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cause_n	bring_v	great_a	king_n	3,018	5	3.5536	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60171	Theophania, or, Severall modern histories represented by way of romance and politickly discours'd upon / by an English person of quality.	Sales, W., Sir.	1655 (1655)	Wing S371; ESTC R16110	148,797	232

take such pleasure in the discovery of the person I doubt not but the story of his life will yield you such content that you will the easilier pardon my defect of language in the relation of it Then setling himself agen to continue his discourse they heard in the wood close behind them the treading of horse and a sound of harness when starting up to see what the matter should be they perceived they were almost quite environed by a company of twelve or fourteen armed men who as they came out of the Grot rushing violently upon them he that seemed to command cryed out That is the other we look for pointing to Philocles Seise upon him and for the rest you may if you please be secure for there is no harm intended towards you But Prince Philocles being of too great a courage so tamely to yield himself stood upon his guard and the first that advanced to lay hold of him he encountred so luckily with the point of his sword beneath his arms that receiving a mortal wound in the belly he fell dead from his horse and the Prince at the same instant seising upon the reins with a marvellous activity leapt into the saddle when immediately the whole Troop having surrounded him one crying out Yield thy self and thou shalt have quarter those words animated him with such a fury that he soon stopt his speech that uttered them with a fatal thrust which entring in at his mouth pierced him quite through the throat Then seeking to disengage himself from amongst them and finding one who was the chief of the party had fast hold of his bridle with one mighty blow he cut off both his hands and so having freed himself wheeled about to gain advantage for a second encounter These more then actions of a man seeing two of their men killed and their Commander in such a condition so daunted the rest that they began to think of their defence but perceiving that Synesius and Lysander having possessed themselves of the weapons of their slain Companions came likewise to assault them one taking their hurt man behind him they immediately set spurs to their horses and with all the speed they could make fled towards a great Wood about five hundred paces distant not far from the Park-gate Philocles eager of an absolute victory pursued them close Synesius and Lysander being on foot could not accompany him otherwise then with their eyes which notwithstanding all their manhood were even ready to overflow with tears when they perceived it was impossible for them to give any assistance to that gallant Prince who being neer the Wood there issued out of the shelter thereof a body of about a hundred horse which having on a sudden hemmed him on every side immediately marched away quite out of their sight This unexpected surprisal was such an infinite affliction to the noble Synesius that notwithstanding the great resolution which in all accidents ever preserved him in an equal temper he could not forbear to break out into most grievous complaints that the hospitality of his house should against all the laws of civility be so barbarously violated and Lysander was no less sensible of the Princes misfortune But having both been Souldiers they very well knew that such accidents were the ordinary effects of war and therefore returned towards the house with a resolution to make all the force they could and immediately to pursue after them But as they were going down the hill they perceived four or five horsmen spuring up towards them which were Nicander with some other of the domesticks who told his Lord That he and Cleanthes walking in the Park without any weapons they were on a sudden set upon by a party of half a dozen horse and that not being in a posture to make any defence they had seised upon Cleanthes and carried him away with them wherefore his intent was to follow the same rout they had taken and if it were possible to deliver him out of their hands No no replied Synesius it is too late But immediately return and whilst some make ready all the horse in my own stables let others try what force they can raise in the village for we have present occasion to use all our friends Nicander not staying to reply presently returned and by that time Synesius entred into the Court the allarum which was given had brought together a great number of Country-people who without asking the cause were ready to hazard themselves upon any design and nothing seemed more irksom to them then delay of action Nevertheless he declared to them in short the reason of their assembling and having called for his Arms desired such as were sensible of the affront he had received to assist him in the just vindication of his honour To which all expressed a wonderfull readiness professing to live and die with him and Lysander having visited Prince Demetrius yet with a great caution that he should not acquaint him with any thing that had passed would needs accompany him in the action but Elentherius was left behind with order to arm all the Mariners and Sea-men that had suffered shipwrack to defend the house if occasion should be from any sudden assault They marched about two leagues upon the same rout which they imagined the other took without hearing any news of them but at last met a poor Peasant who being asked whether he had not seen such a troop replied yes too lately for they had by force taken away his horse to mount one of their companions and that about a quarter of a league thence in the valley lay their main body consisting of fiveteen hundred horse and that when they joyned they made great shoutings and acclamations of joy as in token of some notable success Synesius and Lysander easily conjectured the cause of their rejoycing but were very much troubled at the report of their number and the Country-people though before their coming forth they were so hot and defied all the world presently upon this news began to face about yet at Synesius entreaty were content to make a stand till himself with Lysander and some others went to the top of the hill to discover their strength and finding it rather more then less then was reported besides that they knew it would be impossible to make the men advance they saw indeed it would be but a vain attempt to pursue them any further and therefore with many thanks dismissing the peasants to their several habitations he with Lysander and his domesticks though with sorrowful hearts returned towards his own house But when they were within sight of the Park-wall a little on the right hand behind a Wood they heard a great clashing of weapons and arms wherefore moved with curiosity to know what should be the occasion thereof Synesius spuring his horse took a path that led directly to the place from whence the noise came where he beheld a Knight in black Arms excellently

you will vouchsafe a parley I shall upon easie terms surrender up the place into your hands I only desire a patient hearing of my wrongs the redress I will leave to your Princely inclinations But if upon the recital of my story you judge me though not blameless unworthy of your compassion and still despise that life which perhaps will appear the only means left for your preservation I shall patiently submit to my own misfortunes but you will never be able to divert that torrent of confusion which in Corastus new acquired greatness threatens the total subversion of this flourishing Monarchy Whereupon making a stop Thou do'st so gallantly said the Prince beg for thy life that I almost begin to wish thou wert less faulty or that thou hadst not spoke so well Such an undauntedness of spirit in a lawful enemy would make me ambitious to embrace his friendship but in a Subject it is an insolence so insupportable and the permission of it so destructive to the dignity of Princes that hadst thou no other crime I might in a just indignation to suppress thy arrogance sacrifice thy blood to my anger Yet I so much love the resemblance of vertue for I cannot deny the bravery of thy resolution appears no less that I am content for a while to respite thy fate and not to satisfie thy desire but the world in the candor of my actions will lend an impartial ear to the relation of thy story of which already I know so much that though thy courage were equal to thy boasting and thy security under the defence of thy arms much more then thy vanity doth suppose yet I could not doubt with far less difficulty to force a passage through them to thy disloyal heart then I have obtained this victory over my self to delay the execution of my just revenge However I give thee my word for thy security till thy discourse be ended but upon this assurance for I suppose a reconcilement impossible that thou shalt afterwards prepare in equal combat to receive the chastisement due to thy demerits though I confess I feel a strange inclination within my self to desire that thou mightst appear after a due submission worthy of Antiochus and my pardon If I do not replied Cenodoxius I am content to accept of your conditions but I am as confident to be received into your favor as I am assured you are a Prince of a generous magnanimous spirit and being born to be a King have such a publick soul that for the general good you will forget all personal injuries or particular interests In the mean while I deliver my self into your hands and in testimony I desire not henceforth to employ my sword but in your service thus prostrate upon my knees I lay it at your feet This was a strange unexpected sight to Synesius who when he heard Alexandro was gone abroad fearing some ill encounter with Eleutherius in his company went to seek him and imagining it most likely he was walked into the wood knowing the passages thereof happened presently upon the place where he and Cenodoxius were together at the very same instant that in such a submissive posture he delivered up his sword Which caused in him no little wonder for though he were ignorant who Alexandro was he very well knew Cenodoxius and that such humiliations were very contrary either to his custom or humor But he was surprised beyond all imagination when Alexandro putting forth his hand to raise him up said I receive this thy submission not as satisfactory but as the duty of a Subject yet laying aside my birth and the name of Alexandro though I will not say I should be glad to find a cause to entertain thee as a friend into my bosom I cannot deny but I wish thy actions had not rendred thee so odious By which time having spied Synesius No more they had not he replied if the prudent advice of this my noble Kinsman could have prevailed who wisely judging of the event disswaded me from the undertaking and though I inconsiderately rejected his counsel I must with pardon crave leave to embrace his person But Synesius stepping back told him he could not permit his embraces whose actions had rendred him odious to Prince Alexandro and though the neerness of his alliance had hitherto been chiefly the cause of his disgrace with the King yet he would now give that testimony of his loyalty as not to own a relation to his enemy Then with one knee touching the ground and kissing the Princes hand humbly besought him to pardon those errors he had through ignorance committed For though as he had often expressed his genius ever assured him he was a person to whom he ought to pay more then an ordinary duty and that there was something in his countenance which he believed he had formerly known yet not having had the honour to see him since he was a child and not forgetting how unhappy he was in the displeasure of his Royal master he was as far from supposing him to be the Prince as from the imagination that he would be pleased to grace that Subjects roof with his presence whose fidelity through the malicious suggestions of his adversaries was though wrongfully so much suspected When the Prince interrupting him replied I cannot dissemble that the impressions I formerly received if I had known you sooner might perhaps have made me more scrupulous in accepting the offer of your house But besides the obligation at our first encounter I have since observed such a discerning judgment in your discourses and so right a sense of honor in all your proceedings that I believed it impossible you could any way favour or be engaged in so unworthy and unjust a cause as the present war and this accident hath but by a few hours prevented the discovery I meant to make to you of the person whose life you did preserve which I am resolved so to imploy in the vindication of your honor from those scandalous aspersions of disloyaltie that the King finding his error shall at length in justice be forced to declare that they who treacherously in such difficult times deprived him of so worthy a Councellor were no less his then your enemies But for the present let me prevail with you to give a friendly entertainment to Cenodoxius for in your presence I will hear the relation of his story and in the mean while engage my promise That though I cannot easily forget the injuries past I will neither look upon him as an enemy nor yet by any outward resentment testifie that I believe him to be the author of them Whereupon not admitting any farther discourse of that subject he desired Synesius to be their guide to conduct them out of the Wood and going directly to his house whilst Cenodoxius disarmed himself went to visit Prince Demetrius and entring into the chamber heard him as he lay upon his bed utter these complaints Oh Love why art