of the Sea sent us order to redouble our storm so to draw the principal forces of the enemies to those parts and consequently to weaken that by which he design'd to gain it Syllanus and I had no sooner obeyed him being seconded by Nasica and the young Scipio but our Heroe standing upon the Lake at the head of the troops which he had chosen My friends cryed he with a sprightly and fierce aspect I should be injurious to you if I should speak much words are needless to to men of courage therefore I shall onely tell you that you are going where your General shall be your company and the witness of your valour Let us on then my friends let us win Carthage and I promise you the taking of this City shall render us Masters of all Spain make Africa tremble and crown us with immortal glory He had no sooner spoke these few words but he seized upon a Ladder and then casting himself into the Lake incited by his example a thousand brave persons to do the same 'T is true he always preceded them and being arrived at the foot of the walls planted the first Ladder against them and then drawing his sword and covering himself with his shield he began to ascend with an aspect that no doubt encouraged the hearts of all those that followed him The walls were not so unguarded but that they were suddenly bordered with Souldiers at the first allarm that was given there so that our valiant General likewise redoubled his forces as the Carthaginians did their and alwayes supporting his shield with a strong arm continued to mount up with an heroical audacity notwithstanding a shower of arrows and stones falling upon him and though he beheld a hundred Ladders overturn'd on each side At length he got up and as a Souldier was stretching forth his arm to strike at him with his sword and hinder him from casting himself upon the walls the couragious Generall prevented him and by a great back blow strook off both arm and sword down into the Lake This remarkable blow so terrified those that beheld it that Scipio had time to leap upon the wall before they were well enough recover'd out of their amazement to hinder him and afterwards casting those down into the City that came to oppose his passage he soon saw himself backt by Trebellius Digitius and above twenty others whom his example had emboldned so that the fight becoming very disorderly upon the wall the Romans found fewer obstacles in ascending it after which the Illustrious Scipio did not delay to cast himself into the City designing to gain one of the Gates and open it to Syllanus Yet he found great resistance in the execution of his purpose for the Prince of Celtiberia ran thither being followed by a thousand selected Spaniards who signalizing themselves in this encounter sufficiently justifi'd the choice which the valiant Lucius had made of them But as lightning shafts all that seems to make a strong resistance our invincible Conqueror beat down all that opposed his passage he strikes thrusts kills wounds Lucius gains a Gate causes the Romanes to enter who suddenly setting up a great shout displayed our Eagles in the conquered City and made the air resound with the glorious name of Scipio The Governour of Carthage with whom I was engag'd for I had landed and was so fortunate as to get into the City after I had gain'd the Port went to relieve Lucius and repel our forces but after a very great resistance he was taken prisoner with the Prince of Celtiberia who caus'd us to admire his valour and would vvithout doubt have occasioned himself to be slain had not his svvord bin suddenly broken and he found himself inclos'd amidst a thousand Souldiers But I need not Madam particularize to you the actions of that memorable day since all the world has knovvn that the valour of Scipio equall'd the sublimest degree of that of the most recorded Heroes and that this famous Roman rais'd himself aftervvards an admiration for those virtues vvhich are esteemed much more then that prodigious valour For there is a passage I am going to tell you which more deserves our vvonder then what I have hitherto related and vve cannot but vvith astonishment consider a change in Scipio vvhich most certainly is more to be extolled then the noblest constancy For scarce vvas Carthage in the Roman povver and the brother of Aemylia at liberty but our Illustrious Roman appeared to be a Carthaginian this young Conqueror so fierce ardent and terrible becomes of a sudden so gentle so moderate and so full of svveetness that nothing is more certain then that the Spaniards and Africans began infinitely to love him assoon as they ceas'd to fear him But they shortly after accompanied their love with veneration greater then what uses to be entertained for men which was not without cause since our Heroe did things which men are not accustomed to do No doubt Madam you have heard that the Kings of Celtiberia and the Illergetes with the Queens their wives being followed by the most considerable of the Spaniards and five and twenty or thirty fair prisoners were presented to Scipio and received by him with a civility so great that they resented pleasure in the bitterness of their fortune and offered to their Conqueror that which certainly an Emperour of the Romans or the greatest conqueror in the world ought not to have hoped and in a word that which could not be rendred with justice to any other then our Grand Scipio who unquestionably shewed himself perfectly worthy of it since in the ardor of a most flourishing youth he placed himself above the reach of the most violent passions and whatever is most charming in them especially in an age where the intemperate heat of blood usually favours tumultuous passions 'T is unknown to none Madam that our generous Roman would not suffer himself to be proclaimed King of Spain and answered those that term'd him by that title He was a Roman Citizen and that he onely us'd his sword for glory and the advantage of his Country But if the moderation of a Conqueror was esteemed who out of a perfectly heroical generosity had refused a potent Kingdom the Ladies that were Prisoners much more admired his virtue when they found a Protector in a young Conqueror and were treated by him with an aspect that gave them assurance that the fairest among them were in absolute â—afety Moreover Liberty was immediately granted to them as also to all the Spaniards but it was after such a manner that without doubt gained their hearts and so sensibly obliged them that it may be said Scipio captiv'd all those which he declared to be free But scarce had the Queens rendered thanks to so generous a Victor but Mandonius and Iudibilis their husbands protested solemnly that they were not contented only to disengage themselves from the interest of the Carthaginians but that they gave themselves up
taken arms to satisfie your passion rather then to advantage the concernments of Carthage After this discourse the tvvo Princes rejoyned themselves to Maharbal Hanno and the other Officers which were with them there was an observable of no little rarity that all this great company kept silence a considerable time together Hannibal had a discontentment upon him whose nature he did not understand he ransackt his whole soul over to find its cause but was as far to seek as before for believing himself to be yet free from love he could not conceive that jealousie should beget these disquiets of mind Attanes resented a kind of repentance which how piquant and disquiet soever it was it argued a great distraction and I conceive that in his inquietude he accused himself of having spoken too much before the fierce and puissant Prince and perhaps also he blamed himselfe afterwards that he had not spake enough nor answered to the last words of my Master Maharbal Hanno and the rest dared not to begin the conversation either out of respect or for that they took that time to ruminate upon the cause of that which they observed upon the countenances of Hannibal and Attanes But My Lords all this company kept silence as I told you and when they began to break it the conversation was so irregular that I should be as troubled to describe it to you as themselves were to make it It is true that it lasted no long time for the King of the Turdetanes not being able to support the presence of the fierce Hannibal after that which had passed between them separated himself from them and left the room after he had performed the same civilities he was used to do although with an air that seemed extreamly forced My Master whose humour is haughty constrain'd himselfe very little and returned the King of the Turdetanes onely the civilities which he could not avoid making him and whereunto seemliness obliged him After which he came up again to Maharbal and Hanno but feeling the impatience of being alone so much increase he gaue so visible tokens of it insomuch that Maharbal and Hanno making a low reverence went forth and by their example obliged all the other officers to do the same My Master being alone walked in his Chamber with large steps without well considering what he did and cast about in his mind a thousand different thoughts But at length all those Cogitations gave place to those which he had conceived against the King of the Turdetanes How Attanes said he to himself dost thou pretend to the heart of Thomira How dost thou pretend to the possession of the fairest person that ever was Ha Attanes do not flatter thy self herein thou shalt never obtain the Princess Thomirr of Hannibal but if you be obstinate in this pretension continued he following the violence of his humour that Hannibal even that Hannibal of whom thou pretendest to obtain her shall carry fire and sword into thy States and tear out that heart which dare insolently to offer it selfe to the fair Princess of Castulon Thus continuing several turns about the Chamber he caused me to be called and doing me the honour to communicate his thoughts to me he would needs know those which I had upon this occurrence My Lord answered I you bring me into a strange perplexity but since it is your pleasure to have me speak I shall do it sincerely I do not see continued I that you have cause to be so highly troubled as you are for since the Princess Thomira is of very great merit you ought to be glad in seeing her your Queen and since the King of the Turdetanes who hath serv'd you loves passionately the Princess of Castulon you ought to be ravish'd with joy to reward the services of Attanes by granting him the fair Thomira How Aspar replyed my Master roughly would you have me so weak as to abandon the Princess of Castulon Alas have I not rendred her unhappy enough without delivering her into the hands of a man against whom she hath a manifest aversion which hath been justly augmented by the new causes he hath given her at the siege of Saguntum No no Aspar I will never do it I have other means to acquit my selfe towards Attanes without giving him that precious recompence and I conceive Thomira deserves to raign over other people then the Turdetanes Peradventure you reserve the fair Thomira for a greater Prince said I to him smilingly with a liberty which was oftentimes permitted me and perhaps you have not conconceiv'd aversion against the King of the Turdieanes but by reason you have conceived some other matter towards the Princess of Castulon I think thou art become a fool Aspar answered my Master being much provoked with my discourse but notwithstanding enforcing himselfe to smile soon after for suspecting me capable of such dulness but to oblige me more you ought to have told me in express terms That I am enamoured on Thomira It is true added he more seriously then he would that I have very different sentiments for this Princess from those that I have for Attanes But that some other matter which you mean without doubt maliciously is no other then a compassion which is really very tender and an esteem which I am obliged to have for a Princess whom I believe the fairest person in the World It is free for you My Lord replyed I with a little merriment to give things what names you please Yet I have sometimes heard that such kind of sentiments ought to be termed love Notwithstanding I shall call them as you please and choose rather not to well express their nature then to give them a name which might seem to please But My Lord continued I more seriously if I suspect you capable of a passion which you call weakness I charge you at least with a weakness which a thousand illustrious examples have authorised as noble and if you believe you are incapable of it it is for that in truth you understand better the conduct of an Army then the first approaches of Love which never enters into our breasts but under the appearance of some other passion and never dares own its true name till it ha's rendred it self absolute Master of the soul To give you therefore the pleasure of believing that it is become Master of mine replyed my Master with a half smile I will go visit the Princess Thomira and moreover I will not do it till you have first sent to know if it may be without inseasonableness and inconvenience I soon did what my Master appointed me and understood that the Saguntine Ladies who were with the Princess had answered that the visite would be not onely not incommodious but of great advantage to Thomira Hannibal had no sooner received this favourable answer but he hasted to the Chamber of the Princess where as the Saguntine Ladies who were her attendants came forward to receive him there appeared
begun at their first coming forth of the Camp The King of the Massessilians employed his thoughts of nothing but on the Queen of Numidia in which he had notwithstanding some contenting moments when he considered that the report of fame publishing Masanissa for the poysoner of Sophanisba and that without any likelihood of truth there might be no more reality in that of the fair Queens death But his affliction soon chased away these thoughts as to beguiling and becoming ingenious to torment himselfe with more violence he represented to his fancy Sophonisba in all her beauties gallantry and goodness toward Masanissa and then that same Sophonisba dead and that by violence and cruelty These last reflections were so importune to this illustrious Unfortunate that his dispair was increased by them and if he had so much restraint as not to evidence it before Hannibal he may be thought to be so much the more miserable since by including so painful a passion in his heart the anguish became more bitter and insupportable But if dead Sophonisba possess'd the imagination of he poor King of the Massessilians Thomira insensible did not less â—ill that of the passionate Prince of Carthage who after a few instants that were not altogether unpleasing he was taken up with long musings which inquieted him extraordinarily They at length arived before they were aware at one of those publick houses which are by custome appointed for the reception of strangers upon the great way distant a few furlongs from Capsa there Hannibal lighted with purpose to cause Masanissa to take a little rest and to use the interim for the dispatch he had resolved upon in ordeâ— whereunto choosing a commodious Chamber for the King himself reâ—â—â— into another to write a Letter which he sent away immediately to Zama the Master of the Hostelrie who was unfurnish'd of provisions in a house too much exposed to the passage of men of Arms sent to Capsa to purvey for such as he deemed convenient for the entertainment of his guests whom he judged to be of great quality after which he came to do reverence to the great Hannibal and told him that the Princesses were not to pass by till within two dayes Hannibal did not apprehend what this man meant but the name of Princess exciting his curiosity he demanded what Princesses they were which were to pass by within two dayes I know not their names answered the Host but I have heard at Capsa that there are two of them the fairest persons of the world and it may be added the most happy too notwithstanding I am told they seemed sufficiently melancholly For my Lord continued he consider I beseech you their good fortune they are magnificently received in all Towns through which they pass all Princes and the most powerful Kings indeavour to gain their favour and I believe if they were so minded we should soon have a general peace for to declare the outside of the business I have been assured that our Prince Hannibal is amorous of one of these Princesses and the other is the Mistress of Soipio If so you may please to judge whether they deserve not to be honoured universall and that it may not be concluded with verity that the end of this War will establish one of these Ladies the surpreme Princess of the World But I demand your pardon my Lord if I have told you things which in likelihood you know better then I have recounted them being probable that such persons as you are not ignorant of newes of this Nature It is true added he you were pleased to command me to relate them unto you and that injunction ha's drawn me into the same fault I was guilty of yesterday before a young stranger who caused me to tell him the same matters which notwithstanding himselfe knew better then I as farre a I conjecture Hannibal answered that he knew nothing of this news and that he was glad to learn it upon which to get a further account he inquired concerning this young stranger and demanded of Host if he knew who he was I know him not answered he but this I can affirm that a man of more comely aspect was never seen and that it was the late sight of his gallant person that hinders me from being absolutely surprised with yours Notwithstanding I am much astonished at the unusual coming of two persons at the same time to my house whose goodly presences sufficiently speak them to be very considerable At the same time interrupted the Prince Hannibal is that stranger here at the present then He is not here at this instant replyed the hoste but he is not farre distant and I believe he is gone to repose himselfe under the Trees which are about two hundred paces from the high-way and that he will continue there all the day to avoid being known by returning to the house which is open to all the world at least this is my conjecture being he hath also caused his Horses to be led thither I shall not molest him then answered Hannibal and if his goodly aspect gave me desires to know him the design he hath not to be seen hath destroyed them and I will not retain a curiosity which might displease a man whom you have described so advantageously to me Scarce had Hannibal ended these words when Aspar entered his Chamber with a hastiness more then ordinarily and told him that he had seen five and twenty or thirty Cavaliers appear whom he judged to be either Romanes or of those sort of roving Souldiers who in times of War without being friends to either party are alwaies enemies to such as are not in a capacity to resist them For riding about all the Avenues to discover if any party passed that way towards the War he perceived this Troop which according to all appearances were no Carthaginians It will be no bad counsell then answered Hannibal to put our selves in a posture not to be surprised Go therefore Aspar added the Prince and give order for all to be in a readiness and tell them that I am going to Horse This order was as soon executed as given and the Prince Hannibal perceiving that Aspar had reason to give him this intelligence and that these Cavaliers were coming directtly towards him having learnt by him whom the hoste had sent to Capsa that there were people of quality at his Masters house he went forth to them vvith nine others casting from his countenance a kind of noble fierceness which never abandoned this great man in contingencies of this nature Let us on my friends said this illustrious Carthaginian to the Cavaliers which followed him and let us shew that Hannibal is neither to be kill'd nor taken with ease The wife of the hoste who ran in a fright to the Gate of her House to get into it hearing these vvords and not finding the passage free at first fled towards a shade of Trees which was not farre distant from thence where
that I owe my happiness and will you not be pleased to let me know whether it would have been lawfull for me to hope you would have done that out of goodness which you have done out of obedience Since that which you cal happiness is ascertained to you answered she why do you seek to bring it in doubt by speaking as you do Ah! Madam interrupted he I have no longer any happiness if to speak as I do be to bring it to doubt For indeed I apprehend that in such occasions as this we are speaking of it is impossible for a man to be effectually happy if he owes his felicity only to the command of a Father Speak therefore Madam speak continued he sighing but not to kill me with grief say I beseech you that Scipio owes not all to Lucius but that the adorable Aemilia would have prefer'd him above all his Rivals if she had had the liberty of choice Sincerely answer'd she with very much goodness I will acknowledge to you that I should not account my self just if I could admit Varro into my mind in concurrence with the Illustrious Scipio and you would have cause to believe me very little gratefull if after all you have done I were capable to preferre either Fabius or the King of Illyria before Scipio to whom I have without doubt such obligations as I have not to those you call your Rivals The Illustrious Aemylia pronounced these words with so much sweetness and such an amiable freedome that Scipio could not but be highly pleased with them which yet he was not absolutely for after a few moments he reflected that Aemylia seemed rather to act out of generosity then inclination and that she would have had the same sentiments for any of her Rivals if he had done the same services for her that himself had performed So that not knowing well whether he ought to make remerciments for them or complaints he spoke after a manner so incoherent his sighes so often interrupted his discourse and there appeared in his eyes so much love fear and respect together that if Aemilia were not absolutely moved with it it was only for that she accustomed her self to hear with insensibility all the most passionate expressions of her Illustrious Lover But this prudent Lady having very much severity in her soul she spoke nothing that could perswade Scipio he had touched her heart 'T is true indeed the fair eyes of that admirable person were little more favourable then her mouth and seemed to tell Scipio in a language which appeared still timerous as I may so speak that an Illustrious Lover who has all the advantages of nature and fortune joyned with excellent acquired accomplishments might hope to become happy Thus Scipio parted at this time from her upon good termes and afterwards had severall conversations with that Illustrious person during which she discovered to him all the esteem she had for him she told him with very much freedome part of her sentiments and intimated to him upon divers occasions part of the dearness she already resented for him Scipio also understood that Lucius and Aemilius alwaies infinitely esteemed him and that Claudia had ever so great a dearness for him that she was oftentimes upon the point to tell his mother a little before she died that she designed Aemilia for the uniting of their families He likewise learnt that Claudia before her departure from Rome had commanded her adorable daughter to have sentiments of esteem and acknowledgment for Scipio and that she afterwards left Rome for no other reason but only that she might not be obliged to discover to Lucius all that she knew of the proceedings of Varro And in brief this passionate Lover had so many reasons to belief himself happy in those delightfull entertainments that I may conclude he was so in reality But Madam whilest love and joy are the passions that rule in the illustrious heart of Scipio and this famous Roman is enjoying all the purity of delight and contentment they afford Intelligence is brought from the Camp of Sempronius that Hannibal had advanced towards Trebia that the Numidians had already made excursions as far as the banks of that river that they forraged plundered and wasted all the Country and made desolation in all places whence the Romane Army might draw subsistence The Carrier that brought these tidings certified also that Sempronius was upon the point to draw his army out of their entrenchments and to march directly against the Enemies without expecting till Publius his Colleque were in a condition to joyne with him and fight them Upon which all the Officers and Valunteers that were then in Rome took order the same day for their affaires that they might depart the next which many accordingly did for the most part of them expecting suddenly to receive some such tidings had all things in readiness that could not be provided in an instant to the end they might have nothing to do that might afterwards occasion their delay at Rome I shall not tell you that Publius as unfit as he was still for an expedition would notwithstanding depart and resolved also to carry the young Scipio with him I shall also omit to tell you what regret I had to forsake Attilia or what I said to that fair person when I was upon the point to take my leave of her and how obligingly she answered me Nor do I think it necessary to let you know that Flavius at this time was intertained into the attendance of my Illustrious friend who had sent to him at Ostia a reward of inestimable value Only I shall tell you Madam that it was requisite for Scipio to depart too notwithstanding the indisposedness he was in by reason of his wounds and the extream reluctancy he had to leave Aemilia But what did he not say or what did he not do before his going he went to the house of Lucius he saw Aemylia and being in the presence of the admirable person and considering that he was now at the instant to leave her he beheld her a long time without being able to open his mouth to express his regret After which perceiving she was a little mollified Alas Madam said he to her sorrowfully must I be separated from you must I part from the place where you are must I go where you are not Ah! no no Madam I will never do it glory has no longer any charmes to move me if I must go so far from you to seek it and its luster seems to me too obscure and too fatall if it must withdraw me from that of your eyes As he was proceeding his sighes interrupted him and though he had a thousand passionate and tender thoughts to express yet he was not able to speak either because he had too many things to say at once or for that his soul was suddenly too much ingrossed by Grief and Love 'T is true these very passions spoke themseves by hindering him
intirely to Scipio and were ready to hazard their Lives and States for whatever concerned his service The Spaniards the fair Prisoners which were in their train were willing also to testifie their acknowledgment which they expressed in shouts of joy and admiration and there hapned to be heard amongst them certain broken speeches in which were confusedly pronounced the names of Scipio Olinda King of Spain and marriage But at length all the crowd being withdrawn Scipio was ravished with joy to see himself in a condition enabling him to express to Aemylius the sentiments of his esteem and dearness so that he went presently to his Chamber where he embraced him and enclosing him between his arms manifested to him the excess of joy he resented by his presence and by that what sorrow he had endured upon understanding the news of his imprisonment and wounds After which he mentioned the obligation he had to him for that in respect to him he had chosen rather to serve in Spain then in Italy complaining withal of that admirable modesty which had constrained him from discovering to him his intention of coming to his Army nor did he omit to speak concerning the quarrel he had had with the Prince Persâ—us which he did with an ardency that sufficiently shewed the great interest he took in it When he had ended those discourses he beheld Aemylius after a manner which signifi'd that what he was going to speak was yet more agreeable then all he had already spoken Which Emilius taking notice of and beholding the amorous Scipio with an obliging smile To answer to your eyes said he rather then to the caresses you have spoken I will speak concerning my sister and assure you that if we are not much obliged to those who esteem our enemies you are without question not much obliged to Emilia For as such enemies alone continued he smiling again are contemned who are not feared so they seem onely to be looked upon as considerable that are accounted terrible and consequently my sister esteems the enemies of Scipio since she extreamly dreads them Ah! Emilius answered this passionate Lover how happy should I be if your adorable sister had such an obliging fear Iâ— that fear conduces to your happiness replyed he you have no cause to complain of your fortune for Aemylia permitted me to discover a certain discontent he had which assuredly the interest of Rome alone did not produce when it was reported there that the Kings of Celtiberia and Illergetes were united with the Carthaginians that the Prince Lucius was arriv'd in Spain and that their Armies were extreamly strong Upon which their united forces seemed to her so formidable that verily added he smiling if you had had the same sentiments with her we should not now be making this conversation in New Carthage in the manner we are He had scarce ended these words but a Centurion entered with very much haste and as he was going to speak to his General I entered also followed with ten or a dozen Officers who were accompanying me to visit Emilius and Scipio retir'd to one of the Windows to hear vvhat the Centurion had to say to him My Lord said he presently with much commotion of countenance you have never seen any thing so handsom as what I shall cause you to see at this present There are so many kinds of handsomness answered the moderate Scipio smiling that it is difficult for me to comprehended what you mean unless you speak somewhat more clearly concerning the thing you intend to shew me 'T is my Lord replyed he immediately the incomparable Olinda 't is the fair Princess of the Illergetes and in a word 't is that rare person whom the Prince Lucius is infinitely enamoured of and all Spain admires Yes my Lord added he 't is that charming Lady whom I have caused to be put in a place of safety and I am going to cause her to be brought to you at this instant You need only conduct me where she is interrupted the generous Scipio for it is inconsistent with decency to give that kind of trouble to a person of her sex merit and quality After these words he accordingly went whither the Centurion conducted him before he so much as caused some slight wounds he had received to be dressed which he had neglected before through his ardency to deliver Emilia's and discourse with him concerning his divine sister besides that the great number of prisoners I told you of were presented to him of a sudden The Centurion had no sooner opened the door of the Hall where the Princess Olinda was but offering to retire he was retain'd by Scipio and caused to follow him but as he advanced towards that young and handsome person he perceived she was all alone upon which he suddenly stopt and instead of approachig to her retired after he had made her a low reverence At which time he forthwith sent to call some Ladies of Carthage desiring them to abide with the Princess of the Illergetes and taking some Officers also with him he entered again and advanced towards her The youth of the Conqueror and the beauty of the Prisoner would not without question have promised the success that was admired in this interview if Scipio had not bin the Conqueror but Olinda knowing him immedately by his goodly aspect and better by the action he had performed at his entering the first time she arose up and went towards him offering to cast her self at his feet not so much for her own interest being generous enough not to be capable of fear but to shew all kind of submission to a Conqueror who by the right of Arms had an absolute power over the King and the Queen of the Illergetes Scipio presently restrain'd her purpose and told her after an obliging respectful manner that it belonged to the Princess Olinda to receive such homages from men that approacht her I protest to you my Lord answered she that I would render that respect to you less as conqueror of Madam interrupted he if you would render it with justice I shall conduct you towards the persons to whom alone you owe it For I am not come Madam but to beseech you most humbly that you would please to pardon those who apparantly have not treated you with all the cautious reverence that is due to you I am not come but to declare so you that you are not only free but that you are still Princess of the Illergetes and to lead you my self to the Queen your Mother whither decency and affection require you to go and whither virtue certainly and the respect I owe you oblige me to conduct you Olinda admired the high generosity of Scipio and having made him a remerciment sufficiently expressing her gratitude and the esteem she had of the grandeur of his mind she tendered him her hand and went accordingly to the Palace whither the King her Father was retired with the Queen his wife