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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33475	Cloria and Narcissus a delightfull and new romance, imbellished with divers politicall notions and singular remarks of moderne transactions / written by an honourable person.; Cloria and Narcissus.	Honourable person.	1653 (1653)	Wing C4725; ESTC R11584	347,747	670

your Fathers Court however I was before-hand convinced in the improbability of the demand where neverthelesse by chance I met with a ship of those Pirates that had fled from the rest that tooke you prisoner not being consenting to your transportation into Aegypt which was put into that Harbour with a resolution if they could not be admitted speedily into the service of Evarchus against his owne Subjects who had already as 't was reported imployed most of his royall Navy against his Command they would direct their course to Tyre to make the same offer to Orsames your Uncle by which meanes I became absolutely informed of them of all those passages that concerned your Person amongst the Pirates before your comming to Memphis but they receiving a refusall by reason the King your Father esteemed not himselfe yet ready for their assistance I determined to take the commodity of that ship for my transportation into Syria however because the Vessell needed some reparation before it could goe out of the Haven of Caria I had sufficient leisure given me in a disguise to informe my selfe of the assaires of your Father as a duty belonging to you whom as I was told had lately quitted the City of Sardis and was retired for his greater security though with a very few company to Theatira a place as it was conceived much more addicted to his service upon my arrivall I found him in a condition in that City beyond my expectation not onely attended by most of the Gentry and Nobility of the Kingdome of Lydia but going to a great Assembly of people gathered together by his command unto whom he made an oration to this purpose My Lords said he and you the rest of my Subjects as I am not more glad to see this joyfull Declaration of your Duties to my Service then willing to imploy my best endeavours for your protection so I hope the Gods will give me the power still to be your King notwithstanding the cunning and malicious practices of many who have sought to bereave me of that honour alledging I have a will rather to become a tyrant then continue a Governour but for that this meeting is principally designed that you may the better know me and I be more assured of you I shall strive to let you see my acts and thoughts in the first place no sooner was I throughly possest of the grievances of my Kingdomes but I assembled the great Councell to give them redresse wherein I not onely condescended to passe such decrees as were thought necessary for that purpose but assured the continuance thereof absolately to bury all feares and jealousies that might arise by reason of any doubt of my inconstancy however this is now so farre turned to my disadvantage that I am not onely denyed any more mannaging the affaires of the Common-weale contrary to the known Lawes of Lydia but have been in a manner forcibly driven from Sardis my regall City with disorderly tumults neither can probably be again established in my ancient right without your assistance In the second place I can give you no stronger assurance then my deep vowes to the gods that I will never change the laws customs and religion of the Kingdome which are testimonies sufficient for your beliefe against calumniations and false aspersions cast about in your eares to my prejudice since in your loves I mean rather to rule then by my own Sword And now I shall proceed to let you see the danger to your selves by this intended change of Lawes though before you can be entirely instructed therein you must be throughly informed of the constitutions of your own present government the best composed certainty of all other since it is a Monarch of that restriction that it neither takes from the King that power that is necessary for his obedience nor yet leaves the subject in a slavish subjection so that if he would he cannot be a Tyrant and if he will he may be a Prince in the one the people are invited to obey with love and in the other the Soveraigne is compelled to govern with humanity since he hath not power to be over-insolent as the subject liberty to be licentious in so much as there will now rest nothing but to mark out to your understandings my Priviledges and your rights whereby you may the more clearly distinguish of the unhappy differences between me and my Senate which as I take it is the plainest way of demonstration since the matter is brought into fact and not left to opinion To this purpose I challenge by the lawes customes and fundamentall constitutions of this Kingdome never yet contradicted or disputed by any time the creating of Nobility ordaining officers pardoning offenders confiscations of offenders raising of Forces making warre or or peace convocating of dismissing Senates and a negative voice in the proceedings as undoubted prerogatives belonging to the Crown of Lydia not to be invaded by the endeavour of any subject without incurring those penalties that belong to the crime of treason against the Kings person of the other side the people may justly pretend to this liberty the absolute freedome of their lives which they cannot forfeit without a legall triall by men of their own rank and Countrey a power to enjoy and dispose of their goods without the leave of any person whatsoever and a successive inheritance in their lands that cannot be interposed by any of another blond or kindred the first gives the Prince such a jurisdiction as is necessary for his government the other maintaines the people in a pleasing freedome to themselves without the one there must needs follow that which can produce nothing but confusion and lacking the other men are so enthralled that they must needs want courages to defend or good their Countrey wherefore if I lack that fitting right that belongs unto a King you must misse of that protection needfull for subjects since the disputation of command onely will distract the resolutions of such as are commanded in their obedience 〈◊〉 whereby profitable resolutions cannot be put in execution Besides if I should poorly suffer my ancient right to be invaded can it be though my lasting posterity will be content in after age● with such a losse since they will have ma●● Princes stung with the example to assist them in the justnesse of the quarrell which will at last either endanger the Subjects of the Kingdom to be made captives to forraigne power or at the least fill the whole Realm with blood and slaughters to its absolute destruction So that I say as these were most laudable constitutions conveyed unto you by the wisdome of your ancestors so doe not you by your own stupid wilfulnesse for no better can I call it endeavour to abolish that excellent government that hath continued you happy for so many ages resembling the Giants that made a preposterous warre with heaven untill they and their proud endeavours were all buried in a confused destruction

said before received golden liberalities in the time of the old King he being a Prince that knew no way how to be provident when they found that Euarchus numerous issue and the Queenes necessary expences did in a manner drowne all their expectation first began to mutter in words against the accustomed vanities of the times and lastly they found fault that only smooth faced boys enjoyed as they said all the credit of the Court when Souldiers and men of valour wanted both countenance and meanes to live the King being so bewitched to his own ease and his wives content that he could not be drawne to helpe his own brother in law against the oppression of the King of Armenia by which warre many might be imployed that now wanted subsistance nor was there wanting in Lydia it selfe many factious spirits that not only received encouragement by this bold language who also coveted state preferment in the government of the Common weale yet these begun discontents lay hid in the cinders of some duty untill new taxations of the Subjects gave more desperate distastes besides the accidentall arrivall of Prince Cassianus in Lydia after his Fathers death stirred up the pride of one Dimogoras to a new spleen against the King by which means he believed he should be the sooner imployed But that which seemed most to contribute to Euarchus prejudice was the sudden arrivall of an old Myssian Captaine out of the warres of Armenia called Lycius who having gained in those services good store of wealth sued to the King to have himselfe rewarded by Titles of honour which being denyed him by some neglect as also Cassianus request for a competent assistance a little protracted this insolent Commander quickly flew from the Court with execrations in his mouth and malice in his heart and comming into his own Countrey omitted no diligence that could withdraw the people from their lawfull obedience which he had the better opportunity to effect since he found not only the nobility ambitious but the Priests violent The one he perswaded with brave spirits againe to looke upon the courage of their Ancestors who had by force of Armes torne priviledges from their King the other he admonished to cast their thoughts upon the recovery of that religion now almost lost that had formerly chaced their former Queen both from her Kingdome and life and for the common people it was sufficient to plead to their imaginations liberty by whose perswasion the nobility not only raised a power absolutely to contemne the Kings authority in their own Country of Myssia but also led a great Army into Lydia whereby to compell Euarchus to summon the great Councell of the Kingdome To be short when this eminent assembly was met as it was designed in the City of Sardis which was also assured to be made a free Towne as much as to say as not to be compelled to any obedience to Euarchus and his posterity the chiefest discourses that were made there were in disgrace of the Kings actions and almost all the Acts that past were to destroy his authority All which the milde King suffered with a world of patience hoping that time after they had wearied themselves with their violent passions would let them see their own mistakes or the gods at leastwise would defend his innocency however these unexpected proceedings not only continued but their rage grew to such a height against his person whereby as 't was thought to bring him into the greater contempt amongst the common people that by divers tumults countenanced in the multitude he was at last forced from the City of Sardis whilst the Senate in the interim instituted a strong guard of Souldiers of the Towne Forces to wait upon their Councels because they would shew to the Subjects greater markes of Soveraignty in their Assembly then in the Kings dignity But whilst many were brewing their own passionate designes with uncredible insolency being chiefly supported by the votes of the common people who were perswaded they should recover by their authority an absolute liberty the poore King with a very small traine retired to the City of Theatyra where however contrary to the expectation of the Senate who believed that their discountenance was sufficient to render him abandoned by the whole Kingdome he not onely received better welcome but was entertained with the generall commiseration of most of those parts who bitterly complained of his hard and as they thought unjust usage and the rather did this pitty prevaile for that by his eloquent and fluent Pen he seemed fully to beat back all the aspersions his enemies sought daily to cast upon him which brought as I say to his Court multitudes of gentry and nobility both from the City of Sardis and other parts who vowed perpetuall faithfulnesse to his person with other essentiall services These encouragements by the perswasion of his trusty Councellors made him imploy his best industry to raise Souldiers whilst in the inte●im he sent to the Queen whom he understood was in the Island of Cyprus to procure him Armes by the credit she had purchased with the Duke of that Country since the Senate had already seized upon all his Magazin and ships After which he went from one Province to another to feele the inclination of the people yet as he found most of them for him in their words when he was amongst them whether out of the inconstancy of their own natures or unwilling to be at any charge to maintaine new troubles as soone as be left them personally they were for the greatest number carried from their former professions so that he perceived the successe of his whole fortunes was chiefly to depend upon the gallantry of the better sort And truly this expectation did not deceive him for in a short space beyond all beliefe they so furnished him with moneys besides their own attendance that he became master of a brave Army commanded by his nephew Prince Thyasinus who was newly arrived in his Campe from the Armenian warres The Senate who before had raised Forces to contend against the Kings intentions according to the intelligence they had received not to be sloathfull in their affaires quickly created Dimogoras generall in the designe whom they knew was a man never to be reconciled to his Soveraigne by reason of the spightfulnesse of his own violent ambition no sooner was he establisht in his office but he was commanded to march as they pretended to separate the King from pernitions Councels and bring him safe to Sardis there to be better governed to which purpose that City had plentifully furnished money conceiving their prosperity depended upon their Princes ruine This resolution was quickly knowne to Euarchus and not long after considered by his Councell that it was high time to advance with the whole Army to try the fortune of a battell with the Senates Generall since the King wanted provision and could not expect supplies of money to furnish out the necessary expence