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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48269	The famous romance of Tarsis and Zelie. Digested into ten books. / VVritten originally in French, by the acute pen of a person of honour. ; Done into English by Charles Williams, Gent.; Tarsis et Zelie. English. 1685	Le Vayer de Boutigny, M. (Roland), 1627-1685.; Williams, Charles, 17th cent.	1685 (1685)	Wing L1797; ESTC R25799	390,801	342

penetrating and the most politick that ever was having had in his Life time even from the Queen some advice of what was projected after his Death was advised at my Birth to make me pass for a Boy which unto him was then easie the one and the other Sex being yet equally capable to succeed in the Kingdom For that end he even gave me the Name of a Man and made me be called Philitere as was he it is not but that he pretended still to dissemble that which I was He only thought that in the design that he had to oppose himself to that Decree his Opposition would be so much the more considerable then having apparently a Son he would appear disinterested and he dreamed that in all cases if he could not hinder it in the first Movements of the general Aversion that the People had against the Government of Ariane he could at least whilst he should have the Helm in hand find a day to cause it to be revoked His Stratagem had not neither the one nor the other the success which he imagined for he could neither hinder the decree nor being become King cause it to be broken It was then requisite to continue by necessity the disguising which had bin begun by Artifice and the better to succeed therein from the time I had a little Strength the King my Father caused me to learn all the exercises convenient for a Prince But as he judged well that the difference that Age hath accustomed to put between the Countenances of Boys and those of Maidens would not fail one day or other to betray his Intention and that the People would be astonished at the conclusion not to see born on my Cheeks the ordinary Marks which serve to discern betwixt both Sexes he feigned I know not what Accident by which he caused deafly and dumbly to sow a noise that they had bin obliged to abandon me to the hands of Chyrurgions and to reduce me to the condition of those People to whom the Persians do commit the Guard of their Wives and their Treasure The fair Queen could not speak this without using some violence to her Modesty and Pudicity and the redness which appeared in her Face finished the explaining to Philiste that which she would have her understood After that that Blushing had vanished away she thus continued her Discourse The King as I have told you did not however sow this Noise but confusedly and with some kind of uncertainty to sound and fathom only their Minds and Dispositions and to dispose them one day or other to receive it and believe it when it was needful for he was not ignorant that the major part of the Greeks have as much Misprision for or of these sort of People which I have spoken to you of as the Persians have them in Veneration They will have Kings which can be able to give them Successors and are ashamed to obey Persons whom they put in the rank of Monsters rather than among the number of Men so he would not hazard this noise with so much certainty but that he was still the Master to revoke or confirm it at his own Leisure Whatever it was the King my Father reigned peaceably enough during the first years and during the minority of a natural Son that a Brother of the deceased Queen had left but when the Son was grown greater some discontents were buzzed in his ears that the Kingdom appertain'd to him being Nephew of the Queen and my Father being but a Relation distant enough and as there was not a precise Law in the State by which Bastards were excluded from Succession he did so well that the Estates were convoked or assembled together to judge of this great difference The King my Father carried it but not by all Voices The Bastard Prince did not render himself to the Judgment of the States he would decide the question by force of Arms and as he had a very strong Party we saw our Army less than nothing at the Gates of Mitilene What say I he was Master almost as soon as he appeared there by the means of intelligences which he there practised and my Father who was not then mistrusted was reduced to fly from his Capital City It is true that it was not but to re-enter therein with more Honour afterwards for when he had had Leisure to Levy his Army he reconducted it before Mitilene in Person he there gave Battel to the Enemy and having vanquished them in the Combat he besieged him and took him in the same City After this manner all the War was ended in a very little time I pass over all these things lightly O Philiste not only by reason that that 's nothing but Wars which are not convenient for our Sex and where you could not take pleasure but also forasmuch as you undoubtedly know all that which passed there most memorable since that they were Telamon your Husband and Tarsis your Brother-in-Law which did them Philiste having replyed that she had heard them sometimes speak thereof but after a different manner I doubt not interrupted the Queen that their Modesty hath supplanted their Honour But it is however true wise Shepherdess that these two Brothers who travelled then being happy for us met in our Island and having offered their Service to the King bore up alone on a small Bridge the effort of a Battalion who had put a part of our Men in disorder and routed them and having given them time to rally themselves they were the cause of gaining the Battel This is not all in the Siege they were the first that ascended scaling and having cast themselves alone into the City as they say that Alexander the great formerly did at Tire they foiled the Troops destinated to the guarding and keeping of the Wall gave opportunity to ours to follow them and caused the taking of Mitilene Also there were not Honours enough by which the King attempted not to acknowledge due to their Valour and I remember for this Prince would that even at the Army I was always near him I remember I say to have heard him say that to pay well for such a signal Piece of Service it was requisite to offer them a part of his Kingdom He did all he could to oblige them to continue by him by the offer of the first dignities but all our Court had nothing capable to tempt them and I am not astonished for assuredly Telamon would have found nothing there in comparison with Philiste The Shepherdess not having replyed to this obliging Discourse than by a respectful Inclination of the head and by a modest Silence the Queen persisted thus the taking of Mitelene was soon followed by a ●reaty of Peace But alas the King did not long enjoy it for he dyed soon afterwards and left me in an Age young enough over burden'd and oppressed by the weight of all the Kingdom I was Crowned King of Lesbos without any

you are accountable for all your cares and steps to your Kingdom and that where ever you go you carry along with you the sole and intire Fortune of the Land of Egypt c. Pardon me my Lord if I presume to tell you of it would you not be ashamed unfaithfully to abandon your People in the self same moment that you have so solemnly engaged your self to them and think you that the Prince your Brother in quitting Egypt hath not left some seeds of Division there which will require your presence and all your cares to smother it But when or if all these Important considerations of Interest and Honour should cease after all what think you to do to go running at all Adventures for so I may say with your Eyes close shut after People whose path-wayes nor retreates you know not and which 't is possible will be at one end of the World when you go to seek after them in the other for in fine although they have told you that they are gone into the States of Lysimachus how know you it is not a false report by which they think to give you a change Dream not to retrieve the Princesses from out of their hands you possible will go and deliver even your self into those of your Enemies My Lord it 's much more to the purpose and for your dignity and love to send to all parts to seek out the Criminals and in the mean time to prepare Ships and Men to fetch them away by main force when you shall have learnt where they are and if it be then needful to chastize them as a King Philadelphe had much trouble and pain and was loath to yield for he could find and feel that his Princess had bin carry'd away and that it was needful that he should continue in the mean time at Alexandria However I made him at last consider the necessity so that he was contented to dispatch Men away to all Parts to learn news of the Princesses and of the Rovers but it was no of utility and behold wherefore The truth is that Ceraune had retired himself to the Court of the King of Thrace but he had not led there the Princesses for although the King of Thrace had espoused the Daughter of the first Wife of Ptolomée of whom I have spoken unto you and who was also called Arsinoe and that Lysimachus was consequently brother-in-law to Ceraune Nevertheless this same here did not altogether put confidence in this barbarous Prince who was naturally cruel and violent even to the utmost extremity as you know by too much experience So that before the leading away of the Princesses there he would make only a turn to Lysimachus where was the Court of Thrace in the mean time leaving Arsinoe and Antigone unknown in a City of Chersonese under the tuition and guard of Menelas without discovery to any Person whence they were But this Voyage was longer than he presently was aware of While he was in that Court he became in love of this other Arsinoe of whom I have told you altho she was his Sister by Father and Mother and Wife of Lysimachus and that Queen unworthy of the blood of the great Ptolomée having correspondence with this criminal and incestuous love they fastned together a Commerce which was plentifully fertile and abounded in all manner of Crimes I will not recount you the havock and violent Ravage they made the one and the other in the Royal Family of Lysimachus by the assassination and poysoning of many Children which remained born by diversity of Wives whom he had espoused That tragical history is too well known throughout the earth to stay me there I will tell you alone in few words that this wicked Woman fearing that Ceraune would not quit her in the end to return to his first passion caused to be robbed by Night from Menelas the two Princesses whom he kept caused them to be carried away from the Chernesesse where they were in an Isle of Pont Euxin and there privately shut them up without the knowledg of neither of Ceraune nor Menelas But she was soon punished by himself on occasion of him with whom she had committed so many Crimes For you know how Lysimachus having bin slain incontinently afterwards by Seleucus about the Subject of the Kingdom of Macedonia whom the first had usurped upon the young Antigonus Son of Demetrius and Seleucus having bin slain afterwards by Ceraune in an ambush which he had laid for him Arsinoe remitted imprudently not only a part of her Estates but her own proper Person and that of the two Children which she had by Lysimachus into the hands of her incestuous Adulterer That by this means Ceraune being made Tutor of these two Children declared himself Regent and in conclusion crown'd King of Macedonia and that he had scarce known that he should have more need of this Queen to reign but he despised her that their detestable union had this sad and dismal conclusion which never is wanting to punish criminal and disorderly Passions In sum Ceraune having then discovered the place where she caused these two Princesses to be kept Captives he resolved with himself to disintangle and rid himself of her and sent her to fetch the Prisoners The jealous Queen had no sooner advice and Intimation then she designed to prevent him She dispatched Assassines to go and cut the Throats of the two Princesses and prepared Poyson to defeat Ceraune but she was prevented by himself for he was as well skilled in the Operation and Effect and custom of Poyson as her self He therefore Poysoned her after he had cruelly Massacred between his Arms her two young Sons and on the other side he dispatched Menelas into Chersonese to deliver the Princesses and to bring them to Macedonia In the interim Ceraune conducted his Army against that of the Gaules who then made desolate the Frontiers of that Kingdom and there he fought that famous Battel where you know he was slain But I pass by all these things slightly and cursorily run over them because that besides those there arrived in a little time the great and suddain violent flash that they have made nor permits it any person to be ignorant of them and because that from elsewhere as they are arrived almost at your Gates you are far better instructed than my self I return then to that which passed in Alexandria and as the short way that we have yet to walk obligeth me to abridge my repetition content your self that I yet cut short off all these things how important soever they are and that in a few words It 's impossible for me to delineat or depaint unto you the Condition and State my poor Prince was in Ignorant where he lived during the time he knew not what was became of his Princess nor with how much Grief and Sorrow of Mind he saw himself confined and fastned in Egypt by a State and Condition that impeded him to