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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78196	Venus in the cloister, Or The nun in her smock. In curious dialogues, addressed to the Lady Abbess of Loves Paradice, / by the Abbot Du Prat. ; Done out of French.; Venus dans le cloitre ou La religieuse en chemise. English	Barrin, Jean, ca. 1640-1718.	1683 (1683)	Wing B920B; ESTC R174889	52,352	174

in three days it was to be carryed to the Colledge and back again to the Monastery Yet no body imagin'd that there was any Mystery in such a thing as that no notice was taken of it and they might still have made use of this Postilion had it not been for this accident which spoiled all Agn. Oh Lord I fancy the whole Plot was discovered by the Touriere Ang. No thou art mistaken It happened that on a fast day that the Porter of the Jesuites was out of humour perhaps for that he had not stuffed his Gutts at his usual Rate The Touriere who had an infinite number of Commissions and amongst others that of the Bonnet rang twice or thrice at the Colledg Gate for to discharge her self as soon as possible of her Message This good Fryer went out of the Garden he was in and being come almost out of Breath thinking it was the Bishop or Arch-Bishop or some other Grandee who had rung after so Commanding a manner was much surprized at the sight of the poor Sister she had nothing else to say to him than to deliver the four square Bonnet into the hands of Father De Raucourt This pettish man being vex'd at so many troublesome visits upon so small a matter fell into a Passion and said That Bonnet walked very often and that he would put it into the hands of a man who should make it withdraw for a while The Touriere excusing her self as well as she could away she went and the Rector waiting for a Companion in the Porters Lodge to go out together having heard the Dialogue called the Brother and would needs know the subject of the dispute and why he treated so rudely the Persons who had business with those of the Colledg This man seeing himself school'd by his Superior told him all he thought of this Bonnet told him that it had already jogg'd jaunted above 20. times between the Colledge and the Monastery that there must without doubt be some hidden design in this matter and that if His Reverence was so pleased he would search the Cap which he said was counter-band which he did at that same instant and with one touch with his Cissars he brought to light the Fifteenth Infant of the square Bonnet which came in a direct Line from Sister Virginia Agn. Oh Lord how difficult a matter it is to save ones self when pursued by an ill Destiny and that it has sworn ones ruine What happened of all this business Ang. It happened that the Father was confined into another province and that poor Virginia has been mortifyed with some Penances from hence came that Proverb That there is a great deal of malice under a Jesuits four square Bonnet Agn. Good Lord It was for her alone that I was in fear but tell me how this came to the knowledge of the Prioress Ang. I should be too tedious in entertaining thee with one and the same thing In the first Conversation after my retreat I will tell thee more upon this Subject I will shew thee two Infants of the four squar'd Bonnet and will acquaint thee with the Fate of their Father and Mother Think only at present my Dearest that I am going to spend eight or ten dayes after a very doleful manner since I shall be barred having the least conference with thee I am going to write to my three honest Friends that they may Visit thee during that time There is an Abbot a Fryer and a Capuchine Agn. What a mixture and what wouldest thou have me do with all those people whom I know not Ang. Thou needest only be Obedient they will teach thee sufficiently what shall be thy Duty for the satisfying and contenting them Here take this Book I lend thee make a good use of it it will instruct thee with many things and will give thy mind all the quiet thou canst wish for Kiss me my poor Child Kiss me for all the time I am to be absent I should pass my retreat after a very pleasant rate If my Derectour was as Amiable and as Docible as thou art Adieu My heart Dress thee and be sure that thou keepest all our amorours matters secret and prepare thy self to give me an account of all thy Divertisements when my Exercises are expired End of the First Dialogue Venus in the Cloister OR THE Nun in Her Smock Second Dialogue Sister Angelica Sister Agnes ANgelica Ah! God be Praised I begin to breath again never was I more pestered with Devotions Mysteries and Indulgences than since I left thee I nauseate strangely all those Superstitions How dost do What not a Word Why do you Laugh Agnes I am quite ashamed to appear before your eyes again I fancy you know all to the very least particulars of what has been said and done since your absence Ang. And who shou'd tell it me What you railly me Come come thy wayes into my Room and think where you are to begin to give me a faithful Narrative For my part I came out of the hands of a savage Creature who would have made a person of any other humour than mine mad I mean my Directour It is the worst natur'd and most ignorant man of his Character I fancy he has made me gain all the Indulgences and Pardons that were ever granted by the Popes since Gregory the Great to Innocent the XI If I had followed his Order I had set my Body in Blood by the Discipline he prescribed me not that I let him see much malice in the confessions I made him but because he imagines that to be in the way of Paradice one must be as dry as lean and as fleshless as himself and that it is sufficient to be something chearful and plump to merit all manner of Penances Judge now how I have spont my time and if I had not reason to think it tedious Agn. For my part I must tell thee that thou hast given me Directours who have tyred me little less than thine have done I know not if I have gain'd Indulgences with 'em but I am certain that to gain them many Persons do not do so much as we have done Ang. That I do not doubt of But tell me a litle News of our Abbot and let me know if he is capable of any great matter Agn. Him it was I first saw and in whom I found the most heat there is nothing more lively and more animated and there 's plesure in hearing him discourse I was at the afternoons Recreation when word was brought me that he ask'd to speak with me As I knew the Lady Abbess was indisposed I sent him word by the Porter that he should go into the Great Parlour and that he would not grow impatient I made him wait for a large quarter of an hour because I changed my Vail and some other things that I might appear the Neater before him and endeavour to answer the hopes he had of seeing a Person of whom he

so briskly swinged her self with did not move him in any wise to compassion After having clawed her self off in this manner she recommended her self anew to this good Roman and withdrew as one victorious to go pass her time in Peace in less fatiguing exercises Agn. Good God! What a bussle and hurry does Superstition make in the soul when it has once got possession of it Ang. Dosithea was hardly got out of her Room than that she found her body all of a sire and her mind inclined to the pursuit of a pleasure which she was not yet acquainted with An extraordinary tickling animated all her sences and her imagination filling it self with a a thousand lascivious Ideas left this Poor Religious half vanquished In this pittious condition she returned to her Intercessour redoubled her prayers and conjured him by all that Devotion can have most sensible to grant her the gift of Continency her servency did not stop there she took Instruments of penance in hand and made use of 'em for a quarter of an hour together with the maddest and most indiscreet zeale imaginable Agn. Well but this gave her some ease did it not Ang. Alas Far from that she retired from her Oratory more and more transported with Love than before The Bell rung to Vespers much ado had she to assist at 'em all the while Sparkes of fire flew out at her eyes and without knowing what she fuffered I admired her instability and at her being in so continual a motion Agn. But from whence proceeded this Ang. This was occasioned by the extream heat she felt over all her Body and especially in those parts where she had disciplined her self for you must know these sorts of exercises were so far from extinguishing the flames wherewith she was consumed that on the contrary they had more and more augmented them and had reduced that poor creature into such a condition as that she was hardly any longer able to bear with it This is easy to conceive forasmuch as the lashes she had clawed her backside with had excited heat in all the Neighbourhood had brought thither the purest and most subtile spirits of the blood which to find an Issue conformable to their nature all of fire did prick so notably the parts where they were assembled as if it were to make a passage Agn. Did the conflict last long Ang. It began and ended in a day for as soon as Vespers were over Dosithea as if she could not directly have addressed her self to God went to prostrate her self again before her Oratory Prayed Wept Groaned but all to no purpose She found her self more pressed than ever and to insult a-new this obstinate Nature she took her whip in hand and lifting up her Peticoats and smock to her Navel and tying them up with a girdle she outraged her buttocks with extraordinary violence and that part which put her to so much pain being all uncovered This raging having lasted for some time her strength fail'd her for that cruel exercise nay 〈…〉 not enough left to untie her clothes 〈…〉 exposed her half naked she leane 〈…〉 her head upon the Bed and 〈…〉 reflection upon the Condition of 〈…〉 kind which she called Unhappy 〈…〉 they were born with motions 〈…〉 condemned tho' it was almost in 〈…〉 ble to bridle them She fell into 〈…〉 of a trance but it was an amou●● 〈…〉 trance caused by the fury of the pass●●● and which made that poor young 〈…〉 enjoy such a delight as ravish'd he 〈…〉 the very Heavens In that moment 〈…〉 ture uniting all its forces and Virgi●●● which tell then had been a Captive d●●●vered it self without any help with an●● petuosity in leaving there the Keeper 〈…〉 tended upon the floor for an evid●●● token of her Defeat Agn. O Lord Oh Lord I wish I 〈…〉 been by Ang. Alas What pleasure could 〈…〉 have been to thee Thou wouldst 〈…〉 seen that innocent Creature sighing 〈…〉 panting which she knew not the cause 〈…〉 Thou wouldest have seen her in an ●●●tacy her eyes half dying without Viv●● city or Vigour yeilding to the Laws 〈◊〉 meer Nature lose maugre all her 〈◊〉 that Treasure the keeping whereof had put her to so much pain Agn. Well this is what I should have taken delight in to view her thus all naked and to observe curiously all the transports that Love would have caused in her at the moment she was overcome Ang. As soon as Dosithea was recovered from this Rapture her mind which was before clouded and buried in thick darkness found it self unvailed at the very instant of all its obscurity Her eyes were opened and reflecting upon what she had done and upon the little virtue of her Saint whom she had so much invoked she knew she had been in an errour and thus raised her self by her own strength through a surprizing Metamorphosis above all things which she durst not before look upon and had nothing but a contempt for what before she had the greatest Veneration Agn. That is to say that of Scrupulous she became Indevout and Irreligious and that she made no more Offerings to all the little Saints she adored before Ang. Thou takest things in a wrong sence we may rid our selves of Superstition without falling into Impiety which was what Dosithea did she had learnt by experience that it was to the Soveraign Physitian that recourse is to be had to in one's weaknesses and failings that temptations were not in the power of the faithful and that in the most submissive Soul there often arose involuntary thoughts and motions which however could not occasion any fault or imperfection Thou seest how that I told thee nothing but what is true when I urg'd that it was Devotion that freed her from her scruples Almost the same thing happened to an Italian Nun Who after having prostrated her self very often before the figure of a Child newly born which she called her little Jesus and had conjured it several times to grant her the same thing by tender words which she uttered with an extraordinary affection Dolce Signore Mio Gjesu fatte mi la gratia seeing that all her prayers were without effect she fancied that the Infancy of him she invoked was the cause thereof and that she should find better redress in addressing her self to the Image of the eternal Father which represented him in a more advanced age She went thereupon again to her little Lord whom she upbraided with his little vertue protesting that she would never amuse her self with him nor any little Child of his sort and left him in that manner applying to him these words of the Proverb Chi S'impaccia con Fanciulli con Fanciulli si ritrova Do but reflect a little how far superstition does sometimes go to what an extremity of folly ignorance does sometimes lead us Agn. The truth is that these examples are a sensible proof of what you now say and that the simplicity of this Nun is