for his
Folly with this infamous Creature; that at last, by assuring him of all
their Assistance if he abandon'd her; and to renounce him, and deliver
him up, if he did not; they wrought so far upon him, as to promise, he
would suffer her to go alone into Banishment, and would not follow her,
or live with her any more. But alas! this was but his Gratitude that
compell'd this Complaisance, for in his Heart he resolv'd never to
abandon her; nor was he able to live, and think of doing it: However,
his Reason assur'd him, he could not do a Deed more justifiable, and one
that would regain his Fame sooner.

His Friends ask'd him some Questions concerning his Escape; and since he
was not beheaded, but only wounded, why he did not immediately rise up?
But he replied, he was so absolutely prepossessed, that at the third
lifting up his Hands he should receive the Stroke of Death, that at the
same Instant the Sword touch'd him, he had no Sense; nay, not even of
Pain, so absolutely dead he was with Imagination; and knew not that he
stirr'd, as the Head's-man found he did; nor did he remember any Thing,
from the lifting up of his Hands, to his fall; and then awaken'd, as out
of a Dream, or rather a Moment's Sleep without Dream, he found he liv'd,
and wonder'd what was arriv'd to him, or how he came to live; having
not, as yet, any Sense of his Wound, tho' so terrible an one.

After this, _Alcidiana_, who was extremely afflicted for having been the
Prosecutor of this great Man; who, bating this last Design against her,
which she knew was at the Instigation of her Sister, had oblig'd her
with all the Civility imaginable; now sought all Means possible of
getting his Pardon, and that of her Sister; tho' of an hundred thousand
Crowns, which she should have paid her, she could get but ten thousand;
which was from the Sale of her rich Beds, and some other Furniture. So
that the young Count, who before should have marry'd her, now went off
for want of Fortune; and a young Merchant (perhaps the best of the two)
was the Man to whom she was destin'd.

At last, by great Intercession, both their Pardons were obtain'd; and
the Prince, who would be no more seen in a Place that had prov'd every
way so fatal to him, left _Flanders_, promising never to live with the
Fair Hypocrite more; but e'er he departed, he wrote her a Letter,
wherein he order'd her, in a little Time, to follow him into _Holland_;
and left a Bill of Exchange with one of his tru