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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80694	The court of St. Germain's: or, The secret history of the late King James and Queen Mary From their first arrival in France, to this time. From the French original.		1695 (1695)	Wing C6591A; ESTC R224546	53,889	150

there is no relying upon any thing in this World Why Madam reply 〈◊〉 the King in a kind of Astonishment did your Saint ever make you any promise A● others do said the Queen who assure us o● their succour in our Distresses However Madam reply'd the King the Saint● have a great power and we rarely loose th● Effects of that Devotion which we pay ' em Some indeed there are Sir said she that when 't is for their Interest hearken to us in pursuance of their designs Our Monarch who perceiv'd that a Devout Conversation did but render his Fair Maistress insensible of the Pleasures of Love chang'd his Discourse and told her with a passionate Air That one Kiss tenderly imprinted by her fair Lips would restore Life to the Dead The Queen who united Love and Devotion together made Answer to the King after a Languishing manner That were it not for the sweet Minutes that a person Enamour'd tasts it would not be worth the while to live one Day 'T is true Charming Princess said the King that is the most sensible part Alas Sir reply'd the Queen half in a Swoon harp no more upon that string for I feel my self teady to faint The King who perceived the Queen in a Swooning Fit that caus'd her to throw her self upon the Bed was preparing to assist her but the Company coming in prevented his Sedu●ity The Queen being come to her self admitted the Visit of Monsieur the Archbishop who found her a little heated tho she had made use of her Fan to cool her self for the Vapours of her imagination heightened by the presence of our Great Prince were not so easily laid The Venerable Apostle therefore when the King was gone began an Amorous Consolation vowing and protesting to her whatever Love could inspire into him On the other side the Queen a thousand times assur'd him with her usual Address that she lovd him better than her self which satisfy'd the Prelate who pretended that all the Affection of a Woman was due to him since Nature had bequeathed him the choicest of her Gifts Their Discourse was intermix'd for that between whiles they talkd of the Affairs of England and of King James's Return who was then going into Ireland but was to return into France in a short time by the Advice of Tyrconne and Lausun Here said the Queen is a Letter from the Lord Killmallock which gives me an account of the Death of the Sieur de St. Ruth a French Officer and very Valiant who was slain in the heat of the Fight In truth Madam said our Protector of the Surbonne the loss of such a Worthy Officer as the Sieur de St. Ruth is a very great loss to France 'T is very ●rue reply'd the Queen but these are the fruits of War I long to see the Count of ●a sun for I have a World of things to say ●o him Madam reply'd Monsieur the Archbishop I have heard you speak of the E. of Tyrconnel and I have heard he is an Irish Man Yes my Dear reply'd the Queen and of mean Extraction to boot He same into England young where he was a Lacquey for ten years together and afterwards met with a Catholick Master who preferred him to the Duke of York in the nature of one of his Gentlemen During which time he did his Lord so many good Services that he loved him so well as to favour him with his good Will and to entrust him with some part of his Secrets so that at last King ●ames thought good to make him Deputy of ●reland in recompence of his Fidelity Such ●as the Eash of Tyronnel 's Fortune which was not a little to be admired 't is true said the Archbishop that people of mean Extraction rise to the highest degrees of Honour all things are governed by Luck and Chance But I think I have heard say ●hat formerly his Wife had been a very handsome Woman I 'll assure you Sir reply'd ●he Queen I always took her to be one of the most amiable persons i' the World First she had a great deal of Wit she was well-shap'd her Conversation sweet und merry her Complexion incomparable with large grey Eyes and very passionate and then she deserved the Affection of an Honest Gentleman for the sake of her Devotion which was extraordinary in a Woman bred as she was in the pleasures of the World The King of France was not insensible of her Charms continu'd the Queen smiling I know in good part that the King fell in Love with her and the King my Husband would have been dabling finding her worthy of his Affection which made me Marry her to Tyrconnel sooner than I would have done on purpose to break off that Familiarity which did not a little trouble me But since that we have been very good Friends and if Heaven had prospered our designs we had been inseparable But no more of this mournful Recital it would carry me too far With all my heart answered our Metropolitan Pontiff embracing her tenderly telling her withal that King James had no true reason to Love any Woman i' the World to the prejudice of such an Amiable Princess as her self Ah! My Dear replyed the Queen smiling Men natureally love change tho they can give no reason for it If the Dutchess of G n would have listned to my dear Husband she had been one of his Mistresses but she had more Vertue The Queen would have pursu'd the History of King James's Amours but that she was prevented by the Dutchesses of Orleance and Bourbon who came to ask her Whither she would go to the Chappel Royal of vincennes to hear the Abbot Boileau who was then a Famous Preacher She consented and the Archbishop carried the Ladies in his Coach to the Chappel and then went Home to give Orders to his Official M. Cheron against the next day touching the Surbonne But our Princess who was prepossessed with the Merits of the Curate of St. Martin did not think the Abbot Boileau so Eloquent as he was reputed to be tho the Dutchesses of Orleance and Bourbon told her several times that they never had heard so brave nor so learned a Man For my part replyed the Queen I look upon him to be too popular and that he has not Fire enough in his Expressions I know not that Madam answered the Dutchess of Orleans but he is admired by all the World Oh Madam said the Queen had this famous Preacher no more than your Approbation it were enough to render him happy The Queen pronounced those words with something of an Air of Derision which no ways pleased the Dutchess wh● some Days after told the King that th● Queen was so proud that it was no wonder she was Dethroned But the King who had a Kindness for the Queen mad● it his Business to reconcile the Dutchess and her together so that ever since they have been very good Friends The Dauphin who still visited the Princess of