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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	army_n	raise_v	siege_n	1,147	5	9.1227	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49302	The loves of Charles, Duke of Mantua, and of Margaret, Countess of Rovera translated out of Italian.; Amore di Carlo Gonzaga, duca di Mantova, e della contessa Margarita della Rovere. English	Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701.	1669 (1669)	Wing L3274; ESTC R2877	74,616	204

very obliging The Newes of the Arrival of this Lady into the Camp and of the Liberty which she afforded every one to offer her their Service as well as the goodness she had shew'd to that Commander we mention'd before quickly spread it self into the French Camp so that it afforded the best sport in the World and there was a person who discoursing with the Duke of Modena of this Fair Curtisan said in derision of her Li Frances Fanno Le Puttane egli spagnoli le godono The French create the Whores and the Spaniards injoy them This he said in reflection upon her first Gallantry with the French Monsieur which I have already told you of In fine The French Army rais'd the Siege from before Alexandria in the night the 16th of August after they had besieged it three Moneths and they dislodg'd themselves with so little noise and so secretly that their Enemies themselves that were round about them perceived it not until morning after the Sun was up and that from the Town Walls there was no Tents nor any thing else to be seen The News was presently carryed to the Duke who was yet in Bed with his Goddess he expressed no small displeasure of this unexpected depart of his Enemies chiefly having resolved to give them Battel the day following believing the Victory would certainly have been his if he could have once dsiputed it with them So as soon as he was up he went to visit the Batteries that the French had made against the Town having no body in his company but his Countess her Sister the Countess Louise being gone in other Company they staid nine dayes at Alexandria and in the evening of the last day the Duke went away accompanied by some of the chief Commanders amongst the Spaniards and after he had given the necessary Orders for the conservation of that place and recommended the care of the Army to his Lieutenant he return'd to Casal with his Lady The joy of his arrival at Casal was Celebrated that Town indeavouring to shew him all the Honour imaginable in acknowledgment that they lookt upon him as the Deliverer of a place of that importance but after all those Feasts were kept with much modesty The greatest pleasure of the Duke was to pass the best and greatest part of the day in going here and there with the Countess thinking no more of the Army than of any thing else to the great astonishment of all the World who could not enough admire how a Man could be so much devoted to the love of that Woman for he was quite contrary to other men who love change and often turn their backs not only to Whores but even to their Wives after they have Marry'd them My dear Reader I believe thou very well understandest me and that it is not necessary I should explain my self further and therefore I will only tell thee That this Prince the more he injoy'd his well-Beloved the more his desive was kindled towards her and in the Mornings when he rose out of bed he was more passionately in Love with her then at night when he went to bed to this Countess the Fire of his Amorous passion was re-kindled at those times that others make use of for their repose From that time the Duke fail'd not one day of that Summer to Visit his Countess at her own house and when they were alone they made no scruple to pull off their Cloaths and go to Bed together without any more Complements The one as if he were a Prince without a Principality the other as if she were one of those Curtizans of Rome that are alwayes in their Smockes waiting for their Bravos And although the Duke did often force himself to give Audience to all the World that came to his Court yet it was in such a way it was easily seen that he did it with Chagrin and against his mind and carry'd himself like an extravagant and it is not hard for me to believe it since that all his thoughts his soul and heart breath'd nothing else but his love of the Countess But for to give more convincing Proofes of this and to assure the whole World and chiefly his own Subjects that the Countess was absolutely his and possest all his Affections he appointed her two Men for Guards who wore the same Livery of his own Footmen with order to follow this Lady whereever she went and to Guard her House night and day this so publick testimony of the Dukes love made her be respected and more esteem'd than ever and also fear'd by every one so much it would have been lookt upon as Sacriledge to have given her the least displeasure or discontent and there were at that time four persons condemn'd to Banishment for having their Tongues a little too long and had talk'd too lewdly against this beloved Lady There was also another had the like ill Fortune but he rather out of Raillery then for any thing else hearing the Barrenness of the Countess talk'd on who had no Children neither by her Husband nor the Duke began to laugh and said Che non Faceva Fancialli Perche voleva esser troppo seminata This poor Babler carry'd not his words to Purgatory for they put him in Prison for some dayes and he had staid there longer but for the Intercession of that person whom he chiefly had offended by his words and was not inclin'd to Revenge although what had been said had not much pleas'd her Certainly that Lady deserv'd the affections of so great a Prince very much being adorn'd with all the advantagious qualities which she possess'd she had a way of speaking so gentle and so attractive that she captivated all hearts and oblig'd them to love her I do not mean here of her extraordinary and charming way with which she caressed the Duke having no expressions capable to describe them but she was inclin'd to oblige every body so it were not to injure her self nor as one may say pick her own pocket for in that case she had no memory being like other women who are sparing not to say covetous Pride never set his foot in her Carriage but on the contrary the more she saw her self in the Princes Favour the more did the desire in her increase to Speak Familiarly with all People and to converse modestly with every one The Balls Feasts and Recreations of taking the Air alwayes took up her thoughts and her minde went no further then those noble Divertisements and nevertheless when she chanc'd to meet the Duke in any place she express'd a carelesness of all things else besides the pleasing sight of his person which she esteem'd above all Anger nor Vanity never transported her and if sometimes she had occasion to Chide the Servants of her House she did it without those transports so ordinary to other Ladies and also those Cloaths she had so rich above the other Ladies of her quality in the Court she wore them without

having obtain'd a promise from her Lover That every day she should receive from him an Account of his health and the progress of his Highness with that of his Army This Prince parted from Casal then the fourth of August accompanied with his Countess who went with him in his Coach above three Miles and also by an excess of Gallantry her Brother drove the Coach till they came to a certain Village where they stopt to take leave of his Highness who drawing apart his Well-beloved was sometime in conversation with her but not satisfied with that and what he had injoy'd of her company all the way they enter'd into a Peasants house hard by that place were they were together a full hour to the great heart-breaking of all the World who waited for them in the Street although in the mean while the Countesses Brother invented all he could imagine to divert the Company After these two Lovers had given their adiews to each other having finished all their Ceremonies in the Chamber of that good poor Country-mans house they went out and being yet not able to separate for good and all they staid at the door talking together toying and fooling with one another and also to make Love half an hour longer whil'st in the mean time there arrived a Post from the Marquiss of Faensaldagnia Governour of Milan who earnestly desir'd his Highness That he would hasten his depart to the Army where they impatiently waited for him having absolute need of his presence who ever had seen the Duke and his Countess so strictly imbrac'd would have thought they were never to meet again and if a Gentleman a great friend of the Dukes had not confidently told his Highness that the night came on apace and that it was not safe for him to enter in the dark into a Countrey that was the rendezvous of the enemy I believe the Duke and his Countess would have staid a good while longer in that place which yet was not a very convenient one to make love in In fine after that these two Lovers had given some tears to their future absence they took leave of one another She returning to Casal and the Duke marching towards Alexandria where the Army staid for him and where the Spaniards Council of War was held to consult upon the way to secure that place so considerable to their State and which they already believed out of their power The Marquess of Faensaldagnia had commanded an apartement for the Duke to be made ready in a Palace a mile from Alexandria about which was encamped the Imperial and Spanish Army as being a very advantagious Post to trouble the enemy who had no defence from their shot and were blockt up between the Town and the River The Duke was scarce arrived but finding that Air unwholsome for him and being very much heated by the journey he was presently seiz'd by a Feaver which obliged him to go to bed but that which added to his trouble was to see himself in a Countrey so prejudicial to his health and where he could not have those things fit for his cure with that diligence which his disease required Tortona being distant from him two miles and that was the neerest Town wherein there were Apothecaries Two things begun to trouble his mind and raise his spleen and melancholly The one was that such a misfortune happened to him in the First time of his life that he had appear'd in the field fearing it would oblige him to return to Casal without the glory of having done any thing to shew his courage but that which was his greatest heart-breaking was That he fancied the Spaniards would believe him a Coward under which notion he should pass for such through all those Countries not being able to imagine they would be so civil to lay all the fault upon his Feaver which really was the cause but would rather believe it a fair pretence of the Dukes to hide his cowardly heart The second thing which so tormented him was To see himself alone and deprived of the service of his Countess as he had been formerly he resolved to keep his bed notwithstanding and stay in that Palace which they had provided for him because he would not loose the sight of the Spaniards who came to visit him whilst his Feaver thus perplext him and advised with him of the means the most fit to enterprize something upon the enemy This sickness of the Dukes was not carried so close but that it came to the cars of the Countess who was not a little troubled at it and as I believe it was his Highness that advertised her of it being confident that she would not fail to come to him as soon as she receiv'd that news It was that which the Duke desired with greatest passion for being without his Mistress he was without his heart as he himself assur'd her brother who writ word of it to the Countess by the express command of the Duke As soon as the news of the Dukes sickness arrived at Casal the Countess was so afflicted that one would have thought she had no life left and although they did what they could to perswade her his disease was not great nor dangerous she nevertheless grieved very much but she grew desperate when she was inform'd that the French Army were so much up and down the Countrey that it was dangerous travelling between Casal and Alexandria whither she would go notwithstanding accompanied with onely very few on Foot through by-wa●es with intention to serve as Physitian to this Amorous sick man she sent out a Scout before her journey to be perfectly inform'd of the march of the enemies that so she might the better chuse what way to take She was uncertain in her resolutions in what habit to travel in whether that of her own sex or of a man fearful of being known if she should make that journey in her ordinary dress but having ask'd Counsel of her Governour in that affair he advised her to go with very few in her company and to disguise her self like a man The resolution for parting then being taken after the Scout she sent was return'd which was the same day that the Duke himself had inform'd her of his being ill she discover'd her design to the Countess Lovize her sister a little before she went this Countess Lovize having formerly travell'd as a man with a Frenchman whom I spoke of before who was her Gallant offer'd her self now to accompany her sister in the same posture The Countess Magaret received this offer of her sisters very willingly and was the more inclined to it by perceiving they two were so much of a humour as to matter of journeys as well as other things so away they went very late in the evening accompanied onely with their younger brother and one man to avoid the encounter of the Freuch who costed up and down the Countrey every moment They went out of the great rode