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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03845	An epitome of the history of faire Argenis and Polyarchus, extracted out of the Latin, and put in French, by that great and famous writer, M. N. Coeffeteau Bishop of Marseilles. And translated out of the French into English by a yong gentlevvoman. Dedicated to the Lady Anne Wentvvorth; Histoire de Poliarque et d'Argenis. English	Coeffeteau, Nicolas, 1574-1623.; Man, Judith.; Barclay, John, 1582-1621. Argenis.	1640 (1640)	STC 1396; ESTC S104485	26,786	88

at Theocrines language She knowes not what answere to make Him Feare that this action should make a spot in Her Glory causes Her at first to breath forth some sparkles of Choler She complaines of this audacity and shewes She doth not approve those fictions whereby She might receive more blame then the Author could expect contentment Neverthelesse at last Love that so many present victories went fortifying banishes all those Feares and causes Her to finde Theocrines excuses good to whom at that time She doth in few words disclose Her thoughts and testifies unto Him that those proceedings are not displeasing to Her but enjoynes Him to publish His sexe and to make himselfe knowne to be the valiant Poliarchus This generous Prince who onely sought triumphs to insinuate Himselfe by His valour into Argenis's favour reassumes the name of Poliarchus and at the same time kissing His Mistresses faire hands goes out of the Fortresse and steales away from Meleander and His Guard busied in the seeking out of the factious whereof they made a horrible slaughter In the meane time the King is troubled to finde out the Author of His liberty and as His Daughter tels Him that He is obliged of His life unto Theocrine He desires to see Her that He might give Her the praises and recompence due to so eminent and prodigious a vertue But being inform'd that She is vanish'd as a lightning and that She is not to bee found He presently imagines that doubtlesse She was no mortall creature but the Goddesse Pallas who foreseeing his misfortune had taken the forme of this Lady to put by the ruines of Sicily which was in Her keeping Thereupon even as superstition is fertile in new devotions He revolves with himselfe with what new tribute of piety He may repay this remarkable good deed which seemed to be beyond all manner of retribution and wandring in His thoughts He caused the Chiefest of His Counsell to be assembled unto whom speaking of this adventure He testified to owe His life and safety to a particular assistance of the Divinity rather then to any mans succour letting them know thereby that He had a designe to erect new honours and worship unto the Goddesse unto whom He imagined to be indebted for His miraculous preservation Such a Religious design having beene greatly applauded and approved by the common voices of all the Counsell Meleander whose soule was already full of these religious thoughts and who feared that shewing Himselfe ungratefull towards the Gods He should oblige them to draw backe their blessings from His Crowne was easily led away with this advice and calling His Daughter opens His deliberation unto Her and perswades Her so artificially that She freely accepted the quality of Minervas High Priest in acknowledgement of the favour which She had shewed to Her Father and State There She is then wholly tyed to the Goddesses service by vertue of Her new Office now She thinks on nothing else then the ordering of the sacrifices and ruling of the holy ceremonies In the meane time Lycogenes who knowes his crime to be unpardonable assembles his friends represents unto them that their safety consists in hoping none and that they must come to an open force since craft and artificiall cunning have not succeeded And whereas the horror of this offence should have caused the armes to have fallen from his hands hee prepares to give battayle unto his King His felony gives meanes unto the French Prince to cause His great courage to appeare aswell under the name of Poliarchus as it had done under that of Theocrine He had gone and presented Himselfe unto Meleander as being newly arrived in His Court not making Himselfe knowne to be Him who had newly saved His Life and State He had beene received there as a stranger and in few dayes had left both to the King and all the Court a great opinion of His valour During that time He found the meanes oftentimes to see His Argenis amongst the sacrifices which were rendred unto Minerva for Theocrines victory Neither His nor Argenis's devotion was not so much fixt on the contemplation of the ceremonies nor on the admiration of all the pompe as to enterchange amorous lookes wherein lay all their felicity The envious army which was already in the field troubled all this solemnity and oblig'd the King to take up Armes to oppose the fury of the rebels He had a singular confidence in Poliarchus His valour which belyed not this hope nor the good opinion which the world had conceived of the greatnesse of His courage The two Armies being in sight He began the fight and as a mighty war-like thunder unto which nothing can resist did so much by the wonders of His sword that Meleander won a glorious victory and put the rebels out of hopes to attempt any more the hazzard of Combats Dispaire made them seeke after peace they have permission to send their Deputies in Court to make the overture of some treaty Poliarchus who could not live in rest at the first newes of this peace which He did not approve not believing that the King ought to trust to Traytors resolved to goe elsewhere to finde out new occasions of Glory Having then left the Court and traversing a great forest having no other thoughts then on His Argenis which filled all His spirits Hee meets those whom Licogenes sent unto Meleander rather ecquipped like Cavaleers or to speake the truth like Robbers then Ambassadours They immediately knew Him for the Author of their misfortune and enraged with fury resolve to revenge on Him the affront which His valour caused them to receive At the same time they set on Him and make it appeare that they would bereave Him of His life But He who could feare nothing not being astonied at their threates makes them feele the effects of His courage overthrowes two dead upon the place scatters the others and puts them to flight Those that could escape goe and fill the Court with their complaints and aggravate this outrage done unto Ambassadors whose persons are held for sacred yea amongst the Barbarous They demand Justice which cannot be denied them because the Court hath no knowledge of their crime nor of the innocence of Him whom they accused It is true that Meleander could not imagine that so notorious a villany could have entred in so noble a courage and besides all that that which came from Licogenes'es party was to bee suspected also the Souldiers wholly affected to Poliarchus who in their sight had done so many wonders in the Field did openly jeere at this accusation which in what kind soever it could be interpreted could not but turne to the shame of those who made it since they accused one man alone to have beaten five well armed and in case to defend themselves But the conjurors faction was so puissant in Court that at last it obtained that Poliarchus should be condemned and to be destined to serve for a