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A35671	Letters upon several occasions written by and between Mr. Dryden, Mr. Wycherly, Mr. ----, Mr. Congreve, and Mr. Dennis, published by Mr. Dennis with a new translation of select letters of Monsieur Voiture.	Dennis, John, 1657-1734.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Wycherley, William, 1640-1716.; Congreve, William, 1670-1729.; Voiture, Monsieur de (Vincent), 1597-1648.	1696 (1696)	Wing D1033; ESTC R6297	77,708	226

it is but just you should undertake his Defence but you ought to have taken some care of me too that People might not Object to you that you forsake your Friends for a Word You make no Answer at all to that which I writ about You take not the least Notice of that which so much concerns me In three or four Pages you scarce remember me once and the Reason of this is For. Be pleased to consider me a little more for the Future and when you undertake the Defence of the Afflicted remember t●at I am of the Number I shall always make use of him himself to oblige you to grant me this Favour and to convince you that it is but my Due For I am c. To the Duke of Enguien upon his Taking of DUNKIRK I Am so far from wondring that you have taken Dunkirk that I believe you cou'd take the Moon by the Teeth if you did but once attempt it Nothing can be impossible to you I am only uneasie about what I shall say to your Highness on this occasion and am thinking by what extraordinary terms I may bring you to reach my Conceptions of you Indeed my Lord in that Height of Glory to which you have now attain'd the Honour of your Favour is a singular Happiness but it is a troublesome thing to us Writers who are obliged to Congratulate you upon every good Success to be perpetually upon the Hunt for words whose Force may answer your Actions and to be ev'ry day inventing of new Panegyricks If you would but have the Goodness to suffer your self to be beat sometime or to rise from before some Town the variety of the matter might help to support us and we should find out some fine thing or other to say to you upon the inconstancy of Fortune and the Glory that is gotten by bearing her Malice ●bravely But having from the very first of your Actions Rank'd you Equal with Alexander and finding you rising upon us continually upon my word my Lord we are at a loss what to do either with you or our selves Nothing that we can say can come up to that which you do and the very Flights of our Fancy flag Below you Eloquence which Magnifies smallest things cannot reach the height of those which you do no not by its boldest Figures And that which is call'd Hyperbole on other occasions is but a cold way of speaking when it comes to be applyed to you Indeed it is different to Comprehend how your Highness each Summer has still found out meanes to Augment that Glory which every Winter seem'd at its full Perfection and that having begun so greatly and gone on more greatly still your last Actions should Crown the rest and be found the most Amazing For my own part my Lord I congratulate your Success as I am in Duty oblig'd but I plainly foresee the very thing that Augments your Reputation with us may prejudice that which you expect from after Ages and that so many Great and Important Actions done in so short a space may render your life Incredible to future times and make your History be thought a Romance by Posterity Be pleas'd then my Lord to set some Bounds to your Victories if it be only to accommodate your self to the Capacity of Human Reason and not to go further than Common Belief can follow you Be contented to be quiet and secure at least for a time and suffer France which is Eternally alarm'd for your safety to enjoy Serenely for a few Months the Glory which you have acquir'd for her In the mean time I Beseech you to believe that among so many Millions of Men who Admire you and who continually pray for you there is not one who does it with so much Joy with so much Zeal and Veneration as I who am My Lord Your Highnesses c. To the Duke of Enguien Afterwards the Great Prince of CONDE Vpon his gaining the Battle of ROCROY My Lord AT a time that I am so far remov'd from your Highness that you cannot possibly lay your Commands upon me I am fully resolv'd to speak freely my Mind to you which I have so long been oblig'd to disguise lest it should bring me into the same Inconvenience with those who before me have taken the like Liberties with you But let me tell you My Lord you have done too much to let it pass without taking notice of it and you are unreasonable if you think to behave your self as you do without being loudly told of it If you did but know how strangely all Paris talks of you I am very confident that you would be asham'd of it and you could not without confusion hear with how little Respect and how little Fear of Displeasing you all the World presumes to discourse of what you have done I must confess my Lord I wonder what you could mean You have shewn your self bold with a Veng●ance and Violent to the last Degree in putting such an Affront upon two or three old Captains whom you ought to have Respected if it had been only for their Antiquity In killing the poor Count de la Fountaine who was the ve●y best Man in the Lo●-C●untrys In taking sixteen pieces of Cannon the proper Goods of the King's Unk●e and the Queen 's own Brother and in ●onfounding the Spanish Troops after they had shewn so much goodness in le●ting you pass I heard indeed you are Obstinate as a Dev●l and that it was not to much purpose to Dispute about any thing with you But yet I never thought that your heat woudd have transported you so far If you go on at the R●te you have begun you will shortly grow Intollerable I assure you to all Europe and neither the Emperor nor the King of Spain will either of them be able to endure you But now my Lord laying the Man of Conscience aside and Resuming the Man of State I Felicitate your Highness for the Victory I hear you have gain'd the most Compleat and the most Important which has happen'd in our Age. France which you have shelter'd from all the Storms that it Dreaded is amaz'd to see that you have begun your Life with an Action with which Caesar would gladly have Crown'd his own and which alone reflects more Luster upon the Kings your Progenitors than all theirs have transferred to you Well my Lord you have Verified what has been formerly said that Virtue comes to the Caesars preventing Time For you who are a true Caesar both in Wit and in Knowledge Caesar in Diligence and in Vigilance in Courage Caesar and per omnes Casus Caesar you have out-run the hopes and surpass'd the Expectation of Men you have clearly shewn that Experience is necessary to none but Ordinary Souls that the Virtue of Heroes comes by a more Compendious way and that the Works of Heaven are finish'd when but begun After this I leave you to Judge how you are like to be Receiv'd and

and some of them very heartily or I am much mistaken As we rose from Table the Sound of the Violins summon'd us up Stairs where we found a Chamber so gloriously lighted up that it look'd as if the Day which was now below the Earth had retired hither and was assembled in one body of Light Here the Ball began again in better order and with more grace than it had been danc'd about the Fountain And the most Magnificent Part of it my Lord was that I footed it there in Person Mademoiselle de Bourbon I must confess was of opinion that I Danc'd aukwardly but she concluded to my advantage that I must be allowed to Fenc● well because that at the end of every Cadence I put my self upon my Guard The Ball continued with much Pleasure till all of a sudden a great Noise which was heard without Doors caused the Company to look out at the Windows Where from a great Wood which was about three hundred Paces from the House we beheld so vas● a Number of Fire-Works issuing out that we verily believ'd all the Branches and Trunks of the Trees had been Metamo●phos'd into Guns That all the Stars were falling from the Firmament and that the Element of Fire was descending into the Middle Region of the Air. Here My Lord are three Hyperboles tack'd together which being valued at a moderate Price are worth three dozen of Fusees at the least After we were recover'd out of this great fit of Extasie into which so many Miracles had plung'd us we resolved on our Departure and took the way to Paris by the Light of twenty Flambeaux We pass'd through all the Ormessonnois and the wide Plains of Espinay without resistance and went through the middle of St. Dennis Being plac'd in the Coach by the side of Madam I said a whole Miserere to her on your behalf to which she replied with much Gallantry and no less Civility We sung in our Journey a World of Songs Roundeaux Roundelays Lampoons and Ballads and were now half a League beyond St. Dennis it being two a Clock in the Morning precisely the Fatigue of the Journey Watching Walking and the painful Exercise of the Ball having made me somewhat heavy when there happen'd an Accident which I verily believ'd wou'd have been my total Ruine There is a certain little Village situate say the Geographers betwixt Paris and St. Dennis and Vulgarly called La Valette At our going out of this Place we overtook three Coaches in which were those Numerical Violins which had been Playing to us Hereupon Sathan entring into the Spirit of Mademoiselle she commanded them to follow us and to give Serenades all Night long to the Poor innocent People of Paris who were asleep and dreamt not of her Malice This Diabolical Proposition made my Hair rise an end upon my Head Yet all the Company pass'd a Vote in Favour of it and the word was just ready to be given but by a Signal Providence they had left their Violins behind them at la Barre for which the Lord reward them From hence my Lord you may reasonably conclude that Mademo●●selle is a dangerous Person in the Night if ever there was any in the World and that I had great reason at Madam 〈◊〉 House to say that the Violins ought to be turn'd out of doors when that Pestilent Lady was in Company Well we continued our way happily enough but only that as we enter'd the Fauxbourgh we met six Lusty Fellows as Naked as ever they were Born who passed directly by the Coach to the terror of the Ladies In fine we arrived at Paris and what I am now going to relate is indeed Prodigious Cou'd you imagine it My Lord the Obscurity was so great that it cover'd all that Vast City And instead of what we left it no● full seven hours before fill'd with Noise and with a Crowd of Men Women Horses and Coaches we now found nothing but a deep Silence a dismal Desart a frightf●l Solitude dispeoled Streets not meeting with any Mortal Man but only certain Animals who fled from the Lustre of our Torches But the remaining part of the Adventure you shall have My Lord another time As Boyando tells you Qui ' é il fin del Canto e torno ad Orlando Ad●o Signor a voi me raccomando To Mademoiselle Paulet Madam SO great a Misfortune as mine wanted no less Consplation than that which I lately received from you and I look'd on your Letter as a Pardon which Heav'n granted me after my Sentence I can call by no other name the News which oblig'd me to return to this Place and I can assure you that ●entence of Death is oftentimes less rigorous But since in the midst of all my Misfortunes I have the honour to be remember'd by you to complain would be ill-becoming of me For methinks he may dispense with the Favours of Fortune who is happy enough to obtain yours This is the Reason that I shall make use of to comfort my self for the Necessity of remaining here and not that which you urg'd in yours That it is better to be an Exile in a Foreign Land than to be a Prisoner in one's own Country For alas you know 〈◊〉 one half of my Misery if you are 〈◊〉 convinc'd that I am both together and 〈◊〉 you judge of the Matter rightly you 〈◊〉 find that a thing which seems very inconsistent is to be be found in me which 〈◊〉 be banish'd from the same Person by wh●● I am kept a Prisoner You will find 〈◊〉 difficult to interpret this Riddle 〈◊〉 you call to mind that I have always 〈◊〉 us'd to mingle a Dram of Love in my 〈◊〉 For if as you say I am allow'd 〈◊〉 Liberty here of which I should be depri●●● in France I beseech you let it be that 〈◊〉 assuring you that there is a great deal of Passion mix'd with the Affection which I express for your Service I should indeed be ungrateful if I should discover but an Ordinary Friendship for a Person who doe● such Extraordinary Things for me and 〈◊〉 am obliged to fall in love at least with you● Generosity I have been acquainted what care a Gentleman and a Lady has taken to enquire of my Welfare which is an additional Obligation to one whom they ha● extreamly oblig'd before For all the rest they have seem'd buried in so profound a Silence that for six Months together I have heard not the least mention of them Whether this comes from their Forgetfulness 〈◊〉 from their Prudence I am unable to determine Yet Forgetfulness may be allow'd an Excuse for Silence but a dumb remembrance is without Defence I leave you to conclude Madam how much Lustre this reflects upon what you have done for me ●nd how much I am oblig'd to you for a 〈◊〉 Letter at a time when others have 〈◊〉 afraid to send me their Service Therefore let me assure you that thô I am unable to make suitable