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A47793	Hymen's præludia, or, Loves master-piece being the ninth, and tenth part of that so much admir'd romance intituled Cleopatra / written originally in French ; and now rendred into English, by J.D.; Cléopatre. English Parts 9 and 10	La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, d. 1663.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1659 (1659)	Wing L119; ESTC R4668	360,091	370

furrher consent to your marriage with Alexander if Cleopatra will be but mine It is not impossible replies Cleopatra not staying for any answer from Artemisa but that we may find other means to get out of your power and if they faile us we will follow those resolutions which the gods and our own courage shall inspire us with In the mean time be not flattered with so fond a hope as that Caesar should tamely suffer you in his own dominions and almost in his arms to carry away a Princesse that is one of his house and under his protection but on the contrary assure your self that by such a contempt of his authority you may stirre up such a fire as may set your kindome all into a flame Caesar I question not replies Artaxus will remember that my Father hath alwayes served him and dyed in his cause through the cruelty of your Father who was his implacable enemy I my self in my younger years have drawn my sword of his side against Anthony and if the children of his enemies are not more considerable to him then those of his Friends and Allies he will not think there is more injustice in the carrying away of Cleopatra then in that of Artemisa Artemisa hath not been carryed away replies Cleopatra she hath onely fled away from your wrath after she had saved my Brothers life It was her obligation to preserve it because it was for her sake that he had exposed it to that ignominious death which you had intended he should suffer And so after she had thus acquitted her self towards a Prince who was not unworthy of her she was content to follow him and participate of his fortune in order to the safety of her life which she could not hope to have secure with you after those examples of cruelty which she had so fresh in her memory Well Madam replyed the King of Armenia whether Alexander carryed away Artemisa or Artemisa carryed away Alexander it matters not this is certain that I received the affront in the very heart of my dominions and that a Prince of the quality of Alexander had no ground in the World to go and remain incognito in the Court of a King whom he knew to be his enemy whether it were to gain the affections of his Sister or out of any other design which he might have had and that there is not any Prince in the World by whom he had not been ill trated upon such an account But though this reason and the others I have already alledged of the interests and the services of our house should amount to nothing with Caesar I am now to appeal to another power than his and since I have submitted my self to yours I stand in greater fear of your indignation than Augustus's This he seconded with some other discourse after which he desired leave of her to sit down by reason of his wounds which had weakened him very much and were not a little troublesome to him Cleopatra laughed in her sleeve at this pretended respect and yet was not a little pleased to keep him in that humour out of a fear he might break forth into disorder and accordingly not much care what violences he put in execution Nor indeed was the design of Artaxus any other it being impossible that his fierce and cruel nature should spend it self long in fruitlesse complyances But he thought it his best course to dissemble while he was yet in a condition to fear all things and out of that consideration would not make use of his power till such time as he were come into his own Kingdom In the interim he had resolved to do all that lay in his power to humour Cleopatra and omitted no humble services or submissions to make her forget if possible the aversion she had conceived against him He would needs have the ship to hoise up saile at that very instant though his Chirurgeon had made it appeare to him that the sea was prejudicial to his wounds and indeed he had on the other side some reason to fear he might be surprized upon that coast by those that were sent out in quest of Cleopatra He conceived and that not without probability that he had not escaped so long had it not been for the little likelyhood there was that those who had carryed away Cleopatra should stay so neer Alexandria And indeed it was out of that very consideration that those who went in their pursuit as well by sea as by land had gone the farther from the place where the fact was done Besides the vessel was so hidden by a rock which in a manner covered it that on the land side it could not any way be seen and to prevent all suspicion from the sea of its being that vessel wherein were the Princesses order had been taken that neither they nor any belonging to them should at any time appear upon the deck With this precaution and these favourable circumstances Artaxus not conceiving himself secure would needs have been gone thence at that instant when a wind contrary to his designes and consonant to the wishes of the Princesses rises at the same time but a wind so contrary to the course they were to take that it was thought impossible to get out of the river while it blew with the same violence it had begun nay there was some fear that if they went out of the place where they were wherever they had cast anchor it could not be so private as the other The King of Armenia exasperated at this ●ailed at the gods and fortune for this misfortune but after he had tormented himself for some time to no purpose he was forced to give way and to suffer the remainder of the day and the night following to passe away in expectation of a change In the mean time he was retired into a little chamber which they made a shift to dresse him up in the vessel where he thought fit to take his rest for some time and have his wounds dressed The two Princesses had soon notice of this favourable change of the wind by Camilla who had heard it from Megacles and this wench who was indeed very much esteemed by her Mistresse as well for her vertue as her many excellent qualities after she had told them the news with a countenance full of joy and cheerfulnesse Madam said she to her let us not despaire of Heavens assistance and since it begins to declare it self for us let us believe that its assistance will prove abselute and effectuall and that it will never forsake such great and vertuous Princesses in such a misfortune as you are in I am very much inclined to hope it my dear wench replies the Princesse and we ought to joyne our prayers together to beseech the gods to direct those to the place where we are who in all probability run up and down to our rescue There is no doubt to be made added the fair Artemisa but that

all that had past and to intreat you to remain at Bassa till the next day at which time I should have waited on you bringing along with me your people of Meroe who were infinitely desirous of your returne Having gone so far I spent all the rest of the day and some part of the night in pacifying and composing all things and considering the shortnesse of the time there was such order taken that it was hardly perceiveable that there had been any revolt in Ethiopia But what grief it was to me what distraction I was in the gods onely know the next day when I found Clinias returned telling me that you had been expected to no purpose at Bassa whither you came not at all and where there had not bin any thing heard of you Being extreamly troubled at this account of you I immediatelie left Meroe having onely staied so long as to leave orders with Oristhenes to take care of all things till your returne and taking certain boats and such a number along with me as I thought fit of those I could best trust I made all the hast I could to Bassa There I soon met with the cruel confirmation of your losse and understood from those that you had left to command there in your absence that they had neither seen nor heard any thing of you These unfortunate tidings raising the greatest distraction imaginable in my thoughts put me to such extremities as I had never been acquainted with before and the violence of my affliction taking away for some time the use of my reason I had much ado to forbear revenging my self upon such as had contributed nothing to the misfortune I did nothing the rest of that day and all the next night but wander up and down upon the Nile while thousands of persons were searching in other places to the same purpose But all proving ineffectual I thought it my best course to return to Meroe out of a conceit that without all question you had been taken by some persons that Tiribasus had sent after you and that by securing those that were yet there of the friends of Tiribasus something might be discovered when there comes to Bassa an Egyptian Marchant ship by which I understood that as they sailed up the Nile they had met with the Pirate Zenodorus with four ships and had escaped being taken by him by making to land which they were not far from and that they had passed so close to him by reason of the narrownesse of the River in that place above any other that they could easily perceive there were some Ladies prisoners in his Vessel whereof they had seen some upon the deck and heard the cries of others ecchoing all over the River and that afterwards coming further into the River after the Pirate was gone by they met with abundance of carkases sloating and found all the circumstances of a great and bloudy engagement From this disourse which the passion I was then distracted by easily induced me to believe I immediately inferred all circumstances considered that it must needs be you Madam that was fallen into the hands of the famous Pirate Zenodorus whose name was grown dreadful in all these coasts and who was the best acquainted of any therewith by reason of the perpetual inroads that he made upon them You may easily imagine Madam that it were impossible for me to make you sensible of the grief it was to me to hear these fatal tidings and that all I am able to say will come very far short of what I then felt upon the first entertainment of that cruel account of our malicious Fortune This was it that put me out of all patience and in a manner took away the use of my reason insomuch that the gods may well pardon me if during the time that that extravagance lasted I did not alwaies observe that respect which a man should never be guilty of any breach of towards them Nay me thought the age I was then possessed by was in some sort excusable and that misfortune happening at a time when I expected all the kindnesse and indulgence of fortune seemed to me so great that I could not imagine it supportable by the greatest constancy in the World Neverthelesse thinking it too great a lownesse of spirit to loose time in lamentations and fruitlesse complaints I sent Clinias back again to Meroe with orders directed to Oristhenes to hearken out every where after you in case the tidings I had received of you should prove false and to secure the most intimate friends of Tiribasus to find out by that means whether you had been taken by any orders of his and having given him that charge I took up three vessels that lay in the haven ready to set sail accompanied by all those I had about me that I thought able to fight and made all the speed I could towards the mouth of the Nile into the Mediterranean Sea I thought it no such difficulty to make after Zenodorus though with a number of vessels much inferiour to his and no doubt lesse serviceable as to matter of engagement and all the fear I was in was that I should not find him so far was I from any thoughts of being worsted if I were so fortunate as to meet with him We got out of the Nile and were ●●tred into the sea being absolutely to seek what course we should take but having understood that Zenodorus came often to Pelensia and the ports adjoining to Alexandria to sell some part of what he took upon those coasts I imagined I might there hear of him and so thought fit to make towards Alexandria I shall not Madam trouble you with the complaints I made during the time of this sad course nor the doleful reflections which tormented my thoughts without the least intermission I was sensible as indeed I ought to have been of a misfortune that deprived me of the happines of your presence but this was not yet the greatest of my afflictions and when I imagined to my self that my fairest Queen was in the hands of a mercilesse Pirate and represented to my self all the dangers whereto she might be exposed and to which as I have since understood from Eteocles it was but indeed too too true that she was I was at a losse of all patience insomuch that I could hardly forbear casting my self into the sea At last we were entertained by the same tempest which proved so favourable to you against the insolencies of Zenodorus and which hath been the occasion of so many accidents upon these coasts at the same time and this also grew so implacable to us that our veilels were dispersed in such manner that I could never yet learn any tidings of the other two and know not but that they are long since devoured by the waves and that wherein I was in my self after we had for two whole daies strugled with the same cruelty of weather that you had met with was at