essayed all the different and various ways imaginable Telamon who was tender and complaisant entred into the sentiments of his dear Brother and that was no other but in dissembling his grief that he indeavoured to mitigate and sweeten it Ergaste who had his Wits more prompt and witty opposed it openly and would have convinced him by reason Celemante having an humour more frolick was desirous to make a diversion of his displeasure and indeavoured by little and little to change their serious discourses and considerations to more pleasant and jocund Entertainments Agamée who was preoccupied and forestalled with his own proper displeasure retired always to himself and consolated him by his own example Amongst other things Telamon said unto him My dear Brother without doubt you have cause to be afflicted but you must not therefore figure and frame things to the utmost extremity after the Idea of your own troubled imagination you know very well that Zelie is wise and you also do not in any wise doubt but that she loves you and the very last words that you your self repeated are a very authentick and an assured testimony thereof You ought not therefore to think that Zelie being prudent would not do any thing of concernment and importance without due and mature consideration nor that she loving you could take any resolution which might wound the amity and friendship she bears you That which I imagine is that this Shepherdess not being willing to see you against the Will of her Father and moreover not being able to live so near you without your sight she is possibly withdrawn to the house of some one of her Friends and there to attend the change of Lucippe However it be said Ergaste I find Tarsis you have no new subject to afflict your self How long hath it bin that you told us that you had lost hopes to espouse this Shepherdess and that you are reduced even to that necessity to deprive your self of her sight In very deed you ought to esteem your self happy in an occasion which should finish the dissolution of your Ingagements and thereby rendred you free and at liberty without which you had it may be bin in some more than ordinary pains and trouble to have had a recovery Have you not been not long since in the most dismal and deplorable state imaginable For I avow to you for my part that of all the tortures and racking torments of Love I find none so unsupportable as to be near one beloved and to be obliged to live and to live as if they were separated a hundred thousand â—urlongs and to be present and absent all at once that is to say to feel the movements of ardour and impatience which represâ—nts the presence of the Mistress and at the self same time all the regrets imaginable all the inquietudes and in a word all the troubles and pains of absence It must be avow'd reply'd frolick Celemante if we were all very wise we should never dream of having to do either with love or friendship and I say it all before thee Ergaste than me the very first I was very much a fool when I went to ingage my self to be thy friend For tell me a little if there be any thing more rediculous than to see a Man who hath still naturally more pains and trouble than he can sustain should he yet go and contrive and associate himself and bring upon his own self the troubles of others and that by example that I should go and constrain my self to condole all thy displeasures and regrets to be a Co-partner and Comrade in all thy weaknessess and to suffer for all thy follyes But that which is worst of all must it not be the loss of ones Wits and Senses to be figured as I have formerly bin as if I could not live without thee as if I had already lived there in times past and as if there were not one hundred thousand others with whom I might live without doubt much better Ergaste answered him not by reason he sufficiently divined what was his intention and that he would leave him at leisure with Tarsis to make himself applications upon these reflections So Agamée began to speak O Shepherd said he addressing himself to Telamon that you have reason to say if we were very wise we should never dream of Love for can there be put into the Spirit of a Man any thing more dangerous than a desire to overpress and overwhelm our selves with longer pinings and impatient Consumptions and which makes our destiny depend upon a feeble Sex unconstant capricious petulant and in as great an incapacity to command as to obey I can better speak than any other Person because I know it by experience and that I envy Tarsis all the subject that he believeth he hath to be afflicted Telamon who sought no other than an occasion to take from Tarsis the application which had unfortunately seized his Spirits had bin very joyful to have taken these pretexts and ingage Agamée to make them a recital or repetition of his Adventure imagining that he would not have made any scruple to tell it since he made no complaints before them and he demanded this repetition so much the more willingly in regard he remembred that he had heard him spake before that if Tarsis knew it he might thereby be able to meet with reasons to consolate himself But in regard they found themselves so near that Hamblet and that it was likewise very late and that Agamée had Affairs which obliged him to retire to his Hosts house he besought Telamon to remit the party or match to another day and quitted them with impatience to rejoyn them which is not comparable but to the extraordinary esteem which he had conceived for these illustrious Shepherds The End of the Third Book Tarsis and Zelie The Fourth BOOK TARSIS reposed not all night he wholly spent it in such regrets and alarms which are not conceiveable framing in his conceit a thousand dismal resolutions the execution whereof was not suspended but though I know not some remaining hopes that he supposed or felt even ready to finish He repast and went over again yet a thousand times more all the circumstances of his disgrace but the more reflections he made thereon the more he found subjects and grounds of desperation For though he had bin willing to perswade his Brother that assurance that he had to have heard and seen Zelie in the same boat which he had over-taken by swimming the preceding Night and where he also had not however found her moment afterwards that meeting that he had made the Morrow of the same Boat by the brink of the River according as he conjectured by the roll of Papers which he there had found this unprofitable search that not only himself but so many other persons whom he had still known had made all the day by the orders of Leucippe and Melicerte and above all that resolution
was sate making the last Effort and Endeavour to finish the putting him in a condition either to follow these two unknown or to go and cast himself at their Feet according as he should there determin by his last Resolution but after he had understood these words his Strength and his Hope left him all at once and he fell again through weakness at the Foot of the same Tree as at the felling down of a Man whose sence of feeling had abandoned him He remained a long time in that state and so much out of himself that these Persons went away farther off without his speaking to them nor had he any desire to do it However he retook his Spirits and in some sort came to himself and Love which in a moment came to stifle in him all sorts of Curisioty had no sooner let him loose the occasion of satisfying it but it reflamed and rekindled to torment him afresh and gave him a more impatient desire than ever before to know what these unknown Ones were The name of the Son of Alcidias that they both had pronounced made him see enough if he had not some Interest in this Adventure himself undoubtedly some of his Brothers had But this consideration contributed nothing to the desire he had to rejoyn them his Love permitted not his Heart should possibly be sensible of other Motives but of those that concerned his Passion He was not tormented but by the Inquietude to know how this vail of Zelie was fatally fallen between the hands of these Strangers He railed himself more unquiet than ever and impatient to repair the fault which he had committed in not enlightning himself he ran with all his might to the place where he imagined those Women were gone but be it that he understood them walking they hid themselves behind some Bush be it that he took not the way that they had held so that it came to pass that it was impossible for him to find them again That was then a strange redoubling of his disquiets although that they were already such before that time that it seemed that they could not augment for this poor Shepherd sought in his mind what he would have asked of these Strangers and interrogating himself of the manner wherewith these precious Relicks of his Shepherdess could possibly come into the hands of one unknown he drew out the most dismal Conjectures and of all that he had said himself he said nothing but what would bring him to despair It must not be more doubted cryed he but that Zelie is dead and it cannot be but by reason of her death these spoils could fall into other hands Ah Fortune Fortune Wherefore delayest thou so long to assure me of the Death of Zelie Oh Oh Fortune why dost thou take Pleasure to abuse me and prolong my Life by such deceivable Hopes But idle Shepherd replyed he a little afterwards it 's of thy self that thou shouldest complain much rather than by that of Fortune Had she not already sufficiently advertized thee of thy Misfortune Couldest thou doubt of the loss of Zelie after all that had past that deplorable night where she made thee understand out of her own mouth that she had an intent to loose her self Was not this enough to infuse Courage in thee to follow her Was not that enough to incite thee to seek the Remedy that the Gods have in the end bin obliged to Counsel thee themselves by their Oracles and when thou had'st not bin assured that Zelie was not more in the World the sole doubt of her loss should not that have bin more than sufficient to oblige thee a hundred times to dye Without doubt this was fortunately that his hand found it self disarmed in the time that he abandoned his Soul to the Transports of his Grief for if he had had his Dart yet it could not longer have deferred to have put an end to a Life that he conserved but by regret and which he believed he could not prolong without shame The precipitation of the Course wherein he found himself engaged to follow these unknown Ones had not given him leisure nor time to retire from the Body of that furious Bruit that he had slain and the night permitted him not any longer to disintagle himself from the place where he had left it he was obliged to retire himself without doing himself at that time any more evil than those mournful and cruel News had given him But his despair held not there a long time The Morrow Telamon arose very early in the Morning to go to see Agamée as he had promised the preceding evening Philiste who would go to render her Devoirs to the wise Melicerte whom she saw every day after the accident of her Sister cloathed her self to take the Air and chiefly to take occasion to walk part of the way with her Husband he would not go forth before he had made a turn in the Chamber of Tarsis to learn why he retired so late the preceeding night and also to know if he would not be one of the Party to which he was very willing to engage him whereby to have diverted him he opened the door of his Chamber and entring was very much surprized to see him in all his Cloaths upon his Bed which appeared not to be unmade and much more yet when he observed his head uncovered his Hat upon the Floor one of his Arms hanging over the Bed with some signs and marks of Blood and the other folded under his Body in so odd and constrain'd a posture that it could not have bin possible for him to have had any rest or repose But it was a much greater amazement when he approached him nearer and saw the Coverlet all be bloudied and poor Tarsis weltring in his Blood He made a great cry called for Succour and all in confusion seeking and searching after the Wound of this unfortunate Lover he observed that he was layen upon an Arrow which the weight of his Body had broken which yet he held under him with the right hand the point whereof was sunk into his Stomack At the view whereof Telamon thought of dying himself with the Wound of his dear Brother and all his Wisdom could not defend him from the reach and stroak of the most forcible and violent Pain and Grief Ah Philiste cryed he to her seeing her enter poor Tarsis is dead and behold the Issue of this dismal Oracle and undoubtedly the cause of this suddain and unexpected Joy whereof we were all astonished yesterday at night At these words poor Philiste appeared as smitten with a Thunderbolt She immediately became pale silent and immovable afterwards pouring forth abundance of Tears all at once from her eyes O Gods cryed she what have we done unto you to over-whelm us all at once with so many Evils At the same time she went to cast her self upon the Body of poor Tarsis which she watered with a Thousand Tears Telamon
Stilpon continued he â—id I not still tell thee that Arsinoe had neither the Heart nor the Temper nor Spirit of a Countrey Maiden and that her great and marvelous Qualifications decyphered the magnificence of her Birth He indeavoured afterwards to learn from that Man other particulars in relation to this wonderful Incounter but not being further able to draw forth more ample Instructions and Informations he quitted him and went directly to the former dwelling house of Stesicrate indeavouring to be more throughly inlightned and further informed by those whom he should there meet withal Never did so many different Passions attack a Soul at one time and agitate in this Incounter the amorous Spirit of Philadelphe He had some times an inexpressible ravishment dreaming that Arsinoe was the Daughter of a King and in a condition which might reasonably approach them nearer both the one and the other and consequently there might be a probability of their Marriage Then again grief seized him and assaulted him when he conceived that in this condition she should be exposed to other reserches also and that the conquest of her would be infinitely more difficulty Sometimes fear and inquietude seized him in the ignorance where the Countrey and Kingdom was where this fair Princess should be gone He apprehended that it was with some great Prince at enmity with the King his Father then supposing it was a friend he apprehended he should be prevented by the demand of some other whilest he was in quest of the place where he should seek after her But that which gave him most trouble and confusion was the doubt wherein he sometimes was that that Royal birth was not a fable and Chymera that the Inhabitants of the Island might preposterously frame or figure it and in all that he had heard there might be nothing of veriâ—y but the absence or rather the loss of Arsinoe With these thoughts he arrived at the house where formerly Stesicrate was lodged he found there a new Host and new Informations but still with new causes and grounds of trouble and perplexity For he who Inhabited there was a friend of Stesicrate who confirmed him that there was some came to fetch away Arsinoe with great and magnificent preparations of Equipage c. and although that Stesicrate had not had so great confidence in him as to have imparted to him any more than half his Secret however he had not left him so ignorant but that she was the Daughter of a great Prince that Argené had with her taken their voyage towards Egypt and that they might hear tidings of them at Alexandria All that Philadelphe could learn till then had given him no other than an imperfect joy because they had bin always mixed with some considerations that troubled and perplext him but there appeared in this last none than subjects and grounds of hope and some joyful ravishments Arsinoe daughter of a great Prince made no great disproportion in their birth Arsinoe in Egypt and in Alexandria left in him no great difficulty or more doubt of their Marriage He returned to his Vessel with a rash and furious pace with much precipitancy altogether transported with excess of joy impatience and love and having no more of perplexity than the thoughts of the great Prince whose daughter this Arsinoe could possibly be There was many in Egypt because Ptolomeé had three or four Brothers who had left a great number of Children and there were even yet many of the Family of the ancient Kings So that did not put him in any great trouble because that amongst them if there were any Daughters there would not have bin one but would have thought themselves happy in being sought unto by Philadelphe He therefore imbarked in his Vessel and caused them with full Sayl to make for Alexandria and had no more trouble in his Mind than only delay and all Winds seemed him too slow and dull and to second his impatience it must have bin almost necessary that he were driven into Egypt by another Tempest In fine after a few days sailing he arrived in the Evening at the Port of Alexandria and the first thing he there made inquiry for was after the Princess Arsinoe and if they knew not whence she was My Lord answered one to whom he spake We must surely be very great strangers if we should not know whence she was and you may see her if you please even before you enter into the City for behold there she walks upon the bank of the River with the King the Queen Berenice and the Princess Antigone In saying this he shewed him a crowd of People by the Sea side four or five hundred paces from thence where Philadelphe ran or rather flew transported with ravishing joy and content The King Queen and Princess were afoot having alighted from their Chariots which waited upon them hard by and I had the honor to walk by and then spake and discourse with the King and therefore I can declare to you the original of all that past at this Incounter As soon as Ptolomée perceived the Prince his Son he knew him and was so fully transported with joy that he advanced even some paces towards him to imbrace him Philadelphe saluted the King the Queen and Antigone as a Father Mother in Law and a Sister whom he loved with a respect and tenderness unconceivable They reviewed him as the Person of the Worâ—d which above all was most dear But Philadelphe principally was attentive in seeking after the sight of Arsinoe and 't was not long before he found her For besides her beauty which immediately invited all Eyes to behold her and those of the Prince were led and lighted by Love he had no sooner imbraced Berenice and Antigone â—ut the Queen her self presented him Arsinoe Come my Lord said she unto him come also and imbrace this dear Sister and at the same time turning her self towards Arsinoe my Daughter quoth she behâ—ld this Brother which I promised you Love waited not any long time to receive these Words of Berenice nor caused them to be remarked by the Prince Philadelphe They did not in an instant only penetrate his ears but his heart and this fraternity unexpected so contrary to the Designs wherewith he flattered himseâ—f dissipated in a moment all the of joy his Spirits and also defaced and razed all the marks in his Countenance and there left but only the Indexes and evident significations of an incredible and unconceivable amazement and astonishment He continued for some time almost confused amated and immoveable in that respectful Submission with which he approaâ—hed to salute her He had scarce the strength and courage to rise up and those who a moment before looked upon his countenance almost in a moment afterwards did not know it On the other side Arsinoe appeared no less surprized when having beheld this new Brother she knew him to be the Stranger whom she had seen at Corcyre who had there began
with presumption to do it give me the courage at least to express it and if I dare not speak it let me at least have the liberty to sigh Another cease you diverting singers and part not my Sences any more by the consenting and concording charms of your Melody The object which occupies them hath many more repasts I think of fair Zelie you birds cease troubling me That pleasing remembrance which I am entertain'd with makes the sweetest moments that I ever passed in my life All other pleasures are to me superfluous I think of fair Zelie birds give no trouble Another Shepherds I love in two certain Places and dye for both the one and the other at one and the self same time but those two adorable places are your Mouth and Eyes They therefore seem enemies one destroys what the other hath promised demonstrate less of sweetness by your Eyes or with your little Mouth give us a more favourable treatment It 's true I have vaunted my self when I knew not the art of pleasing you and that in despight of your fury your heart and my Vows shall not be more contrary I will not dedicate my self in opposition to your anger I have said else where and again it again before you call me proud haughty timerarious prepare a hundred torments with which to punish me I know the art of pleasing you you cruel one for whom I go to dye You who see desarts as absent from Zelie I mournfully spend my life be you witnesses of my faithfulness and fidelity Ah without ceasing I think of her and possibly the cruel one never thinks of me Is it not true Desarts what of my sad moans you even the Rocks have attainted and convicted it and do bewail my torment so many Ecchoes do they hear which demonstrates that their hearts are more soft and tender than archers to the sighs of her lover Agamée would have continued but Telamon interrupted him I counsel you said he that we cease these lines to pass forward to the rest What reply'd Agamée is it that you less esteem Verses to carry the name of Songs It must be so possible reply'd Telamon and as there is nothing more difficult in well doing there is nothing also more to be esteemed For there must be very much sence and passion in a very few words and you know the most sublime efforts and indeavours of Spirits as well as of nature is to shut up much in a little space and room But it is as in beholding a so great Number I had rather lend them to you to read them in your particular because that you easily and sufficiently understand them alone I will only add to you touching these same Songs that Zelie mistrusted much that they were made for her and yet she counterfeited to seem to believe that he made them not but that there she should set her name instead of some other because that otherwise she should believe her self obliged for good behaviour and courtesy sake to learn them as she did Tarsis was not angry himself that Leucippe and Melicerte had that thought and for that end often singing them in their presence he there placed the name of Delie instead of that of Zelie that he might still avoid the suspicion of his love Sometimes therefore he made them so convenient for the subject and looked upon her with so much passion in singing them that they saw well that it was her own proper person that was expressed as for example this here which he composed on that which he shewed to this Shepherdess to sing I have no otherwise said than loved with a dying voice and languishing sound with an all resembling Air and a like Accent my Shepherdess said the same but I alas see well that we understand it not In the same words that I sigh I see her sigh just so as I did I see her repeating all my proper wishes that which I have said to her she saith to me must it be alas that we understand not our selves admire my extreme audacity I will teach you to sing though I know not how to do it my self but alas wherefore should I be astonished you apprehend not how they love and if you knew it not All that which you sing is very just to the very last point I am charmed at your understanding that which I would have you apprehend therefore you do not comprehend Gods the fair port of voices the sweet flection and bending one shall never sing the same but then when you say I love better to enter into passion The amorous Tarsis flattered a little therefore his evil by this address and so much the more sweetly that she served him the same time for a pretext to be every day near Zelie But he wearied himself therefore in not expressing him otherwise than in Misteries and enigmatical riddles and I call to mind when he would take an occasion to declare himself to her One day he stood to behold this Shepherdess who was attiring her self and coysing her self and dressing her head in the Chamber of Melicerte and was putting her self in the best posture that possibly she could to go to a Feastival that was made in these Hamlets she asked him if he found her well Tarsis answered that he found her vâ—ry ill for him But as she saw that he said that smiling she also smiling asked him what that was which he had to contradict and he observing Melicerte attentive about other matters replyed very softly Quartian prepare as many flights darts arrows to reinforce and redouble your strooks This Shepherdess is too cruel alas make you not so fair and amiable have some pitty upon us What Tarsis replyed she ought you not rather to know me grateful and essay and attempt to have me fair that I might not be evil in your Eyes Think you reply'd Tarsis that there is more danger in wounding the Eyes than the Heart I protest unto you fair Zelie that you have already so wounded mine a long time since that I know not what will become of me in the end if you have not some compassion on me She had no sooner understood this discourse that as if she believed not that a Maiden should ingage in that discourse she brake off pretending that she had lost something in the chamber where she would hasten seeming to go and fetch it Since that in reading you these lines I am insensibly ingaged to make you an historical narrative or recital of the affections of Tarsis and Zelie and that you as well have signified me your desire and how much inclination you have to learn it I will declare to you here in passing some particularities pleasant enough which I call to mind which will cause you to observe to what a point and pitch of love this poor Shepherd was reduced and how far his strong passion carried him both as to respect fear timidity and trouble At this time my Father sent
he soon lost sight of them In the interim he approacht to the wounded Person and having taken off his Helmet to know whether he were yet living he saw him open his eyes weakly and heard him speak these Words with many repetitions O unfortunate Pallante Is that the fruit of so many Crimes if you are just Gods punish also the Traytor Menelas Ah Pyrhus Antigone you are avenged Death cut off his Voice in this discourse and the Shepherd saw paleness to scatter all at once upon his face at that last word Tarsis had not always lived such a Shepherd but that he knew that the King who then reigned in Epirus was called Pyrhus and that that Prince was one of the Prime and one of the most valiant Monarchs of the World so that this Incounter gave him great subjects of astonishment but his Surprize was otherwise then when he perceived lying at his feet the same Book which before was read by the first unknown and when these Words appeared to him at the top of the first Page where it was by chance opened They skipt into his sight for so I may say because they were in a very great Character History of Kion and Leonides written by Straton of Lamsaque to the Prince Philadelphe IT is not possible to express what was the amazement of the Shepherd when he saw these two Names of Kion and Leonides at the Frontispiece of this Work he immediately took it up to see whether he were not deceived and having there yet read over again the same Words and besides having slightly ran over some Pages he found himself so surprized that he began to doubt whether this and the preceding Passages were not a dream In summ it 's not possible to delineate or pourtray any thing more surprizing than was that which he had found written in that Book as we shall see in its proper place However he could not forbear to read it from one end to the other and being only content by the beginning and the end what the rest contain'd he cry'd Ah! the news I seek after is not for Kion and Leonides I would know none but that of Zelie Ah poor Leonides thy disgraces are pleasant in comparison of those of the unfortunate Tarsis O Tarsis why hast thou survived Leonides At these Words crossing his Arms athwart before him he remained some space immoveable all in a sweat that the Book fell out of his hands without his heed In conclusion being a little afterwards come out of his sweat he departed thence and went his way towards Hippique In the interim Telamon was on the other side in great trouble about Tarsis and sought him every where being accompanied by Ergaste Celamante and another stranger that joyned them also and behold in what manner Amongst the crowd of all those which the accident of Zelie had drawn together by the River side A Man of thirty eight or forty years of age addressing himself to Telamon said May I know the reason why so many People are assembled here together Telamon having beheld him believed he had seen his face else where and in effect by serious consideration he knew him to be an Athenian with whom he had formerly born Arms in the Service of the Thebeans What Agamée said he unto him for he remembred that so he was named Hah who hath brought you here amongst us Alas Telamon reply'd the other who likewise knew him you ask me a thing which requires a long explication All that I can tell you in one word that is that I fly my disgrace and come to seek your repose You see reply'd Telamon that you take an ill time for besides that 's there is a long time past that Tempé is no more so to speak it self we are so alarm'd by the taking away of one of the most considerable Shepherdess of the Countrey that we were never so much disordered and afflicted And as for me I am concern'd more than any other because that this Shepherdess is my Sister-in law and one of my Brothers is so exceedingly amorous of her that he is altogether disconsolate I bewail his displeasure more than I do his Fortune answered Agamée for I would that he apprehended only that of mine to consolate him if he yet is capable of reason He would see that he could not be grateful enough to Fortune if it could thence withdraw his disire to be married But I should be obliged to you reply'd Telamon if you could assist me in giving him some comfort for he so loved this Shepherdess and I saw him so anxious that I believe not if the Gods have not pitty upon him but that he will dye In speaking so he sought Tarsis amongst the Croud and not finding him he called Ergaste to know if he saw him not on his side Celamante who understood Telamon spake to him and said I also sought him my self and began to be in pain because a Shepherd lately â—nform'd me that he had seen him to draw towards the little Grove that you see on the left hand and that his countenance was so sad that we should do very well not to leave him alone This discourse alarm'd Telamon he besought Celamante to aid him in seeking him out and demanded pardon of Agamée if he should quit him Agamée offered himself to follow him and Telamon having received his offer civilly they went together towards the little Grove where was entred Tarsis In walking Telamon said to his two friends which was Agamée with a summary Elogy of his Merits Agamée on the other hand demanded of Telamon which where Ergaste and Celamante and certainly these two Shepherds were not unworthy of her curiosity They were sufficiently well shaped in body and yet more excellent in Mind Both the one and the other were Good Free Generous and if there were wherewith to object in relation to this humor it is that Ergaste was too prompt Celemante a little too voluptuous and besides many natural accomplishments they had acquired a large addition of others in the Schâ—ols of the most Famous Philosophers of Athens where they had a long time Studied and there they were bound in such a degree of friendship that those who knew them ordinarily called them the two Cousens more in respect of the Union of their Minds than for their consanguinity which was no other than very far off In the mean time it s not possibly to imagine the great contrariety of their tempers and inclinations Ergaste was of a nature very fiery and that appear'd in the singular vivacity of his Eyes all sparkling with flame and the most glittering that had been ever seen His Choller would be moved for the least thing and oftentimes without any heed he would be chafed in his own proper discourse that when he believed he had spoken very moderately others would have supposed that he had been in very great wrath But contrarily Celemante had a spirit sweet and temperate
and it must have been a greater matter to provoke him to anger Ergaste was melancholy he took no pleasure very few things but his Books or in the Society of his most intimate friends and hated above all things new Acquaintance Celemante in the reverse diverted himself equally every where and took pleasure at all times to know all men The first was exact and circumspect with his friends and as he never came short towards them in the least Obligation of Friendship so he could in no wise brook their reciprocal disrespect towards him the other did not so narrowly regard it and as he was of humour in all points indulgent towards others he expected the like treatment In summ they were observed also to be almost always in dispute one against another but never in one that was repugnant to friendship That which Ergaste had moreover in particular is that there was never a man that was deceived less than himself in his Judgments and in nothing less be they Persons be they Books be it in other things within his verge He had found both good and evil with such exactitude that the most tedious Contemplations of others were uncapable to add any thing therunto Celemante yet gave out that praise of Ergaste that he had never known man which would so well love him to whom he pretended love and moreover said that if he knew himself to be a good friend he had had an Obligation to Ergaste But that this had been taught him as a Master doth to little Children that is to say in reproving him and in grumbling without intermission and almost with the Rod in hand Telamon said not so much to Agamée he contented himself in letting them understand they were his Relations and near Friends knowing that he would soon be sensible of all the rest They were half way from the small Grove where they went to seek Tarsis when some persons inform'd them that they had seen him repass the River and take the way to Cenome They presently went there but found him not They stay'd no longer there than the time of taking a small repast or light meal because 't was late and thence went towards Hipique following the Road as Tarsis had signified to them Telamon and Agamée walked before and entered together Ergaste went sweating behind them and Celemente walked by his side But because his friend said nothing to him and his naturally pleasant temper could not suffer a moments Melancholy After he had unprofitably spoken of many things endeavouring to fix some conversation with him he began to sing a Song which he had formerly composed and which began after this sort Reign solely in my heart with freedom tranquility and joy Wealth is not wealth without you You are of those whom the Heavens have sent The most solid and the most pleasantly sweet And the only one worthy of Vs Since he betook himself to sing Ergaste returned to him with a serious Countenance and lifting up his Shoulders twice or thrice shook his head to signifie to him that he sung much out of Season and in an occasion so unpleasing where he saw his best friends afflicted Moans had been much more graceful than Songs Celemante immediately held his peace and without contest with his friend excused himself that he not having entertain'd him in discourse his singing had escaped him unheedily But a little after Ergaste being set to raving Celemante persisted also insensibly to sing without Dreaming the advertization of Ergaste How Love flatters those who are Amorous with vain hopes of Delights it s most considerable Contentments are to the wise but places of Execution and Death Did ever Lover live without uttering a Multitude of Sighs without bewailing Inhumanity its pleasure is even a pain and if it were without pain it would be without pleasure Reign solely in my heart with freedom tranquillity and joy Wealth is not wealth without you You are of those that the Heavens have sent us the most solid and the most amiably sweet and the only one worthy of us The sweetest passion is always a very great evil if it be not an affliction t is at least an inquietude the more vexation crosseth an Amorous desire the more pleasure also abounds but the greatest pleasure of the World if it gives me Anxiety it s no more a pleasure to me Reign solely in my Heart with Freedom Peace and Joy Wealth is not wealth without you You are of those whom the Heavens have sent us the most solid and the deliciously sweet and the only one worthy of us Celemante would have persisted but Ergaste who had already look't twice or thrice upon him to cause him to hold his Peace without the heed of Celemante observing that he continued without intermission in conclusion he began to speak to him saying Without doubt Celemente it must be avowed that thou hast but little judgment For how indifferent soever thou art for thy friends at leastwise thou shouldest use thy endeavours to conceal thy defaults and to contain thy self when thou seest them in affliction and 't were better for thee not to offer thy self to Telamon than to come with him only to sing and let him see by thy Actions how little regard thou hast to his displeasure Celemante who as we have said without any reflection betook himself to sing and by a kind of Habit of diverting himself in one sort or other had no sooner perceived his fault but joyning his hands he turned to Ergaste and said Oh! my poor Ergaste I demand thy Pardon and of Telamon also I protest unto thee I remember not hitherto any more of thy reproofs and I thought no more of thy singing Ergaste did not thus believe him and as the kindness he had for him joyned with a little inclination he had to reprove all that he disliked of perswaded him easily to make him out some Lessons on his defaults and on this Subject it was sufficiently long Celemante took it in good part for though the Reprehension was perhaps more earnest than he had deserved he knew too well that what Ergaste had done was through excess of friendship but he would not therefore acknowledge that he was so much overseen as he would have possessed him he had been and he fixed himself thereon so much the more willingly that he might thereby find means to ingage him in some discourse My Instructor replyed he then laughing you blame me after all for a thing for which I think you ought to commend me if I sing and if you see me joyful in occasions that are questionable in employing my self for my friends believe not that this is a fault to interest my self in that which concerns them but contrarily this which I I do him of good Will that I concern my self merrily when I serve them without regret Behold a very fair conceit said Ergaste My Friend when men take a share at the displeasure of their Friends they have