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A47682	Cassandra the fam'd romance : the whole work : in five parts / written originally in French ; now elegantly rendred into English by a person of quality.; Cassandre. English	La Calprenède, Gaultier de Coste, seigneur de, d. 1663.; Cotterell, Charles, Sir, d. 1701.	1652 (1652)	Wing L106A; ESTC R42095	1,385,752	872

to the inclinations he had already towards him and to the incitements of his own vertue made him resolve not to forsake him but to suspend the remembrance of his own unhappinesse that he might give him assistance to the uttermost Afterwards coming to make reflexion upon the cause of that accident and how powerfully the Stranger was concerned in the death of the Princesses of Persia he could not divine the cause of it and expecting till he could learn it either from himself or from his Squire he confirmed himself in the friendship he had vowed to him guessing by the proofs he had that they were companions in fortune and that the despair of both proceeded from the same cause He was taken off from these thoughts by the return of old Polemon and his Physitian Amintas accompanyed with some Chirurgians and other servants he ●had sent for Lysimachus praised their diligence and having recommended the Strangers health to his Physitian would needs see his wound searched assoon as Amintas had proab'd it he judged it not dangerous and assuring his Master of his recovery filled him with as much joy as hee was capable to receive The faithfull Squire was quite transported at it and waited upon those that endeavoured his Masters cure with such a zeal as did visibly demonstrate his affection towards him The Chirurgians having applyed the first remedies to his wound poured a certain cordial into his mouth which within a while after made him recover his spirits sight and knowledge When he was come out of his swoun he fixed his eyes upon the first objects that presented themselvs unto him and seeing himself encompassed by Lysimachus his Squire and those that had dressed him hee for some time considered both the place where hee was and the persons that were present and doubting of the truth of the businesse he turned his eyes slowly upon those that were nearest him and having lookt upon them awhile without speaking Cruel Enemies said he with a weak voice what I have done to you that you should persecute me with so much inhumanity Then feeling the paine of his wound he laid his hands upon it and would have torn off the Swathes if Lysimachus knowing his design had not seized upon them easily holding him by reason of his weaknesse The Stranger seeing himself hindred from his Resolution lookt first upon him with a threatning eye and then finding himself too weak to execute what he had in his minde he strove to move him by some tears which ran down his cheeks and might have obtained any thing else of him except what they demanded Lysimachus nearly touched with compassion alledged all the Reasons that might disswade him from his despair and seeing hee vouchsafed not to hear them and that in the end it would be impossible to force him to live he resolved to try if point of Honour could work him to his own preservation Sir said he with a more resolute voice then before till now I believed you vertuous but at last you force me to tell you you injur● the proofs you have given of it by a manifest unworthinesse and I conjure you by all the Gods continued he and by the memory of the Princesses of Persia if it bee true that you did love them to assist me in the revenge I must take of their deaths desiring you to live but so long as to tear away the lives of their Murtherers for whom I finde my self too weak without your help both they and I doe beg it of you and if you be as much concerned in their losse as you would have it believed know that you cannot die but ignominiously if you do not at least endeavour it as well for your own honour as their satisfaction I have as much cause to die as you can have and since in this extremity it is no longer time to conceal it know that I would not have out-lived the Princesse Parisatis if I had not believed my self obliged to satisfie her Ghost by the blood of those that ravished her from me This Discourse had so much power over the mind of this desperate Stranger that having maturely weighed it he was ashamed of the desire hee had before to die without revenge and witnessed his repentance to LYSIMACHVS by these words You have overcome LYSIMACHVS but remember the time you have demanded and never desire me to lengthen it In the interim Araxes shall tell you the cause of my despair and neither conceal from you the name nor life of the miserable companion of your misfortunes After these words he no longer opposed the will of the Chirurgions and being forbidden to speak for som few days LYSIMACHVS resolved to spend that time in learning the whole History of a Life which he judged to be full of very remarkable accidents But because the night was already a good way advanced after having taken a light supper and recommended the hurt Stranger to those that had the care of him he went to bed and till it was day rested as much as his griefs would suffer him The next morning assoon as he was up he enquired after the health of the wounded Stranger and being told he was asleep he led his Squire into a Garden which the Master of the House kept trimm'd with very great care the beauty whereof was extraordinary for one of his condition being fitted with all things that could make a place delightful When they were come into it they walk'd a while in the shade of a pleasant Alley and after they had taken a few turns LYSIMACHVS through a Hedge which parted two Walks heard the voice of two persons discoursing together and having lent an ear with some attention he discern'd that of old Polemon their Landlord who spoke on this manner I am not able to clear your doubts CASSANDRA but time and the abode you will make in this place may easily resolve them for my part I will labour in it all that I can possibly and protest to you by all the Gods I will spare neither my endeavours no nor my life it self for your contentment In the mean time strive to settle your minde both from your frights and your afflictions and believe that CASSANDRA'S vertue is too considerable to the Gods to let it lie any longer under those misfortunes that persecute it Polemon making a stop at these words the other with whom hee talked after two or three sighs which were over-heard by LYSIMACHVS was in probability ready to make answer when both being come to the ends of their several Allies met at the entry into another which went crosse them This encounter made Lysimachus see that it was a Woman of very fair stature cloathed almost in a meer Country habit who was discoursing with Polemon This was all he could discern and she who desired no witnesses of her conversation seeing her self surprised by that Company turned her back to him as suddenly as well she could and walking hastily away went

then miserable Statira linger not out a life full of so many disaster full of so much shame and full of so much repentance doe not survive the scorn of that insolent Enemy but by a favorable death prevent the last misfortunes of thy family thou mayest yet die like a Princess and like the daughter of a King and if thou stay a few days longer thou maist perchance see the ruine of him and all his friends and die devested of all the marks of thy former quality Go thy way to that dear Brother who innocently precipitatted thee into those miseries that are the cause of thy destruction reproach him with the infidelity of his friend and shew him thy repentance for having out-liv'd a brother whom thou lovedst so dearly though his friendship has proved most fatal to thee She would continue for some time in this design of dying and then of a sudden changing her resolution and discourse What would she say shall I die for that Traitor who uses me with an indignity which is beyond example and which was never practised against Maids of the most vile and mean condition Shall I die for that ungrateful man who after having received a thousand proofs of my affection is not ashamed to tell me that he dissembled with me out of compliance that he sighs for one more lovely that he leaves our company onely to shun my importunities that he forsakes me without trouble that he slights my favors becaus he had obtain'd them too easily who sends me back my hair as a fatal present of his most cruel enemies and who will retain nothing of me that can trouble his repose and his new or real affections No no I scorn to die for him I have done enough without dying and that would be my utmost shame and his utmost vanity hee would bee too proud of that the Traitor and would brag with too much insolence that hee had made the Princess of Persia and the daughter of his Fathers Enemy die for love I will rather live to hate him and to despise him and though I begin too late and am onely wise to my own cost and to my own confusion it is no matter though I change last I change at least with justice and have the satisfaction to doe that without a crime which he has done with a baseness detested both by the Gods and Men. She many times would fall into these and such like speeches which it would be hard for me to repeat and in the end with time and the consolation of the Queens of her sister and of her other friends she arm'd her self so strongly with despite and resentment of the injury she had receiv'd from you that if she could not resolve to hate you she resolved at least to use all her endeavors to do so and to blot out of her minde as much as she could possibly a remembrance that could not but be most fatal to her This resolution made her receive those remedies that were given her for the curing of her sickness and it was laboured with so much care that within a while after she recovered and left her bed healthful in all appearance but in effect so ill and so much changed that she moved compassion in all them that frequented her and by her conversation engaged themselves in that affection which none that ever knew her could avoid She then strove to banish you quite out of her minde forbad Cleone ever to name you to her tore all your Letters and pray'd her Sister and her Friends not to bring any thing into her minde by any of their actions or discourses that might make her so much as think of you yet was it not without strange violences nor without feeling those bitter pangs which you may well imagine if you have truly lov'd her During our stay at Alexander's absence sheltred her from his persecutions but after his return from the Temple of Jupiter Hammon he found her so much altred that he was extreamly sensible of it he tried all the ways he could possibly to learn the cause and not being able to discover any thing he believ'd that her Captivity and the misfortunes of her house were the only reasons this consideration obliged him for some time to importune her lesse then he was wont and in the interim he made her and the Queens also be serv'd with respects and honours able to have partly abated the unhappiness of their condition About that time he gave order for the building of the new City of Alexandria and leaving Peucestas and Eschilus to command in Egipt he caus'd us to depart from Memphis to go toward Babylon whither he had heard Darius was retired and his diligence was so great that within eleven days we incamped upon the Bank of the Euphrates and having pass'd it with a Bridge of Boats within four days after we came unto the Tygris The courage of the King was indeed to be admired in the passing of that River he entred into the water first himself and inviting all his soldiers by his example made his whole Army wade through that Current which is the most rapid and impetuous in the whole world From thence after having defeated Stratopaces and some other of Darius his Troops he came up to him within an hundred Furlongs In the mean time Darius his Queen worn out with toilsome Journeys and her ordinary a●flictions fell sick and died within a few days after You may Judge Sir by your knowledge of the nature of the Princesses how sensible they were of so great a losse and with how many tears they deplored the death of a most vertuous Princess and a mother that had always most dearly lov'd them I will not enlarge my self upon that subject for besides that the Discourse would be troublesome to you you have already heard the particularities of it and likewise you know that then I left them to bring the sorrowful news unto Darius I saw in what manner you receiv'd it and within a few days after I with you saw the issue of the bloody Battel of Arbela I also conducted you if you remember unto the Queens Tents and having been witnesse of the wonders you did for their deliverance I was witness also of the usage you received from the Princess I at that time thought it very strange but having continued with them after you went out I since learn'd the cause of that unlook'd for reception and wondred no more as I had done at a fault which could not be excused by a lesser cause then that which I have faithfully related Tyreus having made a little stop at these words I do not marvel said my Prince wiping some tears which that remembrance drew from his eyes if that poor Princesse so maliciously abus'd could not endure the sight of him who with so much probability ought to passe in her opinion for the basest of all men living Alas how just was her displeasure and how cunningly

it off Great Gods cryed he very fiercely behold the beginning of the performance of your promises With these words calling for his horse and Cask he hardly allowed himself time to take leave of Lysimachus and beseeching him in a few words to pardon the important necessity which constrain'd him to leave him for a while he buckled his Cask and vaulting upon his horse gave a loose in the track of him that was past by with so much speed and fury that though the other was already a great way off he was not out of hope to overtake him Lysimachus was so surpris'd at his precipitate departure that he had not the leisure to offer him his assistance and being a foot and unarm'd he knew he was not in a condition to follow him wherefore judging that though he should return unto Polemons house to furnish himself he could not be able to reach them who made away so swiftly hee stood still with his arms a crosse and quickly loosing them in them in the dust that rose from their Horses feet he was very sensibly troubled at that accident The sight and knowledge of Arsaces had produced in him a most powerful effect and having vowed him a firm and real friendship he was much grieved at so sudden a separation This hindred him from walking there any longer so he return'd into the house meaning to tell his encounter to Oroondates With this design and that of seeing him he went into his Chamber where he found him in reasonable good health and Amintas assured him that within a few days he would be able to leave his bed Lysimachus drawing near unto him bade him good morrow with his wonted affection and after having enquired how he did he related to him his encounter with Arsaces and spoke of him in tearms which discovered the ardent friendship he already had conceived toward him Oroondates was surprised at that adventure and thinking upon the obligations his Country had unto that man he wish'd himself in a condition to serve him in his affairs He asked Lysimachus many questions concerning him and seeing with what praises he extolled his good qualities he said to him with a forced smile If all that have seen and conversed with Arsaces in Scythia spoke not of him as you doe and published not those wonders of him which you have observed I should be jealous of the friendship you expresse toward him fearing it might perchance make me lose a part of that you have promised me but truly I have heard so much good of him that I think not that strange I have heard from you I know not what occasion can have brought him into these Countries nor which way he has escaped out of the imprisonment wherein he was detain'd by the King my Father but I receive some consolation in this beginning which the Gods have given to the accomplishment of their promises By his encounter of that Stranger after whom he made such haste he conceives that they are working his repose and you know the Gods promised it us together and that they declared their wils and intentions to us by the same Oracle I hope you will quickly be able replyed Lysimachus to assist in it your self and the health they are now restoring you is a great step to what we wait for from the Heavens In the mean time I will instruct you in the condition our Enemies are in and after your knowledge of that we will consider what course we should take in our revenge I not only desire that information from you answered Oroondates but if you remember the promise you made me I demand the recital of your adventures which you are engaged to both by your word and by the interest I take in all that concerns you since besides that which friendship gives me in yours my own are likewise intermingled with them and I from you may learn some particulars of my Princesses life which hitherto have never been well known to me I am willing to obey you replyed Lysimachus and though this Discourse be a most sensible renewing of my griefs I will strive to bear it both to give you satisfaction and to acquaint you with things which it is very just you should know At these words he made a stop and being sate down upon the bedside after having thought a while upon what he had to say he began his Story on this manner The History of LYSIMACHVS ALthough my birth perhaps is not unknown to you I will tell you not only that I am born a Prince among the Macedonians but that I am of the same bloud with deceased Alexander that Philip his Father and Amintas who was mine were Cousen Germans and that my Grandfather wore the Crown which by right of eldership descended upon Philips Father I will not entertain you with the particulars of an infancy which had nothing considerable but my education with Alexander The rank I held in Macedonia as one of the nearest to the Crown obliged King Philip to cause me to be bred up with his son and Prince Amintas my Father contributed all that depended on him to repair my defects of nature by the industry of the Masters he provided for me I was five or six years younger then Alexander which hindred me from hearing the Lectures of Aristotle the Philosopher under whom he had already profited very much before I had reason and solidity enough to draw any benefit from the instructions of that learned man But in requital the wise Callisthenes took care to read to me and us'd his endeavours to form my manners according to vertue and to the true Philosophy whereby if I was not bettered I ought only to accuse the perversity of mine own nature The same care was taken to make me expert in all exercises of the body and I may say without vanity that with facility enough I learn'd all things fit and necessary for a person of my quality I was not above fourteen years old when Philip took me with him to the siege of Bizantium where Alexander served his Apprentiship under the most prudent and most politique Commander of all those that were before his time and I was not above sixteen when I departed with him to bear him company in his Expeditions My Father was dead a few moneths before and though my kindred us'd some endeavours to keep me still with them my love to the King and the desire of glory which began already to be kindled in my heart carried it from all their intreaties and considerations of my youth which was the only cause of all their apprehensions I left Macedonia then with the King who as young as I was made some account of me and had already put me in the rank of Ptolomeus Hephestion Craterus and of those other Princes who were most dear and most considerable to him Since it is an abridgement of my life alone which you require you will dispence with me if I relate not that