hire
,
which
was
a
Priviledg
also
,
they
gave
at
the
same
time
,
though
unsought
after
,
unto
Nicomedes
and
Ariobarzanes
;
but
they
made
not
use
of
it
,
either
as
not
wanting
it
,
or
not
having
timely
notice
of
it
.
From
Miletus
I
daily
renew'd
my
Sollicitations
to
the
Cylicians
and
Phoenicians
;
and
whatever
time
I
had
to
imploy
from
the
Duties
of
my
Charge
,
I
dedicated
it
to
the
fair
Irene
;
in
the
happiness
of
whose
Nuptials
,
I
saw
enough
to
make
me
at
once
rejoyce
at
her
Condition
,
and
deplore
my
Own
.
But
when
I
deliver'd
to
her
Monyma's
Present
and
Words
;
she
told
me
smiling
,
If
the
Queen's
assurance
be
without
Limitation
,
Mithridates
has
a
double
Reason
to
ingage
you
to
Command
his
Fleets
and
Armies
abroad
.
But
I
assur'd
her
,
all
that
had
been
Passion
on
my
side
,
was
turned
to
Respect
;
and
all
that
had
been
seeming
Affection
on
her
side
,
was
turned
into
real
Friendship
.
She
told
me
,
she
was
perfectly
glad
thereof
,
both
for
Monyma's
sake
,
and
mine
.
The
last
Evening
that
I
waited
on
her
,
the
joyful
News
was
brought
me
in
her
Company
,
that
a
great
Fleet
was
discover'd
in
the
South-east
,
making
for
the
Bay
of
Miletus
:
This
Advertisement
drew
me
hastily
from
that
excellent
Person
,
and
her
Lord
,
and
made
me
take
a
final
leave
of
the
Magistrates
of
the
City
,
having
that
Morning
sent
into
the
Bay
all
those
Men
and
Vessels
I
could
engage
there
to
joyn
with
Galatides
,
then
Riding
there
;
and
though
I
flatter'd
my self
with
a
Belief
,
that
this
appearing
.
Fleet
was
from
Cilicia
and
Phoenicia
,
yet
lest
it
should
be
Nicomedes
which
might
come
that
Course
,
either
from
having
pursued
Galatides
,
or
at
the
least
to
Alarm
me
,
by
taking
that
way
by
which
my
expected
Helps
were
to
come
,
I
hastned
on
Board
,
and
put
my
Fleet
in
the
best
post
posture
I
could
to
receive
them
as
Enemies
or
Friends
.
But
the
uncertainty
soon
ceased
,
my
Scouts
bringing
me
word
it
was
the
conjoyned
Navies
of
Cyprus
and
Egppt
,
led
by
Ascanius
in
Person
;
and
soon
after
,
I
perceived
in
the
Flag
of
the
Admiral
,
a
Venus
ascending
out
of
the
Waves
;
but
a
Venus
fairer
than
she
which
sprung
out
of
the
Sea
:
For
the
lovely
Image
as
perfectly
resembled
the
Princess
Statira
,
as
the
noblest
Piece
of
Art
could
the
noblest
Piece
the
gods
did
ever
Create
.
Ah!
How
I
envied
the
high
Honour
Ascanius
had
assumed
of
Fighting
for
the
Princess
Statira
under
her
Picture
!
and
did
a
thousand
times
repine
,
that
by
the
Barbarous
Maritim
Laws
I
could
not
change
my
Flags
!
And
that
the
King
of
Cyprus
,
by
observing
those
of
his
Countrey
,
might
bear
such
glorious
ones
!
Had
I
not
been
confined
to
those
miserable
Tyes
,
I
could
have
hoped
by
imitating
Ascanius
,
to
have
rais'd
the
Valour
of
my
Soldiers
,
by
letting
them
see
in
the
Copy
what
the
Original
was
for
which
they
Fought
:
My
Flag
displayed
a
Terrestrial
Globe
;
Mithridates
thereby
intimating
his
aspiring
to
the
universal
Monarchy
;
so
that
I
bore
the
World
,
and
Ascanius
bore
mine
:
Yet
't
was
no
small
consolation
to
me
,
that
though
I
carried
not
her
Image
in
so
conspicuous
a
Place
,
as
my
Rival
did
;
yet
I
carried
it
where
it
was
more
Lively
drawn
,
and
where
I
could
not
out-live
the
Loss
of
it
.
Whilst
I
was
thus
entertaining
my Self
,
the
Cyprian
and
Egyptian
Fleets
cast
Anchor
,
at
which
I
knew
not
whether
I
was
more
pleas'd
,
or
troubled
;
This
,
that
their
Admiral
did
thereby
confess
he
stood
in
need
of
my
help
;
That
,
because
some
precious
time
was
lost
,
in
acting
for
Statira's
Deliverance
.
But
the
various
Thoughts
I
was
in
,
hinder'd
me
not
from
paying
to
the
Cyprian
King
the
Duty
I
owed
his
Title
.
Wherefore
I
went
forthwith
Aboard
him
,
where
I
was
entertained
with
all
imaginable
Civility
and
Honour
;
and
with
no
small
expressions
of
his
Trouble
,
that
the
Cilician
and
Phoenician
Helps
were
not
yet
Arrived
;
which
,
he
said
,
He
esteemed
advisable
to
stay
some
Days
for
,
that
they
might
lose
no
accessional
Force
in
so
Ambition'd
a
Victory
.
I
assur'd
him
,
that
it
was
more
desirable
,
with
the
Force
we
had
,
to
proceed
in
so
Glorious
a
quarrel
,
than
to
permit
the
Imprisonment
of
the
Princess
so
long
time
,
as
must
be
spent
in
the
expectancy
of
their
Arrival
;
that
the
Justice
of
the
Quarrel
,
and
the
Person
for
whom
't
was
undertaken
,
were
assurances
of
Success
in
the
Result
of
it
;
and
if
we
thought
a
good
Cause
was
favour'd
by
the
gods
,
we
could
not
but
believe
thereby
,
we
were
supplied
with
more
Strength
than
even
the
desired
Addition
could
produce
:
And
therefore
I
offer'd
,
with
the
Naval-Force
I
had
,
to
compose
the
lest
Wing
:
that
,
to
stay
for
those
Fleets
we
expected
,
would
convince
the
Enemy
,
and
our
own
Soldiers
that
we
thought
we
needed
them
;
and
if
they
can
not
,
as
't
was
as
probable
they
would
not
come
at
all
,
as
that
they
should
not
come
by
the
Day
prefixed
by
Mithridates
,
and
promised
by
themselves
,
we
must
then
either
wholly
decline
the
Action
,
or
attempt
it
with
the
evidences
of
our
own
doubt
of
Success
;
nay
,
possibly
by
a
continuance
where
we
were
,
invite
Nicomedes
and
Ariobarzanes
to
seek
us
out
,
when
also
by
our
continuance
where
we
were
,
we
acknowledged
we
apprehended
their
Encounter
.
These
Reasons
,
and
that
Offer
of
mine
,
made
the
Cyprian
King
cast
off
all
Thoughts
of
delaying
the
Battel
,
or
at
least
of
presenting
the
Enemy
with
it
;
Possibly
their
own
Weight
,
possibly
that
none
might
appear
more
forward
than
himself
in
that
Action
,
in
which
he
was
to
receive
the
greatest
and
highest
Rewards
,
made
him
resolve
and
declare
,
That
the
next
morning
he
would
set
Sail
for
the
Island
of
Scyros
:
and
there
find
the
end
of
his
Hopes
,
or
of
his
Life
.
And
to
evidence
his
Apprehensions
sprung
from
his
fears
,
that
my
Wing
needed
assistance
,
not
his
,
he
offer'd
me
some
eighteen
Galleys
to
Fortifie
it
:
But
having
paid
him
my
Acknowledgments
for
that
offer
,
I
declined
it
,
thereby
to
convince
him
,
his
Fleet
and
mine
,
that
I
thought
I
needed
no
such
Accession
.
After
we
had
resolved
on
all
things
for
the
Decision
of
the
Battel
,
in
which
he
chose
the
right
Wing
,
and
assigned
me
the
left
,
He
shew'd
me
several
rare
Inventions
of
his
own
Subjects
,
and
of
the
Egyptians
;
both
which
had
then
the
opinion
of
the
best
and
most
experienced
Sea-men
in
the
whole
World
,
as
well
for
Navigation
,
as
Fight
.
One
of
which
I
cannot
omit
particularizing
,
which
was
,
that
the
Egyptians
,
in
most
of
their
Galleys
,
had
divers
great
Earthen
Pots
full
of
small
holes
:
in
which
Pots
they
had
inclosed
great
Serpents
,
which
by
the
Holes
,
received
Air
and
Sustenance
enough
to
preserve
them
.
These
were
to
be
flung
into
such
Galleys
as
they
grappled
with
.
The
fall
of
the
Earthen
pots
on
the
Decks
of
the
Enemies
Vessels
,
would
infallibly
break
them
;
And
then
the
hungry
Serpents
being
at
liberty
,
would
wind
themselves
about
the
Limbs
of
the
next
they
could
seize
on
:
and
thereby
not
only
hinder
them
from
Fighting
,
but
in
a
short
while
put
an
end
to
their
Lives
.
This
admirable
and
cruel
Invention
I
commended
,
only
because
't
was
to
be
employed
against
the
Detainers
of
my
Princess
;
though
in
it self
,
I
did
not
like
it
,
esteeming
it
a
Salvage
cruelty
,
to
employ
venomous
Beasts
to
destroy
the
Lives
of
Valiant
Men.
Soon
after
I
had
seen
some
other
like
Inventions
,
I
retired
to
my
own
Fleet
;
and
,
according
to
the
resolution
taken
Aboard
Ascanius
,
made
all
things
ready
to
weigh
Anchor
with
the
Morning's
light
:
which
accordingly
we
did
,
(
I
having
first
left
Orders
for
the
Cilician
,
and
Phoenician
Fleets
to
follow
me
)
And
with
Oars
and
Sails
,
we
steer'd
our
course
to
the
Island
of
Scyros
;
where
,
to
my
unspeakable
Joy
the
Day
following
,
by
that
time
the
Sun
was
two
hours
high
,
we
discover'd
the
two
King's
Fleets
,
embattelling
within
the
easie
prospect
of
the
Castle
:
and
as
ready
to
accept
of
the
Fight
,
as
we
were
to
present
it
them
.
I
soon
perceived
the
Bithynian
Flags
composed
the
right
Wing
,
which
I
was
to
Fight
against
;
and
the
Cappadocian
the
left
Wing
,
which
Ascanius
was
to
oppose
.
Elevated
with
the
Glory
of
what
I
sought
for
,
and
before
whom
I
fought
;
and
troubled
at
nothing
more
than
at
the
glorious
Flag
which
the
King
of
Cyprus
carried
,
I
began
the
Battel
,
which
I
might
truly
say
,
was
replenished
with
more
various
accidents
than
ever
any
which
was
fought
before
.
And
though
the
Princess
had
the
trouble
to
see
her
Deliverance
was
a
long
time
in
the
Balance
;
yet
at
last
,
she
had
the
satisfaction
to
see
the
Pontick
and
Bithynian
Admiral
engaged
singly
:
and
,
though
Nicomedes
did
all
that
became
a
King
and
a
General
,
yet
being
himself
sunk
under
the
weight
of
his
personal
Wounds
,
I
entred
his
Galley
,
and
took
him
my
Prisoner
;
though
when
I
did
it
,
he
was
by
the
loss
of
Blood
,
uncapable
to
see
my
Success
,
or
deplore
the
want
of
his
own
.
As
soon
as
ever
that
Admiral
Galley
was
conquer'd
,
all
the
rest
of
his
Fleet
confusedly
fled
to
the
Shore
;
in
which
Chase
we
sunk
many
,
and
took
more
;
and
prosecuted
our
Victory
as
far
as
the
Water
would
give
us
leave
.
But
the
Success
could
not
be
more
glorious
on
our
left
Wing
,
than
it
was
deplorable
in
the
right
;
for
on
my
Return
to
see
whether
our
Friends
needed
our
assistance
,
I
found
the
Cyprian
and
Egyytian
Fleets
,
as
totally
vanquisht
,
as
the
Mithridiatick
had
the
Bithynian
:
nay
,
I
saw
a
Cappadocian
Galley
carrying
That
glorious
Flag
at
her
Stern
,
which
a
little
before
had
adorned
the
main-Top
of
the
Cyprian
Admiral
.
The
fury
I
was
in
at
that
sight
,
carried
my
Galley
with
Wings
to
so
desired
a
recompence
and
revenge
;
and
the
Enemy
as
proud
of
their
prize
,
as
I
was
inraged
to
see
it
theirs
,
disputed
their
Purchase
with
at
least
as
much
resolution
,
as
that
with
which
they
had
acquired
it
.
The
Fight
was
such
,
that
even
the
winning
of
this
Galley
,
cost
me
not
less
blood
and
time
,
than
Nicomedes's
:
But
at
length
she
yielded
,
and
presented
me
with
an
Effigies
,
than
which
,
nothing
to
me
could
be
more
acceptable
,
unless
the
glorious
Original
.
To
recover
that
noble
Trophy
,
was
an
Honour
which
needed
not
to
set
it
off
,
the
Foyl
of
my
Rivals
having
lost
it
.
In
brief
,
that
large
Scene
in
which
the
Battel
had
been
fought
,
was
clear'd
of
all
our
Enemies
,
but
five
Galleys
:
for
Ariobarzanes
satisfied
with
his
having
done
that
to
our
right
Wing
,
which
I
had
done
to
his
;
and
having
been
disorder'd
in
that
Success
too
much
,
to
attempt
the
changing
of
mine
:
or
else
apprehending
a
Forest
of
Vessels
,
which
then
began
to
appear
(
and
,
which
afterwards
I
found
were
my
Phoenician
and
Cilician
Fleets
)
retired
to
the
Island
of
Scyros
,
and
left
those
five
Galleys
I
had
mentioned
,
engaged
against
one
single
Egyptian
Galley
.
Which
,
though
it
defended
it self
with
much
Resolution
;
yet
I
saw
at
last
those
in
it
,
did
not
more
deserve
than
need
my
assistance
,
I
therefore
hastned
to
afford
it
them
.
A
young
Gentlemen
of
that
Nation
,
and
of
the
colour
of
those
Inhabitants
,
in
splendid
Arms
,
so
animated
his
,
both
by
words
and
by
Example
,
that
in
his
Valour
only
the
hopes
and
life
of
their
Party
consisted
.
The
Enemy
observing
my
Approach
,
offer'd
him
all
honourable
Quarter
;
and
though
he
was
Courted
by
many
Civilities
to
accept
it
,
yet
he
declined
it
in
words
which
testified
his
Resolution
as
much
as
his
Defence
had
done
.
And
by
that
time
I
had
joyned
his
Galley
,
I
heard
the
end
of
the
young
Egyptian's
Reply
,
which
he
finisht
in
these
words
;
That
it
was
an
unavoidable
Fate
for
every
man
once
to
Die
,
but
he
did
not
think
it
was
the
like
:
for
Gallant
Men
once
to
yield
.
This
generous
Answer
,
in
my
judgment
,
made
him
and
his
the
more
worthy
of
my
assistance
;
which
I
presented
him
with
such
Success
,
that
he
was
soon
in
a
condition
to
afford
his
Enemies
those
Civilities
,
which
he
had
so
lately
refused
to
receive
from
them
.
By
that
time
I
came
into
his
Galley
,
to
congratulate
his
Success
,
and
give
his
Valour
those
Elogies
it
merited
,
I
found
him
weltring
in
abundance
of
Blood
,
which
he
had
drawn
from
others
,
and
lost
himself
.
The
taking
off
his
Helmet
to
give
him
Air
,
discover'd
a
Face
as
remarkable
for
the
noble
features
of
it
,
as
any
I
ever
saw
;
and
which
,
though
black
,
and
in
the
Arms
of
Death
,
retained
Charms
enough
to
make
me
admire
it
.
I
gave
all
my
Chirurgeons
express
and
repeated
Orders
concerning
him
;
and
though
I
strictly
examined
all
his
Soldiers
who
he
was
,
yet
none
of
them
would
or
could
satisfie
my
Curiosity
,
protesting
they
had
never
seen
him
before
that
Morning
,
in
which
by
the
Egyptian
Vice-Admiral
,
he
was
put
to
Command
that
Galley
upon
the
Death
of
the
late
Captain
of
it
.
But
,
continued
Callimachus
,
I
doubt
generous
Princes
,
my
concernment
for
this
eminent
Stranger
has
too
long
carried
me
away
from
the
direct
Sequel
of
my
Relation
;
which
therefore
(
having
begg'd
your
pardons
for
)
I
will
re-assume
by
telling
you
,
That
several
of
the
Cyprian
Commanders
which
had
fled
under
my
Flags
,
to
avoid
the
Cappadocian
King
's
Navy
,
assur'd
me
,
that
their
own
Prince
was
fallen
dead
on
his
Deck
,
ere
Ariobarzanes
had
taken
him
:
and
that
his
last
words
were
,
It
more
troubles
me
to
lose
my
Flag
,
than
my
Life
.
His
last
consideration
being
so
worthy
of
an
Adorer
of
my
Princess
,
made
me
Celebrate
his
Fall
with
a
grief
as
real
as
great
;
and
the
abhorred
Name
of
a
prevailing
Rival
,
hinder'd
not
my
paying
his
Merits
the
acknowledgments
due
to
his
Title
,
and
Unhappiness
.
I
offer'd
all
those
Cyprian
Commanders
,
to
employ
my
whole
Fleet
to
recover
his
Body
;
that
those
which
could
not
Conquer
him
whilst
alive
,
might
not
possess
him
when
dead
:
But
they
all
assur'd
me
he
was
past
recovery
,
as
well
out
of
the
Enemies
hands
,
as
out
of
the
hands
of
Death
;
for
they
had
seen
the
Cappadocian
Admiral
carry
under
the
Castle
in
the
Island
of
Scyros
,
the
Cyprian
Admiral
's
Galley
,
in
which
their
dead
King
and
General
's
Body
was
.
This
loss
appearing
past
remedy
,
I
went
to
enquire
how
the
generous
Nicomedes
was
;
and
how
my
Physician
,
and
Chirugeon's
care
of
him
had
succeeded
:
but
alas
,
I
still
found
him
in
that
swoon
in
which
I
had
left
him
,
and
in
so
little
hopes
of
Life
,
that
hardly
any
misery
had
befaln
me
in
the
whole
course
of
my
own
,
had
been
more
intolerable
or
sensible
to
me
.
But
those
about
him
,
either
as
it
was
their
belief
,
or
else
to
lessen
that
grief
which
his
condition
so
visibly
invaded
me
with
,
assuor'd
me
he
was
Alive
;
and
that
none
of
those
Wounds
they
had
sounded
,
appear'd
mortal
:
so
that
his
Escaping
was
not
only
possible
,
but
hopeful
.
And
though
these
words
were
very
welcome
to
me
,
yet
the
gods
were
pleas'd
to
send
me
something
else
,
which
was
much
more
;
for
even
whilst
I
was
under
my
fears
of
his
Death
,
by
a
deep
Sigh
,
and
opening
of
his
Eyes
,
he
manifested
he
had
Life
.
The
eminent
generosity
of
this
Prince
to
all
men
,
and
the
particular
effects
of
it
to
me
,
which
also
were
in
some
measure
the
Causes
of
his
then
Condition
,
gave
me
as
high
a
satisfaction
,
as
my
sorrow
for
him
had
been
before
;
both
which
,
could
not
have
been
more
sincere
and
eminent
,
had
I
then
known
the
Relation
I
had
unto
him
.
And
because
the
motion
of
the
Sea
,
and
the
small
accommodations
in
a
Galley
,
were
incommodious
,
if
not
dangerous
to
him
;
I
forthwith
sent
a
Trumpet
on
Shore
to
Ariobarzanes
with
this
Letter
.
Callimachus
,
to
the
King
of
Cappadocia
.
I
Was
till
even
now
in
no
small
apprehensions
that
I
should
have
done
that
to
you
,
which
now
upon
the
score
of
your
Generosity
I
will
hope
for
from
you
;
and
by
sending
to
you
the
Body
of
Nicomedes
,
have
expected
from
you
the
Body
of
Ascanius
:
But
the
gods
having
restor'd
your
great
Friend
to
Life
,
and
my
best
Physicians
and
Chyrurgeons
giving
me
more
than
hopes
of
his
Recovery
,
I
was
unwilling
to
keep
so
welcome
an
assurance
from
you
.
I
believe
you
will
not
esteem
the
Restauration
of
the
Princess
Statira
,
and
the
Prince
Pharnaces
,
too
disproportionate
an
exchange
for
him
;
I
have
therefore
sent
this
Letter
to
propound
it
to
you
:
And
because
't
is
below
the
generous
Ariobarzanes
to
detain
the
body
of
a
dead
Enemy
,
or
receive
any
exchange
for
it
,
I
will
with
Certainty
wait
for
those
effects
therein
,
that
his
Virtue
will
give
me
;
which
cannot
be
greater
,
than
my
esteem
of
it
,
and
confidence
in
it
.
I
was
necessitated
,
both
to
cloud
my
passion
,
and
not
to
appear
too
unworthy
of
Mithridates
his
trust
,
to
add
Pharnaces
to
the
exchange
of
Nicomedes
;
and
only
to
mention
the
name
of
my
Princess
,
without
particularizing
those
inducements
for
her
deliverance
which
her
Innocence
,
her
Beauties
,
and
other
admirable
persections
might
have
excessively
furnish●
me
with
.
Whilst
my
Trumpet
was
going
,
and
returning
,
I
was
visited
by
the
Cilician
and
Phoenician
Admirals
,
who
in
such
humble
and
moving
Expressions
,
evidenced
their
sorrow
for
coming
some
hours
too
late
,
that
I
was
more
troubled
to
console
them
,
than
I
had
been
at
their
absence
;
which
was
occasion'd
by
an
unhappy
Difference
had
fallen
out
between
the
Chiefs
of
both
their
Countreys
,
which
had
already
drawn
some
Blood
:
and
they
doubted
would
draw
more
ere
it
was
extinguished
.
Nay
,
they
had
not
now
come
,
but
that
a
religious
Person
,
who
for
being
such
,
was
eminent
to
both
their
Nations
,
represented
to
them
,
That
whilst
they
strove
about
what
was
doubtful
,
they
acted
a
Certain
evil
,
by
employing
those
Forces
against
each
other
,
which
were
mutually
engaged
to
serve
Mithridates
.
This
being
spoken
from
so
reverend
a
Person
,
produced
this
effect
,
That
they
all
unanimously
engaged
to
perform
their
Contract
,
and
to
serve
the
Pontick
King
in
his
first
Naval
Ingagement
.
But
then
by
solemn
Oath
,
they
tyed
themselves
the
next
day
to
return
,
whatever
their
Success
was
,
and
to
obey
whatever
their
Superiours
should
enjoyn
;
who
they
hoped
by
this
short
Peace
,
would
assume
thoughts
of
a
perpetual
one
:
and
by
their
Absence
,
might
be
invited
to
extinguish
that
Flame
,
which
their
Presence
did
but
kindle
and
animate
.
That
therefore
they
were
come
,
not
only
to
implore
my
pardon
for
their
having
been
absent
;
but
to
beg
my
permission
to
return
,
that
they
might
therein
satisfie
their
Oaths
to
their
gods
,
and
their
Duties
to
their
Chiefs
.
After
I
had
acquainted
them
with
my
trouble
for
their
absence
,
and
for
the
cause
of
it
,
I
began
to
endeavour
to
make
them
sensible
,
that
even
by
their
Vows
,
they
were
confined
to
see
one
Engagement
more
;
for
this
that
was
past
,
they
had
rather
heard
of
than
seen
:
That
our
Fleets
which
had
engaged
,
were
so
shatter'd
,
that
without
their
help
we
could
not
continue
the
Siege
of
the
Island
,
till
it
was
reduced
:
which
to
effect
,
we
were
to
employ
half
of
our
number
to
transport
at
once
the
Prince
Atafernes's
Army
;
since
to
Land
it
in
parts
,
were
to
expose
it
to
the
Army
there
,
who
by
that
worst
proceeding
,
might
soon
repair
on
the
Land
,
what
they
had
lost
on
the
Sea
.
I
did
not
omit
to
add
to
these
Motives
,
all
those
others
which
I
thought
might
engage
them
;
But
pleading
their
Oaths
to
the
gods
,
and
their
Superiours
,
as
soon
as
the
first
Engagement
was
over
,
and
binding
themselves
to
me
by
the
most
Sacred
Vows
they
could
make
,
as
soon
as
their
domestick
differences
were
ended
by
the
Sword
,
or
by
Agreement
,
they
would
immediately
return
to
Mithridates's
Service
if
called
,
and
face
the
Island
for
five
days
before
they
returned
,
which
was
a
competent
time
to
transport
the
Prince's
Army
into
it
.
Not
being
able
to
prevail
for
more
,
I
accepted
so
much
;
and
forthwith
sent
an
Express
to
the
King
,
to
acquaint
him
with
our
Success
,
and
at
what
at
Rate
we
had
bought
it
.
I
likewise
employed
another
Express
to
the
generous
Atafernes
,
with
an
account
of
all
things
;
and
how
that
in
two
days
I
intended
to
bring
into
the
Bay
of
Nicomedia
so
many
of
his
Father's
Fleet
,
as
would
transport
into
the
Island
Forces
enough
to
Conquer
it
:
and
that
I
would
leave
the
residue
of
the
Fleet
with
the
Cilician
and
Phoenician
Navies
,
to
block
it
up
in
the
mean
time
,
that
none
in
it
might
get
out
of
it
,
and
no
new
Supplies
might
be
received
into
it
.
By
that
time
I
had
informed
these
Resolutions
,
and
dispatched
these
Expresses
,
the
Barge
I
had
sent
with
the
Trumpet
,
returned
;
and
he
brought
me
this
Letter
.
Ariobarzanes
King
of
Cappadocia
,
to
Callimachus
,
Admiral
of
the
Pontick
Fleet.
I
Had
now
returned
you
the
dead
Body
of
the
King
of
Cyprus
,
if
two
Noblemen
his
Subjects
,
and
my
Prisoners
,
had
not
begg'd
it
of
me
;
that
they
might
perform
the
Cyprian
Funeral-solemnities
due
unto
his
Quality
;
and
after
that
,
carry
it
to
receive
the
like
Obsequies
in
his
own
Countrey
;
for
which
end
I
have
given
them
their
own
Liberty
,
and
their
own
Galley
,
with
my
Pass
to
return
to
Cyprus
,
as
soon
as
these
intended
Ceremonies
are
finished
here
,
and
that
his
Corps
is
Embalmed
.
I
acknowledg
your
great
Civility
,
in
sending
me
news
of
Nicomedes
being
alive
;
which
yet
does
therefore
hinder
me
from
being
able
to
dispose
of
so
considerable
a
Prisoner
as
the
Prince
Pharnaces
is
:
But
for
the
Princess
Statira
,
as
it
was
always
against
my
will
she
was
detained
(
Women
being
neither
the
Cause
,
nor
the
continuance
of
our
War
)
;
so
I
shall
willingly
exchange
her
,
and
all
the
Prisoners
with
her
,
for
Nicomedes
;
Who
,
I
am
confident
in
your
judgment
,
and
in
her
Fathers
also
,
will
be
a
sufficient
Ransom
for
the
King
of
Bithynia
,
if
he
does
not
recover
of
his
Wounds
:
And
if
he
do
,
you
may
with
reason
expect
from
his
justice
without
a
bargain
,
what
ever
he
esteems
this
Exchange
will
fall
short
of
the
value
of
his
Liberty
.
The
gods
,
continued
Callimachus
,
only
knew
my
transports
at
the
reading
of
this
Letter
;
For
had
the
King
of
Cappadocia
demanded
for
the
Princess
,
not
only
Nicomedes
,
but
also
Callimachus
,
and
the
whole
Fleet
he
commanded
,
he
had
in
raptures
of
Joy
delivered
them
up
to
Ariobarzanes
;
and
esteemed
that
Purchase
too
low
a
Price
for
the
honour
of
her
Redemption
.
I
therefore
immediately
accepted
of
his
offer
on
the
Conditions
he
proposed
;
and
having
received
his
assurance
of
delivering
the
Princess
on
his
receiving
Nicomedes
,
I
forthwith
sent
that
generous
King
to
the
Island
in
his
own
Galley
,
lest
his
removal
might
have
been
at
once
painful
and
dangerous
to
him
;
and
as
some
small
Evidence
,
how
disadvantageous
an
Agreement
I
thought
my
Enemies
had
made
for
themselves
,
I
cast
their
Admiral-Galley
into
the
bargain
;
And
I
did
with
all
my
Fleets
accompany
the
King
of
Bithynia
towards
his
Port.
And
having
attended
him
,
as
far
as
with
safety
I
might
,
and
paid
him
all
the
Sea-honours
I
was
capable
of
,
which
yet-his
Condition
made
him
ignorant
he
had
received
,
I
then
cast
Anchor
,
and
in
impatiencies
above
description
,
waited
for
the
arrival
of
the
Princess
;
to
whom
I
had
order'd
the
Fleets
to
pay
Submissions
and
Honours
,
which
they
never
had
before
presented
to
any
Admiral
.
Whilst
this
ambition'd
happiness
was
expected
in
Raptures
due
unto
it
,
or
rather
short
of
it
,
I
perused
a
Letter
brought
me
by
my
Trumpeter
from
those
two
Cyprian
Noblemen
,
to
whom
Ariobarzanes
had
given
their
King's
Body
;
who
therein
did
acquaint
me
,
That
the
necessary
Honours
due
by
their
Laws
to
their
King
's
Embalming
,
would
consume
at
least
thirty
days
:
by
which
time
they
desired
,
if
any
occassions
called
me
elsewhere
,
I
would
appoint
all
the
remainder
of
the
Cyprian
Fleet
to
be
where
now
they
Anchor'd
,
to
receive
their
King's
Body
,
and
to
attend
it
into
Cyprus
to
the
Tomb
of
his
Predecessors
.
My
Trumpeter
also
told
me
,
That
he
learned
Ariobarzanes
,
having
as
totally
defeated
our
right
Wing
,
as
I
had
his
left
,
had
determined
by
a
new
Combat
to
have
forced
from
me
my
Success
,
or
increased
it
;
but
that
the
then
appearing
of
the
Fleets
of
the
Cilicians
and
Phoenicians
,
which
they
knew
was
not
for
their
assistance
,
they
having
then
all
the
help
they
could
expect
;
But
chiefly
the
Cappadocian
King
's
Wounds
,
which
he
dissembled
till
their
effects
then
reveal'd
them
,
and
a
large
Leak
his
Admiral-Galley
had
received
,
made
him
retire
with
the
glory
of
that
Victory
he
had
obtained
over
the
Cyprians
.
That
he
had
seen
the
Body
of
Ascanius
wept
over
by
all
his
Subjects
,
which
were
Prisoners
,
who
in
the
greatest
of
their
Griefs
,
had
evidenced
the
greatness
of
their
Loves
.
Whilst
my
Trumpeter
was
entertaining
me
with
these
Relations
,
I
perceived
a
Magnificent
Barge
appear
from
the
Shore
.
I
concluded
the
Princess
Statira
was
in
it
;
and
having
drawn
up
my
Fleet
in
a
Cressent
to
receive
her
,
leaving
them
in
that
Figure
,
I
advanced
with
my
own
Admiral-Galley
,
to
wait
on
her
:
And
as
soon
as
I
saw
she
was
there
,
I
descended
into
my
Barge
,
and
in
unconceivable
Raptures
went
aboard
hers
:
where
casting
my self
at
her
Feet
,
I
did
more
by
Actions
than
Words
,
endeavour
to
shew
her
my
Transports
at
her
Restauration
,
and
at
my
having
been
Instrumental
in
it
.
She
had
the
goodness
to
receive
me
with
that
Empire
and
Modesty
,
which
still
accompanied
her
highest
Favours
to
me
;
and
having
with
acknowledgments
dismist
the
Cappadocian
and
Bithynian
Nobility
,
which
had
till
then
waited
on
her
,
as
Ariobarzanes
,
notwithstanding
the
pain
of
his
wounds
,
had
done
to
the
Barge
,
she
ascended
my
Galley
,
and
in
it
went
to
the
Fleet
▪
who
received
her
with
shouts
and
clashing
of
Arms
,
and
all
the
other
Military
Evincements
and
Complements
of
Joy
.
Nay
,
all
the
Flag-ships
struck
their
signs
of
being
such
,
and
only
let
them
fly
again
when
she
commanded
;
to
show
,
that
she
only
gave
Laws
where
I
was
Admiral
.
All
Ceremonies
of
her
return
being
ended
,
she
retired
unto
the
Stern-Cabbin
of
the
Galley
,
and
none
being
present
but
Nerea
,
I
did
again
prostrate
my self
at
her
Feet
,
and
told
her
:
Madam
,
I
now
find
the
Honour
of
fighting
in
your
Quarrel
,
cannot
be
greater
than
is
the
Certainty
of
Success
in
so
glorious
a
Cause
;
and
if
I
failed
of
that
happiness
once
,
it
proceeded
from
the
mercy
of
the
gods
:
which
though
intolerable
to
me
,
when
dispensed
;
yet
by
what
hath
happened
since
,
I
have
found
abundant
cause
to
admire
.
But
could
I
have
prevented
my
highest
misery
,
at
so
Criminal
a
Price
,
as
by
wishing
of
your
suffering
,
I
should
have
esteemed
that
sin
equal
to
this
Success
;
for
such
is
the
Respect
and
Veneration
I
pay
the
Princess
Statira
,
that
to
have
prevented
her
Captivity
,
I
would
joyfully
(
had
it
been
left
at
my
Election
)
,
have
suffered
what
the
gods
destined
,
her
Captivity
should
prevent
.
The
fair
Statira
by
her
blushes
seemed
to
tell
me
she
understood
what
I
meant
;
and
she
had
too
the
condescension
to
give
me
this
Answer
.
If
you
have
received
any
advantage
by
a
Captivity
you
then
so
much
deplored
,
and
would
have
so
fatally
revenged
,
on
him
who
had
been
so
far
from
acting
it
,
that
he
almost
lost
his
life
to
prevent
it
,
I
shall
find
that
contentment
in
it
upon
your
score
,
which
I
could
not
on
my
own
;
for
't
is
but
reason
,
that
he
who
frees
me
from
Captivity
,
should
receive
some
consolation
in
my
having
undergone
it
:
and
that
my
sufferings
should
pay
some
of
that
Debt
,
which
my
Actings
could
not
.
And
since
by
experience
you
have
Learned
,
that
even
the
bitterest
things
which
the
Gods
cast
upon
us
,
have
by
patient
waiting
on
them
,
a
sweetness
in
the
Result
,
I
will
nope
,
that
thereby
we
shall
be
prepared
with
an
entire
Resignation
,
to
submit
to
whatever
portion
they
snall
think
fit
to
allot
us
.
'T
is
in
the
force
of
this
Duty
,
that
I
find
strength
to
submit
to
the
loss
of
the
unhappy
Ascanius
;
and
though
he
perished
for
my
Relief
,
and
though
by
designation
of
my
Father
,
his
nearness
to
me
might
apologize
for
my
Tears
,
nay
,
render
them
a
Duty
:
yet
so
much
I
mind
that
hand
from
whence
I
received
that
stroke
,
that
in
as
little
Emotions
,
as
the
frailty
of
my
Nature
is
capable
of
,
I
desire
to
submit
unto
it
.
At
these
words
,
said
Callimachus
,
her
Eyes
were
obscured
,
which
made
me
say
,
Madam
,
In
those
admirable
Expressions
,
you
do
not
more
evidence
your
piety
to
the
gods
,
than
by
those
unvaluable
Tears
,
you
manifest
your
kindness
and
Esteem
for
Ascanius
;
whose
fall
thereby
is
Celebrated
with
nobler
Obsequies
,
than
all
his
Friends
and
Subjects
can
design
for
him
.
To
be
loved
by
the
Princess
Statira
whilst
he
was
alive
,
and
to
be
wept
by
her
when
he
was
dead
,
are
Felicities
which
render
him
a
fitter
object
of
Envy
,
than
of
Sorrow
:
And
since
,
Madam
,
you
are
so
Charitable
and
Just
to
the
Dead
,
Permit
me
to
beg
you
to
be
the
like
to
him
that
yet
is
alive
;
which
is
,
to
believe
,
though
had
I
got
as
much
by
your
Captivity
,
as
the
King
of
Cyprus
lost
;
yet
even
therein
I
should
have
condemned
your
Fate
,
and
my
own
too
,
for
being
so
mistaken
,
as
to
think
I
could
raise
any
joy
,
by
your
sorrow
.
In
that
particular
,
the
power
of
Destiny
is
limited
;
for
it
can
present
nothing
of
contentment
to
me
,
which
is
caused
by
your
suffering
.
Could
you
,
Madam
,
believe
the
contrary
,
To
lead
you
out
of
that
injustice
(
pardon
the
Zeal
of
that
expression
)
I
would
elect
Eternally
to
be
miserable
,
rather
than
be
made
happy
by
a
cause
,
which
might
confirm
you
in
that
misbelief
;
and
might
reproach
me
with
having
valued
my self
above
you
.
But
,
Madam
,
I
continued
,
whilst
I
ought
to
imploy
all
my
time
in
expressions
of
my
Trouble
that
you
were
made
a
Captive
,
and
of
my
Joy
that
you
are
no
longer
one
;
will
you
pardon
me
,
if
I
employ
some
of
it
,
in
imploring
a
concession
from
you
,
which
only
can
be
granted
by
you
;
and
which
I
fear
you
may
with
Justice
deny
me
.
'T
is
,
that
by
your
Order
I
may
enjoy
a
part
of
this
dayes
Victory
,
which
by
the
Law
of
Arms
is
mine
already
;
yet
only
by
your
decree
,
can
Authentickly
be
made
such
.
The
Princess
again
was
cover'd
with
Blushes
,
fearing
my
Confidence
had
been
greater
than
my
Success
;
and
that
my
implorings
would
have
been
more
suted
to
my
desires
,
than
my
merit
:
therefore
to
free
her
from
those
wounding
imaginations
,
I
told
her
,
by
the
fate
of
War
Ascanius
lost
his
Flag
,
and
by
the
chance
of
War
I
recover'd
it
.
'T
is
the
Effigies
of
a
Venus
ascending
from
the
Sea
;
but
a
Venus
so
like
the
Princess
Mithridatia
,
that
no
Production
of
Art
was
ever
comparable
to
it
.
I
thereupon
presented
her
with
the
King
of
Cyprus's
Flag
,
which
contained
a
Copy
,
nothing
but
the
Original
could
transcend
.
She
consider'd
it
a
while
,
more
I
believe
to
gain
time
to
form
her
Answer
,
than
on
any
other
score
;
for
her
Glass
could
alwayes
entertain
her
with
a
nobler
Prospect
:
though
whilst
she
was
unresolved
what
to
say
,
she
might
the
sooner
be
induced
to
grant
my
suit
,
than
give
Reasons
for
denying
it
;
and
therefore
I
did
with
no
small
importunity
,
seek
a
Return
to
my
Request
;
which
at
last
obtained
from
her
these
words
.
I
am
wholly
ignorant
,
Callimachus
,
of
your
Maritine
Laws
;
but
I
suppose
you
are
so
just
,
as
not
to
ask
any
thing
from
me
,
contrary
to
them
;
and
since
you
are
on
that
Element
where
you
give
the
Law
,
I
must
not
contradict
what
you
assure
is
yours
by
it
:
though
in
my
own
Judgment
,
I
think
it
little
just
,
that
two
Fleets
which
came
to
Fight
in
the
same
Quarrel
,
the
misfortune
of
the
one
,
should
compose
the
Trophies
of
the
other
.
Madam
,
I
reply'd
(
expecting
at
least
as
much
reservedness
as
I
found
)
't
is
not
time
,
but
possession
which
gives
Armed
numbers
a
Title
to
what
they
possess
;
else
those
which
did
wrong
the
longest
,
should
have
the
greatest
Right
to
what
in
wrong-doing
they
acquired
.
And
therefore
the
Enemy
being
a
while
possest
of
this
Flag
,
Ascanius
lost
his
Title
to
it
,
and
the
property
was
alter'd
;
which
when
it
was
our
Adversaries
,
was
both
lawful
for
me
to
recover
,
and
keep
when
it
was
recover'd
.
I
know
not
,
said
the
Princess
,
whether
the
Laws
be
not
proportionate
to
the
Element
,
on
which
,
or
for
which
,
they
are
made
,
and
therefore
that
being
wild
,
those
may
be
the
like
also
,
as
best
suted
to
it
;
and
being
received
as
such
,
Custom
may
authorize
what
reason
could
not
;
else
if
the
possession
of
an
Enemy
▪
alters
the
property
of
what
is
possessed
,
and
that
this
Rule
went
throughout
in
all
Cases
,
(
as
what
is
Reason
in
one
particular
,
ought
to
be
the
like
in
every
other
of
a
parallel
nature
)
then
Prisoners
of
your
side
which
are
taken
by
an
Enemy
,
if
recovered
by
you
,
are
Prisoners
also
to
you
;
and
so
the
success
of
their
Friends
changes
not
their
Condition
,
but
their
Masters
.
By
this
Law
too
,
said
the
Princess
smiling
,
Tomsones
,
Rebadates
,
and
to
say
no
more
,
even
Nerea
her self
must
be
that
to
you
,
which
your
Valour
and
Civility
have
presently
freed
them
from
being
to
another
;
and
thus
make
one
of
the
noblest
Actions
of
Friendship
,
become
in
its
effect
one
of
the
highest
impositions
of
Enmity
;
and
thereby
make
what
should
nourish
and
encrease
Friendship
,
totally
destroy
it
:
by
this
rule
also
Ariobarzanes
must
be
Nicomedes's
Prisoner
;
and
had
both
those
Kings
been
recovered
by
their
Soldiers
,
they
must
have
been
such
unto
their
very
Subjects
.
I
must
acknowledg
,
said
Callimachus
,
this
reasoning
of
the
Princesses
did
not
a
little
surprize
me
;
and
her
particularly
specifying
no
higher
than
Nerea
,
with
that
smile
which
accompanied
it
,
seemed
to
tell
me
what
she
would
not
speak
.
I
therefore
made
no
small
haste
to
tell
her
,
There
is
,
Madam
,
a
vast
difference
between
the
exchanges
and
acquisitions
in
War
;
that
which
is
by
Pact
and
Agreement
,
relishing
more
of
the
Civil
,
than
the
Military
nature
,
is
exempted
from
these
wild
Rules
which
Force
has
imposed
,
and
Custom
has
authorized
amongst
Soldiers
:
besides
,
Madam
,
things
which
men
may
buy
and
sell
,
and
thereby
may
transfer
the
property
of
them
to
the
Master
which
last
acquired
them
,
may
well
have
that
property
transfer'd
by
the
purchase
of
mens
Swords
,
which
may
be
transfer'd
by
common
ways
of
bargaining
.
But
Women
and
Men
,
not
being
vendable
,
are
not
subjected
to
the
like
rules
that
things
which
are
so
,
are
liable
unto
:
for
liberty
being
not
to
be
valued
,
ought
not
to
be
sold
,
though
it
be
lost
:
and
so
life
,
though
it
be
above
price
,
is
not
thereby
exempted
from
deprivation
.
But
,
Madam
,
I
hope
you
will
remember
,
that
when
I
first
moved
this
unfortunate
request
,
I
told
you
what
I
was
to
beg
,
was
fit
to
be
denied
:
and
since
I
find
the
invinciblest
Argument
against
me
,
is
that
of
your
not
approving
what
I
have
implored
,
I
here
put
a
period
to
my
sute
,
and
change
those
Prayers
which
I
made
to
obtain
it
,
into
as
fervent
ones
for
your
pardon
,
that
I
durst
desire
it
;
only
Madam
,
I
will
earnestly
beg
that
you
will
so
dispose
of
it
,
that
whatever
has
the
glory
to
bear
your
Image
,
may
never
be
exposed
to
the
hazards
of
composing
a
Trophy
to
your
Enemies
;
and
for
my
particular
,
I
shall
find
my
contentment
in
my
obedience
,
and
in
carrying
about
me
an
Image
which
much
more
resembles
you
,
and
which
lies
not
in
the
power
of
fate
to
take
from
me
.
Statira
receiving
the
Flag
which
I
then
presented
her
,
told
me
;
though
I
know
few
things
I
more
desire
,
than
to
receive
evidences
that
Callimachus
is
of
my
opinion
,
yet
not
to
appear
too
unworthy
thereof
;
and
to
owe
that
in
some
degree
to
his
Justice
,
as
well
as
to
his
Civility
;
I
will
only
mind
him
,
that
there
are
Slaves
amongst
men
,
and
made
so
by
no
law
,
but
force
;
but
yet
are
bought
and
sold
,
as
merchandize
is
;
and
though
liberty
to
him
that
loses
it
,
is
above
price
;
yet
he
that
takes
it
from
him
,
values
it
to
him
that
buys
it
of
him
:
Though
thi●gs
inanimate
taken
by
force
of
Arms
,
become
the
property
of
those
who
take
them
,
and
are
no
longer
so
to
those
that
lose
them
;
yet
all
such
things
are
not
subjected
to
that
Law
:
for
then
the
Images
of
our
Gods
,
in
which
we
reverence
themselves
,
might
by
the
fate
of
War
become
the
property
of
men
.
'T
is
upon
this
score
that
I
accept
of
this
Present
;
had
it
born
any
Image
,
but
that
of
a
Deity
,
I
should
have
rejoyced
at
your
possessing
of
it
.
But
since
it
carries
the
Effigies
of
a
Goddess
you
have
formerly
adored
,
in
reverence
to
what
she
is
in
her self
,
and
for
what
she
has
been
to
you
,
allow
me
to
restore
her
to
her
Temple
,
from
whence
I
shall
oblige
all
the
Cyprians
,
by
solemn
vow
,
never
to
remove
her
;
lest
the
needless
exposing
of
their
Goddess
,
may
make
their
whole
Island
indure
the
like
misfortune
,
which
their
unhappy
King
has
been
involved
in
;
and
whose
fall
I
attribute
to
the
impiety
of
carrying
that
power
he
Worshipt
,
to
a
Forreign
War
,
which
should
have
still
resided
in
her
Temple
at
home
.
The
piety
of
my
Princess
in
giving
me
this
refusal
,
and
at
the
same
time
,
confecrating
her
Picture
to
a
Temple
,
the
just
,
though
undesigned
reward
due
unto
it
,
gave
me
a
full
Consolation
,
and
made
me
admire
the
goodness
of
the
gods
,
that
in
the
duty
of
taking
their
part
,
made
her
receive
ever
after
her self
,
the
Oblations
due
unto
themselves
.
For
that
noble
Effigies
being
accepted
of
by
the
chief
Commander
of
the
Cyprian
Fleet
,
on
the
terms
the
Princess
prescribed
,
was
by
him
sent
unto
Cyprus
,
and
in
the
Temple
at
Paphos
is
worshipped
unto
this
day
.
Yet
Statira
,
to
hinder
as
much
as
in
her
lay
any
Glory
,
which
her
resemblance
to
that
Picture
might
cast
upon
her
,
Caused
to
be
written
over
it
in
great
Letters
of
Gold
,
The
Goddess
Venus
.
The
fair
Mithridatia
having
thus
taken
,
or
rather
accepted
from
me
,
the
highest
prize
of
that
dayes
Victory
,
did
by
many
repeated
Civilities
convince
me
,
that
that
Action
proceeded
from
her
respect
to
the
gods
,
and
not
out
of
want
of
it
to
me
;
so
that
I
received
more
from
her
denial
of
what
I
had
asked
,
than
I
could
have
received
in
the
grant
of
it
.
I
decline
particularlizing
all
those
discourses
which
then
past
between
us
;
mine
chiefly
consisting
in
the
expressions
of
my
Joy
for
her
Deliverance
,
and
hers
in
expressions
of
Acknowledgments
to
me
for
it
.
Whilst
we
were
making
ready
to
Sail
for
Nicomedia
,
whither
the
necessity
of
Mithridates's
Affairs
did
call
me
,
as
well
as
the
restoring
the
Princess
to
her
Father
;
I
entertained
with
many
embraces
,
Rebadates
,
Tomsones
,
and
those
other
Gentlemen
,
to
whose
Valour
and
Friendship
I
owed
so
much
;
and
having
ordered
the
Cilician
,
and
Phoenician
Fleets
their
Stations
,
for
blocking
up
the
Island
,
and
residue
of
the
Enemies
Fleet
,
till
with
mine
I
had
transported
the
Prince
Ataphernes's
Army
;
I
assembled
the
chief
Cyprian
and
Egyptian
Commanders
,
and
desired
to
know
of
them
,
what
instructions
they
had
in
case
of
their
King's
death
,
which
now
was
happened
;
and
if
they
had
none
,
what
resolutions
they
had
Elected
,
in
which
if
any
assistance
of
mine
were
necessary
,
I
might
pay
it
them
.
They
told
me
their
Instructions
were
,
in
case
that
misery
should
befall
them
,
which
now
had
happened
,
never
to
stir
from
Mithridates's
Service
,
till
the
Princess
Statira
was
at
liberty
;
and
then
to
obey
her
Commands
,
whilst
his
Successor
allowed
them
that
Honour
.
This
made
me
accompany
them
to
the
Princess
,
who
was
not
a
little
surprised
at
this
assurance
;
but
having
declined
that
power
Ascanius
had
given
her
,
and
they
protesting
a
perfect
Obedience
to
it
;
She
told
them
,
that
she
thought
she
could
no
way
better
use
that
unexpected
Authority
which
their
dead
King
had
given
her
,
than
imploying
it
in
Orders
which
might
evidence
the
Value
and
Honour
she
had
for
him
;
that
therefore
they
should
keep
about
the
Island
,
till
the
Solemnites
there
,
of
his
Funeral
were
ended
,
and
then
attend
his
Body
to
Cyprus
,
and
obey
the
Orders
of
their
new
King
.
This
they
all
declared
they
would
punctually
obey
.
Having
thus
setled
things
,
that
Fleet
which
was
to
wait
on
the
Princess
,
and
transport
her
Brother's
Army
,
weighed
Anchor
,
and
steer'd
their
Course
towards
the
Bay
of
Nicomedia
,
which
the
neerer
we
came
unto
,
the
more
I
found
my
Joys
clouded
;
the
●igh
Honour
of
the
Pontick
King's
Alliance
,
and
the
higher
of
possessing
the
Princess
Mithridatia
,
would
,
I
knew
to
well
,
draw
all
the
Eastern
Kings
to
his
Court
;
and
thereby
only
alter
my
Rivals
,
not
suppress
my
Fears
.
Whilst
I
was
entertaining
my self
with
these
sad
thoughts
in
my
Cabbin
,
which
was
under
the
Princesses
,
they
forced
from
me
such
loud
and
violent
sighs
,
that
even
Statira
heard
them
;
which
perswaded
her
to
send
Nerea
to
visit
me
,
lest
some
unexpected
indisposition
might
have
seized
me
.
I
was
ashamed
when
Nerea
came
with
this
message
,
that
my
troubles
had
been
so
loud
in
their
effects
;
and
therefore
finding
by
her
,
that
Statira
was
not
in
any
entertainment
,
which
my
waiting
on
her
might
offensively
interrupt
:
I
went
to
her
Cabbin
with
Nerea
,
to
apologize
for
the
rudeness
of
my
Griefs
,
which
yet
had
obtained
the
honour
of
her
sending
to
enquire
after
me
.
I
thought
,
said
Statira
,
that
the
Glory
you
had
this
day
acquired
,
and
the
Obligations
which
you
have
laid
upon
me
,
would
have
exempted
you
from
troubles
like
unto
those
which
you
have
often
assured
me
,
my
Captivity
did
only
occasion
.
I
observed
when
the
Princess
was
speaking
these
words
to
me
,
that
the
motion
of
the
Galley
having
disordered
Nerea
,
she
retired
to
a
small
Cabbin
at
the
door
of
the
great
one
;
which
made
me
to
kneel
at
Mithridatia's
feet
,
and
tell
her
;
I
confess
,
Madam
,
in
the
Day
of
your
Deliverance
,
I
ought
to
entertain
nothing
but
raptures
of
Joy
;
and
that
I
ought
not
to
admit
of
a
grief
,
whose
troublesome
productions
have
even
reached
your
Ears
:
Judg
,
Madam
,
what
my
Griefs
must
be
,
when
in
such
an
occasion
of
Joy
,
I
cannot
suppress
them
,
nay
,
from
coming
to
your
Knowledg
.
Had
they
been
confined
to
my
own
Breast
,
they
would
have
acted
that
miracle
of
becoming
at
once
the
more
great
,
and
the
more
supportable
;
the
giving
of
vent
to
Sorrow
,
which
to
others
is
an
ease
,
in
me
is
a
sin
:
For
my
afflictions
are
of
such
a
Quality
,
that
they
appear
as
great
a
Crime
,
as
a
Punishment
to
me
;
and
could
I
tell
the
Cause
of
my
Sorrows
to
any
,
they
could
no
more
pity
,
or
advise
me
,
than
I
can
pity
or
advise
my self
.
Yes
,
Madam
,
the
knowledg
of
what
I
ought
to
do
,
is
not
more
evident
,
than
is
the
impossibility
of
doing
it
;
I
am
necessitated
at
the
same
time
to
condemn
what
I
act
,
and
still
to
act
what
I
condemn
.
I
thought
,
and
hoped
,
replyed
the
Princess
,
that
since
you
could
find
by
your
own
confession
,
even
my
Captivity
a
mercy
from
the
gods
,
which
at
first
you
had
considered
as
their
sharpest
Judgment
;
you
would
in
that
past
Event
,
have
found
wherewith
to
have
raised
your
Faith
in
any
other
in
the
future
;
I
rather
expected
you
would
have
contributed
to
ease
those
Sorrows
Ascanius's
death
hath
rais'd
in
me
,
than
add
unto
them
,
by
acquainting
me
with
your
own
.
I
could
bring
,
Madam
,
I
answer'd
,
but
a
few
reasons
to
console
you
for
the
Death
of
one
,
whose
Condition
has
always
had
,
and
now
does
deserve
rather
my
Envy
,
than
my
Sorrow
.
That
Generous
Prince
lived
in
your
favour
,
and
died
in
your
Service
;
what
life
could
be
more
happy
,
and
what
Death
could
be
more
glorious
?
Do
not
therefore
,
Madam
,
I
humbly
conjure
you
,
expect
that
I
should
console
You
for
that
Fate
in
another
,
which
I
ambition
for
my self
;
and
if
you
are
capable
of
such
a
condescention
,
as
to
entertain
a
grief
for
either
,
bestow
yours
upon
him
,
who
aspires
at
no
better
a
Destiny
than
that
,
which
even
in
another
you
think
fit
to
lament
:
If
he
deserves
your
weepings
,
who
had
all
that
I
wish
;
what
then
do
I
,
who
want
all
that
he
had
,
and
wish
no
more
than
what
he
possess'd
?
You
are
,
said
the
Princess
,
casting
on
me
a
languishing
look
,
too
too
ingenuous
to
torment
me
;
Ascanius's
death
,
which
is
my
Sorrow
,
you
tell
me
is
your
Envy
;
And
Callimachus's
life
,
which
is
my
contentment
,
you
tell
me
is
his
Trouble
.
But
,
O
gods
!
Callimachus
,
What
new
afflictions
can
those
be
,
since
I
saw
you
last
,
which
can
raise
such
a
storm
in
you
?
Madam
,
I
answer'd
,
no
new
afflictions
have
befaln
me
;
But
only
a
more
clear
contemplation
of
those
I
am
already
involved
in
:
whilst
you
were
in
troubles
,
the
duty
I
owed
you
,
and
the
care
of
ending
them
,
so
intirely
took
me
up
,
that
I
neither
had
the
time
,
nor
the
will
to
reflect
on
my
own
;
as
the
greater
Sorrow
suspends
the
Actings
and
Effects
of
the
lesser
:
But
now
that
the
Justice
of
the
gods
have
put
a
period
to
yours
;
the
same
Justice
revives
mine
:
For
I
have
that
sensible
accession
to
my
sufferings
,
as
to
be
convinced
,
my
Ambition
does
deserve
them
:
And
I
think
by
the
rest
they
have
had
,
gathering
new
strength
,
they
assault
me
with
the
more
unsupportable
Violence
;
possibly
in
revenge
,
that
having
been
so
vast
,
I
could
so
long
neglect
them
.
Alas
,
Madam
,
could
you
condescend
to
a
thorough
consideration
of
the
causes
of
my
Sorrow
,
you
could
not
but
pity
,
if
not
excuse
their
production
;
for
what
is
there
now
for
the
unhappy
Callimachus
to
expect
?
He
has
nothing
which
can
be
so
much
as
acceptable
by
you
,
but
his
Services
to
you
;
and
those
,
the
height
of
your
condition
,
and
the
lowness
of
his
own
,
renders
his
hopes
of
paying
,
equal
impossibilities
:
I
am
so
far
from
the
expectancy
of
Happiness
,
that
I
am
not
within
the
wishes
of
it
;
for
though
by
the
Crime
of
Fate
,
my
Sword
has
been
render'd
serviceable
to
you
,
yet
I
cannot
be
guilty
of
the
Crime
of
wishing
you
may
ever
be
reduced
to
a
condition
of
repeating
that
misery
,
though
I
were
certain
of
repeating
that
Honour
.
You
see
,
Madam
,
how
desirous
soever
I
am
to
serve
you
,
yet
I
am
much
more
desirous
you
may
never
stand
in
need
of
being
served
by
me
;
And
even
whilst
by
the
sin
of
your
Destiny
,
I
derived
an
occasion
to
serve
you
,
yet
I
shall
call
it
the
Sin
of
your
Destiny
;
and
the
Obligation
it
presented
me
,
could
not
bribe
me
to
call
it
by
another
Name
:
Nay
,
the
sorrow
that
you
were
in
captivity
,
silenced
the
Joy
of
my
being
instrumental
to
end
it
.
Sure
,
Callimachus
,
said
Statira
,
interrupting
me
,
you
cannot
notwithstanding
all
that
you
have
said
,
esteem
your self
more
unhappy
,
than
you
esteem
me
unjust
;
you
first
make
me
bad
,
thereby
to
make
your
Condition
worse
:
Do
you
think
your
Obligations
are
so
small
,
and
my
sense
of
them
the
like
,
that
unless
you
still
present
me
with
new
ones
,
those
I
have
already
been
loaded
with
,
will
lose
their
Efficacy
;
I
am
not
a
little
pleased
you
have
told
me
the
cause
of
your
Troubles
,
how
wounding
soever
they
are
to
me
,
both
upon
your
account
and
mine
also
;
since
thereby
I
find
in
freeing
you
from
being
unjust
to
me
,
I
free
you
from
being
the
like
unto
your self
.
And
in
believing
I
need
fresh
and
unintermitted
Obligations
from
you
,
you
injure
me
as
much
as
you
oblige
me
by
your
favours
to
me
:
which
are
of
a
nature
,
that
whilst
I
have
life
,
I
must
remember
them
;
and
whilst
I
remember
them
,
I
must
rather
be
troubled
,
considering
my
incapacity
to
acknowledg
them
as
I
ought
,
and
as
they
deserved
,
that
they
are
so
many
,
than
that
they
are
no
more
.
Your
past
Actions
have
hitherto
obliged
me
in
a
degree
,
that
nothing
can
equal
,
but
the
generosity
with
which
they
were
confer'd
,
and
the
sense
with
which
they
were
received
;
and
for
the
future
,
what
can
be
more
obliging
,
than
after
your
eviden●ing
your
great
concernment
to
serve
me
,
you
evidence
a
greater
,
that
I
may
never
be
in
a
Condition
to
be
served
by
you
?
By
which
its
imposible
,
but
that
I
must
still
be
obliged
to
your
performances
,
or
to
your
wishes
.
Alas
,
Madam
,
I
reply'd
,
if
my
Services
be
valued
by
you
,
how
unhappy
have
I
been
,
that
I
have
pay'd
you
so
few
;
and
how
miserable
am
I
,
that
I
can
neither
hope
,
or
so
much
as
wish
ever
to
pay
you
any
more
?
I
see
your
goodness
endeavours
to
repair
the
Deficiencies
of
my
Fate
;
and
finding
I
am
never
likely
in
the
future
to
serve
you
but
in
wishes
,
you
would
have
me
believe
,
that
even
those
are
accepted
of
by
you
;
when
that
Condescention
rather
increases
my
debt
,
than
any
way
lessens
my
Trouble
:
But
,
Madam
,
since
by
your
Mercy
,
you
seem
not
to
be
unmoved
at
my
Sorrow
;
and
since
it
's
above
me
ever
to
cast
it
off
.
I
will
endeavour
to
cloud
that
which
I
cannot
conquer
;
and
so
confine
my
Afflictions
to
my
heart
,
that
I
will
keep
them
as
invisible
to
your
Eyes
,
as
I
have
beg'd
of
the
gods
I
could
have
kept
that
Adoration
which
cannot
be
a
greater
confidence
in
me
to
acknowledg
,
than
it
was
an
impossibility
to
avoid
.
Perhaps
,
Madam
,
I
may
not
tell
you
an
untruth
,
if
I
should
assure
you
,
that
my
Ambition
cannot
be
more
strange
than
is
my
entertainment
of
its
punishment
:
For
whereas
in
other
Afflictions
,
it
's
a
consolation
not
to
deserve
them
;
in
mine
,
the
contrary
is
the
only
one
I
receive
:
for
by
the
knowledg
of
the
vastness
of
my
Crimes
,
I
derive
some
support
in
the
enduring
of
their
Punishment
.
For
since
all
that
I
do
suffer
,
nay
all
that
I
can
suffer
(
if
at
least
both
those
be
not
the
same
in
me
)
is
in
my
own
Estimation
much
disproportionate
to
the
height
of
my
aspiring
,
the
Justice
of
the
punishment
hinders
me
from
repining
at
it
,
though
not
from
being
sensible
of
it
;
and
the
less
you
condemn
my
offence
,
the
more
just
I
esteem
my
sufferings
,
and
the
less
impatiently
I
will
bear
them
.
Yes
,
Madam
,
though
I
know
by
attending
you
back
to
Mithridates
,
I
shall
restore
you
to
the
capacity
of
repeating
that
fatal
Obedience
for
some
other
King
,
which
the
Justice
of
the
gods
has
punished
Ascanius
for
soliciting
and
accepting
;
and
though
by
my
waiting
on
you
to
your
Father
,
I
am
like
to
see
what
I
most
fear
;
yet
I
will
go
:
yes
,
I
will
pay
you
my
duty
,
though
to
the
encrease
of
my
Torment
.
But
,
Madam
,
if
some
dejected
look
,
if
some
unsuppressible
groan
force
it self
from
me
,
pardon
,
I
beg
you
a
Fault
,
which
you
cannot
be
so
much
troubled
to
see
,
as
I
shall
be
to
commit
;
And
ascribe
all
to
a
sorrow
which
possibly
will
not
be
above
your
pity
,
since
't
is
for
having
offended
you
,
that
't
is
so
great
and
unconfinable
:
Or
else
,
Madam
,
permit
me
,
rather
than
to
be
still
a
trouble
to
you
,
and
a
greater
to
my self
,
because
I
am
such
to
you
,
to
seek
that
Death
on
some
Enemies
Sword
,
which
you
have
prohibited
my
own
from
acting
;
you
shall
then
soon
be
convinced
,
that
I
have
not
so
willingly
offended
you
,
as
I
am
ready
to
punish
my self
for
having
done
so
;
and
that
nothing
is
more
preferable
to
me
,
than
revenging
of
you
.
But
fair
Princess
,
if
my
sin
be
such
,
that
your
Justice
decrees
me
rather
to
a
lingring
,
than
a
speedy
Death
:
and
that
you
therefore
condemn
me
to
see
all
those
Kings
prostrate
at
your
Feet
,
which
the
priviledg
Mithridates
gave
Ascanius
,
will
invite
unto
that
happy
Posture
:
(
For
no
Monarch
that
knows
the
Princess
Statira
is
to
be
obtained
,
but
will
flie
to
be
that
happy
Person
that
shall
obtain
her
)
.
If
,
I
say
,
Madam
,
you
Destine
me
to
this
misery
,
I
have
destined
my self
to
an
entire
submission
to
it
;
and
I
shall
think
my
Torments
my
Happiness
,
if
by
undergoing
the
greatness
of
them
you
may
be
convinced
,
my
Passion
,
and
my
Obedience
,
are
proportionate
to
your
Beauties
,
and
to
the
Duty
I
owe
you
.
Though
possibly
,
said
Statira
,
this
Discourse
might
as
much
trouble
me
,
as
the
condition
you
apprehend
your self
in
,
does
you
;
and
that
some
parts
of
it
might
justly
exempt
me
from
answering
any
of
it
:
yet
to
let
you
see
,
That
your
past
Obligations
,
and
your
present
Wishes
have
that
Operation
on
me
which
I
even
now
assured
you
they
had
,
I
will
not
only
pass
over
,
without
any
further
notice
,
what
you
have
spoke
;
but
advise
you
too
,
not
to
afflict
your self
with
antedated
fears
,
which
is
to
abuse
your
Reason
,
and
make
that
wound
you
,
which
should
help
you
.
Our
highest
Prerogative
so
imployed
,
will
make
the
condition
of
Beast
preferable
to
that
of
Man
;
they
feel
nothing
but
what
actually
is
:
and
if
you
so
injure
that
noble
Gift
,
as
thereby
to
sink
your self
below
the
state
of
irrational
Creatures
,
't
is
but
just
that
even
that
blessing
should
be
your
Tormentor
.
Ah
Madam
!
I
reply'd
,
Judg
then
of
my
condition
,
when
that
which
in
it self
is
given
for
a
Preservative
against
sorrow
,
and
often
a
Cure
of
it
,
changes
its
nature
,
and
becomes
the
cause
of
that
,
whose
effects
it
should
remedy
.
Reason
,
reply'd
the
Princess
,
is
still
it self
,
and
therefore
still
a
help
;
if
ever
it
be
other
,
't
is
in
the
abuse
,
not
in
the
nature
of
it
.
If
by
a
consideration
of
things
to
come
,
I
have
more
reason
to
fear
the
Ill
,
than
to
hope
the
Good
,
I
have
then
Reason
not
to
entertain
those
considerations
;
and
if
it
cannot
hinder
me
from
being
miserable
,
when
I
must
be
so
,
it
shall
hinder
me
from
being
so
,
before
I
am
so
:
Nay
,
after
I
actually
am
miserable
,
Reason
leads
me
into
a
contemplation
of
the
gods
,
who
inflict
the
punishments
,
as
well
as
they
bestow
the
blessings
;
and
who
being
just
in
all
their
ways
,
I
am
taught
by
it
to
believe
,
I
deserve
what
they
impose
;
and
therefore
should
with
cheerfulness
submit
to
what
they
determine
,
especially
,
when
by
repining
at
what
I
must
acknowledg
,
I
deserve
(
or
else
I
must
not
acknowledg
them
to
be
just
;
and
to
deny
any
of
their
Attributes
,
is
in
effect
to
deny
them
)
,
I
provoke
the
continuance
of
their
Judgments
,
and
by
an
entire
resignation
I
hasten
their
forgiveness
.
Possibly
,
Callimachus
,
I
teach
you
the
Theory
of
what
I
have
practised
my self
;
and
when
I
advise
you
to
that
which
I
follow
,
though
you
may
suspect
the
advice
,
yet
you
cannot
the
Adviser
.
Since
,
Madam
,
I
reply'd
,
your
goodness
does
not
decline
the
condescention
of
giving
advice
to
so
unfortunate
and
low
a
Person
as
I
am
,
permit
it
,
I
beseech
you
,
to
continue
its
actings
;
and
having
told
me
what
I
should
not
do
,
that
is
not
reflect
upon
what
is
to
come
,
and
not
express
a
sadness
for
what
is
,
let
it
also
tell
me
what
I
shall
do
.
Wait
upon
the
good
pleasure
of
the
gods
,
said
Statira
,
they
know
better
what
is
fit
for
you
,
than
you
know
what
is
fit
for
your self
;
and
their
Time
is
the
best
.
But
to
fortifie
you
in
the
duty
of
this
Attendance
,
remember
,
That
nothing
can
be
more
improbable
in
the
time
to
come
,
than
you
have
seen
Acted
in
the
time
that
is
past
;
and
this
also
you
may
believe
,
if
you
please
,
That
he
whose
Death
I
deplore
,
and
whose
condition
you
say
you
envy
,
had
not
more
of
my
esteem
than
you
have
:
and
perhaps
had
not
so
many
assurances
thereof
from
me
,
as
you
have
had
.
Let
this
suffice
,
continued
the
fair
Statira
,
rising
up
,
and
Blushing
;
and
if
you
have
that
Friendship
for
me
,
that
I
believe
you
have
,
do
not
force
me
to
give
you
such
(
I
will
only
say
)
uneasie
evincements
of
mine
.
These
words
,
said
Callimachus
,
and
the
obliging
Majesty
with
which
they
were
spoke
,
charmed
all
my
despair
,
and
my
Tongue
also
;
for
I
had
not
words
to
declare
my
thoughts
,
nor
gestures
to
express
the
raptures
of
my
Gratitude
:
which
possibly
yet
might
expose
my
Acknowledgment
to
her
apprehension
,
in
more
lively
and
significant
Characters
,
than
any
other
way
they
could
have
been
exprest
in
.
As
soon
as
Statira
was
risen
,
she
told
me
,
I
doubt
Nerea
will
think
I
am
more
concerned
for
your
indisposition
,
than
I
should
be
,
and
less
for
hers
than
I
ought
to
be
:
Let
us
therefore
go
and
visit
her
.
Statira
went
immediately
to
her
Cabbin
,
which
was
at
the
door
of
her
own
,
and
finding
She
was
at
most
ease
,
when
she
lay
on
her
Bed
,
would
not
permit
her
to
rise
;
but
went
her self
upon
the
Deck
,
to
take
the
fresh
Air
;
and
to
see
at
what
rate
she
hastened
towards
Nicomedia
.
As
soon
as
we
were
come
upon
the
Deck
,
an
Egyptian
Captain
came
close
up
to
my
Galley
in
his
own
;
and
told
me
,
That
the
young
Gentleman
whose
Valour
I
had
so
much
esteemed
,
was
recover'd
out
of
his
fainting
,
and
was
desirous
to
be
carried
to
Nicomedia
to
be
cured
of
his
Wounds
.
The
Sea
,
and
the
ill
accommodations
on
it
,
being
not
only
troublesome
,
but
dangerous
to
him
;
I
forthwith
stopt
my
Course
,
hoised
out
my
Boat
,
and
received
the
Valiant
Stranger
with
his
Servants
into
my
Galley
;
but
the
motion
in
his
removal
,
made
him
again
to
swound
;
and
Tomsones
being
present
,
calling
hastily
for
some
Vinegar
,
and
chafing
his
Temples
and
his
Nostrils
with
it
,
he
perceived
the
Blackness
of
his
Face
to
vanish
with
the
force
of
his
rubbing
,
and
the
sharpness
of
the
Liquor
:
and
by
degrees
the
whole
coming
off
,
he
discovered
a
Countenance
which
even
in
the
paleness
and
disfigurings
of
Death
,
was
not
without
Graces
and
Charms
which
merited
an
Admiration
.
The
Princess
Statira
at
so
unexpected
an
Accident
,
went
to
see
this
strange
mutation
;
and
while
we
were
in
the
discourses
of
it
,
His
chief
Servant
who
was
gone
under
the
Decks
to
prepare
a
Cabbin
for
him
,
returned
:
and
finding
what
Tomsones
had
done
,
exprest
so
much
of
grief
more
than
astonishment
,
that
we
all
concluded
,
he
was
not
a
stranger
to
that
Disguisement
,
nor
a
little
troubled
at
our
discovery
of
it
;
but
his
Master's
fainting
beginning
to
leave
him
,
he
carried
him
to
his
Bed
.
The
Night
of
this
day
I
sent
for
the
wounded
Stranger
's
Servant
,
who
called
himself
Photinus
,
and
desired
him
to
acquaint
me
with
his
Lord's
Name
and
Condition
,
and
why
he
had
assumed
such
a
Disguse
?
Photinus
reply'd
;
I
am
Sir
,
confin'd
to
Secresie
in
all
these
particulars
,
by
such
Sacred
Ties
,
that
should
I
break
them
,
I
believe
you
would
esteem
my
Obedience
a
greater
Crime
than
my
Disobedience
,
for
which
yet
I
most
humbly
beg
your
pardon
:
But
this
I
will
assure
you
,
that
his
Quality
and
his
Merit
is
such
,
that
you
will
not
I
hope
repent
your
care
of
him
;
nor
possibly
,
when
he
knows
how
he
ows
you
his
Life
or
Liberty
,
and
your
Curiosity
to
be
acquainted
who
he
is
,
will
he
decline
satisfying
you
therein
.
This
Answer
made
me
press
him
no
farther
,
and
made
me
enjoyn
him
to
acquaint
me
from
time
to
time
,
how
his
Lord
did
,
and
whether
any
thing
was
in
my
Power
to
serve
him
.
I
further
desired
him
when
we
came
to
Nicomedia
,
that
he
would
carry
him
to
my
Appartment
;
where
Lodgings
should
be
provided
for
him
,
and
all
other
Accomodations
.
Photinus
promised
me
all
that
I
expected
,
and
having
made
me
many
Acknowledgments
,
went
to
pay
his
usual
care
to
his
wounded
Master
.
The
End
of
the
Second
Book
of
the
Sixth
Part
of
PARTHENISSA
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
SIXTH
PART
.
The
Third
BOOK
.
OUR
Navigation
was
so
prosperous
,
that
the
Sun
at
his
rising
the
second
Day
,
discovered
unto
us
the
North-west
Promontory
of
the
Bay
of
Nicomedia
;
and
by
Noon
we
were
come
so
near
it
,
that
to
our
wonder
we
perceived
several
Horsemen
quit
their
Horses
:
and
with
their
Swords
drawn
,
run
into
a
Wood
,
in
which
Mithridates
had
made
a
Wilderness
,
and
often
delighted
himself
in
visiting
it
.
Remembring
this
,
and
seeing
what
I
did
,
I
told
my
Apprehensions
to
the
Princess
,
who
was
come
on
the
Deck
at
this
News
;
and
though
we
could
not
imagine
the
Cause
of
what
we
beheld
:
yet
the
late
Treachery
that
had
been
acted
on
her self
,
made
me
doubt
something
of
the
same
nature
might
have
been
practiced
towards
the
King
.
Which
being
her
apprehensions
as
well
as
mine
,
I
commanded
,
that
my
Galley
should
be
rowed
as
near
the
Shore
as
might
be
;
and
ordered
all
that
Gallant
Nobility
,
and
Youth
which
was
in
it
,
to
Arm
themselves
,
and
follow
me
.
This
was
immediately
performed
,
and
our
Boats
had
no
sooner
set
some
fifty
of
us
on
Shore
,
but
we
were
too
well
guided
by
the
Shreeks
of
some
Women
,
to
the
Center
of
the
Wood
,
where
we
found
all
the
King's
Guards
kill'd
,
or
routed
:
and
by
one
that
was
flying
away
,
we
learned
,
that
about
three
Hundred
select
Men
had
lain
in
Ambush
in
the
Wilderness
.
And
when
the
King
with
the
Prince
Atafernes
,
the
Queen
,
the
Princess
Nisa
,
and
the
Princess
Cleopatra
were
diverting
themselves
in
that
pleasant
Place
,
they
were
forthwith
assaulted
by
unknown
Men
;
And
the
Guards
running
to
their
Rescue
,
not
being
able
to
make
use
of
their
Horses
by
reason
of
the
thickness
of
the
Wood
,
were
after
a
brisk
Fight
,
killed
and
dispersed
;
only
the
King
,
and
Prince
with
some
of
their
Attendants
,
getting
into
a
Summer-House
where
the
Queen
and
Princess
were
,
defended
the
door
of
it
in
hope
of
Relief
;
but
he
had
even
then
seen
it
forced
,
and
many
of
the
Enemy
enter
it
.
This
Relation
he
told
us
,
whilst
we
were
running
to
their
Rescue
;
and
lest
our
endeavours
might
be
fruitless
,
I
sent
forthwith
Orders
to
my
Galley
,
which
was
advanced
a
League
before
all
the
rest
of
the
Fleet
,
to
make
all
possible
diligence
to
the
Western
part
of
the
North-west
Promontory
,
to
hinder
any
Vessels
from
escaping
that
way
:
for
the
place
in
which
this
Attempt
was
made
,
easily
perswaded
me
to
believe
it
was
from
the
Sea
that
these
Enemies
were
come
.
These
Orders
given
,
we
continued
our
March
with
such
speed
,
that
we
discovered
our
Enemies
,
whom
immediately
we
assaulted
;
and
who
received
us
with
that
Resolution
which
became
Men
,
that
attempted
their
Design
.
The
Fight
was
bloody
,
and
my
small
Troop
being
heightened
by
the
glory
of
so
Noble
an
occasion
to
evidence
their
Courages
,
did
it
in
so
unresistable
a
degree
,
that
the
resolutest
of
our
Adversaries
began
to
lose
their
Ground
as
well
as
their
Number
,
though
still
fighting
and
retreating
towards
the
Sea-side
.
I
easily
judged
thereby
,
that
their
intentions
was
to
recover
their
Vessel
;
and
therefore
by
a
resolute
Charge
,
we
so
discomposed
them
,
that
they
turned
their
backs
,
and
made
precipitately
to
their
Boats
,
into
two
whereof
some
of
them
got
,
and
immediately
Launced
out
towards
a
Galley
,
which
then
we
discover'd
riding
in
a
Creek
in
the
Promontory
.
The
trouble
we
received
by
their
then
Escape
,
was
raised
to
a
height
above
my
description
;
when
by
one
of
our
Prisoners
we
learned
that
in
the
largest
of
those
Boats
they
sent
away
the
King
,
and
Prince
much
wounded
;
and
all
the
Princesses
,
Prisoners
.
'T
was
time
to
act
,
and
therefore
though
we
had
cause
,
yet
we
had
not
leisure
to
grieve
:
we
seized
upon
one
Boat
that
remained
,
and
pursued
after
them
,
as
well
as
four
Oars
could
carry
us
▪
which
were
all
we
could
find
.
But
alas
!
we
soon
found
how
fruitlesly
we
labour'd
;
for
before
we
could
get
half
way
to
their
Galley
,
we
saw
them
enter
into
it
with
their
Noble
Prize
:
and
cutting
their
Cables
with
as
much
hast
as
Oars
and
Sails
could
lend
them
▪
bent
their
course
for
Greece
.
Whilst
we
were
in
the
trouble
of
this
Prospect
,
I
was
revived
by
the
fight
of
my
own
Galley
,
doubling
the
Point
.
Her
Celerity
in
the
obedience
of
my
Orders
was
unspeakably
welcome
.
I
hastily
got
on
Board
,
told
the
fair
Statira
what
we
had
done
,
and
what
we
had
failed
of
;
and
promising
all
the
Slaves
their
Liberty
if
they
overtook
the
flying
Galley
,
they
so
powerfully
plied
their
Oars
,
that
we
immediately
found
we
gained
visibly
of
them
.
The
rest
of
my
Fleet
,
which
were
above
twenty
Furlongs
behind
,
seeing
me
alter
my
course
,
and
not
knowing
the
cause
of
it
;
for
though
I
saw
the
Galley
I
pursued
,
and
my
Fleet
saw
mine
,
yet
by
the
interposition
of
the
Head-Land
they
saw
not
what
I
chased
:
And
having
positive
Order
to
sail
directly
into
the
Bay
of
Nicomedia
,
and
none
to
the
contrary
,
continued
their
Course
thither
;
so
that
by
the
time
I
was
gotten
within
half
a
League
of
the
Enemy
,
they
could
discover
no
Veslel
was
within
two
Leagues
of
me
;
and
therefore
scorning
to
flye
from
a
single
Galley
,
saved
me
the
labour
of
following
them
,
and
turning
about
their
Prow
,
came
as
fast
towards
me
,
as
a
little
before
she
had
fled
from
me
.
Over-joyed
with
this
unlooked
for
Gallantry
,
I
went
into
the
Princesses
Cabbin
;
and
told
her
,
I
hope
now
,
Madam
,
(
telling
her
what
the
Enemy
had
done
)
to
do
you
that
Service
on
the
Sea
,
that
I
failed
of
paying
you
on
the
Shore
:
and
I
am
come
now
only
to
beg
you
to
permit
the
lights
of
your
Cabbin
to
be
stopt
up
,
lest
any
Darts
or
Javelins
of
the
Enemy
might
fly
into
them
.
You
see
,
Callimachus
,
she
replied
,
how
the
sins
of
our
Family
afford
you
too
often
occasions
to
oblige
it
;
and
you
may
perceive
how
fallacious
even
the
best
judgments
are
in
Humane
things
:
when
you
could
yesterday
believe
,
I
was
in
a
Condition
above
your
Services
,
and
this
Day
all
the
Royal
House
of
Pontus
,
depend
upon
your
Sword
.
The
gods
,
I
reply'd
,
who
have
destined
it
to
so
high
a
Glory
,
will
,
I
question
not
,
give
it
a
proportionate
Success
:
And
having
only
permitted
the
Royal
House
of
Pontus
to
receive
some
of
their
frowns
,
that
it
may
be
the
more
sensible
of
their
smiles
;
they
had
rais'd
it
so
high
,
that
it
being
uncapable
of
accessions
,
they
have
subjected
it
to
Changes
,
and
then
to
Restaurations
;
that
in
those
vicissitudes
,
the
impossibilities
of
additions
might
be
repaired
.
Your
Virtues
,
Madam
,
are
a
security
to
your
whole
Family
;
and
since
I
now
fight
to
restore
them
,
and
to
preserve
you
,
to
doubt
Success
were
to
intitle
me
to
a
denial
of
it
.
The
Princess
at
the
end
of
what
I
had
spoke
,
perceiving
some
blood
trickle
down
from
a
Wound
I
had
received
in
my
left
Arm
,
had
the
mercy
to
lament
it
,
and
the
condescension
to
take
off
a
Ribband
of
her
own
,
and
to
bind
it
up
;
which
unvaluable
Civility
was
no
sooner
conferred
,
than
Demetrius
came
to
the
Cabbin-Door
to
tell
me
the
Enemy
was
at
hand
.
I
therefore
hastily
took
my
leave
,
and
was
scarce
got
at
the
head
of
my
Men
,
when
our
Galleys
shook
one
another
with
their
Brazen
Prows
;
and
then
,
as
if
it
had
been
by
mutual
consent
,
grappled
so
strongly
,
that
nothing
but
Victory
was
able
to
unloose
them
:
never
possibly
in
so
little
Room
was
performed
so
great
things
;
our
Numbers
seemed
equal
,
and
our
Resolutions
the
same
,
which
were
to
Conquer
or
to
Die
.
Twice
they
got
into
my
Galley
,
and
once
oftner
I
got
into
theirs
,
which
in
the
End
proved
fatal
to
them
;
for
perceiving
with
how
much
difficulty
we
had
purchas'd
that
advantage
,
we
as
resolutely
kept
it
;
and
so
many
of
mine
got
in
after
me
,
that
the
Commander
of
our
Enemies
,
called
Enastes
,
who
was
a
Lord
of
Pontus
,
who
was
in
highest
esteem
with
Nicomedes
,
and
his
Vice-Admiral
,
perceiving
since
they
could
not
keep
us
out
,
it
would
be
difficult
,
if
possible
to
keep
us
from
vanquishing
them
now
we
were
got
in
,
with
a
loud
Voice
called
me
twice
by
my
name
;
and
told
me
,
Callimachus
,
There
is
already
too
much
blood
spilt
on
either
side
;
but
since
that
precious
loss
is
not
to
be
repaired
,
Let
us
prevent
the
increase
of
it
,
and
let
thou
and
I
decide
the
Quarrel
.
I
was
not
a
little
pleased
at
this
motion
which
gave
me
an
opportunity
singly
to
do
a
Service
to
my
Princess
and
all
her
Family
,
which
otherwise
had
been
divided
amongst
so
many
,
that
my
share
of
it
had
been
inconsiderable
.
I
therefore
told
him
,
The
advantage
which
my
Friends
have
over
thine
,
is
already
so
visible
,
that
in
this
Combat
they
have
acquired
as
much
Honour
as
it
is
capable
to
present
them
.
A
farther
progress
may
increase
the
number
of
the
Dead
,
not
the
visibility
of
their
Success
;
and
though
thou
esteemest
it
no
unhopeful
expedient
,
in
the
ruinous
Condition
to
which
thou
art
reduced
,
to
bring
the
decision
now
to
an
equal
number
,
which
the
Valour
of
my
Friends
have
reduced
to
an
unequal
one
:
Yet
to
let
thee
see
the
justice
of
my
Quarrel
needs
no
advantage
to
end
it
,
I
accept
of
thy
desire
.
Both
parties
at
what
we
had
said
,
suspended
fighting
;
and
mine
having
gotten
the
Prow
of
his
Galley
,
and
his
defending
the
residue
of
it
,
we
had
close
by
the
Main-mast
a
Stage
for
our
Duel
,
in
which
Enastes
was
as
Unfortunate
as
Valiant
:
and
after
no
inconsiderable
resistance
,
he
fell
dead
under
my
Sword
,
oppressed
with
Wounds
.
I
was
sorry
at
his
Death
for
the
obligation
he
had
laid
on
me
,
by
inviting
me
to
the
Combat
,
and
by
declining
a
further
Flight
.
When
he
saw
himself
pursued
by
one
Galley
,
all
his
Soldiers
when
he
was
vanquish'd
,
in
the
fury
of
that
loss
renewed
the
Fight
with
much
obstinacy
;
and
one
of
them
seeing
all
was
lost
,
resolved
to
accompany
his
own
Death
with
an
Action
which
might
take
from
us
all
cause
of
rejoycing
at
it
;
for
running
hastily
to
the
Stern-Cabbin
,
where
the
Queen
,
the
two
Princesses
,
Atafernes
and
Mithridates
were
kept
Prisoners
;
he
opened
the
Door
,
and
in
a
furious
Voice
he
cryed
out
,
King
of
Pontus
,
I
must
now
be
revenged
on
thee
,
for
having
so
long
usurped
the
Throne
of
the
King
of
Bithynia
;
and
Thine
,
and
thy
Sons
Blood
,
must
answer
for
the
Blood
of
so
many
of
my
Friends
,
as
thine
have
spilt
,
and
which
but
in
this
way
I
cannot
revenge
.
This
threatning
was
not
more
Cruel
,
than
Friendly
to
those
against
whom
it
was
made
;
for
the
warning
it
gave
them
,
not
only
raised
them
from
their
Beds
on
which
they
were
laid
for
the
ease
of
their
Wounds
:
but
also
gave
Monyma
,
the
Princess
Nisa
,
and
the
Princess
Cleopatra
,
leisure
to
put
themselves
before
the
King
and
the
Prince
;
and
by
their
shreeks
to
call
for
assistance
,
which
admitted
no
delay
.
The
Galleys
being
grapled
,
the
sides
of
each
of
them
touched
one
another
;
and
therefore
those
Cries
reached
the
fair
Statira
,
who
abandoning
her
Cabbin
,
came
upon
the
Deck
,
and
told
me
,
Alas
Callimachus
Whilst
you
dispute
my
Father's
and
Brother's
Liberty
,
they
are
losing
their
Lives
.
This
Advertisement
made
me
fly
to
the
Cabbin
,
and
so
timely
,
that
the
Monster
in
it
having
flung
down
all
those
weak
impediments
which
had
opposed
him
,
had
his
Sword
bloody
with
one
Wound
he
had
given
the
King
,
and
with
another
he
had
made
in
Atafernes's
shoulder
;
who
being
unable
to
stand
to
defend
Mithridates
,
had
generously
cast
himself
on
his
knees
before
him
:
and
with
some
of
his
Bed-cloaths
wrapped
about
his
Arm
,
endeavoured
in
that
posture
,
and
with
that
pitiful
defence
,
to
save
his
Father's
Life
with
the
loss
of
his
own
.
The
horrid
Cruelty
of
this
Bithynian
,
and
the
admirable
piety
of
this
great
Prince
,
gave
such
Wings
to
my
Revenge
,
that
they
saw
that
Monster
kill'd
,
before
they
saw
him
who
did
it
;
But
as
soon
as
I
had
lifted
up
the
fight
of
my
Helmet
,
and
that
thereby
they
discovered
who
had
paid
them
so
seasonable
a
Service
,
I
saw
in
Atafernes's
Countenance
a
Joy
as
great
,
that
I
had
saved
his
Father
and
him
,
as
that
they
were
so
unexpectedly
saved
.
Mithridates
too
,
though
much
wounded
,
took
me
in
his
Arms
,
and
in
Elogies
and
Embraces
testified
his
Joy
and
his
Kindness
.
The
Queen
in
the
raptures
of
this
unlooked-for
Safety
,
gave
me
Eminent
marks
of
her
Satisfaction
and
Friendship
;
And
,
though
possibly
they
might
have
been
mixed
with
fome
other
Ingredient
;
yet
all
was
attributed
meerly
to
the
Transports
of
their
then
Condition
,
compared
with
what
so
lately
it
had
been
.
In
the
midst
of
this
Noble
Entertainment
,
the
Princely
Statira
came
into
the
Cabbin
.
The
sight
of
her
fill'd
all
that
were
in
it
with
new
Wonder
;
for
the
King
having
in
the
cool
of
the
Morning
left
Nicomedia
,
the
Galley
I
had
sent
to
advertise
him
of
our
Victory
,
was
not
then
arrived
,
which
had
hinder'd
him
from
receiving
an
Account
of
it
.
Mithridatia
therefore
told
him
of
our
Naval
Success
,
of
the
rate
at
which
we
had
bought
it
;
and
how
she
was
exchanged
.
The
loss
of
Ascanius
,
who
the
Pontick
King
intirely
loved
,
qualified
not
a
little
the
Extacies
he
was
in
;
and
even
in
his
Sorrow
for
the
King
of
Cyprus
,
he
evidenced
how
much
he
had
esteemed
him
.
But
at
last
Mithridates
thinking
't
was
to
be
ungrateful
to
the
gods
,
to
let
one
cause
of
Trouble
cloud
so
many
causes
of
Satisfaction
,
He
wiped
off
those
Tears
he
had
shed
for
his
intended
Son-in-Law
;
and
in
embracing
his
Favourite-Daughter
,
seemed
by
that
happy
priviledg
and
posture
,
to
know
and
act
a
certain
Cure
for
the
deepest
Afflictions
.
I
therefore
told
him
,
Now
that
you
have
the
Princess
Statira
in
your
Arms
,
I
believe
Sir
,
you
will
think
your
Civilities
to
Ariobarzanes
whilst
he
was
your
Prisoner
,
were
not
misplaced
;
for
but
in
the
Duty
he
owed
her
,
and
the
retributions
he
owed
you
for
them
,
he
could
not
have
made
so
unequal
a
Bargain
,
as
to
have
exchanged
a
Princess
above
Ransom
,
for
the
dying
Body
of
Nicomedes
.
And
if
I
presumed
to
dispose
of
such
a
Prisoner
without
your
knowledg
,
I
will
hope
for
your
Pardon
upon
two
Accounts
;
The
first
is
,
his
Wounds
were
so
many
and
dangerous
,
that
had
I
sent
for
your
Orders
,
he
might
have
been
unexchangeable
before
I
had
received
them
.
The
second
is
,
That
having
an
offered
Exchange
for
the
Princess
,
the
Crime
of
afterwards
permitting
her
so
long
to
continue
Prisoner
,
as
must
have
been
employed
in
sending
for
your
Commands
,
and
receiving
them
,
would
have
been
greater
,
than
the
releasing
her
without
them
.
These
were
my
Inducements
,
Sir
,
to
do
it
,
when
I
lay
before
the
Island
of
Scyros
;
but
now
I
find
that
the
gods
themselves
have
approved
thereof
.
For
had
I
not
done
what
I
did
,
the
Punishment
would
have
equalled
the
Sin
;
for
the
Royal
House
of
Pontus
h●d
now
been
what
the
Princess
lately
was
:
whereas
by
her
freedom
the
gods
have
acted
yours
,
and
made
that
a
Consequence
,
or
Product
of
this
.
Mithridates
,
though
the
Chyrurgeons
were
dressing
his
,
and
the
Prince
Atafernes's
Wounds
,
made
me
this
Reply
.
You
have
,
Callimachus
,
employed
that
Power
I
gave
you
,
so
much
to
my
Honour
and
Satisfaction
,
that
your
desiring
a
forgiveness
is
really
a
greater
Offence
,
than
that
for
which
you
ask
it
;
and
to
evidence
you
have
not
only
obliged
me
to
the
height
,
but
that
I
am
sensible
you
have
done
so
,
I
promise
before
the
gods
and
all
these
Witnesses
,
that
whatever
you
ask
of
me
,
without
any
exception
,
I
will
grant
it
you
;
for
you
have
given
me
more
than
you
can
ask
of
me
.
And
lest
your
Modesty
might
hinder
you
from
asking
,
I
enjoyn
you
to
ask
;
nay
,
by
that
Friendship
you
have
for
me
,
I
command
you
to
do
it
:
but
lest
this
Injunction
might
be
a
surprise
,
I
give
you
three
days
time
to
deliberate
,
that
you
may
think
of
something
worthy
your
mentioning
,
and
worthy
my
giving
.
To
convince
you
too
,
how
fixed
I
am
in
this
Resolution
,
and
how
knowing
I
am
in
your
Vertue
,
I
conjure
you
make
me
no
Reply
,
nor
Excuses
;
and
grant
me
this
Request
,
as
an
Evidence
you
believe
,
I
will
grant
you
yours
.
All
the
while
the
King
was
speaking
these
charming
words
,
my
Eyes
were
fixed
on
my
Princess
;
and
her
Blushes
thereat
told
me
her
Apprehensions
were
,
I
would
fix
my
Request
where
I
had
fixed
my
Sight
:
But
Mithridates
having
done
speaking
,
to
obey
him
,
I
only
bowed
my self
to
his
Feet
,
as
an
evincement
both
of
my
Joy
and
Obedience
.
The
generous
Atafernes
diligently
observed
my
Looks
,
and
his
fair
Sisters
Blushes
;
and
had
the
goodness
to
whisper
me
these
ravishing
Words
:
Your
Eyes
,
Callimachus
,
have
spoke
your
Request
;
and
Statira's
readiness
seems
to
be
no
Irreconcilable
Enemy
to
it
:
Leave
the
Management
of
your
happiness
to
my
care
.
I
whispered
to
him
this
Answer
,
'T
is
the
Company
,
Great
Prince
,
and
not
the
want
of
resentment
,
that
hinders
me
from
prostrating
my self
at
your
Feet
,
as
some
sign
of
my
acknowledgments
.
My
Fortune
cannot
be
but
glorious
,
since
you
have
undertaken
the
care
of
it
:
And
what
I
despair
of
on
my
own
account
,
I
will
presume
of
upon
yours
.
I
will
not
,
generous
Princes
,
continued
Callimachus
,
particularize
all
the
Discourses
which
then
entertained
the
Company
;
Only
I
observed
the
Princess
Statira
,
who
in
less
Services
had
honoured
me
with
her
taking
notice
of
them
,
did
not
so
much
as
speak
to
me
of
this
;
which
I
durst
not
so
flatter
my self
,
as
to
attribute
to
her
intentions
of
giving
me
more
lively
and
ambitioned
Characters
of
her
Resentment
,
than
Verbal
acknowledgments
could
be
:
But
rather
to
her
fear
,
That
I
would
by
my
request
to
the
King
,
owe
that
to
her
Obedience
which
I
could
not
hope
for
from
her
Inclination
or
Justice
;
and
thereby
punish
my
offence
,
before
I
had
committed
it
.
To
remove
therefore
from
the
observation
of
others
,
those
disorders
which
such
thoughts
raised
in
me
,
I
told
the
King
,
That
all
his
Enemies
having
paid
by
their
Deaths
the
last
Crime
of
their
Lives
,
I
came
to
receive
his
Commands
for
his
return
to
Nicomedia
;
and
how
the
Enemies
Galley
,
and
their
dead
Bodies
should
be
disposed
of
:
begging
him
to
remove
into
mine
from
the
blood
and
noysomness
of
that
he
then
was
in
.
He
forthwith
appointed
all
those
dead
Bodies
to
be
flung
over-Board
,
That
they
might
,
as
he
said
,
receive
their
Burial
where
they
had
acted
their
Sin
,
and
suffered
their
Punishment
;
and
that
if
any
one
of
them
were
alive
,
he
should
be
brought
to
him
,
who
should
save
him
the
sending
of
an
Herauld
to
Nicomedes
.
The
Galley
being
diligently
searched
,
one
Soldier
was
found
,
who
having
bloodied
himself
all
over
,
lay
amongst
the
Dead
to
avoid
encreasing
their
number
:
But
when
he
found
they
were
casting
his
Companions
into
the
Sea
,
he
discovered
himself
,
hoping
the
fury
of
the
Execution
was
over
.
He
was
therefore
brought
to
Mithridates
,
who
told
him
,
I
thought
thy
King
would
have
endeavoured
to
recover
Bithynia
,
only
by
such
Arms
,
and
by
such
ways
as
he
lost
it
:
but
since
with
the
loss
of
his
Kingdom
,
he
has
lost
his
Kingly
Vertues
,
and
employs
his
Soldiers
to
surprize
Women
,
and
murther
his
Enemies
after
they
are
his
Prisoners
;
Tell
him
from
me
,
That
by
all
the
gods
,
and
the
Sacred
Ashes
of
my
glorious
Ancestors
,
if
ever
he
comes
into
my
hands
,
he
shall
suffer
that
Death
which
it
seems
he
had
appointed
for
me
.
I
give
thee
,
he
continued
thy
life
and
liberty
,
to
carry
Nicomedes
,
if
living
,
this
Message
;
and
I
shall
appoint
thee
a
Vessel
to
transport
thee
to
him
.
The
trembling
Prisoner
,
who
expected
Death
himself
,
was
so
confounded
with
the
assurance
of
life
and
liberty
,
and
at
the
rate
at
which
he
was
to
buy
it
,
that
he
could
not
speak
:
and
his
silence
being
taken
for
his
consent
,
the
King
appointed
the
Captain
of
my
Galley
to
see
him
sent
away
from
Nicomedia
.
The
Obligation
I
so
recently
had
received
from
Nicomedes
,
and
the
high
and
just
Value
I
paid
his
Gallantry
,
made
me
abhor
this
Oath
and
Message
;
And
therefore
I
began
to
move
the
Pontick
King
to
consider
,
how
much
better
it
would
be
to
stop
,
than
to
send
such
a
Denunciation
.
I
represented
to
him
,
That
if
Nicomedes
had
given
Orders
to
kill
him
,
he
had
not
been
made
a
Prisoner
;
for
it
was
easie
to
have
acted
the
first
.
Therefore
that
his
having
been
taken
alive
whilst
Enestes
Commanded
his
Enemies
,
and
his
being
in
danger
of
being
Murthered
,
but
Enestes
was
killed
,
evidenced
that
the
first
proceeded
from
Nicomedes's
Orders
,
the
last
from
a
Soldiers
despair
;
that
the
Noble
usage
the
Princess
Statira
had
received
,
and
the
Prince
Pharnaces
does
receive
,
were
sufficient
Manifestations
how
much
a
friend
he
was
ever
to
Civility
:
and
therefore
could
not
be
capable
of
a
Sin
so
far
below
a
King
,
that
it
was
below
a
Man
.
Consider
,
reply'd
Mithridates
,
Whether
one
of
Nicomedes's
Subjects
durst
kill
a
King
that
was
his
Prisoner
,
had
their
Orders
been
only
to
have
made
me
such
;
and
had
he
not
known
that
performance
,
intitled
him
rather
to
Rewards
than
Punishments
.
To
which
I
answered
;
Consider
also
,
I
beseech
you
,
Sir
,
that
when
that
Monster
was
about
to
kill
you
,
you
were
not
likely
to
be
his
King's
Prisoner
,
nor
he
himself
ever
to
see
his
King
;
and
therefore
neither
to
receive
Rewards
or
Punishments
from
him
.
Even
that
,
said
Mithridates
,
evidences
the
Truth
of
my
belief
;
for
't
is
not
probable
,
that
a
Subject
which
endures
Banishment
for
the
Love
and
Duty
he
owes
his
Prince
,
and
daily
in
his
Service
ventures
his
Life
,
would
make
the
last
Action
of
it
a
violation
of
his
Commands
.
If
he
thought
you
should
be
Victorious
,
how
durst
he
have
rob'd
his
King
of
such
a
Prisoner
as
I
was
?
Nay
,
and
believing
what
you
believe
,
against
his
Kings
Orders
:
And
if
he
thought
you
would
be
Victorious
,
how
drust
he
contrary
also
to
those
supposed
Orders
,
have
taken
away
a
Life
which
he
could
not
but
know
you
would
revenge
by
the
loss
of
his
,
and
all
his
parties
.
No
,
no
,
Callimachus
,
he
was
confined
to
what
he
did
by
Nicomedes
;
and
nothing
but
Obedience
could
have
tied
him
to
his
Attempts
.
Sir
,
I
replyed
,
even
the
unseasonableness
of
his
Attempts
,
evinces
it
rather
an
Action
of
despair
,
than
obedience
;
no
Duty
to
reasonable
Men
being
greater
,
than
the
Duty
to
Reason
.
His
was
a
fury
,
and
pardon
me
if
I
say
,
't
is
not
fit
to
judg
by
the
Rules
of
Reason
,
of
an
irrational
Action
:
But
if
the
contrary
were
allowable
,
I
might
say
,
he
never
began
his
Villany
,
but
when
he
was
certain
never
to
be
accountable
for
it
to
his
King
.
And
since
the
design
denied
him
the
hope
of
Life
,
if
your
Servants
had
Success
;
and
that
he
was
so
confident
of
their
having
it
,
that
he
fled
from
the
Combat
;
we
may
well
ascribe
his
Action
to
despair
:
and
having
failed
of
being
Famous
for
succeeding
in
a
bold
attempt
,
he
resolved
to
make
himself
so
for
an
impious
one
:
The
height
of
wickedness
is
not
attained
unto
at
once
,
but
gradually
.
The
attempt
against
your
person
being
such
;
and
Nicomedes
in
the
whole
course
of
his
life
,
having
never
done
what
misbecomes
a
Prince
,
proves
him
free
from
Commanding
,
or
permitting
such
a
Crime
.
'T
is
but
a
Justice
due
unto
the
whole
course
of
his
Gallantry
,
to
believe
him
free
from
one
Action
of
the
highest
Guilt
;
at
least
,
Sir
,
whatever
you
judg
him
to
be
in
your
own
thoughts
,
it
will
be
but
consonant
to
your
usual
Justice
,
not
to
condemn
him
till
you
hear
him
:
you
would
not
deal
so
with
your
meanest
Subjects
.
Therefore
I
will
believe
you
will
not
use
a
great
Prince
worse
;
if
he
owns
the
Action
,
he
Authorises
your
intended
Revenge
of
it
:
and
if
he
denies
it
,
why
should
you
credit
the
despair
of
a
Subject
,
more
than
the
word
and
assurance
of
his
King
.
Whoever
,
replyed
Mithridates
,
has
the
wickedness
to
Command
such
an
attempt
,
will
not
want
enough
to
deny
it
:
And
though
I
have
not
a
sufficient
proof
thereof
judicially
;
yet
I
have
as
much
proof
of
it
as
the
Nature
of
the
Design
can
,
or
will
admit
.
Actions
of
Darkness
are
rather
judged
by
Circumstances
,
than
Proofs
.
'T
is
enough
I
am
satisfied
of
Nicomedes's
guilt
;
and
the
Oath
I
have
sworn
,
is
too
Sacred
to
be
recalled
,
or
violated
;
therefore
I
conjure
you
speak
to
me
no
more
of
it
.
I
was
,
continued
Callimachus
,
silenced
,
but
not
convinced
;
and
the
King
,
whose
Wounds
hinder'd
him
not
from
being
able
to
go
with
help
,
led
Monyma
out
of
the
Galley
he
was
in
,
into
mine
.
The
Prince
Atafernes
supported
by
two
,
was
able
to
remove
thither
,
and
the
Princess
Statira
I
led
.
But
as
if
Mithridates's
Vow
of
granting
me
my
request
,
what
ever
it
were
,
had
a
Magick-Charm
annexed
unto
it
,
I
neither
had
the
confidence
to
speak
to
her
,
nor
she
the
condescension
to
speak
to
me
.
Rebadates
led
the
Princes
Nisa
,
and
the
Captain
of
my
Galley
the
Princess
Cleopatra
.
By
that
time
we
were
moving
towards
Nicomedia
,
we
discovered
the
whole
Fleet
making
towards
us
with
all
the
celerity
their
Sails
and
Oars
could
give
them
;
for
being
come
near
unto
the
Shore
,
they
learnt
how
the
King
had
been
surprized
,
and
therefore
came
to
his
Rescue
.
Galatides
assured
me
,
that
when
I
had
doubled
the
North-west
Cape
,
he
thought
I
had
Rowed
close
along
the
Northern-shore
;
and
that
the
darkness
thereof
had
taken
away
his
sight
of
us
,
else
he
had
steered
as
I
did
:
but
as
soon
as
they
found
their
mistake
,
and
learned
the
sad
accident
had
befaln
Mitbridates
,
they
flew
to
serve
him
,
and
follow
me
.
The
whole
Fleet
being
met
,
Mithridates
made
a
Triumphant
entry
into
Nicomedia
;
and
to
avoid
the
like
hazard
again
,
order'd
a
Fort
to
be
built
at
the
end
of
the
North-west
Cape
,
where
the
Enemies
Galley
had
concealed
it self
:
and
such
of
his
Guards
as
had
fled
from
his
defence
,
he
put
to
death
in
Torments
.
The
Pontick
King
was
no
sooner
come
into
his
Palace
,
but
the
Princess
Nisa
cast
her self
at
his
Feet
;
and
in
Tears
and
Prayers
as
moving
as
her
Tears
,
besought
him
to
permit
her
now
,
to
accomplish
her
Vow
of
retiring
into
the
Temple
of
Diana
in
Ephesus
,
which
his
Commands
only
had
so
long
hinder'd
her
from
accomplishing
;
and
she
made
use
of
the
late
danger
he
had
been
in
,
as
an
Argument
to
perswade
to
allow
one
of
that
Family
,
to
be
constantly
interceding
with
the
gods
for
the
safety
of
the
rest
,
which
had
been
so
many
times
,
and
now
so
recently
was
endanger'd
:
but
the
King
not
denying
her
Request
,
but
only
putting
off
the
acting
it
for
a
season
,
so
grieved
her
,
that
she
said
,
Since
she
was
denied
to
fulfill
her
Vows
at
Ephesus
,
she
was
resolved
to
pay
them
to
the
gods
at
Nicomedia
;
and
since
she
could
not
be
allowed
to
go
from
a
Court
to
a
Temple
,
she
would
change
a
Court
into
a
Temple
:
and
from
that
hour
so
wholly
confined
her self
to
her
Devotions
in
the
Palace
,
that
she
manifested
no
force
can
hinder
a
resolved
mind
from
serving
the
gods
;
and
that
they
can
be
adored
out
of
a
Cloyster
,
as
acceptably
as
in
one
.
The
Kings
Wound
requiring
his
silence
,
as
well
as
bodily
rest
,
all
the
Company
that
waited
on
him
,
paid
him
the
Duty
of
retiring
as
soon
as
he
was
come
to
his
Chamber
;
and
the
Queen
,
either
to
take
from
me
the
opportunity
and
happiness
of
conversing
with
my
Princess
,
or
to
evidence
the
delight
she
had
in
being
with
her
,
accompanied
me
to
her
Appartment
:
where
perceiving
those
sleight
hurts
I
had
received
,
were
still
undrest
,
they
united
their
Commands
unto
me
to
retire
to
have
them
looked
after
.
This
Injunction
gave
me
,
a
deeper
Wound
than
any
which
their
care
was
concerned
for
;
But
before
the
Chirurgeons
visited
me
,
I
visited
the
Generous
Atafernes
,
who
was
inviron'd
by
Craterus
,
and
such
a
great
croud
of
congratulating
Friends
and
Servants
,
that
I
was
unable
to
obtain
a
particular
Entertainment
with
him
.
The
best
Lodgings
in
my
Appartment
,
I
had
resigned
to
the
Egyptian
Stranger
,
of
whom
I
then
acquainted
the
Prince
;
who
therefore
enjoyned
me
to
lodg
in
the
next
Chamber
to
his
:
which
I
obeyed
until
the
hour
destined
to
rest
was
come
.
Atafernes
received
the
intermissive
respects
of
his
Friends
and
Servants
;
and
when
it
was
come
and
they
gone
,
I
thought
it
too
rude
by
my
waiting
on
him
,
to
keep
him
longer
from
it
:
and
therefore
withdrew
my self
into
the
Chamber
designed
me
,
where
most
of
the
Night
I
had
but
too
much
Entertainment
.
To
make
no
request
to
Mithridates
,
was
to
disobey
him
:
to
make
any
but
that
which
I
had
not
the
presumption
to
make
,
was
to
injure
my self
:
to
beg
to
know
of
Statira
what
I
should
ask
,
was
if
she
vouchsa●ed
me
any
answer
,
certainly
to
receive
one
I
wished
not
for
;
and
which
yet
I
must
not
disobey
.
To
speak
any
thing
to
Ataphernes
after
what
he
had
spoken
to
me
,
was
to
doubt
he
intended
not
what
he
profer'd
and
promised
;
especially
too
,
when
what
he
mentioned
was
the
only
thing
I
could
desire
,
and
his
mentioning
it
freed
me
from
the
guilt
of
having
solicited
him
to
so
unjust
an
Action
:
and
left
me
no
other
Crime
,
but
not
having
declined
what
I
acknowledg
my self
too
too
unworthy
of
.
After
having
turned
my
affairs
into
all
the
postures
my
Reason
or
Fancy
suggested
to
me
,
I
determined
it
was
best
to
wait
the
result
of
the
Prince
his
undertaking
:
And
if
nothing
could
be
acted
by
him
before
the
time
limited
by
the
King
for
me
to
make
my
request
in
,
then
by
a
strict
silence
to
evidence
my
request
was
of
a
Quality
not
to
be
spoken
:
and
thus
by
not
speaking
,
manifest
what
only
I
could
speak
for
.
The
succeeding
day
I
paid
my
duty
to
Mithridates
,
who
used
me
at
a
Rate
,
which
might
have
assured
me
he
would
deny
me
nothing
,
but
that
alone
which
I
feared
to
ask
;
And
yet
when
I
was
going
away
,
as
if
he
had
read
my
apprehensions
to
suppress
them
,
he
told
me
:
Callimachus
,
you
have
now
but
a
little
time
left
to
acquaint
me
with
your
desire
,
which
again
I
protest
before
all
the
gods
,
I
will
grant
whatever
it
be
.
Nothing
could
have
been
more
welcome
than
that
repeated
Oath
,
unless
to
have
had
it
reiterated
.
After
I
had
made
my
Request
,
or
rather
after
the
Prince
Ataphernes
had
made
it
for
me
,
from
the
King's
Appartment
I
returned
to
my
own
;
where
I
learn'd
Monyma
,
and
the
fair
Mithridatia
had
sent
two
of
their
Gentlemen
to
visit
me
,
and
know
how
I
did
.
All
that
afternoon
Ataphernes
was
visited
by
Statira
and
Cleopatra
;
for
Roxana
stir'd
no
more
out
of
her
Lodgings
:
and
towards
the
Evening
Monyma
came
thither
.
I
do
not
acquaint
you
with
the
particulars
of
their
discourses
;
for
as
soon
as
I
found
they
consisted
chiefly
of
those
Obligations
they
all
had
to
me
,
and
of
the
Frights
and
Dangers
they
had
been
in
,
I
gave
my self
wholly
up
to
contemplate
my
Princess
:
in
whom
appeared
a
sadness
so
visible
,
that
some
of
the
Company
took
notice
of
it
;
and
then
of
mine
,
as
a
consequence
of
it
.
Statira
to
take
them
off
from
that
consideration
,
desired
me
to
give
the
Queen
some
news
of
the
Aegyptian-Gentleman
;
to
whom
I
gave
in
brief
an
account
of
his
Gallantry
in
the
Battel
:
and
how
fainting
in
his
being
removed
to
my
Galley
,
in
the
absence
of
his
own
Servant
,
Tomsones
having
cast
Water
in
his
Face
,
and
rub'd
his
Temples
and
his
Nostrils
with
Vinegar
,
the
seeming
blackness
of
his
Skin
had
vanished
;
and
he
discovered
a
meen
,
that
even
in
the
paleness
of
Death
appeared
lovely
,
and
therefore
could
not
be
but
charming
in
a
perfect
Health
.
And
though
I
had
done
what
Civilly
I
might
,
to
learn
from
his
Servant
his
Quality
,
and
the
Reason
of
Disguisement
;
yet
could
I
not
make
any
discovery
of
either
,
he
having
been
tied
to
a
strict
secresie
:
But
he
gave
me
hopes
,
as
soon
as
his
Master
was
in
a
condition
to
do
it
,
I
might
be
satisfied
in
those
desires
from
himself
.
All
that
generous
Company
after
this
short
Relation
,
did
express
no
small
Concernment
to
know
who
this
stranger
was
;
which
made
me
promise
them
,
That
the
next
day
(
which
my
Chirurgeons
had
assured
me
,
would
be
the
soonest
that
he
could
be
able
without
danger
to
discourse
)
I
would
endeavour
to
learn
of
him
that
which
every
one
of
them
seemed
so
intently
curious
to
know
.
I
was
not
long
after
called
away
from
At●phernes
by
Craterus
,
to
whom
the
King
had
left
the
care
of
drawing
to
the
Sea-side
so
much
of
the
Prince's
Army
,
as
was
esteemed
convenient
to
be
landed
in
the
Island
of
Scyros
,
to
reduce
it
,
and
suppress
the
King
in
it
;
Ataphernes's
own
wounds
denying
him
the
strength
to
undertake
that
expedition
,
I
found
by
the
Generous
Craterus's
diligence
,
that
by
the
Evening
of
that
day
,
in
which
I
was
to
make
my
Request
,
all
would
be
in
a
readiness
to
set
to
Sea
.
At
my
return
to
the
Prince's
Chamber
,
I
found
none
in
it
with
him
,
but
the
fair
Statira
;
and
they
were
so
taken
up
in
what
they
were
discoursing
of
,
That
though
I
presented
my self
before
them
,
yet
neither
of
them
took
any
notice
of
me
:
which
made
me
retire
into
my
own
Chamber
,
imagining
what
was
the
occasion
of
their
entertainment
.
I
had
not
been
long
there
,
but
the
Aegyptian-Strangers
Servant
came
in
to
me
from
his
Lord
,
to
tell
me
,
That
being
now
in
some
degree
recovered
out
of
his
fainting
weakness
,
he
beg'd
me
to
oblige
him
with
my
company
for
a
few
Moments
.
I
obeyed
him
,
and
was
no
sooner
come
to
his
Bed-side
,
than
he
told
me
,
I
have
learnt
,
generous
Callimachus
,
from
Photinus
,
all
that
you
have
done
for
me
;
how
,
That
by
your
generosity
I
live
,
and
by
your
Civility
I
am
now
in
this
place
;
I
owe
you
so
much
,
That
not
to
acknowledg
to
you
my
Obligations
,
and
the
sense
I
have
of
them
,
would
have
more
endangered
me
,
than
the
Chirurgeons
tell
me
I
may
endanger
my self
,
by
so
much
,
and
so
soon
speaking
.
Generous
Stranger
,
I
reply'd
,
the
Valour
you
manifested
in
that
glorious
Quarrel
in
which
we
bore
Arms
together
,
and
those
fatal
,
yet
noble
Marks
you
carry
about
you
,
of
having
so
prodigally
acted
in
it
,
con●ined
me
to
those
Services
which
are
so
much
my
debt
to
you
,
that
they
merit
not
your
Acknowledgments
to
me
;
Especially
such
,
as
while
you
give
them
,
you
prejudice
the
giver
of
them
.
I
conjure
you
therefore
,
not
to
hazard
a
Life
by
an
excess
of
Civility
,
which
by
what
I
have
already
seen
of
it
,
is
too
precious
to
let
it
be
endangered
on
any
Account
,
especially
on
mine
.
Though
I
know
few
things
,
the
other
reply'd
,
which
I
more
Ambition
,
than
to
assure
you
of
my
acknowledgments
,
unless
it
be
the
Acting
of
them
;
yet
I
should
not
,
to
have
told
you
so
much
,
been
guilty
of
the
confidence
of
inviting
you
to
this
place
to
have
done
it
;
but
that
Photinus
having
told
me
how
desirous
you
were
to
know
who
I
am
,
I
have
beg'd
the
honour
of
your
Company
,
only
to
pay
you
that
Obedience
which
his
duty
to
me
hindered
him
from
;
and
thereby
to
convince
you
,
by
satisfying
you
in
what
is
within
my
power
,
I
would
do
it
in
all
things
,
were
my
ability
proportionate
to
my
resentments
.
I
shall
,
he
continued
,
(
having
first
made
me
sit
down
by
his
Bed-side
in
a
Chair
which
Photinus
brought
me
)
trust
you
with
a
secret
,
which
is
such
to
all
the
World
,
but
to
these
in
this
Chamber
;
and
which
I
will
not
beg
you
,
may
be
continued
such
,
because
you
will
find
how
requisite
it
is
,
and
that
will
exempt
me
from
the
need
of
making
such
a
request
.
My
true
Name
is
Auletes
,
my
disguised
is
Achillas
.
I
am
by
birth
Prince
of
Egypt
.
Ptolomy
my
Father
,
who
possesses
that
Kingdom
,
found
from
my
infancy
something
in
my
humour
or
meen
,
that
made
his
Natural
affection
receive
so
large
an
Accession
,
that
possibly
never
Parent
loved
a
Son
more
than
he
did
me
.
All
that
Education
could
confer
,
't
is
my
own
fault
if
I
received
it
not
;
and
finding
my
Proficiency
in
what
was
taught
me
,
was
as
much
his
contentment
as
mine
;
it
doubled
my
Inclination
,
and
my
Endeavours
:
but
as
soon
as
I
was
capable
to
endure
Travelling
,
I
had
a
longing
to
form
my self
by
the
choice
of
my
own
Judgment
,
having
first
seen
and
experimented
whatever
was
most
considerable
in
Asia
,
Greece
,
and
Italy
.
This
intention
I
communicated
to
my
Father
,
but
his
fondness
of
me
,
made
me
receive
a
Denial
,
clouding
what
disgusted
him
,
with
an
assurance
that
it
would
disgust
all
Egypt
;
who
having
no
Prince
but
I
to
succeed
,
he
would
not
expose
me
to
the
hazard
of
Travelling
in
remote
Countreys
.
I
would
not
disobey
a
Father
,
to
whom
by
Nature
and
Friendship
I
was
so
bound
;
and
though
I
paid
him
an
actual
observance
,
yet
I
could
not
hide
my
sorrow
for
his
Denial
:
the
visibility
thereof
,
though
it
could
not
produce
what
only
could
end
it
,
yet
it
made
Ptolomy
seek
out
all
those
Divertisements
for
me
,
which
he
thought
might
mitigate
it
.
Alexandria
was
therefore
fill'd
with
all
things
which
might
invite
me
to
esteem
it
a
more
agreeable
residence
than
any
else
I
could
elect
;
amongst
other
things
,
the
greatest
Gallery
in
the
Palace
was
furnished
on
one
side
with
the
Pictures
and
Stories
of
all
the
great
Men
and
Women
of
our
Family
,
from
Lagus
to
my
Father
:
and
on
the
other
side
,
with
the
Pictures
of
all
the
considerablest
persons
of
either
Sex
in
that
Age
in
which
we
live
:
And
because
Ptolomy
found
that
in
this
Room
and
Furniture
I
took
most
satisfaction
:
he
built
another
Gallery
,
which
he
intended
to
imbellish
with
the
like
Ornaments
;
and
therefore
imployed
skilful
Painters
into
the
most
eminent
parts
of
the
World
to
Act
this
Design
:
who
performed
so
well
what
they
were
imployed
about
,
that
when
those
sent
into
Asia
were
returned
,
they
boasted
the
Furniture
of
the
new
Gallery
,
would
much
transcend
that
of
the
old
:
But
above
all
the
rest
,
The
Artist
which
had
been
at
Heraclea
publickly
avowed
,
that
the
piece
he
had
drawn
of
the
Princess
Statira
,
had
nothing
comparable
to
it
but
the
Original
.
It
happened
at
the
same
time
the
Prince
Ascanius
was
then
in
his
Travels
visiting
Ptolomy's
Court
;
for
his
Father
had
permitted
that
to
him
,
which
mine
had
denied
me
.
He
exprest
a
curiosity
of
seeing
what
was
so
much
commended
,
I
waited
on
him
to
satisfie
it
;
and
having
considered
with
much
intentness
all
those
pieces
which
adorned
one
side
of
the
Room
:
at
the
last
the
Picture
he
was
so
impatient
to
look
upon
,
was
showed
him
.
I
never
saw
any
surprize
like
unto
his
,
even
at
the
very
first
sight
of
it
;
and
after
he
had
a
while
contemplated
it
in
silence
,
he
broke
it
off
to
ask
him
that
drew
it
,
Whether
Statira
owed
nothing
to
his
Pencil
?
Yes
,
Sir
,
the
Painter
reply'd
,
She
owes
a
Pardon
to
it
for
having
done
so
little
,
where
I
should
have
done
so
much
;
for
I
could
never
get
any
opportunity
to
draw
it
,
but
when
the
Princess
was
at
her
Devotions
:
and
then
too
,
but
by
stealths
and
in
imperfect
lights
.
I
must
acknowledg
,
He
continued
,
that
till
I
saw
her
,
I
believed
I
could
produce
a
greater
Beauty
than
Nature
;
for
by
my
Skill
I
could
make
a
Collection
of
all
the
exactest
parts
of
every
Woman
,
and
draw
them
in
one
:
so
that
Nature
,
whose
productions
are
subjected
to
a
Thousand
casualties
;
and
who
cannot
repair
the
least
if
it
happen
,
which
is
an
infelicity
the
Pencil
is
not
confined
unto
;
I
did
esteem
my
belief
was
rational
:
But
when
I
saw
the
Princess
Statira
,
and
began
to
draw
her
,
I
found
experimentally
she
had
an
Air
,
a
Vivacity
,
and
such
a
Harmony
springing
from
the
result
of
all
her
Motions
and
Graces
,
that
I
owned
my self
a
Convert
,
and
must
own
her
above
the
faint
representations
of
Art
.
And
therefore
I
have
endeavoured
by
my
Words
,
to
draw
her
better
than
I
have
done
by
my
Pencil
.
All
the
while
this
Artist
was
thus
speaking
,
methought
I
saw
Ascanius
receive
Love
by
two
senses
at
once
;
and
indeed
he
was
so
wholly
taken
up
with
what
he
had
heard
and
seen
,
That
I
think
he
had
not
stir'd
out
of
the
Place
all
that
day
,
had
not
he
been
summoned
thence
to
a
Ball
,
which
only
waited
his
coming
to
be
begun
:
And
though
he
danced
in
it
,
yet
it
was
with
a
face
so
full
of
thoughts
,
and
so
little
like
unto
that
,
in
which
in
former
ones
he
had
assisted
,
that
the
effects
were
not
more
visible
to
Ptolomy
,
and
all
the
Court
,
than
the
cause
was
to
me
.
Seven
days
he
continued
at
this
rate
,
and
the
eighth
a
Cyprian
Lord
brought
him
the
news
of
his
Father's
Death
,
who
dyed
of
an
Apoplexy
;
and
the
desires
of
all
his
Subjects
by
his
presence
to
repair
that
loss
,
and
fill
the
Throne
.
This
sad
and
hasty
Summons
,
accelerated
his
return
to
his
Kingdom
;
from
whence
he
sent
Ambassadors
to
obtain
Mithridates's
permission
of
making
his
addresses
to
that
admirable
Princess
.
His
going
thither
after
he
had
obtained
that
leave
he
so
passionately
ambition'd
;
his
losing
his
Brother
in
a
Naval
battel
against
the
King
of
Bithynia
;
and
on
the
day
of
his
intended
Nuptials
,
losing
another
within
the
prospect
of
Nicomedia
,
and
his
liberty
also
;
the
Princess
being
carried
away
by
the
Treachery
of
some
of
the
Inhabitants
,
and
his
Exchange
for
the
King
of
Cappadocia
,
are
better
known
to
you
than
to
me
.
I
have
therefore
only
to
add
,
That
he
being
engaged
by
three
the
most
powerful
Motives
to
repair
his
Misfortune
▪
Those
of
Love
,
Glory
,
and
Revenge
,
he
left
no
means
unattempted
to
assemble
a
Fleet
powerful
enough
to
act
his
desires
;
and
because
the
Cilicians
and
Phoenicians
were
pre-engaged
in
the
service
of
Mithridates
,
though
in
the
same
War
;
yet
coveting
as
much
to
end
the
War
by
his
own
Forces
,
as
to
have
it
ended
,
he
came
himself
to
Ptolomy
to
desire
his
permission
to
form
a
Fleet
of
his
Subjects
,
which
more
through
my
perswasion
than
his
own
,
he
procured
leave
to
do
.
The
growing-greatness
of
the
Romans
,
and
the
Universal
Government
of
the
World
,
which
they
aspired
unto
,
making
it
the
Interest
of
all
Princes
to
oppose
them
that
had
not
resolved
to
submit
unto
them
.
I
had
too
a
particular
Interest
of
my
own
,
which
engaged
me
to
joyn
my
request
to
Ascanius
;
for
I
desired
to
command
this
Fleet
in
this
Action
:
But
the
first
motion
I
made
of
it
to
Ptolomy
,
I
found
the
impossibility
of
its
success
;
intending
therefore
to
do
that
by
stealth
,
which
I
perceived
was
not
otherwise
to
be
acted
,
I
seemed
not
much
concerned
in
the
refusal
,
to
take
from
my
Father
the
jealousie
of
my
intentions
.
As
soon
as
the
Fleet
was
formed
,
without
acquainting
any
Person
living
with
it
but
Photinus
,
no
not
the
Admiral
,
lest
his
knowledg
of
it
might
have
been
penal
to
him
in
Ptolomy's
resentments
,
disguising
my
Face
with
a
Colour
as
black
as
any
Egyptians
,
I
went
on
Board
the
Galley
of
the
Vice-Admiral
,
who
was
a
particular
Friend
to
Photinus
;
and
who
in
the
first
Fury
of
the
Naval-Battel
being
killed
,
I
assumed
his
place
:
and
had
no
other
Honour
,
but
a
while
to
fight
Single
against
some
of
the
Enemies
Galleyes
,
and
to
avoid
being
made
a
Prisoner
by
part
of
a
conquered
Fleet.
But
I
owe
the
avoiding
of
that
unhappiness
to
your
Civility
and
Courage
,
which
I
can
in
no
way
requite
,
but
in
owning
it
to
all
the
World
;
and
in
assuring
you
,
That
what
I
owe
unto
you
,
I
will
on
all
occasions
imploy
and
hazard
for
you
:
and
in
acquainting
you
that
my
chief
Motive
to
this
Voyage
and
Disguise
,
proceeded
from
a
passion
I
had
assumed
at
the
Noble
and
high
Character
which
Ascanius
when
last
in
Aegypt
gave
me
of
the
Princess
.
At
this
very
word
,
continued
Callimachus
,
the
Prince
of
Aegypt's
senses
abandon'd
him
;
which
made
Photinus
and
I
hasten
to
afford
him
all
the
help
we
could
:
but
finding
ours
was
not
proportionable
to
his
necessity
,
we
called
in
the
Physician
and
Chirurgeons
which
were
in
the
next
Room
;
who
having
done
all
that
their
Art
suggested
to
them
,
desired
us
to
withdraw
,
and
to
leave
him
to
that
silence
,
the
breaking
whereof
had
cast
him
into
that
faintness
,
Photinus
and
I
observed
a
little
before
,
that
his
words
came
more
languishingly
from
him
,
than
when
he
began
his
Narrative
:
But
both
of
us
attributing
it
to
the
sense
he
had
of
his
being
reduced
to
need
my
assistance
in
that
Battel
,
in
which
he
had
promised
himself
so
much
Glory
,
we
did
neither
of
us
desire
him
to
forbear
prosecuting
his
Relation
,
till
the
swound
he
fell
into
,
put
a
period
to
it
.
I
was
not
a
little
concerned
to
ask
of
Photinus
one
word
more
than
his
Prince
had
spoke
;
But
he
protested
to
me
,
that
was
as
great
a
secret
to
him
,
as
it
was
to
me
.
He
only
knew
that
as
Ascanius
had
fallen
in
Love
by
the
sight
of
a
Picture
,
his
Prince
had
assumed
the
same
passion
by
a
Relation
of
the
King
of
Cyprus
;
but
who
the
Object
of
his
Passion
was
,
he
was
a
perfect
stranger
unto
.
Photinus
having
accompanied
me
to
my
Appartment
,
returned
to
pay
his
Duty
to
his
Prince
,
and
left
me
in
no
small
perplexities
;
which
had
he
spoke
one
word
more
,
might
have
been
increased
or
supprest
.
I
was
not
without
my
Fears
,
that
the
Princess
Statira's
Beauty
had
ingaged
him
in
this
Voyage
;
for
since
the
Description
which
had
kindled
his
flame
,
had
been
made
by
Ascanius
,
't
was
but
too
likely
he
would
most
exalt
that
Perfection
which
in
captivating
him
,
had
evinced
it self
to
be
the
greatest
,
as
well
in
Truth
,
as
in
his
Estimation
.
Neither
could
I
believe
that
the
fear
of
speaking
the
Truth
to
Auletes
,
might
have
any
Operation
on
the
King
of
Cyprus
in
raising
him
so
dangerous
a
Rival
;
since
he
had
already
engaged
Mithridates
,
and
secured
his
raptures
to
a
degree
above
the
apprehension
of
Danger
.
I
was
too
the
more
confirmed
in
that
belief
,
by
reason
that
Auletes
kept
himself
disguised
to
Ascanius
as
well
as
any
other
;
which
sure
he
had
not
much
cause
to
do
,
if
his
Aims
had
not
been
such
,
as
necessitated
him
to
such
a
proceeding
:
for
if
his
Love
was
paid
to
any
else
,
he
might
expect
from
the
King
of
Cyprus's
assistance
,
a
powerful
help
;
which
by
his
not
discovering
himself
to
him
,
he
was
certainly
to
fail
of
.
This
consideration
left
me
abundant
cause
to
believe
my
apprehensions
were
but
too
rational
;
and
therefore
in
Auletes's
Person
and
Quality
I
found
cause
to
think
Ascanius
had
raised
me
as
powerful
a
Rival
as
himself
:
and
I
remained
only
with
this
consolation
,
That
by
Ataphernes's
favour
I
should
know
my
Fate
,
before
the
Prince
Auletes
could
be
an
obstacle
to
the
felicity
of
it
.
With
these
thoughts
I
went
to
wait
upon
my
Prince
,
who
though
I
had
left
in
his
Bed
;
yet
I
found
him
not
in
his
Chamber
.
Some
of
those
Gentlemen
that
waited
on
him
in
it
,
telling
me
he
was
gone
to
Mithridates's
Apartment
in
no
small
pain
,
I
fear'd
I
was
the
cause
of
this
trouble
;
for
the
time
of
making
my
request
was
to
end
the
next
day
:
and
he
had
undertaken
my
Destiny
.
I
learned
also
,
That
all
that
time
I
had
spent
with
the
Prince
of
Aegypt
,
He
had
entertained
in
private
the
Princess
Statira
.
I
resolved
therefore
in
his
Chamber
to
expect
his
return
,
which
I
did
in
impatiencies
and
fears
that
were
almost
equal
.
I
never
had
been
in
such
troubles
.
When
I
was
ignorant
to
what
the
gods
had
reserved
me
to
,
and
when
I
thought
they
had
alotted
for
me
the
deepest
Affliction
,
as
now
I
was
in
,
when
I
was
positively
to
learn
what
I
was
designed
unto
;
My
entertainments
on
this
subject
were
so
confused
and
irrational
,
that
I
will
not
trouble
you
with
a
repetition
of
them
:
neither
did
they
cease
,
till
the
Gentleman
came
from
Mithridates
to
call
me
to
him
.
I
found
the
King
of
Pontus
in
his
Bed
,
and
the
Prince
Ataphernes
sitting
by
him
;
as
soon
as
I
came
in
,
the
King
commanded
every
one
besides
to
withdraw
:
then
calling
me
to
him
,
he
told
me
;
Callimachus
,
you
may
conclude
it
was
an
important
Affair
which
made
me
send
to
my
Son
to
come
to
me
,
considering
the
indisposition
he
is
under
;
and
to
let
you
see
I
will
have
nothing
in
reserve
for
you
,
I
will
now
communicate
to
you
what
I
have
imparted
to
him
:
for
owing
all
that
I
have
to
you
,
I
will
conceal
nothing
from
you
.
There
is
at
this
hour
in
this
Palace
,
three
persons
disguised
,
who
have
brought
me
strange
news
,
and
presented
to
me
glorious
offers
,
they
are
all
three
Romans
:
The
first
is
Martius
Variu●
,
Lieutenant-General
to
the
Great
Sertorius
;
the
other
two
are
Lucius
Mannius
,
and
Lucius
Fannius
,
Senators
of
Rome
,
and
Cabbinet-Councellors
to
Sertorius
.
They
assure
me
,
the
gods
by
an
immediate
judgment
of
their
own
,
have
taken
out
of
this
World
my
only
dreaded
Enemy
,
Cornelius
Sylla
;
which
has
filled
not
only
Rome
,
but
even
all
the
Roman
Empire
with
such
high
confusions
,
as
every
one
is
now
striving
to
diminish
that
entire
greatness
which
so
lately
every
one
endeavoured
to
augment
.
Sertorius
has
already
appropriated
to
himself
all
the
Kingdoms
of
Spain
,
and
raised
so
powerful
an
Army
there
,
and
of
his
other
Confederates
;
as
even
at
that
distance
,
the
Capitol
does
tremble
.
He
has
got
together
so
many
of
the
Senatorian
Order
,
that
he
has
already
constituted
a
Roman
Senate
in
Spain
;
and
disowns
any
Senate
but
that
:
so
that
he
has
not
alone
the
power
,
but
the
Authority
of
the
Roman
People
.
He
intends
immediately
to
carry
his
Ensigns
to
Rome
it self
;
and
wants
not
Friends
and
Confederates
there
,
nor
at
the
East
and
Western-feet
of
the
Alps
:
so
that
he
is
not
only
confident
of
an
uninterrupted
passage
thither
,
but
of
Success
and
Victory
when
he
comes
there
.
Yet
to
expose
his
attempts
to
as
little
incertitude
as
actions
of
War
can
admit
,
He
has
sent
to
invite
my
assistance
;
assuring
me
,
that
if
my
Forces
from
the
East
,
and
his
from
the
West
,
do
unite
in
one
common
Design
,
the
success
cannot
be
more
great
than
it
will
be
certain
:
But
then
we
must
move
at
once
.
He
offers
me
for
my
Part
,
and
to
confirm
it
by
a
Decree
of
the
Senate
,
That
I
shall
for
ever
without
acknowledging
any
thing
to
Rome
,
possess
Asia
so
properly
called
,
Bithynia
,
Paphlagonia
,
Cappadocia
,
Comagena
,
Pamphilia
,
Phrygia
,
and
Galatia
.
He
desires
to
oblige
me
to
this
,
That
if
he
needs
my
Armies
,
or
Navies
,
I
must
afford
him
their
help
under
his
Pay
;
and
offers
me
if
I
need
his
,
he
will
afford
me
them
under
my
Pay
.
These
Proposals
I
did
but
this
morning
receive
,
and
have
accepted
of
them
;
only
I
have
insisted
upon
this
Addition
of
having
into
my
Portion
the
Republick
Cities
and
Countries
of
Greece
,
that
Asia
may
have
another
Sea
and
Bulwork
between
Italy
and
it
.
This
they
have
not
a
Commission
to
grant
;
But
rather
than
not
conclude
the
League
,
they
have
assured
me
of
their
utmost
endeavours
to
have
it
granted
by
Sertorius
and
the
Senate
with
him
;
or
something
else
contented
:
and
this
Night
I
am
to
sign
that
Agreement
which
is
to
make
Sertorius
Lord
of
the
West
of
the
World
,
and
me
of
the
East
.
We
must
therefore
divert
to
a
Nobler
End
all
our
Preparatives
for
the
reduction
of
Scyros
,
which
will
be
as
a
consequence
of
our
other
successes
;
and
if
attempted
now
,
would
probably
hinder
us
in
one
Moon
,
from
greater
advantages
than
it
can
ever
present
us
.
I
have
therefore
designed
out
of
Ataphernes
and
Pharnaces
Armies
,
to
compose
two
others
which
I
will
strengthen
with
great
recruits
,
that
shall
meet
them
on
their
March
;
and
a
small
Army
drawn
out
of
both
,
shall
under
Craterus
attend
my
Person
,
and
secure
Pithynia
,
which
I
find
is
so
ready
to
revolt
.
To
Ataphernes
I
have
designed
the
conquest
of
Paphlagonia
,
and
Phrygia
;
to
Callimachus
I
have
designed
the
Conquest
of
Galatia
and
Pamphilia
:
And
because
I
will
not
always
be
obliged
by
him
,
and
never
oblige
him
,
I
now
require
him
to
make
his
request
unto
me
,
which
I
again
vow
before
all
the
gods
I
will
grant
him
.
Mithridates
at
the
end
of
these
Words
,
paused
a
while
;
and
having
then
twice
commanded
me
to
speak
;
and
I
as
often
looked
upon
Atafernes
,
but
not
answering
;
the
Pontick
King
thus
continued
:
Since
Callimachus
,
you
will
not
make
me
a
desire
,
I
will
make
you
an
offer
.
Your
Friend
here
has
acquainted
me
with
that
great
and
respectful
passion
which
you
have
for
Statira
;
your
not
making
her
your
request
,
tyes
me
to
make
her
my
grant
.
I
do
therefore
not
only
give
you
my
permission
to
solicite
her
affection
;
but
I
will
also
injoyn
her
to
give
it
you
:
and
if
I
mistake
not
,
she
has
obeyed
some
Commands
of
mine
with
more
repugnancy
than
she
will
do
this
.
Judg
,
Generous
Princes
,
continued
Callimachus
,
Judg
,
if
ever
any
Astonishment
could
equal
mine
;
if
ever
any
Raptures
of
Joy
could
come
near
those
I
then
resented
.
I
cast
my self
on
my
Knees
by
Mithridates
his
Bed
;
and
having
kissed
his
Hand
with
transports
,
I
told
him
;
I
confess
Great
King
,
I
confess
,
That
the
first
hour
I
saw
the
Princess
Statira
,
I
ador'd
her
:
but
it
was
with
an
adoration
like
unto
that
we
pay
the
gods
,
who
while
we
yield
them
all
our
Services
,
we
expect
no
return
,
or
reward
,
but
their
acceptance
.
I
found
the
impossibility
of
expecting
more
,
could
not
transcend
the
injustice
of
desiring
more
;
and
having
placed
such
Religious
Limits
to
my
Flame
,
I
thought
it
not
unworthy
of
her
;
and
therefore
continued
the
duty
of
it
:
But
this
you
have
now
condescended
to
mention
,
is
so
infinitely
below
her
,
and
above
me
,
That
to
make
any
other
use
thereof
,
than
to
admire
your
goodness
,
were
almost
as
highly
to
injure
it
,
as
her
.
No
,
Sir
,
my
Passion
and
Ambition
have
not
so
much
blinded
my
Duty
and
my
Reason
,
as
to
accept
of
exalting
my
own
Felicity
on
so
criminal
a
Foundation
as
the
making
of
you
unjust
,
and
her
unhappy
.
If
your
intention
be
to
confine
me
eternally
to
your
Service
,
the
Offer
more
than
the
Acceptance
will
do
it
;
for
in
that
,
I
have
already
received
too
vast
a
reward
,
both
for
what
I
have
,
and
for
all
that
I
can
do
:
But
in
this
,
I
should
be
as
guilty
as
happy
;
and
the
way
would
be
destructive
to
the
end
.
I
have
by
your
mercy
a
double
Glory
,
That
of
the
Offer
of
the
Princess
,
and
that
of
having
in
duty
adjudged
my self
unworthy
to
accept
it
.
I
can
now
convince
Her
,
as
well
as
the
World
and
my self
,
That
my
adoration
was
as
perfect
,
as
it
was
great
;
and
being
free
from
those
common
and
mean
ends
which
other
passions
are
animated
with
,
I
may
in
the
future
with
the
more
satisfaction
pay
her
mine
:
and
she
with
the
less
reluctancy
receive
them
.
Rise
Callimachus
,
rise
,
reply'd
Mithridates
;
whilst
you
thus
plead
against
what
I
offer
,
you
but
the
more
entitle
your self
to
it
.
Besides
I
hope
,
you
will
allow
that
no
man
is
a
fit
Judg
in
his
own
case
;
and
that
a
Father
has
the
best
right
to
dispose
of
his
Daughrer
.
These
being
granted
,
as
they
can
hardly
be
well
denied
,
I
command
you
to
dispute
no
more
against
what
I
have
as
rationally
,
as
resolutely
fixed
upon
;
and
because
that
either
Nature
,
or
the
Ignorance
of
your
condition
has
denied
you
a
Crown
,
and
that
I
never
designed
my
Daughter
to
less
,
I
give
you
an
Army
to
Conquer
Galatia
and
Pamphilia
:
and
I
give
those
Kingdoms
to
you
and
your
Heirs
for
ever
,
to
hold
of
the
Crown
of
Pontus
;
and
wanting
of
Heirs
,
to
revert
unto
my
Successors
again
.
But
because
Statira
was
so
near
being
Ascanius
his
Wife
,
That
meer
decency
will
require
she
should
for
some
time
decline
actually
marrying
another
;
and
that
I
would
not
by
a
delay
make
any
suspect
my
intentions
to
you
,
are
no
as
clear
and
sincere
as
my
Professions
:
to
answer
these
two
ends
,
I
declare
,
That
the
twentieth
Day
after
this
,
you
shall
solemnly
be
contracted
before
me
to
Statira
;
and
as
soon
as
by
your
Sword
you
have
made
your self
Lord
of
Galatia
and
Pamphilia
,
and
thereby
prepared
a
Throne
for
her
to
sit
in
,
you
shall
as
publickly
marry
her
:
and
govern
there
as
a
King
,
with
the
limitations
I
have
mentioned
.
Ah!
Sir
,
I
reply'd
,
since
you
Command
me
to
dispute
no
more
,
I
will
obey
you
;
and
in
that
Obedience
I
hope
you
will
be
convinced
of
mine
in
all
things
else
:
for
doubtless
never
man
had
at
once
so
much
Reason
to
be
ravish'd
with
Joys
,
and
so
little
Title
to
them
.
For
to
be
the
Princess
Statira's
Servant
by
your
Commands
,
and
consequently
by
her
permission
,
is
a
Glory
above
the
Empire
of
Galatia
and
Pamphilia
;
nay
,
of
the
whole
World
:
But
by
what
you
have
done
,
you
have
so
transcended
all
that
I
can
express
,
that
I
must
not
only
be
obliged
to
you
for
my
happiness
,
but
also
for
believing
my
sense
of
it
is
at
once
as
great
as
it
can
be
,
and
yet
less
than
it
should
be
.
Alas
!
Mighty
Prince
,
Why
do
you
confer
Felicities
on
me
which
have
no
Limits
?
and
command
me
services
which
have
such
narrow
ones
?
I
am
but
to
conquer
Galatia
,
and
I
am
to
be
the
happy
Servant
of
the
Princess
:
rather
Sir
,
Command
me
to
carry
your
Ensigns
to
the
Capitol
;
and
cast
that
proud
Senate
as
low
by
your
Arms
,
as
they
have
exalted
themselves
by
their
own
.
Command
me
to
make
her
Empire
as
large
as
her
Title
is
to
Empire
;
and
then
you
shall
see
I
will
present
her
with
that
of
the
Universe
,
or
perish
in
the
duty
of
attempting
it
:
and
thereby
gain
what
she
is
worthy
of
,
or
lose
him
that
is
unworthy
of
her
.
I
do
not
,
reply'd
Mithridates
,
end
your
Victories
in
the
conquest
of
Galatia
and
Pamphilia
,
I
do
but
begin
them
there
;
Comagena
is
the
next
Country
to
which
you
shall
carry
your
Conquest
.
And
possibly
by
then
,
new
Objects
may
be
presented
to
your
Volour
;
and
the
occasions
of
Glory
will
proportionate
your
desire
of
it
.
Retire
your self
now
,
Callimachus
,
and
leave
Atafernes
with
me
;
for
Statira
by
my
appointment
is
coming
hither
,
that
I
may
signifie
to
her
,
what
I
have
acquainted
you
with
.
This
Command
I
obeyed
;
but
before
I
did
so
,
I
again
cast
my self
on
my
knees
by
Mithridates's
bed-side
,
and
kiss'd
his
hands
with
such
transports
,
that
he
told
the
Prince
when
I
was
gone
,
In
those
Actions
he
read
my
resentments
as
visibly
,
as
in
all
my
other
expressions
.
I
was
not
many
steps
out
of
the
King's
Chamber
,
when
I
met
the
Princess
Statira
going
thither
;
who
asked
of
me
,
Whether
I
then
came
from
thence
?
I
told
her
I
did
.
She
enquired
then
of
me
,
Whether
Atafernes
,
was
there
?
I
told
her
he
was
.
She
then
demanded
,
Whether
I
knew
what
the
occasion
could
be
which
made
her
Father
send
for
her
Brother
in
the
unfit
condition
he
was
in
to
stir
out
of
his
Bed
;
much
more
out
of
his
Chamber
?
and
whether
I
knew
what
She
was
sent
for
about
?
Yes
,
Madam
,
I
reply'd
,
with
a
deep
sigh
twice
repeated
,
I
can
answer
all
your
Demands
;
but
't
will
be
less
unfit
you
should
receive
an
account
of
all
those
Questions
from
the
King
,
than
from
me
.
But
yet
,
Madam
,
to
obey
you
as
much
as
I
can
,
I
will
presume
to
tell
you
,
That
you
are
now
sent
for
,
to
be
either
the
most
disobedient
,
or
the
most
unjust
person
living
;
and
I
have
endeavoured
to
prevent
your
being
either
:
though
you
are
too
likely
only
to
find
thereby
,
that
your
being
made
so
,
is
rather
an
effect
of
my
Obedience
than
Solicitation
.
By
this
time
we
were
come
to
Mithridates's
Chamber-door
,
where
Statira
saluting
me
,
with
no
little
trouble
in
her
Countenance
,
went
in
,
and
left
me
to
pursue
my
first
intention
of
going
to
Atafernes's
Appartment
,
there
to
wait
the
result
of
her
attendance
on
the
King
.
I
had
not
above
half
an
hour
entertained
my self
with
the
Felicities
of
my
then
Condition
,
but
the
Prince
was
brought
back
to
his
Chamber
:
and
immediately
being
put
to
Bed
,
he
commanded
all
his
Servants
to
leave
him
and
I
alone
.
The
Room
was
no
sooner
emptied
,
than
I
cast
my self
on
my
knees
by
his
Bed-●ide
;
and
there
in
innumerable
Actions
and
Words
,
endeavoured
to
assure
him
of
those
Resentments
which
were
above
Demonstration
.
He
had
the
goodness
to
embrace
me
,
and
to
assure
me
,
though
he
had
done
all
he
could
,
yet
he
had
done
too
little
in
proportion
to
the
friendship
he
had
for
me
.
He
then
was
pleased
to
acquaint
me
,
how
Mithridates
had
disclosed
his
pleasure
concerning
me
to
the
Princess
;
how
he
had
particularized
all
those
Services
I
had
done
for
him
,
and
had
paid
to
her
;
how
Miraculously
her
intended
Nuptials
had
been
broken
off
;
and
how
when
Ascanius
was
released
,
she
was
a
Prisoner
;
and
when
she
was
released
,
he
was
defeated
and
kill'd
:
All
which
seem'd
to
evidence
the
gods
were
not
more
concerned
in
interrupting
that
Marriage
,
than
in
my
Services
,
they
seem'd
to
design
me
alone
to
that
Glory
.
That
he
neither
would
nor
could
oppose
what
was
so
declaredly
their
Wills
,
and
therefore
whatever
my
extraction
was
,
my
Actions
and
his
Bounty
had
made
me
worthy
of
,
and
should
make
me
possessor
of
a
Crown
;
and
consequently
not
unfit
for
her
Acceptance
,
or
his
Alliance
.
That
therefore
he
did
not
only
desire
her
to
receive
me
as
her
intended
Husband
,
but
he
enjoined
her
to
do
it
;
and
that
the
more
positively
,
because
she
was
not
ignorant
who
I
was
,
and
that
my
preceding
Services
had
given
me
no
small
Title
to
the
subsequent
Honour
he
designed
me
to
.
I
tell
you
in
brief
,
continued
Callimachus
,
Generous
Princes
,
what
the
obliging
Atafernes
told
me
at
large
;
But
when
he
began
to
relate
the
Princesses
Answer
;
The
confidence
I
had
in
her
exact
obedience
to
her
Father
,
in
her
unequalled
affection
to
her
Brother
,
and
in
that
glorious
Assurance
when
she
was
to
marry
Ascanius
,
which
she
gave
me
in
these
never-to-be
forgotten
Words
,
I
attest
the
gods
,
had
they
made
me
the
distributer
of
their
Rewards
,
I
would
place
Callimachus
in
whatever
he
ambitions
,
and
that
without
any
Reservation
;
could
not
secure
me
from
a
Fear
which
invaded
me
with
Confusions
;
and
those
in
such
excess
,
That
the
Prince
taking
notice
of
them
,
interrupted
his
Relation
,
to
enquire
of
me
whether
I
were
ill
?
I
told
him
I
was
,
and
till
I
knew
what
the
Authoress
of
my
Fate
had
decreed
of
it
,
I
should
be
in
Horrors
,
whose
visible
Effects
were
the
least
uneasie
part
of
them
.
I
will
then
,
reply'd
,
Atafernes
,
hasten
to
free
you
from
sufferings
in
which
I
sympathize
,
by
telling
you
,
that
after
Mithridates
had
done
speaking
,
Statira
continued
silent
for
some
time
;
which
made
him
say
,
I
will
not
so
much
doubt
your
Obedience
,
as
to
think
I
need
a
verbal
Assurance
of
it
.
I
know
you
pay
me
an
exact
Affection
and
Duty
;
and
I
have
enjoined
you
by
both
those
to
observe
what
I
have
signified
to
you
.
Within
twenty
days
my
Army
designed
for
the
Conquest
of
Galatia
and
Pamphilia
will
be
moving
,
and
before
Callimachus
is
at
the
head
of
it
,
I
have
resolved
to
contract
you
to
him
;
and
when
he
has
subdued
that
Kingdom
,
to
place
you
and
him
in
the
Throne
thereof
;
Mithridates
having
done
speaking
,
turned
himself
to
me
,
and
told
me
;
Atafernes
,
I
doubt
I
have
too
long
detained
you
from
your
rest
;
to
which
now
you
may
retire
;
I
leave
it
to
your
care
to
perfect
with
your
Sister
,
what
I
have
so
far
advanced
for
your
Friend
:
I
did
therefore
cause
my self
to
be
carried
hither
,
and
desired
Statira
forthwith
to
follow
me
,
which
she
assured
me
she
would
:
I
believe
she
will
be
immediately
here
,
therefore
I
would
have
you
withdraw
into
the
next
Room
,
and
as
soon
as
I
call
you
,
to
come
hither
again
;
for
I
am
determined
before
I
rest
,
to
make
my
Sister
give
you
such
assurances
as
shall
leave
you
no
grounds
to
doubt
of
her
Obedience
to
Mithridates
,
her
Friendship
to
me
,
and
her
esteem
of
,
if
not
affection
for
you
.
I
was
going
again
by
new
Evincements
of
gratitude
to
shew
him
some
sense
of
my
Resentments
,
when
I
heard
the
Princess
coming
:
I
did
therefore
hastily
retire
into
my
generous
Friend's
Closet
which
was
contiguous
to
his
Chamber
,
and
had
no
sooner
shut
the
Door
,
than
Mithridatia
came
to
her
Brother's
Bed-side
;
he
commanded
all
out
of
the
Chamber
,
and
to
let
none
come
in
till
he
Called
.
The
Closet
was
so
near
the
Bed
,
That
I
heard
Atafernes
thus
discourse
to
his
Sister
.
The
End
of
the
Third
Book
of
the
Sixth
Part
of
PARTHENISSA
.
PARTHENISSA
.
THE
SIXTH
PART
.
The
Fourth
BOOK
.
YOU
have
now
,
dear
Statira
,
received
a
Command
from
Mithridates
to
permit
Callimachus
his
Addresses
,
and
I
have
received
a
Command
from
the
King
to
see
that
finished
which
he
has
begun
:
though
the
distemper
of
my
Body
needs
sleep
,
yet
the
satisfaction
of
my
mind
does
more
need
the
placing
of
my
Friend
in
a
Condition
above
the
Reverse
of
Fortune
.
I
am
uncapable
of
my
Rest
,
till
you
have
established
his
,
by
such
assurances
as
you
may
convince
him
you
are
not
insensible
of
your
Duty
to
your
Father
,
of
your
Friendship
to
your
Brother
,
and
all
his
Services
to
you
and
your
Family
.
I
confess
Brother
(
the
Princess
reply'd
)
in
the
whole
course
of
my
life
I
never
was
more
surprised
,
than
at
the
command
my
Father
laid
upon
me
;
it
was
the
least
of
my
Expectations
:
not
that
I
think
any
thing
in
his
Power
,
was
too
great
a
Reward
for
what
he
owed
Callimachus
,
but
that
he
could
think
I
was
a
sufficient
one
.
And
that
with
one
of
the
unworthiest
of
his
Family
,
he
could
design
to
pay
the
Debts
of
all
of
it
.
I
shall
also
confess
I
am
not
a
little
troubled
at
the
Injunction
,
not
that
I
do
not
prefer
your
Friend
above
any
Man
,
but
that
I
prefer
a
single
life
before
any
other
:
both
as
it
is
most
proportionate
to
my
Nature
,
and
that
by
it
I
may
be
still
in
a
condition
to
live
near
Atafernes
,
in
whose
Company
and
Friendship
I
have
established
my
highest
Satisfaction
.
I
can
(
reply'd
Atafernes
)
make
you
the
like
assurance
;
for
't
is
in
your
Friendship
and
Company
I
take
most
delight
,
and
therefore
in
order
to
that
end
,
I
am
the
more
concerned
in
the
Success
of
what
I
now
solicite
.
You
know
Mithridates's
Kingdoms
,
and
you
know
how
little
I
am
to
expect
from
his
Friendship
when
he
comes
to
the
Power
;
your
being
setled
in
Galatia
will
be
a
safe
and
happy
Retreat
for
me
.
And
with
you
and
Callimachus
I
can
enjoy
a
contentment
preferable
to
all
my
Father's
Empires
;
't
is
therefore
that
by
thus
disposing
of
your self
,
you
are
most
likely
to
continue
in
the
condition
you
desire
,
and
I
ambition
.
I
know
you
will
obey
the
King
;
I
know
you
will
not
deny
my
Happiness
.
But
't
is
not
enough
I
know
it
,
unless
I
do
so
by
your
assurance
of
it
to
me
,
and
to
my
Friend
.
Before
I
will
obey
any
of
your
Commands
(
reply'd
Statira
)
I
must
beg
the
knowledg
of
one
particular
,
and
in
that
I
must
not
be
denied
;
't
is
to
tell
me
,
by
what
inducement
Mithridates
was
led
to
what
he
has
now
enjoined
me
:
for
I
cannot
imagine
how
he
could
know
that
Callimachus
had
an
esteem
for
me
more
than
for
any
other
;
and
as
little
believe
,
unless
he
thought
so
,
how
he
could
fancy
me
,
the
Recompence
he
intended
him
?
And
I
can
as
uneasily
believe
,
that
Callimachus
would
make
me
his
Request
,
without
having
ever
sounded
my
Inclinations
therein
,
either
by
himself
or
by
you
.
Though
I
am
certain
(
Atafernes
answer'd
)
That
all
the
desires
of
Mankind
united
,
cannot
transcend
the
passion
which
he
desires
to
serve
you
;
yet
I
'le
assure
you
,
he
was
so
far
from
making
you
his
Request
,
that
when
the
King
made
you
his
Offer
,
he
did
so
generously
acknowledg
his
unworthiness
of
you
,
and
so
civilly
tax
the
King's
Justice
in
that
Offer
;
that
had
you
heard
what
he
said
,
and
seen
what
he
did
,
you
could
no
more
have
declined
admiring
his
Respect
,
than
without
Injustice
you
can
decline
rewarding
it
.
But
to
obey
your
Commands
I
will
ingenuously
acknowledg
,
that
when
Mithridates
had
acquainted
me
with
his
new
League
with
Sertorius
,
and
with
his
intent
,
to
employ
Callimachus
in
the
Conquest
of
Galatia
and
Pamphilia
,
he
commanded
me
to
Acquaint
him
if
I
knew
what
he
intended
to
ask
:
I
protested
to
him
I
was
intirely
ignorant
thereof
;
and
that
I
was
more
perswaded
he
would
ask
nothing
,
than
any
thing
.
The
King
then
commanded
me
to
tell
him
,
what
I
thought
would
be
most
grateful
to
him
,
and
whether
I
had
any
apprehensions
consonant
to
the
Queens
,
of
his
having
a
passion
for
you
;
I
told
him
,
if
he
was
capable
of
any
,
for
any
,
possibly
it
might
be
for
you
.
Mithridates
having
a
while
consider'd
,
told
me
,
That
he
intended
him
the
greatest
Gift
,
and
he
considered
you
to
be
That
;
and
because
you
should
not
be
married
to
any
but
a
King
,
he
would
with
you
give
Callimachus
an
Army
to
present
you
a
Crown
.
This
was
so
suited
to
my
Intentions
,
that
I
did
all
I
could
to
confirm
the
King
in
his
,
and
prevailed
with
him
to
send
forthwith
for
Callimachus
:
whom
he
enjoyned
three
times
to
make
his
Request
,
and
he
as
often
by
an
unconquerable
silence
declining
it
;
Mithridates
then
made
him
his
greatest
Offer
,
and
was
necessitated
to
make
use
of
his
Command
to
make
him
keep
that
Silence
after
his
Proposal
:
which
three
reiterations
of
it
,
could
not
make
him
break
before
;
having
thus
satisfied
your
desire
,
I
not
only
hope
but
expect
you
will
satisfie
mine
,
which
is
exacted
from
you
by
Duty
,
Friendship
and
Gratitude
;
and
which
you
cannot
either
deny
or
delay
,
without
giving
me
as
much
trouble
,
as
by
granting
it
you
will
give
Callimachus
and
me
raptures
of
Satisfaction
.
You
are
so
importunate
(
the
Princess
reply'd
)
that
I
know
not
what
particularly
to
say
to
you
;
and
therefore
I
will
in
General
promise
to
be
ruled
by
you
.
Ah
Statira
,
(
the
Prince
answer'd
)
embracing
her
,
You
have
now
given
me
a
greater
and
more
welcom
Evincement
of
your
kindness
,
than
you
can
ever
repeat
.
I
heard
,
Generous
Princes
,
I
heard
distinctly
this
Ravishing
Engagement
,
and
soon
after
Atafernes
called
me
out
of
his
Closet
;
from
whence
I
came
with
such
Extasies
,
as
nothing
could
transcend
them
,
but
their
Cause
.
And
being
come
to
the
Prince's
Bed-side
,
He
told
me
,
I
did
acquaint
you
Callimachus
,
with
Mithridates
Commands
to
Statira
,
and
with
my
passionate
Desires
to
her
in
your
Favour
;
and
now
I
can
tell
you
,
you
need
no
more
doubt
your
Felicity
,
than
my
Friendship
;
for
she
has
promised
to
be
Ruled
by
me
in
this
greatest
Concernment
of
hers
and
yours
.
Sir
,
I
reply'd
;
The
Princess
Statira
esteems
it
some
Mercy
,
that
I
should
not
receive
my
Condemnation
from
her
own
Mouth
,
and
therefore
has
substituted
you
to
pronounce
it
for
her
;
but
since
I
must
receive
the
Fatal
sentence
,
I
most
humbly
beg
it
may
be
from
her self
;
for
my
perfect
Obedience
to
all
her
Commands
,
will
make
me
that
way
embrace
my
Destiny
with
more
Resignation
,
and
make
you
consider
it
with
somewhat
less
sorrow
when
you
only
see
my
Misery
,
and
do
not
by
speaking
those
words
,
act
what
must
cause
it
.
Yes
Sir
,
I
know
I
esteem
,
nay
,
I
admire
that
Friendship
you
have
always
blest
me
with
;
but
I
know
also
,
I
should
be
more
unworthy
of
it
by
my
Actions
,
than
I
am
by
the
insignificancy
of
my
Condition
and
Services
,
could
I
solicite
,
nay
,
could
I
so
much
as
hope
that
to
be
the
most
obliging
to
me
,
you
should
be
the
most
injurious
to
her
;
and
since
my
cruel
Fate
has
denyed
my
Actions
the
Power
to
express
the
lively
Sense
I
have
of
your
goodness
,
Permit
me
to
evidence
that
high
Truth
by
my
sufferings
,
and
by
my
silence
under
them
.
She
has
done
much
in
leaving
it
in
your
Power
to
make
me
happy
above
Imagination
;
and
possibly
I
have
not
done
a
little
in
desiring
you
,
and
that
with
earnestness
,
that
you
will
not
abuse
that
unlimited
Trust
;
She
has
too
highly
rewarded
my
unavoidable
Ambition
in
not
punishing
it
,
and
you
will
highly
reward
my
passionate
desires
to
serve
you
,
in
granting
me
a
Request
which
must
convince
you
I
would
not
be
ungrateful
;
since
as
a
Pregnant
evidence
thereof
,
I
solicite
to
be
the
miserablest
of
men
,
to
preserve
you
from
being
the
unjustest
.
Certainly
Callimachus
,
said
Atafernes
,
Your
memory
is
very
bad
,
or
you
esteem
mine
so
,
for
you
have
so
often
and
so
signally
served
,
nay
,
saved
Mithridates
,
Statira
,
and
all
the
Royal
House
of
Pontus
,
that
it
is
more
necessary
you
should
receive
the
proof
of
our
gratitude
,
than
that
you
should
think
we
need
any
fresh
ones
of
yours
;
and
if
you
longer
persist
in
Pleading
at
this
rate
,
we
must
believe
you
esteem
your
Obligations
above
Reward
,
by
declining
the
highest
we
can
present
you
.
Do
not
think
Statira
has
left
the
pronouncing
of
your
Destiny
to
me
,
because
she
would
her self
avoid
ruining
you
;
for
I
know
she
loves
me
too
well
to
lay
such
an
Imposition
on
me
,
and
she
knows
I
love
you
too
well
to
accept
it
;
No
,
Callimachus
,
she
has
Elected
this
way
to
satisfie
both
our
Debts
:
Mine
,
by
speaking
our
happiness
;
and
hers
,
by
performing
what
I
shall
speak
;
for
she
is
not
ignorant
that
my
Ingagements
to
you
are
too
vast
to
be
paid
by
me
alone
;
and
that
it
will
make
my
Joy
proportionate
to
yours
,
by
ordering
her self
in
such
a
manner
as
in
one
payment
she
may
satisfie
both
our
Debts
.
Oh
gods
,
Sir
!
I
cryed
out
,
interrupting
him
:
I
had
much
rather
you
should
condemn
me
to
death
,
than
condemn
me
to
hear
expressions
which
are
more
wounding
than
death
it self
.
Esteem
me
not
,
I
beseech
you
,
so
ignorant
of
what
my
Services
are
,
and
what
the
Princess
Statira
is
,
as
to
fancy
I
think
they
are
above
all
Reward
,
because
I
decline
the
highest
;
No
,
Generous
Prince
,
the
contrary
of
that
belief
ought
to
be
yours
,
and
is
mine
;
I
had
much
rather
be
the
miserablest
of
our
Sex
,
than
that
she
should
be
the
like
of
hers
;
to
bestow
her
on
any
Man
,
is
the
greatest
Sin
;
but
to
believe
she
can
be
any
Mans
as
a
Debt
;
whoever
were
capable
of
entertaining
such
a
Crime
,
deserves
the
greatest
punishment
,
as
the
lowest
reward
of
it
:
And
though
I
am
as
far
from
believing
what
you
said
(
pardon
me
Sir
,
the
fault
and
duty
of
that
Expression
)
as
deserving
it
;
Yet
to
repair
your
offence
against
the
Princess
,
I
will
revenge
it
on
my self
,
which
is
the
Duty
I
should
pay
her
,
and
the
respect
I
owe
you
.
Oh
miserable
Callimachus
,
I
continued
!
Oh
Fatal
Services
!
which
has
reduced
the
greatest
Beauty
and
Virtue
that
ever
shined
,
to
be
disobedient
to
her
Father
,
and
disobliging
to
her
Brother
,
or
unjust
to
her self
!
Ah
Madam
,
(
I
proceeded
prostrating
my self
at
her
Feet
and
kissing
them
)
;
At
least
be
so
Just
to
this
unfortunate
person
,
as
to
believe
the
necessities
to
which
you
are
undesignedly
reduced
unto
by
him
,
are
more
wounding
to
him
,
than
they
can
be
to
you
;
and
oblige
your
Adorer
so
far
as
to
be
satisfied
,
that
for
all
those
Services
he
endeavoured
to
present
you
,
he
ambitioned
nothing
else
,
but
that
you
should
receive
them
,
and
that
you
would
pardon
their
being
so
few
,
and
so
disproportionate
to
the
person
to
whom
they
were
paid
,
and
to
the
desires
and
duty
of
him
that
paid
them
:
Above
this
I
swear
by
your self
(
too
great
an
Oath
to
be
violated
)
I
covet
nothing
;
and
if
your
goodness
induce
you
to
credit
so
much
,
I
shall
never
aspire
at
more
,
but
that
by
a
resolute
denial
of
what
the
great
Mithridates
has
commanded
you
,
and
your
Generous
Brother
has
implored
of
you
,
you
would
evidence
to
them
and
all
the
World
besides
,
that
you
know
your self
;
and
believe
me
,
Statira
,
dear
Statira
,
(
the
obliging
Atafernes
cryed
out
)
Will
you
then
by
your
fatal
Silence
manifest
you
have
no
Obedience
for
your
Fathers
Commands
,
but
when
they
are
imposed
on
you
for●
Ascanius
?
and
shall
that
Friendship
you
have
always
vowed
to
me
,
and
still
blest
me
with
,
only
fail
me
,
where
I
most
desire
and
am
most
concerned
to
receive
the
effects
of
it
?
Alas
Atafernes
,
the
fair
Mithridatia
reply'd
,
What
is
it
you
expect
from
me
?
I
thought
I
had
at
least
done
enough
in
leaving
it
to
you
to
dispose
of
me
;
Yes
,
yes
,
said
Atafernes
,
that
had
been
enough
in
any
Man's
Case
but
Callimachus's
:
But
you
see
't
is
not
enough
that
you
permit
me
to
make
him
happy
,
you
your self
must
command
him
to
be
so
,
or
else
you
must
resolve
to
see
me
as
miserable
,
as
he
would
make
himself
in
his
Respects
for
you
.
At
these
words
,
Statira
at
once
cast
off
all
those
disorders
which
had
been
but
too
visible
in
her
Looks
,
in
her
Words
,
and
in
her
Actions
,
and
with
that
Empire
which
still
I
admired
,
as
much
as
I
heard
;
casting
her
Eyes
upon
me
,
she
said
,
Callimachus
,
you
are
too
cruel
in
making
Atafernes
to
press
me
beyond
what
I
have
already
spoke
;
But
since
—
Ah!
Madam
,
I
cryed
out
,
Do
not
call
that
my
Crime
which
is
my
Torment
.
If
my
Arguings
,
if
my
praying
against
my self
,
produced
such
guilty
desires
in
your
Generous
Brother
;
Be
pleas'd
to
let
me
only
endure
the
punishment
thereof
,
but
do
not
impute
to
me
the
sin
;
I
would
have
died
,
I
would
have
kill'd
my self
to
have
exempted
you
from
those
difficulties
,
your
obedience
to
Mithridates
,
and
your
affection
for
Atafernes
have
ingaged
you
in
;
when
you
denied
me
that
just
and
only
prevention
,
I
held
my
peace
;
but
then
my
Silence
pleaded
against
you
,
and
for
me
;
I
then
argued
and
prayed
against
my self
;
but
both
those
produced
the
like
effect
:
what
therefore
does
remain
,
but
that
now
you
permit
me
to
embrace
that
Remedy
which
hitherto
your
Commands
,
nay
,
your
reiterated
Commands
,
prohibited
me
to
Act
;
I
am
as
ready
now
to
present
your
Vertues
,
your
Beauty
and
your
Quality
,
that
cure
as
ever
:
nay
,
I
am
more
ready
to
do
it
now
,
than
before
,
being
more
convinced
now
than
ever
,
that
the
necessity
of
that
performance
is
now
as
great
as
the
Duty
;
but
if
your
goodness
declines
to
behold
what
I
now
mention
,
my
Respect
shall
carry
me
into
some
remote
Countrey
,
where
on
the
point
of
your
Enemies
Swords
I
will
receive
that
Fate
my
Crimes
and
your
sufferings
have
made
you
deny
me
to
receive
from
mine
own
hand
.
Atafernes
at
the
conclusion
of
these
words
,
overwhelmed
with
the
sorrow
they
had
invaded
him
with
,
sunk
down
into
his
Bed
,
and
his
spirits
abandoning
him
,
he
remained
pale
and
speechless
in
his
Sister's
and
my
Arms
,
for
we
were
both
run
to
his
Assistance
;
which
proved
so
effectual
,
that
in
a
few
Moments
he
opened
his
Eyes
again
,
and
casting
them
languishingly
on
his
weeping
Sister
,
he
told
her
,
Statira
,
You
imploy
your
goodness
where
it
is
not
needed
,
and
decline
it
,
where
'
t
is
.
But
all
these
evincements
of
your
Love
to
me
,
unless
you
confer
yours
on
my
Friend
,
I
shall
receive
as
Manifestations
of
your
Hate
:
for
to
live
and
to
see
Callimachus
miserable
,
is
more
cruelty
,
than
to
let
me
die
.
Since
,
reply'd
the
fair
Statira
,
you
will
have
me
speak
that
,
which
possibly
were
enough
in
me
if
I
obeyed
,
I
will
force
my self
to
an
intire
observance
of
your
Commands
.
Then
turning
her self
to
me
,
she
spoke
these
charming
words
:
Callimachus
;
The
Duty
I
owe
my
Father
,
The
Friendship
I
pay
my
Brother
,
The
true
Sense
I
have
of
those
eminent
Obligations
you
have
loaded
us
with
,
and
the
more
Eminent
Vertues
the
gods
have
blest
you
with
,
make
me
give
you
this
Immutable
Assurance
before
them
and
him
,
That
I
will
be
as
obedient
for
you
,
as
lately
I
should
have
been
against
you
:
And
if
I
have
that
Empire
over
you
,
which
you
still
assured
me
I
had
,
shew
it
in
making
no
reply
to
what
I
have
now
promis'd
you
.
The
gods
(
continued
Callimachus
,
speaking
to
his
Generous
Hearers
)
only
knew
the
Raptures
with
which
I
celebrated
such
a
Promise
and
such
a
Command
;
the
first
had
made
me
still
defend
my self
,
if
the
last
had
not
made
that
great
Duty
a
greater
Sin
;
But
yet
casting
my self
again
at
my
Princess's
Feet
,
I
could
not
hinder
my self
from
saying
in
unfanciable
Ttrnsports
:
The
gods
,
Madam
,
shall
be
my
Witnesses
,
that
I
never
did
any
thing
more
with
the
obedience
of
a
Subject
,
than
in
the
accepting
that
Felility
which
raises
me
infinitely
above
the
Condition
of
any
King
;
nor
had
you
any
way
to
perswade
me
to
this
happiness
,
but
making
me
receive
it
as
an
effect
of
my
Obedience
;
and
if
ever
I
perform
an
Action
;
Nay
,
if
ever
I
enterrain
a
thought
,
but
what
may
be
Consonant
to
this
high
Truth
;
May
my
Miseries
be
as
unexpressible
as
my
Joys
,
or
which
is
more
,
as
the
Mercy
which
had
placed
me
in
them
.
Why
should
I
(
continued
Callimachus
)
speaking
to
Artabanus
and
Artavasdes
,
trouble
you
with
particularizing
those
Transports
which
are
so
far
from
being
describable
,
that
they
are
not
imaginable
;
Let
it
susfice
you
to
know
,
Atafernes
at
that
assurance
recovered
out
of
his
fainting
,
and
heard
his
fair
Sisters
words
,
with
Extasies
which
nothing
but
Mine
could
transcend
:
and
from
that
hour
the
Princess
Statira
used
me
at
a
Rate
which
evidenced
,
she
was
resolved
to
Act
that
Happiness
she
had
then
assured
me
of
.
Mithridates
also
the
next
Morning
visited
Atafernes
,
and
there
enquired
of
,
and
learned
from
him
the
Result
of
that
blessed
Nights
Discourse
,
at
which
he
exprest
a
satisfaction
so
sublime
;
that
I
then
was
confident
my
Felicities
were
as
far
from
being
reverst
,
as
of
admitting
an
Accession
.
The
next
day
I
attended
on
Auletes
,
who
then
told
me
,
what
his
Fatal
indisposition
had
interrupted
when
I
last
waited
on
him
;
He
confest
the
Beauty
which
had
conquered
him
was
the
Princess
Cleopatra
,
and
conjured
me
neither
to
disclose
his
Passion
,
or
his
Quality
,
till
by
some
happy
Services
,
he
might
find
an
opportunity
to
reveal
both
:
and
conjur'd
me
with
all
the
pressings
of
a
Generous
Lover
and
Prince
,
to
take
all
occasions
to
prepare
the
fair
Cleopatr●
to
entertain
his
Adorations
,
when
he
should
find
the
Ambitioned
season
of
paying
them
to
her
;
This
I
faithfully
assured
him
of
;
and
as
the
hopefullest
way
to
that
end
,
I
advised
and
prevailed
with
him
to
permit
me
to
acquaint
the
Princess
Statira
and
the
Prince
Atafernes
,
who
he
was
,
and
what
he
aspired
unto
;
for
I
knew
the
lovely
Cleopatra
guided
all
her
Actions
by
their
Advices
:
and
if
they
could
be
engaged
for
him
,
his
happiness
would
be
half
perfected
.
I
found
Auletes
so
Worthy
a
Person
,
and
I
had
found
in
my self
how
vast
the
miseries
are
of
a
Lover
in
suspence
,
and
his
Joys
when
certain
,
as
in
all
those
Knowledges
I
esteemed
my self
the
more
engaged
to
serve
him
;
and
did
discover
his
Secret
to
the
admirable
Sister
and
Brother
,
so
much
to
his
advantage
,
that
all
things
concurred
,
in
the
Prince
of
Egypt
:
which
could
make
Cleopatra's
Happiness
.
They
assured
me
,
that
to
Act
it
should
be
their
endeavours
,
and
they
hoped
should
also
be
their
Success
.
Auletes
a
few
days
after
received
a
private
Visit
from
Ata●ernes
,
and
such
assurances
both
of
his
Esteem
of
him
,
and
desires
to
oblige
him
in
his
Addresses
to
his
Sister
,
that
those
Promises
made
him
recover
faster
than
all
the
Art
of
his
Physicians
,
and
made
him
ever
as
much
a
Friend
to
the
Brother
,
as
he
was
a
Lover
to
the
Sister
.
Whilst
I
was
thus
contributing
to
the
Happiness
of
the
Egyptian
Prince
,
the
Glorious
Day
of
my
own
advanced
,
and
by
that
time
the
Army
was
raised
,
with
which
I
was
to
conquer
Galatia
and
Pamphilia
:
The
Eve
of
it
was
come
;
but
the
nearer
I
came
to
my
Felicity
,
the
greater
inspection
I
made
into
it
,
and
consonantly
I
judged
my self
more
unworthy
of
it
;
I
past
much
of
the
Evening
which
preceded
that
Memorable
Day
,
in
the
fair
Statira's
Appartment
,
where
by
Atafernes's
Conjurations
,
and
her
unlimited
Goodness
,
I
received
such
new
Evincements
of
her
Esteem
,
that
I
knew
not
which
was
greater
,
my
Joy
that
I
received
them
,
or
my
Grief
that
I
neither
did
,
nor
could
so
much
as
rationally
hope
ever
to
deserve
them
:
and
though
many
admirable
particularities
were
contained
in
those
few
Moments
,
yet
I
will
not
retail
them
,
reserving
the
Honour
of
your
attentions
for
those
Prodigious
Events
,
which
a
few
hours
after
were
by
the
gods
destined
to
follow
.
The
Morning
at
last
came
,
in
which
by
Sacred
Contract
I
was
to
receive
assurances
of
a
Blessing
,
my
Enemies
could
not
think
me
more
unworthy
of
,
than
I
thought
my self
;
That
Justice
against
my self
was
as
requisite
to
preserve
me
from
Death
by
an
excess
of
Joy
,
as
the
Princess
Statira's
Promises
and
Commands
had
been
to
preserve
me
from
it
by
a
contrary
Extream
.
But
that
Day
no
sooner
dawn'd
,
than
I
rose
to
Celebrate
an
Engagement
,
which
was
to
give
me
more
pregnant
Invitations
to
Solicite
the
Conquest
of
Galatia
,
than
the
wearing
the
Crown
of
that
Kingdom
,
and
the
Glory
of
that
Victory
could
present
me
.
Never
did
War
provoke
the
aspiring
to
success
,
with
a
Recompence
proportionate
to
Mine
:
neither
could
I
have
been
more
certain
of
Victory
,
after
I
had
Acted
it
,
than
I
was
before
I
began
to
court
it
;
I
considered
whilst
I
was
dressing
my self
,
that
the
Sacred
Promises
the
Princess
Statira
was
that
day
to
give
me
after
my
subduing
of
Galatia
,
as
a
certain
evidence
of
my
Conquering
of
it
;
And
methought
no
Obstacles
which
could
oppose
that
end
,
but
would
be
rather
Foils
than
Impediments
to
my
Glory
:
nay
,
the
suspension
of
my
Joys
,
till
I
presented
her
with
a
Crown
,
did
not
diminish
them
;
for
I
thought
it
but
just
I
should
pay
my
Debts
before
I
received
my
Reward
;
and
if
any
thing
in
that
happy
Morning
clouded
my
Raptures
,
't
was
only
that
I
was
designed
to
do
so
little
,
and
to
receive
so
much
.
Had
I
been
destined
to
present
her
with
the
Empire
of
Rome
,
instead
of
that
of
Galatia
,
I
should
more
joyfully
have
attempted
that
,
than
this
;
and
the
length
of
the
trouble
would
have
been
abundantly
repaired
by
the
Glory
of
the
attempt
,
and
the
proportionateness
of
the
Present
,
if
I
succeeded
;
and
with
the
Honour
and
Justice
of
the
attempt
,
if
I
succeeded
not
.
Whilst
I
was
entertaining
my self
with
these
pleasing
Imaginations
,
they
were
interrupted
by
the
visit
of
the
Generous
Atafernes
who
had
so
much
joy
in
his
looks
,
that
had
I
never
received
any
other
evidence
of
the
height
and
reality
of
his
Friendship
,
I
might
even
in
those
only
have
read
the
certainty
of
both
;
A
thousand
times
he
embraced
me
,
and
seemed
as
happy
in
having
made
me
so
,
as
I
was
in
being
so
.
I
paid
him
all
the
humble
Acknowledgments
I
was
capable
of
,
and
I
believe
he
easily
saw
I
was
troubled
I
could
present
him
with
no
more
.
But
I
beg'd
him
,
that
the
same
goodness
which
had
valued
me
above
my
Services
,
would
also
accept
of
my
desires
,
as
my
performances
.
To
cut
off
such
expressions
(
as
he
told
me
)
,
he
led
me
soon
after
to
Mithridates
Appartment
,
at
the
door
of
which
he
met
him
,
and
all
the
considerable
Persons
of
the
Court
:
Who
by
the
Example
of
my
Princes
Gallantry
appeared
in
all
theirs
;
which
so
far
exceeded
what
had
been
seen
at
Ascanius
intended
Nuptials
,
that
I
flattered
my self
with
a
belief
,
their
satisfaction
at
my
condition
transcended
theirs
for
his
.
The
King
of
Pontus
by
many
reiterated
assurances
of
his
Favour
,
endeavoured
by
word
to
oblige
me
,
as
much
as
he
had
done
by
Actions
,
and
so
confounded
me
with
the
excesses
of
his
Favour
,
that
I
hope
he
read
in
my
silence
a
livelier
Character
of
my
Resentments
,
than
my
words
could
have
presented
him
:
from
thence
he
led
me
to
the
Princess
Statira's
Appartment
,
who
that
day
having
cast
off
her
Mourning
for
the
King
of
Cyprus
,
seemed
to
be
the
goddess
of
that
Island
;
and
had
she
made
the
Fourth
of
that
Number
where
the
happy
Paris
was
Judg
,
she
must
have
been
the
First
in
Beauty
by
his
sentence
,
or
rather
the
other
three
durst
not
have
stood
in
Competition
for
it
with
her
.
Her
Beauty
so
dazled
all
our
Eyes
,
and
so
blinded
Mine
,
that
I
was
a
Thousand
times
ready
to
have
violated
her
last
Commands
,
and
again
to
have
beg'd
of
her
to
make
me
rather
the
Miserablest
,
than
the
Happiest
of
Men
;
But
the
Generous
Atafernes
observing
both
in
my
silence
and
my
looks
,
the
height
of
my
confusions
,
and
apprehending
their
effects
,
told
Mithridates
,
all
things
were
ready
for
the
Celebration
of
that
Solemnity
:
who
thereupon
leading
me
by
the
hand
to
the
Princess
Mithridatia
,
on
whom
I
durst
not
so
much
as
lift
up
my
Eyes
;
He
commanded
her
to
give
me
hers
,
which
she
did
,
and
which
I
received
,
prostrate
at
her
Feet
;
and
should
have
done
it
in
a
more
humble
and
acknowledging
Posture
,
if
any
such
had
been
.
The
fair
Statira
had
the
goodness
to
Command
me
to
rise
;
which
after
three
Commands
to
do
it
,
I
obeyed
.
The
Pontick
King
then
led
the
way
to
his
Domestick-Temple
;
And
by
his
appointment
immediately
after
him
,
I
waited
on
the
Princess
.
Atafernes
led
the
Queen
,
on
whose
face
only
any
sadness
was
visible
,
which
yet
she
attributed
to
an
indisposition
which
had
hindred
her
from
Rest
all
the
preceding
Night
.
The
rest
of
that
Noble
company
followed
in
Order
,
till
we
came
to
the
holy
Place
,
where
at
the
Altar
stood
the
Priest
,
who
was
to
perform
the
requisite
Ceremonies
.
Mithridates
having
caused
a
deep
silence
to
be
observed
;
In
an
Eloquent
speech
declared
the
perfect
affection
he
had
for
his
Admirable
Daughter
,
and
then
in
Elogies
was
pleased
to
Magnifie
those
low
services
I
had
paid
his
Family
and
Crown
,
concluding
with
these
words
;
That
since
my
Actings
had
been
the
highest
,
he
had
proportioned
thereunto
the
Recompence
of
his
Acknowledgments
and
Bounty
;
And
as
well
to
pay
my
past
Services
,
as
to
encourage
my
future
,
he
had
set
this
day
apart
,
to
contract
his
best
Daughter
to
me
,
whom
he
then
declared
he
would
give
me
in
marriage
,
as
soon
as
ever
I
had
with
the
Army
then
raised
,
conquered
Galatia
and
Pamphilia
,
and
by
my
Valour
and
Conduct
provided
that
for
her
,
which
her
Merit
and
Extraction
deserved
,
and
the
ignorance
of
my
Birth
denied
me
any
other
way
to
present
her
.
At
the
end
of
these
expressions
he
commanded
the
Priest
to
do
his
Office
;
who
immediately
pronounced
those
Glorious
words
which
the
Princess
Statira
,
and
I
on
my
knees
spoke
after
him
;
By
which
I
received
an
assurance
before
the
gods
above
,
and
before
the
greatest
Assembly
in
the
World
,
That
the
highest
Beauty
in
it
had
condescended
to
give
her self
to
me
,
and
that
nothing
but
Death
should
ever
dissolve
that
contract
:
The
contemplation
of
this
Felicity
made
me
cast
my self
again
at
Statira's
Feet
,
and
there
in
Actions
,
rather
than
in
Words
,
I
acknowledged
her
Mercy
,
and
my
unworthiness
of
it
.
In
the
midst
of
my
Acknowledgments
,
we
heard
many
loud
and
repeated
shouts
of
Joy
in
the
City
,
which
still
seemed
to
advance
nearer
to
the
Palace
,
and
at
last
we
heard
them
continued
even
in
the
Gates
of
it
;
and
soon
after
we
distinctly
heard
in
the
Court
the
like
Cryes
,
often
intermixt
with
them
the
names
Pharnaces
and
Ascanius
,
which
drew
many
out
of
the
Temple
to
learn
their
Cause
,
which
immediately
after
was
made
evident
,
even
in
the
Temple
it self
,
by
Pharnaces
and
Ascanius
entring
into
it
.
The
first
running
to
salute
Mithridates
,
and
the
last
with
the
like
haste
casting
himself
before
the
Princess
Statira
,
and
embracing
her
knees
in
Raptures
,
nothing
in
degrees
could
transcend
but
her
wonder
and
Mine
at
that
Miracle
:
His
weakness
,
or
his
joy
was
so
great
,
That
in
that
Action
only
,
for
some
time
,
he
evidenced
his
transports
;
But
as
soon
as
he
could
break
his
silence
,
he
did
it
in
these
words
.
You
see
,
Madam
,
at
your
Feet
,
he
that
lately
lost
his
life
in
the
Honour
of
your
Service
,
and
he
that
would
not
admit
of
a
second
life
,
but
to
imploy
and
end
it
in
the
like
glorious
Duty
.
My
supposed
Death
in
designing
the
Princess
Statira's
Deliverance
,
manifests
what
I
would
have
done
to
have
Acted
it
;
and
it
was
more
painful
to
me
,
than
those
Wounds
which
gave
me
a
seeming
Death
,
that
what
was
my
intention
,
was
not
my
performance
.
I
knew
to
dye
for
you
,
was
fitter
for
me
,
than
that
Felicity
your
Mercy
had
destined
me
unto
:
I
submitted
to
the
first
,
as
more
just
than
the
last
;
and
being
unworthy
of
the
highest
happiness
,
I
repined
not
that
I
underwent
the
highest
Duty
.
But
those
powers
which
know
he
is
least
unworthy
of
you
,
which
does
most
perfectly
adore
you
,
have
raised
me
to
life
,
that
by
your
Mercy
and
Condescention
,
the
World
and
Ascanius
may
know
by
the
Recompence
of
that
Truth
,
how
intirely
you
believe
the
reality
of
it
;
my
unsuccessfulness
in
your
Deliverance
merited
my
seeming
Death
,
and
my
unequal'd
Flame
merited
that
Resurrection
,
without
which
your
mercy
in
crowning
it
,
would
have
been
render'd
ineffectual
;
so
that
in
those
several
Fates
the
gods
have
imposed
on
Ascanius
,
you
may
see
,
fair
Mithridatia
,
how
equally
just
they
are
,
both
to
my
unhappiness
,
and
my
Adorations
.
After
these
words
,
the
King
of
Cyprus
told
the
Princess
Statira
,
how
whilst
some
of
his
Nobility
were
preparing
for
his
Body
the
requisite
Solemnities
due
to
the
Monarchs
of
that
Island
,
they
found
some
Symptoms
of
life
remaining
in
it
,
which
they
improved
with
such
Art
,
Care
,
Diligence
,
and
Secresie
,
that
in
a
few
Hours
their
hopes
of
his
recovery
had
wiped
away
their
Tears
for
his
imaginary
Death
:
That
the
better
to
cloud
the
transports
of
that
change
,
and
the
more
successfully
to
enjoy
the
fruits
of
their
Endeavours
and
Duty
,
they
caused
the
dead
Body
of
a
young
Cyprian
Lord
to
receive
all
the
Ceremonies
due
unto
his
own
,
and
did
not
communicate
the
Fallacy
unto
any
,
but
those
who
could
not
but
know
it
,
who
yet
they
tied
by
sacred
Oaths
to
inviolable
secresie
,
even
from
the
rest
of
the
Cyprians
themselves
;
whose
tears
and
sorrows
so
well
deluded
the
Subjects
and
Servants
of
Nicomedes
and
Ariobarzanes
,
that
they
never
had
the
least
umbrage
of
the
Truth
;
whereby
when
the
thirty
dayes
of
the
usual
Funeral
Rites
were
efflux'd
,
the
two
Kings
permitted
a
Cyprian
Galley
to
transport
his
supposed
Embalmed
Corps
to
Cyprus
.
As
soon
as
the
Funeral
Galley
had
recovered
the
Cyprian
Fleet
,
he
shewed
himself
unto
them
;
their
surprize
was
not
greater
than
his
own
,
when
he
found
in
the
same
Galley
with
him
the
Prince
Pharnaces
;
who
had
also
recovered
his
liberty
by
an
unexpected
Accident
:
For
Enestes
who
was
Vice-Admiral
to
Nicomedes
,
having
lost
his
life
,
attempting
to
carry
away
by
surprize
the
Royal
Family
of
Pontus
;
Many
of
the
Bithynian
Nobility
were
Solicitors
to
succeed
him
in
that
high
imployment
;
and
amongst
those
,
Cleomax
,
favorite
to
Nicomedes
,
upon
that
score
was
most
earnest
,
and
had
most
hopes
;
but
his
King
as
a
reward
of
the
high
attempt
of
the
Father
,
conferred
that
Office
on
Lixcestes
his
Son
,
who
by
many
signal
Actions
of
Conduct
and
Courage
,
had
a
double
Title
to
that
Command
,
to
which
he
added
the
most
powerful
one
of
silence
to
Merit
.
Cleomax
,
though
sensibly
wounded
by
his
failer
,
suppresses
all
Resentments
by
Words
,
and
resolves
to
manifest
them
by
Actions
;
so
that
soon
after
,
having
got
an
opportunity
of
a
private
Conference
with
Pharnaces
,
offered
him
to
set
him
at
Liberty
,
and
to
depend
on
his
Favour
for
his
future
Fortunes
.
The
Prince
of
Pontus
joyfully
laid
hold
of
this
Overture
,
and
Promises
Cleomax
rewards
proportionate
to
his
Service
,
so
that
when
the
Funeral-Galley
was
to
begin
her
Voyage
,
Cleomax
disguises
Pharnaces
and
himself
,
and
thrusting
themselves
into
the
Croud
of
that
solemnity
without
,
interruption
got
into
the
Galley
and
escaped
.
Whilst
Ascauius
,
said
Callimachus
to
his
Generous
hearers
was
thus
telling
the
Princess
Statira
these
admirable
Accidents
,
Pharnaces
was
relating
them
to
Mithridates
,
and
then
presented
Cleomax
to
him
,
whom
the
Pontick
King
received
with
all
manner
of
Acknowledgments
,
and
on
the
Place
ordered
him
rewards
as
great
as
his
Infidelity
;
this
being
done
,
the
Pontick
King
came
to
Embrace
Ascanius
,
to
whom
the
Princess
had
not
answered
one
word
to
all
he
had
said
,
so
great
was
her
wonder
,
and
her
trouble
at
once
.
The
King
of
Cyprus
,
after
his
Acknowledgments
were
paid
in
the
most
passionate
Words
and
Actions
,
summoned
Mithridates
of
his
Promise
,
and
implored
,
that
as
in
the
publick
Temple
he
had
been
divorced
from
his
blessing
,
so
in
the
Domestick-Temple
he
might
be
possest
of
it
.
I
perceive
,
Generous
Prince
,
reply'd
Mithridates
,
by
this
request
you
are
ignorant
of
the
occasion
which
has
brought
this
Assembly
hither
;
No
Sir
,
Ascanius
answered
,
I
heard
it
since
my
Landing
:
But
Great
King
,
I
know
't
was
only
my
supposed
Death
led
you
to
what
you
have
done
,
the
Cause
ceasing
,
the
Effects
should
do
the
like
,
the
chief
Motive
to
the
performance
failing
,
't
is
a
necessary
Consequence
,
that
all
built
on
it
,
should
fail
with
it
.
You
would
not
have
given
the
fair
Statira
to
Callimachus
,
had
you
known
Ascanius
was
alive
.
'T
is
too
much
your
ignorance
of
my
Condition
has
so
much
wounded
me
;
let
not
your
Knowledg
of
it
wound
me
more
.
Had
I
known
you
were
living
,
the
Pontick
King
reply'd
,
interrupting
him
,
I
would
in
some
other
way
have
endeavoured
to
reward
Callimachus's
innumerable
Services
;
but
I
doubt
Statira's
Engagements
and
mine
are
too
far
past
to
be
recalled
;
so
that
if
I
should
not
keep
my
Engagements
to
the
Generous
Ascanius
,
't
is
not
my
Crime
,
but
the
Crime
of
his
own
Fate
.
Would
to
the
gods
,
the
King
of
Cyprus
answered
,
I
had
really
dyed
,
rather
than
live
to
hear
these
killing
words
!
What
Sir
,
shall
your
promises
be
thus
observed
?
and
shall
my
Services
and
Sufferings
be
thus
rewarded
?
Did
you
only
raise
my
hopes
to
the
most
Glorious
height
,
that
ever
any
attain'd
unto
,
only
with
more
cruelty
to
precipitate
me
and
them
?
shall
your
mistake
be
more
powerful
for
my
Ruine
,
than
your
knowledg
for
my
preservation
?
Oh
Sir
,
give
me
not
so
much
cause
to
believe
,
that
what
you
say
proceeded
from
your
Ignorance
,
proceeded
from
your
Design
;
and
let
not
that
Princess
Mithridatia
be
made
a
Sacrifice
to
Gratitude
,
who
is
a
Blessing
above
all
that
Services
can
pretend
unto
;
do
not
give
Callimachus
more
than
you
should
,
and
do
not
give
me
less
than
you
promised
.
The
Services
of
Callimachus
,
said
Mithridates
,
deserve
my
highest
Acknowledgments
;
And
in
giving
him
Statira
,
you
therefore
see
how
highly
I
valued
Ascanius
,
since
to
him
I
once
had
destined
what
I
thought
a
full
recompence
for
preserving
and
restoring
my
whole
Family
and
my self
:
If
these
intentions
have
not
had
the
success
,
I
meant
them
possibly
it
is
not
more
your
trouble
,
than
it
is
mine
.
But
my
intentions
and
sufferings
,
said
Ascanius
,
have
been
greater
than
his
;
in
what
depended
of
our selves
,
I
have
been
as
much
his
superiour
,
as
in
what
depended
on
Chance
he
has
been
mine
:
Do
not
therefore
reward
Fortune
,
more
than
you
will
reward
Virtue
;
and
let
me
not
so
much
doubt
your
Justice
,
as
experimentally
to
feel
you
give
more
to
my
sollicitations
,
than
to
my
services
;
since
only
to
Crown
the
First
,
you
design'd
for
me
the
Princess
Mithridatia
,
and
to
recompence
the
last
you
condemn
me
to
a
loss
,
as
much
transcending
Death
,
as
his
Condition
who
shall
possess
the
Princess
,
will
transcend
the
condition
of
all
others
.
While
I
did
nothing
,
you
gave
me
all
I
could
wish
;
and
when
I
have
done
all
I
could
,
you
deny
me
what
you
promis'd
;
Callimachus's
Services
have
the
highest
Favour
,
but
mine
are
denied
the
lowest
Justice
.
Excuse
me
,
Sir
,
if
what
you
spoke
as
a
doubt
,
I
resent
as
a
certainty
;
I
know
you
are
too
just
,
and
too
Generous
to
violate
your
solemn
ingagements
;
and
that
I
need
no
other
Argument
to
incline
you
to
observe
them
,
but
to
remember
you
of
them
:
I
will
therefore
no
longer
plead
them
,
but
only
lay
before
you
,
what
is
your
Debt
to
the
Princess
,
who
ought
(
if
bestowed
on
any
)
to
be
given
to
him
,
who
by
the
highest
Flame
,
has
the
least
unworthy
Title
to
her
;
she
merits
more
than
to
sit
in
the
Throne
of
the
Universe
:
and
therefore
though
to
fit
in
that
of
Cyprus
be
below
her
,
yet
't
much
more
below
her
to
be
given
to
one
,
who
is
so
far
from
having
a
Throne
to
invite
her
to
,
that
he
has
not
so
much
as
a
certain
residence
to
present
her
;
whose
Birth
is
not
known
to
you
,
and
possibly
to
himself
:
or
if
he
be
not
ignorant
of
it
,
yet
his
not
discovering
of
it
,
may
justly
invite
you
to
believe
the
lowness
of
it
,
is
the
cause
why
he
conceals
it
;
for
't
is
better
to
doubt
that
evil
,
than
to
be
certain
of
it
,
whereby
your
admirable
Daughter
will
be
made
a
Sacrifice
to
your
Ignorance
,
instead
of
your
Gratitude
,
and
perhaps
after
her
Condition
is
irrevocable
,
you
may
find
,
that
she
who
Merits
the
whole
World
,
may
be
cast
away
upon
one
who
is
of
the
lowest
degree
in
it
,
and
who
has
nothing
considerable
but
his
Fortune
and
his
Sword
.
While
I
perceived
,
continued
Callimachus
,
that
Mithridates
opposed
the
desires
of
Ascanius
,
I
did
without
interrupting
his
Solicitations
,
listen
to
them
;
but
when
so
rudely
he
reflected
on
me
,
and
that
at
the
end
of
what
he
had
said
,
I
observed
the
Pontick
King
,
and
the
whole
Assembly
turned
their
Eyes
upon
me
,
and
thereby
seemed
to
tell
me
,
They
expected
I
should
answer
for
my self
:
I
did
immediately
upon
my
knees
kiss
the
Princess
Statira's
hand
,
which
during
the
Glorious
words
of
Contract
,
and
till
then
,
I
had
by
her
permission
held
in
Mine
:
and
then
rising
and
turning
my self
to
Ascanius
,
with
a
look
which
some
of
my
Friends
afterwards
assured
me
,
made
him
look
paler
than
his
wounds
had
done
,
I
told
him
;
King
of
Cyprus
,
while
you
did
plead
the
Great
Mithridates
Promises
,
the
only
Title
you
could
show
for
the
Confidence
of
your
Ambition
;
and
while
you
owned
every
man
unworthy
of
that
Blessing
you
solicited
,
I
kept
that
silence
,
which
my
respect
to
the
highest
Assembly
in
the
World
,
render'd
my
duty
;
But
,
now
that
you
have
broken
those
Bounds
,
and
that
you
endeavour
to
raise
your
own
Trophies
to
my
prejudice
,
I
must
tell
you
,
That
if
the
highest
and
most
perfect
Flame
that
ever
burnt
,
renders
him
that
is
blest
with
it
,
the
least
unworthy
of
the
Princess
Statira's
esteem
,
't
is
Callimachus
,
and
not
Ascanius
has
the
best
Title
to
that
Happiness
;
which
in
any
part
of
the
World
,
but
before
those
which
are
the
chiefest
in
it
,
I
will
justifie
.
The
Ignorance
of
my
Birth
which
you
upbraid
me
with
,
is
that
I
glory
in
;
for
't
is
more
to
perform
the
Actions
of
a
King
,
than
only
to
be
born
One
;
and
the
Sword
which
can
conquer
Kingdoms
,
is
more
to
be
valued
than
that
King
whose
Sword
does
lose
them
.
In
what
quarrel
is
it
,
you
can
flatter
your self
with
Hope
of
success
,
when
even
in
the
Princess
Statira's
Service
,
nay
,
even
in
her
sight
,
you
have
twice
fail'd
of
it
?
By
your
first
drawing
of
your
Sword
,
she
lost
her
precious
Liberty
;
and
by
your
second
,
she
had
lost
even
the
hopes
of
recovering
it
,
if
this
Callimachus
,
whose
Birth
is
unknown
,
or
possibly
is
of
the
lowest
in
the
whole
World
,
had
not
paid
her
those
Duties
,
which
your
exalted
Birth
were
unable
to
present
her
.
Ascanius
,
said
Callimachus
,
had
not
the
patience
to
hear
,
me
out
,
but
interrupting
me
at
these
Words
,
reply'd
,
Were
not
this
glorious
Assembly
,
and
the
sacred
Place
in
which
thou
dost
speak
thy
insolent
Words
,
thy
double
Sanctuary
;
thou
shouldst
before
now
have
felt
thy
punishment
from
that
Sword
,
which
thy
Pride
does
so
undervalue
:
if
it
should
not
serve
me
in
this
reparation
,
I
would
eternally
forswear
wearing
it
;
but
I
may
live
to
see
thee
before
other
company
,
and
in
another
place
.
If
that
were
really
thy
desire
,
I
answered
,
thou
wouldst
not
have
taken
so
hopeful
a
way
of
preventing
it
,
as
to
have
made
this
Declaration
before
so
many
Witnesses
;
neither
could'st
thou
have
more
evidently
manifested
my
Adorations
for
the
Princess
Statira
excels
thine
,
than
in
promising
thy self
more
success
from
thy
Sword
,
in
revenging
thy
own
Quarrel
,
than
revenging
hers
,
when
even
thy
own
Faults
made
her
Revenge
a
double
duty
.
Thou
dost
allow
me
two
Sanctuaries
,
but
I
allow
thee
but
one
;
for
were
it
not
in
reverence
to
this
Assembly
,
thou
should'st
find
that
neither
the
Temple
we
are
in
,
nor
the
Altar
of
it
,
should
be
thy
Protection
.
Would
to
the
gods
,
Ascanius
furiously
reply'd
,
that
only
the
Sword
thou
so
magnifi'st
,
and
that
Sword
thou
so
undervaluest
,
were
to
decide
who
is
least
unworthy
of
the
Princess
Statira
;
Thou
should'st
soon
feel
the
highest
Birth
is
capable
only
of
the
highest
Passion
:
And
though
I
might
with
Justice
promise
my self
upon
my
own
account
a
Victory
against
thy
Sword
;
yet
I
would
ascertain
it
by
making
the
fair
Mithridatia
,
not
only
the
Cause
of
our
dispute
,
but
the
Reward
of
it
;
thou
would'st
then
learn
,
that
all
those
Laurels
Fortune
has
heaped
upon
thy
Head
,
were
but
prepared
for
me
;
that
I
was
seemingly
unsuccessful
,
but
to
become
more
really
the
contrary
;
and
what
thou
did'st
obtain
more
from
the
Valour
of
those
thou
had'st
the
Honour
to
lead
,
than
from
thine
own
,
would
by
my
Swords
purchase
,
become
my
Right
;
yes
,
presumptuous
Callimachus
,
I
renounce
the
King
of
Pontus
his
engagements
to
me
;
I
renounce
the
superiority
of
my
Title
and
Birth
;
I
will
forget
the
Ignorance
,
or
meanness
of
thine
;
do
but
singly
dispute
the
Princess
Statira
with
me
,
and
I
will
forgive
thy
past
insolencies
to
her
and
me
,
if
thou
wilt
put
me
but
in
so
certain
a
way
of
hindering
thee
from
repeating
them
in
the
Future
.
This
Generosity
,
I
reply'd
,
with
raptures
of
Joy
I
accept
;
give
me
so
certain
away
of
punishing
thee
I
will
renounce
my
Glorious
Contract
,
I
will
forget
thy
being
twice
defeated
,
I
will
only
consider
thee
as
a
Rival
worthy
of
my
Sword
;
and
leave
it
to
the
gods
,
whether
a
Third
time
they
think
fit
to
declare
,
what
they
have
twice
declared
already
.
Ascanius
without
listening
further
to
what
I
was
about
to
say
,
or
answering
what
I
had
said
,
turned
himself
to
Mithridates
,
and
in
the
most
moving
Actions
and
Expressions
he
was
capable
of
,
solicited
his
permission
to
that
offer
which
he
had
made
,
and
I
had
so
joyfully
accepted
.
Possibly
,
Generous
Princes
,
Callimachus
continued
,
you
may
admire
that
Mithridates
did
not
interpose
his
Authority
at
the
very
beginning
of
these
Discourses
between
the
King
of
Cyprus
and
me
.
But
perhaps
you
will
do
so
no
longer
,
when
I
have
told
you
,
That
when
our
First
heats
began
,
Cleomax
having
whispered
to
Pharnaces
,
that
Prince
forthwith
told
his
Father
in
his
Ear
something
,
at
which
he
was
so
surprized
,
that
he
was
so
far
from
interrupting
what
had
past
betwixt
us
,
that
he
scarcely
listened
unto
it
;
for
he
had
taken
Cleomax
aside
,
with
Pharnaces
,
with
whom
he
so
intently
did
Discourse
,
that
all
the
while
Ascanius
was
imploring
a
Concession
to
his
request
,
the
King
of
Pontus
neither
answered
him
,
nor
so
much
as
looked
towards
him
;
And
by
that
time
the
Cyprian
had
finished
his
Request
,
Mithridates
having
done
speaking
with
his
Son
,
and
with
Cleomax
,
Ascanius
fell
a
repeating
that
suit
which
he
had
so
lately
made
,
and
to
which
he
had
received
no
return
;
having
the
second
time
ended
what
he
would
say
,
Mithridates
desired
his
Excuse
for
having
given
so
little
attention
to
his
First
Solicitation
;
for
he
had
been
taken
up
in
an
imployment
,
which
possibly
might
render
unnecessary
the
yielding
to
his
desires
.
Then
turning
himself
to
me
,
with
his
voice
raised
more
than
ordinarily
,
he
told
me
;
Callimachus
,
what
I
have
done
this
day
for
you
,
before
I
knew
of
the
King
of
Cyprus
being
alive
;
and
what
I
have
said
for
you
,
since
I
knew
it
,
gives
you
no
shadow
to
doubt
that
I
not
only
value
your
Eminent
services
,
but
made
it
my
care
to
reward
them
in
a
way
at
least
answerable
to
their
greatness
,
and
the
just
sense
I
had
of
them
:
But
I
have
been
now
assured
of
that
,
which
if
true
,
I
shall
more
repent
my
Favours
,
than
ever
I
was
desirous
to
load
you
with
them
;
had
it
been
what
only
my
Informer
would
have
told
me
,
and
not
justified
to
your
Face
,
I
had
received
his
Intelligence
with
as
much
contempt
,
as
now
I
entertain
it
with
trouble
;
but
since
he
desires
,
I
will
believe
what
he
told
me
to
be
true
or
false
,
but
as
you
shall
confess
,
or
deny
,
I
will
not
scruple
to
put
that
to
a
tryal
,
where
you
are
Party
,
Witness
,
and
Judg.
My
Informer
is
Cleomax
;
my
Information
is
,
That
't
was
not
only
Ostanes
which
helped
you
to
escape
,
but
that
he
did
it
by
Nicomedes's
Orders
;
and
that
the
banished
Bithynian
King
laid
the
Design
for
your
Flight
,
by
a
joint
contrivance
of
it
with
your self
;
whether
this
be
true
or
false
,
you
your self
can
best
tell
me
:
and
till
you
give
me
your
answer
,
I
will
believe
neither
;
but
I
expect
,
nay
,
I
enjoyn
you
to
deal
clearly
with
me
,
and
to
disguise
nothing
;
the
freedom
I
have
used
merits
what
I
demand
,
and
I
know
you
will
not
give
me
an
answer
which
may
render
you
unworthy
of
such
an
usage
.
Never
,
Generous
Princes
,
continued
Callimachus
,
was
any
Man's
surprize
comparable
to
Mine
,
at
this
fatal
Question
;
to
deny
the
Truth
was
to
wound
that
Sincerity
which
my
Words
and
Actions
had
alwayes
observed
;
and
to
confess
the
Truth
,
was
to
Wound
me
mortally
in
those
hopes
,
whose
Death
I
most
apprehended
:
This
unexpected
fatal
discovery
and
question
,
and
the
ruinous
Consequences
of
not
answering
at
all
,
or
answering
the
Truth
,
so
confounded
me
,
that
I
remained
speechless
so
long
,
that
Mithridates
told
me
;
if
I
would
not
answer
,
he
would
take
my
silence
for
a
Confession
.
This
cruel
Declaration
forced
me
to
say
,
Sir
,
You
should
not
have
needed
a
second
,
and
a
threatning
Command
,
if
by
solemn
Engagements
,
I
had
not
bound
my self
to
silence
,
in
what
I
now
seem
to
be
accused
of
.
Sir
,
said
Pharnaces
to
his
Father
,
you
need
no
greater
evincement
of
Cleomax's
Fidelity
to
your
Service
,
and
of
Callimachus's
guilt
,
than
his
not
answering
this
Charge
;
and
he
that
is
so
much
a
Friend
to
your
Mortallest
Enemy
,
merits
not
to
be
trusted
against
him
;
Much
less
to
have
your
FavoriteDaughter
,
made
the
reward
of
his
Services
.
To
which
the
Generous
Atafernes
interrupting
what
I
was
going
to
answer
,
reply'd
,
Allow
Sir
,
that
what
Cleomax
informs
were
true
:
I
hope
Sir
,
you
will
not
think
it
Just
to
credit
inferences
above
actual
Services
:
he
values
still
his
Duty
to
you
,
above
his
Gratitude
to
Nicomedes
:
and
he
that
cannot
be
corrupted
by
such
Obligations
,
is
uncapable
of
that
sin
;
so
that
even
his
accusation
is
so
far
from
rendering
him
the
less
capable
of
your
Favour
,
that
he
thereby
becomes
more
deserving
of
it
.
The
Prince
Atafernes
,
I
answered
Mithridates
,
has
said
so
much
,
in
so
little
,
that
he
leaves
me
nothing
to
do
,
but
only
to
mind
you
,
Sir
,
That
I
was
guilty
once
before
I
had
the
Honour
to
know
the
great
Mithridates
,
to
draw
my
Sword
in
Nicomedes's
Quarrel
against
yours
.
His
Generosity
possibly
remembred
more
what
I
had
at
first
done
for
him
,
than
what
since
I
had
done
against
him
,
and
if
I
submitted
to
his
Resentments
(
for
by
all
the
gods
,
I
never
courted
them
,
no
not
so
much
as
moved
him
to
them
)
it
was
with
this
firm
assurance
,
that
nothing
he
could
do
for
me
,
should
diminish
in
the
least
,
thezeal
I
had
to
your
Service
,
and
what
I
then
might
have
told
him
,
I
have
since
fully
Acted
:
But
why
,
reply'd
the
Pontick
King
,
with
a
furious
look
,
did
you
wholly
ascribe
your
Deliverance
to
Ostanes's
kindness
?
And
why
did
you
conceal
from
me
Nicomedes's
?
Perhaps
,
Sir
,
I
answer'd
,
Nicomedes
was
resolv'd
to
oblige
me
entirely
;
he
might
doubt
,
should
you
know
his
Favour
only
had
given
me
my
liberty
;
you
might
suspect
me
so
far
,
as
to
decline
receiving
those
Services
which
your
Ignorance
of
it
might
enable
me
to
present
you
:
He
knew
my
Nature
,
and
my
Justice
tied
me
to
acknowledg
Obligations
,
till
I
could
with
Honour
pay
them
;
And
to
prevent
my
receiving
a
prejudice
where
he
intended
me
a
Favour
,
he
might
confine
me
to
that
Silence
which
now
you
seem
to
ascribe
unto
my
guilt
.
Since
,
reply'd
Mithridates
with
an
inflamed
Countenance
,
I
find
Cleomax
has
told
me
the
Truth
,
I
since
find
you
acknowledg
an
high
Obligation
to
Nicomedes
,
and
a
Duty
therefore
upon
you
to
repay
it
;
And
since
you
have
declared
your
Resolution
never
to
part
from
my
Service
,
I
must
conclude
you
intend
whilst
in
that
,
to
serve
him
;
so
that
even
out
of
your
own
Mouth
I
find
it
but
just
,
not
to
give
my
Daughter
to
the
Friend
of
my
Enemy
;
And
not
to
trust
any
of
my
Armies
or
Fleets
to
one
whom
I
cannot
believe
,
or
else
must
believe
him
unworthy
that
high
Alliance
and
Trust.
Now
I
see
what
made
you
forward
to
exchange
him
without
my
consent
,
nay
,
without
my
knowledg
.
And
now
I
call
to
mind
the
Earnest
you
lately
gave
,
of
your
resolutions
to
oblige
Nicomedes
since
,
after
his
having
designed
my
Captivity
,
nay
,
I
believe
my
Murther
also
,
when
I
exprest
my
just
detestations
of
that
most
Barbarous
proceeding
,
and
bound
my self
to
revenge
it
by
my
most
inviolable
Oaths
,
you
would
have
had
me
forgot
both
my
Injuries
and
Vows
.
No
,
no
,
Callimachus
,
you
have
but
too
much
forfeited
all
my
good
Opinion
of
you
,
and
all
my
intentions
for
you
,
and
thereby
have
made
it
but
Reasonable
that
I
should
send
you
to
that
Nicomedes
to
whom
you
are
so
much
indebted
,
that
by
your
services
to
him
,
you
may
discharge
some
of
those
Obligations
you
acknowledg
you
owe
him
.
I
was
,
continued
Callimachus
,
wounded
to
the
heart
at
these
piercing
words
:
and
therefore
told
the
King
,
Because
Nicomedes
was
so
generous
to
me
,
Because
I
was
so
just
to
him
as
to
pay
him
that
Gratitude
and
Obedience
I
might
present
him
without
Infidelity
to
you
;
nay
,
which
was
more
for
your
Service
than
his
;
for
had
I
told
you
my
Obligations
to
him
,
your
suspicion
had
disabled
me
from
paying
you
these
Services
of
defeating
his
Fleet
,
and
of
saving
your
precious
Life
,
and
the
Lives
and
Liberties
of
the
Royal
House
of
Pontus
.
Must
his
Gallantry
,
and
my
Innocent
Retributions
for
it
,
be
esteemed
my
Guilt
?
And
must
weak
Inferences
be
more
Credited
against
me
,
than
signal
Actions
be
Credited
for
me
?
Must
the
Exchanging
of
a
dying
Prisoner
for
the
Princess
Statira
,
be
now
esteemed
a
Crime
,
which
so
lately
was
esteemed
a
considerable
Service
?
Had
I
stayed
for
receiving
your
Commands
,
I
might
have
lost
the
power
of
obeying
them
;
And
shall
the
exchanging
a
Prisoner
loaden
with
Wounds
,
for
that
divine
Princess
which
is
above
Ransom
,
be
thought
a
greater
Guilt
,
than
reducing
that
great
Prisoner
to
that
Condition
,
is
thought
a
Service
?
Shall
my
pleading
against
a
Vow
,
which
pregnant
Evincements
manifested
to
be
mistakenly
grounded
,
and
which
was
to
hinder
the
great
Mithridates
from
what
I
thought
unjust
,
be
now
considered
as
my
Crime
?
Shall
my
words
Pleading
for
you
as
much
,
if
not
more
than
for
him
,
be
more
operative
against
me
,
than
my
Actions
and
my
Wounds
are
perswasive
for
me
?
Alas
!
it
is
high
time
to
despair
,
when
what
was
my
Merit
,
is
now
considered
as
my
Guilt
.
No
,
Sir
,
think
not
of
sending
me
to
Nicomedes
;
though
I
acknowledg
I
owe
him
much
,
yet
I
prefer
Affronts
in
your
Service
above
Glory
in
his
;
And
if
your
differences
should
never
be
reconciled
,
I
had
rather
die
ungrateful
to
him
,
than
ever
separate
my self
one
Moment
from
your
Interests
,
Pardon
me
,
Sir
,
if
I
say
,
I
find
my
only
Guilt
is
Ascanius's
Resurrection
;
You
owe
the
Princess
Mithridatia's
Vertue
and
Birth
,
more
than
you
owe
the
Duties
of
my
Services
;
and
since
you
see
nothing
can
pay
them
,
but
what
does
over-pay
them
,
and
that
you
think
it
juster
to
give
her
to
him
who
can
place
her
in
a
Throne
,
than
to
him
who
has
only
a
Sword
to
conquer
one
for
her
,
you
therefore
chuse
to
pay
my
performances
by
blasting
of
them
;
and
rob
me
of
all
Title
to
Happiness
,
by
laying
to
my
charge
an
imaginary
Crime
;
but
though
my
respect
to
the
great
Mithridates
,
and
which
is
more
,
to
the
Father
of
the
Princess
Statira
,
will
bind
me
not
to
repine
at
what
he
shall
decree
:
yet
having
no
obligation
to
the
Cyprian
King
,
I
must
and
do
now
solemnly
Vow
before
those
gods
to
whom
this
Temple
is
dedicated
,
and
who
were
invoked
to
be
Witnesses
of
my
Felicity
,
as
now
they
are
of
my
Disgrace
,
That
if
he
solicites
the
breaking
of
that
Glorious
Contract
,
your
Commands
and
the
Princess
Mithridatia's
condescension
has
blessed
me
with
,
though
he
still
should
sit
in
his
Throne
,
and
should
still
be
guarded
by
all
his
Subjects
,
yet
through
all
their
Swords
,
Mine
shall
force
a
passage
to
his
Breast
,
and
make
him
feel
,
and
the
World
see
the
vastness
of
my
Passion
,
in
that
of
my
Revenges
,
overcoming
all
those
difficulties
which
could
oppose
it
.
Mithridates
at
these
words
losing
all
his
Temper
,
in
Raptures
of
Fury
told
me
,
Art
thou
not
only
contented
with
having
owned
thy self
a
Friend
to
my
Enemy
,
but
wilt
also
declare
thy self
the
intended
Murtherer
of
that
King
to
whom
I
will
give
Statira
?
Since
thy
Insolence
has
made
thee
discover
thy
Criminal
Intentions
,
my
Justice
shall
prevent
thy
Acting
them
;
Then
turning
to
the
Captain
of
his
Guards
,
he
commanded
him
and
them
to
seize
on
me
.
Whilst
the
Captain
of
the
Guards
,
and
the
Guards
themselves
,
in
their
amazement
or
trouble
at
that
fatal
and
unjust
Command
,
continued
Moveless
;
Pharnaces
and
Ascanius
drawing
their
Swords
,
came
towards
me
to
execute
that
Order
,
which
those
to
whom
only
it
was
given
,
wanted
Power
,
or
had
too
much
honesty
to
perform
.
This
made
me
immediately
draw
Mine
,
and
having
told
Pharnaces
the
employment
he
took
was
below
a
Prince
,
and
a
Prince
that
was
the
Princess
Statira's
Brother
,
against
whom
I
durst
not
lift
up
my
hands
,
but
would
offer
to
his
Sword
my
unguarded
Breast
,
rather
than
employ
it
against
one
so
nearly
related
to
her
;
I
put
by
that
thrust
Ascanius
in
the
mean
time
made
at
me
,
and
closing
with
him
,
I
flung
him
down
,
disarmed
him
,
and
had
then
and
there
Acted
my
Revenge
,
if
the
fair
Statira's
Commands
,
more
than
all
those
Guards
which
at
last
by
their
Kings
repeated
Orders
had
inviron'd
me
,
and
forced
from
my
hands
my
own
Sword
,
had
not
hinder'd
me
from
the
Execution
of
my
just
Resentments
.
But
those
being
supprest
by
the
highest
Commands
,
I
turned
my self
towards
her
who
had
imposed
them
on
me
,
and
with
the
deepest
submission
imaginable
,
I
told
her
;
The
gods
,
Madam
,
even
in
their
Temple
,
and
in
their
presence
,
and
yours
also
,
have
so
much
eased
that
weight
of
these
miseries
I
am
loaden
with
,
that
even
in
that
way
my
Rival
Elected
to
decide
who
is
the
least
unworthy
of
you
,
have
declared
their
Sentence
in
that
great
Cause
,
in
favour
of
him
to
whom
the
right
did
belong
;
Your
Mercy
,
Fair
Princess
,
is
not
more
evident
to
him
,
than
my
Success
is
;
and
instead
of
punishing
the
Presumptuous
aspiring
of
his
Addresses
,
and
his
unsuccessfulness
in
your
Quarrel
,
by
which
you
were
made
a
Prisoner
,
you
were
pleased
to
save
his
life
,
for
't
was
only
your
Commands
which
did
it
;
and
I
glory
more
in
my
Obedience
,
than
my
Victory
,
since
in
that
I
powerfully
evidence
all
your
Commands
are
Sacred
to
me
;
nor
can
you
doubt
I
will
disobey
any
of
them
,
since
I
even
obey
those
for
him
,
whose
injuries
to
you
are
greater
than
those
he
has
cast
upon
me
.
Mithridates
inflamed
at
what
I
had
done
,
beyond
the
capability
of
Accession
,
Commanded
me
forthwith
to
be
carried
close
Prisoner
to
Heraclia
:
Solemnly
vowing
,
that
if
I
escaped
thence
,
the
Governor's
life
should
answer
it
;
and
then
observing
the
Dejectedness
of
Ascanius
,
to
revive
him
,
and
the
more
sensibly
to
be
revenged
on
me
,
He
turned
himself
to
the
Princess
,
and
told
her
,
Statira
,
Callimachus
having
thus
forfeited
all
my
good
intentions
for
him
;
and
that
Prince
to
whom
I
first
designed
you
,
being
restored
to
Life
,
I
command
you
to
perfect
in
this
Temple
that
happiness
for
him
,
which
you
were
interrupted
from
conferring
on
him
,
in
the
other
.
This
Injunction
,
continued
Callimachus
,
wounded
me
more
than
all
those
unparallel'd
Miseries
Fortune
had
that
Day
heaped
upon
me
;
and
whilst
I
was
sinking
under
their
weight
,
I
observed
the
Princess
Mithridatia
at
that
fatal
Command
change
Colour
,
and
continued
in
a
deep
Silence
,
which
made
the
Pontick
King
tell
her
;
I
shall
think
your
cruelty
,
not
kindness
,
made
you
concerned
to
save
Ascanius's
life
,
unless
in
the
way
I
enjoyn
you
,
you
forthwith
do
ask
his
Blessing
.
At
this
second
Assault
she
continued
as
Silent
,
and
under
the
same
,
found
higher
Disorders
than
at
the
First
time
:
which
so
incensed
her
inraged
Father
,
that
he
told
her
;
What
,
Statira
,
Have
you
also
lost
that
Obedience
,
which
till
this
Moment
you
so
exactly
paid
to
all
my
Commands
?
Can
you
think
That
Callimachus
worthy
of
my
Daughter
,
that
I
think
unworthy
of
Liberty
,
perhaps
of
Life
?
and
,
Can
you
for
such
a
Man
decline
a
Prince
,
as
great
in
his
Passion
as
in
his
Birth
,
who
has
expos'd
the
Forces
of
his
Kingdom
,
and
his
Life
also
,
for
your
Service
?
and
if
his
Success
has
not
proportion'd
his
Courage
,
or
his
Vertue
,
yet
he
that
so
nearly
had
lost
his
Life
to
obtain
the
Victory
,
shewed
how
much
he
deserved
it
;
and
if
you
value
not
him
above
the
false
Callimachus
,
you
manifest
,
you
esteem
Merit
less
than
Fortune
;
I
require
you
,
nay
,
I
Command
you
to
place
the
King
of
Cyprus
in
that
Felicity
I
had
designed
for
one
you
must
acknowledg
unworthy
of
it
.
And
let
me
not
meet
with
a
disobedience
in
an
Injunction
which
I
am
concerned
should
be
observ'd
in
Honour
to
my self
,
Affection
to
you
,
and
Revenge
to
Callimachus
,
Alas
,
Sir
,
reply'd
the
Princess
Statira
,
with
the
deepest
submission
and
midness
;
What
is
it
you
Command
me
?
The
gods
are
my
Witnesses
,
I
have
in
all
things
paid
you
an
Obedience
so
perfect
,
that
't
is
in
the
last
evincement
of
that
Truth
,
that
you
have
now
render'd
me
uncapable
to
present
you
with
this
other
which
now
you
require
from
me
.
For
to
obey
your
Commands
I
have
Solemnly
Vowed
before
all
the
gods
,
and
the
Great
Assembly
,
That
I
will
be
no
Man
's
but
Callimachus's
,
and
that
I
will
be
his
;
A
higher
Duty
therefore
than
that
I
owe
my
Father
and
my
King
,
renders
me
unable
to
obey
him
;
and
since
my
Obedience
justifies
my
now
disobedience
,
you
will
not
I
hope
call
that
my
Crime
which
is
my
Religion
.
By
all
those
gods
,
Mithridates
furiously
Answer'd
,
You
shall
never
be
Callimachus's
;
You
may
,
Sir
,
(
reply'd
the
Princess
,
in
her
former
submissiveness
)
hinder
me
from
being
his
:
But
Sir
,
I
can
never
be
any
Man
's
but
his
.
At
these
Glorious
words
,
breaking
out
of
the
hands
of
those
Guards
which
held
me
,
I
cast
my self
at
her
Feet
,
and
told
her
,
This
Charming
Assurance
,
divine
Princess
,
gives
me
a
Joy
which
does
overbalance
all
those
Miseries
I
have
had
this
day
hurl'd
upon
me
;
you
show
your self
in
this
admirable
Action
,
worthy
of
greater
Empires
than
your
Piety
makes
you
decline
;
your
vouchsafing
to
own
your
despised
Callimachus
,
when
Men
,
nay
,
when
Fortune
and
Justice
it self
abandons
him
,
puts
him
in
a
Capacity
to
out-brave
all
Misfortunes
;
Yes
,
divine
Statira
,
I
consider
now
all
my
sufferings
with
contentment
,
since
't
is
those
only
have
invited
you
to
say
more
in
my
Favour
,
than
all
my
Services
could
extort
from
you
;
I
now
no
more
condemn
my
Destiny
,
't
is
so
Glorious
,
it
rather
Merits
Envy
than
Pity
;
now
I
despise
Captivity
,
nay
,
Death
it self
,
having
in
this
one
moment
heard
assurances
from
the
justest
and
fairest
Lips
,
which
are
Felicities
enough
for
an
Age
,
and
those
Happinesses
the
gods
deny
me
in
length
,
their
perfectest
Resembler
confers
on
me
in
weight
.
I
had
longer
continued
in
Raptures
of
this
Nature
,
but
that
I
was
by
Mithridates's
Commands
forced
from
that
happy
posture
in
which
I
had
entertained
and
delivered
them
,
who
exasperated
to
the
highest
at
his
Admirable
Daughters
Refusal
,
and
at
my
Triumphing
at
it
,
ordered
me
furiously
to
be
carried
to
the
place
of
my
appointed
close
Imprisonment
.
And
the
Excellent
Statira
having
not
only
once
more
declined
that
Obedience
he
exacted
from
her
,
but
besought
him
ever
in
Tears
to
suspend
his
Resentment
against
me
for
an
Action
whose
effects
had
preserved
him
and
her self
from
Ruine
,
and
by
which
he
was
restored
to
the
power
of
using
me
with
such
Violence
,
his
Choler
grew
so
blind
and
boundless
,
that
he
forthwith
confined
to
her
Appartment
the
greatest
Beauty
and
Vertue
of
the
World
;
and
all
that
the
Generous
Atafernes
could
say
and
beg
for
us
both
,
was
so
far
from
hindring
our
Restraints
,
that
it
had
like
to
have
made
him
share
in
them
.
The
End
of
the
Fourth
Book
of
the
Sixth
and
last
Part
of
PARTHENISSA
.
FINIS
.