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A64511	The third part of The amours of Messalina wherein the secret intrigues of the four last years reign are compleated, and the love adventures of Polydorus King of the Gauls, and the late Queen of Albion, made publick / by a woman of quality ...	Woman of quality, fl. 1689-1690.; Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701.	1689 (1689)	Wing T912; ESTC R14248	18,814	34

takes Coach for Alba Regalis where he was no sooner Arrived but he found the whole Court Alarm'd and Lycogenes in Solemn Council was gone to Debate the Business The next Day the News was confirmed by another Express and then all was in an Uproar Lycogenes in a great Fright comes to Council tells them his apprehensions of Anaximanders Design requires their best and speedy Advice puts them in Mind of all the Breaches he had made in the Laws for their Sakes and that now without speedy Assistance he was likely to be ruin'd and the Pagans Hopes throughout Albion to be utterly lost Such dreadful Words as these and coming from a Prince that had been in every Panegyrick cry'd up and applauded for his Constancy of Mind and Invincible Courage did so amaze and terrifie his Counsellors that they could not in a long time set their Hearts on any serious Consultation some of them withdrew then in again presently others that had been absent came Posting to understand and enquire into the Business some would relate it as terrible as their Fears and represent the numbers of the Princes Ships and Men double here you should see a haughty Stiff-necked Priest come humbly fawning to a Christian Noble as if confessing past Mis-carriages and Crimes he wish'd for good Conditions Some would be packing up their Goods and Treasure their guilty boading Consciences fore-telling their forc'd Flight and Ruine But Pedro and Poliorchetes the Chancellour who were sensible they were likely to share the sum and substance of all unhappy Revolutions thought it now no longer time to dally or spend the precious Minutes in useless idle Fears but to apply the most healing Medicines that the present bleeding Wound would bear and accordingly perswade Lycogenes to re-call several Edicts that by their Instigation and Council had been promulg'd against the Interest and Safety of his Christian Subjects And Father Pedro calling a Convocation of his Inferiour Priests makes them Dis-robe and in disguise to mingle among the Christian Assemblies in the Forum Burse Temples and other publick Meeting-Places and there with Confidence to utter false Reports to lessen the Strength of Anaximander to cry up the miseries of a Civil War to Extol the Loyalty of the King's Christian Subjects to make comparison between young Perkin's Expedition and this and thence to conclude positively of the like success The Court party also of Renegado Christian Divines were ordered to Preach up the necessity of Obedience and Loyalty to withstand the Prince in his Attempts and to brand his Expedition with the horrible Title of Invasion These and many other Arts were used to take off the Edge of Anaximander's Sword sometimes they 'd Brand His Royal Person with base and ignominious Names other times they would think to terrifie the Rebels as they would call all that should assist him with the Exemplary Punishments inflicted by the Chancellour Polyorchetes in his bloody Western Campaigne But all would not do the Christians knew the Pagan Punick Faith as well as Inhumane Cruelty they saw their Laws their Liberties and Lives at Stake and that now was the only time to assert and recover them the Pagan Priests had often mock'd the King out of his most Solemn Promises and Messalina had endeavoured to entail their Slavery upon them to all Posterity Nothing therefore could stagger their former Resolutions but like the Adder they were Deaf to all their treacherous Charms and false Insinuations Notwithstanding Messalina's dauntless Pride could not 'till the Princes Landing stoop to the apprehension of any material Danger she 'd often chalk out time and place to see the fond weak Prince brought bound to Troynovant She 'd Laugh and Jeer at his few puny Forces and would in every Table Talk defeat his whole Battalions sometimes She 'd call her Melancholy Lover whose deeper apprehensions now had chang'd his usual Mirth sometimes I say She 'd call him to her and reproach his needless Fears What would She say Can Davila suspect or fear when Messalina 's Heart is free Can thy so much applauded Courage stoop to what a poor weak Womans Soul can stand Stand did I say By all that 's good this Hand shall how the Neck of that poor Spirited Prince that weak presumptuous Wretch that dare Invade my Husbands losty Crown What my Dear Davila canst thou lament Hast thou a Diadem to loose a Throne to be pull'd down Subjects and Slaves to be destroyed before thy Face These may create a Monarchs doubts and fears What then should thy Eyes swell with needless Tears Remit remit alas thy useless apprehensions I sure am the Center of thy Thoughts In me thy utmost Wishes are determined while then I stand secure What need'st thou fear Chear up chear up my dear lov'd Count let us not lose our present happy Minutes for vain weak doubts of future Cares and Sorrows The Count both wondred and rejoyced at the great Heroick Heart of his beloved Royal Mistress and tho' he knew and was perfectly sensible that her words were rather the effect of her dauntless Spirit than of a solid Consideration yet he saw so much Love express'd in her frequent concernment for him that he could not but in common Gratitude and Honour make her the same or suitable returns he therefore told her Majesty That his apprehension of being separated from her was without doubt a sensible affliction to him but above all he deplor'd his great unhappiness in not being able to afford more than his own personal assistance to repell her own and their great Prophet's Enemies that he cordially wish'd the Prince Anaximander's undertakings might prove as frivilous and ineffectual as she had declared them that his great care of her Majesty's Safety and Honour was the only Foundation of his Fear that he did indeed object the worst to himself but did not believe he had yet any reason to dispair of the best that he was sensible her super-eminent Merit had render'd her Obnoxious to the Slanderous reproaches and envy of the Wicked Christian Albionites that the King her Husband's Zeal in a good and pious Cause had incurred the wicked Malice of his rebellious Subjects and that if his Affairs which Heaven sorbid should happen to fail it would be the total ruine and destruction of his Life and happiness to think she should fall into the Hands of her Enemies or be lessened in her Fortune or high Station that therefore it was his humble and hearty request that she would suffer himself and some other select Friends to consult and lay before her such measures for the security of her Person and Honour as should appear to be most convenient that providing against the worst would be no hindrance of her enjoyment of the best but above all that she would give him her resolution and firm promise to let himself accompany and wait on her in all and every Misfortune that possibly could befal her Messalina was ravish'd with this so zealous and

THE Third Part OF THE AMOURS OF Messalina WHEREIN The Secret Intrigues of the Four last Years Reign are Compleated AND THE Love Adventures of Polydorus King of the Gauls AND THE Late Queen of ALBION Made Publick By a Woman of Quality a late Confidant of Q. MESSALINA LONDON Printed for John Lyford 1689. THE Bookseller TO THE READER THE Promis'd and long Expected Third Part of the Amours of our MESSALINA is here at your Service And though some Criticks I am inform'd and indeed my Sale tells me as much have not put an equal value on the two foregoing Parts the Second lying under the Repute of much Inferiour to the First My Historian makes no other Apology than that the Fair Messalina had so many Engines at Work in turning that great Hinge of the Pagan Glory Her Warming-pan Plot and her Hands and Head so full of Politicks on that Important Occasion that She then wanted Leisure for Intrigue and Amour which indeed being the main Delight of the Generality of my Readers might perhaps lessen the Satisfaction expected from the Second Part. But since her Majesties Departure from the Heretick Albion has Translated her to a more agreeable and natural Element the Pagan Court of Gothland her heavier and sullen Business she begins to shake off and resumes the lighter Air of Love and Pleasure And accordingly we dare without Vanity assure our Kind Reader That the former Defects are supplyed in the Entertainment of this Third Part of her History An Amorous Polydorus little less famed under the Banners of Cupid than the sometimes Glorious Britomard himself lying at the Feet of the Adored Messalina affords a little mre Matter of Adventure and Diversion With this Recommendation to our little Volumn of the Great Messalina We beg your present generous Acceptance And if you find your Messalina warm with any extraordinary Spark for the Imperial Polydorus you are to consider that the Sanctuary and Glorious Reception she meets in the Court of her ever firm Friend the King of the Gauls have Inspired her with no small Gratitude to that MOST PAGAN Heroe and Champion of her Altars The Third PART LOVE could no longer brook this intefering Business in the Court of Albion for seeing with Indignation how Ambition daily had intrench'd on his Prerogative he reassumes his long neglected Darts and vows severe Revenge on his Rebellious Subjects And now Messalina's haughty Heart which vast aspiring Hopes had long engaged softens again in Gentleness and Love She had seen the Languets of her Charming Count and heard his gentle Murmurs with Compassion she knew the great restraint he forc'd upon his Heart when by reason of her numerous Attendants and Visitours he had not opportunity to breath his Love sometimes a Wink an Amorous Look or Sigh she would by stealth return or otherwise in some Ambiguous Words she would discover her Concern and Care for his endearing Passion but in such dumb shows alone as there were more than Three Weeks spent e're she could possibly engage or speak with him alone During which time her Beauty with the Satisfaction of her Mind was much improved and that forc'd Abstinence which her pretended Child-bearing had made her undergo conduc'd as well to carry on the Cheat as to revive some fading Glories in her Face caus'd by the Fears and Apprehensions of Miscarrying Now in Triumphant Wise she 'd Walk and Look and with Disdainful Jests among her Confidents Laugh at the weak dull Christians of the Court. Come Dear Aspasia would she say let us no longer doubt of good Success let 's every Year bring forth a Son and stock the Kingdom with a Race of Pagan Princes shall my aspiring lofty Soul stoop to the nice Destructive Rules of their insipid Morals One flight of Pagan Fancy quite out-strips their heavy tedious Motions and till now our Fears alone have been our Bugbear Apparitions With how much ease did we Contrive and Finish what some faint puny hearted Creatures thought impossible Oh how I am pleased to think how naturally I manag'd the Intreague Didst thou observe how gravely some would sland and when my feigned Groans and Cries would reach their Ears how then Officiously they 'd shake their Heads devoutly lifting up their Hands and pray for my Delivery Then when my seeming Pains would make me faintis●… with what Concern they 'd Sigh and Whisper while I would gently grasp and turn to thee and smile at the Success of our Invention Come Come let 's see this Darling of our Hopes this Ground-work of our Everlasting Joy long Live and Live to Reign my little blooming Life and Live to be the Scourge of our Curst Christian Foes I 'll swear thee like another Hambal their Mortal Foe each drop of Milk thou suck'st shall breed an Age of Malice in thy Heart A Christian's Name shall grate upon thy Soul and thou shalt prove the Plague of their Profession I 'll breath my Spirit through thy tender Pores and make thy hatred of them Everlasting Down down ye Pagans to your Great Deliverer Adore your Mighty Prince and your Redeemer See how the base dejected Christians shrink see how they Tremble at his Awful Frown Albion is once again Redeemed Aspasia and now my Crown sits firm and easie on my Head. Thus in Vain Raptures would the Queen break out and boast her Promises to be Prophetical but soon alas she found her self deceived and all her Glorious Promises vanish of a sudden Anaximander and the Princess Artemisia while Licogenes and his Pagan Councellors continued only to make some small Encroachments and Breaches on the Laws of Albion seemingly designing for no more than a small Toleration of the Pagan Religion in Albion kept themselves within all bounds of Modesty and Submission to the King their Father only in some small Remonstrances they did Declare their Unwillingness to appear Parties in the Annulling or Dispensing with those Laws made purely for the Security of the Christian Religion against the Practices and Contrivances of the Pagans but when they plainly saw their Own and the Kingdoms Interest resolved to be made a Sacrifice to the Ambition and Covetousness of a small Party that by the known Laws of the Land were declared the irreconcileable Enemies of the Christians they thought it then high time to look about them and though they paid all the Reverence imaginable to the King their Father yet they could not resolve to yield their Rights and Inheritance and hold precariously their Estates at the Discretion of an Anti-Christian pack'd Councel besides by several Remonstrances and Petitions from the Chief of the Nobility and Gentry they had been solicited to take them into their Protection and to endeavour a Redress of their Grievances and heavy Oppressions Anaximander being a Prince of a Vast and Generous Spirit was easily induc'd to condescend to their Relief for besides his proper Interest in the Crown of Albion which by the common Principles of Nature he was obliged to