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The amours of Bonne Sforza, queen of Polonia.; Les amours de Bonne Sforza, reigne de Pologne. English.
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Belon, P. (Peter)
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1684
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Wing A3021B; ESTC R2331
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THE AMOURS OF Bonne Sforza QUEEN OF Polonia LONDON Printed by T. M. for R. Bently in Covent-Garden 1684. TO THE Most Accomplish't Lady MADAM Mary-Elizabeth Manly Madam THis Title does so justly speak your Perfections in the great that it may ease me of the Modish Labour of retailing them in this Epistle you of the trouble of reading the uneasy repetitions of these Elogyes so nautious to generous minds though never so deservedly expressed which you daily receive from all parts You Madam who are so remarkably known by your own Merits that it is the same to dedicate to you as to say to the most vertuously accomplished Lady in the World And though I am full of confidence that if this wanton Queen whose story I humbly present to you were ever to have been reclaimed it must have been through the benign'd influence of so examplary a Virgin as yours I have taken the boldness to recommend this little Peace not so much to your protection as to the judicial censure of so absolute a Mistris of Languages as you are Madam in hopes that you will be a Judge as favourable as you are decerning in the endeavours of Madam Your most Humble Servant P. B. Advice to the READER Reader I Think that a Word of Advice concerning this Little Book will not be altogether useless There may be divers Persons who not very learned in the Amorous Chronicles of Princes would be ready to condemn that Liberty which I take of making the Gallant History of a Queen but the Publick may be informed that She of whom I speak has been according to the most sincere Historians one of the Princes in the World that has most caused her self to be spoken of on the Account of Gallantising And that towards the latter end of her dayes having retired her self in her Dutchy of Barr scituated in the Kingdom of Naples She died there in the Armes of Pappacoda her Lover That the Last sigh she should send forth might be a sigh of Love It is easy to Judge from those faithful strokes of the Hystorian if that the Adventures which I relate of this Princess are unjust and whether it be Imposition to give her two or three Lovers who were much more Worthy than her Pappacoda As to what concernes the Bishop I confess that there might be something of my own in those Incidents which I bestow on him But besides that from all Ages Persons of that Character have passed for the Children of Adam as well as others We see by a great number of examples that in this Age they are not over much reformed and that men lay down their Humane frailtyes but with their Lives A Catalogue of some Novels Printed for R. Bentley and M. Magnes 1. ZElinda a famed Romance 2. Happy Slave in three Parts 3. Count Brion 4. Count Gabales 5. Halige or the Amours of the King of Tamaran 6. Mad. Laviler and the King of France 7. Mad. and the Duke of Guise 8. Mad. Colona's Memories 9. Queen of Majork two Parts 10. Don Lebastian King of Pourtingal 11. Heroine Masquiter 12. Princess of Cleves 13. Obliging Mistris 14. Fatal Prudence 15. Princess of Fezz 16. Disorders of Love 17. Triumph of Love 18. Victorious Lovers 19. Allmanzar and Allmanzaid 20. Earl of Essex and Queen Elizabeth 21. Neopolitan or the Defender of his Mistris 22. Nicoratis 23. Amorous Abbess 24. Homais Queen of Tunis 25. Pilgrim in two Parts 26. Meronious Prince of the Blood Royal of France 28. Life of the Duke Guise 29. Extravagant Poet. 30. Memoiers Gallant 31. Instruction for a Young Noble Man Books of more serious matters The Moral Esaies in four Vollumes Humane Misery Vanity of Honour Wealth and Pleasure Plutoes Apology of Socrates Natural History of the Passions Bishop Andrews Devotions Vanity of Arts and Sciences The Officers of the Mouth Kalandarium Hortencey THE AMOURS OF Bonne Sforza QUEEN of POLONIA AFter the Death of Queen Barbara the General Diet of Poland having Represented unto Sigismondus their King that the Good of the State required he should Marry again He took to second Wife the Princess Bonna Daughter unto John Galeas Duke of Milan That Princess whose Beauty had made such a noise in the World was Received by the Polanders with such Magnificence and Acclamations as spread themselves into the most remote parts of that Kingdom They were such Feastings and Rejoycings as lasted so much the more by reason that the Queen did seem to take Great Delight in them and that she was the first also in inventing very Gallant Ones That Court besides the Strangers that were there at such a time was then Composed of the Gallantest Persons in Europe who in such an Occasion did all endeavour to outvye one another not only in Gallantry and Activity but in such a Magnificence also with so Prodigious Expence that the King was Obliged to put a stop to their Profusions in setting of Limits to these Festivals The Queen who came from so Gallant a Country as is Italy had heard talk of Poland as of a Barbarous Place At least she had so little expected to see what she did see there that she was wholly surpriz'd and did no longer regret so much that which she had lately left She was Naturally of a very Gallant Humour and she was Charm'd with the Pleasure of seeing the Effects which her Beauty did produce in all hearts Neither was she much insensible for her part and having found in the Court such Cavaliers as well deserved to be considered she did not scruple to mix sometimes some Sighs with those Adorations that others had for Her As there was nothing more Beautiful than her Person and that She contributed also by all her Charming wayes in the gaining of the Hearts as well as good Wishes of all Persons she presently had as many Adorers as Subjects Amongst which she would make Choice of those that were most to her mind which she call'd her Select and upon these there was bestowed sometimes a Ring sometimes a Scarfe a Bracelet a Picture other Presents and Favors which were rendered more Considerable by the Manner and Time of giving them than all that can be reckoned most sensibly moving in Love They were not only young Cavaliers that felt the Effects of this Charming Poyson But the Ministers of State also of all Ages and even those of the Gown that had the greatest Esteem and the most Power in the State She knew how to entertain them all with those little Favours each in such a certain Confidence of his own good Fortune that there was not one amongst them but flattered himself of having the best share in her Favour And in that Opinion her Cyphers and Colours were seen in all places every day did afford some Tournament or Festival for Love of her besides Moâ—â—tos Verses and a thousand other Gallantries which were Addressed to her alone Sigismond was a Prince very clear-sighted He was past fifty An Age