Book excerpt: Excerpt from Hymen's Praeludia, or Love's Master-Piece, Vol. 7: In Twelve Parts, Being That So-Much-Admir'd Romance, Intitled, Cleopatra Arraban, you would not let me know that it L was Britomarus, and that, when i gave you account of the firfl aélrons of Britomarur, you would nor tell me it was your Armban. You. Charge me with two things, replied the prime/if, whereof I {hall find it no great diffi culty to clear my (elf. For the former, which is, that l have robbed youof the Heart of Ar tuba, 1 am to tell you, that the Age and Con dition he was of when he was With you, con fidered, 'there IS little piobablllty he thould'h'ft up his Eyes In high as you, and that further, fuppofing that might happen, the treatment he received from you, continued F{be gmiling, mi he haply difplace you out of is, cart, {0 t at there'mrght not poflibly be any necrflity he s fhould meet with eli/jr, the more to alienate his inclinations from you. And for the latter, which is, ' that 'i had not difcover'ed to you that Armlum was the fame Perfon with Brita mares, I can afl'ure you, that I have ever been ignorant of it as well as your felf 5 that Arra ban never acquainted me with any thing that bad happened unto him before I knew him, and that, being fatisfied that his greatefl glory con filled in the memorable afiions he had done; whereof thofe of mofi confeclutnce we had the knowledge of, I was never guilty of a curio fity to know any more of his Fortune than he was pleafed of himfelf to communicate to me, out of a fear of en aging him in a Difeourfie, i which he 1hould t e no great delight in. I am very much troubled, added the Queen' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.