offends me in matter of affection and believe me Phillis you have done Lycidas more injury than he hath done you Then said Phillis and laughed heretofore I said that it was love that prompted me unto this act but hereafter I will say it was revenge and to such as are the most curious I will say it was for such a reason as I learned of you They will judge added Diana that heretofore you did love and now that you know what it is to love However answered Phillis if it be a fault it proceeds from ignorance and not from any defect in Love for I think my selfe obliged unto it but you that have been so long mute I pray tell us how I assisted to bring this child into the world Then Astrea replied thus Assoon as this Shepheardesse declared her selfe Lycidas did very confidently accept of her offer and sent a young Shepheard unto Moin to bring a Midwife from thence with her eyes blinded that she might not know whither she went Diana then as being astonished did put her finger to her mouth and said Shepheardesse this is not such a secret as you imagine for I remember I have heard of it I beseech you said Phillis tell us how you heard it that we may see how reports do jump I cannot tell added Diana whether or no I do well remember it the poor Philander was the relator and assured me that he had it from Lucina a Midwife One day as she was walking in the Park betwixt mount Brison and Moin with severall of her companions a young man came unto her whom she knew not and at first brought some commendations to her from some of her friends who were at Feurs and afterwards told her some particulars purposely to draw her from the rest of her company and when he had her alone he told her that a better occasion brought him thither and it was that for all pitties sake she would go and help an honest woman who without her aid was in very great danger The good woman was a little surprised at this but the young man conjured her to conceale her wonder for he would rather chuse a death then this businesse should ever be suspected Lucina being now a little better assured and promising she would be secret she asked him the time when she should be ready Prepare your selfe said the young man for a voyage of two months and to the end you may be no loser by the bargain here is as much mony as you can get any where else in that time Then he gave her some pieces of gold in a paper and asked her if she would go in the night And the woman finding her wages to be very good did answer him that she would go at what time he pleased About fifteen or sixteen daies after as she was comming out of Moin about five or six of the clock in the evening she saw him return with his face quite altered and coming to her he said Mother the time is come we must depart the horses are ready and necessitie requires haste She would have gone into her house to have taken order about some businesse but he would not let her lest she should tell any So going into a little private bottom close by the way side she saw two horses and a handsome man in black cloths who kept them Assoon as this man saw Lucina he came to meet her with a smiling face and after many thanks he set her on horseback behinde him who fetched her then getting upon another horse they set forward through the fields a good pace and when they were got a little off the Towne and night grew dark this young man pulled a handkercher out of his pocket and do what Lucina could he blindfolded her Then afterwards turning the horse halfe a score times round to the end she should not know which way they took they travelled a good part of the night she not knowing which way they carried her unlesse as she thought over a River two or three times then causing her to alight she walked a while on foot and as she could guesse through a Wood where she got a glimpse of light through the handkerchieffe which presently after they untied and then she found her selfe in a very fine Tent hung with Tapestry and made so close as no winde could come in on the one side she saw a handsome young woman lying in a little field bed groaning and crying out very loud but masked at the beds feet she saw another woman masked also who by her habit seemed to be well in years and held up her hands with tears in her eyes on the other side she saw a young Chamber maid masked holding a candle in her hand At this Tent dore stood the man who held the horses grieving much for the pain this woman was in and the other man behind whom she rid did fetch all things that was necessary You may easily imagine how much Lucina was amazed at all this for it is to be thought that this young woman thus in pain was in Labour and it was not long before she was delivered of a Daughter so as she being well brought to bed and the Child put into a Cradle Lucina's eyes were again blinded and after a full reward for her pains she was carried the same way she came And all this I received from Philander Astrea and Phillis harkened unto this tale very attentively and Phillis could not chuse but laugh which Diana seeing asked her the reason It is said she because you have told us a story which we are altogether ignorant of and for my part I cannot imagine who this should be for it cannot be Olympia but must of necessitie be some other Shepheardesse Truly answered Diana then I was mistaken I took that handsom man who held the horses for Lycidas that old woman for the Mother of Celadon and the Chamber-maid for you and imagined that you were all masked because you would passe unknown I assure you said Astrea it was not Olympia for Phillis used no other artifice but only to get Lucina unto her house for as fortune was Artemis was then from home And because Olympia was with Amarillis she was to faigne her selfe sick which as the case was with her she might easily do and desire some change of aire so she was to come unto Phillis who would be glad of her company Amarillis yielded to the desire and so Phillis came to fetch here And when her time drew neer Lycidas got the Midwife and blinded her eyes that she might be ignorant which way she went but when she was come to the house her eyes was then at liberty nor was Olympia or any masked imagining that the Midwife could not know any of their faces This was all the artifice that was used and when Olympia was well again she returned home Also we have been told since that she used a very fine device for the bringing up of
and Amarillis the Father and Mother of Celadon and how their hatred accompanied them to their graves which have caused abundance of trouble amongst the shepheards of this Country insomuch as I beleeve few or none about the fatall River of Lignon are ignorant of it and yet Love to shew the greatnesse of his power did unite two of these enemy-families so firmly that nothing could dissolve the knots of their affection but only death For Celadon no sooner arrived at the age of fourteen or fifteen yeares and I at twelve or thirteen but at an assembly in the Temple of Venus which is upon the top of a high Mountain neer the Castle of Mount Brison this young shepheard saw me and as he since hath told me he had long before an extream desire of it by some reports he had heard of me but the jarres which were amongst our Parents was the impediment which hindred him and I must ingeniously confesse that I think his desire of it was no greater then mine For I know not why but when I heard speak of him my heart did beat unlesse it was a presage of those troubles which afterwards befell me by reason of him When he first saw me I cannot tell what causes of Love he found in me but so it is that since that time he resolved to Love and serve me and it seemes that at the first enterview we were both strucken with the darts of Love for as soon as ever they told me that he was the Son of Alcippes I perceived a kind of chang in me which was not ordinary then all his actions beg in to please me and seemed much more agreeable unto me then any other young shepheard whatsoever and because he durst not yet approach me also because speaking with me was forbidden him his looks and eys by their turning to fro did utter such language unto me as I knew he desired to say more And indeed at a Braul which was held at the foot of a Mountain under a plump of antient Elmes which cast a pleasant shaddow he carried it so cunningly that without any heed of me and seeming as if it were out of a merry carelessenesse he got me by the hand For my part I seemed as if I took no notice of it but carried my selfe to him as to all the rest but he in taking my hand did stoope with his head as if he would kisse his hand but I perceived his mouth upon mine this did cause some colour to come into my face but I feigning to take no notice did turne away my head as if I only minded the braule which we danced this caused him to stay a while silent not knowing I beleeve how he should begin to speak at last being unwilling to lose such an opportunitie as this which he had long longed for he came very neer me and whispering Corilas who took me out to dance in the eare yet so loud but seeming to whisper that I did plainly heare what he said Oh Corilas said he I wish with all my soul that the quarrells between this shepherdesses Father and Mine might be decided by her and me To which Corilas answered very loud Nay never wish that Celadon for perhaps it is the most dangerous wish that ever you made Let the hazard be what it will answered Celadon very lond I 'le not go from what I have said though I were to give my heart as a pledge And because I seemed to take no notice of their discourses he addressed himselfe unto me and thus said And you fair shepheardesse what opinion have you of this offer I do not know answered I what you speak of He told me replied Corilas that to draw a great good from a great evil he wishes that the inveterate hatred of your Fathers were changed into love amongst their Children How answered I seeming not to know him are you Alcippes Son Yes answered he and more then that I am your most devoted servant Me thinkes said I that it had been more proper for you to have applied your discourse unto some other who may be more agreeable to you then I I have heard say replied Celadon that the gods do use to punish the sinns of the Fathers upon their Children but this is not the use amongst men unlesse your beauty which is divine will assume the same priviledges with the gods and if you do then like them you must give pardon when it is asked how now shepheard said Corilas what Do you begin your combate with crying mercy In such a combate as this answered he to be vanquished is a kind of victory and for my part I am most willing to be so provided she will be pleased to take the spoile I think they had continued their discourse longer had the Brawle longer lasted but at last we parted and every one returned to his place Not long after the shepheards used severall exercises as wrastling running leaping and throwing the barre and a Garland to be given unto him who got the better in the severall activities Celadon as being too young was admitted only unto that of running and did win the Garland composed of divers flowers which was put upon his head by all the assembly with high commendations that being so young as he was he should overcome so many other nimble shepheards He not valuing himself did take it from his head and put it upon mine saying This fair one is in confirmation of what I said before I was so surprised at this that I could not return any answer had it not been for Artemis your Mother Phillis I had given it unto him again not but that coming from his hand it was very acceptable unto me but it was because I feared Alces and Hippolyta would be angry with me But Artemis who desired rather to extinguish then enflame these old grudges did command me to receive it and thank him Which accordingly I did but in such a hollow manner as made every one think I did it only upon my Aunts command All that day was thus spent and the next day also in both which the young shepheard lost no opportunities of manifesting his affection And it was the custome upon the third day in the honour of Venus to represent the judgement which Paris gave of the three goddesses Celadon resolved to put himself amongst the Maides in the habit of a shepherdesse You know that upon the third day after the banquett he Grand Druide has a custome to throw a Golden Apple amongst the Maides upon which are written the names of the three shepheardesses which seem unto him to be the fairest of all the company with this Motto Let this be given to the fairest of the three Afterwards the person that by lot was to represent Paris does enter into the Temple of Venus with the three shepheardesses where the dores being shut judgement is given upon the beauty of these three seeing them all naked except for a linnen
the child She hired a woman to say that it was hers and then to lay it to the charge of a young fellow who served her Mother and because the fellow was altogether innocent he denyed it but was so ashamed that he ran away The woman pursued even unto Lupeander's Chamber and there though the fellow still refused it she set the child down in the midst of the room and ran her waies They say that Lupeander was very angry and Olympia also at this fellow But the conclusion was Olympia turning towards her Mother However said she unto her this child must not be lost it must not be punished for the fault of another but it will be an act of charity to see it brought up Her Mother who was of a good and charitable disposition consented unto it And thus Olympia got her Daughter to be in the house with her All this while Celadon was with Forella and entertained with all possible welcomes and Malthea at her Fathers command did currasse him as much as she in civilitie could But Celadon was so displeased at this separation from us that all these sweets yielded him but a bitter relish and he lived in such a drooping way as Forella being very angry that his Daughter should be so slighted did acquaint Alcippe with it to the end he should not expect any further progresse in that match who knowing the resolution of his son and as I think moved unto some pitty he resolved once more to use some other artifice and after that never to trouble him any more Then whilst Celadon was with Malthea Phocion my Uncle so contrived it that Corebes a very rich and honest Shepheard should apply himselfe unto me And since he had all the good qualities that were desirable it was already so divulged as if the Wedding were resolved upon Alcippes thinking to make use of this advantage devised this trick which I shall relate There was a Shepheard called Squilinder dwelling upon the borders of the Forrest in a Town called Argentall a craftie fellow and very perfidious who amongst the rest of his knavish qualities had this that he could counterfeit any hand so exactly as the writer of the Originall could not know it from his Copy To this man Alcippe's shewed that Letter of mine which he found as I told you before and writ another unto Celadon in my name which was thus indited Astrea's counterfeit Letter unto Celadon SInce I am forced to it by the command of a Father you must not think it strange if I intreat you to put a period unto that love which heretofore I conjured you to make eternall Alces hath bestowed me upon Corebes The match will be very advantageous to me if I can but quickly enough forget you But since it is meer folly to attempt against what must be I advise you so to forget all passages betwixt us and to arme your selfe with such resolution as Celadon may blot Astrea out of his memorie as Astrea out of her duty to a Father must quit the remembrance of Celadon This Letter was cunningly conveyed unto Celadon by an unknown messenger Oh! how his heart was sunk when he received this sad newes Now Astrea did he say I see there is nothing in this world that is durable since all those vowed resolutions betwixt us are so soon vanished Now I am a sad witnesse that all women be they never so full of perfections can easily return to their naturall inconstancy Now life end since Astrea has lost her affection and since I can do nothing else but grieve for my great disaster Thus did he breathe out abundance of sad complaints and he was the sooner perswaded to believe such a change in me might be by the common reports of my marriage unto Corebes He lay all the day upon his bed and when night came he stole out of all company and got into a thick unfrequented wood shunning all society like a salvage and resolved never to come into any company again In this desperate resolution he wandered over all the Mountains of Forrests and at last found out a desart unfrequented place where he intended to finish the remainder of his dismall daies The place was called Lapan from whence the fatall Lignon hath his Originall Upon the banks of this Spring he built himselfe a little Cabin where he made a shift to live above six Months during which time his ordinary food was tears and sighs And his solitude had continued longer had not Alcippes commanded Lycidas to go and look him out resolving since all was in vain never to crosse his affection more But Lycidas had look'd long enough before he had found him but for one accident which happened that day I chanced to be then by the banks of Lignon looking upon the water and condoling the losse of Celadon Phillis and Lycidas looked also in the water as well as I and we observed somthing which swimmed down the stream Lycidas to satisfie the curiosity of his Mistresse who much desired to know what it was did step into the River and with a bough brought it out and finding it to be only a piece of paper he threw it away upon the ground being angry he had taken so much pains for a thing of no more value Phillis she took it up and opening it we read these words Go thou poor piece of paper more happy than he that sends thee go and view those banks where my Shepheardesse useth to walk and if being accompanied with those tears wherewith I swell this River thou shalt chance to kisse the shore where the prints of her feet are stay there where my miserable fate will not suffer me to be If it be thy chance to come into those hands which have rob'd me of my heart and she shall ask thee what I do tell her faithfull paper that I am night and day washing away her infidelity with my tears and if thou dost move her to so much repentance as to drop a tear upon thee tell her of the sin she hath committed against her own faith and my affection and that my sorrowes are witnesses both before men and gods that she is both the fairest and the most perfidious woman upon earth and also that I am the most faithfull and the most affectionate adorer of her that ever lived with this assurance that I shall never enjoy any contentment but in death We no sooner cast our eyes upon the writing but we knew it to be the hand of Celadon this was the cause of Lycidas his gazing up the water to look for him and he used such diligence that in two or three dayes he found him out in his solitary habitation so much unlike what he was that he was not knowable But when Lycidas told him that he must come to me and that I did so command it he could hardly be perswaded but that his Brother would deceive him At last the Letter which he gave him from
was a hundred miles out of my memorie Nothing troubled me so much as when I was far from them both for then I grieved for both Thus generous Paris did I spend my time till I came to Vienna where being in our lodging for we landed every night at some good Town or other a Shepheardesse came and desired the Master of the Ship or Boat to give her room in it as far as Lyons pretending that her Husband had been wounded in the Warres and had sent for her The Master of the Boat being very civill did very kindly receive her and so the next morning she went into the Boat with us She was fair and so modest and discreet as she was no lesse commendable for her vertue than her beauty but so sad and melancholly as she moved all the company to pitty her And I being ever very compassionate towards the afflicted I did amongst the rest extreamly pitty her also and cheered her up as much as possibly I could at which Floriante was nothing pleased nor Aymea neither Now generous Paris you must consider that though a woman do put a fained glosse upon it yet she cannot for her life choose but resent the losse of any Lover as thinking it an affront unto her beauty and beauty being a thing most deer unto that Sex it is the most sensible thing that is in them However I that began to blend a little Love with my compassion not seeming to regard these two Shepheardesses did continue on my discourse unto this and amongst otherthings to the end we should not let down discourse and also to have more acquaintance with her I did intreat her to tell me the occasion of her sadnesse and she being fluent in courtesie began thus The compassion which you seem to have of my griefe obligeth me courteous Shepheard to give you that satisfaction which you desire and I should think it a great crime to refuse so small a thing But yet I do beseech you to consider the condition I am in and excuse me if I do abbreviate my discourse into as little room as possibly I can Know then Shepheard that I was born upon the coast of the River Loire where I have been educated with as much tender care as possibly one of my quality could be untill the fifteenth year of my age My name is Cloris my Father's Leonces Brother to Gerestan into whose hands I was transferred after the death of my Father and Mother And here I began to resent the blowes of fortune for my Uncle having more care of his own Children than of me did think himselfe overcharged with me All the comfort I had was in his Wife whose name was Callirea for she loved me and furnished me with all things that I wanted unknown to her Husband But the heavens had decreed to afflict me for when Filander Callirea's Brother was killed she took his death so sadly that within a few daies after she died and I was left with her two Daughters so young as could afford me no contentment It happened that a Shepheard of the Province of Viennoise called Rosidon came to visit the Temple of Hercules which is upon the coast of Furan seated upon a high Rock which elevates its head above all the rest of the Mountains That day on which he came thither was a day of great solemnitie and many Shepheards and Shepheardesses were there also It would be impertinent to relate all passages and the manner how he declared his Love unto me but so it was that ever since that day he has so devoted himselfe to me as he became wholly mine He was young and handsome and as for his Estate it was much better than ever I could hope for Moreover his Spirit and his Body were so resemblant and sutable as did make up a most perfect composure His courtship continued four years in all which time I cannot say he ever did or thought any thing which he did not render me an account of and asked my advice This extream submission and long continuance did assure me of his Love and merits and obliged me to love him extreamly We lived and loved thus above a year in as much perfect amitie as could possibly be between two Lovers and at last our joyes were compleated in our Marriage Now were we as happy as Mortalls could be conducted we were to the Temple the Songs of Hymen did sound on all sides and being returned to our lodgings nothing was to be heard but Instruments of joy and when we were in the height of felicity we were separated by the most averse fate that ever chanced unto any We were then at Vienna where the greatest part of Rosidor's Estate did lie It hapned that some debauched young fellowes of those Townes about Lyons where our Druides use to keep the missltoe which they got in the great Forrest of Mars would needs commit some disorders which my Husband could not brook but after some gentle disswasions did hinder them in the execution at which they were so incensed that thinking they could not anger Rosidor worse then to affront me one of them offered to throw a glasse of Inke in my face but I seeing the blow coming turned aside my head so as I had none of it light upon me but in my neck the marks whereof are yet very fresh My Husband seeing my breast full of Inke and blood did think that I was wounded and therefore drew his sword and ran it through the body of him that gave me this affront and afterwards with the help of some friends did drive them away Judge Shepheard how much I was troubled for I thought my selfe worse wounded than I was and when I saw my husband all bloody with a wound which he received on his shoulder But after this first fray was parted and his wound searched he had no sooner dressed himselfe but Officers came to seize upon him and carried him away with such violence that they would not permit me so much as to bid him adieu but my affection was so much above their denyall that I did come unto him and held him about the neck so fast that they could hardly pull me off On the other side he seeing me in this condition and chusing rather to die than to part from me did so shew both his love and courage that though wounded yet he broke from them and got out of the Town This kept him from an Imprisonment but it made his cause worse in the eye of Justice which caused severall Proclamations to issue out against him During all which time his greatest griefe was that he could not be with me and his desire of seeing me being very great he disguised himselfe and in the night came unto me and there stayed God knowes how great my joyes were and also how great my fears for I knew that his pursuers knowing his love to me would have all eyes about the house and do all they could possible to
his perjury to him I have long since said he sworn unto the Neustrian Lords to maintain Justice and I am more obliged to keep my first oth than my second The first day passed on I did not think much but when I heard no newes of Lydias I sent a man to enquire of him by him I understood what Lypandas had done and the term he had set And though I did foresee his cruelties yet I resolved to get Lydias out of his hands nothing being so dear unto me as his preservation and by fortune the very same day you took me Prisoner I was going unto him and all the sadnesse you see in me and those deep sighes you have observed to escape from me did proceed not from your imprisonment for that is sweet unto me compared with my expectations of the other but they proceed from my fears that this unworthy Lypandas will put Lydias into the hands of his enemies who gape for his life for of those fifteen daies that were prefixed ten of them are already past so as I am out of all hopes to do this good office for my poor Lydias Upon these words her tears hindred her tongue and she was forced to be silent with so many apparent signes of sorrow that Clidaman was moved unto compassion and to comfort her said thus unto her Courageous Melandre do not let your spirit droop for this but rouse up the generosity of your soul The gods who have preserved you in greater dangers will not let you sink under lesse You may assure your selfe that I will use my utmost power to give you your desired contentment But since I am under a Prince whom I would not displease I must obtain your liberty from him and will promise you to solicite him with all my power So upon these fair promises he went immediately to Childerick and beseeched him he would be pleased to favour him so far as to mediate unto the King his Father for the liberty of this young Prisoner The young Prince who loved my Son and knew that his Father would be glad to oblige Clidaman went presently to Merovea who granted his Sons request Then because the time was short he went immediately unto Melandre and having drawn her aside said thus unto her Sorrowfull Cavalier I hope now you will change that Epithite since better fortune begins to shine upon you The heavens begin now to smile upon you and in testimony of what I say know that now you are at liberty and may dispose of your selfe as you please the Prince of the Franks hath given me the dispose of you and the duty of a Cavalier obliges me not only to give you your liberty but to offer you all the assistance I am able Melandre hearing this unhop't for language did leap up for joy and casting her selfe at his feet did kisse them by way of gratitude and when she saw that she was to pay no ransome which she could never have paid in the compasse of that fifteen daies Noble Cavalier said she you do make it appear that you do know what it is to Love since you are so pittifull unto such as are possessed with it I pray the heavens to make you as happy as you are courteous and worthy of all good fortune Needs would she have gone away that very night but Clidaman would not permit her because it was dark yet the next morning as soon as day did appear away she went and never stayed untill she came at Calice where by good fortune she arrived the very day before the expiration of the time She had made her comming known unto Lypandas that very night had she not been jealous of his perfidie whom she was to deal withall and she stayed untill the morning to the end there might be more witnesses of the wrong he should do her in failing of his promise The day being come and past noon when all the principall men of the Town to honour the Governour came unto his house in comes the sorrowfull Cavalier and presents himselfe unto him At the first he was not known for none had ever seen him but in the Combat where fear had altered his countenance and now every one drew neer to hear what he would say Lypandas said he I come here to summon you to be as good as your promise from the friends and kindred of Lydias otherwise they tell you by mee that they will publish you unto the world for a false and perfidious promise-breaker Stranger answered Lypandas go and tell them that Lydias is yet better then he shall be within these few daies for before this day be don I will transfer him over unto such hands as will revenge my quarrell As for my promise I think my selfe to be absolved from it by putting him into the hands of Justice As for any new conditions I do insist upon my first which is that he with whom I fought do put himselfe into my hands to the end I may have my will of him and release Lydias What will you doe with him said he when you have him When I once have him answered he and when I am to render you an account of my actions then you shall know Since it is so said the sad Cavalier send for Lydias and him whom you desire shall put himselfe into your hands Lypandas who did extreamly desire to be revenged upon his enemy sent for Lydias Lydias who knew this to bee the last day for his terme did thinke this sending for had been to transferre him over into the hands of the Law But though hee did foresee a certaine death yet hee did rather desire it than to see him who had fought in his cause in any danger When hee came before Lypandas he said thus unto him Lydias this is the last day that is prefixed you to bring your Champion into my hands The young Cavalier is come hither to that end which if he do then you are at liberty Melander all this while did so turn her face from Lydias that he could not know her and so said thus Yes Lypandas I have promised and I will perform I would you would be as punctual in all your promises But 't is no matter I am he whom you desire and who values not any cruelty or rigour you can use against me so my friend here may be out of his pain Then every one fixed their eyes upon her and remembring the actions she used when she fought they knew her to be the same Her beauty her youth and her affection moved every heart unto pitty but Lypandas who being extreamly incensed against her commanded her presently to prison and to let Lydias go Lydias seeing himself so infinitely obliged would not suffer it but Melander came to him and said in his ear Go Lydias as for me I know how to get out easily when I will Go and serve Merovea and particularly Clidaman who is the procurer of your liberty and tell him you
five or six daies and therefore she was almost the last of all the visitants though the nearest neighbour I contrived it so that all my friends and neighbours sent both their Sisters and Daughters to my house when we were almost out of all hope to discover what I desired to know this way one came to tell us that Celidea was at the door As fortune was the Physician held him by the arm at that time and his pulse did beat a slower pace than it had done all the day but as soon as ever he heard Celidea named it began to beat as if he were in a most high Feaver The Physician finding this did look him in the face and saw his eyes more quick and lively than ordinary his complexion came into his cheeks and he saw so great an alteration every way as hee would hardly stay till Celidea entred for better assurance but when she entred his pulse then did keep a mad mans time and all parts were different from their ordinary temper Therefore drawing me aside Thamires said he It is not Celidea which enters into the Chamber but it is Calidons Wife if you would have him live Oh heavens how those words pierced me to the heart They struck me dumb I was not able to speak one word Afterwards when I had a little recollected my self I asked him whether considering the condition he was in it were fit to marry him No said he it will be enough if you can procure the Shepheardess to give him some knowledge of her affection and in the mean time you may talk with Clcontine who being wise will not bee against a match so advantageous The Physician went away and left me in a worse condition than his patient Oh what strange contrarieties were in my soul One side bade mee yeeld Celidea unto Calidon for friendship sake Love on the other side forbade the banes But said Friendship unto me Calidon will dy if you doe deny her and there is no Physician but this can cure him And Love answered how canst thou live thy self if thou doest not enjoy her Canst thou not surmount a vain passion said Friendship and be ruled by the Laws of Reason What reason is it replyed Love to dye thy self to make another live Doe you not consider replyed Friendship that Calidon is young and therefore lesse able than thy self to master his unruly passion Wilt thou that art arrived at grave and stayed yeares shew thy self weaker than he or to express it a little better wilt thou buy a little transitory pleasure that is past almost as soon as had at so deare a rate as the death and eternal losse of Calidon Away away change thy minde consider not what thou art but what thou shouldst be Think how the Father of that young Shepheard will reproach thee Did he not with his last dying breath recommend his young childe then in his cradle unto thy indulgent care Didst thou not swear he should be as dear unto thee as thy self Doest thou not remember the many good offices thou receivedst from him Oh Thamires do not buy thy repentance at so dear a rate Repent repent for shame of an act so unworthy an ancient Boyen from whence it is thy boast to be descended and let not thy soul be continually gnawed upon by an evil conscience I must confesse that these considerations had such a prevalency with me as I did once resolve to part with Celidea and resign her unto Calidon But O Madam what extream difficulties did I finde in the execution of it First to the end this young Shepheard might recover his health I begun with him and acquainting him with my knowledge of his disease I shewed him my extream desire of his cure At the first he denyed it unto me but at last hee did confesse it with watry eyes and asked me forgivenesse with so many apparent signes of sorrow that seeing his errour was by a most compulsive power of Love I could not chuse but take his fault upon my selfe But the grand difficulty was to speake unto Celidea for shee was so farre from loving him that shee did down right hate him And certainly this hatred proceeded from an Antipathy in Nature since she had not the least shaddow of any cause for it and the Shepheard had so many excellent good qualities that in all reason they should rather have gotten love than hatred And yet shee would alwaies say unto me that Calidon of all men shee knew should be the last man she would love But being resolved to make this overture so contrary both unto her will and my own I was at an extream puzzle where and how to begin At last I thought it best to break the Ice by degrees for to bid her downright to love Calidon was not the way both in respect of her affection to me and disaffection to him I went therefore to work by degrees and now she was not to be treated as a child I hinted unto her my extreame sorrows for the Shepheard how dear his life was unto me and how I should never enjoy any delights if I lost him That Physicians and all knowing persons told me his malady proceeded from nothing else but sorrow and not knowing what was the cause I could not chuse but desire all them that loved mee to study how to make him merry or at least to finde out the cause of his sicknesse And that she being one whom I loved and honoured most shee was in some sort obliged more than any to endeavour the cure of this Shepheard for my sake Therefore I conjured her by our friendship to see him as often as she could and to carrasse and cheer him up to keep him from that melancholly which would kill him She who did really love me did promise to doe it so oft as she conveniently could And indeed did so which on the one side did content me and on the other did so grieve me as I did thinke I should not live I had a conceit that her familiarity with him would in time engage her to liking of him which afterwards might the more easily make her bee perswaded unto love Shee having no other design did onely as shee promised but did not change her minde However this wrought good effects upon Calidon who receiving so many favourable visits and being so kindly carrassed above his expectation did in a short time begin to recover And though he was not presently cured yet there was apparent signes of amendment Now because that shee was weary of this life and because I saw my design did not take according to my thoughts I intended to oblige her another way I addressed my self unto Cleontine acquainted her with my affection unto Calidon with my intention of making him my Heir I represented unto her the quality of this young Shepheard his virtues and to be brief with the love he had unto Caledon and used all manner of arguments that might advance the
should proceed from me and therefore she answered me thus This question Mistresse is very pertinently asked and it must be advisedly thought upon for he must be such a one as will not hurt your reputation and therefore I do conclude he must be one of whom you may absolutely dispose and one so far inferiour to you as you may withdraw when you please and he not dare to be offended or that every one should believe you did but fool him Then looking upon the ground and scratching her head as if she were much puzled to finde out one upon a sudden she looked upon me and said Why should we look so long for one that is so neer who better then Thersander you may do what you please with him and he dare not be offended besides he is discreet and has no small affection unto you already so as I cannot imagine one more fit for such a purpose then he When she named Thersander I remembered the sormer passages and did think that she made choice of him sooner then any other because she loved him but also I knew that his quality and discretion was such as were very suitable for the businesse which I intended him for And though my high spirit did forbid me to cast my eyes upon one of so mean a rank yet my affection unto Damon and my desire to recall him did make me condescend unto Leriana's counsell And therefore I began to look with a more favourable aspect upon Thersander and to talk with him but it was with much shame when I perceived any saw me Damon whose affection was extream did presently perceive this alceration And Leriana told Thersander that his discreet and humble carriage unto me had wrought such good effects as that I loved him almost as well as he loved me The least shadow of a favour from me seemed to be great and substantiall and though I did behave my selfe to him in a way of indifferency yet the least syllable I spoke was a favourable sentence and this made him to brisk up himselfe and look bigger then ordinary and all by the false hopes which this subtle woman had infused into him So as Damon soon observed all this calling to minde the Letter which he saw me receive in a pair of Gloves and from thence drawing many disadvantageous couclusions both against himselfe and me he did believe that through the solicitations of Leriana I had entertained the affection of Thersander and rejected him After he had patiently endured thus a while in hopes of some change but finding none he being not able to endure it any longer resolved to upbraid me with it and because Leriana was continually with me he could not possibly finde any opportunity of speech with me unlesse in the Chamber of Leontidas And therefore as I was rising from the Table and far off this woman he seeing that he could have no better occasion did close with it and said unto me Is all this because you have a minde to kill me or because you would try how a person that loves infinitely can endure rigour I answered him faintly Your death does concern me no more then my rigours concern you He would have replyed but Leriana came to us and by her presence constrained Damon to be silent and besides I turned towards her and did not give him the leasure This crafty woman looking upon me did make a signe that this was an effect of her advice and afterwards whispering in my ear This said she is a very good beginning continue your sleighting him and you shall see a strange operation Ah most subtle woman she had good reason to say a strange operation for it did operate so as made me as miserable a woman as ever was So sage Shepheardesses I did continue sleighting him and would not daigne so much as to turn towards this Cavalier who went out of the house so much out of himselfe as he was ready to sheath his Sword in his own breast and I believe had not his intention of killing Thersander restrained him he had executed this strange resolution against himself And that which hindred him from falling presently upon Thersander was his fear of displeasing me knowing that it would be a great wound unto my reputation if upon that account he should assault him and therefore when the sury of his passion was a little cooled he went on and studied for some other pretence of quarrell When he met Ormanthe who according to her custome came and took him about the neck he was in no very good humour did push her a little back and told her That he wondred she was not afraid of that censure which all people would give upon such actions Whom should I fear or care for said she so I be but pleasing and welcome unto you Were it of no other said Damon yet you ought to stand in fear of Leriana Of Leriana said she and laughed Damon you are deceived for I am sure that I cannot please her better then to carrasse and make much of you This Cavalier knowing that Leriana wished him ill and hearing these words did presently suspect some treason which to prevent and taking Ormanthe aside he desired her to tell him how she knew that Leriana would be pleased with her for this Ormanthe who was far from a deep Polititian and who thought to excuse her selfe by laying the fault upon her Aunt she told him all the discourse of Leriana and the commands she had laid upon her so to do Damon who was very wise after he had a little thought upon it did plainly see that the change in my affection did proceed from an opinion that he loved this Wench and seeming to take no notice of it he left her with a resolution to tell me let Leriana say what she would Fortune it seemed favoured him with a fit opportunity for the same day Torrismond intended to hunt and because the Queen was wont to accompany him I with the rest of my Companions took horse and waited upon her The Stag being roused and all the Doggs following full cry after him all the Company full speed followed after the Chase Now began all the Hunters to part those who had the flightest Horse left the rest behinde them Damon who was well mounted kept his eye still upon me and seeing me separated from all the Company he took into a way which he thought I would passe and feigning that his Horse had fallen upon him he seemed as if he had hurt his leg and to procure the more beliefe of it he dirtyed his head and shoulder on the one side and his Horse also giving his Man charge to keep at a distance When I was passing the way he crossed it and taking my Horse by the Bridle he stayed him at which I was much surprised fearing that his love had transported him beyond his discretion but fearing that if I should seem too fearfull he would grow more bold I made
strip my selfe naked and though the danger was great by reason of the windes and waves I would do that to relieve them which I had often done for my pleasure I leaped from the Rock into the Sea and being in the water I saw two women embracing each other ready to sinke I took one by the hair and swimming with my other hand I drew them both ashore where leaving them halfe dead I went again into the water to help two men whose amity moved me to compassion for one of them who could swim had got the other upon his back to save him but his load was so heavy or else he that was upmost who was younger then the other did hang so about the neck of his friend for fear of drowning as he having neither strength nor breath left had already sunk two or three times into the water I took him that could not swim by one hand so as easing the other he took heart so as we got to shore All my Companions after my example did the like so as we saved many of them And because I thought the gods commanded me to have a particular care of those whom I had saved from shipwrack after I had put on my clothes I went unto them and assisted them all that possibly I could after I had gotten some of the water which they had swallowed from them they began to be reasonable well especially the women who had been in most danger They thought themselves so obliged to us that they desired to know our names and of what Country we were and when they heard me say that I thought my selfe either a Segusian or a Forestian Oh god said one of them the men of such a Country as one of them are destined to recall us from death I asked them why they said so seeing it was not a fit time for it since they were so amazed with the shipwrack that they were scarcely able to breathe nor do any thing but hold up their hands and lift up their eyes in admiration of their miraculous escape And because they were almost all naked I thought it fit before I carried them to the Town to get them some clothes to cover them for it had not been decent to have carryed them otherwise I went unto the Town and met with so many persons who being very compassionate relieved me with cloths for them as I had relieved them with life and when I brought them to the Town they were quartered in such Bourghers houses as used to have compassion upon men in the like case For my part I defired those two whom I had saved to go with me becaused they seemed to be men of merit We cannot part said they from these two women whom you have saved both because they are committed unto our charge and because perhaps it would be inconvenient for you Not at all said I unto them so you will be contented with the littlenesse of your lodgings but it would rather be a great satisfaction unto me if you would do me the favour So they all foure followed me And because I had a friend in the Town who had better lodgings then my selfe I carried them unto the house of a rich Townsman with whom I had familiar intimacy knowing his liberality and pitty to be such as he would bid such men in such a condition very civilly welcome and so he did for he did accommodate them with all things necessary Now you must know that these men whom I had thus saved were two principall men in Rome the name of the one was Ursaces and of the other Olimbres so as they sent presently to their houses and furnished themselves with mony and many servants But in satisfaction of my promise be pleased to know that whilst they expected a return from Rome these two Cavaliers would not be without me so as quitting my study I accompanyed them unto all such places unto which their curiosity invited them in which I took much delight for their conversation was very sweet and pleasing At the last desiring much to know who they were unto whom I had done so good an office one night when I was alone with them in their Chamber for the two women commonly retired as soon as supper was done I entreated them to tell me why they should say when they heard I was a Segusian that those of that Country were destined to save them from death Unto which the elder of them thus replyed The History of Eudoxe Valentinian and Ursaces COurteous Silvander said one of them for he heard I was so called your desire is most just and I am obliged to give you satisfaction it is all the reason in the world you should know the lives of them whom you have saved and the conditions of such as are so much obliged to you Nor had we deferred it so long had we not been in some fears that if we were known we might receive some displeasure from some secret enemies And therefore we intreat you to be close and take no notice of us lest all the pains you have taken in saving our lives should be lost also lest any should hear us I beseech you shut close the dore Which being done we all sat down and he began thus Know that Theodosius Son unto the Emperour Arcadius and Granchild unto the great Theodosius being Emperour of the West he married Eudoxe the Daughter of Leontinus an Athenian Philosopher Although this Ladies extraction was not so illustrious as equalized the Majesty of an Emperour yet such was both her beauty and vertue as she deserved to be raised unto the highest degree of honour amongst men Theodosius had but one Daughter by her and because he did most passionately love his Wife he called his Daughter after her name so her name was Eudoxe and as if beauty and all excellencies were fatall unto that name this young Princesse in the very budding of her years did appear such a beauty as she excelled her Mother and every one confessed that nature had made her so perfectly fair as it was impossible any higher degrees of it could be added unto her At this time Placidia being but ill satisfied with her Brother Honorius she went unto Constantinople to her Nephew Theodosius for she was Daughter unto Theodosius the great and Sister unto Arcadius She carried along with her Valentinian and Honorique her two Children I was at that time preferred very young unto Placidia to be brought up with her Sons as many other of the Roman Senators Children of my age were and when she left Italy there was so great affection between Valentinian and me that the one could not be without the other The Emperour Theodosius seeing his Uncle Honorius had no Children he resolved to bestow his Daughter upon Valentinian and to make him Emperour of the West after the death of Honorius The wise Placidia who saw this Match would be advantagious to her Son she commanded him to apply
life could not end upon a more noble account nor in a better cause Having ambuscado'd my selfe in a Wood neer the way of Hostia I saw some part of this great Army march in very bad order but my aime being only at Eudoxe I kept my selfe still close till I saw some Chariots comming in which I perceived some Ladies and supposing them to be the same I did expect I encouraged my men telling them that this would be an act worthy of a Roman name Upon setting spurs to my Horse and they most couragiously following me we charged these Chariots whose Guard was above ten thousand Barbarians I shal not relate the passage of this charge for it is impertinent But so it was that we routed them and had Eudoxe been there as I thought she was doubtlesse I had delivered her out of these barbarous hands but as ill luck was she was still behinde and those Ladies which I saw were such as had been taken in the City and Country and were to be carried with the rest of the Booty into Affrica Oh heavens how was I grieved when I saw my selfe thus mistaken and had all the Army on my back for upon this Tumult the Vanguard recoyled and the Reerguard advanced and drew into Battalia so as I was environed on all sides with so great a number of enemies as we could expect nothing but ruine Some ran away others stayed for my part I laid me down amongst the dead and was stripped of my clothes as they were and it was happy for me for my clothes being carried by a Souldier Eudoxe knew them and shewed them unto Olimbres who would not leave her All that she said was I see Ursaces at the last hath met with that Rest which Fortune ever denyed him Upon this expression she swouned in her Chariot Olimbres running after him who had my clothes he asked where he got them and being told the place he went presently unto it and sought till he found me how sad was he when he saw me However he got leave of the Vandal to do me the last office of buriall He would needs return to Rome and have me carried also upon Boughs I was so jogged in the carriage that I gave some signes of life Olimbres seeing this was beyond all measure glad and brought me into the first house they came unto where I received such Cordialls as I recovered out of my long swoun You may imagine Silvander how glad I was when carrying my friend to his grave I found him alive those who saw me did plainly see that his life was as deer unto me as my own yet we had both been happy had we ended our daies then for then I should not have grieved at the absence and ravishment of the fair Eudoxe nor Olimbres at parting from his dear Placidia This consideration made me resolve upon death as soon as I heard this persidious Genserick had carried Eudoxe and her two Daughters away but the great care which my friend had of me kept me from the execution of my designe as long as my wounds kept me in bed But when I had recovered my selfe of these wounds and was able to get upon a Horse I stole away as secretly as possibly I could from him and taking the way towards Tuscany I hid my self in the Appennine Mountaines intending to die with hunger or some such hardship not being willing to shed my blood for fear of offending the great god who punisheth Homicides At the last the languishment of this life made me resolve upon a more sudden death and when casting off all consideration of heaven I would have run my sword to my heart my dear Olimbres came and stayed my arme so by this means gave me a life the second time Then afterwards when I still persisted in my resolution to effect my intentions a young man came in whose beauty and wisdome did make us think that comming in such a nick of time he was some messenger sent from god purposely to divert me from my designe I must confesse that at the first I thought him so and was so obedient to his words that I had no minde to kill my selfe hoping to receive from him some supernaturall aid so as being thus deceived we all three went unto the next Town to get Olimbres dressed of a great wound which I gave him when he offered to take the sword out of my hand where with I would have killed my selfe But when I understood that this young man was a Segusian as you are and that he came to the place where I was by meer chance I confesse I took a stronger resolution of dying then before and doubtlesse had but for this young man whose name was Celadon as afterwards he told me who used such strong arguments and gave me such good reasons that I resolved to stay till the recovery of Olimbres There was in this place an old and grave Chirurgeon who dressed the wound of my friend whose age and travells in severall Countries had got him great knowledge and experience this man took speciall notice of our sorrowes and as one word may sometimes discover what we desire to keep secret so I did not so well dissemble the matter but he did partly suspect my designe so as one day he took me aside and said thus unto me Think it not strange Sir that I unasked intrude my selfe to give you some counsell my age your merit and my duty to god invites me to it take therefore in good part what I shall say I know that you are seized with extream sorrowes and that you have a designe against your own life Do not offer it for god after your death will most severely punish all murderers of themselves And besides to kill ones selfe argues a defect in courage as if you durst not look a dysaster in the face and as those who fly for fear of their enemies so such as kill themselves for fear of any dysaster do flye out of the world for want of courage and because they dare not abide one of fortune's blowes God hath given unto man judgment and prudence to make his election by solid and sound reason and because man being possessed with passion can neither judge nor chuse aright he hath given him a communicative soul to the end that making choice of one or more friends he may ask counsell of them in all matters of importance And because friends are very often interested in their friends businesse this god not leaving man without a good guide hath given him Judges and Kings to order and decide all manner of doubts and controversies This great Creator of men loving them as his Children would furnish them with all that is necessary both to live and to die and to that end hath inspired the Massilians to constitute prudent Judges it seeming unto them that death is no injury but a tribute of nature and therefore it would be unjustly done to deny that remedy
against those who had fallen both at once upon Thersander But this stranger had more noble thoughts and would not let that which was blamable in others be any example unto himself Whilst I was in these thoughts Leotaris and his Brother had both mounted themselves who never considering the courtesie they had received fell both at once upon him but they found a stronger arme to deal with then Thersanders I cannot sage Shepheardesses particularize this Combat unto you for my fears were such as I hardly saw it let it suffice I tell you that this stranger shewed such wonderfull strength and valour that Leriana thought him a devill and not a mortall man After they had fought a while I perceived that though he was single yet he had the advantage of them As for Thersander he was so weak as he was not able to rise But this stranger to the wonder of all the spectators did give the Brother of Leotaris such a fatall blow that he struck his head from his shoulders Leotaris seeing this his fury swelled with revenge But the stranger having now to do with no more but him did wound him in so many places that he was so weak with the losse of blood as he fell from his Horse to the ground and falling with his head foremost the weight of his body and his armes broke his neck The stranger alighting from his horse and seeing him dead he went unto Thersander helped him to rise and set him upon one of the Horses of his enemies and then taking his own he addressed himselfe unto the Judges and asked them if he had any more to do And they answering No Then he required that I should be set at liberty which was commanded that very minute Then he came unto me and asked me if he could do me any further service Yes Sir said I unto him in two things the one to conduct me home and rescue me from the tyranny of those who have ravished me from my dearest Mother and the other is that I may know the name of him unto whom I owe both my life and my honour As for my name answered he I shall take it as a favour if you will not force me to make it known And as for waiting upon you unto the place where you desire to be I shall do it so it may be presently Whilst things went thus on my side in this place the gods did evidence that they never forsake the innocent for it hapned that my poor Nurse having not so much courage as to see me die and thinking it impossible that Thersander could maintain it out against two such Cavaliers she stayed in my Chamber crying and making most lamentable moan Ormanthe who had received all the courtesies she could desire both from her and me was exceedingly moved at it and being very simple without any subtlety she could not chuse but tell her how her Aunt alwaies assured her that I should not die but only desired that I should be beholding unto her for my life to the end I should be a better friend unto her Ah! sweetheart said the Nurse it is most certain our Mistresse must die if Thersander be overcome the King himselfe according to the Lawes cannot save her Alas alas said Ormanthe shall my Lady be burned Nay nay said my Nurse it is too sure Ah me most miserable wretch that I am replyed the Wench how can I ever expect that the gods will pardon me for her death Why said my Nurse are you any waies guilty of her death Oh Mother said Ormanthe if you will promise me to tell no body I will tell you a strange accident And my Nurse promising secresie she told her that it was she who had the Child and told her all that I have related unto you Sweetheart sweetheart said my Nurse presently let us go presently and save her life believe it the gods will be well pleased with it and moreover I will undertake you shall have what you will of my Lady Thus was the truth discovered The Wench followed my Nurse who to be briefe addressed herselfe to the Queen and acquainted her with the whole businesse whilst the stranger was talking unto me The wickednesse of Leriana being thus discovered both by Armes and the confession of this Wench the King commanded she should be burned in the same fire that was prepared for me though she did inveigh against her Niece saying That my Nurse had suborned her and that she was not of age to be a competent Witnesse especially against her above all others because she had chid and chastized her for these vices But all these allegations were invalid the truth was evident enough by the particulars and circumstances which this Wench did speak of and by the report of the Midwife who confessed that she never saw her face Every one began to clap their hands and the people seeing the villany of Leriana began to throw stones at her The King commanded justice should be executed and she seeing her selfe ready to be throwne into the fire being much moved at the memory of all her wickednesse she confessed the truth she desired audience declared all her wicked practices asked me pardon and then voluntarily threw her selfe into the fire where she ended her daies to the contentment of all those who heard of her wicked and malicious waies Whilst these things were thus in agitation the Cavalier who had delivered me desiring not to be known as it is thought retired himselfe and none took notice which way and I not finding him was extreamly grieved he should depart with so few thanks for what he had done I used all the means I possibly could to hear of him but after all enquiry all I could hear was the next morning from a Country man who met him and whom he desired to come unto me from him and let me know that had he not been urged by extream importancy he would have stayed longer and waited upon me whither I had commanded him but he had promised some assistance to a Lady who lived towards the Town of Gergovia and that if I had any more service to command him I might hear of him at the Golden Mount and that he might be known he would not change the Device which was upon his Shield Then asking the man what it was because I was so astonished the day before that I took no notice of it He told me that it was a Tiger feeding upon the Heart of an Human body with this Motto Thou givest me a Death and I maintain thy Life Now discreet Shepheardesses to abridge my story it was ordered that I should be free from the Guardianship of Leontidas because his Wife had begged my Estate and be set clearly at liberty The poor silly Ormanthe since she was only seduced by the subtlety of her Aunt she was shut up in one of those houses designed for such punishments where the women there do live very well only they must
never come out I shall now make a strange relation unto you I did still love Damon most extreamly and the memory of him since his death was so imprinted in my soul that he was commonly alwaies before my eyes But since this accident and since I saw this strange Cavalier I know not how but I began to change my first affection and placed it upon him and though I never saw his face yet I must confesse I love him so as it may be said I was in love with a face of Armour I know not whether my obligation to him was the cause of it or whether his valour and courage and noble minde forced me unto it but so it is I never loved any since that day but this unknown Cavalier and in testimony of it after a long expectance of his return and hearing no newes of him I resolved to go my selfe unto Gergovea and the Golden Mount After I had consulted with my selfe about this designe I acquainted Thersander with it who offered me all his assistance and I addressed my selfe unto him rather then unto any other because since the day he fought for me he had wholly dedicated himselfe unto my service and because I had often heard him say that he was infinitely desirous to know that valiant Cavalier who had so bravely relieved us I gave out therefore that I would go and visit my Estate I prepared my Train I left the Court and came to my own house where leaving all my retinue I took with me only my Nurse for a companion and Thersander to defend me and so setforwards towards the Golden Mount The Country was extreamly rough and mountainous almost never without snow and ice my poor Nurse dyed there and having interred her I was much grieved to be alone with Thersander but I presently met with Tircis Hylas and Laonice whose company pleased me so much that not to lose it I resolved to put on the habit of a Shepheardesse as now you see me and Thersander in the habit of a Shepheard Then after we had stayed a while amongst the Mountains in hopes to hear some newes of him I was in quest of I resolved to come into this Country since he appointed us to make that way thinking that when I came to Gergovea I should haply finde this Cavalier unto whom I was so much obliged Madonthe was thus telling her story and not without bedewing her cheeks with tears whilst Paris and the rest of the shepheards were talking together for their mindes were possessed with that malady which above all others is an enemy to sleep For Tircis he loved his deceased Cleon although he was out of all hopes of ever seeing her again And because there was none of them so free as the inconstant Hylas he bore it out the best of any in the company and was least troubled with his Love Tircis thinking upon his dear Cleon he could not chuse but sigh very loud and Silvander at the same time did the same See said Hylas what difference there is betwixt these two sighes What is the difference said Paris The difference is said Hylas that Silvander doth sigh so to cool the fire which scorcheth him and Tircis sighes and blowes to kindle that fire which heretofore did scorch him Hylas had said very well said Tircis if he had said he had thought so for this is only a meer imagination of a soul that knowes not how to love How now Tircis said Hylas do you also upbraid me that I know not how to love I thought there had been none but that fantasticall Silvander who had been of that opinion If you would judge according to reason said Tircis you would be of our opinions Why said Hylas is it requisite that to love well I must needs Idolize one that 's dead as you do Did you but know how to love aright said Tircis questionlesse if you should meet with so great a misfortune as mine you would think your selfe obliged in duty so to do How how said Hylas in love with a Grave a Coffin believe it shepheard I will never be in love with any such Mistresses But come a little to reason what contentment and what end do you aime at in such a love Love said Tircis is a great god which can aime at or desire nothing but himself he is his own Center and has no aime or inclination but what begins and ends in himselfe Love is like a Ring it begins where it ends and ends where it begins it is perpetuall it aimes at no ends but is pleased and contented with its own nature These are delicate dreames indeed said Hylas for my part I believe them to be all fables invented by some silly women What is it Hylas said Tircis which you think so far from truth All that you say answered Hylas is so palpably grosse as I were mad if I did not see the simplicity of them You say Love desires nothing but it selfe and I say we see the contrary for we never desire any thing but that which we have not If you did understand answered Tircis how by the infinite power of Love two persons becomes but one you would know that a Lover can desire nothing but himselfe for as soon as you do understand how a Lover is transformed into the person Loved and the person Loved into the Lover and both becomes but one though being Lover and Loved they are two you would finde Hylas and confesse that since the Lover desires nothing but the person Loved and since he is himselfe both the Lover and the Loved by this conjunction he can desire nothing but himselfe See said Hylas how the old Proverb is truly verified one Errour begets a hundred You would perswade me into a beliefe of things impossible as that the Lover becomes the person Loved why by this argument I am Phillis for I do love her and yet I am Hylas and I do desire her The conclusion said Silvander is not good for you do not love her Had you said that I in loving Diana were transformed into her you had said right Well said Hylas are you then Diana is your Cap there changed into a Coyfe and your Coat into a Gown My Cap said Silvander does not love her Coife Very good said the inconstant Hylas if you be changed into Diana you should then dresse your selfe in the habit of a woman It is not handsome that so wise a shepheardesse as you are should disguise your selfe thus in the habit of a man There was none in all the company could forbear laughing at the pleasant expressions of this merry shepheard Silvander himselfe could not hold But afterwards he answered him thus I will if I can convince you of your errour Know therefore that there are two parts in a man the one is the Body which we see and touch and the other is the soul which we cannot see nor touch but is known by words and actions for neither words