all she could offer me Disloyal Lady said I what would you have with me How wretched am I to have bin the witness of what I have seen She held me by one arm but not able to listen to her nor see her longer I snatched away from her mounted again my Horse and taking the road towards Havre returned to the Camp My melancholly was too great to be concealed 'T was thought to proceed because the English had not addressed themselves to treat with me when my Battery was neerer advanced then any other but the true cause was never guest at and you your self were deceived as well as others What lamentable reflexions did I make on my adventure no cruel thought nor just suspition but represented to me Madam de Brions crime and made me judge my self the most unhappy Man living because I still loved her guilty as she was Sometimes my Anger gained the day against my Love but in few minutes my Love again vanquished my Anger yet I would listen to no justification she writ to me but I sent back her Letters without opening them and made her judge by all my proceedings that I broke off all Commerce the time for giving judgement on our wager was above a month expired I was content to have lost but it madded me to lose by the treason of a Person I so well loved The Siege ended the King you know went to Roen to be declared Major and thither came the Admirale whom I took no notice of amongst all the Feasts Rejoycings and Delights Madam D'Aumale continued her endeavours to seduce a Heart I designed to keep at rest since the Person to whom I had given it so ill treated it in a time when I least deserved her rigor I withstood her kindnesses best by the care I took to shun her that was enough to tell her I could not love but my indifference increased her passion Madam de Brion could not without jealousie behold all the Dutchess did to engage me she would not yet lose me and at last found out the secret to make me return She nick'd the time to a hair for I was just ready to comply with Madam D'Aumale's love and one day more had put me quite out of her reach Fontpertuis whom she had instructed what to say to me talked a long time with me at the Ball at first I had refused to hear her believing her an accomplice in the Admirales infidelity but at length my anger abated and she made me consent to come and see her on the morrow Madam D'Aumale who was still in hopes her Beauty would at last affect me seeing the discourse held between me and Fontpertuis feared something was contriving contrary to her desires and therefore came to interrupt us but my resolution was taken and having promised to see the Admirale what ever kind or endearing things the Dutchess could say drew from me no other answer then a sigh She began to complain of my filence and I know not how I should have justified it had not Prince Portian come up to my relief he left Madam D'Aumale no more that evening and the company breaking up I retired not yet dreaming which way the Admirale would justifie her self She had made Fontpertuis say a thousand things to me not at all relating to the infidelity I accused her of I thought onely to see her to make a tryal whether there were yet in my heart any love remaining for her On the morrow I forgot not the hour appointed I was brought to her chamber by Fontpertuis and I found her to have dismissed all other business onely to entertain me she appeared wonderful handsom and every look had a charm and so much was I bewitched with her Air Action and Carriage that I had nothing more to desire to make me happy but only to be perswaded of her innocence and now we were alone What you will forsake me then said she and can you thus easily resolve to relinquish a passion begun with so much Eagerness Fervency and Delight Alas Madam said I you snatch it from me by the uncertainty wherein you leave me of your Faith and I restore it you said she by an assurance I never betray'd you You cannot say so much to me the Beauty and Kindness of Madam D'Aumale have made you forget what was due to my Love even in a time when I loved you told you so and that you were sensible of it and this in my own house and in my own fight What Treasons have you not been guilty of to me yet I forgave you writ to you you come and have scarce seen me but you rudely leave me without giving me time to convince you of the injustice of your suspicions since my arrival you have never come nigh me have searce been heard pronounce my name nay have shun'd the very sight of me Go you cannot love me ingrateful Man that you are as she ended these words I saw a Man coming in by the Closet door with his sword drawn I knew not at first what to think of it but turning towards the Admirale I could hear her cry out See there that dangerous Rival robs you of my heart if you still love me you will defend your self against him I was sat with one of my Arms thrown over the back of the Chair and in that posture surveyed this Man whose fury had methought little terror in it at length I thought it to be Fontpertuis disguised and it was she indeed who as Madam de Brion told me I had under the same Masque taken for a beloved Rival when I came from the Siege of Havre to see her My suspitions being thus blown over 't was now my part to clear those the Admirale had against me What had passed on the Terrace of Orange Trees she could scarce forget but now I was in love and was loved again it proved no hard matter to justify my self we renewed again a fair correspondence and Fontpertuis perswaded us 't was the best way to banish all complaints and let old suspitions give place to Love We had no small Interest to believe her and we did so She then proposed giving judgement who had won the wager At that I looked on Madam de Brion and perceived she blusht and stood silent I drew a good Omen from her blushes and no longer doubted but my happiness was neer I beg'd her to consent to Judgement she turned onely her Eies towards me and sighed That answer had a charm passed sweetly unto my soul and made me feel an unexpressible delight Fontpertuis knowing the favourable thoughts the Admirale had for me asked both her and me if we would stand to her judgement Yes yes we will stand to it said I judge us Madam Brion cryed out it was not fair I should answer for her without consulting her mind and would have withstood the sentence but I entreated her so well that she was appeased Whereupon Fontpertuis putting on the
would not want advice of the assistance he gave him Bussy impatiently endured what Ligneroles said and parry'd most part of the thrusts made at him The Duke of Guise chancing at this moment to pass by took their part the four men yielded to the courage and constancy of the Duke Bussy and Ligneroles they fled in disorder some of them wounded and one of them was taken by Bussy's servants whom Ligneroles let go against the Dukes mind not doubting but from him might be learned the first authors of this attempt But Bussy and Ligneroles who judged it commanded by the King drew off the Duke from those suspicions he might have had by feigning a Family quarrel which they would revenge This assassinate made a great noise and Monsieur talked publick That he made Ligneroles case his own but in private he said otherwise He knew from whence the blow came and Dâ—gua who was beginning to enter into his favor and who was gained by the King had made him approve the design conceived for the killing Ligneroles at his coming out of the Gardens of Soissons The King who was violent in the first eruptions of his anger was about to command mand the arresting of Bussy for assisting Ligneroles and whom he believed had betrayed his secret but the esteem he had for him banished this design of revenge The Duke of Guise had no share in the Kings resentments not being at all faulty Bussy came that Evening to the Louvre and saw the King who received him with many praises for the action he had done though he did not approve it but he undershood dissimulation On the morrow Bussy sent to request of the Lady Mareshale he might have the honor to kiss her hands he had never spoke to her since she had forbid him seeing her She was full of anger and of shame and could not prevail over her heart to bring it to that indifference she desired which hindered her agreement to Bussy's request Just as her answer was brought to him Ligneroles came into his Chamber understood it and assured him he would omit nothing possible for him to do to procure him an enterview with the Mareshale It is hard to be obliged for such a kindness to a Rival but Bussy was constrained to it Ligneroles was still of the same mind not to retire from Court and Bussy argued hard against a resolution which had no other foundation then Monsieurs Friendship on which he had much less reason to conside then on a provident and quick withdrawing which was the onely way to fecure him Ligneroles came to the Mareshale and at first pleaded in vain on Bussy's behalf but at last she consented to see him She after asked him who were those had assaulted him he would not tell her the secret but he told her that without Bussy's assistance he had been in very great danger and that the Duke of Guise had likewise defended him It was agreed between them that Bussy should come after Supper and that on condition he brought him which he did She was beginning to be undrest and desired him to be present at their entertainment to deprive Bussy of the happiness he might find in seeing and discoursing her alone which Bussy feared but Ligneroles who would not be genenous by halfs civilly retired and by his retreat left him full liberty to see speak and he heard She went for a moment into the Alcove to change her shift whilst Bussy staid looking on a Picture of a Mignon love which endeavored to climb to the top of a Rock he drew a Pencil out of his Pocket to write I shall drrive when the Mareshale gave a great shriek and came running almost naked into his arms Such a sight would certainly affect one indifferent what then could be Bussy's thoughts who was in love He stopt her asking the cause of her sright and endeavoring to reassure her but he perceived she swounded and was in condition to create extasies of love So that Bussy suckt in pleasures at his eyes their employment was to him obliging and charming and they showed him curious things it is impossible to express the sweet and tender motions of his Soul love onely can do it but love is discreet and tells not all it feels L'Hermite who was as fraid as her Lady was fled to call other Maids to her assistance whilst Bussy endeavored to bring her to her self They entred readily into the Chamber followed by Ligneroles who being got onely to the Stairs foot ran back in hast to know the reason of the noise he heard How was he surprised How astonished And how afflicted all at once to see the Mareshale in the arms of one she loved What jealous thoughts did not this sight inspire him with He believed himself unhappy but what thought he not of the happiness of his Rival Yet those thoughts gave place to others more sad and grievous when he perceived that all Bussy's trouble proceeded from the Mareshales swounding They put her in Bed and soon after she opened her eyes and her fright being allayed Ligneroles and he withdrew The Mareshale had as was well known a strong natural antipathy against Spiders of which she could tell no cause she then saw one on the Hanging and saved her self whereever she could and L'Hermite sharing in her Mistress fright fled as I said before On the morrow Bussy returned with design to see her but the shame and confussion wherein she was to be seen in a condition so contrary to Modesty made her resolve to refuse a pleasure she would gladly have received under pretence of not being well recovered from her fright He divined one part of her thoughts but unwilling to be a second time obliged to Ligneroles and trusting in Neufville he gave him Commission to let the Mareshale know he had some important business to discourse with her Neufville did it but not being happy in serving his Friend he in vain attempted to perswade her she ought to hear what Bussy had to say to her In the mean time Bussy was to be pittied he had not onely the pangs of his love and the cruelties of the Mareshale to groan under but must likewise endure all that grief caused by Ligneroles his misfortune The Duke of Guise assisted by the Counsels of Madam de Bonneval who he had formerly loved and who was still his friend neglected nothing he thought might make him be beloved This Prince was young brave ambitious and handsome every way lovely and deserving but to what end were all these great qualities whilst he was not beloved and yet made all his happiness consist in the being so But in a Conference he had his love changes object it was with his Uncle the Cardinal of Lorrain who having already broke off the Match between Madame and the King of Portugal would do the like with the King of Navarre and by his credit with Queen Katherine of Medices marry her to his Nephew The
her cunning becoming fruitless on the Mareshales part she attempted to succeed by Neufvilles who assisted but two much with his love all being fittingly disposed for the design by her contrived she sends an express to Grillon with Letters which he received at Orleans after Ligneroles death was known at Paris at which the Mareshale was very lively afflicted but had the satisfaction to know that she could not alone grieve his death whom all the world lamented Bussy received a Letter by Grillon from Madam de Bonneval which gave him notice of the infidelity of the Mareshale After he had made Grillon read it what shall I do said he this unlooked for misfortune over-whelms me and in the condition I am I know not what to resolve Grillon seemed at first as troubled as he but at length counselled him to make hast to Paris and above all things convince himself of the matter Bussy approved Grillons advice and sent back the Express empty Being come to Paris Madam de Bonneval who was content with Grillons love received him like a lover she bated not and he appeared not unworthy her reception However though she gave him a thousand testimonies of her trust and kindness yet she never let him know either her anger or design of revenge on Bussy she spoke of him with esteem she seemed earnest to serve him and it was she had advised him of his Mistress treason We are less sensible of any affront then that committed against our love That offence is most cruel and he that receives it without deserving it has strange griefs to undergo In the midst of all these perplexities his love still subsisted and the inclinations of his heart told him sufficiently that he must still love though he knew himself forsaken Then thinking of his unknown Rival who had snatched from him what had cost him so much to seek after fain would he have found out who this happy man should be but would never have guest Neufville whom he believed his friend tell he was disabused the next morning when Madam de Bonneval made Grillon tell him she desired to speak with him He came at the hour appointed and without stopping at the unnecessary circumstances of this interview I will onely tell you that she hid Bussy and that soon after Neufville entred he had a Black Satten Suit Embroidered with Silk of the same and between space and space might be seen double L L in Embroidery of Pearls Bussy at first sight guest not what those Cifers meant but he soon found out they were the Mareshales who was of the House of Lustrac She was not long ere she came and Madam de Bonneval feigning to order her head tire at the Glass Bussy over-heard the Mareshale say to Neufville I fear least you undertake to please me you must succeed in it your manners are so obliging you are so ingenuous and complaisant and have so much estimable merit that I fear I cannot resist it Change your procedure it is too winning and know that I will not be affected These words were pronounced by a delicate mouth and the fairest eyes in the World glanced favorably on Neufville and Bussy believed all this due onely to his love Have no care nor complaisance for me continued she nor prefer me before all other Ladies nor shall I be so weak to love you for it How happy was Neufville And how desperate grew Bussy He was in the mind to come forth and upbraid the perfidiousness of his Friend and Mistress but knowing that it is love always makes reproaches and complaints he withdrew without hearing out the remainder of their discourse which he believed he could not quietly listen to The Mareshale knew not of his return no more then did Neufville About twenty paces from the Mareshales Bussy met Chateauneuf who desirous to know some news from the Court and to tell him that Neufville was his Rival carried him to the Tuilleries whither he had designed to go Whilst he walked two turns with her he gave her an accompt of all she desired to know and told her so respectively that he would never love that she had not the power to complain of a Man she could not hate In vain would she have disswaded him from loving the Mareshale he remained constant though he thought himself not obliged to do so As soon as Neufville was parted from Madam de Bonnevals House the Mareshale and she came to the Tuilleries they discerned Chateauneuf at a great distance and the nigher they drew the more Madam de Bonneval obliged the Mareshale to observe that the man was with her did much resemble Bussy She granted the resemblance but could hardly believe she saw him till Bussy and Chateauneuf turned towards them the Mareshale blushed at the sight of her lover he passed by her with much respect and could not forbear looking after her but he spoke not and continued his walk with Chateauneuf Madam de Bonneval whose design was to increase the Mareshales grief put her in mind how she would not believe her when she had formerly told her Bussy loved Chateauneuf Ingrateful Man said she to her do you see in what manner he treats you after all this can you love him to be in Paris without seeing you and publickly sacrifice your love at the feet of your Rival Alass said she I feel all you can instil into me but let me suffer and complain I have no need of your Counsels and will onely follow the dictates of my own heart Bussy at his return home told Grillon all he had seen and heard at Madam de Bonnevals So great a cause of despair in so constant a Passion the Treason of the Mareshale and the death of Ligneroles infinitely perplexed him and created sufferings he could hardly undergo sometimes he was resolved to love no more but to seek in a quiet Retreat the Remedy of so many Griefs Grillon told him that was to yield the Mareshale to Neufville and that he ought to make her return either for glory or for loves sake but he was too incensed to follow this advice Some days after the Court arrived at Paris with the Queen of Navarre who joyned it at what time it was at Bloys The ties of Friendship and Interest which had formerly been between the late King of Navarre and the Mareshale de St. Andre had made her have a great esteem for his Person after his death she had preserved for the Mareshale the same thoughts she had had for her Husband she Commanded her to see her often and had no cause to blame her neglects for that she seldom was from that Queen but shared in all her divertisements and all her pleasures Queen Catherine of Medices mortally hated her she knew that Jean of Albret had remonstrated to the King of Navarre that he might be chosen Head of that Faction divided France if he knew how to make use of the occasion of taking the Authority into his
you and I should do very prudently in following these Maximes 'T was thus she concluded the discovery of her passion The same day that the King arrived at Blois where the Articles of the Treaty of Peace were at last decided by which the Hugonots obtained the greatest part of their desires The Marriage of the King of Navarre was likewise agreed on and a Courier sent to Jane D'Albret Queen of Navarre to advertise her of it and to press her coming to Blois whither the Court was onely come for the easier accommodating the affairs of that Marriage and the Peace Monsieur went every other day to see Chateauneuf at Orleans her Feavor having left her she was carried back to Paris by direction of the Physitians Bussy and Ligneroles led a sad life at Blois and the destiny of the happiest was so averse that he believed himself most to be pittied and lamented They were one evening in the Garden but apart Grillon was with Bussy to whom he was showing a Letter he had received from Madam de Bonneval Ligneroles who walked alone and was somewhat near them seeing a Letter in Bussy's hands believed it came from the Mareshale If I could hate you said he drawing towards him I should not be so unhappy and perhaps the pleasure of revenging my self on a Rival that triumphs over me would help me to support with less grief the cruelties of the Mareshale There was said Bussy but one way wherein I desired to be Master I hoped all from my Love and from her I love but you have deprived me of the only good could make me happy by telling me my happiness makes you despair you that are loved you that know it and to whom it has not only been told in my presence but you have likewise received a favour which was only due to my love alas 't is of that cruel favour I complain replyed Ligneroles I am sensible it was designed for you I was not used to be so treated and had I had my choice should rather have been content with usual and known rigors then a moments kindness received from chance and not from the heart of the Mareshale Hitherto said Bussy interrupting we have lived rather like Friends then Rivals let us continue to do so Grillon is not to be suspected we may freely speak our thoughts before him To show you I approve what you say replyed Ligneroles I am about to tell you that not being able to resolve on my departure without having some privacy with the Mareshale I went to kiss her hands that evening the fire took in her Lodgins That accident so affrighted her that she swounded but I suspected not the true cause of it till an hour after I made a show of being gone and hid my self L'Hermite came to search among the ruines of the Chamber and I thought I heard her name you I guess'd it not impossible but you might be stayed at Paris and in the Lady Mareshales house though you were believed to be gone Alas I was but too certain of it some time after I saw come forth the Mareshale with L'Hermite who told her there was no doubt to be made but you perished in the Flames of the Closet her Tears affected me and I was just about to discover my self when you appeared and seeking a place to hide my self turned back into a Chamber and sate me down neer a Press What could I think of your return and of the kindness of the Mareshale when she came up to me Ah Ligneroles said Bussy interrupting him tell me not that I wish I had never known then he related to him all had happened with her and perceiving his thughts concerning Grillons Letter prayed him to show the Character but Ligneroles would not see it Bussy having assured him that it was not from the Mareshale having thus cleared their suspitions they parted with such expressions of Esteem and Friendship that Grillon was amazed to think how Rivals could live in such good intelligence but these were no common Men. 'T was now Bathing-time Bussy who was prescribed it went every night so did the King and most part of the Court He scarce knew how to swim but trusting to his little cunning ventured out of his depth and the stream carried him away he strove against it and endeavoured to regain the shore but all his striving was in vain in the end he grew weaker and weaker breath and motion failed him and he was ready to sink to the bottom when a Man swimming with skill and strength div'd so luckily after him that in a moment he rose again holding Bussy Every one cryed out assoon as they perceived the danger but 't was Ligneroles outstript all that would have saved him and repaid Bussy the succor he had once given him He was carried home having scarce any sence and 't was Grillon told him how Ligneroles had saved him he came to him soon after and what they said was worthy of what they had done the one for the other The Court had then resolved to depart within two days for Borgueil though Bussy was not in a condition to goe within those two days yet he would have followed it but Ligneroles and Grillon opposed it His Grief was not so great to hinder the thinking of his Love The Mareshale was innocent he had offended her in coming away against her Orders and without telling the cause and had neither writ to Madam de Bonneval nor to Neufville he resolved to go assoon as he was recovered and repair his fault with so much service that she should lose the memory of it With his hopes in a short time to see the Mareshale there grew up a melancholly he could not suppress Ligneroles was the cause of it his Merits his generous Thoughts and the greatness of his Soul all troubled him not that he had not a Rival he might hate but that he had a friend whom he was not in a condition to serve and make happy These sad thoughts were his entertainers one morning when Grillon came back to Blois and told him Ligneroles was killed as he was Hunting and that within five hundred paces of the King The grief he conceived at his death is not to be imagined he would have risen and returned to the Court made open complaints and thrown out reproches and threats but what would they have done are the Great obliged to give an account of their actions or agrees it not with their interest and authority to punish Pride and Insolence The King would doubtless have chastis'd this in Bussy had he had the boldness to speak but Grillons good Counsels hindred his going and on the morrow he went with him towards Paris Madam de Bonneval made use of Bussy's absence she omitted no occasion of blaming his carriage and forgetfulness The Mareshale for the most part heard her but without answering her and made her judge by her manner of acting that she was kind and constant
he loved him tenderly and he knew that his inclinations to love were often hurtful to his affairs He got rid of Myrto who was come that day from Athens to fetch him back and coming without any attendance to the Philosophers Grove he found the Astrologess beginning to grumble at the Stars that Alcibiades was so long a coming she believed her cause of grief was ceased when she perceived Socrates It was dark and the Philosopher who would not show himself till it were to purpose slipt among the Trees Aglaonice follows his track coughing twice or thrice to discover her self and seeing that signal ineffective Alcibiades said she to Socrates in a tone which her vexation changed from her usual voice is it for tryal of me that you flie me thus The Philosopher ashamed at the impudence of this unknown Lady stop'd to reproach her for it Aglaonice perceiving he staid and as she thought for her run to him with open Arms but was suddenly stop'd by a Woman who rushing from behind a Tree thrust her self between her and him she took for Alcibiades This Woman was Myrto who finding her Husband absent and learning at his Countrey House that he was gone to the Academy had followed him at a distance to pry into his actions and see what she could discover When she had this Reason by the Action of Aglaonice to believe it was an Amorous Rendezvous And is it thus Socrates said she you prepare to dispute for Wisdom against its opposers must there be an intrigue of Gallantry to dispose your Soul to the defence of Vertue and do you employ that time you feign to dedicate to the study of Philosophy in making your self unworthy the name of a Philosopher The name of Socrates informing Aglaonice of her mistake she was thinking of a prudent reatreat when Plato the beloved Scholar of Socrates appeared to hinder her he had lost some Notes which he much valued and came to see if they might not be let fall in the Academy whether he remembred to have brought them and because it was dark he had brought a Torch in his hand That light discovered the Astrologess before she could escape It is not easie to imagine the Philosophers surprise at this apparition How cryed he is it you Aglaonice who have made an assignation with Alcibiades The disorder the Astrologess was in joyned with the words she had uttered assured Socrates of a truth she had not the power to confess the Philosopher soon dived into the secret of this intrigue Alcibiades was too dainty to court a Creature of Aglaonices make Socrates remembred what he had said coming from her house in the Phrygian habit Aglaonice feeble Aglaonice said he sighing thou destroy'st in a moment the precautions of many years At these words he runs towards Timandra's that quarter of Athens wherein stood the Astrologesses house was not very far from the Academy Myrto followed him for some paces continuing her clamors but he vouchsafed not a word to appease her nay scarcely did he perceive his Wife speak so strongly had his suspitions seiz'd his spirit He found Alcibiades still with Timandra he was so charmed with the sight of her that neither policy in him nor prayers from her could make him consent to leave it There is Tyranny in what you have done said Socrates in an angry manner You snatch from me a secret I would have kept and without respect to that friendship should be so dear to you refuse me the first compliance I ever exacted from yours 'T is not that friendship Socrates makes you thus hot said Alcibiades interrupting him your anger would have been better moderated had it had so easie a cause but Socrates you love Timandra I ever mistrusted it the disorder wherein now you appear confirms all my suspitions It was most certain as Socrates had protested to the prying Alcibiades that he did not believe he loved Timandra he had that confidence in his wisdom gave him not leisure to examine himself on this point but his friends reproach forcing him to a sudden review of himself he found his precaution was strong Jealousie and examining the dreadful fears he had had least Timandra should love or be beloved he found out that nothing but love could create such violent apprehensions he let himself fall into a Chair more concerned with what he began to discover then a criminal at the reading his sentence and looking on Alcibiades with an anger mixed with kindness which at the same time drew Compassion and Jealousie from his friend What have I done to you Alcibiades said he thus to stir up in my Brest thoughts I knew not of and which prove most cruel because they can be no longer unknown I have loved you better then you have loved your self I have hazarded my life my credit and the esteem of all Athens to maintain your interests I have opposed your weaknesses and frailties with all my power and when I could not master them have concealed them Ingrateful Alcibiades why should you discover mine If I love not Timandra you injure my reputation in accusing me and if I love her as I begin to fear I do you transgress against friendship by exposing your self to the hazard of being my Rival Withdraw your self from this danger Alcibiades and whether you regard me as a Philosopher who would preserve his Schollar exempt from Passion or whether you regard me as a faithful friend who merits some compliance Withdraw your self and see Timandra no more I esteem your Philosophy too much said Alcibiades interrupting him to do it this injustice it is fit it should triumph over those desires have the boldness to contend with it Stand out then Socrates and stand out with success you will sully the glory of your life if you leave Posterity to believe that the voluptuous Alcibiades had gain'd over himself what you dare not enterprise on yours Socrates was not pleased with these Reasonings he would have sacrificed all his reputation of Wisdom to the priviledge of loving Timandra without disturbance but Alcibiades keeping firm to his Proposition Socrates was constrained to submit Alcibiades loved Timandra and Timandra loved him These Precepts of Wisdom so carefully instilled and which a long habitude seemed to have made impregnable against all Protestations and Assiduities yielded at the first assaults of Alcibiades 'T was for this Timandra he died some time after as the Historian of his life tell us and if I may believe my satyrical memories it was the displeasure that Socrates conceived at this adventure made him meet death with such constancy The Astrologess was fain to call the Stars to her defence for the Heart they had made her hope for but when we are reduced to make use of such Cautions we find often the Stars but very ill security I will leave her to consult her Books about their deceit and pass to the Loves of some great Captains which may ease my stile of that preciseness
many following but intrusted Munatius with Justification She protested that Hortensius was in the House without being sent for and if she swore truth she was not resolved to speak to him when she had seen him but onely to break off all commerce for the future She acknowledged she had been sensible of his merits and declared likewise to Munatius all I have told you of the secret of the intrigue but she protested that sensibility had still been kept within the bounds of desire without ever coming to act I should possibly have become less severe in time added she had I given my self over to the inclinations of my heart that secreet esteem which I dispensed with had gained more power then I perceived or thought of and it was to reduce it to its duty that I was forbidding Hortensius my sight when Cato surprised us together swear on my part That all our discource tended to this prohibition and if the sincerity you may have observed in the Confessions I make you deserve any trust with you procure me the favor of Cato and be assured he shall never have cause to repent it Munatius acquitted himself faithfully of the Commission he had received he endeavored to justifie what was past and forgot nothing to make me hope better for the future but both his Zeal and his Eloquence were fruitless I had loved Martia too well to be reclaimed from a suspition that he had betrayed me I would repudiate her and had been hurried to some more memorable revenge had I been governed by my own thoughts For I imagined in these occasions my fury was to take its dimentions from my love and that the life of Martia was the onely fit sacrifice to the Passion I had for her Munatius who was not of my mind opposed my Severity with all the Reasons he could alledge The Evil Cato said he which you complain of is not an evil in effect 't is onely a Chimera founded upon your imagination Hortensius was as much beloved by your Wife before your Voyage to Cyprus as he is at present If that Mans happiness were to be regarded by you as a real evil you would have felt the rigor of it more then than now yet you then thought to enjoy a perfect happiness and now account your self the most unfortunate of all Men. Are your Wives merits at all angmented Are the Laws of Marriage changed In short What is happened should disturb your mind more now then at that time I know now my misfortunes and I could wish to be ignorant of them answered I very sadly You see then continued Munatius that your grief is onely a fancy you are wounded now at this time I speak to you 't would be in vain to conceal your Wound from you you see it you feel it and 't is that we may call a true grief but to give that name to a thing you have born several years without being sensible of it believe me Cato is to subvert all Rules of Philosophy I could no longer hear these Arguments Martia had betrayed me and I would be revenged and whatever withstood my vengeance seemed contrary to Reason Munatius bethought himself of a secret to reclaim my understanding he feigned to submit to my obstinacy and proposing to me the Marriage of Hortensius with Martia as a punishment of their crime perswaded me I might better revenge my self this way then any other The jealousie of Husbands never breaks forth says he but to their shame and disparagement their violence aggravates their grief and their fury ill trained in the art of satisfaction serves onely to adorn that triumph it would prevent let not Hortensius have the glory to pass in Rome for the favored Gallant of Cato's Wife the opinion had of Mans happiness is often more essential then happiness it self Why should you procure it for your rival Rather make him share the danger to which he has exposed you he deserves at best no better then Cato Martia will doubtless treat him as she has treated you or were he so happy to escape it he will at least feel the discontent to imagine you despise Martia since you quit her to him that very thought will lessen his happiness 'T is small satisfaction to the vanity of mankind to be themselves perswaded of the value of what they possess If all the world think it not precious and your seeming indifference creating a real disgust in the heart of this new Husband he will be the revenger of Martia's disloyalty whilst she revenges you on Hortensius rashness I surrendred to these Reasons and Munatius undertaking the management of it that so singular Marriage which Antiquity has no example for and which I believe will be as rare in times to come was concluded in the manner I have told you I signed to my Wives Contract Hortensius received her from my hand as if she had been my Daughter and they lived as peaceably together as if I had been dead or Martia never the Wife of Cato And would you take this Wife again cryed Pompey when Cato had finished his story I would neither take her nor any other if I could dispence with it replied Cato But suppose I were necessitated to marry and that Martia would return to me she has given me such prejudice against all her Sex that I believe all Women equally unperfect and if misfortune on misfortune must come that we are prepared for is more supportable then that surprises us I know not replied Pompey interrupting him Whether the jealousie of Lovers be more violent then that of Husbands But Flora found not me so tractable as Martia is like to find you Pray said Cato since we are upon the recital of these secret intrigues let me hear the sum of that story Flora was but a Curtizan but by her beauty became so famous that her love to you is none of the least presents you have received from your good Fortune and the secret of your breach with her has come to the knowledge of so few that I shall be highly obliged if you intrust me with it I care not for falling into that Discourse replied Pompey it is not for Flora's advantage and though 't is true she was but a Curtizan yet I once so dearly loved her I still preserve a respect for her but it is fit I sacrifice something to the desires of Cato nor shall it ever be said I refused the first mark of friendship demanded after our reconciliation 'T is difficult to define that Love agrees with my Nature it has all the violencies of debauchery and yet has ever been restrained within the bounds of Vertue 'T is a conjugal tie must put a stop to my Heart and where other Mens desires enter into their Tomb and are buried mine receive Spring and Life I showed such overflowings of Passion to Antistia my first Wife That People of my Age reproached me with it as an extremity of weakness I had been no
all that Evening Madam de Brion observed what I did I perceived it but I forbore not discoursing with the Dutchess On the morrow the Duke came to visit the Admiral I happened to be there and having observed her more nearly then at the Ball began to suspect her already in a condition to make me lose my wager the loss was considerable and many reasons obliged me to prevent it Mean time the Prince prosecuted his love with Bourlemont and his endeavors were not successless he had the satisfaction to know she did not hate him he let me know his happiness and not trusting to any other the secret of his Passion gave me a Letter for her but I lost it and it unhappily fell into Madam de Brions hands who not knowing my Character thought after having read the following Lines I had deserted her for the Dutchess You unjustly accuse me with loving the Admiral have a better opinion of your own Beauty and my Faith and think not I can love by halves 'T is possible I may have given occasion for your suspitions by those enterviews you have seen between us but believe me they were not all on the score of love and when their causes shall be known you will repent you Injustice and I shall have the satisfaction not to have any cause to reproach you Though at the sight of this she dissembled a joy and content I found afterwards she had much ado to restrain her grief and anguish The Dutchess loved her very well and that she might have the more of her company she left her Lodgings and went to sojourn at Madam D'Aumales during her stay at Orleans The first night she went to lie there there happened a tumult in the City One of the Duke D'Aumales servants quarrelled with a Citizen who was wholly interessed for the party and called him Rebel He could not endure that injury and the servant was very scurvily treated other servants came in to his aid and the Neighbors to the Citizens The quarrel grew general and the Citizens in great numbers pressed even to the Dukes Gates and entered them and their animosity made it be feared they would force in that tumultuous manner through all the Lodgings The Duke D'Aumale being with the Prince had news of the commotion and having told it me I made haste and came just at the instant they had past the Court and were breaking open the Dutchess Chamber I appeased the multitude and at my name the door was opened and I took the Dutchess and conveyed her out by a convenient postern I knew not that the Admiral had that night changed Lodings nor did the Dutchess tell me so till I had put her in a place of security Saint Cire whom I had made stay at the Dukes Lodgings to compleat the appeasing of the tumult took care of the Admiral and I returning immediately to see if I were obeyed was surprised to see Madam de Brion coming out with Saint Cire who was conducting her to the Princesses I excused my self not knowing her to have been at the Dutchesses she received my excuse very coldly yet upbraided me not but civilly dispenced with my attending her The Prince understanding from Bourlemont I had not given her his Letter asked me what I had done with it I told him how I had lost it and sought in vain for it in all places where I had been Bourlemont was mighty angry at my neglect fearing his privacies with the Prince might take air by it but I satisfied her by telling her none could suspect to whom it was writ being without superscription and the hand was so well counterfeited 't would rather be taken for mine then the Princes All which was but too true and that resemblance but too much justified when the Admirale saw in the Dutchess hands Verses she had prayed me to give her and which I had writ For my part I who suspected not Madam De Brions thoughts employed all my cares to incline her affection The Duke managed the same design and I often feared with better success then my self Though the Dutchess was still extreamly favourable to me yet I constrained my self not to perceive what she would have me see how easie had been my passage unto her Heart had I had a design to enter it All Prince Portiau's Merit had vanished for me and I plainly saw it must be my fault if I were not beloved by one of the fairest Persons of the world but I could not consent to it whilst my Love to the Admirale withstood it and I chose rather to be constant and unhappy with her then dearly beloved elsewhere My mind told me these thoughts ought to hope for some reward if they were but known but there was nothing beheld in me but Treason and Inconstancy and that was a strange kind of way to gain Love from any Person They were playing one night at the Princesses the Admirale was onely looking on and I thought it a convenient time to speak to her and having drawn her out of the hearing of the company I begin to apprehend said I that you will not love me and that I shall lose my wager but Madam is not the Duke D'Aumale the causer that reproach drew on hers and she appeared to me full of anger and jealousie and yet in the mixture I could discern some Love you will supply that loss with Madam D'Aumale said she and her Beauty will make good all you can lose by me Ah Madam 't is onely your heart I am ambitious of replyed I and though I cannot obtain it with all my sufferings I will never give you the pleasure to call me unfaithful You have fully done it already answered she with a disdainful smile but you deserve not I should complain of you that would be a mark of esteem and I have onely scorn for you I besought her to no purpose to explain why she treated me thus She returned to see them play and I withdrew satisfied to know a part of her thoughts but terribly afflicted at the reproach she made me The Duke D'Aumale having finished his Treaty with the Prince returned to Court The Dutchess at departure seeing me sad and melancholly attributed it to her self and obliged her thoughts with an opinion I was concerned for her The Admirale thought as she did and continued for some time that she staied at Orleans to shun my company and scorn me The Constable being brought back to the City the Prince and Princess went thence together with Madam de Brion She would not have seen me but I would wait on her on the way I expected at least some indifferent regards but I had not so much as that small content and believed my self unhappy Fontpertuis perceiving my grief made me assign to hope and I answered her by other signs My Brother the Admiral was come to Orleans one day before the Princes departure he was dissatisfied with the Treaty and would have had
opportunity Soon after my return to Tanlay the Duke and Dutchess of Aumale came thither the sight of my Rival troubled me as much as the Dutchesses I understood presently that the Duke could not pass by without seeing the Admirale and those desires made him submit to perswade the Dutchess to pass by Taulay which found in her a readier compliance out of hopes her Beauty and address might at last vanquish the indifference I had shewed towards her They stayed two days at my house where I entertained them with all the divertisements a Countrey House could afford in the best season of the year since 't was impossible for me to avoid conversing with the Dutchess she took her time when the Duke was otherwise imployed I found in her discourse so much love would have ravished me had it come from the Admirale what would not I have given to have heard her say halfe those kind things the Dutchess did You are pensive D'Andelot said she to me jogging me by the Arm and take no care to answer me I turned my self towards her sighing without thinking of it what would you have me answer Madam said I recollecting my self you cannot but think as well as I how little I deserve the respect you give me I could not have thought replied she there was a Man in the world so cruel or who had so great a value of himself as to slight the intreaties of one of my birth but you have made me believe there are such and I find it so great a torment as nothing can counterpoyse unless you change your thoughts Ah Madam cryed I interrupting her why cannot I love you or why may not I lay open to you the secrets of a heart I cannot give you for if I should divide it 't would give you continual cause of complaint and me no satisfaction No no said she I will have no divided heart and had much rather it should be all Madam de Brion's then I have but a part One of the Admirales Gentlemen came to interrupt us his message was to compliment the Dutchess on her arrival and to desire her to come and spend some few days in her House she was somewhat at a stand what to answer when the Duke who came up to us took the word out of her mouth and promised on the morrow to come wait upon her I perceived her discontent at the Dukes haste to leave Tanlay but now she must submit and I had too much interest to accompany her to omit it The Duke and Dutchess had Lodgings appointed them looking out upon a Terrace of Orange Trees as most of the rest do the Dutchess lay in one Chamber and the Duke in another by the side of it At Madam de Brions we received the news of the preparations made to besiege Havre de grace the English Forces were much feared the Prince was in League with them during the War and it was feared upon a breach they would send him considerable relief Orders being brought to me for the march of the Infantry I dispatched them to all places whither they were to be distributed and I made ready my Equipage to be in eight days at Soissons where the Rendezvous was appointed The Duke D'Aumale was much affected at the sight of Madam de Brion and I was as much pleased to know I was beloved The Dutchess easily spied out my joy and all I could do to conceal my happiness was of no proof against her jealousie which formed things bigger then they were The two moneths the Admirale and I had taken for the decision of our wager were now expired within four days I put her in mind of it she only blusht and answered nothing but her silence was a Million my Love understood it very well I was diligent to secure my Judges favour by that complaisance a faithful Lover should onely give to the Person he loved but Interest changes maximes of Love and that obliged me to treat thus with Fontpertuis to whom my kindness was but policy There were sent from Paris to Madam de Brion two China Gowns excellently stained with little Antick Figures which appeared the more admirable because Europe had seen so few of them She gave the finest to Madam D'Aumale who seeing the Admirale wore hers put it on the same day That Evening as we were all in the Garden and that walking in the Serene gave us a delight the heats of the day had robbed us of I coming near to Fontpertuis be sure to meet me said she on the Orange Terrace I have somewhat to say to you in behalf of I made her a sign to speak lower Madam d'Aumale being by us The Duke Amorous Zealous and withal ill treated talked of love with the Admirale Will you be always cruel Madam said he and never pitty what I suffer you will find much more sweetness in that amorous conversation I so sincerely propose then in that indifference hinders and by its niceness obstructs the injoyments of those pleasures love would confer but Madam d'Andelot loves you and can you be so insensible as you appear These words smote her but after having stood mute a while Should I permit you said she to search my heart you would find little there conributing to your desires your love should be applied to the Dutchess onely she is one of the most charming persons of the World and I will never be upbraided to have bred a disunion between you He would have replied but the Admirale unwilling to hear any more called Madam D'Aumale who was still talking as fast of love to me as I was assuring her that if she knew me well she would soon be convinced I did not deserve her kindness The Duke D'Aumale closing continually with Madam de Brion it was impossible for me to have any talk with her but my eyes spoke what my tongue could not and hers answered me so that I enjoyed not onely the content to know I was understood but that my sufferings were shared in The Haut Boys and Flutes I had brought playing us some tunes we stayed till night being pretty well spent Supper was brought into a Pleasure-House in the Garden and having afterwards taken some few turns about the Alleys all withdrew to rest but I to expect the good hour Fontpertuis had assigned me All the obliging signs and glances Madam de Brion had given me made me believe she would hasten my felicity and that Fonpertuis had order to be the intelligencer I came therefore to the appointed Terrace the night was as cloudy as lovers would desire I gingerly marched on towards the Admirales Lodgings and as well as night would give me leave methought I perceived a Woman come out I advanced and she came towards me I thought I knew her by her China Gown and her stature but methought much more by her desires and mine that were so pressing they made her understand I would speak with her and she had the goodness to
hands If this counsel had been executed with as much boldness as was given with judgement Catherine de Medices had been no longer Mistrifs of affairs she could not live without ruling but the King of Navarre being too moderate and suffering himself to be carried away with the passion he had for Mademoiselle de Roy who was gained by Catherine de Medices he yielded to her what he could not keep This was the true foundation of that hate ended not but with the death of Jean of Albret Bussy was gone to Chantilly to visit the Duke of Montmorency then returned from England whither he had been sent to hinder Queen Elizabeth from giving assistance to the Hugonots by proposing a Match with the Duke D'Alanzon Bussy staid there two days during which came the Queen of Navarre under pretence of seeing his fine House but indeed to engage him in the interests of the King of Navarre the better to oppose the hatred and Authority of Katherine who in the ruines of the greatest Men of the Kingdom would not spare the Montmorency's whom she ever hated both because of their uprightness and because they would not abase themselves to depend directly on her power The Duke civilly received the Queen of Navarre but would not enter into any Treaty with her though some forbore not afterwards to give other interpretations to the conference he had with this Queen and had not he prudently remained at Chantilly during the King of Navarr's Wedding he had been possibly enveloped on that dismal St. Bartholomews day which cost France so much blood The Duke treated her with all the Magnificence she could expect from a great King The Mareshale was with her still fair but Languishing and negligent of her self Catherine de Medices not able to suffer the Imperious humour the Spirit the Courage and the Constancy of Jeane d'Albret and her hatred making her take cruel resolutions she soon after put them in execution Bussy's Merits were well known though he had not yet that great repute he afterwards gained There were then few men of France had so much Wit Valour or good Mien as he The Duke de Montmorency presented him to the Queen she received him so kindly that he was compelled to stay at Chantilly though he were resolved to return to Paris besides the entreaties of the Duke and the sight of his Mistress abating his desire of going so soon he the easier consented to stay There was in Chantilly a Hall and a Closet of Armes whither the Constable Anne de Montmorency had caused to be brought from all Europe what could most worthily embellish them with what ever was rich or rare Above all these things was in esteem a Scimitar set with Diamonds and Emeralds which the Grand Signor Soliman had sent him together with a Hanger or Dagger all adorned with Rubies The Queen curious to see all the several Rooms and Magnificent Furniture which adorned them passed into this Hall of Armes and thence into the Closet where she was showed that Dagger thought beyond all vallue both for the Stones which enriched it and for its workmanship which added to its beauty and Ornament After it had been in the Queens and some other hands the Mareshale would see it and having sufficiently admired it Bussy not being far from her having observed his stand she went towards him and drawing out the Dagger and setting it with a threatning look to his brest To what use said she ought this to be destin'd To pierce the most faithless of all hearts said he taking the point and turning it towards the Mareshale This Answer surprized her and she expected not such a reproach who could not believe she deserved it Ah Bussy replyed she in a doleful accent there was never a more faithless then yours Madam said he interrupting her They were entring into a Discourse had not been soon finish'd but the Queen going out of the Closet called the Mareshale who accompanyed her Madam de Bonneval was not at Chantilly the Mareshale had intreated her to go and Grillon had desired her to stay at Paris thus the Friend was refused and the Lover had his request Was not this very just they could never before converse with so much Love as they had a desire to do Grillon now passed one part of the day with her the Lady was tender in short they said a thousand things were never told This entertainment being on their own private account and they being discreet Lovers all that passed could never be known but it may be judged they treated of nothing less then indifferency and the curious have observed that they received often these Entertainments and that if Love had not been mixed with them they had not taken so much delight in talking without witnesses Was not Madam de Bonneval too happy she was beloved by one of the honestest men of France she had by her cunning betray'd her Friend made Bussy unhappy in stead of doing him Services as she had promised she fears not the penalties treason and perfidiousness deserve she triumphs o're the misfortunes of the Mareshale and Bussy and when she is with Grillon forgets all the World the better to think of her Love The Mareshale and Bussy found often at Chantilly opportunities of talking but the Mareshales fierceness and Bussyes shame and anger to be forsaken hindred them from uttering what they even died with a desire of speaking Thus each had their grief and affliction Bussy that to find the Mareshale more lovely since he believed her false The Mareshale to observe in Bussy a sadness which had very much changed his countenance The Queen of Navarre returned on the morrow to Paris but Bussy staid yet one day with the Duke of Montmorency after which he returned to Court he became every day more and more in Love and the beauty of the Mareshale made him forget the infidelity he thought her guilty of Madam de Bonneval continued still seeing the Lady Mareshale that is to say deceiving her L'Hermite told her judgment but it was not well received and she was silent Bussy seldome saw Madam de Bonneval she complained to Grillon that he might tell him but he had no more an inclination towards her he looked upon her as the cause of her misfortune without suspecting her Treason and he could have wished never to have heard the person he loved pronounce words in favour of another but the thing was done he had seen he had heard Can he any longer doubt So many causes of sorrow in a passion so tenderly preserved tormented him beyond a power of enduring so that he was often in the mind to quit utterly his love and silently retreat from the World The Soul of the Mareshale was tossed with no less violent storms she was loth to lose Bussy and she gave sufficient assurances of it one evening that she found him at the Queen of Navarr's She was resolved to know if he yet loved her and
made use of an ingenuous feigned device to discover his thoughts Will Bussy refuse to serve me said she I should said he but I cannot I have loved you too well Ah 't is not that which I desire replyed she interrupting him come to me to morrow and you shall know what I have to say She had time to say no more by reason of the arrival of Madam who beginning to fancy some interest in Bussy observed nicely all his actions On the morrow going towards the Mareshales he passed by Madam de Bonnevals where he saw Neufville enter L'Hermite had order to make Bussy stay she told him his Mistriss dined at Madam de Bonnevals and that she would return immediately He was about to go and surprize the Mareshale and Neufville and to load them with a thousand reproaches but L'Hermite who understood the most part of his melancholy hindred his going out In short the Mareshale soon returned she would not see Neufville but had left him in the hands of Madam de Bonneval who too officiously pressed her to hear what he would say Being then alone in her Chamber with Bussy Though all treaty of love be for ever ended between us said she yet I have so great an esteem for you as to aske your Counsel Will you give it me Bussy promised it and she proceeded thus Since I have lost all hopes of being beloved by you I think it may be permitted me to engage in another violent passion which may last all my life my heart whispers me in favour of Neufville he is worthy of love he loves me What do you counsel me To hearken to all that your heart dictates Madam reply'd Bussy and to give your self wholly to Neufville But if I love him reply'd she if I have given him markes of it and if I do all I can to perswade him that no one can be more beloved than I do him Will you have no regret for what you lose What matter whether I am unhappy or desperate reply'd he you may love you may be happy and you may have the pleasure never more to remember Bussy follow follow your own thoughts Madam and never think of those cruel torments you make me undergo Ah Ingrateful Man said the Mareshale Will you forsake me then you that have made me so sensible Can you Counsel me to give my self to another You have done it already said Bussy interrupting her and sighing and I have known but too well how dearly you love Neufville Is it possible that you can upbraid me in the least reply'd she you who went hence for the progress in despite of that kindness of mine to request your stay Ah Ligneroles cry'd Bussy How happy were you at that time and how did I envy the delights you then enjoyed He told the Mareshale in what manner she had been deceiv'd she blusht at what she understood from Bussy and the confusion she appeared in made her yet seem fairer In sum he told her he could no longer doubt her being false that he saw her at Madam Bonnevals with Neufville and heard her say to him a thousand kind and obliging things The Mareshale fell a Laughing at this discourse Bussy grew angry and would have been gone when Neufville entred the room whatever L'Hermite could do to hinder him and though the Mareshale had forbid his entrance He looked pale and grief and repentance seemed lively represented in his Countenance Having demanded only the favour of Audience from the Mareshale and Bussy it was granted him and he spoke thus Had I not been assisted and pressed forward to become so guilty I had never betrayed either the trust or friendship of Bussy or have dared to prosecute my Love but Madam will you believe me 't was Madam de Bonneval who counselled me to love you and to tell you so thence had my crime its spring your inchanting carriage your charming features and in short all your Beauties brought it into a Stream The Mareshale who had a respect for Madam de Bonneval could scarce believe this perfidiousness but Bussy having pul'd out of his pocket a Letter which she had writ for his return she could no longer be doubtful of her treason after having read her words REturn Bussy the Mareshales constancy stands in need of you Her heart is assaulted in one of its most sensible places I know it and know she cannot visit You have a Rival thought too lovely his sight in one moment destroyes all that ought to be reserved for your passion How unhappy are men to have so much Love for ungrateful Women She well knew the Character to be Madam de Bonnevals and withal remembring how she had still endeavoured to divert her from loving Bussy she began to search the cause Will you tell me the truth said she to him Did Madam de Bonneval never love you possibly some refusal you made of her heart has made her attempt revenge on yours I know nothing certainly Madam said he after having thought a little while on what she had said but I have some suspitions you may possibly help me to give some light to He then began to tell her of the request Grillon had made to him to serve him with Madam de Bonneval in what manner it was performed and the interruption given by Madame and Chateaneuf and that on the morrow she sent the Note and the hair Bracelet which he carried to Grillon There needs no more said the Mareshale The cause of Bonnevals hate is plain she applyed to your self what you said for Grillon and Grillon doubtless received a favour design'd for you In the end she would justifie her self concerning those thousand kind things Bussy had heard her say to Neufville assuring them to be caused by Madam de Bonnevals artifice and that she had engaged her to speak so to Neufville to discover if he were truly in Love with her by counselling that if it were so to command his absence that Bussy might have no cause of complaint at his return He understood as well as the Mareshale that he had unhappily contributed to make the Treason succeed and that Madam de Bonneval had managed all things so well that any other as well as he would have believed her the most unfaithful woman living Neufville hearkned and could not but be amazed to hear how farr Madam de Bonneval had carry'd her lies and treachery when the Mareshale prayed him to let Bussy know how she had finish'd that Discourse of which as he had told her he had heard the beginning Imagine said he what pleasure I had to hear such kind and charming words pronounced in my favour for Who had ever the like said to them I hoped and I dare say I believed I was beloved but How great was my despair when after having acknowledged I was in Love Ingrateful and most perfidious man that you are said she going away from me Is it thus that you serve Bussy Love will not permit