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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92767	A triumphant arch erected and consecrated to the glory of the feminine sexe: by Monsieur de Scudery: Englished by I.B. gent.	Scudéry, Madeleine de, 1607-1701.; I. B.	1656 (1656)	Wing S2163; Thomason E1604_4; ESTC R208446	88,525	237

have for Erminia I do not desire that he should forsake Clorinda's tomb to come and walk about mine if I happen to die before him No my pretentions are not so unjust if he die not for the sorrow of my death I will have him live and be comforted For in fine whether I hearken to reason or nature I finde that the love ought not to indure beyond the grave or after death The effect of this HARANGUE AS Tasso hath not told us whether Tancred were comforted and whether he had pity of Erminia so neither can I tell it you and because Arsetes was an ancient Domestick of Clorinda I dare not neither assure you whether he did agree to this Discourse You have the reasons of the one and the other Consider them at leasure and judge soveraignly if you are so bold as to judge of Queens and so dis-interested as to undertake it CARICLIA TO THE AGENES The Sixth HARANGUE The Argument WHen after the suffering of all those illustrious misfortunes which compose the Ethiopian History CARICLIA and THEAGENES beheld themselves on the Throne that lovely and famous Heroine in a particular conversation which she had with her lover recalled to her memory all her past troubles and comparing them to her present felicities it seemed to her that that pleasing remembrance did in some manner increase them So that in her transportation of joy she spake in this sort to THEAGENES to prove to him That those that never had evil do not know true pleasure CARICLIA TO THEAGENES IN fine my dear and beloved Theagenes we have run a glorious Race at the end of which we finde a Crown which is no less glorious 't is good to remember the storm when we are in a safe harbour and amidst the rest and tranquility of the earth with what pleasure we revolve in our minds the fury and agitation of the Sea Those images though troubled and tumultuous do nevertheless please the mind they are disordered and confused but t is delightful and as diversity is the greatest charm of nature those marvellous events which compose so intricate and cross a life as ours hath been never fails to excite joy in that soul that remembers its former sadnesse and misfortunes T is certain every thing appears best by their contraries and t is only by the opposition that their differences are noted and their advantages sensibly discovered The light owes its lustre to the shade and 't is from the night that day does draw its brightnesse the Sun makes known the splendour of its rayes by the tenebreous darkness t is the rigorous sharpness of the Winter that heightens the amiable sweetnes of the Spring the prickles makes the rose more esteemed and briefly t is from misfortunes without doubt that felicities do arise it being very true that those who have not undergone some evils can never truly know what pleasure is In effect those who have never had but fortunate adventures who never have proved the inconstancy of fate and whose most sensible contentments have never cost them a sigh nor made them shed a tear do possess them without being possessed enjoy them without enjoyments and make that an object of their froideur and disdain which might be the object of all the worlds desires They are rich and know it not they have treasures and cannot tell their value they have good things and do not tast them and their abundance makes them poor Such a long series of felicities does benum a soul rather than rouze it and the frequency does no lesse take away the delicacy of the pleasure than it does take away the sharpnesse of pain One is accustomed to a Scepter as well as to an iron chain the Throne is no better to those people than an ordinary chair and there are those that wear a Crown upon their heads who yet hardly know whether they have it on or are adorned with it or no. Those Princesses who being born in the purple and have alwayes worn a Royal Mantle who even from their cradles to their graves have alwayes stood under the Canopy of state within the Ballisters and amidst the Pomp and Majesty cannot compare their satisfaction to Cariclia's she who was expos'd at her birth she who was not known to any she who did not know her self she who was not adornd but with her natural graces and she in fine who from extream misery has past in a moment to the supreamest grandeur For my part I acknowledge to you Theagenes it seems to me that I have conquered the Kingdome which Fortune restores to me it seems to me that I hold it by my vertue and not by my birth and it seems to me that my merit has given to me all that which my love will make me give your merit Now as that which we gain by our industry or generosity is infinitely more precious than that which we hold from nature you must not wonder if I prefer a glory which hath cost me an hundred labours to that glory which others have without trouble and if I finde that t is only through difficulties that we attain to soveraign happiness No my dear Theagenes it has been by my disgraces that I have obtained my welfare 't was only by my banishment that I got your acquaintance and onely my leaving Ethiopia which saw my birth hath made the birth of my affection to be seen in the temple of Apollo at Delphus Thus cannot any deny but that my good hath proceeded from my evil and that my repose is sprung from my traverses Who would not have said when we left the Grecian rivage and that the Pirat Trachinus had made himself Master of our Vessel that there was no more any felicity for us Who would not have said when that Pirat became enamoured of me that we must have lost our reason if we had had the least hope left who would not have said when there rose so great a tempest that the waves lifted us even to heaven and afterwards let us sink again to the very center of the earth that the Sea was going to swallow us and that its fury was going to dash our ship against the points of the Rocks who would not have said when those infamous Pirats were arrived at the mouth of a great River and that they began a combat amongst themselves of which I should have been the prize that Fortune was going to decide their difference and give to one of the parties both the victory and Cariclia who would not have said seeing me upon that desert shore amidst so many slaine and clasping your wounded self in my armes almost as dead as they and you were that we were going to finde our graves on that part of an arm of the River Nylus called Her acleetick and that the illustrious race of Perseus from whom I am descended and the noble blood of Achilles from whence you sprung were at the point to perish inevitably in a savage

beams When he renewes the day he puts us in hope we shall quickly behold him by the proud preparation which fore-runs him and when he robs it from us he seems to assure us by the abundance of his riches which he imployes to paint the heavens with Roseat shaddowed gold and with all the colours the most lively and others most shady that his absence shall not bee long and that in few houres we shall behold him again as bright as ever Acknowledge now shepherd by this weake draught I have traced that there is nothing in Rome which is so handsome as this which I have represented to you Yet this is not the onely thing that renders our habitations pleasing there are places into which the sun never comes and yet they give delight we have Grotts sunke so deep into the concavity of works that the day hardly arrives there and the night who mingles her sable complexion with his luster is never quite banished thence They are onely tapistred with mosse and yet the silence and coolnesse which one meets creates a pleasure There are muses with tranquility and with sweetnesse and if one were alone in Nature may peaceably enjoy all the charms of solitude At the going forth from thence you shall alwayes find a fountain whose water is so pure it permits through its streams to behold the diversity of pebles which are in the bottome of its bed It makes but a weake murmur fitter to rock asleep with voluptuousnesse than to keep awake with anger The waters which flow thence from a rivulet which serpentinely creeps with a soft tread amongst the pebles reeds and flowers till it steals into a mead where confounding it selfe amongst others which likewise moisten it they unite and with their mingled waters make a great and large river whose stream and brink cause a new divertisement and whose purity without doubt ought to be more gratefull to the sight than the muddy waters of Tyber Now if from these peaceable beauties you will passe to those whose charmes are mingled with I know not what that 's terrible and which strikes a horrour in their divertisements we have fearfull precipices we have rocks whose heads do reach the heavens and from whence such furious torrents descend that their fall makes as great a noise as the thunder or the Sea One would say that they are mountaines of snow precipitating themselves upon one another so much those waters foame and to see them rowle and bound with such abundance and impetuosity would make one beleeve they would overflow the whole earth Neverthelesse they are no sooner disgorg'd into a gulfe which is at the foot of that rock whence they Issue but they hide themselves in the cavernes to go and render their tribute without doubt to those from whence they proceed Going from thence shepherd shall I conduct you into one of those medowes where we find a large tapistry of different flowers that overspreads it where you may see a hundred cristal springs where on the one side is seen a delightfull river and on the other many willowes Alders and Lote trees which by their shadow make their sweet abode pleasing though the sun scorch all besides and invites the shepherds to sleep securely But perhaps you will not stay so long le ts go then shepherd le ts go into one of those forests whose obscurity silence and antiquity seems to imprint respect in all those which walk there If that shady forrest were at the gates of Rome it would be filled only with theeves or fugitive criminalls whereas here we shall find none but staggs hinds roe-bucks and deers you may guesse also by their numbers that we do not often make toiles to catch them and you shall see by the small care they take to hide themselves that that place is a sanctuary for them All those great spaces whose deep shade is such that in the day you can hardly distinguish colours and where one may almost doubt whether the foliage be not black rather than greene are not yet destitute of somwhat wherewith to divert the mind and sight of a melancholy shepherd and when by some windowes where the trees are less thick the rayes of the sun appears and dissipates a part of that pleasing night there was never any thing so lovely as those long twists of silver beams which seeme as if they would force the obscurity to yeild place to light One would say by the agitation of the leaves that they presse together to hinder its entrance but the more the wind makes them tremble the more easie passage do they give to those enemies of darknesse Going from this Forrest will you let me guide you to the brink of a great pond whose tranquility seldome failes to give rest to those minds which do but stop to admire its beauty Zephirus only curles its billowes and he stirs them so softly that one may with ease behold all the fishes which are at the bottome of those waters as clear as they are smooth Some of them swimming with precipitation to seek their food the others bound and raise themselves above the water and others more timorous runne to hide themselves at the least noise they hear If from the bottome of this cristal you ascend to consider its surface you shall behold it all cover'd with swans admire Shepherd the whiteness of their plumage the gravity they keepe in swimming and the noble pride which still appears in their looks would one not say they despise all they look on and would not one Imagine also that at some times they have a designe to please when they make sails of their wings only to delight and swim about only to be admired Ha Shepherd how farre are the inhabitants of Rome from these innocent pleasures and what delights does their troublesome life rob them of Neverthelesse I am not yet at the end of the description of the places we inhabite I must needs lead you up one of those great mountains from whence at once we discover the Rivers Forrests Plains and Pastures where the sight is so unlimited that the objects may seeme to steale from our view by their great distance and the skie to kisse the furthermost parts we behold But perhaps you do not love an object of such a vast extent let me then shew you the way on our banks and in our valleys that so I may make you acknowledge that their fruitfulnesse should be preferred before the sterility of Romes seven hills Those little corners of earth are so much favoured by heaven that they seeme to be ever sheltered from all the injuries of the ayre the wind does hardly breath there the hayle does not destroy the vines the greene is eternal and I truly believe that if one should not manure them the Sun alone would produce and ripen all what ever Agriculture brings forth elsewhere not without much trouble and care Now that we may not yet forget that which makes the