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spirit_n	father_n	heart_n	son_n	17,006	5	5.6134	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33041	The loving enemy or A famous true history written orignally in the French tongue, by the most incomparable pen-man of this age, J. P. Camus B. of Belley. Made English by Maior Wright, as his recreation, during his imprisonment.; Voyageur incogneu. English.	Camus, Jean-Pierre, 1584-1652.; Wright, Major (John)	1667 (1667)	Wing C416; ESTC R213120	36,824	139

vowed he would precipitate himselfe into a thousand deaths rather then suffer his Father to engage without him Poliecte no way distrusted his agilitie nor his gallantrie but fear'd the tendernesse of his youth of the mature vigour and experience of those whom his Enemy had taken for his seconds At last Laurean exclaimed intreated conjured and stormed so much that his Father was enforc't to condescend to his desire and suffer him to measure his Sword with Silvin's brother and second Without troubling my selfe to describe every particular of this Combate not to speake according to the Proverbe as a Clerke at armes I will relate you onely the Event which was thus Silvin was kill'd out-right by Poliecte's owne hand Fructule wounded and disarmed by Laurean two others of Silvin's side slaine in the field the other two put to flight of Poliecte's party onely kept the dead Adversaries company another escap'd unhurt but the foure others were so desperately wounded that Poliecte and his sonne were carryed off as dead and although the glory of winning the Field was theirs it was a dear-bought Victory They were carryed to Avignon where their Wives yet remained The one received newes of her Husbands death with such incessant skreeking and complaints as passe all tearmes of expression the other was not much lesse aggrieved seeing her Husband and her Sonne in so deplorable a condition that their deaths seem'd neerer by much then their recovery Fructule was also brought thither but through the losse of so much blood he had such frequent Syncopes that every moment 't was thought he would expire Silvin's wife receiv'd her Brother-in-law in this dolefull equipage and with Clione her Husbands onely daughter and heiresse so carefully tended him that within some daies there were evident signes of his recovery Poliecte's wife was no lesse busied about her Son and husband whose desperate wounds put her in continuall apprehension of their deaths Her conjugall and motherly afflictions bred in her most insupportable affections for her heart being equally ballanced and bearing a share in both their sufferings could no way condescend to the loosing of either of those so neerely and so dearely beloved persons But the Heavens not willing to keepe her soule any longer suspended betwixt these two Idols determined to take one of them Both were so neare death that 't was thought one while the Father another while the Sonne would leade the way these sad uncertainties gave strange convulsions to the dolefull heart of Eulalie At last Poliecte who was more perplex't for his Son then for himselfe obtain'd at length what oft he had desired which was that by the shortning of his dayes his Son's might be prolonged So he deceased after long languishing and many pangs which his patience and true repentance made very instrumentall to the expiation of his offences His death was conceal'd from Laurean as much as might be lest that sorrow added to the extreame anguish of his wounds should cut in sunder the weake spun thread of so fraile a life as soon as there appear'd some symptomes of health in him and that the Consolidation of his wounds gave hopes of his recovery I know not how the losse of his Father came unto his knowledge but whether through the motives of his owne good disposition or the great affection he bare towards him that gave him his being in this world or the suddainnesse of the griefe which seized him unprepar'd or whether as yet not throughly having gathered strength but still languishing with paine his heart was insufficient to resist so violent an assault this news so strongly wrought upon his fancy that falling into a continuall feaver with extravagant ravings he was posses'd with a melancholly Imagination that he was dead himselfe These kinds of diseases which trouble and pervert the sense and Judgement are the Physitians crosses and which they hold the least incurable of any for what remedies can be applyed to one that esteemes all medicines uselesse or out of a wilfull obstinacy refuseth to take any This or worse was poore Laurean's condition none could perswade him to take any kind of nutriment saying that dead Bodies did not eate and that it was ridiculous and against nature to take any victualls no prescriptions of the Physitians no remonstrances of Religious men nor the incessant teares of the bewailing Mother could prevaile any thing upon his opiniative obstinacy untill one of his owne Servants extremely perplex't at his Masters malady bethought himselfe of an ingenious Stratagem which proved no lesse profitable then pleasing He knew that men tainted with such Hypochondriake diseases are sooner cur'd by condescending to their humours then contradicting them for crossing them doth but imprint their folly deeper in the braine which nothing but some witty querk of invention can deracinate so faining himselfe dead he was lay'd upon a bed in Laurean's sight and there taking such meat as was brought to him at last bred an appetite in his Master who resolv'd to imitate the dead man and eate as he did By this means by little and little his braines began to settle and proportionably as he recovered strength of body those melancholly Vapours dispersed themselves which obfuscated his imagination and his youthfulnesse added to the cure and remedies applyed to him called him back from Deaths dore to the hope of a happy recovery and in short time his wounds being throughly heal'd he re-enjoyed as perfect health as ever But as all worldly pleasures seldome are entire he scarce had left off mourning for his Father but he was re-obliged to the like sadnesse both of heart and habit for the decease of Eulalie who quite overcome with sorrow for her husbands death and the continuall feares she was in for her Sonne fell into a lingring disease which consuming insensibly her spirits enforc'd her at last to follow her so much beloved Poliecte leaving Laurean the most disconsolate man living Now let us see what passeth in the Adversary Silvin's family where mercilesse Death sweeping all before him makes dolefull evidences of his uncontrouleable puissance yet neverthelesse the coldnesse of his ashes is not of force enough to extinguish the coales of their implacable anger their hatred passeth the grave which in my judgment is too large an extent and ought to be the utmost point the extremity of any malice should reach unto Fortunate not being able to admit in the wounds which the griefe for Silvin's losse had caused the ingredients of any Consolation never considering that the Combate where 't was his chance to fall was fairly carryed without any treachery and that Poliecte himselfe though not kill'd in the field was since dead of the wounds her husband gave him and that Laurean had escaped no better then Fructule Incens'd with furious appetite of revenge breathes nothing in the eares and heart of Clione but a desire to procure the death of Laurean Most wicked woman who not satisfied with so much blood as is already

augmented much that beauty which Laurean contemplated but with too much attention Perceiving his teares What Florent said he is it the default of my courage that breeds this effect of pitty in you No no doe not thinke though I am called every day to Death's doore that I will ever abate the least punctillio of Honour which is so hereditary to my Family Rather bewaile the mis-fortune of those that through Clione's meanes have fallen by my Victorious hand So unworthy a diffidence replyed Florent never entered into my thought the proofes that you have given of your Valour in so many occasions are so publicke that he must be a great stranger in this Province that is ignorant of them I am onely sorry that such eminent vertues should be so unjustly exposed to the Cruelty of a barbarous Maid who cannot deserve for so many unworthy actions that you should esteeme so highly of her as you have exprest And I believe if she knew your true worth she would change her animosity into affection whereby you might gather the roses of friendship in the same plot that produced you the thornes of hatred But that which forceth me to shed these teares is the Sorrow that oppresseth me to see so generous and spotlesse a life exposed to so many deaths and to such a Continued succession of tragicall adventures Would to God that I were able with the effusion of my blood to secure you from these troubles or worthy to receive so much honour from you as to goe a sharer with you in your dangers for I shall never esteeme my life better employed then when it is expos'd to doe you service These complements issued so gracefully out of that sweet mouth that Laurean melting with such enchanting language had much adoe to refraine from teares and expresse himselfe in tearmes suitable to his passion It chanc'd at that same time that Laurean was visited in his house by a kinswoman whose name was Octaviane daughter to one of Poliecte's Sisters and whose Father had beene engaged in the long quarrell betwixt Silvin and Poliecte whose cause for the mothers sake he strove to maintaine and justifie This Lady hearing of her kinsman 's sad condition being every day in danger of his life through the provocations of Clione's Champions ful of a Courage not ordinary in her Sex and animated with a strange Rodomontado like disposition came purposely to break to him the designe she had to challenge Clione to fight with her and so with each of them a dagger to revenge upon one another their Father's Deaths An heroick resolution for a maide had not despaire beene the principall motive to it Laurean received her with the greatest testimonies of respect friendship and Courtesie that could be shewed to so neere a kinswoman and so gallant a Lady But when she discovered her designe although he admired her Amazonian Courage he could not hold from laughing to see how vehement the desire of revenge was in a Sex of so much imbecility like fire that flames with so much violence when it meets with any light and combustible materiall Thence he took occasion to excuse within himself Clione's fury who used all means possible to be reveng'd of him by her Lovers since Octaviane would expose her owne life to so extream and almost inevitable danger to seek satisfaction for her Father's death Oh could he have penetrated the secret of darknesse and discovered Florents disguise he would easily have perceived that Clione's spirit was enrag'd with no lesse fury against Octaviane He absolutely disapproves of his kinswoman's proposition telling her it was not onely a furious rash enterprise and contrary to all reason but impossible to be effected and that comming to the knowledge of the world it would make her the Table-talk of all France Octaviane much distasted would not bate one Ace however of her resolution and what she had communicated to him in private she spared not to speak openly and in Florent's owne hearing whom she did not take to be Clione which struck this disguised Damsell so to the heart that her Face became like a Rain-bow for diversity of Colours and you may well think her spirit was agitated with no lesse diversity of thoughts Her heart working like the troubled Sea one while she resolved to accept Octaviane's defiance and engage that Clione should meet her then the fear of discovering her self enforc'd her to bridle that impetuosity But that which stretch'd the pin of Florent's patience to the uttermost was to hear Octaviane in a Raunting manner say I have no lesse Noble blood in me nor am I inferiour in Estate to that inexorable murtheresse and if my Lovers flatter me not nor my owne Glasse deceive me I think Nature hath been no lesse favourable to me than her I have Suitours as well as she who all make me the highest protestations that may be Were I as cruelly minded as that barbarous Imp or had I as little pity upon those that make Love to me I could impose the same Law upon them and enjoyne them to fight with those that she employes to revenge her Father's death upon a man that 's no way guilty of it But rather then to be the cause of so much Blood-shed I will Encounter her my selfe with a Poniard and make a passage with my Blade for that Black Soule to sally out of her cankered Brest Here Florent was fain to suppresse his Choller with both hands and strive to keep himselfe within the bounds of modesty partly out of respect of his owne Honour and partly out of hope to Chastise by effects the insolency of those outragious words And indeed within a very little time fortune gave him fit opportunity to accomplish that desire for Octaviane having heard him singe and joyne his voyce to the ravishing accords of his Lute and Nartalls Virginalls she was so enchanted with that delicate voyce issuing from a face all of flowers a mouth of pearle and Corall and a breath of amber in an instant she lost the knowledge of her selfe and giving way to this new flame she became all ice to her old Servants Florent not ignorant of the passions that her Sex was subject to suddainly perceived by Octaviane's lookes sighes and carriage that the glances of his beautifull eyes had made no ordinary impression in her heart desirous to make this love an instrument of the hatred he bare her for her invective language against Clione he adds fewell to this new fire by fained demonstrations of a reciprocal affection and augments with high hopes of fruition the desires of this imprudent Damsell like Faulconers and Fishermen that never present their baits to the unwary birds or fishes but to take them and deprive them both of life and liberty You may imagine whether Octaviane bit greedily at that baite Nature enclining us to believe easily what we desire It is not my intent to describe the particulars of this affection no lesse sincere and