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BooK
II.
Royal
Commentarie1.
vvhich attend
the
fuccefs of War;
and therefore
in
Compaffion
to
l
is Peo–
ple,
he
would
rather chufe
to
give
ovet
his
Precenlfons
as
d~fper4te, t~an
tmg<>lf
himfelf in [u,h a
Defign
which
was
every day
Attended wn:h
new
Diffr
tulties~
,
.
fi
I d.
h
.
i
r.
And
baving
duly
confa:Iered
thefu
t~mgs,
and con
i1
te
on
t
etn
vv1~tl
tOr:1e
few
of his Relations
he refolved
to give over the
~
ar
~
tnd
that
he might m–
timate fo
much
to
rhe
Office-rs of
his
Army, he
alfernbled
the principal
of
them
tdgether,
and
pubHckly
difcourfed vvith them to tpis
dfett .
· '' Brethren and Sons
of
mine, I
ha.~e
vvtU
obferved,
and
proved the
great
" A'ffettion :nd
Zeal ye
hav@
detnonfirated towards
my
Setvi<te ;. having wich
" much Alacrity, and Readinefs,
offered
your
Lives
and
Forro~,.
w·ves and
" . (;hildren
that
Y€
might again
€ftablifu
me ·in
th~ Th~oJ.1€
of my Empire ;
' but fince
it
is
apparent, that
the
Paohdcarlhte
vifibly
fii!hts
a~ainft
U§,
al\d
harh
'·' decr<2ed
that
I iliould not
be
King,
tooe
is
no teafon
for
us
tG>
with{bnd and
f'
oppofe
biS
Divine WiU.
'
: " I
am
welA affured, and
t
believe
:Y€
are all
fetlfible, that my
Deftres co
cc
reign and
gbvern, are
not
grounde-0
on Principles
~
Ambition ;
bnt
that
' ·.my
Kingd9ms may recover that
Pea~e
and Liberry which they enjoyed
" under the gentle and eafie Government of
nw Ancefiours;
it
being the Du–
" cy
of every good King to fiudy the
Prof
perity
and Welfare of his People;
" a11d
according to
the
pr~ffice
of the
lu1U
,
ro prefer that before any
other
" Gon!ideramon
whatfoet1et. But I i.iave
good
reafon
to
fuf\)~t>t
aed fear,
" that the Defigns of
tl
efe
Men,
whom we call Gods) and
fay
they
were
" fent from
Heaven,
a\fe very much different from thefe
Principles.
How...
" foever,
for
my part, I
canoot,
but
with
much Regret and TendernefS
to.
«
wards
yo )
fe<tk ro
.g.ain
my
point
at
the coll: of }1our Lives,
and
\V0tdd
" rather
liv€
m
a pnvate
tnahner,
defl>oiled
of
my
Empire,
which
is
my
fa...
· "
heri~nce,
hm
to
retowr
it
.-at
the
t?cpence of
their
Bloud , \
hotn I
love
'f
.as
deal'1y as
thy
OWR
Chikiretl.
And
fiOW
therefore,
that the
Ptracocha1
may
«
~Jnot
treat
yoa
in
for
my
fake,
I
nm
refolved
to recite
my
felf, and
to
~
live
an
:Exile from
my
Countrey,
that
fo
all Cauie of Jealoufie
and
Suf–
,, pidon
being removed
by my
Abfence,
ye
may
be
tecei.ved into
their
good
" rGrace and
Fav0ur.
'' And now I find the Prophecy of my Father
Huayna Capac
fully
aa:orn–
" plHhed, which was ,
That a
Stranger Nacion ibould deprive
us
of
our
" Empire,
and
defiroy our Laws, and Religion. Had we well confidered
" this, before we began
the
War, we
fhould
have
acquiefced, and fubmit·
'' ted, becau[e
my
Father, the King, enjoined
us
to
obey and ferve the
n–
"
raeocha1,
whofe Laws, as
he
faid, were better than ours, and their Arms
" more powerfull than our force. Both which things
have
proved true, for
fo
" foon
as they entred into this Empire, Our Oracles became
!ilent,
which
is a
" fign
that
rhey yielded unto theirs:
And as
to
their
Arms they have had
'' an advantage over
ours;
for though at the beginning we had the fortune
'' to kill fome few of them , yet at length one hundred and feventy onely
"
wh~ch
furvived, were
able
to deal
with
us; nay as we may
fay,
did conquer us,
~'
feeing
that
in
the end we
are
forced to retreat.
" The truth is., it cannot well be
fa
id that they conquered us, nQI:' can
cc
they boafi much of their ViCl:ories; for fetting afide the Miracles which
" appeared in their Favour , they of themfelves
gained
no advantage over
cc
us.
For what can we
fay
to the Fire, which burned our own Houfes
" and became extintt,
fo
foon
as it touched ·theirs
?
What can we
think
'' of that Cavalier, who, at the Extremity of the Siege, appeared with Thun·
'' der and Lightning
in
his Hand , and routed and defiroyed all before him
?
" And then in the Night, a mofi beautifull Princefs appeared in the Clouds
'' with aa -Infant in her Armes; which, with that all:onifhing Brighmefs
lb~
"
dar~d ~m
ht:r Eyes , difrnayed and blinded us
in
fuch manner, that we
" knew
n~
what we did, and even feared to return unto our own Q!Jar·
'' ters ; how much
lefs durfi we
adventure
to
give
Battel to thefe
Yira–
"
cochtU?
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