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The pleasant and delightful history of Floridon and Lucina illustriated [sic] with an admirable description of loves paradice : wherein you may behold, the abundant felicity, that true lovers enjoy, in the chaste imbraces of their dearest loves, and the sad effects that most commonly attends faithless and unconstant lovers : with variety of other passages never before printed nor published / by J.P.
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J. P.
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1663
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Lucina's restraint she had too many visits from her cruel Lover or rather Iaylor Sir Malpas who finding her still to persist in her obstinacy he resolved to try her by harsher usage and to that end he gave order that she should be very strictly lookt too for he would make her know what power he had over her now she was in his custody and so he presently went out of the room and walk't abroad into a pleasant meadow near adjoyning to meditate of his own unhappiness where in the midst of his Mellancholy musings he was disturbed and encountered by his former Love The languishing and almost desperate Mariana Who finding him alone in a place so convenient took the opportunity to accost him in this manner Thou false and disloyal Knight Sir Malpas shut not thy ears whilst I justly complain of thy cruel and perfidious dealings with thy constant though wrongfully abused Mariana How long shall I languish under the burden of thy displeasure and be slighted and rejected for nothing but too much loving thee Hast thou forgotten the time that thou sued to me for Love as much as I do now to thee remember unconstant creature that I did not continue so hard hearted to thee as thou dost now to me Then observe that I do but desire the like pitty as I shewed to thee in the same condition which if thou shalt refuse to grant be assured the gods will not fail to punish thy cruelty but will pay thee in thy own coyne for upon whomsoever thou shalt cast thy affection she shall as much disdain thee as thou now slightest me These last words of hers so nearly toucht the disloyal Malpas that he hastily flung from her without returning her any answer at all but she took so much time as to tell him she did not fear but to see him so verely punisht for his ingratitude and unconstancy And so she retired her self to enjoy her mellancholy meditations And he returned home to try if the disconsolate Lucina would accept of his service This Sir Malpas had in the Caffie with him a very Antient woman which had been his Nurse whom he now appointed to be Lucina's Guardian and gave her directions to use all the skill she could to perswade Lucina to yield to his Love After a deep sigh or two Lucina recollected her spirits a little and spake to him in this wise Sir Whether my answer may prove according to your desires or no I know not but I am sure it will be according to your desert Can you expect to finde the least Love from a person so much injured as I am by you Have you not first deprived me of my Floridon whose love was more dear to me then the whole world besides and since of my liberty then which nothing can be more sweet and comfortable Am I not here mew'd up from the society of all my Friends and Relations and is that the way to procure my love Oh no! the remembrance of my Floridon is more dear to me then so Here Sir Malpas called Heaven and Earth to witness that he knew nothing at all of Floridons departure nor was in the least guilty of his losse And then he began to excuse himself for bringing her to his Castle against her will withall promising her all the liberty she could desire and what ever else might stand with her content if she would agree and yield to his Love She told him she was very uncapable as yet to listen to any such motion and desired him to make his love appear by granting her liberty and time to wear out her woe for the losse of her Lover and it might be afterwards she might listen to his Suit But he would by no means consent to let her have liberty but still urged her for Mariage which she was resolved within her self rather to dye then ever to consent to it She told him if the fates had so order'd it that she must be forced by his means to spend her dayes in Imprisonment she was willing to submit to it since she could enjoy no comfort in any place without the society of her dear Floridon who if he were alive and should come to the knowledg of her sufferings she made no doubt but he would take a just revenge upon the Author thereof if not the powers above would never suffer such Villanous treachery to passe without severe punishment When Sir Malpas saw he could doe no good of her in that humour he advised her to consider better of it and so took his leave of her and she was very glad to be rid of him that she might return to her wonted sorrow but he was in such a fret that he could not imagine what to doe for to force her to his will he could not but it would be known by her friends that lived so near So that he concluded his onely way would be to remove her into another Country for a while where she might possibly be more willing to consent when she see no hopes of ever returning this resolution pleased him so well that he intended to travail into Scisily to visit a brother which he had living there but indeed his design was for Florence where he intended to continue untill Lucina might conforme to his will CHAP. VIII How Chrisipus came to visit his Unkle Sir Malpas and related to him the means of his escape from drowning And how Sir Malpas discovered his design to Chrisipus of his intent to carry Lucina into Florence WHilst he was contriving this plot against the innocent and wronged Lucina one of his servants came and told him that a stranger below in the Court desired to speak with him Sir Malpas gave order he should come in and so made haste to meet him and as soon as he came near him he perceived it was Chrisipus his brothers son of Scicily whom he kindly imbraced and after mutual Salutation desired to know if his Father were in health to whom Chrisipus reply'd that his Father had been dead about half a year and that himself had very hardly escaped death by a strange accident Sir Malpas was very desirous to hear the relation of his adventure which Chrisipus was willing to satisfie him in and so related to his Vnckle the very same story that his Isabella had told to Floridon in the Cave First of his Marriage with Isabella and likewise how he had slain her Vnckles Kinsman and being forced quoth he to flee to Arcadia for my own safety It hapned that our Ship sunk where for any thing I know all the company except my self perished and amongst the rest my dear Isabella for whilst every one was endeavouring to save their lives it was my fortune to bestride an Empty Hogshead upon which I was tumbled in the Sea untill by chance a crew in a Long-boat which belonged to a Scythian Pirate took me up and carried me a Ship-board where they pillaged me of all they could
marke how Fortune crossed their intentions when they were even in the very height of their chiefest hopes As Floridon was walking one evening alone to visit his beloved Lucina he was set upon at unawars by a company of boisterous Out-law's who bound him upon a Horse and carried him into a solitary Desart about some twelve miles distant from his own habitation In the thickest part of this Wood there was a Cave of a vast bigness into which these Robbers did retire where they had several Roomes some for their own Lodgings and others to bestow their Booties in into one of which they put poore Floridon being loath to put him to death because they had hopes to make a better prize of him These Robbers had one amongst them which was their Captain to whom they were all subject he had formerly been a Gentleman of good Ranke but having consumed his Estate was forced to this kinde of unlawful living He had a Woman of a rare Beauty in the Cave with him whom he kept in a manner as a Prisoner she had a great power over him and could almost perswade him to execute her will in any thing CHAP. III. How Floridon bewailed his sad condition in the Cave and how Isabella endeavoured to comfort him with hopes of Release THe next Morning very early these free booters went abroad to look out for another prize and left the care of the Prisoner to the Gentlewoman and two servants but she who had view'd the comely person of Floridon and perceiving him to be of no mean Quality thought the time long untill she might have some discourse with him intending withall to work his release provided she could finde him conformable to her desires To that end and purpose she went to the Prison doore where before she could enter she might hear him lamenting his sad misfortune in these or the like expressions O miserable and thrice unhappy Floridon that from the height of Felicity art plunged into the bottome of dispair How am I become wretched at the same instant that I expected my greatest happinesse O my Dear Lucina Thy abscence doth more torment me then either my Imprisonment or death it self What comfort can I receive now I am deprived of thy sweet society which is as dear to me as my own soul To whom wilt thou reveal thy sorrow for my strange departure or how shalt thou be informed of my sad mischance Here do I languish in the Custody of cruel and barbarous villains which may perhaps after a tedious imprisonment expose me to on Ignominious and shamefull death But however they shall be permitted to deal with me yet shall my true affection to thee my Dear Lucina remain for ever firm and constant Isabella for so was the Gentlewoman called hearing his dolorous complaint was struck into amazment for whereas she had some hopes before to gain his consent to conduct her into Sicily by procuring his release she was now almost driven into dispair perceiving that his love was so firm and constant to his Lucina that he would never be won to forsake Arcadia however she resolved to make tryal if she could perswade him by any possible 〈◊〉 So she unlocked the Prison doore and went in where she found helplesse Floridon bewailing his condition without any hopes of redresse Isabella seeing him thus overcome with Mellancholy began to comfort him in this manner How now Sir are your spirits so much dejected with one nights Imprisonment chear up your heart and be merry for it may so fall out that a few dayes more may bring some comfort to your troubled minde Floridon marked her words very attentively but as yet he could not possibly understand her meaning however he returned her this answer in tearms suitable to his present condition Sweet Lady VVhat your intent is to honour me with this visit I know not however I am oblidged to your goodnesse for endeavouring to administer comfort to a person in misery And were I capable of deserving so great favour from you I should rest a little satisfied in the midst of my afflictions sufferings but having no other means left me to retaliate your kindnes but by a thankful acknowledgment you may please to accept the VVill for the Deed at present so by consequence I must remain your debtor Sir said Isabella My visit is not worthy of such acknowledgment for we are all bound in charity to comfort the distressed in the number of whom I Rank you though not in so deep a sense as you believe your self to be And that you may conclude you are not alone miserable I shall tell you by what means I my self came here where I remained for some time in as bad a condition as you are now in For I suppose the Captain and his crew will not return untill night so that with your patience I shall have sufficient time to informe you of my unfortunate chance CHAP. IV. Here Isabella relates to Floridon the place of her Birth and Breeding and how she was Married to Chrisipus who was her playfellow from their childhood KNow Gentle Sir that my Native Country is Scisille a place that aboundeth with variety of all delights where I was borne I speak without boasting of honourable and wealthy parents which Death deprived me of before I was twelve years old but the fates so ordered it that I was left wholy to the care of an Aunt which was my fathers Sister and had no children who tendered me as much as possibly my mother could have done for what education and bréeding was sutable to my Birth and Descent I had plentifully bestowed upon me as well after as before the Decease of my Parents so that I quickly found although I was left Fatherless and Motherless yet I was not altogether Friendless During the time of my Minorite it was my use to be often in the company of one Chrisipus a Gentlemans son which lived near to my Fathers we were playfellowes from our childhood and took great delight on the society of each other which innocent familiarity continued and increased untill we came to riper years of discretion insomuch that we became both deeply inamoured never counting our selves so happy as when we were together After a long continuance of our amorous meetings Chrisipus took an occasion to discover his affection to me in this manner My dear Isabella I know you are not ignorant of the Love that I ever bore you since the first of our acquaintance which I have so long smothered within my Breast for fear to offend you that it hath almost consumed me to Ashes but in confidence of your goodness I have made choyce of this opportunity to reveal my passion rather then to Languish without hopes of redress Then Dear Heart return me an answer according to the desert of my Love for it is in your Power to make me either Happy or Miserable and since the Decease of your Parents hath left you