Pix, Mary (c.1666-1720)

The Inhumane Cardinal, or Innocence Betray'd

London

Printed for John Harding and Richard Wilkin

1696

"I will, in every particular, obey you, (answers that Dejected Man) but e'er I go, I wou'd, on my Knees, implore what will, in you, be an Act of Mercy, almost above a Mortal; and bring to my despairing Soul, the only Balsam, that can heal it's rancorous Wounds, and deter my Desperate Hand, from Committing on my Body the Violence, my Guilty Thoughts suggest."

'My Soul sickens at these Black Relations; (say'd Melora)and Unborn Innocence Dy's in my Womb.' As she was speaking; a Page enters the Garden, and tells her Donna Olimpia was just Arriv'd; at which Melora, composing her self as much as possibly she cou'd, prepares to go and receive her. But first she desires Francisco to make her Father's House his Sanctuary; and tells him she will Escape thither, if by none of their stratagems prevented, the next Day; adding, that till she came, he shou'd not mention any thing of these Unhappy Circumstances. 'I will, in every particular, obey you, (answers that Dejected Man) but e'er I go, I wou'd, on my Knees, implore what will, in you, be an Act of Mercy, almost above a Mortal; and bring to my despairing Soul, the only Balsam, that can heal it's rancorous Wounds, and deter my Desperate Hand, from Committing on my Body the Violence, my Guilty Thoughts suggest: I mean, Forgiveness. Madam, if from your fair Mouth I hear my Pardon Seal'd, I shall embolden'd grow, and look towards Heaven for Mercy; else, I must sink to the dismal Grave, cover'd o'er with trembling horror, and never hope with Joy to rise.'
(pp. 225-6)

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Mary Pix, The Inhumane Cardinal, or Innocence Betray'd. A Novel. Written By a Gentlewoman, for the Entertainment of the Sex. (London: Printed for John Harding and Richard Wilkin, 1696).

07/01/2013