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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09764	The second part of the heroine musqueteer, or, The female warrier a true history very delightful and full of pleasant adventures in the Campagnes of 1676, & 1677 / Translated out of French.; Héroïne mousquetaire. Seconde partie English	Préchac, Jean de, 1647?-1720.	1678 (1678)	Wing P3208; ESTC R182015	37,293	133

Marquesses quarters and shew'd the Bill to one of his principal Servants who confirm'd it was of his Masters hand-writing which made them believe he was in the Robbers hands They apply'd themselves to the Duke de Montalto whom they knew to be his very good friend and having shew'd him the Bill the Duke caused the two men who demanded payment of it to be presently arrested and having severely threatned them they confest all The Duke was in fear for the danger of his Friend and went out in Person in the Head of a Party of three hundred Horse and some Dragoons When he came to the Wood where the two Robbers had left their Comrades he plac'd Guards at all the Avenues and went in himself at the Head of his Dragoons and so cross'd all the Woods but found not one person This heighten'd his fear and made him detach three several Parties sending them away into several quarters to endeavour a discovery where these Rogues had their refuge but all to no purpose so that he was forc'd to return without having any account of his Friend The morrow a servant of the Marquesses impatient for news of him and thinking he might find him at Lille put himself into Boors habit and went in search of him As soon as he was arriv'd at Lille he pretended he had a Letter for Christina and having got her call'd to the grate of the Covent she was in he ask'd her privately what news of the Marquess Christina not able to give him any account of him the Servant acquainted her with the departure of the Marquess from Brussels the adventure of the Bill of Exchange and all other circumstances of his absence Christina who found in her heart a stronger inclination for the Marquess than she thought she had was so concern'd for his misfortune that the trouble she was in at the news convinc'd her of the height of the passion she had for him She earnestly pray'd the Man to return instantly for Brussels not to omit any thing to learn some news of his Master and to let her know without delay the success of his care Before she could make an end of these few words her tears betray'd the affection of her heart When the Servant was gone she past some hours in those inquietudes none can comprehend but those only who have been in Love The mean time the Marquesses Servant being an honest Fleming and very devout despairing to find his Master goes into a Church and having heartily pray'd God to inspire him where to meet with the Marquess he no sooner turn'd himself about toward the Church-door to go out but he spy'd the Marquess standing before him and not able to contain himself cry'd out at the Miracle The Marquess also astonisht at so unexpected an accident had much ado to make his Man hold his peace and giving out he was his Comrade he told those who came running in at the report of the Miracle that the Man was a little crack'd and had often such Fits They got off by this Artifice and went into a house where the Marquess had lain His Man gave him an account of what had past at Brussels and of the disorder Christina was in at the news the tears she shed and the lamentable condition he left her in The Marquess who after the last days work durst not appear at the Covent-gate was ravish'd with joy at the news of her being so concern'd for his misfortunes and having got her call'd for by his Man he slipt into the Speaking room and quickly reviv'd her by his presence Never was Conversation more tender than theirs 't was not in Christina's power to reproach her Lover with any thing the violence of his passion for her could not presently justifie She promis'd him once for all never to be any mans but his and pray'd him not to expose himself again to so many accidents assuring him she had already written into her Country to desire the Abbot Dizeste who had the management of her Affairs to take a journey into Flanders to agree with him about her Marriage The Marquess well satisfied with these fair hopes that she might be at ease withdrew sooner than he would have done and return'd to Brussels where his Friends by their joy to see him again convinc'd him of the trouble they were in by the fears they had been under of having lost him To keep them in ignorance lest they should discover the mystery of his absence he gave out he had lost himself a Hunting a Sport he was known to use and was taken by Robbers who having detain'd him three days set him a● liberty This past for current being so very probable only the Countess of Benavidez would not believe it her Jealousie having given her a true guess at the cause of his absence it vex'd her to that height she presently resolv'd to leave no stone unturn'd to break the Correspondence between the Marquess and Christina About this time news came to Brussels the French Troops were on their march it was very early in the year and the Spanish Generals were extremely alarm'd to hear of an Army in the Field in January in a very cold season All the considerable Officers came to Brussels to assist the Governour of the Spanish Netherlands with their counsel in a conjuncture of this importance Count Salazar being ar●iv'd there one of the first and having given the Countess of Benavidez a Visit she endeavour'd to revive his passion for Christina reproaching him with his indifference and acquainting him the same time with the dangers his Rival had expos'd himself to for a sight of her Salazar who had been discourag'd from seeing Christina by the difficulties appear'd in the attempt was somewhat asham'd and to cover his coolness with a plausible pretence and let her see he had not been wanting to his Duty he bethought himself of putting a Trick on his Kinswoman and perswading her he was more in Christina's Books than she made account The Countess answer'd She could hardly believe it He offer'd to make it out and desir'd only time to step to his Quarters to do it 'T was not long e're he return'd and brought her a very passionate Letter of the Marquesses to Christina being the same formerly spoken of which Salazars men cunningly got from the Marquesses Salazar having in his hand a Letter which so clearly prov'd what he had said shewed it his Kinswoman and told her she might judge by the Sacrifice Christina had made him how much he was in her favour The Countess having read the Letter was very well pleas'd and thought it very proper and effectual for setting the Marquess and his Mistress at variance She spoke Salazar so fair that she prevail'd with him to leave it in her custody upon her promise to make no ill use of it which she kept so ill that the very next moment she went to one of her friends a Lady of the Marquesses familiar acquaintance and

and the Party brought in several who travelled with Pass-ports but no news of Christina and all this ado serv'd only to make a great deal of disorder and give occasion to the Rumor rais'd about that time that the Duke de Villa Hermosa had call'd in all his Pass-ports The Marquess would not be discourag'd for all this but searching the means to have a Letter convey'd to her he found a man who promis'd to follow her to her very home rather than fail to bring him an account of her The Marquess in the condition he was in thought this some comfort and having loaded the man with his liberality and filled him with hopes of more he dispatch'd him away with this Letter WAs it in your Power to resolve to be gone and leave behind you the most passionate of Lovers Did you not think me sufficiently mortifi'd by your permitting Salazar to presume to make Love to you but you must utterly destroy me by your unkind departure Ah Cruel Can you doubt that if you continue your Voyage I will not quit my Charge my Fortune and it may be my Duty to follow you I had done it already but that I look'd on my Imployments as advantages that belong to you and I ought to preserve to take away from you all pretence for reproaching my Love Heaven is my Witness that to ingage my self to you with Bands indissoluble I waited only the recovery of your health with that extremity of impatience you might easily have perceiv'd had you not been the most insensible person in the World Let me know what shall become of me and assure your self your Answer shall regulate the Destiny of the most faithful of Lovers The Marquess d'Osseyra When the kind Marquess had written this Letter he read it several times and finding it very agreeable to his sentiments thought it long till 't was delivered to his Mistress But fearing the Bearer might by the way be taken by some Party he resolved to send a second with such another Letter in hopes that if one miscarried the other might pass safe Salazar was much troubled for Christina's departure though the despair his Rival was in gave him some comfort The passionate love he had for her and the opinion he flatter'd himself with that she hated him not made him send after her a trusty person that upon his report he might the better take his measures for his future Conduct And not long after the Marquesses Friends and his reconcil'd the two Rivals and Salazar received Order to repair to his Government The Countess the while triumph'd for the good success of her Artifices and the passion her desire of revenge had given birth to was grown up to that violence by the resistance it found from the Marquess and the advantages she promis'd her self by the remove of her Rival it was not in her power to conceal her joy and her transport from the passionate Lover who far from answering her hopes loaded her with reproaches letting her know he was not ignorant what Tricks she had us'd to make his Mistress fall out with him This touch'd her to the quick and put her into such a confusion and so desperate a fret to see her Artifices discovered she took her Bed upon 't that very day and continued a long time very dangerously ill the Physitians who attended her having never discover'd the cause of her distemper but using Remedies for Diseases she never was troubled with While the Countess was in Cure the Dutchess of Arschott was at Lille so well-pleas'd with the agreeable Conversation of Christina that she intreated her company at least for the time she tarried at Lille Christina finding her self staid by reasons she could not master easily consented being glad of a pretence to continue a little longer in Flanders He whom Salazar had imploid to inquire after her had learnt she was to spend some days at the Dutchess of Arschott's and as he returned to give Salazar that account he met one of the Marquesses Messengers and being a witty man and well-acquainted with Salazar's secrets he presently suspected the Messengers business and examin'd him so cunningly that at last he discover'd the occasion of his Journey And applying himself after to get out of his hands the Marquesses Letter he set about him so dextrously that he finger'd the Letter and carried it to Salazar who received it with all the satisfaction imaginable But the Marquesses other Messenger more fortunate than his Fellow delivered his Letter to Christina who heartily glad of it was extremely satisfied to find the expressions so passionately kind and answer'd it thus THank your own Jealousie and reproach not me so unjustly that I admitted of Salazar 's Addresses The passion of Love is none of the weaknesses I am subject to yet I must own I make a great difference between you and any other man and find that could you be constant to the sentiments exprest in your Letter it will be very difficult for me to hold the resolution I have taken never to love The Dutchess of Arschott hath a desire to keep me here and I cannot deny her without appearing unworthy of the kindness she hath for me In the mean time you may assure your self no person hath a greater respect for you than Christina The Marquess having received this Letter two days after it was writ was so well-pleas'd with it that he never inquir'd whether both his Letters were delivered He kiss'd Christina's a thousand times over and impatiently longing to see her he did nothing but think of the means how to do it The enterprize was dangerous and he saw well enough what a hazard he should run to enter an Enemies Town where the vigilance of the Governour justly heightned his apprehension of being surprized But Love which never loves long debates especially such as tend to keep it at distance from its object quickly suggested an expedient the Marquess thought infallible He procur'd from the Marshal d' Humiers a Pass-port for a Pedler of Brussels to go trade at Lille and having got some English Point the best he could meet with he went for Lille and easily got entrance to the Dutchess of Arschott's under pretence to sell his Points which were so fine and so very cheap he sold many of them to the Dutchess and her Women At last he was brought into Christina's apartment who very luckily was alone in her Chamber perhaps to read over the Marquesses Letter The Love she had for him preserv'd the Idea of him so fresh in her mind that disguiz'd as he was she knew him at first sight and concealing her surprize she pray'd the Dutchesses Maid who had brought in the Pedler to go call another Maid who had good skill in Points By good fortune that Maid was abroad and she who had been to call her being withdrawn the two Lovers having clear'd all misunderstandings and the Marquess having justifi'd himself they had the opportunity to