not grant the Prince his soon returne so crown'd with his desires as he may think he brings more joy with him then even your crown can promise him And this is Sir my only wish And it is so propitious to me as it makes your Majesty all the returne I can e're hope for those your offered benefits the wishing of you all increase of joyes and glories King Do not wonder Fidamira at the title I took on me I spake to you in Basilino's name and it was not unproper in the performance of his will to use his name And I am afraid I shall too truely take upon me The wish which you have chosen hath so indebted me unto you as I must speak something now in my own name and retract the promise I had made to Basilino to possesse my self of all my power which I think yet too little to tempt thy modesty to the choice of any thing it doth containe But do not Fidamira in duty to your King reduce him to repine at his condition in having nothing to present you with but wishes back again Fidamira In all humility and reverence to your power Sir I thus fall down to beg of you and that which only as a King you can bestow Libâ—rty Which I have chosen as the greatest blessing Kings are trusted with to satisfie your Majâ—sty in the obligation you desire to marke me with And I trust so much to your goodnesse as I think I need not bring the gods to plead for my dismission whose cause hath furnished me with this â—ute unto your Majesty the perâ—ormance of some vowes which will require privacy to perfect and thus your Majesty shall set me at Liberty that am yet in bonds unto my vowes Kiâ—g You have made so stâ—ange a choice â—â—damira as the unwilling giving it endeares the guift and that which doth perswade me most unto this grant is that you shall take from me that which is dearer to me than all you leave me your company and while you do avoid the merit of my actions you cannot disappoint my sufferings of some desert unto you Therefore you shall chuse what place agreeâ— best with your intent If you will accept this Pallace I 'le leave it to you and your privacy shall be secured to you by a guard that shall not come so nâ—â—re you as to let you know you have a house Chuse what Temple you like best and the entrance shall be denied to any other that no impure breath may mixe with yours But Fidamira these your devotions perfected I shall expect you do accept our Court for Sanctuary to that Saint-like innocence shines about you It were impiety to let you live in the crowd of common persons and your owne piety will enjoyne you to allow my daughter your companion as a pattern for virtuoâ—s youth Fidamira It would be to me Sir a retreat out of my selfe to be any where but in my father's house Whither I beseech you Sir I may have leave to return and remaine some few dayes after which I shall obey your Majesty with that devotion which is due to those whose Image you are believing Sir you will command nothing but what shall be meritorious to obey you in King You shall be Fidamira reconducted to your fathers house and there remain undisturbed till your own pleasure gives me admission to you Who waites without Enter Osorio Timante Carry back again Fidimira to her father's house Timante How hath this face displeas'd the King thaâ— was resolv'd before he saw her to lodge her in the Pallace with such prepared honour as raised all the Court in to a wonder of the cause Me-thinks I find now more then eâ—re I â—ould have guess't Exeunt Exeunt all but the King King O what a mock was this to aske me liberty while she was captivating me I had not so much power left as to keep her here when she would go She is so much already Mistresse of my will as she disposeth of it even against it selfe Whither shall I repaire for Liberty that am besieged by my owne guard these traiâ—erous eyes I must condemne them to perpetuall darknesse or they 'l betray me to such a light as will darken all my other senses even by the inflammation of them Will Love be content with no lesse Trophy than the inversion even of Nature â—â—â—ning the branches down into the ground and â—ake the rootes to bud and blossome in the aire Must Love needs have a garland of such prodigious flowers Now Basilino I find thou hast left me somewhat to do fâ—r thee worthy of a King to brag of the wrestling with these passions for thy sake which else I shall imâ—â—â—ce and let into my heart as an inlargement of it and my life But I will so allay this heat By taking Thee into its seate As it still shall be withstood As if I liv'd but by thy blood Act the Second Pantamora Camena Melidoâ—o Martiro Voâ—orio Genorio Belâ—eza and all the Shepheardesses Belleza chosen Queen Pantamora delivering the Crown to Votorio Panta ANd I into your hands resigne The Sphere wherein our Majesty doth sâ—ine Which mov'd and govern'd by a heavenly force Thus every yeare doth terminate its course Votor The gods Bellese by the voyces of your sisters have chose you Queen and you must now takâ— your Throne with this Oath I am to give you for the faire observance of all those conditions you are trusted with this Crown upon Which are the faithfull executions of the Lawes we live under and reigne over Read the Oath Bel. Give me leave fair Sisters while I am yet my selfe before I do become your Creature and so more obliged to wonder at your goodnesse to renounce all merit to this honour unlesse the being surprised by it may passe for any which if my person do not prove enough my forreigne birth will certifie much more Which as it will advance me towards your particular civilites must needs remove me from the pretension of this eminence amongst you Therefore your former favours can onely give a râ—ason for this excuse that to recover the desperate debt I owe you all you have resolv'd to lend me more so to 〈◊〉 me to make a retribution may comprise them all and for this end I may avow a joy in this your choice which I shall study so to justifie your judgements in by the complying both with the obligations of your debtor and your Queen as when I shall resigne that I shall have purchas 't one I shall esteem as much a creditour to you all Cam. We too Bellesa are deputed in the name of all to assist the ceremony of your Oath and the publication of the Lawes Vot Proceed Bellesa to the reading of the Oath Bel. By beauty Innocence and all that 's faire I Bellesa as a Queen do sweare To keep the honour and the regall due Without exacting any thing that 's new And to assume no more to me than
must Give me the meanes and power to be just And but for charity and mercies cause Reserve no power to suspend the Lawes This I do vow even as I hope to rise From this into another Paradise Vot When your Highnesse hath possessed your Throne I must begin to read the Laws Bellesa ascend's the Throne and Votorio reades That the Queen is to be elected the first of May every yeare by the plurality of the Sisters voyces from which election the Brothers are excluded That the Queen must be aged under thirty and beauty to be most regarded in the election That both the Brothers and Sisters must vow chastity and single life while they remaine of the Order and the breach of this Law is to be punished with death That every yeare at the election of this Queen what Brothers or Sisters shall desire to retire out of the â—rder upon designe of Marriage shall then upon their demand be licensed and at no other time That the Queen shall admit of none into the Order but one every yeare by grace the rest upon publication of their pretence which must be either a vow of chastity which is not ever to be dispenced with or the verification of some misfortune worthy the charity of this honourable Sanctuary which all the Sisters and Brothers are to be Judges of That there is no propriety of any thing among the Society but a community of all which the world calls riches and possessions That detraction from the honour of a Sister without proof is to be punished with the penalty inacted for that fault That no brother or sister shall ever go out of the limits of the Kingdome but by a finall dismission That no such shall ever be received againe upon any pretence That strangers shall be admitted onely by the grace of the Queen or by particular warrant from the King And upon no condition stay above three dayes Vot These be the lawes your Majesty is sworne to protect And now I in the name of all the blessed Society bow in obedience to you Cam. We in the name of all the Sisters salute you Queen and beg to leave the seal of all our duties in your Royall hands They kisse her hands Vot Now Madam after an hour's râ—st the Order requires your Majâ—sty to repaire to the Temple there to perfect all the Ceremony Bel. I can have no such rest Votorio as on my knees before the Gods for I have yet a greater blessing to implore of them then this they have bestowed their propitiousnesse towards my discharge of what they have imposed upon me Princes Votoriâ— have no lesse To pay the Gods than to possesse What are those strangers Vot They are admitted Madam by speciall warrant from the King Exeunt All but Moramente 〈◊〉 Genorio Moramente pâ—lle Votoriâ— back Mor. If you have leisure to allow us so welcome a civility as to satisfie a Stranger 's curiosity you may oblige us in acquainting us what the Queen said of us Vot My profession and your habit Sir enjoynes me both to this and after I have satisfied you in this demand to offer you my service in easing you of any curiosity this place hath put upon you The Queen desired to know onely who you were and how admitted which I gave her an account of as far as my knowledge led me Which was no farther then your admission by the Kings Letters Moâ— The limitation Sir which is upon the stay of strangers here where curiosity is fed so much fuller then it can swallow much lesse digest might excuse an importunate detention of any one but you Sir whose habit renders you so necessary to the residâ—nâ—s as it were a sacriledge to rob them of your time Vot At it is a pious work the distribution of hospitable civility I am the prâ—pâ—rest you could have met Sir to pay the ingenâ—ousnesse of your curiosity with the knowledge of any thing you can aske here Morameâ—te Since this civility may be meritorious to you sir I shall the willing pâ—t â—ou to the exercise of it And first I would gladly â—noâ— the anâ—iquity of the instituted regality with the occasion of it and the rest of the particulars of this place which my Ignorance cannot furnish me with questions for Votorio The ingenuousness of this institution is such as we may joy we owe it not unto antiquity It derives it self no higher then this King's grandfathers time who had a daughter called Sabina a Lady of that strange beauty and perfections as this was but one of the miracles she left us to admire her by The virtue of her resolution takes off much from the wonder of her witt Which seemes to have remain'd imperious and not flexible to her distresse She was sought by two Princes The Dolphin of France and the Prince of Navarr whose passions seem'd so equall as the most powerfull could not beare â— deniall and the weaker found himselfe so arm'd by his passion as he despised the anger which the power of France had vow'd against him if he were preferr'd Sabina's inclination to Navarr drew down the power of mighty France upon this Prince of Vallance But the hope of fair Sabina which he seem'd to think himselfe a gainer by after the losse of most of his country Then Sabina whom it seemes the love of virtue only had made partiall to Navarr found the way to exalt her virtue more then by persisting against difficulties which seem'd to take off from the glory of it by the abatement it procur'd where it intended an advantage And so fearing left his sufferings might raise his virtues to such an estimation as he might be thought to haveâ—d served her and so the matching of herselfe might lessen her resolved to take the glory wholly with the sufferings to her selfe And so sent to the victorious Dolphin â—hat had allready made himselfe Prince of Navarr and bragg'd that with that title he would wo Sâ—bâ—â—a her promise that upon condition of his restoring Navarr unto the Prince and swearing future peace she would never marry the Prince of Navarr The Dolphin whose successe had nourished his love with hope even in Sabina's direct denialls swallowed this as an assurance of his wish without examining the words beleeving his own flattering omen more security then even Sabina's promise He accepted the conditions and presently restored all his conquests though the Prince refused the treaty and the future peace Yet he instantly performed all that Sabina asked who now resolved to publish the performance of her vow 'T was sure the gods that did infuse these thoughts for a reward of so supream goodnesse and made the monument of her admiration a Sanctuary for distressed virtue so to convey to future times a blessing with the memory of her She begg'd of her father leave to make a vow of chastity and desired a propriety of this place as her dowre which nature seemes to have made of such unmatch't delightfullnesse as if
a pitty to This is a lending of your senses to others torments whose joyes only they cannot tast Your own wishes in my minde could not releeve you since they tend only to others ends I do allow you so much advantage Sir as I confesse your present misery is above my feares But give me leave to aske as a stranger to your country and your story Whether this Fidamira that you named be yet a live Methinks her death might ease you much King Kind pilgrime In the absence of my son jealous of so much comfort as my care my cursed fate guided her the only way unto my guilt her flight I do not think her dead no more then a disguise may be a preparation to it As death may have a better pretence to seise her then as not her selfe than in the lively illustration of her selfe to whom all lives are due And to let thee see kind Pilgrime how due to me this thy ingenuous yeelding was I will direct thee to an ease of all thy miseries while mine are unreleevable I 'le terminate thy aimelesse course and point thee out to such an end whose saâ—e attainder shall center thy sorrowes up in rest You have heard sure of the Shepherds Paradise whose peaceable bounds have that strange virtue from the gods as to include all those within a peacefull acquiescence that are admitted there Thither repaire for though you have not griefe enough to weigh with mine yet your misfortune 's full enough for a pretence to be received even there And when you finde the smiles of that smooth place laugh at your wrinkled sorrowes past then for my sake dispute your joyes with those contented soules For you may sooner there outvie all their delights than my distresses should you run on in this sad maze till you did measure all the world and end your dayes Gen. I will submit my selfe to your directions Sir but to an end differing so farr from what you do prescribe as mine shall be in a defiance unto peace I will even there raise up new sorrowes which my distâ—acted soul shall there erect for trophies got from the contâ—sting virtue of that place which my sad life shall so defeate as all those joyes that shall incompasse me shall by the deadnesse of my sense serve but to prove my miseries the more compleat King Follow my counsell freind it may be the virtue of this place may be so strong it shall incline your own willingnesse towards your releefe I must leave you and I am sure not far out of your way towards my advice Gen. The gods be with you Sir and may you live to be a wonder in the contrary extreame of what you now are Alas good King how patient have I been to allow your sorrowes victory striving with mine which these were too that you brought forth For Fidamira's flight belongs simply to me and hath no comfort but the admiration of her virtues which this happy meeting with the King hath so exalted as the wonder mingles with the sense of my disappointment and so tempers it into a hopefull patience The kings counsell is so good it will serve for more then he intends it and I hope for as much joy to him as he meant ease to me I will goe back directly to the Prince and now assure him that the Princesse of Navarr is dead to stop his fathers course And as I finde his thoughts are fixt or moved from Fidamira so contrive his returne the which will quickly unconceal my Fidamira who must needs be hid in some neighbouring privacy secure from her virtuous feares This penance of not seeing her I take as due unto these faulty eyes that have been pleased with another object Which now redeemed shall make me watch their straying motions with a stricter care Beauty shall slide from them as it falls Like smooth things lighting upon crystall balls Whose touch doth part and not together fix Their own agreeing makes them cannot mix So beauty in mine eye shall meet with such I cannot fix but passe as it doth touch Exit Enter Bellesa Moramente Martiro Bel. That which you reported of the Prince Moramente is now fully confirmed by this Moor that we admitted last She past that way she said and so describes his person and his parts it seemes a miracle that faith or honor could have virtue to râ—sist his will Mora. I know the Prince Madam so well I wonder more at the unfitnesse of his wishes than at the gods refusall Which was a gentle punishment of his forgetting selfe And I beleeve wherever he is gone heaven will direct him to a choyce between which and his owne there shall be as much odds as between his choosing and the gods Bel You beleeve then Moramente he will love again by a high successe shall know he was reserved by heaven for more then he could wish at first you think heaven doth allow of love 's twice Mora. As it doth intend Madam all good should rise to its perfection our minds are but love's pupills at the first Which fit themselves but to proceed and take degrees and so our second love is a degree wherein our soules attaine to experience that imploys it selfe in loves refinement So not by the first step but by this gradation Love ascends unto its highest Bel. I will allow you Moramente Love is no irradiation of a light into our soules whose first instant brightness is in its perfection But may not the first spark be kept alive and raised unto as high a light as can the second which is kindled still by putting out the first Mora. T is not an extinction of the flame 't is but a change of the materiall that fomented it so second loves have this advantage they being the first instant in that height the first was long agrowing to and have the first comparison to rayse themselves by which must prove it higher by having got above it Bel. These degrees of elevation Mâ—ramente you require in Love inferr this consequence that love should be a continuall motion by change aspiring to transcendency For it comparison doth raise it so he is to blame that takes but one For by your inference the number must exalt noâ—last unto the greatest height Your inconstancy doth not concerne us so as you should strive to prove it a virtue to us Mora. In this degree Madam which I have named Love comes to touch a point after which all motion is a declination I do not allow loves leightnesse or variety contributors unto its heighth I do agree the glory of it is in a consistency in this elevation the second love attaines to because the first cannot know how high it is Had I thought inconstancy a virtue Madam I ne're had been blest with this so great a joy as seeing you Bel. What Moramente sayes Martiro seemes to justify the Prince his second love and so to make his cause a president to plead his own by
must not give my thoughts the liberty to play with Love as 't is an infant in beliefe that they can rule it Enter Moramente Moramente Your Majesty will be pleased to pardon this breach of your privacies 't was to perfect the cure you began by this acknowledgement of my health to your Majesty Bel. I receive gladly these acknowledgements as they declare your health not as they bring me any beliefe of contribution to it Mor. To assure you Madam of the virtue of your favour I must acquaint you with newes by which I have been set up since I saw you that might have pulled me down as low as did Saphiras death as I beleeve it will afflict the Prince as much Fiâ—amiras flight whiâ—â—er â—nknown to all the search the King can make But now I am so changed into your â—reature that I have sense for nothing but what comes to me through yours Bel. Why Do you think the Prince will be so much moved at this Is there any Love can give neglect the help of a long absence to joyn against it and yet master both Moâ— I do believe Madâ—m they are strong enemies joyned but against either of them single Love will have the better Bâ—lâ—esâ— You see Moramente I persevere your pupill still Therefore tell me whether you would choose against you To be neglected in continual fight or loved enjoyned to a perpetual absence Moramente You have almost posed your tutor Madam I must confesse that I would chuse the object not the speculation neglect doth but exclude from that which we never had but banishment doth interdict us that which is our own and so becomes the greater curse Bellesa You preferre then Moramente the limited pleasure of one sense before the large extent of all Imaginations It seemes that you have changed that worthy passion brought you to this place for some you have found here Mora. You were once pleased to tell me my cause resembled much the Prince in whose name I dare dispute it not my own Do you think Madam the Prince is bound never to Love but Fidimira Bellesa I yeeld the Prince is free by her neglect Mâ—r. Why did you couple us Madam and now let us loâ—se both together Bellesa I should not tax you neither if you loved ne're so many Moâ—amente I doe beleeve Madam I am so unhappy as to be thus indifferent to you And yet I think if you knew who I loved youl 'd punish me though you could not blame me for 't Bellesa Pray tell me not then I do not love to be unjust Moramente I am so unhappy Madam aâ— it were insolence in me not to believe you would be so And yet it were a freedome that all but you must be beholding to me for Bellesa Then I should be beholding to you not to tell me if it will set me aâ— difference with all the World Mor. The difference I make between you and all the world will make you disagree most with me and therefore I 'le forbear to let you know it Bellesa I would fall out with nobody for so little as to satisfie a light curiosity therefore I enquire no farther of it Mor. Give me leave Madam to beg this satisfaction from you that you would be pleased to guesse at it for I have such a divine beliefe of you as I conclude you cannot so much as be mistaken in any thing Bel. To guesse by your opinion it should be with Gemella She makes you such a full return at least her commendations promise it Moramente 'T is a strange fate that crosseth to be despised where e're I love and to be wished well but to my prejudice But you Madam have guessed as neer as if you had named any other in the whole society And now Madam I dare say that your knowledge is but thus wrapt up in darknesse to disguise it I know it by my curse your being thus insensible Bellesa I must give o're then the being your Pupill since you would teach me more then I would Learn Moramente If I remain but with the merit of teaching you your power Madam though my sufferings be the demonstration of it I shall endure all with joy Bellesa In these high poynts Moramente I understand you not I 'le bring Martiro to dispute with you he may be your Master and teach you how to rise up to the loving impossibilityes he hath promised me to prove the reason of it I 'le shew it you Moramente that will reconcile you to despair Moramente You have already Madam shewed me the impossibilityes and I already find reason enough for loving them your wil. Bellesa You are mistaken Moramente in the finding of my will more then I was in the finding of your Love even my ill will is not easily found and much lesse that which you seem to seek Exit Bellesa Mor. No certainty hath been a torment great enough for me must I now suffer doubt which hath not so much ease as a despair was curse enough to fit me with I could have resolved on any thing that could have fallen on me but this suspension is a Rack whose wavering flackness is the heighth of torture which excludeth a patience towards the ease of the indurance I cannot impute these words to chance I am enlightned even thus far for a curse to see she understands my passions I shall declare my self and joyne the name of Prince to that of Lover to assist me No I will try once more the single strength of Moramente which if it prove too weak I 'le call that of Prince for my Auxiliary which must needs help me to be wondered at if not beloved Sure Martiro hath not broke his faith for so little as Bellesa's information it must be for his own indearment and my distance from her Enter Martiro Mâ—r. Is the Queen this way Moramente Mor. She 's newly parted hence Martiro Mar I am seeking her with a command of hers and so have only time to tell you that freedom to a noble hart doth not let loose a secret but allowes it more room as 't were a recreation and that impression trust makes on vertue seals in that instant what it opens And beleeve me Mâ—ramente you shall allwayes finde the marks unbroken up Exit Martiro Mor. This must be true too for the exactness of my curse that there may not be so much reason as an ill office for her scornes but all Antipathy I will dispatch to my father as I have promised Genorio The circle now of Bellesas reigne is allmost closed and the last point that perfects that shall open me away unto that end I owe my fate Exâ—t Moramente Enter Mellidoro and Camena Mel. If my own joyes were not sufficient to proclaim the debt I owe you Camena the terror of those sufferings of which I am judge and not a party might well indeare this even security that you have setled me in Came. Methinks indeed we two are
since their fortunes do re-resemble much in the miscarrying of their loves Mar. So he hath reason Madam for the Prince's case would warrant any private â—ans dismission of such thoughts whose entertainement did so much defame loves power by his Tyranny and they ill subjects are whose constant sufferings do better the world from his subjection which can be taken only by their will Bel. I do confesse the Prince for many reasons might not only be allowed but wished a second and succesfull love that he may know our Sex have joyes that may outprise his sufferings be may else grow vaine in this his sorrow and beleeve love owes his more then it can pay in all our Sex Mora. What Madam then is my condition whose sufferings I should think injured compared with his did I not find the Prince exalted by you to so high a pitty as I am glad mine were now likened to them might not I preâ—end to have my second choyce wisdome not inconstancy â—el I beleeve you might and I should pitty you the more were you not here in this delighâ—â—ull â—â—â—ce and he abroad in search of that you have attained Forgetfullnâ—sse Mora. You speake Madam as though you wished him here where would he were even in my place and I any where but with your pity Bel. You wish Moramente much against him and more against your selfe for you had my pitty in your admittance you had it at first sight and since you have my interest in all yoâ—r joyes as part of the Society Mora. If I wish him Madam in my place t' is that I dare wish more in his brave name then in my own in whom so insolent a wish as your esteem could finde but such a pitty as distraction doth Bel. I do esteeme you so much Moramente as I dare never resolve to pitty you so much I trust the vertuous peace of your composed and setled thoughts Mâ—r. Mâ—â—amente is so civil Madam he would make the virtue of this place defective to endear your power by the applying of his wishes unto you And your civility to us Madam is such you borrow now this time from your devotions Beâ— T is true Maâ—tiro time is not so civill as to stay for any body Mora. I have yet devotion enough Madam to forgive Mâ—rtiro his excesse I 'le stay behind a little to dispose my selfe to that Exeunt Bellesa Mâ—rtiro I see there is no vizarding of love to make it passe abroad unknown the eye or mouth are even enough to shew what t is Nay did young Love himselfe wish a disguise he could not ever be fitted For who can take a measure of a growing love where every instant adds as much as even your thought can comprehend And now Love seemes to promise more advantage by this selfe discovery It prompts me to Martiro's friendship whose trust will both afford my love more room for recreation of it selfe and helpe to carry it neerer Bellesa by an insensible approach which it may make by him I will professe â—y passion freely to Martiro I am sure to be beleeved that 's a joy which I defy my own misfortune to oppose me in But I must not provoke it with unthankfullnesse I must acknowledg to my misfortune the debt of this experience All love 's a light which as it doth eject Shaddowes by them it doth it selfe detect So he that thinks love can be shaddowed quite Knowes not there is no shadow without light I will contribute now to Bâ—llesa's knowledge and will leave these verses here which she must find at her returne Exit Enter Gemella Gem. Is this strange discovery part of my curse my finding out of the Prince only that I might misse Agenor The peace this place affords had been too much for me without this disquiet of Agenors parting with the Prince I can guesse no reason unlesse he should finding him setled here have asked leave to go back again unto the King with the designe of seeing me Which I am aptest to suspect Iâ— doth so well agree with my misfortunes such a disappointment And yet I findsome bold devining-thoughts that thank my fears that brought me hiâ—her And promise me I shall redeeme the Prince his favour by so strange a service He may thinke I ow the virtue of my faith unto his fate that did compell me to inconstancy Which was ordained that his despaire might wellcome this destined blessing so much more and I shall have a double merit by my contribution of dispaire and hope I do confesse his passions and already have professed his prayses and he is himselfe our Prince And now I must apply my selfe to the successe of his disguise I shall so studiously persue his end as his consent unto Agenor's choyse and mine shall be a joy of his and no reward Here lies a paper This is his hand I cannot mistake mine eyes are not disguised These are verses full of passion I 'le keep them so as she he ment them to shall see them more recommended then this chance can do Enter Pantamora Pan. I thank my thoughts for this reproach they send me Now the wish of my contribution to the successes of my love which now againe hath mastred my ambition and all the quarrell I have now unto Bellesa is the having envied her that so low a passion should be in me for which I will accept no lesse satisfaction from my selfe then the dis-lustering of her in Moramenâ—'s eyes I am confident she is already settled there with all the advantage love can chuse And sure she cannot choose but see her selfe there by the reflex of his addresses which are so clear as her conivance implyes she findes her selfe no way disfigured there Yet all this is no more advantage then I may allow her I would not meet with lesser difficultyes to expiate my envy which my heart hath let it selfe descend to And now my thoughts shall take their rise no lower then the admiration of her beauty and her virtues and from thence carry my loves successe above them all I will not strike on the flat of envy or destraction but in faire conspicuous flights will make above her Exit Enter Moramente Mora. To what a rashnesse hath my Love transported me as if I might expect my passion had given me an equall power over others to that it had assumed over me I did deliver up my wishes to Martiro with such a confidence as if I had granted his contribution to them as a sute He answered me with such cold civility as did imply surprise He sayd he wondred that so noble a passion could be so defective in so essentiall a point as secresie But that he would impute this opening of my selfe to him a desire of making him a freind by this advance of such a trust as must expresse my confidence in him by the exposure of my happinesse to his discretion In returne of which he said he would promise me so strict a secresie