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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22598	Love and valour: celebrated in the person of the author, by the name of Adraste. Or, the divers affections of Minerva. One part of the unfained story of the true Lisander and Caliste. Translated out of the French by W.B.; Histoire trage-comique de nostre temps, sous les noms de Lysandre et de Caliste. English	Audiguier, Vital d', 1569-1624.; Barwick, Wm.	1638 (1638)	STC 905; ESTC S100297	122,979	258

which certaine ought to be permitted to the miserable like my selfe and which yet I will not stretch so farre as to the importuning you but rather chuse to burn and hold my pe●ce as hoping in your helpe more from your pitty then my own complaints Good day Minerva faire one once more good day and againe once more good day permit I here doe give good morrow to my Lady your mother too together with the antiquity of theeves which I did promise her But t is to you indeed I ought to have presented it as to the greatest thiefe on earth For if they be the greatest theeves that make the greatest thefts what greater robber can there be then one that steales away our hearts The Argument She answers that if he knew how much she partakes in his sufferings hee would rather lament her then himselfe and that no one should ever esteem better of his merits nor so cherish his affections as her selfe Epistle 34. IF you knew how much I partake in your sufferings and how often I wish some meanes in my power to remedy them you would rather lament me then your selfe no one shall ever esteem better of your merits then I nor more cherish your affections then I doe if so I could assure you of this truth by effects worthy you and my own desires I should not now make use of these misbecomming words which nerethelesse I intreat you to accept for that they come from her that honours you the most The Argument Hee saith that it is impossible he should undoe him from the thoughts that have undone him Represents to himselfe the time he hath lost in serving her what she hath taken from him and what she hath yet left him And concludes that it is high time that he retire all naked as he is to some desart whither her image shall not be able to pursue him further But that all this discourse vanisheth on her presence Epistle 35. IT is impossible I should ever undoe me from those thoughts have utterly undone me You are with me as Hellen with the Trojans So oft as they in absence did consult on her affaires they concluded that they would discharge themselves of her but if so be that she were present then they did resolve they would retaine her yet So when I call to minde the many years that I have spent in serving you where seeking to obtaine you I have lost my selfe there is no reason but doth counsell me to put you off But what I have lost all care of my affaires the repose of my minde the health of my body the pleasure of life and the remembrance of my selfe You have taken from me my memory understanding and will and have not left me my life but to prolong my torments or for the pleasure that you draw from them or for the glory since you receive such honours yet therein as are not rendred unto any other one Is it not time all naked as I am left I seek to save me in some desart place where your pursuing image nere can finde me out but this discourse doth vanish all if once I come in sight of you and I in stead of my supporting it become as one that dumbly playes the Amorous demanding straight your pardon to have had the thought orecome not by your reasons but your beauties And in your absence is it yet much worse I weep not no my dolours were full light if I could heale them with my teares I dye in passion not to be beleeved whilest you do cause and yet doe sleep secure and carelesse of my ill I was yesterday to have seen some Ladies to have diverted me intending to have spoke to them of love as unto them indeed I did but it was still of yours or rather indeed of mine Pressed thereupon to name the cause from whence my sighing did proceed I told them there I sighed not for a woman but a deity My goddesse then adue receive part of the sighes you cause which bring you a good morrow and know the King departs on Monday without faile I am to goe this morning into many places whither I shall not carry other then my body howsoever I have much to doe with the best gifts of my soule Of which if so that you be asked the newes say boldly that it dwels with yours in Flying-heart street I his sufficeth not I must adde that you have lost one half of my Letters which I intreat you to look out Argument He complaines that they would debar his visits on the passion weeke and that it was not a generall rule but his greatest griefe was to leave her in the hands of her enemies whose drifts he discovereth to her and offers himselfe to undertake them Epistle 36. Madam NOt seeing you yesterday at Church according to that you have told me I judged you were retained at home by some unhappy discontent but I was ignorant of meanes to inform my selfe thereof for to have sent to you it was at such an houre as you had not dared to have returned me answer and for to have had me come unto you much lesse I too remembred me of what you said concerning visits on these daies of which I think full well and should much better yet were it a generall rule for all and not a particular exception for me onely But if it were not amisse as yesterday it is yet good to day and to morrow better and I being to depart on Monday shall consequently goe without the honour to see you for whom I not onely am and stay here but for whom onely I live which is not the greatest of my unhappinesse though it be extreame since having alwaies placed your pleasure above my owne I easily can resolve of any thing contenting unto you but my misfortunes being to me a much lesse burthen then are yours it is the greatest sorrow I can have to leave you in your enemies hands from whence it seemes you have no will to free your selfe and from whence my minde foregives me that you will not part but by the light of some debate Madame to say truth it is not for me to talke of this for as it is fatall to me to foretell you verities it also seems that you are destinate not once to credit them and that you have no faith nor cares that you can lend to any one but such as will deceive you By so much the more as you are good and generous by so much are you subject to deceit since generosity is alwaies opposite unto distrust Who doth no ill suspecteth none and one that doth not thinke ere to deceive a friend beneath the shadow of affection cannot beleeve that in an other they cannot once conceive in themselves But feele you not the effects of some designes that you have never seene doe you not see that they have got possession of your goods and of your liberty and that under a pretence of serving you

yet so capable of reason in the end as he promised not onely to give up his Lease but also to become conformable to the will and pleasure of Minerva Minerva as then had few thoughts to which Adraste was not made privy for in recompence of his service she communicated her secrets at least such as he had not interest in For proofe whereof she recounted to him an action of Tatius which well noteth the great confidence betweene them Tatius being privately some time before come to Paris got one day unperceived to his Wives house where staying below in a little Parlour hee caused Minerva to be called downe thither who not beleeving she might honestly refuse to see her husband not mistrusting any ill came down to the same roome where he stayed her After having saluted Minerva praying him to walke up into her chamber he tould her that he had but a little while to stay there with her aud hee desired not to be seene no not of her servants and that being borne away by that extreame affection which he ever had for her she must beleeve that this visit so unexpectedly made and by stealth was a sufficient testimony thereof But thou most faire Minerva cōtinued he having tane her in his armes art thou not in pitty any whit sensible of my misfortunes Sir answered Minerva I am not so insensible stony but I suffer some impression from your passion and in your disgraces do compassionate yet as in mine own But you know well the cause that parted mine from your interest and I wish no other Iudge in this case then your selfe Indeed said Tatius I did not use you I confesse as your demerits did oblige me but excuse the passions of a Lover pardon him that does repent him forget the ills that I have done you and but now remember you of all the good that I have wished you you shall make nature a lyar if you become not then as pittifull as you are faire if you have not the same sweetnesse in your minde you carry in your looks They were all alone for the servant that had called downe Minerva was gon out and Tatius enjoying those rights the opportunity and his cōdition afforded him and reducing so his words into actions touching the heart of Minerva which was not made of wood or marble as partly by consent partly by force he reentred the possession of those favours he had formerly lost But so soone as hee had satisfied his owne desires See but the thanks of this disloyall and ingratefull soule No man can witnesse said he that I have now been heere Thinke not I came for love of thee but of my owne revenge to the end that after having left with thee what I can utterly deny I so may give thee lost Lo here the wicked act of Tatius which amongst the most remarkable basenesses that ere were perpetrate may hold the place of the most enormous treason and the most faithlesse wickednesse that husband ever committed gainst a wife Minerva never trusted this secret but to the fidelity of Adraste who never abused that trust or ever wronged her in it and if hee hath spoke on 't since it hath beene still to her defence gainst such as have accused and blamed her much for living from her husband And to make seen what cause she had to be for ever doubtfull and mistrusting such and so inveterate and setled a malice As Adraste had no care that tended not to the service of Minerva it seemed no lesse that shee had no inclination but tended to the love of Adraste She spake not but of his merits remembred her not but of his services nor in appearance thought of any thing more then of the meanes to acknowledge them Yet this faire sun-shine but presaged a storme Sailors have cause to seare a calme too smiling And physitians think it not amisse to doubt a health too perfect and secure for as the one doth but presage a furious storme the other argues still a dangerous disease But when that sicknesse doth succeed excesse of health Raines a great winde or stormes ensue grosse clouds no man at all is moved thereat for that already were foreseeen the signes that usually precede But when that in a time cleere and serene the face of heaven is in an instant bound about with clouds Or that we see a man to die at going out of bed that did arise in health T is then we do become affraid and that amazement seiseth us for that we are surprized and by so much the more astonished from these accidents as we could not foresee the event So had there beene but any cause or a pretext that had preceded the disgrace of our Adraste here hee had not marvailed at it aught for he knew well what kinde of soule he had to deale withall But all at once when he the lest expected it and that he did esteeme himselfe the most in favour with his Mistris not knowing why or doubting how hee found him fallen in her contempt and in the place of recompence and those kinde favours whereof his tried affections and his services did render him most worthy he did yet undergo the scornes and chastisements which he had no way merited He had not three dayes to stay in Paris when going to see her one morning a little later then hee was wont hee found shee was gone to Church whither very readily following her rather in desire to see her then for any other devotion he had It is no mervaile that God permitted him to be so ill entreated She had in her company only the Governesse and had already heard Masse upon the arivall of Adraste who having bid her good morrow presented her his hand to leade her home dinner time pressed them not so but having sufficient leisure fair weather to walk in and the place they were in inviting them thereto Adraste that thought he might have better liberty to entertaine her in this walke then at her house intreated her to take a turne in the Garden of that faire house belonging to the Queene Mother And Minerva admitted him to conduct her as well to entertaine him though very differently and with an entertainment and welcome much contrary to the desires and hopes of Adraste So as he pressed her to recompence his services and at the least would needes have some kinde favour from her for him to beare along with him unto the warres Minerva changing her discourse did tell him straite that his so frequent visits and disorderly addresses unto her had scandalized her much with all the Neighbours bout her house so as she was inforced to intreat him come more seldome there that esteeming his company as she did she could not deprive her of it she sayd with little griefe of which she did beleeve that hee would have his part but knowing likewise that he did esteeme more of her reputation then himselfe she hoped he alwaies would preferre that good