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death_n	day_n	end_n	life_n	8,116	5	4.5798	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50472	The memoires of the Dutchess Mazarine written in French by her own hand, and done into English by P. Porter Esq. ; together with the reasons of her coming into England ; likewise, a letter containing a true character of her person and conversation.; Mémoires. English	Mazarin, Hortense Mancini, duchesse de, 1646-1699.; Porter, P.	1676 (1676)	Wing M1538; ESTC R19039	48,247	134

would always press me to love something She importuned me for some Years to tell her if none of the Court pleased me more than another at last being overcome with her intreaties I told her I saw a Youth in the house that I liked above the rest but that I should be very sorry he should be half so pleasing in my Eye as the King was in hers Overjoyed to have drawn this Confession from me she asked me his Name but I knew it not And though she took all the pains imaginable to make me describe him she was above two months vexing of me before she could find him our She understood at last that it was an Italian Gentleman newly come from being Page of the great Chamber who was then but one of the sub Lieutenants in the Guards but has been since Killed in a higher employment in Flanders She told me his Name and likewise made her self merry with the King about my pretended inclinations from whom she could conceal nothing The Cardinal knew it a litte after and believing it quite another thing than really it was spoke to me of it in very harsh terms It was the right way to make something of nothing and if I were capable of ingageing my self for spight his Reproches might incline me to deserve them As this Gentleman was familiar in the House the Noise the Cardinal made about it reached his Ear and raised in him Thoughts which he perhaps never had before at length he found means to make them known to me and by my Sisters good will I should have answered his Passion instead of despising and rejecting it In the mean time the Cardinals Distemper grew every day worse and worse the desire he had to Eternize his Name carried him above the indignation he had conceived against me He broke his mind to the Bishop of Frejus and desired to know his Opinion of several Persons and which of them he thought properest for me This Bishop won before by Monsieur M. upon promise of fifty thousand Crowns forgot nothing that might deserve them but he never had them For he returned the Bond which was given him intimating He had a greater mind to the Bishoprick of Eureux if it could be gotten for him But the King having disposed of it to another notwithstanding Monsieur M. his soliciting for the space of two moneths Monsieur Frejus demanded the fifty thousand Crowns but Monsieur M. was no longer in the mind to pay them As soon as the Marriage was concluded he sent me a great Cabinet wherein amongst other Rich things there was ten thousand Pistols in Gold I gave great part of this Gold to my Brother and Sisters to lessen their hatred of my Opulencies which they could not see without Envy what-ever meen they made I never put them to the trouble of asking me for the Key was always in the Cabinet and who would might take for me One day wanting other divertisement we threw above three hundred Pistols out at the Windows of the Pallace Mazarine to have the pleasure of seeing a Company of Servants that were in the Court to scramble and fight for them This Prodigality being told the Cardinal it caused so much Displeasure in him that it is believed it hastned his end but whether it were so or no he died within eight days after and left me the Richest Heiress but the unhappiest Woman in all Christendom Upon the first Tidings of his Death my Brother and my Sister instead of being sorry Cryed to one another God be thanked he is gone And to tell you the Truth I was not much more afflicted and it is a remarkable thing that a man of that merit that all his Life had laboured to raise and enrich his Family should never receive other Thanks from them than apparent signs of hatred and aversion even after his Death But if you knew with what severity he treated us you would be less surprised at this Never man had so sweet a behaviour abroad and in publick and so harsh and severe at home all our humours and inclinations were point blank opposite to his Add to this the Tyrannical Subjection we were kept in The tenderness of our years and the insensibility carelesness we had for all things to which too much plenty and prosperity reduces most Persons of this Age in spight of all their good Nature For my own particular Fortune has taken Care to punish my Ingratitude by those misfortunes which have continually followed me one in the Neck of another ever since his Death I know not what fore-knowledge my Sister had of them but upon the first Discontents which I fell into after my Marriage she told me by way of Consolation Go go you will be more unhappy than I. Monsieur de Lorraine who for a long time was passionately in Love with her made use of all his Rethorick to perswade her to marry Him and continued his pursuit even after the Cardinals Death The Queen Mother who would by no means have her stay in France charged Madam de Vennel to break off this Intreague at any rate But all their Endeavours had been fruitless had they not been seconded by certain Reasons unknown to all the world And though the King had the Generosity to give her her Choyce of any man else in France if she could not fancy Monsieur de Lorraine and that he seemed to be sensibly displeased at her resolution to go out of France her evil Star Drew her into Italy against all Reason The Constable who at first believed that the Amours of Kings could pot be innocent was so much transported with joy to find the contrary in the person of my Sister that he made little account of not being the first that had gain'd her heart he left his bad Opinion that he had which all Italians have of the liberty which Ladies have in France and made her live with the same freedom in Rome since he found she used it so discreetly In the mean time the Eunuch her Confident who now by her absence and the Cardinals Death Lived without Credit undertook to make himself necessary about me but besides that my own Nature made me a stranger to all sorts of intregues Monsieur M. Kept too strict an Eye over all my Actions He enraged at this Obstacle took a Resolution to be Revenged of Monsieur M. himself This man kept his access to the King with the same freedom he enjoyed when he was my Sisters Confident He makes a great Complaint to him of the Severity Monsieur M. used towards me That he was obliged to take my part as having been the Cardinals Creature and my particular Servant That Monsieur Mazarine was jealous of all the World And above all of his Majesty and he caused me to be watched very narrowly in all places where the King who had no thoughts of me might see me and that besides be took upon Him as if he were a great Minister