this manner imploying all parts to divert his Majesty from those inconvenient desires he wrought upon him so that he gave over his design But this single effect of his Counsels could not content him he knew Edgar was of an amorous Complexion and he must find out something or other to entertain him Ethelwold sent up and down inquired himself and it was not long before he was provided England is not barren of Beauties and it was a Mistress for his Majesty he wanted He pitcht therefore upon a young Lady called Wilfrede who had withdrawn her self into a Monastery to avoid the insolences of her Guardian She was young unfortunate and next the Dukes Daughter the handsomest Woman in that Kingdom The Count presented her to the King to obtain his protection against her Guardian who would needs marry her to a person she could not possibly love and seconding his Harangue with all the commendations he could give her he represented the good qualities of Wilfrede with such efficary that before she left the King she received sensible marks of his inclination Ethelwold liked his success very well he used her with all kindness and compassion undertook to be her Mediator in that affair and in a short time managed things so that he had brought her to his Lure and got an absolute command of her Finding the King ingaged with this Lady he took occasion to renew his Counsels against the Duke of Devon-shire he pretended advice of intelligence betwixt him and the Duke of Normandy and pressing his Majesty to put a stop to the ambition of this man by marrying his Daughter to one of his Subjects it fell naturally into the Kings head to bestow her upon him It is easie to believe he consented without any great trouble and yet he called it a Sacrifice pretending that Alfreda was her self so unacceptable to him that no consideration but the Peace of the Nation could have prevailed with him to marry her But to serve his Master and advantage the Nation what was it he would not readily endure At length having used all the Grimaces and Artifice he could think of Ethelwold is dispatcht into Devon-shire to marry the Dukes Daughter for the tranquillity of the Kingdom Never was any man so happy as this Lover he admired Alfreda even to adoration he esteemed her a thousand times more handsom since she was his Wife than before and though it was obedience only which obliged Alfreda to marry him having never loved any thing but him The bare act of Marriage wrought as effectually upon the heart of this young Lady as long Love did upon other people The presence of her Husband was quickly dear to her she apprehended his absence and perceiving him laying his design of returning whither his ambition called him Ah Sit said she to him one day this is that I have been always afraid of the Loves of a Servant and a Husband are exceedingly different I remember a roguish Song my Governess taught me when I was a Child which I fear contains a fatal prediction of my destiny having said so with an innocent smile that almost ravished her Husband she began to repeat them SONG Whilst Love 's suspended and in fear Of a Repulse nothing's too dear Or good to hang at Ladies ear But if the Damsel once complies And pities Rheum in Servants Eyes Farewel all future Sacrifice Six days possession at the most Makes a man curse his former cost And reckon time and Presents lost No no dear Alfreda replied the amorous Ethelwold catching her fast in his arms nothing shall ever extinguish the passion I have for you I am too much enamoured and you are too handsom not to be always the Mistress of your Hasband Why this leaving me then my Lord replied the melancholy Alfreda could you leave me so soon if you loved me as you say Nay my Dear replied the Count my Journey is of necessity I must needs go where my duty requires me would you have me renounce the favour of my Prince the advantages it beings me and the care of the State which his most gracious Majesty hath committed almost entirely to my Conduct What necessity of this State replied Alfreda or those Chimerical advantates Is not the Duke my Father rich and great enough to erect you a Fortune And can you think that when I cannot enjoy you the thought of your travelling for the good of the Nation will give me any ease Ah my Lord let us consider our own private felicity and leave the general to others the satisfaction and pleasantness of the whole World will not wipe off one of the tears your departure will being upon my cheeks and to tell you may final resolution in a word either you must be kind and stay here with me or so merciful as to let me bear you Company otherwise God knows what danger there will be of our meeting no more These two Propositions were equally fatal to the Count he used all his Art to reduce her to reason He loved Alfreda very well and his Fortune no less he was conscious of the cheat he had put upon the King and he had no mind his Wife should come to Court to convince him He excused himself therefore by the illness of the weather he promised to return again very speedily But the new Bride would not be paid in that Coin she charged him sometimes with inconstancy sometimes with contempt and not allowing him any intermission she forced him at last to confess the whole truth What confidence is to be placed by a Husband in a young person whose heart has been acquainted with Love but a few days and that in a Conjugal way Ethelwold expected that narration should have stopt her desires of accompanying him to London and have cleared that doubt that he loved her not as he should do But alas he was not acquainted with the humor of the greatest part of that Sex Ambition is natural to them and the honour of being a Queen will startle the most Philosophical Lady of them all The Countess easily comprehending by this Discourse that Ethelwold had not only cheated her of a Crown but deprived her of all opportunity of going to Court whilst Edgar was living She found her self possest with so great an abhorrence of her Husbands disingenuity that she began to hate him more than she had loved him before And in truth after this discovery â—â—â—re was no need he should fear her following â—â—â—n against his will She could have seen him depart for the Valley of Jehosaphat and not spoke one word in order to his stay She lookt very â—â—dly upon the Walls of the Town as her perpetual Prison and the only part of the World she 〈…〉 like to see She was still talking with her Father or the new Servants her Husband had left with 〈◊〉 about the Beauty of the City of London the Mâ—gâ—â—ficence of the Court c. and revolving that she was banisht for
Countess I have always been told we must conform to her humour and Capricio if we would live quietly without agitation and therefore Sir as she hath hitherto given me to understand I am born for the Castles of the Count de la Moriene and not for Thonnon I must confess to your Higness one of my greatest Requests to her is that I may obtain a sudden dismission and return to my old Deserts again But Madam replied the Prince if this Fortune you speak of should cause you to change your Deserts for the Court would you appeal from her Decrees and notwithstanding your inclination and promptitude to live with the Count could you not be as happy with the Duke of Savoy I never Sir create Chimeras to my self replied the Countess I am ordained to live with the Count de la Moriene and not to such Honour as your Highness proposes suffer me I beseech you to bound my desires with my power You know not your self how far your power extends Madam replied the Duke I know the effects of it much better than you and if your desires be accordingly you shall have as much felicity in having captivated the Duke of Savoy to your Charms as you had power to do it You do but sport your self Sir with my misfortunes replied the Countess and add your mirth to the calamity of my Husbands imprisonment If Madam replied the Prince you believe not what I say I must give you a Witness and then calling the Marquess of Savona to him who was about four paces off so mad and transported with Jealousie he was a hundred times ready to run in and interrupt them He commanded him to tell the Countess what he knew of his affection for her If it was not true that he loved her at first sight that ever since it hath daily increased and that now it was at that height there was nothing in his power but she might promise her self from its violence It was a hard task for Savona to assure his Mistress of the Love of his Rival He did all that was possible to have evaded it he told the Duke there was no need of further evidence where he had affirmed for his own assertion was above all other Authority No no replied the Prince 't is not an Elogy I desire at your hands tell me sincerely without these Prologues what you know of my Love His Command was so positive and uncapable of delay he was forced to speak and tell whatever the Duke pleased the Couness should know This Discourse was made with so much constraint the Marquess is to be excused in whatever he said but the Countess taking it in dudgeon reproacht him by his Compliance in most biting and acrimonious terms You ought said she to him Ironically your self have delivered me up to the desires of the Duke there wanted nothing but that excess of obedience for you to have discharged your self honourably you were the first who brought me the News of Amedy's Love your perpetual suspicions assure me of its perseverance and that he might be sure not to be ignorant that you had told me you confirm in his presence what you told me in private Compleat all good Marquess of Savona and go and tell him the ways you took to surprise me your self you owe that confidence to the benefits of so incomparable a Master The Marquess alledged several Arguments in his defence but he could not prevail with her to admit them As one is always innocent whilst he pleases so when he begins to displease he is always to blame The Countess had taken up a fancy that the Marquess was culpable and to perfect the ruine of his affairs Amedy having Intelligence that the Emperour Sigismond was at Lyons sent the Marquess of Savona thither to make his Complements from him The Duke was obliged to him for the Erection of Savoy into a Dutchy which carried the Title only of a County till the said Emperours Journey into France in the year 1416. and could not do less than testifie his acknowledgments by that Embassie and this Commission being one of the most honourable in Amedy's donation he cast his eyes upon his Favourite as the most proper Person to receive it At another time he would have accepted it with thanks but then he lookt upon it as the fatal period of his Amours He would fain have exprest his apprehensions to the Countess and have conjured her to have opposed them but she cut him short still with this Have you not promised the Duke said she smiling to come and tell me from him that he is resolved to take the advantage of your absence and that it is upon that design you are sent away I remember when first you told me of his Love you did it with some pretences of fear and I expect to see you called in for a Witness at your return of all you are pleased to communicate so slyly at your departure Ha! Madam cryed the Marquess of Savona you know at your heart with what design I declared the Duke of Savoys Love to you at first and with what design I now desire you to be cautious of its progress I know no more replied the Countess but that very imprudently you told me Amedy was in Love with me that since you have confirmed it before his face and that now you prognosticate your destruction If I may judge of your Prophesie by what is past this pretended destruction is concluded already betwixt the Duke and you and you do but prepare me as to an infallible thing A Farewel with so little kindness ought not to leave the heart of the Countess so well fortified as to resist the Attaques of the Duke of Savoy and therefore she suffered her self to be vanquisht without any considerable resistance the talk of the World was her greatest discouragement and the Duke wanting neither Examples nor Expedients to dissipate that scruple the Marquess found the Treaty very far advanced at his return The Duke according to his custom did him the honour to communicate even this Intrigue with him he told him the Countess hath conjured me to say nothing of it to you and whether she fancies you severe as to the deportment of your Kindred or whether being oftner exposed to your sight than other people she is unwilling to put her self upon a hazard of blushing every time she sees you but she seems to be more apprehensive of you than of all the rest of the Court But my dear Savona you are much better known to me than to the Countess and I should rob you of a greater pleasure I am sure if I should suffer you to be ignorant that in three or four days time my desires will be perfectly satisfied The Marquess was so discomposed at this discourse it had like to have betrayed him Do you say Sir replied he that within three or four days you shall enjoy the Countess de la Moriene Yes said the Duke
Cueva chief of the Family we have mentioned so lately and since created Duke of Albuquerque would not trouble her self as other Ladies do to conceal it from her Husband she made her Love an Affair of State and King Henry perswaded that it was by his fault his Wife had no Children and being passionately desirous of them he intreated Leonora very civilly that she would contrive some way or other to provide him one She pretended great horrour at the first Proposition that she might have the pleasure of being pressed and the King did her that kindness he prest he intreated and his Election concurring with the Queens the good Monarch conducted the Count de Cueva to the Royal Bed with his own hand The business was executed with full liberty and of this admirable Conjunction that Jane was born who was owned by Henry and for a long time after disputed the Crown with the famous Isabella Grand-mother to the Emperour Charles V. It would be to invert the Laws of Nature and Gallantry to ascribe rigid and severe Vertue to a Daughter of so spurious Extraction we must endeavour to represent her conformable to the Birth wherewith her Mother had honoured her She was not above sixteen or seventeen years of age when Lewis XI King of France the same we have spoken of before as Dauphin in the Gallanteries of Agnes sent the Bishop of Alby to demand her in Marriage for his Brother the Count de Guyenne The Count de Boulogne was imployed particularly from the Count de Guyenne with full power in his Name to do what he thought requisite in the Affair and he thought good to fall in Love with her himself He was handsom and aâ—ery and the French are never so transcendantly illustrious as in foreign Countries The Infanta of Castille saw nothing at King Henry's Court so magnificently spruce as the French Count She could not forbear running into an admiration of their Manners and Deportment and the Count like a good Polititian perswading Monsieur d'Alby that to render their Embassie successful it would be convenient to gain upon the inclinations of the Princess in respect of the power she had over her Mother and her Mother over the King he entertained her with continual Discourses about the liberty with which they made Love in France It had not been long since Charles VII was dead and the severity of Lewis's Regiment was not establisht as yet He talkt of nothing but the wonderful freedoms of the last Reign to have heard him one would have sworn the good qualities of the Ladies were denominated by their Conquests and he assured her that in France one would pass for either simple or deformed if at her age she had not had two or three Amours The Princess was jealous of the reputation of her Charms gave the Count to understand she liked the French fashion very well and according to his description would be very glad to be in it For her first Lesson he caused her Picture to be taken in little by the permission of the Queen to send it as he pretended to the Count de Guyenne but when it was finisht he caused a Copy to be taken and sending that to the Count he kept the Original for himself See Madam said he to the Princess how ingenious men demean themselves in our Court their pretences are honourable and fair in every thing they do Their outward professions are always above censure but the secret intention they reserve to themselves and it would be a sign of a very barren invention to circumscribe it within the bounds of a single design Such solid Lessons as these meeting with a Nature apt and disposed made so great a progress in a few months that the Princess was able to have commented upon his Text. Castille was then in great Troubles by the pretensions of the Infant Alphonso Brother of Isabella and the Nephew of Henry who as Historians say without any lawful Right made Claim to the Crown The Grandees of the Country endeavoured to accommodate the difference The Marquess de Villena supporting Alphonso's and the Duke of Albuquerque Henry's pretensions The young Princess had a mind to bring over the Marquess to the Interests of Henry in which she was ingaged and to that purpose bethought her self of putting the Count of Boulognes Documents in practice The Marquess de Villena hoping to draw some advantage from the Conversation of the Princess which might be profitable to Alphonso prevented the obliging designs she had upon his Heart They began their first Commerce with their Eyes if he thought he understood the meaning of her glances his were no less intelligible to her so that there needed no further explication of that Language There was a Garden belonging to the Palace reserved only for the Queen and her Daughter to walk in into which no man was ever admitted The Princess took the Air there every night without any Attendance but an old Governess the Count de Boulogne had corrupted and her Maids who never came near her but when they were called The Marquess found a way to introduce himself into this Garden he attended the hour in which the Princess was accustomed to walk and following her with his Eye into a Grove of Cypress-trees which formed themselves into a Labyrinth he discovered himself to her when he judged it convenient The Princess was surprised to see a man in that place and the first impression made her retire but the Marquess conjuring her to hear him one word the Infanta was flexible and yielded And for as much as the Daughters of Kings are not to be courted as common persons are reasons of State being always the pretence of an ingenious Lover among them he began first with a Declaration of the absolute Power he had to negotiate in the difference betwixt Alphonso and Henry he next represented how easie it would be for him to propose in the Treaty her Marriage with Alphonso and observing the effect that Overture had upon the Princess he began to infinuate the Love he had for her himself and declared that by her indulgence and affection she might ingage him in her Interests The Princess took a resolution worthy of the Doctrine the French Count had preacht to her she pretended great severity but yet without shifting the Marquesses hopes My heart says she prefers the love of Vertue to all the Dignities in the World nevertheless it is not so ungrateful but a considerable service may have an influence upon it In the midst of this Conference the Princess apprehended she heard some body walk behind the Palissade against which she was leaning and she trembled at the Alarm Though the Queen had made no profession of austerity her self yet she exacted it in others and according to the Maxime of Court Ladies was a declared Enemy to all other peoples Courtship The Princess fearing therefore to be surprised alone in discourse with a man made but one leap betwixt the
out of him by pretending he knew all before and demanded his recapitulation as a mark only of his submission to the will of the Prophet and passing from matters of State to matters of Love You are in Love Sir said he with the Princess Zuria the prescience where with we are indued gave us information of that Love even before it was conceived But Sir let me tell you you will meet with great difficulties in that Enterprise it is not at all pleasing to our divine Prophet and you will make him a Sacrifice infinitely grateful if you surmount that passion and desist Ha holy Father replied Imerse it is not possible to surmount it if any thing could have prevailed the Princesses severity would have done it she is insensible of all my pains and recieved my offers with most insufferable neglect Without doubt replied Caly her heart is prepossest in favour of some other person Has not the Sultan Selim think you made no impression there he is young he is handsom has his just expectation of the Ottoman Throne and I am afraid by what I observe in the Constellations that Prince will betray the confidence you have in him If he must betray me replied Imerse it is not upon this occasion he is extravagantly in Love with my Sister and the Princess for whom my passion is so violent has no less indifference for all the World than for me Yet I cannot but think her of an amorous temper replied the Dervis she is born under a Planet not guilty of such indifferent Influences and I dare promise I could find out a place in her heart capable of those impressions had I but discoursed with her as long as I have done with you How I beseech you said Imerse interrupting him will you vouchsafe to discourse with her and I will bring her to you when-ever you please she will make no scruple of coming she has already an extreme curiosity to see you and when the other day I gave her a description of your person I observed an emotion in her countenance so great as I thought she had not been capable of I commend her zeal replied Caly the desire of seeing persons eminent for their piety is a happy preparative to their imitation Heaven does not grant those graces to all the World and I know by that Zuria is a Darling of the divine Prophet upon which assurance you shall obtain that act of charity from me when you please But it must be speedily for the time that was assigned us for our conversation of men is now almost expired and we must ere long leave our association with prophane persons to renew our Commerce with the Angels The credulous Imerse knockt his knees with a holy trepidation at the Dervises news and making the bargain as strong as he could for the next day Selim obtained of Chasan that Imerselle might bear her Company The Dervises slept but little the night before that blessed Enterview Caly's joy produced transports incompatible with his repose and his Brothers apprehensions kept him as watchful on the other side He was afraid to find Imerselle prepossest with kindness for the Sultan he was handsom and the little Love the Princess had for Caly made him afaird Selim would not meet any considerable defence He durst not mention it in the least to his Rival lest he should not be able to master his confusion in so subtile a point reserving himself therefore to be informed from the Princesses own mouth he prepared himself for those informations with inexpressible commotion The deluded Lovers were in no less anxiety Hope is an unquiet passion which gives the mind more agitation many times than a real despair They proposed the business to the Princesses at their return they approved it especially Zuria who finding the description of the Dervises not much differing from Ismaels two Sons had a violent imagination of the truth She was got up and ready befor day and pressing Imerselle to make as much haste they were got to the Grot before they were expected Their new Lovers would accopany them by all means which was foreseen by the Dervises but they thought that obstacle would be removed by the respect they would shew them They had shrowded themselves each of them under a Hat with a long tail pulled down in such sort it covered most of their faces That kind of Dress they pretended was the Habit of their Piety when they were forced upon any Conference with Women Chasan made signs to Imerselle to follow him to the foot of a Rock where he designed his Communication and Caly took Zuria aside to walk under the Trees and that the Turkish Prince and his Camarade might give no interruption they gave them certain prayers in the Turkish Language with injunction to go into the Grotto and say them over there for their happy success The Rivals were flexible and obeyed They were so possest of the Dervises Sanctity they would have extended their conformity much further if it had been desired Chasan having placed Imerselle upon a part of the Rock which was covered with moss keeping himself just before her upon his feet that the Sultans Equipage who stood round about the Grot might have no prospect of his face I have great things to relate to you young Princess said he dissembling his voice as much as he could I know things of you you do not know of your self but as the ingenuous declaration of our most secret sentiments is the ordinary Channel of Celestial graces do you merit by that act of submission the good things which are in my power to impart tell me sincerely what was your thoughts of Seach Caly what of Chasan Helif and what is your present opinion of the Sultan Observing her to change colour you are surprised Princess said he to find me so skilful in your affairs but let me tell you those persons who are honoured with a familiar Conversation with Heaven are ignorant of nothing that passes upon Earth I know you have a secret inclination to Chasan you discovered as much to Caly himself that night you were walking in the Palace Garden at Xiras which if my memory fails not was the night before you were carried away judge now if I be not acquainted with your affairs and save me the labour of telling you any more Alas replied Imerselle in a great surprise I can say no more to you having discovered my affection for Chasan you have discovered the greatest secret of my soul I confess that Sympathy was born with me yet when I thought it my duty to resist it I did it with some kind of success he never had the least inclination of it from me as you have had now But if I must confess the true state of my heart I must acknowledge that inclination increases every day upon me I love Chasan much better in Phrygia than I did in Persia and by I know not what Capricio of Love absence
augments that in me which it destroys in all other persons in the World You have no kindness then for Selim said the happy Chasan and the Princess replying only with a contemptuous shrug gave him more satisfaction than an eloquent Discourse I am fully satisfied fair Princess of your sincerity said Chasan and to recompense it by an information as grateful know Imerselle that Chasan loves you a thousand times better than you love him It was he entertained you at the Egyptian Ball under the name of his Brother it was he who leaving Caly with his Cousin Zuria that night you were walking in the Garden appeased your indignation with those mollifying words To him it was you gave that Ring which ingaged your faith to him by those sacred protestations and in a word it is he who renouncing all the pleasures of his Fathers Court and despising all the dangers he should be exposed to were he known speaks to you at this present under the Name and Figure you see The Prince might trust Imerselle without scruple the confession she had made secured him against any indiscretion It was not without reason he had taken care the Princesses face should be covered the alterations this discourse made there could not have been provided against but by that precaution She blusht she was disturbed she had like to have cryed out and run away but the danger the least noise would bring upon Chasan restraining that impetus she remained as immoveable in the place where she sate Chasan taking advantage of her perplexity drew out the Ring and discovering his face the Princess found so much Love there that though her Eyes and the sight of her Ring had not convinced her she would have concluded no body but the counterfeit Egyptian and he that made Love to her in the Walk could have lookt upon her with such passionate glances She blamed the Prince for the perils to which he had exposed himself she conjured him to clear himself as soon as he could and then inquired very earnestly how he had done to delude the Sultan and Prince Imerse so handsomly He gave her an account in few words of whatever she askt him he told her the Love Caly retained for Zuria their adventures as Princes of Persia their adventures as Dervises and concluded all with a request to her to cajol the imaginations of Selim that by that Complacence perswading him of the interests the Dervises had in Heaven he might be induced to permit the Princesses to visit them oftner The Conversation of Caly and Zuria was neither so serious nor sincere at first she knew the Prince as soon as she see him his shape his voice but above all the secret emotion of a heart truly affected assured her it was none but her dear Caly that spoke to her however resolving to punish him for that he had so well master'd his transport It was not necessary devout Father said she to him that the Prince Imerse should bring me hither upon the design he pretended for whether by the miraculous efficacy of your prayers or whether that there is a period for anger as for other things so it is that sensible part of my heart which you promised to find is perfectly discovered I love the Prince of Persia and am ready to act whatever his Love can reasonably expect from me I am amazed replied Caly in some kind of disturbance that this change should be so sudden I have some secret Revelations which assured me that your passion for the Prince Scach-Caly would have made a better defence against the attaques of the Prince Imerse It did indeed make defence for a while replied the sly Zuria and since you know all I need not scruple to confess I did love the Prince you speak of very well but the absence of one Lover and the assiduities of another make strange Metamorphoses sometimes in the affections of a Woman The disguised Prince began to rave at this discourse which made the Princess judg she had carried her hypocrisie too far She smiled and looking upon the Prince with an air sufficient to despel a thousand suspicions Recollect your self Seigneur Dervis said she to him you have but little Communication with Heaven if you have no better notion of what happens below Call in your good Genius to your relief and she will tell you Zuria will never love any thing but her dear Caly whom the disguise of a Dervis cannot conceal from her heart and that in all Habits as in all places he shall find her always the same The Prince perceiving his Errour by those words reproacht her a thousand times for the perplexities she had put him to It was resolved by agreement they should contrive as many Conferences as they could He told her designs which the proximity betwixt Imerselle and Imerse would not permit Chasan to discover to that Princess and then passing all of them together to interrupt the two Lovers meditations in the Grot the abused Princes found their prayers so effectual in appearance they thought they could not sufficiently admire the Celestial power wherewith the Dervises were endued The Princesses flattered their hopes with a thousand frivolous assurances Zurias greatest care was to make peace betwixt Ismael and Imerse Selim promised to dispose hiâ— Father Bajazet to mediate in the affair upon condition he might have Imerselle for his labour thâ— Princess pretended to consent and frequent Journies were made to the Dervises to recommend their success to the Divine Prophet The abused Lover were imployed always in Pilgrimages and it was admirable Entertainment for their Rivals to seâ— them besotted with their credulity whilst they good Fathers were making Love to their Mistresses Their discourse grew more passionate by degrees and doubtless had the circumstances of tiâ—â— and place been a little more favourable a kindness upon that occasion would have had a singular relish The counterfeit Dervises sustained their Character with incomparable address they never fed but in the night to perswade such as would be so simple they kept perpetual fast The Turkish Prince lookt upon them as sent down from Heaven and gave the Sultan his Father such an Elogy of them he sent a person on purpose to visit them from himself They refused to see his Envoy pretending that was a day in which they were not allowed to admit of any humane Conversation and the Princesses themselves coming to see them that day were sent back with the same excuse But it was not for nothing they denied themselves so great a happiness they had seduced some of the principal Inhabitants of the Town of Antalia which was the Residence of Caragose Beglierbey of Natolia he had infused into them that he had received a marvellous Sword from Heaven by vertue of which a new Government should be established in Turkie that Bajazet was but an unprofitable Trunk and that the crimes of Selim had provokt Heaven against his whole Race The crimes wherewith he
the least spark of kindness in your Eyes Tell me I beseech you is it enough for a Lover that they be sparkling without kindness or do you think they have acquitted themselves of their duty when they have dazled a poor Creature I must see Love in them or renounce their Empire and when mine declare I love more than ever I expect yours should make answer And I 'le assure you there 's no Love lost If that be all replied the Ambassadress rather than the Duke shall want his Lesson I 'le look upon you as you please Do I look well now continued she fixing her Eye upon him with as much tenderness as she could Ha! I know you dear Eyes said the Sultan I see now you are disposed to hear me and then he ran out into a thousand amorous expressions but the Duke of Mantua who took no recreation in that kind of divertisement interrupted him by departing hastily out of room Jacaya observed his Physiognomy so changed he was afraid he had been ill and desired the Ambassadress she would permit him to follow him which he did but could not overtake him till he came to his Lodgings The Prince of Turkie desired to know what it was obliged him to retire so abruptly and assured him the Ambassadress was very unquiet till she could be satisfied of his health The Duke being brim full of passion answered not the Sultans Complement but looking fiercely upon him with his Eyes in which grief and rage were both livelily delineated Actum est it is decreed cryed he I love her my Love hath not been thus long constrained but to break out with the greatest violence and I will perish a thousand times before I will endure my Rival shall be beloved Jacaya thought him in a Phrensie and taking him by the Arm to feel his Pulse What do you talk of a Mistress and a Rival you are in a burning Feaver do you remember who it is that speaks to you Yes Prince replied the Duke with somewhat more moderation I know you too well you are the Ambassadresses Darling but you must resolve to take away my life or renounce those addresses Why Sir said the Sultan in a great surprise do you love the Ambassadress To say I love her replied the Duke is too mean I admire I adore her and either you must resign or one of us must dye Jacaya confounded at this Alarm as may well be imagined fell down upon the Chair that was next him and leaning his Elbow upon the Table fell into a contemplation of his Destiny He loved the Ambassadress entirely and though his passion was begun in sport and continued in a Frolick yet at the bottom he was most absolutely serious He was of an amorous Complexion much subject to Love and in that respect it was no easie matter for him to renounce it on the other side he had been infinitely obliged to the friendship of the Duke he had protected him against the Conspiracies of the Strozzi he had given him all necessary supplies and he had never been admitted in France but by his means Love Ha cruel Love cryed he with a sigh will you be always mine Enemy Alas Sir said he addressing himself to the Duke I foresaw the misery is befallen me and had you left me in that liberty I desired I had never pulled it down upon me Had you no other way of breaking with me than by making me your Rival I suppose my friendship hath tryed you and I do not admire it the unfortunate are often tedious to their friends but had it not been enough to let me have known so without adding the consequences of an infructuous passion Do not call me to an account said the Duke for what I have done I knew nothing of it my self and would have sworn I should never have been in Love with the Ambassadress The very moment before I knew she had a kindness for you my Love began to declare by the approaches of my Jealousie the news of your being in Love set me also on fire and that fire having been a long time deprest secretly in my heart that part of it which appears but its beginning is indeed the utmost extremity It is not that I am weary of your friendship and I offer you mine as pure as you have found it But dear Sultan shew me your compassion by your compliance Ladies are unconstant and perhaps you will do that of your self one day either out of weariness or revenge that I conjure you to do now in kindness to me The Turkish Prince could not relish that Proposition all that his obligations and Policy could get from him was only a promise to endeavour to master himself In order to which he absented himself for some time and pretending a Curiosity to see the Kings Houses and other Palaces about Paris he had several Entertainments with several Lords of the Court. Whether in some of those Entertainments the Duke of Mantua laid any design for him or whether the consideration of his misfortune in his Love exstimulated him to retire into some unknown part of the World where that passion was a stranger is not known but certain it is he disappeared in an instant and could never afterwards be heard on The Duke of Mantua was not much happier for the Ambassadour dying in France and his Lady returning into Savoy the Dukes Affairs called him into Italy and gave him no leisure to abandon himself to the desires of his passion A TABLE of all the Histories contained in these Eight Parts THe Countess of Castile page 1 The Pilgrim page 4 Alfreda of England page 14 Don Garcias of Spain page 30 The Duke and Dutchess of Modena page 37 The three Princesses of Castile page 53 Constance the fair Nun. page 81 James King of Arragon page 106 The Fraticelles page 113 Dulcinus King of Lombardy page 156 Nogaret and Mariana page 163 Don Pedro King of Castile page 185 John Paleogolus Emperour of Greece page 205 Amedy Duke of Savoy page 223 Agnes de Castro page 251 The Countess of Pontieuvre page 262 Feliciane page 286 Jane supposed of Castile page 310 The Persian Princes page 325 Don Sebastian King of Portugal page 355 Jacaya a Turkish Prince page 380 FINIS A Catalogue of Books Printed for John Starkey Booker-seller at the Mitre in Fleetstreet near Temple-Bar Divinity Folio's THirty six Sermons preached by the Right Reverend Father in God Robert Sanderson late Lord Bishop of Lincoln the fifth Edition corrected price bound 18 s. 2. 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consented to the conditions without any resistance as well because it was his real intention at that time as because he supposed this Uncle not in a posture to constrain him if he repented it afterwards The Uncle disguised himself in an ordinary Habit was followed by none of his Servants and judging his true Name might fright him from promising he took another more suitable to the Quality he profest which Don Garcias regarded no more than if he had been no body at all Radegond finding her self so well supported she kept touch with the Count and that without much trouble for she had no more to do but to deliver him the Key of Madam Valery's Lodgings The Husband being very angry got himself conducted by several Footmen which he hired And Paris being a Town where they who have money may do any thing and the Count having found his Pilgrim and his Wife close in one Bed he needed but one stroke to rid himself of both When he had satisfied his vengeance in this manner I am of opinion he would willingly have had no further business in Paris than to provide for his return He began to talk of compounding with Radegond he offered her a sum of money to dispense and 't is generally believed his conscience would have been much at rest could he have prevented the accomplishment of his Vow But the pretended Uncle would not admit of any such terms The thoughts he had of seeing one of his Mistresses in the Throne of Castile flattered his vanity exceedingly he discovered himself who he was and the Count de Castile being in no condition in Paris to contend with the interest of one of the chief men in France he thought if sufficient that he had been the discourse of all Spain by his first Marriage without making himself so at Paris by his second He married Radegond as he had promised and the Marriage being ratified and all the Grandees in Castile assembled Radegond was pronounced Soveraign of Castile under the the same Name her Brother had carried in that Country before Some may say perhaps that Don Garcias might have as well have accomplished his Vow in the person of his old Wife Isabel de Vermandois as in the person of Radegond The Subjects were equally disposed Harlots they were both and the repentance of the first might as well have been expected as the conversion of the latter But this second alliance satisfied his revenge more than Madam Valeries remorse besides the debauchery of the Countess was known in Castile whereas Radegond might pass there for a Saint He presented her to the Castilians for a great Example of Vertue for a person who abhorring the wickedness of her Brothers life had chose rather to deliver him up to Don Garcias indignation than to see the honour of her Family depraved by so ungodly an action it is strange how the natures of things change according to their different faces We know none of these intrigues bu by the imprudent discovery of some persons concerned and those persons appear to us the shame of their Sex many times by the incontinence they are charged with who perhaps are much more discreet than they which accuse them Love is a nimble Deity and marches a great way in a little time From the Territory of Castile he has brought us into England in the time we can read half a sheet of Paper from London he has re-conveyed us to Burgos and from Burgos to Paris with the same expedition and now he is carrying us out of the middle of France into the Court of the Emperour of the West without desiring more time for the Journey than is requisite for the writing a few lines In the preceding stories he has pleased himself in triumphing over Marriage in this he sides with it and leaves the succeeding pair an everlasting instance of Constancy and Vertue MAXIME III. Some Husbands still there are whose Love is more After their Marriage than it was before Their Wives are welcome and themselves they please As much in them as when th' were Mistresses But when the good man's nought and every room Smoaks with his curses when his Wife comes home The story 's sad and surely't may be said Love lyes intombed in that Marriage-bed Examples of this kind I must confess are rare yet we are not without some and the Duke and Dutchess of Modena fall very luckily into my memory for an instance This Duke had for a long time been in Love with the Princess of Bavaria Daughter to Duke Henry and Cousin German to Otho the Third at that time Emperour of the West His passion for her had ingaged him to follow Otho in all his Wars against the Sarrazins in Pouille and against Lothaire the French King in Austrasia Love is a kind of Proteus and assumes all shapes upon occasion if it meets with a base mind it becomes the Author of all sorts of baseness but when it is so happy as to meet with a noble and sublime inclination it excites to the greatest actions and nothing prompts more to vertue or makes a man more illustrious This was the Character it had taken in the heart of the young Duke of Modena The Princess of Bavaria being the price he had proposed to himself of all his Atchievments he had done Miracles to deserve her For her sake it was he had fought many Battels and defended many Towns The Idea he had of her beauty accompanied him in his greatest perils and considering his Conquests as so many steps which advanced him towards the possession of the Princess and alliance with the Emperour one may say that Otho ought more of his Victories to the passion of the Duke of Modena than to the Armies of his Subjects or the Conduct of his Generals So glorious an affection could not but be crowned with glory The Duke of Modena obtained the Princess of Bavaria as an acknowledgment from the Emperour The Imperial Residence being at that time at Aixla Chapelle the Marriage was celebrated there and the new Dutchess being well worthy of whatsoever the Duke had done for her and the Duke on the other side as worthy of what Love the young Dutchess was capable of never was Bride and Bridegroom more happy than the Duke of Modena and his Princess they exprest the same cares and complacences as are used by the most violent Lovers they delighted to be near one another and were never separated but in publick their Eyes their actions their every thing discovered the kindness of their Hearts and in a word they loved at that rate they set all persons a gog who observed them The Empress Mary Wife to Otho who merited as much from him as the Dutchess did from the Duke not meeting so much kindness from her Husband began to envy her felicity She cast that Matriage in Otho's dish upon all occasions as an Example he ought to follow and the reproaches of the good Women being the worst
knew a Womans vertue was not to be warranted without good counter-security He understood the Sex by experience and was not ignorant that the best friends are usually they which disparage the Husband But to consider that he should be the Porter of that unfortunate Letter was a Pill he could not swallow nor digest His misfortune was too common to be incredible but the Circumstance with which it was accompanied was beyond all belief and it was not so much Paws Letter that affected him as that it was his Destincy to deliver it This consideration stownded him for some time and the transportation of his Father-in-law added fuel to his fire but at last the storm was blown over In that Age as it is in this the Tilte of Cuckold was so common it was scarce any trouble to be so The disgrace lyes only where it is known when a Womans inconstancy is publick nothing is greater dishonour to her Husband where it is managed with secrecy nothing is so trivial Henry lookt upon it as no point of discretion to publish the infirmities of his Wife and therefore gave himself some few days to digest his resentment But the Examples of his Brother-in-law having learnt him some Wit he came one morning to the Kings Chamber and said to him You see Sir by the Letter I have brought you that your Daughters have no reason to upbraid one another They were born under the same Constellation and if any thing discriminated me from the Prince of Galicia and the Count of Tholouse it is this that their unhappiness is known and mine is a secret I have no inclination to publish it and if you please you may conceal the Letter you shewed me Send word to your Daughter that you kept it from me and I will never convince her of her errour In giving me Theresia your Majesty gave me also a Province which I hope in time to improve into a Kingdom I have Children already which may succeed me hereafter There is no necessity the Portugals should suspect whether they be mine or Paws Conceal the dishonour of your Daughter with as much care as I and by the Example of your Family we will demonstrate that it is the discretion of the Husbands which makes the difference betwixt the Women which are prudent in appearance and those which are really irregular The King of Castile took this Proposition very kindly He began to repent himself of what he had done insomuch that magnifying the Generosity he had exprest he seconded his Counsels with several Examples and most irrefragable Arguments and the troubles in Castile being appeased by the death of the Count of Tholouse and the interpostion of the King of France Henry returned into Portugal without any mark or token of that he knew The truth is he found out a pretence to send Paw out of the World and I have been told he had another to make his Wife more obsequious for the future But as he presaged very judiciously his Posterity have reigned several years in Portugal whereas the younger Sons of the Royal Family of Castile have always disputed the Crown with the Children of Vrraca MAXIME V This I 'le affirm let things to how they can The marri'd's really the happiest man Let her be what she will I 'le lay my life His owns more faithful than this Neighbours Wife But shall we never have done with these Daughters does no other condition of life but the married afford matter for our Annals Yes certainly History is so fertile in amourous accidnets she supplies us with variety About the same time while things were in this agitation in Spain Love which had laid about him so in the Royal Family of Castile was not idle in the Court of the Emperour of the West This Empire was then under the Dominion of Frderick Barberossa a valiant and ambitious Prince He had signalized the beginning of his Reign by remarkable Victories so that there was nothing discoursed of in all Europe so much as his Power and Greatness He kept his ordinary Residence in Rome as well because the Climate agreed with his body as upon certain secret Designs he had upon the Lands of the Church and because his remoteness from the heart of his Empire caused him to apprehend some Mutiny in the Towns of Germany he obliged Prince Henry his Son to continue in that Province the greatest part of the year This young Prince was extremely hopeful the people of the Empire loved him entirely So that his Father conceiving some Jealousie lousie thereupon took the pretence of his Coronation to recal him to Rome They past the Winter very lovingly together and the Emperour having a mind to pry into the Conduct of Alexander the Third who was then Pope and in possession os the Patrimony of S. Peter he ordered his Son to visit him frequently The Prince in obedience to his Father waited upon him as often as he was visible He attended him in all his devitions and among other places to a Monastery of Nuns where his Holiness had a Niece he loved most entirely She was descended from the Blood Royal of Si ily and her Uncle the Disposer of all Ecclesiatical preferments but as yet she was not of years to be an Abbess and therefore at Rome was known by no other name but Madam Gonstance She was as handsom as was possible to wish and besides several other good qualities she had a good voice and sung incomparably well at one of the Solemnities of that Covent the Prince heard her one day and being a great Lover of Musick he had a great ambition to see her the dignity of her relation to the Pope authorizing his desire he askt leave to see Constance when the Ceremony was ended He was much transported at the sight of her and had never seen so many graces in one Assembly before Till that day he was free his soul was his own and he seemed born for Mars's not Venus Wars But he was not the first man hath become a Captive to the simplicity of a Nun. There is a sort of people not to be captivated but in this shape and there have been Letters seen in our days which have taught us that of all people in the World none make Love with that confidence and freedom as the Nuns The Monastical Gallantry hath its Laws and Rubricks apart There are no elegant Entertainments no Assiduities nor publick Attendances all things within the Cloister are so carried privately and with discretion nevertheless their Religious Civility is so great they will not discourage any mans affection and there is but few which attempt them but they arrive at their designs The Imperial Prince was a handsom Person and a fine Gentleman Constance had taken a Monastick life upon her more in obedience than choice and in vows of this Nature there is something always reserved to direct the intention Thus have we brought them into Cupids High-way The Prince seconded his
Man of Honour lives with an ugly Woman as with a handsom and hath the advantage of loving a handsomer if he can find her whereas when a man hath such a Wife as mine he seems to have lost his wits when he addresses to another The Ladies send him back again to his Wife as one he must needs know to be handsomer and so he may call upon Saints and swear as many oaths as he pleases that he loves her and not perswade her at the last Ha said he were I but the Husband of such a Woman and named one of the ugliest about the Court with what pleasure could I tell Madam Nogaret she was the handsomest Person in the World She would believe me because she would know it was true she would think her self obliged by my commendations and perhaps recompence them by some favour or other but should I now make this Complement to any other Lady of the Court she would believe I did but railly for she knows at her heart Madam Nogaret is handsomer This Dialogue happened in a Hall where we usually dined and there being a Grot on one side of it into which after Dinner I had accidentally retired to repose my self it was my fortune to hear distinctly every word they said I was not at all surprised at the beginning of their Discourse had my Judgment been asked in the same case I should have said as much of Nogaret as he said of me but when I heard him wish himself married to the ugly person he named I could not for my life forbear blurting out into a laughter Celonna thrust his head into the Grot to see who it was that laught He found me fitting there alone with a Book in my hand hearkening with great tranquillity at what past betwixt us as if I had not been concerned in the least In earnest Madam said he in his turn this may be called the House of Miracles The man of all France who hath the handsomest Wife wishes he had the ugliest that he might have the pleasure of making Love to his own The Lady of the whole World which deserves best of her Husband receives the assurance of his disgust with a laugh What kind of Creatures are you two You says he to Nogaret seeing you acknowledge your Wife worthy of your Love why do you not love her come into this Grot and tell me your reasons Alas replied Nogaret with a smiling disdain I have so much liberty to say what I will to her that I have nothing to say And you can hear this and be merry replied Colonna addressing himself to me Why should I not be merry replied I without any disorder is it not a thing pleasant enough to make my body laugh Yes without doubt replied the Roman your Husbands discourse would make any one laugh that was indifferent but I could not have thought Madam you had been under that Character It is the best course I can take replied I for to speak truth I am so much of Nogarets mind in all that he hath said that I cannot in Justice condemn him Come come away said my Husband to Colonna taking him by the Elbow let us take a little Air you have kept such a stir with the names of Husband and Wife that the very pronouncing them so often hath given me the headach As soon as he had spoke those words they went forth together and immediately after my Taylor bringing me home an odd kind of Gown of mine own particular invention I was pleased with it so well I would needs go wait upon the Queen in it and see how she liked it I met her in the street going upon her Devotions whether I had no mind to follow her and not having found two or three Ladies at home which I went to visit I resolved to attend her Majesties return in the Garden belonging to the Palace I had promised my Coach to a Friend of mine that Evening so that I dispatcht that away as soon as I was in the Garden and chusing the most private Walks I could find I entertained my self with solitary thoughts But Madam observe I beseech you the strangeness of my Destiny I was alone not so much as any of my Train at the Garden gate I was masqued and in that year which was 1310 they wore their Masques very little in France by accident my Husband and Colonna past by the place where I was and seeing me a personable Woman and walking alone in the Garden my Husband had a fancy to accost me he had never seen that Gown I was in at that time and he had left me in another when he came out so as not having the least suspicion who I was he began with a very high Complement about the Excellence of my Shape This Encounter seemed pretty I had a mind to divert my self with it a little and dissembling my voice as much as I could I pretended to be a Lawyers Wife of the Country who knew nothing of the Court and seconded Nogarets mistake so well that it never came the least into his head that I was otherwise than I told him He was in a mighty Rapture nothing but praises and protestations in his mouth He admired sometimes my shape sometimes my Neck my Hair was the finest he ever had seen my Eyes my Motion that little he saw beneath my Masque all excellent and all inchanted him Colonna thought good to pull him away by the sleeve and endeavour to break off a Conversation which he began to be jealous of already but he could not get him from me he would follow me to the end of the World he swore and to be short when he did go away at last he went away the most in Love of any man living Colonna lookt upon this Phrensie with compassion I heard him conjure him in Italian which your Ladiship perceives I understand in some measure not to concern himself with a Person which for ought he knew might be nothing less than what she pretended that Paris was full of such kind of Cattel which pretended highly to Innocence and prudence though they knew more Roguery perhaps than they that interrogated them besides he would make himself ridiculous to the whole Court if it should be discovered he had only spoke to the unknown Lady the little time he had spoke to her indeed but Nogarets Ears were deaf to all such admonishments He would have sworn by my Fashion and Meen I was as wise as indeed I was and being very importunate for liberty to wait upon me home that he might know where I lived I had need of all the Authority I began to have over him to oblige him to excuse me I told him I had a jealous Husband at home who would never suffer such persons as he to enter within his doors that I could not but judge of the effects I had produced in his heart by the respect he should pay to my desires that he
signified his Love to Calo-John The Father loving his Son even to Idolatry was so far from opposing his design that he sent Embassadours to the Emperour of Trebisonde to demand his Daughter for him and it was granted Emanuel was contracted to her and took her away with him to Constantinople where the Ceremony was to be consummate This Princess was beloved by the same Mammomas who made War upon her Father he had likewise demanded her in Marriage but was refused and upon that refusal he betook himself to his Arms. When he understood that to that rejection they had added the preference of another he addrest himself to Amurah II. whose Ally he was and who he knew watcht for an occasion of making War upon the Greeks he conjured him for his assistance and Amurahs Policy accommodating with the request he had a favourable Answer He dispatcht an Envoye to Calo-John to let him know that Mammomas had demanded the Infanta which was contracted to his Son that Mammomas being an Ally of the Ottoman Empire he was obliged to assist him and to look upon all such as Enemies that opposed his Designs This Declaration was as unjust as unseasonable Emanuel was to be preferred before his Rival in respect of his Dignity besides the Infanta was within two days Journey of Constantinople But the Power of the Turk being so terrible that the Emperour of Greece judged it his best way to treat him with all imaginable Civility He suspended the Marriage sent an Embassadour to Amurahs to represent the pretences of his Son and the Infanta being too far advanced to go back was conducted to Constantinople where she remained as in deposito till the Negotiation was ended Emanuel was much troubled at the protraction of his happiness nothing would satisfie him but he must have Troops assigned him to go and fight with Armurah he accused his Father of a compliance and condescension beneath his degree But his desires and his murmures were in vain there was no remedy but patience The Infanta who loved him as ardently as he loved her omitted nothing she could think of to comfort him in so tedious an attendance She discovered to him in her Eye the extreme tenderness of her Heart She studied his looks and indulged his desires as soon as she discryed them Of all the remedies Nature e're found Or Art to cure a pining Lovers pain None cures so well and closes up the wound So quick and safe as to be loved again Scorn or suspense to an inflamed desire Throw fresh supplies of fuel on it's fire He who be'ng lov'd does happ ' imself confess Ceases to love and spoils his happiness Just so it was with the young Prince Emanuel he began to be so accustomed to his felicity and so familiarly with her she became indifferent to him there must be playing at Cards a great deal of Company or some other diversion or he could not be kept a day together in his Mistresses Chamber when in the publick Walks the Princess according to her usual manner applied her self particularly to him Love had less share in his discourse than the fall of a Cascade or the form of a Statue The Infanta was not long before she discovered this Change but those who love exceedingly are apt to flatter themselves with the thought that they are beloved again though never so little The Prince having been one day two hours together with the Princess in the Gardens belonging to the Palace without speaking one word to her but of Flowers and Plants How long Sir said she smiling is it since you have been a Florist have you no other discourse to entertain me with but of them How would you have me entertain you Madam replied the Prince all my stock of Complements and Protestations are exhaust The Princess blusht at his answer but imagining the Prince said it only to sound her she replied I shall not run Sir into all the Traps that are laid for me and you may feign your self indifferent long enough before I shall believe it is possible I am not indifferent indeed replied the Prince I love you as much as I am capable of loving but all things Madam have their season the fears and the passions of other Lovers belong not to us you ought to believe I love you and I am very well satisfied you have no hatred for me you give me no occasion to be jealous and I do few things you are not witness to your self What is it then I should discourse of what have I else to say to you or what have you else to demand Why Sir said the Infanta interrupting him is it possible you should speak from your heart do not you find in your affections an inexhaustible bank of obliging things to say to me and can you who have triumpht and boasted of your great skill in loving well be ignorant that whatever is spoken by Lovers to their Mistresses is always accompanied with some new grace or other to recommend it You speak Madam like a Lady in a Romance replied the Prince and I should take great pleasure to read your Highnesses Maxims in a Book but to practise them I find very incommodious Believe me Madam we ought to love like rational Creatures take that part of it that is agreeable and leave the troublesom behind Fears and Jealousies and Emotions have had their time 't is but reasonable now that Confidence and Tranquillity should have theirs Ha! Sir said the Princess with tears in her Eyes then I see you love me no longer that confidence and that tranquillity you speak of are incompatible with true Love Alas Sir continued she if you be already come to the indifference and luke-warmness of a Husband before I am your Wife what am I to hope for when our Marriage is consummate Whether the Prince was not yet hardned enough to see the tears of the Infanta running down her Cheeks without compassion or whether the Title of unconstant gave him some kind of regret but he did what he could to pacifie his Mistress He conjured her not to frame Chymaeras to her self so repugnant to her repose he protested he loved her with as much ardour as she could desire But he being perfectly cured and Love having the only power to delineate it self there was not one action he did but gave his protestations the lye He became gallant and frolick among the Ladies he commended them for Beauties before his Mistress and as the highest instance of his tranquillity he neither observed the troubles which he caused nor apprehended what he did that could cause them The Emperours eye was not so dull it was not for nothing Nature had made him worthy of the sirname of Fair he had been always as subject to be in Love with other people as other people were to be in Love with him and though History represents him at that time sixty years old yet Age undertakes in vain to make defence Where Custom has
Parents or Relations to call him to an account he caused Feliciana to be removed to a Castle a few days Journey from Toledo The carrying her away made a strange noise in the Town â— Hypolita's Friends believed Don Garcias had caused it Don Garcias on the contrary who expected to find Alphonso in good Intelligence with Hypolita and was come thither to see her married was much surprised to hear News so contrary to his expectation he demanded his Son of Seigneur Cueva and old Cueva demanded him of him To explain the Intrigue the Governour attended for Alphonso but Alphonso did not appear considering therefore that he could not declare what he knew without discovering what he had a mind to conceal he resolved to say nothing and therefore leaving the Parents to dispute it among themselves he went himself to the Castle whither he had caused Feliciana to be conducted He had ordered her Womens Cloaths and Women to attend her and the Count found her as handsom a Lady as he had been a Cavalier He acquainted her with his intentions and telling her it was unreasonable so excellent a Person should be served only by a Lover that had been false he offered himself to repair the injury she had received from young Alphonso Feliciana trembled at his tydings but returned him this answer That she gave him many thanks for the Civility of his Offer but being come into Spain only in quest of her Alphonso she beg'd of him the liberty to pursue her design The Governour would not openly contend with her obstinacy he had a mind to be happy with as little trouble as he could He made several rich Presents to the African and she accepted them with scorn he shewed her the Rarities of the Castle and she seemed not to regard them he resolved to have a little patience and see how that would work and therefore returned to his new Government and leaving one of his Nephews called Don Ferdinand in Command he gave him express charge to have a care of her Person and so to prepare her with his Counsels that he might find her tractable at his Return He put his affairs into safe hands to succeed Don Fernand had been no less smitten with the sight of Feliciana than his Uncle the Count When he found himself Master of his Destiny he began to pay her such respects as were not at all compatible with his Commission he sighed he raved flew out so far as to make ridiculous Pictures of his Uncle and by degrees fell into expressions to this purpose that if he were in Love with Feliciana his thoughts were more innocent than his it was not long before he blurted quite out and told the African the whole bottom of his heart All Lovers in the World but Alphonso were indifferent to her the legitimacy of Fernandos desires were no advantage to him at all and she had no more inclination to be married to him than to be Mistress to his Uncle but judging very prudently notwithstanding that by opposing one of them against the other she might secure her self against both she pretended to hearken to Don Fernands Propositions and let fall some trisling Complacences on purpose A witty Woman is at no great expence to please a man that is in Love with her Fernand was extremely well satisfied with his good Fortune Feliciana prevailed with him to let her escape but upon promise to stay for him upon the Frontiers of Arragon where in a few days he ingaged to wait upon her and conduct her into France He had a great mind to have gone away with her from the first but she perswaded it would be more convenient for him to stay with the Count and to facilitate her Escape by perverting the Hue and Crys and sending them the wrong way The Project being laid with all possible deliberation and all things prepared that were necessary for its execution Feliciana resumed the Habit of her Cavalier mounted upon a Horse Don Fernand had given her and deluding the vigilance of her Women stole away one morning from her second Imprisonment to seek out a refuge for the innocence of her Love Don Fernand fastned a Cord to her Bed-Chamber Window that it might be presumed she had escapt that way he pretended to be infinitely concerned for her escape and for his better dissimulation he put himself in pursuit of her as if he had had an unsatiable desire to have recovered her He was but just gone out when Alphouso came to repose himself an hour or two in the Castle He had his reasons not to venture himself in the Towns and knowing the Magnificence of the Count d' Atrevalo he doubted not but a Stranger of his Garb would be well received in any place belonging to him nor was he deceived They entertained him very civilly appointed him to eat and Feliciana's Appartment being open and lying most conveniently the Steward attended the new Guest into her Champber There was a Picture of Feliciana's hung up in the Room exceedingly like her which Don Fernand had beg'd of her one time when his Uncle had sent Painters to adorn a Gallery in the Castle Alphonso was surprised at the sight of that Picture as is easily to be imagined Feliciana was drest in the Spanish Mode and that Dress disguised her a little but however she was discernable to Eyes less penetrating than a Lovers He was going out to inquire of some body whose that Picture was and how it came thither but in his perplexities he took one door for another and instead of going into the Antichamber which led to the stairs he found himself in a little Closet adorned with Pictures whose Frames of Wainscot were all covered over with Love-knots wounded Hearts and double FF these fancies augmented his astonishment and to carry it on to the highest degree he found a little Table-book lying open upon the Table and written as he conceived with Feliciana's own hand he took it up and read these Verses ensuing Ingrateful Wretch and perjur'd what can be Equal to th' guilt of infidelity What more transgressive to Loves laws what more ' Gainst Nature than t'forget what you have swore But hold fond Heart let not his present state Expunge the kindness he exprest of late Betray'd I ought but loving cannot hate And at the bottom of these Verses there was writ in great Characters THE PROFESSION OF AN AMOROVS FAITH This Title promised some rare and divertising Articles but Feliciana had not had time to write them and if she had Alphonso was in such trouble he could not have had the power to have read them He went down the first stairs he could meet with which stairs went directly to her Maids Chamber where by accident having taken Physick that day the Governess was in Bed She was an old Woman truckling under the burden of her age and yet seeing but a man come into the Room she skreekt out and hid her face under the
persecution to force him to a relinquishment of her that she had urged to him her Marriage with the Duke of Parma and prest him very hard to a reprisal but that understanding a while after she was a Widow he had escapt out of Prison and was come to throw that Prince at her feet who had not only loved her always himself but flattered himself with the thoughts of being beloved by her The Dutchess demanded if he loved her so well why he never writ to her I writ several times Madam replied he but Xerina without doubt who expected that from my ruine which she could not hope from my restablishment took such Orders to intercept them as never any of them could come to your hand My Captivity was very severe I was treated like one that was beloved but could get no liberty to free my self from the trouble of that Character The Dutchess of Parma overjoy'd with the relation of a Constancy so well represented made as many excuses as Congies to her mistaken Cousin She appointed him an Appartment according to his supposed Quality assigned him a suitable Equipage and furnisht him with grave men to send as his Deputies to the Estates of Portugal That Deputation caused a strange surprise as may be imagined They selected six out of their Assembly some of which had been Ministers to Don Sebastian and sent them into Italy to survey their dear Monarch their Eyes perswaded them it was he but not daring to relye wholly upon them they askt him certain questions they would have sworn none but the right Don Sebastian could have answered But he was throughly instructed by Xerina Love had transported the soul of the King of Portugal into that of the Princess of Morocco and by an effect of the same Love the soul of Xerina was transmigrated into the false Sebastian The Ambassadors convinced that no man living could have resolved those questions but the true Sebastian made their Report to the Estates he was undoubtedly their King The Competitors accused them of Treachery protested they were corrupt and demanded that Don Sebastian might appear in person at the Assembly of the States General to be formally interrogated before them Such as were affected to the memory of Don Sebastian could not be perswaded it could be done with security to him the Assembly was divided such as were for the King were called Royalists such as were for the Princes were called the League During which disorders he that was the cause of them had his Residence at Parma attending till there should be an Army raised to vindicate his interest at the Head of which he resolved to demand Restauration He ought his life to Xerina he was loved entirely by her and had loved her as well But the Princess of Parma ingaged the Princes of Italy in his quarrel and when the design of being King interposes in an Intrigue reason of State rules the roast and leaves all others in the lurch He sacrificed his gratitude to his ambition without any remorse and imploying those Lessons of kindness he had received from Xerina against her self he made them the foundations of that Complacence and artifice to which the heart of the Dutchess was forced to submit She loved him for his person much more for his quality she began to be jealous without knowing any reasonable grounds for her jealousie such passions as hers are seldom without great curiosity One evening when her counterfeit Sebastian was leading her by the side of a Canal which is one of the greatest Ornaments to the Palace of Farnese she spied a Ribband hanging out of his Pocket which she judged might be one of those Letter-cases called in Italy Cartero's she stole it out gently and having conveyed it into her own Pocket without being perceived she began to be impatient to be peeping She could not have had any thing more proper to have justified her secret suspicions than that It was a parcel of Xerinas Letters and Verses which the false Sebastian had found that morning in a little Cabinet he brought with him out of Africk and had put them in his Pocket with resolution to have burnt them but he was interrupted by the coming in of the Dutchess and this Walk having followed immediately upon the Visit he was forced to keep them in his Pocket till the curious Dutchess thought good to remove them She read two or three Notes at first which seemed to be nothing but assurances of the Sacrifice her Monarch pretended to have made to her of the affections of Xerina That Princess had complained of the unconstancy of his Love and reproacht him by his infidelity But she not having had always reason to complain there were Letters of his recriminating upon her They were all writ in Portuguese but one among the rest was sealed up which the tender Xerina had sent to her Ingrate some few days before his departure from Hoscore and contained a Paper of Verses upon their late difference so sensible and kind I could not but insert them Is it decreed then and pronounc'd above We must have no return no mutual Love Can't our old inclination and converse Which seems ought to make our absence long and fierce And seems t' assure me of your heart can't they Contribute and remove those blocks away My wrath ne're went so far I never meant When my rash tougue to your voyage did consent You should have t a'ne th' advantage e'en when I Felt my poor heart give my false tongue the lye In vain I seek thee now in places where So oft in Love to me thou didst appear In vain I seek thee where thou never wert Since th' day thou overcam'st my pride and heart No place escapes me but I think on you No place occurs but I expect you too Where-e're I come on whatsoe're I see I leave methinks sweet images of thee Which at my next return required they To my poor fancy as faithfully repay Each dream each sudden noise each thought in vain Seems to return my Love my King again I run where hope conducts deluded and Whate're I see I call Sebastian Come come cry I indulge my sweet desires Come where my Love come where my faith requires Rouse up thy dying flames try with what Art Pretended wrath new ardour can impart Wrath not allow'd in Lovers breasts to burn But to endear and sweeten their return Shall these complaints shall these requests which were But errours fruits vanish in idle air No without doubt Love will convey them so They 'l have access and influence on you Methinks I feel th' agreement of our souls And your kind Love your negligence controuls Methinks you'r weary too of our debate Let Love alone how to accommodate He 'l rectifie our quarrels let you see A thousand new complacencies in me Mine eyes I fancy will appear more bright Than when they first discover'd my delight And to consummate all you 'l love me too As well and long dear
Prince as I love you All this shall do you no good cryed the Dutchess of Parma when she had read them through I shall take such Orders your hopes shall evaporate But alas said she casting her Eyes upon such places as gave the strongest insinuations of Xerinas being beloved I fear it is too late and reading them again she stopt when she came at these In vain I seek thee now in places where So oft in Love to me thou didst appear This said she is not the expression of a despised Lover if it be true thou art so now it is no less true that thou hast not been so always that consideration representing Don Sebastian light and unconstant and apprehending the same levity of which she saw such fatal marks in the Princess of Morocco she suffered her self to be surprised by the most violent fit of sorrow she had ever been sensible of in her life As she was in the midst of these melancholy reflexions her false Don Sebastian entred into her Chamber he had perceived he had lost his Letters and suspecting what had really happened was come to make his Apology The first thing he saw when he came in was Xerinas Letters upon the Table and the Paper of Verses on the top and clapping his hand upon them Your charity sure is very small Madam said he to the Dutchess to expose the follies of a Princess whose Quality and Innocence deserved more compassion Conceal her extravagances I beseech you Madam I am much troubled they should fall into your hands I put them into my Pocket with design to have burnt them and kept them not only from your Eyes but from the sight of the whole World They have not been always so odious to you Sir replied the Dutchess and if I may conjecture from them I owe that to your Highness which I ascribed before to your constancy 't is not to the Love of me you sacrifice the Princess of Morocco 't is to the fickleness of that which you pretended to her and then shewing him the Verses she had markt Read Sir said she read here in what manner Xerina expresses her self and then vouchsafe to tell me how your return is to be called The Verses were exceeding tender and kind and must needs renew the impressions of sensibility in a heart which had been sensible before but nothing is so obdurately impenetrable as the heart which follows after a violent passion Sebastian concerned himself not one jot at what Xerina had written but applying his thoughts wholly to pacifie the Dutchess I never loved the Princess of Morocco in my life Madam said he to her if she fancied so her self and that imagination brake into these Verses it is but a vanity common to the greatest part of her Sex to which I have contributed no more than by an indispensable Civility But Madam in the case of your Marriage with the Duke of Parma it is not possible for me to flatter my self with that opinion 't is a thing palpable and constant and can never be excused Do not you upbraid me by my Marriage to justifie your own Levity replied the Dutchess Women of my Quality are subject to such Formalities as no passion can exempt us from I believed you to be dead and all Portugal bear me witness I never saw Duke Alexander till I married him But you Sir knew I was alive you knew where to address your self yet you did that by Election which I did out of obedience and constraint and if your heart hath been toucht for Xerina you are guilty not only of one single act but of a habit of infidelity Don Sebastian did what he could to expunge that fancy out of her mind he endeavoured to perswade the Dutchess that if people be found at their return as they were when they departed they ought never to be questioned about the interval The Dutchess did not relish that Doctrine she proceeded in her Jealousie multiplying her Chimera's till at last to rectifie all Xerina arrived at Lisbon This Princess receiving no tokens of her Servants remembrance and understanding by report how things proceeded in Portugal she obtained liberty of Muley to go thither her self to clear up those doubts which the Portuguez lay under And indeed she did clear them but in giving her reasons which seemed to be satisfactory that the false was the true Sebastian she discovered withal that her mighty Monarch was married to her It was happy for him he was departed from Parma when these tidings arrived had he been there the fury of the Dutchess would too probably have found out some fatal way of Revenge but by good luck he was gone to head those Troops his Friends had raised for the assertion of his interest Xerinas Title was indisputable she was contracted to Don Sebastian by the King of Morocco before the Battel of Tamista it was not to his gratitude to Xerina only the Dutchess of Parma ought to attribute his Treason for he had loved her Rival before she had saved his life and he which she mistook for Sebastian had married her afterward in the Province of Hoscore with all requisite Formalities nor could the difference of their Religions be any obstruction for Xerina had promised to turn Christian and performed as soon as she was landed in Portugal How could the Dutchess of Parma's fury be exprest when she understood all these circumstances Had he had but one fault to have been pardoned 't is possible Love might have obtained it But all ways of reconciliation were interdicted and that which rendred her indignation most just was that this false Sebastian had received a thousand innocent favours from her which this unlucky news converted into crimes Love effected that in her which it produces in most of her Sex she ran from one extremity to another and her anger being augmented by the consideration of her past kindness she sent on purpose to the States of Portugal to remonstrate that her new Sebastian was an Impostor that she had discovered it by several contradictions wherein she had surprised him and pretending a Voyage into Portugal with design to procure that Crown for the young Farnese her Son she came in person to Lisbon to incite Enemies against that Traitor Her fury was better sighted than her Love for 't is clear he demanded a Crown to which he could make no pretence but the Dutchess acted not upon that foundation it was Jealousie alone which infused her revenge and as the highest motive to her animosity she found the Princess of Morocco so exquisitely beautiful she could not but excuse in private that crime which publickly she endeavoured to punish This consideration excited her the more she was in a rage because she had no more reason to be so The Princess of Morocco discovered all her confusions and being together one day I see Madam said she to the Dutchess of Parma you will not have Don Sebastian true King of Portugal because he
cannot make you participate of the Crown but Madam I will expiate the infidelity wherewith you charge him by giving you the true Character of my Soul Imploy your interest to restore him retract those reproaches your unjust resentment hath diffused and I am content the Prince shall perform that promise he made to you formerly for I had rather see him in the Throne and flatter my self in private that owing me his life and his Crown he loves me at his heart better than her who would deprive him then to possess it quietly my self and apprehend whilst he is even in my arms his inclinations are somewhere else These generous resolutions being by publick Fame carried into his Camp the false Don Sebastian could not but resume in some measure that Love which his ambition had expelled He was advanced with his confederate Troops to that part of the Frontier which separates Portugal from the Territory of Oviedo he was forced to an Ingagement at that pass where fighting to make Xerina Queen as well as himself King his zeal made his Valour so inconsiderate he was taken Prisoner in the Combate and being conducted to Lisbon there was nothing discoursed of among his Competitors but chastising his temerity by some ignominious punishment The defeat of Tannista had not been so mortal but there remained some considerable persons who could give an account of the destiny of their King all of them affirmed they had followed him to the River Mucazen some that they saw him drowned and some that they ran great hazard of the same Fate in endeavouring to save him This report was nor according to what Xerina believed she had found her pretended Sebastian in the midst of the Battel and that which made most against him was that the habit by which the Princess described him did not agree with what the Portugal Officers assured he had on that day Nevertheless Nature had been pleased to put such a resemblance betwixt them and it was seconded so well by their Wit and their Courage it was not known which way to resolve the more this accident was examined the more intricate it appeared To deny the Crown to their lawful Prince was an unpardonable offence to prostitute it on the other side to an Impostor was no less unjustifiable But death fixt their resolutions for whether Policy of State lookt upon Don Sebastians Alliance with the Mores as dangerous to that Kingdom or that the Dutchess of Parma perceiving the States inclining to Don Sebastian found out some unlawful way of preventing the Triumph of her Rival so it was the counterfeit King dyed in Prison and left no small suspicion that his death was unnatural 'T is reported before he expired he desired to speak with Xerina and the last moment being an admirable Touch-stone to try the jugglings of a mans life he declared to the Princess of Morocco as is reported that he was not King of Portugal and conjured her not to enterprise any thing against him whom they should chuse after he was deceased This Declaration was no more than what was necessary for Xerina had a Son by him who would have been the occasion of very great disorders nor could he do all this without great testimony of remorse 'T is not one way alone Madam said he to the Princess in which I have deceived you for that part of my fallacy which made me your Husband I reproach my self not much I should have blamed my self much more had I neglected it being in my power as it was than I think my self culpable in accepting that honour But Madam that which sticks closest and gives me greatest regret is that for some time I have discontinued my affection and in hopes of a Crown which I never obtained and which by a thousand accidents might have been ravisht from me if I had have forsaken a heart all the Crowns in the World were not able to recompence Do not afflict your self with unnecessary compunction replied the generous Princess I loved the person of my Sebastian above the Dignities which surrounded him I thought to have found his person in you and those Charms wherewith I was surprised lost nothing of their Energy for not proceeding from a King I confess I should not have observed them in an ordinary person my Spirit and my Birth would not have permitted to have fixt my Eyes upon any less than a King But at length I became delighted with my errour for to a vertuous Woman the name of a Husband is so sacred it wipes away all spots that can possibly accompany it Let us strive to overcome your distemper my dear Prince Pardon me Fortune for giving him that Title said she with her Eyes up to Heaven thou oughtest to have given it though thou didst not and then turning again to her Beloved she cryed Force your self dear Sir out of the jaws of death if it be possible perhaps our Destiny may be kinder in Africk than in Portugal The supposed Prince was so strangely affected with this excess of Generosity his very transport was sufficient to have killed him He expired in the Arms of his over-passionate Xerina and her soul was in no small danger of bearing his company This man had abused her by a deceit insupportable to the Quality of a Princess and his subsequent inconstancy was more offensive than the other but Xerina had loved him entirely and let vindicative Ladies say what they please that person is never hated which was beloved heartily before They complain of their Stars they abominate their Influence and hate themselves many times for having so little discretion but this hatred indeed is but a Copy of their Countenance and never goes so deep as they would seem to pretend The Ideas of a man who hath been perfectly beloved ought always to be sacred No resentment can attaque them without Sacriledge and if any fury could be found so violent as to violate that Law she never was capable of true affection she loved to satisfie her own appetite and not only for Love Xerina observed the last orders of her counterfeit Sebastian with exceeding punctuality as soon as her sorrow permitted she retired into Africk and gave not the least opposition to Theodore Braganza who was elected King of Portugal I do not think the Reader requires further light in this Adventure I have inlarged it much to what it is represented in my History and I assure my self there are many who believe they have perused all the Memoires of that Age to whom this Princess of Morocco is every where a stranger except in the Annals of Love THE ANNALS OF LOVE THE EIGHTH PART MAhomet III. had three Sons by three different Sultanesses Mustapha whom he caused to be slain in his own time Jacaya whose History I am writing and Achmet who succeeded his Father in the Empire Jacaya's Mother was a Christian the Magnificences of the Seraglio were not able to eradicate the sentiments of her Religion She
no Rank or Quality so high to which Hope may not justly aspire The trouble which was but too visible in the face of Metzala whilst she was reading this Letter she gave the disguised Prince sufficient conviction how she was agitated within She changed colour every time and her heart forcing her to desire what her reason hindred her to hope she was preparing for great questions but had not leisure to propose them for a Lady of remarkable Quality came into her Chamber at the same time She composed her self as well she could and passing out of the Balcony to meet the Lady You may tell your Master said she to Jacaya when I have examined the Diamond his Letter speaks of I will give him my opinion as far as I have yet perceived it doth not answer his Character That Madam replied Jacaya is no wonder the stone is ill set and the Merchant said as perhaps you may have observed you must look further than ordinary to give it the true value Well we will see what it is replied Metzala making him a sign to be gone I shall not be abroad all day to morrow bring it to me again after dinner Jacaya withdrew after this Conference and the Polish Lady which came in being acquainted with the Amours betwixt the Ambassadour and Metzala she concluded the Diamond they talkt of was some new Present from him She took no notice of her stispicion to Metzala the friendishp betwixt them was not arrived at so high a confidence Their discourse were of the fashions of the times and such indifferent things but as the greatest part of that Sex are less frank and open among themselves than among men she was not so reserved with the Ambassadour as she was with his Mistress she went that very day to a Walk where she met with him she caused her Coach to drive as near him as she could and thrusting her self out of the Boot What do you do here said she smiling you are expected to recompense your late liberality Your Turkish Officer hath done his best to make her prize it had he been the Merchant himself he could not have said more of the Diamond The Polish Lord could make nothing of that Aenigma he would fain have had her explained it but several Coaches having interposed he could get to her no more He drove immediately to Metzala to inquire of her and very earnest he was to be resolved The Transilvanian smiled at his request pretending greater tranquillity than in justice he ought This Droll Hope brought me one of your Letters after dinner he makes always the pleasantest sport when he speaks of your passion he said your heart is a precious Stone with which a Queen would think her self honoured This Lady came just in as he was in the Panegyrick and heard that expression See I beseech you how fools may put wiser people into disorder and how unhappy we are that are forced to entertain them But the Polish Lord was not to be coak'st he did not take this shift of Metzala's as she expected it was a long time since he had been displeased with her courtesie to his man Hope I beg of you Madam said he do not use that Boy to so much familiarity Those kind of people are not born to be the objects of so much Generosity and what among us is but a natural Civility passes among them for a preference will make them insolent How can you admit such a Fellow as he into the particulars of your affairs If he brings you my Letters and returns your Answers I have taken care he shall do that faithfully but do not you Madam inlarge his Commission Metzala could not hear him speak so contemptibly of a person for whom she began to have a kindness without saying something in his defence She told the Ambassadour he did not know the treasure he had in Hope that he was a Servant he could not value sufficiently This discourse confirmed the suspicion of her Gallant and he could not conceal it for his heart Metzala found him injurious in his language his conversation anger'd her and some smart Reparties did pass betwixt the Lovers The Ambassadour was an old Fornicator had had more than one Love-quarrel in his time he understood the difference betwixt Choler and Choler He doubted not but Metzala's anger had a touch of infidelity in it He turned away Hope when he came home and caused it to be told him by way of charitable advice that if ever he came within Metzala's doors again he would meet with very ill Complements before he went away This way the true course to fortifie the inclination of Metzala's She apprehended by an excuse Jacaya fent her for not waiting on her any more what the Jealousie of the Ambassadour had done and what would otherwise have been a blameable condescension becoming now but a laudable compassion she was forced to make use of an undecent hour to inquire into affairs He was brought privately into her Chamber when she thought all her Family was in bed There was not an obliging word but her kindness dictated it to her Generosity she was in bed and Women which are naturally handsom are much better in that posture than drest Jacaya was importuned to explain what Metzala found obscure in her Letter he told her his Birth his Love to her and the desires of his Soul in words extremely suitable to his passion but his narration was interrupted when it was just at the best The jealous Polander had conceived shrewd suspicions of the truth All Metzala's Servants were at his disposition he caused them to be informed what it was he desired of their zeal Those who were thought fastest asleep were broadest awake and scarce was Jacaya got into the Chamber of his Mistress but the Ambassadour had notice and ran immediately with two or three of his Servants whither the Alarm invited At the sight of all that Company Metzala was strangely surprised she demanded of the Polander what it was gave him the confidence to come to her at that time a night and how long he had been accustomed to such Visits as those Do not you justifie your self to your new Gallant replied the Ambassadour with a tone of contempt my design is not to let him see your gate is open to me at all hours in the night I scorn to boast of a Conquest in which my Valet participates At that word he ordered those who came along with him to seize upon Jacaya whom he took for no better than his man Hope but he proved to be Mahomets own Son For catching hold of the Polanders Cimeterre wresting it out of the Scabbard and putting himself upon his guard he satisfied his Master it would be no easie matter to have his Orders obeyed Metzala affrighted at the action and apprehending for a man whose Extraction excused her resentment she leapt in a rage out of bed and cryed out for help An Envoy from