Servant of the House of Guise I know not whether fare will permit you to assure them thus much but if it be in your power I conjure you to do it and particularly to tell Mademoiselle de Guise that the duty which retains me on the Kings side is no small Chain upon my affection that all I do is more liable to complaint than blame and that if she could read what is written in my heart she should discover there more respect and more zeal for her than the Troops of the League shall find contrary appearances in my Actions Though the Baron had used all his endeavours to seduce Givry and in the first transports of his affection for the League was displeas'd with him for being so firm to the royal interest he could not forbear esteeming him the more for it He embraced him with a great deal of kindness and promised to do him all the good Offices he could Givry having thank'd him took his leave and went to take possession of the Charge the King had given him of Camp-master General of the Light-horse of France The Kings Army made great progress this Campagne the King of Navarre in whom the King began to place the confidence he ought had inspir'd him with a desire to fight in the head of his Troops and the two Kings having join'd Forces at Soulogne the place of general Rendezvous led them along the Loire where they found not one Town in Rebellion but it submitted to them The King took Gergeau Gien La Chaute and made himself Master of all the Bridges above and below Ordeaus Piviers Estampes and Dourdan had the like fate And the Kings having past the Seyne at Poissybridge were met there by the Duke de Montpensier who led their Forces from Normandy and by the Sieur de Harlay-sancy who had made brave Levies in Switzerland The Kings Army being thus put into the condition he wish'd it for besieging of Paris he laid Siege to it in July 1589. Givry in former Sieges had given signal proof of his Courage and good Conduct Not a Sally had been made but he bravely repulsed he had cut of all succours and got the advantage in all Skirmishes that hapned the safety of the Army depended on his care The King of Navarr charmed by so many brave Actions and seeing Givry's Person as amiable as his name was illustrious honoured him with a particular kindness and till a more considerable Government should fall procured him that of Brie Givry was scarce in possession of it when he surpriz'd six thousand Bushels of Corn which they endeavoured to convey into Paris by the help of a counterfeit Pass Givry caus'd it to be seiz'd at Pont de Samois and was giving orders for carrying it to Corbeil where the Kings Magazin was but having cast his Eyes on the Man who had the Convoy in charge he thought he knew him an Officer of the late Duke de Guise He was not mistaken The Man being a principal Officer of the Dukes Houshold and knowing Givry Is it possible says he that you should hinder the carrying this Corn into Paris and that a Person so dear to the late Duke my Master should reduce the Princess his Wife and the Princess his Daughter to the danger of being in want How in want says Givry in great heat are those Ladies exposed to share the miseries of the people Yes doubtless says the Master of the Convoy and the Duke de Mayenne to let the besieged see they suffer no more than he does hath made so small a reserve of Corn for himself that all his House and particularly that of Madam de Guise was upon the point of being in want when I left them They shall not want it reply's Givry and you may assure Madam and Mademoiselle de Guise that they shall never receive from me any Personal displeasure With that consulting only his growing passion he made him a good Pass and gave him a Guard to bring him without danger to the first Retrenchments This Action was too publick not to be discovered The King was informed of it And those who envy'd the merit of Givry represented it as much to his disadvantage as possible it was really of great importance Upon the reducing or resistance of Paris depended absolutely the Peace or the War That Town was the seat and support of the Rebellion To take Paris from the League was to blow up the very Foundations of the League and to send in thither the least refreshment could not but appear a Crime highly punishable And some Prisoners taken at a Sally informed that if that Convoy had been staid one day longer the Citizens were resolved to open their Gates that it was not in the Duke of Mayenne's power to keep them longer from doing it and that nothing but the sight of that Corn and promises of more to be brought in the same way could have appeased the people This Circumstance so highly aggravated Givry's fault that the King was in extreme wrath against him which the credit of all his Friends could not appease so that the King of Navarr was forced to send for him to come in Person to justifie himself His excuse had been excellent had he been to clear himself before the King of Navarre from whom all faults of Love had their pardon of course But besides that the King was not of that temper Givry could not resolve to lay open his folly and made so pitiful a defence that his best Friends and Protectors were ready to condemn him The King of Navarre sent him word of it and having told him from the King That he must justifie himself better or stand convicted of Intelligence with the Enemy he let him know there was no mean to be found betwixt these extremes so that Givry was forced to make the King of Navarre a clear confession of the secret motive of his Fault This Prince who feared to find Givry more criminal was mightily pleased with the Relation and running to inform the King of the truth perswaded him the fault was pardonable in a young Man and that in case he could be more circumspect for the future this first fault deserved only a reprimand The King gave him a very severe one and it was the last from the Mouth of that poor Prince who was traiterously assassainated on the morrow On this lamentable occasion Givry exprest his real ackowledgements of those markes of esteem he had received from the King of Navarre He was the first that saluted him King of France and perswaded the Marquess de Bellegard and several others to do the like and exprest so much constancy and resolution against those who would not joyn with him that it may be truly affirm'd the new King received from him the establishment and tranquillity of the beginning of his Reign Not but that the Crown did of right belong to him but that the Law had declared him incapable upon the account of his
Givry who accompanying them to the Gates of Paris found an opportunity as he came from Dinner to speak a few words to Mademoiselle de Guise May I adventure Mademoiselle says he to ask if you have at last done me the justice my innocence deserves and defaced out of your heart those impressions of wrath a forged Letter exposed me to You have not disown'd any thing that Letter contained answered Mademoiselle coldly it was not the Character displeas'd me but the Sense I do and must ever own says Givry I have a love for you that extends to adoration but I disown the boldness taken to discover it so soon I would have kept it close with abundance of respect in my heart until some eminent service should have in some sort authoriz'd me to own it and if my ill fortune would have deny'd me the happiness of ever being useful to you I would have waited for death to expiate my temerity All this might have been easily done replies Mademoiselle with like tone as before had you but deny'd the Love you were charged with I should not have been at any pains to convince you of it But Mademoiselle says Givry it was you spoke to me you who are my visible Goddess I owe you the duty of a religious sincerity and had I endeavoured to disguise it my Eyes would have discovered it To what end is this discourse says the Princess with some frowardness I have promised the King and promise you once more not to think of what is past Let me desire you once for all not to speak of it while we live I thought replys Givory cut with grief to the heart you gave me no such order at Melun Mademoiselle give me leave to tell you you had then some curiosity which made this discourse relish better or that you reflected on it since to my disadvantage Mademoiselle de Guise blush'd at Givory's reproach which confirming the truth of Madam de Maugiron's report Ha cryes he transported with jealousie 't is but too true that the rashness I am so much condemned for is excused in my Rival and that I am the most unhappy of Lovers As he was saying this word was brought mademoiselle de Guise she must come away and she took so little pleasure in Givry's discourse she made not her Company stay for her Givry brought her to the Coach and followed it two hours after but scarce in all that time could Madam de Guise draw four words from him He returned to the King so troubled and melancholy that his Majesty perceived it and had the goodness to take him aside and ask him what made him so sad Ah Sir replys Givry almost with tears in his eyes Mademoiselle de Guise hates me and if the respect I owe her may allow me to say more she loves the Duke de Bellegard The King was willing to know what grounds he had for this opinion and the afflicted Lover was not able to forbear the discovery The fancies and humours of a young Person whose affection is not fixt says the King are as changeable as they are wild Bellegard is no more in a condition to marry her than you are nor can entertain any hopes but of pleasing her And since he has no other I will find out so many occasions you may make use of to that end that you shall at last be the happier of the two But for my sake be at peace with him and leave the rest to me This promise gave Givry some comfort knowing it in his Majesty's power to put him in a way to do Mademoiselle de Guise so many services that her gratitude to him might one day overcome the favour she was prepossest with towards Bellegard This made him sacrifice the motions of his jealousie to the pleasure of a Master so familiar and obliging so that there hapned nothing sharper between these Lovers at Melun than at Gisors In the mean time the general Peace of the Kingdom advanced by the King 's embracing the Popish Profession who having abjur'd the Protestant at St. Denys saw the obstacle of his reception remov'd and Paris opening her Gates to him as her lawful Prince The Duke of Mayenne and other Princes of his House retired to Soissons where they afterwards made their peace And there remained of them at Paris only the Dowager of Nemours being too weak for a remove and Mademoiselle de Guise who would not leave her The King to keep his word with Givry us'd him his Instrument for the daily favours he did the Family of Guise he gave him the Command of the Forces ordered for the safe Conduct of the Duke of Mayenne And when his Majesty made his Triumphant Entry into Paris he gave Givry leave with a Brigade of his Archers to Guard the House of Madam de Nemours from violence not that there was any great cause to apprehend dangers in a City that had made a voluntary submission to its undoubted Soveraign but that the House of Guise having been the support of the League it could not be expected but there might be among the People some ill disposed persons who under pretence of zeal for his Majesty's interests might endeavor to enrich themselves by pillage of a house belonging to a family so eminently engag'd against the King so that his Majesty thought it necessary to use this precaution and committed the care and management of it to Givry He ran in all haste to execute his orders and acquit himself of his Charge with all the Offers of service and kindness that might be expected from a Lover But was extremely surpriz'd to see himself prevented by the Duke de Bellegard whom he found at the head of a great Body of Volunteers ordering a Corps de Garde to be set at the Gate of the Hostel de Nemours Who gave you order for this says Givry all in a rage and how comes it you presume of your own head to place Corps de Garde in any part of the Town I will give the King an account of what I do says Bellegarde coldly it belongs not to you to take notice of it It so far belongs to me replys Givry that if you give them not instantly orders to draw of I will presently fall on and we shall see hereafter whose actions will be best approved by his Majesty You forget the rights of our ancient friendship says the Duke and will make me at length forget what we have been to mind you what we are I will refresh your memory says Givry laying his hand on his Sword and 't is because we have been too intimate friends we are now become irreconcileable Enemies With that the two Rivals forgetting the Kings orders fell upon one another with unparallel'd fury and had not long fought without leaving bloudy marks of their combat if Mademoiselle de Guise who spy'd from a window the beginning of the quarrel had not come in person to stop it She rusht in courageously between
the two Rivals and having calmed their fury by her presence she had no sooner commanded them to be quiet but they laid their Swords at her feet What says she harshly to Givry are you he that opposes the care taken for our safety it was not enough for you to have fought against the children of the late Duke of Guise but you must expose his Mother and daughter to pillage and by this visible ingratitude hope to establish your self in my favor I Mademoiselle answers Givry passionately am I guilty of ingratitude to you or would I expose you to pillage What else would you have done replys Mademoiselle de Guise what means what I have but now seen and heard You have seen me jealous any other but I should do you this small service says Givry and to my desperate discomfort I see you angry at my hindring another to do it I will not admit ti to be done by the one or the other of you answers Mademoiselle de Guise send back your men and come not hither to give ill people and Robbers an example of impunity we shall guard our selves better without you than with the assistance of two persons who have so little respect for us This said she imperiously commanded both Parties to draw off and the two Chiefs were forced to give them order accordingly but made them keep thereabouts and staid in person with the Princesses to secure them from outrage They needed not this caution long for the King was scarce entred Paris but all was calmed and a quiet established as if there had never been any disorder there His Majesty was safe at Nostre Dame and came thence to dinner at the Louvre where the most zealous of his Subjects paid him their first homage after dinner the King went to see March out a Garrison of Spaniards the Leaguers had taken in and provided by the Treaty they should have a Passeport from his Majesty in the mean time the Brigadier who accompanied Givry with the Archers of the Guard gave his Majesty an account of what past between the Lovers the King sent from them and charged them so strictly not to quarrel for the future that they never after had the confidence to do it All the actions of Mademoiselle de Guise had confirm'd Givry in the knowledge of his misfortune She admitted more easily the Duke de Bellegard's excuses than his All her sharp language was directed to Givry all her good words addressed to Bellegarde when Bellegarde fixt his eyes upon hers she appear'd pleased Givry could meet nothing in her looks but indignation and disorder The displeasure this caus'd him robbed him of his good humor and altered his very countenance so far that the King was afraid he would fall dangerously ill His Majesty who loved him intirely and was not insensible of the torments of Love did all in his power to comfort him He had the goodness to visit Mademoiselle de Guise and to speak to her in his favor When the Duke of Mayenne made any Propositions the King would not receive them but by the mouth of Givry and gave him full power to treat with the Duke of Guise and made him sole Mediator between his Majesty and those Princes But all these favors of his Majesty were ill interpreted Mademoiselle de Guise thought Givry had begged them and was displeas'd with him as having made her the Subject of discourse for the King and the whole Court But that was not the sole cause of her discontent the King had thought her handsom and she had ambition enough to carry her as high as the Throne And they discoursed already of the dissolution of the King's Marriage with Queen Margaret as a matter resolved The Duke de Bellegard having many intrigues and knowing how to make use of all his advantages let Mademoiselle de Guise know how serviceable he might be to promote her designs and dextrously dropt words which might make her apprehend Givry's love as an obstacle that the King had a love for him and probably his kindness for Givry might prevail more with him than Mademoiselle's Charms the Duke de Bellegarde carried on his affairs by these devises so well that Mademoiselle de Guise was scarce civil to Givry The Princess Catherine as well as Madam Gabrielle and the rest of the Court was now come to Paris and had brought Madam Maugiron with her This Lady us'd all possible endeavours to make her advantage of the rigors of Mademoiselle de Guise But it was her fate as well as the unfortunate Givry's to love where they were not belov'd and were so far from being cured by the slights put upon them that their passion was heightned thereby The first two Months after Paris was reduced the King employed in establishing the Parliament there issuing gracious Declarations in favour of his faithful Subjects and receiving the Deputies of Roan and several other Towns returning to the obedience of the Crown But about the end of that time the Spaniards despairing of being able to raise more domestick broils in France attack'd it from abroad Count Mansfield besieged La Capelle and his Majesty foreseeing that if the Enemy made any progress in France the rest of the Leaguers would take courage afresh went in Person to raise the Siege but understood by the way the Town was surrendred and desirous to repair this loss by some Conquest he designed to besiege Laon being as a Fort for the remnant of the League The Duke of Mayenne was then of the number the Duke of Guise had made his peace and most of the Princes of his House followed his Example but the Duke of Mayenne had insuperable scruples and would not acknowledge the King till he should have absolution from Rome and keeping the Field under that pretence countenanced and supported the Enemies undertakings The King having advertisement that the Duke's Children were at Laon with some other of the most obstinate Leaguers thought the taking that place would more easily oblige the rest of the Party to implore his mercy But to prevent the reproach of not having try'd fair means before force he let the Princesses of the House of Lorrain understand that he was constrain'd to proceed with extremity against the rest of the Leaguers and should be very glad if they could separate from the rest of the Princes of their blood He lov'd Givry too well to give this Commission to any other but him The King gave him his orders and having commanded him to make haste Givry was at the Hostel de Guise on the morrow before Noon There he found Mademoiselle de Guise alone the Dutchess her Mother being gone upon a piece of service wherein she was pleas'd to dispense with the attendance of her Daughter And Givry having sent the young Princess word he came from the King on business of importance was admitted into her Chamber before she was out of Bed He found her so handsome in that posture that he was
LICENSED July 24. 1677. Roger L'Estrange THE DISORDERS OF LOVE Truly expressed In the unfortunate Amours of GIVRY with MADEMOISELLE de Guise Made English from the French LONDON Printed for James Magnes and Richard Bentley in Russel-street in Covent-Garden near the Piazza's 1677. THE BOOKSELLER TO THE Courteous Reader THE Gentleman that translated this Novel for his Diversion would not be perswaded to write a Dedication nor a Preface to it and I being unwilling so excellent a Piece should go into the world without a Commendation have taken upon me to tell you that this Book was reckoned in France as the best piece of that great Wit M. D. V. D. and has had the same reception abroad as in Holland and in other Parts where it hath been several times Printed I am very confident it hath lost nothing by the translating which makes me hope it shall have as good Fortune here I could say much in the commendation of the Intrigue and Wit of it but I leave you to find that diversion in reading it which is all that is aimed at by Yours R. Bentley Some Books Printed for James Magnes and Richard Bentley PLato's Apologie of Socrates or Phedo two Dialogues concerning the immortality of Man's Soul A Natural History of the Passions Country Wit Sophonisba Nero. Augustus Caesar Abdellazar Sir Timothy Taudery Madam Fickle All Mistaken English Monsieur Tartuff Andromache Calista Forced Marriage The Fool turned Critick Fond Husband Plain-Dealer Moral Essays the second Part. Zelinda Count Brion The Happy Slave 1. and 2. Parts The Happy Slave Part. 3. in the Press which makes the Story compleat The Education of a Prince in the Press The Triumphs of Love over Fortune in the Press French Novels L'Heureux Esclave complet en trois Voll Princesse Monferrat Grand Visiers Galand Escroc ou Comte Brion Memoires de Suede 3. Voll The Differences betwixt Don John and Cardinal Nitard in French 2. Voll Mercure Galand 2. Voll Le Triomphe de l'Amour sur la Destinèe Le Vice-Roy de Catalogne in the Press THE Disorders of LOVE THE famous Givry was descended of the House of Anglure And till the Factions that threatned the ruine of France divided that Kingdom against it self the Duke of Guise who headed the League against Henry the Third and the Marquess d'Anglure Givry's Father were intimate Friends Their Business their Designs their Pleasures were the same Their Children were educated under the same Masters and though of unequal birth and designed for Dignities of different degrees it was the Dukes pleasure the Princes his Children should use Givry as their Brother Givry's Conversation was so charming that it gain'd him a general affection and particularly inclined the young Princes to a ready obedience to their Father's Command And Givry was so discreet that the more familiar the Princes were with him the greater respect he paid them and seem'd to have laid the foundation of an inseparable Union between the Families of Guise and Anglure But private Friendships are seldom proof against that violence that breaks asunder the most sacred bonds The League separated the Duke of Guise from the Royal Interest which the Marquess d' Anglure resolved to adhere to This sense of duty to the King the Duke look'd upon as an effect of lightness and ingratitude And the fatal Close of the Assembly of the Estates at Blois having kindled a War in all the Provinces of France Givry became the open and declar'd Enemy of those persons for whom he had once had the highest love and esteem Givry was so deeply affected with the agreeable Conversation of the young Princes of Guise and so much admir'd the Charms of the Princess their Sister that this sudden change gave him infinite trouble But besides the favours and hopes the King made use of to secure his allegiance the beauty of Madam Maugiron was no small attractive to win him to the Court and fix his resolutions to be of the Royal Party This Lady was a young Widow though her Husbands Children by a former Marriage would not allow her that quality and those of their Family deny her a place among their lawful Alliances Count Maugiron the Kings Lieutenant of the Province of Dauphine having married her for love and it was pretended they had taken one anothers words without further Ceremony to consummate the Marriage But whether the Lady had placed too great a confidence in the promises of the Count or was deceived by the imposture of a personated Priest instead of a real one she had the good fortune by the credit of her Kinswoman Madam de la Noue to obtain protection from the King at Tours where she was esteemed a principal Ornament of the Court. Givry was much taken with this Lady nor was she insensible of his Charms He was but one and twenty years old an age too tender to adventure into the intrigues and mysteries of Love had not Nature by extraordinary favours exempted Givry from the common Rule of things and given him a priviledge above the ordinary rate of men He had before the age of eighteen perform'd the course of his Studies and finished his Exercises was Master of the Mathematiques and all other Learning requisite to the accomplishment of a Gentleman He spoke Greek Latine and all the modern Languages of Europe as well as his Mother Tongue and in the process of my Story I shall have occasion to observe he was made Captain of the Light-horse of France at two and twenty years of age You may believe a Lover so considerable easily made a more than ordinary progress in his Amour with a Lady who had for him a violent inclination She took no longer delight in the sight of any other she did open incivilities and affronts to his Rivals they spent whole days together in pleasant discourses and endearing Conversation And when interrupted by the necessity of his attending the discharge of his duty the lovely Widow writ him Letters so kind that they supplyed in a manner the pleasure of her company These Letters he always carried with him or put them up in a little Box wherein he kept what he most valued He read them over and over as oft as he had leisure and took more care for the safety of that Box than for his own life But at a skirmish wherein the Enemy had the better of those of the Kings Party commanded by Givry among the rest of his Equipage the Box was taken To know the deep sense he had of this loss you must be as deeply in love as he was and the truth is he had more than one reason to be troubled at it The Children of Count Maugiron by the former Wife were in Arms for the League against the King and Givry was afraid the Letters might come to their hands who thinking themselves concerned to asperse the reputation of their Mother-in-Law would be easily induced to publish the Letters He was extremely troubled he had exposed his Mistress
another Lady's favour would be but a trouble to me I own my self in love with Madam Maugiron says Givry and unwilling to sacrifice my passion to a few Verses the design whereof I know not but if Mademoiselle de Guise intended them as a favour it is not Madam Maugiron shall hinder me from being sensible of it I am young and ambitious and Mademoiselle de Guise is one of the most beautiful Princesses of the world You would much question my wit if having it in my power to be engaged in an intrigue of love with her I should let slip the opportunity I do not say the occasion is offer'd me for you may be mistaken in the Character of the Verses and though she had writ them it cannot be doubted but she did it in merriment But supposing she intended to make me disgust my Mistress and shew me that another might render me more happy I should be loth to give her the displeasure of finding her self mistaken Nor am I of opinion that because at 21 years old I have had kind thoughts for Madam Maugiron I must therefore look upon all other Ladies with the Eyes of an Hermite Ah! poor Madam Maugiron says the Marquess smiling what a condition are you in if you love Givry in earnest you are to be pityed Though Givry thought her not yet in any such danger yet he fancy'd the Verses he had read exprest as much tenderness as gallantry and could readily remember that Mademoiselle de Guise was one of the finest Children in the world He pleasantly flatter'd himself with a conceit that she had vouchsafed to correct the Love-Letters that belonged to him and had sent him the amendments under her hand But all this was dubious and if it had not been so yet he received from Madam Maugiron those marks of tenderness and expressions of kindness he durst not once hope for from Mademoiselle de Guise He had not yet resolved to quit a real happiness for a chimerical hope and therefore returned to Court with Monsieur de Bellegard to seek said Givry in Madam Maugiron's Eyes a preservative from the Evils that threaten her They found the King full of joy at News he had lately received The King of Navarre as he was putting his Army into quarters met a flying Camp of the Leaguers Army he fought them and gave them a total rout many considerable Prisoners were taken and among the rest the Baron of Vins whose Daughter the Marquess de Bellegard mentioned in his discourse of the Verses in the Box. This Baron was one of the faithfullest Creatures of the House of Guise and one of the ablest Councellors of the League The King of Navarre sent him to the King that he might by good usage endeavour to win him to his Party and he came to Court the very moment that Bellegard and Givry arrived there Givry was strangely moved at the sight and name of the Prisoner and was more impatiently desirous to speak with him than to see Madam Maugiron and assoon as he found the opportunity to speak freely to him Will you not suspect me Monsieur le Baron says Givry or may I hope that the memory of my infancy will distinguish me in your affection from the rest of the Royallists You have distinguisht your self hitherto by actions so mischievous to our Party answered Vins that I should do you wrong to mix you with the multitude This is not the way to express a remembrance of that infancy you put me in mind of and I assure my self when the late Duke of Guise so highly commended your courage and address he never thought you would one day employ them against the Princes his Children I am ingag'd to it in duty replies Givry which the Duke of Guise would never have advised me to be wanting to I was born a subject of the King I serve and before I was of years of discretion care was taken to inspire me with a blind submission to the Law of Allegiance I owe him But Sir let others less ingaged than you and I judge of these things and tell me I beseeeh you some News of the young Princes and Princess their Sister Do they perform at age what their infancy promised and is Mademoiselle de Guise so beautiful at eighteen as she gave us hope for when she was ten or twelve years of Age. The Princes answered Vins are worthy Heirs of the bravery and magnificence of their Family He whom in your time they called the Duke de Joyease who did since make his escape from the Castle of Loches where he was Prisoner is wise stay'd and every way fit to bear the title of the eldest Son of his Father The Prince of Joinville will be one of the handsomest Men on Earth And the young Chevalier de Guise hath that height of Wit and Courage that add Lustre to the least of his actions But the Princess their Sister is infinitely beyond any thing can be said of her she hath a thousand Charms proper to her self not to be found elsewhere and parts so far excelling those of her Sex that it may be affirmed the most accomplish't beauty under Heaven is the least of her good qualities You have seen addes he smiling an Essay of her parts in some Verses that were brought you by the Duke of Mayenne's Trumpeter which I am perswaded raised in you no less curiosity than admiration What cryes Givry was it Mademoiselle de Guise made those Verses is it possible she should take care to play the Critick on my Letters and send me them It was she did it I assure you and charged me to deliver the Box to you said the Baron it fell into the hands of young Maugiron who with great diligence makes his Court to our Princes He shewed them the Letters written to you not knowing how far he was concern'd in them And when his Governour knew the Character and would have paraphras'd upon the intrigue Mademoiselle de Guise whom the Princes her Brothers had acquainted with the business forbad him and said she reserved too much kindness for the memory of your Infancy to permit a Lady you lov'd to be evil spoken of It was generously done reply'd Givry and like a Princess of the House of Guise But Sir have not the Verses something in them extraordinary cannot you tell me what induced her to write them and whether they were made in private or in company I cannot well inform you of that particular said Vins I was not present when the Verses were made and when Mademoiselle de Guise shewed them me she told me only she would let the Court Ladies see that those of the league exceeded them both in delicacy of affection and in fineness of wit But dear Givry added the Baron fixing his Eye on him you have been bred among us and may go your self to ask the Princess what she thought when she wrote them Do not you blush to think you should learn it