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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57801	The royal wanton containing the Gallick intriegues [sic], with Lycogenes (late King of Albion) his expedition for Hibernia: being the second volume of the Amours of Messalina, with Polydorus, K. of the Goths. Compleating the whole history. By a woman of quality, a late confidant of Queen Messalina.; Amours of Messalina late Queen of Albion. Part 5.	Woman of quality, fl. 1689-1690.; Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701, attributed name.	1690 (1690)	Wing R2158A; ESTC R220866	52,428	91

THE Royal Wanton Containing the Gallick Intriegues WITH LYCOGENES Late King of Albion HIS Expedition for Hibernia BEING The Second Volume of the Amours of Messalina WITH Polydorus K. of the Goths Compleating the whole History By a Woman of Quality a Late Confidant to Queen Messalina LONDON Printed for J. B. and are to be Sold by Booksellers of London and Westminster 1690. To the READER OVR kind Cologne Correspondent tho' a little Tardy in his Favours has at last transmitted over to us the long-expected remaining Part of our Messalina's History And since her Pourtrait in Miniature in the Four Parts of her Amours already publisht we acknowledge has been your Favourite we dare boldly assure you in this Second Volume an Equal if not a greater share of Divertisement For you are to consider that in Albion the Scene where the Four Parts of the First Volume are mostly laid she sat at the Helm and the Fatigue of Business and Guidance of Empire lay too close upon her to give so intire a loose to Pleasure as in her Retirement and Recess in Gothland And since Love seems to fill her whole Ascendant here which generally occasions more variety of Accident and Adventure than the heavier movements of State this Remainder of her History on that Account carries its own Recommendation above the foregoing Volumn However I am oblig'd on the Booksellers behalf to beg the Reader 's Pardon The Matter of this History depending upon Foreign Correspondence from whence the Original has been transmitted the Receipt of this Second Volume coming a little tardtly and the expecting Bookseller quite despairing being call'd upon for a Compleat History and the Long Vacation drawing on truly over-sway●d by present Interest together with his desponding of this Second Volume he huddled up the History in Four Parts under the Name of The Co●…p●…at and Fi●…he Amours of Messalina and in the Last Part of the First Volume he unhappily added a Fragment of the last almost Five Pages utterly spurious alien to her Adventures The Reader therefore that possibly may have the First Volume by 〈◊〉 is desired to take notice● That this Second Volume is continued from that Conclusion only of the Fourth Part where the Original Authored left off without any Cognizance taken of those five last spurious Pages above-mentioned The True Conclusion of the Fourth Part terminating at Page 50 Line 12. Our Messalina therefore comes now adorn'd and array●… 〈◊〉 her Gayest Dress and vouchsafes 〈◊〉 concluding Part to appear Her whole T●…e Self to please you THE Fifth Part. THE Landing of Lycogenes on the Gallick Shore is such surprizing News so shrill the Trump and so fleet the Wings of Fame on that loud Subject that all Tongues are taken up with no other Theme and the whole Court of Gothland Ecchoes with the sound The Presence-Chamber of the Fair Albion Queen is in a few minutes so thronged with pressing crowds of the Gallick Nobility of both Sexes the Great and the Fair that betwixt their Abhorrence of the Christian Barbarity and Albion's Ingratitude in his Expulsion for that 's the best Name they can afford it and their own Transport at the Reception of that God-like Pagan Prince what with their Joy on one side and their Execration on the other the Gothick Grandees with one universal officious Emulation every one to be the first and earliest Addresser to the Royal Messalina in their Compliments of Condolance and Congratulation so fill'd Her Court and made an appearance so splendid that she seems to shine a second Cynthia with all her Stars around her her own the Sovereign Beauty Polydorus above all the whole Company is the only Person who though more interested in the Arrival of Lycogenes or at least in the dismal Cause that brings him has his thoughts at present the least employed about it The Resentments of defeated Love a Concern that always supersedes all other considerations had so taken up his whole faculties His damn'd mistake of the Nurse for the Queen was still a Torment so violent His burning out his whole stock of Incense at so unhallow'd an Altar as the poor Arms of a sordid Lactilla a Pesants Courser-born Brat and not one Grain left for the Divine Messalina to rise up so Impotent so shamefully unperforming in a Cause so Glorious lay a load upon his Soul as heavy as the very raising of the Siege of Vienna As the sight therefore of all Company during this present fit of melancholy was uneasy to him he lays hold of this occasion of retiring by telling the Queen that the necessary Orders and Instructions for the Reception of the Royal Lycogenes was that Important Call as must exclude all other thoughts and rob him of his present Felicity in making a part of the Court of Messalina for the immediate Execution of so incumbent a Duty And so with a profound Reverence he makes Congee and takes his leave To all this Train of Glittering Beauty the Court of Messalina has one more particular Darling-Star appear to compleat the whole Constellation the Fair Aspasia Arrived from Ibernia The sight of so dear a Friend and Confident returned to her Bosome gives our Messalina that sensible delight that her Caresses and Embraces of her welcome Aspasia drew the Eyes of the whole Court upon this new Favorite Beauty The Queen though not a little pleased with so Pompous a Train the Grandeur of her State has those dearer Joys and tenderer accents to pour forth into the Ears of her Aspasia as required a more private Audience dismissing therefore the gay Assembly assoon as Decency and State-Ceremony would permit she takes her Aspatia alone with her into her Closet and with a hundred kind and passionate kisses her Friendship almost as warm as Love she repeats her welcome When the Ardence of their mutual Endearments the Transports of meeting Friends had spent their heat and and cool'd into a little leisure for Discourse and Business Aspasia recounts to the Listning Messalina the State of Affairs in Ibernia and the unshaken resolution and invincible constancy of her Latroon and the Ibernian Loyal Pagans in the Cause of Lycogones Alas Madam says Aspatia Let Parasites and Sycophants the mercinary Creatures of Prosperity play the Eastern Worshippers and adore the Rising He the Setting Sun Shall the injuries or miseries of Lycogenes withdraw the Allegiance of Latroon Not all the shocks of Fate and Shafts of Vengeance can stagger his least Loyal thought Let Fortune frown upon the unhappy Lycogenes Yes let the angry Gods call in their faithless Guardians of the Throne his Tutelar-Angels all shamefully disbanded Let People Nations Crowns Peace Happiness and all the smiles of Providence desert him tho' Earth and Heaven it self forsakes him Latroon shall not Yes my Dear Aspasia Replied the Queen The Fidelity of Latroon wants neither Herald nor Historian His Deeds I doubt not will be their own Trumpet and Recorder My Royal Lord knew well the Soul the Principles the