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A35784
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The disorders of love truly expressed in the unfortunate amours of Givry with Mademoiselle de Guise / made English from the French.; Désordres de l'amour. English
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Villedieu, Madame de, d. 1683.
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clear his doubts by so sudden and unexpected a Rupture He hop'd to have done it at parting with the Princess and ran towards Paris to take his leave of her but found all further Communication already prohibited by Proclamation and return'd much troubled to the Kings Quarters and after a few days marched away with the King to meet the Duke of Parma This March set Paris at liberty and no less troubled than angred the Royalists thus forced to raise the Siege But there was no remedy and it was of importance to fight the Enemy before he should have taken his advantage the King advanced for that purpose to Cheles where the Armies lay six dayes in sight of each other and the Kings not able to force the other to fight The Duke of Parma was made believe that the Kings Troops were but few and not in good order but when the Duke had from a little Hill taken a view of them in Battalia he found himself not in a condition to hazard a Battel and drawing off in a thick Fog that rose one of those mornings he contented himself with surprizing Lagny within a League of his Camp The King did what he could to succour the Town but the design of taking it was so closely laid that his Majesty perceived it not until it was too late to prevent it This exploit of the Duke of Parma having assured to the Parifians the freedome of the River Marne set their City at full liberty from the inconveniences of the Siege but this relief came so late it did them little good The bodies of the Citizens had been so dried up in the Dearth that they could not bear a plentiful feed The change of Food became as mortal as the Famine at Paris and the Kings Army was now as necessitous as the Leagues had been The taking of Lagny had block'd up the River Marne the Garrisons of the League in several Towns in the heart of France intercepted his Convoys and during the Siege of Paris the Country about it was laid so desolate it had neither Corn nor Forrage This forced the King to send the greatest part of his Souldiers to refresh themselves at their respective homes The Duke of Parma having had the glory of setting Paris at liberty was willing to secure it by besieging Gorbeil The Town held out a month and was not taken but by a General assault The brave Givry still deeply resenting the Duke of Parma's arrival which broke off the Conferences and removed the hopes of Peace could not with patience see him enjoy that Conquest He got together the Garrisons of his Government of Brie andegg'd on by a courage which seem'd more than Natural retook in one night by Scalado a Town before which one of the greatest Captains of his time laid Siege a whole Month. The Duke of Parma had so little foresight of this Action that part of his baggage was at Corbeil when retaken and particularly many rare Essences whereof some were necessary for his health and others excellent for delicate smells Givry sent them all to Mademoiselle de Guise to dispose of at her pleasure and sent her word by the Gentleman who had the Pass-port for conveying them That he esteemed himself so happy in having been once able to give passage to the Corn design'd for her service that he was extremely desirous to improve that advantage that the Convoys she should be concern'd in should no more be staid at Corbeil than they had been at Pont Samois but that he was too jealous of the opportunities of doing her service to permit that this liberty should depend upon the Duke of Parma The Complement was civil and the freedome Mademoiselle de Guise used towards Givry during the Truce might have encouraged him to some higher piece of Gallantry But the Answer she gave Givry's Messenger was That she would receive neither Message nor Present from his Master that he should carry him back the Essences he had sent and tell him the familiarity she had vouchsafed to use towards him hindred her not to be Mademoiselle de Guise nor him from being as he was Givry He was so much surpriz'd at this Answer that he made the Gentleman repeat what he had said to her and finding nothing in his expressions that might occasion a return of so much scorn and contempt would have put all at stake to know the meaning But the King gave him no leisure for it having commanded him to attend him presently with his Forces to fall upon the Duke of Parma in his retreat for Flanders The King gaul'd him in his March and having pursued him as far as the Tree of Guise came to refresh himself at St. Quentin There he received News that the Marquess d'Humieres had taken Corby from the League The King exprest his satisfaction at this News by publick rejoicings wherein he was pleased the Ladies at St. Quentin and the Parts thereabouts should have their share He ordered several divertisements to be given them and expected that Givry who was no less gallant than brave should according to his custome bear a principal part there but he was so fretted and vex'd at the usage he had received from Mademoiselle de Guise that occasions of joy became a very torment to him He begg'd the King's leave to return to his Government where he used many endeavours to appease the wrath of Mademoiselle de Guise and to discover the cause of it He made inroads to the very Gates of Paris took several Prisoners and sending them to the Princess acquainted her by them that he would not submit to the prohibitions he had received till she would make known to him by what Crime he had occasioned them But notwithstanding all the evidences he could give her of respect and zeal she persisted in a scornful silence or if at any time she broke it it was to return him harsher Answers than those his Gentleman had brought him He past a whole Winter in this grievous condition and to increase his vexsation and sorrow every day produced new reproaches from Madam Maugiron She call'd him perjured light inconstant ingrate and threatned a thousand extravagances he thought himself obliged in civility to prevent He had for some time neglected answering her Letters in hopes by this means to discourage her from writing But finding to the contrary that this did but make her more prolix and impetuous in her stile he sent her word plainly he had no more love for her that he was sorry for 't and wish'd he could have lov'd her all his Life but that Man is not Master of his affections and he pray'd her to forget an ungrateful Person unworthy to possess a place in her thoughts This terrible Letter was so far from wakening her anger and effecting her cure by a generous disdain that it produced only solemn protestations of an unalterable Constancy There needs but an ordinary Love writes she to him to make us love him that