Memoirs of the Nutrebian Court Volume 2; Discovering the Distresses of the Queen, Happy Birth, and Surprizing Deliverance of Her Children, the Intrigu (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1747 Excerpt: ... BOOK V. TH E queen's long misfortunes had so inured her to despair, she remained silent; whileHetbazele acquaints her 'Niphlodoge had been with her, and informed her, that last night & messenger arrived from Gen Havagen, with an account, that after the princess and Igeban had escaped that prison, they went to the cave, and being frighted thence, Igeban and Gen Zanira losing each other, it occasioned the last to be carried by the Ethiopian lady to Prefejan's court, where Igeban and Emargh being known to the loyalists, and they all to-. gether going to xhs patriarch's, where first Emargh swore on the altar, he found the princess Gen "Lanira sucking a bitch, who, old as she was, he had brought with him; besides, several of her handsome whelps; and Igeban also in the same solemn manner, affirmed the accident that occasioned her receiving the child from Emarffk' At this part of Helbaxele's relation, the queen cried, Can it be possible, after' we have so often with myriads of tears, lamented the cruel manner of her death, that lovely young creatures whom' Lcould not help help loving, though I imagined her sprung from MaiUan, should be mine and the unfortunate Jathrep's daughter. Sittza, who had followed Hetbazele into the closet, and attentively hearkened to all she had related, in joyous rapture cried, Did I not fay she was a perfect Iram in miniature, and that it was impossible for MaiUan to beget any thing half so fair, half so lovely. Hetbazele then proceeded to tell the queen of Attanazunque's seeing the princess in the lath, and all that had passed before the emperor and council, relating to the mistake about the image, which Gen Havagen had represented to her father, she supposed they -ha.d changed to please dttanazunque, 'who 'nt (pretended to be viol...