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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49300	Loves empire, or, The amours of the French court	Bussy, Roger de Rabutin, comte de, 1618-1693.; R. H.	1682 (1682)	Wing B6259A; Wing L3264A; ESTC R3172	98,020	234

his Rivals could not have Servants nor Secrets but what he knew otherwise the best Man in the World It was twelve years since he began to love the Countess of Fiesque a Woman as extraordinary as he was a Man that is to say as singular in Merits as he was in ill Qualities but as of those twelve years she had been banished five from Mademoiselle d' Orleans Gaston's of France's Daughter a Princess whom Fortune persecuted because she had Vertue and could not reduce her great Courage to the basenesses that the Court demands During their absence the Chevalier had tied himself to a very regular Constancy and tho the Countess was very lovely he merited some excuse for his Lightness being he had never received any favour from her He had however caused several to be jealous Rouville was one of those who were so As he was one day reproaching the Countess that she loved the Chevalier that fair One told him that he was mad to believe she could love the greatest Cheat in the World This is a pleasant reason Madam which you alledge I know you are a greater Cheat than he and yet I cannot forbear loving you Tho the Chevalier was in love with all Women the Countess however had that power over him that what engagement soever he had elsewhere so soon as he knew that any One visited her oftner that ordinary he quitted all to return to her And he was in the Right for the Countess was a lovely Woman she had blew and sparkling Eyes a handsome Nose an agreable Mouth of a fine Colour and white and smooth Skin the forme of her Face was long and never any One but she in the world was embelished with a long Chin her hair was brown and she was ever Gallantly drest but her finery proceeded rather from Art than the magnificence of her Clothes her Will was free and naturall her Humour cannot be described for it was with the Modesty of her Sex of the Humour of all the World People by much thinking of what they have to do think usually better at the end than at the beginning The contrary happened usually to the Countess her Reflections spoyled her first Motions I know not if the Confidence she had in her Merit made her careless of seeking Lovers for she took no pains at all to have them And indeed when any One of himself made his addresses to her she neither affected Rigour to be rid of him nor Kindness to retain him he left of his Courtship if he pleased if he pleased he continued it and what course soever he took he did not subsist to her cost So that the Chevalier as I have said had not visited her in five years time and during that absence that he might not lose time he had had a thousand Mistresses amongst others Victoria Manciri Duchess of Mercoeur and three dayes after her Death Madam de Villars and it was for this reason that Benserade who was in love with her made this Sonnet upon the Chevalier Can you rejoice after the Mortall stroak That kill'd the loveliest Object e're was seen A real Lovers heart would have been broke In the same Tomb he would have buryed been A Heart so Charm'd can it new flames receive I is an unheard of infidelity When a fair Mistress's death you ought to grieve You turn Gallant and at new Game would fly For this unworthy weakness you will smart You love have fail'd love will fail your heart And you 're already fall'n into the Snare I. know the Beauty who does you decoy I love her and that all I may declare What gives you ease alas does me destray The Countess returning some time after to Paris the Chevalier not being tyed to Madam Villars by any favours quitted her to return to the Countess but as he was never long in the same state and being tyred with her he made his addresses to Madam d' Olonne at the same time that Marsillac entred into an engagement with her and tho the Chevalier was less Modest than Marsillac with the Ladies he was not however the more pressing on the contrary provided he might toy with 'em have it said in the world that he was in love find some People of easie belief to flatter his vanity put a Rival in pain be better received than he he was not at all fond of a surrender One thing he did that made it more difficult for him to perswade than it was for another was that he never spoke seriously Insomuch that a Woman must needs flatter her self extreamely to beleive he was in love with her I have already said that never any Gallant that was not beloved was more incommode than he he had ever two or three Lacquies without Liveries whom he called his Bloodhounds whom he caused to dog and observe his Rivals and his Mistresses Madam d' Olonne being in pain One day how she should go to an Assignation she had made with Marsillac without being discovered by the Chevalier resolved for her pleasure to go hooded up with her Chamber Maid and to Pass the River in a Boat after having given orders to her servants to go wait for her at Fauxbourgs Saint Germain the first Man who gave her his hand to help her into the Boat was the Chevaliers Bloodhound before whom without knowing him she had been merry with her Chamber Maid for that she had deceived the Chevalier and talked of what they were going to do that day this Blood-hound went immediately to acquaint his Master who strangly surprised Madam d' Olonne the next day when he acquainted her with the perticulars of her Rendevouz of the Evening before An honest welbred Man having convicted his Mistress of loving another than himself withdraws immediately and without noise particularly if she had not made him any promise but the Chevalier was not of that humour when he could not procure being beloved he would rather chose to have been stabbed than leave his Mistress and Rival in repose Now Madam d' Olonne having reckoned for nothing the Assiduities that the Chevalier had payed her for three Months together and turned into Raillery all that he had told her of his Passion and the more for that she was perswaded that he had as great an one for the Countess as he could have for her she hated him as the Devil Then this Lover fancying that a Letter would do his buisness much better than all he had done or said thitherto in that Opinion he writ to her in these termes IS it possible my Goddess that you should be ignorant of the love that your fair Eyes my Suns have kindled in my heart Tho it be useless to have recourse with you to those Declarations which we are forced to have with mortal Beauties and that mental Prayers ought to suffice you I have told you athousand times that I loved you yet you laugh and make me no answer Is this a good or an ill sign

excess of grief had altered in that poor despairing fair One and was so earnest with her to grant him Enjoyment that the fear she had had of her Husband had hindred her from allowing him during his life that she made an Assignation with him on the day of his Burial Bordeaux one of her Women who sancied that the Duke's death would ruin the Fortune of Ricoux who sought her in Marriage was under a real Affliction insomuch that when she saw the Duke of Nemours upon the point of receiving the least Favours from her Mistress on a day that the most dissolute constrain themselves the horrour of this action redoubled her grief and without going out of the Chamber she disturbed the pleasure of those Lovers by her sighs and by her tears The Duke well-seeing that if he did not appease this Woman he should not have for the future in his Amour all the sweetness that he wished for took care to comfort her at his going out and told her that he was sensible of the loss she had of the Duke but that he would be a Friend to her and take care of her Fortune as the deceased had done and that she should find as much good will in him as she had done in the other and perhaps more power and that till he could do something considerable for her he desired her to receive Four thousand Crowns that he would send her on the morrow These words had so much virtue that Bordeaux wiped away her tears and promised the Duke to enteresse herself for him as long as she lived and told him that her Mistress had all the reason in the World not to spare any thing for the giving him marks of her Love On the Morrow Bordeaux had the Four thousand Crowns which the Duke had promised her and since that time she served him preferably to all those who would not give her so much The Peace being made in the beginning of the Spring the Court returned to Paris The Prince who had newly freed the Cardinal out of a dangerous business sold him his Services at a very dear rate that he had done him in that War The Cardinal was not only unable to perform what he daily demanded of him but was not able to support the Insolence with which he demanded Favours The Government of Pont de Letreht that the Prince had forced from him for his Brother in Law the Duke of Longueville contrary to the intention of the Court and the boldness with which he had exacted from the Queen that she should see Gersé after the confidence he had had to write an Amorous Ticket to her Majesty made the Cardinal at length resolve to free himself from the tyranny he was under under pretext of revenging the Contempt that was had of the Royal Authority he communicated this Design to the Duke of Orleans who remembred his Exempt's broken Staff by the Prince and who for that and the jealousie of his great Merit had reasons to hate him and the Cardinal letting him know that Riviere who governed him was the Prince's Pensioner he made him give his word that he would conceal this Affair from his Favourite The Prince of Condé the Prince of Conty and the Duke of Longueville their Brother in Law were took into Custody in the Palace where the King then lodged In the mean time Monsieur Thurenne who for the Engagements he had with the Prince of Condé had reason to fear being taken and who besides was enraged against the Court for the Principality of Sedan which his Family was deprived of withdrew to Sthney where Madam de Longueville arrived presently after and the Prince's Officers cast themselves into Bellegarde Madam de Chastillon applyed herself to the Princess Dowager and engaged the Duke of Nemours her Lover in her Interests Sometime after that the Princes were in Prison The Princess Dowager had leave to go stay at her Cosins Madam de Chastillon's A Priest called Cambiac who had introduced himself to Madam de Bouteville's by the means of Madam Brienne was sent to Madam de Chastillon by her Mother he had not been there long but that he governed her insomuch that he interposed between her and the Duke of Nemours This Commerce giving him occasion of having great Familiarities with Madam de Chastillon he fell in love with her and to that degree as to saint away as he was saying Mass The Princess Dowager falling into that fit of Sickness which she died of Cambiac who had acquired great Credit with her employed it in favour of Madam de Chastillon He procured her a hundred thousand Crowns worth of Jewels and the Lordship of Marlou for her life which was worth two thousand pounds a year The Duke of Nemours whom the cares of Cambiac for Madam de Chastillon had something alarm'd was quite jealous at the News of the Princesses Will. He did not believe that it was easie to resist such considerable Service and though he could not blame his Mistress for having received them he was enraged that she was obliged for them to a Man whom he considered as his Rival And he was not mistaken for what Cambiac had done had cost that fair One Favours for though she loved the Duke of Nemours best she loved Riches best of all However as she had no longer occasion for Cambiac after the Princesses death it was not difficult for her to set her Lovers mind at rest by turning off that poor Priest The Coadjutour of Paris and Madam de Chevreuse who had been in the Plot of seizing the Princess finding that the Cardinal became too insolent caused the Duke of Orleans to take it into consideration and represented to him that if he contributed to the Liberty of the Princess he would not only be reconciled with them but would engage them altogether in his Interests besides the design of weakning the Cardinal's Authority which gave ombrage to the Party called la Fronde every one had still his particular Interest Madam de Chevreuse would have had the Prince of Conty for whom the Court had demanded a Cardinals Cap at Rome to have married her Daughter and the Coadjutour would be subrogated to the nomination of the Prince It was upon this promise that the Princess of Condé and Conty gave under their hands to Madam de Chevreuse that she and the Coadjutour endeavoured to free them out of Prison The thing having succeeded as they had projected and the Cardinal himself having been constrained to leave France the Prince had no moderation in his new Prosperity and this obliged the Court to entertain new Designes upon his Person He withdrew immediately to his House at Saint Maure and sometime after to Monrond and from thence to his Government of Guyenne The Duke of Nemours followed him and Madam de Longueville who was with her Brother being taken with his Merit had so much Complaisance for him that this Prince tho very much in love elsewhere could