no other reason for it but because she was fairer then her self I say Lyriope considering all these things she resolved upon a most horrid course which was to find out some way or other how to take away the beauty of Elisa thinking thereby to take away the cause of all her miseries in damping the love of the King and the love of Asiadates So that without further delay she conspired with an Arabian Physitian who was then at Tire and whose reputation in point of honesty was not over good and hiring him by rich rewards he promised her what she desired but he had much ado to keep his word for since Elisa never used any adulterations of art to help her beauty he could not find out any means to blast her complexion by any exteriour things So that this man at the earnest instigation of Lyriope who would not let him rest resolved since he could not do it otherwise to take away the beauty of Elisa by taking away her health by a kind of subtil powder which had a quality so malignant as it would make ail those who took it to grow very sick within a few daies by causing a kind of a Feaver and it had ordinarily such a quality as in the operation it would so burn the bloud as they would not be knowable So that Elisa being often very ill though to outward appearance she seemed to be in excellent health it was an easie thing for this Arabian Physitian to finde out wayes of suborning him who commonly carried medicines unto Elisa he did it so cuningly as that he did not seem to suborn him to commit a crime for he only seemed to be very desirous of seeing wLat remedies the Tirian Physitians used unto persons of such a temper as Elisa's So that being shewed several things which she was to take he mingled unseen to him that shewed them this dangerous powder which had such a fatal operation and fatal indeed for whether the Doctor was mistaken in his composition or that the temper of Elisa was too delicate for it the very next morning after she took this powder the Feaver took her and so extream violently as she said at first that she was dead but she spoke it with such incredible constancy of mind as was admirable seeming so little desirous of life or fear of death that she surprized all the by-standers yet she testified much tenderness unto her friends but it was a most generous and magnanimous tenderness which was not expressed by tears or giving any marks of weakness I leave you to imagine how Elisa's sickness troubled the King and how all the Court grieved but especially Cleomira and all those who commonly were with her All helps from Physitians were in vain for not knowing the cause of her disease they could not cure her In the mean time Asiadates who was upon the point of letting the faction which he had raised to appear thought now of nothing but Elisa's health So that those who were ingaged in the Faction admired to see he would meddle no more As for the Kings all intelligence that any designs were against his estate were never hearkened unto for since the life of Elisa was in danger he could not think of preserving any thing else As for Lyriope since envy and lealousie had rooted out of her soul all thoughts of virtue she was very glad to see that in all likelyhood she should be rid of Elisa whom she looked upon as the cause of all her misfortunes As for Phocilion he was unknowable and never man was in a more sad condition But the wonder was that this powder which according to the intention of the composer was to take away the beauty of Elisa and not her life did take away her life and not her beauty for never any breathing was fairer then she was when she was expiring In the mean time to imploy her last hours as well as the rest of her life after all Physitians declared her desperate she gave the King most generous and divine advise exhorting him to be just clement liberal to love his people never to let himself be governed by his passions afterwards most excellent counsel unto her friends speaking unto them with wonderful resolution and generosity disposing several things unto them as pledges of her friendship bequeathed unto them After this desiring they would speak no more unto her but of the Gods the chief Priest of Sidon stayed with her yet his excessive sorrow to see Elisa in so sad a condition would not permit him to enjoy the freedom of his reason but yet the reason of this fair generous and divine person was so quick and free that she did comfort him and inspired him with power to speak such things unto her as he had not been able to do if she had not revived him by her constancy and resolution But why should I lengthen this sad story Elisa died as she lived which was with abundance of glory and in looking death in the grim face with as much courage as the greatest Hero in the most dangerous and most glorious occasions I will not go about to represent the sorrows of the King for I cannot express them but I can tell you that the dispair of Phocilion was so great as he died three daies after Elisa yet this is not the most surprizing thing which I have to tell you for be pleased to know that Asiadates intending not only to abandon his designs but the Court also as he was ready to depart and passing from one Chamber into another he heard Lyriope by chance thanking the Arabian Doctor for somthing extream earnestly though she did not speak aloud So that upon a suddain suspecting the truth since the cause of Elisa's death could not be known he went unto them and being of a violent temper he did so black them by his suddain approach and by his menaces that finding somthing more to fortifie his suspition he called for his men caused the Physitian to be arrested who would have escaped and without more delay caused him to be so tormented as he confessed the whole truth which he no sooner knew but he went unto the Chamber of Lyriope to run her through with his Sword but she was already escaped but yet she did not escape the Justice of the Gods for the Boat into which she had gotten at the Port of Sinope with one of her women only was overturned by rushing against another so that Lyriope was drown'd and in one minute punished for all the extravagancies of her passions Asiadates could not punish the Arabian Doctor for since he ever used to carry poyson about him he took it to avoid the shame and punishment Thus the violent Asiadates was all fury and dispair after he knew the true cause of Elisa's death In the mean time the King made a most magnificent Funeral for this wonder of women all the Court was in mourning as well as himself the High-Priest
to have the Princesse his daughter so rarely accomplished as Mandana was then he exactly related all that the Magi had said concerning the birth of the son to the King of Persia the menaces unto all Asia particularly to the King of Medes How Astiages was perplexed how great was his joy when he was credibly informed Cyrus was drowned But Artamenes said he then unto him you ought also to rejoyce at his loss and go into the Temple to offer sacrifice of thanks unto the gods for his death as well as wee for indeed since he had the stars on his side if he had lived he would have disputed with you for a share in your victories since he could not make himself master of all Asia without being your conqueror Artamenes blusht at this discourse but Ciaxares believed it was out of modesty because of the praises which he had given him therefore went on with his discourse and repeated all the obligations in which he was bound unto him I leave you to Judg Sir whether my Master had not enough wherewith to entertain his thoughts withall when he returned from him He saw the King of Pontus was extreamly in love but although one cannot love a Rival yet this Rivall moved him to compassion though it was with much vexation That which did most trouble him was the maner wherewith Ciaxares expressed himself and from thence he concluded that Cyrus was not in a condition to rise out of his Tomb though the Princesse her self should consent unto it so that he was extreamly perplexed at it The next morning Ciaxares sent to seek him and carried him to the Temple where he saw the second time thanks given unto the Gods for his death But in lieu of giving thanks like the rest so unecessary and ill grounded he rendred thanks because that same sacrifice for his death was the originall of his love Imagin Sir if any thing could be more strangely odd then to see true Cirus under the fals name of Artamenes present at this ceremony He told me afterwards that he was often moved to cast himself at the feet of Ciaxares in the middle of the Temple and to make himself known who he was but fearing the displeasure of the Princesse he forbore and stood dumb all the time of the ceremony it was some Joy unto him that Mandana saigning her self not well would not be present and assist she not having power to hear them speak of a dead Prince whom she knew was living This faigned excuse of Mandana's did furnish my Master with a pretence to visit her he went thither as soon as he returned from the Temple and finding her upon her bed having none with her but her women who could not hear what he said they keeping at a respective distance I come Madam said he to her in a low voice to give you thanks because you came not to thank the Gods for the death of Cyrus and I come also to ask you how long I must be ignorant whether I must Live or whether I must Die without all question replied the Princess I would have you live and I would have you live happily but to tell you truth I do not see any appearance of it Why Madam replied Artamenes am I worse in your favour then I was No replied she but I do not see that you are more in favour with fortune for indeed the sacrifice from whence you came does hint unto you that the Kings resentments continue as they were so that you may very well doubt whether maugre all your services you can without danger discover what you are not that I ever observed those violent motions in the mind of the King which they say the mind of Astiages was posessed with But my fears are lest if you should discover your self the King of Medes should demand you of his son and that Ciaxares should not have power to refuse you unto a Prince who gave him life Let then unhappy Cyrus remain in his grave then answered my Master and let happy Artamenes live with you The Princesse hearing him speak so leaned upon her right arm and looking upon him with a most obliging eye though most modestly The Gods are my witnesse said she unto him if I have not a greater esteem of your vertue then I have for any other and if I do not retain in my heart such an acknowledgement and tendernesse of you as cannot be but it must be accompanied with much good will But indeed Artamenes Reason must be predominate and we must not consider so much those things which do please us as those which ought to please us and therefore although your conversation be most delighting unto me and the manner of your loving me does give full satisfaction to my vertue yet notwithstanding I am forced to tell you that if within the compasse of three moneths and I doubt this terme is too long you cannot contrive a course which will be apparent unto me you may revive Cyrus out of his grave without danger unto him then you must return into Persia and live there happily if you can and strive to forget Mandana lest she should disturb your tranquillity But Artamenes said she unto him without giving him leave to interrupt her to remove all causes of complaint know that during this three moneths time which I allot you I will contribute unto your good fortune as much as I can and as much as ever handsomenesse will permit me I will asist you with my best advice I will endeavour to discover the Kings minde I will informe you by what expedients you may perhaps gain Aribeus who hath a great prevalence with him and I will not neglect any thing which I can possibly and reasonably do for your satisfaction if notwithstanding all this the Law of Cappadocia be not an invincible obstacle unto your designe and that the quality of a stranger be not incompatible with the Kings resentment But when all is done if both your endeavours and mine become frustrate then you must said she and changed colour resolve your self for an eternal separation and reason must absolutely triumph over all which would resist it What Madam replied Artamenes will you banish me and banish me for ever Forbear your complaints said she to him until the time come that there be cause and think not your self unhappy till you be so To see replied my Master that you can resolve to make me so is to be so already for indeed Madam if I were as much in your minde as I might be you would have more indulgence towards my love and you could not resolve to destroy for ever a Prince who adores you with an unequalled reverence and who will infallibly die as soon as he is separated from you I desire you once more said the Princesse to him not to vex your self unprofitably and do not mollifie my heart untill there be some need of it be contented that I am constrained to
could qualifie the violent humours in the King of Assyria In Conclusion after I had well consulted with my self what I had to do I went one night unto Artucas who was not a little amused to see me After the first complements were past I began to speak of things in particular I made him understand that he was engaged on the worse side not only because it was unjust but also because it would ruine him In few words I told him so many things and so handsomly prepared him that he staggered and at last I made him resolve to deceive Aribeus and become faithful unto his King We agreed then that he should deliver up the Gate on that side the Town towards the Temple of Mars precisely upon that day and hour that I should appoint him So then when I got out of Sinope and was returned to the Camp I brought such joy unto my Master as is inconceiveable you know Sir pursued Feraulas speaking unto the King of Hircania That this resolution was fixed upon That Artamenes should come with four thousand men only to surprize Sinope that Ciaxares should follow the next day with the whole Army But my Master being advanced to execute this great businesse he saw as he came out of a valley that the Town which he came to surprize was all in a flame and believed that the Princesse would perish in it you also know that in lieu of destroying Sinope we saved that little which remains how we quenched the fire how Aribeus fought how he was overwhelmed and how he being come unto the foot of the Tower in the Castle the generous Phrasibulus whom you see there opened the gate and told my Master that there was in that place an illustrious person who had need of help Neither are you ignorant how Artamenes running hastily up to the top of the Tower thinking to find the Princesse there he only found his Corrival And doubtlesse you also know how my Master did see a Galley in which the King of Assyria told him that the Prince Mazares had taken away Mandana In conclusion Feraulas desiring chiefly to acquaint these Princes that his Master held no base intelligence with the King of Assyria after he had told them all the turbulent agitations in the mindes of these two Rivals whilest they looked from the top of the sower upon the Galley during the Tempest then he most exactly related all the discourse between the King of Assyria and Artamenes making them to understand the promise which Artamenes had made how that it was not prejudicial to the Kings service and that the interest of his love was the only thing which made him conceal the King of Assyria's Letter Afterwards he slightly rehearsed the flight of this King the death of Aribeus the retreat of this Prince unto Pteria how he had written unto Artamenes and the reason why Artamenes did hide his Letter from Ciaxares by what accident his answer came unto the Kings hands how Artamenes believed and almost still believes that the Princesse perished how he found Mazares half drowned and indeed all that happened until the arrival of Ciaxares and imprisonment of Artamenes In pursuance whereof he conjured them all to consider what was best to be done for the preservation of such an illustrious man For said he to them Sirs all this that Chrisantes and my self have related unto you is only to give you some light touch of his vertue it being most certain that it is infinitely above all that can be said or thought Feraulas having ended his relation left all those illustrious auditors in so much admiration of the miraculous life of Artamenes and in so much joy that they were not mistaken in that opinion which they ever had of his innocency that they could not chuse but give some testimonies of it I ever believed said the King of Hircania that it was impossible Artamenes should be in any fault And I never doubted added Persodes but that he was ever absolutely innocent The worst is replied Hidaspes that one cannot justifie him before Ciaxares of that crime whereof he is accused but by accusing him of another which will not lesse incense him And I doubt said Chrisantes interrupting him that Ciaxares would be as well pleased with his holding secret correspondency with the King of Assyria as with Mandana If the Princesse should be dead answered Adusias there would be no difficulty to justifie Artamenes in discovering his love but if by happy fortune she be alive replied Feraulas my Master will never forgive Chrisantes and me for discovering his passion unto Ciaxares For my part added Thrasibulus I conceive it requisite to use much prudence in the matter and not to discover the love of Artamenes until such time as it be thought fit to discover his quality But the knowledge of his quality replied Chrisantes is a thing altogether as dangerous to acquaint the King with I am of this opinion said the King of Hircania not to do any thing slightly but to bring things unto such a passe as to hazard nothing and to that end before any thing be discovered unto Ciaxares it is expedient to gain the hearts of the Captains of Souldiers in such a manner that there may be neither any fear nor danger in speaking unto him for Artamenes All the Princes concurring with the King of Hircania and approving of what he said did assure Hidaspes Adusius Chrisantes and Feraulas that they themselves would rather perish then suffer their Master to be in danger of it and that they would neglect no manner of expedient which may conduce unto his safety Thrasibulus was in despair of any power to serve him any way then in his person and courage which he would pawne for him As they were thus debating Gobrias Gadates Thimocrates and Philocles came in They were not present at the relations of Chrisantes and Feraulas because as soon as Ciaxares came to Sinope they returned to the Camp and lodged not in the Town But since they were no lesse affectionated unto their Master then the rest of the Princes Feraulas said unto the King of Hircania that he must needs engage them in behalf of Artamenes At the name of Artamenes Gobrias asked what he should do to serve him Gadates all impatience that if it were only to die for him he was and ever would be ready Thimocrates and Philocles appeared to be as ready as any to serve him So that the King of Hircania beginning to speak let them all understand that there was nothing else to be done but for every one to be ready to save Artamenes if there were any attempt to destroy him Upon these words all the Princes did solemnly swear to unite themselves and take up Arms for his safty whensoever there should be any need They were all upon these terms when Artucas came unto Hidaspes and told him that he came to assure him Artamenes had sent a note unto the King
all the consolation which the Princess had was a secret correspondency with the Princess Aristea and in doing her all the good offices she was able The King was so deeply perplexed at the death of Pharnaces as possible could be but since the love of Mandana was more predominate in his heart then any thing else he cheared up himself with the thoughts of her and that seeming peace after your victory being again broken Wars as you know began to break out more violently then before then I must needs tell you Sir that none could ever entertain a greater admiration of any then we of you and when we heard the wonders of all your actions related we had a good ground for our belief that the Gods were infinitely favourable unto Ciaxares in sending him such a Defendor To be short it was impossible for any to esteem an enemy more then we did the Illustrious Artamenes Also when the Princess heard how Artanus had conspired against your life and suborned forty Conspirators to destroy you she had such a fresh and strong aversion to him that his very name was horrid unto her ear for since she understood you had saved the King her Brothers life she became extreamly tender of yours and when you pardoned Artanus and sent him back she murmured a little though she did admire you against that excessive generosity which moved you to desire the King of Pont not to punish him yet notwithstanding she negotiated so with the King her Brother that she procured his banishment out of the Kingdom with a strict command never to be seen in it again Since this Sir until that famous adventure when you took the King of Pont prisoner and when we thought you dead I have nothing to relate unless I should entertain you with those sorrows which the Princess apprehended for the disgrace of the King her Brother and with her Lamentations for the long absence of Spitridates But since I should thereby only abuse your patience because you may easily imagine it without my relation I shall only tell you that the very next morning after you came wounded unto that Castle where the Princess Arbiana and the Princess Aristea were there came a messenger from the King of Pont who was going unto the Princess Araminta his Sister with this message that he was as much grieved for the death of his vanquisher as he was for the loss of his own liberty siâ—ce this Envoy did but only pass by and was not to stay in this Castle where Arbiana and Aristea were the Princess Aristea taking you for Spitridates did write these few words only in a Letter The Princess ARISTEA unto the Princess ARAMINTA I Hardly dare tell you that Spitridates is here because he is here wounded yet since I cannot make a Secret of any thing which will add unto your joy I cannot conceal it ARISTEA You may imagine with what variety of apprehensions the Princess mind was possest upon the receipt of this Letter and understanding by this Messenger that the King her Brother had lost two Battels in one day That he was taken prisoner that you were dead You Sir I say in whom the King her Brother had so great a hope her sorrows were so great that she could not perfectly relish any joy at the pretended return of Spitridates especially hearing by the same relation that he returned wounded yet since love as they say is a most imperious passion and will be Soveraign in that heart which is possessed with it therefore she would sometimes rejoyce and chear up her self in hopes of seeing Spitridates again but within two days after this she was deprived of that hope for the Princess Aristea did write again unto her how she had been deceived by a most prodigious resemblance she intimated by her Letter that the picture of the Princess Araminta did undeceive her when she shewed it unto him whom she took for her brother and the conclusion of the Letter was that Spitridates was not returned so that she resented the misfortunes of her brother the King of Pont without any ingredient of consolation but yet notwithstanding presently after when she heard of your being revived as I may say it was a great mitigation of her sorrows especially when she heard that it was you who was taken for Spitridates at the house of Arbiana her hopes was that you Sir being the most generous of men would treat her brother the King of Pont very well and her hopes also was the more pleasant unto her that Spitridates according to the Princess Aristeas Letter would exactly resemble him In the mean time since this Princess had a soul which was capable of all things she began to cast her cares upon the business of State but she found them to be in extream disorder The King of Phrygia was retreated after the loss of two battels in a day unto the furthest part of all Bythinia and who when he was over the river Sangar received intelligence that Craessus King of Lydia was entred into his Dominions with a puissant Army so that he was constrained to look after his own defence and taken off from the assistance of others All his Regiments also were exceedingly shattered and weakned but yet when the Princess did conceive that Ciaxares having the King of Pont prisoner he would not make any new attempts since he was able to make his own conditions without any â—urther hazard of his forces she was then a little more at rest But within a few daies after she was extreamly astonished to hear that all the souldiers after the King was taken did declare themselves for Arsamones and that all Bythinia was up in Arms in his behalf and were resolved to return under the obedience of their antient Lord. Moreover that Artanus who was one of high quality was returned into the Kingdom and had also raised a great part of Pontus and was himself retired unto a very considerable Town called Cabira having before hand suborned the Governour thereof with a good sum of money Imagine Sir I beseech you in what an intangled condition this young Princess was in to see the King of Pont her brother a prisoner and that Arsamones the father of Spitridates was not only Master of all Bythinia but was also in the head of an Army ready to fall upon the Kingdom of Pontus so that she was constrained with all the power she had to oppose and make war against the Father of a Prince who infinitely adored her and whom she her self did not hate She furthermore saw that he who of all men living she most scorned and had the greatest aversion unto had bandied a considerable party against her notwithstanding his great affection unto her She poor Princess had neither any forces nor money to raise them and that State was so imbroyled that she knew not whom to trust and in this pittiful distracted condition she knew not whether she should be sad or glad at the
that he who has not the heart and courage of a King shall never be my Successor but treating him as a Slave I will cast him into prison with the Princess Araminta whom he loves above his own honor Democlides according to the instructions of Spitridates did put him in memory of what he said unto the Prince his son in the ship as they departed from Heraclea how he then said he would not oppose his marriage with this Princess I remember it very well said he but when I said so it was with this condition that he should go in the head of an Army to conquer two Kingdoms and save me that labour but since he has not performed the condition tell him that as it was then dishonorable for the Princess Araminta to marry the son of a Slave so now at this time it is a shame for him to marry a Sister of a conquered usurper and the slave of Arsamones as e're long she shall be therefore tell him from me that within these few dayes I will come unto the Camp my self and because it will grieve him too much to captivate her whom he values above two Crowns let him attempt nothing against Cabira until I come my self bid him endeavour to overcome himself or otherwise he shall know the difference between a Scepter and a prison You may imagine Sir how sadly Democlides carried this answer The Queen did write unto the prince her son to comfort him the princess Aristea did the like But oh heavens how in vain were all consolations Democlides understood at his coming away from Heraclea that Arsamones sent orders unto the Lievâ—enant General his Confident that he should keep a vigilant eye upon Spitridates and I understood afterwards by this Democlides that the despair of Spitridates was so great when he received this rigid answer from the King his father as it was likely to have cost him his life yet was he very desirous of the whole truth and though Democlides had a desire to have sweetned the answer in the relation yet he durst not because the King did speak it so publikely before all the world that Spitridates would certainly have known it by others and then he had just cause of complaint against Democlides for concealing the truth since it was that answer upon which he intended to ground all his resolutions What said he after he had understood it does the King my father intend that the princess Araminta shall be his slave and that she who deserves a hundred Crowns shall wear fetters No no Spitridates cannot suffer it or at the least will attempt all wayes possible to release this incomparable and unfortunate princess Do you not admire Democlides said he at the strange blindness of men The King my Father has all his life complained against Usurpers and now he is become one himself purposely to make me unhappy he who if he please may get unto himself immortal glory and make me the happiest man alive whereas now he makes me the most miserable For Democlides to have got two Kingdoms and to keep that only which he hath a right unto and generously to restore the other and then to bestow the Princess Araminta upon me these would be things which all after ages would speak on with admiration yet since he will not indeed he will force me to forsake his interests though he be my Father and my King I must absolutely disobey him and be all the rest of my life the most miserable Prince upon earth But the greatest wonder is Sir that though ambition could never prevail against his love yet his â—ve did never excessively transport him against the King his Father But maugre the violence of all his sorrows he began to contrive ways of releasing the Princess especially since he newly received intelligence from the Princess Aristea his Sister that the King would be in the Army within these few days He also perceived that the Orders unto the Lieutenant General were very vigilantly observed but do what he could Spitridates was so adored by the Commanders and Souldiers that he could not bring about his designe To be short Spitridates did publickly send unto the Princess to tell her that the King his Father had not yet returned an answer unto her propositions and that within a few days he would come himself and bring the answer Mean while after he had consulted with Democlides how to release the Princess he commanded him to get into the Town diguised like a Peasant which during the cessation was no great difficulty and that he should go unto the Castle and enquire for me which accordingly he did He delivered a Note unto me from Spitridates the contents whereof was That I should give credit unto what Democlides should tell me so then after he had delivered it unto me in private he acquainted me with the ill success of his voyage with the despair of Spitridates and his resolution to release the Princess with the orders that he had taken about it he told me further that the Troops which were under his particular Command were quartered all along the River side That our best course would be to come out of the Town in the night by boat and unto that place where his Troops would wait for us and be our convoy unto Sea which was not above fifty furlongs further and that he had taken order for a Ship at the next Port he tâ—ld me further that to move the Princess the more to trust her self with him Spitridates would first let her see he trusted her therefore said he if the Princess please to give orders for one of the Gates which she shall name unto me to let him enter he will be there at midnight with one page only and no more You may be sure Sir that I went in all possible haste unto the Princess and carried Democlides with me Though the news was but a subject of astonishment and sorrow yet to what purpose is complaints where there is no remedy and therefore it was resolved upon to depart the very next night Since all her women were placed about her by Artanus we cared not for carrying them with us and since all her Captains had once been her enemies she hardly knew whether she should trust any of them but since they had testified much affection unto her since the death of Artanus she was unwilling to abandon them and leave them in the lurch unto the victory of her enemies yet upon more consideration she conceived it best not to carry any of them with her and that the Officers being Masters of the Town they might make honourable conditions for themselves when they pleased Therefore the resolution was to confide in none of them but such as were necessary for the business to wit that Spitridates might enter and we go out But Sir I have already so trespassed upon your patience by the length of my relation as I must tell you in short that I took
Feraulas might happily hear somthing concerning Mandana though he had an high esteem of wise Martesia yet at the first he did not enquire of her but looking upon Feraulas as if he could divine his news Well Feraulas said he do you know yet where the Princess Mandana is and will the Prince of Cicily do as I desire him Sir replied he I am even desperate in being forced to tell you that for all my haste I could possibly make I came four hours too late with orders from the Prince of Cicily to the Port where the King of Pontus and the Princess Mandana are imbarqued How Feraulas replied Cyrus is not Mandana in Cicily No Sir answered he she took ship yesterday about noon the reason of this misfortune was said he because the Prince of Cicily was in hunting when I came to Tarsis so that I was forced to go after him which took me up much time for he was far off As soon as I met with him and told him the place where you saw the Coach in which the Princess was he did infallibly conclude that the King of Pontus would imbarque at a Port unto which he immediately sent me with his Captain of his Guard and with orders to the Magistrates of the Town to stop all strangers which would put to Sea dispatching also many others into divers other places with the same Commands What should I say more Sir I came unfortunately four hours too late but by good fortune I met with Ortalques who had orders to come unto you from the Princess Madana From the Princess Mandana replied Cyrus how is it possible he should know any thing Sir replied Ortalques doubtless you will wonder when I shall tell you that having had the honour of your Commands to convoy those Ladies which went with Martesia from Sinope I safely conducted them to the side of the River Halis where having a desire to rest themselves and to take the pleasure of the water they took boat sending their Coach another way unto a place where it should meet them and commanding me to come also into the Boat my two hundred horse was conducted by my Lieutenant along the River side After we had been upon the water half a day the Lady who was Cousin unto Martesia fell sick and so extreamly that we were constrained to stay at a Castle which was built upon the Banks of that River being come unto that place where there was no Town within twenty furlongs I desired to speak with the Commander in chief but since he saw Souldiers he was very unwilling to consent unto what I desired of him He asked from whence I came whither I went what I was and who those Ladies were But since we were in Paphlagonia where I knew there was divisions among the people I dissembled the names of the Ladies and my own also telling him only that I was a Cousin unto them and had no other designe but to conduct them he was yet very hard to be perswaded unto my desires but at last telling me that he never used to entertain any in his Castle but Ladies and because it was too much inhumanity not to assist a sick Lady if without any danger he could do it he consented to receive her in and at the request of his wife who seemed to be a woman of good parts to assist her Then I went back to Martesia and causing her Cousin to be brought in a Chair which the Captain sent us I conducted these Ladies to the Gates and afterwards I went to give orders for the quartering of my men at the next Town yet the next day the Captain of the Castle invited me to lodg with him but I refused contenting my self with admission into the Castle to visit Martesia and her Cousin who found very good helps from a Chyrurgion and Physician which were there and who would not go away from thence a long time as I was told at my lodging Since Martesia was most admirable amiable she had already got the love of the Captains wife so that discoursing one day together she told her that they were very happy whensoever they found any occasion to assist sick Ladies and since Martesia knew that her dear Mistress passed up this River she asked her if she had never any occasions to assist Ladies till now She answered her that about three months since there was one of the fairest Ladies that ever breathed upon earth fell sick and was in that Castle but presently recovering she stayed not in it Martesia being now more inquisitive then before asked her name her quality and where she was but she answered that she neither knew her name nor quality but yet to tell her truly she was yet in the Castle yet if her Husband knew that she had discovered it unto her he would be extreamly angry she told her farther that the reason why they were so nice to let them enter was because this Lady was here yet she was lodged in a Chamber of the Castle far off this she was in and where none entered but the men which waited upon her and a woman which she brought with her who never left her That there was also a very handsom man who was even at deaths door with grief whilest this fair one was sick Then did Martesia desire her to describe the beauty of this Lady and the stature of the man she spake of and by the answer of this woman she certainly concluded that the Princess Mandana and the King of Pontus were in the Castle as she was leaning against a window which looked towards the River she spied a great Boat so like that in which she had been with the Princess Mandana as she asked the Captains wife whether that was not the Boat in which the sick Lady came and she answered yes Then was Martesia fully satisfied conceaning the truth of Mandana's being here she dissembled her joy until she spoke with me which the same day she did It was resolved then betwixt us so to gain the favour of this Captains wife by presents and good language that she might let us see this sick Lady and since she was but very young she was easily perswaded by such allurements To be short Sir Martesia tampered with her so handsomly that the next morning this woman unknown to her Husband carried her by a back stair into a Chamber just opposite to the Chamber of this unknown beauty and the windows being open she saw the Princess Mandana and Arianita leaning against the window and talking together very melancholy Ah Ortalques cryed Cyrus out and interrupted him why did you not release the Princess Have but a little patience Sir replied he and you shall know the reason Martesia then knowing the Princess and being extreamly surprized without any further reasoning upon the matter she thrust her self half out of the window and made so great a noise that the Princess turning her head and looking that way did
Susa and should have gone unto some place farr off from hence where I might have hid my self from the acquaintance of men where neither he nor Cleodora should have heard any more of me After this Belesis began to aggravate his misfortunes untill anger did so swell his spirits that never remembring his love or friendship to Hermogenes he said that he was not able to suffer him to marry Cleodora In the mean while the Prince of Susa hearing that Belesis stirred out of his lodging was so incensed against him that I was advertized he intended to give command that he should retire himself And I understood that Tisias thinking that whilst he could not stirr out Belesis might perhaps work upon the spirit of Leonisa against him had moved the Prince of Susa upon some Colourable pretence or other to place Leonisa about the Queen untill he was perfectly recovered of his wounds So that fearing some mischief was plotted against my friend I conjured him to quit Susa for some certain dayes but he told me that he would never quit it untill he had spoken with Cleodora and that in private He told me how that he had been severall times at her house but he was alwayes answered by them that she was not within or would not be seen Adding that if Hermogenes would enjoy her in quietnesse it were his best course to procure him a sight of her When I therefore perceived the obstinacy of Belesis I went unto his friend in hopes to do some good upon him but found him as resolute as a Rock which would not be moved So that when I saw I could make no good end between them I went privately unto Cleodora to let her know the state of things and that her prudence might prevent all mischief and order the businesse between them for they being both my friends I knew not how to be partiall and to preferr one before another I had no sooner acquainted Cleodora how things were between Belesis and Hermogenes but she said that the last of these did her wrong to tell his friend she would not see him she seemed to be much surprised and very unquiet Yet afterwards she used so many expressions of anger against Belesis as I thought he would finde no great satisfaction in seeing her But since he did so vehemently desire it and since I could not perswade him to go out of Susa untill he heard his sentence of death pronounced from her own mouth I beseched her to let him have the opportunity to see her but she would not consent unto it Yet for all this I had a conceipt that if I did deceive her and finde out a way for Belesis to see her she would pardon me So therefore thinking to advance the happinesse of Hermogenes by advancing the departure of Belesis who would not stirr from Susa till he spoke with Cleodora I ordered the businesse so that the next morning I imployed Hermogenes in some businesse another way and one of my Cosen 's carried Cleodora to see a new built palace which for its curiosity every one went to see it since it was yet uninhabited Belesis who had his instructions failed not to be there my cosen conducted Cleodora unto a Gallery where leaving the rest of her women she carried her into a chamber within that chamber a closet where Belesis was waiting for Cleodora she no sooner saw him but she started back would needs go out again he falling upon his knees and having hold of her gowne For God Heavens sake Madam said he unto her give me but one howres hearing I conjure you 'T was to that end this charitable woman brought you hither Give me leave therefore Madam to beg your pardon and to beg it in a flood of tears Provided you will give me leave to deny you all you aske said she unto him I shall consent to give you audience If I demand death Madam will you deny me that also said he unto her doubtless I would deny you that replied she not only because the punishment which you deserve would not be long enough if you dyed so soon but because it sufficeth that you have desired something which I cannot consent unto how ever it be Madam said he unto her if it be only to chide me yet I beseech you hear me hear me with patience whilst these two were thus in discourse she who brought Cleodora in the house went unto the rest of the women which were in the Gallery did amuse them with shewing them pictures other such talk so that Belesis seeing he could talk and not be understood Give me leave Madam said he unto her fore I ask you pardon to assure you that this Belesis whom you see at your feet is the very same Belesis whom heretofore you were pleased to preferr before any other And so I do still said she for I think you so much different from all other men that I think you do incomparably excell them all However it be Madam said he I am most certain of one thing which is that my heart was never so full of love unto you as now Oh I wish with all my soul replied she that you spoke truth and I wish with all my soul Madam said he that you did really desire it No no Belesis answered Cleodora I was not far from my reall thoughts when I said that I should be even ravished with joy to be certain that you were desperately in love with me But you do extreamly mistake my meaning if you think I make this wish with any intentions to accept of your affection Since I do not wish you should love me for any other reason but that I might thereby punish you for ceasing to love me before I confesse Madam replied he that I am the most to blame of any man alive for doing as I lately did But Madam I beseech you do not too severely looke upon the most extravagant act of all my life or if you do looke upon it let it be as upon a subject whereupon to exercise your goodnesse Forgivenesse Madam does most resemble divinity and by consequence your self To what purpose is clemency but to forgive and this is the operation that when it is extended in the greatest measure it converts the greatest offendors to become the greatest lovers Moreover Madam do not think I beseech you that I did absolutely cease to love you at that very time when I seemed to be most in love with Leonisa She can tell you that I would never be moved to acquaint her with the least passage which had been between us nor could I ever endure that my best friend should ever love you and therefore it must by necessary consequence be concluded that I ever loved you Not that by this I intend to justifie my self But that I would if I could something lessen my crime to the end you may the sooner pardon it Before I can ever have such a
that place which was their Sanctuary It is no wonder if the horrour of their wickednesse did make them Imagine more mercy in the flames then from the hands of Thrasibulus For Melasia had exiled him had caused him to lose his Dominions and poisoned his Father Philodica was a partner in her designes and crimes The Prince Phoceus to revenge the misfortune of his sonne did not scruple to violate all Lawes no more then Alexidesmus whose Wife doubtlesse was little culpable and yet she had a hand in the same designe For Sir these desperate wretches did not only burn the Towne of Xanthus in retiring to the Castle but seeing Thrasibulus preparing to force it they burnt it and themselves also and by this meanes were the executioners of divine revenge and with their owne hands punished those crimes which they had commited You may well imagine Sir how much this horrid adventure did surprise Thrasibulus and all the Army for such a horrid object was enough to strike terrour aswell into the hearers as spectators of it After this Sir nothing could resist the power of your Armies all did acknowledge your Authority so that Thrasibulus full of glory went unto Milete where he was received with the greatest acclamations in the world But since he thought it not enough to be established in his Dominions unlesse he were so in the heart of Alcionida he thought upon nothing but that his greatest griefe was that he did not know directly what opinion this faire one had of him for since she had heard of Tysanders death before Leosthenes came to Mytilenes he found her ready to embark and return to Gnides unto her Father when Thrasibulus sent him unto her so that she received his Letter but returned no answer but by way of civill Complement and would not write because she thought he should expresse either too much or too little Leosthenes only told him at his returne that one could not behold more sadnesse then appeared in her eyes though still most fair Thrasibulus no sooner knew that she was at Gnides where she arived presently after the Deputies which had been with him were returned but he sent Leosthenes unto Euphranor to aske her in Marriage he sent also at the same time unto the Prince of Mytilene to intreat him he would move Alcionida to fulfill the last will of dying Tysander and he writ the second time unto Alcionida in such passionate expressions as was easie to discern that his thoughts his words were all one Since Thrasibulus did me the honor to have a great confidence in me during this Warr he sent me with Leosthenes to assist him in the negotiation of his designes so that though Leosthenes was sent unto Euphranor I may say that I was sent unto Alcionida I cannot make an exact relation Sir of all our transactions which mett with no great difficulties in approbation of the Father but with many in the minde of the Daughter for if I should the length of it would deferr that satisfaction which you may otherwise receive But in as concise a manner as I can let me tell you that the rare merits of Tisander did not lessen the tender affection she bore unto Thrasibulus though she lived most lovingly with her husband Yet for all that though her husband upon his death willed her to marry Thrasibulus yet she had a conceit that it would be more glorious for her not to obey him then to accomplish his Last Will And this conceit did so command her mind that she thought her self worthy of blame if she should marry Thrasibulus though she loved him very dearly But the Prince of Mytilene having writ unto her with desires she would fulfill the will of the Prince his Son and Euphranor absolutely commanding her she obeyed them without any resistance And was glad that two who had such power over her did assure her it was not against her honour Thus Sir since Leosthenes and my self had absolutely power to doe it the marriage of Thrasibulus and Alcionida was concluded Leosthenes returned to Milete and I stayed at Gnides until all things were ready for Alcionidas departure I shall not speak Sir of Thrasibulus his joy nor of her magnificent Reception But I shall assure you that the fair Alcionida is worthy of his affection and so much the more Sir because she shares with him in that affection which he hath unto your service since certainly she is so charmed with your Virtue though she know you onely by Fame and Thrasibulus that she was full of prayers for your prosperity as he is Thus Sir you see in what a happy condition is Thrasibulus And as if his good fortune did extend unto his friends when I returned from Milete with Alcionida I found Thimocrates ready to depart unto Delphos because he received News that his friends had procured a revocation of his banishment and that the Father of Telesile having changed his mind would give his daughter unto him before all the rest of her Lovers since Menecrates who was the most considerable of them all being repulsed by the rigours of Telesile had changed his mind So that this Lover who resented absence the worst of all miseries was gone unto his dear Telesile never to leave her Philocles also departed from Milete at the same time to Ialissa hearing that the Husband of fair Philista was dead and would try whether he could finde a Widdow more mollible then a Maid For my part Sir whom jealousie hath so tormented I found at my return a Letter from one of my friends at Samos which might in all probabilities cure me of my Passion and consequently of my Jealousie for he writes unto me that now Alcidamia is not all Fair he describes her lean and pale and so altered that I know not how my Love and Jealousie can subsist any longer and yet they doe I doe not wonder said Cyrus and smiled that your Love should last longer then the Beauty of Alcidamia for one ought not to measure the length of Love by a Rule which is short fragile and mutable as Beauty is But my wonder is you should be still jealous for according to your description of Alcidamia she is not like to make any more Conquests 'T is true Sir replyed Leontidas but in telling me this of Alcidamia they tell me further that Theanor was never so much in her favour as now So that since I have heard say commonly the fairest persons cease to be rigorous when they cease to be fair I am afraid she will keep that by her favours which she could not by her beauty So that I am now more jealous then I was when Alcidamia was the fairest in the World And since Sir Alcidamia hath onely lost her beauty by losing her health so that perhaps the next Spring will give her more then she hath lost but will never restore me her affection which shee hath bestowed upon another But Sir since I ought not to be lesse
it self In the mean while Thrasiles being ingaged to go unto the wars and the day of his departure being come he sent to ask her favour that he might come and take his leave of her but because she was engaged with Lysidice to go unto some place I know not where about a business not worth a rush and even where some of Thrasiles his Rivals were to meet her She chose a verie mean pleasure rather then deprive her self of it in giving Thrasiles so much satisfaction as to bid her adieu You may well imagine Madam what thoughts Thrasiles carried with him and whether Cleocrite was very sorrie for his absence yet somtimes She would think upon him but it was only to lament the want of those diversions he was wont to give her and not one tender or obliging thought of him This Madam if I be not much mistaken is sufficient to justifie the change of Thrasiles Be pleased to know that towards the end of the Summer it chanced that I went one morning unto her to ask her if She should make a visit with me that day At first She told me that She was engaged unto Philoxene to go with her unto a place but upon examination whether She should find more pleasure in Philoxenes visit or mine She resolved upon mine and sent to excuse her self unto the others Then She began to make her selfe ready and to ask my counsel how She should dress her self As we were then in contest what She should wear or not wear one of her women entred into her Chamber with such sad looks as was easie to perceive She had some bad news to tell Madam said the woman unto her you will be much surprized and verie sorrie if you knew all Cleocrite whose mind ran all of dressing her self and never had the least thought of Thrasiles did think that her gown which was to be brought that morning was not yet ready or that the Carkenet of Diamonds which She had borrowed of a friend and which She intended to wear that day was broken or lost so that She hastily asked the woman which of those mischances it was No Madam replied She the news is worse Thrasiles is killed and news of it is brought unto Niside Alas cried I out with extream sorrow is Thrasiles kill'd Yes said the woman and all the world does infinitely lament him To tell you Madam that Cleocrite would have been more grieved if the Carkenet of Diamonds had been lost or broken then at the death of Thrasiles perhaps had been a lie and perhaps a truth for Madam all that ever She did in the business was to send unto Nisides to know whether the news was true and in the mean while She did a little lament the death of Thrasiles but it was with a very quiet mind and without one single tear or sigh Alas said She unto me I was in such hopes of a thousand delights from Thrasiles this Winter that I must needs lament the loss of the poor man For my part said I unto her I lament the loss of himself not for the loss of any delights and although he would have contributed unto no diversions at all yet I should pity him as much as I do Whil'st we were talking thus the news of his death was confirmed and immediately after I saw Cleocrite looking in her glass and being but half dressed She dressed her self with as much spruseness and alacrity as She designed before the sad news was brought For my part I must confess I was so surprized at the obdurate insensibility of Cleocrite as I was speechless so looking upon her actions with as much amazement as sorrow and with as much anger as amazement I observed that she ranged her locks and curled her hair with as much niceness and care and dressed her self as trimly as if She had some designe of conquering a fresh Lover in lieu of him She had lost After I had forced my patience a long while in silently seeing her deck her self and after her woman was gone out my choler could contain no longer Fie Cleocrite said I unto her does not those thousands of delights which Thrasiles hath given you deserve one day of mourning for him and to deprive your self for his sake of a poor mean diversion the day you hear of his fatal death If that would raise him from the dead replied she I should do it with much joy but since I have passed my word unto Philoxene I am resolved to keep it But you did resolve to break it said I unto her and to make a visit with me and may you not as well break it to mourn one day for the poor Thrasiles I can mourn for him better in company then in solitude replied this hard hearted Ladie and if I should this day hide my self I might perhaps be accused of mourning too much for him Fie Cleocrite said I unto her you are not in any such reputation of tenderness as that you need fear any such aspersion and certainly they would wrong you much if they should think you so inclined Why said She do you think I do not grieve for Thrasiles I protest I think so said I unto her And I protest replied she that I grieve as much as I can and more then ever I did for any I do believe it said I unto her yet it is because you love nothing in the world but your self and as long as you can look in youâ—â—lass and find your self fair you care for nothing else yet I would gladly know whether you could resent the loss of your own beautie Cleocrite then offered to give me some poor reasons but I rise up and left her not being able to endure such a stonie hearted piece of insensibility Howsoever she went with Philoxene unto the place agreed upon where She found more diversion then She expected for they danced until night But Madam all this was happie for Thrasiles for you must know that the cause of these reports of his death was that there was one Thrasiles killed but it was Thrasiles of Xanthes and not of Cumes For that Thrasiles who was an Adorer of Cleocrite and whose death I lamented being chosen by the Prince of Cumes to carry the news of the victorie which he had lately gotten he came to town that very evening after his death was reported his first care was to enquire how Cleocrite did and he was let know that She was at a Ball and at the same time he was informed that every one thought him dead he understood that Cleocrite sent unto his mother to enquire of it and that it was from her confirmed so that he could not doubt but Cleocrites heart was harder to him then any flint This did so much surprize him that imagining perhaps Cleocrite was not told of it or that perhaps she had heard the news of his death contradicted he resolved to go unto the place where they said she was But in his way
but I lookt upon Lysidice who as soon as ever She saw him changed colour so that I turning to her and speaking low lest our women should hear Well Lysidice said I unto her did you think Thrasiles would ever return Provided Philoxene did not send him replied She I do not care though he be returned For my part replied I I care not upon what reason he return so he think upon the end of his Letter which 〈◊〉 writ unto you However it be said She unto me you would do me a great pleasure if you would tell Thrasiles I am much joyed at his return I promise you I will said I unto her though on my conscience you are not so glad of it as you say you are As we were thus talking we came to a Ladies house unto whom we intended a visit which done I waited upon Lysidice to her own house and returned to my own where Thrasiles stayed for me I no sooner saw him but I seemed very joyful at his return But yet said I unto him before my joys be full I must know whether you be returned free from this thing called Love for if you be not believe me in lieu of rejoycing I shall be extreamly grieved Grieve then you must said he unto me for I was never more in love in all my life then now and in all probabilities shall be so till death Fie fie Thrasyles said I unto him you are not so much Master of your self as I imagined nor care I for the friendship of a man who since he can so easily forget injuries can as easily forget good offices But Thrasiles said I have you forgot how you writ unto Lysidice that you would never retur unto Cumes until you had left loving her Pardon me good Lyriana said he unto me for I have kept my word You are not then in love as you say you are replied I. I am more in love Lyriana said he then I say I am yes much more then I am able to say But my dear Lyriana it is with Philoxene and not with Lysidice whom spite and reason banished out of my heart before Philoxene came into the Country Though it be not my custom replied I to be very glad that anie of my friends should be in love yet I profess I am infinitely joyed that you are in love with Philoxene since it is an infallible argument you are not in love with Lysidice After this I began to vaunt that I should so foretel his passion and I related unto him what Lysidice and I had said when Philoxene came to bid me adieu After this he acquainted me how having seen Philoxene every day since she came into the Country with all the freedom which the Country could afford he had seen her more in a month there then he should have done in Cumes in a whole year and that indeed he had found that in her alone which he had vainly sought for in those four persons which formerly he had loved How Thrasiles said I unto him Are you not only in love but loved also No replied he you do not well explain my words for my meaning is that Philoxene hath more good qualities then all the rest together have And certainly Madam Thrasyles had good reason thus to commend this lovely Widow since questionless there cannot be a more accomplished person Doubtless he might have found one of as great beauty and as much wit and spirit but never any so without fault For truth is she had none her beauty was infinitely pleasing her behaviour was high noble and modest her Phisognomy spake goodness and sincerity and there was such pritty mixture of mirth and seriousness together in her face as did exceedingly become her She had a million of charms in her humours as many graces in her mind and as many good qualities in her soul virtue was alwayes the end she aimed at in all her actions She affected glory She is most tender to her friends She serves them with joy and never disobliged any It may be said her anger is an ornament unto her in raising up some lovely blushes but vanishing so soon as it will not give her time to do any injustice It is impossible but to judg favourably of her She is fair She is young She is rich and She is a Widdow She knows so well how to regulate her life that her reputation is high though her vertue be neither salvage nor austere but on the contrary sweet and sociable This Madam was Philoxene when Thrasiles began to love her and this She is at this very day yet I understand by him that he durst not discover his passion unto her but tells me that he is fully perswaded She knows it or at least suspects it Since he came only unto Cumes upon some little business and to let Lysidice know how he did not now love her he stayed but three days and returned to Philoxene To tell you how vexed Lysidice was is not an easie matter especially when Philoxene returned to Cumes and Thrasiles followed her the next day for when she perceived that he was in love with this fair one She was veved to the very soul Then did she contract a great amity with Cleocrite and both of them had a plot to make him pass in the world for the most unconstant man in it hoping thereby to ruine him in the opinion of Philoxene and indeed I believe these reports which they had scattered abroad did not do him much good nor hurt But the great obstacle which Thrasiles met with in the mind of Philoxene was not that for indeed after he had served her a whole year with extream assiduity and fidelity She saw he was far from inconstancie But Madam the love She had to liberty kept her from the reception of Thrasiles his services I know she esteemed him above all men living and that if ever she married Thrasiles would be her choice But yet for all this favourable inclination which apparently she had to him She did not chuse him nor put him in any hopes yet for all that Thrasiles whom they said was so unconstant desisted not but suffered all because he did not find in her such things as stifles the very soul of Love As the foolerie of his first Mistress the engagement of his second the insensibilitie of the third and the fantastical humours of the fourth But he stood firm and constant to his loving her and seemed as if he were resolved so to do as long as life was in him and I am most confident it is true for since Thrasiles loved Philoxene his constancy hath been put unto all sorts of trials First it is certain that Cleocrite and Lysidice either out of vanity or malice or some other reason laid all the stratagems they could invent to disingage him for her and to reduce him unto their services Niside also for a while had a strong desire her Son should marrie one of the fairest Ladies
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CLV TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE AND MOST PERFECTLY NOBLE THE LADY ANNE LUCAS MADAM AFter many Addresses Your Great CYRUS comes to take his leave His Story runs full of such hazardous Attempts as bad us expect this Last Volume would prove his Tragedy But Your HONOUR knows how the Ancients differ about the Death of CYRUS And those who refuse Him for the Lover of MANDANA may equally deny MANDANA to be his Mother since That Name as well as CYRUS belong'd to more than one Our Author hath not shew'd more strength of Brain in the admirable Turnes and Mazes of this Work which makes it reputed second to none than He hath at last in tying all up wherein yet Hee swerves not from the Authority of two of the best Greek Historians Did Annalists and Chroniclers draw up Battails with that accurate skill this Author does here History would prove lesse tedious more usefull and freer from Contradictions But our Author is a Souldier and spent one would think all his Thoughts on Seidges and Battailes till we read his Letters and Sceanes of Love and then we admire how to both those former he is able to afford us such Politick Discourses There are men of no vulgar Genius and such as are no Strangers to the Author can lend a Clavis to most of this Story can tell where 't is Personall and where Morall they know what Prince the Author mean's by CYRUS fighting in midd'st of a Wood set on fire round about him where after conquest of his Enemies he must assault that Element And while He and the King of Assyria are duelling for MANDANA She the great Booty is taken from them both by a perfidious person to whom she was entrusted where MANDANA is no Woman but the Empire it self and so I am told the Word signifies in the language of that Country But without any Key an ordinary Eye may behold in TOMYRIS the bottomless Wrath of a revengefull Princess what mischief that Sex can do in a Kingdom when tempted by Power almost if Presidents had not taught us otherwise as destructive as a Man But herein Your LADISHIP will pardon the Author as one born and living under the Salique Law Yet nothing is more legible in his Chieftains and Commanders than that the lust after Thrones and Scepters is as boyling mad as Fond Love and infinitely more fatall since the violence of Lovers strikes but at a couple when the Thirst after a Crown drinks the blood of Millions who all must be slaughter'd for that person who aspires to it Our Author was so watchfull over his CYRUS and MANDANA that neither have their Lapses save in some Doubt Jealousie I cannot call it of their mutual Affections which yet was begotten on rational grounds and such overflowings are tolerable in Love though in no other Passion How He hath embelish'd his Queens and Princesses with distinct Graces your LADISHIP is best able to pronounce For the Author with all his Art and Abilities cannot feign more Virtues than Your HONOUR is possess'd of and might safely use no other Compellations for those eminent Personages he strives to magnifie than the Names of Your several Virtues And this MADAM is the great Inducement made me humbly offer these Volumes to Your LADISHIP for if they have ought that is Excellent and Transcendent they are yours in Justice and may finde their Exemplars at all capacities For whose accomplishment in all Degrees of Happiness for your most Learned and Noble LORD and that Confluence of Hopes in that matchless young LADY You have the constant Devotions of MADAM Your Honour 's most humble and most obedient Servant HUMPHREY MOSELEY ARTAMENES OR The Grand CYRUS The Nineth Part. Book I. CAn it possibly be true said Cyrus and cried out after he knew from Indatherses the true name of Anaxaris that Anaxaris should be the Prince Ariantes Brother unto Thomiris who was gone unto the Kingdome of Issedons with the young Spargapises when Ciaxares sent me
unto that Princess Yes Sir replied Indatherses Anaxaris is really Ariantes brother unto the Queen of Massagettes and the voyage which he made when you were with that Princess caused him to pass unknown in your Army for since you never saw him he might pass for whom he pleased But I beseech you said Cyrus what could his design be in concealing himself so long and in rendring me services so great as will for ever after make me the most miserrble man alive Did he only wait for an opportunity of revenging Thomiris by carrying away the Princess whom I adore And must I look upon this Act of his as an effect of that revenge which lurks in the soul of that incensed Queen Or as his love unto Mandana Sir replied Indatherses I cannot tell you what the intentions of the Prince Ariantes was but I am sure he has been too long out of the favour of Thomiris to be the Executioner of her revenge I beseech you said Cyrus how do you know that Anaxaris is Ariantes for I must ingenuouslie confess what you tell me does so much surprize me that I must needs enquire of all circumstances concerning a matter which would seem absolutelie incredible if any but you had told it Sir replied Indatherses I know so very well that Anaxaris is Ariantes as none can be surer of any thing for a servant of mine in whom I have extraordinarie confidence and who hath seen him whole years together did see him with Mandana and since I desired to be sure of the place where you were I sent him to enquire with orders to return unto me at a place where I stayed a day to put my self in a fit equipage to appear before the Princess Mandana whom I knew you conducted So as this servant who has wit and spirit enough saw Anaxaris yesterday do the office of the Captain of the Guard unto the Princess Mandana But since he saw him and was not seen by him again by reason of the press of people which crowded to see that Princess as she went unto the Temple his wonder at the sight of him was not perceived and knowing none about him he had no reason to express his admiration yet he made a shift to be understood and to ask the name of him whom he looked upon so seriously and being answered that his name was Anaxaris but none being able to tell him either what he was or from whence he easily apprehended that the Prince Ariantes would not be known so that saying no more he returned in all hast towards me not only to assure me that I should find you upon the banks of the River Halis but also to tell me that he had seen the Prince Ariantes passing by the name of Anaxaris and as Captain of the Guard unto the Princess Mandana At the first I told him that certainly he was mistaken by some that resembled him yet he was so extreamlie confident of it that I contended no longer with him but made 〈◊〉 doubt of it in my own mind and said no more unto him But Sir when I came unto the place where I imagined to find you then I understood that this Anaxaris had carried away Mandana and then I made no question but that he was the Prince Ariantes and truly I am now as fully perswaded of it as if I had seen him my self Alas my dear Indatherses said Cyrus I am no less perswaded of it then you for trulie were Anaxaris of a more inferiour qualitie certainlie he durst never have been so bold as to carry away the Princess and now methinks you have opened my eyes and I find some imperfect resemblance betwixt Thomiris and him Also he hath an accent and sound in his voice as might at least have induced me to know him for a Scithean But assuredly the Gods being resolved upon my ruine did blind me and deprived me of my reason to the end that I my self might contribute unto Mandana's and my own destruction After this Cyrus was silent and continued a while sighing and walking then upon a sudden calling Feraulas unto whom the King of Assiria was talking he asked him how it was known that Anaxaris had carried away Mandana Sir said Feraulas Anaxaris hath carried the marter so subtilly that none ever knew until within foure houres after his departure for Sir he went away with the Princess above an houre before it was day yet it was not known that she was not in her Chamber until an houre before I departed with intention to come hither and which is strangest Arianite whom she left behinde her had orders to conceal her departure as well as Pherenice and all the rest of the women But Doralisa and Martesia are with her Oh Feraulas said Cyrus this cannot be I can never believe that Mandana would let her self be carried away and carried away by Anaxaris Sir replied Feraulas it is as far from my belief as yours but it is a certain truth that neither the Princess nor either of the Ladies who are with her did call any unto their aid that all Mandana's guard followed her and that Andramites and his friends are gone with her The greatest wonder is Arianite said that Anaxaris came and caused Martesia to be waked to the end she might awake Mandana which after she had accordinglie done he spoke unto the Princess that he read somthing unto her out of a Letter which he had and that he shewed unto her a Scarf which she looked upon with a torrent of tears in her eyes and with extream bitterness of heart Arianite said further that after Mandana had caused Martesia to come unto her and had sent to waken Doralisa they both of them wept a while with her and afterwards the Princess rising in haste whilst Anaxaris went to take orders for her departure she did nothing else but shed tears whilst she was dressing She also said that as the Princess was ready to depart and to take Coach at a pair of stairs in a back Court Martesia commanded her from the Princess to cause her women not to open the door of her Chamber until it was very late Then Arianite pressing Martesia to tell her whether the Priucess went why she grieved and why she carried not all her women with her You shall ere long have orders to come unto her replied Martesia But in the mean time my dear Arianite said She repent of your serving the King of Assiria since perhaps you were the cause of his killing the illustrious Cyrus and of the Princesses death for very grief of his loss You may well conceive Sir that a woman who thought the King of Assiria dead was extreamlie surprized to hear that he lived and that he had killed you yet she could not express her wonder for Martesia and Doralisa followed Mandana with as much haste as sorrow However since this news did touch Arianite very much she imparted it unto the rest of the Princesses women and also awaked
Queen she did not vehemently contradict her but on the contrary excused her violencies by some shallow reasons so that she might afterwards without incensing her produce more sollid Arguments to perswade her And indeed when she was alone with Thomiris she complained against the lamentable condition into which Fortune had brought her and pittied her that she should be brought unto such a cruell necessity as to be revenged upon so great a Prince as Cyrus was For though Gelonide did wish with all her heart that Thomiris did not love that Prince yet as the case stood she thought no way better to restrain her hands from the blood of Mandana then by the interest of her love Therefore fetching a compass the better to arrive at her end truly Madam sayd she unto her after much other discourse you are much to be pittied in your seeking revenge upon a Prince who is so much in Fortunes favour and so much esteemed by all the World For though they say Revenge is sweet yet I am perswaded that a Soul truly generous cannot seek revenge without abundance of Repugnancy especially when it must be steeped in blood However Madam added she very cunningly I hope your Soule hath changed its Passion and though it be troubled with the disquiet consequences of Hatred yet it is freed from the consequencies of Love Alas Gelonide replyed she I am more miserable then you imagine me and this first Passion hath not driven the other out of my heart But I beseech you Madam replyed Gelonide what likely-hood is there you should love Cyrus still for if you did you would never strive to make him hate you by persecuting Mandana for I am most confident that Cyrus would hate you much less for persecuting himself then for persecuting her whom he adores and therfore Madam if you do not hate that Prince think seriously upon what you do and if you will be advised by me in lieu of menacing the life of that Princess you shall protect it and force that Prince by your generosity to confess you merit his Esteem if not his Affection But I am most sure Madam that if you shed the blood of this Princess and do not hate Cyrus you will make your self the most miserable woman in the World and therfore consider well upon it if you do hate him then I grant you may satisfie your revenge by the most cruell and fatall wayes But if you do not hate him give a stop unto your fury and consider that if you do put Mandana to death Cyrus will do the like to you And though t is possible the love of Cyrus may dye with this Princess yet he will be sure to be your Enemy if you did put her to death Honour doth so engage him to make Warr upon you that though he should hereafter love you yet he durst not entertain any peace with you Therfore Madam sound your heart to the bottom and take heâ—d least thinking to entertain only hatred you find it to be all love I have heard say indeed that these two Passions as opposite as they are yet do somtimes so disguise themselves in such fallacious shews as they cannot be known from each other and when one hath thought he acted by dictates of Hatred it was indeed by dictates of Love Alas Gelonide sayd the Queen I have to my shame found all this to be true For I must with a blush confess that Cyrus is not out of my heart and if I did not love him still I should not seek revenge upon Mandana However I do carry it as if I would revenge the death of my Son though to speak truth my heart doth not accuse him for it Yes yes Gelonide since I must open my heart unto you I do look upon him as ungratefull towards me and not as if he were the Murtherer of Spargapises Thus at the very same time whilst I taxe him in Publick with this horrid Crime I do justifie him in the Closet of my heart as much as I can Since it is so Madam replyed Gelonide you must carry it otherwise and not put yourself into such a State as it will be impossible for you to be happy if Fortune should wheel about For Madam if you do not proceed to the very last Extremity who knows but you may hereafter have Cyrus in your Power he may chance be your Prisoner of Warr and may perchance become fettered in your Chains by Love if you use Mandana well at least this Prince will esteem you more and may happily in the end do justice both unto your Merit and your Affection Who knows also whether those Forces which are coming up to joyn with yours may not get you the advantage over Cyrus as now he hath it over you and whether Ciaxares may not be brought to demand Peace upon no other condition but to exchange Cyrus for Mandana And who knows whether this happy Peace may not satisfie the Passion of Ariantes and you both There is so little probability in all you say replyed Thomyris and sighed that I cannot flatter my self with any thoughts of it However Madam replyed Gelonide though it be not probable yet it is not impossible But if you put Mandana to death it is absolutely impossible that Cyrus should either love you or make any Peace with you Ah Gelonide replyed she you are a great stop unto my Revenge Why will you hinder me from the enjoyment of the only Pleasure that I can ever hope for yet I find your words make a deep impression in my heart and my fears to incurr the hatred of Cyrus restrain me from hating Mandana I wish with all my heart Madam replyed Gelonide that I were able to ease your Majesty of your sufferings but since I cannot yet I would perswade you if you love Cyrus not to provoke him to hate you by Sacrificing Mandana unto your Revenge For by that means I should preserve your glory and perhaps somthing satisfie the passion which raigns in your Soul As for my Glory replyed Thomyris I value it not for since I do not esteem my self I care not whether others do esteem me or no. As Thomyris was speaking this an old Officer of hers who had ever been very faithfull and affectionate to her Service came to tell her how he was very certainly given to understand that Ariantes was Master of all her Forces and that he had sent unto those who were coming up that he who guarded Mandana was wholly at his Command and that the People in generall began to fear the anger of the Gods if she should put this innocent Princess to death that they began to murmure and perhaps would Rebell if she persisted in her Design Since this advise came from a man whom she knew most faithfull it made some impression upon her Spirits and Gelonides discourse having prepared her Soul to receive it wel she thanked him for it and after she had dismissed him she began to consider
since you have supplyed my place the valour of Aripithes found greater resistance then he could have from me But valiant Enemy said he and turned towards him since you have a desire I should be yours I am well contented to bee so though I am not your Rivall And to stay untill you are in a condition to finde the difference between the valour of Spitridates and mine let me conduct you into one of my Tents that you may be dressed with as much care as if you were the best of my friends No replyed Aripithes fiercely for generous Enemies ought not to receive any thing from each other but death And because I will not lessen my hatred by receiving of benefits I will refuse your offer and desire no other favour from you but to let me return unto the Camp of Thomyris Though I might very well treat you as a Spye replyed Cyrus since you are found in a disguised habit during the Treaty Yet I will not but will let you have a Coach to carry you where you please Aripithes at first refused this last favour but at last perceiving he was not able to ride he was forced to accept of it And Cyrus sent immediately to seek a Coach and Chyrurgeons and left one to helpe his Squire to hold him up for he was not able to stand by himselfe Spitridates at parting gave him a very civill Complement unto which the other answered with a kind of surly civility After which this Prince followed Cyrus to perswade him unto his opinion concerning the ground which they had viewed In the mean time since he had received a little hurt in his left arme Cyrus would see him dressed though Spitridates would not have him and since the armes of that Prince were cut in severall places Cyrus sent him those rich Armes which he wore the first time when the forty Cavalliers conspired to kill him and since wore upon severall great occasions Since they were very rich and magnificent the Present was worthy both of the giver and Receiver In the mean time the five dayes of Treaty being expired and Anacharsis had effected nothing this sage Scythian was forced to leave Thomyris unto her bad destinies and came unto Cyrus But it is observable that before he departed he understood how that Queen hearing how Aripithes was returned wounded and that he went from the Camp with a design of killing Cyrus she was so incensed against him that she commanded him to retire for though she much complained against Cyrus yet she did not wish his death so as not being able to hide her angry resentments and Aripithes hearing of them he was so grieved that he dyed within twenty four hours after But Thomyris was not long in this mind for so it chanced that on the last day of the Treaty Cyrus writ unto Mandana and sent her Letter by a disguised servant to the end Gelonide might convey it unto that Princesse This Letter in lieu of coming to the hands of Gelonide did fall into the hands of Thomyris for the servant being stopped by the way by some accident or other he came not to the place where the Queen was untill an hour after the Treaty ended but it did so perplex the heart of this Princesse that hatred took the place of Love For Cyrus thinking this would be the last Letter which he should write unto Mandana before the end of the Warre which could never end before either his death or the liberty of his Princess he writ it with un-imaginable passionateness concerning her and with extream bitternesse concerning Thomyris The truth is all the most tender expressions which the most zealous love could invent were included within this Letter which came to the hands of this Queen whose spirits were so much incensed at it that if Cyrus had promised her some eternall affection and had by this given her some testimonies of his inconstancy she could not possibly have been more incensed against him So as thinking upon nothing but Warre and Revenge and all her Forces being in as good a posture as she could wish she prepared for a Combate Ariantes on his side seeing that a Battle must be fought to decide this great businesse upon which depended the happinesse or misery of so many illustrious persons began to think upon all manner of stratagems which might ruine Cyrus and finding that it would be a marvellous disadvantage to him if Thomyris could get the Fort of Sauromates into her power because then if the Army of Cyrus were engaged on this side the woods he had no place of retreat in case he were overcome and therefore he imagined all manner of wayes how to bring this great design about Cyrus on the other side being much perplexed that Thomyris by her frivolous Negotiations had retarded his designs he did begin to think how he might by his diligence gayn that time which had been lost Yet he had the satisfaction of being commended by the wise Anacharsis who declared him free from all the sadd consequences of this War After which he went unto the Queen of Pontus and the Princess of Armenia at the Fort of Sauromates In the mean while how desirous soever both sides were of fighting yet it was a long time before any assaults were given because each side watching for advantage and unwilling to hazard a definitive Battle rashly they would not fall on without some appearance of it But in the interim of all these great preparations Mandana lived in such a generall ignorance as that she knew nothing For neither the Princesse of Bythinia nor Istrina nor Arpasia did see her so as she had no other consolation but what she had from Doralisa and Martesia Yet she had so much satisfaction as to imagine that if things went not on the side of Cyrus they would tell her For Thomiris and Ariantes used always to let her know the worst but concealed the best news from her And since it was many dayes since they told her any thing she concluded by infallible consequence that the side of Cyrus had the advantage Thus her hopes that Cyrus would be victorious and she ere long released did afford her soule much tranquility But at last after long watching for advantages on both sides both Cyrus and Thomyris resolved to give Battle And though Cyrus could have wished a little longer delay because he knew that a very great force vvhich Ciaxares sent him vvas very nigh Yet since he never in his life refused fighting vvhen any occasion vvas offered he could not novv recoile so as every one in both Armies preparing for a Fight one might have seen the very same spirit and the same zeale in tvvo huge Armies On the one side Thomyris and Ariantes omitted nothing which might conduce to obtaine the victory On the other side Cyrus and Mandanes were as vigilant and circumspect as possible to vanquish and release Mandana Myrsiles Intaphernes Atergatis and Hidaspes exasperated by interest of
said that as to the second thing in question That jealousie was of so large an extent that possibly it might be so as one might be jealous without any Rivalls since one might be jealous of any thing which too much took up the heart of the person loved and said he who reported the opinion of the assembly since one is not so jealous of those thoughts which others have of the Lady whom one loves as they are of those thoughts which she hath of others it follows that one may be jealous of any thing which engageth her heart any manner of way If she affect any solitude too much a Lover may without extravagancy be a little jealous Judg therefore I beseech you then since Dorinice having a hundred Friends who may become her Lovers or who at least take up a great part of her heart and who fill up her time so that Mereontes can hardly ever speak unto her whether I say such a Lover hath not reason to entertain some thoughts which may be termed jealousie and whether he have not reason to complain of her since she is so eternally taken up with her friends and such friends as so nearly resemble Lovers that one may easily mistake the one for the other As soon as this was said a friend of Dorinices who pretended unto the first Rank stood up and said that it was great injustice to think friends could be jealous That this was the way to violate all the priviledges of friendship which of all things upon earth ought to be most inviolable And that it would put a great disorder and confusion amongst all men if love and friendship should be declared incompatible for as friendship cannot be without love so love and friendship may consist together Then she instanced many examples out of antiquity to make it appear that one may be a zealous Lover and a zealous Friend both at one time And amongst the rest that of Achilles who though extreamly in love with Briseis yet loved Patrocles with abundance of tendernesse And after this he desired it might be declared that Dorinice might admit of as many friends as she pleased without being subject unto any complaints against her But Sir after this friend of Dorinices had said all he could and after I had answered all his objections against me the Judges ordained that Dorinice should make her choise either to answer my affection with the like Or if she could not and would yet preserve me to exclude all the rest of her friends to the end I might solely remain in her heart declaring that if she would do neither of these two I might lawfully quit her without inconstancy or being accused of ingratitude So Sir Dorinice being unable either to love me or renounce that multitude of friends which diverted her she publiquely declared that she was so far from doing either of these two things as she was fully resolved upon two other things quite contrary For said she I am resolved never to love as long as I live neither will I faile to admit of more new friends You may easily imagine Sir how this cruell Declaration of Dorinices went to my heart But that which finished my despair was that she sent unto me she would never see me any more and yet the very same day she sent this rigorous message she admitted of two fresh friends so as resolving upon absence I employed the illustrious Sapho to obtain a licence from the Queen to go out oâ— her Dominions And so I did without bidding adieu unto any but Sapho Agelaste and Phaon As soon as I had passed those Desarts which environ our Country I came into the Territories of the ancient Sauromates where I found Troops ready to depart which Aripithes had levyed for Thomyris So as I conceiving War the best remedy against Love I followed them without any other design but to forget Dorinice But though I am not able to do it yet I am so fully resolved never to see her again that I will voluntarily banish my selfe for ever out of the most pleasant Countrey in the world But Sir if you will be pleased to give me leave to devote my selfe inseparably unto your service I shall hope for more tranquility and satisfaction then ever I had And my joyes in finding such an illustrious Protector will be above my sorrows for the losse of an unjust Mistresse Mereontes having ended his Relation and his Complement Cyrus returned a very obliging answer unto this illustrious Sauromate After which entring into deep Cogitations of his past misfortunes and present miseries he spake little all the rest of the day But night being come and all things ready Cyrus entred into this close Coach which Meliantes and Mereontes being their Convoy they got out by the favour of the night none observing that Cyrus was in the Coach And as they got well out of the Camp so they arrived at the Tents Royal and as good luck for Cyrus was the Tent of Meliantes being one of the very first Cyrus was presently in a place where none could see him unlesse Meliantes would and where it was unlikely any would seek for him for his death was so generally believed on all sides that it was divulged over all places in the world The Grecians which were in the Army writ into Greece the Persians sent unto Persepolis the Medes made it known in Media Intaphernes writ into Pontus and Bythinia The Assyrians sent into Babylon Thrasimedes writ it into Lycia Ligdamis unto Ephesus Myrsiles unto Sardis and so all the rest into their severall Countreys And the noise of his death was so universally divulged in all remote places and so generally believed that many excellent Histories were deceived by the mistake and Historians have left this supposed death of Cyrus in their Histories as true though the truth is it was the unfortunate Spitridates who lost his life and passed for this illustrious Conqueror In the mean time Feraulas in this generall belief of Cyrus his death endeavoured all manner of ways to find out his Corps And having many friends since the time that Cyrus was there under the name of Artamenes hee employed all their helps in the discovery But in his Quest of one thing he discovered another which made him extreamly joyed for he understood by accident that the Gelon Captain who presented the head of Spitridates unto Thomyris as the head or Cyrus did endeavour to sell those rich Arms of gold which that unfortunate Prince did wear the last day of his life and which Cyrus gave unto him after his Combate with Aripithes So as Feraulas knowing that Cyrus wore a very common suit of Arms that day he concluded that of necessity it must be the head of Spitridates which Thomyris plunged in blood and not of Cyrus so as much hope and joy began to revive in his soule and so as the death of Spitridates which before made him full of sorrow now filled him full of
of Sidon writ her Epitaph all the refined wits of Phenicia did write in her glory the King is causing a most sumptuous Tomb to be erected and Elisa is lamented as one of the most admirable women that ever lived After all this there is not a day wherein all her friends do meet but they condole and celebrate her name with tears and sighs striving to make their illustrious friend to revive by their discourse and Elogies which they made to eternize her memory But to let you see Sir said Aristheus addressing himself unto Cyrus how all humane wisdome is limited and to incite your Noble heart unto pity be pleased to know that the King of Phenicia not doubting but that you would accord unto his demand hath designed a Tomb to be made for Elisa after such a fashion that the Statue which you will restore and which should have been the ornament of his Gallary shall be placed upon the top of this stately Sepulcher Aristheus closing up his Speech with a deep sigh he did communicate his sorrows unto all his illustrious Auditors all whom had extream compassion upon the lamentable destiny of Elisa and did participate in the sorrows of Aristheus and Telamis Doralisa her self as hard-hearted as she was did finde a complement as sorrow for Aristheus after which all the company parted and mourned for Elisa Cyrus collected this consolation from the misfortunes of another that he was forced to confess unto himself the King of Phenicia was more unfortunate in his passion then himself though he was alwayes accustomed to think himself the most unfortunate Lover in the world The end of the first Book ARTAMENES OR The Grand CYRUS The Seventh Part. BOOK II. Cyrus was no sooner returned to the Cittadel but his sorrows assumed fresh forces to torment him caused by the sight of all these happy lovers about him for whose felicity he had yet taken so much care not but that he was ever a zealous wisher of their happiness but comparing the state of their Fortunes with his own it was impossible but he should sigh to see the difference betwixt the one and the other though he did confess unto himself that he was less miserable then the King of Phenicia yet he said also that he was more unfortunate then all those about him but he said it with such sensibility of sorrow that had Mandana known the agony of his heart she would have chased all unjust jealousie out of her own for it is most certain that never man did know how to love so perfectly as Cyrus In the mean time the Phenician Ambassador knowing the King his Master to be in such a sad condition and having nothing else to do at Sardis prepared for his departure carrying the Statue of Elisa with him which Cyrus did accompany with Presents much more magnificent then those he received He writ also a Letter of thanks unto the King of Phenicia for the thirty thousand men which he offered desiring him to furnish out in exchange of those men as many Ships as he could for a secret design which he had imparted unto his Ambassador and Aristheus Thus all the Phenicians except Aristheus departed infinitely satisfied with Cyrus As for Aristheus he stayed still with this Prince for three reasons the first because the Ambassador of Phenicia and himself conceiving it would be advantageous unto their King to hold a good correspondency with so great a Conquerour they resolved it to be expedient one should remain with him to â—iment the friendship betwixt them The second was because indeed Aristheus was so charmed with the virtue of Cyrus that he was desirous to be a longer admirer of him And the third was the death of Elisa which having grieved him unto the very soul he was not willing to return unto the place where he had seen her so often and was never to see her again and though he did dearly love one of Elisa's friends yet he resolved to endure this absence especially since Doralisa did so very much resemble her as that one of them did comâ—ort him in the absence of the other Thus the Phenician Ambassador departed and Aristheus stayed Also within a few daies after the equipage of Sesostris and Timaretta being in a readiness those two illustrious persons departed from Cyrus to return into Egypt leaving behinde them so many charmed with their merit and affectionate unto their interests as they all did make a thousand prayers for their felicity The Princess of Phrigia and the Princess Timaretta did bid adieu in the language of sighs and all the Ladies of the Palace of Croessus were melted into tears As for Sesostris he expressed much sorrow to leave Cyrus before he had released Mandana and in acknowledgment of the obligations he had unto him for restoring unto him his dear Timaretta and for saving his life he left his Troops with him and promised to oblige Amasis to send him others Cyrus for his part gave this generous Prince the most obliging language in the world himself waiting upon the Princess Timaretta half a daies journey from Sardis where they took their last adieu's both Sesostris and Timaretta did carry themselves so admirably well and spoke in such a noble manner that it was not imagineable they ever were a Shepherd and Shepherdess Cyrus also sent many persons of quality to conduct them unto their Ship which waited for them having given unto Timaretta as many servants as she could have had if she were at Thebes or Memphis After the departure of Sesostris and Timaretta the restlessness of Cyrus augmented nor could he endure any conversation but where Mandana was the subject of their discourse Mazares for his part he was still in a continual turbulency of thoughts he imployed all his virtues to hinder himself from hating his Rival and loving his Mistress As for Croessus what joys soever he had at his being seated again on the throne yet he every day had some apprehensions of the difference between a vassal or tributary Kings and a Soveraign or Independent Majesty As for Myrsiles Love did more torment him then ambition and his not daring to speak unto Doralisa of his Love was insupportable yet he did so much fear to insence that cruel hearted Lady as he shuned her presence though it was a hell unto him to be where she was not In the mean time the Prince Artamas and all those happy Lovers whose sorrows were changed into joys they now had no other grief but in behalf of Cyrus who indeed did merit their pity both in consideration of his high deserts and his great misfortunes Some daies being passed over in continual turbulency of Spirit the sorrows of Cyrus redoubled for he understood that Harpagus who had orders from him to bring back the Army which aided Thrasibulus to conquer his Domidions was taken by the chief Officers of his Troops and the matter was grown unto that height as that they were divided