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A51922	The memorialls of Margaret de Valoys, first wife to Henry the fourth, King of France and Navarre compiled in French by her owne most delicate and royall hand : and translated into English by Robert Codrington ...; Memoires de la roine Margverite. English	Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1615.; Codrington, Robert, 1601-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing M595; ESTC R15539	98,790	238

and with many protestations that he would remain a most constant servant to my Brother and my selfe But false and treacherous fortune not able to support the glory of this so happy a condition which in my voyage hitherto did attend me gave me two crosse presa●es which on my return to content her envy she had prepared for me The first was that my Boat had no sooner removed from the shore but Madamois●lle de ●●urnon a virgin indowed with many virtues whom I intirely loved took so strange a sicknesse that on a suddain she bur●● forth into strong and loud shreiks by reason of the violence of the grief she felt which did so oppresse her heart that the Physitians could provide no remedy but within a few daies she was ravished by Death I will relate this tragicall story in its own place it being so remarkable The other was that arriving at Huy a town scituate on the declining of a hill there brake forth on a suddain so impetuous a torrent falling from the Mountain waters into the river that ingrossing and devouring all at once we could no sooner leape to land and run with all the speed we could to recover the top of the Hill but the floud was there as soon as we My lodgeing was on the upper and highest part of the Town where that night we were content with what provision the Master of the House had of his own who had not means to get Boats or people to send down into the Town which seemd overwhelmed in that vast Deluge from which it was wonderfully delivered as it was seized by it for on the dawning of the day the waters were all returned and retired within their proper channels On my departure thence Monsieur and Madame de Aurec returned to Namur unto Don John and I took Boat to goe that day to Leige where the Bishop who is a great Lord received me with all the honour and demonstrations of good will that a courteous and well affected person could expresse He was a Lord attented with great virtue wisedome and bounty and who spake very good French agreeable with his person which was honorable and magnificen● He was attended with a Chapiter and many Canons all sonnes of Dukes and Counts and great Lords of Germany The Bishoprick is of a soveraigne estate and of great revenue and filled with many goodly Towns The Canons obtain their places by election and they must continue a yeere probationers that are received into their Society The town is great as Lyons and almost of the same scituation the river Mosa passing in the middle of it excellently builded there being no Religious House which seemeth not a faire palace the streets long and large enriched with curious fountaines the Churches adorned with so much marble which they have there at hand that worthily they challenge the observation of the passinger and may be as well the wonders as the pleasures of his eye The Clockes made with German industry singing and representing all variety of Musick and of Persons The Bishop received me as I came out of my Boat and conducted me into a faire and stately Palace so richly painted and set forth with so much Gold and Marble that there is nothing more magnificent or delightfull The waters of Spa were three or foure miles from thence and there being no Town neer but a Village only of three or foure houses Madame the Princesse of Roche-sur-yon was advised by her Physitians to stay at Leige and to have the water brought thither to her assuring her that it would loose no virtue being brought unto her before the Sun was up of which I was very glad having our aboad in so fit a place and in so good a Company for besides his Grace for so they stile the Bishop of Leige as we give the title of Majesty to a King or of Highnesse to a Prince the rumour flying that I passed that way most of the Lords and Ladies of Almaine were come thither to attend me and among others Madame the Countesse of Aremberg who was she that had the honour to conduct Queen Elizabeth to her mariage at Meziers when she was espoused to King Charles my Brother and who conducted my eldest sister at her mariage to the King of Spaine she was a woman that was in great account with the Empresse and Emperour and with all the Princes of Christendome there was also her sister Madame de Lantgrave and her Daughter Madame de Aremberg and Monsieur de Aremberg her sonne a brave and worthy Gentleman the lively image of his Father who bringing heretofore auxiliary Souldiers from Spaine to King Charles my Brother returned with great honour and reputation This arrivall being full of joy and honour had been yet farre more delightfull were it not interrupted by the Death of Madamoselle de Tournon whose history being so remarkable I cannot here but make digression to relate it Madame de Tournon who was then my Dame of honour had many daughters the ●●●est whereof was maried to Monsieur ●e B●●anson Governour for the King of Spaine in the County of Burgundy who returning to his own Country intreated Madame de Tournon his Mother to let him have another of her Daughters to associate his wife being to live now in a place removed from her kindred her Mother consented to it and she staying there some yeers in improving her selfe though her cheifest beauty was her virtue and her gracefull carriage Monsieur the Marques of Varambon a man designed to the Church being resident in the same house with his Brother Monsieur de Balanson by ordinary society of discourse and conversation with Madamoiselle de Tournon became very amorous of her and being not yet obliged to the Church desired to espouse her he propounded the motion to his own friends and to hers they of her side did well approve it but his Brother Monsieur de Balanson thinking it more profitable for him to have him of the Church prevailed so farre that he brake off the Marriage designing to him the habit and formality of the Gown Madame de Tournon offended thereat took from thence her daughter Madamoiselle de Tournon with her sister Madame de Balanson and being a rough and severe woman without regard of her Daughters age and disposition which deserved a more gentle usage she daily did torment her with vehement and invective language insomuch that she was never seen to have her eyes dry though all her actions were most commendable so ungentle was the nature and severi●y of this Mother Her Daughter desiring nothing more then to be released from this tyranny entertained a certain joy when she saw I was going into Flanders truly conceiving that the Marques of Var●b●n would meet me there and being now in the estate of Mariage for he had altogether abandoned the gown would peradventure demand her of her Mother and that by the means of this Mariage she should be delivered from her

began to laugh and said Goe to the Queene your mother and I assure my selfe you will return well chafed thence I asked him wherefore and what the businesse was he made answere I will not tell you it is sufficient that I beleeve it not these are Inventions to set you and me at distance and by that means to estrange me from the freindship of Monsieur your Brother Seeing I could learn from him nothing else I repayred to the Queen my Mother comming into the hall I met with Monsieur de Guise who seeing this division in our house was nothing sorry for it well hoping himself to collect the pieces of the broken vessell who said to me I waite here Madame to tell you that the Queen hath entertained a very uncharitable opinion of you and related to me all the discourse which he received from de O who being then an entire freind of your Cosins told it to Monsieur de Guise to acquaint me with it I made haste unto the chamber of the Queen my mother where she was not to be found but there I met with Madame de Nemours and all the other Princesses and Ladies who said unto me Good God Madame the Queene your mother is extreamly incensed against you I would advise you not to present your selfe before her Indeed I would not I replied if I had done what the King hath reported of me but being altogether innocent it is requisite that I should speake unto her to acquit my selfe I entred then into her closet which was made only but of single wainscot so that they might understand with ease whatsoever words were spoken As soone as she did see me she began to vent her choler and to speak whatsoever a violent and an outragious passion could deliver I presented the truth unto her and told her that there were ten or twelve of us in company beseeching her to enquire and not onely beleeve those who were my friends and familiar acquaintance but Madame de Montigny who was a stranger to me and Liancourt and Camillus who depended not but on the King but she had no eare either for truth or reason whether it were that she were prepossessed with the falsehood or whither it rather were to comply with the King her Sonne whom with all her affection and indeavours with all her hopes and feares she idolized and ceased not to chide and threaten me I telling her that the King was he that raised this report she grew into a greater choller and would have made me believe that it was one of the Grooms of her Chambers who passing by did see me but finding that this excuse was too grosse that I should receive it into my beliefe and that I remained extreamly offended with the King it did the more instimulate and torment her all this was heard into her Chamber being full of people departing thence with as much indignation as can be conceived I found in my own Chamber the King my Husband who said unto me And have you not found what I told you true and perceiving me much afflicted torment not your self he said for this Liancourt and Camillus shall attend the King at his going to rest and shall acquaint him with the wrong that he hath done you and I assure my selfe to morrow that the Queen your Mother will doe her best to make a perfect agreement I replyed to him Sir I have received in this slander too publick an affront to pardon those that did procure it but I account all but light in regard of the injury they would have done by pulling on me so great a mischiefe as the losse of your love he answered But God be thanked that is frustrated to which I replyed yea thanks be to God and to your good nature but from this evill it were requisite we should derive some benefit which might serve us for instruction to have an eye to all their policies whereby they shall indeavour to work debate betwixt us for it is to be believed that since the King hath begun to proceed thus farre he will not stay here nor desist till he hath brohen the bonds of love betwixt my Brother and your selfe whiles I was speaking this my Brother came and by a new Oath I obliged them both to the continuation of their friendship but what Oath is of strength in love While we were at the Banquet the King having conferred with Liancourt and Camillus and the Lady of Montigny had perceived the errour into which the malice of Rufus had caused him to fall and being no lesse carefull to recall it then he was ready to receive it comming to the Queen my Mother he did confesse the truth unto her and intreated her that she would be pleased to excuse it to me that I might not persevere an enemy against him fearing much because he saw I apprehended the injury that I knew as aptly to revenge my self as he did to offend me Returning from the banquet I found the Prophecy of the King my Husband true the Queen my Mother sent for me into her back Cabinet which was joyning to the Kings where she told me that she had learned the truth and had found it to be all false whatsoever the Groom of her Chamber had related to her and perceiving by my semblance that I believed not that pretext she endeavoured by all meanes to take from me the opinion that it was the King and finding it advantaged nothing the King came presently into her Cabinet and made me many and grand excuses alledging that others made him believe it and gave me all the satisfaction and demonstration of friendship that could be desired This being passed having continued at Lyons a little longer we went into Avignon Le Guast daring no more invent such impostures and seeing by my actions that I gave no regard unto him he took now another course by the Lady de Sauva to advance his mischeivous projects winning her so far that she governed all by him and practising his instructions no lesse dangerous then those of Celestina she worked the love of my Brother and of the King my Husband but light before and flexible being both but very young to such a height and strength that forgetting all ambition exercise and designe they minded nothing else but that Ladies service and were so strongly jealous of one another that although she was courted by Monsieur le Guise by le Guast Sovuray and many others who were all better beloved by her then themselves yet these two Brothers neither minded nor feared any thing but the preferred acceptance and entertainment of each others service And this woman the better to play her game perswaded the King my Husband that I grew jealous of her and for that cause that I took my Brothers part we easily believe what is told us by those we love He entertaineth this beliefe he estrangeth he concealeth himself from me more then from any other which till then he never did

to double the courage of his companions Apprehending this and indeavoring to make their enterprise assured they resolved to assault him with two or three hundred men the vaile of night covering the shame of such an assault Le Guast who commanded a Regiment of the Guard provided them with Souldiers who putting themselves in five or six troupes in the street through which of necessity he must passe they charged on him putting out their Links and Torches After a volley of Harquebuses and Pistols enough not only to intrap a troupe of fifteen or twenty persons but to defeate a whole Regiment of Souldiers they hand to hand did combat with this troupe labouring continually in the mask of night to mark out Bussi knowing him by his dove-coloured Scarfe in which he carried his wounded arme which served at that time well for them who otherwise would have felt the strength and vigour of it but they were so well entertained by those few honest Gentlemen from whom neither this unexpected incounter nor the horrour of the night had taken away their judgement or their courage that making as great a proofe of their valour as of their affection to their friend by fine force they brought him to his lodging without losing any of their troupe saving one Gentleman only who was trained up with him and being wounded also in his arme carried it in a dove-coloured scarfe as Bussi did yet differing much from his it being nothing so rich as his Masters was howsoever in the obscurity of night either the fury or the courage of these assassinates who had the word given them to fall on the dove-coloured scarfe prevailed so much that all the troupes threw themselves on that poore Gentleman and left him dead in the street An Italian Gentleman that belonged to my Brother being there surprised with feare did runne all bloody into the Louure and comming up the staires where my Brothers Chamber was cryed out that Bussi was assaulted my Brother immediately would have gone to rescue him By good fortune I was not then in bed and was lodged so neer unto my Brother that I heard that affrighted man comming up the staires and Proclayming that terrible news as soon as he I ran forthwith into his Chamber to hinder him from going down and sent to the Queen my Mother to intreate her to come and stay him seeing the just griefe which he conceived did transport him so beyond himselfe that inconsiderately he would expose himselfe to any danger to run headlong to revenge we retained him with much adoe the Q. my Mother urging there was no apparence that he should venter himself alone during night that obscurity did cover all vilany that le Guast was mischievous enough to have done it peradventure on purpose that he might fall into some evill accident These words were of little force with him being almost desperate but she using her authority staied him and gave the Porters charge that they should not let him forth taking the pains herself to stay with him till he had learned the truth of all Bussi whom God had preserved miraculously from that danger troubling not himself with the hazard of it his Sou●e being uncapable of feare being born for a terrour to his Enemies a glory to his Master a helpe unto his friends as soon as he was entred into his lodging thinking in what a trouble his Master would be if the newes of this encounter were brought uncertainly unto him and fearing it might throw him upon the ranks of his enemies as without doubt it had if the Queen my Mother had not prevented it sent forthwith one of his servants who brought him the truth and the news of all And the day appearing Bussi without fear of his enemies came into the Louure with as joyfull and as brave a presence as if the former assassinat had been to him a turnament of pleasure My Brother Being also as glad to see him as full of indignation to revenge his quarrell sufficiently did witnesse how sensible he was of the affront that was done unto him by attempting to deprive him of so worthy and so brave a Servant although le Guast could not endure that Bussi should be ranckt before him or be seen to take the upper hand The Queen my Mother the wisest and most advised that ever was knowing of what weights were such effects and foreseeing that in the end they might set both her sonnes at variance did counsaile my Brother to take away all pretences that Bussi a while should absent himself from Court to which my Brother gave consent through my intreaties seeing well that if he stayed Le Guast would continue his incendiary devises and would make him serve as a Cloake for his pernicious designes which were to keep at discord my Brother and the King my Husband as he had done by his aforesaid inventions Bussi who had no other will but that of his Masters departed from the Court accompanied with the bravest of the Nobility which followed my Brother this subject was pleasing to Le Guast and at the same time seeing the King my Husband one night in a great weaknesse in which he fainting swounded oftentimes away which came unto him as I beleeve by an excesse which he had made with women where I served and assisted him as my duty did command me at which so much he was contented that he praised me to all the world saying that if I had not perceived him in that extreamity and run presently to his succour to call my women and his servants to him that he had been dead and for this that he would make farre more deerly of me then hitherto he had Le Guast seeing also that of late the love and friendship between my Brother and the King my Husband began to renew it self believing that I was the only occasion and instrument thereof and that I was to them as we may see in all naturall things but especially in Serpents cut a certain naturall balme which doth reunite and reconcile the divided parts pursuing alwayes the course of his first pernicious designe and labouring to contrive some new invention to divide the King my Husband and my self did put into the Kings head who some few dayes before by the same inventien of Le Guast had taken from the Queen his most vertuous and sacred Princesse one of her Gentlewomen whom she loved very deerly and who was trayned up with her named Changi he thought it now expedient that the King my Husband should doe the like by me taking from me her whom I most affected named Torigny without any cause or reason but this That it was not requisite for young Princesses to have such servants in whom they might repose any particular confidence The King perswaded by this wicked fellow talked of it oftentimes to the King my Husband who told him that he knew very well that he should doe me a grievous displeasure by it and if I

was much troubled at the news which gave me the greater apprehension to beleeve that we were discovered entring into her Closet she tooke me aside and said Have you heard what Matignon hath told me I made answer I did not understand it Madame but I perceive it is some businesse that doth afflict you yes she replyed and that very much for you know that I have answered the King that your Brother should not goe and Matignon now is come to tell me that he knows he will not be here to morrow Finding then my selfe in these two extreams either to faile in my fidelity to my Brother and put his life in hazard or to sweare against the truth a thing which I would not doe to escape a thousand deaths I was in so great a perplexity that had not God assisted me my fashion sufficiently had witnessed without my words the fear I had that we were discovered but as God assisteth good intentions and his divine bounty joyned in this work of my Brothers safety I so composed my lookes and words that she perceived not any thing but that which I would have her and that I offended not my Soule or Conscience by any false oath I demanded of her if too well she did not understand the hate which Monsieur Matignon did beare unto my Brother that he was a spitefull disturber of all our quiet and who did grieve to see us live in concord that when my Brother did goe I would answer it with my life that I was confident he having never concealed any thing from me that he would have communicated this designe unto me if he had an intention thereunto this I said assuring my selfe that my Brother being safe they durst not doe me wrong and choosing rather to ingage my life then to offend my soule by any false oath or to put my Brothers life in jeopardy She seeking not after any other sence of my words replied Be well advised what you say you shall serve as caution for him and answer his absence with your life to which I smiling did make answer that it was that which I desired and bidding her good night I forthwith repaired to my Chamber where putting off my cloaths with all diligence hasting unto bed to be the sooner ridde of the Ladyes and Gentlewomen that attended on me I was left onely with the women of my Chamber when presently my Brother came in and Simier and Cange with him and having commanded them to look first into the ditch to see if any one were there we fastned the cord to the post of the window we were ayded onely with my three women that lay in my Chamber and with the boy that brought the cord my brother although it was a very great height without any apprehension of feare descended first and laughing at the danger went swinging and playing down after him discended Simier in such a pittifull feare that he could scarce hold the rope for trembling and last of all Cange the groom of his Chamber God so happily did guide my brother from being discovered that he came to Saint Geneviefue where Bussi did attend him who by the consent of the Abby had made a hole in the Town wall at which my Brother did goe forth and finding there two horses ready he retired to Anger 's without any misfortune As Cange last of all came downe there arose a man from the bottome of the Ditch who began to run towards the lodgings neer the Tenis Court which is the way to the Corps de guard I who in all this adventure apprehended not any thing which concerned my self in particular but onely the safety or danger of my Brother stood in a maze strook through and through with feare beleeving that man to be some one who following the advise of Monsieur de Matignon was placed there on purpose to observe us and thinking that my Brother had been surprized I fell into a despaire which cannot be represented but by an essay of things like to it being in these perplexities my women more curious then my self for my safety and their own took the cord and put it into the fire to the end that if the misfortune were so great that the man who rose out of the ditch had been set there to observe us it might not be discovered this cord being very long made so great a flame that it blazed out of the chimney and was perceived by those of the Guard who that night did watch In a great fright and with loud importunity they came and knocked at my door desiring that suddenly it might be opened then I thought that my brother at that present had been taken and that we both had been undone having notwithstanding anchored my hope on God who preserved my judgement intire a grace which his divine Majesty was ever pleased in all my danger to vouchsafe unto me and perceiving that the cord was but halfe burned out I spake unto my women to goe gently to the doore to demand what they would have and to speake softly to them as if I were asleepe which they did and they of the guard told them that a great fire came out of the tunnell of my chimney and made in the darke of night so bright a flame that the danger of it did call them thither to extinguish it My women made answer to them it was nothing and that they were able to quench it well enough themselves and charged them to take heed that they did not waken me on which they returned back This alarm being passed some two houres after behold Monsieur de Losse came to call me to the King Queen my Mother to give them an account of my brothers departure being advertised of it by the Abbot of Saint Genevifue who to avoid all checks and by my brothers own consent when he saw himselfe farre enough from the danger of being intrapped came to informe the King of it telling him that he was surprized in his own house and being shut up therein till a breach in the wall was made for my brothers escape he could come no sooner to acquaint his Majestie with it He found me in my bed for it was yet night and I suddenly arising and putting on my night-gown one of my women indiscreetly affrighted at it tooke hold of my gowne weeping and crying out that I should never return unto them Monsieur de Losse beating her back said If this woman had done this before any but my selfe who am your devoted servant these words of hers might procure great trouble to you but give thanks to God and feare not any thing for Monsieur your Brother is safe This assurance of his was to me a needfull and no lesse welcome encouragement to arme me to endure all the threats and choller of the King whom I found sitting on the Queen my Mothers bed in so great a passion that I beleeve I should have found the effects of it if the feare