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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