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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62309	The whole comical works of Monsr. Scarron ... a great part of which never before in English / translated by Mr. Tho. Brown, Mr. Savage, and others.; Selections. English. 1700	Scarron, Monsieur, 1610-1660.; Brown, Thomas, 1663-1704.; Savage, John, 1673-1747.	1700 (1700)	Wing S829; ESTC R7228	512,163	584

attention and wonder imagining that the greatest Orators of the Kingdom could not be able to utter any thing beyond it After this the Strollers desir'd time to prepare themselves and had eight Days given them The Company parted after Dinner just as the Prior of St. Lewis hapned to come in Madam Star told him he had done well to come having sav'd Olive the trouble of looking after him The Actresses seated themselves upon the Bed and the Actors in Chairs The Door was shut and the Porter had Orders to send away every Body that came to speak with them After silence was proclaim'd the Prior began his History as you may find in the following Chapter if you 'll take the pains but to read it CHAP. X. The History of the Prior of St. Lewis and the Arrival of Monsieur Verville THE beginning of this History quoth the Prior cannot but be a little tedious since it consists chiefly of Genealogy Nevertheless this sort of begining is necessary too to introduce a perfect understanding of the matter in Dispute I shall not endeavour to disguize my Condition since I am in my own Country In another it may be I might have pass'd for what I really was not which nevertheless I have never yet done I have always been very sincere in this Point I am then a Native of this City the Wives of my two great Grand-fathers were Gentlewomen and had a de tackt to their Sir-names But as you know the eldest Sons going away with the greatest part of the Estate leave but little for the younger Children who according to Custom are either oblig'd to go into Orders or else to Marry some inferiour Person or other suitable to their Condition providing she be Rich and Honest pursuant to the Proverb which has been a long time currant in this Country More Money and less Honour So that my two Grand-mothers were Marry'd to two rich Tradesmen the one a Woolen-draper and the other a Linnen-draper My Father's Father had four Sons whereof my Father was not the eldest My Mothers Father had two Sons and two Daughters whereof she was one and Marryed to the second Son of the Woolen-draper who had left off his Trade to follow Petty-fogging whereby he fool'd away most of his Estate which was the Reason that he left me but little My Father had formerly thriv'd very much by his Trade and Marryed a very rich Woman for his first Wife who dyed without Children He was pretty well advanc'd in Years when he Marryed my Mother which she consented to rather out of Duty than Inclination insomuch that there was more of Aversion on her side than Love which no doubt was the reason that they were thirteen Years Marryed before they had the least hopes of having any Children At last my Mother was big and when the time of her Lying-in was come she brought me into the World with a great deal of Pain having been four full Days in Labour My Father who was at that time employ'd in prosecuting a Man that had killed his Brother was overjoy'd when at his return the Women gave him joy of a Son He treated them all as well as he could and made some of them drunk having given them strong White-wine on the Lees instead of Perry which he has many a time after told me and whereat we have laughed heartily Two Days after my Birth I was Baptised My Name signifies little to be mention'd I had for Godfather the Lord of the Place a very rich Man and my Father's Neighbour who having understood by the Lady his Wife that my Mother was with Child after so many Years Marriage desired he might hold what God sent her to the Font. What he desired was readily granted my Mother having no more Children than me bred me with all the care imaginable and perhaps a little too nicely for one of her Quality As I came to grow up it was observ'd I would be no Fool which occasion'd me to be mightily belov'd by every body especially by my Godfather who had but one only Daughter that had been married to a Gentleman a Relation of my Mothers She had two Sons one elder by a year than I and one younger by a Year but both who were as backward in Parts as I were forward which occasion'd my Godfather to send for me always when he had any of the better sort of Company which you must know he often had being accustomed to treat all the Princes and great Lords that passed by our Town to divert them which by Dancing Singing and Pratling I did For this purpose I was always kept in a better Garb than ordinary and I had surely made my Fortune with him had not Death taken him away suddenly as he was on a Journey to Paris I nevertheless was not so sensible then of his Death as I have been since My Mother sent me to Study and I profited extremely but when she understood my Inclinations ran towards the Church she took me from the College and brought me into the World notwithstanding her Vow to devote her first-fruits to God if he should please to give her any She prov'd quite contrary to other Mothers who do all they can to prevent their Childrens falling into ill Courses for she was continually feeding me with Money Sundays and Holy days especially to go a Gaming or to the Tavern Nevertheless having some discretion of my own all my Liberties and Abilities amounted only to making merry sometimes with my Neighbours I had contracted a more than ordinary Friendship with a young Lad Son to a certain Officer belonging to Lewis XIII's Queen Dowager who had likewise two Daughters He lived in that fine Park which as you may have heard was one of the greatest Delights of the ancient Dukes of Alençon His House there had been given him by the aforesaid Queen Dowager his Royal Mistress who had an Appennage upon that Dutchy We led a pleasant Life in this Park but that still like Children never thinking of what was to come This Officer of the Queens was called Monsieur du Fresne who had a Brother an Officer likewise who belong'd to the King This Brother requir'd du Fresne to send his Son to him which he could by no means refuse to do Before his Son went for the Court he came to take leave of me and I must own the parting with him raised the first Grief that ever I felt We lamented our Separation reciprocally but I had much greater Reason two Months after when I heard from his Mother the News of his Death I shew'd as much concern for the loss of him as I was capable of shewing and went immediately to join with his Sisters in their Grief for him which was exceeding great But as Time lessens all things when this sad remembrance was a little over Madam du Fresne came and desired my Mother that I might teach her younger Daughter a little to write whose name was Mademoiselle du