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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	according_a	know_v	word_n	2,143	5	3.8658	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35783	The amours of the Count de Dunois made English.; Comte de Dunois. English	Villedieu, Madame de, d. 1683.	1675 (1675)	Wing D1187; ESTC R13980	64,626	168

the reason that might have obliged you to take upon you the interests of the Mareschal de Gié against those of the Count de Dunois being so well assured that this Conduct was contrary to my intentions The Queen seeing that Madam de Cominge gave her no answer and that her confidence began to fail by the confusion that appear'd in her face Your silence continues the Queen does not suffice for the acknowledgment of your fault I ask a sincere Declaration of it if you mean to have my pardon for it but I declare to you that if you resolve not to do what I demand of you I shall without doubt find out ways to make my self be obeyed Now if the confession of your weakness will be a trouble for you to make that trouble that you will have by it will cause me to excuse it I will have compassion of it and only blame what deserves to be punished But still once more you must repair your artifice by a sincerity so free and generous as shall perswade me of your Repentance Madam de Cominge seeing that the Queen was resolved to be obey'd flung her self at her feet pour'd out tears innumerable and appear'd so afflicted and sorrowful that the Queen was so kind as to restore her mind to a more quiet frame and temper in promising to pardon her After which she gave the Queen an exact Relation of all that had passed between the Mareschal and her the Motives that had induced her to take up his Interests the truth of the Assignation in the Park and in a word all the secret of that Intrigue and all others But said the Queen to her craftily how would you have me that I shall believe you and that I shall commit my self to your Loyalty seeing that in this procedure you have so often been defective in it Ah! Madam replied Madam de Cominge it shall not be difficult for me to justifie the truth of my words divers Letters which I have happily kept shall be the irreproachable Evidences of my sincerity The Queen put many questions to her to which she answered according to her knowledge but when she came to demand what she knew of the Negotiation of Milan Madam de Cominge assur'd her that she knew no more of it than others did and that the Mareschal had never made her enter into the depth of this confidence It may be said the Queen you have not very much press'd him to it for in the intelligence in which you are 't is not to be believed that he should have denied you so small a thing in a time wherein you did so much for him It is true replied Madam de Cominge I did not much concern my self from whence the trouble came provided that I had the satisfaction to stir him up to it But Madam I do without any Hesitancy own my Crime continued she and am ready to repair it by all the ways it shall please your Majesty to ordain me If it be so there is yet a way replied the Queen left for you to be re-establish'd in my Esteem and it is that after you have done all against the Count de Dunois so I would have you do all for him what went formerly for an unworthy Artifice shall now become a commendable Address when you shall act by my Orders and for Justice I will then pursued the Queen that you give into my hands the Letters of the Mareschal I will that you indeavour to discover the condition that the affair of Milan is now in and I will lastly that you do what ever you can to ruine the success of it Madam de Cominge fearing nothing so much as to be banish'd the Court and loving nothing more than to betray those that were so mad to put any trust and reliance upon her did easily thereupon resolve to delude Mounsieur le Mareschal and wholly to betake her self to the Interests of the Count de Dunois She did not derogate from her character of Imposture and her Perfidie only made her change the Object She then promised the Queen to do nothing for the future but by her Commission And to assure her as much as she could before-hand of what she then promised her she did deliver into her hands all the Letters that the Mareschal had written to her which clearly discovered to her his love for Madamoiselle d' Alenson and assur'd her at the same time to squeeze out from him some more of them that should be more urging and full of Explication At last the Queen terrified her so to the purpose and flattered her also with so much prudence that made her fully determine she would never take any other course than this which she knew as much as she could do was the safest The Count de Dunois after he had understood this change and knew of Madam de Cominge the truth of this adventure sacrificed his resentment to the necessity he was in of her and she promised him from that time forward to be of the number of his Friends but she was not any sooner in a condition of acting according to her promise but the Mareschal fell dangerously sick During the time that Maisiere began to dispose his affairs for his Journey to Alenson I say dispose his affairs for he had enough to imploy I do not know how many persons he was a Match-maker and an Accommodater of Differences he furnish'd with Menial Servants all those that had any occasion for them he was known to the Ladies and he suffered I know not what for them by a thousand little services that he did them and there was scarce any news let it be as private and particular as possibly it could be but what he knew of one of the first Indeed he was something singular as to the manner of dressing himself He did not affect to have his apparel quite different from others but he shifted his Cloaths almost every hour in the day sometimes like a Citizen sometimes like a Cavalier and always in a Fashion that was very extravagant and ridiculous But yet this fantastical out-side did not keep Maisiere from having a good solid and piercing Wit and that was capable to manage any difficult Enterprize nay to add to all this he had a discretion that gave him the confidence of all those to whom he was known The assurance that the Marquiss de la Trimouille gave thereof to the Count de Dunois made him fully resolve to commit at last this secret to him and to send him to Alenson to instruct the Princess of the condition in which things were then The Count gave him both Money and Jewels as well for his own occasions as to gain him the persons he stood in need of to accomplish his design After which he departed for Alenson where there was need of the like succour to dissipate the trouble of a solitude that was very disagreeable He was received by the Duke and Dutchess with a great many

doubt of it He spoke of it to the Mareschal de Gié and would have him responsible for the rupture of a Treaty of the event of which he had so often charg'd himself The Mareschal justified himself by a discourse full of flourish and Eloquence But when the King demanded of him precisely what was the Conduct that he had made use of for this Negotiation the Mareschal blundered heavily for he could say nothing to his Majesty which he thought would give him satisfaction All that the Queen had told him then came fresh into his memory but his natural clemency and the affection he had for the Mareschal which was particular made him yet for some time suspend his just resentment Justifie your self said the King to him I would advise you and I wish that you know how to do it Let me be assured that you did enter into Treaty with the Duke of Milan what the Propositions were that you made to him and the Reasons wherefore the Propositions did not take effect after that I shall be content and if there be any fault in you I shall not impute it to the defect of your Zeal for my service I had rather cast it upon your Imprudence than upon your Infidelity The Mareschal would fain have perswaded the King that what he had heard was an Imposture and not real It may be at another time he might have done it but his Loyalty began then a little too much to be suspected to suffer him to relye upon his word Though the King did demand him yet he made no positive answer Being displeas'd then at his weak sincerity he commanded the Captain of his Guards to go and seize the Mareschals Cabinet and to bring it to him I was in the Antichamber when it came by there and I went immediately to the Queen to whom this news was very pleasant judging according to all appearances that the King was entered into some suspition of the fidelity of the Mareschal and that he did seek to be fully cleared upon it She assur'd her self of Madam de Cominge to tell the truth of all she knew when she saw a convenient time for it In the mean time the King had no sooner got the Cabinet into his possession but he caused it to be opened He found there a Model that the Mareschal had drawn up to prepare their minds for the breaking off the Treaty of Milan After that he met with the Copy of a Letter he had writ to Sforza in which he had proposed the Marriage of Madamoiselle d' Alenson with his Nephew and let him know that if he accepted of the Proposition the conclusion of it might be deferr'd for some years He desired him to quit the Party of the King of Spain and to facilitate the passage of the Army but so wretchedly that it was easie to perceive that he had no desire to obtain what he seemed to sollicit for There was yet another Paper fastened to this which was written in Characters and where the King could understand nothing no more than he could of many others of the same nature that fell into his hands It was not possible for him to get out any farther explication from the Mareschal neither would the King any more look into them this suffices said he to make me know the Motives that made you act retire into your apartment from whence I forbid you to stir out but by my orders And you continued he turning to the Captain of the Guard take special care that you suffer no person to speak with him The King went alone into his Clos set very much inraged against the Mareschal but the Queen did not give him a very long time to make his reflections upon the crime or upon the Criminal She made some pretence to go and to interrupt his solitude and to speak to him of somewhat else then of the Mareschal but the King was not in a humour to begin another discourse He made to her his complaints of the Mareschal's perfidiousness he accused himself of having been prepossest on his behalf and told her all that his resentment could inspire him with For all this the Queen did very well observe that the King had still some returns that inclined him to clemency and that if they had taken but a moderate care to excuse the Mareschal it would not possibly have been a hard matter to get him established again But the Queen who had other sentiments acquainted the King with what Madam de Cominge had told her and of which he was not overwilling to be informed and not to leave him any room to doubt of the truth of what he had said she shewed him the letters that made a full discovery of the Love he had for Madamoiselle d' Alenson and of the fear that he was in that she would marry the Count de Dunois Madam de Cominge added that he had always spoken to her of the Treaty of Milan as of a thing which he saw but very little appearance of The King laid hold of the letters she shewed him and as he was putting them up into the Mareschal's Cabinet the Queens Curiosity carried her to read other Papers that she found there In the first she met with onely the confirmation of his fault in others she read some rough draughts of Letters that he had a mind to send to Madamoiselle d' Alenson but the last which her hand chanced to light upon being sealed gave her a greater desire to read them It was the Key of the Characters of Sforza's Letter and that of the Mareschals She made use of it to explain both the one and the other The Mareschal did propose to him to accord the Articles of the Marriage of Madamoiselle d' Alenson with the Duke of Milan and to demand that she might be with the Dutchess Mother to the Duke to understand the manners of the Country and to cherish the love between the Princess and him upon those conditions he promised Sforza to deliver him up the troops that he commanded in his journey of Italy and to enter with him into the party of the King his enemies Sforza who did argue with a more sound judgement then the Mareschal who only acted by the maxims of his love and never consulted his Loyalty Sforza I say would not by such a proceedure put himself out of a condition sometime or other to make his peace with the King and prudently refused to make a particular league with a man who without any reason quitted the Interests of the greatest King in the World and from whom he daily received assurance of kindnesses as also that having a design to ruin the Duke of Milan and to possess himself of his Dukedome the propositions of the Mareschal were not at all to his purpose I will not re-acquaint you Madam pursued Mountsieur de Mountsaureau with what a strange anger the King had upon him and with his resentment of the Mareschals Treason it