Musick as well as they and not believing that the Trees or Stones did ever dance after any Harper though some Poets have said so Thus as he would have the Constitution of the World understood without a God so he would have all the Phaenomena of Humane Nature explain'd without a Soul that so Men may be free if they please to live like brute Beasts to whom by his Argument they are not Superiour The best notion which he can bestow upon the Soul is but a Vivacious Habit of Body or the local Motion of some particles and the Beasts have that and Life possibly is an Harmonical Wind such as is convey'd by Bellows through the Pipes of Organs whom we may suppose to live as long as they breathe Discourse is nothing with him but Motion with Reaction of which a Lute-string is equally capable with any Man He obliterates all Connate Idea's of God by which Excellent persons think themselves inabled to converse with the Divine Nature as the Eye being replenish'd with a Crystalline Humour is made capable of seeing the Sun Thus Men are represented as no more fitted for Religion then Beasts But as his Doctrine raiseth Wood and Stones to the same pitch of Sense with Humane Nature it is but a small matter for him to depress it to the same Level with Beasts either in Excellency of Knowledge or Capacity of Religion It is consequent to this That the Soul is Mortal How should it be otherwise being but Motion when that ceaseth it dies And considering that many believe otherwise he adds that the Immortality of separate Souls is only a Window open'd into the dark Region of Eternal Torments by such as have been fool'd with the Demonology of the Greeks I perceive you are cloy'd with his Natural Philosophy and therefore I will set no more of it before you but give you a taste of his Ethicks But doth he acknowledge any such thing as Vertue said Bentivolio You may well make a Question of that replied Philalethes by what I have reported but I will tell you what he says and then you may judge He asserts that in the Natural state of Humanity all things are indifferent that nothing is absolutely Good or Evil and that no common Rule of Good and Evil can be taken from the nature of the Objects themselves but all things are to be measur'd by mens Appetites which have the only Power to make whatsoever pleaseth them Good He supposes men in the state of Nature to be a company of Licentious People stragling up and down the surface of the Earth without any Law obnoxious to no Authority incapable of Sin both because there are no Eternal Rules of Good and Evil of which the best Philosophers have believed the Law of Nature written upon our Hearts to be a Transcript and because no positive Commands were given to them for from whom should they receive them who were their own Lords He says that the World had never been troubled with those useless Notions of Vertue and Vice but that some proud Ignoramus introduc'd them upon an arrogant Supposition that men have Liberty of Will that is a free Principle of Action whenas by his words all the Freedom that they have is that they do not see that they have none mens Wills being like other things extrinsecally determin'd Hence he infers that either there is no Sin or that God is the Author of it who doth not only help us to Act but force us to Will teaching the vilest Persons to excuse their worst Actions by accusing those causes which with irresistible sorce necessitate them to operate as they do Thus Deliberation is rendred as a great Foolery and a Horse made as capable of Honesty as a Man and a Stone as either of them Conscience which the Good men of all Ages have ever rever'd as an in-dwelling God is despis'd by him as an Idol made by false Imagination Blame is reckon'd but a signification of Displeasure not the Imputation of a Fault His new Gospel hath abolisht ingenuous Shame and says that those whom we call our first Parents had no troublesome resentment of their Eating the Forbidden Fruit as a Crime but express'd a little Anger against God for not making them with their Cloths on as if they had been blind and did not see their skins before they broke their Creator's Orders or had no reason to blush when through an ingrateful Carelesness they devested themselves of the Innocence with which he indu'd them by doing what he had prohibited Thus he hath exterminated Sorrow for unworthy Actions which in sinners begins the Practice of Repentance and made humble Prayers by which all the World doth express a Dependance upon God as impertinent as if we should make an Oration to the Sun to day to perswade it to rise to morrow It 's true sometimes he makes bold with his own Doctrines and frets at cross Accidents and says that by reason of great Prudence one man is fitter to give Advice then another and admits of the Distinction which is made between Counsels and Commands with many other such like pronuntiations which being mingled with his assertion of the extrinsecal Pre-determination of all Actions and Events are Arguments against the Liberty of the Will compos'd much after the manner of those Horns which Mahomet saw upon the heads of some of his Monster-Angels which as he says were made of Snow and Fire Mens particular Natures being thus represented you will expect that he should appoint strange Rules to govern them when they are joyn'd in Society They would be excellent if they were proportionable to that great Conceit which he hath of his own Ability in this kind for before his time he saith the Doctrine of Civil Government was unknown and that his Prescriptions are far above any Comparison with what hath been deliver'd by the best Legislatours in the World in that the better sorts of Beasts have a more prudent Politie then Men and could promulgate better Laws if they would please to speak in such a language as we understand But some which have consider'd his new Modell affirm it to be only a fictitious supposal of a state of Humanity that never was or will be and that his several Dictates are useless Consequences drawn from false Principles and perversly applied to the Condition of Mankind which doth not only reject them as impertinent but abhor them as mischievous to the Nature and Happiness of Men. Some of his Orders suppose men to be Autochthones Intelligent Mushromes or else Pre-Adamites born before the Moon upon some Arcadian Hill others are fitted well enough for the Serpentine Brood of Cadmus or for a barbarous 〈◊〉 of Men degenerated into Beasts but they agree not with the nobler state of Mankind which by the prudent appointment of our great Creatour is derived from our Common Parents Adam and Eve whose state was never Anarchical for their Creator was their King neither were they at any
see he should have use of it gave him such a requitall upon his right Arme that he utterly spoyl'd him for that sort of Complement and that he might not be troubled with him when he should have less leisure to attend him he cut off his other Hand too having but a little before seen them both very ill employed So coming in to take part with the wrong'd Gentleman the match was equall though he saw by what was done that the two which oppress'd one had not only a Mind to hurt but also a great Ability to do it ill bestow'd upon them After a short debate Bentivolio decided the Controversie for one of them through a rash haste to do harm not taking sufficient care to prevent it left his body not so well guarded as the greatnesse of his present danger required Bentivolio not slighting such an advantage struck him such a blow under the Ribs that his Guts came forth and disenabled him from fighting any more And refusing to pursue his Victory further when two should fight with one he turn'd toward the wrong'd Gentleman and supposing by the Modesty of his looks that it was no proud fury of a mad Challenge he demanded what strange accident had brought him to such an unequall engagement and who they were that had so unworthily set upon him Good Sir said he be content that I delay to give you an answer so long as till I may secure yonder fellow whom you have justly deprived of his wicked hands from killing himself for though I esteem his life as little as he doth yet I think he may die more seasonably and his death may be us'd to some better purpose then now it can He it seems was running his head forcibly against the ground to have broke his Neck but that failing he was making full butt against a Tree to dash out his Brains The Gentleman having rescued him from himself who came thither to destroy him that saved him began to give an account to Bentivolio of what he ask'd Sir said he it is but just that I should obey whatsoever you command to whom I must ever owe my life This Fellow whose Hands you have cut off is call'd Doulogynes and though he was a Gentleman born I may not falsly call him a Woman's slave for he hath unworthily devoted himself to the unjust pleasure of a cruell Step-mother of mine and I am afraid that 〈◊〉 hither to day by her order to do the last of many disservices which I have received from her by his hands The other whom you have unbowell'd is nam'd Misokalon I never wrong'd him that I know of or gave him any such provocation that requir'd satisfaction by my Ruine only I took notice of a great change in his carriage towards me after I had reprov'd him for his Intemperate life and refus'd to assist him once in a most unrighteous design of betraying an Innocent person This other Gentleman I do not know so well as to be able to tell you who he is having seen him very seldom if more then once in all my life and I cannot but wonder how he came ingaged in this unexpected quarrell with me who never wrong'd him in the least instance Sir said the Gentleman I would you had for ever been ignorant of me for then I should not have been found in this unworthy Action But if you will so far forgive me as to hear the Cause you will more easily pardon the Effect My name is Abulus I have for some time made love to a young Gentlewoman which dwells in a house where you have sometimes visited her Brother One of the servants this Misokalon here pretended a great love to me and would needs take me aside one day to impart something to me which did nearly concern me which was that you were my Rivall but managed your Affections so unhandsomly that when you visited her under pretence of seeing her Brother you had given a Character of my self which fitted none but the Basest of persons laying several things to my charge which I did never so much as think of before He told me if I desired the usuall satisfaction I might have opportunity to ask it in this place for that he knew you had appointed to be here to day upon some other occasions This brought me hither alone but what Misokalon came for or how that man knew of my inrentions I understand not Only after I had engaged they came in barbarously upon some design of their own though I earnestly desired them to desist as you know Doulogynes seeing the truth so far reveal'd and not caring what effects the full discovery might work upon one that was weary of his life confess'd that he and Misokalon had plotted the businesse but that it was wholly to gratifie the Gentlemans Mother-in-Law who had applyed Misokalon's hatred against him to serve her own Revengeful heart upon promise of Rewards they had engag'd Abulus to do that which they durst not undertake of themselves by making him an enemy upon his own score with feign'd Stories Bentivolio being well assured that this Mystery had many considerable pieces not yet related desir'd the wrong'd Gentleman to perfect the report that he might more fully understand the Particulars of that Cause of which he knew so much in the Generall that he was sure he had taken his part justly The Gentleman answer'd I am an unfortunate instance of the unhappinesse of Second Marriages As the World hath so far understood the mischief of Polygamy which ruineth Families with a promiscuous brood of severall Wives and keeps them in the everlasting fire of Emulations and Hatred that it hath wisely turn'd it out of most Nations by severe punishments and usually death enjoyn'd by wholesome Lawes so I should think they did prudently if they took a little more care to prevent the hurt of Second Marriages where the deceased Parent hath left a considerable number of Children For in that case it is accompanied with most of the forementioned mischiefs jealous Feares Suspicions encreas'd by suspicions mutuall Hatreds and cruell undermining of the Interests of the former Brood By which means a Step dame is become a name of Reproach and dishonorable Application being seldom destitute of an ill Nature except in an inconsiderable number who are endued with rare Vertue I did never wonder that the King of Glory requir'd the honorable Ministers of his Kingdom to be such as could govern their own Families well for it was fit they should give a proof of their abilities for his service by the exemplary order of their own Houses but I understood not why he would have them the Husbands of one Wife but when I considered the difficulty of Exemplarinesse in any thing but Disorder in Families which confounded two distinct generations of Children whose interests are much separated by the Second Wife I admired the excellent coherence of his most prudent Rules Pardon Good Sir If I speak more feelingly
a warm Sun whilst Anaxanacton's Subjects wearied the Malice of their Tormentors with an unconquerable Patience and by the generous Testimony which they gave to Truth reconcil'd their mortal Enemies to the belief of that which they persecuted and to a most sincere Love of those whom but a little before they perfectly hated If Mahomet had made use of no other Means to serve his Design his Name would long since have been forgotten in the World but as his Religion in which he craftily made an honourable mention of Anaxanacton is contemptible in it self being a kind of Cento made up of Rites stollen partly from the Jews partly from the Pagans and some borrow'd from the Christians he fill'd it with ridiculous Fables absurd Stories perswades Obedience with obscene Promises and expresseth a base Condescension humoring the lowest sort of Life the worst of Men willingly observing his foolish Orders whilst they pleas'd themselves in hope to be admitted at last into a brave Seraglio for their Heaven and instead of Paradise to be put into a Gynaeceum Yet the subtil Lunatick perceiv'd that this would not effect what he aim'd at without the use of Arms and therefore as soon as he had multiplied his Disciples to a competent Number by fraudulent Arts he betook himself to Force and so order'd his way to make Proselytes that those whom he endeavour'd to perswade to his Religion saw that they must either die or be Mahometans Which is enough to shew the lowness of the way by which that cheating Arabian made his Attempts upon the World in comparison of the Celestial Method by which Anaxanacton's successes were obtain'd But since he became Master of his Designs by politick Stratagems and force of Arms and extended his Victories to the distress of Anaxanacton's People lest you should think this a sufficient Reason for venerable thoughts of that Impostor I must tell you that you may as well think honourably of the Devil and conclude that the Worship which was given to him in former dayes was Rational because he is a Cunning and Powerful Being I must also let you know that that Fatal Accident his unhappy Invasion of Christendom is a Permission of the Divine Providence of which we may easily give an Accompt For as it was but fit that the degenerate Jews having revolted from the Ingenuous Simplicity of their Ancestors should be punish'd by the Romans especially since they rejected and murther'd the promis'd Messiab who came after he had been long expected according to many Divine Predictions so it was just that false Christians should be chastis'd by the insolent Turk for Apostatizing from the true Faith and sincere Obedience of the Primitive times and I heartily pray that the growing Sins of the Western Europe may not make way for his further Progress into these parts of the World Because you question'd as I remember added Bentivolio still addressing himself to Antigraphus the whole Story whereupon all that I have said is grounded it is necessary as a Period to this Discourse to assert the Credibility of that Holy Book in which it is written Before I attempt that possibly it were not amiss if I should crave leave to ask you the Reasons for which you doubt of it and to desire you to say what would assure you of its Truth if your demands were answer'd But because that would extend this present Entercourse beyond the bounds of that Time and Patience which this worthy Company can allow I will give you a short Accompt why I believe that Story to be true and if you be satisfied with my Arguments I shall save you the labour of propounding any more Scruples This History is verified by all the Evidence of which such a Truth is capable For when Matters are question'd whose Truth depends not upon a Demonstration fetch'd from the Nature of the things themselves which makes it self manifest to all men upon the first view we must seek for Proof in good Testimony and we have sufficient witness to prove that there was such a Person as Anaxanacton and that the Narrative of his Life written by his Friends is a true History It is absurd to expect that our Saviour should be born live die rise again and ascend into Heaven in every Age neither is it necessary that God should repeat his Miraculous Testimonies continually having done it very often and convey'd the notice of those Assurances to posterity by the Records of Eye and Ear-witnesses If this be not a sufficient Evidence future Ages can never hope for any Proof of what was done in former dayes Since this sort of Demonstration is all that ought to be demanded I shall give you that Satisfaction in which you ought to acquiesce by shewing that all which I have said was done in the Presence of unexceptionable Witnesses In the Books of such as were his mortal Adversaries and therefore willing to have buried any thing which might keep his Remembrance alive in the World we find the mention of his Name and have receiv'd from some of them a Description of his Person None of them denies that he was famous for Miraculous Actions and when they desir'd to lessen the great Reputation which they reflected upon him they endeavour'd it not by affirming that he perform'd no such Works but by transferring the Effects which were really produc'd to less-worthy Causes not daring to call them Impostures but either Magical Actions or things deriv'd from Astral Influences and which had been equall'd by others They have recorded the Manner of his Death the Time and Place of his Suffering have told us the name of the Judge that condemn'd him and under what Roman Emperour they have acknowledg'd the vast Numbers of his Followers and grant that after his Death the World was fill'd with an Honourable Estimation of his Person and express'd the fear which they had lest his Doctrine should prevail upon the Faith of the whole Roman Empire and therefore made severe Edicts and inflicted cruel Punishments not only upon the Principal Converts but innumerable Multitudes of all sorts of People to stop its Growth They confess'd the Innocent Manners of his Disciples and bore witness to the constancy of their Loyalty to Anaxanacton They have let us know how punctually his Prophecie was fulfill'd in the Destruction of that People which first rejected him the Ruine of their Temple and City notwithstanding the Endeavours of some Emperours who desired to have hinder'd its Accomplishment both by preventing the Dissolution and attempting the Restauration of those famous Structures In short some of them have also acknowledg'd that the Holy Bible which did more fully relate these things and in particular give notice that when Anaxanacton was born a God descended from Heaven to restore the World to Happiness is a most Venerable Book This Testimony is not inconsiderable because we have it from those who besides this one courtesie which they never intended as an Expression of any Good will did
are Divine Efforts who never heard of the Triennial Orgyia's of Bacchus the Fanatick Verses Enthusiastick Dreams and wild Furies of the Corybantes and by your Arts make those tremble who by Nature and Education are but too much inclin'd to Panick fears But you must know that the Theoprepians are not so foolishly in love with transported Thoughts and ecstatical Affections as you imagine and that they do exceedingly despise all Enthusiastical Raptures in comparison of a humble Faith and sincere Vertue that they place them infinitely below the free use of sober Reason and esteem those possest with an high degree of Madness already who look upon Alienation of Mind as a thing desirable and equal them to such as prefer the tremulous motion of a Paralytick Arm before the steady quietness of an healthful Temper Must we admire those Actions as Divine Effects in you which we know to be the common Products of natural Causes and trouble those who are destitute of a good Health whether they will or no Who knows not to what various disturbances Melancholick persons are subject and how that Noxious humour when it grows predominant transports men into strange Thoughts and extravagant Affections especially if it be heighten'd artificially by walking in shady Groves or solitary Valleys by sitting in dark Caves or by conversation with those who are apt to affright the timorous with wild countenances gastly looks bold threatnings and other mystical devices Since this temper produceth the same Effects in Religions as it doth in other instances shall we wonder that some of you call your selves Angels when others upon as slight a ground think themselves Wolves Why may not distracted Zelots pronounce themselves Messia's when crack-brain'd Footmen have thought themselves Emperours A vehement Intention of mind to which this Temper is apt doth easily breed an Ecstatical passion and when the Phancy is once engag'd by this potent delusion men believe they see and hear what was never spoken or made visible Thus Phrenetick persons see Men Horses and Armies in the Clouds whilst they walk in the fields as sick people do the shapes of living creatures upon white walls when they lie in their beds Yet you require an Approbation of your Follies from others and command them to dance proportionably to the height or lowness of your whimsical Musick though they know the reasons of your Distemper and have observ'd what ludicrous and sometimes abominable effects have been produc'd by your mistakes The disturb'd Melancholist not being able to distinguish between an abus'd Phancy solid Reason and Divine Inspiration whilst a dark Cloud hovers over his Imagination doth usually exercise Repentance and takes the Paroxysms of a Flatulent Distemper for deep Mortifications and as the Darkness increases falls into tears and makes many Tragical expressions of Grief as if he saw more now then he did before So Children hide their heads within their bed-cloths though they see nothing when they have affrighted themselves with the shapes of Devils pourtray'd only in their Phancies When the storm is blown over the Penitent seems to be possest of heavenly Joys by the return of a Divine Spirit when it is only a change of bodily temper which might be rais'd much higher even to excessive laughter and wild dancing by the application of a Tarantula When this sick Phancy is joyn'd with a Feverish heat then the impotent Soul is fill'd with a Divine ardor if it have formerly entertain'd discontents against the present Powers it blasphemes Civil and Ecclesiastical Orders and thinks it self inflam'd with a holy Zele when it is only set on fire partly with a hellish Malice partly with adust Spirits When this temper is molested with proud desires the Ambition quickly discovers it self in a vast scorn of others and those who are infected with it proclaim themselves Kings Prophets or Popes or all these as it happened in the Peruvian Doctor mention'd by Acosta If it happen that their waking Phancies are confirm'd by nocturnal Dreams they are abundantly satisfied of the truth of their Errors though many times they tell their Accomplices in the Evening what they ought to dream in the night and divulge the next day Whilst these things are thus manag'd some By-standers who are properly dispos'd by an easie Faith are usually catch'd with Delusion and then the Enthusiast begins to think himself some great Thing though a Liar may as well conclude that he speaks true because some believe him The Contagion of Error is a common thing and most modern mistakes may easily be parallel'd by Examples which have been produc'd in all Ages The multitudes of abus'd people signifie nothing in point of assurance concerning Truth to such as have heard of the noxious Phrensy of Cybele's Priests the strange humour of the Milesian Virgins the general madness of the Abderites and the Delusion which did so soon and so generally seize upon the Paphlagonians by the contrivance of Alexander and his Assistants It is a mean excuse for chosen Delirations to say that others are infected as well as our selves however fantastical Prophets being animated with the success of their Plots upon their foolish Proselytes take confidence and think they are sufficiently warranted by the number of those that believe them to appear as Judges of the dissenting World and being possess'd with the narrow love of their own dear Herd pretend that as an authority for the hatred which they express against others as wicked Unbelievers and the whole Party being infected with that Arrogance which is incident to all little Sects they justifie their Schism by condemning the Church and excuse their Pride with Malice You would have been apt to wonder at the cold Reception which you find in Theoprepia if I had not shewed you the causes of our Incredulity And I must tell you further Hieromimus that we have more reason to be amazed at your Arrogance then you have to admire our Unbelief and I am apt to think that you would not so easily have entertain'd great thoughts of your self if you had not look'd upon us as Fools who would take mens strong Appetites for Impulses of God's Spirit and give faith to Wanderers because they are strongly deluded with Self-conceits I confess I wonder how you became so presumptuous as to suppose that we are so stupidly credulous as to believe every man that says he comes from God who besides his Boldness can shew us no reason to think so If you pretend to be sent by God upon a Divine Message you ought to produce your Letters Credential What Miracle have you done since you came into this Country What Blind man have you cur'd with a Word What Lame man have you 〈◊〉 to the use of his feet by commanding him to walk Whom have you rais'd from the Dead by Prayer You say you are Commissionated from Heaven to shew us the true way of Happiness and boast of Authority to give us Laws in God's name and so to rule our
it an hour before Antitheus divided his Army into two Bodies the Mercenaries of Theriagene and his Auxiliary Theomachians Being attended with his Life-Guard he led the Theriagenians himself whom he plac'd in the right Wing having assign'd the chief Commands to Dogmapornes who was his Lieutenant-General Philedones Pasenantius Autautus Antholkes Antigraphus Udemellon and the rest of his Confidents He chose all his under-Officers out of those whom he esteem'd most true to him His Confederate Theomachians being plac'd in the left Wing were led by their General Theostyges Those who were most of Note in the Army and chiefly look'd upon as Persons upon whose Conduct and Valour the Success of the Fight depended were Archicacus Misagathus Anosius Adicus Anaedes Androphonus Asemnus Aneleemon and Anecestus The Theoprepian Army was commanded by Theosebes for after a loving Contention which lasted a good while between the two Kings before they could determine who should give Orders and Command with a single Power each of them offering that Honour to the other and both refusing it with an equal Modesty Alethion conjuring Theosebes by the Love which had brought him into Theriagene to command his own Army and to give him leave to fight by his side Theosebes was forc'd to accept that Authority The Army which consisted of six thousand Foot and four thousand Horse was divided into two Bodies one commanded by Theosebes himself who was accompanied with the Prince of Theriagene Bentivolio and Misopseudes who desir'd the Honour to fight by him The other was put under the Obedience of Lysander to whom Panaretus Philalethes and Nicomachus joyn'd themselves every particular Regiment being led by such Commanders as inspir'd their Followers with Courage As soon as the Day began to appear the Warlike Trumpets sounding from all parts of the Camp rais'd the Souldiers to the Battel of which they were so impatiently desirous that many prevented the rising of the Sun and put on their Arms whilst it was yet dark and rousing that Warlike humour which had lien asleep since the Fight against Theromachia they gave a clear Evidence that they had not forgot the Art which they had not for a long time practis'd When they were drawn up into a regular Order in the place appointed for the Fight Theosebes and Alethion riding by the Head of every Regiment shew'd themselves to the Souldiers whom they found so inflam'd by the sight of their Enemies that they had more need to command them to make a stand then incite them to go forward The Princes said not much to them because they perceiv'd their Courage already heightned infinitely above the necessities of Exhortation However this Action was not in vain for their Hearts were kindled with a more vigorous 〈◊〉 by the Presence of their own King and the sight of the Wrong'd Prince whose Restauration they were now to attempt Those of Theriagene were destitute of a just Cause and so could not have that assistance which Valour never refuseth to take from a serene Conscience yet they appear'd with a desperate Boldness and felt in their Hearts all those Motions which Anger Hatred Hope and Desire could raise Nay they seem'd to encrease their Courage with Fear for knowing what they had done they assured themselves of the greatest Punishments if they should be conquer'd and therefore heightned their Resolutions of killing those who if they liv'd would in a little time become their Judges Both Armies having made themselves ready to march the Trumpets were commanded to give the last Signal and they resounding from the Banks of the River and multiplying their noises with the Echo's of the Wood made a delightful Terrour The two Forlorns of Horse sent from each Party gave the first Charge and laid many Men upon the ground and their Horses by them But Aristander who commanded the Theoprepians with an irresistible Force pressing upon those of Theriagene made them retreat to their Army with the loss of half their men Then the main Bodies of both Armies advanc'd towards each other and seconded what was begun with the Engagement of their whole Forces The Commanders of both sides were the first in this Charge and made a dreadful Salutation with the mutual exchange of Blows and Wounds but being encompast by their Souldiers they were forc'd to leave off their single Combats and oppose the joynt Fury of their numerous Enemies Now it was that Death began to appear with a dismal Face and to shew the awful Greatness of her Mortal Power in the Horrours of Slaughter and Confusion Alethion having espied Dogmapornes thundred upon him with a loud cry saying Now I will requite you for writing Letters for me and riding up to him with an astonishing Presence ran him through the Body and perceiving that Antholkes came up with an eager desire to revenge his Death or else to die with him Yes said the Prince he can have no fitter Companion in his Torments then you who have assisted his Sin and as he spake these words gave Antholkes leave to take his death from the point of his Sword upon which he ran himself precipitantly aiming an ineffectual Blow at Alethion's Head Philedones at the same time was thrown upon the ground by Theosebes Antitheus fought disguis'd the Fears which were created by his guilty Conscience making him flie to that mean sort of Refuge But Bentivolio having discover'd him by some token broke through those who stood in his way and leaving bloudy marks of his Passage rode up to him and gave him a blow upon the Head which would have cleft his Skull if it had not been guarded with an Helmet which was made for a more worthy Person however it made him bow down low upon his Horse's neck and his Body beginning to leave the Saddle Bentivolio prevented his Fall for he pull'd him from his Horse and carrying him before him upon the Bow of his Saddle gave him in Custody to Axiarchus one of Theosebes his Captains who knowing the Importance of his Charge plac'd him disarm'd in the middle of his Troop and watch'd him so diligently that he made his escape impossible Autautus and Proselenus did in vain endeavour his Rescue for they were both kill'd one by Theosebes and the other by Misopseudes who receiv'd a Wound in his Breast by a thrust of Proselenus his Sword Those in the left Wing did things equal to the right Lysander charg'd Theostyges the General of the Theomachians and after a few blows given with an unexpressible Courage Theostyges receiv'd one in his Neck which made it unable to support his Head and as he listed up his Hand to strike again tumbled under his Horse's Feet He was accompanied in his Death by Androphonus and Aneleemon who fell by the same hand Anosius being fiercely charg'd by Kalodoxus lost his Life with his Head which Kalodoxus cut off Sympathus Charistion and Pasiphilus signalized themselves by the Death of Misagathus Adicus Asemnus and some others who seem'd to be