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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60028	Don Carlos, or, An historical relation of the unfortunate life, and tragical death of that Prince of Spain son to Philip the IId written in French anno 1672 and newly Englished by H. I.; Dom Carlos	Saint-Réal, M. l'abbé de (César Vichard), 1639-1692.; H. J.	1674 (1674)	Wing S353; ESTC R9300	54,318	180

rose up briskly at these words and askt his Guards Whether the Bath in which he was to die were ready The King whether it were the longer to feed his eyes with this barbarous Spectacle or that perhaps he was a little shaken and sought how he might handsomly render himself asked him If he had nothing else to say to him The Prince who would willingly have redeemed what he had done at the price of a thousand other lives well perceiving that it was now too late to husband any thing either for him or the Queen could not forbear answering once for all with all his natural fierceness If some persons said he for whom my Complaisance ought not to end but with my life had not obliged me to see you I should not have been guilty of the Cowardise of asking you pardon and I should have dyed more gloriously then you live The King retir'd himself after this Answer without shewing any disturbance Don Carlos put himself in the Bath and having caused the Veines of his Armes and Legs to be opened he commanded all that were present to withdraw Afterwards taking into his hand a Picture of the Queen in Miniature which he alwayes wore about his neck and which had been the first occasion of his Love he remained with his eyes fixed upon that fatal Image till the cold convulsions of death surprized him in that contemplation and his Soul being already half gone out of his body with his Blood and Spirits he lost insensibly his sight and then his life The time of his death is not precisely known It is only known that it arrived a great while before it was published There was a long Relation of his Sickness printed which they said was a Malignant Dysentery caused by his disorders The Grief of the People and the despair of the Princes Domesticks brake out so loudly that the most passionate Historians have not dared to dissemble it The Count of Lerma whom the King had intrusted with the oversight of Don Carlos whilst he was in prison had conceived so extraordinary a Friendship for him that he appeared inconsolable to the eyes of all the Court The King to whom these regrets were but so many reproaches took that way he thought most certain to make them cease He recompenced magnificently all Don Carlos his Servants He gave the Government of Calatrava to the Count of Lerma and made him Gentleman of his Bed-chamber It was well seen that these Liberalities were not grounded upon any gratitude for the affection they testified for Don Carlos nevertheless the People diminished nothing of their eagerness to honour this Princes Memory And it being known that the King designed to make his Obsequies with an extraordinary Magnificence the Town of Madrid demanded that they might be permitted to be at the Expence of them and that all the care of performing them might be left to them Though the King foresaw that this Funeral would be accompanyed with Elegies which would not be very honourable for the Enemies of the dead Man he durst not refuse their Petition The Historians of his time do particularly extol the tranquility of mind that he made appear upon the day of that Pompe when looking from a Window of his Pallace upon the disposition and march of the Ceremony he decided upon the place a difficulty that was raised concerning the Precedency of the different Councils of State that were there present The two Sons of the Emperor that were then at the Court of Spain were the close Mourners When they were come near the Church the Cardinal Spinosa who went before them immediately after the Body took leave of them and retired himself under pretence of a pain that took him in his head But as he was known for the most dangerous and most irreconcileable Enemy Don Carlos had ever had there were several Voices heard crying round about him That he could not suffer the presence of the Prince neither dead nor living The first thing exposed to sight was that famous Encomium of the Scripture for a dead Man which was written in great Letters of Gold over the Church-porch He hath been ravisht from us for fear least the Malice of the Age should have chang'd his heart and least his mind should have been seduced by flattery All that an ingenious grief can invent to ease it self was employed in the proud Mausoleum where this Prince was Interred But as all those Ornaments had a reference to the Latin Inscription that served him for an Epitaph it sufficeth to give the sence of that Inscription to make the Invention and design of the whole Pomp be comprehended To the eternal Memory of Charles Prince of the Spaines of both the Sicilies of the Gaules Belgick and Cisalpine heir of the New World incomparable in greatness of Soul in Liberality and in love for the Truth Thus it was that the elevated Genius and heroical inclinations of the unfortunate Don Carlos were at last represented under their proper names of Virtues after having been so long disguised by his enemies under those of Vices During the time that the King kept Don Carlos his death secret he resolved to make the news of it be told to the Queen at the time she should be in Travel He hoped that so sensible a trouble of mind joyned to that of her body in the condition she was in would finish his revenge but he quickly knew that she was better informed then he desired And as she could not be ignorant that Don Carlos had been sacrificed to his Father's jealousie she did not at all constrain her self to hide the resentment she had of it Her just anger cast her Husband into new inquietudes He thought he had much to fear from her wit and courage but yet more from the extraordinary consideration the Court of France had for her and the streight correspondence she held with the Queen her Mother A few months after the Prince's death the Dutchess d' Alva who had one of the chiefest Offices in the Queen's House came one morning into her chamber with a Potion in her hand The Queen told her That she was well and would not take it But the Dutchess going about to force her to it the King who was not far off came in at the noise of their contest At first he blamed the Dutchess for her peremptoriness but this woman having represented so him that the Physicians judged this remedy necessary for the Queen 's happy lying in he rendred himself to their authority He told the Queen with great sweetness that because this Medicine was of so great importance she must needs take it Because you will have it so answered she to him I am contented He went immediately out of the Chamber and some time after came back clothed in deep Mourning to know how she did But whether it were that there was some mistake in the Composition of the Drink

or that the extraordinary disturbance the Queen was in and the violence she did her self to take it gave it a malignity which it had not in its self she expired the same day in the midst of violent pains and after several great fits of vomiting Her Child was found dead with its skul almost quite burned away She was then at the beginning of the four and twentieth year of her age as well as Don Carlos and in the greatest perfection of her beauty Fortune did so exemplarily revenge the death of these two persons that it would be unjust to keep the knowledge of it from posterity The beauty of the Princess of Eboli soon changed the confidence the King had in her into a violent love Rui Gomez her Husband as jealous of the confidences the King made to his Wife as of the favours she did the King resolved to rid himself of her but the Princess having discovered his design prevented it by ridding her self of him S nce that she kept Don John at a distance from the Court under pretence of divers employments but in effect because he would have treated her with that authority that their long and familiar commerce had given him over her She made the Government of Flanders be given him in hopes that he would perish there as he had done if the courage and conduct of the Prince of Parma had not saved him In this conjuncture she was told that he had discovered the ill offices she had done him The fear she had that he would ruine her in letting the King know all that had passed between them made her resolve to shew him some Letters of the Prince of Orange that were of an extraordinary consequence They imported That the marriage of Don John with the Queen of England was concluded and that the Rebels of Flanders had engaged their word to acknowledge him for their Sovereign as soon as this marriage should be consummated and that without any other condition then Liberty of Conscience These Letters were given by Perez to the King who presently knew the Prince of Orange his writing and as he abandon'd himself to his fear in the Princess of Eboli's presence she took that time to tell him the answer that Don John had heretofore made to Don Carlos when he call'd him Bastard She also put the King in mind of the Pride with which this same Don John had received the acclamations of the Army of Granada where the Souldiers charmed with some great action that he had done cried out in his presence This is the true Son of the Emperour She added his obstinacy to make himself King of Tunis and the loss of the Goulette which he had suffer'd to be taken to revenge himself upon the King for not favouring his designs These divers reflections joyned to the pressing danger of the pretended Match with England did penetrate so far into the King's mind that thinking he had not the least time to lose he found a way of making a pair of perfum'd walking Boots be sent to Don John which cost him his life Some time after it was discovered that the Princess of Eboli had on purpose made the Prince of Orange write those Letters which she said were intercepted and which had been so fatal to Don John The King conceived so great a horrour for this wickedness that it extinguish'd his Love The Princess and Perez were confin'd to a Prison there to end their days Perez afterwards making his escape spent the rest of his life very miserably in wandring through all the Princes Courts in Europe And last of all Philip the Second himself after he was grown old among the griefs caused him by so many disasters was stricken with an Ulcer which bred an incredible quantity of Lice by which he was even eaten up alive and stifled when they found no more wherewithall to nourish themselves upon his body After this manner were expiated the ever to be deplored deaths of a magnanimous Prince and of the most beautiful and most vertuous Princess that ever was And thus it was that their unfortunate Ghosts were at last fully appeased by the Tragical Destinies of all the Complices of their Death FINI● * The Father Hila●rois of Coss Min. in his Elogy of this Queen * Brantome in his Philip the 2 d. * Brantome in his Discourse of this Queen * Brantome in her Elogy * Mr. de Thou Aubigné Etr. * Brantome in his Discourses upon this Queen * Mr. de Thou * Mayerne Thurquets history of Spain * Cabreras History of Philip the 2d * Hugo Blasius Dutchman in his Acroma * Dicos y echos di Philippe 2. * Father Hilarion of Cossa in his Elogy of this Queen * Brantome in his Philip the 2d * Mayerne Turquett in his History of Spain * Mr. Mezeray in his Great History * Mayern Turquet * Mr. de Thou * Mayerne Turquet La Planches History La Places Memoire Monsieur de Mezerai Le Laboureur Diogenes c. * Mr. de Thou Strada c. * Brantome in his Discourse of Philip 2d * Historia de D. Juan d' Austria * Cabrera's History of Philip 2d Historia de Dom. Juan d' Austria * Mr. de Thou Mayerne c. * Matthien his History of France Mr. de Thou c. * Mayern's History of Spain Duplex's History of France c. * Cabrera's History of Philp 2d Hist D. Juan * Crabrera's History of Philip 2d * Cabrera's History of Philip 2d Mr. de Thou Strada c. * Cabrera Hist de D. Juan * Cabrera in the History of Philp 2d * Mr. le Laboureur upon Castalnau in his Ch. of Don Carlos * Campana and Cabrera's Hist Phil. 2d * Mr. de Thou le Laboureur Mayerne Duplex c. * Matt. Hist of France * Mr. de Mezerai in his great Hist * Duplex Hist of France * A Relation Printed at Madrid in Spanish and since at Venis in Italian Campana Cabrera's Hist of Phil. 2d c. * Cabrera's History of Philip the 2d * Cabrera's Hist of Don John * Cabrera's Hist of Don John * Wisdome * Relazion de la Muerte y essequias del prencipe Dom Carlos * Mr. le Laboureur upon Castelnau in his Ch. of Don Carlos Mayerne c. * Mr. le Laboureur Mayerne MS. of Mr. Peirese c. * Mr. de Mezerai in his gr Hist * Mayerne Furqueit's History of Spain M. S. of Mr. Peirese c. * Mr. le Laboreur