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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

the death of Adraste and Polinice For having seen them laid hands on and invironed by so many he bleeved not that they could escape and for him it was easie to flee for that they had nothing to do but with his light which being at first put out they gave him very good leisure to retire So soon as Minerva saw Adraste she seemed to rejoyce extreamly And I assuredly beleeve it was no way fained whatsoever hath beene sayd that this ambush was layd and Minerva had not sent for the booke by her Laquay so much for that as to bring him in compasse of the snares of these Rascals which could never enter in the thought or beliefe of Adraste You have prevented me of an ill nights rest sayd she which this companion went about to prepare for mee I beleeve you could not have bestowed a visit on me this good while or so pleasing or necessary as this was But tell mee how happened this misfortune to you Madam answered Adraste your Laquay is not so blame worthy as you may thinke for he saw me in such case as there was more liklihood that he left me dead then alive But it pleaseth God that I live yet for your service and to bestow on you more necessary visits and more pleasing nights then this And then he recounted at large to her what had befallen him since Supper whilst the uncloaked gentleman Polinice entertained her women with the same discourse Very well sayd Minerva then I bid you good night and desire you come no more at such houres to see mee That is to take good nights from me answered Adraste and not to give mee good night this same command not to see you any more by night It shall be what you please replied Minerva for I shall indeed rather chuse to take from you good nights then suffer upon my occasion that you perchance have your life taken from you as you have now very narrowly escaped with it Adraste accepting her will for reason retir'd with his good or ill night after having tould her that God did reserve him to some better end and that on no occasion his life could be so well imployed as in the losse of it for so worthy a Subject Adraste being retired without any further mischance passed the night as accustomed in the thought and contemplation of an enchanted Lover by the charmes of a fair Mistris The next morning rising very early he went to take a turn at the Louvre where he was informed of the departure of the King It was at the time of the great assembly at Rochell which being made against his Majesties permission and continued contrary to his cōmand gave cause to the Court of Parliament to declare them that held it rebels and to the King to arme himself for the defence of his authority Adraste went from thence to the uprising of Minerva carried her these sad news not so much lamenting the publique misfortune that threatned the State with a civill war as his own particular condition that forced him leave his Mistris to use his life in a quarrell wherin he had so little interest For howsoever he were not constrained by any place or benevolence of the Kings he was nerethelesse born and enforced therto by the laws of his own worth and honour But since that nothing induceth you said Minerva to follow the King but your honour you are not obliged to follow him other where then in service Let other men then go along and wait on him whose offices and pensions doe oblige them to attendance every where besides and do you stay untill he does sit down before some place or that hee hath made some overture of war wherin you may be seen to do the service you desire and think not then that I will make it difficult to give you leave for that your life being of smaller esteem to me by much then is your honour I shall rather chuse to command then to forbid it you Adraste was easily perswaded to stay with a Lady whom indeed hee could not indure to part from but seeing he had not liberty to entertain her as hee wished in her house where she was watched by her own people gained and corrupted by Crassus the prime of the Spring inviting every one to see the beauty of the Country hee intreated her to bear him company to Ruel to the end that no other but the Nymphs of those fountains should be by at the last farwels hee would take of her Minerva that desired but to passe time away rendred Adraste his desires in that by contenting likewise her own But what she might easily and absolutely of herself have done was accompained with so many limitations and circumstances as the pleasure of it was ever lesse then the sufferance were it that by the difficulty she would render her favours the more estimable or were it a quality inseparable in love that often promiseth much sweetnesse where naught is reaped but much bitternesse Reason and what was decent not suffering that she should go alone with Adraste caused her to take with her an old Gentlewoman that was rather her Governesse then Servant with two little children that she had had by Tatius and would yet have Plancus and Melite besides of the company Melite was one of her friends and Plancus a new Captive of Minerva's whom shee had insnared without Adraste once perceiving it whom she made believe how shee could tender him amorous of Melite Adraste agreed very willingly to that thinking that whilst Plancus entertained Melite and that the Governesse should be busied with Minerva's children he should have no ill opportunity to govern her But the difficulty was to get from her house and people unsuspected for she would not by any means that they should know of this journy for fear it might come to Crassus eare And this Lady otherwise exceeding able had already given him such Empire over her as not so much as ever remembring Tatius that was her husband she let her self be troubled with the jealousie of a man that she said was nothing to her and that she seemed not onely to be unable to love but also one of whom shee could not endure to be beloved It is most certain that such as be in love are blinde for if Adraste absolutely had not bin so he might by this have seen that Crassus had more interest in his Mistris then himself But he believed more in her words then in his own eyes To the end then that Minerva's people should take no notice of the designe she willed that Adraste should wait very early in the morning at Church with a coach and four horses that Plancus and Melite should come thither another way without either of them comming neer her and that she would meet there at the same time with her little companions The Coach and horses they were ready almost before day scarce was the Church doore opened but Adraste was got in hee

Minerva with discourses of his own lightnesse inconstancy and the Trophes he reared therby to his vanity ye even to the prejudice of that discretion ought to be used in like cases But she as if shee had had power to render him as well faithfull as loving beleeved that he would become better to her than God himself had made him lived encharmed within the circle of a faith much more amorous then reasonable Adraste told her all these things and that he much marvelled that already having bin deceived by one inconstant man shee could yet again set her affections on an other more to be doubted then the first But said she this is bad Rhetorick in you to speak ill with intention to cause me wish you well I cannot be so perfect as you goe about to make me beleeve of my selfe if so I have not judgement sufficient to make an election worthy me And grant that he wanteth all those qualites you speake of yet ought not my affection to be the lesse that is not tyed at all unto the qualities and fortunes of a man but meerely to his vertues and his demerits Then did Adraste take the course is seldome used amongst Rivals Since it is so said he that your will and pleasure beares you to this I will by no meanes stand in opposition It being altogether reasonlesse that you having the power you have upon my liberty should not have the like upon your own In my example you shall see allover that doth for the love of his Mistresse love his rivall I will for your love serve him to the end that you even for his sake shall beare me some good will But yet remember you that there shall be no justice left in heaven it for the faithfull love of a slave that doth adore you you endure not the shamefull tyrannies of a faithlesse and impetuous Master and in place of that eternity of divine honours and everlasting faithfulnesse which I vow to you you drown not your life in endlesse sorrowes and soile not your name with as many infamous scandals An unfortunate presage that yet did prove more true Howsoever Minerva loved Arnolph deerely yet could she not helpe it but this extreme submission of Adraste did o'recome her And though Adraste grieved to see Minerva loved another yet could not he avoyd it but this great freedome with which she trusted him in a secret concerned her so neerly must needs oblige him much so as notwithstanding they seemed to renounce each others love yet disavowed they not each others friendship Adraste therefore in stead of becomming Minerva's servant became her friend an exchange more necessary then favourable but which depended meerly on her pleasure Whilst Adraste and Arnolphe thus pretended to Minerva there was yet a third competitor that bore away the prize they expected and laboured for but he enjoyed it not o're-long nor without much cost for indeed he was Clericus in libro as we say and not in this craft a Master Minerva for want of good prosecution and not of right was quite o'rethrowne in her suit There was one of the common Councell of the City an ancient man and of the longest continuance in the Court of Parliament one powerfull in meanes and authority and one that was not ignorant of all the quirks and quillets in the law and in truth a most proper instrument to re-edifie and gaine againe a lost cause Minerva needed such a man as this and her fortune would in stead of seeking him out she was her selfe sought out by him Tatius so was this Councellor called was of an amorous complexion and covered glowing fires beneath the embers of a grey beard He had no sooner seen Minerva but he was taken with her and she well managing the occasion made him so wed her cause as in place of counsell he became Solicitor and party and in a word gaind her the sute which she had absolutely lost and got her to be sequestred both body and goods from her husband and all this without Minerva's once troubling her self which was the thing indeed she required best liked of But this you may think could never be without much charge the which Tatius very freely had disbursed furnishing her with 5 or 600 crownes that Minerva secured him out of her estate For though Tatius were a gallant Gentleman yet knew he well that it sufficed not to carry away this prize from so many others braver then himselfe and he cleerly found that it behoved him render himself the more necessary by so much as he was the lesse pleasing and that he should begin to ingage her estate somewhat to him the better afterwards to interest him in her selfe The design was profound and subtile and succeeded well in the acquisition howsoever it fell out but ill to him in the possession The first took notice hereof was Adraste who incontinently told as much to Minerva letting her understand besides she would become as meane a slave as those are commonly sold in Barbary at market if so she ever marryed this old Sire that could not be so soon marryed as jealous of her And if it chance said he as I have told you otherwhiles that for being too covetous of your favours to one so capable of the knowledge of their worth the heavens shall after as a just revenger consent that you be liberall of them unto some ignorant that no way shall finde cause to acknowledge them or shall not be able to return their price but on the contrary be satiate with your kindnesses afflicted with his happinesse and openly neglect even these your excellent beauties for some slight regard And who shal then assist you to lamentyour cause after so fair a warning as is this of your disgrace Who will not think fit such a cruell one as bathes her self still in the bloud of such as love her best and is not pleased but in the murther of their inconstant loves at last should fall into the hands of such a sot as should revenge by his contemptuous outrages the most injurious disdaines wherewith she hath crucified so many faithfull soules And to remember you that I have said it is a misery fatall unto such as you and by so much the more assured as it is little feared Minerva did but laugh at these his ominous predictions and told him then she could with ease render them all wholly false Aruolphe wer't that he deemed it for the good of Minerva or that he loved her rather for a Mistresse then a wife freely advised her to marry Tatius But she having drawn and got from him what she would now thought not but of the readiest meanes to discard and cast him off Tatius was a Church-man and upon that she told him that her friends took it amisse that one of his coate should so frequent her company he sent to Rome and having obtained a dispensation for marriage he sought her openly Minerva excused her then upon the