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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28575	The Indian history of Anaxander and Orazia wherein are mingled the adventures of Alcidaris of Cambaya, and the loves of Piroxenus / written in French by Monsieur de Boys-Robert ; and translated into English by W.G., Esq. ...; Histoire indienne d'Anaxandre et d'Orazie. English	Boisrobert, sieur de (François Le Métel), 1592-1662.; W. G., Esq.	1657 (1657)	Wing B3468; ESTC R18176	151,152	298

thereto it was casie enough for one man to know an other by his face and therefore Lisimantus who thought he knew the sound of that voice which spake unto him but could not possibly call him to mind seeing him so near knew him perfectly not having seen him in twelve or thirteen years before and crying out My Father said he casting his arms about his neck is it possible that you are that good and vertuous Eurimedes who brought me into the world and whose name I once bare If my eyes do not deceive me say what occasion brought you hither and what strange fortune made you leave the Trade you drove at Diu to weare the gown that you might condemn your own Son to death The good Eurimedes for he it was indeed was so astonisht at these words as remaining a good space without speaking O yee immortall Gods said he what do I hear what see I what miracle is this Which Lisimantus hearing sufficiently confirm'd in what he beleeved Oh my Father said he I know you without doubt and see the Gods for punishment of my forsaking your house and raising my self beyond my duty in forein parts and shaming my birth which I have till this time conceald from all the world will have me once appear before you for my more Confusion and to have my Condemnation from your mouth O how justly fortune deales thus with me and how reasonably may she repent her of her favours so prodigally bestowed on me I have treated in Equality with Kings I have pratled with the fairest Princesses of Asia I have commanded armies I have every day layd new foundations for vanity and conceiv'd new hopes of greatnesse I have reckoned of the goods of fortune as mine own and now she takes them not only all at once from me but Entrenches on the honor I have gotten with my sword and does not spare my life whereof she formerly hath seem'd to be so tender This my Father makes me see that the world is but vanity that its greatnesse after which so many ambitious spirits run is but vapor and smoak which slips out of ones hand when fastest seeming to be held and that the whole stock of her prosperities are frayl and mutable Eurimedes who by this time doubted no more that it was the very child which he had lost and precious pledg which Pirobus had made him formerly responsable for and for his better satisfaction pray'd him to let him see his right arm naked where finding the Arms of Gouzarat imprinted and his conscience troubled for what he was compelled long ago to do he cast himself upon his knees before Lisimantus and acknowledging him for his lawfull Lord Great Prince said he to him if you have been elevated by your courage and ambition if you have treated equally with Princes and if you have commanded Armies you have done nothing unanswerable to your birth or unworthy of your illustrious parents Know my Lord that you are son unto the great Alcidaris and only to avoid the blame which I had had for not producing you being required of me when you fled from my house I was fain to imprint the Royal arms of Cambaya in my childs arm which was set on yours to know you by when you should be taken out of my hands That child my Lord whom I dare not own is he who unjustly at this day holds your room and for whom all the Court and the King himself have so little good opinion I make you this comession with shame and I who am his father ask your pardon if necessity enforcing me I have so ill supplyed your place Lisimantus surpriz'd with wonder and astonishment caused Eurimedes to rise and prayed him to tell him what he knew of the truth of his History which he did from the beginning to the end and recounted to him how Alcidaris got him on the Queen Bernica his first wife and forced by his passionate love unto QUeen Anaxarete who resisted his sute because he had a son he was constrain'd to suffer his fatherly affection to give place to the violence of his love in conclusion he recited to him from point to point how Pirobus had trusted him to his education that he changed his name Alcidaris into his own Eurimedes lest in progresse of time he might be known for the Kings and that he might be bred among his children and passe for one of them untill he should be called to Court and used as himself the heir of the Crown But my Lord added he when you had stollen from me because Pirobus had exceedingly recommended you to my wife and self and that we received a great pay yearly for you we could not doubt but that you were of great extraction in so much as for the fear of being punished if you were found wanting as for the losse of a great Pension which we received I thought it best together with my wife having seen after what manner the Arms of Cambaya had been printed on your arm to do the like to one of our children who was very neer your age and shape and colour'd hair and is the same who at this day draws all the Court after him and thinks he is the only heir of all those Kingdoms which expect you Indeed had he been of a better inclination and of other breeding than he is my fortune had been greater But the King taking him for his son and believing that he got with me those evil customs and habits which he hath by nature only he thought it sufficient to take me from my trassique and give me an Office which was then vacant in the Criminal Chamber of Justice in Campanel wherein I am Commissary general of all Crimes against the Crown In truth the Office was but too good for me and I accounted it still honorable untill this fatall day of your condemnation wherein I have dishonored both it and my self by adhering to the beastlinesse of the Campanelens who covet to glory in the death of one of their Princes by the ignominious losse of the other but by the gods assistance I intend to prevent it I will go instantly and declare my knowledge to the King and though it be a sad intelligence to know you were your only brothers homicide not knowing him he must in sinte be comforted that you are living and his lawful race not quite extinct In uttering these words without giving leasure to the Prince to reply he left him in his prison with new disquiets for having slain a brother of so generous and good a nature and presently went to King Alcidaris at whose feet he cast himself and made him this discourse Eurimedes his Speech to King Aleidaris SEeing your Clemency is infinite most great and generous Monarch I hope it may extend on me although unmeasurably guilty and unworthy of a pardon for my fault I am here cast at your Majesties feet to accuse my self for having given you my own instead of your

had brought that little Prince into the world with pains incredible she choaked in her Convulsions and the first hower of her childbed gave the last unto her life Now though Alcidaris were not ensirely so much tender of her at she of him nor had the just same feelings that she had yet could not chuse but by that unexpected death receive most strong impressions great was the grief he shewed and whatsoever pomp the quality of so great and vertuous a Princesse as she was requir'd did wait upon his mourning and her Funerals But as there is no wound however it may seem incurable but time may heal this which Alcidaris received was not so great as that there needed a whole age to comfort him for after one year ended he became most passionably enamored of the Queen Anaxareta who by the death of her brother Spimantus newly being arriv'd was heir unto the Kingdom of Dulcinda which does on the one side border on the King my fathers Countries and on Persia on the other The reason why so passionately he pursu'd that Love was that besides his pleasure there was profit in it and thought that by uniting Dulcinda to his other Kingdoms he should be an equal powerful neighbour to the Persian Perswaded by these reasons but more by love that forced him he sent one named Pirobus and of the ablest of his Kingdom in Embassage to the Queen Anaxareta He was receiv'd as coming from so great a Prince with much magnificence but wondred greatly that the answer he received was no more favorable She only told him thus that the King of Cambaye had done her a great deal of honour but that the King her brother being so lately dead and having scarce wip'd off her tears it could not be she should so soon forget him nor in such haste run from his Funerals to her own espousals and therefore pray'd the King his Master not to hold it strange that she desired more time to think thereof This Embassador who was a man of great discretion and knew the extream passion of Alcidaris resting but poorly satisfied with this answer and knew his Master would be likewise so bethought him that of Force some greater reason must restrain the Queen than of her brothers death who almost two years since had died and should have caus'd her greater joy than sorrow for which cause he makes adresses to the chiefest Statist there and dives into him to discover if he could his Mistriss meanings he shews him how the King of Cambaye was her neer neighbour and one of the most powerful Monarchs of the Indies That over and above his greatness and his wealth he had all qualities which might commend a man to a fair Ladies acceptation that in all Asia his Mistresse could not finde a fitter match that there needed no long time to think upon a matter which depended only on her will And that he knew not what to infer by the coldness of her answer save that she loved some other since she neglected the desires of a Prince so mighty and one who could not be but a great strength unto her This States-man who desired to pay him with more solid reasons than the Queen had done thought t was no matter of importance if he told him what he guest she thought which was that being of a mighty spirit and knowing that Alcidaris had had a son by the Queen Berenica who as himself was call'd Alcadaris and should when he were dead possesse his Kingdoms she could not abide that those that should proceed from her should ever happen to be seconds or in rank or in affection and being able to dispose of the Kingdom of Dulcinda she thought she might do better to chuse out a Gentleman her Subject who should be her creature and by whom she might have children heirs to her possessions than to match a King of whose inheritance she could not see a hope for hers And this said he in my opinion is the cause that backs the Queen for she is not so ignorant both of the qualities and vertues of the King your Master but that she holds him for the man of most advantage for her choice save only that his heir is born already Pirobus more satisfi'd herewith than by the reasons given him from the Queen though very little notwithstanding seeing how far from giving comfort to his Master returns towards him and from point to point gives him account of his Embassage Alcidaris as well as possible he could dissembled the disquiet this il news procur'd him and I know not if his love oblig'd him or that as yet some little hope remained for him But as if heaven would favour his desires about eight or ten months end report ran all about that the young Prince Alcidaris was very sick and that his tender age not able to defend it self against the strong assaults of a continued Feavor death had delivered him The sorrow which the King put on was so great that for the space of forty daies he suffred not himself to be seen by any creatures except Pirobus his faithful Counsellour The noise of his great losse immediately was spread throughout and came to the Queen Anaxaretas ears who seeing that great obstacle remov'd desir'd no greater thing in all the world than that alliance and in a word to end Pirobus being sent the second time had his desire and some few daies after did Alcidaris possesse both Anaxaretas beauties and her Kingdoms peacefully Now Madam from that happy Marriage I am sprung and named Anaxander from my Mothers name Almost about the same time I was born Ametista Queen of Citor and only sister to the King my father was delivered of Piroxenus whom you see here under name of Callistenus we were bred up and taught together and besides our age and blood which knit us in a perfect friendship nature augmented it by so exact a correspondency of humours as never was observed the least disparity in our opinions and truly since our friendship hath foundation but on vertue only t is not to be admired that from a cause eternal such effects of everlastingness are seen The wise Evander from my tendrest youth had me in government and Alcidaris who much desired to frame me after the example of that honorable man drew him from the Province of Carmanie on very great expence for he was Master of some nine or ten Languages and ignorant of nothing that another man did know He had not only care of me but likewise had an eye to Piroxenus whom he found exceeding capable of his good doctrines and we both so well profited by his instructions as we soon learned all the secrets of the Persian and Arabique tongues which travel mostly throughout all the Indies this side Ganges Besides the recreations of our minds we exercis'd our bodies likewise and familiarly disguising our selves on daies of ceremony or delight we got the prizes with our Lances and at Fencing too and