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A48205	The Princess of Cleves the most famed romance / written in French by the greatest wits of France ; rendred into English by a person of quality, at the request of some friends.; Princesse de Clèves. English	La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne), 1634-1693.; Segrais, Jean Regnauld de, 1624-1701.; La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, 1613-1680.; Person of quality.	1679 (1679)	Wing L169; ESTC R10484	121,911	270

pleas'd notwithstanding her absence to solace himself with the hopes to have the happiness to retrieve her again when he should know who she was But upon the question put to the Italian he could receive no satisfaction He was notwithstanding so strangely captivated with her Beauty and that Grace and sweetness that attended it that from that moment he entertained a passion for her that was not ordinary In the Evening he went to kiss the Hands of his Majesties Sister The Princess was a Lady of great value for the interest she had in the King which was so powerful with him that his Majesty upon the Peace was pleased to restore Piedmont to the Duke of Savoy for her sake And notwithstanding she had a disposition to marry yet her Ambition would never stoop to any thing below a Soveraign which was the reason she refused the King of Navarre when he was Duke of Vendome The Interview at Nice between Francis the first and Paul the third gave birth to her inclinations for the Savoyard she was a person of great Ingenuity and a great Judge of the Ingenious so that her Apartment was the Theatre of the Virtuoso's and the Court was pleased to spend some hours there for its Divertisement The Prince of Cleve was of the number of the Visitants He was so swell'd with the admiration of young Madam de Chartres that he could discourse upon no other Subject He made a publick Narrative of his adventure and could not forbear to be lavish of his praises of the Lady though incognita Madam was pleased to tell him that she believed there was no such Creature in being for if there were she must needs be known Madam Dampier one of the Princesses Ladies of Honour and an Intimate of Madam de Chartres took the liberty to whisper her Highness in the Ear that it might be young Madam de Chartres whom the Prince had seen Madam turning to the Prince told him if he would afford her his Company the day following she would endeavour to give him a sight of the fair Lady he seem'd to have so great a passion for The next day the young Lady came she had so obliging a reception from both Queens that it sufficiently demonstrated the value they had for her neither were there wanting to attend it both the admiration and the praise of the whole Court She received their Grace and Favour with so sweet a modesty 't was hard to distinguish whether she seem'd to take notice of them or value them most This young Lady was pleased to put her self amongst Madam's Train The Princess after she had given a fair Character of her person could not forbear to acquaint her with the impressions it had made upon the Prince of Cleve she had no sooner concluded but enters the Prince Come hither says Madam behold I have made good my word to you and satisfie me if in presenting Madam de Chartres to you I have not given you a sight of the fair Lady you are in quest of I expect your thanks for shewing you a Lesson by which you may learn the more to admire it The Prince was overjoyed when he found the Lady for whom he had so great a passion was of a Quality adequate with her Person He made his Addresses to her and humbly begg'd she would vouchsafe to remember he was the first that laid his Heart at her Feet and before he had the happiness to be known to her he had an honour and respect for her suitable to her merit The Chevalier of Guise and the Prince two bossome Friends took their leave of Madam together They were no sooner out but they began a fresh to lance forth into the admiration of this fair Lady At last having wasted their stock of praise they were forc'd to take up The whole day following they gave themselves the loose Rein again This fresh beauty continued a long subject for the Courts discourse The Queen was pleased to ranck her self amongst the number of her admirers which she sufficiently evidenc'd by the kindness she was pleased to shew her The Dauphin-Queen made her her Favourite laying her Commands upon Madam de Chartres her Mother that she should often make her visits to her And the Princesses the Kings Daughters to declare the Honour they had for her there was not any Divertisement they thought worthy their Royal presence in which they made her not a sharer In fine she had purchas'd all the Hearts of the Court except that of Madam the Valentinois not that this young Lady gave her any Jealousie too long an Experience had confirmed her that she was not to be supplanted She had so great an inveteracy against the Viscount de Chartres that she wisht she could intail it upon him by a Marriage with one of her Daughters She had already possest the Queen that she could not look kindly upon a person that bore his Name nor any for whom he had a kindness The Prince became a passionate admirer of Madam de Chartres and pursued his sute with all the Zeal imaginable but he fear'd the haughtiness of Madam de Chartres her Mother would never dispense with her Daughters marriage with a Gentleman that was not the head of his Family This House was yet so noble that the Count d' Eu who was its Capital had the honour to marry with a Lady that was nearly related to the Blood Royal. So that this seem'd rather the timidity of Love than any just subject for his Jealousie He had several Rivals The Chevalier de Guise whose Birth Merit and the Luster the Royal Favour gave him rendered him the most considerable This Princes heart became her Prisoner also at the first sight These two had discovered each others passion The distance pretensions of this nature create in Rivals had interrupted their usual Conversation Their friendship began to grow chill and they had scarce the power to disguise their several Resentments The happiness the Prince of Cleve had to be her first admirer appeared to be no ill presage it seem'd to give him some advantage over the rest The Duke was strongly leagued with the Duchess of Valentinois she was a mortla Enemy to the Viscount and this was a sufficient reason to divert the Duke of Nevers consent to the marriage of his Son with a Neece of his Madam de Chartres who had applyed her self with so much zeal to infuse Virtue into her Daughter was not wanting to contrive it here where it was so necessary and where there were so many dangerous examples Ambition and Gallantry were the soul of this Court they had equally diffused themselves amongst both Sexes There were so many several Interests and different Cabals in which the Women bore a part that Affairs seem'd to mix with Love and Love with business No man must be impartial or indifferent Their thoughts were either taken up how to rise to please to serve or to offend They knew not what it

Queen and her Husband the Vsicount represented it to the King as criminal and incestuous So that he being already in love with Iane Seymour thought no more of Anne Bullen but to get rid of her In less than three Weeks he caus'd the Queen and her Brother to be try'd had them both beheaded and marry'd Iane Seymour He had afterwards several other Wives whom he put away or put to death and among the rest the Lady Katherine Howard whose Confident the Countess Rochfort was and shar'd in her Fate having her Head cut off with her Mistress's Thus was she punish'd for falsly accusing Anne Bullen and Henry the 8th dy'd being grown prodigiously big and fat All the Ladies present thank'd the Queen-Dauphin for the account she had given them of the Court of England and among the rest Madam de Cleve who could not forbear asking her several Questions about Queen Elizabeth The Queen-Dauphin had Pictures in little drawn for her of all the Beauties of the Court to be sent to the Queen her Mother One day as that of Madam de Cleve's was finishing the Queen-Dauphin spent the Afternoon with her Monsieur de Nemours who let slip no opportunity of seeing Madam de Cleve yet without letting it appear he sought it faild not being there She was that day so beautiful it would have made him in love with her had he not been so yet he durst not fix his Eye upon her as her Picture was a drawing being fearful notice might be taken of the pleasure he took to view her now and then as she sat The Queen-Dauphin ask'd Monsieur de Cleve for a Picture in little he had of his Wife to compare it with that which was newly drawn of her Every one pass'd their Judgment of the one and the other and Madam de Cleve order'd the Picture-drawer to mend something in the Draught of the Head-geer of that which Monsieur de Cleve had brought in The Picture-drawer to satisfie her took it out of the Case and having mended it laid it on the Table Monsieur de Nemours had long wish'd for a Picture of Madam de Cleve when he saw that of her which was Monsieur de Cleve's he could not resist the longing desire he had to steal it from a Husband he believ'd she tenderly lov'd and thought among so many Persons in the Room he might be as little suspected to have done it as another The Queen-Dauphin was set on the Bed and whisper'd to Madam de Cleve who stood before her Madam de Cleve through the Curtains which were but half drawn spy'd Monsieur de Nemours with his Back to the Table at the Beds-feet and perceiv'd him without turning his Face steal something slily that was on the Table She quickly guess'd it might be her Picture and was so troubled at it that the Queen-Dauphin perceiv'd she heard her not and ask'd her aloud what it was she look'd at At those words Monsieur de Nemours turn'd about and saw Madam de Cleve's Eye still fix'd upon him and thought it not impossible but she might have seen what he had done Madam de Cleve was not a little perplext Reason would she should ask for her Picture yet to ask for it publickly was to tell all the World the kindness that Prince had for her and to ask for it privately was to engage him to declare to her the Passion he had for her At last she resolved it the best course to let him carry it away without taking notice of it and was glad to grant him a favour without knowing whether she had done it Monsieur de Nemours having observ'd her disorder and guessing at the Cause came up and whisper'd to her If you have seen what I have ventur'd to do Madam be so good to let me believe you are ignorant of it which is all I dare beg of you With that he withdrew without expecting her Answer The Queen-Dauphin went out a walking attended with all the Ladies and Monsieur de Nemours went home to lock himself in his Closet to enjoy the pleasure he took in having a Picture of Madam de Cleve's which fill'd him with joy too great and too delicate to be express'd in publick It gave him a taste of the highest sweetness Love can afford he was in love with the most amiable Person of the Court and saw she lov'd him though against her will and easily discover'd in all her Actions that trouble and disorder which Love produces in the innocence of Youth That Evening great search was made for the Picture Having found the Case it was us'd to be kept in they never suspected it had been stollen but thought it might have been fallen out by chance Monsieur de Cleve was much troubled at the loss of it and when they had long search'd and without finding it he told his Wife but in such a manner as made it appear he did not think so That she had without doubt some private Lover to whom she had given that Picture or who had stole it and that any other but one in love would not have been content with the Picture without the Case These words though spoken in jeast made a deep impression in Madam de Cleve they troubled her extremely and made her reflect with regret on the violence of her Inclination for Monsieur de Nemours she found she was no longer Mistress of her Words or her Countenance She thought Lignerolles was return'd that there was no further fear of the Affair with England nor any cause to suspect the Queen-Dauphin that in a word there was not any thing to help her against the violence of her Passion and that there was no safety to be expected but by absenting her self from Monsieur de Nemours But leave being requested to be obtain'd for her absence from Court where her Husband resided and a pretence wanting she was in very great extremity and ready to fall into that she thought the worst of misfortunes to let Monsieur de Nemours see the inclination she had for him She thought of all Madam de Chartres on her Death-bed had said to her and the Advice she had given her to undergo any difficulty rather than engage in an Intrigue of Gallantry She remember'd what Monsieur de Cleve had said to her of an ingenuous sincerity when he spoke of Madam de Tournon and she thought it her duty to confess to him the inclination she had for Monsieur de Nemours These thoughts possess'd her a considerable time at length she was astonish'd she could entertain any that appear'd so foolish and relaps'd into her former perplexity not knowing what course to take The Peace was sign'd and the Lady Elizabeth after much resistance resolv'd to obey the King her Father The Duke of Alva had been appointed to Marry her in the Name of His Catholick Majesty and was shortly expected They look'd every day for the Duke of Savoy who had newly marry'd the King's Sister the Nuptials being appointed

The Emperour who had a great respect for the Duke of Orleans had often offer'd him the Duchy of Millan and in the Articles of the Peace that was afterwards concluded he gave him the hopes of the seventeen Provinces and his Daughter in marriage with them The Dauphin neither inclined to the Match nor it he employ'd the Constable whom he ever lov'd to make the King sensible of what importance it would be to leave his Successor a Brother so powerful as the Duke of Orleans must be with the advantage of the Imperial Allyance and these Countries The Constable yielded more easily to the Dauphins design in that it was opposite to that of Madam d' Estampes who was his declared Enemy and who so passionately desired the Dukes advancement The Dauphin at that time commanded his Majesties Army in Champagne and had reduc'd that of the Empire to those extremities he had certainly ruin'd it if the Duchess d' Estampes fearing these great advantages might retard the Peace and the honour of the Dukes Allyance with the Emperour had not advis'd the Enemy to surprise Espernay and the Castle of Rierry which was their Magazine they attempted it and succeeded by which means they preserved the Army This Duchess did not long enjoy the success of her Treason Immediately after dyed the Duke of Orleans at Farmoutiers of a contagious disease He was enamoured with one of the greatest Beauties of the Court who was pleased to entertain the flame I shall forbear to name her for she has since lived under so close a retirement and has with so much prudence disguised the passion she had for him we ought in justice to be tender of her honour The death of her Husband and the Duke bore even date together which gave her the freedom to shew those open marks of her grief and sorrow which otherwise she had been enforc'd to hide The King did not long survive the Prince his Son for he dyed within two years after He recommends to the Dauphin the Cardinal of Tournon and the Admiral d' Annebault without the least mention of the Constable whom he had confined to Chantilly notwithstanding his Fathers commands he calls him home and makes him the grand Minister of State Madam d' Estampes was discarded and received all the ill Treatment she could expect from so powerful and inveterate an Enemy The Duchess of Valentinois was not satisfied till she had glutted her self with her revenge upon this Duchess and the rest who had faln under her displeasure Her interest has been more absolute over the King since he came to the Crown than when he was the Dauphin These twelve years since he has reign'd she has been the uncontroulable Mistress of all his Actions she has had the disposal of all Governments and Affairs she has obliged him to bannish the Cardinal of Tournon the Chancellour and Villeray all that have endeavour'd to eclypse her power have perisht in the attempt The Count de Taix Grand Master of the Artillery who had no kindness for her taking the liberty to reflect upon her Gallants and particularly the Count de Brissac of whom the King had a jealousie she so subtilly plaid her Cards that he was in disgrace and divested of his emply and what renders the thing more strange she procured it for the Count de Brissac who by her means had the honour to be since created a Marshal of France The Kings jealousie began to swell to that degree in him he could no longer endure the test of it but that which in another would have appeared more sharp and violent was strangely corrected in him by the great respect he had for this Lady In so much that he durst not if we may presume to use this saucy Dialect with a Prince remove his Rival but under the pretence of preferring him to the Government of Piedmont He has lived there several years and only return'd this last Winter under a pretext of recruiting the Troops under his command and for other necessary supplies for the Army The ambition to see the Duchess of Valentinois and the fear of being forgotten had certainly the greatest share in that Journey The King was observed to receive him coldly the Family of Guise who loves her not but yet dares not declare the cause imploy'd the Viscount his mortal Enemy to obstruct the Grant of what he design'd himself by his Journey 'T was no hard matter to compass it the King hated him and his presence gave him no small disquiet insomuch that he was forc'd to return without having had the happiness to reap the fruits of his Voyage which was only to give him an opportunity to re-kindle the Flame his passion had made in the heart of the Duchess which he feared his absence might extinguish His Majesty wanted no other subjects of his jealousie but they not being known gave him no provocation to complain I know not Daughter says Madam de Chartres if you may not find that I have instructed you in some things more than you are willing to know I am so far from complaining replyes Madam de Cleve that did I not fear to be troublesom to you I would desire you to enlarge upon several Circumstances which I am ignorant of The passion that Monsieur de Nemours had for Madam de Cleve was so violent in its Original that it seem'd to have robb'd him of all his content and the very thoughts of those he had a kindness for nay even such with whom he converst during her absence 't was his care to frame excuses to disingage himself from them he could not allow himself the patience to give Ear to their Complaints nor make returns to their reproaches Madam la Dauphin for whom he had inclinations not ordinarily passionate yet he was scarce able to confine them within his Breast Madam de Cleve had made that impression there His impatience for England began to cool he seem'd not to pursue with much Zeal his necessary dispatches for that Journey He often made his visits to the Dauphin-Queen that he might have the happiness to pay his respects to Madam de Cleve who was frequently there neither was he concern'd at the liberty some took to imagin what others thought of the passion he had for that Princess Madam de Cleve was of that value with him he was resolved rather to hide from her the sentiments of his heart than expose her honour to the publick He forbore even to communicate it to the Viscount de Chartres who was his Confident and to whom his Bosome lay ever open He used a Conduct so prudent and which he managed with so much care that the Argus's of the Court could not discover the least symptome of any kindness for this Lady but in the Chevalier de Guise Madam de Cleve her self had continued a stranger to them had not the inclination she had for that Prince obliged her to keep a close Watch on all his Actions