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The new disorders of love A gallant novel. Written by Richard Gibbs, of Norwich, philo. medici.
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Gibbs, Richard, fl. 1681-1687.
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they came a Horse of his lost his shooes and they were fore'd to halt to have him shoo'd again Florange was also a little sickish which oblig'd him to go into an Inn to drink a little Wine While this pass'd the Waiting-Gentlewoman who had alighted out of the Coach saw a Company of People flocking together at the end of the Village and being naturally curious as all Women commonly are she went on that waywards to inquire into the matter When she was come thither she was told a thing somewhat extraordinary namely that a man after having alighted at an Inn had sent back his Horse four Leagues thence to a person of whom he had borrow'd it that afterwards he had put himself to Bed pretending he was sick and had sent for a Chyrurgeon who had let him Blood but that this Chyrurgeon was no sooner gone but that he had himself unty'd his Arm and that in short he had shed so great a quantity of Blood that there were no more hopes of his Life The Novelty of the thing redoubled this Womans Curiosity and so much the more as knowing that Grand-Champ had conducted her Lady upon the Crupper of Mainville's Horse she had great Suspicions it might be him all this Discourse was of Thus she resolv'd herself to see whether she was not mistaken that so she might afterwards give the Marchioness a faithful account As soon as she had cast her eyes upon that Wretch she really knew him to be the wretched Grand-Champ who was in a very bad Condition He on his side was not wanting to know her again immediately and desiring the People to withdraw as being to discourse her in private I die he said to her the most contented of all men since that Fortune which hitherto had been against me now favours me with your Company when that I least expected it to be the Witness of my last Words You may tell Madam de Florange that I have my self advanc'd my Death as after her slights not being able to survive Perhaps that one day she will regret so faithful a Lover Be it as it will I only wish her happiness At these Words a Convulsion Fit seiz'd him and the Damsel being willing that he should die in other Hands than hers call'd for the People again into his Room and while they were busy in contemplating this Unfortunate Lover she made away through the Crowd without notice being taken of what was become of her Florange's fainting Fit had kept all his Servants about him and hinder'd them from knowing what pass'd which their Ladies Woman was not sorry for because that it was to be feared that if Grand-Champ's Adventure had come to his Master's knowledg he would have gone and discours'd him and that Grand-Champ would have told him all for the discharge of his Conscience In fine after that Florange had re-collected his Spirits he took Coach again with her and they came to the Place of the Marchionesses Retreat Florange made great Complaints to their Kinsman that his Wife went so away without saying a word to him But the Kinsman being prepossess'd with what the Marchioness had told him in her Vindication answer'd him that being of such an Humour he ought not to marry since there was nothing that madded a Vertuous Woman more than when her Husband doubted her Vertue For my part added he I shall never advise her to return with you at least unless you express a mighty regret for what is pass'd Florange seeing himself baffled in this manner would have spoke of two Letters he had receiv'd but his Kinsman reply'd upon him that if that was all he had to alledg against her he might be gone as he came and that all his own Relations would espouse the Defence of his Wife Thus was Florange forc'd to ask his Wife's Pardon though in his Soul he knew that the fault lay not at his door Madam de Florange having need of the Protection of this Relation in many things and particularly in this occasion wherein it was requisite to justify her Conduct of which it was impossible to hinder Discourse in the World after what had newly happen'd did after this easily comply with the Counsel he gave her of coming to a Reconciliation with her Husband They staid the rest of the Day at his House and all the next and Florange being gone out for a moment the Waiting-Gentlewoman took the time of his absence to entertain her Lady with the sad Adventure of the Unfortunate Grand-Champ The Marchioness could not retain her Tears at so piteous a Relation and joyning some Regrets to the Tears she had shed she told her Woman that he merited a better Fortune This Discourse surpriz'd that Maid as knowing how much she had despis'd him as long as he liv'd insomuch that she could not hide her amazement from her But the Marchioness interrupting her accus'd her of having an ill Opinion of her since that after all the Instances of Love thar Grand-Champ had given her she could not at least without being the most ungrateful person in the World hear that any ill was befallen him without being griev'd This is a tardy gratitude Madam the Damsel then cry'd and you would have oblig'd him much more if you had shewn it while he was well I have ever had a sence for him reply'd the Marchioness but could not then shew it without hampering my self in troubles Mainville would have been jealous and perhaps that thinking me in love with Grand-Champ he would have sought out a Consolation for my inconstancy in the choice of an other Mistress That is to say Madam the Damsel answer'd that you lov'd poor Grand-Champ but did not love him so well as Mainville How dissembling are Women I thought you as nice as any person living in your Love Nevertheless by what I perceive you prefer Number before Delicacy It is very seldom known that a Woman dare talk in such a manner to her Lady but see what a Confident may do and I fancy that if this Maid had been less inform'd of her Concerns she would have been more cautious in her words Be it as it will Madam de Florange imagining she might suffer should she leave her in these Sentiments You mistake me in what I have said answer'd she and you grosly confound Love and Acknowledgment There is nevertheless a great deal of difference between the One and the Other The Motions of Love are tender and passionate Motions excited by Sympathy whereas those of Gratitude are only ordinary Movements that are wont to arise from some Benefit that one has receiv'd But Madam reply'd the Damsel if those Motions which Gratitude excites are so common as you say they ought not methinks to occasion the shedding of so many tears and yet this is what you do Tell me I beseech you how this comes to pass for I fancy'd that People afflicted themselves in such manner only when they were lively affected This you are mistaken
The man he had encharg'd with this Message being return'd thence and having brought him back word that he was gone that morning with his Wife to return to his own house surpriz'd him extreamly He would believe nothing of it at first but it having been confirm'd to him from another hand he presently judg'd that so sudden a departure was the effect of Florange's Jealousie He likewise fancy'd that there was only himself in the Town that he could six it upon Thus he rejected his first thoughts which suggested to him to run after his Mistress Then seeing that it would be to no purpose for him to stay any longer at Soissons he resolv'd to be gone to Paris whence he had a design to send a man on purpose to the Marchioness As he was just ready to take Horse the Citizen's Wife came to his Lodgings all transported with Fury for she had newly been told that he was just a going without so much as bidding her farewell She upbraided him with what she had done for him and his little acknowledgment for all and forgot not to speak of what had pass'd the Evening before accusing him of being the most ungrateful of all men in not vouchsafing so much as to take the pains to undeceive her Mainville being surpriz'd at this reproach which he did not think he had incurr'd caus'd the thing to be explain'd to him at length and seeing that the Citt's mistake had occasion'd Florange's Jealousie he made her no great reparation for his Coldness and on the contrary treated her with sufficient Contempt After having dismiss'd her he departed the Town on the Road thinking only of the Marchioness who on her side was only taken up with his remembrance For without otherwise minding her Husband's rigours who treated her with sufficient indignity and who had her watch'd by five or six persons to whom he had not been asham'd to discover his Weakness she wish'd for nothing else than to know what was become of Mainville Thus all her thoughts only tending that way she took a Resolution difficult to form but which was a strong Proof of her Love. For forgetting all the allarms she had had by having confided her secret in Grand-Champ she conceiv'd a design to make use of him to be the Go-between of her and Mainville and to let him hear from her She knew not however what course to take to exact this Service from him after what she had said to him for she dreaded his Reproaches At length Love being stronger in her than any other Consideration she conjur'd him with Tears in her Eyes to free her out of pain and carry a Letter to her Lover You love me Grand-Champ said she to him and I shall be glad to know it in this Occasion You 'l make me die of Grief if you refuse me whereas you 'l restore me to Life by doing me this Service It will cost me mine Madam answer'd Grand-Champ immediately and you have the cruelty to desire that I should die the most cruel Death imaginable But no matter since this must oblige you it is for me to obey you without reply After she had thus got his consent she ask'd him for Paper and Ink which he was oblig'd to furnish her withal accordingly When she had writ her Letter she gave it him begging him to make dispatch that so Mainville might receive it before he arriv'd at Paris whither she suspected him to be going Grand-Champ all pierc'd with Grief took it from her hands and pretending some business that he might get Florange's leave he mounted on Horse-back and overtook Mainville half way Mainville whom the Marchioness had made the Confident of Grand-Champ's Love trembled at her rashness in trusting him with a matter of this consequence but at the same time admiring the fidelity of this Domestick he would needs embrace him and speak the sence he had of so generous an action But Grand-Champ retiring two steps back to avoid his Caresses told him that far from assuring him that he was his Servant he would franckly tell him that there was not a man in the World that he hated more than him that he was well enough acquainted with the reason and that if he had stoop'd so far as to deliver him a Letter from the Marchioness he thought him possess'd of so much delicacy as not to confound the Character of a passionate Lover with that of an Unfortunate Rival That he might judge of his Love by the instance he had newly giv'n of it and the more this Love was violent the more the effects of it were to be feared Mainville took no notice that he heard his Menaces and indeed far from shewing any resentment he did what he could to gain so generous a man offering him a World of fine things as of advancing him in War and serving him with all his Credit But all these Promises did not work upon Grand-Champ to do any thing that was low maintaining his generosity to the last After this Mainville made answer to the Marchioness and put his Letter into the hands of this Domestick She had sent him Word in hers of what had been the Occasion of her Departure and how out of the desire she had to see him again she would rather feign some illness that she might go to the Waters of Bourbon She was overjoy'd to hear that Mainville would on his side be there for so he assur'd her by his Letter insomuch that she only discours'd Grand-Champ of her impatience till the season of the Waters was come The time betwixt this and that said she to him will last me a thousand years and out of the fondness I am under of seeing him again there will not be a day but will seem longer than whole years to me I own that hopes will in some manner ease my pain but whatever Blessing I expect from so dear a sight I shall purchase it dearly by the uneasinesses I am going to be under for fear he should fail his Word Grand-Champ continu'd she May not the King march to his Conquests in the time of Waters and dost thou think that Mainville can dispence himself from following him Honour is a thing very nice in the Soul of a Man of Quality and I am undone if Mainville prefers it before his Love. Grand-Champ hearken'd to all this with a Countenance wherein Despair and Rage seem'd to triumph over his Passion Nay and sometimes was he just ready to load her with Reproaches if by a return very usual with Lovers he had not been more afraid of vexing her than of any thing else However being no longer able to stay in the presence of a Woman that set him a raving mad he went his ways without saying a word to her But she was so possess'd with her Reflexions that she did not so much as take notice of what was become of him When it was at length the season of drinking the Waters she ask'd her Husband leave to go