5 o The ADVENTURES of did not raife an infurmountable obftacle to your gallantry, my glory would hinder me from enduring it:
I conjure you, therefore, to retire. We mull fee one another no more.” “ Heavens ! what barbarity ; (replied the king) Ah, Blanch ! Is it polfible that you fhould treat me with l'uch rigour? You do not think, ilicn, that your being in the arms of the conftable, is enough to overwhelm me ? you mult alfo forbid me your fight, the only confolation I had left V*
“ Fly me, rather (ailfwered the daughter of Siffredi, t fhedding fomc tears) the fight of what one tenderly j loves, ceafes to be pleafing, when the hope of poflef- ■ fing it is loft. Adieu, Sir ! Fly from me. You owe that effort to your own glory and my reputation. I j afk it alio, for my quiet : for in fhort, although my virtue fhould not be alarmed by the emotions of my j heart, the remembrance of ypur tendernefs will cn- j tail upon me fuch cruel conflicts, that fhall fcarce have ftreDgth enough to maintain them.”
She pronounced thefe words fo paffionately, that fhe unwittingly overturned a candleftick which flood j
on a table behind her ; and the candle going out in t
falling, fhe took it up in order to light it again, for t
which purpofr, fhe opened the door of the anticham- t
ber, and went to the clofet of Nifa, who was not yet r
gone to bed. The king, who waited for her return, c
no fooner faw her approach with the light, than he y
made preffing inftanccs to her, that fhe would fuffer c
his attachment. The conftable hearing the prince’s ^
voice, rufhed into the chamber fwoid in hand, al- rj
moll at the fame time that his wife entered, and ad- t
vancing towards Fenriquez with all the refeniment that his rage infpired, “ This is too much, tyrant ! ^
(cried he) don’t think, that I am fo bafe as to endure ^
the affront thou haft done my honour.’* “ Traitor, (replied the king, putting himfelf in a pofture of defence) don’t imagine that thou art able to execute thy defign with impunity.** With thefe words they be- ran a combat which was too furious to lail long ;
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