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lord_n	command_n	young_a	youth_n	35	3	7.4107	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35290	Pandion and Amphigenia, or, The history of the coy lady of Thessalia adorned with sculptures / by J. Crowne.	Crown, Mr. (John), 1640?-1712.	1665 (1665)	Wing C7396; ESTC R11653	182,233	309

and ready to yield himself a prisoner unto death less cruel then his enemies as appeared by his pale looks which had no other redness than what they received from his own and enemies bloud Which sight did so animate Perianders courage as that with a Lyon-like fury he flew upon the first and sheathed his sword in his bowels but ere he could recover his weapon he was wounded in the shoulder by another which Periander feeling it so increased the flames of his fury within him as that it flew in sparks from his Eys enraged he fell upon him never ceasing till he had separated his murderous Soul from his body made both him and the other the Trophies of his Valour Periander leaving them weltering in their gore turned to Athalus for so was the young Knight named thinking to revive his dying Spirits and to acquaint him with the death of his enemies But Athalus that before was fainting and sowning and even at the confines of death with the presence of this strange Knight began to revive as if he had received life from him as well as owed his life to him after millions of thanks returned desired him to accompany him to his Castle which was not far distant from them so that Periander accerting of the invitation they in a short time there arrived which for its magnificence might more properly be termed a Palace being invironed with a Wall of Stone whose height enviously seemed to hinder them from beholding the Fabrick it did encompass The Pillars on which the Gate was hung were made of purest Marble on the top of which were ingraven Gilded Griffons whose Wings spread with the shutting and closed with its opening by the means of a secret Engine as if they had been indued with life When they were entred in they came into a stately Court paved with checquered Marble through which they passed into a second far surpassing the former in which there stood a T●w●● imbraced with wanton Ivy spread with fragrant ●●●lantine entrailed with Roses and supp●●●ed with Pillars resembling Atlas The Arched Roof was decked with Flowers Arbors and Groves underneath there were engraven the Nine Muses each holding a melodious Instrument in her hand wherein the Artificer seemed to excell himself for underneath the Pavement there was a secret bubling Spring whose Streams were through Pipes conveyed to each Statue so that at the turning of a Silver Cock as if they had been inspired with life from Heaven like Prometheus Image all the Instruments would sound with such melodious consent and harmony as charmed Periander into an extasie of admiration so that with what he saw and heard he imagined himself in a Paradise where the more he admired the more he desired to stay to satisfie his Curiosity and yet the longer he stayed the more his admiration was augmented But Athalus faintness would not permit any long delay so that into the Castle they went where the spacious Rooms were hung with Arras Tapestry and Cloth of Tissue adorned with lively Pictures After Athalus had taken some repose and repaired the bloudy breaches the late battery had made Periander entreated him to relate the occasion of the quarrel at whose request Athalus thus began Sir said he the obligements I have received from you are of so high a nature that I cannot but acknowledge them above requital there being nothing of an equal worth with Life which I must acknowledge I have received from your Valour and therefore I cannot but account your desires as Commands and my disobedience to them as Rebellion against the Laws of Nature therefore to satisfie them know that in the Lordship of Parrhasia where I dwell there lives a young Nobleman Son to the Lord of the place called Plivio in whose friendship I was once as happy as now unhappy in his hatred Bred up we were together and as our stature so our affection encreased Youth is tender and readily receives the impressions of education but though it easily receives them yet it difficultly p●rts with them so it was with us that affection which was ingraffed when we were young grew and increased untill our mature Age insomuch that once we thought the Stars should sooner have fell from Heaven and sunk into the Ocean there to have extinct their light Stones ascend and supply their places the Sun rise in the West and the order wherein Nature hath placed all things be perverted than our love dissolved but as love conjoyned us so love parted us for hapning once to espy A●ritesia and Matilda the two beautiful daughters of Pirotes walking dallying and discoursing in the Fields our affections were captivated with their Beauty he with Arritesia the elder I with Matilda fain we would have concealed our passions but Love will not be hid its nature is such that it is most revealed when most concealed for sometimes we must be commending one and then the other one while Arritesia was judged most beautiful and then Maltida would seem to carry it with the greater grace one while we compared them both together and then singling out a Feature as if that had surpassed the rest in excellence but then a second seemed to excel that a third exceeding them both In fine Plivio was so deeply entangled with Arritesia as not being able to conquer it he discovered it in frequent sighs and heart-betraying looks often would he extoll Matilda but then when he spake of Arritesia he would accent every sentence with a sigh which I perceiving thinking to please him would answer all his commendations with complyance and when he sighed I could not but sigh too he out of affection to her and I out of cordial love to him but still he misconstrued all and there wherein I thought I most pleased him I most offended him he interpreting all I did to him was done to her so that though his love to me was not presently converted to raging jealousie yet it soon begot suspition which is jealousie in its infancy which I assoon perceived by the constant watch his eyes kept Home we returned to try what success Fortune would crown our loves withall but as if the Sta●s had conspired at once to cross our affections and our happiness together Matilda had placed her delight in Plivio and Arritesia the object of Plivios delight was pleased to esteem of me far above my deserts and above Plivio so that this was the spring and source of all our future unhappiness for Plivio's jealousie by this was daily augmented and begot hatred and hatred made him put the worst construction upon each thing I said or did He took my visits to Matilda to be only pretences thereby the more securely to rob him of Arritesia and the cold entertainment and slights he received of her to proceed from thence which latter was truth though I was both innocent and ignorant All my vows and protestations wherewith I laboured to clear my self did but the more confirm him

Government and the best means to supply the one and subdue the other the result of all was this that being Pandion would be thought to come to the Throne not as a conqueror but inheritor and considering that the manyfold exactions and impositions laid upon the people by Hiarbas to maintain his Army had provoked them against both himself and them the sad effect whereof was palpably visible in his deposition and destruction and that the greatest part of the Kingdom was already in subjection and under the command of his Garrisons and it was easie to raise a force to subdue that part that should rebell that therefore his Armies should be disbanded with promises of plenary satisfaction for their service which they said would be a great engagement to his people to Loyalty when they saw him esteem their love as his principal protection And as for the General that had done such eminent and loyal service he should be eminently and Royally rewarded and dismissed with his me● to march at his leisure And as for a Life-guard it was thought rather decent than convenient not any necessity but ceremony of State requiring it Therefore a certain number of choice Warlike Gentlemen were culled out to guard his Person whereof Celadon was made Commander These things concluded on were accordingly executed the Army being dismi●t with great thanks for their gallant service the person imployed in that office telling them how highly the King resented their fidelity and e●●eemed their valour and that his rewards should be parallel to his resentment and esteem This done they further consult about the disposal of Hiarbas's Person but as they sat in Council arguing pro and con some making plain speeches the Keys to their thoughts others Pathetical Orations as windows to their desires but others attiring both their thoughts and desires in ambiguous Expressions which like changable Taffata might variously reflect their minds they heard in a Room underneath such a consort of doleful moans as exprest the wofull musick of a grieved mind Somtimes they might hear groans formed into words and words transformed into groans that sorrow seemed to build an Airy Pyramis under which it entombed all joy the deep-fetcht groans resembling the Basis as the shrill cries the Spire Pa●dion hearing that gave command that the Authors of those lamentations should be brought before him to give an account wherefore they temporize with sorrow when joy was the Genius of those smiling hours No sooner was the command given forth than obeyed the Person being caused to appear and no sooner appeared than was known to be Danpion by many of the Lords that had acquaintance with him whilst he had acquaintance with a bright prosperity in Hiarbas's Court but to Pandion only to be that servant of Hiarbas whom he had sentenced to dye which when he saw not executed he seemed like one that travelled far from himself till the consideration that variety of occasions might well divert the mind of Celadon interrupted the farther progress of his thoughts and gave him occasion to charge strictly that executi●n be speedily performed threatning with a look so severe as seemed to antedate his threatning no less than death for the least delay This said the Prisoner was led away but as he went none but might have seen in him a perfect image of captiv'd courage his rage not because he was to dye but that any other than a victorious Launce should force him to dye though imprisoned in his thoughts by resolution yet flusht forth at his eyes his countenance all the while representing the undaunted constancy● wherewith he armed his mind now he was to run the gauntlet with an invincible Enemy yet at the same time attiring his looks in such a graceful Majesty as if this was but his marriage-day with Death having consideration rather to what might become his own Princely greatness than the sordidness of his pale Spouse But just as he was going out of the door on the sudden a voice bolted forth these words A Crown becoms not a Peasants head Pandion hearing that cryed out What Treason 's that But scarce had the cadence of his voyce put a period to his speech but a fearfull spectacle soon answered his fearfull Interrogation and deprived him of his fear by presenting the evil he feared for presently there issued out from under the Hangings men clad in Armour with naked Swords who seized on Pandion in the midst of all his Pomp whilst he was dictating Lawes with his Looks and commanding observance with his Brow and hale him out of his Throne disarray him of his Robes rob him of that golden Jayl that imprison'd his head and plunder him of all his splendor So soon can a tempest of misery wash away a new gilded Fortune Thus every Jewel of a Princes Diadem is a Star of most malignant influence to Usurpers Scarce this was done before Danpion was call'd back with speed and no sooner turned than received by Hiarbas's General with all humility upon his knees whom Danpion strictly observing he knew to be his friend Athalus With that he caused him to arise and with great joy embraced him telling him that now he had found him to be a composition of sincere friendship and that his soul was a meer extract of goodness and many other expressions whereby he testified his great resentments After which Athalus●shered ●shered him in among the Lords to whom he made an eloquent Oration in which he declared how that this Person whom they saw ready to be sacrifized to the revenge of a Traytor was the true Pandion rightful Heir to Agis which he confirmed by many Arguments but chiefly by Celadon's acknowledgment then present a chief Actor in this late turn and that the other that had hitherto deluded them was but an Impostor being a Peasants son his father at present living in B●o●●● and that his name was Eumaeus which was also confirmed by the free and unextor●ed confession of Lumaeus or the counterfeit Pandion These things thus strangely brought about Royal Apparel was presently brought for Pandion who now commands Hiarbas's speedy releasment and that he should be brought to him which done he makes himself known to him returning him infinite thanks for all received favours telling him what a high-summ'd debt he had contracted from his Royal goodness After which he began to clear himself of that inexcusable incivility Bascanius's malice and treachery had reproched him withall confessing what flames Amphigenia had inkindled in his heart which neither life nor death but as he was farther speaking the thoughts of Amphigenia divorced his mind from every thing but Revenge that he presently commands that Eumaeus and all that had any hand in her death should undergo the severest punishment the Law in its strictest interpretation could inflict Eumaeus hearing this fell down on his knees and asked pardon but was not at all regarded till he confest that the Lady that was executed was not Amphigenia but