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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43266	The triumphs of love and constancy a romance, containing the heroick amours of Theagenes & Chariclea : in ten books / the first five rendred by a person of quality, the last five by N. Tate.; Aethiopica. English	Heliodorus, of Emesa.; Person of quality.; Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.	1687 (1687)	Wing H1374; ESTC R9072	185,782	392

Whilst I was thus discoursing with him alone least be should be too much ashamed I blush to tell you the rest he spurned me with his Foot and hath made me in this case as you now see My Father hearing this without speaking to me or giving me leisure to defend my self not believing she that had witnessed so tender an affection to me would now bely me having found me in my Chamber he set upon me beating me with his own hands and causing his Servants to to scourge me with rods in his presence I being not able to imagine for what cause they thus abused me but when the first motion of his choller was past Father said I yet now at least since before you would not suffer me let me know the reason of your displeasure and what offence I have committed to deserve this cruel Punishment Dissembling Traytor he replyed wouldst thou have me to be the Historian of thy Villanies and turning away from me hastned to Damoeneta but she for she had not yet satisfied her Cruelty lay'd a new train for me She had a Maid called Thisbe that played excellently well upon the Lute a handsom Maid her she commands to love me and presently she obeys her and she that had oftentimes before rejected my suit to her began now to tempt me with her looks and gestures in such sort that my Vanity believed I was grown Beautiful on the suddain To conclude I admitted her to my Bed which she continued to visit often and when I warned her she should take heed lest her Mistress should perceive her Lord said she how simple you are if you think it such danger for me a Slave and bought with Money to be taken thus what punishment do you judg my Mistress deserves who boasting her self nobly Born and having a Bed-fellow by the Laws of Matrimony Lastly knowing Death to be the reward proposed for her sin yet fears not to commit Adultry Oh! say not so I reply'd for I can by no means believe it Yes if you please said Thisbe I will bring you where you may take the Adulterer with her I having told her she should with all my Heart I will she answered both for your sake that have been extreamly injured by her and for my own that dayly suffer under her vain Jealousie Therefore if you have courage prepare your self to take him I having promised her I would not fail she presently retired her self The third night after she came and waked me from my sleep telling me the Adulterer was within and my Father by a suddain necessity called into the Country which she knowing before had made him this appointment and that it was now time for my revenge and wished me to take my Sword lest the Villain should escape me I did so and carrying it naked in my hand Thesbe going before me with a Light I came to the Chamber Door which I found locked and saw through the crevises the glympse of a Lamp that burned within Transported with impatience I broke open the Door and running in cryed out aloud Where is this Villain the Gallant Inamorato of this Illustrious Lady that is famed to be so Virtuous And then approaching with a full intent to Nayl them both to the Bed I saw my Father Oh good Gods who had leapt out in his Shirt and now was upon his knees before me And oh Son said he restrain a little your passion take pity of your Father spare these gray Hairs that have given you your breeding We have done you wrong 't is true but it is not of that Nature you should pursue us to the Death suffer not your Fury to transport you nor stain your Hands in your Fathers Blood In these and other lamentable Words he pleaded whilst I as if strook with a Clap of Thunder stood silenced and astonished looking round about the Bed and Chamber not knowing either what to say or do wondring what became of Thesbe that I know not how had slided away from me In this amaze my Sword fell out of my Hand and Damoeneta ran presently and catched it up My Father now seeing he had escaped the danger he apprehended laid Hands upon me and commanded I should be bound Damoeneta persisting to exasperate him against me Did not I tell you this that you should take heed of this Youth that when occasion was offered he would have some design I knew it by his Face I saw into his Heart Indeed you told me so he said but I could not believe you Then pinnion'd as I was he commanded me to be taken away and would not give me liberty to speak Next day in the morning he produced me to the People in my Bonds and casting dust upon his head It was not to this Hope Athenians that I bred this Child said he but promising to my self he would one day be a support and stay to my feeble Age willing out of such Fortunes as the Gods bestowed upon me to render him accomplisht in all sorts of Virtues I provided able Masters to instruct him in the Liberal Arts and when he had tasted the Elements of Letters caused his Name to be inrolled in the Register of my Family made him a Free-man of your Town that Living under your Laws he might enjoy your Priviledges and so much I have loved him that I have made my whole Life a trouble for his sake but he forgetful of all these Benefits first did me injury in his cruel usage of this my Lawful Wife and lastly entred my Chamber in the night Armed with his Sword and was only so far from being a Paracide as Fortune stood between us a suddain Terror making his Sword fall out of his hand I now fly to your Justice and have here brought him before you for though by the Laws with my own hands I might have killed him yet I would not esteeming it better that be should receive his punishment from you than an unfortunate Father spot his hands in the Blood of his own Son. Speaking these words he wept and Damoeneta seemed to take on extreamly calling me miserable that should die thus justly indeed but yet before my time and that sure some Devil had possest me and put it into my Mind to attempt my Fathers Life her Tears bearing false Witness of her Sorrow and confirming my accusation as Truth And when I beseeched they would permit me to speak a Notary stepping in put this strict question to me Whether I had not entered my Fathers Chamber in the Night with my Sword naked I did enter I reply'd but hear me and I will tell you how presently the People clamoured out and said I ought not to be suffered to speak more some cryed stone him others bid the Hangman should take me and throw me down headlong from the Precipice During this time of their Distractions in Opinion I cryed oh Step-mother alas I dye for my Step-mother my Step-mother condemns me without a hearing These words

the meaning then replied Theagenes of your Speech in that famous Assembly when you called me your Brother methought it was a fine invention putting Thyamis out of jealousie of our Love and making way that we might freely be together I approved your Story of the Countrey of Ionia and of a Voyage to Delos for they were things like Truths and led the Hearers in a pleasing Error but to accord so freely to a Marriage to article and set down the time before such multitudes of People I neither could nor would conjecture what it meant but wished the Earth would open and devour me ere I should see my hopes and services repaid with such Ingratitude At these Words Chariclea imbracing Theagenes and weeping How well I take these Fears said she that torment you for my sake since they make me know in the extremity of our Adversities your Affection is the same it was but assure your self Theagenes if I had not carried it thus we should not at this time have had the freedom to confer together for to be wilful and to run a contrary course to the desires of one more powerful than our selves begets but a stronger opposition whilst yielding words applied to the motion of the Will presently appeaseth the first heat and by the sweetness of a Promise lays the Appetite to sleep forasmuch as they that love after a gross rustick way if at the first essay they get consent they think they have done enough and making sure they shall enjoy the content they wish their Spirit is in more repose and goes floating in their hope This Consideration made me yield to Thyamis in words only commending the Sequel to the Gods and the Genius that from the beginning hath taken our chaste Love into his Patronage oftentimes a day or two put off hath been greatly advantageous to the miserable and brought means of safety when no humane Prudence could work it therefore for the present I deferred him avoiding a Certainty for an Vncertainty but we must do this artificially and conceal it as a slight at the Weapon from our Enemies even from Knemon for though he be full of Courtesie and hath done many Favours for us and is as we are a Grecian yet he is as we are a Captive and therefore if occasion should be offered more likely to gratifie his Conqueror than us the Conquered for neither the time of his Acquaintance nor his being our Countreyman are sufficient Pledges to us of his Fidelity and therefore if at any time he touches at our Affairs you must deny the Truth for the Lye is not evil that does good to the Author and no hurt to the Hearer As Chariclea was discoursing thus Knemon entred all in a sweat and manifesting a great perturbation by his countenance Here Theagenes take this Herb he said and apply it to your Wounds we must prepare our selves for greater hurts Theagenes praying him to speak plain The consideration of the time said he will not let you hear me out for it is to be feared the effect will prevent my Words but follow me you and Chariclea and so led them both to Thyamis whom he found busied in furbishing an Armour and sharpning the point of a Javelin This is to the purpose said Knemon that you have your Arms so near you put them on presently and command every one to do the like for I have discovered such a cloud of enemies coming as I never saw before they are not far off for having descried them from the top of the Hill where I was gathering Herbs I have brought you the News with all the speed I could and in traversing the Lake I have given warning to your Men to be in a readiness for their defence Thyamis hearing this suddenly started up and demanded where Chariclea was as fearing more for her than for himself and Knemon having shewed her standing at the Door Go said Thyamis in his ear take her with thee into the Cave where we conceal our Treasure and when thou hast conveyed her down and covered the mouth of the Cave with the Stone that useth to lie upon it pr'ythee Friend return with all celerity mean time we will give order for the Fight then he commanded his Page to seek him a fat Beast that having sacrificed to the Gods Protectors of the Place they might joyn Battel This while Knemon doing his Commands led away Chariclea that sighed and lamented and at every step she went turned back her eyes towards Theagenes at length they came to the Cave where Knemon immediatly carried her down The Place was not a work of Nature as we see many both above and under the ground but it was a Vault wrought out of the Rock by the industry of the Aegyptian Thieves and imitating Nature artificially hollowed to contain their Spoyls the Entry was narrow and obscure and conveyed into a little Cell the Threshold Stone whereof was a Door that opened and shut easily and gave another passage for descent into the Cave when necessity required within it were cut many Trenches and Meanders that went turning of either side sometimes alone sometimes mixing together like the Roots of Trees till they came to the bottom and there they end in a large and spacious Plain whereinto enters a little Light by certain clefts and crannies in the Earth above Knemon that by practice knew the turnings having brought Chariclea to the bottom endeavoured to comfort her the best he could assuring her he and Theagenes would come and see her soon at Night and that he would not suffer him to fight nor come within the danger and so he left her not able to speak one Word but fainting as if she had been struck to death and deprived of her Soul in her Theagenes and closing up the Cave could not himself refrain from weeping both that he should be forced to execute so hard a Command and in compassion of her Fortune whom he had almost buried alive and sealed up in Night and Darkness the perfectest Workmanship of Nature then he made haste to Thyamis whom he found compleatly armed and with his Oration exciting those that were about him for standing in the midst of them he said My Companions in Arms I do not think it needful to trouble you with many Words you need no admonition War is your Trade and now the Enemy is so near us he cuts off Discourse he comes upon us to force our Trenches with his Sword and we must answer him in his own Language I have nothing else to say but that now you are not only to defend your Wives and Children which hath been Motive sufficient for others to fight to the last man though if we be Conquerors such small things and many of greater moment wil be in our power but your Lives are now at stake for the War among Thieves was never ended by Treaty nor secured by League but the Survivors must be Conquerors and the Conquered must die