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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57801	The royal wanton containing the Gallick intriegues [sic], with Lycogenes (late King of Albion) his expedition for Hibernia: being the second volume of the Amours of Messalina, with Polydorus, K. of the Goths. Compleating the whole history. By a woman of quality, a late confidant of Queen Messalina.; Amours of Messalina late Queen of Albion. Part 5.	Woman of quality, fl. 1689-1690.; Leti, Gregorio, 1630-1701, attributed name.	1690 (1690)	Wing R2158A; ESTC R220866	52,428	91

upon which therefore she restores him resolving to count all her tedious widowed minutes in Polydorus absence by no other Hand of Time but his own And if in his own gay hours in her absence be would honour hers with the same use it would be no little pleasure to her to think that when his Eye should sometimes be cast upon it it might now and then at an idler minute be his remembrancer of Messalina Polydorus flying into her Arms and printing his Soul upon her Lips made answer Yes Madam your Watch your Picture and your Eternal Charms shall all be my Remembrances But I have almost forgot my kind and generous Tomazo my honest Engineer in this Affair At which calling to one of his Attending Lords in the Drawing-Room he ordered him the Payment of Twenty Thousand Crowns to the Marchioness of Tomazo a Present which made her smile and for which she returned no small Compliment To conclude their present interview all parties are so well satisfied more especially our over-joyed Polydorus that he humbly besought her private Company in her Closet at Vesper-time to which the Queen kindly answered That all her hours are at his Service when her whole Life must be so After a parting Embrace and a sealing Kiss the King takes his Leave Well says Tomazo to the Queen as soon as the Kings Back was turned Never was a pack of ill Cards so luckily play'd out as this Nights Adventures Twenty Thousand Crowns for a Pair of Breeches so neatly lined with sham In troth would I had put the Doublet upon him too for half such another Sum. Well Madam to your everlasting Honour be it spoken never was Credulous Monarch so over-reacht Whilest this Harangue between the Queen and Tomazo went on Sanctifiore increased their Company who by his spies abroad having Learned the Kings motions was greedily come to inquire his Fate from his fair Oracle The Queen with an open All Hail gives him Joy of his Mareschal-Sraff and briefly recounts the whole Scene betwixt the King and her self Sanctifiore was not a little delighted with a turn of Affairs so beyond all Expectations himself so strangely mounted to the top of Fortunes-Wheel by an Accident that in all reasonable appearance rather threatned his utter Destruction and therefore first in all the tenderest Expressions he Congratulated the miraculous Deliverance of the Queens Honour and then was falling at her Feet as the sole Foundress of his Happiness to thank her for that endearing Character she had been so Generously pleased to give of him and to which alone he owed the whole Exaltation to his present glorious Preferment which the Queen would no ways permit telling him very gaily that Polydorus tho' ignorantly had done no more than Justice and the Mareschals-staff he had given was but in Honourable amends for the Nights Joys he had robb'd him of Nay truly in amends for her losses too the intollerable tedious Nights Pennance he had made her undergo there being certainly no dissimulation so irksome and uneasy as playing the Hypocrite in Love between a pair of Sheets especially her dearer Sanctifiore the rightful Lord of the Night lying so near yet under so fevere a Bill of Exclusion The Baron was returning a compliment for all these obliging Expressions of Messalina but the Queen would not suffer the hearing it telling him that his immediate assiduous Attendance on Polydorus was his present Duty for his Commission would be Sealed to night bidding him make haste accordingly only desiring him to take this one consideration with him that as she was engaged in an Amour with Polydorus he would seriously reflect on the great difference betwixt an Amour of Interest and an Amour of Choice and Election the first only the gratification of our Pride and our Vanity but the Last the pleasure of our Arms and our Souls The Baron was going to Reply when the Queen waved her Hand to hasten him to Polydorus However the Baron remembring a Command from Aspasia begs Pardon for three or four words from Aspasia who was under some trouble in mind and humbly besought her Majesty to Honour her with a walk in the Garden about half an hour before Vespers where she might fall at her Feet and unbosom her Griefs to her Royal Mrs. And so he takes his leave The Queen much concerned at any thing that should disturb the Peace of her dear Aspasia was impatient till the Evening drew on that she might receive the knowledge of her Pain in hopes of lending her ministring help to the Cure of it The hour is come and the Queen meets Aspasia who indeed appears with Countenance as had not much tasted of sleep last Night the very Aspect and Air of her Face being much changed from that natural Gayety that before was used to sit so lively and so lovely there Why hownow says the Queen What sad my dear Aspasia What sawcy sorrow dares invade those Eyes Can any thing of Trouble uncalm thy Rest or ruffle thy Brow whilest thou art in a Court where Honour waits thee at least whilst I have any there my dear Aspasia shall share it Ah too Generous Madam Replied Aspasia Your Majesty cannot guess my Load of Griefs nor can I find a Tongue to utter them so much my guilty shame confounds me Fye Aspasia answers the Queen Now you distrust my Friendship Can thy Heart hold a murmur or a sigh and Messalina 's be a stranger to it Ah Madam Replies Aspasia But am I such a Criminal against that Friendship Yet since my Crime must come before my Royal Judge and stand your just Tribunal Know that the King the Great the Glorious the most Pagan Polydorus did me the Honour of a Visit last Night in so much State and Grandeur It was no more that what he owed thee answered Messalina both as Latroon 's Lady and Messalina 's Friend But my Aspasia where 's the guilty shame in this Ah Madam says Aspasia The criminal Part 's to come What cryes Messalina Did he make Love to thee Love to me Madam answered Aspasia When so fair a Deity fills up his Heaven Messalina Didst thou make Love to him then Aspasia Make Love to him No were he Greater than he is all the Caesars and Alexanders put together I think I know my natural Pride too well and far above so poor a weakness Well then Aspasia says the Queen without mincing the matter thou art e'en after all faln in Love with Polydorus Oh Madam replied Aspasia After that Confession that criminal Confession how can your Royal Eye vouchsafe to look upon so black and so ungrateful a Creature or suffer the vile Wretch to appear before you Look upon thee my Aspasia says the Queen Yes and hug thee kiss thee love thee as kind as close as warm as ever View thee all o're as fair and lovely as ever thou wert Pray what has made the change Aspasia could hardly forbear falling at her Feet at this obliging answer

obey her Commands to have the fairer opportunity of quitting the Field with Honor and as dark as it was made a shift to dress him in his Dishabilee the Queen begging Excuse that Tomazo was not called to strike a Light least the blaze of a new lighted Candle at that unseasonable hour in her own Bed-Chamber might occasion matter of curiosity to any accidental wakeing Eye near it The King after a Hundred Protestations and Vows of Eternal Love and Fidelity by the help of Tomazo who unlocks the Door for him retires to his Chair and so home to his Bed his little sleep-truly and much exercise of his riffled Spirits all Night inviting him to a heartier Mornings slumber than ordinary The King is no sooner departed but the Queen prepared for twenty little amorous Excuses to her Sanctifiore for her unfortunate Amour with Polydorus by her summons likewise the Baron begins to dress himself but immediately upon search for his Cloathes amongst all his other Rigging he misses his Breeches which upon sudden re-collection must either be unluckily left behind upon the Queens Couch by her Bed-side in the hurry of their removal or else dropt in the passage by by the way Instant inquiry is thereupon made when to his no little surprize and confusion he finds the Kings Breeches dropt behind the Couch and his own very fairly marcht off with by the King in their stead What sudden out-cry on all Hands this fatal mistake had raised may well be imagined As for Tomazo she was almost thunder-struck to think not only the First in the delivery of the Queens Letter but also this last more fatal Errour lay wholly at her Door that in her accursed over-haste she should so unfortunately drop the Barons Breeches from out the rest of his Cloathes and the King so unluckily to meet with them The first shock of their fright was such that except ruin'd betray'd undone or some other such short Raptures to the same tune they could hardly get out one reasonable word But at last a little consideration being thought seasonable they begin to examine the inside and outside marks of Both the Breeches to see if there were any shaddow of hopes that the King going home to Bed might not possibly discover the mistake As for the Breeches themselves it fell out so that they were both Velvet the Kings only Crimson and the Barons Scarlet In the Kings pockets were only a few pieces of Gold and a Gold Watch with a Seal cut in a Ruby tied to the Chain of it and a snutch-Box But the Baron in the discovery of his pockets tells the Queen T is true he had a Gold Watch in his too and some small matter of Money but then here came the misery his Commission was in his pocket plain demonstration in the case that would infallibly rise up in Judgment against him and besides that very Jewel that he valued above his Life her Majesties Picture set in Diamonds presented to him as a mark of her First Favours which he had ever about him Alas Replied the Queen That foolish Trifle is not worth your thought that loss might be Repaired besides my dear Sanctifiore has so much Interest in the substance that the loss of the shaddow should not afflict him But oh this accursed Commission That fatal Paper points out my dear Sanctifiore a certain Victim to the Bloody Rage of Polydorus At this last Apprehension she could not forbear bursting out into a torrent of Tears which wrought a very tender Impression in the Baron Having at last retrieved Reason enough from an hundred passionate Expressions in concern for her Barons danger upon farther debate upon this accident they considered possibly the King might go to Bed without taking Cognizance of the colour of his Breeches and also have no occasion of searching his pockets to make any discovery by the Inside Intelligence and more than that the Master of his Ward-robe might lay out other Cloaths for his next dressing But alas what signified that for though indeed all the Money found in 'em goes to a Fee both the Watch the Picture and the Commission would certainly as customary be put into the pockets of whatever Breeches he should next wear so that either way the Kings surprize at finding all those things about him would lead him into a thousand Imaginations but none of 'em either to Messalina's Honour or to Sanctifiore's Safety What to do or which way to turn themselves in this unhappy Labyrinth they cannot tell However 't is resolved between them that Sanctifiore should immediately withdraw lest the King might return and surprize him there and not go to his own but Aspasia's Lodgings to be out of harms way till such time she had felt the Kings Pulse For as sooner or later the King must find those things undoubtedly his Curiosity whatever his Resentments were would soon bring him to the Queen and if so possibly Womans wit which yet never fail'd her would so far friend her as to save all For as 't was impossible for her to know the Kings particular Sentiments till she saw him so all stirring in the matter before then might rather create Jealousies than allay them Besides she had so much confidence in her own assurance that her blushes should not betray her Guilt and whatever humour she found him in she was resolved to look so unconcern'd and wear such perfect Innocence in her Face and her behaviour as well managed might make for both their Safety Accordingly Sanctifiore with two or three deep sighes of his own and as many of the Queens and a wet Eye too into the bargain takes his leave submitting the whole disposal of his Destiny to no other Guardian-Angel than Messalina But to return to our Polydorus whose Contemplations at his parting with Messalina had rapt him much above the consideration of what colour his Breeches were of it goes so fair for us that he 's at present in Bed heartily sleeping and no part of any discoveries yet made And being to give Audience about Eleven a Clock this Morning to an Embassadour Extraordinary from the Grand Seigniour a very Rich Embroidered Suite for the State of the Day is ready for his wearing Polydorus being got up and drest no sooner than just time enough for the appointed hour of Audience in the middle of the Embassadours Speech putting his hand in his pocket for his Snutch-Box he lights upon a Gold Box which opening he finds the Contents much Richer than the outside viz. the Queen of Albions Picture set in Diamonds The sight of so dazling a Jewel striking so sudden upon him and so unexpected appeared a meer Vision to him The Darts that attended even but the shaddow of his adored Messalina gave him a touch so near his heart that he could not but conceive an infinite Pleasure at so charming a miniature of the beauties of his Albion Divinity But how came he by it so inestimable a Jewel in his