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A48205	The Princess of Cleves the most famed romance / written in French by the greatest wits of France ; rendred into English by a person of quality, at the request of some friends.; Princesse de Clèves. English	La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne), 1634-1693.; Segrais, Jean Regnauld de, 1624-1701.; La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, 1613-1680.; Person of quality.	1679 (1679)	Wing L169; ESTC R10484	121,911	270

I withdrew without further answer and fail'd not to attend at the hour assign'd I found her in the Gallery with her Secretary and one of her Women As soon as she saw me she came to me and took me to the other end of the Gallery Well says she upon second thoughts have you nothing to say to me And my usage of you doth it not deserve you should deal sincerely with me My sincerity Madam reply'd I is the cause I have nothing to say and I swear to your Majesty with all the respect due to your Majesty I have no Engagement with any Woman of the Court I will believe it says she because I wish it so and I wish it because I desire to have you entirely mine and that it would be impossible I should be satisfied with your Friendship if you are in love there is no trusting those that are so there 's no relying on their secresie the Partiality they have for their Mistresses who still take up the first room in their thoughts suits not with the manner I would have you engag'd to me Remember then that upon your giving me your word you are not otherwise engag'd I Chuse you for my Confident Remember I would have you entirely mine and that you must have no Friend of either Sex but such as I please to allow you and that you are to quit all cares but that of pleasing me You shall not lose your Fortune by it I shall take more care of it than you can your self and whatever I do for you I shall think it well bestow'd if you answer my expectation of you I have made choice of you to make you acquainted with all my Griefs and to help me out of them You may judge they are no mean ones I endure in appearance with very little pain the King's Engagement with the Duchess of Valentinois but 't is insupportable She Governs the King she deludes him she cheats him she slights me she hates me she hath debauch'd my Servants they are all at her beck The Queen my Daughter-in-Law is so proud of her Beauty and the Credit of her Uncles she pays me no respect The Constable Montmorency is Master of the King and his Kingdom He hates me and hath given proofs of his hatred I shall never forget The Marshal St. Andre is a fiery young Favourite who uses me no better than the rest you would pity me should I give you a particular account of my misfortunes Till now I never durst trust any Man with them I trust you give me no cause to repent it and let me have comfort of you As she said these words her Eyes redden'd I was so sensible of the goodness she had express'd for me I was going to throw my self at her Feet From that day she plac'd entire confidence in me and did nothing without first advising with me and I have ever since maintain'd a Correspondence which holds to this day The End of the second Book THE PRINCESSE OF CLEVE BOOK III. BUsie as I was and full of my new Engagement to the Queen I held fair and firm with Madam de Themines by a natural inclination it was not in my power to vanquish Yet methoughts she cool'd in her love of me and where had I been wise I should have made use of the change observ'd in her for my Cure it doubled my love and I manag'd it so ill that the Queen had some knowledge of it Jealousie is natural to those of her Nation and perhaps that Princess had a greater affection for me than she her self could imagine At last the report of my being in love disturb'd and troubled her to that height that I thought my self an hundred times ruin'd in my Credit with her But diligence submission and false Oaths brought me again into favour Yet it would not have been in my power to have deceiv'd her long had not Madam de Themines sore against my will disengag'd me from her She made it appear her love for me was at an end and I was so convinc'd of it that I was forc'd to torment her no further but let her alone A short time after she writ me the Letter I have lost by it I perceiv'd she knew the Commerce I had with that Woman I told you of and that her Change proceeded from thence Thenceforward the Queen was well satisfied with me being no longer divided as formerly But the Sentiments I have for her being not of a nature to render me incapable of engaging elsewhere and Love being not a thing depends on our Choice I fell in love with Madam de Martigues for whom I had no small inclination when she was Villemontar's Maid of Honour to the Queen-Dauphin I had reason to believe she did not hate me The discretion I made shew of she not knowing all the Reasons of it pleas'd her very well The Queen hath no suspicion of me on that side but has on another account which proves no less troublesome Madam de Martigues being every day at the Queen-Dauphin's I frequent her Lodgings oftner than ordinary the Queen fancy's I am in love with that Princess The quality of Madam La-Dauphine being equal to the Queens and her beauty and youth above hers have made the Queen jealous even to fury and fill'd her with a hatred she can no longer conceal against her Daughter-in-Law The Cardinal of Lorrain who I have long thought aspires the Queen's favour and sees me possess a place he would willingly be in under pretence of reconciling the Queens is become concern'd in the differences between them I make no doubt but he hath discover'd the true Cause of the Queen's anger and I believe he does me all kinds of ill Offices without letting her see he doth it on design This is the state of my present condition judge you what effect the Letter I have lost may produce which I unfortunately put into my Pocket to restore it to Madam de Themines If the Queen see this Letter she will know I have deceiv'd her and that almost the same time I deceiv'd her by Madam de Themines I deceiv'd Madam de Themines by another Judge you what she will think of me then and whether she will ever trust my words more If she see not the Letter what shall I say to her She knows it hath been given the Queen-Dauphin she will believe Chastelart knew her Hand and that the Letter was hers she will imagine her self perhaps the Person she that wrote the Letter declares her self jealous of In a word she hath occasion to think any thing and there is nothing so bad but I have cause to fear from her thoughts besides I am heartily concern'd for Madam de Martigues the Queen-Dauphin will certainly shew her this Letter which she will believe lately writ thus shall I be embroyl'd with the Person whom of all the World I love most no less than with the Person whom of all the World I have most cause to

Queen and her Husband the Vsicount represented it to the King as criminal and incestuous So that he being already in love with Iane Seymour thought no more of Anne Bullen but to get rid of her In less than three Weeks he caus'd the Queen and her Brother to be try'd had them both beheaded and marry'd Iane Seymour He had afterwards several other Wives whom he put away or put to death and among the rest the Lady Katherine Howard whose Confident the Countess Rochfort was and shar'd in her Fate having her Head cut off with her Mistress's Thus was she punish'd for falsly accusing Anne Bullen and Henry the 8th dy'd being grown prodigiously big and fat All the Ladies present thank'd the Queen-Dauphin for the account she had given them of the Court of England and among the rest Madam de Cleve who could not forbear asking her several Questions about Queen Elizabeth The Queen-Dauphin had Pictures in little drawn for her of all the Beauties of the Court to be sent to the Queen her Mother One day as that of Madam de Cleve's was finishing the Queen-Dauphin spent the Afternoon with her Monsieur de Nemours who let slip no opportunity of seeing Madam de Cleve yet without letting it appear he sought it faild not being there She was that day so beautiful it would have made him in love with her had he not been so yet he durst not fix his Eye upon her as her Picture was a drawing being fearful notice might be taken of the pleasure he took to view her now and then as she sat The Queen-Dauphin ask'd Monsieur de Cleve for a Picture in little he had of his Wife to compare it with that which was newly drawn of her Every one pass'd their Judgment of the one and the other and Madam de Cleve order'd the Picture-drawer to mend something in the Draught of the Head-geer of that which Monsieur de Cleve had brought in The Picture-drawer to satisfie her took it out of the Case and having mended it laid it on the Table Monsieur de Nemours had long wish'd for a Picture of Madam de Cleve when he saw that of her which was Monsieur de Cleve's he could not resist the longing desire he had to steal it from a Husband he believ'd she tenderly lov'd and thought among so many Persons in the Room he might be as little suspected to have done it as another The Queen-Dauphin was set on the Bed and whisper'd to Madam de Cleve who stood before her Madam de Cleve through the Curtains which were but half drawn spy'd Monsieur de Nemours with his Back to the Table at the Beds-feet and perceiv'd him without turning his Face steal something slily that was on the Table She quickly guess'd it might be her Picture and was so troubled at it that the Queen-Dauphin perceiv'd she heard her not and ask'd her aloud what it was she look'd at At those words Monsieur de Nemours turn'd about and saw Madam de Cleve's Eye still fix'd upon him and thought it not impossible but she might have seen what he had done Madam de Cleve was not a little perplext Reason would she should ask for her Picture yet to ask for it publickly was to tell all the World the kindness that Prince had for her and to ask for it privately was to engage him to declare to her the Passion he had for her At last she resolved it the best course to let him carry it away without taking notice of it and was glad to grant him a favour without knowing whether she had done it Monsieur de Nemours having observ'd her disorder and guessing at the Cause came up and whisper'd to her If you have seen what I have ventur'd to do Madam be so good to let me believe you are ignorant of it which is all I dare beg of you With that he withdrew without expecting her Answer The Queen-Dauphin went out a walking attended with all the Ladies and Monsieur de Nemours went home to lock himself in his Closet to enjoy the pleasure he took in having a Picture of Madam de Cleve's which fill'd him with joy too great and too delicate to be express'd in publick It gave him a taste of the highest sweetness Love can afford he was in love with the most amiable Person of the Court and saw she lov'd him though against her will and easily discover'd in all her Actions that trouble and disorder which Love produces in the innocence of Youth That Evening great search was made for the Picture Having found the Case it was us'd to be kept in they never suspected it had been stollen but thought it might have been fallen out by chance Monsieur de Cleve was much troubled at the loss of it and when they had long search'd and without finding it he told his Wife but in such a manner as made it appear he did not think so That she had without doubt some private Lover to whom she had given that Picture or who had stole it and that any other but one in love would not have been content with the Picture without the Case These words though spoken in jeast made a deep impression in Madam de Cleve they troubled her extremely and made her reflect with regret on the violence of her Inclination for Monsieur de Nemours she found she was no longer Mistress of her Words or her Countenance She thought Lignerolles was return'd that there was no further fear of the Affair with England nor any cause to suspect the Queen-Dauphin that in a word there was not any thing to help her against the violence of her Passion and that there was no safety to be expected but by absenting her self from Monsieur de Nemours But leave being requested to be obtain'd for her absence from Court where her Husband resided and a pretence wanting she was in very great extremity and ready to fall into that she thought the worst of misfortunes to let Monsieur de Nemours see the inclination she had for him She thought of all Madam de Chartres on her Death-bed had said to her and the Advice she had given her to undergo any difficulty rather than engage in an Intrigue of Gallantry She remember'd what Monsieur de Cleve had said to her of an ingenuous sincerity when he spoke of Madam de Tournon and she thought it her duty to confess to him the inclination she had for Monsieur de Nemours These thoughts possess'd her a considerable time at length she was astonish'd she could entertain any that appear'd so foolish and relaps'd into her former perplexity not knowing what course to take The Peace was sign'd and the Lady Elizabeth after much resistance resolv'd to obey the King her Father The Duke of Alva had been appointed to Marry her in the Name of His Catholick Majesty and was shortly expected They look'd every day for the Duke of Savoy who had newly marry'd the King's Sister the Nuptials being appointed