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A80380	Intrigues of love: or, The amours and gallantries of the French court, during the reign of that amorous and warlike prince Henry IV. (Surnamed the Great.) Being a true and pleasant history. Newly made English from the French, By Sir Edwine Sadleyr Baronet; Histoire des amours du grand Alcandre. English	Conti, Louise-Marguerite de Lorraine, princesse de, 1574-1631.; Sadleir, Edwin, Sir, d. 1719.	1689 (1689)	Wing C5955C; ESTC R226033	33,622	115

his new Mistress and it was very calm Weather with the Court the King also at this time Marryed Madamoiselle d'Guise to a Prince of the Blood Royal with whom the Queen gave what was neither beneath her own Quality to give or the others to receive The King seeing again the Marchioness of Vernueil had a great Inclination to her yet kept it so secretly that it was long before it came to the Queens knowledg but as soon as she knew it she was strangly troubled and absolutely forbid all such Persons any access to her that should at any time visit the Marchioness under the pain of being driven from her presence which the King took ill but yet was forc'd to bare with it a little after the King a never failing Gallant becomes Enamour'd of the Dutchess of Nevers a Princess of great Vertue that very much honour'd his person but had no great esteem for his passion This season hapned commodiously for the Kings designs for the King intending to Christen the young Prince's his Sons had invited the Dutchess of Mantoue to be Godmother to the Eldest This Princess was Sister to the Queen and her Husband a near Relation to the Duke of Neverrs insomuch that he obliged the Dutchess of Nevers to stay longer than usual at the Court to give oppertunity to the King to pursue his Amour the King seeking all occasions to speak to her whilst she on the other hand avoided it as much as possible waving it to the very utmost limits of a due respect in the end the Ceremonies being perform'd the Duke and Dutchess of Nevers without so much as bidding adieu retir'd themselves from the Court the latter resolving never again to return the Duke being soon after employ'd as Envoy to Rome went herself along with him thither and oblig'd the King to dispossess himself of a fancy that not only prov'd fruitless but very troublesome to him being not accustom'd to the difficulties he found in this Amour This Voyage endur'd above a Year and the Dutchess at her return came to do reverence to the Queen the King being then with her Upon which the King beholding her with a bended brow let her know aloud that he thought she was extreamly chang'd but the Dutchess taking no notice at all of it continu'd still to deport herself in the same manner and to spend the rest of her life in all the modesty that could become or was requisite in an excellent and vertuous Woman The King by this was again reconcil'd to the Marchioness d'Vernueil which the Queen so impatiently bore that notwithstanding all the endeavours of the Council to prevent them and to show how disagreeable they was to Majesty it fomented most extream differences betwixt them And now there happen'd a very surprising accident that made much noise and indeed was very strange the King and Queen going to a house of theirs near Paris on the other side the River Sein they was obliged to pass it in the * The Ferry spoken of in which the King and Queen pass'd the River Sien overturning was the cause of a Bridge being soon after built over that River Ferry the Coach with these two in it accompany'd only with the Princess de Conty and the Duke of Montpensier by some accident or other was overturn'd before it came to the Shore the King and Duke escaping very well leaping soon enough out of the Coach but the Ladies ran some hazard and drank a little more than they desir'd or rather the ambitious Element squench'd its thirst a little too much upon the Ladies Some few days after the King going to Visit the Marchioness of Vernueil she condoles him for the unhappy chance and tells him she was in great pain for him but if she had been present and had seen the King leaping safe out of the Coach she should have had the civility to have said let the Queen drink a saying it seems us'd upon the Ceremony of choosing King and Queen which she wittily made use of upon this occasion which when the Queen came to hear she flew out into so great and implacable a rage that she was fifteen days without changing so much as one word with the King so that Persons of great Figure and Quality was forc'd to interpose to qualifie her Resentments in the end the accord was made and there must be a Ball to attest it wherein the Queen resolv'd to give her self the pleasure of having a part But it is unhappily interrupted for the King insisting upon the reception of the Countess of Morett also into it and the Queen opposing and refusing it it made such a rupture betwixt them that it broke off the Ball This Countess of Morett is the Lady that I before said was quitted of her Husband Who was now lov'd by the Prince d'Joinville whom she did not ill entertain but the unhappiness is it comes to the Kings ear who immediately going to her upbraids her with Perfidiousness who having nothing else to say in her own vindication tells him that the Prince intended to marry her The King with this returns with all the speed that a Jealous Fury could supply and causes the Mother of this Prince to come before him to whom he Complains and threatens that the Prince who he said was too often guilty of such faults to be pardon'd should be rigorously punish'd Telling her that he expected on the pain of his severest displeasure that he should perform what he had promis'd to the Countess which was to marry her and that though he could suffer that his Mistresses should be espoused yet not that they should other ways be enjoy'd and that it was for the alone sake of the Mother her self that he Pardon'd the Son. The Princess being in a station she thought above such Treatments from the King answer'd with so much Indignation and rais'd the King into so high a Paroxisme that he sent his Guards immediately to seize him and all the favour that could be obtain'd for him by his Friends was that he should relinquish the Realm never to return to it again and he was not recall'd again till the death of the King. The Duke of Montpensier a little before these things was dead and the King whose unfix'd and wandering Apetite induc'd him still to the persuit of new Mistresses and to gratifie himself in all Varieties of his Inclination resolv'd to make Love to his Widdow wisely pensitating that it would more become his Quality to Love and be beloved of a Princess than such that was of a meaner Extraction and indeed no better than fair Imposters that did only banter and deceive him And resolv'd to serve himself upon this occasion of a Lord of his Court equip'd with all the possible Accomplishments of his Quality his Name was Count de Craimail making known this design to him He judg'd it a difficult thing to bring to effect but however promiseth the King to tell her the news The Neighbourhood of his House to that of the Dutchesses and the excellency of his Address was the reason of the King 's employing of him in this affair which he resolv'd to undertake if the Dutchess would hearken which yet he could not believe He acted so well in the business that he prevail'd with the Dutchess to come to the Court where the King soon discover'd the impregnableness of her Vertue and resolv'd no more to attempt it The Duke of Guise was now so much in Love with the Marchioness of Vernueil that he promiseth to Marry her and the Marchioness willing to make use of his Passion either to inflame the King that began to neglect her to a greater observance or to oblige the Duke irrevertibly to his Promise causes in the name of some other Persons reserving that due respect to their Quality not to do it in their own the Bains to be published betwixt them Which the King hearing of was greatly enrag'd with them both and especially with the Duke of Guise But his Relations knowing him to be innocent grew so clamorous upon the Marchioness as the only Author of this action on purpose to render him odious to the King that it went no farther the Duke only retiring to his Government till the rumour was a little ceas'd The Queen having again taken up her design of making the Ball before hinted amongst the Ladies that was engag'd in it the incomparable Madam of Montmorency was one a Lady so young that she had but just as it were left to be Child and so Beautiful that she was miraculous and in her actions so agreeable that she was a Marvail throughout insomuch that the King seeing her dance with a Dart in her Hand representing one of the Nymphs of Diana found his Heart so throughly pierced with it that the wound accompany'd him to his Grave It would fill a Volume should I recount all the Accidents of this Amour from which at last the Royal Lover ravish'd by Death left such Subjects behind him as could not so properly be said to Love as Adore him FINIS

former could not refrain from commending the Beauty of Madam d'Gabrielle who yet thought she found Madamoiselle d'Guise too handsome for her liking and Madamoiselle d'Guise on the other side was surpris'd with the Beauty of her Rival yet both concealing the opinion which they mutual had of each other receiv'd one another with all the coldness that was consistent with a due civility and Madamoiselle d'Guise as soon as she had seen Madam d'Gabrielle turn'd her self towards Bellgard and said Truly I thought she had been more handsom to which Bellgard answered nothing being too much taken with this Lady Now the King who knew well all Passions and likewise those of the Dutchess of Guise not unpractis'd in the affairs of Love did not doubt but that this Chevalier as indeed it was true enough only amuz'd and blinded the Dutchess and us'd his pretended Addresses to her only to facilitate his Access to the young Princess with whom he judg'd he was in Love This Opinion had these two effects It repress'd the King's suspicion that he had entertain'd of his being in Love with Madam d'Gabrielle and caus'd him to put an end to all farther designs upon Madam d'Guise But Madam d'Gabrielle who above all her little Interests esteem'd the affection of her Lover the Duke of Bellgard took so narrow a scrutiny of his actions that she knew that he lov'd Madamoiselle d'Guise and that he also was not hated by her at which she conceiv'd so strong a jealousie of Madam d'Guise that she was under no small pain to suppress it With which the Princess still pushing her on was not ill pleas'd proposing to her self this Advantage by it That if upon her departure from the Court she could not boast her self of gaining any thing upon the King yet she might at least triumph over his Mistress The next day they departed the Dutchess having obtain'd of the King a Neutrality for the House she was to go to to which Bellgard so much inflam'd by the attractions of the fair Madamoiselle d'Guise did not a little contribute the King making no scruple to grant him all that in this nature he could desire as a Bait to lure him from his Mistress Madam d'Gabrielle who was so excessively enrag'd by her jealousie of Madamoiselle d'Guise that she would not so much as bid adieu to either the Mother or the Daughter feigning her self ill and not suffering her self to be seen all that day by any Person whatsoever Bellgard and all the Court conducted these Ladies on their way so far as that they return'd not till the next day when the incensed Gabrielle beheld her Lover with so much fury in her Eyes that it began to trouble him And seeing the beloved Princess no more the present Object retook him again to whom inclin'd by his Interest as well as by losing the fair Ideas of the absent Beauty he resettled himself cursing his former inconstancy and indiscretion In the mean time the Dutchess of Guise to whom her Life was of less value than her Love and especially with this Knight contrives a means to continue it by instating her Son in a Treaty with the King for which she might easily perswade her self the Favourite Bellgard would not be left out of the Commission and to make way for it sends advice of it to the King. Who desirous that all his Subjects might return to their Allegian●● particular a Prince that was one of the Chiefs of the Adverse Party and of whom he had so great an Opinion dispatch'd Bellgard immediately towards her To which Madam d'Gabrielle oppos'd as much as possible averring that Bellgard was not a Man of Business and that the Mother intimating the Passion that she had for Bellgard and probably suspecting some contrivance now of the Dutchesses in relation to it might be more pleas'd with his Mediation than the Son But in the end the Duke of Neverrs in kindness to Bellgard a Person then amongst the first of the King's Favourites prevail'd upon her to do pleasure to Bellgard whom he lov'd most extreamly no longer to oppose it And did no small favour by this to the Duke of Guise For this Treaty not quickly concluding and Paris soon afterwards being surrendred into the King's hands the Love of Bellgard to his Sister was of no small import this Surrender so much infeebling the Enemy A kindness he had never receiv'd unless from the Benevolent hands of the Duke of Nevers who did all that this Knight desir'd and with so great a zeal and this seconded by the active and co-operating heat of the Duke himself that he put an end to an Affair that all the World stood astonish'd to see so soon and so advantagiously accomplish'd Behold how the Affairs of this Court are carried on and directed to such ends as was the least thought of by all by very few known to be certainly in persuit only there was some discourse of it indeed in the Court. The Duke upon his coming was very graciously receiv'd by the King and likewise so well from his Sister that he commenced Servant to her from this time At this time it was the King being now gone to besiege a Town that was yet on the Party of the Duke of Mayen that Madam d'Gabrielle was brought to Bed of a * The Son borne by Madam d'Gabrielle upon which she was made Marchioness of Beaufort was afterwards the Duke Vendosme Son At which the King conceives so great a Joy that he causeth her to quit her Name and assume the Title of Marchioness of Beaufort And began not to love her more because his love was before so extream it could receive no augmentation but more to Esteem her Honour and Respect her Seeing her self in this condition she began to search out all means to hinder her Marriage and to assume to her self higher Expectations Her Councellour her Aunt Madam d'Sourdis insinuating into her that she might arrive to better Fortunes And her Gallant the old Chancellour of Chiverney gave her likewise useful Councels towards this end which she began in good earnest to execute making Friends for her support and establishing and preferring those that depended upon her and endeavouring by her Friends to perswade the Queen to break a Marriage from which she could expect nothing but much uneasiness and mistrust But for this time could gain nothing upon her Spirits In the mean time there is a Reconciliation twixt Bellgard and his Mistress who had so strong an inclination to Love him and be Beloved of him that she help'd to deceive her self even when she knew he flattered her for which cause he was the more industrious seeing her now more Puissant than ever The Sister of the King and the Duke of Guise hid now no more their Passion and the Duke began to take ill Bellgard's often Visits to his Lodgings who notwithstanding his Service for the new Marchioness of Beaufort could not wholly relinquish his Amour with

Madamoiselle d'Guise his Sister the Duke taking notice of his frequent Visits at his Lodgings resents it and began to examine the cause in so much that Madamoiselle d'-Guise who feared her Brother might make some Rumour of it abroad gives Advertisement of it to Bellgard who a little pausing upon it with himself had recourse to the Duke of Nevers for Advice The Duke informs him of the most proper Expedient that in his present Circumstances he could use which was That some distant Service might be allotted in order to his remove from the King to the Duke of Guise which he advises may be the Government of Province and engageth himself to employ his Interest towards the accomplishment of it if it should not be opposed by the Marchioness of Beaufort Bellgard therefore assured of his Friend speaketh of it to her taking occasion from the Affection she bore to this Prince to tell her it was now so publickly known that it was even come to the King's Ear to which it gave such offence that in her own Justification she ought at least to sollicite his remove to some distant Service which his Courage rendred him so capable of for the King and propos'd the Government of Province In short he manag'd his Business with so good a Conduct that the Duke of Guise was soon dispatch'd for Province But for what happen'd there I must refer you to the Historians The King's Sister infested with this Accident recurrs to another Object the Duke of Espernon a Man brave though in his Age and had acquir'd the Favour of the last King being by him preferr'd to great Honours and Dignities This lasted till her Marriage with the Duke of Barr to whom she was soon after actually married and conducted into his own Country The Marchioness of Beaufort remaining for this time the sole Mistress of the Court. Now the Duke of Bellgard fearing least his love to the Dutchess of Guise should occasion him to lose his first Mistress resolves to introduce a good Correspondency betwixt them and seeing he could do what he pleas'd with the Marchioness he perswades her since she was likely to be Queen it might advance him to a Station in which he might be more Serviceable to her if he could espouse Madamoiselle d'Guise However if she could not approve of the Marriage it self yet the pretext of it would be a plausible means to remove the King's Suspicion which he had already entertain'd and into which it was more than probable he might again relaspe and farther told her that the Suspicion of the King was a great stop to his Preferment and that whatsoever in appearance he might do yet she knew that his Heart was still with her In brief he knew so well how to Cajole her that she resolv'd to give Countenance to Madamoiselle d'Guise who Was glad to obtain a good Understanding with a Person of her Quality and so Engagingly deported her self that she indear'd the Marchioness to so extraordinary a Kindness for her that they not only dress'd every day alike but was as it were knit like Joynt-Twins inseperably together This blinded for a while the King and diverted the Suspicion that he began to have But one of his Vale d'Chambers having seen a Letter which Bellgard writ to the Marchioness which he had found one morning when she was ill upon her Twy-light where Arphure had left it not believing that any one should have to do so early in the Room he commanded him to have an Eye upon them Which doing and believing like a good Servant that his Master was espous'd to this Lady and imagining that he saw Bellgard one night entring in with her he gives advice immediately of it to the King who presently sends Praslin the afterwards Marshall of France one of the Captains of his Guard to Sacrifice him in the Chamber Praslin was much surpriz'd at this Command and the Love he had for them both made it very ungrateful but however he must go He takes with him such a number of the Guards as he thought fit that was walking in the Hall takes so far a way about and makes so much noise that he found no body at his entrance into the Room but Madam Beaufort alone to whom he delivers his Message Who seeing him so unwilling to surprize them promises never to forget so great a Kindness and the Dutchess of Guise that was also privy to this action conceiv'd so good an Opinion of him for it that she assisted him in his progress to those signal Preferments which he afterwards enjoy'd till his Death Madam d'Beaufort in the interim complains mightily of the Jealousies of the King at which the King seeming to be sensible of and relent her wrong promiseth her that it should be never the worse with her for it But ceases not a little to Reproach her with Bellgard's Letter which she swore she had not read and justifi'd her self which was not very difficult to do very well to the King. Though Bellgard himself found so ill a Treatment upon it that he was forc'd to absent himself from the Court and with no less a Condition than that he should never presume to return again till he was Marry'd and brought his Wife with him to the Court. The Duke of Nevers his supporting Friend was dead and Madam d Beaufort found it too ill taken when she spoke for him that his shortest and best course was to Obey what was Commanded though it was with the greatest Regret During this Voyage a * The Wife to the Constable of Montmorancy was Louise of Budos Vicount of Portes and of Catherine d'Clermont Wife of the Constable of Montmorancy's whom he had lately Marry'd came to the Court a Lady who by the Excellency or perhaps rather novelty of her Beauty attracted the Eyes and Hearts of the Men and by so doing the Envy of the Ladies though perhaps through the natural height of her Temper as well as of the exalted pre-eminency of her Place regardless of both she as much undervalu'd the hatred of the Ladies as the addresses of the Men. The King also himself was a little touch'd for which I suppose the Marchioness will not pardon him However it hinders him not from taking all the occasions of manifesting his Affection to this new Beauty Sacred and Inviolable is the Prerogative of Kings and Unlimited especially in that of Loving whom they please and the Marchioness must not oppose it Though Madam de Montmorancy suffers it more to excite Envy from the Ladies than for any Pleasure that she could take in it being not only lov'd but ador'd by the Marquess of Biron a Son of Mars who had acquir'd the greatest Reputation for Arms of any one of his time But oh Unhappy Fortune the admired Beauty doth no sooner as it were show her self to the World but she goes out of it again in one of her Child-beds yet leaving two such fair Copies of her Excellencies behind