Zadig; or, The Book of Fate
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Thou Torment\r\nof every Heart! Thou Intellectual\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"pageii\" name=\"pageii\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[ii]\u003c/span\u003eLight! I do not\r\nkiss the Dust of thy Feet;\r\nbecause thou seldom art seen\r\nout of the Seraglio, and when\r\nthou art, thou walkest only\r\non the Carpets of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIran\u003c/span\u003e, or\r\non Beds of Roses.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eI here present you with a\r\nTranslation of the Work of\r\nan ancient \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSage\u003c/span\u003e, who having\r\nthe Happiness of living free\r\nfrom all Avocations, thought\r\nproper, by Way of Amusement,\r\nto write the History\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e; a Performance,\r\nthat comprehends in it\r\nmore Instruction than, \u0026#8217;tis\r\npossible, you may at first\r\nbe aware of. I beg you\r\nwould indulge me so far\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"pageiii\" name=\"pageiii\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[iii]\u003c/span\u003eas to read it over, and\r\nthen pass your impartial\r\nJudgment upon it: For\r\nnotwithstanding you are in\r\nthe Bloom of your Life;\r\ntho\u0026#8217; ev\u0026#8217;ry Pleasure courts\r\nyou; tho\u0026#8217; you are Nature\u0026#8217;s\r\nDarling, and have\r\ninternal Qualities in proportion\r\nto your Beauty; tho\u0026#8217;\r\nthe World resounds your\r\nPraises from Morning till\r\nNight, and consequently\r\nyou must have a just Title\r\nto a superior Degree of\r\nUnderstanding than the rest\r\nof your Sex; Yet your\r\nWit is no ways flashy;\r\nYour Taste is refin\u0026#8217;d, and\r\nI have had the Honour\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"pageiv\" name=\"pageiv\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[iv]\u003c/span\u003eto hear you talk more learnedly\r\nthan the wisest \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eDervise\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwith his venerable\r\nBeard, and pointed Bonnet:\r\nYou are discreet, and yet\r\nnot mistrustful; you are easy,\r\nbut not weak; you are\r\nbeneficent with Discretion;\r\nyou love your Friends, and\r\ncreate yourself no Enemies.\r\nYour most sprightly Flights\r\nborrow no Graces from Detraction;\r\nyou never speak\r\na misbecoming Word, nor\r\ndo an ill-natur\u0026#8217;d Action,\r\ntho\u0026#8217; \u0026#8217;tis always in your\r\nPower. In a Word, your\r\nSoul is as spotless as your\r\nPerson. You have, moreover,\r\na little Fund of Philosophy,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"pagev\" name=\"pagev\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[v]\u003c/span\u003ewhich gives me\r\njust Grounds to hope that\r\nyou\u0026#8217;ll relish this Historical\r\nPerformance better than any\r\nother Lady of your Quality\r\nwould do.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"newThought\"\u003eIt was originally compos\u0026#8217;d\r\nin the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eChaldean\u003c/span\u003e Language,\r\nto which both you\r\nand my self are perfect\r\nStrangers. It was translated,\r\nhowever, into \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabic\u003c/span\u003e, for\r\nthe Amusement of the celebrated\r\nSultan \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eOuloug-beg\u003c/span\u003e. It\r\nfirst appear\u0026#8217;d in Public, when\r\nthe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabian\u003c/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003ePersian\u003c/span\u003e Tales\r\nof One Thousand and One\r\nNights, and One Thousand\r\nand One Days, were most\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"pagevi\" name=\"pagevi\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[vi]\u003c/span\u003ein Vogue: \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eOuloug\u003c/span\u003e chose\r\nrather to entertain himself\r\nwith the Adventures of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nThe Sultanas indeed\r\nwere more fond of the former.\r\nHow can you, said\r\nthe judicious \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eOuloug\u003c/span\u003e, be\r\nso partial, as to prefer a\r\nSet of Tales, that are no\r\nways interesting or instructive,\r\nto a Work, that has\r\na Variety of Beauties to recommend\r\nit? Oh! replied\r\nthe Sultanas, the less Sense\r\nthere is in them, the more\r\nthey are in Taste; and\r\nthe less their Merit, the\r\ngreater their Commendation.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"pagevii\" name=\"pagevii\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[vii]\u003c/span\u003eI flatter my self, thou\r\nPatroness of Wisdom, that\r\nthou wilt not copy after\r\nthose thoughtless Sultanas,\r\nbut give into the Sentiments\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eOuloug\u003c/span\u003e. I am\r\nin hopes likewise, when\r\nyou are tir\u0026#8217;d with the Conversation\r\nof such as make\r\nthose senseless Romances abovemention\u0026#8217;d\r\ntheir favourite\r\nAmusements, you will vouchsafe\r\nto listen for one Minute\r\nor two, to the Dictates\r\nof solid Sense. Had you\r\nbeen \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eThalestris\u003c/span\u003e in the Days\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eScander\u003c/span\u003e, the Son of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003ePhilip\u003c/span\u003e;\r\nhad you been the Queen\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSheba\u003c/span\u003e, in the Reign of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSolomon\u003c/span\u003e, those Kings would\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"pageviii\" name=\"pageviii\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[viii]\u003c/span\u003ehave been proud to have\r\ntaken a Tour to visit you.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"newThought\"\u003eMay the Celestial Virtues\r\ngrant, that your Pleasures\r\nmay meet with no Interruption;\r\nyour Charms know\r\nno Decay; and may your\r\nFelicity be everlasting!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"signed\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName gappy\"\u003eSADI\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"pageix\" name=\"pageix\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[ix]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv id=\"approbation\" class=\"specialTitle\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTHE\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"subtitle3\"\u003eApprobation.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003eI, Who have subscrib\u0026#8217;d\r\nmy Name hereto, ambitious\r\nof being thought a\r\nMan of Wit and Learning,\r\nhave perus\u0026#8217;d this \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eManuscript\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwhich I find, to\r\nmy great Mortification, amusing,\r\nmoral, philosophical,\r\nand fit to be read, even by\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"pagex\" name=\"pagex\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[x]\u003c/span\u003ethose who have an utter\r\nAversion to Romances; for\r\nwhich Reason, I have depretiated\r\nit, as it deserves,\r\nand have in direct Terms\r\ntold the \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eCadi-Lesquier\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nthat \u0026#8217;tis a most detestable\r\nPerformance.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"pagexi\" name=\"pagexi\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[xi]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv id=\"contents\" class=\"specialTitle\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTHE\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"subtitle3 gappy\"\u003eCONTENTS.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctable class=\"contentList\" summary=\"Table of Contents\"\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. I.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_1\"\u003eThe blind Eye\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page1\"\u003epage 1\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. II.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_2\"\u003eThe Nose\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page13\"\u003e13\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. III.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_5\"\u003eThe Dog and the Horse, \u003cspan class=\"contentsNormal\"\u003e\u0026amp;c.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page20\"\u003e20\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. IV.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_4\"\u003eThe Envious Man\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page33\"\u003e33\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. V.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_5\"\u003eThe Force of Generosity\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page45\"\u003e45\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. VI.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_6\"\u003eThe Just Judge\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page53\"\u003e53\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. VII.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_7\"\u003eThe Force of Jealousy\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page63\"\u003e63\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum contentsNormal\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"pagexii\" name=\"pagexii\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[xii]\u003c/span\u003eCHAP. VIII.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_8\"\u003eThe Thresh\u0026#8217;d Wife\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page79\"\u003e79\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. IX.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_9\"\u003eThe Captive\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page89\"\u003e89\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. X.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_10\"\u003eThe Funeral Pile\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page100\"\u003e100\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XI.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_11\"\u003eThe Evening\u0026#8217;s Entertainment\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page111\"\u003e111\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XII.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_12\"\u003eThe Rendezvous\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page124\"\u003e124\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XIII.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_13\"\u003eThe Free-booter\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page135\"\u003e135\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XIV.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_14\"\u003eThe Fisherman\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page147\"\u003e147\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XV.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_15\"\u003eThe Basilisk\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page159\"\u003e159\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XVI.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_16\"\u003eThe Tournaments\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page187\"\u003e187\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XVII.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_17\"\u003eThe Hermit\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page205\"\u003e205\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd colspan=\"2\" class=\"contentsHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XVIII.\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd class=\"contentsTitle\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#Ch_18\"\u003eThe Riddles, or Ænigmas\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e \u003ctd class=\"contentsPage\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"#page225\"\u003e225\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/td\u003e\u003c/tr\u003e\r\n\u003c/table\u003e\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page1\" name=\"page1\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[1]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"titlePage2\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"title\"\u003eZADIG:\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"subtitle2\"\u003eAN\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nOriental History.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_1\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. I.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe Blind \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eEye\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003eIn the Reign of King \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMoabdar\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nthere was a young\r\nMan, a Native of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nby name \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e; who was not\r\nonly endowed by Nature with\r\nan uncommon Genius, but born\r\nof illustrious Parents, who bestowed\r\non him an Education no\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page2\" name=\"page2\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[2]\u003c/span\u003eways inferior to his Birth. Tho\u0026#8217;\r\nrich and young, he knew how\r\nto give a Check to his Passions;\r\nhe was no ways self-conceited;\r\nhe didn\u0026#8217;t always act up to the\r\nstrictest Rules of Reason himself,\r\nand knew how to look on the\r\nFoibles of others, with an Eye\r\nof Indulgence. Every one was\r\nsurpriz\u0026#8217;d to find, that notwithstanding\r\nhe had such a Fund of\r\nWit, he never insulted; nay,\r\nnever so much as rallied any of\r\nhis Companions, for that Tittle\r\nTattle, which was so vague and\r\nempty, so noisy and confus\u0026#8217;d;\r\nfor those rash Reflections, those\r\nilliterate Conclusions, and those\r\ninsipid Jokes; and, in short, for\r\nthat Flow of unmeaning Words,\r\nwhich was call\u0026#8217;d polite Conversation\r\nin \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e. He had learned\r\nfrom the first Book of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZoroaster\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nthat Self-love is like a\r\nBladder full blown, which when\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page3\" name=\"page3\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[3]\u003c/span\u003eonce prick\u0026#8217;d, discharges a kind\r\nof petty Tempest. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, in\r\nparticular, never boasted of his\r\nContempt of the Fair Sex, or of\r\nhis Facility to make Conquests\r\namongst them. He was of a generous\r\nSpirit; insomuch, that he\r\nwas not afraid of obliging even\r\nan ungrateful Man; strictly adhering\r\nto that wise Maxim of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZoroaster\u003c/span\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"quotation\"\u003eWhen you are eating,\r\nthrow an Offal to the Dogs that\r\nare under the Table, lest they\r\nshould be tempted to bite you.\u003c/span\u003e He\r\nwas as wise as he could well be\r\nwish\u0026#8217;d; since he was fond of no\r\nCompany, but such as were distinguish\u0026#8217;d\r\nfor Men of Sense.\r\nAs he was well-grounded, in all\r\nthe Sciences of the antient \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eChaldeans\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nhe was no Stranger to\r\nthose Principles of Natural Philosophy,\r\nwhich were then known:\r\nAnd understood as much of Metaphysics\r\nas any one in all Ages\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page4\" name=\"page4\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[4]\u003c/span\u003eafter him; that is to say, he knew\r\nlittle or nothing of the Matter.\r\nHe was firmly convinc\u0026#8217;d, that\r\nthe Year consisted of 365 Days\r\nand an half, tho\u0026#8217; directly repugnant\r\nto the new Philosophy of\r\nthe Age he liv\u0026#8217;d in; and that\r\nthe Sun was situated in the Center\r\nof the Earth; And when the\r\nChief Magi told him, with an\r\nimperious Air, that he maintain\u0026#8217;d\r\nerroneous Principles; and\r\nthat it was an Indignity offered\r\nto the Government under which\r\nhe liv\u0026#8217;d, to imagine the Sun\r\nshould roll round its own Axis,\r\nand that the Year consisted of\r\ntwelve Months, he knew how\r\nto sit still and quiet, without\r\nshewing the least Tokens of Resentment\r\nor Contempt.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was immensely rich,\r\nand had consequently Friends\r\nwithout Number; and as he was\r\na Gentleman of a robust Constitution,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page5\" name=\"page5\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[5]\u003c/span\u003eand remarkably handsome;\r\nas he was endowed with\r\na plentiful Share of ready and\r\ninoffensive Wit: And, in a\r\nWord, as his Heart was perfectly\r\nsincere and open, he imagin\u0026#8217;d\r\nhimself, in some Measure,\r\nqualified to be perfectly happy.\r\nFor which Purpose he determin\u0026#8217;d\r\nto marry a gay young\r\nLady (one \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSemira\u003c/span\u003e by name)\r\nwhose Beauty, Birth and Fortune,\r\nrender\u0026#8217;d her the most desirable\r\nPerson in all \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e. He\r\nhad a sincere Affection for her,\r\ngrounded on Honour, and \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSemira\u003c/span\u003e\r\nconceiv\u0026#8217;d as tender a Passion\r\nfor him. They were just upon\r\nthe critical Minute of a mutual\r\nConjunction in the Bands of\r\nMatrimony, when, as they were\r\nwalking Hand in Hand together\r\ntowards one of the Gates\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, under the Shade of\r\na Row of Palm-trees, that grew\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page6\" name=\"page6\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[6]\u003c/span\u003eon the Banks of the River \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEuphrates\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nthey were beset by a\r\nBand of Ruffians, arm\u0026#8217;d with\r\nSabres, Bows and Arrows. They\r\nwere the Guards, it seems, of\r\nyoung \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOrcan\u003c/span\u003e (Nephew of a certain\r\nMinister of State) whom\r\nthe Parasites, kept by his Uncle,\r\nhad buoy\u0026#8217;d up with a Permission\r\nto do, with Impunity, whatever\r\nhe thought proper. This young\r\nRival, tho\u0026#8217; he had none of those\r\ninternal Qualities to boast of that\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e had, yet he imagin\u0026#8217;d himself\r\na Man of more Power; and\r\nfor that Reason, was perfectly\r\noutrageous to see the other preferr\u0026#8217;d\r\nbefore him. This Fit of\r\nJealousy, the Result of mere\r\nVanity, prompted him to think\r\nthat he was deeply in Love with\r\nthe fair \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSemira\u003c/span\u003e; and fir\u0026#8217;d with\r\nthat amorous Notion, he was\r\ndetermin\u0026#8217;d to take her away\r\nfrom \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, by Dint of Arms.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page7\" name=\"page7\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[7]\u003c/span\u003eThe Ravishers rush\u0026#8217;d rudely upon\r\nher, and in the Transport of\r\ntheir Rage, drew the Blood of\r\na Beauty, the Sight of whose\r\nCharms would have soften\u0026#8217;d the\r\nvery Tigers of Mount \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eImaüs\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nThe injur\u0026#8217;d Lady rent the very\r\nHeavens with her Exclamations.\r\nWhere\u0026#8217;s my dear Husband, she\r\ncried? They have torn me from\r\nthe Arms of the only Man whom\r\nI adore. She never reflected on\r\nthe Danger to which she was expos\u0026#8217;d;\r\nher sole Concern was for\r\nher beloved \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e. At the same\r\nTime, he defended her, like a\r\nLover, and a Man of Integrity\r\nand Courage. With the Assistance\r\nonly of two domestic Servants,\r\nhe put those Sons of Violence\r\nto Flight, and conducted\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSemira\u003c/span\u003e, bloody as she was, and\r\nin fainting Fits, to her own\r\nHouse. No sooner was she come\r\nto her self, but she fix\u0026#8217;d her lovely\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page8\" name=\"page8\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[8]\u003c/span\u003eEyes on her Dear Deliverer.\r\nO \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, said she, I love thee\r\nas affectionately, as if I were actually\r\nthy Bride: I love thee, as the\r\nMan, to whom I owe my Life,\r\nand what is dearer to me, the\r\nPreservation of my Honour. No\r\nHeart sure could be more deeply\r\nsmitten than that of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSemira\u003c/span\u003e. Never\r\ndid the Lips of the fairest\r\nCreature living utter softer\r\nSounds; never did the most\r\nenamoured Lady breathe such\r\ntender Sentiments of Love and\r\nGratitude for his signal Service;\r\nnever, in short, did the most\r\naffectionate Bride express such\r\nTransports of Joy for the fondest\r\nHusband. Her Wounds, however,\r\nwere but very superficial,\r\nand she was soon recover\u0026#8217;d. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\nreceiv\u0026#8217;d a Wound that was\r\nmuch more dangerous: An unlucky\r\nArrow had graz\u0026#8217;d one of\r\nhis Eyes, and the Orifice was\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page9\" name=\"page9\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[9]\u003c/span\u003edeep. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSemira\u003c/span\u003e was incessant in\r\nher Prayers to the Gods that they\r\nmight restore her \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e. Her\r\nEyes were Night and Day overwhelm\u0026#8217;d\r\nwith Tears. She waited\r\nwith Impatience for the happy\r\nMoment, when those of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\nmight dart their Fires upon her;\r\nbut alas! the wounded Eye grew\r\nso inflam\u0026#8217;d and swell\u0026#8217;d, that she\r\nwas terrified to the last Degree.\r\nShe sent as far as \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMemphis\u003c/span\u003e for\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHermes\u003c/span\u003e, the celebrated Physician\r\nthere, who instantly attended\r\nhis new Patient with a numerous\r\nRetinue. Upon his first\r\nVisit, he peremptorily declared\r\nthat \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e would lose his Eye;\r\nand foretold not only the Day,\r\nbut the very Hour when that\r\nwoful Disaster would befal him.\r\nHad it been, said that Great Man,\r\nhis right Eye, I could have administred\r\nan infallible Specific;\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page10\" name=\"page10\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[10]\u003c/span\u003ebut as it is, his Misfortune is beyond\r\nthe Art of Man to cure.\r\nTho\u0026#8217; all \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e pitied the hard\r\nCase of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, they equally stood\r\nastonish\u0026#8217;d at the profound Penetration\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHermes\u003c/span\u003e. Two Days\r\nafter the Imposthume broke, without\r\nany Application, and \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\nsoon after was perfectly recover\u0026#8217;d.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHermes\u003c/span\u003e thereupon wrote\r\na very long and elaborate Treatise,\r\nto prove that his Wound\r\nought not to have been heal\u0026#8217;d.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, however, never thought\r\nit worth his while to peruse his\r\nlearned Lucubrations; but, as\r\nsoon as ever he could get abroad,\r\ndetermin\u0026#8217;d to pay the Lady a\r\nVisit, who had testified such uncommon\r\nConcern for his Welfare,\r\nand for whose Sake alone he\r\nwish\u0026#8217;d for the Restoration of his\r\nSight. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSemira\u003c/span\u003e he found had\r\nbeen out of Town for three\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page11\" name=\"page11\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[11]\u003c/span\u003eDays; but was inform\u0026#8217;d, by the\r\nbye, that his intended Spouse,\r\nhaving conceived an implacable\r\nAversion to a one-ey\u0026#8217;d Man,\r\nwas that very Night to be married\r\nto \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOrcan\u003c/span\u003e. At this unexpected\r\nill News, poor \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was\r\nperfectly thunder-struck: He\r\nlaid his Disappointment so far\r\nto Heart, that in a short Time\r\nhe was become a mere Skeleton,\r\nand was sick almost to death for\r\nsome Months afterwards. At last,\r\nhowever, by Dint of Reflection,\r\nhe got the better of his Distemper;\r\nand the Acuteness of the\r\nPain he underwent, in some\r\nMeasure, contributed towards his\r\nConsolation.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSince I have met with such an\r\nunexpected Repulse, said he,\r\nfrom a capricious Court-Lady,\r\nI am determin\u0026#8217;d to marry some\r\nsubstantial Citizen\u0026#8217;s Daughter.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page12\" name=\"page12\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[12]\u003c/span\u003eHe pitch\u0026#8217;d accordingly upon\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAzora\u003c/span\u003e, a young Gentlewoman\r\nextremely well-bred, an excellent\r\nOeconomist, and one, whose Parents\r\nwere very rich.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTheir Nuptials accordingly\r\nwere soon after solemniz\u0026#8217;d, and\r\nfor a whole Month successively,\r\nno two Turtles were ever more\r\nfond of each other. In Process\r\nof Time, however, he perceiv\u0026#8217;d\r\nshe was a little Coquettish, and\r\ntoo much inclin\u0026#8217;d to think,\r\nthat the handsomest young\r\nFellows were always the most\r\nvirtuous and the greatest Wits.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page13\" name=\"page13\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[13]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_2\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. II.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eNose\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003eOne Day \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAzora\u003c/span\u003e, as she was\r\njust return\u0026#8217;d home from taking\r\na short Country airing, threw\r\nherself into a violent Passion,\r\nand swell\u0026#8217;d with Invectives.\r\nWhat, in God\u0026#8217;s Name, my\r\nDear, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, has thus ruffled\r\nyour Temper? What can be\r\nthe Meaning of all these warm\r\nExclamations? Alas! said she,\r\nyou would have been disgusted\r\nas much as I am, had you been\r\nan Eye-witness of that Scene of\r\nFemale Falshood, as I was\r\nYesterday. I went, you must\r\nknow, to visit the disconsolate\r\nWidow \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCosrou\u003c/span\u003e, who has been\r\nthese two Days erecting a Monument\r\nto the Memory of her\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page14\" name=\"page14\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[14]\u003c/span\u003eyoung deceased Husband, near\r\nthe Brook that runs on one side\r\nof her Meadow. She made the\r\nmost solemn Vow, in the Height\r\nof her Affliction, never to stir\r\nfrom that Tomb, as long as ever\r\nthat Rivulet took its usual\r\nCourse.\u0026#8212;Well! and wherein,\r\npray, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, is the good\r\nWoman so much to blame? Is\r\nit not an incontestable Mark of\r\nher superior Merit and Conjugal-Affection?\r\nBut, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, said\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAzora\u003c/span\u003e, was you to know how\r\nher Thoughts were employ\u0026#8217;d\r\nwhen I made my Visit, you\u0026#8217;d\r\nnever forget or forgive her.\r\nPray, my dearest \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAzora\u003c/span\u003e, what\r\nthen was she about? Why, the\r\nCreature, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAzora\u003c/span\u003e, was studying,\r\nto be sure, to find out Ways\r\nand Means to turn the Current\r\nof the River.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAzora\u003c/span\u003e, in short, harangu\u0026#8217;d\r\nso long, and, was so big with\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page15\" name=\"page15\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[15]\u003c/span\u003eher Invectives against the young\r\nWidow, that her too affected,\r\nvain Shew of Virtue, gave \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\na secret Disgust.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e had an intimate Friend,\r\none \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e by Name, whose\r\nSpouse was perfectly honest, and\r\nhad in reality a greater Regard\r\nfor him, than all Mankind besides:\r\nThis Friend \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e made\r\nhis Confident, and bound him\r\nto keep a Project of his entirely\r\na Secret, by a Promise\r\nof some valuable Token of\r\nhis Respect. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAzora\u003c/span\u003e had been\r\nvisiting a Female Companion\r\nfor two Days together in the\r\nCountry, and on the third was returning\r\nhome: No sooner, however,\r\nwas she in Sight of the\r\nHouse, but the Servants ran to\r\nmeet her with Tears in their\r\nEyes, and told her, that their\r\nMaster dy\u0026#8217;d suddenly the Night\r\nbefore; that they durstn\u0026#8217;t carry\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page16\" name=\"page16\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[16]\u003c/span\u003eher the doleful Tidings, but\r\nwere going to bury \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e in\r\nthe Sepulchre of his Ancestors,\r\nat the Bottom of the Garden.\r\nShe burst into a Flood of Tears;\r\ntore her Hair; and vow\u0026#8217;d to\r\ndie by his Side. As soon as it\r\nwas dark, young \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e came,\r\nand begg\u0026#8217;d the Favour of being\r\nintroduc\u0026#8217;d to the Widow. He\r\nwas so, and they wept together\r\nvery cordially. Next Day the\r\nStorm was somewhat abated,\r\nand they din\u0026#8217;d together; \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e\r\ninform\u0026#8217;d her, that his Friend\r\nhad left him the much greater\r\nPart of his Effects, and gave\r\nher to understand, that he\r\nshould think himself the happiest\r\nCreature in the World, if\r\nshe would condescend to be his\r\nPartner in that Demise. The\r\nWidow wept, sobb\u0026#8217;d, and began\r\nto melt. More Time was\r\nspent in Supper than at Dinner.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page17\" name=\"page17\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[17]\u003c/span\u003eThey discoursed together with a\r\nlittle more Freedom. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAzora\u003c/span\u003e\r\nwas lavish of her Encomiums\r\non \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e; but then, \u0026#8217;twas true,\r\nshe said, he had some secret Infirmities\r\nto which \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e was a\r\nStranger. In the Midst of their\r\nMidnight Entertainment, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e\r\nall on a sudden complain\u0026#8217;d that\r\nhe was taken with a most violent\r\npleuretic Fit, and was\r\nready to swoon away. Our\r\nLady being extremely concern\u0026#8217;d,\r\nand over-officious, flew\r\nto her Closet of Cordials, and\r\nbrought down every Thing she\r\ncould think of that might be of\r\nService on this emergent Occasion.\r\nShe was extremely sorry that\r\nthe famous \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHermes\u003c/span\u003e was gone\r\nfrom \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, and condescended\r\nto lay her warm Hand upon the\r\nPart affected, in which he felt\r\nsuch an agonizing Pain. Pray\r\nSir, said she, in a soft, languishing\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page18\" name=\"page18\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[18]\u003c/span\u003eTone, are you subject to\r\nthis tormenting Malady? Sometimes,\r\nMadam, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e, so\r\nstrong, that they bring me almost\r\nto Death\u0026#8217;s Door; and there\r\nis but one Thing can infallibly\r\ncure me; and that is, the Application\r\nof a dead Man\u0026#8217;s Nose\r\nto the part affected. An odd\r\nRemedy truly, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAzora\u003c/span\u003e. Not\r\nstranger, Madam, said he, than\r\nthe Great *\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArnon\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s\u003cspan class=\"footnote\"\u003e* There was at this Time in \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e,\r\na famous Doctor, nam\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArnon\u003c/span\u003e, who both cur\u0026#8217;d Apoplectic\r\nFits, and prevented them from affecting\r\nhis Patients, as was frequently\r\nadvertiz\u0026#8217;d in the Gazettes,\r\nby a little never-failing Purse that\r\nhe hung round their Necks.\u003c/span\u003e infallible Apoplectic\r\nNecklaces.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis Assurance of Success,\r\ntogether with \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s personal\r\nMerit, determin\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAzora\u003c/span\u003e in his\r\nFavour. After all, said she,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page19\" name=\"page19\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[19]\u003c/span\u003ewhen my Husband shall be\r\nabout to cross the Bridge \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eTchimavar\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nfrom this World of Yesterday,\r\nto the other, of To-morrow,\r\nwill the Angel \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAsrael\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nthink you, make any Scruple\r\nabout his Passage, should his\r\nNose prove something shorter\r\nin the next Life than \u0026#8217;twas in\r\nthis? She would venture, however,\r\nand taking up a sharp\r\nRazor, repair\u0026#8217;d to her Husband\u0026#8217;s\r\nTomb; water\u0026#8217;d it first\r\nwith her Tears, and then intended\r\nto perform the innocent\r\nOperation, as he lay extended\r\nbreathless, as she thought, in\r\nhis Coffin. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e mounted in\r\na Moment; secur\u0026#8217;d his Nose\r\nwith one Hand, and the Incision-Knife\r\nwith the other. Madam,\r\nsaid he, never more exclaim\r\nagainst the Widow \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCosrou\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nThe Scheme for cutting my\r\nNose off was much closer laid\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page20\" name=\"page20\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[20]\u003c/span\u003ethan hers of throwing the River\r\ninto a new Channel.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_3\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. III.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eDog\u003c/span\u003e and the \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eHorse\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e found, by Experience,\r\nthat the first thirty Days of\r\nMatrimony (as \u0026#8217;tis written in\r\nthe Book of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZend\u003c/span\u003e) is Honey-Moon;\r\nbut the second is all\r\nWormwood. He was oblig\u0026#8217;d,\r\nin short, as \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAzora\u003c/span\u003e grew such a\r\nTermagant, to sue out a Bill of\r\nDivorce, and to seek his Consolation\r\nfor the future, in the\r\nStudy of Nature. Who is happier,\r\nsaid he, than the Philosopher,\r\nwho peruses with Understanding\r\nthat spacious Book,\r\nwhich the supreme Being has\r\nlaid open before his Eyes? The\r\nTruths he discovers there, are\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page21\" name=\"page21\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[21]\u003c/span\u003eof infinite Service to him. He\r\nthereby cultivates and improves\r\nhis Mind. He lives in Peace\r\nand Tranquility all his Days;\r\nhe is afraid of Nobody, and he\r\nhas no tender, indulgent Wife to\r\nshorten his Nose for him.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWrapped up in these Contemplations,\r\nhe retir\u0026#8217;d to a\r\nlittle Country House on the\r\nBanks of the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEuphrates\u003c/span\u003e; there\r\nhe never spent his Time in calculating\r\nhow many Inches of\r\nWater run thro\u0026#8217; the Arch of a\r\nBridge in a second of Time, or\r\nin enquiring if a Cube Line of\r\nRain falls more in the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMouse-Month\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nthan in that of the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eRam\u003c/span\u003e. He form\u0026#8217;d no Projects\r\nfor making Silk Gloves and\r\nStockings out of Spiders Webbs,\r\nnor of China-Ware out of\r\nbroken Glass-Bottles; but he\r\npry\u0026#8217;d into the Nature and Properties\r\nof Animals and Plants,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page22\" name=\"page22\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[22]\u003c/span\u003eand soon, by his strict and repeated\r\nEnquiries, he was capable\r\nof discerning a Thousand\r\nVariations in visible Objects,\r\nthat others, less curious, imagin\u0026#8217;d\r\nwere all alike.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOne Day, as he was taking a\r\nsolitary Walk by the Side of a\r\nThicket, he espy\u0026#8217;d one of the\r\nQueen\u0026#8217;s Eunuchs, with several\r\nof his Attendants, coming towards\r\nhim, hunting about, in\r\ndeep Concern, both here and\r\nthere, like Persons almost in\r\nDespair, and seeking, with Impatience,\r\nfor something lost of\r\nthe utmost Importance. Young\r\nMan, said the Queen\u0026#8217;s chief\r\nEunuch, have not you seen, pray,\r\nher Majesty\u0026#8217;s Dog? \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e very\r\ncooly replied, you mean her\r\nBitch, I presume. You say very\r\nright Sir, said the Eunuch, \u0026#8217;tis\r\na Spaniel-Bitch indeed.\u0026#8212;And\r\nvery small said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e: She has\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page23\" name=\"page23\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[23]\u003c/span\u003ehad Puppies too lately; she\u0026#8217;s a\r\nlittle lame with her left Fore-foot,\r\nand has long Ears. By your\r\nexact Description, Sir, you must\r\ndoubtless have seen her, said the\r\nEunuch, almost out of Breath.\r\nBut I have not Sir, notwithstanding,\r\nneither did I know, but\r\nby you, that the Queen ever\r\nhad such a favourite Bitch.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJust at this critical Juncture,\r\nso various are the Turns of Fortune\u0026#8217;s\r\nWheel! the best Palfrey\r\nin all the King\u0026#8217;s Stable had\r\nbroke loose from the Groom,\r\nand got upon the Plains of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nThe Head Huntsman\r\nwith all his inferior Officers,\r\nwere in Pursuit after him, with\r\nas much Concern, as the Eunuch\r\nabout the Bitch. The\r\nHead Huntsman address\u0026#8217;d himself\r\nto \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, and ask\u0026#8217;d him,\r\nwhether he hadn\u0026#8217;t seen the\r\nKing\u0026#8217;s Palfrey run by him. No\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page24\" name=\"page24\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[24]\u003c/span\u003eHorse, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, ever gallop\u0026#8217;d\r\nsmoother; he is about five Foot\r\nhigh, his Hoofs are very small;\r\nhis Tail is about three Foot six\r\nInches long; the studs of his Bit\r\nare of pure Gold, about 23\r\nCarats; and his Shoes are of\r\nSilver, about Eleven penny\r\nWeight a-piece. What Course\r\ndid he take, pray, Sir? Whereabouts\r\nis he, said the Huntsman?\r\nI never sat Eyes on him,\r\nreply\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, not I, neither\r\ndid I ever hear before now,\r\nthat his Majesty had such a Palfrey.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Head Huntsman, as well\r\nas the Head Eunuch, upon his\r\nanswering their Interrogatories so\r\nvery exactly, not doubting in\r\nthe least, but that \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e had clandestinely\r\nconvey\u0026#8217;d both the Bitch\r\nand the Horse away, secur\u0026#8217;d him,\r\nand carried him before the grand\r\nDesterham, who condemn\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page25\" name=\"page25\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[25]\u003c/span\u003ehim to the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eKnout\u003c/span\u003e, and to be\r\nconfin\u0026#8217;d for Life in some remote\r\nand lonely Part of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSiberia\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nNo sooner had the Sentence been\r\npronounc\u0026#8217;d, but the Horse and\r\nBitch were both found. The\r\nJudges were in some Perplexity\r\nin this odd Affair, and yet\r\nthought it absolutely necessary,\r\nas the Man was innocent, to recal\r\ntheir Decree. However,\r\nthey laid a Fine upon him of\r\nFour Hundred Ounces of Gold,\r\nfor his false Declaration of his\r\nnot having seen, what doubtless\r\nhe did: And the Fine was order\u0026#8217;d\r\nto be deposited in Court\r\naccordingly: On the Payment\r\nwhereof, he was permitted to\r\nbring his Cause on to a Hearing\r\nbefore the grand Desterham.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eOn the Day appointed for\r\nthat Purpose he open\u0026#8217;d the Cause\r\nhimself, in Terms to this or the\r\nlike Effect.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page26\" name=\"page26\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[26]\u003c/span\u003eYe bright Stars of Justice, ye\r\nprofound Abyss of universal\r\nKnowledge, ye Mirrors of Equity,\r\nwho have in you the Solidity\r\nof Lead, the Hardness of\r\nSteel, the Lustre of a Diamond,\r\nand the Resemblance of the\r\npurest Gold! Since ye have condescended\r\nso far, as to admit of\r\nmy Address to this August Assembly,\r\nI here, in the most solemn\r\nManner, swear to you by\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOrosmades\u003c/span\u003e, that I never saw the\r\nQueen\u0026#8217;s illustrious Bitch, nor\r\nthe sacred Palfrey of the King of\r\nKings. I\u0026#8217;ll be ingenuous, however,\r\nand declare the Truth,\r\nand nothing but the Truth. As\r\nI was walking by the Thicket\u0026#8217;s\r\nSide, where I met with her\r\nMajesty\u0026#8217;s most venerable chief\r\nEunuch, and the King\u0026#8217;s most\r\nillustrious chief Huntsman, I\r\nperceiv\u0026#8217;d upon the Sand the\r\nFootsteps of an Animal, and I\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page27\" name=\"page27\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[27]\u003c/span\u003eeasily inferr\u0026#8217;d that it must be a\r\nlittle one. The several small,\r\ntho\u0026#8217; long Ridges of Land between\r\nthe Footsteps of the Creature,\r\ngave me just Grounds to\r\nimagine it was a Bitch whose\r\nTeats hung down; and for that\r\nReason, I concluded she had\r\nbut lately pupp\u0026#8217;d. As I observ\u0026#8217;d\r\nlikewise some other Traces, in\r\nsome Degree different, which\r\nseem\u0026#8217;d to have graz\u0026#8217;d all the\r\nWay upon the Surface of the\r\nSand, on the Side of the fore-Feet,\r\nI knew well enough she\r\nmust have had long Ears. And\r\nforasmuch as I discern\u0026#8217;d; with\r\nsome Degree of Curiosity, that\r\nthe Sand was every where less\r\nhollow\u0026#8217;d by one Foot in particular,\r\nthan by the other three,\r\nI conceiv\u0026#8217;d that the Bitch of\r\nour most august Queen was\r\nsomewhat lamish, if I may presume\r\nto say so.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page28\" name=\"page28\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[28]\u003c/span\u003eAs to the Palfrey of the\r\nKing of Kings, give me leave\r\nto inform you, that as I was\r\nwalking down the Lane by\r\nthe Thicket-side, I took particular\r\nNotice of the Prints\r\nmade upon the Sand by a Horse\u0026#8217;s\r\nShoes; and found that their\r\nDistances were in exact Proportion;\r\nfrom that Observation, I\r\nconcluded the Palfrey gallop\u0026#8217;d\r\nwell. In the next Place, the Dust\r\nof some Trees in a narrow Lane,\r\nwhich was but seven Foot broad,\r\nwas here and there swept off, both\r\non the Right and on the Left,\r\nabout three Feet and six Inches\r\nfrom the Middle of the Road.\r\nFor which Reason I pronounc\u0026#8217;d\r\nthe Tail of the Palfrey to be three\r\nFoot and a half long, with\r\nwhich he had whisk\u0026#8217;d off the\r\nDust on both Sides as he ran\r\nalong. Again, I perceiv\u0026#8217;d under\r\nthe Trees, which form\u0026#8217;d a\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page29\" name=\"page29\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[29]\u003c/span\u003eKind of Bower of five Feet\r\nhigh, some Leaves that had\r\nbeen lately fallen on the Ground,\r\nand I was sensible the Horse\r\nmust have shook them off; from\r\nwhence I conjectur\u0026#8217;d he was\r\nfive Foot high. As to the Bits\r\nof his Bridle, I knew they must\r\nbe of Gold, and of the Value\r\nI mention\u0026#8217;d; for he had rubb\u0026#8217;d\r\nthe Studs upon a certain Stone,\r\nwhich I knew to be a Touch-stone,\r\nby an Experiment that I\r\nhad made of it. To conclude,\r\nby the Prints which his Shoes\r\nhad left of some Flint-Stones of\r\nanother Nature, I concluded\r\nhis Shoes were Silver, and of\r\neleven penny Weight Fineness,\r\nas I before mention\u0026#8217;d.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe whole Bench of Judges\r\nstood astonish\u0026#8217;d at the Profundity\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s nice Discernment.\r\nThe News was soon\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page30\" name=\"page30\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[30]\u003c/span\u003ecarried to the King and the\r\nQueen. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was not only\r\nthe whole Subject of the Court\u0026#8217;s\r\nConversation; but his Name\r\nwas mention\u0026#8217;d with the utmost\r\nVeneration in the King\u0026#8217;s Chambers,\r\nand his Privy-Council.\r\nAnd notwithstanding several of\r\ntheir Magi declar\u0026#8217;d he ought to\r\nbe burnt for a Sorcerer; yet the\r\nKing thought proper, that the\r\nFine he had deposited in Court,\r\nshould be peremptorily restor\u0026#8217;d.\r\nThe Clerk of the Court, the\r\nTipstaffs, and other petty Officers,\r\nwaited on him in their\r\nproper Habit, in order to refund\r\nthe four Hundred Ounces\r\nof Gold, pursuant to the King\u0026#8217;s\r\nexpress Order; modestly reserving\r\nonly three Hundred\r\nand ninety Ounces, part thereof,\r\nto defray the Fees of the\r\nCourt. And the Domesticks\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page31\" name=\"page31\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[31]\u003c/span\u003eswarm\u0026#8217;d about him likewise,\r\nin Hopes of some small Consideration.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, upon winding up of\r\nthe Bottom, was fully convinc\u0026#8217;d,\r\nthat it was very dangerous\r\nto be over-wise; and was\r\ndetermin\u0026#8217;d to set a Watch before\r\nthe Door of his Lips for the\r\nfuture.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAn Opportunity soon offer\u0026#8217;d\r\nfor the Trial of his Resolution.\r\nA Prisoner of State had just\r\nmade his Escape, and pass\u0026#8217;d\r\nunder the Window of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s\r\nHouse. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was examin\u0026#8217;d\r\nthereupon, but was absolutely\r\ndumb. However, as it was\r\nplainly prov\u0026#8217;d upon him, that\r\nhe did look out of the Window\r\nat the same Time, he\r\nwas sentenc\u0026#8217;d to pay five\r\nHundred Ounces of Gold\r\nfor that Misdemeanor; and\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page32\" name=\"page32\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[32]\u003c/span\u003emoreover, was oblig\u0026#8217;d to\r\nthank the Court for their Indulgence;\r\na Compliment which\r\nthe Magistrates of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e expect\r\nto be paid them. Good\r\nGod! said he, to himself, have\r\nI not substantial Reason to complain,\r\nthat my impropitious Stars\r\nshould direct me to walk by\r\na Wood\u0026#8217;s-Side, where the\r\nQueen\u0026#8217;s Bitch and the King\u0026#8217;s\r\nPalfrey should happen to pass\r\nby? How dangerous is it to\r\npop one\u0026#8217;s Head out of one\u0026#8217;s\r\nWindow? And, in a Word,\r\nhow difficult is it for a Man\r\nto be happy on this Side the\r\nGrave?\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page33\" name=\"page33\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[33]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_4\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. IV.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eenvious Man\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003eAs \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e had met with such\r\na Series of Misfortunes,\r\nhe was determin\u0026#8217;d to ease the\r\nWeight of them by the Study\r\nof Philosophy, and the Conversation\r\nof select Friends. He\r\nwas still possess\u0026#8217;d of a little\r\npretty Box in the Out-parts of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, which was furnish\u0026#8217;d in\r\na good Taste; where every\r\nArtist was welcome, and wherein\r\nhe enjoy\u0026#8217;d all the rational\r\nPleasures that a virtuous Man\r\ncould well wish for. In the\r\nMorning, his Library was always\r\nopen for the Use of the\r\nLearned; at Night his Table\r\nwas fill\u0026#8217;d with the most agreeable\r\nCompanions; but he was\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page34\" name=\"page34\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[34]\u003c/span\u003esoon sensible, by Experience,\r\nhow dangerous it was to keep\r\nlearned Men Company. A\r\nwarm Dispute arose about a certain\r\nLaw of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZoroaster\u003c/span\u003e; which\r\nprohibited the Eating of Griffins:\r\nBut to what Purpose said some\r\nof the Company, was that Prohibition,\r\nsince there is no such\r\nAnimal in Nature? Some again\r\ninsisted that there must; for\r\notherwise \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZoroaster\u003c/span\u003e could never\r\nhave been so weak as to give\r\nhis Pupils such a Caution. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nin order to compromize the\r\nMatter, said; Gentlemen, If\r\nthere are such Creatures in Being,\r\nlet us never touch them;\r\nand if there are not, we are well\r\nassur\u0026#8217;d we can\u0026#8217;t touch them; so\r\nin either Case we shall comply\r\nwith the Commandment.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eA learned Man at the upper\r\nEnd of the Table, who had\r\ncompos\u0026#8217;d thirteen Volumes, expatiating\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page35\" name=\"page35\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[35]\u003c/span\u003eon every Property of\r\nthe Griffin, took this Affair in\r\na very serious Light, which\r\nwould greatly have embarrass\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, but for the Credit of a\r\nMagus, who was Brother to his\r\nFriend \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e. From that Day\r\nforward, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e ever distinguish\u0026#8217;d\r\nand preferr\u0026#8217;d good, before\r\nlearned Company: He associated\r\nwith the most conversible\r\nMen, and the most amiable\r\nLadies in all \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e; he\r\nmade elegant Entertainments,\r\nwhich were frequently preceded\r\nby a Concert of Musick, and\r\nenliven\u0026#8217;d by the most facetious\r\nConversation, in which, as he\r\nhad felt the Smart of it, he had\r\nlaid aside all Thoughts of shewing\r\nhis Wit, which is not only\r\nthe surest Proof that a Man has\r\nnone, but the most infallible\r\nMeans to spoil all good Company.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page36\" name=\"page36\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[36]\u003c/span\u003eNeither the Choice of his\r\nFriends, nor that of his Dishes,\r\nwas the Result of Pride or Ostentation.\r\nHe took Delight in\r\nappearing to be, what he actually\r\nwas, and not in seeming to be\r\nwhat he was not; and by that\r\nMeans, got a greater real Character\r\nthan he actually aim\u0026#8217;d at.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDirectly opposite to his House\r\nliv\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArimazes\u003c/span\u003e, one puff\u0026#8217;d up\r\nwith Pride, who not meeting\r\nwith Success in the World,\r\nsought his Revenge in railing\r\nagainst all Mankind. Rich as\r\nhe was, it was almost more\r\nthan he could accomplish, to\r\nprocure ev\u0026#8217;n any Parasites about\r\nhim. Tho\u0026#8217; the rattling of the Chariots\r\nwhich stopp\u0026#8217;d at \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s\r\nDoor was a perfect Nuisance\r\nto him; yet the good Character\r\nwhich every Body gave him\r\nwas still a higher Provocation.\r\nHe would sometimes intrude\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page37\" name=\"page37\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[37]\u003c/span\u003ehimself upon \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, and set down\r\nat his Table without any Invitation;\r\nwhen there, he would most\r\ncertainly interrupt the Mirth of\r\nthe Company, as Harpies, they\r\nsay, infect the very Carrion that\r\nthey eat.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArimazes\u003c/span\u003e took it in his Head\r\none Day to invite a young Lady\r\nto an Entertainment; but she,\r\ninstead of accepting of his Offer,\r\nspent the Evening at \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s.\r\nAnother Time, as \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e and he\r\nwere chatting together at Court,\r\na Minister of State came up to\r\nthem, and invited \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e to Supper,\r\nbut took no Notice of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArimazes\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nThe most implacable\r\nAversions have frequently no better\r\nFoundations. This Gentleman,\r\nwho was call\u0026#8217;d the \u003cem\u003eenvious\r\nMan\u003c/em\u003e, would have taken away\r\nthe Life of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e if he could\r\nbecause most People distinguish\u0026#8217;d\r\nhim by the Title of the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHappy\u003c/span\u003e\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page38\" name=\"page38\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[38]\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMan\u003c/span\u003e. \u0026#8220;An Opportunity of doing\r\nMischief, says \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZoroaster\u003c/span\u003e, offers\r\nitself a hundred Times a\r\nDay; but that of doing a Friend\r\na good Office but once a Year.\u0026#8221;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArimazes\u003c/span\u003e went one Day to\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s House, when he was\r\nwalking in his Garden with two\r\nFriends, and a young Lady, to\r\nwhom he said Abundance of\r\nfine Things, with no other Design\r\nbut the innocent Pleasure of\r\nsaying them. Their Conversation\r\nturn\u0026#8217;d on a War that the\r\nKing had happily put an End to,\r\nbetween him and his Vassal, the\r\nPrince of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHyrcania\u003c/span\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e having\r\nsignaliz\u0026#8217;d himself in that\r\nshort War, commended his\r\nMajesty very highly, but\r\nwas more lavish of his Compliments\r\non the Lady. He took\r\nout his Pocket Book, and wrote\r\nfour extempore Verses on that\r\nOccasion, and gave them the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page39\" name=\"page39\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[39]\u003c/span\u003eLady to read. The Gentlemen\r\nthen present begg\u0026#8217;d to be oblig\u0026#8217;d\r\nwith a Sight of them, as well\r\nas the Lady, But either thro\u0026#8217;\r\nModesty, or rather a self-Consciousness\r\nthat he hadn\u0026#8217;t happily\r\nsucceeded, he gave them a flat\r\nDenial. He was sensible, that\r\na sudden poetic Flight must\r\nprove insipid to every one but\r\nthe Person in whose Favour it\r\nis written, whereupon he snapt\r\nthe Table in two whereon the\r\nLines were wrote, and threw\r\nboth Pieces into a Rose-bush,\r\nwhere they were hunted for, but\r\nto no Purpose. Soon after it\r\nhappened to rain, and all the\r\nCompany flew into the House,\r\nbut \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArimazes\u003c/span\u003e. Notwithstanding\r\nthe Shower, he continued in the\r\nGarden, and never quitted it,\r\ntill he had found one Moiety of\r\nthe Tablet, which was unfortunately\r\nbroke in such a Manner,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page40\" name=\"page40\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[40]\u003c/span\u003ethat even the half Lines were\r\ngood sense, and good Metre,\r\ntho\u0026#8217; very short. But what was still\r\nmore remarkably unfortunate,\r\nthey appear\u0026#8217;d at first View, to be\r\na severe satyr upon the King:\r\nThe Words were these:\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"halfpoem\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTo flagrant Crimes\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"i4\"\u003eHis Crown he owes;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTo peaceful Times\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"i4\"\u003eThe worst of Foes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis was the first Moment that\r\never \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArimazes\u003c/span\u003e was happy. He\r\nhad it now in his Power to ruin\r\nthe most virtuous and innocent\r\nof Men. Big with his execrable\r\nJoy, he flew to his Majesty with\r\nthis virulent Satyr of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s under\r\nhis own Hand. Not only\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, but his two Friends and\r\nthe Lady were immediately close\r\nconfin\u0026#8217;d. His Cause was soon\r\nover; for the Judges turn\u0026#8217;d a\r\ndeaf Ear to what he had to say.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page41\" name=\"page41\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[41]\u003c/span\u003eWhen Sentence of Condemnation\r\nwas pass\u0026#8217;d upon him, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArimazes\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nstill spiteful, was heard\r\nto say, as he went out of Court,\r\nwith an Air of Contempt, that\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Lines were Treason indeed,\r\nbut nothing more. Tho\u0026#8217;\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e didn\u0026#8217;t value himself on\r\nAccount of his Genius for Poetry;\r\nyet he was almost distracted\r\nto find himself condemn\u0026#8217;d for\r\nthe worst of Traitors, and his\r\ntwo Friends and the Lady lock\u0026#8217;d\r\nup in a Dungeon for a Crime,\r\nof which he was no ways guilty.\r\nHe wasn\u0026#8217;t permitted to\r\nspeak one Word for himself. His\r\nPocket-Book was sufficient Evidence\r\nagainst him. So strict\r\nwere the Laws of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e! He\r\nwas carried to the Place of Execution,\r\nthrough a Croud of Spectators,\r\nwho durstn\u0026#8217;t condole with\r\nhim, and who flock\u0026#8217;d about\r\nhim, to observe whether his\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page42\" name=\"page42\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[42]\u003c/span\u003eCountenance chang\u0026#8217;d, or whether\r\nhe died with a good Grace.\r\nHis Relations were the only real\r\nMourners; for there was no\r\nEstate in Reversion for them;\r\nthree Parts of his Effects were\r\nconfiscated for the King\u0026#8217;s Use,\r\nand the fourth was devoted, as\r\na Reward, to the use of the Informer.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJust at the Time that he was\r\npreparing himself for Death, the\r\nKing\u0026#8217;s Parrot flew from her Balcony,\r\ninto \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Garden, and\r\nalighted on a Rose-bush. A\r\nPeach, that had been blown\r\ndown, and drove by the Wind\r\nfrom an adjacent Tree, just under\r\nthe Bush, was glew\u0026#8217;d, as it\r\nwere, to the other Moiety of the\r\nTablet. Away flew the Parrot\r\nwith her Booty, and return\u0026#8217;d to\r\nthe King\u0026#8217;s Lap. The Monarch,\r\nbeing somewhat curious, read\r\nthe Words on the broken Tablet,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page43\" name=\"page43\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[43]\u003c/span\u003ewhich had no Meaning in\r\nthem as he could perceive, but\r\nseem\u0026#8217;d to be the broken Parts of\r\na Tetrastick. He was a great Admirer\r\nof Poetry; and the odd\r\nAdventure of his Parrot, put\r\nhim upon Reflection. The\r\nQueen who recollected full well\r\nthe Lines that were wrote on the\r\nFragment of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Tablet, order\u0026#8217;d\r\nthat Part of it to be produc\u0026#8217;d:\r\nBoth the broken Pieces\r\nbeing put together, they answered\r\nexactly the Indentures; and then\r\nthe Verses which \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e had\r\nwritten, in a Flight of Loyalty,\r\nran thus,\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"poem\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTyrants are prone to flagrant Crimes;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"i2\"\u003eTo Clemency his Crown he owes;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTo Concord and to peaceful Times,\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"i2\"\u003eLove only is the worst of Foes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eUpon this the King order\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e to be instantly brought\r\nbefore him; and his two Friends\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page44\" name=\"page44\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[44]\u003c/span\u003eand the Lady to be that Moment\r\ndischarg\u0026#8217;d. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, as he stood\r\nbefore the King and Queen,\r\nfix\u0026#8217;d his Eyes upon the Ground,\r\nand begg\u0026#8217;d their Majesty\u0026#8217;s Pardon\r\nfor his little worthless, poetical\r\nAttempt. He spoke, however,\r\nwith such a becoming\r\nGrace, and with so much Modesty\r\nand good Sense, that the\r\nKing and the Queen, ordered\r\nhim to be brought before them\r\nonce again. He was brought\r\naccordingly, and he pleas\u0026#8217;d them\r\nstill more and more. In short,\r\nthey gave him all the immense\r\nEstate of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArimazes\u003c/span\u003e, who had so\r\nunjustly accus\u0026#8217;d him; but \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\ngenerously return\u0026#8217;d the wicked\r\nInformer the Whole to a Farthing.\r\nThe envious Man, however,\r\nwas no ways affected, but\r\nwith the Restoration of his Effects.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e every Day grew\r\nmore and more in Favour at\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page45\" name=\"page45\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[45]\u003c/span\u003eCourt. He was made a Party\r\nin all the King\u0026#8217;s Pleasures, and\r\nnothing was done in the Privy-Council\r\nwithout him. The\r\nQueen, from that very Hour,\r\nshew\u0026#8217;d him so much Respect, and\r\nspoke to him in such soft and\r\nendearing Terms, that in Process\r\nof Time, it prov\u0026#8217;d of fatal Consequence\r\nto herself, her Royal\r\nConsort, to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, and the\r\nwhole Kingdom. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e now\r\nbegan to think it was not so difficult\r\na Thing to be happy as\r\nat first he imagin\u0026#8217;d.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_5\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. V.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNormal\"\u003eForce\u003c/span\u003e of \u003cspan class=\"titleNormal\"\u003eGenerosity\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003eThe Time now drew near\r\nfor the Celebration of a\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page46\" name=\"page46\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[46]\u003c/span\u003egrand Festival, which was kept\r\nbut once in five Years. \u0026#8217;Twas\r\na constant Custom in \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e at\r\nthe Expiration of the Term above-mention\u0026#8217;d,\r\nto distinguish\r\nthat Citizen from all the Rest,\r\nin the most solemn Manner,\r\nwho had done the most generous\r\nAction; and the Grandees\r\nand Magi always sat as Judges.\r\nThe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSatrap\u003c/span\u003e inform\u0026#8217;d them of\r\nevery praise-worthy Deed that\r\noccurr\u0026#8217;d within his District. All\r\nwere put to the Vote, and the\r\nKing himself pronounc\u0026#8217;d the\r\nDefinitive Sentence. People of\r\nall Ranks and Degrees came\r\nfrom the remotest Part of the\r\nKingdom to be present at this\r\nSolemnity. The Victor, whoever\r\nhe was, receiv\u0026#8217;d from the King\u0026#8217;s\r\nown Hand a golden Cup, enrich\u0026#8217;d\r\nwith precious Stones, and\r\nupon the Delivery, the King\r\nmade use of the following Salutation.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page47\" name=\"page47\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[47]\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"quotation\"\u003eReceive this Reward of\r\nyour Generosity, and may the Gods\r\ngrant me Thousands of such valuable\r\nSubjects!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eUpon this memorable Day,\r\nthe King appear\u0026#8217;d in all the\r\nPomp imaginable on his Throne\r\nof State, surrounded by his Grandees,\r\nthe Magi, and the Deputies,\r\nfrom all the surrounding\r\nNations, of every Province that\r\nattended these public Sports,\r\nwhere Honour was to be acquir\u0026#8217;d,\r\nnot by the Velocity of the best\r\nRace-Horse, or by bodily\r\nStrength, but by intrinsic Merit.\r\nThe principal \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSatrap\u003c/span\u003e proclaim\u0026#8217;d,\r\nwith an audible Voice,\r\nsuch Actions as would entitle the\r\nVictor to the inestimable Prize;\r\nbut never mention\u0026#8217;d one Word\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Greatness of Soul, in\r\nreturning his invidious Neighbour\r\nall his Estate, notwithstanding\r\nhe would have taken away\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page48\" name=\"page48\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[48]\u003c/span\u003ehis Life: That was but a\r\nTrifle, and not worth speaking\r\nof.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe first that was set up for the\r\nPrize, was a Judge, that had\r\noccasion\u0026#8217;d a Citizen to lose a very\r\nconsiderable Cause, through\r\nsome Mistake, for which he was\r\nno ways responsible, and made\r\nhim Restitution out of his private\r\nPurse.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe next Candidate was a\r\nYouth, that tho\u0026#8217; violently in\r\nLove with one that he intended\r\nshortly to make his Spouse, yet\r\nresign\u0026#8217;d her to his Friend, who\r\nwas just expiring at her Feet;\r\nand moreover, gave her a Portion\r\nat the same Time.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter this appear\u0026#8217;d a Soldier,\r\nwho, in the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHyrcanian\u003c/span\u003e War, had\r\ndone a much more glorious\r\nAction than the Lover. A Gang\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHyrcanians\u003c/span\u003e having taken\r\nhis Mistress from him, he fought\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page49\" name=\"page49\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[49]\u003c/span\u003ethem bravely, and rescued her\r\nout of their Hands: Soon after,\r\nhe was inform\u0026#8217;d, that another\r\nBand of the same Party had hurried\r\naway his Mother to a Place\r\nnot far distant; he left his Mistress,\r\nall drown\u0026#8217;d in Tears, and\r\nran to his Mother\u0026#8217;s Assistance:\r\nAfter that Skirmish was over,\r\nhe returned to his Sweet-heart,\r\nand found her just expiring.\r\nHe would fain have plung\u0026#8217;d a\r\nDagger into his Heart that Moment;\r\nbut his Mother remonstrated\r\nto him, that, should he\r\ndie, she should be entirely helpless,\r\nand upon that Account\r\nonly he had Courage to live a\r\nlittle longer.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Judges seem\u0026#8217;d very much\r\ninclin\u0026#8217;d to give their Votes for the\r\nSoldier; but the King prevented\r\nthem, by saying, that the Soldier\u0026#8217;s\r\nAction was praise-worthy\r\nenough, and so were those of the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page50\" name=\"page50\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[50]\u003c/span\u003erest, but none of them give me\r\nany Surprize. What \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e did\r\nYesterday perfectly struck me\r\nwith Astonishment. I\u0026#8217;ll mention\r\nanother Instance. I had\r\nsome few Days ago, as a Testimony\r\nof my Resentment,\r\nbanish\u0026#8217;d my Prime-Minister,\r\nand Favourite \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCoreb\u003c/span\u003e from the\r\nCourt. I complain\u0026#8217;d of his Conduct\r\nin the warmest Terms;\r\nand all my Sycophants about\r\nme, told me that I was too merciful;\r\nand loaded him with the\r\nsharpest Invectives. I ask\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\nwhat his Opinion was of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCoreb\u003c/span\u003e; and he dar\u0026#8217;d to give him\r\nthe best of Characters. I must\r\nconfess, I have read in our publick\r\nRecords, indeed, of Instances\r\nwhere Restitution have been generally\r\nmade, for Injuries committed\r\nby Mistake; where a\r\nMistress has been resign\u0026#8217;d; and\r\nwhere a Mother has been preferr\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page51\" name=\"page51\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[51]\u003c/span\u003eto a Mistress; but I never\r\nread of a Courtier, that would\r\nspeak to the Advantage of a Minister\r\nin Disgrace, and against\r\nwhom the Sovereign was highly\r\nincens\u0026#8217;d. I\u0026#8217;ll give 20,000 Pieces\r\nof Gold to every Candidate that\r\nhas been this Day proclaim\u0026#8217;d,\r\nbut I\u0026#8217;ll give the Cup to no one\r\nbut \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eSire, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, \u0026#8217;tis your\r\nMajesty alone, that deserves the\r\nCup; \u0026#8217;tis you alone who have\r\ndone an Action of Generosity,\r\nnever heard of before; since\r\nyou, who are King of Kings,\r\nwasn\u0026#8217;t exasperated against your\r\nSlave, when he contradicted you\r\nin the Heat of your Passion.\r\nEvery Body gaz\u0026#8217;d with Eyes of\r\nAdmiration on the King and\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e. The Judge, who had\r\ngenerously made Restitution for\r\nhis Error; the Lover, who had\r\nmarried his Mistress to his Friend;\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page52\" name=\"page52\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[52]\u003c/span\u003ethe Soldier, who had preferr\u0026#8217;d the\r\nWelfare of his Mother to that of\r\nhis Mistress; received the promis\u0026#8217;d\r\nDonation from the Monarch,\r\nand saw their Names register\u0026#8217;d\r\nin the Book of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eFame\u003c/span\u003e:\r\nBut \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e had the Cup. The\r\nKing got the universal Character\r\nof a good Prince, which he did\r\nnot long preserve. This joyful\r\nDay was solemniz\u0026#8217;d with Festivals\r\nbeyond the Time by Law\r\nestablish\u0026#8217;d. Tragedies were acted\r\nthere that drew Tears from the\r\nSpectators; and Comedies that\r\nmade them laugh; Entertainments,\r\nthat the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylonians\u003c/span\u003e were\r\nperfect Strangers to: The Commemoration\r\nof it is still preserv\u0026#8217;d\r\nin \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAsia\u003c/span\u003e. Now, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nI am happy at last; but he\r\nwas grosly mistaken.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page53\" name=\"page53\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[53]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_6\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. VI.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eJudgments\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003eYoung as \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was, he\r\nwas constituted chief Judge\r\nof all the Tribunals throughout\r\nthe Empire. He fill\u0026#8217;d the Place,\r\nlike one, whom the Gods had\r\nendow\u0026#8217;d with the strictest Justice,\r\nand the most solid Wisdom. It\r\nwas to him, the Nations round\r\nabout were indebted for that generous\r\nMaxim; \u003cspan class=\"quotation\"\u003ethat \u0026#8217;tis much\r\nmore Prudence to acquit two Persons,\r\ntho\u0026#8217; actually guilty, than to\r\npass Sentence of Condemnation in\r\none that is virtuous and innocent\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nIt was his firm Opinion, that\r\nthe Laws were intended to be a\r\nPraise to those who did well, as\r\nmuch as to be a Terror to Evildoers.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page54\" name=\"page54\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[54]\u003c/span\u003eIt was his peculiar Talent\r\nto render Truth as obvious\r\nas possible: Whereas most Men\r\nstudy to render it intricate and\r\nobscure. On the very first Day\r\nof his Entrance into his High\r\nOffice, he exerted this peculiar\r\nTalent. A rich Merchant, and\r\na Native of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, died in the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIndies\u003c/span\u003e. He had made his Will,\r\nand appointed his two Sons Joint-Heirs\r\nof his Estate, as soon as\r\nthey had settled their Sister, and\r\nmarried her with their mutual\r\nApprobation. Moreover, he\r\nleft a specific Legacy of 30,000\r\nPieces of Gold to that Son, who\r\nshould, after his Decease, be\r\nprov\u0026#8217;d to love him best. The\r\nEldest erected to his Memory a\r\nvery costly Monument: The\r\nYoungest appropriated a considerable\r\nPart of his Bequest to\r\nthe Augmentation of his Sister\u0026#8217;s\r\nFortune: Every one, without\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page55\" name=\"page55\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[55]\u003c/span\u003eHesitation, gave the Preference\r\nto the Elder, allowing the Younger\r\nto have the greatest Affection\r\nfor his Sister. The Legacy\r\ntherefore was doubtless due to\r\nthe Eldest.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTheir Cause came before \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nand he examin\u0026#8217;d them apart.\r\nTo the former, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nYour Father, Sir, is not\r\ndead, as is reported, but being\r\nhappily recover\u0026#8217;d, is on his Return\r\nto \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e. God be praised,\r\nsaid the young Man! but I hope\r\nthe Expence I have been at in\r\nraising this superb Monument\r\nwill be consider\u0026#8217;d. After this,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e repeated the same Story\r\nto the Younger. God be praised,\r\nsaid he! I will immediately restore\r\nall that he has left me; but\r\nI hope my Father will not recal\r\nthe little Present I have made\r\nmy Sister. You have nothing\r\nto restore, Sir; you shall have\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page56\" name=\"page56\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[56]\u003c/span\u003ethe Legacy of the thirty thousand\r\nPieces; for \u0026#8217;tis you that\r\nhave the greatest Veneration for\r\nyour deceased Father.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eA young Lady that was very\r\nrich, had entred into a Marriage-Contract\r\nwith two \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMagis\u003c/span\u003e; and\r\nhaving receiv\u0026#8217;d Instructions from\r\nboth Parties for some Months,\r\nshe prov\u0026#8217;d with Child. They\r\nwere both ready and willing to\r\nmarry her. But, said she, he\r\nshall be my Husband, that has\r\nput me into a Capacity of serving\r\nmy Country, by adding one\r\nto it. \u0026#8217;Tis I, Madam, that have\r\nanswered that valuable End,\r\nsaid one; but the other insisted\r\n\u0026#8217;twas his Operation. Well! said\r\nshe, since this is a Moot-point,\r\nI\u0026#8217;ll acknowledge him for the\r\nFather of the Child, that will\r\ngive him the most liberal Education.\r\nIn a short Time after,\r\nmy Lady was brought to Bed of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page57\" name=\"page57\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[57]\u003c/span\u003ea hopeful Boy. Each of them\r\ninsisted on being Tutor, and the\r\nCause was brought before \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nThe two Magi were order\u0026#8217;d to\r\nappear in Court. Pray Sir, said\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e to the first, what Method\r\nof Instruction do you propose to\r\npursue for the Improvement of\r\nyour young Pupil? He shall\r\nfirst be grounded, said this learned\r\nPedagogue, in the Eight\r\nParts of Speech; then I\u0026#8217;ll teach\r\nhim Logic, Astrology, Magick,\r\nthe wide Difference between the\r\nTerms Substance and Accident,\r\nAbstract and Concrete, \u003cspan class=\"quotation\"\u003e\u0026amp;c. \u0026amp;c.\u003c/span\u003e\r\nAs for my Part, Sir, I shall take\r\nanother Course, said the second;\r\nI\u0026#8217;ll do my utmost to make him\r\nan honest Man, and acceptable\r\nto his Friends. Upon this,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e said, you, Sir, shall marry\r\nthe Mother, let who will be\r\nthe Father.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page58\" name=\"page58\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[58]\u003c/span\u003eThere came daily Complaints\r\nto Court against the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItimadoulet\u003c/span\u003e\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMedia\u003c/span\u003e, whose Name was \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIrax\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nHe was a Person of Quality, who\r\nwas possess\u0026#8217;d of a very considerable\r\nEstate, notwithstanding he\r\nhad squander\u0026#8217;d away a great Part\r\nof it, by indulging himself in all\r\nManner of expensive Pleasures.\r\nIt was but seldom that an Inferior\r\nwas suffer\u0026#8217;d to speak to him;\r\nbut not a Soul durst contradict\r\nhim: No Peacock was more\r\ngay; no Turtle more amorous;\r\nand no Tortoise more indolent\r\nand inactive. He made false\r\nGlory and false Pleasures his sole\r\nPursuit.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, undertaking to cure\r\nhim, sent him forthwith, as by\r\nexpress Order from the King, a\r\nMusick-Master with twelve\r\nVoices, and 24 Violins, as his Attendants;\r\na Head Steward, with six\r\nMen Cooks, and 4 Chamberlains,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page59\" name=\"page59\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[59]\u003c/span\u003ewho were never to be out\r\nof his Sight. The King issued\r\nout his Writ for the punctual\r\nObservance of his Royal Will;\r\nand thus the Affair proceeded.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe first Morning, as soon as\r\nthe voluptuous \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIrax\u003c/span\u003e had open\u0026#8217;d\r\nhis Eyes, his Musick-Master,\r\nwith the Voices and Violins,\r\nentred his Apartment. They\r\nsang a Cantata, that lasted two\r\nHours and three Minutes. Every\r\nthree Minutes the Chorus,\r\nor Burthen of the Song, was to\r\nthis Effect.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"poem\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTisn\u0026#8217;t in Words to speak your Praise;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"i2\"\u003eWhat mighty Honours are your Due!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eTo worth like yours we Altars raise,\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"i2\"\u003eNo Monarch\u0026#8217;s happier, Sir, than you.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the Cantata was over,\r\nthe Chamberlain address\u0026#8217;d him\r\nin a formal Harangue for three\r\nQuarters of an Hour without\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page60\" name=\"page60\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[60]\u003c/span\u003eceasing; wherein he took Occasion\r\nto extol every Virtue to\r\nwhich he was a perfect Stranger;\r\nwhen the Oration was over, he\r\nwas conducted to Dinner, where\r\nthe Musicians were all in waiting,\r\nand play\u0026#8217;d, as soon as he\r\nwas seated at his Table. Dinner\r\nlasted three Hours before he\r\ncondescended to speak a Word.\r\nWhen he did; you say Right,\r\nSir, said the chief Chamberlain;\r\nscarce had he utter\u0026#8217;d\r\nfour Words more, but Right,\r\nSir, said the second. The other\r\ntwo Chamberlain\u0026#8217;s Time\r\nwas taken up in laughing with\r\nAdmiration at \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIrax\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Smart Repartees,\r\nor at least such as he\r\nought to have made. After the\r\nCloth was taken away, the adulating\r\nChorus was repeated.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis first Day \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIrax\u003c/span\u003e was all in\r\nRaptures; he imagin\u0026#8217;d, that this\r\nHonour done him by the King\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page61\" name=\"page61\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[61]\u003c/span\u003eof Kings, was the sole Result of\r\nhis exalted Merit. The second\r\nwasn\u0026#8217;t altogether so agreeable;\r\nThe third prov\u0026#8217;d somewhat\r\ntroublesome; the fourth insupportable;\r\nthe fifth was tormenting;\r\nand at last, he was perfectly\r\noutrageous at the continual\r\nPeal in his Ears of No Monarch\u0026#8217;s\r\nhappier Sir, than you,\r\nYou say right, \u003cspan class=\"quotation\"\u003e\u0026amp;c.\u003c/span\u003e and at being\r\ndaily harangu\u0026#8217;d at the same\r\nHour. Whereupon he wrote to\r\nCourt, and begg\u0026#8217;d of his Majesty\r\nto recal his Chamberlain,\r\nhis Musick-Master, and all his\r\nRetinue, his Head Steward and\r\nhis Cooks, and promis\u0026#8217;d, in the\r\nmost submissive Manner, to be\r\nless vain, and more industrious\r\nfor the future. Tho\u0026#8217; he didn\u0026#8217;t\r\nrequire so much Adulations, nor\r\nsuch grand Entertainments, he\r\nwas much more happy; for, as\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSadder\u003c/span\u003e has it, \u003cspan class=\"quotation\"\u003eOne continued\u003c/span\u003e\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page62\" name=\"page62\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[62]\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"quotation\"\u003eScene of Pleasure, is no Pleasure\r\nat all\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e every Day gave incontestable\r\nProofs of his wondrous\r\nPenetration, and the Goodness\r\nof his Heart; he was ador\u0026#8217;d by\r\nthe People, and was the Darling\r\nof the King. The little Difficulties\r\nthat he met with in the\r\nfirst Stage of his Life, serv\u0026#8217;d\r\nonly to augment his present Felicity.\r\nEvery Night, however,\r\nhe had some unlucky Dream or\r\nanother, that gave him some\r\nDisturbance. One while, he\r\nimagin\u0026#8217;d himself extended on a\r\nBed of wither\u0026#8217;d Plants, amongst\r\nwhich there were some that were\r\nsharp pointed, and made him\r\nvery restless and uneasy; another\r\nTime, he fancied himself\r\nrepos\u0026#8217;d on a Bed of Roses, out\r\nof which rush\u0026#8217;d a Serpent, that\r\nstung him to the Heart with\r\nhis envenom\u0026#8217;d Tongue. Alas!\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page63\" name=\"page63\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[63]\u003c/span\u003esaid he, waking, I was one\r\nwhile upon a Bed of hard and\r\nnauseous Plants, and just this\r\nMoment repos\u0026#8217;d on a Bed of\r\nRoses. But then the Serpent.\u003cspan class=\"lineMaker\"\u003e\u0026#8212;\u0026#8212;\u0026#8212;\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_7\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. VII.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe Force of \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eJealousy\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003eThe Misfortunes that attended\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e proceeded, in\r\na great Measure, from his Preferment;\r\nbut more from his\r\nintrinsic Merit. Every Day he\r\nhad familiar Converse with the\r\nKing, his Royal Master, and his\r\naugust Consort, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e. And\r\nthe Pleasure arising from thence\r\nwas greatly enhanc\u0026#8217;d from an innate\r\nAmbition of pleasing, which,\r\nin regard to Wit, is the same, as\r\nDress is to Beauty. His Youth,\r\nand graceful Deportment, had a\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page64\" name=\"page64\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[64]\u003c/span\u003egreater Influence on \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e, than\r\nshe was at first aware of. Tho\u0026#8217;\r\nher Affection for him daily encreas\u0026#8217;d;\r\nyet she was perfectly\r\ninnocent. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e would say,\r\nwithout the least Reserve or Apprehension\r\nof Fear, that she was\r\nextreamly pleas\u0026#8217;d with the\r\nCompany of one, who was, not\r\nonly a Favourite of her Husband,\r\nbut the Darling of the\r\nwhole Empire. She was continually\r\nspeaking in his Commendation\r\nbefore the King:\r\nHe was the Subject of her whole\r\nDiscourse amongst her Ladies of\r\nHonour, who were as lavish\r\nof their Praises as herself. Such\r\nrepeated Discourses, however\r\ninnocent, made a deeper Impression\r\non her Heart, than she\r\nat that Time apprehended. She\r\nwould every now and then send\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e some little Present or\r\nanother; which he construed as\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page65\" name=\"page65\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[65]\u003c/span\u003ethe Result of a greater Value\r\nfor him than she intended. She\r\nsaid no more of him, as she\r\nthought, than a Queen might\r\ninnocently do, who was perfectly\r\nassur\u0026#8217;d of his Attachment to her\r\nHusband; sometimes, indeed,\r\nshe would express her self with\r\nan Air of Tenderness and Affection.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e was much handsomer\r\nthan either his Mistress \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSemira\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwho had such a natural Antipathy\r\nto a one-eyed Lord, or\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAzora\u003c/span\u003e, his late loving Spouse,\r\nthat would innocently have cut\r\nhis Nose off. The Freedoms\r\nwhich \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e took, her tender\r\nExpressions, at which she began\r\nto blush, the Glances of her\r\nEye, which she would turn\r\naway, if perceiv\u0026#8217;d, and which\r\nshe fix\u0026#8217;d upon his, kindled in\r\nthe Heart of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e a Fire,\r\nwhich struck him with Amazement.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page66\" name=\"page66\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[66]\u003c/span\u003eHe did all he could to\r\nsmother it; he call\u0026#8217;d up all the\r\nPhilosophy he was Master of to\r\nhis Aid; but all in vain, for no\r\nConsolation arose from those Reflections.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDuty, Gratitude, and an injur\u0026#8217;d\r\nMonarch, presented themselves\r\nbefore his Eyes, as avenging\r\nDeities: He bravely struggled;\r\nhe triumph\u0026#8217;d indeed;\r\nbut this Conquest over his Passions,\r\nwhich he was oblig\u0026#8217;d to\r\ncheck every Moment, cost him\r\nmany a deep Sigh and Tear.\r\nHe durst not talk with the\r\nQueen any more, with that Freedom\r\nwhich was too engaging\r\non both Sides; his Eyes were\r\nobnubilated; his Discourse was\r\nforc\u0026#8217;d and unconnected; he\r\nturn\u0026#8217;d his Eyes another Way;\r\nand when, against his Inclination,\r\nthey met with those of the\r\nQueen, he found, that tho\u0026#8217;\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page67\" name=\"page67\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[67]\u003c/span\u003edrown\u0026#8217;d in Tears, they darted\r\nFlames of Fire: They seem\u0026#8217;d\r\nin Silence to intimate, that they\r\nwere afraid of being in love\r\nwith each other; and that both\r\nburn\u0026#8217;d with a Fire which both\r\ncondemn\u0026#8217;d.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e flew from her Presence,\r\nlike one beside himself, and in\r\nDespair; his Heart was over-charg\u0026#8217;d\r\nwith a Burthen, too\r\ngreat for him to bear: In the\r\nHeat of his Conflicts, he disclos\u0026#8217;d\r\nthe Secrets of his Heart\r\nto his trusty Friend \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e, as\r\none, who, having long groan\u0026#8217;d\r\nunder the Weight of an inexpressible\r\nAnguish of Mind, at\r\nonce makes known the Cause\r\nof his Torments by the Groans,\r\nas it were, extorted from him,\r\nand by the Drops of a cold\r\nSweat, that trickled down his\r\nCheeks.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page68\" name=\"page68\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[68]\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e said to him; \u0026#8217;tis now\r\nsome considerable Time since,\r\nI have discover\u0026#8217;d that secret\r\nPassion which you have\r\nfoster\u0026#8217;d in your Bosom, and yet\r\nendeavour\u0026#8217;d to conceal even\r\nfrom your self. The Passions\r\ncarry along with them such\r\nstrong Impressions, that they\r\ncannot be conceal\u0026#8217;d. Tell me\r\ningenuously \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e; and be your\r\nown Accuser, whether or no,\r\nsince I have made this Discovery,\r\nthe King has not shewn\r\nsome visible Marks of his Resentment.\r\nHe has no other\r\nFoible, but that of being the\r\nmost jealous Mortal breathing.\r\nYou take more Pains to check\r\nthe Violence of your Passion,\r\nthan the Queen herself does;\r\nbecause you are a Philosopher;\r\nbecause, in short, you are \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e;\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e is but a weak Woman;\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page69\" name=\"page69\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[69]\u003c/span\u003eand tho\u0026#8217; her Eyes speak too visibly,\r\nand with too much Imprudence;\r\nyet she does not think her\r\nself blame-worthy. Being conscious\r\nof her Innocence, to her\r\nown Misfortune, as well as\r\nyours, she is too unguarded. I\r\ntremble for her; because I am\r\nsensible her Conscience acquits\r\nher. Were you both agreed,\r\nyou might conceal your Regard\r\nfor each other from all the\r\nWorld: A rising Passion, that\r\nis smother\u0026#8217;d, breaks out into a\r\nFlame; Love, when once gratified,\r\nknows how to conceal itself\r\nwith Art. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e shudder\u0026#8217;d\r\nat the Proposition of ungratefully\r\nviolating the Bed of his\r\nRoyal Benefactor; and never\r\nwas there a more loyal Subject\r\nto a Prince, tho\u0026#8217; guilty of an\r\ninvoluntary Crime. The Queen,\r\nhowever, repeated the Name of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page70\" name=\"page70\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[70]\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e so often, and her Cheeks\r\nglow\u0026#8217;d with such a red, when\r\never she utter\u0026#8217;d it; she was one\r\nwhile so transported, and at\r\nanother, so dejected, when the\r\nDiscourse turn\u0026#8217;d upon him in\r\nthe King\u0026#8217;s Presence; she was\r\nin such a Reverie, so confus\u0026#8217;d\r\nand stupid, when he went out\r\nof the Presence, that her Deportment\r\nmade the King extremely\r\nuneasy. He was convinc\u0026#8217;d\r\nof every Thing he saw,\r\nand form\u0026#8217;d in his Mind an Idea\r\nof a thousand Things he did not\r\nsee. He observ\u0026#8217;d, particularly,\r\nthat \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Sandals were blue;\r\nso \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s were blue likewise;\r\nthat as the Queen wore yellow\r\nRibbands, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Turbet was\r\nof the same Colour: These\r\nwere shocking Circumstances for\r\na Monarch of his Cast of Mind\r\nto reflect on! To a Mind, in\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page71\" name=\"page71\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[71]\u003c/span\u003eshort, so distemper\u0026#8217;d as his\r\nwas, Suspicions were converted\r\ninto real Facts.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAll Court Slaves, and Sycophants,\r\nare so many Spies on\r\nKings and Queens: They soon\r\ndiscover\u0026#8217;d that \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e was fond,\r\nand \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMoabdar\u003c/span\u003e jealous. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArimazius\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nhis envious Foe, who was as\r\nincorrigible as ever; for Flints\r\nwill never soften; and Creatures,\r\nthat are by Nature venemous,\r\nforever retain their Poison. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArimazius\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nI say, wrote an anonymous\r\nLetter to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMoabdar\u003c/span\u003e, the\r\ninfamous Recourse of sordid\r\nSpirits, who are the Objects of\r\nuniversal Contempt; but in this\r\nCase, an Affair of the last Importance;\r\nbecause this Letter\r\ntallied with the baneful Suggestions\r\nthat Monarch had conceiv\u0026#8217;d.\r\nIn short, his Thoughts\r\nwere now wholly bent upon\r\nRevenge. He determin\u0026#8217;d to\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page72\" name=\"page72\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[72]\u003c/span\u003epoison \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e on a certain\r\nNight, and to have \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\nstrangled by Break of Day. Orders\r\nfor that Purpose were expressly\r\ngiven to a merciless,\r\ninhuman Eunuch, the ready\r\nExecutioner of his Vengeance.\r\nAt that critical Conjuncture,\r\nthere happen\u0026#8217;d to be a Dwarf,\r\nwho was dumb, but not deaf,\r\nin the King\u0026#8217;s Apartment. Nobody\r\nregarded him: He was\r\nan Eye and Ear-witness of all\r\nthat pass\u0026#8217;d, and yet no more suspected\r\nthan any irrational Domestic\r\nAnimal. This little\r\nDwarf had conceiv\u0026#8217;d a peculiar\r\nRegard for \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e:\r\nHe heard, with equal Horror\r\nand Surprize, the King\u0026#8217;s Orders\r\nto destroy them both.\r\nBut how to prevent those Orders\r\nfrom being put into Execution,\r\nas the Time was so\r\nshort, was all his Concern. He\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page73\" name=\"page73\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[73]\u003c/span\u003ecould not write, \u0026#8217;tis true, but\r\nhe had luckily learnt to draw,\r\nand take a Likeness. He spent\r\na good Part of the Night in delineating\r\nwith Crayons, on a\r\nPiece of Paper, the imminent\r\nDanger that thus attended the\r\nQueen. In one Corner, he represented\r\nthe King highly incens\u0026#8217;d,\r\nand giving his cruel\r\nEunuch the fatal Orders; in\r\nanother, a Bowl and a Cord\r\nupon a Table; in the Center\r\nwas the Queen, expiring in\r\nthe Arms of her Maids of Honour,\r\nwith \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e strangled,\r\nand laid dead at her Feet. In\r\nthe Horizon was the rising Sun,\r\nto denote, that this execrable\r\nScene was to be exhibited by\r\nBreak of Day. No sooner was\r\nhis Design finish\u0026#8217;d, but he ran\r\nwith it to one of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Female\r\nFavourites, then in waiting,\r\ncall\u0026#8217;d her up, and gave\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page74\" name=\"page74\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[74]\u003c/span\u003eher to understand, that she must\r\ncarry the Draught to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e that\r\nvery Moment.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the mean Time, the\r\nQueen\u0026#8217;s Attendants, tho\u0026#8217; it was\r\nDead of Night, knock\u0026#8217;d at the\r\nDoor of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Apartment,\r\nwak\u0026#8217;d him, and deliver\u0026#8217;d into\r\nhis Hands a Billet from the\r\nQueen. At first he could not\r\nwell tell whether he was only\r\nin a Dream or not, but soon\r\nread the Letter, with a trembling\r\nHand, and a heavy\r\nHeart: Words can\u0026#8217;t express his\r\nSurprise, and the Agonies of\r\nDespair which he was in upon\r\nhis perusal of the Contents.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"quotation\"\u003eFly\u003c/span\u003e, said she, \u003cspan class=\"quotation\"\u003eDear\u003c/span\u003e Zadig,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"quotation\"\u003ethis very Moment; for your\r\nLife\u0026#8217;s in the utmost Danger: Fly,\r\nDear\u003c/span\u003e Zadig, \u003cspan class=\"quotation\"\u003eI conjure you, in the\r\nName of that fatal Passion, with\r\nwhich I have long struggled, and\r\nwhich I now venture to discover,\u003c/span\u003e\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page75\" name=\"page75\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[75]\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"quotation\"\u003eas I am to make Atonement for\r\nit, in a few Moments, by the\r\nLoss of my Life. Tho\u0026#8217; I am\r\nconscious to myself of my Innocence,\r\nI find I am to feel the\r\nWeight of my Husband\u0026#8217;s Resentment,\r\nand die the Death of a\r\nTraitor.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was scarce able to\r\nspeak. He order\u0026#8217;d his Friend\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e to be instantly call\u0026#8217;d, and\r\ngave him the Letter the Moment\r\nhe came, without opening\r\nhis Lips. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e press\u0026#8217;d\r\nhim to regard the Contents,\r\nand to make the best of his\r\nWay to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMemphis\u003c/span\u003e. If you presume,\r\nsaid he, to have an Interview\r\nwith her Majesty first,\r\nyou inevitably hasten her Execution;\r\nor if you wait upon the\r\nKing, the fatal Consequence\r\nwill be the same: I\u0026#8217;ll prevent\r\nher unhappy Fate, if possible;\r\nyou follow but your own: I\u0026#8217;ll\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page76\" name=\"page76\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[76]\u003c/span\u003egive it out, that you are gone\r\nto the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIndies\u003c/span\u003e: I\u0026#8217;ll wait on you\r\nas soon as the Hurricane is\r\nblown over, and I\u0026#8217;ll let you\r\nknow all that occurs material in\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e, that Instant, order\u0026#8217;d\r\ntwo of the fleetest Dromedaries\r\nthat could be got, to be in\r\nreadiness at a private Back-Door\r\nbelonging to the Court; he\r\nhelp\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e to mount his\r\nBeast, tho\u0026#8217; ready to drop into\r\nthe Earth. He had but one\r\ntrusty Servant to attend him,\r\nand \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e, overwhelm\u0026#8217;d with\r\nGrief, soon lost Sight of his\r\ndearly beloved Friend.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis illustrious Fugitive soon\r\nreach\u0026#8217;d the Summit of a little\r\nHill, that afforded him a fair\r\nProspect of the whole City of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e: But turning his Eyes\r\nback towards the Queen\u0026#8217;s Palace,\r\nhe fainted away; and\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page77\" name=\"page77\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[77]\u003c/span\u003ewhen he had recover\u0026#8217;d his\r\nSenses, he drown\u0026#8217;d his Eyes in\r\na Flood of Tears, and with Impatience\r\nwish\u0026#8217;d for Death. To\r\nconclude, after he had reflected,\r\nwith Horror, on the deplorable\r\nFate of the most amiable Creature\r\nin the Universe, and of the\r\nmost meritorious Queen that\r\never liv\u0026#8217;d; he for a Moment\r\ncommanded his Passion, and\r\nwith a Sigh, made the following\r\nExclamations: What is this\r\nmortal Life! O Virtue, Virtue,\r\nof what Service hast thou been\r\nto me! Two young Ladies, a\r\nMistress, and a Wife, have\r\nprov\u0026#8217;d false to me; a third,\r\nwho is perfectly innocent, and\r\nten thousand Times handsomer\r\nthan either of them, has suffer\u0026#8217;d\r\nDeath, \u0026#8217;tis probable, before\r\nthis, on my Account! All the\r\nActs of Benevolence which I\r\nhave shewn, have been the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page78\" name=\"page78\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[78]\u003c/span\u003eFoundation of my Sorrows,\r\nand I have been only rais\u0026#8217;d to\r\nthe highest Spoke of Fortune\u0026#8217;s\r\nWheel, for no other Purpose\r\nthan to be tumbled down with\r\nthe greater Force. Had I been\r\nas abandon\u0026#8217;d as some Miscreants\r\nare, I had like them been\r\nhappy. His Head thus overwhelm\u0026#8217;d\r\nwith these melancholy\r\nReflections, his Eyes thus sunk\r\nin his Head, and his meagre\r\nCheeks all pale and languid;\r\nand, in a Word, his very Soul\r\nthus plung\u0026#8217;d in the Abyss of deep\r\nDespair, he pursu\u0026#8217;d his Journey\r\ntowards \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgypt\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page79\" name=\"page79\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[79]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_8\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. VIII.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe Thrash\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eWife\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e steer\u0026#8217;d his Course\r\nby the Stars that shone over\r\nhis Head. The Constellation of\r\nOrion, and the radiant Dog-star\r\ndirected him towards the\r\nPole of Canope. He reflected\r\nwith Admiration on those immense\r\nGlobes of Light, which\r\nappear\u0026#8217;d to the naked Eye no\r\nmore than little twinkling Lights;\r\nwhereas the Earth he was then traversing,\r\nwhich, in Reality, is no\r\nmore than an imperceptible Point\r\nin Nature, seem\u0026#8217;d, according to the\r\nselfish Idea we generally entertain\r\nof it, something very immense, and\r\nvery magnificent. He then reflected\r\non the whole Race of\r\nMankind, and look\u0026#8217;d upon\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page80\" name=\"page80\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[80]\u003c/span\u003ethem, as they are in Fact, a\r\nParcel of Insects, or Reptiles,\r\ndevouring one another on a small\r\nAtom of Clay. This just Idea\r\nof them greatly alleviated his\r\nMisfortunes, recollecting the\r\nNothingness, if we may be allow\u0026#8217;d\r\nthe Expression, of his own\r\nBeing, and even of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e itself.\r\nHis capacious Soul now\r\nsoar\u0026#8217;d into Infinity, and he contemplated,\r\nwith the same Freedom,\r\nas if she was disencumber\u0026#8217;d\r\nfrom her earthly Partner,\r\non the immutable Order of the\r\nUniverse. But as soon as she\r\ncower\u0026#8217;d her Wings, and resumed\r\nher native Seat, he began to\r\nconsider that \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e might possibly\r\nhave lost her Life for his Sake;\r\nupon which, his Thoughts of the\r\nUniverse vanish\u0026#8217;d all at once,\r\nand no other Objects appear\u0026#8217;d\r\nbefore his distemper\u0026#8217;d Eyes, but\r\nhis \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e giving up the Ghost,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page81\" name=\"page81\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[81]\u003c/span\u003eand himself overwhelm\u0026#8217;d with a\r\nSea of Troubles: As he gave himself\r\nup to this Flux and Reflux\r\nof sublime Philosophy and Anxiety\r\nof Mind, he was insensibly\r\narriv\u0026#8217;d on the Frontiers of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgypt\u003c/span\u003e:\r\nAnd his trusty Attendant\r\nhad, unknown to him, stept\r\ninto the first Village, and sought\r\nout for a proper Apartment for his\r\nMaster and himself. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e in the\r\nmean Time made the best of\r\nhis Way to the adjacent Gardens;\r\nwhere he saw, not far distant\r\nfrom the High-way, a\r\nyoung Lady, all drown\u0026#8217;d in\r\nTears, calling upon Heaven and\r\nEarth for Succour in her Distress,\r\nand a Man, fir\u0026#8217;d with Rage and\r\nResentment, in pursuit after her.\r\nHe had now just overtaken her,\r\nand she fell prostrate at his Feet\r\nimploring his Forgiveness. He\r\nloaded her with a thousand Reproaches;\r\nnor did he spare to\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page82\" name=\"page82\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[82]\u003c/span\u003echastise her in the most outrageous\r\nManner. By the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s\r\ncruel Deportment towards\r\nher, he concluded that the Man\r\nwas a jealous Husband, and that\r\nthe Lady was an Inconstant, and\r\nhad defil\u0026#8217;d his Bed: But when\r\nhe reflected, that the Woman\r\nwas a perfect Beauty, and to his\r\nthinking something like the unfortunate\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e, he perceiv\u0026#8217;d\r\nhis Heart yearn with Compassion\r\ntowards the Lady, and swell with\r\nIndignation against her Tyrant.\r\nFor Heaven\u0026#8217;s sake, Sir, assist\r\nme, said she, to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, sobbing\r\nas if her Heart would break,\r\nOh! deliver me out of the\r\nHands of this \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBarbarian\u003c/span\u003e: Save,\r\nSir, O save my Life. Upon\r\nthese her shocking Outcries, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\nthrew himself between the\r\ninjur\u0026#8217;d Lady and the inexorable\r\nBrute. And as he had some\r\nsmattering of the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page83\" name=\"page83\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[83]\u003c/span\u003eTongue, he expostulated with\r\nhim in his own Dialect, and\r\nsaid: Dear Sir, if you are endow\u0026#8217;d\r\nwith the least Spark of\r\nHumanity, let me conjure you\r\nto have some Pity and Remorse\r\nfor so beautiful a Creature; have\r\nsome Regard, Sir, to the Weakness\r\nof her Sex. How can you\r\ntreat a Lady, who is one of Nature\u0026#8217;s\r\nMaster-pieces, in such a\r\nrude and outrageous Manner,\r\none who lies weeping at your\r\nFeet for Forgiveness, and one\r\nwho has no other Recourse\r\nthan her Tears for her Defence?\r\nOh! Oh! said the jealous-pated\r\nFellow in a Fury to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nWhat! You are one of her Gallants,\r\nI suppose. I\u0026#8217;ll be reveng\u0026#8217;d\r\nof thee, thou Villain, this Moment.\r\nNo sooner were the\r\nWords out of his Mouth, but\r\nhe quits hold of the Lady, in\r\nwhose Hair he had twisted his\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page84\" name=\"page84\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[84]\u003c/span\u003eFingers before, takes up his\r\nLance in a Fury, and endeavours\r\nto the utmost of his\r\nPow\u0026#8217;r to plunge it in the Stranger\u0026#8217;s\r\nHeart: \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, however,\r\nbeing cool, warded the intended\r\nBlow with Ease. He laid fast\r\nhold of his Lance towards the\r\nPoint. One strove to recover\r\nit, and the other to snatch it away\r\nby Force. They broke it\r\nbetween them. Whereupon the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e drew his Sword. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\ndrew his: They fought:\r\nThe former made a hundred\r\nrash Passes one after another,\r\nwhich the latter parried with the\r\nutmost Dexterity. The Lady\r\nsat herself upon a Grass-plat,\r\nadjusting her Head-dress, and\r\nlooking on the Combatants.\r\nThe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e was too strong for\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, but \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was more nimble\r\nand active. The latter fought as a\r\nMan whose Hand was guided by\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page85\" name=\"page85\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[85]\u003c/span\u003ehis Head; the former as a Mad-man\r\nwho dealt about his Blows\r\nat random. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e took the\r\nAdvantage, made a Plunge at\r\nhim, and disarm\u0026#8217;d him. And forasmuch\r\nas he found that the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e\r\nwas hotter than ever, and\r\nendeavour\u0026#8217;d all he could to throw\r\nhim down by Dint of Strength,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e laid fast hold of him, flew\r\nupon him, and tripp\u0026#8217;d up his\r\nHeels: After that, holding\r\nthe Point of his Sword to his\r\nBreast, like a Man of Honour,\r\ngave him his Life. The \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nfir\u0026#8217;d with Rage, and having\r\nno Command of his Passion,\r\ndrew his Dagger, and wounded\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e like a Coward, whilst the\r\nVictor generously forgave him.\r\nUpon that unexpected Action,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, being incens\u0026#8217;d to the last\r\nDegree, plung\u0026#8217;d his Sword deep\r\ninto his Bosom. The \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e\r\nfetch\u0026#8217;d a hideous Groan, and\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page86\" name=\"page86\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[86]\u003c/span\u003edied upon the Spot. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e then\r\napproach\u0026#8217;d the Lady, and with\r\na kind of Concern, in the softest\r\nTerms told her, that he was oblig\u0026#8217;d\r\nto kill her Insulter, tho\u0026#8217; against\r\nhis Inclinations. I have aveng\u0026#8217;d\r\nyour Cause, and deliver\u0026#8217;d you\r\nout of the merciless Hands of the\r\nmost outrageous Man I ever saw.\r\nNow, Madam, let me know your\r\nfarther Will and Pleasure with\r\nme. You shall die, you Villain!\r\nYou have murder\u0026#8217;d my Love.\r\nOh! I could tear your Heart\r\nout. Indeed, Madam, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nyou had one of the most\r\nhot-headed, oddest Lovers I ever\r\nsaw. He beat you most unmercifully,\r\nand would have taken\r\naway my Life because you call\u0026#8217;d\r\nme in to your Assistance. Would\r\nto God he was but alive to beat\r\nme again, said she, blubbering\r\nand roaring; I deserv\u0026#8217;d to be\r\nbeat. I gave him too just Occasion\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page87\" name=\"page87\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[87]\u003c/span\u003eto be jealous of me.\r\nWould to God that he had beat\r\nme, and you had died in his\r\nStead! \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e more astonish\u0026#8217;d,\r\nand more exasperated than ever\r\nhe was in all his Life, said to\r\nher: Really, Madam, you\r\nput on such extravagant Airs,\r\nthat you tempt me, pretty\r\nas you are, to thresh you most\r\ncordially in my Turn; but I\r\nscorn to concern my self any\r\nmore about you. Upon this, he\r\nremounted his Dromedary, and\r\nmade the best of his Way towards\r\nthe Village: But before\r\nhe had got near a hundred\r\nYards, he return\u0026#8217;d upon an Out-cry\r\nthat was made by four\r\nCouriers from \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e. They\r\nrode full Speed. One of them,\r\nspying the young Widow, cried\r\nout. There she is, That\u0026#8217;s she.\r\nShe answers in every Respect to\r\nthe Description we had of her.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page88\" name=\"page88\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[88]\u003c/span\u003eThey never took the least Notice\r\nof her dead Gallant, but\r\nsecur\u0026#8217;d her directly. Oh! Sir,\r\ncried she to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, again and\r\nagain, dear Sir, most generous\r\nStranger, once more deliver me\r\nfrom a Pack of Villains. I most\r\nhumbly beg your Pardon for my\r\nlate Conduct and unjust Complaint\r\nof you. Do but stand\r\nmy Friend, at this critical Conjuncture,\r\nand I\u0026#8217;ll be your most\r\nobedient Vassal till Death. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\nhad now no Inclination to\r\nfight for one so undeserving any\r\nmore. Find some other to be your\r\nFool now, Madam; you shan\u0026#8217;t\r\nimpose upon me a second Time.\r\nI\u0026#8217;ll assure you, Madam, I know\r\nbetter Things. Besides he was\r\nwounded; and bled so fast that\r\nhe wanted Assistance himself:\r\nAnd \u0026#8217;tis very probable, that the\r\nSight of the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylonian\u003c/span\u003e Couriers,\r\nwho were dispatch\u0026#8217;d from King\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page89\" name=\"page89\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[89]\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMoabdar\u003c/span\u003e, might discompose him\r\nvery much. He made all the\r\nHaste he could towards the Village,\r\nnot being able to conceive\r\nwhat should be the real Cause of\r\nthe young Lady\u0026#8217;s being secur\u0026#8217;d\r\nby those \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylonish\u003c/span\u003e Officers, and\r\nas much at a Loss, at the same\r\nTime, what to think of such a\r\nTermagant and a Coquet.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_9\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. IX.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eCaptive\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003eNo sooner was \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e arriv\u0026#8217;d\r\nat the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e Village\r\nbefore-mention\u0026#8217;d, but he\r\nfound himself surrounded by a\r\nCroud. The People one and\r\nall cried out! See! See! there\u0026#8217;s\r\nthe Man that ran away with the\r\nbeauteous Lady \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMissouf\u003c/span\u003e, and\r\nmurder\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCletofis\u003c/span\u003e. Gentlemen,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page90\" name=\"page90\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[90]\u003c/span\u003esaid he, God forbid that I should\r\never entertain a Thought of running\r\naway with the Lady you\r\nspeak of: She is too much of\r\na Coquet: And as to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCletofis\u003c/span\u003e, I\r\ndid not murder him, but kill\u0026#8217;d\r\nhim in my own Defence. He\r\nendeavour\u0026#8217;d all he could to take\r\nmy Life away, because I entreated\r\nhim to take some Pity and\r\nCompassion on the beauteous\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMissouf\u003c/span\u003e, whom he beat most unmercifully.\r\nI am a Stranger,\r\nwho am fled hither for Shelter,\r\nand \u0026#8217;tis highly improbable, that\r\nupon my first Entrance into a\r\nCountry, where I came for Safety\r\nand Protection, I should be\r\nguilty of two such enormous\r\nCrimes, as that of running away\r\nwith another Man\u0026#8217;s Partner, and\r\nthat of clandestinely murdering\r\nhim on her Account.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptians\u003c/span\u003e at that Time\r\nwere just and humane. The\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page91\" name=\"page91\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[91]\u003c/span\u003ePopulace, tis true, hurried \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\nto the Town-Goal; but they\r\ntook care in the first Place to\r\nstop the Bleeding of his Wounds,\r\nand afterwards examin\u0026#8217;d the\r\nsuppos\u0026#8217;d Delinquents apart,\r\nin order to discover, if possible,\r\nthe real Truth. They acquitted\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e of the Charge of wilful\r\nand premeditated Murder; but\r\nas he had taken a Subject\u0026#8217;s Life\r\naway, tho\u0026#8217; in his own Defence,\r\nhe was sentenc\u0026#8217;d to be a Slave,\r\nas the Law directed. His two\r\nBeasts were sold in open Market,\r\nfor the Service of the Hamlet;\r\nWhat Money he had was\r\ndistributed amongst the Inhabitants;\r\nand he and his Attendant\r\nwere expos\u0026#8217;d in the Market-place\r\nto public Sale. An \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabian\u003c/span\u003e\r\nMerchant, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e by Name,\r\npurcha\u0026#8217;d them both; but as\r\nthe Valet, or Attendant, was a\r\nrobust Man, and better cut out\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page92\" name=\"page92\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[92]\u003c/span\u003efor hard Labour than the Master,\r\nhe fetch\u0026#8217;d the most Money.\r\nThere was no Comparison to be\r\nmade between them. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\ntherefore was a Slave subordinate\r\nto his Valet; they secur\u0026#8217;d\r\nthem both, however, by\r\na Chain upon their Legs;\r\nand so link\u0026#8217;d they accompanied\r\ntheir Master home. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, as\r\nthey were on the Road, comforted\r\nhis Fellow-Slave, and exhorted\r\nhim to bear his Misfortunes\r\nwith Patience: But, according\r\nto Custom, he made several Reflections\r\non the Vicissitudes of\r\nhuman Life. I am now sensible,\r\nsaid he, that my impropitious\r\nFortune has some malignant\r\nInfluence over thine; every\r\nOccurrence of my Life hitherto\r\nhas prov\u0026#8217;d strangely odd and unaccountable.\r\nIn the first Place,\r\nI was sentenc\u0026#8217;d to die at \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nfor writing a short Panegyrick\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page93\" name=\"page93\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[93]\u003c/span\u003eon the King, my Master. In\r\nthe next, I narrowly escap\u0026#8217;d being\r\nstrangled, for the Queen\r\nhis Royal Consort\u0026#8217;s speaking a\r\nlittle too much in my Favour;\r\nand here I am a joint-Slave with\r\nthy self; because a turbulent\r\nFellow of a Gallant would beat\r\nhis Lady. However, Comrade,\r\nlet us march on boldly; let not\r\nour Courage be cast down; all\r\nthis may possibly have a happier\r\nIssue than we expect. \u0026#8217;Tis absolutely\r\nnecessary that these \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabian\u003c/span\u003e\r\nMerchants should have\r\nSlaves, and why should not you\r\nand I, as we are but Men, be\r\nSlaves as Thousands of others\r\nare? This Master of ours may\r\nnot prove inexorable. He must\r\ntreat his Slaves with some\r\nThought and Consideration, if\r\nhe expects them to do his Work.\r\nThis was his Discourse to his\r\nComrade; but his Mind was\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page94\" name=\"page94\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[94]\u003c/span\u003emore attentive to the Misfortunes\r\nof the Queen of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTwo Days afterwards \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e\r\nset out with his two Slaves and\r\nhis Camels, for \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabia Deserta\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nHis Tribe liv\u0026#8217;d near the Desert\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHoreb\u003c/span\u003e. The Way was long\r\nand tedious. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e, during the\r\nJourney, paid a much greater\r\nRegard to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Valet, than\r\nto himself; because the former\r\nwas the most able to load the\r\nCamels; and therefore what little\r\nDistinctions were made, they\r\nwere in his Favour. It so happen\u0026#8217;d\r\nthat one of the Camels\r\ndied upon the Road: The Load\r\nwhich the Beast carried was immediately\r\ndivided, and thrown upon\r\nthe Shoulders of the two Slaves;\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e had his Share. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e,\r\ncouldn\u0026#8217;t forbear laughing to see\r\nhis two Slaves crouching under\r\ntheir Burthen. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e took the\r\nLiberty to explain the Reason\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page95\" name=\"page95\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[95]\u003c/span\u003ethereof; and convinc\u0026#8217;d him of\r\nthe Laws of the Equilibrium.\r\nThe Merchant was a little startled\r\nat his philosophical Discourse,\r\nand look\u0026#8217;d upon him with a\r\nmore favourable Eye than at first.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, perceiving he had rais\u0026#8217;d his\r\nCuriosity, redoubled it, by instructing\r\nhim in several material Points,\r\nwhich were in some Measure,\r\nadvantageous to him in his Way\r\nof Business: Such as, the specific\r\nWeight of Metals, and other\r\nCommodities of various Kinds,\r\nof an equal Bulk; the Properties\r\nof several useful Animals,\r\nand the best Ways and Means to\r\nmake Such as were wild, tame\r\nby Degrees, and fit for Service:\r\nIn short, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was look\u0026#8217;d upon\r\nby his Master, as a perfect Oracle.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e now thought the Master\r\nthe much better Man of the\r\ntwo. He us\u0026#8217;d him courteously,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page96\" name=\"page96\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[96]\u003c/span\u003eand had no Room to repent of\r\nhis Indulgence towards him.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBeing got to their Journey\u0026#8217;s\r\nEnd, the first Step that \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e\r\ntook was to claim a Debt of five\r\nhundred Ounces of Silver of a\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eJew\u003c/span\u003e, who had borrow\u0026#8217;d it in\r\nthe Presence of two Witnesses;\r\nbut both of them were dead;\r\nand as the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eJew\u003c/span\u003e was conscious he\r\ncouldn\u0026#8217;t be cast for Want of Evidence,\r\nappropriated the Merchant\u0026#8217;s\r\nMoney to his own Use,\r\nand thank\u0026#8217;d God that it lay in\r\nhis Power for once to bite an\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabian\u003c/span\u003e with Impunity. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e\r\ndiscover\u0026#8217;d to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e the unhappy\r\nSituation of his Case, as he was\r\nnow become his Confident.\r\nWhere was it, pray, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nthat you lent this large Sum to\r\nthat ungrateful Infidel? Upon\r\na large Stone, said the Merchant,\r\nat the Foot of Mount\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page97\" name=\"page97\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[97]\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHoreb\u003c/span\u003e. What sort of a Man is\r\nyour Debtor, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e? Oh!\r\nhe is as errand a Rogue as ever\r\nbreath\u0026#8217;d, reply\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e. That I\r\ntake for granted; but, says \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nis he a lively, active Man, or is\r\nhe a dull heavy-headed Fellow?\r\nHe is one of the worst of Pay-masters\r\nin the World, but the\r\nmerriest, most sprightly Fellow\r\nI ever met with. Very well!\r\nsaid \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, let me be one of your\r\nCouncil when your Cause comes\r\nto be heard. In short, he summon\u0026#8217;d\r\nthe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eJew\u003c/span\u003e to attend the\r\nCourt; where, when the Judge\r\nwas sat, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e open\u0026#8217;d the Cause:\r\nThou impartial Judge of this\r\nCourt of Equity, I am come\r\nhere, in behalf of my Master, to\r\ndemand of the Defendant five\r\nhundred Ounces of Silver, which\r\nhe refuses to pay, and would\r\nfain traverse the Debt. Have\r\nyou, Friend, your Witnesses\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page98\" name=\"page98\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[98]\u003c/span\u003eready to prove the Loan, said\r\nthe Judge? No, they are dead;\r\nbut there is a large Stone still\r\nsubsisting, on which the Money\r\nwas deposited; and if your Excellence,\r\nwill be pleas\u0026#8217;d to order\r\nthe Stone to be brought in Court,\r\nI don\u0026#8217;t doubt but the Evidence\r\nit will give, will be Proof sufficient\r\nof the Fact. I hope your\r\nExcellence will order, that the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eJew\u003c/span\u003e and myself shall be oblig\u0026#8217;d\r\nto attend the Court, till the\r\nStone comes, and I\u0026#8217;ll dispatch a\r\nspecial Messenger to fetch it, at\r\nmy Master\u0026#8217;s Expence. Your\r\nRequest is very reasonable, said\r\nthe Judge. Do as you propose;\r\nand so call\u0026#8217;d another Cause.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the Court was ready to\r\nbreak up, Well! said the Judge\r\nto \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, is your Stone come\r\nyet? The \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eJew\u003c/span\u003e, with a Sneer,\r\nreplied, your Excellence may\r\nwait here till this Time To-morrow,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page99\" name=\"page99\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[99]\u003c/span\u003ebefore the Stone will appear\r\nin Court; for \u0026#8217;tis above six Mile\r\noff, and it will require fifteen\r\nMen to remove it from its Place.\r\n\u0026#8217;Tis well! replied \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e. I told\r\nyour Excellence that the Stone\r\nwould be a very material Evidence.\r\nSince the Defendant can\r\npoint out the Place where the\r\nStone lies, he tacitly confesses,\r\nthat it was upon that Stone the\r\nMoney was deposited. The \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eJew\u003c/span\u003e\r\nthus unexpectedly confuted, was\r\nsoon oblig\u0026#8217;d to acknowledge the\r\nDebt. The Judge order\u0026#8217;d that\r\nthe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eJew\u003c/span\u003e should be tied fast to\r\nthe Stone, without Victuals or\r\nDrink, till he should advance\r\nthe five hundred Ounces of Silver,\r\nwhich were soon paid accordingly,\r\nand the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eJew\u003c/span\u003e releas\u0026#8217;d.\r\nThe Slave \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, and this remarkable\r\nStone-Witness, were\r\nin great Repute all over \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabia\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page100\" name=\"page100\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[100]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_10\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. X.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eFuneral Pile\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e, transported with his\r\ngood Success, of a Slave\r\nmade \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e his Favourite Companion\r\nand Confident; he found\r\nhim as necessary in the Conduct\r\nof his Affairs, as the King of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e had before done in the\r\nAdministration of his Government;\r\nand lucky it was for\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e that \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e had no Wife.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe discover\u0026#8217;d, that his Master\r\nwas in his Temper benevolent,\r\nstrictly honest, and a Man of\r\ngood natural Parts. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was\r\nvery much concern\u0026#8217;d, that One\r\nof so much Sense should pay\r\ndivine Adoration to a whole\r\nHost of created, tho\u0026#8217; Celestial\r\nBeings, that is to say, the Sun,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page101\" name=\"page101\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[101]\u003c/span\u003eMoon, and Stars, according to\r\nthe antient Custom of the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabians\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nHe talk\u0026#8217;d, at first, to\r\nhis Master, with great Precaution\r\non so important a Topick.\r\nBut at last told him, in direct\r\nTerms, that they were created\r\nBodies, as others, tho\u0026#8217; of less\r\nLustre, and that there was no\r\nmore Adoration due to them,\r\nthan to a Stock or a Stone.\r\nBut, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e, they are eternal\r\nBeings to whom we are indebted\r\nfor all the Blessings we\r\nenjoy; they animate Nature;\r\nthey regulate the Seasons; they\r\nare, in a Word, at such an infinite\r\nDistance from us, that it\r\nwould be downright impious\r\nnot to adore them. You are\r\nmore indebted, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, to\r\nthe Waters of the Red Sea,\r\nwhich transport so many valuable\r\nCommodities into the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIndies\u003c/span\u003e. Why, pray, may not\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page102\" name=\"page102\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[102]\u003c/span\u003ethey be deem\u0026#8217;d as antient as the\r\nStars? And if you are so fond\r\nof paying your Adoration on\r\nAccount of their vast Distance;\r\nwhy don\u0026#8217;t you adore the\r\nLand of the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGangarides\u003c/span\u003e, which\r\nlies in the utmost Extremities\r\nof the Earth. No, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nthere is something so surprisingly\r\nmore brilliant in the\r\nStars than what you speak of;\r\nthat a Man must adore them\r\nwhether he will or not.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt the Close of the Evening,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e planted a long Range of\r\nCandles in the Front of his\r\nTent, where \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e and he were\r\nto sup that Night: And as soon\r\nas he perceiv\u0026#8217;d his Patron to be\r\nat the Door, he fell prostrate\r\non his Knees before the Wax-Lights.\r\nO ye everlasting, ever-shining\r\nLuminaries, be always\r\npropitious to your Votary, said\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e. Having repeated these\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page103\" name=\"page103\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[103]\u003c/span\u003eWords so loud as \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e might\r\nhear them, he sat down to\r\nTable, without taking the least\r\nNotice of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e. What! said\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e, somewhat startled at his\r\nConduct, art thou at thy\r\nPrayers before Supper? I act\r\njust as inconsistently, Sir, as\r\nyou do; I worship these\r\nCandles; without reflecting on\r\ntheir Makers, or yourself, who\r\nare my most beneficent Patron.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e took the Hint, and was\r\nconscious of the Reproof that\r\nwas conceal\u0026#8217;d so genteely under\r\na Vail. The superior Wisdom\r\nof his Slave enlightned his\r\nMind; and from that Hour he\r\nwas less lavish than ever he had\r\nbeen, of his Incense to those\r\ncreated Beings, and for the future,\r\npaid his Adoration to the\r\neternal God who made them.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt that Time there was a\r\nmost hideous Custom in high\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page104\" name=\"page104\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[104]\u003c/span\u003eRepute all over \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabia\u003c/span\u003e, which\r\ncame originally from \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eScythia\u003c/span\u003e;\r\nbut having met with the Sanction\r\nof the bigotted Brachmans,\r\nthreatn\u0026#8217;d to spread its Infection\r\nall over the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEast\u003c/span\u003e. When a married\r\nMan happen\u0026#8217;d to die, if\r\nhis dearly beloved Widow ever\r\nexpected to be esteem\u0026#8217;d a Saint,\r\nshe must throw herself headlong\r\nupon her Husband\u0026#8217;s Funeral-Pile.\r\nThis was look\u0026#8217;d upon as\r\na solemn Festival, and was\r\ncall\u0026#8217;d the Widow\u0026#8217;s Sacrifice.\r\nThat Tribe which could boast of\r\nthe greatest Number of burnt-Widows,\r\nwas look\u0026#8217;d upon as\r\nthe most meritorious. An \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabian\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwho was of the Tribe of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e, happen\u0026#8217;d just at that\r\nJuncture, to be dead, and his\r\nWidow (\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAlmona\u003c/span\u003e by Name) who\r\nwas a noted Devotee, publish\u0026#8217;d\r\nthe Day, nay, the Hour, that\r\nshe propos\u0026#8217;d to throw herself\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page105\" name=\"page105\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[105]\u003c/span\u003e(according to Custom) on her\r\ndeceased Husband\u0026#8217;s Funeral Pile,\r\nand be attended by a Concert\r\nof Drums and Trumpets.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e remonstrated to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwhat a shocking Custom this\r\nwas, and how directly repugnant\r\nto human Nature; by permitting\r\nyoung Widows, almost\r\nevery Day, to become wilful\r\nSelf-Murderers; when they\r\nmight be of Service to their\r\nCountry, either by the Addition\r\nof new Subjects, or by the\r\nEducation of such as demanded\r\ntheir Maternal Indulgence.\r\nAnd, by arguing seriously with\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e for some Time, he forc\u0026#8217;d\r\nfrom him at last, an ingenuous\r\nConfession, that the barbarous\r\nCustom then subsisting, ought,\r\nif possible, to be abolish\u0026#8217;d. \u0026#8217;Tis\r\nnow, replied \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e, above a\r\nthousand Years since the Widows\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page106\" name=\"page106\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[106]\u003c/span\u003eof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabia\u003c/span\u003e have been indulg\u0026#8217;d\r\nwith this Privilege of\r\ndying with their Husbands;\r\nand how shall any one dare to\r\nabrogate a Law that has been\r\nestablish\u0026#8217;d Time out of Mind?\r\nIs there any Thing more inviolable\r\nthan even an antient Error?\r\nBut, replied \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, Reason\r\nis of more antient Date than\r\nthe Custom you plead for. Do\r\nyou communicate these Sentiments\r\nto the Sovereigns of your\r\nTribes, and in the mean while\r\nI\u0026#8217;ll go, and sound the Widow\u0026#8217;s\r\nInclinations.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAccordingly he paid her a\r\nVisit, and having insinuated\r\nhimself into her Favour, by a\r\nfew Compliments on her Beauty,\r\nafter urging what a pity it\r\nwas, that a young Widow,\r\nMistress of so many Charms,\r\nshould make away with herself\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page107\" name=\"page107\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[107]\u003c/span\u003efor no other reason but to mingle\r\nher Ashes with a Husband that\r\nwas dead; he, notwithstanding,\r\napplauded her for her heroic\r\nConstancy and Courage. I perceive,\r\nMadam, said he, you\r\nwas excessively fond of your deceased\r\nSpouse. Not I truly,\r\nreply\u0026#8217;d the young \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabian\u003c/span\u003e Devotee.\r\nHe was a Brute, infected\r\nwith a groundless Jealousy\r\nof my Virtue; and, in short,\r\na perfect Tyrant. But, notwithstanding\r\nall this, I am determin\u0026#8217;d\r\nto comply with our\r\nCustom. Surely then, Madam,\r\nthere\u0026#8217;s a Sort of secret Pleasure\r\nin being burnt alive. Alas!\r\nwith a Sigh, cried \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAlmona\u003c/span\u003e, \u0026#8217;tis\r\na Shock indeed to Nature; but\r\nmust be complied with for all\r\nthat. I am a profess\u0026#8217;d Devotee,\r\nand should I shew the least Reluctance,\r\nmy Reputation would\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page108\" name=\"page108\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[108]\u003c/span\u003ebe lost for ever; all the World\r\nwould laugh at me, should I\r\nnot burn myself on this Occasion:\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e having forc\u0026#8217;d her\r\ningenuously to confess, that she\r\nparted with her Life more out\r\nof Regard to what the World\r\nwould say of her, and out of\r\nPride and Ostentation, than any\r\nreal Love for the deceas\u0026#8217;d, he\r\ntalk\u0026#8217;d to her for some considerable\r\nTime so rationally, and\r\nus\u0026#8217;d so many prevailing Arguments\r\nwith her to justify her\r\ndue Regard for the Life which\r\nshe was going to throw away,\r\nthat she began to wave the\r\nThought, and entertain a secret\r\nAffection for her friendly\r\nMonitor. Pray, Madam, tell\r\nme, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, how would you\r\ndispose of yourself, upon the\r\nSupposition, that you could\r\nshake off this vain and barbarous\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page109\" name=\"page109\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[109]\u003c/span\u003eNotion? Why, said\r\nDame, with an amorous\r\nGlance, I think verily I should\r\naccept of yourself for a second\r\nBed-fellow.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Memory of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e had\r\nmade too strong an Impression\r\non his Mind, to close with this\r\nwarm Declaration: He took\r\nhis leave, however, that Moment,\r\nand waited on the\r\nChiefs. He communicated to\r\nthem the Substance of their\r\nprivate Conversation, and prevailed\r\nwith them to make it a\r\nLaw for the future, that no\r\nWidow should be allow\u0026#8217;d to\r\nfall a Victim to a deceased\r\nHusband, till after she had\r\nadmitted some young Man to\r\nconverse with her in private for\r\na whole Hour together. The\r\nLaw was pass\u0026#8217;d accordingly,\r\nand not one Widow in all \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabia\u003c/span\u003e,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page110\" name=\"page110\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[110]\u003c/span\u003efrom that Day to this,\r\never observ\u0026#8217;d the Custom.\r\n\u0026#8217;Twas to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e alone that the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabian\u003c/span\u003e Dames were indebted\r\nfor the Abolition, in one Hour,\r\nof a Custom so very inhuman,\r\nthat had been practis\u0026#8217;d for\r\nsuch a Number of Ages. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\ntherefore, with the strictest\r\nJustice, was look\u0026#8217;d upon by\r\nall the Fair Sex in \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabia\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nas their most bountiful Benefactor.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page111\" name=\"page111\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[111]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_11\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XI.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe Evening\u0026#8217;s Entertainment.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e, who would never stir\r\nout without his Bosom-Friend\r\n(in whom alone, as he thought,\r\nall Wisdom center\u0026#8217;d) resolv\u0026#8217;d\r\nto take him with him to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBalzora\u003c/span\u003e\r\nFair, whither the richest\r\nMerchants round the whole habitable\r\nGlobe, us\u0026#8217;d annually to\r\nresort. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was delighted to\r\nsee such a Concourse of substantial\r\nTradesmen from all Countries,\r\nassembled together in one\r\nPlace. It appear\u0026#8217;d to him, as\r\nif the whole Universe was but\r\none large Family, and all happily\r\nmet together at \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBalzora\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nOn the second Day of the Fair,\r\nhe sat down to Table with an\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e, an \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIndian\u003c/span\u003e, that liv\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page112\" name=\"page112\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[112]\u003c/span\u003eon the Banks of the River\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGanges\u003c/span\u003e, an Inhabitant of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCathay\u003c/span\u003e,\r\na \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGrecian\u003c/span\u003e, a \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCelt\u003c/span\u003e, and several\r\nother Foreigners, who by their\r\nfrequent Voyages towards the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabian\u003c/span\u003e Gulf, were so far conversant\r\nwith the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabic\u003c/span\u003e Language,\r\nas to be able to discourse\r\nfreely, and be mutually\r\nunderstood. The \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e began\r\nto fly into a Passion; what\r\na scandalous Place is this \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBalzora\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nsaid he, where they refuse\r\nto lend me a thousand Ounces\r\nof Gold, upon the best Security\r\nthat can possibly be offer\u0026#8217;d.\r\nPray, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e, what may the\r\nCommodity be that you would\r\ndeposit as a Pledge for the Sum\r\nyou mention. Why, the Corpse\r\nof my deceased Aunt, said he,\r\nwho was one of the finest Women\r\nin all \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgypt\u003c/span\u003e. She was my\r\nconstant Companion; but unhappily\r\ndied upon the Road.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page113\" name=\"page113\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[113]\u003c/span\u003eI have taken so much Care, that\r\nno Mummy whatever can equal\r\nit: And was I in my own Country,\r\nI could be furnish\u0026#8217;d with\r\nwhat Sum soever I pleas\u0026#8217;d, were\r\nI dispos\u0026#8217;d to mortgage it. \u0026#8217;Tis a\r\nstrange Thing that Nobody here\r\nwill advance so small a Sum upon\r\nso valuable a Commodity. No\r\nsooner had he express\u0026#8217;d his Resentment,\r\nbut he was going to\r\ncut up a fine boil\u0026#8217;d Pullet, in\r\norder to make a Meal on\u0026#8217;t, when\r\nan \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIndian\u003c/span\u003e laid hold of his Hand,\r\nand with deep Concern, cried\r\nout, For God\u0026#8217;s Sake what are you\r\nabout? Why, said the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nI design to make a Wing of this\r\nFowl one Part of my Supper.\r\nPray, good Sir, consider what\r\nyou are doing, said the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIndian\u003c/span\u003e.\r\n\u0026#8217;Tis very possible, that the Soul\r\nof the deceas\u0026#8217;d Lady may have\r\ntaken its Residence in that\r\nFowl. And you wouldn\u0026#8217;t surely\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page114\" name=\"page114\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[114]\u003c/span\u003erun the Risque of eating up\r\nyour Aunt? To boil a Fowl\r\nis, doubtless, a most shameful\r\nOutrage done to Nature.\r\nPshaw! What a Pother you\r\nmake about the boiling of a\r\nFowl, and flying in the Face of\r\nNature, replied the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e in\r\na Pet; tho\u0026#8217; we \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptians\u003c/span\u003e pay\r\ndivine Adoration to the Ox;\r\nyet we can make a hearty Meal\r\nof a Piece of roast Beef for all\r\nthat. Is it possible, Sir, that\r\nyour Country-men should act so\r\nabsurdly, as to pay an Ox the\r\nTribute of divine Worship,\r\nsaid the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIndian\u003c/span\u003e? Absurd as you\r\nthink it, said the other, the Ox\r\nhas been the principal Object of\r\nAdoration all over \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgypt\u003c/span\u003e, for\r\nthese hundred and thirty five\r\nthousand Years, and the most\r\nabandon\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e has never\r\nbeen as yet so impious as to\r\ngain-say it. Ay, Sir, an hundred\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page115\" name=\"page115\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[115]\u003c/span\u003ethirty five thousand Years,\r\nsay you, surely you must be out\r\na little in your Calculation.\r\n\u0026#8217;Tis but about fourscore thousand\r\nYears, since \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIndia\u003c/span\u003e was first\r\ninhabited. Sure I am, we are\r\na more antient People than you\r\nare, and our \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBrama\u003c/span\u003e prohibited\r\nthe eating of Beef long before\r\nyour Nation ever erected an\r\nAltar in Honour of the Ox, or\r\never put one upon a Spit.\r\nWhat a Racket you make about\r\nyour \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBrama\u003c/span\u003e! Is he able to\r\nstand the least in Competition\r\nwith our \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eApis\u003c/span\u003e, said the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e?\r\nLet us hear, pray, what\r\nmighty Feats have been done\r\nby your boasted \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBrama\u003c/span\u003e? Why,\r\nreplied the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBramin\u003c/span\u003e, he first\r\ntaught his Votaries to write and\r\nread; and \u0026#8217;tis to him alone, all\r\nthe World is indebted for the\r\nInvention of the noble Game\r\nof Chess. You are quite out,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page116\" name=\"page116\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[116]\u003c/span\u003eSir, in your Notion, said a\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eChaldean\u003c/span\u003e, who sat within Hearing:\r\nAll these invaluable Blessings\r\nwere deriv\u0026#8217;d from the Fish\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOannés\u003c/span\u003e; and \u0026#8217;tis that alone to\r\nwhich the Tribute of divine Adoration\r\nis justly due. All the\r\nWorld will tell you, that \u0026#8217;twas a\r\ndivine Being whose Tail was\r\npure Gold, whose Head resembled\r\nthat of a Man, tho\u0026#8217; indeed\r\nthe Features were much\r\nmore beautiful; and that he\r\ncondescended to visit the Earth\r\nthree Hours every Day, for the\r\nInstruction of Mankind. He\r\nhad a numerous Issue, as is very\r\nwell known, and all of them\r\nwere powerful Monarchs. I\r\nhave a Picture of it at Home,\r\nto which, as in Duty I ought,\r\nI Say my Prayers at Night before\r\nI go to Bed, and every\r\nMorning that I rise. There is\r\nno Harm, Sir, as I can conceive,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page117\" name=\"page117\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[117]\u003c/span\u003ein partaking of a Piece\r\nof roast Beef; but, doubtless,\r\n\u0026#8217;tis a mortal Sin, a Crime of\r\nthe blackest Dye, to touch a\r\nPiece of Fish. Besides, you\r\ncannot justly boast of so illustrious\r\nan Origin, and you are\r\nboth of you mere Moderns, in\r\nComparison to us \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eChaldeans\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nYou \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptians\u003c/span\u003e lay claim to no\r\nmore than 135,000 Years, and\r\nyou \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIndians\u003c/span\u003e, but of 80,000.\r\nWhereas we have Almanacks\r\nthat are dated 4000 Centuries\r\nbackwards. Take my Word\r\nfor it; I speak nothing but\r\nTruth; renounce your Errors,\r\nand I\u0026#8217;ll make each of you a\r\nPresent of a fine Portrait of our\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOannés\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eA Native of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCambalu\u003c/span\u003e, entring\r\ninto the Debate, said, I have a\r\nvery great Veneration, not only\r\nfor the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptians\u003c/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eChaldeans\u003c/span\u003e,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGreeks\u003c/span\u003e, and \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCeltæ\u003c/span\u003e; but for\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page118\" name=\"page118\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[118]\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBrama\u003c/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eApis\u003c/span\u003e, and the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOannés\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nbut in my humble Opinion, the\r\n*\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eLi\u003c/span\u003e, \u003cspan class=\"footnoteItalic\"\u003e* The \u003cspan class=\"properNameNormal\"\u003eChinese\u003c/span\u003e Term, \u003cspan class=\"properNameNormal\"\u003eLi\u003c/span\u003e, signifies,\r\nproperly speaking, natural Light, or\r\nReason; and \u003cspan class=\"properNameNormal\"\u003eTien\u003c/span\u003e, the Heavens, or\r\nthe supreme Being.\u003c/span\u003e or as \u0026#8217;tis by some call\u0026#8217;d,\r\nthe *\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eTien\u003c/span\u003e, is an Object more\r\ndeserving of divine Adoration\r\nthan any Ox, or Fish, how\r\nmuch soever you may boast of\r\ntheir respective Perfections. All\r\nI shall say, in regard to my\r\nnative Country, \u0026#8217;tis of much\r\ngreater Extent, than all \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgypt\u003c/span\u003e,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eChaldea\u003c/span\u003e, and the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIndies\u003c/span\u003e put together.\r\nI shall lay no Stress on\r\nthe Antiquity of my Country;\r\nfor I imagine \u0026#8217;tis of much greater\r\nImportance to be the happiest\r\nPeople, than the most antient\r\nunder the Sun. However, since\r\nyou were talking of the Almanacks,\r\nI must beg the Liberty\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page119\" name=\"page119\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[119]\u003c/span\u003eto tell you, that ours are look\u0026#8217;d\r\nupon to be the best all over \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAsia\u003c/span\u003e;\r\nand that we had several very\r\ncorrect ones before the Art\r\nof Arithmetick was ever heard\r\nof in \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eChaldea\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eYou are all of you a Parcel of\r\nilliterate, ignorant Bigots, cry\u0026#8217;d\r\na \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGrecian\u003c/span\u003e: \u0026#8217;Tis plain, you know\r\nnothing of the Chaos, and that\r\nthe World, as it now stands, is\r\nowing wholly to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMatter\u003c/span\u003e and\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eForm\u003c/span\u003e. The \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGreek\u003c/span\u003e ran on for a\r\nconsiderable Time; but was at\r\nlast interrupted by a \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCelt\u003c/span\u003e, who\r\nhaving drank deep, during the\r\nwhole Time of this Debate,\r\nthought himself ten Times wiser\r\nthan any of his Antagonists; and\r\nwrapping out a great Oath, insisted,\r\nthat all their Gods were\r\nnothing, if set in Competition\r\nwith the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eTeutath\u003c/span\u003e or the Misletoe\r\non the Oak. As for my\r\npart, said he, I carry some of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page120\" name=\"page120\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[120]\u003c/span\u003eit always in my Pocket: As to\r\nmy Ancestors, they were \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eScythians\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nand the only Men worth\r\ntalking of in the whole World:\r\n\u0026#8217;Tis true, indeed, they would\r\nnow and then make a Meal of\r\ntheir Country-men, but that\r\nought not to be urg\u0026#8217;d as any\r\nObjection to his Country; and,\r\nin short, if any one of you, or\r\nall of you, shall dare to say any\r\nthing disrespectful of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eTeutath\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nI\u0026#8217;ll defend its Cause to the last\r\nDrop of my Blood. The Quarrel\r\ngrew warmer and warmer,\r\nand \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e expected that the Table\r\nwould be overset, and that\r\nBlood-shed would ensue. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwho hadn\u0026#8217;t once open\u0026#8217;d his\r\nLips during the whole Controversy,\r\nat last rose up, and address\u0026#8217;d\r\nhimself to the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCelt\u003c/span\u003e, in\r\nthe first Place, as being the most\r\nnoisy and outrageous. Sir, said\r\nhe, Your Notions in this Affair\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page121\" name=\"page121\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[121]\u003c/span\u003eare very just: Good Sir, oblige\r\nme with a Bit of your Misletoe.\r\nThen turning about, he expatiated\r\non the Eloquence of the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGrecian\u003c/span\u003e, and in a Word, soften\u0026#8217;d\r\nin the most artful Manner all the\r\ncontending Parties. He said but\r\nlittle indeed to the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCathayian\u003c/span\u003e;\r\nbecause he was more cool, and\r\nsedate than any of the others.\r\nTo conclude, he address\u0026#8217;d them\r\nall in general Terms, to this or\r\nthe like Effect: My dear Friends,\r\nYou have been contesting all\r\nthis while about an important\r\nTopick, in which \u0026#8217;tis evident,\r\nyou are all unanimously agreed.\r\nAgreed, quotha! they all cried,\r\nin an angry Tone, How so,\r\npray? Why said he to the hot,\r\ntesty \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCelt\u003c/span\u003e, is it not true, that\r\nyou do not in effect adore this\r\nMisletoe, but that Being who\r\ncreated that Misletoe and the\r\nOak, to which it is so closely\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page122\" name=\"page122\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[122]\u003c/span\u003eunited? Doubtless, Sir, reply\u0026#8217;d\r\nthe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCelt\u003c/span\u003e. And you, Sir, said\r\nhe, to the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e, You revere,\r\nthro\u0026#8217; your venerable \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eApis\u003c/span\u003e, the\r\ngreat Author of every Ox\u0026#8217;s Being.\r\nWe do so, said the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nThe mighty \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOannés\u003c/span\u003e, tho\u0026#8217;\r\nthe Sovereign of the Sea, continued\r\nhe, must give Precedence\r\nto that Power, who made both\r\nthe Sea, and every Fish that\r\ndwells therein. We allow it,\r\nsaid the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eChaldean\u003c/span\u003e. The \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIndian\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nadds he, and the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCathayan\u003c/span\u003e, acknowledge\r\none supreme Being,\r\nor first Cause, as well as you.\r\nAs to what that profound worthy\r\nGentleman the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGrecian\u003c/span\u003e has\r\nadvanc\u0026#8217;d, is, I must own, a\r\nlittle above my weak Comprehension,\r\nbut I am fully persuaded,\r\nthat he will allow there\r\nis a supreme Being on whom his\r\nfavourite Matter and Form are\r\nentirely dependent. The \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGrecian\u003c/span\u003e,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page123\" name=\"page123\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[123]\u003c/span\u003ewho was look\u0026#8217;d upon as a\r\nSage amongst them, said, with\r\nAbundance of Gravity, that \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nhad made a very just Construction\r\nof his Meaning. Now,\r\nGentlemen, I appeal to you all,\r\nsaid \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, whether you are not\r\nunanimous to a Man, in the Debate\r\nupon the Carpet, and whether\r\nthere are any just Grounds\r\nfor the least Divisions or Animosities\r\namongst you. The\r\nwhole Company, cool at once,\r\ncaress\u0026#8217;d him; and \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e, after he\r\nhad sold off all his Goods and\r\nMerchandize at a round Price,\r\ntook his Friend \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e Home\r\nwith him to the Land of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHoreb\u003c/span\u003e.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, upon his first Arrival\r\nwas inform\u0026#8217;d, that a Prosecution\r\nhad been carried on against\r\nhim during his Absence, and\r\nthat the Sentence pronounc\u0026#8217;d against\r\nhim was, that he should\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page124\" name=\"page124\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[124]\u003c/span\u003ebe burnt alive before a slow\r\nFire.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_12\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XII.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eRendezvous\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003eWhilst \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e attended\r\nhis Friend \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBalzora\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nthe Priests of the Stars\r\nwere determin\u0026#8217;d to punish him.\r\nAs all the costly Jewels, and\r\nother valuable Decorations, in\r\nwhich every young Widow that\r\nsacrificed her self on her Husband\u0026#8217;s\r\nFuneral-pile, were their\r\ncustomary Fees, \u0026#8217;tis no great\r\nWonder, indeed, that they were\r\ninclin\u0026#8217;d to burn poor \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, for\r\nplaying them such a scurvy\r\nTrick. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e therefore, was\r\naccus\u0026#8217;d of holding heretical and\r\ndamnable Tenets, in regard to\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page125\" name=\"page125\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[125]\u003c/span\u003ethe Celestial Host: They depos\u0026#8217;d,\r\nand swore point-blank, that he\r\nhad been heard to aver, that the\r\nStars never sat in the Sea. This\r\nhorrid blasphemous Declaration\r\nthunder-struck all the Judges,\r\nand they were ready to rend their\r\nMantles at the Sound of such an\r\nimpious Assertion; and they\r\nwould have made \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, had\r\nhe been a Man of Substance,\r\npaid very severely for his heretical\r\nNotions. But in the Height\r\nof their Pity and Compassion for\r\neven such an Infidel, they would\r\nlay no Fine upon him; but content\r\nthemselves with seeing him\r\nroasted alive before a slow Fire.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e, tho\u0026#8217; without Hopes of\r\nSuccess, us\u0026#8217;d all the Interest he\r\nhad to save his bosom Friend\r\nfrom so shocking a Death; but\r\nthey turn\u0026#8217;d a deaf Ear to all his\r\nRemonstrances, and oblig\u0026#8217;d him\r\nto hold his Tongue. The young\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page126\" name=\"page126\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[126]\u003c/span\u003eWidow \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAlmona\u003c/span\u003e, who by this\r\nTime was not only reconcil\u0026#8217;d to\r\nliving a little longer, but had\r\nsome Taste for the Pleasures of\r\nLife, and knew that she was\r\nentirely indebted to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e for\r\nit, resolv\u0026#8217;d, if possible, to free\r\nher Benefactor from being burnt,\r\nas he had before convinc\u0026#8217;d her\r\nof the Folly of it in her Case.\r\nShe ponder\u0026#8217;d upon this weighty\r\nAffair very seriously; but said\r\nnothing to any one whomsoever.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was to be executed the\r\nnext Day; and she had only a\r\nfew Hours left to carry her Project\r\ninto Execution. Now the\r\nReader shall hear with how much\r\nBenevolence and Discretion this\r\namiable Widow behav\u0026#8217;d on this\r\nemergent Occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the first Place, she made\r\nuse of the most costly Perfumes;\r\nand drest herself to the utmost\r\nAdvantage to render her Charms\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page127\" name=\"page127\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[127]\u003c/span\u003eas conspicuous as possible; And\r\nthus gaily attir\u0026#8217;d, demanded a\r\nprivate Audience of the High\r\nPriest of the Stars. Upon her\r\nfirst Admittance into his august\r\nand venerable Presence, she address\u0026#8217;d\r\nherself in the following\r\nTerms. O thou first-born and\r\nwell-beloved Son of the Great\r\nBear, Brother of the Bull, and\r\nfirst Cousin to the Dog, (these\r\nyou must know were the Pontiff\u0026#8217;s\r\nhigh Titles) I come to\r\nconfess myself before you: My\r\nConscience is my Accuser, and\r\nI am terribly afraid I have been\r\nguilty of a mortal Sin, by declining\r\nthe stated Custom of\r\nburning my self on my Husband\u0026#8217;s\r\nFuneral-pile? What\r\ncould tempt me, in short, to a\r\nProlongation of my Life, I\r\ncan\u0026#8217;t imagine, I, who am grown\r\na perfect Skeleton, all wrinkled\r\nand deform\u0026#8217;d. She paus\u0026#8217;d, and\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page128\" name=\"page128\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[128]\u003c/span\u003epulling off, with a negligent\r\nbut artful Air, her long silk\r\nGloves; She display\u0026#8217;d a soft,\r\nplump, naked Arm, and white\r\nas Snow: You see, Sir, said she,\r\nthat all my Charms are blasted.\r\nBlasted, Madam, said the luscious\r\nPontiff; No! Your Charms\r\nare still resistless: His Eyes, and\r\nhis Mouth, with which he kiss\u0026#8217;d\r\nher Hand, confirm\u0026#8217;d their Power:\r\nSuch an Arm, Madam, by the\r\nGreat \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOrasmades\u003c/span\u003e, I never saw\r\nbefore. Alas! said the Widow,\r\nwith a modest Blush; my Arm\r\nSir, \u0026#8217;tis probable, may have the\r\nAdvantage of any hidden Part;\r\nbut see, good Father, what a\r\nNeck is here; as yellow as Saffron,\r\nan Object not worth regarding.\r\nThen she display\u0026#8217;d\r\nsuch a snowy, panting Bosom,\r\nthat Nature could not mend it.\r\nA Rose-Bud on an Ivory Apple,\r\nwould, if set in Competition\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page129\" name=\"page129\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[129]\u003c/span\u003ewith her spotless Whiteness,\r\nmake no better Appearance\r\nthan common Madder upon a\r\nShrub; and the whitest Wool,\r\njust out of the Laver, were she\r\nbut by, would seem but of a\r\nlight-brown Hue.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHer Neck, her large black,\r\nsparkling Eyes, that languishingly\r\nroll\u0026#8217;d, and seem\u0026#8217;d as \u0026#8217;twere,\r\non Fire; her lovely Cheeks,\r\nglowing with White and Red,\r\nher Nose, that was not unlike the\r\nTower of Mount \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eLebanon\u003c/span\u003e, her\r\nLips, which were like two Borders\r\nof Coral, inclosing two\r\nRows of the best Pearls in the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabian\u003c/span\u003e Sea; such a Combination,\r\nI say, of Charms, made\r\nthe old Pontiff judge she was\r\nscarce twenty Years of Age; and\r\nin a kind of Flutter, to make\r\nher a Declaration of his tender\r\nRegard for her. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAlmona\u003c/span\u003e, perceiving\r\nhim enamour\u0026#8217;d, begg\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page130\" name=\"page130\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[130]\u003c/span\u003ehis Interest in Favour of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nAlas! my dear Charmer, my\r\nInterest alone, when you request\r\nthe Favour, would be but a poor\r\nCompliment; I\u0026#8217;ll take care his\r\nAcquittance shall be signed by\r\nthree more of my Brother Priests.\r\nDo you sign first, however, said\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAlmona\u003c/span\u003e. With all my Soul,\r\nsaid the amorous Pontiff, provided\u003cspan class=\"lineMaker\"\u003e\u0026#8212;\u0026#8212;\u003c/span\u003e you\u0026#8217;ll\r\nbe kind, my\r\ndearest. You do me too much\r\nHonour, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAlmona\u003c/span\u003e; but should\r\nyou give your self the Trouble\r\nto pay me a Visit after Sunset,\r\nand as soon as the Star \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSheat\u003c/span\u003e\r\ntwinkles on the Horizon, you\r\nshall find me, most venerable Father,\r\nrepos\u0026#8217;d upon a rosy-colour\u0026#8217;d\r\nsilver Sopha, where you\r\nshall use your Pleasure with your\r\nhumble Servant. With that she\r\nmade him a low Courtesy;\r\ntook up \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s general Release\r\nas soon as duely sign\u0026#8217;d, and\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page131\" name=\"page131\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[131]\u003c/span\u003eleft the old Doatard all over\r\nLove, tho\u0026#8217; somewhat diffident\r\nof his own Abilities. The Residue\r\nof the Day he spent\r\nin his Bagnio; he drank\r\nlarge enlivening Draughts of a\r\nWater distill\u0026#8217;d from the Cinnamon\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCeilan\u003c/span\u003e, and the costly\r\nSpices of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eTidor\u003c/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eTernate\u003c/span\u003e, and\r\nwaited with the utmost Impatience\r\nfor the up-rising of the\r\nbrilliant \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSheat\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the mean time \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAlmona\u003c/span\u003e\r\nwent to the second Pontiff.\r\nHe assur\u0026#8217;d her that the Sun,\r\nMoon, and all the starry Host\r\nof Heav\u0026#8217;n, were but languid\r\nFires to her bright Eyes. He\r\nput the Question to her, in\r\nshort, at once, and agreed to\r\nsign upon her Compliance. She\r\nsuffer\u0026#8217;d herself to be over-persuaded,\r\nand made an Assignation\r\nto meet him at a certain\r\nPlace, as soon as the Star \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAlgenib\u003c/span\u003e\r\nshould make its Appearance.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page132\" name=\"page132\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[132]\u003c/span\u003eFrom him she repair\u0026#8217;d to the\r\nthird and fourth Pontiff, taking\r\ncare, wherever she went, to see\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Acquittance duely\r\nsign\u0026#8217;d, and made fresh Appointments\r\nat the Rising of Star after\r\nStar.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she had carried her\r\nPoint thus far, she sent a proper\r\nMessage to the Judges of the\r\nCourt, who had condemn\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nrequesting that they would\r\ncome to her House, that she\r\nmight advise with them upon an\r\nAffair of the last Importance.\r\nThey waited on her accordingly;\r\nshe produc\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Discharge\r\nduly sign\u0026#8217;d by four several\r\nHands, and told them the\r\nDefinitive Treaty between all the\r\ncontracting Parties. Each of the\r\npontifical Gallants observ\u0026#8217;d their\r\nSummons to a Moment. Each\r\nwas startled at the Sight of his\r\nRival; but perfectly thunderstruck\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page133\" name=\"page133\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[133]\u003c/span\u003eto see the Judges, before\r\nwhom the Widow had laid open\r\nher Case. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e procur\u0026#8217;d an\r\nabsolute Pardon, and \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e was\r\nso charm\u0026#8217;d with the artful Address\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAlmona\u003c/span\u003e, that he married\r\nher the next Day. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e went\r\nafterwards to throw himself at\r\nthe Feet of his fair Benefactress.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e and he took their Leave of\r\neach other with Tears in their\r\nEyes, and vowing that an eternal\r\nmutual Friendship should\r\nbe preserv\u0026#8217;d between them; and,\r\nin short, should Fortune at any\r\nTime afterwards prove more\r\npropitious than could well be\r\nexpected to either Party; the other\r\nshould partake of an equal\r\nShare of his Success.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e steer\u0026#8217;d his Course towards\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSyria\u003c/span\u003e; forever pondering\r\non the hard Fate of the justly-admir\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e, and reflecting\r\non his own Stars that so obstinately\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page134\" name=\"page134\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[134]\u003c/span\u003edarted down their malignant\r\nRays, and continu\u0026#8217;d daily\r\nto torment him. What, said\r\nhe! to pay four hundred Ounces\r\nof Gold for only seeing a Bitch\r\npass by me; to be condemn\u0026#8217;d\r\nto be beheaded for four witless\r\nVerses in Praise of the King;\r\nto be strangled to Death, because\r\na Queen was pleas\u0026#8217;d to\r\nlook upon me; to be made a\r\nPrisoner, and sold as a Slave for\r\nsaving a young Lady from being\r\nsorely abus\u0026#8217;d by a Brute rather\r\nthan a Man; and to be upon the\r\nBrink of being roasted alive, for\r\nno other Offence than saving for\r\nthe future all the Widows in \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabia\u003c/span\u003e\r\nfrom becoming idle Burnt-Offerings,\r\nand mingling their\r\nAshes with those of their deceased\r\nworthless Husbands.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page135\" name=\"page135\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[135]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_13\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XIII.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eFree-booter.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, arriving at the Frontiers\r\nwhich separate \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabia\r\nPetræa\u003c/span\u003e from \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSyria\u003c/span\u003e, and passing\r\nby a very strong Castle, several\r\narm\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabians\u003c/span\u003e rush\u0026#8217;d out upon\r\nhim, and surrounding him,\r\ncried out: Whatever you have\r\nbelonging to you is our Property,\r\nbut as for your Person,\r\nthat is entirely at our Sovereign\u0026#8217;s\r\nDisposal. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, instead\r\nof making any Reply, drew his\r\nSword, and as his Attendant\r\nwas a very couragious Fellow,\r\nhe drew likewise. Those who\r\nlaid hold on them, first fell a\r\nSacrifice to their Fury: Their\r\nNumbers redoubled: Yet still,\r\nBoth dauntless, determin\u0026#8217;d to\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page136\" name=\"page136\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[136]\u003c/span\u003econquer or to die. When two\r\nMen defend themselves against\r\na whole Gang, the Contest,\r\ndoubtless, cannot last long.\r\nThe Master of the Castle, one\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArbogad\u003c/span\u003e by Name, having been\r\nan Eye-Witness from his Window,\r\nof the Intrepidity and surprising\r\nExploits of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, took\r\na Fancy to him. He ran down\r\ntherefore in Haste, and giving\r\nOrders himself to his Vassals\r\nto desist, deliver\u0026#8217;d the two\r\nTravellers out of their Hands.\r\nWhatever Goods or Chattels,\r\nsaid he, come upon my Territories,\r\nare my Effects; and\r\nwhatever I find likewise that is\r\nvaluable upon the Premises of\r\nothers, is my free Booty; but,\r\nas you appear, Sir, to me to\r\nbe a Gentleman of uncommon\r\nCourage, you shall prove an\r\nException to my general Rule.\r\nUpon this, he invited \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page137\" name=\"page137\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[137]\u003c/span\u003einto his magnificent Mansion,\r\ngiving his inferior Officers strict\r\nOrders to use him with all due\r\nRespect; and at Night \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArbogad\u003c/span\u003e\r\nwas desirous of supping with\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e. The Lord of the Mansion\r\nwas one of those \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabians\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nthat are call\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eFree-booters\u003c/span\u003e; but\r\na Man who now and then did\r\ngood Actions amongst a Thousand\r\nbad ones. He plunder\u0026#8217;d\r\nwithout Mercy; but was liberal\r\nin his Benefactions. When in\r\nAction, intrepid; but in Traffick,\r\neasy enough; a perfect\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEpicure\u003c/span\u003e in his Eating and Drinking,\r\nan absolute \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eDebauchee\u003c/span\u003e, but\r\nvery frank and open. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\npleas\u0026#8217;d him extremely; his\r\nConversation being very lively,\r\nprolong\u0026#8217;d their Repast: At\r\nlast, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArbogad\u003c/span\u003e said to him; I\r\nwould advise you, Sir, to enlist\r\nyourself in my Troop; you\r\ncannot possibly do a better\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page138\" name=\"page138\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[138]\u003c/span\u003eThing: My Profession is none\r\nof the worst; and in Time,\r\nyou may become perhaps as\r\ngreat a Man as myself. May I\r\npresume, Sir, to ask you one\r\nQuestion; how long may you\r\nhave follow\u0026#8217;d this honourable\r\nCalling? From my Youth upwards,\r\nreplied his Host, I was\r\nonly a \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eValet\u003c/span\u003e at first to an \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabian\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwho indeed was courteous\r\nenough; but Servitude was a\r\nState of Life I could not brook.\r\nIt made me stark-mad to see, in\r\na wide World, which ought to\r\nbe divided fairly between Mankind,\r\nthat Fate had reserv\u0026#8217;d for\r\nme so scanty a Portion. I communicated\r\nmy Grievance to an\r\nold Sage \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabian\u003c/span\u003e. Son, said\r\nhe, never despair; once upon a\r\nTime, there was a Grain of\r\nSand, that bemoan\u0026#8217;d itself, as\r\nbeing nothing more than a\r\nworthless \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAtom\u003c/span\u003e of the Deserts.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page139\" name=\"page139\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[139]\u003c/span\u003eAt the Expiration, however,\r\nof a few Years, it became that\r\ninestimable Diamond, which at\r\nthis very Hour, is the richest,\r\nand most admir\u0026#8217;d Ornament of\r\nthe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIndian\u003c/span\u003e Crown. The old\r\nMan\u0026#8217;s Discourse fir\u0026#8217;d me with\r\nsome Ambition; I was conscious\r\nto myself that I was at\r\nthat Time the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAtom\u003c/span\u003e he mention\u0026#8217;d,\r\nbut was determin\u0026#8217;d, if\r\npossible, to become the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eDiamond\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nAt my first setting out,\r\nI stole two Horses; then I got\r\ninto a Gang; where we play\u0026#8217;d\r\nat small Game, and stopp\u0026#8217;d the\r\nsmall Caravans; thus I gradually\r\nlessen\u0026#8217;d the wide Disproportion,\r\nwhich there was at\r\nfirst between me and the rest of\r\nMankind: I enjoy\u0026#8217;d not only\r\nmy full Share of the good\r\nThings of this Life, but enjoy\u0026#8217;d\r\nthem with Usury. I was\r\nlook\u0026#8217;d upon as a Man of Consequence,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page140\" name=\"page140\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[140]\u003c/span\u003eand I procur\u0026#8217;d this\r\nCastle by my military Atchievements.\r\nThe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSatrap\u003c/span\u003e of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSyria\u003c/span\u003e\r\nhad Thoughts of dispossessing\r\nme; but I was then too rich to\r\nbe any Ways afraid of him; I\r\ngave the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSatrap\u003c/span\u003e a certain Sum\r\nof Money, upon Condition that\r\nI kept quiet Possession of my\r\nCastle. And, moreover, I aggrandiz\u0026#8217;d\r\nmy Domains; for he\r\nconstituted me, at the same\r\nTime, Treasurer of the Imports\r\nthat \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabia Petræa\u003c/span\u003e paid to the\r\nKing of Kings. I executed my\r\nTrust, in every Respect, as I\r\nought, in the Capacity of a\r\nCollector; but I never did, nor\r\nnever intended to balance my\r\nAccounts.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe grand \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eDesterham\u003c/span\u003e of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e\r\nsent hither, in the Name\r\nof the King \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMoabdar\u003c/span\u003e, a petty\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSatrap\u003c/span\u003e, with a Commission to\r\nstrangle me. He and his Attendants\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page141\" name=\"page141\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[141]\u003c/span\u003earriv\u0026#8217;d here with his\r\nRoyal Warrant. I was appriz\u0026#8217;d\r\nof the whole Affair, and, accordingly,\r\norder\u0026#8217;d his whole\r\nRetinue, consisting of four inferior\r\nOfficers, to be strangled\r\nbefore his Face, after the same\r\nManner as was intended for my\r\nExecution. After this, I ask\u0026#8217;d\r\nhim what he thought the Commission\r\nwith which he was entrusted,\r\nmight reasonably be\r\nvalued at; he answer\u0026#8217;d, that he\r\npresum\u0026#8217;d his Premium (had he\r\nsucceeded) might have amounted\r\nto about three Hundred Pieces\r\nof Gold. I made him sensible,\r\nthat it would be for his Interest\r\nto be a commission\u0026#8217;d\r\nOfficer under me; I made him\r\naccordingly Deputy \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eFree-booter\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nHe is at this very Day not only\r\nthe best Officer, but the richest\r\nI have in all my Court. If my\r\nWord may be credited, I\u0026#8217;ll\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page142\" name=\"page142\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[142]\u003c/span\u003eraise your Fortune as I have\r\ndone his. Never was Trade\r\nbrisker in our Way; for \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMoabdar\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nis knock\u0026#8217;d on the Head,\r\nand all \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e in the utmost\r\nConfusion. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMoabdar\u003c/span\u003e kill\u0026#8217;d, said\r\nyou! cry\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, and pray,\r\nSir, what is become of his\r\nRoyal Consort, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e? I know\r\nnothing at all of that Affair,\r\nreplied \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArbogad\u003c/span\u003e, all that I have\r\nto say, is, that \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMoabdar\u003c/span\u003e became\r\na perfect Madman, and\r\nhad his Brains beat out; that\r\nall the People in \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e are\r\ncutting one another\u0026#8217;s Throats,\r\nand that the whole Empire is\r\nlaid waste; that there is still an\r\nOpportunity for making several\r\nbold Pushes; and let me tell\r\nyou, Sir, I have done my Part,\r\nand made the most on\u0026#8217;t. But\r\nthe Queen, Sir, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e;\r\npray favour me so far, as to\r\ninform me, if you know any\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page143\" name=\"page143\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[143]\u003c/span\u003eThing of the Queen. I have\r\nheard great Talk, said he, of a\r\ncertain Prince of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHyrcania\u003c/span\u003e; \u0026#8217;tis\r\nvery possible, she may have\r\nlisted herself amongst his Concubines,\r\nif she had the good\r\nFortune to escape the Resentment\r\nof those popular Tumults;\r\nbut my Head, Sir, is\r\nbetter turn\u0026#8217;d for the Highway\r\nthan for News; I have taken\r\nseveral Ladies Prisoners in the\r\nCourse of my Excursions; I\r\nkeep none of them for my Part;\r\nand as to such as are handsomer\r\nthan ordinary, I make the best\r\nMarket I can of them, without\r\nenquiring who they are. Their\r\nQuality or Titles will fetch no\r\nPrice at all; a Queen, if she\r\nbe homely, is worth nothing.\r\n\u0026#8217;Tis probable, Sir, I have dispos\u0026#8217;d\r\nof the Lady myself; and\r\n\u0026#8217;tis possible, likewise, she may\r\nbe dead; \u0026#8217;tis no Concern of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page144\" name=\"page144\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[144]\u003c/span\u003emine; and to my thinking, it\r\nshould be an Affair of no Manner\r\nof Importance to you. After\r\nthis Declaration, he drank\r\nso hard, and confounded his\r\nIdeas in such a Manner, that\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was not one whit the\r\nwiser. Upon which he was\r\nstruck dumb, confounded, and\r\nstood as motionless as a Statue.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArbogad\u003c/span\u003e, in the mean while,\r\nswill\u0026#8217;d down whole Bumpers,\r\ntold a Hundred merry Tales,\r\nand swore a thousand Times\r\nover, that he was the happiest\r\nCreature upon God\u0026#8217;s Earth;\r\npersuading \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e to be as merry,\r\nand thoughtless as himself. At\r\nlast, being gradually overcome\r\nby the Fumes of his Liquor, he\r\nfell fast asleep. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e spent\r\nthe Remainder of the Night\r\nin deep Contemplation, and in\r\nall the Uneasiness of Mind imaginable.\r\nWhat, said he, the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page145\" name=\"page145\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[145]\u003c/span\u003eKing first became crazy, and\r\nthen was murder\u0026#8217;d. I think I\r\nhave just Grounds for Complaint.\r\nThe whole Empire is\r\nin Confusion, and torn to\r\nPieces, and this Free-booter is\r\nas happy as a King. O Fortune!\r\nO Fate! a Highwayman\r\nas happy as a Monarch! and\r\nthe most amiable Creature that\r\nNature ever fram\u0026#8217;d has suffer\u0026#8217;d\r\nperhaps, an ignominious Death,\r\nor perhaps, is in a State of Life\r\na thousand Times worse than\r\nDeath itself! O \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte! Astarte!\u003c/span\u003e\r\nWhat art thou become?\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs soon as it was Break of\r\nDay he went out, and ask\u0026#8217;d\r\nevery one he saw if they knew\r\nany Thing of her: But the\r\nwhole Gang were too intent\r\nupon other Matters, to return\r\nhim any Answer. By Virtue of\r\ntheir Night\u0026#8217;s Excursions, they\r\nhad brought in some fresh\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page146\" name=\"page146\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[146]\u003c/span\u003eBooty, and were busy in dividing\r\nthe Spoil. All the Favour\r\nhe could procure, in their\r\nHurry and Tumult, was, to\r\ngo away without the least Examination.\r\nHe took the Advantage\r\nof their Remissness,\r\nand mov\u0026#8217;d off the Premises,\r\nbut more overwhelm\u0026#8217;d with\r\nGrief and deep Reflection than\r\never.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, in his March, was\r\nvery restless and uneasy. His\r\nThoughts were forever rolling\r\non the unfortunate \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e, the\r\nKing of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, his Bosom-Friend\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e, the happy \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eFree-booter\u003c/span\u003e,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArbogad\u003c/span\u003e, the fair \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCoquet\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nthat was taken Prisoner on the\r\nConfines of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgypt\u003c/span\u003e, by the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylonish\u003c/span\u003e\r\nCourier; in a Word,\r\non the various Scenes of Misfortunes\r\nand Disappointments,\r\nwhich he had successively met\r\nwith.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page147\" name=\"page147\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[147]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_14\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XIV.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eFisherman.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003eWhen \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e had travelled\r\nsome few Leagues\r\nfrom \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArbogad\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Castle, he found\r\nhimself arriv\u0026#8217;d at the Banks of\r\na little River; incessantly deploring,\r\nas he went along, his unhappy\r\nFate, and looking upon\r\nhimself as the very Picture of ill\r\nLuck. He perceiv\u0026#8217;d at a little\r\nDistance a Fisherman, reclin\u0026#8217;d\r\non a verdant Bank by the River-side,\r\ntrembling, scarce able to\r\nhold his Net in his Hand,\r\n(which he seem\u0026#8217;d but little to\r\nregard) and with uplift Eyes,\r\nimploring Heaven\u0026#8217;s Assistance.\r\nI am, doubtless, said the poor\r\nFisherman, the most unhappy\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page148\" name=\"page148\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[148]\u003c/span\u003eWretch that ever liv\u0026#8217;d! No\r\nMerchant in all \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, it is\r\nvery well known, was ever so\r\nnoted for selling Cream-Cheeses\r\nas myself; and yet I am ruin\u0026#8217;d\r\nto all Intents and Purposes. No\r\nMan of my Profession ever had\r\na handsomer, more compleat\r\nHousewife, than my Dame was;\r\nbut I have been treacherously\r\ndepriv\u0026#8217;d of her. I had still left\r\na poor, pitiful Cottage, but\r\nthat I saw plunder\u0026#8217;d and destroy\u0026#8217;d.\r\nI am cubb\u0026#8217;d up here\r\nin a Cell; I have nothing to depend\r\nupon but my Fishery, and\r\nnot one single Fish have I\r\ncaught. Thou unfortunate Net!\r\nI\u0026#8217;ll never throw thee into the\r\nWater more: Much sooner will\r\nI throw myself in. No sooner\r\nwere the Words out of his\r\nMouth, but he started up, and\r\nran to the River-side, like one\r\nthat was resolutely bent to\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page149\" name=\"page149\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[149]\u003c/span\u003eplunge in, and get rid of a\r\nmiserable Life at once. Is it\r\npossible, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e? Is there\r\nthen the Man in Being more\r\nwretched than myself? His Benevolence,\r\nand good Will to\r\nsave the poor Man\u0026#8217;s Life, was\r\nas quick as the Reflection he\r\nhad just made! He ran to his\r\nAssistance; he laid hold of\r\nhim; and ask\u0026#8217;d him, with an\r\nAir of Pity and Concern,\r\nthe Cause of his rash Intention.\r\n\u0026#8217;Tis an old saying, that a Person\r\nis less unhappy when he sees\r\nhimself not singular in Misfortune.\r\nBut if we will credit\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZoroaster\u003c/span\u003e, this is not from a\r\nPrinciple of Malignity, but the\r\nEffect of a fatal Necessity. He\r\nwas attracted, as it were, to any Person\r\nin Distress, as being One in\r\nthe same unhappy Circumstances.\r\nThe Transport of a happy Man,\r\nwould be a Kind of Insult; but\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page150\" name=\"page150\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[150]\u003c/span\u003etwo Persons in bad Circumstances,\r\nare like two weak\r\nShrubs, which, by propping up\r\neach other, are fenc\u0026#8217;d against a\r\nStorm. Why are you thus cast\r\ndown, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e to the Fisherman?\r\nNever sink Man, under\r\nthe Weight of your Burden. I\r\ncan\u0026#8217;t help it, said the poor\r\nFisherman; I have not the least\r\nProspect of Redress. I was\r\nonce, Sir, the tip-top Man of\r\nthe whole Village of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eDerlbach\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nnear \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, where I liv\u0026#8217;d, and\r\nwith the Help of my Wife,\r\nmade the best Cream-Cheeses\r\nthat were ever eaten in the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003ePersian\u003c/span\u003e\r\nEmpire. Her Majesty,\r\nthe Queen \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e, and the famous\r\nPrime-Minister \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e were\r\nvery fond of them. I serv\u0026#8217;d\r\nthe Court with about six Hundred\r\nof them, I went the other\r\nDay in Hopes of being paid;\r\nbut before I had well got into\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page151\" name=\"page151\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[151]\u003c/span\u003ethe Suburbs of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, I was inform\u0026#8217;d,\r\nthat not only the Queen,\r\nbut \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e too had privately\r\nleft the Court: Whereupon I\r\nran directly to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s House,\r\ntho\u0026#8217; I never sat Eye on the Man\r\nin all my Life. There I found the\r\nCourt-Marshals of the grand\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eDesterham\u003c/span\u003e, plundering, by Virtue\r\nof his Majesty\u0026#8217;s Mandate, all\r\nhis Effects, in the most loyal\r\nManner. From thence I made the\r\nbest of my Way to the Queen\u0026#8217;s\r\nKitchin; where, applying my\r\nself to the Steward of her\r\nHousehold, and his inferior\r\nOfficers; one of them told me\r\nshe was dead; another, that she\r\nwas confin\u0026#8217;d in Prison; a third,\r\nindeed, said that she had made\r\nher Escape by Flight; all in\r\ngeneral, however, assur\u0026#8217;d me\r\nfor my Comfort, that my\r\nCheeses would never be paid\r\nfor. From thence I went, with\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page152\" name=\"page152\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[152]\u003c/span\u003emy Wife in my Hand, to Lord\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOrcan\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s; who was another of\r\nmy Court-Customers; of whom\r\nwe begg\u0026#8217;d for Shelter and Protection:\r\nThe Favour, I confess,\r\nwas readily granted to my\r\nWife; but as for my own Part,\r\nI was absolutely rejected. She\r\nwas fairer, Sir, than the fairest\r\nCheese I ever sold; from whence\r\nI date all my Misfortunes; and\r\nthe red that adorn\u0026#8217;d her blushing\r\nCheeks was ten Times more\r\nlively than any \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eTyrian\u003c/span\u003e Scarlet.\r\nAnd between you and I, Sir, that\r\nwas the main Cause of my\r\nWife\u0026#8217;s Reception, and my Disgrace.\r\nWhereupon I wrote a\r\ndoleful Letter to my Wife, in\r\nall the Agonies of one in the\r\ndeepest Despair: \u0026#8217;Tis very well,\r\nsaid she, to the Messenger; I have\r\nsome little Knowledge of the Man;\r\nI have heard say no one sells better\r\nCream-Cheeses than he does;\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page153\" name=\"page153\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[153]\u003c/span\u003edesire him, next Time he\r\ncomes, to bring a small Parcel\r\nwith him, and let him know,\r\nI\u0026#8217;ll take care he shall be punctually\r\npaid.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the Height of my Misfortunes,\r\nI determin\u0026#8217;d to seek\r\nRedress in a Court of Equity:\r\nI had but six Ounces of Gold\r\nleft: Two whereof went for a\r\nFee to my Counsellor; two to\r\nmy Lawyer, who took my\r\nCause in Hand, and the other\r\ntwo to the Judge\u0026#8217;s Clerk. Notwithstanding\r\nwhat I had done,\r\nmy Cause was not so much as\r\ncommenc\u0026#8217;d; and I had already\r\ndisburs\u0026#8217;d more Money than all\r\nmy Cheeses and my Wife with\r\nthem were worth. I return\u0026#8217;d\r\ntherefore to my Native Habitation,\r\nwith a full Resolution to\r\nsell it for the Ransom of my\r\nWife.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMy little Cot, with the Appurtenances,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page154\" name=\"page154\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[154]\u003c/span\u003ewere worth about\r\nthreescore Ounces of Gold: But\r\nas the Purchasers found I was\r\nnecessitous, and drove to my\r\nlast Shifts; the first whom\r\nI apply\u0026#8217;d to, offer\u0026#8217;d me thirty\r\nOunces; the second, twenty;\r\nand the third, but ten: Just as\r\nI had come to Terms of Accommodation\r\nwith one of them,\r\nthe Prince of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHyrcania\u003c/span\u003e came to\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, and swept all before\r\nhim. My little Cottage, with\r\nall its Furniture, was first\r\nplunder\u0026#8217;d of all that was valuable,\r\nand at last reduc\u0026#8217;d to\r\nAshes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eHaving thus lost my Money,\r\nmy Wife, and my House, I\r\nwithdrew to this Desart, where\r\nyou see me. I have since endeavour\u0026#8217;d\r\nto get my Bread by\r\nFishing; but the Fish, as well\r\nas all Mankind, desert me. I\r\nscarce catch one in a Day; I\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page155\" name=\"page155\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[155]\u003c/span\u003eam half starv\u0026#8217;d; and had it not\r\nbeen for your unexpected Benevolence\r\nand Generosity, I had\r\nbeen at the Bottom of the River\r\nbefore this.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis long Detail of Particulars,\r\nhowever, was not deliver\u0026#8217;d\r\nwithout several Interruptions;\r\nfor, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, with Abundance\r\nof Warmth and Confusion,\r\nHave you never heard, Sir, of\r\nwhat is become of the Queen\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e? No Sir, not I, said\r\nthe disconsolate Fisherman; but\r\nthis I know, to my Sorrow, that\r\nneither the Queen, nor \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\never paid me the least Consideration\r\nin the World for my\r\nCream Cheeses; that my dear\r\nSpouse is taken from me; and\r\nthat I am drove to the very\r\nBrink of Despair. I am verily\r\npersuaded, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, that you\r\nwill not lose all your Money.\r\nI have heard much talk of that\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page156\" name=\"page156\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[156]\u003c/span\u003esame \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e; they say he is very\r\nhonest, and that if ever he returns\r\nto \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, as \u0026#8217;tis to be\r\nhop\u0026#8217;d he will, he\u0026#8217;ll discharge his\r\nDebts with Interest, like a Man\r\nof Honour. But, as for your\r\nWife, who appears to me, to\r\nbe no better than a Wag-tail,\r\nnever take the Trouble, if you\u0026#8217;ll\r\ntake my Advice, to hunt after\r\nher any more. Be rul\u0026#8217;d, and\r\nmake the best of your Way to\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e. I shall be there before\r\nyou, as I shall ride, and you will\r\nbe on Foot. Make your Applications\r\nto the illustrious \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e;\r\ntell him you met his\r\nFriend upon the Road; and\r\nstay there still I come. Observe\r\nmy Orders, and \u0026#8217;tis very\r\nprobable it may turn out to your\r\nAdvantage.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eO puissant \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOrosmades\u003c/span\u003e, continu\u0026#8217;d\r\nhe, you have made me,\r\n\u0026#8217;tis true, an Instrument of Comfort\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page157\" name=\"page157\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[157]\u003c/span\u003eto this poor Man; but what\r\nFriend will you raise for me,\r\nto alleviate my Sorrows? Having\r\nutter\u0026#8217;d this short Expostulation,\r\nhe gave the distrest Fisherman\r\none full Moiety of all the Money\r\nhe brought with him out of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabia\u003c/span\u003e. The Fisherman, thunder-struck,\r\nand transported with\r\nJoy at so unexpected a Benefaction,\r\nkiss\u0026#8217;d the Feet of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s\r\nFriend, and cried out, sure\r\nyou are a Messenger of Heaven,\r\nsent down to be my Saviour!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the mean Time, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\nevery now and then ask\u0026#8217;d him\r\nQuestions, and wept as he ask\u0026#8217;d\r\nthem. What! Sir, said the Fisherman,\r\ncan you, who are so\r\nbountiful a Benefactor, be in\r\nDistress yourself? Alas! said he,\r\nFriend, I am a hundred Times\r\nmore unhappy than thou art.\r\nBut pray, Sir, said the good\r\nMan, how can it possibly be,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page158\" name=\"page158\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[158]\u003c/span\u003ethat he, who is so lavish of his\r\nFavours, should be overwhelm\u0026#8217;d\r\nwith greater Misfortunes than\r\nthe Man he so generously relieves?\r\nYour greatest Uneasiness,\r\nsaid he, arose from the\r\nNarrowness of your Circumstances;\r\nbut mine proceeds from\r\nan internal, and much deeper\r\nCause. Pray, Sir, said the\r\nFisherman, has \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOrcan\u003c/span\u003e robb\u0026#8217;d\r\nyou of your Wife? This Interrogatory\r\nput \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e in a Moment\r\nupon a Retrospection of all his\r\npast Adventures. He recollected\r\nthe whole Series of his Misfortunes;\r\ncommencing from that\r\nof the Eunuch and the Huntsman,\r\nto his Arrival at the Free-booter\u0026#8217;s\r\nCastle. Alas! said he,\r\nto the Fisherman, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOrcan\u003c/span\u003e, \u0026#8217;tis\r\ntrue, deserves severely to be\r\npunish\u0026#8217;d: But for the Generality,\r\nwe find, such worthless\r\nBarbarians are the Favourites of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page159\" name=\"page159\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[159]\u003c/span\u003eFortune. Be that, however, as\r\nit will, go as I bade you, to my\r\nFriend \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e, and wait there\r\ntill I come. They took their\r\nLeave; the Fisherman blessing\r\nhis propitious Stars, and \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\ncursing, every Step he went, the\r\nHour he was born.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_15\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XV.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eBasilisk\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003eAs \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was traversing a verdant\r\nMeadow, he perceiv\u0026#8217;d\r\nseveral young Female \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSyrians\u003c/span\u003e, intent\r\non searching for something\r\nvery curious, that lay conceal\u0026#8217;d,\r\nas they imagin\u0026#8217;d, in the Grass.\r\nHe took the Freedom to approach\r\none of them, and ask her,\r\nin the most courteous Manner,\r\nif he might have the Honour\r\nto assist her in her Researches.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page160\" name=\"page160\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[160]\u003c/span\u003eHave a care, said she. What\r\nwe are hunting after, Sir, is an\r\nAnimal, that will not suffer itself\r\nto be touch\u0026#8217;d by a Man.\r\n\u0026#8217;Tis somewhat surprizing, said\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e. May I be so bold, pray,\r\nas to ask you what you are in\r\nPursuit after, that shuns the\r\nTouch of any Thing but the\r\nHands of the Fair Sex. \u0026#8217;Tis,\r\nSir, said she, the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBasilisk\u003c/span\u003e: A\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBasilisk\u003c/span\u003e, Madam, said he! And\r\npray, if you will be so good as\r\nto inform me, with what View,\r\nare you searching after a Creature\r\nso very difficult to be met with?\r\n\u0026#8217;Tis, Sir, said she, for our Lord\r\nand Master \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOgul\u003c/span\u003e, whose Castle,\r\nyou see, situate on the River-side,\r\nat the Bottom of the Meadow.\r\nWe are all his Vassals.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOgul\u003c/span\u003e, you must know, is in a\r\nvery bad State of Health, and\r\nhis first Physician has order\u0026#8217;d\r\nhim, as a Specific, to eat a\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page161\" name=\"page161\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[161]\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBasilisk\u003c/span\u003e, boil\u0026#8217;d in Rose water:\r\nAnd as that Animal is very hard\r\nto be catch\u0026#8217;d, and will suffer nothing\r\nto approach it, but one\r\nof our Sex, our dying Sovereign\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOgul\u003c/span\u003e has promis\u0026#8217;d to honour\r\nher, that shall be so happy as\r\nto catch it for him, so far as to\r\nmake her his Consort. The\r\nCase, being thus circumstantiated,\r\nSir, I hope you will not\r\ninterrupt me any longer, lest\r\nmy Rivals here in the Field\r\nshould happen to circumvent\r\nme.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e withdrew, and left the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSyrian\u003c/span\u003e\r\nLadies in Quest of their imaginary\r\nBooty, in order to pursue\r\nhis intended Journey. But as he\r\ncame to the Banks of a Rivulet,\r\nat the remotest part of the Meadow,\r\nhe perceiv\u0026#8217;d another young\r\nLady, reclin\u0026#8217;d on the Grass,\r\nand entirely disengag\u0026#8217;d. Her\r\nStature seem\u0026#8217;d majestic, but her\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page162\" name=\"page162\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[162]\u003c/span\u003eFace was cover\u0026#8217;d with a Vail;\r\nand her Eyes were fixt, as one\r\nat her Looking-glass, on the\r\nRiver. Every now and then a\r\nSigh burst out, as if her Heart\r\nwere breaking. In her Hand\r\nshe held a little Wand or Rod,\r\nwith which she was tracing out\r\nsome Characters on the dry\r\nSand, that lay between the\r\nflow\u0026#8217;ry Bank she sat on, and the\r\npurling Current. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Curiosity\r\ninduc\u0026#8217;d him, unperceiv\u0026#8217;d,\r\nto observe her Operations at\r\nsome Distance. But approaching\r\nnearer, and perceiving very\r\ndistinctly the first Character to\r\nbe an \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZ\u003c/span\u003e. the next an \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eA\u003c/span\u003e. and the\r\nthird a \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eD\u003c/span\u003e. he started; but when\r\nhe saw the additional Capitals of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eI\u003c/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eG\u003c/span\u003e. his Astonishment was\r\ntoo great for Words to express.\r\nHe stood for some Time perfectly\r\nthunder-struck, and as\r\nmotionless as a Statue; At last,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page163\" name=\"page163\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[163]\u003c/span\u003ein a soft, faultring Tone, he\r\nbroke Silence: O generous Lady,\r\nsaid he, forgive a Stranger,\r\none overwhelm\u0026#8217;d with Sorrows\r\nlike yourself, if he asks you, by\r\nwhat amazing Accident he finds\r\nthe Name of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e delineated\r\nby so angelick a Hand. Thus\r\nunexpectedly interrupted, and\r\nat the Sound of those Words,\r\nshe turn\u0026#8217;d her Head; and with\r\na trembling Hand, lifting up her\r\nVail, she espy\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e himself.\r\nUpon which, she shriek\u0026#8217;d; and\r\nas her Heart was flutter\u0026#8217;d between\r\nthe two Extreams of\r\nTransport and Surprize, she\r\nfainted away, and gently dropp\u0026#8217;d\r\ninto his Arms. \u0026#8217;Twas, it seems\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e her self; \u0026#8217;twas the Queen\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e; \u0026#8217;twas the very \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGoddess\u003c/span\u003e\r\nwhom \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e ador\u0026#8217;d; \u0026#8217;twas,\r\nin short, the very identical Lady,\r\nwhose hard Fate he had so\r\nlong deplor\u0026#8217;d; and for whose\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page164\" name=\"page164\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[164]\u003c/span\u003esake he had felt so many agonizing\r\nPains. For a few Minutes he\r\nstood speechless, and depriv\u0026#8217;d,\r\nas it were, of all his senses, whilst\r\nhis Eyes were fixt on his \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwho began to revive; and cast\r\na wishful Glance at him, attended\r\nwith some Confusion. O\r\nye immortal Powers, cried he,\r\nwho preside over the Destiny of\r\nus frail Mortals! Ye have restor\u0026#8217;d\r\nme my \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e; but alas!\r\nat what a Conjuncture, in what\r\na Place, and in what a State and\r\nCondition do I view her? He\r\nthrew himself prostrate on the\r\nGround, and kiss\u0026#8217;d the Dust of\r\nher Feet. The Queen of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e\r\nrais\u0026#8217;d him up, and oblig\u0026#8217;d\r\nhim to sit by her on the flow\u0026#8217;ry\r\nBank whereon she was repos\u0026#8217;d.\r\nEvery now and then she wip\u0026#8217;d\r\nher Eyes, as the Tears trickl\u0026#8217;d\r\ndown afresh her lovely Cheeks.\r\nTwenty times she endeavour\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page165\" name=\"page165\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[165]\u003c/span\u003eto renew her Discourse; but was\r\ninterrupted by her Sighs; she\r\nask\u0026#8217;d him over and over to relate\r\nto her the Hardships he had\r\nran thro\u0026#8217; since their parting, and\r\nby what Chance he came to traverse\r\nthat solitary Meadow; but\r\nprevented him at the same Time\r\nfrom returning any Answer, by\r\nrepeating Question upon Question.\r\nAt last, she gave him a\r\nparticular Detail of her own Misfortunes,\r\nand again requested to\r\nknow his. Both of them, in\r\nshort, having, in some Measure,\r\nappeas\u0026#8217;d the Tumult of their\r\nSouls; \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, in a few Words,\r\ninform\u0026#8217;d her of the Motives that\r\nbrought him thither.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eBut tell me, O unfortunate,\r\ntho\u0026#8217; ever-venerable Queen, how\r\nI came to find you out, reclining\r\non this verdant Bank, dress\u0026#8217;d\r\nin this servile Habit, accompanied\r\nby other Female Slaves,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page166\" name=\"page166\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[166]\u003c/span\u003ewho, I find, have been all Day\r\nlong in Quest after a \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBasilisk\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwhich, as I understand, is by\r\nOrder of a celebrated Physician,\r\nto be dissolv\u0026#8217;d in Rose-water,\r\nas a specific Medicine for his\r\ndying Patient.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eWhilst they busy in their\r\nfruitless Search, said the beauteous\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e, I\u0026#8217;ll tell you the\r\nwhole Series of Sorrows which I\r\nhave undergone since last we\r\nparted; and since Heav\u0026#8217;n has\r\nthus unexpectedly blest my Eyes\r\nonce more with the Sight of my\r\ndear \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, I\u0026#8217;ll no longer exclaim\r\nagainst my impropitious\r\nStars.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eYou are not insensible, that\r\nthe jealous King my Spouse, was\r\ndisgusted to find you the most\r\namiable of all Mortals, and\r\nthat for no other Reason he\r\ndetermin\u0026#8217;d to strangle you, and\r\npoison me. You know very\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page167\" name=\"page167\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[167]\u003c/span\u003ewell too, that indulgent Heav\u0026#8217;n\r\ninspir\u0026#8217;d, as it were, my little\r\nDwarf, with artful Means to\r\ngive me timely Notice of the\r\nrash Resolutions of the King,\r\nmy cruel Husband.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNo sooner had the faithful\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e oblig\u0026#8217;d you to obey my\r\nOrders, and to fly the Court,\r\nbut he ventur\u0026#8217;d to enter my\r\nApartment in the Dead of Night\r\nthro\u0026#8217; a private Door. He\r\nsnatch\u0026#8217;d me up, and convey\u0026#8217;d\r\nme directly into the Temple of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOrosmades\u003c/span\u003e, where the holy \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMagus\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwho was his Brother, lock\u0026#8217;d\r\nme up in that august and awful\r\nStatue, that stands erect upon\r\nthe Pavement of the Temple,\r\nand \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eColossus\u003c/span\u003e-like, touches the\r\nlofty Ceiling with his Head.\r\nThere I lay conceal\u0026#8217;d, or rather\r\nburied for some Time; tho\u0026#8217;\r\ntaken all imaginable Care of,\r\nand furnish\u0026#8217;d with all the Necessaries\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page168\" name=\"page168\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[168]\u003c/span\u003eof Life by that venerable,\r\nand loyal Priest. In the\r\nmean Time, his Apothecary\r\nenter\u0026#8217;d at Break of Day into my\r\nApartment, with a Potion in\r\nhis Hand, compos\u0026#8217;d of Opium,\r\nblack Hellebore, Aconite, and\r\nother Ingredients still more baneful.\r\nWhilst this mercenary Officer\r\nof the King\u0026#8217;s Vengeance\r\nwas thus employ\u0026#8217;d, another as\r\ninhuman as himself, went to\r\nyour Lodgings with the silken\r\nCord. Both, however, were disappointed,\r\nas both of us were fled.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e, very officious, flew to the\r\nKing, in order the more artfully\r\nto blind him; and in a feign\u0026#8217;d\r\nPassion, rail\u0026#8217;d at us both, and\r\ncharg\u0026#8217;d us both as perfidious\r\nTraitors. As for that Villain\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, said he, he has taken his\r\nFlight towards \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eIndia\u003c/span\u003e; and your\r\nfalse, ungrateful Consort, Sire,\r\nsaid he, is fled to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMemphis\u003c/span\u003e.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page169\" name=\"page169\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[169]\u003c/span\u003eThe Guards were order\u0026#8217;d that\r\nMoment to pursue us both.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Couriers, who flew after\r\nme, knew nothing of me. I\r\nhad never expos\u0026#8217;d my Face unveil\u0026#8217;d\r\nto any one but your self,\r\nand that too in the Presence,\r\nand by the express Order of my\r\nRoyal Master. As they had no\r\nother Marks to distinguish me\r\nfrom others but my Stature, as\r\nit had been describ\u0026#8217;d, a young\r\nLady, just of my Size, but in all\r\nProbability much more handsome,\r\npresented herself to their\r\nView, on the Frontiers of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgypt\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nShe was found alone, and in\r\na very disconsolate Condition.\r\nThis Lady must, doubtless, said\r\nthey to themselves, be the Queen\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e: And without listning\r\nto her Complaints, convey\u0026#8217;d\r\nher instantly to my Husband\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMoabdar\u003c/span\u003e. Their gross\r\nBlunder at first incens\u0026#8217;d his\r\nMajesty to the last Degree; but\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page170\" name=\"page170\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[170]\u003c/span\u003eafter he had view\u0026#8217;d the Lady\r\nwith an attentive Eye, he found\r\nshe was extremely pretty, and\r\nwas soon pacify\u0026#8217;d. Her Name\r\nwas \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMissouf\u003c/span\u003e. I have been since\r\ninform\u0026#8217;d, that her Name in the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e Language signifies the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eFair Coquet\u003c/span\u003e. And in Effect, she\r\nwas so: She had as much Art,\r\nhowever, as Caprice. For she\r\npleas\u0026#8217;d the King of Kings:\r\nIn short, she had such an\r\nAscendancy over him, that he\r\ndidn\u0026#8217;t scruple in publick to own\r\nher as his Wife. When she had\r\nsecur\u0026#8217;d him thus far in her Toils,\r\nshe never conceal\u0026#8217;d her Power,\r\nbut play\u0026#8217;d the Part of a perfect\r\nHumourist. She indulg\u0026#8217;d herself\r\nin every Whim that came\r\nin her Head, without Fear of\r\nbeing brow-beat. In the first\r\nPlace, She insisted that the Chief\r\nMagus, who was old and gouty,\r\nshould dance a Saraband before\r\nher; and upon his modest Refusal\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page171\" name=\"page171\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[171]\u003c/span\u003eto comply with so preposterous\r\na Request, she persecuted\r\nhim without Mercy: Nothing\r\nwould serve her Turn, in the\r\nnext Place, but his Majesty\u0026#8217;s\r\ngrand Master of the Horse must\r\nmake her a Minc\u0026#8217;d-pye. The\r\nGentleman took the Liberty to\r\nlet her know, that he was no\r\nprofess\u0026#8217;d Cook; a Tart, however,\r\nhe must make for her, and\r\nshe got him turn\u0026#8217;d out of his\r\nPlace for being so monstrously\r\ncareless, as to burn one \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCorner\u003c/span\u003e\r\nof the Crust. Whereupon she\r\ngave his Post to her favourite\r\nDwarf, and made her Fop of a\r\nPage the Keeper of his Majesty\u0026#8217;s\r\ngreat Seal, and Confidence. Thus\r\nshe reign\u0026#8217;d arbitrary, and was\r\nthe Female Tyrant of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nAll the World deplor\u0026#8217;d the\r\nLoss of me their former Queen.\r\nThe King, who never acted the\r\nPart of a Tyrant, till the Moment\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page172\" name=\"page172\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[172]\u003c/span\u003ehe would have imprison\u0026#8217;d\r\nme, and strangled you, seem\u0026#8217;d\r\nto have drown\u0026#8217;d all his good\r\nQualities in his Dotage on that\r\ncapricious Enchantress. He\r\ncame to the Temple on the solemn\r\nFestival of the sacred Fire.\r\nI saw him prostrate on the Pavement\r\nbefore the Statue, wherein\r\nI was enclos\u0026#8217;d, imploring the\r\nGods to show\u0026#8217;r down their\r\nchoicest Blessings on his beauteous\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMissouf\u003c/span\u003e. I, with an audible\r\nand distinct, but hollow\r\nTone, address\u0026#8217;d my self thus,\r\nlike an Oracle, to the King of\r\nKings. \u003cspan class=\"quotation\"\u003eThe Gods reject the Vows\r\nof a Monarch, that acts the Tyrant\r\no\u0026#8217;er his Subjects; One, who\r\ncould think of murdering an innocent\r\nWife; and admit of a worthless\r\nBeauty to supply her Place.\u003c/span\u003e\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMoabdar\u003c/span\u003e was so startled at this\r\nunexpected Answer from the\r\nGod he ador\u0026#8217;d, that he was just\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page173\" name=\"page173\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[173]\u003c/span\u003eat the Point of Distraction. The\r\nOracle that I had deliver\u0026#8217;d, and\r\nthe tyrannical Proceedings of his\r\nnew Spouse \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMissouf\u003c/span\u003e, were enough\r\nto deprive him of his Senses.\r\nIn short, in a few Days he became\r\na perfect Mad-man. Her\r\nCaprice, which seem\u0026#8217;d a Judgement\r\nfrom above, portended a\r\nsudden Revolution. His Subjects\r\naccordingly revolted, and\r\nwere instantly up in Arms. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nthat had so long indulg\u0026#8217;d\r\nherself in Indolence and Ease,\r\nbecame the Seat, or Theatre of\r\na bloody Civil War. Whereupon\r\nI was taken from my magnificent\r\nPrison, the Bowels of\r\nhis God, and set up at the Head\r\nof a very powerful Party. Your\r\nFriend \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e flew to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMemphis\u003c/span\u003e\r\nin hopes to find you there, and\r\nbring you back to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e. The\r\nPrince of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHyrcania\u003c/span\u003e, hearing of\r\nthese intestine Broils, return\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page174\" name=\"page174\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[174]\u003c/span\u003ewith a powerful Army, in order\r\nto form a third Party, among\r\nthe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylonians\u003c/span\u003e. He attack\u0026#8217;d\r\nthe King, who fled with his\r\nfair, but fickle \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e before\r\nhim. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMoabdar\u003c/span\u003e, however, was\r\nso closely pursu\u0026#8217;d, that he dy\u0026#8217;d\r\nof the Wounds he receiv\u0026#8217;d in\r\nhis Retreat. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMissouf\u003c/span\u003e became the\r\nfair Victim of the Conqueror.\r\nAs for my own Part, I had the\r\nMisfortune to be over-power\u0026#8217;d\r\nlikewise, and taken Prisoner by\r\nan \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHyrcanian Party\u003c/span\u003e, who brought\r\nme into the Presence of the young\r\nPrince, at the very Juncture\r\nwhen \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMissouf\u003c/span\u003e stood before him.\r\nYou\u0026#8217;ll smile, doubtless, when I\r\ntell you the Prince look\u0026#8217;d upon\r\nme as the most amiable Captive\r\nof the two; but then, I presume\r\nyou will be sorry to hear,\r\nthat my hard Fate doom\u0026#8217;d me\r\nto be a Vassal in his Seraglio.\r\nHe told me, in direct Terms,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page175\" name=\"page175\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[175]\u003c/span\u003ethat as soon as he had put an\r\nhappy Issue to one Military\r\nExpedition, which would not,\r\nhe flatter\u0026#8217;d himself, be long unexecuted,\r\nhe would honour me\r\nwith a Visit. Judge the dreadful\r\nApprehensions I was under,\r\nupon his making such a peremptory\r\nDeclaration. My Obligations\r\nto \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMoabdar\u003c/span\u003e were all cancell\u0026#8217;d,\r\nand I was free to be the\r\nBride of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e; but instead of\r\nthat, I fell into the Toils of a\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBarbarian\u003c/span\u003e. I answer\u0026#8217;d him with\r\nall the Resentment becoming one\r\nof my high Character and unspotted\r\nVirtue. I had always\r\nheard say, that Heav\u0026#8217;n bestow\u0026#8217;d\r\non Persons of my Rank, such a\r\npeculiar Mark of Majesty and\r\nGrandeur, that with a bare\r\nWord, or the Glance of an angry\r\nEye, they could bring down,\r\nand abase the Pride of those audacious\r\nCreatures that durst to\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page176\" name=\"page176\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[176]\u003c/span\u003ethwart their Inclinations. I talk\u0026#8217;d\r\nas big as a Queen; but I was\r\ntreated like the most servile Domestic.\r\nThe saucy \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHyrcanian\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwithout so much as vouchsafing\r\nme one Single Word, turn\u0026#8217;d to\r\nhis black Eunuch, and told him\r\nthat I was very impertinent;\r\nbut yet he could not help thinking\r\nI was very pretty. He gave\r\nhim therefore particular Orders\r\nto take care of me, and put me\r\nunder the same Regimen, with\r\nrespect to my Diet, as one of\r\nhis Favourites, in order that I\r\nmight recover my Colour, which\r\nwas somewhat too languid; in a\r\nWord, that I might become worthy\r\nin a little Time of his Royal\r\nFavours, and be duely qualified\r\nto receive him, when he should\r\nhonour me so far as to fix the\r\nDay. I told him, I would die\r\nfirst: He replied, with a Sneer,\r\nthat young Ladies, like me,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page177\" name=\"page177\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[177]\u003c/span\u003eseldom kill\u0026#8217;d themselves, and\r\nthat they were made for Enjoyment;\r\nand then turn\u0026#8217;d upon his\r\nHeel, with as careless an Air,\r\nas a Man would part with his\r\nParoquet, when he had shut her\r\nup close in her gilded Cage.\r\nWhat a shocking State was I in\r\nfor the first Queen of the Universe!\r\nNay, I\u0026#8217;ll say more, for\r\na Heart that was wholly devoted\r\nto her \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eAt these endearing Words,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e threw himself at her Feet,\r\nand bath\u0026#8217;d them with his Tears.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e immediately rais\u0026#8217;d him\r\nin the most courteous and engaging\r\nManner, and thus continu\u0026#8217;d\r\nher Narration.\u0026#8212;I too\r\nplainly perceiv\u0026#8217;d, that I was subject\r\nto the Tyranny of a \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBarbarian\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nand the Rival of a Coquet,\r\nthat was a Slave like myself.\r\nShe related to me all her\r\npast Adventures in \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgypt\u003c/span\u003e. From\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page178\" name=\"page178\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[178]\u003c/span\u003ethe Description she gave of her\r\nGallant, the Time and Place, the\r\nDromedary he was mounted on,\r\nand from every other minute\r\nCircumstance, I imagin\u0026#8217;d it was\r\nyour self that play\u0026#8217;d the Hero\r\nin her Favour. As I made no\r\nDoubt but that you resided\r\nsomewhere in \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMemphis\u003c/span\u003e, I determin\u0026#8217;d\r\nto go thither my self,\r\nbut in Disguise. Beauteous\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMissouf\u003c/span\u003e, said I, you are of a\r\nmuch sprightlier Disposition than\r\nI am; you will be able to amuse\r\nthe gay young Prince of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHyrcania\u003c/span\u003e\r\na thousand Times better than\r\nI shall. Find out some Way\r\ntherefore for my Escape; by\r\nwhich you will be sole Lady Regent.\r\nYou will oblige me to\r\nthe last Degree, by your friendly\r\nAssistance, and at the same Time\r\nget rid of a Rival. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMissouf\u003c/span\u003e,\r\n(cajol\u0026#8217;d with the Hint) came\r\ninto my Measures directly. She\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page179\" name=\"page179\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[179]\u003c/span\u003etook care to send me packing\r\nforthwith, with no other Attendant\r\nthan an old \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgyptian\u003c/span\u003e Slave.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNo sooner had I reach\u0026#8217;d the\r\nBorders of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabia\u003c/span\u003e, but a notorious\r\nFree-booter, (one \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArbogad\u003c/span\u003e\r\nby Name) pick\u0026#8217;d me up, as I\r\nwas strolling along, and sold\r\nme to some Merchants, who\r\nconvey\u0026#8217;d me to yonder Castle,\r\nthe magnificent Residence of the\r\nEmir \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOgul\u003c/span\u003e. He purchas\u0026#8217;d me\r\nat all Adventures, without enquiring\r\nwhat, or who I was. He\r\nis a perfect Debauchee; his sole\r\nDelight lies in good Eating,\r\nWine, and Women; and is one,\r\nwho imagines, that the Almighty\r\nsent him into the World for\r\nno other Purpose but to gratify\r\nhis unruly Appetites. He is\r\nexcessively fat, and puffs and\r\nblows every Moment, like\r\none half choak\u0026#8217;d. When he\r\nhas gorg\u0026#8217;d himself so unmercifully\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page180\" name=\"page180\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[180]\u003c/span\u003ethat he is ready to burst,\r\nhis chief Physician can persuade\r\nhim to take any Thing for his\r\nRelief; tho\u0026#8217; he laughs at him,\r\nand despises his Advice when\r\nhe\u0026#8217;s well and sober. He has\r\nintimated to him, that at present\r\nhis Life\u0026#8217;s in Danger, and\r\nnothing will restore him but a\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBasilisk\u003c/span\u003e, boil\u0026#8217;d in Rose-Water.\r\nWhereupon the grand \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOgul\u003c/span\u003e has\r\npromis\u0026#8217;d his last Favours to\r\nthat Slave, whoever she be, that\r\nshall be so fortunate as to catch a\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBasilisk\u003c/span\u003e, for him, since it seems\r\nthey are so seldom to be met\r\nwith. You see I have others to\r\nstruggle for the Honour propos\u0026#8217;d,\r\nand I never had a less Inclination\r\nto find out this \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBasilisk\u003c/span\u003e\r\nthan at present, since I have\r\nonce more met with my dearest\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter this Declaration, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e\r\nand \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e renew\u0026#8217;d with\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page181\" name=\"page181\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[181]\u003c/span\u003eWarmth the virtuous Affection\r\nwhich they had long conceiv\u0026#8217;d\r\nfor each other; and reciprocally\r\nutter\u0026#8217;d all the tenderest Expressions\r\nthat Love in Distress could\r\npossibly devise. And the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGenii\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwho preside over all the soft Passions,\r\nwafted their mutual Vows\r\nof eternal Constancy and Truth\r\nto the Sphere of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eVenus\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe whole Train of Slaves,\r\nafter a long fruitless Search, attended\r\non \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOgul\u003c/span\u003e, to inform him\r\nthat all their strictest Search was\r\nfruitless. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e desired that he\r\nmight have the Honour to be\r\nintroduc\u0026#8217;d into his Presence.\r\nAccordingly he was, and his\r\nAddress was to this or the like\r\nEffect. May immortal Health\r\ndescend from Heaven to preserve\r\na Life, Sir, so precious as\r\nyours is. I am a Physician by\r\nProfession. I flew to your Palace,\r\non the first News of the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page182\" name=\"page182\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[182]\u003c/span\u003edangerous Situation you were\r\nin, and have brought a \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBasilisk\u003c/span\u003e\r\nwith me, distill\u0026#8217;d in Rose-Water.\r\nI can have no Hopes\r\nof the Honour of your Bed, in\r\nCase I succeed in my Application:\r\nAll the Favour I request,\r\nis, the Release of one of your\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylonish\u003c/span\u003e Slaves, who has been\r\nin your Highness\u0026#8217;s Retinue for\r\nsome Time. And I am willing\r\nto be your Bond-slave in her\r\nStead, if I fail of restoring the\r\nmost illustrious and magnificent\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOgul\u003c/span\u003e to his pristine State of\r\nHealth.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Proposition was readily\r\nembrac\u0026#8217;d. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e was instantly\r\ndischarg\u0026#8217;d, and set out for \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwith a proper Attendant,\r\naccording to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Direction;\r\nassuring her that she should hear\r\nevery Day, by a special Courier,\r\nof his Proceedings with his\r\nnew Patient. The Farewel which\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page183\" name=\"page183\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[183]\u003c/span\u003ethey took of each other, was\r\nvery affectionate and tender, expressive\r\nof the strongest Obligations\r\nto each other. The Moments\r\nof Meeting, and those of\r\nParting, are (as it is written in\r\nthe sacred Book of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZend\u003c/span\u003e) the\r\ntwo most remarkable \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEpochas\u003c/span\u003e of\r\na Lover\u0026#8217;s Life. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s repeated\r\nProtestations of Affection for the\r\nQueen were perfectly sincere,\r\nand the pure Dictates of his\r\nHeart; and the Queen\u0026#8217;s Love\r\nfor \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e had made a deeper\r\nImpression on hers, than she\r\nthought proper to discover.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the mean Time, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nagain addressing himself to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOgul\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nsaid; my \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBasilisk\u003c/span\u003e, Sir, as others\r\nare, is not to be drest or eaten;\r\nbut all its Virtues must penetrate\r\nyour whole Fabrick, thro\u0026#8217;\r\nyour Pores; I have inclos\u0026#8217;d my\r\nnever-failing \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSudorific\u003c/span\u003e in a Bladder,\r\nfull-blown and carefully\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page184\" name=\"page184\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[184]\u003c/span\u003ecover\u0026#8217;d with the softest Leather.\r\nYou must kick this Bladder, Sir,\r\nonce a Day about your Hall for\r\na whole Hour together, with\r\nall the Vigour and Activity you\r\npossibly can. This Medicine\r\nmust be repeated every Morning,\r\nand I\u0026#8217;ll attend the Operation:\r\nUpon your due Observance\r\nof the Regimen I shall\r\nput you under, I doubt not,\r\nbut with the Blessing of Heav\u0026#8217;n\r\non my honest Endeavours, I\r\nshall give you ample Demonstration\r\nof my being an Adept\r\nin Physick. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOgul\u003c/span\u003e, upon making\r\nthe first Experiment, was\r\nready to expire for want of\r\nBreath, and thought he should\r\ndie with the Fatigue. The second\r\nDay did not prove altogether\r\nso irksome, and he slept\r\nmuch better at Night than he\r\nhad done before. In short, our\r\nDoctor in about eight Days\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page185\" name=\"page185\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[185]\u003c/span\u003eTime, perform\u0026#8217;d an absolute\r\nCure. His Patient was as brisk,\r\nactive and gay, as One in the\r\nBloom of his Youth.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNow, Sir, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, I\u0026#8217;ll be\r\ningenuous with you, and disclose\r\nto you the important Secret.\r\nYou have play\u0026#8217;d at Foot-ball\r\nthese eight Days successively;\r\nand you have liv\u0026#8217;d all that\r\nTime, within the Bounds of\r\nSobriety and Moderation. Know,\r\nSir, that there is no such Animal\r\nin Nature as a \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBasilisk\u003c/span\u003e;\r\nthat Health is to be secur\u0026#8217;d by\r\nTemperance and Exercise; and\r\nthat the Art of making Health\r\nconsistent with Luxury, is altogether\r\nas impracticable, and an\r\nArt, in all Respects, as idle and\r\nchimerical, as those of the Philosopher\u0026#8217;s\r\nStone, judicial Astrology,\r\nor any other Reveries\r\nof the like airy and fantastic\r\nNature.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page186\" name=\"page186\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[186]\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOgul\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Head-Physician, apprehensive\r\nthat this unexpected\r\nCure, thus wrought by a\r\nStranger, through such an Anti-medicinal\r\nPreparation, might possibly\r\nnot only render himself the\r\nObject of Contempt in the Eye\r\nof his great Master, but cast a\r\nKind of Slur in general on his\r\nwhole Fraternity, conven\u0026#8217;d a\r\nSet of petty Doctors and Apothecaries,\r\nwho were his Vassals,\r\nand entirely devoted to his Interest,\r\nto find out some sure\r\nWays and Means to cut off in\r\nprivate his dreadful Rival; but\r\nwhilst their wicked Plot was\r\nhatching, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e receiv\u0026#8217;d a Courier\r\nfrom the Queen \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page187\" name=\"page187\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[187]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_16\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XVI.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eTournaments\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003eThe Queen was receiv\u0026#8217;d\r\nat \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e with all the\r\nTransports of Joy that could\r\npossibly be express\u0026#8217;d for the\r\nsafe Return of so illustrious\r\nand so beautiful a Personage,\r\nthat had run thro\u0026#8217; such a long\r\nSeries of Misfortunes. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e\r\nat that Time seem\u0026#8217;d to be perfectly\r\nserene and quiet. As for\r\nthe young Prince of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHyrcania\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nhe was slain in Battle. The\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylonians\u003c/span\u003e, who were the\r\nVictors, declar\u0026#8217;d that \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e\r\nshould marry that Candidate for\r\nthe Crown, who should gain it\r\nby a fair and impartial Election.\r\nThey were determin\u0026#8217;d, that the\r\nmost valuable Post of Honour\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page188\" name=\"page188\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[188]\u003c/span\u003ein the World, namely, that of\r\nbeing the Royal Consort of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nand the Sovereign of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, should be the Result of\r\nMerit only; and not be procur\u0026#8217;d\r\nby any Party-Factions or\r\nCourt-Intrigues. A solemn Oath\r\nwas voluntarily taken by all\r\nParties, that he who should distinguish\r\nhimself by his superior\r\nValour and Wisdom, should\r\nunanimously be acknowledg\u0026#8217;d\r\nthe Sovereign-Elect.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eA spacious \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eList\u003c/span\u003e, or \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCircus\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwas pitched upon, surrounded\r\nwith commodious Seats, erected\r\nin an Amphitheatrical Manner,\r\nand richly embellish\u0026#8217;d some\r\nfew Leagues from the City.\r\nThither the Combatants, or\r\nChampions were to repair, compleatly\r\naccoutred. Each of them\r\nhad a distinct Apartment to\r\nhimself behind the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eLists\u003c/span\u003e, where\r\nno Soul could either see them,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page189\" name=\"page189\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[189]\u003c/span\u003eor know who they were. They\r\nwere to enter the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eLists\u003c/span\u003e four several\r\nTimes. Those who were\r\nso happy as to conquer four\r\nCompetitors, were afterwards to\r\nengage each other in single\r\nCombat; in order that he who\r\nshould remain Master of the\r\nField should be proclaim\u0026#8217;d the\r\nhappy Victor.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eFour Days afterwards, they\r\nwere to meet again, accoutred\r\nas before, and to explain all such\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eÆnigmas\u003c/span\u003e, or \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eRiddles\u003c/span\u003e, as the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMagi\u003c/span\u003e should think proper to\r\npropose. If their Queries should\r\nprove too intricate and perplext\r\nfor them to resolve, they were\r\nto have Recourse to the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eLists\u003c/span\u003e\r\nagain, and after that, to fresh\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eÆnigmas\u003c/span\u003e, before they could be\r\nentitled to the Election: So that\r\nthe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eTournaments\u003c/span\u003e were to be continu\u0026#8217;d\r\ntill One of the Candidates\r\nshould be twice a Victor, and\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page190\" name=\"page190\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[190]\u003c/span\u003eshine as conspicuous, with respect\r\nto his internal Qualities,\r\nas to his Dexterity and Address\r\nin heroic Atchievements. The\r\nQueen, in the mean Time, was\r\nto be narrowly watch\u0026#8217;d, and allow\u0026#8217;d\r\nonly to be a Spectator of\r\nboth their Amusements, at some\r\nconsiderable Distance; and moreover,\r\nto be cover\u0026#8217;d with a Vail:\r\nNor was she indulg\u0026#8217;d so far as\r\nto speak one single Word to\r\nany Candidate whomsoever, in\r\norder to prevent the least Jealousy\r\nor Suspicion either of Partiality\r\nor Injustice.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e took care, by the\r\nCourier, to inform her Lover\r\nof all the Preliminary Articles\r\nabovemention\u0026#8217;d, not doubting\r\nbut that he would exert both\r\nhis Courage and Understanding\r\nfor her Sake, beyond any of the\r\nother Competitors.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e accordingly set out for\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page191\" name=\"page191\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[191]\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, and besought the Goddess\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eVenus\u003c/span\u003e, not only to fortify\r\nhis Courage, but to illuminate\r\nhis Mind with Wisdom on this\r\nimportant Occasion.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Night before these martial\r\nAtchievements were to commence,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e arrived upon the\r\nBanks of the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEuphrates\u003c/span\u003e. He\r\ninscrib\u0026#8217;d his Device amongst\r\nthe List of Combatants; concealing,\r\nat the same Time, both\r\nhis Person and Name, as the\r\nLaws of the Election required;\r\nand accordingly, withdrew to\r\nthe Apartment that was provided\r\nfor him, according to his\r\nLot.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e, who was just return\u0026#8217;d\r\nto \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, having hunted all\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEgypt\u003c/span\u003e over to no Purpose, in\r\nHopes to find his Friend \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nbrought a compleat set of Armour\r\ninto his Lodge, by express\r\nOrders from the Queen:\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page192\" name=\"page192\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[192]\u003c/span\u003eShe sent him likewise One of\r\nthe finest Horses in all \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003ePersia\u003c/span\u003e.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e knew that these Presents\r\ncould come from No-body but\r\nhis dear \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e, which redoubled\r\nhis Vigour and his\r\nHopes.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe next Morning the Queen\r\nbeing seated under a Canopy of\r\nState, enrich\u0026#8217;d with precious\r\nStones; and the Amphitheatres\r\nbeing crowded with Gentlemen\r\nand Ladies of all Ranks and\r\nConditions from \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e; the\r\nCompetitors made their personal\r\nAppearance in the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCircus\u003c/span\u003e: Each\r\nof them went up to the grand\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMagus\u003c/span\u003e, and laid down his particular\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eDevice\u003c/span\u003e at his Feet. The\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eDevices\u003c/span\u003e were drawn by Lot:\r\nThat of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was the last.\r\nThe first that advanc\u0026#8217;d was a\r\nGrandee, one \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItabod\u003c/span\u003e by Name,\r\nimmensely rich, indeed, and\r\nvery haughty; but no ways\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page193\" name=\"page193\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[193]\u003c/span\u003ecouragious; exceedingly awkward,\r\nand a Man of no acquir\u0026#8217;d\r\nParts. The Sycophants that\r\nhover\u0026#8217;d round about him flatter\u0026#8217;d\r\nhim, that a Man of his\r\nMerit couldn\u0026#8217;t fail of being\r\nKing: He imperiously replied,\r\nOne of my Merit must be\r\nKing: Whereupon he was arm\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCap-a-pee\u003c/span\u003e. His Armour was\r\nmade of pure Gold, enamell\u0026#8217;d\r\nwith Green. The Housings of\r\nhis Saddle were green, and his\r\nLance embellish\u0026#8217;d with green\r\nRibbands. Every One was sensible,\r\nat first Sight, by \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItobad\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s\r\nManner of managing his Horse,\r\nthat he was not the Man whom\r\nHeav\u0026#8217;n had pitch\u0026#8217;d upon to\r\nsway the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylonish\u003c/span\u003e Scepter.\r\nThe first Combatant that tilted\r\nwith him, threw him out of the\r\nSaddle; the second flung him\r\nquite over the Crupper, and laid\r\nhim sprawling on the Ground,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page194\" name=\"page194\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[194]\u003c/span\u003ewith his Heels quiv\u0026#8217;ring in the\r\nAir. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItobad\u003c/span\u003e, \u0026#8217;tis true, remounted,\r\nbut with so ill a\r\nGrace, that an universal Laugh\r\nwent round the Amphitheatre.\r\nThe third, disdaining to use\r\nhis Lance, made only a Feint\r\nat him: Then catch\u0026#8217;d hold\r\nof his Right Leg, and whirling\r\nhim round, threw him flat\r\nupon the Sand. The Esquires,\r\nwho were the Attendants, ran\r\nto his Assistance, and with a\r\nSneer remounted him. The\r\nfourth Combatant catch\u0026#8217;d hold\r\nof his Left Leg, and unhors\u0026#8217;d\r\nhim again. He was convey\u0026#8217;d\r\nthro\u0026#8217; the hissing Multitude to\r\nhis Lodge, where, according to\r\nthe Law in that Case provided,\r\nhe was to pass the Night. And\r\nas he hobbled along, said he,\r\nto the Esquires, what a sad Misfortune\r\nis this to One of my Birth\r\nand Character!\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page195\" name=\"page195\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[195]\u003c/span\u003eThe other Champions play\u0026#8217;d\r\ntheir Parts much better; and\r\nall came off with Credit. Some\r\nconquer\u0026#8217;d two of their Antagonists,\r\nand others were so far\r\nsuccessful as to get the better\r\nof three. None of them, however,\r\nexcept Prince \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHottam\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nvanquish\u0026#8217;d four. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, at last,\r\nenter\u0026#8217;d the Lists, and dismounted\r\nall his four Opponents,\r\none after the other, with the\r\nutmost Ease, and with such an\r\nAir and Grace, as gain\u0026#8217;d him\r\nuniversal Applause. As the\r\nCase stood thus, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e and \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHottam\u003c/span\u003e\r\nwere to close the Day\u0026#8217;s Entertainment\r\nin a single Combat.\r\nThe Armour of the latter was\r\nof a blue Colour mixt with\r\nGold, and the Housings of his\r\nSaddle were of the same. Those\r\nof the former white as Snow.\r\nThe Multitude were divided in\r\ntheir Wishes. The Knight in\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page196\" name=\"page196\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[196]\u003c/span\u003eblue was the Favourite of some\r\nof the Ladies; and others again\r\nwere Admirers of the Cavalier\r\nin white. The Queen, whose\r\nHeart was in a perfect Palpitation,\r\nput up her secret Prayers\r\nto \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eVenus\u003c/span\u003e to assist her darling\r\nHero.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe two Champions making\r\ntheir Passes and their Volta\u0026#8217;s,\r\nwith the utmost Dexterity and Address,\r\nand keeping firm in their\r\nSaddles, gave each other such\r\nRebuffs with their Lances, that\r\nall the Spectators (the Queen\r\nonly excepted) wish\u0026#8217;d for two\r\nKings of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e. At last,\r\ntheir Horses being tired, and\r\nboth their Lances broke, \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\nmade use of the following Stratagem,\r\nwhich his Antagonist\r\nwasn\u0026#8217;t any ways appriz\u0026#8217;d of.\r\nHe got artfully behind him,\r\nand shooting with a Spring on\r\nhis Horses Buttocks, grasp\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page197\" name=\"page197\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[197]\u003c/span\u003ehim close, threw him headlong\r\non the Sand, then jump\u0026#8217;d into\r\nhis Seat, and wheel\u0026#8217;d round\r\nPrince \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHottam\u003c/span\u003e, while he lay\r\nsprawling on the Ground. All\r\nthe Spectators in general, with\r\nloud Acclamations, cried out,\r\nVictory! Victory! in favour of\r\nthe Champion in white. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHottam\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nincens\u0026#8217;d to the last Degree,\r\ngot up, and drew his\r\nSword. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e sprang from his\r\nHorse with his Sabre in his\r\nHand. Now, behold the two\r\nChieftains upon their Legs, commencing\r\na new Trial of Skill!\r\nwhere they seem\u0026#8217;d to get the\r\nbetter of each other alternately;\r\nfor both were strong, and both\r\nwere active. The Feathers of\r\ntheir Helmets, the Studs of their\r\nBracelets, their Coats of Mail,\r\nflew about in Pieces, thro\u0026#8217; the\r\ndry Blows which they a thousand\r\nTimes repeated. They\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page198\" name=\"page198\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[198]\u003c/span\u003estruck at each other sometimes\r\nwith the Edge of their Swords,\r\nat other Times they push\u0026#8217;d, as\r\nOccasion offer\u0026#8217;d: Now on the\r\nRight, then on the Left; now\r\non the Head, then at the\r\nBreast; they retreated; they advanc\u0026#8217;d;\r\nthey kept at a Distance;\r\nthey clos\u0026#8217;d again; they grasp\u0026#8217;d\r\neach other, turning and twisting\r\nlike two Serpents, and engag\u0026#8217;d\r\neach other as fiercely as two\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eLibyan\u003c/span\u003e Lions fighting for their\r\nPrey: Their Swords struck Fire\r\nalmost at every Blow. At last,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, in order to recover his\r\nBreath, for a Moment or two\r\nstood still, and afterwards,\r\nmaking a Feint at the Prince,\r\nthrew him on his Back, and\r\ndisarm\u0026#8217;d him. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHottam\u003c/span\u003e, thereupon,\r\ncried out, O thou Knight\r\nof the white Armour! \u0026#8217;Tis you\r\nonly are destin\u0026#8217;d to be the King\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e. The Queen was\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page199\" name=\"page199\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[199]\u003c/span\u003eperfectly transported. The two\r\nChampions were reconducted to\r\ntheir separate Lodges, as the\r\nothers had been before them, in\r\nConformity to the Laws prescrib\u0026#8217;d.\r\nSeveral Mutes were\r\norder\u0026#8217;d to wait on the Champions,\r\nand carry them some\r\nproper Refreshment. We\u0026#8217;ll leave\r\nthe Reader to judge whether the\r\nQueen\u0026#8217;s Dwarf was not appointed\r\nto wait on \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e on this happy\r\nOccasion. After Supper the\r\nMutes withdrew, and left the\r\nCombatants to rest their wearied\r\nLimbs till the next Morning;\r\nat which Time the Victor was\r\nto produce his \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eDevice\u003c/span\u003e, before\r\nthe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGrand Magus\u003c/span\u003e, in order to\r\nconfer Notes, and discover the\r\nHero whoever he might be.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e slept very sound, notwithstanding\r\nhis amorous Regard\r\nfor the Queen, being perfectly\r\nfatigu\u0026#8217;d. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItabod\u003c/span\u003e, who lay\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page200\" name=\"page200\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[200]\u003c/span\u003ein the Lodge contiguous to his,\r\ncould not once close his Eyes\r\nfor Vexation. He got up therefore\r\nin the Dead of the Night,\r\nstole imperceptibly into \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s\r\nApartment, took his white Armour\r\nand Device away with\r\nhim, and substituted his green\r\nOne in its Place.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAs soon as the Day began to\r\ndawn, he repair\u0026#8217;d, with a seemingly\r\nundaunted Courage, to\r\nthe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGrand Magus\u003c/span\u003e, to inform\r\nhim, that he was the mighty\r\nHero, the happy Victor. Without\r\nthe least Hesitation, he\r\ngain\u0026#8217;d his Point, and was proclaim\u0026#8217;d\r\nVictor before \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was\r\nawake. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e, astonish\u0026#8217;d at\r\nthis unexpected Disappointment,\r\nreturn\u0026#8217;d with a Heart overwhelm\u0026#8217;d\r\nwith Despair, to the\r\nCourt of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e. Almost all\r\nthe Spectators were mov\u0026#8217;d off\r\nfrom the Amphitheatre before\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page201\" name=\"page201\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[201]\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e wak\u0026#8217;d: He hunted for\r\nhis Arms; but could find nothing\r\nbut those in green. He\r\nwas oblig\u0026#8217;d, tho\u0026#8217; sorely against\r\nhis Will, to put it on, having\r\nnothing else in his Lodge to\r\nappear in: Confounded, and\r\nbig with Resentment, he drest\r\nhimself, and made his personal\r\nAppearance in that despicable\r\nEquipage. The Populace that\r\nwere left behind in the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCircus\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nhiss\u0026#8217;d him every Step he took,\r\nthey made a Ring about him,\r\nand treated him with all the\r\nMarks of Ignominy and Contempt.\r\nThe most cowardly\r\nWretch breathing was never sure\r\nso sweated, or hunted down as\r\npoor \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e! He grew quite out\r\nof Patience at last, and cut his\r\nWay thro\u0026#8217; the insulting Mob,\r\nwith his Rival\u0026#8217;s Sabre; but he\r\ndid not know what Measures to\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page202\" name=\"page202\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[202]\u003c/span\u003epursue, or how to rectify so\r\ngross a Mistake. It was not in\r\nhis Power to have a Sight of\r\nthe Queen; he could never recover\r\nthe white Armour again\r\nwhich She had sent him; That\r\nwas the Compromise, or the\r\nEngagement, to which the\r\nCombatants had all unanimously\r\nagreed: Thus, as he was on the\r\none Hand, plung\u0026#8217;d in an Abyss\r\nof Sorrow; so on the\r\nother, he was almost drove distracted\r\nwith Vexation and Resentment.\r\nHe withdrew therefore,\r\nin a solitary Mood, to the\r\nBanks of the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEuphrates\u003c/span\u003e, now\r\nfully persuaded, that his impropitious\r\nStar had shed its most\r\nbaleful Influence on him, and\r\nthat his Misfortunes were irretrievable,\r\nrevolving in his Mind,\r\nall his Disappointments from his\r\nfirst Adventure with the Court-Coquet,\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page203\" name=\"page203\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[203]\u003c/span\u003ewho had entertain\u0026#8217;d an\r\nutter Aversion to a blind Eye,\r\ndown to his late Loss of his\r\nwhite Armour. See! said he,\r\nthe fatal Consequence of being a\r\nSluggard! Had I been more\r\nvigilant, I had been King of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e; but what is more, I\r\nhad been happy in the Embraces\r\nof my dearest \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nAll the Knowledge of Books or\r\nMankind; all the personal Valour\r\nthat I can boast of, has\r\nonly prov\u0026#8217;d an Aggravation of\r\nmy Sorrows. He carried the\r\nPoint so far at last, as to murmur\r\nat the unequal Dispensations\r\nof Divine Providence; and\r\nwas tempted to believe, that all\r\nOccurrences were govern\u0026#8217;d by\r\na malignant Destiny, which never\r\nfail\u0026#8217;d to oppress the Virtuous,\r\nand always crown\u0026#8217;d the Actions\r\nof such Villains as the green\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page204\" name=\"page204\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[204]\u003c/span\u003eKnight, with uncommon Success.\r\nIn one of his frantick\r\nFits, he put on the green Armour,\r\nthat had created him\r\nsuch a World of Disgrace. A\r\nMerchant happening to pass by,\r\nhe sold it to him for a Trifle,\r\nand took in Exchange nothing\r\nmore than a Mantle, and a\r\nCap. In this Disguise, he took\r\na solitary Walk along the Banks\r\nof the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEuphrates\u003c/span\u003e, every Minute\r\nreflecting in his Mind on the\r\npartial Proceedings of Providence,\r\nwhich never ceas\u0026#8217;d to\r\ntorment him.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page205\" name=\"page205\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[205]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_17\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XVII.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eHermit\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003eAs \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was travelling along,\r\nhe met with a\r\nHermit, whose grey and venerable\r\nBeard descended to his\r\nGirdle. He had in his Hand a\r\nlittle Book, on which his Eyes\r\nwere fix\u0026#8217;d. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e threw himself\r\nin his Way, and made him\r\na profound Bow. The Hermit\r\nreturn\u0026#8217;d the Compliment with\r\nsuch an Air of Majesty and Benevolence,\r\nthat \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Curiosity\r\nprompted him to converse\r\nwith so agreeable a Stranger.\r\nPray, Sir, said he, what may be\r\nthe Contents of the Treatise you\r\nare reading with such Attention.\r\n\u0026#8217;Tis call\u0026#8217;d, said the Hermit,\r\nthe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBook of Fate\u003c/span\u003e; will you\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page206\" name=\"page206\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[206]\u003c/span\u003eplease to look at it. He put\r\nthe Book into the Hands of\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, who, tho\u0026#8217; he was a perfect\r\nMaster of several Languages,\r\ncouldn\u0026#8217;t decypher one\r\nsingle Character. This rais\u0026#8217;d\r\nhis Curiosity still higher. You\r\nseem dejected, said the good\r\nFather to him. Alas! I have\r\nCause enough, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e. If\r\nyou\u0026#8217;ll permit me to accompany\r\nyou, said the old Hermit, perhaps\r\nI may be of some Service\r\nto you. I have sometimes instill\u0026#8217;d\r\nSentiments of Consolation\r\ninto the Minds of the Afflicted.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e had a secret Regard for\r\nthe Air of the old Man, for his\r\nBeard, and his Book. He\r\nfound, by conversing with him,\r\nthat he was the most learned\r\nPerson he had ever met with. The\r\nHermit harangu\u0026#8217;d on Destiny,\r\nJustice, Morality, the sovereign\r\nGood, the Frailty of Nature;\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page207\" name=\"page207\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[207]\u003c/span\u003eon Virtue and Vice, in such a\r\nlively Manner, and in such a\r\nFlow of Words, that \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was\r\nattach\u0026#8217;d to him by an invincible\r\nCharm. He begg\u0026#8217;d earnestly\r\nthat he would favour him with\r\nhis Company to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e. That\r\nFavour I was going to ask my\r\nself, said the old Man. Swear\r\nto me by \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOrosmades\u003c/span\u003e, that you\r\nwon\u0026#8217;t leave me, for some Days\r\nat least, let me do what I please.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e took the Oath requir\u0026#8217;d,\r\nand both pursu\u0026#8217;d their Journey.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe two Travellers arriv\u0026#8217;d\r\nthat Evening at a superb Castle.\r\nThe Hermit begg\u0026#8217;d for an hospitable\r\nReception of himself\r\nand his young Comrade. The\r\nPorter, whom any One might\r\nhave taken for some Grandee,\r\nlet them in, but with a kind\r\nof Coldness and Contempt.\r\nHowever, he conducted them\r\nto the Head-Steward, who went\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page208\" name=\"page208\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[208]\u003c/span\u003ewith them thro\u0026#8217; every rich Apartment\r\nof his Master\u0026#8217;s House.\r\nThey were seated at Supper afterwards\r\nat the lower End, indeed,\r\nof the Table, and where\r\nthey were taken little or no Notice\r\nof by the Host; but they\r\nwere serv\u0026#8217;d with as much Delicacy\r\nand Profusion, as any of\r\nthe other Guests. When they\r\narose from Table, they wash\u0026#8217;d\r\ntheir Hands in a Golden Bason\r\nset with Emeralds, and other\r\ncostly Stones. When \u0026#8217;twas Time\r\nto go to Rest, they were conducted\r\ninto a Bed-chamber\r\nrichly furnish\u0026#8217;d; and the next\r\nMorning two Pieces of Gold were\r\npresented to him for their mutual\r\nService, by a Valet in waiting;\r\nand then they were dismiss\u0026#8217;d.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Proprietor of this Castle,\r\nsaid \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, as they were upon\r\nthe Road, seems to me to be a\r\nvery hospitable Gentleman; tho\u0026#8217;\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page209\" name=\"page209\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[209]\u003c/span\u003esomewhat too haughty indeed,\r\nand too imperious: The Words\r\nwere no sooner out of his\r\nMouth, but he perceiv\u0026#8217;d that\r\nthe Pocket of his Comrade\u0026#8217;s\r\nGarment, tho\u0026#8217; very large, was\r\nswell\u0026#8217;d, and greatly extended:\r\nHe soon saw what was the Cause,\r\nand that he had clandestinely\r\nbrought off the Golden Laver.\r\nHe durst not immediately take\r\nNotice of the Fact; but was\r\nready to sink at the very\r\nThoughts on\u0026#8217;t. About Noon,\r\nthe Hermit rapp\u0026#8217;d at a petty\r\nCottage with his Staff, the beggarly\r\nResidence of an old, rich\r\nMiser. He desir\u0026#8217;d that he and\r\nhis Companion might refresh\r\nthemselves there for a few\r\nHours. An old, shabby Domestick\r\nlet them in indeed, but\r\nwith visible Reluctance, and\r\ncarried them into the Stable,\r\nwhere all their Fare was a few\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page210\" name=\"page210\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[210]\u003c/span\u003emusty Olives, and a Draught or\r\ntwo of sower small Beer. The\r\nHermit seem\u0026#8217;d as content with\r\nhis Repast, as he was the Night\r\nbefore. At last, rising off from\r\nhis Seat, he paid his Compliments\r\nto the old Valet (who had\r\nas watchful an Eye over them\r\nall the Time, as if they had\r\nbeen a Brace of Thieves, and\r\nintimated every now and then\r\nthat he fear\u0026#8217;d they would be benighted)\r\nand gave him the two\r\nPieces of Gold, he had but just\r\nreceiv\u0026#8217;d that Morning, as a\r\nToken of his Gratitude for his\r\ncourteous Entertainment. He\r\nadded moreover, I would willingly\r\nspeak one Word with\r\nyour Master before I go. The\r\nValet, thunder-struck at his unexpected\r\nGratuity, comply\u0026#8217;d\r\nwith his Request: Most hospitable\r\nSir, said the Hermit, I\r\ncouldn\u0026#8217;t go away without returning\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page211\" name=\"page211\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[211]\u003c/span\u003eyou my grateful Acknowledgments\r\nfor the friendly\r\nReception we have met with\r\nthis Afternoon. Be pleas\u0026#8217;d to\r\naccept this Golden Bason as a\r\nsmall Token of my Gratitude\r\nand Esteem. The Miser started,\r\nand was ready to fall down\r\nbackwards at the Sight of so\r\nvaluable a Present. The Hermit\r\ngave him no Time to recover\r\nout of his Surprise, but\r\nmarch\u0026#8217;d off that Moment with\r\nhis young Comrade. Father,\r\nsaid \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, What is all this that\r\nI have seen? You seem to me\r\nto act in a quite different Manner\r\nfrom the Generality of Mankind.\r\nYou plunder One, who\r\nentertain\u0026#8217;d you with all the\r\nPomp and Profusion in the\r\nWorld, to enrich a covetous,\r\nsordid Wretch, who treated you\r\nin the most unworthy Manner.\r\nSon, said the old Man, that\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page212\" name=\"page212\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[212]\u003c/span\u003eGrandee, who receives Visits\r\nof Strangers, with no other\r\nView than to gratify his Pride,\r\nand to raise their Astonishment\r\nat the Furniture of his Palace,\r\nwill henceforward learn to be\r\nwiser; and the Miser to be\r\nmore liberal for the Time to\r\ncome. Don\u0026#8217;t be surpris\u0026#8217;d, but\r\nfollow me. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was at a\r\nstand at present; and couldn\u0026#8217;t\r\nwell determine whether his Companion\r\nwas a Man of greater\r\nWisdom than ordinary, or a\r\nMad-man. But the Hermit assum\u0026#8217;d\r\nsuch an Ascendency over\r\nhim, exclusive of the Oath he\r\nhad taken, that he couldn\u0026#8217;t tell\r\nhow to leave him. At Night\r\nthey came to a House very\r\ncommodiously built, but neat\r\nand plain; where nothing was\r\nwanting, and yet nothing profuse.\r\nThe Master was a Philosopher,\r\nthat had retir\u0026#8217;d from the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page213\" name=\"page213\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[213]\u003c/span\u003ebusy World, in order to live in\r\nPeace, and form his Mind to\r\nVirtue. He was pleas\u0026#8217;d to\r\nbuild this little Box for the Reception\r\nof Strangers, in a handsome\r\nManner, but without Ostentation.\r\nHe came in Person\r\nto meet them at the Door, and\r\nfor a Time, advis\u0026#8217;d them to\r\nsit down and rest themselves\r\nin a commodious Apartment.\r\nAfter some Respite, he invited\r\nthem to a frugal, yet elegant\r\nRepast; during which, he\r\ntalk\u0026#8217;d very intelligently about\r\nthe late Revolutions in \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e.\r\nHe seem\u0026#8217;d entirely to be in the\r\nQueen\u0026#8217;s Interest, and heartily\r\nwish\u0026#8217;d that \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e had entred the\r\nLists for the regal Prize: But\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, said he, don\u0026#8217;t deserve\r\na King of so much Merit. A\r\nmodest Blush appear\u0026#8217;d in \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s\r\nFace at this unexpected\r\nCompliment, which innocently\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page214\" name=\"page214\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[214]\u003c/span\u003eaggravated his Misfortunes. It was\r\nagreed, on all Hands, that the\r\nAffairs of this World took sometimes\r\na quite different Turn\r\nfrom what the wisest Patriots\r\nwould wish them. The Hermit\r\nreplied, the Ways of Providence\r\nare often very intricate\r\nand obscure, and Men were much\r\nto blame for casting Reflections\r\non the Conduct of the Whole,\r\nupon the bare Inspection of the\r\nminutest Part.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe next Topick they entred\r\nupon was the Passions. Alas! said\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, how fatal in their Consequences!\r\nHowever, said the\r\nHermit, they are the Winds\r\nthat swell the Sail of the Vessel.\r\nSometimes, \u0026#8217;tis true, they overset\r\nit; but there is no such\r\nThing as sailing without them.\r\nPhlegm, indeed, makes Men\r\npeevish and sick; but then there\r\nis no living without it. Tho\u0026#8217;\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page215\" name=\"page215\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[215]\u003c/span\u003eevery Thing here below is\r\ndangerous, yet All are necessary.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn the next Place, their Discourse\r\nturn\u0026#8217;d on sensual Pleasures;\r\nand the Hermit demonstrated,\r\nthat they were the Gifts\r\nof Heaven; for, said he, Man\r\ncannot bestow either Sensations\r\nor Ideas on himself; he receives\r\nthem all; his Pain and Pleasure,\r\nas well as his Being, proceed\r\nfrom a superior Cause.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e stood astonish\u0026#8217;d, to\r\nthink how a Man that had committed\r\nsuch vile Actions, could\r\nargue so well on such Moral\r\nTopicks. At the proper Hour,\r\nafter an Entertainment, not only\r\ninstructive, but ev\u0026#8217;ry way agreeable,\r\ntheir Host conducted\r\nthem to their Bed-chamber,\r\nthanking Heaven for directing\r\ntwo such polite and virtuous\r\nStrangers to his House. He\r\noffer\u0026#8217;d them at the same Time\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page216\" name=\"page216\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[216]\u003c/span\u003esome Silver, to defray their\r\nExpences on the Road; but\r\nwith such an Air of Respect and\r\nBenevolence, that \u0026#8217;twas impossible\r\nto give the least Disgust.\r\nThe Hermit, however, refus\u0026#8217;d\r\nit, and took his leave, as he\r\npropos\u0026#8217;d to set forward for \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e\r\nby Break of Day. Their\r\nParting was very affectionate and\r\nfriendly; \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, in particular,\r\nexpress\u0026#8217;d a more than common\r\nRegard for a Man of so amiable\r\na Behaviour. When the Hermit\r\nand he were alone, and preparing\r\nfor Bed, they talk\u0026#8217;d long\r\nin Praise of their new Host.\r\nAs soon as Day-light appear\u0026#8217;d,\r\nthe old Hermit wak\u0026#8217;d his young\r\nComrade. \u0026#8217;Tis Time to be\r\ngone, said he; but as all the\r\nHouse are fast asleep, I\u0026#8217;ll leave\r\na Token behind me of my Respect\r\nand Affection for the\r\nMaster of it. No sooner were\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page217\" name=\"page217\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[217]\u003c/span\u003ethe Words out of his Mouth, but\r\nhe struck a Light, kindled\r\na Torch, and set the Building in\r\na Flame: \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, in the utmost\r\nConfusion, shriek\u0026#8217;d out, and\r\nwould, if possible, have prevented\r\nhim from being guilty of\r\nsuch a monstrous Act of Ingratitude.\r\nThe Hermit dragg\u0026#8217;d\r\nhim away, by a superior Force.\r\nThe House was soon in a Blaze:\r\nWhen they had got at a convenient\r\nDistance, the Hermit, with\r\nan amazing Sedateness, turn\u0026#8217;d\r\nback and survey\u0026#8217;d the destructive\r\nFlames. Behold, said he, our\r\nfortunate Friend! In the Ruins,\r\nhe will find an immense Treasure,\r\nthat will enable him, from\r\nhenceforth, to exert his Beneficence,\r\nand render his Virtues\r\nmore and more conspicuous.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, tho\u0026#8217; astonish\u0026#8217;d to the last\r\nDegree, attended him to their\r\nlast Stage, which was to the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page218\" name=\"page218\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[218]\u003c/span\u003eCottage of a very virtuous and\r\nwell-dispos\u0026#8217;d Widow, who had\r\na Nephew of about fourteen\r\nYears of Age. He was a hopeful\r\nYouth, and the Darling of\r\nher Heart. She entertain\u0026#8217;d her\r\ntwo Guests with the best Provisions\r\nher little House afforded.\r\nIn the Morning she order\u0026#8217;d her\r\nNephew to attend them to an\r\nadjacent Bridge, which, having\r\nbeen broken down some few\r\nDays before, render\u0026#8217;d the Passage\r\ndangerous to Strangers.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe Lad, being very attentive\r\nto wait on them, went formost.\r\nWhen they were got\r\nupon the Bridge; come hither,\r\nmy pretty Boy, said the Hermit,\r\nI must give your Aunt\r\nsome small Token of my Respect\r\nfor her last Night\u0026#8217;s Favours.\r\nUpon that, he twisted\r\nhis Fingers in the Hair of his\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page219\" name=\"page219\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[219]\u003c/span\u003eHead, and threw him, very\r\ncalmly, into the River. Down\r\nwent the little Lad; he came\r\nup once again to the Surface of\r\nthe Water; but was soon lost in\r\nthe rapid Stream. O thou Monster!\r\nthou worst of Villains,\r\ncry\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e! Didn\u0026#8217;t you promise,\r\nsaid the Hermit, to view\r\nmy Conduct with Patience?\r\nKnow then, that had that Boy\r\nliv\u0026#8217;d but one Year longer, he\r\nwould have murder\u0026#8217;d his Foster-Mother.\r\nWho told you so, you\r\nbarbarous Wretch, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e?\r\nAnd when did you read that inhuman\r\nEvent in your \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBlack-Book\u003c/span\u003e\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eFate\u003c/span\u003e? Who gave you\r\nPermission pray, to drown so\r\ninnocent a Youth, that had never\r\ndisoblig\u0026#8217;d you?\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eNo sooner had our young\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylonian\u003c/span\u003e ceas\u0026#8217;d his severe Reflections,\r\nbut he perceiv\u0026#8217;d that the\r\nold Hermit\u0026#8217;s long Beard grew\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page220\" name=\"page220\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[220]\u003c/span\u003eshorter and shorter; that the\r\nFurrows in his Face began\r\nto fill up, and that his Cheeks\r\nglow\u0026#8217;d with a Rose-coloured\r\nRed, as if he had been in the\r\nBloom of Fifteen. His Mantle\r\nwas vanish\u0026#8217;d at once; and on\r\nhis Shoulders, which were before\r\ncover\u0026#8217;d, appear\u0026#8217;d four angelic\r\nWings, each refulgent as the\r\nSun. O thou Messenger of\r\nHeaven! O thou angelic Form!\r\ncry\u0026#8217;d \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, and fell prostrate\r\nat his Feet; thou art descended\r\nfrom the Empireum, I find, to\r\ninstruct such a poor frail Mortal\r\nas I am, how to submit to the\r\nMysteries of Fate. Mankind\r\nin general, said the Angel \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eJesrad\u003c/span\u003e,\r\njudge of the Whole, by\r\nonly viewing the hither Link\r\nof the Chain. Thou, of all the\r\nhuman Race, wast the only Man\r\nthat deserv\u0026#8217;d to have thy Mind\r\nenlighten\u0026#8217;d. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, begg\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page221\" name=\"page221\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[221]\u003c/span\u003eLeave to speak. I am somewhat\r\ndiffident of myself, \u0026#8217;tis\r\ntrue; but may I presume, Sir,\r\nto beg the Solution of one Scruple?\r\nWould it not have been\r\nbetter to have chastiz\u0026#8217;d the Lad,\r\nand by that Means reform\u0026#8217;d\r\nhim, than to have cut him off\r\nthus unprepar\u0026#8217;d in a Moment.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eJesrad\u003c/span\u003e, replied, had he been virtuous,\r\nand had he liv\u0026#8217;d, \u0026#8217;twas\r\nhis \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eFate\u003c/span\u003e not only to be murder\u0026#8217;d\r\nhimself, but his Wife,\r\nwhom he would afterwards have\r\nmarried, and the little Infant,\r\nthat was to have been the Pledge\r\nof their mutual Affection. Is it\r\nnecessary then, venerable Guide,\r\nthat there should be Wickedness\r\nand Misfortunes in the\r\nWorld, and that those Misfortunes\r\nshould fall with Weight\r\non the Heads of the Righteous?\r\nThe Wicked, replied \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eJesrad\u003c/span\u003e, are\r\nalways unhappy. Misfortunes are\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page222\" name=\"page222\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[222]\u003c/span\u003eintended only as a Touch-stone,\r\nto try a small Number of the\r\nJust, who are thinly scatter\u0026#8217;d\r\nabout this terrestrial Globe: Besides,\r\nthere is no Evil under the\r\nSun, but some Good proceeds\r\nfrom it: But, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, Suppose\r\nthe World was all Goodness,\r\nand there was no such Thing\r\nin Nature as Evil. Then, that\r\nWorld of yours, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eJesrad\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nwould be another World; the\r\nChain of Events would be another\r\nWisdom; and that other\r\nOrder, which would be perfect,\r\nmust of Necessity be the everlasting\r\nResidence of the supreme\r\nBeing, whom no Evil can approach.\r\nThat great and first\r\nCause has created an infinite\r\nNumber of Worlds, and no two\r\nof them alike. This vast Variety\r\nis an Attribute of his Omnipotence.\r\nThere are not two\r\nLeaves on the Trees throughout\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page223\" name=\"page223\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[223]\u003c/span\u003ethe Universe, nor any two Globes\r\nof Light amongst the Myriad\r\nof Stars that deck the infinite\r\nExpanse of Heaven, which are\r\nperfectly alike. And whatever\r\nyou see on that small Atom of\r\nEarth, whereof you are a Native,\r\nmust exist in the Place, and\r\nat the Time appointed, according\r\nto the immutable Decrees of\r\nhim who comprehends the\r\nWhole. Mankind imagine, that\r\nthe Lad, whom I plung\u0026#8217;d into\r\nthe River, was drown\u0026#8217;d by\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eChance\u003c/span\u003e; and that our generous\r\nBenefactor\u0026#8217;s House was reduc\u0026#8217;d\r\nto Ashes by the same \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eChance\u003c/span\u003e; but\r\nknow, there is no such Thing\r\nas \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eChance\u003c/span\u003e, all Misfortunes are\r\nintended, either as severe Trials,\r\nJudgments, or Rewards; and are\r\nthe Result of Foreknowledge.\r\nYou remember, Sir, the poor Fisherman\r\nin Despair, that thought\r\nhimself the most unhappy Mortal\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page224\" name=\"page224\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[224]\u003c/span\u003ebreathing. The great \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOrasmades\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nsent you to amend his\r\nSituation. Frail Mortal! Cease\r\nto contend with what you ought\r\nto adore. But, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8212;whilst\r\nthe Sound of the Word\r\nBut dwelt upon his Tongue,\r\nthe Angel took his Flight towards\r\nthe tenth Sphere. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\nsunk down upon his Knees, and\r\nacknowledg\u0026#8217;d an over-ruling Providence\r\nwith all the Marks of\r\nthe profoundest Submission. The\r\nAngel, as he was soaring towards\r\nthe Clouds, cried out in\r\ndistinct Accents; Make thy Way\r\ntowards \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003chr /\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page225\" name=\"page225\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[225]\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003ch3 id=\"Ch_18\" class=\"chHeading\"\u003eCHAP. XVIII.\u003c/h3\u003e\r\n\u003ch2 class=\"chTitle\"\u003eThe \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eÆnigmas\u003c/span\u003e, or \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eRiddles\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/h2\u003e\r\n\u003cp class=\"firstParagraph\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, as one beside himself,\r\nand perfectly thunder-struck,\r\nbeat his March at random.\r\nHe entred, however, into\r\nthe City of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, on that\r\nvery Day, when those Combatants\r\nwho had been before engag\u0026#8217;d\r\nin the List or Circus, were\r\nalready assembled in the spacious\r\nOuter-Court of the Palace, in\r\norder to solve the Ænigmas,\r\nand give the wisest Answers they\r\ncould to such Questions, as the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eGrand Magus\u003c/span\u003e should propose.\r\nAll the Parties concern\u0026#8217;d were\r\npresent, except the Knight of\r\nthe Green Armour. No sooner\r\nhad \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e made his Appearance\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page226\" name=\"page226\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[226]\u003c/span\u003ein the City, but the Populace\r\nflock\u0026#8217;d round about him: No Eye\r\nwas satisfied with gazing at him:\r\nAll in general were lavish of their\r\nPraises, and in their Hearts\r\nwish\u0026#8217;d him their Sovereign, except\r\nthe envious Man, who as\r\nhe pass\u0026#8217;d by, fetch\u0026#8217;d a deep\r\nSigh, and turn\u0026#8217;d his Head aside.\r\nThe Populace with loud\r\nAcclamations attended him to\r\nthe Palace-Gate. The Queen,\r\nwho had heard of his Arrival,\r\nwas in the utmost Agony, between\r\nHope and Despair. Her\r\nVexation had almost brought her\r\nto Death\u0026#8217;s Door; she couldn\u0026#8217;t\r\nconceive why \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e should appear\r\nwithout his Accoutrements, nor\r\nimagine which Way \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItobad\u003c/span\u003e could\r\nprocure the snow-white Armour.\r\nAt the Sight of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e a confus\u0026#8217;d\r\nMurmur ran thro\u0026#8217; the whole\r\nPlace. Every Eye was surpriz\u0026#8217;d,\r\ntho\u0026#8217; charm\u0026#8217;d at the same Time\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page227\" name=\"page227\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[227]\u003c/span\u003eto see him again: But then\r\nnone were to be admitted into\r\nthe Assembly-Room except the\r\nKnights.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eI have fought as successfully\r\nas any one of them all, said \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\ntho\u0026#8217; another appears clad in\r\nmy Armour; but in the mean\r\nTime, before I can possibly\r\nprove my Assertion, I insist upon\r\nbeing admitted into Court, in\r\norder to give my Solutions to\r\nsuch Ænigmas as shall be propos\u0026#8217;d.\r\n\u0026#8217;Twas put to the Vote.\r\nAs the Reputation of his being\r\na Man of the strictest Honour\r\nand Veracity was so strongly\r\nimprinted on their Minds,\r\nthe Motion of his Admittance\r\nwas carried in the Affirmative,\r\nwithout the least Opposition.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe first Question the \u003cem\u003eGrand\r\nMagus\u003c/em\u003e propos\u0026#8217;d was this: What\r\nis the longest and yet the shortest\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page228\" name=\"page228\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[228]\u003c/span\u003eThing in the World; the most\r\nswift and the most slow; the\r\nmost divisible, and the most extended;\r\nthe least valu\u0026#8217;d, and\r\nthe most regretted; And without\r\nwhich nothing can possibly\r\nbe done: Which, in a Word,\r\ndevours every Thing how minute\r\nsoever, and yet gives Life\r\nand Spirit to every Object or\r\nBeing, however Great?\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItobad\u003c/span\u003e had the Honour to answer\r\nfirst. His reply was, that\r\na Man of his Merit had something\r\nelse to think on, than idle\r\nRiddles; \u0026#8217;twas enough for him,\r\nthat he was acknowledg\u0026#8217;d the\r\nHero of the Circus. One said,\r\nthe Solution of the Ænigma propos\u0026#8217;d\r\nwas \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eFortune\u003c/span\u003e; others said\r\nthe \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eEarth\u003c/span\u003e; and others again the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eLight\u003c/span\u003e: But \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e pronounced\r\nit to be \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eTime\u003c/span\u003e. Nothing, said\r\nhe, can be longer, since \u0026#8217;tis the\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page229\" name=\"page229\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[229]\u003c/span\u003eMeasure of Eternity; Nothing\r\nis shorter, since there is Time\r\nalways wanting to accomplish\r\nwhat we aim at. Nothing passes\r\nso slowly as Time to him\r\nwho is in Expectation; and nothing\r\nso swift as Time to him\r\nwho is in the perfect Enjoyment\r\nof his Wishes. It\u0026#8217;s Extent is to\r\nInfinity, in the Whole; and divisible\r\nto Infinity in part. All\r\nMen neglect it in the Passage;\r\nand all regret the Loss of it\r\nwhen \u0026#8217;tis past. Nothing can\r\npossibly be done without it;\r\nit buries in Oblivion whatever\r\nis unworthy of being transmitted\r\ndown to Posterity; and it renders\r\nall illustrious Actions immortal.\r\nThe Assembly agreed\r\nunanimously that \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was in\r\nthe Right.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page230\" name=\"page230\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[230]\u003c/span\u003eThe next Question that was\r\nstarted, was, What is the Thing\r\nwe receive, without being ever\r\nthankful for it; which we enjoy,\r\nwithout knowing how we came\r\nby it; which we give away to\r\nothers, without knowing where\r\n\u0026#8217;tis to be found; and which we\r\nlose, without being any ways\r\nconscious of our Misfortune?\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eEach pass\u0026#8217;d his Verdict. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\nwas the only Person that concluded\r\nit was \u003cspan class=\"titleNoun\"\u003eLife\u003c/span\u003e. He solv\u0026#8217;d\r\nevery Ænigma propos\u0026#8217;d, with\r\nequal Facility. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItobad\u003c/span\u003e, when he\r\nheard the Explications, always\r\nsaid that nothing in the World\r\nwas more easy, than to solve\r\nsuch obvious Questions; and\r\nthat he could interpret a thousand\r\nof them without the least\r\nHesitation, were he inclin\u0026#8217;d to\r\ntrouble his Head about such\r\nTrifles. Other Questions were\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page231\" name=\"page231\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[231]\u003c/span\u003epropos\u0026#8217;d in regard to Justice,\r\nthe sovereign Good, and the\r\nArt of Government. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s\r\nAnswers still carried the greatest\r\nWeight. What Pity \u0026#8217;tis, said\r\nsome who were present, that one\r\nof so comprehensive a Genius,\r\nshould make such a scurvy Cavalier?\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eMost illustrious Grandees, said\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, I was the Person that\r\nhad the Honour of being Victor\r\nat your Circus; the white Armour,\r\nmost puissant Lords, was\r\nmine. That awkward Warrior\r\nthere, Lord \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItobad\u003c/span\u003e, dress\u0026#8217;d himself\r\nin it whilst I was asleep.\r\nHe imagin\u0026#8217;d, it is plain, that\r\nit would do him more Honour\r\nthan his own Green one. Unaccoutred\r\nas I am, I am ready,\r\nbefore this august Assembly, to\r\ngive them incontestable Proof\r\nof my superior Skill; to engage\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page232\" name=\"page232\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[232]\u003c/span\u003ewith the Usurper of the White\r\nArmour with my Sword only\r\nin my Mantle and Bonnet; and to\r\ntestify that I only was the happy\r\nVictor of the justly admired \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eHottam\u003c/span\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItobad\u003c/span\u003e accepted of the Challenge\r\nwith all the Assurance of\r\nSuccess imaginable. He did\r\nnot doubt, but being properly\r\naccoutred with his Helmet, his\r\nCuirass, and his Bracelets, he\r\nshould be able to hue down an\r\nAntagonist, in his Mantle and\r\nCap, and nothing to skreen him\r\nfrom his Resentment, but a single\r\nSabre. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e drew his Sword,\r\nand saluted the Queen with it,\r\nwho view\u0026#8217;d him with Transport\r\nmix\u0026#8217;d with Fear. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItobad\u003c/span\u003e drew\r\nhis, but paid his Compliments\r\nto Nobody. He approach\u0026#8217;d\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, as one, whom he imagin\u0026#8217;d\r\nincapable of making any\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page233\" name=\"page233\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[233]\u003c/span\u003econsiderable Resistance. He\r\nconcluded, \u0026#8217;twas in his Power\r\nto cut \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e into Atoms. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e,\r\nhowever, knew how to parry\r\nthe Blow, by dexterously receiving\r\nit upon his \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eFort\u003c/span\u003e (as\r\nthe Swords-men call it) by\r\nwhich Means \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItobad\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Sword\r\nwas snapt in two. With that\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e in an Instant clos\u0026#8217;d his\r\nAdversary, and by his superior\r\nStrength, as well as Skill, laid\r\nhim sprawling on his Back.\r\nThen holding the Point of his\r\nSword to the opening of his\r\nCuirass, Submit to be stripp\u0026#8217;d\r\nof your borrow\u0026#8217;d Plumes, or\r\nyou are a dead Man this Moment.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItobad\u003c/span\u003e, always surpriz\u0026#8217;d,\r\nthat any Disappointment\r\nshould attend a Man of such\r\nexalted Merit as himself, very\r\ntamely permitted \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e to disrobe\r\nhim by Degrees of his pompous\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page234\" name=\"page234\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[234]\u003c/span\u003eHelmet, his superb Cuirass,\r\nhis rich Bracelets, his brilliant\r\nCuisses, or Armour for his\r\nThighs, and other Martial Accoutrements.\r\nWhen \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e had\r\nequipp\u0026#8217;d himself \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCap-a-pee\u003c/span\u003e, in\r\nhis now recover\u0026#8217;d Armour, he\r\nflew to \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e, and threw himself\r\nprostrate at her Feet. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e\r\nprov\u0026#8217;d, without any great Difficulty,\r\nthat the White Armour\r\nwas \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\u0026#8217;s Property. He was\r\nthereupon acknowledg\u0026#8217;d King\r\nof \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e, by the unanimous\r\nContent of the Whole Court;\r\nbut more particularly with the\r\nApprobation of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAstarte\u003c/span\u003e, who\r\nafter such a long Series of Misfortunes,\r\nnow tasted the Sweets\r\nof seeing her darling \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e\r\nthought worthy, in the Opinion\r\nof the whole World, to be the\r\nPartner of her royal Bed. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eItobad\u003c/span\u003e\r\nwithdrew, and contented\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page235\" name=\"page235\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[235]\u003c/span\u003ehimself with being call\u0026#8217;d \u003cem\u003emy\r\nLord\u003c/em\u003e within the narrow Compass\r\nof his own Domesticks.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e, in short, was elected\r\nKing, and was as happy as any\r\nMortal could be.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eNow he began to reflect on what\r\nthe Angel \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eJesrad\u003c/span\u003e had said to him:\r\nNay, he reflected so far back as\r\nthe Story of the \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabian\u003c/span\u003e Atom of\r\nDust metamorphosed into a Diamond.\r\nThe Queen and He ador\u0026#8217;d\r\nthe Divine Providence.\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e permitted \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eMissouf\u003c/span\u003e, the\r\nFair Coquet, to make her Conquests\r\nwhere she could. He\r\nsent Couriers to bring the Free-booter\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArbogad\u003c/span\u003e to Court, and\r\ngave him an Honourable Military\r\nPost in his Army, with a\r\nfarther Promise of Promotion to\r\nthe highest Dignity; but upon this\r\nexpress Condition, that he would\r\nact for the future as a Soldier\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page236\" name=\"page236\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[236]\u003c/span\u003eof Honour; but assur\u0026#8217;d him at\r\nthe same Time, that he\u0026#8217;d make\r\na publick Example of him, if he\r\nfollow\u0026#8217;d his Profession of Free-booting\r\nfor the future.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSetoc\u003c/span\u003e was sent for from the\r\nlonely Desarts of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eArabia\u003c/span\u003e, together\r\nwith the fair \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAlmonza\u003c/span\u003e, his new\r\nBride, to preside over the commercial\r\nAffairs of \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eBabylon\u003c/span\u003e. \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eCador\u003c/span\u003e\r\nwas advanc\u0026#8217;d to a Post near\r\nhimself, and was his Favourite\r\nMinister at Court, as the just\r\nReward of his past Services. He\r\nwas, in short, the King\u0026#8217;s real\r\nFriend; and \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e was the only\r\nMonarch in the Universe that\r\ncould boast of such an Attendant.\r\nThe Dwarf, tho\u0026#8217; dumb,\r\nwas not wholly forgotten. The\r\nFisherman was put into the Possession\r\nof a very handsome\r\nHouse; and \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eOrcan\u003c/span\u003e was sentenc\u0026#8217;d,\r\nnot only to pay him a very considerable\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page237\" name=\"page237\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[237]\u003c/span\u003eSum for the Injustice\r\ndone him in detaining his Wife;\r\nbut to resign her likewise to the\r\nproper Owner: The Fisherman,\r\nhowever, grown wise by Experience,\r\nsoften\u0026#8217;d the Rigour of\r\nthe Sentence, and took the Money\r\nonly in full of all Accounts.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eHe didn\u0026#8217;t leave so much as\r\n\u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eSemira\u003c/span\u003e wholly disconsolate, tho\u0026#8217;\r\nshe had such an Aversion to a\r\nblind Eye; nor \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eAzora\u003c/span\u003e comfortless,\r\nnotwithstanding her affectionate\r\nIntention to shorten his\r\nNose; for he sooth\u0026#8217;d their Sorrows\r\nby very munificent Presents.\r\nThe envious Informer\r\nindeed, died with Shame and\r\nVexation. The Empire was\r\nglorious abroad, and in the full\r\nEnjoyment of Tranquility,\r\nPeace and Plenty, at home:\r\nThis, in short, was the true\r\n\u003cspan class=\"pagenum\"\u003e\u003ca id=\"page238\" name=\"page238\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e[238]\u003c/span\u003egolden Age. The whole Country\r\nwas sway\u0026#8217;d by Love and\r\nJustice. Every one blest \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e;\r\nand \u003cspan class=\"properName\"\u003eZadig\u003c/span\u003e blest Heav\u0026#8217;n for his\r\nunexpected Success.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp class=\"finis\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"properName gappy\"\u003eFINIS.\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003chr class=\"full\" /\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cdiv class=\"transcribersNote\"\u003eTranscriber\u0026#8217;s Notes:\r\n\u003cul\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eSpelling and punctuation are as found (for example,\r\n\u003cem\u003eItabod/Itobad\u003c/em\u003e was left as printed), with one exception:\r\nthe original reads \u0026#8220;purcha\u0026#8217;d\u0026#8221; in \u0026#8220;An \u003cem\u003eArabian\u003c/em\u003e Merchant,\r\n\u003cem\u003eSetoc\u003c/em\u003e by Name, purchas\u0026#8217;d them both;\u0026#8221;\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eHyphenated words are closed up if all other examples are\r\nclosed, otherwise not. If there is a mix of broken and not,\r\nthen it was left with a hyphen.\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003ePage numbers are moved to end of the word if it was broken at a page break.\u003c/li\u003e\r\n\u003c/ul\u003e\r\n\u003c/div\u003e\r\n\u003chr class=\"full\" /\u003e\n\u003c/article\u003e"}],"SectionSequence":["Back Link","Work Title","Deck","Author","Period","Era","Composition","Date Note","Region","Terra Avita","Terra Avita Region","Modern Country","Original Title","Language","Primary Discipline","Secondary Discipline","Tradition","Full Versions","Core Thesis","Classification","Arguments","Influence","Significance","Evidence Note","Full Text"],"Counts":{"ContextCards":3,"GeoCards":4,"DisciplineCards":2,"Links":11,"Sections":25,"Styles":3,"Scripts":1}}