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A33049	Nature's paradox, or, The innocent impostor a pleasant Polonian history, originally intituled Iphigenes / compiled in the French tongue by the rare pen of J.P. Camus ... ; and now Englished by Major VVright.; Iphegène. English	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Wright, Major (John)	1652 (1652)	Wing C417; ESTC R3735	325,233	390

inheritance to those second Children who perchance beeing treated with moderation would bee contented with little That hee must not think to give them the portion of the Eagle which is the Arms of Polonia who leave 's nothing to the other Birds otherwise the armed Knight which is the Arms of Lithuania pretending to the booty would fight for his share of the spoile That hee had felt the pulse and sounded the dispositions of the principall Authours of that Revolt whom hee found resolved to die for the defence of their Liberties a pecious Pretext and capable to make the whole Earth rise or if they did submitt to the Crown of Polonia to participate in the Charges and Government of the State These with diverse other heads by way of advice did Iphigenes write and sent them to the King with the following LETTER SACRED MAJESTY TWo grand benefits I hope to reap by the dammage of my imprisonment One to re-purchase my self your Opinion if I have lost it or preserve it if I have yet any place in your Favour The Other to arme such indeavours for your present service as may stile mee a faithfull Servant to so Royall a Master SIR I am your subject with many others but I am besides the particular Marke of your Liberalities and Beneficence which make's mee the Blank of Envy and Detraction if Envy can have any Blank But I hope by this occasion which I have now in hand or rather in whose hāds I am to make the malice of my Enviers burst as certain venimous Creatures are observ'd to do at the smell of Roses For if Your Majesty will be pleased onely to prolong my imprisonment and authorize by your approbation according to the advice I have sent you with this present my Negociations and Proceedings I doubt not in short time to reduce unto such tearms the affairs of this Civile War that Your Majesty triumphing in the midst of your Enemies shall see them beg mercie at your Feet which I kiss with all humilitie in acknowledgement and thanks for the care you take of my inlargement out of this servitude Happie servitude amiable Prison since it is for the service of a King whose Goodness exceed's his Greatness and who deserve's that the Extremities of the Earth were the Limits of his Dominion Yet would it be inferiour to his Vertue Agreeable Prison wherein I manage the Liberty of my Country which never can have place but in the Publick Tranquilitie SIR all the fruit of War is Peace But Hee that can gather that sweet fruit blessed by Heaven and desired on Earth without watering his Palms with Blood and his Olive-Branches with Tears is hee not much happier Who doubts but the refreshing breath of gentle Zephyrus is more agreeable than the blustering blasts of rigid Boreas and that the wayes of Mildness are the best and most advantageous to Monarks who can shew by nothing better than Clemency that they are the livelie Images of the Deity This makes mee beseech Your Majesty to speak alwayes like a King in your Letters expressing your Courage and Indignation by threatnings but within your Heart to reserve inclinations to Mercy and Forgiveness Considering that you Command Men and Men that are free-born People of an haughtie Spirit and whose untractable dispositions naturally make them rather break then bend It is fit that your Majesty imitating the Divinity which you represent to us on Earth should make the voice of your Thunder be heard over the Rebell 's heads to the end the astonishment may keep them All in Fear although the Blow hit very Few And let not your Majesty stick to hazard my Life or apprehend exposing it to the Mutiny of an inraged Rabble For as I shall not preserve it but onely for your service I cannot lose it better than for so glorious a cause I would I had a thousand Lives and that it were but my losing of them all to give you a full testimonie that I am the most faithfull as the most obliged to Your Majesty of all your Subjects I shall adde this word for the consideration of Liante who amazeth all Polonia that beeing a naturall Polonian hee should espouse the Lithuanian interest Your Majesty may please to take notice that the Despair whereunto the rigorous treatment of my Father his Gardian hath reduced him compelled him to that extremity rather than the desire of disserving Your Majesty or favorising their Rebellion When I shall inform Your Majesty one day what drove him into that Desperate Course you will acknowledge that it was rather a Necessity unavoidable than any Designe accompanied with Malicious ingratitude Hereof I have daily experience by the assistance which I receive from him for the advancement of Your Majestie 's Service among these Mutiniers If by the confiscation of his Estate Your Majesty hath made him feel the severitie of your Indignation when you shall understand the truth and that his Services shall have averred his innocence and cleered his accusation hee hopes with the rest to taste the fruits of your Clemency as I am loaden with those of your Liberality Your Majestie 's most humble most faithfull and most obliged Subject Servant and Creature IPHIGENES The King having received this Packet seriously reflected upon the advice of his beloved Favorite of whose wit and vertue hee had alwayes made no meane account but nothing comparable to the esteem hee conceived of him on this occasion seeing with what Prudence and Conduct hee changed his private Disaster into the Publick good And in effect hee served the King in this occurrence as the Dolphin is said to serve Fishermen who finding him in their Nets after stroaking and caressing him cast him again into the Sea because hee leads into their hands the other Fishes which in great trains attend him as their Prince But alas as in a calme season when the Dolphins sport above the water it is the infallible presage of a storm So while Iphigenes laboured in playing to procure a publick tranquillity a Tempest arose with such impetuosity that hee had almost perished neither could it be appeased notwithstanding all his industry but by wracking the secret which hee had so many years conceal'd Whilest the King was deliberating his affairs having commanded the most trusty and best experienced of his Councill to advise concerning the meanes of quenching that fire which threatned both his States of Polonia and Lithuania with a vast ruine Iphigenes by a sodain Gust saw all his hopes upon the very brink of Destruction For Olavius seeing the great ascendant Liante had over the Spirit of Iphigenes and that Hee had no less over the King 's The Politick Lithuanian conceived that there was no better means to moare his Vessell at Anchor and secure himself from the Shipwrack that threatned his Fortune than by marrying his Daughters The aspiring to the alliance of Iphigenes was what hee desired more than hee durst hope Oh! if Amiclea's glances had penetrated

venim hath possess 't the Heart and become remediless Sight and Conversation are the two Wings of Love which beating the Wind make the flame kindle Merinda was all on fire and reduce almost to Ashes before her little wit perceived the Burning Fire is hard to take in great pieces of Wood but if it bee once lighted it is not easily quenched This Element is so active that in Penetrate's and melt's the hardest Mettalls it calcine's Stones no substance is able to resist its vivacity But that which causeth Love is yet far more subtile For it is so generally spred through the whole Universe that the Antient Philosophers esteemed it the Soule of the World Therefore the Poets did Marry Olympus with Rhea intimating that it was the Ligature of Heaven and Earth It burn's the Fishes in the midst of the Waters the Birds cannot avoid it in the Aire and much less the Creatures that are more Terrestiall Flints have secret sparkles in their hard Bodies and if Mankinde were repaired by them according to the fabulous Invention of Deucalion and Pyrrha yet should they be sensible of the Motions and Heat of Love What wonder then if Merinda who was not composed of Marble did feel the Effects of this all-conquered Fire beeing taken with the Graces of the amiable Liante I will not stand to describe the Symptomes whereby his quick-sightedness read her Disease but if Shee was forbidden to communicate to any other the Disguisement of Almeria without Disguisement Shee manifested her own Passion to him with as few Words as much Sincerity telling him that shee loved him I might give the Reader some Recreation here if I would extend my self in her Homely and Naturall Expressions For as her Face beeing no less exposed to the inclemency of the Air than the Shephard's Tabernacles or the Skins of Salomon was without Painting So her Discourse was without any Artificiall Contexture What pleasure do you imagine was this to Almeria thus wee must call Liante as long as hee shall continue in his Sheperdesse's Weeds to see her self Courted in this manner by her whom shee called Cousin for Celian Merinda's Father commanded his Daughters to use that tearm to her saying hee was her Uncle as Liante had desired him This pleasant humour contributed not a little to the diverting of the Melancholly which otherwise would have overwhelmed his Heart in that solitary Residence especially beeing in a Condition which was as strange as difficult to him to personate a Sex whereof he never had studied the Deportments However the Cassack which hee had been forced to wear made him the sooner acquainted with the long Coates and the Modesty which had been taught him afforded some Decency to his Transformation Almeria thinking onely to make a pastime of Merinda's absurd Passion pestred her self in the greatest intricacy imaginable for as there is no great difference betwixt Folly and Fury nor far from Fury to Despair that little Spark was enough to cause a furious Flame For suffering the innocent Wench to intangle her self in her Nets and feining to hearken to her Reasons imbarked her so deep in the pursuit that shee could not live without the conversation of this new Cousin And as the Fire doth refine Iron untill it becometh Steel so Love sharpning the Wits of those whom it possesseth gives them more Penetrating Reasons then are observed to proceed commonly from cold and raw Judgements Which if you will have confirmed by Example heare what Merinda sayd one day to Almeria as they were sitting alone under rhe shade of a great Elm-tree whilest their Sheep were feeding Although I am a Woman do not you think good Sir that I can keep a secret no more then a Sive hold Water for I would rather indure my Soul to bee torne out of my Body than suffer that to come out of my Mouth which my Father hath committed to my Silence You may assure your self that never any disaster shall befall you through fault of my fidelity I would rather imbrace death a thousand times than harbour so unworthy a thought And to let you see for all I am but a Country-Girl that my Soul is seated in a good place and indeed it is well-seated since it is wholly fixed to your Perfections I pray hear what project is come into my Fancy and which I will freely put in Execution if you are so contented You can pretend nothing more in the World since having killed a Man of greater quality than your self as my Father hath informed mee it is to bee supposed that all your Estate is confiscate all your Hopes lost and that the Justice which is so rigorous in this Country hath not pardoned your Memory but hath done some publick ignominy to your Effigies not beeing able to light upon your Body to punish it according to the Laws Therefore as you have covered your self with my Cleaths to secure your Person give leave to the Passion which I suffer for you that I may make use of yours which I have carefully lock't up to venter my Life by going to take down that shamefull Picture which without doubt serving as a spectale to all Passingers tarnisheth the luster of your Reputation and dishonoreth your Glory I believe you did not commit that Homicide treacherously but that it was in your own Defence or in running half the Danger the Deportments which I have remarked since I frequent your Company give mee a strong confidence that you have too much Gallantry in your mind to do an Act unbeseeming a Man of Honour If I should be surprised in this Exploit which will offend the Justice the torments that I shall indure beeing a Testimony of my Affection to you I shall expire contented for not beeing worthy enough to live to and with you I shall be glad to die for you and make you see by my constancy that in a rustick Body there is some spark of Generosity Almeria hearing such Language fall from that Silly Countrywenche's Tongue was no less astonished than Esop's Cock that scraped a Pearl out of a Dunghill or to speak more Religiously than the high Priest when hee found the Sacred Fire in the Mud. But why so amazed Almeria Do not you know that Love is the true source of Hippocrene the true top of Parnassus that the Extasies of this Passion are as many Enthusiasmes which raise the Soul above it self and that as a Squib flieth from the Earth into the Sky assoon as the Fire is applied to its Train So the clownishest Bodies do become gentile and the dullest Spirits subtilized when once they are touched with this fire Can you imagine a more Naturall and a more generous manner of discovering an ardent Affection or of demonstrating at the same time that one loveth not verbally but in effect and the most signalized of Effects which is to expose one's Life for the party Beloved than that which Merinda used to manifest to Almeria the Fire which shee had some

the next room sending their looks through the crannies and leaning their Ears to the Wall suspected there was some deceipt in the disguisement of those unknown persons and Antalcas reflecting upon Serife's resemblance of Iphis and besides hearing Calliante called by the Name of Almeria hee presently concluded that Calliante was ALMERIA and Serife IPHIS which filled those Rustick's Heads with such strange imaginations that no sleep could seize upon them for that Night Scarce had the bashfull Harbinger of the Day saluted the edge of the Horizon when Pomeran who had not closed his Eyes leaving his Companions as Guards upon Calliante went to the Justice of the place to require succour for the preventing of a violence intended against a Lady of quality The Officers of Justice in villages are a pretty sort of People For Ignorance having predominance there the Dominicall Letter is less known than the Golden Number so that their Rule is Mony and the Levell of their Justice is this Maxime of Law-Makers I give thee ' cause thou givest mee and Do thou for mee and I 'le do for thee The Springs which make this Engine move are of quick Silver The first thing they ask is who is Plaintif the next who must pay us and before hand like true Executioners of Justice Those petty Tribunalls are the ruine of the People and whereas true Justice is to give every Man his own These have the trick to rob every one of what hee hath For those thirsty Leaches suck indifferently the good blood and the bad Pomeran having spared nothing that might induce these to assist him in that Action which hee thought very important they went as the Grecian Orator said to a Golden harvest First they seized upon Calliante and the Rusticks charging Celian with Serife seeming in this execution as inflexible as Rhadamanthus But it is sufficiently known that in the Country one hand rubb's the other as well as in Citties that partly by interest partly by Favour and for respects of Parentage the Eyes of Justice are usually blinded as the brightness of the Sun is dimmed by the interposition of Mists and Clowds In what part soever it bee a Stranger is alwayes more to blame than an inhabitant of the place The Country men onely saluted the in-side of the Prison and were presently released upon Baile but Calliante found that place according to the description of the pious Trojan's descent into Avernus where the entrance was easie but the coming out very difficult Such are the Scales of humane judgements while one is up the other is down never even The Rusticks incensed with this affront and sufficiently instructed by what they had heard the Night before of the Cheat which had been put upon them resolved to bee revenged and to that end presented a Petition to their Justice desiring that those Gentlemen and the Lady also might bee imprisoned urging that they were persons disguised and who under habits different from those of their condition were come thither to plot and ingage them in some dangerous Designe Moreover that they had assumed habits contrary to their Sexes against the Lawes of the Land and Modesty and that upon farther search it would appear that Calliante was a Woman and Serife a Man which they said they would maintain with the hazard of losing their Lives and Goods This put their wise Judges to a Nor-plus yet they were not much troubled at it For seeing these contradictions they promised themselves good Fishing in that troubled Water and as the Raven in the Fable seeing a Dog and a Wolf fighting said that whosoever had the Victory hee should bee sure of a prey So by this Debate they hoped to fill their Purses beeing resolved to take with both Hands Herupon Order was given for the securing of their persons The Commons of the Village assembled in such multitudes that what could three or foure Gentlemen do in such an hubbub unless by resisting make themselves bee Butchered by ignoble Hands Besides Serife who willingly submitted herself making them signs to do the like flattering herself that only by pronouncing the name of IPHIGENES shee should dissipate all that rabble as a great Eagle Scatter's a flight of Pigeons when shee stoops among them To bee short they were all Apprehended and Committed but to severall rooms which troubled Serife not a little who thought shee should have been put with Calliante and cast the rest of the Gentlemen into strange perplexities And Boleslaüs though hee spake not all hee thought could not refrain from saying as hee passed by Serife Madam you see into what troubles your Passion hath brought us now it concern't you to take your measure so as to draw us out of this Dungeon by your power whereinto wee are cast for your Pleasure Serife knew not well construe these words of Boleslaüs For respecting his wisdom as shee ought having alwayes found her success as evill when shee rejected his Counsells as advantageous when shee followed them and gathering by his looks and tone of voyce that hee spake seriously her thoughts were in no small perplexity by this allarm which seem'd a presage of the extremity shee should suffer by that imprisonment But the short time shee had to reflect upon his advertisement and the violence of her desire to bee with Calliante caused the ballance of her judgement to incline to the worst side suffering herself to be immured in that labyrinth whence those Monsters the corrupt formalities which so disfigure the fair Face of Justice opposed her inlargement more than shee imagined Their examinations were taken severally which had as little conformity to each other as the sable Mantle of Night to the azure robe of Heaven in a clear Day Calliante said hee was a Man and beeing asked if it was not hee who not long before beeing in a Woman's habit went under the Name of Almeria he answered Yes This raised a generall laughter as if hee had been an Hermaphrodite Serife denyed that Shee was Iphis protesting that shee was a Woman and her deposition was the less believed because true Pisides fearing to displease Iphis said that hee knew not what that Lady was but hee was Iphis humble servant and that Iphis was a Man of such quality that they should finde hee had power to Judge his Judges and punish that Country with Fire and Sword if they did Him the least injury Beeing demanded what the Quality of that Iphis was hee answered that hee had Age and Wisdom enough to satisfie them himself Beeing urged to declare his own Condition hee told them hee was a Gentleman of the retinue of that same Iphis Beeing asked why hee had so disguised himself to pass my time answered hee and please him that commanded mee Argal in stead of answering to their interrogatories laughed at his Examiners to their threatnings hee returned Bravadoes which had suited better with a Man in Liberty than a Prisoner and without consideration of his Captivity speaking like a