so desirous of
Glory, that I must aspire to it by your Actions? If I must, you have
very ill maintain'd it in the Tournament; and if it be that Vanity that
you depend upon, you will make no great progress on a Soul that is not
fond of Shame. If you were possest of all the Advantages, which the
Prince has this day carried away, you yet ought to consider what you are
going about; and it is not a Maid like me, who is touched with
Enterprizes, without respect or permission.'

The Favourite of the King was too proud to hear _Agnes_, without
Indignation: but as he was willing to conceal it, and not offend her, he
made not his Resentment appear; and considering the Observation she made
on the Triumphs of _Don Pedro_, (which increased his Jealousies) 'If I
have not overcome at the Tournament, reply'd he, I am not the less in
love for being vanquish'd, nor less capable of Success on occasion.'

They were interrupted here, but from that day, _Don Alvaro_, who had
open'd the first Difficulties, kept no more his wonted Distance, but
perpetually persecuted _Agnes_; yet, tho' he were protected by the King,
that inspir'd in her never the more Consideration for him. _Don Pedro_
was always ignorant by what means the Verses he had lost in the Garden,
fell into the hands of _Constantia_. As the Princess appeared to him
indulgent, he was only concerned for _Agnes_; and the love of _Don
Alvaro_, which was then so well known, increas'd the Pain: and had he
been possess'd of the Authority, he would not have suffer'd her to have
been expos'd to the Persecutions of so unworthy a Rival. He was also
afraid of the King's being advertised of his Passion, but he thought not
at all of _Elvira_, nor apprehended any Malice from her Resentment.

While she burnt with a Desire of destroying _Agnes_, against whom she
vented all her Venom, she was never weary of making new Reports to her
Brother, assuring him, that tho' they could not prove that _Agnes_ made
any returns to the Tenderness of the Prince, yet that was the Cause of
_Constantia's_ Grief: And, that if this Princess should die of it, _Don
Pedro_ might marry _Agnes_. In fine, she so incens'd the jealous _Don
Alvaro's_ Jealousy, that he could not hinder himself from running
immediately to the King, with the discovery of all he knew, and all he
guest, and who, he had the pleasure to find, was infinitely inrag'd at
the News. 'My dear _Alvaro_, said the King, you shall instantly marry
this dangerous