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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30100	Birinthea, a romance / written by J.B. gent.	Bulteel, John, fl. 1683.	1664 (1664)	Wing B5454; ESTC R175633	137,771	268

having heard his Name and place of birth with the gallant deportment had been taken notice of in the fight he approached him with all the civilities that were due to so illustrious a Captive and having discoursed with him some time this Prisoner answer'd in so brave a manner that it plainly appeared to him those praises which Sybaris had spoken were rather the testimonies of sincere truth than of any particular affection Their Complements being ended Sybaris to whose care Cyrus especially recommended him conducted him to his own Tent where he was nobly received and having given him for some time the liberty to repose himself alone the impatience he was in to learn by what adventure he was drawn into that action made him return and intreat him to relate the story of his life ever since he had left him in Margiana Merame who could not refuse to unlock that secret to Sybaris with whom he had so long since contracted a real friendship began in this manner The History of MERAME I Can give you no particular reason of my unhappiness and the occasion which brings me here but that alone which as I beleeve generally causes the misfortune of all men I mean Love At that time when you resided in Margiana I did not yet know the puissance of this deity because I had not then felt his piercing darts and I may say I then lived in content though in the Court it may seem a thing next to impossibility amidst the Monsters of Ambition and Envy whereof the one flatters with its delusive hopes while it conspires and plots our utter ruine the other bytes and knawes our hearts because that some are happier then our selves I can assure you nevertheless that I was not at all tainted with them whether my blooming age were yet too green and innocent or that I were reserved to some more rugged Fate But since that time all those dayes which other men have injoy'd with some tranquillity have been so many hours of misfortune to me Or if I have tasted some momentory intervals of happiness I have been sure to pay for those little pleasures at the dear rate of more continued sufferings but I am transported too much with the resentment of my miseries as if it were my task only to make my moanes forgetting that you desire to know what has hapned ever since our separation which that you may the more fully understand it will be very necessary that I step back a little in my discourse and begin it farther off You know that I was born in Margiana of a family which being of the same blood of those Princes that are the Soveraigns is not a little considerable in that Country and besides this advantage the more then ordinary care of my Education was added I being the only child after twelve years marriage 'twixt my Father and Mother As soon as I had past my date of infancy a learned man was sent for from Persia to be my Governor and to instruct me in those Sciences which are very ordinary in your Country but somewhat rare in ours He had the charge to enrich and polish my mind with learning and judgement whilst another Master had the care to teach me such bodily exercises as were fit for a person of my quality The great pains they both took in my behalf was not altogether fruitless And I may without vanity affirm that I profited much by their learned instructions which induced Balden Our Prince who had a particular esteeme for mee to oblige my Father to let me be alwayes neer his Son Senisra and as there are few at Court that refuse such favours it was accepted of as a great honour that I was chosen to be a companion for the young Prince and whether it were the equality of our Age or the assiduous devoirs I rendred him or only his fair and free inclination I cannot tell but he express'd so great and fond an amity that he would hardly be an houre without me We passed our time in all kind of divertisements But one day when Senisra being possessed with a profound sadness would needs injoy himself without the importunate throng of Courtiers which usually beseiged him we retired to a Castle called Coupava belonging to my Father In that vast solitude the Prince began to be acquainted with the nature of his Melancholly and found that some new entertained thoughts which perpetually invaded his mind was the sole cause of it and as he cherished me with much tenderness he would needs impart this disquiet to mee and did me the honour to reveale that since the late assembly and intertainment at the marriage of his Sister where all the Court Stars appeared in their brightest glory Themira was still present in his memory that indeed he had beheld her with more admiration and entertained her with much more content then any other that since having seen her again accidentally he had not been able to guard his heart from a particular inclination it resented for her beauty nor could he part from her but with I know not what constraint which fill'd his bosome with disquiet whilst he was absent from her We were both of us yet so young we could not guess the name of this new breeding passion but in a very short time after experience fully taught it us The short abode we made in that Castle augmented the Princes trouble and gave birth to mine I chanced to see amongst the Captives that were in the Keepers custody a young Maid whose handsome meen and the Majestick features of her face invited me particularly to consider all her actions the more I studied her person and demeanour the more I found her rare which caused me to bewail her condition From this compassion sprung up the curiosity which made me enquire of her Mother of what Country she was and the sad disaster that brought her into slavery All that I could then learn was that at the taking of Sina she fell into the hands of some of our Souldiers who had sold her to this Keeper and that her condition deserved no regrets since it had never been much better than at present I could not be satisfied with this account but rather wisht she might have lost many things of advantage and importance together with her liberty that might have spoken her of a greater quality though I could not have heard that neither without sorrow and bearing to the Court as well the remembrance of her misery as the Image of her beauty I considered them both a long time only with a sence of tenderness and indifferency In the mean time Senisra at our return was fully acquainted that what before we had been ignorant of was called Love and whatever other passion he esteemed that trouble in his soul he found it answer only to that Name and in this knowledge he eagerly sought the opportunity to meet Themira But the first time he came into her presence his tongue was