at the Eyes (according to the Poet) Not only the Woman captivates the Man, but also the Man the Woman, What Force, I pray you, can Hearsay, and I think, and 'I truft, do in Comparison of that. cum prafens prafentem tuetur & alloquitur, & furore forfitan amoris ductus amplectitur, when they Face to Face fee and converse with each other, and the Lover in an Exftafie, not to be com 'manded. fnatches an Embrace, and faith to himself, and openly that the may hear, Teneone te me, an etiamnum fomno volunt femina videri cogi ad id quod maximum cupiunt? Are you in my Arms, my Fair One, or do we 'both Dream, and will Women even in their Sleep feem 'forced to what they moft defire? If we be cold, it is our part, befides the Perfon, the Sex requireth it. Why are you cold? Is it not a young Man's Part to be bold, couragious, and to adventure? If he fhould have, he 'fhould have but honorificam repulfam; even a Repulfe here is glorious; the worst that can be faid of him is but as of Phaeton, Quam fi non tenuit magnis tamen excidit aufis, Though he could not command the Chariot of the Sun, his Fall from it was illuftrious. So far as I 'conceive, Hac eft fola nostra Anchora, hac jacenda eft in ' nobis alea; this is our only Anchor, this Die must be 'thrown. In our Inftability, Unum momentum eft uno momento perfectum factum, ac dictum ftabilitatem facere poteft; one lucky Moment would crown and fix all. This, or else nothing is to be looked for but continual Dalliance and Doubtfulness, fo far as I can fee. ་ From Killingworth, Your Affured Friend, Thomas Smith. THOUGH my Lady was in very good Humour upon the Infinuation that, according to the Elizabeth Scheme, fhe was but juft advanced above the Character of a Girl; I found the rest of the Company as much difheartned, but they were ftill but mere Girls: I went on, therefore, to attribute the immature Marriages which are folemnized in our Days to the Importunity of the Men, which made it impoffible for young Ladies to remain Virgins fo long as they wish'd from their own Inclinations, and the Freedom of a fingle Life. THERE is no time of our Life, under what Character foever, in which Men can wholly diveft themselves of an Ambition to be in the Favour of Women. Cardan, a grave Philofopher and Phyfician, confeffes in one of his Chapters, That though he had fuffered Poverty, Repulfes, Calumnies, and a long Series of Afflictions, he never was thoroughly dejected, and impatient of Life it felf, but under a Calamity which he fuffered from the Beginning of his Twenty first to the End of his Thirtieth Year. He tells us, That the Railery he fuffered from others, and the Contempt which he had of himself, were Affli&ti ons beyond Expreffion. I mention this only as an Argument extorted from this good and grave Man, to support my Opinion of the Irrefiftable Power of Women. He adds, in the fame Chapter, That there are Ten Thoufand Afflictions and Difafters attend the Paffion it self; that an idle Word imprudently repeated by a fair Woman, and vaft Expences to fupport her Folly and Vanity, every Day reduce Men to Poverty and Death; but he makes. them of little Confideration to the miferable and infignificant Condition of being incapable of their Favour. I make no manner of difficulty of profeffing I am not furprised that the Author has expreffed himself after this manner, with relation to Love; the Heroick Chastity fo frequently profeffed by Humourifts of the fair Sex generally ends in an unworthy Choice, after having overlooked Overtures to their Advantage. It is for this Reafon that I would endeavonr to direct, and not pretend to eradicate the Inclinations of the Sexes to each other. Daily Experience fhews us, that the mot rude Ruftick grows human as foon as he is inspired by this Paffion; it gives a new Grace to cur Manners, a new Dignity to our Minds, a new Visage to our Perfons: Whether we are inclined to Liberal Arts, to Arms, or Address in our Exercife, our Improvement is haftened by a particular Object whom we would pleafe. Chearfulneis, Gentleness, Fortitude, Liberality, Magnificence, and all the Virtues which adorn Men, which infpire Heroes, are moft conspicuous in Lovers: I fpeak of Love as when fuch as are in in this Company are the Objects of it, who can bestow upon their Husbands (if they follow their excellent Mother) all its Joys without any of its Anxietics. N. 8. A Friday, March 20. Animum rege Hor. Guardian cannot befow his time in any Office more fuitable to his Character, than in reprefenting the Difafters to which we are expofed by the Irregularity of our Paffions. I think I fpeak of this mat ter in a way not yet taken notice of, when I obferve that: they make Men do things unworthy of thofe very Paffi-' ons. I fhall illuftrate this by a Story I have lately read in the Royal Commentaries of Peru, wherein you behold an Oppreffor a moft contemprible Creature after his Power is at an End; and a Perfon he oppreffed fo wholly intent upon Revenge till he had obtained it, that in the Purfuit of it he utterly neglected his own Safety; but when that Motive of Revenge was at an end, returned to a Sense of Danger, in fuch a manner, as to be unable to lay hold of Occations which offered themfelves for certain Security, and expofe himself from Fear to apparent Hazard. The Moives which I fpeak of are not indeed fo much to be called Paffions, as ill Habits arising from Paffions, fuch as Pride and Revenge, which are Improvements of our Infirmities, and are methinks but Scorn and Anger regularly conducted: But to my Story. LICENCIADO Efquivel, Governor of the City Potoeft, commanded 200 Men to march out of that Garrison towards the Kingdom of Tucman, with ftri&t Orders to ufe no Indians in carrying their Baggage, and placed himfelf at a convenient Station, without the Gates, to ob serve how his Orders were put in Execution; he found they were wholly neglected, and that Indians were laden with the Baggage of the Spaniards but thought fit to let 'em march by till the laft Rank of all came up, out of which he feized one Man, called Aguire, who had two Indians laden with his Goods: Within few Days after he was taken in Arrest, he was fentenced to receive 200 Stripes. Aguire reprefented by his Friends, that he was the Brother of a Gentleman, who had in his Country an Estate, with Vaflalage of Indians, and hoped his Birth would exempt him from a Punifl ment of fo much Indignity. Licenciado perfifted in the Kind of Punishment he had already pronounced; upon which Aguire petitioned that it might be altered to one that he fhould not survive; and, though a Gentleman, and from that Quality not liable to fuffer fc ignominious a Death, humbly befought his Excellency that he might be hanged. But though Licenciado appeared all his Life, before he came into Power, a Perfon of an easie and tractable Difpofition, he was so changed by his Office, that these Applications from the unfor tunate Aguire did but the more gratifie his Infolence; and, during the very time of their Mediation for the Prisoner, he infulted them alfo, by commanding, with a haughty Tone, that his Orders fhould be executed that very Inftant. This, as it is ufual on fuch Occafions, made the whole Town flock together; but the principal Inhabitants, abhorring the Severity of Licenciado, and pitying a Gentleman in the Condition of Aguire, went in a Body, and befought the Governor to fufpend, if not remit the Punishment. Their Importunities prevailed on him to defer the Execution for eight Days; but when they came to the Prifon with his Warrant, they found Aguire already brought forth, ftripped, and mounted on an Afs, which is the Pofture wherein the baseft Criminals are whipped in that City. His Friends cryed out, Take him off, take him off, and proclaimed their Order for fufpending his Punishment; but the Youth, when he heard that it was only put off for eight Days, rejected the Favour, and said, All my Endeavours have been to keep my felf from mounting this Beaft, and from the Shume of being feen naked; but fince things are come thus far, let the Sentence proceed which will be less than the Fears and Apprehenfions I shall have in these eight Days enfuing; befides, I shall not need to give farther trouble to my Friends for Interceffion in my behalf, which is as likely to be as ineffectual as what hath already paffed. Af ter ter he had faid this, the Afs was whipped forward, and Aguire ran the Gantlet according to the Sentence. The calm Manner with which he refigned himself, when he found his Difgrace muft be, and the Scorn of dallying with it, under a Sufpenfion of a few Days, which Mercy was but another Form of the Governor's Cruelty, made it vifible that he took Comfort in fome fecret Refolution avenge the Affront. to AFTER this Indignity Aguire could not be perfuaded (tho' the Inhabitants of Potocfi often importuned him from the Spirit they faw in him) to go upon any Military Undertaking, but excufed himself with a modeft Sadness in his Countenance, faying, That after fuch a Shame as his was, Death must be his only Remedy and Confolation, which he would endeavour to obtain as foon as poffible. UNDER this Melancholy he remained in Peru, until the time in which the Office of Efquivel expired; after which, like a defperate Man, he purfued and followed him, watching an Opportunity to kill him, and wipe off the Shame of the late Affront. Efquivel, being informed of this defperate Refolution by his Friends, endeavoured to avoid his Enemy, and took a Journey of three or four hundred Leagues from him, fuppofing that Aguire would not purfue him at fuch a Distance; but Efquivel's Flight did but encrease Aguire's speed in following. The first Journey which Efquivel took was to the City Los Reyes, being three hundred and twenty Leagues diftant; but in lefs than fifteen Days Aguire was there with him: Whereupon Efquivel took another Flight, as far as to the City of Quito, being four hundred Leagues diftant from Los Reyes, but in a little more than twenty Days Aguire was again with him; which being intimated to Efquivel, he took another Leap as far as Cozco, which is five hundred Leagues from Quito; but in a few Days after he arrived there, came alfo Aguire, travelling all the Way on Foot, without Shooes or Stockins, faying, That it became not the Condition of a whipt Rafcal to travel on Horseback, or appear amongst Men. In this manner did Aguire haunt and purfue Efquivel for three Years and four Months; who, being now tired and wearied with fo many long and tedious Journeys, refolved to fix his Abode at Cozco, C 5 where |