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The Annals of love containing select histories of the amours of divers princes courts, pleasantly related.
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1672
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and had continued with her to the very hour in which the Marquess saw her come in For knowing the Jealousie of her Master she thought it not best to come home till she believed he was in bed lest she should be troubled with the impertinent questions he used to all people that had been abroad She had desired the Porter to open the Gate when she gave him the signal as he did and it was she the Marquess had seen enter both into the Court and the Gallery belonging to his Daughters Chamber The cunning old Fox being assured the Turkish Prince was not to be found where he was sought for she laid about her and gave the Marquess all the reproaches she could have given him had she been really innocent She caused the Porter to be called to testifie it was she that came in she would needs have him send to the sick person where she had been visiting to satisfie himself whether she was not newly come from thence and pursuing her confidence so far as to press him to send to Jacaya he did and having found him in bed she put the poor Marquess into such a confusion as he was never in before in his life This story made a great noise in the Duke of Tuscany's Court some Ladies who emulated Angelica's Beauty and perhaps had their private designs upon the affections of Jacaya began to talk of it at their pleasure Jacaya protested it was only the old Marquesses fancy and that he had never had any familiarity with his Daughter But the good man to justifie his senses and demonstrate that his age had as yet done him no prejudice in his judgment gave a relation to all people of what he heard in the Pratolin and pretended he had done the part of a wise man when he had discovered upon what grounds he had done as he did By this means was Angelica become the whole discourse of the Court and though she was really innocent her self yet she served for an eminent Example that in matters of Reputation appearances are sometimes as dangerous as real transgression The Family of the Strozzi was very considerable in Italy the Relations of Angelica were sensible of the injury the Turkish Prince had done her and Jacaya's ambition not suffering him to apply such publick remedy as would have been required the Counsel of the Grand Duke after great division and debate concluded at last that the poor Prince should be put to seek his protection from the Pope But the malice of the Strozzi not regarding the Holiness of his Protector they laid so many secret practices against his life that they forced him out of Italy and obliged him to pass into France with the Duke of Nevers newly come to the Dukedom of Mantua whose Subjects refused to admit him into his State The Court of France was at that time the most splendid in the World The Marriage of of the young Lewis XIII with the Infanta of Spain supplied new matter to the Magnificence of the Queen Mother Mary de Medicis and that time was so eminent for fair Ladies that never was there so many Beauties together in one Court as in his Reign The Duke of Mantua having brought the Turkish Prince into France he would needs be his Patron amongst them He proposed to him to accompany him in his Visits to the most beautiful and most eminent in Dignities but the Prince stopping him at the first words of his Proposition I beseech your Highness said he to the Duke suffer me to forget there any such Creatures in the World I see the Ladies of this Court are transcendently handsom but it satisfies me to look upon them at Court as so many pieces of good Painting I will never pursue them to their own Houses if you will please to dispense How said the Duke not see them can you think to be in a Court so illustrious as this and never visit the Ladies Ha! my dear Prince Paris is not Constantinople you must visit them here or be exposed to whatever their scorn or indignation can inflict and you cannot imagine how dangerous the displeasure of that Sex is for a person of your Age and Extraction You may play the Turk in your own Country but in France you must imitate the French I ought not any where to be lookt upon as a Turk replied Jacaya a little angry I came so young out of that Country I have retained nothing of their Customs My first years I spent in Greece where they live with liberty enough the Court of Poland is none of the strictest and if one may believe the imaginations of the Marquess de Strozzi continued he smiling I of all the World have little reason to complain of the severity of Italy But Sir I desire to be excused from any Amours in this Kingdom and to preserve my self from the dangers which I have many times incurred I tell you once again I have no inclination to visit any of your Ladies I am too much your friend replied the Duke not to root out that obstinate fancy you will pass for some pitiful Creature if you do not visit the Ladies And for the dangers you speak of they are not so great as you apprehend the multitude of Beauties obstructing the choice one can scarce give his heart to one but the next fetches it again That uncertainty preserves many souls from the torture of Love and if it so happens one should be caught a French Ladies Gallant runs no harder Risques than an ordinary Lover And then not staying for the Princes answer he pulled him along with him by force to two or three Ladies of his Acquaintance and among the rest the Duke of Savoys Ambassadours Wife which was a very pleasant Person and spoke Italian excellently well But whatever these Ladies could do to signalize their Entertainment of Jacaya they could not get the least obliging Syllable from him He fixt his Eyes upon the ground like a Novice of two days old and answered with nothing but monosyllables The Dukes friends laught at him next day for bringing such a Spark into France He found them altogether in the Ambassadresses House where they were at play till it was time to walk What Innocent is that you have got cryed they to the Duke as soon as they perceived him he is afraid to speak one word and to look a Woman in the face is as much as his life is worth what do you with that poor Creature or to what use do you design him Ha! Ladies replied the Duke he is nothing less than what you take him for He hath been told the French Ladies are much used to play upon Strangers and not knowing the French Tongue very well nor being yet acquainted with the Intrigues of the Court he is afraid to expose his discretion till he be informed better in both But such as you see him if you could fasten him to your Chariot I question whether you ever triumpht with
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