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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22598	Love and valour: celebrated in the person of the author, by the name of Adraste. Or, the divers affections of Minerva. One part of the unfained story of the true Lisander and Caliste. Translated out of the French by W.B.; Histoire trage-comique de nostre temps, sous les noms de Lysandre et de Caliste. English	Audiguier, Vital d', 1569-1624.; Barwick, Wm.	1638 (1638)	STC 905; ESTC S100297	122,979	258

three dayes without writing backe one word to him whatsoever may be sayd in her answere for missing this morning shee seemes astonisht at his silence and commandeth him to aske her pardon for it 202 After so many complaints and delayes thereon upon which hee had resolved to speake no more then in one Letter he intended to send her on his departure he yet gives her answer and bids her farewell ibid. Meeting him yet by chance and being made friends she failes againe of her promise to him which obligeth him to breake with her once for all and send her this his last farewell 206 The Answer 210 His Mistris being informed hee was in blacks tooke occasion to write word unto him by which she condoled with him the new affliction she beleeved had beene befallen him ibid. After having a long while dispated with himselfe whether hee should answere her Letters or not he tels her that besides the afflictions hee under goes for her he slighted all such as could happen to him That he could not beleeve that she condoled theills she dayly augmented And wherefore he beleev'd so 211 She replyes that she is more amarvailed then offended at his Letter and wisheth that all his vanities were in that paper to the end they obliged no other one to answere them 213 He answers her threats and to the vanities she accuseth him of in a stile altogether estranged from the respect he had wont to render her though not from his discretion 214 He answers to certaine complaints that Minerva had made some while after as well to his friends as himselfe of his indifference and sheweth that it was founded on the necessity of obeying her and upon good reason 222 Faults escaped in some Copies PAge 10. line 30. for that reade it p. 11. l. 19. for others r. ours p. 21. l. 7. for revenger r. revenge l. 14. for who shall then r. who shall then l. 17. for such as r. those that l. 19. for inconstant r. constant l. 20. for misery r. mischiefe p. 39 l. 29. for these r. those p. 42. l. 7. for or what r. what p. 46. l. 15. for esteemed r. seemed p. 50. l. 15. for to obey r. to obey you p. 55. l. 2. for most provoked him r. most troubled him she was it that most provoked him p. 60. l. 15. for on yours Adraste r. on yours Adraste l. 27. for book r. broake p. 74. l. 7 for penthouse or a long r. penthouse a long p. 81. l. 3. for passion r. possession l. 22. for agreed r. angred l. 31. for forgot to r. forgot not to p. 82. l. 15. for after in death r. after death p. 83. l. 6. for to quite me of r. to quit me of p. 85. l. 10. for discourse that it r. discourse for that it line 18. for or least r. or at least l. 30. for Adraste hath purged r. Adraste having purged p. 95. l. 16. for could tender r. would render p. 100. l. 8. for and to went set r. and so went and set p. 106. l. 26. for compassionate r. compatiate p. 110. l. 11. for that would r. that she would p. 113. l. 31. for desire r. designe p. 116. l. 11. for nor to be to r. nor be to l. 17. for render me r. render it me p. 117. l. ult for satisfaction to r. satisfaction then to p. 118. l. 23. for light doth rejoyce r. light thou that dost rejoyce p. 119. l. 7. for state r. fate l. 13. for lesse r. left l. 27. for once as yet r. once more as yet and some others which in courtesie may be borne withall Love and Valour OR The divers affections of MINERVA The Argument Minerva commeth to solicite her suits in Paris is beloved of Balamyr Crassus Arnolphus and Adraste but loveth onely Arnolphus The dissavour of Adraste causeth that of Crassus Adraste desirous to give a Serenade to Minerva accompanied with Periste and Oristene runneth a dangerous misfortune CHAP. I. DId I desire to frame the foundations of a true story upon a tale I might say the earth never produced the equall of Minerva and deriving her originall from heaven it were not onely a lye but blasphemy to bring her backe againe to earth So then let us not speake untruths for feare of lying nor let us blaspheme for feare of blasphemy fable hath no part in this discourse the Star by which I meane to steere my course being truth it selfe This here is not that Minerva the Goddesse but a woman whose cleere minde and brave spirit hath acquired her the name of that Pallas president of Art and Armes her birth was not of the head of Iupiter but of an illustrious family the worth whereof hath beene ere whiles graced with the most honourable charges of this Realm her father having left her very young she was married at 9 yeeres old to a husband but of eleven and as the one nor the other were then capable of love they produced no other but hate Her desire to be divorced from one she loved not caused her come to solicite her affaires at Paris where her beauty did acquire her rather servants then Iudges and where her youth more proper to the exercises of love then businesse of law rendred her apter to hearken to the suits of her servants then to give eare to or prosecute her necessary suits I know not whether she were cruell or favourable on their behalfe but certaine am I that the Sejan horse was never more unhappy to his Masters then she to some of her servants Whilest she followed her affaires Balamyr was the first of whose service she admitted I have heard him say she esteemed more of his valour then she loved his person and that her vanity to captivate so great a courage caused her suffer the importunity of his pursuit their love became hatred Balamyr were it through judgement or inconstancy with or without cause quit her for another Mistresse and was unlamented of Minerva sometime after slaine But she continued not without a servant for she wonne on all she would and she would win on all she could and for all that she complained here sometimes of the miserable conquests she made against her will She made no acquisition but to her profit and wherewith she served not her selfe in some designe or other See here the cause why she contemned not the affection of Crassus howsoever his ill shape and worse favour rendred him sufficiently contemptible But Arnolph was he that most feelingly touched her to heart all the rest were amorous of her and she only of him It was not that his services or quality obliged her to love him more then ordinary it was a certain inclination proceeded of the sympathy in their wils and I know not what feminine humour more taken with a soothing observance or handsome legge making then with all the faire qualities or good parts can be in a man or the faithfullest services that can be rendred

an entertainment to day should not have left him as she had to finde out his enemies and that she was not stoln away so much for any devotion she had to Church as for the desire she had to see them there But next day he was much more troubled thinking to goe make his complaint when they told him she was gone out to walk with them Then presently conceived he the plot was not combined against him but with her counsell and assent and that she had not onely approved but designed it And so returning backe his brest fraught with more despight then love and not so much reason as rage after having resolved now to breake with her once for all he wrote to her THat as hee had pitied her weaknesse seeing shee suffered her selfe to be rather perswaded by passion on the part of his Enemies then by the truth of his words so hee received no small contentment to see that for his having cheered himself before them and for ever being too d screet and respectfull on her behalf and at her instance on theirs he was now deprived of what they possessed for having been the contrary That the time had been when this privation now so easie to undergo had been most difficult for him to believe but considering that of all things that most provoked him and the chiefest cause of his vexation and worst tormenting passions it was easie for him to endure the losse of a good the possession wherof was so extremly damageable Wherfore he would now as with a sponge wipe off the fair impressions which he had formerly admitted in his memory and hee intreated her to favour him so farre as not to oblige him ever by the replacing them Hee avow'd it the mediate will of Heaven without which hee had beene as unable 'to execute as rash in undertaking this designe For which hee only was to thank her ingratitude that thinking to work him so much ill had been the cause of so great good to him And that he did beseech her by this last and by all other and so many vowes no lesse religious then unprofitable which hee most foolishly had rendred her that henceforth shee would never more call them to minde assuring her he should esteem him fully satisfied for all his services when he should finde they were forgot and that she held them so indifferent that hee had never cause to joy in or complain of them The Argument Adraste closeth againe with Minerva comforteth her on the death of Arnolphe Commotions in France and divers adventures upon that subject CHAP. IIII. WHat delight soever the company afforded could not be so pleasant to Minerva as this Letter was bitter to her But howsoever she took it extreamly ill from Adraste she would not yet loose him so No though she knew not to what purpose to reserve him for she had sufficiently manifested the little good will she bore him But there are some women that delight themselves to render all men amorous of them and they affecting none Or it may be she held this maxime of the wise that say a man should not breake with friends no not for any cause whatsoever for that such as are unfit for one thing may yet serve to another and it may be she intended to accommodate her selfe by Adraste to some other purpose Whatsoever it were she forbore to answer his Letter till her choler was past over nor wrote she to him then but passing some daies after by his lodging she caused him to be told that there was a Gentlewoman in the street asked for him Adraste came down and Minerva made him come into her Coach where she was then accompanied onely with one gentlewoman and going to take the aire She told him that she had not answered his Letters for that shee could not bethink her of termes sufficiently powerfull to make him senceable of her anger So then Madame answered Adraste if you have not given me offence I stand not obliged to you for it but your ill memory that had not means to find words sufficiently capable to expresse the offence you intended mee T is true said shee but you are a naughty man to write such Letters to mee And you are then a naughty woman answered Adraste to inforce mee to it by so many just and rightfull causes as you have If I have given you such replyed she and have so little reason in my actions why have you so little judgment in your love you have lesse reason then mee to love one that hath none at all and by the extravagance of your unfound minde accuse me of your own defaults Madam answered Adraste I have caused you to see most cleerly that you are in the wrong since you cannot finde meanes to answer my Letters But how should you finde reasons that could not indeed finde the offence Wherby it follows that being you have done the wrong you cannot have reason on your side since wrong and reason cannot be united in one subject And yet cry you that I am reasonlesse to love one that hath none I answer you that though I am reasonlesse it followes not but you are so likewise as I have proved without denying but I was my self so And on the contrary I have always endevoured to let you see that I had litle reason in me ever to shew that I had so much love for you Since if I had I could not have loved you or at least but in such sort as I had been loved again of you And if you were reasonable you would love mee as I love you See then wherfore I love you in two sorts without reason first for that you are reasonlesse secondly because I am so also As to the extravagances of my diseased minde I apprehend them to my own advantage Remember you what I have ever said that my weaknesses and failings were the things that I desired to cause you see T is well I am there arrived Minerva fell a laughing at these words and as particular complaints do usually succeed the generall Adraste complain'd of her for that when hee had left his entertainment to his enemies upon her promise to afford him one more private and favourable she had not onely turned him off to her mother Arlande but her self had stoln away from him to go to them had depriv'd him of the honour of her company and conduct to afford it unto them and had wronged a man whose goodnesse was so known to her therby to favour others whose malice was to her no lesse manifest Minerva excused her on the just fear shee might have of the bloudy effects their quarrell might have produced said that the same fear had caused her not to suffer him to lead her and that she had also denied it unto them And on the contrary having found Brasidas Gracchus at Church shee had prayed them not onely to forbeare to lead her but to see her Notwithstanding that Brasidas being since