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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89527	Heptameron or the history of the fortunate lovers; written by the most excellent and most virtuous princess, Margaret de Valoys, Queen of Navarre; published in French by the privilege and immediate approbation of the King; now made English by Robert Codrington, Master of Arts.	Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1654 (1654)	Wing M593; Thomason E1468_2; ESTC R208683	403,927	599

who brought you to this place The poor Nun who did not know her did make answer Woe is me my friend my misfortune is so great that I have no recourse but unto God only whom I doe beseech to vouchsafe unto me the means that I may speak to Madam the Dutchesse of Alençon for to her alone will I declare my business being confident that if there be any redress for such a miserable Creature as my self she will grant it to me Friend said the Dutchess to her you may speak as confidently unto me as unto her I am one of her gratest friends Pardon me said the Nun none but her self only shall understand my secret Whereupon the Dutchesse said unto her that she might speak freely for she had found her whom she demanded The poor Nun did prostrate her self at her feet and having wept a long time she gave her the whole account of what already I have expressed unto you whereupon the Dutchesse did comfort her so well that exhorting her to repentance for her misdeed she took from her quite the resolution of going to Rome and sent her back to the Prioresse with a strict charge to entertain her and with Letters to the Bishop of that place to take order for the expulsion of that scandalous Monk who having abused the Body of the Nun did afterwards most petulantly upbraid her and caused her to depart the Covent I received this Acount from the Dutchesse her self by which Ladies you may understand that the Rule of Nomerfide is not proper to all sorts of Persons for these two both touching aed burying the dead were neverthelesse at the same time touched and overcome with infirmities This was an invention said Hircan which I believe was never practised before to speak of death and at the same instant to do the works of life It is not said Oysilla any work of life to sin for we all know well enough that sin produceth death You may believe said Sassredant that at that time neither the Monk nor the Nun had the least thought of that Divinity but as the Daughters of Lot having made their Father drunk did think by that means to preserve human Nature so this Monk and the Nun would repair that which death had destroyed by making of a new Body Therefore I cannot but reflect again upon the tears of tho Nun who always wept and always returned to the cause of her weeping I have seen too many of those said Hircan who at the same time bewailed their sins and yet kept their pleasures I do much doubt said Parlament by whom you do speak those words wherefore it seems to me that their laughter hath lasted long enough it would be now time that weeping should begin Hold your peace said Hircan The Tragedy is not yet finished which doth begin with laughter But to change the Subject of our discourse said Parlament it seems to me that Dagoucin hath wandred from our first determination which was that the Accounts of this day should be all pleasant and this hath been a sad one You made a motion said Dagoucin that we should not forget to give an Account of the greatest follies and in that I am sure I have not failed but to hear one that is more pleasant I do give my voice to Nomerfide hoping that she will mend my fault She made answer I have an Account ready for you and one which is worthy to follow yours for it speaks of Religious persons and of death also Give ear unto it if you please The End of the Accounts of the Novels of the late Queen of Navarr which are all that can be recovered of them A Table of the Summary of the Novells of the Queen of Navarre The first Journal AN Advocats Wife of Alençon had two Friends one of them for pleasure and the other for profit she caused that man of her two Lovers to be slain who first discovered her wanton life for which murder she begged pardon both for her self and for her sagitive Husband who afterwards to save a sum of money did repair to a Negromancer and their Enterprize was discovered and punished Novel 1. Fol. 1. The chast and lamentable Death of the Wife of one of the Mule-keepers of the Queen of Navarre Nov. 2. f. 11. A King of Naples abusing the Wife of a young Gentlewoman did at last wear the horn himself Nov. 3. f. 15. The rash Enterprise of a Gentleman to incounter with a Princess and the shame and disgrace which he received Nov. 4. f. 22. A Ferry-woman escaped from two Friers who would have forced her and did deport her self so wisely that their sinne was discovered to all the world Nov. 5. f. 30. The subtilty of a woman who shewed her friend a way to escape when her Husband who had but one eye thought to have surprized them Nov. 6. f. 34. A Merchant of Paris deceived the Mother of his Sweet-heart to conceal their fault Nov. 7. f. 37. A certain man having lain with his own Wife instead of his Chambermaid did send his Neighbour to her who made him a Cuckold without his Wives knowledge Nov. 8. f. 40. The sad death of a Gentleman in love having received comfort too late from her whom he loved Nov. 9. f. 47. The Loves of Amadour and Florinda in which are contained many subtilties and Inventions and the most commendable chastity of Florinda Nov. 10. f. 52. The Second Journal The petulant Discourses of a Frier in his Easter-Sermons at Amboise Nov. 1. f. 93. The Incontinence of a Duke and his Impudence to arrive at his Designs with his just punishment Nov. 2. f. 97. A Captain of the Galleys under the shaddow of Devotion did fall in love with a Lady and what insued thereon Nov. 3. f. 106. The subtilty of a Lover who under the pretence of the right Friend did reap from a Lady of Millan the fruits of what so long he had desired Nov. 4. f. 117. A Lady of the Court seeing her self disdained by her Husband who made love elsewhere did revenge her self by the like practice Nov. 5. f. 125. A Lady of Millan approved the Courage and the Resolution of her Friend whereupon she afterwards loved him with all her heart Nov. 6. f. 141. King Francis shewed his generous resolution to Count William who would have killed the King Nov. 7. f. 148. A fair young Lady made tryal of the fidelity of a young Scholar before she would admit him to intrench too farr upon her honour Nov. 8. f. 152. Two Lovers despairing to be marryed did enter themselves into two Religions houses the Man into a Covent of Saint Francis and the Female into the Nunnery of Saint Clare Nov. 9. f. 159. A Gentleman suddenly cured of the malady of Love finding his rigorous Lady in the arms of her Horseman Nov. 10. f. 169. The Third Journal The wonderful and honest love betwixt a Lady of honourable birth and a Bastard and the check which the

death and the Crosse before his eyes he could obey the Temptation to offend God A goodly reason said Simontault you would not wonder then to see a folly committed provided it were far from the Church or the Church yard Nomerfide made answer You may be as prodigal of your mocks as you will but so it is that the meditation of death will cool the heart how young soever it be I should be of your opinion said Dagoucin if I had not heard the contrary spoken to a Princesse If you will account the Story unto us said Parlament I will give you my voice Whereupon Dagoucin began in this manner The continual Repentance of a Nun having lost the Flower of her Virginity neither by force or love The second Novel IN one of the best Cities of the Kingdom of France next unto Paris there was an Hospital richly founded that is to say with a Covent of fifteen or sixteen religious Nuns and in another part of ●he house not far from it there was a Prior and seven or eight Monks who every day said the Service as the Nuns did only their Pater-nofters and the Hours of our Lady because they were to be imployed in the attendance of those who were sick There dyed one day a poor man where all the Religious women assembled themselves and having used all the Remedies that possibly they could for the Recovery of his health they sent for one of the Monks to confesse him and because they did observe that he did grow weaker and weaker they did give him the Unction and not long afterwards he became speechlesse But because he was a long time passing away and did make as though he did hear although he could not speak every one of the Nuns did indeavour to give him the best exhortations that possibly they could in which good work they so long continued that at the last they were all weary for seeing that night approached and that he was long a dying they did go to bed one after another and none stayed to attend the hour of his departure or to bury his Body being dead but one of the youngest Nuns one of the Monks whom she feared more than the Prior himself or any other by reason of the great austerity which he used as well in his conversation as his words who when they had a pretty while cryed JESUS in the ear of the poor Man they knew for certain that he was dead wherefore these two without any other assistance did put him into the Grave Exercising this last work of Charity the Religious Man began to discourse of the misery of this life and of the happinesse and the glory of the life to come and in this devout discourse they did continue till Midnight The poor young Nun did lend a most attentive ear to his devout exhortations and looked on him the tears trickling down her eyes in which he took so great a pleasure that talking to her of the life to come he did begin to imbrace her as if he had a great desire to carry her at that instant in his arms directly unto Paradise The poor Girl listning to his Discourse and esteeming him to be the most devout and the uprightest man in all the Priory durst not refuse him which the wicked Monk observing in talking to her of God did perform the work which the Devil on the sudden had put into his heart for before there was never the least motion of any love betwixt them The Monk assured her that a Secret Sin was not punished and that two persons not bound in Matrimony could not offend when no Scandal did arise from thence and therefore to avoid all danger of Scandal he advised her that she should confesse her self unto none but unto him And thus they departed and she going first out of doors passing by the Chapel of our Lady did go in to say her Devotions as she was accustomed to do but when she began to say Virgo Maria she remembred that she had lost that Title of Virginity without force or love but only by a sottish fear whereupon she did begin to weep so abundantly as if she would have melted her self all into water The Monk did hear her sighs and complaints and doubting of her conversion by which he might have lost his pleasure did disswade her from it and said unto her That if she was troubled in Conscience for what she had done she should confesse her self unto him The foolish Nun thinking to satisfie God did confesse her self unto him who gave her no other penitence but did swear unto her That she did not sin at all to love him and that a little holy water could wash away the stain of such a venial Trespasse She trusting in him more than in God at the end of a certain time did return to him again to obey him in what he desired insomuch that she was great with Child whereat she was so extremely sorrowfull that she desired the Prioresse not to suffer that Monk to come again into the Monastery knowing that he was so subtil and so serpentine that he would prevail upon her to believe what he pleased The Prioresse and the Prior who did agree very well together did both mock at her and told her that she was big enough to defend her self from a Man At the last in a great consternation of mind and stung with the remorse of Conscience she demanded leave of them to goe to Rome for she thought that if she could but confesse her Sin at the feet of the Pope she should recover her virginity To this desire both the Prior and the Prioress did very readily agree for they had rather that against the Rule she should be a Pilgrim than continue a Recluse and in so troubled a condition of mind Wherefore fearing that her despair would cause her to reveal the life which they did lead in that Monastery they gave her money to satisfie for the charges of her Journey But God so pleased that being at Lyons one Evening after Vespers in Saint Johns Church where Madam the Dutchesse of Alençon who hath been since Queen of Navarr did walk in private to exercise her Devotions with three or four of her Women who were on their Knees before the Crucifix she heard some body to goe up the stairs by the light of the Lamp did perceive that it was a Nun And the better to listen to her Devotions she did retire her self to the Corner of the Altar The Nun who thought she was alone kneeled down and beating her self with her hand on the Brest in the manifestation of her contrition for her fault did weep so abundantly that it was pitty to see her and with her hands lifted up repeated only these words O my God have mercy upon me a Sinner The Dutchesse the better to understand who she was did come more near and said unto her My Friend what are you whence doe you come and