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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31737	The Character of love guided by inclination, instanced in two true histories / translated out of French.		1686 (1686)	Wing C2020; ESTC R32589	50,690	135

Suspicions of the Great ones and quieted the minds of the Conspirators The Princes of Bourbon and the Constable being called to the States by the King 's Writ promised to go but prolonged the time by false pretences and frivolous excuses the King making them be prest by the Count de Crussol and the Marshal de St. André and especially by the Marshal de Termes who raised an Army and threatned he would make them obey by force of Arms the resolution which they had taken to believe only their own Judgment which continually filled them with invincible distrusts is at last shaken The Cardinal of Bourbon a Prince who was a Friend to Peace and a mortal Enemy of Factions and Novelties having at length gained them the King of Navarr and the Prince of Bourbon depart from Bearn and come to Orleans where the States were assembled There are immediately new … ards put upon the King of Navarr to be secure of him and the Prince of Conde is arrested and condemned to lose his Life What were the Alarms of Octavius and Henrietta to see the Heads of their Party in the hands of their Enemies and in Dangers that were inevitable but also what was the joy which succeeded these cruel Afflictions when the sudden Death of Francis the 2 d. restored liberty to the Prince of Conde safety to the King of Navarr and hopes to all those of their Party In the Conjuncture of so favourable a Revolution Octavius presses his Marriage the Parents Consent and all was disposed for the satisfaction of our two Lovers when the accomplishment of it was suspended by the Impatience of the Princes who now thought of nothing but their Interest which was without delay to make a good use of so advantagious an opportunity and to seize immediately upon the Power of the Government The King of Navarr sends the Father of Octavius to the Constable who was absent to stir up his diligence and to hasten the helps which he expected from the stability and wisdom of his Councels On the other side the Prince of Conde burning with the desire of revenging himself and making use in order thereto of the Hugonot Faction which was stirring almost in all Parts of the Kingdom sends the Father of Henrietta to the chiefest of the Party to keep up their heat and to make it break out upon occasion Things being in this condition imagine if you can the Trouble Octavius and Henrietta were in whose tender minds afflicted by the present Disorders were yet more so by the Fears of a more terrible futurity What said they to each other must the fate of our Love follow the Revolutions of State and must our happiness depend upon a calm which so many different Interests render almost impossible The Jealousie of two powerful Factions the Ambition of the Queen who was resolved to preserve a Soveraignty and an Independance in her Government of the King and Kingdom the just pretensions of the Princes of Bourbon who by the priviledges of their Blood ought to have the greatest share in the administration of Affairs during the King's Minority the credit of the House of Lorrain whom a long possession of the principal Dignities of the State had made more obstinate to preserve the haughtiness of the Duke of Guise who knew himself to have a greatness of mind so proper for Command the couragious vertue of the Constable who without intermission used all his Endeavours for the publick good without suffering himself to be corrupted by the Friendship he owed to the Princes of the Blood his Allies nor by the Hatred which he bare to the Princes of Lorrain his Rivals and his declared Enemies Add to this the zeal for the Protestant Religion How many Obstacles said the sorrowful Henrietta in that languishing tone which rendred her voice so sweet and tender how many Obstacles said she do oppose this Calm so much wished for which contributing so much to the safety of the State ought to be the height of our Wishes Do our Parents serve the Princes with so much passion that they cannot be allowed to give themselves a moment of rest to accomplish our Happiness But why added she should we complain of our Fate Is it not enough for us that Heaven has poured into our hearts that perfect harmony which makes the happiness of Lovers Oh Madam cried out Octavius do you count the possession of that which one loves nothing and does there want any thing towards that conformity of thoughts and desires which ought to be between us to answer to this mutual inclination Let us equally wish for what may render us equally happy All that comforts us is to see that the Disorders of the State which retard our Happiness cannot separate us asunder because my Father and yours are of the same Party my Father belonging to the King of Navarr yours to the Prince of Conde for who can ever separate two Brothers united with so many Tyes of Blood Friendship and Honour Whilst our Lovers flatter'd themselves thus the Prince of Conde who could not remain in a quiet condition whilst he saw himself kept at a distance from the Place which he thought belonged to him by the right of his Birth and the greatness of his Courage seeing himself seconded by Admiral Chastillon made himself Protector of the Hugonots whose Number and Power increased daily This Prince being bred up in the Doctrine of Calvin and full of that Spirit of Independency and Rebellion which animates his Followers endeavours in vain to get to his Party the Constable and the King of Navarr The first being fixt in the Religion of the State and of his Ancestors who bragged of their being the first Christians hearkned to nothing against his Duty the other whose unsteady Belief was at last fixt in that of the Roman Catholicks condemns aloud that which the Church of Rome has condemned and takes her Part. Queen Jane his Wife endeavoured to make him change his Resolution but he judged that for a Prince who might pretend to the Crown the Religion of our Kings was the easiest way to it This resolution of the King of Navar which united him with the Duke of Guise and the Constable although it was grounded upon plausible reasons and pretences did notwithstanding astonish all the World surprise the Politicks of our Courtiers throw confusion into the Hugonot Party and indignation into the mind of the Prince of Conde and especially struck the hearts of Octavius and Henrietta with the most mortal stroak that they could ever receive They immediately saw that their Separation must necessarily follow the Division of the two Brothers In effect Gaston Father to Henrietta who though bred up a Roman● Catholick yet had no other Religion but that of his Master or rather that which suited best with his Ambition a man full of the Spirit and Character of his Party that is to say fiery and impetuous thinks immediately of withdrawing his Daughter out