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A29295
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Hattige: or The amours of the king of Tamaran A novel.; Hattigé, ou, Les amours du roy de Tamaran. English.
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Brémond, Gabriel de.
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1683
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Wing B4352; ESTC R218696
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Character so exactly like Hattiges though he knew Folks have the art of counterfeiting hands And taking time at his leisure to examine in private and weigh with himself all the Circumstances of that Evenings Adventure it made him for a while very unquiet and full of vexation At last he resolv'd for his satisfaction and ease to observe in person the Conduct of his Mistress to rid himself at once of the Suspicions that tormented him or the Passion he had for her if guilty He bethought himself of a Stratagem for the purpose which hit very luckily He had the priviledge to enter the Seraglio when he pleas'd through Doors made of purpose the Keys whereof were in his custody The Day he intended to put his Design in Execution he spent almost all in Hattiges Lodgings paying her all the Amorous Devoirs he us'd to do with more than ordinary Gaiety and Tenderness insomuch that she thought him better satisfied than ever of her Fidelity to him Besides he staid of purpose much later than ordinary though to the good Ladys very great trouble it being a Day of Assignation for Rajep who with the impatience of a fortunate Lover waited Zara's coming But when a Person who is jealous knows how to dissemble he deceives the most mistrustful The King from Hattige's Lodgings went into his own to dress himself like a Bedowin so they call the Moorish Women of the Mountains of whom there are commonly great numbers in the Serallio his Face he cover'd with a black Vail and his Body a white Blanket and put on a pair of Linnen-Drawers and black Stockings which is all the Equipage of that sort of Women when they are in the Towns for in the Country they go as God made them The King in his new Dress slipt softly and alone into the Seraglio and posted himself before the Door of his Mistresses Apartment where to avoid suspicion he laid him down on a Bench as the Bedowines use to do It was a Gallery you must of necessity pass through whether you went in or out of my Mistresses Lodgings At one end of it was a Lanthorn which had a Light in it all Night but the King being at the other end of the Gallery it was almost dark there He had not long been on the Watch but he discover'd the Enemy though he had no great mind to ask Who goes there He never bid them stand but let them come on undisturb'd that he might have them where he desar'd 'T was ev'n Zara leading another Bedowine by the hand whom the King prepossest with suspicion presently believ'd such another Woman as himself And to speak the truth the Bodowin's Stature and Gate confirm'd his conjecture Zara went up to the door never minding the Centinel and turning towards her Bedowin bid him have a moments patience and she would go to her Mistress for Orders for his Entrance The King had time then to take a full view of the Bedowine who turning about toward that side where the King lay perceiv'd there was something in humane Shape on the Bench and being now in an Enemies Country the Bedowin thought She could not be too cautious and for fear of leaving behind her fomething that might hinder her retreat thought good to make up to what she saw and examine nearer at hand what it was Fortune being commonly favourable to those Love exposes order'd it so that a corner of the Blanket the King had wrapt himself in being untyed the curious Bedowin discover'd part of a Sword which being Enamell'd with Vermillion in that little light there was gave the Bedowin enough to know 't was time to look about her and not safe to be there Accordingly She went softly to the other end of the Gallery and so down the Stairs and away out of Doors which she was very glad of having scap'd a scowring being fully perswaded the Sword she had seen threatne her Life The King who thought he had not given his fellow Beaowin the least suspition could not fancy her marching back was to run quite away He got up to see what was become of her Zara arriving took him for the Bedowin she had left at the door and wisper'd him in the Ear he might enter and be kindly receiv'd The King glad of the mistake followed his Guide leading him by the hand a way he knew better than any one alive He was no sooner got into Hattiges Chamber but she took him about the neek hugging him in her Arms with the Transports of a Woman amorous as she Dear Rajep says she how glad am I to see thee having spent all this day with a King whose Caresses are torments to me Thou must make me amends by a thousand Transports of Love This was an excellent beginning for the Monarchs Entertainment who took all patiently not stirring from under his Disguise The Lady more hasty than he to make good use of those pleasant moments the presence of a Lover belov'd as he was should produce couldnot endure that so little delay Her longings more prevalent than her Modesty put her into a fit of charming Wrath against the coldness of her insensible Lover she made him a thousand Reproaches and would have tore off with her own hands his Vail and his Blankets and the rest of his fine dress What Rajep says she with an amorous Indignation do you expect that I should unmask you Have you no more Desire to see and embrace me Is the time you purchase with the peril of your life and mine of so little Value that you can afford to lose so many precious moments No soomer had she said this but down dropt the Disguise Zara who had helpt her Mistress to undress the false Bedowin first discover'd the mistake and ran away with a shrieck that frighted her Mistress who was never so surpriz'd as to see 't was the King Hattige very luckily swouned away for fear for 't is very probable the injur'd Monarch would otherwise in the beginning of his fury have been transported into some act of violence against her which might have mis become him But seeing a Woman almost dead at his feet though she did but counterfeit his fury vanish'd to give place to his pity which seiz'd him with that Tenderness that made him sensible false and ingratefull as she was he could not forbear loveing her still He call'd to the Slaves of the Apartment and order'd her to be laid on a Bed where it would have pleas'd him to approach her with her Falshood but finding his Resentment too weak for his good nature melting at sight of an Object so amiable though false he retir'd The next day Osman was call'd to Court where he had from the King a very favourable Reception to make him amends for his former hard Usage He told him he was but too much convinc'd of the ill Conduct of Hattige against whom he let fall the most opprobrious Language imaginable protesting he would for the future
use her as the basest of Women The Aga being a dextrous Courtier and not unacquainted with Lover's Relapses knowing where lay the Weakness of his Prince said not a word for or against her only pray'd him to believe he had not in his Kingdom a Servant more faithfull and jealous of his Master's Glory than him But that he was afraid if his Majstey saw that Woman again things would return to their former course The King blush'd at these words as reproaching him with his frailty Yet he swore a thousand Oaths it should never be so again which his Heart mis-gave him he would not keep as it afterwards hapned As for Rajep Order was given to apprehend him Meharen the Master-Gardiner having no Heir but that dear Nephew of his when he had the News of what had past in the Seraglio and the Order against Rajey threw himself at the King's Feet but was presently rejected Yet his Freinds at Court appeas'd the King in some measure and prevail'd with him to change the Sentece of Death past against Rajeb into that of Banishment during Life My Mistress the first the second and third day of her Disgrace saw not the King This was a long time for the amorous Prince who us'd to be scarce an hour away from her Acquaintances of that nature are not lost without a great deal of pain She had Friends she imploy'd who every moment acquainted the King with the lamentable condition her Repentance had brought her to being so pin'd away she was not likely to live an Hour The fourth day the Prophesie of Osman was fulfill'd The King foftned with the sad News melting into Tenderness sigh'd staggerd and at last following his Inclination went to give her one Visit more under pretence of taking his Revenge of her being asham'd without doubt of so unbecoming a Relapse after the noise he had made of the Falsness of that Woman To excuse himself he said he would go to her only to take from her those Jewels he had given her who deserv'd not to wear auy thing belonging to him The Aga who knew his Master well and of what Consequenee that Visit might be would have diverted him dextrously by taking the Ladies part And telling him It did not become a generous Prince as he was to repent of his Liberality especially to Women But if he design'd only to frighten her which he doubted not was all he intended it would suffice as he conceiv'd to send any one to her from his Majesty without doing her the Honour of a personal Visit The Counsel was good but unseasonable for a Lover who was going in search of what the other would have diverted him from The King answered he knew what he did and that in some Affairs he lov'd to follow his Humour without any Advice The Aga by this judg'd all was lost and that the King would be engag'd deeper than ever He shrug'd and retir'd unwilling to be Witness of an Action which would be charg'd half upon him if present The King was not displeas'd as his retyring and perhaps things would have gone otherwise then they did had the Aga been there The King came to Hattiges Apartment where presently without staying to give her notice of his coming or calling for the Keys of the Closet where the Jewels were he caus'd the door to be broke open entred it and finding the box they were in open he fell to viewing them over and taking particular notice of them as it were to give time to his perfiâ—ious Mistress to come and appease him She fell down at his Feet with her Hair about her Ears and embrac'd his Knees with that irresistable tenderness he took her up and led her into the Closet what Reconciliation was made there I know not but certain it is the King left the Jewels behind him and returning two hours after made her new Presents This agreement by degrees gathered such strength that the Amorous Prince visited her oftner than ever and seem'd to have forgotten not only what he had said of Hattige but all that had past which for a Lover of his Character was of consequence enough never to be forgotten It was talk'd of abroad but not much to his advantage Only the Aga said not a word of it Being politique he knew there was no remedy and that it was an incurable Infirmity in his Prince whose Ascendant was Love So that the Aga held it imprudent in him to ruin his Fortune to serve his Prince against his will and was confident Hattige was a Woman of that humor she would destroy her self at last Rajep being banish'd and Hattige more addicted to Gallantry than ever the King having caus'd her only to change her Gallant and add to her former the Pleasure of Variety Zara who through his means was again taken into her Favour was imploy'd a new to find out one with whom she might break those Oaths of Fidelity she had newly made to the King Hattige did no longer mince the matter to this Slave so well acquainted with her Concerns And the good Matron who knew her Mistress desir'd a Gallant as well out of the Infirmity of her Nature and Weakness of Temper as to please her Inclination resolv'd to find her out one with whom she also might do her Business The King on the other side who after he was convinc'd of the Falseness of Hattige began to love her less was very desirous of a new Mistress and fell in love with Roukia as Hattige had foretold It was an Inclination he was strangely surpriz'd into and perhaps in a manner not to be paralell'd Women besides the natural Beauty of the Face which chiefly gains them Admirers have a Thousand other ways to engage Men to love them for their Voice their Wit their Humour their Shape their good Meen and other Qualities capable to produce great Effects in the Hearts of their Lovers But I scarce dare tell you how Love brought the King enamour'd of Roukia who being one of the Handsomest Women of the Kingdome charm'd him by that part of which she took the less care because she would have been asham'd to shew it him and would not have expos'd it to the Light but for necessity and without dreaming it could be the cause of so lucky an Effect Excuse me Sir says Razi laughing if I enlarge no further on this Sublect You may guess by what I have said few Fish are caught with that Bait. One Evening about Sun-set the King from the Terrasse of the Garden of the Seraglio looking through the Trees had a sight of Roukia in that pleasant Posture The Sun who seem'd to stay to guild with his Rays an Object so charming to that Prince never saw any thing whiter or better shap'd 'T was in truth a Master-piece of the kind and notwithstanding the unpleasing Function it was about inflam'd the Heart of the Royall Spectator who did all he could to see a little more but Love would not