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A89527	Heptameron or the history of the fortunate lovers; written by the most excellent and most virtuous princess, Margaret de Valoys, Queen of Navarre; published in French by the privilege and immediate approbation of the King; now made English by Robert Codrington, Master of Arts.	Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1654 (1654)	Wing M593; Thomason E1468_2; ESTC R208683	403,927	599

doing wrong to either sex I may be allowed to speak the truth both of Men and women and to affirm that there is nothing good at all either in the one or the other But this Man said Parlament was marvellously deceitfull for on the one side he cousened his Maid and on the other side his Wife You do not well understand the story I perceive said Hircan for that saith that he did content them both on one morning and not deceive them which I look upon as a great Act of Virtue both of body and of mind as well by deeds as by words to give content unto two divers persons In that said Parlament he is doubly to be blamed in satisfying the simplicity of the one by Dissimulation and and the longings of the other by Lust but I understand well enough that such Sins as these being brought before such a Judge as you will find an easie pardon You may assure your self said Hircan to please two at once is no easie task and for my own part I will never undertake so great and difficult an enterprise I have given you my Account already and think herein I have not ill imployed my days work If a mutual Love said Parlament cannot content the heart I know no other thing in the world that can give content unto it To speak the truth said Simontault I do believe that there is not a greater punishment in the world than to love and not to be beloved again I do believe you said Oysilla and to that purpose I do remember a Story which indeed doth not deserve to be numbred on the file of good ones but because it is for the present purpose I am content to declare it to you Of a Frier whose Custom it was to bring his complaints to several Husbands which was the occasion that they did beat their Wives The sixth Novell IN the City of Angoulesm where Count Charls the Father of King Francis had oftentimes his residence there was a Frier called De Valles a very knowing Man and so great a Preacher that upon all Sundays in the Advents he preached in the City before the Count by means whereof his Reputation was much increased It so fell out that during the Advent a lusty young fellow of the City having married a handsom young Wench did not desist for all that to ramble up and down and to live as dissolutely if not more than those who were unmarried of which the young Woman being advertised could not hold her peace so that following him up and down and exclaiming on him she received such tokens from him as she would not willingly have and neverthelesse for all that she did not forbear to continue her exclamations and oftentimes would speak very high words and most passionately rail against him The young Man being much incited at it did begin to lay about him and to leave on her shoulders the marks of his displeasure whereat she began to cry out far louder than before and her Neighbours also that knew the occasion of it would inveigh against him and making a great noise in the streets would cry out Now fie on all such Husbands Let them go all to the Devil The Frier De Valles passing by that way and understanding the noise and the occasion of it did determine with himself to speak one word of it in his next dayes Sermon which accordingly he did for speaking of marriage and of the love which ought to be betwixt the Husband and the Wife he did highly praise it and blamed those that did go about to violate it and making a comparison betwixt conjugal and paternal Love he said amongst other things That it was a greater danger and a more grievous punishment for a Husband to beat his Wife than to beat his Father or his Mother for said he if you beat your Father or your Mother you are sent to Rome to do penance but if you beat your Wife both she and all her Neighbours will fall a cursing of you and send you immediately to the Devil that is to say to Hell You are to observe now said he what a difference there is betwixt these two penances for from Rome they do ordinarily come back again but from Hell-Oh There is no teturning Nulla est redemptio Not long after that Sermon he was advertised that Women made their boasts of that which he preached and that their Husbands could live in no quiet for them for which in his next Sermon he did resolve to prescribe an Order for the redresse of that inconvenience And in some part of it he compared Women unto Devils and said that they two were the greatest Enemies that Man had for they did always tempt Man without any intermission and he could never get rid of them especially of the Woman for the Devils he said will fly away if they be but shewed the Crosse but Women clean contrary to them will cleave the faster to them being the greatest cross themselves that can be to their Husbands And this doth make them so to run and to go and doth throw them into such an infinity of passions But good people be ruled by me and I will tell you what you shall do When you do find that your Wives do torment you in this manner without cease as I have said they are accustomed to do take off the handle from your crucisix and with that handle drive them as far from you as you can Do as I bid you and vigorously make experience of it three or four times and you shall find the good that will come of it you shall find that in the same manner that you doe chase away the Devil by the virtue of the Crosse you shall also chase away and make your Wives to hold their peace by the Virtue of the handle of the Crosse and they will no more presume to come too near unto you Loe here some part of the Preachments of that venerable de Valles of whose life I will make here no larger a recital but I can tell you whatsoever appearance he made to the contrary for I knew the man very well yet in his heart he took the Womens parts more than the Mens Madem said Parlament he did not shew it in that last Sermon in which he gave instructions unto Men to beat their Wives You do not understand his drift in it said Hircan had you been exercized in the discipline and the Stratagems of War you would have found that one of the greatest policies that is required is to make a Civil sedition in the Camp of the Enemy because it is then most easie to overcom● him In the like manner this Monk the Master of his Arts did understand well enough that the Anger and the Hatred betwixt the Husband and the Wife is the Cause oftentimes that makes the Wife to let loose the reigns of her honesty which being governed no more by virtue doth fall into the hands of

and Spurs on The Gentlewoman awaking was as sorry and as much ashamed as possibly could be but whatsoever remonstances she could make he took her by force and told her that if she revealed that affair he himself would disclose it to all the World and declare that she had sent for him on purpose The young Gentlewoman was so amazed at what he said that she durst not cry out Not long afterwards one of the Chambermaids came into the Chamber whereupon the Gentleman hearing her to come up the Stairs did rise up so suddenly that he had not been discovered but only by his Spur which taking hold on the upper sheet did dragg it about the Chamber insomuch that the poor young Gentlewoman having nothing to cover her was left almost stark naked in the bed And in speaking those words although she pretended to give an Account of another yet she could not take such heed to her tongue but it blabbed forth There was never Woman more ashamed than my self when I found that I was so naked Immediatly the Lady who had listned very attentively to the Account she made without laughing could not forbear at the last words she spake to say unto her For ought that I can perceive you have good reason to relate this story for it properly belongs unto you The poor Gentlewoman blushing did allege what ever she could imagine to recover her Honour but it was already flown away and so far that she could not recall it Ladies I do perswade my self that if it had been so unpleasing to her to commit the Act as she represented she would willingly have lost the memory of it and have taken no delight to have repeated it But as I have said Sin will easily be discovered by it self and sind eyes enough to disclose it when it is not covered with that coverture which David affirmeth doth render a Man blessed In good earnest said Emarsuite this is one of the most notorious and most ridiculous Fools that ever I heard of to make others laugh at the expence of her own follies I find it nothing strange said Parlament that the word should follow the deed for it is more easie to speake than to do What a businesse do you make of it said Guebron What Sin had she committed she was fast afleep in her bed and he did threaten her with Death and Shame Lucretia who is so famous amongst you would have done the like It is true said Parlament there is no Woman so pure and innocent who needs not to wear an Apron But when we take a great displeasure in the Act We do also take as great a displeasure to have it in our memory but we find it was the pleasure of this Gentlewoman to make others laugh at the follies she committed Neverthel●sse said Nomerfide It appears that this Woman was a good Woman because she had oftentimes been sollicited by the Gentleman and yet would never consent unto him insomuch that the Gentleman was constrained to assist himself with force and threatnings to deceive her How said Parlament do you think that a Lady may be excused for losing her Honour when she doth let it go after the second or the third denyal There would be then many virtuous Women which are now esteemed to be clean contrary For we see sufficiently every day that there are Women who do a long time refuse and put off those whom in their hearts they do desire Some for fear of their Honour others that more ardently they may be followed and loved and more highly be esteemed Wherefore if you speak indeed of Virtue you should make no reckoning of that Woman who doth not continue firm unto the end Where is that Phoenix said Saffredant let us know and we shall extol that miracle in earnest But what said Dagou●in if a young man should for once or twice refuse a young Lady would you not esteem that to be a great Virtue Truly said Oysilla if a young Man and in health should continue to use that Virtue I should esteem it as excellent and glorious as it is difficult to believe But I have known one said Dagoucin who hath refused those pleaasures which all his Companions with greediness did pursue I must desire you said Longaron that you will take my place to account unto us the particulars thereof but withall remember that we are here all bound to speak the truth I professe unto you said Dagoucin that I will deliver it to you so clearly that therein ther shall be no colour at all that shall disguise it The notable Temperance and Chastity of a French Lord. The third Novel IN the City of Paris there lived four young Maids two whereof were Sisters and of so great a beauty and youth and such a fresh complexion that they were courted with multitudes of Suters A Gentleman whom the King who then reigned had made Provost of Paris observing his young Master the King to be of age to desire such Company did so mannage his design amongst them all that every one of them believing they should be for the King they all accorded to that which the Provost desired which was that on such a day they would come altogether to a Feast to which he would invite his Master and in the mean time he did acquaint him with what he had done who did like it very well The King also did impart it to two other great Personages of the Court who did agree to have their pennyworth in the Market with him And looking for the fourth Companion for the fourth Maid there came in by accident a young Lord a courteous and most lovely Gentleman and ten years younger than any of the other three he was also invited to the Banquet and made an outward appearance to be very willing to attend upon the King although in his heart he had no desire to be present at such a meeting for on one side he had newly married a beautiful Wife who was the Mother of two lovely Infants with which he was very much contented and they lived together in such peace and unity that he would not for any thing that his Wife should entertain the least suspition of him On the other side he was a perfect Servant to one of the fairest Ladies who were at that time in France whom so much he loved and so highly esteemed that all others did appear but imperfect and deformed to him insomuch that at the beginning of his youth before he was married it was impossible to perswade him to see or frequent the Company of any other Lady how beautiful so ever she were and took far more pleasure to see her and perfectly to love her than in all the delight whatsoever it were that he could receive from any other This young Lord came to his Wife and acquainted her with the enterprize which the King had undertaken assuring her that for his part he had rather die than accomplish what he had

Kinswomen and who knew not the humor of the Confessor began to be offended at him But after that they had heard him further they turned their scandal into laughter especially when he said That to eat the Paschal Lamb they must have girded their reins and their feet on their shooes and their hands in the staff The Frier observing them to laugh and doubting for what it was did immediately correct himself and well well said he their shooes then on their feet and a staff in their hands A hat white or a white hat is it not all one His auditors did fall all a-laughing at this and the Ladies themselves could not contain to whom he did apply himself with variety of such vain discourse and perceiving that his hour was almost out he was unwilling that the young Women should depart discontented from him he said therefore unto them And now my young Ladies I am sure that by and by you will in your prattle ask the Gossips that are with you What Mr. Frier is this that delivers himself so confidently this day Why I will tell you Ladies he is a good Fellow and be not you astonished be not I say though he talketh never so lowdly for I am of Anjou and at your service Ladies And speaking those words he did make an end of his Preachment by which he did leave his Auditors more ready to laugh at his foolish discourse than to weep in the memory of the Passion of our Saviour the Commemoration whereof was then to be solemnized His other Sermons during the said Feast of Easter were of the same efficacy And as you know well enough that these Brothers are very forward in their exhortations to receive their benevolences at Easter by which they have not onely their Eggs given them but many other things as odd Remnants of Linnen and Flax Puddings Gammons or Leggs of Bacon and Chines of Bacon and many other such small Collations Easter Tuesday being come when he was to make his Recommendations of which these people are alwayes liberal enough he directing his course again to the Women said Ladies I am bound to give you thanks for your liberality which you have shewed to our poor Covent but it is requisite that I speak plain unto you That you have not considered of the Necessities in which we stand for the greatest part of that which you have given us are Links and Puddings and God be praised we have no need of them our Covent is full of good Puddings already What shall we doe with them then would you know what Ladies I shall advise you then if you would but put your Gammons to our Puddings you would give us a good Alms indeed In this manner continuing his Sermon he gave a new occasion of offence and discoursed very briskly from above having instanced some Examples he did put himself into an Admiration and said My good Sirs and Ladies of St. Martins I am much astonished at you that you should make strange at that which is nothing and speaking of me to one another should say This is a strange Frier I will tell you what Suppose that a Monk should get the Daughter of his Hostesse with Child this would be some wonder that a Monk should get a Girl with Child but let us come to the point my Ladies Suppose that this Girl should get the Monk with Child why there would be your cause of wonder indeed See here my Ladies the Viands with which this gentle Pastor did nourish the flock of God And yet he is so impudent as still to go into the Pulpit where he ought not to make any discourse at all which is not wholly for the Instruction of his neighbours or the glory of God This was a Master-Frier in earnest said Saffredant I should love him as well as I do Frier Annebant on whose back I would put all the merry Discourse which can be delivered in a whole Parish Oysilla made answer I love not to have men laugh at such prophaneness especially in this Case Nomerfide replyed Madam it is not long ago if it be not so still that not only the honest people of the Villages but also a considerable part in the greatest Towns who think better of themselves than the rest had such Preachers in far greater Reverence than those who purely and sincerely preached the Holy Gospel In whatsover sort it was said Hircan Was it not an Injury to demand the Womens Gammons to be mingled with their Puddings since there is far more meat in the Gammons Nay and if some devout Woman had understood him according to his fallacy as I believe that he himself did mean it neither he nor his Companions would be in any other conditiō than the young Girl who had her Sack too full But you may behold said Oysilla what a most impudent Man this was to corrupt at his pleasure the Text of holy Scripture thinking to meet with such Beasts as himself and in doing so most wickedly to endeavour to supplant poor women by teaching them how to eat raw flesh at night You take no notice at all said Simontault that he saw before him the young women of Amboys in whose Troughs he would willingly have washed his Whatch-I-call-it No but you understand it well enough and make them to tast it not rosted but hot in a wanton Exercise to give them greater pleasure Good good Signior Simontault said Parlament you do forget your self or do you keep your accustomed Modesty in Reserve to be only ready when you have need of it No Madam said he but the dishonesty of the Monk did cause me so far to wander from my self Therefore to put our selves again into our first course I desire Nomerfide who was the occasion of my digression to give her voice to some one who might make us to forget our common fault Since you make me to partake of your fault said Nomerfide I will address my self to one who will help our present imperfection it is Dagoucin who is so grave that he will rather die than have a foolish word come from him Dagoucin thanked her for the good opinon she had of him and began to spoak his History the effect whereof was to make you understand how much Love doth blind the most great and the most honest hearts and that a Discourtesie is hard to be overcome by any former benefit how great soever it be The Inconvenience that b● fell a Duke and his impudence to arrive to his Intentions with the just punishment of his ill-laid Designe The Second Novell SOme time since in the City of Florence there lived a Duke who espoused Madam Margaret daughter to the Emperor Charles the Fifth and because she was so young that it was nor yet lawfull for him to lie with her he entertained her very honourably and lovingly until she did arrive unto the ripeness of age For to forbear her he became amorous of some other Ladies in the

wherefore did she give him such a promise to entertain him after the seven years were passed I am of your opinion said Longaren for those who for love will not return love again will give no occasion of love to those that bear love unto them It may be said Nomerfide that she loved another who was in deserts far inserior to this honest Gentlemen and that she left the better for the worse Upon my credit said Saffredant I conceive that hereby she made good provision for her self to take him in an hour when she had left off the other whom peradventure at that present she loved better I see very well said Oysilla that the more we examine and debate upon this Subject the more those who will have all things go on their side will take occasion to speak the worst of us that possibly they can wherefore Dagoucin I request you to give your voice to some one I do give it said he to Longaren being assured that she will acquaint us with some grateful novelty and will not to speak the Truth forbear either Man or woman Since you do esteem me to be so impartial said Longaren I will assume the hardinesse to acquaint you with the Fortune which happened to a very great Prince who in virtue surpassed all others of his time Understand withall that the thing which we ought least to use but in the case only of extreme Necessity is Dissimulation It is a Vice both vile and infamous especially amongst Potencates and Princes in the mouths and countenances of whom Truth is far more becomming than in any other person But there is no Frince so great although he hath all the honours and the riches that he can desire who is not subject unto the Empire and the Tyranny of Love insomuch that the more noble the Prince is and of greater spirit the more Love delighteth to make him to stoop under his powerful hand for that wanton and glorious little God doth take no care of small or common things and his Majesty doth make it his exercise every day to do wonders as to make weak the strong and to make strong the weak to give understanding to the ignorant and to take it away from the wise to savour passions and to destroy reason and all his delight is in such changes And because Princes are not exempt from love no more are they from the extremity into which the servitude of Love doth throw them And therfore by force they may be permitted to use Dissimulation hypocrifie and fiction which are the means to overcome their Enemies according to the Doctrine of Master Iohn de-Moon And since in such an act the Condition of a Prince is pardonable which in no other act is to be allowed because it layes them open to Disrepute I will in this place give an account unto you of the Inventions of a young Prince by which he deceived those who are accustomed to deceive all the world The subtilty which a great Prince used to delight himself in the Company of the Wife of an Advocate of Paris The Fifth Novell IN the City of Paris there was an Advocate more esteemed than nine Men of his profession and by reason of his great sufficiency being sought after by all he was the richest man of all those of his Robe who finding that he had no children by his first Wife did hope to have issue by his second And although his Body was old and dryed up yet his heart and his hope were not dead wherefore he did choose to wife a young Geutlewoman of the City of about eighteen or nineteen years of Age very fair and of a delicat complexion whom he loved and tendred as much as possibly he could but she had no more Children by him than he had by the former which at the last did much trouble her Wherefore her youth which was not suitable to Melancholy did cause her to seek out recreations in other places than in her own house and she repaired oftentimes to Feasts and Dancings but she always deported her self so civilly that her Husband could not entertain any bad opinion of her For she was alwayes in the company of those in whom he had great confidence Being one day invited to a Marriage there was present a great Prince who in rehersing the account did for bid me to use his name But I may well say unto you that he was so brave a Prince and of such a Grace that the like was never seen before in France nor ever I do believe will after him be seen again This Prince beholding this young Gentlewoman whose eys and whose Countenance did incite him to affect her did come unto her and did court her with such fine language that she her self was much taken with him and it and did not conceal from him that for a long time she had that love in her heart for which he did intreat her and that he should not take pains to perswade her to that to which at the first sight Love had made her to consent The young Prince by the courage of Love having obtained that happinesse the purchase whereof did well deserve a longer time he thanked the blind little God who so much favoured him And after that hour he so well followed his affair that they did both agree upon the means how they might come together without the observation of any The place and time being agreed upon the young Prince did not fail to come and to preserve the honour of the Gentlewoman he did come disguized but by reason of the dissolute boyes who did run up and down the streets in the night by whom he would not be known he took some Gentlemen with him to attend him And in the entrance into the street where she lived he did dismisse them saying to them If you hear no noise at all within this quarter of an hour you may retire into your own lodgings and about three or four hours hence fail not to expect me in this place again This they did accordingly and hearing not any noise they withdrew themselves into their own Chambers The young Prince did directly take his Course to the House of his Advocate and found the Door open as it was promised him But going up the stairs he did meet with her Husband by reason whereof he was more seen than he desired Neverthelesse Love which giveth understanding and boldnesse in the greatest necessities did so dispose it that the young Prince came directly to him and said Monsieur the Advocate You know the confidence which I and all those of my House do repose in you and that I do esteem you to be one of the best and most faithfull Servants that I have I was willing to come privatly to you to visit you as well to recommend my affairs unto you as to desire a Cup of your wine for I stand in need of it and not to acquaint any whomsoever that I am here for

entertain those whose Consciences hearts and understandings are ignorant of God and true love and Honour Although your account be but short said Oysilla yet it is as pleasant as may be and conduceth much to the honour of the good Woman In sober sadness said Simontault it is no great honour to an honest woman to refuse so deformed a Creature as you have expressed this Secretary to be but if he had been lovely and debonair then had she shewed her Virtue And because I peradventure do conceive who this Secretary was if it were now my turn I could rehearse another account unto you as pleasant altogether as this you shall not he wanting for that said Emarsuite for I give you my voice whereupon he did immediatly begin Those who are accustomed to have their residence at the Court or in some great Cities doe esteem so highly of their own knowledge that they think all others are but fools and clowns in the comparison of them but it is not so for in all Countreys and amongst all conditions of men there have been found some as witty always and as subtle as the others possible can be neverthelesse by reason of the Pride of those who think themselves most cunning the mockery of them when they are over-matched is always more remarkable as I shall shew you by this true Account which happened not many years agoe A certain Secretary was resolved to be too hard for a Merchant who was too hard for him and what befell him thereupon The eighth Novel FRancis the first of that name being in the City of Paris and his Sister the Queen of Navar in his company she had a Secretary who was none of those who would let any thing fall down on the ground and refuse to take it up again insomuch there was neither President nor Counsellor which he did not know nor Merchant or rich man whose house he did not frequent and hold intelligence with them There came into the said City of Paris a Merchant of Bayons named Bernard du Ha who as well for the discharge of his affaires as for that the Lieutenant Civil was of his Country did addresse himself unto him for his Counsel and Assistance This Secretary of the Queen of Navar did oftentimes repair to visit the Lieutenant who was a good Servant of his Master and of his Mistresse and going to him upon a Holy-day he found neither him nor his Wife at home but heard Bernard du Ha within as busie as might be with a Viol or some other Instrument teaching the Maid-Servants to dance the Morice of Gascogny When the Secretary beheld him he would have made him believe that he did very ill and assured him that if the Lieutenant or his Wife should know of it they would be highly displeased with him And having sufficiently laid forth the inconvenience of what he had done and the danger that might ensue thereon Bernard du Ha did beseech the Secretary not to speak unto the Lieutenant of it who said unto him what will you give me and I will hold my peace Bernard du Ha who entertained not so great a fear as he made a shew for observing that the Secretary would cajole him to a forfeit did promise him to give him a Pasty of the best Hanch of Gascony Venison that he did ever ear The Secretary being well contented with it did desire him that he might have his Pasty on Sunday after Dinner which Bernard du Ha did promise and assured him that he should not fail of it Whereupon the Secretary repaired to a Gentlewoman in Paris whom above all Creatures he desired to espouse and said unto her Madam If you please I will come on Sunday next to sup with you but you are to take care for nothing but only good bread and good Wine for I have over-reached so hansomly a Merchant of Bayons that all the rest shall be at his expence and by my fine circumvention of him you shall eat of the bravest Hanch of Venison that ever was brought from Gascogny to Paris The Gentlewoman who did believe him did send for three or four of the most considerable of her Neighbours and did assure them of something which was very dainty and which they never tasted of before When Sunday was come the Secretary was fain to look after the Merchant and finding him upon the bridge he graciously saluting him said unto him The Devills take you all of them what a trouble have you put me to to find you out Bernard du Ha replyed unto him many men have taken more pains than you who have not been recompensed with such a present And speaking those words unto him he shewed him the Pasty which he had underneath his cloak and was big enough to feed a whole Camp at which the Secretary was so overjoyed that having made up his wide mouth he hastily took it and leaving the Merchant in the street without inviting him to cat of his own Venison he brought his Present to the young Gentlewoman who had a great desire to know If the Viands of Guyen were as good as the Dainties of Paris The hour of Supper being come as they were earing their pottage the Secretary said unto them Let us leave off this watry Diet and tast of this Flagon of Wine and speaking those words he uncovered the Pasty and thinking to cut up the Hanch he did find it so extremely hard that he could not put his knife into it wherefore he used the utmost of his strength and found that it was a broad piece or Sabot of wood of which their shooes are made in Gascoigny to which on each side he had placed two great brands taken out of the Chimney and strowed on the tops thereof the Dusts of rusty Iron mingled with foot which could not but render a gratefull smell Who was perplexed now It was the Secretary as much that he was deceived by him whom he thought to deceive himself as also that he had deceived her to whom he thought that he had spoken the Truth And on the other side he was no wise pleased to content himself only with pottage for his Supper The women who were altogether as sorry as himself had accused him for his Imposture but that they perceived by his Countenance that he did partake with them in the abuse Having thus contrary to his expectation made but a light Supper he departed in a great choler And seeing that Bernard du Ha had failed in his promise he resolved with himself to break his own and addressing himself to the Lieutenant he did speak the worst words that possibly he could of Bernard But he could not come so soon but Bernard du Ha had been with him before and revealed unto him all the mystery The Lieutenant therefore did passe his sentence on the Secretary and said that at his own expence he had now learned to circumvent a Gascoign and must therefore return with