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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

unto us for our nobleness or our riches but according to the pleasure of his Bounty who is no accepter of persons and who chooseth whom he pleaseth For those whom he chooseth he doth honour with his virtues and doth crown them with his glory and oftentimes he maketh choice of base things to confound those which the world esteems to be high and honourable Therefore as he himself saith let us not rejoice in our greatness but in this that our Names are written in the Book of Life There was not a Lady in the Company that had not tears in her eyes in compassion of the lamentable and glorious Death of that poor Woman Every one resolved with themselves that if the like fortune should befall them they would imitate the same Martyr Madam Oysilla observing that the Time did passe away in the many praises of this dead Woman did say to Saffredant If you speak not something to make the Company laugh I do not see any amongst you who can forget the fault I have committed which is to make you weep Wherefore I give you my voice Saffredant had a desire to speak some good thing which might be agreeable to the Company and above all to one of them how soever some wrong was done in regard that there were some more antient and more experienced than himself who should have spoke before him Nevertheless his lot being such he had rather dispatch it now for there were more to come of good speakers and the longer he stayed the more his Account would appear lesse pleasing A King of Naples abusing the Wife of a Gentleman did in the end carry the Horn himself The Third Novell LAdies said Sassredant Because I have oftentimes wished my self to be a companion of his Fortune of whom I am now giving you an account I shall tell you That in the City of Naples in the time of King Alphonsus whose Lust was the Scepter of his Realm there was a Gentleman so gallant goodly and attractive that for his perfections an antient Gentleman gave him his Daughter in Marriage which in Beauty and sweetnesse of Disposition was nothing inferiour to her Husband The Love between these two was great untill that wanton time when the King in a Masque did go amongst the Houses of the Great Ones of his Kingdom where every one did strive to give him the greatest entertainment that they could and when he came into the house of this Gentleman he was more magnificently received than in any other place as well by Collations as by Songs and Musick and by the most beautifull Lady that ever he beheld who at the end of the Feast did bear a part in a Song with her Husband which she did with so much grace that it did encrease her beauty The King beholding two perfections in one body took not so much pleasure at the mutuall according of the Husband and the Wife as he took care how to dissolve it He found the difficulty to perform it was in the united affection which he observ'd betwixt them Therefore he carried in his heart his passion as closely as possibly he could but to comfort it in part he made many Feasts to all the Lords and Ladies of Naples at which this Gentleman and his Wife were never forgotten And because that we do willingly believe that which we see it seemed to him that the fair eyes of this Lady did promise him some Good to come if the Presence of her Husband did give no hinderance to it and to make tryall if this conjecture of his were true or not he gave her Husband a Commission to go to Rome for fifteen dayes or three weeks and as soon as he was gon his Wife who never before was deprived of the sight of him made many great laments for which she was comforted by the King as often as he could by his perswasions and by his presents Insomuch that at last she was not only comforred but contented also with the absence of her Husband and before the three weeks were expired that her Husband should return she was so amorous of the King that she was as much grieved at the return of her Husband as she was at his going from her And that she might not lose the presence of the King she did conclude with him that when her Husband did goe unto his Houses in the Country she would acquaint him with it who then with assurance might come unto her and so secretly that no man whom she feared more than her own Conscience could have any notice of it In this hope the Lady remained very joyfull and when her Husband was come home she gave him such good entertainment that although he understood that in his absence the King made very much of her yet he could not receive it into his belief But in the processe of time the fire so hard to be concealed did by degrees begin to shew it self insomuch that her Husband began to have a strong suspition of her and did keep over her so strict a watch that he was almost assured of the Truth But by reason of the fear that did invade him that he who had done him this injury would do him a greater if he should make it known he tesolved with himself to dissemble it for he believed it to be safer to live though with some discontent than to hazard his life for a Woman that had forfeited her love Neverthelesse in this despite he resolved to render the like unto the King if it were possible And knowing that Love doth assail those most of all who have a heart great and honourable he assumed the boldnesse one day talking with the Queen to tell her That he did extremely pity her that she was no better beloved of the King her Husband The Queen who had understood of the familiarity of the King and his Wife made answer I cannot enjoy Honour and Pleasure together I know very well that I have the Honour of which another receives the Pleasure and she that hath the Pleasure cannot enjoy the Honor which I have He who understood sufficiently upon what account those words were spokē replied to her Madam Honour is born with you for you are of so high-born an extract that to be Queen or an Empress doth not augment your nobility but your beauty grace and sweetness doth deserve so much pleasure as she who hath taken that from you which belongs unto you doth doe more wrong to her self than you she for a little glory which turns into her shame doth lose as much pleasure as you or any Lady in the Land can enjoy and I can tell you Madam that if the King would but put the Crown from off his head I am confident he had no advantage above me in giving content unto a Lady being sure that to satisfie so gallant a personage as your self he ought to change his complexion into mine The Queen in laughter made answer to him Although the King

him when he made his Visitations as if he had the King himself which at first he refused but at last arriving to five and fifty years of age he began to like very well of and esteeming himself to be the publick assertor of all religion he desired to preserve his health better than he had been accustomed to doe And although his Rule prescribed him never to eat flesh yet he dispensed with himself which he would not do with any other saying that upon him alone lay all the burden of religion wherefore he feasted himself so much that of a lean Monk he became a fat Prior and the change of his heart did follow the change of his life insomuch that now he began to look upon beautifull faces of which before he made a great conscience and observing the beauties of the Nuns whose veils made them more desirable he begun to be very covetous of them and to satisfie his salt and wanton appetite he studied so many artifices that instead of doing the office of a Pastor he became a wolf insomuch that in diverse Religious houses if there were any one found more weak than another he never failed to deceive her And having for certain years continued this wicked course of life the Divine goodnesse which had compassion on the poor misguided sheep would no longer indure the ravening of this treacherous Fox For one day going to visit a Covent not far from Paris called Gif it fell out that in confessing all the holy Nuns he took an especial notice of one Sister called Mary Herouet whose language was so pleasant agreeable to him that it promised her face and her heart would be the same Wherefore but to hear her speak only he was struck with such a feaver of love that it surpassed all passions which he ever had for any other of these religious women and speaking to her he held down his head very low that the better he might observe her and perceiving her lip to be plump and red he could not forbear to lift up her vail to see if her eyes were the Companions of those beauties that were about them which he found to be true whereupon his heart was filled with so violent a heat that he forgot to eat and drink and suddenly lost his complexion although he dissembled the occasion of it Being returned to his Priory he could take no rest wherefore in great perplexity he passed away the days and nights searching out the means by which he might arrive to his desires and make of her as he had made of diverse others this he found difficult to be performed because he found her wise in all her answers and of a subtil spirit and on the other side being above threescore years of age he found himself so old and so wrizled that he resolved with himself not to speak to her at all but to make an attempt to gain her by fear Wherefore not long afterwards he returned to the said Monastery of Gif in which place he shewed himself more severe than ever before he was accustomed to do he grew angry with all the Religious Women reproving one for not wearing her veil low enough another for holding up her head too high a third for not making her Courtesie with that Reverence as she ought to do and in these small trifles he shewed himself so severe that they stood in the greatest fear of him that could be Having don this he travelled to visit the other places of Regulation and about the hour of Vespers he came again to the Dormitory where these Nuns were The Abbesse said unto him Reverend Father It is time to go to Vespers To whom he answered Go Mother go for I am so weary that I will stay here not so much to rest my self as to speak to Sister Mary of whom I have heard a very bad Report for I am told That she goes up and down and prattles as if she were one of the wide world The Abbesse who was neer of Kin to her Mother did desire him to school her well for it and left her alone with him save only a little Girl who being very young was newly entred into the Religion and stood at the furthest door When he found himself all alone with Sister Mary he did begin to take off her veil and commanded her to look upon him She made answer that her Rule did forbid her to look on any Man It is true my Child said the Prior but you ought not to think that we who are men of Religion are to be comprehended in that Rule Whereupon Sister Mary fearing to commit a fault by disobedience did look in the face of him which she saw so extremely warped and ill-favoured that she thought with her self she did rather Penance than commit a Sin to behold him The Prior having held her in a long discourse of the Love he did bear unto her did offer to put his hand upon her Brests but she did thrust it back as she ought to do and grew so impatient that he said unto her What And will not the Nuns be known that they have Brests She made answer to him I know I have and am resolved with my self that neither you nor any one else shall touch them for I am not so young nor ignorant but I understand well enough what is sin and what is not When he found he could not gain her that way he attempted another and said unto her Alas my Daughter I am put to that distresse that I must declare unto you my Necessity which is that I have an infirmity which the Physicians do all of them find to be incurable unlesse I do delight my self and play with a Woman whom I love very well For my self I had rather die than commit any mortal sin but if I must venture so far I know that Fornication and the sins of Lust are no wayes to be compared to the sin of Man-slaughter Wherefore if you love my life you may both save it and save your Conscience also from the stain of cruelty She demanded of him What kind of play it was that he did mean He told her That it was to put his Conscience upon hers and that she should do nothing in which he would not joyn with her in the accomplishment thereof And to shew her the beginning of the Pastime which he demanded he did imbrace her and endeavoured to throw her on one of the Beds in the Dormitory She perceiving his wicked Intention did so well defend her self by the softnes of her words and the strength of her Arms that he could touch nothing of her but her cloaths The Prior when he beheld all his designes and the force he used to be frustrated like a man possessed with a fury and as much besides his Reason as his Conscience did put his hands under her Coates and whatsoever he could touch with his fingers he scratched with his nails with so much violence that

Men take delight to speak Evil of Women and I am confident that you rank me in that number Wherefore believe me I have a great desire to speak well of them that I might not be mistaken by the whole Sex for a Detractor I give you my place said Emarsuite requesting you so much to force your Jnclinations and your Nature as to speak something in our Honour Immediatly Simontault began to say It is no wonder Ladies nor any News at all to hear of your virtuous Deeds which cannot but proceed from the many virtuous personages of your Sex who are accomplished with all perfections Amongst many others there is one Example in my memory which me thinks ought not to be concealed but rather to he recorded in Letters of gold that it might be a president unto Women and an admiration unto Men by beholding that in that frail Sex which is most repugnant unto frailty it is the Occasion which doth cause me to relate what I have heard spoken by Captain Robernall and by divers of his Company The Extreme Love and Austerity of a Woman in a strange Land The seventh Novell RObernall making a Voyage on the Sea to the Isse of Canada being Governour of that Fleet by the Commandment of the King his Master he resolved to continue in the said Iland if the Air of the Country had been healthfull and to build there Towns and Castles In which he made so good a beginning that to be satisfied in the fruitfulness of the place and to inhabite it with Christians he took with him divers sorts of Artists amongst whom there was one so wicked and barbarously cruel that he betrayed his own Master and did bring him in great danger to be taken by the Inhabitants of the Country But it pleased God that his Enterprize was discovered and Captain Robernall received no prejudice at all who commanded the miscinevous Traytor to be apprehended resolving to bring him unto punishment according to his deserts You are to understand that he had contrived the plot with the Inhabitants against the knowledge of his Wife who having followed her Husband thorough the perils of the Sea would not abandon him until death but with her tears and her petitions she so prevailed with the Captain and all the Company that in Compassion of her and in regard of the good services which she had done he did grant her her request but upon a condition that both she and her Husband should be left in a little Iland in the Sea inhabited only by wild Beasts and to take that with them which should be necessary for their sustenance and to defend themselves This wretched Husband and his poor Wife finding themselves alone and in a wilderness of sorrows having none but cruel wild Beasts to keep them company had their recourse unto God alone who had been alwayes the hope and the assurance of that desolate Woman who as one who had all her comfort in him did take along with her for the Instruction and nourishment of her Soul and for all her comfort and her Refuge the New Testament in which incessantly she did read The Extremity of Winter approaching she did take pains with her Husband to build a little House the Lions and other wild Beasts approaching to devour them but her Husband with his Harquebuse and she with great stones did so well defend themselves that not only the Beasts nor the Birds durst adventure to come near them but oftentimes they would kill those which were good to eat and with such flesh and herbs that the Country did bring forth they did live a certain time when their bread failed them But her Husband could not long endure that nourishment and by reason of the abundance of the cold water which he drank he was so blown up with a Dropsie that in a short time he deceased having none to assist him or to comfort him but his Wife who was both his Physician and his Confessor and having given him the best Comforts she could administer he departed with joy from that Desart unto Paradise And the poor Woman being left alone did bury him in the ground not far from her house as well as possibly she could but the Beasts had immediately the sent of him and smelling to the Grave they did digg with their paws to find out and feed upon the Carkass but the poor woman did shoot at them out of her little house and did drive them away with the Harquebuse using her endeavour that the flesh of her Husband might not have such a Sepulcher And thus living with her body the life of a Beast and in her Soul the life of an Angel she passed away her time in reading contemplation and in prayers having a contented and a joyfull spirit in a lean and a consumed body But God who never doth forsake those in their distress who do put their trust in him and who in the greatest despair doth make his mercy and his power to be most remarkable did not permit that the Virtue with which he had indued that Woman should be concealed from Men but that it should be manifested to his glory Wherefore at the end of a certain time one of the shipps belonging to the French Fleet passing before that Iland the people who were above the Decks did observe a Woman waving with her hand her Apron over her head and making a sign unto them whereupon the Master of the ship immediatly called to mind those two whom they had left upon that Iland and determined with himself to goe unto them and to see how God had disposed of them The poor Woman seeing the ship to make up unto her and to draw near unto the shore did come down into the Beach where they took her in and departed Having praised God for her unexpected preservation she shewed them where her little house did stand in the Iland and did inform them what was her miserable Diet during the time of her melancholy abode there which had been altogether incredible to the Seamen but that they knew that God is as able to nourish his People in the Wildernesse as with the best Diet in the greatest Palace of the World And when on their return they had caused the fidelity and the perseverance of the said Woman to be made known both in the City and at the Court she was received with great Honour by all the Ladies who of their own accord did send their Children to her to teach them to work with the Needle and to Read and Write And by that honest indeavour she gained sufficiently wherewith to live all the remainder of her life having no other desire but to exhort every one to the love of God and to a safe considence in him propounding for an example the great Mercy which he had vouchsafed unto her Ladies you cannot now deny but that I have abundantly extolled those virtues with which God hath indued you which are so much the greater