should be married About the same time it fortun'd that their Parents also came from Granada to Madrid who when they saw that their Daughter match'd to so noble a Gentleman and the Fruits of their lawful Loves appearing in so beautiful a Pledge whom not without great admiration they beheld they were so far from continuing their former aversnesse knowing it in vain to repine against that which Heaven hath decreed should come to pass that they chang'd their displeasure into content their anger into gladness Cardenio enjoy'd his beloved Silvia and the strangeness of their Loves adventure being publish'd through the Court their Nuptials were solemniz'd with a great deal of Joy all Men applauding the happiness of Cardenio and the Divine Beauty of Silvia now a principal Lady of the Court who was lately a mean Shepherdess of Pinto FINIS Reader These Books following are Printed by Nath. Brook and are to be sold at his shop at the Angel in Cornhil TImes Treasury or Academy for the Gentry for their accomplishment in Arguments of discourse habit fashion summed up all in a Character of Honour By Ri. Brathwait Esq That excellent piece of Physiognomy and Chiromancy Metoposcopy the Symmetrical Proportion and Signal Moles of the Body the subject of Dreams to which is added The Art of Memory By Ri. Sanders Fol. Magick Astrology vindicated by H. Warren Fons Lacrymarum or a Fountain of Tears with an Elegy upon Sir Charls Lucus By J. Quarles 8. A Treatise of Contentation fit for these sad and troublesome times By Ios Hall late B. of Exon and Norwich Mirrour of Complements sitted for Ladies Gentlewomen Scholars and Strangers with forms of speaking and writing of Letters most in fashion with witty Poems and a Table expounding hard English words Divinity no Enemy to Astrology A Sermon for the Society of Astrologers for the year 1653. By Dr. Thomas Swadlin Select Thoughts or Choice Helps For a pious Spirit beholding the Excellency of her Lord Jesus By J. Hall B. of Norwich A new piece The Holy Order or Fraternity of Mourners in Zion To which is added Songs in the Night or Chearfulness under Affliction By Jos Hall Bishop of Norwich A new piece The Art of Memory a cure for a weak Memory useful for all persons from the Gown to the Clown A new piece That complete piece called the Exact Surveyor of Land shewing how to plot all manner of Grounds and to reduce and divide the same Also Irish measure reduced to English statute-measure useful for all that either sell or purchase By I. E. Milk for Children or A plain and eafie Method of teaching to Read and to Write with brief Rules for School-Masters to instruct their Scholars in and Masters to instruct their Families in by Dr. Thomas Culpepers Physical and Chyrurgical Remains of his own admired Experience never published before now by his Wife being his last Legacies Culpepers Semiotica or his Astrological Judgment of Diseases much enlarged from the Decumbiture of the sick which way to finde out the Cause Change and End of the Diseases Also whether the sick be likely to live or die With the signs of life and death by the body of the sick party according to the Judgment of Hipporcates With a Treatise of Urines by N. Culpeper Cornelius Agrippa his fourth Book of Occult Philosophy of Geomancy Magical Elements of Peter de Abano the nature of Spirits made English by R. Turner Pulpit Sparks being set forms of Prayers used before Sermon by Dr. Jeremiah Taylor Dr. Gillingham Dr. Hewit and many other Eminent Divines The Queens Closet opened Incomparable secrets in Physick Chyrurgery preserving candying and cooking as they were presented to the Queen transcribed from the true Copies of her Majesties own receipt-Books by W. M. one of her late Servants The Conveyancers Light or the Complete Clark and Scrivener's Guide being an Exact draught of all Presidents and Assurances now in use as they were penned and perfected by divers Learned Judges eminent Lawyers and great Conveyancers both antient and modern whereunto is added a Coneordance from K. Rich. 3. to this present Wits Interpreter the English Parnassus or a sure Guide to those admirable Accomplishments that complete our English Gentry in the most acceptable qualifications of Discouse or Writing Also the whole Mystery of those pleasing Witchcrafts of Eloquence and Love are made easie in the Art of Reasoning Theatre of Courtship Labyrinth of Fancies Love-Songs Drollery The perfect Inditer of Letters A lamode by I. C. The Floating Island a Tragedy-Comedy acted before the King by the Students of Christ-Church by Dr. Strond Wit and Drollery with other Jovial Poems Paracelsus of Occult Philosophy or his Secrets of Nature
resolved to steal away privately one night out of Granada and to betake our selves to Madrid where we might undisturbed live together and to call here by the way to take our daughter along with us Albanio though he was somewhat unwilling to part with her esteeming her for the many vertuous qualities she possess'd as dearly as if she had been his own daughter yet seeing that there was no remeary he told them That whenever they pleas'd he was ready to resigne up his interest in her to them They answered that in regard the longer they stay'd there the greater their danger would be in case her Parents missing her should send after them to bring them back it would be necessary to make as little delay as might be and therefore desired that Silvia might be ready to take her journey with them the next morning by break of day This unexpected news of the necessity of her so sudden departure affected Silvia in such sort as that she wish'd Heaven had been so favorable to her as that she might have been born to no other condition than that wherein she had lived all this while since the advancement of her Fortune tended to no less a prejudice to her than the depriving her of him whom she lov'd above all the world constraining them to live so far apart that her eyes should henceforth be debar'd the dearest object of their sight She labour'd all that in her lay to get repeal'd the rigorous sentence which was determin'd of her sometimes perswading their abode there sometimes framing an excuse that she might be left behinde but it little avail'd her for her father and mother were induc'd to persist in their determination both by fear and love fear lest if they should be pursu'd their stay there might cause them to be taken love which suffer'd them not to leave her behinde for whom they had so tender an affection So that with a kinde of unwilling consent she at last submitted to the pleasure of her parents and when the very time of parting came she all drown'd in tears and with a heart overwhelm'd in grief took her leave of Albanio intreating him in the presence of that maid she rely'd so much in and made the confident of all her counsels That out of the respect he always bare her he would certifie Cardenio of the unexpected occasion of her sudden departure from thence without so much as bidding him Farewel Albanio although seriously taking upon him the trust of this Injunction and conjur'd by all the tyes of Friendship besides his solemn promise which in truth was made onely to content her and dismiss her with the greater consolation and serenity of minde yet when he consider'd that to perform this message was a thing however pleasing to her humour yet conducing to her disparagement he judg'd it a friendly part in him to omit it Silvia though accompany'd with so near Relations while she was upon her Journey toward Madrid you may imagine in a most dejected posture her eyes over-shadow'd with a melancholy so obscure as nothing but the sadnesse of her minde could equal each step she went she thought upon him who was the Soul of her Thoughts and as oft as she look'd back perswaded her self she saw him who was far enough off from her real sight but when her second Thoughts like a true friend dealt really with her and undeceiv'd her Fancy she began to be angry with her first Imagination for deluding her with false appearances In this juncture of time was the minde of Cardenio agitated with a thousand disquiet Thoughts when he perceiv'd after his being recover'd and well able to walk abroad Silvia so regardlesse of the Meeting which she her self had appointed to talk with him as she sent him word about many things that concern'd him which by this time was more than expir'd he had not long remain'd in this suspence when it was murmur'd abroad That she was missing in her Fathers house for so was Albanio reputed and that she was privately gone away with one who had lately profess'd love unto her so usual a thing it is with the vulgar to report things otherwise than they really are both by perverting the truth it self and by adding a hundred Fictions of their own unto it Cardenio yet considered That to have lent too easie a belief to the rash surmises of the multitude had been unworthy the Favours he receiv'd from Silvia and that to conclude ill of any Woman from a slight information only was to accuse her in point of Honour and to shew but a slender Opinion of her Vertue but when he saw that what was lately but whisper'd abroad was now become the general and loud talk of people and had inform'd himself for a certain That she was not at Albanio's house he then gave in his Suffrage to the common voyce of Fame suspecting that her appointing to meet him at such a certain time was no other than a meer colour that she might have all that intire to her self for the more close carriage of her dark design in contriving a safe slight with the secret possessour of her beauty he was restlesse in every place complain'd to Heaven call'd upon death rail'd not only against Silvia but the whole Race of Women-kind It hapning frequently in suchlike passions that the whole Sex bears both the blame and the curse of one Womans miscarriage Ah said he transported with fury cruel Murtherers pitilesse to those that love ye kind to those that hate ye who would not desire to live from among you to be free from your insolencies and deceits I have always in my minde those words of Marcus Aurelius where having occasion to speak of your exorbitancies he breaks out into this exclamation O Women as oft as I call to remembrance that I had my being from you I am out of conceit with life and when I bethink me that I live among you I long for death Aurelius spoke discreetly and like a Philosopher and one that had experience suffering at that time by the ingratitude of Faustina Ye say that we are inconstant and I believe it not that we out of any voluntary choice of our own are culpable herein but it is confer'd upon us by you by reason of that infection we draw from you before we come into the world Ye are always making Complaints yet we always the offended party as there is a hidden power in your eyes which forceth men to pity so your tears can always force credit to your dissimulations when ye speak of all men in general ye bespatter our Fames with some ignominious imputation when of one man singly he is sure to be flatter'd or traduc'd Ah Silvia inconstant and unchaste Silvia did not I hear you one night so bitterly inveigh against all those that had any ignoble or unworthy intentions that I was compell'd to think Lucretia reviv'd or that another Penelope was come to live in the world
she desir'd him to pardon her and that if he lov'd her so truely as he profess'd he would shew it by not coming again into those places where she us'd to be lest is should be taken notice of to the calling her Fame in question and so bidding him farewel she shut the Window Cardenio remain'd so bitterly stung with this cruel Reply that he began almost to wish that he had receiv'd his doom sooner that he might by this time have made an end of dying thinking it more tolerable than his present state wherein having so long lingred out his life in false hopes he was now to begin to die he griev'd not onely that she was so averse from loving him but that the pawning of her affections to another was the cause she treated him so rigorously and as if his rich Habit had been the sole cause of his Grievances he tore it to pieces resolving to do penance in Rags for his Offences although committed through error he curs'd his evil Fortune and wish'd earnestly to be disburthen'd of his wretched life since in a manner he was already slain by the cruelty of Silvia that he liv'd but to the sence of his Miseries but was dead to all hopes and seeing that all the avenues to her pity were shut against him that to all his Prayers she was a Rock because she was uncivil and void of courtesie not to be pleas'd with the most obsequious Services because she took a pride in being ungrateful with bravery of Apparel unmov'd as wanting courtly breeding despising a homely garb out of high-mindedness denying her heart to him whose faith constancy gave him a just pretension to it because she pretended that it was else where bestowed He bethought himself that jealousie hath oft-times wrought miracles in the most wavering obdurate minds since a Woman is ever most apt to love being slighted and to slight when she is lov'd and took on a resolution since his Truth and Simplicity so little avail'd to betake himself to Subtilty as his last Refuge purposing to try if he could discover who this fortunate Lover should be that deserv'd to have the sole possession of Silvia's heart to effect which an opportunity was soon offer'd There dwelt in the Neighbourhood a young Shepherdess of a sprightly air gentily educated rich and not of the meanest Quality she having observ'd the compleatness of Cardenio was many times so large in the Character of his worth that it being reported to him gave him sufficient assurance that it would have been no very hard matter for him to have obtain'd her Love so that Cardenio began not obscurely to declare himself her Lover She proud to be courted by him counted her self happy in being thought worthy of his observance In his Letters he pretended much Love but because it was faigned he manag'd his Expressions warily and her Answers though somewhat cunningly and coyly fram'd were yet courteous and far from giving him any denial Silvia in the mean time who had been so severe to her self as to banish from her self that person whom she held so dear purchas'd with the price of her health the losse of that which she esteem'd more than her health so really did she love so really did she feign not to love and was strangely divided within her self between this one yet divided passion consulting whether it were best to adhere to her real Love or to turn her feigned hatred into real When she look'd upon her self as Noble she could not endure to think of staining her Honour with the mixture of an ignoble Blood when she look'd upon Cardenio as greatly meriting she thought it impossible to draw out her poor Pilgrimage of Life without him In this plight remain'd the unfortunately fair Silvia wavering in her minde between not daring to love him and not having the heart to resolve to slight him when suddenly the unwelcome fame of her Lovers chang'd Affection arriv'd to her Ears which struck such an amazement into her heart being careless of any other felicity than the enjoyment of Cardenio though but in imagination that her life had like to have forsaken her at the same instant that her jealousie possess'd her one while she intended to punish his neglect by changing her love into hatred but was not able to put in practice her design for Love although it be not easily produc'd without the consent of our wills yet being once sprung up in the heart and grown to maturity it lieth not in our wills to remove it another while by coming where he might see her to bring him to see his error but that she durst not lest he professing love to another her reputation might have suffered by it in fine she held it best to conceal as much as she could those torments which the violence of her jealousie made her endure although it would have been a great ease to her minde to have discovered them whereas to keep them smother'd in her brest added much to the extremity of her anguish One evening a cool fresh gale of winde invited her to walk forth into the Fields and the rather as being desirous to breath forth her grievances to those quiet solitudes and to communicate her sad thoughts to the pitiful Birds wishing they were endued with articulate voice that they might relate to Cardenio what she suffer'd when casting her eyes toward the skirts of a little Hill which serv'd as a stately Crown to the bordering Plain she saw three men most injuriously set against the Life of one Person who notwithstanding gallantly defended himself and recollecting all his Courage together he made a shift what with the puissance of his blows and what with the advantage of place which he gain'd and the skill wherewith he manag'd his Weapon to keep off that approaching Fate wherewith the dangerousnesse of that assault threatned him and to befriend him with her shades the night came on so fast that partly having the darkness of their fact represented before them through the horror of the nights darkness partly being sore wounded by the valour of their Adversary they sled away leaving him as they thought dead or with small hopes of Life Silvia came nigh and saw clasped in the Arms of a fair Shepherdess this undaunted Combatant who weltering in his own Blood gave to understand by the ghastlinesse of his look that he wanted but little of yielding himself up to death Silvia being about to have demanded of them the reason of this tragical accident first observing the Maid well perceiv'd that it was her Corrival and the Author of her Jealousies and afterward looking intently upon the wounded man knew him to be her false Lover her revolted Cardenio so grievous was the sight unto her so deeply did it strike her heart that she could almost have wish'd that his Soul would quite forsake its unfaithful Mansion both that she might be free from the pain of her tormenting Jealousie and that he might