to happen by Second Causes Had not Sultan Osman irritated the Janizaries and Spahi's by throwing them into the River alive when he ran disguised through the Streets of Constantinople and found them drinking Wine in Taverns And had he not published his Design of Reforming this Militia and transporting the Imperial Seat elsewhere he had not perhaps been murthered with so much Ignominy God sent him a terrible Dream before his Death He thought he saw our Great Prophet snatching the Alcoran which he was then reading out of his Hand and taking from him by Force his Coat of Arms and striking him down with such a great Box on the Ear that he could not get up again Thou knowest he consulted the Astrologers and Interpreters of Dreams thereupon I will not report what he who was his Praeceptor said for it was plain Flattery but we saw what was foretold by the Astrologers came punctually to pass These had foretold That the Emperor should never see the Feast of Ramezan because the Star which presided at his Birth was much obscured in its Conjunction with the Planet that was then predominant which made 'em affirm he would die in a very little Time The Ignominy wherewith his Death was accompanied was an Effect of Destiny for never any of the Ozmans suffer'd so much Shame He had several Times seen the fatal Cord about his Neck without dying A Soldier in Charity lent him his Handkercheif to cover his Head which was without a Turbant He said all in Tears to his Murtherers Ye saw this Morning your Emperor upon the Throne and this Evening you are for throwing him into a Dung-Cart designed to carry Dirt into the Sea You cannot live always and God will require a Reason for this Cruelty Thou knowest his resisting of those that strangled him caused him to suffer much Pain They took hold of him by the Secret Parts and one of his Ears was cut off and carried to the Valide who expected the News of his Death The Will of God appears in this Adventure as also the Power of Second Causes Thou may'st see all this in that Journal of Ahmet Had not Marshal Crequi been in the Wars he had not perhaps ended his Days by a violent Death and had he not been so rash as to approach too near to the Enemies Works the fatal Bullet had not touched him We see hereby an Effect of God's Will accompanied with our Consent because we search by our own Choice that which we might avoid In the mean time accuse me not of Ignorance or Superstition if I have been long in entertaining thee upon a Matter in Action betwixt Man and the Devil Thou knowest that by Magick Art we number the Twelve Spirits or Angels which preside over each of the Signs of the Zodiack which govern the Nations People and Cities committed to their Care In like Manner in the secret Cabala of the Jews by the Twelve Anagrams of the great Name of God and according to the Colour of the Stones where these Anagrams were engraved they judged of the Future performing thereby Things very astonishing They have subjected our Bodies to these Twelve Signs and divided them into Twelve Principal Members But how many surprizing Things are done with the Number Seven to which they have applied the Seven Planets by Means whereof they discover the Secret of the good or evil Fortune of Men Add to this the Invocation of Spirits and the Power of Figures of Words of Herbs of Writings of holy Characters and so many other Inchantments wherewith they consult the Black Angels and thou wilt find that Men do many Wonders by this Art which they cannot do without supernatural Assistance The little Bits of Paper cut Triangular-wise which Tokta Cham. the King of Persia's Embassador caused to be thrown in the Night round about the Imperial Tent of the Great Vizir Afis in each of which there was a certain Word writ wrought more considerable Effects than the Spaniard's Inchanted Bullet which killed Marshal Crequi The Ottoman Army revolted the Day following as if possessed with Furies The most Seditious took and bound the Vizir and made him raise the Siege of Babylon And the King of Persia who had already dismissed Mustapha Aga our Envoy with the Treaty whereby he surrendred this Place being advertised of the precipitate Retreat of our Army caused Mustapha to be called back tearing the Treaty he had given him in his Presence and bad him tell his General He could not do so shameful an Action as to surrender so important a Place to an Army that was running away Hast thou ever heard of any Thing so Strange Read this Ahmet Celibi's Book and thou wilt see that all these Prodigies arrived in one Day The Historian makes no Judgment upon this Adventure he only reports it neither do I believe it was an Effect of the Enchantment of these Bits of Paper and the Characters contained in them because it is certain our Army was greatly pressed with Hunger But in Effect when Mustapha all in Tears reproached the Vizir That if he had gained but two Days Time he had made a Peace equal to a Victory Afis answered him How couldst thou with thy Tears retain an Army possessed with all the Devils of Hell and resolved to be gone If thou finish the reading of so long a Letter accuse thy Patience and reproach not me with Tediousness for having writ many Things to thee worthy of being known After the Death of the French General Breme was presently delivered to the Spaniards by the Cowardliness of the Governor who incurr'd in time a rigorous Destiny for it having his Head cut off at Casal where they had imprisoned him The Great God preserve thee and thine for ever and protect thee against the ill Will of those that do not love thee Paris 20th of the 4th Moon of the Year 1638. LETTER XIX To Murat Bassa THE Dutchess Dowager of Savoy finds her self extreamly pressed by the continual Incursions which the Spaniards make into Piemont they having besieged Vercelle a Place which covers the Country on the Side of Milan She her self appears on Horse-back with great Courage being resolved to recover what is lost as well as to defend the rest which is in some danger having joined her best Troops with great Diligence to those of France A Cardinal which they call the Cardinal la Valette commands in the Place of Marshal Crequi those Troops of France which consist of Twelve thousand Foot and Four thousand Horse Thou dost not know perhaps what these Cardinals are They be the principal Priests of the Roman Church Their Profession is not to command Armies though that sometimes happens either through want of sage Captains which these Infidel Kings may sometimes stand in need of or for other secret Reasons which are not always easie to penetrate and must be of great Importance France not wanting fit Seculars A Roman Mufti called Innocent IV. gave the Purple Habit
so terrible and so greatly damnify one of the finest Countries in the World as Greece is and this Island which is the Delight and Nurse of almost all the Provinces situated on the Banks of the Mediterranean-Sea We find also in Ireland these Mountains of Fire yet with this Difference that their Flames do no Hurt which make 'em no ways dreadful to the Inhabitants I think too I have heard my Father say That being in Company with certain Arabians in our Lycia he saw these kind of Fires come out of the Earth but they broke out gently and caused no Damage I am now perswaded of one Thing which I would never believe before which is That Old Pliny intending to relate to the Emperor Titus and leave to Posterity a Relation of the Effects of Vesuvius and a perfect Discovery of the Causes of so many prodigious Effects he therefore went himself on the Place because that in his Time this famous Mountain had cast out an horrible Quantity of Fire Stones and Ashes with so great Violence and such terrible Noise that the Effects of it were selt in Syria Africk and especially in Egypt But the Curiosity of this wretched Philosopher having cost him his Life the Romans expect still with his Return the Discovery of the secret Causes of so many prodigious Effects Take care of thine own Health and let not any of thy Patients miscarry through thy Neglect or Rashness Continue to love me though I am at a great Distance from thee Write to me sometimes and believe that I am not able to conform my self to the way of Living of Strangers amongst whom I reside I shall be always a good Mussul man and a Faithful Friend Paris 10th of the First Moon of the Year 1639. LETTER XII To the Venerable Mufti Prince of the Religion of the Turks THY Decree is very cruel to separate me without having committed any Crime from the Communion of the Faithful I have read the Holy Answer thou hast made me with great Veneration but this has not been without many Tears Thou hast not untyed the Knot of the Difficulties which perplex me but made it indissoluble So that I only live in the Certainty of having no Certitude and my Soul which is encompassed with Fear will be in Dread till Death If I do what thou proposest how shall I be sure of not failing seeing I do not understand what I ought to do I am so dull that I cannot distinguish Whether thou exhortest me to do what I have ever done or whether thou forbiddest me what I asked of thee I intreated thee to let me know Whether I might live amongst the Christians and do in Appearance what they do effectually in the Observance of the Ceremonies of their Religion And thou answerest me That the Circumcised or Faithful should have no Doubt in his Law and needs no other Precepts to observe it than the Law it self Moreover That the true Mussulman must be willing to lose his Estate his Life and Honour in the Sultan's Service That the Christians are Enemies to the True God the Emperor and Religion and that in fine one ought to sacrifice all Things not to betray this God who is our chief Master Tell me I intreat thee on my bended Knees Cannot a Man be a True Mahometan without hating eternally the Followers of Jesus And in living amongst them secretly a true Mussulman must one shew ones self to be of another Religion or pretend to be of theirs Thou wilt tell me the Alcoran speaks with great Clearness yet how many obscure Passages do we find in the Words of our holy Prophet wherein we need thy Expositions I have no Belief for Tagot neither will I give Credit to the Devil my Law expresly forbids it for I believe in one only True God who knew the Intention of our holy Lawgiver and sees what we cannot discover And the Prophet cries out That he that has such Principles leans on the strongest Prop he can ever meet with there being nothing which is able to overthrow it Disperse Reverend Sir as much as thou canst the Darkness of my Spirit I conjure thee by the Almighty Father who can make live Flesh come on the dry Bones of the Ass which dyed an hundred Years past I do not discontinue here my usual Prayers which I make in the Manner they are prescribed me by the Law with my Face always turn'd to the Side of Mecha When I fast I eat only at Night and I continue my Repast till Aurora advancing the Day gives me Light enough to distinguish black Thread from white And I pass over the Day without taking any Nourishment till the Darkness be so great that I cannot see the Eye of a Needle 'T is true I give no Alms to the Poor because I doubt Whether it be lawful to do good to those who continually move Heaven against us The Bishops here are in great Veneration they have not an absolute Authority because they depend on the Roman Prelate and the King Yet their Jurisdiction is very large the Kingdom being full of Churches and these Churches frequented by Millions of People They wear about their Necks a Golden Cross They live in publick good Lives are obliged to know all the Points of their Law they must be Doctors are obliged to Gelibacy to be Sober Hospitable Prudent Irreprehensible without coveting others Goods they must never be drunk or shed Human Blood Their Habit is a long Vest reaching to the Ground of black Silk or Violet They go little on Foot but are carried in Coaches to avoid the Wearisomness which would oppress them in a Town which seems the greatest in the World which thou wouldest do too perhaps wert thou designed to be their Sovereign Prelate The great Arbiter of the World favour by his Mercy or by an Effect of his Justice the inconceivable Honour of suffering thee to sweep during thy Life his most Holy and only Temple of Mecha in the Company of Ismael and Abraham that thou maist keep it clean without any Filth of what Kind soever Paris 10th of the first Moon of the Year 1639. LETTER XIII To the Kaimakam THE French Armies are at present in Winter-Quarters and the Court is busied in contriving what they shall do in the Spring I do not believe I writ thee any false News for it is to be believed that the Sharpness of the Winter will hinder any Thing from being undertaken before that time The Eyes of all the Court are fixed on Three Objects the King the Dauphin his Son and Cardinal Richlieu but they more carefully observe the latter than the former This Man has made himself Creatures by his Benefits the Thankfulness for which and the Hopes of new ones has bound them to his Interests Yet 't is to be believed he has more Enemies by means of the great Credit he is in with his Prince and the Occasions he finds to increase it His Anti-chamber is always full
thy Departure and when thou shalt arrive at the Place of thy Retreat forget not thy faithful Friend Mahmut who wishes thou maist prove an happpy Tutor to the Son of a Prince and a faithful Minister of a wise Emperor Paris 18th of the Second Moon of the Year 1639. The End of the Second Book LETTERS Writ by A Spy at PARIS BOOK III. LETTER I. To Muslu Reis Effendi Principal Secretary of the Ottoman Empire SCARCE had I finisht my Letter to Egri Boynou when News came from the Coasts of Provence of so extraordinary and scandalous an Event that I cannot but inform thee who art a wise and experienced Person of it and because I would have thee set it down in the Sacred Register-Books of the Empire of which thou hast the Charge Assam Bassa a Corsary of Algiers dyed at the Age of 40 Years the Relation of whose Death was attended with such horrid Circumstances that even the Enemies of the Alcoran do detest them 'T is said That being sensible he was near his End he caused two young Christian Slaves to be strangled who were nobly descended and for whose Ransom great Sums of Money might have been expected without alledging any reason for his Cruelty nay after he had confessed he had no cause of Complaint against them having observ'd from certain Tokens in their Countenances that they were of a sweet Disposition and inclined by Nature to be Faithful When he was laying out there was found a kind of fine Scarf about him with these Words embroidered on it in Letters of Gold Asam Bassa will have the handsomest of his Slaves to be buried alive with him being desirous of good Company in his Voyage into the other World The Report of so terrible an Adventure has increased the hatred of the French against us and that in so excessive a manner that I am forced to keep my self concealed lest I should by my Zeal discover my self being not able to endure the Blasphemies of our Enemies There 's no question but this cruel Monster is kept by the Black Angels in the other World God grant that so horrid a Crime may not corrupt the rest of Africk However may I be so free as to counsel you Let the Body of this Impious Wretch Assam be dug up and burnt and his Ashes thrown into the Sea to drown the Memory of him Mahmut salutes thee from the Town of the Universe the fullest of Noise and wishes thee at Constantinople or wherever else thou art a long sequel of happy Years and after Death the enjoyment of the bliss of our hundred twenty four thousand Prophets Paris 18th of the Moon of the Year 1639. LETTER II. To the Invincible Vizir Azem at the Camp under Babylon BEfore I give thee an Account Great and Magnanimous Vizir of whatever I have done to satisfie the Curiosity of Cardinal Richlieu I am obliged to tell thee how I spend my leisure Hours 'T is impossible I should observe exactly the Motions of this Court without following it and holding a Correspondence with People of all sorts as Tradesmen Soldiers Scholars Sea-men Politicians and even Musicians The Court consists of all these Professions and there are some particular Persons who are Masters of all these Sciences of which number is Cardinal Richlieu He is not content with this his Knowledge but seeks still for further Light in the Commerce of all Persons of Merit who arrive here neglecting nothing which may enrich this Kingdom with new discoveries in Arts and Sciences out of love to his Country and desire to render his Ministry more famous Thou seest by this Invincible Bassa that to keep company with Courtiers who have so many different Qualities a Man must have some for his share that he may say something in his Turn and not be always a bare Hearer of other People's Discourse For this purpose the particular Study to which I applied my self whilst I was a Slave in Sicily does much help me though not sufficiently 'T was Books I read in this Island not Men. Now knowing my Business required much Dissimulation an Awakened Mind an Especial Prudence Eloquence and Learning to speak properly in Occasions great Reading to obtain the Knowledge of Ancient and Modern Things a Refined Policy to discover or conceal ones self and to counterfeit sometimes a mighty honest Man nothing I say appeared to me more conducing to this purpose than the turning over Histories And therefore I have earnestly applyed my self to this Work And because few Books are not sufficient and a great many breeds confusion I have happily got Admission into the Acquaintance of an Ancient Learned Man whose Study consists of none but choice Books and has travelled over most Parts of the World not like Apollonius to learn the Language of Birds and Beasts but to know the Customs Laws Virtues and Defects of Nations I was first for informing my self of all the Prodigies which the God of the Jews has done in favour of that ungrateful People I afterwards enquired into the Life and Doctrin of the Messias whom the Christians Worship I also lookt into what had been done considerable at Athens and Sparta Thebes Rome and Carthage and carefully remarkt what Divinities were adored in those so famous Places and found that the Great Philosophers and Captains who made such a Noise about their Religions had at Bottom none at all Having run over what the Christians call the Old and New Testament the Histories of Josephus Xenophon Polybius Thucydides Livius and Tacitus my greatest Application has been and shall be for the future to read and meditate on the Works of the Great Plutarch especially his Lives of Illustrious Greeks and Romans related by him with so great Exactness And thus far have I arrived in this short space and here I have stopt I have learnt by the reading of Plutarch to amuse the Cardinal Richlieu to whom I offered my self two days ago and have put into his Hands the following Discourse made after the manner of Christians and have stript my self if a man may so speak of the Manner and Style of the Turks as I have done of their Habits the better to disguise Titus the Faithful Slave of the Great Amurath Great Cardinal and most Sage Minister of the greatest Christian Kings Titus of Moldavia is come to wait on you according to your Commands not to entertain you with the Riches of Asia nor in what manner by the Wisdom of your Counsels and Forces of the King your Soveraign you may destroy the mighty Turkish Empire of whom you have no reason to complain but to tell you what seems most agreeable to the Greatness of your Genius Know then Sage Moderator of the French Monarch that I shall not offer any thing which may make you hate me and repent of believing me seeing what I propose is an easie Enterprize and full of Glory Thy King has a Son who will one day inherit the Greatness and Authority of his
Years of his Life in great Austerity doing every thing our Famous Santons are celebrated for and thou shalt know what moved him to this severe Penance and to retire after this manner 'T is said That in his Youth having been threatned for some Misdemeanour with Imprisonment he hid himself in the House of a Faithful Friend lying in a Barrel covered over with Straw where was brought him privately his Diet. Whilst he thus lay concealed in the Vessel a certain Person went up into the Garret his Prison with his Hosts Sister when these two Persons thinking themselves alone came to such Familiarities as much scandaliz'd this new Diogenes who saw all that past through the Crevices of this Tub and being not able to contain his Resentments he thus passionately brake out God sees you you Wretches and Man too In a Word his Indignation was so great that the Tub or Barrel was overthrown with the Noise of which and his scrambling up the Two Lovers were so afrighted that the Gallant for haste broke his Neck down Stairs and the Nymph lay dead in a Swoon on the place This strange Surprize to all especially the Sight of so Filthy and Tragical a Spectacle so affected this young Man as made him retire from the World into the Solitude where he now remains He lives only on Bread and Water and the Aversion which he has conceived on this occasion to Women is so great that there is none dares appear before him There were two who had the Curiosity of seeing this Hermit in Mens Cloaths but they soon repented of their Visit for this Solitary full of Rage and Indignation thus welcomed them Get you gone you Daemons fallen from Heaven for Mens Destruction I know very well what you are and cannot behold you without Horrour He makes excellent Exhortations to young Men who visit him and having shewed them the Care they ought to take to live with Purity and rule their Passions to which corrupt Nature renders them subject he also exhorts them to hold a Glass before their Faces when seized with Anger or when carried forth to the Commission of any Brutish or unseemly Action My Letter is longer than I intended receive as a Mark of my Friendship the long time I have entertained my self with thee when I thought at first to speak all in two Words Give this Letter directed to thee into Zelim's own Hands it contains things which concern his Life As to what remains Love ever thy Faithful Mahmut whilst I shall pray the Sovereign of the greatest Monarchs as well as other Men that he would after this Life give us Eternal Felicity and the Grace to appear Innocent before his dreadful Tribunal at which all Men shall be Judged Paris 28th of the Third Moon of the Year 1639. LETTER V. To Zelim of Rhodes Captain of a Gally MEhemet Page of the Seraglio will deliver or cause to be delivered to thee this Letter which is written to thee by Mahmut Slave and Faithful Minister of the Great Sultan the Invincible and Happy Amurath who commands me to serve him in these Parts There is no necessity of my sending the Picture of a Man who sets forth from Leghorn for Constantinople with a design to kill thee Thou mayst easily know him seeing he has been Six Years a Slave in thy Gally Adonai the Jew sent me this Advice from Genoa so important for thy Life adding he set out with his Brother being resolved to perish or be revenged of a great Injury which thou hast done him He has fill'd Italy with Discourses of thy Cruelties He affirms That having tryed all Ways to make him a Turk seeing neither Presents not Promises could perswade him thou hast made him suffer the most cruel Torments a Man can undergo and that being laid fast asleep by a Potion which thou causedst him to take thou hast made him be castrated The Weapons he bears to rid himself of thee will strike thee without Noise so that thou needest be much on thy Guard He hides that which is to do the Business in a little Prayer-Book Revenge which does usually make Men industrious has put him upon concealing in this Manual a little poysoned Steel Dart which is inclosed with such great Art in the Leather that covers it that 't is shot thence as from a Bow and strikes with such Violence and Swiftness that the Stroak can't be avoided nor scarcely felt by him that receives it it causing not one drop of Blood to follow nor Wound to be seen so delicately tempered is the Mortal Weapon that the Man must unavoidably dye whom it hits I do not doubt but this revengeful Spirit will cunningly conceal himself so that 't will be hard to discover him But having had this Advice it belongs to thee to take care of thy self And in the mean time correct this cruel and severe Temper of thine Thou commandest a Gally mann'd with Slaves who live at thy Charge thou reckonest amongst thy Riches Three Hundred Christians who dress thy Gardens and serve thee at Sea and thou hast never remembred they are Men which may save or take away thy Life and that ranging the Seas as thou dost 't is possible thou mayst meet with the same Fortune and be made a Slave thy self Thou hast never consider'd that Death is more supportable than Slavery and that those that despise their own Lives are Masters of thine God preserve thee and incline thine Heart to use gently thy Slaves who are so useful to thee Follow my Advice thou hast Three Hundred Enemies in thine House do what in thee lies to gain their Love Learn this of a Famous Roman who made his Slaves born in his House to be nurst with the same Milk his Children were If thou art not for such an Indulgence at least cease to be Cruel otherwise thou wilt be more a Slave than those that serve thee If thou wilt not spare these People in Love to them pity their Condition and spare them in Love to thy self whereby thou wilt live in so great Tranquility as cannot be imagined The Holy Prophet guard thee from the Danger threatned thee and destroy this rash Christian who would assassinate thee Paris 28th of the 3d Moon of the Year 1639. LETTER VI. To the Invincible Vizir Azim at the Camp before Babylon THere are various Discourses here of the Grand Seignior's War-like Preparations And 't is common for People to confound here the Antient Babylon with Susa and Bagdet but this is no great matter 'T is certain all the Infidels Wishes are in thy Favour for they desire to see thee Conquerour not only of Babylon but all the East that Amurath may be the longer in his Return to Greece and choose a place far distant from the Seat of his Empire 'T is discoursed in this Court as if the Invincible Sultan carries along with him to this War Four Hundred Thousand Foot an Hundred and Fifty Thousand Horse and Two Hundred
served thee to acquire the Affection of these Two Husbands which thou knewest how to keep by thy Complacencies and blind Obedience to their Wills and by such a prudent Carriage as one may say thou wouldst force them to love thee hadst thou not done it by the Charms of thy Beauty But what shall we do in this thy Extream Affliction and in the troublesome Condition I am for the Grief thou endurest which mingles my Ink with my Tears Yet we must endeavour to be comforted with a firm Resolution not to afflict our selves but at the Loss of such things which will never be in our power to recover Thou at the loss of the Reputation which thou hast acquired of a Vertuous Woman and I at that of an Honest Man When my Father dyed 't was not all the Philosophy nor Eloquence of the Greeks which could comfort thee thy Affliction was stronger than all their Reasons and when those officious Comforters had forsaken thee thou soughtest Ease to thy Trouble in a new Spouse Him now thou hast lost but now thou art still in a Condition of hindring this Loss from being irreparable Thy Vertue has never been questioned and thou art not as yet so old but thou mayst think of another Husband Seek a Third which may make thee forget thy Sorrow for the second And if thou findest him not immediately or if thou hadst some trouble in seeking a like Comfort to thy Affliction receive in this Letter the Tears of another Mother which will shew thee there is a Woman of a far higher Condition that is more afflicted than thou art Paris is still full of the Cries and Sighs which come from a Princess of the First Rank She has now lost a great Prince her Son who is slain in a Battel which he had won by a strong Army of which he was General Read in my Letter the lively and tender Expressions of the Grief of this illustrious Mother which draw Compassion from his Enemies who are forced by the Rules of Civility to make her Visits Thus does she speak every day and hour to Persons who come to visit her and when there 's no body she thus speaks to her self This unfortunate Woman is not a Moment without sighing and one would think by her Language she intended to recall the Soul which has quitted the Body of her Son the unhappy Count of Soissons Poor Count a Son so tenderly loved and so greatly deserved it where is thy Body now to be found dyed in bloud and in that of the Enemies What Victory Where are those Glorious Marks that should give me so great Joy and which give me such Cause of Despair Why did I bring thee forth into the World unfortunate Son if I must so soon lose thee Miserable Mother Vnhappy Son How art thou a Conqueror when I see no other Trophy of thy Victory than thy Death I hear from all Parts that the Count is Victorious and yet I hear every where that his Enemies rejoyce I see dear Son all thy Domesticks that followed thee return without Wounds and yet I do not see their Master None of them can tell me where he is and in what place their General lies who fought with so great Valour and Success to his Party But they are all agreed the Battel was won that my Son is a Conqueror and that he has lost his Life Vnfortunate Fight which has made equally bewayled the Death of the Victorious General by his Mother and the Defeat by the vanquished Would to God thou hadst been vanquished thou mightest have lived I should not have bin in this condition of following thee 'T would have been no Shame to have been defeated it would have been only a Misfortune which would have been common to thee with Pompey and Hannibal to whom Antiquity had nothing to impute but their ill Fortune A sincere Reconciliation a Pardon or a Peace might make all that is past forgotten A voluntary Exile might have appeased the King's Anger and perhaps disarm'd the Cardinal my Son might have liv'd France would not have been troubled a Mother would not have been at this day comfortless and the Count 's Enemies would not have rejoyced at his Loss But to my Grief nothing of this has hapned Alas the Stay of aâ— Illustrious Family is dead unhappy Mother how are all thy Hopes vanished but good God how was this my dear Son taken out of the World I know but too well that his Enemies laid continually Snares for him Methinks I see my Son's Murtherers give him the deadly stroak in the Heat of the Fight and in the instant he was going to enjoy his Victory Ah! my dear Son Ah! unfortunate Mother why did not I breath out my last on the dead body of this Son so worthy the Esteem of all the World and whom I so dearly loved Why didst not thou too powerful Minister give me the Mortal Blow rather than let me see so sad a Tragedy Do you kill me that hear me or thou my Son give me thy Hand to descend into the Grave where thou art to be buried But my Reason fails me I must for my Son's Honour stifle these Motions of Weakness 't is true he lives no longer but he dyed in the Bed of Honour with his Sword in his Hand he dyed full of Glory he dyed Victorious and even in dying vanquished his Enemies Let us cease from shedding Tears but what do I say he dyed assassinated a Victim sacrificed to the Vengeance of his Enemies by the blackest Treason 't is clear and yet I would live No I must dye let us imitate the Greatness and Courage of those illustrious Women who threw themselves on the Pile whereon their Husâ—ands were burnt My Son is more dear to me let â—s then dye and weep no more These Tears are fruitâ—ess but let us live seeing Heaven ordains it and â—et us live to dye every day I shall have ever present â—efore mine Eyes the Death of my Son I shall see every day his bloudy Body I shall continually remember his â—espects his Tenderness for me and I shall never forget â—he tender and violate Passion which I had for this Son for whom alone I lived but at least cruel Cardinal restore me his dead Body thou hast thy Revenge he is no longer alive give this sad Consolation to a desolate Mother perhaps this Sight will work the Effect thou desirest cruel Wretch as thou â—rt it will unite my Soul to that of my Son Dear Mother if thou canst not comfort thy self by so great an Example of Misfortune to this Princess it will be hard for thy Son to say any thing which can diminish thy Grief Imitate this illustrious Woman who having suffered whatever Sorrow and Despair can do to a Mother who loves vehemently and with Reason suffers her self to be perswaded not to give en entire Victory to her Enemies who triumph still over her Son by the Grief which they see his