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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A19209	The ghost of the Marquesse d'Ancre, with his spirits attending him. Or The fiction of a dialogue betweene Galligaia, Conchini by name, or Marquesse d'Ancre his wife, and Misoquin a deluding spirit, by whom her husband was misse-lead Together with the same spirits meeting the good genius to Monsieur the Prince of Conde: faithfully translated out of the French copie printed at Roan.; Dialogue de la Galligaya et de Mesoquin. English.	Galigaï, Léonora, ca. 1571-1617.	1617 (1617)	STC 5620; ESTC S108612	7,127	15

THE GHOST OF the Marquesse d' Ancre with his Spirits attending him OR The Fiction of a Dialogue betweene Galligaia Conchini by name or Marquesse d' Ancre his wife and Misoquin a deluding Spirit by whom her Husband was misse-lead Together with the same Spirits meeting the good Genius to Monsieur the Prince of CONDE Faithfully translated out of the French Copie printed at ROAN Printed at LONDON for Nicholas Bourne and are to be sould at the South-entrance of the Royall-Exchange 1617. THE FICTION OF A DIALOGVE betweene Galligaia Wife to Conchini and Misoquin the false and deluding Spirit that transported her Husband with vaine hopes Together with a meeting of the said Spirit with the Genius of Monsieur the Prince of CONDE SVCH dispositions as haue but once contracted with Gods enemy can very hardly euer be clean freed out of his fowle clowches For we haue an euident example hereof in Conchini and his Wife who being both of them so many times admonished by Gods wrath poured vpon them yet would they not retyre nor giue ouer their wicked life no not when they euidently saw how both God and all the people were incensed against them being afflicted by sicknesse and the death of one of their children as also one of their houses rifled and pillaged by the iust rage of the people two of their domesticall friends hanged and a thousand other manifest tokens intimating to them how all the Princes bare them a most worthy and deserued hatred Oh what inexplicable miseries doth affectation of power and greatnesse bring vnto men O how our disordinate appetites to amasse and purchase worldly honours doth heape and augment our misfortunes Thou now feelest it now that a sodaine death hath violently carryed thee out of the world and as may be inferred by all pregnant probabilities in the height of thy sinnes and transgressions Now thou feelest it thou who after so many worldly delights so many flatteries of honours of contentments art now more miserable peraduenture then the most wretched creature in all France Thou I say who in stead of a Royall Palace stately adorned hast for thy habitation an obscure and hideous dungeon Thou art hee who now findest it for in stead of a thousand Gentlemen well borne that were wont to doe thee all kinde of honour stand before thee vncouered adoring thee and making shew as if they breath'd and liued for no other end but to offer thee their humblest seruices thou hast now it may be some rigorous Iaylor that contemnes thee and in stead of any consolation flowts and laughes at thy precipice and downefall Thou I say who wert wont to giue life and death to all those whom thou wouldest thy selfe hast now need to implore and cry out for mercy of all the world Thy greatnesse and riches wherin thou didst put such confidence what auaile they Where is now that same troope of Nobilitie which were accustomed to follow and attend thee Questionlesse thou wert but deceiued for these people followed not thy selfe but meerely thy present fortunes and high fauours And now thou truely knowest how vnhappy all they are who relying vpon Fortune thinke that she can make them masters of the whole world whereas shee makes them but slaues and infamous vassals not only to her selfe but to their owne disordinate appetites desires Thou I say againe Conchini now feelest it thou that wert sprung from a base Sire and yet wouldest haue exalted thy selfe not onely aboue the French Nobilitie but euen aboue all Princes of the French stocke and race Thou I say that most infatiable Seianus whose furious rage could neuer be appeased by the massacre of so many good French-men by the imprisonment not onely of many of the Nobilitie but euen of the Princes of the bloud whose wrath and reuenge could not be fully satisfied with the dolefull banishment of so many Princes and whose auarice was neuer contented with so many millions of gold and siluer Now thou hast a bitter experience thou which gouernedst all France at thine owne pleasure who after thine own miserable death wert not onely preuented from being the food and nourishment of wormes but moreouer thou wert the Butt whereat all the arrowes of the peoples rage and fury were shot Thou that hadst so many houses Palaces and Castles and could not be suffered to repose within the earth in peace for the space onely of foure and twenty houres and whom the Earth her selfe indeed disgorged impatient to retaine such a letiferous poyson within her wombe the Ayre could not endure thy infections the Water thy putrifaction neyther would the Fire consume thy body reseruing it for a prey to Sea-monsters And now thou knowest apparantly what difference there is betwixt the beginnings and ends of Fortune how variable and mutable shee is who being huffed vp to such eminent place didst foolishly giue credit to a prediction and prophesie made of thee and that when thou didst passe along the streetes euery one should put off his hat and cry out Viue le Roy. But now thou seest that Fortune inuerting quite this prediction it yet comes to be most true but thankes be to God cleane contrary to thine owne expectation for in stead of thy beds of state of Gold siluer and silke thou wert laid within a stinking puddle of a foule and vncleane water and for trapped and rich harnished horses thou wert trailed along the streetes by rascally and contemptible people Oh whosoeuer thou art on whom Fortune at this present peraduenture may smile learne to be wise by other mens harmes and remember Gods Iustice which neuer failes to punish the wicked soone or late Behold here one that was called the Marshallesse of France who was possessed of the Queenes greatest fauours and disposed wholy of her will that now foaming with fury and madnesse and being inclosed within a prison spits for anger cryes and howles out like a shee-wolfe that had beene robbed of her whelps I saw her by chance the other day in the Bastille shee lookes most hideously and stroke feare into all those that did behold her and her staring eyes gastly countenance with her feareful visage and distracted speech plainely shew that shee is conducted by some other spirit besides her owne her hayre all full of skirfe and filth hanging loose and confused vpon her shoulders tearing her owne face and bosome so as I neuer was touched with such an affrightment before Wherefore I went and hid my selfe in a corner to see the issue and further euent of this businesse when incontinently I heard her vomit and belch out these or the like words What I who lately could the Furies moue To practise murder and confusion Shall I endure no no I will not sure Rather both heauen and earth I will confound The Elements and all this lower round I le make a Chaos mixing waues and fire The ayre the earth the heauens and heate and cold What is beneath shall soone mount vp aloft

left him and came straight to you and therefore suppose you whether hee was not deepely moued and angry or no. Gall. I finde that soundly poore wretch as I am Misoquin What doe you repent your selfe You shall see your Husband presently and if possible you shall enioy your liberty Gall. How know you that Misoquin I was very lately with two speciall Gentlemen of Paris that spake of you Gall. And what said they Misoquin Faith no great matter for they wisht you at the Diuell with whom you are already they said you should be made so great as you should be all cut shauen and trimde without costing you one penny Gall. But what shall I doe to those wicked fellowes that clapt me vp here Misoquin Wotst thou what why for their greater despight eyther let them alone or goe hang thy selfe and so thou maist preuent them of the honour of putting thee to death for beleeue it if they of Paris euer lay hold on thee they 'll handle yee in your true kinde And a certaine woman hath already sould your nose to one of her neighbours to roost her Chickens vpon others haue bought your eyes that so they may haue foure to see you withall when you are led to hanging another your eares the better to heare your tryall and sentence others say your skinne will serue them fitly to make gloues of by reason they will cost nothing the perfuming it being of it selfe so ordurous and stinking that no perfume can be cast vpon it Gall. Imagine when thou hast said what thou wilt wee will talke somewhat of our businesse Misoquin And why of them Thou hast nothing nearer to thee then thy Husband matters are so plainely reported and diuulged of him as they are openly cryed vp and downe through the streetes of Paris but they are but fooles that buy them because they are but meere fopperies to that which will come out Gall. And what can they say of him Misoquin Marry all kinde of reproachfull and ignominious matters but onely that they tearme him not a Cuckold by reason that for thus these wicked fellowes alledge his wife is so ougly and odious as none but the Diuell himselfe would be his Cuckold-maker They expresse him making of his last Will and Testament they say he hath left thee his beauty because thou wert thereof so ill furnished his vnderstanding hee gaue to his brother because hee had not enough to discharge a Cardinals place for the parts inferiour of his body hee hath now neyther feete nor hands his feete commended ouer to his brother Gouernour of the Bastile to further his flight and his hands to those that after him shall haue the managing of the Kings treasure And to enrich you he hath himselfe forsaken the world but hee was so long a time in passing Acharon by reason of a tempest that hee is growne all scaly ouer like a fish And there below which is the best least of all hee laughes at them which made him giue so much money for his release when hee should be in Purgatorie for in passing along hee had not so much as a sight of it Gall. Well well I see now a dayes you can doe nothing but cogge and flout I pray let vs talke of reuenging my husbands death Misoquin What telst thou mee of thy husband Behold Conchini by the power which thou hast giuen me ouer thy selfe I command thee to appeare here presently Conchini Wilt thou neuer leaue tormenting of my soule which hath beene miserably afflicted for so long time Ah forlorne and wretched caytife that I am Misoquin What aylst thou doest thou repent thee nothing worse can come to thee Conchini Ah most accursed creature art not thou shee who wert the cause of all my misfortunes Gall. Who I Conch I you for otherwise we might haue liued contentedly vpon some poore humble calling exempted from all ambition and auarice Gall. But come hither a little why are you in this garbe and fashion Conch I performe penance Gall. Why haue you no hands Conch Pluto tooke them from mee for prodigally wasting and consuming his riches and wealth Gall. And why no feete Conch Because I vsed to imploy them in base flight when my Regiment was discomfited Gall. Why me thinkes yee are in the habite of a strange Moncke Canch Oh would I had beene so all dayes of my life and had perpetually obserued chastitie Gall. Wee neuer dreamt of thy death Conch No but wee shall dreame fairely when wee are both together once wherefore vnderstand and vse meanes to preserue thine owne life for mee thinkes I see how thou art rent and torne a pieces by the cruell and inhumane multitude And what doe our creatures and fauourites now Gall. Some are like to be burnt others sent backe againe from whence they came others haue turned their proud coats into penitentiall roabes like Bell-founders Conch Why are they not yet satisfied with the disgrace and opprobry they laid vpon mee Gall. No they say wee deserued much more Misoquin Well you haue leasure enough to rip vp all your miseries and calamities together 't is time now for mee to returne dinner is almost past As soone as this little Diuell had thus spoken a thicke vaporous cloud obscur'd and darkned all the chamber this was it wherewith the season was so chang'd and so amidst this darknesse I escaped away well and safe but not without some feare After so faire a time thick showers of rain come downe And shall not yet our miseries haue end Hath Fortune yet reseru'd some other frowne And yet will God some further scourge vs send No but the husbands bloud cryes for his wiues and yet The roote of all our Woads is not cut vp On ground while this vile wretch her foote doth set Till shee drinke deeply of Reuenges cup. It is further reported that vpon Wednesday the last of Aprill 1617. Stila Anglia at foure a clocke in the after-noone the generall cessation of Armes was proclaymed at Deepe in Normandy and all the Souldiers whatsoeuer to depart vpon paine of death particularly the 5500. Strangers that the Marquesse d' Ancre had caused to be leuied for his seruice in Normandy in the Wallone Countries and the Land of Lake alias Les Liege●yr et Wallons FINIS