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A60171 Theophania, or, Severall modern histories represented by way of romance and politickly discours'd upon / by an English person of quality. Sales, W., Sir. 1655 (1655) Wing S371; ESTC R16110 148,797 232

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and at the same instant that she spake those words rising from her seat and aided with a more then masculine courage she plunged a Dagger into her bosome found an easie passage to her heart Oh Heavens how my blood chilled when I beheld her fall At the noise whereof a maide that waited in another roome came running though in vain to her assistance whilst I through amazement knew not whether to believe Lucius death a dreame or this Tragicall Sceane a vision But approaching nearer I found it was indeed the very same Constant Chaste Monelia in this last act of her life displaying the crimson Ensignes of a Triumphant Vertue I cannot say which was greater at the present my joy to be so undeceived or my grief to see the world bereaved of so glorious an ornament Whilst I bathed her wound with my tears through which her precious life expired I kissed that heroick hand which still grasped the reeking instrument that had freed me from my fears But in applauding her resolution and in bewailing her cruel fate she became sensible of my expressions for opening her fair eyes with a smiling countenance she embraced me and pointing to the Table without saying a word and without either pang or groan but still and quiet as the gentle calm of a sweet spring-tide-evening that fair Sun set in the vermilion cloud Thus deprived of my light I was seized with a kind of horror and my feeble limbs being scarcely able to support the burden or my greifs leaning against the table I perceiued lying theron a paper directed to my self written with carracters of blood which I stil preserve about me as the warrant I have to live til her commands be fulfilled Wherupon drawing it forth of his bosom he delivered it to Prince Alexandro who whilst he disburdened himself of a world of sighs read aloud this short Billet Billet of Monelia to Clorimanthes THis Paper stained with those tears which I shed for Perrotus will testifie the purity of my chaste love being a woman I can only accompany him in death to thee I leave the honor in the punishment of his murtherers to shew thy self worthy the name of friend and the esteem of MONELIA Having finished the reading hereof now said Clorimanthes judge of the equity of my cause and I doubt not but you will give me leave to prosecute my revenge which though in the presence of Synesius I dare avow can never be satisfied but with the blood of his own sons This sad tragedie moved a wonderfull compassion in the hearers and exceedingly augmented the griefs of Alexandro who perceiving Synesius expected he should say something to appease the causeless hate of Clorimanthes taking him by the hand and embracing him The heavens said he Clorimanthes are witness with what a true sense of sorrow I have heard the woful story of your unfortunate friends I confess as well to satisfie your own honor as the commands of Monelia you are obliged to seek revenge upon the authors of their death and I confirm my promise to aid you in the pursuit thereof but you must first find out who they were that have offended and against whom you are so justly incensed for I can assure you upon the word of a Prince that neither Philemon nor Gernolanus are the persons at whom you ought to direct your fury Therefore if you esteem your honour or desire a certain revenge rest satisfied with this truth till I present your enemies before you which though perhaps you may think strange if you observe my commands and respect the Lord Synesius as one highly in my esteem I will not fail in a short time to perform Whereupon Clorimanthes who durst do any thing but disobey his Prince having promised an entire submission to his will Alexandro went presently to acquaint Ervillius with the occasion of their late encounter who being then accompanied by Cenodoxius he shewed him such civilities as assured him that Synesins had dealt effectually in his affairs who when the others retired being desired to stay gave the Prince a full account of that passage concerning Philocles which Clorimanthes had touched on in his discourse and then it being already far advanced in the night left him to his privacy FINIS HIEROCLES COMMENTARY Upon PYTHAGORAS's GOLDEN VERSES Translated by JOHN HALL of Grays-Inn Esquire are ready for the Press and will be published next Term.
My demand indeed he continued might give just occasion of offence if she had valued you at so high a rate but if she have already changed you for another and voluntarily delivered up that Treasure into the possession of a Rival upon which you set such an infinite esteem I suppose you will be content to compound upon easier conditions and not be such a slave to your affections as by continuing your Love to abandon your Honor. To which as in a fury I presently returned If Parmenio had sense of honor he could not thus vildly blemish the vertue of Artemia Thou hast conspired with my enemies to betray me to some action of infamy and under the pretence of friendship seekest to undermine my Love but thy blood shall pay the forfeit of thy base scandal that in thy heart I may read the story of thy treachery Whereupon with a sad countenance and tears in his eys he replyed These transportations are the generous effects of a violent but I hope the last effects of a dying passion I came prepared for such reproaches and value not your threats However though my life were as mnch in your power as you pretend yet I am not to be frighted out of my fidelity but when your rage is satisfyed with my blood in that heart which you believe so trecherous you shall finde the impressions of your own sad story all but this last part of it which a heart so loyal as mine is not capable of receiving That Cenodoxins in defending the falsest of women hath in his madness shed the innocent blood of the faithfullest of friends The faithfullest of friends said I to my self is a title much more precious then that of the best of women whereupon recollecting my thoughts and almost beginning to suspect what under that name he had seemed to affirm as one prepared to hear the sentence of death I began to hearken to his discourse wherfore with the most comfortable terms he could possibly invent he told me That Eumenes the Kings only minion though he never declared so much having strong inclinations to Artemia at the report of my actions and perhaps upon some information of my particular addresses grew into such a jealousie of being supplanted in his pretences that at his sollicitation Scl●ucus who in his excessive indulgence to his favourites was only defective had in such hast recalled Lysimachus from his Government That the match being proposed was joyfully accepted both by him and his Allies That thereupon Calista was employed to prepare her daughter to receive this new suiter which she at first coldly refused but being more earnestly pressed absolutely denyed not sticking to avow that she was already engaged in her affections and in short that she was Contracted to me but apprehending the rigor of her Parents or perhaps her own dishonor had concealed the consummation of our marriage That nevertheless Eumenes persisting in his resolution since he could not prevail by intreaties to shew the power of a favourite determined by force to compass his desires That Calista was by the King himself commanded to tell her daughter that it was his pleasure she should marry Eumenes who so abused the interest he had with his Master not being able indeed to deny him any thing that in case of refusal Guards were appointed to secure her person and at the same time to convey me to prison as having transgressed an antiquated Law against secret Contracts without the consent of friends That it happened immediately after Calista had declared the Kings resolute command to her daughter and was gone I entring thereupon into the chamber found her having newly received this cruel Arrest in that disconsolate posture and so as I have already told you we were both seised upon together That to hinder all correspondence between us it was held fit I should be kept close prisoner and in the mean while the kindred and friends to be employed to remove her from her resolutions but that she remaining yet firm Hortensia who only knew our secret and till then as suspected of partiality had been kept from her being gained with large promises of rewards had so wrought upon the weakness of her young novice by the charmes and allurements of a Princely greatness in becoming the wife of the sole favorite that she was at length absolutely overcome and being now agen at liberty did openly avow her love to Eumenes and that though it were already determined to nullifie the former marriage yet to make some shew of a legal proceeding the chief Flamens were appointed as Delegates to examine the justice of my cause And indeed to confirm the truth of Eumenes relation before he had quite finished his discourse or I could make any Reply I was summoned to appear in the Court and by my Guards conveyed to the presence of those temporising Judges It is impossible to recount the various agitations of my distracted mind in this unexpected occasion But oh the Heavens when I beheld Artemia supported by Eumenes with an unusual confidence before a publique Assembly stand ready to confront me the billows of a tempestuous sea are not more raging then at that time were my distracted thoughts and with the same impetuosity if I had been at liberty I should have broken out to my revenge But then calling to mind the innocent delights of our former conversation a tender remorse of love so calmed those swelling passions that being asked what were my pretences of Interest in that Lady believing her innocence was betrayed and though forced to a complyance that she was not fallen from her Vertue instead of reproaching her Levity magnifying her perfections I related at large the birth growth and maturation of our Love our mutual Vows our private Contracts our formal marriage and at last the fruition of those joys which the Heavens esteeming me worthy to possess I could not now be deprived of but by a too manifest and impious violation of their divine Ordinances This last asseveration was a circumstance unexpected by the Judges and I observed raised blushes in Artemia●● cheeks but being prepared with an answer laying aside all modesty she boldly replyed It is indeed true that overcome with Cenodoxius flatteries not weighing the greatness of the sin I transgressed the rules of piety in consenting to an unlawful Contract but considering my unexperienced yeers I hope my crime is not so great that for my punishment I shall be condemned to remain his wife who hath here in the face of the world laid so foul an aspersion upon my Honor. Till now I must confess I retained inclinations so far as it was lawful to love that vild man but since not satisfied to have betrayed my youth to such an unnatural contempt of my Parents he hath here so unworthily defamed my Chastity there is nothing I more truely hate nor nothing more warrantable then to use all means possible to free my self from his engagements Wherefore though Hortensia's