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cause_n	able_a	absence_n	truth_n	12	3	5.1669	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48218	The princess of Monpensier written originally in French, and now newly rendered into English.; Princesse de Monpensier. English	La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne), 1634-1693.; Segrais, Jean Regnauld de, 1624-1701.	1666 (1666)	Wing L171; ESTC R12636	27,386	94

can bestow upon me that will be acceptable and welcome to me These words utter'd with a mortall grief and an air which sufficiently declar'd his innocency in stead of clearing the Prince of Monpensier from his suspitions perswaded him more and more to believe that there was some hidden mysterie conceal'd in this adventure which surpast his imagination to divine and his despair augmenting through this incertainty Either deprive me of life your self said he or give me some explanation of your words I comprehend nothing you owe this satisfaction to my moderation since any other but my self before this would have imprinted characters of vengeance upon your heart for so sensible an affront and have sacrifiz'd your life to expiate your crime The evidences are very false answer'd the Count in interrupting him Ah they are too visible and too apparent reply'd the Prince I must revenge my self first and then search out the mysterie of this adventure at leisure In saying these words he drew near to the Count of Chabanes with the action of a man possest with rage and fury The Princess fearing some mischief would follow which though could not well happen since her Husband had no Sword about him rose to cast her self between them but her faintness was so great that it forc'd her to sink under this endeaovur for as she approach'd the Prince her Husband she fell down in a swound at his feet The Prince was yet more concern'd at his Wives fainting then he had been at the tranquility which he found possest the Count when he approach'd him and not being able longer to endure the sight of two persons who gave him such cause for grief and discontent he turn'd his head on the other side and threw himself upon his Wives bed orewhelm'd with an unimaginable grief The Count of Chabanes penetrated with repentance to have abus'd a friend from whom he receiv'd so many tokens of kindness and finding that he could never make amends for what he had committed departed hastily out of the Chamber and passing through the Princes appartment of which he found the doors open he descended into the Court took horse and guided only by his despair he wander'd up and down the Countrey till at length he arriv'd at Paris In the interim the Prince of Monpensier who saw that the Princess return'd not from her swound left her to the care of her Women and retir'd into his Chamber possest with a mortal grief The Duke of Guise who was got safe out of the Park without almost knowing what he did so much he was troubl'd at what had happen'd departed some few Leagues from Champigni but he could go no further without hearing some news of the Princess which caus'd him to stay in a Forrest and to send his Page to enquire of the Count of Chabanes what had succeeded that misfortunate adventure The Page could not find the Count of Chabanes but he learnt from others that the Princess of Monpensier was extraordinary ill The Duke of Guises disquiet was much augmented by what his Page related to him but without being able to hinder it or to receive any comfort he was constrain'd to return to his Unkles least he should give them cause of suspition through his longer absence The Duke of Guises Page had indeed related to him the truth in telling that the Princess of Monpensier was extream ill for the truth was that as soon as her Women had got her to bed she was seiz'd with so violent a Feaver and withall began to grow so light-headed that from the very second day of her sickness her Life was in extream danger and her recovery was much fear'd The Prince feign'd to be sick too to the end that none should be amaz'd why he enter'd not into his Wives Chamber but the order which he receiv'd to return to Court whither all the Catholick Princes were summon'd to exterminate the Huguenots hope him out of the perplexity into which this adventure had plung'd him and he return'd to Paris not knowing what he ought either to hope or fear concerning the Princess his Wives distemper He was but scarce arriv'd there when they begun to attacque the Huguenots in the person of one of the Cheifs of their Party the Admiral of Chastillon and two dayes after was perform'd that horrible Massacre for its execrableness so famous throughout all Europe The poor Count of Chabanes who came with an intent to conceal himself in one of the remotest parts of the Suburbs of Paris there to abandon himself over entirely to his grief was invellop'd in the Huguenots ruine The Persons where he lodg'd having known him and remembring that he had been suspected to be of that Party murder'd him that very night which prov'd so fatal to several persons In the morning the Prince of Monpensier going out of Town to distribute some orders to keep all in peace and quietness past through the Street where the murder'd body of Chabanes lay At first he was seiz'd with astonishment at the sight of this deplorable spectacle but afterwards his friendship reviving it caused in him some grief but the remembrance of the affront which he besiev'd he had receiv'd from the Count at length gave him joy and he seem'd contented without any endeavours of his own to see himself reveng'd by Fortune The Duke of Guise's thoughts being taken up with a desire to revenge his Fathers death and soon after being overjoy'd to have accomplish'd it his affection by degrees began to diminish and to grow less and less for the Princess of Monpensier and he began to be less concern'd to hear from her then formerly and finding that the Marchioness of Noirmoustier a Person possest with a great deal of Wit and Beauty gave him more encouragement and hopes then that Princess he engag'd himself entirely to her and lov'd her with an unexpressable passion which endur'd till death which at last frees us from all our passions put an end to their affection In the mean while after that the Princess of Monpensiers disease was arriv'd to the height it began to decrease she recover'd again the use of her reason and finding her self somewhat comforted through the absence of the Prince her Husband she gave some assurance and hopes of her recovery her health notwithstanding return'd not to her but with great trouble through the ill disposition of her mind which was again of a new perplext when she bethought her self that she had hear'd no news at all of the Duke of Guise during the whole time of her sickness She enquir'd of her Women if they had seen no body that came from him and if they had receiv'd no Letters and finding nothing which answer'd her expectations and which she had wish'd for she imagin'd her self to be the most unhappy Person in the world to have hazzarded all for a man who in the end forsook her and it yet prov'd a new addition to her misfortunes to learn the death of the Count of Chabanes which she soon heard of through the care which the Prince her Husband took to have her acquainted with it and the Duke of Guises ingratitude made her more sensible of the loss of a man whose fidelity was so well known to her Such heavy discontents soon forc'd her to sink under their weight and reduced her into a condition far more dangerous then that from which she was but lately escap'd and as the Marchioness of Noirmoustier was a Person who took as great care to have the addresses which were made to her taken notice of as others did to conceal them those of the Duke of Guise soon became so publick that at as great a distance and as sick as the Princes of Monpensier was she heard them confirm'd from so many hands that she could no longer doubt of her misfortune This news prov'd fatall to her life and now her courage grew too weak longer to sustain the weight of her misfortunes she could no longer resist against the grief which she had to have lost the estimation of her Husband the heart of her Lover and the most faithful'st friend that ever was She dyed in few dayes after in the prime of her age one of the most Beautiful'st Princesses of the world and who without doubt had been the most happiest if Vertue and Prudence had but had the conduct of her actions FINIS