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spirit_n	break_v	young_a	youth_n	32	3	8.0089	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50450	Aretina; or, The serious romance Written originally in English. Part first.	Mackenzie, George, Sir, 1636-1691.	1660 (1660)	Wing M151; ESTC R217028	199,501	456

and a stranger uncertain of any assistance behoved to rely upon him besides wanting both friends and foes in the Nation he would impartially without either connivance or revenge execute all his commands This fellow became his creature and he might well be called so because he made him of nothing a potent prince others alledged that because the people did belch out so many injuries against Malchus for his avarice making his private chests the publick treasure saying that he was in the politick body like the spleen in the natural whose growth did proportionally occasion the leannesse of the other members therefore he choosed this Sophander whose avarice was his greatest if not his only vice that they might after his death by collationing their lives extoll his ambition by comparing it with his successours avarice Now all the Court began to adore Malchus in Sophanders person each one foreseeing that any imp ingrafted on such a root would one day flourish extreamly and that its shadow should one day be able to shelter those who retired under it from either the cold chilnesse of poverty or the scorching flames of envie yea the King himself caressed exceedingly this Infant Minion but so cautiously as that he seemed rather to love him in obedience to Malchus his desire than out of any secret inclination to Sophander or aversion from Malchus albeit these two passions were really the legs whereon his passion did walk Thus Malchus did by the hand of his pleasure sway the Sceptor of Soveraignity his fancy being the sole and supream Judge even in matters of the greatest importance from whose sentence the Royal Throne it self durst receive no appeal and whose smiles were the greatest reward that the proudest Egyptian durst pretend to the office of Chancellour became too narrow an orb for this great Planet to move in wherefore as an extraordinary person he must have an extraordinary imployment and must be advanced to be first Minister of State a title not understood by us and never heard of by our Ancestors but which suited well with his ambition both being boundless None durst now dispute his power seing none could pretend to know it and seing the King himself was who could repine against the condition of a subject Nothing was presented to him now but what was confected with the sugar of flattery not a word dropped from his mouth but was instantly received in Fames most sacred vessels and the most erroneous of his actions were canonized as example for posterity Yet fear the ordinary Lacquey of greatness began to tell his conscience in the ear that he was rather adored than loved by those who even loved him best which made him resolve by the news of his death to try whether it was love or fear that made the humours of his Compatriots so plyable in order to this design feigning himself first sick and then blazing abroad his death by the mouth of his Physicians did by the dissembled closure of his eyes open the fond mouthes of the unwary Courtiers who were glad to find an occasion to vomit up that poysonous malice which had even by its venom almost destroyed the vessels wherein it was keeped but the next morning the Physicians told that his soul had but lurked in and not fled from his apoplectick body and he himself being recovered did deal death most liberally amongst those who were so liberall of their characters of him whilest they supposed that he was dead Yet at last death did show that the armour of greatness was not proof against its darts and did hurry him away cursed by all and lamented by none the people supposing they had buried him and their miseries in one tomb did now coin thousands of hopes in the mint-house of their expectation but their miseries which had begun to ebb by Malchus death did now begin to flow afresh by the Succession of Sophander whom the Queen fearing that the Nobles who did not obey him who was both their Countryman and their Prince would far lesse obey her whose reign was but temporary and whose sex was but fragile did after the death of her husband who survived not long Malchus choose him for her Confident The young Kings name served them for a rampart against all opposition and his infancy made the uproars of her enemies be looked upon as a sin greater than Treason being committed both against the Majesty of a King and the Infancy of a Childe and rendred them criminal both as men and subjects Yet this same innocency which made the opposers so guilty did likewise give time and life to the far more heinous crimes of the defendants Sophander having got the Tutory of the young King acquainted him with all the pleasures which might alienate his mind from affairs of greater importance but keeped him alwayes a stranger to the Mysteries of State as things which would certainly disquiet and might possibly break his spirit telling him that it was too soon for him to have his Crown lined with the black Sables of Care and that he might in his youth commit some Solicismes of State which might for ever stain his Royall repute he likewise retarded his Marriage fearing lest anothers worthiness should fill the room which he unworthily had gotten in his Princes heart till at last overpowered by necessity he matched him with a neighbouring Princess whose pliable humour might rather be subservient than destructive to his greatness I who had been promoted to be Chancellour immediatly after Malchus death became now the eye-sore of Sophanders avarice for he thought my charge void because it was not filled with one of his Partisans who might at last like small rivers discharge themselves in the ocean of his Treasures whereupon I who scorned like those other Asses to carry Gold to his bottomless Coffers did resolve rather to shelter my self in the Sanctuary of a private life than to bow the top-sail of my integrity to the flag of his ambition wherefore I retired to this place and condition which I have alwayes since found a harbour able to shelter me from the most violent storms of pride and avarice wherewith those are shattered who sail in the ocean of Court-luxury This discourse did extreamly satisfie Megistus judgment and kindle his courage and Monanthropus perceiving the coals of his courage once kindled did by the bellows of wit and occasion endeavour to adde heat to excite the flames which he found already kindled and it was resolved at last that Eudoxa the elder of these two Ladies should go to Alexandria where she should stay till by Bonaria's intercession so was Monanthropus Lady called she might be admitted to be one of Agapeta the Kings daughters Ladies of honour where she might be serviceable to their designs and a stirrup wherby Megistus might the more easily mount the saddle of preferment Let us now return to visit Philarites whose love had plunged him in the ditch of Melancholly irrecoverably who loved nothing in himself except

discouraged for certain●y those who cannot suffer a superiour in the beginning will not in the end suffer a competitor and this Scepter which they have screwed out of my hand will prove a bone for which these mastiffs will one day fight amongst themselves and after that this Land hath raged in this feaver of rebellion for some space it will at last recall its banished judgment and judge it expedient to call home its banished Prince and I am confident that this disaster shall prove to my family but like a potion of physick which may procure some sicknesse at first but will perpetuate its health for the future for when ye ponder how ye owe the conquest of your sweet Country to the courage of my Antcestors who without them durst never have attempted it and how ye owe your pure Religion to their zeal without whom none of you would have dared its Reformation as likewise how hundreds yea thousands of years joyned to the experience of your antcestors may be adduced as witnesses to depone in its favours when ye advert how your Taxes and Gabels will augment and your Iustice diminish daily when you see your streets dyed with bloud and your faces with paleness oppression your Legislatour and pride and violence the executors of these Laws then your consciences will upbrade you with your defection and torture you for your injustice After this discourse was ended the Executioner acknowledging the wickednesse of his imployment by the masking of his face did end his unparallel'd life Pity it was to behold how pity by its iron mace of sorrow broke the hearts of the beholders for not a face there was scarleted by one drop of bloud as if all their bloud had been transubstantiate in water to suppeditate tears to their prodigal eyes which stood like clouds first darkned with sorrow and thereafter distilling in showres of tears which did trickle down as if they would bury themselves also in that ground wherein his princely body was to be intombed neither was those eyes judged fit to behold heaven who had not first washen themselves with tears shed for him or if any weeped not it was because they resembled those vessels which are so full that they can drop none or else because their souls sick of an appoplexy of grief had forfaulted all its senses and faculties but amongst many others there was one whom grief had enraged and whom rage had so grieved that retiring to his chamber he quivered out these dolfull notes O distracted heart why borrowest thou not wings from dispair to flee after thy peerlesse Prince if thou stay in the dark dungeon of my cloudy breast thou shalt be fed with sorrow and drowned with tears O supernal powers if I may call you powers who suffer your selves to be overpowered by injustice must we term you both good and gods seing ye permit such innocent souls to be ballated upon earth by violence and oppression is it not enough that ye should send us a barren and heavie age of iron but that ye must likewise edge it with steel that it may the better cut to pieces our grieved souls Was not the treasure of mans misery great enough before but that ye behoved to augment it with their new coined afflictions O earth why swallow ye not such miscreants is it because ye fear to contaminate your pure bowels with such contagious carcasses if so vomit up your flames of fire to cleanse your surface of that pest O heavens ye are most wronged wherefore the punishment belongs to you scorn ye to be bourriers to such vile persons if so commissionate frogs and serpents to devour them O Pluto why recallest thou not thy brethren and hell why suffer ye your vice-gerents alwayes to roam abroad is it because ye fear that they would extinguish your flames with their fruitless tears or is it because ye fear that they would deserve your scepter better than your self as being more expert in the art of wickednesse than ye are or intend ye that they live upon earth to the end they may imbitter the lives of those who are in it With that he rises all in fury and cryes Vp Lacedemon arm thy self with rage And all those miscreants banish from the stage Lest neighbouring Nations with the finger of scorn Point out that Rose that chang'd is in a Thorn After this he would have killed himself but prudence whispered him iu the ear that it was fitter to live and see the fatal period of those Regicides to which resolution he acquiesced washing his hands in innocencie with his streams of tears The heavens likewise gloomed at what past and Phoebus looking sullen and posting by seemed to bestow no more light upon Lacedemon than he glanced to them over his shoulder disdaining to look streight to those who were not streight themselves and the clouds keeping up their rain darkned the face of heaven either unwilling to fatten the earth which was by its fruits to fatten those Traitours or fearing to let its drops fall in a Country where Kings were murthered the air likewise each attome whereof seemed swell'd with rage because so grosse as that the grossest lungs could not breath it nor the sharpest eye pierce it Thus Nature seemed to clothe all her houshold in mourning for the losse of her dearest darling and she became enraged at these villains for breaking that Tableau which she had distinated as a remembrance of her exquisit skill to all ages Theopemptus eldest son to Anaxagius succeeded to him a Gentleman of a noble spirit and well limb'd eloquence who knew well by the bridle of cunning to govern the fierce monster of popular fury and whose genius quadrant-like was able to measure the height of the highest imployment to which it was applyed and who by the art of patience could make the rarest flowers of vertue and generosity grow in the cold and barren soil of affliction which did continually yeeld so abundantly the seeds of precepts and example as that thereby in short time he stored therewith the gardens both of Court and Country which was formerly judged impossible because of the largeness of the one and weediness of the other yet providence judged fit to enamel this golden spirit with the black colour of adversity giving him an opportunity thereby to evidence that chance did not share with him in his vertue but that he could be vertuous not only without the assistance but even in spight of the resistance of that blind though ordinary helper or if chance played ever in his game it was because it knew none could be a loser who was associated to such a gamester and so that to which all thers were debtors was a debtor to him who thought it more princely to give than to receive The Synod had pained themselves oft to draw him to be their Leader thinking it easie to perswade a young Prince to be an absolute King and fore-seeing that he would be very