impatience that you see he hath to come out from thence Let 's reconduct him I pray you to Tempé and see only before a few Lines that his Impatience constrained him to make out You know undoubtedly Erasistrate the famous and so much renowned Physitian not only by the excellent Experiences which he hath manifested by his Art but by the profound and eloquent Meditations which he hath written above all that there is most concealed in the Nature of Man Yea assuredly interrupted Agamée and I have admired a Hundred times amongst his Works his Tract his rare Draft of the Passions where teaching us to know them he teacheth us also to combat with them and to cure our selves of those Diseases of the Mind whilst he prohibits us those of the Body That is the very same replyed Telamon you know the Friendship that the great President of the Areopagites hath for him My Brother who had need to hasten the Judgment of his process and litigious Suit which was the only Obstacle of his return to Zelie prayed Erasistrate to speak to him in his Favour and because he deferr'd it twice or thrice he thus pressed him I languish for some days of a Disease which according to appearance if I receive not some assistance must necessarily take a course bad enough This Disease is called Impatience which naturally still grows and increaseth and I see without speedy Succour my Cure apparently hopeless Famous Physitian of Souls and Bodies I ask not for those noble Efforts and Endeavours which render you famous from Gange even to the Gades Only vouchsafe to succour me with two words that I be not the first sick one whom you will have left to dye These words Telamon pursued produced two advantageous Effects to Tarsis The first that Erasistrate effectually made him have a very speedy Expedition The second that this illustrious Personage having tasted and sounded his Wit would contract Friendship with him Now behold another piece which makes me call to mind an occasion where this acquaintance was yet of more Utility to the Love of Tarsis But although they are both in the same Leaf by reason they are for the same Person behold the cause why others were made between them both it will be good therefore that we read them before-hand these here were made at another House in the Countrey that Alcidias hath a little off the other side of Gonnes Melicerte and Zelie were come there to spend some time and Tarsis was there with them After they were departed and returned to Calioure he sent them these Lines I was seiz'd near to you O divine Zelie with a thousand Transports of ravishing Joy but for these pleasant Moments I have sad and mournful days and so pass my Life did I think to recal your amiable Presence by the deceitful Charms of a sweet Memory all speak to me of your absence when I would think of you go I to walk in the Wood where Zelie came to take the fresh Air and the Shadow unfortunate one that I am all that I see there is that the fair one is departed Thou seekest her every where my Eye with Care and Fidelity following that of my Love the error which deceives thee thou â—eest a hundred places where the fair one was but there she is not Thou hast but the Pleasure there yet to see the green Turfe where Zelie leaned after her Paces thou knowest it by the bait of a hundred Flowers that she made there to disclose and open All the Grass hath taken a new Life in those certain places where the fair One walked thou seest Drought and Yellow with desire that which her Foot hath not touched In some places said they that she came to appear they see that of a fair Green the Earth is painted they saw the Trees through desire grow the Cherry to ripen was much more prompt and her Hands chusing the ripest of its Fruits made the others to blush with shame because they had not bin gathered they yet saw there things metamorphosed a thousand prodigious and surprizing Effects and of the Miracles which she hath done they yet see a thousand things but what serves that to the happiness of my Life all that 's of my Dolour I conceal and conclude that there I saw Zelie but in fine see her no more let 's now return to our Work But before it be read unto you it 's requisite to you to observe that a little after Tarsis was returned from Athens Erasistrate being fallen sick caused himself to be carried to Tempé there to take the benefit of our Waters whose Reputation you know is famous all over Greece There were then a considerable number of Persons of Quality that by the self same design had there bin conducted and there was not one but would have bin very willing to see and entertain Erasistrate As he was indisposed and not in a condition to pester and intangle his Spirits with the Maladies of others he had provided for that trouble in declaring at first that he would not only not make but would also receive nor accept of any Visits Leucippe who was also then sick a Bed had an unexpressible Passion to see him But he could not have that Priviledge Tarsis alone had Erasistrate who even in his Indisposition could not dwell Idle wrote at Tempé a Treatise upon the Nature of the Light and a little before he had finished it he shewed it to Tarsis with whom he took pleasure to communicate his Works Tarsis was so charmed that two hours after he had quitted him he sent him these Lines Finish the principal of the Work to which none is comparable make appear the day in it's Supreme degree give light even to light it self and from new Beams enlighten the Sun God drew out of the Chaos the bright shining Light Do with thy Pen what he did with his Voice and by the Divinity of thy learned Quill draw Light out of the confused Chaos a second time Until now it 's splendor scarce visible The day to us is dimmed and dazled the more are we sensible thereof and from it's proper and from its bright Glimps comes it's Obscurity But pursue thy Race and persist in thine Exercise and three of thy days Journeys goes throughout the whole universe to give more Light which the Sun hath not done since three thousand years Although these Lines speak of the Creation of the Light more according to the Opinion of Moses whose Books my Brother had read which followeth that of the Greeks who determin not that it was done with or by a Voice nor since what time the World hath bin made Howsoever Erasistrate unto whom this strange Doctrine was known so approved of this Piece found it so to his good liking and so much obliging that although he was at the even of his Departure he could not yet leave Tempé without sight of my Brother and went to seek him even to Callioure in
which they were not so solicitous to invent according to the Rules but according to their Inclinations For Soul there were these Words It 's my Self But if they signaliz'd their Amity by these petty small exterior Marks they rendred them much more illustrious by the noble Actions which they did in this Battel They there fought always one near the other or rather to say they fought one for another For 't was said that Leonides had his eyes perpetually fixt on Kion which made him as a second buckler of his Body and of his Sword and that when he saw any turn against this dear Brother no Obstacle was sufficiently able to hinder him to cause the hands to fall which sustained him Kion likewise warded off no other blows which were upon young Leonides And of these two brave Lovers and Adventurers there was not so much as one that dealt or warded the least blow for the defence of his own life So that to see an Enemy fall under the Sword of the one it was not enough to judg that he had attempted the life of the other and at this Encounter they gave such Testimonials and Tokens of their friendship ghastly here to behold by the number of dead Corps wherewith they covered the Field of the Battle But behold my Lord something more worthy your attention Lysimachus having lost the day and totally defeated in Battle retired himself into Chalcedone where Ariamene pursued him with such diligence that he there inclos'd him and shut him up before he had dreamed of repassing into Thrace Also Lysimachus believed not that they would presume to infest him which was not separated but by a small Ferry or Passage of the Sea from the Capital City and Metropolis of his Kingdom For as you know Chalcedone is situated and seated upon the Promontory at the Entrance and Passage from Pont-Euxin and all over against or directly opposite to Bizance On one side the Sea washeth its Walls and the profound and deep Trench and Dike which encompasseth the other part serveth as a Bed to a rapid River which dividing themselves into two Arms encloseth all the rest of its Circuit This abundance of water is the cause that all the Neighbouring and Circumjacent Fields are no other than Marishes so that when they would make Trenches they make unwarily small Rivers Those difficulties notwithstanding did not deter nor yet divert Ariamene from the Siege He took Ships in the Neighbouring Ports and filled them with able men and upon the Sea stopt up all the Passages to Lysimachus and as for the succour which he might possibly receive from Thrace he caused his Army at the self same time by Land giving such necessary orders and directions for the Siege and having rendred himself Master of all the Frontiers and Out-works in a few days he found means to approach the Walls with Ramms by the favour of some Bridges of Boats wherewith he covered a part of the Moats I can speak experimentally of this Siege in regard I was in the number of the besieged The endeavours and devices of the Engines were not without Effect and their Battery overthrew one Pannel or piece of the Wall The two Brothers put themselves in the Front of their Armed Followers entred the first breach which was guarded well and defended by an infinite number of their Enemies and having forced their way a cross Stones against Arrows Pikes and resolute men they had in fine the pleasure of fighting within the City There were already of the one Party and the other many fallen and the Swords of our young Adventurers had fell'd down so many men that the heaps of the dead Corps one upon another repaired almost the breach which had been made and by an effect of Valour which was contrary to them they themselves shut up the Passage in such sort that they themselves endeavoured to open it when one of the Besieged accosted Kion laid on him so heavy a blow that he was constrained to rest his Knee on the Earth Leonides who had taken no other care than according to his Custom to ward off the blows which were aimed at his friend thought to dye because he could not have warded him from the last He fell furiously on him who had dealt it and seeing him retired behind others pursued him in spight of all such as opposed his passage You may very well believe that Kion who until then had not also fought but for Leonides would not have withdrawn or abandon'd him in danger where this here had not ingaged himself but to revenge him He followed him through a thousand Swords and because he whom Leonides pursued still kept himself alooff they engaged so far within the City that they were found alone to defend themselves In summ the great number that oppressed and over-bore them and all their worthy Actions served to no other use then to render their Surprize more considerable to Lysimachus The Besiegers were repulsed being deprived of succour so advantageous and the Thracians saw themselves at liberty to repair the Ruins of their Walls In the mean time these two Valiant Brothers who were but slightly wounded for as much as the seizing them behind they had in spight of them managed their lives and way they were led and placed in two separate Towers where the King of Thrace had caused them carefully to be shut up You will observe My Lord that amongst those who had been slain by Leonides was the eldest of the Children of the King of Thrace and that which had principally animated Leonides against him that he had seen his hand lifted up against Kion That Prince was named Diomede and of all his Brethren there was not one for whom Lysimachus had so much tenderness as for him He loved him with so forcible a passion that he would have him perpetually as a Companion in all his Wars dividing even betwixt them the whole Sovereign Authority his own life was not so dear to him as was that of his Prince and they astonisht themselves how nature was so puissant on him who passed as you know for unnatural Also when he knew of his death he was more afflicted than if he had learnt the subversion of all his Kingdom His perplexity appeared visibly in his Visage and in his Actions as well as in his discourse and I can truely tell you that his desperation manifested it self even through such and so many infirmities as were unworthy a man He deliberated not long upon the Revenge he would take and seeing the Murderer Diomede in his hands he resolved he should die It was in vain for all those that were near him or had any influence upon him or that were tender of his reputation to represent to him the Laws of Honour and of Arms those of his passion were more forcible and even Theodore the Philosopher the liberty or reputation of whose Sentence caused him to be Surnamed Athée and whom the King your Father had
same Beauty that this unknown Arsinoe also had The Princess did apprehend this discourse with much facility Wherefore beholding the Prince with some Sentiments of that Compassion be required from her My Brother reply'd she unto him Philadelphe ought not to be here what he was at Corcyre since that Arsinoé is no more what she there thought her self to be and he ought also to remember himself that these petty Passions of an unknown One straying out of his Countrey are unworthy to be those of a Son of the great Ptolomée in Egypt Alas reply'd he would you that the Prince of Egypt and that unknown one had not the same Passions since that I told you that they both have but one and the same Heart O Arsinoé that it s easy to you to speak of this change to you who have not had but a change of Apparel and Condition But that it is there to see my self reduced me who must for so I may speak change Hearts and to despoyle my self of a Passion rooted within my Soul and which henceforth would make my Life full of all Hopes and Pleasures In uttering these words the Tears trickled down from his Eyes and though Arsinoé could not almost but apprehend a thing which could not be conceived but by those who had proved it she omitted not however to give him also some Marks that she was plyant soft and gentle That was some little Consolation to Philadelphe to see that she took part and share with him in his Grief and resented it and after some moments he said unto her At least my dear Sister it is true that you now have some little friendship and kindness for me and if I am so unfortunate that I must raze here and blot out a part of that affection that I had for you then you will have an affection for me which you formerly had not at Corcyre My Brother reply'd the Princess never doubt of my Kindness and Friendship and be assured that of all the new Duties and Devoirs to which the change of my Condition obliges me its him to whom I will tye my self the fastest and from that I will never depart These words gave some movements of Joy to Philadelphe who kissed the Hand of Arsinoe to testify to her his Obligation and Acknowledgment and having also on his part assured her of an inviolable Affection and which should never terminate but with that of his Life he betook himself to entertain her after the same Rate in which he had past all the time which had bin slâ—pt since their first interview and after his endeavours used to make her conceive to what a high Pitch the Passion of Love he had had for her was mounted unto he insensibly ingaged himself to her in an apologetical Discourse and after such a manner as will make me observe how he was yet preoccupied But is it possible said he to her that nature obligeth me to quit so strong a Passion as if by reason I have a double Subject to love you it must therefore be that you were more indifferent Ah my Sister avow with me that we are very unhappy to live in a Countrey where men are mingled to correct Nature and where as if they did not yet commit Crimes enough they have by new Laws made us new occasions of Sinning That the Gods did not cause us to be born amongst People less blinded That love wherewith they have made us guilty of a Crime in Egypt would be unto us a vertue amongst the Brittains amongst the Indians and in a thousand other Countreys But let 's go there my Sister and le ts make it our Countrey We cannot have a better than that wherein we shall be permitted to love one another Philadelphe had no sooner pronounced these words but that he well saw his Passion had transported him to say something which had not pleased Arsinoé He knew it by her Countenance and as he dreaded nothing more than her displeasure he was ready to retract when she answered him Brother what is it you demand and wherefore think you already â—o put my affection to such strange Proofs Let 's live here my dear Brother the Gods will have it so because they appointed us to be born here and content your self that I am your Sister for all your displeasures can never make me to be more unto you The Princess imbraced him in finishing without doubt 't was to repair the ill he had done by his words and afterwards taking him by the Hand she would have had him pass into another Chamber where there was People to interrupt afterwards that discourse and entertainment which she would not continue But Philadelphe which felt himself in a condition not very well able to begin another took leave of her and retired into his apartment altogether as sad as he came forth of it He past all the rest of the day in a Mood so mute and melancholy as is unconceivable and that which infinitely Rackt and Tortured him that he could not dispence with the Visits that were made him and which augmented his Pain by the constraint and trouble they rendred him in this his affliction Yea he found that the sight of Arsinoé did no other than reinvenom his Wound and that there was no means of Cure in presence of her who had given it All that which he imagined might prove a Remedy was the hopes he had in the change of his Brothers qualifications for whom he still conserved that wonderful Tenderness he had had from his Infancy He had not seen him since his return by reason there had already bin eight days that Ceraune was gone a Hunting fifteen or sixteen Miles from Alâ—xandria Wherefore he went to find him there with design to have spent some time with him in the Countrey But he found little ground or subject of Consolation scarcely had Ceraune seen him only arriving he treated him with such Insolence Arrogancy Disdain Fierceness Cruelty and Inhumanity not like an elder Brother but an Enemy so that poor Philadâ—lphe was constrained to return the same day that he was gon there Make you I pray some reflections upon his misfortune and observe how much he was persecuted by two opposite Passions The hatred of his Brother constrained him to shun and flye him and he was forced to shun and keep at distance from his Sister in regard of his Love In this necessity he well saw that there was no consolation for him in Egypt and he dream't of nothing more than to seek some occasion to quit it a second time He had the most honourable that he could desire For in that time chanced the famous troubles which confederated and combined all the Successors of Alâ—xander the great against the Kings Antigonus and Demetrius Ptolomée levyed a considerable Army to send into Sicily where were to be joyned all the Troops of his Party and he gave their conduct to Philadelphe It 's here where I shall have
contradiction Because the Fidelity of those whereof the Ministry had bin employed to conceal the secret of my Sex had bin so great that until then no Person whatsoever had so much as a mistrust or diffidence of what I was It is not but that Demotime that is the name of the Bastard Prince had not been well pleased to hurry confound and disorder But my Father in his Life time had given him some employment by which he had as I may so say honourably banished him out of Lesbos For in that time Lysimachus King of Thrace having had Phrygia for his part and share from the Spoils of old Antigonus This Prince to whom my Father had rendred the Signal Offices in this War would testifie unto him his acknowledgment and by a Confidence extraordinary enough but which merited undoubtedly the quality of those Services which he had received of us he sent him the Provisions in Blank from the Vice-King of Phrygia an important Province and which is not separated from Lesbos but by a very little Ferry over the Sea to fill them with the Name of him whom my Father would have gratified The King my Father to oblige Lysimachus by a Signification of the esteeem which he made by this Present filled them with my Name Howsoever reserving the Title to me he gave the employ to Demotime whom he sent to command for Lysimachus in that great and important Province so then Demotime being occupied elsewhere did not then thwart nor cross my establishment in the Throne But behold the Commencement of my Misfortune My Governour had a Son whom my Father had made my great Chamberlain he might then have been about twenty two years old and one could say that he was almost one of the best shaped Men in the World His Countenance amongst others was so very fair that all the Ladies of Lesbos envyed some his eyes another his mouth and teeth and all the clearness and purity of his Hue. As for his Wit he had it vivacious and full but his Soul was without Religion and Fidelity He was ambitious arrogant insolent vain and presumptuous to the last point so full of a good Opinion of himself that he imagined not but that the most vertuous Women nor yet the wisest could resist his amiable Countenance and he believed not any thing could in a word be above him That which encreased his audacity was that although he was of Nobility fresh and hew enough by his Fathers side he notwithstanding vaunted himself by reason of some distant Alliance on the Womans side descended from the ancient Kings of Lesbos My Father having known his Wit very much repented himself and that many times that he had put him in an Office which so neerly approached my Person the exercise whereof obliged me in some sort to confide in him But his Father by an abuse which is too common in the Courts of Princes had obtain'd this Office for him from his Youth and before one might know what he would be and since there was no other means to dispossess him by the apprehension that we had of hurrying or giving a check to my Governour on whom we had made in some sort a participant of the knowledg of our secret I had shunned all manner of confidence in this young man as much as to me could be possible and for that end I would not that he should lie in my chamber as those are accustomed to do who possess the like Offices in the Courts of Princes I would neither lye down nor rise up before him and I attired my self always particularly but as he saw the affectation which I had to deprive him of the best and most Beneficial Dues of his Office he could not refrain from speaking to his Father to learn the reason It is true I ought here to complain of my self as well as of my Governour for he came to propose it to me before he would discover it to his Son but he made me find so great a necessity in Confiding in him and as a Father is almost always Blind for his Children he answered me so absolutely assuring me of his Fidelity that I gave my hands to what he would In the Interim see Philiste the strange success of his Counsel Olearque this Chamberlain was so named being a participant of my secret it was necessarily requisite that I should shew him a good Face and Pleasant Countenance and that by some particular marks of Esteem and Friendship I engaged him to Silence and to the Fidelity whereof I had need His Natural Vanity failed not immediately to play his Game he put himself in his own head that I loved him and that the Testimonies of Goodness which I gave the sole Services of his Father and the necessity of my Destiny were so many effects of my Springing Passion I entred then into my Fourteenth Year It must necessarily be altogether deformed misshapen not to have in that Age acceptableness and good liking and principally when one is Queen and when one appears in the eyes of one Ambitious My Youth his Ambition and his Vanity therefore enflamed him or rather made him to lose his Judgment I so little mistrusted or was diffident of his Audacity that I was a long time without perceiving my self I did not impute his Assiduity his Cares nor his continual Looks and Regards but to the Address of a Courtesan who will comply with the Queen I attributed not his Sighs which he reiterated frequently enough but to some vexation or to some strange Love and was so Innocent that when they Jested him to be in Love with some Fair One of Mitelene I Jested also as did the others As for him who in his Vanity believed me pre-occupied he thought that I understood him very well that the manner wherewith I treated him was a tacite Approbation of his Love and all that lost in him his Wit more and more In fine I began to perceive him my self at a Tournament that I made at Mitelene for I affected those Divertisements of Men to entertain the Popular Error the Spectacle lasted three days and at every time those that were of the Tourney were obliged to appear with Liveries and of different devices As for him at three times he put an Eagle in his Shield or Target with this Diversity only that it was an Eagle Flying neer the Sun and a number of other Birds under a Cloud which hid them from the Light for the Soul there was round about as one worthy to see him without Clouds and Shadows at the second day it was yet an Eagle which stedfastly looked upon the Sun with these words My Eyes would Disdain a lesser Light And in the third there was yet an Eagle carrying in his Beak a Thunder-Bolt with these words This is my Art Or this is the Art of mine The morrow of the Turnament every one being placed before m e to discover the Devices that they had seen and to Explicate
had bin taken for Gods They fell before them in Troops upon their knees lifting them upon their Shouldiers and so pompously carried them to the publick Guild-Hall or town-house and through an extreme zeal which they suppos'd to be more fatal to the lives of these two illlustrious Brothers than the very hands of their Enemies they for some time minded not but utterly forgot the dressing and healing of their own Wounds by a kind of an indiscreet ardour they had to render them the Honor worthy their acknowledgments In an instant the face of the whole City was changed the joy and allacrity pierced the hearts and was visibly demonstrated in the Visage of the Citizens when it had for a long time bin banished and exiled there was then seen no more heaviness but in those of the Slaves and Kion This generous and faithful Lover could not survive his Mistriss and after he had executed his Commission it seemed he would go and render her an account of it neither reason nor prayers could act any thing towards the mitigation of his Dolour there remained nothing but Friendship and Amity could oppose the mournful effects of his Love His brother and himself would willingly have bin set in one Chamber so that Leonides seeing the resistance that Kion made to all remedies Brother said he I believe I have sufficiently testify'd to you that I fear'd not to dye with you but I must also let you know that I cannot yet live without you Wherefore if you have resolv'd to dye tell me frankly and freely that I may not give my self the trouble unprofitably to labor the conservation of a Life which to me is of no value without yours Upon these Words he commanded the Chyrurgeons to cease and discharged them from further attendance in expectation of his reply Kion tenderly and gingerly look't upon him and would have obliged him to let them persist indeavouring to perswade him that he had neither cause nor reasonable subject to hate his life but Leonides having protested to him that he would not permit any further care to be taken of himself then should be seen that his Brother should take care of his own Kion was in fine constrained to live only to preserve the Life of his dear Leonides It 's true their care and recovery was very tedious and leisurely because their Wounds were great and grievous and for a considerable time almost desperate so that it occasioned the world to believe that they were dead but you will soon see they were reserved for more strange Adventures After the example of Heraclea the major part of the Cities of Pont were also held by small Tyrants who from being simple and petty Governors under old Antigonus had erected themselves to be so many Soveraigns shaking off the yoke of Tyranny and declared for Liberty but in regard these petty Kings chased from usurped Thrones were in League together to re-enter there with Satyre brother of Clearque the Cities likewise united amongst themselves and having levyed Troops for their universal and common Defence they elected for their Chieftain one valiantly unknown named Ariamene upon whom they conferr'd all the Authority of their Arms under the Title of Defender of the Liberties of the People My Lord I will not tell you any thing of this Ariamene a whole volum would be necessary separately to recount to you the History of his high Feats For over and above that the Renown of them is manifestly famous throughout the earth you will without any doubt have known that he had defeated Satyre and his Comrades in five different Battels that in the latter and that he himself with his own proper hands had slain three of these petty Tyrants and in sum had acquired so considerable a Reputation of Valor Liberality and Justice among the People of Pont and Cappadocia that after having fought during the term of four years for their sole Liberty they had voluntarily renounced him to submit it to Ariamene and that they had crowned him their King after they had had him four years for their Captain But let 's return to the History of our two brave Brothers The People of Heraclea being united and in league with other Cities of Pont levyed Troops which they sent to joyn with those of Ariamene and for a badge of Cognisance towards Kion and Leonides they remitted them to their sole Conduct These valiant Brothers so acquitted themselves of this trust and charge that it exceeded the possibility of all Expectations they declared to me that the grand Ariamene had divers times confess 't himself that he ow'd a considerable part of his Victories to their Valor Satyre and his Allies having bin defeated the two first Battels craved assistance of the King of Thrace and ingaged him in their Succour through hopes that they would even make him King of Asia This was my Lord at the self same time when the King your Father did me the honor to send me his Ambassador in Ordinary to Lysimachus and I learnt by the way that the King of Thrace had already pass'd into Asia with an Army composed of threescore thousand Men against the valiant Ariamene I was then obliged to find him in Asia and I arrived at his Camp only three days before this great Battel which was the commencement of his Losses the Success whereof I writ the King your Father It 's certain that when I arrived among the Thracians the Reputation of Ariamene how considerable soever it was did in no wise obliterate that of Kion and Leonides They were not only signalized by a hundred valorous Actions their amity and friendship did no less contribute to render them Illustrious They made it shine and glitter even against Envy and Emulation by a thousand remarkable passages nay in their Habiliaments and Array In effect they were seen always attyred after the same Mode and Method and armed in such sort as was sufficiently significant Their Heads were covered with Caskets or Helmets adorn'd with the figure of two Men aiding each other to sustain and uphold one heart in the midst whereof were plumes of Feathers of the colour of fire sorting or issuing it in guise of Flames to express the ardour of their friendly Amity This Motto was engraven under their Hearts One alone animates both For on the Scymeter were seen the trunk of a Man with two heads compassed and bound with a Crown of Laurel with these Words on the bust Amity makes but one On their Bucklers was depainted each of them peeping into a Looking-Glass which instead of his Visage represented to him that of his Friend Although these Portraits were small yet that did not leave them otherwise then to be marvelously resembling each other and the famous Protogene their friend had there so counterfeited the natural that having even demonstrated their Amity upon their Faces he seemed to have found the secret to paint their hearts That was the Body of the Devise or Embleme
but also forasmuch as we had not there any Skiff to carry us to the Land Two of my Men having been willing to attempt it by swimming perished there one after another by the following and rolling of the Billows which were not yet appeased So that one man alone being left with me and not seeing from whom possibly I might have succour or recourse but that a great Ship which the Tempest had cast upon that self-same Coast but who was too far distant to permit those who were therein to hear my cryes I almost dispaired of my safety when the Gods took care to send me to be succoured by Generous Telamon The Fair Princess having surceased speaking Philiste reassumed discourse to signify unto her all the respect the inequality of their condition and qualities obliged her unto how much she had been concerned and touched with Admiration and Grief by the recital of these Misfortunes and in telling her modestly that she knew well that it was not for a Shepherdess to undertake to consolate a Great Queen she omitted not however handsomly and becomingly to tell her things on the Subject of her disgrace whence she received all the consolation she was capable of in the mournful conjuncture of her Fortune It was so late when the Queen of Lesbos permitted Philiste to retire that there was some time that Telamon was layen down and gon to bed with a Design which he had the next day to surprize Alpide at his own house before day and that this Shepherdess being entred into her Chamber found that he was already fallen asleep The fear she had to awake or disturb him obliged her to slide into the Bed as softly as he could but forasmuch as her Imagination was still full of those Wonderful Accidents and Events which she had heard repeated she could not hinder her self from employing a part of the Night to pass them in her Memory and could not almost fall asleep but that it was neer break of day She had not but began to take her rest when Telamon finished his and that he awoke through the extream impatience he had to seek Alpide that design appeared to him of such importance for the enlightning him in the Adventure of Zelie and the rest of his dear Brother that he thought he could never execute it soon enough and although Alpide concealed not himself his affection made him take the same precautions to find him which he would have had need of if the other had sought to shun it and that he had held himself upon his Guard He had the same circumspection for Philiste as she had for him the preceeding Night he arose without making any noise and went out of his Chamber and even out of his House before any Person was there awakned Aurora had not yet appeared but that he was already far off distant from his Hamlet and the first Rays of the Morning began not to appear and peep cleer but that he arrived at the River He walked some paces along the River side going towards Gonnes until he had found a Boat wherein he entred to pass to the other side for the House of Alpide was far before on the other side and almost at the foot of Mount Ossa After he had crost the River he fastned his Boat to the Branches of one of the Trees which were by the water side that he might come there again and take to it and afterwards continued his way towards Ossa Fifty Paces from the House of Alpide he found a Domestick of that Shepherds of whom he enquired News That Shepherd answered him that his Master was not at home but that he was the precedent evening gon and departed to Gonnes whence he was not yet returned Telamon fearing that this Slave had not told him the truth went even to the House pretending to have some business with him which did oblige him to stay and expect him there But as he met no Person there he returned to find this Shepherd endeavouring to make him speak and to draw some demonstration from him He had soon known almost more than he would since that he had learnt things which had been advantageous to him to be ignorant of still In effect Telamon after some other discourse having pertinently asked him divers questions concerning the Places and Persons that frequented his Master after the time that Zelie disappeared that Man replyed I cannot resolve you nor yet declare where he goeth nor whom he seeth for I concern my self only with the care of his Flock and do other things which he appoints me without enforming my self of things that import me not It is not but that I begin to be in pain for that which is happened unto him For there is very neer fifteen days that he prepared all things to make a great Journey I know not where and I believed him departed one evening by reason he gave me divers Orders for the conduct of his House and management of his Affairs during his absence when I saw him returning the same Night but so sad and besides himself that I could hardly know him Since that time his affection hath only encreased he neither eateth nor doth he almost take any Rest and spends entire Days and Nights in walking and bemoaning himself amongst the Rocks of Mount Ossa I was wholly astonished there is not two or three days past but att the time that I kept towards these places there in a certain place where he believed me not to be I heard him in the Wood which is near where he bemoaned himself saying Ah! Miserable One that I am must it be so that my returning to Tempé but that 't is to be the cause of this Misfortune my Amiable Maiden cryed he afterwards must the pain of the Crime fall upon thee and that the Innocent suffereth the torment and execution of the Guilty I soon believed that there was some Maiden with him to whom he spake and that was the cause that I had the curiosity to advance me forward very softly to see who he was but I saw him layen along upon the Ground and as he had his Face turned towards the other side and that he saw me not that made me to continue a time long enough to contemplate and ruminate upon him I observed that from time to time he wiped his Eyes as if he had wept and I heard what he yet said but I am in the wrong Great Gods to accuse youre Justice in the punishment of a Criminal No no You are not therein despised And you Divine Zelie you are not to complain since that you have not without doubt lost this Miserable Life but to reassume another much more happy But what Torments are equal to the Anguishes which devour me the Gods can they deliver me or can they deliver me to Executioners more cruel than my Pain and Grief and if thy Fair Soul can be beaten and made flat by the sweetness of the Vengeance should
it not be too fully satisfied he accompanied these words with a thousand Hick-hoxes and as since about twelve or fifseen days that he hath been in his affliction his Visage is so changed that he could not be known I am still in pain lest he should fall into some furious Malady or Disease and I would that some one had the goodness to give him a little Consolation He departed yesterday in the evening with one of his Friends who led him to Gonnes to divert him as I believe from his Grief and I know not when he will Return Whilst that that Shepherd so spake Telamon applying all the Circumstances of what he had recited him to those which he already knew of the Accident or Adventure of Zelie received as one may so say so many Mortal Wounds in his Heart as he heard words there not being one which confirmed not in him more and more the death of a Person who to him was so dear for her own self and for the interest of his Dear Tarsis What Obscurity soever could remain in the manner wherein this dismal accident happened he found but too great a Demonstration of the certainty of this Loss He knew not if it was the effect of the Crime of Alpide or that of a simple accident casually He saw well by the discourse of the Shepherd that his Master was not Innocent since that he had accused himself But the means of thinking that Alpide who was a near Relation to Zelie would have attempted at the Life of that Illustrious Shepherdess by what Interest by what Passion would he have suspected to have undertaken that Dreadful and Hainous Murder sometimes thinking of the extream Beauty of Zelie and of the great and extroardinay Passions that she was capable to inspire he doubted whether Alpide were not become in Love and if he should not be carryed away to those cruel extremities by some Transport of Jealousy Notwithstanding besides the Proximity of the Relation that was between him and this Shepherdess Defaced Rased and Abolished all the appearances of that Love whence Alpide could be able to take any Foundation of Jealousy possibly that some days before Tarsis had been able to give him some but then Tarsis was Banisht she had not seen him since the Return of Alpide Telamon therefore saw from thence that it was impossible that this Shepherd was the cause of the Death of Zelie if it were not by some casual accident and he Judged in gathering together all the Circumstances of this Adventure that this accident could be no other unless that this Shepherdess being with Alpide in the Boat where Tarsis had heard it the Night that she had disappeared she was unfortunatly fallen into the River whilst he attempted by Swimming to approach and to come to her Three things clearly demonstrated that she was fallen into the River viz. The certainty that Tarsis had to have seen two Persons presently in the Boat where he had heard her and there to have found but one alone although that Boat had not approached nor arrived at any Place this Role of Paper that they had met there the next Day and her Vail found taken hold of by some Reeds of the River and taken up by one of these unknown ones And it appeared yet rather that it was Alpide who was then with her by that which Amalecinte had repeated to him of the old Mariner who attended at that time there Alpide and Zelie by the neglect with which that same Mariner taking Tarsis for Alpide had asked him why she then did come alone In a Word by all that the Shepherd had recited him of the Preparatives that Alpide had made the preceding day for a Voyage his unexpected return that self same Night his sadness the Regrets that he had made for the Death of Zelie and the blaming himself for her loss It was not but that he had yet something that he could not spread a broad and explain and which left him some Ray or Beam of Hope He asked amongst others of himself how it was possible that she was drowned that they had not found her Body upon the Bank or in the River or in the Gulph wherein so many People had been Employed in her search during so many days and where the Water never faileth to cast forth and expel all and every Person that there is Lost then that a second Shepherd chanced to come in drew Alpide a little aside and asked him Knowest thou not how that Maiden is called which about twelve days past thy Master found her dead Body upon the Bank of the Gulph and whom I assisted to bring hither Although that that Man appear'd to have an intention to say this to the other in particular notwithstanding he spake not so low but that Telamon heard these words very distinctly They smote him all at once both in Ear and Heart and as he gave attention to what followed he heard that the Shepherd of Alpide having demanded of the other of what Body and of what Maiden he would speak the same here replyed him What then is it that thy Master hath told thee nothing at these words drawing him a little more out of the way or aside he continued to speak unto him but so low that Telamon could not hear nor understand One could not depaint nor express the trouble of Mind wherein this poor Shepherd was nor the impatience which he had in his Grief to hear the Sequel of the discourse the beginning whereof had so strangely alarmed him He was ready two or three times to interrupt them for his own enlightning nevertheless he dreamed that since they did it in secret they would make some difficulty to explain it unto him one before another and that he should be better pleased to draw out what he would in particular And for as much as he thought that the Shepherd of Alpide would possibly be more reserved by reason of the interest of his Master he retired himself in a place whence he could see when they departed themselves to go to rejoyn the other at his Passage He waited not long before he saw the second Slave reassume the way by which he was come Telamon accosted him so directly that joyning some Liberality to the Pertinency of his words he obliged him to discover himself openly My Lord said that Man I do belong to the Shepherd Nephelocrate and I ordinarily dwell at a certain place or peice of Land which he hath out of this Vally and which I make of value to him There may have been fifteen Days that I came to render him an Accompt of some disorder which hapned there I parted hence at Midnight to return because that in the time wherein we in the Nights as you know find more conveniency to walk in than the day time In passing towards the Mouth of the River I heard a Man who wept and despaired upon the Bank and being approached I saw that he