PANTHALIA
:
OR
,
The
Royall
ROMANCE
.
IN
Candy
,
by
all
Historians
ancient
and
moderne
,
related
to
be
most
happy
for
pleasure
of
Seate
and
fertility
of
Soil
:
stored
with
variety
of
all
fruits
:
and
refreshed
with
an
equall
temperature
of
ayre
,
to
render
more
spirit
,
increase
and
vivacity
to
those
fruits
;
there
reigned
sometimes
a
Princesse
called
[
*
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*
Cusano
calls
her
Athalia
;
but
d●fferent
from
other
Authors
.
Bellingeria
:
a
Lady
of
a
masculine
spirit
,
and
above
the
effeminacy
of
her
Sexe
,
and
delicacy
of
her
Education
,
warlike
and
couragious
.
All
her
raign
she
lived
a
single
life
:
singularly
indowed
with
all
eminent
vertues
and
princely
Ornaments
suitable
to
a
person
of
her
quality
:
affecting
nothing
more
then
to
present
personall
state
corresponding
with
the
dignity
of
her
place
:
and
to
imprint
a
gratefull
emulation
in
those
Ladies
of
Honour
,
that
attended
her
of
admiring
,
if
not
of
imitating
so
incomparable
a
pattern
of
becoming
state
,
presence
and
majesty
.
Main
and
many
were
her
Interests
with
forraign
Nations
:
whose
Embassies
(
so
generally
vers'd
she
was
in
all
tongues
)
She
ever
answer'd
in
her
own
person
,
without
the
hel
of
any
Interpretour
.
Neither
was
she
at
any
time
observ'd
to
dismisse
these
without
satisfaction
:
so
copiously
happy
she
appear'd
in
her
expresse
,
so
expedite
in
her
dispatch
.
Many
profest
themselves
her
Servants
;
amongst
which
one
Monsieur
Artesio
;
a
gentleman
of
eminent
Family
,
and
singularly
imbellished
with
all
corres●onding
qualities
to
ennoble
his
descent
:
but
her
innate
affection
to
a
single
l●fe
would
stoup
to
no
lure
.
Though
Censure
,
which
is
ever
shooting
her
impoyson'd
shafts
at
persons
of
highest
place
,
would
not
stick
to
taxe
her
of
too
much
freedom
in
entertaining
Favorites
.
And
of
these
,
Clarentio
;
whom
she
was
thought
to
receive
with
far
more
intimacy
and
familiarity
then
any
of
her
rest
,
as
he
well
deserved
:
For
his
actions
were
amiable
:
and
his
disposition
so
sweetly
tempered
;
as
he
became
popular
without
seeking
it
:
and
generally
belov'd
without
any
obsequious
officiating
of
it
.
But
this
continent
Lady
;
whose
actions
were
richly
interlay'd
with
Princely
Strains
of
Modesty
and
Majesty
;
holding
it
not
sufficient
to
be
innocent
;
that
she
might
decline
all
occasion
of
aspersion
,
apt
to
traduce
the
purest
and
refinedst
tempers
;
she
intimated
her
constant
resolvs
to
her
much
endeered
Clarentio
:
and
putting
pen
to
paper
:
caution'd
him
,
forth
of
a
tender
relation
to
her
Honour
,
in
this
manner
:
Although
Clarentio
,
I
am
confident
that
your
thoughts
are
so
pure
,
as
you
make
it
the
lowest
of
your
scorne
,
to
entertain
an
unbecoming
and
inordinate
affection
:
so
it
behoveth
us
to
reflect
on
whatsoever
may
properly
conduce
to
the
advancement
or
improvement
of
our
honour
.
Fame
is
a
precious
Odour
:
but
never
so
fresh
nor
fragrant
,
as
when
it
breaths
in
the
bosom-border
of
eminent
Personages
:
whose
vertues
appear
most
transparent
,
when
they
diffuse
their
rayes
from
the
face
of
Greatnesse
.
We
will
not
Clarentio
,
inlarge
our selves
too
much
,
lest
we
should
perplex
your
thoughts
with
a
tedious
Preamble
,
before
we
acquaint
you
with
our
aime
.
Truth
is
,
my
much
endeered
Clarentio
,
that
the
whole
Court
has
taken
n●t●ce
of
your
free
and
frequent
accesse
unto
us
:
The
facility
of
your
admittance
;
with
our
liberty
and
freedom
of
discourse
.
That
excellent
States-man
had
made
an
exact
Survey
and
Discovery
of
Princes
Courts
,
who
charactred
them
full
of
Eyes
and
Eares
:
Eyes
,
to
pry
and
observe
:
Eares
,
to
hear
and
traduce
.
This
has
begot
in
us
that
circumspection
:
as
our
address
must
be
to
appear
in
that
Robe
of
Innocence
to
the
eye
of
the
World
,
which
we
cordially
profess
:
And
as
an
inestim●ble
Jewel
in
our
secretst
Cabinet
above
all
other
Ornaments
,
which
either
Art
or
Nature
can
possibly
confer
upon
us
,
we
carefully
retain
.
Our
Injunction
then
Clarentio
,
must
be
this
;
that
you
henceforth
discontinue
our
visits
,
and
leave
us
to
our self
.
Yet
that
it
may
appear
,
how
your
zeal
&
alacrity
in
your
service
to
us
both
at
home
&
abroad
;
retains
a
constant
impression
in
your
Princess
:
and
that
she
is
as
prompt
to
exhibit
as
to
receive
Favours
:
accept
this
Ring
here
inclosed
for
an
affectionate
pledge
and
tender
of
your
loyalty
:
which
merits
an
higher
guerdon
:
though
I
must
ingenu●usly
tell
you
,
my
loyal
Clarentio
;
that
this
token
,
though
at
first
sight
of
small
consequence
,
may
redound
to
your
advantage
.
I
am
not
ignorant
of
your
condition
;
how
you
are
or
may
be
encountred
with
many
occurrences
.
Profest
Enemies
and
private
ompe●i●ors
to
your
rising
greatness
.
These
,
when
they
see
my
eyes
averted
from
you
;
wil
work
upon
your
distance
:
and
mould
some
design
or
other
to
your
precipice
.
But
let
not
this
amate
you
;
when
you
are
exposed
to
the
extreamest
of
danger
,
so
tender
am
I
of
your
safety
and
honour
:
that
this
Ring
returned
to
us
,
shall
secure
you
,
and
bring
you
fairly
off
,
in
spi●e
of
all
opposition
.
Private
Presents
are
exempted
from
jealousies
:
and
inioyn
an
acceptance
,
compassionating
the
persons
distance
.
No
more
;
let
this
confirme
me
thy
constant
and
affectionate
Protectress
,
while
I
am
,
Bellingeria
.
This
unexpected
Letter
was
not
with
that
discretion
relished
;
nor
with
that
moderation
digested
,
as
became
his
condition
.
For
apprehending
,
as
his
distempered
thoughts
suggested
to
him
,
who
these
active
Instruments
mi●ht
be
,
by
whose
subtile
undermining
,
he
became
thus
,
debarred
of
all
access
to
his
endee●ed
Princess
:
as
one
highly
transported
with
passion
(
as
what
will
not
the
heat
of
Competition
do
?
)
he
resolved
to
take
revenge
of
his
suspected
Corrivals
,
or
to
perish
in
his
design
.
And
to
fortifie
him
in
his
resolvs
the
better
,
he
joynes
Licorus
and
Merannes
unto
him
;
Persons
of
power
:
and
such
as
retained
no
good
o●inion
of
Licinio
;
being
the
very
same
whom
Clarentio
suspected
,
and
mortally
hated
.
Licorus
had
some
grounded
reasons
to
pursue
the
Quest
of
Clarentio's
design
;
having
received
sundry
affronts
,
and
those
insupportable
to
his
Heroick
spirit
,
from
an
inferiour
Favorite
to
the
Princess
:
so
as
no
occasion
could
be
more
welcom
then
this
forward
attempt
of
discontented
Clarentio
.
Which
within
few
dayes
after
(
with
so
impetuous
a
Career
was
the
torrent
of
their
revenge
hurried
)
broke
forth
into
an
o●en
commotion
.
The
prime
Seat
,
where
at
that
ti●e
the
Princess
kept
her
Court
,
became
wholly
discomposed
,
the
Citizens
variously
affected
,
and
into
factions
divided
.
Some
out
of
their
love
to
Clarentio
,
as
none
more
generally
endeered
,
nor
popularly
interessed
.
Others
of
lower
Fortunes
,
desiring
nothing
more
then
to
Fish
in
troubled
waters
,
itched
eagerly
after
Innovation
,
the
onely
Object
of
ma●ignant
spirits
:
but
weak
and
sandy
is
the
Founda●ion
of
that
Building
,
which
rears
the
Arches
of
●er
Fabrick
upon
Po●ular
affection
.
The
giddy
●●ltitude
,
consisting
of
undisciplin'd
men
;
whose
●e●cefull
Education
had
initiated
them
more
to
●hop
then
Camp
,
after
some
light
●icqueers
and
●asie
repulses
,
left
unfortunate
Clarentio
to
all
●xtreames
;
which
afterwards
threw
him
into
an
●reparable
Precipice
.
For
though
he
with
his
few
●dherents
demeaned
themselvs
with
incompa●able
resolution
;
yet
at
last
oppressed
with
num●er
;
by
Licinio's
inter●osing
himself
(
as
it
highly
●oncerned
him
)
and
disswading
such
as
appeared
●ssistants
to
Clarentio
:
from
exposing
themselvs
●nd
Fortunes
to
manifest
ruine
,
by
neglecting
●●eir
loyalty
;
and
adhering
to
a
publick
Incendi●y
,
whose
pursuit
after
private
ends
and
ungrate●ll
requital
of
his
Princes
favours
,
had
sufficiently
manifested
to
the
World
,
whereto
his
ambitious
designs
were
levelled
,
and
with
what
a
Tragicall
period
closed
.
Those
,
who
had
profest
themselv●
his
to
death
,
deserted
him
;
preferring
the
safety
of
their
Persons
,
before
their
ingaged
reputation
.
Such
was
the
mutability
of
Plebeian
assurances
.
All
this
while
,
Clarentio
with
his
few
Assistants
,
stood
upon
their
guard
;
resolved
to
sell
their
blood
at
as
dear
a
rate
as
they
could
.
But
being
first
advised
to
try
the
affections
of
those
who
appeared
wavering
:
and
by
declaration
of
his
loyall
intendments
to
decline
their
defection
and
falling
from
him
;
he
exprest
himself
in
this
manner
,
to
satisfie
such
as
stood
for
him
;
as
likewise
those
who
were
fluctuant
in
their
resolvs
,
or
suspected
him
:
that
his
actions
,
maugre
all
sinister
mistakes
,
were
wholly
grounded
on
termes
of
honour
.
Gentlemen
,
how
much
I
have
been
traduced
in
th●
progress
of
this
action
,
by
some
censorious
spirits
mis-styled
an
Insurrection
;
I
am
not
wholly
ignorant
But
I
have
so
much
charity
,
as
to
pitty
thei●
Error
.
It
is
well
known
to
all
such
as
have
been
intimately
conversant
with
me
during
all
my
servic●
abroad
:
and
since
my
recall
home
,
in
my
carriag●
at
Court
,
how
my
addresses
have
had
no
other
ayme
then
how
they
might
advance
your
ende●red
priviledges
;
not
onely
to
preserve
but
inlarge
the
Liberty
o●
all
free-born
Sub●ects
:
and
procure
publick
peace
〈◊〉
your
Nation
.
For
if
my
ambition
had
entertain'●
any
other
thoughts
;
time
I
had
,
and
opportunity
enough
to
have
pro●ected
my
ends
,
and
required
th●
utmost
pitch
and
period
of
my
desires
in
the
pursui●
of
Soveraignty
.
But
the
loyall
recluse
of
this
breast
never
harbour'd
any
such
thought
.
My
endeavours
were
ever
addressed
for
my
Princes
and
Countreys
honor
;
though
lately
misconstrued
,
or
rather
purposely
perverted
:
to
make
my
actions
appear
more
odious
:
and
my
Person
an
immerited
spectacle
of
disregard
in
the
eye
of
the
Court
and
presence
of
my
Princess
.
Neither
can
these
subtile
Cubbs
,
my
priva●e
Underminers
,
walk
with
such
secrecy
in
the
clouds
,
as
they
can
priviledge
their
malicious
designes
from
an
apparent
discovery
.
That
politick
Parasite
Licinio
,
though
Nemesis
sit
upon
his
shoulders
:
and
with
much
security
skrue
him
into
the
opinion
of
the
State
,
shall
not
in
the
prostituted
lapp
of
his
insatiate
Pavedone
,
traduce
mine
honour
nor
the
incomparable
value
of
these
noble
Persons
who
here
assist
me
;
and
stand
upon
the
same
termes
of
Justification
in
relation
to
their
actions
equally
as
my self
,
without
condigne
revenge
.
These
Carpet-Curtain-Knights
are
those
profest
Tetters
of
Martiall
honour
;
that
though
our
perills
secure
their
Persons
:
our
highest
actions
must
undergo
their
censure
,
and
by
their
misconstruction
become
branded
with
dishonour
.
I
shall
not
much
fear
to
appeal
even
to
those
whose
affections
have
been
aversest
from
me
:
and
whose
ambitious
thoughts
,
envying
Competitors
,
have
ever
soared
with
Eagles
wings
to
build
their
Nests
in
the
tallest
Cedars
:
To
these
,
(
I
say
)
I
ingenuously
appeal
,
if
their
strictest
scrutiny
or
discovery
of
all
my
actions
domestick
or
forrain
,
may
justly
render
me
guilty
of
the
least
deviation
from
the
track
of
honour
:
or
during
my
reside
in
the
Court
or
my
assiduate
attendance
upon
my
Princess
:
by
preferring
any
un●ust
request
or
incompetible
suit
to
the
prejudice
of
a
Subjects
liberty
:
or
any
self
Interest
in
my
daily
appliance
and
continued
address
to
her
sacred
Majesty
.
Look
upon
me
,
I
beseech
you
,
not
with
so
contemptible
an
eye
;
as
if
I
were
wholly
in
my
Eclipse
;
or
totally
declining
.
The
Divine
powers
,
under
which
I
stand
or
fall
,
have
cloathed
me
with
that
spirit
of
resolution
,
as
it
can
encounter
with
the
sinistrest
and
crossest
occurrents
:
and
smile
with
a
serene
eye
upon
the
unprosperousest
Overtures
.
I
have
oftimes
look'd
in
the
face
of
death
for
the
preservation
of
my
Countrys
honour
:
and
with
a
resolute
zeal
grappled
with
the
apparentst
Objects
of
danger
.
Then
were
there
times
,
when
by
the
prowess
of
my
Souldery
,
whose
spirits
were
armed
for
the
highest
assayes
:
and
whose
cordiall
affections
were
so
espoused
to
me
:
as
from
the
highest
to
the
lowest
there
was
none
in
all
my
Army
,
were
he
private
Souldier
or
Commander
,
but
he
would
expose
his
life
to
the
utmost
of
danger
,
to
secure
me
.
Then
,
I
say
,
had
my
desires
opportunity
enough
to
work
upon
;
and
to
accomplish
their
ends
:
if
I
had
entertain'd
any
such
ambitious
thirst
of
aspiring
to
a
Crown
:
or
of
abusing
my
Mistress
confidence
,
(
whose
advancement
,
both
in
title
of
Honour
and
Soveraignty
,
it
shall
be
my
endeavour
with
much
alacrity
and
loyall
fervour
constantly
to
promote
.
)
No
;
ye
noble
and
ever
endeered
Citizens
,
of
whose
affections
I
have
hitherto
amply
pertakt
:
and
whose
numerous
respects
I
shall
no
less
readily
then
really
study
to
requite
:
my
loyally-disposed
brest
became
never
yet
fired
with
any
such
irregular
heat
:
Licinio
was
the
sole
Object
of
my
revenge
:
who
under
pretence
of
a
prudent
and
discreet
management
of
our
State
;
whereof
he
will
not
stick
to
boast
,
how
he
by
his
vigilant
care
and
incessant
devoire
sits
at
the
Sterne
:
skrues
himself
into
the
opinion
of
our
complyingst
Favorites
:
enriching
his
own
Coffers
with
the
revenues
of
the
Crown
:
&
reering
the
foundation
of
his
fortunes
upon
the
Marchants
ruine
:
by
raising
injurious
Imposts
:
and
making
others
adventures
;
the
sole
ground
of
his
advancement
.
Compassionate
then
his
condicion
,
whose
hand
has
been
ever
ready
to
support
you
;
when
the
worst
of
extreams
incountred
you
.
You
cannot
be
ignorant
with
what
solicitous
and
incessant
care
I
have
laboured
not
onely
the
continuance
,
but
also
for
the
inlargement
of
your
Charter
:
and
with
what
instancy
I
pursu'd
it
to
the
ingagement
of
mine
honour
.
Look
then
vpon
Clarentio
,
as
he
has
ever
in
your
greatest
straits
devotionally
serv'd
you
.
Let
him
enjoy
by
your
mutuall
assistance
,
the
liberty
of
a
Subject
;
and
priviledge
of
a
Peer
:
especially
upon
this
score
;
standing
in
competition
with
a
Mushrom
of
Honour
:
whose
descent
had
its
Originall
and
late
derivall
from
a
Deske
.
Now
is
the
time
of
manifesting
those
arguments
which
of
love
you
have
so
numerously
expressed
:
wherein
should
you
fail
,
he
irreparably
falls
who
highly
valued
you
,
and
who
upon
the
word
of
Honour
would
hav●
sacrific'd
his
life
for
your
safety
.
This
Speech
,
though
delivered
by
a
gallant
spirit
and
a
Rhetoricall
tongue
(
being
no
lesse
Mercuriall
then
Martiall
)
was
not
so
well
relished
as
he
expected
.
So
full
of
levity
and
inconstancy
is
vulgar
favour
;
being
not
back'd
nor
seconded
by
sager
nor
stronger
heads
then
a
confus'd
Rable
,
or
disordered
Multitude
can
any
way
afford
:
as
may
appear
by
the
sequele
.
For
he
found
his
speech
to
be
an
inconsiderable
breath
,
no
sooner
uttered
then
sleighted
.
For
their
Mechanick
spirits
quickly
cooled
and
recoiled
.
Friendless
Clarentio
;
then
whom
none
more
nobly
endowed
,
nor
constantly
resolved
,
after
some
small
resistance
of
the
City-Guards
,
which
came
thick
upon
him
;
finding
his
useless
valour
,
and
the
declining
strength
of
his
affectionate
assistants
Lycorus
and
Merannes
to
fall
off
still
to
their
great
disadvantage
:
he
was
advised
to
give
way
to
necessitie
:
and
to
apply
to
so
desperate
a
sore
,
a
relenting
remedy
.
A
remedy
,
I
confess
,
which
his
brave
spirit
would
not
easily
incline
to
:
for
nothing
held
a
greater
distance
with
his
heroick
thoughts
then
laying
down
his
Arms
by
submission
;
albeit
he
could
not
visibly
apprehend
any
other
refuge
for
safety
to
his
own
person
or
his
weak
supplies
.
Attached
he
must
be
and
Committed
too
of
High
Treason
:
For
under
that
notion
Licinio
,
his
mortal
Enemie
stiled
it
:
and
highly
aggravated
it
:
that
he
might
more
indelebly
lay
an
aspersion
upon
his
untainted
honour
:
and
beget
him
a
lasting
Odium
with
his
Princess
,
which
was
his
summary
Labour
.
Some
few
dayes
after
(
for
the
cruell
subtilty
of
Licinio
,
would
admit
no
delay
)
a
Council
of
State
was
convened
,
wherein
Clarentio
with
his
Adhaerents
were
brought
to
a
Judiciall
Tryal
.
In
which
tryal
the
Prisoners
,
being
brought
to
Bar
,
might
be
displayed
by
their
discovery
of
several
passions
or
affections
.
For
Clarentio
,
as
one
commiserating
the
sad
condition
of
those
Gentlemen
,
whom
their
endeered
love
and
personal
affection
to
him
and
his
concerns
,
had
drawn
into
this
action
,
was
observ'd
to
be
ever
praying
:
in
relation
to
their
security
,
more
then
his
own
safety
.
Lycorus
,
whose
thoughts
were
not
conscious
of
the
least
tincture
of
treason
,
as
he
conceived
,
at
the
time
of
his
tryal
,
played
.
But
Merannes
,
whither
it
was
out
of
pusillanimity
or
too
deep
a
resentment
of
his
misery
,
I
know
not
:
but
too
much
effeminate
passion
was
he
observ'd
to
discover
,
by
such
as
stood
near
the
Bar
,
all
the
time
while
his
Evidence
was
in
reading
:
for
he
wept
;
which
detracted
much
from
a
spirit
supposed
to
be
spritely
and
resolute
.
Magirides
and
Pernio
being
Delegats
for
this
tryal
:
as
they
were
Intimates
to
Licinio
,
left
nothing
unsaid
or
undone
,
that
might
any
way
aggravate
their
Crime
:
or
exasperate
the
Jurors
,
on
whose
verdict
their
lives
depended
,
against
them
.
In
fine
,
they
were
all
found
guilty
:
which
Sentence
Magirides
was
pleased
in
a
Rhetorical
way
(
an
improper
Scheme
of
Elocution
upon
so
Tragical
an
occasion
)
to
dilate
on
in
this
manner
.
My
Lords
,
you
hear
the
qualitie
of
your
Crimes
,
whereof
you
are
all
found
guiltie
:
yet
in
my
opinion
,
they
admit
a
main
and
consequent
difference
.
Though
your
attempts
hold
relation
in
the
identitie
of
their
Object
:
They
are
of
diverse
qualifications
in
respect
of
the
persons
acting
.
The
Act
,
as
you
hear
,
manifestly
prov'd
,
extends
to
Treason
:
the
Object
or
person
at
whom
your
impoisoned
arrows
were
levell'd
,
was
your
Soveraign
:
a
Princess
,
then
whom
none
more
gracious
:
nor
to
some
of
you
more
immeritoriously
bounteous
.
Excuse
me
,
my
Lord
Clarentio
,
if
I
come
home
to
you
.
No
doubt
,
if
you
retain
the
least
Impression
of
civil
gratitude
,
an
innate
qualitie
to
persons
of
Honour
,
but
you
must
necessarily
acknowledge
what
a
multitude
of
unde●erving
Favours
have
been
conferred
,
nay
accumulated
by
your
Princesses
singular
bountie
upon
you
.
And
how
●●rangely
you
have
recompensed
those
royal
extensions
of
he
Highness
,
I
appeal
unto
your self
:
was
it
not
sufficient
for
you
to
receive
from
her
princely
hand
incom●arable
additions
and
transcendencies
of
h●nour
;
but
your
ambitious
aimes
must
aspire
unto
a
C●own
:
and
by
your
disloial
and
ungrateful
designs
,
make
it
your
sole
endeavour
to
devest
her
of
all
regal
honour
?
Have
you
not
at
all
times
had
her
eare
readie
to
give
attention
to
your
Suit
?
her
Exchequer
open
to
inlarge
your
Estate
?
her
Letters
of
Command
to
impower
you
both
by
Sea
and
Land
?
Yet
all
these
would
not
confine
your
vast
and
illimited
thoughts
to
those
just
and
conscientious
bounds
of
Loialtie
,
which
National
conformitie
obliged
you
to
:
Neither
,
has
it
been
enough
for
you
in
this
president
of
Treason
to
act
your
own
interest
:
but
to
inwreath
others
,
whose
native
affection
to
allegeance
had
impressed
in
their
innocence
better
principles
,
in
the
like
preci●ice
.
If
these
merit
not
a
penall
and
personall
judgement
above
example
,
I
know
not
whereto
the
bent
of
Justice
aimes
.
Upon
his
high
and
rigid
aggravation
of
these
in
this
manner
,
Clarentio
in
a
composed
and
civile
address
being
ready
to
make
a
reply
:
He
was
interrupted
:
and
not
permitted
to
speak
either
in
his
own
or
Assistants
defence
:
but
returned
with
the
rest
to
their
Commitment
,
with
an
express
day
assigned
for
their
Execution
,
according
to
the
sentence
already
pronounced
.
It
was
now
high
time
for
Clarentio
,
as
he
tendered
his
own
or
his
Adhaerents
safety
;
to
bethink
himself
of
some
way
or
other
how
to
divert
the
imminent
danger
whereto
they
were
exposed
;
and
the
more
inevitable
,
in
regard
of
his
Enemies
infatigable
pursuit
for
expediting
the
course
of
Justice
:
which
they
went
on
with
by
their
Officious
Beagles
so
speedily
:
as
nothing
could
be
acted
with
more
secrecy
or
subtilty
:
fe●ring
,
as
might
be
probably
collected
by
all
consequence
,
that
the
Clemency
of
his
Princess
by
some
powerful
interceed
,
might
reverse
the
sentence
already
delivered
:
and
receive
them
to
mercy
:
which
might
fall
heavy
upon
them
(
as
they
had
good
reason
to
feare
)
if
ever
Clarentio
came
in
to
Command
,
to
vindicate
the
indignities
he
had
formerly
suffered
:
and
their
severe
Judgement
which
they
had
lately
pronounced
.
It
was
no
time
then
for
Clarentio
,
who
stood
now
a
Condemned
man
,
to
trifle
minutes
:
but
seasonably
to
recollect
his
thoughts
:
by
applying
a
Soveraigne
cure
to
so
desperate
a
sore
▪
and
by
way
of
prevention
either
to
decline
or
adjourne
the
approaching
houre
of
their
Execution
.
Amidst
his
perplexed
thoughts
,
he
happily
call'd
to
mind
,
that
gage
and
token
which
it
pleased
his
Princesse
to
bestow
upon
him
at
his
departure
from
her
:
and
his
hevy
receed
from
the
Court
.
That
Ring
,
the
pledge
of
her
Princely
affection
he
happily
recall'd
to
memorie
with
these
very
word
she
spoke
unto
him
at
the
same
time
by
letters
,
for
no
other
Communication
would
be
admitted
.
Accept
this
Ring
here
inclosed
for
and
affectionate
pledge
and
tender
of
your
loyaltie
:
which
merits
an
higher
guerdon
:
though
I
must
ingenuously
tell
you
,
my
loyall
Clarentio
;
that
this
Token
,
though
at
first
fight
of
smal
consequence
;
it
may
redound
to
your
advantage
.
I
am
not
ignorant
of
your
Condition
;
how
you
are
,
or
may
be
incountred
with
many
occurrences
;
Profest
Enemies
and
private
Competitors
to
your
rising
greatnesse
.
(
Which
prov'd
within
short
time
after
a
true
divination
.
)
These
,
when
they
see
my
Eyes
averted
from
you
;
will
wo●ke
upon
your
distance
:
and
mould
some
designe
or
other
to
their
precipice
.
But
let
not
this
amate
you
;
when
you
are
exposed
to
the
extreamest
of
danger
(
so
tender
am
I
of
your
safety
and
honour
:
)
that
this
Ring
returned
to
us
,
shall
secure
you
:
and
bring
you
fairely
off
,
in
spite
of
all
Opposition
.
The
memory
and
enjoyment
of
so
precious
a
pledge
could
not
chuse
but
be
a
Soveraigne
receipt
in
a
time
of
such
peril
,
wherein
both
lifes
and
livelihoods
lay
at
st●ke
.
Forthwith
then
,
to
remove
all
delays
which
might
prove
fatally
noxious
to
his
condition
:
He
made
choice
of
one
Athalia
,
a
Lady
of
honour
:
and
of
high
esteem
with
his
Princesse
,
to
returne
this
Ring
;
which
he
inclosed
in
a
paper
containing
these
lines
.
Madam
,
these
very
last
words
which
you
spoke
unto
me
upon
my
unhappy
departure
from
you
;
I
have
now
good
cause
to
hold
them
true
diviners
of
my
present
misery
.
Your
loyall
Servant
Clarentio
is
become
a
condemned
man
:
and
expects
daily
a
separation
from
the
world
:
as
he
before
received
a
proscription
from
your
Court
.
Innocence
,
it
seemes
,
is
not
sufficient
,
where
enemies
are
malicious
and
prepotent
.
I
was
attached
and
injuriously
impeached
of
a
Crime
,
which
I
call
heaven
to
record
,
I
ever
abhorred
.
My
trembling
soul
so
commiserates
the
integrity
of
my
disposition
:
aggravated
with
the
infelicity
of
my
present
condition
:
as
she
blusheth
to
leave
a
line
conscious
of
it
.
—
Shall
my
unwilling
pen
whisper
it
!
Treason
!
—
with
what
a
fevorish
temper
do
I
mutter
it
!
O
my
deare
Princesse
,
may
this
token
of
your
gracious
favour
here
inclosed
,
nere
speake
for
me
;
if
ever
my
loyall
heart
,
dedicated
to
your
service
in
all
faithfull
allegeance
,
harbour'd
so
ungratefull
a
thought
.
My
life
I
value
not
;
mortality
will
injoyne
it
a
Period
.
But
honour
is
of
a
more
durable
temper
;
being
the
preciousest
Pearl
,
man
can
enjoy
living
:
and
the
sweetest
perfume
,
that
can
embalme
him
dying
.
My
captivity
does
not
at
all
afflict
me
:
nor
the
malicious
designs
of
my
implacable
Enemies
amate
me
:
my
spirit
is
spheared
far
above
their
spleene
;
their
spite
verg'd
far
beneath
my
scorne
.
should
I
lose
the
opinion
of
fidelity
in
the
piercing
and
quick-discerning
judgment
of
your
Majesty
;
I
should
hold
the
encounter
of
death
an
easie
Combat
to
such
a
to●ture
.
I
shall
deserve
to
live
no
longer
then
a
pure
and
unblemish'd
fame
adjudgeth
me
worthy
of
it
.
It
is
neither
the
Sentence
of
death
already
pronounced
:
nor
the
fury
of
my
Competitors
clearly
discovered
;
that
can
perplex
me
.
I
stand
or
fall
in
the
skale
of
your
opinion
.
Reteine
but
that
conceipt
of
me
,
which
my
actions
have
merited
:
and
which
to
my
last
gaspe
shall
be
inviolably
continued
:
and
death
shall
be
hugg'd
as
a
welcome
Guest
by
Condemned
Clarentio
.
The
Ring
inclosed
in
these
lines
was
given
to
Athalia
;
with
promise
that
his
desires
should
be
effectually
seconded
:
nor
no
opportunity
omitted
to
expedite
the
Princesse
answer
in
this
particular
.
But
Athalia
,
either
through
neglect
,
or
over-born
by
the
adverse
part
,
injuriously
depriv'd
him
of
the
benefit
of
his
Present
.
So
mutable
and
generally
unfaithfull
advancers
be
these
Court-favorites
of
distressed
Plaintiffs
suits
.
But
we
must
impute
this
to
Clarentio's
unhappy
fate
,
in
making
choice
of
such
a
Messenger
;
whose
affection
was
either
so
coole
in
relation
to
his
safety
:
or
so
insensible
of
his
Captivity
;
as
her
surfets
in
Court
,
or
dis-respect
to
his
Person
;
begot
in
her
an
Act
of
Oblivion
:
making
her
wholly
forgetful
of
his
dis-consolate
Condition
.
Many
daies
had
not
the
Phoebean
beauty
bespangled
this
inferiour
Orbe
with
his
Oriental
Iustre
;
til
care
was
taken
by
his
hostile
actuaries
for
preparing
and
erecting
a
Tragick
Scaffold
.
Where
,
He
with
his
two
Assisting
Lords
at
a
precise
houre
were
to
suffer
.
The
Execution
was
intended
to
be
done
with
more
privacy
,
for
those
Cautions
forementioned
,
then
it
could
possibly
be
performed
.
For
the
report
of
Clarentio's
death
became
so
dispersed
,
that
the
whole
City
was
filled
with
the
fame
of
it
.
Wherewith
severall
persons
,
as
they
stood
variously
affected
,
became
strangly
surprized
.
Many
,
and
those
of
the
eminenrest
quality
,
bemoaned
his
premature
fall
:
Relating
the
noble
actions
he
had
done
to
the
surviving
honour
of
his
Countrey
:
and
high
approvement
of
his
loyalty
:
imputing
the
grounds
of
his
Impeachment
to
no
guilt
of
his
,
but
to
his
Enemies
malignant
humour
:
whose
sole
bent
it
was
,
as
they
conceiv'd
,
to
improve
their
future
advancement
by
his
Dishonour
.
But
others
there
were
far
otherwise
prepossessed
.
For
these
,
being
of
the
Plebeian
Ranck
,
and
consequently
more
easie
to
be
wrought
upon
by
the
adverse
part
:
too
credulously
inclined
to
the
report
which
his
malicious
Adversaries
had
spread
abroad
concerning
him
:
pretending
,
that
Clarentio
by
his
factious
Instruments
,
had
practised
the
Cities
ruine
:
intending
to
seize
upon
their
Treasury
:
and
by
the
sinews
thereof
to
leavie
Arms
,
Ammunition
and
men
to
act
his
own
usurping
interest
.
The
hour
now
approaching
for
this
fatall
and
immerited
execution
:
a
great
confluence
of
people
assembled
,
contrary
to
the
intention
of
the
malignants
;
Licinio
,
Magirides
and
Pernio
being
secretly
shrouded
,
to
be
glad
Spectators
of
this
Theatral
Tragedie
,
Clarentio
with
an
undaunted
and
fortifi'd
spirit
(
as
nothing
could
be
lesse
expected
from
a
Person
of
that
gallantrie
)
addressed
himself
in
this
sort
to
his
funeral
farewel
.
My
Lords
and
Gentlemen
,
you
may
here
see
to
what
a
Catastrophe
the
progression
of
my
loyall
service
has
reduc'd
me
!
Neither
do
I
impute
this
to
the
levity
of
my
Prince
:
of
whose
gracious
favours
I
have
so
amply
partak't
:
but
the
ingratitude
of
time
,
and
the
mortall
Enmity
of
my
Opposers
:
who
with
one
unite
consent
pitch
upon
this
result
;
to
ground
their
rising
upon
my
ruine
.
And
so
far
be
my
thoughts
distanced
from
envying
their
imaginary
happinesse
:
or
maligning
their
surreptitious
greatnesse
:
that
I
here
protest
before
you
all
,
Gentlemen
,
and
attest
Heav'n
to
record
it
:
that
I
freely
and
cordially
remit
those
numerous
and
insupportable
indignities
they
have
done
me
:
not
onely
in
designing
my
death
:
for
that
is
the
lowest
in
the
skale
of
my
sufferings
:
and
the
least
in
my
dimension
:
but
in
their
traducing
of
my
fame
:
and
blemishing
mine
honour
,
which
might
descend
(
if
the
Charity
of
good
men
should
not
remove
it
)
in
after-ages
to
my
posterity
.
These
,
I
say
,
in
this
my
last
accompt
to
Nature
,
I
really
pardon
:
wishing
,
they
may
receive
the
like
entertaine
in
Heaven
,
as
I
render
them
now
cancell'd
in
this
my
receed
from
Earth
.
Now
to
confirm
your
opinion
of
my
innocency
,
I
beseech
you
lend
me
your
attention
with
a
firme
confidence
of
what
I
deliver
to
be
authentick
truth
.
The
words
of
dying
men
should
enforce
the
deepest
impression
,
and
receive
most
credit
.
I
here
vow
before
him
that
made
me
:
and
before
whom
I
am
to
stand
or
fall
:
that
this
breast
never
foster'd
such
a
thought
,
as
might
tend
to
Treason
:
or
any
seditious
project
against
my
Prince
or
the
Constitution
of
her
State
.
I
was
ever
more
retentive
of
those
Graces
and
Priviledges
of
Honour
I
had
received
;
then
to
blaunch
them
with
an
Act
of
such
palpable
ingratitude
.
It
is
not
unknown
to
most
of
you
,
my
Noble
Lords
,
how
personall
Enmity
and
self-interests
were
the
activest
instruments
of
my
fall
.
If
they
were
here
in
presence
,
whom
I
onely
glance
at
:
for
my
time
,
as
it
is
short
,
so
most
improper
for
vindication
of
wrongs
,
or
impeaching
of
persons
;
They
could
not
with
modesty
deny
,
with
what
instancy
they
have
sollicited
my
compliance
:
and
with
what
plansive
pretences
they
labourd
to
traine
me
to
their
Lure
.
Which
I
could
never
in
honour
acquiesce
to
:
finding
their
aimes
to
be
mercenary
:
and
grounded
on
indirect
Principles
:
yet
this
,
to
this
houre
I
never
discovered
;
so
tender
I
was
of
preserving
their
reputes
;
who
now
make
my
Passage
hence
,
their
most
Comicall
and
delightfull
pastime
.
I
shall
request
one
suit
more
of
you
my
Lords
;
but
especially
of
you
,
my
L.
Stratonico
;
being
most
vers'd
in
the
Court
:
and
most
frequently
in
the
eye
of
my
Prince
;
that
you
would
vouchsafe
me
that
honour
,
as
to
present
the
most
humble
and
devotionall
Obeisance
of
a
dying
Servant
to
her
Majesty
.
Whose
last
votive
Sacrifice
unto
God
,
shall
be
for
her
long
,
happy
and
prosperous
Continuance
in
this
her
flourishing
State
and
Imperiall
Command
of
Candy
.
And
to
support
this
so
glorious
a
Fabrick
of
State
,
may
she
have
a
grave
and
conscientious
Counsell
to
advise
her
in
the
mannage
and
government
of
her
affaires
.
And
that
her
prudentiall
Senate
may
be
ever
purged
of
those
ulcerous
members
,
whose
imposthum'd
condition
might
corrupt
the
Constitution
of
her
State
.
—
Now
good
night
to
all
the
world
:
—
Executioner
performe
thy
Office
.
My
peace
is
made
.
The
Executioner
,
more
sensible
it
seem'd
of
Clarentio's
suffering
,
then
he
was
of
his
own
;
holding
it
an
ungratefull
Act
to
take
off
his
head
,
who
had
formerly
sav'd
his
life
;
became
surpriz'd
with
such
a
Panick
fear
;
as
his
trembling
hand
,
knew
not
how
to
direct
the
Axe
.
Which
Clarentio
observing
,
incouraged
him
to
do
his
work
;
saying
,
Be
not
so
discourteous
to
me
,
Funello
,
for
the
favour
I
once
shew'd
thee
;
as
to
delay
the
expected
minute
of
my
remove
:
Trust
me
,
I
suffer
more
in
thy
protraction
,
then
I
shall
in
the
performance
of
thine
office
.
But
these
words
did
but
lightly
allay
his
feares
;
which
appeared
at
the
very
instant
of
this
Execution
.
For
such
a
trembling
paralyticall
motion
indisposed
his
hand
,
as
his
Axe
missing
the
joynt
at
which
he
aimed
wounded
him
twice
or
thrice
,
terribly
in
his
shoulder
;
before
he
took
off
his
head
:
which
was
presently
put
into
a
damaske
bag
:
and
his
body
,
though
privately
;
yet
with
much
decencie
conveyed
and
interred
in
a
Vault
anciently
belonging
to
his
Family
.
Many
howers
were
not
past
,
till
the
Relation
of
this
Tragicall
Action
came
to
the
eare
of
the
Princesse
,
either
from
the
hand
of
Stratonico
;
a
Favorite
of
principall
esteeme
:
and
to
whom
Clarentio
had
at
his
death
made
his
address
for
presenting
his
humblest
Service
to
her
Majesty
:
or
from
Athalia
;
who
,
as
you
forme●ly
heard
,
had
either
neglected
or
injuriously
sleighted
that
pious
and
amicable
office
of
delivering
those
lines
and
Ring
to
the
perplexed
Princesse
,
which
Clarentio
had
recommended
to
her
care
and
charge
.
And
by
all
probabilitie
it
came
from
Athalia
,
who
having
a
deep
resentment
of
her
unexpiable
guilt
:
the
very
Evening
after
this
Execution
done
;
she
repaired
to
the
Court
:
and
going
up
to
the
Princesse
Bed-chamber
;
discovered
with
much
passion
what
was
befaln
Clarentio
:
with
her
neglect
of
that
office
which
she
was
obliged
to
performe
.
Wherewith
the
Princess
,
as
one
surpriz'd
with
fear
of
the
issue
,
no
less
quickly
then
passionately
interrupting
her
;
what
office
might
that
be
whereto
you
flood
obliged
,
Athalia
;
and
failed
in
your
performance
?
In
my
not
presenting
those
lines
with
a
Ring
inclosed
to
your
Majestie
.
What
lines
?
what
Ring
?
and
from
whom
?
with
tear-swoln
eyes
,
and
a
weak-breathing
accent
,
she
replied
,
from
Clarentio
.
Oh
then
,
have
we
lost
eternally
,
Clarentio
!
May
Iliads
of
miseries
pursue
thee
,
faithless
Athalia
.
Be
a
stranger
to
our
Court
for
ever
;
for
ruining
him
;
whose
actions
compleated
him
in
every
Charge
that
our
Commands
imposed
on
him
,
an
absolute
Person
of
honour
.
More
would
not
her
Princely
passion
either
give
way
to
hear
;
nor
inquire
:
but
retiring
to
her
Closet
,
with
a
severe
injunction
of
Athalias
absence
from
her
Court
:
She
remained
as
one
extaciz'd
for
many
daies
after
;
admitting
none
to
her
presence
.
Not
long
after
this
uncouth
solitude
and
dis-passionate
retirement
,
Stratonico
was
suffer'd
to
acquaint
her
with
the
whole
Series
of
this
Proceeding
against
Clarentio
,
and
by
whom
he
was
with
most
vehemencie
and
rigour
prosecuted
;
together
with
his
free
and
ingenuous
attestation
upon
the
Scaffold
,
of
his
integrious
thoughts
during
the
whole
carriage
of
his
imploiments
in
his
relations
to
loyaltie
and
constant
fidelitie
,
which
he
would
with
all
alacritie
seal
,
(
to
clear
his
Familie
of
any
such
tincture
)
with
the
Sacrifice
of
his
blood
.
This
Narration
recruted
her
passion
:
and
imprinted
in
her
royal
affections
a
stronger
apprehension
Of
his
vertues
.
But
alas
,
within
short
time
this
conceipt
of
his
approved
integritie
:
and
his
immerited
Censure
so
strongly
wrought
upon
her
,
as
it
brought
her
into
a
great
indisposition
of
health
:
but
attempered
nothing
of
her
heat
,
in
pursuing
his
revenge
against
those
active
Instruments
of
his
ruine
.
For
Magirides
,
and
Pernio
,
who
were
his
Rhadamanthean
Judges
were
shortly
after
degraded
:
and
with
Writts
of
Ease
justly
rewarded
.
And
for
Licinio
the
prime
Actor
in
this
Tragedy
;
had
not
a
noisome
disease
abridged
his
daies
;
an
heavie
and
exemplarie
Sentence
of
Proscription
had
attached
him
.
Now
to
Epitomize
the
Excellencies
of
this
Princesse
Bellingeria
,
it
were
easie
to
collect
hence
;
the
nobleness
and
puritie
of
her
disposition
;
in
reteining
the
memorie
of
such
as
had
bestow'd
their
Endevours
in
the
Carriage
of
her
affaires
with
fidelitie
:
and
her
care
to
vindicate
their
honours
,
whom
irregular
Command
or
injustice
of
Proceeding
,
to
the
prejudice
of
her
Court
,
had
illegally
censured
.
Favorites
she
would
admit
none
,
save
such
as
favoured
vertue
.
For
Councellours
of
State
;
she
made
choice
of
none
,
but
where
Judgment
and
Conscience
were
Concomitants
.
Humane
Learning
she
affected
;
as
an
Imbellishment
to
higher
Studies
.
State-reading
she
made
singular
use
of
:
and
to
times
and
occasions
prudently
applied
those
requisites
.
Though
unprovoked
,
she
appear'd
of
a
benigne
and
peaceable
nature
,
lyable
to
no
feminine
nor
weak
humour
;
yet
if
assaulted
,
or
by
any
invasive
Force
were
it
never
so
formidable
disgusted
;
She
would
appeare
a
Princely
Martialist
:
and
in
time
of
danger
,
give
ample
testimonies
of
her
incomparable
vallour
:
for
she
would
not
stick
to
go
before
her
Souldiers
with
her
Leading
Staffe
in
her
hand
:
and
play
the
General
in
the
Field
,
to
incourage
her
men
by
her
example
to
fight
.
So
accomplish'd
was
Bellingeria
;
and
of
such
Princely
endowments
,
being
no
lesse
formidable
to
her
Enemies
;
then
infinitely
winning
and
affectionate
to
her
own
:
as
she
might
appeale
to
the
whole
progresse
of
her
flourishing
Government
,
if
ever
any
State
were
managed
with
more
Forraigne
feare
and
Domestick
love
.
A
president
to
present
times
:
and
memoriall
to
future
Ages
.
Yet
the
purest
Cloath
may
admit
it's
staine
:
and
the
integriousest
person
incurr
a
blemish
.
This
I
might
instance
in
this
unparallel'd
Princesse
;
a
Lady
memorable
for
her
virile
and
masculine
valour
;
and
no
less
generally
fam'd
for
her
virgin
honour
.
Whose
royall
repute
receiv'd
a
deep
taint
or
tincture
in
one
action
;
which
,
to
contract
our
story
with
more
brevity
,
closed
thus
.
There
was
one
Mariana
,
a
Lady
for
state
and
magnifiscence
,
a
Sophonisba
;
for
bounty
and
munificence
a
Berenice
;
who
was
nearly
linkt
in
blood
to
Berengeria
.
She
,
for
diverse
occurrences
thwartly
incountring
her
,
was
advised
to
leave
her
Country
,
where
she
had
so
many
powerfull
Enemies
:
and
to
retire
to
the
Confines
of
Candy
;
where
she
might
be
confident
of
a
free
and
gracefull
Hospitality
;
with
all
such
princely
accommodations
as
might
hold
correspondence
with
a
Person
of
her
quality
.
With
these
faire
and
plausive
promises
was
Mariana
induced
to
decline
her
Countrey
:
and
repaire
to
Candy
.
Where
she
had
not
long
sojourned
;
till
some
unworthy
Instruments
of
State
,
pretending
a
zeal
to
the
Princesse
;
suggested
to
her
too
credulous
spirit
;
what
ambitious
thoughts
Mariana
had
of
usurping
a
Soveraignty
:
and
how
her
recourse
to
Candy
,
although
it
pretended
personall
safety
:
was
to
ingratiate
the
eminentst
Peers
to
second
her
in
the
pursuit
of
her
regall
Title
;
in
succession
to
the
Kingdom
;
whereto
she
held
her self
nearest
by
a
lineall
and
hereditary
descent
,
to
the
Crown
.
This
private
suggestion
infinitely
perplext
the
Princesse
;
neither
would
she
at
first
give
eare
unto
it
:
interpreting
all
things
,
according
to
the
goodness
of
her
nature
,
to
the
best
sence
.
But
at
last
by
long
perswasion
,
and
sundry
arguments
of
probability
to
induce
her
belief
;
she
became
doubtfull
of
Mariana's
fidelity
.
And
within
few
daies
after
,
injoyned
her
a
restraint
:
and
that
so
easie
,
as
it
abridg'd
not
much
her
Liberty
.
But
this
jealousie
,
fomented
by
some
officious
Agents
,
became
daily
increased
;
and
by
degrees
to
such
height
,
as
she
became
attached
of
High
Treason
(
which
to
cleare
the
Princesse
innocence
,
she
was
wholly
unknown
to
.
)
The
Malignants
of
this
distressed
Lady
,
were
main
and
many
.
And
to
expedite
their
designe
,
she
became
soon
impeached
.
Artists
they
could
not
want
to
execute
their
work
.
At
Famorgned
was
a
Stately
Scaffold
shortly
erected
,
where
this
unfortunate
Lady
was
to
sacrifice
her
life
.
Where
she
appeared
with
a
cheerfull
and
amicable
Countenance
:
(
as
what
will
not
innocence
cloathed
with
a
noble
spirit
personate
)
and
calling
upon
her
Gentlewomen
Philanthe
;
wished
her
not
to
be
at
all
amated
with
her
death
:
though
it
be
a
Censure
,
said
she
,
that
I
neither
expected
nor
merited
.
My
innocence
incourageth
me
,
and
bids
me
boldly
look
death
in
the
face
.
After
she
had
taken
a
turn
or
two
over
the
Scaffold
;
and
eying
the
Exetutioner
:
I
am
perswaded
,
said
she
,
that
thou
art
more
fearfull
of
executing
thy
Office
,
then
I
shall
be
in
suffering
the
stroak
of
Justice
.
But
it
behoves
me
to
speak
something
in
my
own
defence
:
though
I
could
not
be
admitted
to
that
favour
at
th●
time
of
my
judgment
.
Then
inclining
her
body
with
a
majestick
grace
(
as
no
Person
could
put
on
Majestie
with
a
more
becoming
or
unaffected
posture
)
she
delivered
herself
in
these
words
.
Gentlemen
,
and
you
that
are
Persons
of
honour
;
be
pleased
to
hear
the
last
words
of
a
condemned
Stranger
;
One
,
the
innocencie
of
whose
actions
never
deserved
any
such
censure
.
I
came
here
for
Sanctuarie
;
and
behold
the
fruits
of
Candies
hospitalitie
!
I
came
here
for
safetie
;
and
the
Sacrifice
of
my
life
assures
me
of
Securitie
.
To
tell
you
what
I
am
,
I
shall
not
need
much
to
acquaint
you
:
few
of
you
spheared
in
the
rank
of
Nobilitie
,
but
are
known
to
my
descent
;
I
leave
it
to
the
puritie
of
my
Soul
to
attest
my
desert
.
But
the
Cause
is
soon
pleaded
,
where
no
Advocate
will
be
admitted
.
Before
I
came
forth
of
my
own
Countrey
,
I
heard
great
fame
of
your
Princess
goodness
:
and
Candies
benignitie
.
My
Entrance
was
no
Design
of
disloyaltie
,
but
an
action
of
apparent
necessitie
;
hoping
to
find
that
entertain
abroad
,
which
I
could
not
partake
of
at
home
.
I
cannot
but
acknowledge
my
lineal
right
,
but
to
reach
at
a
Crown
before
it
fell
due
:
or
to
usurpe
a
Command
from
an
others
interest
,
was
the
least
of
my
thoughts
,
the
lowest
of
my
scorn
.
To
my
knowledge
,
my
demean
has
not
merited
any
of
these
high
indignities
from
any
of
your
Peerage
.
My
life
has
been
hitherto
of
more
retirement
,
then
to
imbroile
my
Person
in
any
forraign
affairs
,
or
to
fish
in
troubled
waters
;
whe●●in
active
and
unquiet
spirits
are
most
verss'd
.
●●t
to
what
end
do
I
discourse
the
forepast
Condition
of
my
life
,
drawing
so
near
a
period
?
My
Lords
,
I
know
there
be
some
of
you
,
who
out
of
a
native
compassion
(
the
express
Character
of
a
noble
nature
)
will
commiserate
my
fall
:
and
retein
an
harsh
conceipt
of
those
that
were
such
eager
hunters
after
my
bloud
.
To
you
I
appeal
as
vindicators
of
mine
honour
;
which
upon
the
word
of
a
distressed
Princess
,
you
may
safely
act
without
the
least
blemish
to
your
unquestion'd
repute
.
It
was
the
Clandestine
practise
and
conspiracie
of
my
Enemies
,
who
designed
my
ruine
,
that
winged
my
course
for
Candy
.
And
by
some
eminent
persons
,
as
their
assurance
by
Letters
will
manifest
;
I
was
made
to
believe
(
so
apt
was
my
innocence
to
become
credulous
)
that
nothing
could
be
wanting
,
that
might
suit
with
a
person
of
my
qualitie
in
the
Puncto
of
Honour
,
or
any
proper
accommodation
corresponding
to
so
acceptable
a
Stranger
.
But
my
too
late
experience
taxeth
now
my
indiscreet
Credulitie
.
It
had
been
much
better
for
me
to
have
perished
in
my
own
Confines
with
honour
:
then
to
die
in
another
,
and
remain
branded
with
an
ignominious
Censure
.
But
we
must
not
contest
with
Fate
:
nor
condemn
Heaven
of
Injustice
.
Fit
it
is
that
Superiour
Powers
should
exercise
their
dominion
over
Inferiour
Bodies
.
Such
high
Decretals
admit
no
Prohibitions
.
But
I
assume
too
much
priviledge
upon
your
patience
:
this
unnecessarie
spinning
out
of
time
,
may
some
argue
,
implies
a
pusillanimitie
of
spirit
:
which
,
thanks
to
my
Maker
,
stands
at
great
distance
with
the
resolution
of
my
temper
.
We
have
hitherto
,
for
the
most
part
of
our
time
,
sailed
on
a
rough
and
turbulent
Ocean
:
and
arriving
now
near
our
Harbour
,
what
should
we
fear
?
Farewell
to
all
;
with
a
free
remitment
to
those
who
pursued
me
to
death
.
Then
calling
upon
Philanthe
;
who
all
this
while
appeared
like
another
Niobe
,
drenched
in
tears
.
Lend
me
thine
hand
,
said
she
,
Philanthe
:
and
pay
thy
last
dutie
to
thy
dying
Ladie
.
Where
laying
her
Head
,
(
above
a
feminine
composure
)
upon
the
Block
;
with
a
princely
majestie
elevating
her
Eyes
to
heaven
,
where
no
doubt
,
her
thoughts
and
fervorous
desires
were
already
fixed
,
she
undergoed
with
incomparable
patience
,
and
soveraigntie
over
her
passions
,
the
stroake
of
death
.
This
immerited
Action
lay
a
fowle
aspersion
upon
Bellingeria
:
taxing
her
both
for
her
too
light
credulitie
;
and
too
much
crueltie
.
First
of
Credulitie
;
in
opening
her
bosom
to
such
groundless
reports
as
the
malignancie
of
her
Foes
had
merely
suggested
.
Secondly
,
of
Crueltie
;
in
embruing
her
imperial
hand
in
her
Kinswomans
bloud
;
who
fled
to
her
Court
for
succour
:
and
not
to
be
proceeded
withall
,
as
a
Traitor
.
Hence
it
was
,
that
some
of
her
nearest
,
and
those
of
the
purest
and
clearest
Judgment
spar'd
not
to
say
;
That
it
was
an
apparent
breach
of
National
amitie
:
and
a
flat
violation
of
Hospitalitie
;
which
might
be
by
these
Evidences
clearly
attested
.
For
,
in
the
first
place
,
there
had
been
a
firme
Juncto
and
constant
correspondence
,
confirmed
by
mutual
presents
and
arguments
of
affection
,
cemented
more
strongly
by
the
tie
of
Consanguinitie
;
betwixt
these
two
Royal
Ladies
.
Usual
assistances
upon
occasional
interests
,
reciprocally
afforded
;
Commerce
amicably
without
disturbance
continued
:
with
interchange
of
all
civil
offices
:
●nd
respects
of
love
equally
communicated
.
Be●ides
,
Bellingeria
might
remain
amply
satisfied
●ouching
Mariana's
fidelitie
:
for
though
she
had
●een
advised
,
nay
seriously
instanced
to
pursue
the
Quest
of
her
Title
:
and
to
ingratiate
herself
with
such
as
sate
at
the
Stern
:
lest
her
strangenesse
to
Persons
of
Command
and
Qualitie
might
impede
her
legal
and
lineal
challenge
to
her
Soveraigntie
:
yet
would
she
never
give
eare
nor
attention
to
all
their
perswasive
inducements
:
saying
,
she
was
neither
so
jealous
of
the
Prince
of
Candies
goodness
:
nor
so
diffident
of
the
validitie
of
her
own
Claim
;
but
when
opportunitie
gave
way
to
her
just
demands
,
she
might
without
opposition
be
admitted
to
that
Monarchical
State
,
whereto
both
Law
and
Bloud
had
entituled
her
.
And
to
leap
into
the
sadle
,
before
the
right
Owner
were
dismounted
:
or
had
diseased
himself
of
it
;
argued
impudence
or
manifest
injustice
.
No
,
said
she
,
I
am
none
of
those
Lapwings
who
flie
to
their
Nests
with
shells
on
their
heads
.
Preparation
with
mature
Judgment
shall
accompanie
my
Title
before
I
ascend
the
Throne
.
These
just
and
pious
Resolvs
of
so
princely
a
Ladie
;
might
have
return'd
a
plenary
and
sufficient
●estimonie
of
her
loyal
&
affectionate
tender
to
her
Royal
Kinswoman
,
without
dispute
.
But
Crowns
and
Nuptial
Beds
,
as
they
admit
no
Competitors
:
●o
their
enjoyment
begets
,
many
times
,
sundry
causeless
fears
;
which
by
degrees
usually
break
forth
into
Tragical
Extreams
.
Yet
in
the
discoverie
of
all
these
heavy
passages
,
trenching
so
highly
upon
Bellingeria's
honor
;
if
we
should
take
an
impartial
survey
of
some
particulars
tending
to
her
vindication
;
we
shall
find
sundry
effectual
motives
,
and
those
strongly
enducing
us
to
entertain
a
clearer
construction
of
Bellingeria's
proceeding
against
Mariana
.
True
it
is
,
indeed
,
that
upon
some
perswasive
suggestions
,
hammered
by
Persons
nearly
interested
to
the
State
;
the
Princess
gave
way
to
her
Commitment
;
which
might
be
taken
rather
for
an
easie
confinement
,
then
any
strict
restraint
.
But
in
relation
to
the
Judgment
pronounced
;
or
the
Act
of
Justice
executed
,
she
was
wholly
ignorant
:
as
might
appear
by
sundrie
pregnant
circumstances
:
which
might
be
collected
hence
.
First
,
this
Princess
after
such
time
as
she
had
received
certain
advertisement
of
the
weight
and
rigour
of
those
proceedings
against
her
injured
Kinswoman
;
she
could
never
endure
to
admit
any
of
her
Prosecutors
to
her
presence
:
displacing
such
as
were
Gown-men
and
persons
of
Judicature
:
and
estranging
those
Favorites
from
her
Court
,
who
had
any
hand
in
the
hastning
of
her
dispatch
.
Nay
,
in
her
Princely
Progress
,
it
was
ever
observed
;
when
at
any
time
her
Jests
lay
near
that
Place
where
Mariana
suffered
;
in
resentment
of
her
death
,
she
would
usually
take
her
Evening
Procession
,
one
of
her
Ladies
onely
attending
her
,
to
the
place
of
her
Interment
:
where
she
would
solemnize
her
Memory
with
pious
tears
:
causing
a
fair
Monument
of
Ebony
to
be
erected
,
and
with
an
elegant
Inscription
beautified
.
Though
by
her
next
Successour
,
her
body
became
afterwards
removed
,
and
with
much
solemnitie
translated
,
to
a
Fane
or
Temple
of
more
honour
:
where
it
now
remains
registred
among
the
Eminenst
Princes
of
Candy
.
Thus
have
we
,
and
no
lesse
then
deservingly
,
with
an
easie
Sponge
wip'd
off
those
aspersions
which
licentious
Calumny
arising
from
the
Corruption
of
time
,
had
thrown
upon
the
same
of
this
unparallel'd
Lady
.
Whose
renown
has
been
the
Subject
of
many
ingenious
Fancies
;
not
onely
to
eternize
her
fame
:
but
in
improving
their
own
judgement
,
in
making
choice
of
so
rare
and
exquisite
a
Subject
.
But
we
are
now
to
descend
from
the
description
of
this
absolute
Idea
of
all
Princes
in
her
time
;
to
her
farewell
on
earth
.
You
are
now
to
imagin
this
Orient
Sun
,
after
she
had
attained
to
a
ripe
and
full
age
,
being
already
got
to
her
Climactericall
yeare
inveloped
in
a
Cloud
,
that
fable
Shroud
of
mortality
.
Albeit
,
it
was
generally
thought
,
that
the
Constitution
of
her
body
considered
:
and
her
excellent
temper
in
her
directions
of
diet
observed
;
She
might
,
to
the
joy
of
her
Subjects
,
have
lived
much
longer
:
had
not
some
occurrents
violently
incountring
with
her
passions
,
enfeebled
her
health
and
contracted
the
Course
of
Nature
.
Neither
was
this
passionate
Conflict
discovered
in
any
personall
Object
more
,
then
in
the
losse
of
her
Clarentio
:
which
name
with
an
assiduate
Tribute
of
teares
,
all
along
during
the
time
of
her
Sickness
,
she
usually
repeated
and
reiterated
:
such
deep
impressions
of
affection
had
the
Opinion
of
his
Loyall
Service
imprinted
in
her
heart
.
But
forc'd
at
last
to
yield
to
Nature
;
she
seem'd
infinitely
to
rejoyce
in
her
Remove
,
thanking
Fate
with
a
pleasing
smile
,
for
winning
her
addresse
to
so
faithfull
a
Friend
:
and
serviceable
an
Instrument
of
State
.
But
some
there
were
who
imputed
these
ravings
and
distempers
to
the
extremity
of
her
Sickness
:
which
we
shall
not
here
dispute
.
It
appeared
that
her
memory
continued
perfect
to
her
death
:
for
she
gave
express
Commands
some
daies
before
,
that
Lycorus
and
Merannes
with
all
those
that
adheared
to
Clarentio's
faction
should
be
inlarged
and
restored
to
their
Estates
.
After
such
time
as
Bellingeria's
Funeralls
had
been
with
all
Princely
magnificence
solemnized
.
Candy
became
infinitely
distracted
,
touching
the
Nomination
of
their
next
Prince
.
For
though
they
were
satisfied
in
relation
to
his
descent
:
being
indubitable
Heire
to
the
deceased
Princess
:
yet
bore
they
a
great
disgust
to
the
Nation
from
whence
he
was
to
come
:
being
Illiria
;
a
People
naturally
servile
,
uncivile
and
pusillanimous
.
Neither
could
it
be
suppos'd
as
most
men
thought
,
that
the
Illirian
could
challenge
his
own
without
great
opposition
:
or
enjoy
his
Crown
without
much
effusion
of
blood
:
and
that
some
Electorate
Estate
would
be
speedily
constituted
to
cross
the
Illirian
descent
.
Which
fared
much
otherwise
;
for
Cicelio
,
a
grave
,
serious
and
prudent
person
;
though
naturally
averse
from
Martiall
affaires
,
had
so
ingratiated
the
Peeres
and
principall
Members
of
State
(
as
what
will
not
Gifts
effect
?
)
as
he
entred
the
Isle
with
generall
approvement
and
acclamation
.
None
to
oppose
him
:
all
with
alacrious
spirits
ready
to
attend
him
:
and
to
prepare
away
tahis
Coronation
;
which
within
few
dayes
after
was
accomplished
:
and
with
such
Solemnity
as
it
drove
the
Illirian
Prince
,
now
Candies
Soveraign
,
into
an
high
amazement
.
Justs
,
Tilts
and
Turnaments
;
Dramatick
Enterludes
,
Masks
,
and
Pagentry
of
all
sorts
,
presented
with
incomparable
state
and
infinite
cost
by
the
Citizens
of
Thamisopolis
;
where
these
Coronation
Shows
were
contrived
,
prepared
&
perfected
.
Cesterns
ran
abundantly
with
Claret
,
White
and
Rhenish
,
as
if
they
had
sprung
from
the
Celtick
rivolets
.
Neither
could
this
high
presentment
of
State
beget
less
then
amazement
in
the
Illirian
Prince
;
seeing
his
own
indigent
,
rude
and
illiterate
Nation
,
never
entertain'd
his
Eyes
with
any
such
rarities
.
His
royal
Consort
,
a
Princess
of
a
gallant
composure
and
stately
deportment
,
was
with
the
choicest
voices
and
airs
,
wherewith
she
was
infinitely
delighted
,
after
the
compleating
of
these
Solemnities
,
gracefully
receaved
.
Where
the
Lady
Honetta
and
Devonessa
by
their
incomparable
voices
and
accomplish'd
demean
wrought
so
strongly
upon
her
affection
:
as
no
society
,
treat
,
Ball
nor
Presentment
could
appear
grateful
to
this
Princess
without
their
presence
.
And
in
very
deed
the
free
and
frolick
humors
of
these
two
Ladies
suited
nearly
with
the
Princess
disposition
.
For
her
Husband
,
being
naturally
addicted
to
retirement
:
or
such
Contemplative
studies
as
disrelished
much
her
palat
;
being
a
Lady
dedicated
to
pleasure
,
by
his
privacy
gave
her
way
to
all
Courtly
Liberty
.
Great
was
her
content
in
Masks
and
Revels
:
wherein
,
if
she
chanced
to
observe
any
person
more
gracefully
eminent
,
or
actively
performing
then
the
rest
;
to
do
him
the
honour
and
compleat
the
presentment
in
a
more
absolute
manner
,
she
would
with
much
cheerfulness
and
princely
alacrity
joyn
with
him
in
the
Measure
:
and
testifie
her
grateful
acceptance
with
an
appropriate
favour
.
This
begot
in
her
young
Court-Damasella's
an
infinite
affection
:
All
this
time
,
Honetta
and
Dionessa
,
Ladies
dededicated
to
pleasure
,
and
who
had
formerly
to
too
much
freedom
exposed
their
honour
,
ceased
not
to
present
objects
of
Fancy
to
their
frolick
Soveraigness
;
Which
could
not
be
so
privately
suggested
,
but
it
was
in
the
Ear
of
the
Court
closely
dispersed
.
Which
her
slow
and
supine
Prince
either
never
heard
of
,
or
took
no
notice
of
:
having
the
happiness
not
so
much
as
to
unlock
the
well-ordered
Cabinet
of
his
heart
to
any
thought
of
Jealousie
.
For
the
activeness
of
his
Spirit
was
wholly
imployed
in
Field-pleasures
:
and
such
Sociable
Complies
,
as
relished
more
the
palat
;
then
any
other
youthful
or
amorous
address
.
Which
those
two
wanton
voluptuous
Ladies
nimbly
and
artfully
wrought
upon
in
their
application
to
his
Consort
.
One
Evening
in
a
free
Career
of
Discourse
(
in
a
close
Arbour
delightfully
impaled
with
Myrtles
,
Emblems
to
a
love-parley
)
Honetta
an
Excellent
Tutoresse
in
loves
Principles
,
told
her
Princesse
,
how
in
her
Survey
of
a
Court
life
,
wherein
she
had
been
vers'd
from
her
Infancy
,
she
found
nothing
more
consentaneous
to
a
free
and
inlarged
spirit
then
a
rational
and
corresponding
Favorite
,
to
whom
any
Lady
with
reservancy
to
her
honour
,
might
impart
the
secresie
of
her
affection
:
and
receive
assistance
in
the
fair
pursuit
of
her
Desires
.
What
might
these
Favorites
be
,
answer'd
the
Princess
,
on
whom
,
my
dear
Honetta
,
you
are
pleased
to
bestow
so
fair
a
title
,
and
so
clear
a
Character
?
Madam
,
quoth
she
,
my
Expresses
shall
be
short
and
real
.
Though
Plato
be
dead
,
his
Platonicks
survive
.
We
have
many
here
of
that
compleat
Sect
,
that
will
labour
by
their
fair
deportment
to
merit
your
acceptance
:
who
be
those
,
said
the
Princess
,
whom
amongst
thy
Select
ones
,
may
receive
so
free
admittance
to
our
relations
?
None
of
all
our
Courtiers
,
answer'd
Honetta
,
more
corresponding
then
Lycorus
,
(
a
person
formerly
ingaged
in
an
action
of
infinite
consequence
and
probable
peril
.
)
Devonessa
hearing
the
name
of
Lycorus
commended
to
the
Princess
for
her
Platonick
;
was
not
a
little
disrelished
with
Honettas
choice
;
being
a
person
whom
she
had
formerly
entertain'd
in
her
bosom
before
all
others
:
and
to
whom
with
much
intimacy
she
had
devoted
her
affection
.
O
by
no
means
,
Madam
,
make
Lycorus
none
of
your
Platonicks
(
replied
Dionessa
)
he
cannot
possibly
prove
faithful
in
retention
of
your
secrets
,
who
has
profest
himself
a
Servant
to
many
Mistresses
.
I
could
commend
one
to
you
,
Madam
,
said
Devonessa
,
whose
personage
,
as
it
might
beget
in
you
a
merited
acceptance
,
so
the
approvement
of
his
secresie
,
in
whatsoever
may
highly
concern
your
honour
,
deservingly
correspond
with
your
admittance
.
And
this
is
Merannes
;
a
Person
of
a
Courtly
garb
and
amiable
presence
.
This
choice
tendred
to
the
Princess
(
by
way
of
revenge
,
for
otherwise
it
could
not
be
construed
)
did
not
a
little
nettle
Honetta
;
for
none
more
bosomly
dear
then
Merannes
nor
familiarly
affectionate
:
though
with
a
pleasant
compliance
she
wisely
cover'd
it
:
as
if
her
thoughts
were
wholly
estranged
from
any
such
Object
.
But
Devonessa
knew
well
,
that
Honetta
could
not
but
hold
herself
fully
requited
for
her
proposal
of
Lycorus
to
the
Princess
.
Time
thus
run
on
rather
in
amorous
discourses
and
introductions
to
Love
then
any
other
actuall
expresses
.
Wherein
though
the
Princess
Ismenia
shew'd
her self
a
Soveraignesse
of
Pleasure
;
yet
there
appeared
in
her
no
discovery
of
any
Select
Favorite
;
so
cautious
she
was
in
her
Choice
:
and
so
observant
in
the
points
of
honour
.
Albeit
some
light
Censors
of
the
Court
,
who
measur'd
the
levity
of
others
affections
by
their
own
scantling
;
and
whose
eyes
were
no
less
suspicious
,
then
tongues
liberall
;
spread
a
report
of
her
intimacy
with
Lycorus
;
whose
discreet
composure
was
never
known
to
transgress
the
limits
of
honour
:
nor
ingage
his
repute
to
an
inhibited
pleasure
.
But
some
ground
there
was
(
and
weake
is
that
ground
which
censorious
jealousie
cannot
build
on
)
and
it
arose
from
hence
:
Basilius
,
her
retired
Consort
,
a
Person
wholly
devoted
to
privacy
and
Comtemplative
Studies
,
unless
some
other
lighter
Pleasure
for
recreation-sake
,
entertain'd
him
:
walking
one
Evening
in
his
Garden
;
and
finding
Lycorus
in
pleasant
private
discourse
with
his
Lady
:
I
approve
this
highly
(
said
Basilius
)
I
see
we
are
all
for
Platonick
Learning
.
This
Speech
,
without
ground
,
begot
an
opinion
in
those
light
jealous
Courtiers
,
but
especially
the
Ladies
,
who
variously
rendred
those
words
of
Basilius
,
and
much
different
from
his
meaning
:
That
this
weak
Prince
more
espoused
to
Learning
then
Love
;
being
conscious
of
his
own
deficiency
,
had
dis-interessed
himself
of
his
Princess
:
and
freely
recommended
her
to
the
Tutelage
of
a
Platonick
Lord
.
Which
traduce
no
sooner
came
to
Ismenias
eare
,
whose
innocent
freedom
might
clearly
vindicate
it self
from
any
such
groundless
imputation
,
she
could
not
be
at
rest
till
she
acquitted
this
Charge
of
honour
in
this
manner
.
The
words
are
rendred
according
to
their
Originall
tenure
.
Ladies
,
wherein
has
my
freedom
so
highly
offended
,
that
it
should
nurse
in
you
this
opinion
?
Cannot
discourse
be
entertain'd
without
lightness
:
nor
the
admittance
of
a
Courtier
without
suspicion
of
wantonnesse
?
I
am
as
yet
but
a
stranger
in
your
Court
:
and
I
wish
with
all
mine
heart
,
that
I
had
never
been
initiated
in
it
,
if
it
stand
so
affected
.
A
diadem
is
a
precious
Ornament
,
but
inferiour
to
fame
.
—
This
I
had
before
I
came
among
you
:
and
injoy'd
my
dignity
with
as
much
liberty
,
and
more
honour
.
Surely
,
I
cannot
think
otherwise
,
but
that
there
raigns
much
infection
in
that
Court
;
where
harmeless
affection
appeares
so
infectious
.
I
should
prove
as
cruell
to
each
accent
of
my
delivery
,
as
the
Ostridge
to
her
eggs
,
if
they
should
produce
a
discovery
of
lightness
in
their
issue
.
I
have
heard
from
some
of
you
Ladies
,
whose
long
discipline
hath
sufficiently
school'd
you
in
the
mode
and
rarity
of
Courts
,
that
Platonick
society
might
be
admitted
without
the
least
touch
or
blemish
of
dishonour
.
And
must
a
Rule
of
Exception
be
injoyned
to
a
Princess
which
admits
none
to
the
freedom
of
her
Ladies
?
Must
our
restraint
inlarge
your
liberty
?
How
far
better
then
is
it
to
imbrace
Subjection
then
Severaignty
?
If
the
felicity
of
Princes
consist
in
dominion
;
why
should
it
not
discover
it self
most
in
priority
of
affection
?
Are
we
to
be
lower
in
our
love
,
because
higher
in
our
line
?
Ancient
Records
render
us
this
testimony
of
our
glorious
Predecessor
Athalia
sometimes
Princess
of
Candy
;
that
though
her
life
was
single
,
expressing
in
it
singular
Continence
:
her
Parts
exquisite
,
accomplish'd
withall
Princely
Excellence
;
her
exploits
admirable
,
manifesting
her
prowess
and
happiness
:
yet
did
she
allow
her self
State-favorites
,
to
inable
her
in
Rules
of
Politick
Government
,
without
the
least
Sentiment
of
Lightness
.
Her
life
was
eminent
:
and
her
death
to
the
quality
of
her
life
correspondent
.
Let
me
obtaine
this
boone
of
you
,
faire
Ladies
;
that
I
may
freely
injoy
without
Censure
,
what
my
Progenitors
did
without
least
diminution
to
their
honour
.
But
if
this
may
not
be
admitted
me
,
I
will
propose
unto
you
Ladies
a
more
regular
Copy
of
austerity
.
Platonicks
shall
be
to
us
strangers
:
and
our
Needles
our
constant
Consorts
.
A
straid
look
shall
incurre
a
Forfeiture
.
And
for
the
Court
,
The
Queens
side
shall
become
a
Cloister
;
let
my
Liege
use
his
at
his
pleasure
.
This
,
I
hope
,
will
prevent
all
jealousie
:
and
free
us
from
all
scandalous
reports
and
immerited
infamy
.
For
dye
had
we
rather
with
Fame
,
then
live
in
dishonour
.
This
drove
such
a
cold
qualme
into
those
young
Ladies
hearts
;
as
they
knew
not
by
what
meanes
to
bring
their
injuried
and
highly
incensed
Princesse
to
her
Former
temper
.
The
Court
grew
quite
out
a
tune
.
A
sad
and
uncouth
Melancholy
,
a
strange
Guest
to
that
Place
,
had
sabled
every
Roome
.
The
Queenes
side
appeared
like
a
Tragicall
Tyring
house
.
But
long
did
not
these
Sudds
of
Sorrow
nor
dumps
of
discontent
continue
.
That
Italian
Proverb
confirmed
it self
true
in
this
Catastrophe
.
Short
is
Sorrows
surfet
,
where
Court-pleasure
makes
her
Palet
.
New
Presentments
enlivened
spritely
and
active
affections
.
The
Platonick
State
,
so
lately
disheartned
by
Ismenia's
disgust
,
in
a
more
refined
and
compt
garbe
begun
to
resume
its
former
beauty
and
liberty
.
Tilts
and
Turnaments
with
other
Martiall
Exercises
,
wherein
the
Peerage
were
formerly
imployed
;
became
Addresses
of
too
virile
a
quality
.
Carpet-Knights
were
not
for
Campe-Service
:
nor
Court-Couches
convertible
to
Field-Bedds
.
Schools
and
Academies
of
Love
stored
with
choicest
Lectures
of
pure
and
attractive
Rhetorick
,
to
make
their
dialect
a
more
powerfull
Sollicitor
to
Fancy
,
were
erected
:
and
Masters
of
Revells
appointed
and
amply
endowed
;
and
these
were
imployed
in
contriving
and
inventing
variety
of
Comick
and
Pastorall
delights
:
which
were
usually
presented
in
their
private
Court
Theaters
,
purposely
erected
for
such
Enterludes
and
Comicall
Inventions
.
And
good
opportunity
had
Ismenia
with
her
amorous
Ladies
to
play
the
Platonick
Courtiers
:
seeing
Basilius
made
the
Wild
Forrest
the
Place
of
his
solace
and
recreation
.
Whence
some
virulent
Spirits
would
not
stick
to
traduce
Ismenia
:
and
make
her
honour
suspected
:
saying
,
that
so
long
as
Actaeon
pursued
his
Chace
:
his
Alcione
might
securley
make
choice
of
her
Game
.
But
those
who
were
known
to
her
Conjugall
Condition
(
though
too
much
freedom
might
blemish
her
Fame
)
might
witness
for
her
,
that
her
Princely
thoughts
mounted
above
the
spheare
of
such
servile
affections
.
Being
such
an
absolute
Empress
of
her
desires
;
as
in
those
Platonick
Encounters
;
where
the
strength
of
Continency
was
many
times
brought
to
a
tryall
:
if
her
Pretending
Platonick
transported
too
much
with
confidence
should
divert
from
their
addressed
discourse
,
were
it
morall
,
historicall
or
mixt
:
and
assume
to
himself
a
freedom
less
becoming
:
though
more
amorously
glancing
:
she
would
not
forbear
sharpely
to
reprove
him
saying
,
that
he
had
transgressed
Plato's
Laws
:
For
some
of
his
Works
she
had
read
lately
rendred
in
her
own
Native
dialect
:
but
never
found
him
act
the
part
of
a
sensuall
Suiter
.
Molidorus
indeed
,
was
holden
her
Eminent
Favorite
:
and
ever
receiv'd
,
upon
his
appliance
to
her
,
with
a
gracefull
Entertaine
.
But
never
more
then
modesty
might
admit
:
For
in
private
visits
,
after
that
aspersion
thrown
on
her
,
upon
her
reported
intimacy
with
Lycorus
,
no
Courtier
,
were
he
never
so
accomplish'd
,
could
have
access
or
admittance
to
her
,
without
the
presence
of
some
of
her
Ladies
of
Honour
.
So
as
in
this
,
so
in
other
Objects
of
Fancy
,
her
unblemish'd
Fame
was
injuriously
traduced
.
But
her
masculine
resolution
from
a
nobleness
of
Spirit
,
sleighted
all
such
palpable
aspersions
.
Neither
could
the
purity
of
her
Fame
be
more
really
clear
from
Infamy
,
then
Bazilius
honest
heart
was
of
the
least
thought
of
Jealousy
.
Neither
did
this
indifferency
to
Feminine
Objects
,
nor
his
affection
to
the
contrary
Sex
,
proceed
(
as
some
weakly
conceipted
)
from
frigidity
of
Nature
:
nor
any
inordinate
degeneracy
:
but
rather
from
the
gust
of
those
active
recreations
and
exercises
which
he
affected
:
and
in
their
quality
more
suitable
to
men
then
women
.
But
we
are
not
here
to
weave
Apologies
.
Historians
with
an
integrious
and
impartial
pen
are
to
relate
,
but
not
to
render
an
accompt
of
the
actions
of
those
Persons
,
wherof
they
treat
.
Those
import
their
own
interest
:
and
as
they
acted
upon
the
Stage
;
so
must
they
receive
their
applause
and
approvement
by
the
vogue
and
voice
of
their
Spectators
.
In
a
word
,
as
to
sooth
Princes
in
their
pursuit
of
an
unbecoming
liberty
,
is
noxious
:
so
too
curiously
to
make
inspection
into
the
secresie
of
their
actions
,
is
very
dangerous
.
Domitian
could
not
endure
a
discovery
of
his
delight
in
the
pursuit
of
Flies
.
Such
toyes
are
held
serious
imployments
with
trifling
Commanders
:
who
lay
not
the
ground
of
their
undertakings
upon
what
beseems
them
,
but
on
what
delights
them
.
But
let
us
return
to
our
Court
,
bathed
in
all
pleasures
that
either
the
height
of
Fancy
or
complement
of
State
could
contrive
.
Neither
had
Candy
at
that
time
,
as
you
may
collect
by
the
Sequel
,
much
to
imploy
herself
withall
,
save
onely
with
sumptuous
Entertains
,
delicious
Treats
,
and
gorgeous
Dress
.
For
so
happy
was
she
in
the
enjoyment
of
a
peaceable
Prince
:
as
by
bounteous
gifts
and
other
obliging
waies
,
he
had
not
onely
made
neighbouring
Princes
his
Friends
:
but
possest
himself
of
that
opinion
of
prudence
and
Princely
policy
:
as
no
difference
arose
among
them
,
which
with
unanimous
consent
they
would
not
refer
to
his
decision
.
This
graceful
and
long-continued
habit
of
peace
,
as
it
enricht
the
State
with
plenty
:
so
it
begot
in
the
Inhabitants
an
incommodious
securitie
.
For
those
virile
&
masculine
spirits
,
which
formerly
proclaimed
them
Heirs
of
Honour
,
were
become
now
strangers
to
actions
&
exploits
of
valor
,
being
wholly
unexercis'd
to
those
Martial
affairs
,
wherewith
their
first
Assaies
of
Youth
had
been
inured
.
Neither
would
those
Stoical
Censors
of
the
State
who
profest
themselvs
mortal
Antagonists
to
all
Masks
,
Treats
,
Balls
and
reer-visits
,
stick
to
enveigh
against
the
sensual
libertie
of
their
Pusillanimous
Peerage
:
Saying
that
Crabtree-grafts
inoculated
in
generous
Stocks
had
quite
spoil'd
the
Nurserie
of
Candy
.
And
indeed
what
by
the
effeminacy
of
that
present
State
,
whose
long
peace
and
secu●ity
had
brought
most
of
the
Nobility
to
that
delicacy
;
that
as
their
Spirits
were
averse
from
the
Exercises
of
Arms
;
so
were
their
intellectual
parts
and
inward
abilities
so
weakned
,
or
rather
estranged
from
civil
Consultations
and
affairs
of
State
,
as
in
their
Election
for
Supply
of
such
qualified
Persons
as
might
perform
those
Offices
of
high
Concern
(
and
wherein
their
Top-branches
and
Ciens
of
the
eminenst
Families
had
been
formerly
imployed
)
there
was
not
one
found
of
all
that
conspicuous
line
capable
of
such
high
undertaking
:
being
better
known
to
a
Game
at
Tenis
:
then
the
performance
of
any
State-service
.
Thus
past
these
times
with
many
vicissitudes
and
turns
:
while
the
Palms
of
Peace
so
impaled
the
Frontiers
of
Candy
,
as
it
had
no
occasion
to
dream
of
an
Enemy
.
Mean
while
,
the
Court
had
wars
;
but
they
were
amorous
Encounters
:
Foes
,
but
they
were
Corrivals
.
Amongst
which
Melidorus
,
that
constant
Favorite
,
and
Ismenia's
individual
Platonick
,
continued
his
visits
,
being
encouraged
by
the
Princess
Connivence
and
her
Ladies
easie
admittance
;
who
usually
attended
her
,
to
pursue
his
quest.
Which
could
not
be
carried
on
with
such
secresie
:
but
it
became
an
Argument
of
private
Discourse
amongst
those
Court-Ladies
:
who
could
no
way
shadow
nor
conceal
the
joy
they
apprehended
upon
their
Princess
reduction
to
her
former
Career
of
Pleasure
:
the
onely
Object
which
their
affectionate
libertie
aimed
at
.
In
this
number
,
but
much
different
from
their
nature
,
was
one
Aretina
,
a
Person
of
vertuous
and
choice
repute
:
and
one
nearly
allyed
to
Melidorus
:
who
hearing
with
what
Freedom
this
private
Censure
had
dispers'd
it self
amongst
those
Ladies
of
Honour
:
and
how
much
it
derogated
from
her
kinsmans
Fame
;
which
she
so
highly
valued
:
as
she
could
not
with
patience
,
(
being
otherwise
of
a
Composed
temper
)
heare
them
whisper
touching
any
such
Platonick
Encounter
,
if
it
reflected
on
Melidorus
;
but
she
would
stand
up
in
vindication
of
his
honour
,
not
without
sharpe
reproof
of
the
greatest
Lady
,
who
out
of
an
assumed
Confidence
durst
oppose
her
.
Till
at
last
convinc'd
with
pregnant
probabilities
of
usuall
Platonick
visits
:
and
those
at
unseasonable
times
:
which
might
beget
Foments
of
jealousie
to
suspicious
Eyes
:
and
of
rumour
enough
to
jealous
Eares
:
as
one
extased
with
a
pious
tender
of
her
kinsmans
honour
;
she
set
pen
to
paper
,
expressing
her
discontents
in
relation
to
his
bleeding
Fame
,
after
this
manner
:
transcribed
from
her
own
stile
and
character
.
Sir
;
I
am
sorry
to
heare
that
the
grandeur
and
burden
of
honour
,
under
which
you
labour
,
should
make
you
so
secure
,
nay
remisse
in
preserving
it
:
you
professe
your self
a
Platonick
;
but
sure
,
though
I
was
never
much
read
in
his
Philosophy
:
nor
school'd
in
his
Principles
of
Morality
;
I
cannot
suffer
my self
to
have
so
much
Faith
,
as
to
believe
that
so
sage
and
prudent
a
Master
could
give
his
Schollars
such
light
lessons
,
as
to
fix
their
affections
on
prohibited
Objects
.
Go
to
Sir
;
Is
there
none
but
your
Princess
to
Court
for
your
Mistresse
?
Look
about
you
,
and
observe
,
(
if
your
Fancy
has
not
already
begot
in
you
a
Phrensy
)
upon
what
two
fatall
shelves
you
run
your
crazy
vessell
,
by
playing
the
ambitious
pursuer
of
such
a
precipitous
Pleasure
;
two
inevitable
rocks
,
danger
,
and
dishonour
.
The
nearer
Jove
,
the
more
subject
to
the
stroake
of
thunder
.
And
nearly
,
sure
,
you
desire
to
be
,
when
you
would
partake
in
his
Right
:
and
share
in
his
Choice
.
You
know
well
how
Conjugall
Bedds
and
Regall
diadems
admit
no
Competitors
:
affection
being
impatient
of
Competition
.
And
if
Common
Beds
challenge
this
Priviledge
:
what
may
we
think
of
the
Prerogative
of
Princes
?
Give
me
leave
,
Melidorus
,
to
come
home
to
you
:
the
least
drop
of
blood
that
takes
its
course
through
your
veines
,
cannot
receive
a
staine
;
but
it
must
necessarily
beget
in
me
a
glowing
blush
;
from
our
near
relations
and
propinquity
of
Families
.
Be
not
then
so
cruell
to
your selfe
,
as
to
neglect
your
own
Fame
.
Pitty
us
who
be
your
Allies
,
if
you
have
no
resentment
of
your
own
Condition
.
The
Eyes
of
Our
whole
Court
,
like
so
many
Stars
in
a
Frosty
Evening
,
shoot
out
and
bestow
their
reflections
on
you
.
It
is
not
the
privacy
of
your
Arbours
;
though
never
so
retired
:
nor
the
vigilancy
of
your
Agents
,
be
they
never
so
circumspect
;
that
can
cleare
a
Cloud
inveloped
with
such
thickness
of
infamy
:
or
with
all
their
art
shadow
the
prostitution
of
your
honour
.
The
Splendour
of
Fame
retains
a
pure
complexion
:
and
such
as
will
admit
of
no
borrowed
Colours
.
This
lost
,
never
regain'd
:
how
tender
then
ought
a
Branch
of
Nobility
to
be
of
preserving
that
which
so
highly
conduceth
not
onely
to
the
beautifying
but
accomplishing
of
a
Familie
?
And
this
I
am
sure
,
you
cannot
chuse
but
reflect●on
.
You
cannot
,
if
you
look
upon
th●
many
descents
lineally
derived
from
your
Ancestry
〈◊〉
but
acknowledge
your self
infinitely
obliged
to
the
Superiour
Powers
;
who
have
thus
far
and
thus
long
continued
the
Succession
of
your
Line
,
and
preserv'd
i●
without
staine
.
And
must
a
minute
of
usurp'd
pleasure
impaire
the
repute
of
so
flourishing
a
descent
?
How
many
Eminent
Families
have
we
known
shrinking
under
this
burden
;
and
these
,
perchance
,
not
so
conscious
of
such
apparent
guilt
,
as
your
suspected
Converse
has
discovered
?
But
you
will
say
,
what
can
be
held
suspicious
,
where
the
Person
most
interested
will
not
suffer
his
breast
to
entertaine
such
thoughts
:
nor
give
credit
to
any
such
report
,
were
it
with
never
so
much
constancy
dispersed
?
If
this
be
your
onely
Objection
,
it
seemes
,
Melidorus
;
you
work
much
upon
advantage
.
But
answer
me
,
must
your
Princess
innocence
authorize
your
lightness
?
Admit
his
thoughts
retaine
in
them
a
Freedom
:
must
that
gallant
Soveraignty
or
dominion
over
his
affections
,
beget
in
you
a
security
of
transgressing
?
Vnshrowde
your self
,
Sir
,
and
lay
your
actions
open
to
an
impartiall
discovery
.
Though
Basilius
acquit
his
noble
and
serene
Spirit
from
harbouring
any
Conceipt
of
his
Ladies
stray'd
thoughts
:
or
of
your
unseasonable
visits
:
His
Court
will
not
cast
so
light
a
vaile
over
it
.
His
clearness
from
jealousie
must
not
promise
to
your
Errors
an
impunity
.
Nay
,
let
me
tell
you
,
your
Loyalty
should
produce
in
you
Motives
of
more
piety
.
When
any
Treasure
is
committed
to
our
Care
and
Custody
;
we
might
justly
hold
it
a
violation
or
infringment
of
trust
;
to
give
up
our
Charge
,
or
betray
it
to
an
Enemy
.
You
are
Elected
the
Princess
Chamberlaine
;
let
that
treasure
with
you
deposited
,
be
never
impaired
nor
impeached
.
Desist
then
,
I
beseech
you
,
(
with
a
Sacrifice
of
teare-swollen
Eyes
I
beg
it
of
you
)
from
ministring
any
just
occasion
of
suspicion
to
a
Censorious
State
.
Walke
with
a
cleane
foot
neare
the
lyons
den
.
For
though
he
,
with
a
conniving
Eye
pass
by
your
Folly
,
and
smile
at
your
levity
;
you
cannot
be
ignorant
of
the
Apothegme
of
the
Lyons
Jack
;
(
and
many
such
he
has
in
his
Court
;
)
who
by
their
Call
will
endeavour
to
rouse
up
their
inraged
Master
:
and
expose
your
ambitious
folly
,
a
deplorable
Object
to
his
fury
.
We
shall
usually
find
Revenge
most
watchfull
,
when
it
seemes
most
asleep
.
Be
not
then
so
secure
of
your
own
safety
,
as
to
ingage
it
for
an
imaginary
felicity
;
which
like
a
vading
shade
,
vanisheth
quickly
,
and
leaves
the
unhappy
Pursuer
to
the
acknowledgment
of
his
shame
.
Such
is
your
Case
,
which
a
timely
prevention
may
decline
:
and
consequently
restore
you
to
your
pristine
esteem
:
which
shall
incomparably
suite
with
the
affectionate
wishes
of
,
Your
highly
indeered
Aretina
.
This
Letter
,
though
it
came
from
a
Friendly
hand
and
a
Free
heart
;
yet
it
wonderfully
disgusted
Melidorus
:
Fearing
,
as
he
rightly
apprehended
,
that
these
suspicious
reports
,
though
they
bare
not
the
face
of
truth
;
might
by
the
mis-interpretation
of
such
as
were
his
Competitors
;
and
maligners
of
his
greatness
,
beget
him
an
Odium
with
Basilius
:
and
by
his
incensement
procure
him
an
heavy
Censure
from
the
State
.
He
wisely
recall'd
to
mind
the
Apologue
;
If
the
Foxes
Eares
were
held
for
horns
;
he
were
a
stout
Orator
that
durst
oppose
it
.
Upon
a
serious
recollection
therefore
of
his
own
waies
:
with
a
resentment
of
his
hazardous
Condition
,
He
fixt
upon
this
result
:
to
make
use
of
such
Instruments
in
the
Court
;
whose
Credit
might
beare
him
up
,
against
all
traducing
reports
;
which
,
though
privately
dispers'd
,
had
not
then
got
admittance
to
Basilius
eare
:
which
though
Chersines
,
a
secret
Enemy
of
his
sought
to
accelerate
,
purposely
to
quicken
his
disgrace
;
yet
this
Incendiary
either
failed
in
his
opportunity
of
acting
what
he
had
designed
:
or
rather
found
the
noble
thoughts
of
Basilius
so
orderly
composed
and
fortified
against
all
such
groundless
surmizes
,
as
he
perceived
all
his
Labour
to
be
lost
,
though
he
omitted
no
time
to
expedite
his
injurious
assaies
.
Meane
time
,
those
Persons
whom
Melidorus
had
made
use
of
to
vindicate
his
honour
,
exprest
themselves
Faithfull
Agents
in
performing
that
Office
of
love
which
they
had
professed
.
And
in
calming
the
rumor
of
those
reports
,
which
had
got
too
deep
an
impression
,
to
be
razed
or
removed
at
the
first
repulse
;
Melidorus
pretended
himself
sick
;
to
excuse
his
absence
from
the
Court
:
and
decline
those
Evening
Visits
which
he
had
usually
frequented
.
And
to
satisfie
Aretina's
desires
by
way
of
Letter
,
in
this
his
seeming
languishing
Condition
(
being
more
surpriz'd
with
feare
of
future
censure
and
ingagement
of
honour
,
then
any
other
distemper
)
He
returned
her
an
Answer
to
her
severe
reproof
in
this
manner
.
Aretina
,
I
could
not
peruse
your
ca●●
lines
without
remembring
that
ancient
Proverbe
:
No
jealousie
comparable
to
that
of
a
woman
.
Being
apt
to
mint
,
where
it
can
find
no
cause
.
You
have
known
me
long
;
but
never
lavish
of
my
Fame
.
And
I
would
be
now
infinitely
sory
,
to
be
held
so
foolish
,
as
to
become
so
weary
of
my
head
,
as
to
desire
the
removall
of
it
from
my
sh●ulders
.
But
my
comfort
is
this
,
Aretina
,
that
I
cannot
be
more
free
of
mine
Honour
,
then
you
are
of
your
Censure
.
You
object
,
that
a
disperst
report
has
already
proclaim'd
my
guilt
.
Light
Eares
be
those
that
will
be
so
deluded
.
If
either
privacy
of
place
;
or
opportunity
of
time
could
have
wrought
these
effects
on
me
;
that
pretious
and
unvaluable
Gemme
,
which
I
incomparably
prefer
before
all
humane
relations
,
had
been
long
since
blemished
.
But
Honour
,
substance
,
nay
subsistence
where
lowly
verg'd
in
my
Esteem
,
where
true
Reputation
,
without
any
additionall
title
or
tinsell
of
adulterate
Greatness
,
might
,
retaine
its
just
posture
,
proportion
and
value
.
Neither
have
I
in
the
whole
Progress
of
my
Course
,
acted
ought
that
might
beget
in
my
unmanag'd
thoughts
an
unsuitable
Change
.
You
taxe
me
highly
,
Aretina
,
in
asking
me
,
if
I
had
no
other
Mistress
,
to
present
my
Platonick
service
to
,
but
my
Soveraigness
!
And
I
must
answer
you
in
the
same
dialect
:
that
there
was
none
to
whom
I
stood
more
obliged
in
loyalty
to
serve
:
nor
who
deserv'd
in
the
Puncto
of
honour
,
the
assiduate
attendence
of
a
Subject
more
.
Besides
,
if
you
complaine
of
my
private
and
frequent
visits
;
my
Place
,
whereto
I
was
designed
,
could
exact
no
less
from
me
.
I
was
,
indeed
,
upon
my
Soveraigns
opinion
of
me
,
appointed
her
Chamberlaine
;
but
with
that
modest
limitation
and
Composure
;
as
I
spit
defiance
in
his
face
,
that
shall
dare
to
taxe
my
thoughts
of
the
least
touch
of
dishonour
.
This
I
write
from
a
sick
and
languishing
Bed
,
where
our
Protests
should
be
free
from
dissembling
;
because
our
weake
Condition
imports
a
probability
of
dissolving
.
You
tell
me
,
that
a
Treasure
was
committed
to
my
trust
:
and
it
were
a
violation
of
faith
in
me
,
to
infringe
that
trust
in
me
reposed
:
by
suffering
so
precious
a
Treasure
to
be
injuriously
impaired
,
imbezled
or
impeached
.
I
confess
it
,
Aretina
,
that
an
inestimable
Treasure
was
in
my
Custody
deposited
;
and
it
has
been
my
constant
care
to
preserve
it
pure
and
inviolate
:
yea
rather
then
it
should
any
way
suffer
in
relation
to
honour
;
I
should
hold
it
an
acceptable
Taske
to
sacrifice
my
deerest
life
,
in
vindication
of
it
.
But
to
curdle
my
blood
the
more
:
or
infuse
(
for
rather
so
do
I
desire
to
expound
it
)
a
religious
loyall
Feare
in
your
Kinsmans
breast
;
you
offer
to
my
Consideration
the
inviolable
Priviledges
of
a
Princes
Bed
.
Sure
,
you
retaine
a
better
Opinion
of
me
,
then
your
lines
signifie
.
Can
your
discretion
suggest
this
imposture
to
you
;
that
my
late
lightnesse
should
take
away
all
thoughts
of
goodness
?
Or
that
I
am
become
such
a
sensuall
Libertine
;
as
for
an
inexpiable
Act
of
levity
,
to
ingage
,
nay
,
make
forfeture
of
my
Loyalty
?
Surely
,
if
our
blouds
(
as
you
write
)
so
nearly
participate
;
you
cannot
in
charity
,
nor
propriety
to
your self
,
judge
so
severely
of
me
;
but
you
must
feare
some
Corruption
springing
from
your
own
veins
;
seeing
,
they
so
nearly
partake
with
mine
,
as
they
derive
their
Origen
from
One
Fountaine
.
But
I
must
not
chide
you
;
Be
it
your
goodness
,
Aretina
,
to
desist
from
Suspecting
;
as
I
shall
in
this
my
retirement
from
giving
occasion
.
And
may
I
beget
this
belief
in
you
;
that
a
minute
of
perfunctory
and
penitentiary
pleasure
shall
never
make
me
forgetfull
of
the
test
nor
tender
of
mine
honour
.
Feare
it
not
,
I
shall
observe
your
advice
;
in
walking
with
a
cleane
Foot
neare
the
Lyons
Cave
:
and
a
cleare
heart
to
my
Grave
.
For
which
provision
,
the
residue
of
his
pilgrim-hours
are
summ'd
up
by
,
Your
most
affectionate
,
Melidorus
.
This
Answer
,
though
it
were
interlaid
with
some
sprinklings
of
a
wormwood
Lecture
;
infinitely
relished
the
palat
of
Aretina
:
whose
onely
serious
Object
was
the
Salving
of
Melidorus
suspected
honour
.
Whereof
she
appear'd
the
more
tender
,
not
onely
in
regard
of
their
alliance
:
but
of
their
joynt
Education
;
the
continued
injoyment
whereof
had
largely
improved
and
highly
inlarged
this
endeerment
.
This
it
was
,
that
made
his
personal
safety
dear
unto
her
;
but
much
more
,
the
Conservation
of
his
honour
.
Such
lineal
coherence
holds
Fame
in
the
descendent
branches
of
a
Family
.
But
these
lines
coming
from
a
sick
bed
(
as
he
pretended
)
became
such
Cordial
Receipts
to
Aretina's
jealous
thoughts
;
as
she
could
not
apprehend
the
least
conceipt
of
her
Kinsmans
miscarriage
:
appearing
upon
all
occasions
,
a
Confident
Champion
in
defence
of
his
honour
.
But
all
such
fears
(
as
we
formerly
touched
)
had
their
rising
from
Sandy
grounds
.
For
neither
did
Melidorus
frequent
visits
merit
any
such
Construction
,
nor
the
free
admittance
of
Ismenia
(
a
Princess
of
unquestion'd
fame
)
any
such
irregular
traduce
.
Her
too
much
freedom
onely
might
deservingly
incur
Censure
.
Seeing
Princes
and
eminent
Persons
shew
their
glory
best
at
distance
.
Whereas
too
generall
and
familiar
intercourse
begets
either
an
apparent
Contempt
;
or
disvalue
to
their
Relations
.
Neither
,
indeed
,
should
Censure
rack
it self
to
the
highest
pin
,
could
it
fall
heavier
upon
Ismenia
,
then
upon
her
too
frequent
repaire
to
Places
of
Concourse
,
as
Theatral
Presentments
with
other
Publick
Solemnities
:
and
that
with
such
privacy
and
nakedness
of
Reteiners
;
as
she
appeared
much
below
her self
.
Yet
those
who
were
more
intimately
known
to
her
disposition
,
could
more
candidly
shadow
this
:
and
acquaint
the
World
,
how
her
smallness
of
Retinue
proceeded
not
from
any
narrow
nor
parcimonious
humour
:
but
rather
from
a
desire
of
retirement
from
popular
aspect
:
coming
more
to
see
then
to
be
seen
:
and
frequenting
these
publick
places
of
Resort
,
not
to
make
choice
(
as
some
sinisterly
expounded
it
)
of
Servants
or
Favorites
suitable
to
her
affection
:
but
to
heare
the
humours
of
the
time
wittily
discovered
,
and
to
life
acted
:
which
might
(
as
she
of
times
exprest
)
highly
deserve
the
applause
and
approvement
of
the
Eminentest
Persons
.
In
her
coming
abroad
she
retained
no
unusuall
port
nor
magnificence
of
State
;
lest
it
might
beget
in
her
an
opinion
of
pride
,
which
was
ever
a
stranger
to
her
thoughts
:
but
in
her
princely
demeane
so
affable
and
debonaire
,
as
she
ever
returned
a
gracefull
aspect
and
pleasing
salute
to
all
Persons
according
to
their
quality
and
degree
:
which
in
every
place
gave
her
an
addition
to
her
demerited
honour
:
with
arguments
of
popular
affection
wheresoever
she
appeared
.
And
to
leave
her
a
reall
Character
;
before
she
take
her
last
farewell
of
her
Court
with
all
other
Earthly
injoyments
:
she
never
made
Choice
of
any
Favorite
as
a
light
Platonick
,
to
lessen
her
Spousall
affection
;
though
the
Corruption
of
time
,
and
levity
of
some
Persons
about
her
,
were
apt
enough
to
bestow
their
Censure
,
upon
reflection
of
their
own
vicious
Condicion
;
(
judging
all
to
be
like
unto
themselves
,
)
on
the
absolutest
Objects
of
Honour
.
Her
gallantry
too
,
mixt
with
a
princely
compassion
,
was
in
this
remarkable
:
That
She
never
presented
any
Suit
to
the
prejudice
of
the
State
:
but
for
relief
of
such
as
were
injured
,
a
ready
Supplicant
.
But
Candy
was
not
worthy
of
her
;
for
shortly
after
,
having
her
body
much
inflamed
through
immoderate
exercise
(
which
she
purposely
used
to
bring
down
her
body
,
naturally
inclining
to
Corpulency
;
)
or
through
intemperate
Bathing
,
as
others
opinion'd
:
or
through
excess
of
Hydroptick
humours
daily
increasing
and
surprizing
her
;
with
a
composed
and
more
then
a
Feminine
spirit
she
paid
her
debt
to
nature
.
But
before
her
departure
,
to
leave
a
testimony
to
the
World
of
her
untainted
honour
;
She
desired
much
that
Basilius
,
her
endeered
Spouse
might
be
sent
for
:
in
whose
presence
,
and
accompanied
with
sundry
Ladies
of
Honour
;
She
disburdned
her self
of
what
troubled
her
most
:
expressing
her
Sufferings
in
this
manner
.
My
Lord
,
I
am
now
after
a
long
and
and
troublesome
Sea-fare
,
drawing
near
my
Haven
.
Much
I
shall
not
speake
,
for
my
weaknesse
will
not
suffer
me
.
Onely
let
me
obtaine
this
favour
from
you
,
that
these
last
Expresses
which
I
shall
ever
upon
Earth
deliver
unto
you
,
may
receive
that
credit
and
impression
,
which
the
words
of
a
dying
Princess
may
justly
exact
.
My
deare
Lord
,
we
have
long
time
injoyed
the
rarities
of
a
free
and
profuse
Court
:
where
Honour
,
which
should
be
the
resplendentst
Star
in
that
Orbe
,
has
been
much
obscured
.
And
what
with
grief
I
speake
in
this
my
approaching
Period
,
the
Innocent
oftimes
incurred
the
heaviest
Censure
:
while
others
by
a
smooth
palliating
of
their
lightnesse
;
preserved
their
Fame
,
though
not
the
Essence
of
their
Honour
.
Amongst
those
unhappy
ones
,
I
my self
might
be
numbred
;
yet
in
this
I
accompt
my self
happy
,
that
your
pure
and
noble
thoughts
,
my
Lord
,
were
fortified
against
all
those
Criminall
aspersions
:
for
which
I
humbly
thank
you
.
And
though
they
were
not
worthy
your
belief
:
yet
might
my
freedom
of
admittance
merit
your
reproofe
.
But
farther
,
as
I
am
neare
to
my
last
breathing
,
I
never
inclined
to
your
dishonour
.
But
Innocence
is
not
sufficient
in
such
a
Royall
Courtly
Continent
.
Noble
Ladies
,
of
whom
I
am
now
to
take
my
long
adue
;
retaine
this
Memoriall
;
and
value
it
as
an
inest●mable
Jewell
.
"
Be
not
contented
with
the
bare
Title
of
Ladies
of
Honour
;
unless
your
Care
be
to
preserve
that
Style
from
the
reach
of
Censure
.
Nobility
is
but
guilded
Clay
,
if
Reputation
hold
at
distance
with
it
.
You
cannot
grace
your
Soveraigne
more
,
nor
these
precious
Pledges
which
I
have
had
by
him
,
and
now
leave
with
him
,
then
by
apearing
Presidents
of
Piety
,
and
initiating
their
Infancy
in
the
like
Principles
of
Morall
goodness
and
Civility
.
—
My
Liege
and
you
honorable
Ladies
,
farewell
on
Earth
for
ever
:
Nature
injoynes
me
silence
:
be
tender
of
your
honour
.
But
little
needed
this
serious
protest
of
Conjugal
fidelity
in
this
Excellent
Lady
;
injoying
such
a
Consort
,
whose
noble
heart
was
indued
with
such
resolution
,
as
it
remain'd
steel'd
against
the
strength
of
Rumor
and
all
groundless
aspersions
:
which
one
day
he
was
pleased
more
fully
to
express
in
a
poetical
dimension
,
whereto
he
was
naturally
affected
,
and
for
the
Person
of
a
Prince
sufficiently
accomplished
.
His
meaning
with
a
Diamond
he
left
ingraven
in
the
window
of
his
Bed-chamber
in
this
manner
:
altering
onely
the
name
of
his
Ismenia
to
Clara.
Clara
Platonicks
loves
,
but
these
are
such
,
No
man
nor
Woman
likes
them
save
herself
;
At
such
Competitors
I
think
not
much
,
But
rather
pity
them
;
to
run
a-shelf
Both
Fame
and
States
at
once
:
—
Such
fancies
be
Acts
tending
more
to
Alms
then
Jealousie
.
Thus
my
Chaste
Clara
her
affection
cloaths
With
pure
desires
,
which
lighter
fancy
loaths
.
And
to
minister
a
Loves
Powder
in
this
poetical
humour
,
to
reconcile
two
distanc'd
Pairs
divided
one
from
the
other
,
for
Allowance
or
Alimony
(
as
the
Lady
seem'd
to
urge
it
,
or
some
other
discontent
,
privately
known
to
herself
)
in
the
very
Ladies
Chamber
window
,
who
appear'd
most
aggriev'd
,
he
writ
these
verses
:
No
worldly
variance
should
divide
A
prudent
Consort
from
his
Brid●
.
Each
should
with
other
joyntly
share
In
mental
joy
and
mutual
care
.
No
Joynture
must
this
Juncto
part
,
One
Home
,
one
Helme
,
one
Help
,
one
Heart
.
At
vacant
and
retired
hours
;
such
Composures
as
these
were
his
usual
Recreations
:
neither
did
he
make
them
as
a
Labour
,
but
a
Play
,
to
quicken
and
set
an
edge
upon
his
Fancy
.
Some
intercursive
passages
relishing
more
of
Pleasure
then
Passion
would
many
times
fall
betwixt
Ismenia
and
Himself
:
but
ever
temper'd
and
allay'd
with
that
Candor
,
as
they
ended
ever
with
a
Comical
Conclusion
:
as
may
appear
by
those
lines
of
reconciliation
intended
to
Ismenia
,
What
,
once
again
distraught
!
—
Pray
thee
no
more
,
Thou
knowst
my
Magazen
has
laid
in
store
Of
Bosom-griefs
:
whose
nightly
pressures
keep
My
Senses
waking
,
when
my
Eyes
would
sleep
.
Hast
thou
lost
all
th'
good
Nature
that
thou
had
By
adding
Sorrows
to
a
Soul
so
sad
?
Share
with
thy
Consort
;
't
were
too
great
a
blow
To
suffer
both
in
Wife
and
Subjects
too
,
An
unprepensed
Passion
is
no
Curse
;
Recall
that
Clause
,
"
For
better
and
for
worse
,
It
will
injoyn
thee
Patience
:
—
discreet
wit
Will
either
still
a
Storm
or
temper
it
.
Meet
me
then
with
a
Smile
,
to
clear
this
wether
,
It
shall
unite
us
while
we
live
together
.
Decad's
of
years
in
Spousal
love
bestow'd
Should
not
admit
acquaintance
with
a
Cloud
.
Affection
being
nothing
else
then
a
Cordial
Impression
.
Fellis
tui
acrimoniam
non
redarguo
,
quia
tali
omnem
laborare
hominem
sentio
.
Aphorism
.
Antiq.
If
there
be
Itch
in
love
as
there
's
in
skin
,
It
cannot
chuse
but
like
impression
win
.
A
present
heat
can
ne're
be
styled
hate
,
"
Minds
free
from
these
partake
an
Angels
state
.
When
Mutius
was
tax'd
of
too
much
ire
By
th'
Roman
Prefect
;
in
his
home-retire
He
blam'd
his
wife
,
that
she
would
not
condemn
That
fault
in
him
was
tax'd
by
other
Men
:
"
Excuse
me
,
Sir
,
said
she
;
I
would
not
touch
"
Your
gall
,
because
I
thought
all
had
as
much
.
Which
Answer
did
his
Patience
so
revive
,
As
he
became
the
mildest
man
a-live
.
Do
so
;
't
will
ground
a
perfect
harmonie
Whether
we
Princes
or
Inferiours
be
.
But
to
go
on
with
the
Continuation
of
our
Story
;
we
shall
not
here
much
need
to
dilate
upon
those
Ritual
Ceremonies
observed
at
the
interment
of
that
incomparable
Princess
.
Let
it
suffice
,
that
nothing
was
omitted
,
which
might
properly
tend
to
the
Solemnization
of
those
Royal
Obsequies
,
either
for
magnificence
of
State
,
then
which
no
Ceremonial
more
sumptuous
:
nor
confluence
of
Attendance
,
then
which
none
ever
more
populous
.
Neither
were
her
Funerals
accompanied
with
more
solemnity
of
state
,
nor
affluence
of
charge
,
then
an
universal
sorrow
of
the
whole
Court
:
so
generally
was
this
Excellent
Lady
beloved
and
bemoaned
.
The
sad
Prince
,
her
widdowed
Consort
,
now
deprived
of
so
inestimable
a
Jewel
;
as
became
a
careful
Father
,
begun
to
recollect
himself
:
and
lay
a
provision
,
both
for
matter
of
Education
and
future
preferment
of
those
deer
Pledges
which
were
left
him
by
his
affectionate
Ismenia
.
By
whom
he
had
two
Sons
;
of
different
dispositions
:
For
Cyrenius
,
the
Elder
was
wholly
addicted
to
the
Campe
:
but
Rosicles
the
younger
to
his
Book
,
wherein
he
grew
a
singular
Proficient
.
Now
the
fame
of
Cyrenius
his
youthful
valour
became
so
dispersed
and
rumor'd
abroad
;
as
many
,
and
those
of
approved
Judgment
,
were
of
opinion
,
that
it
abridg'd
his
daies
:
and
that
some
neighbouring
Prince
emulating
,
or
rather
fearing
his
rising
spirit
and
incomparable
courage
;
practised
by
some
inferiour
Instruments
(
unworthy
the
stile
of
so
eminent
a
Profession
)
his
speedy
dispatch
.
Though
some
others
,
quite
of
another
opinion
,
(
to
vindicate
,
perchance
,
the
repute
of
their
Country
)
and
that
he
dyed
upon
a
Surfet
of
grapes
taken
in
Natolia
.
But
the
former
Opinion
might
appear
more
probable
,
in
regard
of
a
distastful
message
which
this
hopeful
Prince
,
no
long
time
before
his
Sickness
,
had
sent
to
his
Fathers
Enemy
:
and
nearly
confining
to
his
Native
Country
:
That
he
was
then
bandying
balls
with
his
Racket
:
but
it
should
not
be
long
,
till
he
had
casten
those
Balls
into
another
Mould
:
which
the
strongest
Forts
and
Fortresses
in
his
Kingdom
should
shortly
hear
of
.
But
touching
the
manner
of
his
death
,
it
is
the
safest
way
to
suspend
our
judgment
,
being
so
variously
descanted
,
and
not
as
yet
positively
resolved
.
Let
us
onely
conclude
,
great
was
his
Fame
,
and
premature
his
Fate
:
being
One
,
on
whom
all
Candy
treasured
their
hope
.
Basilius
being
now
rest
in
his
declining
years
of
so
strong
a
stay
and
staffe
to
his
age
;
took
advice
of
the
Council
of
his
State
,
what
Match
might
be
held
most
suitable
for
the
young
Prince
his
Son
Rosicles
,
the
onely
remainder
of
his
Line
:
and
Supportance
of
his
decreasing
life
.
Various
and
different
were
the
Councils
opinions
in
this
grand
Consult
;
but
at
last
,
like
so
many
lines
closing
in
one
centre
,
they
unanimously
concluded
;
that
the
young
Princesse
of
Hetruria
was
the
suitablest
Match
for
state
,
strength
and
corresponding
alliance
that
could
be
made
choice
of
:
and
to
expedite
this
main
concern
(
the
speedy
progression
whereof
Basilius
infinitely
importun'd
)
Silures
a
Court-Favorite
;
&
one
of
eminent
esteem
with
Basilius
,
was
designed
to
be
his
Attendant
and
Interpreter
in
his
address
to
the
Hetrurian
Court.
And
to
return
you
a
character
of
this
Silures
;
He
was
of
a
graceful
and
winning
deportment
:
of
pleasing
discourse
and
Courtly
presence
:
though
much
affected
to
a
native
lightness
:
which
he
could
artfully
shadow
(
albeit
the
help
of
Moral
Arts
had
not
much
enabled
him
)
and
delude
the
Eye
of
his
Observer
with
a
formal
colour
of
pretended
modesty
.
Which
he
might
easily
do
;
for
though
not
in
Books
,
yet
sufficiently
had
he
by
his
long
reside
and
converse
in
Court
,
read
in
Men
,
how
he
might
best
please
:
and
fall
off
too
,
with
best
advantage
in
palliating
his
unmanag'd
affections
.
An
excellent
artifice
,
which
he
usually
practised
,
in
his
Morning
Sacrifice
to
his
Glass
and
constant
visits
of
attractive
beauties
!
It
is
above
belief
with
what
general
acceptance
and
princely
entertain
,
Rosicles
this
vertuous
Suiter
was
received
:
nay
admitted
to
the
presence
of
Parthenia
(
an
unwonted
freedom
in
that
Court
)
and
not
onely
so
,
but
to
enter
into
free
parliance
of
Sponsal
love
with
this
incomparable
Lady
.
Whose
Princely
appearance
held
ever
such
a
comely
distance
:
as
it
did
neither
promise
too
much
forwardness
,
nor
averseness
in
the
Object
of
affection
.
Many
daies
were
not
past
in
these
Love-pursuing
Treaties
;
till
the
inamour'd
Rosicles
might
raise
his
living
hopes
to
a
probable
fruition
of
his
desires
,
if
Lycanthes
Father
to
his
indeared
choice
,
would
answer
the
fair
Proposals
of
his
aged
Father
with
his
clear
assent
and
approvement
.
Which
was
so
quickly
and
cheerfully
seconded
,
as
nothing
was
wanting
to
consummate
their
happiness
(
so
individually
were
their
hearts
united
)
but
those
Sacred
Rites
,
which
admit
all
Loving
Pairs
a
free
enjoyment
of
what
their
longing
thoughts
so
eagerly
pursued
.
But
alas
;
what
sprinklings
of
bitterness
intermixe
themselves
amidst
the
absolutest
sweetes
!
You
shall
heare
a
Catastrophe
unexpectly
accompanying
this
amorous
Comedy
.
A
diversion
beyond
Conceipt
:
and
beneath
Fear
.
Which
(
not
to
perplex
your
thoughts
with
unnecessary
delaies
,
apt
to
tyre
your
Fancy
:
nor
fruitless
digressions
to
surcharge
your
memory
)
befell
in
this
manner
.
Silures
,
a
Person
singularly
accomplish'd
,
as
far
as
the
Court
of
Candy
could
compleat
him
;
being
no
less
confident
of
his
own
abilities
,
then
what
Nature
or
the
imbellishments
of
Art
could
confer
upon
him
;
became
infinitely
taken
with
Valeria
,
an
incomparable
beauty
of
the
Hetrurian
Court.
Whom
onely
(
being
as
yet
in
the
Infancy
of
his
affection
)
he
attempted
to
make
his
,
by
amorous
interbreaths
,
passionate
sighs
,
with
other
signall
arguments
,
legible
enough
to
any
judgment
that
had
ever
practis'd
the
service
of
a
Mistress
:
or
had
read
a
Lecture
of
Love
.
But
Valeria
,
a
Lady
no
less
wise
then
faire
,
knew
well
enough
how
to
vye
with
him
at
that
Game
:
and
could
bestow
a
Look
,
where
she
never
ment
to
fixe
her
Love
.
Neither
did
it
behove
Her
,
to
be
too
liberall
in
the
throwing
forth
of
those
affectionate
Lures
:
being
married
to
a
Gentleman
of
a
noble
Family
:
and
beyond
compare
,
gracious
in
the
eye
of
the
Court.
Truth
is
,
Rosicles
could
not
be
more
hot
in
the
pursuit
of
his
legall
addresses
:
then
Silures
was
in
his
prohibited
delights
.
Never
was
more
passion
shown
in
fewer
words
:
nor
more
reall
love
,
as
it
was
shadowed
,
with
more
silence
.
This
the
Lady
observ'd
,
joying
much
that
her
taking
beauty
,
whereof
her
Morning-Glass
had
sufficiently
dictated
to
her
,
should
purchase
her
so
speedy
and
unexpected
a
victory
.
Neither
is
it
to
be
question'd
,
but
that
Eminent
Ladies
who
know
the
value
and
attractive
effects
of
beauty
,
triumph
in
nothing
more
then
in
this
Soveraignty
of
love
:
taking
usually
more
content
in
their
Command
,
then
Fruition
of
that
Object
whereto
they
pretend
.
Such
was
the
humour
of
this
gallant
Lady
;
then
whom
none
ever
knew
how
to
Court
state
with
mo●e
becoming
and
unaffected
Majesty
:
nor
entertaine
a
Servant
with
more
attractive
reservancy
.
Meane
time
,
Silures
fearing
that
his
long
forbearing
to
deliver
his
devotionall
affection
to
her
;
might
beget
in
her
either
a
Conceipt
of
weakness
and
timidity
:
or
of
coolness
and
indifferency
in
the
pursuit
of
his
Fancy
;
Madam
,
Excuse
my
Former
silence
;
whereto
an
unexpressible
affection
and
Zeal
to
your self
did
injoyne
me
:
and
now
my
boldness
in
this
admittance
of
my
presentment
of
his
affectionate
service
,
who
remains
wholly
dedicated
to
your
Honours
disposall
:
holding
his
life
in
this
onely
happy
,
that
it
may
bestow
it selfe
on
the
accomplishment
of
your
Commands
.
Noble
Sir
;
said
She
,
you
highly
oblige
me
in
this
immerited
Character
you
are
pleased
to
bestow
:
neither
is
it
in
me
with
any
equivalent
Favour
to
regratiate
you
:
onely
know
,
that
there
is
no
respect
confined
to
the
limits
of
honour
,
which
I
shall
not
with
much
promptness
re-tender
you
.
But
trust
me
.
dear
Sir
,
these
private
Addresses
and
shady
Retirements
suit
not
well
with
our
Habit.
And
beshrow
me
,
if
I
can
conjecture
how
my
Spousall
innocence
should
be
betrayed
to
this
unexpected
intercourse
.
How
,
Madam
,
betrayed
!
I
hope
your
affectionate
thoughts
are
far
from
harbouring
such
a
sinister
Conceipt
.
We
may
prove
Traitors
to
our
own
surprized
hearts
,
by
too
intentive
fixing
on
such
incomparable
Subjects
of
fancy
;
but
for
you
,
Divine
Souls
,
to
be
betray'd
by
your
Servants
,
who
make
the
pursuit
of
your
Commands
their
supreme
happiness
;
were
such
a
Ridle
,
as
the
wisest
Lover
could
never
assoyle
:
nor
whose
violation
the
devoutest
Flamins
absolve
.
Such
reall
Servants
were
rare
attractive
Adamants
,
quoth
she
,
in
these
impurer
times
;
where
plausive
pretences
weave
up
the
webbe
of
a
deceiving
Fancy
:
and
self-interest
,
or
to
give
its
proper
attribute
,
sensuall
delight
,
bear
sway
in
Loves
Regiment
.
Surely
Madam
,
it
has
been
your
unhappy
Fortune
to
encounter
with
ungratefull
or
indiscreet
Servants
upon
this
relation
.
For
he
deserves
not
the
injoyment
of
a
deserving
Mistress
;
who
to
accomplish
her
content
;
would
not
hold
the
Sacrifice
of
his
life
a
competent
gage
for
such
a
Purchase
.
May
you
rest
ever
happy
,
answer'd
Valeria
,
in
the
enjoyment
of
such
a
Mistress
;
that
may
merit
the
constant
attendance
of
so
deserving
a
Servant
.
Love
is
ever
best
ballanc'd
with
love
:
neither
can
there
be
any
Eclipse
in
that
Passion
:
where
goodness
may
challenge
an
influence
over
affection
.
Nor
can
I
be
so
indigent
of
Charity
:
nor
hold
such
distance
with
Civility
;
as
to
hold
a
Stranger
le●●
in
esteem
then
a
loyall
Lover
.
But
pray
Sir
,
ingenuously
tell
me
,
whereto
these
Obliging
Expresses
which
might
work
strongly
upon
a
Subject
o●
Frailty
,
may
pretend
!
Upon
no
other
Object
then
the
happy
Enjoyment
of
your self
.
Wherein
,
Sir
,
your
Choice
an●
my
Change
might
make
us
of
all
others
most
unhappy
,
for
I
am
injoy'd
already
.
For
loves
sake
,
Madam
,
what
Mortall
so
soveraignizingly
commanding
,
or
by
the
destinies
so
powerfully
inabled
,
that
has
such
Priviledg
over
your
beauty
,
as
to
make
of
it
a
Monopoly
?
Must
the
Splendor
of
that
Sun
which
might
diffuse
its
beames
upon
the
Universe
,
be
confined
to
one
Angle
?
Is
Nature
so
prodigall
to
One
;
and
so
parcimonious
to
Others
?
Reflect
upon
your
incomparable
indowments
,
and
that
priority
of
Feature
in
relation
to
your
exquisite
Composure
(
Excellent
Lady
)
and
sure
you
cannot
be
such
an
Enemy
to
your self
;
as
to
encloister
those
accomplishments
,
which
even
humane
Society
had
ordain'd
to
be
Communicable
.
What
do
you
meane
by
Encloistring
?
A
Spousall
Condition
suits
not
with
a
Cloister
;
answered
Valeria
.
But
give
me
leave
to
informe
your
judgement
better
,
lest
you
might
suffer
by
inclining
to
an
irrevocable
Error
.
In
your
overvaluing
my
low
abilities
,
you
highly
derogate
from
his
Perfections
to
whom
I
owe
my self
.
Neither
can
I
otherwise
think
,
but
that
the
Clearness
of
your
Intellect
has
already
discovered
a
flaw
in
my
Judgment
;
to
make
there
my
Choice
,
where
there
might
be
a
probable
desire
or
admittance
of
Change
.
Pray
Sir
,
acquaint
me
;
be
your
Country
Ladies
so
apt
to
receive
Servants
:
or
to
entertaine
the
pretended
affection
of
a
Forraigner
without
condigne
Censure
?
Reputation
,
Sir
,
I
can
assure
you
is
here
in
Hetruria
,
held
an
Ornament
of
higher
value
.
Neither
shall
that
word
of
Priority
,
which
your
rare
dialect
bestows
upon
me
,
beget
in
me
a
Conceipt
above
merit
:
or
too
credulous
an
attention
to
a
personall
praise
,
taking
breath
rather
from
volubility
of
dialect
and
Facility
of
tongue
;
then
grounded
effects
and
solidity
of
truth
.
For
my
part
,
Sir
,
since
I
first
breath'd
Court
aire
,
I
have
ever
reap'd
more
profit
by
dis-esteem
then
self-esteem
.
The
one
lifts
us
up
,
and
transports
us
beyond
the
bounds
of
Reason
,
by
presenting
to
our
deluded
Fancies
,
imaginary
shadows
of
our
own
Conceipted
Excellence
;
which
always
closeth
with
a
dangerous
Catastrophe
,
by
inslaving
our
selvs
to
our
own
Fancy
.
Whereas
a
just
disesteem
of
our
own
abilities
may
be
properly
compared
to
that
exquisite
Receipt
which
the
wise
Ulysses
carefully
used
to
decline
those
Siren-sugred
inchantments
which
had
miserably
inveagled
and
surprized
him
,
if
he
had
not
seasonably
prevented
those
perilous
Charms
by
Cautious
Fears
.
Neither
would
I
have
you
think
,
Noble
Sir
,
but
if
there
were
in
me
any
such
priority
as
you
pleasingly
pretend
,
but
that
person
who
has
all
right
and
just
propriety
in
it
,
should
without
danger
of
Competition
solely
enjoy
it
.
This
resolution
of
Valeria
lessened
the
hopes
of
Silures
in
this
amorous
Suit
:
yet
not
so
wholly
discouraged
him
;
as
with
this
easie
repulse
wholly
to
raise
his
Siege
:
And
the
rather
,
for
that
he
had
formerly
received
some
private
Encouragemēts
from
such
persons
as
had
more
intimate
knowledge
of
Valeria's
plyable
disposition
:
that
her
native
levity
seconded
by
the
delicacy
of
her
Education
could
assure
him
of
no
less
success
,
then
a
graceful
acception
and
admittance
to
the
fruition
of
what
he
sued
for
:
if
some
light
skirmishes
and
slight
repulses
did
not
amate
his
Spirit
:
nor
tire
his
patience
with
delays
.
Neither
,
indeed
,
could
Silures
promise
to
his
hopes
less
happiness
,
upon
his
last
encounter
and
their
departure
one
from
the
other
.
For
she
bestow'd
upon
him
such
an
affectionate
smile
in
her
recede
from
the
Arbour
,
as
it
could
assure
nothing
less
then
an
assurance
of
a
further
Favour
:
though
her
resolution
seem'd
to
be
of
a
more
reluctant
and
unmalleable
temper
.
Such
singular
art
have
some
women
attain'd
in
presenting
smooth
Looks
and
speaking
Eyes
;
when
their
Expresses
are
with
most
nicenesse
and
subtiltie
palliated
.
Mean
time
,
her
noble
Consort
,
Versivalo
;
though
he
had
apparent
grounds
of
suspecting
much
;
yet
his
strong
opinion
and
long
Experience
of
her
Constancy
,
made
his
clear
thoughts
strangers
to
Fear
.
For
as
she
was
held
for
beauty
and
bravery
in
all
the
Hetrarian
Court
most
absolute
:
so
her
usual
rejection
of
sundry
Persons
of
eminent
esteem
had
confirm'd
her
a
Countess
of
incomparable
Continence
.
All
this
time
,
Prince
Rosicles
no
less
solicitously
then
successively
pursued
his
Quest.
Neither
was
Parthenia's
endeavours
,
to
perfect
their
longing
desires
,
&
ceremonially
compleat
what
their
mutual
affections
had
already
signed
.
Nothing
unassay'd
not
left
unacted
that
might
usefully
conduce
to
the
final
accomplishment
of
this
great
Address
.
For
Lycanthes
Father
to
Parthenia
,
had
wholly
condescended
to
all
such
Proposals
or
Articles
of
Marriage
as
were
return'd
him
by
Silures
:
with
other
additional
emoluments
,
manifest
expressions
of
his
entire
affection
to
Rosicles
.
But
honest
Nuptial
love
was
not
onely
here
in
agitation
:
Silures
had
quite
forgot
his
Office
of
an
Intelligencer
;
through
the
pursuit
of
an
incontinent
Lover
.
He
prefers
the
purchase
of
Valeriae
,
if
he
might
have
the
fortune
to
obtain
it
,
before
any
other
imployment
,
were
it
never
so
considerable
,
whereto
in
loyalty
he
stood
obliged
.
To
prepare
then
his
amorous
address
:
and
to
bring
his
continued
Motion
to
a
fair
period
and
conclusion
;
being
flanker'd
with
sundry
officious
Agents
;
who
nibling
at
the
Bait
of
Reward
;
the
attractivest
booty
to
servile
Spirits
;
promised
not
onely
their
best
assistance
,
but
assur'd
him
of
present
success
,
if
his
Honour
would
give
way
to
their
advice
.
Being
then
not
onely
put
on
but
infinitely
incouraged
by
these
officious
Instruments
to
the
re-assault
of
this
Excellent
Lady
;
and
having
presented
her
first
with
a
rich
Carknet
(
a
Present
intended
for
princely
Partheniae
,
but
deteined
by
Silures
as
a
Reserve
for
a
depraved
beauty
;
)
He
labours
with
far
more
Courtly
art
then
moral
honesty
or
real
modesty
,
to
delineate
his
Passions
begot
of
ill
Principles
in
this
manner
.
Madam
Valeria
;
I
have
purchased
,
but
from
what
hand
I
know
not
since
our
last
inter
course
,
which
shew'd
a
strange
aversness
in
your
affection
;
an
hope
enlivened
above
compare
.
Neither
indeed
could
I
expect
ought
lesse
from
a
Lady
so
singularly
accomplish'd
;
and
of
so
sweet
and
resenting
a
temper
:
A
structure
of
that
Composure
could
not
long
hold
out
siedge
to
an
affectionate
Stranger
:
whose
life
was
thrown
wholly
upon
your
Mercy
:
and
whose
highest
contentment
depended
on
your
acceptance
.
I
must
freely
and
clearly
,
as
becomes
a
devotionall
Servant
,
informe
your
judgment
in
one
particular
,
nearly
relating
to
that
impressive
Zeal
my
affectionatest
thoughts
had
tendered
to
your
Honour
.
This
it
was
that
imbark'd
Silures
first
for
Hetruria
;
although
that
great
Addresse
of
my
Princes
Marriage
with
your
Lady
Parthenia
carried
on
the
designe
.
And
never
was
occasion
with
more
pleasure
presented
:
nor
more
cheerfully
pursued
.
My
Personall
distance
from
you
,
render'd
me
sufficient
Experience
of
the
infallible
truth
of
that
Maxim
:
"
How
Love
divided
from
its
Object
became
more
violent
.
But
my
happy
voyage
has
brought
on
this
Conclusion
:
that
a
glad
representation
and
fruition
of
so
long
a
desired
Object
Cancells
the
date
of
those
discontents
,
which
a
necessitated
distance
had
formerly
procured
.
Your
subscription
to
time
and
place
I
shall
not
here
commit
to
paper
:
in
both
these
propose
what
may
appear
most
suitable
to
your
desires
and
preservation
of
honour
.
Meane
time
,
accept
this
Token
from
his
hand
,
whose
heart
you
are
already
seaz'd
on
:
and
whose
sole
subsistence
relies
on
the
incomparable
Valeria
,
so
long
as
the
destinies
permit
a
Being
to
Silures
.
This
Letter
and
Present
were
with
all
care
and
s●eed
sent
to
this
Noble
Lady
:
receiving
them
with
more
admiration
then
affection
.
For
her
pure
innocent
thoughts
had
never
given
harbour
to
the
admittance
of
a
light
or
licentious
Suiter
.
Neither
could
she
imagine
by
whose
means
or
erring
Suggestion
this
Credulous
Stranger
should
become
so
confident
of
a
Conquest
;
seeing
their
last
intercourse
promised
nothing
less
.
Many
waies
did
she
cast
about
to
retreive
this
Secresie
:
and
with
much
adoe
she
came
to
a
discovery
of
this
grand
Design
(
a
seeming
Project
of
undermining
or
betraying
honour
)
which
,
to
avoid
impertinent
digressions
,
had
been
thus
contrived
.
There
was
one
Argiricidas
,
a
profest
Broaker
in
illegitimate
Contracts
:
who
understanding
with
what
impetuous
sollicitancy
Silures
importun'd
the
affection
of
Valeria
;
pretending
his
intimacy
with
this
Lady
,
offer'd
him
his
service
:
and
how
he
doubted
not
but
to
become
a
prevalent
Agent
in
this
Employment
,
if
he
pleased
to
transmit
the
Carriage
of
so
high
a
Concern
to
his
management
and
disposure
.
Argiricidas
could
not
be
more
apt
to
ingratiate
(
in
which
art
he
was
singular
,
being
his
Master-prize
)
then
Love-transported
Silures
to
entertain
:
grounding
his
belief
on
this
mercenary
Agents
pretence
of
his
known
esteem
in
the
Court
:
and
his
easie
accesse
and
prevalency
with
this
Lady
;
on
whom
he
so
infinitely
doated
.
No
Ear
could
be
more
credulously
attentive
to
this
Impostors
plausive
incouragements
:
promising
him
an
ample
reward
upon
his
success
;
which
with
a
frontless
boldness
he
assur'd
him
,
should
every
way
answer
his
desires
.
Many
daies
were
not
past
,
till
this
deluding
Sollicitor
thirsty
of
the
reward
promised
him
;
without
ever
imparting
his
Suit
to
the
Lady
:
or
remonstrance
of
Silures
affection
continued
to
her
;
he
frames
a
Letter
and
directs
it
to
this
pitiful
perplexed
Lover
in
this
manner
.
Sir
;
you
have
heard
how
frequent
drops
will
pierce
the
hardest
stone
;
and
I
have
found
it
true
.
That
Breast
which
seem'd
lately
as
impenetrable
as
a
Rock
of
Adamant
;
by
much
working
(
as
what
meanes
unassay'd
that
might
successively
operate
to
the
issue
of
this
designe
:
)
becomes
sensible
of
the
Effects
of
love
:
and
the
apprehension
of
a
deserving
and
obsequious
Servant
.
The
Conquest
is
got
;
and
your
way
laid
to
arrive
at
the
Port
of
your
desires
.
This
Task
,
I
must
needs
confess
,
had
it
not
been
pursued
seriously
and
seasonably
,
had
irrecoverably
perish'd
before
it
had
attained
its
maturity
.
But
your
interest
made
my
Morning
Visits
and
Evening
attendance
equally
pleasing
.
The
very
last
day
I
had
access
unto
her
,
and
upon
this
Theme
took
occasion
to
converse
with
her
,
was
crowned
with
so
cheerfull
an
Evening
;
as
her
gracefull
complyance
and
assent
infinitely
sweetned
and
attempered
my
doubtfull
endeavours
:
much
like
a
wearied
Traveller
,
who
chafed
with
sultry
heat
,
allays
the
extremity
of
his
toyle
and
heat
with
the
seasonable
refreshment
of
a
shady
Arbour
or
coole
Christ
all
Spring
.
I
shall
not
need
to
importune
your
pursuit
;
I
know
well
,
how
your
affection
cannot
chuse
but
be
winged
with
speedy
desires
:
having
so
imcomparable
an
Obiect
with
all
freedom
ready
to
receive
you
:
and
with
the
choicest
delights
that
Fancy
may
contrive
,
or
an
ingenious
Lady
devise
,
to
entertain
you
.
Take
this
,
Sir
,
for
so
I
accompt
it
,
for
the
happiest
imployment
,
that
could
be
by
your self
commanded
,
or
commended
to
the
successive
indeavours
of
Your
most
obliged
servant
Argiricidas
.
A
rare
boldness
!
This
Letter
of
Credence
is
received
;
his
reward
returned
:
and
Silures
with
such
aiery
hopes
strangely
transported
,
as
instead
of
brains
,
his
head
is
wholly
taken
up
with
Chymeras
.
And
these
were
the
grounds
of
Silures
confidence
:
wherewith
the
wisest
man
might
have
been
deluded
;
much
more
a
fantastick
Lover
.
This
it
was
that
caus'd
him
to
play
the
part
of
a
Conceipted
Secretary
:
and
like
another
Ixion
to
be
couzen'd
with
a
Cloud
.
For
we
shall
go
on
in
a
continued
Maze
of
Errors
:
and
in
our
extrication
find
them
all
highly
reflecting
on
Silures
honour
.
When
Valeria
had
received
that
strange
Letter
from
the
hand
of
her
Confident
Lover
;
she
knew
not
well
what
to
make
of
it
:
but
having
found
out
the
Author
;
she
resolv'd
to
continuate
this
Error
:
and
to
bring
Silures
to
the
knowledge
of
the
Estimate
of
a
Ladies
honour
:
and
to
contrive
this
Scene
the
better
;
she
pretends
love
,
where
she
meanes
not
to
place
it
:
and
under
a
colourable
profession
,
to
present
a
Face
of
love
,
where
she
never
intends
to
bestow
it
.
Neither
,
indeed
,
could
his
assiduate
visits
and
unseasonable
Courtings
do
less
then
highly
incense
her
:
being
a
Lady
of
highest
rank
in
Court
:
and
the
onely
attractive
Person
for
Majesty
and
Beauty
.
And
consequently
,
One
upon
whom
the
Eyes
of
most
of
the
Eminentest
personages
of
honour
were
constantly
fixed
.
Besides
,
her
Husband
descended
from
one
of
the
flourishingst
Families
in
all
Mantua
;
might
justly
take
it
as
a
derogation
to
the
quality
of
his
Person
,
to
have
so
daring
an
intruder
pressing
into
his
Interest
.
These
Considerable
Motives
quickned
her
Revenge
,
and
that
in
such
Exquisite
a
manner
:
as
nothing
could
extend
to
an
higher
degree
of
severity
in
her
:
nor
of
more
ignominy
to
him
.
And
in
this
sort
she
moulds
her
Plot
;
not
without
her
Consorts
assistance
,
as
may
be
probably
conjectur'd
,
holding
himself
equally
concern'd
in
this
insolent
attempt
and
insupportable
affront
shown
them
both
.
The
Revenge
,
as
the
Sto●y
renders
it
,
was
no
less
expeditely
acted
then
plotted
:
And
to
Posterity
a
Surviving
Memoriall
.
The
Lady
Valeria
resolv'd
to
feed
him
in
his
own
humour
,
that
his
Catastrophe
in
the
unexpected
Change
of
the
Act
might
appeare
more
heavy
;
suits
her
dissembled
love
in
the
like
dress
,
to
bring
him
the
sooner
to
her
Lure
:
and
publish
his
shame
under
the
vizard
of
love
.
Quick
and
concise
was
her
Character
,
implying
the
impatient
desires
of
a
passionate
Lover
.
Trust
me
,
Sir
,
such
pretenders
to
love
,
as
you
appeare
to
be
,
(
for
your
too
prevalent
lines
have
injoyn'd
me
to
a
Belief
that
your
undiscerning
Choice
has
made
me
the
Mistress
of
your
heart
,
and
sole
Soveraigness
of
your
affection
)
such
,
I
say
,
are
dangerous
Pioners
to
converse
with
.
For
in
truth
,
we
cannot
challenge
any
propriety
in
our selves
;
so
long
as
it
is
in
your
hand
to
draw
the
latch
of
our
affection
;
which
by
your
perswasion
and
over-working
,
becomes
capable
of
any
impression
.
We
must
then
with
Patience
be
casten
in
your
Mould
:
and
appear
fraile
vessels
at
the
pleasure
of
the
Moulder
.
I
dare
not
say
I
love
you
;
and
yet
,
methinks
,
my
Tongue
begins
to
taxe
me
;
nay
,
in
express
words
tell
me
,
that
my
dialect
is
not
true
.
My
Bosome
too
,
which
has
been
ever
a
profest
Stranger
to
unlawfull
heats
;
should
I
whisper
to
it
a
Tale
of
Forraigne
Love
;
it
would
turne
Infidel
and
not
believe
me
:
having
ever
held
such
distance
with
Passions
of
that
quality
.
—
But
ay
me
!
I
must
love
,
you
say
:
and
I
must
ingenuously
confess
,
my
Frailty
,
and
your
Fervor
perplexe
me
a
thousand
waies
in
returne
of
my
Answer
.
But
the
Suit
is
soon
obtain'd
,
where
the
Petitioner
may
play
the
Commander
,
by
challenging
an
influence
upon
the
Party
to
whom
He
presents
his
Suit
.
—
Go
to
Sir
,
you
must
play
the
Conquerour
;
but
let
me
conjure
you
,
by
all
those
religious
protests
which
you
have
so
frequently
and
fervorously
breathed
:
and
with
so
many
ceremonious
attests
confirmed
,
that
you
triumph
not
too
much
in
your
Spoile
;
let
it
be
sufficient
for
your
goodnesse
to
have
gained
the
Gole
,
whereto
the
instancy
of
your
desires
aspired
.
Do
not
blemish
that
which
your
Judgment
has
so
highly
valued
.
That
Lapidary
might
be
justly
tax'd
of
indiscretion
or
want
of
knowledg
;
who
will
carelesly
suffer
a
Foile
to
be
laid
on
that
Gemme
or
Pearle
which
he
esteemes
of
price
:
you
have
since
your
first
sollicitancy
set
your
honour
at
an
high
rate
.
Be
equally
tender
of
both
our
Fames
in
this
relation
.
Let
not
the
fruition
of
your
desires
make
you
too
lavish
in
your
express
:
nor
too
immoderate
in
your
Excess
of
joy
.
These
might
prove
two
hazardous
precipices
to
both
our
honours
;
which
I
am
confident
your
discreet
love
will
study
to
decline
in
this
pursuit
and
injoyment
of
—
I
know
not
how
to
render
it
,
a
mutuall
acquiescence
of
a
dangerous
prohibited
pleasure
.
As
you
tender
then
the
Object
,
to
whom
you
pretend
so
high
an
honour
,
in
this
your
affectionate
Cariere
,
(
which
must
be
assented
to
,
because
,
so
prevalent
a
Suiter
commands
it
)
let
this
be
your
prime
Endeavour
.
You
have
obliged
me
many
ways
by
votive
Expressions
,
powerfull
lines
and
now
in
Tokens
.
To
regratiate
which
tribute
,
I
shall
assure
you
Sir
,
by
the
word
of
honour
;
that
SHE
,
whom
by
all
likelihood
you
are
to
injoy
,
seeing
it
cannot
be
otherwise
prevented
,
shall
weare
that
Pledge
of
yours
as
an
indeered
Favour
upon
your
access
and
private
admittance
to
her
.
This
is
enough
;
could
lines
blush
,
I
had
not
writ
so
much
:
yet
if
my
Jealousie
of
intercepting
these
lines
had
not
suggested
to
my
timerous
spirit
fresh
Feares
,
I
had
inlarged
my self
more
.
Only
this
;
your
safe
conduct
and
arrivall
to
the
acquisition
of
your
desires
,
cannot
be
less
then
entirely
wished
by
Your
indeered
Valeria
.
The
gladsome
Receipt
of
this
Letter
so
strangely
surpized
the
deluded
thoughts
of
our
inamoured
Silures
;
as
he
found
that
ancient
Adage
true
by
his
own
Experience
:
Delay
was
bitter
in
the
Quest
of
love
.
With
winged
Speed
He
resolves
to
pursue
his
tender'd
Interest
:
and
upon
his
access
to
her
,
finds
her
casten
in
a
new
Mould
.
Her
deportment
had
made
it self
a
stranger
to
niceness
.
No
look
but
it
retein'd
a
relation
to
love
.
Nothing
could
be
delivered
by
him
,
but
it
did
infinitly
please
.
And
to
close
this
intercourse
with
a
pleasing
Period
;
time
,
place
with
all
conveniencies
are
designed
for
the
accomplishment
of
his
desires
:
from
the
Expediting
whereof
Valeria
shewed
no
averseness
at
all
.
When
the
Phebean
Charriot
after
a
long
delatory
progress
(
for
so
it
appeared
to
Silures
)
had
finished
his
Course
:
and
given
way
to
Latona
with
her
Sable
Curtains
to
ore-canopy
the
inferiour
Orbe
;
it
was
no
time
for
this
longing
Amorist
to
foreslow
his
admittance
to
his
imaginary
Valeria
:
being
made
so
well
acquainted
with
his
Lodging
:
and
with
what
privacy
,
without
the
Conduct
of
any
Lights
,
He
was
directed
to
enter
the
Chamber
,
in
relation
to
her
honour
,
whom
he
did
so
incomparably
tender
.
Where
He
found
a
Bedfellow
,
but
of
another
hue
,
though
he
could
not
at
first
discover
it
,
then
he
expected
.
But
feeling
the
Carknet
about
her
neck
,
which
Valeria
had
writ
unto
him
,
'
Even
she
should
weare
,
whom
by
all
probability
He
was
to
enjoy
;
apprehending
no
Fallacy
in
it
;
as
one
satisfied
with
his
Choice
;
He
lay
close
inwreath'd
in
the
armes
of
his
uncouth
Consort
an
Exposed
Prostitute
;
a
Moorish
Woman
,
of
an
obscure
quality
,
an
infectious
and
diseased
body
.
So
as
,
when
the
Sun
had
display'd
his
burnish'd
locks
,
his
radiant
splendor
over
the
Universe
:
and
Morpheus
cloyed
with
a
long
nights
slumber
,
had
drawn
aside
his
Curtains
,
that
he
might
better
discover
the
deformity
of
his
Inmate
;
in
a
Furious
and
madding
passion
,
as
one
quite
distracted
with
that
ugly
Object
of
his
loathed
pleasure
;
Silures
leaps
out
of
his
Bed
,
vowing
revenge
for
this
his
unexemplary
dishonour
,
if
either
Force
or
Policy
could
possibly
contrive
it
.
But
for
the
present
,
he
held
no
Practise
more
useful
,
not
for
effecting
his
revenge
more
behoovfull
;
then
to
make
it
his
principall
design
(
a
Practise
most
prejudiciall
to
the
State
of
Candy
)
how
to
dissolve
that
Treaty
of
Marriage
;
by
cooling
the
affection
of
Prince
Rosicles
to
his
vertuous
Parthenia
,
and
to
commence
a
difference
betwixt
the
two
States
of
Hetruria
and
Candy
.
This
design
admitted
no
protraction
:
for
though
he
could
not
with
all
his
subtile
and
serpentine
perswasions
aliene
the
grounded
affection
of
Rosicles
to
that
incomparable
Lady
:
so
deeply
were
those
impressions
fixed
:
yet
by
incendiary
Letters
privately
and
speedily
transmitted
to
the
old
King
;
who
through
increase
of
years
and
decrease
of
constancy
in
adhearing
to
advice
,
became
wholly
led
by
the
Councell
of
his
Favorites
:
amongst
whom
,
none
more
eminent
,
nor
in
higher
trust
then
Silures
.
Such
was
the
liberty
of
the
time
:
and
the
infelicity
of
a
State
to
derive
their
advice
and
assistance
from
those
Lapwing
Statists
,
who
either
would
not
,
or
could
not
manage
those
high
considerable
affaires
so
mainly
conducing
to
the
safety
,
peace
and
security
of
their
Countrey
.
Now
Silures
,
this
corrupt
Intelligencer
,
highly
inflam'd
with
the
swelling
Fury
of
an
implacable
revenge
,
amongst
other
pernicious
Messages
meerly
commenced
without
Colour
of
Truth
;
advertised
the
Councell
of
State
,
(
especially
such
as
were
Feathers
of
his
wing
)
what
derogation
it
would
be
to
the
Flourishing
Soveraignty
of
Candy
to
become
subject
to
the
Commands
of
an
Inferiour
State
;
which
he
had
expresly
collected
by
sundry
Hetrurian
braves
:
and
those
seconded
by
persons
of
the
eminentst
quality
in
all
the
Nation
;
that
this
alliance
should
make
them
so
happy
,
that
though
they
were
Subjects
in
Hetruria
;
They
might
by
their
prowess
become
Commanders
over
Candy
.
And
to
decline
their
joynt
approvements
from
this
Capitulation
;
He
assur'd
them
more
(
no
less
ementitious
then
the
former
)
how
the
Hetrurian
Prince
had
●●ready
made
so
bold
with
their
Prerogative
Royall
;
nay
,
with
the
antient
Crests
and
Signals
of
their
Princes
Family
:
as
they
blushed
not
to
quarter
his
Coat
:
and
to
boast
publickly
,
how
the
Constitution
of
our
State
of
Candy
,
was
raised
out
of
ashes
by
the
Hetrurian
valour
.
These
Relations
,
raked
up
from
the
Cinders
of
Revenge
,
which
Silures
had
so
lately
imbosom'd
,
so
highly
incensed
those
inconsiderate
Statists
,
to
whom
his
Letters
were
directed
,
as
with
joint
voice
and
vote
they
resolv'd
to
make
their
address
to
Basilius
the
old
King
,
and
to
importune
the
necessity
of
his
assent
for
dissolving
the
Treaty
with
the
Hetrurian
Prince
,
and
for
calling
back
his
Son
Rosicles
,
with
express
Command
of
forbearing
to
proceed
in
any
such
intentional
way
of
Alliance
.
This
was
no
sooner
proposed
by
those
young
Statesmen
;
then
it
was
readily
inclined
to
by
Basilius
.
Whose
content
rested
principally
in
a
free
indulging
of
his
aged
appetite
,
rather
then
any
management
or
address
of
State
.
It
is
not
easie
to
apprehend
the
grief
nor
perplexed
distemper
of
Rosicles
upon
receipt
of
this
severe
and
unwelcom
Message
.
But
Silures
so
deeply
blanched
with
dishonour
,
hastened
his
departure
;
but
appeared
as
one
wholly
guiltless
and
unknown
to
the
grounds
of
any
such
Command
.
But
he
could
not
so
artfully
nor
subtilely
colour
it
;
but
most
of
the
eminenst
Persons
conversant
about
the
Court
,
were
acquainted
with
the
Occasion
of
it
:
and
afterwards
became
a
Comical
Argument
(
or
a
Satyrical
subject
rather
)
to
the
choicest
and
exquisitest
Roscio's
about
the
Court
,
both
to
exercise
their
Fancies
,
and
actively
to
present
them
.
Though
the
Hetrurian
Prince
distasting
such
invective
Presentments
,
out
of
a
native
modesty
and
princely
clemency
,
prohibited
all
such
detractive
Scenes
,
darting
personally
upon
any
ones
honour
,
to
be
publickly
acted
.
Now
must
we
leave
Parthenia
bemoaning
her
hard
fate
;
to
be
thus
deserted
without
cause
:
and
divided
from
the
absolute
Object
of
her
pure
affection
without
ground
.
So
as
she
remained
over-resolv'd
to
bid
adue
to
the
world
:
and
to
betake
herself
to
a
private
Claustral
life
.
Neither
was
it
her
purpose
to
alter
that
resolve
:
had
not
more
impressive
advice
or
a
superiour
Command
diverted
her
retired
course
:
Being
afterwards
espoused
to
a
Prince
of
high
Extraction
:
and
singular
endowments
:
yet
would
she
never
hear
of
any
such
motion
;
till
she
received
certain
intelligence
of
Rosicles
marriage
:
so
constantly
and
devotionally
stood
she
affected
.
It
was
high
time
now
for
Silures
to
pack
away
,
having
run
his
Fame
on
so
desperate
a
Shelf
:
as
those
very
Foists
&
Buffoons
,
who
in
an
inferiour
officiating
way
reteined
to
the
Court
,
would
usually
point
at
him
;
and
in
a
disgraceful
manner
twit
him
;
and
say
:
There
strutts
that
brave
Forreigne
Intelligencer
,
who
has
lately
got
a
stroake
over
shinnes
with
a
French
Faggot
:
or
a
Snappe
by
a
Neapolitan
Ferret
.
It
is
easie
then
to
imagin
with
what
celerity
he
winged
his
Course
,
to
decline
his
shame
.
No
time
was
reserv'd
to
take
his
long
Farewell
of
his
Grand
Revenger
Valeria
nor
his
Moor
Tripensa
:
from
whom
He
had
received
more
then
he
could
claw
off
in
haste
:
For
that
profest
Haxter
was
noted
for
such
a
Mercenary
Prostitute
,
as
she
was
held
a
dangerous
Inhabitant
under
the
Torrid
Zone
:
One
,
apt
to
infect
more
then
a
Publick
Pest
.
Those
Ladies
then
and
dainty
doxes
of
the
Hetrurian
Court
,
must
hold
him
excused
;
for
neglect
of
those
Caresses
and
Civile
adues
;
which
,
if
all
things
had
gone
right
,
had
been
,
doubtlesly
,
return'd
a
with
a
gracefull
and
complementall
dimension
.
Now
,
suppose
these
two
launching
forth
into
the
Maine
Ocean
;
where
Calme
Seas
and
prosperous
gales
accompanied
them
:
being
far
more
successive
in
their
Passage
by
Sea
,
then
Addresse
by
Land
:
lost
in
the
One
,
but
safely
arriv'd
by
the
clear
Convoy
and
propitiousness
of
the
Other
.
And
with
such
assistance
had
Silures
fortified
his
approach
and
access
to
the
Court
of
Candy
:
as
all
his
transactions
were
highly
approved
:
his
breach
of
the
Match
generally
received
as
an
incomparable
Blessing
to
their
State
:
instilling
into
vulgar
Eares
,
who
were
apt
to
believe
,
what
they
had
not
the
happiness
to
conceive
;
that
next
to
the
Providence
of
Heaven
,
They
were
to
attribute
the
prudent
and
prosperous
management
of
that
great
Act
of
State
,
to
the
cautious
and
circumspect
Carriage
of
Silures
,
in
preventing
by
a
timely
fore-sight
the
Conclusive
Heads
of
that
high
and
most
Considerable
Treaty
.
The
production
whereof
,
if
once
assented
to
,
might
have
accelerated
the
ruine
of
Candy
.
Wherein
some
particulars
were
instanced
,
and
those
mainly
insisted
on
,
to
beget
in
their
Commonalty
the
stronger
belief
of
the
happy
issue
of
this
prevention
.
As
first
,
how
the
Principles
of
Politick
Government
had
not
been
onely
much
weakned
,
but
quite
dissolved
by
this
Alliance
:
For
the
Forme
and
Method
of
their
Soveraignty
,
was
ever
much
different
to
the
Hetrurian
Posture
:
and
so
ambitious
was
the
Nature
of
those
People
;
(
so
they
pretended
)
as
they
would
not
be
content
with
the
free
enjoyment
of
their
own
Priviledges
and
Nationall
Constitutions
,
but
they
must
invade
others
Liberties
;
by
reducing
their
Laws
to
their
scantling
.
Neither
was
this
all
the
inconvenience
that
might
probably
occur
to
their
Flourishing
State
by
this
incommodious
Alliance
:
For
the
discipline
of
their
Church
held
no
Consent
nor
harmony
with
them
.
How
warily
then
and
wisely
was
this
prevented
,
e're
any
thing
were
positively
concluded
?
These
Reasons
,
though
in
an
equall
and
judicious
Skale
,
they
might
clearly
appeare
light
and
inconsiderable
;
they
left
such
Impressions
in
the
hearts
of
the
Citizens
;
as
they
accounted
of
Silures
for
a
Semi-deity
;
but
if
they
had
perused
his
Conditions
rightly
,
they
would
have
found
him
a
Light
one
(
such
as
the
Poets
feigned
their
Heathen
Gods
to
be
:
)
but
too
much
honour
,
as
they
thought
,
could
not
be
conferred
on
a
person
of
that
quality
;
whose
timely
care
and
vi●ilancy
had
preserved
their
Country
:
by
freeing
them
from
that
Juncto
or
Alliance
,
the
Consequence
whereof
might
have
involv'd
them
in
the
miseries
of
a
perpetual
Slavery
.
These
sugred
pretences
were
those
Motives
,
which
caus'd
them
to
receive
him
into
the
City
with
those
Applauses
and
Acclamations
,
Bonefires
,
Conduits
streaming
with
wine
;
Theatral
Shows
and
Presentments
both
by
Land
and
Water
:
with
sundry
Encomiastick
Peans
in
magnifying
his
actions
(
so
ignorant
was
the
pen
of
the
quality
of
his
merits
;
)
whereby
it
appear'd
,
that
these
deluded
Plebeians
ascribed
more
to
Silures
lightness
:
then
they
did
to
Rosicles
composed
and
temperate
Carriage
.
But
the
prevention
of
this
insuccessiue
match
must
make
way
to
a
new
Address
:
For
the
hopes
of
the
Kingdom
being
wholly
treasured
in
the
Posterity
of
Basilius
:
and
Rosicles
the
onely
top-branch
of
that
Royall
Stemme
;
the
necessity
of
his
Election
in
the
Choice
of
a
Consort
,
might
admit
no
long
debate
.
Ferrara
was
the
Place
where
He
was
to
set
up
his
rest
:
and
make
his
Choice
.
And
this
tractable
Prince
returns
a
faire
and
free
Condescention
to
their
definite
resolve
:
though
the
memory
of
Parthenia's
perfections
,
then
which
none
more
accomplish'd
,
retein'd
in
him
that
deep
impression
,
as
his
affianc'd
heart
could
hardly
find
harbour
for
any
new
affection
.
But
on
he
must
to
this
re-address
,
seconded
by
the
attendance
of
his
late
Intelligencer
.
Who
though
he
pretended
an
indisposition
to
health
(
as
he
might
well
,
for
the
Fire
was
not
yet
quite
out
of
the
Furnace
,
nor
his
Cornelian
Tub
wholly
removed
)
and
by
his
Night-Cap
,
which
he
shadowed
with
the
handsom
pretext
of
an
Hectick
Fever
;
though
intended
to
cover
the
Scalpe
of
an
Adamite
,
left
as
naked
as
a
moulted
Scaledrak
:
with
his
unarmed
Fingers
,
for
they
had
lost
their
nails
by
fastening
too
eagerly
upon
an
infectious
beauty
:
Though
he
might
object
these
Infirmities
(
as
never
better
vital
parts
were
seaz'd
of
more
)
on
he
must
to
this
new
Adventure
:
wherein
,
no
doubt
,
his
late
misfortune
would
make
him
more
tender
of
preserving
the
Constitution
of
his
enfeebled
Honour
.
Now
to
their
Convoy
and
arrival
.
Their
access
to
the
Court
of
Hetruria
was
not
with
more
state
nor
magnificence
presented
to
Prince
Rosicles
and
his
noble
Retinue
;
then
it
was
with
a
Majestick
kind
of
distance
at
his
first
coming
to
Court
,
accoutred
by
the
Prince
and
his
daughter
Irina
;
with
whom
he
was
,
as
the
State
had
debated
it
,
upon
his
departure
from
Candy
,
to
enter
marriage
.
All
the
Court
put
on
a
shie
countenance
:
nor
did
the
Lady
herself
appear
with
less
niceness
,
if
at
any
time
(
which
was
rare
)
she
took
occasion
to
encounter
Rosicles
,
or
be
in
his
presence
.
The
grounds
of
which
strangeness
neither
he
nor
his
Intelligencer
could
at
first
discover
;
till
one
day
an
especial
Favorite
,
one
who
had
been
formerly
educated
in
the
Court
of
Candy
,
imparted
his
mind
with
much
freedom
unto
Rosicles
;
unshadowing
to
him
what
had
appeared
before
most
intricate
:
and
withall
,
that
his
affectionate
zeal
might
be
a-wanting
in
no
considerable
respect
conducing
to
so
fair
an
Address
,
he
chalks
him
forth
away
how
he
might
alter
the
face
of
that
strangeness
in
his
Mistress
:
and
possess
the
Court
with
a
better
opinion
of
him
;
then
they
had
yet
in
their
Entertaine
demonstrated
.
His
words
,
upon
their
serious
Conference
in
the
Pallace
Garden
,
were
these
.
Sir
,
I
must
ingenuously
tell
you
,
for
I
am
none
of
these
that
would
willingly
delude
you
,
having
been
formerly
so
much
obliged
to
your
Fathers
Court
for
my
Education
;
that
your
Highness
goes
the
wrong
way
to
the
wood
in
this
pursuit
of
your
affection
.
The
Princess
of
Ferrara
bears
a
more
supercilious
front
then
to
be
content
with
the
Gleanings
of
the
compleatest
Suiter
in
Europe
.
She
has
heard
,
and
so
has
the
whole
Council
of
State
,
with
the
eminenst
Persons
in
our
Court
,
what
a
devotional
Servant
you
have
profest
yourself
to
the
Princess
Parthenia
in
the
Court
of
Hetruria
;
where
having
received
a
dishonourable
repulse
,
like
a
rejected
or
deserted
Lover
,
you
flie
hither
to
supply
your
loss
with
the
choice
of
a
new
Mistress
.
But
our
Ladies
here
be
of
an
higher
temper
:
and
more
coy
by
nature
,
to
sit
down
with
the
huske
,
when
they
may
have
the
kernel
:
or
rest
satisfied
with
Leavings
,
where
they
may
be
presented
with
the
very
first
and
best
Fruits
.
Let
me
then
advise
from
that
intimacy
of
service
I
owe
you
;
to
make
it
your
first
Task
to
vindicate
your
honour
;
by
making
it
appear
to
our
Princess
Iri●a
,
how
this
disperst
report
erroneously
grounded
,
has
highly
injured
you
;
in
faming
you
to
be
rejected
by
Parthenia
,
(
nor
have
I
heard
ought
less
;
)
seeing
the
Objects
of
your
affection
was
elsewhere
stated
:
and
now
in
its
proper
Centre
closed
:
and
in
the
acquisition
of
your
desires
happily
crowned
.
Beget
once
this
belief
in
her
:
and
you
must
necessarily
go
on
in
a
smooth
track
.
Wherein
the
real
wishes
and
actual
offices
of
a
Constant
Servant
shall
ever
go
along
with
you
.
These
incouragements
highly
enlivened
the
drooping
hopes
of
perplexed
Rosicles
:
who
with
these
unexpected
oppositions
had
nearly
razed
out
of
his
remembrance
the
late
impressive
Idea
of
his
deserted
Mistress
.
And
to
put
this
faithful
Favorites
Counsel
in
practise
;
He
call'd
to
mind
a
Letter
formerly
writ
unto
him
by
Parthenia
:
and
amplified
with
various
expresses
of
much
endeerment
;
which
he
had
firmly
resolv'd
to
carry
ever
about
him
:
not
to
that
end
as
he
afterwards
employed
it
,
but
to
ingrave
in
his
memory
a
deeper
character
of
her
constancy
.
The
lines
were
short
but
pithy
:
labouring
to
put
Loves
tongue
to
silence
with
the
virgin
stile
of
modesty
.
Sir
,
Parthenia
could
say
she
loves
you
,
but
she
dares
not
;
lest
it
should
put
upon
you
that
confidence
that
might
betray
her
discretion
,
by
giving
way
to
your
strength
to
triumph
over
her
weakness
.
And
yet
she
dares
credit
you
:
For
though
there
be
no
faith
to
be
repos'd
in
the
face
;
there
is
a
line
of
Honour
that
cannot
be
crooked
.
Fame
cannot
be
lyable
to
hazard
in
such
a
family
.
Your
goodness
has
been
pleased
to
delineate
your
love
in
sundry
ample
Expresses
:
and
Parthenia
can
truly
though
blushingly
tell
you
,
that
if
you
knew
her
heart
,
you
could
not
but
confess
how
she
thankfully
a●swers
you
.
Her
onely
Injunction
,
derived
from
a
cordiall
affection
closeth
in
this
:
Appeare
the
same
you
seem
,
as
you
shall
ever
find
in
Your
constant
Parthenia
.
This
letter
by
his
appliance
to
Euriola
,
When
his
coy
Irina
had
taken
up
this
letter
(
scattered
at
unawares
,
as
she
imagined
)
and
seriously
perused
it
;
as
she
receiv'd
from
one
part
of
it
satisfaction
;
so
from
the
other
,
a
conceipt
of
his
mutability
and
irresolution
.
She
remain'd
satisfied
by
the
Contents
of
it
,
that
Rosicles
had
rather
deserted
Parthenia
;
then
Parthenia
Rosicles
.
But
she
found
another
Flaw
in
it
;
which
perplext
her
as
much
as
the
other
pleas'd
her
:
and
that
was
his
apparent
inconstancy
;
in
deserting
a
Lady
so
entirely
his
,
and
of
deservings
beyond
exception
;
without
the
least
ground
of
di●taste
,
which
brought
her
to
this
mature
expostulation
with
her self
.
How
now
Irina
!
Has
time
reserv'd
you
for
no
imployment
;
but
to
bestow
your
precious
houres
in
perusing
letters
that
concerne
you
not
?
Play
not
the
wanton
fly
in
sporting
too
much
with
the
Flame
of
Fancy
;
lest
your
sing'd
wings
become
a
booty
to
Loves
Fury
.
Ingage
not
your
liberty
to
a
Stranger
,
lest
the
Forfeiture
bring
you
off
with
dishonour
.
What
is
Rosicles
to
Irina
,
or
Irina
to
Rosicles
?
Have
you
none
to
bestow
your
affection
on
;
but
on
such
an
One
,
as
can
suit
his
Fancy
to
all
Objects
:
and
pretend
Faith
,
when
he
intends
to
colour
it
with
the
cunning
artifice
of
Fraud
?
what
priviledge
of
Exemption
may
you
challenge
above
his
deserted
Parthenia
?
None
could
(
as
it
well
appears
,
and
I
commiserate
her
injuried
condition
)
Sacrifice
to
Loves
Altar
with
more
fervour
,
nor
unveil
her
Conjugal
desires
with
more
innocent
Candor
;
yet
must
she
be
rejected
where
her
affection
was
most
individually
fixed
and
unextinguishably
fired
.
An
excellent
cautionary
Lecture
for
an
inconsiderate
Lover
.
Desist
then
,
and
keep
thine
eyes
within
their
Lodges
:
thy
Fancy
communicable
to
none
but
thine
own
Bosom
.
This
will
secure
thee
from
the
thraldom
of
a
light
Suiter
:
and
return
thee
a
freedom
of
enjoying
thy self
,
incomparably
more
valuable
then
these
ceremonious
protests
of
any
Complemental
Lover
.
The
whole
world
(
if
thou
shouldst
take
thy
Survey
)
presents
but
in
a
Land-skip
,
a
continued
counterfet
Love-mask
;
wherein
appears
variety
of
Faces
,
but
they
are
not
native
nor
genuine
;
but
borrowed
vizards
.
And
,
sure
,
if
Paint
be
so
odious
a
tincture
to
real
beauty
;
what
may
we
think
of
these
adulterate
Colors
of
painted
Fancy
:
when
we
seem
least
that
we
are
:
and
are
most
what
we
seem
least
?
—
But
ay
me
!
Tenderd
love
,
which
may
be
real
and
without
any
such
flaw
,
merits
no
such
heavy
construction
:
nor
any
such
Criticism
.
Digest
then
thy
thoughts
better
:
and
suspend
thy
Judgment
,
till
truth
,
the
daughter
of
time
shall
discover
his
Carriage
in
that
Hetrurian
Suit
:
with
all
the
Circumstances
necessarily
accompanying
so
main
and
important
an
addresse
.
Neither
will
this
appear
a
Task
of
any
such
difficulty
as
not
to
be
atcheived
:
being
pursued
with
industry
,
and
discreet
secresie
.
I
am
confident
a
politick
head
might
(
if
all
other
wayes
were
obstructed
)
plough
the
ground
with
his
own
Heifers
:
and
that
I
hold
to
be
the
clearest
and
expeditest
course
.
It
were
easie
to
gather
by
this
pretty
amorous
Expostulation
,
how
Irina
for
all
her
pretended
motion
or
aversion
from
the
suit
of
Rosicles
,
stood
cordially
affected
:
which
she
more
clearly
discovered
by
her
diligent
inquiry
.
This
by
the
assisting
means
of
her
Gentlewoman
Euriola
,
came
in
very
short
time
to
be
effected
.
For
one
Philaster
a
person
of
especiall
account
with
Rosicles
,
but
no
well
wisher
to
Silures
,
professing
much
love
to
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This
Euriola
was
a
native
Cretan
:
though
Ferrara
gave
her
Education
.
Euriola
,
and
desiring
nothing
more
then
to
become
her
intimate
Servant
:
entring
one
day
into
a
Familiar
discourse
with
this
Mistress
of
his
affection
(
for
so
he
styled
her
)
touching
the
Carriage
of
that
great
business
in
Hetru●ia
;
and
being
very
inquisitive
,
according
to
her
Ladies
direction
,
of
sundry
particulars
,
both
in
relation
to
their
proceedings
,
and
unexpected
breach
in
the
Conclusion
:
He
fully
acquainted
her
with
their
whole
Progress
,
and
occasionall
division
in
this
sort
.
Madam
Euriola
,
none
can
more
punctually
satisfie
your
obliging
Commands
in
this
Relation
then
my self
;
which
I
shall
do
more
willingly
;
because
it
may
vindicate
the
honour
of
some
who
have
the
nearest
interest
in
it
:
and
lay
the
blame
on
those
who
by
their
irregular
comportment
justly
deserve
it
.
Most
injuriously
has
our
noble
Prince
been
traduced
:
nay
,
privately
tax'd
,
(
so
far
as
the
malignancy
of
their
report
would
pass
for
current
,
)
of
levity
and
inconstancy
in
the
pursuit
of
his
affection
:
And
how
ungratefully
Parthenia's
loyall
Expresses
were
requited
.
But
these
Criminations
may
be
wiped
off
with
an
easie
Spunge
:
For
his
faire
and
well-compos'd
demeane
was
royally
affectionate
;
his
Carriage
modest
and
temperate
,
in
no
Course
dis-proportionate
to
the
Greatness
of
himself
:
desiring
nothing
more
fervorously
(
and
herein
closed
his
desires
most
Princely
)
then
to
have
that
business
expedirely
effected
,
which
had
been
so
generally
approved
and
advanced
.
But
I
must
tell
you
,
my
deerest
Mistress
,
that
there
was
an
uncleane
Beast
(
I
must
freely
unbosome
my self
to
your
Commands
)
that
troubled
the
smooth
passage
of
this
Christalline
Current
.
One
,
who
should
have
been
a
principall
Agent
in
promoting
it
:
but
bemoane
a
Remora
in
our
Proceedings
.
For
that
amiable
thred
of
love
,
which
the
Prince
my
Master
;
had
woven
:
and
by
a
mutuall
contexture
brought
nearly
to
perfection
;
(
for
no
difference
nor
disparity
appeared
in
their
Choice
:
)
his
sensuall
desires
untwisted
:
dissolving
in
one
day
,
what
many
weeks
had
contracted
:
and
what
two
equally
united
hearts
had
so
freely
entertained
.
Euriola
here
interrupting
him
;
earnestly
besought
him
to
know
who
might
be
the
unhappy
Actor
of
such
a
mischief
?
Excuse
your
Servant
,
Madam
,
replyed
Philaster
,
I
shall
not
much
need
to
display
him
any
further
:
his
dishonour
has
more
then
sufficiently
publish'd
his
disorder
.
He
has
been
a
Servant
of
such
long
continuance
unto
sense
:
as
it
has
fortified
him
against
all
shame
.
In
one
word
,
this
Sybarite
,
to
give
him
according
to
his
dimention
a
just
Character
;
is
a
profest
violator
of
honour
:
and
to
the
grief
of
a
distemper'd
State
be
it
spoken
,
an
individuall
Minion
to
Him
who
sits
at
the
Sterne
.
This
is
the
Portraiture
unto
life
of
a
light
Intelligencer
.
So
,
said
Euriola
;
now
I
have
you
.
I
have
heard
him
,
indeed
,
call'd
the
Catamite
of
our
time
.
But
Fame
is
apt
to
belie
those
that
are
in
place
.
Howsoever
,
in
this
He
shew'd
himself
an
Instrument
of
unexemplary
baseness
.
Madam
,
you
apprehend
it
rightly
:
and
if
with
modesty
I
could
discover
every
particular
,
how
it
was
projected
and
acted
,
it
might
make
up
an
Annal
to
Posterity
,
and
leave
the
Actor
to
a
stigmatiz'd
memory
.
Lines
cannot
blush
;
I
shall
in
a
Scedule
leave
to
my
Excellent
Mistress
,
what
I
cannot
returne
with
Freedom
by
way
of
discourse
.
Penns
be
the
best
Pencils
,
where
Pictures
are
to
be
shadowed
:
Or
the
Subjects
we
treat
of
,
shadowingly
couched
.
Neither
was
Philaster
unmindfull
of
his
promise
,
for
within
few
daies
after
,
he
returned
Euriola
a
lively
Story
of
Silures
Folly
.
Which
with
all
convenient
speed
she
presented
to
her
Lady
.
Upon
perusall
whereof
,
as
the
Narrative
of
the
deluded
Sensualis●
,
being
taken
in
his
own
Gin
,
did
much
delight
her
:
so
the
unexpected
Overtures
of
the
two
dis-appointed
Lovers
did
much
perplex
her
.
But
above
all
others
,
that
strict
Command
of
the
Old
King
and
his
Councell
;
so
peremptorily
injoyning
Prince
Rosicles
to
dissolve
the
Treaty
:
and
with
all
speed
to
returne
to
Candy
.
Yet
her
Compassion
became
counterpoiz'd
by
a
late
inbred
affection
.
For
being
now
in
every
particular
satisfied
of
Rosicles
gallant
deportment
:
and
that
He
was
guiltless
of
what
she
most
suspected
;
inconstancy
in
the
dereliction
of
his
Mistress
,
she
begun
to
feel
a
glowing
warmth
in
her
own
bosome
,
so
as
,
what
she
commiserated
in
another
,
she
became
sensible
of
,
in
a
representative
view
of
her
own
Condition
.
These
Impressions
grew
so
firmly
fixt
in
her
virgin
affections
,
as
love
,
to
whose
Name
,
Nature
and
definition
she
was
so
lately
a
Novice
;
was
now
entertain'd
as
her
nearest
and
dearest
Consort
.
She
disclaim'd
all
distance
now
with
Rosicles
;
in
whose
presence
though
she
had
injoyn'd
her
tongue
a
Silence
;
she
had
aspired
to
that
perfection
in
her
Progress
of
Fancy
,
as
she
had
Speaking
Eyes
:
which
any
Intelligible
Lover
,
had
he
been
never
so
weakly
disciplin'd
in
the
Service
of
a
Mistress
,
might
upon
the
very
first
reflection
have
easily
apprehended
.
So
as
his
suit
will
admit
no
long
demur
:
His
Person
and
abilities
being
so
well
approv'd
:
his
Family
every
way
corresponding
to
her
Choice
.
Wisely
then
,
lest
some
smister
occurrent
,
as
she
had
read
of
before
,
might
obstruct
her
intended
choice
;
she
applied
herself
to
her
Mother-Queen
(
for
her
noble
victorious
Father
had
been
not
long
before
dispatcht
by
a
desperate
Assassine
)
imparting
freely
to
her
,
the
affection
she
bare
to
Prince
Rosicles
.
The
old
King
Basilius
keeping
his
Court
then
at
Sibalt
;
fell
sick
unto
death
:
whereof
diverse
reports
were
dispersed
:
and
being
sudden
,
begot
more
jealousies
.
Some
were
of
opinion
that
his
distemper
arose
from
his
intemperate
Feeding
〈◊〉
and
that
his
crazy
and
unhealthful
body
being
not
onely
sated
but
much
inflamed
with
luscious
Fare
and
sweet
Wines
,
too
strong
for
his
declining
Constitution
,
had
begot
in
him
such
hydropick
humours
,
with
other
contingent
infirmities
,
as
they
shortned
his
daies
.
Though
Others
,
and
some
of
those
,
Experienc'd
Physitians
and
Philosophers
,
would
not
stick
to
say
expresly
,
that
this
good
old
King
died
of
Poyson
.
Which
they
constantly
affirm'd
,
should
manifestly
appear
by
sundry
impregnable
arguments
,
if
the
State
would
give
way
to
a
discussion
and
discovery
of
it
.
And
Silures
,
One
who
all
his
time
had
been
an
intimate
Favorite
to
Basilius
;
(
and
upon
that
score
more
ungratefull
then
Imagination
may
reach
to
,
)
became
publickly
accused
and
impeached
before
a
Convene
of
State
,
as
a
principall
Instrument
of
this
Regicide
.
Which
accusations
,
though
too
full
of
presumption
,
were
within
few
daies
wholly
suppressed
by
the
especiall
grace
and
Favour
of
Prince
Rosicles
(
which
was
strangly
interpreted
by
many
:
)
such
was
the
temporary
Felicity
of
Silures
,
as
he
became
a
successive
Favorite
to
two
Princes
.
But
highly
odious
to
all
humanity
,
if
an
Agent
in
his
death
,
whose
immerited
affection
raised
him
to
that
height
.
But
whether
the
grounds
of
his
accusations
were
just
or
no
,
we
shall
not
here
determin
.
They
are
left
to
an
higher
scrutiny
,
whose
judiciall
eyes
cannot
be
deluded
;
nor
by
favour
disswaded
;
nor
Feare
deterred
;
nor
reward
corrupted
;
nor
any
by-respect
diverted
.
To
whose
doom
we
leave
him
,
to
stand
or
fall
.
But
to
return
you
,
by
way
of
Digression
,
a
strait
&
impartial
survey
of
this
Basilius
,
as
we
should
account
him
a
rare
Lapidary
,
whose
Cabinet
stored
with
al
variety
,
cannot
render
one
stone
that
admits
a
discernible
flaw
in
it
:
so
might
we
justly
conclude
of
Old
Basilius
;
who
,
though
he
were
enricht
with
sundry
excellent
parts
suitable
to
his
princely
quality
:
and
which
,
no
doubt
,
might
merit
imitation
by
his
Posterity
:
yet
there
might
be
discovered
some
unbecoming
blemishes
highly
derogating
from
the
Splendor
of
those
Parts
wherewith
he
was
adorned
:
and
Dignity
of
that
Place
whereto
he
was
advanced
.
And
to
omit
the
rest
,
by
instancing
in
one
more
remarkable
then
any
of
the
rest
;
you
may
collect
by
what
has
been
formerly
observed
of
his
infinite
affection
to
Favorites
,
that
it
lessened
that
esteem
in
the
opinion
of
his
People
,
especially
of
those
who
sate
near
the
Sternage
of
the
State
,
which
his
endowments
,
embellished
with
a
native
humility
,
otherwise
deserved
.
Now
,
amongst
others
of
his
Bosom-Minions
,
who
partak't
freely
of
his
bounty
(
being
a
Person
of
a
large
heart
,
though
a
remiss
Spirit
)
there
was
one
Tremoses
an
Illirian
born
,
and
of
an
uncourtly
demean
;
wholly
moulded
to
the
rude
condition
and
Education
of
his
Mountainous
Countrey
;
yet
of
an
amiable
aspect
,
and
comely
personage
;
whom
the
Prince
was
pleased
to
receive
principally
into
his
favour
:
and
to
confer
great
honours
and
revenues
upon
him
.
But
neither
the
height
nor
heat
of
his
desires
became
so
bounded
.
For
in
that
Royal
Court
where
this
eminent
Favorite
was
highly
graced
,
it
happened
that
one
Polygama
,
a
Lady
of
incomparable
beauty
and
brave
presence
set
her
love
upon
him
.
But
there
was
a
main
impediment
to
thwart
her
design
:
For
her
desires
aimed
at
nothing
more
then
to
be
married
to
him
:
which
she
could
not
lawfully
do
,
being
long
before
espoused
to
a
Person
of
noble
Extraction
:
and
some
years
after
personally
imployed
in
the
Senats
Service
.
But
what
may
not
affection
,
be
it
never
so
illegally
grounded
,
speedily
effect
,
being
seconded
by
powerful
assistance
;
which
Tremose●
could
not
want
through
his
reliance
on
Basilius
.
So
as
,
though
this
great
Favorite
had
been
much
disswaded
from
assenting
to
any
such
Match
;
especially
,
by
Enthimio
,
his
faithful
Secretary
;
who
out
of
his
zeal
and
fidelitie
told
him
expresly
,
that
his
acquiesce
to
that
Marriage
would
beget
him
a
lasting
Odium
with
all
the
Peerage
;
besides
,
that
it
was
so
highly
piacular
,
as
it
would
admit
no
Dispensation
:
which
honest
counsel
became
fatal
to
the
Counsellour
,
and
no
way
prevalent
over
the
wild
affection
of
this
unfortunate
Lover
.
For
no
sooner
had
Tremoses
imparted
this
to
Polygama
;
then
she
inflamed
with
the
furie
of
Revenge
,
procured
his
speedy
dispatch
with
a
Spanish
fig
,
by
means
of
her
Parasites
and
mercenarie
Complices
,
fitting
Assacinats
for
her
Service
.
Claw-back
Flamins
,
who
to
gratifie
Basilius
in
favour
to
his
endeered
Minion
,
returned
their
positive
Opinions
,
Such
was
his
easiness
to
those
whom
he
intimately
affected
;
as
his
hand
was
ever
readie
to
bestow
,
and
his
over-wrought
Clemencie
to
remit
;
more
then
either
the
revenues
of
his
Exchequer
would
well
permit
:
or
the
Equitie
of
their
Cause
deserve
.
Which
Lenity
was
held
by
some
for
Pusillanimitie
;
whereto
in
very
truth
he
was
naturally
inclin'd
;
as
his
posture
in
the
presence
of
Strangers
every
where
discovered
.
But
the
injuried
Vaxedor
became
a
Revenger
of
the
wrong
he
had
received
from
the
Father
;
in
accepting
the
Title
of
a
Commander
by
the
Senats
vote
in
manning
and
managing
those
Civil
Wars
against
his
Son
.
The
sinister
issue
whereof
closed
unexemplarily
fatal
.
A
strange
but
true
Divination
occasionally
ensued
,
as
was
credibly
reported
,
upon
this
unlawfull
Marriage
.
A
Person
wholly
unknown
to
Basilius
,
took
the
confidence
to
press
into
his
Presence
;
using
these
expressions
:
O
Basilius
as
thou
hast
rest
an
Ewe
of
her
true
Owner
;
So
shall
thy
Kingdom
be
rent
from
thee
.
This
amused
Rosicles
,
being
there
present
,
which
his
Father
observing
;
Rosicles
,
said
He
,
Let
not
the
words
of
a
Madman
trouble
thee
:
Hee
's
distracted
,
let
him
pass
.
It
had
been
oftimes
his
Fortune
(
an
unfortunate
Condition
in
a
Martiall
Commander
)
to
fall
deep
in
arreers
with
his
Souldiers
,
but
most
of
all
with
his
Mariners
;
a
dangerous
Society
to
contest
with
:
yet
these
,
though
in
great
Companies
they
would
oftimes
mutinously
and
in
a
tumultuous
manner
not
onely
inclose
,
but
violently
and
with
implacable
Fury
rush
into
his
Lodging
:
upon
his
approch
and
conference
with
them
;
(
such
was
his
felicity
in
the
Rhetoricall
art
of
perswading
)
as
these
inraged
men
never
departed
from
him
unsatisfied
;
albeit
not
one
penny
of
their
long
arreeres
were
discharged
.
This
had
been
many
times
observed
,
and
he
infinitly
admired
for
it
.
Besides
,
The
Origen
or
Source
whereof
sprung
up
first
in
a
State-diet
;
called
at
Strewmintes
.
Wherein
upon
their
first
Convene
,
(
to
mould
their
unexperienc'd
Prince
to
their
own
ends
)
they
promised
to
advance
him
in
dignity
,
and
affluence
of
Treasure
above
all
his
Predecessors
:
nay
,
that
never
any
preceeded
him
that
could
match
him
:
(
which
fell
out
most
truely
,
as
they
afterwards
used
him
.
)
With
these
guilded
Pills
,
or
golden
pretences
,
And
to
instance
you
in
One
Conjecturall
ground
of
his
continued
mis-fortune
;
then
which
none
ever
hung
more
heavy
upon
a
Royall
Family
:
Count
Hadorf
,
a
Person
highly
Serviceable
to
this
distressed
Prince
in
all
his
undertakings
;
observing
his
insuccessive
Addresses
all
a-long
;
with
what
strange
and
incredible
Overtures
his
Majesty
became
constantly
incountred
,
made
bold
one
day
to
impart
his
mind
to
Rosicles
with
much
freedom
in
this
manner
.
Sir
,
said
this
Count
,
may
I
make
bold
to
ask
your
Majesty
one
Question
〈◊〉
Go
on
,
said
He
,
my
present
Condition
has
arm'd
me
with
that
Patience
(
the
onely
Salve
I
find
to
allay
the
extremity
of
my
unexemplary
suffering
)
as
there
is
nothing
my
Friend
can
speak
,
which
I
have
not
a
stomack
to
digest
.
Pray
then
,
answer'd
the
Count
;
resolve
your
Servant
in
this
.
Did
your
Majesty
never
ingage
nor
Sacrimentally
oblige
your self
to
Parthenia
,
before
your
Espousalls
with
Irina
?
Ay
me
!
replyed
Rosicles
,
herein
you
wound
me
above
all
my
mis-fortunes
.
And
after
a
troubled
and
abrupt
Pause
,
as
if
he
Had
more
deposited
in
his
Heart
,
then
He
could
disburden
himself
of
by
expression
of
Tongue
.
I
confess
to
you
ingenuously
,
said
the
Prince
,
that
as
none
could
be
more
indeer'd
to
the
merits
of
a
Religious
Lady
in
relation
to
love
;
So
none
could
be
more
indispensably
ingaged
in
my
Vows
to
her self
:
I
held
nothing
more
incomparably
dear
then
to
injoy
her
:
nor
ought
striking
more
desperately
at
the
Root
of
mine
Honour
,
then
the
violation
of
my
Protests
unto
her
.
Which
Confession
so
perplexed
the
Count
,
as
it
forslowed
his
resolution
in
proceeding
any
further
in
this
Quarrell
.
For
betaking
himself
to
a
private
Retire
;
the
onely
assistance
He
all
his
time
after
contributed
to
his
unfortunate
Soveraigne
,
were
pious
Prayers
and
loyall
wishes
:
holding
his
breach
in
so
high
an
Interest
to
be
a
dangerous
Omen
to
his
future
Success
.
Many
Fields
were
fought
;
much
Civile
blood
shed
;
Families
in
themselves
divided
:
Father
against
Son
:
and
Sonne
against
Father
ingaged
.
Nought
but
Fire
and
Fury
:
yet
such
was
their
Folly
,
as
none
knew
well
what
they
fought
for
.
For
Rosicles
,
being
of
a
malleable
and
easie
temper
,
rather
inclined
to
the
height
of
their
demands
,
to
his
great
disadvantage
;
without
any
opposition
at
all
to
the
Proceedings
of
his
Diet
:
concluding
ever
in
this
calme
and
composed
manner
:
That
all
such
Proceedings
whereto
he
addressed
his
course
,
closed
in
this
peaceable
period
;
and
confined
their
pursuit
to
this
Point
.
The
defence
of
the
Law
of
the
Land
,
Of
the
Liberty
and
Property
of
the
Subject
,
regulated
by
that
line
and
Rule
of
Justice
;
by
which
those
Preceeding
Princes
of
Candy
for
many
Successions
had
mannaged
and
prudently
governed
their
affaires
.
Nay
,
to
imprint
the
deeper
belief
in
his
distasted
Synod
;
who
with
light
attention
gave
eare
to
his
Protests
,
freely
and
in
a
full
Assembly
He
invoked
the
Superiour
Powers
for
witnesses
(
a
rare
and
unusuall
attest
in
Candy
,
a
people
no
less
nice
in
making
their
vows
,
then
serious
in
performing
them
;
)
How
his
onely
Care
and
Industry
was
to
defend
and
protect
the
Liberty
of
the
Subject
,
the
Law
of
the
Kingdom
,
His
Regall
just
Rights
,
and
his
Honour
,
much
more
precious
then
life
,
as
He
affirmed
.
Neither
was
it
,
(
as
He
in
the
presence
of
those
Select
Statists
declared
)
in
the
power
of
any
persons
to
encline
Him
to
take
Arms
against
his
native
Subjects
,
nor
miserably
to
imbroil
the
Island
in
Civil
wars
:
and
that
his
Carriage
all
along
had
given
sufficient
evidence
to
the
world
how
much
his
Affections
had
abhorred
,
and
his
heart
bled
at
the
apprehension
of
a
Civil
war
.
But
whereto
tended
all
this
?
Their
previous
resolution
had
obstructed
attention
.
They
could
not
Find
hearts
to
believe
:
where
they
could
find
none
to
love
.
Loialty
appeares
ever
an
attentive
hearer
;
whereas
Sedition
proves
an
indocile
Scholar
.
Lectures
of
Morall
discipline
or
legall
obedience
are
of
hard
digestion
to
such
fiery
spirits
.
It
is
true
;
The
Law
is
the
safeguard
;
The
Custody
of
all
private
Interests
;
Personall
Honours
,
Lives
,
Liberties
,
and
Estates
are
all
in
the
keeping
of
the
Law
;
without
this
,
no
Soveraignty
;
no
Propriety
;
every
man
hath
a
like
right
to
any
thing
.
Yet
this
Law
so
necessarily
conducing
to
the
Conservation
of
all
Estates
is
to
be
moulded
after
the
Lesbian
Rule
:
it
is
to
be
evenly
squared
:
aptly
proportion'd
in
so
faire
and
equall
a
distance
:
as
it
neither
undiametrically
ascend
too
high
;
nor
descend
too
low
.
For
His
Maxim
in
this
is
true
,
though
it
came
from
a
dangerous
Head-piece
:
If
the
Prerogative
of
the
King
overwhelme
the
liberty
of
the
people
,
it
will
be
turned
to
Tyranny
;
If
Liberty
undermine
the
Prerogative
,
it
will
grow
into
Anarchy
.
An
even
hand
is
ever
fittest
to
guide
the
helme
of
a
State
.
But
it
is
affection
that
gives
best
Calking
to
the
Vessel
:
which
once
lost
,
the
Endevours
of
the
wisest
Princes
fall
out
insuccesfully
,
because
not
entertained
with
a
correspondent
loyalty
.
Many
waies
sought
unfortunate
Rosicles
to
ingratiate
himself
with
his
own
.
As
first
,
by
disburdening
his
Subjects
of
those
heavy
Impositions
that
had
been
Formerly
laid
upon
them
.
As
likewise
,
to
incourage
the
adventures
of
the
Marchant
;
and
revive
Commerce
,
which
was
then
at
a
stand
;
He
sent
forth
his
express
Edict
,
That
there
should
be
a
Suspension
of
the
execution
of
the
Pramatica's
(
or
restraint
of
Commerce
)
untill
such
a
Season
;
purposely
to
improve
traffick
,
and
consequently
gain
their
affection
.
But
Princes
are
brought
to
a
great
strait
,
when
they
must
beg
acceptance
from
their
Subjects
:
and
at
last
,
lessen
their
Power
by
yielding
too
much
.
This
distressed
Rosicles
by
bitter
Experience
had
sufficiently
tasted
:
being
disowned
of
his
own
:
and
deserted
by
those
Heads
(
to
that
height
was
Faction
grown
)
who
by
their
prudent
advice
and
loyall
assistance
should
have
supported
the
State
:
and
diverted
those
dangerous
Consequences
,
which
soon
after
brought
miserable
rents
and
divisions
in
their
Government
Politick
.
While
some
stood
for
an
Anarchical
Independency
;
Others
for
a
Platonick
parity
,
One
for
a
democratick
,
another
for
an
Aristocratick
:
others
,
and
those
of
the
Popular
Leaders
for
an
Oligarchick
Power
.
Neither
was
it
at
all
to
be
wondred
,
that
the
Members
should
become
thus
distracted
,
being
from
their
Head
divided
.
Truth
is
,
these
distempers
were
imputed
by
the
adverse
party
to
the
levity
of
Rosicles
Councill
,
who
(
as
they
ballanc'd
them
)
were
too
light
in
the
Skale
,
to
debate
of
any
considerable
designe
:
far
apter
to
corrupt
their
Prince
,
then
to
direct
him
in
any
action
tending
to
his
honour
,
or
improvement
of
the
Publick
.
Neither
,
indeed
,
to
speak
ingenuously
,
were
all
his
Senatours
Solons
;
being
generally
persons
dedicated
to
pleasure
,
or
adhearing
to
self-interest
,
an
infection
that
soveraignizeth
too
domineeringly
over
the
world
.
Such
were
these
;
whose
small
care
for
the
Publick
accelerated
the
ruine
of
that
unfortunate
Prince
;
as
you
shal
more
fully
hear
by
our
ensuing
Discourse
:
being
a
Continuation
of
the
calamitous
Condition
of
a
Princely
declining
Family
.
Private
and
inconsiderable
differences
set
abroach
by
fiery
and
discontented
Spirits
oftimes
breaks
forth
into
fearful
Combustions
.
Rosicles
denounceth
open
war
against
the
Plebeians
:
and
the
Plebeians
abate
him
nothing
:
For
being
backt
by
the
Synod
of
one
side
:
and
assisted
by
experienc'd
Commanders
on
the
other
,
they
appear
as
ready
to
engage
their
Estates
and
Persons
in
the●e
Civil
Wars
;
as
the
Prince
could
be
.
He
for
his
Prerogative
Royal
:
They
in
defence
of
the
Liberty
and
propriety
of
Subjects
.
And
to
strengthen
them
the
more
in
these
sad
undertakings
(
for
now
their
Fury
grew
implacable
)
they
procured
the
Association
of
the
Eliota
,
a
slavish
mercenary
People
,
naturally
addicted
more
to
plunder
then
to
fight
.
By
whose
confederacy
seconded
with
forreign
assistance
far
more
formidable
;
in
sundry
pitcht
Fields
they
ever
put
Rosicles
to
the
worse
.
The
grounds
whereof
might
probably
arise
from
two
Considerable
Reasons
.
First
in
relation
to
them
;
who
,
upon
any
defeat
receiv'd
a
present
Recruit
by
means
of
the
Publick
Treasury
,
which
was
ever
ready
to
returne
them
Fresh
supplies
:
and
with
those
sinews
of
war
,
to
re-furnish
them
upon
all
Extrems
.
Whereas
those
who
took
part
with
Rosicles
,
had
no
other
pay
then
their
own
Revenues
to
maintaine
them
;
which
exhausted
,
they
remained
wholly
destitute
of
any
hope
of
future
relief
.
Besides
,
as
the
Plebeian
Forces
were
infinitly
vigilant
and
cautious
in
all
their
designes
:
attempting
nothing
without
mature
advice
,
policy
and
discretion
.
Nor
more
happy
to
get
a
victory
,
then
ready
to
make
use
of
it
.
So
the
Princes
Party
was
in
their
undertakings
more
rash
and
precipitate
.
Far
more
apt
to
get
a
victory
,
then
to
use
it
wisely
:
Nay
,
rather
contenting
themselves
with
a
piece
of
a
victory
,
without
pursuing
it
:
which
redounded
to
their
great
disadvantage
,
in
all
their
Proceedings
.
For
being
transported
with
a
part
of
a
Conquest
,
like
Libertines
more
then
prudent
Souldiers
,
they
would
not
stick
to
Carouse
the
whole
night
to
the
honour
of
an
halfe-got
victory
:
which
oftimes
became
a
whole
One
to
the
other
Party
,
before
the
next
night
approch'd
.
Nor
could
it
be
expected
but
Rosicles
success
in
such
disadvantageous
grounds
must
be
answerable
,
seeing
whatsoever
he
lost
could
no
way
be
supplyed
:
but
whereinsoever
they
suffered
,
was
quickly
recruted
.
Besides
the
difference
,
which
appeared
in
the
quality
of
their
Forces
.
For
He
hazarded
Gold
to
Gravell
.
The
eminenst
Commander
for
the
Plebeians
,
after
the
death
of
Ravedox
,
in
these
Transactions
,
was
Bellonius
;
whose
discription
we
shall
here
return
you
,
as
the
Original
renders
him
.
He
was
a
Person
,
who
had
more
strength
in
his
hand
,
then
sage
in
his
pate
.
Far
more
active
then
solid
:
having
more
of
Ajax
in
him
,
then
of
Vlysses
.
His
Lady
Verona
,
descending
from
a
Family
stored
with
valour
and
titles
of
honour
;
discovered
to
the
world
a
derivative
spirit
from
so
Heroick
a
linage
:
although
in
this
particular
she
might
●eem
to
decline
from
those
Principles
of
her
Memorable
Ancestors
.
Who
,
as
they
were
lineally
valiant
,
so
in
their
Fidelity
they
appeared
ever
most
constant
.
Whereas
Verona
excited
her
weak
Consort
both
by
Letters
,
with
other
assiduate
perswasions
,
apt
enough
to
work
upon
such
an
Head-piece
;
to
these
undertakings
:
and
especially
in
this
private
Curtain-Lecture
which
she
with
much
vehemency
read
unto
him
,
a
little
before
he
stood
ingaged
upon
this
Service
.
Sir
;
do
you
not
,
observe
how
Rosicles
under
the
pretext
of
a
Soveraigne
pursues
the
Course
of
a
Syracusan
Tyrant
?
do
not
your
Eares
glow
with
the
report
of
his
indisposed
and
mis-mannaged
Government
?
Is
not
the
Court
become
by
the
sensuall
liberty
of
a
Ferrara
Lady
;
who
courts
her
endeered
Favorite
Claridamus
,
as
if
he
were
her
espoused
Consort
,
a
Roman
Suburra
?
Do
not
o●r
Publick
Streets
and
Stages
Eccho
with
Scens
of
their
dishonour
?
Must
the
Priviledges
and
antient
Liberties
suffer
:
and
none
interpose
to
wipe
off
this
scandall
and
indelible
shame
to
our
Nation
?
Sir
,
reflect
upon
your
Education
;
you
have
been
bred
up
in
Arms.
You
cannot
embrace
a
Fairer
occasion
of
reviving
your
practise
in
Arms
:
nor
improving
your
honour
:
nor
of
gaining
an
eminent
opinion
with
good
men
:
nor
of
redressing
the
numerous
injuries
of
those
who
have
insupportably
suffered
:
nor
of
regulating
an
effeminate
Court
now
wholly
debaucht
and
disordered
.
Let
Fame
then
,
I
beseech
you
,
and
the
bleeding
Wounds
of
your
Countrey
awake
you
.
The
Senat
and
their
Plebeians
look
upon
you
,
as
a
marke
of
valour
.
On
then
,
with
these
Embraces
I
beg
it
of
you
,
and
secure
your
Countrey
to
your
Fame
and
redemption
of
her
honour
.
Never
shall
any
action
appeare
in
more
beauty
,
nor
shine
with
more
splendor
.
This
perswasive
Lecture
delivered
by
a
tongue
that
had
a
commanding
influence
over
him
,
became
so
prevalent
with
Bellonius
,
as
it
quickly
raised
and
roused
him
from
a
secure
sleep
:
enlivening
his
thoughts
with
actions
of
an
higher
temper
.
Ambition
now
begun
strongly
to
work
upon
him
.
And
in
the
first
place
he
considers
,
and
with
the
Conceipt
of
it
apprehends
no
small
joy
;
how
the
Synod
of
Candy
,
and
the
Plebeians
had
made
choice
of
him
,
from
the
singular
opinion
they
retein'd
of
his
valour
and
martial
experience
:
How
he
was
likewise
to
receive
the
Title
of
General
:
a
stile
of
incomparable
honour
.
You
may
suppose
him
then
going
on
with
all
alacrity
to
his
Charge
.
Where
with
far
more
Courage
he
enters
the
Field
,
then
with
discipline
to
manage
a
Camp
.
Though
infinitely
prosperous
he
became
in
all
his
Exploits
:
wonderfully
hazardous
in
all
,
but
inauspicious
in
none
:
as
fortune
usually
favours
(
to
make
use
of
the
Proverbe
)
those
men
,
to
whom
the
gifts
of
Nature
are
most
sparingly
imparted
.
Nor
,
indeed
,
for
personall
action
could
the
whole
State
of
Candy
make
choice
of
a
more
resolute
Commander
:
nor
one
more
eagerly
pursuing
the
vading
shadow
of
honour
:
Being
One
(
to
returne
him
his
true
Character
)
wholly
for
action
,
nothing
for
designe
.
Which
prov'd
well
with
some
(
and
those
the
Principallest
Instruments
in
that
Service
)
who
stood
at
distance
with
danger
,
making
use
of
Bellonius
Forwardnesse
,
as
the
Fox
did
of
the
Cats
paw
in
the
Apothegme
:
making
bold
with
the
help
of
her
Foot
to
pull
out
the
Chessenut
from
the
Embers
.
An
excellent
politick
way
,
to
secure
their
persons
from
peril
:
and
yet
to
share
with
the
activest
spirit
in
the
Fame
of
the
Conquest
.
On
still
goes
Bellonius
successively
in
all
his
adventures
:
desiring
nothing
more
then
to
Cope
with
Actions
of
difficulty
,
which
it
was
his
happiness
to
atchieve
prosperously
,
with
the
generall
applause
of
the
Army
.
And
what
may
seem
more
remarkable
:
Though
it
was
his
use
,
especially
in
doubtfull
occurrences
,
to
appear
ever
in
the
Van
:
suffering
no
Souldier
under
his
Command
,
to
be
more
personally
ingag'd
then
himself
,
nor
more
exposed
to
apparent
danger
:
yet
came
He
never
off
wounded
,
saving
Once
,
in
all
those
desperate
Encounters
.
Having
brought
on
this
Great
work
of
the
Plebeians
to
such
unexpected
success
:
his
Lady
Verona
,
after
a
due
and
serious
discussion
of
these
unfortunate
Brawls
;
begun
wisely
to
recollect
her self
,
with
the
approching
Miseries
of
her
distracted
and
distressed
Countrey
.
And
amidst
those
thoughts
,
falling
upon
a
deep
resentment
of
the
Princes
sad
overtures
,
and
the
justness
of
his
Cause
,
which
she
never
before
fully
apprehended
,
she
highly
repented
,
that
her
perswasion
should
ever
produce
that
injurious
effect
;
by
exciting
her
Husband
to
an
undertaking
so
unjustifiable
:
and
to
her
judgment
,
being
now
reclaim'd
from
her
Former
errour
,
most
irregular
to
the
Course
of
Justice
.
Upon
her
due
recollection
of
these
,
she
expostulated
the
Cause
with
her self
in
this
sort
.
How
now
Verona
!
was
it
not
sufficient
for
thee
to
connive
at
those
grievous
indignities
done
to
thy
Prince
,
unfortunate
Rosicles
;
but
thou
must
additionally
inlarge
them
with
thy
injurious
perswasions
?
Say
Verona
,
did
ever
thy
wronged
Prince
merit
this
at
thine
hand
?
Thou
pretended
the
redress
of
a
State
:
but
what
relief
may
this
deluded
People
hope
to
derive
from
these
disastrous
and
Tragicall
Events
?
Has
our
perplexed
State
(
then
which
none
more
happy
,
if
it
could
have
conceipted
its
own
happiness
)
chang'd
her
Face
for
a
better
Complexion
:
or
taken
this
strong
Physick
to
purge
her
Body
of
crude
and
corrupt
humours
:
and
consequently
inable
or
enliven
her
Constitution
?
No
;
it
is
rather
to
be
feared
;
by
sending
forth
one
seditious
Legion
,
we
have
redoubled
the
number
,
and
brought
more
in
.
Apollo's
Temple
is
dishonoured
,
Diana's
impiously
prophaned
;
their
ancient
Rites
and
Ceremonies
either
wholly
contemned
:
or
shamefully
abused
.
And
wereas
we
pretended
to
expulse
a
Tyrant
;
heavens
grant
,
that
this
pretensive
exclusion
of
One
,
introduce
not
a
Multitude
.
Well
,
Verona
;
let
not
the
occasionall
Source
of
these
menacing
mischiefs
arise
from
thy
breast
.
Thou
hast
done
more
then
enough
already
;
redeem
this
injury
by
appeasing
the
Storme
.
Thy
tongue
drew
Bellonius
into
the
Field
;
be
it
thy
endeavour
to
call
him
back
with
thy
pen.
Neither
did
she
foreslow
her
resolution
:
For
without
more
ado
,
desirous
to
undo
,
what
her
too
rash
advice
had
induced
him
to
undertake
,
with
an
ingenuous
retraction
of
her
former
incouragement
to
so
unjust
a
design
,
she
addressed
her
request
to
Bellonius
being
then
highly
ingaged
in
the
State-service
,
in
this
manner
.
It
must
be
my
Taske
now
,
Sir
,
to
disswade
you
by
my
pen
,
to
what
I
formerly
perswaded
you
to
by
word
of
mouth
.
Second
thoughts
are
ever
held
wisest
,
because
grounded
upon
maturer
advice
.
Your
continued
success
,
as
I
have
collected
from
the
Circumstances
of
this
Cause
for
which
you
fight
,
may
prejudict
the
declining
Condition
of
a
good
Prince
:
but
no
wa●
rectifie
the
Corruption
of
a
distemper'd
State
.
You
ingage
the
safety
of
your
Person
meerly
for
others
Interests
:
who
make
you
but
a
Stale
for
their
indire●
ends
:
or
a
Staire
to
their
immerited
advancemen●
Your
atcheivements
be
they
never
so
prosperous
,
canno●
appear
to
any
judicious
Eye
,
really
glorious
,
when
their
event
in
all
probability
must
close
in
Scens
of
blood
,
〈◊〉
the
ruine
of
a
flourishing
State
,
and
fearfull
dissolution
of
all
Political
Order
.
Withdrawe
then
I
beseech
you
;
let
not
your
hand
beare
record
against
you
in
this
Fatall
Catastrophe
.
He
who
fights
against
his
Fidelity
;
cannot
purchase
any
Fame
with
the
Presentment
of
the
Eminentst
victory
.
Neither
is
it
valour
to
fight
,
where
Justice
accompanies
not
the●
Cause
.
My
Eyes
incessantly
flowing
,
may
be
impartial●
Witnesses
,
how
much
I
have
bemoaned
my
indi●creet
Councill
.
It
will
be
some
redemption
to
ha●●
retracted
:
and
infinite
content
to
your
endeered
Verona
for
you
to
second
it
.
Your
prowesse
has
got
you
too
much
Fame
,
receiving
breath
from
so
inglorious
a
Fight
.
Hasten
then
your
departure
from
the
Campe
;
you
may
believe
me
;
I
am
not
my self
till
I
see
you
.
These
lines
winged
his
course
for
the
Country
;
taking
first
a
solemn
leave
of
the
inferiour
Officers
and
Commanders
in
his
Army
:
pretending
an
indisposition
to
health
:
with
a
seeming
unwillingness
of
deserting
his
Charge
;
if
the
infirmity
of
his
body
did
not
enjoyn
him
to
a
necessary
retire
.
But
●ruth
is
,
he
had
so
expedited
the
work
:
and
by
his
●umerous
victories
,
so
flesh'd
and
animated
his
●ouldiers
;
as
the
remainder
of
the
work
might
in
●●ort
time
be
brought
to
perfection
.
For
the
un●ortunate
Rosicles
,
though
he
had
some
Forces
of
●●e
Cavalry
left
him
,
and
those
full
of
gallantry
,
●nd
spritely
resolution
;
yet
was
he
destitute
of
●uch
accommodations
an
necessary
Supplies
as
were
requisite
for
support
of
an
Army
.
Money
,
Magazin
and
Munition
he
was
stript
of
;
and
at
that
time
those
loyal
Adherents
which
stuck
closest
to
him
,
had
exhausted
all
their
revenues
in
this
tedious
and
insuccessive
service
.
But
want
of
means
could
not
beget
in
their
brave
minds
a
defection
of
spirit
:
nor
decrease
of
loyalty
;
so
devotionally
were
they
dedicated
to
him
,
amidst
the
●oughest
and
sharpest
Encounters
of
hostility
.
Re●olving
to
sell
their
lives
at
as
dear
a
rate
as
they
●ould
:
and
by
their
Deaths
to
improve
their
Prin●●
〈◊〉
quarrel
as
much
as
they
might
.
But
though
●●ections
and
desires
render
much
strength
to
military
Forces
:
yet
those
Forces
cannot
appear
strong
;
that
are
accompanied
onely
by
affections
.
After
Bellonius
recede
from
the
Army
,
and
his
private
retire
to
the
Country
;
(
such
influence
had
his
commanding
Verona
over
him
;
)
he
resolv'd
wholly
to
surcease
from
Arms
;
apprehending
some
light
resentment
of
what
his
Forwardnesse
had
acted
in
his
assistance
of
the
Synod
and
Plebeians
against
the
just
Proceedings
of
distressed
Rosicles
.
Whose
Condition
by
his
continued
success
,
grew
daily
more
desperate
.
For
though
there
appeared
some
hopes
to
this
injuried
Prince
of
repai●ing
his
loss
in
his
first
attempts
and
progression
of
this
war
;
yet
men
,
who
generally
ballance
the
goodness
of
the
Cause
by
the
event
,
observing
his
success
,
contrary
to
all
probability
of
reason
,
to
prove
so
finister
;
the
greater
number
begun
to
fall
off
from
his
assistence
no
less
speedily
,
then
he
declined
in
his
Fortune
.
True
it
is
;
though
one
Swallow
make
not
Summer
;
yet
one
mans
Summer
makes
many
Swallows
:
as
might
appear
by
the
Plebeian
Party
.
Which
(
and
in
this
observe
the
gratitude
of
vulgar
spirits
)
though
they
had
nearly
acquited
the
end
of
their
desires
by
the
prosperous
atchievments
of
their
late
retired
General
;
yet
upon
dereliction
of
his
Charge
(
necessitated
,
as
he
pretended
,
by
the
indisposition
of
his
Body
)
they
made
no
better
account
of
him
,
then
a
Cashiered
Souldier
:
all
his
exploits
were
quite
forgotten
;
the
memory
of
his
forepast
actions
razed
;
so
justly
was
his
valour
in
a
Service
of
disloyalty
requited
.
We
shall
here
inlarge
our
discourse
in
the
relation
of
one
Instance
,
and
so
proceed
in
our
Story
.
This
Bellonius
having
one
onely
Daughter
,
and
invested
in
great
possessions
;
desired
much
to
match
her
with
a
Person
of
descent
,
merit
and
Family
.
Verona
his
imperious
Lady
,
whose
affections
stood
lately
more
for
Rosicles
then
the
Plebeian
Party
;
freely
discovered
her
thoughts
to
Bellonius
;
Albeit
,
when
least
expected
,
these
Articles
of
Marriage
by
Verona's
instancy
were
not
onely
revived
:
but
this
Match
privately
solemnized
;
to
the
great
disgust
of
the
Councell
of
State
:
but
especially
to
Climenes
,
who
sitting
at
the
Sterne
,
could
not
in
policy
relish
such
dangerous
Allyances
.
But
in
very
deed
,
the
Plebeians
little
needed
at
that
time
the
assistance
of
Bellonius
;
Fortune
breath'd
prosperously
upon
their
Sails
.
Albeit
their
sleighted
Generall
importun'd
much
to
know
the
g
ounds
of
this
repulse
:
which
was
soon
return'd
to
him
in
these
words
:
That
the
State
could
not
hold
it self
secure
upon
their
assent
of
so
strong
an
allyance
:
especially
in
a
time
so
variously
fluctuant
and
unsetled
.
And
this
was
all
he
could
receive
from
them
.
Climenes
,
Lamachus
,
and
Muratus
were
the
onely
men
in
esteem
:
and
such
as
sat
at
the
Sterne
of
the
State
.
All
which
,
as
by
the
long
Continuance
of
those
Civile
Wars
,
as
they
were
grown
eminent
in
the
discipline
of
Arms
,
so
to
give
them
their
distinct
Characters
,
they
might
be
properly
described
thus
.
Climenes
was
a
person
of
a
piercing
and
subtile
judgement
.
An
exact
Reader
and
discoverer
of
men
.
Serious
and
solid
in
his
discourse
;
familiar
with
few
;
seemingly
affable
to
all
.
Much
affected
to
Intelligence
,
which
highly
improv'd
his
knowledg
.
No
less
happy
then
speedy
in
dispatch
.
Confident
in
his
designes
:
and
a
Constant
Secretary
to
his
own
Councells
.
He
knew
well
by
a
Cunning
way
of
pretending
to
make
his
mouth
a
stranger
to
his
heart
:
having
ever
an
open
embrace
to
his
profest
Foe
.
He
had
got
that
Tiberian
,
art
,
or
rather
it
was
innate
with
him
,
to
walk
in
the
Clouds
:
and
to
shrowd
his
dangerousest
Projects
with
smoother
appearances
.
A
man
hardly
to
be
re-gain'd
,
being
once
lost
:
nor
long
to
be
enjoy'd
,
unless
preciously
retain'd
.
An
infinite
Obliger
,
if
his
words
would
ingage
him
:
seeming
bountifull
,
but
naturally
Close-fisted
:
so
as
never
any
pretended
more
by
his
liberality
to
merit
a
title
of
honour
;
who
inlarged
more
the
Revenues
of
his
private
Exchequer
.
He
was
ever
jealous
of
a
strange
Face
,
as
he
might
well
:
for
never
had
any
more
Foes
without
,
nor
Feares
within
:
none
outwardly
better
arm'd
against
assaults
:
nor
inwardly
more
naked
,
nor
affrightfully
expos'd
to
alarms
.
A
religious
Professor
;
yet
no
Sect
whereto
He
would
not
adheere
:
and
profess
himself
a
Favourer
.
He
was
very
suspicious
of
the
Carriage
of
any
Commanders
,
unless
they
were
of
his
own
Election
;
and
to
his
own
Family
in
relation
.
So
as
his
own
Allyes
were
generally
design'd
to
the
Highest
Commands
.
His
Extraction
was
good
;
but
Ambition
deprav'd
it
.
No
Engineer
on
Earth
more
expeditely
nor
experimentally
artfull
for
acquiring
his
own
ends
.
He
was
held
in
the
opinion
of
men
stout
enough
:
and
wise
enough
too
in
the
heat
and
height
of
the
Battell
;
as
to
tender
the
safety
of
his
Honour
,
by
a
secure
distancing
of
his
Person
from
danger
.
It
was
usuall
with
him
to
counterfet
an
humble
dress
and
express
in
the
management
of
his
affaires
;
ascribing
little
to
himself
or
the
prudent
Conduct
of
his
Forces
by
his
direction
:
yet
might
you
easily
collect
by
the
Series
of
his
discourse
,
that
the
period
of
the
Action
were
it
never
so
glorious
,
pointed
at
him
:
Which
he
shadowingly
sought
to
discover
,
by
lessening
the
valour
or
inconsistency
of
the
advice
of
such
as
were
his
Colleagues
:
or
by
some
cursory
digression
,
impe
in
his
own
personall
adventure
to
close
the
issue
with
relation
to
his
honour
.
It
is
to
be
confest
by
all
that
knew
him
,
that
none
had
ever
more
Art
in
deluding
the
apprehensions
of
men
,
by
seeming
to
be
what
he
was
least
.
Yet
somethings
he
did
which
undisguis'd
him
,
by
displaying
him
to
the
World
,
to
be
an
eager
pursuer
after
popular
Fame
:
nay
,
that
Ambition
was
his
Minion
amidst
all
those
deceiving
pretences
or
dazlings
of
humility
,
which
he
had
casten
before
the
eyes
of
undiscerning
men
.
Wherein
,
to
speak
truth
,
his
vaine-glory
proclaim'd
his
Folly
.
For
even
in
Sacred
Places
,
where
the
eminenst
Monuments
of
the
ancienst
and
reverendst
Statists
were
erected
;
he
caused
his
own
Statue
to
be
reered
:
and
from
the
very
Materials
of
their
memorable
Mausolea's
irreverendly
raised
.
Which
Art
,
as
it
discovered
his
arrogance
more
then
all
his
visible
appearences
of
humility
could
repair
:
so
the
erection
of
it
tended
more
to
his
scorn
,
then
it
any
way
redounded
to
his
fame
.
So
as
some
in
contempt
of
him
,
in
their
passing
by
it
,
would
not
stick
to
say
,
That
it
was
great
pity
such
a
fair
Lodging
should
want
a
Guest
.
After
such
time
as
by
the
splendor
of
his
success
he
was
grown
to
a
more
absolute
Command
over
the
State
;
he
practised
one
device
,
which
of
all
others
was
most
quaint
and
remarkable
,
and
it
was
this
:
Sabel
.
in
Decam
.
He
would
usually
mint
treason
,
to
beget
an
opinion
of
Clemency
and
Compassion
in
the
supposed
Offender
:
and
delude
the
Subject
with
a
belief
of
a
mild
and
relenting
temper
,
by
remitting
or
mitigating
the
Censure
of
an
innocent
Traitor
.
It
was
his
fortune
ever
to
get
the
Mastery
sooner
over
his
Enemies
,
then
over
his
Passions
;
especially
after
such
time
as
his
Commands
became
Independent
.
Which
might
be
instanced
in
this
,
to
omit
many
others
.
Being
one
day
made
acquainted
with
the
small
store
of
Treasure
remaining
in
his
Exchequer
:
he
utter'd
these
words
in
great
passion
,
at
his
coming
from
Samia
.
My
Souldiers
grow
rich
,
and
I
poor
.
—
Not
Six
pence
in
the
Exchequer
!
—
Zounds
-
I
could
wish
with
all
my
heart
that
I
might
meet
Rosicles
,
if
his
Waggons
were
well
supplied
with
ten
thousand
men
in
the
Field●
:
I
should
have
hope
either
to
get
mony
by
booty
;
or
dye
bravely
.
From
which
insatiate
appetite
and
hydropick
thirst
of
avarice
in
this
Commander
,
Candy
could
not
then
be
compared
to
any
Creature
more
properly
then
to
a
Cremona
Goose
in
Italy
;
where
they
have
a
way
to
fatten
only
the
Heart
of
the
Goose
;
but
in
doing
so
,
they
weaken
,
and
make
the
rest
of
the
whole
body
grow
lean
and
lank
.
Or
to
the
Spleen
,
the
growth
and
fulness
whereof
begets
a
decay
or
Consumption
to
the
whole
body
.
But
in
imitation
of
that
Lacedemonian
Agis
,
he
took
an
excellent
Course
for
calming
this
distemper
:
for
to
cure
this
fury
,
as
if
he
had
been
stung
with
the
Tarantula
,
he
would
forthwith
call
for
Musick
(
to
which
Musical
aires
he
was
affection
atly
devoted
:
)
or
else
he
would
cause
some
little
Children
of
his
own
relation
;
in
whose
Company
he
would
so
cheer
himself
;
in
riding
on
Cock-horse
,
or
such
like
Childish
Exercise
:
as
in
short
time
he
could
attemper
his
choler
,
and
become
his
own
man
.
Though
at
last
his
distemper
grew
so
violent
:
as
a
Jealousie
of
his
own
safety
made
himself
a
perpetual
Prisoner
to
himself
:
Guards
without
could
not
secure
him
,
when
such
Legions
of
Fears
did
inwardly
accompany
him
.
This
it
was
to
command
others
,
and
to
be
a
stranger
to
his
own
Commands
.
I
shall
not
enlarge
this
Character
any
further
:
you
may
take
dimension
of
the
Eagle
by
his
talons
;
of
Alcides
by
his
Foot
:
and
so
we
leave
him
.
Now
for
Lamachus
,
he
was
more
active
then
designing
.
One
,
on
whose
easiness
Climenes
wrought
much
for
his
own
advance
:
and
afterwards
as
meanly
required
for
his
affectionate
service
.
In
the
whole
process
of
those
Civile
Imbroilments
,
Lamachus
had
ever
a
full
share
.
No
considerable
Scene
,
wherein
he
acted
not
his
part
:
and
came
not
off
with
much
Fame
.
He
was
of
a
generous
winning
nature
:
and
much
belov'd
of
the
Souldery
.
Of
whose
affection
and
profest
zeal
unto
him
,
if
he
had
seasonably
made
use
;
he
might
not
onely
have
parallel'd
Climenes
;
but
perform'd
an
incomparable
Office
of
piety
and
loyall
duty
to
his
distressed
Soveraigne
.
Whose
heavy
condition
at
that
time
,
merited
more
pity
then
it
could
attract
Envy
.
And
certainly
his
naturall
disposition
,
had
it
not
been
mis-guided
by
irregular
Principles
,
would
never
have
fallen
upon
any
such
Extrems
;
being
inclined
to
a
just
and
loyall
generosity
.
And
surely
He
had
the
happiness
to
have
sundry
opportunities
offered
,
if
they
had
not
been
by
his
unhappiness
neglected
,
of
appearing
an
usefull
Instrument
for
his
Restauration
,
whom
intentionally
he
seem'd
to
tender
:
and
to
commiserate
his
Condition
,
whose
sad
disasters
had
brought
his
unfortunate
Family
to
that
pitch
of
misery
,
as
never
were
branches
sprung
from
so
royall
a
Root
so
dis-rent
nor
irreparably
divided
from
their
Originall
Stemme
.
Which
glorious
action
had
it
been
timely
pursued
,
as
it
was
opportunely
presented
;
it
had
not
onely
advanced
but
setled
Lamachus
in
such
a
flowrishing
and
stable
Condition
:
as
it
had
raised
its
Foundation
above
the
reach
of
a
Corrival
:
or
the
Envy
of
any
disloyall
Malignant
;
to
whose
Censure
his
cleanest
actions
became
afterwards
lyable
.
Neither
is
it
to
be
doubted
,
but
if
his
more
apprehensive
thoughts
could
have
divined
what
hard
measure
his
meriting
Service
was
to
reape
from
Climenes
,
to
whom
he
had
been
so
usefull
and
successfull
a
Colleague
since
the
very
first
grounds
of
those
unhappy
distractions
:
He
would
have
been
so
sensible
of
his
present
Condition
and
future
safety
:
as
to
Crown
the
Evening
of
his
actions
with
an
Exploit
of
●iety
.
Which
he
might
have
done
without
much
difficulty
,
being
so
countenanced
by
the
Souldery
,
especially
at
that
time
,
when
Climenes
being
then
in
pursuit
of
a
Title
which
dis-relished
the
Army
:
and
which
all
along
during
that
tedious
Tract
of
a
Civile
war
He
with
all
his
Complices
had
seriously
and
solemnly
dis-avowed
:
had
begot
to
himself
and
his
Allies
a
general
Odium
.
This
was
an
excellent
occasion
,
if
it
had
been
Lamachus
fortune
to
make
use
of
it
:
for
him
,
after
a
loyal
reconciliation
,
to
have
united
his
Forces
with
Rosicles
,
and
by
that
happy
Juncto
,
seconded
by
Bellonius
auxiliaries
,
who
in
a
retired
discontent
,
had
a
deep
resentment
of
his
own
indignities
;
might
have
accomplish'd
the
work
,
redounding
no
less
to
his
honour
;
then
his
reparation
and
restitution
to
whom
he
ought
himself
.
But
the
Fates
had
otherwise
decreed
.
For
nothing
could
Rosicles
design
:
nor
in
his
course
of
Warfare
undertake
,
which
ever
promis'd
success
;
were
it
with
never
such
care
,
vigilancy
or
circumspection
pursued
.
Which
we
must
leave
to
the
sacred-secret
Cabinet
of
a
superiour
Council
;
transcending
far
the
inferiour
light
of
our
Intellect
.
For
the
ambition
of
Climenes
in
his
pursuit
of
a
Titular
Regality
had
not
onely
disgusted
,
but
wholly
aliened
the
affections
of
those
who
were
his
Equals
in
the
Field
:
besides
other
personal
injuries
which
his
uncontrouled
liberty
had
acted
:
so
as
even
Fania's
honour
,
Lamachus
his
endeered
Consort
(
a
Lady
of
approved
continence
)
by
his
too
much
freedom
,
became
suspected
:
and
by
the
aspersive
pen
of
a
Satyrizing
Pamphleter
basely
traduced
:
yet
all
these
Consequences
(
so
sinister
was
his
Fate
)
conduced
not
at
all
to
Rosicles
advantage
.
This
Lamachus
,
whose
Character
we
here
render
you
;
was
not
onely
addicted
from
his
youth
to
all
generous
Exercises
;
as
Horsmanship
,
Artilery
,
Musick
and
the
like
:
But
by
the
help
of
Pratensis
,
he
became
an
excellent
Florist
:
in
which
study
he
used
to
bestow
many
hours
,
till
he
had
attained
to
an
exact
perfection
of
it
.
With
Papillus
too
,
a
Country
Limner
he
consorted
familiarly
;
by
whose
direction
he
was
initiated
in
the
pleasant
Art
of
Delineature
:
wherein
after
his
coming
to
Thamipolis
,
upon
acquaintance
with
Perocu
,
and
his
dextrous
Fancy
,
he
became
exquisite
.
The
Exercise
of
these
Studies
brought
him
to
the
true
estimate
of
time
:
holding
nothing
more
precious
,
then
the
expence
of
those
hours
which
conduced
to
the
improvement
of
his
Knowledge
.
But
to
these
Sedentary
addresses
he
never
seriously
applied
his
endeavors
,
till
the
heat
of
those
wars
begun
to
be
more
cool
and
temperate
:
unlesse
at
such
spare
and
succidaneous
Minutes
,
as
he
might
bestow
himself
in
these
without
dis-advantage
to
his
higher
imployments
:
which
he
ever
pursued
with
much
promptness
and
alacrity
.
He
was
ever
observ'd
to
be
spare
in
the
relation
of
his
own
adventures
:
Lastly
,
for
his
Extraction
it
was
good
:
but
his
actions
inlarged
his
fame
.
Which
had
climb'd
to
an
higher
Story
,
had
he
not
with
Medaea
taken
the
worser
part
.
Now
for
Muratus
;
to
limne
him
to
life
,
he
was
a
Piece
tact
up
in
Shreads
of
vain
glory
.
Yet
to
do
the
Puffin
right
,
he
did
such
good
Service
in
those
Parts
whereto
he
was
designed
,
as
he
became
infinitely
prosperous
in
his
undertakings
.
This
dispers'd
his
Fame
abroad
;
and
in
short
time
gave
him
the
name
of
Conquerour
in
those
Places
where
he
resided
and
governed
.
The
report
of
his
valour
and
successe
,
whether
it
came
from
the
relation
of
his
own
pen
,
(
as
he
was
ever
held
for
a
singular
Amanuensis
in
the
publishing
of
his
own
fame
)
or
from
the
hand
of
others
,
so
highly
transported
his
Lady
Mazinella
(
a
Creature
of
the
same
mould
and
temper
in
the
pursuit
of
honour
)
as
she
grew
madded
with
the
daily
report
of
his
Victories
:
neither
could
she
contain
her
passion
,
without
discovery
of
her
folly
in
directing
her
fantastick
Letters
to
him
:
and
venting
strange
Imaginary
whimsies
,
such
as
her
airy
brain
conceited
of
her
Muratus
,
during
his
Employment
in
Umbria
;
where
he
and
his
victorious
Forces
at
that
time
lodged
.
And
to
instance
One
for
all
;
we
have
here
inserted
the
Copy
of
one
;
which
may
to
life
portray
the
fancy
of
this
Lady
.
Mazinella's
Letter
to
Muratus
.
O
my
Muratus
,
how
thy
daily
victories
over
thy
contemptible
Foes
enliven
the
spirits
of
thy
Mazinella
!
Can
thy
fame
fly
higher
then
it
has
already
?
Is
there
any
region
in
the
universe
that
has
not
partak't
of
the
report
of
thine
actions
?
I
shall
infinitly
taxe
the
Poets
,
my
invincible
Muratus
,
for
feigning
Atlas
to
be
the
Worlds
Supporter
,
when
my
imaginary
eye
represents
to
my
Fancy
the
Sinewey
Shouldiers
of
my
Herculean
Muratus
.
Where
shall
not
thy
Statue
be
erected
;
thy
Insigns
displayed
;
thy
Trophies
reered
;
that
thy
memory
not
only
in
Candy
,
but
in
every
Countrey
may
be
eternized
?
Ay
me
!
The
world
is
too
strait
for
the
Circumference
of
thy
fame
.
Time
must
find
out
a
shriller
Triton
to
publish
the
glory
of
thine
actions
.
What
was
it
to
dig
through
Athos
;
or
level
Isthmus
:
or
with
populous
Armies
to
drink
up
maine
Rivers
?
These
,
were
they
congested
all
in
One
,
could
not
equall
the
least
Enterprize
of
my
Muratus
.
Be
thine
owne
still
,
for
none
can
be
like
thee
;
nor
for
atchievements
near
thee
.
Thou
canst
not
conceipt
with
what
indeered
arms
thy
Mazinella
doth
inwreath
thee
,
when
she
is
farthest
distanc'd
from
thee
.
O
what
Hectors
may
we
expect
arising
from
our
Progeny
;
when
such
native
valour
appeares
in
our
Family
!
If
thou
wilt
believe
me
,
my
Hannibal
and
I
was
lately
taken
up
with
Hecuba's
dreame
:
for
methought
I
was
conceiv'd
of
a
Flaming
Torch
:
and
our
Augurs
here
told
me
,
that
it
divined
a
gallant
victorious
Birth
,
that
should
make
such
a
fire
in
Crete
,
as
all
her
frontier
Assistants
could
not
quench
.
Another
night
,
and
it
was
very
lately
,
for
it
was
since
the
report
of
thy
incomparable
conquest
in
the
West
,
I
was
infinitely
troubled
with
Mandanes
vision
;
presenting
to
my
conceipt
a
Broad-spreading
Vine
ove-shadowing
the
whole
Isle
of
Candy
with
her
distended
branches
.
This
I
durst
not
impart
to
any
:
nor
receive
the
divination
of
it
from
any
:
lest
it
might
trouble
the
State
:
and
beget
in
Climenes
,
who
acts
for
an
absolute
Soveraignty
,
a
private
jealousie
of
the
arising
growth
or
aspiring
of
our
Family
.
These
be
rare
Presages
,
which
we
are
to
leave
to
Superiour
Powers
to
ordinate
.
I
must
play
the
dissembler
with
my
affections
:
and
forbeare
from
calling
thee
home
,
lest
my
too
much
instancy
might
clip
the
wings
of
thy
Fame
:
though
I
could
wish
thee
lodged
here
,
as
well
as
incamped
there
:
that
I
might
heare
thy
tongue
the
relator
of
thine
own
actions
:
and
amidst
that
rhetoricall
fancy
,
really
injoy
Thy
Mazinella
.
The
perusall
of
this
Letter
begot
a
thousand
imaginary
Conceipts
in
Muratus
.
Nor
could
he
possibly
be
so
successful
in
the
Progress
of
his
affaires
;
as
He
was
swolne
high
with
the
opinion
of
his
victories
.
So
strongly
had
vaine-glory
possest
him
;
seconded
with
the
applause
of
people
;
whose
Eyes
are
usually
so
fixt
on
the
rising
Sun
,
as
they
can
scarcely
admit
of
a
possibility
that
it
should
ever
set
.
But
,
indeed
,
Muratus
his
native
humour
was
such
,
as
he
affected
nothing
more
then
to
be
admir'd
.
So
as
,
He
had
got
a
suitable
Consort
to
feed
him
with
the
Fuell
of
his
own
Fancy
.
Whose
pleasing
lines
He
resolv'd
to
answer
,
not
without
an
ample
discovery
of
his
later
actions
,
in
this
manner
.
Muratus
Answer
to
Mazinella's
Letter
.
How
well
doest
thou
deserve
,
Mazinella
,
to
be
a
sharer
in
my
acquisition
of
honour
:
with
those
victorious
Trophies
which
either
Time
has
,
or
Posterity
may
erect
to
my
memory
;
who
reservest
such
a
faithfull
Annal
of
all
mine
actions
?
Neither
is
it
to
be
doubted
,
but
that
my
late
exploits
,
if
they
have
not
already
come
to
thine
Eare
,
will
returne
thee
more
additionall
lines
to
inlarge
thy
Kalendar
.
There
is
no
day
wherein
I
raise
not
one
Story
higher
in
this
structure
of
fame
,
which
I
have
on
so
faire
and
firme
a
foundation
reered
.
Muratus
name
is
now
grown
formidable
:
So
as
,
I
have
now
made
that
Caesarian
Impreze
mine
own
:
I
come
;
I
see
;
I
overcome
.
I
encounter
with
no
Remora
,
where
ere
my
adventures
lead
me
,
to
frustrate
my
designe
:
or
divert
my
Conquest
.
And
though
Honour
be
mine
highest
Object
;
I
meet
with
Materials
to
feather
my
Nest.
I
have
been
lately
courted
to
forraigne
undertakings
:
but
the
Interest
of
Candy
hanging
so
heavily
on
my
shoulders
(
Atlantick
as
thou
styles
them
)
requires
my
personall
attendance
.
Neither
can
my
successfull
service
(
then
which
none
ever
more
prosperously
continued
nor
atchieved
)
expect
less
then
a
gratefull
remuneration
:
otherwise
I
shall
manifest
it
to
the
Highest
in
Command
,
that
they
have
not
to
deal
with
a
Person
either
undeserving
or
undiscerning
.
But
this
is
the
least
of
my
feare
:
they
dare
not
lose
Muratus
,
so
long
as
they
have
an
Enemy
in
the
Field
.
Thy
Dreams
divine
no
more
then
I
expect
.
The
Branches
of
my
Military
Forces
have
already
overshadowed
the
face
of
these
Coasts
.
Under
whose
umbrage
they
hold
themselves
happy
that
may
be
received
.
The
state
must
find
me
new
ground
and
more
valiant
Foes
;
or
my
prowess
in
the
highest
Carere
of
our
actions
,
for
want
of
opposition
must
sleep
.
Thou
canst
not
make
use
of
that
gallant
Land-skip
in
thy
Garden-Gallery
,
where
those
Heroick
Statues
of
our
Antient
Worthies
are
to
life
presented
,
but
thou
must
necessarily
reflect
on
thy
Muratus
:
and
conceipt
him
ranked
in
the
same
file
.
Themistocles
could
not
sleep
for
the
emulation
he
bore
to
Miltiades
.
After-ages
shall
find
this
verified
in
the
Survey
of
our
numerous
Conquests
.
Which
succeeding
times
may
more
easily
emulate
then
imitate
.
Sundry
Peeces
of
our
Field-fights
have
been
of
late
artfully
drawn
;
but
as
Aenaeas
said
to
Dido
,
they
want
that
life
wherewith
they
were
acted
.
Muratus
could
do
more
in
an
houre
with
his
pike
,
then
Apelles
could
in
an
age
with
his
pencil
.
For
the
management
of
a
Family
,
it
is
the
least
of
my
feares
;
such
relations
cannot
chuse
but
flowrish
,
where
the
Master
of
the
Meniey
so
highly
inlargeth
his
Fame
.
My
desires
lodge
with
thee
;
while
this
pursuit
of
Honour
divides
me
from
thee
.
When
we
have
vanquish'd
all
,
and
no
less
is
nearly
effected
:
after
these
Iliads
of
surprizes
and
myriads
of
prizes
,
expect
the
victorious
returne
of
thy
Muratus
.
Thus
have
we
heard
how
sociably
these
two
Consorts
suit
in
their
humour
:
nothing
but
flashes
of
vaine-glory
,
as
if
Muratus
had
procur'd
a
Monopoly
from
the
hand
of
Fortune
(
of
whose
mutability
he
was
not
sensible
,
being
puff'd
up
with
the
opinion
of
a
continued
success
)
of
Conquering
wheresoever
he
came
,
and
with
whomsoever
He
was
to
encounter
.
But
Mazinella
,
who
held
her
Consort
such
a
deity
;
nay
such
an
indeered
Minion
to
Fortune
,
as
the
tide
should
never
turne
.
Nor
the
Sun-beams
of
his
shady
happiness
suffer
Eclipse
:
found
by
sad
experience
the
weakness
of
humane
Confidence
:
and
how
foolish
it
was
,
to
sing
a
Song
of
Triumph
before
the
victory
.
For
within
few
daies
after
,
Prince
Rosicles
having
rallied
some
few
of
his
scattered
Forces
,
re-assaulted
this
invincible
Muratus
:
and
in
a
pitcht
Field
routed
him
(
more
by
valour
then
number
)
with
all
his
Forces
.
After
which
shameful
defeat
,
a
Messenger
who
had
secur'd
his
Person
by
flight
,
winging
his
course
for
refuge
towards
Muratus
his
Mansion-house
;
his
Lady
out
of
her
Belcone
seeing
this
speedy
Messenger
,
as
one
infinitly
desirous
to
partake
more
in
the
report
of
her
Consorts
victories
;
Relate
unto
me
,
I
beseech
you
,
(
for
my
desires
soare
with
aiery
wings
)
where
is
my
victorious
Muratus
now
chasing
the
Enemy
?
To
whom
this
amated
Messenger
with
a
dejected
Count'nance
,
returned
this
Answer
:
No
,
indeed
,
Madam
,
I
am
to
acquaint
your
Lady-ship
much
otherwise
:
For
I
can
assure
you
,
Madam
,
that
the
Enemy
is
chasing
him
.
These
unexpected
tydings
could
not
chuse
but
transforme
this
Lady
to
a
teare
swolne
Niobe
:
Seeing
one
houre
had
quite
obscur'd
the
splendor
of
all
his
preceding
victories
.
So
inconstantly
had
Fortune
turn'd
her
wheele
;
and
lay'd
this
great
Hannibals
honour
in
the
dust
:
causing
his
Fame
and
Fidelity
to
perish
both
together
:
a
just
reward
for
his
immeriting
service
.
We
shall
now
take
occasion
to
discourse
of
some
small
reviving
hopes
in
Rosicles
,
of
regaining
what
his
misfortunes
had
made
his
composed
Spirit
,
apt
to
entertaine
all
adverse
occurrences
with
a
serene
Countenance
to
beare
:
and
the
grounds
of
his
recovery
were
derived
from
these
consequent
Motives
.
Prince
Rosicles
being
at
that
time
with
those
few
dis-united
Forces
he
had
,
disposed
for
his
winter-quarter
to
remain
at
Bovado
within
the
Confines
of
Maeonia
:
a
Place
for
all
conveniences
singularly
seated
:
as
likewise
the
most
eminent
Seminary
for
all
humane
learning
that
the
Universe
could
afford
.
Which
flourishing
Academy
,
though
it
had
been
long
time
begirt
with
a
strait
and
impetuous
Siege
,
yet
so
constantly
it
adhered
to
those
Principles
of
Allegeance
,
wherein
it
had
been
ever
educated
,
as
it
came
off
bravely
,
and
acquitted
her
walls
of
the
Enemy
with
much
resolution
and
gallantry
.
Rosicles
,
I
say
,
here
residing
,
there
came
an
unexpected
Message
from
the
Eliots
(
after
they
had
joyned
with
the
Ilanders
against
him
)
pretending
themselvs
zealous
of
his
welfare
:
and
to
palliate
their
counterfet
posture
(
to
that
mercenary
Nation
an
innate
humor
)
alledging
,
how
they
commiserated
his
declining
Condition
:
and
through
a
present
resentment
of
his
pious
Sufferings
,
how
it
repented
them
much
of
what
they
had
done
;
being
induc'd
thereto
(
to
give
a
better
Colour
to
their
hateful
defection
)
through
a
constant
desire
and
united
vote
(
or
perfidious
Contract
,
for
so
it
might
be
more
properly
notion'd
)
for
preserving
of
their
known
Liberties
and
Ceremonies
of
Hammon
.
And
to
publish
to
the
world
what
they
intended
;
they
had
with
joynt
consent
resolved
,
and
to
Articles
subscribed
and
signed
the
very
next
Spring
to
enter
the
Field
:
and
in
his
assistance
to
die
or
live
.
Rosicles
,
though
he
had
small
cause
to
confide
;
yet
his
present
Condition
injoyn'd
him
to
connive
:
and
to
cancell
the
memory
of
his
forepast
in●uries
with
an
Act
of
Oblivion
.
Fortune
had
taught
him
to
bear
an
even
Sail
in
the
roughest
storms
:
and
to
receive
a
reconciled
Enemy
with
a
seeming
Complacency
.
Men
,
be
they
ranked
in
what
quality
or
condition
soever
being
reduced
to
those
Extream
,
wherein
Rosicles
through
his
sad
mishap
was
im●lunged
,
must
be
glad
to
dispense
with
time
:
and
imbrace
any
Instrumental
means
for
repairing
their
own
interests
.
This
unexpected
offer
of
assistance
,
howsoever
he
were
cordially
affected
,
seemingly
over-joy'd
him
.
Better
a
weak
allyance
then
none
:
though
his
affiance
could
be
but
very
small
,
where
his
late
Experience
had
presented
to
his
remembrance
such
apparent
arguments
of
distrust
.
But
the
frequency
of
their
interceedes
,
with
the
seriousness
of
their
protests
so
wonne
in
upon
him
,
as
his
disposition
,
being
naturally
flexible
and
plyable
to
any
impression
,
begun
to
retaine
a
good
Conceipt
of
them
:
and
that
they
would
by
their
valour
(
whereof
they
never
appeared
guilty
redeem
their
disloyalty
:
and
so
by
degrees
through
their
assistance
,
which
their
protests
had
confirm'd
unto
him
,
recover
what
he
had
lost
by
the
Fortune
of
war
.
But
feeble
is
that
relyance
which
is
grounded
on
deceiving
Principles
;
as
you
may
gather
by
the
sequel
of
our
History
:
so
constantly
sinister
appeared
Fortune
in
her
pursuit
of
this
Princes
succeeding
miseries
.
The
very
next
Spring
,
so
soon
as
the
season
would
afford
Forraigne
with
other
necessary
accommodations
for
a
military
service
:
Rosicles
removed
in
a
private
disguise
,
fearing
the
interception
of
his
Enemies
;
which
were
in
those
parts
plenteously
quartered
,
and
too
numerous
for
his
weak
Forces
to
oppose
;
from
Bovado
to
Nevergon
;
where
the
Eliots
,
as
they
pretended
,
purposely
waited
for
his
speedy
repaire
.
And
upon
his
approach
,
with
a
seeming
alacrity
receiv'd
him
cheerfully
:
being
prepar'd
with
men
and
munition
,
as
they
made
their
credulous
Prince
believe
,
to
go
on
in
the
work
;
and
re-estate
him
in
his
own
.
But
a
Treaty
was
held
fitting
,
in
the
first
place
,
to
determine
the
quarrell
by
Faire
Proposalls
:
and
to
decline
that
effusion
of
blood
,
which
might
necessarily
be
occasion'd
by
the
sad
Consequences
of
a
New
war
.
Which
was
without
much
sollicitancy
condescended
to
by
the
adverse
Party
:
knowing
well
,
as
they
had
subtilely
wrought
it
,
that
the
issue
of
this
Treaty
would
conduce
much
to
their
advantage
.
For
Climenes
,
who
had
the
prime
Oar
in
this
adventure
:
and
whose
timely
intelligence
had
sufficiently
discovered
to
him
,
how
those
Persons
with
whom
they
were
to
deal
,
stood
affected
;
had
got
the
art
of
ploughing
with
Rosicles
Heyfers
.
His
Cabinet
Counsel
would
admit
no
lock
.
Nothing
so
privately
carried
,
which
was
not
by
Climenes
artifice
quickly
discovered
.
Such
a
singular
Privy-Counsellor
,
was
he
grown
to
from
a
Private
Souldier
.
Short
was
this
Treaty
,
but
sharp
for
Rosicles
.
So
far
were
these
perfidious
Eliots
from
contributing
their
assistance
;
as
to
their
surviving
ignominy
,
they
set
a
price
of
their
betrayed
Prince
:
exposing
him
to
the
mercy
of
a
profest
Enemy
.
Thus
became
he
not
onely
depriv'd
of
his
Soveraignty
,
but
restrain'd
by
his
own
from
humane
liberty
.
Study
his
escape
he
might
,
but
acquire
it
he
could
not
:
for
his
Designs
were
as
soon
disclosed
as
they
were
thought
on
.
In
this
pensive
plight
for
some
Moneths
remain'd
this
Captive
Prince
:
none
admitted
him
to
consort
with
,
to
whom
he
might
impart
his
griefs
:
or
by
whom
he
might
receive
the
least
dimension
of
Comfort
amidst
the
burden
of
such
pressures
.
In
these
retired
and
resenting
hours
;
He
oftimes
recollected
himself
:
and
as
one
unmindful
of
his
own
Fortunes
,
then
which
none
more
visibly
calamitous
,
in
a
pious
reflection
on
the
heavy
condition
of
his
Exil'd
Lady
,
he
would
usually
vent
his
Passions
;
though
he
had
none
to
commiserate
them
,
nor
with
a
discreet
reply
to
allay
them
.
O
,
would
he
often
say
,
what
an
unhappy
Consort
is
he
,
who
makes
the
Innocent
a
Consort
with
him
in
his
unhappiness
!
was
it
not
enough
for
me
to
suffer
all
the
Extreams
that
Fortune
by
the
fury
of
perfidious
hands
could
inflict
upon
me
:
but
I
must
make
her
a
Sharer
in
my
misery
,
whose
actions
were
ever
full
of
honor
and
princely
majesty
?
was
this
the
end
I
brought
her
from
Ferrara
,
to
inslave
her
;
and
of
an
illustrious
Princess
to
make
her
below
a
Subject
?
She
might
w●●●●h
a
Nuptial
had
been
converted
to
a
Fun●●●
For
what
got
she
by
her
access
to
Candy
,
but
an
immerited
hate
,
and
a
Name
steep'd
in
Calumny
?
This
gives
an
addition
to
the
weight
of
my
miseries
.
Since
her
unfortunate
Choice
has
brought
her
to
a
disconsolate
Change
.
And
how
should
I
,
poor
I
,
apply
to
her
undeserving
sufferings
a
Cure
:
when
I
cannot
allay
the
least
sting
of
a
Cordial
Cure
in
my self
?
—
O
my
dear
heart
;
how
I
do
sympathize
with
thee
;
while
others
,
who
owe
themselves
unto
me
,
take
the
boldness
to
severaignize
over
me
!
How
deplorable
a
thing
it
is
to
fall
below
ones
self
:
and
become
subject
to
those
,
who
in
reason
ought
to
obey
!
If
Princes
have
no
preeminence
on
Earth
:
sure
I
am
,
they
have
none
in
Earth
:
what
a
weak
Structure
then
presents
this
Pile
of
Princely
honour
?
If
Diadems
be
stuck
with
thorns
while
we
wear
them
;
how
do
we
feel
our selves
eas'd
,
when
we
are
rest
of
them
?
O
nothing
!
nothing
!
The
ambition
of
Princes
is
such
:
that
though
these
Thorns
prick
them
,
they
do
not
feel
them
.
But
the
continued
progress
of
my
misfortunes
have
made
me
more
sensible
of
an
humane
condition
.
O
,
to
what
height
had
my
Descent
rais'd
me
:
and
to
what
a
low
descension
has
that
deceiving
height
prest
me
!
To
see
one
Branch
shred
or
cut
off
from
a
fair
flourishing
Stock
,
is
not
to
be
wondred
at
nor
much
bemoaned
,
for
it
may
give
an
additional
increase
or
nutrition
to
the
rest
.
But
to
see
the
Stock
it self
and
all
those
hopeful
Ciens
that
spring
from
it
to
perish
,
might
justly
exact
Compassion
.
Sometim●s
has
my
distressed
Family
appear'd
plenteou●●●red
both
with
fruit
and
flourish
.
Neither
d●●●y
hard
Fate
hold
it
sufficient
to
lay
an
heavy
hand
onely
on
me
and
my
succeeding
Progeny
:
but
on
Her
innocence
,
who
suffers
both
in
her
Fame
and
Fortunes
through
my
unhappinesse
.
Upon
this
pensive
Soliloquie
and
passionate
Expostulation
,
there
came
in
suddainly
a
Retainer
to
that
surly
Keeper
,
to
whose
Custody
he
was
with
a
strict
charge
committed
:
acquainting
the
Prince
(
then
a
disconsolate
Prisoner
)
how
there
was
a
Messenger
lately
arriv'd
from
Ferrara
with
a
Letter
from
his
Queen
,
importing
present
dispatch
;
as
he
pretended
.
The
Prince
commanded
him
to
be
forthwith
call'd
in
:
from
whose
hand
having
received
the
Letter
,
with
intimation
of
her
health
(
the
very
first
question
he
demanded
upon
the
Messengers
Entry
)
with
a
fervorous
desire
by
the
permission
and
in
the
hearing
of
his
Keepers
,
he
perus'd
his
Lady
Irina's
Letter
;
which
he
might
do
without
exception
or
distaste
to
his
strict
Guard
,
being
in
Contents
thus
.
Irina
to
Rosicles
.
My
dearest
heart
;
Subjects
of
Concerne
are
strangers
to
me
:
these
lines
are
onely
made
Inquisitors
after
thine
health
,
the
onely
absolute
hope
now
left
me
.
I
desire
infinitly
to
know
how
the
Eliots
have
borne
themselves
towards
thee
.
I
am
very
jealous
of
their
dealing
:
having
appear'd
so
perfidious
from
the
beginning
?
O
how
often
,
when
inveloped
with
the
Sable
Curtains
of
Night
,
confin'd
to
a
sad
Recluse
of
Silence
and
Sorrow
,
has
thine
Exil'd
Irina
bemoan'd
the
anxious
Condition
of
thee
,
my
deerest
Rosicles
;
being
driven
to
that
inextricable
strait
;
as
to
relye
on
such
weak
and
suspicious
Meanes
!
I
reside
here
,
Sir
,
where
upon
my
long
dependence
on
a
voluntary
but
necessitated
Pension
,
such
is
my
feare
,
I
shall
in
short
time
grow
an
ungratefull
Guest
.
Relations
,
be
they
never
so
neare
,
become
onerous
;
when
their
Sojourne
becomes
long
,
and
their
Attendance
numerous
.
Obligations
of
this
nature
,
have
been
from
my
youth
up
such
strangers
to
me
;
as
they
have
appear'd
to
me
more
active
then
passive
:
Being
from
that
Family
whence
I
descended
,
●ore
accustamed
to
oblige
then
be
obliged
.
Be
thou
,
my
deare
Heart
more
princely
dispos'd
,
and
more
charitably
opinion'd
of
thine
Irina
;
then
Plebeian
votes
have
delivered
their
temeracy
reports
.
These
hold
,
that
a
Princess
cannot
keep
correspondence
nor
a
formall
Familiarity
with
a
deserving
Favorite
,
without
a
touch
,
nay
,
an
apparent
taint
of
honour
.
Charidamus
I
can
either
keep
or
leave
without
any
such
irregular
love
.
I
shall
never
look
so
far
below
my self
;
as
to
make
my
Servant
,
my
Copesmate
.
They
who
think
otherwise
of
me
,
I
shall
with
much
patience
suffer
them
to
be
deceiv'd
,
and
smile
at
their
Folly
,
seeing
them
so
palpably
deluded
,
yet
I
shall
hardly
stoop
to
so
much
lownesse
,
as
to
labour
the
art
of
undeceiving
them
,
by
removing
Charidamus
,
whom
they
terme
my
intimate
Favourite
,
from
my
attendance
.
Their
groundlesse
jealousies
shall
not
work
to
my
inconvenience
.
I
know
Claridamus
to
be
just
and
Faithfull
:
and
He
that
conceipts
him
to
be
otherwise
,
knows
not
Claridamus
.
We
are
stated
here
in
a
Nation
,
from
whence
we
derive
our
Pension
:
which
,
though
native
to
me
,
my
thoughts
suggest
to
me
,
it
retains
no
Cordiall
affection
to
you
.
Those
numerous
injuries
your
Predecessors
have
done
to
Ferrara
;
will
as
yet
,
entertaine
no
Act
of
Oblivion
.
Though
for
the
present
they
contribute
to
the
maintenance
of
yours
;
their
intestine
hate
is
implacable
to
you
.
I
shall
not
aggravate
it
,
Time
to
your
greatest
diadvantage
will
discover
it
.
Be
cautious
,
deare
soul
,
of
thine
Intelligence
.
The
fairest
pretending
Face
is
aptest
to
infringe
the
Solemnest
Juncto
of
Faith
.
This
Caution
highly
concerns
thee
.
Intelligencers
are
become
State-Pioners
,
they
digge
deep
,
where
they
look
for
rich
Ore
.
Seeing
,
my
deare
,
thine
own
appeare
thy
Mortallst
Malignants
;
do
nothing
beneath
thy self
.
No
outward
Occurrent
,
be
it
never
so
consequent
,
can
possibly
make
Man
inwardly
unhappy
;
unless
the
servile
dejection
of
his
mind
hale
him
to
that
unfortunate
Condition
.
It
is
the
gloriousest
Character
of
any
Prince
to
entertaine
the
braves
of
Fortune
with
a
smile
:
and
her
flatteries
with
a
scorn
.
This
have
our
Eminentst
Heroes
in
Former
times
practised
:
and
by
their
excellent
temper
become
inwardly
happy
through
their
outward
infelicity
.
But
I
shall
little
need
to
insist
on
this
Subject
;
thy
Constancy
has
approv'd
thee
,
truly
Princely
in
all
thy
deportment
.
Thou
maist
believe
me
,
my
bosom
does
nightly
find
a
Lodging
for
thee
,
when
thine
own
Irina
is
most
distanc'd
from
thee
.
If
more
Calme
Halcyon
daies
shine
upon
us
,
we
shall
appeare
equall
sharers
:
and
if
otherwise
,
let
our
resolution
teach
us
to
be
patient
Bearers
.
Let
me
have
the
happiness
to
injoy
thy
pen
,
till
opportunity
make
me
happy
in
the
Fruition
of
thy
Person
.
Lines
may
unite
us
,
when
at
most
distance
.
This
Comfort
,
in
her
seperation
from
all
others
,
is
yet
remaining
to
Thine
own
Irina
.
It
is
not
easily
to
be
exprest
what
deep
resentment
these
lines
upon
their
perusall
wrought
on
the
troubled
affections
of
distressed
Rosicles
.
Though
his
Condition
were
heavy
,
and
in
relation
to
his
Family
,
most
unexemplary
;
yet
he
could
have
wish'd
that
it
might
have
been
shrowded
and
concealed
from
the
Eyes
of
the
World
:
especially
from
those
,
to
whom
He
stood
so
much
indeer'd
as
to
Irina
;
who
upon
report
of
his
Sufferings
,
could
not
chuse
but
infinitly
compassionate
his
miseries
:
yet
upon
a
more
serious
recollection
,
He
held
it
not
so
fitting
to
keep
secret
from
her
what
all
neighbouring
Coasts
had
not
onely
taken
notice
of
:
but
would
shortly
,
if
not
done
already
,
by
way
of
Commerce
be
communicated
to
other
Forreigne
Countreys
:
especially
to
Ferrara
,
a
State
,
whereto
the
Candiots
both
by
allyance
and
other
necessary
correspondences
held
free
and
frequent
recourse
.
He
chus'd
rather
then
to
become
his
own
Amanuensis
in
the
relation
of
his
late
disasters
,
then
to
have
the
Continuation
of
his
perplexed
Condition
displayed
by
the
Gazetta's
of
the
time
;
which
usually
delude
their
Hearers
either
by
abridging
or
exceeding
truth
in
their
Narrations
.
To
prevent
which
obvious
Errors
,
and
to
●ender
his
Irina
all
speedy
satisfaction
during
his
immerited
durance
,
of
his
Condition
and
quality
of
his
sufferings
;
He
returned
her
these
Lines
in
a
brief
but
effectuall
Summary
;
as
none
for
facility
nor
felicity
of
pen
,
accounted
more
absolute
,
in
this
contracted
manner
.
Rosicles
answer
to
Irina's
Letter
.
I
shall
second
thy
desires
,
my
deare
Irina
;
but
let
me
conjure
thee
,
by
that
inviolable
pledge
of
Sponsall
love
which
first
united
us
;
that
this
reall
discovery
of
my
present
condition
,
whereto
my
hard
Fates
by
those
ungratefull
Instruments
designing
my
totall
ruine
have
forc'd
me
,
operate
not
too
passionately
on
thy
tender
affection
.
Thy
Rosicles
is
betray'd
in
his
trust
:
and
remains
now
restrain'd
by
them
,
who
were
legally
to
derive
from
Him
,
their
Previledges
,
Subsistence
and
Liberty
.
I
should
be
infinitly
amated
with
the
grandeur
of
these
pressures
;
if
my
innocence
fortified
me
not
against
all
Oppositions
.
Never
was
Family
pretending
to
Greatnesse
,
and
without
colour
of
usurpation
so
justly
planted
;
by
injurious
hands
so
violently
surprized
,
nor
impetuously
seazed
.
My
Natives
they
were
who
have
made
their
Marchandize
on
me
.
And
if
protests
or
vows
even
to
the
Altar
could
have
retain'd
an
influence
upon
their
undertakings
,
or
brought
them
to
a
sense
of
humanity
;
my
lineall
right
and
just
assumed
State
had
not
closed
in
this
Catastrophe
.
Thou
advisest
me
,
and
I
thank
thee
,
for
it
is
an
advice
that
ariseth
from
a
Spirit
that
breaths
nothing
but
Majesty
;
to
do
nothing
beneath
my self
:
And
I
shall
resolve
thee
,
(
to
cleare
thy
Feares
from
any
Act
that
may
dart
the
least
opinion
of
unworthiness
in
me
)
that
my
thoughts
shall
never
stoop
so
low
,
as
to
purchase
my
liberty
,
or
regaine
a
Soveraignty
by
aspersing
the
least
blemish
or
dishonour
on
my
Family
.
No
(
my
Heart
)
though
they
have
brought
me
as
low
as
Earth
can
make
me
:
my
mind
shall
hold
a
diametrall
proportion
with
my
pristine
State
,
though
my
Body
cannot
.
It
is
not
a
Grate
that
can
immure
the
Spirit
of
a
Prince
;
unless
he
has
lost
himself
as
well
as
his
Seat
.
My
hopes
are
not
yet
confin'd
,
though
my
Person
be
.
There
be
some
good
men
yet
breathing
,
who
can
and
will
distinguish
the
justness
of
a
Cause
:
and
indew'd
with
a
generous
pity
,
or
native
piety
,
commiserate
my
Condition
:
and
from
a
reflection
of
my
wrongs
,
derive
an
apprehension
and
serious
impression
of
what
may
befall
themselves
.
And
though
it
be
true
,
that
it
imports
more
happiness
to
be
envied
then
pitied
;
yet
pity
wel
assisted
&
amicably
seconded
;
may
bring
those
who
were
lately
pitied
,
to
be
afterwards
envyed
by
those
by
whom
they
were
distressed
.
In
the
heaviest
of
my
Extrems
am
I
thus
suppo●ted
.
Lower
I
may
be
in
the
accompt
of
Fortune
:
but
nothing
lighter
in
the
Scale
of
Resolution
.
For
those
injurious
aspersions
thrown
on
thy
vertuous
name
;
let
the
stings
of
such
traducing
tongues
never
move
thee
;
thy
innocence
retains
a
clear
and
integ●ious
opinion
in
my
brest
:
thou
needes
not
attest
it
with
vows
:
Those
make
it
their
endeavour
(
which
is
but
washing
of
the
Aethiop
)
to
defame
thy
Spousall
honour
,
who
beg
attendance
on
the
Time
:
and
looking
on
the
Rising-Sun
,
never
deigne
to
cast
an
Eye
upon
that
Great
Light
which
the
opacous
shadow
of
their
Moon
has
eclipsed
.
Thy
pure
breast
may
entertaine
these
Time-traduces
with
a
Smile
or
a
Scorne
;
as
thou
were
't
pleased
in
thine
to
teach
me
how
to
receive
Fortune
.
That
were
an
unparallel'd
beauty
that
could
exempt
its
attractive
quality
from
the
reach
of
Censure
:
or
a
Person
,
who
had
incurr'd
a
Plebeian
hate
,
for
such
an
One
to
free
himself
from
a
touch
of
dishonour
,
were
a
Prodigy
,
as
Time
makes
it
,
in
the
Course
of
Nature
.
I
know
wel
(
for
so
much
has
Morality
taught
me
)
that
all
Justice
is
comprehended
in
Innocence
:
and
that
Innocence
reprehends
all
Injustice
:
thy
purity
then
may
plead
thine
Apology
.
Being
pure
in
the
Estimate
of
thine
own
,
Thou
art
secur'd
from
the
meldew
of
vulgar
Fame
.
For
what
Archers
be
these
who
shoot
at
thine
honour
,
but
Plebeian
Timists
or
State-shadows
:
injurious
Purchasers
of
Others
rights
;
Profest
doers
of
wrong
and
impudent
detracters
from
others
Fame
.
And
can
these
impeach
thy
repute
?
Truth
will
never
maintaine
those
who
are
asham'd
of
her
.
And
some
there
be
to
my
knowledge
,
and
those
,
such
as
nestle
under
the
branches
of
Cedars
,
who
have
palpably
declin'd
from
the
reall
profession
of
Truth
to
their
shame
.
As
for
Ferrara
,
my
dear
,
though
a
Sacred
Tye
has
allied
me
to
it
;
yet
shall
I
never
cordially
relie
upon
it
.
It
is
to
be
ingenuously
confest
by
all
,
that
it
has
receiv'd
too
many
indignities
from
Candy
to
raze
out
the
prints
or
impressures
of
them
:
But
none
of
these
were
ever
acted
by
thy
Rosicles
,
but
his
Predecessors
:
which
might
attemper
the
quarrell
in
my
particular
:
but
in
relation
to
thy
Person
especially
,
my
indeered
Irina
;
who
art
enforc'd
there
to
make
thy
Reside
,
or
rather
thine
Exile
,
where
thou
breath'd
thy
first
native
aire
:
deriving
thy
extraction
from
that
Heroick
line
,
whose
unequall'd
prowesse
highly
improv'd
the
honour
of
that
Nation
;
though
they
sleep
now
in
the
bed
of
dust
.
Here
to
partake
(
being
necessitated
thereto
by
thy
Consorts
misfortune
)
of
usefull
accommodations
corresponding
with
thy
Condition
;
were
but
a
Civile
hospitality
in
them
:
and
no
less
then
with
princely
modesty
and
without
the
notion
of
beholdingness
(
a
word
of
too
hard
digestion
to
a
gallant
and
dis-ingaged
Spirit
)
thy
lineall
descent
,
to
omit
other
relations
,
might
justly
exact
.
But
our
Fortunes
will
not
permit
us
to
contest
either
with
Fate
or
Foe
.
If
any
Balm
will
cure
us
,
or
allay
this
Alloes
Potion
of
affliction
that
so
imbitters
us
;
it
must
be
a
patient
composure
of
our
minds
:
this
it
is
that
must
calm
our
distempers
.
I
have
inlarg'd
my self
more
then
I
intended
;
but
excuse
it
,
my
dear
One
;
for
methinks
,
every
line
here
addressed
to
thee
,
enliveneth
me
in
this
unsociable
Cell
of
my
Restraint
.
Mean
time
,
let
us
anchor
our
hopes
in
this
,
that
the
Superiour
Powers
,
who
reserve
an
influence
over
all
our
Actions
,
and
under
whose
hand
it
is
for
us
either
to
rise
or
fall
,
will
afford
us
more
chearful
beams
of
reviving
Comfort
;
by
crowning
our
Cloudy
day
with
a
Clear
Evening
:
and
so
re-unite
us
,
or
by
a
gladsome
Translation
impose
a
period
to
our
suffering
:
and
joyntly
eternize
us
.
Thine
own
Rosicles
.
These
were
the
last
lines
which
the
Princess
ever
receiv'd
from
her
Captiv'd
Rosicles
:
being
so
strictly
guarded
by
Speciall
Command
from
the
Senat
,
as
all
intercourse
was
obstructed
either
by
Letter
or
address
of
Friends
during
his
restraint
;
so
irreconcilable
was
this
division
grown
betwixt
this
distressed
Prince
and
his
People
.
Yet
amidst
these
distempers
,
He
had
ever
some
well-wishers
left
,
who
to
their
power
so
far
as
their
Forces
would
extend
to
,
desisted
not
from
contributing
their
best
assistance
to
his
defence
,
with
an
integrious
demonstrance
of
their
loyalty
.
Amongst
which
,
one
[
*
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*
An
Illirian
of
high
Extraction
.
Lycanthes
pretending
infinite
zeal
to
this
injuried
Prince
;
but
how
he
stood
inwardly
affected
,
his
Cloudy
and
immasked
thoughts
knew
best
;
levied
a
strong
and
Formidable
Army
;
and
with
these
puissant
Forces
(
far
more
numerous
then
orderly
managed
)
He
invades
the
Territories
of
Candy
:
where
with
more
confidence
then
valour
or
martiall
prowess
,
He
marched
along
,
but
in
a
posture
much
unsuitable
to
an
experienc'd
Souldier
.
For
he
appeared
in
his
ga●ish
and
pompous
Colours
(
like
a
vaine
Popinjay
)
as
if
he
had
been
going
rather
to
a
Morice
or
May-game
,
then
any
Martiall
adventure
;
vanting
all
along
in
this
his
undisciplin'd
Progress
(
for
so
might
his
march
be
truly
styled
)
of
an
assured
victory
,
before
he
faced
the
Enemy
.
Neither
surely
could
any
thing
less
have
been
expected
;
if
such
Considerable
Forces
had
been
under
the
conduct
of
a
serious
and
successfull
Leader
:
but
as
that
wise
Polititian
well
observed
:
Better
it
is
to
have
an
Army
of
Harts
,
with
a
Lyon
to
their
Leader
:
then
an
Army
of
Lyons
with
an
Hart
to
their
Conducter
:
Such
influence
has
a
discreet
and
resolute
Commander
in
the
success
of
his
Army
.
Which
Lycanthes
found
true
to
his
bitter
experience
.
For
though
his
Forces
were
singularly
well
prepared
;
yet
his
indiscreet
confidence
suffered
them
to
be
so
dis-joynted
and
in
their
March
so
strangely
distanced
,
as
they
appeared
more
like
Forragers
then
Souldiers
:
more
apt
for
booty
then
to
attempt
a
victory
:
and
in
pillage
they
feathered
their
Nests
sufficiently
:
making
every
Coast
,
where
they
so
freely
exercis'd
their
rapine
and
injurious
plunder
,
their
Mortall
Enemie
.
But
the
Event
of
this
Battell
return'd
them
a
demerited
guerdon
.
For
having
met
their
Foe
,
whom
Lycanthes
so
little
feared
;
and
over
whom
he
so
bravingly
triumphed
,
before
He
became
ingaged
,
They
wholly
discomfited
him
;
without
much
resistence
;
to
Lycanthes
great
dishonour
,
and
his
defeated
Forces
unexemplary
slaughter
.
So
as
that
very
Place
where
this
Victory
with
so
small
difficulty
was
acquired
,
became
so
purpled
and
with
dislaughter'd
Corpses
so
numerously
and
confusedly
covered
;
as
there
scarce
appeared
sufficient
purprize
of
ground
to
afford
them
Graves
.
That
small
remainder
of
them
whose
Fortune
it
was
to
be
preserved
from
the
edge
of
the
Sword
:
were
made
subject
to
as
heavy
a
Fate
:
being
generally
sold
for
Bondslaves
,
and
at
so
easie
and
contemptible
a
rate
:
as
their
value
might
appeare
conformable
to
their
valour
:
their
despicable
price
,
to
the
estimate
of
their
pufillanimous
prowess
.
As
for
the
rest
of
his
discattered
Forces
,
by
the
slow
Conduct
of
their
March
,
and
their
distance
from
the
Battell
,
(
having
never
approch'd
the
Face
of
the
Enemy
)
they
retreited
back
both
with
safety
and
Spoile
:
impoverishing
the
Countrey
whereever
they
marched
:
returning
to
their
penurious
Homes
,
no
less
full-handed
then
faint-hearted
.
Now
to
give
you
the
true
Character
of
this
Lycanthes
;
though
he
were
of
eminent
extraction
;
He
was
ever
held
to
partake
more
of
a
dissolute
then
resolute
disposition
;
One
,
who
could
easily
dispence
with
his
faith
;
infringe
his
promise
;
violate
his
vow
:
and
a
cunning
designer
,
and
disguiser
too
of
his
intendments
for
his
own
Interest
.
Yet
was
he
never
known
in
those
designes
,
(
were
they
never
so
subtilely
couched
nor
carried
)
to
appeare
prosperous
.
Neither
was
it
thought
by
Those
,
who
held
nearest
correspondence
with
him
:
and
ey'd
his
actions
with
the
prudentst
inspection
,
that
his
intention
in
this
Expedition
was
clear
or
candid
:
but
that
he
looked
more
upon
himself
,
and
how
he
might
advance
his
own
interest
;
then
how
to
vindicate
the
injuries
of
his
distressed
Prince
:
who
remained
still
a
restrained
person
;
destitute
of
all
humane
succour
or
assistance
.
But
those
high
and
inscrutable
Judgments
of
the
Superiour
Power
,
which
startleth
those
who
are
most
secure
and
insensible
of
their
irregular
Condition
,
though
they
seem
for
a
while
to
sleep
,
they
seldom
ss●●pe
:
as
might
be
instanced
to
life
in
the
Tragicall
Period
of
this
unfortunate
Polititian
:
who
cut
off
in
the
height
of
his
ambition
,
was
enforc'd
(
without
the
attendance
of
many
reall
or
cordiall
Mourners
)
to
become
a
Spectacle
to
the
World
,
and
to
perform
his
last
act
upon
the
Scaffold
:
and
sacrifice
his
projecting
head
on
the
Block
.
Which
,
though
he
sought
by
all
submissive
wayes
and
mercenary
means
to
prevent
:
yet
all
his
Contrivements
could
not
operate
to
his
safety
.
Two
others
of
remarkable
quality
there
were
besides
himself
,
who
having
received
the
irrevocable
Sentence
of
death
,
were
to
die
with
him
:
which
three
were
usually
in
Candy
thus
distinguished
.
One
a
Courtier
,
and
no
Souldier
.
The
Second
a
Souldier
,
and
no
profest
Courtier
.
The
Third
neither
Souldier
nor
Courtier
.
Which
was
meant
by
Lycanthes
;
being
a
person
naturally
surly
and
uncivil
:
and
in
Martiall
affaires
ignorant
.
After
this
great
discomfiture
;
from
whence
so
much
was
expected
,
and
so
little
accomplished
:
the
Senatual
and
Plebeian
State
continued
in
a
flourishing
peace
;
having
no
Assailants
either
privately
to
oppose
them
,
or
publickly
to
invade
them
.
For
the
Captive
Prince
was
secur'd
;
and
his
weak
Allies
deterr'd
from
designing
,
much
more
from
acting
any
thing
considerable
to
a
Democratick
disadvantage
.
During
which
Calm
,
or
peaceable
Cessation
,
the
Candiots
became
infinitly
prosperous
(
as
their
valour
well
merited
)
in
sundry
consequent
adventures
.
For
their
Generalissimo
Moccenigo
burnt
ten
Turkish
ships
and
fourteen
Saiques
;
and
took
the
Tribute
of
Rhodes
amounting
to
200000
Crowns
;
with
the
loss
of
100
of
his
men
,
and
300
wounded
.
After
which
gallant
exploit
,
he
joyned
with
the
Roman
Galleys
and
those
of
Malt●
:
and
with
their
united
Forces
,
invincible
for
their
resolution
,
they
went
jointly
again
to
the
Dardanelles
,
to
obstruct
all
such
Vessels
which
carried
provision
to
Constantinople
:
and
were
resolved
(
so
highly
were
they
inflam'd
with
the
heat
and
pursuit
of
their
victories
)
to
fight
the
great
Turkish
Fleet
,
intending
at
that
time
to
keep
their
Rendevous
at
Scio.
Such
noble
assayes
with
answerable
successe
did
these
victorious
Ilanders
not
onely
attempt
,
but
bravely
to
their
surviving
memory
perform
:
during
those
short
interbreaths
and
intermissive
respirations
of
Civil
war
.
Whence
it
may
be
easily
collected
,
what
memorable
actions
and
Conquests
might
have
been
atchieved
and
to
the
succeeding
glory
of
Candy
continued
;
by
those
Heroick
Spirits
,
whose
viril
veins
had
their
blood
wholly
exhausted
in
those
Civil
wars
.
Yet
during
this
seeming
Calme
and
Cessation
from
Arms
,
the
Synodical
and
Plebeian
Faction
were
not
wholly
acquitted
of
Foes
nor
Fears
.
All
stood
not
well-affected
to
that
mixt
and
confused
state
of
Government
.
For
there
were
ever
Some
(
and
those
not
of
the
meanest
quality
,
though
their
Feverish
Spirits
were
not
elevated
to
any
publick
action
)
who
confidently
expected
and
eagerly
desired
,
that
their
new-introduced
Anarchy
might
be
suppressed
,
and
Rosicles
to
his
own
restored
.
Others
there
were
who
stood
aloof
,
giving
aim
to
the
Events
of
those
times
:
and
having
their
Hutches
well
stored
:
and
their
Nests
well
feathred
at
home
,
would
not
lose
a
plume
to
preserve
their
fidelity
.
Whereas
others
were
casten
in
a
purer
and
more
refined
Mould
:
sticking
not
at
all
publickly
to
manifest
their
Loyalty
.
Some
whereof
(
and
those
of
the
eminenst
,
and
best
disciplin'd
)
were
bestow'd
in
Garisons
;
upon
neighbouring
Castles
,
Cittadels
,
Forts
and
Fortresses
,
most
defensive
,
offensive
and
tenable
.
From
whence
they
usually
made
their
excursions
for
suppliance
or
accommodation
;
whensoever
any
opportunity
presented
it self
to
their
advantage
.
And
I
shall
here
take
occasion
to
relate
some
pleasant
Passages
,
varied
and
interwoven
with
much
delight
(
as
an
Alloy
to
our
more
serious
discourse
:
)
which
we
shall
return
to
you
in
a
modest
dress
;
without
the
least
touch
of
levity
or
petulant
scurrility
:
for
such
light
trimming
should
be
out
of
request
and
quite
estrang'd
from
the
native
body
or
Contexture
of
an
History
.
The
Pleasant
Passages
of
Panthalia
,
the
Pretty
Pedler
.
IN
the
Continuation
of
these
divisions
;
there
were
many
young
Gentlemen
,
especially
such
as
were
younger
Brothers
,
and
had
no
other
Fortunes
but
the
resolution
of
their
Spirits
to
rely
on
,
who
ingag'd
themselvs
freely
in
this
Service
.
But
all
Pitcht
Fields
being
now
determined
;
they
were
enforced
to
associate
and
unite
themselves
to
such
as
had
disposed
their
persons
,
and
reposed
their
last
hopes
,
and
fortunes
with
whatsoever
seem'd
dear
unto
them
in
Garisons
.
Amongst
which
,
there
was
one
Acolasto
(
neither
had
he
his
Name
given
him
for
nothing
,
for
he
was
of
a
prodigal
and
profuse
humour
:
)
and
could
find
way
to
spend
it
,
if
his
Revenues
had
been
rais'd
to
an
Empire
.
This
free-bred
Spark
,
having
now
ran
so
far
on
score
,
as
Chalk
would
give
him
no
more
credit
;
nor
his
Acquaintance
afford
him
supplies
or
fuel
to
his
boundlesse
Expense
;
he
takes
upon
him
this
resolution
to
take
Sanctuary
in
one
of
those
Garisons
:
the
only
Subterfuge
to
his
exhausted
Fortunes
.
But
finding
one
Obstacle
of
maine
and
irremovable
Consequence
to
his
necessitated
design
;
it
was
his
endeavour
,
but
all
in
vain
,
to
remove
it
.
This
Acolasto
had
been
privately
contracted
to
an
handsom
young
Damsel
;
one
for
beauty
accounted
the
Pearl
of
her
Country
.
Her
this
Prodigal
youth
acquaints
with
his
intendment
:
and
how
his
present
impoverish'd
estate
,
being
reduc'd
to
a
forlorn
Condition
,
would
not
permit
him
any
longer
repose
nor
reside
in
those
parts
.
But
all
these
Objections
,
though
perswasive
enough
,
would
not
work
any
impression
upon
her
youth
:
expresly
telling
him
that
if
he
fixt
upon
any
such
resolution
,
he
should
not
want
a
Companion
,
for
she
would
follow
him
.
Though
at
last
,
on
his
serious
protest
that
he
would
sojourn
no
longer
then
such
a
time
as
he
proposed
and
limited
to
her
,
after
much
solicitancy
with
the
shady
hopes
of
his
preferment
,
she
consented
to
his
request
.
Streight
to
a
Garison
doth
Acolasto
address
his
course
;
where
by
some
assisting
means
he
was
not
onely
received
,
but
admitted
to
an
inferiour
place
,
convenient
enough
for
his
subsistence
,
and
conformable
to
the
quality
of
his
Commands
.
But
the
onely
benefit
he
extracted
from
thence
,
was
a
Lecture
of
Temperance
:
for
the
Garison
was
not
guilty
of
too
much
excess
:
in
which
form
of
discipline
had
this
young
Souldier
been
seasonably
indoctrinated
,
he
might
have
remain'd
with
his
Panthalia
,
in
a
secure
plenty
,
without
ingagement
or
defiance
of
an
unknown
Enemy
.
The
prefixt
time
of
his
returne
being
now
arriv'd
and
past
;
and
this
amorous
Damasella
hearing
nothing
of
him
;
saving
onely
of
the
Place
of
his
aboad
,
but
whether
remov'd
or
no
she
had
not
heard
:
and
becoming
infinitly
impatient
of
his
delay
;
resolv'd
to
direct
her
course
towards
the
Garrison
,
where
she
was
inform'd
Acolasto
was
not
onely
receiv'd
but
preferr'd
.
Many
pregnant
reasons
were
given
her
,
to
disswade
her
,
from
an
Assay
so
full
of
danger
,
and
prejudicial
to
her
honour
:
but
none
of
these
could
evince
her
:
nor
with
all
the
pretended
Feares
they
could
object
,
decline
her
.
Her
resolution
was
pitcht
;
and
the
day
of
her
perillous
Progress
immutably
fixt
:
and
that
she
might
without
discovery
go
on
in
her
Journey
,
she
took
upon
her
a
disguise
much
below
her
extraction
;
the
habit
of
a
Pedler
;
with
points
and
Laces
about
her
neck
:
and
all
other
accommodations
suitable
to
so
indigent
a
Calling
.
But
meane
had
that
Commodity
been
,
which
such
a
beauty
could
not
put
off
.
Along
she
goes
thus
attired
;
taking
with
her
Pandione
an
Alliance
of
hers
(
a
Maid
of
singular
modesty
and
gracefull
demeane
)
●or
her
Attendant
.
With
much
cheerfull
discourse
and
pleasant
parlyance
did
these
two
amiable
way-mates
entertaine
the
time
,
and
allay
the
difficulty
of
their
Journey
.
O
would
Panthalia
say
;
what
,
dost
thou
think
,
Pandione
,
that
Acolasto
will
say
,
when
he
sees
me
thus
habited
:
how
doest
imagin
,
will
he
receive
his
Pedler
?
I
cannot
,
replyed
Pandione
conceipt
the
Caresses
of
Fancy
:
nor
what
these
imaginary
Conceptions
of
love
may
aspire
to
,
being
such
strange
Guests
to
my
virgin
bosom
,
as
to
this
hour
they
were
never
there
admitted
.
But
surely
the
tediousness
of
the
way
,
and
dangers
that
accompanied
it
might
to
any
unbyass'd
judgment
merit
well
a
free
and
gracefull
acceptance
.
I
gather
well
by
your
alacrity
,
the
strength
and
vigour
of
your
Fancy
.
Labours
become
Pleasures
,
when
the
Object
we
aime
at
deligts
us
.
What
Obligations
hast
thou
laid
on
me
,
answered
Panthalia
;
who
art
so
willing
to
share
with
me
in
this
Journey
,
without
hope
of
partaking
with
me
in
the
like
Joy
?
You
might
easily
injoyne
me
to
a
Taske
of
more
difficulty
,
might
my
Service
facilitate
your
content
in
any
measure
.
But
I
am
much
afraid
,
said
Pandione
,
that
we
have
not
yet
past
the
Pikes
;
we
have
more
emergent
,
if
not
imminent
perills
to
encounter
with
:
for
we
may
heare
how
Souldiers
are
disperst
every
where
;
whose
incivilities
how
might
our
weakness
avoid
,
or
by
what
meanes
evade
,
if
their
unbounded
and
licencious
Fury
assault
us
?
I
have
resolv'd
of
a
Cure
for
that
Sore
,
replyed
Panthalia
.
I
know
well
,
the
Habit
nor
Profession
of
Pedlers
will
not
secure
us
;
though
it
has
thus
far
disguis'd
us
from
our
Natives
.
We
will
therefore
change
these
Feminine
Habits
,
to
preserve
our
Honours
:
and
take
more
virile
habiliments
upon
us
.
Heavens
grant
,
said
Pandione
,
that
I
shame
not
my self
in
that
shape
:
for
I
am
confident
,
I
shall
never
regu●arly
nor
without
suspicion
conforme
my
posture
to
a
paire
of
Breeches
:
but
I
shall
follow
your
direction
:
and
mould
my
pace
to
your
gate
as
well
as
I
can
.
Their
New-form'd
Habits
being
accordingly
provided
;
they
went
on
in
their
address
.
But
they
had
scarcely
drill'd
on
a
league
or
two
further
;
till
they
were
advertised
for
certaine
by
a
Countrey
Bore
,
that
the
Garrison
whereto
they
shap'd
their
Course
was
so
straitly
blockt
up
,
and
on
each
side
so
beleagured
,
as
no
passage
could
be
admitted
to
it
,
nor
Egress
from
it
.
These
unexpected
News
infinitly
perplexed
Panthalia
:
fearing
much
,
as
she
might
very
probably
conjecture
,
that
in
this
pursuit
after
her
beleagured
Acolasto
,
she
had
wholly
lost
her
labour
.
But
being
now
near
Night
,
they
hastned
on
towards
an
adjoyning
Village
,
where
they
were
informed
,
they
might
receive
convenient
accommodation
for
their
Lodging
.
And
passing
along
heavily
;
for
all
their
merry
parliance
was
now
converted
to
sad
Scens
;
not
far
distant
from
thence
;
They
happily
incountred
with
an
ancient
Gentleman
taking
his
Evening
walk
in
a
Field
adjacent
to
his
House
.
Who
seeing
these
two
late
transhap'd
Pilgrims
;
and
desiring
to
know
what
way
they
addrest
their
course
,
Panthalia
told
him
,
that
their
occasion
lay
for
the
next
Garrison
;
purposely
to
visit
a
dear
and
intimate
Ally
of
theirs
,
and
to
accommodate
him
in
those
necessitous
times
with
some
competent
supplies
.
Alas
,
answered
the
Gentleman
!
I
am
much
affraid
lest
your
Journey
prove
as
fruitless
as
it
has
been
tedious
,
if
your
Address
did
extend
it self
to
any
considerable
distance
.
No
less
remote
then
Landek
,
being
neare
the
utmost
Confines
of
Candy
,
replyed
Panthalia
.
Too
long
a
tract
to
appear
effectless
.
And
I
shall
freely
communicate
the
the
grounds
of
my
Feare
unto
you
:
for
the
probability
of
the
issue
I
shall
leave
to
your
own
Judgments
,
being
of
such
neare
concern
to
your selves
.
You
shall
know
Gentlemen
,
that
this
Fort
,
or
place
of
Garrison
,
known
commonly
by
the
name
of
Pontisk
,
were
impregnable
,
I
must
confess
,
if
the
besieged
had
provision
,
but
necessity
must
enforce
them
,
were
their
Spirits
never
so
resolute
,
to
a
speedy
reddition
.
For
it
is
beleagured
round
and
with
such
assiduate
violence
assaulted
,
as
it
cannot
be
tenable
long
.
Meane
time
,
neither
ingress
nor
regress
is
admitted
:
where
if
any
one
chance
to
be
inconsiderately
suprized
;
all
hostility
without
mercy
is
inflicted
on
him
.
Be
then
advised
,
young
Gentlemen
,
by
One
who
has
been
sometimes
reduced
to
the
like
Straits
that
you
are
brought
to
;
decline
your
ingagement
upon
these
desperate
Extreams
.
No
long
time
will
be
admitted
,
as
the
Case
stands
,
for
compleating
this
Siege
.
The
exigent
Condition
of
the
Party
beleagured
is
such
,
that
they
must
either
yield
,
and
timely
too
,
or
they
expose
themselves
to
the
Fury
of
an
implacable
Enemie
:
so
small
reliance
or
hope
of
mercy
is
to
be
expected
from
the
hand
of
Crueltie
.
This
passionate
relation
wrought
so
strongly
on
the
endeered
affection
of
Panthaliae
,
as
her
eyes
were
resolv'd
into
rivolets
of
tears
.
Though
she
shadowed
her
resentment
with
as
much
art
as
her
present
condition
,
impal'd
in
the
purprize
or
such
affliction
,
could
possibly
permit
.
But
she
could
not
so
artfully
dissemble
it
,
but
this
grave
Gentleman
quickly
apprehended
it
,
and
in
a
generous
Compassion
seemingly
partakt
with
her
in
it
.
But
to
minister
a
Cordial
to
these
dispassionate
qualmes
:
and
allay
their
Sufferings
,
which
appeared
to
him
above
expression
,
he
proceeded
in
the
affectionate
tender
of
his
hospitable
Entertain
in
this
manner
.
Young
Gentlemen
,
said
he
,
for
your
names
I
know
not
.
With
a
modest
interruption
,
replied
Panthalia
,
my
Name
is
Melicertes
:
and
my
Kinsmans
Dulcippus
.
May
you
long
flourish
in
the
Splendor
of
your
names
and
relations
,
said
he
;
but
you
must
excuse
me
,
if
in
this
commiseration
of
your
adventures
(
for
never
could
a
more
inopportunate
time
nor
hazardous
assay
call
you
forth
of
your
own
Country
)
I
return
you
my
advice
,
disgustful
,
it
may
be
,
at
the
first
view
;
because
the
alacrity
of
your
youthful
Spirits
may
be
such
as
it
will
admit
no
impedes
,
but
rather
pursue
then
prevent
danger
.
No
,
answer'd
Panthalia
;
though
our
desires
breath
into
an
infinite
fervour
of
visiting
so
endeered
a
Friend
:
yet
must
we
with
patience
give
way
to
the
extremitie
of
time
:
and
with
much
thankfulness
submit
our selves
and
our
perplext
affairs
to
your
prudent
advice
and
direction
.
For
our
Condition
rests
now
,
as
those
who
sail
in
a
Pinnace
,
ballac'd
with
an
heavy
burden
,
but
without
anchor
;
expos'd
to
storms
,
shelvs
and
every
approaching
danger
.
Let
me
then
play
your
Pilot
;
I
shall
find
you
Sea-room
at
least
,
to
secure
you
from
an
imminent
peril
.
With
all
serious
attention
they
gave
ear
unto
him
:
advising
them
with
much
prudence
and
affability
in
this
sort
,
for
their
present
Security
.
It
has
been
your
fortune
,
Gentlemen
,
to
come
to
this
Grange
;
where
you
may
rest
confident
of
a
free
and
Friendly
welcom
;
and
though
not
so
accurate
,
as
it
may
be
,
your
qu●lities
merit
,
yet
not
altogether
unworthy
your
acceptance
,
as
your
Pilgrim
Condition
,
accompanied
with
so
many
inevitable
obstructions
,
necessitates
it
.
I
shall
then
injoyn
you
,
out
of
a
pious
care
to
your
welfare
,
and
hospitable
respect
to
the
ingagment
of
your
Persons
,
to
take
your
Repose
here
with
me
and
my
Familie
:
till
these
violent
and
impetuous
storms
be
over-blown
.
Long
they
cannot
continue
in
relation
to
this
Siege
.
For
the
beleagured
Party
,
must
either
yield
,
and
that
shortly
,
or
suffer
without
mercy
;
as
hath
been
lately
with
extreme
menaces
imparted
to
them
by
the
Enemy
.
With
a
cheerfull
gratitude
They
entertain'd
his
generous
Offer
.
In
variety
of
discourses
a
part
of
the
night
was
bestowed
:
and
after
a
Free
and
liberall
repast
,
the
old
Gentleman
sensible
of
the
weariness
of
their
Journey
;
gave
direction
to
his
daughter
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In
an
Abstract
of
this
Romance
called
Lysippe
.
Aretina
to
accommodate
them
with
all
conveniences
:
and
to
lodge
them
in
one
of
the
best
Rooms
,
suitable
,
as
he
imagin'd
,
to
their
condition
;
though
in
modesty
they
appear'd
silent
in
discovery
of
it
.
By
this
it
grew
Bed-time
for
this
ancient
Gentleman
;
whose
due
observance
of
seasonable
hours
had
inlarg'd
his
yeares
with
much
health
and
fresh
vigour
.
And
having
now
taken
his
leave
of
these
two
late
transhap'd
Gentlewomen
,
with
wishes
to
their
good
rest
;
He
departed
the
room
,
recommending
them
to
the
serious
care
,
diposure
and
accommodation
of
his
daughter
.
Now
this
Aretina
was
his
onely
Child
;
One
who
had
been
often
in
the
way
of
Marriage
but
ever
mist
it
.
One
Remora
or
other
still
interposed
the
Object
of
her
preferment
.
Neither
were
her
desires
cold
in
the
pursuance
of
her
affection
.
But
either
her
Suiters
Fortunes
were
below
or
above
her
Condition
:
or
the
freedom
of
her
disposition
sprinkled
their
Suit
with
a
dis-relish
:
So
as
,
she
was
grown
now
as
ancient
in
yeares
,
as
Fervent
in
her
desires
:
and
commonly
distinguished
in
those
parts
by
the
title
of
the
Mother
of
the
Maids
,
or
the
Maiden-Matron
;
the
Vestall
Virgin
,
or
the
Virgin
Votaress
;
or
more
commonly
by
the
Prioress
of
Cardel
.
But
no
such
religious
nor
abstemious
a
votaress
,
as
to
reject
the
affection
of
a
pretending
Servant
:
or
discourage
the
amorous
Assayes
of
any
spritely
or
alacrious
Gallant
:
being
as
flexible
and
apt
to
receive
an
impression
of
love
:
as
any
youthfull
Lover
(
were
his
protests
never
such
strangers
to
his
breast
)
was
addrest
to
tender
it
.
You
may
easily
suppose
then
,
what
a
pleasing
and
acceptable
charge
this
Taske
was
,
being
so
seriously
recommended
to
her
by
her
Father
.
Beauty
is
a
dangerous
bait
;
as
apt
to
take
,
if
it
be
nibled
at
,
as
to
be
taken
.
This
prov'd
an
attractive
Object
to
Aretina
.
Who
might
discover
in
her
two
affectionate
Guests
so
much
native
beauty
;
as
it
could
not
possibly
actuate
less
then
irresistible
flames
in
the
bosom
of
Fancy
:
nor
become
less
,
if
not
timely
oppos'd
,
then
a
dangerous
Incendiary
to
young
blood
.
Time
,
we
know
,
is
precious
;
and
Aretina
weighs
the
estimate
of
every
graine
or
minute
at
the
highest
rate
,
during
her
Custody
of
these
two
amiable
Sojourners
.
And
Panthalia
,
accomplish'd
with
no
less
quickness
of
Fancy
in
apprehending
;
then
excellence
of
Beauty
in
surprizing
;
to
delude
her
inamour'd
Guardian
,
and
shadow
her
own
disguise
;
exprest
so
much
art
,
as
she
answer'd
look
with
look
:
and
with
that
amorous
kind
of
reflection
,
as
her
smiles
presented
language
enough
;
to
operate
this
coneipt
in
Aretina
;
that
she
was
no
less
taken
then
her self
:
directing
their
affections
mutually
on
one
Object
:
so
strongly
did
this
imaginary
influence
act
upon
the
enlivened
thoughts
of
that
ancient
amorist
.
These
apprehensions
interwoven
with
other
suitable
discourse
spinned
out
the
night
longer
then
these
two
wearied
Pilgrims
well
desired
;
but
these
Civilities
of
Aretina's
attendance
with
other
obliging
Treats
could
not
mannerly
permit
them
to
discover
their
weariness
,
nor
importune
her
departure
.
At
last
with
a
pleasant
smile
(
an
intelligible
regret
of
what
she
meant
)
she
took
her
leave
,
leaving
them
to
their
rest
:
whereof
,
no
doubt
,
they
partak't
more
fully
then
Aretina
did
:
whose
active
thoughts
had
made
sleep
a
stranger
to
her
eyes
.
These
two
being
in
bed
,
Pandione
was
very
inquisitive
of
Panthalia
,
what
an
opinion
she
●ad
o●
Aretina
;
Sleep
,
Girle
,
quoth
she
;
Thou
need'st
not
doubt
but
she
would
prove
kind
enough
,
if
we
were
Consorts
to
correspond
with
her
desires
:
neither
do
I
think
,
but
if
she
knew
our
Sex
,
which
I
would
by
no
means
have
yet
discovered
,
but
our
accommodation
might
appear
less
,
and
her
care
in
relation
to
us
,
more
remiss
.
The
sable
Curtains
of
Night
were
no
sooner
display'd
:
and
Latona
resigned
her
shady
government
;
but
Aurora
disheviling
her
golden
tresses
awakned
love-sick
Aretina
;
whose
care
solely
fixt
upon
her
Charge
(
the
delightfull'st
Task
th●t
ever
her
aged
Father
injoyned
her
)
winged
her
speed
to
these
two
scarce-awakt
Pilgrims
;
Morning
Cordials
,
with
whatsoever
might
most
indulge
the
sense
,
could
not
be
wanting
,
for
Panthalia
was
the
Idea
whereon
she
affectionately
fixt
;
the
onely
Earthly
Deity
to
whom
she
offer'd
,
&
for
whom
she
reserved
her
entirest
Orisons
.
Never
was
Creature
upon
the
first
interview
more
deluded
,
nor
strangely
surprised
.
All
the
next
day
,
after
their
usual
repasts
,
which
were
with
far
more
curiositie
prepared
and
dished
then
had
been
formerly
;
they
bestow'd
in
Arbour-discourses
,
with
other
time-beguiling
Recreations
:
and
with
that
varietie
as
if
she
had
set
her
whole
Family
a-work
to
entertain
these
Stran
,
gers
with
raritie
of
Inventions
.
For
her
aged
Father
,
an
ancient
hospitable
House-keeper
had
imposed
a
period
to
all
secular
cares
,
and
recommended
all
the
charge
and
provision
of
Oeconomick
affairs
to
his
Daughter
,
who
knew
well
how
to
retain
an
hanke
,
and
abridge
that
profuseness
of
bounty
,
if
her
providence
had
not
been
over-master'd
by
Fancy
.
Neither
in
very
truth
,
did
Panthalia
,
whose
education
had
been
inured
to
delicacy
,
disgust
this
freedom
of
Entertain
:
who
,
though
she
were
ingag'd
in
pursuit
of
another
Allay
;
yet
had
she
ever
a
reserve
for
Sense
;
which
with
much
complacencie
her
desires
were
ever
strongly
bent
to
satisfie
.
When
night
came
,
they
bestow'd
it
no
less
delightfully
in
other
trifling
pleasures
;
as
in
making
Gooslings
i'
th
ashes
;
draw
gloves
,
Purposes
,
Ridles
and
the
like
:
wherein
Panthalia
had
been
much
vers'd
:
and
appear'd
,
especially
to
Aretina
,
infinitely
ingenious
.
Neither
in
these
onely
,
but
in
Exercises
of
Poesie
,
to
shrowd
their
Sexes
effeminacy
;
they
would
frequently
endeavour
to
express
their
pregnancy
:
but
their
Subjects
were
ever
drawn
from
love
in
the
Choice
of
a
Mistress
,
of
such
like
Fancy
,
which
suited
handsomely
with
Aretina's
humour
:
and
left
deeper
impressions
in
her
affection
.
One
day
,
(
upon
a
prepared
resolution
betwixt
them
)
Panthalia
with
her
diamond
wrote
in
a
window
of
her
Lodging
,
being
directly
opposite
to
Aretina's
Entry
:
and
from
whence
she
usually
made
her
Prospect
to
a
delightfull
Garden
,
neare
adjoyning
,
these
lines
:
That
wench
for
me
,
and
none
but
shee
,
That
's
neither
froward
nor
too
free
.
And
Pandione
,
to
cover
her self
with
the
like
vaile
;
being
in
her
Election
for
the
same
Sexe
,
answer'd
her
in
this
sort
:
That
wench
,
I
vow
,
Shall
be
my
Joy
,
That
's
neither
forward
nor
too
coy
.
Aretina
chancing
next
morning
to
read
these
verses
,
laugh'd
heartily
,
Alas
,
poor
Fools
,
quoth
she
!
How
pittifully
are
we
weak
women
tax'd
,
to
be
forward
,
froward
,
coy
,
and
what
not
?
whereas
you
subtile
men
be
those
Coy-ducks
that
lure
us
to
your
Nouze
,
and
then
unhappily
leave
us
.
For
when
you
have
got
your
desires
,
they
beget
satiety
,
and
by
degrees
prepare
fresh
fuell
for
new
Fires
.
Yet
,
trust
me
,
methinks
Love
is
a
pretty
thing
:
and
I
could
find
with
all
my
heart
to
love
;
so
I
might
find
One
that
would
do
the
like
.
Panthalia
standing
at
her
back
,
presently
interrupted
her
,
saying
:
Why
,
Lady
,
retaine
you
that
harsh
opinion
of
us
;
as
if
all
mankinde
were
adulterate
mettall
;
and
no
pure
bulloigne
amongst
us
?
No
,
replyed
Aretina
,
I
am
not
infected
with
any
such
Criticisme
.
I
am
confident
,
Melicertes
,
you
could
love
,
and
constantly
;
if
your
Curious
eye
could
once
fixe
on
an
Object
that
might
like
you
.
And
the
Object
I
could
really
fixe
on
,
answer'd
Panthalia
,
(
desiring
nothing
more
then
to
inwreath
her
still
in
this
Labyrinth
of
love
)
is
very
near
me
.
Speak
cordially
,
Sir
,
have
your
thoughts
a
reall
inclination
to
love
?
Do
not
hold
me
,
sweet
Mistress
,
all
Cucumber
:
your
Servant
(
if
I
may
assume
so
meriting
a
title
)
has
native
vitall
heat
;
affectionate
desires
inabled
with
active
Faculties
as
other
Creatures
have
.
Trust
me
you
make
me
put
on
complexion
;
no
doubt
,
Sir
,
your
Constitution
retains
no
Symptoms
of
a
Consumption
;
but
promiseth
more
alacrity
in
action
,
then
reality
of
affection
.
And
yet
I
will
not
judge
rashly
,
methinks
such
a
Feature
should
partake
as
well
of
Constancy
as
Fancy
:
yes
,
Madam
,
if
the
Expressions
of
a
Stranger
were
not
accompted
of
as
aery
motions
,
you
might
find
something
in
Melicertes
to
merit
your
good
affection
:
seeing
,
as
he
may
safely
protest
,
your
indeering
Entertaine
and
obliging
Favours
have
won
so
much
ground
of
him
;
and
acquir'd
such
Command
over
him
;
as
incomparable
feminine
beauty
was
the
very
first
that
He
idoliz'd
,
or
courted
for
a
Mistress
;
and
that
she
should
be
the
sole
and
absolute
Object
of
his
Choice
,
if
it
might
be
his
happiness
to
deserve
that
acceptance
,
that
ever
he
ment
to
espouse
of
her
Sexe
.
This
infinitely
transported
Aretina
;
so
as
she
could
scarcely
containe
her self
from
sealing
her
free
assent
and
acquiescence
with
the
gage
of
her
lips
:
but
Pandiones
hasty
coming
in
prevented
the
Seal
:
so
as
no
more
of
any
amorous
discourse
was
admitted
at
that
time
:
onely
muttering
with
her
lips
,
(
and
that
with
much
privacy
,
lest
her
fellow-traveller
should
partake
of
this
secresie
,
and
consequently
impede
the
hopes
of
her
approching
felicity
)
that
such
a
faire
face
Could
not
possibly
harbour
a
false
heart
.
So
easily
she
suffered
her self
to
be
deluded
with
a
meer
Chymera
of
Fancy
.
When
night
came
,
she
designed
another
way
not
onely
to
initiate
but
accomplish
the
pitch
of
her
desires
;
which
she
projected
in
this
manner
,
away
to
prostitute
her
honour
for
the
speedier
injoyment
of
her
pleasure
.
To
expedite
this
,
she
gave
especial
direction
that
these
two
Guests
should
belodged
in
several
rooms
:
and
Panthalia
next
her
own
.
Which
done
,
Aretina
opportunatly
suited
with
the
darkness
of
Night
to
vail
the
immodesty
of
her
address
;
laid
hold
upon
that
seasonable
occasion
,
with
much
silence
to
leave
her
own
Bed
:
and
as
one
fearful
to
lie
alone
,
made
bold
to
acquaint
herself
with
an
unexpecting
Bed-fellow
.
Panthalia
betwixt
sleeping
and
waking
,
imagining
her
to
be
Pandione
,
you
keep
unseasonable
hours
,
Girle
.
Which
words
Aretina
took
to
her self
;
little
thinking
that
Pandione
could
pass
under
that
notion
.
Meane
time
,
Panthalia
unmindfull
of
her
new
Consort
,
either
seemingly
or
really
appear'd
,
as
if
she
had
recommended
her self
,
in
a
sweet
repose
,
to
Endimions
lap
.
Thunder
could
scarce
awake
her
;
much
less
the
fruitless
imbraces
of
an
intrusive
Guest
.
Nearer
and
nearer
did
Aretina
,
(
so
much
soveraignty
had
unbounded
sence
got
over
Reason
)
creep
towards
Panthalia
;
who
at
last
as
one
halfe
awake
us'd
these
words
:
"
Pray
thee
Pandione
lye
not
so
neare
me
.
Alas
,
sweet
Soul
,
said
Aretina
;
what
a
strong
Conceipt
has
the
remembrance
of
his
beleagured
Friend
begot
in
him
!
This
Pandione
,
doubtless
,
is
the
same
Gentleman
whom
they
desire
so
much
to
visit
.
He
must
needs
prove
constant
to
his
Mistress
,
appearing
so
faithfull
to
his
absent
Friend
.
Then
with
a
low
feigned
voice
,
as
one
fearfull
either
to
disturbe
her
quiet
:
or
conscious
of
her
own
boldness
,
whispering
closely
,
She
told
Her
,
she
was
not
Pandione
but
Aretina
:
and
that
her
devotional
affection
to
him
,
had
caus'd
her
to
dispence
with
prudence
and
virgin
continence
:
and
that
his
●iety
would
not
censure
this
act
,
as
an
apparent
argument
of
impudence
,
but
intire
zeal
and
obsequious
service
.
Neither
was
it
the
Satisfaction
of
a
sensual
desire
,
but
the
happy
fruition
of
his
Society
,
that
had
estrang'd
her
from
her
rest
.
This
was
strange
dissembling
Rhetorick
,
deserving
rather
to
be
admir'd
then
believ'd
:
yet
it
might
pass
for
current
,
being
instill'd
into
her
ear
,
who
Dulcina-like
,
either
seem'd
to
sleep
or
was
asleep
:
while
Aretina
more
watchful
then
an
Hesperian
Sister
,
continued
her
repose
,
hourly
expecting
a
grateful
requital
from
an
hand
that
had
no
power
to
give
it
.
Thus
was
this
inamor'd
Lady
in
all
her
Assay●
deluded
;
expecting
more
then
she
injoy'd
:
by
fixing
the
Eye
of
her
mis-guided
fancy
on
an
incompetible
Object
.
By
this
time
had
Latona
rendred
up
his
Commands
to
the
Government
of
Phoebus
.
Those
to
ack
and
resplendent
beams
,
so
long
distanced
from
diffusing
their
glory
on
this
inferiour
Orbe
;
as
if
they
had
infinitly
desir'd
to
partake
of
the
view
of
so
incomparable
beauty
as
Panthalia's
:
(
for
Aretina's
she
could
not
be
ābitious
of
it
)
peer'd
secretly
through
the
Cranies
of
her
Lodging
:
which
this
vigilant
Aretina
observing
lept
presently
out
of
Bed
;
fearing
(
as
such
light
Assaies
must
needs
foment
feares
)
lest
Pandione
or
some
of
the
domesticks
might
come
in
,
and
discover
her
unexcusable
boldness
.
Meane
time
,
Panthalia
awaking
(
and
whether
awake
before
or
no
,
it
were
not
easie
to
be
determined
)
and
seeing
Aretina
;
she
rais'd
her self
a
little
upon
her
pillow
,
using
these
words
:
You
are
an
early
Huswife
,
Aretina
.
It
seemes
you
cannot
keep
your
Bed
for
want
of
a
Bed-fellow
.
It
is
as
good
,
said
she
,
for
Aretina
to
have
none
,
as
to
have
a
cold
One.
Parthenia
knew
well
enough
her
meaning
,
but
would
neither
discusse
it
nor
discover
it
:
no
,
nor
dive
too
inquisitively
into
it
,
lest
her
temperance
might
be
censur'd
bashfullness
:
her
modesty
a
naturall
frigidity
or
imbecillity
.
This
therefore
she
discreetly
shadowed
:
so
as
,
though
she
well
perceived
that
Aretina
shewed
a
Countenance
more
averse
from
her
,
then
she
had
formerly
done
;
yet
this
abated
nothing
of
her
cheerfulness
;
pretending
infinite
affection
to
her
:
and
upon
occasion
wantonly
disporting
with
her
:
as
if
more
virile
heat
appeared
in
her
;
then
her
approvement
could
apprehend
.
Yet
it
pleas'd
her
not
a
little
;
to
observe
with
what
a
seemly
and
amorous
dalliance
Panthalia
exprest
her
affectionate
Zeal
to
Aretina
;
which
made
her
confident
of
a
future
contentment
with
more
freedom
:
so
irresistibly
had
these
aery
influences
wrought
upon
her
:
ingaging
her
to
sundry
dispassionate
encounters
,
and
permitting
no
opportunity
to
pass
by
her
,
that
might
suitably
correspond
with
her
desires
,
or
more
clearly
accelerate
them
.
And
no
doubt
,
,
some
new
dialogue
of
love
had
been
really
mov'd
by
the
One
,
and
no
less
faignedly
approved
by
the
Other
;
had
not
Pandione
come
suddenly
in
and
prevented
this
re-encounter
.
At
whose
entrance
,
Aretina
hastned
down
from
Pathalia's
Chamber
;
letting
a
paper
drop
from
her
as
she
left
the
Room
,
but
so
apparently
as
Panthalia
,
to
whom
it
was
shadowingly
addressed
,
could
not
chuse
but
take
notice
of
it
:
the
lines
were
these
.
The
purest
Ornament
of
Continence
,
If
opportunity
give
way
to
sence
By
entring
Combat
may
receive
a
foi●e
,
Yet
such
a
Staine
is
but
a
native
soile
:
You
know
my
meaning
:
—
let
the
closing
Night
Combine
two
Lovers
in
a
joynt
delight
.
Be
same
you
seem
,
SIR
;
Nature
will
admire
That
th'
Weaker
should
be
stronger
in
desire
.
Panthalia
taking
up
the
Paper
Pandione
desir'd
much
to
partake
of
the
Content
of
it
;
being
perswaded
,
by
sundry
Symptoms
which
she
discovered
,
and
by
which
she
gathered
,
that
Aretina's
infirmity
stood
in
need
of
some
soveraigne
Love-potion
:
and
that
no
Physitian
,
were
his
art
never
so
exact
,
could
perfect
the
Cure
,
but
that
eye
which
gave
the
wound
:
and
that
the
onely
Weapon-salve
to
allay
her
distemper
was
in
Panthalia's
power
,
though
her
modesty
would
make
no
discovery
of
it
.
But
though
Pandione
was
very
importunate
for
perusing
those
lines
;
yet
Panthalia
would
by
no
meanes
communicate
them
unto
her
.
Onely
she
told
her
,
that
one
day
,
if
their
Journey
produc'd
a
cheerfull
issue
;
those
very
lines
which
she
so
much
desir'd
to
peruse
,
would
afford
them
an
excellent
Scene
of
mirth
;
but
as
then
she
would
not
disclose
it
.
But
your
Countenance
,
answer'd
Pandione
,
is
such
a
legible
Index
,
as
one
may
apprehend
it
it
without
an
Interpreter
.
Go
to
,
Madam
;
I
pitty
the
poor
deluded
Girle
;
that
she
can
find
no
other
Object
to
suit
her
affection
;
but
such
an
one
as
must
necessarily
deceive
her
straid
hopes
in
their
Fruition
.
How
strangely
thou
talkst
,
said
Panthalia
!
Must
her
free
and
hospitable
Entertaine
be
interpreted
Love
?
Much
Civility
,
I
must
confess
,
there
is
in
it
:
and
a
generous
resentment
of
our
Condition
:
but
this
is
not
to
bear
the
Notion
of
sensuall
love
,
or
any
other
indispos'd
affection
.
Not
only
Aretina
,
but
her
whole
Family
has
laid
many
Obligations
on
us
both
,
for
their
numerous
Favours
so
amply
contributed
in
our
greatest
Extreams
.
Whereof
I
shall
ever
reteine
a
gratefull
record
:
as
for
any
other
obligements
or
relations
,
they
derive
their
suppositious
grounds
onely
from
the
help
of
your
Invention
,
Pandione
.
I
shall
not
demeane
my self
so
unmannerly
as
to
become
a
busie
Inquisitor
,
where
I
may
not
without
disgust
appeare
a
partaker
.
But
give
me
leave
to
enjoy
my
own
confidence
:
and
make
my
thoughts
their
own
Secretaries
:
Such
light
and
merry-conceipted
Loves
as
these
,
if
such
there
be
;
may
be
entertain'd
with
indifference
,
and
continued
without
prejudice
.
Such
Issues
will
not
lay
a
Charge
on
the
Parish
where
they
are
nurs'd
:
nor
cause
the
Parents
to
bemoane
their
hard
Fate
,
in
bringing
forth
an
untimely
birth
.
Trust
me
,
thou
art
a
shrewd
Girle
,
answered
Panhalia
:
but
lest
my
wench
should
long
for
what
she
cannot
partake
:
and
consequently
incur
a
malady
through
my
too
much
secrecy
;
especially
,
seeing
these
innocent
Love-sallies
(
as
thou
termst
them
)
are
not
onely
to
be
entertain'd
but
discoursed
of
with
such
indifferency
,
as
their
relation
can
infer
no
prejudice
;
lend
me
thine
attention
;
or
if
thou
lovest
to
be
an
Interpreter
of
thine
own
Jealousies
,
peruse
these
scattered
lines
,
&
from
them
draw
the
line
of
her
distempers
.
Pandione
laughing
heartily
at
the
perusall
of
the
paper
;
Trust
me
,
said
she
,
I
perceive
feminine
beauty
becomes
very
dangerous
in
a
Masculine
shape
.
It
seemes
,
Madam
,
if
you
either
want
Fortunes
or
a
Mistress
,
you
might
be
sufficiently
supplied
with
both
.
But
pray
you
resolve
me
,
what
receipt
hold
you
convenient
to
apply
to
this
inamour'd
Creature
to
recover
her
inthralled
senses
(
for
I
conceipt
her
to
be
infinitly
distracted
:
)
for
trust
me
,
it
is
far
above
my
Cure
.
Let
that
be
the
least
of
thy
care
;
answered
Panthalia
;
she
is
not
so
deeply
distempered
,
but
she
may
be
timely
recovered
.
If
the
Tarantula
or
Calenture
may
be
capable
of
cure
;
this
discomposure
in
Aretina
cannot
be
without
hope
of
recovery
.
It
is
but
a
deception
of
sense
,
the
worst
you
can
make
of
it
:
and
such
a
deluded
Fancy
(
hold
it
if
thou
please
for
a
Phrency
)
cannot
make
Art
a
Fool
,
by
despairing
of
a
remedy
.
Well
;
said
Pandione
,
I
shall
wish
your
application
may
produce
good
effect
.
But
I
could
not
chuse
but
suspect
something
more
then
ordinary
,
when
our
Lodgings
were
so
strangely
divided
:
and
no
apparent
necessity
to
induce
it
.
But
my
comfort
was
,
the
issue
of
such
blind
love
could
not
prove
less
then
innocent
,
howsoever
her
intendments
were
designed
.
Bare
hopes
were
the
greatest
bi
th
she
could
conceive
with
,
or
your
affectionate
embraces
procure
.
Well
,
replyed
Panthalia
,
I
am
sorry
that
any
scattered
looks
should
fall
from
me
,
to
work
this
effect
:
but
her
present
cure
shall
be
my
constant
care
.
At
this
very
instant
came
in
the
old
Gentleman
her
Father
,
which
occasionally
broke
off
their
further
discourse
:
for
doubtlesly
had
he
been
made
privy
to
it
;
the
story
would
not
have
relished
well
to
his
pallat
:
hearing
his
daughter
so
pittifully
deluded
,
and
his
civile
Hospitality
so
ungratefully
requited
.
Now
the
News
which
this
Gent.
brought
was
of
such
consequence
,
as
the
communicating
of
them
might
well
produce
a
twofold
effect
,
joy
and
fear
;
which
may
appeare
by
these
Circumstances
grounded
upon
his
own
relation
,
which
He
no
less
seriously
then
discreetly
delivered
in
this
manner
.
Gentlemen
,
I
am
made
acquainted
this
Morning
by
infallible
Intelligence
;
and
such
as
you
may
relie
on
:
That
this
Castle
,
whereto
you
intended
to
address
your
Course
,
is
now
upon
Capitulation
to
be
yielded
up
,
after
so
long
Siege
stoutly
continued
,
and
maintained
:
and
now
upon
no
less
honourable
terms
rendred
.
Three
days
are
onely
assigned
to
the
Party
beleagured
to
acquit
the
Fort
,
and
to
depart
,
after
that
time
limited
,
with
Colours
displayed
and
ordinary
arms
,
and
in
their
march
to
be
so
conducted
by
the
Enemy
to
the
next
Garison
(
which
they
have
already
made
choice
of
)
as
no
violence
nor
incivility
shall
be
done
them
,
but
secured
,
according
to
the
Law
of
Arms
,
from
all
hostility
.
The
former
part
of
this
relation
sounded
with
a
cheerfull
accent
in
the
Ear
of
Panthalia
:
but
the
latter
was
accompanied
with
jealousies
and
Fears
.
She
delighted
much
to
hear
of
the
reddition
of
the
Castle
;
hoping
by
that
means
to
come
to
the
injoyment
of
Acolasto
:
but
hearing
of
their
remove
to
another
Garison
,
she
raised
to
her
troubled
thoughts
just
occasion
of
Fear
:
conjecturing
,
that
he
would
march
along
in
that
remove
:
and
out
of
his
youthful
heat
,
wherewith
he
had
been
infinitely
transported
,
become
wholly
forgetful
of
his
former
obligements
;
which
to
prevent
,
she
thought
it
fit
to
expedite
her
address
:
rendring
first
a
fair
acknowledgment
to
the
Gentleman
for
his
free
and
liberal
entertainment
during
their
repose
with
him
:
resolving
withall
,
to
go
on
with
their
adventure
the
next
morning
by
time
,
if
there
intercurred
no
apparent
Obstacle
to
impede
it
.
And
with
much
conveniency
for
this
design
;
upon
the
Gentlemans
departure
from
her
Lodging
,
Aretina
came
opportunately
in
,
fruitlesly
expecting
what
her
desires
pursued
:
upon
whose
approch
,
Panthalia
in
a
pensive
and
contristate
manner
(
as
one
much
perplexed
with
the
late
message
)
accoasted
her
in
this
fort
.
Madam
,
we
have
now
received
intelligence
by
your
Fathers
relation
;
that
we
shall
very
shortly
acquit
your
noble
Family
of
two
troublesome
Guests
.
A
grateful
acknowledgment
for
your
numerous
Civilities
is
all
the
retribution
that
can
be
expected
for
the
present
from
our
estrang'd
condition
which
shall
leave
a
deep
impression
,
with
a
constant
intendment
of
a
future
gratification
,
whensoever
an
happy
o●portunity
of
requital
may
present
it self
.
Upon
this
hint
,
giving
a
private
hint
to
Pandione
,
to
withdraw
;
she
proceeded
in
this
manner
:
Your
many
immerited
Favours
contributed
to
me
,
Lady
,
have
obliged
me
perpetually
to
be
your
Servant
:
but
to
undeceave
you
in
one
particular
,
I
hold
it
a
civil
duty
,
for
otherwise
I
should
fall
into
deep
arreers
upon
the
score
of
your
approved
affection
.
The
Paper
which
you
lately
scattered
,
dictated
to
my
thoughts
an
unexpected
Conceipt
of
your
favour
,
nay
fervour
of
love
towards
me
.
But
whence
derived
I
could
not
easily
discover
:
For
if
from
beauty
(
as
I
was
never
Narcissus-like
opinion'd
of
it
)
I
should
with
Sputimius
,
have
rather
disfigured
it
,
then
suffer
it
to
be
an
occasion
of
such
dangerous
and
discomposed
effects
.
But
your
discretion
will
,
no
doubt
,
quickly
order
these
distempers
by
recollecting
your self
,
and
rectifying
those
mistakes
which
begot
these
easie
errors
.
In
reply
to
your
lines
,
I
made
bold
,
Madam
to
return
a
paper
,
and
to
fix
it
in
your
Chamber
window
:
which
if
you
have
not
already
partak't
,
you
may
be
pleased
to
peruse
.
It
will
amply
render
you
my
condition
,
portraiture
and
constitution
.
What
I
am
,
and
in
what
capacity
I
may
be
yours
:
The
Draught
will
discover
,
what
my
hand
cannot
so
mannerly
deliver
.
Aretina
with
pace
no
less
accelerate
,
then
heart
affectionate
hastened
towards
the
paper
,
promising
,
as
she
conceipted
,
such
satisfaction
,
as
her
desires
could
inlarge
themselves
no
higher
:
which
she
found
exprest
in
these
lines
:
Ixion
was
deluded
by
a
Cloud
,
So
laure
at
Daphne
from
Apollo
slipt
,
So
Danae
,
so
Semele
sought
to
shroud
Their
Virgin
beauties
:
—
If
our
fancies
dipt
Deep
into
such
Chymera's
;
let
's
remove
Such
aery
phantasies
,
and
leave
to
love
.
You
love
me
well
,
and
so
I
wish
you
should
,
Although
I
cannot
answer
your
desire
,
For
she
you
love
is
of
another
mould
Then
to
effect
what
your
affects
require
.
Where
if
your
erring
fancy
run
a
shelf
,
Blame
not
Panthalia's
beauty
but
your self
.
I
am
not
same
I
seem
;
for
if
I
were
,
I
should
not
Acolasto
thus
pursue
;
Fix
then
your
fancy
in
a
proper
Sphear
;
Since
I
partake
no
more
of
Man
then
you
.
For
this
disguised
Habit
was
put
on
To
shield
mine
honour
,
which
I
stand
upon
.
‛
Leave
then
this
Love
,
which
having
once
given
o're
,
‛
That
Maiden
lives
not
,
who
shall
love
you
more
.
The
Contents
of
these
lines
begot
in
Aretina
more
admiration
then
dis-affection
.
She
,
who
before
pursued
Panthalia
,
as
a
Conjugal
Lover
;
begins
now
to
imbrace
her
as
a
natural
Sister
.
Her
mistakes
she
onely
labours
to
apologize
:
which
is
no
sooner
modestly
pressed
,
then
it
is
freely
granted
.
Though
her
Sex
seem
to
be
changed
:
Aretina
reteins
an
affectionate
bosom
for
her
;
ready
to
contribute
in
any
measure
wherein
she
may
gratifie
her
,
whom
so
lately
in
a
virile
habit
she
did
so
intimately
tender
.
These
friendly
Offers
,
and
unexpected
Offices
suited
fitly
with
Panthalia's
occasions
;
which
induced
her
to
return
this
Civil
regreet
,
as
an
ingenuous
agnition
of
her
continued
respect
;
which
she
infinitely
fear'd
,
might
receive
a
Check
upon
the
Change
of
her
Shape
.
Madam
,
I
see
well
,
no
habit
nor
shape
can
alter
the
form
nor
impressive
figure
of
your
love
.
Your
free
and
hospitable
entertain
has
already
obliged
us
highly
:
and
now
at
our
farwell
,
it
is
your
pleasure
to
inlarge
your
goodness
higher
:
and
to
ingage
us
to
your
Civilities
deeper
.
I
must
ingenuously
acquaint
you
with
my
resolves
:
and
in
these
relie
upon
your
assistance
.
I
am
now
after
a
long
and
tedious
Journey
to
complete
my
address
.
I
heare
by
your
Fathers
relation
,
how
this
Garrison
here
adjoyning
is
to
be
dissolved
:
the
Castle
rendred
:
and
Acolasto
amongst
many
others
to
be
removed
:
and
in
other
places
of
Fortification
disposed
,
as
for
conveniencie
they
shall
make
choice
on
.
Now
my
jealousie
is
great
(
from
that
interest
I
have
in
Acolasto
)
lest
these
occurrencies
should
make
him
forget
,
what
his
former
vows
and
solemn
protests
oblige
him
to
perform
.
My
resolution
then
is
to
resume
my
own
habit
,
and
appeare
the
same
Panthalia
that
I
am
:
but
a
Place
of
retirement
is
my
desire
:
and
this
so
near
the
Garrison
,
as
I
may
address
a
message
to
Acolasto
:
wherein
I
purpose
to
inform
him
with
the
place
of
my
reside
:
with
my
expectance
of
his
returne
.
But
the
conveniencie
and
contiguity
of
this
Place
are
equally
requisite
:
wherein
I
shall
wholly
relie
upon
your
advice
and
direction
.
Ladie
Panthalia
,
said
she
,
for
now
I
know
your
Name
;
there
is
no
affectionate
office
wherein
I
shall
appeare
defective
,
so
it
may
be
usefull
or
accommodate
to
your
vertuous
designes
:
and
shall
hold
my self
infinitly
happy
in
expediting
them
.
In
the
first
place
then
,
I
shall
be
serviceable
to
you
both
in
preparing
you
habits
according
to
your
desire
,
And
for
your
Place
of
retire
,
there
is
a
Recluse
not
half
a
league
distant
from
the
Garison
,
where
you
may
securely
reside
,
till
you
have
dispatcht
your
address
.
Of
what
Condition
is
that
Recluse
,
said
Panthalia
?
It
is
a
Monastery
or
Votary
,
replyed
Aretina
,
dedicated
to
Delia.
Where
many
of
our
Sexe
are
usually
received
:
and
after
their
time
of
Probation
,
united
to
their
Society
or
Sisterhood
.
Nor
need
you
to
feare
of
a
faire
and
friendly
Entertaine
,
for
they
are
Persons
infinitly
Civile
:
especially
to
all
such
as
pretend
honour
to
the
Patroness
of
their
Society
.
Shortly
after
,
these
two
being
singularly
well
accommodated
both
for
habit
and
other
necessaries
by
the
especiall
care
and
provision
of
Aretina
;
having
first
taken
a
solemn
and
gratefull
leave
of
the
Old
Gentleman
:
and
return'd
some
tokens
as
testimonies
of
their
thankfulness
,
to
his
Family
;
by
Aretina's
affectionate
Conduct
,
they
were
brought
on
their
way
,
till
they
came
to
a
faire
Prospective
Hill
,
not
far
distant
from
the
House
where
those
Delian
Votaresses
were
bestowed
.
And
there
Aretina
left
them
;
but
not
without
teares
,
you
may
well
suppose
,
so
acceptable
was
their
Society
;
as
to
be
deprived
of
it
,
appeared
to
her
more
bitter
then
death
it self
.
Having
entred
the
Votary
,
they
were
entertain'd
with
all
Civility
by
an
antient
Matron
,
the
Governess
of
that
Family
,
or
rather
Prioress
of
that
Society
.
by
whom
they
were
led
into
a
beautifull
Chappell
;
curiously
adorn'd
with
sundry
exquisite
Statues
,
emblematizing
Diana
and
her
Nimphs
:
which
were
so
to
life
portrayed
,
as
nothing
could
work
more
impressively
upon
the
imagination
of
the
Spectator
.
The
Pillers
of
the
Temple
were
of
Porphyrite
Marble
.
The
Monuments
erected
within
,
were
of
Jacinth
,
Topaz
,
or
Rock-Pearle
;
whereon
were
ingraven
diverse
Epitaphs
,
expressing
much
elegancy
of
Conceipt
,
to
perpetuate
the
memory
of
those
Sisters
of
that
Society
there
interred
.
After
the
Survey
of
these
;
Panthalia
seeming
desirous
to
know
what
Priviledges
of
Immunities
were
anciently
conferred
on
their
Society
;
the
Governess
related
to
her
at
large
with
what
antiquity
in
many
successions
they
had
been
continued
;
by
whom
conferred
:
and
with
what
care
preserved
.
Which
done
,
that
it
might
appeare
to
these
Strangers
,
that
she
would
not
be
a-wanting
in
any
Civile
Office
,
tending
to
the
satisfaction
of
their
desires
or
improvement
of
their
knowledge
;
She
return'd
her
an
exact
Catalogue
,
in
the
nature
of
a
Concordance
,
containing
the
Rites
and
Ceremonies
solemnly
used
in
their
Society
:
As
also
after
what
manner
the
Sisters
of
that
Family
,
&
dedicated
to
Delia
,
were
received
into
their
House
.
You
do
passing
well
,
Reverend
Votaress
,
said
Panthalia
,
in
making
me
acquainted
with
the
Customs
,
Orders
and
Ceremonies
of
your
Society
;
who
after
some
time
of
Probation
,
may
probably
become
One
of
your
Family
.
Neither
would
it
be
any
derogation
to
you
,
daughter
,
replyed
the
Governess
,
to
incorporate
your self
in
our
Fellowship
:
seeing
sundry
eminent
persons
;
even
some
who
descended
lineally
from
the
loyns
of
Princes
,
have
dis-valued
their
stiles
of
honour
;
laid
their
diadems
aside
:
and
confin'd
themselves
within
these
walls
.
May
I
,
Sister
,
be
so
happy
as
partake
of
the
knowledge
of
your
Nation
and
Extraction
?
I
am
nationally
a
Candiot
,
answered
Panthalia
:
and
now
on
my
address
to
an
affectionate
Ally
here
remaining
in
your
Garison
.
May
you
prosper
in
your
designs
,
replied
the
Governess
.
But
the
report
of
your
Nation
puts
me
in
mind
of
a
sad
relation
,
which
I
have
oftimes
heard
spoke
of
in
these
parts
:
and
it
was
of
the
heavy
and
calamitous
Condition
of
a
Prince
of
that
Country
:
how
disloyally
he
was
deserted
by
his
own
:
and
afterwards
restrained
of
his
Liberty
;
which
his
distressed
Princess
no
sooner
received
notice
of
,
then
she
relinquished
the
world
:
encloister'd
herself
;
making
a
singular
vertue
of
necessity
;
in
partaking
more
absolute
felicity
in
her
enjoyment
of
an
inward
then
outward
liberty
.
Whence
I
collect
,
how
in
the
extreamest
Encounters
of
Fortune
,
this
private
retirement
within
a
Cloister
,
may
afford
that
which
the
whole
world
cannot
minister
.
It
is
true
,
Reverend
Matron
,
said
Panthalia
;
when
her
exiled
Condition
was
most
imbittered
with
gusts
of
affliction
;
it
was
her
use
to
bestow
her
seriousest
hours
upon
devotion
:
But
for
a
Cloister'd
life
,
which
you
are
pleased
to
commend
so
much
,
her
affection
never
stood
for
that
long
.
Though
in
relation
to
her
safety
,
she
might
seem
to
pretend
to
that
kind
of
privacy
:
For
her
disposition
was
naturally
otherwise
biassed
:
having
her
Education
so
much
dedicated
to
youth
:
as
her
maturer
years
had
ever
a
reserve
for
the
like
freedom
.
Though
this
might
be
truely
said
of
her
,
that
no
Princess
injoy'd
more
pleasure
with
a
constant
regard
to
her
honour
.
It
has
been
much
wondred
at
,
replied
the
Governess
,
how
her
Husband
,
never
deservingly
censured
for
any
predominant
vice
,
should
so
precipitously
fall
from
such
an
height
of
Command
,
into
so
deep
a
gulph
of
misery
:
seeing
his
equal
temper
of
Government
was
such
;
as
his
facility
could
neither
accuse
him
of
too
much
remisseness
:
nor
his
severity
of
too
much
roughness
.
It
was
an
heavy
Fate
for
him
to
suffer
,
being
endow'd
with
so
princely
temper
.
It
has
been
ever
the
unhappy
condition
of
most
Countries
,
and
with
grief
I
speak
it
,
particularly
of
mine
own
,
said
Panthalia
;
when
fulness
of
Fortune
,
famed
by
a
long
continuance
of
peace
,
has
begot
in
them
a
surfet
,
never
to
be
content
when
they
were
well
.
This
have
our
Natives
of
Candy
sufficient
experience
of
.
For
though
they
enjoyed
plenty
in
a
full
measure
;
yet
grew
they
weary
of
their
Condition
.
Either
did
their
Soveraign
displease
pretending
that
he
did
Lord
it
too
much
over
them
:
or
that
his
Council
was
corrupt
or
viciously
affected
:
or
their
Laws
and
Liberties
too
much
abridged
:
or
their
Impositions
so
heavy
as
not
to
be
supported
:
you
have
heard
the
Fable
of
the
Froggs
.
They
itched
after
a
new
Commander
,
which
at
last
they
got
;
but
repented
them
of
their
Change
.
Secure
we
were
from
Foes
without
,
and
Foes
within
:
but
innovating
our
State
,
we
became
subject
to
both
.
Never
was
Government
so
distracted
,
being
before
so
orderly
setled
:
and
harmoniously
disposed
.
For
to
enumerate
those
three
blessings
;
which
make
every
State
in
its
Constitution
truly
happy
:
and
in
others
winters
,
to
retein
a
fair
complexion
and
flourishing
beauty
;
to
wit
,
Commodity
,
Liberty
and
Tranquillity
:
none
could
be
more
amply
blest
in
the
plenary
possession
nor
full
fruition
of
all
these
.
For
the
first
,
none
more
rich
within
,
nor
more
improv'd
by
Commodious
traffick
abroad
.
Our
general
peace
,
being
in
league
with
all
,
calm'd
our
Seas
:
making
us
lyable
to
the
fear
of
none
.
Gladly
did
Forreign
Nations
commerce
with
us
;
ready
to
furnish
us
with
what
we
wanted
:
as
our
Coast
was
in
affording
them
Supplies
of
what
they
needed
:
yea
,
to
repeat
that
elegant
Observation
of
our
Native
Bard.
Candy
for
rich
Supplies
was
such
an
one
,
All
stood
in
need
of
her
,
and
she
of
none
.
Secondly
,
for
Liberty
none
more
amply
inlarg'd
.
Their
Priviledges
enjoy'd
without
restraint
.
No
Servitude
nor
Vassalage
permitted
in
so
free
a
Nation
.
The
Subject
had
an
absolute
propriety
in
his
own
.
No
incroaching
hand
without
due
Censure
durst
pretend
to
his
interest
.
Men
might
safely
without
feare
of
a
mercenary
Informer
communicate
their
thoughts
:
and
exhibite
their
Complaints
if
any
indignities
were
done
them
in
relation
to
their
Fame
Fortunes
or
Persons
.
No
tongue
could
admit
a
priviledge
to
traduce
:
neither
could
Greatness
become
such
a
Subterfuge
to
Guiltiness
,
as
to
give
it
an
impunity
to
offend
.
Neither
were
our
Laws
such
Spider-webbs
,
as
to
give
way
to
great
Ones
to
break
out
,
and
to
Little
Ones
to
keep
in
:
Being
so
equally
ballanced
,
as
neither
price
,
prayer
nor
power
could
pervert
them
.
Such
was
their
free
and
impartiall
dispensation
of
Justice
.
Which
neighbouring
Countreys
(
so
hard
it
was
to
observe
these
rare
Presidents
)
were
more
apt
to
admire
then
imitate
:
to
approve
,
then
improve
their
practise
by
them
.
Lastly
,
for
Tranquillity
;
neither
publick
nor
private
Estate
could
possibly
flowrish
with
more
security
.
No
Forraigne
Powers
to
invade
:
no
indigent
Persons
at
home
,
to
purloine
.
No
Court-Parasite
,
nor
State-Minion
was
admitted
to
prefer
an
injurious
suit
:
if
it
imported
an
unjust
challenge
,
or
an
illegal
request
;
the
Solliciter
was
to
undergo
a
Mulct
:
or
recceive
a
personal
Censure
.
Neither
could
the
fury
of
an
Enemy
ingage
their
security
:
for
there
was
neither
Guard
nor
Garison
,
vnless
there
were
one
upon
the
Princes
Person
:
and
that
with
such
reservancy
,
as
if
the
regality
of
his
Place
had
not
exacted
it
;
he
could
well
have
dispenst
with
it
.
It
seems
Candy
,
said
the
Governess
,
became
seaz'd
of
a
violent
Phrency
.
A
constitution
so
distemper'd
,
requir'd
a
continued
Purge
.
Bodies
Politick
being
so
full
of
vicious
humors
cannot
be
long
healthful
.
It
is
most
true
,
replied
Panthalia
:
and
you
collect
rightly
the
indisposition
of
Candy
.
It
was
a
deep
Surfet
that
first
begot
in
my
Country
this
infirmity
.
A
Surfet
of
peace
,
which
caus'd
her
to
be
more
remiss
in
the
prudent
managment
of
her
State
.
For
so
long
as
we
had
Foes
abroad
;
we
could
be
content
to
love
our
Friends
at
home
:
but
when
our
Coast
became
clear
of
Foes
,
we
begun
to
make
Foes
of
our
Friends
.
We
thought
the
yoak
of
one
Soveraign
too
heavy
.
And
in
stead
of
one
,
we
are
now
under
the
Subjection
of
many
.
Here
One
assumes
to
himself
the
Prerogative
;
while
others
in
Competition
,
having
equally
born
the
heat
of
the
day
,
repine
at
his
ambition
.
These
recollect
with
themselvs
the
dangers
they
have
past
:
and
how
their
valour
and
martial
service
were
of
as
high
Concern
in
the
accomplishment
of
the
work
;
as
he
who
sits
at
the
Stern
,
and
attributes
the
honour
of
the
day
solely
to
his
own
undertaking
.
Which
would
,
no
doubt
,
beget
infinite
number
of
fractions
in
a
State
so
weakly
setled
;
if
the
wise
and
cautious
carriage
of
Climenes
;
who
from
a
private
Souldier
had
rais'd
himself
to
an
absolute
Commander
,
had
not
made
up
those
breaches
,
which
a
distracted
State
had
produc'd
:
wherein
he
declared
himself
a
singular
Artizan
in
the
successful
pursuit
of
his
own
aspiring
interest
,
as
he
prov'd
that
Maxim
infallibly
good
:
A
designing
head
was
to
be
prefer'd
before
a
number
of
active
hands
.
For
though
the
imployments
of
others
,
in
this
mutation
of
Government
,
had
been
no
less
distructive
to
Rosicles
Forces
then
Climenes
:
yet
it
was
ever
his
good
Fortune
to
make
use
of
a
victory
,
and
to
instill
this
opinion
into
his
Souldiers
(
who
,
indeed
,
became
wholly
his
)
that
his
discreet
Commands
were
the
onely
ground
of
their
successe
:
and
the
rest
,
meer
Ciphers
or
Shadows
made
to
follow
him
,
and
consequently
directed
by
his
Light
.
This
he
carried
so
smoothly
,
as
even
those
who
were
his
Complices
could
not
with
all
their
ingenuity
discover
it
.
For
he
had
got
into
the
art
of
insinuating
into
their
affections
,
and
with
a
formality
of
hugging
them
,
wheresoever
he
encountred
them
.
Nor
was
this
all
;
for
there
was
no
person
being
of
his
relation
,
but
he
sought
privately
to
advance
to
one
Place
of
Command
or
other
:
so
as
in
very
short
time
,
all
considerable
Offices
were
solely
conferred
upon
those
in
whom
he
might
confide
,
and
become
his
powerful
Assistants
,
in
case
of
opposition
.
Thus
did
his
policy
act
for
his
future
security
.
Has
your
distressed
Prince
,
demanded
the
Governess
,
hope
of
no
Forreign
succours
to
relieve
him
?
This
,
methinks
,
much
concerns
neighbouring
States
to
reflect
on
.
Such
deposing
Presidents
dart
fearfully
on
other
Princes
.
Much
has
been
expected
,
but
weakly
seconded
;
replied
Panthalia
;
Such
Princes
as
might
probably
contribute
their
assistance
,
are
at
odds
amongst
themselvs
:
which
distractions
fall
out
sinisterly
to
his
advantage
.
Besides
,
Those
,
on
whom
by
affinity
or
alliance
he
might
in
reason
most
depend
on
,
in
a
joynt
association
to
the
adverse
Party
;
professe
themselvs
his
mortal
Foes
:
which
sprung
,
indeed
,
from
some
unhappy
Incendiaries
of
his
own
:
but
the
revenge
falls
heavy
on
his
enfeebled
Party
.
Onely
some
scattered
Forces
there
remain
of
his
own
;
as
may
appear
by
their
unsuccessive
Attempts
:
for
their
exploits
conduce
weakly
to
his
interest
:
and
no
wonder
,
being
so
destitute
of
the
sinews
of
war
;
as
they
want
necessary
Supplies
for
their
own
relief
.
But
I
shall
tire
you
with
the
continuation
of
these
sad
occurrences
,
which
few
States
can
parallel
.
I
shall
now
return
to
my
own
address
.
Wherein
,
reverend
Matron
,
though
a
stranger
to
you
and
your
vertuous
Society
,
I
must
presume
of
your
assistance
.
No
Stranger
,
of
what
quality
soever
,
makes
recourse
to
our
Cell
,
answered
the
Governess
,
whom
by
the
Rules
and
Constitutions
of
our
Order
,
we
are
not
bound
to
assist
.
Piety
were
useless
,
were
it
not
communicative
.
Relate
your
occasions
,
and
our
best
advice
shall
not
be
awanting
.
Panthalia
incouraged
with
the
free
tender
of
such
obliging
Courtesies
,
imparted
to
her
amply
what
her
desires
were
;
being
onely
in
effect
,
to
procure
her
a
faithful
Messenger
for
delivery
of
a
Letter
to
an
affectionate
Ally
of
hers
,
called
Acolasto
:
of
whose
safety
she
desir'd
much
to
be
satisfied
,
with
some
other
particulars
of
Concern
,
without
the
least
hint
of
any
nearer
intimacy
or
relation
to
him
:
which
she
purposely
conceal'd
for
some
private
respects
best
known
to
herself
.
The
curteous
Matron
wish'd
her
to
prepare
her
Letter
,
and
according
to
her
direction
,
it
should
be
carefully
delivered
.
Taking
hold
upon
this
opportunity
,
she
wrote
to
Acolasto
in
this
manner
.
Panthalia
to
Acolasto
.
SIR
,
I
verily
believe
that
your
Rules
in
martiall
discipline
have
estrang'd
you
from
the
Rules
of
loyall
affection
.
Vows
and
Protests
since
you
became
a
Souldier
,
have
got
a
dispensation
in
the
heart
of
a
Lover
.
But
know
Sir
,
though
women
be
of
the
weaker
Sexe
,
which
implies
their
imbecillity
;
they
have
so
much
sense
,
as
to
be
capable
of
an
injury
.
You
will
say
,
perchance
,
this
is
but
a
shadowing
of
Fancy
:
and
that
my
long
Journey
argued
an
individuall
retention
of
affection
.
Pray
;
Sir
,
suffer
not
your self
to
be
deceived
:
I
can
with
as
much
ease
dispence
with
that
small
interest
of
love
betwixt
us
,
as
I
can
put
off
my
habit
.
Our
Contract
is
not
so
firm
,
but
I
may
as
freely
dispence
with
it
,
as
you
with
your
Faith
.
A
Field-Bed
may
suit
well
with
a
Martiall
mould
:
But
such
a
repose
would
rot
relish
well
with
Panthalia's
mind
.
Your
Profession
proclaims
your
valour
:
may
it
redound
to
your
honour
;
so
as
Panthalia
,
your
unexemplarily
wronged
Panthalia
,
may
be
henceforth
to
you
and
your
actions
an
everlasting
stranger
.
I
have
suffered
enough
;
I
meane
not
to
be
so
unpittifull
to
my self
,
as
to
inlarge
sufferings
with
fresh
feares
or
inconstant
Fancies
.
You
may
believe
me
,
Sir
,
I
have
taken
a
long
leave
of
love
:
it
is
my
onely
grief
that
ever
I
imbosom'd
it
;
but
it
is
not
my
Fortune
alone
.
It
has
been
the
fate
of
many
kind
hearts
,
to
open
their
bosome
to
a
Viper
before
they
knew
its
nature
.
If
ever
I
give
Entertaine
to
such
an
unquiet
Guest
;
it
shall
be
upon
securer
grounds
,
and
better
acquaintance
then
I
have
hitherto
done
.
Unhappy
is
that
woman
in
her
Choice
,
whose
levity
will
admit
of
Change
;
or
dispence
with
Faith
.
As
for
this
tedious
address
which
I
lately
undertook
;
have
not
the
least
thought
,
that
it
was
any
intentionall
designe
in
me
,
to
make
this
inquiry
as
a
relative
Object
of
Fancy
:
in
conceipting
otherwise
,
you
infinitly
delude
your self
.
This
taske
was
to
divorce
us
,
not
unite
us
:
wherein
I
remaine
so
satisfied
,
as
no
Argument
,
be
it
never
so
evincing
,
may
oppose
it
:
or
decline
my
resolution
from
being
confirmed
in
it
.
Private
Contracts
being
not
accompanied
with
other
Ceremoniall
Observances
and
Conjugall
Offices
(
especially
where
just
occasions
of
difference
are
scandalously
offered
)
may
legally
admit
a
dispensation
.
Now
cast
your
Eyes
,
Acolasto
,
upon
your
own
vagrant
and
debaucht
Course
,
and
it
will
give
you
matter
enough
to
approve
my
resolution
.
Your
causeless
desertion
impos'd
a
period
to
my
affection
.
Vows
and
Protests
had
no
power
to
tye
you
;
the
time
of
your
prefixt
returne
neglected
by
you
;
the
remainder
of
your
Patrimony
,
which
should
raise
a
Subsistence
to
a
Family
(
if
not
timely
prevented
)
aliened
from
you
.
And
is
your
Person
so
valuable
,
as
to
injoyne
love
,
where
there
is
no
possibility
to
subsist
?
But
I
shall
not
press
your
Fortunes
,
being
deprest
enough
already
.
I
must
igenuously
tell
you
,
they
are
held
in
the
Skale
of
knowing
men
(
walk
you
never
so
obscurely
)
to
be
scarcely
competent
for
the
Equipage
of
One
,
much
lesse
for
the
supportance
of
many
.
But
if
Panthalia
might
have
confided
in
your
constancy
,
and
that
She
had
not
in
a
cleare
contrary
way
,
found
in
your
unm●nag'd
Course
so
much
levity
:
your
Fortunes
should
have
admitted
no
exception
,
had
they
been
ranked
in
the
lowest-condition
.
I
am
informed
,
how
after
the
yielding
up
of
your
Fort
,
and
breaking
up
of
your
Siedge
;
you
are
for
removing
to
another
Garrison
:
the
Gods
guide
you
;
onely
before
your
departure
,
let
me
acquaint
you
with
my
resolve
,
which
shall
manifest
my
zeal
more
to
devotion
,
then
any
humane
affection
:
know
that
Panthalia
stands
so
much
affected
to
these
Rites
,
Ceremonies
and
religious
Rules
of
this
Goddess
Delia
,
in
whose
Society
I
here
remaine
,
that
her
firm
and
immutable
resolution
,
is
to
be
united
to
their
Order
.
The
day
of
my
approbation
,
admission
and
initiation
is
designed
,
with
the
assent
of
our
Governesse
,
the
second
day
after
your
receipt
of
these
,
and
for
the
Place
of
my
Institution
,
it
is
ordered
to
be
in
the
private
Fane
of
Dionissa
.
Where
,
if
you
please
,
you
may
by
permission
of
our
Society
become
a
witness
of
Panthalia's
desertion
of
the
world
,
and
all
other
secular
interests
:
which
,
as
it
shall
confirme
my
Election
without
Change
,
so
it
may
prepare
your
affection
for
a
new
Choice
.
Howsoever
,
let
not
these
lines
divert
your
remove
.
Your
designes
(
as
they
have
been
ever
)
are
maine
and
many
.
Mine
reduc'd
to
One
,
the
happy
enjoyment
of
a
divine
Fancy
.
Your
deserted
Panthalia
.
This
letter
was
more
speedily
returned
,
then
it
was
cheerfully
received
.
Never
came
heavier
tidings
to
Acolasto's
eare
,
then
this
unexpected
resolution
of
his
highly-incensed
Mistress
.
For
after
his
long
ab●ence
from
her
;
he
had
pitcht
upon
this
determinate
course
;
presently
after
their
yielding
up
of
the
Fort
Royall
,
to
remove
to
no
other
Garrison
,
as
had
been
suggested
to
Panthalia
;
but
to
returne
with
winged
speed
to
his
Native
Countrey
;
and
with
a
just
excuse
attemper
his
Mistress
prejudicate
Conceipt
touching
his
retardancy
.
How
dee●ly
then
might
He
appeare
extasiz'd
in
the
perusall
of
these
lines
;
being
,
by
their
intervene
,
as
he
conceiv'd
,
wholly
prevented
of
his
aimes
.
So
as
,
his
reflection
upon
these
,
drove
him
in
the
silence
of
the
night
,
into
these
extreme
and
disconsolate
passions
.
Unhappy
Acolasto
,
thou
hast
at
last
found
how
justly
the
Superiour
Powers
have
delt
with
thee
for
thy
continued
track
of
folly
.
Thou
hadst
but
one
absolute
comfort
left
thee
,
to
allay
thy
distempers
;
dis-value
the
braves
of
Fortune
;
sleight
the
insults
of
Foes
;
or
attone
the
distasts
of
Friends
:
and
this
ONE
thy
debaucht
Course
has
irrecoverably
lost
:
whe●eto
wilt
thou
wander
,
deserted
Lover
?
Be
thine
intentions
bent
to
remove
to
another
Garrison
,
to
try
the
issue
of
thy
Fortune
:
or
first
to
be
a
personall
witness
of
Panthalia's
profession
;
who
deservingly
has
left
thee
,
because
thou
hast
left
thy self
?
yes
;
take
thy
solemn
farwell
of
her
,
whom
thou
shalt
never
see
hereafter
.
Lines
are
effectless
;
be
it
thy
resolve
to
attend
her
aversion
from
thee
,
and
conversion
to
that
Sacred
Deity
,
whereto
she
hath
so
religiously
dedicated
her
Vi●ginity
.
This
done
(
as
thy
last
living
obsequies
to
her
indeered
memory
(
commend
thy self
to
those
designes
,
for
which
the
Fates
,
have
reserved
thee
.
The
utmost
period
of
thy
disasters
,
thou
hast
already
attained
:
worse
cannot
befal
thee
,
then
thou
hast
encountred
.
If
any
cheerful
ray
of
future
happiness
smile
on
thee
,
a●
it
is
beyond
hope
;
so
if
any
adverse
occurrent
ingage
thee
to
an
inevitable
danger
,
it
shall
be
without
the
compass
of
fear
.
For
what
can
be
left
to
him
either
for
hope
or
feare
;
whom
neither
hope
may
possibly
raise
higher
:
nor
Fear
bring
down
lower
:
but
in
the
extremest
degree
of
a
forlorne
condition
;
hopeless
of
the
one
,
and
helpless
in
the
other
?
Rest
then
in
a
restless
retire
,
till
this
approaching
day
shall
summon
thee
to
accompany
her
Change
,
on
whom
thy
Fancy
did
once
so
immutably
(
though
carelesly
)
fix
thy
Choice
.
And
may
my
Change
by
a
speedy
dissolution
terminate
my
misery
;
since
her
vows
,
to
whom
I
ow'd
my self
,
has
shut
up
her
bosom
from
a
resentment
of
my
infelicity
,
or
capacity
of
mercy
.
In
this
short
intervall
of
time
;
the
Governess
apprehending
an
inclinable
affection
in
Panthalia
to
be
received
into
their
Order
;
as
one
infinitly
desirous
to
become
a
Patroness
to
so
accomplish'd
a
Sister
,
made
choice
of
one
Saladine
,
one
of
her
Society
,
and
an
excellent
Oratress
in
the
pursuit
of
such
religious
designes
;
injoyning
her
to
be
perswasive
in
the
effectuall
contriving
and
accomplishment
of
this
work
:
intimating
withall
,
how
useful
it
would
be
to
their
Society
,
to
have
such
an
One
initiated
in
their
Order
,
whose
parts
and
Person
might
highly
conduce
to
their
Honour
:
and
withall
,
how
she
had
upon
private
discourse
,
found
in
her
a
plyableness
that
way
;
which
she
would
not
at
that
time
too
eagerly
pursue
,
but
modestly
silenc'd
it
,
intending
to
make
it
Saladines
work
,
being
more
familiarly
to
be
transacted
by
a
Sister
in
relation
to
their
mutuall
Society
;
then
the
Governesses
more
awfull
Command
.
Neither
could
any
thing
occur
more
opportunely
:
for
upon
this
very
hint
came
in
Panthalia
;
upon
whose
approch
,
after
a
Civile
and
Matron-like
Salute
,
she
withdrew
,
giving
way
to
Saladine
to
pursue
the
designe
;
whereto
with
a
composed
alacrity
She
addressed
her self
in
this
manner
.
Madam
Panthalia
(
ô
that
it
were
my
happiness
to
enstile
you
Sister
!
)
Your
sweet
and
amiable
Society
has
seaz'd
so
strongly
on
our
Governess
,
and
on
us
who
live
herein
all
Obedience
under
her
Commands
,
as
nothing
could
be
equally
grateful
nor
corresponding
to
the
general
Vote
and
Suffrage
of
our
House
,
as
your
reception
into
our
Society
.
Neither
,
Madam
,
should
you
find
with
us
any
such
Stoical
or
unsociable
Condition
;
that
it
might
beget
in
you
a
tedious
or
undelightful
Communion
.
For
though
our
incloister'd
Walls
promise
little
or
nothing
suitable
to
a
Secular
Content
:
we
can
in
this
retirement
inlarge
our
desires
in
the
fullest
measure
,
to
the
freest
injoyment
of
themselvs
.
We
have
here
spatious
and
delightfull
Walks
;
Odoriferous
Gardens
;
&
Osier
Arbours
for
recreation
:
cheerful
and
ingenious
Sisters
to
converse
with
:
Pleasures
and
Disports
proper
for
every
Season
.
There
is
nothing
that
an
innocent
liberty
can
require
,
which
you
may
not
here
partake
.
And
though
we
have
here
no
Courting
nor
Love-Sallies
in
request
;
yet
we
can
religiously
,
with
a
discreet
Ceremony
,
imitate
it
:
and
personate
a
Sister
for
a
Compleat
Courtier
,
and
a
Courtly
Suiter
:
and
though
Strangers
to
the
Complexion
of
Art
,
yet
Artists
to
the
Conservation
of
Nature
.
We
can
here
Time
it
without
affectation
:
and
though
Strangers
to
Apish
love
,
pretend
a
formal
garb
of
affection
.
Our
Ambition
is
confin'd
to
these
Walls
;
wherein
we
injoy
more
in
having
little
,
then
others
have
in
possessing
much
.
We
have
long
since
publish'd
a
divorce
to
a
Conjugal
State
;
though
we
never
yet
knew
,
what
Husbands
meant
.
Our
greatest
Forreigners
are
mundane
cares
.
Neither
do
we
find
any
thing
,
in
our
Survey
of
Earth
,
worthy
the
entertainment
of
a
tear
or
a
Sigh
.
For
how
should
we
in
discretion
languish
in
our
desires
for
injoyment
of
that
which
cannot
fill
us
:
or
repine
for
the
loss
of
that
;
from
which
the
Course
of
Time
must
necessarily
divide
us
?
Our
constant
Lectures
of
Mortality
,
have
sufficiently
School'd
us
in
all
Principles
of
Morality
.
The
recollection
of
these
have
made
our
day-tasks
our
delightfull'st
Consorts
:
making
our
Evening
the
dayes
Ephemerides
.
Thus
is
our
Society
imployed
:
and
our
hours
improved
,
by
communicating
our
Knowledge
;
reading
and
conferring
our
Observations
one
with
another
.
This
,
unless
blind
Fancy
have
prepossest
the
Fortress
of
the
heart
;
cannot
chuse
but
infinitly
surprize
the
affection
of
a
Contemplative
Soul
:
which
the
seriousness
of
your
Conceipt
,
if
I
do
not
mistake
,
seemes
to
incline
to
.
Excuse
me
,
Madam
,
if
the
Fervour
of
my
desires
have
too
amply
inlarged
my
discourse
.
Let
my
Cordial
affection
weave
an
Apology
for
this
presumption
.
Onely
let
me
truly
tell
you
,
if
your
disposition
bend
that
way
,
no
Society
shall
ever
answer
your
Content
with
more
suitable
Harmony
.
These
polite
and
passionate
Perswasions
of
Saladine
,
seem'd
to
work
so
effectually
upon
Panthalia
;
as
if
her
discourse
had
wholly
weaned
her
from
any
further
Familiarity
with
the
world
,
by
a
devotionall
intendment
to
be
initiated
and
inrowled
a
Sister
of
the
Delian
Order
.
Neither
did
she
conceale
her
resolves
(
howsoever
inwardly
disguis'd
)
but
imparted
her self
freely
to
her
in
this
sort
.
How
much
a
Stranger
stands
obliged
to
your
indeerments
,
Sister
Saladine
(
for
I
shall
highly
rejoyce
in
the
conferment
of
that
Title
)
though
I
cannot
in
your
manner
,
so
rhetorically
express
it
;
yet
shall
I
with
my
best
endeavours
study
to
deserve
it
.
My
coming
hither
I
shall
ever
hold
the
highest
happiness
that
ever
befell
me
.
For
it
has
brought
me
to
an
injoyment
of
my self
:
and
to
dis-value
that
which
formerly
(
nor
can
I
remember
it
without
teares
)
had
an
absolute
Soveraignty
over
me
.
What
singular
Object
might
that
be
,
replied
Saladine
,
that
could
make
so
gallant
a
Spirit
its
Subject
?
Oh
,
for
loves
sake
,
do
not
aske
me
;
it
doth
so
much
distaste
me
,
as
nothing
now
can
be
more
opposite
to
my
thoughts
,
then
what
sometimes
sported
most
with
my
conceipt
:
inwreathing
me
in
an
inextricable
Labyrinth
of
Folly
.
Come
Sister
(
since
you
will
have
me
call
you
so
)
deal
ingenuously
with
me
;
was
it
not
Fancy
,
that
merry
Folly
,
that
so
intangled
you
?
You
divine
rightly
,
said
Panthalia
;
it
was
Fancy
,
that
amorous
Phrency
,
that
miserably
deluded
me
.
I
must
confess
really
,
that
in
the
prime
Flower
of
my
youth
,
before
I
could
distinguish
Faces
,
my
wandring
Eye
begun
to
play
the
cunning
Impostor
,
and
to
lay
Snares
how
to
deceive
my
heart
.
Youthfull
beauty
became
such
an
attractive
bait
,
as
my
distemper'd
Fancy
regulated
onely
by
the
appearence
of
an
outward
posture
,
drove
my
misguided
affection
into
many
irregular
extreams
.
For
though
sundry
Fortunes
were
presented
me
;
and
those
no
way
unsuitably
accompanied
:
For
the
Owners
of
those
Fortunes
were
of
eminent
descent
,
and
for
Personage
,
gracefull
enough
to
any
competible
or
impartiall
Eye
;
yet
such
curiosity
attended
my
Choice
,
or
such
diversity
of
Features
begot
in
me
an
assiduate
desire
of
Change
,
as
what
I
loved
one
day
,
produc'd
a
distaste
in
the
next
.
It
suited
much
with
mine
humour
to
be
courted
by
a
multitude
of
Servants
.
In
generall
to
retaine
many
;
but
in
Speciall
to
entertaine
none
.
Self-opinion
is
a
dangerous
darling
:
a
bosom-Idol
;
no
sooner
admir'd
then
ador'd
.
I
begun
to
have
a
Conceipt
of
my
own
parts
,
and
ingeniously
to
jeer
those
,
whom
not
long
before
I
seemed
to
affect
.
Thus
plaid
I
with
Fancy
,
as
if
I
should
never
have
been
taken
by
it
:
Thus
nibbled
I
at
the
bait
,
as
one
without
fear
to
be
intangled
with
it
:
but
in
the
end
I
found
the
Proverbe
experimentally
true
:
‛
So
oft
the
frisking
fly
sports
with
the
flame
,
'Till
her
Seere
wings
are
singed
in
the
same
.
For
at
last
my
dis-compos'd
Fancy
fixt
it self
on
an
Object
,
whose
Person
might
be
a
Motive
sufficient
enough
to
induce
love
:
but
it
was
invested
with
other
inward
qualities
;
which
in
the
eye
of
discretion
,
might
have
retarded
my
Choice
.
For
to
render
him
his
just
Character
;
He
was
a
youth
wholly
dedicated
to
pleasure
:
a
meer
Stranger
to
his
Estate
:
making
it
his
onely
aime
to
fuell
his
unbounded
expence
with
fresh
supplies
.
Many
disswasions
I
receiv'd
from
entertaining
the
affection
of
so
profuse
a
Suiter
into
my
bosom
;
and
Some
of
his
own
were
the
assiduatest
Agents
in
this
business
.
But
imagining
this
to
be
rather
a
designe
for
their
own
ends
then
my
content
:
and
that
the
smallness
of
my
Portion
induced
them
to
practise
the
withdrawing
of
my
Fancy
from
him
,
rather
then
any
other
Essentiall
ground
;
Those
Allies
of
his
could
not
be
more
instant
in
disswading
,
then
I
was
constant
in
persisting
:
preferring
Him
whom
I
formerly
affected
,
before
all
others
,
who
by
my
Friends
approvement
,
were
afterwards
brought
on
and
presented
.
Yet
I
must
tell
you
Saladine
,
though
my
youthfull
fancy
were
in
this
manner
seated
;
our
marriage
to
this
houre
was
never
ceremonially
solemnized
.
Which
I
shall
ever
impute
rather
to
my
good
Fortune
then
my
Wit.
For
that
was
long
before
gone
a
wooll-gathering
:
though
it
was
my
desire
,
in
this
eager
pursuit
of
love
,
to
protract
time
,
purposely
to
discover
,
whereto
the
youthfull
Cariere
of
his
licentious
Fancy
would
arrive
,
and
in
what
period
it
would
close
.
It
seemes
strange
to
me
,
replyed
Saladine
,
how
your
affection
should
so
far
estrange
it self
from
discretion
,
O
Sister
Saladine
,
it
seems
you
never
shot
yet
in
Cupids
bow
!
Else
you
would
confess
,
what
amorous
Girles
generally
know
:
and
what
by
bitter
experience
they
have
sufficiently
felt
:
how
a
freedom
and
liberty
even
to
profuseness
,
acts
more
powerfully
in
the
quest
of
love
;
then
any
bashful
or
modest
posture
.
Active
Youth
cannot
chuse
but
beget
love
:
whereas
a
sober
and
remiss
Civility
dulls
the
edge
of
Fancy
.
But
thanks
to
the
Superiour
Powers
for
my
arrival
here
;
I
am
now
wholly
drawn
off
from
all
such
light
thoughts
,
as
formerly
nestled
in
my
Virgin
bosom
.
For
as
the
irregularity
of
his
Course
gave
me
small
hope
of
his
recovery
:
so
the
recollection
of
my
Succeeding
Fortune
,
poized
with
the
freedom
of
my
present
condition
,
has
made
mine
heart
an
Alien
to
the
indiscreet
entertainment
of
any
such
youthful
Fancy
.
Though
I
must
tell
you
,
Sister
,
so
fervorous
were
my
desires
in
the
pursuit
of
his
Happiness
;
as
I
shall
ever
wish
him
well
,
and
hold
it
one
of
my
prime
earthly
felicities
,
to
hear
him
succeed
prosperously
in
the
world
,
with
the
improvement
of
his
indangered
reputation
,
and
gallant
deportment
in
military
affairs
:
all
which
,
the
future
management
of
his
actions
(
being
no
less
then
his
Person
promiseth
)
may
hereafter
deserve
.
It
were
easie
to
collect
from
hence
,
said
Saladine
,
that
there
remain
still
some
small
Sparks
of
Fancy
raked
up
in
the
Embers
;
which
would
quickly
take
fire
if
they
were
fomented
.
No
doubt
,
Sister
Saladine
,
but
you
have
read
so
much
Philosophy
,
as
may
sufficiently
informe
your
judgement
,
and
revive
your
knowledge
in
the
Mysteries
of
Love
:
the
Discipline
whereof
,
(
though
the
Devotional
retirement
of
your
Monastick
life
has
made
you
a
Stranger
to
the
Practise
of
it
,
)
has
long
since
discovered
to
your
Reading
the
nature
and
quality
of
that
influence
.
It
will
tell
you
what
powerful
effects
it
produceth
:
how
it
can
transanimate
the
Spirit
of
the
Lover
to
the
Bosom
of
the
Object
beloved
.
It
can
unite
two
hearts
in
One
,
and
by
an
individual
juncture
,
incorporate
two
distinct
Bodies
in
one
Mind
.
Neither
should
I
have
so
easily
dispenc'd
with
these
imaginary
Fancies
;
had
not
my
happy
admittance
into
your
regular
Society
,
brought
me
to
a
more
sensible
apprehension
of
my
former
condition
,
by
dis-relishing
those
amorous
Potions
or
Circean
Impostures
,
wherewith
the
folly
of
my
youth
,
had
inthrall'd
me
.
May
we
then
,
replied
Saladine
,
derive
these
hopes
from
you
;
that
you
will
become
one
of
us
:
and
inrowle
your self
in
our
Family
?
You
shall
not
need
to
doubt
of
it
;
my
resolvs
are
so
fixt
,
as
the
reality
of
my
Profession
shall
witness
it
:
and
attest
your
whole
Society
to
second
it
.
Neither
will
the
relation
to
my
own
Condition
,
nor
the
devotion
I
cordially
tender
to
your
religious
Order
,
suffer
me
to
play
the
Dissembler
.
What
I
have
here
imparted
to
you
in
private
;
when
the
prefixt
time
of
your
admittance
shall
call
me
to
this
Task
of
Obedience
;
shall
sincerely
and
without
any
guilded
pretences
(
which
make
a
gallery
of
Sanctity
)
manifest
it self
.
For
I
perceive
clearly
(
so
soveraign
is
that
Eye-salve
which
I
have
not
onely
received
,
but
usefully
applied
,
by
the
assistance
of
your
Company
)
that
if
I
should
wanton
any
longer
in
the
fruitless
Delights
of
Sensual
love
;
my
reputation
would
suffer
a
loss
:
and
my
Discretion
(
being
so
well
school'd
both
by
Precept
and
Example
)
suffer
an
irreparable
foil
.
This
will
be
pleasant
news
to
our
Governess
,
answer'd
Saladine
;
For
none
ever
of
late
yeares
came
to
our
Foundation
,
to
be
admitted
,
who
was
more
generally
indeered
,
or
by
our
Commandress
more
highly
valued
.
Their
immerited
esteem
of
me
,
my
humble
Observance
of
your
Orders
shall
make
it
th●
highest
of
my
endeavours
to
requite
:
and
as
I
am
the
youngest
in
your
Order
,
so
shall
the
lowest
of
your
Commands
approve
me
your
humbly-affectionatest
Sister
and
Servant
.
While
these
two
lately
adopted
Sisters
were
bandying
Civilities
in
this
manner
One
with
the
Other
;
Their
Governess
came
unexpectedly
in
;
desirous
,
as
it
might
be
probably
gathered
,
what
good
effect
Saladines
advice
to
Panthalia
had
produc'd
:
or
what
hope
she
might
entertaine
in
the
reception
of
so
promising
and
acceptable
a
daughter
.
But
Saladine
,
rejoycing
much
in
her
success
;
and
quickning
her
address
unto
her
:
told
her
,
how
she
had
made
way
for
inlarging
her
Foundation
.
What
do
you
meane
,
said
the
Governess
?
Our
Foundation
holds
correspondence
with
our
Revenues
.
So
we
may
preserve
it
to
Posterity
:
and
inrich
it
with
a
vertuous
Family
,
we
shall
hold
it
sufficiently
inlarged
:
these
Cyens
of
piety
are
those
large-spreading
branches
that
shall
best
dilate
it
,
and
with
their
cheerfull
umbrage
safeliest
secure
it
.
Madam
,
said
Saladine
,
you
have
here
one
hopefull
branch
more
to
beautifie
your
Family
:
and
we
here
present
her
to
your
discreet
government
:
and
pointing
to
Panthalia
;
the
Governess
,
as
One
surprized
with
incredible
joy
,
embraced
her
:
Saying
,
none
could
be
more
welcome
to
their
Society
:
and
proposing
Saladine
to
be
her
Bed-fellow
;
as
one
suiting
best
with
her
disposition
;
She
requested
Panthalia
to
make
choice
of
what
day
She
pleased
for
her
initiation
and
reception
into
their
Order
:
which
we
intend
,
said
she
,
shall
be
observed
with
that
solemnity
,
as
our
due
honor
to
a
Stranger
,
shall
express
what
content
we
apprehend
in
the
injoyment
of
so
absolute
a
Sister
.
Panthalia
,
seemingly
transported
with
the
joy
of
this
Election
;
was
not
so
forgetfull
of
her
Lesson
,
as
not
to
remember
the
prefixt
day
mentioned
in
her
Letter
to
Acolasto
:
which
,
though
She
could
not
be
confident
of
the
issue
,
whereto
her
intendments
were
addressed
;
her
Care
accompanied
with
much
Secrecy
,
so
fitly
prepared
;
as
the
grounds
of
her
designe
promised
faire
,
howsoever
the
event
might
second
it
.
The
very
same
day
therefore
was
appointed
for
performing
these
Ceremonies
,
which
She
had
in
her
Letter
formerly
expressed
.
Meane
time
,
none
could
appear
more
Observant
nor
morigerous
to
the
Orders
of
the
House
,
then
Panthalia
;
but
the
Course
of
her
Probation
was
but
short
:
for
the
day
of
Acolasto's
remove
from
his
Garrison
,
and
the
approaching
time
of
her
dedication
,
would
not
permit
the
expence
of
many
hours
.
And
much
had
She
to
think
upon
,
before
this
pregnant
birth
,
being
but
as
yet
in
it's
Embrio
,
could
be
brought
to
perfection
.
For
such
was
the
promptness
of
her
Conceipt
,
as
she
lov'd
to
shew
wit
in
the
greatest
extrems
:
and
to
intangle
the
expectance
with
smooth
deceptions
:
as
may
appear
by
the
issue
of
this
Narration
.
The
modesty
of
Pandione
her
Fellow-traveller
,
declined
her
from
interessing
her self
in
this
Secrecy
:
yet
could
not
their
private
and
assiduate
Conference
free
her
from
jealousie
.
Some
strange
thing
,
as
she
suggested
to
her self
,
was
in
moulding
,
when
She
desired
much
to
partake
.
Till
now
at
last
her
opinion
became
confirm'd
,
by
what
she
had
casually
over-heard
:
for
by
playing
the
Cunning
Eve-dropper
,
she
came
to
a
discovery
of
Panthalia's
resolvs
:
and
how
her
long
and
tedious
Journey
had
diverted
that
aime
,
whereto
it
was
addrest
,
by
taking
a
long
farewell
of
love
,
and
confining
her
Travaile
,
which
she
had
so
patiently
indur'd
,
to
the
Walls
of
a
Sanctuary
.
This
though
she
could
hardly
believe
(
for
as
yet
she
had
found
no
such
mortified
affections
in
Panthalia
)
yet
reflecting
upon
her
neare
relation
to
Acolasto
,
she
intended
to
try
further
.
So
as
,
having
so
faire
an
opportunity
offered
her
as
Panthalia's
privacy
;
with
much
modesty
and
winning
sweetness
,
She
accosted
her
after
this
manner
.
Madam
,
I
perceive
by
your
late
and
unexpected
resoves
,
though
Civility
,
as
well
beseem'd
me
,
would
not
allow
me
so
much
boldness
as
to
insinuate
my self
into
the
Knowledge
of
them
,
how
your
Monastick
Zeal
has
turn'd
love
out
a-doore
.
Your
sometimes
indeered
Lover
must
now
seek
his
Mistress
in
a
Cloister
,
or
else
he
must
never
have
the
hope
to
finde
her
.
What
doest
thou
meane
by
this
,
Pandione
,
replied
Panthalia
;
thy
discourse
seemes
a
Riddle
to
me
:
and
my
Fancy
no
such
Oedipus
as
to
assoile
it
.
No
,
Lady
,
said
She
;
I
understand
your
Fancy
is
of
no
such
circumference
as
it
has
been
formerly
.
Love
is
now
fallen
off
from
the
hinges
.
Your
affection
is
become
thawed
,
and
resolv'd
into
devotion
:
and
your
late
zeal
to
a
Cloister
,
has
quite
estrang'd
your
thoughts
from
the
visit
of
a
Garrison
.
Vesta
has
put
out
the
Tapers
of
Hymen
.
But
pursue
your
Course
,
Madam
,
I
shall
not
make
it
my
Taske
to
disswade
you
from
your
designe
.
Onely
,
be
it
your
goodness
to
excuse
Pandione
,
if
her
resolvs
be
not
dedicated
to
this
Society
.
For
She
has
profest
her self
such
a
Votaresse
,
as
never
to
lead
Apes
in
Hell
:
nor
walk
in
the
Elysian
Fields
without
a
Mate
.
Tell
me
Pandione
,
can
any
one
injoy
more
felicity
in
the
world
,
then
to
Soveraignize
over
the
Cares
of
the
World
?
To
what
period
have
my
numerous
desires
brought
me
?
Have
I
not
all
this
time
snatch't
at
a
shadow
,
and
lost
the
reality
of
Content
?
Have
I
not
in
pursuit
of
a
Consort
,
lost
my self
?
Were
not
all
these
guilded
promises
,
wherewith
I
miserably
deluded
my
affection
,
and
have
not
these
closed
fairly
(
through
an
unexpected
Catastrophe
)
by
making
their
period
in
devotion
?
And
might
not
that
Period
have
been
drawne
before
we
undertook
this
Journey
?
Had
you
not
Recluses
dedicated
to
devotion
in
your
own
Country
;
wherein
you
might
have
been
receiv'd
in
to
a
Vestall
Society
,
if
you
had
not
been
transported
with
the
heat
Fancy
?
This
Relation
will
sound
strangely
,
when
it
comes
to
the
Eares
of
your
Friends
,
That
Panthalia
,
the
Westerne
beauty
,
should
play
the
amorous
Pilgrim
:
and
in
the
end
of
her
Journall
,
Sacrifice
the
reliques
of
her
Fancy
to
a
Monastery
.
An
Incence
better
bestow'd
then
on
loose
love
.
In
my
recollection
of
these
;
and
comparing
One
with
the
Other
,
I
found
an
infinite
difference
.
The
one
assuring
me
of
an
accomplish'd
content
,
without
any
probable
incounters
to
disturbe
it
.
The
other
objecting
to
my
thoughts
many
Obstacles
:
being
such
,
as
they
could
not
chuse
but
suggest
sundry
occasional
disgusts
and
distempers
to
the
best
composed
and
regulated
Spirit
.
Then
a
Contemplative
life
(
being
what
the
Supreme
Powers
affect
)
what
more
happy
?
Then
an
indisposed
Consort
(
whereto
even
the
most
approved
patience
cannot
give
acquiescence
)
what
more
heavy
?
I
appeal
to
your self
,
Pandione
,
whether
the
memory
of
Acolasto's
dissolute
Course
could
relish
with
your
Fancy
!
His
continuance
in
the
Country
,
before
his
imployment
became
Military
,
proclaim'd
him
sufficiently
;
and
can
you
think
the
Profession
of
a
Souldier
should
make
him
better
:
or
reduce
him
to
a
more
Civil
Order
?
It
were
a
strange
cure
for
a
youthful
course
.
Give
me
leave
,
Lady
,
replied
Pandione
,
to
impart
my self
freely
,
and
in
such
manner
as
shall
neither
tax
your
Servant
of
presumption
,
nor
suffer
my
thoughts
,
which
have
been
ever
dedicated
with
all
obsequious
reality
to
your
vertuous
Commands
,
to
fall
short
in
any
express
that
may
essentially
conduce
to
your
honour
:
or
may
divert
Calumny
,
which
traducing
Spirits
are
no
less
apt
to
disperse
then
to
harbour
.
These
be
Assays
of
different
nature
,
neither
shall
I
hold
it
a
Task
of
higher
importance
to
advance
the
one
,
then
to
prevent
the
other
.
It
is
not
possible
that
you
should
forget
the
grounds
which
first
induced
you
to
this
hazardous
adventure
:
wherein
my
humblest
desires
have
constantly
addressed
their
best
endeavours
to
your
service
,
was
not
then
Acolasto
your
sole
aim
?
How
should
it
happen
,
that
your
Fancy
,
the
onely
Actua●y
in
this
tedious
Journy
,
should
become
so
eclipsed
as
to
dis-value
that
Object
most
,
which
your
Conceipt
had
formerly
ranked
the
highest
in
your
Books
?
But
your
wisdom
now
after
a
small
revolution
of
time
,
has
found
out
a
new
distinction
betwixt
affection
and
discretion
.
You
lov'd
the
man
,
but
not
his
levity
;
his
person
,
but
not
his
quality
.
Resolve
me
,
Madam
,
did
you
not
know
all
this
before
we
put
on
our
disguize
?
was
not
Acolasto
the
very
same
he
is
,
in
your
opinion
?
No
,
you
will
say
,
his
Martial
discipline
has
unciviliz'd
him
for
the
office
of
Love
.
Oh
,
do
not
oppose
your
own
judgment
in
this
debate
!
Mars
,
if
we
may
give
credit
unto
Poetry
,
whose
divine
influence
has
ever
descanted
the
best
upon
Fancy
;
was
every
way
as
Compleat
a
Courtier
as
a
Warrier
.
A
Field-bed
was
not
his
onely
Repose
.
That
Lemnian
Ram
found
him
more
amorously
lodg'd
.
When
his
Fury
was
resolv'd
to
Fancy
,
he
appear'd
a
Servant
more
sutable
for
Court
then
Camp
.
But
to
divert
from
this
adventitious
Discourse
,
and
return
to
your self
;
did
not
the
freedom
of
your
affection
wing
your
speed
towards
this
Garrison
?
were
you
not
then
resolv'd
of
his
military
imploiment
?
what
then
should
beget
in
you
this
alteration
?
If
devotion
be
the
ground
,
it
bestows
on
love
the
more
grace
:
but
if
a
pretence
of
devotion
make
the
Fruits
of
love
abortive
,
it
will
prove
a
disguize
rather
to
delude
,
then
improve
your
profession
.
But
certainly
this
Matrons
advice
has
produc'd
some
strange
operation
in
your
declining
affection
!
And
what
sinister
effects
may
probably
arise
from
thence
;
you
apprehend
not
.
This
may
enliven
your
Fancie
with
an
interiour
Flame
:
and
make
you
wholly
forgetful
of
your
errand
:
mean
time
you
consider
not
the
perplext
condition
of
your
deserted
Friend
:
who
cannot
chuse
but
wonder
at
your
inconstancie
;
when
such
experimental
tokens
of
your
setled
and
immutable
love
had
confirm'd
you
his
.
A
decrease
or
easie
falling
off
from
a
pen-feathred
affection
,
being
weakly
grounded
and
tenderly
imp'd
,
may
be
without
much
difficulty
dispenc'd
withall
.
It
never
reteined
such
heat
as
to
operate
in
the
heart
:
nor
act
distempers
in
the
brain
.
Whereas
the
continuance
of
your
Fancy
has
aspir'd
to
more
maturity
.
You
were
pleas'd
to
relinquish
many
,
and
those
of
eminent
qualitie
,
to
injoy
him
:
and
shall
a
shadow
of
late-pretended
zeal
imbellish'd
with
Vestal
Ceremonies
divide
him
from
you
?
Trust
me
,
Madam
,
if
ever
my
youth
attain
to
that
felicitie
,
(
and
who
knows
what
the
Destinies
have
decreed
for
me
?
)
that
I
may
justly
challenge
an
interest
in
a
deserving
Consort
;
rather
then
I
will
dis-ingage
him
whom
I
love
,
I
will
freely
ingage
my
life
,
and
expose
my
humane
Being
to
the
worst
of
Extreams
.
It
were
great
pity
,
said
Panthalia
,
that
such
a
tender
and
kind-hearted
Turtle
should
want
her
Mate
.
But
who
knows
not
that
it
is
much
easier
to
prescribe
a
Cure
,
then
to
submit
or
give
way
to
the
Receipt
.
I
was
sometimes
as
resolute
in
the
obliging
respects
of
a
Servant
,
as
either
you
could
be
,
or
any
Amorist
living
.
But
when
experience
informs
my
judgment
to
life
;
that
if
my
indiscreet
Fancie
transported
with
the
heat
of
unbounded
youth
,
had
inclined
to
the
advice
of
Friends
:
or
with
an
unbiass'd
affection
had
evenly
weighed
those
sad
Consequences
which
frequently
arise
from
inconsiderate
love
:
I
could
no
way
have
chus'd
but
blush
at
my
rash
Choice
;
and
infinitely
repented
in
suffering
Sense
,
which
periods
its
content
in
a
moment
of
Delight
,
to
retain
such
a
predominant
hand
over
Reason
.
That
approv'd
Observation
of
wise
Girles
,
who
measure
love
by
discretion
,
cannot
be
unknown
unto
thee
Pandione
:
No
sooner
makes
Poverty
into
any
possession
a
seazure
;
then
by
that
Forcible
Entry
it
ejects
love
,
and
makes
it
a
stranger
.
And
might
not
this
have
prov'd
my
Case
,
This
is
a
Lecture
,
replied
Pandione
,
which
to
this
day
I
never
heard
you
read
.
But
it
seems
,
this
Cloister
has
put
you
into
a
Siege
above
the
quality
or
capacity
of
an
ordinary
Lover
.
I
have
known
sometimes
when
the
wind
was
in
another
door
.
Your
modestie
could
once
have
vouchsaf'd
to
be
taken
into
a
Rash-bearing
:
and
to
have
broke
a
Cracknell
or
drunk
a
Sillibub
with
the
youth
of
our
Parish
.
A
whole
afternoons
story
of
the
joyes
of
a
Marriage
life
would
at
that
time
have
seem'd
short
.
Activity
was
in
those
daies
preferr'd
before
a
Patrimonie
,
else
had
the
Image
of
your
deserted
Acolasto
never
retein'd
such
a
deep
impression
:
nor
injoin'd
you
to
so
long
and
hazardous
a
Journie
;
being
an
apparent
argument
of
your
immutable
affection
.
It
is
never
too
soon
to
prevent
an
ensuing
mishap
(
said
Panthalia
)
especially
in
an
Assay
of
such
high
concerne
;
the
success
whereof
,
if
prudently
entertain'd
,
proviseth
a
continuall
holy-day
:
but
if
wildly
and
indiscreetly
transacted
,
may
admit
one
Marriage-day
,
but
the
sequel
a
Tragick
Scene
without
all
hope
of
a
Comicall
Conclusion
.
I
must
confess
,
a
timely
discussion
of
these
probable
Events
might
to
my
greater
advantage
have
been
recollected
,
and
more
seasonably
digested
:
but
such
was
the
indisputable
fervour
of
my
desires
,
as
it
hurled
me
head-long
upon
this
tedious
and
perillous
Journey
.
The
most
virile
and
Masculine
spirits
have
not
at
all
times
their
wits
near
them
;
well
then
may
our
resolvs
arising
from
the
weakness
of
our
Sexe
,
receive
excuse
.
Howsoever
,
my
late
alteration
in
the
Course
of
my
affection
may
incur
a
popular
Censure
,
I
cannot
be
less
then
confident
,
but
my
late
hazardous
Travell
has
sufficiently
gratified
his
coolness
in
the
pursuit
of
what
he
so
seriously
profest
.
His
Proposall
was
definite
;
at
such
a
prefixt
time
to
returne
back
from
this
unnecessary
Service
:
wherein
he
ingag'd
his
Person
without
constraint
,
or
probability
of
preferment
:
But
the
title
of
a
Souldier
cancell'd
in
him
the
thoughts
of
a
Lover
.
Acolasto
appear'd
not
the
same
he
was
.
His
eclips'd
Fancy
discover'd
a
dificience
in
the
slowness
of
his
performance
.
And
am
I
so
restrain'd
in
the
strict
Rules
of
Love
,
as
to
be
deprived
of
the
like
liberty
?
This
were
an
injury
to
our
Sexe
.
To
have
our
affections
managed
by
the
stronger
hand
:
to
make
us
their
Mistresses
no
longer
then
at
their
pleasure
:
and
to
Cashiere
us
as
unsuitable
Reformades
in
an
humour
.
These
riotous
Servants
,
who
appear
more
prodigal
in
their
Expresses
,
then
reall
in
performance
;
can
artfully
pretend
us
love
,
so
long
as
we
have
the
power
to
oppose
our
own
wills
;
and
in
the
unjustest
Commands
,
subject
our
selvs
to
their
imperious
interests
.
Whereas
,
if
we
should
at
any
time
,
even
in
impertinences
,
cross
them
,
how
quickly
would
the
edge
of
Fancy
become
rebated
?
were
it
not
then
far
better
to
intertaine
that
Condition
with
much
freedom
and
composedness
of
Spirit
;
wherein
we
may
remaine
secure
from
these
domestick
Clashings
,
and
injoy
our
Contents
in
a
sweet
and
delightfull
discourse
,
then
to
ingage
our
liberty
to
a
Conjugall
tyranny
?
Your
late
Claustrall
Resolvs
,
answer'd
Pandione
,
have
brought
you
into
a
strange
point
of
Heresie
.
It
will
repent
you
,
er'e
it
be
long
,
if
you
continue
in
this
erroneous
opinion
,
that
this
World
had
a
Creation
;
For
you
oppose
the
meanes
of
Generation
:
and
no
People
,
no
Society
;
and
no
Society
,
no
World
.
Thus
would
your
Monastick
Conceipt
make
the
World
a
wilderness
:
Humane
Habitations
Deserts
.
But
give
me
leave
to
tell
you
,
that
these
religious
Anachorites
who
have
divorc'd
themselves
from
the
world
,
are
unsociable
Consorts
for
those
that
have
to
do
in
the
World
.
They
partake
too
much
of
the
nature
of
the
Ostridge
to
be
suitable
Friends
,
or
amicable
Companions
.
The
discourse
of
a
Grave
:
or
a
discovery
of
the
Elysian-Fields
(
extracted
from
the
pregnancy
of
Poets
brains
)
must
take
up
the
whole
houre
.
And
are
these
Subjects
for
young
yeares
,
or
green
thoughts
?
why
should
they
not
,
replied
Panthalia
?
What
inferiour
subjects
can
in
weight
of
reason
be
held
comparable
to
those
which
operate
in
the
inward
affections
of
the
mind
a
setled
peace
?
Are
we
not
so
long
as
we
are
here
sojourning
,
properly
resembling
light
and
unsteared
Vessels
floating
on
the
Maine
,
and
by
means
of
cross
and
adverse
winds
,
driven
from
our
designed
Coast
,
or
intended
Harbour
?
Is
it
not
then
high
time
to
prepare
our selves
against
the
encounters
of
so
hazardous
and
tempestuous
a
voiage
?
Those
many
storms
and
menacing
Shelvs
which
interpose
us
in
this
perilous
Passage
,
advise
us
seasonably
to
provide
for
a
Convenient
place
of
Landing
.
The
life
of
a
wise
man
is
to
return
to
God
:
this
was
the
positive
opinion
of
divine
Plato
.
But
how
should
we
retain
in
our selves
either
a
capacity
or
possibility
of
returning
;
if
we
take
no
content
in
meditating
of
the
Place
,
nor
contemplating
the
delights
which
we
are
to
injoy
in
the
fruition
of
that
Place
whereto
we
address
our
Course
?
It
is
the
Conceipt
of
the
Object
,
that
makes
our
Journy
easie
:
whereas
our
rarity
in
conversing
with
Heaven
,
begets
a
distance
in
our
thoughts
,
and
make
them
strangers
to
their
Country
.
It
seems
,
Madam
,
said
Pandione
,
that
you
are
grown
to
be
a
Philosopher
,
since
you
became
a
Monastick
Professor
:
and
that
you
have
been
lately
so
indoctrinated
in
Timons
School
,
as
you
will
in
time
publish
to
the
whole
world
,
that
you
are
an
Enemy
to
your
own
Sex
:
For
in
your
contempt
of
love
(
a
womans
bosom-consort
)
you
can
appear
nothing
less
.
Had
your
Progenitors
retein'd
this
opinion
:
and
exprest
it
in
their
hate
to
generation
,
where
then
had
been
your
Being
?
You
mistake
my
meaning
answer'd
Panthalia
.
I
profess
my self
a
Satyr
onely
to
light
love
.
When
Fancy
grounds
it self
upon
a
phantastick
habit
,
or
an
outlandish
Cringe
,
or
an
affected
tongue
;
wantonly
descanting
on
a
Theam
of
love
:
I
cannot
more
properly
compare
such
a
distemper'd
Amorist
,
then
to
Pigmalions
fond
love
and
doating
Complement
to
his
marble
Mistress
.
And
what
joy
in
such
a
formal
Statue
,
which
admits
no
such
active
motion
,
as
may
either
procure
or
deserve
affection
?
This
,
though
an
Object
to
the
eye
,
would
prove
an
Abject
to
the
heart
.
If
in
mutual
and
neighbourly
relations
such
difference
of
Countenances
appeare
,
through
the
cross
Occurrents
of
Fortune
;
where
poverty
oftimes
weakneth
,
if
it
wholly
dissolve
not
the
band
of
amity
;
we
may
collect
hence
what
the
heavy
effects
of
want
may
produce
in
the
nearest
endeerments
.
O
Pandione
,
let
Reason
go
before
every
Enterprize
,
and
Counsel
before
every
Action
!
Which
Precept
if
I
had
seasonably
observed
:
my
straying
steps
might
have
been
better
directed
;
my
rash
affections
more
discreetly
managed
,
and
no
occasional
motive
of
discontent
to
thy self
ministred
,
in
relation
to
thy
long
and
wearisom
Journal
:
nor
no
ground
of
repentance
to
my
glowing
youth
in
admitting
,
and
too
credulously
inclining
to
the
easie
protests
of
so
light
a
Suiter
.
But
thanks
to
my
better
Fates
;
these
distractions
are
reduc'd
to
a
calmer
and
clearer
period
.
It
is
an
happiness
sometimes
to
have
erred
;
especially
where
the
recollection
of
our
Error
calls
us
home
to
a
knowledge
of
our
selvs
,
and
an
acknowledgment
of
our
Failings
:
For
by
this
means
,
we
become
not
onely
wiser
in
the
apprehension
,
but
much
happier
in
desertion
of
that
Error
which
we
formerly
affected
.
I
shall
not
argue
with
you
,
Madam
,
replied
Pandione
,
touching
the
Subject
of
love
;
but
leave
you
to
your
own
Choice
:
But
if
the
ripeness
of
youth
beget
not
in
your
devotion
a
Change
,
I
shall
hold
you
to
be
of
strange
mettal
.
For
my
own
part
,
though
I
have
ever
really
lov'd
you
,
in
your
late
Conversion
I
never
mean
to
follow
you
.
Age
when
it
is
in
a
decline
fuits
best
with
a
Cloister
;
but
youthfull
heat
with
the
imbraces
of
a
Lover
.
Acolasto
to
Panthalia
.
Panthalia
(
if
you
will
vouchsafe
so
much
favour
to
your
deserted
Servant
as
to
use
your
Name
,
whom
you
have
so
causelesly
estranged
from
your
affection
)
be
pleased
to
cast
an
eye
upon
his
lines
,
though
you
have
shut
your
bosom
from
the
receipt
of
love
:
and
heare
him
in
his
last
Expresses
;
whereto
your
unexpected
resolvs
and
his
deplorable
Condition
have
brought
him
.
Compassion
in
a
well-disposed
Enemy
may
be
easily
procur'd
;
when
his
dying
Foe
with
his
last
breathing
words
beggs
a
pardon
:
craving
nothing
more
,
with
teare-thrilling
Eyes
and
throbbing
heart
then
reconciliation
in
the
closing
period
of
his
approaching
dissolution
.
Hold
your
sometimes
indeered
Acolasto
to
be
at
this
very
instant
in
the
same
case
.
Be
pleased
then
to
entertaine
these
funerall
enterbreaths
with
a
pious
pity
,
though
your
estranged
thoughts
dart
upon
their
unfortunate
Author
a
regardless
scorne
.
Dying
mens
words
ever
reteine
the
deepest
impression
:
especially
when
we
consider
how
that
very
mouth
which
so
lately
uttered
those
words
shall
be
injoyned
to
a
perpetuall
silence
,
and
never
impart
the
least
accent
or
syllable
of
a
word
(
as
a
message
from
his
mind
)
to
the
world
any
more
.
Conceipt
not
this
as
a
disguise
nor
a
pretensive
Colour
to
abuse
you
:
your
rejected
Lover
surprized
with
such
a
remediless
distemper
,
cannot
possibly
at
this
time
act
the
part
of
a
dissembler
.
I
have
already
run
over
the
difficulties
of
my
disconsolate
Course
:
and
am
now
performing
my
last
Act
,
if
the
best
Artists
designed
for
our
Garrison
,
do
not
deceive
themselves
.
Eye
me
then
with
a
pious
pity
,
paying
my
last
debt
to
Nature
.
Whereto
I
should
invite
you
,
if
such
a
Spectacle
of
mortality
might
deserve
your
vertuous
presence
.
But
alas
,
the
illimited
freedom
of
my
actions
merit
no
such
favour
.
Yet
,
as
you
were
pleased
,
upon
your
late
resolvs
,
to
importune
my
attest
to
your
new
unexpected
Profession
;
so
being
no
lesse
known
to
your
approved
piety
then
my
own
Folly
;
I
might
presume
to
expect
most
,
where
I
deserved
least
.
Meane
time
,
be
it
your
goodness
to
commiserate
where
you
cannot
Cure
:
and
to
cast
your
Eye
of
pity
upon
your
expiring
Servant
;
though
it
be
within
the
Walls
of
your
Cloister
;
for
to
an
higher
honour
my
weak
ambition
dare
not
aspire
.
Of
such
Modells
by
way
of
Landskip
our
Sea-men
make
excellent
use
when
furthest
divided
from
Land
:
And
in
a
Compassionate
reflexe
on
his
languishing
Condition
,
who
cordially
honour'd
you
,
wish
him
more
rest
,
by
his
peaceable
Passage
from
hence
,
then
ever
he
could
injoy
here
.
And
now
give
me
leave
to
unrippe
my
bosom
in
the
discovery
of
my
youthfull
levity
;
For
which
I
shall
make
bold
to
beg
your
pardon
;
not
in
relation
to
my
immeriting
affection
,
but
the
present
weakness
of
my
Condition
.
I
confess
Madam
;
and
I
am
ashamed
of
my self
,
in
the
agnition
of
my
Error
:
that
you
were
pleased
sometimes
to
bestow
your
Favour
upon
an
undeserving
Object
.
One
,
who
might
have
appear'd
incomparably
happy
,
if
he
had
known
what
felicity
rested
in
the
fruition
of
a
divine
Fancy
.
But
in
his
inconstancy
brought
him
to
this
brink
of
misery
.
Yet
let
me
not
taxe
my self
of
a
Crime
,
whereof
I
was
never
guilty
.
That
inconstancy
which
I
speak
of
,
never
to
this
houre
wherein
I
ly
dying
,
could
be
by
the
rigidst
Censure
discovered
in
my
hope
;
for
that
was
pure
and
unstained
;
though
the
many
discomposures
of
my
youth
rendred
me
profusely
dis-ordered
,
and
unworthy
the
acceptance
of
so
incomparable
a
Choice
.
None
ever
more
entirely
lov'd
,
and
more
vainly
deluded
with
Excursive
delights
.
These
I
repent
,
though
I
cannot
redeem
.
For
you
may
believe
me
,
seeing
my
present
distemper
will
not
suffer
me
to
deceive
you
;
that
I
should
imbrace
death
cheerfully
,
if
it
might
be
my
happiness
to
recall
what
I
have
lost
by
my
Fol●y
.
It
is
now
too
la●e
for
me
to
capitulate
with
Heaven
:
or
promise
the
inexorable
Fates
upon
hope
of
a
Reprieve
,
a
dereliction
of
what
I
formerly
affected
:
with
a
se●vorous
desire
of
imbracing
what
my
unseasoned
youth
formerly
distasted
.
Let
it
suffice
,
that
these
last
words
and
vows
of
your
unfortunate
Servant
,
obsequiously
confirm
,
as
in
life
so
now
in
death
Solely
Panthalia's
.
What
strange
and
variously
dispassionate
effect
:
the
sad
perusall
of
these
lines
wrought
in
the
relenting
heart
of
his
perplexed
Mistress
,
were
no●
easie
to
discover
.
His
sad
condition
she
infinitely
bemoans
:
His
accomplishments
she
presents
to
her
thoughts
;
and
finds
in
them
many
things
worthy
loving
:
as
for
his
defects
arising
from
the
frailty
of
youth
,
she
so
excuseth
or
extenuates
them
,
as
they
appeare
not
to
her
judgment
lyable
to
reproof
.
With
numerous
teares
and
affectionate
Sighs
,
she
often
repents
her self
of
writing
so
rough
and
disconsolate
a
Letter
:
imputing
the
blame
to
her
inconsiderate
Character
,
and
from
thence
the
Source
of
his
distemper
.
Her
resolution
formerly
entertain'd
for
a
religious
Profession
;
became
now
more
strengthned
then
before
.
For
that
Onely
Object
which
she
seemed
to
slight
,
though
her
bosom
perhaps
could
have
dictated
otherwise
,
being
as
she
verily
thought
,
removed
from
Earth
:
her
Contemplation
could
not
be
better
directed
,
nor
her
hours
more
affectionately
dedicated
;
then
where
they
might
be
with
most
content
and
least
distraction
bestowed
.
Yet
could
not
this
intended
separation
from
secular
cares
estrange
her
sequestred
thoughts
wholly
from
those
amorous
passages
,
which
she
with
a
passionate
content
remembred
during
her
free
entertainment
and
affectionate
enjoyment
of
her
Servant
.
O
how
happy
(
would
she
say
)
might
we
have
been
Acolasto
,
had
not
youthful
Folly
challeng'd
too
much
influence
over
thy
Fancy
!
Fate
had
not
thus
unhappily
divided
us
:
nor
our
Nuptiall
hopes
resolv'd
their
joys
into
Funerall
teares
—
Farewell
forever
;
onely
let
me
begge
this
of
thee
:
to
forgive
the
unkindnesse
of
my
lines
;
as
I
shall
entirely
the
Errors
of
thy
love
.
Pandione
having
been
but
a
small
space
distanc'd
from
her
,
and
observing
her
thus
strangely
perplext
or
extasi'd
rather
with
grief
,
hastned
towards
her
,
compassionately
demanding
of
her
the
Cause
of
her
discontent
.
Of
discontent
in
me
,
Pandione
!
Canst
thou
see
any
such
alteration
in
my
Count'nance
,
that
it
should
present
to
thy
thoughts
any
such
visible
Symptom
?
But
I
shall
clear
thy
doubts
.
Thou
canst
not
but
know
Pandione
,
how
my
resolvs
are
pitcht
upon
an
high
Concerne
,
an
utter
desertion
of
the
world
,
and
my
espousall
to
a
Monastick
life
:
Now
,
pray
thee
tell
me
;
is
it
possible
that
any
Companion
should
bid
a
lasting
adue
to
his
long
continued
acquaintance
without
a
transitive
sigh
,
of
some
small
appearence
of
grief
?
I
have
had
a
Free
injoyment
of
the
world
,
and
interlaced
my
Secular
imployments
with
Choicest
refreshments
and
is
it
easie
to
forgo
all
these
in
the
prime
of
ones
youth
,
without
the
Sacrifice
of
one
teare
?
Though
I
must
confess
that
the
Choice
of
this
Profession
was
voluntary
and
without
coercion
and
sundry
maine
inducements
to
disswade
me
from
this
resolution
.
Some
whereof
no
doubt
,
replied
Pandione
,
reteine
a
deep
impression
in
you
.
None
of
those
,
which
thou
conceivest
to
have
the
strongest
influence
over
me
;
said
Panthalia
.
Neither
canst
thou
object
any
argument
in
relation
to
love
,
to
foreslow
my
desires
,
nor
divert
my
designs
.
For
this
Letter
has
cancell'd
the
thought
of
a
Lover
.
Thy
Kinsman
Acolasto
,
whose
premature
fare
I
shall
ever
obsequiously
bemoane
,
is
,
as
this
Letter
renders
him
,
paying
his
last
debt
to
Nature
.
Alas
,
poor
wretch
;
the
more
is
his
happiness
.
His
death
may
merit
your
pity
,
though
his
life
became
estranged
from
the
acceptance
of
your
Fancy
.
In
paying
that
debt
,
He
has
discharg'd
those
deep
Obligations
,
which
He
stood
ingaged
in
,
to
your
beauty
.
This
Sacrifice
,
being
the
last
Tribute
of
a
dying
Lover
,
may
justly
expiate
the
Errors
of
his
youth
,
and
consequently
regaine
your
good
opinion
by
the
innocence
of
his
death
,
which
he
could
not
reteine
by
the
late
progress
of
his
indisposed
life
.
Teares
prevented
Panthalia's
reply
;
the
burden
of
her
grief
was
so
heavy
,
as
it
injoyned
her
pensive
tongue
a
necessitated
Silence
,
Still
ascribing
the
prime
grounds
of
his
distemper
,
to
proceed
from
the
harsh
dialect
of
her
Letter
.
Pandione
after
this
sad
relation
of
Acolasto's
death
,
for
better
she
could
not
expect
from
the
circumstances
of
Panthalia's
discourse
;
seemed
very
desirous
that
Evening
to
depart
from
the
Monastery
,
and
leave
this
dis-consolate
Lady
to
her
intended
Profession
;
the
next
day
being
designed
for
her
initiation
.
But
Panthalia's
importunity
so
far
wrought
upon
her
,
as
she
consented
to
the
attendance
of
those
Solemnities
usually
observed
in
such
religious
initiations
;
though
for
her self
she
neither
affected
any
of
those
disciplinary
Rites
;
being
too
regular
for
her
youthfull
temper
:
nor
to
be
so
far
divided
from
her
native
Countrey
,
being
the
choicest
reside
,
as
she
accompted
it
,
for
the
injoyment
of
her
Fancy
.
Solemn
Ceremonies
ordain'd
for
PANTHALIA'S
Institution
,
and
ACOLASTO'S
unexpected
prevention
.
Scarce
h●d
the
Orient
Sun
diffused
his
radiant
Spangles
on
the
Earth
:
or
extracted
his
pearled
Dews
from
the
Diapred
Meads
;
till
the
vigilant
Governess
joyful
of
the
reception
of
so
hopeful
a
Daughter
:
call'd
up
the
Votaresses
designed
to
her
Charge
:
wishing
them
to
take
special
Care
that
nothing
might
be
omitted
sutable
to
the
performance
of
those
accustomed
Ceremonies
observed
in
the
initiation
and
Election
of
Professants
.
Neither
could
she
be
more
serious
in
her
Commands
,
then
they
in
their
obedience
:
which
to
Delia's
honour
,
and
the
approvement
of
a
new
Sister
;
was
performed
in
this
manner
.
The
Pavement
being
with
much
curiosity
and
uniformity
impav'd
with
Porphyrite
Marble
,
was
strowed
all
along
with
fresh
and
fragrant
Flowers
from
the
gate
of
the
Monastery
to
the
Temple
Porch
;
from
the
prime
Portal
or
Entrance
of
the
Fane
,
the
Passage
directing
to
the
Main
Quire
was
odoriferously
perfumed
;
the
Altar
,
where
their
Delian
Ceremonies
were
usually
solemnixed
,
richly
Syndoned
;
upon
every
Column
were
Lamps
,
wax
Lights
and
Tapers
in
golden
Candlesticks
erected
;
Musical
Instruments
enlivned
with
the
choicest
and
refinedst
ayrs
each
where
resounded
:
nothing
was
awanting
that
might
properly
conduce
to
the
accomplishment
of
those
Ceremonial
Observances
.
But
lest
we
should
hold
your
eyes
too
long
fixt
upon
the
Surface
,
and
so
keep
you
from
a
more
serious
and
intentive
reflection
upon
the
beauty
of
this
inward
Structure
,
and
by
too
ample
a
relation
of
the
Ceremony
,
darken
the
Splendor
of
the
Story
;
we
are
now
to
present
to
your
view
the
presence
and
deportment
of
the
Governess
,
whose
care
was
not
onely
bestowed
upon
the
decoring
and
beautifying
of
these
ritual
Solemnities
:
but
how
to
expedite
the
main
work
,
for
which
these
decent
accommodations
were
prepared
.
Taking
therefore
this
initiated
Professant
(
Panthalia
we
mean
)
by
the
hand
,
with
a
graceful
demean
,
the
rest
of
the
Order
likewise
following
her
,
she
mounted
the
stayrs
leading
to
the
Altar
,
where
the
Habit
,
wherewith
Panthalia
was
to
be
attired
,
was
shown
her
:
which
she
eyed
with
a
pleasing
and
graceful
aspect
,
as
if
no
Present
could
be
more
acceptable
to
her
.
Here
the
Governess
took
occasion
to
address
her
discourse
to
Panthalia
with
much
cheerfulness
;
assuring
her
that
she
could
never
disburse
honour
with
more
alacrity
to
any
Votaress
entring
that
Society
;
which
expressive
favour
coming
from
the
mouth
of
so
Reverend
a
Guardiness
,
Panthalia
gratefully
requited
with
all
humble
obeysance
;
wishing
nothing
more
then
that
her
due
Obedience
to
her
pious
Commands
might
have
the
happiness
to
merit
her
vertuous
acceptance
;
which
should
be
ever
the
highest
pitch
of
her
desires
.
Neither
,
indeed
,
howsoever
her
resolvs
were
formerly
fixed
,
did
she
appear
in
this
way
of
her
Profession
,
to
play
the
Dissembler
:
For
remaining
now
half
perswaded
that
her
deserted
Servant
Acolasto
had
taken
his
long
leave
of
Earth
;
She
took
upon
her
this
resolution
never
to
returne
into
her
Native
Countrey
,
nor
to
receive
into
her
bosom
the
Conceipt
of
any
new
Fancy
:
but
to
bid
adue
to
all
youthfull
Folly
,
by
changing
the
world
with
a
Monastery
,
and
the
affection
of
a
translated
Friend
,
with
the
devotion
of
a
sequestred
lif●
.
By
this
time
,
had
the
Governess
presented
Panthalia
to
One
of
the
Sali
,
or
Ministers
of
the
Ceremonies
;
who
had
formerly
been
vers'd
among
the
Persians
,
and
held
in
high
esteem
,
bearing
the
Office
of
Mithras
,
or
Chief
Priest
of
the
Sun
:
and
afterwards
ordained
Prince
Patriark
to
the
Delian
Order
.
Whose
function
it
was
,
amongst
other
especiall
priviledges
of
his
Place
,
to
offer
up
the
Votaresse
,
at
her
initiation
,
to
the
tuition
or
devotion
of
the
Governess
,
and
to
complete
the
Ceremonies
usually
observed
by
that
Society
,
at
the
time
of
her
dedication
.
And
by
what
divine
Fate
,
Heaven
knows
,
even
at
the
very
instant
when
this
Lady
was
to
be
presented
,
and
into
the
Society
received
;
came
unexpectedly
in
the
late-seeming
languishing
Acolasto
,
who
by
the
safe
Conduct
of
an
intimate
Friend
of
the
Patriarks
,
was
with
much
secresie
and
security
brought
into
the
Temple
;
without
the
least
discovery
of
what
he
either
intended
,
or
designed
.
It
is
not
to
be
imagined
what
strange
perplexities
this
unexpected
sight
begot
in
his
amazed
Panthalia
.
But
her
Face
,
the
truest
Index
of
the
heart
,
by
her
interchange
and
variety
of
Colours
,
growing
now
pale
and
then
red
display'd
what
her
enforc'd
composure
labour'd
to
conceale
,
seeming
to
vye
Colours
with
the
Chamelion
,
though
unchangeable
in
the
ground
colour
of
her
affection
.
Long
time
she
mused
,
and
as
one
intransed
with
some
attractive
Object
,
gave
little
attention
to
whatsoever
that
Ceremoniall
Minister
delivered
;
which
was
generally
observed
by
all
,
but
especially
by
the
Governess
;
who
,
as
she
was
a
devout
reverencer
of
those
Monasticall
Rites
and
Institutions
of
her self
:
So
could
she
not
endure
that
any
of
her
Order
should
appeare
remisse
in
their
honour
to
such
ancient
Solemnities
:
but
with
au●icular
attention
and
Cordiall
devotion
to
apply
themselves
to
those
Ministeriall
Observations
of
her
Temple
.
But
the
Agent
of
these
Ceremonies
,
being
intentive
to
his
Office
,
took
small
notice
of
such
divertisements
;
so
as
,
receiving
Panthalia
upon
the
Governesses
presentation
,
into
his
hand
;
according
to
their
accustomed
Rites
in
such
Dedications
observed
:
with
a
reverend
deportment
he
used
these
words
unto
her
.
Daughter
we
are
made
known
to
your
pious
intention
,
and
with
what
fervor
you
desire
to
be
receiued
into
this
religious
Society
:
wherein
there
be
three
things
which
you
are
constantly
to
retein
in
memory
,
to
inable
you
the
better
for
your
serviceable
imployments
in
this
Family
.
These
three
which
are
so
necessarily
to
attend
you
,
and
whose
attendance
may
accomplish
you
;
are
Humility
,
Industry
and
Continency
.
Huminity
,
in
observing
the
Commands
of
your
Superiour
.
Industry
,
in
bestowing
your
time
constantly
upon
some
usefull
endeavour
.
And
Continenty
,
in
admitting
no
discourse
nor
sociable
intercourse
that
may
detract
from
your
Honour
.
These
three
duely
observed
,
Daughter
,
will
make
a
Compleat
Professor
.
But
now
to
the
work
of
your
Initiation
;
whereon
all
the
Eyes
of
your
religious
Sisters
●refixed
;
as
on
some
glorious
or
resplendent
light
newly
created
to
give
an
additament
to
their
inferiour
reflections
.
To
you
then
Daughter
,
as
a
Monastick
Deo-dand
,
am
I
to
address
my
Speech
:
To
whom
are
you
pleased
that
I
shall
give
you
?
To
this
Gentleman
,
answer'd
she
,
for
He
has
the
greatest
interest
in
me
.
This
answer
could
not
perplex
the
whole
Society
more
,
then
it
transported
Acolasto
with
joy
.
Whose
unexpected
acceptance
imparadis'd
the
extasi'd
thoughts
of
this
deserted
Lover
:
who
of
an
amorous
Captive
,
was
become
a
Princely
Conquerour
.
For
never
did
Prince
triumph
more
in
the
injoyment
of
a
Soveraignty
,
then
this
late
seeming-sick
Acolasto
did
in
the
seazure
of
her
beauty
.
But
such
Nuptial
meetings
were
not
to
be
admitted
in
this
Family
:
wherefore
being
excluded
from
the
Tutelage
and
Devotion
of
the
Governess
,
not
without
apparent
tokens
of
indignation
,
these
two
loving
Turtles
with
their
over-joy'd
Companion
Pandione
,
were
commanded
to
pack
thence
with
all
speed
,
menacing
them
too
,
that
if
they
stay'd
above
their
time
limited
in
those
parts
;
their
gross
deluding
of
so
ancient
and
reverend
a
Society
,
should
not
pass
uncensured
nor
escape
with
impunity
.
But
Delay
was
as
tedious
to
these
Lovers
,
as
it
could
be
to
their
Commanders
:
From
thence
they
departed
with
all
cheerfulness
and
alacrity
:
albeit
Panthalia
,
to
express
a
grateful
Civility
to
the
Governess
and
all
her
Society
,
took
a
fair
and
friendly
Farewell
of
them
all
;
excusing
her
sudden
and
unexpected
alteration
;
with
her
former
ingagement
to
Acolasto
;
which
without
apparent
violation
of
Faith
she
could
no
way
dispense
with
:
assuring
them
withall
,
that
if
He
had
not
taken
hold
of
that
opportunity
;
her
resolution
to
religion
had
gone
on
,
without
entertaining
any
succeeding
Motives
of
Fancy
.
This
ingenuous
acknowledgment
might
seem
to
allay
,
but
not
wholly
to
cure
this
indignity
.
But
their
speedy
departure
was
the
onely
way
to
calm
this
distemper
.
Homewards
therefore
are
we
to
imagine
these
two
reconciled
Lovers
returning
:
mutually
relating
those
sundry
Occurrents
,
wherewith
,
during
their
absence
one
from
the
other
,
their
sinister
Fortunes
incountred
withall
.
Which
ministred
no
less
content
in
their
way-faring
relation
,
then
Scenes
of
discontent
in
the
pensive
re-view
of
their
former
Condition
.
But
subsequent
joys
play
the
office
of
speedy
Sextons
in
burying
the
memory
of
those
that
were
precedent
.
The
society
of
love
interlaid
with
occurring
stories
of
delight
made
their
long
Journy
less
tedious
.
Unexpected
Contents
are
ever
cloathed
with
the
clearest
habits
,
and
put
on
the
purest
paint
.
These
,
as
they
are
most
real
,
so
they
appear
ever
most
visible
.
The
Party
cannot
conceal
them
,
for
his
very
Countenance
upon
their
first
appearance
make
a
discovery
of
them
.
It
is
a
Recovery
which
gives
the
sweetest
sent
;
these
our
Expertest
Hunters
observe
:
and
the
very
like
effect
do
all
crost
Lovers
apprehend
in
the
eager
Chace
or
Pursuit
of
their
affection
.
Panthalia
rejoyceth
in
the
recovery
of
her
Acolasto
,
who
in
her
opinion
was
irreparably
lost
:
which
was
no
less
argument
of
joy
to
Acolasto
,
in
the
re-seazure
of
her
suspected
love
:
both
which
contents
so
sweetly
and
mutually
acting
,
equally
reflected
on
Pandione
as
a
main
Sharer
in
these
injoyments
.
Long
it
was
not
,
till
their
affections
thus
grounded
,
were
ceremonially
confirmed
,
with
the
consent
and
approvement
of
their
Friends
.
But
transitory
joys
cannot
possibly
admit
a
perpetuity
.
These
Nuptial
hony
Months
are
oftimes
mixed
with
much
aloes
:
as
it
fared
with
this
unfortunate
Couple
.
For
Acolasto
,
either
forth
of
a
distaste
which
he
conceiv'd
of
Panthalia's
Freedom
;
being
such
as
a
moderate
or
unprejudicate
judgment
would
have
ascribed
rather
to
her
affability
then
levity
.
Or
out
of
his
own
inconstancy
(
as
if
he
had
taken
a
Surfet
of
inclosed
grounds
)
they
begun
to
live
apart
.
In
which
unhappy
division
,
Acolasto
became
gracious
in
the
Eye
of
an
eminent
Lady
,
called
Morana
;
a
Person
of
incomparable
State
and
gallant
presence
:
but
infinitely
addicted
to
the
Choice
and
acceptance
of
Compleat
Favorites
.
This
Lady
above
the
rest
of
her
relations
held
Trimelio
and
Acolasto
in
principal
esteem
;
the
one
being
a
singular
Secretary
and
of
an
excellent
Dialect
:
the
other
of
a
graceful
and
winning
demean
.
Both
contesting
in
their
assiduate
Service
,
which
should
appear
nearest
in
her
thoughts
.
But
Competitors
in
relation
to
Subjects
of
Love
beget
ever
the
dangerousest
quarrels
.
An
infinite
jealousie
chanc'd
to
arise
betwixt
these
two
amorous
Favorites
,
which
broke
forth
into
such
an
irreconcileable
heat
,
as
nothing
but
Fire
and
Fury
breathed
from
them
.
Fancy
in
dependence
to
a
Mistress
,
especially
where
Beauty
has
surprized
the
heart
,
will
admit
no
Corrivals
.
Acolasto
to
revenge
himself
for
some
private
affronts
done
him
by
Trimelio
;
accused
him
,
and
not
without
apparent
Cause
,
as
was
generally
supposed
,
of
his
profuse
and
too
liberal
report
spread
abroad
to
Morana's
dishonour
.
The
Substance
of
which
report
was
this
:
That
his
intimacy
with
Morana
,
the
great
Mistress
of
his
affection
,
had
raised
it self
to
that
pitch
,
as
Acolasto
was
but
used
for
a
shadow
to
palliate
her
designs
:
but
his
familiar
secresie
onely
reserved
for
her
private
Cabinet
:
and
that
his
access
with
much
freedom
was
made
feasible
to
him
,
even
to
her
lodging
Chamber
,
at
all
hours
.
With
sundry
other
vanting
expressions
,
derogating
highly
from
Morana's
honour
.
No
sooner
came
the
report
of
these
injurious
and
ungratefull
aspersions
to
the
eare
of
Morana
,
a
woman
of
a
masculine
and
vindicative
nature
,
then
she
became
highly
inraged
,
vowing
revenge
in
the
extreamest
measure
;
if
the
words
which
Acolasto
had
attested
upon
due
examination
proved
true
.
Neither
would
her
impatience
permit
delay
:
for
the
very
next
morning
sending
for
Trimelio
,
in
the
presence
of
Acolasto
his
accuser
,
she
accosted
him
in
this
manner
.
Wherein
have
my
Favours
,
Trimelio
,
been
so
profusely
scattered
,
as
the
too
liberall
conferment
of
them
might
justly
redound
to
my
dishonour
?
Have
I
ever
acted
any
thing
so
indiscreetly
,
that
might
beget
in
me
an
opinion
of
levity
:
or
so
free
in
my
express
,
as
to
make
you
confident
of
an
unbeseeming
interest
in
my
affection
?
was
it
a
gratefull
requitall
in
you
,
to
answer
my
immerited
esteem
of
your
parts
with
a
Calumnious
report
?
Could
your
easie
access
promise
to
your
deluded
thoughts
such
success
;
as
your
free
admittance
to
a
Ladies
chamber
could
not
chuse
but
make
you
Owner
of
her
Bed
?
was
our
affability
a
Signall
of
immodesty
?
In
what
a
miserable
Condition
be
poor
women
stated
,
when
their
very
Countenances
must
be
censured
;
their
pleasing
demeane
traduced
,
and
their
smiles
,
if
too
freely
or
frequently
bestowed
,
injuriously
taxed
?
Well
,
Sir
,
clear
the
poyson
of
this
traduce
and
vindicate
mine
honour
,
in
justifying
your
fidelity
to
the
Conviction
of
your
Accuser
:
else
expect
an
heavy
and
speedy
revenge
from
the
hand
of
incensed
Morana
.
Trimelio
,
upon
this
unexpected
regret
,
became
infinitly
perplexed
;
That
excellent
Forme
of
dialect
wherein
he
usually
flowed
;
was
reduced
to
a
calme
,
or
rather
an
amaz'd
Silence
.
Not
one
word
could
he
utter
either
in
defence
of
his
own
innocence
:
or
excuse
of
his
rashness
.
At
last
recollecting
himself
with
much
timidity
and
weakness
of
spirit
He
muttered
forth
inarticulately
some
dis-joynted
words
to
this
effect
:
that
man
breathed
not
who
durst
accuse
him
of
any
such
Crime
.
Yes
,
replied
Acolasto
,
here
he
breaths
who
dares
justifie
your
dishonour
done
to
this
Lady
,
and
will
be
ready
upon
your
deniall
to
maintaine
it
with
his
blood
.
Are
you
my
accuser
,
said
Trimelio
?
No
Sir
,
I
appeale
to
your
own
Letter
:
your
own
hand
will
impeach
you
without
any
other
Accuser
.
And
taking
a
Paper
out
of
his
Pocket
:
Madam
,
said
He
be
pleased
to
shew
him
these
lines
:
and
whether
he
can
or
no
remember
his
own
Character
?
After
She
had
received
the
Paper
,
and
cursorily
perused
it
;
with
a
contracted
countenane
turning
her self
to
Trimelio
;
Sir
,
said
She
,
my
question
shall
be
short
and
effectuall
either
to
cleare
or
impeach
you
;
resolve
me
in
a
word
,
is
this
your
hand
?
I
cannot
deny
it
,
answered
Trimelio
.
Then
must
Marana
conclude
,
replied
She
,
that
thou
art
an
egregious
Villain
.
This
Letter
here
produced
,
and
to
one
of
thy
Associats
impudently
addressed
,
but
by
my
Faithfull
Servant
Accolasto's
care
no
less
happily
then
casually
intercepted
,
displays
thy
guilt
and
injoyns
my
revenge
.
All
this
while
with
a
dejected
Countenance
Trimelio
after
the
production
of
this
Letter
,
fixing
his
Eyes
upon
the
ground
;
remained
mute
,
replying
nothing
either
in
defence
of
himself
;
nor
opposition
to
his
Accuser
.
Which
unwonted
Silence
(
for
none
usually
of
more
volubility
in
Courtly
Rhetorick
,
nor
affectation
of
discourse
then
Trimelio
)
induced
Morana
to
conclude
:
that
there
was
more
modesty
in
his
Face
then
his
Heart
;
For
the
one
deblazon'd
an
apparancy
of
guilt
by
an
expression
of
shame
;
which
the
other
fruitlesly
sought
to
disguise
:
but
the
clearness
of
such
odious
Crimes
,
which
morall
honesty
could
not
chuse
but
blush
at
,
might
not
possibly
frame
for
such
a
distained
visage
any
vizard
.
Prepare
thy self
then
without
delay
for
death
:
for
a
lower
revenge
cannot
expiate
thy
guilt
.
After
which
words
,
laying
her
Commands
upon
some
select
domesticks
of
her
own
(
Assacinates
sufficiently
flesht
for
such
actions
)
forthwith
to
dispatch
him
:
this
Scene
was
with
no
less
instancy
then
Cruelty
executed
.
Which
she
,
arm'd
with
a
remorseless
hand
and
a
relentless
heart
,
to
discover
her
implacable
Fury
,
redoubled
with
three
mortall
stabs
with
a
poniard
:
upon
receipt
whereof
this
unfortunate
Favorite
presently
expired
.
Acolasto
,
Long
did
they
live
together
in
this
Conjugall
injoyment
:
no
Remora's
to
impede
the
continued
Current
of
their
re-united
affection
.
And
to
return
an
higher
inlargement
to
the
renewal
of
their
Comforts
,
by
the
Bequests
of
some
near
Friends
;
whose
indeerment
and
relation
to
Him
,
injoyned
them
to
contribute
at
their
deaths
to
the
advancement
of
his
Revenues
,
their
means
became
much
improved
;
which
raised
their
youthfull
Spirits
to
that
unaccustomed
port
,
as
it
begot
in
them
a
profuse
and
excessive
Freedom
:
the
blame
whereof
,
as
opinion
spread
it self
,
was
laid
upon
Panthalia's
delicacy
:
For
Acolasto
,
after
such
time
as
he
had
sowen
his
wild
Oats
in
Forraigne
Fields
,
grew
so
uxorious
,
as
his
Course
was
wholly
managed
by
her
Conduct
.
So
strangely
became
he
reclaimed
;
as
from
a
Favorite
of
other
light
Mistresses
,
he
fell
to
be
an
obsequious
Servant
to
his
own
.
But
to
descend
from
these
Divertisements
;
which
,
as
they
were
stored
with
variety
and
interchange
of
unexpected
Passages
,
cannot
chuse
but
afford
much
delight
to
any
equal
or
well-ballanc'd
Judgment
;
especially
considering
what
near
dependence
these
incidences
had
to
the
Subject
of
our
Discourse
now
in
hand
:
we
are
now
to
return
to
the
Series
of
our
History
;
the
various
Consequences
whereof
may
justly
produce
occasional
Motives
both
of
Compassion
and
wonder
.
We
are
now
to
present
to
your
Eye
upon
a
Sable
Scaffold
erected
by
an
usurping
power
,
an
Object
of
incomparable
worth
,
though
accompanied
by
disastrous
Fate
:
rich
in
all
Ornaments
that
either
Art
or
Nature
could
imbellish
him
withall
,
and
pursued
with
as
much
popular
hate
as
ever
any
Person
so
highly
and
deservingly
interested
in
the
management
of
State-affaires
to
these
times
incurred
:
From
the
infancy
of
his
honour
,
to
his
fatall
decline
we
shall
here
render
him
,
interveining
this
sad
and
serious
discourse
with
various
passages
,
worthy
the
recollection
and
usefull
application
of
the
clearest
and
most
refined
Judgments
.
Who
,
if
they
have
attained
to
the
highest
pitch
of
greatness
,
may
collect
by
this
Great
mans
fall
,
how
greatness
is
most
subject
to
a
disasterous
fate
:
this
we
have
inlarged
with
some
necessary
Cautions
or
directions
how
to
prevent
popular
hate
(
the
constantst
pursuer
of
honour
)
in
their
height
and
freedom
of
Greatness
.
The
Life
and
Death
of
Sophronio
.
This
Sophronio
before
these
distractions
in
Candy
,
was
a
Person
of
great
eminency
;
though
afterwards
popularly
branded
with
Calumny
.
He
was
held
both
at
home
and
abroad
of
such
high
abilities
,
as
both
for
martiall
discipline
,
wherein
he
retein'd
an
opinion
of
singular
dexterity
;
as
likewise
for
State-policy
;
no
man
in
his
time
,
was
accounted
his
Parallel
.
For
many
yeares
together
He
was
deputed
the
Provinciall
Governour
in
Iberia
;
wherein
he
carried
his
Commands
with
that
justness
and
irreprovable
equity
,
as
none
could
taxe
him
,
even
in
his
nearest
relations
,
of
partiality
.
In
the
Field
he
behav'd
himself
like
an
experienc'd
Souldier
;
in
the
Court
like
a
prudent
Senatour
.
Prompt
and
acute
in
preventing
danger
,
and
of
nothing
more
conscienciously
tender
,
then
in
the
whole
manage
of
his
actions
,
by
just
waies
to
a
prudent
care
in
preserving
the
condigne
title
of
honour
.
His
Commands
were
evenly
ballanced
twixt
Love
and
Feare
.
Wherein
,
as
the
Levity
he
exprest
to
his
Souldiers
,
did
not
estrange
them
from
an
awfull
Feare
:
no
more
did
his
well-tempered
Severity
lessen
their
love
.
By
an
assiduate
training
and
disciplining
of
his
Men
,
which
during
his
reside
in
Iberia
,
were
numerously
rais'd
,
and
drawn
to
a
Considerable
Army
,
All
such
as
were
enrowl'd
and
had
constantly
serv'd
under
his
Command
,
there
was
not
any
private
Souldier
but
he
was
grown
so
expert
in
the
use
of
his
Arms
,
In
a
word
,
such
influence
had
this
equall
temperature
of
Love
and
Fear
wrought
upon
all
those
Iberian
Forces
listed
under
his
Command
;
as
He
might
confidently
aver
with
that
no
less
affectionate
then
resolute
African
;
That
he
was
so
dearly
interessed
and
cordially
possest
of
his
Souldiers
hearts
;
as
no
assay
were
it
of
never
so
imminent
or
apparent
danger
,
which
they
would
not
attempt
with
all
alacrity
for
his
sake
.
Were
it
to
leap
from
a
perpendicular
Hill
;
or
from
any
steep
or
precipitious
Cliffe
into
the
maine
Sea
;
there
was
none
of
them
from
the
highest
to
the
lowest
,
who
would
decline
that
inevitable
danger
,
being
grounded
on
his
Commands
or
conducing
to
his
honour
.
And
to
give
one
additament
more
to
his
prudence
and
prowess
;
though
his
Prince
had
deputed
him
to
the
government
of
such
a
Province
;
then
which
none
more
servile
,
savage
nor
cruell
;
yet
in
very
short
time
after
his
Plantation
there
,
by
his
discreet
and
awfull
management
,
none
became
more
faithfull
,
civil
nor
loyall
.
Yet
for
all
this
bracks
are
found
in
the
purest
Cloaths
.
Though
none
in
any
age
more
loyall
to
his
Prince
,
nor
Faithfull
to
the
publick
State
;
yet
was
this
Great
Patriots
Candor
and
Innocence
so
eagerly
pursu'd
by
Consular
hate
and
popular
heat
,
as
never
was
any
one
more
sincere
,
and
more
traduced
:
more
usefull
to
the
State
,
and
more
ungratefully
sleighted
.
Sundry
Articles
of
High
Treason
were
exhibited
against
him
,
which
were
seconded
and
strongly
prosecuted
by
such
,
who
sat
at
the
Sterne
of
the
State
,
making
it
their
onely
designe
to
bring
them
into
disgrace
;
who
vyed
with
them
in
the
management
of
State-affaires
:
or
who
by
their
abilities
out-stript
them
,
and
consequently
more
eminent
in
the
Eye
of
the
Publick
.
The
Particulars
of
the
Charge
laid
against
him
were
these
.
First
,
that
he
had
laboured
to
weaken
the
strength
and
sinews
of
the
Candian
State
by
raising
Commotions
,
and
fomenting
divisions
in
the
Frontires
of
their
dominion
.
Secondly
,
that
he
had
infused
poysonous
Principles
into
the
bosom
of
the
Prince
,
highly
destructive
to
the
Government
of
a
Politick
State
:
Suppressing
by
his
Power
(
which
they
pretended
to
be
seconded
and
irresistably
strengthned
by
the
influence
he
had
over
his
Soveraigne
)
all
municipall
Laws
;
ancient
Priviledges
;
liberty
of
Subjects
:
with
whatsoever
necessarily
conduced
to
the
uniform
Order
or
Constitution
of
a
State
.
Thirdly
,
He
was
accused
of
Extortion
and
Corruption
in
his
Course
of
Judicature
(
a
traduce
of
all
others
most
injurious
:
)
for
never
was
Aristides
held
more
just
,
then
he
approv'd
himself
in
all
his
Proceedings
.
Fourthly
,
of
Tyranny
and
oppression
;
which
his
small
increase
of
Revenue
clear'd
him
of
:
For
it
appeared
,
that
during
all
the
continuation
of
his
Provincial
Government
,
he
was
much
poorer
than
when
he
first
entred
it
:
For
his
Heir
,
a
Gentleman
of
hopefull
parts
,
was
inforc'd
after
his
Fathers
Death
,
to
make
sale
of
a
great
quantity
of
his
ancient
hereditary
Estate
,
to
discharge
his
Debts
.
Lastly
,
He
was
tax'd
of
being
profusely
free
in
relation
to
his
Honour
;
not
only
for
admiring
,
but
sensually
pursuing
strange
beauties
:
and
amongst
the
rest
,
of
One
especially
;
who
as
she
was
espoused
to
a
Person
of
Honour
,
so
she
attested
upon
her
death
her
innocence
;
not
only
in
his
vindication
,
touching
whom
that
infamous
report
was
dispersed
:
but
likewise
of
her
clearness
and
purity
in
defiance
of
all
the
world
.
To
be
brief
,
there
was
no
Crime
,
that
might
strike
either
at
Fame
,
State
or
Life
,
which
was
not
with
much
bitterness
and
passionate
vehemence
aggravated
.
His
Prosecutors
by
way
of
Plea
were
Cambriano
,
Mardanes
,
Albanus
,
and
Palmeriades
.
Whereof
the
Last
only
shew'd
himself
temperate
,
civil
and
of
fair
deportment
.
For
the
rest
,
they
breath'd
nothing
but
Fire
and
Faggot
.
Death
was
too
easy
a
Sentence
for
such
heavy
(
and
as
they
term'd
them
)
inexpiable
Crimes
.
But
amongst
all
these
,
none
of
his
Adversaries
more
impudently
violent
than
Menippus
and
Nevio
;
the
one
for
exclaiming
;
the
other
for
commenting
what
he
never
either
spake
or
thought
.
Yea
,
rather
than
that
malicious
Nevio
would
give
way
for
Sophronio's
innocency
to
pass
with
impunity
;
to
make
good
those
assertions
and
ementitious
testimonies
,
which
were
produced
and
vehemently
pressed
against
him
,
He
seconded
his
Informations
with
apparent
Perjury
.
Whereof
he
was
convinced
by
Circumstance
to
his
great
dishonour
,
if
his
seared
front
had
been
sensible
of
any
such
blemish
.
But
his
inveterate
hate
to
Sophronio's
person
so
strangely
transported
him
with
passion
;
as
the
Title
,
which
he
had
deservingly
stript
him
of
,
caus'd
him
to
transgress
the
bounds
of
Reason
,
and
in
his
pursuit
of
revenge
to
neglect
the
Cure
of
his
wounded
reputation
.
But
to
return
you
the
success
of
these
two
malicious
Prosecutors
,
who
so
furiously
run
after
their
own
quarrell
;
you
shall
know
that
vengeance
dogg'd
them
at
the
heeles
:
and
that
the
Supreme
Powers
will
not
suffer
their
Judgments
to
slip
,
though
for
a
season
they
suffer
them
to
sleep
.
For
the
One
of
these
(
Menippus
I
meane
,
a
sensuall
Libertine
even
in
his
age
)
dyed
a
miserable
and
infamous
death
.
And
for
Nevio
,
then
whom
none
more
hatefull
,
He
became
through
his
Contemptible
life
,
by
Those
esteemed
least
,
for
whose
service
he
had
been
imployed
most
.
A
just
Censure
for
such
actions
of
dishonour
.
Which
Time
shall
sooner
surcease
to
be
,
then
with
the
File
of
Oblivion
●aze
out
.
Suppose
now
Sophronio
,
that
Mirror
of
his
time
for
prudence
and
State-policy
,
attached
,
indited
and
arraigned
at
the
Bar
of
High
Justice
:
where
we
are
to
present
him
,
as
his
Presence
well
deserved
,
bearing
himself
in
a
grave
and
discreet
posture
;
serious
and
solid
in
his
Answer
:
and
in
every
particular
Article
of
his
Charge
so
Satisfactory
,
as
none
of
that
Great
Auditory
heard
him
,
but
infinity
suffered
with
him
:
and
out
of
a
generous
and
generall
compassion
,
so
far
as
their
equall
opinions
or
powers
could
extend
to
,
acquitted
him
:
holding
him
so
clear
of
whatsoever
had
been
Objected
against
him
,
as
none
could
taxe
him
Criminally
,
nor
justly
conclude
him
less
then
innocent
;
unless
his
Appellants
were
highly
impudent
.
But
such
was
the
joynt
vote
of
the
Patritian
Order
,
seconded
with
the
aery
blast
of
the
vulgar
;
as
they
proceeded
to
his
Sentence
and
Censure
:
imagining
,
as
might
be
easily
gathered
by
consequent
grounds
,
that
their
new
Constitutions
of
State
could
not
hold
,
if
he
stood
up
.
And
that
it
was
far
better
for
One
to
perish
then
an
Unity
;
though
One
in
Him
was
of
more
worth
then
the
whole
Assembly
.
Truth
is
,
had
not
Sophronio
been
prevented
by
a
premature
and
unsuspected
Surprize
;
Those
who
were
the
principall
Instruments
of
his
ruine
,
had
fallen
into
his
snare
:
for
the
Traine
was
laid
,
but
the
cautelous
prevention
of
the
Guilty
,
became
destructive
to
the
Innocent
.
It
was
high
time
then
,
as
they
thought
,
to
take
Him
out
of
the
way
;
and
by
his
timely
remove
to
lay
an
easier
way
to
their
Foundation
of
a
new
Government
:
so
prompt
is
the
braine
in
designes
of
blood
.
With
a
calm
attention
He
gave
eare
to
the
Sentence
of
death
pronounced
upon
him
;
without
any
Change
of
Countenance
at
all
.
Which
constancy
of
his
,
as
some
erroneously
thought
,
proceeded
not
from
his
own
resolution
;
but
from
the
Confidence
He
had
in
Rosicles
,
his
Princes
affection
.
But
those
hopes
,
if
any
such
were
,
prov'd
of
all
others
most
failing
.
For
though
his
loyall
and
devotionall
Service
had
merited
more
from
his
Soveraigne
,
then
any
Subject
within
all
his
dominions
:
yea
,
though
the
Prince
himself
had
been
an
Eare-witness
of
all
the
Articles
preferred
and
pressed
against
him
:
and
in
presence
likewise
,
when
this
incomparable
Statesman
not
onely
made
his
Reply
to
whatsoever
was
objected
:
but
upon
his
just
defence
came
off
with
honour
:
yea
,
though
Rosicles
in
relation
to
Sophronio's
innocence
;
publickly
protested
,
that
he
could
find
nothing
in
the
whole
course
of
their
Proceedings
against
him
,
which
might
render
him
culpable
either
of
death
or
defame
;
being
so
discreet
and
conscientiously
politick
in
the
Carriage
of
his
affaires
during
his
Provinciall
Government
,
as
he
might
be
far
sooner
admir'd
then
imitated
by
those
that
should
follow
him
.
Yet
for
all
this
,
such
influence
had
some
of
those
State-Sycophants
(
even
those
whose
religious
profession
might
have
exercis'd
them
in
better
Offices
)
over
the
facile
and
pliable
nature
of
Rosicles
,
as
upon
their
discovery
of
the
necessities
of
the
time
,
the
results
of
the
House
,
and
clamours
of
the
People
,
They
wrought
so
strongly
upon
him
(
the
best
natures
are
the
soonest
deluded
)
as
they
perswaded
Him
to
Subsigne
his
death
;
whose
innocence
he
had
so
lately
attested
.
An
act
of
high
ingratitude
,
you
will
say
,
it
was
:
and
He
acknowledged
no
less
;
bemoaning
this
Offence
,
which
He
held
piacular
,
in
the
extrems
of
Fortune
with
briny
teares
.
And
now
you
may
imagine
,
that
this
Fury
of
Hate
,
which
had
so
strangely
fired
the
hearts
of
the
Senate
,
would
admit
no
delay
;
it
must
break
forth
with
a
violent
torrent
,
to
the
ruine
of
the
Innocent
.
The
Warrant
was
no
sooner
signed
,
then
it
was
with
all
speed
transmitted
and
delivered
to
the
Warder
,
in
whose
custody
he
remain'd
then
under
restraint
:
which
came
quickly
(
harsh
news
are
ever
impt
with
swiftest
wings
)
to
Sophronio's
hand
;
who
was
at
that
very
time
ordering
his
affairs
,
and
composing
his
mind
against
all
occurrents
.
For
his
better
preparation
wherein
,
he
was
even
then
reading
Seneca's
Tract
of
the
Tranquillity
of
the
Mind
,
when
this
sad
Message
came
.
Which
,
smiling
he
entertain'd
with
this
mild
reply
,
after
he
had
seen
Rosicles
Seal
Manual
,
and
subscription
to
the
Warrant
:
This
it
is
to
confide
in
the
arme
of
flesh
,
and
to
rely
on
humane
levity
.
Having
perused
the
Paper
,
his
Desire
was
to
be
left
alone
;
that
his
privacy
might
allow
him
what
the
world
could
not
afford
him
.
Being
thus
left
to
himself
;
after
a
serious
recollection
of
his
present
and
approaching
condition
;
calling
for
present
and
inke
,
he
resolved
to
direct
his
last
addresses
to
his
vertuous
Lady
,
in
a
Funerall
Letter
to
this
effect
.
Sophronio's
Funerall
Farewell
to
his
disconsolate
Lady
.
My
Deare
,
thy
Sophronio
is
Sentenc'd
to
dye
;
but
as
thou
lovest
me
,
let
not
this
perplexe
thee
.
My
Crime
is
Loyalty
;
how
ch●rfull
then
and
expiatory
must
be
that
Sacrifice
,
which
must
be
offer'd
up
to
the
last
Obsequies
of
such
a
Service
?
Those
who
dye
with
honour
,
though
they
dye
to
life
,
they
live
to
fame
.
After
a
long
Sea-faring
Compass
,
I
am
now
approaching
Harbour
:
where
if
my
vessell
come
off
with
honour
,
what
wouldst
thou
crave
more
?
I
have
a
Conscience
within
me
,
that
will
witnesse
for
me
,
I
have
been
no
Servant
to
time
,
but
to
truth
.
My
Principle
which
I
have
held
from
mine
infancy
,
and
which
I
meane
to
Seal
with
my
blood
,
was
Allegeance
:
and
to
dye
under
that
Notion
;
who
can
hold
it
less
then
a
Subjects
debt
,
and
in
the
sufferer
a
glorious
resolution
?
I
have
felt
the
opposition
of
many
furious
Assailants
;
who
both
in
language
and
private
practise
to
make
my
actions
appeare
more
odious
to
the
eyes
of
God
and
man
,
have
struck
highly
but
fruitlesly
at
the
ruine
of
mine
honour
;
but
their
Splene
fell
far
below
my
spirit
:
their
spite
far
beneath
my
scorne
.
They
may
triumph
in
my
fall
,
but
never
in
my
shame
.
And
though
ingratitude
in
lieu
of
my
faithfull
service
,
has
been
lately
my
guerdon
;
I
shall
signe
Him
to
whom
I
owe
my selfe
,
a
cleare
and
Conscientious
pardon
.
I
will
not
revive
it
,
lest
I
should
reteine
too
deep
an
impression
of
it
:
and
cast
a
surviving
dishonour
on
his
Name
who
acted
it
.
I
am
too
well
known
to
thy
tenderness
and
goodness
,
to
importune
thy
Care
towards
those
Living
Pledges
,
sweet
innocent
Babes
which
I
leave
behind
me
,
and
must
recommend
unto
thee
.
To
thee
I
leave
them
,
who
doest
so
entirely
love
them
:
and
to
whom
now
thou
art
to
performe
the
Office
of
a
double
Parent
in
nursing
and
informing
them
.
Farewell
,
Farewell
on
earth
for
ever
;
till
we
shall
be
hap●●y
re-united
,
and
without
feare
of
division
live
toge●her
,
Thine
to
death
,
SOPHRONIO
.
With
what
a
languishing
and
contristate
Spirit
this
good
Lady
perused
these
Funeral
lines
of
her
dying
Lord
;
it
is
far
easier
for
the
conceipt
to
imagin
,
then
for
any
pen
to
describe
.
Never
was
Sorrow
more
passionately
retir'd
,
nor
more
cordially
silenc'd
.
But
Mercies
moulded
in
the
bosom
of
Tyranny
revert
into
Cruelty
.
For
neither
could
this
Ladies
pious
tears
,
nor
his
approved
innocence
beget
in
his
relentless
Enemies
the
least
sense
or
apprehension
of
remorse
.
Marble
is
not
easily
pierc'd
;
nor
the
Tigers
nature
quickly
civiliz'd
.
The
Senats
instancy
backt
with
Plebeian
insolence
and
implacable
Fury
would
prolong
no
time
for
Sophronio's
execution
:
Fearing
,
as
might
be
thought
,
lest
that
hand
which
had
sign'd
and
subscrib'd
his
Death
,
might
recall
his
Doom
.
So
as
,
after
the
third
day
immediatly
following
the
warrant
had
been
delivered
to
the
Warder
;
a
Scaffold
,
by
the
Consuls
express
Command
,
was
erected
upon
Pharamount
;
to
which
,
Sophronio
with
a
strong
Guard
of
Souldiers
was
conducted
.
Where
mounting
the
stayrs
of
the
Scaffold
with
a
cheerfull
and
pleasant
countenance
,
as
if
he
had
addrest
himself
rather
for
a
Festival
Solace
,
than
a
Funeral
Office
:
Upon
his
ascent
,
looking
about
him
with
a
graceful
aspect
,
he
turned
himself
towards
the
Seats
where
sundry
Persons
of
eminent
quality
had
bestow'd
themselves
:
and
eying
a
wonderful
confluence
of
People
crowding
not
only
about
the
Scaffold
,
but
clustring
all
about
the
Trees
adjoyning
to
the
Place
of
his
Execution
;
with
a
setled
and
composed
Demean
,
he
delivered
himself
in
these
words
:
or
as
near
,
as
the
brevity
of
an
exact
Character
could
render
it
.
Sophronio's
Speech
upon
the
Scaffold
.
My
Lords
,
and
you
Gentlemen
who
are
come
hither
to
be
spectators
of
my
death
.
I
am
here
to
be
presented
for
a
spectacle
of
wonder
.
Being
made
a
Sacrifice
of
loyalty
in
relation
to
my
Prince
:
and
an
Eye-sore
to
the
State
.
So
as
,
if
Fidelity
be
a
capitall
Crime
,
which
never
before
these
seditious
times
was
held
one
;
I
must
freely
acknowledge
my self
culpable
,
and
consequently
a
deserving
Sufferer
:
if
otherwise
,
I
appeale
to
your
apprroved
judgments
,
if
a
loyall
death
be
not
a
Signall
action
of
honour
.
I
am
so
confident
of
my
reality
in
the
whole
carriage
of
my
affaires
since
my
first
imployment
in
the
State
of
Candy
;
as
I
dare
attest
any
Person
in
this
great
Assembly
,
that
can
justly
taxe
me
of
any
injurious
proceedings
against
him
or
any
one
of
his
Family
.
Truth
is
,
I
have
been
personally
accused
of
many
,
but
to
this
houre
never
found
guilty
of
any
.
Sundry
Articles
,
and
of
high
quality
objected
,
and
with
all
Fury
pursued
;
but
nothing
proved
:
appearing
rather
scandalous
aspersions
,
to
impeach
my
Fame
,
and
surprize
my
person
;
then
grounded
allegations
to
weaken
my
repute
or
evince
me
of
treason
.
I
have
clear'd
my self
in
all
;
yet
am
I
found
pardonable
in
none
.
An
inevitable
necessity
is
laid
upon
me
;
I
must
dye
:
and
I
embrace
my
doome
cheerfully
.
It
is
better
for
one
to
perish
,
then
an
unity
.
And
I
hold
my self
a
light
ransome
,
to
redeem
my
Countreys
liberty
.
But
it
is
much
to
be
feared
for
that
Nation
to
be
accompanied
with
success
,
whose
Foundation
is
laid
in
blood
.
I
have
been
ever
a
Faithfull
Servant
to
my
Soveraigne
:
wherein
,
if
I
have
done
too
much
;
it
will
appeare
to
the
whole
world
that
my
recompence
in
lieu
of
that
service
,
has
been
too
small
.
But
this
fault
I
impute
not
to
Him
,
but
to
them
who
deluded
him
.
It
is
easie
for
cunning
men
by
their
evil
counsell
to
have
strong
influence
over
Princes
Commands
when
their
backs
are
at
wall
,
and
their
hopes
under
Hatches
.
My
wish
is
,
He
may
raise
himself
strength
from
my
ashes
.
I
have
ever
observ'd
it
,
and
now
found
it
true
by
sad
Experience
,
that
usurping
Powers
have
their
Centre
every
where
,
but
their
Circumference
no
where
.
Meer's
that
transgress
their
bounds
,
must
not
be
confin'd
.
It
is
the
honour
of
Treason
,
to
sleight
the
Order
of
subjection
:
and
out
of
an
audacious
contempt
to
spurne
at
Command
;
by
making
it's
own
will
an
irreversible
Law
.
I
feare
much
,
lest
such
State-pioners
in
these
times
of
distraction
,
by
their
lawless
fury
,
should
act
much
mischiefe
in
the
Frontiers
of
Candy
.
But
I
leave
it
to
the
Powers
above
to
divert
this
Catastrophe
.
This
fear
which
I
conceive
and
by
all
probable
Circumstances
divine
,
proceedes
from
that
entire
zeal
which
my
loyall
heart
beares
to
the
State
,
for
whose
pretended
safety
and
liberty
I
here
dye
.
But
I
must
not
be
long
,
lest
my
delay
might
beget
in
you
a
prejudicate
opinion
of
me
touching
that
,
which
,
I
dare
attest
my
frailty
,
I
never
had
,
a
fear
to
dye
.
One
word
home-ward
,
and
then
to
my
last
home
.
For
my
Civile
affaires
;
they
are
already
ordered
.
As
for
my
dis-consolate
Consort
,
and
those
tender
Pledges
of
our
Conjugall
love
,
my
sweet
Infants
;
I
Commit
them
to
the
protection
and
providence
of
Heaven
;
to
comfort
and
support
the
One
,
and
in
mercy
to
speak
for
the
other
,
who
know
not
,
poor
Babes
,
to
speak
for
themselves
.
And
now
my
Good
Lords
and
Gentlemen
,
hear
the
last
words
of
a
dying
man
,
which
in
pitty
should
reteine
the
deepest
impression
,
because
the
last
Expresses
,
that
ever
He
shall
deliver
upon
Earth
.
Be
pleased
to
acquaint
the
Senat
,
that
the
senses
of
Sophronio's
innocence
had
so
compleatly
arm'd
him
,
as
he
durst
look
death
●ith
face
:
and
entertaine
the
stroak
of
the
Axe
with
a
smile
.
Now
do
thy
Office
,
Executioner
.
After
this
,
making
himself
ready
,
and
putting
off
his
doublet
,
He
went
towards
the
Block
;
where
with
a
stout
and
undaunted
courage
laying
his
hand
upon
the
Edge
of
the
Hatchet
:
This
,
said
He
,
is
a
Cure
for
all
diseaser
;
a
receipt
against
all
maladies
.
This
done
,
by
direction
of
the
Executioner
;
a
man
of
high
name
,
though
of
vile
condition
;
He
cheerfully
layd
down
his
Head
upon
the
Block
,
which
was
divided
from
his
Body
at
one
stroak
It
was
afterwards
by
permission
,
artfully
feered
to
his
neck
,
and
conveyed
to
the
Vault
where
all
his
Ancestors
lay
;
not
far
distant
from
his
Mannor-house
of
Sylviana
;
where
He
was
with
no
less
honour
solemnly
interred
,
then
generally
bemoaned
.
Truth
is
,
his
Funerall
Farewell
seconded
with
his
patient
and
composed
demeane
at
the
time
of
his
death
,
begot
that
resentment
in
those
who
had
formerly
been
his
Mortall
Enemies
;
as
his
last
adue
breathed
forth
with
so
graceful
a
passion
,
enforced
teares
in
their
Eyes
,
who
never
before
that
time
lodged
remorse
in
their
hearts
.
Yea
those
,
who
were
the
principal
Agents
and
assiduatest
Instruments
of
procuring
his
Head
to
be
cut
off
;
could
with
all
their
hearts
have
wish'd
it
on
again
,
when
they
had
duely
considered
,
how
the
wisdom
of
that
Head
,
which
the
Hand
of
Faction
had
taken
off
,
might
have
composed
and
repaired
many
Fractures
,
which
the
Liberty
or
rather
Anarchy
of
a
distracted
State
had
produc'd
.
But
it
was
too
late
to
recal
what
Fate
and
Plebeian
Fury
had
snatcht
away
.
Sundry
papers
were
pasted
and
posted
up
in
the
eminentst
parts
of
Thamipolis
especially
near
the
Marchants
Trapeza
,
containing
such
inscriptions
as
these
and
the
like
.
"
Vaga
vulgi
,
vota
vani
,
"
Clari
clades
Coriolani
.
For
in
many
places
he
retein'd
the
Name
of
Coriolanus
;
with
whom
he
was
parallel'd
for
his
brave
atchievments
,
clemency
,
and
actions
of
honour
.
"
Saeva
plebaei
flamma
furoris
,
"
Laeva
patricii
pestis
honoris
.
Peoples
heat
and
Consuls
hate
Crusht
a
brave
Patritians
State
.
The
prudent
Senat
did
not
hold
it
fit
that
this
Act
should
be
exemplified
,
but
upon
Sophronio
for
Example
sake
only
executed
:
And
that
no
Proceedings
after
that
time
should
be
admitted
as
legal
against
any
other
being
prosecuted
by
Plea
in
the
like
manner
.
And
that
their
Saintly
Clemency
might
to
Posterity
be
commended
,
it
was
ordained
,
that
no
Action
whereof
Sophronio
stood
accused
or
impeached
,
should
after
his
death
be
recorded
as
Capital
,
but
that
the
memory
thereof
should
be
to
all
intents
and
purposes
utterly
abolished
:
and
that
no
Person
whatsoever
should
be
rendred
Criminal
or
accessory
to
Treason
,
being
attached
upon
the
same
grounds
.
But
though
this
Law
became
revers'd
,
it
restor'd
not
his
life
;
whose
ransom
might
ballance
with
the
Estimate
of
an
Empire
▪
Thus
far
have
we
inlarged
our
Discourse
,
as
it
was
consistent
to
our
Story
,
touching
the
Life
and
Death
of
Sophronio
;
the
only
Mirror
of
that
age
for
Prudence
,
Courage
and
Polity
.
Unthankfully
sentenc'd
,
and
subscrib'd
to
by
Rosicles
,
whose
faithful
Servant
and
Creature
he
had
been
:
and
with
no
less
Princely
Compassion
bemoaned
by
unfortunate
Rosicles
after
his
Execution
,
for
his
necessitated
Subscription
.
Being
induced
by
the
Arguments
of
a
timing
Primat
to
do
,
what
he
in
honor
,
neither
could
,
nor
would
incline
unto
.
Howbeit
this
unprincely
Act
so
highly
incensed
Irina
,
as
she
withdrew
herself
from
the
Court
for
many
days
together
;
But
we
are
now
to
climb
up
from
these
lower
Stiars
to
higher
Stories
:
and
from
dependent
Ciens
(
though
none
of
all
the
Consular
Order
more
eminently
qualified
,
than
that
Person
,
whose
life
and
death
we
have
here
described
)
to
the
Top-branch
,
even
Rosicles
himself
.
Whose
unexemplary
mis-fortunes
,
for
Annals
to
all
succeeding
ages
,
we
have
here
historically
compiled
and
methodically
digested
.
How
Rosicles
after
his
confinement
,
became
arraigned
,
impeached
and
sentenc'd
to
death
.
Such
was
the
implacable
enmity
of
the
Synod
,
and
madding
Fury
of
the
Plebeian
Family
towards
their
unfortunate
Rosicles
;
as
they
held
it
not
sufficient
to
restrain
him
of
his
liberty
,
and
strip
him
of
his
regal
dignity
;
but
to
deprive
him
of
his
poor
life
,
being
all
that
was
left
him
,
and
so
compleat
his
misery
.
And
that
they
might
bring
this
to
a
more
speedy
dispatch
,
they
caused
an
High
Court
of
Justice
to
be
forthwith
erected
,
and
this
surrounded
with
Funeral
Sables
,
importing
some
sad
design
,
which
shortly
after
ensued
.
Thither
was
disconsolate
Rosicles
brought
,
or
uncivilly
haled
rather
by
the
Consuls
command
,
and
after
a
tedious
restraint
to
ingage
his
calamitous
life
to
their
severe
judgement
.
Active
and
nimble
instruments
had
the
incensed
State
provided
to
bring
this
last
work
to
effect
:
Amongst
which
,
those
whom
they
principally
relyed
on
,
not
onely
for
contriving
and
drawing
the
articles
of
charge
intended
against
him
,
which
were
high
and
heavy
:
But
such
as
could
Rhetorically
play
the
Orators
,
by
withdrawing
the
affections
of
that
small
party
which
sided
with
him
;
as
likewise
in
aggravating
the
quality
of
his
crimes
,
which
they
pretended
in
the
Survey
of
all
Annals
,
to
appear
unexemplary
:
and
by
that
means
to
make
compassion
in
his
case
a
stranger
to
the
assembly
.
Climenes
,
Chalibetes
,
an
excellent
Orator
:
One
,
who
had
Tongue
enough
,
to
fortifie
an
ill
cause
,
and
to
cloath
his
pretences
in
any
colour
:
but
the
indis
osition
of
his
body
crossed
the
intention
of
his
mind
;
being
disabled
by
sickness
,
to
persue
personally
the
weight
of
his
business
,
Leuco-Magiris
,
a
contemptible
Baudite
;
who
had
drunk
of
all
waters
,
and
by
running
too
deep
on
score
,
had
a
little
before
been
inforced
to
run
out
of
the
Country
,
till
Treachery
brought
him
into
request
and
inabled
him
to
pay
his
arreers
.
But
of
all
others
Rabsheda
,
was
designed
that
Rhadamanth
who
was
to
supply
the
Seat
of
Iustice
;
in
whom
,
had
impudence
and
insolence
lost
their
lodgings
,
they
might
have
easily
found
entertainment
.
Suppose
him
then
summoned
by
this
merciless
man
:
where
standing
before
that
Predominant
Bench
,
Looking
first
about
the
Pretorian
or
Senat
Hall
a
place
no
less
spacious
then
numerous
:
and
eyeing
the
great
press
and
multitude
there
assembled
:
What
means
,
said
he
,
this
confluence
of
people
?
They
be
come
(
answered
Rabsheda
)
to
hear
a
Tyrants
tryal
,
a
Rebel
I
can
see
,
replyed
Rosicles
,
but
Tyrant
I
can
discover
none
.
Unbosom
your self
,
said
Rabsheda
,
and
you
will
soon
discover
him
,
for
how
should
he
be
accounted
less
,
who
in
these
civil
distempers
has
been
the
onely
Author
of
the
effusion
of
so
much
blood
,
and
that
of
his
own
people
,
within
this
crimson
Isle
of
Candy
?
What
do
you
mean
Rabsheda
,
said
Rosicles
,
by
that
Crimson
Isle
;
and
by
whom
was
that
tincture
laid
?
By
your
own
hand
,
answered
Rabsheda
,
deep
died
and
embrued
in
your
subjects
blood
.
Upon
which
words
,
being
with
a
braving
insolence
uttered
,
the
incensed
Prince
raising
himself
a
little
upon
his
chair
.
Egregious
Rebel
,
said
he
,
has
ignorance
glazed
thy
forehead
with
that
impudence
,
as
neither
thy
Princes
presence
,
nor
thy
sworn
allegeance
,
can
imprint
in
thee
an
awfull
fear
,
nor
civil
reverence
?
These
words
breathed
forth
with
such
a
graceful
Majesty
,
so
startled
him
;
as
for
a
good
space
,
they
calmed
not
onely
his
passion
,
but
silenced
his
Elocution
.
Till
at
last
,
as
might
be
probably
gathered
,
recalling
to
mind
that
great
reward
which
was
by
the
Senat
promised
him
;
and
seeing
himself
so
strongly
flanker'd
,
and
by
the
souldiers
acclamation
so
highly
encouraged
;
he
recovered
his
speech
:
and
with
great
boldness
calling
him
to
the
Bar
;
A
strange
summons
of
a
subject
to
his
Soveraign
;
the
Prince
much
exasperated
with
this
unexemplary
insolence
told
him
expresly
,
that
his
Soveraignty
had
mounted
a
story
higher
then
their
commands
,
and
that
their
new
moulded
Laws
were
to
stoop
to
his
Prerogative
.
But
all
this
would
not
stand
him
in
any
stead
.
Popular
fury
backt
by
the
Consults
Authority
,
and
resistless
sinews
of
an
army
made
an
easie
breach
through
allegeance
.
A
charge
of
high
consequence
,
being
already
drawn
up
,
was
publickly
read
,
the
particulars
whereof
were
these
.
1.
That
his
Government
had
been
tyrannical
,
in
laying
insupportable
burdens
by
impositions
,
imposts
,
exactions
,
with
other
heavy
pressures
upon
his
impoverished
subjects
.
2.
That
he
bestowed
best
places
on
worst
men
.
3.
That
his
corrupt
councel
,
had
depraved
the
state
,
confounded
their
municipal
laws
;
and
consequently
destructive
to
the
ancient
Rights
and
Priviledges
of
their
Nation
:
the
fatal
issues
whereof
were
generally
noxious
to
the
liberty
of
his
subjects
,
with
sundry
other
Criminations
of
like
nature
,
and
of
lower
qualification
in
their
measure
.
All
which
,
with
a
scornful
smile
,
as
objections
inconsistent
to
his
pious
condition
,
HE
seemingly
sleighted
,
using
onely
these
words
:
That
his
Innocence
was
recorded
above
their
Seat
of
Justice
.
But
the
decision
of
his
cause
hung
upon
the
Senats
prepensed
resolve
and
edge
of
the
souldiers
sword
,
being
sentenced
to
die
,
and
that
before
his
own
Court-gate
of
Candy-Port
;
within
the
ken
of
his
great
Citie
Thamipolis
:
where
within
few
days
after
,
without
a
resistence
(
a
rare
president
to
all
Ages
)
he
was
executed
,
according
to
his
sentence
formerly
delivered
.
The
Senat
onely
had
this
kindness
for
him
,
in
admitting
two
Flamins
to
prepare
him
before
his
death
.
Onixus
and
Reshu
.
The
latter
whereof
,
though
a
seeming
Saint
,
nay
,
opinion'd
for
a
reverend
Patriark
of
their
profession
,
appeared
an
egregious
timist
:
One
who
knew
well
how
to
close
with
time
,
and
hugge
the
shadow
of
an
eminent
favorite
,
for
his
own
interest
.
For
the
former
,
He
was
no
formal
,
but
a
serious
and
sincere
professor
and
on
whom
this
sentenced
Prince
so
much
relied
;
as
he
derived
from
his
mild
and
sweet
tempered
advice
much
comfort
.
Amongst
many
we
shall
instance
this
for
all
.
The
adjudged
Rosicles
remaining
some
few
daies
after
his
sentence
pronounced
in
a
house
of
the
Jacobins
,
where
He
was
no
less
strictly
guarded
then
rigidly
used
;
He
began
to
feel
some
contests
or
wrastlings
in
himself
,
suggesting
to
his
magnaminous
thoughts
,
how
ill
it
would
become
him
to
subject
his
head
to
the
Hatchet
of
a
slavish
Baudit
,
and
without
resistence
to
submit
himself
to
the
execution
of
so
unjust
a
Sentence
.
And
such
deep
impression
had
this
debate
wrought
upon
him
,
as
he
became
half
resolved
to
divert
the
hand
of
Justice
by
his
personall
resistance
until
the
morning
before
he
dyed
,
having
acquainted
Onixus
with
his
purpose
;
He
was
by
his
grave
and
discreet
advice
,
with
tears
from
his
eyes
plenteously
flowing
,
disswaded
from
entertaining
any
such
thought
:
For
,
said
he
,
this
act
would
drive
you
into
fury
,
and
consequently
discompose
your
soul
for
her
prepa●ation
to
an
higher
seat
.
Desist
,
said
he
,
I
beseech
you
,
from
any
such
thought
;
but
recommend
your
case
to
the
Providence
of
Heaven
,
whether
it
be
to
life
or
death
.
To
which
pious
and
prudent
councel
he
cheerfully
submitted
.
And
in
very
truth
,
it
had
prov'd
a
vain
assay
to
have
made
resistance
,
seeing
there
were
sundry
engines
,
and
those
invisibly
contrived
,
purposely
prepared
to
hale
him
to
the
Block
,
if
he
had
offered
the
least
force
or
manner
of
opposition
.
The
time
now
approaching
,
a
strong
Squadron
of
Stratiots
were
appointed
to
guard
him
along
through
the
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This
Theriorophie
was
an
impark'd
ground
be
longing
to
the
fraternity
of
Jacobins
:
through
which
Rosicles
was
conducted
to
the
scaffold
.
Theriotrophie
,
bearing
a
spacious
vale
and
the
Court
chace
;
and
so
by
ascent
to
the
Amphitheatre
;
through
which
he
was
brought
down
to
the
Scaffold
;
where
with
a
pale
visage
,
but
Princely
presence
,
casting
his
eyes
u●on
the
multitude
of
People
(
then
which
a
greater
confluence
had
been
seldome
at
any
time
seen
)
He
declared
himself
wi
hout
the
least
diminution
of
state
or
courage
,
in
this
sort
.
ROSICLES
Speech
at
his
Death
.
Good
people
,
You
are
come
hither
to
see
your
Prince
become
a
Sacrifice
to
his
Subjects
.
A
person
held
unfitting
to
live
,
because
he
scorned
to
purchase
evil
mens
love
.
I
am
guilty
of
many
crimes
,
if
you
believe
my
accusers
;
Tyranny
especially
.
But
a
dying
man
may
for
pity
sake
find
ears
to
receive
his
Apology
.
Here
I
stand
before
God
and
Man
;
where
I
appeal
to
the
whole
World
,
from
whence
I
am
going
;
And
to
Heaven
,
whereto
my
hope
is
I
am
coming
:
That
I
never
to
this
hour
unsheathed
my
Sword
to
shed
the
blood
of
any
Subject
from
the
highest
to
the
lowest
.
Impunity
in
neglect
of
my
own
safety
has
prov'd
to
my self
a
Tyranny
:
but
my
charity
forgives
them
freely
.
I
must
ever
bemoan
the
Blood
of
ONE
,
whose
Death
by
inforcement
,
seconded
with
the
perswasions
or
impostures
rather
of
Timing
Parasites
,
my
Hand
unthankfully
subscribed
.
Never
did
subject
merit
more
of
Princes
affection
,
and
receive
for
his
service
a
more
undeserving
guerdon
.
Oh
,
that
my
tears
could
rinse
or
raze
forth
the
memory
of
so
unhandsome
an
action
;
or
expiate
the
guilt
of
such
a
crimson
crime
!
In
this
my
last
farewel
and
adieu
to
the
World
,
I
cannot
but
stand
amazed
at
the
infelicity
of
our
Family
,
since
our
first
plantation
here
in
Candy
:
where
we
are
become
strangers
to
our
own
,
and
bemoaned
more
by
strangers
then
our
own
.
Long
time
has
this
sad
onmious
Cloud
hung
over
our
house
:
Be
it
Heavens
pleasure
at
last
to
disperse
it
.
Never
did
Royal
Race
since
the
foundation
of
Candy
,
fall
into
like
misery
:
But
there
is
an
instrument
(
pointing
at
the
Axe
)
that
will
shortly
ease
me
of
my
sufferings
.
If
there
be
any
Member
of
the
Senat
here
present
,
I
salute
him
in
the
name
of
that
whole
Representative
Body
,
assuring
him
in
them
,
and
them
in
him
,
that
they
could
not
be
more
ready
in
giving
,
then
I
in
forgiving
their
severe
sentence
.
But
Mercy
is
seldom
shown
,
where
pity
tooke
no
place
.
But
I
have
been
dealt
withal
too
short
,
to
continue
my
discourse
long
.
Then
taking
his
leave
of
the
Gentlemen
of
his
Chamber
,
and
of
his
facetious
friend
Parthenius
;
with
eyes
Elevated
to
Heaven
,
he
subjected
his
Head
to
the
trembling
hand
of
the
Executioner
;
who
performed
his
Office
with
more
fear
then
skill
.
His
Body
was
some
few
days
after
(
being
first
made
a
Mercenary
Spectacle
to
the
people
)
without
any
solemnity
at
all
,
privately
interred
.
Such
was
the
immerited
fall
of
unfortunate
Rosicles
.
Then
whom
none
ever
more
justly
governed
,
nor
more
deservingly
to
be
beloved
;
who
became
more
disloyally
treated
,
more
scornfully
deserted
.
Now
it
might
be
asked
,
how
it
could
possibly
come
to
pass
,
that
in
so
populous
and
confluent
a
City
no
hand
should
be
lifted
up
in
defence
of
his
innocence
:
And
there
is
an
apparancy
of
reason
for
it
.
Those
who
stood
well
affected
to
the
Royal
Cause
,
were
but
few
,
and
those
naked
:
Whereas
the
disaffected
were
many
,
and
those
compleatly
armed
.
So
as
tears
and
groans
were
the
best
supplies
their
feeble
forces
could
contribute
to
his
relief
.
But
indeed
there
was
no
impede
greater
to
Rosicles
success
,
nor
wrought
more
to
his
disadvantage
,
then
his
subsignation
to
Sophronio's
death
.
This
it
was
that
begot
a
distrust
in
some
,
who
could
with
all
their
hearts
,
through
the
disgust
they
received
from
their
present
inverted
Government
,
to
have
changed
faces
,
and
wholly
adhered
to
the
Prince
,
had
not
this
jealousie
possest
them
:
Sundry
menacing
presages
there
were
of
his
approaching
ruine
,
before
his
death
;
discovered
by
several
apparitions
seen
in
the
air
:
As
terrible
armies
skirmishing
directly
over
the
seat
of
his
chief
city
Thamipolis
.
Bloody
Streamers
with
apparent
models
of
Funeral
Scutcheons
,
indented
with
Gules
and
Sanguine
Characters
,
visible
and
legible
.
Two
Moons
of
different
magnitude
.
Mixendes
an
eminent
Peer
of
Candy
,
riding
abroad
to
take
air
in
a
stately
Chariot
,
drawn
along
with
six
gallant
Flander
Mares
,
having
onely
Aniel
,
a
Groom
of
his
Chamber
opposite
to
him
in
the
end
of
his
Chariot
:
The
Mares
suddenly
staid
and
would
go
no
further
,
though
his
Charioter
with
the
help
of
his
Postillion
,
used
all
the
art
and
force
he
could
to
drive
them
forward
:
upon
which
unexpected
stand
,
Aniel
,
as
one
wonderfully
amazed
,
suddenly
cried
out
;
My
Lord
,
What
Woman
is
that
sits
there
beside
you
?
Mixendes
,
though
at
first
he
discovered
nothing
,
became
suddenly
sensible
of
the
danger
of
this
imposture
:
for
his
Heels
were
presently
struck
up
and
hoisted
to
the
inner
top
of
the
Chariot
,
with
his
Head
groveling
below
.
Having
with
much
difficulty
recovered
and
raised
himself
,
by
the
assistance
of
his
astonished
Groom
,
they
joyned
both
together
to
fasten
upon
that
apparition
,
which
seemed
to
them
a
real
woman
,
intending
to
pinch
her
;
but
this
phantasme
,
or
whatsoever
it
might
import
,
with
a
terrible
flash
of
fire
and
hideous
voice
suddenly
vanished
:
But
not
without
apparent
hurt
to
the
Charioter
,
having
his
Leg
broken
in
the
very
Box
where
he
sate
,
from
whence
he
had
not
removed
,
nor
used
any
agitation
nor
motion
at
all
.
The
Postillion
likewise
became
strangely
distempered
.
The
guider
of
the
Chariot
being
pitifully
maimed
,
shortly
after
dyed
:
Whose
body
after
his
death
,
either
by
inchantment
,
or
some
other
occult
malady
,
grew
as
black
as
pitch
.
This
Mixendes
,
being
one
in
the
lower
list
of
the
late
created
consuls
,
was
accompted
by
some
to
be
privately
an
active
complice
of
Rosicles
ruine
,
and
that
this
accident
befel
him
,
purposely
to
caution
him
of
his
transgression
:
though
others
have
since
that
time
vindicated
his
honour
from
that
aspersion
;
and
that
it
was
an
act
of
Witchcraft
occasioned
upon
the
dereliction
of
his
Lady
.
These
were
rare
occurrences
,
but
no
way
comparable
to
those
strange
prodigious
birth
:
terrible
to
the
eye
of
nature
;
which
were
produced
at
that
time
,
and
could
presage
nothing
less
then
some
fearful
unaccustomed
alteration
;
whereof
this
amongst
many
.
In
the
West
part
of
Candy
,
as
is
reported
to
have
hapned
sometimes
upon
the
like
occasional
mutations
in
the
Confines
of
Gascoigne
,
a
Female
child
was
born
,
that
from
the
Belly
upward
was
a
Twin
,
having
two
heads
,
two
breasts
,
and
four
arms
;
and
the
one
part
did
that
which
the
other
did
not
:
So
that
whilest
the
one
did
eat
,
the
other
would
not
;
and
whilest
the
one
slept
,
the
other
waked
.
And
having
lived
in
this
manner
(
as
a
Prodigy
to
Nature
)
for
some
certain
time
,
the
one
died
,
the
other
surviving
;
which
afterwards
through
the
stench
of
the
other
died
also
.
That
which
by
this
prodigious
birth
,
had
been
formerly
predicted
,
was
by
as
fearful
an
issue
not
long
after
seconded
,
in
production
of
those
state
combustions
whereto
no
age
was
ever
exemplary
.
After
Rosicles
death
,
the
Cypress
trees
,
Laurels
,
and
Palmato's
which
in
that
Country
wee
of
plenteous
growth
and
surpassing
height
,
whol
lye
withered
.
Thus
by
the
change
of
one
,
was
the
state
of
Candy
quite
changed
;
the
face
of
the
Court
disfigured
,
and
a
flourishing
government
into
an
Anarchical
condition
reduced
.
For
the
ancient
Peerage
,
whose
descent
and
desert
might
justly
record
them
in
the
catalogue
of
Honour
,
either
through
discontent
or
ripeness
of
age
were
expired
.
Amongst
which
Lycorus
,
Merannes
,
Arnoldo
,
Tutonus
,
Trevenco
,
Polidon
;
leaving
those
to
steer
the
state
,
who
preferred
their
own
interest
before
the
interest
of
the
publick
.
As
for
that
new
Mintage
of
Nobility
,
extracted
from
the
creation
of
Climenes
;
those
that
were
the
graver
,
and
in
their
qualification
accompted
wiser
;
imployed
their
time
in
incroaching
,
and
inhancing
their
revenues
,
and
inlarging
the
priviledges
of
their
Mannors
:
Whereas
the
younger
Fry
were
for
undertaking
Duells
in
defence
of
their
Mistresses
.
Which
light
skirmishings
,
being
neither
much
fatal
nor
fearful
,
were
the
onely
signals
of
their
valour
,
as
Rings
,
Gloves
,
and
Ribbands
,
the
richest
Trophies
of
their
Honour
,
which
mush
rump-gallantry
ran
all
along
in
a
blood
for
many
ages
together
;
making
good
that
Philosophic
all
Maxim
:
"
That
the
Corruption
of
one
was
the
Generation
of
another
.
The
nature
of
things
,
through
the
depravation
or
degeneration
rather
of
times
growing
such
,
that
whereas
a
good
man
is
joyned
with
a
bad
,
the
bad
is
not
bettered
by
the
good
,
but
the
good
corrupted
by
the
bad
.
Thus
fared
it
with
this
innovated
state
of
Candy
.
Charicles
pursues
his
own
interest
against
the
Senat.
CHARICLES
to
revenge
his
fathers
death
,
and
in
hope
to
re-invest
himself
in
his
lineal-regal
estate
,
being
strengthned
by
the
assistance
of
the
Eluri
and
other
frontier
Scythians
(
a
people
that
were
ever
held
fast
foes
,
but
failing
friends
)
but
Princes
in
their
distress
must
be
content
to
lean
on
weak
Crutches
,
invaded
Candy
.
In
a
fair
Battalia
were
the
two
Armies
martially
disposed
,
and
their
Tents
orderly
picht
near
to
a
strong
and
well
fortified
City
,
called
Reus
Court
,
anciently
Saly
Castro
.
Hopes
equally
breathing
,
half
of
the
day
was
this
Battalia
in
dispute
;
wherein
Charicles
by
the
singular
prowess
and
dexterity
of
his
Pedeantry
,
being
all
of
them
excellent
Archers
,
had
long
time
the
better
,
till
overpowered
by
continual
recrutes
,
and
the
treachery
of
Leontius
;
who
had
the
principal
command
and
charge
of
the
Scythian
Caualry
:
and
hovering
remissely
upon
an
hill
,
above
the
Armies
,
behaving
himself
more
like
a
Spectator
then
a
Warrier
,
never
so
much
as
ingaging
his
person
to
the
necessitous
assistance
of
Charicles
:
He
with
his
Forces
became
wholly
routed
.
Albeit
the
Prince
,
even
in
his
greatest
distress
,
considering
how
his
personal
security
and
regal
soveraignty
were
both
at
the
stake
,
with
an
incomparable
spirit
charged
twice
or
thrice
quite
through
his
Enemies
Army
,
continuing
in
the
field
without
the
least
decline
of
courage
,
so
long
as
there
appeared
the
least
hope
of
subsistance
,
or
the
Cavalries
assistance
;
whose
perfidious
Commander
had
been
too
highly
corrupted
,
to
forget
the
reward
of
his
service
.
Thus
was
the
unfortunate
Charicles
,
as
if
an
ominous
Cloud
had
constantly
hung
over
his
family
,
inforced
to
leave
the
field
,
being
so
deserted
of
his
own
by
this
discomfiture
,
as
very
few
or
none
were
left
to
accompany
him
in
his
flight
.
The
Enemy
had
his
scattered
Forces
long
in
chace
,
taking
many
prisoners
;
and
such
as
were
of
eminent
quality
,
as
might
be
probably
conjectured
,
seeing
the
most
of
his
patty
,
unless
they
were
of
the
ruder
sort
of
Scythians
,
had
been
persons
qualified
and
of
extraction
,
whereas
the
adverse
party
were
generally
Plebeian
and
Mercenary
.
But
in
their
pursuit
,
their
eagerest
hunt
was
after
Charicles
,
by
whose
surprize
,
the
Senat
conceived
them
to
be
secured
from
danger
,
and
freed
from
the
attempts
of
any
invasive
pretender
.
And
that
they
might
be
more
speedily
seized
of
their
prey
,
it
was
their
prime
care
to
have
all
the
ports
laid
;
their
stratagems
with
much
secrecy
contrived
,
their
Ambuscado's
set
,
and
sundry
parties
of
Horse
every
where
dispersed
and
disposed
for
the
taking
of
this
deserted
Prince
.
But
for
all
this
they
mist
their
aim
,
for
the
providence
of
heaven
was
such
(
an
act
which
cannot
be
too
much
admired
)
Charicles
escaped
their
politick
designs
;
and
whereas
there
appeared
no
visible
probability
of
refuge
or
receipt
;
He
found
for
the
time
a
convenient
harbour
,
to
decline
his
inclosing
danger
,
by
such
strange
means
and
instruments
as
shall
be
related
hereafter
.
How
Charicles
after
his
discomfiture
at
Reus-Court
,
being
pursued
by
the
Enemy
;
was
in
a
Pilgrim
habit
,
Hospitably
received
and
seasonably
secured
,
beyond
all
expectancy
by
Candiope
.
IT
cannot
sufficiently
be
admired
how
sundry
eminent
personages
destitute
of
all
hope
or
visible
help
,
have
escaped
in
their
imminency
of
dangers
the
implacable
fury
of
the
enemy
,
being
reserved
,
no
doubt
,
by
Divine
Providence
for
some
future
ends
.
This
might
be
instanced
to
life
in
the
present
condition
of
distressed
Charicles
;
the
issue
whereof
closed
in
this
sort
.
Candiope
,
a
Lady
lineally-loyally
descended
;
being
both
by
extraction
from
her
family
,
and
education
from
her
infancy
so
affected
;
Walking
one
morning
early
in
a
Grove
;
whereto
for
her
private
retirement
she
usuall
frequented
,
and
wishing
nothing
more
out
of
the
loyal
fervour
of
her
desires
,
then
to
hear
the
event
of
that
great
Battail
at
Reus-Court
,
with
the
good
success
of
the
Prince
,
whose
restauration
she
unfeignedly
besought
.
It
was
her
fortune
in
the
tract
where
she
walkt
,
being
not
far
distant
from
the
publick
road
,
to
meet
with
one
in
a
Palmers
weed
,
fixing
his
dejected
eys
on
the
ground
,
as
if
some
sad
mischance
had
befaln
him
:
or
as
one
weary
of
earth
,
resolving
to
measure
out
his
Grave
,
and
to
play
the
Sextons
part
before
he
dyed
.
Long
was
it
ere
she
could
awake
him
out
of
this
his
melancholy
dump
,
or
pensive
amaze
,
so
strangely
extasied
seemed
he
to
be
,
as
nothing
appeared
in
him
saving
motion
that
might
argue
him
to
be
living
,
or
for
the
present
capable
of
respiration
.
At
last
drawing
nearer
unto
him
.
Good
sir
,
said
she
,
what
is
it
troubles
you
?
What
misfortune
has
befaln
you
,
that
it
should
have
such
strong
influence
over
you
,
in
writing
your
discontents
in
such
deep
Characters
of
sorrow
?
Alas
,
Madam
,
replyed
He
,
it
were
a
fruitless
discovery
,
to
impart
our
griefs
where
there
is
no
hope
of
remedy
.
My
wounds
,
with
many
others
,
rankle
too
sore
to
expect
a
present
cure
.
Candiope
collected
by
these
words
,
that
all
things
had
not
faln
out
well
at
Reus-Court
,
with
much
importunity
therefore
she
desired
to
know
of
him
,
whether
he
had
been
personally
ingaged
in
the
battail
or
no
,
and
what
the
success
thereof
might
be
?
With
a
deep
scalding
sigh
,
we
are
all
wholly
lost
,
said
he
.
Our
Prince
utterly
routed
,
his
hopes
expired
.
The
softness
of
your
Sex
,
and
affability
of
your
nature
may
retain
that
temper
,
as
it
may
afford
compassion
to
our
forlorn
condition
;
for
as
yet
we
have
hardly
found
it
.
Wo
is
me
,
answered
Candiope
,
who
might
he
be
that
was
the
Agent
of
this
sad
scene
of
his
infilicity
?
The
probable
ground
of
his
misfortune
,
replyed
the
Palmer
,
arose
from
the
treachery
of
Leontius
;
a
principal
commander
of
the
Scythian
Cavalry
,
by
whom
,
he
with
his
associates
were
wholly
routed
.
And
that
this
disaster
proceeded
from
Leontius
treason
might
be
hence
conjectured
;
for
after
the
battel
was
ended
,
and
he
amongst
others
surprized
,
his
gentle
usage
and
easie
confinement
by
the
Enemy
,
discovered
to
all
the
world
his
secret
treachery
.
But
what
is
become
,
said
Candiope
,
of
distressed
Charicles
?
Of
a
potent
Prince
,
replyed
he
,
he
is
now
made
a
poor
Pilgrim
;
a
fugitive
deserted
of
his
own
,
and
nothing
but
a
meer
shadow
of
hope
to
support
him
.
A
weak
supportance
,
Heaven
knows
,
said
the
Lady
:
Oh
that
I
might
have
the
honour
to
give
him
harbour
;
with
what
prompness
and
fidelity
should
my
best
endeavours
answer
it
?
You
may
perchance
replyed
he
,
have
the
occasion
,
and
he
the
good
fortune
to
pertake
your
assistance
;
for
his
hapless
condition
must
procure
harbour
in
one
place
or
other
,
or
we
must
conclude
him
lost
for
ever
.
Mean
time
,
Madam
,
I
must
ingeniously
acquaint
you
,
seeing
your
noble
disposition
steers
your
course
that
way
,
how
I
am
become
His
Highness
Almoner
or
necessitous
purveyor
,
while
he
in
a
disguised
habit
acts
the
sad
part
of
a
disconsolate
wanderer
.
Thus
has
our
condition
,
which
formerly
hath
been
a
stranger
to
servile
ends
;
or
to
what
must
now
oblige
us
,
beholdingness
,
injoyned
us
to
submit
to
the
necessity
of
Fate
;
and
to
beg
releif
with
silence
,
when
our
language
cannot
in
modesty
find
a
tongue
to
express
our
necessity
.
Wo
is
me
for
you
,
said
the
tear-swoln
Lady
,
that
ever
your
Prince
should
be
brought
to
that
exigence
.
But
your
pale
visage
with
other
apparent
arguments
of
your
infeebled
condition
,
stand
in
need
,
as
I
conceive
,
of
more
relief
from
a
bountiful
hand
,
then
of
verbal
compassion
from
a
pitiful
mouth
.
These
words
that
come
from
us
are
but
airy
expressions
to
wasted
spirits
:
Painted
meat
to
a
pensive
Pilgrim
:
Be
pleased
,
Gentle
sir
,
for
by
what
title
to
distinguish
you
,
I
wholly
know
not
,
to
take
a
repast
at
my
fathers
house
,
in
this
next
Grange
here
adjoyning
,
where
I
can
promise
you
security
;
though
it
may
be
no
such
equipage
as
may
any
way
suit
with
a
person
of
your
quality
.
This
curtisie
could
not
otherwise
chuse
but
be
received
with
infinite
acception
;
to
him
especially
and
his
distressed
consorts
,
who
had
not
onely
found
necessary
relief
,
but
even
humane
pity
a
stranger
to
their
misfortunes
,
As
they
were
thus
conversing
,
and
Candiope
resolved
to
bestow
her
care
upon
his
accommodation
,
by
conducting
him
to
her
fathers
house
,
(
a
continent
repose
for
a
wearied
Spirit
)
where
she
might
not
onely
receive
further
intelligence
touching
Charicles
condition
,
whose
safety
she
so
much
tendred
;
but
afford
all
competent
supplyes
to
this
disconsolate
Palmer
,
as
his
present
necessity
required
.
As
she
was
,
I
say
,
bestowing
her
whole
care
and
ingenuous
indeavours
upon
this
Office
of
Piety
this
signal
freedom
of
Hospitality
,
she
might
hear
from
the
skirt
of
the
Grove
a
pitiful
voice
(
a
voice
well
known
to
the
Palmer
,
though
it
rendred
a
strange
accent
to
the
ear
of
the
Lady
;
)
So
full
of
passion
appeared
every
expression
from
the
language
of
that
sorrowful
person
,
as
none
could
do
less
then
commiserate
his
sad
condition
;
upon
the
hearing
of
those
pressing
grounds
of
his
complaint
and
personal
resentment
.
The
words
,
as
they
were
by
him
passionately
delivered
,
and
by
her
no
less
pitifully
received
,
were
these
.
O
Heavens
!
When
will
these
cloudy
dayes
close
with
a
clear
evening
?
Must
this
black
cloud
hang
for
ever
over
our
unfortunate
house
?
Must
our
disasters
fall
thus
upon
us
in
a
continued
torrent
to
all
succeeding
Ages
?
Must
Theatres
be
erected
onely
for
acting
our
tragedies
?
Must
the
fame
of
our
family
be
quite
razed
forth
of
the
Annals
of
posterity
?
Is
there
any
such
close
crime
known
onely
to
the
eyes
of
Heaven
,
but
shut
from
the
knowledge
of
men
;
whereof
our
House
hath
been
highly
conscious
,
and
as
yet
remains
unexpiate
,
and
consequently
the
occasional
ground
of
our
misfortunes
?
Oh
,
may
these
tears
of
an
innocent
Prince
,
rinse
the
guilt
of
a
nocent
Progenitor
!
for
any
part
I
appeal
to
the
powers
above
whereon
depend
the
Foundation
and
Mutation
of
States
,
if
ever
any
act
of
folly
since
my
infancie
merited
from
the
hand
of
Fortune
such
infelicity
.
Lay
thyself
open
to
the
whole
World
,
and
make
them
thy
judges
,
who
most
hate
thee
,
and
least
value
thee
,
or
those
demerits
in
thee
,
and
let
them
freely
discover
,
if
any
act
were
ever
by
Charicles
done
,
that
should
make
him
thus
undone
.
Candiope
at
the
name
of
Charicles
,
being
not
able
to
contain
her self
any
longer
,
interrupted
these
passionate
complaints
,
saying
:
Wo
is
me
for
thee
,
Noble
Charicles
;
then
whom
never
any
distressed
Prince
diserved
better
,
and
in
his
pursuit
of
a
just
claim
succeeded
worser
.
Let
us
draw
nearer
,
said
she
to
the
Palmer
;
Why
should
he
be
thus
deserted
,
and
pertake
no
sociable
comfort
to
allay
his
distemper
.
CHARICLES
had
no
sooner
got
a
sight
of
them
,
then
rousing
and
raising
himself
from
the
shady
covert
where
he
reposed
;
as
if
he
had
not
been
the
same
man
,
whom
his
sad
complaints
had
so
lately
discovered
of
all
men
most
unfortunate
;
and
with
a
cheerful
countenance
looking
upon
Molinutus
(
for
so
was
the
Palmer
called
.
)
It
was
your
Office
,
said
he
,
Molinutus
,
to
play
the
Purveyer
and
not
a
suiter
:
Our
mispent
times
will
admit
of
no
Mistresses
.
Afterwards
looking
aside
upon
the
Lady
,
then
whom
none
of
a
more
becoming
nature
:
Excuse
me
,
Madam
,
said
he
,
if
I
sport
with
my
misfortunes
,
My
low
repose
,
and
leane
repast
require
some
expediences
to
repair
the
ruines
of
a
late
shaken
fortune
.
CANDIOPE
fixing
her
eyes
intentively
all
this
while
upon
his
meagre
countenance
,
vyed
in
tears
with
his
words
;
and
at
last
falling
on
her
knees
.
Dread
Leige
,
said
she
,
lately
,
but
all
too
soon
,
has
your
poor
Handmaid
heard
of
your
great
disaster
.
But
what
is
it
that
Time
and
Opportunity
may
not
recover
?
Is
it
possible
,
said
He
,
that
Heaven
can
reserve
any
Family
so
faithfull
to
One
so
unfortunate
;
and
on
whom
such
sinister
occurrents
have
acted
their
worst
of
Fury
?
Along
they
resolve
to
go
with
the
Lady
to
her
Fathers
Grange
,
where
they
were
with
all
amicable
hospitality
received
,
and
with
all
such
accommodations
suited
as
their
private
Family
could
afford
them
.
For
inlarge
them
further
,
they
wisely
would
not
,
lest
their
entertainment
might
be
suspected
.
After
their
some
dayes
reside
in
that
affectionate
Harbour
,
contriving
what
way
were
be●●
to
take
for
his
safe
and
speedy
Convoy
to
Ferrara
,
whereto
he
bent
his
course
:
Candiope
a
faithfull
Secretary
in
all
his
assayes
,
be
thought
her self
of
an
expert
and
trusty
Pilot
,
one
whom
the
Favours
of
her
Family
had
formerly
obliged
,
who
had
pitch'd
his
resolution
for
that
coast
within
few
dayes
after
,
with
whom
she
dealt
so
seriously
and
secretly
,
in
relation
of
her
interest
and
confidence
in
him
;
as
she
contracted
with
him
for
their
conduct
to
Ferrara
:
in
which
voyage
she
intended
(
so
tender
she
was
of
the
Princes
safety
)
to
become
both
an
Assistant
and
Associate
.
The
prefixt
time
was
designed
,
and
all
things
prepared
for
their
passage
.
Into
the
ship
with
much
privacy
,
and
so
disguised
,
as
probably
appearing
without
discovery
,
were
Caricles
,
Molinutus
and
Candiope
received
;
but
no
sooner
imbarked
and
ready
to
hoise
up
saile
,
then
one
Phereclus
a
Captain
,
designed
by
the
Senate
to
guard
that
Port
,
and
to
take
account
of
all
such
Passengers
as
were
to
take
shipping
there
,
with
a
surly
and
imperious
demean
opposed
their
admittance
;
acquainting
Dioscurus
,
Master
of
the
ship
,
that
he
was
personally
authorized
to
make
search
,
and
due
examination
take
of
all
such
persons
as
surreptitiously
(
for
so
he
term'd
it
)
made
their
way
from
that
coast
;
especially
at
that
time
,
when
such
enemies
to
the
State
were
known
to
be
stragling
abroad
.
For
whose
attach
and
apprehension
he
himself
with
other
prime
Commanders
were
to
those
Ports
nominally
assigned
.
But
Dioscurus
a
person
of
a
stout
and
resolute
spirit
,
wholly
slighted
his
braves
,
telling
him
that
his
ship
was
his
house
,
and
those
whom
he
had
received
into
it
were
his
Family
:
whose
safety
he
was
bound
in
honour
to
defend
:
he
wished
him
therefore
to
desist
from
making
any
attempt
,
lest
his
resistence
might
casually
ingage
his
person
with
all
such
as
should
assist
him
to
inevitable
hazards
.
Upon
these
words
the
Captain
shewed
his
Commission
,
imagining
that
the
power
and
validity
thereof
would
divert
all
opposition
,
and
give
him
ready
way
to
execute
his
commands
.
But
he
found
it
much
otherwise
,
for
Phereclus
could
not
be
more
speedy
in
pulling
out
his
Commission
,
then
Dioscurus
was
for
hoisting
up
Sail
,
and
lanching
forth
into
the
Main
,
attesting
his
confidence
with
a
volley
of
shot
,
taking
so
his
leave
with
much
alacrity
of
the
coast
of
Candy
.
Within
few
weeks
after
,
being
favoured
with
prosperous
gales
,
they
arrived
safely
in
Ferrara
;
where
we
will
leave
him
a
Pensioner
to
the
State
;
and
recounting
his
misfortunes
to
the
incloistered
Queen
his
disconsolate
Mother
.
Thus
have
you
heard
how
Charicles
beyond
all
hope
,
by
the
private
Conduct
of
Candiope
,
escaped
the
pursuit
of
the
enemy
.
And
to
return
you
an
Abstract
of
the
miseries
of
this
Family
,
we
may
here
in
sable
colours
deblazon
these
sad
accidents
of
Armory
in
the
ruines
of
a
royall-declining
Family
:
then
which
none
more
highly
deserving
,
nor
more
unhappily
decreasing
;
and
all
this
in
a
very
few
years
compleated
.
For
what
miseries
more
lineally
linked
to
one
House
,
or
more
successively
continued
?
you
have
heard
how
Basilius
,
who
succeeded
Athalia
,
or
as
we
have
originally
styled
her
,
Bellingeria
,
was
strangely
,
and
not
without
jealousie
of
his
subjects
,
dispatched
;
his
eldest
Son
Cyrenius
,
a
Prince
of
excellent
hopes
,
not
without
suspicion
of
poyson
,
prematurely
removed
;
his
younger
Brother
Rosicles
,
as
you
have
heard
,
before
the
eyes
of
his
people
,
the
face
of
his
eminentest
City
,
and
at
his
Court
gate
wofully
slaughtered
,
his
Son
Charicles
treacherously
deserted
,
discomfited
,
remaining
exiled
;
his
Widow-mother
incloistered
,
and
the
memory
of
that
Royal
Race
by
the
Senates
express
decree
,
to
be
quite
extinguished
and
razed
out
of
the
Catalogue
of
Honour
,
as
persons
incapable
of
bearing
any
office
in
the
Common-weal
.
So
as
there
remained
no
hope
of
a
new
being
or
breathing
to
the
revivall
of
their
Phaenix
ashes
,
unless
some
invisible
hand
far
above
all
humane
expectance
should
interpose
it selfe
,
and
in
mercy
raise
it
from
the
rubbish
of
division
,
and
by
degrees
restore
it
,
Distractions
in
the
State
of
Candy
in
their
Aristocracy
;
with
the
miseries
of
an
innovated
Government
.
All
things
now
might
seem
to
be
quiet
at
home
.
But
it
is
a
constant
observation
in
all
States
,
that
they
remain
less
secure
,
when
they
promise
to
themselves
most
security
.
This
might
be
manifested
to
all
Governments
;
but
especially
where
Usurpation
puts
in
for
a
Title
.
Wherein
,
admit
there
were
no
Heir
Apparent
to
make
his
Claim
,
there
would
be
a
Latent
Power
to
take
revenge
.
So
it
appeared
in
this
State-Theatre
;
though
Candy
had
exiled
her
Foes
,
she
retained
Fears
.
Civil
Wars
betwixt
Climenes
,
Bellonius
,
and
Lamachus
reduce
this
distempered
State
to
miserable
distractions
.
For
this
confused
Aristocracy
consisting
neither
wholly
of
Peers
nor
Plebeians
,
but
of
a
promiscuous
Society
;
begun
at
last
to
have
a
resentment
of
their
translated
Government
:
with
what
felicity
accompanied
the
harmonious
union
of
a
well-temper'd
Monarchy
;
with
the
disasters
that
usually
occurred
where
numerous
Commanders
burdened
the
State
with
distemper'd
humours
by
their
plurality
.
Subjects
easily
shake
off
the
yoak
of
Soveraignty
,
when
their
Commanders
be
many
.
One
or
none
,
sayes
Caesar
.
None
but
One
,
sayes
the
Usurper
.
None
rather
then
One
,
sayes
the
Leveller
.
Thus
Government
deprived
of
one
legal-Lineal
Soveraign
,
became
wholly
irregular
.
The
issue
whereof
may
be
clearly
instanced
in
this
headless
State
of
Candy
.
Bellonius
was
a
person
(
as
hath
been
told
you
)
of
an
active
hand
,
but
defective
head-piece
,
a
stout
spirit
,
but
shallow
intellect
,
fitter
for
action
then
design
:
one
who
could
do
much
,
but
speak
little
,
and
of
that
little
,
small
to
purpose
.
Infinitely
serviceable
had
he
been
to
Climenes
in
all
his
undertakings
,
and
incomparably
prosperous
in
his
atchievements
,
being
in
all
those
Civil
Wars
commenced
against
Rosicles
and
his
successor
Charicles
made
Generall
over
all
the
State-forces
,
and
under
whom
Climenes
,
during
all
that
time
,
acted
onely
as
private
Commander
.
But
Climenes
taking
notice
of
his
weakness
,
but
never
till
the
heat
of
the
day
was
past
,
apprehends
a
disgust
concerning
his
contracting
a
marriage
or
alliance
,
as
he
pretended
,
with
an
eminent
person
,
who
had
held
a
correspondence
formerly
with
Charicles
.
This
was
easie
for
him
to
do
,
having
by
this
time
insinuated
himself
into
the
esteem
and
favour
of
the
Army
,
by
great
rewards
,
full
pay
,
and
fair
quarter
.
Bellonius
recalling
to
mind
what
service
he
had
done
for
the
Publick
,
stood
for
a
while
in
resistence
,
as
a
Champion
in
defence
of
his
honour
,
armed
with
more
Fury
then
Patience
,
Prowess
then
Prudence
.
Verona
his
Lady
extracted
from
a
noble
and
couragious
Family
,
incouraged
him
highly
in
these
actions
,
assuring
him
that
the
memory
of
his
exploits
could
not
but
retain
a
deep
impression
in
the
State
,
and
Souldiery
too
,
with
whom
he
had
so
resolutely
ingaged
his
person
,
and
exposed
his
safety
to
the
desperatest
attempts
.
And
so
unmindfull
was
the
State
,
Senate
and
Souldier
of
his
former
ingagements
,
and
so
indifferent
for
his
welfare
,
as
they
left
him
to
himself
to
sink
or
swim
.
But
of
small
avail
is
Valour
without
Assistence
;
Price
and
Reward
had
made
him
incapable
of
Revenge
,
Truth
is
,
Bellonius
had
formerly
good
opportunity
for
preserving
his
Fortunes
,
Freedome
and
Honor
,
and
of
averting
that
ominous
fate
which
hung
over
his
Family
;
but
by
neglecting
it
,
he
threw
himself
with
all
these
into
an
inevitable
precipice
.
His
onely
hope
,
amidst
these
extreams
,
which
his
declining
greatness
depended
on
,
was
a
New
Convene
of
the
late
adjourned
Synod
,
summoned
to
assemble
the
first
moneth
of
the
year
ensuing
;
the
issue
whereof
,
after
our
relation
of
Lamachus
condition
,
shall
appear
in
every
circumstance
to
life
portrayed
.
After
the
brunt
of
these
Wars
,
and
much
blood
inhumanely
shed
,
he
appeared
the
onely
man
of
merit
and
esteem
in
Climenes
account
.
No
honour
nor
reward
held
sufficient
to
gratifie
his
service
:
Nay
it
was
very
observable
,
that
Climenes
,
after
such
time
as
his
fortunes
had
raised
him
to
the
absolute
Soveraignty
of
an
Arbitrary
power
:
a
step
higher
then
ever
distressed
Charicles
could
ascend
,
and
held
to
bear
the
face
of
a
Tyrannick
Government
,
during
the
unfortunate
reign
of
those
lineally
descending
Princes
.
After
this
height
of
his
commands
,
I
say
,
whereto
his
numerous
victories
had
perch'd
him
,
and
wherewith
this
strong
alliance
had
irresistibly
setled
him
:
Climenes
,
who
partak'd
no
less
of
Fox
then
Lion
,
was
never
known
to
meet
Lamachus
without
an
indeered
embrace
,
or
veneration
rather
,
as
both
his
demean
and
expresses
signified
;
saluting
him
not
onely
by
the
name
of
fellow
Souldier
,
but
of
Prince
,
Champion
,
and
Chieftain
of
his
Army
:
without
whose
help
,
the
whole
fabrick
of
that
State
had
shrunk
under
its
own
Grandeur
.
For
he
had
got
the
art
of
shaping
himself
to
any
feature
,
having
compassionate
eyes
to
vie
in
tears
with
the
Crocodile
,
and
deceiving
Fauns
to
gloze
with
the
Hyene
.
Now
the
strength
of
his
alliance
derived
from
the
persons
with
whom
he
matched
were
these
:
Lucapius
espoused
the
eldest
;
a
gallant
jovial
Lady
,
who
in
her
very
posture
knew
how
to
personate
her
qualified
honor
,
and
how
to
ingratiate
an
obsequious
servant
:
though
in
the
end
she
became
an
incomparable
Convert
;
being
one
,
to
whom
the
discovery
of
her
Fathers
tyrannick
actions
appeared
most
odious
.
Fotoweldus
took
the
second
;
a
young
Foster-mother
of
strange
opinions
.
Seblasius
the
third
;
a
modest
Maid
,
and
of
a
composed
carriage
.
The
fourth
and
last
was
matched
to
Chirus
;
one
whose
accidental
infirmities
had
made
useless
for
a
Nuptial
Bed
.
These
became
additaments
to
his
swelling
Power
;
but
nothing
in
comparison
to
the
influence
he
had
over
his
numerous
Army
.
Upon
his
confidence
whereof
he
became
transported
to
such
unbounded
height
(
an
humor
commonly
incident
to
those
who
rise
from
lower
grounds
to
mountanous
fortunes
)
as
he
grew
infinitly
apt
to
pick
quarels
at
his
best
friends
;
being
such
,
from
whom
he
had
received
formerly
his
strongest
assistance
;
and
to
whom
he
had
expressed
seemingly
his
nearest
indearments
.
Amongst
whom
,
howsoever
he
pretended
,
none
appeared
more
odious
to
him
then
his
sometime
bosom-friend
faithfull
Lamachus
.
Which
distast
arose
from
Lamachus
just
opposition
,
and
from
this
occasion
.
Climenes
arched
thus
with
strong
alliance
,
on
whom
he
had
conferred
the
eminentest
Offices
and
places
of
Command
within
the
whole
Island
;
as
likewise
with
other
considerable
Forces
,
understood
sufficiently
how
nothing
now
remained
undone
for
compleating
the
absolute
work
of
his
Soveraignty
,
whereto
his
ambitious
thoughts
with
much
politick
secrecy
aspired
,
saving
onely
the
Title
of
Regality
:
which
though
he
seem'd
outwardly
to
decline
,
there
was
nothing
that
he
did
more
inwardly
desire
.
He
perceived
upon
vote
how
Lamachus
was
the
onely
man
who
opposed
the
conferment
of
that
Title
;
which
he
objected
,
Climenes
could
not
with
honour
accept
:
having
before
the
face
of
his
Army
disavowed
the
acception
of
any
such
style
:
for
otherwise
the
true
lineal
Regal
Race
had
never
been
extirpated
,
nor
their
memory
extinguished
.
2.
That
an
Aristocratical
and
no
Monarchical
Government
was
intended
in
all
their
proceedings
;
and
this
sworn
to
,
if
either
Fidelity
or
Oaths
could
oblige
them
.
3.
That
he
could
not
see
but
as
many
of
them
had
been
equal
sharers
in
the
hazard
;
so
they
might
by
Law
of
Arms
become
equal
sharers
in
the
quality
of
Honour
.
These
objections
were
with
more
boldness
pressed
,
then
they
could
be
possibly
by
his
weak
strength
or
assistance
seconded
.
For
though
sometimes
his
fair
usage
and
stout
courage
had
strongly
possest
him
of
the
hearts
of
the
Souldiery
,
his
late
retirement
and
privacy
,
by
his
affecting
a
rural
life
,
had
quite
estranged
their
endeerments
from
him
,
being
onely
devoted
most
to
his
service
,
whereby
they
had
most
hope
of
pay
:
which
Climenes
spirit
to
his
great
advantage
ever
strove
to
make
good
;
for
though
his
Exchecquer
grew
lean
,
being
exhausted
by
sundry
unfortunate
attempts
,
pursued
to
his
apparent
dishonour
,
with
the
loss
of
his
eldest
and
experientest
souldiers
:
yet
such
was
his
ambition
,
cloathed
with
an
avaritious
disposition
,
which
had
sprung
to
that
height
,
as
he
would
digg
Pluto
out
of
Hell
for
gold
,
as
exactions
and
onerous
imposts
,
unknown
to
the
State
of
Candy
,
before
his
time
,
returned
ever
fresh
and
free
supplies
to
the
daring
Souldier
,
on
whose
shoulders
he
reer'd
the
structure
of
his
usurped
honour
.
Neither
did
it
much
trouble
him
to
impair
the
Subjects
state
,
so
he
might
improve
the
Souldiers
strength
,
whose
sinews
were
his
supportance
.
Now
,
those
bold
expresses
of
Lamachus
could
not
be
so
privately
delivered
,
but
they
were
as
soon
discovered
.
Climenes
gathered
from
hence
how
the
game
went
.
This
it
was
which
broke
the
long
continued
League
betwixt
Climenes
and
his
Chieftain
Lamachus
(
for
so
was
he
wont
to
call
him
:
)
and
to
expedite
his
revenge
,
he
adviseth
with
his
Councel
,
depraved
and
active
enough
to
put
on
his
design
,
though
his
own
vindicative
spirit
needed
no
such
fiery
Instruments
,
how
and
in
what
manner
he
might
requite
his
kindness
;
which
his
incensed
thoughts
prompt
him
to
answer
with
all
violence
,
as
appeared
afterwards
by
sundry
particulars
of
high
consequence
.
Climenes
could
not
be
readier
to
propose
,
then
these
vicious
Councellors
were
to
suggest
:
It
was
revenge
which
he
pursued
,
and
they
to
time
it
,
were
as
apt
to
excite
him
to
it
.
Themistocles
saying
pleased
these
corrupters
of
Justice
better
then
the
impartial
censure
of
that
just
Father
,
who
being
requested
to
bear
himself
indifferently
in
his
censure
,
answered
,
Be
it
farre
from
me
not
to
pleasure
my
friends
in
all
things
.
This
fire
burst
out
into
that
violent
and
impetuous
heat
,
as
his
first
design
was
,
to
clip
Lamachus
wings
by
abridging
his
power
;
which
he
executed
to
purpose
,
by
taking
from
him
the
Command
which
he
had
given
him
in
reward
of
his
hazardous
service
over
the
Epirian
Horse
,
a
great
addition
to
his
strength
and
annual
revenues
,
which
dishonour
so
highly
trenching
upon
Lamachus
,
this
subtile
Sinon
,
Climenes
pretended
to
be
the
Act
of
his
Councel
,
and
not
of
his
,
which
he
was
pleased
to
signifie
upon
every
occasion
;
never
meeting
Lamachus
without
a
dissembling
hugge
,
and
a
treacherous
imbrace
.
Neither
could
he
,
for
all
his
subtilty
,
so
palliate
the
inward
hate
he
bore
him
,
but
even
in
Table-discourse
he
would
make
Lamachus
usually
the
subject
of
his
Story
;
inquiring
how
he
bestowed
himself
in
his
Country
life
,
and
what
imployments
so
deserving
and
active
a
Spirit
could
address
it self
to
,
being
so
full
of
heroick
thoughts
and
matchless
gallant●y
.
And
being
then
answered
,
That
he
had
got
into
the
esteem
of
a
rare
Limner
,
and
an
excellent
Florist
:
Go
to
,
replied
Climenes
,
let
him
ply
his
wo●k
,
and
fall
to
his
setting
of
Citrons
,
and
Melons
,
and
Pumpions
;
but
I
could
wish
that
precious
Wall-flower
to
beware
,
lest
his
dainty
Griffs
,
like
ambitious
Ciens
,
grow
above
their
due
stature
and
proportion
,
lest
the
cunning
Gardiner
cause
me
to
play
the
Primer
.
Thus
was
this
politick
Usurper
,
who
of
a
Plebeian
Souldier
was
become
an
absolute
Commander
,
apt
to
play
the
Imposter
with
his
best
Friends
.
Notwithstanding
all
this
,
though
Intelligence
abroad
,
and
Assistance
at
home
,
might
seem
to
secure
him
against
the
policy
of
all
private
designes
,
or
power
of
publick
attempts
;
yet
what
security
,
where
there
lodgeth
a
secret
enemy
?
There
was
a
Foe
within
him
,
though
he
had
no
visible
hand
to
assail
him
.
For
all
the
happiness
he
could
promise
himself
in
this
assumed
freedom
of
his
infant
Sover●ignty
,
consisted
in
the
injoyment
of
a
confined
Liberty
:
His
very
Pallace
became
his
Prison
,
and
himself
a
Jaylor
to
himself
.
Rare
were
his
visits
into
the
City
,
for
he
knew
well
how
the
Citizens
did
generally
hate
him
,
and
that
his
own
ears
could
not
chuse
but
be
witness
of
their
odious
censure
.
And
for
his
Summer
Progresses
,
they
were
accompanied
with
such
fears
&
jealousies
,
as
every
Bush
represented
to
his
feavourish
thoughts
a
Bugbear
.
Thus
were
his
Recreations
made
his
Afflictions
;
this
bulk
of
honour
a
burden
to
himself
;
though
sometimes
amongst
his
Infantry
he
would
pretend
to
mirth
,
purposely
to
delude
the
conceit
of
a
Court-visitant
.
As
for
his
princely
Port
,
(
if
penury
might
be
held
princely
)
the
face
of
his
Court
presented
so
mean
a
garb
,
as
it
relished
no
more
of
State
,
then
his
imposthum'd
heart
of
Grace
.
But
we
are
to
return
now
to
that
grand
Convene
,
whereof
there
was
such
great
expectance
;
but
what
this
Mountain
brought
forth
,
you
shall
hear
in
order
,
as
things
occurred
,
duly
related
.
Annal.
Cand.
The
first
day
of
their
Convene
had
been
ever
held
fatal
and
ominous
,
from
that
great
Massacre
acted
under
Leopaldus
.
But
observation
of
dayes
was
by
them
accounted
superstitious
.
Climenes
,
as
became
a
profest
Zelot
,
whereto
none
ever
more
publickly
pretended
,
nor
more
covertly
dissembled
;
with
farre
more
privacy
then
state
entred
the
Praetorian
or
great
Hall
;
and
after
him
the
body
of
the
whole
Assembly
,
a
gallant
prudent
Synod
,
distinguished
into
two
eminent
Societies
,
of
Lords
and
Commons
.
Wherein
you
are
to
note
,
that
those
were
only
Titular
Lords
,
and
nominally
so
created
by
the
hand
of
the
Sword
,
but
not
by
descent
,
some
few
only
excepted
;
who
standing
upon
their
priviledge
of
Birth
,
held
it
a
derogation
to
their
honour
,
to
be
ranked
among
those
who
were
only
Titular
.
For
those
Mushrom
surreptitious
Peers
might
be
,
for
their
denomination
,
properly
compared
to
those
Flyes
bred
neer
to
the
River
Hymerus
,
that
were
but
of
one
dayes
continuance
,
nay
no
sooner
bred
then
dead
:
These
Members
being
now
,
according
to
their
distinct
qualities
,
orderly
seated
and
disposed
;
Climenes
stood
up
,
and
in
a
Preamble
,
for
further
he
did
not
go
;
(
so
as
all
might
safely
conclude
,
that
the
porch
was
larger
then
the
building
)
he
expressed
the
necessity
of
that
Grand
Meeting
,
with
some
Complements
,
apt
enough
to
ingratiate
the
Members
(
in
which
Art
he
was
singularly
school'd
;
)
which
done
,
he
inlarg'd
himself
no
farther
;
transmitting
his
sense
,
and
what
he
held
most
consequent
to
be
insisted
on
for
the
benefit
of
the
publick
,
to
a
Worthy
Person
of
the
Assembly
(
as
he
term'd
him
)
to
be
more
fully
communicated
unto
them
the
next
day
,
Siennefius
was
that
Worthy
Person
,
on
whose
weak
shoulders
Climenes
had
laid
the
burden
of
that
day
;
whose
long-lung'd
Speech
breathing
more
Church
then
State
,
appeared
lesse
curt
and
Laconick
then
his
Commanders
,
but
farre
more
intricate
;
for
to
this
hour
there
was
none
of
all
that
great
Auditory
,
that
could
discover
Climenes
sense
by
that
Speech
without
a
Clavis
;
and
it
seem'd
the
key
was
lost
,
so
as
they
might
justly
despair
of
the
opening
of
it
;
the
only
word
that
gave
way
to
the
unlocking
of
one
ward
,
was
supplies
;
a
term
of
such
hard
digestion
,
as
it
highly
disrelished
some
persons
,
and
those
eminent
Ones
,
of
that
Assembly
,
who
,
it
seemed
,
either
wholly
sleighted
,
or
lightly
resented
Climenes
necessity
.
The
very
next
day
,
to
discover
their
disgusts
,
and
satisfie
their
doubts
,
two
grave
and
judicious
Counsellors
,
by
name
Ventilano
and
Collino
,
were
purposely
sent
from
the
Higher
Order
of
those
Conscript
Senators
,
to
present
to
Climenes
two
Requests
in
the
name
of
the
whole
Synod
.
The
first
was
,
That
he
would
declare
his
own
sense
by
publication
of
his
own
Speech
.
The
second
was
,
That
he
would
render
an
account
of
the
expence
of
all
those
vast
sums
,
by
which
the
State
had
been
so
impoverished
,
and
the
Royall
Exchequer
exhausted
:
Whereto
Climenes
with
an
haughty
and
imperious
deport
,
without
any
civility
at
all
shown
to
those
Counsellors
of
State
,
replyed
;
That
they
were
in
a
great
error
,
if
they
expected
to
receive
a
Transcript
from
his
hand
of
any
Speech
that
he
had
delivered
,
for
it
had
never
been
his
use
,
either
to
imploy
his
own
Pen
,
nor
any
other
Amanuensis
in
order
to
his
Expresses
,
but
that
it
was
a
divine
Providence
inspiring
him
,
whereon
he
relyed
,
and
the
only
Directory
by
which
he
regulated
the
subject
of
his
Discourse
.
And
in
answer
to
their
second
request
,
as
their
expectance
of
an
Account
from
him
,
discovered
in
them
an
unexemplary
boldness
,
so
would
his
acquiescence
to
their
demand
in
that
particular
argue
his
weakness
;
with
which
irresolute
answer
they
returned
lesse
satisfied
,
but
more
exasperated
then
before
.
But
little
cared
Climenes
for
their
incensement
,
his
hand
was
upon
his
Sword
,
as
Tideus
layd
his
upon
his
Shield
;
his
highest
design
was
,
his
Souldiers
pay
,
which
procured
,
he
hoped
ere
long
to
pay
them
home
who
opposed
him
.
Climenes
had
read
,
no
doubt
,
that
Story
of
Hannibal
,
and
knew
well
how
to
make
singular
use
of
it
.
Of
whom
it
was
observed
,
And
some
of
these
feaverish
spirits
,
like
wise
Politicians
,
were
carried
away
with
such
imaginary
fears
of
death
,
which
they
understood
to
be
in
the
power
of
the
Sword
;
and
that
it
argued
small
discretion
to
enter
into
dispute
with
force
and
fury
,
as
they
cunningly
acted
the
part
of
Metius
Suffetius
,
Atrae
Virgae
,
ut
prodigium
Naturae
,
contremuerunt
.
turning
down
right
Succo●s
Merashites
,
or
Neutrals
:
These
trembled
at
the
sight
of
the
Black
Rod
;
as
a
fatal
Prodigy
:
They
knew
death
to
be
the
King
of
fears
,
and
fear
of
Kings
,
much
more
of
inferiour
Creatures
,
whose
happiness
was
their
liberty
,
and
from
others
heavier
censure
an
impunity
.
Others
there
were
of
more
fiery
spirits
,
who
spake
home
,
and
were
as
homely
rewarded
.
Bellonius
to
his
advantage
was
not
addmitted
to
be
a
Member
of
the
Synod
;
and
if
he
had
,
it
was
generall
thought
,
his
presence
had
been
to
small
purpose
;
for
though
a
profest
enemy
to
Climenes
proceedings
,
yet
he
was
ever
held
a
Person
of
more
abilities
for
a
pitcht
Field
,
then
a
Council
of
State
.
And
for
Lamachus
,
though
much
was
expected
,
he
had
learn'd
so
much
Councel
of
Harpocrates
,
as
to
lay
his
finger
on
his
mouth
,
and
teach
his
tongue
to
keep
silence
.
Of
all
this
great
Assembly
,
there
appeared
very
few
to
acquiesce
to
Climenes
supplies
,
though
the
occasions
and
necessities
of
the
Kingdom
were
vehemently
pressed
,
and
that
the
constitution
of
the
State
could
no
way
subsist
without
them
.
Neither
could
it
avail
him
to
bend
his
Bow
,
wanting
sinews
and
strings
to
expedite
his
shot
.
Highly
incensed
was
Climenes
with
this
unexpected
result
from
the
Assembly
,
but
principally
from
the
City
;
wherein
,
though
there
were
many
Indian
Merchants
,
who
,
as
he
supposed
,
had
feathered
their
Nests
sufficiently
,
yet
would
they
find
no
Supplies
to
accommodate
his
urgent
necessity
,
which
appeared
not
only
in
his
publick
imployments
,
and
constant
disbursements
,
in
the
continuance
of
a
standing
Army
,
and
a
straying
Navy
,
but
likewise
in
relation
to
his
private
ingagements
,
by
marrying
his
Daughters
to
eminent
Persons
,
with
fair
promises
,
but
slow
performance
.
Climenes
having
taken
notice
of
the
disaffection
of
such
,
on
whom
he
had
relyed
,
with
the
prevalent
power
and
increasing
strength
of
those
,
by
whom
he
stood
opposed
;
so
as
it
appeared
wholly
improbable
to
him
,
how
any
expediences
should
be
for
his
accomodation
procured
,
or
ought
condescended
to
as
he
desired
,
without
more
ado
:
As
one
transported
with
an
implacable
passion
,
not
without
some
menaces
of
revenge
,
he
entred
the
Senate
House
,
and
with
a
rough
furrowed
countenance
,
dissolv'd
that
great
Councel
;
determining
all
those
weighty
Resolves
and
Results
of
the
Pretorian
in
one
peremptory
period
;
concluding
,
that
the
late
disorders
of
that
Assembly
,
had
begot
more
distractions
in
the
State
of
Candy
,
then
many
years
before
,
during
all
their
civil
Warrs
,
had
ever
produced
;
and
that
those
domestick
divisions
fomented
in
the
breast
of
a
factious
House
,
would
breath
a
fresh
vein
to
the
effusion
of
more
new
bloud
then
the
late
civil
Warrs
,
by
their
fatal
influence
,
to
the
irreparable
ruine
of
that
State
,
had
formerly
occasioned
:
This
storm
,
said
he
,
with
a
countenance
no
lesse
stormy
,
appears
yet
in
a
cloud
,
but
it
would
shortly
break
forth
into
a
violent
tempest
,
which
the
misfortunes
of
a
distempered
State
might
more
easily
bemoan
then
prevent
;
incounter
then
divert
.
It
was
the
opinion
of
some
judicious
Members
,
that
the
dissolving
of
this
Grand
Councel
redounded
highly
to
Climenes
disadvantage
;
for
if
his
passion
would
have
given
way
to
reason
,
it
was
verily
thought
,
that
the
Senate
would
have
acquiesced
to
his
Demands
.
But
truth
is
,
it
was
high
time
for
Climenes
to
provide
for
his
own
safety
,
being
so
dangerously
ingaged
,
that
if
he
had
not
seasonably
dissolv'd
this
Great
Council
,
it
would
in
few
dayes
have
taken
course
to
dissolve
him
,
by
forcing
him
to
act
his
last
Scene
on
the
Scaffold
,
as
he
had
done
to
many
others
,
and
to
submit
his
head
to
Bonnardus
Hatchet
,
by
paying
his
life
tribute
to
the
funeral
Obsequies
of
a
fatal
Mortality
;
for
his
many
insolencies
,
heavy
impositions
,
and
insuccessive
adventures
,
had
quite
razed
out
the
memory
of
his
former
Victories
,
and
resolv'd
his
imperious
height
into
mortal
hate
.
Neither
did
his
words
only
but
his
actions
give
his
Adversaries
,
occasion
to
fear
the
heat
of
his
fury
;
for
the
whole
Bastile
Royal
became
stored
with
his
dis-affected
Instruments
.
There
was
none
,
to
his
apprehension
,
that
bare
him
or
his
Adherents
the
least
hate
,
which
he
revenged
not
with
semblable
spite
.
Neither
was
his
fury
thus
bounded
,
for
remembring
those
undigested
affronts
and
indignities
which
he
had
received
from
the
City
,
he
devised
how
to
lay
heavy
burdens
upon
the
Citizens
,
not
only
in
relation
to
their
trading
or
commerce
,
which
by
Pyracies
,
and
other
Marine
Occurrents
,
became
obstructed
,
but
even
to
their
buildings
,
which
to
the
improvement
of
his
own
Coffers
,
or
the
advance
of
his
Souldiers
,
were
highly
inhanced
.
Neither
was
the
City
slow
in
requiting
these
discurtesies
,
whereof
as
they
were
very
sensible
;
so
in
these
times
of
their
sufferings
there
was
an
opportunity
offered
them
for
acting
what
their
thoughts
had
privately
designed
.
About
this
time
there
chanced
to
arise
a
great
difference
betwixt
two
eminent
Families
within
the
City
,
the
Cervisiarii
and
Dispensatorii
.
Now
Climenes
stood
wholly
for
the
former
,
but
the
City
,
in
opposition
of
him
,
for
the
latter
;
so
as
there
fell
no
place
nor
office
of
command
within
the
walls
,
wherein
the
Disp●nsatorii
upon
election
were
not
preferred
,
and
the
Cervisiarii
rejected
.
This
nettled
Climenes
heart
above
all
others
,
being
so
nearly
concerned
in
his
Relations
to
the
Family
of
the
Cervisiarii
,
as
he
ever
ingenuously
acknowledged
even
in
the
height
of
his
fortunes
,
that
his
Extraction
originally
received
breath
from
that
Family
.
But
this
disgust
,
were
it
never
so
justly
grounded
(
as
indeed
they
could
not
wound
them
,
but
it
must
passe
through
his
sides
)
those
that
were
the
prime
Commoners
,
holding
the
greatest
stroak
and
sway
in
the
City
,
slighted
his
threats
,
and
disesteem'd
his
frowns
:
For
though
he
ruled
all
by
the
power
of
the
Sword
,
yet
they
knew
how
to
oppose
him
by
the
strength
of
their
Charter
,
the
priviledges
whereof
he
had
constantly
protested
to
maintain
,
even
unto
death
.
Now
the
express
words
of
their
antient
Charter
,
continued
by
many
Centuries
of
years
,
in
the
Ordination
of
all
Civil
Offices
,
admitted
a
free
Election
,
excluding
ever
those
three
fearful
Precipices
,
Fear
,
Favour
and
Reward
.
Besides
all
this
,
so
inveterate
was
the
Plebeian
hate
to
Climenes
,
as
his
Lady
Adipa
,
(
a
meer
stranger
to
a
Princely
posture
)
could
never
make
her
visits
in
the
City
,
but
the
refuse
and
off-scum
of
those
streets
,
where
she
occasionally
passed
,
would
not
stick
publickly
to
revile
her
,
aspersing
the
fowlest
terms
of
infamy
and
disgrace
upon
her
;
yet
when
inquiry
was
made
,
the
Authors
could
not
be
found
.
So
hard
it
is
to
return
a
remedy
,
where
Authority
inclines
to
a
partial
connivence
;
cordially
intending
,
whatsoever
is
pretended
,
to
give
way
,
be
it
never
so
much
pursued
,
for
the
Offenders
impunity
.
Howsoever
this
ancient
uncivilized
Lad
appeared
as
great
a
Stranger
to
Climenes
crimes
,
as
she
was
in
her
own
person
to
all
courtly
State
,
moulding
her self
neerer
to
her
own
rural
Education
,
then
the
majesty
of
that
superlative
condition
,
whereto
she
was
so
lately
advanced
;
and
indeed
,
neither
was
her
Person
nor
Breeding
sutable
for
courting
.
By
this
time
,
Climenes
growing
jealous
of
the
affection
of
his
Souldiery
,
who
seemed
much
discontented
with
the
unexpected
dissolution
of
the
Senate
,
convened
before
him
all
the
Major-Generals
and
prime
Officers
of
his
Army
,
to
whom
;
drawing
aside
the
hangings
of
his
lodging-chamber
,
he
communicated
his
troubled
thoughts
in
this
manner
:
Fellow
Souldiers
,
Go
on
then
,
fight
for
me
,
or
against
me
;
as
the
one
may
oblige
me
,
so
the
other
shall
not
affright
me
.
Resolution
can
no
way
suffer
,
where
true
Valour
gives
Convoy
to
the
Port
of
Honour
.
This
Speech
wrought
attention
on
some
with
applause
,
which
was
manifested
by
their
Hum
;
but
the
discontented
Party
went
away
unsatisfied
as
they
came
.
Which
Climenes
quickly
observing
,
resolved
to
take
another
course
,
and
in
such
a
way
as
might
accommodate
him
in
three
main
respects
,
both
for
securing
his
Person
,
strengthening
his
Commands
,
and
raising
him
to
the
highest
pitch
of
his
Ambition
.
And
to
expedite
his
designs
,
seeing
himself
inclosed
with
such
straits
at
home
,
he
seeks
how
to
purchase
himself
Friends
abroad
.
Ferrara
he
finds
to
be
no
firm
Friend
to
rely
on
;
his
aime
therefore
was
to
fall
off
from
their
association
,
and
ingratiate
himself
by
Embassies
,
with
other
indearing
tenders
of
affection
,
into
the
Alliance
of
Hetruria
,
a
long
continued
Enemy
to
Ferrara
;
imagining
,
as
he
might
well
,
that
the
Hetrurian
might
prove
more
useful
for
his
interest
then
the
uncertain
Amity
of
Ferrara
:
But
for
all
his
solicitancy
,
the
Hetrurian
was
too
wise
to
give
ear
to
a
reconciled
Enemy
(
and
such
an
one
had
Climenes
profest
himself
during
all
these
Civil
warrs
)
in
adheering
and
strongly
assisting
Ferrara
,
their
mortal
Foe
against
them
.
Climenes
being
thus
disappointed
of
their
Alliance
,
which
had
been
of
infinite
consequence
to
the
settlement
of
his
affairs
,
he
determines
to
set
up
his
rest
upon
one
especial
design
,
which
he
had
been
long
in
hatching
,
but
now
came
to
acting
;
for
so
the
necessity
of
his
condition
,
wherewith
he
was
straitened
,
presently
required
;
and
to
make
a
tryal
of
his
conclusion
,
knowing
by
long
experience
,
that
more
advantage
would
accrue
to
his
addresses
by
dispatch
then
delay
,
one
morning
betimes
,
when
they
least
expected
,
he
calls
up
his
Cabinet
Councel
,
communicating
himself
freely
unto
them
in
this
sort
.
Climenes
Speech
to
his
Cabinet
Councel
.
My
prudent
and
faithful
Counsel
,
it
were
not
possible
that
I
should
appear
either
so
insensible
of
mine
own
former
condition
,
or
so
unmindful
of
your
vigilant
care
and
approved
affection
,
as
not
to
retain
in
memory
the
sundry
straits
,
whereto
the
giddy
wheel
of
Fate
has
in
these
agitations
of
State
reduced
me
;
with
what
promptness
and
alacrity
your
great
Wisdoms
have
seasonably
contributed
in
those
extreams
to
my
relief
.
To
whom
then
should
I
make
my
address
,
but
where
I
have
found
such
opportunate
redresses
?
And
I
must
freely
acquaint
you
,
that
my
condition
is
such
,
as
your
advice
could
never
be
more
useful
to
me
in
the
Receit
,
nor
more
grateful
in
the
Application
:
But
those
wounds
have
been
ever
held
of
a
malignant
quality
,
that
expect
cure
without
a
discovery
.
I
intend
therefore
with
much
freedom
and
confidence
to
unbosom
my self
before
your
Honors
:
You
cannot
but
observe
how
variously
disposed
their
affections
are
towards
me
,
who
owe
themselves
unto
me
:
This
dissent
in
Opinions
has
begot
these
divisions
,
and
different
distractions
.
This
great
City
Thamipolis
,
the
glory
of
Nations
,
Candies
ancient
Metropolis
,
whose
sinews
gave
supplies
to
our
Forces
in
all
these
Civil
Wars
against
Rosicles
,
and
his
Successor
Charicles
,
are
lately
fallen
from
us
;
standing
wholly
for
a
State-Government
,
others
for
a
Democracy
,
others
for
a
Platonick
Community
:
Whereas
your
Prudence
,
who
sit
at
the
Sterne
of
the
State
,
has
ever
stood
constantly
to
a
Monarchical
Soveraignty
;
whereto
I
have
been
many
times
by
your
grave
advice
seriously
invited
,
and
solicitously
courted
;
but
through
a
native
modesty
being
flat
against
those
Principles
,
which
I
had
fought
against
and
protested
,
I
seemingly
declined
.
But
,
my
good
Lords
,
the
urgent
necessities
of
these
times
,
with
those
threatening
combustions
and
approaching
storms
,
which
every
where
ingage
our
care
for
a
timely
prevention
,
have
so
strongly
wrought
upon
our
thoughts
,
as
we
are
resolved
for
the
acception
of
that
Imperial
Title
,
if
your
assents
,
as
you
have
ever
formerly
expressed
,
give
way
unto
it
.
Sundry
Statizing
Libels
have
been
by
malignant
spirits
in
sundry
corners
dispersed
,
highly
tending
to
the
derogation
of
our
Honor
,
and
Prerogative
of
State
:
All
which
,
our
present
condition
being
rest
of
a
Titular
Power
,
we
were
necessitated
to
connive
at
,
as
if
it
had
not
concern'd
us
.
These
with
many
other
State-maladies
,
may
,
as
we
conceive
,
become
capable
of
a
speedy
cure
by
your
joynt
assent
to
our
admittance
of
this
Style
.
Neither
has
Ambition
,
but
the
States
preservation
,
pitcht
me
upon
these
Resolves
;
for
HE
,
in
whose
presence
I
stand
,
has
ever
dictated
to
me
this
good
Counsel
;
Let
Reason
go
before
every
Enterprise
,
and
Counsel
before
every
Action
:
I
desire
no
more
of
you
,
nor
can
I
expect
lesse
from
you
,
then
to
pursue
what
you
did
attempt
;
your
foundations
,
have
taken
up
a
great
deal
of
room
.
Do
but
accomplish
and
make
good
what
you
have
undertaken
;
and
handle
those
things
which
you
have
devised
and
mused
of
with
your selves
.
My
Lords
,
you
have
a
great
share
in
me
,
Now
,
that
I
may
be
the
fitter
moulded
for
it
,
and
better
inabled
to
support
it
,
be
it
your
goodness
to
lend
me
your
heads
,
as
I
shall
upon
all
occasions
render
you
my
hands
.
Action
and
Policy
must
make
up
the
Diapason
in
this
State-harmony
;
for
where
the
Gown
and
Gantlet
are
manag'd
with
discretion
,
and
in
a
Symmetrial
order
,
they
cannot
chuse
but
come
off
with
honour
,
and
by
their
fair
deportment
present
actions
corresponding
with
the
constitution
of
a
Senate
,
and
the
Title
of
an
Emperour
.
His
Cabinet
Counsel
was
so
fitly
moulded
to
his
bent
,
as
they
knew
well
how
to
sooth
his
humour
.
So
as
,
though
some
of
them
had
highly
disgusted
Climenes
rash
Act
of
dissolving
the
Synod
without
the
privity
or
approvement
of
his
Councel
;
they
not
only
with
joynt
vote
assented
,
but
strongly
importuned
him
to
expedite
his
Resolve
in
this
acceptation
of
the
Imperial
Crown
.
This
was
the
Lure
which
they
applied
,
and
whereon
his
attractive
appetite
quickly
baited
.
Neither
did
Climenes
retard
their
desires
:
For
though
dayly
swounings
arising
from
an
ill-limited
swinge
of
passion
,
and
fury
of
opposition
had
much
enfeebled
him
:
nay
,
though
nightly
fears
and
jealousies
,
usher'd
in
with
terrible
visions
had
greiviously
startled
him
;
yet
so
strongly
had
Ambition
seiz'd
upon
his
thoughts
,
as
nothing
could
be
with
more
winged
speed
accelerated
,
then
the
pursuit
of
his
Imperial
Investiture
;
which
within
few
dayes
after
,
was
with
more
privacy
then
publick
solemnity
accomplished
in
this
manner
.
The
Prince
Ferrara
by
his
Proxie
was
highly
courted
to
be
there
present
,
but
affairs
of
more
obliging
concern
had
ingaged
him
.
The
Dukes
too
of
Florence
and
Millain
were
expected
;
All
this
fore-slowed
not
his
design
:
In
terram
,
Diadema
si
tollas
,
a
terra
in
terram
tolleris
,
antequam
geres
.
On
earth
,
if
thou
takest
a
Crown
,
thou
mayst
receive
it
,
but
from
earth
thou
shalt
return
to
earth
before
thou
wear
it
.
This
upon
his
first
reading
of
it
did
not
a
little
amaze
him
;
but
afterwards
holding
it
to
be
the
device
of
some
dis-affected
person
,
or
rather
some
Magical
Spell
or
Inchantment
,
he
wholly
slighted
it
;
though
shortly
after
this
incantation
prov'd
a
true
divination
.
For
scarcely
had
that
Imperial
Crown
impaled
his
head
,
till
(
as
if
it
held
it self
too
worthy
a
Receit
for
such
a
Guest
)
he
sunk
down
suddenly
,
and
so
expired
.
The
report
of
this
unexpected
change
was
presently
bruted
abroad
through
all
the
Garrisons
,
designed
for
the
guard
of
his
Person
,
and
safeguard
of
the
Pallace
,
which
were
numerous
,
and
in
several
places
disposed
;
so
many
were
the
fears
,
jealousies
,
and
affrights
,
which
usually
encountred
him
;
being
,
indeed
to
the
judgement
of
all
those
who
knew
him
,
a
constant
terror
,
or
rather
a
prison
to
himself
;
wherein
he
exercised
his
imperious
Soveraignty
,
and
Syracusan
Tyranny
,
till
this
adventitious
Fate
(
which
occasioned
more
grounds
of
joy
then
tears
)
cut
him
off
from
acting
more
cruelty
,
by
imposing
a
period
to
his
usurped
Power
,
and
closing
it
with
a
tragick
and
disconsolate
Catastrophe
.
Neither
had
this
report
of
his
death
only
possest
the
Guards
,
for
by
this
time
it
had
sounded
loudly
in
the
ear
of
the
Roman
Regiment
,
who
were
ever
held
the
strength
and
sinews
of
his
Army
.
These
,
as
they
were
Souldiers
of
Fortune
,
no
sooner
heard
of
Climenes
fall
,
then
they
stood
up
for
anothers
rise
.
And
the
late
unfortunate
and
proscribed
Charicles
must
be
the
man
;
Regal
Throne
;
and
that
his
B
other
Jagonius
,
a
Prince
of
an
undanted
spirit
,
and
by
all
the
Souldiery
infinitely
loved
,
lineally
succeeded
him
;
which
is
by
the
approvedst
Centurists
opposed
.
which
they
publickly
attested
,
and
with
joynt
clamour
ecchoed
forth
in
these
words
:
REVOCETUR
CHARICLES
AB
EXILIO
,
IN
REGALI
CONSTITUATUR
SOLIO
:
Let
Charicles
be
recalled
from
Exile
,
and
restored
to
his
Empire
.
This
startled
the
Counsel
of
State
;
but
holding
it
no
discretion
to
dispute
with
Power
,
after
a
short
Consult
(
for
the
heady
Regiment
would
permit
no
long
debate
)
it
was
by
joynt
vote
concluded
,
and
with
the
Signal
Manual
of
the
Senate
consigned
,
that
a
Commission
General
so
sealed
should
be
recommended
to
the
care
and
transaction
of
an
Eminent
Person
for
that
purpose
elected
and
authorized
,
with
qualified
Hostages
deposited
:
the
purport
of
which
Instrument
bore
this
face
;
That
it
was
the
universal
consent
and
desire
of
the
State
of
Candie
,
that
Charicles
should
be
recalled
from
Banishment
,
and
re-invested
in
his
hereditary
Rights
,
and
Imperial
Throne
;
That
Security
was
already
given
,
by
considerable
Hostages
,
for
his
safe
arrival
and
access
to
his
Metropolitan
City
Thamipolis
,
and
his
Royal
Pallace
Leucoma
,
a
too
accurate
Seat
for
an
usurping
State
.
These
pleasant
tidings
came
no
less
unexpectedly
then
seasonably
to
the
ear
of
Charicles
,
being
at
that
time
divided
betwixt
hope
and
fear
;
but
over-ballanced
were
his
hopes
with
feares
,
having
such
weak
Forces
visibly
appearing
to
advance
his
hopes
.
Time
would
admit
no
delay
in
pursuit
of
so
fair
an
opportunity
;
so
soon
therefore
as
he
could
prepare
himself
with
conveniencies
sutable
for
so
important
an
Expedition
,
he
resolved
to
take
his
leave
of
the
Court
of
Ferrara
,
and
address
his
course
for
Candy
.
Many
dayes
were
not
past
,
till
all
things
were
provided
according
to
his
desires
,
and
every
way
corresponding
with
his
occasions
.
Along
then
,
with
his
disconsolate
Mother
,
a
Lady
of
singular
piety
,
with
others
of
his
Relation
,
he
commits
himself
to
the
mercy
of
the
Sea
,
where
,
by
the
assistance
of
prosperous
winds
,
within
short
time
after
he
landed
in
Meloces
an
Haven
in
Crete
,
anciently
famous
for
confluence
of
Merchants
and
plenty
of
Traffick
;
from
whence
he
was
with
all
Princely
state
,
and
a
gallant
retinue
of
Peers
,
(
such
as
had
been
seldom
seen
in
the
presence
of
Climenes
)
with
all
cheerfulness
and
alacrity
conducted
towards
Thamipolis
.
Some
half
a
league
before
he
came
to
his
Pallace
of
Leucoma
;
where
he
first
intended
to
shew
himself
to
his
Court
and
People
,
he
alighted
from
his
Chariot
,
and
taking
the
Queen-Mother
by
the
hand
;
Madam
,
said
he
,
will
your
Highness
be
pleased
to
take
Horse
?
It
will
give
satisfaction
to
the
longing
expectance
of
our
affectionate
Subjects
.
She
inclin'd
to
his
motion
;
and
drawing
neer
to
the
sight
of
the
Aceschein
or
Refectory
,
mounted
prospectively
above
the
Court
gate
:
Charicles
casting
his
eye
aside
,
sent
forth
a
deep
sigh
.
What
may
occasion
that
,
said
Iri●a
,
arriving
so
near
your
own
?
Madam
,
re●lyed
he
,
this
wa●
fetcht
from
the
sad
memory
of
mine
own
;
the
crimson
circle
of
that
unhallowed
place
made
your
Grace
a
Widdow
,
and
us
Orphans
;
this
was
that
Perfidious
plat
,
where
in
the
sight
of
his
own
,
he
was
deserted
of
his
own
,
and
weakly
bemoaned
by
his
own
,
the
sable
Stage
where
he
performed
that
last
Act
,
which
reft
you
of
an
Husband
,
us
of
a
pious
Father
.
This
relation
Irina
plenteously
imbathed
in
tears
;
but
high
and
consequent
affairs
injoyn'd
their
divertisement
from
a
pursuit
of
passion
,
to
such
a
composure
or
moderation
,
as
might
suit
better
with
the
necessity
of
their
addresses
.
The
very
next
day
after
Charicles
repaire
to
Leucoma
,
his
inauguration
was
with
all
Princely
magnificence
and
solemnity
performed
;
wherein
it
was
a
wonderful
thing
to
observe
,
with
what
promptness
(
to
omit
the
incomparable
care
and
sedulity
of
his
Courtiers
)
that
Neutral
City
,
which
so
lately
before
had
dis-obliged
their
absolute
Soveraign
,
by
impoverishing
themselves
to
strengthen
the
sinews
of
an
Usurper
;
with
what
alacrity
,
I
say
,
these
Protean
Proselytes
or
State-Chamelions
,
having
changed
their
hearts
as
well
as
habits
,
manifested
their
Zeal
to
this
late
inaugur'd
Prince
,
not
only
in
acclamations
,
publick
shows
,
presentments
,
and
Bone-fires
,
with
Conduits
running
freely
with
all
sorts
of
Wines
,
but
in
precious
and
rich
presents
;
implying
demonstratively
,
that
though
their
Treasuries
had
been
long
time
shut
from
the
seizure
of
an
Usurper
,
they
could
readily
find
keyes
to
open
them
to
their
Hereditary
Prince
and
lineal
Emperour
.
This
incomparably
ingratiated
him
,
and
advantaged
them
in
the
confirming
their
Charter
,
which
by
their
miscarriage
had
run
it self
upon
a
shelf
of
irreparable
danger
,
had
not
the
Princes
indulency
past
over
the
highness
of
their
delinquency
:
which
in
the
judgment
of
that
time
appeared
to
be
a
singular
argument
of
clemency
in
Charicles
,
who
had
far
greater
cause
to
revenge
then
remit
,
not
only
the
private
designs
,
but
publick
attempts
of
many
self-interested
Citizens
of
Thamipolis
,
who
profest
themselves
constant
Favorites
to
Climenes
,
during
the
pursuit
of
all
those
Civil
Wars
;
which
affectionate
adherency
they
were
ever
ready
to
manifest
in
their
ample
and
voluntary
contributions
upon
all
occasions
,
as
likewise
in
their
promptness
of
Recruits
,
affording
fresh
supplies
to
the
Rebels
assistance
with
more
quickness
then
it
was
required
.
Yet
the
memory
of
all
these
insupportable
injuries
by
the
Princes
piety
became
buried
;
so
highly
was
he
taken
with
those
visible
testimonies
of
their
submission
and
humble
desires
of
reconciliation
,
as
his
benign
disposition
made
revenge
a
a
stranger
to
his
thoughts
,
receiving
them
into
his
Favour
,
whose
actions
had
merited
the
heaviest
weight
of
his
displeasure
.
Truth
is
,
it
was
not
possible
that
any
occasional
disgust
could
be
so
implacable
,
as
not
to
be
in
some
measure
attempered
or
mollified
by
their
seasonable
application
,
and
free
agnition
of
their
dis-allegiance
towards
him
,
and
by
what
person
principally
those
disrepects
had
been
fomented
:
And
this
was
one
Salino
,
who
had
been
the
only
disciplinary
Martialist
for
the
City
.
A
man
seemingly
appearing
of
a
clear
and
serene
temper
,
but
cordially
factious
,
and
of
a
turbulent
nature
;
which
being
aggravated
by
sundry
instances
,
brought
him
to
a
shorter
period
then
his
Complices
desired
,
though
nothing
sooner
then
his
actions
deserved
;
being
executed
on
the
Artillery
Round
,
where
his
perfidious
Head-piece
had
moulded
the
platforms
of
many
dangerous
divisions
:
So
easie
it
was
for
one
contagious
Member
to
infect
a
whole
Society
,
and
by
poysonous
ingredients
distemper
the
constitution
of
a
Loyally-affected
City
.
For
had
not
the
sinister
influence
of
such
as
these
operated
strongly
upon
the
principles
of
Thamipolis
,
it
had
never
fallen
into
such
dangerous
conclusions
,
nor
profest
it self
either
hostile
or
neutral
to
a
lineal
Soveraignty
.
After
this
unexpected
juncture
by
the
Prince
his
gratious
acceptance
of
the
Citizens
into
his
favour
and
protection
,
there
past
not
one
day
without
some
Presentment
or
other
set
forth
to
the
best
beauty
and
advantage
that
either
Art
or
Invention
could
devise
.
Amongst
which
there
was
one
only
Satyrical
Conceit
,
which
took
infinitely
above
the
rest
;
and
this
was
presented
in
a
dance
of
Sylvans
,
wherein
the
chiefest
Sylvan
,
attired
in
Princely
habit
,
after
the
end
of
the
Antick
,
bearing
the
vivid
Effigies
,
both
in
countenance
and
personage
,
of
Climenes
,
sat
mounted
in
a
Chair
of
State
,
to
whom
was
presented
a
Coronet
of
pure
gold
;
and
having
his
head
ready
to
be
impaled
with
it
,
there
appeared
an
hand
out
of
a
Cloud
snatching
at
the
Coronet
so
presented
,
and
in
a
Chrystal
Ovally
form'd
,
containing
this
Impresse
,
DETUR
DIGNIORI
.
This
was
no
sooner
shown
,
then
the
Sylvan
was
with
much
disgrace
forc'd
out
of
that
Chair
,
wherein
he
was
formerly
placed
,
and
another
more
Princely
or
Majestick
Sylvan
,
holding
a
neer
resemblance
both
in
favour
and
feature
to
Charicles
,
was
set
in
that
Chair
of
State
,
and
dignified
with
the
Coronet
.
This
Invention
infinitely
contented
the
well-affected
,
which
was
generally
so
,
or
pretending
to
be
so
.
Though
Charicles
forth
of
a
native
modesty
,
either
seem'd
not
to
observe
it
,
or
would
take
no
cognisance
of
it
,
being
much
below
his
scorn
to
impe
his
wings
with
scattered
feathers
,
or
to
triumph
in
the
dishonour
of
a
deceased
Foe
,
whose
ignominy
,
though
it
deserv'd
no
pity
,
yet
he
held
it
ignoble
to
rub
over
the
wounds
of
a
blasted
memory
.
Neither
did
this
his
gallant
compassion
,
extend
it self
only
so
his
deceased
Enemy
,
but
even
to
his
Posterity
,
to
as
there
were
none
of
his
Relations
,
who
did
not
amply
taste
of
it
;
only
it
was
his
pleasure
with
much
mildness
to
tax
his
Daughter
Salacia
,
a
Lady
infinitely
spritely
,
and
a
compleat
Curtezan
,
of
her
too
much
liberty
,
wishing
her
to
be
more
tender
of
her
honour
;
wherein
he
exprest
rather
the
office
of
a
Father
then
a
stranger
.
So
as
Alexander
,
that
universal
Monarch
,
could
never
shew
more
Princely
clemency
nor
affability
to
Darius
Wife
and
his
Children
,
after
his
Conquest
,
then
Charicles
did
to
the
Relations
of
Climenes
after
his
death
.
True
it
is
,
that
though
Climenes
layd
great
taxes
;
assesses
,
and
impositions
upon
the
Candiots
,
pretending
,
that
the
constitution
of
the
State
could
not
otherwise
subsist
,
which
pressures
begot
him
a
general
Odium
amongst
the
Natives
,
whose
necks
had
been
formerly
free
of
such
servile
yoaks
;
Now
collect
hence
the
rare
temperance
and
moderation
of
Charicles
amidst
these
attractive
Baits
.
Power
enough
he
had
to
seize
on
them
,
and
to
convert
them
to
his
own
Treasury
;
yet
neither
could
the
memory
of
an
Enemy
,
nor
his
own
resistless
Authority
,
induce
him
to
act
ought
that
might
detract
from
the
splendor
of
Justice
,
or
appear
light
in
the
scale
of
Equity
.
Whatsoever
those
,
who
had
relation
to
Climenes
,
impropriate
to
themselves
,
he
not
only
left
untoucht
,
but
publish'd
it
as
his
express
Command
,
that
none
,
under
what
colour
or
pretence
soever
,
should
seize
upon
any
such
treasure
,
substance
,
or
utensils
,
but
leave
them
to
the
injoyment
of
his
Successors
without
disturbance
:
Which
Princely
compassion
not
only
gave
wings
to
his
Fame
,
but
won
those
to
his
affection
,
whose
hearts
had
been
before
Aliens
to
his
devotion
,
and
private
obstructers
(
for
further
they
durst
not
go
)
to
his
late
investiture
and
inauguration
.
But
to
the
end
he
might
declare
himself
in
a
more
satisfactory
manner
to
his
Peerage
and
Commons
,
he
propos'd
a
sixt
day
,
wherin
he
intended
to
communicate
his
thoughts
and
designs
relating
to
the
State
in
general
;
as
likewise
touching
some
eminent
Persons
,
of
whose
different
opinions
and
affections
towards
him
,
he
had
received
both
by
intelligence
,
and
personal
interests
,
ample
demonstrations
,
which
in
a
Princely
demean
and
well-beseeming
posture
(
as
none
could
deliver
his
mind
with
a
more
majestick
presence
,
nor
propriety
of
express
)
he
returned
in
this
sort
.
Charicles
Speech
to
the
Peers
and
Commons
of
Candie
.
My
Lords
and
Commons
;
and
to
you
first
,
who
hold
the
first
place
in
my
thoughts
,
nay
,
to
whom
I
owe
my self
,
in
recollection
of
my
late
condition
,
and
your
approved
zeal
;
which
your
loyal
desires
no
lesse
opportunely
then
compassionately
exprest
,
when
my
necessities
required
them
most
,
being
in
the
depth
of
my
extremes
,
and
the
lowest
ebbe
of
my
fortunes
;
yet
as
in
the
purest
Minerals
there
is
to
be
found
some
ground-soyle
,
and
impurer
metal
;
so
there
were
some
among
you
,
whom
I
shall
leave
to
the
scrutiny
of
their
own
breasts
)
who
,
though
their
Extractions
were
antiently
good
,
yet
the
corruption
of
these
times
had
depraved
them
,
and
by
degenerating
principles
made
them
evil
.
These
were
such
,
as
neither
the
apprehension
of
my
calamitous
condition
could
reclaim
them
,
nor
their
own
sufferings
,
being
slaved
to
a
tyrannick
Government
,
reduce
them
.
These
were
no
refined
metal
,
no
gold
of
Peru
,
for
they
would
not
abide
the
touch
,
but
adulterate
;
Neutrals
at
the
best
,
if
not
profest
Enemies
to
the
equity
of
my
Cause
.
I
should
be
loth
to
dart
a
glowing
blush
on
any
of
their
faces
by
my
discovery
;
I
leave
them
to
a
sensible
remorse
of
their
obliquities
,
and
a
bosom-agnition
of
their
own
disloyalty
.
By
the
word
of
a
Prince
,
so
they
redeem
the
time
they
have
lost
,
and
teach
their
thoughts
to
be
regulated
by
his
Commands
,
whose
just
Soveraignty
they
stand
obliged
to
obey
,
their
former
failings
shall
be
past
over
with
all
impunity
:
To
have
it
in
ones
power
to
punish
,
and
not
to
inflict
it
,
I
have
ever
held
it
Princely
.
But
let
not
this
Clemency
be
abused
,
lest
it
return
with
the
heavier
stroke
;
injoy
your
own
,
so
long
as
with
fidelity
you
own
him
whom
you
ought
to
serve
,
and
from
whose
allegiance
in
the
least
iota
to
decline
,
is
to
lose
your selves
.
But
it
will
not
hold
with
reason
,
that
all
should
be
admitted
to
this
Indulgence
:
Some
have
had
their
hands
deeply
imbrewed
in
the
innocent
blood
of
a
pious
Prince
,
our
indeered
Father
,
and
to
remit
these
,
were
to
forget
the
memory
of
a
Father
.
Yet
in
relation
to
that
Fact
,
the
unexemplary
cruelty
whereof
no
Age
may
parallel
,
we
are
not
wholly
ignorant
,
how
those
Assacinates
(
for
otherwise
we
cannot
possibly
brand
them
)
were
of
a
several
and
distinct
qualification
in
that
tragick
and
tyrannick
Scene
;
some
being
only
Assenting
,
and
those
traduced
by
error
;
others
Active
,
and
those
possessed
with
rankor
,
whose
irregular
fury
deserves
an
higher
censure
.
For
the
former
,
we
have
a
bosom
opening
to
mercy
;
but
for
the
latter
,
as
they
had
active
hands
in
depriving
their
Native
Prince
of
life
,
and
us
of
a
Father
;
it
cannot
be
otherwise
holden
then
a
mild
severity
,
and
a
temperate
act
of
Justice
,
if
we
abridge
their
liberty
,
by
confining
them
to
a
perpetual
restraint
:
Our
well-affected
Party
has
been
confined
for
their
conscientious
obedience
,
well
may
these
suffer
in
the
same
manner
for
their
dis-allegiance
.
As
for
that
prime
Moulder
and
Fomenter
of
these
mischiefs
,
more
exquisite
tortures
had
been
inflicted
on
him
,
if
his
sudden
death
had
not
prevented
our
revenge
.
Others
there
be
,
who
,
though
our
too
much
intimacy
and
bounty
oblig'd
them
to
us
,
yet
were
they
made
Intelligencers
against
us
.
No
passage
in
our
Cabinet-Counsel
,
were
it
never
so
important
,
could
promise
secresie
,
nor
to
our
Person
security
,
through
their
interests
and
intercourse
of
Letters
with
our
mortal
Enemy
:
Some
of
these
State-timists
we
have
formerly
discovered
,
and
laid
it
open
unto
them
,
shadowing
their
excuse
with
silence
;
for
no
other
defence
could
they
pretend
for
their
dis-service
;
only
some
formal
arguments
of
remorse
were
afterwards
shown
by
them
which
allay'd
our
heat
,
injoyning
them
no
other
pennance
then
their
absence
for
our
satisfaction
.
Our
Resolves
stand
fixt
;
they
must
hold
themselves
strangers
to
our
Court
.
Fruits
being
once
corrupted
at
heart
,
appear
they
never
so
specious
,
cannot
prove
sound
.
For
you
,
my
Commons
,
we
impute
your
neglect
of
obedience
to
that
common
error
of
Plebeian
ignorance
;
we
are
confident
that
your
disloyalty
clos'd
in
that
low
degree
,
as
it
scarcely
deserv'd
to
fall
under
the
notion
of
Treason
;
you
were
carried
along
with
the
strong
current
of
the
time
;
applying
your
weak
interests
to
the
peremptory
commands
of
your
Superiours
.
It
was
your
sole
desire
to
sit
quietly
under
your
own
Vine
,
and
to
partake
of
the
fruit
of
your
own
Olives
;
whereof
,
by
this
injoyment
of
peace
,
you
may
amply
receive
the
benefit
.
Rely
on
the
reputation
of
his
word
,
under
whose
Soveraignty
you
live
,
that
you
cannot
be
more
dear
to
your selves
then
you
shall
be
unto
us
,
so
popular
Faction
divide
you
not
from
us
.
Not
do
we
doubt
it
,
for
we
see
that
cheerfulness
in
your
faces
,
as
it
assures
us
,
that
nothing
but
Characters
of
loyalty
can
be
writ
in
your
hearts
:
From
which
assurance
,
we
have
signed
your
pardon
with
the
Signet
Manual
of
our
pity
.
Now
for
you
the
Citizens
of
our
great
Thamipolis
,
we
cannot
be
ignorant
of
your
free
contributions
to
our
disadvantage
,
your
purses
were
never
straitened
,
nor
your
hands
contracted
,
so
you
might
by
the
emptying
of
your
Coffers
strengthen
the
sinews
of
the
publick
Enemy
,
in
the
defiance
of
your
Princes
soveraignty
.
Notwithstanding
all
this
,
you
shall
know
that
our
resolves
are
steered
rather
by
Reason
then
Passion
;
and
that
the
relish
of
Remorse
has
stronger
influence
over
us
then
the
spirit
of
revenge
:
nay
,
that
it
shall
be
ever
the
lowest
of
our
scorn
,
to
lift
up
our
hand
to
strike
,
where
Princely
Clemency
invites
us
to
spare
;
nor
to
use
Corrasives
,
where
we
hope
that
Cordials
may
cure
;
we
appear
here
in
this
Pretorian
,
where
we
have
been
lately
re-invested
in
our
lineal
right
,
ready
to
receive
you
with
an
indulgent
bosom
,
and
lodge
you
in
the
armes
of
mercy
.
In
a
word
,
our
compassion
shall
acquaint
you
,
that
as
our
feet
be
slow
in
attempting
,
so
we
are
none
of
those
Syracusan
Furies
,
whose
hands
were
heavy
in
inflicting
.
And
to
cement
your
hearts
more
individually
to
us
,
our
request
shall
be
this
unto
you
all
,
that
you
would
use
your
Swords
for
us
,
so
long
as
we
govern
justly
,
and
to
unsheath
them
against
us
,
when
we
act
ought
deviously
,
or
contrary
to
the
rule
of
Equity
.
Mean
time
we
give
way
,
that
your
Charter
,
Liberties
,
Priviledges
,
and
Immunities
be
confirmed
in
as
large
and
ample
manner
,
to
all
intents
and
purposes
,
as
they
were
first
granted
;
for
it
is
not
our
meaning
,
that
you
should
lose
any
thing
by
your
late
opposition
,
so
you
redeem
the
time
,
and
repair
your
fame
by
subsequent
Evidences
of
your
loyalty
and
affection
.
The
Citizens
,
with
the
rest
of
the
people
there
assembled
,
being
able
to
contain
themselves
no
longer
,
exprest
their
universal
joy
with
this
joynt
Applause
and
Acclamation
:
Long
may
CHARICLES
rule
over
us
;
long
and
prosperously
may
He
and
his
Royal
Posterity
flourish
,
and
peaceably
reign
over
CANDIE
.
An
additional
Observation
extracted
from
the
historical
sequel
of
this
ROYAL
ROMANCE
FRom
a
narrower
and
nearer
scrutiny
into
this
Author
(
a
singular
Surveyor
and
Observer
of
the
Revolutions
of
those
fatal
times
)
we
find
how
one
Darchirus
succeeded
Climenes
;
a
Person
of
pleasure
,
naturally
addicted
to
Hunting
,
Hawking
,
and
other
generous
Recreations
:
So
as
being
either
wearied
with
the
unsuteable
burden
of
State-affairs
,
or
the
apparent
disgust
of
some
neerallying
Competitors
,
or
out
of
a
conscientious
resentment
of
the
unjust
usurpation
of
his
Father
,
and
injurious
deprivation
of
Rosicles
,
he
begun
to
cast
his
eye
upon
the
true
Line
,
surrendring
his
Crown
,
and
betaking
himself
to
the
innocent
freedom
of
a
Country
life
.
FINIS
.