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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60224	The Siege of Mentz, or, The German heroin a novel.	Belon, P. (Peter)	1692 (1692)	Wing S3771; ESTC R20903	61,814	162

THE SIEGE OF MENTZ OR THE German Heroin A NOVEL LONDON Printed for Sam. Briscoe over against Will 's Coffee-House in Russel-Street Covent-Garden 1697. To the ever Honoured Adam Felton Knight Barronet SIR I Had no sooner dress'd this German Heroine in an English Habit and taught her our Dialect but that my high Obligations to you brought you fresh into my Memory with all the requisite Accomplishments for the Protection of so brave a Stranger against the most severe Insults that Malice and Envy could produce in which choice Sir I have been further encouraged by that singular Affability and Bounty which renders you the Delights of the most ingenious of both Sexes And tho I was somewhat ashamed to prefix your Name to so mean a Subject as these Results of some hours of my leisure yet I thought it much better to take this opportunity to write your Panegyrick having so large a Field as your Merits to exercise in then to appear wholly insensible of your generous Favours till something more sutable to your noble Genius should offer it self But then reflecting on your Avertion to all Encomiums tho never so justly due obliges me to lay aside all other thoughts than of craving your favourable Acceptance of this trifle and of subscribing my self Sir Your most Humble Servant P. B. THE SIEGE OF MENTZ A NOVEL THERE is so great a disparity betwixt Mars and the God of Love that one would imagine where the first did appear the last should not presume to shew his head The one is all Fierceness Valour and Undauntedness which scorns all Advantages but what are gained by Bravery and Courage And the other is of so soft and delicate a F●ame that it uses nothing but Policy and Stratagems to bring about its Amorous Intrigues and Designs Yet notwithstanding this vast difference Mars is seldom seen to take the Field but that Love is perceived to follow in the Rear not without hopes of obtaining as considerable Conquests there as the other can hope for in the first ranks of Honour We are not without divers examples of this kind but this which I here present to the publick is of so modern a date and so remarkable in our days that I thought I should not a little oblige the World in giving it this Piece of Gallantry in which one of our own Nation was one of the principal Heroes both as to War and Love We will disguise him under the Name of Peregrine of a considerable Family in the North of England though a younger Brother who being come to London that famous place for framing of Youth to Virtue as well as to Vice there he sell in Company with some Officers of the Consederates who had left their German Winter-Quarters to spend some days in seeing the English-Court His natural tendency to Arms put him on the design of seeing a Campaigne or two and though he had some thoughts at first to make his first Essay in Flanders yet the Friendship which he contracted with these German-Officers made him to proffer to accompany them back to serve with them in quality of Voluntier in the Army of the Allies in hopes they would continue their Friendship towards him They readily imbrac'd his offers with assurances of not only their Services out of their Friendship also especially Count Zinzendorf who had a considerable Post took him into particular Protection assuring him That he would write to him and send him word where he should find him at the opening of the Campaigne Peregrine having laid so good a Foundation to build his war-like Resolution upon thinks of no more but getting against the Season such an Equipage as might sute with his Designs and the quality of those that honoured him with their Friendship wherefore so soon as these German Gentlemen had satisfied their Curiosities in all that was remarkable in this great City and the adjacent places to it in which Peregrine did assist them not only with all his Interest but that of his Friends also they took leave of him and imbarked for Holland in order to their return in their own Country Now is Peregrine busied to the utmost to get himself provided with Horses Servants Monies and other necessaries to appear like a Gentleman being resolved to signalize himself by some brave action to render himself worthy of the honour of these brave Strangers who had so freely taken him into their Friendship Peregrine had left in the Country a young Gentlewoman who was deeply in love with him but his Mind having been for a considerable time before he could perceive her affections possest with the desires of Travelling he had avoided as much as he could her Company for fear of being diverted by her from his beloved design This Gentlewoman hearing of Peregrine's suddain leaving of England writ to him a Letter which was extraordinary full of Passion which he received the day before his departure the contents of which I shall have occasion to deliver in the Thread of this following Discourse There is nothing like a willing mind to dispatch Business his desires were so great that in a short time he had got ready an Equipage suitable to his worth with which after having taken leave of his particular Friends in the Month of March he set forward for Harwich where having found the Pacquet-Boat ready for sail he went in it for Holland where he safely arrived the third day after 〈…〉 Netherlands 〈…〉 where nothing happened to him 〈…〉 able 'till he was got within a day 〈…〉 ncy of the City of Mentz which was then in the possession of the French who put all the Country thereabouts under Contribution took up such considerable Hostages as they could find for security which they carried with them into that place threatning them with Death if the Contributions were not duly brought in There had fallen such a vast quantity of Rain during a whole day and night that all the Roads were covered with Waters and the small Rivers swollen into Torrents He was to pass on through a Ford that was at a small distance from an ancient Castle by whose Walls the River run taring up and hurrying along with its Streams Trees and pieces of Rocks There was a Lady on the other side of the River who leaning over some Rails on the Banks beholding the strange consusion which this medly of things made Peregrine having made an halt while he had sent one of his Men for a Guide he mean time had leasure to consider that Person who with her sumptuous Dress and delicate Beauty had fix'd his Eyes in admiration of her when on the suddain the Earth she stood upon gave way and she with the Rails fell headlong into the Torrent she gave a most vehement out-cry which was seconded by Peregrine and his Servants He Presently set Spurs to his Horse and having gon beyond where she was floting on the Currant being buoy'd up by her Cloths and the rapidness of the Stream