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Tudor, Prince of Wales an historical novel : in two parts.; Tideric, prince de Galles. English. 1678
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Curli, de.
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of Burgundy because they found it to their advantage and I have renounced the friendship of my Husband and the duty that I owed my self only that I might follow his person I know Madam replied Tudor that the Duke is obliged to you but I am likewise assured that he is not wanting in his acknowledgments and if you came to a clearing you would be the first to confess that you have taken the Allarm without ground Only make a Trial continued he if I speak Truth and you will see that you shall have no sooner made one step but that the Duke shall make another How answered Madam de Giack must I advance first then Really Prince hitherto I took you for my friend but I know not what to think on 't now and you give me a Counsel that makes me doubt of it extreamly I have told you Madam replied the Prince coldly what I would do if I were in your place you know that those who would entertain a Commerce together must condescend and accommodate themselves to humours You know the Duke of Burgundy well enough not to be ignorant that he can hardly yield when he thinks he has no reason he is perswaded that you are in the wrong on this occasion and that it is your part to redress it How cruel a thing it is to be in Love answered Madam de Giack and must our Wills be forced for a few pleasures which consist only in Fancie Well then Prince I must believe you and shall disown nothing which you shall tell the Duke in my name as you are together upon your Journey That is not enough replied Tudor you should write to him a Lover believes not always all that his friend tells him of his Mistress and in the matter of Janglings every thing that comes that way is suspected he often imagines that his friend would disguise his misfortune and all the circumstances that can be alleadged if not backed by a Letter perswade him far more of the friendship of him that speaks than of the sincerity of her that puts him into despair You desire too much Prince said Madam de Giack and that I may use your own words condescend to people and consider that it is enough on a Ladies part to do as I do I grant it answered Tudor but seeing you have already won so much ground upon your self boggle not at the rest Madam which is but a trifle and give that satisfaction to the Duke of Burgundy who adores you There need no more words Prince replied Madam de Giack and you should require no more of your friends they have done enough if people be reasonable and it is according to their conduct alone that they may expect other marks of my complaisance Tudor made some more attempts to bring her to what he desired but seeing all was to no purpose he took his leave of her praying her to consider seriously what he had said He was no sooner out of her House but that she began to muse upon it and quickly repented her haughtiness thinking with her self that Princes expect not to be treated as those that are inferiour to them and that there are no Intrigues to be managed with such persons unless one have a design to be subjected to a thousand little things which may be avoided in other engagements These thoughts had greater influence upon her mind than all the Conversation that she had had with Tudor she called for Paper and Ink and had already closed her Letter when the Gentleman of that Princes Horses hearing that his Master was at her House came to inquire for him Madam de Giack by chance looked out at the Window at that very instant she asked who the Gentleman was and being informed that he belonged to Tudor she gave orders to invite him up and it being her desire that the Prince might have the Letter she gave it to the Gentleman to be delivered to him He presently returned to his Masters Lodgings and not finding him there he thought he might hear News of him at the Princess apartment he found her just going to take Coach and was about to retire again when she knowing him to be one of Tudors retinue and having percieved that he looked for some body caused him to be called and asked him who he desired to speak with The Gentleman frankly confest that he had somewhat to say to his Master and a Letter for him from Madam de Giack These last words pierced the Princess to the Heart she found at that minute all the jealousie which that Lady had formerly occasioned her revived a fresh and being desirous to know if she had good ground for it or not Leave that Letter with me said she to the Gentleman Tudor is not here he is just now gone with the Duke of Burgundy but I shall take care that the Letter be sent to him by a Post who is to be dispatched to them by and by There it is Madam said the Gentleman putting it into her hand it will ease me of a great trouble seeing I could not carry it my self without delaying a Journey that he has ordered me to make about his Affairs The Princess gave no signs of that which troubled her mind she would not so much as return into her Chamber least that Letter should give occasion of some suspicion but having performed a short Devotion in the Church whither she was going she returned to her Lodgings And as soon as she was come shut her self up in her Closet where she took the fatal Letter out of her Pocket and having opened it found it conceived in these terms THE LETTER OF Madam de Giack TO THE DUKE OF BURGUNDY IF extream jealousie be a sign of an infinite Love nothing certainly can come near my passion but who can arm themselves against suspicion when they have as much ground for it as you have given me and what Lady could forgive the pretensions you make to another pretend not to reassure me by reasons of Policy wherewith you have already endeavoured to satisfie me that is not current Coyn with a Lover so sharp sighted as I am The End of the First Part. TUDOR A PRINCE of WALES An Historical Novel The Second Part. THat Letter which had no direction had almost killed the tender and affectionate Princess with grief She made no doubt but that it was addressed to Tudor and lying under the lashes of Jealousie How Traitour cried she immediately is this the way that you repay the sincere friendship that I had for you and were the Testimonies of Love which with so much solicitude you gave me but Artifices then to impose upon me with greater severity Are these Villain the effects of the promises you have made to me and what is become of the Oaths which in this I thought so pleasant that they gave me the Assurances of a constant and perpetual Love I ask not of you unthankful Man added she that you should have
you blame me if I take it ill to see you entertain commerce with two Women at one and the same time and may not I be as nice as you are Ah! Madam answered the Prince are you afraid that the Wound you have given me is not dangerous enough unless you open it afresh I have already told you that I should never have waited on Madam de Giack but by your order and if you had not as well as I thought it convenient for our Affairs it should never have entered into my thoughts to have rendered her a Visit But since upon so weak a pretext as that you take occasion to break up with people you shall Judge by the Consequences what concerns I had with that Lady I desire not to break with you replied immediately the Princess and so far from wishing you were guilty I shall never have greater Joy than to find you innocent They told one another besides a Thousand tender and passionate things but at length came to an Accommodation and parted afterward in as good intelligence as ever they were However the Prince would not Visit any more the Lady who had been the cause of their falling out and he refused so long to do it that it seemed he foresaw the mischief which he was to meet with on her account But the Princess began quickly to regret that she had broken a commerce which was so necessary to their designs She was the first that prayed Tudor to renew it and it was only for fear of another misunderstanding that the Prince condescended to Visit Madam de Giack again Two dayes after he rendered her a Visit and needed not much time to regain the place that he had had in her esteem She reposed even greater confidence in him than she had ever done before and seeing he had concealed nothing from her of what most affected his Heart She resolved to do the like with him and imparted to him the secret Love that she had for the Duke of Burgundy Tudor was ravished to be intrusted with that secret and believed it might prove a means to oblige these two Lovers to concern themselves the more in his Affairs He did them many times great Services in some little Janglings they had together and the Duke of Burgundy to repay his friends kindness had a special care also to do him good offices with Catharine and took all occasions to perswade the Princess that he would employ all his power that nothing might be done to the prejudice of their Love They lived all with content enough when that accursed passion which had already wrought so much trouble to our Lovers compleatly ruined their hopes Madam de Giack was passionately in Love with the Duke and as it is the property of Jealousie to take Umbrage at every thing That Lady believed that this Prince had a Passion for the Countess of Foix and she interpreted the marks of Civility which he rendered her to be Testimonies of Affection She began even to think him indifferent as to her and it cannot be expressed what havock these thoughts made in her Soul She fell at length into a furious Jealousie and thinking that the Duke ought to sacrifice all things to her she carried towards him with so much haughtiness that having taken him up very briskly on several occasions the unhappy Lover was fain to leave off visiting her without being ever able to know the cause of his misfortune Tudor was no sooner acquainted with these transactions but that he laboured earnestly to reconcile them but he found all things so festered on both sides that when he spake of it to the Duke he could draw no other reason from him but that Madam de Giack was an ungrateful Lady nor had he better success with that Lady for all the answer she gave him was that he knew not his friend and that he was a very Traitor He endeavoured to mitigate her anger but without effect and was obliged to retire without other information but that he knew them to be at extream variance However he was not much surprised at all this and being acquainted with the ways of Lovers he thought that a few dayes would make them friends again and that all that was to be done was to give them time that themselves might rub up again the affection that they had mutually for each other He failed not to visit them daily but spoke not a word to them of their Quarrels believing that an interview would be more proper to reconcile them than all that he could say In the mean time matters continued as they were and Tudor beginning to be apprehensive that their differences might prove harder to be adjusted than he had imagined thought it not fit to suffer these Lovers to accustom themselves to Indifference and took the resolution the sooner because he knew that the Duke and he were that very day to depart upon a little Journey He went to Madam de Giack and accosting her with a Countenance full of heaviness And why Madam said he will you still keep your friends in so much trouble and though you had no esteem for them can you see a Prince whom your cruelty brings to despair suffer any longer The Duke of Burgundy is no more himself and it is to no purpose for him to affect a counterfit Serenity all the Sentiments of his Heart are to be seen through his constraints and it is no hard matter to Judge that he can have no content in his Life if you take not quickly other measures with him You are mistaken Sir answered Madam de Giack the Duke is not so passionate as you think Observe if after that he hath cruelly offended me he hath made the least step to appease my anger and what would you say if you were in the place of a Lover who upon the point of haughtiness should find that one stood it out with you I would say Madam replied Tudor that such a Lover were passionately in Love with me and being out of all patience that I should have wrongfully accused him he was unwilling to come to Justifications which are an usual sign of guilt You lose time Sir answered Madam de Giack and what pains soever you take to excuse your friend you shall never perswade me that he Loves me seeing after that he gave me his promise to see Madam de Foix no more he still continues his pretensions to her with greater assiduity than ever Ah! Madam replied Tudor is that all the hurt that the Duke has done you how can you think that he can deny the civilities which the quality of Madam de Foix requires and is not he also obliged to that upon the account that that Ladies Husband has alwaies stuck to his interests And does he owe nothing to me answered Madam de Giack and which of the two Houses that of Foix or mine hath done most for him Monsieur and Madam de Foix added she have adhered to the Duke