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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77266	Panthalia: or The royal romance. A discourse stored with infinite variety in relation to state-government and passages of matchless affection gracefully interveined, and presented on a theatre of tragical and comical state, in a successive continuation to these times. Faithfully and ingenuously rendred.	Brathwaite, Richard, 1588?-1673.	1659 (1659)	Wing B4273; Thomason E1797_1; ESTC R209702	162,302	318

affection This though an Object to the eye would prove an Abject to the heart If in mutual and neighbourly relations such difference of Countenances appeare through the cross Occurrents of Fortune where poverty oftimes weakneth if it wholly dissolve not the band of amity we may collect hence what the heavy effects of want may produce in the nearest endeerments O Pandione let Reason go before every Enterprize and Counsel before every Action Which Precept if I had seasonably observed my straying steps might have been better directed my rash affections more discreetly managed and no occasional motive of discontent to thy self ministred in relation to thy long and wearisom Journal nor no ground of repentance to my glowing youth in admitting and too credulously inclining to the easie protests of so light a Suiter But thanks to my better Fates these distractions are reduc'd to a calmer and clearer period It is an happiness sometimes to have erred especially where the recollection of our Error calls us home to a knowledge of our selvs and an acknowledgment of our Failings For by this means we become not onely wiser in the apprehension but much happier in desertion of that Error which we formerly affected I shall not argue with you Madam replied Pandione touching the Subject of love but leave you to your own Choice But if the ripeness of youth beget not in your devotion a Change I shall hold you to be of strange mettal For my own part though I have ever really lov'd you in your late Conversion I never mean to follow you Age when it is in a decline fuits best with a Cloister but youthfull heat with the imbraces of a Lover Secrecy Celerity be the two moving wheels of succesfull fancy At the very instant while they were thus discoursing there came unexpectedly a Messenger with a Letter from Acolasto with much secresie directed and by the Convoy of a Select Friend carefully presented after the Contents whereof Pandione out of her accustomed modesty would not appear inquisitive but walking aside left her to the perusal of Acolasto's character which rendred it self in this manner Acolasto to Panthalia Panthalia if you will vouchsafe so much favour to your deserted Servant as to use your Name whom you have so causelesly estranged from your affection be pleased to cast an eye upon his lines though you have shut your bosom from the receipt of love and heare him in his last Expresses whereto your unexpected resolvs and his deplorable Condition have brought him Compassion in a well-disposed Enemy may be easily procur'd when his dying Foe with his last breathing words beggs a pardon craving nothing more with teare-thrilling Eyes and throbbing heart then reconciliation in the closing period of his approaching dissolution Hold your sometimes indeered Acolasto to be at this very instant in the same case Be pleased then to entertaine these funerall enterbreaths with a pious pity though your estranged thoughts dart upon their unfortunate Author a regardless scorne Dying mens words ever reteine the deepest impression especially when we consider how that very mouth which so lately uttered those words shall be injoyned to a perpetuall silence and never impart the least accent or syllable of a word as a message from his mind to the world any more Conceipt not this as a disguise nor a pretensive Colour to abuse you your rejected Lover surprized with such a remediless distemper cannot possibly at this time act the part of a dissembler I have already run over the difficulties of my disconsolate Course and am now performing my last Act if the best Artists designed for our Garrison do not deceive themselves Eye me then with a pious pity paying my last debt to Nature Whereto I should invite you if such a Spectacle of mortality might deserve your vertuous presence But alas the illimited freedom of my actions merit no such favour Yet as you were pleased upon your late resolvs to importune my attest to your new unexpected Profession so being no lesse known to your approved piety then my own Folly I might presume to expect most where I deserved least Meane time be it your goodness to commiserate where you cannot Cure and to cast your Eye of pity upon your expiring Servant though it be within the Walls of your Cloister for to an higher honour my weak ambition dare not aspire Of such Modells by way of Landskip our Sea-men make excellent use when furthest divided from Land And in a Compassionate reflexe on his languishing Condition who cordially honour'd you wish him more rest by his peaceable Passage from hence then ever he could injoy here And now give me leave to unrippe my bosom in the discovery of my youthfull levity For which I shall make bold to beg your pardon not in relation to my immeriting affection but the present weakness of my Condition I confess Madam and I am ashamed of my self in the agnition of my Error that you were pleased sometimes to bestow your Favour upon an undeserving Object One who might have appear'd incomparably happy if he had known what felicity rested in the fruition of a divine Fancy But in his inconstancy brought him to this brink of misery Yet let me not taxe my self of a Crime whereof I was never guilty That inconstancy which I speak of never to this houre wherein I ly dying could be by the rigidst Censure discovered in my hope for that was pure and unstained though the many discomposures of my youth rendred me profusely dis-ordered and unworthy the acceptance of so incomparable a Choice None ever more entirely lov'd and more vainly deluded with Excursive delights These I repent though I cannot redeem For you may believe me seeing my present distemper will not suffer me to deceive you that I should imbrace death cheerfully if it might be my happiness to recall what I have lost by my Folâ—y It is now too laâ—e for me to capitulate with Heaven or promise the inexorable Fates upon hope of a Reprieve a dereliction of what I formerly affected with a seâ—vorous desire of imbracing what my unseasoned youth formerly distasted Let it suffice that these last words and vows of your unfortunate Servant obsequiously confirm as in life so now in death Solely Panthalia's What strange and variously dispassionate effect the sad perusall of these lines wrought in the relenting heart of his perplexed Mistress were noâ— easie to discover His sad condition she infinitely bemoans His accomplishments she presents to her thoughts and finds in them many things worthy loving as for his defects arising from the frailty of youth she so excuseth or extenuates them as they appeare not to her judgment lyable to reproof With numerous teares and affectionate Sighs she often repents her self of writing so rough and disconsolate a Letter imputing the blame to her inconsiderate Character and from thence the Source of his distemper Her resolution formerly entertain'd for a religious Profession became now more

strengthned then before For that Onely Object which she seemed to slight though her bosom perhaps could have dictated otherwise being as she verily thought removed from Earth her Contemplation could not be better directed nor her hours more affectionately dedicated then where they might be with most content and least distraction bestowed Yet could not this intended separation from secular cares estrange her sequestred thoughts wholly from those amorous passages which she with a passionate content remembred during her free entertainment and affectionate enjoyment of her Servant O how happy would she say might we have been Acolasto had not youthful Folly challeng'd too much influence over thy Fancy Fate had not thus unhappily divided us nor our Nuptiall hopes resolv'd their joys into Funerall teares Farewell forever onely let me begge this of thee to forgive the unkindnesse of my lines as I shall entirely the Errors of thy love Pandione having been but a small space distanc'd from her and observing her thus strangely perplext or extasi'd rather with grief hastned towards her compassionately demanding of her the Cause of her discontent Of discontent in me Pandione Canst thou see any such alteration in my Count'nance that it should present to thy thoughts any such visible Symptom But I shall clear thy doubts Thou canst not but know Pandione how my resolvs are pitcht upon an high Concerne an utter desertion of the world and my espousall to a Monastick life Now pray thee tell me is it possible that any Companion should bid a lasting adue to his long continued acquaintance without a transitive sigh of some small appearence of grief I have had a Free injoyment of the world and interlaced my Secular imployments with Choicest refreshments and is it easie to forgo all these in the prime of ones youth without the Sacrifice of one teare Though I must confess that the Choice of this Profession was voluntary and without coercion and sundry maine inducements to disswade me from this resolution Some whereof no doubt replied Pandione reteine a deep impression in you None of those which thou conceivest to have the strongest influence over me said Panthalia Neither canst thou object any argument in relation to love to foreslow my desires nor divert my designs For this Letter has cancell'd the thought of a Lover Thy Kinsman Acolasto whose premature fare I shall ever obsequiously bemoane is as this Letter renders him paying his last debt to Nature Alas poor wretch the more is his happiness His death may merit your pity though his life became estranged from the acceptance of your Fancy In paying that debt He has discharg'd those deep Obligations which He stood ingaged in to your beauty This Sacrifice being the last Tribute of a dying Lover may justly expiate the Errors of his youth and consequently regaine your good opinion by the innocence of his death which he could not reteine by the late progress of his indisposed life Teares prevented Panthalia's reply the burden of her grief was so heavy as it injoyned her pensive tongue a necessitated Silence Still ascribing the prime grounds of his distemper to proceed from the harsh dialect of her Letter Pandione after this sad relation of Acolasto's death for better she could not expect from the circumstances of Panthalia's discourse seemed very desirous that Evening to depart from the Monastery and leave this dis-consolate Lady to her intended Profession the next day being designed for her initiation But Panthalia's importunity so far wrought upon her as she consented to the attendance of those Solemnities usually observed in such religious initiations though for her self she neither affected any of those disciplinary Rites being too regular for her youthfull temper nor to be so far divided from her native Countrey being the choicest reside as she accompted it for the injoyment of her Fancy Solemn Ceremonies ordain'd for PANTHALIA'S Institution and ACOLASTO'S unexpected prevention Scarce hâ—d the Orient Sun diffused his radiant Spangles on the Earth or extracted his pearled Dews from the Diapred Meads till the vigilant Governess joyful of the reception of so hopeful a Daughter call'd up the Votaresses designed to her Charge wishing them to take special Care that nothing might be omitted sutable to the performance of those accustomed Ceremonies observed in the initiation and Election of Professants Neither could she be more serious in her Commands then they in their obedience which to Delia's honour and the approvement of a new Sister was performed in this manner The Pavement being with much curiosity and uniformity impav'd with Porphyrite Marble was strowed all along with fresh and fragrant Flowers from the gate of the Monastery to the Temple Porch from the prime Portal or Entrance of the Fane the Passage directing to the Main Quire was odoriferously perfumed the Altar where their Delian Ceremonies were usually solemnixed richly Syndoned upon every Column were Lamps wax Lights and Tapers in golden Candlesticks erected Musical Instruments enlivned with the choicest and refinedst ayrs each where resounded nothing was awanting that might properly conduce to the accomplishment of those Ceremonial Observances But lest we should hold your eyes too long fixt upon the Surface and so keep you from a more serious and intentive reflection upon the beauty of this inward Structure and by too ample a relation of the Ceremony darken the Splendor of the Story we are now to present to your view the presence and deportment of the Governess whose care was not onely bestowed upon the decoring and beautifying of these ritual Solemnities but how to expedite the main work for which these decent accommodations were prepared Taking therefore this initiated Professant Panthalia we mean by the hand with a graceful demean the rest of the Order likewise following her she mounted the stayrs leading to the Altar where the Habit wherewith Panthalia was to be attired was shown her which she eyed with a pleasing and graceful aspect as if no Present could be more acceptable to her Here the Governess took occasion to address her discourse to Panthalia with much cheerfulness assuring her that she could never disburse honour with more alacrity to any Votaress entring that Society which expressive favour coming from the mouth of so Reverend a Guardiness Panthalia gratefully requited with all humble obeysance wishing nothing more then that her due Obedience to her pious Commands might have the happiness to merit her vertuous acceptance which should be ever the highest pitch of her desires Neither indeed howsoever her resolvs were formerly fixed did she appear in this way of her Profession to play the Dissembler For remaining now half perswaded that her deserted Servant Acolasto had taken his long leave of Earth She took upon her this resolution never to returne into her Native Countrey nor to receive into her bosom the Conceipt of any new Fancy but to bid adue to all youthfull Folly by changing the world with a Monastery and the affection of a translated Friend with the

I have held from mine infancy and which I meane to Seal with my blood was Allegeance and to dye under that Notion who can hold it less then a Subjects debt and in the sufferer a glorious resolution I have felt the opposition of many furious Assailants who both in language and private practise to make my actions appeare more odious to the eyes of God and man have struck highly but fruitlesly at the ruine of mine honour but their Splene fell far below my spirit their spite far beneath my scorne They may triumph in my fall but never in my shame And though ingratitude in lieu of my faithfull service has been lately my guerdon I shall signe Him to whom I owe my selfe a cleare and Conscientious pardon I will not revive it lest I should reteine too deep an impression of it and cast a surviving dishonour on his Name who acted it I am too well known to thy tenderness and goodness to importune thy Care towards those Living Pledges sweet innocent Babes which I leave behind me and must recommend unto thee To thee I leave them who doest so entirely love them and to whom now thou art to performe the Office of a double Parent in nursing and informing them Farewell Farewell on earth for ever till we shall be hapâ—â—y re-united and without feare of division live togeâ—her Thine to death SOPHRONIO With what a languishing and contristate Spirit this good Lady perused these Funeral lines of her dying Lord it is far easier for the conceipt to imagin then for any pen to describe Never was Sorrow more passionately retir'd nor more cordially silenc'd But Mercies moulded in the bosom of Tyranny revert into Cruelty For neither could this Ladies pious tears nor his approved innocence beget in his relentless Enemies the least sense or apprehension of remorse Marble is not easily pierc'd nor the Tigers nature quickly civiliz'd The Senats instancy backt with Plebeian insolence and implacable Fury would prolong no time for Sophronio's execution Fearing as might be thought lest that hand which had sign'd and subscrib'd his Death might recall his Doom So as after the third day immediatly following the warrant had been delivered to the Warder a Scaffold by the Consuls express Command was erected upon Pharamount to which Sophronio with a strong Guard of Souldiers was conducted Where mounting the stayrs of the Scaffold with a cheerfull and pleasant countenance as if he had addrest himself rather for a Festival Solace than a Funeral Office Upon his ascent looking about him with a graceful aspect he turned himself towards the Seats where sundry Persons of eminent quality had bestow'd themselves and eying a wonderful confluence of People crowding not only about the Scaffold but clustring all about the Trees adjoyning to the Place of his Execution with a setled and composed Demean he delivered himself in these words or as near as the brevity of an exact Character could render it Sophronio's Speech upon the Scaffold My Lords and you Gentlemen who are come hither to be spectators of my death I am here to be presented for a spectacle of wonder Being made a Sacrifice of loyalty in relation to my Prince and an Eye-sore to the State So as if Fidelity be a capitall Crime which never before these seditious times was held one I must freely acknowledge my self culpable and consequently a deserving Sufferer if otherwise I appeale to your apprroved judgments if a loyall death be not a Signall action of honour I am so confident of my reality in the whole carriage of my affaires since my first imployment in the State of Candy as I dare attest any Person in this great Assembly that can justly taxe me of any injurious proceedings against him or any one of his Family Truth is I have been personally accused of many but to this houre never found guilty of any Sundry Articles and of high quality objected and with all Fury pursued but nothing proved appearing rather scandalous aspersions to impeach my Fame and surprize my person then grounded allegations to weaken my repute or evince me of treason I have clear'd my self in all yet am I found pardonable in none An inevitable necessity is laid upon me I must dye and I embrace my doome cheerfully It is better for one to perish then an unity And I hold my self a light ransome to redeem my Countreys liberty But it is much to be feared for that Nation to be accompanied with success whose Foundation is laid in blood I have been ever a Faithfull Servant to my Soveraigne wherein if I have done too much it will appeare to the whole world that my recompence in lieu of that service has been too small But this fault I impute not to Him but to them who deluded him It is easie for cunning men by their evil counsell to have strong influence over Princes Commands when their backs are at wall and their hopes under Hatches My wish is He may raise himself strength from my ashes I have ever observ'd it and now found it true by sad Experience that usurping Powers have their Centre every where but their Circumference no where Meer's that transgress their bounds must not be confin'd It is the honour of Treason to sleight the Order of subjection and out of an audacious contempt to spurne at Command by making it's own will an irreversible Law I feare much lest such State-pioners in these times of distraction by their lawless fury should act much mischiefe in the Frontiers of Candy But I leave it to the Powers above to divert this Catastrophe This fear which I conceive and by all probable Circumstances divine proceedes from that entire zeal which my loyall heart beares to the State for whose pretended safety and liberty I here dye But I must not be long lest my delay might beget in you a prejudicate opinion of me touching that which I dare attest my frailty I never had a fear to dye One word home-ward and then to my last home For my Civile affaires they are already ordered As for my dis-consolate Consort and those tender Pledges of our Conjugall love my sweet Infants I Commit them to the protection and providence of Heaven to comfort and support the One and in mercy to speak for the other who know not poor Babes to speak for themselves And now my Good Lords and Gentlemen hear the last words of a dying man which in pitty should reteine the deepest impression because the last Expresses that ever He shall deliver upon Earth Be pleased to acquaint the Senat that the senses of Sophronio's innocence had so compleatly arm'd him as he durst look death â—ith face and entertaine the stroak of the Axe with a smile Now do thy Office Executioner After this making himself ready and putting off his doublet He went towards the Block where with a stout and undaunted courage laying his hand upon the Edge of the Hatchet This said He is a Cure for all diseaser a

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