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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62313	Monsieur Scarron's letters, to persons of the greatest eminency and quality rendred into English by John Davies ...; Correspondence. English. Selections	Scarron, Monsieur, 1610-1660.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1677 (1677)	Wing S832; ESTC R13034	53,437	162

to revenge my self But away with flattery I know you are sick but not whether you are so carefully attended as you should be This very disquiet adds much to the trouble and affliction it is to me that I am forc'd to love and at the same see that it is the greatest madness in the world to do so Ever and anon an humour takes me to venture on a Journey into Poitou through all the present extremity of weather and many briars and thorns by the way which if it can be effected in me otherwise than by Witchcraft I shall side with the Modern Scepticks and Deists and believe there never was any such thing Return then in the Name of God return hither and think it high time when I am come to that degree of distraction as to regret absent Beauties I should have understood my self better and consider'd that I endure pain and torment enough to become an absolute Crippple from head to foot without being possess'd of that diabolical grief called The Impatience to see you 'T is one of the most cursed sort of evil spirits Do I not see how he torments poor Monsieur _____ upon no other account then that he sees not you as often as he would though he does it daily The Letters he writes to us discover the despairing condition he is in and I dare at this present lay a Wager on his damnation not upon the score of his being a Heretick but that of his loving you Yet methinks you should discover some moderation in your conquests and think of some cessation of your hostility Command I say your murth'ring eyes To be less cruel then they were Or I shall call you Cockatrice And not as I was wont my Dear But why should I bring in my self as one of the Martyrs of your Cruelty Be not so fond as to imagine any such thing but rather that you are happy not to have ought to do with me You will haply laugh at my menaces but know scornful Beauty that there will be found some gallant Men to engage in a service wherein the Publick is concern'd Tell me my darling Have you renounc'd Christianity and embrac'd Mahumetisme that you seem to make the destruction of Mankind your divertisement It must certainly be so and yet there is one Humour remarkable in the more civiliz'd and religious part of the Turks which is that they are much addicted to Alms but you are far from it and have not the least charity in the world even for those who love you You are therefore of no value though you are made up of an intermixture of good and bad things You verifie the Proverb beyond any one That all is not Gold that glisters and now it may be said That all Devils are not black And yet see the Prerogative of Beauty I cannot forbear acknowledging my self more than any other Madam Your most humble and most obedient Servant S. LETTER XIV To _____ My Lord I Have understood from Monsieur du Pin how kindly you have sollicited his Majesty on my behalf and what good offices you have endeavour'd to do me at Court where your influence being so great no doubt what you attempt will prove accordingly successful All I have to offer to your consideration in this particular is that you may find the opposing of my cross fortune a harder task than at first sight you imagine since I cannot but fear it will give you the dissatisfaction of not compassing once in your life what your generosity had engag'd you to undertake Yet howe're you come off my obligations to you will be as transcendent as they can possibly be in a Person who has hardly the honour of being known to you who never did you any service who is incapable of doing any and whom nevertheless you will needs take into your protection Should I not be highly sensible of these surprizing kindnesses there were no colourable excuse to be made for me but that the wretchedness of my condition had reduc'd me to a more than ordinary stupidity On the contrary I am a great admirer of such persons as you are and I begin to be troubled that the approaching period of my life will prevent my full knowledg of yours which I should study with as much satisfaction as I have done all those of the most Illustrious Men. Though I was never guilty of any natural inclination to be a great Courtier yet am I one of those persons in the World to whom some of the greatest in the Kingdome have many times made promises and for the most part broken them But that misfortune attended by many others shall not hinder by being content with my Fortune if you are satisfy'd how intirely I am Your most humble c. S. LETTER XV. To the Lord Bishop of Mans. My Lord I Am not dead as the other eight Canons are whose Prebendaries you have lately dispos'd of and yet you have also given away mine I should be much troubled if they were no otherwise dead than I am not but that I have a sufficient charity for my Neighbour but if they had not been dead Monsieur Costard and Monsieur de l'Eslée who haply are yet my Friends would not have been Arch-Deacons and Canons I know not how I came to put in that word haply haply I had not us'd it if I had consider'd what I was doing If ever I have the honour to write to you again I will send you the first draught of my Letter lest I put any thing into it offensive to my Conscience But to return to my Prebendary since you have dispos'd of it you ought to give me another for it though it were only to make me some requital for the time I have lost in relying on the promises of your deceas'd Uncle of happy Memory and little mindfulness of his word You know well enough what you have to do but if I were in your condition I should bestow a Benefice on a Person that were in mine And indeed you have a sure Expedient to procure a vacancy without burthen to your Conscience or injury to good Manners as was done by a Regular Eunuch named Mortier Abbot of Marmoustier and Uncle to the Abbot of Euron This Master-Monk took occasion to poison a score of Priors at one Dinner which Accident occasion'd the publishing of a Book intituled The Method of procuring a Vacancy of Benefices written by the Reverend Father in God c. 'T is a palpable sign that Old Age steals upon me since I fall into the humour of telling little Stories But it is in the Night time and the Clock has struck Twelve and the Laverdins who are great Talkers are no lovers of those who are so liberal of that Talent as themselves and for my part I am one of the greatest talkers of any within the compass of my acquaintance It seems also by this Letter that I am liberal enough in that of writing and that I think the