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spirit_n	know_v	see_v	soul_n	6,285	5	4.9453	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

by degrees taken place in his heart was of a sudden changed into a violent passion For though he had seen Tullia several times before yet did it not raise in him any inclinations for her other than what her merit might raise in all that knew her but now in this little interval wherein grief appeared so amiable in her countenance he became her absolutely devoted vassal and in love with her after such a manner that he had not the least strength to oppose it and was not able to hear the reason which should have disswaded him from loving a person whose affections were otherwise disposed of and one from whom either upon occasion of that discovery or out of any consideration of her own humour he was in all probability never to expect any thing In a word love here knew no degrees but as soon as he could be said to love he might be said to do it violently insomuch that sympathizing with her in the affection wherein he saw her involved he participated thereof so far that when he turned toward Ptolomey my Brother perceived his eyes were red and big with tears For his part he had not been at all moved either at Tullia's words or the discoveries of her affection whether it proceeded from the resentment he had in heart against that Lady or that naturally he had a soul not over-susceptible of love or that all the affection it was capable of was already devoted to Marcia a Princesse of excellent beauty and one to whom he ought abundance of obligations He was already desirous to remove from that place when Lentulus fearing they might be surprised and perceaving by the discourse of Tullia that it would trouble her infinitely if she should discover that Ptolomey had heard her took him by the arm and carryed him away They went thence as softly as they had come thither and made so little noise that they were not perceaved or heard They went out of the little Isle and walked a good while ere they spoke one to another Ptolomey knew not what to say of that adventure so much was he surprized at the strangenesse of it and Lentulus whose soul was wounded by what he had seen and whose spirits were in some disorder by reason of his newly-conceived passion could not think of words whereby to expresse himself and was content onely to look on Ptolomey in whom he could not perceive the least alteration upon that accident and knew not whether he should out of considerations of compassion advise him to love Tullia or out of those of his own love and interest entertain him with the sentiments he had for her himself At last having taken some few turns they were just falling into some discourse when coming to the end of a walk that abutted upon that wherein they were they met full but with the two Ladies who had left the Arbour in a manner as soon as they had and without the least fear that they had been over-heard by any one had reassumed their walk They were all very much surprised at that meeting and particularly Tullia as being the least prepared for it and the most concerned in it Her eyes were still red with weeping which Lentulus perceiving and consequently the condition she was in could not look on her without a certain trouble and disturbance They were so neer one another that it was impossible to passe by without salutes and Lentulus submitting to the ascendent which now began to govern him could not follow Ptolomey who after a salute full of respect turned aside Emilia who took notice of his carriage not consulting at this time so much decorum as minding the friendship she had for Tullia called him and having obliged him to turn back What now Ptolomey said she to him do you shun the Ladies No Madam replyed he but it is not fit that the Son of Anthony should come neer the daughter of Cicero Enmities replyed Emilia should not be eternal and I shall not be friends with Tullia if she make no distinction between the children of Cleopatra and those of Fulvia who alone wrought all the unhappinesse of their house Both the one and the other are equally guilty by their birth replies Ptolomey nay though they were innocent enough to deserve that Tullia should wish them no hurt they cannot be so far such as to hope for any of her conversation This fierce young man not guilty of that tendernesse he was in civility obliged to would needs out of an affected malice repeat the same words to Tullia which she had sometimes said to his Brother as he had heard it related so that after this last complement he went away and would have no further discourse with Emilia In the mean time Tullia had not spoken at all though Lentulus had come to her but had fastned her eyes on the ground as being in some doubt whether she should approve the proceeding of Emilia whose intention seemed good to her but her action indiscreet enough So that her courage and the affection she had for my Brother raised no small distraction within her but when she heard those last words and saw him go away with so much disdain her face was of a sudden deprived of all colour and grief and vexation pressed upon her heart in such manner that after she had with some precipitation said to Emilia that she was not well and was not able to stand she fell into a swound in her arms Lentulus whose eye was but too much upon her ran to her and though her misfortune touched him to the very heart yet was it some joy to him to have her in his arms while Emilia sate down on the grasse and with the assistance of Lentulus layed Tullia by her and took her head upon her lap Ptolomey who had not had the time to go far thence turned about at the cry which Emilia gave and seeing though confusedly what they were doing he suspected what the businesse might be though it is possible he might not think himself absolutely the cause of that accident However though he was not subject to much love yet would he not be awanting in point of civility and consequently as to that assistance which he thought due to her sex so that when being come neer he saw her in a swound Emilia loosning her garments and Lentulus in such amazement that he knew not what to do he ran to the next rivulet and having taken up some water in both his hands he brought it and cast it on Tullia's face Whereupon she immediately opened her eyes and that time enough to see the action of Ptolomey and to perceave that it was from him that she received that assistance I know not whether the joy or the confusion she conceaved thereat were the greater but being well furnished both as to courage and reservednesse she betrayed not her thoughts of it and giving my Brother a look suitable to the different passions she was then engaged

knowing that besides the difficulties which his friend might well fear in respect of Tullia he was in the ready way by a fruitlesse love to ruine his fortunes which seemed absolutely to court him in the design which Augustus had to marry him to one of his Neeces he represented to him whatever his friendship could suggest that were most rational and most likely to prevail with him in that emergency but he took pains to as litle purpose as Emilia and that poor lover too too violently prepossessed made them both such answers as raised in them more compassion to see him so resolute then hope to see him of any other mind I am not to learn said he to them at last that in Tullia ' s aversion I have a terrible enemy to engage with nay am further satisfied that the hatred she hath for our Family is so justifiable that I should find it a hard matter to find any pretence to condemn her for it As to the design which Caesar and Octavia have upon me I know it amounts to those advantages to which the posture of my Fortune considered I could not raise my hopes nor am I ignorant that by my importunate addresses to a person that shuns me and will haply shun me while she lives I run the hazard of turning the Emperours 's good inclinations towards me into just resentments against me But there is something withal I know much better than I do all this that is that I am not able to hear any reason in the wretched condition to which I am reduced and that whatever the most enforcing arguments might produce where there is freedom of spirit will have no effect at all upon a mind fatally and unfortunately prepossessed I am absolutely perswaded added he a while after that this misfortune is an effect of the wrath of the gods against the memory of Anthony and Fulvia and that they could not revenge that of the unfortunate Cicero against his murtherers otherwise then by sacrificing their Son to the Daughter of him whom they sacrificed to their rage and ambition O Anthony O Fulvia concluded he with a sigh I refuse not to be the victime that must appease the incensed Deities and I cheerfully offer my self up to the fair Tullia to expiate the bloud you have unjustly spilt These were all the words Emilia and Scipio could get of him and a while after out of a fear to displease Emilia by depriving her of the conversation of her friend he took his leave of her in so sad a manner that it raised in her an extraordinary compassion for him and went out of the house with Scipio who would not by any means leave him but it was in such a posture and with a countenance so disturbed that it was no easie matter to know him From that day he grew more and more melancholy and affected solitude much more then he had done and if while he knew not who was the object of his passion the desire to be acquainted with it was his perpetuall torment the knowledge he had of it troubled him also after a strange manner and the lesse disturbed and moved he was at it the more he seemed to be afflicted and cast down He was seldom seen at the Emperours at Octavias or at the Princesse Julias or in any of the noblest companies of Rome and if any of his friends came to him where he ever entertained them with abundance of civility they found him so changed and different from what he was wont to be that they had not the patience to see him in that condition without concerning themselves in his affliction though they knew not the cause of it All his thoughts all his designes aimed at nothing so much as to find out an opportunity to speak once more to Tullia out of an imagination that if he could but east himself at her feet and entertain her with the discourse which his mind perpetually ran upon though her soul were made of iron he should soften it In this imagination he made a hundred passionate speeches and his love inspired him with the tendrest things any mind could be capable of but when he had sufficiently ruminated on what he would have said to her he still was to seek for the opportunity to speak with her Tullia had been in Rome but some few dayes and her abode was at her Brother's Quint us Cicero who lived after the rate of a Consular house suitably to the condition his Father had left him in but there was no likelihood Antonius should ever give her a visit at that house The Son of Cicero had for the family of Anthony a resentment which none could blame him for and though by reason of Caefars authority the factions of the Triumvirate had been reconciled and that the families among which the difference of parties had produced very fatall effects were content to be quiet and forbore openly to endeavour the revenge of past injuries yet had not that reconciliation which had put a Period to the civil wars so far reunited their hearts as to establish friendship and secure the freedom of visits nay though this had been effected among those whose enmities were grounded on more inconsiderable injuries yet those between the children of Cicero and those of Anthony and Fulvia amounted to some thing more bloody then to admit of any correspondence between them Besides young Cicero was a person of a nature much different from that of his Father he was stupid bruitish and malicious and though he smothered his resentments out of a fear to discover them against a house of a far greater fortune than his own yet is it certain that if he could have done us a mischief without any hazard to himself he would have embraced the opportunity to do it and therefore it was impossible Antonius should attempt the seeing of Tullia at her Brothers house without putting his life into manifest danger Yet was it not this fear that hindred him for that of displeasing Tullia had a far greater influence upon his spirit then that of hazarding a life that could not be of much value to him considered with the misfortune that attended it Nay he would have cheerfully ventured into that house though his enemie's without any reflection on the danger that might ensue had he observed in Tullia any sentiments different from those of her Brother but it was his unhappinesse that after he had subdued the enemies he contemned he should meet with one that was terrible against whom yet he had no arms to defend himself A hundred times did he cast himself at Emilia's feet and made use of the interest Scipio had in her to obtain of Tullia the permission to see her but once more in his life in answer to which Em●lia who had a great esteem for Antonius as also upon the intercession of his friend did all that lay in her power to perswade her Kinswoman to afford him that satisfaction But Tullia