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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

were Plenipotentiaries for the King the Duke of Alva and the Prince of Orange for philip the Second the Duke and Duchess of Orleans were the Mediators The principal Articles were the Marriage of the Princess Elizabeth of France with Don Carlos the Infanta of Spain and his Majesties Sister with the Monsieur of Savoy The King during the Treaty continued upon the Frontiers where he received the first news of the Death of Queen Mary of England His Majesty forthwith dispatcht the Earl of Randan to Queen Elizabeth to congratulate with her Majesty her Assumption to the Crown she received him honourably her affairs were in so ill a posture at that time she was not a little satisfied that so great a Prince was pleased to pay his first respects to her The Court discoursed she was well read in the interest of the Court of France and the merit of those that had the honour to compose it But for none she seemed to express so great a value as the Duke of Nemours she was pleased to speak with that Honour of this Prince that the Ambassadour upon his return took the Liberty to declare he thought no Person more valuable in her esteem than the Duke And did not question upon his addresses the Queen might do him the Honour to entertain a Passion for him The King the same Evening communicated it to the Prince where he commanded the Count de Randan to give him the Relation to confirm the Duke in the respect the Queen had for him which he was pleased to conclude with his advice not to neglect the favourable opportunity that seemed to court him to so much happiness The Duke received it at first as a piece of raillery till his Majesty was pleas'd to undeceive him If Sir says the Duke in obedience to your Majesties commands and for your service I shall embark my self upon so extravagant a design as to presume a Princess whom I have never yet had the honour to know should admit me to her Royal Bed I hope your Majesty will be pleased not to divulge the vanity of the attempt till the success may justifie me to the Publick The King was pleas'd to give him his Royal word that he would depose it in the knowledge of no other Breast but the Constable's concluding with the Duke that Secresie might facilitate the design The Count advised the Duke to take a Journey for England which he refused and dispatch't Monsieur Lignerolle a sprightly Gentleman his Favourite to sound the Queens inclinations and to endeavour to fix some obligation upon her In the interim he takes a Journey for Bruxells to give a visit to the Duke of Savoy who was there with the King of Spain The death of Queen Mary gave several difficulties to the Treaty which about the end of November broke up and his Majesty return'd to Paris At last there broke forth a Beauty in the Court which drew all its Eyes upon her and I cannot without injustice rank her amongst the indifferent that could purchase such admiration in a place that was so richly stored She was of the Family of the Viscount de Chartres and one of the greatest Heiresses of France She had the misfortune to bury her Father in her infancy by which unhappy accident she was left to the Guardianship of Madam de Chartres her Mother She was a Lady of those great Accomplishments that Fortune Vertue and Merit seem'd to have conspired to compleat her fair model After her Husbands death she had for some years made her recess from Court. During her retirement she was not wanting to give her Daughter an Education suitable to her Quality in which she did not so much labour to improve her Person as her better part which she endeavour'd to embellish with Vertue which renders a Lady truly noble The generality of Mothers imagin it sufficient to forbear to discourse of the vanity of Love left their Children should be invited to stray out of the paths of Vertue Madam de Chartres was of a contrary opinion She was pleased to paint out love to her Daughter in all its shapes that she might be the better able to discern that part of her which might be the most dangerous She informs her of the little Sincerity and Candor there is in Man Their Devices their Infidelity and the Domestick Discontents Marriage often plunges those into that alter their condition On the other side she declares the Happiness and Tranquility that attends a Vertuous Wife and what Luster and Esteem Piety in a person of Birth and Beauty may purchase her And concludes in acquainting her with the difficulty to preserve it which cannot be better secured than by a diffidence in our selves and a serious application to those things that can best contribute to our happiness which is to love our Husbands and to merit a return This Lady was at that time one of the greatest Matches of France and notwithstanding she was but in her greener years she wanted not her choice of Proposals Madam de Chartres who was an ambitious Lady scarce thought the noblest worthy her consideration She having now arrived to the sixteenth year of her Age she brought her to Court The first that paid his respects to her upon her arrival was the Viscount who was not a little surprised and you cannot blame him at the Beauty of the fair Lady The delicacy of her Meen in which York and Lancaster seem'd to have contended which of the two should be the most prodigal of his Charms was the Subject of his admiration The Day following the young Lady went to a famous Italian to purchase a Set of Jewels This Gentleman came along with the Queen from Florence and he had raised himself to that prodigious wealth by his Industry that his House appeared rather to be the Palace of a Prince than the Being of a Merchant When she was there in comes the Prince of Cleve He was so transported at the sight of this young Lady that he could not dissemble his surprise Madam de Chartres could not forbear to answer the Princes discomposure with a blush after she had a little composed her self she pays her civility to the Prince suitable to the Character she apprehended he might bear The Prince beheld her with admiration but he was not able to judge who this Lady should be having never had the honour to see her before He perceived by her Person and the numerous Retinue that waited on her that she must be of eminent Quality Her youth perswaded him she might be a Maid but seeing no Mother with her and the Italian giving her the Title of Madam he knew not what to think She seemed to receive his Addresses with a disorder more than usual with young Ladies who take no small vanity in the impression their Beauty may happily make upon a stranger The Prince's applications to her gave her some impatience to retire which she suddenly did Monsieur de Cleve was

of impatience disquiet or disorder to confirm a Lover's staggering Faith You seem to be as insensible of my Love as you would vouchsafe his whose Affection 's only grounded upon the advantages of your Fortune not you Person You will think it some injustice replies Mademoiselle de Chartres should I chide you now I know not what further proofs you can desire to receive or me to give than those I have already done Methinks you should believe as well as I my modesty ought to allow no greater I own it says the Prince that you are pleased to give me some little Symptomes with which I could rest satisfied would greater but ensue But in lieu of those you are pleased to interpose a coyness which prompts you to this cruelty I have not the happiness to make any impression either upon your Inclination or your Heart and my Company seems to be indifferently divided between your trouble and content You ought not to question it replies Mademoiselle de Chartres those often blushes I cannot hide from you ought to be a sufficient Evidence of the value I have set upon it As for your blushes Madam says the Prince they surprise me not they are but modesties bashful discoverers not the hearts but I assure you I shall presume to take no other advantage by them than what I justly may The young Lady was non-plust she understood not the distinctions the Prince had made Monsieur de Cleve on the otherside perceived too well how far she was estranged from any sentiment to his satisfaction His passion was so unhappy it could make no alteration in her The Chevalier of Guise return'd from a Journey some few days before the Wedding he having been made sensible of those insuperable difficulties that attended his design upon Mademoiselle de Chartres resolved to flatter himself no longer with the vanity of any success in it yet at the same time he could not forbear to be sensibly toucht to see her in anothers Arms. His regret was so far from extinguishing his passion it rather enflamed it more Mademoiselle de Chartres was not ignorant of the respect this Prince had for her he could not forbear at his return to let her know she was the unhappy subject of his torment though he knew she was a person of that worth and honour she could not consent to make him miserable without some pity for him which he believed she could scarce avoid though he was conscious to himself her compassion could prompt him no other thoughts but that he was so She could not conceal from Madam de Chartres her Mother the trouble this Prince's passion gave her Madam de Chartres admired and that justly too the vertue of her Daughter for never Lady had either a greater or a more natural but her admiration did not exceed her wonder that the passion of the Prince of Cleve could make no deeper an impression in her than others seem'd to do This made Madam de Chartres the more zealous to endear her Husband to her that she might make her sensible what returns she ought to make the affection he had for her even when he knew her not and to the passion he had since declared in preferring her before the whole number of her Sex and that when no other durst harbour a thought for her This Marriage was solemnized at the Louvre at night his Majesty and the two Queens attended with the whole Court were pleased to take a Treat from Madam de Chartres I need not tell you its splendor and magnificence was proportioned to the honour of their Royal Guests The Chevalier of Guise durst as little venture to distinguish himself from the rest as not to afford his assistance at the Ceremony But alas he could so little disguise his trouble and disorder it fell under the notice of all the Company Monsieur de Cleve discovered that Mademoiselle de Chartres had not changed her humour with her name He was sensible the quality of a Husband had given him the greater priviledge but not the greater place in his Ladies heart This obliged him though a Husband to treat her as a Servant for he still seem'd to wish for something beyond the bare enjoyment of her And though he seem'd to live perfectly contented yet he could not think himself intirely happy with her The passion he had for her was so violent and troublesome it disturbed his joy though he was yet happy in this that his jealousie had no share in his disquiet Never was Husband so far from taking nor Wife so far from giving it Notwithstanding she visited the Courts of both the Queens and that of Madam where and at her Brother-in-law's the Duke of Nevers whose House was the general Rendezvous she was exposed to the admiration of all the brisk and noble Youth of the Town She had a Meen that created her so great a respect and which seem'd so much a stranger to all manner of Courtship that the Marshal of St. Andre who had a passion for her notwithstanding he was the most confident and indeed the best propt with his Majesties Grace and Favour durst not presume to shew it farther than by his services Many others lay under the same unhappiness for Madam de Chartres had added to her Daughters discretion so exact a conduct in all her Actions and Deportment that she convinc'd the Court that that young Lady had a Soul so vertuous it would allow of no ill tincture The Duchess of Lorain as she was pleased to imploy her interest for the conclusion of this peace she was not wanting to contribute her endeavours for the advantage of her Son There was a Marriage concluded between him and Madam Claude the Kings second Daughter and the Month of February appointed for the Nuptials In the interim the Duke of Nemours stays at Bruxells wholly taken up with his great design for England Dispatches and Couriers pass and re-pass daily his hopes begin more and more to swell upon him In fine Monsieur Lignerolles advises him it was now time that his presence should endeavour to accomplish the thing he had so happily begun He received the news with all the joy a young ambitious Soul was capable of that saw himself so nigh being handed up into a Throne upon his single Merit His Heart was so immoveably fixt upon the Grandeur of this Fortune that he would not as much as vouchsafe to allow a thought towards the difficulties that might interpose between it and him He sends immediately to Paris his necessary Orders for a splendid Equipage that he might appear in the Court of England in luster suitable to the greatness of his design Not long after he follows himself that he might have the honour to be present at the Wedding of the Duke of Lorain He came the day before and as soon as he arrived he went to pay his respects to the King to give him an account of this Affair and receive his Majesties

News says Madam de Cleves I thought Madam de Tournon incapable either of Love or Deceit 'T is not possible any one replyes Mounsieur de Cleve should carry her self with greater dissimulation or cunning Observe that when Sancerre thought her alter'd as to him she really was so and began to love Estouteville telling him he was the only Man could make her forget the death of her Husband and for whose sake she quitted her Retirement when Sancerre thought the while it proceeded from no other Cause but a Resolution to appear less afflicted than formerly she made it matter of favour to Estouteville that she conceal'd their correspondence and seem'd oblig'd by her Father to marry him which she pretended proceeded purely from the care of her reputation when it was in truth a trick to put off Sancerre without leaving him just cause of complaint I must needs return continues Mounsieur de Cleve to see my unfortunate friend and I think you may do well to go with me to Paris 'T is high time for you to appear abroad and Receive those visits you cannot well dispence with Madam de Cleve's agreed to the proposal and return'd on the Morrow she found her self more at ease as to Mounsieur de Nemours than she formerly had been what Madam de Chartres said on her death-Bed and sorrow for the loss of her had so suspended her thoughts of him that she thought she should be no more troubled with them The same Evening she arriv'd the Queen Dauphin gave her a visit and having told her how much she shar'd in her afflictions she said to divert her from those sad thoughts she would inform her of all that had past at Court in her absence and accordingly gave her an account of several particulars But that I have most mind to acquaint you with adds she is that it is most certain Mounsieur de Nemours is passionately in Love and that he is so far from making any the most intimate friend he has his Confident in the case there is not one can guess who it is he is in love with Though he be so deeply in Love it makes him neglect if not quit the hopes of a Crown with that she gave her an account of what concern'd the matter of England What I have told you says she I had from Mounsieur de Anville who told me this morning the King had yesterday sent for Mounsieur de Nemours upon Letters receiv'd from Lignerolles who desires leave to return as not able any longer to excuse to the Queen of England the delays of Mounsieur de Nemours that the Queen begins to take it ill and that though she had not made a positive promise she had said enough to encourage the hazarding a Voyage The King read this Letter to Mounsieur de Nemours who instead of speaking seriously as he had done at first fell a laughing and scoffing at Lignerolles hopes saying all Europe would condemn his imprudence should he undertake a Voyage for England as pretending to Marriage with the Queen without assurance of success Besides adds he I could not time my business worse than to take my Iourney at this Iuncture when the King of Spain makes address to that Queen for Marriage In matter of Gallantry I confess his Catholick Majesty were no very considerable Rival but in a Treaty of Marriage I cannot think your Majesty would advise me to stand in competition with him I would on this occasion replys the King for I know he is otherwise inclin'd and were he not Queen Mary took so little pleasure in the Yoke of Spain I cannot believe her Sister will undergo it or suffer her self to be blinded with the Glittering of so many Crowns on one Head If she yield not to the splendor of so many Crowns says Mounsieur de Nemours 't is probable she will seek her happiness in Love She hath for some years lov'd my Lord Courteney Queen Mary too was in love with him and would have marry'd him and with publick consent of her Kingdom but that she knew him more taken with the youth and beauty of her Sister Elizabeth than ambitious of reigning Your Majesty knows her Jealousie of them made her clap them up Prisoners and afterwards banish my Lord Courteney and prevail'd with her at last to resolve to marry with the King of Spain Elizabeth who now possesses the Throne of her Sister will I believe shortly call home my Lord Courteney and will rather make choice of him for her Husband whom she hath lov'd and who is really amiable and hath been a great sufferer for her than of a Man she hath never seen Were Courteney alive says the King I should be of your mind but I have been certainly inform'd some days since that he is dead at Padua whither he was banished But I see adds the King as he left Mounsieur de Nemours your marriage must be made up just as the Dauphins was and Embassadors must be sent to espouse the Queen of England Mounsieur d' Anville and the Vidame who were with the King when he spoke to Nemours are clearly of opinion nothing could divert him from so great a design but the passion he is so deeply ingag'd in The Vidame who knows him best of any man living hath told Madam de Martignes he finds such a change in Mounsieur de Nemours he scarce knows him And which he most wonders at he cannot observe he hath any private Correspondence nor can he discover any secret haunts he hath or that he is missing at any time which makes the Vidame believe he holds not correspondence with the person he loves and this is the reason he thinks himself so much mistaken in Mounsieur de Nemours to see him in love with a Woman that does not love him again What a poysonous discourse was this for Madam de Cleves How could she choose but know her self the Person whose Name was not known How could she but be deeply affected with gratitude and tenderness at the News she received by a way not at all liable to suspition that this Prince she had so great an inclination for conceal'd his passion from all the World and slighted for love of her the hopes of a Crown it is impossible to describe her sentiments on this occasion and represent to the life the trouble it rais'd in her Had the Queen-Dauphin ey'd her more closely she would have easily discover'd she was concern'd at the discourse But as she had not the least suspition of the truth she proceeded without taking notice of her Mounsieur d' Anville adds she who as I told you acquainted me with all these particulars thinks I know the business better than he and hath so great an opinion of my Charms he believes me the sole person capable to cause so extraordinary alterations in Mounsieur de Nemours These last Words rais'd another kind of trouble in Madam de Cleve's very different from that she was formerly in

I am of his mind answers she and 't is very probable that no less than such a Princesse as you could make him despise the Queen of England I would confess it did I know it replys the Queen-Dauphin and I should certainly know it were it true Passions of this Nature seldom escape the discovery of those who occasion them They are the first that discern them Mounsieur de Nemours never exprest for me other than slight and superficial complaisance yet I observe so great difference between his present and former deportment towards me I dare assure you I am not the cause of that indifference he shews for the Crown of England But I am so taken with your company I forget my self and mind not the obligation I am under of seeing Madam you know the peace is in a manner concluded but 't is possible it may be News to you that the King of Spain refuses to Sign the Articles but upon condition he shall marry that Princess instead of the Prince Don Carlos his Son The King was loath to consent to it but hath done it at last and is newly gone to carry Madam the News I believe it will much trouble her what pleasure can she expect from Marrying a Man of the age and humour of the King of Spain especially she so jovial so young and so beautiful a Lady who expected to Marry a young Prince for whom unseen she had a strong inclination I question whether the King will meet with the obedience he desires in her He hath charg'd me to see her because he knows she loves me and that I have some power over her I shall from thence make another visit of a very different Nature to congratulate the Kings Sister for the conclusion of her Marriage with the Prince of Savoy who is expected in few days Never had person of the age of this Princess so great cause to rejoyce at her Marriage The Court will be more Numerous and Glorious than ever and in spight of all your affliction you must come and help us to let the Strangers see we are furnish'd with no mean Beauties Having said this the Queen-Dauphin left Madam de Cleve's and on the morrow the Marriage of Madam was in every ones Mouth The day after the King and Queens went to see Madam de Cleve Mounsieur de Nemours who had waited her return with extreme impatience and wisht passionately he might speak with her in private put off going to her till the time all company broke up and probably none would return thither that night It fell out as he had wisht and he came in as the last Visiters were taking their leaves The Princess was on her Bed the weather hot and the sight of Mounsieur de Nemours put her to a blush that made her more amiable He sat over against her with a respect and fearfulness incident only to a genuine Passion he was speechless for sometime Madam de Cleve's was as mute as he so that they were both silent a pretty while At last Mounsieur de Nemours complemented her condoleing her affliction Madam de Cleve's very glad of discourse on that subject spoke a good while of the loss she had had and told him at last though time might abate the violence of her grief she should still retain so deep an impression of it it would alter her humour 'T is true Madam replyes M. de Nemours great troubles and violent passions occasion great alterations in our tempers though I was never actually sensible of it but since my return from Flanders Many have observed in me a very great change and the Queen-Dauphin her self spoke to me of it yesterday She has indeed taken notice of it says Madam de Cleve and I think I have heard her speak of it I am not displeas'd Madam answers Mounsieur de Nemours that she hath perceiv'd it but should be very glad she were not the only Person that did so There are Persons in the World to whom we dare give no other evidences of the passion we have for them but by things that concern them not yet when we dare not make it appear we love them we are willing at least to let them see we desire not the Love of any other we are willing to let them know we look with indifference on all other Beauties though in the highest sphere and that a Crown may be too dear if to be purchas'd with no less a price than absence from her we adore Ordinarily Ladies judge of the passion had for them by the care their Servants take to attend and to please them but be they never so little amiable those are easie tasks to perform There is no great difficulty in giving our selves the pleasure to wait on them But to avoid their company for fear of discovering to the World and almost to themselves the passion we have for them that 's a difficult point the truest evidence of being really in Love is when we become quite other men than we were when we renounce our ambition and our pleasures having all our Life pursu'd the one and the other Madam de Cleve's easily understood how far she was concern'd in this discourse she thought it her duty to cut it off by an answer Presently her mind alter'd and she was of opinion it was better make as if she understood it not and give him no cause to think she took it to her self she thought she ought to speak and thought she ought to be silent this discourse did in a manner equally please and displease her It convinc'd her of the truth of all the Queen-Dauphin made her think of him she could not but look upon it as full of gallantry and respect but withall somewhat bold and a little too plain andintelligible The inclination she had for that Prince put her into a disorder it was not in her power to master the darkest expressions of a Person we love move more than the clearest declarations of a person we have no inclination for She made him no answer Mounsieur de Nemours took notice of her silence and perhaps would have taken it for no ill Omen But Mounsieur de Cleve's coming in put an end to their discourse and his visit The Prince of Cleve came in to give his Lady a further account of Sancerre but she was not very curious to know the Issue of that Adventure Her thoughts were so taken up with what she had newly heard from Mounsieur de Nemours she could scarce hide the distraction she was under Assoon as she was at liberty to Muse of what was past she saw clearly how much she had been deceiv'd when she thought her self indifferent as to Mounsieur de Nemours his discourse had made as deep Impression on her as he could wish and fully convinc'd her of the truth of his passion his actions agreeing too well with his words to leave her the least shadow of doubt She no longer flatter'd her self with hopes