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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22598	Love and valour: celebrated in the person of the author, by the name of Adraste. Or, the divers affections of Minerva. One part of the unfained story of the true Lisander and Caliste. Translated out of the French by W.B.; Histoire trage-comique de nostre temps, sous les noms de Lysandre et de Caliste. English	Audiguier, Vital d', 1569-1624.; Barwick, Wm.	1638 (1638)	STC 905; ESTC S100297	122,979	258

the World ordain'd by Heaven Your plaint is most unjust or that is so These Verses mortified not so many flames in the brest of Minerva as they produced teares in her fair eys this cure was one of those that stir up much more grief then they appease Yet marvelled shee at the strength of Adrastes affection which had born him to a complyance so contrary to his passion and how soever shee was extremly ingrate shee could not help it but she found her self extremly obliged to him in it But her departure some few days after did quickly efface this small good will Yet she saw Adraste once before shee went thanked him of his pains in her comforts and left him more affection then shee carried away with her For shee was then most stedfastly allied to the first object of her love And Adraste hung so even between the affections of Minerva and Cariclea that they called him the Knight of the cloven hart A little time after some Princes of France took armes pretending reformation of the State and comfort of the people whom the Souldiers much solaced by the discharging them of whatsoever they were able to carry away for them Tatius that had so well managed the affairs of his house would now needs meddle with the government of the Kingdome and seeking so to readvance his private fortunes upon the publique took part with them The small number of men that were of his condition caused that they not onely imbraced him but renewed the luster of his ancient titles by the glitter of a new dignity making him chief of the Councell of that faction and not putting him in lesser hopes then of the Seals of France He took this occasion to follow some means of reconciliation with his wife whom he disposed therto very easily for the part shee pretended to in the hopes of her husbands fortunes And Tatius sought her the rather for the need he had of her assistance for although he were not setled in his new office he needed mony for his use in it which he knew not how to raise but on the caution of Minerva who freely became bound for him deceived in the hopes of this false prosperity Fortune was not so favourable to him as shee promised for that such as had armed for the State and Republique comming to a Treaty used not a word but of their owne particular interests and left not the people onely more miserable more ruined then ever but also Tatius discharged of his Office and his wife burthened with part of his debts This last affection of Minerva being founded on the hope of advantage could endure no longer then the foundation so as that was no sooner ruin'd but this fell to the ground and Tatius and Minerva to as ill intelligence and accord as heretofore which brought her backe very sodainly to Paris Adraste failed not to go see her so soone as he knew she was come But in her absence the affections of Cariclea had so occupied his heart as it seemed there was small roome left for the reestablishing those of Minerva And besides dissention being as it were inseparable and ever fatal to the Realme of France where calmes doe but presage the following stormes and where those stormes are never calmed but in the occasion of greater and more furious ones and chiefly in the youth and first yeares of their kings This last emotion was not so soon appeased but there arose an other by so much the more to be feared as the pretext and cause was more honorable in shew plausible to most Which obliging the king to make an excursion into Normandy to assure him that Province consequently obliged Adraste to follow him who a more faithfull subject then a Lover preferred his sense of honour and courage to his apprehension of his amorous delights Hee let him proceed as far as Roane yet and then to Deepe But hearing hee intended to put himselfe into Cain where the Castle declared it selfe against the City and the City for his Majesty against the Castle he should have been exceeding sorry not to have beene at the first place which the King had ever yet in his owne person beleaguered He left then Minerva and Caricha at Paris where his desires ease would still have detained him and made all diligent haste to travailes to paines and perills where his devoire did call him The history of this siege not being our subject it shall suffice to let you know that the good fortunes providence counsell and diligence of the King conquered him this place in lesse then three dayes And three daies after al that great Province which gave him meanes and leisure to prevent his enemies as we hope to make it appeare elsewhere more seriously But Adraste seeing the warre ended on this side before any man had once meanes to give notice of his abilities in the least measure and the King to take the way to Manns tooke that to Paris without other cause then to see his two Mistresses by whom he was variably agitated He lov'd them both not onely through his inclination meerly but also with designe to the end the one should hinder him to give himselfe wholy to the other that his sufferance should be by so much the lesse as it should be divided and by so much the better moderated as it should bee the lesse An excellent remedy in affaires of love had not his too perfect fidelity hindred him to put it in practise for that he served himself as then most happily with it And after having sometimes seene one and sometimes the other he quit them both againe to look out the king that was as then at Manns with his armie The departure of Adraste the absence of Brassidas and Gracchus the disgrace of Tatius and death of Arnolphe gave Crassus opportunity who was then at Paris somewhat to renew his affection with Minerva but so far onely as the tearmes of a common wel-wisher Adraste having found a gentleman of his acquaintance called Chabrias a man of great abilities and no small execution who being married some three or foure dayes before had left those lawful pleasures of a bridegroom to embrace the travailes of warre met neere Manns an other Cavalier who tould them hee had found some Thirty Commanders about two or three leagues from thence which it was sayd were of the enemies party Adraste and Chabrias had over taken left behinde them a company of souldiers belonging to the Queen that were to joyne with the kings army They then intreated this Cavalier to advise them of their intentions and pray their Captaines to follow them a gallope whilest they went on before The gentleman failed not to give them the same advise and the company having overtaken them at a small Village where they stayed for guides they put themselves in front and went forwards altogether to a great Towne where these people lay intrenched But they found they belongd to the King and

come to see Arlande as his Kinswoman and Gracchus accompanying him as his friend she could not hinder the Visitations nor the Walks Arlande admitted of it being very uncomly for the daughter to play the Mistris before her mother not thinking also that it would have becomm'd a woman of her quality to testifie the least animosity against them at all to shew she affected him In the end she knew so well to plead her cause as she gained her suite Adraste asked pardon and the wronged party made the amends This day consumed in complaints and such like satisfactions took yet away all hate that the last falling out seemed to have ingendred in their hearts how ever it placed not there the wōted love not in that of Minerva's for that she yet mourned for the dead on whose behalf she seemed even to despise her life Nor in that of Adraste for that seeking in these disgraces to save him from the ambushes of Minerva hee was already faln in those of Cariclea which hee would have dissembled but Minerva intreating him to helpe her loose the remembrance of a man whom shee had loved hee againe begged of her advise how to acquire the affection of a woman that he adored You have already so acquired her answered Minerva thinking he had spake of her self as you need not care further but of means to preserve her Would to God that he you love were alive said Adraste and that I were in possession of her I desire I believe I should have lesse trouble to preserve then I shall have to acquire her How can that be said Minerva that you should be in possession of her you desire during the life of him I lament if you desire not some other then me And how think you also that it can be believed answered Adraste that I have acquired the affections of one that lives not but in the death of an other I have the wrong indeed on my side said Minerva and you the reason on yours Adraste to engage your thoughts upon such an object as hath not ingaged theirs But since I discover thus my malady to you if so you cannot give me help as there is none in death I pray at least refuse me not your comfort and be it so that in losing you for a Lover I may enjoy you as a friend Madam answered Adraste it hath bin the greatest unhappinesse that hath done me outrage to see how unapt you have bin to think the one or the other of me But I shall never cease to be both to you so long as God shall give me life and you no cause to die by the ill use you daily do me The night book of their discourse which else they had not known how to leave Minerva having prepared to retire to her house in the Country and apprehending in the solitude that place offered the sorrows that Arnolphes death did now make her so lively feel in the divertisements of this so excellent City again conjured Adraste that did sometimes apply him to such things to write somewhat in way of consolation and in verse on the death of Arnolphe an importune request to pray a Lover to busie himself in the commendations of a Rival and the more for that Adraste medled but unwillingly in making Verses seeing so many as he did come off with little credit in that subject But Arnolphe was dead and hee hoped in pray sing him hee should at least flatteringly sooth his Mistris and insensibly insinuate in her favours yet the more unwilling to give the repulse to a Lady to whom he had given himself without whom he could not rest and with whom he could not live he endevoured to render him pleasing and agreeable so far as to celebrate for her the affections of him that living had orethrown his own So after having brought Minerva home to her house and being retired to his own lodging hee made the same Evening the following Stanzaes as you see which the next morning he sent to her at her uprising to let her see with how much care and readinesse hee did imbrace all manner of occasion did at all pertain unto her service The Verses were these Stanzaes On the death of Arnolphe to Minerva CEase fair one cease your mournfull plaints lay by Arnolphe is not dead though absent hence More then the Sun remov'd from off our Skie In shady dark hath any residence No he 's immortall and amongst the Saints And vainly you importune Heaven too late That hath no eare to lend to such complaints But must in all things too give way to fate Great Iove himself that with one thunder might Dissolve the earth all things annihilate Saw maugre him brave Hector fall in fight And Troy in dust lament her ransackt state How often mov'd eye pressed by ' his Favorite And his fair daughter did he think to hide But destiny withstood and did deny it That goodly Empire from the Grecian pride For in the Eternity of vengefull fate Before was Priam doom'd his sentence past Else Pallas power nor Iuno obstinate Could have his land orerun or laid so wast But your Arnolphe here a blessed man Though beaven should chance refuse him deny you Is happy yet that he did serve you when He liv'd and more to be lamented by you And is not one death then enough but you Will with your tears bring back his soul to breath And he must so die twice and you would now Double your griefs and twice mourn for his death In vain then fall those tears along your face Nor can they move the destinies decree And if they could obtain you any grace That grace were yet more ill then death can be Minerva that the Heavens caus'd to come down Heer to be seen perfections object still Ought she to afflict her for the love of one That to acknowledge it hath power nor will You moan his body or his soul lament If 't befor's body you complain t' is gone And if for 's soul your grief hath worse extent For you a good in place of ill bemoane Leave to low mindes these bootlesse tears these moods Can so much heart so sooth the sence of crosse We should not drown our reasons in those floods Nor lose our selves in weeping others losse The room 's too fair to be th'retirement still Of a guest so foul as is perpetuall moan And they without cause use themselves but ill That pitying others cruell are t' their own Do you then celebrate's immortall fame And with proud marble heer his corps inshrine Then let some happy pen divulge his name Throughout the earth where ere the Sun do's shine This doth accord with great Augustus minde And your brave heart that wont not be so griev'd But t' feed your soul with sorrows so unkinde And griev'e he 's dead is to lament he liv'd Quit then your sorrows yet your grief make even And know when you lament that naturall throw Common to all

to knit the faster with them is it not to make seen that she the only approved their actions but also that she cōceivd formd thē before they were produc'd But since she disavowes others actions let us look a little into her owne When honour and the service of my King called me before Saint Iean 3 or 4 daies before I bore my life thither fell she not out with me on the Eve of my departure pretending that my visits were scandalous unto her Neighbours Since hath she not let mee see the weaknesse and untruth of this her pretence when shee hath permitted him for whom I was turned off not onely to see her at all houres but also to take a lodging in the same street to besiege her in hers and to hinder the resort of all others thither There is no more to be said then of scandall to them of the street then to those of the Indies Called she me not backe before my going to the end I carried her figure along with mee in my breast as I did with so lively an impression as the practise of so much paines suffered in so long and laborious a journey nor the frequent Alarums of so dangerous a fortune speeding to the aproaches assaults and bloody sallies of so many sieges had ever power to eface the draught Writ shee not to me that so long an extended absence could not be compatible with great love complaining that I testified unto her more courage then affection Forced she me not from the beloved place of my birth and from between my parents armes wher the contentment of my soule and good of my affaires required me here to make me wed vexations and misfortunes infinite in hope yet of incomparable happinesse I knew well the King would come againe and that I should do nothing here but take an unprofitable walke of some two or three hundred Leagues for the love of her But I was passionated with so violent a desire to see her that I beheld all other things sans interest and deemed the time I passed from her not onely lost to me but even that it was death it selfe to forbeare her sight Let us see now this great good fortune and this glory so desired hoped for at my return as end and crowne unto so great a Martyrdome T is true that I was welcom'd well received and much made on the first day of my arrive they tould mee that they had grieved my absence and deplored my death that a false bruit had spread and all full of other complements and pratles of a woman but found I not my place possessed by my Rivall and those former favours she had permitted me and I againe look'd to have had cut from my hopes and to another given before my face Set by those subtilties the escapes and the repaires wherewith so long she entertained and did abuse my too credulous easinesse the meetings given out of her house whilst others saw her day by day not onely with all liberty but Emptry also the irreconcilable enmities and bloudy quarrels she by her imprudence caused me and her vanity for yet I would pardon those But to bestir her so much as she could possibly on all sides to give unto my enemies the advantages God gave me over them to say my sword was longer then my Rivals that he hurt himselfe and that my Laquay was a lyar when hee recounted the truth of this action though his wound and his naturall innocence in telling of the tale spoke sufficiently for him and whom she her selfe had given me but the day before for most trusty To be sorry that t was said I had the better and she to say gainst al the world and truth it selfe I had the worst to forget her selfe so farre as in opposition of my selfe overweeningly to dispute a thing of which she knew nothing and which I my selfe had done Can it be imagined that a woman worshipped and adored with so much passion and respect as she or rather that the waight of all th'ingratitude of women kinde melted together and reduced in masse should ere bring forth the eff●cts of so profound a malice In summe she turned me off not for a single friend but for some five or six nor yet for such as lov'd her more or those were better made then I but much much worse She hath beene the cause I have beene challenged by my friends that I have much neglected my Parents estate that I have forborne to follow my King into my owne Country and seemed to sh●n those occasions I have ever sought and which is more then all that I have left my self to pursue the injustice and cruelty of her fond passions that I have preferred her martyrdomes before the sweetest rest her love to Gods himselfe who had made mee happy had I served him so as her where she hath render'd me most miserable still for having served her better farre then him To love her then as yet after all this were but to be a sot and no way amorous Perfidious and most thankelesse Soule what wrong hath thy unthankfulnesse and thy faith-breach done to thee what glories have they ravisht from thy memory I had prepar'd thee a place in heaven where the luster of thy starre had been adored saluted and made known to all mortall kinde where those that live beneath another Pole had worship'd thee even as their chiefest constellation Thy image and thy name had beene so venerable to posterity that our Nephewes had not filled the earth but with thy Altars nor had perfumed the ayre but with the odours of thy sacrifice The universe had beene thy Temple where men had preached but thy vertues Celebrated but thy praises and publisht but thy merits And thy renowne had been so famous ore the world as it had found no other bounds then the extreamity of that 's extent and the eternity of its lasting And though I could yet heape upon thee as much blame as the honor I prepared for thee and satisfie my selfe with as much vengeance as an outraged heart could wish yet will I not afflict thee with a greater punishment Then leave thee buried in the abisse of thy owne forgetfulnesse And not remember mee henceforth of thee but to detest thy memory The Argument He answers to certaine complaints that Minerva had made some while after as well to his friends as himselfe of his indifference and sheweth that it was founded on the necessity of obeying her and upon good reason Epistle 62. Madame YOu cannot think that I wish you ill but by that you have done me the feeling whereof I have quite lost together with the remembrance of what good I wished you If I should wish you ill it should be for that you do unto your selfe and in such case I should counsell you to forbear any further to do it to the end I ceased further to wish it were you not altogether as incapable of my counsels as of my affection After such things as have passed 'twixt you and me I ought not retaine the least affection that may have regard to you nor any thought that may acknowledge you And if you say 〈…〉 indifference is worse then enmity I 〈…〉 it a truth but you must acknowle●●… 〈…〉 there was not that violence by 〈…〉 not essayed to enforce me thereunto 〈…〉 flee by the which I have not endeavor●● 〈…〉 me still therin It is not to be marvelled at the 〈◊〉 at last have performed your will since my will was ever subject unto yours or rather was indeed no other but yours But what you ought finde strange is indeed that I can endure your contradiction whilest you can by no meanes endure my obedience When that I liu'd not but in you and my jealousie made me complain of your deportments you have full often told me that I had no interest in your actions wherefore would you that I should have now that you are dead as it were to me you have full oft refused your sight and entertainment unto me when as it was the chiefe and onely one of my desires Wherfore offer you it me now that it is the last of all my cares And wherefore having so many times fled me when that I followed you doe you now follow me when that I flee you if so it be not to make seen that you are alwaies contrary and that your pleasure abides in my tortures but if you shall reply that I am altogether irreconcileable I would set you in my place and aske you but this question If you had lov'd me so as I have ever affected you and having outraged and discarded you for other women as you have wrong'd and abandon'd me for other men I desired to renew affection with you yet livin● 〈◊〉 dying for other men would not you bid 〈…〉 discharge me of the women for whom I had used you so ill and that afterwards I should see what you had to doe So quit you first of such men as you have unworthily preferred before me and then we will see what reparation you may make me You say that you finde your fault and that you repent you of the doing it and desire to render me satisfied begin with satisfaction and having quit the sinne we will see if you be capable of mercy But to thinkthat you can at one and the same time be capable of both there is never a Casuist in Sorbonne but will condemne your opinion Yet think not I give you this advice nor in hope or desire that you should follow it for knowing that you have ever done quite contrary to such counsels as I have given you I should then rather give you this to the intent you followed it not if I were not very carelesse both of the one and the other What I say herein is too manifest that it is not with so much incivility as reasō that I endeavour to escape your snares and that it is with more vanity then judgement that you hope to take me there againe FINIS