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A64779	The grand Scipio an excellent new romance / written in French by Monsieur de Vaumoriere ; and rendered into English by G.H.; Grand Scipion. English	Vaumorière, M. de (Pierre Ortigue), 1610-1693.; G. H.	1660 (1660)	Wing V162; ESTC R5744	292,522	274

adorable Sophonisba Ah my Lord how unhappy is my lot that that fair Queen should be deprived of life by the hands of that wretched King and that among so many illustrious qualities which rendred Sophonisba Divine she had not also that of immortal which was onely wanting to a person so accomplished No no my Lord what you have told mens not possible but without question you have been misinformed and the Queen of Numidia is still alive if she hath not ended her days by some other accident My Lord replied Hannibal I have always so highly esteemed Masanissa that I have had great repugnance to entertain the belief of his being capable of so black a guilt and I am glad continued ●e to chear up the wounded King that I finde my hopes any thing confirmed that that news is erroneous Masanissa never merited your esteem replied the King but at least he was never capable of an ignoble thought For my Lord seeing it is requisite you know the King whom you have treated so generously I must declare to you that he is the Masanissa of whom you speak Yes my Lord I am that Masanissa whose life hath been attended with accidents so strange that they have filled the world with wonder I am that Prince who hath lost and recovered Kingdoms who have confederated both with the Carthaginians and the Romans and who have adored Sophonisba from the time I first had the honour to know her and at last that Masanissa who hath been overcome by the great Hannibal who hath been treated by him with civility altogether extraordinary and that Masanissa who regulating his life onely by that of Sophonisba expects with extreme impatience to know the condition in which that adorable Queen is The Carthaginian Prince was infinitely amazed to behold Masanissa in his Tent and that Masanissa who was fallen off from the Cathaginians but presently reflecting upon the great adventures which Love and Honour had drawn that King into to break with Carthage and also considering him in a state of pity he encreased his civilities instead of diminishing them Masanissa constrained himself to answer the caresses of the Prince of Carthage but he acquitted himself in so forced a manner that Hannibal easily knew that he was still strangely disquieted Ah my Lord answered Masanissa it is hard to be composed of spirit when there is hourly apprehension of hearing the most cruel and fatal news confirmed that I am capable of receiving For what can be imagined more cruel then this accident I have been afflicted for the loss of a Kingdom but I have been also comforted with a belief as it effectively hapned that the Romans could re-instate me in that which the Caathaginians had assisted King Syphax my Enemy and my Rival to gain from me I have lost all my relations yet conceived nothing of surprising or extraordinary in these misfortunes But my Lord I finde my condition far more unhappy when I consider my self bereaved of the fair Princess Sophonisba to put her into the arms of my enemy at the same time that the Prince Asdrubal her Father had promised her to me and that adorable person had given me many testimonies of her esteem and good inclination Neverthelesse being I loved Sophonisba more for her selfe then for my own sake I found some contentment when I considered that I alone was miserabe and Sophonisba Queen of two Realms Then indeed I did not resolve to dye because I lived more in the great Queen of Numidia then in the unfortunate King of the Massessilians But the thought of that illustrious Queens death of this cruel separation Ah! this is it my Lord that breaks the greatest constancy and subdues it to the violence of the calamity here the strongest soul finds it selfe too weak to resist the stroke of fate Yet there may be unfortunate persons of this kind but none comparable to me if these tidings be true and the Gods yea the Gods themselves can add nothing to my punishment For my Lord as if it were not enough to lose all that I love I am like to pass for a wretched prisoner and that of the most fair and sweet person that ever eye beheld and my innocence will onely serve to redouble my torment when I shall consider it buried in the same Tombe with me and so never being published my memory become odious to all Posterity Can you therefore imagine a misfortune more great and strange Bethink your selves of circumstances that may augment it if there be any such or confess that I am upon the point of being the most unhappy of men I confess answered Hannibal that your case would be such in the extremity although you would at least dye with the satisfaction of being innocent and I judge that the true Author of this impiety would be farre more miserable How say you interrupted Masanissa Can you believe that a man who should be so wretched as to commit this crime would be capable to resent the loss of his reputation to the quick Can you beleeve he would be sensibly afflicted for the death of a person whom himself had murdered And do you not consider that he would have even some contentment although unworthy and malicious to have effected that which he judged he ought to do or which he had designed The Prince Hannibal was willing to put off this conversation which served onely to redouble the grief of Masanissa and not being able to give him any hope after the intelligence he had received he would not be an occasion to continue his dispair But Masanissa prevented him and beholding him a few moments with an aire wholly submissive My Lord said he to him I hope the illustrious Hannibal will grant that to Masanissa which a valiant Carthaginian promised some dayes since to a Cavalier whom he vanquisht You know that ●he promised to procure him licence to depart from the Camp of the Carthaginians when he pleased Perform that engagement now my Lord seeing it is impossible for me to live in the condition I am in and permit me to depart to morrow morning before day-light to go to Zama where I may receive intelligence from Cyrtha If the King Masanissa remembers that promise answered Hannibal perhaps he hath not forgot the principal condition of it which was the unknown Cavalier might depart from the Army of the Carthaginians vvhen it vvas requisite for him to serve against it We will attend therefore if you please till you are perfectly cured and not suffer you to undertake a journey in the condition your are in and albeit you are a friend of Scipio and one of the bravest courages in the world yet I had more regard to the preservation of a formidable enemy then to hazard the life of a generous Prince by a consent which I cannot give but to his prejudice If you expose my life to danger replyed Masanissa by permitting me to undertake a journey in the condition wherein I am you will

of the Sea sent us order to redouble our storm so to draw the principal forces of the enemies to those parts and consequently to weaken that by which he design'd to gain it Syllanus and I had no sooner obeyed him being seconded by Nasica and the young Scipio but our Heroe standing upon the Lake at the head of the troops which he had chosen My friends cryed he with a sprightly and fierce aspect I should be injurious to you if I should speak much words are needless to to men of courage therefore I shall onely tell you that you are going where your General shall be your company and the witness of your valour Let us on then my friends let us win Carthage and I promise you the taking of this City shall render us Masters of all Spain make Africa tremble and crown us with immortal glory He had no sooner spoke these few words but he seized upon a Ladder and then casting himself into the Lake incited by his example a thousand brave persons to do the same 'T is true he always preceded them and being arrived at the foot of the walls planted the first Ladder against them and then drawing his sword and covering himself with his shield he began to ascend with an aspect that no doubt encouraged the hearts of all those that followed him The walls were not so unguarded but that they were suddenly bordered with Souldiers at the first allarm that was given there so that our valiant General likewise redoubled his forces as the Carthaginians did their and alwayes supporting his shield with a strong arm continued to mount up with an heroical audacity notwithstanding a shower of arrows and stones falling upon him and though he beheld a hundred Ladders overturn'd on each side At length he got up and as a Souldier was stretching forth his arm to strike at him with his sword and hinder him from casting himself upon the walls the couragious Generall prevented him and by a great back blow strook off both arm and sword down into the Lake This remarkable blow so terrified those that beheld it that Scipio had time to leap upon the wall before they were well enough recover'd out of their amazement to hinder him and afterwards casting those down into the City that came to oppose his passage he soon saw himself backt by Trebellius Digitius and above twenty others whom his example had emboldned so that the fight becoming very disorderly upon the wall the Romans found fewer obstacles in ascending it after which the Illustrious Scipio did not delay to cast himself into the City designing to gain one of the Gates and open it to Syllanus Yet he found great resistance in the execution of his purpose for the Prince of Celtiberia ran thither being followed by a thousand selected Spaniards who signalizing themselves in this encounter sufficiently justifi'd the choice which the valiant Lucius had made of them But as lightning shafts all that seems to make a strong resistance our invincible Conqueror beat down all that opposed his passage he strikes thrusts kills wounds Lucius gains a Gate causes the Romanes to enter who suddenly setting up a great shout displayed our Eagles in the conquered City and made the air resound with the glorious name of Scipio The Governour of Carthage with whom I was engag'd for I had landed and was so fortunate as to get into the City after I had gain'd the Port went to relieve Lucius and repel our forces but after a very great resistance he was taken prisoner with the Prince of Celtiberia who caus'd us to admire his valour and would vvithout doubt have occasioned himself to be slain had not his svvord bin suddenly broken and he found himself inclos'd amidst a thousand Souldiers But I need not Madam particularize to you the actions of that memorable day since all the world has knovvn that the valour of Scipio equall'd the sublimest degree of that of the most recorded Heroes and that this famous Roman rais'd himself aftervvards an admiration for those virtues vvhich are esteemed much more then that prodigious valour For there is a passage I am going to tell you which more deserves our vvonder then what I have hitherto related and vve cannot but vvith astonishment consider a change in Scipio vvhich most certainly is more to be extolled then the noblest constancy For scarce vvas Carthage in the Roman povver and the brother of Aemylia at liberty but our Illustrious Roman appeared to be a Carthaginian this young Conqueror so fierce ardent and terrible becomes of a sudden so gentle so moderate and so full of svveetness that nothing is more certain then that the Spaniards and Africans began infinitely to love him assoon as they ceas'd to fear him But they shortly after accompanied their love with veneration greater then what uses to be entertained for men which was not without cause since our Heroe did things which men are not accustomed to do No doubt Madam you have heard that the Kings of Celtiberia and the Illergetes with the Queens their wives being followed by the most considerable of the Spaniards and five and twenty or thirty fair prisoners were presented to Scipio and received by him with a civility so great that they resented pleasure in the bitterness of their fortune and offered to their Conqueror that which certainly an Emperour of the Romans or the greatest conqueror in the world ought not to have hoped and in a word that which could not be rendred with justice to any other then our Grand Scipio who unquestionably shewed himself perfectly worthy of it since in the ardor of a most flourishing youth he placed himself above the reach of the most violent passions and whatever is most charming in them especially in an age where the intemperate heat of blood usually favours tumultuous passions 'T is unknown to none Madam that our generous Roman would not suffer himself to be proclaimed King of Spain and answered those that term'd him by that title He was a Roman Citizen and that he onely us'd his sword for glory and the advantage of his Country But if the moderation of a Conqueror was esteemed who out of a perfectly heroical generosity had refused a potent Kingdom the Ladies that were Prisoners much more admired his virtue when they found a Protector in a young Conqueror and were treated by him with an aspect that gave them assurance that the fairest among them were in absolute ●afety Moreover Liberty was immediately granted to them as also to all the Spaniards but it was after such a manner that without doubt gained their hearts and so sensibly obliged them that it may be said Scipio captiv'd all those which he declared to be free But scarce had the Queens rendered thanks to so generous a Victor but Mandonius and Iudibilis their husbands protested solemnly that they were not contented only to disengage themselves from the interest of the Carthaginians but that they gave themselves up