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Remarks upon the dream of the late abdicated Queen of England and upon that of madam the Dutchess of La Valiere, late mistress to the French king, and now nun of the order of Bare-Footed-Carmelites at Paris / by the author of the Harmony of prophesies, &c. ; being the paper the publisher whereof was condemned last month to be broken alive on the wheel, by the Parliament of Roan ; done from the French copy printed in Amsterdam.; Brieves remarques sur le songe de la reine refugiée d'Angleterre. English
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Massard, Jaques.
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1690
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Wing M1027; ESTC R13576
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Remarks upon the DREAM Of the late Abdicated Queen of England And upon that of Madam the D. of La Valiere Late MISTRESS to the French King c. REMARKS upon the DREAM Of the late Abdicated Queen of England And upon that of Madam the Dutchess of La Valiere Late Mistress to the French King AND NOW NUN of the Order of Bare-Footed-Carmelites at PARIS By the Author of the Harmony of PROPHESIES c. Being the Paper the Publisher whereof was Condemned last Month to be Broken alive on the Wheel by the Parliament of Roan Done from the French Copy Printed at Amsterdam LONDON Printed for Tho. Salusbury at the Sign of the Temple near Temple-Bar in Fleet-street and are to be sold by R. Baldwin in the Old-Baily 1690. Advertisement THis Paper is written by a Divine that has made himself famous by his Writings against the Romish Church and who has of late written several Books about a Revolution he says is to happen within a few Years in Europe which he founds upon the Apocalipse may be read more safely in England than in France to which it relates in part for there is no hazard of being broken alive upon the Wheel for Reading or Publishing it here as has been the fate of so doing in France And if the other Explication of these two Dreams done by Monsieur Agendar at the French King's desire come to my hands the Reader shall have it likewise that he may be in a better condition to pass his judgment on both and give the Palm to which of them he thinks deserves best Remarks upon the Dream Of the late Abdicated Queen of England And upon that of Madam the Dutch of La Valiere Late Mistress to the French King c. THE Occasion of Publishing the following Dreams and Explication of it A Page of the late Queen of England came on Munday the 9th of January 1689 90 to Monsieur Leonard the French King's Bookseller in Paris and told him his Mistress was desirous to speak with him immediately Whereupon Monsieur Leonard having gone incontinent to wait upon the Queen she told him She heard he was printing an Explication of the King of France his Dream which had made so great a noise at Court written by Monsieur Agendar And she desired he would with the King's leave add to that of the King 's a Dream she had had herself on Christmas-Night Which the Bookseller promising to do the late Queen caused my Lady Salisbury one of her Ladies to deliver him a Paper of the Tenour following The DREAM itself UPon Saturday night the 24th of December after having heard the Midnight-Mass I went to Bed very much troubl'd in mind about four a Clock in the Morning there appeared to me in my sleep four Persons whom I knew not and who stood a long time before me without speaking a word at last the Eldest of them whose Face resembled a mixture betwixt a Mans and Womans said to me Great Princess Yet within three and a half and the fourth part of a half and he shall be no more Two Claps of Thunder having set my Chamber on Fire those four Persons thereupon disappeared Immediately thereafter I thought I saw a Woman mounted on a Camel who would needs have me to follow her with the little Prince of Wales saying She would take me to a blessed Place I followed her and she led me I thought through an Arbour full of Flowers where all things seemed Enchanted here we met with a Prince who look'd as one that had been once very strong but who now had his right Arm and his left Ear cut off and two Monks help'd him to walk But just when those Persons were beginning to speak to us a Whirlwind in a moment separated us from them and we were carried thence into a thick dark Wood where there was no other light but a little Moon-shine here there arose a thick and stinking Rynd of Mist which necessitated my Comerade and me to embark ourselves upon the Ocean and whereupon we arrived at last at the Elezian Shades Just at our arrival there the terrour which was upon me forc'd me to awaken and I found myself all over in a sweat and my Face and Pillows all be-dewed with Tears so terrible a Fright had the Dream put me in The Explication of the Dream BEfore I come to Explain this Exil'd Queen's Dream it 's fit we should know she is by birth an Italian Princess a Bigotted Papist and much devoted to the Pope and to the Jesuits Thence it was she entertain'd a firm Design to Ruine the English and to Extirpate the Protestant Religion to succeed in this damnable Design she pretended a Prince of Wales was born and was the occasion thereby of that Tragi-Comedy so known to all Europe and of her own and the Flight of K. James her Husband out of England And as she is the principal Person concern'd in this Tragedy it has pleased GOD by this Vision to give her the just Marks of his Anger and Displeasure against those of that Party This Queen after having heard Midnight-Mass went to Bed very much troubled in mind This Trouble of Mind was a Preludium to that terrible Vision that was to follow The Prophet says There is no peace says my GOD to the sinner And thence certainly it was this Princess was disquieted at going to Bed Why she had this Dream on Christmas-night I shall shew afterwards About four a Clock in the Morning there appeared to me four Persons whom I knew not who stood a long time before me without speaking a word This Vision happen'd at four a Clock in the Morning which is the ordinary hour of Dreams coming from God because at that time the Spirit is more free and not embaras'd with Vapors or with the Fumes arising from the first Digestion The Queen did not know these four Persons because God had left her to Blindness of Mind otherwise she might have easily known that it was the Great Whore and the Signagogue of Satan she saw before her These four Persons stood a long time without speaking It pleased God this Vision should stay a long time before this Unhappy Queen to the end she might be the more assured of the truth of that Divine Revelation At last the Eldest of them whose face resembled a mixture betwixt a Mans and a Womans This Hermophrodite is no other then the Pope who feigns himself to be GOD's Vicegerent upon Earth when he is at the same time the Great Whore mention'd in the Apocalipse In Dubritius his Revelations the Pope appear'd to him in the shape of a Woman with a Beard which is just as much as to say in the shape of a Hirmophrodite as here This Hirmophrodite said Great Princess Yet within three and a half and the fourth part of a half and he shall be no more This Expression evinces clearly that the Speaker is the Great Whore since she mentions exactly the time
the mean time while M. La Valiere was contemplating all this she heard a great cry thrice re-doubled The King is a coming the King is a coming and the noise of the Cry immediately awaken'd her Every body knows how earnest the French King was to have this Dream of M. La Valiere his Quondam Mistress explain'd and that he offer'd a thousand Pistols to any that would do it Which is thought is done already by the same Author who ventur'd to Explain the K.'s own Dream which he had about the same time but without any prospect of Reward I give him the following and true Interpretation of it The Explication of Madam La Valiere's Dream MAdam La Valiere having gone to Bed the first Night of this Year after the Office was over dream'd she was at Versailles in a Secular Habit and that she saw the King walking upon the side of the Canal in the midst of which appeared two Islands near to one another La Valiere in a Secular Habit represents very neatly that Seraglio or House of Pleasure he had at St. Cir when this Lady was his Concubine The Canal denotes the Sea that environs Great Britaine on all sides The two Islands amidst this Canal are the two Islands of Great Britain and Ireland and Nostrodamus calls these Kingdoms Islands by way of excellence In the Dream the three Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland is represented by two little Islands because she was to see them in the Canal of Versailles which being of its self but little the Islands represented in them behoov'd to be little also these Islands are near to one another because there is but three hours sailing from some parts of Scotland to some parts of Ireland The King was followed by Hunters and Spaniels designing to kill some Fowls His Hunters are his Armies by Land and his Spaniels his Fleets at Sea because Spaniels are fitter than other Hounds to hunt in the Water Being design'd to kill some of the Fowls That is being design'd to make War upon the Inhabitants of these two Islands of Britaine and Ireland who are properly represented by the Fowls of the River M. La Valiere follows the King to the end she may inform us of the success of the War he was enter'd into against England When the King came over against the first Island she saw a great Spaniel throw himself into the Water to swim into the Island followed by a great many Ducks and other Fowls whose Eggs he eat up This first Island is England and Scotland the great Spaniel that threw himself into the Water is K. James he is follow'd by a great many Ducks and other Fowls that is the English he eats up their Eggs that is when he began to destroy and ruine the People of England and their Liberties The great Spaniel came ashore and was received by the King 's B. who caus'd fire upon the Fowls and kill'd some of them That is K. James fled over all alone to France and the King having assisted him with a Naval Force has since killed several of the English in the present War he has declared against them When they came over against the other Island they heard the noise of a great many Dogs a hunting and thereupon the great Spaniel threw himself into the Water with some of the King's Spaniels to joyn them in the Island When they were near the other Island that is Ireland they heard the noise of Dogs a Hunting that is the Army of Tyrconnel Viceroy of Ireland the great Spaniel upon the noise threw himself into the Water to joyn them that is K. James seeing his Party subsist yet in Ireland he goes thither and joyns his Army there accompanied by some of the French Officers As soon as the great Spaniel had joyn'd the Dogs in the other Island That is K. James had joyn'd his Army in Ireland the noise became greater and continued so for a while that is the War became sharper and did not end so very soon as was at first expected After which M. La Valiere sees another flock of Birds flie out of this Island into the first and the great Spaniel follows them where there is a fight betwixt the Spaniel and the Ducks and other Birds which last after a brisk resistance are forc'd to flie and the King causes fire upon them and kills some of them The continuation of this Dream continues to foretel some Advantages to K. James but what afterwards follows foretels unquestionably the marvellous Success of K. William now of Great Britain in such sort as that great Prince shall at last Triumph gloriously over all his Enemies In fine the great Miseries of Lowis the 14th and the incomparable good Fortune of K. William are painted forth in this Dream of M. La Valiere's with so much brightness and clearness as if written with a Sun-beam which will appear by what follows When the King is returning to the Palace he told those about him he would go to see his Orange-trees The Visit design'd by the King to his Orange-Inclosure foretels the continuation of the War of Lowis 14th against K. William who is here represented as P. of Orange This term to go to see signifying a Declaration of War is taken from that place of Scripture Where Amisias King of Judah sends to the King of Israel saying Come let us see one another or let us look one another in the face And it 's afterwards said that these two Kings saw one another in the face that is they fought together In saying this the King stumbled upon Caillon and fell on his face bleeding at the Nose After this new Declaration of War or rather renewing of the former the King stumbles against the root of a Tree that is he met with a powerful Obstacle of his Design and God is preparing a great and terrible Vengeance for this Guilty Monarch In fine he falls on his Face bleeding at the Nose That is Lowis 14th shall fail in his Enterprize on William King of Great Britain and this last Monarch shall Triumph over the Armies of France Moreover His bleeding shall weaken him and render him timorous and cowardly And in the old Dialect of France to say a Man bleeds at the Nose was to say he is afraid The end of the Dream proves that this Fall of Lowis the 14th will be mortal They presently took up the King and carried him to his Bed The fall of Lowis upon his Nose must be terrible since he fell a bleeding thereupon and was so far unable to rise of himself that they were necessitated to carry him to his Bed This denotes that Lowis the 14th shall die of this Fall since the Bed is an Image of Death Thence this Dream is the fatal Fore-runner and Prediction of the miserable End of this King and of his Kingdom This is exactly what was foretold by Nostredamus in his 5 Sireain Celui qui la Principaute Tiendra par grand Cruautê