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A25311
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The Amours of the Sultana of Barbary a novel in two parts : the story finished.
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1689
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Wing A3028; ESTC R27730
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and Denials she assents and gives him this following Relation The History of Indamora YOu persuade me my Lord by so powerful a way that I must resolve to make you acquainted with all my Weaknesses To begin then I am the Daughter of a German my Father was more obliged to the Gifts of Nature than those of Fortune however he was a good Gentleman and lived esteemed by all his Humour retired and we in complaisance to it shared his Solitude with him I will not tell you I was naturally pleased with it but since I saw no way to get my self out of it I acquiesced I had not long lived in an Age capable of distinguishing things of such a nature when I became in Love with Alcander one of the most Illustrious of the Kingdom and Son to the Emperor's Sister who had married her self to one of her Brothers Subjects her unfortunate Marriage was never forgiven her but oppress'd with the fatal Anger of his Imperial Majesty She died full of Royal Grief and Sorrow in Travail with Alcander him she had espoused loved her too tenderly to survive her long but after having mourned her loss he followed her in a very little time Alcander being thus left to the Mercy of an incensed King was in all appearance to run a most deplorable Fortune but the Emperor's Anger being dead with his Sister the Princess ordered a great Care should be taken of the Royal Orphan and gave command to have him brought up and educated as his own Son loaded him with Titles and as soon as he was capable of them he gave him great Employs I am going to tell you how it was I first saw him which was almost admirable in a Life so retired so free from Court as mine He was a fine Man well shaped of a good height when I first knew him which was when he was very young his Soul was extreme Amorous had a great share of Inconstancy but where he loved it was with the greatest fervency imaginable the Emperor was Hunting one day in a Wood joyning our House which was seated very commodious for that sort of Diversion Alcander was then with him and having seen me at a great Window I had thrown open for the better seeing the Court pass he seem'd not displeased with me but alighting from his Horse hastily he caused himself to be conducted by my Servants to the place where I was 't is not easie to define the Surprize this Action gave me however I was infinitely charmed with his good Meen his Wit and his Address he found my Inclinations did not agree with that sort of Life he talk'd tenderly I was in an Age wherein I believed all that fell from his inchanting Tongue was true I began to feel a Passion for him and after he had a thousand times sighed for my sake in one hour I was sensible of a pleasing Fire he had inspired me with I gave way for him to endeavour the bringing me to Court which he conjured me to agree to and when he retired after a many Protestations of Admiration he bad me be assured I had in him not only a great Friend but a great Lover This Confession drew some Blushes from me But the following day he came again to visit me then it was I lost my Liberty for in that fatal hour I made no difficulty to own I loved him I valued not to be discreet there is no such thing in Love but I made it all the Business of my Life to be ever telling him my Passion I saw all his Actions with Pleasure there was an agreeable Inchantment in them I repined not at the freedom I had lost nor to have been as great as Heaven is high would have been unacquainted with him again It was thus agreeably I passed some of my Life nor envied I Monarchs in my retirement when e're Alcander shared it with me but as the place I lived in was so distant from the Court that Alcander's Attendance on the Emperor prevented him from seeing me as often as he desired he placed me with the Archdutchess his Imperial Majesties Daughter I was with her in a very glorious Station and though in a place where all sorts of Diversion were in use I esteemed it but as it gave me the greater Liberty to see Alcander and to often assure him of my Passion I writ it to him I told it to him in a Language tender and moving I easily believed all this would satisfie him but when he had seen to what a height my Passion soared and that he was dearer a thousand times to me than I had ever been to him he triumph'd over my Weakness and losing all manner of Respect by the opinion he had I could deny him nothing he courted me for my undoing I received the first cruel Proposals of my ruin with a terrible Emotion and with such Disdain that Alcander durst not urge me further but the following day sent me this Letter YOU are certainly the falsest of all Women How is it you tell me you Love me and yet use me as if I was the remotest Man in all your Kindness Is it your part to pretend to Virtue and I know not what fantastical Chimera's and at the same moment tell me you know how to Love well Ah! Indamora change these barbarous Sentiments and assure your self I will never see you again whilst you continue in them I had much rather live for ever from you without hope than live for ever with you and not dare to tell you you must consider nor endeavour nothing but how to please the Man you say has all your Tenderness I swooned at the reading of this Letter and was just recovered as Alcander entered he flew to me and receiving me in his Arms he whispered so many fatal poysoning charming Things that I had no longer the power to be angry with him he protested he could not see me and not desire to be the happiest Man Breathing when it was in the Power of a Woman that loved him to make him so I know not Love is an unaccountable Madness I dreaded of all things the never seeing him more it was that Consideration vanquish'd me and oh Gods in that fatal moment I promised and appointed him the following day he seem'd transported at the Grant he bless'd the Heavens the Gods and me and retired with so much Joy that the Pleasure I took in pleasing him surmounted all my other Fears and I in short resolved to make him that happy Man he said though at the expence of my own Ease and the Joy of my coming Life I very well saw I gave him what I should eternally repent of but those in Love have no Consideration but what is agreeable to that Passion but though I had abandoned all the Care of my self the Gods retained theirs for me and saved my Honour then from dying in the Arms of Alcander I was to attend that night the Archdutchess to a great