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A19209 The ghost of the Marquesse d'Ancre, with his spirits attending him. Or The fiction of a dialogue betweene Galligaia, Conchini by name, or Marquesse d'Ancre his wife, and Misoquin a deluding spirit, by whom her husband was misse-lead Together with the same spirits meeting the good genius to Monsieur the Prince of Conde: faithfully translated out of the French copie printed at Roan.; Dialogue de la Galligaya et de Mesoquin. English. Galigaï, Léonora, ca. 1571-1617. 1617 (1617) STC 5620; ESTC S108612 7,127 15

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THE GHOST OF the Marquesse d' Ancre with his Spirits attending him OR The Fiction of a Dialogue betweene Galligaia Conchini by name or Marquesse d' Ancre his wife and Misoquin a deluding Spirit by whom her Husband was misse-lead Together with the same Spirits meeting the good Genius to Monsieur the Prince of CONDE Faithfully translated out of the French Copie printed at ROAN Printed at LONDON for Nicholas Bourne and are to be sould at the South-entrance of the Royall-Exchange 1617. THE FICTION OF A DIALOGVE betweene Galligaia Wife to Conchini and Misoquin the false and deluding Spirit that transported her Husband with vaine hopes Together with a meeting of the said Spirit with the Genius of Monsieur the Prince of CONDE SVCH dispositions as haue but once contracted with Gods enemy can very hardly euer be clean freed out of his fowle clowches For we haue an euident example hereof in Conchini and his Wife who being both of them so many times admonished by Gods wrath poured vpon them yet would they not retyre nor giue ouer their wicked life no not when they euidently saw how both God and all the people were incensed against them being afflicted by sicknesse and the death of one of their children as also one of their houses rifled and pillaged by the iust rage of the people two of their domesticall friends hanged and a thousand other manifest tokens intimating to them how all the Princes bare them a most worthy and deserued hatred Oh what inexplicable miseries doth affectation of power and greatnesse bring vnto men O how our disordinate appetites to amasse and purchase worldly honours doth heape and augment our misfortunes Thou now feelest it now that a sodaine death hath violently carryed thee out of the world and as may be inferred by all pregnant probabilities in the height of thy sinnes and transgressions Now thou feelest it thou who after so many worldly delights so many flatteries of honours of contentments art now more miserable peraduenture then the most wretched creature in all France Thou I say who in stead of a Royall Palace stately adorned hast for thy habitation an obscure and hideous dungeon Thou art hee who now findest it for in stead of a thousand Gentlemen well borne that were wont to doe thee all kinde of honour stand before thee vncouered adoring thee and making shew as if they breath'd and liued for no other end but to offer thee their humblest seruices thou hast now it may be some rigorous Iaylor that contemnes thee and in stead of any consolation flowts and laughes at thy precipice and downefall Thou I say who wert wont to giue life and death to all those whom thou wouldest thy selfe hast now need to implore and cry out for mercy of all the world Thy greatnesse and riches wherin thou didst put such confidence what auaile they Where is now that same troope of Nobilitie which were accustomed to follow and attend thee Questionlesse thou wert but deceiued for these people followed not thy selfe but meerely thy present fortunes and high fauours And now thou truely knowest how vnhappy all they are who relying vpon Fortune thinke that she can make them masters of the whole world whereas shee makes them but slaues and infamous vassals not only to her selfe but to their owne disordinate appetites desires Thou I say againe Conchini now feelest it thou that wert sprung from a base Sire and yet wouldest haue exalted thy selfe not onely aboue the French Nobilitie but euen aboue all Princes of the French stocke and race Thou I say that most infatiable Seianus whose furious rage could neuer be appeased by the massacre of so many good French-men by the imprisonment not onely of many of the Nobilitie but euen of the Princes of the bloud whose wrath and reuenge could not be fully satisfied with the dolefull banishment of so many Princes and whose auarice was neuer contented with so many millions of gold and siluer Now thou hast a bitter experience thou which gouernedst all France at thine owne pleasure who after thine own miserable death wert not onely preuented from being the food and nourishment of wormes but moreouer thou wert the Butt whereat all the arrowes of the peoples rage and fury were shot Thou that hadst so many houses Palaces and Castles and could not be suffered to repose within the earth in peace for the space onely of foure and twenty houres and whom the Earth her selfe indeed disgorged impatient to retaine such a letiferous poyson within her wombe the Ayre could not endure thy infections the Water thy putrifaction neyther would the Fire consume thy body reseruing it for a prey to Sea-monsters And now thou knowest apparantly what difference there is betwixt the beginnings and ends of Fortune how variable and mutable shee is who being huffed vp to such eminent place didst foolishly giue credit to a prediction and prophesie made of thee and that when thou didst passe along the streetes euery one should put off his hat and cry out Viue le Roy. But now thou seest that Fortune inuerting quite this prediction it yet comes to be most true but thankes be to God cleane contrary to thine owne expectation for in stead of thy beds of state of Gold siluer and silke thou wert laid within a stinking puddle of a foule and vncleane water and for trapped and rich harnished horses thou wert trailed along the streetes by rascally and contemptible people Oh whosoeuer thou art on whom Fortune at this present peraduenture may smile learne to be wise by other mens harmes and remember Gods Iustice which neuer failes to punish the wicked soone or late Behold here one that was called the Marshallesse of France who was possessed of the Queenes greatest fauours and disposed wholy of her will that now foaming with fury and madnesse and being inclosed within a prison spits for anger cryes and howles out like a shee-wolfe that had beene robbed of her whelps I saw her by chance the other day in the Bastille shee lookes most hideously and stroke feare into all those that did behold her and her staring eyes gastly countenance with her feareful visage and distracted speech plainely shew that shee is conducted by some other spirit besides her owne her hayre all full of skirfe and filth hanging loose and confused vpon her shoulders tearing her owne face and bosome so as I neuer was touched with such an affrightment before Wherefore I went and hid my selfe in a corner to see the issue and further euent of this businesse when incontinently I heard her vomit and belch out these or the like words What I who lately could the Furies moue To practise murder and confusion Shall I endure no no I will not sure Rather both heauen and earth I will confound The Elements and all this lower round I le make a Chaos mixing waues and fire The ayre the earth the heauens and heate and cold What is beneath shall soone mount vp aloft