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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

Foe If any Balm will cure us or allay this Alloes Potion of affliction that so imbitters us it must be a patient composure of our minds this it is that must calm our distempers I have inlarg'd my self more then I intended but excuse it my dear One for methinks every line here addressed to thee enliveneth me in this unsociable Cell of my Restraint Mean time let us anchor our hopes in this that the Superiour Powers who reserve an influence over all our Actions and under whose hand it is for us either to rise or fall will afford us more chearful beams of reviving Comfort by crowning our Cloudy day with a Clear Evening and so re-unite us or by a gladsome Translation impose a period to our suffering and joyntly eternize us Thine own Rosicles These were the last lines which the Princess ever receiv'd from her Captiv'd Rosicles being so strictly guarded by Speciall Command from the Senat as all intercourse was obstructed either by Letter or address of Friends during his restraint so irreconcilable was this division grown betwixt this distressed Prince and his People Yet amidst these distempers He had ever some well-wishers left who to their power so far as their Forces would extend to desisted not from contributing their best assistance to his defence with an integrious demonstrance of their loyalty Amongst which one * An Illirian of high Extraction Lycanthes pretending infinite zeal to this injuried Prince but how he stood inwardly affected his Cloudy and immasked thoughts knew best levied a strong and Formidable Army and with these puissant Forces far more numerous then orderly managed He invades the Territories of Candy where with more confidence then valour or martiall prowess He marched along but in a posture much unsuitable to an experienc'd Souldier For he appeared in his ga●ish and pompous Colours like a vaine Popinjay as if he had been going rather to a Morice or May-game then any Martiall adventure vanting all along in this his undisciplin'd Progress for so might his march be truly styled of an assured victory before he faced the Enemy Neither surely could any thing less have been expected if such Considerable Forces had been under the conduct of a serious and successfull Leader but as that wise Polititian well observed Better it is to have an Army of Harts with a Lyon to their Leader then an Army of Lyons with an Hart to their Conducter Such influence has a discreet and resolute Commander in the success of his Army Which Lycanthes found true to his bitter experience For though his Forces were singularly well prepared yet his indiscreet confidence suffered them to be so dis-joynted and in their March so strangely distanced as they appeared more like Forragers then Souldiers more apt for booty then to attempt a victory and in pillage they feathered their Nests sufficiently making every Coast where they so freely exercis'd their rapine and injurious plunder their Mortall Enemie But the Event of this Battell return'd them a demerited guerdon For having met their Foe whom Lycanthes so little feared and over whom he so bravingly triumphed before He became ingaged They wholly discomfited him without much resistence to Lycanthes great dishonour and his defeated Forces unexemplary slaughter So as that very Place where this Victory with so small difficulty was acquired became so purpled and with dislaughter'd Corpses so numerously and confusedly covered as there scarce appeared sufficient purprize of ground to afford them Graves That small remainder of them whose Fortune it was to be preserved from the edge of the Sword were made subject to as heavy a Fate being generally sold for Bondslaves and at so easie and contemptible a rate as their value might appeare conformable to their valour their despicable price to the estimate of their pufillanimous prowess As for the rest of his discattered Forces by the slow Conduct of their March and their distance from the Battell having never approch'd the Face of the Enemy they retreited back both with safety and Spoile impoverishing the Countrey whereever they marched returning to their penurious Homes no less full-handed then faint-hearted Now to give you the true Character of this Lycanthes though he were of eminent extraction He was ever held to partake more of a dissolute then resolute disposition One who could easily dispence with his faith infringe his promise violate his vow and a cunning designer and disguiser too of his intendments for his own Interest Yet was he never known in those designes were they never so subtilely couched nor carried to appeare prosperous Neither was it thought by Those who held nearest correspondence with him and ey'd his actions with the prudentst inspection that his intention in this Expedition was clear or candid but that he looked more upon himself and how he might advance his own interest then how to vindicate the injuries of his distressed Prince who remained still a restrained person destitute of all humane succour or assistance But those high and inscrutable Judgments of the Superiour Power which startleth those who are most secure and insensible of their irregular Condition though they seem for a while to sleep they seldom ss●●pe as might be instanced to life in the Tragicall Period of this unfortunate Polititian who cut off in the height of his ambition was enforc'd without the attendance of many reall or cordiall Mourners to become a Spectacle to the World and to perform his last act upon the Scaffold and sacrifice his projecting head on the Block Which though he sought by all submissive wayes and mercenary means to prevent yet all his Contrivements could not operate to his safety Two others of remarkable quality there were besides himself who having received the irrevocable Sentence of death were to die with him which three were usually in Candy thus distinguished One a Courtier and no Souldier The Second a Souldier and no profest Courtier The Third neither Souldier nor Courtier Which was meant by Lycanthes being a person naturally surly and uncivil and in Martiall affaires ignorant After this great discomfiture from whence so much was expected and so little accomplished the Senatual and Plebeian State continued in a flourishing peace having no Assailants either privately to oppose them or publickly to invade them For the Captive Prince was secur'd and his weak Allies deterr'd from designing much more from acting any thing considerable to a Democratick disadvantage During which Calm or peaceable Cessation the Candiots became infinitly prosperous as their valour well merited in sundry consequent adventures For their Generalissimo Moccenigo burnt ten Turkish ships and fourteen Saiques and took the Tribute of Rhodes amounting to 200000 Crowns with the loss of 100 of his men and 300 wounded After which gallant exploit he joyned with the Roman Galleys and those of Malt● and with their united Forces invincible for their resolution they went jointly again to the Dardanelles to obstruct all such Vessels which carried provision to Constantinople and

fathers death and in hope to re-invest himself in his lineal-regal estate being strengthned by the assistance of the Eluri and other frontier Scythians a people that were ever held fast foes but failing friends but Princes in their distress must be content to lean on weak Crutches invaded Candy In a fair Battalia were the two Armies martially disposed and their Tents orderly picht near to a strong and well fortified City called Reus Court anciently Saly Castro Hopes equally breathing half of the day was this Battalia in dispute wherein Charicles by the singular prowess and dexterity of his Pedeantry being all of them excellent Archers had long time the better till overpowered by continual recrutes and the treachery of Leontius who had the principal command and charge of the Scythian Caualry and hovering remissely upon an hill above the Armies behaving himself more like a Spectator then a Warrier never so much as ingaging his person to the necessitous assistance of Charicles He with his Forces became wholly routed Albeit the Prince even in his greatest distress considering how his personal security and regal soveraignty were both at the stake with an incomparable spirit charged twice or thrice quite through his Enemies Army continuing in the field without the least decline of courage so long as there appeared the least hope of subsistance or the Cavalries assistance whose perfidious Commander had been too highly corrupted to forget the reward of his service Thus was the unfortunate Charicles as if an ominous Cloud had constantly hung over his family inforced to leave the field being so deserted of his own by this discomfiture as very few or none were left to accompany him in his flight The Enemy had his scattered Forces long in chace taking many prisoners and such as were of eminent quality as might be probably conjectured seeing the most of his patty unless they were of the ruder sort of Scythians had been persons qualified and of extraction whereas the adverse party were generally Plebeian and Mercenary But in their pursuit their eagerest hunt was after Charicles by whose surprize the Senat conceived them to be secured from danger and freed from the attempts of any invasive pretender And that they might be more speedily seized of their prey it was their prime care to have all the ports laid their stratagems with much secrecy contrived their Ambuscado's set and sundry parties of Horse every where dispersed and disposed for the taking of this deserted Prince But for all this they mist their aim for the providence of heaven was such an act which cannot be too much admired Charicles escaped their politick designs and whereas there appeared no visible probability of refuge or receipt He found for the time a convenient harbour to decline his inclosing danger by such strange means and instruments as shall be related hereafter How Charicles after his discomfiture at Reus-Court being pursued by the Enemy was in a Pilgrim habit Hospitably received and seasonably secured beyond all expectancy by Candiope IT cannot sufficiently be admired how sundry eminent personages destitute of all hope or visible help have escaped in their imminency of dangers the implacable fury of the enemy being reserved no doubt by Divine Providence for some future ends This might be instanced to life in the present condition of distressed Charicles the issue whereof closed in this sort Candiope a Lady lineally-loyally descended being both by extraction from her family and education from her infancy so affected Walking one morning early in a Grove whereto for her private retirement she usuall frequented and wishing nothing more out of the loyal fervour of her desires then to hear the event of that great Battail at Reus-Court with the good success of the Prince whose restauration she unfeignedly besought It was her fortune in the tract where she walkt being not far distant from the publick road to meet with one in a Palmers weed fixing his dejected eys on the ground as if some sad mischance had befaln him or as one weary of earth resolving to measure out his Grave and to play the Sextons part before he dyed Long was it ere she could awake him out of this his melancholy dump or pensive amaze so strangely extasied seemed he to be as nothing appeared in him saving motion that might argue him to be living or for the present capable of respiration At last drawing nearer unto him Good sir said she what is it troubles you What misfortune has befaln you that it should have such strong influence over you in writing your discontents in such deep Characters of sorrow Alas Madam replyed He it were a fruitless discovery to impart our griefs where there is no hope of remedy My wounds with many others rankle too sore to expect a present cure Candiope collected by these words that all things had not faln out well at Reus-Court with much importunity therefore she desired to know of him whether he had been personally ingaged in the battail or no and what the success thereof might be With a deep scalding sigh we are all wholly lost said he Our Prince utterly routed his hopes expired The softness of your Sex and affability of your nature may retain that temper as it may afford compassion to our forlorn condition for as yet we have hardly found it Wo is me answered Candiope who might he be that was the Agent of this sad scene of his infilicity The probable ground of his misfortune replyed the Palmer arose from the treachery of Leontius a principal commander of the Scythian Cavalry by whom he with his associates were wholly routed And that this disaster proceeded from Leontius treason might be hence conjectured for after the battel was ended and he amongst others surprized his gentle usage and easie confinement by the Enemy discovered to all the world his secret treachery But what is become said Candiope of distressed Charicles Of a potent Prince replyed he he is now made a poor Pilgrim a fugitive deserted of his own and nothing but a meer shadow of hope to support him A weak supportance Heaven knows said the Lady Oh that I might have the honour to give him harbour with what prompness and fidelity should my best endeavours answer it You may perchance replyed he have the occasion and he the good fortune to pertake your assistance for his hapless condition must procure harbour in one place or other or we must conclude him lost for ever Mean time Madam I must ingeniously acquaint you seeing your noble disposition steers your course that way how I am become His Highness Almoner or necessitous purveyor while he in a disguised habit acts the sad part of a disconsolate wanderer Thus has our condition which formerly hath been a stranger to servile ends or to what must now oblige us beholdingness injoyned us to submit to the necessity of Fate and to beg releif with silence when our language cannot in modesty find a tongue to express our necessity