the Glory of Charles as well as by Ambition for so fair a Conquest listened to the Proposition of Procula without seeming however to close with it till he first knew what the Pope's Sentiments were therein to whom this Physitian made two Journeys And in fine after several Paces and Sollicitations the Resolution being taken by Pietro d' Arragon Nicholaus the Third who then held the Pontificial See at Rome gave him the investiture of that Kingdom What was most strange in the success of an Affair of so great an Importance and at which Posterity will have ever reason to be astonished is that it was caried on with that Order and Secrecy for the space of Eighteen Months it was in Treaty that it could never come to the knowledge of any French Man Insomuch that in one and the same day at the first ringing of the Bell for Vespers generally all the Cities of that Kingdom took Arms and made a horrible Massacre of all the French without any exception And they were possessed to that Point with hatred or rather with fury against that Nation that they put to the Sword all the Women they found that they beleived to be with Child by any French Man This horrible Tragoedy happened in the Year 1281. about Eleven Years after the Entire Establishment of Charles the First in the two Kingdoms The Sicilians having thus cruelly freed themselves from the French and Pietro d' Arragon having taken possession of the Island Charles was forced to quit the vast designs he had on the East to think of having satisfaction for so cruel a Revolt He prepared a powerfull Army against Sicily and being come to beseige Messina he found the enterprize more difficult than he had beleived it Insomuch that he was obliged to raise the Siege and was repulsed as far as Calabria from whence he went to Rome to complain to the Pope of the Investiture he had given to Pietro of Arragon who in that time was Crowned at Palermo This Affair was agitated in full Assembly and the two Kings not agreeing it was resolved that it should be decided by the way of Armes between these two Princes and this Duell a thing very strange was even by the allowance of the Holy See Bourdeaux the Capital City of Gascony was chosen for the place of the Randevouz and the King of England for Judge Wherefore Charles came to the Place on the day assigned and waited the greatest part of the day for Peter of Arragon who kept himself so well concealed that no Body knew where he was only it had been heard said the day before that he was still so far from Bourdeaux that it was almost impossible he could arrive there on the Day of assignation Insomuch that Charles upon the going down of the Sun retired and departed at the same time from Bourdeaux Peter of Arragon who had run incessantly upon good Horses that he had caused to be placed upon the ways being arrived in cognito in the City kept himself concealed till Charles was gon and then he appeared in the Field of Battel in the presence of him who presided there being a Lord the King of England had sent in his place and complained of King Charles whose Impatient Haughtiness had not permitted him to attend his Arrival He walked in that manner upon the place till that he saw the Stars appear than he remounted his Horse and returned with the same swiftness that he came going as is reported Thirty Leagues that Night He retired into a place of safety thus deceiving King Charles but Martin the Fourth who was then Pope excommunicated him and conferred the Kingdom of Catalonia on Charles of Valois Second Son of Philip King of France In the time that King Charles went to Bourdeaux for this Duell Roger de Loria a Calabrian by Birth Admiral of King Peter of Arragon one of the most experienced as well as the bravest Captains that had e're been upon the Sea plyed all the Coast of Naples with Forty Five Galleys ruining all the Country as far as the City of Naples where he likewise came and shot an infinite number of Arrows reproaching the Neopolitans with Cowardice defying them to come fight him Which so strongly animated a Number of brave men there was in that City and especially the Young Nobility that could not endure so cruel an affront that Charles Prince of Salerno the only Son of Charles the Second took the Resolution of fighting him notwithstanding all the Opposition of the Legate and the Express Orders of the King his Father who had recommended to him to think only of well defending the City and not to come to blows with the Enemies This Prince I say pushed on with a desire of Glory as well as Indignation at so injurious a reproach went out with Thirty Galleys and some other Vessels of less Consequence and attacqued with more Valour than force Loria's Fleet who after a very sharp fight was at the length Conquerour took Nine Galleys and a great number of Young Lords amongst which was Charles Prince of Salerno who was kept with Nine of those he would choose and the rest were sent to Prison in Sicily of whom more than two Hundred were beheaded at Messina in revenge of the Death of Corradin Young Prince of Suevia whom King Charles whose Prisoner of War he was af-the cruel Sentence of Pope Clement the Fourteenth a Provential by Birth who wrote to him Vita Corradini mors Caroli mors Carradini vita Caroli this King I say put him into the Hands of Justice who condemned him to Death A Sentence however which not only every French Lord and Gentleman refused to Sign but whose Execution was fiercely opposed by the Count of Flanders Son-in-Law to King Charles saying that a Prince of that Blood was not to be put to Death after that manner But to give him his Liborty and to make him rather a Friend and an Ally by the means of a Marriage The Day after the defeat of the Prince of Salerno the King his Father returning from Gascony arrived at Gayeta with Sixty Galleys and Three great Ships with Soldiers and Horses and learnt the sad News of his Sons misfortune and that there was already a Revolt in the City of Naples all the People crying may Roger de Loria live and Charles dye At which this Prince fell into so great a Passion that being come near that City he would not Land at the Port but above the Church of the Carmelites where he descended with design to set on fire that ungratefull and rebellious City And was a long time in that cruel Resolution but at length conquered by the Tears of some good People and by the Prayers of the Legate he pardoned them after having caused a Hundred and Fifty of the most culpable to be hanged This punishment having both calmed and terrified the City all his cares were to raise a powerfull Army for to pass into Sicily which
was ready about Autumn and he came to Cotrona with a Hundred and Ten Galleys and some other Sails but seeing the Winter come on and wanting Victuals and Money for so great a Fleet he went to disarme at Brindiso with design to put to Sea again in the Spring and in the mean time to make Provision of all that should be necessary for the bringing to pass his Projects If Death had not made them vanish in a moment He dyed at Foggia a City in la Pouille oppressed with sadness and Malancholly after having lived Fifty Six Years and reigned Nineteen This Prince was tall of a ruddy Complexion had a great Nose and a fierce and Martial Air he was sharp and severe in punishment much more admirable for War than for Peace As to the rest very serious and of almost a Religious Life in what concerned Love He slept little spoak seldome doing more than he said He was liberall to brave men and firm in his Promises an Enemy of Trisles and useless Courtiers but a generous Protectour of Soldiers and Ambitious more than any Prince whatever resolute to have Money at any rate soever when he was to bring to pass any enterprize One of the things that have been most found fault with in this Prince and which has lest some stain in his Glory is the great License he gave to Soldiers in time of Peace to the great disadvantage of his Subjects but otherwise one of the most accomplished Princes of the Earth In that time Pope Martin had sent two Cardinals to Sicily for the endeavouring to make Peace with King Peter of Arragon and not being able to reduce him to accept the Conditions that they proposed they renewed the Excommunication there was against him and likewise Excommunicated all Sicily from whence they departed in that manner The Sicilians more Animated than ever to see themselves so ill Treated by the Pope in Consideration of the French having learnt the Death of King Charles run to the Prisons where the rest of those were who had been taken with the Prince of Salerno for to Massacre them But they found there so vigorous a Resistance that for the sparing of the Blood of theirs they were Obliged to set the Prison on Fire and caused the Death by this unmercifull Cruelty of the finest Youth that had been seen of a long time in Italy in sequel of which they caused the Judges of the Principal Cities of the Kingdom to Assemble for to make the Process of the Prince of Salerno who was in Prison with Nine of his Friends after the Example of King Charles the First who had caused Corradin to be thus judged and they all unanimously condemned him to be Beheaded as had happened to the unfortunate Prince of Suevia But Queen Constance a Princess whom Historians cannot enough commend being then in Sicily designed to save him and for to satisfy the People who demanded his Death she let them understand that in an Affair of so great Importance nothing could be Executed without the allowance of the King her Husband and thereupon she ordered that that Prince should be sent into Catalonia where King Peter of Arragon was to the end he might do as he should think convenient This was at length approved by the People and much Commanded in the World after the Action of Charles the First The Pope having learnt the Death of this King sent to Naples in Quality of Legate Gerard Cardinal of Parma and King Philip the Count de Artois his Son for to take care of the State with Mary Princess of Salerno in the Name of Charles then in Prison during that this King on the other side with the Count de Valois to whom the Pope had given the Investiture of Catalonia entred that Kingdom with two powerful Armies of which that by Sea was of a Hundred and Twenty Galleys They won Girona by assault where the King of Arragon who was there in Person to defend it received a Wound of which he dyed He left Anfus his Eldest Son King of Arragon and Don James the Second King of Sicily During that time Roger de Loria being departed from Sicily to come to the Succours of the King his Master learnt that a part of the Fleet of France was in the Port of Roses and that the other was gon to seek Victuals at Narbonne Whereupon he went and attacqued first that of Roses of which he burnt a part having taken or sunk the rest and made Prisoner Enguiran Admiral of France From thence turning towards that of Narbonne he surprized and defeated it with much less difficulty than the former which being understood by King Philip who was Sick at Perpignan it so grieved him that it caused his Death and almost at the same time that of Pope Martin the Fourth Insomuch that there dyed in the space of a Year three Kings and a Pope Things seemed to be some thing appeased in the midst of so many Deaths of that Consideration and the King of England who was come into Gascony endeavouring to make Peace between the two Young Kings James and Charles the Second then in Prison in Catalonia had almost concluded when it was interrupted by the Occasion I am going to relate The Cardinal Legat and the Count d' Artois Governours of the Kingdom of Naples judging the Conjuncture fair for the recovering of Sicily resolved with Fifty Galleys that they had obtained part from the Venetians and part elsewhere and some Militia that they had caused to come from Toscany with the French and the Country People to attempt this enterprize under the Command of Raynand Count of Aveline This Fleet put to Sea they Landed in that Kingdom they beseiged Catania they took it and the Count fortifying himself there sent his Fleet to Naples for to take in the Soldiers which had been left on Shoar there At the same time the Count of Montsort Vicar of Toscany accompanied with the Count de Boulogne and Philip Son of the Count of Flanders who were at Sienna departing from Maremma with a Fleet of Sixty Galleys of which Arrigin of Genoa was Admiral came towards Sicily to joyn with the Count de Aveline But de Loria who had newly won two Famous Victories having learnt at his coming from that of Narboune the descent that the Nepolitans had made into Sicily turned that way and came to the Succours of the Sicilians The First that he met with were those of the Count de Aveline who were going to Naples whom he chaced and finding them almost unprovided of Soldiers he immediately routed them and from thence going to meet that of the Count of Montfort which was coming from Toscany there was a furious fight in which being at length Conquerour he took the Count of Montfort Prisoner the Count of Boulogne and Prince Philip These two last ransomed themselves with a Sum of Money But the Count of Montfort having been detained Prisoner dyed some time aster in
especially Hannibal in whose Face was not only seen sadness but Death Painted from the time he heard talk of this Marriage But the News which arrived that King James of Arragon prepared to renew the War more hot than ever giving other thoughts and cares to King Charles than those of making Nuptials were a great ease to the despair of these unhappy Rivals This Prince having learnt that King Charles contrary to the Faith of the last Treaty had caused the Pope to give him the Investiture of the two Sicities animated with hatred and resentment resolved to be revenged and made incessantly Warlike Preparations to go and attack him in his own Country Charles the Second as vigilant as a generous Prince had not wanted foresight judging that his Enemy would not leave him long in Peace He had Soldiers enough but the losses that the Kingdom had had upon the Sea while that he was in Prison in the two last Rencounters there had been wherein Count Raynaud on the one side and the Count of Montfort on the other had been defeated had so weakened him in that part that all that the King had been able to do since the little time he was returned to Naples was to prepare a Fleet of Thirty Galleys with which he could not pretend to show himself against the Forces of the King of Arragon who had more than Fourscore Sail under the Conduct of the Famous Roger de Loria However the time pressed the News came that King James was arrived in Sicily that by his Cabals he had caused part of Calabria to revolt and that Catenzano had yeilded up to him in so pressing a necessity his allies finding themselves incommoded or at least discontented at the losses they had had in the two last Engagements not to be able to assist him so soon he knew not what Councell to take nor to whom to have recourse for the helping him to extinguish the Fire which was just lighted in his own Kingdom being more necessary for him to have forces by Sea to hinder the Succours of Sicily than an Army by Land in which he was strong enough when there appeared in the Port of Naples Six Galleys which brought an Ambassador that the King of Majorca sent to King Charles to demand of him the Princess Mary in Marriage in considedration of which he offered him Forty-Galleys and Six Hundred Men at Armes who were ready to set Sail at the first Order they should have This Ambassador was received with that Joy and Honour as so obliging offers merited and which came so conveniently as those did It is true that there was little Proportion between the Youth and the Qualities of that fair Princess and the Age and Humour of this King but the necessity of the time and the advantage of an Alliance with a Prince so powerfull at Sea and who becoming an Enemy by the refusal that should have been made him would not have sailed to have took the part of the Arragonians were reasons which prevailed over all the others and over the particular tenderness the King had for that Princess he proposed Blanche or Eleonora but the demand was express for Mary to the Exclusion of all the others Insomuch that in fine he was forced to resolve of this Sacrifice and the Affairs of the Kingdom obliging the King to press the Conclusion of this Marriage for the sooner having the Succours he expected it was almost as soon done as proposed The astonishment of all our Lovers was as great as cruel they had no sooner learnt the Subject of that Embassy than that they saw that Negotiation brought to an end The King endeavoured to satisfy the most Considerable as the Count of Boulogne Prince Philip the Marquess d' Este and Henry of Narbonne there being other fair Princesses enough in his Family for to repair that loss if that the Honour of his Allyance bound them to his Person For Hannibal's part he had nothing but grief from whose Succours he hoped to put quickly an end to his pains at the same time with his life But that which made him quite desperate was that the Princess who had more Confidence in him than in any other Lord of the Court imparted to him part of her troubles and the little satisfoction she expected in this Marriage complaining to him of the Cruelty of her Destiny with Termes so touching the Soul of the sad and passionate Hannibal that notwithstanding all the constraint he made upon himself he could not hinder sighing without daring to look upon her for fear his Eyes which he could not so well govern as his mouth should have acquainted her with a secret it was less time than ever she should know The Fatal Day arrived at length that she was to depart all the Court was to take leave of her except the Count Hannibal whom she caused to be sought for every where without being found He even knew not what was become of himself so much the greif of so Cruel a Separation had put him besides himself he too well knew the weakness of his Heart for to expose himself in the middle of all the Court to bear so cruel a moment as that of the departure of that Charming Princess that the most indifferent could not see without Tears He went out of the City attended only by his Gentleman of the Horse and from the Sea Shoar where he stayed he saw the Galleys of Majorcâ— depart with an immoveable Air and almost without Sentiment they carrying from him all that he had most dear in the World without being able to retire from that Contemplation so long as his sight could accompany them The City of Majorca which bears the Name of the Isleland is one of the prettyest Scituations in the Mediteranean Sea and the Castle of Belver Palace where the Kings resided and which is a Work oâ— the Antient Moors half a League from the City is one of the most lovely Place in the World But to what use is the agreableness of Places to a Young Princess if it be not joyned to that of Persons She was hardly arrived there than thaâ— the King her Husband would send back the few People that accompanyed her and this order was Executed notwithstanding all the Opposition she brought to it So strange a beginning could not fail of having sad Consequences She quickly found a great difference between that gloomy and desert Court and that of the King her Father where all smiled but seeing dayly some Change in the things that concerned her and that her Liberty diminished by the same degrees that her pains augmented she had many more Complaints to make This Conduct appeared to her by so much the more rude in that having been brought up in an Air of Grandeur and Liberty Honoured Served and if it may be said adored by all the Princes and Lords at the Court of King Charles her Father she saw none about her but Old Women who served her
ill enough and shut up in Five or Six Chambers of her apartment out of which she could not go without the Permission of the King her Husband and that even very rarely What a Destiny for a Young and Fair Princess whom the cheifest Kings of the Earth would have been proud of serving to see her self a slave in a place where she ought to have Commanded and without having tasted any of the Sweets that others find in Marriage to be exposed to all the pains of without and within that could attend so in compatible a Union She did nothing but shed Teares every day but those Teares instead of softning the Heart of that Cruel Monarch did but the more Irritate him imagining that they were so many snares that the Gossiping Humour of his Wife laid for his Honour The Countess of Palomer a Young Widdow who was with the Queen in Quality of her Lady of Honour extreamly touched to see so Charming a Princess treated after that manner took so great a kindness for her that there was no mannner of care or Complaisance which she did not employ for the giving some diversion to her displeasures she was a very lovely person of a good Wit and of so engaging and sweet a Humour that it was a great Comfort to the sad Queen the having her with her she had loved her from the first day she had seen her and put in her an entire Confidence imparting to her all her troubles to which the Countess applyed the softest remedies she could imagine But in fine the troublesome Humour of the Old King came to that point of Caprichiousness and Impassion that there was no longer bearing it insomuch that the Queen by the Council of her dear Countess took the Resolution of writing concerning it to the King her Father hoping that as he had ever tenderly loved her he would take pitty of the Condition to which she was reduced and would take order at least that she might be something better treated But the dissiculty was to find a faithfull and able Messenger who would charge himself with the Letter and carry it to Naples The Queen had not one Servant with her in whom she could trust they were so many spies that the King kept to take notice of all her actions The Countess was observed as strictly as she and the Kings cheif Minister was one Don Geronimo from whose penetration and vigilance it was difficult to keep any thing of that Consequence However at the length seeing themselves extreamly perplexed not knowing upon whom they should cast their Eyes for to serve them in this occasion without their design being in danger of coming to the King's knowledge the Countess bethought her self to propose to the Queen that same Don Geronimo the Kings cheif Minister At which that Princess much surprized asked her if she rallyed to employ the man of all the Kingdom they ought most to fear who was all the King's Council and to whose persuasions she fancied she owed the greatest part of the troubles she suffered It is true Madam answered the Countess that Don Geronimo has a great power over the King's Spirit that he is a Creature wholly devoted to him and that perhaps to make his Court he approves the Conduct that is held with you But it is likewise true that this Minister owes more to the Count de Palomer whose charge he at present possesses than to the King that it was my deceased Husband who made him what he is and that he arrived not to that high degree of Fortune not being of a Birth for that but by his means Don Geronimo Madam continued the Countess whom the Queen listened to with Delight is a Catalonian by Birth and having the Reputation of a man of great learning it obliged the Count to send for him to Majorca for to take care of the two Sons he had had by his first Wife He was so satisfied with his Conduct that after having employed him in some Affairs which he performed extreamly well and like a man of sence he made him known to the King advanced him from charge to charge till that dying he told the King that there was not a man in his Kingdom who was more capable of that he possessed and which was going to be vacant by his Death than Don Geronimo in which the King who besides the esteem he had ever had of the Count's Penetration had a very great Opinion of Don Geronimo's Capacity followed my Husbands Council and as soon as he was dead notwithstanding all the Cabals at Court for so Considerable a Charge he advanced to it Don Geronimo So much grace and so great an Obligation that he owed to the memory of his former Master could not render a Man ungrateful and I must needs say in his praise that the acknowledgment he has of it is such as I could desire it That he lives not with me as a cheif Minister of State but as if he were still the Count 's Domestick with respects and cares that have never ceased since my Husband's Death interessing himself in all my Affairs as if they were his own and I can likewise say that the Employ I have about you Madam is less an effect of the acknowledgment that the King owes to the good Services that the Count de Palomer has done him than to the Sollicitations of Don Geronimo In fine Madam he has neglected nothing not only of all that could be for my advantage but of all that could please me and what I have told you of the King it is from him that I knew it and all the Counsels that I have given you came from him thus Madam added the Countess it is not to be feared but that if we employ him he will serve us faithfully and usefully The Queen very much Charmed to hear all these things told her with an extream joy that they needed not to go seek any farther since they had for them the man of the Kingdom who could the most easily and without danger bring to pass their design Whereupon they concluded that the Countess should first speak to him to see if he were disposed to serve the Queen in an Affair of that Consequence without telling him however what it was and that the Queen should afterwards finish the rest The Countess took her time one Morning that the King was gone a Hunting for the having the more Liberty not only to discourse him her self but to cause him to speak to the Queen and having sent for him he came immediately to her Chamber where after a small obliging reveiw of all the cares he had for her and having declared to him the delight she took to see how acknowledging he was for what the Count de Palomer had done for him she fell to discourse of the sad Condition whereto the Poor Queen was reduced which was the Subject for which she had sent for him not doubting but that he was sensible of it
Conjuncture 〈…〉 concerned 〈…〉 ented not the outrage that was designed him The Queen after having taken Counsel of the Countess resolved to retire into a Convent and without losing time she wrote this Note to the Count to demand his Comapny to Guard her imagining she might have need of it in the few moments that were left her to get thither The Letter you wrote is something so cruel that it would require more time than I have to make it an answer It is sufficient that I tell you that I know who I am and of what Blood I come not to be capable of any such crime you accuse me of I should not be in pain to justifie my self and I should have much more to pardon you so cruel a suspicion but this is not a time for my justification nor your punishment Know only that the King has taken your Letter from me and that I am necessitated to take Refuge in a Convent if I will avoid all that his fury is going to make him act upon me Send me as soon as possible some of your People to conduct me to Majorca I shall come out at the Garden back Door where I shall be in a moment Adieu If possible let me see you once more As for the Countess she was no sooner delivered from the Queen than in the Conjuncture of all this disorder her Love inspiring her with Romantick designs she sent to seek for her Gentleman of the Horse in whom she put great confidence and having related to him in few words what passed she added that she would not be alone exposed to the King's fury from which she did not at all doubt that she should suffer the most violent effects if the Queen went away and she staid i◠the Palace Insomuch that it was requisite notwithstanding all her illness that her Body should take forces from the necessity of the time and that she disposed to save her self as soon as possible This Gentleman of the Horse very complaisant to the wills of his Mistress having answered her that he was ready to obey her i◠all she should please to order him she caused a Gentleman's habit to be brought which she had made use of in a Masquarade and with which she disguised her self After which having caused two good Horses to be brought some paces from the Palace she took what Money and Jewels she had very necessary moveables for the design she meditated and departed from Belver accompanied only by that Gentleman of the Horse who was surprized having seen her sick in Bed that on a suddain she found her self capable of sitting on Horse-back so much power has Love upon Bodies when it animates the Heart The Count who as we have already said had prepared for his depart are sinece the Morning he came from the Palace his orders being but to stay at Majorca as long as he should judge necessary for the reconciling the King and Queen no sooner received that Princesses Letter than that making all his People take Horse he made them file off by little and little towards that side of the Garden she had mentioned Immediately his affliction was extream notwithstanding all the reasons he beleived he had to complain of her for having thus caused the unhappiness of a Princess he still loved too passionately with all the injustice she had done him not to interest himself in all that concerned her He went then to the place where the Queen expected him being at the Head of all his People and he no sooner saw her than on a suddain Galloping towards that side he alighted and presenting her with his own Horse he served for her master of the Horse and one of his Gentlemen rendred the same Office to one of her Bed Chamber who accompanied her After which he disposed his People in Three Troups and placing himself with the Queen at the Head of that of the middle they marched incessantly towards the City of Majorca These two Lovers were some time in entertaning themselves upon the Subject of the conjuncture The Queen who notwithstanding the unhappy Estate of her Affairs thought her self too happy to have got out of the Palace could not hold from showing an extream joy to see her self in the midst of so brave a Nobility in whose looks she saw a boldness capable of driving away all manner of fear especially of Count Hannibal who appeared to her handsommer that Day than he had ever been and to have so warlike a meen that he animated all the others Insomuch that she almost forgot that this was a beginning of a Thousand troubles that Fortune prepared her They looked upon one another some time without saying any thing each of them beleiving that it was for the other to begin the discourse and to make some sort of reparation But the Queen was too much concerned to undeceive the Count of the false impressions he had taken upon the Subject of Don Geronimo seeing that there was not a moment to lose at length broak silence Well! Count said she to him will you not ask Pardon for the Letter you wrote me this Morning It is true Madam answered the Count that I am the most unhappy of all men to be the cause of all this disorder and that if I could repaire it by my Death I would go immediately offer my Head to the King of Majorca That is not in what you are most criminal replyed the Queen and I should not be in much pain to Pardon you this sault though it cost me my Life But my Lord added she blushing your unjust suspicions are so unbecoming a Princess of my courage and whose Glory has been able to relist the Inclination she had for you are these crimes that can be Pardoned The Count hearkened to the Queen with a joy that transported him and casting a languishing look upon her I confess Madam replyed he that there is no torment but what I should merit if my suspicions were ill grounded but I have but too much wherewith to justify my distrusts and maintain the reasons I had to conceive them by Testimonies that you cannot your self disavow And what Reasons and what Testimonies replyed the Queen something displeased at this answer have you What to have found Don Geronimo in my Cabinet where the jealousie he had of you upon the Countesses account hade made him hide himself am I Guilty of all the extravagancies that it has pleased your fancy to Figure to it self thereupon Well Count added she sighing if this Minister had pleased me enough for that if I had loved him I would have took such order as you should never have perceived it I would not have slattered your Passion with any hopes as I have done I should not have sought to see you in particular and in fine the Passion that you might have had for the Countess could not have been so uneasie to me as it was Once more Count pursued she you are very much mistaken