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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03395	The true history of the tragicke loves of Hipolito and Isabella Neapolitans. Englished; Amours tragiques d'Hyppolite et Isabelle. English	Meslier, fl. 1610.; Hart, Alexander, fl. 1640, attributed name.	1628 (1628)	STC 13516; ESTC S118793	47,048	162

cause to be and that your reason had had the power to disperse those vaine fantasies that had clouded your iudgement but for ought I see the worke is new to begin would to God I had beleft those presages that should haue diuerted me from comming to this place to enter anew into our wonted contestations I know Vncle that all desires tend vnto the end of their contentment You say that that of your loue is fixed vpon the soule and those perfections which you make your selfe beleeue mine is accompanied with These are still for ought I can perceiue those first dissembled protestations by which those that are seized with your passion are woont to abuse such as they finde easie of beleefe and within the bounds whereof they determine not to keepe themselues and though there might be found some men so discreet as would be content to be so limited yet loue still being become their master and hauing taken from them all power of ruling and bounding their will and bowing it to the appetites of the bodie which is most conuersant with vs it soone wearies the wit and spirit with the contemplation of things seperated from humanitie and drawes it to the pursuit of those delights and pleasures to which our sences and appetites doe leade vs. Doe you not know that the brands or Torches which they paint in Cupids hands betoken his double and different effects for as the light of the fire pleaseth the eies and reioyceth vs when we behold it onely and not feele the heate too neere vs but when it comes to burne vs we suffer then the hurt of that thing that before so much delighted vs euen so Loue hath his beginnings pleasing because he doth not at first possesse and take vp the discourse of our reason and represents nothing to vs for a while but the sweetnesse of a felicitie and contentment which he sets before vs and makes vs easily hope for but when hee hath once seized vs wholly as hee takes his possession hee dazels vs with the alluring appearances of his pleasures and putting vs into the middest of his flame melts and makes to waste from vs all the freedome of our reason and iudgement that wee had before It were better therefore good Vncle you draw back the first foot you haue set into it before the other follow it and faile you too and not to desire of me what I can neither giue nor you ought to pretend vnto You know I am vpon the point of marriage if ill hap discouer your addresses as time if you perseuere cannot long hide them you not onely ruine this my fortune which brings mee profit if not contentment but with it my reputation and be assured if I giue you not a most ample content it is not want of will but power This discourse which Hipolito beleeued to come from a sincere truth and not mingled with dissimulation sent him backe to his old feuer and made him speake thus Neece why should you not conceiue my loue rather placed betweene Hercules and Mercury that is betweene Reason and Courage as ancient Academies haue painted him then betweene voluptuous pleasure and vnfaithfulnesse where you seate him Why will you not allow him vertue for his obiect before a base lust and which you forbid me too Why will you rather thinke me wicked and false then such as I am and you haue reason to iudge me I could easily answer the scrupulous ceremonies of law with which you combate me The holy Bible offers mee examples of such and things much farther in neerenesse of alliance The force of loue is diuine and may iustifie vs against all ciuill or Ecclesiasticall ordinances But I will not goe so farre nor alter the stile of my first language or ouerthrow your marriage much lesse your reputation I haue enough protested but since so vnprofitably I finde death must end my loue and despaire and I hope it will not be long first I shall not be alone vnhappie when like Timageres you happily will too late repent the ruine of your Miletus and so reuenge vpon your owne selfe your crueltie In speaking this the teares fell from his eies and drew as many from Isabella As they were taking new heart and speech the Nunne returned from her short Vespers and at the entrance of the Garden to be freed from Iulia gaue her her Psalter to deliuer her Maid willing them to prouide some collation And comming to her Brother and Neece a little smiling quoth she how now sweet hearts I am affraid you haue spent this time ill you are both so sad make mee a partner of your entertainments though I be not so cunning as you worldlings yet I am not such an innocent as my habit speakes me I haue bookes ye know of other vse then to the Church nor am I altogether vnpractized in any thing feare not to giue me your discourse for should it be euen of Loue I might be able to put in a word Of Loue Aunt answered Isabella the deuotions and walls of a Cloister allow it no entrance What answered the Nunne can you that haue read so much be ignorant of his effects in the Temple of A●ubis in Saturnes Temple at Alexandria or how little the strict guard of Danaë Laeda and many others could preuent the powerfull workings of this God There is nothing that his brands cannot fire or his arrowes pierce and I had ill spent my time in the house of your dead Mother who was the woman I loued best in this world and whose memory I doe most honour if I had learned nothing of this My Mother Aunt answered Isabella what can you say of her I was not so blest as to see her in an age fit to iudge of her condition but sure she died with a more faire and vnquestioned reputation then if her life and maners had not throughly deserued it this age would haue giuen her Neece answered the Nunne nothing vndoth vs but indiscretion your Mother was happie in placing her fauours vpon a wise and respectfull Gentleman and she of her part was in nothing vnwarie This preserued her and will keepe vp the honour and happinesse of all that ioyne it with their loue I will giue you the whole truth for I saw it The yeare I was profest Nunne it is some eighteene yeares since the Marquesse of Coria was sent to this Towne in businesse of his Maiesties he stayed here some seuen or eight moneths bestowing the time his great employments left him in the noblest exercises and most worthy his qualitie hee was some fiue and thirtie yeares old and the most accomplished man that I euer saw The Lords and Gentry to doe him honour made him many feasts and there alwaies followed Balls Masques Comedies and other pleasurable pastimes in which he would againe returne his thankes to them He tooke much pleasure in Masques for the priuiledge it gaue him of discoursing with Ladies My eldest Brother was the man