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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89527	Heptameron or the history of the fortunate lovers; written by the most excellent and most virtuous princess, Margaret de Valoys, Queen of Navarre; published in French by the privilege and immediate approbation of the King; now made English by Robert Codrington, Master of Arts.	Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1654 (1654)	Wing M593; Thomason E1468_2; ESTC R208683	403,927	599

he would keep him in prison during his life The poor Page to receive good and to escape punishment did shew him the Letters which his Mistcesse had wrote unto the Preacher whereat her Husband was as much astonished and grieved as he was before assured of her loyalty having never before received the least discontent from her But he who was wise did dissemble his choler and to know the farther intentions of his Wife did return an answer by writing to her Letter as if the Preacher had thanked her for her good will and declared to her that he for his own part did bear as much true affection unto her The Page having sworn unto his Master to carry on this businesse with all silence and discretion did return unto his Mistresse to whom he delived that counterfeit Letter whereat she was surprized with so much joy that her Husband did easily perceive it by the change of her countenance for instead of contrition and making her self lean with abstinence she did look more fresh more fair and more lovely than before that Lent did begin It was now middle-lent yet this Lady neither for the holiness of the season nor the approach of the Passion did alter her accustomed manner but continued by Letters to declare unto the Preacher her furious fantasie and it seemed to her poor Lady that when he turned his eyes on that side where she sat it was only to look on her and as often as he did speak of the love of God she did apply it to herself and thought in her interpretation of it that it was spoken altogether for the love of her and as much as her eyes could shew what she thought she spared not to return in glances to him her Husband in his Letter failed not to send her like answers After Easter was passed he did write unto her in the name of the Preacher and did intreat her to instruct him what means he should use to come unto her She who thought every hour a year until she had returned an answer to that Letter did counsell her Husband to take a journey into the Country to survay some lands which he had there which he promised her to doe and concealed himself in the house of one of his friends The Lady failed not to write unto the Preacher on what hour he might have his opportunity to come and see her for her Husband was gone forth The Gentleman desiring to make trial of the love of his Wife even to the last did repair unto the Preacher and for the honour of God desired him that he would be pleased to lend him his habit The Preacher who was a very righteous man did assure him that it was against the Rules of their order and that he would not for any thing lend it to have it brought upon the Stage The Gentleman did protest unto him that he would only use it for his own pleasure and in a businesse that was necessary for the good both of Soul and Body The Frier knowing him to be an honest man and fearing God did lend it to him and with this habit which covered the greatest part of his face insomuch that she could not see his eyes he took a false beard and a false nose and near in resemblance to the Preachers and he did put a Rise into his shooes that he might be just of his height Thus habited he did come in the Evening into the Chamber of his Wife who did attend him with great devotion and poor Gentlewoman could not forbeat till he came to her but as a Woman out of her senses she did run to meet him and embraced him He who held his head down into his bosome for fear of being discovered did begin to make the sign of the crosse and to fly from her and to cry out aloud Temptation Temptation The Lady said unto him alas my dear Father you have reason for it for there is no more violent temptation than that which doth proceed from Love to which you have promised to give me a remedy beseeching you that now having time and leisure you will have pity on me and speaking those words she did enforce her self to embrace him but he running from her round about the Chamber and making many and great signs of the Crosse did continually cry out Temptation Temptation but perceiving that she came up close unto him and to examine some where about him too familiarly he took a good cudgel which he did carry under his mantle and did give her so many and such effectuall blowes that he made her to forsake and forget the Temptation and being not discovered by her he repaired immediately to the Preacher and restored him his habit assuring him that he had received an especial favour by it The next morning pretending that he had returned from a long Journey he came into his house where he found his Wife sick in bed and as if he was ignorant of what had passed he enquired of her the cause of her disease She made answer that it was a cold she had taken which was so violent upon her that she could not stir either hand or foot Her Husband who had a good desire to laugh did pretend to be extremely sorry and to administer some comfort to her did acquaint her that on that Evening he had invited the holy man the Preacher unto Supper She immediately made answer far be it from you Sweet-heart to invite any of that Tribe for they do bring ill luck with them into all the houses wheresoever they doe come How my dear Sweet-heart said her Husband have you so much praised this man unto me and doe you make no more reckoning of him As for my own part I doe verily believe that if there be a holy man in the world it is verily he His Wife made answer to him they are good in the Church and in their Pulpits but in our houses they are very Anti-christs I must beseech you Sir if he doth come that I may not see him for it will be enough with the sicknesse that already I have on me to kill me outright Her Husband said unto her because you have no mind unto it you shall not see him and therefore he shall sup with me in the Parlor She made answer to him doe what you please but I pray let not me see him for in my own house I doe hate such people as I hate the Devil Her Husband after he had supped with his Ghostly Father did say unto him My Father I doe esteem you to be so beloved of God that he will deny you no just Petition I do beseech you therefore to have pity on my poor Wife who for these eight days hath been possessed with an evil spirit insomuch that she biteth and scratcheth all the World there is neither crossing nor holy-water of which she maketh any reckoning at all I do believe that if you shall but put your hand upon her that the

you have married her yes Sir said the Bastard but by words and a contract only and if you please the full period will be put unto it The King did hold down his head and without speaking any word returned directly unto the Castle and when he came neer unto it he called the Captain of the Guard and commanded him to take the Bastard prisoner Immediatly one of his friends who observed the countenance of the King did advise the Bastard to absent himself and to withdraw into a house of his not far from thence and if the King commanded him to be sought out as he suspected he would that immediatly he should have notice of it that he might provide for his own safety by his slight out of the Kingdom but if the King seemed not to be displeased he would send him word to return to the Court The Bastard did believe him and his diligence made such dispatch that the Captain of the Guard could not find him The King and the Queen did take counsel together what they should do with Rolandine who had the honour to be their Kinswoman and by the counsel of the Queen it was concluded that she should be sent unto her Father to whom the whole truth of the businesse was to be declared But before she did goe it was ordered that diverse of the Kings Counsel and some also of the Church should represent unto her that as yet there had passed nothing in her marriage but her word only and that she might easily recall herself if both one of them and the other would alter their opinions and their loves and disclaiming all interests make the contract of no effect This the King desired that she would do to preserve the honout of the house of which she was but she made answer that in all other things she was both obliged and ready to obey the King but in this only which so nearly concern'd her conscience she desired to be excused alleging that those whom God had put together ought not to be separated by men and desired that she might not be tempted to so unreasonable a thing for if love and good will grounded on the fear of God is the true and sure tye of Marriage she was tyed so fast that neither Steel nor Fire nor Water could either break or consume that bond but death only to whom alone and to none else she was resolved to surrender her oath and her ring beseeching them not to urge her to the contrary for she was so firm in her resolution that she had rather perish keeping her saith than live having infringed it Those who were deputed by the King made the report unto him of her constancy and when they saw they could provide no remedy to cause her to renounce her husband they carried her to her Father in that pitiful manner that wheresoever she passed they did all fall on weeping to behold her and although she had her failings in this contract yet so great was her punishment and so strong her constancy that she made her fault to be esteemed a virtue Her Father hearing this unwelcom news would not see her but sent her to a Castle of his in a Forrest which he had builded for another occasion worthy to be declared after this Novel He kept her there a long time in prison and sent her word oftentimes that if she would forsake her Husband he would account her for his daughter and set her at liberty Neverthelesse she always did hold firm in her determination loved better the place of her prison and the miseries she endured for her Husband than all the liberty of the world without him and it seemed to those who did behold her that all her punishments were but pleasant recreations because she suffered them for him whom so intirely she affected What shall I say in this place of men The Bastard who as you have heard was so much obliged to her did fly into Germany where he had many friends and shewed by his Inconstancy that not Truth and perfect Love but Avarice and Ambition did perswade him to the marriage of Rolandine Insomuch that in a short time after he grew so amorous of a German Lady that by his Letters he did forget to visit her who sustained so many tribulations for him For Fortune as rigorous as she was unto them did never take from them the means to write to one another but the heart of Rolandine had of its self the first apprehension of the foolish love into which the Bastard was fall'n so that she could not take any rest for she observed that the language in his Letters was so cold and so much altered that they nothing resembled those hearty expressions which she was accustomed to receive from him she therefore truly did suspect that some new love had diverted her Husband from her and when all the punishments and the torments she endured could nor work the least change in her at all and because her perfect love would not allow that she should ground her judgement upon a suspition she did contrive a way to send privatly a servant of hers in whom she trusted not to speak unto him or bring any Letters from him but strictly to observe him and to relate the truth He being returned from his Journey told her that for certain he found the Bastard passionatly amorous of a German Lady and the report was that he did court her in way of marriage for she was very rich This news did convey so extreme a grief to the heart of poor Rolandine that being unable to endure it she fell grievously sick Those who understood the occasion did acquaint her that since she perceived the great inconstancy of the Bastard she might now justly abandon him and did the uttermost they could to perswade her to it but notwithstanding she was thus tormented to the last they could find no means to make her change her resolution And in this last temptation to the great commendation of her virtue she did manifest the absolute love which she did bear him For as love did diminish on his side so it did increase on hers and did continue firm when he had no intire nor perfect love for love which failed on his side did turn on her side and when she knew that the love was intire in her alone which before was divided betwixt them both she resolved to preserve it to her death both for him and her self Wherefore the Divine bounty who is perfect charity and true love had pity on her griefs and did regard her patience insomuch that after a few days the Bastard dyed in pursute of another woman she being well advertised of his death by those who saw him laid in the earth did send unto her Father to beseech him that he would be pleased to come unto her who having not spoken to her since the time of her imprisonment did immediatly repair unto her and having all along understood

themselves The Gentleman demanded of her wherefore she did laugh so and desired her that she would make him a partaker of her joy She made answer to him Sweet-heart I am such a fool that I laugh at my own shade and for all the intreaties he could make or use he could never get any other answer from her This is that story which you did cause me to remember when you made mention of that great Lady who loved the Sweet-heart of her Husband In good troth said Emarsuite If my Chambermaid should have served me so I would have rose and stung the Candle in her face You speak too terribly said Hircan but what would you think if your Husband and the Chambermaid should have set themselves against you and should have beaten you soundly for you should make no reckoning of a kisse Howsoever his wife might have done better to have made no noise at all but have let them take their recreation together It might peradventure have cured him of his Malady No said Parlament she was afraid that the end of that Recreation would have made him more weak than he was before She was none of those said Oysilla of whom our Saviour speaks We have made our lamentation unto you but you have not weeped We have sung but you have not danced for when her Husband was sick she wept and when he was joyful she laughed And so all women of worth and honour ought to partake both of the Good and of the Evil and the joys and the sorrows of their Husbands and to love obey and serve them as the Church doth Jesus Christ It were requisite then said Parlament that our Husbands were to us as Jesus Christ is towards his Church So we are said Saffredant and if it were possible we would endure as much for Jesus Christ died but once for his Church and we die every day for our Wives Die said Longaren In my opinion you and the other good Husbands who are here do not look as if you were such dying men I can give you a reason for that said Saffredant It is because our Valour is tryed which our shoulders do feel having so often born the Corslet If you were put to it said Emarsuite to wear arms but one moneth and to lie on the cold and the hard Ground you would have a good desire to return to the beds of your own wives and to make much of that of which you do now complain But I have heard it spoken that all things can be endured but ease and we know not what Repose is until we have lost it The good Woman said Oysilla who laughed when her Husband was joyous had much to do I warrant her to go thorough with it I do believe said Longaren that she loved her own ease better than she loved her Husband for it seemeth she took not any thing to heart whatsoever he did No for with a good heart she took that said Parlament which might have been prejudicial to the health and the Conscience of her Husband When you speak in this place of Conscience said Simontault you do make me laugh for he would not have done what he did if he thought his wife would have taken it to heart and I do not see which way the Conscience can be much prejudiced for a kisse It would not be amisse said Nomerfide that you had such a wife as he had who after her Husbands death did manifest that she loved his Money better than her Conscience I do desire you said Saffredant that you would rehearse unto us that Novel for which I do give you my voice I did not determine said Nomerfide to account unto you so short a History but because it hath relation to the subject on which we have discoursed I will recite it to you The Subtilty of a Spanish woman to defraud the Friers of the last Testament of her Husband The fifth Novel IN the City of Saragossa there lived a Merchant who seeing his death to approach and that he could no longer keep the Goods which he had gotten it may be with a bad Conscience he thought to satisfie his sin by giving away all to the poor without any regard that after his decease his Wife and his Children should die with hunger and when he had ordered all things in his House he said it was his last Will that a good Spanish Jennet which he had and was indeed all his goods that were worth any thing should be sold at the greatest rate that could be and that the Money should be distributed unto the begging Friers desiring his Wife that when ever the breath were out of his Body she would not fail to sell the Horse and distribute the Money according to his Will The burial being past and the first tears wept his Wife who was no more a fool than the Spaniards are accustomed to be did repair unto her Servant who as well as her self did understand the last Will of her Husband and said unto him It seems to me that I have lost too much already in losing my Hushand whom so much I loved without losing any more of my goods but so it is that I would not be disobedient to his charge but doe the best I can to satisfie his will according to his intention For the poor Man who in his life as you know well enough would not so much as spare one Crown for the greatest necessity hath after his death given a round sum to the poor Friers thinking it to be a Sacrifice that will be acceptable to God wherefore I am advised to doe that which at his death he did bequeath and which is more than he could give himself if he had lived but fifteen days longer and by so doing I will provide for the necessities of my Children But I must so carry it that none in the World shall know any thing of it And when her Servant had faithfully promised to keep secret what was to be done she said unto him You must go sell his Horse and if any shall ask you what is the price of it you shall say one Ducket but I have a good Cat an excellent Mouser which you shall sell let me see I for ninety nine Duckets and so the Cat and the Horse shall make in all just one hundred Duckets at which price my Husband would have sold the Horse alone The Servant did readily accomplish the commands of his Mistresse and walked the Horse up and down the Market holding the demure Cat under his arms A Gentleman who had seen the Horse before and had a great mind to buy him passing that way demanded of the Servant at one word to give him the price of him The Servant made answer one Ducket Do not mock me honest friend said the Gentleman I assure you Sir said the Servant you shall give me for it one Ducket and no more But Sir I must tell you that you must buy the Cat with it

who brought you to this place The poor Nun who did not know her did make answer Woe is me my friend my misfortune is so great that I have no recourse but unto God only whom I doe beseech to vouchsafe unto me the means that I may speak to Madam the Dutchesse of Alençon for to her alone will I declare my business being confident that if there be any redress for such a miserable Creature as my self she will grant it to me Friend said the Dutchess to her you may speak as confidently unto me as unto her I am one of her gratest friends Pardon me said the Nun none but her self only shall understand my secret Whereupon the Dutchesse said unto her that she might speak freely for she had found her whom she demanded The poor Nun did prostrate her self at her feet and having wept a long time she gave her the whole account of what already I have expressed unto you whereupon the Dutchesse did comfort her so well that exhorting her to repentance for her misdeed she took from her quite the resolution of going to Rome and sent her back to the Prioresse with a strict charge to entertain her and with Letters to the Bishop of that place to take order for the expulsion of that scandalous Monk who having abused the Body of the Nun did afterwards most petulantly upbraid her and caused her to depart the Covent I received this Acount from the Dutchesse her self by which Ladies you may understand that the Rule of Nomerfide is not proper to all sorts of Persons for these two both touching aed burying the dead were neverthelesse at the same time touched and overcome with infirmities This was an invention said Hircan which I believe was never practised before to speak of death and at the same instant to do the works of life It is not said Oysilla any work of life to sin for we all know well enough that sin produceth death You may believe said Sassredant that at that time neither the Monk nor the Nun had the least thought of that Divinity but as the Daughters of Lot having made their Father drunk did think by that means to preserve human Nature so this Monk and the Nun would repair that which death had destroyed by making of a new Body Therefore I cannot but reflect again upon the tears of tho Nun who always wept and always returned to the cause of her weeping I have seen too many of those said Hircan who at the same time bewailed their sins and yet kept their pleasures I do much doubt said Parlament by whom you do speak those words wherefore it seems to me that their laughter hath lasted long enough it would be now time that weeping should begin Hold your peace said Hircan The Tragedy is not yet finished which doth begin with laughter But to change the Subject of our discourse said Parlament it seems to me that Dagoucin hath wandred from our first determination which was that the Accounts of this day should be all pleasant and this hath been a sad one You made a motion said Dagoucin that we should not forget to give an Account of the greatest follies and in that I am sure I have not failed but to hear one that is more pleasant I do give my voice to Nomerfide hoping that she will mend my fault She made answer I have an Account ready for you and one which is worthy to follow yours for it speaks of Religious persons and of death also Give ear unto it if you please The End of the Accounts of the Novels of the late Queen of Navarr which are all that can be recovered of them A Table of the Summary of the Novells of the Queen of Navarre The first Journal AN Advocats Wife of Alençon had two Friends one of them for pleasure and the other for profit she caused that man of her two Lovers to be slain who first discovered her wanton life for which murder she begged pardon both for her self and for her sagitive Husband who afterwards to save a sum of money did repair to a Negromancer and their Enterprize was discovered and punished Novel 1. Fol. 1. The chast and lamentable Death of the Wife of one of the Mule-keepers of the Queen of Navarre Nov. 2. f. 11. A King of Naples abusing the Wife of a young Gentlewoman did at last wear the horn himself Nov. 3. f. 15. The rash Enterprise of a Gentleman to incounter with a Princess and the shame and disgrace which he received Nov. 4. f. 22. A Ferry-woman escaped from two Friers who would have forced her and did deport her self so wisely that their sinne was discovered to all the world Nov. 5. f. 30. The subtilty of a woman who shewed her friend a way to escape when her Husband who had but one eye thought to have surprized them Nov. 6. f. 34. A Merchant of Paris deceived the Mother of his Sweet-heart to conceal their fault Nov. 7. f. 37. A certain man having lain with his own Wife instead of his Chambermaid did send his Neighbour to her who made him a Cuckold without his Wives knowledge Nov. 8. f. 40. The sad death of a Gentleman in love having received comfort too late from her whom he loved Nov. 9. f. 47. The Loves of Amadour and Florinda in which are contained many subtilties and Inventions and the most commendable chastity of Florinda Nov. 10. f. 52. The Second Journal The petulant Discourses of a Frier in his Easter-Sermons at Amboise Nov. 1. f. 93. The Incontinence of a Duke and his Impudence to arrive at his Designs with his just punishment Nov. 2. f. 97. A Captain of the Galleys under the shaddow of Devotion did fall in love with a Lady and what insued thereon Nov. 3. f. 106. The subtilty of a Lover who under the pretence of the right Friend did reap from a Lady of Millan the fruits of what so long he had desired Nov. 4. f. 117. A Lady of the Court seeing her self disdained by her Husband who made love elsewhere did revenge her self by the like practice Nov. 5. f. 125. A Lady of Millan approved the Courage and the Resolution of her Friend whereupon she afterwards loved him with all her heart Nov. 6. f. 141. King Francis shewed his generous resolution to Count William who would have killed the King Nov. 7. f. 148. A fair young Lady made tryal of the fidelity of a young Scholar before she would admit him to intrench too farr upon her honour Nov. 8. f. 152. Two Lovers despairing to be marryed did enter themselves into two Religions houses the Man into a Covent of Saint Francis and the Female into the Nunnery of Saint Clare Nov. 9. f. 159. A Gentleman suddenly cured of the malady of Love finding his rigorous Lady in the arms of her Horseman Nov. 10. f. 169. The Third Journal The wonderful and honest love betwixt a Lady of honourable birth and a Bastard and the check which the