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man and another, carried me thus ſhut up on Horſe-back into the Country, in order to execute the Uſurper’s barbarous Sentence; but by my Prayers and Tears, I mov’d the Executioner’s Compaſſion: Go, ſays he to me, get you ſpeedily out of the Kingdom, and take heed of ever returning to it, otherwiſe you will certainly meet your own Ruin, and will be the Cauſe of mine. I thank’d him for the Favour he did me; and as ſoon as I was left alone, I comforted my ſelf for the Loſs of my Eye, by conſidering that I had very narrowly eſcap’d a much greater Danger.

Being in ſuch a Condition, I could not travel far at a time, I retir’d to remote Places while it was Day, and travell’d as far by Night as my Strength would allow me, At laſt I arriv’d in the Dominions of the King my Uncle, and came to his Capitol.

I gave him a long Detail of the tragical Cauſe of my Return, and of the ſad Condition he ſaw me in. Alas! cries he, was it not enough for me to have loſt my Son? but muſt I have alſo News of the Death of a Brother I lov’d ſo dearly, and ſee you alſo reduced to this deplorable Condition? he told me how uneaſie he was, that he could hear nothing of his Son, notwithſtanding all the Diligence and Enquiry he could make. At theſe Words the unfortunate Father burſt out into Tears, and was ſo much afflicted, that pitying his Grief, it was impoſſible for me to keep the Secret any longer; ſo that, notwithſtanding my Oath to her Prince my Couſin, I told the King his Father all that I knew.

His Majeſty liſten’d to me with ſome ſort of Comfort, and when I had done, Nephew, ſays he, what you tell me gives me ſome hope. I knew that my Son order’d that Tomb to be built, and I can gueſs pretty near at the Place, and with the Idea you ſtill have of it, I fancy we ſhall find it: But ſince he order’d it to be built privately, and took your Oath to keep his Secret, I am of Opinion, that we ought to go in Queſt of it alone, without ſaying any thing. But he had another Reaſon for keeping the Matter ſecret, which he did not then tell me, and an important Reaſon it was, as you will perceive by the Sequel of my Diſcourſe.