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B08389	La stratonica, or, The unfortunate queen a new romance / written in Italian by Luke Assarino and now Englished by J.B.; Stratonica. English	Assarino, Luca, 1602-1672.; Burbury, John.; Cartolari, Giovanni Battista.	1651 (1651)	Wing A4016A; ESTC R218449	91,350	186

assurance of Life every one cryes up his Fame when he happens to kill even the Earth hides his faults He can never want Happiness for either as Vertuous he 's exalted or as Vicious not suppressed After long debates Hermogenes and Carneades dissenting the one from the other disputed it fiercely This would have Antiochus to be sick of a Hectique Feaver that to be Bewitched This discord of the Physicians being divulged through Damascus gave matter of Discourse to the Idle and of Revenge to the Malicious The Reader may imagine what health that must be poor Seleucus hoped for to the Prince his disease while by the Physicians uncertain Contention he foresaw the sick Princes certain death His condition seemed the more deplorable by how much being forced to endure his Sons Murther he was to approve of his intention that killed him Stratonica in the mean time watching like an Argos how to comfort her beloved sick Prince counselled the King to have him removed to a Pallace without the City called Elysium She though she did not fully comprehend the quality of his sickness perceived that Antiochus was mortally Melancholly and that therefore that Pallaces scituation could not choose but give great ease to his sorrows Elysium is a Place which now humbling it self in fallowed Plains now proud in well husbanded Hills marries barren Woods to cultivated Villa's and joyns neat Gardens to elaborated Fountains There as in a Frascati at Rome or a Sampierdarena at Genoa the greatest Rulers of Soria dwelling in the Country in the Summer Pallaces are seen which resembling the tallest sons of Architecture with their Gyant-like Roofs wage an innocent war with the Stars and causing Admiration to tumble down headlong from the height of their Fabricks make dreadful in a maner their Beauty Nature that hath constituted an Air to this place where the Spring is perpetual seems that with reason she will always have that soyl enamell'd with flowers which is destined for the Garden of the world Now there on a hill covered with the pleasantest verdure that can be represented in any Dutch Tapistry the Kings house was built To describe a Pallace is to petrifie a Pen. Let it therefore suffice to say of it That Nature hath not hardned any Marble nor refined Jewels nor burnished Gold but for this house's Structure The Pillars seem onely to be made to cause Admiration the open Galleries to assemble Magnificence and the Statues to civilize the Stones The Halls eccho for their vastness the Chambers glister with Riches the Cabinets are proud of the Ornaments they have and every thing in fine is Majestick every thing infuses a reverence Antiochus being removed to this Place the King delayed not to come thither with all the Court There was a Gentleman lately arrived in Damascus who boasted of Cyprus for his Country and was called Climenes He versed in many Tongues and experienced in the Customs of several Nations seemed to have travelled a great part of Asia and Europe and to have seen the Courts of all the greatest Princes then living Whereupon being infinitely capable of any imployment he was valued by all for a man of extraordinary Parts and invincible dexterity in the affairs of the World But as Nature had enrich'd him with the gifts of the Minde so she had made him very inconsiderable in the qualities of the Body For being Squint-ey'd Toothless and Flat-nos'd he would doubtless have offended the eyes of all that beheld him if the garb of a strong and well proportioned Stature and the cheerfulness and vivacity of a Noble deportment had not almost quite concealed in him the Deformity of his Countenance But he having brought some Letters to Licofronia from her onely Son Alcestes for whose absence the poor Matron lived disconsolately began on that account to insinuate himself into the favor of the greatest at Court and being extreamly commended by Licofronia who professed her self very much obliged to him he came so to be master of Antiochus his affection that he being greatly taken with this Gentlemans conversation admitted none but him into the most intrinsecal and freest familiarity in his Chamber The Prince therefore one day much desiring to hear of some disaster in anothers affections to see if the torments of others were comparable to or surpassed his torments spake to Climenes to relate something to him in order to his love for as much as that he being for ought he could see placed under a great but not altogether fortunate condition he imagined that his adventures could not without wonder be heard nor pitied without pleasure Climenes who encountered with all earnestness the desires of the Prince to fasten the surer himself in his Favor returned him this answer That he refused not to obey him in this as he had always done in every thing else he onely considered that the accidents of his love although they exceeded the limits of an ordinary Fortune were not so considerable to deserve a Princes hearing That therefore the Relation which his Highness supposed might occasion him half an hours pastime would doubtless prove to him a day of vexation But Antiochus renewing his instance made Climenes begin in this maner Since your Highness will have me relate the greatest torment that ever I have suffered for Love you must know that scarce I had entered into the fourth lustre of my Age but a malignant Feaver I know not by what means having seized upon me had almost epitomized my life in a sigh My Father who onely in me numbered all his Progeny being inseperable from those Feathers of which he thought my breath could make it self Wings to fly to the other World made his sorrow the more to be pitied by how much my disease was esteemed the more dangerous But the flame now burning within all my bowels had so dried up my Palate that my Tongue deprived too of that little humidity which makes it fit for motion was not onely unable to speak but inflexible likewise I was more oppressed with Thirst then the Feaver and my Fortune to make me sufficiently unhappy when it had painted in my Fancy all the cool Waters that I had ever seen to gush out of the earth offered me to drink in the Cup of two weeping Eyes the Tears which my old Father shed While I burned in this maner the hopes of my health being abandoned before by the Physicians a Matron called Mirtenia who dwelt near our house shewed such skill in preparing me a Potion that my Thirst and Feaver being drowned in that draught I found my self wholly recovered This Favor then which there could be none greater done to me so obliged me to Mirtenia that to visit her almost every day and serve her in all her occasions seemed to me very slender demonstrations of that Love which I owed her But alas many days had not passed but I perceived that the drink which had plainly refreshed my body had with all burnt secretly my heart I

He after he had for a good while while the Priests were expected at the Ceremonies fed the first hunger of his eyes with the sight of an object so rare began as if come to himself to think of his Pensil and Designing To that end snatching suddenly a Black-lead Pen with some Paper he designed in haste the lineaments onely of her face to be able better afterwards in his lodging to colour with his Pensils her Image so lively imprinted in his minde The good old man while he formed his design in that maner behinde the pillar resembled another Prometheus stealing the beams from the Sphaer of the Sun That would certainly have happened to him which befel him in the painting of Campaspe if the frost of his snowy age had not kept his heart unhurt from the flames which were breathed by that countenance So in those three days of the Sacrifice he having the opportunity of beholding Stratonica at his pleasure so happily finished her Picture that in nothing but silence it differed from the original The joy he had that the Picture was well done exceeded far Pigmalions for the beauty of his statue Being therefore ready to go homewards he seemed a proud Jason returning from the conquest of the golden Fleece He found no opportunity of returning to Corinth to adorn with that Picture his Cabinet where he kept the dearest pieces he had but forced to deviate from the shortest way by reason of the wars of the adjacent Countries he arrived at Nicomedia Finding there a Galley that was bound for Corinth he embarqued himself very gladly and began his journey The Sea shewing its beauty in a calm and the Wind in that serenity its faith enticed all the passengers to be enamored of their voyage but their constancy lasted but a day The Sun did set that Evening covered over with clouds and the Heavens by the colour of that funeral habit seemed to represent to the Saylors the horror of an approaching death The first hours of the night assembled together all the breath of the Wind which blew from the land and they went not much farther but by little and little they heard the North-wind blow fresh a far off As the waves grew bigger and bigger so the clouds in like maner were condensed as if that the Stars had procured them to hide all their faces because they wanted courage to look on the destruction which the sea was about to commit Now the wind grown impetuous roar'd aloud among the Masts and the Sayl-yards which beaten by the Ropes seemed in a maner to inform them by a doleful whistling That the Sayls being too big with wind were straight to be delivered by the death of the Galley It rained without end and lightned most horribly 'T was fearful to see by the light of the Lamps the huge height of the waves which resembling snowy mountains by the foam which grew white on their backs came rowling all along to bury the unfortunate Vessel The Marriners therefore turning all pale fell hastily to easing of their Galley by throwing into the Sea all the Fardels and Chests which came next to their hands Apelles in so great a confusion having nothing but a Hamper in which were lockt some cloaths together with Stratonica's Picture was not wanting to conceal it for some time but seeing that they continued casting overboard knew not how longer to preserve it What wilt thou do unhappy Apelles now that thy life and thy glory depend to speak so on the will of a mad Sea If with drowning thy self thou wert sure to keep thy Picture I beleeve thou wouldst gladly lose thy life to save that which would make thy life eternal but the evil of it is that thy loss both in this and in that is the same O Gods if any one could have seen what variety of things in a moment that Wit then thought of who shewed himself always co●tagious in his actions When he had been for a while so ambiguous he suddenly snatcht the Hamper and seeing that the Rain was gone by break of day which though dusky yet came on apace he took out Stratonica's Picture and exposing it in haste to the eyes of the Marriners cryed out Behold O Friends behold her Picture who now can onely save us Behold O Sacred Goddess behold our Dangers hear our Lamentations suffer not the Waves to drown the devoted to that Deity which is born of the Sea Every one being stupid and dazled at the Beauty of that Face which they certainly beleeved was the Picture of Venus made so doleful a noise and wept in that maner as it would have moved to pity any other thing but the Sea While they so prayed were it by chance or diabolical operation the Galley arrived in a Neighboring Creek where the Sea with a great deal less noise did beat the sandy pavement of the shore The wretched shipwrack'd-men had now some time to breathe but they breathed in that maner as if they had been doubtful of their safety so sudden a change of Fortune had astonished them so much But assured that they were safe they went ashore and although they were far off from all Humane commerce and habitation yet in touching that barren Coast they had all the pleasures which the greatest and most flourishing City could afford them They stayed there two days till the Sea was appeased to recover themselves of the disasters they had suffered Thence putting again to Sea they landed in a little time after at the much desired Haven of Corinth Certain Ambassadors of Seleucus driven by the same tempest arrived also there who returned for some Affairs from Cassander then reigning in Caria They desirous to see a City renowned for many things after they had visited the principal places came to Apelles his house There he in the middle of a very great Hall stood with his miraculous Pensil distinguishing from the Chaos of colours so many Worlds as he had Pictures at hand The Figures then finished seemed as if they gloried in their Being and on the contrary side to desire their perfection who had not then obtained it The Skin and the Flesh grew visibly on those Muscles which had nothing that was faigned but Opinion The Figures would have spoken if Apelles like another Pythagoras had not first of all taught them to be silent in his School The Ambassadors were amazed and seemed no less Figures then the Figures themselves Being at last in his Cabinet where his perfectest things were they presently fixt their eyes on Stratonica's Picture They would have kneeled to it for the majesty of that Countenance would not let them beleeve it was a Picture They could not understand how those Eyes and that Mouth had not life and they stood with so much reverence contemplating it that they blushed They thought that Stratonica said I boast of two Forms the one from Jupiter the other from Apelles If I had not had the first it had been no

LA STRATONICA OR The Unfortunate QUEEN A NEW ROMANCE Written in Italian by Luke Assarino and now Englished By J. B. Gent. LONDON Printed by J.F. for Humphrey Moseley and are to be sold at his shop at the Sign of the Prince's Arms in S. Pauls Church-yard MDCLI ●o the Right Honorable and most Vertuous Lady my Lady Katherine Howard Eldest Daughter to the Right Honorable and my most Noble Lord THE Earl of Arundel and Surrey MADAM BEing to Sacrifice Stratonica I humbly beg your Pardon if I do it on the Altar of your Ladiships Perfections and Patronage where I hope I may take Sanctuary and holding on my course since your Honor 's at the Helm have a favorable Passage through the World of Mens Opinions To you therefore Madam whose delicate Composition can be equalled onely by the Beauty of your Minde I offer up and consecrate these my First-Fruits in this kinde And though the little Brook which returning to the Sea and there gratefully emptying it self may as well make the Ocean overflow as this Tribute of Gratitude express my Devotions to your Ladiship yet be pleased Madam to accept of this little Oblation from the Hands and Heart of MADAM Your Ladiships most humble and most devoted Servant John Burbery LA STRATONICA OR The Unfortunate QUEEN The First Book WHen Alexander was dead his Commanders who then numbered more Victories then days of his Life like Stars at the setting of the Sun made themselves conspicuous with the Rayes of Regal Power for dividing that great Empire amongst them every one of them became a King By one of them which was called Antigonus Demetrius was begotten a Prince no less famous for the greatness of his Minde then the handsomness of his Body To him alone it appeared That Heaven with a hand rather Prodigal then Liberal would give what it had of most value in the Rich Treasury of Nature Demetrius was observed by all as a Prodigy of that Age Not Vertue but Fortune onely was wanting to him to equal him to Alexander When he was pleased to be seen in the Camp and gloriously to appear amongst his Soldiers he made all that beheld him to think of an Adonis in the habit of Mars This Prince then and Fila his wife were Stratonica's Parents She was presented to the World in that time when the Stars were most active to Characterize a Womans Nativity with the gentleness of their Influences The ●hilde grew apace and her Hereditary Beauty displaying it self which restrained in the narrow confines of that so tender Age was not fit yet to raise up with a Grace the appetite of Sense arrived at that height That possessing the Mindes of all her beholders with a sudden admiration gave occasion to men of doubting whether she was Mortal or no. I would willingly draw here to the life the pourtraicture of this Queen if my black Ink were not too unfit a colour to set forth a Celestial Beauty Let the Reader therefore imagine a Face and a Body shaped with the most exquisite proportion of a hew as white as the driven Snow and cloathed with the best Grace Let him conceive in his fancy such a Readiness in her as is most commended in Speaking such a Modesty as is most approved in Conversation and such Courtesie as is most desired in Courtship and of all these particulars let him finally beleeve Stratonica's Composition Nature left her nothing to desire but bright shining Hair for hers was neither yellow nor black but of a middle colour but the brownness of her Chestnut coloured Hair together with the whiteness of her Face and black Eyes without doubt represented her more beautiful Now Stratonica's Fame grown greater then Belief though not the Truth flew with most glorious applause through the remotest Provinces of Asia and Europe It s flight was so fortunate that where by it self it could not arrive it came driven by the sound of her Fathers Martial Trumpets so as where they recounted Demetrius his Victories they likewise made mention of Stratonica's Beauty The Prisoners which were brought from the Camp to the Court where she was having frequent occasions of seeing her took it for a very great happiness that they had been overcome for they knew it was not lawful for any to see so much Beauty without the loss of his Liberty Apelles lived in that time His age though then great yet was not at that pass to diminish one jot the force of his Body or the vigor of his Minde He no less famous for his Pensil in the Excellency of his Art then bold of Spirit in the variety of his Designs made it appear to the World for an undoubted Maxime That the greatest Wits are more violent and hardy in their Affections then others He hearing Stratonica's Beauty much commended desired extreamly to draw her Picture He supposed that the Glories of his Pensil could no where receive greater honor then from that Princesses Fame Being then resolved for such an enterprise he stole away from Corinth the place of his abode and in few days arrived at Bursia a City seated at the foot of the Mountain Olympus where Demetrius had his residence The Custom of the Queens in never shewing themselves publiquely unless on Solemn days for some Moneths would have retarded the execution of Apelles his design if his Fortune had not brought him to that place in a time that was near a noble Sacrifice which they every year used to celebrate for three days together in the Temple of the Idol Baal All beginnings do concur in order to the end when the end crowns the Work Amongst the rarest Fabricks of Asia that Temple was esteemed as the greatest It had four Frontispieces of the finest polished Marble and as many great Gates In the middle of the Temple was erected a proud Altar very easie to be seen from all the four doors The first of the days which were destined to the Sacrifice being come and the greater part of the Nobility and People gathered together with solemn pomp within the Court Apelles who had with anticipated time made choice of a very fit place behinde a Pillar as soon as he saw among the waving multitude the longed for Stratonica with her Mother the Queen to enter into the Temple I know not by what cause being overcome with wonder remained not senseless That pillar peradventure which he used as a wall to stand before him bequeathed to him its qualities if we may not rather say That he needed much a pillar to keep him on his legs at the first encounter of that fairest sight She with her Mother being seated near the Altar on a Throne which they used to prepare for their Majesties on such days seemed a Goddess worthy to be bowed to by the Idol it self whom all bowed to Demetrius was not present with these Queens for he was engaged in the war he had made against Ptolomy His absence eclipsed the rayes of Apelles his glory