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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

Court as she had us'd She had a sight of Monsieur de Nemours at the Queen-Dauphins she had a sight of him at Monsieur de Cleve's where he frequently came with other Persons of Quality of his age that no notice might be taken of it but where-ever she saw him it gave her trouble and put her into some disorder which he easily perceiv'd As careful as she was to shun his looks and speak less to him than any other she could not prevent some sudden escapes of her passion that gave Monsieur de Nemours cause to believe she had more than indifferent inclination for him A Man perhaps less discerning than he could not have perceiv'd it but he had been already so often belov'd it was easie for him to know when one lov'd him He knew the Chevalier de Guise was his Rival and the Chevalier de Guise as clearly saw Monsieur de Nemours was his Not one of the whole Court but the Chevalier de Guise had made the discovery his interest render'd him more clear-sighted than the rest The knowledge they had of one anothers designs made them cross one another in all things and they could not forbear expressing their spight on every occasion though it broke not out into open enmity At the Runnings at the Ring at Combats at the Barrier and all Divertisements the King call'd them to they were always of different Parties and their emulation was so great it could not be hid Madam de Cleve could not forbear thinking frequently of the Affair with England she believ'd Monsieur de Nemours would not resist the King's Advice and the Instances of Lignerolles it troubled her to see Lignerolles was not yet return'd and she expected him every hour with the greatest impatience Her inclinations sway'd her strongly to inform her self exactly of the state of that Affair but the same thought that rais'd her Curiosity immediately suggested to her she was oblig'd to conceal it and she enquir'd only of the Beauty the Wit and Humour of Queen Elizabeth The King had one of her Pictures brought him Madam de Cleve thought it far handsomer than she hop'd to have found it and she could not forbear saying the Picture-drawer had flatter'd the Queen in drawing her so beautiful I do not think so says the Queen-Dauphin that Princess is reputed extraordinary handsome and witty and I am sure she hath been propos'd to me for an Example all my Life she must be very lovely if like Anne Bullen her Mother Never had a Lady so charming a Person or so bewitching a sweetness and lovliness in her humour I have heard say she had a singular sprightliness in her Countenance and not like the common English Beauties I think says Madam Cleve I have been told she was born in France They that fancy so are mistaken replys the Queen-Dauphin and I will tell you the Story of her in a very few words She was of a good Family in England Henry the 8th had been in love with her Mother and Sister and it was suspected she might be his Daughter She came into France with Henry the 7th's Sister who was marry'd to King Lewis the 12th This Princess being youthful and gallant was loth to leave the Court of France at the death of her Husband Anne Bullen whose love for the French Court was equal to her Mistresses resolv'd not to quit it The late King fell in love with her and she was made Maid of Honour to Queen Claudia This Queen dying the Lady Margaret the King's Sister Duchess of Alanson and since Queen of Navarr took her into her Service where she receiv'd some Tincture of the reformed Religion Afterwards she return'd into England and charm'd all that saw her she sung well and danc'd excellently They made her one of Queen Katherine's Maids of Honour and Henry the 8th fell desperately in love with her Cardinal Wolsey his Favourite and prime Minister was ill satisfi'd with the Emperour for not having favour'd his pretensions to the Papacy and to be reveng'd of him resolv'd to unite the King his Master to the French To effect this he suggested to Henry the 8th that his Marrriage with the Emperour's Aunt was Null and propos'd for a Wife to him the Duchess of Alanson whose Husband was lately dead Anne Bullen had Ambition enough to look upon the Divorce of King Henry from Katherine as a means to make way for her into the Throne She began to give the King some Impressions of the Lutheran Perswasion and engag'd the late King here to favour at Rome the Divorce of Henry in hopes of his marrying the Duchess of Alanson Cardinal wolsey to have opportunity to treat of this Affair prevailed with King Henry to send him into France on other business but he was so far from giving him power to propose that Marriage that he sent him express Order to Calais not to speak of it At his return from France Cardinal Wolsey was receiv'd with honours equal to those they would have done to the King Never did Favourite carry on Pride and Vanity to so high a Pitch He mannag'd an Enterview between the two Kings at Bulloigne Francis the 1st would have given the upper-hand to Henry the 8th but he would not take it they treated one another by turns with extraordinary Magnificence and presented each other with Habits equal to those they had caus'd to be made for themselves I have heard it said those the late King sent the King of England were of Crimson-Sattin beset all over with Pearls and Diamonds and a Robe of white Velvet embroider'd with Gold After some days stay at Bulloigne they went to Callis Anne Bullen was Lodg'd in Henry the 8th's Court with the Train of a Queen and Francis the 1st made her the same Presents and did her the same Honour as if she had been actually so At last after a Passion of nine years continuance Henry the 8th married her without staying for the dissolution of his first Marriage which he had a long time demanded at Rome The Pope hastily thunder'd Excommunications against him which provok'd the King so highly that he declar'd himself Head of the Religion and drew England after him into the Change ye now see Anne Bullen enjoy'd not her Grandeur long for when she thought it surest by the death of Queen Katherine one day as she was seeing with the whole Court a Match made by the Viscount Rochfort her Brother to run at the Ring the King was suddenly struck with so furious a jealousie that he hastily left the Show and went straight to London having left order for arresting the Queen the Viscount Rochfort and several others whom he thought Lovers or Confidents of that Princess though in appearance this jealousie of the Kings seem'd to owe its Birth to that moment the truth is it had been inspir'd into him some time before by the Viscountess Rochfort who was not able to bear with patience the great intimacy between the

were Plenipotentiaries for the King the Duke of Alva and the Prince of Orange for philip the Second the Duke and Duchess of Orleans were the Mediators The principal Articles were the Marriage of the Princess Elizabeth of France with Don Carlos the Infanta of Spain and his Majesties Sister with the Monsieur of Savoy The King during the Treaty continued upon the Frontiers where he received the first news of the Death of Queen Mary of England His Majesty forthwith dispatcht the Earl of Randan to Queen Elizabeth to congratulate with her Majesty her Assumption to the Crown she received him honourably her affairs were in so ill a posture at that time she was not a little satisfied that so great a Prince was pleased to pay his first respects to her The Court discoursed she was well read in the interest of the Court of France and the merit of those that had the honour to compose it But for none she seemed to express so great a value as the Duke of Nemours she was pleased to speak with that Honour of this Prince that the Ambassadour upon his return took the Liberty to declare he thought no Person more valuable in her esteem than the Duke And did not question upon his addresses the Queen might do him the Honour to entertain a Passion for him The King the same Evening communicated it to the Prince where he commanded the Count de Randan to give him the Relation to confirm the Duke in the respect the Queen had for him which he was pleased to conclude with his advice not to neglect the favourable opportunity that seemed to court him to so much happiness The Duke received it at first as a piece of raillery till his Majesty was pleas'd to undeceive him If Sir says the Duke in obedience to your Majesties commands and for your service I shall embark my self upon so extravagant a design as to presume a Princess whom I have never yet had the honour to know should admit me to her Royal Bed I hope your Majesty will be pleased not to divulge the vanity of the attempt till the success may justifie me to the Publick The King was pleas'd to give him his Royal word that he would depose it in the knowledge of no other Breast but the Constable's concluding with the Duke that Secresie might facilitate the design The Count advised the Duke to take a Journey for England which he refused and dispatch't Monsieur Lignerolle a sprightly Gentleman his Favourite to sound the Queens inclinations and to endeavour to fix some obligation upon her In the interim he takes a Journey for Bruxells to give a visit to the Duke of Savoy who was there with the King of Spain The death of Queen Mary gave several difficulties to the Treaty which about the end of November broke up and his Majesty return'd to Paris At last there broke forth a Beauty in the Court which drew all its Eyes upon her and I cannot without injustice rank her amongst the indifferent that could purchase such admiration in a place that was so richly stored She was of the Family of the Viscount de Chartres and one of the greatest Heiresses of France She had the misfortune to bury her Father in her infancy by which unhappy accident she was left to the Guardianship of Madam de Chartres her Mother She was a Lady of those great Accomplishments that Fortune Vertue and Merit seem'd to have conspired to compleat her fair model After her Husbands death she had for some years made her recess from Court. During her retirement she was not wanting to give her Daughter an Education suitable to her Quality in which she did not so much labour to improve her Person as her better part which she endeavour'd to embellish with Vertue which renders a Lady truly noble The generality of Mothers imagin it sufficient to forbear to discourse of the vanity of Love left their Children should be invited to stray out of the paths of Vertue Madam de Chartres was of a contrary opinion She was pleased to paint out love to her Daughter in all its shapes that she might be the better able to discern that part of her which might be the most dangerous She informs her of the little Sincerity and Candor there is in Man Their Devices their Infidelity and the Domestick Discontents Marriage often plunges those into that alter their condition On the other side she declares the Happiness and Tranquility that attends a Vertuous Wife and what Luster and Esteem Piety in a person of Birth and Beauty may purchase her And concludes in acquainting her with the difficulty to preserve it which cannot be better secured than by a diffidence in our selves and a serious application to those things that can best contribute to our happiness which is to love our Husbands and to merit a return This Lady was at that time one of the greatest Matches of France and notwithstanding she was but in her greener years she wanted not her choice of Proposals Madam de Chartres who was an ambitious Lady scarce thought the noblest worthy her consideration She having now arrived to the sixteenth year of her Age she brought her to Court The first that paid his respects to her upon her arrival was the Viscount who was not a little surprised and you cannot blame him at the Beauty of the fair Lady The delicacy of her Meen in which York and Lancaster seem'd to have contended which of the two should be the most prodigal of his Charms was the Subject of his admiration The Day following the young Lady went to a famous Italian to purchase a Set of Jewels This Gentleman came along with the Queen from Florence and he had raised himself to that prodigious wealth by his Industry that his House appeared rather to be the Palace of a Prince than the Being of a Merchant When she was there in comes the Prince of Cleve He was so transported at the sight of this young Lady that he could not dissemble his surprise Madam de Chartres could not forbear to answer the Princes discomposure with a blush after she had a little composed her self she pays her civility to the Prince suitable to the Character she apprehended he might bear The Prince beheld her with admiration but he was not able to judge who this Lady should be having never had the honour to see her before He perceived by her Person and the numerous Retinue that waited on her that she must be of eminent Quality Her youth perswaded him she might be a Maid but seeing no Mother with her and the Italian giving her the Title of Madam he knew not what to think She seemed to receive his Addresses with a disorder more than usual with young Ladies who take no small vanity in the impression their Beauty may happily make upon a stranger The Prince's applications to her gave her some impatience to retire which she suddenly did Monsieur de Cleve was

her Monsieur de Nemours was the Man had inspir'd so violent a passion and conjur'd her to assist him in observing that Prince Madam de Martigues was glad to hear what the Vidame told her and the Curiosity she had always observ'd in the Queen-Dauphin for what concern'd Monsieur de Nemours made her the more desirous to know the bottom of the Adventure A short time before the day fix'd for the Ceremony of the Marriage the Queen-Dauphin invited the King her Father-in-Law and the Duchess of Valentinois to Supper Madam de Cleve had been so busie a dressing her self it was late e're she came to the Louvre By the way she met a Gentleman who was coming in search of her from the Queen-Dauphin As she enter'd her Chamber that Princess said aloud to her from on her Bed where she then was I have look'd for you with the greatest impatience I believe it Madam answers she yet perhaps I am not oblig'd to you for it the cause being doubtless something else and not your desire to see me You are right answers the Queen-Dauphin yet you are oblig'd to me for I will tell you an Adventure you will be very glad to know Madam de Cleve kneel'd at her Bed side and very luckily with her Face from the light You know says the Queen-Dauphin how desirous we were to find out who had caus'd the great change observ'd in Monsieur de Nemours I believe I know the Party you will be surpriz'd at the Story He is desperatrly in love with one of the handsomest Ladys of the Court and she loves him again You may easily imagine what grief Madam de Cleve felt at these words which she could not apply to her self as being of opinion no Person knew of her love for Monsieur de Nemours I see nothing in this Madam answers she that should occasion a surprize if you consider the age and the handsomness of Monsieur de Nemours True says the Queen-Dauphin but that which will surprize you is to know that the Lady in love with Monsieur de Nemours hath never given him any Evidence of it and is so afraid she shall not be able to continue Mistress of her passion that she hath confess'd it to her Husband that he may take her from Court and 't is Monsieur de Nemours hath related what I say to you Madam de Cleve was griev'd at the beginning of this discourse when she thought her self not concern'd in the Adventure but she was at her wits-end when she heard the conclusion of it which too clearly made out it related to her She could not answer a word but continued leaning her Head on the Bed while the Queen was speaking which she did with that earnestness and concern she took not any notice of the confusion Madam de Cleve was in This Story answers she seems very improbable and I would very fain know who it is hath told it you 'T is Madam Martigues says the Queen-Dauphin and she had it from the Vidame of Chartres You know he is in love with her he told it to her as a Secret and he was told it by the Duke of Nemours 'T is true the Duke of Nemours told him not the Name of the Lady nor would confess himself the other Party concern'd but the Vidame makes no doubt of it As the Queen-Dauphin had done speaking one came up to the Bed Madam de Cleve had so turn'd her self about she could not see who it was but was quickly satisfi'd of the Person when she heard the Queen-Dauphin cry out with no less joy than surprize Here he is himself and I will know of him the truth of it Madam de Cleve needed not turn about to know it was Monsieur de Nemours as really it was but went hastily to the Queen-Dauphin and told her softly she must take heed of speaking of this Adventure which Monsieur de Nemours had told the Vidame as a Secret and perhaps it might make make them fall out You are too wise says the Queen-Dauphin laughing and turn'd towards Monsieur de Nemours He was drest for the Court-meeting at Night and with a Grace natural to him I believe Madam says he I may venture to think you were speaking of me as I came in that you had a desire to ask me something and that Madam de Cleve was against it 'T is true answers the Queen-Dauphin but I shall not be so complaisant to her on this occasion as I am us'd to be I would know of you whether a Story I have been told be true and whether you are not the Person in love with and belov'd by a Lady at Court who endeavours to conceal her passion from you and hath confess'd it to her Husband You cannot imagine the trouble and perplexity Madam de Cleve was in she would have thought Death a very good exchange for it Yet Monsieur de Nemours was in greater if possible The discourse of the Queen who he had reason to believe hated him not in presence of Madam de Cleve in whom of all the Court she plac'd greatest confidence and had the greatest share of hers in return put him into so strange a confusion of extravagant thoughts it was not in his power to be Master of his Countenance The trouble he saw Madam de Cleve in by his fault and the thought of his having given her just cause to hate him surpriz'd him so that he could not answer a word Madam La Dauphin observing him mute Look upon him says she to Madam de Cleve look upon him and judge if he be not concern'd in this Adventure The mean time Monsieur de Nemours having consider'd how necessary it was to get out of so dangerous a strait and recover'd his wit and his looks I confess Madam says he no surprize or affliction could be greater than mine at the infidelity of the Vidame of Chartres in relating an Adventure I had in confidence imparted to him of one of my Friends I know how to be reveng'd of him continues he smiling very calmly which rais'd the suspicions the Queen-Dauphin had entertain'd of him he hath made me his Confident in matters of no small importance But I am to seek for the Reason Madam why you make me concern'd in this Adventure The Vidame will not say it for I have told him the contrary I may very well be taken to be a Man in love but I cannot believe Madam you will think me of the number of those who are lov'd again Monsieur de Nemours was glad to say any thing to the Queen-Dauphin that might relate to that affection he had declar'd for her formerly to divert her thoughts from the matter in hand She understood what he said but instead of answering continu'd reazing him for the change in his looks when she began to discourse him I was troubled Madam says he on my Friends account and to think how justly he would reproach me for telling a Secret more dear

was almost convinc'd of her Innocence I cannot tell says he whether I ought to believe you but I find my self so near death I would not know any thing should make me unwilling to die you have convinc'd me too late yet it will ever be a comfort to me to go away with the thought of your being still worthy the Esteem I have had for you Let me intreat you I may be assur'd of this further comfort that my Memory shall be dear to you and that if it had been in your power you would have had for me the kindness you have for another He would have gone on but was so weak his speech fail'd him Madam de Cleve call'd in the Physicians who found him at the point of death yet he languish'd some days and dy'd at last with admirable Constancy Madam de Cleve was so afflicted she was almost beside her self The Queen came to see her and took her into a Covent yet she was not sensible of it her Sisters-in-Law brought her back to Paris when she was not yet in a condition to give an account of her grief But when she began to have the power to consider what a Husband she had lost that she had been the cause of his death and by a passion she had had for another the horrour she had for her self and for Monsieur de Nemours surpasses expression Monsieur de Nemours at first durst pay her no other Respects but what decency requir'd He knew her too well to think any other would be acceptable and found afterwards he must observe the same Conduct a very long time A Servant of his told him that Monsieur de Cleve's Gentleman being his intimate Friend and lamenting to him the loss of his Master said to him that Monsieur de Nemour's Journey to Colonniers had caus'd his death Monsieur de Nemours was extermely surpriz'd at the discourse yet after some reflection he could guess partly at the truth of it and judg'd presently what Madam de Cleve would think of him and what a distance it would occasion between them if she once believ'd her Husbands distemper proceeded from his jealousie of him He thought it not best to put her in mind so quickly of his Name and stuck to that resolution though it went against the heart of him He took a journey to Paris and could not forbear calling at her Gate to ask how she did He was told she admitted no Visit and had commanded they should not trouble her with an account of any that came to see her an Order given perhaps on purpose to prvent her hearing of Monsieur de Nemours but he was too deeply in love to live absolutely depriv'd of the sight of her and resolv'd to find means how difficult soever to get out of a condition he thought so intolerable Madam de Cleve afflicted her self beyond Reason the Death of her Husband and caus'd by her a Huband dying with such tenderness for her still ran in her mind she could not forbear reflecting every moment on the duty she ought him and condemning her self she had not had the affection for him he deserv'd as if it had depended on her power All the comfort she had was to know she lamented the loss of him as his Merit requir'd and was resolv'd the rest of her life to do nothing but what had he liv'd he would have been certainly pleas'd with She had often been thinking how he came to know Monsieur de Nemours had been at Colonniers She could not suspect he had told him yet if he had she valued it little she thought her self so perfectly cur'd of the passion she had had for him but she was griev'd at the heart to think him the cause of her Husbands Death and was troubled at the thought of the fear Monsieur de Cleve had exprest at his Death she would marry him But these griefs were drown'd all together in that of the loss of her Husband which was so great she seem'd to have no other After several Months the violence of her affliction began to abate and she fell into a state of sadness and melancholly being seiz'd with a pining and languishing grief Madam de Martigues made a journey to Paris and during her stay there visited her often she entertain'd her with discourse of the Court and the passages there and though Madam de Cleve appear'd unconcern'd yet Madam de Martigues continued that discourse in hopes to divert her She told her news of the Vidame of Monsieur de Guise and all others any way remarkable for their Persons or Merit As for Monsieur de Nemours says she I cannot tell whether business hath not dispossest his heart of the Gallantry he was so much addicted to sure I am he is not gay and jovial as he us'd to be and he seems not to affect the company of Ladies he goes often to Paris and I believe is there now Madam de Cleve was so surpriz'd at the name of Nemours that she blush'd But she chang'd the discourse and Madam de Martigues perceiv'd not the concern she was in The morrow Madam de Cleve being in search of business suitable to her condition went to a Neighbours house who was famous for having a particular Excellency in weaving of Silks and she design'd to have some done to her fancy Having seen several pieces of his work she spy'd a Chamber-door where she thought there were more Silks and spoke to them to open it The Master answer'd he had not the Key and that the Chamber was taken by a man who came at certain hours of the day to take the Prospect and Plat-form of the fair houses and Gardens to be seen from his Windows He is adds he the handsomest man I ever saw and looks not like one that works for his living when ever he comes I observe he looks still towards the houses and Gardens but I can never see him work Madam de Cleve heard this discourse very attentively what Madam de Martigues had told her that Monsieur de Nemours was now and then at Paris she apply'd in her fancy to that handsom man coming so near her Lodging and grew up into an Idea of Monsieur de Nemours labouring for a sight of her which gave her a confus'd trouble which she knew not the cause of she went towards the Windows to see where they look'd and found they fac'd the Garden and her Apartment When she went to her Chamber she could easily see the Window where she was told that man used to stand in for taking his Prospect The thought that it was Monsieur de Nemours produc'd a great alteration in her she presently lost that melancholly repose she had begun to enjoy and fell into great disquiet and disturbance of spirit Not able to stay at home she went to take the air in a Garden in the Suburbs where she hop'd to be alone At her arrival she thought she was not deceiv'd and walk'd a pretty while