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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62320	The unexpected choice a novel / by Monsieur Scarron ; rendred into English, with addition and advantage, by John Davies of Kidwelly.; Châtinient de l'avarice. English	Scarron, Monsieur, 1610-1660.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1670 (1670)	Wing S837; ESTC R13680	49,891	277

to join with you in Matrimony It is by the recommendation I make you of this Prince that I hope to cancel some part of my obligations towards you and it is by your acceptance of him that I make account to recompence him for the important services he hath done this State Ah! my Liege reply'd Matilda be pleas'd to be so cautious in your desires of being just to Matilda as that you be not unjust to Prospero Acknowledgments may have their excesses as well as ingratitude You would not reward the Prince of Salerna proportionably to his merit by only bestowing on him the Princess of Tarentum and by making me a present to that great Prince you would bestow on me more then I have deserv'd I am satisfy'd with your Majesty as far as it is possible I should be and these last demonstrations of your munificence wherewith you have honour'd me upon a consideration of my misfortunes are so dear to me that they will henceforward be the most pleasing object of my reflections If therefore your Majesty be so conscientious in making satisfaction where you conceive your self oblig'd and since Subjects ought to regulate their actions according to the examples given them by their Prince will not your Majesty give me leave now that I am in condition and ability to acquit my self to do it without any further delay and to make my satisfaction proportionable to the services which have been done me Approach then brave and generous Hippolito said she to that Cavalier turning her self towards him and make your acknowledgments of my gratitude after you have so long had cause to complain of my want of it You have oblig'd me by a love of many years standing a love so violent that all the traverses of my fortune all the disasters that have happen'd to me nay all my disdains have not been able to check into any remission I am indebted to you besides the vast expences which that constant passion put you upon besides the greatest part of your estate spent in the vindication of my quarrel for your fair House which was burnt upon my account I am further to acknowledge that I owe you my honour and my life which were in danger amongst Robbers and Moors and I owe you also the life which you hazarded to rescue me out of their hands I am as desirous generous Hippolito to acquit my self of all these obligations as I have been willing to acknowledge them but those which I have receiv'd from Prospero as being the more ancient are more pressing upon me and may justly claim precedence of yours Hippolito grew pale at these last words of Matilda but presently that paleness dislodg'd and a sudden Scene of blushing succeeded as if he had summon'd all his blood and Spirits into his face Prospero look'd on him with a smiling countenance but whether it proceeded from pity or a secret insultation none had the time to guess at and composing his countenance into an amorous posture to look on Matilda he receiv'd her thoughts of him and his pretensions to her in these terms Prince of Salerna you have taken much trouble upon you to induce me to a perswasion that you lov'd me from my Childhood I am convinc'd and have found that you have always treated me like a Child You always made it your business to keep her in awe whom you call'd your little Mistress and you have perpetually amus'd her with trifling Stories and Songs or persecuted her with your checks and reproaches and this at a time when she expected more important services from you In a word the greatest demonstration of Love you ever thought fit to make her amounted only to a plume of old Feathers worn by you haply ere she was born which she promis'd you to keep and now makes it appear that you cannot charge her with any breach of her word With that she took off her Head the Hat wherewith the Prince of Salerna had sometime presented her and making him a return of the same present she put this period to her discourse Dreadful Prince of Salerna the noble expressions of your Love Words and Feathers I here requite by giving you a return of the like they may prove more fortunate in your future Addresses to some other Beauty then they have done to me who thus disengag'd from you bestow my self on Hippolito and by that VNEXPECTED CHOICE make him Prince of Tarentum and account all I have little enough to satisfy my obligations to him whom of all men I have found the most generous She thereupon gave the Prince of Salerna his own fatal Hat with one hand and with the other fasten'd on that of the despairing Hippolito who thenceforward ceas'd to be such and as little look'd for that unexpected happiness as Prospero did for his Hat and Feathers The King and all there present were not a little surpris'd at this strange turn but when he consider'd how much Irene was concern'd in that fortunate advancement of her Brother Hippolito and the justice which was remarkable in the action of Matilda he could not forbear approving it And the commendation he thereupon gave that Princess for her generous choice kept the Prince of Salerna from falling into those impertinences which possibly his passion might otherwise make him guilty of For no question but this Satyrical discarding of him by Matilda when he so little imagin'd any such disaster neer him and before so eminent a concourse of noble persons struck him so to the heart that he knew not which way to turn himself such a conflict of shame confusion and distracted thoughts was there apparent in his very countenance Nay he was so exasperated against Matilda that he would have vented his indignation in railing at her according to his magisterial custom of treating her if the fear of displeasing his Prince and the concern of his estate had not check'd his natural insolence His disturbance was so observable that the King took pity on him and presenting Camilla to him after he had had some private discourse with her and Irene he told Prospero that so beautiful a Lady as she was with all the estate and advantages which her Brother Rogero had some time been possess'd of might in some measure make him reparation for the loss of Matilda While the King was obliging the Prince of Salerna by this new overture the whole Court was got about Matilda and Hippolito wishing them all the joys consequent to the just choice she had made of that faithful Lover They were both of them put to the extremities of their eloquence to make returns answerable to the complements they receiv'd upon that occasion and no question at the long run they would have been forc'd to repetitions but the King came up very seasonably to their relief Fair Princess of Tarentum said he to Matilda I am now convinc'd that nothing argues a juster desert of greatness then the imitation of great examples Such have you given me in your choice of Hippolito and requital of those services of his whereof he hardly imagin'd that you had any remembrance Irene is a person I conceive my self infinitely oblig'd to upon the account of her beauty and that of her vertue and according to your example I make her the greatest acknowledgments I can thereof by making her this day Queen of Naples This so unexpected a declaration of the King had such an effect on that noble Assembly as it is more easie to imagine then express and they were all more surpriz'd at it then at that of Matilda Irene falling down at the King's feet express'd her humility and resignation by her respects and silence The King took her up contenting himself then only with a kiss of her hand and from that time treated her no otherwise then if she had been the greatest Queen in the World They took their way towards Naples where all hands and wits were set on work about the preparatives for the King's Nuptials who order'd a short prorogation of those of Hippolito and Matilda Prospero and Camilla that one and the same day might be remarkable in all subsequent computations of time for the solemnization of those three illustrious marriages The King never had the least occasion to repent him of the choice he had made of Irene Matilda who was of so amorous a disposition as to have lov'd the Prince of Salerna much beyond what he deserv'd and that upon no other account then that he had been the first who had presented himself to be lov'd by her had an affection for Hippolito consonant to the seasonable services he had done her and the sincere Love whereby he was animated to the performance of them On the other side Hippolito could make no greater acknowledgments of that Unexpected Choice which of the most disconsolate had made him the most fortunate of all Lovers then by loving her as entirely now that he was her Husband as he had done whilst a Gallant Only Camilla was unfortunate in her match with Prospero she durst not refuse him out of a fear of incurring the King's displeasure who had promis'd Irene that he would inflict no other punishment on Rogero then that of a departure out of his territories And so to save her Brother's life she made her own unhappy by marrying an impertinent and a jealous Prince who was thought ridiculous enough before his Addresses to Matilda but after her discarding him with so remarkable an affront became the scorn and derision of the Neapolitan Court. 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