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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03845	An epitome of the history of faire Argenis and Polyarchus, extracted out of the Latin, and put in French, by that great and famous writer, M. N. Coeffeteau Bishop of Marseilles. And translated out of the French into English by a yong gentlevvoman. Dedicated to the Lady Anne Wentvvorth; Histoire de Poliarque et d'Argenis. English	Coeffeteau, Nicolas, 1574-1623.; Man, Judith.; Barclay, John, 1582-1621. Argenis.	1640 (1640)	STC 1396; ESTC S104485	26,786	88

it fit He should returne in His Kingdome But that He should not forget to cause His greatnesse to appeare by bringing so faire an army from His Countrey that among'st the obstacles which might oppose themselves to their designe He should be able to free Her from those cares and troubles which Their separation causes that in the meane time Shee will indeavor to change Her Fathers anger and bring Him againe in His favour Which She imagines will not be very difficult considering the esteeme which He makes of His vertue Poliarchus having read this letter could not tell what to resolve The imagination of the perill and feare to be discovered caus'd Him to apprehend the journey to Court where he doubted not but His enemies were watching to surprise Him Arsidas and Timoclea fearing least He should miscarry represented Him the danger yet greater then it was But the desire He had to see Argenis made Him despise all the hazzards which they represented He then calls aside His deare friend and declares unto Him that He had rather expose Himselfe to His enemies rage then to goe out of Sicily and not see the Princesse Arsidas seeing the ardour of His passion in lieu of opposing fortifies it by the assurance which he gives Him to runne the same hazard They take leave of Timoclea unto whōPoliarchus protested to be so much obliged that it is out of His power to acknowledge the innumerable courtesies which she hath heap'd upon Him conjures her to believe that at least she hath a Crowne and a King at her devotion assures her that Hee will returne into Sicily so well accompanied that the greatnesse of His birth shall not bee doubted and that then He shall have some manner of meanes to acknowledge the good offices which His trusty friends have done him and then addes that He is going to make use of the perriwigge and beard whereof she had made Him a present to disguise Himselfe Thus with an extreame sorrow He takes His leave of this vertuous Lady which did shed an Ocean of teares at His departure He soone after arrived at Court with Arsidas His Conduct where immediately after He gives notice unto Argenis of His coming the joy which She received thereat cannot be exprest but seeing Him with a forme so different from that of Poliarchus She did shed some teares seeing in what danger He did precipitate Himselfe for Her sake on the other side the contentment which She received to see before Her eyes that which She held most deare in the world caused Her presently to leave off Her teares It was in the Temple in the middest of the devotions and sacrifices where they saw each other but it was impossible to continue this practice full of danger any longer Argenis sent Him word by Arsidas that Hee should with expedition saile into France to raise there with promptitude an army able not onely to overcome the Kings enemies but also all Sicily Arsidas undertooke to fraight a ship for that voyage under colour that he had another to make in Italy They imbarque themselves intending to hold their course towards France but the fates disposed otherwise of it In the meane time the Warre is kindled afresh and the Confederates having reunited their forces caused all the State to rebell against the King who had but foure Holds remayning in one of which being scituat in an Island He retired Himselfe with Argenis and the choyce of his trustiest Servants In this distresse Fortune brought forth new causes of trouble unto Poliarchus and the Princesse The yong King of Sardany and Corse taken with Argenis's beauty whereof the glory as well as the pictures had flowen throughout all the Universe makes a puissant Army takes His course towards Sicily and arrives with His Navy neere unto the Towne where Meleander had retired Himselfe The sight of so many Sayles frights all the Kings party as if they had beene new enemies arrived to dissipate the relickes of His fortune But the King of Sardany sends to Meleander gives Him assurance of His Army and declares Him that taking that interest which He ought in the common case of Kings He was come to assist Him and to helpe Him to chastise His subjects rebellion This new joy causes Him to open His Gates and the King Himselfe prepares to goe and receive Him in His owne shipping But being desirous to take away all suspition unto Meleander and His He commands His Navy to remaine in the roade till they had newes of Him and with a small traine goes to meete with Meleander who with a great freedome leapes into His Ship to honour Him so much the more After the complements the King of Sardany to witnesse that He had no lesse confidence then that of Sicily goes in His Gally and went in company together towards the Towne where Meleander receives Him with as much magnificence as the state of His affaires would permit Having courted a while He hastens the warre and being enflamed with the love of Argenis whom He had found much fairer then Her picture wishes for nought else but Combats desiring to make Himselfe remarkeable in them to shew Himselfe worthy of the love of so faire a Princesse Archombrotus is jealous of this new Rivall doth protest in His heart He will never yeeld Him this glory which He could not suffer that it should be enjoyed by another which was better then He who was Poliarchus These yong Cavalleers edg'd on by their passions doe wonders against the enemies But the Moore was so happy that having saved Meleanders life He with His owne hand slew the chiefe of the factious Neverthelesse the forces which the King of Sardany had brought which doubtlesse had opened the way unto the Victory seemed exceeding considerable unto the King and Court of Sicily Being all returned in the place where Faire Argenis was the onely subject of so many heroicall actions jealousie inflames it selfe the Moore though covertly imployes all his industry to chase the Princesses favour who hath His sollicitations in disdaine and detests in Her heart so visible an infidelity which tends onely to make a shamefull wound in Her constancy The King of Sardany asketh Her in marriage openly unto Her Father who dares not refuse Her after so powerfull a succour wherewith He hath newly oblig'd Him Neverthelesse knowing that His Daughter had no inclination for that Prince He makes use of all manner of artificiall delayes to feede Him with vaine hopes without breaking with Him fearing least being moved with His refusall He should turne His armes against Sicily But where art thou Poliarchus Some few months before He had shipp'd himselfe in that Vessell which Arsidas had caused to be prepar'd to sayle towards the Gaules but He was beaten with such contrary winds and His Ship was so much persecuted with tempestuous stormes that He was constrain'd to abandon it and put Himselfe under the mercy of the waves in a little Cock-boat which went and

tokens which He gave of His contentment the teares were seene to trickle downe His cheekes in such abundance that all the company was astonied thereat At the instant forgetting Himselfe a little in point of ciuility He left the Prince of France alone and drew the Moore aside as to entertaine Him more privatly and with more liberty this negligence was nothing to what followed holding of Him aside takes Him about the necke imbraces and kisses Him and gives Him the most sensible testimonies which He could wish of His affection Not contented with that He sent in all hast for His Daughter to whom as She arrived He said softly some few words accompanied with an action which seemed to be an image of joy in His heart The Princesse taking no heed to what was so neere unto Her advances to salute the Moore with visible signes of Love Poliarchus remaines astonied at this spectacle and knowes not how to behave Himselfe but judging by the good entertainment which Argenis gave unto Archombrotus that all his hopes were ruinated and that His rivall was going to triumph with His pursuits yielded unto despaire and in the bitternes of His thoughts began to say within His soule Is this then the fruit of so many paines which I have taken and so many hazards which I have runn'd to assure My selfe of the love of this prodigious inconstancy She to whom the most violent rigors of a Father with a thousand Martyrdomes ought not to have chang'd nor altered suffers Herselfe to be surpris'd by some flatteries which this Old man rounds Her in the eare What mountaines of gold What perpetuall springs of felicity have beene promissed Her thus to change Her affection and alter Her minde unfortunate Queene of Mauritania a scion of the old stock what characters and inchantments host thou made upon those letters to print upon them that force and give them that power to cause so monstruous a change and to ruinate in so small a time that which I had built with so long a patience How am I punished of the folly which I have committed trusting in the words of a Woman and unto the promisses of a Damzell whereof the cunning and lightnesse qualities unseparable to that sexe ought to have made me to suspect them more then the Winds which have brought and driven me on this infamous Shore But however If Poliarchus hath beene deceaved He can take such a cruel vengeance that neither the Authors nor confederates of this perfidiousnesse shall have no great cause to build triumphs nor erect trophies to their vanity This wretched Old man who by the artificiall deceits whereof He is full hath alwayes opposed my contentments and these two insolent Lovers who sport at the ship-wracke of my fortune shall be the sacrifices of My fury But it is not all I will also dye to the end my Ghost may pursue and persecute that ungratefull Argenis unto the Throne of the immortall Gods Before whom I will reproach Her prodigious infidelity that a thousand oathes taken in their name ought to have stayed if She had had the feeling and beliefe which She should have had of their power and justice It is apparent that it was Poliarchus His good Genius or the Tutelary Angell of Sicily which busied His Spirit in these Tragick thoughts to stay His designe and to divert Him during as much space as needed to give Meleander and Argenis time to remember themselves and to come and make their excuses As He was then upon the point to goe and execute so furious a designe and to put Meleander Argenis and His Rivall out of the world and after this bloody execution to run His sword through His body and by that meanes to leave Tragick tokens of His jealousie and despite Those who seemed to have too much neglected Him came to themselves againe and perceaving their fault went towards Him to make their excuses and discover the cause of this joy which having ravish't them out of themselves had made them to forget all civility Poliarchus finds the charmes of His fury and frensie in their discourses and reasons The Moore is acknowledged to be Argenis's Brother the Queene of Mauritania had discovered the History by Her letters and had given such good tokens unto Meleander that He could not doubt but that He was His Sonne and the true Heire of the two Crowns insomuch that Archombrotus receiving the succession of His Estates left freely the possession of the Princesse His sister unto Poliarchus who would not have changed it with a thousand Scepters Meleander seing that the most part of the assistants vnderstood nothing in these wonders and that every one desired a more particular enlightning tooke the word and making a short discourse of the voyage which He had made in Affricke during the heat of His youth avowed that He had beene enamoured of a Beauty whose favour having purchas't He had at last married Her secretly and that His affaires having called Him backe into Sicily He had left Her with child of a Sonne which was Archombrotus whom since Hyanisbe seeing Herselfe without children by the King Her husband had supposed fayning to have beene brought a bed of Him that She had beene induc't thereunto because Her Sister which was She whom He had loved seing Herselfe ready to dye in childe-bed had discovered the Secret unto Her Therefore it was not to be doubted but that Archombrotus was Argenis's Brother to whose marriage for that cause He could not aspire but left the free possession of her unto Poliarchus an Incomparable Prince and worthy the Alliance of the greatest Princesse of the earth and accordingly if ever Sicily had seene Her selfe at the height of good Fortune it was now where the destinies had brought it unto by unknowne meanes unto men that therefore all the World should give signes of a publike gladnesse and that every one should runne unto the Temples of their Gods to give them a thousand thankes for so many blessings showred downe upon His Crowne At these words the people was seene transported with a secret ravishment by giving such testimonies of joy amongst their Feasts and Sacrifices Meleander with Archombrotus consent offers the Kingdome of Sardany unto Poliarchus for Argenis's Marriage Poliarchus being marvellous well contented makes ouverture of an Alliance for Archombrotus with a Sister of His Daughter of France which doth accept this glorious party with a thousand thankes so that the two Crownes of France and Sicily remained united with such strong Bonds that it seemed the destinies would make this Alliance perpetuall On the other side Poliarchus sees Himselfe at the height of His desires seeing that He was in possession of Her whom He loved more dearely then His owne life Truely even as the rigours of a long Winter causes the Spring to be found more pleasing so all the crosses which He had suffered in this pursuit caused Him to finde the enjoying of it so much the sweeter FINIS