that Suffolk had won at the Barier◠from the bravest Champions of the Court conspired together to slander the Queen and him The Duke of Valois already prepossessed by some and incited by others could suspect none but him to have put that inscription on the Shield Azure which bore That the modest blush of the Roses of England was as inviolable as the Candour of the Lillies of France He perceived very well that that was a mysterious answer to what he had said to him and not daring to dispute that truth though he much doubted it he contented himself to write underneath That it belonged not to Defendants to maintain that and that none but the Conquerours of the Fortress deserved such honour In the mean while being checked by his own conscience he began to fear that the King might come to understand the reason why they disputed such a matter though the proposition being mingled with the interest of the Lillies seemed not to bear any private meaning in a Tournoy only designed to solemnize their Union with the Roses of England So that some of his Confidents having taken upon them to free him from his trouble bethought themselves of a stratagem which was that at the end of the Ball which was danced every evening after the Carrousel at the same time that the Queen did find on her Toylet a Paper containing these words If within three days the Duke of Suffolk depart not out of France he is a dead man Suffolk undressing himself found such another in his pocket but the same cause produced not in both of them the same effects for though the Queen terrified and ready to go and awaken the King who lay alone two nights before passed the night in mortal trances yet Suffolk exasperated to see matters driven to such an excess resolved before his departure to tell the Duke of Valois manfully that murtherers were not able to daunt him He was fully resolved on this when an English Monk brought him a Billet from the Queen wherein was inclosed that threatning Paper which she had received in the evening She adjured him to be upon his Guard and above all things to forbear the defence of the Forts and all other Combats But Suffolk unwilling to confirm her disquiet and suppressing the Billet which he had received to the same purpose made her answer in two words That it was a false allarm whereof he prayed her not to be affraid nor take any notice He was about a minutes time with the King to tell him the same and afterward continued his exercises in coursing and fighting that day as he was accustomed before and behaved himself no worse against Chatillon Bayard and Crequy than he had done the days before against Moüy Bonneval and several others In the mean time the disturbed Queen at what rate soever desired to speak with him The bad weather which had put a stop to the Tournoy seemed favourable enough for her design And the atacking of the Fort being by the King delayed for two days that the Defendants and Assailants might have no cause to alledg precipitation and haste if they failed in their duties invited her besides thereto as a time too precious to be lost and though all these reasons had been wanting yet the extremity of her own desire was one so prevalent that she could no longer resist it So that as she went to the Ball which was hastened because their other pleasures had ended too soon having met him again in the Kings Chamber who was not very well she bid him not dance so long as he was accustomed but that he should withdraw into a place which she showed him from whence the faithful Kiffen should guide him into a private Chamber where the young Ann of Bolen who for some days had been sick was lodged It was a nice enterprize what circumspection soever might be used and the Duke of Suffolk having imparted it to the Marquess of Dorset who of a Rival was become his intimate friend Dorset found it to be so Nevertheless they concluded together that the Queen who without doubt had given all necessary orders Must not be refused and the rather that she had perhaps such important matters to speak of as she durst not commit to the uncertainty of a Billet So that notwithstanding of the reluctancy that Suffolk had against that Interview yet having taken his measures with the Marquess of Dorset who took upon him the charge of watching without he obeyed and the intrigueing Kiffen who stayed for him in the appointed place led him into the Chamber of Ann of Bolen without being observed by any Afterward the Queen wearied by so many shows but more by her own cares having left the company came to her appartment conducted by the Duke of Valois and Duke of Alencon She caused her head to be undressed before them as being very desirous of sleep which obliged them to withdraw and her Chamber-door being immediately shut Judith Kiffen who lay in her Wardrobe by a back-door dismissed the Maids that attended her Shortly after she went to bed more impatient than afraid to execute what she designed She kept her self close a-bed until an universal silence had assured her that all people had withdrawn and so soon as she heard no more noise she arose to go meet the Duke of Suffolk The passage was pretty long It behoved her first to enter a Closet pass a Gallery that adjoyned to a Chappel and from thence by an entry half ruined which heretofore served for a passage unto her appartment go to the private Chamber where the young Ann of Bolen was at that time attended only by one person in her sickness All things went at first as well as the Queen could desire She found Suffolk in the place appointed and whilst Judith Kiffen returned to watch her Chamber which was not so secure on the other side where the Maids of honour lodged they began their Conversation The Presence of Ann of Bolen laid no constraint on them for she was one of their Confidents So that giving full scope to their affections they fell immediately to complain to one another like Lovers who desired no more but the freedom of complaint and who could not when they would complain But after these common expressions of mutual love the Queen terrified at the Billet which she had sent him desired to know from whence it came and upon what ground he reckoned a threatning of that nature to be but a false alarm The answer of Suffolk though prepared before-hand did not at all satisfie her and they so perfectly understood one another that it was very hard for them to take it for good Coyn. So that the Queen making another use of that constrained assurance which he affected broke forth in rage against the Duke of Valois It was to no purpose for Suffolk to tell her that that Prince being vexed at the Cartel which he had affixed on the Shield Azure had no
the Duke of Suffolk This bereft him of all comfort for the rest of his days and being unable to abide longer at Court as well because of that loss as of the disorders of his King which encreased with age he choose rather to command the Army against the Rebels in Yorkshire where he fully crowned his Glory He had five Children by the Queen whereof the two Males dyed both in one day of the distemper which is called the English Sweating-sickness and of his three Daughters who were all married to the greatest Lords of the Kingdom the eldest named Frances married to Henry Gray Son to the Marquess of Dorset his intimate friend was the cause of his death She falling sick in one of her Countrey-houses and he loving that dear Daughter the more because she perfectly resembled his deceased Queen used so great diligence to come to her that he thereby dyed Thus the Prophesie of Merlin may be seen fulfilled in his person supposing that he had been the Grand-child of the Duke of Clarence Since that how innocent soever that daughter was of his Death yet the too great zeal that he had for her was that which destroyed him At least to judg by the event the words of that Astrologer seem pretty just The only thing that can make me doubt of it is the little care that I see in him during his life to make known his secret Quality of a Prince of York What tyranny soever may oblige a Prince to conceal himself for a time yet if he have a great and generous soul as Suffolk had it is hard for him to continue always obscure and truely royal blood soon or late becomes conspicuous in Heroes Vnless it may be said of him that the possession of what he loved having fulfilled all his desires he feared either to disturb his own felicity by discovering himself or to wrong his Children who according to the custom of England would have certainly been put to death upon the least suspicion of the truth FINIS Some Books Printed and are to be Sold by W. Cademan at the Popes-head in the New-Exchange PHaramond or the History of France a fam'd Romance in 12 Parts the whole work never before in English written by the Author of Cassandra and Cleopatra Fol. Parthanissa that most fam'd Romance in 6 Parts written by the Right Honourable the Earl of Orrery in Fol. Books 4 to Protestant Religion is a sure Foundation and Principle of a true Christian written by Charles Earl of Derby Historical Relations of the first discovery of the Island of Madera A Warning to the Unruly in two Visitation-Sermons Preached before the Arch-Bishop of York by Seth Bushell D. D. The great Efficacy of the Clergy a Visitation-Sermon by Tho. Duncomb D. D. Mr. Barn's Sermon Preached before the King Mr. Pigol's Sermon Preached before the Judges at Lancaster Books 8 vo Philosophical Essays or the History of Petrificatio by Thomas Sherley Dr. in Physick The History of Scurvey-Grass being an exact and careful description of the Nature and Medicinal vertues of that Plant teaching how to prepare out of it plain and approved Remedies for the Scurvey and most other Diseases as well Galenical as Chymical which are to be had of Scurvey-grass-Ale confirmed by Reason Experience and Authority The Spanish History or a Relation of the Differences that happened in the Court of Spain between Don John of Austria and Cardinal Nitard with other Transactions of that Kingdom together with all the Letters that past between Persons of the highest Quality relating to those affairs PLAYS Rival a Comedy Island-Princes Comedy Flora's Vagaries Comedy Town-shifts a Comedy Citizen turn'd Gentleman Comedy Morning-Ramble Comedy Careless Lovers Comedy Reformation Comedy Mall or Modish Lovers Comedy Rehersal a Comedy Mock-Tempest a Comedy Dumb Lady a Comedy Dutch-Lovers a Comedy Setle against Dryden Herod and Mariamne Love and Revenge Conquest of China Constant Nimph. Pastor Fide Tom Essence a Comedy Wandring Lovers Catalius Conspiracy Tragedy Fatal Jealousie Mackbeth English-Princess Marcelia Spanish-Rogue Piso's Conspiracy Alcibiades Siege of Memphis Cambyâ—â—â— Empress of Morocco
her On the contrary they began both to be pitied as two perfect Lovers cruelly and unjustly dealt with But whilst people thus favoured them with their good opinions a tranquil serenity gave jealousie time to rise to a head against them This new Quality of Duke of Suffolk which rendered him a suitable match to the chiefest Ladies at Court made in effect many of them cast their thoughts that way because it was believed that he had attained to the greatest height that he could expect So that the lovely Lucretia Tilney being of a Quality and Fortune answerable to his merit the Princess had no sooner taken notice of the civilities which Suffolk rendered her to please the King only who designed her for his Mistris but that she immediately imagined they were the effects of Love So that she became jealous to that extremity into which true Lovers commonly fall of a sudden She spake not a word of this to her faithful Judith Kiffen from whom she had never concealed any thing but the secret of Brandon's Birth who not knowing what to think of the alteration that he perceived in her essayed for some days to discover that in her eyes which was quite contrary to what was in her heart That extreme respect might have provoked any other besides Mary of England and there are but few Lovers who in the fury of jealousie would not have taken it for indifferency But as she only loved because she was beloved so she made the best use of the various Sentiments that attend love She always devised arguments to excuse the inconstancy that she complained of and by strongest reason drawn from the stock of most tender affection she sometimes perswaded her self that the effects which she had caused in the heart of Brandon whilst he was but nothing were not to be expected from the Duke of Suffolk He loved me said she as the Daughter and Sister of his King He hath used me as a pleasant apparation to entertain his idle thoughts whilst he had none that were serious and now that he is what he deserves to be he applies himself to that which he may obtain If thou wert not of the blood of Lancaster continued she and could he promise himself of thee what he thinks he may expect of another he would love thee still as he hath loved thee and over-love thee And thereupon giving way to the mild Sentiments by which the pretended infidelity of Suffolk might be justified Let us pardon then said she let us pardon him for an injury which respect and fear only makes him commit against our love Let us do justice to that tender affection whereof we have received so great Testimonies this is probably the perfectest instance that he could render us and it costs him doubtless too dear to be undervalued by unjust suspitions But jealousie usurping again the dominion over her heart such lofty reasonings did not at all satisfie her She had much a-do to conceive how a Lover could renounce the thing he loves and then concluding that love which always slights and gets above reason and decorum is not so tame she found her self much disposed to judg no more in favour of Suffolk Besides his true extraction more and more fortified her jealousie and thinking that the reasons which she allowed to Brandon or Duke of Suffolk did not so well suit with a Prince of York what appeared to her to be an excess of love or discretion in the one had not the same character in the other And the very Glory which he had acquired in France made his present Conduct a little suspicious to her She saw him so well supported by his own worth that she could not but sometimes think that he intended to build his Fortune thereon and as the King appeared so much the less favourable to their Union that he had seemed much inclined to it before and that he reflected on it very seriously so the services that the Duke of Suffolk rendered to the lovely Tilney which jealousie made appear far more assiduous than they were though all was but an effect of complaisance made her often enraged against her self and condemn all her own goodness At length after a long conflict within her self so great as to make her compare her own marvelous and rare perfections with the ordinary and indifferent Qualities of her pretended Rival as she loved to the utmost extent of love and that her jealousie was altogether gentle and sublime and had nothing ragged nor low she found her self reduced to a necessity of speaking But she did it with so expressive and sensible an air that she had hardly opened her mouth when Suffolk by her first word discovering the cause of that discontent which he could not guess at needed no more but a single sigh to allay her trouble Their Sentiments as well as looks were soon agreed and they expressed themselves so intelligibly in that manner and understood one another so well that being both fully satisfied and fixing their eyes on one another for some time they needed no other language to speak their thoughts Suffolk being ravished to see himself so dear to the Princess as to inspire into her jealousie seemed by silence and other signs of submission to thank her for such a new favour which he never believed himself able to deserve But at length he broke that so eloquent silence to complain of her too much reservedness and the Princess perceiving that his complaint was just and she in kindness obliged to suffer it made appear by a most engaging blush that she desired he should not persist therein So that love which lays hold on all occasions to make Lovers speak raising an officious contest betwixt them on that subject was the cause that the Princess Mary came insensibly to discover all that she had concealed in her thoughts At this time it was that the Duke of Suffolk found himself raised to the top of felicity He confessed himself very far short of the discretion she allowed him and by transports of gratitude which could never with good grace be employed but on that occasion considering the state of his fortune showing himself as ambitious as she desired he should be he obliged her twice to tell him that if he were not it behoved him to become so The good thoughts of the King her Brother whereof he had given her an account in her sickness and the reflexions that since that time she had made thereon which very seasonably she called to mind were of great advantage to her modesty in an entertainment of that nature She easily thought that having the approbation of her Brother and King on whom she solely depended she had no distances to stand on She intreated him to make his advantage of that and Brandon made no difficulty to obey her But fortune allowed them only this calm of hope and joy that she might more cruelly expose them to the fury of the storm she prepared for