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A49596
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Zingis a Tartarian history / written in Spanish ; and translated into English by J.M. ...; Zingis. English
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La Roche-Guilhen, Mlle de (Anne), 1644-1707.; J. M.
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1692
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Whatsoever may happen continued Philing I will die before I suffer the King of the Mogols to perish We must see Undkan and once more try the ways of Sweetness but if he persevere in his Cruelty I will openly declare my self his Enemy Almundzar approved of the generous Resolution of Philing and assured him that whatsoever he attempted for Zingis he would still stand his Friend This Day past over very sadly on the Morrow the King of Thibet went to see Undkan whom he found still Beleaguer'd by Zamar and made the more hast because he feared some secret Cruelty for they talked at Cambalu of Zingis's Death as of a thing absolutely certain Zamar and Undkan feared the Presence of this Prince who was neither their Subject nor Tributary and who they saw did ever declare himself boldly for Vertue His Arrival put them out of Countenance and Zamar was extreamly troubled at it My Lord said he to the King of Tartary I don't know whether the Design that hath brought me hither this Morning will have a favourable Success but I protest I never had a more pressing Interest than that which I have in the King of the Mogols Life It will be glorious unto you my Lord to Treat a Prince generously who you believe hath given you just cause of Offence but it would be an eternal Shame unto you to exercise an unjust Cruelty over him having so many Reasons to esteem him and to look upon him as the Greatest among Men. No body is ignorant of the Services that he hath done you and his Love for the Princess is the onely Crime you can accuse him of But my Lord In the Dignity to which Heaven hath exalted you consider what you owe to that of other Kings Shall you be Powerful only to be Unjust and will you exercise that Power over an Enemy who would not be in your Hands but that he put himself in them an Enemy all whose Steps are Glorious and on whom the Eyes of innumerable Kingdoms are fix'd that would be a ready way to confirm the Ideas which other Nations have of us they look upon us still as Scythians that is to say People without Laws without Gods and without Religion Will you imitate those barbarous Examples of Antiquity which are deservedly esteem'd frightful Prodigies And will you Sacrifice a great King for so light Reasons These light Reasons interrupted Zamar transported with Anger will not pass for such in the Hearts of Mothers as tender as I am and he who attempted to kill my Son before my Eyes and almost in my Arms can never be too severely punished for a Violence that hath cost him so much Blood and me so many Tears I am told reply'd the King of Thibet that Timur was well accompany'd when Zingis attack'd him and even that the Rules of Generosity were not at all observ'd on this Occasion seeing many Swords were at once turn'd against one Man And methinks I have also heard that the King of the Mogols saved the King of Tendur's Life oftner than once in the Wars of Ung. My Lord answered Zamar You are so well inform'd of all that concerns Zingis that it seems you have kept a particular Correspondence with him and that doubtless in our Dominions and upon these Conjectures we might justly What Madam interrupted Philing coldly Lay me in Chains as well as him and add one Injustice to another 'T is no matter from what Mouth I have learn'd the Miracles of his Life it 's sufficient that I am a very sincere and zealous Admirer of them My Lord said Unkan The Queen speaketh as an enraged Mother and you ought not to condemn her Resentment I have considered your Reasons but they have not convinced me and it would be no less than to endanger Vertue to suffer these Men to live that disquiet Kingdoms and without Reason defile the Palaces of Princes with Blood I have received Services of Zingis and Honour'd him as a Stranger whom I judged worthy of my Esteem but he abusing my Easiness remain'd at my Court to delude a young Princess and withdraw her from the Obedience which she oweth unto me and pushing on his Arrogancy to a greater height he assaulteth a Prince who is my Son because he is my Wife 's and to whom I have destin'd my Daughter and returneth incognito to Cambalu to be introduc'd into my House there to Plot secretly with the weak Taxila What do I know but he hath laid Designs against my Life and who will assure me of the Innocency of his Intentions In fine I owe this Victim to my own quiet and it 's only to lose time in vain to sollicite his Liberty I perceive my Lord answer'd Philing That his Ruin is sworn and that you cannot be oppos'd in places entirely subject to your Power But of the Humour of which I am I will never suffer this Cruelty without resenting it Probably you never fear the Wrath of Heaven nor the Scorn of Men but do you imagine that the juster part of this Portion of the World which we inhabit will suffer you to immolate the Illustrious Zingis without doing any thing for his Revenge India Persia and China will be easily mov'd and there wants only added he inspir'd by his Generosity a Prince such as I am to excite them to it and to bring into your Dominions a Storm that will soon overwhelm you He went out after this and seeing his Threats were far distant Undkan and Zamar were more incens'd than frightned at them Their first Thought was to make him to be apprehended but Almundzar and some other Tartars in whom Undkan put Confidence hindered him from proceeding to that Extremity representing unto him that it would be to arm all the Powers of the Universe against himself Zamar was not of this Opinion but she was forc'd to yield The King of Thibet would once again endeavour to see the Princess He was denied admittance into her Apartment as formerly but whilst incens'd with this Denial he meditated upon Means to humble an unjust Power the afflicted Taxila and amiable Axione lived in a sad Solitariness and were only accompanied with dismal Thoughts But what were the Thoughts of Zingis so nigh Taxila and yet so unable to discourse with her Knowing his Enemies so well he doubted not of his Misery and the Idea of Death which he had so often brav'd was less tormenting to him than his Absence from the Princess Almundzar interest'd himself as a generous Friend in Zingis's Misfortunes But how great soever his Credit was with Undkan Zamar still got the better of him He spoke boldly enough to make himself be prohibited to speak more and he had not so much as the Consolation to be able to mitigate the Incommodities which the King of the Mogols suffered in Prison Zerbin who still lay hid in the House of Zingis's generous Friend inform'd him that his Master had Six hundred of the bravest Men in the World hid in