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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25458	The Annals of love containing select histories of the amours of divers princes courts, pleasantly related.		1672 (1672)	Wing A3215; ESTC R11570	240,092	446

pretended her self sick and a Physician indulging her designs advised her for change of Air to remove to Magnesia She obtained leave to carry her Son along with her and having dispersed it abroad that he dyed of the small Pox which had raged violently about that time she caused another to be buried publickly in his stead and committed the care of her Son to an Eunuch one of her Confidents The Eunuch transported him to Greece and recommended him to the Tuition of the Bishop of Thessalonia The good Bishop baptized him and gave him careful Education till he was fifteen or sixteen years old At that age the Eunuch who was privy to the Mystery of his Affairs had a great desire to impart them to him The weight of a secret is too ponderous for persons of his Character and to speak Poetically would have been a troublesom bundle in the Ferry-Boat of Charon See then the Prince informed of his Extraction and very desirous to know what they talkt of him in the World He disguised himself as a Dervis and stealing from the Tutelage of his Bishop he directed his Course privately towards the chief Cities in Greece Many people were offended at the prematurity of his Profession and believing him what his Habit represented 'T is pity said the Ladies this young man should have been so early devoted to Heaven Being arrived at Scopea he understood the death of his Father he knew likewise that Mustapha being out of the World the Ottoman Crown would have fallen upon his head had not the false news of his death diverted it upon his younger Brother His Mothers zeal to preserve him began then to appear indiscreet He was of an age in which they are more sensible of earthly than celestial Dignity He past into Asia where his Intelligence told him certain Bashaws were in Revolt against their new Emperour He discovered himself to be the Son of Mahomet put himself in the Head of their rebellious Troops and marcht against Achmets Lieutenants A Romantick Author would not fail to have made him conquer his Enemy and given the Empire to the Exploits of his victorious Arm and not without reason for right being on his side why should Fortune be against him however he performed what a man of Courage could possibly do in defence of his Title but in despight of his Bravery and diligence he was wounded defeated and had much ado to escape the pursuit of his Enemies I take the liberty notwithstanding to inlarge and intersperse his Adventures with such Accidents as are least incompatible with the History Though this reverse of Fortune was a most sensible affliction to our young Sultan it did not quite ruine his hopes Right of Blood never wants Protectors no Kingdom being so empty of seditious and turbulent Spirits but there will always be some will embrace with both Arms the pretence of a Revolt if guilded with the least appearance of Justice The Bashaw Dervis who was very potent at the Port and had a secret amity with the Bashaws of Asia had a great inclination to assist them He caused Jacaya to come to Constantinople privately in the Habit of a Persian Priest the Conferences of the Confederates are frequent and open Plots are laid for deposing Achmet and advancing Jacaya to the Throne and so probably and forward were their designs his foot might have been said to have been upon the first step but the very same day all things were to have been put in execution the Bashaw Protector was discovered and all the Princes hopes reduced to the single attempt of an escape He put himself into the Train of a Polish Ambassador who was returning to his Master and rebaptizing himself with a new name Hope he followed his Ambassadour to Cracovia This young Princes defign was to discover himself to the King of Poland and to desire Sanctuary in his Court but by the discouragements he heard by the way he was diverted from that resolution His Affairs being great and his History singular they were the subject of all Conversations some said Jacaya was dead others he was retired to the Emperour of Germany Every one playing the Polititian according to his own fancy and arguing the ill consequences his retreat might bring upon them who received him they gave the disguised Prince to consider his Refuge was to be chosen with all possible Caution Before he would hazard himself he concluded to take the secret advice of his friends continuing therefore in his present condition till he could receive their opinions by his diligence and dexterity he had rendred himself so grateful to his Master he was grown the greatest Favourite he had in his Family In this quality he became his Confident in an Intrigue he held with a Transilvanian Lady called Metzala whom the Wars of her Country had driven for protection into the Polish Court This Metzala was very fair the obligations betwixt them depended more upon utility than inclination but she was of so equitable a temper she did Justice to the favours of Nature in what object soever she met them The outward condition of Jacaya could not disguise much less efface the goodness of his Meen and the Beauty of Metzala was of a degree which would have stagger'd the Loyalty of a more religious person than Mahomets Son The Lady and this counterfeit Hope began to despise the obstruction of their different Relations to the Polish Ambassadour Metzala permitted the disguised Prince to droll in her presence and to play upon the Age and Courtship of his Master He took the boldness to make her several mysterious Presents as new-years gifts or offerings upon her Birth-day and having given and received oelliades both on one side and the other Jacaya presuming he was advanced so far as that he might speak his mind without danger of reprehension he writ a Letter imparting his thoughts and carrying it himself he delivered it to Metzala instead of another he was to have presented from his Master Metzala was at that time taking the air in her Balcony when she pretended Hope brought her the Letter See Madam said he accosting her a Present which perhaps you expected not If it be welcom I expect great reward from your Magnificence if otherwise your rejection will be punishment sufficient Metzala took the Paper and opening it found these words Madam I am a Messenger of Love and you ought not to be surprised with that Title for it is a long time I have been so with you hitherto I have only offered such vows as their age rendred but luke-warm and unfit to be presented to you Now Madam I tender you a passion as ardent as sincere and as violent as solid the hand from whence this Offering comes you may possibly at first think guilty of Sacriledge but suffer not your self to be deluded by appearance I 'le assure you she is a Cheat and if you please to trouble your self with a stricter disquisition you will find

charged him had been told from his own mouth he declared them to the Natolians with advantage and promising them no less than inestimable riches in this life and eternal felicity in the next if they assisted towards the erection of that new Dominion they concurred ingaged to receive him into their City and take Arms under his Conduct to maintain the Sect of the Scaydars This Treaty was managed in the most obscure part of the Desart at the same time the Dervises gave so great a testimony of their Sanctity by refusing Bajazets Envoy The day set for the Enterprise and all things prepared for its execution they sent word to Sultan Selim that at length the moment was come in which the Divine Prophet commiserating the violence they had done to themselves in conversing so long among sinners had given them leave to withdraw from that slavery and retire into a Desart unknown to all persons affected with the pleasures of this World and that when they were once gone they should be heard of no more till they were dead that before their departure they had obtained by singular favour a liberty of revealing all their secrets to them effectually which they had done hitherto but in part that if he pleased he might come to them to the Grot and bring the two Princesses with him to whom likewise they would declare the last pleasure of their Prophet but that they should have as few of their Attendants as possible in respect of the horrour they conceived at the sight of the people of this World The Sultan ran head-long into the Trap he had laid for him he went to the Grot with the Princesses and Prince Imerse and not above eight or ten armed men in their Company The Persian Princes lay in Ambuscade upon a pass at the head of three or four hundred new Sectaries which they had divided into several Squadrons and disposed privately up and down to prevent the danger of an Alarm but with directions upon a Signal agreed to draw into a Body which they did and fell upon the Sultan when he least expected such entertainment The Princesses were secured and carried away by their true Lovers to the City Antalia where the Princes were received They drove away the Beglierbey and put all that opposed to the Sword after which they got so many men together by their false predictions and possest themselves of so many Towns that by the assistance of Ismael they maintained War several years against all the Disciples of Osman and mist narrowly of extinguishing them quite They gained three great Battels killed three Bashaws and which was more to their satisfaction injoyed their Princesses quietly whom the death of Ismael and Imerse who lived not long after left entirely to their disposition Don Sebastian King of Portugal Don Sebastian animated against the Mores rather by his Christian zeal than his prudence passed into Africk at the Head of a puissant Army in the year 1580. The pretence of this War was the oppression of Muly Mahomet King of Marocco and Fez whom his Uncle Muley Moluc called otherwise Abdelmelec would dispossess of his Kingdom as belonging to him Equity and Justice were of Abdelmelecs side but the Christians for Muley Mahomet He had passed his word to them that if they secured him in his Throne he would embrace the Catholick Faith and that ingagement outweigh'd all other considerations Sebastian armed himself sollicited all Christian Princes past with his Army into Africk and I am apt to believe with many grave Authors the interest of Religion was the only motive that carried him But Love insinuates many times where it is not desired Muley had a Daughter called Xerina who being born of a Greek was not so black as your ordinary Africans She was as well proportioned as was possible and the Courtship of Granada was not worn out of the Manners of the Mores at that time Don Sebastian could not defend himself against her Charms though he was contracted to Mary of Portugal his Cousin was to marry her at his return and loved her exceedingly before he was acquainted with Xerina this Marriage was of great importance to the repose of Portugal But obstacles in Love do but allure And tempt th' indifferent Lover to desire That God delights in difficulties sure Who will not suffer soft and gentle fire What reason prompts is but esteem not Love And to pursue it civil and no more What passion non-sense will and humour prove And run the desperate Lover out of door Let reason then triumph let passion fall Be wise and civil but not fond at all Don Sebastian being of too great Eminence and Quality to apprehend a repulse it was not long before he acquainted Xerina with his affections The Princess approved of him well enough and her ambition increased her approbation She received the declaration of his Love without any difficulty and promising Don Sebastian to turn Christian as he promised to relinquish the Princess of Portugal Love was so witty as to prevent the remorse for his inconstancy by perswading him he did a meritorious act in quitting his first Mistress to make his second a Proselyte and thus were these new Lovers united in a quiet and firm union Don Sebastian intrusted Xerina with his most secret thoughts and the Princess to recompense that confidence shewed him all the kindness imaginable In this posture they lived whilst the War was in suspence but Abdelmelec having forced Muley to a Battel in the Plains of Tamista the Kings of Morocco and Portugal were slain and with them so great a number of the Portugal Nobless there was scarce one left to return with the sad news Xerina losing at that defeat the Crowns of Morocco and Fez and her hopes of Portugal with them was transported with a most inconsolable sorrow A little before day she ran her self into the Plain of Tamista attended by only one Christian Slave called Laura who was privy to all her secrets resolving with her own hands to have sacrificed her self upon the Corps of her beloved King she searched for him among the dismal numbers of the dead and the dying with which that Plain was covered at that time Some of the wounded who had yet so much sense left them as to know her directed her to that part of the Battel where he fought she ran thither with great fury and supposing she had met with her Monarch in the person of a young Portuguez who resembled him very much she fetcht a sad shreek and prepared her self to execute her dire resolution but the poor man opening his eyes at her Cry and it being by that time clear day she perceived he was not dead From an unmeasurable sorrow she past to so immoderate a joy it had almost cost her her life but recollecting her self and calling Laura to her assistance her Love re-inforced her natural strength so well she drew her beloved from amongst the dead and haled him to