feel I know not I know very well that I am not the cause of this my diseases Effect No discontent afflicts me but that which proceeds from your Majesties Affliction My indisposition I hope will not encrease and perhaps the change of Air would do me much good if your Majesty were so pleased I am of opinion that the Air of Laodicea would help me very much as well for the beauty of the Scituation as the Curiosity I have to see a City built after your minde of which I hear wonders But I would not have with me there the Court My pleasure would be to go thither onely with those Lords which would please most your Majesty I am most willing replyed Seleucus to let thee go to Laodicea and I will send thee with that Honor that is fit for thy Person But why dearest Son art unwilling to have me go with thee Who better then I can have a care of thy ease and provide for thy necessities And why wouldst thou at any time desire me to suffer by staying far from thee when thou art sick I will come then likewise and my coming shall not displease thee But Antiochus replying that he requested him to let him go alone and that there was no such danger in his sickness that required the Person of his Majesty and that if he went he would consequently draw after him all the dispatches and affairs of the Kingdom so that in stead of enjoying a calm tranquillity he should be subject to the Tumults of that concourse of People which always the Court carries with it so prevailed that the King was somewhat satisfied and said he would consider a little of this resolution and do afterwards what he should be advised to for the best So they continued and Seleucus fell presently to ordering those things which seemed to him necessary not onely for the conveniency but the delight of a voyage and his abode in the City He first of all ordained so ample and numerous a Court that it envyed not the greatest Eastern Kings He allowed the Prince Gentlemen Overseers and Counsellors He declared him supream Governor of the Province and City of Laodicea He sent Letters to Doride a Castle seated on the bank of the River Licus That they should have in readiness with all speed five and twenty convenient ships for from thence to Laodicea they were to sail on the said River He then selected forty men famous in all Professions to give him entertainment and cause him to spend vertuously his time He gave him Hermogenes and Carneades the best Physicians of the Kingdom to the end that they should be continually assistant to his Person and lastly he made him a stately and an abundant provision of Moveables and Moneys He then frequently consulted the chiefest of the Court if he should let Antiochus go alone or rather accompany him and assist him It was decreed that since Antiochus desired to go alone his desire should not be crost lest his sickness should grow worse That therefore two Posts should always be kept going to give the least notice of his health Antiochus in the mean time like one that is condemned to dye when he heard any noyse in order to his journey felt his blood freize and his Vital strength fail him He would have departed alone with his Fancy and willingly have staid with his Body to adore Her that hated Him These desires passed through his minde but made no stay there As soon as he perceived them he did a thousand contrary actions and compelling the very same desire reduced it to desire his departure with violence O Tumults so much the fiercer and more to be deplored by how much they are heard to make a noyse in the Republick of the Heart So it comes to pass that he makes a War with his Senses to tame them who because he hath been too indulgent to them comes to lose the dominion he had over them Antiochus looked sometimes in the glass not to court his Face but to see in his Countenance as it were in a living Dyal what Figure the hours of his Life were still at To see buried his lively Looks in the double grave of his concenter'd Eyes and perceive in the barrenness of the mountainous place of his meager Jaws the freshness of his Cheeks caused it cannot be denied in the unfortunate Lover those Motives of sorrow which Nature cannot choose but be sensible of when she sees her self decay by little and little But drawing from the centre of weakness that force which is the inseperable companion of a generous Minde he joyfully smiled at the sight of his miserable Image comforting himself not a little that from the yellow colour of his face he argued that his Death began to vary The Physicians hastned his departure to change Air for they every day saw him irrecoverably grow worse He himself because he knew he went to die and desirous to die as soon as he could solicited the necessary things though he could scarce stand on his Legs At last the day before that of his journey being come he was not wanting to disquiet himself at the rising of the Sun which enlightned to speak so the vigil of his death He made himself remember how that Light was the last which he should ever see under his Fathers roof And as one who was sensible in his Heart that he was dying he called all the Family to him which served him in the Court to every one of whom as it were in the nature of a Will he began to bequeath Moneys and give Rewards Both Sexes wept bitterly with a melting Affection to see with what love their afflicted Prince by dispencing his gifts took his leave of them That day all the Court was as sad as if one of the greatest of the Kingdom had been dead Seleucus the poor King although it mis-became his royal Grace could not forbear weeping in that common Affliction The Cup of an Eye is too narrow a Vessel to retain the Tears which the grief for a Son does afford His Physicians and Friends were not wanting to comfort him and perswade him to the hopes of his recovery and welfare but he either resolved not to give credit to their Promises or had not the patience to expect the Fruits of them Now the amorous Prince had spent all the day in taking his leave of his Friends and the Ladies He was onely to be dismissed by his Father and his fair cruel Mother But knowing that both the one and other would accompany him the day following a little way out of Damascus he retired into his Lodgings no less weary of what he had done then dejected with melancholly There the unfortunate Prince recollecting well himself fell a thinking in what a sad condition he was and when he had been a good while immoveable he brake out sighing Go to poor Antiochus this is the last Evening Be thankful to the Gods for all the favors
matter provided that I had not wanted the second To be born in Apelles his time and painted by him is to have as it were the priviledge of being twice born That Being which Apelles hath given me envies that of Jupiter because it hath no life that envies this because it is not subject to death The Ambassadors taken up with such like thoughts said 'T was happier to be a Picture and have always the sight of Stratonica then a man and not present in that place Man hath no happier Deceit to feign himself a Deity then the Art of Painting It is a glorious thing to know how to make a Body it would be more glorious to know how to form a Soul but if the Soul were a visible Object so much imitation hath intrenched on sacred things the Painter would give life to his Pictures But the Ambassadors returned to Seleucus among the most memorable things they had seen in their journey related to him the story of that Picture The King beleeving what they said in the praise of Stratonica's Beauty and enticed with the Fame of Apelles his Art was presently on fire for the same A Gentleman to that end was dispatcht to the Painter with order to pay him for that piece any sum he should demand provided he would part with it Apelles as soon as he had heard what Seleucus desired much lamented his ill fortune which always endeavored to deprive him of so precious a Jewel In the end having very well considered what was best to be done he refused the Money and delivered the Picture It is needful to sell dearly to Princes or to give freely to them the first is more secure the latter would be Nobler if many great persons hated not the actions in private men which having more of greatness then the state of a private life requires resemble the actions of a Princely Minde The Picture being come to Seleucus his hands it is impossible to describe his astonishment at it Those Eyes and that Face which were nothing but shadows joyned together darted such a light on the old mans Minde that they dazled his Reason and inflamed his Heart Seleucus grown a Lover what childish things fell not he into what indignities did he not commit Made an Idolater of a Goddess more conceived in Opinion then Essence while he adored the Copy he sighed for the Original He spake to himself and had no Body with him at that time when his business gave him leave to be alone he beheld it reverenced it kissed it being onely so happy in his unhappiness as he could when he pleased satisfie himself with those shadows of Beauty which in being onely shadows were extreamly like Beauty Having thus with the memory of Stratonica oftentimes an occasion of remembring Demetrius and thinking very seriously on the credit and glory he had purchased in the Wars he resolved for the love of his Daughter or as Plutarch rather sayes to strengthen himself with a potent Kings friendship To request her in Marriage Ambassadors being therefore dispatcht to Demetrius he expected the issue of the Embassie with great uncertainty of Minde Demetrius was a very wise Prince though lascivious And though he was then in that condition that it seemed easie to him to aspire to the Empire of all Asia yet considering that nothing was less certain then Martial Expeditions he neglected not the means to fortifie himself with that assistance which he judged to be best against the assaults of all sudden Accidents whatsoever Having therefore understood the Kings minde he not onely was well pleased with the offer of his Alliance but likewise resolved to conduct the Bride himself into his Kingdom The Ambassadors returning to Seleucus with so fortunate an Answer so transported him with joy that he was almost distracted He no sooner had heard that news but he was all a fire to celebrate the Nuptials He therefore gave order to Antiochus his Son to prepare himself speedily with the greatest Princes and Lords of the Court to be gone towards Bursia and from thence to accompany Demetrius and the desired Stratonica Antiochus who was a youth of great hopes and of an age ripe for marriage without doubt seemed fitter for that match then Seleucus but he that with the colour of his hair had not changed yet the vigor of his minde being still in an age that could command in Loves assaults and preferring his own pleasure before his Sons would have her for himself All things being ready Antiochus departed with a very good attendance of the noblest of the Kingdom and carrying with him very fair Presents in less then eight days arrived in Bursia Demetrius who then was come back from the Expedition against Ptolomy there received him with great Demonstrations of kindness and presented him to Stratonica who was lodged in the end of the Pallace His Reception was glorious and the Complements which passed between them confirmed their affection and mutual Devotion The eyes of the Prince which were eager in gazing on Stratonica's face should in reason have caused a sudden fainting in his heart yet his inward alteration was not great were it that Antiochus being yong and not knowing the true value of Beauty was not ripe yet for Love or were it as 't is more credible that Love being to win him by little and little could not with those first flashes kindle a fire which could be perceived All Demetrius his Court was full of joy for so great a Persons coming and many Shows and Feasts were ordained in the City to entertain him the more honorably While they were thus employed in Bursia Seleucus who had no other life but what the hope gave him of soon being in his Mistrisses arms solicited with frequent and indefatigable Posts Antiochus his return The hours of the day too too fleet and soon gone seemed Ages to him He was offended with himself that his Scepter wanted Power to invert the Motions of the Celestial Machines to make that Day instantly come which was to illuminate his Nuptials They are extream in their affections who are in the extremity of fortune A Prince that resembles a God is angry to do things like a man He thinks it a defect if his Power be not as ready in performing as his Will is in desiring whence running to the end of his desires the shortest way he invades and overthrows oftentimes all the humane and sacred respects which do thwart him In the end after three Moneths which were spent by Demetrius in preparing all things needful for the Voyage and expecting a time fit to sayl in he departed with Fila his wife Stratonica and Antiochus and arriving at Nicomedia where a gallant Navy was in order for that purpose he embarqued himself for the coast of Soria 'T was then the Moneth of June from whose serene Majesty the fearful Winds flying durst build no more clouds in the Heavens nor erect any Waves in the Sea The Fleet sayled on
with a very stately Sight On one of the four sides on a Table of Silver was erected to the middle of the Wall a very great and clear four-square Looking-glass which resembling a calm Sea bounded with the Ethiopian shore of a transparent Ebony invited all the Faces and Species of near Objects to fail on its Bosom Now while Stratonica the King and many other domesticks which coming from their Chambers had assembled there themselves stood discoursing on the rest they had taken the night past the Queen who was afraid to be observed by her Husband if too often as she otherwise would have done she had fixed her Eyes on her beloved learned to look kindly upon him by stealth in the Image which the Glass reflected of him so while she was secretly delighted with his sight Antiochus by chance casting his eyes up and down found the Queens fixed on him But who can now repeat the great force of that encounter of their looks And how significant was that sudden correspondence of their eyes It was the Work of an Angel that she in an instant assured reproved and encouraged the enamored Prince If thou doubtest that I love thee he thought that those Eyes said to him if thou doubtest that I love thee O Antiochus behold this my Soul which wholly contracted in the little circle of a covetous Apple of the Eye hopes onely to be helped by a dying Aspect To assure thee of my Love me-thinks the many signs thou hast had of my Affection should suffice thee But since thou wouldst never credit them nor beleeve the last Nights Vision wilt thou credit this Glass Ah see Antiochus see that I love thee The Eyes are the Wonders of the Face and dark Figures of Divinity We may call them too the Dyals of Love which fastned on the Wall of a Countenance shew with the Style of their Looks the minutes of hours either happy or unhappy to Lovers They shewed Love-sick Antiochus that infallibly from that Moment by assuring himself of Stratonica's Affection he burnt in that maner that his Flame was almost after past extinguishing The second Book NOw the Heart of Antiochus was combustible Matter The form of that Look so kindled the Fire in his Bowels that he being unable to contain it intirely in his Bosom it likewise fell to flaming in his Face Philosophy hath no Secret that is able to repress the first Passions of the Minde They invade with that violence that they tyrannize Poor Lovers amongst their Miseries count not for the least that of Blushing and frequently growing Pale because in the colours displayed on their Cheeks by their Minde they cannot help declaring those Affections which they would most conceal But Nature that hath contracted the universe in man hath placed in his Face the eccho of his Heart Antiochus his blushing made Stratonica blush too for she could have no sign that he was aware of her Affection without being ashamed The Prince therefore taking notice that his stay there was dangerous to that Secresie which he too much had professed in all his Actions he took his leave of her and running like a wounded Stag took covert again in those Chambers which considering the green Pictures and Tapistries differed in nothing from Forests but in that they were Painted There transported in an amorous Extasie he frequently lay in the trance of a thousand Delights Between him alone and his heart was the Conference which in cases like this is easier phansied then described He was so well pleased with himself that he seemed a Courtier complementing with a Friend All that while his fair Mother-in-law was no less pleased then he onely she could not have the liberty to perfect her Joy by reason of her Ladies attendance who were always waiting on her But they limited the Violence of their Joy with a reciprocal Desire of reseeing one another that Morning before they went to Dinner to return to the Cement of those Looks with which their Souls had begun to be acquainted So when the inundation of Blushing had ceased in Antiochus his Face he went out well composed and being come thither where he had left Stratonica before he found her standing there and reading certain Letters from her Father which she newly had received Days which begin luckily seldom end unhappily Disasters and Joyes use commonly to come single The beginning it seems infuses certain Qualities into things with which it does either vivificate or infect them It was a day of Felicity to the two enamored Princes It began with the Private and was to conclude with the publike Joy The said Letters brought advice That Demetrius having caused Alexander the Brother of Antipater to be slain who lay in wait for his life was by the Macedonians the deceaseds Subjects saluted for their King and conducted into Macedonia Stratonica very glad of the news gave order that Seleucus should be called in all haste and in the mean time communicated it to Antiochus with so pleasing a Countenance that in it he had more things to read then in the Paper The yong Prince transported with the joy of that pleasant gesture if once he looked down on the Letter often lifted up his eyes to look the Queen in the Face In the end having heard what the Letters contained he cryed out and expressing great contentment said to her I wonder not Madam that Kingdoms owe their Being to the valor of your Father I wonder that the Subjects of slain Alexander knew not how to revenge their Kings death but by giving the Crown of his Kingdom to his Murtherer Indeed I confess dearest Prince answered Stratonica That if this news had not been written to me by my Fathers own hand I should not have beleeved it howsoever the stranger it is the more it hath replenished me with Joy From whence replyed Antiochus we onely may argue That King Demetrius his Merits are so eminent that Fortune afraid of their greatness hath turned into peaceable Scepters their vindicative Swords and changed Blood-thirsty Wars into Vassallages full of Devotion If therefore his Friends and his Servants are bound to rejoyce for his Victories I amongst them all who am the most obliged to him as well for his Valor as the Interests Madam which I have in your person cannot do less then kiss your Hand to shew you my Gladness And bowing himself he desired to kiss it But Stratonica making a pleasing resistance very cheerful and smiling returned him this Answer Prince I will never permit you to be so obsequious to me I am very sure that your Joy for my Fathers prosperity equals mine wherefore it is unnecessary for you to assure me of it otherwise then you do by your Countenance But Antiochus persisting in his desire to kiss her Hand at last overcoming her kissed it I beleeve O Antiochus the Repulses of thy beautiful Queen were the usual tricks of witty women Peradventure for the sweetness of thy kiss she wished then her
of all the handsomest Women that had been or were to be in the World were exposed to view Among them by chance turning my eye I perceived a Ladies Picture who was and shall be the first and last flame of my Heart whose Eyes although they were painted being fastned on mine I thought said to me Behold me O Climenes thou knowest in what maner I was killed and I know how much my Death hath been pitied by thee Be confident That albeit I am in the other World I will not fail to love thee as long as I shall have my Being How sensless I was at the Sense of those words your Highness may imagine My Heart had not a Vein which converting it self into a River of Tears ran not emptying it self at the Flood-gate of those Eyes Mirtenia who saw me on the sudden become all a Deluge being unable to penetrate the cause of so strange a Sorrow anxiously asked me What Accident had the power to alter me in that maner But the frequent Sobs not permitting me to speak a whole word I informed her as well as I could That I desired to go out of that Room as soon as was possible and out of the whole Pallace likewise I had scarce said that but I was I know not how at the mouth of the Cave where we had left the Servants Mirtenia there asking me again very earnestly of the cause of my Weeping I answered her onely That this was a Disaster which used to befal me since I had had a very great Misfortune at the time my Mother died She falling to comfort me as well as she possibly could endeavored to make me merry and drew all her Lines to this Centre to gain my Affection I who had engraven in the sensiblest part of my Heart the Looks of that Picture which had represented to my memory the Being of my Mistress the more I saw my self made much of by Mirtenia the more loathed her Love Whereupon she perceiving my Ingratitude when we were returned to the City and being perswaded that all did proceed from my Love to Gloricia bewitched her to Death then killed my Father and confined me to the straights of a Bed where I endured such diseases both in Minde and Body that it was an Excess of Heavens Miracles to preserve me alive At last when Mirtenia had seen that I could by no means be induced to love her she sickning of Madness died desperately soon after So after many Troubles and many Moneths being recovered of my disease hating that Climate under whose Influences so many Disasters had befaln me I resolved to leave Cyprus and when I long had wandered through several Kingdoms I came lastly to this Court This Relation was a Lecture to the Prince of the Calamities of this World He repondering to what Miseries his Condition was subject whose Ruines were designed by Fortune and Love bewailed his own Disasters in the Misfortunes of Climenes And when he had expressed the Consolation he had felt by knowing some success of his Life Since he said to himself we must live if Life be an hostage why trust we Fortune with it to give her assurance of all that which her Cruelties will have I before was resolved to die to free my self from the Torments of a desperate Love Now I am resolved not to live to be quit of the Troubles of a pitiless Fortune Le ts die O Antiochus what can at all adventures be hoped for of a Womans Inconstancies And if the flames of a gentle Feaver and the weakness of a long Extenuation are unable to kill us let us adde a forbearance of Meat So spake Antiochus and so cunningly he prepared himself to perform his Resolutions that hiding his determined Fast under the pretext of having no Appetite he seemed to be pleased with nothing because he would not be constrained to eat any thing It was then the Moneth of January masked like April whereupon all the Lords of the neighboring Pallaces being perswaded no less by the Beauty of the Season then Stratonica's commands came to dwell in Elysium The Court and Conversation being multiplyed by that means the Nobility studied nothing else but the inventing of ways to recreate the Prince Every one supposed that some sudden Pastime would more vigorously awake in Antiochus his lull'd-asleep Mirth and that a Ball which owed its beginning to nothing but Harmony might mitigate with its Motions a diseased Hearts Sorrows But yet this Resolution was not so concealed but it came to the Ears of the disconsolate Stratonica When she heard of the leave which the Gentlemen asked him to bring their Ladies thither going together with the King to Antiochus his Bed she conferred with him about the business and desired him to be pleased that the Banquet might be kept in his Chamber He who by the greatness of his sickness was not so estranged from himself as not to comprehend what degree of malignity his condition was arrived at which made use even of Feasts for the increase of his Melancholly when he saw that to deny his Consent was to displease his Friends shrugged patiently his Shoulders and intimated to the Queen That they might do there what she pleased Leave being obtained in this maner the jolly Assembly delayed not to crowd themselves together within the Princes Room The Ladies appeared in the most extravagant Fashion that their Glasses could advise them unto The Gold and Gems which by reason of the Torches blazed within their Cloaths increased the splendor of their Faces and took away the light from others Eyes A sight miserably fortunate to whose testimony even the brightness of the Lights was a Lyar. And who could with reason commend that Pomp for Beautiful which judged to be guilty by it self they saw tyed in Chains and stoned with Jewels Many of the Ladies as enemies to mankinde being angry that Nature had not imparted that Beauty to them which they would have had martyrizing with Curling-Irons their Hair and poysoning with Sublimate their Cheeks had resolved to kill whosoever beheld them Now when they had taken their places in order to their Quality they heard the Air beaten with very pleasant Musick by a regulated Confusion of several Instruments A Ball is the Feets sensuality It is raised with noise and evaporates with weariness Nature that is the beginning of Motion would not enrich the Head so with Sense as to leave the Foot quite deprived of it Even this takes its time to be Luxurious neither is there any Itch that more foments Luxury then a Ball. It can confirm Love with a fortunate Madness among its changing Motions and unite the Will with the measure of short Distances The Lovers danced being onely then happy with their Mistresses because they did exercise the Acts of Inconstancy They might call the Dance their Benefactor for they received not greater favors of any other action then that To have the means of seeing of speaking to and touching the
hand of their Mistress they could not but esteem a great happiness but to be bowed to by her and invited to move to the very same Motion with her they could not but esteem the greatest happiness But the Queen who together with the King was exposed to a tryal by sitting over against her Antiochus being much more observed by Licofronia then she willingly would have been could not feed her Eyes at Pleasure with that paleness which rendring compassionate the Countenance of the Prince was made the dearest Mark of her looks Yet who can relate with what affection she sent out at that time a sprightly look to discover by stealth in Antiochus if he yet was aware that she would not any longer make use of that severity which for the rigid Nurses consideration she had many times practised against him The poor sick Prince reduced on the one side to behold himself before that Beauty which always with too eloquent a Tongue did dictate tacite perswasions to his heart on the other necessitated to contemplate the Countenance of his Father who with very great compassion of his sickness informed him how unwilling he was to offend him did not know though he was resolved to dye to what determination to revolve the sum of his resolutions Climenes the stranger was seated at the Feast near Hermogenes He whether it were by the power of Sympathy or desire for some secret end of his to intrinsecate himself in the Physicians affections had before laid with him the foundation of a very firm friendship Being therefore asked by him whom he saw in a brown study What think you on he said unto him O Climenes are Feasts furthered with thoughts I thought answered the Gentleman that he who would aptly represent this Noble Assembly could compare it to nothing but a perfect Sphaer Behold the Primum mobile which as nearest Eternity is constituted of a Circle of the oldest If you ask for the Heaven of fixed Stars see the Ring of the Yong men If that of the Planets behold the Orb of the Ladies If the Earth behold the space where they Dance If the Changes of Fortune see the Ball. And if lastly O Hermogenes you desire to see Mirth there look on Stratonica If sorrow behold Antiochus Indeed to have Conceits of the Stars replied Hermogenes you could not choose any other Subject but Heaven Howsoever I wonder not That he who has a Chrystalline Sky in his Brain should discourse of the Sphaers as of things which he well understands I allow replyed the other That I have a Chrystalline Sky in my Brain if it be true that the Chrystalline Sky being a Place replenished with Divinity hath nothing for its Object but Beauty And how is it possible for me to have no Conceits of the Stars in the Presence of so many Suns And when he had made here a beautiful Catalogue of all those Ladies which seemed to him to be admired above the rest he canonized with the Authority of his own Eloquence the other Beauty's Miracles So they discoursed together when a Tumult on the sudden arose which was not understood and disordered the Feast Every one being amazed looked stedfastly towards the place from whence the noise came and they saw that the Gentlemen confusedly rising up ran towards the Bed of Antiochus The Multitude encreased out of curiosity and they asking one another what the matter was there many knew it not and many durst not answer them The melodious Sounds ceased the Ladies were affrighted and the Hall which but newly was not capable of holding them for their Jollity and Laughing became in an instant a Desert full of Solitude and Terror A Curtain was drawn within which the King and the Queen were concealed so as it was impossible for Antiochus although he were near to discover what it was and soon after a sad voyce issued forth commanding every one to go home So worldly Joys end The company went away mute Terrified and Cautious The hours of the Night it being then the deadest time of Silence and Obscurity encreased so the horror in their Mindes that many of them thought that they should not get alive to their houses Fear is then the greatest when we know not what to fear The good sick Prince called aloud to those of his Chamber desiring them earnestly to tell him what had happened whereupon to content him they answered him at last That Stratonica had been a little while in a swoon What News is this O Antiochus thy Goddess discovers her self to be Mortal and runnest thou not to behold this Miracle Thy Life languishes near death and lyest thou Stupid in a lazy bed in the Arms of the Thoughts of thy frivolous Sorrows Who 's there help to dress me When the Soul is about to free it self from the Bosom where Love hath imprisoned it it is not good to keep its Body far from it Go to go to O Antiochus le ts hasten to our dangers But mad Man what dost thou Heaven pitying thy Miseries opens a way for thee to happiness without injuring thy Resolutions and thou Ignorant of thy own good precipitatest thy self into those Impatiences which are undoubted prejudices to thy Modesty Thou hast resolved to dye to behold no more Stratonica and can'st thou not endure that Stratonica should dye to obtain without thy hurt the same end Ah dear one too well beloved Ah dear one too much abhorred So the poor Prince's Minde was disquieted at the news which could not strike his Ear without passing to his Heart In the mean time the rumor encreased in the Court The Guards in the Pallace were doubled They sent hastily to Damascus for Soldiers and gave many other secret Orders In the Morning about break of Day Clitarcus was carried to Prison He next to Antiochus was the nearest of kin to the King so as if he dyed without out Issue Clitarcus succeeded in the Kingdom This his sudden imprisonment being divulged caused various admiration and sorrow in all Yet all were of a minde that it was by Arsinda's persecution Arsinda was a Princess of the Blood rich in Possessions and Opinion Being left a Widow without any Issue but a Daughter she resolved to live near the King as under the shadow of a Kinsman who could on all occasions assist her Her Daughter grew apace who was called Euripia but grew with very little Obligation to Nature for she had neither Beauty of Body nor endowment of the Minde But the Mother who by reason of the greatness of her Birth was extreamly Ambitious being infinitely proud in her expressions and of a fiery behavior had directed her Thoughts to too sublime Marks She knowing that Clitarcus might succeed to the Crown had foolishly designed Euripia for his Wife and intended so to operate in the end that he by the death of Antiochus should be sure of the Kingdom This her design was favored by seeing that the Gentleman insinuated himself so much into her