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A29299
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The princess of Montserrat a novel containing her history and the amours of the Count of Saluces.
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Brémond, Gabriel de.; E. S.
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1680
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Wing B4355; ESTC R24673
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listened to his Master told him that he did not find he had so much reason to be afflicted though he should not speak that to the Princess and that if he would write to her he assured him that he would himself deliver the Letter The Count believed in the impatience he was that it was the shortest and easiest for him and relying upon the address of Richard in a time the Conjuncture was so fair that all the Court was abroad he was willing to hazzard a Declaration by Writeing which he made in these terms If a Man Madam who should dare to love you and to tell it you deserves Death I ought not to hope for your pardon for never any body was so guilty as I of a Crime so Charming I know all and have considered all and a thousand reasons forbid me such a piece of boldness but my heart has not listened to them and Love more strong than all the reasons of the world has took so great an Empire over it that should it dye a thousand Deaths it would not unsay it Order thereupon Madam what you shall think fit if you please it shall dye that bold Heart but it is not possible for it to cease to Love you as long as it shall have one moment of Life The Count de Saluces This Letter finished Richard took it and prayed his Master to rely on him for the Success of that affair and that he would quickly bring him good News The Count mounted on his Horse to go to the Chase and his Gentleman of the Horse went to labour on his side to succeed in the Commission he had took upon himself It was an enterprize something bold in a Country where they are not pardoned but the passion he had to serve his Prince would have made him hazzard much greater The Queen impatiently expected the Count de Saluces who came not and wearied with not seeing him in the time she had been a hunting she incessantly said to Julia Well! Well do you see how he comes you did not write to him obligingly enough or rather the Princess has made him change his design Julia endeavoured to Comfort her and told her that the time was not passed and that some affair might have retained him and that she believed him too well bred a man to fail to come after having promised it The Queen was not at all of a humour to divert her self with Hunting so long as she was in that disquiet whether he would come or not and that change of humour was so remarkable in her who used to be in a Continual mirth that the most indifferent perceived it The Marquis and the Palatin interessed in that affair did all that was possible to dissipate that extraordinary melancholly but they succeeded so ill that on the contrary they augmented her ill humour by their importunity especially the Marquis who thought to do wonders The Count de Saluces at length arrived to render her her former joy She manag'd her self so little that she quickly let all the world see the pleasure she took in his arrival and there needed not very much penetration to divine the favourable sentiments she had for him hitherto she seemed as if she could not open her mouth but since the arrival of that Prince her wit sparkled in all kinds She proposed a thousand sorts of Divertisements of Courses of tilting of Shooting and would always be or speak for the Count de Saluces against all others from whom indeed that happy Lover always carried the Prize It may be imagined with what Eye the Marquis and the Count Palatin saw all this Into what despair they were brought by the empressments the Queen had for that young Rival and into what rage to see him the Conquerour of all I know very well that that day perfected the rendring them his most mortal Enemies and the Marquis yet more than the Palatin Because Jealousie had a greater influence over him In the mean time that happy Rival seem'd to have but little joy in what caused the despair of others and at which the proud Count Palatin was the most outraged The Count de Saluces mind run all upon the Success the enterprize of Richard would have How long are the moments in those occasions when one expects the sentence of Life or of Death but of a Death by so much the more cruel that the Life would be the most happy that can be imagined The Gentleman of the Horse came not He would have had him gone as fast as his mind He had accompanied him with his Idea as far as the Palace from thence he had made him enter into the Princesses Apartment yet without being able to imagine how He had seen him speak to her her self and had made him say things the most touching and the most passionate for him in the World After which the Princess had took his Letter was moved and had made him an answer such as he could desire By ill luck these imaginations lasted not long for the Comedy changing Face they found themselves quickly destroyed by contrary visions which represented to him as if all were lost that Richard had been discovered and seiz'd and above all that that the Princess had ill received his Letter and that she made no answer to it Of what tranquility was capable the Soul of that poor Prince amongst so many different Winds good and contrary with which it was agitated during the expectation of Richard He arrived at length to render it calm His Prince who continually turned his Head that way he was to come had no sooner perceived him than that a trouble mixed with fear and joy seized him and did not quit him till he had learnt from his Servant all he was to tell him He stole insensibly from the Company and gain'd the Po near which they hunted and whither his Gentleman of the Horse followed him Well Richard said he to him when they were in a place where no body could either hear or observe them tell me quickly what I am to hope Hast thou succeeded say Must I live or dye Conceal nothing from me What are the Sentiments the Princess has for me My Lord answered the Gentleman of the Horse you ought not to despair of any thing but I believe you would be more happy without the Scarf you wear Ah Heavens cryed the Count should this Scarf be the cause of my misfortune It is at least all the reason replyed Richard which was made use of not to give an answer to your Letter Learn me replyed sighing the impatient Count how all this is passed For I do not comprehend it and if it is onely that Scarf which makes me unhappy I shall have quickly reason to rejoyce for my good Fortune My Lord you must know continued Richard that having seen you on Horseback to follow the Queen I drest my self like a French Courrier and made one of my Friends conduct me to the Palace where I am
finds her self reduced to that Estate would find it very difficult to describe it well She spâ—ke at length but without looking on hiâ— I â—m gâ—ing much to augment said she to him the reports which people perhaps something interessed spread abroad of you â—nd of me As you are not Madam answered the Count de Saluces to give an account to any body of what you do I cannot believe there are people so bold as to dare to censure you May one replyed the Queen rely thereon One may certainly replyed he with a man who knows as well as I do what we owe Madam to so great a Queen as you It is true said she with a man so indifferent as you are it is ill done to talk as one does Ah! for indifferent Madam answered the Count I can say that I am not But No interrupted the Queen You are only so for me and I am sure one will never say of you what they say of the Queen of Sicily She blushed in finishing these words and for fear her disorder should be observed by the Count she rose and retiring into her Cabinet You may continued she go I have said enough and perhaps more than I ought to have said What was now become of the Count de Saluces Wit at other times so gallant and so proper for all thing it appeared in this Conjuncture when he had the most occasion for it so new and so childish that it was hardly to have been pardoned had it not been for the love of Briseida That innocent Hero obeyed the Queen who had no desire he should obey her and returned to the Ball where perfectly to confound him and to make him desperate he found not the Princess who was the cause of that sad fault he had committed Julia seeing him depart entred the Chamber to know the news of that little enterview She found the Queen in her Cabinet lying upon a Couch Who â—igh'd as soon as she saw her Come Julia said she come comfort me for the choice I have made of the poorest Gallant that ever was in the World Wouldst thou have said it by his meen One must say all to him and likewise answer all for him My God! how innocent he is I fancy he has never been in Love Perhaps Madam answered the Complaisant Julia respect retains him and that he 's affraid What is it thou sayest interrupted the Queen that he 's afraid Can the bravest of all men want heart or at least Wit near a pretty Woman As they were entertaining themselves after that manner they saw the Marquis approach The Queen immediately bid Julia hide her self to be witness of their Conversation because after what had passed at the Ball it could not but have something very rare The Marquis who at a distance had seen Julia's shaddow and being prepossed with what the Count Palatin had just told him fancied it was Gaspard de Saluces whoby reason of him hid himself and stopping at the Cabinet Door Apparently Madam said he to her with a disordered Air you took no great pleasure in the Ball No without doubt my Lord answered the Queen very coldly I there found my self incommoded and came to seek repose here A man as I am replyed the Marquis may perhaps interrupt it Any man would at this time replyed the Queen but being in your House it is not for me to order any thing You are Queen Madam and as much Mistress in my House as if you were in the middle of your own Dominions Wherefore that Reason ought not to make me excepted But Madam pursued he the Civil permission you give me does it only regard you I should retire without pain if I could persuade my self that but as it is to favour another you will pardon me if you please if you must tell it me more than once if you will be obeyed The Queen did not at first comprehend the sence of these words but having made Reflection that the Marquis might have seen Julia and have took her for another She had a mind to make him explain to see which of the two were deceived and still pursuing the same point My Lord said she to him I know not what you mean but once more I find my self ill you are a Prince Gallant and discreet and I must confess a longer discourse would incommode me It is then a discourse replyed the jealous Marquis with a Prince gallant and discreet as I am but not with him who hid himself behind your Couch at my arrival The Queen could not here hold from laughing which made him quite desperate and not knowing what Countenance to hold in the rage his jealousie put him in he was going to retire but she who had too much interest to clear this mystery and to draw him out of errour prayed him to stay and not yet changing the tone of her voice is any one hid here said she who is so dear to me as you tell who Yes yes Madam interrupted He I have Eyes and the Count de Saluces is what you want for any other than him you are incommoded Here is more news from Constantinople replyed the Queen But do you know my Lord pursued she with an Air a little more serious that one is tired in the end with all these news Thereupon she made Julia come out and put the poor Marquis into so great a Confusion that notwithstanding all the disobliging things she said to be revenged on him he had not one word to Answer It is true he did not merrit to be better treated and his passion had done him a very ill Service The Conclusion of all that affair was That the Queen being transported with her Resentment told him that she would leave his Country and depart the day after from Cazal not pretending to be come into a Court where she was to give an account of her Conduct to any body or to be examined so strictly She only pray'd him for the Honour of both that all things might be in order to the end the cause of her retreat might not be perceived and that her departure as well as her Arrival might be in the Pomp and with the Honours that are requisite The unhappy Marquis retired into his apartment loaded with all the poysons that the like mistake was capable of making a man of his humour swallow but the most Cruel of all was the Queens Resolution it was that which was almost Fatal to him and drew from him Tears which he had not shed in more than thirty years Yet when he came to make Reflection on the Scarf she had given to the Count de Saluces and of the favourable manner with which she treated him in the Eyes of all his Court he wanted little of being Comforted for this departure Nay he almost desired it Is it possible said he then that so great and so fair a Queen forgets her self to that point that she manages her self so little that she favours a