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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26218	The memoirs of the Countess of Dunois author of The lady's travels into Spain / written by her self before her retirement, by way of answer to Monsieur St. Evremont ; containing withal a modest vindication of the female sex, more frequently injur'd by imprudence and misconstruction, then defect of vertue ; made English from the original.; Mémoires de Madame la Comtesse D***. English	Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 51-1705.; J. H.; Saint-Evremond, 1613-1703.	1699 (1699)	Wing A4218; ESTC R7449	117,619	204

THE MEMOIRS OF THE Countess of Dunois Author of the Lady's Travels into Spain Written by her Self before her Retirement By way of ANSWER to Monsieur St. EVREMONT Containing withal A Modest Vindication of the Female Sex more frequently injur'd by Imprudence and Misconstruction then Defect of Vertue Made English from the Original LONDON Printed for Tho. Cockerill in Amen-Corner 1699. To the Honourable Propham Conoway Esq. SIR THE Countess of Du●●●● so famous for Her Travels into Spain and a no less Celebrated Court Star of France has now taken a Passport from the General Peace to make her Tou'r in England This is She whose Noble Gallick Veins are not only enricht with all the outward Charms of an Extraordinary Beauty but She is Mistriss also of such Admirable Wit and Gallantry that the Rich Gem within is no way undeserving the Fair and Noble Casket that contains it 'T is very probable therefore that all these Advantages have set Her to that height of Universal Admiration that Detraction and Envy the common Repiners at Perfection and Excellence have not been a little industrious to shade and tarnish so dazling a Brightness But all their weak Assaults against Her Unshaken Honour have rather augmented Her Worth and Reputation and fixt Her Name Immortal as Her Innocence whilst both France and Spain sate Judges in Her Cause and weighing it in the Noblest Ballance have Enshrin'd Her Righted Vertue with a Sacred Comment in some of the most impartial and Indelible Records of Europe This Fair Stranger Sir who at present has given me the Honour of officiating for Her Interpreter most humbly by me begs Your Protecting Goodness to hand Her into the Court of England And now Sir if I may be permitted to give This every way Deserving Lady some little knowledge of the Merits of Her English Patron I must do ye Both this Justice to assure Her that She is in the hands of Honour and lodg'd in very Hospitable Walls She 'll find You Sir a Person so Excellently Accomplish'd so Truly Furnish'd with all those Merits and Endowments that Wit and Learning and every Other the Noblest Faculty of a Generous Mind and a great Soul can possibly infuse and such the Handmaid of the Almighty Great Nature did allow You making Them Your Hereditary Glories Virtues no less then ev'n born with You whilst You derive Your immediate Veins from an Apollinary Original a Father that shin'd so mmany Successive Glorious Years the Chosen Darling Oracle of our AUGUST and FAMOUS ALBION SENATE With all these Powerful Charms and such Infinite Deserts and Sir with all the Smiles of Heaven to Crown 'em You have been singl'd out for that Peculiar Favourite of Providence that ev'n Contending Families have Rivall'd for You whilst to invite You to new loads of Honour You have Assum'd the Name of CONOWAY to make Your Adopted Lawrels as Rich as Your Native Ones But now as much as my own Ambition has Aspir'd to make You this Publick Address I have yet a more Attracting Influence that draws me to Your Feet which is to let the World know how much I stand indebted already to Your Generosity for those repeated Showers of ever-smiling Goodness You have been pleas'd to pour upon me and that all the Returns that my Poor Pen in this small Present can make You is but a Thanksgiving-Offring the Pure Obligation of Duty and Gratitude from SIR Your most Obliged most Devoted and ever Humble Servant J. H. in their Miscarriages then want of Vertue The Memoirs of my Life will make it Evident that 't is not always safe to judge by outward Appearances and that a little Beauty more of Youth and Deficiency of Judgment are frequently more injurious to their Reputation then the Crime it Self THE MEMOIRS OF Madam the Countess of Before her Retirement Book the First 'T IS not to justify my self that I undertake to write the Memoirs of my Life For 't is a long time since that God has given me the grace to look upon the Injurious Reports that have bin spread abroad concerning me in the World as a punishment of my vanity And for that reason I submit my self to the conduct of his Providence Happy in this that I am sensible of my own Innocence as to every thing that Calumny has laid to my Charge but on the other side unfortunate to have lost the merit of my Innocence by the Scandals to which I have bin too guilty of giving the occasion I thought it might be permitted me to write my own History were it but to justify by my Example such Persons of my Sex as have of late been made the Objects of common Reproach 'T is well known to what degree Reproaches are improv'd in that respect seeing that now-a-days we meet with so many People so adventurous to maintain That there is hardly an honest Woman in the Town 'T is true the malignity of Men is not the only reason of the little justice which they do us seeing there are Women who may be thought to have taken delight in confirming the ill opinion which men have of us And indeed there are none who have done more injustice to their Sex then they who have written the Memoirs of their Amours and dispers'd into the World Letters for which their Passion and Debauchery found Materials From their Examples men have condemn'd all those whom they suspected of having any Amorous Intreagues and when a Woman has once got the Reputation of a Coquette she is presently adjudg'd to be one of those that make it their glory to be so I therefore thought it might be one means to destroy this growing Opinion by a faithful recital of the Adventures of my Life to shew that a Woman may be defam'd yet not be guilty and that there is many times more of Misfortune then Irregularity in the Conduct of several Women upon whom the Public is pleas'd to throw their Scandals There is also another benefit to be reap'd from these Memoirs For from thence you will learn to avoid all such Misfortunes as are lookt upon as Crimes and to shun those things which may give occasion to fully the Reputation of Women by observing where I my self became an ill Manager of my own I am well descended as well by the Father 's as by the Mother's side but it was the first of my Misfortunes that I was born too soon for my Mother was hardly arriv'd to Sixteen years of Age when she lay in of me And because that in Ten years after my Mother had no more Children I was lookt upon as Heiress of my Father's Estate All this while my Mother was too young to let a Daughter grow up with her at home that would have kept the Hand of her Dyal from standing long at Sixteen So she sent me to a Grandmother who had that fond love for me which Women advanc'd in years have manytimes for Children by whom they expect the continuation of their Name