The
Historie
of
the
Princesse
Florides
,
and
Prodito
.
THE
Island
of
Negropont
,
for
the
greatness
,
and
the
noblenesse
of
it
,
is
Queen
of
the
Archipelagus
.
It
is
separated
from
Paeotia
by
a
long
Channell
,
which
joynes
it
with
the
firme
Land
.
There
I
was
borne
King
Dinanderto's
Daughter
,
that
then
to
the
comfort
of
his
Subjects
,
and
admiration
of
his
Neighbours
,
govern'd
the
Scepter
.
Among
his
many
conditions
that
rendred
him
to
Adoration
,
his
Goodness
was
one
,
through
which
many
times
he
did
not
onely
forget
injuries
received
,
but
with
an
unbelieved
courtesie
,
loved
those
that
hated
him
.
In
the
first
yeares
of
his
Reigne
,
he
enlarged
the
Confines
of
his
Empire
so
prosperously
,
that
it
seemed
Fortune
in
a
Dreame
had
subjugated
Provinces
to
him
.
All
that
confin'd
to
him
,
hee
had
made
his
Tributaries
,
and
had
borne
so
successefull
Armes
,
that
his
Conquests
crowded
one
another
,
where
also
many
times
his
owne
souldiers
found
Sepulchers
of
glorie
.
He
after
fixed
his
minde
upon
higher
Attempts
,
designing
perhaps
the
recovery
of
that
,
which
either
by
Fortune
of
warre
,
or
other
alienation
had
been
usurp'd
from
the
Crowne
of
Negropont
.
But
on
the
suddaine
he
was
constrained
to
call
back
his
Forces
,
to
the
defence
of
his
owne
State
,
invaded
by
most
powerfull
Armies
of
Lodaso
,
King
of
Vesati
,
the
most
warlike
that
ever
was
borne
of
that
Nation
,
the
fiercest
,
and
most
formidable
in
the
world
.
The
Reasons
that
moved
this
man
to
invade
us
were
supposed
many
:
But
the
principall
wa●
;
Some
of
my
Fathers
Subjects
,
who
aspired
under
new
Princes
to
mend
their
Fortunes
,
or
who
by
their
valour
rendred
necessary
to
the
State
,
should
be
recompenced
by
his
Majesty
with
bestowing
me
on
them
to
wife
.
The
War
being
denounced
,
and
we
overcome
,
we
began
to
feele
all
those
discommodities
and
miseries
which
they
receive
who
are
seene
unjustly
dispoyled
,
and
robb'd
of
what
they
have
,
without
any
meanes
to
prevent
it
.
Our
principall
Cities
,
either
through
feare
,
or
treachery
,
set
open
their
Gates
to
the
Enemie
,
so
that
the
greatest
part
of
his
Dominions
being
lost
,
we
had
nothing
remaining
but
what
this
Island
contained
in
it
.
My
Father
,
who
in
many
Battailes
had
found
Fortune
contrary
to
him
,
having
gathered
together
the
last
Forces
he
was
able
to
raise
,
Commanded
the
Duke
of
Lovastine
,
who
from
a
private
Knight
,
by
the
Kings
favour
,
with
the
envy
of
all
,
was
advanced
to
this
degree
to
Adventure
his
uttermost
hopes
on
a
set
Field
.
The
Duke
readily
obeyed
the
Commands
of
his
Majestie
,
and
under
Zenilp
offered
the
Enemy
battaile
,
who
more
then
willingly
encountred
him
.
This
was
one
of
the
most
obstinate
and
bloudy
fights
they
had
:
Even
my
memorie
I
confess
hath
lost
the
remembrance
of
so
cruel
assaults
.
It
began
two
hours
after
Sun-rise
,
and
continued
till
Noon
,
without
the
least
advantage
to
be
perceived
on
either
side
.
Lodato
,
that
for
valour
would
yield
to
none
,
ran
through
every
thing
,
leaving
it
hard
to
be
distinguished
,
whether
he
was
Generall
,
or
a
private
Souldier
.
At
last
Victorie
inclining
to
his
side
,
and
evident
signes
of
having
the
better
appearing
;
the
Duke
of
Lovastine
,
all
hope
of
overcomming
being
lost
,
with
a
select
party
of
his
best
men
charged
that
part
where
Lodato's
Prowetle
performed
wonders
.
He
alone
aimed
at
him
,
and
having
unhorsed
him
,
they
wounded
him
mortally
.
His
men
,
who
obeyed
him
as
a
King
,
and
adored
him
as
a
God
,
seeing
him
fall
to
the
ground
,
ranne
thither
,
making
such
a
slaughter
of
our
men
,
that
there
almost
all
our
Officers
of
note
were
slaine
,
the
Duke
of
Lovastine
being
sorely
wounded
.
The
Vesats
had
the
victorie
,
though
losing
their
King
:
it
was
beleeved
they
had
the
worst
.
He
being
brought
off
to
his
Pavillion
,
with
so
much
undauntednesse
exhorted
his
to
prosecute
the
war
,
as
if
he
had
commanded
over
death
.
He
recommended
the
Government
of
the
Army
to
the
Duke
of
Vimana
,
entreating
his
to
continue
without
faction
;
because
they
could
not
bee
over-come
,
if
they
were
not
disunited
.
And
desired
his
friends
to
dry
their
eyes
;
for
hee
could
not
have
received
a
greater
benefit
from
the
Gods
than
to
dye
at
the
top
of
his
glories
,
with
his
Armes
in
his
hands
;
He
had
lived
long
enough
he
said
,
who
had
the
Fortune
to
point
them
out
the
way
of
liberty
.
With
these
words
he
ended
his
life
,
with
so
great
a
sorrow
to
his
that
many
would
not
survive
him
.
His
Exequies
were
not
yet
accomplished
,
but
the
Bier
many
dayes
carryed
about
the
Army
,
with
such
a
sadnesse
of
the
souldiers
,
that
they
(
esteeming
Tears
too
ordinary
a
way
to
expesse
their
Passion
and
Affection
)
bathed
it
daily
with
bloud
.
Newes
of
this
being
brought
to
the
Court
,
it
was
entertained
according
to
severall
affections
.
The
friends
to
the
Crowne
rejoyced
at
it
,
as
if
this
onely
blow
had
occasioned
our
security
and
the
safety
of
the
State
.
But
those
that
expected
to
build
their
hopes
upon
our
Precipices
,
received
it
with
an
extraordinary
sorrow
,
and
express'd
it
with
attempting
to
bring
the
Duke
of
into
disgrace
with
my
Father
,
who
being
of
an
incredible
goodnesse
,
did
not
believe
himselfe
deceived
,
nor
that
others
would
deceive
him
.
His
Majesty
for
all
this
continued
to
reward
him
according
to
the
merit
of
his
valour
,
enriching
him
daily
with
Lordships
,
money
,
and
priviledges
,
so
that
he
had
not
in
the
Kingdome
neither
a
Superiour
nor
Equall
.
He
being
advertized
of
the
Treacheries
his
Enemies
intended
him
,
writ
to
my
Father
:
That
having
serv'd
him
so
many
yeares
,
carelesse
of
his
life
,
hee
desired
now
some
repose
,
not
to
absent
himselfe
from
dangers
,
or
to
withdraw
himselfe
from
his
service
,
but
to
cure
himselfe
of
some
Evils
which
rendred
him
an
old
and
an
unable
man
before
his
time
.
That
the
charge
of
an
Army
was
over-great
a
Burthen
for
the
shoulders
of
an
old
man
,
that
had
spent
more
bloud
in
the
Service
of
the
Crowne
,
then
he
had
left
for
the
preservation
of
himselfe
.
That
the
Interests
of
his
Majesty
required
,
that
others
should
bee
employed
in
the
Wars
,
to
supply
his
weaknesses
.
Other
Resolute
,
but
very
Respectfull
things
he
urged
,
which
compelled
Dinanderto
to
send
to
him
expressely
that
he
should
continue
his
command
,
adding
other
particulars
of
honour
,
the
more
to
oblige
him
to
him
.
The
Duke
for
some
time
,
to
his
very
great
applause
,
prosecuted
his
charge
;
but
understanding
that
his
Enemies
proceeded
in
multiplying
crimes
upon
him
,
which
never
entred
into
his
minde
,
that
they
treated
about
Articles
of
peace
,
without
once
mentioning
him
in
them
,
and
that
the
King
of
the
Gauls
sent
the
Duke
of
Riat
with
a
Command
equall
to
his
owne
,
having
but
an
ill
opinion
of
the
Princes
of
Catanosa
,
who
were
voluntiers
in
the
Army
;
he
began
to
thinke
of
some
security
for
his
owne
safety
.
He
set
some
Prisoners
at
liberty
,
without
taking
any
thing
from
them
,
but
a
simple
Testimony
of
honour
.
He
negotiated
effects
of
friendship
with
the
Monarch
of
the
Belgi
,
of
the
Aquitans
,
and
the
Celta
;
and
lastly
,
so
ordered
the
businesse
,
that
the
greater
part
of
the
Heads
,
the
Colonels
,
and
the
Captaines
of
the
Army
subscribed
to
a
writing
,
in
the
which
they
obliged
themselves
to
serve
him
in
all
encounters
,
and
never
to
abandon
him
while
they
lived
.
My
Father
had
Notice
speedily
given
him
of
all
this
;
but
not
crediting
these
Relations
,
although
proceeding
from
reasons
well
affected
and
uninterested
,
he
would
understand
the
truth
with
more
certainty
;
he
made
the
Duke
of
Lassimano
,
Nephew
to
Lovastine
,
to
be
brought
into
his
presence
,
unto
whom
he
made
a
Discourse
of
the
Merits
,
of
the
Virtue
,
and
of
the
Victories
of
the
Generall
,
and
that
hee
had
resolved
to
send
him
to
him
,
to
comfort
him
,
and
assure
him
,
that
sinister
informations
could
not
alienate
his
heart
from
that
man
,
whom
he
loved
equall
to
himselfe
.
That
hee
knew
the
wickednesse
of
Courts
,
where
the
most
worthy
are
the
soonest
exposed
to
the
injuries
of
malignity
and
envy
.
Upon
this
occasion
,
he
made
one
of
his
Councellors
of
State
to
accompany
him
,
giving
him
private
Commission
to
spy
into
the
actions
of
the
Duke
of
Lovastine
,
forcing
himselfe
to
penetrate
even
into
his
thoughts
,
his
operations
,
and
his
ends
.
The
Councellour
being
come
to
the
Army
was
informed
of
the
Rebellion
of
the
Generall
,
of
his
Treaties
with
the
Enemies
,
and
of
a
thousand
other
particulars
,
which
rendred
him
guilty
.
He
gave
his
Majesty
notice
of
this
,
while
some
of
the
chiefe
who
had
subscribed
to
the
Paper
,
came
and
signified
it
in
his
presence
.
My
Father
remained
astonished
at
an
attempt
so
execrable
.
Considering
that
the
summe
of
the
businesses
consisted
in
the
speedy
dispatch
of
them
,
he
declared
the
Duke
of
Lovastines
Commission
for
Generall
to
be
void
,
that
he
was
a
Rebell
to
the
Crowne
,
and
an
enemy
to
his
Prince
,
commanding
all
the
Provinces
that
they
should
not
obey
him
,
and
promised
high
rewards
to
such
as
should
deliver
him
into
his
hands
.
He
committed
the
charge
of
his
crimes
to
Colateral
Picomeni
,
and
to
the
Count
of
Lagasso
,
Subjects
of
an
experimented
worth
.
Thus
he
commanded
that
he
should
entertaine
the
enemy
,
and
that
he
charged
to
take
the
Duke
before
he
should
have
time
to
defend
or
save
himselfe
.
Lovastine
was
in
a
walled
Towne
in
the
Confines
of
Baeotia
when
he
understood
the
deliberations
of
his
Majesty
.
Here
,
although
he
could
have
defended
himself●
,
having
Souldiers
and
Ammunition
enough
,
perceiving
the
Colours
of
the
Count
of
Lagasso
,
that
intended
to
surprize
him
under
the
appearance
of
a
friend
,
he
fled
thence
with
two
Troopes
of
Horse
,
and
foure
Colonells
joyned
to
him
by
friendship
and
kindred
.
He
retired
into
a
Castle
,
the
strongest
of
Baeetia
,
with
hope
there
to
defend
himselfe
from
all
the
Forces
of
the
world
.
The
scituation
rendred
it
inexpugnable
by
Nature
and
Art
.
The
Souldiers
were
of
a
try'd
fidelity
,
and
the
Governour
his
Creature
,
by
him
elected
to
that
Command
,
a
stranger
by
birth
,
for
the
most
part
valerous
,
the
most
worthy
,
and
the
most
faithfull
.
The
Advises
of
Lagasso
were
brought
thither
before
the
arrivall
of
the
Duke
;
whereupon
the
Governour
(
after
he
had
received
him
into
the
Castle
,
and
had
saluted
him
with
welcome
belonging
to
a
Subject
,
and
a
Subject
obliged
with
benefits
)
he
resolved
to
secure
him
.
He
shut
the
Duke
up
in
a
Chamber
,
molested
with
thoughts
,
or
indispositions
of
health
,
and
without
taking
any
meat
,
gave
order
he
should
be
left
to
his
repose
.
The
rest
,
being
invited
by
the
Governour
,
went
with
him
to
supper
,
where
almost
all
that
were
acquainted
with
his
purpose
came
among
them
,
and
a
certaine
signe
being
given
,
they
were
slaine
with
little
or
no
resistance
.
Being
surprised
,
they
had
scarce
time
to
lay
hold
on
their
Swords
,
two
of
them
being
killed
before
they
could
rise
from
their
seats
.
From
thence
,
presently
after
,
they
went
to
the
Chamber
where
the
Duke
was
,
and
breaking
down
the
doore
they
rushed
violently
in
.
He
starting
up
,
ran
to
a
window
,
either
to
leap
forth
,
or
to
call
out
for
help
.
Perceiving
the
height
mortall
,
to
escape
impossible
,
and
his
Guard
out
of
the
way
,
he
leapt
upon
a
souldier
to
take
his
Halbert
from
him
.
They
with
so
much
cunning
prosecuted
their
businesse
,
that
the
Duke
unwittingly
wounded
himselfe
mortally
upon
it
.
He
after
spoke
many
words
,
protesting
his
innocency
.
That
he
fled
from
the
anger
of
his
Majesty
without
any
other
meaning
but
to
secure
himselfe
;
That
if
he
had
had
any
intention
upon
the
Kings
life
,
or
on
the
Kingdom
,
he
could
not
have
wanted
waies
more
secure
and
execrable
;
That
he
appealed
to
his
Majesty
when
he
would
cast
aside
the
ill
impression
he
had
received
from
his
ill-willers
,
and
desired
him
with
all
severity
to
weigh
his
Actions
.
He
aggravated
the
misery
of
those
who
are
necessitated
to
serve
the
Grandees
of
the
world
,
that
can
do
what
they
will
.
The
standers
by
suffered
him
to
speake
till
he
breathed
out
his
soule
,
either
for
the
reverence
they
bore
him
,
who
many
times
had
commanded
even
the
King
himselfe
,
or
else
because
,
perceiving
him
a
dying
,
they
esteemed
it
an
impiety
to
be
cruell
to
a
Carkasse
.
My
Father
at
the
report
of
these
things
could
not
refraine
from
teares
;
he
commanded
sacrifices
should
be
offered
to
the
Gods
for
the
good
of
his
soule
.
Although
many
had
a
hand
in
this
Conspiracy
,
he
contented
himselfe
only
with
the
imprisonment
of
two
.
Accounting
it
an
high
revenge
if
he
made
others
see
,
that
if
he
had
a
mind
he
had
power
to
punish
offenders
.
These
extreames
of
his
goodnesse
gave
leave
to
some
wicked
men
to
aggravate
the
Innocency
of
the
Duke
of
Lovastine
in
so
free
discourses
,
that
my
Father
was
in
a
very
great
feare
of
himselfe
.
They
said
,
the
services
he
had
done
to
the
Crown
merited
not
a
death
so
much
the
more
miserable
,
because
it
was
infamous
.
That
that
should
not
be
denied
to
the
greatest
man
of
the
world
,
which
is
not
refused
to
the
least
.
That
Dinanderto
learnt
ingratitude
of
other
Princes
,
which
was
a
blameable
fault
in
all
,
but
a
cursed
one
in
his
Majesty
,
that
would
have
his
owne
goodnesse
and
piety
believed
greater
than
the
deserts
of
the
other
.
That
the
Kingdome
had
felt
the
dammage
of
such
a
losse
.
And
that
the
Enemy
had
never
had
a
compleater
victory
than
now
by
the
death
of
so
great
a
Commander
.
Only
the
Duke
of
Lassimano
,
Lovastines
Nephew
,
aggravating
the
Crimes
of
his
Uncle
,
accused
my
Father
of
too
much
gentlenesse
in
being
contented
,
that
the
life
of
only
one
should
be
sacrificed
for
his
safetie
and
feares
;
That
had
he
been
guilty
of
no
other
faults
but
his
intelligence
with
the
Enemies
of
the
Crown
,
that
was
sufficient
to
render
him
worthy
of
any
Punishment
.
These
aggravations
in
a
manner
so
won
upon
the
goodnesse
of
my
Father
,
who
(
not
considering
that
injuries
are
never
forgot
,
and
that
being
writ
indelebly
in
the
heart
,
they
dye
not
but
with
the
heart
it selfe
)
conferred
all
possible
honours
upon
him
;
and
lastly
recommended
to
him
the
defence
of
himselfe
.
His
Majesty
remained
confident
of
the
affection
of
this
man
,
he
performing
one
deed
that
made
him
imagined
very
faithfull
.
My
Father
,
being
gone
an
hunting
with
almost
all
the
Court
,
was
surprised
with
a
sudden
showre
,
accompanied
with
haile
,
thunders
,
and
wind
,
that
it
seemed
it
would
devoure
the
world
.
He
got
into
a
Cave
to
shelter
himselfe
from
the
fury
of
Heaven
.
Scarce
was
he
entred
within
it
,
but
broken
,
I
know
not
whether
by
time
or
destiny
,
with
an
unexpected
ruine
it
began
to
tumble
down
.
All
overcome
with
amazement
preferred
their
owne
safety
before
the
Kings
,
flying
thence
whither
their
feare
carried
them
.
The
Duke
,
either
out
of
bravery
contemning
death
,
or
to
authenticate
his
infidelity
,
supporting
with
his
back
what
was
ready
to
fall
,
with
no
small
danger
to
himselfe
,
gave
leisure
to
my
Father
to
escape
forth
,
who
afterwards
sent
others
in
to
bring
him
off
,
who
had
remained
there
in
great
danger
to
have
sunke
under
the
weight
.
His
Majesty
beleeving
that
these
deeds
could
not
be
counterfeit
,
and
that
it
was
not
possible
that
one
should
hazard
life
for
him
he
loved
not
,
kept
him
alwaies
neare
him
,
and
according
to
his
liking
were
all
Counsels
determined
,
and
all
deliberations
regulated
.
The
perfidious
man
,
growing
proud
of
the
prosperity
of
his
Fortune
,
feigued
himselfe
enamoured
of
me
,
with
so
much
cunning
,
that
it
seemed
he
was
willing
to
dye
for
love
.
I
that
could
not
endure
to
look
on
him
,
not
so
much
because
he
was
Nephew
to
a
Traytour
,
but
because
formerly
I
had
obliged
my
heart
to
the
Duke
of
Filena
,
one
of
the
most
worthy
and
consciousest
Princes
that
belonged
to
the
service
of
the
Crown
.
My
Father
did
not
oppose
my
desires
,
and
if
the
Interesses
of
the
War
had
not
diverted
,
that
thought
had
effectuated
them
.
It
was
easie
for
Prodirto
(
for
so
was
the
Duke
of
Lassimano
called
)
perceiving
himselfe
excluded
,
and
slighted
by
me
,
to
penetrate
into
my
ends
.
Our
practices
were
apparent
to
all
;
for
I
supposing
my selfe
,
as
it
were
,
as
good
as
married
to
him
,
there
was
not
any
thing
that
I
omitted
to
make
him
beleeve
me
so
.
Prodirto
studied
to
free
himselfe
of
a
Rivall
,
and
did
it
under
the
species
of
honour
,
according
to
his
usuall
cunning
.
Instead
of
the
Prince
my
brother
,
a
Generall
of
the
Army
was
to
be
chosen
,
who
not
being
yet
sixteen
yeares
of
Age
could
not
undergo
the
troubles
of
War
.
He
served
himselfe
with
this
occasion
to
send
the
Duke
of
Filena
far
off
.
He
proposed
this
to
the
Councell
of
State
,
applauding
the
greatnesse
of
his
mind
,
and
the
merits
of
his
person
,
with
so
much
eloquence
,
that
he
prevailed
for
his
departure
,
and
notwithstanding
a
thousand
oppositions
,
and
infinite
pretences
,
he
was
there
chosen
by
the
greater
part
of
the
Votes
.
The
Duke
of
Filena
being
gone
to
his
Charge
,
Prodirto
applied
his
mind
to
the
accomplishment
of
his
wickednesses
.
My
Father
was
given
to
love
much
more
then
was
befitting
a
Prince
;
There
was
no
other
blemish
upon
his
honours
,
but
this
of
naturall
inclination
,
reputed
blameable
in
the
opinion
of
all
men
:
for
although
it
be
common
to
all
,
yet
it
is
not
so
convenient
for
all
.
The
Age
of
my
Father
,
which
was
now
declining
,
and
two
Children
,
which
made
him
seeme
older
than
he
was
,
could
not
stop
him
in
the
pursuit
of
his
pleasures
.
He
had
received
,
presented
to
him
,
a
Greek
of
so
singular
beauties
,
that
they
would
have
overcome
the
continency
of
a
thousand
Xenocrates's
.
The
beauty
of
Venus
,
being
subjected
to
comparison
,
would
have
found
in
the
face
of
her
,
at
least
emulation
,
if
not
envy
.
To
this
my
Father
engaged
all
his
affections
;
All
the
houres
that
he
could
steale
from
publick
businesse
he
spent
in
the
fruition
,
or
adoration
of
that
Object
,
of
which
many
times
he
had
confessed
himselfe
unworthy
.
He
had
kept
her
in
his
own
Lodgings
,
if
mine
and
my
brothers
yeares
had
not
perswaded
him
to
the
contrary
.
At
the
farther
end
of
the
Garden
there
were
some
Lodgings
,
with
Pictures
embellished
,
and
Sculptures
of
the
chiefe
of
their
profession
.
Pornia
here
was
laid
,
for
so
was
the
name
of
that
Greeke
,
with
so
much
care
of
my
Father
,
who
not
only
would
conceale
her
from
the
eyes
of
heaven
,
but
many
times
became
jealous
even
of
his
own
selfe
.
Prodirto
prevailing
upon
this
occasion
,
feigned
some
businesse
of
very
great
consequence
with
my
Father
.
He
told
him
,
that
Pornia
weary
of
the
cold
embraces
of
an
old
man
,
with
a
scorne
to
his
Majesty
,
almost
every
night
enjoyed
a
young
man
belonging
to
the
Court
of
a
very
low
condition
.
It
was
no
difficult
thing
that
this
lye
should
suddenly
find
credit
with
my
Father
:
For
some
Lovers
beleeve
impossible
things
true
.
He
shewed
so
lively
feelings
of
griefe
,
that
it
appeared
his
heart
,
presaging
his
evill
,
did
not
without
reason
oblige
him
to
sorrow
.
After
various
Consultations
,
he
resolved
(
being
so
perswaded
by
Prodirto
)
to
go
with
him
alone
in
the
darkest
time
of
the
night
to
punish
that
Prometheus
,
who
durst
presume
to
steale
his
fire
.
The
Duke
being
gone
,
joyfull
at
this
Resolution
,
went
to
find
the
Prince
my
brother
:
with
whom
it
was
no
hard
thing
to
worke
a
greater
Art
than
that
which
he
had
used
with
his
Majesty
.
He
represented
to
him
(
after
a
feigned
relation
of
the
deed
)
that
injuries
done
to
the
Father
directly
wounded
the
reputation
of
the
Son
,
who
ought
the
more
to
resent
them
,
because
he
had
the
more
strength
to
revenge
them
.
That
his
Majesty
could
not
receive
a
greater
comfort
than
to
see
his
Son
so
ardent
in
chastening
injuries
committed
against
his
Father
.
That
to
publish
it
was
scandalous
,
dangerous
,
and
unhandsome
.
That
though
,
peradventure
,
it
should
be
false
when
it
should
chance
to
be
reported
to
his
Majesty
,
he
would
receive
it
with
an
high
opinion
of
him
,
and
if
that
it
were
true
,
there
could
not
be
an
easier
and
worthier
revenge
imagined
than
by
his
own
hands
.
That
it
was
an
high
great
priviledge
to
Princes
to
have
power
to
punish
injuries
without
danger
to
their
friends
.
He
also
added
the
easiness
of
the
taske
,
not
to
have
to
doe
with
more
then
one
man
without
Armes
,
and
who
being
set
on
on
the
suddaine
,
may
be
imagin'd
soon
kill'd
.
To
be
briefe
,
he
did
not
omit
any
Motive
that
he
thought
might
perswade
him
.
All
Considerations
were
superfluous
,
for
the
Prince
was
resolved
upon
the
knowledge
of
the
Deed.
He
loved
Pornia
with
no
ordinarie
affection
,
and
conceited
this
Offence
done
against
himselfe
.
If
he
could
,
he
would
have
got
her
before
she
fell
into
the
hands
of
his
Father
:
afterwards
,
either
for
duty
or
feare
he
seemed
not
to
care
for
her
;
although
his
desires
encreased
,
by
reason
,
he
concealed
them
.
The
night
came
so
furnished
with
darknesse
,
(
even
palpable
)
that
it
could
not
be
more
obscure
.
The
unfortunate
Father
and
Son
believed
Heaven
was
propitious
to
their
Designes
,
being
able
amid'st
these
Honours
to
observe
,
without
being
observed
,
which
it
meant
to
cover
,
or
prevent
so
cruell
an
action
.
The
Stars
also
vanished
all
out
of
sight
,
peradventure
not
to
be
call'd
guilty
of
that
Tragedy
,
the
malignity
of
their
Influencea
,
ordinarily
being
accus'd
for
that
which
depends
absolutely
on
our
Wills
.
Or
else
they
hid
their
heads
to
make
their
deaths
appear
more
miserable
,
in
that
they
could
not
implore
and
see
the
Celestiall
Luminaries
.
My
Father
giving
himselfe
over
to
be
directed
in
all
the
businesse
,
by
the
will
of
Prodirto
descended
into
the
Garden
,
that
very
moment
the
Prince
came
thither
.
They
encounter
neare
Pornia's
Lodgings
;
each
of
them
did
imagine
at
whom
they
expected
,
and
began
to
wound
one
another
.
They
struck
but
two
blowes
a
piece
,
and
none
in
vaine
:
The
Prince
received
an
hurt
in
his
head
,
which
broke
his
skull
,
and
was
runne
in
his
breast
through
his
body
.
My
Father
also
had
a
wound
which
came
out
at
his
shoulder
,
but
being
in
a
fleshy
place
,
though
it
was
dangerous
,
it
was
not
mortall
.
The
other
,
although
no
very
great
one
,
was
in
his
throat
,
which
hindred
his
breathing
,
and
voice
.
Hearing
the
Prince
fall
,
he
said
he
was
alive
,
and
called
Prodirto
,
that
he
should
aide
him
.
The
Traytor
suspecting
these
words
,
might
awaken
the
Souldiers
,
or
the
Court
,
although
hardly
heard
by
himselfe
,
came
against
him
,
murthering
him
with
many
stabs
of
a
Dagger
,
which
he
carried
to
that
purpose
.
Floridea
here
staied
,
her
teares
interrupted
her
words
.
You
cannot
deny
(
said
she
)
unto
the
unhappy
Memory
of
my
Father
those
Rights
of
Amuritte
,
which
being
knowne
in
all
,
are
more
though
then
naturall
in
women
.
Suppressing
notwithstanding
her
griefe
with
a
generous
suflerance
,
she
proceeded
.
Prodirto
being
gone
out
of
the
Garden
,
through
a
private
doore
,
called
together
the
greatest
part
of
his
Kindred
,
who
being
certified
of
the
deed
,
without
any
resistance
tooke
possession
of
the
City
,
They
that
were
more
honest
,
being
astonished
at
this
chance
,
perceiving
to
declare
for
my
Right
,
were
to
precipitate
themselves
into
danger
of
their
lives
,
gave
way
to
Fortune
,
rather
then
Tyranny
.
Whilst
these
strange
Changes
were
in
acting
,
I
enjoyed
a
most
sweet
Retirement
.
I
mocked
at
Destiny
,
which
being
evermore
ready
to
vex
me
,
now
decived
me
with
(
as
it
were
)
a
brave
pleasant
sleep
.
I
was
then
for
my
Recreation
in
a
Castle
upon
the
Sea
shore
,
and
to
obey
the
will
of
my
Father
,
who
much
against
his
minde
look'd
upon
those
that
could
reprove
him
of
his
Amours
,
although
with
silence
.
I
was
awakened
out
of
it
by
the
Guard
,
and
Pornia
was
presented
to
me
,
who
more
by
her
teares
then
by
her
words
assured
me
of
my
evill
.
The
griefe
I
received
at
it
was
so
great
,
that
becomming
an
alter'd
woman
,
I
deceived
the
opinion
of
others
,
not
being
able
to
deceive
my
owne
sorrow
.
They
thought
to
have
seen
me
run
mad
,
overcome
with
Passion
,
which
being
growne
to
the
height
,
suffered
not
any
externall
actions
to
disburthen
my
heart
.
That
griefe
is
ordinary
which
is
raised
by
weeping
,
and
that
can
evaporate
it selfe
by
shreeks
and
lamentation
.
Those
Diseases
are
mortall
which
take
away
the
life
before
they
shew
their
Malignitie
.
Truely
,
I
know
not
whether
I
was
so
estranged
from
my selfe
by
the
greatnesse
of
my
sorrow
,
or
for
feare
of
my selfe
,
which
(
from
my
Imagination
)
represented
to
me
a
great
deale
more
then
the
losse
of
my
Father
and
brother
.
I
was
about
doubling
the
Guards
,
and
to
fortifie
the
Castle
just
as
the
Traytor
sent
to
surprize
it
.
When
he
understood
his
Attempt
was
frustrated
,
for
anger
hee
made
him
to
be
beheaded
,
to
whom
he
had
given
the
Command
.
Many
times
Traytors
exercise
Justice
,
not
because
they
are
just
,
but
because
Heaven
will
be
served
by
their
impieties
to
punish
wicked
men
.
He
besieged
me
in
the
Castle
,
having
before
made
use
of
all
affectionate
words
to
gaine
me
without
violence
.
Although
I
could
have
resisted
all
the
Armies
of
the
Kingdome
,
I
could
not
,
notwithstanding
fight
against
Necessity
,
there
being
Ammunition
but
for
a
Moneth
.
Their
fidelity
that
preferr'd
my
safety
above
their
owne
could
not
bee
cemented
against
Famine
,
which
without
combating
can
Conquer
Armies
.
Whereupon
I
resolved
to
send
two
of
my
trusty
servants
to
the
Duke
of
Filena
to
implore
his
succour
.
I
gave
him
an
account
of
the
viclence
of
Prodirto
,
and
the
dangers
of
my
Virginity
and
life
.
Although
Lovers
have
no
need
of
Spurs
,
I
used
all
those
means
that
had
power
to
perswade
even
the
minde
of
an
Enemy
.
I
remembered
him
that
the
Kingdom
of
Negrepont
,
expected
from
his
Valour
,
a
release
from
Tyranny
,
that
comming
to
my
aide
,
hee
brought
a
Defence
for
his
owne
Affaires
.
I
added
that
I
would
have
sent
him
my
heart
,
if
a
thing
so
deare
that
bore
his
Image
on
it
would
have
been
separated
by
the
Treacheries
of
Enemies
,
or
the
faith
of
a
servant
.
I
gave
him
notice
also
,
that
if
he
could
not
come
with
his
Armie
,
he
should
with
one
Galley
,
the
Sea
being
free
then
,
the
Foe
having
no
vessels
of
consideration
,
so
that
all
other
Remedies
failing
,
I
might
flie
thence
with
him
to
preserve
alive
my
Title
to
the
Kingdome
,
and
to
escape
from
the
hands
of
a
Traytor
.
In
ten
dayes
an
Answer
returned
,
but
not
the
messenger
,
being
deceived
by
a
counterfeit
Character
,
I
attended
the
Duke
of
Filena's
comming
,
with
that
Anxiety
a
Lover
can
wish
for
,
as
it
was
promised
me
by
the
Letter
,
darker
then
usuall
,
by
the
obscurenesse
of
the
Treason
they
prepared
.
The
appointed
night
being
come
,
beleeving
I
opened
to
the
Duke
of
Filena
,
I
found
me
between
the
Armes
of
Prodirto
,
who
having
secured
my
messengers
by
counterfeiting
the
Dukes
hand
,
deceived
me
,
he
having
neither
ingenuity
nor
vertue
to
imitate
the
other
in
but
onely
his
Characters
.
He
had
much
adoe
to
hold
my
hand
,
which
would
preserve
my
liberty
in
despight
of
the
treacheries
of
Enemies
.
But
protesting
all
respect
to
mee
,
and
promising
me
I
should
receive
no
harme
,
hee
pacified
me
.
Although
dayly
he
frequented
my
Company
,
he
yet
never
forgot
he
was
my
Subject
.
His
words
were
so
courteous
,
his
expressions
so
affectionate
,
his
Promises
so
great
,
that
they
very
much
lessen'd
my
hatred
,
though
it
was
impossible
for
me
to
love
him
.
Every
day
hee
had
the
Souldiers
in
a
readinesse
.
The
Commonalty
hee
obliged
with
Gifts
,
kept
his
friends
together
,
entreated
his
kindred
,
and
neglected
no
meanes
that
might
assure
the
Crowne
to
him
.
All
the
principall
Cities
had
sworne
obedience
to
him
;
some
being
overcome
by
a
desire
of
Novelty
,
others
by
force
,
and
all
by
cunning
.
He
had
an
Army
more
numerous
than
strong
:
the
poor
he
banished
;
and
the
Male
content
followed
the
Standards
of
that
impious
man
,
who
ought
not
to
have
been
followed
but
by
as
wicked
as
hee
.
When
he
saw
himselfe
freed
from
his
feares
,
either
by
the
flatteries
of
those
that
know
not
how
to
speak
to
Princes
,
but
of
Felicity
:
or
by
a
mighty
quantity
of
Halberdiers
that
waited
on
him
,
he
began
to
lay
aside
that
courtesie
he
had
formerly
used
to
me
.
Comming
one
day
to
talke
with
me
,
he
said
:
Princesse
,
If
with
my
bloud
I
could
restore
the
life
of
your
Father
and
Brother
,
I
would
do
it
with
that
eagernesse
which
beseems
a
Subject
,
who
loves
his
Princesse
equall
to
himselfe
.
After
their
Decease
I
am
put
to
the
stern
of
this
Ship
,
beat
upon
by
the
furie
of
Fortune
,
not
to
steale
it
from
your
greatnesse
and
merits
,
but
not
to
suffer
it
to
be
endangered
among
the
Rocks
of
Ambition
,
and
not
to
abandon
it
to
the
Incursions
of
the
most
Barbarous
,
and
most
perfidious
.
Notwithstanding
this
zeale
of
mine
would
shew
little
respect
to
the
Acts
of
your
Progenitors
,
and
to
the
Establishment
of
your
Happinesse
,
if
I
should
not
procure
to
protect
your
youth
from
the
intentions
of
many
,
with
joyning
you
in
marriage
to
a
person
who
is
able
to
defend
your
Kingdome
for
you
.
Having
reflected
upon
Princes
,
that
parallel
you
in
Dominions
,
I
have
found
more
oppositions
then
equalities
:
Many
either
deform'd
in
minde
,
or
countenance
:
Others
incapable
,
or
insupportable
in
the
Kingdome
.
Lastly
,
all
either
so
full
of
those
Tenents
,
or
of
those
vices
detested
by
others
,
but
insupportable
to
the
people
of
Negropont
.
After
many
considerations
I
have
resolved
,
that
you
cannot
finde
out
a
more
secure
stay
,
nor
more
to
be
authorized
then
my selfe
.
I
am
perswaded
no
body
will
disdaine
to
serve
him
who
hath
the
Queen
to
his
wife
,
and
hath
many
times
commanded
the
King
himselfe
.
I
do
not
believe
I
am
unworthy
of
you
,
not
so
much
because
I
exceedingly
love
you
,
but
by
reason
I
demand
that
,
which
by
the
right
of
Warre
ought
to
be
mine
.
You
ought
not
to
resuse
me
,
if
you
have
regard
to
the
Danger
your
person
is
in
,
the
security
of
your
State
,
and
to
the
quiet
of
your
Subjects
.
He
omitted
not
other
Particulars
,
and
other
Maximes
,
accompanyed
with
so
much
craft
,
that
they
would
have
deceived
those
that
had
not
knowne
him
.
I
thought
it
not
best
to
contradict
him
,
whose
hands
were
no
lesse
wicked
then
his
heart
.
I
believed
that
nothing
else
could
save
me
,
but
making
use
of
his
Appatences
to
deceive
Art
by
Art
.
I
answered
him
:
That
this
was
not
the
first
expression
of
his
Affection
,
nor
these
the
first
Obligations
that
the
Crowne
of
Negropont
owed
him
:
That
if
the
Gods
vonchsafed
me
to
reigne
,
he
should
find
no
ingrateful
effects
in
it
;
that
he
should
have
no
occasion
to
envy
the
felicity
of
any
,
nor
to
desire
an
higher
greatnesse
.
That
I
would
establish
him
in
such
a
condition
,
that
he
should
find
his
troubles
abundantly
rewarded
,
and
his
zeale
requited
.
That
concerning
marriage
,
I
neither
refused
,
nor
received
him
.
That
when
peace
and
quietnesse
had
secured
the
Crowne
,
and
confirmed
the
Scepter
to
me
,
I
would
follow
the
advice
of
the
Councell
of
State
,
the
will
of
my
friends
,
and
of
him
in
particular
.
That
I
conceived
it
very
necessary
to
have
the
opinion
of
the
Duke
of
Filena
,
as
one
who
at
present
was
the
Patron
of
the
Armies
neare
the
Kingdome
:
and
that
it
was
expedient
to
demand
his
advice
,
to
expresse
I
espected
him
,
although
I
should
displease
him
.
To
these
words
he
replyed
,
that
he
commended
my
Discourse
,
as
having
its
foundation
upon
safety
,
and
reason
:
But
that
I
ought
to
take
notice
,
that
weighty
businesses
,
if
they
were
not
prosecuted
with
speed
,
encountred
with
a
thousand
hindrances
which
retarded
them
,
and
many
times
confounds
them
.
That
it
was
an
effect
of
weaknesse
to
depend
upon
the
desires
and
the
wills
of
others
that
aime
for
the
most
part
at
their
owne
proper
Interests
,
not
to
the
Greatness
or
Reputation
of
Princes
.
That
Kings
sometimes
admitted
of
Councell
to
heare
the
applauses
and
approbations
of
their
own
opinions
,
not
to
be
brought
to
theirs
.
What
should
Princes
be
if
they
must
depend
on
the
Consults
,
and
be
regulated
by
the
odde
humours
of
others
.
That
at
the
beginning
of
her
Reigne
she
should
not
prejudicate
her
own
authority
.
Subjects
too
often
entrench
upon
Jurisdiction
,
and
endeavour
to
prescribe
Law
to
their
King
.
Especially
,
that
choosing
a
Prince
for
her
Husband
,
not
unworthy
of
her selfe
,
she
was
not
obliged
to
depend
upon
the
will
,
no
not
of
her
Father
himselfe
.
I
contradicting
these
opinions
with
many
reasons
,
and
he
enforcing
himselfe
to
confute
the
same
,
after
many
replies
grew
angry
with
me
in
his
talke
,
and
being
cruell
by
nature
,
began
to
lay
hands
on
me
,
saying
;
That
he
had
power
to
perswade
me
even
without
speaking
.
I
endeavoured
to
have
killed
my selfe
,
but
it
availed
not
.
For
he
,
fearing
my
resolutions
,
gave
me
not
leisure
to
lay
hold
on
any
thing
.
I
gave
way
to
my
teares
to
try
,
if
with
the
most
lively
bloud
of
my
soule
,
I
might
purchse
my
honesty
.
This
thought
of
mine
took
not
effect
,
for
there
is
no
bloud
that
can
mollifie
an
heart
that
is
harder
than
Diamond
.
The
perfidious
man
attempted
to
accomplish
his
designes
now
.
My
defences
served
me
to
no
other
end
,
but
to
weaken
my selfe
,
and
exasperate
him
the
more
.
I
that
much
rather
desired
death
than
the
losse
of
mine
honour
,
although
I
should
see
my
body
but
not
my
mind
forc't
,
troubled
him
with
repulses
,
with
bitings
,
with
my
nailes
,
not
omitting
schreekes
and
teares
,
that
I
know
not
how
the
stones
escaped
to
be
moved
to
Rescue
.
Pornia
,
full
of
an
incredible
boldnesse
,
ran
in
at
this
noise
,
tooke
a
dagger
,
which
by
chance
lay
there
,
and
seeing
the
violence
he
offered
me
,
gave
him
such
a
blow
,
that
had
it
hit
full
,
he
had
never
more
made
use
of
force
.
Perceiving
himselfe
strook
,
he
came
against
Pornia
,
who
but
weakly
defending
her selfe
,
ready
to
dye
with
many
wounds
,
fell
down
.
I
ran
into
another
Chamber
,
wherein
there
was
nothing
;
but
I
imployed
to
secure
the
doore
.
He
made
not
any
use
of
his
strength
against
it
:
whereupon
I
being
assured
by
those
that
waited
on
me
of
Prodirto's
departure
,
came
forth
not
to
defraud
Pornias
Funerall
of
my
teares
.
There
was
in
the
Castle
a
little
Temple
consecrated
to
Pallas
.
Hardly
was
I
arrived
there
to
make
ready
the
Hearse
,
when
Prodirto
entred
,
so
changed
in
his
countenance
,
that
I
beleeved
him
certainly
come
to
murder
me
.
He
commanded
some
of
his
by
maine
force
to
seize
on
me
,
making
me
to
be
carried
into
a
Galley
,
which
he
had
in
readinesse
neare
the
Castle
.
Then
he
made
them
fall
to
their
Oars
exhorting
them
by
his
own
voice
,
and
hasting
them
by
the
whip
.
It
was
necessary
for
him
to
be
gone
,
because
the
Duke
of
Filena
,
with
all
his
Army
was
come
to
take
him
Prisoner
.
The
Souldiery
had
suddenly
revolted
,
and
all
the
Cities
had
set
their
Gates
open
to
him
,
and
offered
him
their
Keyes
,
the
which
in
my
name
he
received
from
all
.
We
were
not
forty
Leagues
from
the
Island
but
the
Gods
made
Prodirto
know
how
much
they
hated
Traitours
.
At
an
instant
the
Sun
was
seen
to
be
obscured
,
the
Aire
darkened
,
and
the
Sea
grown
rough
.
Thunders
and
Lightnings
strove
together
to
deprive
the
Marriners
of
their
sight
and
hearing
.
Many
times
it
seemed
,
when
we
were
mounted
up
by
the
Waves
,
that
the
Heavens
opened
to
receive
us
,
to
strike
us
with
Lightning
neare
hand
,
as
if
the
Thunder-bolts
could
not
reach
us
further
off
.
The
Sterne
was
broken
,
the
Mast
split
,
the
Tacklings
unfit
for
use
,
the
Anchors
lost
,
the
Sailes
torne
,
the
Marriners
amazed
,
,
and
the
Slaves
weary
,
when
,
defended
only
by
the
goodnesse
of
our
Vessell
,
with
a
most
prosperous
presage
we
came
to
shore
in
your
Kingdome
,
in
that
port
of
the
Island
,
which
out
of
a
respect
to
religion
continues
inhabitable
.
She
would
have
related
how
,
being
led
aside
by
the
Duke
to
ease
himselfe
after
the
weariness
of
the
sea
,
she
had
the
opportunity
to
escape
from
him
,
if
she
had
not
been
prevented
by
the
Dutchesse
of
Bell
Prato
,
who
put
a
letter
into
Dianeas
hands
;
Knowing
the
hand
,
she
received
it
with
such
a
feeling
as
falls
into
that
mind
which
feares
,
and
hopes
.
Before
she
read
it
she
said
to
Floridea
;
Friend
,
and
Sister
,
for
by
these
names
I
will
ever
call
you
,
it
is
fit
that
I
discover
to
your
gentle
disposition
all
the
seerets
of
my
heart
.
This
Letter
comes
from
Diaspe
the
Prince
of
Creete
;
the
Character
doth
not
deceive
me
;
But
whether
as
from
an
enemy
or
friend
I
know
not
;
because
your
Arrivall
here
had
disturbed
our
appointments
,
and
prevented
our
designes
.
Just
when
I
first
saw
you
,
the
Prince
attended
;
you
having
barred
up
the
Entrance
,
and
I
not
in
time
giving
him
notice
of
it
hath
made
him
depart
hence
towards
Creete
.
All
my
diligence
hitherto
to
find
him
hath
proved
fruitlesse
.
Now
he
writes
to
me
.
I
cannot
but
imagine
he
is
angry
.
Heaven
grant
it
be
not
implacable
:
Though
I
know
that
such
fits
in
Lovers
are
fomentations
to
affection
.
This
said
,
she
read
the
Letter
;
The
Contents
of
which
were
these
.
Princesse
,
I
do
not
write
to
reprove
the
Blushes
for
your
Infidelity
:
For
who
cannot
love
cannot
blush
.
That
fire
which
could
not
kindle
your
heart
,
I
very
well
know
cannot
spread
it selfe
in
your
Face
.
I
write
to
justifie
my
Resolutions
,
and
to
confound
your
disloyalty
.
The
retiring
Places
of
the
Grott
have
not
been
able
to
bury
your
Amours
.
That
God
,
whom
so
extreamely
you
worship
,
should
advertise
you
,
that
he
goes
naked
,
because
it
is
impossible
to
conceale
him
;
and
that
dissimulations
are
not
Garments
that
can
cover
him
.
To
my
own
happinesse
I
have
discovered
thus
much
.
That
I
should
not
be
hers
who
will
not
be
mine
,
unlesse
in
the
same
time
she
might
bestow
her selfe
upon
others
.
Heaven
be
praised
that
you
came
not
to
be
the
destruction
of
my
Kingdom
.
Dissolute
women
too
much
have
afflicted
Grecia
.
I
have
satisfied
the
teares
of
my
sorrow
with
the
bloud
of
him
that
came
to
enjoy
you
.
This
Passion
which
cannot
bring
you
my
full
Anger
,
will
doubtlesse
present
you
with
this
Advertisement
.
If
the
others
Soule
be
in
the
body
that
loves
,
I
have
punished
at
one
time
your
perfidiousnesse
,
and
satisfied
the
justice
of
my
indignation
.
Live
then
with
griefe
to
have
lost
at
once
two
Lovers
;
the
one
scorned
,
and
the
other
slaine
,
and
perpetually
feare
to
heare
the
Reproaches
of
a
sinister
Fame
.
I
go
from
hence
to
Creete
,
where
I
shall
find
beauties
more
worthy
,
because
they
will
prove
more
modest
.
Diaspe
.
She
had
scarce
read
these
last
words
,
but
her
hands
would
make
amends
for
the
Offences
given
her
eyes
,
tearing
that
Letter
into
a
thousand
peeces
,
which
designed
her
to
a
continuall
lamentation
.
Her
tongue
also
ran
for
the
succour
of
her
heart
,
uttering
those
things
which
might
vent
out
her
griefe
and
lessen
her
passion
.
Faithlesse
man
,
said
shee
,
didst
thou
want
other
meanes
lesse
impious
to
satiate
thy
barbarismes
?
Couldst
thou
with
waies
more
cruell
disdaine
my
Affections
?
With
wickeder
stratagems
couldst
thou
triumph
over
my
simplicity
?
Couldst
thou
with
more
disguised
Fictions
betray
my
Innocency
?
Is
this
thy
faith
!
these
thy
promises
!
these
thy
oaths
!
O
Dianea
,
only
unhappy
because
thou
hast
loved
.
Gods
,
why
preserved
you
me
from
the
hands
of
the
Thracian
,
who
could
only
have
deprived
me
of
my
life
,
to
leave
me
a
prey
to
a
wicked
one
,
who
at
once
takes
from
me
my
Kingdomee
,
Life
,
and
Honour
?
Wherefore
preserved
you
me
safe
from
the
furies
of
the
sea
,
to
let
me
be
swallowed
up
in
an
Occan
of
Infamy
?
Cruell
one
,
are
they
Arguments
that
I
can
love
others
,
because
I
have
loved
thee
?
Thou
shouldst
not
therefore
have
doubted
of
it
,
being
I
cannot
love
my selfe
.
If
I
had
,
I
should
not
have
disposed
my
honour
and
fortune
into
the
hands
of
a
man
,
to
whom
inconstancy
is
as
proper
as
motion
to
the
Heavens
.
Thou
hast
reason
to
suppose
mee
unfaithfull
,
because
I
have
betrayed
my selfe
.
But
where
are
those
testimonies
that
make
my
Innocency
seeme
guilty
?
How
canst
thou
convince
my
heart
of
disloyalty
,
that
out
of
an
abundance
of
affection
to
thee
grew
jealous
of
it selfe
?
Ought
I
then
to
be
convicted
for
a
simple
suspition
?
Doubts
then
must
serve
for
proofes
against
her
,
who
to
be
be
thine
hath
been
willing
to
endanger
her
life
,
displease
her
Subjects
,
and
deceive
her
Father
.
Wicked
man
,
I
know
thy
perfidiousnesse
.
Because
thou
canst
not
love
,
thou
feignest
things
for
true
which
cannot
fall
under
Imagination
,
much
lesse
sense
.
Suspitions
are
not
nourished
but
in
unfaithfull
bosomes
:
as
Thunder-bolts
are
not
made
but
in
the
coldest
Regions
of
the
Aire
.
Dianea
no
sooner
had
finished
these
Complaints
,
but
Floridea
would
have
tried
all
means
to
have
comforted
her
,
if
she
had
not
been
assured
by
the
Dutchesse
,
that
her
Father
who
came
to
visite
her
was
not
far
off
.
At
notice
of
this
she
stopped
the
Torrent
of
those
teares
,
which
ran
with
her
tongue
to
exaggerate
her
sorrows
.
She
forced
her selfe
to
disguise
her
passions
,
and
to
conceale
those
signs
that
might
make
the
warinesse
of
a
King
jealous
,
whom
Age
had
not
deprived
of
his
judgement
.
Having
taken
leave
of
Floridea
,
she
went
to
meet
her
Father
,
who
was
already
entred
into
the
Pallace
.
She
presently
gave
signe
,
by
the
palenesse
of
her
face
,
and
by
the
gastlinesse
of
her
eyes
,
of
the
motions
of
her
mind
,
and
the
alteration
of
her
heart
.
Yet
for
the
most
part
she
satisfied
the
feares
of
her
Father
,
suspitious
at
it
;
she
told
him
the
cause
,
laying
the
blame
on
the
night
past
,
wherein
she
had
neither
slept
,
nor
taken
any
repose
;
you
had
need
therefore
(
replied
Vassileo
)
choose
you
such
a
Companion
that
should
provoke
you
to
rest
,
and
taking
her
by
the
hand
retired
into
the
Garden
,
and
said
to
her
:
Daughter
,
since
the
unfortunate
successe
of
the
Infante
of
Armenia
,
I
have
had
no
greater
thought
than
about
your
Marriage
.
You
cannot
remaine
as
you
are
,
without
danger
to
your selfe
,
and
me
.
They
that
envy
the
happinesse
of
my
State
,
and
aspire
to
the
Possession
of
the
Kingdome
,
under
the
pretence
of
wedding
you
,
cover
either
their
infidelity
,
or
ambition
.
The
example
of
the
Count
of
Cithera
should
teach
Princes
not
to
promote
,
with
hopes
,
the
wicked
affections
of
their
Subjects
,
and
strangers
.
There
is
not
any
who
will
not
acknowledge
himselfe
enamoured
on
your
person
,
and
your
Kingdome
.
But
should
other
Motives
be
wanting
,
that
of
posterity
makes
me
desirous
;
I
wish
to
see
my selfe
renewed
in
my
Grand-Children
,
which
I
would
not
leave
in
their
Nonage
in
a
Kingdome
so
great
and
powerfull
,
but
yet
not
without
enemies
.
Provinces
and
Kingdomes
,
the
richer
they
are
the
more
are
they
envied
.
Many
make
but
slight
esteeme
of
that
victory
,
which
enricheth
not
the
Conquerour
,
and
great
dangers
stay
not
some
from
great
pretensions
;
your
Nuptials
will
allay
these
suspitions
which
deprive
me
of
all
consolation
.
To
these
therefore
I
desire
your
assent
,
which
I
beleeve
cannot
be
contrary
to
my
desires
and
my
entreaties
.
Dianea
dissembling
those
afflictions
that
oppressed
her
soule
,
after
a
little
pause
to
recover
her
spirits
,
answered
;
Becks
from
your
Majesty
ought
by
all
to
be
received
as
Commands
,
not
only
by
your
Daughter
,
who
hath
learnt
no
other
thing
but
obedience
,
and
can
serve
you
in
nothing
but
obeying
you
.
The
King
replied
,
another
answer
he
could
not
looke
for
from
her
discretion
and
affection
:
The
Duke
of
Filena
shall
be
your
Husband
,
a
young
man
to
whom
nothing
is
wanting
to
render
him
superiour
to
all
,
but
a
Kingdome
,
which
you
shall
bring
him
in
dowry
.
In
peace
he
hath
not
his
Equall
,
and
in
war
none
above
him
.
The
Kingdome
of
Negropont
,
which
hath
been
the
Theatre
,
whereon
he
hath
acted
the
wonders
of
his
valour
,
bewailes
his
absence
.
He
hath
quieted
the
seditious
,
extinguished
the
Rebels
,
returned
liberty
to
the
people
,
and
not
being
else
able
to
resist
the
entreaties
of
those
who
would
have
had
him
their
King
,
he
is
hither
retired
into
our
Kingdome
.
Prepare
you
then
,
for
I
will
remove
all
stops
that
may
delay
this
Marriage
.
This
said
,
he
parted
from
her
,
because
perceiving
Dianea
in
a
great
perplexity
of
mind
he
would
not
trouble
her
farther
,
retiring
joyfull
to
the
Court
,
in
that
he
had
opened
the
businesse
,
on
which
he
conceived
all
his
happinesse
depended
.
Dianea
,
after
her
Fathers
departure
,
finding
her
heart
a
narrow
Vessell
for
an
Excesse
of
an
over-flowing
Love
,
exhaled
her
Passion
in
words
,
sighes
,
and
teares
.
Now
she
called
Heaven
to
be
witnesse
of
her
Innocencie
.
Now
blamed
Cupid
,
that
ingenerated
in
the
hearts
of
Lovers
suspitions
so
farre
from
Truth
.
Now
she
accused
Diaspe
of
injustice
,
who
had
concluded
her
guilty
without
hearing
her
defences
.
Now
she
complained
of
Fortune
,
who
(
between
her
perpetuall
motions
of
inconstancy
)
was
a
continuall
affliction
to
her
.
Now
she
reproved
her selfe
of
her
errours
,
for
so
easily
yielding
to
the
Affections
of
that
man
which
determine
in
the
fruition
of
the
Object
.
But
when
she
fixed
upon
the
consideration
of
having
promised
her
Father
to
entertaine
the
marriage
with
the
Duke
of
Filena
,
and
to
be
deprived
even
of
the
hope
of
having
Diaspe
,
forgetting
altogether
the
reservednesse
becomming
a
Princesse
;
it
appeared
by
her
,
that
she
would
not
,
or
could
not
live
any
longer
.
She
beat
the
earth
with
her
feet
,
because
she
having
been
believed
a
Heaven
of
Beauty
,
peradventure
perswaded
her selfe
that
the
Vapours
of
her
Passions
could
have
no
originall
,
but
from
the
Earth
.
She
struck
her
face
with
her
hands
,
as
if
she
meant
to
punish
the
beauty
there
,
as
Author
of
her
Infelicity
.
Shee
knocked
her
Breast
,
and
it
seemed
she
would
chase
thence
that
Image
which
against
her
will
tyrannized
in
her
heart
.
Lastly
,
she
tore
her
haire
,
making
them
guilty
of
Diaspe's
far
away
absence
,
because
they
had
not
the
power
to
stay
and
entangle
him
.
The
sense
of
her
sorrow
ceased
not
to
torment
her
:
And
these
Rages
which
came
as
Natures
under-Assistants
for
the
consolation
of
her
minde
,
augmented
the
oppressions
of
it
.
Finally
,
overcome
and
cast
downe
by
the
Assault
of
of
many
passions
,
she
was
constrained
,
by
a
violent
Fever
,
to
betake
her selfe
to
her
Bed
,
whilst
her
griefes
presaged
nothing
but
her
Death
.
The
Dutchess
used
all
meanes
to
comfort
her
,
representing
to
her
infinite
expectations
;
very
well
knowing
,
that
hope
,
although
remote
,
is
the
true
nourishment
of
Love
,
and
the
onely
Consolation
of
Lovers
.
When
shee
perceived
her
tired
,
with
a
Conquering
sorrow
,
and
that
it
seemed
that
her
eyes
which
were
even
drained
with
weeping
,
desired
Repose
,
despight
of
griefe
,
which
wished
to
see
her
engaged
to
a
perpetuall
Lamentation
,
she
went
from
her
to
Floridea
in
the
Cave
.
To
whom
she
recounted
the
ill-fortune
of
the
Princess
,
and
the
Resolution
she
had
taken
to
disoblige
her
heart
from
Diaspe
,
obeying
her
Father
,
and
marrying
the
Duke
of
Filena
.
The
Dutchess
had
understood
from
Dianea
,
King
Vassileo's
Intention
,
but
knew
nothing
of
the
Love
that
had
passed
between
Floridea
,
and
the
Duke
of
Filena
.
When
Floridea
heard
the
Duke
named
,
with
a
great
alteration
,
she
beseeched
,
who
was
that
Duke
of
Filena
,
who
was
accounted
worthy
of
such
a
Princess
.
The
Dutchess
answered
her
,
he
was
the
most
celebrated
King
at
that
time
Fame
reported
,
and
that
enoblized
the
Glories
of
his
bloud
,
by
the
wonders
of
his
Vertue
,
by
which
hee
had
conquered
envy
it selfe
.
That
King
Vassileo
,
even
when
he
was
a
great
way
hence
,
had
elected
him
for
his
sonne
,
and
that
not
many
dayes
since
he
arrived
here
to
solemnize
these
Nuptialls
,
which
most
sumptuously
are
a
preparing
.
Floridea
had
scarce
heard
the
sense
of
these
last
words
,
but
being
surprized
with
a
trembling
of
the
heart
,
she
beseeched
the
Dutchess
to
leave
her
,
untill
she
had
passed
over
that
fit
,
which
she
conceived
of
little
moment
,
being
accustomed
formerly
to
have
greater
.
Being
alone
,
she
gave
liberty
to
her
tongue
,
that
accompanying
her
eyes
,
they
might
celebrate
the
Funerall
of
her
hopes
.
Unfortunate
(
cry'd
she
)
are
they
that
found
their
Desires
upon
the
inconstancies
of
Fortune
.
I
grew
proud
in
holding
her
by
the
haire
,
and
perswaded
my self
,
I
might
with
all
security
res●
me
in
the
midd'st
of
her
wheele
,
having
been
sheltered
from
the
Barbarismes
of
Traytors
,
preserved
from
the
Furies
of
the
Sea
,
and
to
have
found
so
large
a
share
in
the
affections
of
so
great
a
Princess
;
and
now
I
see
my selfe
a
new
reduced
to
that
condition
,
that
Death
would
be
the
least
of
my
miseries
.
How
uncertaine
are
our
Thoughts
!
How
vaine
our
Designes
!
How
beguiled
our
Hopes
!
and
how
betray'd
our
opinions
!
I
imagined
that
this
Grot
,
that
had
hid
me
from
the
cruelty
of
mine
enemies
,
would
have
also
preserved
me
from
the
cruellest
blowes
of
Destiny
.
I
believed
it
had
not
been
able
to
penetrate
into
this
Cave
which
the
Sun
dares
not
disclose
.
Ah
me
unhappy
!
what
Remedy
shall
I
look
for
?
I
have
found
the
ill
,
and
Death
hath
mocked
me
with
an
appearance
of
Recoverie
.
I
am
like
those
Flies
,
which
burne
themselves
in
that
fire
,
which
they
believed
would
have
cherished
them
.
But
to
whom
profits
it
me
to
complaine
,
since
't
is
in
the
power
of
this
hand
to
release
me
from
all
the
molestations
of
the
world
?
That
woman
is
too
much
miserable
that
hath
no
other
meanes
to
ease
her
of
her
miserie
,
but
her
teares
.
But
I
have
a
Courage
to
dye
when
I
will
,
and
that
envies
not
the
constancie
of
those
breasts
,
that
being
of
a
less
fraile
Sex
,
are
judged
therefore
the
more
generous
.
But
whither
doth
my
griefe
transport
my
tongue
,
and
my
reason
make
me
wander
?
For
the
present
,
I
ought
not
,
nor
can
I
dye
:
For
being
the
Duke
of
Filena's
,
I
should
not
relinquish
his
Commands
.
I
ought
to
depend
upon
his
will
,
and
to
heare
my selfe
his
Resolutions
.
Others
reports
for
the
most
part
,
are
either
interested
or
careless
.
In
the
affaires
of
Love
,
the
circumstances
give
,
and
take
away
life
:
When
thou
shalt
say
,
(
O
Duke
of
Filena
)
thou
wilt
not
be
mine
;
When
thou
shalt
refuse
that
Sacrifice
thou
hast
of
my
heart
,
then
I
can
dispose
of
my selfe
according
to
my
pleasure
.
At
the
present
my
thought
could
not
be
innocent
,
if
it
should
violate
thy
right
.
If
thou
wilt
have
Dianea
,
I
will
not
oppose
thee
.
For
I
should
love
thee
but
a
little
,
if
for
my
proper
Interest
I
should
deprive
thee
of
so
gratefull
a
thing
.
Nevertheless
,
I
know
,
that
I
offend
thee
,
making
that
faith
dubious
,
which
I
have
always
served
with
so
much
loyalty
.
Thus
complayning
without
attending
the
Returne
of
the
Dutchesse
,
as
if
shee
hated
those
Roomes
,
fearing
no
longer
Prodirto
,
nor
the
Encounters
of
Fortune
,
she
went
forth
of
the
Cave
,
with
the
greatest
anxiety
that
could
be
,
taking
that
path
which
to
her
judgement
might
lead
her
whither
her
heart
designed
her
.
By
the
way
she
devised
how
she
should
appeare
to
the
Duke
of
Filena
.
She
prepared
words
premeditated
,
conceits
which
were
by
her selfe
now
accused
as
too
humble
,
and
now
rejected
as
over-rigorous
.
Shee
contriv'd
,
if
shee
found
her selfe
despised
,
how
she
should
amplifie
her
sorrowes
.
And
meditated
if
accepted
of
,
by
what
wayes
she
should
conceale
her
joy
.
Whilst
she
agitated
by
these
Passions
,
rendred
the
Incommodities
of
her
travaile
more
supportable
,
Diaspe
,
who
had
resolved
to
abandon
the
world
,
and
to
live
amidst
solitudes
without
the
disturbance
of
those
thoughts
which
make
us
abhorre
life
,
condemning
his
opinion
for
base
,
had
hired
a
great
Barke
to
transport
him
to
Creet
.
He
thought
with
himselfe
;
The
Affections
to
ones
Countrie
and
Father
to
exceed
all
others
.
All
sorrowes
are
comforted
under
that
Heaven
where
all
Influences
are
Prosperitie
.
He
was
scarce
descry'd
a
good
way
from
the
Port
,
but
that
he
told
the
Mariners
they
should
presently
receive
him
.
Constancy
may
have
residency
in
all
things
but
the
minds
of
Lovers
.
He
feigned
some
businesse
that
he
had
,
and
commanded
them
to
passe
away
the
time
till
his
returne
.
He
walked
towards
the
Grott
,
carried
,
I
believe
,
more
by
his
heart
than
his
feet
.
Arrived
there
,
finding
the
entrance
open
,
he
boldly
entered
,
imagining
,
peradventure
,
to
find
Dianea
in
some
errour
.
Being
come
into
the
Court
,
he
saw
that
Knight
whom
he
had
left
for
dead
resting
himselfe
upon
a
stone
.
He
resolved
no
more
to
be
deceived
by
the
infidelity
of
her
that
introduced
others
into
those
Chambers
,
into
the
which
he
had
perswaded
himselfe
that
he
only
was
admitted
.
But
having
left
him
on
the
earth
breathless
,
and
seeing
him
at
the
present
in
a
very
good
state
of
health
,
he
imagined
them
phantasmes
of
sleep
,
or
delusions
of
Enchantments
.
He
undeceived
himselfe
with
his
sword
,
assailing
him
,
who
,
after
the
manner
of
Anteus
,
arose
more
vigorous
by
his
falls
.
Offences
and
defences
were
at
the
same
time
.
Blows
were
given
and
returned
equally
;
victory
was
independent
,
neither
did
the
Palme
bow
towards
either
of
them
.
The
fight
continued
about
an
houre
,
maintained
more
by
their
anger
than
strengths
.
Each
of
them
blamed
the
edge
of
his
sword
,
and
the
weakness
of
his
Arme
that
strooke
not
down
and
vanquished
his
enemy
.
They
were
both
of
them
all
soyled
with
bloud
,
and
it
seemed
death
would
have
the
Triumph
of
the
fight
,
and
of
their
lives
.
They
could
not
any
longer
keep
them
on
their
feet
,
when
after
a
long
wrestling
they
fell
down
both
together
,
leaving
life
in
his
hands
who
should
dye
the
last
.
Their
wounds
truly
were
not
mortall
,
but
those
also
being
again
opened
which
they
had
received
before
,
they
were
so
weakened
by
the
much
bloud
they
lost
,
that
there
appeared
no
signe
that
might
make
them
thought
alive
.
At
this
very
instant
Dianea
,
who
had
taken
truce
from
her
sorrow
,
descended
into
the
Cave
to
make
Floridea
acquainted
with
their
both
concerning
miseries
.
At
first
sight
she
grew
astonished
,
seeing
two
Carkasses
to
be
the
Object
of
her
eyes
.
She
presently
received
it
as
a
Reincounter
of
that
wretchednesse
which
Fortune
prepared
for
her
.
Suspitious
,
and
doubtfull
,
willing
to
be
satisfied
who
they
were
that
were
come
to
solemnize
(
by
dying
)
their
Funerals
in
those
retiring
places
;
she
saw
Diaspe's
face
,
that
all
over-spread
with
palenesse
,
it
seemed
they
besought
her
aide
,
his
tongue
being
unable
to
implore
it
;
she
schreeked
not
out
,
because
her
heart
oppressed
by
a
violent
passion
,
hindred
her
voice
,
so
that
she
could
not
speake
;
she
ranne
to
embrace
him
,
as
if
she
would
bury
him
in
her selfe
,
beleeving
that
she
could
not
give
a
Sepulchre
more
worthy
to
a
Carkasle
so
much
beloved
.
As
soone
as
she
perceived
there
was
yet
some
hope
of
life
,
with
impatiency
she
tore
what
came
next
to
her
hands
to
bind
up
his
wounds
,
having
yet
before
with
a
Jasper
stone
,
which
she
had
in
a
Ring
,
stanched
his
bloud
.
Whiles
Dianea
held
him
in
her
armes
,
he
being
a
little
returned
to
himselfe
,
breathing
out
a
languishing
sigh
,
opened
his
eyes
,
which
met
with
those
of
hers
,
whom
he
loved
and
hated
at
the
same
instant
.
He
presently
closed
them
againe
,
supposing
his
heart
attempted
to
deceive
his
sight
with
those
phantasmes
;
and
that
the
strength
of
imagination
made
unpresent
Objects
seeme
visible
.
Whereupon
with
a
weeping
voice
he
said
:
Hast
not
thou
(
O
Fortune
)
yet
perchance
satiated
the
cruelty
of
thy
desires
,
that
thou
representest
to
me
that
Image
that
is
more
tormentfull
to
me
than
that
death
which
I
know
approacheth
.
Thou
believest
(
may
be
)
these
wounds
are
not
sufficient
to
kill
me
,
without
striking
me
with
an
Object
so
dismall
;
or
rather
,
I
having
no
part
of
my
body
but
mine
eyes
which
can
be
offended
,
thou
hast
tormented
them
with
a
Ghost
,
with
a
Phantasme
so
noyous
,
so
detestfull
.
Dianea
could
returne
no
answer
to
these
words
,
but
with
her
teares
,
which
abundantly
gushing
from
her
eyes
,
made
Diaspe
understand
he
was
in
the
armes
of
her
,
I
know
not
whether
more
beloved
than
hated
.
Many
times
he
endeavoured
to
have
risen
,
but
being
with-held
by
force
,
he
added
;
What
pity
(
perfidious
one
)
is
thine
,
who
,
having
murthered
me
alive
,
now
wouldst
lament
me
dead
?
Complaine
the
Testimonies
of
thy
disloyalty
.
O
Lovers
,
give
you
credit
to
the
doubleness
of
that
heart
that
can
bemoane
whom
it
hath
betrayed
!
Reserve
these
teares
,
Dianea
,
to
contrive
treasons
against
the
simplicitie
of
some
body
that
knows
thee
not
.
Dianea
,
being
unable
to
endure
these
words
,
which
cast
a
shadow
on
her
loyalty
,
interrupting
him
,
answered
:
Deare
Diaspe
,
if
you
had
loved
me
you
could
not
have
doubted
of
the
certainty
of
my
faith
.
Suspitions
are
not
begot
but
where
there
is
little
love
.
I
neither
will
,
nor
can
affect
others
besides
you
.
I
have
but
one
heart
which
can
entertaine
the
impression
of
but
one
alone
Object
.
Would
to
heaven
,
replied
Diaspe
,
that
I
could
beguile
my
heart
to
beleeve
thee
innocent
.
I
would
dye
a
thousand
times
rather
than
see
you
miserable
.
And
I
answered
,
Dianea
would
encounter
death
so
many
times
more
not
to
be
such
.
If
you
afford
beliefe
to
my
teares
and
oaths
,
credit
these
hands
,
which
offer
to
subscribe
my
innocency
with
my
bloud
.
So
having
said
,
she
tooke
Diaspe's
Dagger
to
strike
her selfe
.
He
adding
strength
to
his
weaknesse
,
with
held
her
,
and
said
to
her
:
And
who
is
this
Knight
?
What
motives
hath
provoked
him
?
Or
by
whom
is
he
perswaded
to
betray
my
life
,
and
spy
out
these
retiring
places
?
I
see
him
new
enlivened
to
renew
my
miseries
.
I
left
him
dead
at
the
entrance
of
the
Grott
,
and
to
day
Destiny
hath
made
me
find
him
more
stout
than
ever
.
I
know
not
how
,
replied
Dianea
presently
to
give
you
a
greater
account
of
these
Accidents
than
that
which
you
may
conceive
of
your selfe
.
These
Adventures
are
as
strange
to
me
as
your
disdaine
came
unimagined
.
I
beseech
heaven
this
Knight
may
live
,
that
I
may
recover
health
from
that
hand
which
wounded
me
.
But
these
Discourses
bring
with
them
no
salve
for
your
hurts
.
Dianea
is
yours
,
and
cannot
be
anothers
.
You
much
trouble
her
when
you
suspect
her
such
.
But
rather
you
injure
your selfe
,
manifesting
demerits
,
which
vexe
and
toyle
the
Affections
of
a
Princesse
.
Hereupon
rising
she
would
have
led
him
into
one
of
those
Chambers
,
but
he
would
not
consent
till
he
had
seen
if
the
Duke
were
in
a
condition
likely
to
live
.
They
found
he
was
very
far
spent
with
the
losse
of
much
bloud
;
a
signe
that
gave
them
little
hope
of
life
.
There
were
two
beds
,
by
the
assistance
of
the
Dutchesse
,
presently
prepared
,
where
they
wounded
were
laid
.
Dianea
attended
to
their
Cure
,
being
very
well
instructed
in
Chirurgery
;
not
in
that
the
Princesses
of
those
times
were
skilfull
in
all
the
Sciences
,
and
in
this
in
particular
,
as
most
necessary
in
the
Pallaces
of
Princes
,
who
will
not
trust
their
healths
to
the
infidelity
of
others
hands
,
but
because
from
her
childhood
her
Genius
had
inclined
her
to
it
.
Oleandro
in
this
while
,
with
an
impetuous
beating
of
the
heart
,
met
with
the
Count
of
Silinera
,
to
whom
he
had
given
knowledge
of
his
Arrivall
.
Divers
Complements
passed
,
which
alwaies
abound
in
the
mouths
of
Great
men
.
Sitting
down
in
a
Chamber
of
the
Pallace
,
and
dismissing
his
Attendants
,
who
for
the
most
part
use
to
spy
into
the
Actions
of
their
Patrons
,
the
Count
of
Salinera
spoke
thus
:
Prince
Oleandro
,
it
transfixes
my
soule
,
that
the
first
day
in
which
I
have
had
the
fortune
to
reverence
you
should
be
funeralized
with
things
most
molestfull
to
him
who
is
to
execute
them
,
and
with
sorrow
to
him
that
commands
them
.
But
I
having
to
talke
with
a
Prince
,
who
counterpoiseth
all
actions
with
reason
,
and
treating
of
the
reason
of
State
,
which
is
the
soule
that
quickens
the
body
publike
,
you
will
receive
those
Offices
in
good
part
,
which
though
they
appeare
unpleasant
are
neverthelesse
necessary
.
I
will
not
remember
you
of
the
miseries
of
this
Kingdome
,
which
at
the
present
enjoyes
no
other
quiet
,
nor
other
felicity
than
that
which
an
ideall
,
and
an
imaginary
hope
can
promise
us
.
It
is
known
to
all
,
and
I
suppose
to
you
in
particular
,
that
being
borne
to
command
,
you
are
obliged
to
observe
the
Customes
of
people
,
and
the
misfortunes
of
Princes
more
than
any
other
.
Laws
are
here
either
neglected
,
or
abused
.
Justice
set
to
sale
hath
rendred
interessed
Rewards
and
Punishments
.
The
Nobility
are
become
Tyrants
over
the
Commonalty
.
The
people
fomentated
by
the
Chances
of
Fortune
,
have
forgot
their
Obedience
.
Honours
are
dispenced
at
randome
.
Desert
and
Vertue
are
suppressed
by
favour
and
riches
.
The
power
of
King
Vassileo
in
a
manner
is
restrained
,
so
that
he
is
scarce
the
Mastor
of
himselfe
.
Some
that
have
gained
the
chiefe
Offices
,
keep
his
eares
as
it
were
so
besieged
,
that
he
suspects
not
ill
though
he
prove
it
.
And
yet
he
hath
beene
advised
by
many
,
who
have
not
feared
to
ruine
themselves
to
save
the
Prince
.
This
Advertisement
hath
been
,
if
not
too
late
,
at
least
untimely
;
so
that
to
apply
a
Remedy
was
to
encrease
,
not
to
remove
the
Evill
.
The
successes
in
the
Kingdome
have
constrained
his
Majestie
to
suffer
the
wicked
,
because
they
should
not
grow
worse
.
He
that
for
Wisedome
knowes
neither
a
Superiour
nor
equall
,
hath
been
unwilling
to
stirre
those
humours
,
which
before
they
can
be
dissolved
will
destroy
the
Body
.
The
Death
of
the
Count
of
Cithera
,
a
young
man
,
that
by
his
Liberalities
had
won
the
Affections
of
all
,
have
so
alienated
them
from
the
King
,
that
the
most
seditious
now
attend
but
for
a
new
occasion
to
disguise
the
Impiety
of
their
Designes
.
To
our
Domestick
miseries
,
externall
are
joyned
.
The
King
of
Thacia
and
Armenia
unite
their
Armies
to
invade
us
;
the
one
to
revenge
the
death
of
his
Brother
,
and
the
other
that
of
a
son
,
as
if
King
Vassileo
himselfe
had
been
the
Author
of
them
.
The
Chance
(
although
it
was
of
pure
Fortune
)
is
(
without
reason
)
ascribed
to
his
Majestie
:
but
to
those
that
have
an
intention
to
wage
warre
,
all
Appearances
become
Causes
.
Kings
,
that
have
innumerable
men
and
money
,
make
that
lawfull
which
they
will
,
and
under
a
mantle
of
Justice
conceale
their
Ambition
and
Cruelty
.
In
summe
,
this
Commotion
hath
put
his
Majesty
into
grave
deliberations
;
for
he
shall
at
once
be
combated
with
enemies
he
knowes
not
;
and
have
occasion
to
feare
his
owne
as
much
as
he
doth
the
Armenians
and
Thracians
.
To
withdraw
himselfe
from
so
imminent
dangers
,
he
hath
procur'd
to
make
friendship
with
Princes
his
Neighbours
,
and
those
farther
off
.
Some
of
them
he
hath
awakened
with
this
universall
Maxime
:
That
the
greatnesse
of
the
Armenians
and
Thracians
cannot
be
but
with
perill
to
them
.
To
give
way
that
the
forces
of
others
should
exceed
their
owne
,
endangers
their
Liberty
to
the
discretion
of
an
insolent
;
for
such
are
Conquerours
.
Many
he
hath
perswaded
by
the
ties
of
bloud
,
and
others
he
hath
put
in
minde
of
injuries
received
from
these
two
Kingdomes
:
Some
also
he
hath
remembred
of
the
Services
hee
done
them
.
In
briefe
,
hee
hath
not
omitted
any
occasion
nor
notice
to
gaine
him
the
hearts
of
those
,
who
though
they
cannot
aide
him
,
at
least
shall
doe
him
no
harme
.
In
Africk
he
hath
sounded
the
Affections
of
all
,
and
hath
there
found
such
a
forwardnesse
,
that
the
King
of
Egypt
,
with
his
Cousin
the
new
King
of
Morocco
,
have
offered
themselves
to
fall
upon
the
Kingdome
of
Thracia
to
divert
him
,
or
take
from
him
the
occasion
to
invade
us
;
knowing
their
State-Tenents
not
to
maintaine
two
warres
at
one
time
.
This
fell
out
gratefull
to
his
Majestie
,
because
the
onely
forces
of
Armenia
could
not
daunt
ours
,
to
whom
for
a
long
continuance
of
yeares
they
have
alwayes
yielded
obedience
so
much
the
more
,
being
under
the
command
of
a
King
who
never
had
combated
with
other
but
wilde
Beasts
.
But
this
joy
of
King
Vassileo's
was
mortified
by
notice
given
him
that
the
King
of
Morocco
dispatched
Embasladours
to
have
your
Person
delivered
him
;
imagining
himselfe
whilst
you
lived
,
neither
secure
nor
King
.
His
injustices
are
so
detestable
to
his
Subjects
,
that
they
dayly
pray
Heaven
for
your
Returne
.
If
the
present
state
of
things
did
not
necessitate
my
master
to
any
agreement
,
though
unjust
(
for
the
Lawes
of
necessity
are
without
Law
;
and
it
is
allowable
to
doe
every
thing
rather
then
fall
)
you
should
have
no
cause
to
feare
any
,
and
hee
with
as
much
Resolution
would
undertake
your
defence
,
as
now
it
grieves
him
to
desire
your
Departure
.
He
hath
committed
to
my
charge
to
informe
you
of
the
state
of
things
,
and
that
he
himselfe
not
being
safe
,
can
much
lesse
secure
others
.
He
knowes
that
daily
there
are
Treacheries
woven
against
you
,
and
knowes
that
not
long
since
you
were
dangerously
wounded
:
He
heard
it
with
as
much
sorrow
as
can
be
imagined
in
a
just
Prince
,
constrained
to
support
injustices
.
He
entreats
you
therefore
with
the
greatest
privacy
possible
,
to
goe
hence
,
that
he
be
not
compell'd
to
doe
wrong
either
to
you
or
himselfe
.
He
for
feare
of
having
it
discovered
,
conceiving
it
dangerous
to
appoint
you
Vessells
for
your
Transportation
,
as
a
Present
hath
sent
you
these
Jewels
,
inferiour
to
your
merit
,
but
perhaps
needfull
in
the
Encounters
of
your
new
fortune
.
Though
you
were
resolved
to
have
continued
here
,
his
Majestie
desires
you
to
goe
,
and
assures
you
,
you
shall
doe
it
with
safety
:
and
will
maintain
that
faith
which
he
promised
you
,
when
first
he
knew
his
condition
and
birth
.
He
is
confident
your
wisedome
will
apprehend
this
Counsell
,
as
the
securest
for
the
safety
and
reputation
of
you
both
.
Cyprus
is
not
worthy
to
possess
such
a
Prince
.
You
may
with
security
promise
to
your selfe
,
that
these
feares
of
Warre
being
ceas'd
,
this
Kingdome
shall
serve
you
as
a
Sanctuarie
,
and
that
King
Vassileo
above
all
others
will
interest
himselfe
to
favour
you
in
the
regaining
you
your
Crowne
.
He
loves
Justice
more
then
others
,
and
cannot
endure
that
the
wicked
should
triumph
over
innocency
.
The
rather
by
reason
the
cause
is
common
to
all
,
Kings
oughting
not
to
suffer
Usurpation
of
States
in
others
,
lest
they
finde
the
experience
of
it
in
their
owne
.
Here
the
Count
of
Salinera
held
his
peace
.
Whereupon
Oleandro
replyed
:
I
ascribe
it
(
my
Lord
)
to
my
great
fortune
,
that
the
Majesty
of
King
Vassileo
so
much
interests
himselfe
in
my
Calamities
.
I
shall
not
alwayes
remaine
unhappy
,
being
protected
by
such
a
Prince
.
I
will
be
gone
because
he
desires
it
,
and
goe
willingly
:
Because
Misfortunes
ever
attend
me
,
I
would
not
disquiet
the
safetie
of
his
Kingdom
.
I
will
take
along
with
me
these
Jewels
,
which
he
hath
pleased
to
honour
me
with
,
not
that
I
have
need
of
them
,
but
to
have
daily
before
mine
eyes
Testimonies
of
his
Magnanimity
,
Greatnesse
,
and
my
obligations
.
I
should
thank
him
for
what
he
hath
done
,
and
for
what
hee
hath
promised
to
doe
for
me
,
if
these
Duties
were
not
common
in
all
tongues
.
So
great
Engagements
claim
a
reverent
Acknowledgement
,
which
is
ordinarily
more
expressed
by
silence
then
the
tongue
.
The
reasons
you
have
alledged
were
uselesse
to
perswade
me
.
It
sufficeth
that
I
see
the
Interests
of
the
King
or
Kingdome
to
move
me
.
This
Discourse
being
finished
,
the
Count
of
Salinera
bad
him
farewell
,
with
a
resentment
more
lively
and
true
then
those
that
are
practised
in
Courts
.
Oleandro
complaining
on
the
infinitenesse
of
his
miseries
,
prepared
himselfe
with
Arnalta
for
their
Departure
.
Their
Habits
were
poore
,
his
face
he
disfigured
with
a
thousand
blemishes
.
So
Fortune
knowes
how
to
jest
even
with
Princes
.
They
that
knew
how
to
disguise
themselves
so
,
knew
not
how
they
should
have
knowne
themselves
.
Celardo
used
all
meanes
to
have
borne
them
Company
,
But
being
over-come
by
reasons
and
prayers
,
was
enforced
to
move
it
no
farther
,
remaining
in
the
possession
of
the
Pallace
.
These
two
Princes
departed
before
the
Appearance
of
the
Sunne
could
discover
their
departure
.
When
they
came
to
the
Sea
side
,
they
were
so
weary
they
could
hardly
stand
.
Necessitie
may
trouble
,
but
never
can
discourage
worthy
minds
.
Finding
a
Vessell
,
they
went
aboard
it
,
which
set
saile
that
very
night
.
The
most
noble
Island
of
Cyprus
was
out
of
sight
when
they
were
(
rowsed
on
a
suddaine
by
the
swellings
of
the
Sea
)
assaulted
by
the
winds
,
the
Mariners
were
constrained
to
fall
to
land
on
a
Rock
,
where
by
the
help
of
swimming
and
Planks
,
they
escaped
from
the
water
.
The
Countrey
being
unknowne
,
they
put
themselves
to
walk
afoot
at
adventure
,
whilst
the
other
wearied
themselves
to
recover
the
ship-wrackt
goods
,
which
it
seemed
were
spewed
up
by
the
Sea
with
a
great
fury
upon
those
shores
.
After
one
houre
and
more
of
travailing
they
came
to
some
Shepheards
Cabbins
,
from
whom
they
received
meat
and
lodging
the
next
night
.
These
People
,
although
they
could
not
understand
them
,
nor
were
understood
,
with
a
thousand
signes
of
courtesie
could
not
weary
themselves
with
doing
them
honour
.
In
minds
base
by
birth
many
times
are
found
gentlenesse
,
which
great
Ones
either
know
not
how
to
use
,
or
will
not
.
Morning
being
come
,
they
departed
by
break
of
day
,
to
find
out
some
City
where
they
might
at
leisure
deliberate
of
what
they
should
do
.
They
walked
till
that
time
of
the
day
that
the
body
requires
the
naturall
tribute
of
meats
.
They
rested
them
neare
a
Fountaine
,
and
after
their
Repast
gave
themselves
over
to
sleep
,
willing
with
a
most
pleasing
repose
to
slight
that
fortune
which
only
aimed
to
disquiet
them
.
Whilest
they
lay
in
this
fashion
a
Knight
came
upon
them
,
for
so
he
appeared
by
his
Armes
,
and
his
Apparell
.
He
cast
his
eyes
upon
Arnalta
,
and
praising
much
that
beauty
,
he
fixed
his
look
upon
Oleandro
.
He
presently
knew
him
,
though
so
unlike
to
himselfe
.
There
is
not
any
thing
that
can
be
concealed
from
the
eyes
of
a
Lover
,
His
Travels
,
Misfortunes
,
Calamities
had
not
so
transformed
him
,
that
he
could
not
be
known
for
Oleandro
by
her
that
loved
him
.
Being
assured
that
he
was
the
very
same
,
she
trembled
,
swet
,
grew
cold
,
became
unmoveable
.
She
was
doubtfull
whether
she
ought
first
to
assault
him
with
injuries
or
kisses
.
Before
she
would
have
been
content
that
he
had
been
anothers
,
so
that
she
might
have
seen
him
:
Now
she
rather
wisheth
him
dead
,
than
by
the
effects
to
discover
certainly
his
perfidiousness
,
imagining
with
her selfe
that
he
weary
and
satiated
with
the
Amours
of
her
Sister
,
this
with
him
was
a
new
Mistris
.
Finally
,
recollecting
the
reasons
of
her
displeasure
,
unsheathing
his
dagger
,
she
said
:
Oleandro
,
now
is
the
time
thou
shalt
pay
for
injuries
committed
against
my
faith
and
the
honour
of
my
Family
.
It
is
unreasonable
that
I
should
endure
that
hatefull
look
which
so
many
times
I
have
found
guilty
.
I
ought
not
to
let
that
man
live
,
who
with
his
only
look
can
reprove
me
of
my
follies
,
and
provoke
blushes
in
that
face
he
hath
been
able
to
slight
.
Thou
(
O
wicked
man
)
shalt
prove
what
disdaine
in
the
breast
of
a
loving
woman
can
do
.
Oh
God!
how
foolish
I
am
.
How
I
yet
love
this
impious
man
,
that
with
this
dagger
,
and
death
,
know
not
but
that
I
may
make
him
happy
.
Would
not
he
be
fortunate
if
he
might
be
freed
from
my
indignation
,
and
enter
into
a
place
where
my
hatred
could
not
arrive
.
Impious
and
sacrilegious
persons
,
whose
hearts
are
replenished
with
all
barbarismes
,
cannot
for
all
that
abide
to
looke
upon
the
Testimonies
of
their
wickednesses
.
Thou
shalt
receive
more
vexation
with
seeing
me
,
and
hearing
me
aggravate
thy
perfidiousness
,
than
if
I
killed
thee
a
thousand
times
.
These
Armes
are
too
worthy
for
the
breast
of
a
Traitour
.
I
will
not
honour
nor
immortallize
thy
death
with
these
hands
,
which
would
even
raze
thy
name
out
of
the
booke
of
Oblivion
it selfe
.
But
I
know
very
well
how
to
torment
thee
.
I
will
kill
her
here
,
whom
I
doubt
not
but
if
thou
lovest
,
thou
wilt
receive
that
punishment
I
wish
thee
.
So
saying
,
she
drew
neare
to
Arnalta
,
and
furiously
lifting
up
the
Dagger
held
it
in
the
aire
,
saying
to
her selfe
:
In
what
hath
this
unfortunate
one
offended
me
,
that
I
should
thus
miserably
deprive
her
of
life
?
I
should
not
be
angry
with
her
for
loving
him
,
for
I
also
have
been
in
the
same
errour
.
Minds
cannot
be
so
compelled
,
that
they
should
not
desire
the
fruition
of
what
seems
good
.
And
if
she
deserves
any
chastisement
,
what
greater
punishment
can
I
give
her
than
the
company
of
so
faithless
a
man
,
that
promising
her
all
felicity
will
make
her
miserable
.
He
deserves
punishment
,
and
to
him
I
should
give
it
;
whereupon
turning
towards
Oleandro
to
strike
him
,
she
was
againe
withheld
with
an
amazement
at
her selfe
.
Is
not
this
the
man
,
she
considered
with
her selfe
,
that
hath
had
the
loveraignty
over
my
heart
?
Do
not
I
love
him
,
perchance
,
more
than
my
soule
?
'T
is
true
,
he
is
unworthy
to
be
beloved
;
't
is
true
,
he
loves
not
me
,
and
't
is
true
,
he
is
a
Traitour
:
But
how
can
my
affection
be
assuredlier
fixed
than
in
his
alienations
?
To
love
being
beloved
is
an
Obligation
.
I
ought
to
affect
Oleandro
through
Gratitude
,
and
to
comply
with
my
heart
.
The
affections
of
one
beloved
should
be
won
by
obsequiousnesse
,
and
not
steele
.
Cruelty
is
altogether
an
adversary
to
Love
.
If
I
kill
him
,
I
can
never
hope
to
enjoy
him
,
who
living
may
become
sensible
of
his
errour
,
and
re-affect
me
.
And
more
,
if
I
love
him
,
I
should
accommodate
my selfe
to
his
desires
.
I
should
only
love
my
own
satisfaction
if
I
should
not
affect
him
,
but
because
he
loved
me
againe
.
The
Obligation
of
any
that
loves
in
earnest
is
to
be
transformed
into
the
Genius
of
the
beloved
.
It
is
neverthelesse
good
reason
that
I
take
from
my
eyes
what
may
alienate
him
from
my
love
,
and
molest
me
.
She
is
a
foole
that
can
have
the
patience
to
endure
a
Rivall
.
Having
made
these
considerations
,
she
came
againe
to
Arnalta
,
and
againe
stayed
her
hand
that
was
ready
to
strike
her
.
If
I
desire
(
said
she
)
the
affection
of
Oleandro
,
why
offend
I
him
with
killing
one
who
is
his
Companion
?
If
he
truly
affect
her
,
and
intends
to
preferre
her
before
me
,
seeing
her
murthered
by
my
hands
,
he
will
much
more
hate
me
.
If
I
would
enjoy
the
Affection
of
Oleandro
,
it
is
necessary
that
I
procure
it
by
parelling
this
,
whom
I
suppose
his
Mistris
.
When
in
her
presence
he
shall
professe
he
loves
me
,
I
shall
not
be
deceived
.
What
pleasure
would
it
be
to
me
if
he
should
love
me
out
necessity
,
not
having
where
to
divert
his
affections
?
How
can
one
rejoyce
in
that
love
which
cannot
be
cimented
by
a
Paragon
.
Ah
foole
,
that
I
am
!
presume
I
yet
in
the
love
of
this
wicked
one
,
in
this
sacrilegious
,
in
this
unfaithfull
man
.
He
hath
deceived
one
sister
,
and
the
other
is
betraied
,
or
slaine
:
And
ought
I
to
have
hope
on
the
instability
of
that
heart
that
is
inconstant
in
inconstancy
it selfe
.
No
,
no
,
to
retard
vengeance
is
to
render
him
worse
.
Their
Errours
are
to
be
pardoned
who
are
in
a
state
to
do
better
;
not
them
to
whom
forgivenesse
serves
as
a
fomentation
to
worse
.
This
impious
man
therefore
I
sacrifice
to
the
justice
of
my
disdaine
.
Hereupon
resolved
to
kill
him
,
she
moved
her
arme
and
directed
the
dagger
towards
his
heart
,
as
if
she
meant
to
punish
that
part
first
,
by
which
first
she
supposed
her selfe
injured
.
The
arrivall
of
a
Knight
,
who
having
observed
something
of
these
Discourses
,
hindered
this
resolution
,
who
just
came
in
time
to
hold
her
hand
.
Blush
you
not
(
he
said
)
to
defile
your selfe
in
the
bloud
of
these
,
who
by
their
habits
cannot
but
be
imagined
base
?
Art
thou
of
so
meane
a
spirit
,
that
thou
wilt
make
war
against
persons
that
are
overcome
by
sleep
:
Or
throw
away
those
armes
,
or
truly
performe
things
that
may
be
worthy
of
those
Armes
?
If
thou
knew'st
,
answered
the
other
,
the
Causes
of
my
Anger
thou
wouldst
applaud
my
resolution
,
and
be
thy selfe
the
Author
of
their
deaths
.
To
take
these
wicked
ones
out
of
the
world
is
to
do
a
benefit
to
the
publike
.
Persons
so
wicked
may
also
be
wickedly
punished
.
Against
those
that
are
unarmed
,
replied
the
other
,
and
those
that
are
asleep
,
there
is
no
reason
that
prevailes
.
It
is
not
lawfull
to
do
amisse
to
chastise
an
errour
.
Besides
,
from
so
meane
persons
an
injury
is
not
received
.
They
are
not
so
presently
onward
the
first
as
the
rusticity
of
their
Gaments
figures
them
to
you
.
He
is
a
Prince
,
yet
unworthy
of
such
a
name
,
and
goes
peradventure
in
these
counterfeit
habits
to
deceive
some
other
as
he
hath
done
me
.
So
saying
,
she
pulled
off
her
Helme
,
adding
:
I
am
not
a
man
,
as
perhaps
you
thought
me
.
To
give
a
masse
to
my
Infelicity
,
which
must
alwaies
accompany
me
,
Nature
made
me
a
woman
.
I
gave
to
this
wicked
one
my
love
,
my
honour
.
Being
growne
weary
of
me
,
with
the
very
same
Arts
which
he
had
woven
snares
with
,
to
beguile
my
simplicity
,
he
betrayed
the
heart
of
a
sister
of
mine
,
who
,
forsaking
the
Kingdome
,
and
her
Father
,
would
follow
him
.
Satiated
also
with
this
he
hath
either
abandoned
,
or
slaine
her
,
for
I
see
him
with
another
woman
,
and
not
her
,
whom
he
took
with
him
.
Have
not
I
then
reason
to
be
cruell
against
the
softness
of
my
sex
in
the
iniquity
of
this
impious
man
.
No
,
Infanta
Ariama
,
said
Oleandro
,
who
being
wakened
at
their
talke
,
had
in
some
part
observed
her
Complaints
,
and
knew
her
;
The
absent
should
never
be
condemned
.
Though
I
appeare
guilty
,
I
am
not
for
all
that
such
.
If
the
benignity
of
that
Infanta
,
who
could
give
me
her
heart
,
would
please
to
listen
to
my
words
,
she
should
see
that
I
am
not
to
be
blamed
,
as
the
world
may
believe
I
am
;
you
should
not
fixe
your selfe
in
the
appearance
of
things
.
Even
Jove
sends
forth
his
Lightnings
when
the
Heaven
is
serene
,
and
the
Sun
makes
a
glorious
shew
of
himselfe
sometimes
when
a
shower
falls
.
Wicked
man
,
answered
the
Infanta
,
how
skilfull
thou
art
to
mascherate
thy
excuses
!
Thy
perfidiousnesse
might
move
me
,
if
I
had
not
proved
the
dammages
of
thy
disloyalty
.
Tell
me
,
tell
me
,
perfidious
man
,
how
thou
canst
colour
thy
flight
?
What
canst
thou
say
for
the
betraying
of
my
sister
?
What
moved
thee
to
leave
me
with
a
pledge
in
my
belly
of
thy
unfaithfulnesse
?
Why
didst
thou
not
take
me
with
thee
instead
of
my
sister
?
Faire
Infanta
replied
Oleandro
:
One
cannot
perswade
one
that
will
not
be
perswaded
.
If
I
have
ever
deceived
you
,
if
this
heart
hath
ever
produced
desires
which
are
not
proper
to
my
faith
,
and
my
obligations
,
if
my
mind
be
estranged
from
you
,
even
in
the
vanity
of
very
dreames
,
I
beseech
Jove
that
he
come
against
me
with
all
his
Lightnings
;
that
Pluto
make
me
subject
to
all
the
torments
of
his
Kingdome
;
that
the
Earth
may
bring
forth
no
other
for
me
but
wild
beasts
,
brambles
,
and
peysons
;
that
the
sea
reserve
for
my
sufferings
all
his
Abysses
,
and
finally
,
that
the
aire
,
uniting
all
the
worst
influences
of
it
,
instead
of
affording
me
breath
,
may
stifle
me
.
Beleeve
Oaths
,
presently
replied
the
Infanta
!
He
that
hath
an
heart
so
impious
that
it
can
betray
an
Innocent
,
will
also
have
that
confidence
to
deny
his
treason
.
Wicked
man
,
thy
deceits
are
too
sensible
,
which
thou
hast
contrived
to
deceive
me
anew
.
But
I
will
confound
thee
.
I
will
that
thy
temerity
shall
be
lost
amidst
thy
own
Answers
.
What
hast
thou
done
with
my
Sister
?
Why
wentst
thou
with
her
?
Why
hast
thou
cousened
her
?
Infanta
(
answered
Oleandro
)
I
know
not
what
thing
Deceit
is
.
The
Princess
your
Sister
,
betraying
her selfe
,
hath
deceived
me
,
and
that
very
same
day
just
that
she
made
me
part
from
Tesset
,
I
by
an
accident
parted
from
her
.
Here
he
related
point
by
point
the
counterfeit
Letter
,
his
departure
,
the
company
of
an
unknown
Knight
,
how
he
came
to
know
her
,
the
words
that
passed
,
the
wound
the
Princesse
gave
her selfe
,
and
divers
other
particulars
:
Which
being
heard
with
a
disdainefull
laughter
of
the
Infanta
,
she
said
to
him
:
Oleandro
,
dreames
and
fables
find
no
belefe
in
the
mind
of
a
Lover
,
who
hardly
can
credit
her
eyes
.
Are
you
not
satisfied
to
have
tormented
my
innocency
with
your
workes
,
that
anew
you
would
with
words
entice
my
soule
from
me
?
See
how
perfidious
,
and
how
cruell
thou
art
.
Thou
proposest
things
to
me
so
far
distant
from
being
and
possibility
,
that
I
can
never
enforce
my
heart
to
beleeve
them
.
How
?
Thou
receive
a
Letter
and
not
distinguish
the
Characters
!
A
Messenger
wakened
you
and
you
observed
him
not
.
A
Knight
accompanied
you
,
and
you
knew
him
not
.
The
wounds
,
the
thieves
and
thy
other
imaginations
raise
in
me
that
effect
which
the
fragours
of
the
waves
of
Nylus
make
,
which
deafen
.
Thou
art
ingratefull
,
thou
art
a
Traitour
,
thou
art
a
wicked
man
,
and
therefore
no
wonder
thou
shouldst
be
a
Lyer
.
Besides
,
who
is
this
that
goes
along
with
you
a
Partaker
of
your
misfortunes
?
What
confidence
,
what
engagement
,
what
meanes
rendred
thee
a
Companion
so
interessed
,
that
she
hath
a
boldnesse
,
as
it
were
,
to
repose
her selfe
in
thy
bosome
,
and
now
,
assured
of
thy
protection
,
hath
given
her selfe
over
a
prey
to
sleepe
?
This
,
replied
Oleandro
,
is
my
Sister
,
and
I
would
that
you
should
understand
it
from
her
very
mouth
.
So
speaking
,
he
awakened
Arnalta
,
saying
to
her
:
Come
Sister
and
reverence
this
Lady
,
whom
my
heart
hath
elected
for
its
Queen
.
Is
perhaps
this
,
replied
Arnalta
,
the
Infanta
of
Numidia
?
Understanding
it
was
the
same
,
she
ran
to
kisse
her
hands
.
The
Infanta
drew
them
back
to
her
,
saying
,
Excuse
me
,
if
Love
and
Jealousie
take
from
me
those
actions
of
Courtesie
,
which
are
owing
to
your
merit
.
To
day
I
should
rejoyce
to
be
deceived
,
because
I
might
beguile
my
feare
.
I
have
businesse
of
some
consequence
with
this
,
whom
you
affirme
to
be
your
brother
.
I
can
neither
answer
,
nor
live
if
I
see
not
the
end
of
this
.
Turning
her selfe
then
to
Oleandro
,
she
said
to
him
:
I
cannot
deny
but
that
thy
Lies
carry
a
face
of
truth
:
But
this
time
they
shall
not
find
credit
;
I
will
yeeld
to
your
assertion
,
that
this
is
your
Sister
;
But
how
will
you
prove
that
performed
which
you
have
fabled
of
me
?
Innocency
,
readily
replied
Oleandro
,
hath
not
need
of
many
proofes
.
Behold
the
Letter
which
the
Princess
Arelida
,
your
Sister
,
made
use
of
to
deceive
me
.
Take
notice
of
your
own
Characters
so
well
imitated
,
that
I
believe
you
your selfe
would
remaine
in
doubt
that
your
hand
had
fashioned
them
unknown
to
your
eyes
and
heart
.
Then
said
the
Infanta
,
Is
Oleandro
faithfull
?
Then
is
he
mine
.
O
Gods
,
what
thankes
can
I
ever
render
you
,
having
restored
me
my
Lover
on
better
conditions
then
I
could
desire
or
imagine
?
She
ranne
after
to
embrace
him
:
neither
the
presence
of
Arnalta
,
nor
that
of
the
other
Knight
could
containe
her
in
those
tendernesses
which
are
practis'd
onely
among
Lovers
.
Their
kisses
were
centuplicated
.
Their
Arms
which
as
it
were
strove
with
their
hearts
in
expressing
Affection
,
were
not
wearie
with
Embracing
,
as
much
as
might
be
they
endeavoured
to
unite
their
bodies
.
The
heart
not
being
able
for
joy
to
contain
it self
in
the
breast
,
issued
out
of
it
in
words
kisses
and
teares
.
In
summe
,
there
was
not
a
sense
in
them
which
rejoyced
not
.
These
first
violences
of
Affection
being
over-passed
,
they
excused
themselves
,
he
with
the
Knight
,
and
she
with
Arnalta
;
they
resolved
presently
to
depart
thence
,
not
to
be
over-taken
by
the
night
.
The
Knight
told
them
,
that
not
farre
off
there
was
an
house
where
they
need
not
desire
welcome
.
They
took
their
way
towards
it
.
Olsandro
entreated
the
Infanta
to
make
the
tediousness
and
troubles
of
their
journey
,
pleasant
with
some
Relation
,
he
being
desirous
of
the
newes
that
fell
out
in
the
Court
after
his
departure
with
the
Princesse
.
The
Infanta
with
an
eagerness
encountring
this
occasion
,
thus
began
her
Storie
.
The
History
of
the
Infanta
Ariama
.
IT
was
two
houres
day
when
the
Damsels
of
the
Princess
my
Sister
perceived
,
that
shee
was
missing
.
More
by
their
teares
then
words
they
acquainted
my
father
with
it
.
At
the
notice
of
it
,
he
became
speechlesse
.
He
afterwards
sent
without
delay
to
the
Ports
,
to
learne
whither
she
took
her
voiage
,
dispatching
every
way
souldiers
on
Horseback
to
stay
her
.
Hee
imagined
she
was
gone
with
you
,
the
Guards
of
the
Golden
gate
reporting
your
Departure
with
one
Companion
,
who
by
the
Description
they
made
could
not
but
be
my
sister
.
When
I
knew
it
,
I
was
willing
to
die
for
griefe
,
I
said
and
did
things
which
would
have
provoked
sense
of
Pity
,
even
in
things
insensible
.
My
Father
hearing
no
tidings
of
her
could
not
be
comforted
,
and
removed
some
Moneths
without
sufferring
himselfe
to
be
seen
in
publick
.
In
that
time
the
Prince
his
Brother
returned
from
warre
,
maintained
alwayes
at
great
charges
abroad
,
because
being
cruell
of
nature
,
and
a
Lover
of
innovation
,
my
Father
very
willingly
saw
him
not
in
the
Kingdome
.
Hee
was
scarce
come
,
but
he
desired
leave
to
depart
for
Cyprus
,
by
Fame
enflamed
with
love
to
the
Princess
Dianea
,
who
for
Beauty
was
esteemed
a
new
Venus
.
My
Father
whom
these
Amours
pleased
not
for
Reasons
of
State
,
would
not
consent
to
him
:
for
many
times
their
Of-spring
engage
Parents
to
great
Matters
,
and
't
is
small
security
to
a
Prince
that
many
may
pretend
to
the
Government
.
My
Uncle
shew'd
himselfe
not
to
care
for
this
denyall
,
especially
because
a
few
dayes
before
the
Nuptials
of
Dianea
with
the
King
of
Armenia's
youngest
Sonne
were
there
published
,
He
fixed
his
minde
and
thought
on
new
objects
.
He
esteemed
the
Dutchess
of
Corana
worthy
his
affections
.
There
he
applyed
himselfe
with
such
a
Passion
,
that
he
made
all
the
Court
admire
him
,
seeing
a
Prince
a
Rivall
to
Mars
,
become
suddenly
a
Tributary
to
Cupid
.
Many
times
an
alteration
into
the
Extreames
is
Easie
.
My
Father
neither
allow'd
of
,
nor
withstood
these
Amours
,
feigning
himselfe
blinde
in
things
perspicuous
to
all
.
The
Dutchess
,
(
although
Ambition
,
and
a
desire
to
be
beloved
be
connaturals
to
women
)
seemed
strange
altogether
and
coy
at
it
.
She
had
formerly
engaged
her
heart
to
Doarte
the
Count
of
Nasace
,
a
Knight
,
who
by
the
gentleness
of
his
behaviour
,
and
the
valour
of
his
sword
,
had
gained
himselfe
the
Affections
of
all
.
Shee
truely
had
never
applyed
her
minde
thither
,
if
my
interest
had
not
induced
her
.
The
seeing
me
so
neare
to
render
account
to
Nature
of
the
pleasures
I
had
stole
from
my
marriage
,
made
her
fall
into
a
Resolution
far
from
her
opinion
and
genius
.
We
two
onely
could
not
conceale
,
nor
mature
the
birth
with
safety
.
There
was
need
of
many
shadowes
to
darken
so
many
eyes
.
The
Count
was
made
acquainted
with
my
secrets
;
the
Dutchess
veiling
the
Necessity
under
an
apparance
of
trust
.
He
that
was
repleat
with
good
Nature
and
kindnesse
,
offered
himselfe
to
serve
me
in
all
that
which
was
knowne
to
be
able
to
exercise
his
devotion
,
and
make
triall
of
his
heart
.
These
Motives
enforced
the
Dutchess
to
slight
the
Affections
of
the
Prince
.
He
that
took
more
fire
out
of
these
strangenesses
,
left
not
any
means
unattempted
to
winne
her
:
Entreaties
,
Messengers
,
Letters
and
Presents
came
daily
from
him
.
She
neither
with
refusing
,
nor
accepting
all
,
endeavoured
to
conquer
obstination
with
obstination
.
He
continually
besieged
our
lodgings
,
and
the
Dutchess
was
many
times
constrained
to
talk
to
him
with
affection
in
despight
of
her
will
,
to
keep
him
at
distance
from
us
.
He
often
times
having
required
my
assistance
,
I
evermore
with
greater
earnestnesse
disswaded
him
from
it
.
I
made
him
see
how
much
he
deceived
himselfe
,
that
pretended
love
from
her
that
loved
not
,
or
from
her
that
would
not
love
.
That
there
was
no
force
that
had
power
to
bow
our
affections
:
The
divinity
of
our
minde
not
to
be
lyable
to
violence
;
The
heart
of
a
Woman
to
be
moved
like
the
Primum
Mobile
,
onely
by
it selfe
,
with
a
Motion
contrary
to
others
.
The
Merit
of
that
man
to
be
undervalued
which
deserving
to
be
beloved
without
love
,
loves
without
being
beloved
.
That
Prayers
and
Submissions
beget
not
love
,
but
foment
Ambition
in
Women
,
who
disdaine
the
poorenesse
of
that
spirit
which
cannot
despise
,
being
despised
.
They
account
him
unworthy
of
affection
,
that
cannot
resent
injuries
.
These
notwithstanding
were
considerations
which
made
him
despaire
,
but
eas'd
him
not
of
his
love
.
Constant
in
his
Resolutions
he
try'd
all
wayes
.
To
this
end
he
employed
all
the
Damsels
of
the
Court
,
which
he
dayly
by
entreaties
and
gifts
won
him
.
They
were
all
engaged
to
serve
him
,
gain'd
by
so
many
kindnesses
,
that
they
durst
not
contradict
him
.
The
hope
of
the
Princesse
Favour
prevailes
much
more
in
them
,
(
and
the
greater
part
of
servants
are
so
)
then
the
duty
of
their
place
and
faith
.
In
particular
,
he
had
obtained
the
good
will
of
Therasia
,
of
bloud
lesse
then
ordinary
,
a
Damsell
belonging
to
the
Dutchess
:
but
one
that
had
gained
by
the
Merits
of
a
singular
beauty
,
and
with
an
assiduous
applying
her selfe
to
her
Ladies
service
that
place
.
This
in
such
a
wise
possessed
the
minde
of
the
Dutchesse
,
that
she
held
her
worthy
to
know
my
secrets
,
neglecting
all
others
that
waited
on
me
.
She
would
first
have
believed
the
heavens
corruptible
,
then
this
heart
,
to
which
without
doubt
she
had
given
more
trust
then
she
did
to
her
owne
.
To
this
the
Prince
applyed
his
minde
;
foreseeing
that
to
tempt
her
those
wayes
,
whereby
he
prevailed
upon
others
,
would
be
in
vaine
,
hee
won
her
with
a
new
stratagem
.
With
so
much
cunning
he
feigned
himselfe
in
love
with
her
,
that
shee
so
easily
believed
him
in
it
,
that
he
needed
not
enforce
himselfe
farther
to
make
her
understand
it
.
The
Title
of
faire
,
that
was
attributed
by
all
,
made
her
grow
proud
,
and
presage
she
should
cast
her
Lady
out
of
the
Princes
affection
,
more
especially
because
she
knew
she
was
engaged
in
another
love
,
and
would
not
,
nor
could
not
please
him
.
The
Prince
one
day
espying
her
in
the
Garden
,
when
she
was
alone
,
took
hold
of
the
oceasion
,
and
thus
began
to
speak
to
her
.
Faire
Lady
,
I
should
not
deserve
your
affection
by
shewing
my selfe
inconstant
.
But
I
should
be
neither
a
Man
,
nor
Prince
,
if
I
knew
not
how
to
slight
,
where
I
am
despis'd
.
Your
Beauty
were
ordinary
if
it
had
not
the
power
to
subject
to
you
the
glories
of
others
.
I
have
loved
the
Dutchess
,
I
confesse
it
,
nor
can
I
deny
it
,
you
may
have
reason
to
suspect
me
false
in
my
second
loves
,
when
you
have
found
me
inconstant
in
my
first
.
Now
I
so
excessively
affect
you
,
that
I
believe
I
should
lose
my selfe
,
imagining
me
to
be
without
you
.
Argue
then
what
the
ardour
of
that
heart
must
be
which
knew
how
to
love
even
one
that
did
not
deserve
love
.
He
that
can
burne
in
Frost
,
what
will
he
do
in
fire
?
You
have
not
reason
to
refuse
me
.
I
am
a
Prince
,
and
brother
to
the
King
.
Although
these
hands
sway
not
the
Scepter
,
they
deserve
it
:
and
't
is
the
glory
of
vertue
to
be
undervalued
by
Fortune
.
You
cannot
aspire
to
an
higher
greatnesse
:
nor
your
beautie
receive
a
larger
Adoration
,
then
that
of
an
heart
that
knowes
it selfe
superiour
to
all
things
.
The
Dutchesses
Refusals
ought
not
to
provoke
yours
.
The
Sun
is
not
in
fault
,
though
some
blaspheme
and
despise
it
,
much
less
doth
it
lose
the
splendor
of
its
Beames
,
because
Batts
and
Howlets
abhorre
the
light
of
it
.
The
Gods
peradventure
will
punish
some
Crime
of
hers
,
by
rendring
her
a
Contemner
of
the
favours
of
Destinie
.
They
corrupt
the
judgements
of
those
,
for
whom
they
prepare
punishment
.
I
should
say
more
,
if
the
Divinitie
of
your
Beauties
could
receive
a
Commotion
from
words
.
It
sufficeth
,
that
you
know
I
love
you
.
A
soule
as
faire
as
your
face
knows
as
well
to
correspond
to
affection
,
as
it
to
make
it selfe
beloved
.
I
adde
no
more
,
because
I
desire
you
may
love
my
Affection
,
not
my
Voice
;
Who
intreats
either
demerits
or
Distrusts
.
But
your
gentleness
secures
me
both
from
the
one
and
the
other
.
Here
the
Prince
my
Uncle
stopp'd
,
fixing
his
eyes
on
her
,
who
had
loved
him
before
then
,
if
she
had
not
accused
so
ambitious
an
Affection
of
rashness
,
or
if
he
before
had
discovered
to
her
the
least
signe
of
his
.
Therasia
,
imitating
the
usuall
Customes
of
women
,
to
cloath
their
Desires
with
Dissimulation
,
altering
her
countenance
with
a
feigned
blush
,
conterfeiting
a
mixture
of
joy
and
sorrow
,
after
a
short
silence
,
thus
answered
:
Prince
,
I
cannot
deny
but
that
I
beleeve
you
love
me
:
For
notwithstanding
that
there
are
not
in
me
conditions
to
deserve
your
Affection
,
I
have
for
all
that
an
ambition
to
wish
it
.
Impossibility
hath
not
a
difficulty
for
those
that
earnestly
covet
it
.
I
can
much
lesse
say
I
love
you
not
,
since
in
my
countenance
you
may
read
the
Affections
of
my
heart
.
It
is
our
duty
to
love
our
Princes
;
and
it
is
a
stupidity
not
to
correspond
to
those
that
love
us
.
But
for
all
that
,
that
I
infinitely
love
you
,
I
cannot
but
put
you
in
minde
of
those
things
in
the
which
the
affection
I
beare
you
,
obligeth
me
,
although
they
may
prejudice
me
.
You
are
Prince
,
and
if
the
Laws
of
desert
were
not
regulated
by
those
of
Fortune
should
be
King
.
To
submit
then
to
Nuptialls
so
inferiour
to
your
birth
,
I
know
not
what
it
may
be
thought
on
by
the
world
,
or
how
endured
by
your selfe
.
As
I
have
Moderation
to
content
my selfe
with
my
owne
Fortune
,
I
should
not
so
have
patience
for
the
Precipices
of
your
forsaking
me
.
If
you
love
me
Prince
,
doe
not
with
exalting
me
expose
me
more
to
the
Lightnings
.
It
serves
for
a
glory
to
deserve
Entreaties
from
him
,
who
should
not
know
how
to
beseech
meriting
by
the
slightest
signes
from
him
to
be
obeyed
.
Now
I
will
believe
the
adulations
of
Lovers
true
,
since
my
beauties
,
though
something
lesse
then
ordinary
,
have
been
priviledged
by
your
election
and
commendation
.
But
may
it
please
your
Highness
to
know
,
I
have
no
will
,
that
shall
not
be
subordinate
to
your
Commands
.
And
that
I
feare
not
infelicity
,
so
it
may
be
accompanyed
by
your
desires
,
and
by
your
appointments
.
Therasia
seal'd
up
her
answer
with
a
deep
courtsey
.
The
Prince
receiving
heat
from
these
repulses
that
invited
him
,
after
some
Reply
he
promised
her
marriage
,
and
express'd
a
great
earnestness
to
get
out
of
her
the
causes
which
had
occasioned
the
Dutchess
refusals
.
Therasia
,
willing
to
gaine
her selfe
an
higher
place
in
the
Princes
affection
,
made
use
of
infidelity
to
authenticate
her
faith
;
She
recounted
to
him
the
Amours
of
the
Dutchess
with
the
Count
of
Nasaos
,
with
all
those
particulars
that
might
render
true
her
designe
;
Yet
she
made
no
mention
of
me
,
perswaded
,
I
know
not
,
whether
by
feare
or
by
affection
.
The
Prince
,
joyfull
to
have
accomplished
his
ends
,
with
divers
gifts
(
among
others
a
Jewell
of
pearle
,
in
the
which
all
the
Gods
were
wrought
)
dismist
her
.
My
Uncle
perswaded
himselfe
he
could
not
easier
beguile
the
heart
of
Therasia
than
by
enterposing
the
duties
to
her
.
He
thought
she
could
take
no
suspition
of
treachery
whilest
she
had
the
Gods
witnesses
.
She
returned
in
that
time
to
our
Lodgings
,
when
I
was
halfe
dead
,
oppressed
by
the
paines
of
Child-birth
.
When
I
had
remained
about
an
houre
in
the
hands
of
death
,
I
was
delivered
of
a
daughter
,
which
encreased
my
afflictions
.
It
was
so
like
you
,
that
to
deny
it
yours
were
to
strive
against
the
judgement
of
all
eyes
.
I
had
scarce
time
to
looke
on
it
but
it
was
taken
from
me
,
the
Dutchesse
fearing
the
crying
of
it
would
discover
my
errours
.
I
had
no
power
to
oppose
my selfe
,
for
being
overcome
by
weaknesse
,
I
had
no
force
left
me
but
in
lamentation
.
It
was
took
away
by
a
Gentleman
of
the
Court
,
beleeving
it
a
child
of
one
of
my
Damsels
.
The
Count
not
being
willing
,
in
a
businesse
of
such
consequence
,
to
trust
to
the
faith
of
any
other
.
My
Father
and
the
Physitians
were
deceived
in
the
knowledge
of
my
disease
,
whereupon
there
were
not
any
that
suspected
.
In
a
few
daies
I
mended
,
filling
the
Court
with
comfort
that
sighed
for
my
recovery
.
In
the
meane
while
the
Prince
my
Uncle
visiting
daily
the
retirings
of
Therasia
,
though
he
yet
counterfeited
with
the
Dutchesse
,
put
me
into
some
feare
.
But
on
the
other
side
he
had
the
praises
which
Therasia
bestowed
upon
the
merits
of
the
Prince
,
though
she
had
formerly
been
wont
to
blame
his
insolency
.
The
signes
of
her
mind
to
perceive
her
cold
in
her
service
to
her
Lady
,
and
full
of
disdaine
and
pride
to
other
Ladies
of
the
Court
confirmed
me
.
All
motives
that
enforced
me
to
observe
her
when
she
was
alone
in
her
Chamber
.
One
day
I
perceived
that
she
talked
to
a
Picture
all
beset
with
Jewels
;
Her
words
were
all
of
affection
,
although
they
arrived
not
all
distinctly
to
my
eare
,
and
the
Effigies
of
the
Picture
was
suddenly
known
by
me
to
be
the
Princes
my
Uncles
.
Upon
that
,
with
a
violence
forcing
the
doores
,
I
came
upon
her
before
she
had
time
to
lay
by
the
Picture
.
Injuries
accompanied
the
hastinesses
of
my
disdaine
,
so
much
the
more
furious
by
how
much
the
more
reasonable
.
I
snatched
it
out
of
her
hand
with
speeches
as
severe
as
could
proceed
from
a
mouth
which
invenomed
the
words
to
render
them
more
offensive
.
Her
excuses
were
abundant
,
attended
on
by
so
many
teares
,
that
in
my
doubts
they
made
me
more
consused
.
For
she
insisted
alwaies
with
invocating
all
the
Deities
of
heaven
,
that
she
had
not
told
any
thing
of
me
.
She
said
,
she
had
done
amisse
not
to
do
amisse
.
That
she
could
not
help
her
Lady
without
injuring
her selfe
.
Being
elected
by
the
Prince
for
his
Spouse
,
she
could
notbut
obey
him
.
Divers
things
she
said
,
and
if
I
would
have
permitted
her
had
spoke
of
more
.
I
found
not
a
greater
alteration
in
my
life
.
To
be
silent
with
hope
that
others
will
be
so
,
is
difficult
and
dangerous
.
Therasia
offended
by
my
rebukes
,
and
alwaies
under
the
shadow
of
my
anger
,
was
not
to
be
contained
within
her
duty
.
I
could
not
repose
trust
in
her
whom
I
had
injured
,
and
in
whose
heart
the
favours
of
the
Dutchesse
could
find
no
fidelity
.
What
chastisement
ought
not
I
to
feare
from
the
King
my
Father
,
since
(
though
mine
were
concealed
)
I
had
given
assistance
and
assent
to
the
Amours
of
the
Dutchess
.
My
Father
would
not
that
the
Riches
of
the
Dutchess
should
foment
the
spirits
of
any
to
aspire
to
the
disturbance
of
the
Kingdome
.
He
had
many
times
expressed
himselfe
to
me
,
he
would
feigne
penetrate
into
the
thought
of
the
Dutchess
,
to
know
whither
her
heart
aimed
.
He
knew
her
of
a
Family
that
had
ever
made
the
Kings
jealous
.
Her
Father
for
this
purpose
,
under
the
species
of
honour
,
was
maintained
out
of
the
Kingdome
,
and
mine
accounted
not
himselfe
safe
till
he
had
heard
news
of
his
death
.
These
considerations
in
such
wise
possessed
my
mind
,
that
a
great
part
of
the
night
was
spent
before
I
came
out
of
Therasia's
Chamber
.
In
this
while
the
Dutchess
came
in
,
and
with
a
great
deale
of
alteration
related
to
me
,
that
the
Prince
,
meeting
with
the
Count
,
that
came
to
visit
her
,
intending
to
assault
him
,
was
slaine
by
him
,
with
many
wounds
in
his
breast
,
not
giving
him
leave
to
use
any
imaginable
defence
,
for
feare
others
should
stir
in
his
assistance
.
The
Prince
informed
by
Therasia
of
the
Counts
walkes
,
had
waited
many
times
to
murther
him
.
I
having
been
weake
retarded
this
desire
in
him
:
for
keeping
my
bed
,
the
Dutchess
with
other
Ladies
,
were
necessitated
to
attend
me
.
But
I
being
recovered
he
resolved
to
effect
it
,
and
it
had
succeeded
if
he
had
made
use
of
his
hands
before
his
tongue
.
The
Count
had
hardly
suffered
the
Prince
to
call
him
Traitour
,
but
knowing
him
by
his
voice
he
stuck
his
Iron
in
his
breast
.
My
Uncle
would
have
said
I
am
slaine
,
but
the
effects
preceded
his
words
,
for
he
said
nothing
but
I
am
.
The
Count
came
presently
to
acquaint
the
Dutchesse
with
this
,
and
perswaded
her
to
make
ready
to
be
gone
,
whilest
he
would
expect
her
untill
day
at
the
shore
in
one
of
the
strongest
Vessels
,
not
having
any
thing
to
be
his
hinderance
,
the
Ports
and
the
Guards
of
the
Sea
being
committed
to
his
custody
.
This
new
Accident
I
perfected
in
my
thoughts
to
make
me
maddish
I
gave
my selfe
over
to
the
aggravation
of
my
miseries
with
so
much
senss
,
that
I
imagined
I
felt
all
my
past
evills
.
Then
(
said
I
)
shall
I
evermore
be
tyrannized
over
by
Fortune
?
Then
to
satiate
the
appetites
of
my
sense
,
shall
I
every
day
be
unhappy
?
Then
those
many
favours
that
I
have
received
from
chance
,
in
being
a
Princesse
of
such
a
Kingdome
,
have
done
nothing
but
molest
me
!
Dutchess
,
I
will
dye
;
with
great
reason
it
was
said
,
that
our
felicity
remaines
in
our
hands
,
since
by
killing
our selves
we
may
make
our selves
happy
.
And
what
hope
can
longer
entertain
me
in
life
?
A
Lover
,
to
whom
I
have
given
the
liberty
of
my
heart
,
abandons
me
.
A
Sister
,
whom
I
loved
equall
to
my selfe
,
hath
betrayed
me
.
A
Father
,
in
the
tendernesse
of
whose
affections
I
can
have
no
desire
but
it
will
obtaine
its
end
,
hath
been
wronged
by
me
in
his
reputation
and
honour
;
and
shall
I
live
!
Who
counsels
me
to
it
loves
me
not
;
who
deserves
to
be
tormented
then
may
live
.
All
things
are
determined
with
life
;
and
who
lives
not
cannot
at
all
languish
.
The
Dutchess
,
although
in
a
worse
condition
than
I
,
did
not
leave
to
comfort
me
.
She
told
me
despaire
was
the
last
of
evills
,
and
that
to
do
so
was
undecent
in
all
,
but
most
blameable
in
them
that
should
have
greater
hearts
than
misfortunes
;
who
will
triumph
over
Fortune
(
she
said
)
must
let
it
run
how
it
please
.
Those
waies
are
too
base
for
a
Princess
that
are
even
practised
by
Slaves
.
The
greatness
of
your
spirit
should
not
submit
to
such
ordinary
Paragons
,
which
consists
in
sustaining
ill
encounters
,
not
in
flying
them
;
shew
the
bravery
of
your
mind
in
living
in
despite
of
Chance
,
A
Lover
hath
forsaken
you
,
because
he
was
unworthy
of
you
;
You
will
find
a
thousand
others
of
them
that
will
sigh
for
the
favour
of
your
looks
;
you
ought
to
comfort
your selfe
,
thanking
the
Gods
that
an
immodest
sister
hath
got
from
you
an
unfaithfull
Lover
.
She
could
not
do
you
a
greater
service
than
to
remove
far
from
you
those
dangers
which
accompany
a
heart
that
deceives
.
Besides
,
you
could
not
have
wished
her
a
greater
punishment
than
the
fellowship
of
so
perfidious
a
servant
.
If
you
have
trangressed
against
the
satisfactions
of
your
Father
,
the
fault
is
Loves
,
which
easily
renders
all
errours
excusable
.
Will
you
then
after
you
have
offended
him
in
opinion
(
for
Reputation
,
Honour
,
and
Fame
are
for
all
things
)
offend
him
also
in
sense
,
deprive
him
of
a
great
part
of
himself
,
by
being
your
own
murtherer
?
You
lament
that
you
have
offended
him
in
an
imaginary
thing
,
&
will
you
redouble
the
injury
,
making
him
mad
by
killing
your selfe
?
To
go
for
some
time
far
from
hence
will
be
the
best
,
now
too
when
we
have
an
honourable
invitation
;
We
may
retire
our selves
to
your
Aunt
in
Egypt
,
where
with
greater
security
we
may
make
our
defences
.
To
trust
to
an
angred
Prince
,
though
he
be
a
Father
,
is
not
a
safe
determination
.
She
added
so
many
other
reasons
,
and
so
many
entreaties
,
that
I
,
rather
overcome
than
perswaded
,
made
ready
for
a
departure
.
Therasia
hearing
of
the
Princes
death
,
and
my
resolution
,
seeing
that
to
despaire
was
the
only
remedy
for
her
miseries
,
stuck
her selfe
two
or
three
times
into
the
breast
with
a
Stiletto
,
without
any
body
being
able
to
prevent
her
.
The
Dutchess
,
that
knew
not
the
cause
,
had
become
distracted
,
but
that
I
,
briefly
informing
her
,
of
what
was
past
,
made
her
cast
aside
that
pitty
,
which
truly
so
unhappy
a
chance
deserved
.
Opening
Therasias
Chamber
doore
,
I
retired
into
my
Lodgings
,
where
taking
those
Jewels
which
were
of
least
weight
and
greatest
price
,
arming
me
to
counterfeit
my
Sexe
,
and
the
Dutchess
being
apparelled
like
a
Page
,
we
went
to
the
Sea-side
;
For
there
was
nothing
that
hindred
us
.
There
finding
the
Count
,
that
stay'd
for
us
,
we
went
aboard
the
best
Galley
of
the
Kingdome
,
and
doubling
the
Slaves
we
put
the
Oars
to
the
water
:
whiles
it
seemed
that
the
sea
with
an
un-before-seene
tranquility
emulated
the
heaven
.
We
directed
our
voyage
in
the
Atlanticks
towards
Egypt
to
the
Queen
my
Aunt
.
Our
desire
failed
us
,
for
being
willing
to
shun
a
fleet
of
two
hundred
saile
,
we
went
far
into
the
sea
,
so
that
being
surprised
by
a
Tempest
,
it
was
not
possible
for
us
to
reach
Land
.
Being
tost
a
fortnight
by
the
waves
and
winds
,
we
were
alwaies
in
danger
to
be
cast
away
.
But
the
goodnesse
of
the
Vessell
,
and
the
strength
of
the
Rowers
brought
us
at
last
to
shore
in
an
Island
unknown
,
even
to
the
Marriners
themselves
.
We
were
in
that
state
we
could
not
have
continued
longer
,
not
only
all
things
necessary
for
life
,
but
also
for
a
voyage
being
spent
.
Our
hast
to
depart
allowed
us
not
time
to
make
that
provision
,
which
the
Navigation
of
a
sea
inexorable
to
all
things
required
.
Being
disbarqued
in
the
Island
,
whilest
the
Rowers
made
provision
of
Wood
and
Water
,
we
walked
a
little
forward
to
seeke
out
lodging
.
The
incommodities
of
our
voyage
made
us
desire
to
find
an
house
to
repose
us
in
without
trouble
and
feare
.
In
ascending
a
little
hill
we
discovered
some
buildings
,
which
,
made
in
forme
of
a
Pallace
,
served
also
for
a
Fortresse
.
We
presently
went
thitherward
,
where
we
were
received
with
very
great
kindnesse
.
Two
Ladies
of
a
venerable
Age
came
to
meet
us
,
and
with
so
many
welcomes
offered
us
Lodging
,
that
we
wanted
words
to
express
so
great
Obligations
.
They
were
waited
on
by
many
Damzels
,
one
of
the
which
supposing
me
a
man
,
began
to
look
on
me
with
so
much
affection
,
that
I
took
no
ordinary
pleasure
at
it
,
telling
the
Count
and
Dutchess
of
it
that
they
might
hold
their
tongues
;
I
applyed
my selfe
to
her
with
so
much
love
,
that
I
perswaded
my selfe
she
would
grow
mad
.
But
afterwards
I
repented
me
of
it
,
remembring
me
that
I
was
not
in
the
condition
to
cure
her
malady
.
Though
we
endeavoured
to
understand
the
quality
and
the
name
of
the
Island
,
we
could
get
no
answer
to
purpose
.
Supper
time
being
come
,
my
Favourite
the
Damsell
found
opportunity
to
say
to
me
:
Faire
Knight
,
these
wicked
women
lay
snares
for
your
lives
.
Within
a
few
houres
you
will
either
be
slaine
,
or
made
a
Prisoner
.
I
that
take
compassion
on
the
beauty
of
your
face
,
and
the
tendernesse
of
your
yeares
,
have
thought
it
expedient
with
danger
to
my self
to
release
you
from
yours
.
They
intend
to
set
before
you
meats
mingled
with
Opium
to
seize
on
you
with
the
more
security
.
But
being
retired
to
your
appointed
Lodgings
,
make
use
of
this
Preservative
,
which
shall
preserve
you
from
their
treacheries
.
So
saying
,
she
gave
me
a
little
pot
full
of
a
certaine
Antidote
against
sleepy
poysons
;
Afterwards
added
,
Since
I
adventure
my
life
to
do
you
this
favour
,
I
desire
no
other
reward
but
your
love
,
which
I
would
enjoy
flying
with
you
hence
from
places
so
impious
.
I
then
grown
extreamely
fearefull
promised
her
more
than
I
could
performe
;
protesting
an
Obligation
to
her
,
not
to
be
circumscribed
by
Ages
.
The
meat
came
up
,
of
which
I
tasted
so
sparingly
,
that
I
even
did
nothing
but
talke
.
The
Tables
being
removed
our
Quarters
were
assigned
us
.
We
feigning
our selves
weary
presently
bad
good-night
to
those
that
waited
on
us
,
and
I
revealed
to
the
Count
and
Dutchesse
the
Damzels
secret
;
we
tooke
the
Preservative
with
so
much
feare
of
being
surprized
,
that
every
little
noise
made
us
believe
it
was
Souldiers
that
should
assault
us
.
All
the
soporiferous
poysons
of
the
world
would
not
then
have
had
the
power
to
have
made
us
sleep
in
that
feare
.
Halfe
the
night
being
past
the
Damzell
came
to
call
us
,
we
followed
her
with
all
possible
secresie
,
who
through
a
private
gate
led
us
forth
of
the
Pallace
.
There
mounting
upon
foure
horses
which
were
provided
by
the
Damzell
for
that
purpose
,
we
began
our
journey
,
riding
apace
:
We
would
have
taken
the
way
to
the
sea
,
but
our
Guide
permitted
us
not
,
saying
,
that
were
to
encounter
dangers
instead
of
flying
them
:
For
all
those
shores
were
prey'd
upon
by
the
owners
of
that
house
,
so
impious
and
so
cruell
,
that
they
rejoyced
not
in
their
Booties
unless
they
were
defiled
with
bloud
.
The
remnant
of
that
night
,
and
almost
all
the
day
after
,
we
prosecuted
our
journey
,
perpetually
molested
by
that
Damzell
with
so
much
earnestness
as
if
she
had
perceived
Enemies
following
us
at
hand
.
I
being
no
longer
able
to
endure
the
weariness
of
riding
,
the
night
approaching
,
would
stay
in
a
Village
;
the
rather
because
the
people
there
told
us
the
way
was
dangerous
in
the
night
time
,
especially
being
frequented
by
wild
beasts
and
thieves
.
Having
rested
me
there
a
little
,
I
entreated
the
Damzell
with
much
vehemency
to
recount
to
us
the
cruelty
of
that
house
,
which
(
her
gentleness
assisting
)
we
had
avoided
.
She
after
such
a
blush
(
as
if
her
modesty
came
forth
with
it
,
or
rather
as
if
with
the
purple
of
her
face
she
meant
to
cover
the
blackness
of
her
heart
)
thus
answered
:
Sirs
,
If
to
excuse
errours
under
the
Pretext
of
love
was
not
usuall
to
all
,
especially
women
;
I
should
call
that
tongue
rash
,
which
should
assume
the
boldnesse
to
to
mascherate
the
Dotages
of
the
minde
.
But
acknowledging
my selfe
a
Lover
,
I
deserve
all
pardon
.
Love
is
pictur'd
blinde
,
because
he
makes
blinde
:
And
the
falls
of
a
blinde
body
are
to
be
borne
withall
,
and
compassionated
.
I
hardly
fastned
mine
eyes
on
your
Countenance
(
faire
Knight
)
but
they
felt
the
Chastisement
for
their
rashnesse
;
it
being
not
lawfull
,
without
prejudice
to
the
heart
to
penetrate
into
the
Paradice
of
your
Beautie
.
Becomming
a
Lover
,
and
knowing
the
unequalness
of
my
Descent
,
I
despaired
of
the
end
.
I
betook
me
to
Deceit
,
which
triumphs
many
times
over
all
things
.
To
perswade
your
departure
,
I
feign'd
those
things
I
said
,
the
which
containe
no
other
truth
but
that
of
my
flames
.
If
you
have
ever
had
experience
of
the
violences
of
affection
,
I
hope
you
may
well
beare
with
me
.
But
if
you
have
never
felt
the
dammages
of
it
,
believe
me
,
untill
your
owne
experience
shall
bring
you
a
certainty
of
it
,
I
am
perswaded
that
this
in
your
good
disposition
,
will
not
be
imputed
as
a
fault
to
me
;
because
every
thing
is
lawfull
to
those
that
love
.
Besides
,
if
there
be
any
due
,
it
is
your
beautie
that
deserveth
punishment
,
which
hath
been
able
to
compell
the
simplicity
of
my
heart
to
deceit
.
I
was
moved
at
one
time
by
these
words
to
Compassion
and
Anger
.
It
vexed
me
to
have
departed
upon
so
uncivill
tearmes
from
that
house
,
where
there
was
nothing
but
Honours
prepared
for
me
.
But
this
Damsels
so
very
extream
affection
,
that
it
merited
pardon
,
pacified
me
:
whereupon
I
thus
answered
her
:
Lady
,
Whosoever
hath
been
a
Lover
can
doe
no
other
but
compassionate
you
.
I
that
have
been
in
love
,
know
how
to
excuse
you
:
For
the
first
thing
that
pardons
Lovers
,
is
the
intellect
,
and
reason
.
It
much
afflicts
me
,
that
to
beguile
us
you
have
deceived
your selfe
,
in
bestowing
your
Affections
on
a
Person
who
can
exchange
nothing
with
you
but
affection
.
I
would
to
heaven
I
were
in
as
good
a
Condition
to
correspond
with
you
,
as
I
am
willing
to
pitty
you
.
I
am
a
Woman
as
you
are
,
but
more
unhappy
then
you
,
because
I
have
not
loved
so
as
you
.
If
I
had
enclined
my
thought
to
love
a
woman
,
I
had
escaped
the
Assaults
of
Fortune
.
Comfort
your selfe
;
for
you
may
receive
profit
,
if
not
delight
from
your
affection
.
The
Damsell
recover'd
not
at
these
words
;
for
sorrow
having
deprived
her
of
her
senses
,
rendred
her
insensible
even
to
sorrow
it selfe
.
After
a
while
comming
to
her selfe
,
she
faigned
she
was
well
satisfied
:
whereupon
I
left
her
in
bed
,
whilst
wanting
rest
,
I
desired
with
a
little
Repose
to
ease
me
after
these
passed
troubles
.
At
our
awaking
in
the
Morning
,
we
found
that
the
Damsell
was
gone
.
Being
hopelesse
at
the
impossibilitie
of
her
Affections
,
she
will
have
recourse
to
some
new
Resolution
,
of
whom
hitherto
I
have
had
no
tidings
.
We
blaming
the
Deceits
of
so
foolish
a
Wench
went
towards
the
Sea
,
to
finde
out
our
Galley
.
After
much
Travailes
we
were
aflaulted
by
foure
Theeves
.
One
of
them
suddainly
seized
on
the
Dutchesse
,
carrying
her
so
swiftly
up
some
certaine
Crages
of
the
Mountaines
,
that
it
was
impossible
for
me
to
accompany
her
with
my
sight
.
The
others
came
and
assaulted
us
,
not
thinking
to
finde
much
resistance
in
us
,
they
being
more
in
number
.
The
Count
unable
to
endure
that
his
eyes
should
assist
to
the
losse
of
his
heart
,
with
three
blowes
slew
two
of
them
,
and
wounded
the
third
,
in
such
manner
,
that
he
could
no
longer
defend
himselfe
.
Without
delay
,
he
went
in
search
of
his
soule
,
stolne
away
by
that
thiefe
from
him
.
I
gave
the
wounded
one
his
life
,
on
condition
he
would
guide
me
to
the
Dutchess
.
He
promised
me
;
but
being
mounted
on
Horseback
,
I
having
no
time
to
hinder
him
,
precipitously
betook
himselfe
to
flight
.
Remaining
alone
in
some
Passion
,
because
the
Night
already
had
covered
the
Heaven
with
extreame
Darknesse
,
I
tired
my
voice
in
reiterating
the
names
of
the
Dutchesse
and
Count.
The
Caves
moved
to
pitty
at
my
Callings
,
to
case
me
of
labour
,
replyed
in
many
places
,
or
rather
the
Aire
so
many
times
struck
wearied
with
hearing
me
,
to
make
me
hold
my
peace
,
iterated
often
times
what
I
said
.
I
had
the
chance
to
meet
with
some
Shepheards
,
who
with
courtesies
not
frequently
practized
by
great
ones
,
made
me
envy
their
Genius
,
if
not
their
Fortune
.
Four
dayes
I
continued
among
them
with
hope
to
heare
Newes
of
the
Count
and
Dutchesse
.
One
morning
I
departed
from
those
Cottages
,
with
an
intent
to
goe
to
the
Sea
,
and
so
to
be
transported
into
Egypt
.
I
easily
missed
the
way
taught
me
by
the
Shepheards
,
and
have
therefore
wandred
many
dayes
up
and
downe
these
Fields
in
danger
of
my
life
.
Fortunate
Errors
,
happy
dangers
,
since
they
have
guided
me
to
you
,
who
are
the
End
,
whither
my
Troubles
and
my
Travailes
doe
aspire
.
Thus
said
,
the
Infanta
Ariama
,
when
they
discovered
the
Pallace
where
they
meant
to
sty
.
It
was
situated
in
a
Plaine
,
and
ravished
the
eyes
of
Passengers
,
no
lesse
by
the
Majesty
then
the
beauty
of
it
.
The
Architecture
was
Dorick
,
and
the
out-sides
of
fine
Marble
.
It
was
encompassed
round
by
an
infinite
number
of
Cypresse-trees
,
set
in
so
good
order
,
and
so
proportionately
distant
one
from
another
,
that
looked
upon
either
directly
or
traversely
,
they
could
not
beiscerned
in
the
least
irregular
.
They
of
the
Pallace
scarce
perceived
they
were
come
,
but
two
Damsels
in
mourning
habit
,
brought
them
a
welcome
from
the
Lady
of
the
House
.
They
easily
disposed
themselves
to
receive
it
,
when
necessity
could
not
afford
them
other
lodging
,
neither
more
neare
,
nor
more
commodious
.
With
a
large
expression
they
thanked
the
Gallantry
of
that
Lady
,
who
was
willing
to
oblige
them
before
she
knew
them
,
and
followed
the
Damsels
unto
the
gates
of
the
Court.
In
their
Entrance
,
at
the
first
sight
they
were
terrified
:
In
the
midst
of
it
was
placed
a
Statue
of
Revenge
.
Yet
was
it
not
believed
a
Statue
but
by
those
that
could
offend
it
without
being
offended
.
It
was
figured
in
the
likenesse
of
an
armed
Woman
,
with
a
flame
of
fire
upon
her
Helmet
.
In
her
right
hand
she
held
a
Dagger
,
and
at
her
feet
a
Lion
.
It
spoke
not
,
with-held
peradventure
by
Scorne
that
kept
her
words
in
;
or
rather
bindred
by
biting
a
finger
of
her
left
hand
.
On
the
sides
of
the
Hall
all
the
most
infelicious
Loves
of
the
world
were
delineated
.
There
was
seen
Pyramus
and
Thisbe
,
pierced
with
the
same
sword
,
breathe
out
their
souls
;
and
the
feigned
bloud
which
they
shed
,
had
the
vertue
to
beget
true
teares
.
Leander
and
Hero
,
the
one
destroyed
by
the
waters
of
the
Sea
,
and
the
other
by
those
of
her
eyes
,
in
such
wise
deceived
Oleandro
and
his
Companions
,
as
if
only
then
by
chance
they
had
been
destinated
to
death
.
There
was
also
Medea
,
through
Jasons
inconstancie
,
growne
so
cruell
to
kill
her
Children
,
having
first
,
enforced
by
love
,
slain
her
brother
.
The
poore
Ariadne
complained
on
a
Rock
,
tearing
her
haire
,
and
beating
her
breast
.
Her
Lamentations
arrived
not
to
the
eares
of
the
beholders
,
carried
farre
away
by
the
windes
,
or
dispersed
by
the
Waves
:
or
rather
by
long
exclaiming
become
hoarse
,
she
had
not
the
strength
left
to
make
her selfe
heard
.
In
briefe
,
a
thousand
were
the
Objects
which
entertained
in
suspence
the
strangers
,
when
entreated
by
the
Damsels
,
they
ascended
the
stairs
.
At
the
top
of
which
,
they
were
met
by
a
Lady
,
who
for
being
all
attired
in
black
,
could
not
be
imagined
any
thing
but
night
,
with
a
blacke
veile
she
held
her
eyes
covered
,
for
being
desirous
to
be
thought
night
,
she
would
not
permit
those
two
Suns
to
be
seene
,
which
she
carried
in
her
eyes
.
After
she
had
received
and
answered
their
salutation
,
she
said
:
I
am
sorry
,
O
Sirs
,
you
are
come
to
funerallize
your selves
in
the
miseries
of
this
House
.
The
Necessity
that
constraines
you
to
stay
here
,
pleads
it selfe
my
Excuse
.
I
wish
only
I
knew
your
first
Fortunes
,
that
I
might
serve
you
conformably
to
the
Merit
of
your
presence
.
Here
taking
Ariama
and
Arnalta
by
the
hand
,
she
led
them
into
other
Chambers
,
requesting
from
them
the
Information
of
the
State
of
those
Knights
of
their
condition
,
and
of
their
births
.
Although
the
Infanta
Ariama
concealed
her self
she
was
well
knowne
by
the
Lady
of
the
House
,
who
leaving
her
to
rest
her selfe
,
went
from
her
to
command
preparations
for
Supper
.
The
time
being
come
,
they
were
call'd
to
it
.
The
entertainment
was
handsome
,
but
not
stately
.
The
strangers
eate
little
,
or
wearie
of
travailing
,
or
sadded
by
the
continuall
lamentation
of
that
Ladie
,
who
seasoned
the
meats
with
her
tears
.
When
Supper
was
ended
,
at
a
signe
she
gave
,
the
Damsels
brought
forth
some
glasse
Bottles
,
with
a
certaine
Drinke
in
them
,
which
she
said
.
would
enlighten
the
heart
.
All
of
them
tasted
of
them
.
Oleandro
in
particular
dranke
more
of
it
then
the
others
,
adding
;
That
those
sadnesses
had
much
need
of
Preservatives
.
Afterwards
turning
to
the
Lady
of
the
house
,
he
said
,
Madam
,
the
Gods
have
made
contraries
to
be
to
all
things
.
There
are
Antidotes
,
and
the
poysons
:
Bees
have
stings
,
and
honey
;
whereupon
there
is
not
any
thing
in
the
world
,
but
by
the
reason
of
Contraries
hath
a
Remedy
.
Such
I
hope
your
Evill
may
be
.
If
the
Affection
of
an
heart
,
and
the
strength
of
a
sword
can
prevaile
with
you
,
to
lay
aside
this
sorrow
;
be
merry
,
for
I
offer
my selfe
to
serve
you
.
That
Countenance
which
is
a
Heaven
of
Beauty
,
deserveth
not
a
perpetuall
night
.
Teares
should
not
be
permitted
to
those
eyes
,
which
can
make
happy
with
their
looks
.
Here
Oleandro
was
silet
,
and
the
Lady
thus
answered
:
Knight
,
I
would
to
Heaven
I
had
never
spoke
.
From
the
tongue
and
heart
,
my
infelicities
have
had
Originall
.
But
now
there
is
no
longer
need
to
conceale
them
Infanta
Ariama
,
and
you
Prince
Oleandro
,
you
are
dead
,
having
drunk
poison
in
the
last
Bottle
.
I
grieve
I
was
not
able
to
sacrifice
you
with
a
swod
to
Revenge
.
I
rejoyce
,
notwithstanding
that
Fortune
hath
deliver'd
you
together
into
my
hands
.
I
can
no
longer
suppose
my selfe
unhappy
,
since
I
have
had
this
part
of
felicity
,
to
see
I
am
revenged
before
I
dye
.
You
shall
not
depart
triumphant
from
the
miseries
of
the
Princesse
Arelida
.
I
am
the
very
same
,
who
lived
till
now
,
onely
to
kill
you
.
Oleandro
,
although
he
began
to
feele
the
effects
of
the
drink
,
provoked
by
the
out-ragies
,
which
are
begot
in
a
breast
,
offended
more
for
the
harmes
of
others
,
then
his
owne
Danger
,
said
to
her
:
Guilty
woman
,
Then
because
I
would
not
condiscend
to
the
dishonest
of
your
Desires
,
hast
thou
condemned
me
to
death
?
Then
wilt
thou
take
away
my
life
,
because
I
have
preserved
thy
Reputation
and
Honour
.
From
so
maligne
a
minde
could
not
proceed
but
execrable
Effects
.
Who
is
impudent
is
cruell
:
and
who
betraies
their
honesty
to
please
their
sense
,
will
much
lesse
pardon
the
innocencie
of
those
that
will
not
be
blemished
with
uncleanenesses
.
Did
it
not
satisfie
thee
(
perfidious
one
)
to
have
with
thy
deceits
,
contrived
Miseries
against
my
happinesse
,
that
also
thou
hast
intended
to
heap
thy
Barbarismes
on
this
body
,
a
miserable
Remaines
of
the
Inconstancies
of
Fortune
.
Perfidious
,
wicked
,
Sacrilegious
,
what
Reward
,
what
Hope
,
what
Madnesse
,
makes
thee
covetous
of
my
bloud
;
the
more
undeserving
the
Furies
of
thy
wickednesse
,
by
reason
it
hath
no
faults
which
can
convince
it
of
realty
?
But
if
this
life
ought
to
be
sacrificed
to
the
satisfactions
of
thy
Scorne
,
why
do
you
not
pardon
those
who
in
the
very
Fantasmes
of
night
have
not
thought
to
offend
you
.
In
what
hath
your
Sister
trespassed
,
and
mine
,
with
this
poore
Knight
,
who
is
design'd
to
die
,
onely
because
he
is
my
Companion
.
Poore
Oleandro
!
so
surrounded
with
unhappinesses
,
that
even
the
guiltless
suffer
with
me
.
My
Miseries
are
contagious
,
since
they
trench
on
those
that
keep
mee
company
.
The
Gods
be
praised
,
that
hereafter
my
life
cannot
infelicitate
any
.
People
of
Morocco
here
your
hopes
determine
:
your
Prince
is
compelled
to
dye
;
and
so
much
the
more
discontented
,
by
reason
he
falls
by
the
hand
of
a
woman
,
and
she
immodest
.
The
Knight
,
that
untill
now
was
unknowne
,
at
these
words
cryed
out
;
Oh
Gods
!
What
allow
you
me
to
see
in
the
last
day
of
my
life
!
I
should
say
I
dyed
happily
,
dying
in
the
presence
of
my
Prince
,
if
he
then
might
have
continued
living
.
What
Marvailes
,
what
Portents
doth
Destinie
represent
me
?
'T
is
true
,
the
sight
of
a
Prince
so
much
beloved
,
deserved
not
to
be
gain'd
without
the
losse
of
my
life
.
But
wherefore
fortune
hast
thou
been
willing
to
funerallize
to
me
these
sweetnesses
,
I
seeing
him
dye
before
I
can
sufficiently
embrace
him
.
So
saying
,
he
made
himselfe
knowne
to
Oleandro
to
be
Felide
,
the
Count
of
Olano
his
Subject
;
he
that
with
imminent
hazard
to
his
owne
life
,
had
delivered
him
from
the
Treacheries
of
those
who
had
usurped
his
Crown
.
This
interview
redoubled
their
afflictions
,
so
that
in
despight
of
the
bravery
of
their
hearts
,
the
teares
ranne
from
their
eyes
:
which
would
not
defraud
Death
of
sorrows
ow'd
to
so
worthy
Personages
.
Oleandro's
vertue
remaining
hitherto
invincible
against
all
Accidents
,
had
not
sufferance
against
the
force
of
Destiny
,
which
to
render
death
more
noisome
to
him
,
multiply'd
those
Objects
that
were
able
to
disquiet
him
.
There
was
nothing
heard
but
sighes
,
weepings
&
sobs
.
Not
an
Object
to
be
looked
on
,
but
presented
sorrow
.
All
was
horror
,
and
every
body
carried
fear
and
death
in
their
Countenances
.
There
was
not
a
face
but
it
was
spread
with
a
paleness
,
so
mortall
,
that
it
augmented
Affliction
in
the
eyes
of
all
.
Oleandro
at
length
in
despight
of
griefe
,
said
to
the
Count
;
Friend
,
it
pierces
my
soule
,
that
it
was
Fortunes
Will
to
communicate
to
you
my
miseries
,
becaused
see
you
too
much
interessed
in
them
through
your
Affection
to
me
.
The
Gods
reward
you
for
it
.
I
am
so
unhappy
that
I
cannot
as
much
as
suffer
for
you
.
The
Horrors
of
Death
increase
upon
me
,
seeing
I
must
die
,
without
being
able
to
recompence
the
attestations
of
your
Faith
.
If
the
Lawes
of
Friendship
and
Obligation
preserve
their
authority
even
among
Spirits
,
I
hope
you
shall
not
have
occasion
to
repent
your selfe
for
having
loved
me
.
Hee
would
have
added
more
,
but
perceiving
the
Infanta
began
to
shew
signes
of
the
venomnesse
of
the
poyson
,
he
ran
to
embrace
her
,
enstrengthening
himselfe
to
receive
that
soule
which
by
the
right
of
Love
he
supposed
belonged
to
him
.
He
was
scarce
come
to
her
,
when
he
saw
,
she
had
lost
her
senses
,
become
cold
and
immoveable
as
a
stone
,
by
the
violence
of
the
poison
.
No
longer
retaining
patience
to
resist
the
sense
of
such
a
losse
,
hee
began
to
cry
out
in
such
a
manner
,
as
if
his
soule
remained
onely
in
his
Voice
.
Peradventure
by
those
Exclamations
he
perswaded
himselfe
he
should
the
easilies
move
the
Fates
to
pitty
:
or
rather
requiring
a
present
Remedy
to
the
Malignity
of
the
ill
that
could
not
permit
of
delay
,
it
was
imagined
he
exalted
his
voice
the
looner
to
make
the
Gods
know
the
Necessity
of
their
succour
.
Perceiving
that
Vowes
,
Prayers
,
and
Lamentations
,
brought
nothing
but
an
augmentation
to
his
sorrow
,
and
that
the
last
gaspe
of
his
life
was
afflicted
by
the
Death
of
her
,
without
whom
he
should
be
unwilling
to
live
,
in
some
part
to
disburt●en
his
passion
,
he
said
:
Most
unhappy
Oleandro
!
who
hast
undergone
Death
a
thousand
times
before
thou
couldst
die
.
Ariama
,
I
follow
thee
;
I
follow
thee
Ariama
.
It
is
not
just
that
thou
shouldst
goe
alone
among
the
Ghosts
,
without
thy
beloved
Oleandro
for
thy
gaide
.
I
will
take
order
that
the
sword
shall
prevent
the
malignity
of
the
Poison
:
but
it
is
not
fitting
that
those
Armes
which
were
prepared
for
thy
Defence
should
offend
me
.
But
I
should
not
at
least
deprive
thy
Exequies
of
my
Teares
.
Thou
wouldst
be
too
unhappy
,
dying
without
being
mourned
for
by
him
that
loves
thee
.
His
Tongue
could
no
longer
obey
his
Heart
,
when
the
Drinke
exercising
its
force
,
prevailed
upon
all
his
senses
.
Yet
with
his
Eyes
he
celebrated
his
last
Duties
to
her
,
who
found
Death
in
nothing
so
painefull
,
as
by
seeing
him
neare
to
overtake
her
.
Hee
continually
held
his
eyes
open
,
as
if
he
would
not
permit
that
her
Funerals
should
be
solemnized
without
Lights
.
Lastly
,
they
both
shewed
Signes
that
they
were
arrived
to
that
poynt
,
which
by
Nature
is
made
common
to
all
.
This
Spectacle
had
hardly
given
notice
to
the
Damsells
of
this
Tragedie
,
but
they
were
heard
to
strike
the
Aire
with
an
infinitie
of
shreeks
.
With
sighes
and
Lamentations
they
contended
to
pay
Tribut
to
the
Death
of
their
Lady
.
They
knew
not
how
to
Honour
so
unexpected
Exequies
,
but
with
suddaine
Commotions
of
the
heart
.
It
seemed
that
with
an
affectionate
Emulation
they
agreed
by
turnes
to
showre
forth
Teares
.
Many
fearing
they
might
by
others
be
exceeded
in
weeping
,
tore
their
Haires
.
Others
,
accusing
their
hearts
of
an
over-hardnesse
at
so
miserable
a
chance
,
struck
their
Breasts
,
as
if
they
meant
to
break
them
;
peradventure
,
believing
their
Hands
had
more
power
then
their
Eyes
.
They
had
given
no
intermission
to
these
so
pittifull
,
and
so
unprofitable
duties
to
the
Dead
,
if
the
presence
of
some
Knights
,
(
who
at
these
so
sorrowfull
outcries
ran
in
)
had
not
interrupted
their
Lamentations
.
These
having
received
Information
of
what
was
befalne
,
drew
neare
to
exercise
that
Piety
to
the
Carkasses
,
that
was
not
allowed
them
to
practice
with
the
living
.
The
End
of
the
Second
Book
.