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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55423	The memoires of Monsieur Du Vall containing the history of his life and death. Whereunto are annexed his last speech and epitaph.	Pope, Walter, d. 1714.; Duval, Claude, 1643-1670.; Pope, William, attributed name.	1670 (1670)	Wing P2912; ESTC R203010	11,143	23

little love lost one who thought the Filou lay in State enough in not being buried under the Gallows This story of lying in State seem'd to me so improbable and such an audacious mocquerie of the Laws that till I had it again and again from several Gentlemen who had the curiosity to see him I durst not put it down here for fear of being accounted a notorious Lyer The night was stormy and rainy as if the Heavens had sympathiz'd with the Ladies and ecchoed again their Sighs and wept over again their Tears As they were undressing him in order to his lying in State one of his Friends put his hands in his pocket and found therein the Speech which he intended to have made written with a very fair hand a Copy whereof though I have with much cost and industry procured I do freely make it publick because I would not have any thing wanting in this Narration DU VALL's SPEECH I Should be very ungrateful which amongst Persons of Honour is a greater Crime than that for which I die should I not acknowledge my Obligation to you fair English Ladies I could not have hoped that a Person of my Nation Birth Education and Condition could have had so many and powerful Charms to captivate you all and to tie you so firmly to my interest that you have not abandon'd me in distress or in prison that you have accompanied me to this place of Death of Ignominious Death From the Experience of your true Loves I speak it nay I know I speak your Hearts you could be content to die with me now and even here could you be assured of enjoying your beloved Du Vall in the other world How mightily and how generously have you rewarded my little Services Shall I ever forget that universal Consternation amongst you when I was taken your frequent your chargeable Visits to me at Newgate your Shreeks your Swoonings when I was Condemned your zealous Intercession and Importunity for my Pardon You could not have erected fairer Pillars of Honour and respect to me had I been a Hercules and could have got fifty Sons in a Night It has been the Misfortune of several English Gentlemen in the times of the late Usurpation to die at this place upon the Honourablest Occasion that ever presented its self the indeavouring to restore their Exil'd Sovereign Gentlemen indeed who had ventured their Lives and lost their Estates in the Service of their Prince but they all died unlamented and uninterceded for because they were English How much greater therefore is my Obligation whom you love better than your own Country-men better than your own dear Husbands Nevertheless Ladies it does not grieve me that your Intercession for my life prov'd ineffectual For now I shall die with little pain a healthful body and I hope a prepared mind For my Confessor has shewed me the Evil of my way and wrought in me a true Repentance witness these tears these unfeigned tears Had you prevail'd for my life I must in gratitude have devoted it wholly to you which yet would have been but short for had you been sound I should have soon died of a Consumption if otherwise of the POX He was buried with many Flambeaux and a numerous train of Mourners most whereof were of the Beautiful Sex He lies in the middle I le in Covent-Garden Church under a plain white marble stone whereon are curiously ingrav'd the Du Valls Arms and under them written in black this Epitaph DU VALL's EPITAPH HEre lies Du Vall Reader if Male thou art Look to thy Purse if Female to thy Heart Much havock has he made of both For all Men he made stand and Women he made fall The second Conquerour of the Norman Race Knights to his Arms did yield and Ladies to his Face Old Tiburn's Glory England's Illustrious Thief Du Vall the Ladies Joy Du Vall the Ladies Grief The AUTHORS APOLOGY WHY HE Conceals his NAME SOme there are without doubt that will look upon this harmless Pamphlet as a Libel and invective Satyre because the Author has not put his Name to it But the Book-sellers Printing his true Name and place of abode wipes off that Objection But if any Person be yet so curious as to enquire after me I can assure him I have conjured the Stationer not to declare my Name so much as to his own Wife not that I am ashamed of the Design no I glory in it nor much of the manner of Writing for I have seen Books with the Authors Names to them not much better written neither do I fear I should be proud if the Book takes and crest-faln if it should not I am not a Person of such a tender Constitution Valeat res ludicra si me Palma negata macrum donata reducat opimum But upon other pressing and important Reasons Though I am resolved not to be known yet I intend to give you some account of my self enough to exempt me from being so pitiful and inconsiderable a fellow as possibly some incensed Females may endeavour to represent me I was bred a Scholar but let none reproach me with it for I have no more Learning left than what may become a well-bred Gentleman I have had the opportunity if not the advantage of seeing all France and Italy very particularly Germany and the Spanish Netherlands en passant I have walkt a Corant in the hands of Monsieur Provost the French Kings Dancing Master and several times pusht at the Plastron of Monsieur Filboy le vieux Now I hope these qualities joyn'd with a white Peruke are sufficient to place any person hors de la porteè out of the reach of Contempt At my return from France I was advised by my Friends to settle my self in the world that is to Marry when I went first amongst the Ladies upon that account I found them very obliging and as I thought coming I wondred mightily what might be the reason could make me so acceptable but I afterwards found 't was the sent of France which was then strong upon me for according as that perfume decaied my Mistresses grew colder and colder But that which precipitated me into ruine was this following Accident Being once in the Company of some Ladies amongst other discourses we fell upon the comparison betwixt the French and English Nation And here it was that I very imprudently maintained even against my own Mistress That a French Lacquey was not so good as an English Gentleman The Scene was immediately chang'd they all lookt upon me with anger and disdain they said I was unworthy of that little breeding I had acquired of that small parcel of wit for they would not have me esteemed a meer Fool because I had been so often in their Company which nature had bestowed upon me since I made so ill use of it as to maintain such Paradoxes My Mistress for ever forbids me the House and the next day sends me my Letters and demands her own bidding