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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28575	The Indian history of Anaxander and Orazia wherein are mingled the adventures of Alcidaris of Cambaya, and the loves of Piroxenus / written in French by Monsieur de Boys-Robert ; and translated into English by W.G., Esq. ...; Histoire indienne d'Anaxandre et d'Orazie. English	Boisrobert, sieur de (François Le Métel), 1592-1662.; W. G., Esq.	1657 (1657)	Wing B3468; ESTC R18176	151,152	298

you did expect it with And if in times past the belly of a Queen from whence a Prince was to be born us'd to be crown'd I wonder not that you before the birth thereof approv'd it 'T will without doubt rellish again your palate which those ill lines of mine you have sometimes made me send you have much distasted It will afford you wherewithall to shorten the longest daies even of this season and means to entertain your self lone and reason too to thank me for my abence For to speak truth all visits will be uneasie to you during so sweet diversion as so fine a lecture hath prepared for you and whoever shall disturb you in it must undoubtedly receive your secret cu●se whatever complements good manners may oblige you to make shew of For me Madam who will have me believe my judgment not extremely ill and that my opinions are sound enough I must confesse that laying aside the love I bear the Author of this work I have observed many things therein which I would praise even in my enemy He will pardon me if I tell you he is one of the most acceptable liars I yet ever saw and it is very certain that I never complained of his cheats till he had done deceiving me because they lasted no longer I will not conceal my weaknesse I knew I saw the picture of a feigned thing and yet I felt as violent motions as the thing real would have stirred in me if it had been true and that I had beheld it with mine own eyes sometimes I was sorry and sometimes glad as Monsieur de Boys-Robert was pleas'd to tell me of good or ill fortune me though I was in earnest interested in the affairs of his imaginary Kings I had many fears for poor Anaxander which are beyond expression and Lisimantus misfortunes very littleless troubled my mind and in the very extremities I saw them both I offered vows for their safety at the instant when they were delivered miraculously In fine Madam although my heart be reasonably hard and my eyes not very inclinable to water some tears fell from me in spite of my teeth and I was asham'd that they were another mans dreams and visions which mov'd me to so feeling and so real sorrows and not my own evils It is a most tyranni●al power which a mans sense usurps over his reason and which manifestly shews us that the neighbourhood of the imagination is extr●mely contagious to the parts intellectual and that that proud creature which thinks 〈◊〉 made to command all others consists of a great deal more body than soul The Author of the Ethiopian History gave me many times such frights and I cannot at this day read him but with being deceiv'd As for other Romances you know I am not greedy of them and indeed the greatest part are 〈◊〉 Heliodorus's disguis'd or as the late ●ishop of Ayre said of the children that came to Theagenes and Cari●leas Marriage who so exactly resentbled their father and mother as not a hair difference I promise you Madam you shall here see what is new and the Courts true tongue speak of which you have so perfect a knowledge I confesse somewhat there is in some places a little like roesie and not entirely according to the strictnesse of our rules But I am told that those kinde of beauties become Romances and that all that manner of writing is without the reach of our jurisdiction Before I shut up my letter I have something pleasant to tell you of c. These Books are lately printed and are sold at the Kings Arms in Pauls Churchyard The Administration of Cardinal Richelieu containing the History of the most important Aff●irs of Christendom more particularly of England from Anno 1624. to 1634 A Collection out of the best approved Authors containing neer six hundred several Histories of Visions Apparitions Prophecies Spirits Divinations and other wonderful Illusions of the Devil also of divers Astrological Predictions The Man in the Moon or a Discourse of a Voyage into the Moon by Domingo Gonzales Also Nuncius Inanimatus Englished A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities concerning the English Nation by the Study and Travel of Richard Verstegan The History and Character of the Bishop● in the Reigns of Q. Elizabeth and K. James written by Sir John Harrington The Magistrates Authority in matters of Religion Or the right of the state in the Church a Discourse written by the learned Hugo Gro●ius Of Government and Obedience as they stand directed and determined by Scripture and Reason Four books by John Hall of Richmond Two Play 's of M. James Shirley The Constant Maid a Comedy and S. Patrick for Jreland That Excellent Tragedy of Bussie D' Ambois written by M. George Chapman The Philosophy commonly called the Morals written by the learned Philosopher Plutarch THE INDIAN HISTORY OF ANAXANDER AND OF ORAZIA The first BOOK As soon as the sad knowledge of Arontus death arrived at Baticalus where the King but late retired to enjoy the fruits of Lisimantus Victorie who had regained from his Enemies the Countrey of Canara As soon I say as that sad noise had run throughout the City all Sports and Passe-times ceast and their triumphant Tunes were chang'd to woefull Moanes and the unlook'd-for mourning which the Court put on spred suddainly thorowout the Kingdome of Narsinga which in that youthfull Prince had loft the flower of all their hopes This sorrow was so universall and this loss so generally felt that any man seem'd guilty without tears and none did dare although in publick to keep in his sorrow for fear of being judg'd persidious or a Traytor But the fair Orazia more than all with grief unspeakable receiv'd the knowledge of that loss and though her self obtain'd thereby three Kingdoms she could not yet endure the everlasting seperation from that only brother whom she so tenderly had loved and of whose dear regards of her she had so great assurances Her beauteous mouth which through excess of love had caused all the world to sigh sigh'd now its self through her excess of sorrow her lovely eyes which commonly were call'd the living Fountains of the Graces and of Loves were now but lasting springs of ever-flowing tears And though she strove her utmost to destroy that beauty by the clouds she daily cast upon them yet did they not forbear to send their beams abroad and shine with equall force as does the Sun sometimes betwixt two showers The Princess Lisimena whose society but lately was so sweet and acceptable to her and in whose bosome she was wont to lock in safety her displeasures and delights grew now uncapable of serving her with any consolation nay to speak truth her self much needed it This Goodly Princess whom late incensed war within the King her Fathers Country of ●eylan had drawn into those parts shar'd greatly in the common sorrow of the Kingdome which was then her sanctuary and seem'd as much