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A25194
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Aloisia, or, The amours of Octavia Englished ; to which is adjoyned The history of Madam du Tillait, both displaying the subtilties of the fair sex.
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1681
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Wing A2897A; ESTC R9304
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Lady was there where having staid some time he espied two little Dogs which Madam du Tillait carries always with her which he immediately followed up stairs to the Chamber door where their Mistress was after having done what he could to catch the Dogs before but he being disguised in a grey Cloak they did not know him whither as soon as he came one of the Dogs scratched at the Door upon which the Abbot caught him up and hearkned at the Door in which moment the Lady having-heard her Dog scratch came to open the Door which as soon as she had done the Abbot stept in and told her he having found her Dogs in the Street had endeavoured to catch them but they running away from him he had followed them that they might not be lost but withal that he was very sorry he had followed them so far as to interrupt her Entertainment Notwithstanding all these pretences the Father thinking he had done all this to catch him immediately gave him a box on the car after which there being no body to part them they fought so heartily that they were forced both at last to make use of the Man of the House who was a Chyrurgeon The Abbot threatned the Father so much this time also that he was forced to leave the Town for fear of further discovery and take a House at Isey a Village near Paris where the Lady visited him very often though not without entertaining at the same time many other Gallants amongst whom there was one Mr. L' Avocat a Fellow that has neither Wit nor breeding but yet a Master of Requests of the King's Houshold was Chief as being one of the greatest Fops she could induce to love her yet having got some money from him and a pair of white Flanders Coach-Horses he had the first place in her affections next him was Guerin her Steward who had a great share of her Favours and often of her Bed where being one Night there happened a pleasant adventure which was that three Rivals should meet at a time when it was almost impossible they should see one another in order to the unfolding of which you must know Madam that L' Avocat had for Confident one of the Ladies Foot-men and Abbot Fournier one of her Maids The Lady not being displeased at their catching her agreeably continues in Bed they often hid themselves somewhere till she was in Bed and then came to her which the Abbot doing once in her Maids Chamber and L' Avocate in the Foot-mans and the Lady happening to have that Night Guerin in her Bed who having been in Bed sometime those Lovers also that were hid came into her Chamber each of them thinking to be the only one there but both coming in at the same time she bad the Steward hide himself under the Bed and asked who was there to which L' Avocate said it is I Madam who come to pass a quarter of an hours time with you to which she answered truly Sir it is too late now not too late Madam replied the Abbot for it has but just now struck twelve of the Clock truly Sir replied the Lady I took you for L' Avocate and so it is truly said L' Avocate on the other side of the Bed who then came to the Bed-side and flung himself upon the Bed so as to meet the Abbot that was by this time got to the other side of the Bed and took him by the hand whom he asked when they knew one another why he that might come at any time to the Lady being so near a Neighbour should come at that time of the Night to which the Abbot answered very angrily that he wondered how he should come thither from his House at the other end of Paris so late at night after which they gave one the other very ill Language which had come to blows if they had had any mind to fight or if the Lady had not promised to give them all imaginable satisfaction which agreed upon at last amongst them thus that L' Avocate being farthest off his Lodgings should be the first two hours with the Lady after which the Abbot should come and that in the mean time the Abbot should retire into another of the Ladies Chambers These two being satisfied there remained only poor Guerin unsatisfied who was very ill lodged under the Bed in his shirt without hopes of getting any thing by the Treaty till the Abbot had done with the Lady whom he left at six in the Morning and gave him his place in the Ladies Bed where he took his full revenge of them which was not unwelcome to the Lady in fine Loves feast was never better solemnized in this world than this night by three Lovers who all went away with so great a satisfaction that they had not the least Jealousie or Malice left them Here Madam I must beg your leave to finish this small account of Madam du Tillait wherein you will be pleased to believe there is nothing of Falshood since I assure you I know of Faverolles who is now my very good Friend and is since fallen out with the Lady all that happened between him and the Lady whereof I have retrenched the greatest part as not being fit for your Ears As to Chanteau's affairs I knew it from the Ladies Woman who was then with her and as for that of the Court Gentlemans it made so great a Noise in the World that I believe it is unknown to very few As for that of her Steward it was related to me by himself since he came from her in a Month after which he was found assassinated at the Port Saint Jacques but by whom it is not yet known Since it pleased you Madam to desire me to disguise nothing in this Relation I hope you will not be displeased at the too great Liberty I have taken and that you will believe as a great truth that I esteem nothing so much in this World as your Self and all things that have any relation to you FINIS
the Court according to the notice that was given him by his Brother Mr. de la Cour des Bois who was much incensed with her permitting any other to partake of those favours she had afforded him The manner of her being surprized was thus He having pretended to go into the Country came home contrary to her Expectation at Night and found the Gentleman with her who was forced to run away in his Shirt and leave his Clothes in the Ladies Chamber since which her Husband has never seen her nor owned a Daughter of which his wife went from the time of this Adventure for she was brought to Bed nine months after of her who now is called Madam du Plais this Gentleman who was thus caught and was then so much in Love with her has been so constant to her since that he has had of her two Sons one dead and the other who is now his Page he always thinking himself the only Person in her favour till he was disabused by this accident after which he found himself far from being in the right for then she had many others since she has given up her self to all the World The manner of his discovering the Ladies having other Gallants was thus She had an old Maid called Richarde that was the best in the World at entertaining Commerce with a dozen Gallants for her Mistress at the same time for she never spoke of one to the other without making each of them believe himself to be the sole fortunate Lover but she had another who was not so secret for upon some suspicion the Court Gentleman had of the Abbot of Aumont she readily confessed the truth that he lay with her Mistress at the knowledge of which and the surprising them once together by this Maids contrivance he was so inraged that he endeavour'd to run the Abbot through who having put by the thrust and closed upon him gave the Lady time to call up help to part them notwithstanding which the Abbot was hurt in the Face and Hand but as soon as he was gone the Gentleman discharged his Anger upon the Lady and gave her so many blows with the flat of his Sword that she lay sick of it at least a Fortnight or three Weeks during which time she was forced to keep her Bed since this Affair the Gentleman never cared for her but broke with her wholly notwithstanding all she could do to appease him After which the Lady having so well begun in her young years was resolved to finish so and abandoned her self so up to Vice that it was to the three States the Nobility Clergy and Commonality Some time after this she retired into the Hospital of the Charonne in the said Suburbs of Saint Germane because of some Creditors that prosecuted her very severely thinking thereby to gain time to pay them While she was in this Covent she made an Acquaintance with a Father Jesuit called Faverolles who as I take it was Director of Conscience to the Nuns of that Covent whose ingenious Conversation was so pleasing to her that she had many private Conferences mith him in which the good Father found something in the Lady that made him hope to gain her Favour which being no very difficult thing he soon came to the end of his Design which he had no sooner acquainted her with but she promised him satisfaction so that there 's nothing wanting now but opportunity he obtained so much of the Lady that she discovered to him a Grate that she had in her Parlour which came out when she pleased which as soon as the Father heard he made such use of it that he would not stay any longer but went through the Grate to the Ladies Chamber who seemed not to be displeased at this Freedom but agreed so well with him that they left the use of their Discourse though not of their Enjoyment of their Pleasures which they continued to take so long together that she found her self with Child in a small time of which being to be delivered she made a Journey to Farmontier under pretence of seeing some Nuns of her Kindred there where having been some time she was brought to Bed of a Boy which dyed since at Somiers where he was at Nurse whither although it was very difficult for Father Faverolles to lie out of his Covent He did not fail to go to visit Madam du Tillait at the time of her lying in from whence as soon as he had given order for the nursing of his little Jesuit he came back to Paris whither he was hardly come when he received an order from his Superiour to go to Amiens for I know not what Affair but however having heard there that Madam du Tillait was very ill he left all the business of his order and went to her whom finding much better than he expected and his business at Amiens not permitting him to be long absent he returned thither the next after he had recommended her to the care to one Puard a Chyrurgion who had brought her to Bed and ordered him to have a great care of her health which he did to so good effect that with that and his being a hansom Fellow he got so far into her favour that he had care of her Pleasures as well as her Lying-Inn in which he pleased her so that now he was got into the Jesuits place in his absence who when he came back in four Months time during which he could not possibly quit his business found his Mistress with Child of Picard It did not a little perplex the Lady to find out how to discover the Truth to the good Father but finding it must come out soon or late he never leaving her she resolved to break the Ice without delaying it further which she thought it best to do in Confession to him in which she told him all that happened between her and the Chyrurgion but withal assured him that it was only to keep the thing secret however this thing so troubled the Father that he had utterly broken with her had he not known People of his Sort did not always meet with such good Fortunes wherefore he thought it not convenient to lose this and thereupon only made her some few reproaches but she quickly shut his mouth by telling him it was not just for him to reproach her for any thing she had told him under the Zeal of Confession Some time after this they came together to Paris where the Father 's Amour being known by the Jesuit they checked him severely for it and for the preventing any further communication betwixt them they ordered him to go to Moulins but instead of obeying their order he retired into Madam du Tillait's house of which the Jesuit not being informed were more than a year without knowing what was become of him till at length they heard he kept house with his beloved Lady from whence they got an order from the King to have