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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48205	The Princess of Cleves the most famed romance / written in French by the greatest wits of France ; rendred into English by a person of quality, at the request of some friends.; Princesse de Clèves. English	La Fayette, Madame de (Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne), 1634-1693.; Segrais, Jean Regnauld de, 1624-1701.; La Rochefoucauld, François, duc de, 1613-1680.; Person of quality.	1679 (1679)	Wing L169; ESTC R10484	121,911	270

The Emperour who had a great respect for the Duke of Orleans had often offer'd him the Duchy of Millan and in the Articles of the Peace that was afterwards concluded he gave him the hopes of the seventeen Provinces and his Daughter in marriage with them The Dauphin neither inclined to the Match nor it he employ'd the Constable whom he ever lov'd to make the King sensible of what importance it would be to leave his Successor a Brother so powerful as the Duke of Orleans must be with the advantage of the Imperial Allyance and these Countries The Constable yielded more easily to the Dauphins design in that it was opposite to that of Madam d' Estampes who was his declared Enemy and who so passionately desired the Dukes advancement The Dauphin at that time commanded his Majesties Army in Champagne and had reduc'd that of the Empire to those extremities he had certainly ruin'd it if the Duchess d' Estampes fearing these great advantages might retard the Peace and the honour of the Dukes Allyance with the Emperour had not advis'd the Enemy to surprise Espernay and the Castle of Rierry which was their Magazine they attempted it and succeeded by which means they preserved the Army This Duchess did not long enjoy the success of her Treason Immediately after dyed the Duke of Orleans at Farmoutiers of a contagious disease He was enamoured with one of the greatest Beauties of the Court who was pleased to entertain the flame I shall forbear to name her for she has since lived under so close a retirement and has with so much prudence disguised the passion she had for him we ought in justice to be tender of her honour The death of her Husband and the Duke bore even date together which gave her the freedom to shew those open marks of her grief and sorrow which otherwise she had been enforc'd to hide The King did not long survive the Prince his Son for he dyed within two years after He recommends to the Dauphin the Cardinal of Tournon and the Admiral d' Annebault without the least mention of the Constable whom he had confined to Chantilly notwithstanding his Fathers commands he calls him home and makes him the grand Minister of State Madam d' Estampes was discarded and received all the ill Treatment she could expect from so powerful and inveterate an Enemy The Duchess of Valentinois was not satisfied till she had glutted her self with her revenge upon this Duchess and the rest who had faln under her displeasure Her interest has been more absolute over the King since he came to the Crown than when he was the Dauphin These twelve years since he has reign'd she has been the uncontroulable Mistress of all his Actions she has had the disposal of all Governments and Affairs she has obliged him to bannish the Cardinal of Tournon the Chancellour and Villeray all that have endeavour'd to eclypse her power have perisht in the attempt The Count de Taix Grand Master of the Artillery who had no kindness for her taking the liberty to reflect upon her Gallants and particularly the Count de Brissac of whom the King had a jealousie she so subtilly plaid her Cards that he was in disgrace and divested of his emply and what renders the thing more strange she procured it for the Count de Brissac who by her means had the honour to be since created a Marshal of France The Kings jealousie began to swell to that degree in him he could no longer endure the test of it but that which in another would have appeared more sharp and violent was strangely corrected in him by the great respect he had for this Lady In so much that he durst not if we may presume to use this saucy Dialect with a Prince remove his Rival but under the pretence of preferring him to the Government of Piedmont He has lived there several years and only return'd this last Winter under a pretext of recruiting the Troops under his command and for other necessary supplies for the Army The ambition to see the Duchess of Valentinois and the fear of being forgotten had certainly the greatest share in that Journey The King was observed to receive him coldly the Family of Guise who loves her not but yet dares not declare the cause imploy'd the Viscount his mortal Enemy to obstruct the Grant of what he design'd himself by his Journey 'T was no hard matter to compass it the King hated him and his presence gave him no small disquiet insomuch that he was forc'd to return without having had the happiness to reap the fruits of his Voyage which was only to give him an opportunity to re-kindle the Flame his passion had made in the heart of the Duchess which he feared his absence might extinguish His Majesty wanted no other subjects of his jealousie but they not being known gave him no provocation to complain I know not Daughter says Madam de Chartres if you may not find that I have instructed you in some things more than you are willing to know I am so far from complaining replyes Madam de Cleve that did I not fear to be troublesom to you I would desire you to enlarge upon several Circumstances which I am ignorant of The passion that Monsieur de Nemours had for Madam de Cleve was so violent in its Original that it seem'd to have robb'd him of all his content and the very thoughts of those he had a kindness for nay even such with whom he converst during her absence 't was his care to frame excuses to disingage himself from them he could not allow himself the patience to give Ear to their Complaints nor make returns to their reproaches Madam la Dauphin for whom he had inclinations not ordinarily passionate yet he was scarce able to confine them within his Breast Madam de Cleve had made that impression there His impatience for England began to cool he seem'd not to pursue with much Zeal his necessary dispatches for that Journey He often made his visits to the Dauphin-Queen that he might have the happiness to pay his respects to Madam de Cleve who was frequently there neither was he concern'd at the liberty some took to imagin what others thought of the passion he had for that Princess Madam de Cleve was of that value with him he was resolved rather to hide from her the sentiments of his heart than expose her honour to the publick He forbore even to communicate it to the Viscount de Chartres who was his Confident and to whom his Bosome lay ever open He used a Conduct so prudent and which he managed with so much care that the Argus's of the Court could not discover the least symptome of any kindness for this Lady but in the Chevalier de Guise Madam de Cleve her self had continued a stranger to them had not the inclination she had for that Prince obliged her to keep a close Watch on all his Actions

had taken against him she pretended her self sick The Court was too busie to mind what she did or to enquire whether her indisposition were real or feign'd Only her Husband knew the truth of it That troubled her not she continu'd at home little concern'd for the great Change that was shortly expected and full of her own thoughts which she had liberty enough to give her self up to Every one ran to Court to enquire of the King Monsieur de Cleve came at certain hours to bring her news he observ'd the same method of proceeding towards her he us'd to do save only when they were alone they were a little less free and more cold towards one another than formerly He said not a word of what was past and she had not the power nor thought it convenient to resume the discourse of it Monsieur de Nemours who waited an opportunity of speaking to Madam de Cleve was surpriz'd and troubl'd he could not have a sight of her The King was so ill that the seventh day the Physicians gave him up Her receiv'd the news of the certainty of his Death with extraordinary constancy which was the more admirable in that he lost his Life by so unfortunate an Accident that he was to die in the Flower of his Age happy ador'd by his People and belov'd by a Mistress he was desperatly in love with The day before he dy'd he caus'd Madam his Sister to be marry'd to Monsieur de Savoy without Ceremony You may guess the condition the Duchess of Valentinois was in The Queen would not permit her to see the King but sent to demand of her the King's Signet and the Jewels of the Crown she had in her Custody The Duchess enquir'd if the King were dead and being told no I have no Master yet then says she and no body can oblige me to part with what he trusted in my Hands As soon as he expir'd at the Chasteau de Tournels the Dukes of Ferrara Guise and Nemours conducted the Queen-Mother the King and Queen-Consort to the Louvre Monsieur de Nemours led the Queen-Mother As they began to walk she step'd back a little and told the Queen her Daughter-in-Law it was her place to go first but it was easie to see there was more sharpness than civility in the Complement The End of the third Book THE PRINCESSE OF CLEVE BOOK IV. THE Queen-Mother was now wholly govern'd by the Cardinal of Lorrain the Vidame of Chartres was quite out of favour with her and the love he had for Madam Martigues and for liberty made him less sensible of her displeasure than a matter of that consequence might seem to deserve The Cardinal the ten days the King continued ill had leisure to form his designs and prevail with the Queen to take Resolutions suitable to his Projects so that as soon as the King was dead the Queen order'd the Constable to stay at the Tournels with the Corps to perform the usual Ceremonies This kept him at distance and out of the Scene of Action He dispatch'd a Courrier to the King of Navarr to hasten him to Court to join with him in opposing the Rise of the House of Guise The Duke of Guise was made General of the Armies and the Cardinal of Lorrain Sur-intendant of the Finances The Duchess of Valentinois was expell'd the Court. The Cardinal of Tournon the Constable's declar'd Enemy and the Chancellor Olivier declar'd Enemy to the Duchess of Valentinois were both call'd to Court In a word the Court had intirely chang'd Face The Duke of Guise rank'd himself with the Princes of the Blood to carry the King's Cloak at the Funeral He and his Brothers were absolute Masters at Court not only through the credit the Cardinal had with the Queen but because she thought it in her power to remove them if they should give her Umbrage and that she could not remove the Constable who was upheld by the Princes of the Blood The days of mourning for the deceas'd King being over the Constable came to the Louvre but had a very cold reception from the King He would have spoken with him in private but the King call'd for Messieurs de Guise and before them told him he advis'd him to take his ease that the Finances and the Command of the Armies were dispos'd of and when he should stand in need of his Counsels he would send for him to Court The Queen-Mother receiv'd him more coldly than the King had done and did not forbear to reproach him with his having said to the late King his Children were not like him The King of Navarr arriv'd and was no better receiv'd The Prince of Conde more impatient than his Brother complain'd of it aloud but all to no purpose He was remov'd from Court under pretence of being sent into Flanders to sign the Ratification of the Peace They shew'd the King of Navarr a forg'd Letter from the King of Spain wherein he was charg'd with designs to surprize some strong places belonging to that King they told him it was high time to look about him and prepare for defence and in a word perswaded him to resolve going for Bearn The Queen-Mother to furnish him with a pretence gave him in Charge the Conduct of Madam Elizabeth to Savoy and made him take his Journey before her so that there was not a Person left at Court to ballance the Power of the House of Guise Though it fell out unluckily for Monsieur de Cleve he had not the Conducting Madam Elizabeth yet the greatness of the Person preferr'd before him took from him all cause of complaint But the loss of the Employ griev'd him not so much for depriving him of the honour he should have receiv'd by it as for robbing him of so fair an opportunity to remove his Wife from Court without suspicion or the least appearance of design Soon after the decease of the late King a Resolution was taken the King should go to Rhemes to be anointed Madam de Cleve having all this while kept home on pretence of being ill no sooner heard this news but she pray'd her Husband to dispence with her following the Court and to give her leave to go take the Air at Colonniers for her health He told her he would not enquire whether she desir'd it on the account of her health but he was ready to consent to what she desir'd and it was no hard Task to consent to what he had already resolv'd As good an Opinion as he had of his Wife's Virtue he thought it imprudent to expose her longer to the view of a Man she was in love with Monsieur de Nemours quickly knew she would not go along with the Court and could not find in his heart to be gone without seeing her The Night before the Court was to remove he went to her House as late as in decency he could that he might find her alone Fortune favour'd his Intention as he enter'd the