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The Adventures of the Helvetian Hero, with the young Countess of Albania, or, The amours of Armadorus and Vicentina a novel.
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or distrust of their cause in the other at the instance of the adverse party this so Remarkable Cause of Matrimony and Love was put off to another sitting of the Itinerary Judges to the great disappointment of all the gay Youth and gallant Young Ladies who seem'd all mightily concern'd for the lovely Armadorus But this was only a Remora that for a little while retarded the Affair a Rub in the Way or a Plank that their sinking Cause caught hold of for before the succeeding Podesta or the next sitting of the Judges it came again to be Canvass'd and to have a full and fair hearing The Gallant Armadorus appear'd in all his bravery and splendor and the Court of Justice was throng'd with all the gay Ladies and Gallant Gentlemen the rich Province could afford full of eager expectation and itching Ears for the pleasantries and diversions that the Dialogues and Discoveries of this Love-Intrigue and famous Amour might afford them The matter was modestly discust and so might not answer expectation tho' it did all their hopes in the Cause being carried for the Noble Armadorus Cannon play'd on both sides on both sides did the evidence swear and thunder that the Earth shook withal But it being clearly made appear 1. That the Gallant Armadorus had actually married the Gay Vicentina 2. That she had been detained from him in the Castle of Ogliano contrary to the Laws of Marriage 3. That he had us'd to be very fond of her and never fail'd to exercise all his Faculties and utmost efforts for the giving her all imaginable satisfaction in her conjugal affection 4. That this Elopement or Kid-napping or Spiriting away of his dear Spouse was to his great prejudice and to the hazard and temptation of a wicked violation of an Holy Conjugation 5. That he had sustain'd great Damages and that it had cost him very dear to pursue his Daphne that fled and had absconded her self from him only with a design to deceive him and by withdrawing her fair Face to beguile him of her fairer Fortune 6. To consummate all the illustrious Cavaliero Signior Armadillo Commandant de Bernino and Father of the gallant Armadorus viva voce testify'd that his Son our Heroick Helvetian had Overtures made him by richer and higher persons and that no less then 6. or 7000. Pistols had been offer'd him for Dower in his own Country an huge summ and sufficient to defray a Tax of an whole Canton in their Helvetique Body amounting nearly to 77000. Livers That the adverse party had brought an Ignominious scandal upon their Noble Family by endeavouring secretly to deceive and openly to traduce his Son Armadorus the flourishing Branch and greatest Hopes of it That in his Old Age he had undertaken a long Pilgrimage by Land and Sea to vindicate his Son by his own presence from the scandal of being of an obscure Birth That himself was Generalissimo to the vast Republick of the Canton of Bernino and his Son was to succeed him in that high Command and that he hoped tho Strangers they should receive Justice for their Injuries sustain'd The Adverse party on the other hand undertook strongly to prove that the passionate Switzer was able to swear Thundring and Lightning Oaths that the Young Helvetian had been so robust that he had broke all the Bonds of Matrimony That he had taken his Ladies best Bits and the Food she most delighred in and barbarously given it to the Dogs Item that longing once but for a Woodcocks Leg he had before her face inhumanely thrown it into the Fire and made a Grillion of what she design'd for a Fricazee Icem That being wont to humble himself on his Knees whilst she did use to attire him in her best Commode and most becoming dress he was of late grown so stiff and stubborn as to force her to kneel while he attir'd her in his long Peruke and cocking Beaver Item That he had put his Lady often into many fainting Fits that she could hardly fetch her Breath and was ready to dye away c. All which formidable Averments being made out upon Oath made the whole Court of Ladies mightily concern'd for their admir'd Armadorus as doubting what might be the issue of so dubious a point and sorry that his kindness to the Female Sex should have all this sad occasion to be call'd in question but to be short after the Eloquent and the Learned Lawyers and the Councel on both sides had sufficiently Harangu'd and Satyriz'd after the Tres Sage and Tres Reverend the Jage had impartially and ingenuously with much Judgment and Learning summ'd up all that had been materially said in a little and taken the merits of along cause in short-hand It was left to the Jurors or 12. Persons according to the custom of the Country to decide it by their final verdict or Decretum finale which soon follow'd to this effect That considering the damages and disappoinments he had sustain'd during the detention of his Wife and dearest Spouse to the peril of his Continency and the impairing of his health by abstinency and also considering of what evil consequences it would be to the whole Country and what might be every Man of them their own Case should their Wives be suffer'd to make such extravagant Elopements and unnaturally withdraw themselves from their Husbands to lye single when the Law obliges them to be under Coverture They therefore in terrorum to all such Female Offenders did award declare assign decree or give unto the Illustrious Armadorus Son and Heir Apparent of the Noble Signior Armadillo Commandant de Bernino in the Country of Helvetia the summ of 1200 Doppio's or Pistols D' Espaign amounting to 13200. Livers French sufficient to purchase a great Signiory or Lordship in the Canton de Bernino and at any time to be setled when she should return and they two should better agree on the Dame Vicentina for her Jointure in lieu and recompence of her vast Fortune she brought him and what was justly due to the merits of her deserving Person and extraordinary Dower This Verdict for Armadorus as it transported him not a little so it affected no less almost the whole Court The Adverse Party being but a few could not obscure with their cloudy Countenances the Serenity that seem'd to appear in every Face The Gallant Helvetian with a great deal of Modesty and a graceful Air received the Caresses of the gay Gentlemen his Acquaintance and the Compliments of the Young languishing Ladies that did both admire and commiserate him and so far was his triumph from Exalting him to insult over his vanquish'd Adversaries or exasperating him against those that had given him all this trouble that he offered himself soon after to be ready to receive any Proposals of Reconciliation with his Dear Spouse and her Relations not so much as leaving out of the Treaty nor excluding from the Alliance the Countess-Dowager that by most was supposed to have
THE ADVENTURES OF THE Helvetian Hero With the Young Countess of ALBANIA OR THE AMOURS OF Armadorus and Vicentina A NOVEL Quae me Suspensam insomnia terrent Quis novus hic nostris successit sedibus hospes Quem sese ore ferens quam furti pectore Armis Virgil. Aeneid 4 th Licensed 9th December 1693. LONDON Printed for Randall Taylor near Stationers Hall MDCXCIV TO THE Right Honourable THE E. of M. c. YOVR Lordship being so Illustrious an Example of Heroick Love and Renowned Valour 'T is but fit that at your Feet our Adventurous Lover and most Valiant Hero should fall and that Good-natur'd Pity and Sweet Compassion that moved you to Espouse the Justest Cause of an injured Stranger will encline you also to Patronise The History of his wrongs and Injuries and your Lordship cannot be an Enemy to the Author if you are but a Friend and favourer of ARMADORUS THE ADVENTURES OF THE Helvetian Hero With the Young Countess of Albania c. NO sooner had the God of War raised himself from a a profound Repose a Tranquility in which all Europe lay too long alas for the restless humour of the Aspiring Gaul who in the midst of Peace betook himself to Arms besieging Phillippolis a Frontier of the Empire flaming Caesar and all his Allies with the surprizing insult of so sudden an Invasion so unjust a War No sooner I say had Mars set up his Standard and Bellona displayed her bloody Colours in the Field as if War in Conjunction were to denounce discord among the Sexes or only designed it on the two sorrowful Subjects of this Discourse whatever were the dispensations of Fate or its deep designs certain it is that the News of so Universal so formidable a War could not but reach the whole Helvetick Body a People so truly Martial and Warlike that they have no other Cradles but their Tents and begin their Lives with a Campagne A Nation Neighbouring on a Great Emperor and a King as Great which lying open to two such potent Enemies had need of all its Arts as well as Courage to subsist and had no little Reason to have some regard to its self and so thought it best by a wise Neutrality to prevent their becoming a prey by a precipitous participiation to the Avenging and Triumphant Victor and falling so many Victims to the Force and Fortune of the Conqueror tho' this policy I must confess has sometimes proved as destructive to States as 't is many times thought a medium to preserve them and makes them in the end to be aimed at as Sacrifices by both sides because they sided with neither but here notwithstanding the general body of this Canton'd State stood Neuter it was left to their particular Subjects in which Party they would Engage And Gold and Gain being with them a good principle of Honor as well as the best argument of a good Cause mixt with their Native hardiness that on one side or other enclines them alway to Action Their bold Youth betook themselves each to that Country and Cause where they thought they might find the best Interest and the best Pay Amongst which Martial Adventurers it so sell out that the sprightly and active Armadorus made one A Youth well made and of a good Meen Proper and Gay qualified with a Sweet air and a melting softness The first such as Brezes on their Mountains and the latter to be compared to the Snow that lies upon them while his Warlike disposition was all that was rugged about him like the roughness of his Country 'T is true he followed Mars while Venus seem'd to form a Camp for him and the French Gallantry seem'd couch'd under the robust denomination of a Swiss Perhaps his Parents from their long services in that politer Country had infus'd in his formation some more polisht matter than what usually Compounds the Courser People of his own Country but as soft as he seem'd for War he was design'd and so the first prompting Expedition that offer'd to his Inclinations was the Warlike preparation that was made by the Belgians and the Heroick Prince that headed them for a Descent on the Isle of Old Albion now commonly call'd Brittain A Command he soon got either by desert or recommendation and accordingly entred upon the Action The Success of which every Historian has in Voluminous Diaries sufficiently related it may suffice to say their Expedition was Prosperous they Landed their Forces without Opposition They march'd into the Country without Resistance look'd on as Redeemers and not Conquerors So that the Young Hero had not the occasion of shewing the proofs of that Valour that a brisk action might have Exemplifi'd and so signaliz'd Himself to Her that proved afterward the Mistress of his Affections The first seat of War beginning in that very Province she called her own but alas little did either of them then think of those Sharper Engagements and Conflicts that afterward befel them Honour led him on so that Love had no time to intangle him or her Tho' the little God perhaps had laid his Plot already tho' the Execution of it by him was deferr'd The Army by easy Marches advanc'd to the Metropolis and our Noble Helvetian hardly gave or receiv'd the least wound in the Field The Cause seemed to Conquer for them while themselves profest they came not to Conquer all the Conquest the Young Hero was reserved for was that of Beauty and Armadorus to dye in no other Arms but Vicentina's Thus having possest themselves of the Capital City which there was no need of Force to make themselves Masters of the willing Citizens receiving them with Gratulations Pageantry and Pomp a peaceful settlement soon followed this shew of War at least what was thought to conduce to it the Crown was placed on the head of the Deliverer by a publick Act of the Senate and the People pleased with a new Coronation Festivals Pageants Triumphs and Rejoycings were the only Diversions of the Town drown'd all the noise of Drum and Trumpet and the useless Army dispers'd was Commanded to Reside in their Respective Quarters in the several Country Towns and Villages of such Provinces as their General Officers thought fit It was our Young Helvetian's fate to be remanded to the Province of Danmonium where they first Landed and his Quarters Assigned him in the Principal Town of it Anciently the Isca Danmoniorum little imagining what Snares the little God had laid for him against his return what hard Conflicts he was to meet with after such easy Triumphs Thou Powerful Love Tho' Infant God! How dost thou Govern and dispose of Human Affairs And as inconsiderable and puny Deity as thou art painted influence all things Fate and Destiny can do no more Little did our Armadorus think that He whom all the Beauties of the Capital City could not Conquer or divert from his Martial Exploits and Employments should be Triumphed over in a Country Town Captivated where