Anonymous

The Rival Mother; a Late True History: Digested into a Novel

London

Printed for R. Baldwin

1692

"A Discourse so little expected, at a time when Asteria might, with so much probability, have thought that she only was possess'd of Tazander's Heart, coming to undeceive her to her shame, her Mind became immediately the Stage of whatever could be most Afflictive and Cruel, in an emergency so surprizing."

'Be pleas'd therefore, Madam, to give me your advice, in the most important Concern of my Life. There is a proposal made for my intermarriage with a Lady of very great Quality, and a vast Fortune.' A Discourse so little expected, at a time when Asteria might, with so much probability, have thought that she only was possess'd of Tazander's Heart, coming to undeceive her to her shame, her Mind became immediately the Stage of whatever could be most Afflictive and Cruel, in an emergency so surprizing. And if her Recollection and her Reason had not assisted her to make greater efforts than any she had made in all her Life, to conceal what pass'd in her Soul, she would have discover'd it to Tazander. But she would give him no further audience, when he had once told her, that the Name of that fair one, of whom they had spoken to him, was Eurimonda, and that she knew her extraction and Family. Asteria, during this Discourse, had the leisure to recover her self out of the disorder she was in, and to tell Tazander, that an Affair of that importance requir'd some time to examine it.
(pp. 31-2)

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Anonymous, The Rival Mother; a Late True History: Digested into a Novel (London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1692)

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