reason to love him no more This said hee stopt his speech which upon her not answering he thus continued I beseech your Highnesse to tell me if rather than to have Lucano dead you would bee contented to have him alive mistake me not not yours but a woman's whom he keepes and enjoyes before your face here in this Iland whilest you live like a serpent under ground for love and long of him and where because you could not dye with griefe you strive to kill your selfe with the rotting humidity and maligne exhalations of the dankish earth But be pleased I beseech you my Lady and Princesse whom I know to be discreet to tell me Is it not a strange thing that the Duke of Lucania who before was dead should be now risen againe to life who before a lover should be now a loather of his deservedly-beloved object and who formerly was a noble and loyall Gentleman should as for certaine hee now is become most perfidious and ungratefull Corianna become clay cold thereat had not the power to answer him the Dutchesse also with the Gentlewoman astonished at these strange newes stood mute like so many statues till shee her selfe at length having first dried her beteared cheekes thus said Lucano then is not dead but lives and yet is no more mine And is it possible that Lucania could bring forth and foster such cruelty and ingratitude No no the world will not beleeve it no more doe not I. Thou dream'st alack thou dream'st Carildo the constantly-good-gentle-carriage of Lucano is a cloth died in graine incapable of either spot or staine But hereupon Carildo's distinct relation of all he had seene taking for the right Lucano the true Almadero shee flung her selfe on the ground tearing her haire clothes and face and had doubtlesse kill'd her selfe in that passionate fury had not the discretion of her attendants hindered and crost that her so desperate intention Lucano on the otherside being by his loyally-loving servants conducted to the place where he landed and whither Carildo was wont to come to buy provision and to espie for the landing of any shipping was in a poore lodging provided of a poorer bed with small hope of life his griefe augmenting his feaver whilst his spirits hourely wasted Resolved then to dye he yet resolved first to be the death of the Knight that was the cause of his death Olmiro and Erinnio did by turnes the best they could to bring him out of the imminent desperation hee was in from which they could not thinke of a better or more powerfull diversion than the loathing of Corianna shewing him withall that in respect of loves being engendred by love the one should surcease to be upon the ceasing of the others beeing A correspondence in their judgement every way just for that if the hazarding ones life for any ones love was an effect not onely of affection but also of duty wherefore then since we have all of us reason to respect ever chiefly our owne good and to love our selves best should any man so love any one that loves him not as to hate himselfe to death with further telling him that amorous constancies were poeticall fables and if not that yet they could not be vertues their effects being vitious and against reason That that which was constantly to be liked and lov'd in a woman was constancie honesty modesty shamefastnesse and the like and not their opposites and unlike But Lucano arguing the case according to his passion returned them this answer My well-meaning friends the priviledge of men in health is to judge of sicknesses as they conceive of them and not according to the sicke mans paine Would not yee hold me for a madde man if I being well and you sick went about to perswade you that it is ill done to be sick and contrary to the reasons of loving a mans owne good and content with adding that your being sick makes your friends sorry disquiets your family and leades you the high-way to death and that therefore your best course were to bee well againe which if you please you may be Yet yee now perswade your selves that I can doe what I cannot thinkign that passions should bee ranked among things indifferent whereas indeede true love hath ever beene a supreame Commander and to this day exerciseth his Soveraignety not onely over reasonable men but also over reason itselfe how much more powerfully then must I needs bee tyrannized over by mine that hath beene already possessed of its sweetes and since in an examplelesse manner suspended from them by time and sufferings Thinke you that a thing so precious acquir'd with the hazard of my life and losse of my state and fortunes can be by me given over and resigned to another onely because my will and resolution you say should be to doe so You would perswade me to it out of charity to my selfe for sooth but I pray you tell me how can I expresse my selfe more charitable to my selfe than seeing a necessity of my death to dye quickly and willingly To love no more Corianna is unpossible for me nay more the meere instincts of love yet perswade mee shee is innocent and the Law wee live under enforces me to beleeve her such Againe that shee hates me I cannot beleeve nor yet dared yee tell me so Is shee having heard of my death obliged to languish perpetually Or doe the Lawes deny marriage to faire young orphan-widowes and in a plight so miserable as shee was in Corianna was borne to love me out of her voluntary noblenesse to cause mee to be slaine yea and slay mee too but innocently Corianna hath for my sake forsaken both Father and Countrey nay lived too like a worme under ground through my doings till occasion was offered her that a gentle Cavalier moved to compassion at her sufferings freed her thence and shee poore Lady was faine to accept of his courteous offer now that shee liv'd for loving me excluded and deprived both of Realme and honour Nor can I but acknowledge my selfe in some respect obliged to her Knight her new servant and am sorry that I cannot requite him since that Corianna being mine cannot be his too nor have two husbands at the same time living I therefore am necessitated to slay him with my owne hands or if he chance to kill me I shall then Heaven be my witnesse dye contentedly and dying wish him that felicity which my owne heart desired I should enjoy with my deere Corianna The disconsolated Princesse slept not all that night but spent it in bemoaning Lucano living as shee had before lamented him dead resolved the next morning to goe finde him out her selfe which because Carildo disswaded her from as both a thing unworthy of her and a subject of favour to Lucano and of triumph to the Princesse of Feacia shee bade him spare his speech and get her a few new-laid egges shee having not eaten any thing all the day before In
towards his to him unjust and ungratefull Countrey had resolved to end there his dayes yet in such a condition as he might not dye there obscurely And that as the swan if it be true that he dyes singing publisheth his death with the melody of his song even so desired he also to have his actions appeare to be such as might leave a good name behinde him so as death should gaine nothing by him save his bones onely Full well pleased was Polimero with so accomplisht a spirit remembring that contemners of fame are commonly despisers of vertue and though the desire of eternizing it be indeede in some respects a most vaine affect yet is it nothing so in such as consider the branch whence bud forth those generous acts which make a man become beneficiall to the community of humane society Beholding him therefore more observantly hee might see his upper garments and bases all over slasht and shagg'd rather with swords than with any instrument of ingenious invention so as in an habit of simple shew his quality promised very much and that too very contrary to the present being he then appeared in but in his face being the paper wherein Heaven imprints the character of good and evill might be read a constant noblenesse There also might be discerned lampes of heroicall inclinations so as neither poverty nor destiny were able either to remove the one or obscure the other wherewith Polimero was so taken as he would by all meanes beare him company to some secure place no more now for pitties sake but to satisfie the ardent desire hee had to enjoy his company Being both then come with no meane toyle to a Countrey-farme and there informed how they were by then come past Memphi to the seaward in the confines of Arabia subject to the Egyptian Polimero told him that for his part his affaires made no distinction of Countries seeing that Knight-errantry governing it selfe from one accident to another was neither observer of dayes nor provident storer for after-times and that therefore since he was come on so farre he now intended to see whether the further Arabia enjoyed with just title the surname of Happy The young Knight with his cogitations parted betweene perturbation and pleasure stood pawsing a good while without making him any answer till after having by the examination of his judgement found him to be neither Araba nor Egyptian but rather of those countries where himselfe was bred in and by consequence not to be suspected hee thus bespake him Noble Sir if you had not already so much obliged me to your merits you then had at this instant bound me to be eternally yours by this your resolution which but for doubt of arrogating too much to my selfe I should conceive to bee done in favour of mee But bee it as it bee will it cannot but constraine me to kisse your hands for it beseeching you to beleeve it employed on one that shall serve you whilst he breathes Or if I be deceived in so flattering my selfe and that you have a desire to survey those parts meerely for your pleasure and mindes sake Behold me then most ready and willing to attend and serve you If neither that nor this but that this dayes example or your pittying my youth and weakenesse moves you to leave me not unaccompanied be pleased then worthy Sir to give me leave to tell you that the profession I am of wills mee to beseech you to spare your selfe that labour Polimero having from the beginning of his suspension observed in him some concealed suspition and in its progresse many reasons which denoted a kinde of a strange reservednesse in his demeanour desirous to know what he was fram'd him this reply I cannot Sir Knight deny my going for Arabia to be a new resolution conceived in this very instant though I shall entreate you to beleeve me that to goe thither rather than else-where is to me a thing indifferent my businesse consisting wholly on the passing away of two or three moneths time nor will I tell you that my desire to wend that way is sprung from the gust I conceive from your company which I would not confesse unto you to be so though it were lest you whom I see so repleat of courtesie might pretend your selfe beholding to me for it onely this much I affirme that these countries make me hate solitarinesse and since that fortune hath made me so happy as to light on your company I would not willingly forgoe the benefit content of enjoying it but rather heartily offer for the accomplishing or furthering of any affaire of yours my person at your free dispose and service The excellent Polimero had in expressing himselfe a naturall efficacie accompanied with a kinde of winning behaviour farre from any dissimulation a quality as noble againe being discreetly employed as prejudiciall being used indifferently to all men this was it that perswaded the Knight not onely to accept but desire his company That night they reposed themselves riding the day following towards Arsinoe during which time Polimero by taking a particular survey of all his actions observed how in his discourse his minde would be often alierated from the subject treated of and then a litle after recover it selfe againe which gave him occasion oft-times to tell him smiling that surely love should be the occasioner of these abstractions in which point the other forbore a while to satisfie him yet could not at length after divers excuses and new demands choose but returne him this answer Worthy Sir I acknowledge and judge my selfe over-discourteous in concealing from you my being and affaires yet feare my proving much more injurious in drawing on perhaps by acquainting you with-them your forward goodnesse to beare a share in my perils I beseech you then to beleeve that this was the sole cause of my being hitherto silent and the obligation of obeying you the onely spurre that now pricks mee on to reveale unto you the true and whole story of my life and beeing albeit I yet know you for no other than for the most courteous Cavalier living Heere Polimero suddenly interrupting him answered Gentle Sir your knowing me in so favourable a construction is too too courteous wherein if you bee mistaken which I would bee sorry you should yet shall you not be deceived in knowing me for Polimero of Mauritania Prince of Sardinia who if before he were inquisitive of your being onely to be acquainted with you desires now to know you to the end hee may lend you his assistance in any thing he may steede you in wherein I pray you spare mee not for I assure you that the greater the danger which you propose me shall be the more shall I thinke my selfe favoured by you The young Knight exceeding glad of this offer excused himselfe in the best termes he could imagine for not having borne him the respects due to the eminencie of his quality with promising that he would yet make him
manly spirit o're-mastered by his affections after a short pause thus spake on Of the two hundred Gentlemen which accompanied as I told you Cripasso's corps fifty solemnly vowed to spend one yeares time in the search of me and in case they found me out to bring and sacrifice mee on the slaine Cripass's tombe And missing to light on mee in that yeares space though they were thence forwards freed from further seeking after me yet remain'd they in case they ever fortuned to meete me still tied to the same obligation Vnderstood that I had these unhappy newes I would needes part suddenly all perswasions of retaining me any longer proving dissoluble and to no purpose Having then procured of the Knight my hoast and friend the favour of furnishing me with compleate Armes and refused those he would have had me take for being too superfluous contenting me with those I now weare I caused to be pourtrayted on my shield the Impresa of the swan stampt in the internall part of my imagination ever since I was a childe upon the occasion of the old disasters of my poore home whereunto this new one in my conceit came neere enough It was my luck to meete ere I embarked my selfe with eight of the fifty Gentlemen of whom understanding the oath they had taken I had the fortune to absolve them of it by from some taking and to others giving their lives Come to Taranto I met with the ninth without either knowing him or he me Wee embarked both of us in the same shippe where upon his telling me whom he sought after I could have found in my heart to have fought with him then instantly but considering the ships being full of passengers I forbare till we arrived in Feacia and then made my selfe knowne unto him where gone a-shore Mars favoured my cause with the death of the pursuer And then passing over into Creete I came thence to Egypt where you found me and by your valour saved me from my second murtherers My intent now is to crosse over hence to Arabia there either to recover my kingdome or lose my life or if neither this nor that yet shall I at least see with my owne eyes the reasons that exclude me from all further hopes thereof that I may then returne me thence to the Iland my nurse and there spend and end the residue of my dayes The noble Polimero was so taken both with the relation of these passages and with the person that related them that embracing him with an affectionate respect hee thus bespake him Prince Coralbo I crave you humble pardon if in any thing I have failed to tender you the honour due to your quality whereinalthough my not knowing you might in some regard serve me for an excuse yet meane I not to steede mee therewith because my not discovering in you those indelible markes of a Prince stamptin you by nature merits just accusation But sithence it cannot now be otherwise remedied I shall endeavour to make my future service become in part an amends for my past miscarriages and will besides so you but favour me with your courteous leave be a fellow-sharer in your adventures for the being of both of us strangers in Armes and language will secure us from all dangers so that you shall not need to make your selfe knowne to any other than such whom for your affaires sake you shall reveale your selfe unto This courteous proffer Coralbo could not but accept of acknowledging him no small obligation for this his so highly-engaging favour So travelling toward Arsinoe it grew to be twilight ere they were aware that they had straid out of their way yet even then and later too the clime of Egypt is canoped with so bright a skie that there the night though deprived of its greater light is yet very brightsome and cleare the golden splendor of the starres being of themselves for not being clouded with any foggie vapours arising from below sufficiently lightsome to illuminate that portion of the earth the ayre also enjoying there a faire open horison for not being damm'd in by any neere bordering mountaines glories in having no other shade save onely such as are meerely accidentall Thus in darkened light or lighting darkenesse continued these Princes on their intended journey till almost midnight without meeting with any one of whom they could enquire the way so as now imagining they had lost it as indeed they had they were much perplext in minde their Steeds being well nigh quite tired and fainty with extreame thirst when of one side of them they might descrie glimmering a litle light yet not certaine of its being really such the interposing trees not suffering them to judge whether it were indeede such or no Coralbo desirous to be cleered of his doubt and at length through his accurate observing infallibly assured it was no starre told Polimero that for certaine there were houses neere at hand riding then towards the light they saw it vanish them in an instant yet holding on their way directly thitherward they were soone gotten into a faire large greene encircled with a pleasing row of palme-trees orderly planted about the which in an artificiall channell rowled over a bed of snow-white pible a litle christall brooke most pleasantly murmuring from thence they discerned fast by them a house with lights in many of its roomes whereat they no sooner knocked than they were courteously spoken unto but yet the porter would ere hee would open the doore needs first goe know his Ladies pleasure which was not needfull for shee appearing her selfe presently at a window courteously asked them who they were Two stranger-knights of a remote Countrey answered her Polimero who being out of their way pray to be either favoured with a nights lodging or directed where they may get one which hee endeavouring to expresse in that countrey language uttered with such difficulty that seeing the Lady returne him no answer he perswaded himselfe that shee understood him not till upon his returning to repeate his former speech shee told him that shee had already understood him howbeit shee praid him to tell her what countrey-men they were Wee are said Polimero Ausonians how Ausonians replied the Lady your pronunciation me thinkes and accent hath but small affinity with those of that Nation Yea Madame answered her then Coralbo in the pure Etrurian tongue we are indeede of Ausonia and now goe travelling abroad through the world to finde out warres and adventures The Lady now bethinking with her selfe that shee should know that voyce and accent commanded the gates to be presently opened so then the Knights demounting off their Steedes in a faire courtelage were with a paire of torches lighted into the hall where they were courteously received by the Lady accompanied with a most beautifull damosell her daughter the neere resemblance shee had with her confirming her to bee such both of them as well in gesture as countenance discovering an incomparable majesty They entertain'd these
new thoughts for being caught with the graces of the faire Princess without daring to manifest it upon examination with himselfe of her tender yeares and customes both those and these being incapable of any such affect And withall which seemed most averse to him of a nature farre from an amorous inclination a contemner of men and a mortall enemy of such of her sex who for conforming to their lovers passions shewed themselves any thing pliable to their loves And though hee hoped that time might alter her yet did the suspence of the selfe-same time also torment him for being unable to suffer the agony of such long-expecting and uncertaine hopes hee being but a traveller without either state or meanes deprived of any certaine place of abode yea and of all power to resolve of any thing excepting such as fortune might favour him withall But being unable to contrast with heaven upon re-examined deliberation with himselfe hee determined to serve her in a somewhat more than usuall manner and withall to smoother his flames by assaying if approached her they could by any meanes without her knowledge warme her Or in case nought else come of it yet should he not neede to despaire wholly were it but for the content that he hoped to receive from her most lovely presence and yet more lively because unparalled gestures and though the worst that could happened yet should hee not be the first that for nourishing his amorous hopes had beene voluntarily deceived for not yeelding himselfe up to deaths tyrannie The princely Mayden on the other side far God wot from any such thoughts beheld him with an indifferent eye onely fretting her selfe for his being such as shee could not hate Her youthfull spirit ruminated on nought else save warre and death with cruell revenges of wrongs which poore women every day as shee conceived received from men She held the subjection of her sex to be tyrannicall and conceiv'd that both Nature and the Law were therein deceived and that onely for being abased by tyrant custome it shew'd not its native vertue That it was now high time to let the world see it and by reacquiring their lost liberty to make the so inured female sex if not superior equall and companion to the other in favour whereof shee was egg'd on by examples Well knew shee that in Egypt where shee then abode the Kings had effeminated the men put them to domestick services to the distaffe and spindle to free themselves from dangers and suspitions shee had also read the Amazon's valorous enterprizes and thereupon contemplating the greatnesse of her owne spirit was confident of accomplishing the full of her intentions Wherein shee perceived but one sole difficulty which was to deprive women of their naturall feares though she beleeved them to be rather habituall than naturall Her selfe shee knew to be valorous not so much by the force of her body as by the courage of her heart shee comprehended that valour consisted in being neither carefull of ones person nor incumbred with the feares of death That the sensibility of wounds enfeebles the forces and blunts the edge of courage seeing it is the sole cause that makes it effeminate and backward in assailing and disadvantagious and slow in defending Shee therefore concluded them onely to be more valiant than the rest in whom had taken deepest roote the indifferencie of either living or dying confirmed in such an opinion by the nature of irrationall animals whereof the fiercer are not the stronger but the more courageous Since that for being endued with more force than men they would merit the title of fortitude rather than they if such vertue had its seate in bodily force that then since women were equally capable of the conceits of the minde wherefore then not of their effects too Such were her internall discourses which if they sometime tooke a turne about any passages told her of divers effects of love shee then ever sparkled out disdaine against the shee-lovers and could have found in her heart to have torne in pieces such of her sex as being rejected or slighted tormented themselves with love an affect to her thinking neither necessary nor necessiting but a simple proposition of free will an incompatibility by consequence unnaturall to love one that hates the person loving which if it be not conceiv'd shee a frensie must needs be an infirmitie of the braine to be cured with penance and fasting The day being come and the horses saddled the young woman there waited in a readinesse with her coates gathered up for the better trudging a-foote which the Princesse abhorring and failing to perswade her to make use of the benefit of the channell was therefore faine to consent that shee came along with her upon the importunity of her entreaties accompanied with such a quantity of teares that never mother shed so many for the losse of her children Causing her therefore to be put on horse-backe behinde Carasio shee asked her who shee was and whither shee meant to goe having already understood how shee was found and runne-away from Carasio she considering that no evasion could any thing steed her resolved now though not without being thereof ashamed to recite in the termes of truth the story of her selfe in such like words I redoubted Sir am the most miserable woman that ever was yet borne since whereas others miseries proceede from fortune mine spring meerely and wholly from my selfe so as though but too unworthy in all other respects yet in this above all I deserve to be pittied of no man in so much as if the unfained repentance of my faults had not enabled and prepared mee for supporting the pennance due for them with an intention to impose on my selfe others somewhat greater I should then not onely finde my selfe to be in a desperate case but should also have together with a perverse minde a lying tongue that in steede of faults and dishonour would blazon my merits and honours not so much to conceale from your knowledge my dishonesties which should indeede be buried in the center of the earth as to finde pitty in you and to gaine your better opinion At the hearing of these words the Princesse kindled as fiery-hot embers was about to make her hold her peace till upon her becomming more pliable because of Coralbo's expectation and shortning the longsomnesse of the way shee gave way to her relation My name said shee is Diatistera by Nation a Grecian and by birth of the noblest blood in Chio not because my Father possessing himselfe of its liberty became tyrant thereof but for that no other one Family in all Ionia is of more ancient memory than ours nor any ancestours more remarkeable for vertue nor renown'd for trophies than are our Forefathers I was conceived in a private estate my father then conformable to the stiles of republiques being himselfe but a Citizen though in greater estimation than the rest yet marked with no titulary dignity of
not dead and bemoaned him not The Queene who as a childe of her owne deerely tendred him was even heart-broken with griefe for him The King sollicited the Physitians for fresh Pittims and new Cordialls but nothing avail'd him since they penetrated not into the nature of the disease nor its true occasion Ridden hee had and danced too that morning but without excesse exercises to him ordinary Dined he had too but yet sparingly repletion and disorder had no place in him Deadora seeing him in such a plight too late now repenting her being the causer of it taking him by the hand warm'd it betweene hers calling to him with so many throbs and teares that happy he had he but seene them Nor did such demonstrations any way impeach the reserved modesty of her sex their neernesse in blood education and domestick amity sufficiently priviledging her so to doe At length hee came to himselfe just in that time when litle better than abandoning him for dead every ones thoughts were busied more about his funerall than life for now the King Queene Princesse and Princes were all of them parted save onely Vincirco who staid behinde with the Physicians and was now set a weeping over him as dead The King having notice thereof returned with the rest and finding him laid in warme cloathes in a feaverish fit shaking every joynt of him he began to hope the best of him And because the throng of Courtiers that came in with him might not disturbe his cure he tooke them all againe out with him leaving there onely the Queene with Deadora The former where of being told by the Physicians that the accident proceeded from some great oppression of the heart much marveyled thereat for that shee had observed him to be ever merry yet beleeving that some internall humour falling on that part had caused that accident shee ranne to her lodgings for a most delicate paste made for that purpose leaving with him her daughter and Vincireo Shee seeing the Physitians retired and her selfe all alone with Vincireo whom shee cared not for concealing her selfe from accoasting his bed-side cures the wound given by the weapons of her former sharpe by the balme of these her milder words My Princely Lord and deerest Cozen said shee I confesse my selfe faulty and pronounce my selfe most worthy of chastisement for having beene against all reason the cause of endangering your life by bringing you thus to deaths doore I confesse yea I now from my soule confesse your interesses to be full of love and most worthy of being really corresponded with an equall affection Behold mee here now my endeer'd Lord most ready to make you plenary amends Cheere then up your selfe I beseech you for loe I am disposed and immutably resolved to goe whithersoever you please Banish then from you all melancholy since I am ever yours and never will be any others which that you might be the more assured of I have not you see abhorr'd the testimony of the Prince of Pontus your Cozen and mine here present which shee expressed with an affection so sincerely-ardent as both amazed Vinciero and restor'd Gradamoro to life It is naturall for an oppressed heart to disgorge in teares in the very instant of its being eased that maligne humour that suffocated it a token of health and a signe that Melancholy departing leaves roome and way for joy to enter Right so befell it now the Prince of Cyprus hee stood a good while taking first the Princesse's hands betweene his and distilling rivulets of teares out of the fountaines of his eyes and then affectionately kissing them return'd her this answer I know not incomparable Madame when I shall be ever able to serve you conformable to the great obligation to your more than excelling courtesie You Madame cannot be faulty where you have soveraigne power nor bee subject to punishment whereas you sway the scepter over all the lawes of my affections Your nobly vouchsafing to comprehend in the better sense my interesses and out of your goodnesse to accept them in good worth is to me a supreame favour but your benignely daigning to correspond them surpasseth even all expectation of mine much more the slendernesse of my merits so as I am so farre unable from really requiring your nobly-obliging favours by deeds as I cannot finde apt words to expresse or acknowledge them For the rest could I but have thought nay hoped that the King your Father upon any earnestly-sollicitous Embassie of mine could have beene wrought to bestow you on mee I then would I protest unto you never have presumed to have preposed you your flight but being promised as you are alas what likelihood is there for you to have by his consent other husband than Erpandro And the example of your mother that I proposed you with the revenge that thereupon ensued were never by mee intended for arguments to perswade you since I knew them farre from being availeable in that behalfe but to shew you how by them you might assure your selfe that your resolution should be lesse blamed and censured Besides that I pretend not to robbe what 's any other mans for so you Madame be but pleased to make me by your noble assent but worthy I will marry you ere wee part to the end our faults if such they be may seeme by so much the lesse in the eyes of both heaven and the world The Princesse resolved both to felicitate and cure him here thus interrupts him Well my Lord to the end you may see that there is no neede of justifications behold me here at your disposure therefore so you be therewith pleased marry me a-Gods-name right now in the presence of your Cozen here who astonished to see them at that point without imparting any inckling thereof to him till then taking off his finger a rich Diamond Gradamoro having then no Ring ready reached it him to marry her therewith as instantly he did remitting the rest to another time The Physicians being called found his pulse at a good passe and the Queene come he would needs take what shee brought him to make her the Authresse of his health and then got out of his bed the day following so healthsome and blithsome as if he had not beene sick at all But then Vincireo could not forbeare from taxing him with discourtesie for the small signe of love he shewed him in this occasion of making use of him When he craving him pardon told him that at first he had concealed it with out knowing himselfe the reason why having entred into this businesse beyond all expectation and that afterwards doubting that hee would have disswaded him he was confirmed in his silence judging it a lesser evill to offend by concealing his affection than after communicating it not to follow his counsell or be in some way ruled by him And being thereupon demanded how he meant to carry the businesse now that his resolution had excluded all other either deliberation or counsell He answered