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A33822	A Collection of novels viz, the secret history of the Earle of Essex and Queen Elizabeth, The happy slave, and, the double cuckold : to which is added, The art of pleasing in conversation, by Cardinal Richlieu.	Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, duc de, 1585-1642.; Vaumorière, M. de (Pierre Ortigue), 1610-1693. Art de plaire dans la conversation. English.; Brémond, Gabriel de. Double-Cocu. English.; Brémond, Gabriel de. Heureux esclave. English.	1699 (1699)	Wing C5149; ESTC R640	304,340	556

and she suffer'd more trouble in one poor moment by what she saw not then she had in many days by what she had seen she was forced to change her conduct and to feign a desire of renewing her friendship with a Woman whom she hated more then Death To how sad a point is a poor Lady reduced when she is so innocent as to trouble her self about the little Follies of her Husband and dares not render him quid pro quo She would fain have had this satisfaction though a very afflictive one of seeing what passed betwixt these two perfidious Creatures and putting a check to their Pleasure by her Presence for she was from Morning until Night either with the one or the other The Viceroy was extreamly weary of her everlasting Company he could have wisht with all his Heart that she had continued her ill humour and quarrel to Donna Angelica Whatever he did she would make one if he walk't out she did so too if he went to pay a visit to Donna Angelica she followed him and would be the last there I leave it for your Marry'd Young Brisk Gallants to judge whether this was not damnable troublesom He knew not what to do Donna Angelica who loved him not to the expence of her Reputation would contribute nothing on her part to make him more happy for fear of giving the Vice-queen an advantage over her who possibly waited but for an opportunity to ruine her So that being in despair with anger and vexation after having sought a thousand ways to rid himself of this trouble without meeting success in any he at last bethought himself of an expedient queint enough and such as few Spaniards would have thought on But the Ascendant of Love often carries them above that of their Nation He believ'd that Women were not jealous of their Husbands but for want of something else to amuse them and that as one passion drives away another he should quickly put an end to the Vice-queen's jealousy if he could find her out a Man capable of making a tender impression of Love upon her He studyed a good while whom he should make choice of to do him so important a service without prejudice to his Honour the affair was pretty nice and delicate but when a Man loves to that degree that he loved and is fir'd with the thoughts of enjoying those pleasures he was in search of he must pass by a great many such Scrupulosities In fine having run over in his mind all the Gallants of his Court that were capable of inspiring Love into the breast of a young Lady he cast his eyes at last upon a young Neapolitan Lord something ally'd to him and for whom he had procur'd a Regiment of Foot and who was newly arrived at Barcellona he was young full of sprightly air for whom the Vice-queen had already a particular esteem and he could not elect a Centleman more fit for his design He found him one evening walking alone in the Park and having taken him with him he fell into the discourse of the Ladies of Barcellona and smiling askt him how he found himself whether he had hitherto preserv'd his Liberty and if he were not engag'd in some Amour My liberty is entire answer'd the young Neapolitan How replys the Viceroy among so many fair Ladies in this City has no beauty had the power yet to reach your heart either you have a very obdurate one pursues he or I must believe you have left a Mistress in Naples to whom you will not be unfaithful Neither the one nor the other Sir replys the Colonel I was never amorous not that I am insensible of the passion but the business and art of War pleases me better than that of Love You are young says the Viceroy smiling and you ought not to have such Ideas for the one does not hinder the other you may make Love and yet very well discharge the duty of a Soldier Nay I will tell you more then that continues he there was never any great and perfect Warriour but who was made so by Love and so ingaging him further in that discourse he began to number up I know not how many Great Captains who owed the most glorious Actions they ever performed to the inspirations of Love and he concluded at last that he must imitate their Example if he would not pass for a Barbarian Count Henry for so the young Neopolitan was called yielded himself to the Viceroy's arguments but more out of complaisance than through any inclination judging very well that it would not become a young Courtier as he was to dispute against a passion on which all the World knew the Viceroy was so violently bent I will court a Mistress then says he since you advise me to it Don Fernand demanded of him whether he would not be content to receive her from his hands at which proposition the Count began to laugh but made no answer Do you fear then pursued the Viceroy that I shall not serve you to your satisfaction I know how to acquit my self in such an affair but too well Seignior says he and for that very reason it will be dangerous to owe that obligation to you No no you need fear nothing says Don Fernand smiling it is true I have loved the Lady whom I would willingly bestow on you for a Mistress but she is at present a trouble to me and I hate her almost as much as ever I loved her What a fine present Sir says the Count interrupting him do you make me then will not the kindness you have for me inspire you with something more obliging than to charge me with a Woman you know not what to do with No Sir says Don Fernand and I may tell you withal the offer I make you deserves not to be refus'd and there are few men would have been so generous as I am in it If you please Sir replies the Count honour some other Person with your liberality for I must return to what I have already told you that notwithstanding the examples of so many Heroes that have loved yet War pleases me better Lord Henry says the Viceroy the Person I speak of is one of the greatest beauties in this Kingdom and in wit and ingenuity not inferiour to any I believe it Sir replies the Count but she is withal a Woman Peevish Conceited Cross Spiteful Jealous Imperious and possibly worse than all this You do not know says Don Fernand smiling upon him and folding his Arms that it is my Wife you speak of Yours answers the Count blushing and thinking he had misunderstood him My Vice-queen replies Don Fernand whom I intend to bestow on you for a Mistress consider whether she be so unworthy of you It is true Sir says the Count blushing more and more I have made some visits to your Lady the Vice queen but it has been with your permission and I thought I had not been so unhappy as to

for current Security for your keeping your word But it could not secure her from strange inquietude and trouble of Mind She could not see you without shame nor come near your Father without trembling She buzz'd instantly in my Ears that there was a necessity of making you both a Sacrifice to her Repose and that till then she could not expect any Pleasure in her Life She told me I must help her to effect the design or expect to be the first that should feel the weight of her wrath I endeavoured the best I could to reduce her to Reason but for some time she would not hear any At last her ill humour desired only the satisfaction of your being put out of your Lodging and was content to find out several pretences to perswade your Father to put you into a Nunnery or at least out of his House Notwithstanding all the Arts of her Complaisance and Cunning she found it no easie matter to bring this about but for the quiet of the House it was necessary to please her and place you under Pension in a Nunnery Shortly after whether it were that you had discovered the business or that she fear'd you had done so or rather that she was willing to be rid of me by this Stratagem she came one Night to my Chamber while your Father was asleep and with a fright in her looks told me I was undone that my Master knew all and that I had no more but that Night for to save my self Whereupon she gave me Money and seeing me resolved to be gone bid me her last farewell I kept as you remember the Keys of the House and so got easily out I had for a Disguise taken a black Suit of your Fathers and as soon as it was day and the Port open I hired a Felucca which carried me to Legorne where I lay private three days staying for a Vessel of the Great Dukes which was to carry a Present to Mahomet Bassa my Ancient Friend who made use of his Interest with the Dey to restore me my Estate which since I was a Slave had been Confiscated upon a belief I was dead But having fail'd of his desire he procured me in recompence the Secretaries place which is no great matter here This Madam is the account of my Life since I left Italy You may oblige me in acquainting me with yours which I could not come to the knowledge of having never heard since from Genoa That which remains to be told you says Elinor whom we will yet call Laura is a story full of troubles and misfortunes the more difficult for me to relate that a Person of Quality cannot but be ashamed of them But I will be free with you Having spent two Years in the Covent I was placed in my Father moved with many tears took me home where for the time I stayed there I was under continual Persecution from my Mother-in-law who having got the Ascendent over the good Man made him believe what she pleased She had new designs in her Head which you may believe was the cause of the fear she put you in for my Father never had the least knowledge of your familiarity and was much troubled at your running away declaring he had lost in you the best Servant he had He had designed to have set you at Liberty which was the reason he sent not after you as he might have done I was by this time become somewhat clear sighted and what I knew of my Mother-in-law made me suspect every thing she did I watched her narrowly and in few days discovered a new Gallant You may believe that after the mischiefs she had done me I fail'd not to do her all the ill Offices in my power it is the nature of our Sex never to Pardon But besides the pleasure of Revenge I was engaged in Honour against her This raised a War between us more violent than ever and my Father had trouble enough to content us both At first she thought her self hard enough for me having once already turn'd me out of the House and afterwards sent you packing and putting on a bold face fear'd nothing as knowing I would not accuse her of any thing but her impudence could bring her off my Evidence being gone But when she perceived by my obstructing her new practices rallying her on all occasions and other cutting effects of my resentment that I understood her Secrets she spared nothing that Rage and Fury could suggest to her against me At last she fell heavy upon me with my Father and having not prevailed with him to return me into the Monastery forced him to turn me again out of his House and place me with his Relations where I passed six Months with one and six Months with another to the great displeasure of the Family Till at last a Grandee of Spain an old Friend of my Fathers having been created Viceroy of Naples and passing by Genoa to go and take Possession of his Government my Father intreated him to take me along with him which he readily did The Viceroy and his Lady received and entertained me not only as the Daughter of their intimate Friend but as their own and honoured me with such expressions of Civility and Bounty that I thought my self too happy in being of their Train And the truth is I was not deceived these beginnings of kindness growing every day to greater perfection especially on the part of the Viceroy's Lady who appeared not able to live a moment without me She had been a great Beauty and was not then unhandsome though not very young She kept nothing from me but imparted to me her most private thoughts and made me the Confident of her dearest affections This lasted as long as I was disinteress'd but there is no trusting one another of our Sex especially in matters of Love I was reputed not unhandsome and having a full Purse at command I lived at that Court with Splendor enough It was presently known I was not the most inconsiderable of Genoa and this advantage set off with a little Beauty raised so great a number of Pretenders to me that I could not pass a day without treats and addresses of Love The Court of Naples hath always pass'd for the most Gallant of Italy by reason of the multitude of Persons of Quality in the Kingdom but was never so pleasant as then I was so young that I knew not what Love was and was not concerned to make haste to learn it but made the Cares and Sighs of those in Love my sport and divertisement But Love will in time be revenged and make sport of us that make sport of him I had not yet seen the man who had the secret to affect my heart no not one who could please though that Court had of all sorts and some very handsome The Son of the Viceroy being a young Lord very well accomplished and not a little concerned for me did but give me trouble

But as I hinted before I pay'd dear for that indifference and those slights I gloried so much in Five or six months after our arrival at Naples there appeared at Court a young Gentleman whom Love seems to have raised up for my ruin It was the Marquess Hippolito of the House of Accelyn equally considerable for his good parts as his Birth a Youth whose outside was taking enough to charm at first sight but as traiterous and wicked within as he was outwardly handsome and well accomplished When you have heard out my story you will say I speak with too much moderation It is hard to hate what we have been once truly in Love with In spite of that unpardonable outrage he did me I find that if I saw him and had it in my power to take my revenge of him by death which he hath but too well deserved my resentment would give place to the inclination I had for him He was newly come from France and had got the Court-air so peculiar and natural to those of quality of that Nation I was extreamly pleased to see him and looked upon him with delight the first time he appeared at Court and was sensible of it though with shame and anger at my self From thenceforth he was constantly in my thoughts though very troublesome to me I was displeased with my self for it and would upon any terms have put him out of my mind but the more I endeavoured it the more I found him settled there I saw him several times after and to end the War within me would fain have perswaded my self it was not for my honour to entertain such thoughts of that Gentleman but I found in the end my ingenuity deceived me That which contributed most to my ruin that both by his looks and his actions he seemed to prefer me before all the Ladies of the Court and though he did not declare so much yet I could observe he had more than an ordinary respect for me and would now and then say to my self some things I fancied he might and would have said to me At last I made my self of his Party and blaming my past coyness I thought it very allowable and just to have some esteem for a man who merited it from all the World Having once entertained this thought and convinced of it as reasonable my passion and Love finding my heart already more than half open press'd in and absolutely took it The Viceroy's Lady who often diverted her self in entertaining me with all the Intrigues of the Court having one day told me several Stories asked me if I knew the Marquess Hippolito's Mistress for that for some days past she observed him very solitary and out of humour which she took for an effect of some inclination Had she look'd upon me when she asked me the question she might have read in my countenance how much I was concerned for I chang'd colour three or four times But being upon the Tarrass of the Palace on the Country side she was looking that way and took no notice of me so that having time to recover my self I answered with an affected coldness that he was a dull young fellow and I believed incapable of Love and thereupon out of Jealousie her question had raised in me I made a description of him as really unlike him as contrary to the thoughts I had of him The Viceroy's Lady fell a laughing and having looked upon me so as she believed would have put me out of countenance is it possible says she that you should think so of a man whom all the other Ladies esteem the handsomest of the Court If I were not very well perswaded of your indifference for all men I should believe of you quite contrary to what you say But look to your self for sooner or later you shall be met with and your insensible heart shall have her turn as well as others As for me I confess were I as you that young Gentleman would please me and I would not have you slight him Think of it he is a Person of merit and worth and wants nothing of what may justly deserve Love from a fair Lady as you are Who would not have believed but she spoke in good earnest Who could have mistrusted her after so many kindnesses and favours she daily laid out on me I know not whether I was to blame but must confess I yielded my self to be taken and was ready to unsay in her presence all that I had spoken against the Marquess Hippolito and to acknowledge I had prevented her in the thoughts she had been pleased to inspire into me of him but my modesty restrained me I thought my self concerned in honour to expect an Address from him before I would confess my self taken I could never discover perfectly this Ladies design but as far as I can guess by the consequence she question'd me of pure jealousie endeavouring to discover whether I had any affection for the Marquess She had often seen us talk together judging by her thoughts of him that it it was hard enough for a Lady to be acquainted with a Gentleman of so many charming Qualities without loving him she had doubtless some apprehension I had on his account ceas d to be insensible But finding by what I said that I continued indifferent her jealousie giving place to Love-policy she desired to settle some friendship between him and me to serve her for a pretence to see him as oft as she desired At least I am of opinion these were the reasons obliged her to speak of me as she did and to tell me if ever I meant to love I could not make a better choice I stood out stifly to the end telling her my Liberty was so precious that I would not part with it for any consideration in the World if the keeping depended wholly on me But because those of my condition were not born to enjoy it all their Life whatever I endured I would be guided by my Friends and absolutely obey their pleasure who had the right to dispose of me Hereupon she embraced me and said all the Maids of the World would be wise were they of my humour and followed my example In the mean time since I was resolved not to slight the Counsel of Friends it was her advice I should admit the Marquess Hippolito to see me sometimes But Madam said I interrupting her hath he desired leave to do it and is it at his request you make me the motion She answered saying that I need not trouble my self for that but might believe this overture came not altogether from her and that the Marquess had found me out as well as others You may imagine what a pleasure she did me in telling me this who desired nothing more than the love of that Gentleman This discourse being over we parted extreamly mistaken in our thoughts of one another She imagin'd I was still the same and altogether insensible of love and I thought

by an advice which perhaps you little expect which is on the manner of making an honour You are perswaded without doubt That your Dancing Master has omitted nothing he ought to tell you hereupon and I am likewise willing to believe you salute with a better Grace than he that taught you to salute I know that most Masters are too formal in these matters They bow down and raise themselves up by rule only Every thing is starch'd in them all savours of Art and scarcely have they ended their Reverence but they seem to promise the beginning of a Courant or Minuet Persons of Quality on the contrary salute with a better Air and in a more natural manner If you feel still any kind of constraint you must get rid of it as soon as you can and give to your countenance and action all requisite liberty Remember then if you please That we must always endeavour to do with a good grace what may draw the first respects of Persons we address our selves to Nothing afterwards renders us more agreeable than Complaisance It is this which makes up the Charms of Society without it we must neither expect friendship among Men nor a diverting Conversation in Company nor any part at play or in a walk or any other diversion But when I say we must be complaisant I do not mean That base and servile Complaisance which Juvenal attributes to certain Greeks of his time who made their Court at Rome It must be acknowledg'd says he that this Nation is very comical Do you say it is hot they wipe the Sweat off their Forehead Do you complain it is cold they call for their furr'd Gown There are then several complaisances which one must not have It is not lawful to betray our sentiments in essential things nor to favour Vice in any occasion whatever One may shew the respect we have for great Persons and Ladies but we must never shew them a Complaisance which may be prejudicial to them They will no sooner perceive it but they will hate and despise us Lisidor I conceive that Complaisance is good in a thousand particulars and that no Conversation could be kept up long without it However I know not whether Conversation would not dye if Complaisance reigned too absolutely in a Company and every body will'd the same thing whereas it becomes lively and instructive as soon as an ingenious debate encourages us to maintain different opinions So that I would willingly know in what bounds one may include a commendable Complaisance imagining that it consists in a Medium between two vitious extreams like other Virtues Dorante We may without fear of being blam'd prefer through Complaisance one pleasure to another as play before walking and of Plays the choice of that which shall best please the Person for whom we have a deference However our Complaisance must not turn to our notable prejudice nor be prejudicial to Persons for whom we must not have so much Complaisance as to play at a play which a Person of great Quality may like without any Skill in it seeing our Complaisance might be suspected of Interest It will be generous if we know not so well the Game as the Person of Quality who engages us to play however we must never expose our selves to the undergoing a loss which may incommode us for this last Complaisance will be liable to be ridiculed The best effect of Complaisance is to make us endure the weakness of a Friend and not to yield to Anger when he is disordered by it Far from provoking him by earnestly withstanding what he desires we should immediately seem to yield to him and oppose only Sentiments full of Sweetness to the violence of his Passion But there are several Complaisances which I can never approve of We may observe one which may be called Universal which makes Men say Yes to all sorts of things without distinction and this appears to me to be such a sorry Humour that I should like better to be sharply contested with I find no less incommodious that which the Citizens have one for another It is ordinarily attended with long Compliments and never ending Ceremonies Lisidor The Complaisances you mention may displease but they deceive no body whereas those of the Court serve commonly only to make one take false Measures A great Lord promises all and a quarter of an hour after he does not so much as remember that he made any Promise So that all we get by these fair words is the vexation of renouncing the Hopes we were made to conceive Dorante The Complaisance which one has for Back-biters is yet more pernicious for this is a sacrificing those who are absent and the upholding a Vice which all generous Persons detest I find this Complaisance so mean so criminal that I think it needless to say any thing more against it being perswaded you can never be capable of falling into it Let us rather return to the Subject which has cast us on this matter and let us say That the Complaisance which we ought to have for Ladies has Bounds large enough You know that Men are weak but with respect which we owe to Women we may say they are yet weaker and more credulous than we As they are ordinarily prepossess'd with a good Opinion of themselves so they like those who flatter this Self love and cannot bear with any body that shall disabuse them A solid Friend who should undertake to open their Eyes will soon be cast off for a Friend and I have found it more than once That they put a sincere Person on very vexatious Trials Not that I would be so scrupulous to contradict them in matters of small moment On the contrary I would give to the Defects which they might have the Names of the Virtues which come nearest them I would call Covetousness Frugality I would commend in a lean Lady the liberty of her Shape and I would endeavour to commend the ample Corpulency of Madam Bouville a great fat Woman in Scarron 's Comical Romance by saying she was in good plight Sometimes one must declare himself smitten with the golden Colour of Red otherwhiles with the Brown and Black all being to be commended according to the Companies wherein a Man shall find himself If it be permitted to have this flattering Complaisance for Ladies you judge you must not fail to practise when with them the Precept of never speaking of a Defect before Persons who may have the like To speak all in two words let 's say in general That to be complaisant it is good to consult the Countenance and Humour of the Person whom we would please and that we do in such a manner conform our selves thereto that she may not doubt of the part we take in what concerns her I think we have talk'd enough of these matters for to day it is late and you have need of Rest ENTERTAINMENT V. Of Decent Behaviour at Table THE next morning

they have requires they should be indulg'd and their first faults pardoned And it being not fit I should speak only for my interest I could wish likewise that instead of rallying Old People they should have all Respect shewed them I have heard say that Nations who had the power of chusing Magistrates took them always from among Ancient Persons But why should we jear Old Men Is it because they have lived long is this their fault If it be it is a Crime which every one is desirous to be guilty of Erastus It 's your turn now Lindamire to speak Lindamire I would not have Women rallied but that Men should have a Complaisance for them mixt with Respect as is observable in the behaviour of polite Gentlemen However to be no less equitable than Lisidor I would not be more partial towards my Sex than he has shewed himself for the interests of his Age. And I acknowledge I like worse that Women should undertake to rally Men for they expose themselves thereby to blunt Repartrees and bring Men out of the bands of Respect and Civility wherein they should always keep Philemon And I for my part add that we must not let Lindamire nor Lisidor speak or resolve to hold our tongues I doubt not but Cleonice and Dorante are very glad to see the manner after which they enter into our Conversations but Belise and I who have not the same interest cannot be expected to like that young Persons should shew themselves more able than we Cleonice He make no answer to a Person who will regale after several manners it were better to renew our discourse that I seek still farther for Persons whom it is not fit to rally It is not to be doubted but the unfortunate are of that number and that we ought to shew our compassion to their misfortune far from making it a Subject of Raillery Belise There is also a kind of inhumanity at laughing at deformed Persons whether Lame or Crookt-back'd This Man not having made himself why should I reproach him with his defects as one might do a Carver for an ill proportion'd Statue Erastus I find no less injustice in mocking of a Stranger in that he speaks not well our Language or that his Bonnet pleases us less than a Hat Philemon For my part I pardon one who rallies the first on some slight fault but I cannot suffer he should make a Jest of a considerable failing Lupo d'Uberti according to the report of a modern Author encreast his shame instead of excusing his Cowardise when he himself made a Jest grounded on the allusions of his Name Having surrendred a Castle which he might defend he contented himself with saying That Wolfs did not like to be shut up But let 's see whether Dorante can cite many Persons whom it is permitted to rally Dorante Pray then tell me if you please whether I may not rally People who are full of themselves who are conceited of their own merit in a word who are ridiculous or intollerable through the extravagancy of their presumption Can you greatly blame me if I enquire seriously of an hectoring Bully whether he has killed no body to day and entreat him to tell me what Captain is to be esteem'd most after himself Caesar or Alexander Shall I spare an infinite number of People who carry the Fortune of the World in their Hands who promise employs dispose of places at Court help Maids to Husbands and Batchelors to rich Wives who can tell what-passes in all places know what the King whisper'd the other morning in the Queen's Ear who talk only of Lords Dukes and Earls and look upon it as a great condescention to so much as cite the name of a Knight or ordinary Gentleman Will you spare those who step first into all Fashions and distinguish themselves by the magnificent Guadiness of their Cloaths being but of ordinary Birth and as mean Fortune May I not seem to admire the Points and Ribbands of one of these Gallants and to make exclamtions on every thing that I see May I not affirm that his Cloath is too good to have been made in Europe That his Peruke is longer by a Fingers breadth than that of such a Lord 's and of a better colour and sits better on him than that of the Count de does on him Will you forbid me to tell him in his ear that there is a most rich Stuff made in such a Place and that only the King and his Royal Brother have any of it yet and that I esteem my self happy in having so luckily met with him before this Wear becomes common Shall I not laugh at those Persons who think they are full of Science who approve of nothing who condemn every thing who speak all Sentences and explain sometimes English into Greek to make it better understood as he that pronounc'd gravely these words It is with reason that we call Man a little World that is to say a Microcosm Will you not suffer me to deride a Covetous Miser whom an insatiable Greediness makes starve with Cold and Hunger in the midst of abundance May I not tell him that his Money is no more his than mine seeing he makes no more use of it Would you have me love an odious Person who contributes to the Publick Misery who keeps lockt up a Treasure which would be useful in Trades and who takes a secret pleasure in seeing the poor suffer that he may make the better Market of what he keeps in his Barns Cleonice I confess the gentlest Treatment which Covetous Men can expect is to be rallied and I think it is with these sort of People that one diverts ones self most Philemon You have perhaps heard a story of a Man of this stamp who was more covetous than Plauto's Euclio It is said that he had a prodigious heap of Corn whence he pretended to draw a most considerable Profit when of a sudden the Rain which was much wanted came and destroyed his Hopes He would needs live no longer after this misfortune he fitted a Rope to his Neck and fastned it to a Beam of his Chamber and throwing himself in a Fury off the Chair he stood on by mishap he threw that down which made such a Noise that the People underneath came running up and beheld this Spectacle and a Neighbour cut the Rope to save if possible this Wretches Life In fine he was so carefully plied with proper Remedies that his Life was recovered against his Will Endeavours were also used to compose his Mind and a certain Almanack was produced that promised such Storms of Hail as would destroy all the Corn in the Fields But he fell again into disquiet when he was told in what manner he was preserv'd Nothing would serve his turn but that his Rope should be paid for and knowing that his Neighbour laugh'd at his Folly he got a Warrant for him to bring him before a Justice to satisfie for the

this purpose MY Mother died very Young leaving no Child but me My Father's Offices obliging him to a constant Attendance at Court he committed the care of my Infancy to a Sister of his settled about a hundred Miles from London He could not at thy Distance see me so often as he would so that when I came to Fourteen Years of Age he thought by disposing me in Marriage to bring me nearer him The Earl of Rutland had but one Son and the intimate Friendship between my Father and him induc'd them to think of a stricter Alliance Our Fortunes were equal and the Earl of Rutland's Son being Return'd out of Italy his Father acquainted him with his Design of Marrying him His Affection was no way engag'd to the contrary And the Business was agreed on without my Knowledge who was look'd upon as too Young to be Consulted with in a Cause of that Nature Yet Madam my Heart was sensible so early and capable of Discerning between Person and Person and made it appear by Experience Obedience and Affection do no not always agree The Equipage of the Young Gentleman was no sooner ready but he came where I was Being not in Love nor expecting much Pleasure in waiting on a Mistress he had never seen and was represented to him as a Child he pray'd Three of his Friends to Honour his Nuptails with there Presence The Earl of Essex was one of them When they arriv'd my Looks were divided between several Men all much of one Age and equally unknown to me I know well enough the Earl of Rutland's Son ws design'd my Husband and I presently wish'd he were the Man whom I afterwads knew to be the Earl of Essex at the first sight of whom all my Trouble for being Marry'd so Young was presently over He was the First spoke to me and look'd on me more earnestly than any of the others This made me believe it was as I wish'd But I was sadly undeceiv'd when the Young Earl of Rutland was presented to me I Blush'd and Sigh'd not knowing the Cause The Earl of Essex did also the like his Eyes went still in search of me and I was not reserv'd enough to avoid them The trouble I appear'd in was attributed to the Innocence of my Age and I quickly learnt to take care to hide it Our Parents being arriv'd we were Marry'd without being ask'd by them If we were willing The Earl of Rutland's Son appear'd pleas'd with his Fortune and perhaps found me more amiable than he expected I Madam was so in Love with the Earl of Essex all I could do was not to hate my Husband Yet I had the good luck my Kindness for my Lord of Essex was not so much as suspected 'T was believ'd I was then sensible of no other Pleasures but what Children delight in but no Age is a stranger to Love I quickly knew what it was to have a Kindness and soon complain'd the Liberty of my Inclination had been usurp'd upon I had little joy in being so far Mistress of my self as to wish I could love my Husband and endeavour it and to have an indifference for the Earl of Essex for all my Efforts to that purpose were vain The first Resolution I took was to avoid the sight of a Man who could only contribute to make me more unhappy And when he had taken his leave with the rest of my Lord of Rutland's Friends I pray'd my Father to spare my Youth for some time and not to expose me so early to the Court where I never had been My Desire was granted and when my Father return'd for London to satisfie me they took me to Rutland But the Course I took produc'd not the Effect I propos'd The Idea of the Earl of Essex accompanied me in my Solitude And my Father-in-Law being dead we were forc'd to go to London after a Years stay in the Country I trembled to think I should see the Earl of Essex again and resolv'd with my self I would be the most retir'd Person on Earth to avoid all Occasions of meeting him when News was brought me he was gone with the Earl of Leicester into the Low-Countries The Queen receiv'd me with that Kindness she usually expresses to those she intends to Honour I admir'd her Merit and the Pleasure to see my self respected by her suspended a while my secret inquietudes But within less than half a Year my Father died and soon after my Husband I was much afflicted at these losses I bewail'd my Father's Death a long time And if I had not for my Husband that great Kindness which is rarely met with in Marriages of Obedience my Reason and his Complaisance had forc'd me to esteem him and to express Acknowledgments sincere enough to save me the Trouble of any just Reproach from my self or any other The Queen having told me she desir'd to have me near her I quitted my House for an Apartment in this Palace and my Fortune which was very considerable gave me such Charms as drew about me a number of Suitors who pretended mighty Kindness for me but were really rather a Trouble than Pleasure to me In this condition was I when the Earl of Essex returned to London The Queen's Army had been Victorious and she order'd a publick Thanksgiving when the Generals arriv'd I waited on her to St. Pauls and had not the Power by any Consideration to be so reserv'd as not single out from all the Nobility of the Kingdom the Earl of Essex alone to fix my Eyes on The morrow he was one of the first to wait on the Queen I was with her before I was mov'd at the sight of him we looked on one another several times with equal Concern Madam said he as soon as he could speak to me I have not had a moments liberty to signifie to you how great a share I bear in your Losses I believe answered I you are sorry for my Misfortune 'T is natural for every one to be concern'd for such a Person as you are adds he But Madam I am much more concern'd than any other The Queen interrupted us But in all the respects the Earl of Essex paid her I would not but observe his Eye was towards me I confess I was glad to see him so eager and perhaps I answered him a little too soon but I was young tender and Independent His Merits were then extraordinary and he had the advantage of my first inclination He came the same day to see me in my Apartment and fail'd not to do it constantly afterwards All his Actions perswaded me at length that he lov'd me and it was not long e're he let me know it Madam said he one Evening having brought me to my Chamber after I had left the Queen Do you remember the time we accompany'd the Earl of Rutland to your Country-House I have not forgot Sir answered I that you were one of them that did him that Honour Is that all you