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An historical romance of the wars between the mighty giant Gallieno, and the great knight Nasonius, and his associates
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Sergeant, John, 1622-1707.
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1694
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Wing S2570; ESTC R19614
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after they had had another grave Consultation what plausible Excuses it were best to give out to palliate their unwise Conduct and ill Success separated themselves and Nasonius return'd into Vtopia Where no sooner arriv'd but he found the Complaints made by the Hydra and the Vtopian Sea-Officers against Tornano were very high and heavy They alledged that this backwardness had cost the English many rude Blows but had cost the Hydra Eighteen or Nineteen Ships for which they demanded Vengeance and Justice against him Tornano put in his Plea which was bandied to and fro till the severe heat by degrees somewhat cooling his Tryal came on and as Nasonius had promised tho' with much regret of the Hydra he was acquitted To comfort Nasonius and to keep up his Heart for his ill success in Inferiana Dame Fortuna granted him the happy reduction of Lyrania by the Panym Knight Ginglero Not for his own sake whom she mortally hated but for Ginglero's as being of all the Panym Officers the most Courteous Civil and of best Conduct This Knight led his Armies through the Land of Lyrania and took divers of their Towns and Forts At length they came into a pitch'd Battle The Lyranian Army was at that time Commanded by the Politick and Valiant Luyslandian Giant hight Rutheno who with the Noble Gigantick Knight Lucanio so encouraged the Lyranian Soldiers that they thrice beat back the Panym Army and now were the Horse coming up to secure an intire Victory under the Leading of the Giant Rutheno when a Cannon Bullet did unfortunately light on that noble Giant and bereaved him of his Life which so daunted his Army his Valour giving Heart and Courage to them all that the Panyms got the Victory killed many of the Army and the rest retired into the strong City of Shannonopolis but the Places being Fifty Miles from the Sea so that no Relief or Provision could come to them by Sea or Land they with the allowance of King Eugenius Capitulated but upon such good terms that he by yielding to it as he did according to his usual Piety both preserv'd all his Subjects in Lyrania from utter Destruction and withal it was stipulated that they should have all their Liberties Immunities and Priviledges restored to them And moreover that as many Soldiers as would should be transported into Luslandia of which there went twenty Thousand All which was advis'd by the Wisdom of the Politick Giant Gallieno who consider'd that the Loyal Lyranians that Capitulated would still retain the same Principles and be ready to serve King Eugenius upon any fit Occasion and withal that this new Army of valiant Souldiers when well cloath'd and paid all which in great paâ—t they wanted in Lyrania would do Eugenius and himself more Service in Luyslandia than they could ever have done had they remained in Lyrania which they performed accordingly as shall be seen hereafter About this time or rather before it the Green-headed Knight Sabaudiero was prevailed upon by the Associates to rise up in Arms with them against the Noble Giant Gallieno Nasonius promised him whole Indies of Money and that he would maintain too at his own cost many Troops to assist him The Associates also unanimously promised him that in the winding up of the War when they came to divide the Spoil they would add some part of Luyslandia to his Dominions having very politickly divided it among 'em e're they had got a foot in 't This Project was carried so secretly that never was any mystery of State so carefully conceal'd However the Necromantick Giant Gallieno had not only by his Familiar Spirit got light of it but had moreover by a strange Charm got an exact Copy of their Agreement Upon knowledge of which he sent the Valiant Giant Sabaudocrato into his Country e're he was ready who took all Montania otherwise call'd Sabaudia and was about to fall into Alpiana when Sabaudiero confident of the impossility it should take Air sent Ambassadors to King Gallieno falsely protesting he was his most humble Servant and meant nothing but Peace and Amity towards him Now did many sober Men admire at this strange action of Gallieno as breeding himself causeless and needless Enemies when he had so many already For one could imagine that Sabaudiero should be so unworthy and ungrateful to his Uncle the great King Gallieno who ever favoured him and had formerly assisted him against his own Rebellious Subjects as without any cause given him to joyn with his Enemies who sought nothing but his desctruction which made Men think it very harsh in King Gallieno to invade his Nephew's Dominions and to refuse to withdraw his Armies till Sabaudiero had put two of his chief Cities as Cautionary Towns into his Hands 'Till at length King Gallieno when he saw his time shewed the Copy of Sabaudiero's Agreement with the Associates to let the World see how false and hollow-hearted he was to pretend Peace by his Ambassadors and yet at the same time to have conspir'd against his Uncle his Friend and his Ally to bring him if he could to utter Ruin But it was the Luck of this ill-contriv'd Association to be supported by the violation of all the nearest Tyes of Nature and Honour and all Laws both Divine and Humane Yet did the Noble Gallieno so moderate his Resentment as not to let Sabaudocrato destroy all his Country as he could easily have done pitttying the folly of his Youth too easily led aside by his Secratary who had a great Ascendant over him and had received as 't is said for such treacherous Services an hundred Thousand Pound from the Associates but chieftly from Nasonius who was still very profuse in laying out the easy got Money of Vtopia upon Projects of his own for which they that gave it never intended it Wherefore the Luyslandian Army continued still in Montania and Alpiana took and Garrison'd divers of the principal Cities and Forts But of this more heareafter CHAP. XI Of the Annus mirabilis Or the Campaign of the Year when the Associates with their utmost efforts intended to invade the mighty Giant Gallieno on all sides and to destroy both Him and his Root and Branch and also of the infallible Prognosticks of his Ruin ALL Men though never so dull are taught Wisdom by their frequent Misfortunes and by their often experiencing what occasioned them they learn how to prevent them for the future Wherefore these subtil Politicians the Associates though they were but bad Reflecters came at length with much ado to discover after Gallieno had with many repeated Victories beat it into their Heads that two things especially had given him great Advantages over them viz. his being early in the Field e're they were ready and his Carrying the War still into his Enemies Countries Hereupon after many Consultations they fully and und unanimously resolved to bereave him of both these Advantages and get them to themselves But as nothing is more
an ill abodement and a fair warning that this inauspicious beginning shew'd that this action of his was displeasing to Heaven Yet it is believ'd that those two Gods above-mention'd had drown'd his whole Fleet had not Mercury Jove's Messenger been sent to them to order them to permit him to go forward telling them that the Sins of Vtopia were now full ripe and cry'd for Vegeance and that he was sent thither by a decree of Heaven to be a perpetual Scourge to them 'till taught by dear Experience they come to see their Old and New Sins of Rebellion and grew so wise to repent and make Satisfaction to their Injured Prince and restore him to his Throne which Message heard the Storm ceas'd and Nasonius landed at his wish'd for Port. Assoon as the News of his arrival was spread all Vtopia began to shew openly the Spirits and confess the Furies that possess'd 'em some spread Lies some deserted some Chief Officers caball'd to put their Disloyalty in Execution The Rabble play'd a thousand Tricks and in a word all but some Loyal Persons who had no Power to withstand the Innundation of Rebellion with Shouts and Acclamations welcom'd the Invader Yet Nasonius having profest he only came to redress Abuses as all Reformers do though they afterwards turn every thing topsy-turvy durst not yet pull off his Mask lest he would discover his Ambition too early Nor yet durst he treat with Eugenius for then things being adjusted between him and his Subjects he had been reduc'd but yet King still whâ—ch suited not with the end he aim'd at Wherefore Nasonius refused all Treaties with his Father answer'd not his Messages nor accepted his kind Invitation but contrary to all Honour and the Law of Nations imprison'd his Ambassador hunted him out of his own Palace even at Midnight and put him under a Guard of Hydropick Souldiers Hoping that by seeing his Life in danger no further outrage being lest but the taking away that he would for his safety run out of the Kingdom Which succeeding as he wish'd and projected Nasonius got himself by those of his Faction without much ado proclaim'd Kind in his stead though against the Fundamental Constitution of the Government even though Eugenius had been dead without any Children to the great Joy of Lucifero and all his true Servants the Hydropicks and the no less rejoycing of the mad-headed People of Vtopia Now the Reader is to understand that there was at that time a kind of Hydâ—a in Vtopia who upon King Eugenius's Retreat did set up for themselves and gave themselves Authority there and this done they though no better Authoriz'd gave the Supream Authority to Nasonius and he again kindly imparted to them some of the Authority they had given him and so made their No-Authority Legal and stronger than it was before Which though strangely mysterious pass'd for admirable good Sence in infatuated Vtopia at that Season but will be laugh'd at for the most refin'd and exquisite Nonsense by all Mankind in succeeding Ages CHAP. VIII How Eugenius retired into Luyslandia to request Protection of the Noble Giant Gallieno And how the infatuated Utopians for that reason proclaim'd open War against him And also of Nasonius his Coronation And the Heroick Adventure of the Contaminated Breeches THE good King Eugenius being thus unworthily driven out of his Kingdom by his graceless Son Nasonius and the Treacherous Falsehoods of his own Subjects after he had receiv'd unpardonable affronts from them arriv'd at length at the glorious Court of the great Giant Gillieno and thus addressed himself to him Behold Invincible Monach an injured and destitute Prince dishonourably and unnaturally bereav'd of his Crowns by an ungrateful Son and treacherous Subjects through the instigation of the Hydra and the rest of their shameless Associates and flying to your Court for Refuge and Redress The safety honour and dignity of all Crown'd Heads are concern'd in my Quarrel For no Injury have I to my knowlegde done to any of those who thus against all Honour Justice and Allegiance have conspired to my Ruin and those which were pretended were done by advice of Counsellours of their own Party whom they had corrupted to betray me Be then a Mighty King as well in Goodness as you are in Greatness another Tamberlane and revenge the Cause of an injur'd Prince bereav'd of all what both by God's and Man's Laws he possess'd by an ambitious Usuper who not content to have robb'd me of all I had does to render his Crime more Enormous and to palliate his Usurpation add to his wicked Injustice most reproachful and base Calumnies to debauch my Credulouâ—s Subjects from their Allegiance I have no hopes left but your puissant Patronage to whom nothing can be more Glorious than to relieve the oppressed and restore Crowns to those Princes who have lost them not through their own faults but by the malice of unprovok'd Enemies When the good King Eugenius had thus ended his Address the Noble and Generous Gallieno embrac'd him tenderly in his Arms and thus be spoke him Dear Brother were not your Misfortunes the occasion of this Visit no Man living could have been a more welcome Guest 〈◊〉 my Court than such a Suitor Nor do I esteem any Conquest in mâ— Cause half so Glorious as is the undertaking a Business which is every way so honourable and full of Renown For by how mucâ— your Innocency is greater and the wickedness of your Enemies moâ—â— manifest so much higher will it set my Reputation to redress yoâ—â— Injuries and revenge your disgraces upon your inhumane and base Enemies Be here as free as my self and be assur'd of my effectuâ—â— Assistance only let me take my own season in regard I have many Foes deal with which may cost me some time to make them sue for Peaâ—â— or to subdue them by War Having ended his Speech he gave orders to Coin a Medal with his own Effigies on one side and Eugeniâ—â— on the other with this Inscription Je vous metâ—ray sur vostre Throne Ou jo perdray ma Courenne In English I 'll either set you on your Throne Or I resolve to lose my Own So King Eugenius remain'd in the Court of King Gallieno where lived in great Splendour caress'd by King Gallieno himself the Pâ—â—ces of the Blood and all the Nobâ—lity with less fear now that he shouâ—â— not regain his Kingdoms in due time than he had formerly assurâ—â— he should keep them while he had them among such a multitude of Tâ—â—tors as he had daily about him Though his Piety towards his 〈◊〉 Subjects was such that dreading the Calamity of War which woâ—â— have harrass'd the Nation and undone many of his well-beloved Pâ—â—ple He had much rather have recover'd them by the returning of Kingdoms made sensible by their Taxes and Losses to their 〈◊〉 than by the Force of any Forreign Armies which though never so well disciplin'd or restrain'd from offering any Outrage