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A33049	Nature's paradox, or, The innocent impostor a pleasant Polonian history, originally intituled Iphigenes / compiled in the French tongue by the rare pen of J.P. Camus ... ; and now Englished by Major VVright.; Iphegène. English	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Wright, Major (John)	1652 (1652)	Wing C417; ESTC R3735	325,233	390

loss of mine own but I beseech you to consider that all Passions are Precipitated all Precipitation is Blinde Blindness is incompatible with Reason What we do through the violence of that Motion is not judicious that which is without Judgement is subject to great Failings those Failings to remarkable Repentance You may do what you please it is my Duty to Obey you and move in the Sphear of your Authority You are past Child-hood now the yoak of Paternall power doth no longer press your neck take heed of imitating the Birds whom Love driveth into the Fowlers Nets and thence to Death or at least into Captivity The Servitude whereunto Marriage obligeth Ladies is not small those Devoirs will seem very strange to you and for a Pleasure which you esteem the more the less you know it you will purchase to your self much Pain Besides what will People say nay what will they not say if you discover your self and be Married in this manner You will lose all your Estate and Honours and you shall be sure to make your Father your Enemy who will pursue you with Fire and Sword your Mother will run the hazard of her Life and not beeing advertised of your proceedings shee will be so perplexed that the fear of Death will perchance make her anticipate the Vengeance of the rigorous Mieslas Clandestine Marriages whatsoever can be objected are alwayes suspicious and bear the Mark of Dishonesty in their Faces What will these Gentlemen think that are in your company At first it may be they will conceit that all this was done by Witchcraft but when Time shall have made appear that there is no other Magick than Naturall if they do not blame your Conduct it will be either for want of judgement or through excess of Friendship Consider moreover that if the secret which we have so long concealed should be disclosed in this manner you will render yourself the Fable of the whole World and the most infamous and dishonoured Creature under the Sun Whereas if moderating your Desires a little you will but follow my former Counsels which you were than pleased to relish and your Mother approved and which are conformable to your Affection and Design for Liante Fame will speak you not onely in Polonia but through the whole Universe the most admirable the most Honourable and the most triumphant Virgin that ever Nature framed the Mouths of Mortalls will not have Tongues sufficient nor their Tongues words nor their Words tearmes elegant enough to express the Greatness of your Name and represent the Splendor of that unspeakable Glory wherewith you shall be crowned and which will one day by the Pen of some eminent Historian convey your Esteem into the Memory of succeeding Ages Marriage Madam is a sacred and indissoluble bond which ought to be treated of with Grave and Serious deliberation not amongst these Facetious Recreations Those that contract Matrimony ought to proceed with great Circumspection and think upon the establishment of their Fortunes and the good of their Progeny rather than the satisfying of their Lusts If you do otherwise the Shadow is not so inseparable from the Body as Repentance will be from your Action And it is far more easie to prevent a Mischief than remedy it when it is hapned I am not against your beeing Married to Liante since from your Infancy it seem's that Heaven where Marriages are made hath destined you for him but I would advise you to deferr your Wedding and of blameable render it glorious of private publick hide not with shamefull obscurity that which ought to be illuminated with the clearest Light that ever produced Day What is but prolonged is not lost and my judgement can foresee no Cause what Venim soever envious Fortune spit's in Vertue 's face capable of hindering so just and so Legitimate an Effect which may Crown your Father's Heart with Satisfaction your Mother 's with Gladness the King with Contentment and the whole World with Wonder These words pronounced with a zealous sincerity conformable to the disposition of him that uttered them were as Water cast upon the Fire of that Passion as a Bridle to that Temptation which began to transport the Reason of the vertuous Serife And immediately a Vermillion colour the livery of Modesty over-spread her Cheeks not without some trickling tears which the vehemency of her distemper extorted from her Eyes Hee that hath ever observed the Pearls that Aurora sprinkle's upon red Roses may fancy something neer the countenance of that Lady scorched with Shame and watered with Tears Thence the prudent Boleslaüs gathered that her Heart was in no ill temper and that Honour gaving gained the victory of Love did render Reason triumphant over Passion At length with no less Sweetness and Modesty than hee had Compassion to see her in that Perplexity shee answered Be assured Father that this assault nor any other Heavens permitting shall ever make me forget my duty neither have I hitherto admitted any thing into my thoughts contrary to what a Virgin of Honour oweth to her Reputation and Vertue The End which I pretend is so Glorious that it is sufficient to justifie all the means I use to atchieve it But since your Prudence ripened by the advantage of Years and much experience make's you judge that the fruit of my desire is not yet come to maturity I will deferr the gathering it untill you shall think it time for mee to cast off my veile This said not to press any farther her Heart big with Sighs Boleslaüs having made his obeisance and wished her good rest left her to retire to his other Companions Then Serife seeing herself alone and thinking shee was unheard having opened the Flood gates of her Eyes and given Air to her sighs shee eased the burthen of her overswollen Heart by the utterance of these dolefull words Wretched Serife how long must thou like a miserable Sisyphus rowle this stone which is no sooner brought to the top of thy pretensions but by a fatall weight in spight of all thy Force and Industry it take's the advantage of the steep descent to precipitate thee into the bottom of Despair Shalt thou never see an end of this Labour no less Vnprofitable than Painfull Shall a clear Day dissipating the foggy Vapors which environ thee never shine upon thy Repose Is it then Registred in the Book of Fate that thou must consume in these comfortless Woods the most flourishing season of thy Years in the Presence but not to the knowledge of him who is the innocent and amiable Cause of thy sufferings must thou then spend and perchance end thy Dayes in these obscurities without informing him who thou art and of the true manner of thy Love Oh Liante Oh Calliante if you could read within my Heart the Torments which you make mee feele as you finde in my Face the subject of your own Disturbances I am confident you would bee moved with the same

crime that I know than for demanding to speak with my Master But in earnest Boleslaus are you a Prisoner or is this still to continue the stratagem you know of and for which I was sent away because I could not dissemble and act my part so gravely as I should I protest seriously said Boleslaus there is no jeast in what I tell thee and I have almost lost my Reason and Temper in these fopperies The Palatine hath brought us into these broils but I do not see how hee will bee able to enlarge us again sodainly hee beeing in restraint as well as wee How a Prisoner said Arcade did the King command him to bee committed No not the King said Boleslaus but these Peasants under the name of Serife and with him I tell thee they have imprisoned all us that attended Him What answered Arcade is hee then yet in the Ladie 's habit hee had when I left him and his Lady by consequence in Man's and each in a severall Prison But would hee bee committed to Prison without disclosing his Quality Nay more said Boleslaus now that hee is in Prison hee denieth himself to be what hee is and saye's hee is what hee is not This is the strangest fancy answered Arcade that ever I heard of and which will produce new Discourses that will not redound to his Honour However I must speak with him to tell him that hee must speedily take some order to succour his Brother-in-law whom Mieslas who is now at Plocens hath delivered into the hands of certain fellowes that will take away his Life or at least his Honour if they bee not prevented by some sodain remedy Hitherto said Boleslaus thou hast spoken like a discreet Man but now I perceive thou ravest For I know where Liante is and am sure that hee cannot bee in Mieslas hands Their reasoning might have continued long enough e're they could have penetrated each other's meaning Boleslaüs not daring to speak all hee knew for fear of displeasing Iphigenes and never beeing able to imagine the adventures of Modestina The Judges and Commons of the Village who heard all this Dialogue knew not what else to think than that of all the Fools that they had seen in their Lives they never saw any so sens-less After this they led him to Pomeran Pisides and Argal whose discourse was yet more extravagant For they knowing not Liante spake altogether of an Almeria and a Calliante names which Arcade never had heard Insomuch that the Judges could pick nothing out of their various Speeches than cause of laughter But when hee was brought into Calliante's Presence hee began to bless himself his Heart panting as if hee had seen a Ghost For hee could not perswade himself that without Negromancy hee could appear before him there having seen him as hee thought at Plocens At length My Lord Liante said hee is it you whom I see or hath some Spirit borrowed your shape certainly you cannot bee in two places at once and I am as sure that I saw you at Plocens within these two dayes as that your likeness now appear's before my Eyes Either that which I saw at Plocens must bee an illusion or this which here troubleth my sight Yet me-think's it is your voyce which I hear said hee Liante having answered him But in regard Magicians by their Diabolicall Art can counterfeit that as well as Faces give mee leave to touch you that I may know it is your Body Which Liante having permitted This is Flesh and Bones said hee this is no Spirit certainly I will rather believe that the other which I did onely see and that at some distance too was but a Vision whereby the more than barbarous cruelty of Mieslas will bee deceived and I am glad for your sake that you are out of his power for if you were in the place of that Ghost of your's which hee hath put into the hands of some no less inhumane than himself I should esteem you the most unfortunate Gentleman upon Earth These words having bred in Liante's Spirit a curiosity to know what cruelty Mieslas intended to his Person Arcade told him what had passed at Plocens and that it was the main cause of his coming into that Desart to acquaint Iphigenes with that design of Mieslas You may imagine what an allarme this made in Liante's Heart with what impatience hee was presently seized to see himself at Liberty that hee might flie before that storm and avoid the clutches of that rigorous Sarmatian Fear which made him tremble at every shadow bred a suspition in his thoughts that all this Pastorall Comedy had been invented by Iphigenes onely to impe the wings of Time and amuse him untill Mieslas had apprehended him and sent him back to his prison there to force him to suffer the affront whereof Arcade had given him notice These imaginations put him beyond all temper and ready to run into despair hee fulminated terrible threats against those Clowns if they released him not speedily These apprehensions so violent and sovisible gave birth to diverse sinister Opinions in the Judges and Country-men there present making them suspect him for some notorious Criminall or some dangerous Person in regard Arcade talked of murthering or reducing him to an incapacity of aspiring to Marriage yet the strong impression they had Calliante was Almeria and really a Woman made them revoke all this story into doubt as a fiction invented to delude their Senses Insomuch that in stead of giving Liante any hope of a sodain inlargement they made him closer Prisoner having received no other consolation by Arcade's visit than the assurance of Mieslas beeing at Plocens and of the horrible desire hee had to commit in his person the Murther of his Posterity Thence Arcade was conducted to Serife's Lodging who after a long Paradoxicall Conference beeing certainly informed of her Father's arrivall in that Palatinate by whom shee had no will to bee seen in that equipage and a Prisoner to those base People whom according to the authority of Palatines in Polonia with the least word shee could have sent to the Gallowes raising the tone of her voyce in a more grave and Majestick manner than became the quality of a Prisoner shee thus spake to her Judges Gentlemen dispatch quickly your formalities and do mee Justice I begin to bee weary of this Prison Whether I am Man or Woman is nothing materiall to any of you Besides I believe you can lay no Crime to my Charge nor Calliante's who for pastime onely not with any ill intent conspired with those Swains whom you have set at liberty to carry mee away whereof I was advertised and contented what displeasure soever I expressed Do not make mee intreat you twice to discharge mee For if you compell mee to discover who I am there is not hee among you but will tremble at my very name beeing able to render you of Judges Criminals of Apprehenders Prisoners and send you