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A80380	Intrigues of love: or, The amours and gallantries of the French court, during the reign of that amorous and warlike prince Henry IV. (Surnamed the Great.) Being a true and pleasant history. Newly made English from the French, By Sir Edwine Sadleyr Baronet; Histoire des amours du grand Alcandre. English	Conti, Louise-Marguerite de Lorraine, princesse de, 1574-1631.; Sadleir, Edwin, Sir, d. 1719.	1689 (1689)	Wing C5955C; ESTC R226033	33,622	115

INTRIGUES OF LOVE OR THE AMOURS AND GALLANTRIES OF THE FRENCH Court During the Reign of that Amorous and Warlike Prince HENRY IV. Surnamed the Great Being a true and pleasant History Newly made English from the French By Sir Edwine Sadleyr Baronet London Printed for R. G. and sold by Benj. Crayle at the Peacock and Bible at the West end of St. Pauls 1689. To his Belov'd Consort THE LADY S In return for the Original from Her receiv'd THE first Fruits of my Pen My Dear are at thy Feet The History of the Amours of King HENRY the Fourth Surnam'd the Great of France as in an English dress so far they being properly and genuinely my own and I hope not unfaithfully render'd from their native French wherein it is pitty tho so Elegant a Language that the Beauties they contain should have so long lain hid from such at least who are unseen in that Tongue Whether now I have perform'd with an equivalent success and made my Author speak English with the same advantage as he doth his French I must leave Thee and my Readers to judge I know I have endeavour'd to do him Justice and so to Copy from the fair Original as not to leave so much as one good Lineament behind and if I have fail'd in this Attempt I shall yet have this honour to fall a Sacrifice to Thy Self and the better Sex for whom the following Leaves are principally intended and it shall be my Boast that I am such a Sacrifice But may Thy Self and those Created Dèities but smile upon this first Essay and the Encouragement may produce some better Services from Thine and Theirs eternally obsequious E. S. The Author's Address to the Reader REader 't is not the Epidemick itch That oft so many does bewitch That odd fantastick strange Disease That makes men lust so much for Praise No such Capricio prompt me on To undertake what here is done Let then the Learn'd contest the Bays Whilst I 〈…〉 Although the free commodity of Wit Was ne're Monopolized yet Vnvail'd th' ensuing Hist'ry lies Seeking alone the ambition'd Prize The blessing of the Ladies Eyes Before whose Altars 't is a Sacrifice A l'Autheur sur son Ingeniuse Traduction Epigramme AUtantque dureront les Intrigues d'Amour Tandisque sur des Coeurs Cupid aura l'Empire Les Hommes si long temps les Dames de Cour Cette Traduction prendront plaisir à lire Elle est douce elle est mâle elle est pleine d'attrais certainement elle est fidelle Si le Francois est bon meilleur en est l'Anglois Si l'Autheur ne paroist c est qu il vole fort haut Parmy les Traducteurs il vole comme l'Aigle Au dessus des autres cyseaux Lors qu'elle prend l'Essort vole à tire d'ailes P. B. To the Author on his Ingenious Translation AS the skill'd Gard'ner doth by kind remove The growth and beauty of rich Plants improve With no less my stick skill kind Sir you here Transplant and better from the Gallick Air Lo here an instance of its choicest Fruit Whilst richer Juices feed th'impov'rish'd Root 'T would please methinks Great HENRY's Shade to see This noble Task so well perform'd by thee Smiling the Story of his Loves he 'd read And bless the Hand that rais'd him from the Dead That Hand that gives him hopes to live as long And great in 'th ' English as the Gallick Tongue France then no more thy nobler Climate boast Since we perform as well and with less cost The naked Matter true we do receive Yet Life and Spirit to that Matter give Th'unpollish'd Lump invests it self anew Casts off its old and takes a nobler Hue. Ev'n as the Snake its tatter'd skin lays by And through that means grows fairer to the eye Since then Dear Sir here in few vacant hours With such success you can Transplant these Flowers Let some fresh Subject flow from your soft Pen. Charm the fair Sex and gain the praise of Men. B. C. THE AMOURS OF King HENRY the Fourth c. KIng Henry the Great arriving in histurn to his Succession in the Kingdom of his Ancestors found no little difficulty in putting himself into Possession for as much as he was of the new Religion and for the Rancounters which he upon that account met with from many of the Greatest of his Subjects that would not acknowledge him the most part also of the principal Cities and wall'd Towns holding of their Party it behoved him in good earnest to labour for so brave and honourable an interest The first Arms that he took up was Normandy But that which there pass ' both at Arques and at Diepe being Recorded by most Historians of th● Times I shall here praetermit and content my self with the Relation only 〈◊〉 what I have both learnt and seen in his Court. In the time of the Royal Henry th● Third there was a countess i● Guienne of whom he was very much enamour'd the Countese o● Guise who appear'd to be the sole and unrival'd Monarch of his Will 〈◊〉 those being the only Favorites whom she recommended and amongst the rest the Marquess of Parabere whose Sister was at that time with this Lady But he meets another Lady in his passage towards the Frontiers of Normandy 〈◊〉 to whose new Conquest the firs● must resign * Widow of Philibert Earl of Gramont who dy'd at the Siege of La Fere in the Year 1580. A Widow young and of so amiable an appearance in the Eyes of this Great Prince that with ease he forgot her to whom he had made so many contrary Protestations And in truth she had those Charms that were not to be found in the first Both being of equal Quality and the * The Marchioness of Guercheville was Anthoinette of Pons first Wife to Henry of Sylly Earl of Rocheguion and second to Charles du Plessis Lord of Lyancourt first Esquire of France and Governour of Paris Marchioness of Guercheville such was the Name of the latter being Educated in the fairest and best govern'd Court of those times that I mean of the deceased King Henry the Third a Prince than whom none knew better to play the King and rule his Honours and all things that belong'd to Majesty To her therefore this new Captive Prince gave himself wholly up and In such sort forgot the Countess of Guise as that nothing remain'd of her in his memory but her very Name And the Marquess of Parabere who had been the Confident of that Amour could do no less than tell him that he ought at least to conserve a Friendship that he had all his Life-time profess'd Tho transported by his new Amour no other thoughts could possess him but those of motioning a Marriage to the Marchioness of Guercheville whom he knew would not harken to him upon any other terms His Love-affair being in this posture he advances towards his Enemies whom the main concern

the prosecution of his Imperial Right which so unjustly they would extort from him doth necessitate him to attend and is by so many good Successes encourag'd that he undertakes the Siege of Paris Sed cedant iterum arma Cupidini But Love an unseasonable God must revel again though in the midst of Arms A young and Beautiful * The Abess of Montmartre was called Marie of Beauvilliers Daughter to the Earl of St. Aignan Abess of Montmartre of the House of Clairemont strikes him at this siege and so infatuates the Royal Lover that the Siege being yet dubious he takes her away from Montmartre and causing her to be conducted to Senlis a Town under his Obedience she reigns the Mistress of his heart for some little time In the mean time the Marchioness of Guercheville that his Honour may not be too much blotted by her desertion is to be some Eminent * The Lords of his Court is Monsieur de Lyancourt before mentioned Lord of his Court and the King Mediates the Match soliciting her as much now in favour of her new Lover as before he had done of himself Hitherto therefore yielding a modest Ear to the King she is periwaded to the Match receiving the Royal Testimony as shall afterwards be related that she continued still in his Favour After the accomplishment of this design the King taking his rounds to confirm and establish his Authority comes in the end to Mantes whither the Ladies having resorted had made some figure of a Court so fair a concourse of Beauties and particularly those of Quality whose Brothers and Husbands heknew and who had been so much at his Service gave no small pleasure to the King. The rest who in his younger age he had known in the Courts of his Predecessors he treated likewise with all Civility and receiv'd from them no less than an answerable respect Some time before his arrival to this place the Duke of Bellgard an old Favourite of the deceased King Henry's had Characteris'd to him the Beauty of a young Lady a proper Entertainment for so amorous a Prince with whom he was very much inamour'd and as she was to admiration Fair so he could not forbear to Commend her She was not at that time at Mantes and the Relation of the Duke of Bellgard had excited in the King a Curiosity to see her but his affairs would not suffer him for this time though soon after when he departed thence for Senlis he obtain'd the desire he had of seeing Madam D'Estree such was the Name of Bellgard's Mistress and at Senlis entertains her with all the possible Gallantries that his time would give him leave to perform which done and departing from thence after the seeing of many other places he returns to Mantes where the unfortunate Bellgard asking his leave to go see his Mistress too late discovers that his own Tongue had betray'd him to the loss of her and that the King had been too much taken with the sight of her at Senlis thus prov'd the poor lover the Author of his own misfortune and indeed we are all too often more obnoxious to hurt from our selves than others By this view doth he loose not only the permission of seeing of his Mistress but hazard the Friendship of his Master and the good hour of his Fortune Some time before he had stay'd long at Mantes and had been extreamly ill the Ladies that was there rendring Him all the conrtesie and assistance that they could and amongst the rest the young and beautious Madam de Humieres who was resolv'd to approve herself to him by her Services not only for the reputation that he had of being one of the greatest Gallants of the Age but also for that particular esteem she had for his Person This accident gave a fair oppertunity to express her respects to the fair Madam d'Humieres and to the afflicted Duke to receive them who was so happy as by this to find an occasion which he might otherways have long sought for and in vain But not so great are the Lover's long for Bellgard upon a visit to the * The Lord of Estree was John Antonie of Estree Marquess of Caeuvers who had married Francess Babou of du Bourdaissere Lord of Estree falls passionately in Love with his fair Daughter the aforesaid Madam d'Estree Who tho at first she with some reluctancy received Loving and being belov'd of the Admiral d'Villars a person most amiable and deserving yet was she not long cruel being also passionately in Love with her new Lover to whom the Admiral seeing clearly what was most for her interest offers a thousand reproaches which serv'd only to advance his Rival in his Affairs and so began to neglect her that instead of reclaiming her from her other Lover he threw her into an utter despondency of his Affection It was now that the King became inamour'd of Madam d'Estree the Mistress of Bell'gard tho through the importancy of his Affairs inevitably diverting him another way he could see her but once 〈◊〉 Voiage however in his Heart 〈◊〉 the kindled Fires and is of nothing more thoughtful during the Voiage than of her which is long enough In the mean time the * The Duke of Languille was Henry of Orleans who afterwards Married Catherine of Gonzakes Daughter of the Duke of Nevers Duke of Langueville no more proof against the Arrows of the blind God than her other Lovers at Mantes commenceth Captive to the All-conqu'ring Madam d'Estree a Lady so universally effectual by her Charms upon all that beheld her that to love and look upon her was only Synonimous Terms or terms expressive of the self same thing This Prince had before lov'd Madam d'Humieres the late beautious Subject of our Pen who having lost her first Lover had now imbarq'd herself a fresh And indeed so little constant was he always to his choice that he lov'd 〈◊〉 present best whilst Madam● 〈◊〉 on the other side who thought to too insufferable a detraction from her Excellences to be without an admirer had likewise furnish'd herself afresh This intreague continu'd during the Voiage of the King but he resents it so strongly at his return that he becomes most furiously jealous insomuch that he began to remit of his favour to Bellgard giving him to understand that he would no more of a Companion in his Amours than in that of his Kingdome and that his passion was dearer to him than any thing else Bellgard was troubled at this Language and more especially at the tone and action with which it was delivered and promised the King all he desired whilst Madamoisell d'Estree who lov'd not the King and had bestow'd all her Affections upon another was so inveterately inrag'd that she protested she could not love him and ceast not to reproach him with the hindrance of her Marriage to the Duke of Bellgar'd that made his Court to that end and immediatly departed Mantes and

retir'd herself to her Fathers House The King to whom his Enemies never gave any astonishment conceiv'd so great an impression from this Action of his Mistress that he knew not what to resolve upon Sometimes he fancy's with himself that seeing her the next day might reduce her to her former clemency But this pleas'd him not in Company and to go alone was matter of the extreamist hazard War being of all sides of him and two Garrisons of his Enemies in his way which must lie through the great and wast Forrest so that he could not devise with himself what Counsel to take but his passion surmounting all causeth him not withstanding to undertake the Journey four Leagues of which he rides on Horseback accompany'd by five of the most Trusty of his Servants And being come within three leagues of the Ladies House he Assumes the habit of a Peasant puts a sack of Chaff upon his Back and goes thither on foot having intelligence it seems the day before where he should see her and find her in a Gallery with only her Siste● with her who was espous'd to th● Marquess of Villar's She was so surpriz'd to find the King * Madam of Estreé the Person meant by She was so surpris'd c. was Sister to Hippolite Juliette of Estreé Daughter to the Lord of Estreé and Wife he says to the Marquess of Villars or Cerisay being styled as well one as the other and afterwards one of the King's Mistresses upon the decease of her Sister in such an Equipage and so ill satisfied with a Change that appear'd so ridiculous in him that she gave him but an ill Reception yet this rather for the Cloaths that he had on than for himself and staid but just long enough with him to let him know that they misbecom'd him so much she could not look upon him and so left him Her Sister more civil excuseth her coldness and perswaded him that it was the fear only of her Father that caus'd her to retire and did all that she could to qualifie such a discontentment which indeed was a thing not difficult for her to do he being a Prince so effectually captivated that nothing could loose him from his chains Now as this Voiage was not only perilous but to very little purpose so it put the people into an equal astonishment to think what should become of the King. He reduceth them to their former Temper at his return and to the end that he might no more be rack'd by so ungrateful a thing as a disappointment in this case he invents this stratagem to remove the cause the Father of this Lady to whom the hinted absence was imputed under colour therefore of his service the old Gentleman being under some Provincial Trust he causeth him to come and live at Mantes not a little pleas'd with the happy acquest of his desire the means of seeing his Mistress as often as he should have thought fit if the necessity of his occasions had not determin'd him another way In the interim we must not pass ver the adventure of the * The Marquess of Humieres was Giles of Conflans Armantiere Son to the Earl of Auchy Marquess d'Humieres who at the Age of two and twenty years defended the Town of Senlis during the rigour of a great Siege running the very utmost hazard of his life and susteining two such great Assaults that it was contrary to the opinion of all those that was with him in the Garrison and even of the Governour himself not yeilding the least to Capitulate but bravely and stoutly maintaining it till such time as he gave oppertunity to the King's Servants to relieve the place who hasten'd in their relief as soon as possible the chiefest being related to the Marquess not insensible of his danger and unwilling he should be lost where he also gain'd a * The Battle fought at Senlis in the month of May 1589. most memorable Battle and much advanced the affairs of the King on that side the River Loire This young Warrier in so green an Age had rendred a thousand Proofs of his Vallour and had thought of nothing hitherto but his Honour But after this so brave and Masculine an Action having not only rais'd the Siege and discomfited the Enemy but also trayl'd in the greatest part of their Cannon into the Town and nail'd down the rest he begins to bethink himself of some diversion And at Mantes whether he went for that purpose the Hero that before had smil'd at the reports of Cannon and frustrated the improsperous aims of his adversaries at Senlis Siege is by the resistless powers of Love and Beauty wounded and incaptiv'd the fair Object was Madam d'Simie whom seeing there he fell most passionately in Love with This Lady besides her beauty was so agreeable and had so many Charms that she put him into such a condition that he had neither Eyes nor Thoughts but what was hers this continued wholly unperceiv'd for some time and the Husband of this Lady was the last of those that discover'd it the Husband I mean of Madam d'Simie But no sooner came it to his knowledg but all over enrag'd and in a jealous and brutish fury he conveys her away to a Castle more fit for Lions than for her yet notwithstanding is careful neither to say nor do any thing that might enrage the Marquess d'Humieres having no desire to grapple with so rude and potent an Enimy but during this Treatment of the Lady the Marquess however contrives with himself to releive her and to apply a remedy with which the present state of Affairs doth furnish him indeed he did not esteem it the best yet it was such as serv'd at the least to the main purpose to redeem his Mistress from her Prison Now the King being return'd back from his Voiage to Mantes Besieges and takes the Town of Diepe commiting the Government of it to Simie who retir'd thither with his Wife This fair and commodious place ministers an oppertunity to the Marquess d'Humieres of having some intelligence of his Mistress who us'd all imaginable means to continue his amour To this purpose therefore ho causeth a Christning to be made to which Madam d'Simie and her Husband are invited who could not fail to come since they were persons of such Quality that invited them and their Company likewise so much solicited by their own Relations but the Marquess d'Humiere and Madam d'Simie could not here be discreet enough perhaps through a little too much rapture with the interview to prevent the Jealousie of her Husband from breaking out and almost expressing it self in the horrid Murther of his own Wife whom he brings back to his own Habitation takes away all her Servants and claps her up close in a Chamber D'Humieres inform'd of this ill usage sought all possible means to redress it but could not openly attempt it least it might justifie the conceived ●ealousies of Simie who would

certainly upon this have kill'd his Wife The next recourse therefore that he made was the seeking some occasion to die to which end he thoughtfully retires himself to one of his * The Castle of Ham in Piccardy Castles where all the Nobility and Gentry coming to visit him and observing so many of them together he proposeth an Adventure of Storming an adjacent Castle of the Enemies in open day which Motion though all at the first resisted such an-Enterprize appearing to be too hazardous in the day-time yet in fine overcome by his perswasions they unanimously consent taking therefore along with him some of his Infantry he comes at so lucky an hour to the Castle that applying his Petards he blew open one of the Gates the Guards of the Castle being then gone off but the Inhabitants recovering let fly a Volley of Musquets and so ruffly saluted the head of this young Generous Warrier that at once it put an end to his growing Lawrels and his Love having scarce yet attain'd the Age of 22 Years When the King heard this he infinitely resented it not only for those Services which he had already receiv'd from him but also for those which he might very probably have expected from so much Vertue if he had liv'd And I think I am oblig'd to give him the Character of being one of the generousest of Men and one of the Valiantest perhaps of the Age. Madam d'Simie bore this Death very impatiently for a little while but no sooner did she something recover her self but she solaceth with the thoughts of a new Amour Thus far Madam d'Humieres and her Lover During all this interval Madam d'Estree continues her Affection to the Duke of Bellgard notwithstanding her Amour with the King. And likewise gives incouragement to the Duke of Longueville both writing to him and receiving Letters from him But Bellgard resolves to desist and not hazard his Good grace with the King for the loss of a Mistress which he might so easily regain And Longueville too seeing his Prince return Entreats back the Letters she had receiv'd from him promising to do her the same Justice without discontinuing of his Affection to her In brief he manag'd the business so well that the time and place are appointed this action but in Contradiction to to his Promise deceives her of the most Important part of what he had receiv'd from her thinking to Influence her by this politick Reserve and to aw and oblige her to his Will. But so mortally provoked is Madam d'Estree with this Gullery that in the end it cost no less than the Life of this Prince For ceasing not from this time to render him all the ill offices to the King and the Duke not induring the Displeasure which he receiv'd from the King upon it becomes a Party against him and at his entrance into the Town of Daurlens finished his Life by the receit of a Musquet shot upon his Head. People generally believing that Madam d'Estree had now obtain'd her desire in his dispatch Thus ended the Duke of Longueville for having been too politick In the mean time the Lord of Estree the Father of this Lady much troubled to see the Royal Amour each minute so much advancing was willing to rid himself of this Tyranny The most probable and equitable expedient for which seem'd to be to Marry her And a * Nicholas Damerval Lord of Lyancourt which near to Nesteen in Piccardy Person of Qua●ity in the Country offering himself ●o this end of an Estate not incom●etent for the allyance though of 〈◊〉 Body as much deform'd as his Mind Madam d'Estree consents yet Swares ●he King not only to be present at the ●ay of her Nuptials but that he ●hould so emphatically conveigh her ●way thence from the sight of ●er Husband that she should never ●ee him again or at least not other●ise than by the King's permission ●erswading him that she could never ●onsent to any that should make her ●nfaithful to him But the Day passing and the King ●ot being there who was now ingag'd 〈◊〉 an enterprise of importance she ●wears a hundred Oaths to be reveng'd ●f the King and yet that she would ●ot lye with her Husband who thinking his Authority over her would be greater in his own House than in the Town he Married her in over which the Lord of Estree was Governour carries her away thither who notwithstanding caused herself to be so well accompany'd by the Ladies her Kinswomen that were at the Wedding that he durst not attempt any thing upon her but what was pleasing and the King arriving in the interim at the next Town commands back his Mistress who was thus conducted at least upon some hopes of advantage by it at the Court. And conveys her away with him Accompany'd by her Cosen and her Sister presently going on to Attaque the Town of Carthens which Siege held so long that it gave time enough to an * Isabelle Babou Wife to the Marquess of Sourd●● Franciss of Escoubleau Aunt of Madammoise● d'Estree to bestow a Visit upon her Neice a subtle and discreet Woman by whom she was so well instructed that she wholly submitted the Royal Captive to her Devotion And the Marquess of Sourdre her Uncle was Created Governour of this Town as soon as taken by the King. The King thus in Love with Madam d'Estree is now essaying to disanul his Marriage with the * The Queen of Nuvarr is Marguerite of Vallois of France Sister to Henry the Third first Wife to Henry the Fourth Queen of Navarr a Princess not only of Extraction from but Sister to a King yet alas to Crown whos 's other Vertues the valuable one of the Chaste Luoretia was too much wanting for which they had been long since separated and the Royal Sinner betaken her self to one of her * The Queens Castle was that of Vsson in Auvergne Castles a place not only by its Fortifications render'd Impregnable but also by the advantages of its situation upon a high Mountain and in a very cragged Country This Queen gave out that she was willing to comply with the King upon Terms upon which they had agreed had not this new Amour not only interrupted the Treaty but put an utter barr to any further proceeding in it the King fearing least the dissolution of this Marriage once effected those of his Servants that affected him might be urgent with him to Marry again which he could by no means endure Being one that neither could nor would love any thing but his Mistress whom this would have much offended her self being as before was intimated contracted During this was depending the Match between * Catherine d'Bourbon the King's Sister was Wife to Henry of Lorrain Duke of Barr who dy'd at Nancy in the year 1604. Catherine d'Bourbon the King's Sister and the Count of Soisons to whom the King had propos'd her but changing his mind he resolves

his new Mistress and it was very calm Weather with the Court the King also at this time Marryed Madamoiselle d'Guise to a Prince of the Blood Royal with whom the Queen gave what was neither beneath her own Quality to give or the others to receive The King seeing again the Marchioness of Vernueil had a great Inclination to her yet kept it so secretly that it was long before it came to the Queens knowledg but as soon as she knew it she was strangly troubled and absolutely forbid all such Persons any access to her that should at any time visit the Marchioness under the pain of being driven from her presence which the King took ill but yet was forc'd to bare with it a little after the King a never failing Gallant becomes Enamour'd of the Dutchess of Nevers a Princess of great Vertue that very much honour'd his person but had no great esteem for his passion This season hapned commodiously for the Kings designs for the King intending to Christen the young Prince's his Sons had invited the Dutchess of Mantoue to be Godmother to the Eldest This Princess was Sister to the Queen and her Husband a near Relation to the Duke of Neverrs insomuch that he obliged the Dutchess of Nevers to stay longer than usual at the Court to give oppertunity to the King to pursue his Amour the King seeking all occasions to speak to her whilst she on the other hand avoided it as much as possible waving it to the very utmost limits of a due respect in the end the Ceremonies being perform'd the Duke and Dutchess of Nevers without so much as bidding adieu retir'd themselves from the Court the latter resolving never again to return the Duke being soon after employ'd as Envoy to Rome went herself along with him thither and oblig'd the King to dispossess himself of a fancy that not only prov'd fruitless but very troublesome to him being not accustom'd to the difficulties he found in this Amour This Voyage endur'd above a Year and the Dutchess at her return came to do reverence to the Queen the King being then with her Upon which the King beholding her with a bended brow let her know aloud that he thought she was extreamly chang'd but the Dutchess taking no notice at all of it continu'd still to deport herself in the same manner and to spend the rest of her life in all the modesty that could become or was requisite in an excellent and vertuous Woman The King by this was again reconcil'd to the Marchioness d'Vernueil which the Queen so impatiently bore that notwithstanding all the endeavours of the Council to prevent them and to show how disagreeable they was to Majesty it fomented most extream differences betwixt them And now there happen'd a very surprising accident that made much noise and indeed was very strange the King and Queen going to a house of theirs near Paris on the other side the River Sein they was obliged to pass it in the * The Ferry spoken of in which the King and Queen pass'd the River Sien overturning was the cause of a Bridge being soon after built over that River Ferry the Coach with these two in it accompany'd only with the Princess de Conty and the Duke of Montpensier by some accident or other was overturn'd before it came to the Shore the King and Duke escaping very well leaping soon enough out of the Coach but the Ladies ran some hazard and drank a little more than they desir'd or rather the ambitious Element squench'd its thirst a little too much upon the Ladies Some few days after the King going to Visit the Marchioness of Vernueil she condoles him for the unhappy chance and tells him she was in great pain for him but if she had been present and had seen the King leaping safe out of the Coach she should have had the civility to have said let the Queen drink a saying it seems us'd upon the Ceremony of choosing King and Queen which she wittily made use of upon this occasion which when the Queen came to hear she flew out into so great and implacable a rage that she was fifteen days without changing so much as one word with the King so that Persons of great Figure and Quality was forc'd to interpose to qualifie her Resentments in the end the accord was made and there must be a Ball to attest it wherein the Queen resolv'd to give her self the pleasure of having a part But it is unhappily interrupted for the King insisting upon the reception of the Countess of Morett also into it and the Queen opposing and refusing it it made such a rupture betwixt them that it broke off the Ball This Countess of Morett is the Lady that I before said was quitted of her Husband Who was now lov'd by the Prince d'Joinville whom she did not ill entertain but the unhappiness is it comes to the Kings ear who immediately going to her upbraids her with Perfidiousness who having nothing else to say in her own vindication tells him that the Prince intended to marry her The King with this returns with all the speed that a Jealous Fury could supply and causes the Mother of this Prince to come before him to whom he Complains and threatens that the Prince who he said was too often guilty of such faults to be pardon'd should be rigorously punish'd Telling her that he expected on the pain of his severest displeasure that he should perform what he had promis'd to the Countess which was to marry her and that though he could suffer that his Mistresses should be espoused yet not that they should other ways be enjoy'd and that it was for the alone sake of the Mother her self that he Pardon'd the Son. The Princess being in a station she thought above such Treatments from the King answer'd with so much Indignation and rais'd the King into so high a Paroxisme that he sent his Guards immediately to seize him and all the favour that could be obtain'd for him by his Friends was that he should relinquish the Realm never to return to it again and he was not recall'd again till the death of the King. The Duke of Montpensier a little before these things was dead and the King whose unfix'd and wandering Apetite induc'd him still to the persuit of new Mistresses and to gratifie himself in all Varieties of his Inclination resolv'd to make Love to his Widdow wisely pensitating that it would more become his Quality to Love and be beloved of a Princess than such that was of a meaner Extraction and indeed no better than fair Imposters that did only banter and deceive him And resolv'd to serve himself upon this occasion of a Lord of his Court equip'd with all the possible Accomplishments of his Quality his Name was Count de Craimail making known this design to him He judg'd it a difficult thing to bring to effect but however promiseth the King to tell her the news The Neighbourhood of his House to that of the Dutchesses and the excellency of his Address was the reason of the King 's employing of him in this affair which he resolv'd to undertake if the Dutchess would hearken which yet he could not believe He acted so well in the business that he prevail'd with the Dutchess to come to the Court where the King soon discover'd the impregnableness of her Vertue and resolv'd no more to attempt it The Duke of Guise was now so much in Love with the Marchioness of Vernueil that he promiseth to Marry her and the Marchioness willing to make use of his Passion either to inflame the King that began to neglect her to a greater observance or to oblige the Duke irrevertibly to his Promise causes in the name of some other Persons reserving that due respect to their Quality not to do it in their own the Bains to be published betwixt them Which the King hearing of was greatly enrag'd with them both and especially with the Duke of Guise But his Relations knowing him to be innocent grew so clamorous upon the Marchioness as the only Author of this action on purpose to render him odious to the King that it went no farther the Duke only retiring to his Government till the rumour was a little ceas'd The Queen having again taken up her design of making the Ball before hinted amongst the Ladies that was engag'd in it the incomparable Madam of Montmorency was one a Lady so young that she had but just as it were left to be Child and so Beautiful that she was miraculous and in her actions so agreeable that she was a Marvail throughout insomuch that the King seeing her dance with a Dart in her Hand representing one of the Nymphs of Diana found his Heart so throughly pierced with it that the wound accompany'd him to his Grave It would fill a Volume should I recount all the Accidents of this Amour from which at last the Royal Lover ravish'd by Death left such Subjects behind him as could not so properly be said to Love as Adore him FINIS